[OCR text from file "1925-26.pdf" in this directory - this text is not proofed and is supplied for searching purposes only - please refer to the pdf for acurate reading of the text] OBITUARY RECORD OF YALE GRADUATES 1925-1926 BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN TWENTY-SECOND SERIES • AUGUST i, 1926 • NUMBER TWENTY-TWO BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY Entered as second-class matter, August 30, 1906, at the post office at New Haven, Conn., under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage pro- vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized August 12, 1918. The BULLETIN, which is issued semi-monthly, includes: 1. The University Catalogue. 2. The Reports of the President and Treasurer. 3. The Catalogues of the several Schools. 4. The Alumni Directory and the Quinquennial Catalogue, 5. The Obituary Record. YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES DECEASED DURING /THE YE^&R ENDING JULY i, 1926 INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY, HITHERTO UNREPORTED NUMBER 85 NEW HAVEN PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1926 YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD YALE COLLEGE William Wallace Crapo, B.A. 1852. Born May 16, 1830, in Dartmouth, Mass. Died February 28, 1926, in New Bedford, Mass Father, Henry Howland Crapo, mayor of Flint, Mich ; member Michigan State Senate; governor of the state; presi- dent of Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad; son of Jesse and Phebe (Howland) Crapo; descendant in the fifth generation from Pierre Crapaud,a French boy who was cast ashore from a wreck on Cape Cod about 1680 and after living at Plymouth, Mass., settled at Rochester, Mass. Mother, Mary Ann (Slocum) Crapo; daughter of Williams and Anna (Chase) Slocum; descendant of Giles Slocum, who came to Rhode Island from Somersetshire, England, in 1682, and settled at Portsmouth. Friends' Academy, New Bedford, and Philhps-Andover Berkeley Premium in Latin composition, third prize in mathe- matics, and first prize for translation of Latin into English Freshman year, first and second prizes m English composition Sophomore year; first colloquy appointment Junior year; second dispute appointment and Townsend Premium Senior year; speaker at Commencement, one of the managers of the Junior Exhibition; served on committee of arrangements and presented the Wooden Spoon on Presentation Day, 1851; editor Tale Literary Magazine; Class poet; member Atalanta Boat Club, Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Delta Phi, and Skull and Bones. Studied law in office of Governor John H. Clifford in New Bedford and at Dane Law School in Cambridge (affiiHated with Harvard University) for a year (1853-54); as secretary liquidated New Bedford Commercial Insurance Company while studying law; admitted to Bristol County Bar Febru- 4 Obituary Record ary, 1855; had since practiced law in New Bedford as member of firm of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford and its successors, Crapo, Clifford & Prescott and Crapo, Clifford, Prescott & Bullard; practice in early years largely admiralty law; was connected with Geneva Award and Alabama Claims commissions; in later years had much to do with corporation affairs, was chosen to administer many estates and serve as guardian or trustee, and had practiced extensively in federal and state courts; city solicitor 1855-1867; one of commissioners for in- troducing water into New Bedford and was chairman of first water supply committee and of Water Board 1865-1875; upon the death of his father in 1869, succeeded him as presi- dent of Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad and held that office for many years; president Mechanics National Bank of New Bedford 1870-1904 and of New Bedford Institution for Savings 1896-1920; was prominent in development of cotton manufacturing industry and had served as president and director of Wamsutta, Potomska, and Acushnet Mills for many years; director Genesee County Savings Bank of Flint, Mich., International Trust Company of Boston, and other companies, Republican in politics; member Massachusetts House of Representatives 1857; declined nomination to the State Senate 1858, member 44th to 47th Congresses (1875— 1883) and then declined a renomination (served on Committee on Foreign Affairs and on committee to investigate the claims of Louisiana in Hayes-Tilden contest for the presidency, and as chairman of Committee on Banking and Currency; author of bill to extend charters of national banks); presided at Massachusetts Republican Convention 1881; candidate for governor of Massachusetts 1882, failing, however, of nomina- tion; delegate at large from Massachusetts to Republican National Convention 1892; unsuccessful candidate for Repub- lican nomination for United States senator 1893; made one of Massachusetts electors at large 1904 and the next year served as president of State Electoral College; declined appointment by President Cleveland as member of Interstate Commerce Commission 1887; appointed one of three commissioners to revise Massachusetts street railway laws 1898; LL.D. Yale 1882 and Williams 1911; wrote the Sixtieth Anniversary Ode, AdFtnem Juvenes, for Class of 1852 (set to music by Professor Tale College 5 Horatio Parker); founder, with Daniel C. Gilman, '52, of Williams College chapter of Alpha Delta Phi in 1851; first president of Old Dartmouth Historical Society (1903-07); vice-president Pilgrim Society of America; president Yale Club of New Bedford during the five years of its existence (1914-19); member Bristol County Bar Association, Massa- chusetts, Old Colony, and Bristol County Historical societies, and First Congregational (Unitarian) Church, New Bedford, delivered many addresses, among which were* historical addresses at the 200th anniversary of town of Dartmouth 1867 (address printed) and at the 50th anniversary of incor- poration of New Bedford 1897, speech at the dedication of the Bourne Whaling Museum in New Bedford 1916, and one in Congress in 1880, when he accepted on the part of the House of Representatives the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; in 1913 presented to New Bedford the bronze statue, "The Whaleman," by Bela L Pratt (B.F.A. 1899); gave numerous paintings, books, and pamphlets to collections at the New Bedford Public Library and the Old Dartmouth Historical Society; was one of the donors to Yale School of Law of the Massachusetts Reports and Massachusetts Digest Annotated; by the terms of his will a number of public bequests were made, among them one of $100,000 to Yale University. Married January 22, 1857, in New Bedford, Sarah Ann Davis, daughter of George and Serena (Davis) Tappan Children: Henry Howland (B A. Harvard 1883); George Tappan (died in infancy); Stanford Tappan, '86, and Anna Almy (died in infancy). Mrs. Crapo died December 13, 1893 Death due to old age. Interment in Rural Cemetery, New Bedford. Survived by two sons, three grandchildren, one of whom is William W. Crapo, 2d, *i8, a great-grandchild, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah B. C. Ross, of Boston. Albert Byron Wilbur, B.A. 1858. Born October 10, 1834, in Sharon, Conn. Died June 18, 1926, in Middle town, N. Y Father, Rutledge Wilbur, a superintendent of iron mines in Amenia, N. Y ; son of David Wilbur by his second wife, 6 Obituary Record descendant in the seventh generation from Samuel Wilbur (Wildbore), who came to Massachusetts from Yorkshire, England, became a member of the First Church in Boston in 1633 and a freeman in 1634, was banished from the colony in 1637 on accountof his religious views, and went to Providence, R. I., where with others he founded a new colony. Mother, Betsey Ann (White) Wilbur, whose mother was Eunice Mer- chant before her marriage. Amenia Seminary. Entered Yale with Class of 1857, but left early in Junior year; joined Class of 1858 as a Senior; member Brothers in Unity and Sigma Delta. Taught in New Haven 1858-59; assistant principal of Rid- dicksville Seminary, Sunbury, N. C , 1859-May, 1861; declined a colonelcy m Confederate Army, disregarded an order from Governor Ellis to enroll in that army, and was burned in effigy because of his Northern sympathies; upon his return to the North resumed teaching in ijjFew Haven; in May, 1863, joined 16th New York Cavalry at Plattsburg; com- missioned Commissary ,with rank of First Lieutenant, Novem- ber 10, 1863; served on detached duty on staffs of Generals Lovell and Gamble in Department of Washington; on August 17, 1865, when the 13th and 16th New York Cavalry were consolidated as the 3d Provisional New York Cavalry, be- came Commissary of the new organization and served as such until mustered out October 4, 1865; taught a select school at Port Jervis, N Y , 1865-66; then opened a classical and com- mercial day school there, which he conducted for a year; principal of Mountain Home Institute, Port Jervis, 1867-1871; superintendent of schools in Port Jervis 1871-1883; spent next two years abroad on account of his wife's health, and during 1885-86 was in Florida and New Mexico; superintend- ent of schools at Middletown, N. Y.,1886-1891; occupied with private interests in the West 1891-93; engaged in real estate and insurance business in Middletown 1893-1921; also in- terested in orange and mango plantations in Porto Rico; retired from active business 1921; active in organizing Orange County (N. Y.) Telephone Company, serving at various times as its treasurer, vice-president, president, and a director; president Middletown Board of Education 1900-02; member Capt William A. Jackson Post, G. A. R., and served Tale College 7 as delegate from New York state to National Encampment at San Francisco in 1903 and at Denver in 1904; member Ameri- can Association for Advancement of Science and of Deer Park Dutch Reformed Church, Port Jervis. Married October 18,1865, in New Haven, Sophie Harriette, daughter of George Henry and Harriette Almira (Austin) Morgan. No children. Mrs. Wibur died May 17, 1911. Death due to old age; had been in failing health for some time, but was ill only a week. Buried in Amenia. Survived by a sister, Miss Sarah B. Wilbur, of Amenia. Nathaniel Norton, B.A. i860. Born October 7, 1839, in Brooklyn, N Y Died November 8, 1925, in Englewood, N J Father, Nathaniel Norton, a merchant in the flour trade; son of Heman Norton (B.A. 1806),, who served as aide-de-camp to General Hall in the War of 1812 and later as a Colonel in command of a cavalry regiment, and Julia (Strong) Norton; grandson of Nathaniel Norton, a Captain in the Revolutionary War and high sheriff of Ontario County, N. Y.; descendant of Thomas Norton, who came from Guilford, England, to Guil- fordj Conn., in 1639. Mother, Caroline Greenleaf (Call) Nor- ton; daughter of Jonathan and Caroline (Greenleaf) Call. Yale relatives include two great-uncles, Henry Baldwin (B.A. 1797) and Elisha B. Strong (B.A. 1809), and an uncle, William A. Norton (honorary M.A. 1867), for over thirty years professor of civil engineering at Yale. Dwight School, Brooklyn. Oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. Entered Columbia Law School in fall of i860, but left at end of three months; tutor in a private family in Newark, N. J., 1861; also continued his legal studies there until latter part of 1861 and then in New York until July, 1862; admitted to New York Bar, but never practiced; in wholesale coal business with firm of Packard & Company of Brooklyn 1862-68; partner in wholesale hat house of Jehial Read & Company in New York 1868-1885; engaged in publishing 8 Obituary Record American Business Guide 1885; later was a representative for Central Coal & Coke Company of New York for a time; in- surance broker in New York City from 1890 until his retire- ment in 1912; wrote many poems to celebrate family events, and also several hymns which were set to music; resided in Brooklyn until 1908 and since then in Englewood; member Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn (clerk for many years and teacher of a Bible class of young women). Married September 27, 1865, at Mount Kisco, N. Y., Emma Sylvia Read, who attended Elmira College, daughter of Jehial and Sylvia (Kendnck) Read. Children: Nathaniel Read (Ph B 1891, M.D. Columbia 1894); Caroline Sylvia (B A. Adelphi 1900), the wife of Hugh Hazel ton; Stella , Kendnck (died in 1900); and William Strange. Mrs. Norton died November 23, 1910. Death due to bronchopneumoma; had been an invalid for over ten years. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Sur- vived by sons, daughter, nine grandchildren, and a half sister, Mrs Arthur M. Beardsley (B A. Vassar 1873), of Roxbury, Conn. James Harry Brent, B.A. 1861. Born August 11, 1842, in Pans, Ky. Died October 20, 1925, in Pans, Ky. Father, Hugh Innes Brent, president of Old Northern Bank of Pans; son of Hugh and Elizabeth Trotter (Langhorne) Brent, descendant of George Brent, who came from England to Virginia in 1660. Mother, Margaret Taylor (Chambers) Brent; daughter of John Chambers, first territorial governor of Iowa and a member of Congress, and Hannah Lee (Taylor) Chambers, descendant of Rowland Chambers, who came to this country from County Antrim, Ireland, in 1720 and settled on the east bank of the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pa. Nephew: Harry B. Mackoy, '94. Sayer School,-Frankfort, Ky. Entered Yale at beginning of Sophomore year; member Nereid Boat Club, '61 Baseball Club, and Psi Upsilon; elected a graduate member of Wolf's Head in 1894. Read law at his home in Paris from graduation until fall of Tale College 9 1862; then entered Confederate Army and served under General Kirby Smith for a time; later resigned and enlisted in the ranks under Col John Morgan; subsequently served as member of General Cleburne's escort in the army which opposed General Sherman in his Atlanta campaign; remained in Confederate Army until end of the war; practiced law in Paris from 1865 u n t l l made a judge of the District Court; judge of Kentucky Superior Court 1891-96, then practiced law in Pans until his retirement in 1911 (partner of W H McMillan under firm name of Brent & McMillan for some time; later associated with his son-in-law, Claude M Thomas) Married November 16, 1866, to his first cousin, Elizabeth Durrett Chambers, of Maysville, Ky , daughter of Frank Taylor and Elizabeth (Durrett) Chambers. Children: Gabn- ella (Mrs. Edward T. Hinton) (died in 1902), Margaret Chambers (Mrs. Claude M. Thomas) (died in 1911), Mary Porter (Mrs. Henry Chambers); Hugh I ; and Christine (died in 1889). Mrs. Brent died in May, 1891 Death, due to pneumonia, occurred at Massie Memorial Hospital, Pans Buried at Pans Survived by son, daughter, and five grandchildren. Edward Pascal McKinney, B.A. 1861. Born February 23, 1838, in Cooperstown, N Y. Died October 18, 1925, in Binghamton, N Y Father, Edward McKinney; in charge of a cotton factory; son of Jacob McKinney, who was the first merchant in Binghamton, and Eliza (Sabin) McKinney, sixth in descent from John McKinney, who came to Boston in 1668, shortly afterwards Settling near what is now Scarboro, Maine Mother, Marcia Maria (Phillips) McKinney, daughter of John and Mehitable (May) Phillips; descendant of John Phillips, who came from England in 1765 and settled at Cam- bridge, Mass. Yale relatives include a brother, the late William A. McKinney, '68. Philhps-Andover. First colloquy appointment Junior year; second lieutenant Nereid Boat Club; member Class Baseball Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon. 10 Obituary Record Joined United States Army as a Second Lieutenant in 6th New York Cavalry October 15, 1861, and served with Army of the Potomac; in March, 1862, detailed as Brigade Com- missary of Subsistence; promoted to First Lieutenant in Octo- ber, 1862; commissioned by President Lincoln Captain and Commissary of Subsistence May 18, 1864; wounded by Mos- by's guerrillas near Winchester, Va., in August, 1864; upon his recovery, resumed his duties and served to end of the war with Sheridan's Cavalry Corps and as a member of his staff; received his discharge July 8,1865, with commission of Brevet Major for meritorious services; then engaged in mercantile business in Binghamton as member of McKinney & Everts, wholesale grocers and provision dealers, and later as head of its successors, McKinney, Everts & Company,* E. P. & E. McKinney, and McKinney & Company, wholesale grocers and importers of tea and coffee (with spice mills in Bingham- ton), until his death; director of two Binghamton banks; author of Life in "Tent andField\ 1861-1865 (1922); contribu- ted article on "Rational Taxation" to Outlook of October 29, 1910, deacon of First Presbyterian Church, Binghamton Married June 18, 1868, at Rock Island, 111, Fannv Lee, daughter of Myron Holley and Fanny Scoville (Lee) Fish, of Salisbury, Conn. Children: Edward; Marcia May (married George B. Holhster, '92, and died in 1909); and Fanny Lee (BA. Vassar 1898), the wife of A. Garfield Weyant. Mrs. McKinney died September 13, 1913. Death, due to pneumonia, occurred after an illness of only a few days Buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton. Survived by son, daughter, and four grandchildren! Francke Huntington Bosworth, B.A. 1862. Born January 25, 1843, in Marietta, Ohio. Died October 16, 1925, in New York City. Father, Daniel Perkins Bosworth, a merchant; founder of firm of Bosworth & Wells; son of Salah and Rebecca (Perkins) Bosworth, who moved from Boston, Mass., to Ohio in 1816; descendant of Joseph Bellamy Bosworth, who came to Ameri- ca from Lancashire, England, in 1632 and settled at Hull, Tale College 11 Mass. Mother, Deborah Freeman (Wells) Bosworth, daugh- ter of Martin and Deborah Freeman (Hinckley) Wells; descendant of Governor Thomas Wells of Connecticut, who came to this country from Essex County, England, in 1635 and settled at Saybrook, Conn., in 1636 and at Hartford in 1637; also descendant of Thomas Hinckley, governor of Plymouth Colony 1681-86 and 1686-1692. Marietta Academy. Attended Marietta College for three years as member of Class of 1861 before entering Yale as a Junior in i860; member Alpha Sigma Phi Enlisted at President Lincoln's first call for volunteers as a Private in 17th Ohio Infantry; served three months during summer of 1861 under General Rosecrans in West Virginia; after graduating from Yale, became a Quartermaster Sergeant in 148th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; took part in repelling General Morgan's raid into Ohio in 1863 and served in and around City Point, Va., during summer of 1864; after serving term of one hundred days, received his discharge August 30, 1864; except for time spent in service, was engaged in busi- ness with Bosworth, Wells & Company, general merchants in Marietta, during first three years after graduation; in 1865 began study of medicine with Dr. George Hildreth, of Marietta, and later continued studies at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he received'degree of M.D. in 1868, graduating as valedictorian of his class; served as house surgeon at Belle- vue Hospital for a year and a half; then began practice in New York City, specializing in diseases of the throat and ear; attending physician to Bureau of Medical and Surgical Relief and to Central Dispensary 1870; connected with Bellevue Medical College from 1876 until his retirement in 1906 (instructor in laryngology 1876-78, lecturer on diseases of the throat 1878-1882, professor of the same 1882-1906), professor of diseases of the throat at University Medical College 1898-1906; since then professor emeritus; retired from general practice in 1920; consulting physician to Presbyterian and St. Vincent's hospitals; attended International Medical Congress in Europe 1881; author: A Handbook on Diseases of the Throat and Nose (1881), A Treatise on Diseases of the Nose and Throat (1893), and A Textbook on Diseases of the Nose and Throat (1896); had contributed articles on medical subjects to 12 Obituary Record various magazines; honorary Fellow British Laryngological Association; corresponding member Soctete de Laryngologte et d'Otologie and Laryngologiscbe Gesellschaft; Fellow American Laryngological Association (president in 1883); member American Climatological Association (former president), New York Academy of Medicine, and St. Nicholas Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed), New York City. Married September 12, 1871, in Harmar, Ohio, Mary Hil- dreth, daughter of Douglas and Rhoda (Hildreth) Putnam. Children: Ethel (died in childhood); Francke Huntington, Jr., '97, and Mary Douglas, the wife of Walter R. Hernck (B.S. Princeton 1898, LL B Union 1900). Mrs. Bosworth died Sep- tember 6, 1912. Death due to accidental asphyxiation. Interment in Green- wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. Survived by son, daughter, four grandchildren, and a half brother, Tasker Bourne Bosworth, of New York City. James Henry Crosby, B.A. 1862. Born May 22, 1840, in Bangor, Maine. Died October 16, 1925, at Long Beach, Calif. Father, James Crosby, a business man; son of Timothy Crosby, descendant of Simon Crosby, who came from Eng- land to Massachusetts about 1630 Mother, Eliza Leland (Adams) Crosby; daughter of Eliashib and Anna (Leland) Adams; sister of the Rev. George E. Adams (B.A. 1821); descendant in the sixth generation of Henry Adams, who came to this country from England about 1632 and in 1641 settled at Braintree, Mass , of which he was an original patentee Phillips-Andover. Oration appointments Junior and Senior years, member Phi Beta Kappa. Graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary 1865; during his Senior year there spent several months in Beaufort, S C , as an agent of New England Freedmen's Aid Society; studied at Yale Divinity School during 1865-66 and again at Bangor Theological Seminary 1867-69 (never ordained); preached at various places in Maine, with headquarters in Bangor, 1866- Tale College 13 1872; acting pastor at Lincoln, Maine, 1872-76; preached at Hampden, Maine, 1876-77; since then had preached only occasionally; private teacher in Bangor in 1878; had a private school for boys there 1880-84; n a d not been actively en- gaged in any occupation since then; served as deacon of First Congregational Church, Bangor, 1885-1925, and as superin- tendent of its Sunday school for twenty-nine years; also deacon of All Souls* Church; prepared and published Histori- cal Sketch of First Congregational Church, Bangor, Maine, 1811- IQII on the occasion of its centennial; had been secretary of Class of 1862 since 1882, assisting in preparation of Decennial Record and editing all subsequent records; also Class Agent for the Alumni Fund; had kept his home in Bangor, but dur- ing recent years had been in the habit of spending a part of each year in California. Married December 25, 1866, in New Haven, Helen Eliza- beth, daughter of Philo Blake. One daughter, Anna (died in infancy). Mrs. Crosby died May 5, 1868. Death due to the infirmities of age. Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor. Survived by no immediate relatives. Leaves a nephew, four grandnephews, and six grandmeces. Richard Henry Greene, B.A. 1862. Born June 12, 1839, in New York City. Died February 13, 1926, in New York City. Father, William Webb Green, a merchant and ship owner; son of Richard and Sally (Webb) Green; descendant of Will- iam Green, who came to America from England before 1700 and setded at Plymouth, Mass. Mother, Sarah Ann (Todd) Green; daughter of Col. William Whetten Todd and Maria Caroline (Duffle) Todd; descendant of Adam Todd, who came to this country from Scotland about 1700 and settled in New York City. Cousins: Richard G. Greene (B.A. 1849), Frederick J. Shepard, '73, John W. Shepard, '79, George E. Goodspeed, *8o S., Edward M. Chapman, '84, Frederick S. Chapman, '94, Donald Greene, '08, Frederic B. Shepard, '15, and Edward N. Chapman, '17. Dwight High School, Brooklyn. Entered Yale with Class of 14 Obituary Record 1861, but joined Class of 1862 the next fall; member Delta Kappa and Wolfs Head Recruited a company of one hundred men after graduation, was mustered into the Union Army December 8, 1862, as a Captain in the Pierrepont Regiment of New York Cavalry, and commanded the battalion until its consolidation with the 14th New York Regiment in March, 1863; during the next summer served with Company K, 7th New York Regiment, in repelling General Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania and in suppressing the not in New York City; Captain of Engineers, 69th New York Regiment, serving as Paymaster and Post Adjutant, from July until his discharge October 6, 1864 (expiration of term), being on duty at Forts Richmond and Hamilton, N. Y., and with the Army before Petersburg; LL.B. Columbia 1865; admitted to New York Bar and practiced law in New York City 1865-1886 (member of firm of Roose- velt & Greene 1865-67); admitted to United States Circuit Court 1876; identified with North 2d Street & Middle Village Railroad Company of Long Island 1870-1884 (director 1870- 71, counsel 1875-76, secretary 1876-79, treasurer 1880 and 1881, and president 1882-84); counsel and president (1885- 86) Brooklyn, Bushwick & Queens County Railroad Com- pany; chairman Boards of Registry and Election 1865-1870; special assessor United States Internal Revenue Bureau 1869— 1871; had served as a commissioner of deeds and as a notary public; president Excess Indicator Company of Massachusetts 1909-1910 and of same company in Pittsburgh the next year; executive member Republican General Committee 1870-75; vice-president and president District Republican Association 1868-1871; alternate delegate to Republican National Con- vention 1876; nominated for State Legislature 1868 and de- clined a second candidacy 1875; founder of Society of May- flower Descendants (historian general, secretary general, and deputy governor general) and later president of the New York Society; founder of Order of Runnymede; first vice-commander general of Commandery in Chief of Society of American Wars and commander of New York Commandery 1910 and 1911; member George Washington and Lafayette Posts, G.A.R., and commander of Farragut Post for eleven years; secre- tary Society of War Veterans of the 7th Regiment for many Tale College 15 years and president 1903-04; member Society of War of 1812, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Society of the First Crusade, New York and American Historical societies, and corresponding member New England His- torical and Genealogical Society; trustee Army and Navy Real Estate Board and of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (librarian and editor of its Record for a time); member executive committee of Columbia Law School Alumni Association 1868-1871 and vice-president 1869; superintendent of Sabbath School Union Home for Soldiers* Orphans; adviser of Colored Orphan Asylum 1874; former president of old Bushwick Union (union of church and Sunday school which had been at variance); deacon and president of the board (1878) of Washington Heights Presby- terian Church; vice-president (1869) and president (1869- 1871) of Young Men's Christian Union of Washington Heights; elder, trustee, and Sunday school superintendent of West Park Presbyterian Church; member Church Extension Committee of Presbyterian Churches in the United States; author: Cannon Flashes and Pen Dashes (a Civil War poem published under nom de plume of Claes Martenze in 1866); The Todd Genealogy (1867); Alumni of Earlier American Col- leges (1890); When the Mayflower Sailed Away (1897); General Book of the Mayflower Descendants (1901); the Greene {Green) Family of Plymouth Colony (1909); the Tear Book of the Com- mandery of the Society of American Wars, State of New Tork (1912); and William Webb {1746-1832), War Services, Ancestry, and Descendants (1914); contributed numerous papers to Connecticut Valley Advertiser and articles to Genea- logical Record and New England Historical and Genealogical Register (one of the latter being "Yale University Alumni who have held Official Positions"). Married June 20, 1867, in New Haven, Mary Gertrude, daughter of Edwin Beech and Amelia Caty (Sperry) Munson, of Woodbridge, Conn. Children: William Todd (died in childhood); Marshall Winslow, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1890 at the College of the City of New York (died in 1921); Maude Eloise (died in childhood); Edna Munson (Mrs Augustus Thatcher Holbrook); and DePeyster and Arthur Garfield (both died in infancy). 16 Obituary Record Death due to arteriosclerosis. Buried in family mausoleum at East Haddam, Conn. Survived by wife, daughter, and four grandchildren. Henry Holt, B.A. 1862. Born January 3, 1840, in Baltimore, Md. Died February 13, 1926, m New York City. Father, Dan Holt, a merchant; founder of the business of canning and transporting oysters to the West; son of Phile- mon and Desire (Smith) Holt; descendant of William Holt, who came from England to New Haven in 1644. Mother, Ann Eve (Siebold) Holt; daughter of Philip and Rachel (deHasse) Siebold; ancestors came from Wurttemberg to Pennsylvania about 1776. Yale relatives include four cousins: Edwin H. English, ex-7$, Charles L English, '10, Edwin H. English, ex-116 S , and Frank K English, ex-10 S. General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. Entered Yale with Class of 1861, but joined Class of 1862 as a Sophomore in 1859; third prize in English composition Sopho- more year, second colloquy appointment Junior year; editor Yale Literary Magazine and winner Yale Literary Medal; mem- ber Nereid Boat Club and captain Lorelei Boat Club; one of the Cochlaureati; Wooden Spoon and Class poet; vice-presi- dent Brothers in Unity; member Beethoven Society, Alpha Sigma Phi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Studied law at Columbia 1862-64 (LL.B. 1864); in 1863 entered publishing business as part owner with George P. Putnam and Frank Moore in the Artisfs Edition of Irving s Sketch Book and the Rebellion Record, but retired from that partnership in 1865; spent about a year in literary work in Baltimore and at Delaware Water Gap, Pa ; in January, 1866, became a partner of Frederic Leypoldt in publishihg firm of Leypoldt & Holt, which became successively Leypoldt, Holt & Williams (upon admission to firm of Ralph O. Williams, *6i), Holt & Williams (1871), and, when Mr. Williams withdrew in 1873, Henry Holt & Company; president of firm since its in- corporation in 1902, although for about ten years previous to his death had not been actively connected with it (his brother, Charles Holt, '6$ S., member of firm 1876-1902; his Tale College 17 Roland Holt, '90, member since 1890, vice-president 1902- 1924, and, with two other sons, Henry Holt, Jr., and Elliot Holt, among the directors); in 1914 founded the Unpopular Review (name changed to Unpartizan Review 1919), of which he was editor and publisher until 1921, when he discontinued its publication; interested in psychical research and had served as trustee and councilor of American Society for Psychical Research; member of Harvard Overseers Visiting Committee to the Department of Philosophy and Psychology since 1915; author: translation of Edmond About's Man with the Broken Ear (1866); Calmire. Man and Nature (1892; revised and enlarged 1906); 'Talks on Civics (1901), revised and enlarged as On the Civic Relations (1907); Sturmsee. Man and Man (1905; revised 1906); On the Cosmic Relations (1914), second edition, Cosmic Relations and Immortality (1919); GarruHHes of an Octogenarian Editor (1923); and 'The Hopeful Borderland (1926), the proof of which he finished correcting a short time before his death; had contributed numerous articles to various magazines, one of which, "Some Practical Aspects of the Literary Life in the United States," published in the New Englander in 1888, was first delivered as a lecture at Yale; had also lectured at Columbia University and at Uni- versity of Vermont; was very active in promoting interna- tional copyright and addressed a committee of the United States Senate on the subject, besides publishing articles on it in periodicals; sent to the Yale University Library, free of charge, a copy of everything which he published, including the Unpopular Review, as it was issued; LL.D. University of Vermont 1901; became an honorary member of Johns Hop- kins chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 1914; trustee New York University Settlement Society (its first chairman, serving for four years), University Club (for eight years following its1 reorganization; during that time chairman of committee which founded its library), Yale Club of New York, City Club, Simplified Spelling Board (also member of its executive com- mittee), and American Geographical Society; chairman Authors Club 1908-1912; Fellow New York Academy of Political Science and former Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science; member council of University Club and chairman of its committee on literature and art; 18 Obituary Record member American Political Science Association, American Economic Association, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Botanical Association, Municipal Art Society, Scientific Alliance, American Museum of Natural History, Fine Arts Society, and Sons of the Revolution; served on New York Citizens' Committee in 1882; was nominated for a Fellow of Yale Corporation in 1881, but withdrew his name in favor of another candidate; besides his New York home, had a place at New Rochelle, N. Y., for a time, and later had a summer home at Burlington, V t , where, for a while, he conducted a farm. Married (1) June 11, 1863, in New York City, Mary Flor- ence, daughter of James Selby and Elizabeth (Gale) West. Children: Claude Florence (died in infancy); Roland (B.A 1890); Winifred, founder and secretary of the New York Association for the Blind, who married Rufus Graves Mather (B.A. Williams 1895); Gilman (died in childhood); Edith, the wife of Joseph Colt Bloodgood (B S. Wisconsin 1888, M.D. Pennsylvania 1891); Mildred (died in childhood); and a son who lived only three days Mrs. Holt died March 6, 1879. Married (2) December 2, 1886, in New York City, Florence, daughter of Charles Corey and Cornelia Frances (Martin) Taber, and sister of Henry Taber, '82 S. Children: Florence (died in infancy); Henry, Jr. (B.A. Harvard 1912); Elliot, a non-graduate member of the Harvard Class of 1918; and Syl- via. Death due to complications resulting from an attack of bronchitis. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Survived by wife, three sons, three daughters, four grandchil- dren, and his brother, Charles Holt. Roger Sherman Tracy, B,A. 1862. Born December 9, 1841, in Windsor, Vt. Died March 6, 1926, in Ballardvale, Mass Father, the Rev Ebenezer Carter Tracy (B.A. Dartmouth 1819); studied at Andover Theological Seminary; editor and publisher of Vermont Chronicle for over thirty years; son of Joseph and Ruth (Carter) Tracy; sixth in direct descent from Stephen Tracy, who came from England to Plymouth, Mass., Tale College 19 in 1623 and later settled in Duxbury, Mass. Mother, Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy; daughter of Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802) and Mehitabel (Sherman) Evarts; sister of John Jay Evarts (B A. 1832) and William Maxwell Evarts (B A. 1837); sister-in-law of the Rev. David Greene (B A. 1821); granddaughter of Roger Sherman (honorary M A. 1768), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the Continental Congress and of the Constitutional Convention, and treasurer of Yale College 1765-1776; great-granddaughter of Timothy Todd (B.A. 1747); descendant of John Evarts, who came to this country during the first half of the seven- teenth century and settled in New England. Yale relatives include: J. Evarts Tracy, '57 L. (brother); Howard C. Tracy, '87, Evarts Tracy, '90, Robert S. Tracy, '93, and William E. Tracy, 'oo (nephews); and Charles B Evarts, ex-'66, Allen W. Evarts, '69, William Evarts, ex-71, Sherman Evarts, '81, Maxwell Evarts, '84, Jeremiah M and Roger S. Evarts, both '17, Effingham C. Evarts, '19, and Prescott Evarts, £#-'23 (cousins). Windsor High School. High oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy 1862-64; studied medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 1864-67 (M.D. 1868); connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as junior and senior assistant and house surgeon 1867-69; spent the next year abroad, during most of the time studying in Berlin; practiced medicine in New York City 1870-73; then obliged, to give up practice because of increasing deafness; memjber New York Board of Health 1870-1901 (deputy registrar and registrar of records 1870-1901; also assistant sanitary inspector 1870-73, sanitary inspector 1873-1887, and chief sanitary inspector 1887); retired from public service in 1901, but for some time kept his room at the Department of Health, where he did much of his writing; in 1904 bought a farm in Winsted, Conn., where he lived two years; had since resided at Ballardvale; author: Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders (1884); 'the Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1884); Outlines of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1889), The White Man's Burden (under nom deplume of T. Shirby Hodge; I 20 Obituary Record 1915); monographs on vital statistics for Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (1893) anc ^ o n sanitary sub- jects for the Annual Reports of the New York Health Depart- ment; contributed articles to the appendix of the American edition of Parke's Hygiene^ to Michael Foster's Primer of Physiology, one of the series of Science Primers edited by Huxley, Roscoe & Balfour Stewart (1883), to Buck's Hygiene and Public Health, and to the Popular Science Monthly and the Century; affiliated with the Congregational Church. Unmarried Death due to chronic myocarditis. Buried in Old South Cemetery, Windsor Survived by a sister, Mrs. George P. Byington, of Ballardvale. Daniel Brewer Childs, B.A. 1863. Born May 5, 1843, in Syracuse, N Y. Died November 10, 1925, in Los Angeles, Calif Father, Noadiah Moody Childs; a civil engineer, associ- ated with his brother, Orville Whitmore Childs, in the survey of the Nicaragua ship canal; superintendent of the Oswego canal; later in business as a merchant; president Syracuse Salt Company and Syracuse Board of Education; son of Dr. Ephraim Child (family name changed by Noadiah M. Childs and his brother), Surgeon of the 41st Regiment in the War of 1812 and a founder of the Saratoga County Medical Society, and Mary (Woodworth) Child; grandson of Capt. Increase Child, who served in the French and English and the Revolu- tionary wars; a lineal descendant of Benjamin Child, who came from England in 1630 with his uncle, Ephraim Child, and settled at Roxbury, Mass. Mother, Martha (Brewer) Childs; daughter of Simeon and Eunice (Macy) Brewer; granddaughter of the Rev. Daniel Brewer (B.A. 1765); descendant of Daniel Brewer, who came to America from England in 1632 and settled at Roxbury, and of John Carver and John Howland of the "Mayflower" company. Yale rela- tives include two cousins, Dr. Chauncey Brewer (B.A. 1762) and Edward H. Brewer, '97 S. Syracuse High School and preparatory department of Tale College 21 Oberlin. Attended Oberlin College for two years (1859-1861) as member of Class of 1863 before entering Yale as a Junior in January, 1862; member Psi Upsilon. Graduated at Albany Law School in 1864; in office of Sedgwick, Andrews & Kennedy in Syracuse for a few months; went to New York City in January, 1866, and entered office of Amos G. Hull, with whom he formed a partnership in 1868 under name of Hull&Childs (firm practiced in the Surrogate's Court and served as counsel for the New Tork Times, the American Agriculturist, and other periodicals); practiced in- dependently 1871-74; in 1874 with Herbert G. Hull, son of his former partner, formed firm of Childs & Hull and con- tinued in that association for about twenty years, giving especial attention to bankruptcy and real estate cases; had served as executor, trustee, or receiver of many estates; direc- tor and counsel of Manhattan Quotation Telegraph Company 1874-76; vice-president and director of Law Telegraph & Telephone Company (one of its projectors) from its organiza- tion in 1874 until 1885; had been tendered the nomination of county judge of Bergen County, N. J., and also the presidency of the Larchmont National Bank; in addition to his law prac- tice, owned and managed a large farm in Saratoga County, N. Y , 1867-18 87; had a summer home in Great Barring ton, Mass., 1888-1899, lived in Englewood, N. J., 1870-1880 and then in New York City until 1915, when he moved to Los Angeles; member St. John's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles. Married (1) December 24, 1867, in Waterford, N Y , Mary Frances, daughter of Robert and Margaret J. Powers. No children. Mrs. Childs died June 26,1887. Married (2) October 10,1888, in Great Barrington, Mass , Kathryn Bills, daughter of Jonathan Cass (M.D. Albany Medical College, a Surgeon in the U S. Army and a veteran of the Civil War, and Mary (Peet) Cass, and a niece of Harvey P. Peet (B A. 1822). Children: Sterling Cass (studied at University of Virginia during 1907-08; served in Merchant Marine during the World War); Harold Winthrop, who was in France as a First Lieutenant with the 91st Division during the war, Catherine Cass (Mrs. Victor Hugo Dixon); and Isabella Cass (a non- graduate member of the Class of 1923 at the University of Southern California), who married Henry Wetson Mahan. o/i Obituary Record Died in his sleep; was apparently perfectly well when he retired. Buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse. Survived by wife, two sons, two daughters, seven grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Louisa Child Dillaye, and a brother, William Augustus Childs, both of Los Angeles. George Langford Curran, B.A. 1863. Born March 10, 1840, in Utica, N. Y. Died November 17, 1925, in Utica, N. Y. Father, Edward Curran; in the hide and leather business; founder and head of the firm of Edward Curran & Sons; descendant of Henry Curran, who came from Enniskillen, Ireland, to New York City about 1789, later moving to northern New York. Mother, Mary (Langford) Curran; daughter of George and Chloe (Sweeting) Langford; grand- daughter of Dr. George Langford and descendant of Nathaniel Sweeting, both of whom served in the Revolutionary War. Yale relatives include: John E. Curran, *yo (brother); Philip C Peck, '96, George Langford, '97 S , Henry H. Curran, '98, and Darius E. Peck, '98 (nephews); and Charles L. Spencer, '78, and Dr. Edward C. Spencer, '80 (first cousins). Utica Free Academy Entered Yale with Class of i860, but left at end of Freshman year because of the death of his father; during the next three years had charge (with two of his brothers) of his father's business; reentered Yale in i860 as a Sophomore with Class of 1863, ^ r s t colloquy appointment Junior year; third dispute appointment Senior year; com- modore of Yale Navy; champion light weight and all-round athlete; member Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. After graduation resumed his connection with Edward Curran & Sons and continued with that firm and its successor, Edward Curran's Sons, until his death, although not active in the business during the last few months of his life (head of the firm since 1894); was also connected with the Middleville and Sand Bank tanneries; trustee of Savings Bank of Utica since 1899; police and fire commissioner 1881-85; actively associated with the philanthropic work of the city; had been offered ap- Tale College 23 pointment as commissioner of charities several times, but de- clined the appointment; was the "father7* of night schools in Utica, teaching Italian and Greek in the first school; for many years member of advisory boards of Utica Orphan Asylum (now Home for Crippled Children),Utica Rescue Mission,and Young Women's Christian Association (treasurer for some years prior to 1923); member Utica Humane Society and Oneida Historical Society; had retained his interest in athlet- ics and outdoor sports, equipping a gymnasium on the top of his store for his employees and other young men and boys, and having his own boat on the Mohawk River, in which he took long trips down to the Hudson River; member West- minster Presbyterian Church from boyhood until 1865, then of the First Presbyterian Church until 1871, and since then of the Sayre Memorial Presbyterian Church (elder since 1875); served as secretary and treasurer of Sunday school of First Presbyterian Church 1863-1898; founder of Sunday school of Sayre Memorial Church, when it was conducted as a mission, and its secretary and treasurer for sixty years; aided in es- tablishing the Highland Chapel and acted as superintendent of its Sunday school for some years; treasurer of Presbytery of Utica for many years, resigning the office in 1919. Married September 6,1865, in Utica, Cornelia, daughter of Dr. Isaac Hatch Douglas and Margery (McCune) Douglas. Children: Gertrude Douglas and Stanley Douglas, a non- graduate member of Yale Class of 1892, who received degree of M.D. at New York University in 1896 (died in 1911). Mrs. Curran died April 8, 1922 Death due to the infirmities of age. Buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica. Survived by his daughter. Thomas Albert Emerson, B.A. 1863. Born December 27, 1840, in South Reading, Mass Died Apnl 17, 1926, in Northampton, Mass. Father, Thomas Emerson, a shoe manufacturer; son of Thomas and Betsey (Hartshorn) Emerson; grandson of Thomas Emerson and great-grandson of Thomas Emerson, who served in the Revolutionary Army; descendant of Thomas 24 Obituary Record Emerson, who came from England to Ipswich, Mass , in 1638; also descended from the Rev. Peter Bulkley, a graduate of Cambridge University, who came to Boston, Mass , in 1635, was the first settler and minister at Concord, Mass , and foun- der of the twelfth church in the colony and whose library formed the nucleus of the Harvard College Library. Mother, Emily Minerva (Swain) Emerson; daughter of Thomas and Mary Swain; descendant of Major Jeremiah Swain, who fought in the Indian wars of 1676 and 1688, being commis- sioned Commander in Chief of all the forces raised and de- tailed out of several regiments ^within the Massachusetts Col- ony against the Kennebec and Eastern Indians; descendant also of Jeremiah Swam, who was living at Charlestown, Mass., in 1643. Cousin-/Albert E. Foster, '11 S. Philhps-Andover. Oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Linonia (president one term), Varuna Boat Club, Psi Upsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa. In October, 1863, appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster in U. S Navy; saw service on board the "Vermont" at Port Royal, S C , and on the brig "Perry" off Charleston, S. C , and at Fernandina, Fla ; resigned commission November 25, 1865; t n e n entered Andover Theological Seminary, his stud- ies, however, being interrupted by ill health; after a short con- nection with his father's factory, was employed in bookstore of J. E Tilton & Company at Boston until 1867, when he re- turned to Andover Theological Seminary, graduated there in 1869; on November 25, 1869, ordained pastor of First Con- gregational Church at Wolfeboro, N. H., where he remained until 1873, after a year abroad, was installed as pastor of First Congregational Church at Bramtree, Mass.; continued there until 1886, subsequently serving as pastor of First Congrega- tional Church in Clinton, Conn., until 1901, when he resigned on account of ill health; lived in Wakefield, Mass., 1901-03; pastor of First Congregational Church, Hadley, Mass., 1903- 1910; since his retirement from the ministry had made his home in Northampton; served as moderator of General Asso- ciation of Congregational Churches of Connecticut in 1892; life member American Board, Congregational Home Mission- ary Society, and American Missionary Association; member Wakefield Historical Society, Veteran Association, and Mid- dlesex Association Tale College ' 25 Married October 27, 1875, in Deerfield, Mass , Frances Huntington Crawford Brewster, daughter of the Rev. Robert Crawford, D.D. (B.A. Williams 1836), and Ellen Maria (Grif- fin) Crawford, widow of Edward P. Brewster (B.A. Princeton 1862), granddaughter of the Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D.D. (B.A. 1790), president of Williams College from 1821 €0 1836, and great-granddaughter of the Rev. Joseph Huntington, D.D. (B A. 1762). One son, Thomas (died in infancy) Mrs. Emerson died December 10, 1922. Death due to heart disease Buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield. Survived by two brothers, Edwin E. Emerson, of Everett, Mass., and George D. Emerson, of New York City. Samuel Carter Darling, B.A. 1864. Born March 5, 1843, i n Mill town, New Brunswick. Died September I, 1925, in Brighton, Mass. Father, Samuel Darlmg, J r , a merchant and justice in Mill town; son of Samuel and Jane (Vance) Darling, who went to New Brunswick from New Hampshire. Mother, Alice Jane (Carter) Darling; daughter of Theophilus and Jane (Stoddart) Carter; descendant of Thomas Carter, who came, to America from England in 1635 anc ^ settled at Ded- ham, Mass. Philhps-Andover. First and second prizes in English com- position and second prize in Linoma-Bishop Prize debate Sophomore year; high oration appointment Junior year; oration appointment Senior year; speaker at Junior Exhibi- tion and at Commencement; editor of Tale Literary Magazine Senior year. Member Glyuna Boat Club, Linonia, Delta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, Spade and Grave, WolPs Head, and Phi Beta Kappa. Spent first year after graduation at his home in St. Stephen's, New Brunswick; studied at Albany LaWScliool (LL B. 1866); admitted to New York Bar in May, 1866, and practiced in New York City from September of that year until August, ,1867; had since practiced in Boston, with the exception of a short time when he was looking after the business interests of his father-in-law, who owned a boot and shoe business in Marlboro, Mass ; partner in firm of Bigelow & Darling 1867- i6 ObituaryRecord 1871; associated in practice with his son, S. Boyd Darling, '95, 1903^59; resided in Somerville, Mass., 1873-1912 (city solicitor 1876—1887), then in Wayland, Mass., until 1916, and since then in Brighton; member Massachusetts House of Representatives 1886 and 1887; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor 1892; one of the incorporators (in 1908) of American College for Girls at Constantinople and secretary of its board of trustees 1908-1920; director International Institute for Girls in Spain for about fifteen years (also counsel and chairman of its committee on administration); president Congregational Club of Boston 1892, Congregational Church Union of Boston and Vicinity from its organization in 1896 until 1901, Mystic Valley Club for two years, Phillips-Andover Alumni 1899-1900, and Yale Club of Boston 1903-04; member prudential committee of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1897-1906 (also on its legacy committee; attended Yale Bicentennial as delegate of the Board); mem- ber Winter Hill Congregational Church, Somerville. Married December 27,1871, in Boston, Anna Frothingham, daughter of Samuel and Anne Fisher (Brigham) Boyd. Children: Samuel Boyd (B.A 1895, LL.B. Harvard 1899); Emma Carter Stoddart; Philip Grenville (B.A. Harvard 1901, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1905); Florence Boyd; and Margaret Churchill. Mrs. Darling died September 7, 1908. Death due to angina pectons. Buried in Woodlawn Ceme- tery, Everett, Mass Survived by his five children George Douglass, B.A. 1864. Born December 25, 1843, in New York City. Died April 25, 1926, in New York City. Father, John Douglass, a lumber merchant; son of Duncan Douglass, who came to America from Glasgow in 1801 and settled in New York City, and Isabella Campbell (Cameron) Douglass, of Inverness, Scotland. Mother, Catherine Jane (Miller) Douglass; daughter of Joseph and Abigal (Wilson) Miller, of Bloomingburg, N. Y. Nephews: Duncan Douglas, *97 S., Kenneth R. Douglas, ^-'97 S., and Malcolm Douglas, '00. Tale College 27 Sand Lake (N. Y.) Collegiate Institute Third dispute ap- pointment Junior year; second colloquy appointment Senior year; member Glyuna Boat Club, Brothers in Unity, Delta «•• Kappa Epsilon, and Spade and Grave. Since graduation had carried on the retail lumber business in New York City which was started by his father in 1835; during recent years, however, had not been active in the business; member All Angels' Episcopal Church, New York City. Married February 9, 1875, in New York City, Marie Louise, daughter of John Alfred and Sarah Ann (Bird) La- Forge. Children: George Angus, Roland, and Norman de- Forest. Died suddenly after three months* illness. Buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N. Y. Survived by wife, three sons, and two grandsons. James Phillips Hoyt, B.A. 1864. Born July 28, 1844, in Coventry, N Y» Died August 4, 1925, in West Newton, Mass Father, the Rev. John Benedict Hoyt (B A. 1814), a Presbyterian minister; pastor at Coventry for over thirty years; son of Thaddeus and Jemima{Benedict)Hoyt; descend- ant of Simon Hoyt, who came to America from England in 1628 or 1629, landing at Salem, Mass., moved to Charles- town, Mass., very shortly afterwards, and later lived in Dorchester, Mass. Mother, Eliza Ann (Phillips) Hoyt, daugh- ter of James and Elizabeth (Drake) Phillips; descendant of the Rev. George Phillips, who came to this country from England in 1630 and settled at Watertown, Mass Franklin-Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y. Oration appointment Junior year; high oration appointment Senior year; speaker at Junior Exhibition and Commence- ment; member Brothers in Unity, Gamma Nu, and Phi Beta Kappa. Taught Latin and English at General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute, New Haven, 1864-67; principal of Guilford (Conn.) Institute 1867-69; Senior in Yale Divinity School 1869-1870 (B.D. 1870); ordained and installed pastor 28 Obituary Record of Congregational Church, Sherman, Conn., July 28, 1870; remained there four years; acting pastor at Newtown, Conn., 1874-75, and pastor 1875-1890; also principal of Newtown Academy 1875-1882, pastor at Cheshire, Conn., 1890-1900; moved to Florida January 1,1901, and preached at Melbourne for a short time; pastor First Congregational Church, St. Petersburg, 1901-1910; since then pastor emeritus;had charge of Biblical Department of the Chautauqua at St. Petersburg; president Fairfleld County (Conn.) Teachers* Institute 1879; moderator Fairfleld East Association 1889 and New Haven Central Association 1892; member State Committee of Fellow- ship and Work 1883; annalist of General Conference of Con- necticut 1890-91 and 1892-93; member Standing Committee of New Haven West Conference 1894 and chairman 1894-95; moderator South Congregational Association for a number of years; assistant moderator Florida Congregational Confer- ence and moderator of its Obituary Committee; represented Florida at Southern Congregational Congress at Dallas, Texas, 1907 (moderator of opening session); president Sons and Daughters of America 1911-12; D.D. Rollins College 1911; credited with invention of one of the first fountain pens, which he named the Yale pen, and which was the first pro- duced in this country; had received two patents for fountain pens and one for a fountain mucilage brush; author: A New Method with English, A One-Term Course in Latin, An Out- line of the Phillips Genealogy for Three Hundred Tears, Death a Birth, Life Beyond Death, and Forty Tears in the Ministry; published a number of sermons and historical addresses. Married (1) November 1, 1867, in New Haven, Emma Augusta, daughter of George William and Eliza (Butler) Judd. Children- James Wallace; George Phillips; Emma Elizabeth (died in 1887); Will am Teal; Franklin Sherman (B.S Massa- chusetts Agricultural College and Boston University 1893, M.A. Columbia 1905); May Augusta (died in youth); Cora Louise (died in childhood); Newton Haven; Sarah Juliet (died in 1915); Fanny Eliza (died in 1914); John Benedict (died in 1915); and Edward Judson, ex-11 (died in 1914). Mrs. Hoyt died February 20, 1896. Married (2) April 19, 1897, i n Cheshire, Sarah Elizabeth Judd, a sister of his first wife. Mrs. Hoyt died July 26, 1924. Married (3) May 25, Tale College 29 1925, in Kingston, N. Y., Margaret Hoyt Brink, daughter of John Benedict and Jane (Beecher) Hoyt. Death due to angina pectons. Interment in family lot in New town Cemetery. Survived by wife, five sons, and five grandchildren. Clarence Lincoln Westcott, B.A. 1864. Born June 17, 18431; in Wilton, Conn Died December 7, 1925, in New York City Father, George Burwell Westcott, a farmer; son of Daniel and Sarah Betts (Lockwood) Westcott; descendant of Richard Westcott, who came to Wethersfield, Conn , from England, fought in the Pequot War in 1637, and settled in Stamford, Conn., in 1640. Mother, Arethusa (Lincoln) Westcott, daughter of Caleb and Martha (Whiting) Lincoln; descendant of Thomas Lincoln, who came to this country from Norfolk, England, m 1638 and settled at Hingham, Mass. Wilton Academy. Entered Yale at beginning of Sopho- more year; oration appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; member Varuna Boat Club, Lmo- nia, Gamma Nu, Alpha Delta Phi, Wolfs Head, and Phi Beta Kappa. Studied law in office of Benedict & Boardman in New York City 1864-66; admitted to bar in April, 1866; in office of Bow- doin, Larocque & Barlow 1867-1871; then practiced alone until January, 1875, when he formed firm of Brown & West- cott, which became Hall, Brown & Westcott in 1879 (with offices in New York City and White Plains, N. Y.), and Brown & Westcott in 1881; had practiced independently since 1884; lived in White Plains 1875-1884 and since then in New York (had spent the summer at Scarboro-on-Hudson since 1907); member New York County Lawyers Association, Huguenot Society, and Society of Mayflower Descendants; vestryman Christ Episcopal Church, New York City, and vestryman and warden St. Mary's Church, Beechwood, Scarboro-on-Hudson. Married (1) October 15, 1873, in New York City, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Horace Hooker (B A 1815) and Harriet (Watkinson) Hooker, and sister of Thomas Hooker, '64. One 30 Obituary Record son, Harold Hooker (died in childhood). Mrs Westcott died January n , 1887. Married (2) June 17, 1890, in Rox- bury, Mass., Maria Dunbar, daughter of Commodore Samuel Lockwood, U S.N, and Maria (Dunbar) Lockwood. One daughter, Margery Dunbar. Death, due to an intestinal operation, occurred at the Post- Graduate Hospital, New York City. Buried in Hillside Cem- etery, Wilton. Survived by wife and daughter. Edward Bennet Bronson, B.A. 1865. Born June 11, 1843, in Hartford, Conn Died November 18, 1925, in New York City. Father, Thomas Bronson (B A. 1829), a Congregational minister and a teacher; son of Bennet Bronson (B.A. 1797) and Anne (Smith) Bronson; descendant of John Bronson, who came to Hartford from England in 1636, was an original proprietor of Farmington in 1641, and later settled at Water- bury, Conn. Mother, Cynthia Elizabeth (Bartlett) Bronson; daughter of Cyrus M. and Betsey (McCall) Bartlett. Yale relatives include: Nathaniel Smith (honorary M A. 1795) and Nathan Smith (honorary M A . 1808) (great-uncles); Dr. Jesse Bronson (B A. 1826) and Henry Bronson (M.D. 1827) (uncles); Bennet Bronson, '09 (nephew); and Samuel L. Bronson, '55, Nathan S. Bronson, '56 S , S. Henry Bronson, '66 M., Dr Thomas S. Bronson, '86 S., Ezekiel S. Bronson, '00, Theodore L. Bronson, '12, George P. Murdock, '19, and Bennet B Murdock, '23 (cousins). Hopkins Grammar School, Hartford Member Varuna Boat Club, Brothers in Unity, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, and Psi Upsilon Studied in Yale School of Medicine for six months during 1865-66 and then at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- lumbia, for two years (M D 1869); interne at Bellevue Hos- pital April, 1868-October, 1869,spent next three years abroad, studying German and medicine in Berlin, Dresden, and Prague for six months and medicine in Vienna for two years (gave especial attention to skin diseases) and devoting six months to travel and study in Italy, Pans,and London, in 1872 began Yale College 31 practice in New York City, which had been his home ever since, although he retired from practice a few years before his death; professor of dermatology at New York Polychnic Medi- cal School and Hospital 1882-1904 and then professor emeri- tus; had been assistant surgeon to New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, visiting surgeon to New York Dispensary, visiting physician to City Hospital, House of Mercy, and Chanty Hospital,-attending surgeon and later consulting physician to Outdoor Poor Department of Bellevue Hospital, attending physician to Northern Dispensary, consulting physician to Babies' Hospital, and pathologist to Metropolitan Throat Hospital; contributed article on the "Syphilitic Corpuscle of Losterfer" to New York Medical Record; subsequently wrote series of articles on same subject for Medical Press and Circular of London; collaborator on Archives of Dermatology; contribu- tor to American Journal of Syphilis and Dermatology; mem- ber editorial staff of Medical Record; one of the translators of Ziemssen's Cyclopedia of the Practice of Medicine; member American Medical Association, American Dermatological Association, American Therapeutic Society, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Dermatological Society, Medical Society of the County of New York, Greater New York Medical Association, Bellevue Hospital Alumni Asso- ciation, and Harvey Society; served on 1865 Class Commit- tee for a time. Unmarried. Burned to death in a fire that completely destroyed his home. Buried in Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Mass. By the terms of his will a bequest of $10,000 was left to Yale University to be added to the contribution of the Class of 1865 to the Alumni University Fund. George Henry Ely, B.A. 1865. Born November 15, 1844, in Elyna, Ohio. Died October 1, 1925, in Elyna, Ohio. Father, Heman Ely, a banker; member of Ohio Legislature; son of Heman Ely, who settled in the Western Reserve, about twenty-five miles west of Cleveland, in 1817 and named Lo- 32 Obituary Record rain County and present city of Elyria (at that time owned nearly the entire township, receiving his title through his fa- ther, Justin Ely, from the Connecticut Land Company), and Ceha (Belden) Ely; descendant of Nathaniel Ely, who came from England to Newtown, Mass , in 1634 and later settled at Springfield, Mass. Mother, Mary Harris (Monteith) Ely; daughter of the Rev John Monteith (B A. Jefferson College 1813) and Abigail (Harris) Monteith, and sister of John Mon- teith, '56; descendant of David Monteith, who came from Dundee, Scotland, to Gettysburg, Pa., about 1780. Nephews: Frederick E. Williamson, '98, Theodore W. Ely,'05 S., Arthur P Williamson, '07, Albert H. Ely, Jr., '15, and Thomas Mar- shall, '28. Preparatory training received at Hudson, Ohio. Attended Western Reserve College for two years as member of Class of 1865. Entered Yale as a Junior in 1863; second dispute appoint- ment Senior year; member Linonia and Glyuna Boat Club. Had lived in Elyna ever since graduation; engaged in manu- facture of carriage hardware until 1888 (member of firm of Topliff & Ely for some years); then disposed of his interest in the carriage business to The Topliff & Ely Company and be- came president of Elyna Stone Company; also engaged in breeding fine horses for ten years; after his father's death in 1894, became president and manager of the Ely Realty Com- pany, a corporation to which the real estate owned by the family had been deeded, and served in that capacity until his death; director and president National Bank of Elyria for over twenty-five years; an organizer of the Chamber of Commerce and its president for several years; state senator for two terms (1893-97), having been nominated each time by ac- clamation; became a charter member of Yale Alumni Asso- ciation of Cleveland in 1881 (president for three terms); member First Congregational Church, Elyria Married December 11, 1867, in Chicopee, Mass , Annie E., daughter of Loman A. and Louisa (Patrick) Moody. Children: Malcolm Monteith, ex-yi\ Heman, '94 S ; and Mary Louise (Mrs ToddL Moise) Death followed an operation for appendicitis. Interment at Elyria. Survived by wife, sons, daughter, seven grandchildren, among whom are Heman Ely, Jr,, ex-iiy and George H. Ely, Tale College 2d, *28, two half brothers, Dr. Albert H. Ely, '85, and Charles Theodore Ely, of Cleveland, and two half sisters, Mrs. James DeL. Williamson, of Cleveland, and Mrs. George M. Marshall, of Philadelphia, Pa. Charles Kimberly, B.A. 1865. Born November 4, 1843, in New Haven, Conn. Died June 30, 1926, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Charles Kimberly; son of Ezra Kimberly, a Revolu- tionary soldier; descendant of Thomas Kimberly, who came from England and was a founder of New Haven Mother, Har- riet Abigail (Sperry) Kimberly; daughter of Enos Sperry General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. Second prize for declamation Sophomore year; member Va- runa Boat Club, Linoma, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Studied at Albany Law School 1865-66, receiving degree of LL.B. at end of the year's work; admitted to bar in New York and Connecticut in 1866, but never practiced law; conducted an insurance agency in New Haven with Lucien W Sperry, his stepfather, under name of Sperry & Kimberly 1867-1887; in 1887 the firm of Kimberly & Root, bankers and brokers, was formed, which later became successively Kimberly, Root & Day and Kimberly, Root & Company, and so continued until 1915, when Mr. Kimberly retired; city auditor (comp- troller) of New Haven 1879-1883; member Church of the Re- deemer (Congregational), New Haven. Married December 25,1867, in New Haven,Helen Augusta, daughter of William and Ann (Holt) Hull No children. Death, due tp the effects of an operation and pleurisy, oc- curred after *an illness of several months Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife. \ Sidney Vanuxem Smith, B.A. 1865, t Born March 27,1845, in Philadelphia, Pa 1 - Died September 19, 1925, in San Francisco, Calif Father, Sidney Vanuxem Smith, a lawyer; son of Nathan arid Louisa (Vanuxem) Smith. Mother, Felixine (Teisseire) 34 Obituary Record Smith; daughter of James and Josephine (Duprez) Teisseire; granddaughter of Anthony Teisseire, whose widow came to America from France after her husband's death at about the time of the French Revolution and settled in Philadelphia. Short's School, Philadelphia Dispute appointment Junior year; dissertation appointment Senior year; member Varuna Boat Club, Linonia, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key Went to San Francisco immediately after graduation and studied law in his father's office; admitted to the bar in January, 1869; practiced in San Francisco until 1908, when he retired (associated with his father in firm of S. V. Smith & Son 1869-1885, partner with James Reid Pringle, his step- son, in firm of Smith & Pnngle 1895-1908); member Trinity Episcopal Church, San Francisco. Married October 23, 1884, in San Rafael, Calif., Cora Butterworth Pnngle, daughter of Sam Fowler and Mary (Anms) Butterworth. Children: Sidney Vanuxem, Jr., a non- graduate HIember of the University of California Class of 1908; Felix Tejsseire (B A. University of California 1908, LL.B Harvard 1911); Cora Helen Butterworth, the wife of Herbert S Goold (B A. Stanford 1909); and Gordon Manges (died in infancy). Mrs Smith died October 2, 1921. Death, due to angina pectons, followed an illness of over a year. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, San Francisco. Survived by two sons, daughter, and seven grandchildren. Frederic Nevins Dodge, B.A. 1866. Born February 63 1845, in Hartford, Conn. Died March 28, 1926, in Paterson, N. J Father, David Stuart Dodge (M D. 1826), a physician in Hartford and New York City; son of David Low and Sarah (Cleveland) Dodge; descendant of William Dodge, who came from England to Salem, Mass , in 1629 Mother, Caroline (Hyde) Dodge, daughter of Erastus and Fanny (Bell) Hyde; descendant of William Hyde, who came to this country from England in 1633 and settled at Norwich, Conn. Yale relatives include the following cousins. D. Stuart Dodge, '57, George Tale College 35 E. Dodge, '70, Arthur M Dodge, '74, Walter Phelps Dodge, £#-'91, Francis P. Dodge, '94, Guy P. Dodge, ex- 96, Marshall J. Dodge, '98, Clarence P. and Murray W. Dodge, both '99, William E. Dodge (honorary M A 1901), A. Douglas Dodge, '03, Geoffrey Dodge, '09, and Percival and Stuart Phelps Dodge, both '14. Preparatory training received under a private tutor in New York City. Member Varuna Boat Club, Linonia, Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Delta Phi, and Scroll and Key. LL.B. Columbia 1868; practiced law in New York City 1868-1872; and was then engaged in business with the Milh- gan & Higgins Glue Company until 1884, when he became secretary and treasurer of the E A Bliss Company (lumber) in New York City; in March, 1887, appointed statis- tician at New York Custom House and the following month promoted to acting deputy collector and confidential clerk to the collector; became acting chief clerk in December, 1887, and chief clerk in 1888; in 1914 promoted to appoint- ment clerk, having charge of records, correspondence, and all matters relating to the personnel in the collector's office, and held that position until his death; member Presbyterian Church. Married October 25, 1871, in Paterson, Jeame Godwin, daughter of Abraham and Eleanor (Godwin) Prall. Children: Frederic Stuart (died in infancy); Eleanor Godwin (Mrs. Robert Rennie Atterbury); Kenneth Egbert; and Effingham Nevins (B.A. 1906, LL.B. New York Law School 1908). Death due to bronchopneumoma. Buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson. Survived by wife, daughter, two sons, and four grandchildren. Wilder Bennett Harding, B.A. 1867. Born February 6,1839, in Putney, Vt Died January 15, 1926, in Springfield, Mass Father, John Richardson Harding, a farmer; son of Caleb and Betsy (Richardson) Harding; descendant of Daniel Harding, who came from England to Providence, R. I., and Obituary Record later settled in Rehoboth, Mass. Mother, Lucy (Bennett) Harding; daughter of Samuel Bennett, a Revolutionary soldier. Williston Academy. Second prize in Freshman prize debate; first prize in Sophomore and Junior debates; second prize in declamation Sophomore year; dissertation appointment Jun- ior year; oration appointment Senior year; member Linonia, Gamma Nu, Alpha Delta Phi, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., 1867-69; admitted to bar July 3, 1869; was in law office of Taylor & Andrews in New York City a few months but in January, 1870, obliged to resign on account of ill health; taught in Poughkeepsie Military Institute during spring and sum- mer of 1870 and in W. C. Wilcox's private school in Stamford, Conn., 1870-72; M.A. Yale 1871; principal of Smith Academy, Hatfield, Mass., 1872-1885, of Gen- esee Valley Seminary, Belfast, N. Y., 1885-89, and of Wash- ington Academy, Salem, N. Y., from 1889 until 1897, when he retired from teaching; afterwards had a fruit farm in Southwick, Mass., for over twenty years; since 1920 had lived in Springfield; member Congregational Church, South- wick, Mass.; superintendent of a Methodist Episcopal Sunday school in Springfield for a number of years. Married August 22, 1872, in Putney, Sarah Louise, daugh- ter of Simon Willard and Sarah Ann (Meade) Houghton. Children: Harold Richardson; Blanche Houghton (Mrs. Judson O. Brooks); and Malcolm Bennett. Mrs. Harding died January 12, 1920 Death due to acute heart dilation. Interment in Putney. Survived by daughter,^two sons, and eight grandchildren. Stephen Goodhue Bailey, B.A. 1868. Born January 23, 1845, m Lowell, Mass. Died March 31, 1926, in Lowell, Mass. Father, Thomas Duston Bailey; son of Moors and Ruthena . (Duston) Bailey; descendant of Richard Bailey, who came from England to Lynn, Mass, in 1638 and later settled at Tale College 37 Rowley, Mass., where he was connected with one of the first ** cloth mills in America; descendant of Thomas Duston, eldest son of Hannah Duston, of Haverhill, Mass., who was captured by Indians in 1697, escaped after killing her captors, and re- turned to Haverhill, where there is a commemorative statue erected to her memory, a second monument to her memory being on an island at the confluence of the Contocook and Mernmac rivers near Concord, N. H. Mother, Ruth Folsom (Goodhue) Bailey; daughter of Stephen and Betsy (Page) Goodhue; granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas Page, who served in the Revolutionary War and afterwards moved from Connecticut to Hanover, N. H , and later to Hebron, N H , where he was pastor of the Congregational Church. Lowell High School. First colloquy appointment Junior year; colloquy appointment Senior year; member Brothers in Unity (president Senior year) and Kappa Sigma Epsilon. After graduation taught at Brattleboro, Vt., and Brook- field and Marblehead, Mass ; principal of Franklin Grammar School, Lowell, 1871-74; then engaged in the coal business in Lowell for a year; in 1875 entered Boston University School of Medicine, where he was president of his class and was gradu- ated with honors in 1880, winning a prize for his graduation essay; practiced medicine at Haverhill the next year and then at Lowell until 1898, with the exception of eighteen months which he spent in practice in Hoquiam, Wash ; in the employ of United States Custom Service as liquidator in Boston from 1898 until his retirement in 1924; had lived in Lowell since 1922; member Eliot-Union Congregational Church in that city. Married August 6, 1873, in Lowell, Ella Pray, daughter of John Jones and Caroline (Merrill) Pray Children: Sidney Pray; Thomas Duston; Philip Goodhue; Paul; and Ruth Merrill (B.A. Mount Holyoke 1909). Death due to carcinoma. Buried at Lowell. Survived by wife, four sons, daughter, four grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Clara D. Churchill and Miss Ruth B. Bailey, both of Lowell. 38 Obituary Record William Palmer Dixon, B.A. 1868. Born March 19,1847, in New York City Died June 24, 1926, in Lawrence, N. Y. Father, Courtlandt Palmer Dixon; son of Nathan Fellows Dixon (B A Brown 1799) and Betsy (Palmer) Dixon; de- scendant of John Dixon, who came to America from Ireland in 1719 and settled at New London, Conn Mother, Hannah Elizabeth (Williams) Dixon; daughter of Capt. Ephraim Williams, of Stomngton, Conn., a collateral descendant of Colonel Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College, and Hannah Eliza (Denison) Williams; descendant of Isaac Williams, who settled in Stomngton about 1685. Yale relatives include Henry B. Barnes, '66, and Louis L. Stanton/79 (brothers-in-law); and Henry B. Barnes, '93, Courtlandt D. Barnes, '02, Theodore P. Dixon, '07, Thomas S. Barnes, '10, George A Dixon, Jr , '13, and L. Lee Stanton, '19 (nephews). Overhiser's School, Brooklyn. One of the Cochlaureati; made presentation address at Wooden Spoon Exhibition; member Junior Promenade and Junior Exhibition commit- tees, Thanksgiving Jubilee Committee (Senior year), Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. LL B Columbia 1870; admitted to bar May 14, 1869; in partnership with his classmate, Charles H. Farnam, under firm name of Dixon & Farnam 1870-75; then practiced inde- pendently until January, 1882; m partnership with George M. Miller and Wheeler H Peckham m firm of Miller, Peckham & Dixon from 1882 until dissolution of firm in 1900; since then in partnership with his cousin, Jabish Holmes, in firm of Dixon & Holmes; trustee Mutual Life Insurance Company; director Lawyers Title Insurance Company, Mortgage Bond Company, Fidelity & Casuahty Company, Lawyers West- chester Title & Insurance Company, American Exchange National Bank, and City of New York Insurance Company; president and director New York, Manhattan, Central, and Colonial Real Estate companies; Episcopalian. Married April. 26, 1871, at Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y., Evelena Franklin, daughter of Samuel Denison and Elizabeth (Crary) Babcock. Children: Evelena Babcock, the wife of Tale College 39 Eben Stevens, '92; William Henry (B A Columbia 1900); and Courtlandt Palmer (B A 1908). Mrs. Dixondied April 30,1908. Death due to heart failure Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by three children, six grandchildren, two of whom are Byam K. Stevens, '19, and William D. Stevens, '23, and two brothers, Ephraim W. Dixon, '81, and George A. Dixon (M.D. Columbia 1878), of New York City. Jonathan Ingersoll, B.A. 1868. t Born April 23, 1848, in New Haven, Conn. Died May 9, 1926, in Los Angeles, Calif Father, Charles Anthony Ingersoll (B A 1815, honorary M.A. 1827); judge of United States District Court for District of Connecticut; son of Jonathan Ingersoll (B.A 1766, LL.D. 1816), a judge of the Superior Court and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, and Grace (Isaacs) Ingersoll; grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll (B A. 1736) and of Ralph Isaacs (B.A. 1761); great-grandson of the Rev Joseph Moss (hon- orary M A . 1702); descendant of John Ingersoll, who came from Bedfordshire, England, to Hartford, Conn , about 1650 Mother, Henrietta (Sidell) Ingersoll; daughter of John and Elizabeth (Low) Sidell; descendant of John Sidell (or Seidel), who came to this country from Saxony about 1753 and settled in New York City. Yale relatives include: Jared Ingersoll (B.A. 1742) and Isaac Isaacs (B.A 1750) (great-great-uncles); Ralph Isaacs (B A. 1784) (great-uncle); Ralph I. Ingersoll (B.A. 1808) 'and the Rev. Edward Ingersoll (B A 1831) (un- cles); Charles D. Ingersoll, '64, and Thomas C Ingersoll, '6$ (brothers); Hamilton Ingersoll, '11 S (nephew); and Jared Ingersoll (B.A. 1766), John V. Ingersoll (B A. 1834), Charles R. Ingersoll^(B.A 1840), Francis G Ingersoll, '74, Colin M. Ingersoll, '80 S., George Pratt Ingersoll, '85 L , Colin M. Ingersoll, '17 L., and Ralph McA. Ingersoll, '21 S. (cousins). General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute First colloquy appointment Junior year; member Glyuna Boat Club, Delta Kappa, Delta Beta Xi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Spade and Grave, and Wolf's Head 4-O Obituary Record Studied at Albany Law School 1868—65^ receiving degree of LL B. at end of year's work; immediately began practice in New Haven; executive secretary of State of Connecticut May, 1873-Djecember, 1874; assistant clerk of Superior Court of New Haven 1875-1882 and clerk 1882-88; member Court of New Haven Common Council 1870-72; moved to the Pacific coast 1889, making his home in Los Angeles during most of the time since; traveled in various parts of the United States and in Europe 1889-1899; entered the service of Southern Pacific Railroad Company at Los Angeles in 1899; in charge of advertising department 1902-1910; chief clerk in accounting department from 1910 until his retire- ment in 1916; member Trinity Episcopal Church, New Haven. Married (1) October 6,1870, in Albany, N. Y., Grace King, daughter of Joshua King and Elizabeth Everett (Carrier) Skinner Children: Anne (died in childhood); Charles Anthony, '93 S., Henrietta, who married Thomas M. Russell, ex~y^6 S.; and Jonathan, '96 S. Mr and Mrs. Ingersoll were divorced in 1889. Married (2) March 16, 1889, in New York City, Alice Maud, daughter of John Charles and Mary Parmelee (Beecher) Anderson One son, Randolph. Death due to acute indigestion. Buried in the chapel of Los Angeles Crematory. Survived by wife, daughter, three sons, and three grandchildren. Charles Edwin Searls, B.A. 1868. Born March 25, 1846, in Pomfret:, Conn Died July 14, 1925, in Thompson, Conn Father, Edwin Clark Searls, a merchant in Pomfret and later a broker in New York; son of Bela and Hannah (Wolcot) Searls, descendant of Robert Searls, who came from Dorches- ter, England, was admitted to the community of Dorchester, Mass , in 1662, and later moved to Brooklyn, Conn. Mother, Caroline (Mathewson) Searls; daughter of Darius and Mary (Smith) Mathewson; descendant of John Mathewson, who came to America from Scotland in 1658 and settled at Provi- dence, R I. Cousins: Dr. Arthur Mathewson, '58, Albert McC. Mathewson, '84 L., Dr. Henry S. Mathewson, '90, and John P Grosvenor, ' Tale College 41 Private academy in Thompson. Dissertation appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; member Phi Theta Psi, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Psi Upsilon, and Wolfs Head. Had lived in Thompson since graduation; studied law with Gilbert M. Phillips in Putnam, Conn ; had practiced in Put- nam since his admission to bar in August, 1870; formed a partnership with Frank F. Russell, £#-'89 L., under firm name of Searls & Russell in 1892; in 1910 Howard C. Bradford was admitted to the firm, which then became Searls, Russell & Bradford, of which Mr. Searls was senior member until his death; admitted to practice in Urn ted States Supreme Court in 1907; one of the oldest members of the Connecticut Bar in length of service, and oldest practicing member of Wind- ham County Bar; had declined two appointments to Superior Court bench; counsel for Hemingway Silk Company of Putnam (originally the Hammond-Knowlton Silk Company) from its incorporation about 1885 until his death; director of Derry (N. H.) Water Company until the works were sold to the city and of Thompson National Bank until its liqudia- tion; special counsel to Comptroller of the Currency in 1898 and 1899; member Connecticut Legislature in 1871 and again in 1886 (candidate for speaker during last term, but defeated), secretary of state during 1881-82; in convention of 1884 re- ceived a large vote for member of Congress from his county, in 1886 his name was prominently mentioned as a candidate for governor; delegate from Connecticut to Republican National Convention in 1896; member State Senate in 1909 and 1910, serving as chairman of Judiciary Committee and of Joint Committee on Rules, town clerk of Thompson in 1869 and 1870; school visitor for a number of years, justice of the peace 1867-1916; former officer of American Bar Association and president Connecticut State Bar Associa- tion in 1918 (member of its committee on jurisprudence and of executive committee); director Connecticut Branch, National Citizens' League; member National Economic League; regular attendant at Congregational Church in Thompson. Married October 8, 1902, in Boston, Mass , Sarah ALce, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fairclough) Fell No children. 42 Obituary Record Death due to myocarditis, had been in failing health for two years,* his illness becoming acute about three months before his death. Buried at Pomfret Survived by wife. Frank Harwood Hamlin, B.A. 1869. Born March 29, 1846, m East Bloomfield, N Y. Died January 17, 1926, in Canandaigua, *N Y. Father, Henry William Hamlm, a banker and farmer; son of Elijah Hamlin, who emigrated from Connecticut to west- ern New York, settling in Bloomfield in 1792, andLydia (Pope) Hamlm; descendant of James Hamlin, who came to America from London in 1639 and settled at Barnstable, Mass. Mother, Sibyll Blackman (Sears) Hamlin; daughter of Dr. John Sears, of Sharon, Conn , and Almira (Goold) Sears; descendant of Governor William Bradford and Elder William Brewster of the "Mayflower" company. Nephew: Frederick H. Hamlin, '95. East Bloomfield Academy and Claverack (N. Y.) Institute. Entered Yale with Class of 1868, but left during Freshman year; reentered as Freshman with Class of 1869; second dis- pute appointments Junior and Senior years; member Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon. LL.B Albany Law School 1870; admitted to New York State Bar that year and practiced in Albany until 1872; then moved to Canandaigua and practiced independently for two years; spent nearly a year (1872-73) in California, partly on account of his wife's health, practiced law in partnership with William H. Smith, a judge of Ontario County under firm name of Smith & Hamlin 1874-1889; subsequently practiced alone until 1901, when his eldest son became associated with him under firm name of Hamlin & Hamlin; upon the latter's withdrawal from the firm m 1904, Mr. Hamlin took another son, Henry W Hamlin, into partnership under the same firm name and continued in that connection until his death, al- though he had retired from active practice some years before; one of the organizers of Canandaigua National Bank in 1887 and president from that time until his death (also a director); first vice-president and financial manager of Genesee Valley Trust Company of Rochester from its incorporation in 1901 Tale College 43 until 1908 and then president for six years; elected president of Rochester Clearing House Association 1910; a founder of Hamlin National Bank of Holcomb, N Y ; director of Citi- zens Bank of Penn Yan, N. Y ; an organizer of Locke Insula- tor Company of Victor, N. Y., Papec Machine Company of Shortsville,N. Y (director at death),and Lisk Manufacturing Company of Canandaigua (appointed a receiver upon its finan- cial collapse in 1907 and aided in saving it from complete bankruptcy and in its reorganization); secured right of way from Geneva to Batavia for Lehigh Valley Railroad; owned a wheat farm in Cass County, S. Dak., for about twenty years; elected president of village of Canandaigua in 1887 and served two terms (also served as its counsel at various times); chairman of Ontario County Republican Committee during two campaigns (one of them, the Garfield presidential cam- paign); delegate to New York State Constitutional Conven- tion for 26th Senatorial District 1894; treasurer board of trustees of Ontario Orphan Asylum for forty years, retiring in 1924, but continuing as member of board until his death; sec- retary board of trustees of Canandaigua Academy for many years prior to 1897, when it was taken over by the public school system; president board of trustees of First Congrega- tional Church, Canandaigua, for some years; chairman of the first and second Liberty Loan campaigns for Canandaigua, senior member Ontario County Bar Association and Ontario County Historical Association; member Canandaigua Scien- tific Association for many years (at one time president) and an honorary member during the last few years Married September 25,1872, in East Bloomfield, Elizabeth Pearce, daughter of George and Elizabeth Ann (Pearce) Wright Children- George Wright (B A 1895); Arthur Sears (B.A. 1899, LL B New York Law School 1901); and Henry William (B A 1902, L L B New York Law School 1904) Mrs Hamlin died January 23, 1912 Death, due to broncho-pneumonia, occurred at the Thomp- son Memorial Hospital, Canandaigua. Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua. Survived by three sons, seven grand- children, one of whom is Frank H Hamlin, 2d, '28, and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah H Holhster and Mrs Agnes H. Steele, both of East Bloomfield. 44 Obituary Record John Marshall Holcombe, B.A. 1869. Born June 8, 1848, in Hartford, Conn. Died January 15, 1926, in Hartford, Conn Father, James Huggins Holcombe, a lawyer in Hartford for many years; clerk of the court and of the House and Senate of Connecticut; later lived in Italy; son of Phineas and Nancy Smith (Huggins) Holcombe; descendant of Thomas Holcombe, who came from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1635 and later was a settler and deputy in Windsor, Conn.; in the same line of descent as Amasa Holcombe, the distinguished scien- tist, and the Rev. Frederick Holcombe, eminent divine and founder of Trinity College; other ancestors included three Revolutionary soldiers and other men prominent in early American history, among them being John Webster, one of the early colonial governors of Connecticut, William Phelps, magistrate and deputy to the General Court for many sessions, Edward Gnswold, also a magistrate and deputy, and Capt. Joseph Wadsworth, who hid the original charter of Connecticut. Mother, Emily Merrill (Johnson) Holcombe; daughter of Gen- eral Nathan Johnson (B A. 1802), an officer in the War of 1812 and a member of the State Senate, and Sarah (Merrill) John- son. Brother, James W Holcombe, *68. Hartford Public High School. Second colloquy appoint- ment Junior year; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Wolf's Head. Traveled and read law during first six months after gradu- ation; then entered actuarial department of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company; appointed actuary in the insurance department of the State of Connecticut in Octo- ber, 1881, and served as such for three years; since August, 1874, had been connected with Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford (assistant secretary 1874-75, secretary 1875-1889, vice-president 1889-1904, president 1904-1924, and chairman of board of directors since 1924); organizer in 1886 of the Fidelity Trust Company, of which he was president from 1896 to 1907 and a director until it was merged into the United States Security Trust Company in 1923, when he be- came a director in the latter company; president and director Tale College 45 Mechanics Savings Bank; director American National Bank until its merger with the Phoenix National Bank, after which he was a director in the latter bank; director Connecticut Fire Insurance Company until its merger with Phoenix Insur- ance Company and then director in the latter company; di- rector National Surety Company of New York and Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company of Southington, Conn.; had taken as important a part in the municipal affairs of Hartford as he had in its business life; brought about the organization of the Board of Health and served on it for many years; member of the Common Council in 1883, and of the Board of Alder- men in 1885, serving as president of both, member Hartford Board of Finance and City Plan Commission; had served as president of Insurance Institute of Hartford, Municipal Arts Society, and Fine Arts Federation; president Hartford Meadows Development Commission at the time of his death; director of Board of Trade and of the Retreat for the Insane (also treasurer of latter for many years); lecturer on insurance at Yale (instrumental in organizing the course) 1907-1914 and special lecturer at Western Reserve University 1913, honorary M A. Yale 1909 and LL.D. Trinity 1920; author of many articles and brochures on insurance matters, some of which have been compiled into a published volume, and of Lectures on Insurance (textbook published in 1908); had con- tributed to North American Review for many years, secretary Yale Alumni Association of Hartford during the first six years of its existence (1888-1892), vice-president 1892-94, and president the next year; secretary of the Class of 1869 since 1919; charter member and Fellow Actuarial Society of America; honorary member Hartford Life Underwriters' Association; member Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of the War of 1812, Society of Colonial Governors, executive committee of American Mis- sionary Society, and the First Church of Christ (Congrega- tional), Hartford. Married January 29, 1873, in Brooklyn, N Y., Emily Sey- mour, daughter of Edwin Olmsted and Harriet (Brown) Goodwin. Children: Harold Goodwin, '97, Emily Marguerite, and John Marshall, Jr (B.A. 1911, LL.B Harvard 1914) Mrs. Holcombe died March 28, 1923. \J 46 Obituary Record Because of Mrs. Holcombe's services to the city of Hart- ford in the restoration of the Ancient Burying Ground, the Common Council passed a resolution granting permission for two graves, and, as a result, both Mr. and Mrs Holcombe are buried there. Was survived by sons, daughter, and nine grand- children; his daughter died February 6,1926. William James Betts, B.A. 1870. Born May 19, 1847, in Stamford, Conn. Died January 30, 1926, in Stamford, Conn. 1 Father, James Betts; founder of Betts Academy in Stam- ford in 1838; son of David Coley and Rhoda (Adams) Betts; descendant of Thomas Betts, who came to Guilford, Conn., from England about 1639 and in 1640 moved to Norwalk, Conn Mother, Amelia D'Autremont (Lockwood) Betts; daughter of Horatio and Bethia Close (Lockwood) Lockwood; descendant of Robert Lockwood, who came from England to America about 1630 and settled at Watertown, Mass Yale relatives include William C. Betts (M.D. 1843) a n d John A. Betts (M D 1848) (uncles); Sylvester M Betts, ex-64, and Alsop L Betts, ex-yi (brothers); and J. Henry Cummings, '70, and the Rev Robert R. Kendall, '72 (broth- ers-in-law). Betts Academy. Entered Yale with Class of 1869, but left in fall of 1867 on account of an attack of typhoid fever; reentered as Junior with Class of 1870 in fall of 1868; third prize in declamation Sophomore year; dissertation appoint- ment Senior year, member '69 Baseball Club, Brothers in Unity, Gamma Nu, Alpha Delta Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa. Connected with Betts Academy during first ten years after graduation, with Dennison & Brown, stationers in New York City, 1880-81; in charge of a subscription book business in Hartford, Conn , 1881-85; upon the death of his father in 1885 returned to prmcipalship of Betts Academy; in January, 1908, the buildings were wholly destroyed by fire and Mr. Betts did not rebuild the school but sold the good will and business interests to the Brunswick School, Inc , of Green- wich, Conn ; headmaster of Betts Tutoring School in Stam- Tale College 47 ford 1909-1924 and then retired; member Headmasters Association and Filrst Congregational Church, Stamford (formerly a deacon). Married July 15,1875, in New Haven, Anna Woods, daugh- ter of Ariel Parish (B.A. 1835) and Anna (Woods) Parish, and sister of Leonard W. Parish, '72. One daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth. Mrs. Betts died March 16, 1922. Death, due to acute uremia, occurred at the Stamford Hospital. Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Stamford. Survived by daughter. Walter Hatch Charnley, B.A. 1871. Born October 20, 1850, in New Haven, Conn Died June 10, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio. Father, William Slater Charnley, a banker and broker in Philadelphia; later engaged in the iron and steel business in New Haven; son of James Hatch Charnley, who was born in England in 1790, settled near New Haven, and died in Philadelphia in 1825, and Martha Sauerwold (Slater) Charn- ley; descendant of William and Jane (Foxcroft) Charnley Mother, Elizabeth Badger (Atwater) Charnley; daughter of Charles and Lucy (Root) Atwater; descendant of David Atwater, who came to America from England in 1637 and settled at New Haven. Yale relatives include: Lester Brad- ner, '57 (brother-in-law); the Rev. Lester Bradner, '89, Douglas Charnley, '96, and Charles M. Charnley, '97 (neph- ews); and Leicester Bradner, '20, William Murray Bradner, '22, and John Bradner, '25 (grandnephews). Hopkins Grammar School. Member Yale Missionary Socie- ty, Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, and Psi Upsilon. Engaged in the lumber business in Chicago for some years after graduation; lumber broker in Pittsburgh, P a , 1888— 1916, with his home in Sewickley; moved to Cleveland 1916; special investigator in cashier's office of Pennsylvania Rail- road 1916-1921; salesman for Morgan Lithographic Company 1921-23; then retired from active business; member Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian), Chicago (at one time treas- urer) , and a fterwards member Presby ten an Church, Sewickley. 48 Obituary Record Married December 17, 1878, in Chicago, Mary Vernon, daughter of Nathanael Wolfe, formerly attorney-general of Kentucky, and Mary Fontaine (Vernon) Wolfe. Children: Vernon; Walter; Nathanael Wolfe; William Slater; and Mary Starr (widow of Walter M Waskom). Mrs. Charnley died August 19, 1903. Death due to a general breakdown. Buried in Sewickley. Survived by four sons, daughter, eight grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Edith Charnley Stone, of New York City, and two brothers, Charles M. Charnley, '6$, and George Charnley, of New York City. Another brother, James Charnley, also graduated at Yale in 1865. Albert Westervelt Cooper, B.A. 1871. Born May 10, 1847, m Whitestown, N. Y. Died September 25, 1925, at Ocean Grove, N. J. Father, William Cooper, a farmer; son of William and Sarah (Bailey) Cooper. Mother, Zada (Bailey) Cooper; daughter of Lansing and Zada (Parmalee) Bailey. Yale relatives: Ely R. Hall, '72 (brother-in-law), and Clarence R Hall, 'oy (nephew). Whitestown Seminary. Attended Hillsdale College 1868— 1870, becoming member of Delta Tau Delta; entered Yale as a Senior in 1870. Taught in Holbrook and Bartlett's Military Academy at Sing Smg, N Y , for a time after graduation; principal of Windsor (N. Y ) Academy and Union School 1871-72; princi- pal of high school and superintendent of schools in Susque- hanna, P a , 1872-74; then obliged to give up his work on account of ill health and during the next year was engaged in farming at W7hitestown; moved to Windsor in 1875 and be- came engaged in Sunday school work; given an exhorter's license by the quarterly conference of the Susquehanna Methodist Episcopal Church December 20, 1875; licensed to preach by the WTyoming Conference of Binghamton, N. Y., March 2, 1876; entered that conference the next April and was pastor at Franklin Forks, Pa., for a year; ordained deacon at West Pittston, Pa., in April, 1878, and elder at Scranton, Tale College 49 Pa., in April, 1880; had held pastorates as follows: Waverly, Pa., 1878-79, Damascus, Pa., 1880-82, Slaterville Springs, N. Y., 1883-85, Oxford, N. Y., 1886-1890, Jermyn, Pa., 1891-92, Scran ton, Pa. (Hampton Street Church), 1893- 94, Hawley, Pa., 1895-99, Dal ton, Pa., 1900-01, Montrose, Pa., 1902, Union, N. Y., 1903-04, Greene, N. Y , 1905-09, and Schenevus, N. Y., 1910-15; retired from active ministry in 1915, but maintained his association with annual sessions of Wyoming Conference until his death; since his retirement had lived in Greene, N. Y., Wilkes Barre, Mountain Top, and Glen Lyon, Pa., Alexandria, Va., and, since 1923, at Mount Vernon, N. Y. Married July 10, 1873, in Windsor, Ada A , daughter of Jesse and Jane Ann (Russell) Smith Children: Albert Lloyd (B.A. Wesleyan 1901) and Jesse VanCleft (B.A. Wesleyan 1906). Mrs. Cooper died August 27, 1914 Death due to pneumonia. Buried at Windsor. Survived by sons and a brother, William Cooper, of Whitesboro, N Y. Isaac Dayton Decker, B.A. 1871. Born May 25, 1844, in Mechanicsville, N J Died October 25, 1906, in Algiers, Algeria. Father, Isaac Jansen Decker, a farmer in Hunterdon and Warren counties, N. J. Mother, Mary (Sutton) Decker; daughter of Richard Sutton. Ancestors on both sides of his family came to this country from Holland Prepared for college at Blairstown, N. J., and under private tutors. Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1868; first colloquy appointments Junior and Senior years; member Delta Kappa. Studied in Yale Divinity School 1871-72, appointed a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Glenwood, N. J., 187a; preached at Stanton, N. J., 1872-73; while there studied at Drew Theological Seminary; went abroad in 1874 and spent three years or more at University of Halle, engaged in the study of German and in teaching English; private teacher in Pans for a year; upon the failure of his health, lived in the south of France for a few months; went to Algiers in 50 Obituary Record 1887 or 188 8; had resided there since, at one time serving as secretary and interpreter for the American consul; details covering the latter part of his life are lacking; was proficient in seven or eight languages; had written occasional articles for Ladies* Repository and several pamphlets descriptive of his travels; had also translated some German poems, the transla- tions being published in local papers in this country; member Methodist Episcopal Church (Newark Conference). Married twice, first marriage taking place December 31, 1871, near Hope, N. J., to Martha Ann, daughter of Aaron and Hannah (Brands) Read. One daughter, Martha Katherine (died in infancy). Mrs Decker died December 19, 1873. One daughter by second marriage. Death, due to strangulated hernia, occurred in Hospital of Mustapha, Algiers Interment in Cemetery of St. Eugene, Algiers. Survived by daughter, three brothers, John L. Decker, of Belvidere, N. J , Austin Decker, of Spokane, Wash., and the Rev. Wilharn Harrison Decker (B.A. Lafayette 1885, M.A. 1888), of Nanticoke, Pa., and two sisters, Mrs. Martha McConachy, of Blairstown, N J., and Mrs Bertha Harris, of Belvidere John Stevens Sanborn, B.A. 1871. Born October 5, 1850, in Coffeeville, Miss Died January 27, 1908, in Portland, Ore. Father, John Stevens Sanborn, a planter; son of Dr. John Phineas Sanborn and Keziah (Pritchard) Sanborn; descendant of Lieut. John Sanborn, who came to America from Holland in 1633. Mother, Eliza Wyett (Cooke) Sanborn; daughter of Robert Fulton and Elizabeth (White) Cooke; descendant of Francis Cooke, seventeenth signer of the "Mayflower" com- pact. Yale relatives: Franklin Sanborn, ex-~j\ (brother), and J. Robert F. Parkinson, '19 (nephew). Phillips-Andover Member Delta Kappa, Delta Beta Xi, Alpha Sigma Phi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Studied law after graduation and practiced in Cincinnati for a time; then engaged in cattle raising in Texas for a while, after which he again practiced in Cincinnati until 1881; after- Tale College 51 wards practiced criminal law in St. Paul, Minn., for some years; subsequently traveled on account of his health and lived at various times in San Francisco, Calif., Seattle, Wash., and Salem, Eugene, and Portland, Ore. Unmarried. Death due to tuberculosis. Buried in Portland Survived by a sister, Mrs. John B. Parkinson, of Daytona, Fla., his step- mother, Mrs. Annie Lewis Sanborn, of Bay City, Texas, a half sister, Mrs. Seth S. Taylor, of Bay City, and a half brother, Jim Hawkins, of Matagorda, Texas. Philip Case Smith, B.A. 1871. Born February 5, 1846, in Providence, R I. Died May 13,1926, in Westfield, Mass Father, Edwin Smith, one of the founders of H. B. Smith & Company of Westfield, manufacturers of heating supplies; son of Andrew and Ann (Roberts) Smith; descendant of Andrew Smith, of Derby, Conn., who married Sarah Tomhn- son in 1696. Mother, Cornelia (Bailey) Smith; daughter of Tillinghast and Anna (Bnggs) Bailey; descendant of William Bailey, who came from England and settled in Newport, R. I. Nephews: E. Barton Chapin, '07, and H Dudley Kel- logg, Jr , '23 S. " Wilhston Academy. Played on third Baseball Nine and '71 Baseball Nine Sophomore year, and on University Baseball Team (vice-president University Baseball Club Junior year); member College Glee Club, '71 Glee Club Senior year, Beetho- ven Society, College Choir; one of the Cochlaureati; Wooden Spoon Committee (floor manager of Junior Promenade), Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. Became connected with H. B Smith & Company im- mediately after graduating from Yale; upon the reorganiza- tion and incorporation of the company as The H. B. Smith Company in 1879, became its treasurer and continued in that position until his death, being assisted by his second son, Edwin W. Smith, during the last few years of his life; was also member of the board of directors of the company and its executive committee; member Westfield Chamber of Com- 52 Obituary Record merce for many years; attended Second Congregational Chufch (member of its choir for over twenty years). Married November 16,1881, in Westfield, Rachel Hosford, daughter of David and Maria (Clark) Kellogg. Children: Philip Chapin, '06, Edwin Woolsey, and Stanley Kellogg, '14 (served overseas as a Captain of Infantry during the World War). Death due to pneumonia. Interment in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfleld. Survived by wife, three sons, five grandchildren, two brothers, Edwin B. and William T. Smith, both of West- field, and a sister, Mrs. Edward P. Chapin, of Andover, Mass. Watson Robertson Sperry, B.A. 1871. Born June 25, 1842, in Sauquoit, N. Y. Died February 13,1926, in Hartford, Conn. Father, the Rev. Lyman Sperry, a Methodist Episcopal minister (presiding elder of the Oneida and Otsego districts); descendant of Richard Sperry, who came from England to Stockbridge, Mass, about 1660. Mother, Amanda Keziah (Robertson) Sperry; daughter of Neil Robertson. Cooperstown (N. Y.) Seminary and Williston Academy. Engaged in newspaper work as an editorial writer for Otsego Republican of Cooperstown before entering Yale. Second prize in Brothers in Unity Freshman prize debate; first and third prizes in English composition Sophomore year; second dispute appointments Junior and Senior years; Townsend Premium and first College Premium in English composition Senior year; chairman Yale Literary Magazine Senior year and winner of Yale Literary Medal; Statement of Facts orator for Broth- ers in Unity in 1869 and 1870; member .Gamma Nu, Delta Beta Xi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. After graduation became a member of editorial staff of New York Evening Post, with which he remained until 1881 (managing editor 1875-1881); in January, 1882, became owner and editor of Wilmington (Del.) Morning News; appointed United States Minister Resident to Persia and Consul General at Teheran in 1892 and held the post two years; remained abroad during the next five years; upon his return Tale College 53 to the United States sold his Wilmington paper and became an editorial writer for the Hartford Courant; went to Germany in 1906 and was foreign correspondent for the Courant at Leipsic from 1909 to 1911; then continued his work as an editorial writer for the paper until he resigned in 1918; mem- ber American Academy of Political Science. Married (1) June 18,1874, in New York City, Julia, daugh- ter of Isaac Henderson. One daughter, Eliza Crawford (Mrs. Ritter vonBorosim). Mr. and Mrs. Sperry were divorced January 31,1913. Married (2) February 5,1913, in Hartford, Anna Marie Pietsch, daughter of Oskar Lippold, of Dresden, Germany. No children by second marriage. Death, due to a heart attack, occurred after an illness of six years from arteriosclerosis, during all of which time he was confined to his bed. Cremation took place in Springfield, Mass., and the ashes were interred in the Cemetery of St. Matthew's Church at Unadilla, N. Y. Survived by wife and daughter. George Arthur Strong, B.A. 1871. Born October 21, 1848, at Port Gibson, Miss. Died May 25, 1926, in Plamfield, N. J. Father, George Perrine Strong, a non-graduate member of the Hamilton College Class of 1834; a lawyer; son of the Rev. Henry Pierce Strong (B.A. 1807, honorary M A . University of Vermont 1817) and Laura (Clark) Strong; descendant of Elder John Strong, who came to Northampton, Mass , from Taunton, England, in 1630. Mother, Melinda Paddleford (Fales) Strong. Yale relatives include: Adam S Clarke (B A. 1788), the Rev. William L. Strong (B.A. 1802), and the Rev. Jonathan Lee (B A 1809) (great-uncles); William Strong (B.A. 1838) and John C. Strong (B.A. 1842) (uncles); and William Strong (B.A. 1828), Newton D. Strong (B A. 1831), the Rev. Edward Strong (B.A. 1838), the Rev. Samuel W. Strong (B.A. 1843), anc ^ William T. Strong, '76 (cousins). Phillips-Andover. First prize in English composition and third prize in Linonia debate Sophomore year; dissertation appointment, Townsend Premium, and College Premium in English composition Senior year; an editor of Tale Literary 54 Obituary Record Magazine Senior year; member second Baseball Nine and '71 Baseball Nine Sophomore year and University Baseball Nine Senior year; member '71 picture Committee, Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Flushing (N.Y.) Institute 1871-72; studied at Columbia Law School for a time; admitted to St. Louis (Mo.) Bar in June, 1873, and was engaged in practice of law in that city until 1876; then moved to Buffalo, N. Y., and continued in practice as member of firm of Strong & Strong; in 1879 moved to New York City and was a member of firm of Duer, Strong & Whitehead for a time; retired fom active practice about ten years before his death; director Phoenix Assurance and Phoenix Indemnity companies; member of council of New York University 1907-1925, serving as secretary during most of that time; since 1895 had lived in Plamfield, where he was a member of the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church and an active worker in its Sunday school and in the work of the Bethel Chapel connected with the church; had contributed articles on theological subjects to New Tork Tribune. Married October 3,1878, in New York City, Harriet Efner, daughter of William Almy Wheelock (B.A. New York Univer- sity 1843, LL D. 1902) and Harriett (Efner) Wheelock, and sister of William E. Wheelock, '73 Children: Harriet Efner (Mrs. Thomas L. McCready); Agnes Fales, the wife of Howard Huntington, '92; Malcolm Wheelock, a non-graduate mem- ber of the Stanford University Class of 1912 (died in 1916); and Helen Clark (B A. Smith 1916), who married William Burke Belknap, '08. Death, due to a stroke of paralysis, occurred after an illness of nine months. Baned in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by wife, three daughters, six grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. N Strong Stevenson, of San Francisco. Frederick Harrison Baldwin, B.A. 1872. Born December 14, 1849, in New York City. Died January 20, 1926, in New York City. Father, Charles Peabody Baldwin, a merchant; son of John Baldwin (B.A. Dartmouth 1791), a lawyer, and Peggy (Wil- Tale College 55 Hams) Baldwin; grandson of the Rev. Moses Baldwin (B.A. Princeton 1757, honorary M.A. Dartmouth 1791); descendant of Nathaniel Baldwin, a Puritan, who came from Bucking- hamshire, England, and was one of the first settlers of Mil- ford, Conn., where he was a free planter in 1639 Mother, Mary Ann (Sibley) Baldwin. Willis ton Academy. Member Thanksgiving Jubilee Commi t- tee Sophomore year; vice-president New York Club of '72; member Junior and Senior Promenade committees, Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, and Psi Upsilon; honorary member Wolfs Head Traveled in Europe 1872-73; LL.B. Columbia 1875; prac- ticed law in New York City 1875-1890 and then retired from practice; had since been interested in literature and the study of architecture and had traveled extensively; had kept his home in New York City, where he was a member of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, in whose interests he was a diligent and effective worker. Unmarried. Death due to obstructive jaundice Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by two nieces, Marion Addoms Stoddard, the wife of Henry B. Stoddard, '02, and Mrs. Susan Baldwin Baker, two nephews, Mortimer C Addoms, J r , J o6, and Henry Sibley Baldwin, and a grandnephew, Moreau Lawson Stoddard, '28. Frank Osborn Brannan,, B.A. 1872. Born November 19, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio Died April 3, 1918, in Denver, Colo Father, Benjamin Franklin Brannan, a civil engineer, mer- chant, and banker; son of John and Sarah Salome (Myer) Brannan; brother of General John M Brannan, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, who served in the Semi- nole, Mexican, and Civil wars; ancestors came to Pennsylvania from the Island of Guernsey and from Holland Mother, Mary Ellen (Doddndge) Brannan; daughter of the Rev. Joseph Doddridge, an Episcopal minister and physician, who had studied medicine under Dr Benjamin Rush at the Medi- Obituary Record cal Institute of Philadelphia, and Jemima (Bukey) Dodd- ndge; of English descent; granddaughter of John Doddridge, of Maryland. Hughes High School, Cincinnati Entered Yale with Class of 1871, but joined Class of 1872 the following fall; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Clerk with Franklin Bank of Cincinnati (of which his father was president) 1872-79; engaged in cattle and real estate business at Fort Collins, Colo., 1879-1881; then lived in Cin- cinnati again for three years, during a part of the time serving as a clerk with the Franklin Bank and for about sixteen months acting as gauger for the Government; returned to Colorado in 1884 and was engaged in ranching, mining, and other occupations at Fort Collins and vicinity until 1890; bookkeeper for Godsmark, Durand & Company, a wholesale grocery house at Battle Creek, Mich , 1890-92 and 1894-97 •/ m August, 1898, moved to Walden, Colo., where he was chiefly occupied as a bookkeeper for various firms until about 1915, when he retired from active business; lived in Walden until shortly before his death; received a prize for an article on the divorce question published in ^he Brown Book of Boston in 1901; affiliated with Protestant Episcopal Church, although not a member. Unmarried. Death due to a complication of diseases. Body cremated at Denver Survived by two brothers, Joseph D. Brannan (B.A. Harvard 1869, M.A. and LL B. 1872), a professor at the Harvard Law School, and John W. Brannan (B.A. Harvard 1874, M D. 1878), of New York City. A half brother J . Tweed Stewart, Yale '72, died in 1888 George Pliny Sawyer, B.A. 1872. Born January 26, 1851, in Buffalo, N. Y Died January 13, 1920, at Winter Park, Fla. Father, James Denison Sawyer, a grain merchant in Buffalo and president of White's Bank; son of Dan and Charlotte (Denison) Sawyer; descendant of Thomas Sawyer, who came Yale College 57 from England in 1640 and settled at Lancaster, Mass. Mother, Charlotte Olivia (Field) Sawyer; daughter of Pliny Ashley and Olivia (Babcock) Field; descendant of Zachariah Field, who came to this country from Yorkshire, England, in 1629 and settled at Hartford, Conn. Brother: William B. Sawyer, '76 S. Briggs School, Buffalo. Oration appointment Junior year; dissertation appointment Senior year; member '72 Chess Club, Yale Missionary Society, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. About a year after graduation became engaged in wholesale grocery business as member of firm of Smith, Lapham & Sawyer of Buffalo; later entered wholesale timber and lumber business and was member of firm of Noyes & Sawyer 1879- 1901 and of Sawyer & Shuttleworth from 1901 to 1904, when he retired from active business; lecturer on lumbering at Yale 1902-03; one of the founders of Charity Organization Society of Buffalo (the first in the country) and a trustee from its founding until his death; director and twice president Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; in 1914 organized Belgian Relief Com- mittee in Buffalo and was its chairman throughout its existence; was also active in Les Amis de la France; vice- president Yale Alumni Association of Buffalo 1890-91 and president 1891-92 and 1910-11; member St. Paul's Cathedral (Episcopal), Buffalo. Married May 6, 1874, in New Haven, Ida Maria, daughter of Daniel Hand and Frances Louisa (Ansley) Wilcox, niece of George A. Wilcox, '52, sister of Ansley Wilcox, '74, Marnon Wilcox, '78, Daniel H. Wilcox, ^-'84, Francis U. Wilcox, ex-%6, and Urquhart Wilcox, '95 S., and sister-in-law of Walter I. Badger, '82, and the Rev. Edward Col ton Fellowes, '88. Children: James Denison, '96, the Class Boy of'72; Chloe (died in childhood); Margaret Field; and Ansley Wilcox, '07. Death due to heart failure. Buried in Forest Lawn Ceme- tery, Buffalo. Was survived by wife, sons, and daughter. Mrs. Sawyer died January 2, 1922. 58 Obituary Record Edward Naman Sheppard, B.A. 1872. Born April 20, 1850, in Roxbury, Conn. Died October 5, 1925, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Truman Sheppard, a merchant and farmer; son of Nathan and Nancy (Leavenworth) Sheppard; descendant of Abraham Pierson, of Derby, Conn., and of the Rev. Peter Prudden. Mother, Mary Ann (Webster) Sheppard; daughter of Loudon and Marina (Orton) Webster; descendant of John Webster, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1635,was one of the original proprietors of Hartford, Conn., and served as governor of Connecticut during 1656-57. Gunnery School, Washington, Conn., and Hopkins Gram- mar School. Second prize in mathematics Freshman year; oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member University Glee Club, '72 Glee Club Senior year, College Choir (leader Senior year), Yale Missionary Society, and Delta Kappa. Taught at Holbrook's Military Academy, Ossining, N. Y., 1872-73; studied in Yale Graduate School 1875—79 (member of University Glee Club 1876-77); taught in Hopkins Gram- mar School 1875-77 and at Cornwall Heights School, Corn- wall-on-Hudson, 1879-1880; later became instructor in Latin and Greek at Jersey City High School and held that position until 1885; afterwards taught successively at the Dwight School (formerly the New York School of Languages), Columbia Grammar School, New York City, and Freehold (N. J ) Institute; also engaged m private tutoring at one time; afterwards connected with Pierson & Company (iron and steel) of New York City for a while; was interested in genealogy and had compiled genealogies of the Sheppard, Pierson, and Beekman families; had been identified with sev- eral church choirs and Sunday schools, and was leader of the glee club of New York Unversity at one time; had lived in New Haven for a number of years previous to his death. Unmarried. Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage with complications. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven. Left no im- mediate relatives. Tale College 59 Joseph Hull Bennett, B.A. 1873. * Born December 27, 1850, in New Haven, Conn Died March 31, 1926, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Thomas Bennett; attended the Yale School of Law 1835-37; practiced law in New Haven for twenty years; first "judge of Municipal Court of New Haven; son of Joseph Bennett (B.A. 1807) and Emilia (Lyon) Bennett; descendant of William Lyon and of Thomas Bennett, who came to Ameri- ca from Barbados in 1760 and settled at Charleston, S. C Mother, Mary Ann (Hull) Bennett; daughter of Ehsha and Hulda (Ball) Hull; descendant of Richard Hull, who came to this country from England in 1634 and settled at New Haven in 1639. Yale relatives include a great-uncle, Isaac S. K. Bennett (B.A. 1810), and three nephews, Winchester Bennett, '97 S., Eugene B. Bennett, '04 S., and Francis T. Bennett, General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute Entered Yale with Class of 1872, but left in Junior year on account of ill health; joined '73 as a Junior the next year; member third Baseball Nine and director '72 Glee Club Freshman year; member of latter in 1871-72 and of '73 Glee Club Senior year; member Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, and Psi Upsilon After graduation was employed as a chairman by United States Coast Survey in vicinity of New Haven for four years; engaged in surveying at Lake George in summer of 1877, was later an assistant observer with United States Signal Service for a time; subsequently became secretary and treas- urer of The Thomas Bennett Estate, Inc.; for some years, however, his health had not allowed him to engage in any active occupation; had devoted much time to music and was a skilled pianist. Married July 26, 1911, in New Haven, Mary Ashfield McFarland (who attended the Yale School of the Fine Arts for two years), daughter of Lieut. Col. Walter McFarland and Mary (Ashfield) McFarland, and sister of Warren C. McFarland, '87 M., Boynton W. McFarland, '89 S., and Alan R. McFarland, ex-'91 S. No children Go Obituary Record Death due to pneumonia. Interment in Evergreen Ceme- tery, New Haven. Survived by wife, two brothers, William L. Bennett, '69, and Thomas G. Bennett, '70 S., and two sisters, the Misses Susan J. and Harriet Bennett, both of New Haven. Atwooci Collins, B.A. 1873. Born September 19, 1851, in Hartford, Conn. Died May 8, 1926, in Hartford, Conn. Father, Erastus Collins, a dry goods merchant; senior partner in firm of Collins, Fenn & Company, founded by his father; son of Amos Morris and Mary (Lyman) Collins; grandson of Col. Moses Lyman of the Revolutionary Army; descendant of John Collins, who came to Braintree, Mass., from Suffolk, England, about 1640. Mother, Mary Sarah (Atwood) Collins; daughter of John Mulliken Atwood (B.A. 1814) and Henrietta Maria (Coffin) Atwood; niece of Charles Atwood (B A 1821); descendant of Harmon Atwood, who came from London to Boston in 1642. Yale relatives include: Edmund G. Howe, yo6, Charles W. Page, Jr., '12, and Russell Allen, '14 (nephews); and Charles T. Collins, '67, Charles Collens, '96, Clarence L Collens, '96 S., Arthur M. Collens, '03, Frank C. Downing, '06, and Blatchford Downing, '07 (cousins). Hartford Public High School. Oration appointment Junior year; dissertation appointment Senior year; chairman Junior Promenade and Senior Class Supper committees; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key. Entered his father's dry goods commission business imme- diately after graduation and became a member of the firm in January, 1876; after the liquidation of the business the next fall, he traveled and was occupied with real estate matters and family trusts for two years; studied at Columbia Law School 1879-1880; admitted to Hartford County Bar March 15, 1880; gave up the law on account of his father's death and entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Daniel R. Howe, '74, under firm name of Howe & Collins (stocks and bonds); continued in that connection until 1895; anc ^ Tale College 61 became vice-president and treasurer of Security Company of Hartford; served as president of that company from 1896 until 1923, when the company united with the United States Bank and the Fidelity Company under name of United States Security Trust Company; became chairman of board of trus- tees of the new company; retired from active business in Janu- ary, 1925; had been vice-president and director of Society for Savings and the United States Bank, auditor and director of JEtna. Insurance Company, and director of Farmers & Me- chanics National Bank, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, World Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company, Hartford Electric Light Company, Hartford Street Railway Company, Hartford City Gas Light Company, Smyth Manufacturing Company, Automatic Refrigerating Company, Farmington River & Power Company, Willimantic Linen Company, Echo Farm Company, and Sponsel Gun Company; trustee May- flower Securities Company, Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford Hospital, Atlanta University, and Good Will Club, an organization for boys; had been secretary, treasurer, president, and director of Chanty Organization Society, president Connecticut State Conference of Chanties and Cor- rection, secretary, vice-president, and president of American School for the Deaf (chairman of directing and building committees), member of board of managers and chairman financial committee of Y. M. C. A., auditor, director, and vice-president of Connecticut Humane Society, president of Hartford Choral Union and Twentieth Century Club (charter member), and treasurer Asylum Hill Congregational Church (member prudential committee); served as councilman 1888-89, alderman 1889-1891, health commissioner 1886-88, and charities commissioner 1904-07; was an ordnance officer with rank of Captain on staff of Major John C Kinney, '61, of the Governor's Foot Guard; state delegate to National Congress of Irrigation at Phoenix, Ariz., 1896; published letters of travel in various Hartford papers and in the Outlook and Forest and Stream; member Society of Colonial Wars of the State of Connecticut (member of committee on member- ship and a Gentleman of the Council) and Sons of the American Revolution. 62 Obituary Record Married June 9, 1880, in Hartford, Mary Buel, daughter of Thomas Kimberley and Mary Jane (Buel) Brace. Children: Gertrude (died in childhood); Frederick Starr, ex-oj; Elinor Buel (Mrs. Spencer T Mitchell); Marion Atwood, the wife of Matthew G. Ely, '11 S ; and Emily Brace, a non-graduate member of the Smith Class of 1914, who was first married to William J Hamersley (B A. Trinity 1909; died in 1918) and who is now the wife of J. Hamilton Scran ton, '98. Death followed an operation for appendicitis. Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. Survived by wife, son, three daughters, and nine grandchildren Joseph Crofoot Hubbard, B.A. 1873. Born April 14, 1851, in Middletown, Conn Died April 28, 1926, in East View, N. Y. Father, Elijah Smith Hubbard; bookkeeper and later for many years secretary of Middletown Savings Bank; son of Capt. Joseph Hubbard and Sarah (Brooks) Hubbard; brother of Jabez B Hubbard (B A 1825) and brother-in-law of the Rev. John Starkweather (B.A. 1825). Mother, Emily Robinson (Crofoot) Hubbard; daughter of Ephraim and Es- ther (Whitmore) Crofoot. Cousin: William Churchill, '82. Prepared for college at the private school of the Rev. Henry M Col ton (B A. 1848) in Middletown. Entered Yale with Class of 1872, remaining only one term; reentered college with '73; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Beta Xi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon Graduated from Columbia Law School in 1875; in 1876 entered law office of Marshall P. Stafford in New York City, where he remained about a year; assistant attorney for New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company 1877-1880; subsequently practiced law in New York for some years and was later engaged in business on Wall Street for a while; in 1890 agam entered the service of the New York Central as pay roll auditor and continued in that position until his re- tirement in 1921. Unmarried. Death, due to arteriosclerosis, was instantaneous; a few Tale College 63 months prior to his death had spent some time in the Grass- lands Hospital at Valhalla, N. Y., recovering from the effects of an automobile accident. Interment in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown. Survived by a sister, Mrs. E. H. Wilson, of Syracuse, N. Y. Elliot Sanders Miller, B.A. 1873. Born May 26, 1850, in Williston, Vt. Died August 21, 1925, in Los Angeles, Calif Father, Charles Elliot Miller, a farmer; son of Elisha and Sarah (Elliot) Miller; descendant: of John Miller, who came from England and settled in Springfield, Mass., before 1653. Mother, Emily (Clark) Miller; daughter of Wright and Lucy (Hinckly) Clark; descendant of Abel Clark, an early settler of Springfield. Yale relatives include: Buckingham Miller, an£^ *897); member Park Board 1888-1915 (treasurer from 1901); president Yale Alumni Association of Rochester 1917; member Brick Presbyterian Church, Rochester; president Brick Church Institute 1913- 1921 and director 1907-1923. Married December 19, 1894, in Rochester, Lillie Clare, daughter of Robert Young and Mary (Pringle) McConnell. One son, Samuel Ewing, '19, who saw service abroad as a First Lieutenant in the Air Service. Death resulted from an operation. Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. Survived by wife, son, and two grandchildren. Frank Edgar Clark, B.A. 1877. Born July 7, 1854, in Huntington, Mass. Died February 16, 1926, in Northampton, Mass. Father, Israel Dickinson Clark, a traveling salesman; son of John Lyman and Hannah (Loomis) Clark; descendant of William Clark, who came from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1630 and settled in Northampton in 1659. Mother, Cynthia Ann (Williams) Clark; daughter of Jabin Bennett and Lydia (Wilson) Williams; descendant of Robert Williams, who came to this country from England. Prepared for college at private school of Josiah Clark (B.A. 1833) in Northampton. Dissertation appointments Junior and Senior years; member second Class Supper Com- mittee, Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. Became clerk for Williams Manufacturing Company (baskets) of Northampton in the spring of 1878, secretary of the company in 1886, and treasurer in 1891; withdrew from the business in 1900 and since then had not been actively engaged in business; director First National Bank of Northampton since 1894; trustee Northampton Institution for Savings since 1895 (member of investment and executive committee); assessor of First Church (Congregational) Parish for several Tale College 85 years, serving as chairman at one time; chairman of trustees of Wright Home for Young Women. Unmarried. Death, due to heart disease, occurred very suddenly. Buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton. By the terms of his will a bequest of $5,000 was left to Yale Univer- sity, the income from which is to be paid into the Alumni Uni- versity Fund in his name each year and credited to the Class of 1877. Survived by a brother, Arthur W. Clark. James Stephen Foote, B.A. 1877. Born January io, 1851, in Colchester, Conn. Died June 30, 1925, in Omaha, Nebr. Father, Henry Foote, a farmer; son of Stephen Foote. Mother, Mary Ann (Lamb) Foote; daughter of James R. and Angelina (Morgan) Lamb. Cousins: George W. Foote, '77, and Henry W. Lamb, '78. Bacon Academy, Colchester. M.D. 'Columbia 1881; house physician and surgeon at Workhouse and Almshouse hospitals on Blackwell's Island, N. Y., 1881-82; lived in Colchester and in Boston until 1886; moved to Kansas and resided in Wichita for several years, engaging in practice and acting as consulting physician; dur- ing this time took a postgraduate course of study at College of Physicians and Surgeons; went to Chicago just before the World's Fair in 1893 and practiced there until the close of the exposition; then moved to Omaha and taught physiology for a year, giving especial attention to pathology; professor of pathology, histology, and the principles of physiology at Creighton Medical College 1894-1912, of pathology and his- tology 1912-16, and of histology 1916-1921; had since been research professor at Creighton University Dental College; LL D. Creighton 1924; made a special study of the micro- scopic appearance of bones, and in 1913 spent three months at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, working on a micro- scopical study of the femur of all known races of men; author: A Constructive Method in Histology (1907), Outhne of Pathology (1908), A Contribution to the Comparative Histology 86 Obttuary Record of the Femur (published in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowl- edge (1909-1916), Circulatory System of Bone (1921), Bone as a Measure of Development (1923), Papers on Comparative His- tology of the Teeth and Bones of the Primitive Vertebra (1923- 24), and a poem, Joan of Arc (1883), at the time of his death was at work on the third book of a series on "How We Ac- quire our Teeth"; wrote many articles for medical journals; delivered addresses before medical societies and universities and gave lantern slide lectures; one of the speakers at the Pan- American Congress in Cuba; did extensive research work for Scientific Foundation and Research Commission of the Ameri- can Dental Association, of which he was a member; Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science; mem- ber American Microscopical Society, American Medical Association, Missouri Valley Medical Association, Nebraska State Medical Society, American Genetic Association, Ne- braska Academy of Science, Kansas Medical Society, Omaha Odontological Society, Nebraska Dental Association, and the 19th International Congress of Americanists. Married June 4,1894, in Chicago, Jeane, daughter of Willys and Jennie (Clark) Goodsell. No children. Mrs. Foote died December 22, 1919. Death due to a stroke of apoplexy, following three years of uncertain health. Buried in Naugatuck, Conn. Survived by no close relatives. Daniel Dennis Sherman, B.A. 1877. Born December 20, 1857, in New York City Died June 2, 1926, in Nyack, N, Y. Father, William Carder Hazard Sherman, a Paymaster of Volunteers in the United States Army 1861-65 (promoted to Major and brevet Colonel); later lived in New Windsor, N. Y.; son of Abiel Brown and Julia Sophia (Hazard) Sherman; eighth m descent from Philip Sherman, who came from Ded- ham, England, to Roxbury, Mass , in 1634, and whose de- scendants have lived in Rhode Island and Connecticut for two hundred and fifty years. Mother, Amelia Kimball (Taft) Sherman; daughter of Orray and Deborah (Keith) Taft; de- scendant of the Rev. James Keith, who came from Scotland to Tale College 87 Bridgewater, Mass, in 1661. Yale relatives: Orray T Sher- man, '77, and William H. Sherman, *8o (brothers), and Charles Farnham Collins and Charles C. Sherman, both '83, and How- ard D. Collins, '90 (cousins). Prepared for college at private school of Henry W. Siglar, '60, in Newburgh, N. Y. First dispute appointment Junior year; second dispute appointment Senior year; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon. Engaged in the manufacture of silk with the William White- side Company in New York City 1878-1883; studied law at Columbia 1884-86 and in office of W. & S. W. Fullerton in New York; admitted to bar in 1886 and was engaged in inde- pendent practice in New York until 1894; for several years prior to 1900 was an assistant to Samuel A Blatchford, offi- cial reporter of the decisions of United States Court of Appeals, and helped in the preparation of a large number of volumes in the official series of reports of that court; in May, 1900, formed a law partnership with Mr, Blatchford under firm name of Blatchford & Sherman and continued in that connection until the death of Mr. Blatchford; had since prac- ticed alone; since 189a had lived in South Nyack; served as a trustee and president of the village; member New York City Bar Association and Grace Episcopal Church, Nyack Married October 25, 1887, in Newburgh, Cornelia Anna, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Deyo and Cornelia Bruyn (DuBois) Deyo. Children: Robert Deyo (B A. Williams 1911) and Tracy Hazard (B.E. Union 1917) Death due to arteriosclerosis. Buried at Cedar Hill Ceme- tery, Newburgh. Survived by wife, sons, two sisters, Mrs William H. Rockwood, of Yonkers, N. Y , and Miss Julia Hazard Sherman, of Northampton, Mass., and a brother, Edward Taft Sherman. Frederick Julian Stimson, B.A. 1877. Born January 21, 1856, in Paterson, N J. Died May 31, 1926, in New York City Father, Henry Clark Stimson, a banker; son of the Rev Henry Bowen Stimson (honorary M A. Williams 1814) and Re- becca (Pond) Stimson; grandson of George Stimson, a Captain 88 Obituary Record in the French and Revolutionary wars; great-great-grandson of George Stimson, a soldier in King Philip's War; great- great-great-grandson of John Stimson, who came from Eng- land in 1635 and settled at Watertown Farms, Mass. Mother, Julia Maria (Atterbury) Stimson; daughter of Lewis Atter- bury, who came from Londonborough, England, to New York as a boy in 1791, and Catherine (Bouchnot) Atterbury; sister of John G Atterbury (B.A. 1831) and William W. Atterbury (B.A 1843); great-granddaughter of Willam Peartree Smith (B.A. 1742); grandniece of Elias Boudinot (LL.D. 1790), a Colonel in the Revolutionary War and president of the Continental Congress 1782-83; descendant in the fifth gen- eration from Elias Boudinot, originally of LaRochelle, France, who came to New York from the West Indies in 1687. Yale relatives include: Theodore Weston, '$3 (brother-in-law); Henry L. Stimson, '88, Frederick W. Weston, '99, J. Francis Stimson, ex- '06, Henry B. Stimson, '07, Alfred L. Loomis/09, and Philip M. Stimson, '10 (nephews); and Charles L. Atter- bury, '64, Boudinot C. Atterbury, ex-73, Anson P. Atterbury, ex-j$> Albert H Atterbury, '82, William W. Atterbury, '86 S., Lewis A. Conner, '87 S., Grosvenor Atterbury, '91, and C. Horace and W. Boudinot Conner, both '99 (cousins). Phillips-Andover. Treasurer University Baseball Team Freshman year; member '75 Freshman Barge Crew and '75 Shell and Barge crews Junior year; floor manager Junior Pro- menade; member College Choir, Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head LL B. Columbia 1879; had practiced law in New York City since 1879; in partnership with William P. Williams, '77, under firm name of Stimson & Williams from 1881 until the latter's death in 1912; subsequently practiced under the same * name until his retirement on May 1, 1926; member Huguenot Society and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City. Married (1) November 24,1885,1b Philadelphia, Pa., Emma, daughter of George and Anne (Hemple) Burnham. Children: George Burnham (died in infancy); Frederick Burnham, ex-\$; Anna Katharine, a non-graduate member of the Vassar Class of 1915; Boudinot, B.A. 1882. Born May 25, 1861, in New Haven, Conn. Died April 7, 1926, in Boston, Mass Father, Chester Smith Lyman (B.A. 1837, M A . Beloit 1864); professor of industrial mechanics and physics at Yale for thirty years; president of American Academy of Arts and Sciences for twenty years; son of Chester and Mary (Smith) Lyman; descendant of Richard Lyman, who came from Essex, England, to Charlestown, Mass , in 1631 and was an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn , in 1636 Mother, Delia Williams (Wood) Lyman; daughter of Joseph Wood (B A. 1801) and Frances (Ellsworth) Wood; granddaughter of Oliver Ells- worth (LL.D. 1790), the third chief justice of the United States and author of the judiciary act of the Constitution; Tale College 107 descendant of Jonas Wood, who came to America from York- shire, England, in 1630 and settled at Stamford, Conn , in 1641; among other ancestors are Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and Henry Wolcott, a founder of Windsor, Conn. Yale relatives include: Oliver Ellsworth (B.A. 1799), Martin Ellsworth (B.A. 1801), Henry L. and WMliam W. Ellsworth (B.A. 1810), Ezekiel Williams (B A. 1785), and Thomas S Williams (B.A. 1794) (great-uncles), the Rev George I Wood (B.A. 1833) (uncle); Lyman E. Porter, '16, and William Quincy Porter, '19 (nephews); and Oliver E. Williams (B A 1816), Oliver Ellsworth (B.A. 1830), Henry W. Ellsworth (B.A. r83 4 ), Pinckney W. Ellsworth (B A. 1836), Henry E. Wood, '76 S.; Wolcott W. Ellsworth, '90, Ernest B. Ellsworth, '93 S., Bradford Ellsworth, '03, and Kennedy Creevey, '26 (cousins). Hopkins Grammar School. Dissertation appointments Junior and Senior years; chairman Undergraduate Yale Field Committee; member University Football Team 1878 and 1879, Junior Promenade Committee, Delta Kappa, He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones Employed by U. S. Coast Survey at Machiasport, Maine, during summer of 1882; then spent a year abroad as a private tutor; graduate student in Sheffield Scientific School 1883-84, taking special courses in naval architecture; in fall of 1885 entered employ of W. H Parsons & Company, paper manu- facturers in New York City; became their representative in Chicago 1886; connected with Westmoreland Paper Com- pany, a subsidiary of W. H. Parsons & Company, at West Newton, Pa , during 1889-1890; later became a director and manager of Herkimer (N. Y.) Paper Company; in 1898, when this concern was absorbed by the International Paper Com- pany (in formation of which he was to some extent concerned), became assistant to the president of latter company and later manager of sales and held those positions until 1916, when he was made vice-president; was also a director for many years, gave up active connection with the company in 1924, but remained director of Continental Paper & Bag Mills, one of its subsidiaries, of which he was at one time treasurer; secre- tary and treasurer American Paper & Pulp Association 1898- 1900; had been president of Umbagog Paper Company; 108 Obituary Record \ ice-president American Realty Company; secretary Cham- plain Realty Company, Miramichi Lumber and St. Maurice Lumber companies, and Forestry, Water Storage, and Manu- facturing Association; treasurer and director Falls Manufac- turing Company; director and vice-president Herkimer Fibre Company; manager and director Winn Water & Power Com- pany; director American Paper Exports, Inc., and American Forestry Association, member Association for the Protection of the Adirondarks; through his efforts the Government made a special census of the paper industry in the United States and an investigation of the paper industry of the world; M.A. Yale 1895 (for special studies in electricity); in 1910 established an annual lectureship in Sheffield Scientific School on water storage conservation, known as the Chester S. Lyman Lec- tureship (in memory of his father); author of History of the American Paper and Pulp Association; had written articles for Forester^ Encyclopedia Americana, trade and technical journals, and a number of newspapers; during World War served as chairman of committees in Red Cross and United War W7ork drives; member of national executive committee and publicity chairman of campaign for reorganization of Hopkins Grammar School, one of founders of Yale Club of New York and member of many of its committees; originated and carried out plan for the first graduates' dinner on Tuesday of Commencement week, chairman of Thirty-Year Reunion Committee of Class of 1882; member American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Association for the Advancement of Science, Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and New England Society; vice-president Home Market Club of Boston for many years. Married February 26, 1915, in New York City, Marguerite Buhler, daughter of Lloyd Couleru. One daughter, Louise Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman were divorced in 1920. Death, due to an embolism, occurred at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston; was thought to be recovering from an operation performed on March 20. Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by a sister, Delia L. Porter, the wife of Professor Frank C. Porter, '86 D., of the Yale Divinity School. His only brother, Oliver E. Lyman, '76, died in 1884. By the ^erms of his will a bequest of #50,000 for Tale College 109 the Chester S. Lyman Memorial Fund was left to the Shef- field Scientific School, to be devoted to teaching hydraulic engineering and related subjects, $3,000 to the Russell Trust Association, with an additional $3,000 for a portrait of his father, $3,000 to Yale for a portrait of his great-grandfather, Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, and $25,000 to the Hopkins Grammar School. Benjamin Huger Rutledge, B.A. 1882. Born September 4, 1861, in Charleston, S C. Died November 12, 1925, in Charleston, S. C. Father, Benjamin Huger Rutledge (B.A. 1848), a lawyer; member of the Secession Convention in i860; as Acting Brigadier General (commission recommended) commanded a cavalry brigade in Confederate Army during Civil War; member South Carolina Legislature in 1876; son of Benjamin Huger Rutledge, a lawyer, and Alice Ann (Weston) Rutledge; descendant of Hugh Rutledge, chancellor of South Carolina for about thirty years, who was a brother of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of South Carolina, and of John Rutledge, governor^of South Carolina; also descended from Dr. Andrew Rutledge, who was of English descent and who came from Ireland to Charleston in 1730 and was attorney-general of the colony Mother, Eleanor Maria (Middleton) Rutledge; daughter of Oliver Henng and Susan Matilda Harriet (Chisolm) Middleton; descendant of Arthur Middleton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, of Henry Middleton, governor of South Carolina and minister of the United States to Russia, and of Edward Middleton, who came from England to Barba- dos and thence to South Carolina in 1678, where he received large tracts of land and was lord proprietor's deputy, assistant justice, and member of the Grand Council of the Province of South Carolina. Great-uncle, Francis H. Rutledge (B A. 1820) Virginia Military Institute (member of Beta Theta Pi; B S. 1880). Entered Yale as a Junior in 1880; first colloquy appoint- ment Senior year;'member Senior Promenade Committee Studied law with his father's firm, Rutledge & Young and no Obituary Record was admitted to South Carolina Bar in May, 1884; practiced in office of Rutledge & Young 1884-87, formed partnership with his father under firm name of Rutledge & Rutledge November 1,1887, which continued until his father's death in 1893; practiced independently 1893-1906; member of firm of Mordecai, Gadsden, Rutledge & Hagood 1906-1913, Morde- cai, Gadsden & Rutledge 1913-17, Rutledge & Hyde 1917- 1920, Rutledge, Hyde & Mann 1920-24, and then Rutledge, Hyde, Mann & Figg until his death; was legal representative of several large insurance companies; local and then division counsel for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for over twenty years; appointed electoral messenger from South Carolina for Cleveland's first election; president city Democratic convention 1889; clerk of judiciary committee of South Carolina Legislature 1887; member State Legislature 1890-92; served as consul for Belgium at Charleston for over twenty years; elected Captain of Carolina Rifles in January, 1885, anc ^ Major, commanding 2d Battalion, 4th Brigade, South Carolina Volunteer Troops, in September, 1887, and served for a number of years; delegate-at-large to Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904; member State Bar Association, St. Cecelia Society, and St. Michael's Episcopal.Church, Charleston (vestryman for thirty years). Married October 5, 1892, in Fletcher, N. C , Emma Craig, daughter of Daniel and Helen Elisabeth (Craig) Blake. Children: Eleanor Middleton, the wife of Ralph T. Hanson (M.S Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1912), a gradu- ate of the United States Naval Academy in 1907 and of the United States Naval War College in 1923; Emma Blake; Alice Weston; Benjamin Huger, Jr. (B.A. Johns Hopkins 1921, M D 1925); Amelia VanCortlandt; Susan Middleton; and Anne Blake Death, due to pneumonia, occurred after a three weeks' illness Buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. Survived by wife, son, six daughters, two brothers, Oliver Middleton Rutledge, of Fletcher, and Edward Rutledge, M D., of Charleston, and a sister, Mrs Edwin P. Frost, of Charleston. Tale College m Arthur Eugene Bowers, B.A. 1883. Born August 8,1855, in Manchester, Conn. Died November 10,1925, m Manchester, Conn. Father, Nicholas T. Bowers. Mother, Martha E. (Powers) Bowers. Nephew, Raymond R. Bowers, '25. Hartford Public High School. Taught in East Hartford schools for five years before entering Yale in 1879. First and third prize in English composition Sophomore year; high oration appointment Junior year and second prize at Junior Exhibition; oration appointment Senior year; an assistant editor Tale Daily News Junior year and an editor Senior year; member Ivy Committee, Gamma Nu, and Phi Beta Kappa. Editor Rockvtlle (Conn.) Journal 1883-84; then in the em- ploy of Good Cheer Publishing Company of Greenfield, Mass , for a time; in January, 1885, made a trip to the cotton exposi- tion at New Orleans, La., as correspondent for Waterbury American, Hartford Courant, Hartford Sunday Globe, and New Haven Register; spent about five months in the South; in August, 1885, established a newspaper of his own, the North Adams (Mass.) Sunday Express, but sold out his interest the following December to become manager of the advertising and circulation departments of H. D. Watson Publishing Com- pany of Greenfield; later in charge successively of advertising department of a publishing house in Augusta, Maine, and of advertising of Munsey's Magazine, after which he became a director of Frank A. Munsey Company, and was placed in charge of its New England branch in Boston; during later years of his life had been engaged in manufacturing and the real estate business in Manchester, where he had a model farm; served as selectman in Manchester 1913-1922 and represented the town in Connecticut Legislature 1915-16 and 1917-18, serving as member of finance committee; state senator 1919- 1920 and 1921-22; appointed by the Governor chairman of Commission on Uniformity of Charters for the Towns, Cities, and Boroughs of Connecticut in 1922; candidate for Lieuten- ant Governor on the tentative Republican ticket in 1922, during World War served as member of local committee of six 112 Obituary Record of Council of Defense, as director of Speakers Bureau of Connecticut Chamber of Commerce at the State Capitol for "Rally Week" in October, 1917, and as member of executive committee of Manchester chapter of American Red Cross; had been a director of J T. Robertson Company, soap manu- facturers of Manchester, Commonwealth Securities Company, of Kansas City, Mo., Kahn Fireless Cooker Company, of Boston, Orford Specialty Company, manufacturers of hgnol m Manchester, and Manchester Light & Power Company; former president Manchester Chamber of Commerce and vice-president Hartford Republican Club (declined the presi- dency); trustee Manchester Community Club; organizer Rockville Baseball Club, which later became part of the old Connecticut State League. Unmarried. Death, due to pneumonia, followed an attack of pleurisy from which it was thought he had recovered. Buried in Buck- land Cemetery. Survived by a brother, Herbert O. Bowers, '92. Elihu Brintnal Frost, B.A. 1883. Born May 12, 1860, in Peekskill, N. Y. Died August 22, 1925, at Beach Bluff, Mass. Father, Calvin Frost (B.A. 1842), a lawyer. Mother, Mary Antoinette Oppie (Hait) Frost; daughter of Seth and Mary A. (Oppie) Hait; descendant of Seth Hayt, who came from England to Stamford, Conn. Cousin: James M. Dain, '11. Peekskill Military Academy and Trinity School, Tivoh, N. Y. Member '83 Barge Crew and Eight-oared Shell Crew, '83 Gun Club, Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Engaged in the brick business at Croton, N. Y., during first year after graduation; studied law at Columbia 1884-85; admitted to New York Bar in 1885 and was in the office of Lord, Day & Lord in New York City for a while; later was associated with his father for several years and, after a period of independent practice, with Frost & Johnson; retired|from active practice about five years before his death; vice-presi- Tale College 113 dent Electric Boat and Holland Torpedo Boat companies; member St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Peekskill. Married several times. First marriage took place in New- York City in April, 1897, to Marie E. Dow. No children. Death, due to paresis, followed several years of failing health. Buried in Hillside Cemetery, Peekskill. Left no immediate relatives. John William Galbraith, B.A. 1883. Born June 12, i860, in Erie, Pa. Died March 25, 1926, in Erie, Pa. Father, William Ayres Galbraith (LL B Harvard 1845), a lawyer and president judge of Erie County; son of John Gal- braith, a member of Congress, and Amy (Ayres) Galbraith; descendant of James Galbraith, who came from Scotland to Donegal, Pa., in 1718. Mother, Fanny (Davenport) Galbraith; daughter of William and Phylance (Tracy) Davenport; descendant of the Rev. John Davenport, a founder of New Haven Colony. Brother, Davenport Galbraith, '84 S. Hopkins Grammar School. Member University Orchestra, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Wolfs Head. In 1885 received degree of LL.B. at University of Pennsyl- vania, where he was member of the Sharswood Law Club; practiced law in Erie from 1885 until his death; director Erie Trust Company; vice-president Kane Carbon Black Com- pany; at one time financial manager of Keystone Pearl Button Company; member Erie County Bar Association, Erie Symphony Orchestra, and American Federation of Musicians; served on Draft Board of Erie County in 1918. Married April 25, 1888, in Indianapolis, Ind , Mary Shaw, daughter of Matthew and Eliza (Shaw) Henning. Children: William Ayres, '11 S., and Bertram, ex-'23 Mrs. Galbraith died July 2, 1924. Death due to valvular heart disease. Buried at Erie. Sur- vived by sons and two grandchildren. ii4 Obituary Record Charles Harris Hall, B.A. 1883. Born March 19, i860, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Died October 25, 1925, in Binghamton, N. Y Father, Charles Samuel Hall (B.A. 1848, LL.B. 1850), a lawyer, United States commissioner for Northern District of New York; son of Samuel Holden Parsons and Emehne (Bulkeley) Hall, grandson of William B. Hall (B.A. 1786); great-grandson of Samuel H Parsons (honorary M.A. 1781); great-great-grandson of Samuel Hall (B.A. 1716); seventh in descent from John Hall, who came from England to Boston in 1633, later settled in New Haven, and was an original proprietor of Wallingford, Conn., in 1670. Mother^ Mary Rebecca (Harris) Hall; daughter of Arnold and Phoebe (Middlebrook) Harris. Ancestors also include: Rev. John Eliot, the "Apostle to the Indians"; Rev. Richard Mather; Rev. Charles Chauncy, the second president of Harvard; Rev. Peter Bulkley, the founder of Concord, Mass.; Henry Wolcott and Matthew Griswold, the founders of their respec- tive families; Governor William Brenton of Rhode Island, and Governors Thomas Welles and Jonathan Law of Connec- ticut. Yale relatives include: Theophilus Hall (B.A. 1727), Ehhu Hall (B A 1731), Lyman Hall (B.A. 1747), Caleb Hall (B A. 1752), Benjamin and Samuel Hall (both B A. 1754), Avery Hall (B A 1759), Aaron Hall (B A. 1772), Lee Hall (B.A 1789), and Samuel A. Foot (B.A. 1797); Theodore P. Hall, '$6 (uncle); and Trowbndge Hall, ex-'86y and Brenton H. Scott, '13 (cousins). Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Hopkins Grammar School Member University Bicycle Association, Junior Promenade Committee, Delta Kappa, and Delta Kappa Epsilon Studied law in his father's office in Binghamton 1883-84; engaged in business as manufacturer of paper boxes 1884-85 and as a cigar manufacturer 1885-1894; engaged in real estate business in Washington, D. C , 1894-95; spent the next year abroad, engaged in the furniture business with Stickley- Brandt Furniture Company of Binghamton, wholesale and retail manufacturers, since 1897 (secretary and treasurer Tale College 115 until 1906; since then president); attended Trinity Memorial Church, Binghamton. Married (1) April 16, 1885, in Brooklyn, Marion Musgrave Wright, daughter of Mrs. Jeannette Buddington Wright, of Washington. One son, Fairfax (Ph.B. 1907, M.D. Columbia 1911), the '83 Class Boy. Mrs. Hall died January 19, 1903. Married (2) September 2, 1920, in Binghamton, Kate Lovell Strong, daughter of Clarence Parker and Mary (Fowle) Lovell. No children by second marriage Death due to carcinoma of the stomach and liver. Inter- ment in Spring Forest Cemetery, Bmghamton. Survived by wife, son, one grandson, and a brother^ Samuel H. P. Hall, of Binghamton Horace George Hoadley, B.A. 1883. Born September 23, 1861, in New Haven, Conn. Died May 22, 1926, in Belmont, Mass. Father, Horace Philemon Hoadley; engaged in real estate and insurance business; son of Philemon and Betsy (Bradley [Plant]) Hoadley; descendant of William Hoadley, who came from England and was living in Say brook, Conn , in 1663 (represented that town in the General Assembly). Mother, Amelia Orpha (Hubbard) Hoadley; daughter of Edwin and Hannah (North) Hubbard. Hopkins Grammar School. Dissertation appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; member Gamma Nu. For several months after graduation had charge of a department of C. E. Hoadley & Company, a novelty wood turning concern in Bennington, Vt (had worked for that company while still in college and was superintendent of Connecticut Pavement Company in New Haven during summers of 1882 and 1883); studied in Yale Divinity School 1884-87 (B.D. 1887), during summer of 1886 preaching at Kewaunee, Wis.; pastor of Congregational Church, East Canaan, Conn., 1887-1890, his ordination taking place there April 3, 1888; studied sociology at Johns Hopkins 1890-91; superintendent of Christian visitation and charity at Water- u6 Obituary Record bury, Conn , 1891-93 and manager of Relief Bureau in that city 1893-94; took special course in mechanical engineering at Cornell 1894-95 and then spent eight months in practical work with Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, R. I.; spent the year 1896-97 in Florida qn account of his health; engaged in manufacturing from 1897 to 1918; with Baird Machine Company of Oakville, Conn., for a few months; president and treasurer of Waterbury Tool Company 1898-1918; with employment and personnel department of Hood Rubber Company of Watertown, Mass., 1918-19, and with a similar department of Denmson Manufacturing Company of Framingham, Mass., in fall of 1919, having taken an intensive course in employment management at Harvard during the previous summer; in 1922 formed a partnership with Professor Charles A. Coburn of Boston University under firm name of Coburn & Hoadley (personal and industrial psychology) and continued in that connection until January, 1925; was then proprietor and manager of Hoadley Associates, successors to Coburn & Hoadley, until his retirement December 31, 1925; candidate for Congress of Progressive Party from 5th Connecticut District in 1912 and for state treasurer of Connecticut 1914; developed and put on the market a hydraulic machine for transmitting power at variable speeds, invented by Harvey D. Williams and Reynold Janney, which was largely used on United States battleships; in 1924 served as chairman of a " Get-Together Con- ference on Labor Unions" in Boston; author: Home Depart- ment of the Sunday School and Profit Sharing in Business; contributed series of articles on "Industrial Applications of McDougall's Psychology" to Forbes Magazine; member American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Management Association, American Association for Labor Legislation, National Municipal League, and First Congre- gational Church, Cambridge, Mass. Married September 22, 1887, in Cleveland, Helen Lillie, daughter of George and Emma (Rendell) Anderson. No children. Death due to a lung infection. Interment in Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury. Survived by wife. Tale College 117 Joseph Horton Nelson, B.A. 1883. Born November 1,1858, in New York City Died August 23, 1925, in New York City. Father, Joseph Nelson, a farmer and later a feed and grain merchant; son of Peter and Sarah Nelson; descendant of Jan Elison (John Nelson), who purchased land in Mamaroneck, N. Y., in 1683 (his name being perpetuated there by Nelson Hill) and married a daughter of Derik Jansen VanderVhet, a soldier who emigrated from Holland in 1660. Mother, Ellen (Putney) Nelson; daughter of Jeremiah and Anna Putney. Preparatory department of Chicago University and City College High School, New York City. First colloquy appoint- ment Junior year; second dispute appointment Senior year; member Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsilon. Studied and practiced law in Aurora and Chicago, 111, being associated with E A. Sherburne in the latter city for a time; moved to New York City in 1894 and entered legal department of Metropolitan Street Railway Company; two years later became assistant to the general manager of the company; gave up that connection in 1904 on account of ill health; later took up real estate work and was subsequently engaged in editorial and brief work for New York Law Insti- tute; about 1919 became editor of the column "Replies and Decisions" in Journal of Commerce, New York City, and con- tinued in that position until his death; member Gmter Rifle Club, being champion match and prize shot of the United States; belonged to Society of Friends, York town Heights, N. Y.j and Methodist Episcopal Church, Aurora, 111. Unmarried. Death due to myocarditis. Buried in Amawalk Cemetery, Yorktown Heights. Survived by no immediate relatives. Leaves a half brother, George F. Hadden, of Spokane, Wash., a nephew, and several cousins. 118 Obituary Record Rollin Alger Sawyer, B.A. 1883. Born May 23, 1861, in Yonkers, N. Y. Died October 4, 1925, in Harnsburg, Pa. Father, the Rev. Rollin Augustus Sawyer (B.A. Western Reserve 1851, D.D. 1872, Litt.D. 1911), a Presbyterian min- ister; pastor of churches in New York, Ohio, and New Jersey; lecturer at Bloomfield Theological Seminary; contributing editor of New York Evangelist and Christian at Work for many years; son of Rufus and Ruth (Alger) Sawyer; descendant of Thomas Sawyer, who came from Lincolnshire, England, about 1618 and settled at Lancaster, Mass. Mother, Martha Elizabeth (Linn) Sawyer; daughter of Andrew and Sybilla (Beardsley) Linn; descendant of John Linn, of Newton, N. J. Nephews: Andrew Linn Bostwick, '08, and Elmore Bostwick, ex-16. Hunt's Collegiate Training School, New York City. Second colloquy appointment Junior year; first colloquy appointment Senior year; received his degree in 1922, with enrollment in Class of 1883. Studied at Union Theological Seminary 1883-86, graduating there in May, 1886; had been licensed to preach by Presbytery of New Castle, Pa., the previous month; ordained and in- stalled pastor Presbyterian Church, Port Penn, Del., June 16, 1886; remained there until 1889; pastor at Odessa, Del., 1889-1894; ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church December 21, 1894, and priest June 29, 1895; rector of Trinity Church, Clayton, Del., 1894-95, St. Thomas' Church, Newark, Del., 1895-98, Trinity Church, Carbondale, Pa., 1898-1905, and St. Stephen's Church, Harrisburg, from 1905 until his death; president Standing Committee of Diocese of Harnsburg since 1909. Married July 25, 1888, in Nantucket, Mass , Lilian Goeltz, daughter of Henry and Jeannette (Knapp) Corse. Children: Rollin Alger, Jr. (B A. Lafayette 1909), and Janet (Mrs. Karl Lemcke). Death, due to toxic poisoning, occurred at the Harrisburg Hospital, after a brief illness. Interment in Stony Creek Cemetery, Stony Point, N. Y. Survived by wife, son, daugh- Tale College 119 ter, two brothers, the Rev. Andrew L. Sawyer, '83, and Willis Lee Sawyer, of Mountain Lakes, N. J., and three sisters, Lucy Sawyer Bostwick (wife of Arthur E. Bostwick, '81), Miss Susanne Sawyer, of Montclair, N. J., and Mrs. Charles H. Coit, of Litchfield, Conn. Henry Czar Merwin Thomson, B.A. 1883. Born April 20,1863, in New Haven, Conn Died June 18,1926, in New Britain, Conn. Father, Giles Griswold Thomson, connected with the Thom- son Safe Company; son of Henry W. and Lydia (Button) Thomson. Mother, Josephine (Lum) Thomson; daughter of Clark and Miranda Elizabeth (Kinney) Lum. Yale relatives include three nephews, Bruce Hoggson, ex-iz S., Wallace Hoggson, ex~i% S , and MacLean Hoggson, '20 Hopkins Grammar School. Member Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Elihu Club. Engaged in hardware business with Charles H. George & Company, in Providence, R. L, 1883-84, with P. & F. Corbin, hardware manufacturers of New Britain, 1884-1901 (traveling salesman in New York and New England 1884-88 and then manager of their Chicago office); identi- fied with Hoggson Brothers, contracting designers, in New York City 1901-1913, serving as secretary, treasurer, and financial manager of the corporation; president American Hardware Corporation of New Britain from June, 1913, until his retirement from active business in December, 1924, on account of ill health; treasurer Hatasatah Realty Company of New York City 1909-1913 and director 1909- 1926; director Fi^st National Bank of New Britain 1917-1924; author of In the Early Eighties and Since with Tale '8j, published by the Class of 1883 in 1923, and which won the award of the Yale Association of Class Secretaries for the year's most notable and valuable class publication; one of a group of Class of 1883 who inaugurated in 1901 the series of Class dinners at New York Yale Club, the fiftieth of which was held in April, 1926; member Yale Engineering Association and Congregational Church. 120 Obituary Record Married September 16, 1891, in New Haven, Alice Maria, daughter of Samuel James and Lucy (MacLean) Hoggson, and sister of Noble Foster Hoggson, '88 S. One daughter, Dorothy, who married A. Parker Abbe, *o8. Death due to encephalitis. Buried in Springfield, Mass. Survived by wife and daughter. John Butler Woodward, B.A. 1883. Born April 3, 1861, in Wilkes Barre, Pa Died September 6, 1925, at Glen Summit, Pa. Father, Stanley Trott Woodward (B.A. 1855), a lawyer and judge of Luzerne County, Pa.; son of George Washington Woodward, chief justice of Pennsylvania and a member of Con- gress, and Sarah Elizabeth (Trott) Woodward; descendant of Richard Woodward, who came to America from Ipswich, England, in 1634 and settled at Watertown, Mass. Mother, Sarah Richards (Butler) Woodward; daughter of Col. John Lord Butler and Cornelia (Richards) Butler; descendant of Zebulon Butler, commander of the American forces at Wyo- ming, July 3, 1778, and of William Butler, who came to Ipswich, Mass., from Ireland in 1650, also descended from three colonial governors of Connecticut, Thomas Welles, John Haynes, and Gurdon SaltonstalL Yale relatives include three nephews, H. H. Houston Woodward, ex-'iy, Stanley Wood- ward, '22, and Charles H. Woodward, '27. St. Paul's School, Concord, N H. Member Yale Yacht Club Junior and Senior years, College Choir three years, '83 Glee Club, '83 Quartette, Yale Glee Club Junior and Senior years, executive committee of Yale Athletic Association Jun- ior and Senior years, Tale News board Junior year, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Read law in office of A T. McChntock in Wilkes Barre 1883-84; attended University of Pennsylvania Law School and was in law office of E Coppee Mitchell in Philadelphia 1884-85; admitted to Luzerne County Bar September 7,1885, and had since practiced in Wilkes Barre; joined firm of Wheat- on, Darling & Woodward in 1892 and continued with that firm and its successor, Woodward, Darling & Woodward, un- Tale College 121 til his election as a judge of Court of Common Pleas of Lu- zerne County in 1913; in 1923 was reelected for a second term of ten years; director of Wilkes Barre Deposit & Sav- ings Bank since 1923; president Yale Alumni Association of Wyoming Valley 1924-25; elder of Wilkes Barre Presbyterian Church. Married June 6, 1888, in Wilkes Barre, Marion, daughter of Thaddeus Street and Esther (Reynolds) Hillard, and sister of Harry R. and Tuthill R Hillard, both '83. Children: John Butler, ex-11 (died during his Freshman year at Yale); Marion (Mrs Bruce Payne); and Stanley Hillard. Death due to an apoplectic stroke; had been in ill health for several months Buried in Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes Barre. Survived by wife, daughter, son, and a brother, George Woodward, '87 and '88 S Emile [Adolfe] Schultze, B.A. 1885. Born February 17, 1863, in Hoboken, N J. Died January 18, 1926, in Speonk, N Y Father, Emil Adolfe Schultze, an importer of wines; born in Herford, Westphalia; came to America in 1855, son of Carl and Augusta (Winzer) Schultze. Mother, Anna (Feldner) §chultze; born in Dresden, Germany; daughter of Edward Feldner, who came to America in 1848 and settled in Detroit, where he was superintendent of schools, and Anna Augusta Feldner. General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. Captain of Class Crew four years; substitute on University Crew; member Freshman Glee Club and Junior Promenade Committee; chairman Class Cup Committee; member Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. LL B Columbia 1887; had practiced law in New York City since 1887; excise commissioner of city of Orange, N J. (which was his home from 1892 to 1925), 1905-1911; president of Yale Alumni Association of Essex County (N. J ) 1898-99; member of committee on admissions of Yale Club of New York 1903-06 and of council of club 1906-09; chairman of'85 Class Committee since graduation, former member Bar 122 Obituary Record Association of the City of New York; member New England Society of Orange. Married September 20, 1892, in Ansonia, Conn., Annie Louise, daughter of John B and Mary Jane (Phelps) Gard- ner One son, John Gardner. Mrs. Schultze died August 7> J925- Death, due to chronic nephritis, followed a long illness. Buried in Ansonia. Survived by son, two grandchildren, four brothers, Charles and Frederick Schultze, of Hoboken, N. J., Paul Schultze, of Albany, N. Y , and Ernest C. Schultze, M D., of New York City, and a sister, Mrs Harry D West, also of New York. Charles Nelson Codding, B.A. 1886. Born December 21, 1861, in Colhnsville, Conn Died January 11, 1926, in Westfield, N J Father, Samuel Nelson Codding, a banker; member Con- necticut House of Representatives and Senate, descendant of William Coddington, who came from England in 1633 and was a founder (1636) and first governor of Newport, R. I. Mother, Fidelia (Pettibone) Codding; daughter of Abraham Pettibone. Preparatory training received in Hartford and at Williston Academy and Phillips-Andover. Studied law at Columbia University (LL.B. 1888) and in law office of Peckham & Tyler during 1886-87; admitted to bar May 17, 1888, and was then a clerk in various law offices until December, 1888, when he became managing clerk in law office of Henry A. Root in New York City; subsequently prac- ticed in that city for some time and then in Westfield as a mem- ber of firm of Green, Codding & Van Winkle and later of that of Codding & Oliver, which also had an office in Elizabeth, N. J ; had served as corporation counsel of Westfield; member New Jersey Assembly two terms (1893-95), declining a renomi- nation; during that time introduced the anti-gambling meas- ure which was later adopted as an amendment to the state constitution; in 1895 was commissioned by the governor depu- tv clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; was reappointed Tale College 123 several times, and served for thirteen years; surrogate of Union County, N. J., from 1917 until his death (term due to expire in 1927); served as a presidential elector several times; chairman of Republican City Committee of Westfield twenty- five years, during eight of which he was chairman of Union County Republican Committee; vice-chairman State Repub- lican Committee, resigning in May, 1925; director Westfield Trust Company; member Union County Bar Association and advisory board of Crippled Children's Home, Westfield; president Westfield Athletic Club; vestryman St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Westfield. Married October 18, 1888, in Beverly, N. J., Adele C , daughter of Sylvester and Sarah (McElroy) Bonfield Chil- dren: Charles Nelson, Jr.; Harriet McElroy (B.A. Smith 1912), the wife of Well wood H. Maxwell, who attended Cor- nell; and Adele Bonfield (B A Smith 1914), the widow of Lewis R Thibault (B.A. Pennsylvania 1915). Death followed an illness of over two years. Buried in Fair- view Cemetery, Westfield. Survived by wife, son, daughters, and five grandchildren. Thomas Darling, B.A. 1886. _ Born May 29, 1863, in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Died June 13, 1926, in Kingston, Pa Father, Edward Payson Darling (B.A Amherst 1851), a lawyer; son of William Darling (who went from Maine to Reading, Pa.; practiced law there and was president judge of Berks County courts; commissioner to the World's Fair at Crystal Palace, London* in 1851) and Margaretta Vaughan (Smith) Darling; grandson of Eliakim Darling, who was born in New Hampshire in 1767 and became a prominent ship- builder. Mother, Emily H. (Rutter) Darling; daughter of Nathaniel Rutter. Wilkes Barre Academy. Treasurer Lacrosse Club Junior year; member College Choir, '86 Glee Club, University Glee Club, Junior Promenade Committee, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key. Read law at his home in Wilkes Barre and was admitted to 124 Obituary Record bar in March, 1889; then entered law office of his father and uncle, J. Vaughan Darling, and was associated with their firm and its successors, Wheaton, Darling & Woodward (of which Frank H. Wheaton, '77, and John B. Woodward, '83, were members), and Woodward, Darling & Woodward; since 1913 had practiced independently; after his father's death took over management of a number of estates, and his practice was largely in the Orphan's Court, as that of his father had been; director Wyoming Bank for many years; member Luzerne County Bar, Citizens' Committee of One Hundred of Wilkes Barre, which acted in advisory capacity in political nominations, and City Council; had served in Pennsylvania National Guard; president Yale Alumni Asso- ciation of the Wyoming Valley 1915; vestryman St. Stephen's Episcopal Church for some years; charter member Westmore- land Club; spent much of his time in voice and violin prac- tice, including quartet work in both; had lived in Kingston since his retirement from law practice. Married June 3, 1902, Emma Childs, daughter of Oliver McClintock, *6i, and Clara Courtney (Childs) McClintock, of Pittsburgh, Pa , sister of Norman and Walter McClintock, both '91, and Harvey C McClintock, '03, and niece of M. B. Lowrie Childs, ex-$iy Walter L McClintock, '62, Harvey Childs and Washington McClintock, both ex~'6g, Thompson McClintock, '70, and Frank T. McClintock, '75. Children: Thomas, J r , '25, Edward^ '27, Clara Childs, and Elsie Lowrie. Had not been well for many months. Interment in family lot in Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes Barre Survived by wife and four children Alexander Brown Coxe, B.A. 1887. Born September 9, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. Died April 16, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pa Father, Henry Brinton Coxe (B.A. Pennsylvania i860); member of firm of Coxe Brothers & Company, miners of an- thracite coal at Drifton, Pa.; son of Charles Sidney Coxe (B.A. Pennsylvania 1808) and Anna Maria (Brinton) Coxe; Tale College 125 descendant of Dr. Daniel Coxe, of London, whose son, Daniel Coxe, came to America in 1701 and settled near Cape May, N. J. Mother, Isabel (Brown) Coxe; daughter of Alex- ander Brown (B.A. Rutgers 1836) and Catherine (Nielson) Brown; great-granddaughter of Alexander Brown, who came from the north of Ireland to Baltimore, Md., in 1790 and was the founder of the banking houses of Alexander Brown & Sons in Baltimore, Brown, Shipley & Company, of London, and Brown Brothers & Company, of Philadelphia and New York. Yale relatives include: Eckley B. Coxe, 3d, ex-i% S. (nephew), and William Adams Brown, '86, James Crosby Brown, '94, Thatcher M. Brown, '97, William Coxe Wright, '18, and Franklin and Tench C. Coxe, J r , both '21 (third cousins). Hopkins Grammar School. Member Track Team four years (captain two years); won first place in hammer throw four years and in Senior year also in shot-put, breaking intercol- legiate record in both events; member Freshman Foot- ball Team, University Football Team Sophomore year, Class Cup Committee, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones Employed by Coxe Brothers & Company at Drifton 1887- 1894, except for a year spent at the University of Pennsyl- vania (1888-89) where he received a certificate of proficiency in 1889; since 1896 his home had been in Paoh, Pa., where he had been engaged in farming and horse breeding; was said to have done more towards improving trotting stock in America than any other one man; only horse owner to win two of the Kentucky futurities for both two-year- and three-year-old horses; member Yale Graduate Committee on Track Ath- letics from its inauguration until his death; vestryman of Church of the Good Samaritan (Episcopal), Paoli. Married June 4,1891, in Drifton, Sarah Fredenca, daughter of John Brinton White, a non-graduate member of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Class of 1859, and Jane Dundas (Gordon) White, and sister of William White, '90. No children. Death, due to kidney disease, with complications, occurred at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; had been in poor health for about a year, but was taken seriously ill in Nassau, 126 Obituary Record Bahama Islands, several weeks before his death. Buried in the churchyard of the Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoh. Survived by wife and two brothers, Henry B. Coxe (B.A. Harvard 1885, LL.B. Pennsylvania 1887), of Penllyn, Pa., and Charles E. Coxe, £# George Griswold Haven, B.A. 1887. Born June 14, 1866, in New York City Died July 21, 1925, in New York City. Father, George Griswold Haven (B.A. Columbia 1857, M.A i860); president and director of Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company and Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Railroad Company; director of National Bank of Commerce, Guaranty Trust Company, and other corporations; vice- president of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Ccjmpany, son of J Woodward and Cornelia (Griswold) Haven; descendant of Richard Haven, who came to America from England in 1640 and settled at Lynn, Mass. Mother, Emma (Martm) Haven; daughter of Isaac Parker and Cornelia (Walton) Martin; descendant of Joseph Martin, who came to this country from the Canary Islands and settled in New York City. St. John's School, Ossining, N. Y., and Hopkins Grammar School Member He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. At graduation entered offices of Lehigh & Wilkes Barre Coal Company, New York City; was subsequently secretary and treasurer of St. Paul & Duluth and New York & Northern railways and later acting general manager of latter road; be- came member of New York Stock Exchange firm of Strong, Sturgis & Company in 1896 and at time of death was senior member of firm, treasurer Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company 1914-19 and since then president (also director since 1910); had been director of Denver & Rio Grande and Texas & Pacific railroads, South Porto Rico Sugar Company, the Metallurgical Company, Charleston & Ohio River Com- pany, and United States Mortgage & Trust Company; trustee and manager of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children Tale College 127 in New York City; member advisory board of New York Foundling Hospital at time of his death; president Down Town Association of New York; had a summer home at Ridgefield, Conn. Married (1) September 4, 1889, in New Haven, Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Charles Roberts Ingersoll (B A. 1840, LL.D. 1874), formerly governor of Connecticut, and Virginia (Gregory) Ingersoll, sister of Francis G. Ingersoll, '74, grand- daughter of Ralph I. Ingersoll (B.A. 1808), great-grand- daughter of Jonathan Ingersoll (B.A 1766), and great-great- granddaughter of Jonathan Ingersoll (B.A. 1736). Children: Leila, who married ^Gilbert Edward Jones, Jr. (B.A. Harvard 1911); George Gnswold, Jr , '16, who served abroad as a First Lieutenant in the 17th Field Artillery during the war; and Mrs. Alice Haven Trevor. Mrs Haven died November 14, 1923. Married (2) February 4, 1925, in New York City, Dorothy, daughter of Henry Ammon James, '74 and '78 L., and Laura Brevoort (Sedgwick) James, sister of Ellery S James, '17, and niece of Dr. Walter B. James, '79, Norman James, '90, and the late Robert C. James, '94. Died by his own hand; had been suffering from a nervous breakdown for a year and a half and had not been active in business; had traveled in an effort to regain his health. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Survived by wife, son, two daughters, six grandchildren, a brother, J. Woodward Haven, of New York City, two sisters, Mrs. Stephen Peabody and Mrs. J. Nelson Borland, both of New York, and a half sister, Marion H. Wickes, the wife of Forsy th Wickes, '98. William Auchinbreck Campbell, B.A. i Born August 29, 1866, in Schenectady, N Y. Died December 10, 1925, in Asheville, N. C Father, Douglas Campbell (B.A Union i860), a lawyer and historian; Major of United States Volunteers in Civil War; son of WTilham W. Campbell (B A Union 1827), a member of Congress and justice of New York Superior and Supreme courts, and Maria (Starkweather) Campbell; descendant of 128 Obituary Record James Campbell, who came from Scotland to Boston in 1728 and settled in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1741. Mother, Harriet Bowers (Paige) Campbell, daughter of Alonzo C. and Harriet Bowers (Mumford) Paige, descendant of Nathaniel Paige, who came from England to Roxbury, Mass., about 1685. St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. First colloquy appoint- ment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year; first honors in political science, history, and law at graduation; captain and stroke of Freshman Crew; member Senior Prom- enade Committee, He Boule, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. After graduation studied law at Harvard for two years; was then in law office of Evarts, Choate & Beaman in New York City until 1893; practiced law in New York at different intervals from 1893 to 1924; had also been engaged in bank- ing and brokerage business; interested in mines in Mexico and Alaska and in 1912 spent some time in Alaska, investi- gating his properties; member Society of Colonial Wars and Loyal Legion. Married May 16,1893, in Augusta, Ga , Marian Hartridge, daughter of Barney Savage and Marian (Lamar) Dunbar. No children. Death due to tuberculosis. Buried at Cherry Valley, N. Y. Survived by wife, a brother, Douglas Campbell (B.A. Union 1894), and two sisters, Mrs. George deB. Greene and Mrs. Oothout Z Whitehead, all of New York City. Frank Wells Hubbard, B.A. 1888. Born August 2, 1865, in Litchfield, Conn Died February 10, 1926, in Flushing, N Y. Father, John Henry Hubbard, a lawyer; county and state's attorney, judge of Connecticut Supreme Court; state senator; member of Congress 1863-65; son of Parley and Anna (Catlin) Hubbard; descendant of John Hubbard, who lived in Boston in 1670, was a Captain in King Philip's War, and moved to Woodstock, Conn , in 1686; also a descendant on the maternal side of John Webster, fifth colonial governor of Connecticut. Mother, Abby Jane (Wells) Hubbard; daughter of Tomlmson and Electa (Smith) Wells; descendant of Thomas Wells, who r Tale College 129 came to this country from Essex County, England, and was the fourth colonial governor of Connecticut, and Elizabeth (Hunt) Wells, who came to Wethersfield in 1636 and subse- quently settled in Hartford,Conn.Cousin: HenryH. Wells, 'oo. Prepared for college at L. H. Reid's private school, Lake- ville, Conn. Member Class Baseball Team Freshman year; second colloquy appointment Sf nior year. Studied in Yale School of Law 1888-1890 (received honors in Junior year and LL B cum laude in 1890; member Phi Delta Phi); practiced law in Torrmgton, Conn , 1890-98; then moved to Great Neck, N. Y,, and during next two years was engaged in farming and poultry raising, entered legal department of Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York 1901 and remained with that company and its successor, the Interborough Rapid Transit, until his death (assistant attorney in charge of appeal work for many years). Married November 18, 1891, in Brooklyn, N Y , Grace Waldron, daughter of Samuel Thorne and Phoebe Brown (Merntt) Keese. Children: Grace Louise (B.A. Barnard 1915), a member of the New York University Law School Class of 1927, and Waldron Wells, a non-graduate member of the Cornell Class of 1919, who received a war alumnus certificate in 1920 (was a Sergeant in the Medical Department of the Army) Death due to pneumonia, following a week's illness Buried at Litchfield Survived by wife, daughter, son, two grand- children, and two brothers, John T Hubbard, '8o, and Philip P. Hubbard, '85 Charles Allen Klots, B.A. 1 Born Julv 14, 1867, in Brooklyn, N Y. Died May 3, 1926, in New York City Father, Walter TrafTord Klots, a building contractor in Brooklyn; son of George and Charlotte (Morford) Klots, descendant of James Klots, of Lancaster, Pa. Mother, Eliza- beth Underhill (Brown) Klots; daughter of Ephraim D. and Anne Twyble (Youle) Brown. Preparatory training received in part at Frankfort-on-the- 130 Obituary Record Main, Germany, after a twelve years' residence in Pans, and completed at Vermont Episcopal Institute, Burlington. Second dispute appointments Junior and Senior years; mem- ber Delta Kappa Epsilon. After his father's death in 1889, took charge of the latter's business, which he reorganized under firm name of Walter T. Klots & Brothers Sons (contractors and dealers in building materials in New York and Brooklyn); retired from the business in 1898 on account of ill health and went to South America; became interested in various lines of business there and during the next seven years made trips to nearly all of the countries of South and Central Amenta; returned to United States in 1906 and was interested in irrigation and engineering for a time, with a view to introducing systems into South America; later took charge of New York office of Index Visible, Inc., and remained with that company until 1915; since then engaged in developing an invention of his own. Married October 16, 1888, in New Haven, Maud Augusta Allen (received a certificate from Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1887), daughter of Charles Wesley and Grace (Stevens) Allen. Children: Allen Traffqrd (B.A. 1909, LL.B. Harvard 1913), the Class Boy of '88, who was in overseas service as a First Lieutenant of Field Artillery during the war, and Con- stance Morford (Mrs Charles R. Fowler). Death, due to asthma, with complications, occurred at Fifth Avenue Hospital, New York City. Burned in Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn. Survived by wife, son, daughter, three grandchildren, and two brothers, Dr Ephraim D. Klots, of New York City, and Alfred P. Klots, of Rochefort-en-Terre (Morbihan), France. Frank Usley Paradise, B.A. Born December 5,1859, in Boston, Mass. Died February 24, 1926, in Vevey, Switzerland Father, William Thomas Paradise, a wood carver; came to Boston from Bath, England, in 1838; son of Thomas and Maria (Park) Paradise, of Bath. Mother, Mary Jane (Carnes) Paradise; born in Prince Edward Island. Tale College 131 Phillips-Andover. Second prize in English composition Sophomore year; Class deacon Freshman year; chairman of board of editors of Tale Literary Magazine; secretary and treasurer Berkeley Association Junior year; member Psi Upsilon and Chi Delta Theta; left college at end of Junior year on account of ill health; studied at Berkeley Divinity School three years, graduating in 1890; while there also stud- ied at Yale for six months and in 1892 received his degree with enrollment in the Class of 1888. Ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church 1890, rector of St. Peter's Church, Milford, Conn , 1890^93 (ordained to the priesthood May 18, 1891); rector of St Luke's Church, East Greenwich, R. I., 1893-94; dean of Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, La., 1894-98, rector of Grace Church, Medford, Mass , 1898-1915; university preacher at Harvard for several years; had lived in England since the winter of 1914-15, his home being at Woldingham, Surrey; acting rector of American Church of the Holy Trinity in Pans 1919-1920; had charge of Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Falmouth Foreside, Maine, in summer of 1923, during the war made a lecture tour along the British front and in 1917 lectured at the Workers' Educational Society s Summer School at Balliol College, had also lectured throughout Eng- land upon American history and the new relationship with England; served as honorary secretary of Anglo-American Committee under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of London; author: tfhe Church and the Individual (1910), A Nation at School (1912), Christianity and Commerce (1913), Abraham Lincoln, Democrat (1921), Jesus Christ and the Spirit of Touth (1923,), and Mazzini, the Prophet of Democracy (a new study of the Italian Risorgimento, to be published in England and America in the late summer of 1926); had also published several sermons and a few poems and contributed to the Harvard Review and Nineteenth Century and After; member English Speaking Union and Authors Club (London). Married (1) June 30, 1890, in Hartford, Conn , Caroline Wilder, daughter of Charles Edward Fellowes, '56, and Emily Clarissa (Baldwin) Fellowes, sister of the Rev. Edward Colton Fellowes, '88, granddaughter of the Rev. Theron 132 Obttuary Record Baldwin (B.A. 1827), and grandmece of the Rev. Abraham Baldwin (B.A 1820). Children: Scott Hurtt (B.A. 1914, B.A. Oxford 1919); Dorothea Chester, the wife of William W. Flint, Jr. (B A. Dartmouth 1912); Robert Campbell (B,A 1918); and Nathaniel Burton (B.A. 1918, P h D . 1925); his sons all saw service abroad during the war. Mrs. Paradise died December 17, 1904. Married (2) October 15, 1914, in West- minster, England, Dorothy, daughter of Frederick Haigh and Blanche (Gray) Pyman, of London. Children: Jean Ilsley and Diana Gray. Death due to angina pectons Buried at Lausanne, Switzer- land. Survived by wife, three sons, three daughters, two grand- children, and a sister, Mrs Harry Barnard, of Andover, Mass Bernard Christian Steiner, B.A. 1888. Born August 13, 1867, in Guilford, Conn Died January 12, 1926, in Baltimore, Md Father, Lewis Henry Sterner (B A. Marshall College 1846, M.A Marshall 1849, M D. Pennsylvania 1849, honorary M A. St James 1854 and Yale 1869, LL D. Delaware 1884, Litt D Franklin and Marshall 1887); physician; professor of chemistry at George Washington University; member Mary- land Senate; librarian of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore; son of Christian and Rebecca (Weltzheimer) Steiner; descend- ant of Jacob Steiner, who came from Germany to Frederick County, M d , in 1735. Mother, Sarah Spencer (Smyth) Steiner; daughter of Ralph Dunning Smyth (B.A. 1827) and Rachel Stone (Seward) Smyth; granddaughter of Timothy Stone, a musician in the Revolutionary War; great-grand- daughter of Samuel Lee, a Revolutionary officer; descendant of Capt William Seward, who settled in Guilford in 1654, and of John Smyth [Smith], who came from England to Milford, Conn , in 1639 Yale relatives include: Abraham L. Smyth (M D. 1823) (great-uncle), Walter H. Smyth, '63, and Rich- ard E. Smyth, '66 (uncles); and John C Smith, '81, and Ralph H. Smith, '88 S. (cousins) Frederick Academy and Guilford Institute. Second Berke- ley Premium in Latin composition Freshman year; divided Tale College 133 Winthrop Prize Junior year; philosophical oration appoint- ments Junior and Senior years; two-year honors in ancient languages at graduation; salutatonan; chairman Ivy Commit- tee; member Alpha Delta Phi, Elihu Club, and Phi Beta Kappa. Graduate student in history, jurisprudence, and English at Johns Hopkins 1888-1891 (University Scholar 1890; Fellow in history 1891; Ph.D. 1891); M.A. Yale 1890; instructor in his- tory at Williams College and head of the department 1891-92; since then librarian of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, succeeding his father; studied law at University of Maryland 1893-94 (LL.B. 1894); connected with Johns Hopkins from 1893 to 1911 as instructor in history (1893-94), associate in history (1894-1909), and associate in English historical juris- prudence (1909-1911); dean and professor of constitutional law at Baltimore University 1897-1900; dean and professor of public law at Baltimore Law School 1900-04 (one of its mcor- porators and organizers 1900); partner in law firm of Monson, Steiner & Penrose 1899-1901; lecturer on church history at Baltimore Y. M. C. A. 1921; chairman of publication com- mittee of Baltimore Reform League 1909, member Committee of 100 of the Municipal League 1905-08; declined Republican nomination for State Senate 1911; member executive commit- tee of Maryland branch of League to Enforce Peace in 1916 and delegate to the first assembly of the league in Washington; delegate to the "Win the War for Permanent Peace" conven- tion at Philadelphia 1918; library publicity director of United States Food Administration for Maryland 1918; member of Baltimore Auxiliary Committee for Armenian Relief frojn 1916 until his death; member of board of visitors of Maryland State School for the Deaf at Frederick since 1898 (vice-presi- dent of board 1915-17, since then president); president board of directors of Maryland Colored Normal School (which he helped to found) 1902-1914; trustee State Institu- tion for the Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind 1900-1914; chairman of board of visitors of Colored High School 1900; member building committee of board of trustees of Egerton Orphan Asylum for Girls 1904-06; trustee Baltimore Geo- graphical Society 1903-1926; one of the organizers (February, 1897) of Maryland State Building Association (president 134 Obituary Record 1897-1900); corporator of Home-buyers Building Association 1900 (president until 1902); corporator of the Cecil and Latham Construction companies 1902; first president of Lawrence Memorial Association, which managed the College Settlement, 1894-97; recording secretary Maryland Bible Society in 1898, organizing the first traveling libraries in the state; vice-president Y. M. C A. at Johns Hopkins 1889™ 1891 and president 1895-1900; president of Twenty-fifth Annual Convention of the State Y. M. C. A. in 1897; director Baltimore Y. M. C. A. 1897-1926; chairman state committee of Y M. C. A for work among Maryland soldiers 1898; deacon of First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, 1901- 07, and an elder since then; had conducted its young men's Bible class since 1894 (also one at Johns Hopkins 1908-09) and had represented the church in the Presbytery (member of its judicial committee) and Synod (chairman committee on education 1917) and in the Interchurch Federation of Baltimore, clerk of the session of the church in 1910; chair- man of Publicity Committee of the World (a pageant given in Baltimore in 1912); member local cooperating committee of Laymen's Missionary Movement 1915; member committee for reorganization and consolidation of the benevolent boards of the Presbyterian Church in the United States 1922; member General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States 1920-21; chairman of committee of Johns Hopkins alumni to cooperate with Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in the establishment of medical missionary work in northern Siam 1916; served as chairman and member of various committees of American Library Association; sec- retary State Library Commission 1902-1917; one of the first fifty members of the American Library Institute; former presi- dent Library Copyright League; as member of publication committee of Maryland Historical Society had directed the policy of the Maryland Historical Magazine since 1897 (also in charge of editing the Muster Rolls and other records of Maryland men in the Revolutionary War); librarian and cura- tor of the cabinet of that society 1899-1901; member Mary- land Public Records Commission 1897-1925; corresponding member Minnesota Historical Society; member American Antiquarian Society, American Historical Association, Ameri- Tale College 135 can Chemical Society, and Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; honorary member Goethean So- ciety of Franklin and Marshall College; charter member Phi Beta Kappa at Johns Hopkins; one of the organizers of Yale Alumni Association of Maryland in 1895 (secretary 1895- 1901, president 1901-02); secretary of Class of 1888 since 1912; vice-president of Yale Association of Class Secretaries in 1916; Litt.D Dickinson College 1923, author: History of University Education in Maryland (1891), History of Slavery in Connecticut (1893), Education in Connecticut (1893), Education in Maryland (1894), Citizenship and Suffrage in Maryland (1895), Genealogy of the Sterner Family (1896), History of Guilford, Conn (1898), Life of Sir Robeit Eden (1898), Institutions and Civil Government of Maryland (1899), Life and Correspondence of fames McHenry (for which he was awarded the John Marshall Prize at Johns Hopkins in 1907), Life of Reverdy Johnson (1914), Life of Henry Winter Davis (1916), Life of Henry Barnard (B A 1830) (1919), Life of Roger B. 'Taney (1921), and monographs on Maryland his- tory; American editor of Jahresbenchte fur Geschictwissen- schaft 1893-95; editor Finding List of Books in the Enoch Pratt Free Library and History of Secondary Education in Maryland (published in the catalogue of Frederick (Md ) College for 1893-94); editor Early Maryland Poetry (1900), Rev. Thomas Brayys Works (1901), Archives of Maryland from 1916 to 1926, and War Record of Alpha Delta Phi (with librarian, Lawrence C. Wroth, in 1922), member board of editors of Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine 1912-1920; a founder of Maryland Law Review in 1901 (editor until 1903), published annual sports of Enoch Pratt Free Library and wrote reports of Maryland Public Library Commission, of which he was secretary from 1902 to 1917; contributed re- views of various books to Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and numerous articles to maga- zines; with F. B. Dexter, '61, contributed an article on Yale to Johnson's Encyclopedia; published a series of genealogies of Connecticut families (prepared from manuscripts of his grandfather, Ralph D Smyth) in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; had delivered numerous addresses Married November 7,1912, in Yonkers, N Y , Ethel Simes, 136 Obituary Record daughter of John and Isabel H (Simes) Mulligan. Chil- dren- Richard Lewis and Gilbert Simes (died in 1922). Death due to coronary thrombosis. Buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick. Survived by wife, son, a brother, Dr. Walter R Sterner, '92, and three sisters, the Misses Ber- tha R and Gertrude R Sterner and Amy L Sterner (B.A. Bryn Mawr 1899), all of Baltimore. Israel Hyman Peres, B.A. 1 Born August 27, 1867, m Memphis, Tenn. Died August i, 1925, in Memphis, Tenn Father, Jacob Joseph Peres; born in Haarlem, Netherlands; graduated with an academic degree from the University of Leyden in 1852; came to America in 1857 and spent a year in Philadelphia, where he taught modern languages; moved to Memphis in 1858 and established the commission and broker- age firm of Jacob J Peres & Company, also practiced law there and taught modern languages; president of Memphis Board of Education, rabbi of Congregation Beth el Emeth; son of Joseph and Sarah (Davidson) Peres; descendant of an old family of Spanish-Dutch Jews, who were rabbis and teach- ers Mother, Eve (Chits) Peres, born in Haarlem; daughter of Rabbi Bernard Judah Chits and Eve Chits. Nephew: Hard- wig P. Posert, '18. Memphis public schools and Professor Wharton S. Jones* Business and Classical School, Memphis President Yale Chess Club; won Class chess prize Studied in Yale School of Law 1889-1891 (won Betts Prize and honors Junior year, received Kent Club certificate in ora- tory and debate, member Book and Gavel, LL.B. cum laude 1891); began practice with firm of Taylor & Carroll in Mem- phis October, 1891, later becoming member of firm of Carroll & Peres, with John Lehman formed firm of Peres & Lehman October 1, 1892, and continued in that association until 1895; afterwards associated in practice with Percy Finlay, '92, for a short time; in January, 1918, appointed by Governor Rye chancellor of Tenth Chancery Division of Tennessee, Part 2, at Memphis, to fill an unexpired term; in August, 1918, elected Tale College 137 for an eight-year term; M A Yale 1899; chairman finance committee Memphis Board of Education 1898-1902 and presi- dent of the board 1898-99; president Department of School Administration, National Education Association 1901 and 1902; delivered address before that body at Charleston, S. C , 1900 and at Detroit, Mich., 1902; member executive com- mittee, Department of School Administration 1903; chairman of the division which made a religious survey of city of Mem- phis 1920; director Young Men's Hebrew Association for fifteen years and president 1900-02; trustee Temple of the Children of Israel at Memphis for a year and Children's Home Society (undenominational) 1919-1922; member Memphis Zionist District (active in work towards the re- habilitation of the Jewish National Homeland; his name in- scribed in the Golden Book at Jerusalem), prominent in Masonic circles; president Lions' Club 1922; first vice-presi- dent Yale Club of Memphis 1923; member Shelby County and Memphis Bar associations; during World War appointed a special agent of the Employment Service by United States Department of Labor; also served as industrial adviser to Draft Board of West Tennessee, as member local Legal Ad- visory Board, vice-chairman of jurisprudence and law reform committee of State Bar Association, a Four-minute Man, and member Y M. C. A , Red Cross, and Liberty Loan campaign committees; author. Dignity of Litigation, School Administra- tion Problems in the South, Russian Jewish Immigration, The Russian Jew, and The Gold Standard; had contributed articles to the Tale Law Journal, American Jewess, National Educa- tion Magazine, and Commercial Appeal; published numerous articles in the daily press; delivered addresses on "The Twenty-third Psalm," "The Discovery of God," "Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Landing of the Jews in America" (before the Temple of the Children of Israel), and "Theodore Roosevelt" (at a Scottish Rite ban- quet); also delivered address at laying of corner stone of Scottish Rite Cathedral 1906 and of Masonic Temple 1913, one of the dedicatory addresses at laying of corner stone of Baron Hirsh Orthodox Congregation, and the memorial ad- dress at erection of the monument to the late Dr. Max Sam- field. 138 Obituary Record Married March 12, 1901, in Memphis, Rebecca, daughter of Louis and Augusta (Fnedlander) Behm. Mrs Peres died December 9, 1901 Death due to a heart attack; had not fully regained his health since an attack of influenza two years before. Interment in Children of Israel Cemetery, Memphis Survived by a brother, Hardwig Peres, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Posert, both of Memphis. Henry Seymour Robinson, B.A. 1889. Born April i6, 1868, in Hartford, Conn Died March 3, 1926, in Nassau, Bahama Islands Father, Henry Cornelius Robinson (B A 1853, LL.D. 1888), a lawyer, mayor of Hartford 1872-73; Republican nominee for governor of Connecticut 1876, member Connecti- cut Legislature 1879; s o n °f David Franklin and Anne (Sey- mour) Robinson; descendant of Thomas Robinson, who settled in Guilford, Conn , about 1667. Mother, Eliza Niles (Trum- bull) Robinson; daughter of John Franklin and Ann Eliza (Smith) Trumbull; descendant of John Trumbull, who came from Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, to Rowley, Mass , about 1637 and later lived in Cambridge and Charlestown, Mass. Yale relatives include. J. Hammond Trumbull (B.A. 1842), Lucius F Robinson (B A 1843), Nathaniel Shipman (B.A. 1848), and Edwin B Trumbull, "51 (uncles); Sidney T Miller, Jr , '16, Lucius F Robinson, Jr , '18, Barclay Robinson, '19, and Henry C. Robinson, ^-'24 (nephews); and Frank R Shipman, '85, Arthur L Shipman, '86, Henry R Shipman, '99, John F Trumbull, '02 S , James B Trumbull, ex-'07 S , and Arthur L Shipman, Jr , '28 (cousins) Hartford Public High School Second dispute appointments Junior and Senior years, member Class Football Team and secretary of '89 Football Association Freshman year; substi- tute on University Football Team Sophomore and Junior years, editor Tale Dmly News Sophomore year; member Junior Promenade Committee, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones; member Triennial, Sexennial, Decennial, and Quindecenmal Reunion committees, Yale College 139 Studied law in office of Robinson & Robinson (his father's firm) in Hartford 1889-1891; admitted to Connecticut Bar 1891; taken into firm of Robinson & Robinson in 1893 and practiced until May 16, 1895; secretary Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Company and manager of its trust department 1895-1905; vice-president Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company 1905-1918 and president since then; director Hartford Fire Insurance Company and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company; former director Hartford Carpet Cor- poration and Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, printers and bookbinders; director and vice-president Mechanics Savings Bank; trustee Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company, Wadsworth Athenaeum (also president), Watkinson Library, Watkinson Farm School, Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, Handicrafts School of Hartford, Loomis Institute of Windsor, Conn, (president since 1919), and Colt Memorial Fund; member Hartford Common Council 1903-07 and Board of Finance 1905-08; member Connecticut Bar Association, Society of Colonial Wars, and Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford (vestryman since 1918, except during 1924); during the war served in Company B, 1st Regiment, Connecticut State Guard. Married (1) November 9, 1898, in Hartford, Sarah Morgan, daughter of the Rev Francis Goodwin (honorary M A Trinity 1863, D.D 1902) and Mary Alsop (Jackson) Goodwin, and sister of William B Goodwin, £#-'90, Charles A Goodwin, '98, and F. Spencer Goodwin, '03. Children: Sarah Goodwin (Mrs A Temple Blackwood) and Elizabeth Trumbull (Mrs Hayward S. Thompson). Mrs Robinson died February 8, 1909. Married (2) January 10, 1917, in Hartford, Marion Cornelia, daughter of Alfred Curtinms and Mary Elizabeth (Warner) Armstrong, and sister of Alfred W. Armstrong, '82 8., and William L Armstrong, '89 Children Henry Seymour, Jr., and William Armstrong Death due to complications following an attack of pneu- monia, with which he was stricken about a year before, and from which he had never fully recovered Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. Survrved by wife, daughters, sons, two brothers, Lucius F Robinson, '85, and John T. Robinson, '93, and two sisters, Lucy T Miller, the wife of Sidney T. 140 Obituary Record Miller (B A. Trinity 1885), of Detroit, Mich, and Mary S. Lambert, the wife of Adrian V S. Lambert, '93. Herbert Parsons, B.A. 1890. Born October 28, 1869, in New York City. Died September 16, 1925, in Pittsfield, Mass Father, John Edward Parsons (B.A. New York University 1848, honorary M A Yale 1851), a lawyer; assistant district attorney of New York; son of Edward Lamb Parsons, who came to America from England when a young man and set- tled at Rye, N. Y , and Matilda (Clark) Parsons. Mother, Mary Dumesnil (Mcllvaine) Parsons; daughter of Bowes Reed and Catherine (Dumesnil) Mcllvaine; of Scotch ancestry Yale relatives include the following cousins: William H. Parsons, '82, John P. Parsons, '85, the Rt. Rev. Edward L Parsons, '89, William H. Parsons, Jr., *io, and John P. Parsons, ex-12. Everson School, New York City, and St. Paul's School, Concord, N H Second prize in English composition Sophomore year; oration appointment Junior year; dissertation appoint- ment Senior year; a Class deacon; president Y. M C. A.; superintendent Bethany Mission; member '90 Literary Society, Gamma Nu, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key. Studied at University of Berlin 1890-91, Harvard Law School 1891-93, and Metropolis Law School, New York City, 1894; entered law office of Strong & Cadwalader, New York City, July 5, 1893, admitted to New York State Bar June, 1894, became member of his father's law firm (Parsons, Shepard & Ogden) July 1,1895, and, in 1902, of its successor, Parsons, Closson & Mcllvaine, of which he was senior member at time of his death; elected alderman from 25th Assembly District, New York City, on Republican and Citizens' Union tickets 1899; reelected 1901; served as chairman of finance committee of Board of Aldermen for sixteen months, and as such was member of Sinking Fund Commission of New York City, elected Republican leader of his assembly district 1903 and reelected 1904 and 1905; ran for Congress as a Republican Tale College 141 in a Democratic district in 1900 and was defeated, elected to Congress from 13th District of New York 1904; reelected 1906 and 1908, but defeated for reelection 1910; served on Insular Affairs and Public Lands committees and Joint Com- mittee on Revision of Laws; elected president Republican County Committee of New York County 1905; reelected four times; resigned in 1910, but again elected 1914; since 1904 had been a delegate to all regular New York State Republican conventions; delegate to national conventions in 1908, 1912, 1916, and 1920, delegate-at-large to constitutional convention of New York state 1915, serving on several committees; member Republican National Committee for New York state and of its executive and campaign committees 1916-1920; withdrew from Republican party in 1920 and supported Cox on League of Nations issue, making extended trip in his be- half; upon the defeat of Cox, withdrew from politics and devoted himself to his law practice; had been chairman of New York County Committee of League to Enforce Peace, vice-president of Pro-League Independents, and director of Association to Prevent Corrupt Practices at Elections and of Honest Ballot Association; director Mortgage Bond and Metropolitan Trust companies and Legal Aid Society, mem- ber Public Lands Section of National Conservation Commis- sion; member board of managers New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Society for the Reforma- tion of Juvenile Delinquents, and Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital; president of Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, of Green- wich House Settlement in New York City (trustee for many years), and of board of trustees of Canton Christian College pLingnan University]; superintendent of large mission Sunday school on west side of New York for many years; at time of death trustee of Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City, and vestryman of Trinity Church, Lenox, Mass , with two of his sisters had continued to maintain St. Helen's Home for children at Interlaken, in the town of Stockbridge, Mass , which his father had founded as a memorial to his daughter Helen; had also helped to maintain St. Helena's Chapel at New Lenox, Mass , also a memorial to his sister, Private and Corporal in 7th Regiment, New York National 142 Obituary Record Guard, and Judge Advocate of 1st Brigade 1898-99; entered Military Intelligence Section of War College Division of General Staff in Washington as a civilian in July, 1917; commissioned Major in Signal Reserve Corps in August, 1917, and detailed to Military Intelligence Section, where he was in charge of counter-espionage outside of the Army; attended second Officers* Training Camp at Fort Myer, Va.; served overseas from January 26, 1918, to March 22, 1919; studied in British War Office and spent three weeks in Intelligence Section at American General Headquarters at Chaumont; student at Army General Staff College at Langres March- May, 1918; joined the 5th Division (Regular) as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, May 30 and continued in that capacity until December 23; in the Anould-Gerardmer and St.-Die sectors of the Vosges, at St-Mihiel, and in the Argonne- Meuse; made member of General Staff and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in September, 1918; received a divisional citation, spent some time with the Army of Occupation, and was assistant to the military attache at Berne in January and February, 1919; returned to the United States in March, 1919, and was demobilized March 26; had held a commission as Lieutenant Colonel, Quartermaster Reserve Corps, since 1920, member Association of the Bar of the City of New York, The Associates of the Engineer Corps, and Company K, 7th Regiment, New York National Guard, Fifth Division Society, U.S A., and board of governors of the Lenox Club; an in- corporator of Lenox golf grounds and director of Lenox Water Company. Married September 1, 1900, in Newport, R. L, Elsie Worthington Clews (B A. Barnard 1896, Ph.D. Columbia 1899), daughter of Henry and Lucy Madison (Worthington) Clews Children: Elsie, the wife of Morehead Patterson, '20, John Edward, '25, two sons, both of whom died soon after birth; Herbert, Jr.; and Mcllvaine. Death, due to a ruptured kidney, was the result of injuries received when he was testing a motor cycle at his country place, "Stoneover Farm," Lenox, and occurred at the House of Mercy Hospital in Pittsfield Cremation took place at Troy, N. Y.; burial in the Lenox Cemetery on Church Hill. Survived by wife, daughter, three sons, two grandsons, and four sisters, Tale College 143 Mrs. D. Percy Morgan, of New York City, Mrs Montgomery Hare (the wife of Montgomery Hare, '93), and the Misses Mary and Gertrude Parsons, of Lenox. Howard VanDoren Shaw, B.A. 1890. Born May 7, 1868, in Chicago, 111 Died May 6, 1926, in Baltimore, Md Father, Theodore Andrews Shaw, a wholesale dry goods merchant; member World's Fair Committee in 1893; son of David and Nancy Speer (Andrews) Shaw; descendant of John Shaw, an English Quaker, who came to America with William Penn in 1699 and settled in Plumstead, Pa. Mother, Sarah (VanDoren) Shaw; daughter of William Howard and Matilda (Johnson) VanDoren, of Brooklyn, N.Y ; descendant of Pieter VanDoorn, of Doorn-Gravenzande, who came to this country from Holland in 1659 and settled at New Amster- dam. Harvard School, Chicago. Dissertation appointment Jun- ior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; president of Bicycle Club; an editor of Tale Record; member Senior Prom- enade Committee, Gamma Nu, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Studied architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology 1890-92; continued studies abroad the next year; upon ms return to his home in Chicago in 1893, entered office of Jenney & Mundie, architects, with whom he remained until 1895; h a d since practiced his profession independently; de- signer and architect for Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre in Chicago, Racine (Wis.) Memorial Hall, the build- ings of Market Square in Lake Forest, 111 , the Donnelley printing houses, Chicago, the model steel town at Indiana Harbor, near Chicago, the Quadrangle Club of the University of Chicago, and many city and corntry residences, etc , throughout the United States; a few weeks before his death had been appointed by the United States Battle Monuments Commission to build the chapel at Flanders Field and the Brest naval monument in France for the United States Gov- ertjpient; was a FgJJow of American Institute of Architects, ?4nd just before his *}eath had received the award of the Insti- 144 Obituary Record tute's gold medal for architectural achievement; chairman of Illinois State Art Commission for many years; trustee of Art Institute of Chicago since 1900 (member of its executive and art committees), chairman of Burnham Architectural Li- - brary for ten years, trustee of Illinois College at one time and ^ of United Chanties of Chicago since 1903; member Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago Married April 20, 1893, in Chicago, Frances, daughter of Moses D and Fannie (Searls) Wells Children: Evelyn (B.A Bryn Mawr 1914), the wife of John T. McCutcheon (B.S Purdue 1889); Sylvia, the wife of Clay Judson (B.A. Harvard 1914, J D. Chicago 1917), and Frances Theodora. Death due to anaemia; had stopped in Baltimore to see his physician on his way home from Nassau, Bahama Islands, and had been a patient in a private sanitarium for three weeks. Buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Survived by wife, three daughters, three grandchildren, and a brother, Theodore A. Shaw, Jr , of Chicago George Swift Welch, B.A. 1890. Born February 8, 1868, in Gowanda, N Y Died June 13, 1925, in Torrance, Calif Father, William Wallace Welch; with Union Oil Company of Titusville, Pa , and Buffalo, N. Y ; county clerk at Little Valley, N. Y , son of Porter and Louisa Evelyn (Kenmcott) Welch; descendant of James and Sophia (Buttles) Welch. Mother, Frances Ellen (Swift) Welch; daughter of Heman and Ellen (Fay) Swift. Yale relatives: Theodore F Welch, '69 (uncle), and Torrance C. Welch, '13, and Brian K. Welch, '16 (cousins). Prepared under a private tutor in Buffalo. Appointed deputy assignee for a dry goods merchant in Gowanda in the spring after graduation and spent three months in closing out the business; spent summer of 1892 in Hulingo, W. Va , on account of ill health; studied law with Mr. Fred Blackman in Gowanda and in office of Rogers, Locke & Milburn in Buffalo; admitted to New York Bar in 1894; managing clerk in law office of Box, Morton & Bushnell Tale College 145 in Buffalo 1896-97, opened a law office of his own in Buffalo January 1, 1898, and practiced there until 1902; engaged in lumber business in Tennessee 1902-05; then moved to Go- wanda and was engaged in manufacturing with Welch-Tuxford Veneer Company until 1915; with Carbon Steel Company of New York City 1915-17; treasurer and assistant to the pres- ident of the dry goods house of Hahne & Company in Newark, N. J., 1917-1922; treasurer of C W Hunt Company, Inc., manufacturers of coal handling machinery, at West New Brighton, N. Y., with his residence at East Orange, N. J , 1922-24; since March, 1924, had been living in Torrance, where he went to direct the affairs of the Industrial Housing Corporation, of which he became president in May, 1924; vice- president of Torrance Mutual Building & Loan Association since May, 1924; had superintended the erection of a group of twenty-three homes known as Columbia Court for the Housing Association, and, until he was taken ill, the construc- tion of the Jared Sidney Torrance Hospital, representing the heirs of Mr. Torrance in that capacity; member Torrance Chamber of Commerce and Christ (Episcopal) Church, Tor- rance. Married October 14, 1897, in Buffalo, Florence Atiha, daughter of George W. and Henrietta (Ware) Hill No children Death, due to uremic poisoning, occurred at the Torrance Hospital; had had a serious operation in February and was apparently convalescing, when it became necessary to perform a second operation, and he died a few days later Cremation took place at Inglewood, Calif; interment in the family burying ground at Gowanda Survived by wife, mother, a sister, Miss Mary F. Welch, and a brother, Walter W Welch, all of Gowanda. Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff, B.A. 1890. Born January 1, 1868, in New York City Died November 27, 1925, in Tornngton, Conn Father, Charles Hornblower Woodruff (B.A 1858, LL B Columbia-1861, M.A Yale 1865), a lawyer in New York City, 146 Obituary Record son of Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff (B.A. 1830, LL.D. Columbia i860), justice of Superior Court of New York City and a United States Circuit Court judge, and Harnette Burnet (Horn blower) Woodruff; grandson of Morns Woodruff, a Major General of Connecticut Militia; descendant of Na- thaniel Woodruff, one of the first settlers and proprietors of Litchfield, Conn , and of Matthew Woodruff, who came to America from England about 1630 and was one of the original proprietors of the town of Farmington, Conn Mother, Cath- erine Gertrude Laing (Sanford) Woodruff; daughter of Wil- liam Elihu and Margaret Louisa (Craney) Sanford; grand- daughter of John Craney, who came from Ireland to New York City in 1804; descendant of Thomas Sanford, who came from England to Dorchester, Mass , m 1632. Yale relatives include: Frederick S. Woodruff, '92, Carl Woodruff, ^-'96, and Edward S Woodruff, '99 (brothers); George C. Woodruff (B.A. 1825) and Charles F. Sanford (B.A. 1847) (great- uncles), Morris Woodruff, *6o, George B. Sanford, '63, and Morris W. Seymour, '66 (uncles), and George M. Woodruff, '57, Charles P. Sanford, '76, Morns Woodruff, '93, James P. Woodruff, '93 L., Ongen S Seymour, '94, George W. L. Wood- ruff, '95 S , and Morris W Seymour, '28 (cousins). Columbia Grammar School, New York City; also studied with a private tutor. Second dispute appointments Junior and Senior years; member College Choir. Attended Columbia Law School 1890-91 and New York Law School 1891-92, receiving an LL B at the latter institu- tion in 1892; entered law office of Hornblower, Byrne & Taylor in New York City 1891; became managing clerk for firm m April, 1893, admitted to New York Bar October I, 1893, practiced with Hornblower, Byrne, Taylor & Miller and its successor,Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter (having full charge of preparation of railroad mortgages for many years) until 1917 and then independently for two years; since 1919 had devoted practically all his time to study and original research in natural sciences, especially entomology and orni- thology, in which he was a recognized authority; had a desk at the Museum of Natural History in New York City for a time, and in the spring of 1925 was sent by that institution to the Virgin Islands, where he was engaged in an entomological Tale College survey for three months; had published numerous papers in various scientific journals and prepared the manuscript for a part of Leng's Catalogue of the Coleoptera of North America, had extensive collections, especially complete in the fauna of the Atlantic seaboard; member American Ornithological Union, Entomological Society of Ontario, New York Entomo- logical Society (president in 1918, 1919, and 1920), Academy of Science of the State of New York, Linnean Society of New York (treasurer 1902-1921), New York chapter of Sons of the Revolution, New Jersey branch of Order of the Cincinnati, Society of Colonial Wars, and Marble Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed), New York City. Married June 18, 1904, in Birmingham, Ala, Helen E , daughter of Oscar Emmet and Emma (West) Smith No children. Mrs. Woodruff died October 12, 1924. Death, due to typhoid fever, occurred at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Tornngton. Interment in Litchfield, where he had a summer home. Survived by no immediate relatives. By the terms of his will his residuary estate was left to Yale University to further the usefulness of the Museum of Natural History and the departments of the natural sciences Louis Frederic Holbrook Betts, B A. 1 Born May 21, 1870, in New York City Died June 29, 1926, in Campbellton, New Brunswick Father, Frederic Henry Betts (B A 1864, LL B Columbia 1866, M.A. Yale 1871, LL.D. 1901), a lawyer; lecturer on patent law at Yale 1873-1884; son of Frederic Joel Betts (B.A. Williams 1821) and Mary Ward (Scoville) Betts; descendant of Thomas Betts, a founder of Guilford, Conn , who came from Smithfield, Middlesex, England, in 1639 Mother, Mary Louise (Holbrook) Betts; daughter of John Fiske and Mary Elizabeth (Cheesman) Holbrook; descendant of John Holbrook, who came from Doncaster, England, in 1632 and settled in Weymouth, Mass. Yale relatives include William E. Foster, '6o, and Charles Wyllys Betts, '67 (uncles); Sheldon E. Hoadley, '15 S. (nephew), and Samuel Rossi ter Betts, '75 (cousin). I48 Obituary Record Berkeley School, New York City. Member Delta Kappa Epsilon and Wolf's Head. LL B. Harvard 1894; associated with his father's firm (Betts, Atterbury, Hyde & Betts) in New York City 1893-96; became member of firm January 1, 1896, and continued with it and its successors, Betts, Betts, Sheffield & Betts (of which James R Sheffield, '87, United States ambassador to Mexico, also became a member), Betts, Sheffield, Bendy & Betts, Sheffield, Bendy & Betts, and Sheffield & Betts, until his death; member Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York and St Andrew's Dune Episcopal Church, Southamp- ton, Long Island, in 1890 established the C. Wyllys Betts Prize at Yale in memory of his uncle. Unmarried Death followed a stroke of apoplexy, which occurred three days before, when on a fishing trip in New Brunswick. Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by a brother, W. Rosseter Betts, '98, and a sister, Mrs Eliot Betts Hoadley, of New York City. Edward Augustus Manice, B.A. 1891. Born May 23, 1870, in New York City Died July 26, 1925, in Pinehurst, N C Father, Fdward Augustus Mamce (B A. 1858, Ph.B i860), a lawyer; son of DeForest and Catherine Maria (Booth) Mamce; descendant of Lieut William Mamce of the British Army, who settled at Stratford, Conn , in 1794. Mother, Phebe (Robertson) Mamce; daughter of John Brownlee Robertson (B A 1829, M D Charleston Medical College 1832, M A Trinity 1852) and Mabel Maria (Heaton) Robert- son; descendant of Alexander Robertson, who came from Ireland in 1765 and settled at Charleston, S. C^ Yale relatives include Samuel H. Dickson (B.A. 1814) (great- uncle), William D. Mamce, '51, George A. Ward, '61 M., and A Heaton Robertson, '72 (uncles); DeForest Mamce, ex-11 S (nephew), and B Robertson Ward, '88 and '89 S., Heaton R Robertson, '04, and William DeForest Mamce, '11 (cousins) Yale College 149 Prepared for college under Professor E T. Fisher, of Pitts- field, Mass. Traveled abroad for seven months after graduation; re- sided at Pittsfield, breeding race horses on his "Windrush Farm," 1891-93; organized Millhaven Company of Georgia (lumber and naval stores) and was its president for some time; later sold out his interests in that company and was engaged in railroad enterprises; member of firm of Raborg & Manice, brokers, 1901-04; joined New York Stock Exchange Febru- ary 25, 1903; member of firm of E. A Manice & Company, brokers, since 1904 and head of firm since 1907 (his brother, Arthur R. Manice, '97, was associated with him 1907-1911); director Belt Line, Third Avenue, and Forty-second Street, Manhattan, and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway companies, Pelham Park & City Island Railway Company, Inc., and Commodity Warehouse Company Married June 30, 1891, at Hastings-on-Hudson, N Y., Caroline, daughter of William Andrew and Lena (Appleton) Fraser, of New York City. One daughter, Dorothy Jean, the wife of Joseph Henry Oglesby. Death due to angina pectons Buried in Woodlawn Cem- etery, New York. Survived by wife, daughter, a sister, Mrs William Littauer, of Pans, and brother, Arthur R. Manice Another brother, Heaton Manice, ^-'85, died in 1910 Francis Williams Sacket, B.A. 1891. Born September 15, 1867, in Louisville, Ky. Died March 30, 1926, in Rochester, N Y Father, Delos Bennett Sacket; graduated at United States Military Academy in 1841; Inspector General, U S. Army, 1881-85; son of Gideon S. and Frances (Bush) Sacket, descend- ant of Simon Sacket, who came to America from Ely, England, in 1631 and settled at Boston Mother, Frances Ann (Wil- liams) Sacket; daughter of Cornelius Tiebout and Eliza Beak- ley (Ross) Williams; descendant of William ap Edward, who came to this country from Landval, Wales, in 1685 and set- tled at Merion, Pa Prepared under private tutor in Minneapolis, Minn , and 150 Obituary Record at Trinity School, Tivoli, N. Y. First colloquy appointments Junior and Senior years; member Senior Promenade and Class Supper committees, Alpha Delta Phi, and Wolf's Head. Began study of law at Harvard after graduating from Yale, but was obliged to give it up on account of failing eyesight; had lived at Cape Vincent, N Y , since 1892; elected presi- dent of the village in 1906 and served two terms; member of Water and Light boards 1908-1914; during the war served on executive committees of Red Cross, War Chest, and Pre- paredness and Defense League for Jefferson County and on County Fuel and Food committees, and as chairman of first and second Liberty Loan campaigns for Cape Vincent and of Jefferson County District of the Military State Census; also aided in taking Federal Census in 1917; had been president of Jefferson County Anti-Tuberculosis Society and trustee of City Hospital of Watertown, N Y.; vestryman and treasurer of St. John's Episcopal Church, Cape Vincent, member Loyal Legion; commodore Cape Vincent Yacht Club 1915-J920; president Eastern Yacht Racing Circuit. Married June 1, 1904, at Cape Vincent, Edith May Elena, daughter of John Albert and Jennie (Wickham) Scobell No children. Death due to a uremic convulsion Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Cape Vincent Survived by wife, a brother, Cor- nelius T Sacket, and a sister, Mrs Eliza R DeVahn Charles Hamilton Frost, B.A. 1892. Born February 22, 1870, in Chicago, 111 Died June 2, 1926, in Plainfield, N J Father, George Henry Frost ( C E . McGill i860), a civil engineer and surveyor and later an editor; president of Cou- rier-News Publishing Company, of Plainfield; founder and publisher of Engineering News; son of Ebenezer and Caroline (Harwood) Frost; descendant of Edmund Frost, who came to America from Hortest, Suffolk, England, in 1635 and set- tled at Cambridge, Mass Mother, Louisa (Hunt) Frost; daughter of Edwin and Sophia (Hunt) Hunt; descendant of Edwin Hunt, who came to New York from Liverpool in 1835 Tale College 151 St. Johnsbury (Vt) Academy and Plainfield High School Member Beta Theta Pi. Engaged in tunnel work at Baltimore with Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as an assistant to the contractors, November, 1892-February, 1893, assistant superintendent for a firm of engineers in work on Chicago drainage canal February-August, 1893; associated with his father in publish- ing Engineering News August, 1893-January, 1894; during next ten years with Frost & Wood Company, Ltd., of Smith's Falls, Ontario, manufacturers of harvest machinery and farm implements, at first as credit officer, and from 1899 as mana- ger of publicity department and a director; in 1904, when his father took over control of Courier-News Publishing Com- pany, of Plainfield, became manager and owner of the com- pany and carried on the business until his death; in 1916 purchased Plainfield Daily Press and merged it with Courier- News; one of the founders and a director of Linden (N. J ) National Bank and First Nationl Bank, Cranford, N. J ; attended Plattsburg Training Camp in 1915 and during the next year was engaged in promotion work for the camp and preparedness; later served as local recruiting officer for Offi- cers' Training Camps, as fuel administrator for Plainfield and assistant county food administrator, and member of Plain- field Home Guard; in 1904 contributed article on "Some Common Farm Tools and Their Manufacture" to Queen's Quarterly•, a Canadian magazine; member New Jersey Press Association, American Newspaper Publishers Association, and New Jersey Daily League; trustee of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield Married January 23, 1896, in Drummondville, Quebec, Marian Gertrude, daughter of Edward John and Sophia Louisa '(Robinson) Hemming Children: Marian Louise (B.A. Bryn Mawr 1920), the wife of Russell Murray Willard (B.A Pennsylvania State College 1916); Evelyn Gertrude (died in childhood); and Frances Dorothy (B A Vassar 1923), who married Vincent Garrett Dodds (B.S St. Lawrence University 1919) Death due to angina pectons; had suffered from heart trouble for a number of years. Buried in Hillside Cemetery, Plainfield Survived by wife, two daughters, two grand- I $2 Obituary Record children, and three brothers, Harwood Frost (M.E Lehigh 1893, B.A McGill 1895), of Chicago, Edwin H. Frost, of Yonkers, N Y., and Francis W Frost, of Plainfield. By the terms of his will $2,000 was left to the Alumni University Fund. Robert Wallace Morris, B.A. 1892. Born November 13, 1868, in Wallingford, Conn Died July 14, 1925, in Chicago, 111 Father, Dennis Edward Morris, a manufacturer. Mother, Adeline (Wallace) Morris; daughter of Robert and Louisa (Moulthrop) Wallace, and sister of George M. Wallace, '81; descendant of James Wallace, who came to this country from Scotland about 1750 and settled at Blandford, Mass. Yale relatives include five cousms. Clifford W. Leaven worth, 'gi S., John W7. Leavenworth, '05 S., Floyd Wallace, '09, Malcolm L. WTallace, '15, and Donald Lee Wallace, '20. Wallingford High School. First colloquy appointments Junior and Senior years; member College Choir, University Glee Club, and Sigma Nu Spent first six months after graduation as a salesman at the New York store of Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company; then became city salesman in Chicago for the same company; made manager in 1895 and held position until his last illness; member First Baptist Church, Wallingford. Unmarried Death due to heart disease, from which he had suffered for about six years, although he was able to continue in business until about three months before he died. Buried in Walling- ford Survived by two brothers, Charles D Morris, '92, and Frank W. Morns, of St. Helena, Calif., and a sister, Adeline L Marble, the wife of Fred E. Marble (Ph D. 1897)- Irving Comstock West, B.A. 1892. Born October 2, 1871, in Brooklyn, N Y Died January 16, 1926, in Boston, Mass Father, Charles Sherwood West, a non-graduate member of the Williams Class of 1867; an advertising agent; son of the Tale College 153 Rev. Jacob West (B.A. Rutgers 1842, D.D. 1870) and Sarah Elizabeth (Settle) West; descendant on his mother's side of George Denison, who married Lady Anna Boradaile in England about 1645, emigrated to Mystic, Conn , and later settled in Stonington, Conn. Mother, Marion (Clement) West; daughter of Albert Gallatin and Mary (Wells) Clement; descendant of Edward Doty of the "Mayflower" company. Leal School, Plainfield. Member Zeta Psi. For a time after graduation was with Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company of New York City; subsequently engaged in bookbinding business in Albany, N. Y.; right of way agent with Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston for a number of years previous to his death; engaged in farming at Maynard, Mass., for a short time; lived in South Acton, Mass., from 1909 to 1916, but at the time of his death his home was in Swampscott, Mass. Married June 19,1909, in Boston, Katherme Alma, daugh- ter of Thomas Dryden and Elizabeth (Clifford) Thorpe. No children. ' Death, due to angina pectons, occurred at Elliott Hospital, Boston. Buried in South Acton. Survived by wife, a stepson, Crandall W. Forbes, and two brothers, Charles Sherwood and Arthur Clement West, both of San Diego, Calif. Lawrence Greer, B.A. 1893. Born October 25, 1872, in Providence, R I Died December 14, 1925, in New York City Father, the Rt. Rev. David Hummell Greer (B A. Wash- ington and Jefferson 1.862, D.D. Kenyon 1880, Brown 1890, University of the Sdiith 1901, and Harvard 1915, LL.D. Washington and Jefferson 1902, S.T.D. Columbia 1904); rector of Grace Church, Providence, and St. Bartholomew's, New York City; bishop of New York 1907-1919; son of Jacob Rickard and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Greer. Mother, Caroline Augusta (Keith). Greer; daughter of Quincy Adams and Priscilla Dean (Hathaway) Keith; descendant of Sir James Keith, who came to this country from Scotland and settled at Brockton, Mass. 154 Obituary Record Prepared under a private tutor. First dispute appointments Junior and Senior years; member College Choir, University Glee Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. LL.B. cum laude New York Law School 1895; admitted to New York Bar in June, 1895; began practice in office of John F. Dillon in New York City, where he remained about two and a half years; member of firm of Pierce & Greer since 1902; at time of his death was chairman of the board, general counsel, director, and member of executive committee of Western Maryland Railway Company (president for a short time immediately after the end of Federal control of railroads), vice-president, general counsel, and director of its subsidiary companies, assistant general counsel, Wabash Railway Com- pany, assistant general counsel and director, New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railway Company, and counsel to the board of The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway Com- pany; had also been assistant general counsel of St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company and director of St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas; member board of governors of Rockaway Hunt Club and the Turf and Field Club; member St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City. Married October 19, 1896, m Mamaroneck, N. Y., Geor- giana, daughter of Thomas Fletcher and Abby Rogers (Has- kell) Oakes One daughter, Dorothy (Mrs. William M. Almy) Death, due to pneumonia, occurred at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City. Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by wife, daughter, a brother, William A. Greer, and two sisters, Mary Greer McLane, wife of Thomas S. McLane, '98, and Mrs. Franklin Robinson, all of New York City. Charles William Mills, B.A. 1893. Born August 27, 1870, in Weedsport, N. Y. Died August 10, 1925, at Ocean City, N. J. Father, William Bell Mills, a lawyer; judge of Circuit Court at Auburn, N. Y., for many years; afterwards practiced law in Denver, Colo., until his death in 1890; son of Samuel Mills, who came with his two brothers from Holland and settled near Yale College 155 Albany, N. Y., later moving to Memphis, N. Y., and Susan (Campbell) Mills. Mother, Alice Ophelia, daughter of Dexter Eber and Mary (Purple) Havens, and half sister of James S Havens, '84; ancestors came to Connecticut from Kent County, England, afterwards moving to Cayuga County, N. Y. Harrington School, Westchester, N Y , and Hopkins Gram- mar School. Member Freshman Football Team and Freshman Crew; substitute on University Football Team Sophomore and Junior years and on University Crew Sophomore year; a Class historian; member Psi Upsilon Engaged in manufacturing in Denver 1893-98; special agent for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company 1898-1902, moving to Alameda, Calif, in 1901; manager for California of Union Central Life Insurance Company of San Francisco 1902-04; then went to New York City as inspector of agencies for Equitable Life Insurance Society of New York; general agent for greater New York of Union Central Life Insurance Company 1905; in 1906, after several months in France and Belgium studying coal mines and explosives, was engaged in manufacture of blast powder at Clearfield, P a , and was seriously injured in explosion of powder mill; after recovery, appointed secretary and treasurer of Bituminous Coal Opera- tors Associatiqn of Central Pennsylvania at Clearfleld, the offices being moved to Philadelphia in 1907, resigned in January, 1911, to become general manager of Climax Coal Company, of which he was made president in 1914; owner and operator of Climax Mines, Lockport, P a , since 1911; member of firm of Swayne & Mills of Philadelphia (coal mining) 1914-15; in June, 1914, appointed by Secretary of Labor as member of Board of Conciliators which settled serious strike in Kanawha coal fields in West Virginia and the stnke of employees of Westinghouse Company, Pittsburgh; in December, 1914, appointed by President Wilson one of three commissioners to act for the Government to settle coal mining strike in Colorado, wrote report of commission which was submitted to Congress by the President; in October, 1915, named by Secretary of Labor federal conciliator to adjust strike of machinists in jobbing shops in Pittsburgh, and on July 31,1916, as member of commission to adjust questions in 156 Obituary Record dispute between New York garment workers and their em- ployees, president Delaware Trust Company of Wilmington from January, 1923, until death; vice-president and general manager du Pont de Nemours Trading Corporation of New York City for three years; director Fostona Oil Company and United Oil & Fuel Company; director and general manager Ball Grain Explosives Company of Wilmington, which did work for the Government in 1918; member Methodist Episcopal Church Married December 6, 1893, i n Stamford, Conn., Elisabeth Davenport, daughter of Charles and Matilda (Hudson) Burrall. Children: Louise Ritch and Mary Havens (Wellesley 1926) Death, due to heart disease, occurred after an illness of several months Interment m West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Survived by wife, daughters, and a sister, Miss Mary Havens Mills, of Jordan, N. Y. Francis Phelps Dodge, B.A. 1894. Born September 20, 1871, jn Teaneck, N J Died January 14, 1926, in New York City Father, the Rev David Stuart Dodge (B A . I 8 5 7 , D . D . I 8 8 9 ) , a Presbyterian minister; son of William Earl and Melissa (Phelps) Dodge, descendant of William Dodge, who came from England to Salem, Mass , in 1629. Mother, Ellen Ada (Phelps) Dodge; daughter of John Jay and Rachel Badgeley (Phinney) Phelps; descendant of William Phelps, who came from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, moving to Windsor, Conn., in 1636 Yale relatives include: David S. Dodge ( M D . 1826) (great-uncle); William Walter Phelps, '60, George E Dodge, '70, Arthur M Dodge, '74, and William E Dodge (honorary M A . 1901) (uncles); Stuart Phelps Dodge, '14, and Clarence P. Dodge, Jr , '29 (nephews); and Frederic N Dodge, '66, William E. Dodge Stokes, '74, John J. Phelps, '83, Sheffield Phelps, '86, J. G. Phelps Stokes, '92 S., Anson Phelps Stokes, '96, Marshall J. Dodge, '98, Murray W. Dodge, '99, A. Douglas Dodge, '03, Effingham N Dodge, '06, Geoffrey Dodge and Harold Phelps Stokes, both '09, Tale College 157 Percival Dodge, '14, William E. D. Stokes, Jr., ex-iy, Anson P. S. Hoyt, '20, Phelps Phelps, ex-io, and Sherman Reese Hoyt, '22 (cousins). Glen Tower School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y , and Phillips- Andover. Entered Yale with Class of 1894, but left at end of Freshman year on account of ill health; reentered as a Sopho- more with Class of 1896 in fall of 1893; philosophical oration appointment Junior year; member Phi Beta Kappa; was un- able to graduate on account of serious rheumatic trouble, but in 1915 was granted degree of B A , with enrollment in Class of 1804. Had been an invalid since leaving college; had lived at various times in Simsbury, Conn , at Clifton Springs and Watkins Glen, N. Y., and Colorado Springs, Colo ; had devoted much time to philanthropy; member National Council of Boy Scouts of America, National Executive Board of Girl Scouts, and Founders' Committee of National Child Welfare Association; had worked through National Education Asso- ciation for improvement of New York public school system by causing to be formed a committee on education for citizenship in 1919; also interested in Life Extension Institute, Art Workers Club for Women, Fatherless Orphans of France, and Nacoochee Institute at Sautee, Ga ; charter member Inter- national Garden Club; life member Y M C A , member Mu- seum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Academy of Sciences, Botanical Gardens, Zoological Gardens, Audubon, Concordance, and Philharmonic societies, and Brick Presbyterian Church, New York; was greatly interested in the constructive progress of Phi Beta Kappa and was sponsor of the society's $1,000,000 campaign to "popular- ize" scholarship in America, leaving a bequest pledging an amount equal to one-tenth of the total amount raised. Unmarried. Death due to heart trouble Buried in Woodlawn Cemeterv, New York. Survived by two brothers, Walter Phelps Dodge, ex-91, and Clarence P. Dodge, '99 A third brother, Guy P Dodge, ex- 96, died in 1923. 158 Obituary Record John Howland, B.A. 1894. Born February 3, 1873, in New York City. Died June 20, 1926, in London, England Father, Henry Ehas Howland (B.A. 1854, LL.B. Harvard 1857, honorary M A Yale 1893), a lawyer; judge of Marine (now City) Court of New York City; Fellow of Yale from 1892 to 1910; chairman of Yale Civil War Memorial Committee; son of Aaron Prentice~and Huldah (Burke) Howland; descend- ant of John Howland of the "Mayflower" company. Mother, Sarah Louise (Miller) Howland; daughter of Jonathan and Sarah R Miller Cutler School, New York City, King School, Stamford, Conn , and Phillips-Exeter. Dissertation appointment Senior year, an editor Yale Daily News; member Class Crew Fresh- man year and substitute on University Crew two years; represented Yale in Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament four years and president of Intercollegiate Tennis Association; director of Co-operative Association; member Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, and Triennial Committee. M D. New York University 1897 and Cornell 1899; house officer of Presbyterian Hospital, New York City^ 1897-99 and of New York Foundling Hospital 1899-1900; studied in Berlin and Vienna 1900-01; began practice in New York City 1901; served as assistant visiting physician to St Vincent's Hospital, attending physician to Willard Parker and Riverside hospital, pathologist and assistant attending physician to New York Foundling Hospital, pediatrician in charge of children's clinic, Bellevue Hospital, and pediatrician of Vanderbilt Clinic and Babies Hospital; instructor in contagious diseases and instruc- tor and associate in pediatrics at College of Physicians and Surgeons; appointed professor of pediatrics at reorganized Medical School of Washington University, St. Louis, 1910, but did not begin his duties there until the next year, spending intervening time in study in Strassburg, Germany, under the pediatrician, Czerny; since 1912 had been professor of pedia- trics at Johns Hopkins Medical School, pediatrician-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and director of Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children; had also been consulting pedia- Tale College 159 trician at City Hospital, Bay View, Baltimore; in 1914, with the late Dr. William S. Halsted, '74, and the late Dr Theodore C. Janeway, '91 S., took over the direction of the William H Welch Endowment for Clinical Education and Research; honorary M A. Yale 1914; regarded as one of the leading authorities on diseases of children and well known for his work in establishing successful methods for the cure of rickets in children, having discovered the exact chemical proportion of calcium and phosphorous necessary in children's blood to cure or prevent the bone-deforming ravages of that disease, trustee Henry Watson and Maryland Children's Aid societies, both of Baltimore; director Russell Sage Institute; twice lecturer before Harvey Society of New York City; editor American Journal ojDiseases of Children, had published many articles on a variety of medical subjects, had written papers in conjunction with Alfred N Richards, '97, and had collaborat- ed with the late Dr. L. Emmett Holt, of New York, in The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood (the standard textbook in that field); commissioned as Major in the Medical Corps in July, 1918; served in Surgeon General's Office at Washington, and as medical consultant at Camp Meade, Md ; also member American Medical Committee of American Red Cross Hospital of Pans (later American Red Cross Military Hospital) and Committee on Medicine and Hygiene of National Re- search Council; president American Pediatnc Society for many years; member Board of Scientific Directors of Rockefeller Foundation for Medical Research, American Medical Asso- ciation (member of council on pharmacy and chemistry), American Pediatric Society, Association of American Physi- cians, Pathological Society, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, and Alumni of Presbyterian Hospital; president Yale Alumni Association of Maryland 1915-17; member Advisory Council of Yale Medical Alumni Association 1921, with his brother, Charles P. Howland, '91, and his sister, Miss Frances L. Howland, of New York City, established the Henry Elias Howland Memorial Prize at Yale 1915, and in 1921, with his brother gave to the University a valuable collection of daguerreotypes made by their father Married October 12, 1903, in New Haven, Susan Morris, 160 Obituary Record daughter of Dr Leonard Jacob Sanford (M.D. Jefferson Medical College 1854, honorary M.A. Yale 1858), professor of anatomy at Yale for twenty-five years, and Anna Maria (Cutler) Sanford, and sister of Dr Leonard C. Sanford, '90. Children Katharine, John, Louise, and Ehhu Death, due to an infection of the liver, followed an opera- tion necessitated by a collapse the previous week. Had been abroad for two months Buried in Walpole, N. H. Survived by wife, sons, daughters, brother, and sister Caleb Samuel Jackson, B.A. 1894. Born May 9, 1872, at Kennett Square, Pa Died January 2, 1926, in Cambridge, Mass Father, Caleb Harlan Jackson, a business man; son of Caleb and Mary Beverley (Gause) Jackson; descendant of Thomas Jackson, who came to America from England in 1686 and settled at Kennett, Pa Mother, Anna Butler (Tay- lor) Jackson, daughter of Huson and Rebecca (Bnnton) Taylor; descendant of William Taylor, who came from England to Kennett, Pa. Yale relatives: Huson T. Jackson, '93 S., who died in 1899 (brother), and Erastus M. Cravath, '94 (cousin). Lawrenceville School. Member Delta Kappa Epsilon. Became connected with United Electric Light & Power Company of New York City as purchasing agent in January, 1895; later made general agent and assistant treasurer of the compan); connected with United Gas Improvement of Philadelphia for ten years as traveling auditor; manager of Nashville (Tenn ) Gas & Heating Company 1913-18; cer- tified public accountant in Boston 1918-19; general auditor Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company of Boston 1919-1920 and then treasurer and vice-president until 1924; treasurer Eastern Mutual Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the former company, from its formation until 1924; had since been engaged in auditing for Paine, Webber & Company, of Boston, in various states; member Friends' Meeting, Chester County, Pa. Married August 3, 1909, in Norwich, Conn., Iola Rawson Webb No children. Tale College 161 Death due to a heart attack. Buried in Union Hill Ceme- tery, Kennett Square. Survived by father and a sister, Mrs. Alice Jackson Burritt, of New York City. [George] Day McBirney, B.A. 1894. Born February 29, 1872, in Cincinnati, Ohio Died July 2, 1925, in Gilbertsville, N. Y Family history appears on page 78 of this record under biography of brother, Hugh J. McBirney, '75. Harvard School, Chicago, and Phillips-Andover. Second colloquy appointments Junior and Senior years; drew for Tale Record; member Psi Upsilon. LL.B. Northwestern University 1896; admitted to practice in state and federal courts 1896 and was in the offices of Green, Robbins & Honore in Chicago for four years; became secretary and director of The Sargent Company, a steel foundry, in Chicago in 1900, but resigned upon its consolida- tion with American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company m 1902; engaged in farming in Manchester, V t , 1902-03; then closed out his interests there, giving his house and land to the village of Manchester, and moved to Chicago to care for his parents; became interested in church work, which absorbed more and more of his time, and finally devoted himself to it completely; made trustee and treasurer of^the Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago in 1910 (also an elder); moved to Syracuse, N. Y., in September, 1923, and to Baldwinsville, which had since been his home, in April, 1924; member First Presbyterian Church, Baldwinsville, since 1923 Married (1) December 14, 1896, in Chicago, Louise, daugh- ter of Henry Gilbert. One son, Hugh, 3d (died in 1916). Mr. and Mrs. McBirney were divorced in 1906. Married (2) June 29,1922, in Philadelphia, Pa., Janet Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Curtis, £#-'8o, and Isabel (Gordon) Curtis. No children by second marriage Death, following an operation for intestinal obstruction, occurred while he was on a motor trip with his wife, who survives him. 162 Obituary Record William Russell Moorhouse, B.A. 1894. Born July 17, 1873, in Chicago, 111. Died August 17, 1925, at Trout Lake, Wis. Father, William Henry Moorhouse, a tobacco manufac- turer; president of firm of Spaulding & Merrick, Chicago; son of Henry and Mary (Booth) Moorhouse, who came from Leeds, England, to Glenham, N. Y., in 1833. Mother,, Frances (Farrar) Moorhouse; daughter of George and Cath- erine (Walker) Farrar, who came from England about 1837 and settled at Ogdensburg, N. Y. Harvard School, Chicago. First dispute appointments Junior and Senior years. Became a clerk with Spaulding & Merrick in 1894; served as cashier of the company 1896-1900, secretary 1900-04, vice-president and general manager 1904-1912, and president 1912-March 1, 1914, then resigned his position; commissioner of public works of Chicago May, 1915-December, 1916; in partnership with John D. Cory, under firm name of Cory, Moorhouse & Company, general and fire insurance, 1916- 1924; had since been engaged in an independent insurance business, during the war served actively with American Protective League; vice-president Blackhawk Hotel Com- pany; former director Colonial Trust & Savings Bank, Chi- cago; member Chicago Athletic Association. Married November 17, 1896, in Ottumwa, Iowa, Merry, daughter of Justin S. and Lucy (Smith) Mitchell. Children: Phyllis (B A. Vassar 1925) and Deborah Mitchell, Vassar 1929 Mr and Mrs. Moorhouse were divorced in 1910. Death occurred suddenly at his country home at Trout Lake, near Woodruff, Wis. Buried in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago. Survived by daughters, mother, and a sister, Mrs. Daniel J. Schuyler, Jr., of Chicago. Tale College 163 Ralph Pringle, B.A. 1894. Born October 15, 1872, in Pana, 111 Died April 7, 1924, at Red Oak, Iowa Father, the Rev. James V. Pnngle (B A. Denison 1861); graduated at the Western Theological Seminary 1864; a Presbyterian minister, with pastorates in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. Mother, Ida (Hoopes) Pnngle. Preparatory training received at Clannda (Iowa) High School and Tarkio (Mo.) College. B A. Monmouth 1893. Entered Yale as Senior in 1893; dissertation appointment and one-year honors in political science and law. Studied law at Iowa State University after graduating from Yale; practiced continuously at Red Oak from 1896 until his death; United States attorney for Southern District of Iowa since 1922; member Board of Law Examiners of Iowa for fifteen years; vice-chairman Republican State Central Committee at one time; during the war served as member of Legal Advisory Board, Red Oak; member United Presbyterian Church. Married September 26, 1905, at Red Oak, Luella, daughter of Hiram Cole and Ella Louise (Bacon) Hough ton. Children: Stuart Houghton, Donald Ralph, and Louise. Death, due to a complication of diseases, occurred after a few weeks' illness. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak. Survived by wife, two sons, daughter, a sister, Mrs. Jessie Pringle Dolman, of Ardmore, Okla., and a brother, Wayne Pringle, of Lincoln, Nebr. George Marcy Townsend, B.A. 1894. Born December 7, 1871, in Springfield, 111. Died February 19, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pa Father, Samuel Pierpoint Townsend, a broker; son of James and Sarah (Bowles) Townsend. Mother, Ellen Eliza (Marcy) Townsend; daughter of Mrs. Anne Gilhland Marcy. Hartford (Conn.) Public High School. Second colloquy appointment Junior year; member Zeta Psi. 164 Obituary Record In the employ of Wright & Ditson (sporting goods), Boston, 1894-98; in June of the latter year went to Alaska to engage in gold mining with a party of about twenty men, backed by a syndicate which agreed to finance the expedition; spent the winter in the Klondike north of Dawson; spent two months in San Francisco the following summer; engaged in silver mining for a time; engaged in prospecting for placer gold deposit in Arizona during winter of 1899-1900; after- wards occupied in newspaper work for several years, being on the staff of the Los Angeles Herald for aN time; early in 1908 went to Goldfield, Nev., and was in the employ of a gold mining company and also connected with a newspaper until July, 1908, when he returned to his home in Hartford; state editor of Hartford Courant 1908-1911; subsequently connected with Chicago Record-Herald, Detroit Free Press, Home News, New York City (1920-23), and Philadelphia Inquirer (1923-24); had been with the Philadelphia Record since 1924, Unmarried. Death, due to myocarditis, occurred very suddenly. Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford. Survived by a sister, Mrs. Elbe T. Cocke, of that city, and four nieces. Daniel Crouse Adams, B.A. 1895. Born October 23,1872, in Utica, N. Y. Died June 17,1926, in New York City. Father, George Webster Adams, a member of the Union College Class of 1859; a lawyer. Mother, Laura Brown (Crouse) Adams; daughter of George Brown and Maria Crouse; descendant of Jacob Crouse [Kraus], who came from the Palatinate about 1710 and settled at Fort Plain in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y. Yale relatives include: Charles L. Bartlett, '76 (uncle), and Charles M. Crouse, J8o S., Beecher M. Crouse, '93, George W. Crouse, ex-00, George N. Crouse, '01 S., M. Crouse Klock, '02 S., Nellis M. Crouse, '06, Mar- let te Crouse, '06 S., and Valentine C. Bartlett, '15 (cousins). Utica Free Academy and Phillips-Andover. Financial editor of Tale Courant; member Alpha Delta Phi. Tale College 165 In business with Russell Wheeler & Son, stove manu- facturers in Utica, 1895-96; then with International Heater Company of Utica for about six years; moved to New York City in 1903 and became member of Stock Exchange firm of Kellogg, Foster & Adams, which became Foster & Adams upon the de^ath of Mr. Kellogg in 1903; continued in that connection until his death; member of the board and chairman of executive committee of New York Nursery and Child's Hospital; trustee Northern Dispensary since 1905; member Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York and St Bartholomew's (Episcopal) Church, New York City. Married May 22, 1900, in Kingston, N. Y , Katharine Hamlin, daughter of Howard Osterhoudt (B.A. Columbia 1864, LL.B. 1866) and Mary Osterhoudt. Children: Howard Crouse, '29, and Daniel Nelson. Death, due to pernicious anaemia, occurred after an illness of over a year. Buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica Sur- vived by wife, sons, and a brother, George W. Adams, '04. Charles [Frederic] demons, B.A. 1895. Born October 9, 1871, in Manchester, Vt Died September 17, 1925, in Honolulu, Hawaii Father, Seneca Sherman Clemons (M D. University of Vermont 1865), a physician and surgex ; son of James and Rachel (Sherman) Clemons Mother Anna (Danforth) Clemons; daughter of John Richmond and Abigail (Howard) Danforth; ancestors came from England. Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, and Vermont Academy, Saxton's River. Dissertation appointments Junior and Senior years; one-year honors in natural sciences; an editor of Yale Daily News Senior year. Private tutor in New Haven (also took graduate work in chemistry and physiology at Yale) 1895-96; attended Yale School of Law 1896-97 (won Tale Law Journal thesis prize; chairman of editorial board of the Law Journal; member Phi Delta Phi); spent summer of 1897 in clerical work at Wash- ington, under Capt W. M. Black of the Board of Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia; completed his legal studies 166 Obituary Record at the National University Law School in Washington (LL.B. 1898, LL.M 1899, both with Honors); also engaged in private tutonngin Washington during that time and was editor-in-chief in absentia of Tale Law Journal; admitted to Connecticut Bar in June, 1898; spent early part of 1900 in law office of J. L Cushman in Burlington, Vt.; then practiced in Butte, Mont., and Arizona until January, 1902, when he went to Honolulu, where he had since lived; associated in practice with W. Austin Whiting (B A. Harvard 1877) 1902-04; then became member of firm of Thompson & Clemons, which became Thompson, Clemons & Wilder in 1909, upon the admission to partnership of Arthur A. Wilder, '97 L ; admitted to bar of the United States Supreme Court January, 1907; left firm in 1911 and served as judge of United States District Court for Ter- ritory of Hawaii until 1917; then resigned to become partner of Edward M Watson (LL B. University of Mississippi 1897) in firm of Watson & Clemons (afterwards Watson, Clemons & Hite) and remained in that association until 1922; had since practiced independently; secretary of Commission to Revise the Laws of Hawaii (composed of Walter F. Frear, '85, Albert F. Judd, *97, and Arthur A Wilder, '97 L.) 1903-05; served again on the commission for two years (1913-15) during revision of 1915; member of Commission on Uniform Laws (for Hawaii) 1911-14, attorney for Public Utilities Commis- sion of Hawaii 1917-1921; special counsel for the Alien Enemy Custodian's representative in Hawaii 1918—1922; director Hawaiian Irrigation Company, Ltd.; treasurer Laurel Hill Orchards, Ltd , of Oregon and Hawaiian Tobacco Plantation, Ltd ; a director of Honolulu Y. M. C. A. since 1913 (secretary 1913-1923), as well as of the territorial Y. M. C A ; chancellor of Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii 1907-1911, director of the Corporation of the Protestant Episcopal Church, trustee of St. Andrew's Cathedral Corpora- tion, Honolulu, in 1925, and vestryman of St. Clement's Church, Honolulu, 1905-1925; secretary of Bar Association of Hawaii in 1903 and 1904 and president in 1924; president of Yale Alumni Association of Hawaii 1922-23; editor of Vol- ume IV of Reports of the United States District Courtfor the Territory of Hawaii (1918); writings included a pamphlet en- titled What an Applicant for Naturalization Should Know about Yale College 167 Our Government and two Vermont dialect stones. An Up- Country Diplomat and While Nero Fiddled Married September 10, 1902, in Honolulu, Virginia Arm- strong, daughter of Francis England Wall and Mary (Arm- strong) Patten. No children. Took his own life; letters which he left indicated that ill health had prompted the act. Buried in Manchester. Survived by wife and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Danforth, of Pawlet, Vt., and Mrs. Frank McGuire, of Manchester. By the terms of his will bequeathed to Yale his set of the Tale Law Journal, one of the very few complete sets in existence. James Avery Draper, B.A. 1895. Born October 31, 1874, in Wilmington, Del. Died December 9, 1925, in Wilmington, Del. Father, James Avery Draper (M D University of Penn- sylvania 1860); surgeon at Chester Hospital during Civil War and later of the Delaware Hospital, Wilmington; director of Equitable Trust Company of Wilmington; son of Avery Draper, 3d, and Elizabeth (Green) Draper; descendant of Alexander Draper, who came to America from England in 1660 and settled in Sussex County, Del, was a member of the first legislature called by Penn at Upland (now Chester) in 1682, magistrate of the court at Lewis, Del., and member of Board of Peacemakers Mother, Mary (Polk) Draper; daugh- ter of Trusten Polk (B.A 1831, M A . 1845), governor of Missouri and United States senator, and Elizabeth Newberry (Skinner) Polk; descendant of Robert Bruce Polk, who came from Ireland to Somerset County, Md , between 1672 and 1686 and received from Lord Baltimore a land grant on the eastern shore. Friends* School, Wilmington. Member Alpha Delta Phi and Wolfs Head M D. Pennsylvania 1898; resident physician at Presby- terian Hospital, Philadelphia, 1898-1900; then practiced in Wilmington until his death; chairman of staff of St. Francis Hospital; member of surgical staff of Delaware Hospital and advisory board of Visiting Nurse Association; had been 168 Obituary Record surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad eighteen years and for the Pullman Company, the Wilmington & Philadelphia Traction Company, and the Edgemoor Iron Company; coroner's physician in 1900 and police surgeon for a while; member Wilmington Health Department 1901-03, Board of Health 1905-07 (president for a time), and State Board of iHealth 1915-1920, director Equitable Trust Company of Wilmington 1907-1925; commissioned First Lieutenant, Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, November 13, 1917; pro- moted to Captain August 31, 1918, and transferred to the Medical Corps; served as medical advisor to the Governor of Delaware from November 13, 1917, until the armistice; re- ceived his discharge January 20, 1919; Fellow of American College of Surgeons; member Newcastle County and Dela- ware State Medical societies, Medical Club of Philadelphia, Society of Colonial Wars, Historical Society of Delaware, and Trinity Episcopal Church, Wilmington. Married April 26, 1905, in St. Louis, M o , Elsie Taylor, daughter of James Levin and Lida Morris (Bowman) Ford. Children: James Avery, 3d," and Ford Bowman. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in the Old Swedes Church- yard, Wilmington. Survived by wife, sons, mother, a brother, Trusten P. Draper, '03, and three sisters, the Misses Eliza- beth, CorTielia, and Madeleine Draper, all of Wilmington. Frederic Ruthven Galacar, B.A. 1895. Born October i, 1872, in New York City. Died May 5, 1926, in Boston, Mass Father, Charles E. Galacar, vice-president of Springfield (Mass ) Fire & Marine Insurance Company and of Phoenix Insurance Company; son of Hezekiah and Maria Galacar; ancestors came from Scotland about 1780 and settled at Provincetown, Mass Mother, Minerva Jane (Ayers) Gala- car. Hartford (Conn) Public High School. Second prize in English composition Sophomore year; oration appointments Junior and Senior years; James Gordon Bennett Prize; member Delta Kappa Epsilon. Tale College 169 Studied political economy at Universities of Gottingen and Berlin 189.5-97; since his return to this country in 1897 had been engaged in the insurance business; adjuster and special agent for Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company of New York for a time, with his office in Syracuse, N. Y.; was later New England agent for Union Assurance Society of London for a while and of National Union Fire Insurance Company 1901-08; general agent for eastern New England of Spring- field Fire & Marine Insurance Company, with headquarters at Boston, 1908-1924; since then vice-president John Pauldmg Meade Company of Boston; trustee Insurance Library Asso- ciation; member American Academy of Political and Social Science, Civil Service Reform Association, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public School Association, Harvard Musical Association, Unitarian Laymen's League, and King's Chapel (Unitarian), Boston; during the war did considerable work for the Secret Service; author of Historic Boston (1915) Married May 3, 1911, in Boston, Rosamond, daughter of Benjamin Johnson Lang (honorary M A. Yale 1903) and Frances Morse (Burrage) Lang. Children: Frederic (born and died the same day) and Charles Death, due to heart disease, occurred after an illness of several weeks. Buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cam- bridge. Survived by wife, son, and two sisters, Mrs Robert W Adams (B.A. Smith 1897) and Mrs Marvin C Birme, both of Springfield. Frank Augustus Hinkey, B.A. 1895. Born December 23, 1870, in Tonawanda, N Y Died December 30, 1925, at Southern Pines, N. C Father, Lewis Hmkey; partner in hardware firm of Nice & Hinkey; born in Bruhl, Mecklenburg, Germany; came to America in 1851; son of Francis and Augusta Hinkey Mother, Mary (Nice) Hinkey; daughter of John and Mary Ann Nice, both born in Germany. Tonawanda public school, DeVeaux College, and Phillips- Andover. Member Freshman Football and Baseball teams, University Football Team four years (captain Junior and 170 Obituary Record Senior years; on Walter Camp's Ail-American Football Team four years), Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. Returned to Tonawanda after graduation and with his brother, Louis Hinkey, ex-gyy attempted to reestablish the family hardware business of Nice & Hinkey, but gave it up after a short time; was superintendent of Zinc Smelting Works of Langdon Zinc Company at Iola, Kans , for a time and later was in charge of smelting plant of United Zinc & Chemical Company at Springfield, 111 ; associated with his classmate, Frank S Butterworth, in the brokerage business in New Haven for a while; afterwards associated successively with Harris, Latter & Company, stock brokers in New York City, and the DeWeese-Talbott Company (investment securities) in Dayton, Ohio, during the later years of his life prevented by ill health from engaging in any business con- tinuously; trustee of village of Tonawanda 1897-98; commis- sioner of Board of Review of Assessments 1903-05; served as end coach of the football team at Yale for several years after graduation and as head football coach in 1914-15. Married in 1912, Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Dayton Thomas, of Springfield, 111. No children. Death due to tuberculosis. Buried in Whitehaven Ceme- tery, Grand Island, N Y. Survived by three brothers, Louis, Fred, and Benjamin Hinkey, and two sisters, the Misses Clara N and Mary P. Hinkey Harry Sargeant Scarborough, B.A. 1895. Born November 28, 1869, in Baltimore, Md. Died September 21, 1925, in Waterbury, Conn Father, Robert Thomas Scarborough, a contractor; son of Thomas Edward and Elizabeth (Davis) Scarborough; descendant of Segick Scarborough. Mother, Martha Jane (Thompson) Scarborough; daughter of T. Norris and Ann Eliza (Durham) Thompson; descendant of William Thomp- son, who was born in Talbot County, Md., near Easton. Pennington (N. J ) Seminary. First colloquy appointments Junior and Senior years. Studied in Yale Divinity School 1895-98 (B D. 1! Tale College 171 ordained to Methodist Episcopal ministry April 10, 1898, at West Granby, Conn.; served a year's pastorate there; pastor at Bloomfield, Conn , 1899-1902 (enrolled in Yale Divinity School 1901-02); pastor of Ocean Parkway Church, Brooklyn (1902-07), First Methodist Church, Amityville, N. Y. (1907- 1914), South Park Church, Hartford, Conn. (1914-19), St. John's Methodist Church, Brooklyn (1919-1924), and First Methodist Church, Waterbury, since 1924; member Com- mission on Relations with the Religious Bodies in Europe, Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America, and Committee on Fraternal Relations; had served as president of Hartford Union Ministers' Association, vice-president of Hartford Federation of Churches, chairman of the Hartford churches in Methodist centenary movement, and member of religious work committee of Hartford Y. M. C. A. and of Bureau of Shop Speakers (part of religious extension work of Hartford Federation of Churches); during the war was member of the clergymen's committees during Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives; member Brooklyn Clerical Club since 1922; D.D. Wesleyan 1922. Married December 19, 1899, in New Haven, Martha Ellen Mac Williams (a non-graduate member of the Mount Holyoke Class of 1897), daughter of Alexander and Anne (McConnell) Mac Williams. Children: Robert Alexander (B#S. Wesleyan 1922, M D. Yale 1926), and Jessie (B.A Mount Holyoke 1925) Death, due to anaemia, followed an illness of nine months Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife, son, daughter, and a brother, Robert Thomas Scar- borough, of Baltimore. John Ladd Burnham, B.A. 1896. Born November 24, 1870, in Meredith, N. H. Died September 5, 1925, at sea, off the coast of Chile Father, the Rev. Charles Burnham (B.A. Dartmouth 1836), a Congregational minister, with pastorates in Illinois, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont; prominent in the work of the Andover Band in the West; son of James and 172 Obituary Record Nancy (Smith) Burnham; descendant of John Burnham, who came from England in 1635 a n d settled at Chebacco (now Essex), Mass Mother, Mary Melvina (Noyes) Burn- ham; daughter of James and Abigail Read (Lovejoy) Noyes, and sister of Jonathan L. Noyes, '52; descendant of the Rev. James Noyes, who came to this country from Choulderton, Wiltshire, England, in 1634 and settled at Newbury, Mass. Springfield (Mass) High School. Worked on a farm and as a machinist for two years before entering Yale. Disserta- tion appointment Junior year; oration appointment Senior year. Studied in Yale School of Medicine 1896-99 (M.D. 1899); began practice in Lyme, Conn, where he served as health officer and as examiner for several insurance companies; and in fall of 1908 took position as ship's doctor with Hamburg- American Line in its South American service and remained with the company two years; then went to Colombia as resident surgeon for Oroville Dredging Company, Ltd., a California mining company, and spent a year and a half at their mines near Zaragosa; returned to the United States in 1912, but was unable to practice during the next year on account of a nervous breakdown; employed as ship's doctor by United Fruit Company on their South American routes 1913-14; practiced in Portland, Conn., 1914-1923; then traveled in California for a time; had since been ship's surgeon on the "Santa Teresa" of the Grace Line, on their route to the west coast of South America; volunteered for war service in 1917, but on account of physical disability was not accepted; served as Assistant Surgeon (with rank of Lieutenant) of 6th Regiment, Connecticut State Guard; member American Medical Society; secretary Central Medi- cal Association of Middlesex County, Conn., 1919; junior deacon First Congregational Church, Portland, 1918-1923. Married (1) October 4, 1899, in New Haven, Irene Alice Manwarnng Gillette, daughter of Daniel H. and Harriet E (Chapman) Manwarnng. No children. Dr. and Mrs. Burnham were divorced in 1912. Married (2) July 27, 1914, in New Haven, Elizabeth Shower, daughter of Frederick and Clara (Shower) Shirk Mrs Burnham died May 16, 1919. Married (3) June 30,1920, in Philadelphia, Margaret Emery, Tale College 173 daughter of Joseph Roberts and Annie (Emery) Summers. Children: a son (born dead) and a daughter, Betty Anne. Death due to heart trouble. Buried in Antofagasta, Chile. Survived by wife and daughter. John Arthur Carley, B.A. 1896. Born April 17, 1868, in Lawrence, Mass. Died July 15,1919, in New York City Father, Patrick Carley, a farmer; also employed by Hol- lingsworth & Vose (paper mills) in Groton, Mass.; born in Balnafade, County Clare, Ireland, son of Michael and Ann (Egan) Carley. Mother, Mary (McGinn) Carley; born in Armagh, Ireland; daughter of Patrick and Sarah (Tierney) McGinn Lawrence Academy, Groton, and Phillips-Exeter. Second dispute appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year. LL.B. New York Law School 1898; while attending law school served a two years* clerkship in office of Tyler, Pratt & Hibbard; in January, 1900, became managing attorney in office of Ullo, Reubsamen & Higginbotham, New York City, and remained with them until January, 1902; had since prac- ticed real estate law independently, specializing in condemna- tion proceedings; member general and legal committees of the local Democratic organizations, and of Roman Catholic Church. Unmarried. Death due to neuritis. Buried in Leominster, Mass. Sur- vived by three brothers, Michael M. Carley, of Leominster, William F. Carley, of Dorchester, Mass., and Edward A. Carley, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Fritz Wilhelm Hoeninghaus, B.A. 1896. Born March 18, 1874, in Bridgeport, Conn. Died January 7,1926, in New York City. Father, Friedrich Heinrich Hermann Hoeninghaus, a silk importer in New York City* born in Krefeld, Germany; son 174 Obituary Record of Friedrich Wilhelm Hoeninghaus Mother, Sarah Taylor (Beardsley) Hoeninghaus; daughter of Sidney Burr Beardsley (B.A 1842, honorary M A 1886) and Eliza (Daskam) Beards- ley; granddaughter of Cyrus H. Beardsley (B.A. 1818); descendant of Benjamin Burr, who came to America from England in 1630 and settled in Hartford, Conn., in 1635. Bridgeport High School Member Apollo Glee and Banjo Club, University Banjo Club, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Studied law at Columbia 1897-98 and at New York Law School 1898-99; admitted to New York Bar 1899 and was a law clerk with Merrill & Rogers and with Underwood, Van- Vorst, Rosen & Hoyt until September, 1899; then became a partner in firm of Corbitt, Kelly & Hoeninghaus, in which William H Corbitt, '96, was senior partner, and continued in that connection until October, 1902, when Mr. Corbitt with- drew from the firm, which then became Kelly & Hoeninghaus; became member of New York Stock Exchange about 1909 and was active in the brokerage business until 1918, when he sold his seat on the Exchange; sold securities for a time in 1919 and later joined James W. Elliott's Business Builders, Inc., as sales manager for one of its units and held that position until 1922; had been a division manager for Zonite Products Company of New York City for the past few years; enlisted in Troop A, 1st New York Volunteer Cavalry, in 1898 and after spending a short time at Camp Black, Long Island, and at Camp Alger, Va., took part in Porto Rico campaign under General Miles; mustered out in November, 1898; commis- sioned First Lieutenant, 12th Regiment, New York National Guard, in June, 1904, and promoted to Captain the next year; in 1918 tried to enter various branches of the service, but was rejected on physical grounds; served, however, as Cap- tain in the 12th Infantry, New York Guard. Member Sons of the Revolution; in 1919 presented to Yale School of Law the law library which he had inherited from his grandfather, Sidney B. Beardsley, containing many Connecticut, New Torky United States, and Federal Reports, as well as a number of textbooks then unobtainable and of value to collectors. Married (1) September 21, 1901, in Wilhamstown, Mass., Lillie Sanford, daughter of Harley Thomas and Mary Eliza- beth (Sanford) Procter, and sister of William Procter, '94 S., Yale College 175 and Rodney Procter, '03 S. One son, Frederic William Procter. Mr. and Mrs. Hoeninghaus were divorced in 1918. Married (2) October 27, 1921, in New York City, Alice Flavia, daughter of James William and Kathenne Christine (Fee) Donohue. One daughter, Dons Beardsley. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport. Survived by wife and daughter. Douglas Stewart, B.A. 1896. Born July 15,1873, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Died April 21, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Father, David Alexander Stewart; one of the earliest part- ners of Andrew Carnegie; chairman of board of directors of Carnegie Steel Company; president of Pittsburgh Locomotive Works; son of John Henderson and Mary (Scott) Stewart. Mother, Nancy (Scott) Stewart; daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Adams) Scott. Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh. Second colloquy appoint- ment Junior year; first colloquy appointment Senior year; member University Orchestral Club, University Banjo Club, and Alpha Delta Phi. Traveled in Europe, Algeria, and Egypt 1896-98, associated with Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh since its foundation in 1898 (assistant in administrative office 1898-1918, assistant director 1919-1922, and director since then), during entire connection with the museum served as curator of the miner- alogical and archaeological collections; was very successful in his efforts to popularize the institution, initiating various series of lectures and establishing numerous classes for pupils in the schools of the city; during his regime a station was established in Honduras for the ornithology department, a new laboratory for the paleontology department was put in operation in the fossil fields of western Colorado, and an expedition to Venezuela in search of birds was planned; granted leave of absence during 1918-19 and served as asso- ciate director of Bureau of Prisoners Relief of American Red Cross in Washington; invited to undertake oversight of the affairs of that organization in Europe at close of the war, but 176 Obituary Record declined the invitation; after his return from Washington accepted the duties of chancellor of Belgian Consulate in Pittsburgh; Sc.D. University of Pittsburgh 1924; in 1900 served as member of American Committee on Museums at Pans Exposition and, in 1917, as chairman of committee on scientific exhibits for meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was a Fellow; mem- ber American Archaeological Society, American Association of Museums (one of the governing council at time of his death), Pittsburgh Academy of Arts and Sciences; president Stage and Play Society of Pittsburgh for a long time; attended Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh. Married April 22, 1902, in Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pa , Agnes Caldwell, daughter of Dr. John Shields Dickson, who attended Washington and Jefferson College and the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and Sarah (Caldwell) Dickson. Children: Agnes Caldwell and Anne Douglas. Death, due to heart trouble, occurred after a short illness. Buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh. Survived by wife and two daughters. David Stuart, B.A. 1896. Born March 10, 1874, in Brooklyn, N. Y Died August 25, 1925, at Mount Kisco, N Y Father, Andrew Stuart, a banker; born in Birkenhead, England; came to New York City in 1871; son of David Stuart. Mother, Rebecca Maria (Hatch) Stuart; daughter of Walter Tilden Hatch (B A. 1837) a n d Rebecca (Taylor) Hatch; granddaughter of the Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor (B.A 1807); great-great-granddaughter of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor (B.A. 1745); descendant of Walter Hatch, who came to America from England and settled at New Milford, Conn. Yale relatives include an uncle, Henry P. Hatch, '74, and a brother, Walter H. Stuart, '97. Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Brooklyn High School. First colloquy appointments Junior and Senior years; member Delta Kappa Epsilon. Had been connected with banking and brokerage firms in Tale College 177 New York City since graduation; with Stock Exchange house of W. T. Hatch & Company (founded by his grandfather) until the firm went out of business in 1918; associated with Denny, Pomroy & Company, of which Thomas Denny, '92 S., was a member, from March to November, 1919; had since been connected with H. T. Carey & Company; enlisted in Troop A, Squadron A, New York National Guard, in 1897, becoming successively Corporal and First Sergeant; spent six months in 1916 on the Mexican Border; attended first Officers' Training Camp at Fort Myer, Va , May-August, 1917; commissioned Captain of Cavalry August 15, 1917, and assigned to Camp Lee, Va.; Acting Major of 9th Battalion, Depot Brigade, and later of 22d Battalion (colored), Depot Brigade; Adjutant of 4,000 colored troops under Lieutenant Colonel Haight, U. S. A , who recommended him for promo- tion to Major (promotion not approved at Washington); commissioned Captain of Artillery in December, 1917; de- tailed to 1st Squadron, 312th Cavalry, at Fort Myer in March, 1918, and to Machine Gun Troop, 312th Cavalry (changed later to 28th Trench Mortar Battery), at Fort Sheri- dan, 111., from April 5 to October 15, 1918; then attended School of Fire, Fort Sill, Okla., until December 12, 1918, when he received his discharge; member Sons of the Revolu- tion, Military Order of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Ex- Members Association Squadron A, New York Chamber of Commerce, and St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, N Y ; also attended Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City. Married June 29, 1918, at Mount Kisco, Eleanor Holland Richardson, daughter of Samuel Smith and Lyde (Davitt) Holland. No children. Death due to valvular heart disease; had been ill for two years, having strained his heart during the war. Buried in St. Matthew's Churchyard, Bedford. Survived by wife and two stepchildren, Enos Richardson, 4th, and Virginia Holland Richardson. 178 Obituary Record Harry Edgar Nolan, B.A. 1897. Born July 16,1875, in Chicago, 111. Died December 15,1925, in Montana, Switzerland Father, John Henry Nolan; son of John and Mary (Frisby) Nolan; general agent of The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford at Chicago. Mother, Emily (St.John) Nolan; daughter of James and Martha (Bailey) St.John. Harvard School, Chicago, and St. Paul's School, Concord, N H Member Freshman Glee Club; substitute on University Glee Club Junior year; member Psi Upsilon. Connected with The Travelers Insurance Company of Hart- ford in Chicago for about twelve years after graduation (an agent until July, 1903, then manager of a branch office); gave up business about 1909 and went to the state of Washington and was owner of a ranch and apple orchard in the Yakima Val- ley until 1912, residing at various times in Selah and Forks; appointed secretary of the U S. Legation at Panama in 1912, but never took the post; prospected for gold, copper, and oil in the Northwest and in Canada in 1913; in 1914 went to Pans, where he became connected with Certainteed Roofing Company; enlisted as a motor cycle driver with the French Army in September, 1914, but was wounded by a bursting shell a few weeks later and was in American Hospital, Paris, for a time; discharged in October that he might enter the Ambulance Service of the American Red Cross; served on the Somme front; given leave of absence in January, 1915, on account of trouble with his wound and returned to the United States for a few months; after his return to France, was at Pont-a-Mousson and Verdun, serving until July, 1916; during next four years was again engaged in the building material business in Pans; in 1920 returned to this country and was connected with Franco-Pacific Corporation in Los Angeles for a time, making his home in Hollywood; since his retire- ment from business had spent a year in Italy and had resided at various times in Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Pasadena, Calif; had contributed articles on salesmanship to The Neighbors, Los Angeles Times > and Los Angeles Commerctal News; member American Chamber of Commerce of France. Tale College 179 Married (1) April 14, 1903, in Chicago, Edith Schuyler, daughter of Daniel F. and Mary (By ford) Camp. No children. A divorce took place about 1911. Married (2) in January, 1917, in Pans, Lucienne Anna Rimbert. One daughter, Lu- cienne St.John. Mr and Mrs. Nolan were divorced in 1921. Death due to tuberculosis. Buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago Survived by daughter, two sisters, Mrs James Hunt, of New York City, and Mrs. Emily Pneth, of Traunstein, Germany, and a brother, Julian S. Nolan, '95. Another brother, Cyrus C. Nolan, ex-'94, died in 1893. Dudley Vanness Sutphin, B.A. 1897. Born October 25, 1875, in Dayton, Ohio Died May 18, 1926, in New York City Father, Isaac Vanness Sutphin (B A Delaware College 1869); founder of the I. V. Sutphin Company, paper makers' supplies; son of Moses Potter and Lucy P. (Vanness) Sutphin; descendant of Dirck Jansen VanSutphen, who came to Amer- ica from Holland about 1670 and settled at New Netherlands, Long Island. Mother, Kathenne Priscilla (Brady) Sutphin; daughter of Samuel and Priscilla (Bruen) Brady Franklin School, Cincinnati, Ohio. First colloquy appoint- ment Junior year; second dispute appointment Senior year; president Cincinnati Club; member Class Crew Freshman year, Tennis Team, Sophomore German and Junior Prome- nade committees, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Ehhu Club Spent summer of 1897 abroad with Charles B DeCamp, '97; graduated at University of Cincinnati Law School 1900 (member there of Phi Delta Phi); admitted to Ohio Bar in June, 1900; engaged in practice of law in Cincinnati until his retirement in 1921 on account of ill health; at first associated with firm of Holhster & Hollister, of wliich Howard C Holhs- ter, '78, was junior partner, and from 1901 to 1904 with Kit- tredge & Wilby; practiced alone 1904-1908, then became associated with Walter A. DeCamp, '90; formed a partner- ship with him under firm name of DeCamp & Sutphin in 1910 (DeCamp, Sutphin & Brumleve from 1920) and continued in that connection until his retirement; vice-president Third 180 Obituary Record National Bank of Cincinnati March-August, 1906; assistant city solicitor of Cincinnati 1908-1909; judge of Superior Court for an unexpired term in November and December, 1913; treasurer of board of Trustees of Mount Auburn Presby- terian Church 1906-1916; had been secretary and treasurer of Cincinnati Yale Club and vice-president in 1910 and 1913, chairman of all local committees for meeting of Associated Western Yale Clubs held in Cincinnati in 1914; commissioned as a Major in Judge Advocate General's Department, Officers' Reserve Corps, July 18, 1917; assigned to Headquarters of Central Department at Chicago August 1; in September de- tailed to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as Assistant Judge Advo- cate and later as Judge Advocate in investigation, prepara- tion, and trial by court martial of Houston not cases, and so engaged until the following spring; in April, 1918, appointed Judge Advocate of 83d Division, with which he went over- seas in June; while at Camp Sherman with the division, was detailed Judge Advocate of court at Governors Island, N. Y., for trial of a case; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel October 25, 1918; after the armistice served as Judge Advocate and as Commanding Officer of the Rents, Requisitions, and Claims Department of American Embarkation Center at LeMans, France; decorated with French Legion of Honor April 26,1919; received his discharge August 29, 1919; lived at Colorado Springs, Colo.,. 1921-26, with the exception of a few months in 1924, when he was in Chandler and Phoenix, Ariz., and six months during the winter of 1924-25, which he spent in Tuc- son, Ariz. Married November 14, 1901, in Cincinnati, Mary Perin, daughter of George Torrence Harrison (B.A. 1869, M.A. 1873) and Sallie Elizabeth (Perm) Harrison, and sister of William H. Harrison, '04 S. Children: Elizabeth Brady and Dudley Vanness, Jr. (born and died in 1911). Death, due to tuberculosis, followed an operation at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City; had suffered since the war from a disease contracted from illness in France and his return to work before his full recovery. Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. Survived by wife, daughter, and two brothers, Samuel B. Sutphin, '00 S , and Stuart B. Sutphin/03. Tale College 181 Fred Julius Fassett, B.A. 1898. Born October 1,1875, in Rochester, Vt. Died March 24,1926, in Los Angeles, Calif. Father, Julius George Fassett, a merchant; son of George and Marian (Cleveland) Fassett. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Martin) Fassett; daughter of Loman and Amanda (Gibson) Martin. St. Johnsbury Academy. Oration appointment Junior year; dissertation appointment Senior year; member Nautilus Crew; superintendent Oak Street Boys' Club Senior year. Studied at American School of Osteopathy 1898-1900 (D.O. 1900); taught physiology there 1900-02; studied at Harvard Medical School 1902-06 (M.D. 1906) and prac- ticed osteopathy in Boston; connected with Orthopedic Surgery Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital 1906-07; practiced orthopedic surgery in Seattle, Wash., 1907-1917, giving half his time to Children's Orthopedic Hospital, which he helped to establish in 1907, and which was the first hospital of its kind in the Northwest, drawing its patients from Alaska, China, Japan, and the Straits Settle- ments, as well as from the northwestern states; consulting orthopedic surgeon to Seattle City and King County hospitals; vice-chairman of Orthopedic Section of American Medical Association; Fellow of American College of Surgeons since 1912; member American Orthopedic Association, American Medical Association, and Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle; won special recognition as the first surgeon in any country to successfully operate on lengthening legs; his paper entitled "An Enquiry into the Feasibility of Equalizing Un- equal Legs by Lengthening One Leg," a review of results from experiments covering a number of years, was published in 1912 and won world-wide recognition for originality in this field of surgery; author of A Comparative Study of Massage, Swedish Gymnastics, and Osteopathy; had contributed articles to Northwest Medicine and other medical journals; read papers before meetings of American Medical Association in San Francisco in 1915 and of American Orthopedic Association in Pittsburgh in 1917; commissioned as a Captain in the Medical 182 Obituary Record Corps August 28, 1917, and was shortly assigned to British Medical Service; served overseas from October 9, 1917, to March 30, 1919; during that time was attached to Ortho- pedic Section of 1st Scottish General Hospital at Aberdeen, becoming Senior Medical Officer, and also served as Ortho- pedic Consultant to Scottish Command Depot at Nigg; dur- ing summer of 1918 made a tour of instruction in British area in France, which included work in a base hospital in Boulogne and at the 56th Casualty Clearing Station at Dou- lon and a tour of the front as tjie guest of the Surgeon Con- sultant for the Third Army; promoted to Major October 10, 1918; presented with Gold Medal of British Medical Officers March 10, 1919; received his discharge April 3,1919; resumed practice in Seattle May 1, 1919, but was obliged to retire immediately because of total disability, the result of illness in Aberdeen and Brest in 1918; was a patient in the Letter- man Hospital, San Francisco, 1920-21 and in a sanitarium at Marblehead, Mass., 1921-22. Married July 21, 1904, in Montpeher, Vt., Agnes, daughter of Adrian and Agnes Anmenta (Hoskins) Radford, of Law- rence, Kans. One son, Frederick Radford, who died in Octo- ber, 1925, while a Sophomore at Occidental College. Death due to encephalitis. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence Survived by wife. Ashbel Parmelee Fitch, B.A. 1 Born November 17, 1876, in New York City. Died May 21, 1926, in New York City. Father, Ashbel Parmelee Fitch; studied at Columbia University and at Universities of Berlin and Jena; a lawyer; comptroller of New York City, member of Congress; president of Trust Company of America, son of Edward Fitch (repre- sented Franklin County in the New York Legislature; later associated in law practice in Malone, N. Y., with his son) and Fannie (Parmelee) Fitch; descendant of the Rev. James Fitch, who came to America from England in 1638, lived at Say- brook, and Norwich, Conn., and was one of the early benefact- ors of Yale College (the Fitch Gateway between Branford and Tale College 183 Killingworth courts of the Memorial Quadrangle at Yale is named for his son, Major James Fitch, also a benefactor of the College). Mother, Elizabeth Adelia (Cross) Fitch; daughter of George and Julia Ann (Lewis) Cross; descendant of John Cross, who came to this country from Ipswich, England, in 1634 and settled at Watertown, Mass ; also descended from William Bradford of the "Mayflower" company. Berkeley School, New York City. Second colloquy appoint- ment Junior year; first colloquy appointment Senior year; member Gentlemen's Eight, Alpha Delta Phi, and Ehhu Club. Studied at New York Law School 1898-1900; admitted to New York Bar in July, 1900, and had since practiced in New York City; associated with his father until the latter's death in 1904; then organized firm of Ashbel P Fitch, Mott & Grant with his father's junior partners, one of whom was Frederick E. Grant, '92, the name of firm being changed to Fitch & Grant in 1916; remained head of the firm until his death; had acted as referee in accounting in several suits; director and counsellor of Commonwealth Bank of New York since 1918; director of Trust Company of America 1905-1912; member Squadron A, New York National Guard 1899-1904; secretary of nonpartisan campaign committee for Phoenix Ingraham, nominee on Democratic ticket for justice of Supreme Court in 1923; member Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Mayflower Descendants, New York Historical Society, and New England Society. Married October 14, 1903, in Port Chester, N Y., Joseph- ine Hoyt, daughter of Henry Ferdinand and Emma Louise (Young) Smith. Children: Ashbel Parmelee, Jr., ex-16 (drowned in August, 1923); Frederic Brenton; and Parmelee Hoyt. Death due to heart disease Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by wife, two sons, two brothers, Morton C. Fitch, '03, and Littleton H. Fitch, '06, and three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Fitch Ostby, of Providence, R I , Mrs Ella Fitch Remington, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs Dons Fitch Andrews, of New York City. 184 Obituary Record Robert Harvey Gay, B.A. 1 Born July 3, 1876, in GaysviUe, Vt, Died November 25, 1925, in New York City. Father, Frederick Gay, a woolen manufacturer and later a wholesale coal dealer; son of Merrick and Sarah Maria (Whitcomb) Gay; descendant of John Gay, who came from England to Watertown, Mass., about 1630 Mother, Laura (Baker) Gay; daughter of Andrew andHuldah Russell (Wil- kins) Baker. Burlington (Vt) High School and Phillips-Andover. In Freshman Honor Division; second dispute appointment Jun- ior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; an editor of Yale Daily News; member Gentlemen's Eight, Cap and Gown and Triennial committees, Kappa Psi, Alpha Delta Phi, and Wolf's Head Studied at Harvard Law School 1898-1900; admitted to New York Bar in January, 1901; traveled abroad 1901-02; practiced independently 1902-03; associated with firm of Fallows, Duffey & Milne 1903-04; formed a partnership with Oscar Loewi, '98, and Philip J. Ross under firm name of Gay, Loewi & Ross in 1904 and remained in that connection until 1908; partner in firm of Gay & Goddard from 1908 until 1923, when his partner, Henry W. Goddard, was appointed a federal judge; since then had practiced under his own name; member Bar Association of the City of New York, Society of Colonial Wars, and Universahst Church, Gaysville. Unmarried Death, due to Raynaud's disease, occurred at the Fifth Avenue Hospital, New York, following an operation; had been ill for a month Buried in Gaysville. Survived by mother. George Edward Hecker, B.A. 1899. Born April 17, 1878, in New York City. Died May 5, 1926, in Chicago, 111. Father, John Valentine Hecker; president of Hecker- Jones-Jewell Milling Company; son of John and Catherine Tale College 185 (Gorham) Hecker; descendant of John Hecker, who came from Germany to New York City in 1798. Mother, Georgianna (Bell) Hecker; daughter of Andrew J. and Maria Louise (Miller) Bell; descendant of Francis Bell, who came from England in 1640 and settled at Stamford, Conn. University Grammar School, New York City, and King School, Stamford, Conn. Dissertation appointment Junior year; oration appointment Senior year; member Freshman Baseball Team. Traveled for two years after leaving college; engaged in the flour milling business 1901-03; had since been connected with United States Leather Company, at first as sales representa- tive, and since 1918 as manager of their Chicago branch; had been actively interested in rowing, baseball, and golf; served as Gun Captain in the id Division, 1st Battalion, New York Naval Milltia, 1901-05; member Episcopal Church Married April 8, 1916, in Chicago, Kathenne Franks, daughter of Major William Morrow Notson, U S A . , and Elizabeth (Lawton) Notson. No children. Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Danen, Conn. Survived by wife, mother, two brothers, Frederick C. Hecker, '99, and John Hecker, and two sisters, Mrs. Louise Hecker Falls and Mrs. Charles T. Stout. Isham Henderson, B.A. 1899. Born May 29, 1877, in Louisville, Ky. Died March 15, 1926, in New York City. It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Mr. Henderson in time for publica- tion in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a subsequent issue of the Obituary Record. James Eldredge Wilson, B.A. 1899. Born February 7, 1878, in St Louis, Mo. Died September 3, 1925, in Chicago, 111. Father, Elijah Crane Wilson; vice-president Wilson Broth- ers, Inc , importers, manufacturers, and distributors of men's 186 Obituary Record furnishings; son of James and Prudence (Eldredge) Wilson. Mother, Ella Adeliza (Hitchcock) Wilson; daughter of Luke and Jane Eliza (Birdsall) Hitchcock. Cousins: Oliver T. Wilson, '98, Hugh R. Wilson, '06, Morris K. Wilson, ex-i$y and Hugh R Wilson, '24 Harvard School, Chicago Member Zeta Psi. Had been connected with Wilson Brothers ever since graduation; became vice-president in 1917 and treasurer in 1921 and held those offices until his death, although he re- tired from active business January 1, 1925, on account of ill health; had also been a director of the company since 1904. Unmarried. Died by his own hand; had suffered a nervous breakdown a year earlier and afterwards spent several months in Arizona in the hope of regaining his health. Buried in Rosehill Ceme- tery, Chicago. Survived by mother, a sister, Mrs Garrett Chatfield Pier, of Greenwich, Conn., and a brother, Milton Wilson, ex-o%. Franklin Carter, Jr., B.A. 1900. Born September 20, 1878, in New Haven, Conn. ^ Died January 12, 1926, in New York City. Father, Franklin Carter (B A. Wijhams 1862, M.A. Jeffer- son 1864, honorary M A Yale 1874, Ph D. Williams 1877, LL D. Union 1881, Yale 1901, Williams 1904, and University of South Carolina 1905); member of Yale Class of 1859, but left in his Sophomore year on account of ill health; professor of Latin at Williams 1865-1871; professor of the German language and literature at Yale 1872-1881; president of Williams 1881-1901; son of Preserve Wood and Ruth Wells (Holmes) Carter; descendant of Jacob Carter, who came to America from England and went from Southold, Long Island, to Branford, Conn., in 1712. Mother, Sarah Leavenworth (Kingsbury) Carter; daughter of Charles Denison and Eliza (Leavenworth) Kingsbury; sister of Frederick J. Kingsbury (B A 1846); granddaughter of John Kingsbury (B.A. 1786); great-granddaughter of Abner Johnson and Jesse Leavenworth (both B A. 1759); great-great-granddaughter of the Rev. Yale College 187 Mark Leavenworth (B.A. 1737); descendant of Henry Kings- bury, of Ipswich, Mass., and of Melines C. Leavenworth (B.A. 1784). Yale relatives include an uncle, Calvin H. Carter, '51, and two cousins, Abner L. Train, '$3, and Allan T Trum- bull, '16 S. Lawrenceville School. Entered Williams with Class of 1899, remaining two years; entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1897; first dispute appointment Junior year; first colloquy appoint- ment Senior year; president University Hockey Team Senior year; member Psi Upsilon and Wolfs Head. Studied law at Yale 1900-03 (an editor of Tale Law Journal 1901-02 and business manager 1902-03; member Cap and Gown Committee and Corbey Court; LL B 1903); spent summers of 1900 and 1901 in forestry work in the Adiron- dacks and Arizona; taught at Coconut Grove, Fla , during part of winter of 1900-01; was in business in New York City 1904-05; practiced law in New Haven, Massachusetts, and Florida; tax consultant for Equitable Trust Company of New York from 1917 until his death, made his home at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 1915-18 and while there served as secretary of a committee to organize a drill corps in 1917; since 1918 his home had been in Greenwich, Conn ; had edited numerous tax publications and written articles for National Fax Association Bulletin, one of which was published in Congressional Record for 1926, and for Journal of the American Bankers Association; member Congregational Church, Wil- liamstown. Married September 13, 1910, in Marshfield Center, Mass , Marion Phelps, daughter of the Rev. George Herbert Gutter- son and Emma Sampson (Wilder) Gutterson. Children: Franklin, 3d, Jean, William Phelps, and George Herbert. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn. Survived by wife, four children, a brother, Edward P. Carter (member Williams Class of 1891 [honorary M.A. Williams 1916]; M.D. Pennsylvania 1894), of Balti- more, Md., and a sister, Mrs. Paul C. Ransom, of Onchiota, N.Y. 188 Obituary Record Foster Crampton, B.A. 1900. Born September 27,1877, in Brooklyn, N Y. Died April 21, 1926, at West Hampton Beach, N Y. Father, Eugene Wilson Crampton, a rice miller; member of firm of Crampton Brothers of New York City; son of Levi Ward and Cecilia Charlotte (Wilson) Crampton; descendant of Dennis Crampton, who came to America from England in 1664 and settled at Guilford, Conn. Mother, Ida (Foster) Crampton; daughter of Amasa Smith and Mary Jane (Ames) Foster; descendant of John Foster, who came to this country from England early in the seventeenth century and settled at Salem, Mass ; also a direct descendant of Roger Williams through the Waterman and Sayles families who came from England to Providence, R. I., in early part of the seventeenth century, and of Elijah Ames, Sr., Lemuel Parker, and Thomas Spalding, all soldiers in the Revolutionary War and whose families were settlers of Brain tree, Mass , in 1652 and later moved to Chelmsford (now Pepperell), Mass. Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn. Second dispute appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year. LL B. New York Law School 1902; began practice of law in office of Ritch, Woodford, Bovee & Butcher in New York City, remaining there about four years; had since been en- gaged in private practice in New York; commissioned as a First Lieutenant in Aviation Section of Signal Reserve Corps August 28, 1917; promoted to Captain October 27, 1917, and served overseas from that date until June 9, 1919; assigned to Headquarters, Air Service, at Paris; during last few months of service was assistant to Major General Mason M. Patrick, having previously been assistant to Col. Halsey M. Dun- woody, promoted to Major August 2,1918; discharged June 19,1919, had been secretary, president, and a trustee of West Hampton Country Club, as well as commodore of its yacht squadron and chairman of regatta committee; life member Crescent Athletic Club; member American Chamber of Commerce of France and Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn Married (1) August 6, 1912, in London, England, Lorraine, Tale College 189 daughter of John Francis and Ada J. March, of New York City. One son, Foster, Jr. Married (2) December 6, 1925, in New York City, Mary Emily, daughter of Michael Joseph and Margaret (Baxter) Cunningham, of Pittsburgh, Pa Death, due to cirrhosis of the liver, occurred after an illness of almost a year. Buried in Foster family vault in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Survived by wife, son, and mother Sidney Clarence Rosenberg, B.A. 1900. Born September 10, 1876, in New Haven, Conn. Died December 27, 1925, in West Haven, Conn, Father, Isaac Rosenberg; in real estate business; born in Germany; came to America in 1842, son of Joseph Rosen- berg. Mother, Clara (Hart) Rosenberg; born in Munich, Germany; daughter of Henry and Leah (Herz) Hart. Hopkins Grammar School and Logansport (Ind) High School. Attended Wabash College before entering Yale. First colloquy appointment Junior year; dispute appointment Senior year. Attended Yale School of Law 1900-02; admitted to Indiana Bar, practiced in Logansport 1903-05, in New York City 1905-06, and since then in New Haven; at the time of his death was associated with Jacob Caplan and Edward J. Stanford, both graduates of the Yale School of Law in 1903; during World War served as a Private in the Motor Transport Company of Connecticut State Guard and also as assistant member of Legal Advisory Board of 6 th District, New Haven; member Temple Mishkan Israel, New Haven Married (1) June 9,1908, in Albany, N. Y., Edna, daughter of Mitchell Stark, of Ballston Spa, N. Y. One son, Irwin Stark. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg were divorced in 1913. Mar- ried (2) June 3,1924, in New Haven, Cecelia, daughter of Max and Lena Caplan, and sister of Jacob Caplan. No children by second marriage. Died suddenly. Buried in Mishkan Israel Cemetery, West- ville, Conn. Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs. Rose Fisher, of New Haven, and two brothers, Joseph L. Rosebery, of New Haven, and Seymour H. Rosebery, of Hammonton, N. J. 190 Obituary Record Fred Augustus Clark, B.A. 1901. Born April 4, 1878, in Scranton, Pa. Died July 29, 1925, in Mount Holly, N. J. Father, Edwin Augustus Clark; part owner of some mines; son of Oliver Perry and Sarah (Barton) Clark; descendant of Edmon Beakes, who came from England to America early in the seventeenth century and settled in New Jersey. Mother, Kathryn (Tanner) Clark; daughter of Alonzo and Eunice (Sherman) Tanner; descendant of William Tanner, who came to this country from England in 1660 and settled at South Kingston, R I. School of the Lackawanna, Scranton. Assistant treasurer of Carlucci Stone Company, Scranton, 1901-03; with New England-Pennsylvania Car Demurrage Bureau, Scranton, 1907-09; later organized Anthracite Motor Car Company, agents in Scranton for the Corbin car, and served as manager of the company until May, 1910; engaged in poultry business in Mount Holly 1910—17, with his home in Smithville, N. J.; was afterwards a salesman for Southern States Supply Company in Columbia, S. C , for a time; re- turned to Mount Holly in 1919 and at the time of his death was a salesman for Walls, Owen & Stambach Company, a plumbing supply house in Philadelphia; entered United States Army as a First Lieutenant of Ordnance August 26, 1918; stationed at Camp Raritan, N. J.; received overseas orders October 24, but had not left Hoboken when the armi- stice came; received his discharge December 12,1918; commis- sioned as a First Lieutenant in the Officers* Reserve Corps June 24, 1919; in 1923 served as commander of the Mount Holly Post of the American Legion. Married (1) September 9, 1902, in Scranton, Mary Helen, daughter of William Greg and Nettie Greer (Doom) Liddle. One son, Robert Sherman (the '01 Class Boy). Mrs. Clark died March 24, 1914 Married (2) October 16, 1915, in Phila- delphia, Emma Brenner, daughter of Fredrick and Kathryn (Brenner) Kumpf One daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth. Death due to carcinoma. Buried at Mount Holly. Survived by wife, son, daughter, mother, and a brother, Edwin H. Clark, of Scranton. Tale College 191 Ernest Walker Smith, B.A. 1901. Born June 5, 1878, in Farmington, Conn. Died April 16, 1926, in Farmington, Conn. Father, the Rev. Edward Alfred Smith, '56, pastor of Congregational churches in Chester, Mass., and Farmington; member of the Yale Corporation 1889-1895; son of Isaac Edward and Emily (Walker) Smith; descendant of Clement Smith, who came to America from England about 1670 and settled in Jamaica, Long Island, and of Samuel Walker, who came from England to Reading, Mass., before 1645 and later lived at Woburn. Mother, Melissa Eliza (Knox) Smith; daughter of Charles Henry and Olive (Clark) Knox; de- scendant of William Knox, who came to this country from Ireland in 1737 and settled at Blandford, Mass. Hartford Public High School. First colloquy appointment Senior year; member Delta Kappa Epsilon and Elihu Club (elected to latter in 1911). LL.B. Harvard 1904; began practice of law in office of Hiram R. Mills in Hartford, Conn., 1904; later connected with firm of Goodwin, Bennett & Smith for several years; then joined firm of Smith, Smith & Canfield, of which his brother, Herbert Knox Smith, '91, was a member, and continued in practice of law until 1918; had since been actively engaged in manufacturing with The Hartford Special Machinery Com- pany, of which he had been president since 1912; director Hartford-Empire Company (glass working machinery) and Guernsey-Westbrook Lumber Company; secretary and treas- urer Chanty Organization Society and Consumptive Aid Society; secretary Farmington Country Club, represented Hartford in General Assembly 1907-08, serving on Judiciary Committee and as chairman of Committee on Contested Elections; chairman Republican Town Committee of Hart- ford 1908-1911 and then member Progressive State Central Committee until 1915; assistant secretary Republican Na- tional Convention 1908; during 1917-18 worked with Draft Board and served on Committee on Man Power and Labor of State Council of Defense; enlisted as a Private in Field Artil- lery November 4, 1918, and was at Camp Zachary Taylor when the war ended, receiving his discharge December 7, 192 Obituary Record 1918; member Hartford County Bar and Center (Congrega- tional) Church, Hartford Married September 29, 1904, in Farmington, Hilda Mary, daughter of the Rev. James Gibson Johnson (B.A. Union 1863, D.D. Middlebury 1879) and Mary Abigail (Rankin) Johnson, sister of Rankin Johnson, 7()$ S., and niece of Lorenzo M. Johnson, '74 S Children: Hilda Rankin, Barbara Hope, Ernest Walker, Jr., Herbert Knox, 2d, Burges, David, Edward Alfred, and Eleanor Hope. Death, due to cancer, occurred after a six months' illness. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Farmington. Survived by wife, eight children, and his brother. Raymond Bissell, B.A. 1902. Born October 26, 1880, in Buffalo, N. Y Died February 23, 1926, in Buffalo, N. Y. Father, Arthur Douglas Bissell, '67, a banker; chairman of board of Peoples Bank, Buffalo; collector of customs at Port of Buffalo 1885-89; son of John and Isabella Jeannette (Hal- ley) Bissell. Mother, Fanny (Castle) Bissell; daughter of Dan Beech and Fanny (Durkee) Castle. Uncle, Wilson S. Bissell, -69 Central High School, Buffalo. Second dispute appointment Junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; two-year honors in history; member Banjo Club. Bookkeeper for Niagara Radiator Company at North Tona- wanda, N. Y., December, 1902-January, 1904; was subse- quently clerk with Consolidated Telephone Company, which later controlled the Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company and eight or ten others, treasurer of Frontier Telephone Company, and assistant to president of Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company; in 1918, when the properties of the lat- ter company were sold to New York Telephone Company, resigned his position and became business manager of Buffalo Commencal, continued in that capacity until 1920, when he was appointed postmaster of Buffalo; served as such for two years, secretary and treasurer of James D. Warren's Sons Company, publishers of the Buffalo Commercial^ 1922-23; had Tale College 193 since been connected with Cutler Desk Company of Buffalo (treasurer 1923-25; president since then); former director of General Drop Forge Company, Interocean Telephone & Telegraph Company, federal Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany, and of a number of other telephone companies; at time of his death director of Federal Telephone Manufacturing Company, which owns the WGR radio station in Buffalo; voting trustee of Consolidated Telephone Company; member of finance committee of Buffalo Board of Education; member of First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo. Married October 17, 1906, in Buffalo, Helen, daughter of Orsamus George and Elizabeth Bates (Griffin) Warren. Children: Elizabeth Warren, Helen Georgia, and Eleanor. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Forest Lawn Ceme- tery, Buffalo. Survived by wife, three daughters, parents, three brothers, Howard Bissell, '00, Arthur D. Bissell, Jr., '06, and Lloyd Bissell, '16, and two sisters, Mrs. James D. Warren, of Buffalo, and Isabella Bissell Goodyear, the wife of Bradley Goodyear, '07. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, B.A. 1902. Born December 19, 1880, in New York City. Died September 4, 1925, in Portsmouth, R. I. Father, Cornelius Vanderbilt (honorary M.A. Hobart 1889 and Yale 1894), a capitalist and philanthropist; connected with New York Central & Harlem River Railroad Company; son of William Henry and Maria Louisa (Kissam) Vanderbilt; descendant of Jan Aoersten VanderBylt, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam about 1650 and later settled near Flushing. Mother, Alice Claypoole (Gwynne) Vander- bilt; daughter of Abram Evan Gwynne (B A. 1839) and Cettie Moore (Flagg) Gwynne; granddaughter of Henry C. Flagg (B.A. 1811); descendant of James Claypoole, who came from England to Philadelphia in 1683 and was treasurer of the Free Society of Traders of Pennsylvania, of David Gwynne, a First Lieutenant, in War of 1812, and later Major, and of Thomas Flagg [Flegg], who came from England to Boston in 1637. Yale relatives include; Frederick W. Van- 194 Obituary Record derbilt, *j6 S. (uncle); Cornelius V. Whitney, '22 (nephew); and Malcolm D. Sloane, and J. Watson Webb, both '07, W. Seward Webb, Jr., '09, and Vanderbilt Webb, '13 (cousins). Cutler School, New York City, and St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Helped to form Fencing Club, of which he was a member; secretary and member of governing board of University Club; member Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Wolfs Head. Had been engaged in the investment business and in the management of his estate since graduation from Yale; one of t\\Q country's leading horsemen; president Association of American Horse Shows, Inc , and American Hackney Horse Society; director National Horse Show Association of America, Ltd , which he organized, chairman Newport Horse Show; Director Raquette Lake Railway, Raquette Lake Transporta- tion Company, Fulton Chain Railway, and Fulton Navigation Company; member Metropolitan Museum of Art; former president Clambake Club of Portsmouth, R. I., and of Lloyd's Neck (Long Island) Club; member St. Bartholomew's Prot- estant Episcopal Church, New York City; during the war served as Captain and director of Portsmouth Home Guard; also organized a committee which did service in maintaining the standard of artillery and officers' horses which were ship- ped overseas for the allied armies; offered his home, "Sandy Point Farm," at Portsmouth to the Red Cross for a hospital, but offer not accepted. Married (1) April 14, 1903, in Newport, Cathleen Gebhard, daughter of Frederick H. and Belle (Gebhard) Neilson. One daughter, Cathleen (wife of Henry C. Cushing, 3d). Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt were divorced in 1920. Married (2) March 6, 1923, in New York City, Gloria, daughter of Harry Hays and Laura (Kilpatnck) Morgan. One daughter, Gloria Laura Morgan Death, due to internal hemorrhages; had been suffering for several days from what was thought at first to be an inflam- mation of the throat, but which was later diagnosed as an intestinal trouble. Buried in the Vanderbilt family vault at Newdorp Cemetery, Staten Island. Survived by wife, two daughters, a grandson, mother, two sisters, Countess Laszio Szechenyi, of Remete-Vasgyar, Hungary, and Gertrude V. Tale College 195 Whitney, the wife of Harry Payne Whitney, '94, and a brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt, '95 and '98 S. His eldest brother, Wil- liam H. Vanderbilt, '93, died while in college Vanderbilt Hall was presented to Yale in his memory. Another brother, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, '99, died in 1915. Maurice Sherman Damon, B.A. 1904. Born January 19, 1882, in Honolulu, Hawaii Died December 15, 1925, in Loudonville, N. Y Father, Edward Chenery Damon, a merchant, son of the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon (B.A. Amherst 1836, D D. 1868), chaplain of the American Seaman's Friend Society at Honolulu, and Julia Sherman (Mills) Damon, descendant of John Damon, who came to America from Reading, Berk- shire County, England, in 1633 and settled at Reading, Mass. Mother, Cornelia (Beckwith) Damon; daughter of Maurice Bosworth Beckwith, a non-graduate member of the Brown University Class of 1856, and Sarah (Moseley) Beckwith. Cousins: Frank A Beckwith, '78, Samuel E. Damon, '96, and Henry F. Damon, Jo6. Preparatory training received at Oahu College, Honolulu, and Lawrenceville School. Member Swimming Team for four years and captain of the Racing Team 1903-04, member Alpha Delta Phi. Became connected with The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford immediately after graduation and served as supply cashier of branch offices at Springfield and Boston, Mass., for a time; cashier of branch office at Albany 1904-05 and of Columbus (Ohio) branch office 1905-07; had charge of Albany office of United States Title Guaranty & Indemnity Company of New York January-June, 1907; salesman for National Biscuit Company in New York state December, 1907-March, 1910; sales manager for Boardman & Gray, manufacturers of pianos and piano dealers in Albany 1910-17; subsequently connected with Rathbone, Sard & Company, stove manu- facturers in Albany, for a time; also engaged in the advertis- ing business and in the contracting business; for over two years before his death had been in poor health as the result 196 Obituary Record of a fall which caused internal injuries, affecting his entire nervous system; went to Honolulu in an effort to regain his health in December, 1923, and spent the winter of 1924-25 in Arizona; returned to Loudonville eight months before his death; enlisted in Troop B of New York National Guard December 2.2, 1904; in 1916 recruited, enlisted, and trained men to be sent to the Mexican Border, being in full charge of mounted work; commissioned First Lieutenant April 13, 1917, and Captain May 15, 1917; in command of Depot Troop at the home station and in charge of the Scotland Avenue Armory at Albany until August 7, 1917; was then on active field duty with his troop at New York Aqueduct and was assigned to headquarters work as inspector, court officer, and (for about one half the time) commander of the 2d Battalion of 1st Provisional Regiment at New Paltz, N. Y.; on November 22,1917, upon the reorganization of the New York Guard, was commissioned Major and assigned to the command of Squadron D, 3d Brigade; soon afterwards was transferred from the 1st to the 2d Provisional Regiment for duty on Barge and Erie canals and at some munition plants and bridges; resigned his commission in July, 1918, and in August, with the hope of going overseas, accepted a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Army; with Company A of 32d Battalion, U. S. Guards, until October 23 and then with Company A, 47th Battalion; served at Fort Niagara, N. Y., and then at Bayonne, N. J., until his dis- charge January 14, 1919; member St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany. Married February 7, 1907, in Albany, Cornelia Emerson Davis, daughter of James Stuart and Cornelia (Emerson) Gray. No children. Died after two years' illness. Buried in Rural Cemetery, Albany. Survived by wife, two sisters, Miss Ethel M. Damon and Mrs Harold GifFard, both of Honolulu, and two brothers, William F. Damon, ex-o$, and Roxor Damon, of Honolulu. Tale College 197 Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Jr., B.A. 1907. Born December 25, 1885, in Hartford, Conn Died March 22, 1926, in Hartford, Conn. Father, Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (honorary M.A 1889, LL.D. Trinity 1917); president ^Etna Life Insurance Com- pany, Civil War veteran; mayor of Hartford; governor of Connecticut; United States senator, son of Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (B.A. 1824) and Lydia Smith (Morgan) Bulkeley, descendant of the Rev. Peter Bulkley, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1608, who came to Cambridge, Mass , in 1635, w a s t n e ^ r s t se ttler and minister at Concord, Mass., and the founder of the twelfth church in the colony, and whose library formed the nucleus of the Harvard College Libiary Mother, Fannie Briggs (Houghton) Bulkeley; daughter of James Franklin and Caroline (Sparhawk) Houghton; descend- ant of John Houghton, who came from England to Massachu- setts in 1635. Yale relatives include: Charles E. Bulkeley, '56 (uncle), and Charles E. Brainard, ex-yi, Morgan B Brainard, '00, Newton C. Brainard, '02, and Richard B. Bulkeley, '08 (cousins). Hartford Public High School. Member Wranglers, Yacht Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Wolf's Head. Connected with ^Etna Life Insurance Company since graduation; (clerk in financial depaitment until 1910; made assistant treasurer 1910, director 1912, and treasurer 1922, also a vice-president of the company since 1923); elected assistant treasurer of ^Etna Casualty & Surety Company 1915, director 1916, and treasurer 1923; elected assistant treasurer of Automobile Insurance Company 1916, director 1917, and treasurer 1923; trustee Bankers Trust Company; director of Charter Oak Bank from 1909 to 1915, when it was merged with Phoenix National Bank of Hartford; director of the latter bank, Dime Savings Bank, Standard Fire In- surance Company, Hartford City Gas Light Company, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company, Billings & Spencer Company (drop forging machinery, etc.), Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company (printers and book- binders), Kellogg & Bulkeley Company (lithographers), 198 Obituary Record Smyth Manufacturing Company (bookbinders* machinery), Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, and Cedar Hill Cemetery Association; member of board of managing directors of Hartford Hospital; trustee of Hartford Y. W. C. A. and director of its new building project in 1916; secretary of Connecticut River Bridge and Highway Commission; member Hartford City Council 1909-1911, Municipal Build- ing Commission 1910-1915, Board of Finance 1916, and Park Board 1922-24; chairman Republican Town Committee of Hartford 1921; member Hartford Chamber of Commerce, board of managers of Connecticut Society of Sons of the Revolution, Society of the Cincinnati, Military Order of For- eign Wars of the United States, and Loyal Legion; attended South Congregational Church, Hartford; enlisted in Troop B, 5th Cavalry, Connecticut National Guard, March 9, 1911, and rose through the non-commissioned grades to a second lieutenancy in January, 1916; served as such with Troop B on the Mexican Border, being promoted to First Lieutenant November 2 and to Captain and commander of the troop November 30; organization was federalized as Company B, 101st Machine Gun Battalion, in 1917; went overseas as its Captain in October, 1917, and served in all the engagements in which the 26th Division participated; after several months' training in the Neufchateau area, en- tered the line in the Chemin des Dames Sector; promoted to Major August 1, 1918, and commanded the battalion at Chateau-Thierry and during the St.-Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne offensives, during the latter of which he and his battalion were in "Death Valley" twenty-five days; on October 28, 1918, was gassed and evacuated to Base Hospital 28 at Limoges and later to Base Hospital 22 at Bordeaux; invalided home and sent to Base Hospital at Camp Upton, Long Island, in December; received his discharge from ser- vice January 9, 1919; awarded a divisional citation in Sep- tember, 1918; also recommended for the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Cross. Married June 8, 1912, in Hartford, Ruth Lee, daughter of William Erastus Collins (B.A. Williams 1884) and Era Lee (Steele) Collins, and niece of Atwood Collins, '73, and Daniel R Howe, '74 Children: Morgan Gardner, 3d, Wil- liam Erastus, and Edward Root. Tale College 199 Death due to a tumor on the brain; had been ill for a num- ber of months and underwent an operation the previous summer. Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. Survived by wife, three sons, mother, a brother, Houghton Bulkeley, 6*-'19, and a sister, Elinor Bulkeley Ingersoll, the wife of John A. Ingersoll, '11 S. Harold Arthur Rosenbaum, B.A. 1907. Born March 21, 1886, m New York City. Died June 9, 1926, in Germany It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Mr. Rosenbaum in time for publica- tion in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a subsequent issue of the Obituary Record. Arthur Leete Davison, B.A. 1909. Born November 2, 1886, in Thompsonville, Conn Died April 8, 1926, in Springfield, Mass Father, James Davison; connected with a carpet concern in Niagara, N. Y.; son of Robert and Mary Jane (Bradshaw) Davison; descendant of Robert Davison, who came to Amer- ica from Scotland in 1850 and settled at Hazardville, Conn Mother, Eva (Leete) Davison; daughter of George and Mary (Coughlan) Leete, and sister of William H. Leete, '94; descend- ant of Governor William Leete of Connecticut, who came from England in 1639 and settled at Guilford. Cousin, William C. Leete, '25 S. Enfield (Conn.) High School. Second colloquy appoint- ments Junior and Senior years; member University Soccer Team; active in swimming, interclass baseball, and cross- country running. Employed as a mechanic by Standard Metal Work Com- pany in Thompsonville 1910-11; yardmaster for New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company at Thompson- ville 1912-15; had charge of a tobacco farm 1915-17; in- ducted into service September 5, 1917, and assigned to Com- pany A, 303d Machine Gun Battalion, at Camp Devens, 200 Obituary Record Mass., transferred to 14th Railway Engineers December 28, 1917; upon his arrival overseas March 3, 1918, assigned to Company A, 16th Railway Engineers; served behind the British front in Arras Sector three months and later was stationed at Nevers; received his discharge May 5, 1919; had since been engaged in farming at Thompsonville; member of Republican Town Committee; candidate for office of town clerk m 1913, but failed of election; member St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Thompsonville. Unmarried Death due to double pneumonia. Buried at Thompsonville. Survived by mother and two sisters, the Misses Mary E. and Bertha Leete Davison, both of Thompsonville. Arthur Sturges Hildebrand, B.A. 1910. Born August 2, 1887, m Hartford, Conn Died in 1924 or 1925. Father, Charles Hildebrand (Ph.B. 1875, M.E. 1877); instructor in mathematics at Yale 1881-83; assistant actuary for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company 1884-1917 and then actuary until his death in 1922; son of Ernest Charles Hildebrand, who was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony, and came to America in 1848, and Wilhelmina Johanna (Schurig) Hilde- brand, of Radeberg, Saxony. Mother, Ida Louise (Sturges) Hildebrand; daughter of Henry Burr and Mary Louise (Seeley) Sturges; granddaughter of Lloyd Seeley (honorary M D. 1834); descendant of John Sturges, who came to this country from England in 1660 and settled at Fairfield, Conn. Among other ancestors are John Howland and John Tilley of the "Mayflower" company, Lieut. Robert Seeley, first mar- shal of the New Haven Colony, Capt. Nathaniel Seeley, who was killed in the Pequot War, and Governor Thomas Wells of Connecticut, one of the founders of Hartford. Yale relatives include the Rev. John Goodsell (B.A. 1724) and a cousin, Ernest G. Schurig, '95 S. Hartford Public High School Contributed to Tale Literary Magazine and Tale Record; member Freshman and Class crews, Soccer Team, Cross-Country Team, and Beta Theta Pi. Tale College 201 Studied at Columbia School of Architecture 1910-14 (pres- ident of Architectural Society 1913; B.Arch. 1914); during summer of 1911 was a draftsman in the office of John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens, architects in Portland, Maine, for a time and also went on a cruise to Nova Scotia, being shipwrecked on Brier Island; traveled by bicycle through northern France and England in summer of 1912; spent sum- mer of 1913 in the office of Murphy & Dana, architects in New York City; went abroad in February, 1914, and, after travel- ing in Italy, France, and England for several months, lived in London until spring of 1915, engaged in writing for various magazines and papers, among them 'The Forum, The Architect's and Builder's Journal, and New Tork Evening Post; then spent three months in Ireland; returned to New York in summer of 1915 and was employed in advertising department of The Macmillan Company for six months; librarian of Yale Club of New York April, 1916-March, 1917; volunteered for six months' service with American Ambulance Hospital Unit at Neuilly; drove at the front and was with the American Relief Clearing House until June 1,1917; then enlisted in American Red Cross; served as chief clerk of stores in Pans until De- cember, 1917, then as aide to the director of the Stores Depart- ment until October, 1918, as Lieutenant with Department of Public Information October, 1918-January, 1919, and then as Captain with Bureau of Photography until his discharge in May, 1919; engaged in writing in New York City 1919-1924, with the exception of seventeen months in 1921 and 1922, when he made a cruise in a fifty-four-foot yawl, the " Caltha," from Glasgow to Athens, the story of the trip appearing as a serial in Motor Boat for January and February, 1923, and in Harper's Magazine for April, May, and June, 1923, and as a book entitled Blue Water the following September; had also cruised the length of the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Cuba and sailed in the New London to Bermuda race in 1923; author of a novel, The Parlor Begat Amos (1921), and of Magellan, a life of the explorer, which appeared as a serial in Harper's for September, October, and November, 1924, and in book form in October, 1924; contributed an article on "La Chapelle Station" to the Outlook for August 22,1917; member First Church of Christ, Hartford loi Obituary Record Unmarried. Left Norway with three friends on July 4, 1924, on the "Leiv Einksson" for a cruise following the Viking Trail to the Shetland and Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador; reached Greenland safely the latter part of August; on September 8, 1924, left Juliannshaab in Greenland, and no trace of them has ever been found since, m spite of exten- sive search by the Cruising Club of America, of which Mr. Hildebrand was a member, aided by the Danish and United States Governments and the Hudson Bay Company; all hope of their return has now been given up. Survived by mother, a sister, Miss Alice L Hildebrand (B.A. Smith 1906), of Hart- ford, and a brother, Ernest S. Hildebrand, ex-20. An endow- ment fund in his memory has been established at Yale by Mrs. Eleanor Coxe Gibson, for the benefit of the University Library Henry Barnard Davis3 B.A. 1911. Born September 2, 1888, at Grand Rapids, Mich Died December 30, 1925, at East Grand Rapids, Mich. Father, George Albert Davis; member Stow & Davis Furniture Company; president Grand Rapids Board of Edu- cation for nearly twenty-five years, son of Albert and Cordelia (Leland) Davis; descendant of Henry Leland, of Sherburne, Mass (1652), John Perkins, of Salem, Mass. (1630), John Warren, of Watertown, Mass , and Alexander Parkman, who was living in Templeton, Mass., in 1770 Mother, Alice Glover (Barnard) Davis, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Fisher) Barnard, descendant of John Barnard, who came to Water- town, Mass., from Suffolk County, England, in 1634; also descended from Thomas Hmckley, of Barnstable, governor of Plymouth Colony from 1680 to 1792, Kenelm Winslow, a brother of Governor Edward Winslow of Plymouth, who came from England in 1629, John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, Mass , Antony Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., who came from Sileham, England, in 1637, anc ^ J o n n Glover, of Dorchester Mass , who came from England in 1630. Grand Rapids High School and Asheville School Honors in studies of Freshman and Junior years; oration appointments Junior and Senior years. Tale College 203 t After graduating from Yale, took a course in accounting at Eastman-Games School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; was later a bookkeeper for Stow & Davis Furniture Company for several months; employed by Merchants National Bank of Boston 1912-14, holding various positions and after a time being made assistant to the auditor; after traveling in the West for a while, spent a brief period as cashier of a bank in Grandville, Mich.; in spring of 1915 became business manager in office of Henry F. Barnard, a dealer in real estate loans and invest- ment securities in Detroit, Mich., and remained there until he entered service; enlisted as a Private on October 3, 1918, at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, and was in training there as member of Recruit Company 26 until November 19; was then trans- ferred to Adjutant General's office at Washington, where he served as member of Provisional Company A, 1st Separate Battalion, until his discharge February 6,1919; then entered Law School of University of Michigan, where he received de- gree of LL.B. in 1920; admitted to Michigan Bar soon after- wards; had since been associated with firm of Butterfield, Keeney & Amberg at Grand Rapids; member Grand Rapids Bar Association, Post No 2, American Legion, and Park Congregational Church, Grand Rapids. Married September 2, 1922, at Grand Rapids, Ethel Margaret Turnbull (B.A. Olivet College 1918), daughter of William Robert and Laura Jane (MacNaughton) Turnbull One son, Henry Barnard, Jr. Death, due to an intestinal obstruction, followed an at- tempted operation and occurred at Blodgett Memorial Hos- pital, East Grand Rapids. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Grand Rapids. Survived by wife, son, parents, and a brother, Robert L Davis, of Pittsburgh, Pa. John Vincent McDonnell, B.A. 1911. Born December 30, 1889, in New York City Died May 23, 1926, in New York City. Father, Peter McDonnell, a railroad and steamship agent, operating his business under his own name; born in County Longford, Ireland; came to this country in 1862. Mother, Charlotte Anastatia (Casey) McDonnell. 204 Obituary Record Columbia Institute and Loyola School, New York City. Manager Baseball Team; member Freshman and Apollo Glee clubs, Dramatic Association (had two parts in "Revizor"), Junior Promenade and Triennial committees, Wranglers, Zeta Psi, and Skull and Bones Studied at Harvard Law School 1911-12; employed in sales department of Columbia Oil Company of New York City at Bayonne, N. J., 1912-14; had since been engaged in the oil business at Tulsa, Okla.; at one time interested in the pro- duction of zinc ore in the Joplin (Mo.) district as president of Gore Mining & Milling Company; since 1920, in addition to his work as an oil producer, had been engaged in architecture and general construction supervision as member of firm of McDonnell & Nelson, Inc.; served with Section 16 of American Field Service with the French Army from May 26 to Novem- ber 8, 1917; stationed at various times at Rarecourt, Cler- mont-en-Argonne, and Douamont bases; then served in a civilian capacity at U. S. Air Service Headquarters in Paris for a month, after which he returned to the United States; inducted into service May 24, 1918; served as a Private with 30th Company of 3d Provisional Group at Machine Gun Training Center at Camp Hancock, Ga. (made Regimental Supply Sergeant December 12, 1918), until receiving his dis- charge January 17, 1919; member Roman Catholic Church. Married October 8, 1924, in Brooklyn, Marie Bradley, daughter of Thomas Edward and Katharine (Bradley) Murray, and sister of Joseph B. Murray, '10 S , and Thomas E Murray, Jr., '11 S. One son, John Vincent, Jr. Death, due to acute lymphatic leukaemia, occurred after an illness of four weeks at St Elizabeth's Hospital, New York. Buried in Calvary Cemetery, New York. Survived by wife, son, four brothers, Hubert McDonnell, '09, Alexander J. McDonnell, a graduate of Columbia, and Peter and James F McDonnell, both graduates of Fordham, and a sister, Mrs. Alfred Young Morgan. Tale College 205 Miles Anson Morgan, B.A. 1911. Born March 6, 1891, in Ilion, N. Y. Died February 20, 1926, in Oroya, Peru. Father, Andrew Doolittle Morgan (LL.B. Union 1881), a flour and grain merchant of Ilion; son of Amos Anson and Mary Janette (Hitchcock) Morgan; descendant of James Morgan, who came to America from England in 1636 and settled in New London, Conn. Mother, Anna Rouelle (Chatta- way) Morgan; daughter of James and Frances (Holroyd) Chattaway; descendant of John Chattaway of Birmingham, England. Ilion High School. First colloquy appointment Junior year; second colloquy appointment Senior year; member Freshman Debating Union and University Orchestra. During first six months after graduating from Yale was employed as a clerk by Acme Engineering & Contracting Company, engaged in barge canal construction work at Frankfort, N. Y.; was then junior cyanide chemist for Steptoe Valley Smelting & Mining Company at McGill, Nev., until September, 1912; employed by Nevada Consolidated Copper Company 1912-17, as chemist at the Veteran Mine in Kim- berly 1912-14, as safety engineer at McGill 1914-15, and as metallurgical bookkeeper at McGill 1915-17; since 1919 had been with Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation in Peru, as metallurgist and later assistant superintendent at LaFundi- cion 1919-1921, as superintendent of smelter at Casapalco 1921-23, as assistant superintendent of consolidated smelter at Oroya from 1923 until his death; member St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Ilion; edited Safety First, the magazine of Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, for a year. Married June 27, 1916, in Salt Lake City, Florence Lisle Webb (B.A. Stanford 1916), daughter of Leslie and Florence (Boyle) Webb. Children: Marion Jane, Margaret Ann, and Nancy Elizabeth. Death due to an accidental gun shot wound. Buried in Oroya. Survived by wife, three daughters, and parents. 2o6 Obituary Record Chun Wing Sen Afong, B.A. 1912. Born November 7, 1887, in Macao, China. Died February 26, 1924, in Macao, China. Father, Chun Chik-yu; former civil governor of Canton; engaged in banking and in railroad and shipping business; son of Wing Ah Fong who lived in Honolulu for some years. Mother, Juilien Chang. Yale relatives: Lung Chun, '79, (uncle) and Shou Kie Tsai, ^#-'83, and Kwo Pao Tsai, '12 S. Hartford Public High School. President Yale Chinese Student Club Senior year; member Yale Corinthian Yacht Club and Yale Cosmopolitan Club. After graduation returned to China and entered government service as deputy in charge of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Emigration in Swatow; honorably discharged from the service upon the abolition of the bureau January 1,1914; then connected with Douglas Steamship Company, Ltd., of Hong Kong for a time; later served for several years as managing director of the materials department of the Tientsin-Pukow Line of the Chinese Government Railways, with headquarters at Tientsin; then spent two years in Hong Kong, making a study of the politi- cal developments in China; in 1918, when Canton was under the rule of General Chun Chuing-ming, was appointed director general of the Canton Arsenal, holding the rank of General; was also made river defense commander in chief and in con- nection with that post carried out a number of successful expeditions against the pirates in the Canton delta; also suc- cessfully carried through an expedition against Commander Chan Chek and the citizen soldiers in the Kongmoon and Heungshan districts in the summer of 1922; took an active part in the expulsion of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his expeditionary forces from the province of Canton (had the rank of Brigade Commander); went through heavy fighting and succeeded in disarming a greater part of the enemy, besides capturing, dis- abling, and sinking about thirty of their gunboats; afterwards commanded the Canton Navy of seventy-one ships, besides one brigade of the regular army; in 1922, when his father was elected civil governor of Kwangtung by the Provincial Assem- bly in Canton, General Chun joined him and a brother, Chun Tale College 207 Wing Ken, in initiating many constructive reforms in the administration of the Kwangtung Government, which were frustrated in the actual carrying out by the sudden turn of political affairs in favor of their opponents; when the merce- nary troops of Dr. Sun Yat-sen defeated the forces of General Chun Chuing-ming, General Chun was thrown out of office and went to Hong Kong with his father, was granted special police protection by the Hong Kong Government for a time, which rendered futile an attempt to assassinate him; went to Japan for a short time; not long after his return to Hong Kong, after the police protection had been withdrawn, was shot at by an assassin, receiving three wounds; was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, where he remained for a long time under treatment; apart from partial paralysis, which later set in, soon regained what appeared to be normal health and was moved to Macao, where he took up his residence; his death was due to blood poisoning Married May 24, 1913, Ins Yung, who survives him with five children; also leaves his parents, a brother, Chun Wing Ken, of Hong Kong, and a sister Howard Burton Bartholomew, B.A. 1912. Born March 31, 1886, in Greenbush, N Y. Died March 20,1926, in Cobleskill, N Y Father, Stephen Bartholomew, a farmer; son of Daniel Bartholomew; descendant of Phillip Bartholomew, who came to America from Holland in the latter part of the seventeenth century and settled at Schohane, N. Y. Mother, Lydia (Feeck) Bartholomew; daughter of Jacob and Angeline (Mosher) Feeck; descendant of Jacob Feeck, who came to this country from Germany and settled at Middleburg,*N Y. Cobleskill High School. Principal of Bannerville (N. Y ) school for two years; then entered Union College for a year's preparatory course; entered Yale in 1908; honors in Freshman and Junior years; high oration appointments Junior and Senior years; studied in Yale School of Medicine during last two years in college and for two years after graduation, receiving degree of M.D cum laude in 1914; was also a student in 208 Obituary Record biology in the Graduate School for a year (M.A. 1913); mem- her Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. Served as an interne at St. Peter's Hospital, Albany, 1914- 15; had since practiced in Cobleskill; health officer of the town 1917-19; during World War was given a deferred classi- fication because of physical condition; member Volunteer Medical Service Corps, but was not called to active duty; president Schohane County Medical Society 1921-22; mem- ber New York State Medical Society, American Medical Association, Cobleskill Chamber of Commerce, and First Methodist Episcopal Church, Cobleskill. Married October 21, 1915, in Cobleskill, Georgiana Eliza- beth, daughter of George and E. Anna (Walker) Hilts. One son, Raymond Hilts Death due to pneumonia, with diabetic complications. Buried in Cobleskill Rural Cemetery. Survived by wife, son, parents, and two sisters, Mrs. Chester A. Aker and Mrs. Warren Bellinger, all of Cobleskill. Clarence Earl Barton, B.A. 1913. Born August 29, 1891, in Cincinnati, Ohio Died December 6, 1925, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Edward Barton, a lawyer; son of John and Jose- phine (Hardm) Barton; descendant of Benjamin Barton, who came to this country from England and was a pioneer settler of Wilhamsburg, Ohio. Mother, Clara (Robertson) Barton; daughter of William and Amelia (Eggbrecht) Robertson, who came to Cincinnati from England about 1850. Cousins: J. Wilbur Witt, yo6 S., W. Lowell Robertson, '14 S., and Merlin G. Robertson, '18 S. Norwood High and Franklin Preparatory schools, Cincin- nati First dispute appointment Junior year; dissertation appointment Senior year; member Beta Theta Pi. Studied in Yale School of Law 1913-16 (honors 1914-15; LL B. cum laude 1916; an editor of Yale Law Journal 1915 and comment and recent case editor 1916; member Phi Alpha Delta, Chi Tau Kappa, and The Order of the Coif); associated with firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadley in Cm- Yale College 209 cinnati 1916-17; with Watrous & Day in New Haven, 1917- 18; enlisted as a Flying Cadet at Cincinnati November 8,1918; assigned to Ground School at Cornell University; discharged November 25, 1918; practiced law independently in New Haven from 1918 until his death; appointed assistant city attorney of New Haven in 1922 for a term of three years, but resigned that office in February, 1925, to become assistant state's attorney for New Haven County; served in that capacity until his death; was candidate for judge of Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1917, but was defeated; owner of Home Coal Company of New Haven and part owner of Holmes Coal Company of Mystic, Conn, (secretary and treasurer from 1918 to 1925); partner in Home Transport Line; president Packard Sales & Service, Inc., of New Haven and of Anderson Ship Yard, Inc., of West Haven; active in Masonic affairs; former secretary of Society of the Cincinnati; member Methodist Episcopal Church. Married September 2, 1916, in New Haven, Maude Ethel, daughter of Charles Kingsbury and Catherine (McNeil) Wedmore, and sister-in-law of Chester E. Ingraham, '03 S. Children: Beverly and Barbara Kingsbury. Death due to typho pneumoma. Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. Survived by wife and daughters. By the terms of his will a bequest was made to Yale. Robert Rathbun Paret, B.A. 1918. Born October 25, 1896, at Bergen Point, N J Died July 1, 1925, in New York City. Father, Robert Louis Paret, a banker and broker; partner in firm of Cox, Paret & Company of New York City; son of John and Emily Louise (Story) Paret; nephew of William Paret, bishop of Maryland; descendant of Stephen Paret, who came to New York from France in 1780. Mother, Bertha Louise (Rathbun) Paret; daughter of Robert Henry and Louise (Doremus) Rathbun; ancestors lived in Mystic, Conn. Yale relatives: Walter P. Paret, '96 (uncle), and Robert Lockhart Wilbur, '15 s , Robert P. Rathbun, ex-16 S., and H. Wilbur Paret, Jr., '17 S. (cousins). 210 Obituary Record Montclair (N. J.) High School. Assistant manager Univer- sity Basketball Team in 1916 and 1917 and manager-elect for 1917-18; president Berkeley Association 1916-17; Corporal in Yale Batteries at Tobyhanna; promoted from Sergeant to Captain in Yale R. O. T. C , to which he belonged from its organization until he left college; interested in work of Boys* Club; member Beta Theta Pi; left college at end of Junior year to enter the Army; given his degree honoris causa in June, 1919, with enrollment in Class of 1918. Enrolled in the second Officers' Training Camp at FortMyer, Va., August 27,1917; commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery November 27, 1917; served with 314th Field Artillery, 80th Division, at Camp Lee, Va., until May 26, 1918, and then in France until May 29, 19195 m action at St Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne; promoted to First Lieutenant September 10, 1918; received his discharge June 7, 1919; commissioned Captain in Field Artillery Reserve Corps September 11, 1919; had been engaged in the bond business in New York City since July, 1919 (with Davies, Thomas & Company until October, 1920; then with his father, until the latterys death in July, 1923; since then as an independent stockbroker); member St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Montclair. Unmarried. Death, due to a fractured skull and leg and internal injuries, occurred instantaneously, when he accidentally fell from the window of his room Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook- lyn Survived by mother, a brother, Rufus Story Paret, of Spring Lake, N. J., and two sisters, Miss Bertha Rathbun Paret also of Spring Lake and Miss Ursula Louise Paret, of Charleston, S C. Another sister, Mrs. Trevor W. Swett, died December 25, 1925. Robert Ruffner Theobald, B.A. 1918. Born December 7, 1891, in Dayton, Ohio. Died December 19, 1925, in Toledo, Ohio Father, Henry Theobald; president of Toledo Scale Com- pany, son of Henry and Sara Maria (Dunham) Theobald; Tale College 211 descendant of Henry Theobald, who came to America from England and settled in Dayton. Mother, Mary Jane (McCul- lough) Theobald; daughter of Peter and Martha Ann (Ross) McCullough; ancestors came from Scotland Tome School, Port Deposit, Md., Asheville (N. C ) School, Philhps-Andover. Entered Yale with Class of 1917, but joined Class of 1918 in fall of 1915; left college during Semor year to enter service; was given his B.A. honoris causa in 1920, with enrollment in Class of 1918. Enlisted as a Coxswain in U. S. Naval Reserve Force May 14, 1917; stationed in Brooklyn until July 4, being promoted to Ensign June 25; attended Reserve Officers' Class at Annapo- lis July 5-September 14, 1917; commissioned as an Ensign (T) in U. S. Navy September 15, 1917; served as Watch and Division Officer on U. S. S. "Oklahoma" from September 24, 1917, to January 1, 1918; then attended Officers' Torpedo Class at Newport, R. I.; promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.) in June, 1918, and to Lieutenant September 21, 1918; served as Gunnery and Torpedo Officer on U. S. S. "Decatur" (de- stroyer) from June 14, 1918, until his release from active duty February 9, 1919; became vice-president of Toledo Scale Company February 16, 1921, and held that position until his death; member Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo. Married March 4, 1922, in Chicago, 111., Mary-Meloy, daughter of Dr. James Doig Rankin and Martha (Brownlee) Rankin. One daughter, Mary-Meloy. Mrs. Theobald died February 22, 1923. Died by his own hand; mental depression, caused by the death of his wife and his father within a short time of each other, is thought to have prompted the act. Buried in Wood- lawn Cemetery, Toledo. Survived by daughter and mother. John Alden Daniels, B.A. 1919. Born August 30, 1897, in Buffalo, N Y. Died March 25, 1926, in Buffalo, N. Y Father, John Havemeyer Daniels (B.A. 1889, Ph.D. 1892, M,D. Niagara University 1895), a physician in Buffalo; lec- turer and instructor at Niagara University; son of the Rev. 212 Obituary Record Josiah Reeves Daniels, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Abigail Ann (Sharpe) Daniels; descendant of Capt. John Daniels of the Revolutionary Army. Mother, Flora Eva (Pike) Daniels (B.A, Vassar 1890); daughter of James and Salina (Tower) Pike; descendant of Robert Pike, who came to America from England in 1630, of John Tower, who came from England to Hingham, Mass., in 1637, anc ^ °f John Alden of the "Mayflower" company. Lafayette High School, Buffalo. Attended Cornell Univer- sity during 1914-15 as member of Class of 1918. At Yale held a University Scholarship; member Freshman Glee Club, University Orchestra, and College Choir Junior and Senior years; organized and managed Students' Laundry Association. In the employ of International Banking Corporation at Yokohama and Kobe, Japan, from November, 1919^0 May, 1923; contracted sleeping sickness at Yokohama in February, 1923, and was obliged to give up his position; since then had lived in Albion and Buffalo unable to engage in any occupa- tion; member Richmond Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Buffalo. Unmarried. Death due to sleeping sickness. Buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. Survived by mother, a brother, Paul C. Daniels, '24, and a sister, Florence Daniels Reilly (B.A. Vassar 1915), the wife of John J. Reilly, '03. Nathaniel Trowbridge Lovell, B.A. 1923. Born August 3, 1900, in West Newton, Mass. Died January 20, 1926, in West Newton, Mass. Father, Joseph Neale Lovell, a broker in Boston; son of Nathaniel and Hopie (Neale) Lovell (later Mrs. Dale); descendant of Zachanah Lovell, of East Medway, Mass. Mother, Gertrude Leland (Trowbridge) Lovell; daughter of Edward Brooks and Adelia (Jenison) Trowbridge; descendant of Thomas Trowbridge, who came to this country from Can- ton, Somersetshire, England, in 1634 and settled at Dorches- ter, Mass. Newton High School. Enlisted as a Private in Harvard Yale College 213 S. A. T. C. September 25, 1918. At Yale member Freshman Golf Team in 1920, University Golf Team 1921-23 (captain 1922-23), Beta Theta Pi, and Ehhu Club. Had been connected with the production department of Gale Shoe Company of Manchester, N. H., since graduation; was junior golf champion of Massachusetts in 1918, a five handicap man in Massachusetts in 1920, and golf champion of the Manchester Country Club at time of his death, and had played in many national and state golf tournaments; member Second Congregational Church, West Newton. Unmarried. Death due to blood poisoning. Buried in Newton. Survived by parents, a sister, Miss Doris Towle Lovell, and a brother, Joseph Neale Lovell, Jr., all of West Newton. Henry Adams, B.A. 1925. Born June 15, 1904, in Hanover, N. H. Died January 28, 1926, in Washington, Conn Father, Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, M.A. New York University 1891, Ph.D. Yale 1896, honorary M.A. Dartmouth 1908); for several years an instructor in German at Yale; a member of the Dartmouth College faculty since 1899; son of Emerson Henry and Annette (Austin) Adams; descendant of General David Adams, of Canton Center, Conn. Mother, Grace (Smith) Adams (B L Smith 1894); daughter of Capt. Sidney B. Smith and Mariana (Sutton) Smith, her mother belonging to a Friends* family of Fairfax Court House> Va. Uncle, Spencer L. Adams, '95 L. At the age of five went abroad with his parents and brother, Austin L. Adams, '18, and spent a year in Germany Hanover High School. Member Freshman Glee Club, Apollo Glee Club Sophomore year, and division 2 of University Glee Club Senior year; manager championship Freshman Lacrosse Team 1923-24, receiving his numerals; during summer of 1924 made a trip to Europe with his father. Began the study of architecture in an architect's office in Auburn, N. Y., during summer of 1925, but later decided to teach; taught history and English at the Gunnery School in 214 Obituary Record Washington, Conn., from September until his death; had practically decided on a teaching career in history. Death, due to pneumonia, occurred very suddenly after an illness of only four days Buried in the Dartmouth Cemetery, Hanover. Survived by his father and brother, his mother hav- ing died when he was eleven years old. SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL Alexander Hamilton Kent, Ph.B. 1857. Born November 13, 1838, in Jackson, La Died August 23, 1914, in Atlanta, Ga Father, John Kent, a merchant; son of John Kent; de- scendant of Thomas Kent, who came to America from Eng- land in 1640 and settled at Gloucester, Mass. Mother, Ann Rebecca (Watson) Kent; daughter of Stone and Anne (Coolidge) Watson. General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. Studied at University of Louisiana for two years before entering Sheffield Scientific School in 1855. Engineering course; member Brothers in Unity. Engaged in the hotel business in New Orleans, La., 1857— i860; served in the Confederate Army during Civil War as a member of Company B, Crescent Volunteers; immediately after the war established the first commercial fertilizer plant in the South; employed by U. S. Weather Bureau at Beeville, Texas, 1895-1902; manufacturer and dealer in gas lights in Newark, N. J., 1902-1911; then retired from business and lived in Atlanta until his death; member of Protestant Episcopal Church, Marietta, Ga. Married May 5, 1864, in Marietta, Clara, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Fisher) Freeman. Children. Thomas Freeman; Annie Coolidge (Mrs. Thomas Benjamin Russell); Charles Joseph (died in infancy); Clement Fisher, Alexander Hamilton, Jr.; Edgar Russ; and Harry Watson. Mrs. Kent died August 11, 1884. Death due to nephritis. Buried in the Episcopal Cemetery, Marietta. Survived by five children. Sidney Irving Smith, Ph.B. 1867. Born February 18, 1843, in Norway, Maine Died May 6, 1926, in New Haven, Conn Father, Elliot Smith, a carriage maker; held many town offices; member Maine State Legislature; son of Joshua and 215 2i6 Obituary Record Molly (Woodman) Smith; descendant of Hezadiah Smith, of Beverly, Mass., and of James Smith, who received a land grant at Gloucester, Mass., in 1642. Mother, Lavinia Howard (Barton) Smith; daughter of Aaron and Sally (Smith) Barton; granddaughter of Asa Barton, a soldier in the Revolutionary War; descendant of Caleb Barton, of Oxford, Mass., and of Samuel Barton of Salem, Mass., who married Hannah Bridges, who was concerned in the witchcraft trials. Yale relatives: Addison E. Verrill (B.S Harvard 1862, honorary M.A. Yale 1867; professor of zoology at Yale from 1864 to 1907) (brother-in-law); George E. Verrill, '85 S., A. Hyatt Verrill, ^-'91 Art, and Clarence S. Verrill, ex-fgy S. (nephews); and Lucy L Verrill Howe, tftf-'oi Art (niece), the wife of Samuel H. Howe, Jr. '02. Norway Liberal Institute and Bethel (Maine) Preparatory School. Had collected and studied flowering plants and ferns of Norway and vicinity, discovering many rare species, and had also made large collections of insects before entering Yale. Course in natural history; won first Berzelms Prize Senior year (charter member of that society). Assistant in zoology at Yale 1867-1874, instructor in com- parative anatomy 1874-75, professor of comparative anatomy 1875-1906, and since then professor emeritus; had charge of deep-water dredging in Lake Superior for U. S. Lake Survey 1871 and for U. S. Coast Survey about St. George's Bank 1872, engaged in biological and deep-sea work of U. S. Fish Commission 1871-1887; joined Professor Verrill in several dredging expeditions to the Bay of Fundy and other places, making collections for the Yale Museum, and later gave his own collection of the deep-sea Crustacea to the museum; with Professor Verrill made all the plans and detailed draw- ings and specifications for furniture and exhibition cases in a part of the first Peabody Museum; author of numerous zoological papers dealing especially with marine Crustacea, published in various scientific magazines, among them American Naturalist^ American "Journal of Science', Canadian Naturalist^ and Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London); had contributed extensively to annual reports of U. S. Fish Commission and Coast and Lake Surveys, in connection with his work for the Government, and also to Sheffield Scientific School 217 reports of Department of Marine and Fisheries of Canada, and bulletins and proceedings of United States National Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and National Academy of Science (member of last named since 1884); member of various other scientific societies; as state ento- mologist of Maine and Connecticut for a number of years had contributed to annual reports of Boards of Agriculture in those states; in 1890 revised the definitions in anatomy in Webster's International Dictionary; honorary M.A. Yale 1887. Married June 29, 1882, in New Haven, Eugenia Poca- hontas, daughter of Edward Brady and Sarah D. (Taylor) Barber. No children. Mrs. Smith died March 14, 1916. Death due to cancer of the throat; had been in feeble health for several years; had been partially blind since 1906, and totally blind for several years. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by two nieces and two nephews Andrew Dwight Chidsey, Ph.B. 1869. Born September 30, 1848, in East Haven, Conn Died January 25, 1926, in Easton, Pa Father, Russell Smith Chidsey; charter member of the Warren Foundry and the Thomas Iron Company at Easton; son of Samuel C. and Betsey (Holt) Chidsey, who came to America from England in 1644 and settled at East Haven Mother, Lucy Morris (Street) Chidsey; daughter of Elnathan Street; descendant of the Rev. Nicholas Street, who came to New Haven from England in 1659. Lawrenceville School. Select course; member Scientific Baseball Club Became engaged in paint manufacturing business in Easton soon after graduation; in 1893 formed a partnership with S. Holland Hackett under firm name of Hacfkett & Chidsey, bankers and brokers, and continued in that connection until his death; director Warren Foundry, Thomas Iron Company, Easton National Bank, Easton Trust Company, and Fire Insurance Company of Northampton County (member of its executive committee); trustee of Easton Board of Trade from 2i8 Obituary Record 1909 until his death; charter member of "The Crypt," a social organization, which later became the Pomfret Club (of which he was a director); former member and deacon of American Reformed Church, which became the Second Presbyterian Church (of which he was a trustee); later became member of College Hill Presbyterian Church. Married (1) October 7, 1875, i n Easton, Emily Stewart, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth McKeen. Children: Helen* Street (Mrs. Charles E. Hulick); Andrew Dwight, Jr. (C.E. Lafayette 1901); Thomas McKeen (B.A. Lafayette 1904, LL B. University of Pennsylvania 1907); Harold Russell (B.A. Lafayette 1909, M.A. Columbia 1914 and Harvard 1915, Ph D. Harvard 1920). Mrs. Chidsey died July 25,1893. Married (2) May 20,1903, in Easton, Georgeanna Lake Light- ner, daughter of George William and Anna Guild (Youngman) Lake. One son, Alan Lake (B.A. Union 1925). Death due to carcinoma of the colon; had been in ill health for about two years. Buried in Easton. Survived by wife, five children, nine grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Emily H.Roden- bough and a brother, Charles F. Chidsey, both of Easton. Frederick Stoever Dickson, Ph.B. 1871. Born June 24, 1850, in Utica, N. Y. Died December 1, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pa. Father, the Rev. Hugh Sheridan Dickson (B.A. Union 1839, D D Hamilton 1841); a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and a Presbyterian minister with pastorates in Kentucky, Indiana, New York, and Pennsylvania; born in Rathfryland, County Down, Ireland; son of Alexander and Sarah (McKee) Dickson; came to America in 1827. Mother, Sarah Margaret (Stoever) Dickson; daughter of Frederick and Sarah (Reigart) Stoever; third in descent from the Rev. John Caspar Stoever, who came to America from Germany in 1735, and settled at Lebanon, Pa., and established the first Lutheran church in the state. Brother: Allan H. Dickson, ex-72. Hill School. Select course; left Yale at end of Junior year; received degree of Ph.B. in 1903, with enrollment in Class of 1871 S Member Delta Psi. Sheffield Scientific School 219 Engaged in study of law in Philadelphia 1871-74; admitted to Pennsylvania Bar in 1874; practiced in Philadelphia 1874- 79 and 1884-1898; associated with John Wanamaker of Phila- delphia 1879-1884; president of the Solicitors Company of Philadelphia 1885-86; lived in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1902 to 1908; president of Cuyahoga, Federal, United States, Stark County, Youngstown, Zanesville, Lancaster, Massillon, Columbiana, Citizens, Fostoria, and Findlay Telephone com- panies in Ohio 1902-05; made trustee of bankers' committee of Everett-Moore Syndicate of Cleveland in 1903;; originator of plan of profit sharing for employees of Cuy ahogaTelephone Company in 1903; manager of Cleveland office of the banking and brokerage firm of A. O Brown & Company of New York City 1906-08; president of The Abrasive Company of Bricks- burg, Philadelphia, 1893-1903 and chairman of the board since 1903; resided in that city 1910-13, then in New York City until 1924, and since then in Philadelphia again; author: An Analysts ofBlackstone's Commentaries (1874), An Analysts of Kent's Commentaries (1876), And the Wilderness Blossomed (1901), Our Annual Execution by W. M Thackeray (1902), A Bibliography of Thackeray in the United States (1904), Tele- phone Investments and Others (1905), and A Bibliography of Henry Fielding (1918); during the last few years of his life en- gaged in compiling an Abnaki-English Lexicon, founded upon the French-Abnaki work of Sebastian Rale, a Jesuit priest to the Indians of Maine; edited for the Rowfant Club of Cleve- land Thomas Keightley's The Life and Writings of Henry Fielding in 1907; had contributed essays to North American Review, Tale Review, Literary Art Notes and Queries (both of London), and Everybody's Magazine, and an article on Wall Street gambling ("The Poison of the Street") to the latter magazine in 1909; donated his Fielding collection of about 2,000 volumes (the most complete in the world) to the Yale University Library in 1913 in appreciation of Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury; member of many clubs, among them the Titmarsh Club of London; president of Yale Alumni Asso- ciation of Cleveland in 1906 and 1907 and of Association of Western Yale Clubs 1908; member Walnut Street Presbyte- rian Church, Philadelphia. Married February 17, 1874, in Conshohocken, Pa , Helen 120 Obituary Record Hortense, daughter of John and Eunice (Phelps) Hickman, of West Chester, Pa. Children: Elizabeth (Mrs. Maximilian Foster) and Frederick Stoever, 2d, '03 S. Mrs. Dickson died November 19, 1925. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Survived by son and daughter. Gordon Edward Sherman, Ph.B. 1876. Born August 11, 1854, in Mornstown, N J. Died November 28, 1925, in Mornstown, N J. Father, Byron Sherman; connected with Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; capitalist; art collector; son of John and Lucy Pomeroy (King) Sherman; descendant of Edmund Sherman, who came to Watertown, Mass., from England in 1634 and was admitted as a freeman in New Haven in 1636. Mother, Julia Antoinette (Burnham) Sherman; daughter of Gordon and Marcia (Condict) Burnham; grand- daughter of Ebenezer Condict, a Revolutionary soldier; descendant of Thomas Burnham, who came from England to Ipswich, Mass. Preparatory training received at College Gaillard, Lau- sanne, Switzerland, and at Morris Academy, Morristown. Select course; poet at Freshman Class Supper; Class poet Senior year; member Sigma Delta Chi. Studied law in his father's office in Morristown and, for two years, at Washington University Law School (St. Louis), where he received degree of LL.B. in 1878; admitted to New Jersey Bar in November, 1879; practiced in Newark until 1885 and subsequently in New York City; while in Newark was appointed a special master and examiner in chancery; associated with his father in the insurance business in St. Louis 1890-91; instructor in comparative constitutional law and the German Code at Yale 1906-07, assistant professor of comparative law 1910-11, and assistant professor of inter- national law 1911-16; delegate from Connecticut to Inter- national Prison Congress in Washington 1910 and Yale delegate to Conference of Teachers of International Law 1914 and to second Pan-American Scientific Congress 1915 (both Sheffield Scientific School ill in Washington), at the latter delivering an address on "Evolution of Public Law"; one of revisers of English trans- lation of the Swiss Civil Code 1915; editor of the fourth edition of George B. Davis* Elements of International Law 1916; editor for Switzerland of Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association 1924; had contributed numerous articles to Tale Law Journal, Journal of the American Bar Association, St. Louts Law Review, and American Journal of International Law; trustee of Morris County Bar Association; member American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association, American Society of International Law, International Asso- ciation of Comparative Jurisprudence and Political Economy of Berlin, American Academy of Political Science, American Political Science Association, Archaeological Institute of America, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ameri- can Historical Association, New Jersey Historical Society, Washington Association of New Jersey, Grotius Society of London, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Delta Phi, and Mornstown Civic Association; director Mornstown Memorial Hospital; vice-president board of trustees of South Street Presbyterian Church, Mornstown. Married June 12, 1894, in Mornstown, Harriet Emmons, daughter of William Henry and Charlotte Johnes (Kirtland) Shelton. No children. Death due to intestinal trouble. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown. Survived by wife, a half brother, Charles P. Sherman, of Philadelphia, and two sisters, Miss Julia F. Sherman and Mrs. Charles Gordon Knox, both of Morristown. Robert Samuel Hulbert, Ph.B. 1878. Born April 6, 1854, in Winsted, Conn. Died December 20, 1925, in Winsted, Conn. Father, Timothy Hulbert; founder of the Hulbert Iron Company of Winsted. Mother, Ruth (Kelley) Hulbert; daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Loveland) Kelley. WilHston Academy and Eastman Business College, Pough- 222 Obituary Record keepsie, N. Y. Taught in Norfolk, Conn., before entering Sheffield Scientific School. Civil engineering course; member Class Crew and a Class historian Freshman year; an editor of Tale Record; member Alpha Chi and Theta Xi. Taught in New Hartford, Conn., for a short time after graduation; then engaged in the practice of his profession as a civil engineer until 1880; manager of Hulbert Iron Company 1880-86, member of firm of Howe Brothers & Hulbert, manu- facturers of hardware specialities, from 1886 to 1892, when the business was sold; editor of WinstedDaily Herald 1893-95; civil engineer for town of Winsted 1896-1907 (made plans for its sewer system); served one term as selectman; division engineer of Connecticut State Highway Department 1907- 1920, became general manager of Citizen Printing Company of Winsted in 1920, upon its reorganization (principally through his efforts), and held that position until his death; also managing editor of the company's three publications, Winsted Evening Citizen, Litchfield County Leader^ and Winsted Herald, since 1920; in 1904 wrote an historical article with reference to Winchester, Conn., for the Connecticut Magazine; in 1921, on the occasion of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Winsted, delivered an address upon "Winchester's One Hundred and Fifty Years" at the home of the Winchester Historical Society, of which he was a member; also member Connecticut Society of Civil En- gineers, Connecticut Editorial Association, and Second Congregational Church, Winsted. Married January 18, 1881, in Winsted, Mary Eugenie, daughter of Lewis and Caroline (Culver) Andrews One son, Timothy Andrews (B S. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1906) Death due to complications, following an operation in June, 1924. Buried in Forest View Cemetery, Winsted. Survived by wife, son, and a sister, Mrs. Laura J. VanDeusen, of New Haven Sheffield Scientific School ' 223 Nathaniel Terry Bacon, Ph.B. 1879. Born August 16, 1858, in Litchfield, Conn. Died January 3, 1926, in Peace Dale, R. I. Father, the Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon (B.A 1850, M.D. 1856, D.D. 1879); P a stor of the American Church in Geneva, Switzerland, of Congregational churches in Nor- ~~wich, Conn., and Assonet, Mass., and of Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia and in Savannah, Ga ; author; son of the Rev. Leonard Bacon (B.A 1820, D.D Hamilton 1842, LL.D. Harvard 1870) and Lucy (Johnson) Bacon; descendant of Michael Bacon (born in England), who came fiom Ireland to Dedham, Mass , in 1638 Mother, Susan (Bacon) Bacon, daughter of Nathaniel Almoran and Almira (Selden) Bacon, descendant of Nathaniel Bacon, an original settler of Middle- town, Conn., in 1650. Yale relatives include: Benjamin W Bacon (B.A. 1847), Theodore Bacon, '53, Francis Bacon, '53 M.j the Rev. George B. Bacon, '56, Eugene Smith, '59, the Rev. Edward W. Bacon, '69 D., the Rev. Thomas R. Bacon, '72, and Alfred T. Bacon, '73 (uncles), B. Selden Bacon, '11, Wallace G. Corwin, '17, and Leonard W. Bacon, Jr., ex-iy (nephews); and Henry Selden Bacon, '93, Leonard B. Smith, '94, Leonard B Bacon, '96, Winthrop D. Smith, '96, Leonard B. Parks, '09, Roger T. Bacon, ex-u S , Alfred H T. Bacon, '14, Henry W. Closson, '16, David Bacon, '25, and Leonard L Bacon, '28 (cousins). Hopkins Grammar School and Gymnase Technique of the University of Geneva. Civil engineering course; prize in German Senior year; member Dunham Boat Club Timekeeper and gauger on the Diamond Reef harbor im- provements in New York November, 1879-February, 1880; in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad for next few months; with the West Shore, South Pennsylvania, Alle- gheny Central, and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad companies 1880-84; in 1884 was sent to Europe to study the Solvay Process in Belgium, France, Germany, and England, assistant to the president of the Solvay Process Company of Syracuse, N. Y., in the capacity of technical expert October 1,1884-November 1,1924, at first in Syracuse, 224 Obituary Record and from 1895 in Peace Dale; president of Narragansett Pier Railroad Company 1915-1924 and of Southern Realty Com- pany from about 1907 until 1923; principal owner of the Sea View Railroad property, a Washington County electric line, 1922-25, had wide interests in Alabama, where he owned a large cotton plantation and was engaged in the lumber business with the Ben ton Lumber Company at Benton; director of Belanger's, Inc., Bluefields, Nicaragua, the Man- hattan Rubber Company of New York, and the Phoenix Linen Company of North Brookfield, Mass.; had contributed many articles on economic, historical, architectural, and financial subjects to the Tale Review, the Booklovers Maga- zine, the Architectural Record, and the New York Times, author of a translation of Augustin Cournot's Mathematical Principles 0/ the Theory of Wealth (1897), of a metrical trans- lation of the first book of Homer's Iliad, and of numerous articles on chemical subjects published in chemical journals; inventor of many highly complicated chemical processes which were bought and used by the Solvay Process Company; honorary member American Chemical Society and Society of Colonial Governors; member American Economic Association and Society of Chemical Industry; deacon of Peace Dale Congregational Church, had given much time to the work of the Near East Relief Married October 6, 1885, in Peace Dale, Helen, daughter of Rowland Hazard (B A Brown 1849) and Margaret Anna (Rood) Y12LL?LX& Children Leonard, '09, who held a commis- sion as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Service during the war, and Susan, the wife of Elmer D. Keith, J io. Mrs. Bacon died October 26, 1925 Death, due to angina pectoris, occurred after a very brief illness Buried in Peace Dale. Survived by son, daughter, five grandchildren, four brothers, Benjamin W. Bacon, '8i, Selden Bacon, ex-%^, Theodore D. Bacon, '83 S., and Leonard W. Bacon, '88, a half brother, David L. Baccn, '16 S , and four sisters, Miss S. Almira Bacon (B.A. Mount Holyoke 1905, Ph.D 1911), Elizabeth B. Greene, the wife of Prescott M Greene, '03 S , Margaret B Corwin, the wife of Robert N. Corwin, '87, and Mabel B. Ripley, the wife of Philip F. Ripley, '97 Sheffield Scientific School 225 George Edward Goodspeed, Ph.B. 1880. Born February 22, 1859, in East Haddam, Conn. Died December 5, 1925, in Brookline, Mass. Father, George Edward Good speed, a merchant and ship- builder; member of firm of G. E. & W. H. Goodspeed of East Haddam for almost twenty years, son of Joseph and Laura (Tyler) Goodspeed; descendant of Roger Goodspeed, who came from England to Barnstable, Mass , in 1641. Mother, Nancy Green (Hayden) Goodspeed, daughter of Horace and Nancy (Green) Hayden; descendant of John Hayden, who came to America from England in 1630 and settled at Dorchester, Mass, Cousins: Richard G. Greene, '49, Richard H. Greene, '62, and Donald Greene, '08. Hopkins Grammar School Select course; member Ber- zelius. Connected with New England Railroad Company at Boston 1880-81; has since been associated with Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company (clerk until 1896, assistant treas- urer 1896-99, and since then treasurer), lived in Watertown, Mass.; served on the school committee 1898-1901 and as trustee of the public library 1912-17; in 1904 was elected a corporator of Watertown Savings Bank (trustee since 1911; member of the auditing committee since 1913); member St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, East Haddam. Married (1) February 23, 1886, in Roshndale, Mass, Isabel Sprague, daughter of Charles Augustus and Isabel Elizabeth Goddard. One son, George Edward, Jr. (B S Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1910). Mrs Good- speed died April 22, 1887. Married (2) June 6, 1894, in Cambridge, Mass., Gertrude, daughter of Cicero and Mary Abbie (Frederickson) Gale. One son, Hayden (B A Harvard 1916). Death, due to chronic myocarditis, occurred after a brief illness at Corey Hill Hospital, Brookline; his body was cremated and the ashes buried in the Cambridge Cemetery Survived by wife, two sons, two grandchildren, and a brother, Joseph H. Goodspeed (honorary M.A. Trinity 1901), of Boston. 226 Obituary Record James Minor Maghee, Ph.B. 1884. Born August 23, 1865, in Evansville, Ind. Died June 22,1926, in West Orange, N. J Father, Gilhson Maghee, a merchant; son of William and Frances (Holme) Maghee; ancestors settled in Bordentown, N. J. Mother, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Minor) Maghee; daugh- ter of Henry Lee and Elizabeth (Elliott) Minor; descendant of John Minor, who came to this country from England early in 1620 and settled in Westmoreland County, Va East Orange (N. J ) High School Entered Sheffield Scien- tific School with Class of 1884, but received degree with Class of 1885; in 1914 was enrolled with '84 S. Member Chi Phi. Entered College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in October, 1884, and there received degree of M.D. 1887; house surgeon and physician at New York Mater- nity and Chanty (now City) hospitals 1887-88; studied abroad 1888-89; engaged in private practice in West Orange since 1889, attending physician to Orange Memorial Hospital since 1901; medical inspector of West Orange schools since 1906; town physician of West Orange for fifteen years and member of Board of Health for many years; director First National Bank of West Orange; member American, Essex County, and Orange Mountain Medical Societies, Orange Practitioners Society, Essex County Milk Commission, New England Society, Society of the Alumni of the City £ Charity] Hospital, First Presbyterian Church, Orange, and Trinity Congregational Church, East Orange. Married June 3, i89i,in Boston, Emma Louise, daughter of Henry and Lorette (Rowley) Ricker. No children. Death due to septic poisoning. Buried in Forest Hills Ceme- tery, Boston. Survived by wife and a sister, Mrs. Henry H. Snow, of West Orange. Sheffield Scientific School 227 John Joseph Flather, Ph.B. 1885. Born June 9, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa Died May 14, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minn Father, Henry Flather, a construction engineer; superin- tendent of Elias Howe Sewing Machine Company, Bridgeport, Conn., for thirteen years and spent some time in Glasgow, Scotland, in their interests; inventor of a gun used in the Civil War; son of Mark and Ellen (Hodgson) Flather, descendant of Henry Flather, who came to Bridgeport from Bradford, England, in 1857. Mother, Sarah Susan (Hockensmith) Flather; daughter of John George Samuel Adam and Lydia Ann (Adams) Hockensmith, descendant of George Hocken- smith, whose father, George Hockensmith, was a First Lieu- tenant in Washington's Army and whose father-in-law, Adam Hoffman, came to this country from Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, and settled in Frederick County, Md , moving to Baltimore in 1778; a tract of land was granted to Conrad Hockensmith in 1743, which is the first record of the family in Annapolis, Md. Early education received in private schools in Scotland and preparation for college at Bridgeport High School Dynamic engineering course; divided prize in mechanical drawing and received second prize in English composition Freshman year, secretary and treasurer of his Class Junior year and vice- president Senior year. For four years before entering Yale and during his course in Sheffield Scientific School had practical experience with various New England machine shops. Foreman for Ansonia (Conn ) Electric Company 1885-86; superintendent of Buffalo (N. Y.) Steam Pump Works 1886— 87 and of Hotchkiss Manufacturing Company of Bridgeport 1887-88; instructor in mechanical engineering at Lehigh University 1888-1891; took graduate course at Cornell Uni- versity 1889-1890 (M M.E. 1890), professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University 1891-98; since then profes- sor of mechanical engineering and head of the department at University of Minnesota; during sabbatical year abroad in 1914-15 did some Work at University of Edinburgh; spent a second sabbatical leave in Oakland, Calif., 1923-24; had been 228 Obituary Record engaged during summer vacations and at other times in gen- eral consulting engineering work, which included gas engine investigations, waterworks layouts and installations, testing power plants of various kinds, and design and installation of heating and ventilating plants; director of Globe Iron Works Company 1904-1911 (managing director and president during a portion of the time); visited laboratories, shops, museums, and libraries in England and Scotland and on the Continent during 1914-15; had engaged in various research investiga- tions, including combustion and gas engine performances with natural gas, artificial gas, gasoline, and kerosene, some of the results of which were published in technical journals; had also made investigations as to the power required to drive ma- chinery (results published in American Machinist and later in book form) and in rope transmission; developed the Flather transmission and hydraulic dynamometer, many of which are in use in various universities and commercial plants of this country and abroad; during recent years had carried on exten- sive investigations regarding the cooling effect in refrigerator cars and was interested in the movement of chimney gases, studying the subject in connection with observations of the University of Minnesota power plant chimney, which was designed and fitted up with special reference to his researches in this subject; joint author with Robert Wilson of ^f treatise on Steam Boilers (1889), and with Charles E. Lucke of Engi- neering Thermodynamics and of Engineering Thermodynamic Tables (chiefly Professor Lucke's; revised by Professor Flather at the request of McGraw-Hill Book Company 1915); author: Dynamometers and the Measurement of Power (1892, second edition 1900, third edition 1907, rewritten and published 1922); Rope Driving (1895, s e c o n d edition 1907); and two brief texts for the use of students, Kinematic Notes (1904) and the Trans- mission of Power (1908); at the rime of his death had nearly completed a book on the history of engineering; had contrib- uted articles and reviews to American Machinist, Manufac- turer s Gazette>, Machinery', Electrical Worldy Western Electrician Engineering News, and the proceedings of various technical societies; during one summer made an extensive trip to Fiji Islands, New Zealand, and Australia, bringing back a valuable collection of various objects; member and secretary of Voting Sheffield Scientific School Machine Commission i904-1921; in 1916 appointed one of the state directors of Organization for Industrial Preparedness and also made an associate member of Naval Consulting Board; treasurer (1895-1909) and vice-president (1902-03) of Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice- president 1901-02); associate member American Institute of Electrical Engineers (former vice-president); member Ameri- can Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Industrial Engineers, Yale Engineering Association, American Water- works Association, Society for Historical Research, Newcomen Society for Historical Research (London), American Associa- tion of University Professors, Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis Engineer's Club, Author's Club (London), and University of Minnesota chapters of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Pi Tau Sigma; vice-president Minnesota Sanitary Association and Northwest Railway Club; member First Congregational Church, Minneapolis. Married (1) June 18, 1890, in Stamford, Conn , Harriet Frances, daughter of Bennet D. and Mary Elizabeth (Quin- tard) Lum. One daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a member of the Class of 1927 at the University of Minnesota. Mrs Flather died December 23, 1917. Married (2) February 23, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio, Florence Evelyn, daughter of Albert William and Elizabeth Ellen Foster. Death due to angina pectons; had not been in the best of health for several years, but had continued his work at the university up to the day of his death. Buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis. Survived by wife, daughter, and a brother, Herbert Flather, of Menden, Conn. Percy Lyford Lang, Ph.B. 1885. Born June 8, 1861, in Waverly, N Y. Died April 8, 1926, in Rochester, N Y Father, Andrew Jackson Lang, a founder and principal of Waverly Academy; son of Samuel and Sally (Smith) Lang; descendant of Robert Lang, who came to America from Eng- land in 1670 and settled at Portsmouth, N. H. Mother, Elvira 230 Obituary Record (Lyford) Lang; daughter of Albert and Phoebe (Bates) Ly- ford; descendant of Francis Lyford, who came from England to Boston prior to 1667. Prepared under a private tutor in Waverly. Select course; member Delta Psi. Engaged in hardware business in Waverly 1885-87, had since been connected with First National Bank at Wa- verly, at first as teller, then as cashier (1893 to 1913), and afterwards as vice-president; director of National Protective Legion; member of F. E. Lyford Insurance Agency; served on Loan Commission of Tioga County 1917-18; president of board of managers of Craig Colony for Epileptics at Sonyea, N. Y , a state charitable institution, since 1906; in 1916 was elected president of Association of Managers of State Chan- table and Reformatory Institutions in the State of New York; during the war served as vice-director of National War Savings Committee i*or New York state and as lieutenant general and chief of staff of War Savings Army of the United States of America, of which he was the founder; member of Presbyte- rian Church, Waverly. Married (1) November 18, 1885, Alice Sarah, daughter of Nathan S. and Bessie (Cable) Johnson, of Ansonia, Conn. Children- Alice Marion (BA Wellesley 1911), the wife of George VanD. Dayton; Gertrude (Mrs Wilmot J. Hall); Percy Lyford, Jr., who attended the University of Pennsylva- nia; and Helen Lyford (died in 1900). Mrs. Lang died August 7, 1903. Married (2) September 1, 1906, in Owego, N. Y., Mane Louise Hoskins King, daughter of Watson L. and Fran- ces (Allen) Hoskins. No children by second marriage. Mrs. Lang died April 2, 1919. Death due to apoplexy. Buried in Glen wood Cemetery, Waverly. Survived by two daughters, two stepdaughters (whom he had adopted), Onalee King (Mrs Harold Clarey) and Phyllis King (Mrs. Stanley Fitts), a son, six grandchild- ren, and a brother, Louis J. Lang, of Brooklyn. Sheffield Scientific School 231 Francis Frederic Georger, Ph.B. 1887. Born April 6, 1865, in New York City. Died January 11, 1926, at Great Neck, N Y. Father, Louis Franklin Georger, a graduate of Nazareth (Pa.) College; senior partner in mercantile firm of C. G. Gun- ther's Sons, founded by his maternal grandfather in 1820. Mother, Arnie Amelia (Close) Georger; daughter of Charles A. and Mary Van Antwerp (Lynch) Close; direct descendant of Aneke Jans, one of the first residents of New Amsterdam. Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Conn. Select course; an edi- tor of Tale Record; member University Glee Club and Book and Snake. Had been engaged in real estate and insurance business from graduation until about a year before his death as treas- urer of firm of Brooke & Georger, Inc., in New York City; member 7th Regiment Veterans Association and Real Estate Board of New York; home was at Great Neck, Long Island. Married (1) September 25,1895, m Flemington, N. J., Flor- ence Bates Emery. Married (2) February 28, 1910, in Boston, Mass., Hatibel Hale, daughter of Frank Badger Cardell No children. Had been married a third time. Death due to heart disease. Interment in Woodlawn Ceme- tery, New York. Survived by wife, Anna M. Georger Charles Sherman Jewett, Ph.B. 1887. Born March 16, 1865, in Moravia, N Y Died November 5, 1925, in Buffalo, N. Y. Father, Charles Carroll Jewett (M D University of Buffalo 1850), a physician in Moravia until his death, son of Josiah and Sophia (Skinner) Jewett; grandson of Capt. Joseph Jew- ett, who was killed at the battle of Long Island; descendant of Joseph Jewett, who came to America from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, in 1638 and settled in Massachusetts, naming the town Rowley. Mother, Ellen Ransom Burroughs Jewett; daughter of John Sears and Lydia (Clarke) Ransom; adopted by Daniel Burroughs, whose wife, Sarah, was a sister of Mrs 232 Obituary Record Ransom; descendant of Robert Ransom, who came to this country from England prior to 1654 and settled at Plymouth Mass. Cousins. Josiah Jewett, '63, Dr. Carl ton R. Jewett, '78, George J. Kennedy, ex-Sy, Sherman S. Jewett, '91, Nathan H Jewett, '94, N. Holland Jewett, '09, Carlton C. Jewett, '10, Robert J. Jewett, '17, Kelsey H Jewett, '23 S., and Sherman S Jewett, Jr , '27 S. Buffalo Central High School. Biology course; first prize in mathematics and divided a prize in German Freshman year; read thesis at Commencement, member Berzehus M D. Columbia 1890, had since practiced in Buffalo, at one time being in partnership with his cousin, Dr. Carlton R. Jewett, spent years of 1891 and 1898 in graduate work at uni- versities in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Gratz, and at Leo- pold's Klinik in Dresden; held diplomas from Charity [City] and Maternity hospitals, New York City; during the war served as member of Medical Advisory Board No. 23 of the Buffalo District; application for commission in Medical Corps, U S A , was pending at time of armistice, had been president of Buffalo Academy of Medicine (1906-07), Erie County Hos- pital Board, and State Board of Midwifery; member American Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine, New York State Medical Society, Erie County Medical Society, Erie County Board of Midwifery, and Westminster Presby- terian Church, Buffalo Married June 10, 1912, in Buffalo, Edith Leslie Fraser, of Inverness, Scotland, daughter of Archibald and Anne (Mc- Donald) McPherson. No children. Death due to heart disease, from which he had suffered for two years. Buried in family plot in Moravia Survived by wife and a sister, Mrs. Henry Hunt, of South Hadley, Mass. Robert McKnight Woods, Ph.B. 1887. Born June 1, 1864, in New Haven, Conn. Died August 9, 1925, in St Paul, Minn Father, Joseph Woods, a banker; connected with Second National Bank of New Haven. Mother, Frances (McKnight) Woods, daughter of Horace and Asenath (Kimball) McKnight; Sheffield Scientific School 233 descendant of John Me Knight, who came to this country from Scotland in 1731 and settled in New Haven Cousins Dr Ev- erett J. McKnight, '76, and the Rev. Harry C. McKnight, '8-2. Hillhouse High School Entered Sheffield Scientific School with Class of 1886, but left at end of Junior year; joined Class of 1887 S. as a Senior in fall of 1886; chemistry course; mem- ber Theta Xi. Engaged in practice of his profession as a chemist since gradu- ation; with Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com- pany at Aurora, 111., 1887-1892; with Chicago & North- western Railway at Chicago 1892-98; with Great Northern Railway at St Paul, Minn., 1898-1900; chief chemist at Piano works of International Harvester Company at Pullman, 111, 1900-05; chief chemist for Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany at St. Paul from 1905 until a month before his death, member American Chemical Society, American Society for Testing Materials, and Olivet Congregational Church, St Paul. Married June 6,1903, at Lake Geneva, Wis , Agnes Josette, daughter of Andrews Taggert and Josephine (Josette) Merri- man. One son, Joseph Mernman. Death due to pleurisy and heart trouble. Buried in Elling- ton, Conn. Survived by wife and son. William Hill Bean, Ph.B. i Born April 14, 1867, in New Haven, Conn Died December 1, 1925, in New Haven, Conn Father, Albert Burchard Bean; with New Haven Manu- facturing Company as contractor, superintendent, and a director; his grandfather came from England and settled at Royalton, Vt. Mother, Charlotte Amanda (Carrmgton) Bean; daughter of Dennis and Eliza (Hoadley) Carrmgton, descendant of Revennis Carrington, who came to this country from England and settled at Woodbridge, Conn. General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute; also studied privately. Mechanical engineering course Engaged in manufacture of insulated wire for electric light, telephone, and telegraph purposes and the installation of 234 Obituary Record electric light plants from 1888 to 1893, when the business was closed by the burning of his factory and the death of his part- ner, Clinton B Hague; later served as assistant superintend- ent of National Folding Box & Paper Company in New Haven for a year; subsequently engaged in experimental electric work for a Hartford corporation in Hartford and London until 1897, also taking up X-ray work in London for two years; assisted Dr. Archibald McNeil in bactenojogical work in New Haven Department of Health 1898-1903; studied at Yale School of Medicine 1899-1903 (chairman of editorial board of Tale Medical Journal 1902-03; member Nu Sigma Nu; M.D. 1903); interne at Bridgeport (Conn.) General Hospital 1903-04; practiced in New Haven in association with Dr. Oliver T. Osborne, '84 M., from 1905 to 1909, when he was obliged to give up practice temporarily on account of a severe infection; had practiced independently since 1910; served in New Haven Free Dispensary 1904-05; connected with Yale School of Medicine 1905-09 (clinical assistant in medicine 1905-06, assistant and instructor in materia medica 1906-08, and instructor in therapeutics 1908-09); contributed to Jour- nal oj the American Medical Association; member New Haven County and City Medical associations, Connecticut State Medical Society, Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine, and United Church (Congregational), New Haven Married April 14, 1916, in New Haven, Catheryn, daughter of Michael and Mary Anna (Wolzumuth) Stein. No children. Death due to angina pectons. Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife Selden Yale Osborn, Ph.B. Born July 16, 1866, in New Haven, Conn Died November 7, 1925, in South Orange, N. J. Father, John Joel Osborn, a carriage manufacturer; son of Joel and Nancy (Hitchcock) Osborn; descendant of Thomas Osborn, one of the first settlers of New Haven in 1638, who had come to this country from England. Mother, Charlotte Augusta (Gilbert) Osborn, daughter of Ezekiel and Sarah (Hurd) Gilbert; descendant of Judge Matthew Gilbert, an Sheffield Scientific School 235 early settler in the New Haven Colony. Yale relatives include: Thomas Stoddard (M.D 1836) (uncle), and Norns G. Osborn, '80, Julius G. Day, '87 S., Harry G. Day, '90 S., Charles H. Osborn, '95 S., Louis E Stoddard, '99, Innis G Osborn, ex-'04 L., Minott A. Osborn, '07, Edward C Osborn, '08 S., Gardner Osborn, ' i ^ a n d Minott L. Osborn, '22 F (cousins). Cheshire Academy and Hopkins Grammar School. Mechani- cal engineering course; member Freshman Baseball Nine and substitute on University Baseball Nine Freshman year; vice- president Baseball Club Junior year, member Book and Snake. Took graduate work in Sheffield Scientific School 1888-89; was then engaged in real estate business and in brick manu- facturing at Kearney, Nebr., 1889-1892 and also traveled ex- tensively in the West and the South; returned to his home in New Haven in 1892 and until 1899 was department manager for E. S. Wheeler & Company, iron merchants and dealers in tinners' and plumbers* supplies; traffic manager of Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester, N Y , since 1899; represented them at Budapest in 1900, at Hamburg in 1901, and at Pans during 1902-03; again located in Rochester 1905-1916; since 1916 had been their representative in New York City; member Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, New Haven Married December 31, 1913, Maude, daughter of John Bunting and Henrietta (Ripley) Worth, of Bath, Maine. No children. Death, due to a malignant tumor, occurred after a short illness* Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife and a sister, Mrs. Clarence B. Vorce, and a brother, John J Osborn, both of New Haven Two other brothers were the Rev. Robert G. Osborn, '77, and Frederick A. Osborn, '86 L. Edwin Wright Robinson, Ph.B. Born September 7, 1867, in New Haven, Conn Died March 6, 1926, in Punxsutawney, Pa. Father, Warren Robinson, an architect and contracting builder; son of William and Hannah (Robbins) Robinson; 236 Obituary Record descendant of Isaac Robinson, a son of the Rev. John Robin- son, who came from Ley den, Holland, in 1631 and settled in Scituate, Mass., in 1636 and in Barnstable, Mass., in 1639; also descended from Elder Brewster of the "Mayflower" company. Mother, Sarah Howard (Woodward) Robinson; daughter of Hazo and Olive (Harsey) Woodward; descend- ant of Richard Woodward, who came to America from Ipswich, England, in 1634 and was the first of the name in this country Nephew: Charles R. Pitcher, Jr., ex-26 S. Hillhouse High School. Civil engineering course; divided a prize in mechanical drawing; Senior appointment. Assistant engineer with Bell, Lewis & Yates Mining Com- pany at the Rochester mine, DuBois, Pa., until May, 1889; assistant engineer on construction of Tampico branch of Mexi- can Central Railway and assistant on preliminary surveys through the mountains of the state of Hidalgo 1889-1891; engaged in surveying town lots near DuBois June-November, 1891; in employ of Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Com- pany 1891-1901 (mining engineer on construction at Punx- sutawney three years; superintendent of Watson and Adrian mines 1894-96; general superintendent 1896-1901); in West Australia as mining engineer for firm of Bewick, Moreing & Company of London (headquarters at West Collie) 1901-02, and in New South Wales for same firm August-November, 1902; general superintendent for a coal mining firm near Smithfield, Ohio, 1902-04; then returned to Punxsutawney and consolidated two machine companies into the Punxsu- tawney Foundry & Machine Company, of which he was presi- dent and general manager until his death; elected to the City Council of Punxsutawney from the First Ward in 1924 (elected president of the council in January, 1926); had been a trustee of Adrian Hospital at Punxsutawney and treasurer of the Board of Education, during the World War served as chairman of Committee on Materials for Jefferson County, Pa , of State Council of Defense; member Christ Episcopal Church, Punxsutawney. Married June 21,1901, in Punxsutawney, Nancy, daughter of James Ezekiel and Caroline (Hoover) Mitchell. One daugh- ter, Kitty Mitchell. Death due to pneumonia Buried in Circle Hill Cemetery, Sheffield Scientific School 237 Punxsutawney. Survived by wife, daughter, two brothers, Lucius W. Robinson, '77 S., and Eugene H. Robinson, of Port Arthur, Texas, and two sisters, Mrs Charles R. Pitcher, of Westfield, N. J , and Miss Julia A. Robinson, of New Haven. Arthur Herbert Day, Ph.B. 1889. Born September 9, 1868, in New Haven, Conn. Died April 23, 1926, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Wilbur Fisk Day, a banker; president of National New Haven Bank; auditor of Yale University for many years; son of Zelotes and Eliza (Atwater) Day, descendant of Robert Day, who came to America from England in 1634 and was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., m 1639 Mother, Mary Jane (Osborn) Day; daughter of Walter and Mary Jane (Remer) Osborn; descendant of Thomas Osborn, who came to New Haven from Bedfordshire, England, in 1637 Yale relatives include three cousins; Breckinndge A. Day, '13, Clive C. Day, '17, and Gardiner M Day, '22. Hopkins Grammar School. Chemistry course, member Book and Snake. Entered employ of Illinois Steel Company of Chicago as a chemist after graduation; in March, 1890, became member of firm of Kimberly, Root & Day, bankers and brokers in New Haven, and continued in that connection until the dis- solution of the firm in 1907, director and secretary-treasurer of National Pipe Bending Company 1907-July, 1925; had since been connected with brokerage firm of Hincks Brothers & Company of New Haven, members of New York Stock Exchange; during Spanish-American War held a commission as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy; had command of the "Restless," a converted gunboat, and later served as navi- gating officer of the "Buffalo," a transport; secretary of Class of 1889 S since graduation; director of Yale Alumni Univer- sity Fund Association 1898-1901; in 1925 elected a governor of Yale Publishing Association for term of five years; vice- president of Graduates Club of New Haven in 1919; member Christ Church (Episcopal), New Haven Married (1) April 21, 1892, in Chicago, Delia, daughter of 238 Obituary Record Edward P. and Kate (Baxter) Bailey. Children: Katharine Baxter (died in 1918); Mary Osborn; and Walter Bailey/16 S., who served abroad during the war as a Second Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps Mrs. Day died October 2, 1910. Married (2) February 1, 1919, in New Haven, Jane Tracy Fabian, daughter of Charles L. and Eva (Hale) Tracy. No children by second marriage. Death, due to heart disease, occurred after a three weeks' illness Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Sur- vived by wife, son, daughter, a stepson, Tracy Fabian, '26 S., and a brother, Osborne A Day, '99 S. Another brother, Wilbur F. Day, '92 S , died in 1914. Francis Dunlevy McCaulley, Ph.B. 1890. Born April 15, 1870, in San Francisco, Calif. Died March 24, 1926, at sea, near Port Sudan, Egypt. Father, William McCaulley, a broker; son of William and Florence (Ferguson) McCaulley; ancestors came to America from Scotland Mother, Kate (Dunlevy) McCaulley; daughter of Francis and Amanda (Fassett) Dunlevy; descendant of Anthony Dunlevy, who came to this country from Ireland in 1735 and settled at Winchester, Va Cousins: Dunlevy Mil- bank, '00, and Jeremiah Milbank, '09. Berkeley School, New York City. Select course; member Class Supper Committee and Book and Snake. Engaged in business in Denver, Colo , 1890-94; then moved to Chicago, where he was employed by Armour & Company until 1902, and was later with Finley Barrell & Company and with Granger Farwell & Company, bankers; returned to Den- ver in 1907 and during the next year was manager of bond department of Otis, Hough & Company; associated with John J Key in the bond and irrigation securities business as senior member of firm of McCaulley & Key 1908-09; was subse- quently with G. F. Hutton & Company, Otis & Company, bankers, and Producers & Refiners Corporation; retired from active business in 1919 Married January 27, 1917, at Lake Forest, 111., Laura Seager, daughter of Horace Brewster and Mary Frances Sheffield Scientific School 239 (Russell) Rogers Adopted children: Vance, '28, and Francis Dunlevy, J r , who enters Yale in the fall of 1926. Mrs. Mc- Caulley died September 27, 1917. Death, due to jaundice, occurred on the S S. "Orca" in the Red Sea. Buried at sea Survived by sons, a sister, Mrs. Harry B. Combs, of Denver, and a brother, Capt. Edwin P. McCaulley, U. S. Marines, of Quantico, Va. Walter Woodruff Keith, Ph.B. 1892. Born July 4, 1869, in Chicago, 111. Died September 1, 1925, in Baltimore, Md. Father, Edson Keith; president of Edson Keith & Company, grain merchants of Chicago; descendant of James Keith, who came from Scotland to Bndgewater, Mass , in 1662 and was later ordained as a Presbyterian minister Mother, Susan (Woodruff) Keith. Yale relatives include a nephew, Freder- ick W. Keith, £#-'15 S , and a cousin, Elbndge B Keith, '90 S. Harvard School, Chicago Select course, member Book and Snake. Manager of Keith & Company for a time and partner in the firm for a number of years; had retired from active business some time before his death; had played polo for many years, and was a nationally known sportsman. Married October 14, 1896, in Baltimore, Frances Win- chester, daughter of George Brown, of Brooklandville, Md. One son, Walter Winchester, ex-'23 S Death due to heart disease. Buried in Chicago Survived by wife, son, and a brother, Edson Keith, '84 S. Hampton Howell, Ph.B. 1893. Born May 18, 1872, in Brooklyn, N Y Died January 5, 1926, in Stamford, Conn. Father, Josiah Post Howell, a stockbroker; descendant of Edward Howell, who came from England to Boston about 1639, was given a land grant at Lynn, Mass , and was a founder 240 Obituary Record of Southampton, N Y., about 1640. Mother, Mary Esther (Woodford) Howell; daughter of Oliver and Eleanor (Phelps) Woodford; descendant of Thomas Woodford, who came to this country from England in 1650 and settled in Hartford, Conn Yale relatives: Stewart L Woodford, '54; Hamilton P. Howell, '91, Lloyd M. Howell, '94, and Thomas A. Howell, 'oo (cousins), and Walter E. Woodford, Jr , *io. Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Mechanical engineering course; Senior appointment; member Class Cup Committee and Berzelms Immediately after graduation opened an office in New York City as a stockbroker, engaged in that business until 1912; then retired to his farm in Easton, Md., which he worked with a tenant on shares until 1918, when he sold it; then moved to Quogue, Long Island, where he had a country home; spent several winters abroad; upon his return in January, 1925, re- modeled a house two miles from Stamford, where he was liv- ing at the time of his death; during the war served as secretary and director of the emergency hospital at Easton, and as chairman of executive committee of the Talbot Chapter of American Red Cross; had traveled extensively, making a trip to Venezuela in 1896, going around the world in 1900, and taking a trip to West Africa in 1903. Married (1) March 21, 1907, in New York City, Marion, daughter of John Henry and Frances Roe (Haswell) Bache. No children Mrs Howell died December 28, 1909. Married (2) June 20, 1912, in Brooklyn, Grace, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walter Brooks and Sarah Jane (Jordan) Brooks. One adopted son, Gilbert. Death due to pneumonia Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Bellport, Long Island. Survived by son. Thomas Henry Lewis, Ph.B. 1893. Born June 3, 1872, in Chicago, 111 Died January 16, 1926, in Chicago, 111 Father, Martin Lewis, a real estate dealer; born in Dublin, Ireland, came to America in 1847; s o n of Richard and Martha (Fitzgerald) Lewis Mother, Jessie (Rogerson) Lewis; bora Sheffield Scientific School 241 in Ayr, Scotland; daughter of John and Jessie (McKay) Rogerson. Evanston (111.) High School. Studied at Northwestern University 1888-1891. Entered Sheffield Scientific School as a Junior in 1891; biology course; Senior appointment; a Class historian; member Book and Snake. M.D. Northwestern 1896; interne at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, 1896-99; had practiced in Chicago since February, 1900, specializing in gynecology and obstetrics; gynecologist at St. Luke's Hospital 1900-07 and at St. Luke's Hospital Dispensary 1900-1910; associate physician, St. Luke's Hos- pital, since 1915; taught gynecology at Northwestern Univer- sity 1902-09; lecturer at St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses 1920-21; during the war served as examining physician for Local Board No 46; member American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, Chicago Medical Society, American Academy of Medicine, Chicago Institute of Medicine, and First Presbyterian Church, Chicago Married June 16, 1917, in Chicago, Florence McLaughhn Mair, daughter of William Francis and Mary (Delhanty) McLaughhn. No children Mrs. Lewis died March 31, 1925 Death, due to sinus trouble, occurred at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago Buried in Calvary Cemetery, that city Survived by three brothers, David R. Lewis (B A Northwestern 1875) and Martin O. Lewis (B.A. Northwestern 1874), both of Chicago, and Charles George Lewis (B A Northwestern 1887), °f Kalamazoo, Mich. Wilfred Willis Savage, Ph.B. 1894. Born July 26, 1872, in Baltimore, Md Died December 14, 1925, in New York City Father, Willis Morse Savage, a manufacturer; son of Willis S. and Ulyssa (Morse) Savage. Mother, Frances (Penfield) Savage. Cousin- Willis S. Whittlesey, '03. Hartford Public High School. Mechanical engineering course. Connected with actuarial department of ^Etna Life In- surance Company for a number of years after graduating 242 Obituary Record from Yale; later engaged in the management of his farm at Wethersfield, Conn., but had retired a few years before his death; had represented Wethersfield in Connecticut Legisla- ture and served as member of the Board of Assessors (chairman of its committee for the transformation of the Wethersfield Academy building into the town's public library) and as chair- man of the building committee of the Charles Wright School; was prominent in the National Guard. Married April 4, 1899, Anne Cushman, daughter of Silas Webster Robbins, of Wethersfield. One son, John Robbins. Death, due to a heart attack, occurred at a private hospital in New York City; had been operated on there a week before for an ulcer of the stomach; was recovering rapidly from the operation and had expected to leave early in January to join his wife and son in California Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Besides his wife and son, he leaves a sister, Mrs Esther Brackett, of New Britain, Conn. Harry Merriman Steele, Ph.B. 1894. Born December 31, 1872, in Waterbury, Conn. Died March 18, 1926, in New Haven, Conn Father, Edward Daniel Steele, a manufacturer; son of Hi- ram and Nancy McHarg (Turner) Steele; descendant of John Steele, who came to America from Durham, England, in 1630 and settled in Plymouth Colony, Mass., later moving to Hart- ford, Conn. Mother, Sarah Cornelia (Merriman) Steele; daughter of Joseph and Julia (Judd) Merriman; descendant of Charles Mernman who came from Wiltshire, England, to Walhngford, Conn Nephew: Steele K Barhydt, '25. Prepared at public schools in Waterbury and in Media, Pa., at Holderness (N. H ) Academy, and under private tutors. Biological course; member Chi Phi. Entered Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1894, but inter- rupted his course there to spend two years studying pathology in Leipsic; received his M D. at Johns Hopkins in 1902; had since practiced in New Haven, specializing in children's dis- eases, assistant in that subject in the clinics of New York Uni- versity and Bellevue Medical schools 1902-04; assistant in Sheffield Scientific School 243 pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine 1903-04, assistant in pathology 1904-08, and instructor in pediatrics 1908-1918; since 1923 had again been connected with the Yale faculty as clinical professor of pediatrics; attending physician at New Haven Hospital (children's ward) since 1918; consulting phy- sician for children's diseases at St. Raphael's Hospital since January i, 1925, had contributed numerous articles on medi- cal subjects to Tale Medical Journal, North American Review, and Transactions of the Connecticut State Medical Society; vice-president New Haven County Medical Association 1923- 24 and president the next year; Fellow New York Academy of Medicine; member State and City Medical societies, Ameri- can Medical Association, National Society for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, Con- necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and St. Thomas' (Episcopal) Church, New Haven Married June 18, 1898, in Leipsic, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Whitehead and Mary (Nostrand) Kissam, of Bridge- port, Conn. Children: Charlotte Mernman; Daniel Edward (died at birth); and Harry Mernman, Jr. Death due to double pneumonia Buried in Riverside Cem- etery, Waterbury. Survived by wife, daughter, son, and a sis- ter, Mrs Roger S Wotkyns, of Waterbury, whose husband was a non-graduate member of the Yale Class of 1886. Francis Castleman Waller, Ph.B. 1894. Born September 26, 1873, in Chicago, 111 Died November 20, 1925, in Chicago, 111 Father, Edward Waller, a graduate of Transylvania Uni- versity; lawyer; later a banker in New York City. Mother, Mary (Rawson) Waller. University School, Chicago. Select course. In October, 1894, joined his cousin, William Waller, in the wholesale coal business and had since been a member of the firm of the Waller Coal Company (vice-president at the time of his death); had also been engaged in the fire insurance busi- ness, at first with firm of Waller, Chandler & Grey, later in partnership with his brother, Edward Waller, and at the time 244 Obituary Recofd of his death as a partner in firm of Cntchell, Miller, Whitney & Barbour; member Chicago Board of Education for several years; during World War served as director of Bureau of Accounting of the Central Division of American Red Cross; member Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago. Married in May, 1899, in Louisville, Ky., Nina, daughter of James Henry and Amanda (Lovmg) McGoodwin. No children. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Survived by wife, three brothers, A. Rawson and Edward Waller, both of whom attended the University of Tennessee, and J. Alexander Waller, '94, and a sister, Miss Susanna Preston Waller. John Campbell Greenway, Ph.B. 1895. Born July 6, 1872, in Huntsville, Ala. Died January 19, 1926, in New York City. Father, Dr. Gilbert Christian Greenway (B A. University of Virginia 1858), studied at University of Maryland; son of John Campbell and Margaret Christian (Cowan) Greenway; descendant of William Greenway, who came to America from Oxford, England, and settled in Adams County, Pa. Mother, Alice (White) Greenway; daughter of Addison and Sara (Irvine) White; descendant of William White, who came to this country from Ireland in 1760 and settled in Lancaster, Pa. Nephews: George Lauder Greenway, '25, and James C. Greenway, J r , '26 Episcopal High School, Alexandria, V a , and Phillips-An- dover Attended University of Virginia 1890-91. Entered Sheffield Scientific School 1892; electrical engineering course; member University Baseball and Football teams three years; vice-president University Base Ball Association; Class presi- dent Senior year; member Book and Snake and Triennial Reunion Committee. With Carnegie Steel Company at Duquesne, Pa., as ma- chinist's helper and foreman of mechanical department 1895- 97; volunteered as a Private in Colonel Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" (1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry) in 1898 and soon re- ceived a commission as Second Lieutenant of Troop G; pro- Sheffield Scientific School 245 moted to First Lieutenant and was Acting Captain in the field; commended for gallantry in action at San Juan Hill; later recommended to Congress by Colonel Roosevelt for brevet Captain and given distinguished mention in his book on the Cuban campaign; with firm of J, L. D. Speer & Company, bankers and brokers, representing them on Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, November, 1898-January, 1900; assistant super- intendent of mines for United States Steel Corporation at Ishpeming, Mich., 1902-05; general superintendent for Oliver Mining Company on Mesaba iron range in Minnesota 1905- 1910, with headquarters at Bovey and later at Coleraine, building the latter town and also Taconite and Marble; in the development of Coleraine erected a hospital, built a school, reserved site for a library, donated land for parks, provided a field for athletics, and established water, sewer, and electric light systems; general manager of Calumet & Arizona Copper Company at Bisbee and Warren, Ariz., since 1910, except during his service in the World War; since 1920 also manag- ing director and vice-president of Ahumada Lead Company of Chihuahua, Mexico; made his home in Ajo, Ariz., a town which he had built and where he had developed the New Cor- nelia Copper Company, of which he was general manager 1915-1925 and a director at the time of his death; had also managed the 85 Mining Company, Gadsden Copper Com- pany, Superior & Pittsburgh Copper Company, and Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Bend Railway Company (also vice-president of the last); was commissioned a Major of 1st Engineers (Line) October 15,1917, and went overseas as such the next month; attached to Staff" of General Headquarters at Chau- mont, Section 4, for a time, and later assigned as assistant regulating officer of 1st Division in first American attack at Cantigny; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in September, 1918, and transferred to 101st Infantry, 26th Division, with which he served throughout the rest of the war, during a large part of the time commanding the regiment; saw service at Chateau-Thierry, on the Vesle, at St.-Mihiel, and in two actions in the Argonne; gassed towards the end of the war and was invalided home January 6, 1919; awarded Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action in the Meuse- Argonne operations north of Verdun October 23, 1918; ^ Obituary Record also received the Croix de Guerre with two palms and the Croix de VEtoile Notre and made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; after his return to this country was appointed colonel in the U S. Army Reserve and shortly afterwards made a Brigadier General in the Reserve, continuing as such until his death, had been chairman of Defense Committee of Coun- cil of Defense of Arizona and member of Board of Regents of University of Arizona, where he received degree of LL.D. in 1921; vice-president Yale Alumni Association of Arizona from its formation in 1913 to 1915 and then president until 1924; a governor of Yale Publishing Association 1919-1924; at the Democratic Convention in New York City in 1924 his name was placed in nomination for vice-president of the United States; in 1925, with two other graduates gave a set of the Arizona Reports to library of Yale School of Law; member Leonard Wood National Campaign Committee 1920, Yale Committee for Participation in the Restoration of the Li- brary of Louvain 1924, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Yale Engineering Association, Sons of the American Revolution, and American Legion; trustee of Roosevelt House, New York City, and active member of com- mittee sponsoring Roosevelt Memorial project in Washington. Married November 4, 1923, in Santa Barbara, Calif., Is- abelle Dinsmore Selmes Ferguson, daughter of Tilden Rus- sell Selmes, '75, and Martha M. (Flandrau) Selmes. One son, John Selmes. Death, due to a cardiac embolus, occurred at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York, following an operation a week before. Buried at Ajo Survived by wife, son, a sister, Mrs. Sara G. Keller, of Washington, D. C , and three brothers, Gilbert C. Greenway, Jr , '98 S , Dr. James C. Greenway, *oo, and Wil- liam I Greenway, of Los Angeles, Calif. Charles Edward Meigs, Ph.B. 1895. Born June 1, 1872, at Quaker Farms, Oxford, Conn. Died December 20, 1925, in Waterbury, Conn. Father, Charles Augustus Meigs; member of firm of Meigs & Trott, bakers and wholesale cracker manufacturers; son of Sheffield Scientific School 24.7 Samuel and Lorena (Tomlmson) Meigs; descendant of John Meigs, who came to Weymouth, Mass., from Dorsetshire, England, in 1635, moved to East Guilford (now Madison), Conn., in 1654, and is said to have led the Regicides to the cave on West Rock, New Haven, while Edward Riggs, another ancestor, at other times protected them in his home on Derby hill; also descended from Lieut. Col. Jabez Thomp- son and John Holbrook of the Revolutionary Army, Henry Tomlinson, who settled in Milford, Conn , in 1652, Nathaniel Bacon, who settled in Middletown, Conn., in 1655, anc ^ the Rev. Jeremiah Peck, who was the first ordained pastor (1691) of the Congregational Church in Waterbury. Mother, Ber- nice (Riggs) Meigs; daughter of Ebenezer and Julia (Davis) Riggs; descendant of Edward Riggs, who came to Roxbury, Mass., from England in 1633, n i s son > Edward Riggs, being one of the first two settlers of Derby, Conn , in 1654. Great- uncle, Benjamin C. Meigs (B.A. 1809). Waterbury High School and Greenwich (Conn ) Academy. Entered Sheffield Scientific School with Class of 1894, but left during Junior year on account of illness; returned to Yale in fall of 1893 as a Junior with Class of 1895 S , select course, member Freshman and Second Glee clubs and Theta Xi. Took a business course during the fall of 1895, connected with Holmes, Booth & Hayden, brass manufacturers of Water- bury, and with the Excelsior Needle Company of Torrmgton, Conn , 1895-96; studied in Yale School of Law from January, 1897, until June, 1898, when he was admitted to the Connecti- cut Bar, took a special course at Harvard Law School 1898— 99; began practice in Waterbury in July, 1899; appointed prosecuting attorney for city of Waterbury in February, 1904, and continued in office until March 26, 1910, when he resigned to become a deputy judge of Waterbury District Court; reappointed in 1914 and held office until November 15, 1916, when he resigned on account of ill health, which made it necessary to spend much time in a warmer climate and prevented his return to active practice; member Water- bury Republican Town Committee, on board of governors of Waterbury Club 1904-07 and 1909-1911 (vice-president in 1905); secretary and member of executive committee of Wa- terbury Golf Association; member Connecticut State Bar 248 Obituary Record Association, Connecticut branch of Sons of the American Revolution, and St. John's (Episcopal) Church, Waterbury. Unmarried Death, due to a cerebral hemorrhage, occurred after a short illness Buried in Brookside Cemetery, Quaker Farms. Sur- vived by a sister, Miss Mary L, Meigs, of Waterbury. Robert Reitzell Miller, Ph.B. 1895. Born April 6, 1873, at Pine Grove, Pa Died January 7, 1926, at Pine Grove, Pa. Father, Daniel Ruth Miller, a member of the Pennsylvania College Class of 1856; a coal operator, partner in firms of Levi Miller & Company and Miller, GraefT & Company; son of Levi and Mary (Ruth) Miller; descendant of Sebastian Miller, who came to America from Germany in 1766 and set- tled at Sinking Springs, Pa. Mother, Mayanna Middlekauff (Reitzell) Miller; daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Middle- kauff) Reitzell, descendant of Jacob Reitzell, who came to Sinking Springs from Germany. Prepared for college by a tutor at Pine Grove. B S. Gettys- burg College 1893 Entered Sheffield Scientific School at be- ginning of Junior year; chemistry course. After graduation returned to his home in Pine Grove, where he had since resided, was not engaged in any business, but since his father's death in 1902 had spent the greater part of his time in looking after the interests of his estate. Married October 8, 1921, in St Joseph, Mo., Jessie Fan- chon, daughter of Manus Scofield and Phoebe Ann (Cotton) Norman. No children. Death, due to a duodenal ulcer, followed a week's illness. Buried in St John's Cemetery, Pine Grove Survived by wife. Henry Hollister Robinson, Ph.B. 1895. Born June 4,1873, in Hartford, Conn. Died October 20, 1925, m New Haven, Conn. Father, Charles Augustus Robinson; member of firm of Smith, Northam & Robinson, wholesale and retail grain mer- Sheffield Scientific School 249 chants; son of George and Harriet Whiting (Bradley) Rob- inson; descendant of the Rev. William Robinson (B A. 1773), who founded the town of Southington, Conn.; also descended from William Robinson, who came to Dorchester, Mass., from England in 1636. Yale relatives include: William Rob- inson (B.A. 1804), Charles Robinson (B.A 1821), and Ernest Robinson, '67. Hartford Public High School. Civil engineering course; honors Senior year. Assistant engineer on construction with Mexican Interna- tional Railway at Porfino Diaz, Coahuila, 1895-96; graduate student at Yale 1896-97 (C E. 1897); with Southington (Conn.) Water Company 1897-98; resumed studies at Yale in January, 1899, and was given his Ph D. in 1903; elected to Sigma Xi in 1902; instructor in geology at Yale 1902-08, spent following year at his home in Hartford; engaged in geological research in Portland, Ore , 1909-1913; then returned to New Haven and during the next seven years was engaged in geo- logic research; superintendent of Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey since 1920 and member of Yale fac- ulty since 1921, having the rank of professor, had worked for the Connecticut Survey previous to 1910 and assisted in the preparation and publication of a geological map of the state; spent a number of summers in research work in Grand Canon of Arizona and in California under U. S Geological Survey, which published the outgrowth of his studies of extinct vol- canoes in 1913, under the title of tfhe San Franciscan Volcanic Field; served as secretary and treasurer of Class of 1895 S 1905-1910, editing Decennial Record; member American Geographical Society, Geological Society of America, Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science and Con- necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; since 1914 his home had been in Clintonville, Conn. Married May 18, 1910, in Portland, Ore , Mabel Agnes, daughter of Roger Morgan and Ellen (Clogston) Sherman. Children: Charles Sherman, Edith Ellen, Roger Sherman, and Mary Louise. Death, due to an enlarged spleen, occurred at the New Haven Hospital. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife, four children, and a brother, Charles Nelson Robinson, of Hartford. 250 Obituary Record James Thomas Drummond, Ph.B. 1896. Born March 27, 1873, in Alton, 111. Died June 26, 1925, in St. Louis, Mo. Father, James Thomas Drummond; founder and president of Drummond Tobacco Company; mayor of Alton; son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Wilkins)- Drummond; descendant of William Drummond, who came from Perth, Scotland, to James City County, Va , in 1688. Mother, Bethia (Randle) Drummond; daughter of Irwm Blackmore and Mary Eliza- beth (Harrison) Randle; descendant of Josias and Apphia Randle, who came to Virginia from England and later moved to Hopkinsville, Tenn. Nephew. Harrison Drummond, ex-\<} S. Hill School Member Book and Snake. After graduation became connected with Drummond To- bacco Company, of which he was vice-president until it was absorbed by American Tobacco Company in 1898; in broker- age business with his brother, Harrison I. Drummond, '90 S., for a time, after his father's death in 1897, f° r m ed (with his brothers, Harrison I. Drummond and Charles R. Drummond, ^-'99 S ) the Drummond Realty & Investment Company, of which he was at first vice-president and later president; left that firm in 1902; became connected with Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company of New York City as a salesman in 1912; at time of death was southwestern sales manager for that firm in St. Louis, member First Congregational Church, St. Louis. Married April 8, 1897, i n Minneapolis, Minn., Grace, daughter of Franklin Lewis and Florence (Cahill) Greenleaf. One daughter, Dons (Mrs Alonzo Christy Church). Death due to heart disease. Buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis Survived by wife, daughter, a sister, Mrs. Eugene R Cuendet, and his brother, Charles R Drummond. His older brother died in 1920. Sheffield Scientific School 251 George Arthur Lanphear, Ph.B. 1896. Born April 6, 1876, in Harris, R I. Died May 30, 1924, in Anderson, Ind Father, George Thomas Lanphear, a civil engineer, super- intendent of Narragansett Pier Railroad Company; member Rhode Island State Senate; son of Elisha and Lydia (LeVal- ley) Lanphear; descendant of Thomas Lanphear, who came to America from Wales in the time of Cromwell and settled at Potter Hill, R. I Mother, Martha Amelia (Nason) Lanphear; daughter of Sewell Kingsley and Matilda (Dawley) Nason; descendant of William Nason, who came to Pennsylvania from northern England. South Kingston (R. I.) High School. Civil engineering course. Engaged in civil engineering since graduation; employed in office of city water works of Providence, R. I , 1896-97; asso- ciated with his father 1897-99; with Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland & St. Louis Railroad Company 1899-1902, Lake Erie & WTestern 1902-03, Central Indiana Railroad Company 1903-08, and Northern Pacific 1908-1911; civil engineer for city of Anderson 1911-19; owner of Central Garage, Anderson, for a time; was subsequently division engineer for Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for a time and was with New York Central for a number of years; more recently had been en- gaged in private practice in Anderson; member Congrega- tional Church, Peace Dale, R. I. Married April 19, 1905, in Anderson, Mary belle, daughter of Joshua Elliott and Margaret Jane (Clark) Knight No children. Death due to Bright's disease. Buried in Maplewood Cem- etery, Anderson. Survived by wife, three sisters, Mrs Leland L. Eaton, of Verona, N. J., Miss May J. Lanphear, of Peace Dale, and Mrs. Henry S. Arnold, of Boston, and a brother, Fred Lanphear, of Providence Obituary Record Charles Henry Hall, Ph.B. 1897. Born September i, 1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Died March 1, 1925, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Father, William Henry Hall, a manufacturer of sash, doors, and blinds; son of Michael C. and Mary A. (McSweeny) Hall; grandson of Peter Hall, who came to New York from Den- mark, and of Michael McSweeny, who came to this country from Ireland about 1800 Mother, Susan A (Marsland) Hall; daughter of Stephen Marsland, who came to New York from Leeds, England, and Mary A (Barton) Marsland, a descend- ant of Elizabeth Lounsbery Barton, of a family of Quakers who came to New York about 1750 and settled along the Hud- son River, near Croton. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Latin School, and Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute. Civil engineering course. Entered Department of Docks and Ferries of the City of New York as a rodman in September, 1899; promoted to assistant engineer in 1908 and held that position until his death; in addition to general engineering work, designed piers, coal pockets, and bulkhead walls (built both by city of New York and private parties, along the waterfront) and super- vised their construction; studied law at Brooklyn Law School of St Lawrence University 1912-15, receiving degree of LL B. with honors in 1915; after his admission to New York State Bar in 1915, technical questions concerning legal owner- ship of property were referred to him for preparation of matter for the guidance of counsel in court; had been in charge of preliminary work of survey and title searches in con- nection with improvement of Harlem River; member of vestry of Church of St. Mark (Episcopal), Brooklyn, since January, 1921. Married June 9, 1909, in Brooklyn, Theresa Mary, daugh- ter of Frederick A and Mary L. (Anderson) Berg, of Rock- ford, 111. One son, William Marsland. Death, due to an operation for an abscess of the duodenum, occurred at the Peck Memorial Hospital, Brooklyn. Buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Richmond Hill, N. Y. Survived by wife, son, three sisters, Mrs Mary J MacCabe and the Misses Sheffield Scientific School 253 Elizabeth A. and Henrietta Hall, and a brother, Robert Ship- pen Hall, all of Brooklyn. James Ladd Hitchcock, Ph.B. 1897. Born November 14, 1876, in Cheektowaga, N, Y. Died December 14, 1925, in Buffalo, N Y. Father, James Hitchcock, a farmer. Mother, Lydia Eliza (Ladd) Hitchcock. Central High School, Buffalo. Civil engineering course; member University Track Team Junior and Senior years. Studied in Yale Graduate School 1897-1900, during the second year there being an assistant in civil engineering, then entered office of resident engineer in the construction depart- ment of the Western Division of New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, where he was employed as assistant engineer until about 1908, when his health broke down; since then had not been able to engage in any active business Unmarried Death due to pneumonia; had been a patient in the State Hospital in Buffalo for a number of years Buried in Lancaster, N. Y. Survived by a nephew, Frank H Denny. Richard Martin Lester, Ph.B. 1897. Born September 20, 1875, in Savannah, Ga Died April 3, 1926, in Savannah, Ga Father, Daniel Brinson Lester; son of Malcolm B and Mary A. (Ralston) Lester; descendant of John Donaldson, who came to America from Scotland in 1773 and settled at Clinton, Ga Mother, Margaret Isabella (Russell) Lester; daughter of Levi S. and Anna S. Russell; descendant of Philip Moses Russell, of Germantown, Pa. Phillips-Andover. Select course LL B. University of Georgia 1898; practiced law in Savan- nah until 1902 (in office of Gignilhat & Stubbs for over two years and then alone); in 1902 moved to Oklahoma City and began practice there; in 1904 formed a partnership with M L. 254 Obituary Record Garrett and William H. Bingham under firm name of Gar- rett, Bingham & Lester and practiced in Tishomingo, Indian Territory, until the dissolution of the firm in the fall of 1905; then went to Ardmore, Okla , and in 1907 entered into part- nership with James E. Humphrey in firm of Humphrey & Lester; continued in that connection until 1913, when he re- turned to Savannah, where he had since practiced; member of firm of Gigmlliat, Heidt & Lester until 1915 and then of Ed- wards & Lester until 1923; had since practiced alone; ap- pointed a United States commissioner in January, 1926; vice- president of Southern Paint & Supply Company; in fall of 1906 was a candidate for city attorney on Democratic ticket, but was defeated; shortly after Oklahoma became a state was a candidate for office of assistant attorney-general; member Sons of the Revolution and St John's Episcopal Church, Savannah, in which he was a lay reader. Married August 26, 1903, in Oklahoma City, Victonne Myrta, daughter of William Henry and Ellen Sylvina (Nor- ton) Cooke Children Margaret Ellen and Myrta Cooke Took his own life Buried in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah Survived by wife, daughters, and father. William Brewster Hubbard, Ph.B. 1901. Born February 4, 1878, in Toledo, Ohio. Died September 4, 1925, in West Cornwall, Conn Father, Rollin Massey Hubbard; engaged in the lumber business, son of Rollin Barnard and Ann Morrison (Massey) Hubbard, descendant of George Hubbard, who came from England to Hartford, Conn , in 1634. Mother, Lydia Maria (Brewster) Hubbard; daughter of Jasper Pratt and Susan (Allen) Brewster, and sister of Edward E. Brewster, '78 S ; direct descendant of Pnscilla and John Alden and Elder Wil- liam Brewster of the "Mayflower" company. Yale relatives include: George Hubbard (B A 1803); John M Hubbard (B A. 1829); Charles L Hubbard, '73; three uncles, Charles H. Hubbard, '67 S , Shannon B Hubbard, ex-yg S-, and Frank A Hubbard, ex-$o S.; and a cousin, William E Brewster, *ioS. Sheffield Scientific School 255 Housatonic Valley Institute, Cornwall, and Morgan High School, Clinton, Conn Mechanical engineering course; treasurer Yale Dramatic Association Senior year. Chief clerk for the Forest Mine at Iron Mountain, Mich , 1901-04; engineer for Beaufort Mine at Michigamme, Mich , 1904-06; assistant superintendent of Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Company at Buffalo 1906-08; general superintendent of Federal Furnace Company of Chicago 1908-1911; had since been engaged in farming at West Cornwall; also occupied in civil engineering and in the insurance business there; trustee Housatonic Valley Institute; member First Congregational Church, Cornwall Married October 16, 1907, in Providence, R I , Martha Johnson, daughter of Wendell Phillips and Elizabeth (Guy) Hale. Children: William Brewster, Jr , Elizabeth Carleton, Lydia Brewster, Gordon Hale, and Thomas Johnson Death due to an accident. Buried in North Cornwall. Survived by wife, three sons, two daughters, father, a brother, Robert T. Hubbard, of Sumter, S. C , and five sisters, Mrs Ross Lynn Ransom, of Walden, N Y , Mrs William Bancroft and Mrs. Ralph Silas Beers, both of Schenectady, N Y , Mrs John Russell Agee, of Los Angeles, Calif, and Mrs Frank Herbert Todd, of El Paso, Texas < Ogden Trevor McClurg, Ph.B. 1901. Born September 8, 1878, in Chicago, Til Died April 20, 1926, in Chicago, 111 Father, Alexander Caldwell McClurg, founder and pres- ident of A C McClurg & Company, booksellers and pub- lishers of Chicago; Lieutenant Colonel, Brevet Colonel, and Brigadier General of 14th Army Corps in Civil War; son of Alexander and Sarah (Trevor) McClurg; descendant of Joseph McClurg, who came to Pittsburgh, Pa , from Ireland about 1796. Mother, Eleanor (Wheeler) McClurg; daughter of Judge Nelson Knox Wheeler and Emily Butler (Ogden) Wheeler; granddaughter of William Wheeler, of New London, Conn., and Eleanor (Knox) Wheeler; descendant of Capt William Knox of the Revolutionary Army. i$6 Obituary Record Chicago Latin School Select course; member Yale Corin- thian Yacht Club and Delta Phi. Member of firm of A C McClurg & Company since grad- uation, becoming president in 1911; president Lake Shore Building Company, vice-president South Bend (Ind) Sta- tionery Manufacturing Company, National Association of Book Publishers, North Central Improvement Association, and Breck D Porter Company, engravers; treasurer North Central Association; director Chicago Dock & Canal Com- pany, Chicago Association of Commerce (chairman of army and navy committee and of subscriptions investigating committee), Rogerson*Press, and Chapman Grannis & Com- pany; director and vice-president Loop Protective Associa- tion, served in Illinois Naval Reserve 1900-1917, commis- sioned Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Naval Reserve Force, March 7, 1917, and served in the office of the 9th, 10th, and n t h Naval Districts until July 12, 1917, was in command of U.S.S. "Wolverine'* on the Great Lakes until August 20, 1917, and then of U S S. "Galatea" on the North Atlantic until September 28; then commanded a squadron of sixteen submarine chasers for two months; Acting Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff in 9th, 10th, and n t h Naval Districts Novem- ber 25, 1917-October 26, 1918; Chief of Staff of District of Brest, France, until January 24, 1919; Chief of Staff to Rear Admiral Long and Assistant to Naval Attache in Pans until April 20, 1919; placed on inactive duty May 15, 1919; pro- moted to Commander by Act of Congress,November 14,1919; recommended for the Navy Cross by Admiral Wilson; com- modore Lincoln Park Yacht Club; won the international yacht races at Toronto and the sailing championship of the Great Lakes in summer of 1923, rear commodore of Cruising Club of America, president Lake Michigan Yachting Asso- ciation, director and fleet captain of Chicago Yacht Club, president "of Great Lakes Yacht Racing Union, vice-commo- dore and director Yale Yacht Club, and a licensed master of steam vessels, all tonnage, pioneer in the development of dis- trict known as Streeterville in Chicago, had recently returned from an exploring trip to Yucatan with the Mason-Spinden Expedition, of which he was official hydrographer by appoint- ment of the U S Navy, helped to discover the ruins of sev- Sheffield Scientific School 257 eral old Maya cities and to locate many species of birds which were new to science, personally securing four of the eight ornithological specimens which were brought back; life mem- ber Chicago Art Institute and Chicago Geographical Society; governing life member Chicago Historical Society; member mercantile marine committee of Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Citizens Committee to Enforce the Landis Award, executive committee of Lake Shore Improvement Association, board of governors of American Friends of China, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of. the United States, Mil- itary Order of the World War, United States Naval Reserve Officers' Association of 9th, 10th, and n t h Naval Districts, and St. James' Church (Episcopal), Chicago Married (1) February 24, 1903, in Chicago, Marion Win- ifred, daughter of Warren and Ida (Evans) Ewen, who died April 3, 1909. No children. Married (2) March 6, 1916, in Brookline, Mass., Gertrude Florence Schwarz (B A Smith 1909, B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1910), daughter of Theodore Edward and Florence (Boyd) Schwarz. Children: Gertrude Florence (died in infancy); Eleanor Wheeler; Alexander Caldwell (born and died the same day); and Barbara Ogden. Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage; lived only eighteen hours after a stroke. Buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chi- cago; full naval honors were accorded him. Survived by wife and two daughters. Alfred Coxe Prime, Ph.B. 1904. Born March 3, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa. Died March 2, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pa. Father, Frederick Prime (B.A. Columbia 1865, P h D . Lafayette 1881); professor of geology and metallurgy at La- fayette and of natural history at Girard College; assistant state geologist of Pennsylvania; manager and president of several iron companies; president of Electric Light Company of Philadelphia; son of Frederick and Lydia (Hare) Prime; descendant of Mark Prime, who came to Rowley, Mass , from England about 1640. Mother, Laurette deTousard (Coxe) 25 8 Obituary Record Prime, daughter of Alfred Coxe, a non-graduate member of the Yale Class of 1831 and Laurette deTousard (Stocker) Coxe, descendant of Col Daniel Coxe, who came to this coun- try from England in 1701 and settled in New Jersey, where he served as royal councilor, judge of the Supreme Court, speaker of the Assembly, and Colonel of Militia. ' Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia Attended University of Pennsylvania one year (1900-01) as member of Class of 1904, entered Sheffield Scientific School in 1901; civil en- gineering course, Tucker Prize and two-year honors. During summer of 1904 was field assistant in surveying at Sheffield Scientific School; on reconnaissance in Ontario, Canada, August, 1904-February, 1905; engineer in main- tenance of way department of The Pennsylvania Railroad 1905-1915; in office cf principal assistant engineer at Buffalo 1905-08, during which time was engaged in inspection Gf va- rious railroad properties, designed an addition to Pittsburgh Produce Station, was in charge of construction of shops and yards at Olean, N. Y , and Franklin, Pa., and of surveys and construction of the Scotsville branch, made an inspection of railroads and transportation methods in Europe, and was in charge of rebuilding the freight house at Buffalo, in office of the principal assistant engineer at Altoona, Pa , in charge of roadbed tests, 1908-09; assistant supervisor at Jamesburg, N J , 1909-1912; made a second inspection of European rail- roads and harbors in 1912; in office of division engineer of Trenton Division 1912-15, consulting engineer in Philadel- phia 1915-1921, then became associated with firm of Phillips & Jacobs, manufacturing chemists in Philadelphia (partner since 1922); member American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (member of roadbed com- mittee), American Society of Civil Engineers, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (member of council), Society of Colonial Wars (deputy secretary-general, and secretary-general since 1924), Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (lieutenant governor since 1924), Society of Colonial Governors (elected life mem- ber 1918, secrecary 1920, and secretary and treasurer 1924), and St Luke's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia; was interested Sheffield Scientific School 259 in the craftsmen of colonial times and had carried out much valuable research work in that direction, member of commit- tee of Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, took great interest in its ac- tivities, and was considered an authority on early American silver; published an article concerning gyratory traffic in London in Engineering News. Married June 14, 1922, in Paoli, Pa , Phoebe Caroline, daughter of Clement Stocker and Anna Clifford (Biddle) Phillips. Children* Alfred Coxe Phillips and Phoebe Anna. Death due to pneumonia Buried in Woodlands Cem- etery, Philadelphia. Survived by wife, children, mother, a brother, Dr Frederick Prime, of New York City, and two sisters, Miss Alice M Prime and Mrs Pendleton G Wat- mough, both of Philadelphia. Marlette Grouse, Ph.B. 1906. Born September 18, 1884, in Syracuse, N Y. Died June 26, 1925, in Syracuse, N. Y. Father, George Nelhs Crouse, a wholesale grocer, owner of G. N. Crouse & Company; son of James and Laura Minerva (Beecher) Crouse; descendant of Jacob Crouse [Krauss], who came to America from the Palatinate about 1710 and settled at Fort Plain in the Mohawk Valley^ N Y. Mother, Florence Jennie (Marlette) Crouse; daughter of Dr Edwin Ruthven Marlette and Frances Anne (Wright) Marlette; descendant of John Marlette, who came to Albany, N. Y , from Pans, France, in 1740, and of Sir John Wright, who came to this country from Kelvendon Hall, Essex County, England, in 1630, with the Winthrop Colony. Yale relatives include Charles L. Bartlett, '76 (uncle), and Charles M. Crouse, '80 S., Beecher M. Crouse, '93, Daniel C. Adams, '95, M. Crouse Klock, '02 S., George W. Adams, '04, Nelhs M Crouse, '06, and Valentine C Bartlett, '15 (cousins) St. John's Military School, Manhus, N. Y., and Phillips- Andover. Mechanical engineering course; business manager Scientific Monthly; member Berzehus. Engaged in the printing business with Dorman Lithograph- 260 Obituary Record ing Company for four years, 1906-1910, living in New Haven two years and then in New York City; since 1910 had resided in Syracuse; engaged in the coal business with the C. L. Anson Coal Company for six months; had been connected with the Crouse Grocery Company since 1911, as a salesman until 1922, and then as a salesman and buyer; member First Pres- byterian Church, Syracuse. Married (1) September 26> 1914, in Syracuse, Bertha War- ner Scott, daughter of E. Eugene and Athea M. (Schrald) Warner. Mrs. Crouse died September 24, 1921. Married (2) January 21,1923, in Syracuse, Rena Bruning Eddy, daughter of Herman and Adelaide (Williams) Bruning. No children by either marriage. Death, due to heart disease, occurred in the Syracuse Me- morial Hospital. Survived by wife, a brother, George N. Crouse, *oi S., and two sisters, Florence Beecher Crouse (Mrs. Alfred Clark), of London, England, and Laura Catha- rine Crouse (Mrs. Alfred Goldsmith Durston), of Syracuse. Benjamin Rawls Hawley, Ph.B. 1908. Born July 14,1887, in Farmington, Conn. Died November 15,1925, in East Aurora, N. Y. Father, David Rich Hawley, a painting and decorating con- tractor; son of Ara and Mary E. (Green) Hawley; descendant of Joseph Hawley, who came from Parwick, Derbyshire, Eng- land, to Boston in 1629 and was later a planter and settler in Stratford, Conn. Mother, Margaret Ellen (Cummings) Haw- ley; daughter of Samuel and Alice Cummings. Yale relatives: Roswell Hawley (M.D. 1842) (great-uncle), and Hudson R. Hawley, '14 (cousin). Hartford Public High School. Civil engineering course. During the first two years after graduation was successively with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com- pany, in the city engineer's office in Stamford, Conn., and with the Hartford Water Works (surveyed and made maps for the reservoir at New Hartford); surveyor for The Pennsyl- vania Railroad 1910-14; assistant superintendent Schoelkopf, Hartford & Hanna Company in 1914; superintendent Na- Sheffield Scientific School 261 tional Aniline & Chemical Company at Buffalo, N. Y., 1914- 17; chief engineer of construction for the same company 1918- 19, with office at first in Buffalo, and later in New York City (plants in Buffalo, Wappinger Falls, Brooklyn, and Marcus Hook); construction engineer with Niagara Sprayer Company of Middleport, N. Y., 1920-21; special agent of ^Etna Life In- surance Company in Buffalo since 1923; had lived in East Aurora since 1922; was interested in labor and compensation laws of New York state and had served on Technical Advisory Board of Compensations of Associated Industries; member First Presbyterian Church, East Aurora Married June 1,1911, in Buffalo, Cornelia Demmg, daugh- ter of Nathan and Gertrude (Deming) Biesenthal. Children: Natalie, Allan, and Margaret Ellen. Death due to pneumonia. Interment in Buffalo Crematory. Survived by wife, three children, parents, and a sister, Mrs. Esther Hawley Sanderson, of Swampscott, Mass. Herbert Morse Root, Ph.B. 1908. Born February 25, 1886, in Burlington, Iowa. Died August 30,1925, in New York City. Father, Richard Timothy Root; engaged in mining business in Denver, Colo.; son of William and Camilla (Holmes) Root. Mother, Anna (Pine) Root; daughter of Ebenezer and Naioma (Higbee) Pine. Ancestors of both his father and mother came from England. Hill School. Select course; member second University Foot- ball Team and Delta Psi. After graduation from Yale was engaged in the mining busi- ness with his father in Denver until 1914; later lived in Chi- cago, San Francisco, and Detroit; during the last four years of his life had been employed as a mechanical and structural engineer in Philadelphia and New York; moved to the latter city in order to open his own engineering offices, but died be- fore that was accomplished. Married November 11, 1921, in Philadelphia, Anna M., daughter of Frank Edward and Kathryn Spooner (Wells) Towsley. One daughter, Ann Palmer. 262 Obituary Record Death, due to septicaemia, occurred at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City. Buried in Hillside Cemetery, Roslyn, Pa. Survived by wife, daughter, mother, and a brother, Walter W. Root, ex-O4r S Alexander Laughlm, Jr., Ph.B. 1910. Born May 4,1889, in Cleveland, Ohio. Died June 12, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pa Father, Alexander Laughlin; member of firm of Alex Laughlm & Company, engineers and contractors; son of Alexander and Lisette (Lamping) Laughlm; descendant of Alexander Laughlm, who came to America from Ireland in 1765 and settled in Pennsylvania. Mother, Mary (Mead) Laughlin, daughter of Charles W. and Eliza (Lee) Mead; descendant of William Mead, who came from England and settled in Connecticut (died in 1663) Hill School. Mechanical engineering course; member Tale Daily News board and Junior Promenade Committee; vice- president of his Class Senior year Had been associated with Central Tube Company since graduation (vice-president 1910-19 and president since then); had also been associated with management of Alex Laughlin & Company since 1910; director Verona Tool Works of Pitts- burgh, attended Plattsburg Training Camp in 1915 and 1916, and helped to organize a local military training association in Pittsburgh, commissioned a Captain of Infantry May 7,1917; instructor at first Officers* Training Camp at Fort McPherson, Ga , and at second camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.; in Decem- ber, 1917, appointed Aide-de-camp to Major General Edwin F Glenn, commanding the 83d Division, at Camp Sherman, Ohio; went overseas on his staff in June, 1918, and was subse- quently put in command of Company F, 330th Infantry; promoted to Major September 4,1918, and at his own request was detached from staff duty and put back in the line; commanded 2d Battalion, 49th Infantry, until October 26, 1918, and later the 351st Infantry, 88th Division (in Alsace until April, 1919); received his discharge at Camp Dix, N. J., April 20, 1919; state vice-commander of American Legion in Sheffield Scientific School 263 Pennsylvania 1920; member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Yale Engineering Association, Pittsburgh Cham- ber of Commerce, and National Security League; treasurer Yale Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania and its successor, the Yale Club of Pittsburgh, 1920-24; secretary of Class of 1910 S. since 1920; member St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Sewickley, Pa Married June 21, 1924, in Pittsburgh, Margaret, daughter of William Larimer and Mary H. (Taylor) Mellon. One son, Alexander Mellon. Death due to simultaneous cardiac and respiratory failure, following the extraction of a tooth at the West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, and occurring without his regaining consciousness after the administration of an anaesthetic Buried in Sewickley Survived by wife, son, and parents. John Bayley Fish Lawrence, Ph.B. 1911. Born July 28, 1888, in Mastic, N. Y. Died December 29, 1925, in Liberty, N Y Father, Joseph Bayley Lawrence, a lawyer; son of Richard and Josephine (Bayley) Lawrence; descendant of Thomas Lawrence, who came to American from St Albans, Hertford- shire, England, in 1640 and settled at Newtown, Long Island Mother, Elizabeth Woodhull (Nicoll) Lawrence; daughter of Henry and Anna (Thorne) Nicoll, of Middletown, Conn., descendant of Mathias Nicoll, who came to this country in 1664 with his uncle, Sir Richard Nicoll, the first English gov- ernor of New York; also descended from General Nathaniel Woodhull of the Revolutionary Army St. Paul's School, Garden City, N Y Electrical engineering course; entered Sheffield Scientific School with Class of 1910 S., but completed his course in 1911 Became connected with Locomotive Company of America, manufacturers and sellers of automobiles and motortrucks, in September, 1911, and held different positions with the com- pany; at the time of his death was with American Audit Company of New York City; had lived at various times in Mastic, N. Y , Brookhne and Boston, Mass , Bridgeport, 264 Obituary Record Conn., White Plains, N. Y., and New York City; Episcopa- lian. Married December 16, 1916, in Bridgeport, Louise Adams, daughter of Jacob Reed Topping (M.D. New York University 1882) Children: Elizabeth Nicoll and John Townsend. Mrs. Lawrence died July 23, 1924. Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Westchester, N. Y. Survived by son and daughter. John Remick, Ph.B. 1912. - Born May 13, 1888, in Methuen, Mass, Died February 26, 1926, in North Dighton, Mass. Father, George Albert Remick, a pattern maker; son of John and Eliza A (Hill) Remick; descendant of William F. Remick. Mother, Sarah Elizabeth (Pillsbury) Remick; daugh- ter of George W. and Statira (Staples) Pillsbury; descendant of Charles Pillsbury Thayer Academy, South Braintree, Mass. Sanitary engi- neering course; two-year honors in German. After graduation became employed as a timekeeper by Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company (steel construction) of Pittsburgh, P a , and remained with them until he entered service in 1917 (located at Fremont, Ohio, Altmar, N. Y., Drumnght and Cushing, Okla., Oxford, La., Cristobal, Canal Zone, Worcester, Mass., and Rockford, 111., successively, and rose to be superintendent of erection); inducted into National Army as a Private September 8, 1917, and assigned to Camp Devens, Mass., as member of Company L, 3O2d Infantry; made Sergeant October 6 and Supply Sergeant October 8; at- tended third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Devens from January to June 1, 1918, when he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry and assigned to Camp Lee, Va., to drill replacement troops; assigned to 1st Company, 1st Battalion, 158th Depot Brigade, at Camp Sherman, Ohio, on same duty, June 20; commission transferred to the Engi- neers that date; received permanent assignment to 401st Pontoon Park Engineers then at Camp Forrest, Ga., July 30, 1918, and went overseas with regiment in September; was at Sheffield Scientific School 265 Brest for a short time and then at Langres (where he attended the Army Engineer School) until after the armistice; returned to the United States March 7, 1919, and was discharged at Camp Upton March 19; then returned to Riter-Conley Com- pany as erection engineer and remained with them until 1922 (located at Riverside, R. I., Philadelphia, and Sour Lake, Texas); principal of Westport (Mass.) High School 1922-23; engineer with R. H. Beattie Construction Company at As- sonet, Mass., for a time; then engaged on construction work for Mount Hope Bleachery at North Dighton until his death Unmarried. Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree. Survived by father and six brothers, Josiah Remick, of Port Angeles, Wash., Walter L. Remick (B.A. Harvard 1909), of New York City, Charles K., Clifton P., and Donald C. Remick, all of Braintree, and Homer G. Remick, of Berke- ley, Calif. Donald Barnes Brockett, Ph.B. 1913. Born July 11, 1891, in New Haven, Conn. Died October 8, 1925, near Spooner, Wis. Father, Charles Andrew Brockett; with C. A. Brockett Cement Company of Kansas City, Mo.; son of George Willis and Eliza Augusta (Barnes) Brockett; descendant of Sir John Brockett, who came to America from England in 1637 and settled in Boston Mother, Harriet (Barnes) Brockett, daughter of Marcus and Elizabeth Ann (Hemingway) Barnes; descend- ant of Byard Barnes, who came to New Haven from England. Holbrook Military Academy, Ossining, N. Y., and Dr. Coit's School, Munich, Germany. Forestry course; taught in connection with Byers Hall work; member Theta Xi. Since graduation had been engaged in farming at Spooner, where he was owner and manager of the Brockett Dairy Farm; president Spooner Hardware Company, Inc.; member St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Spooner. Married June 20,-1913, in Stratford, Conn., Anna Jane, daughter of Davenport and Harriet McCormack. One daugh- ter, Harriet Anna (died in infancy). 266 Obituary Record Was instantly killed when his automobile was struck by a train just outside of Spooner Buried in Spooner. Survived by wife, mother (now Mrs. Richard Poison), and a half brother, Robert M Brockett, of Kansas City, Mo. William Henry Forde, Ph.B. 1913. Born February 14, 1893, in Natick, Mass. Died May 12, 1926, in Conowingo, Md. Father, John Forde, a manufacturer; son of William and Mary Forde; descendant of William Forde, who came to America from Ireland about 1840 and settled at Natick. Mother, Nora (Barnicle) Forde; daughter of John and Nora (Carey) Barnicle, who came to Natick from Ireland in 1867. Natick, West Haven, and New Haven High schools. Elec- trical engineering course. Sent by Stone & Webster, Inc , of Boston to El Paso, Texas, immediately after graduation to work as a student engineer for the El Paso Railway Company, one of their subsidiaries; remained there until August, 1914, and then returned to his home in Boston; salesman for Milford (Mass.) Gas & Electric Company October, 1914-January, 1915; in the sales depart- ment of Electric Storage Battery Company in their Boston office March, 1915-December, 1917; was then an electrical designer for American International Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia at the Hog Island shipyard for a month (health broke down and he was obliged to give up his posi- tion), enlisted as a Private in the Engineer Corps April 10, 1918, and was at Fort Myer, Va., for about a month; in June went overseas with Company B, 38th Engineers, which be- came the 127 th Company of the Transportation Corps in November; promoted to Sergeant in May, 1919; returned to United States the next month and after receiving his discharge on June 26 again became connected with Stone & Webster, Inc , as an electrical engineer, was assigned at first to power station extension and transmission line work for Tampa, Fla., Electric Company; engaged in construction work on the Cono- wingo development for the Susquehanna Power Company at the time of his death; member Yale Engineering Association Sheffield Scientific School 267 and St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church, Forest Hills, Mass. Unmarried. Was instantly killed in an antomobile accident, when the steering gear of the car in which he and two friends were riding broke and the car overturned. Buried in St. Patrick's Ceme- tery, Natick. Survived by mother, a sister, Miss Kathryn F Forde, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and a brother, Thomas J Forde, of New York City. Joseph Watson Martindale, Jr., Ph.B. 1913. Born December 3, 1891, in Louisville, Ky Died February 6, 1926, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Father, Joseph Watson Martindale (M.D. Jefferson Medical College 189a), a surgeon; son of Joseph and Ann (Watson) Martindale; descendant of Joseph Martindale, who came to Pittsburgh, Pa., from Yorkshire, England, in 1854. Mother, Elizabeth (Land) Martindale; daughter of Edmund K. and Elizabeth Mary (Tutt) Land; descendant of Edmund Land, who came to London, Ontario, from Norfolk, England. Camden (N. J.) High School and Peddle Institute. Biology course; honors in English literature Freshman year; member Freshman Baseball and Basketball teams and University Basketball Team. Studied medicine at Johns Hopkins from 1914 until he entered service; received M.D. while in France in 1918; during his medical course-was employed as a reporter by the Phila- delphia Press, Baltimore Sun, and Philadelphia Inquirer; enlisted as a Private in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Unit of the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps May 27, 1917, and went overseas June 14; trained at Langres and served at Base Hospital 18 until May 24, 1918, when he received a commis- sion as First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve; served with the 23d Infantry as Junior Battalion Surgeon of the 2d Battalion in the Aisne-Marne campaign, seeing active service at Belleau Wood, Vaux, and Soissons; was severely wounded in action at Villers-Cotterets July 18, 1918; was in several hospitals in France until October, 1918, when he returned to 268 Obituary Record the United States; was in Base Hospital n at Cape May, N. J., and later in a hospital at Fox Hills, Staten Island, until he received his discharge September 19, 1919; awarded the Crotx de Guerre and Distinguished Service Cross; returned to Johns Hopkins Medical School for graduate work and was subsequently engaged xn practice in Baltimore until October, 1925; then went to Honolulu as a surgeon for the United States Veterans' Bureau, in which capacity he served until his death; member Protestant Episcopal Church, Camden. Married March 5, 1919, in New Haven, Florence Isabelle, daughter of Louis Moss and Anna (Ryan) Fairchild, and stepdaughter of William J Barrett (M.D. Baltimore Medical College 1898) Children: Joseph Watson, Jr., and Betty Barrett Dr. and Mrs. Martindale were divorced in January, 1926. Died from an overdose of veronal. Buried in Arlington Cemetery, Camden Survived by two sisters, Miss G. Isabelle Martindale, a member of the Mount Holyoke Class of 1927, and Mrs. Edgar Hughes, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Arthur Iddings Cleveland, Ph.B. 1916. Born September 21, 1894, in Roseville, N. J. Died May 10, 1926, in Loyalton, Calif. Father, Francis Dixon Cleveland, a manufacturer; trustee of William Underwood Company of Boston, Mass.; son of Orestes and Jane (Dixon) Cleveland; descendant of Moses Cleveland, who came to America from England and settled in Woburn, Mass., prior to 1700; grandson of Joseph Dixon, founder of the Dixon Crucible Company of Jersey City, N. J., and descendant of Joseph Dixon, of Marblehead, Mass. Mother, Estelle (Iddings) Cleveland; daughter of William Penn and Almira (Gillet) Iddings, and sister of Dr. Joseph P. Iddings, '77 S.; descendant of Richard Iddings, who came from Wales to Nautmeal Township, Chester County, Pa., where he died in 1725. Fessenden School, West Newton, Mass., and Hotchkiss School Civil engineering course; general three-year honors; on University Gymnasium Team Junior and Senior years; Sheffield Scientific School 269 interested in social work, conducting an industrial class at Center Church. Took a graduate course in civil engineering at Sheffield Scientific School 1916-17; employed by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company as a rodman in main* tenance of way department June—September, 1917; examined for the Army, but was refused on account of health; with test- ing department of General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y., October, 1917-October, 1918; engaged in construction work with signal department of Boston & Albany Railroad Company at Pittsfield, Mass., November, 1918-January, 1919; and then with Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad until May, 1919; with sales department of Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Company at Springfield, Mass., May-Decem- ber, 1919; then with engineering department of Standard Oil Company in San Francisco, Calif., until fall of 1920; after- wards with Pacific Gas & Electric Company until February, 1921; engaged in lumbering with Yosemite Lumber Company 1921-23; with General Electric Company at Seattle, Wash., testing electrical apparatus, 1923; with Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company at San Francisco January-June, 1925; broke down in health and was convalescent for eight months at his residence in Altadena, Calif.; entered Government Forest Service at Loyal ton, Calif., as sealer in March, 1926, preliminary to becoming a forester; was instantly killed while at work, a double break in a derrick throwing a timber which struck him in the head. Buried in Woodside Cemetery, Brinklow, Md. Unmarried. Survived by parents and a brother, F. Dixon Cleveland, Jr., '21 S. John Wettstein, Ph.B. 1921. Born June 7, 1899,m Chicago, 111. Died October 17, 1925, in Richmond, Va. Father, John Rudolph Wettstein, president United Lead Company, New York City; son of John R. and Josephine (Baader) Wettstein, who came to this country from Switzer- land in 1867 and settled in Highland, 111. Mother, Annie 270 Obituary Record Elizabeth (Fine) Wettstein; daughter of Andrew and Eliza- beth (Forrester) Fine. Phillips-Exeter Select course; Private in Battery D, Field Artillery Unit, S.A.T.C, October 16-December 15, 1918; one-year honors Senior year. Assistant manager in cost department of Atlas Stationery Company, New York City, 1921-22; assistant in purchasing department of United States Steel Products Company, New York, 1922-24; at time of death construction engineer at Hope well, Va., for United Lead Company; member Chester Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon, N. Y. Unmarried. Death due to pneumonia. Buried at Kensico, N. Y. Sur- vived by parents, a sister, Miss Josephine Wettstein, of Mount Vernon, N Y., and a brother, Thomas F. Wettstein, '12 S. Joseph Edward Lally, B.S. 1923. Born August 27, 1901, in Menden, Conn Died August 21, 1925, in Menden, Conn. Father, James Henry Lally; vice-president Menden Jewelry Manufacturing Company; son of Patrick and Katherine (Kennedy) Lally; descendant of James R. Lally, who came to Woonsocket, R. I., from Ireland in 1823 Mother, Margaret Alice (Reynolds) Lally, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Maguire) Reynolds; descendant of John Joseph Reynolds, who came to Menden from Ireland in 1803. Cousin: William J Lally, '19 S Menden and New Haven High schools Mechanical engi- neering course; David Gallup Scholar; special honors in chemistry Freshman year. Connected with the Procter & Gamble Company from July to September, 1923; then with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven until June, 1924; had since been a mechanical engineer with the L. Suzio Construction Company of Menden; member American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, Yale Engineering Association, and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Menden. Unmarried. Sheffield Scientific School 271 Death due to a complication of diseases. Buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Meriden. Survived by parents, two sisters, the Misses Kathenne and Mary Elizabeth Lally, and two brothers, John R. and Lawrence F. Lally, all of Meriden. Marshall Helm James, B.S. 1925. Born March 6,1902, in Evanston, 111. Died March 29, 1926, at Daytona Beach, Fla Father, Charles William James; president of Charles W. James & Company, dealers in real estate, Chicago; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Allison) James; descendant of William James. Mother, Bertha (Helm) James; daughter of George Sinclair and Nancy Jane (Murdock) Helm; descendant of George Helm. Evanston High School, Phillips-Exeter, Milford (Conn) School, and Nolan's Tutoring School, Cambridge, Mass General science course; manager of Golf Team, (received numerals); member Book and Snake. Had been engaged in real estate business with Lacey Broth- ers at Sarasota, Fla., since graduating from Yale, member First Methodist Church, Evanston. Unmarried. Death due to pneumonia, complicated by enlargement of the heart. Buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. Survived by parents. Ivan Andrea Bogdanoff, B.S. 1926. Born July 11, 1900, in Odessa, Russia Died May 22, 1926, in New Haven, Conn Father, Andrea Bogdanoff, a contractor in Odessa before the Russian Revolution; later a refugee in Yugoslavia; son of John and Evdokia Bogdanoff. Mother, Varvara (Breuer) Bogdanoff; daughter of Joseph and Alexandra Breuer. Commercial High School, Odessa. Enlisted in Russian Cavalry at sixteen years of age and served in the White Army during the Civil War in Russia. Left Russia for Yugoslavia as a refugee in 19Z0. Attended Belgrade University from 1920 to 272 Obituary Record 1923 and was then one of a group of forty-five who came from Constantinople to New Haven under direction of Russian Refugee Association of New York. Entered Sheffield Scientific School as a Junior in 1924; mechanical engineering course; member Student Branch of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Yale Cosmopolitan Club; received degree of B.S. post obttum in June, 1926. Member Orthodox Russian Church. Married April 19, 1924, in New Haven, Olga K., daughter of Konon and Helen Guskoff. Death due to heart disease. Cremation took place in Spring- field, Mass ; ashes are to be taken to Europe by his wife. Be- sides his wife, leaves his parents, and four sisters, Miss Alex- andra BogdanofT, who graduated at the Law School in Odessa in 1918, and the Misses Lidia, Nina, and Seraphima Bogdan- ofF, all of Belgrade, Serbia. GRADUATE SCHOOL Herbert Russell Gibbs, M.A. 1881. Born December 23,1850, in Pittsfield, Mass Died December 6^*925, in NewtonviUe, Mass Father, Franklin William Gibbs, a paper maker; son of Abner and Elisabeth (Cannon) Gibbs; descendant of Matthew Gibbs, who came to America from England in 1650 and settled at Charlestown, Mass. Mother, Flavia Jerusha (Brewster) Gibbs; daughter of John Milton and Philena (Higley) Brew- ster; descendant of Elder William Brewster of the "May- flower" company. Yale relatives: George B. Laflin, ex-*]*] S., and George L. Miller, '19. Lee (Mass.) High School; B.A. Williams 1871 (member Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa); principal of Lenox (Mass) High School 1871-72; proof reader with Riverside Press of Cambridge 1872-1890, except during 1880-81, when he was a student in Yale Graduate School; since 1890 had been editor and literary adviser with the Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers in Boston; director of Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society; member Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Mass , where he made his home. Married June 1, 1875, in Cambridge, Mass., Sarah Maria, daughter of Charles and Rhoda (Shaw) Cabot. Children: Russell Cabot (B.A. Williams 1900) (died in October, 1925); Edwin Franklin (B.A. Williams 1904); and Marion Brewster (B.A. Mount Holyoke 1908). Death due to cerebral thrombosis. Interment in Newton. Survived by wife, son, daughter, three grandchildren, and two sisters, the Misses Carrie P. and Grace L. Gibbs, of Lee, Mass. 273 274 Obituary Record Henry Nichols Sanborn, M.A. 1903. Born March 5, 1879, in Quincy, Mass. Died February 11, 1926, in Bridgeport, Conn. It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Mr. Sanborn in time for publication in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a sub- sequent issue of the Obituary Record. Alfred Lee Morgan, M.A. 1905. Born September 9, 1872, in Wilton, Conn. Died July 4, 1925, in Providence, R I. Father, Irad Ferry Morgan, a farmer; son of Aaron and Susan (Ferry) Morgan; descendant of James Morgan, who came to America from Wales prior to 1770 and settled in Wil- ton (then a part of Norwalk). Mother, Beulah Eliza (Smith) Morgan; daughter of Alfred M. and Charlotte (Lee) Smith. Wilton Academy, Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, andOberlin Academy, B A Oberlm 1900 (member of debating society); entered Oberlm Seminary in fall of 1900, but was obliged to withdraw on account of ill health; taught bookkeeping and school management at Tillotson College 1901-03; treasurer of Tougaloo (Miss ) University 1903-04; studied economics and social science in Yale Graduate School 1904-05; taught in high schools at West Springfield, Mass. (1905-06), Arlington, Mass. (1906-08), and Asbury Park, N. J. (1908-1910); head of department of commerce and professor of economics at Robert College, Constantinople, since 1910; at the time of his death had just arrived in America from Constantinople on a year's leave of absence; during a sabbatical year in 1917-18 was engaged in Y M.C.A. work (personnel department) in New York City; former member Wilton Congregational Church and later of Congregational Church, West Springfield. Married August 13, 1903, in Bristol, R. I., Alice Harlow, daughter of William Henry and Annie Mane (Rich) Bell. No children. Death, due to a nervous breakdown caused by insomnia, Graduate School 275 occurred in Butler Hospital, Providence. Interment in Hill- side Cemetery, Wilton. Survived by wife, three sisters, Mrs. John Reed, of Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Frank M White, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Miss Elizabeth Frances Morgan, of Brewster, N. Y., and a brother, Joseph Stanley Morgan, of Brooklyn, N. Y. John Livingston Burisch, M.S. 1922. Born October 19, 1897, in Elizabeth, N J. Died January 13, 1926, in Worcester, Mass Father, Julius Gustav Burisch, a machinist; born in Ger- many; came to this country in 1892; son of Frederick and Wilhemine (Baatz) Burisch. Mother, Selma Bertha (Richter) Burisch; daughter of Bernhardt and Bertha (Wollhardt) Richter. Battin High School, Elizabeth; B A. Wesley an 1919 (mem- ber Deutscher Verein, Phi Beta Kappa, and the R O.T C ) ; assistant in biology at Yale 1918-19 (also member of Junior class in Sheffield Scientific School, while enrolled in the S.A.T.C. during first term, and special student during second term); student at Yale Graduate School 1919-1920 and at Yale School of Medicine 1919-1921; continued medical studies at Harvard (member Alpha Omega Alpha; M D 1923); surgical interne at Worcester City Hospital 1923-25; began general practice of medicine in Worcester January 1, 1925; at time of death was resident surgeon at Fairlawn Hospital in that city; served as a First Lieutenant, Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, for five months in 1918; had served on staffs of U. S Veterans' Hospital, West Roxbury, Mass , and Louis Pasteur Hospital; member Worcester District Medical So- ciety, American Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Association, and the Unitarian Church Unmarried. Death occurred at Worcester City Hospital. Cremated at Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N. J. Survived by father, three sisters, Mrs Anna Dreyer, of Union, N. J., Mrs. Lena Harms, of Linden, and Mrs Margaret Bernhardt, of Eliza- beth, and a brother, Alfred Burisch, also of Elizabeth. 276 Obituary Record Richard Chapman Weldon, Ph.D. 1872. Born January 19,1849, in Penobsquis (then Upper Sussex), New Brunswick. Died November 26,1925, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Father, Richard Chapman Weldon, a tanner and farmer; son of John and Mary (Chapman) Weldon; descendant of John Weldon, who came to Westmoreland County, New Brunswick, from Yorkshire, England. Mother, Catharine (Geldart) Weldon; daughter of James and Eleanor (Wallace) Geldart. Preparatory training received in Upper Sussex; B.A. Mount Allison College 1866; taught in Norton, New Brunswick, 1866-68; studied at Sheffield Scientific School 1868-69 and again 1871-72; during the intervening time taught at Mount Allison; received a diploma from Heidelberg University in 187a; professor of mathematics and political economy at Mount Allison 1872-1883; professor of constitutional and international law at Daihousie University, Halifax, and dean of the Law School from 1883 until his retirement in 1914; had since lived in Dartmouth; Liberal-Conservative in politics; member of Parliament for Albert County, New Brunswick, 1887-1896; M.A. Mount Allison 1870, D.C.L. 1893, LL D. Daihousie 1916; attended Methodist Church. Married (1) in 1877, i n Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Sarah Maria, daughter of the Rev. George W. Tuttle and Martha (Hart) Tuttle. Children. Robert George (attended Guelph Agricultural College); Joseph William (B.A. Daihousie 1900, LL.B. 1903); John Russell; Richard Chapman (M.D. and C M . McGill 1906); and Helen Hart (attended Halifax Ladies College), who married Reginald Stacey. Mrs. Weldon died October 18,1892. Married (2) December 28,1893, in Halifax, Louisa Frances, daughter of William and Alice (Allison) Hare. Children: Arthur Hare; Louisa Frances (Mrs. George. Hassell); Lillian Jane (Mrs. James Hassell); Katherine Edith; Marion Eliza; Allison Dale; and Muriel Gertrude. Death due to infirmities of age Buried in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Survived by wife, twelve children, a sister, Miss Mary J. Weldon, of Penobsquis, and two brothers, George C. Weldon, of St. John, New Brunswick, and John C. Weldon, of Moncton, New Brunswick. Graduate School 277 Carl Axel Harstrbm, Ph.D. 1899. Born December 20, 1863, in Vesteras, Sweden, Died January 14, 1926, In Norwalk, Conn, Father, Carl Gustaf Harstrom, an inventor and manufac- turer; son of Eric Emmanuel Harstrom Mother, Emelia (Fosberg) Harstrom. Yale relatives include Lewis B McCabe, Jr., '27. Peekskill Military Academy; B A. Hobart 1886 (president of his class Senior year and valedictorian; editor of Hobart Herald and Echo of the Seneca; member Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa); head master of Peekskill Military Academy 1886-87, of Vieuland Preparatory School, Peekskill, 1887— 1891, and of Norwalk (Conn.) Military Institute 1891-93; M.A. Hobart 1889; principal of Norwalk Preparatory School 1893-99; student in Yale Graduate School 1896-1900; in 1899 founded Harstrom School at Norwalk and had since served as its principal; member Board of Estimation and Taxation of Norwalk 1915-1921; mayor of the consolidated Norwalks 1915-17; during the war served as chairman of Draft Exemption Board No. 14 (Fairfield County); senior warden of Grace Episcopal Church, Norwalk, and vestryman of Bethesda by the Sea, Palm Beach, Fla. Married. June 20,1888, in Phelps, N. Y., Lee Selden, daugh- ter of Samuel Selden and Frances (Bellamy) Partridge Chil- dren: Carl Eric, '15, and Frances. Death due to heart trouble. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk. Survived by wife, son, and daughter. Carl Eben Stromquist, Ph.D. 1903. Born November 6, 1877, in Fremont, Kans. Died April 3, 1925, in Palo Alto, Calif Father, Carl Johan Stromquist, a pioneer Kansas farmer, came to America from Sweden in 1867; author of note in the Swedish language; active leader and organizer in the Lutheran Church and in politics; representative in the Kansas Legisla- ture two terms (chairman of Committee on Temperance in T]% Obituary Record 3895; instrumental in defeating the repeal of the Kansas prohibition law); an incorporator of Bethany College (member of the first and of several subsequent boards); an organizer of Swedish-American Insurance Company (served as its presi- dent and secretary). Mother, Johanna Mathilda (Isaakson) Stromquist, who came to Lindsborg, Kans., from Sweden. Bethany College Academy; B.S. Bethany 1899; studied in Yale Graduate School 1899-1903; instructor in mathematics at Princeton 1903-07 and preceptor in the same subject 1907— 09; had since been connected with University of Wyoming as instructor (1909-1910), associate professor (1910-12), and professor of mathematics (1912-1925); member of faculty of Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., in summer of 1918; granted leave of absence from University of Wyoming in 1922 on account of illness and was on leave of absence at the time of his death; had contributed articles on mathematics to transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 'The Mathematics Teacher, Annals of Mathematics, and School Science and Mathematics; author of Wyoming University Algebra Tests (uncompleted, but a study made of them in 1924 or 1925; recommended for use throughout the state of Wyo- ming this year); member Mathematical Association of Amer- ica, American Mathematical Society, American Association of University Professors, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Yale branch of Sigma Xi, Wyoming University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, and Lutheran Church. Married August 12, 1903, at Newman Grove, Nebr., Eulaha, daughter of Nels and Carolina Swanson. Children: Carl Eben, Jr , a member of the Stanford University Class of 1929; Walter Swanson; and Ruth Caroline. Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Buried in Fremont- Survived by wife, three children, mother, four sisters/Mrs. Edith Carlson and Miss Eleonora Stromquist, both of Linds- borg, Kans , Mrs. Will Christenson, of Fort Stockton, Texas, and Mrs Elvira Danielson, of Fremont, and a brother, Walter G. Stromquist, of Memphis, Tenn. Graduate School 279 Margaret Russel, Ph.D. 1923. Born in 1891, in Topeka, Kans. Died March 20, 1926, in Manhattan, Kans. Father, W. W. Russel, a teacher, business man, and lumber- man. Mother, Irene (Brooks) Russel. B.A. Washburn 1913 (departmental honors in English and German and general honors in all studies); studied at Colum- bia 1913-15 (M.A. 1915); instructor in English in the high school at Coffeyville, Kans., 1915-17; instructor in English at Kansas State Agricultural College 1917-1921 and associate professor and professor of English there since 1923 (member of Phi Kappa Phi); student in English at Yale Graduate School 1921-23; member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Women, Kansas Association of Teachers of English (former president and district vice-presi- dent at the time of her death), and Presbyterian Church, Manhattan. Death' due to pneumonia, following an operation for in- testinal trouble. Buried in Topeka. Survived by no immediate relatives, SCHOOL OF THE FINE ARTS Edward Peck Sperry, B.F.A. 1903. Died September 19,1925, in Stockbridge, Mass. Father, Peck Sperry, importer and distributor of musical instruments. Mother, Caroline Augusta (Lake) Sperry. Early education received in New Haven public schools; em- ployed by Skinner & Sperry for a time before entering the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1875; studied there about two years, but did not receive his degree until 1903; went abroad in 1876 and studied in Pans for a time and later at the Ameri- can Academy in Rome for two years; was subsequently a stained glass artist with Tiffany & Company in New York City for fifteen years and then with Gorham & Company; later formed the Church Glass & Decorating Company with two artists, Carol Coleman and Russell Foot, and continued in that connection until the war, during which he was a member of the Naval Camouflage Staff of New York City; because of falling health went to Stockbridge in 1922; was a designer for Graffin & Dolson (cretonnes) of New York City for two years and then studied the flora and painted panels in old Antwerp style until his eyesight failed; had been an invalid for about a year before his death; among his designs are five memorial windows in the Pilgrimage Congregational Church, Plymouth, Mass, and all the windows in the Memorial Hall; a three- panel window in the Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, in memory of Philip D. Armour; the memorial to Dr. Trudeau in the church at Saranac, N. Y.; a memorial window in St. Eustace's Church, Lake Placid; mural panels in the McAlpin Hotel, New York City; and twelve panels in the gallery of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwene, New York City; member New Haven Grays, 7th Regiment, New York National Guard (for seven years), and St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. Married, in New York City, Dora Morgan, daughtjer of John Morgan and Georgia (Holbrook) Coleman, of Louisville, Ky. No children. Death due to paralysis. Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife. 280 SCHOOL OF FORESTRY Stuart John Flintham, M.F. 1904. Born December 30,1879, in Albion, N Y. Died June 10,1925, in Los Angeles, Calif. Father, William Stevens Flintham, a furniture dealer and undertaker; son of John and Maria (Stevens) Flintham; de- scendant of William Flintham, who came to America from England and settled in St. Louis, Mo. Mother, Ella (Millard) Flintham. Albion High School; attended Williams College for two years (1899-1901) as member of Class of 1903 (on athletic team and editor of the Weekly); attended Cornell Forest School 1901-03 (member of athletic team); Senior in Yale School of Forestry 1903-04 (M.F. 1904); B A. Cornell 1904; entered the Forest Service in June, 1904, at Pike's Peak Reservation and soon became forest inspector for California; resigned position in 1908 to enter business; forester and vice- president of L. M. Pratt Eucalyptus Company in Los Angeles 1908-1911; in 1911 accepted appointment as forester for Los Angeles County and held the office until his death; became fish and game commissioner in 1920 and fire warden in 1921; was credited with having built up the most complete forestry and fire department of its kind in. California; directed establish- ment of forty-four fire districts in unincorporated sections of the county, and in connection with other duties had served as chief of the combined county fire departments since 1921; dur- ing last few months of his life had been carrying out an exten- sive plan of fire-break building in the back country of the Angeles National Forest in cooperation with the U. S. Forest Service; member Angeles Forest Protective Association; a grove of 2,000 acres of pine, fir, and cedar in the north fork of the San Dimas Canon, which was planted under his super- vision in 1911, is to be named Flintham Woods, and a bronze tablet to his memory is to be placed upon a monument at the entrance to the park, the memorial being sponsored by the Angeles Forest Protective Association. Member Pullman Umversahst Church in Albion. 281 282 Obituary Record Married November 14, 1907, in Orange, Calif., Helen May, daughter of Ray and Eleanor (Patterson) Billingsley. Chil- dren: William Billingsley (died in childhood); Eleanor Vir- ginia; and Dorothy Myra Mr. and Mrs. Flintham were later divorced Death, due to a perforated gastric ulcer, occurred at the Angelus Hospital, Los Angeles Buried in Albion. Survived by parents Mauricio Julian Oteyza, M.F. 1910. Born October 18, 1886, in Binonda, Manila, P. I Died February 5, 1926, in Baguio, Mountain Province, P. I. Father, Mauricio Oteyza y Reyes, a confectioner; son of Isidoro Oteyza y Reyes and Maria Tolentino. Mother, Ana Maria San Juan, daughter of Leocardio San Juan and Ynocen- cia Torres. Attended Jesuit College, Manila; apprentice in office of Ker & Company, Manila, 1903, student at Philippine Normal School 1903-04; taught in the government public schools 1904-05; one of the student pensionados sent to the United States in 1905, attended Kansas State Agricultural College 1905-08 (member of Cadet Corps and Corporal in Cadet Band; B.S. in horticulture 1910); studied at Yale School of Forestry 1908-1910 (also a special student in Sheffield Scien- tific School 1908-09), appointed an assistant forester in Philip- pine Bureau of Forestry February, 1910, and the following June was detailed to instruct in School of Forestry, University of the Philippines; instructor in silviculture and forest manage- ment 1911—18; made assistant professor of silviculture 1918; appointed/orester in charge of special projects of Bureau of Forestry and city forester of Baguio 1918, holding the first city forester's position in the Philippines; retired from the service on account of ill health July 3, 1924; had since been owner and manager of the Philippine Store in Baguio; member Alpha Beta Literary Society, a local musical society, and the Philippine Independent Church. Married August 12, 1912, in San Mateo, Rizal, P. I., Do- lores, daughter of Celenno Santamaria and Maria Santos. Children: Victor and Virginia. Death due to tuberculosis Survived by wife and children. School of Forestry 283 Shoitsu Hotta, M.F. 1918. Born November 30, 1872, in Tokyo, Japan Died July 4, 1925, in Fukuoka, Japan. Father, Masaoki Hotta, a civil official; son of Masayoshi and Sute Hotta. Mother, Moto (Ota) Hotta; daughter of Shinsai and Kiwa (Sasayama) Ota, Early education received at elementary schools of Tokyo and Nngata, higher education at the Tokwa-Gakko and the second high school at Sendai, and university training at Col- lege of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University; assistant at that college 1899-1901 and afterwards assistant professor of forestry; sent abroad as an official student in 1916 and entered Yale School of Forestry that fall; after receiving his M F degree in 1918, spent some time in Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., continuing his studies in forestry; returned to Japan in May, 1919; received his doctor's degree and was assistant professor of forestry at Tokyo Imperial University until 1921, since then had been professor of forestry at the Agricultural College of Kyushu Imperial University, Fukuoka; had also been connected with the work of Japanese Forestry Associa- tion; member of Congregational Church, Sendai Married January 5, 1903, in Tokyo, Sei, daughter of Ichijuro and Ryu Yoshida No children. Death due to inflammation of the lungs; had been ill since the previous December. Interment in the Ayoma public cemetery, Tokyo. Survived by wife, an adopted son, Masao Hotta, mother, and two brothers, Masatsugu Hotta, of Nada-Sumiyoshi, Hyogo Prefecture, and Masakatsu Hotta, of Usuda-Machi, Nagano Prefecture SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Daniel Armstrong DeForest, M.D. 1858. Born November 6, 1833, in Boonville, Ind. Died December 20, 1925, in Boonville, Ind. Father, Joseph DeForest, a farmer; a pioneer settler in southern Indiana in 1815; son of Capt. Joseph DeForest, a Revolutionary soldier, and Anne (Lamson) DeForest; de- scendant of Isaac DeForest, (son of Jesse D. and Mane (DuClouax) DeForest), who came to America from Ley den, Netherlands, about 1637 and settled in New Amsterdam. Mother, Mary Nancy (Denton) DeForest. Ancestors went from Kentucky to Henderson County, N. C. Preparatory training received in Boonville; attended De- Pauw University for two years; took a course of lectures at Sterling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio; studied in Yale Medical School 1857-58; engaged in practice of medicine at Ashbyburg, Ky., 1858-1861; during Civil War served as Assistant Surgeon of 25th Kentucky Infantry; subsequently practiced in Boonville; served as health officer of Boonville four years and of Warrick County one year, and as pension surgeon for several years; president of Mississippi Valley Medical Association one year; trustee of Methodist Episcopal Church, Boonville. Married November 2, 1858, in Evansville, Ind., Margaret Benson, daughter of James Fitzgerald and Anna Eliza Mark- ham Children: William Henry, who attended DePauw University for two years (died in 1893); Alberta, a non- graduate member of the DePauw Class of 1891; Gertrude Margaret (Ph B DePauw 1893); Daniel Frank (M.D. Indiana Medical College 1895); Sylvester (LL.B. Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C , 1903); Grace Greenwood (Mrs. William L. Veeck); and Hattie Louise (Mrs. O. S. Bird) Mrs DeForest died September 24, 1910. Death due to arteriosclerosis. Interment in Maple Grove Cemetery, Boonville. Survived by four daughters and two sons. 284 School of Medicine 285 Walter Russell Bartlett, M.D. 1871. Born February 4,1848, in North Guilford, Conn. Died January 7, 1926, in North Guilford, Conn Father, Stephen Russell Bartlett, a farmer; member of Connecticut General Assembly in 1861 and 1869; s o n °^ Stephen and Nancy (Fowler) Bartlett; descendant of George Bartlett, who came from Guilford, Surrey, England, about 1640 and was one of the first settlers of Guilford, Conn. Mother, Susan Ann (Chalker) Bartlett; daughter of Stephen and Silence (Breed) Chalker; descendant of Alexander Chalker, who came to this country from England in 1648 and settled at Say brook, Conn.; was one of the proprietary settlers killed in a fight with Narragansett Indians in 1675. Nephew: Stephen R. Bartlett, '00. Guilford Institute; studied in Yale School of Medicine 1868-1871; practiced in New Haven from 1871 until his retirement in 1887 on account of poor health; member New Haven Board of Health 1881-87; was connected, through his affiliation with the New Haven Medical Association, with the New Haven Hospital; since 1885 had lived in the house in North Guilford in which he was born; engaged in farming for a time on land which had been in the Bartlett family since the settlement of the town; had contributed articles on medi- cal and hygienic topics to Sanitation, Education, and Health Guidance; member Congregational Church, North Guilford. Unmarried. Death due to heart disease. Buried in North Guilford. Survived by a brother, George H Bartlett, '77 S. Another brother, Stephen C. Bartlett, '66 M., died in 1879. Franklin D. Clum, M.D. 1875. Born February 16, 1853, in Saugerties, N. Y. Died July 8, 1925, in Cheviot, N Y. Father, Alexander Clum, a sea captain; in the United States Government service as a pilot during Civil War; son of Philip P. and Maria (Hyser) Clum; descendant of Philip 286 Obituary Record Gum, who was born on the Clum homestead in Germantown, N. Y , in 1749. Mother, Jane Maria (Freleigh) Clum. Syracuse (N. Y.) High School. Commenced study of medi- cine when sixteen years of age, while a clerk in Saugerties Post Office, under Dr. E. D. Chipman, the postmaster, attended Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he received a certificate in 1874, also attended College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, valedictorian of Class of 1875 M. at Yale; practiced in town and village of Saugerties until 1878; owned and managed a drug store in Windham, N Y., for about a year, then practiced in Amster- dam, N Y., until 1883; practiced in Cheviot from 1892 until his death, had traveled around the world six times; author: Men and Women and Inebriety•, member New York State Medical Society; attended the Methodist Episcopal Church. Married (1) May 7,1879, in Hudson, N. Y , Alice, daughter of the Rev William Hull One son, Franklin William. Mrs Clum died April 23, 1883 Married (2) October 17, 1892, in North Germantown, N. Y , Ella, daughter, of John Edmund and Elizabeth (MacFarland) Rivenburg. One daughter, Gertrude. Death due to a paralytic stroke. Buried in the family lot in Cheviot cemetery Survived by wife, son, and daughter. Samuel Henry Huntington, M.D. 1876. Born August 10, 1854, in Windham, Conn Died June 23, 1926, in Norwalk, Conn Father, Wallace Huntington, a mechanical draftsman and pattern maker, son of Henry and Clarissa (Bibbins) Hunting- ton Mother, Cynthia (Ward) Huntington, daughter of Lem- uel and Amy (Bailey) Ward. Preparatory training received at Dr. Fitch's school in Wind- ham, attended Yale School of Medicine 1873-76, practiced in Bethlehem, Conn., 1877-79, i n Wilton, Conn., 1879-1890, and in Norwalk since 1890; had been connected with Norwalk General Hospital since its foundation in 1890; served as medi- cal examiner of Wilton and Norwalk since 1898; member Connecticut State, Norwalk, and American Medical associa- School of Medicine 287 tions, and Episcopal Church, Norwalk; was regarded as an authority on Masonic matters Married (1) April 17, 1878, in New York City, Anna Bill- ings, daughter of Lorenzo and Julia Buck (Chapin) Bissell. One daughter, Edith Chapin (Mrs Harry G Cooke) Mrs Huntington died January 8, 1884. Married (2) June 16, 1886, in New York City, Annette Louise, daughter of William Thomas and Sarah Rebecca Mills. One son, Arthur Frederick Death, due to acute nephritis, occurred after an illness of about a month Buried in Windham, Conn. Survived by wife, daughter, son, and three grandchildren. Isaac Napoleon Porter, M.D. 1893. Born October 15, 1865, at Summit Bridge, Del. Died April 10, 1926, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Isaac Iron Porter, a farmer; tax collector, member of School Board. Mother, Hannah Elizabeth (Bojard) Porter. Chester (Pa) School, B.A. Lincoln University 1890, attended Yale School of Medicine 1890-93, had been engaged almost continuously in practice of medicine in New Haven since receiving his medical degree; Republican in politics, serving as councilman from 9th Ward in 1896 and 1897, prominent in colored Masonic circles in New Haven; member state and county medical societies; trustee Immanuel Baptist Church, New Haven; M.A, Lincoln 1894. Death due to pneumonia; suffered a shock two years before, but had nearly recovered from its effects when he was taken ill again Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, Gertrude C Porter, and a brother, Henry G. Porter. James Henry Joseph Flynn, M.D. 1895. Born September 2,1873, in New Haven, Conn. Died April 26, 1926, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Charles Flynn, a grocer; born in Ireland, came to America when five years of age with his parents, Charles and 288 Obituary Record Mary (O'Brien) Flynn, who settled in New Haven in 1847; served with a Connecticut regiment in the Civil War. Mother, Bridget (Brennan) Flynn; born in Ireland. Yale relatives include three nephews. Charles T. Flynn, ' n M., Harold A. Flynn, '23, and William J. Canty, '23 S. Hillhouse High School; attended Niagara University for two and a half years before entering Yale School of Medicine in 1892, after receiving his degree, served as an interne at New Haven Hospital for a year and a half; had since been engaged in general practice of medicine in New Haven, being widely known as a successful obstetrician; one of founders of St. Raphael's Hospital, an attending physician there since its establishment, and secretary of the medical board; member New Haven Medical Society (former vice-president), Ameri- can Medical Association, New Haven County Medical Asso- ciation, Connecticut State Medical Society, New Haven Chamber of Commerce, and St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Church. Married September 15,1901, in New Haven, Alice, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Wiench) Beecher. Children: Alice Zita, the wife of Bernard P. Corbett, ex-T$\ Grace; Eunice; Irma; and James Henry Joseph, Jr. Death due to heart disease, had been in poor health over a year. Interment in St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife, son, four daughters, and a sister, Mrs. Vernon White, and a brother, Harry Flynn, both of New Haven Samuel Gurney, M.D. 1901. Born September 3, i860, at Long Branch, N. J Died August 3, 1924, in Salisbury, Rhodesia, South Africa Father, George Gurney, a parish schoolmaster in England; came to America in 1853 and settled at Long Branch; son of William and Elizabeth (Boughton) Gurney Mother, Frances (Hibbs) Gurney; daughter of Charles and Frances (Hallett) Hibbs Attended public schools at Long Branch and East Setauket, Long Island, and the Missionary Training Institute, New York City; studied at Drew Theological Seminary 1887-89; School of Medicine 289 entered the New York East Conference and was ordained April 4,1891; held the following pastorates: Whites tone, Long Island (1887-88), Third Church, Long Island City (1889- 1891), Parkville, N. Y (1892), Long Hill, Conn (1893-95), and Newfield, Bridgeport, Conn. (1896-1900); studied in Yale School of Medicine 1897-1901; was then resident physi- cian at Bridgeport Hospital for a year and a half; missionary of Methodist Episcopal Church at Umtali, Africa, 1902-04; then returned to America to undergo an operation for cancer of the nose; on his way back to Africa went to London and studied in the School of Tropical Diseases for four months (granted the first English certificate to practice on British subjects given to an American citizen); returned to Umtali in 1902 and served there until 1909; missionary at Mrewa 1909- 1914; later established missions in Kanyasa, M'toko, and Makaha in the Mrewa District; served as conference medical director in 1920; medical director at Nyaden since 1923; had begun work of establishing a district hospital there, but this was not completed at the time of his death; received degree of M.D. at Cape Town, had been closely identified with the direct control of Methodist Episcopal Mission in Africa as member of its finance committee; acted as chairman of Mis- sionary Conference at Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1924 Married March 11, 1890, at Lawrence, Long Island, Annie Marietta, daughter of the Rev. Edward King Conkhn Fan- ning and Rachel Ann (Luce) Fanning No children Mrs. Gurney died June 13, 1894. Death due to heart failure, caused by high blood pressure, from which he had suffered for a number of years; had under- gone an operation for gall stones in the Salisbury Hospital, was convalescing and had expected to leave the hospital in a week or two. Survived by two brothers, George Gurney, of Port Jefferson, N. Y., and James B Gurney, of East Setauket, N. Y , and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Post, of Port Jefferson, and Mrs. May G. Lawrence, of Ocean Grove, N. J 290 Obituary Record Eli Butler Ives, M.D. 1903. Born December 25,1878, in Meriden, Conn. Died September 9, 1925, in Bridgeport, Conn. Father, Charles Pomeroy Ives (LL.B. 1872); attorney at law in Menden 1872-1891; son of Eli and Gelina Ann (Pome- roy) Ives; descendant of William Ives, one of the early set- tlers in the New Haven Colony, and of Noah Pomeroy, of Menden, a descendant in the seventh generation of Eltweed Pomeroy, one of the settlers of Windsor, Conn. Mother, Phoebe Wells (Tarntor) Ives; daughter of Charles Michael and Mary (Lord) Tain tor, descendant in the ninth generation of Charles Taintor, who, with his sons and a daughter, was living in New England in 1643 Yale relatives include: Rev. Joseph Selden Lord (B.A. 1831) and Charles Taintor (B.A. 1839) (g^eat-uncles), and Joseph L. Taintor, '6o, Charles N. Taintor, '6$, James U. Taintor, '66y George E. Butler, '95, Joel I Butler, '97 S., Eh I. Butler, '98, Albert N. Butler, *oo, James Spencer Taintor, '01, and Nelson Case Taintor, '09 (cousins). Boardman Manual Training High School, New Haven; entered Yale School of Medicine 1899; interne at Bridgeport Hospital 1903-05; had since practiced as a physician and surgeon in Bridgeport; member of staff of Bridgeport Hospital; during the war served as medical examirier for local Draft Board No. 10; secretary of Fairfield County Medical Associa- tion seven years, president one year, and censor for three years prior to his death; member United Church (Congrega- tional), Bridgeport. Married September 17,1909, in New York City, Maude L., daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Bolton, of Brockville, Ontario. Children: Olive Lord and Eli Bolton Death due to a cerebral thrombosis. Buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport. Survived by wife, two children, parents, a brother, Paul Pomeroy Ives, of Guilford, Conn., and three sisters, Mrs. Hope Ives Collins and Mrs. Mary Lord Barnes, both of Branford, Conn , and Mrs. Eugenia Ives Stannard, of New Haven. School of Medicine 291 Edward Francis Crofutt, M.D. 1904. Born in Bethel, Conn, Died June 1, 1926 It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Dr. Crofutt in time for publication in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a subse- quent issue of the Obituary Record SCHOOL OF LAW Joseph Rothschild, LL.B. 1873. Born October 5, 1855, in San Francisco, Calif. Died March 19, 1925, in San Francisco, Calif. It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Mr. Rothschild in time for publication in this volume A biographical statement will appear in a subsequent issue of the Obituary Record. David Strouse, LL.B. 1876. Born July 20, 1848, in New Haven, Conn. Died December 10, 1925, in New Haven, Conn. Father, Isaac Strouse, a merchant; born in Wurzburg, Germany; came to America in 1846; son of Jacob and Henn- ette (Meyer) Strouse. Mother, Helen (Bretzfelder) Strouse; daughter of David Bretzfelder, a soldier in Napoleon's army, and Lena (Sachs) Bretzfelder. General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute; en- gaged in business until 1873; attended Yale School of Law 1874-76, being admitted to bar in 1875; had practiced in New Haven since 1876; specialized in mercantile law and was ac- tive in insolvency cases when that class of business was handled in the Probate Court; after the National Bankruptcy Act came into operation continued in that line of practice in the Federal courts and had been prominently identified with bankruptcy court proceedings, being considered an authority in equity law, served as justice of the peace 1876-1900; mem- ber New Haven Bar Association and Congregation Mishkan Israel. Married October 24, 1876, in New Haven, Louise, daughter of Michael Jacob and Caroline (Fell) Fisher. Children: Louis Henry (Ph B. 1900, LL.B. 1903) and Ned Carl. Death due to a heart attack Buried in Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven. Survived by wife, two sons, and two sisters, the Misses Adeline and Pauline Strouse, both of New Haven. 292 School of Law 293 John Howard Whiting, LL.B. 1876. Born November 24, 1849, in New Haven, Conn Died February 29, 1920, in New York City Father, William Joseph Whiting (M.D. 1844), son of George I. and Eliza W. Whiting. Mother, Susan (Colburn) Whiting; daughter of Dr Josiah M. Colburn, who attended the Yale School of Medicine for two years (1820-22), and Susan (Clark) Colburn. Studied in Yale School of Law 1874-78 (honors in Junior year; Marshall Jewell Prize Senior year; LL B 1876, D C L 1878); admitted to the bar and resided in New Haven until 1893, after which he lived in East Orange, N. J., for a time and later in New York City, where he practiced his profession; moved to Milford, Conn, in 1901 and remained there until 1915; then lived in New York until his death; had been an officer of the Humane Society; member Congregational Church. Married (1) in 1875, Adeline, daughter of John Adams and Sarah Fenn (Hotchkiss) Blake. Children: Edwin Blake, '07 S , John Robert, ex- 1925, in Menden, Conn Father, Joel Fenn, an architect and builder; son of Joel and Hannah (Curtis) Fenn; descendant of Edward Fenn, who settled in Wallingford in 1686, and of Benjamin Fenn, who came from Whittington, Masworth, England, to Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, where he was a proprietor the next year, later moving to New Haven, and thence to Milford, Conn , in 1639 Mother, Mary Hart (Hamhn) Fenn; daughter of Ava and Nancy (Gillette) Hamhn; descendant of Capt Giles Hamlin, who was born in Cornwall, England, in 1622, came to Barn- stable, Mass , in 1635 ^ r o m St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, and settled at Middletown, Conn , in 1654. Prepared at Menden; attended Yale School of Law in 1879— 1881 (member Kent Club); practiced law in Menden from 1881 until his death; deputy judge of Menden City and Police courts 1895-1915 and again 1922-24, councilman and alder- man 1882-87; registrar of voters twelve years; chairman of Republican Town Committee, represented Menden in Gen- eral Assembly 1903-04 and 1905-06 (member Judiciary Com- mittee and Committee on Cities and Boroughs; chairman of Committee on Legislative Expenses), trustee of First Baptist Church, Menden, for a number of years. Unmarried. 298 Obituary Record Death due to pneumonia. Buried in Walnut Grove Ceme- tery, Menden Survived by a brother, Ava H. Fenn (M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1886), and a sister, Mrs. Carrie Fenn Bodurtha, both of Meriden. George Merrick Sinclair, LL.B. 1883. Born May 20, 1858, in Ottawa, Ontario, Died December 31, 1916, in Seattle, Wash. Father, Duncan R. Sinclair, a civil engineer. Mother, Maria (Merrick) Sinclair. Attended St. John's College and Osgood Hall Law School and was admitted to practice in Dakota before entering Yale School of Law as a Senior in 1882 (his name at that time was George Merrick Clarke, as he had taken the name of his step- father); engaged in the practice of law at Mount Vernon, Wash., 1883-88, in Fairhaven, Wash., 1888-1890, in Mount Vernon again 1890-99, in Butte, Mont, 1899-1902, and in Seattle from 1902 until his death; while in Butte was in partnership with George B. Dygert in firm of Sinclair & Dygert. MarriedAugust 18,1897, in Seattle, Grace Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Rachael Margaret Robinson. No children. Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Buried in Lake View Cemetery, Seattle. Survived by wife. Charles Calloway Pavey, LL.B. 1884. Born August 26, 1857, in Greenfield, Ohio Died September 16, 1925, in Columbus, Ohio Father, Madison Pavey, a lawyer; graduate of Cincinnati Law School; prosecuting attorney of Fayette County, Ohio; state senator; son of Daniel Pavey; descendant of Samuel Pavey, who was born in New Hampshire in 1710 and later lived in Caroline County, Md , and Harrison County, Ky. Mother, Mary Lucretia (Dunlap) Pavey; daughter of John and Susan (Brooks) Dunlap; descendant of Capt. Samuel Wallace, a member of the Cumberland County (Pa.) Militia in the Revolution. School of Law 299 L Bliss and Babin School, Cincinnati; B.A. Wooster Univer- sity 1882; attended Yale School of Law 1882-84 (member Kent Club); practiced law at Washington Court House, Ohio, for a time and since 1900 at Columbus, where he was a member of firm of Pavey, Kahle & Moore for some years; member Columbus Bar Association and Broad Street Congre- gational Church, Columbus; M A. Wooster 1885. Married October 6, 1887, at Washington Court House, Eva Matilda, daughter of Martin and Sarah (Coffman) Grove. Children: Ralph Madison (B Sc. Ohio State University 1913) and Carl Calloway (B.E.E. Ohio State University 1915) (died in 1923). Death due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Buried at Washington Court House. Survived by wife, one son, two brothers, Frank D. Pavey, '84, and George M. Pavey, '88, and a sister, Miss Mary S. Pavey (B.A. Wellesley 1893). William Enston Butler, LL.B. 1885. Born June 28, 1850, in Charleston, S C. Died June 21, 1915, in Charleston, S C. Father, William Butler, a cabinet maker; later in the furni- ture business; born m Kent County, England, lived in Philadelphia and later in Charleston; son of Thomas and Kathryn (Coppin) Butler. Mother, Ellen (Enston) Butler, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Knowles) Enston, who came from Canterbury, England, to Chester, Pa , in 1821 and set- tled; later moving to Evansville, Ind. Private schools, Charleston; C.E. Pennsylvania Military Academy 1883; studied at Yale School of Law 1883-85, practiced law in Charleston from 1885 until his retirement about 1911, with the exception of a year spent in Spartans- burg, S. C , appointed judicial magistrate by Governor John Gary Evans in 1896 and served two years; vice-president and trustee of William Enston Home, an institution founded and donated to city of Charleston by his mother's brother, by whom he was adopted; had served as Captain in Charleston Riflemen and in Montgomery Guards; member Second Pres- byterian Church, Charleston, at time of his death. 3oo Obituary Record Married (i) in January, 1873, in Charleston, Lura Belle, daughter of Peter and Anna (Kennedy) Zeigler. One son, William Enston Mrs. Butler died January 30, 1874. Married (2) December 28,1876, in Charleston, Ella Jessie, daughter of Duncan and Margaret Allison (McFarlane) McDermid. Children Hannah Ellen (Mrs Jesse T. Bryant), who gradu- ated from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1904; Kathryn Cameron; Jessie Allison; Alfred Enston, a graduate of the Medical College of South Carolina in 1915; Elize Belle (died in 1899); and Bethea Boys (died in 1891). Death due to paralysis Buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston Survived by one son, three daughters, and four grandchildren. , James Clark Work, LL.B. 1886. Born February 8, 1859, in Dunbar Township, Pa Died March 31, 1926, in Uniontown, Pa. Father, John Work, a farmer and stock dealer; son of James and Ellen (Dugan) Work, descendant of Joseph Work, of Fayette County, Pa. Mother, Sarah (McLaughhn) Work; daughter of Charles and Mary (McLaughhn) McLaughlin, whose ancestors settled in Fayette County. Preparatory training received at Sandy Hollow (Pa.) dis- trict school, B.A. Waynesburg College 1884 (member Union Literary Society), studied law at University of Michigan 1884-85 and at Yale 1885-86, admitted to practice by Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1886; in January, 1887, following his admission to Fayette County Bar, opened an office of his own in Uniontown; practiced alone until 1889; member of firm of Work & Hogg 1889-1892; then practiced independently; in June, 1907, when the Pennsylvania Legislature created a separate Orphans Court for Fayette County, he was ap- pointed by the Governor judge of the court; elected for a ten- year term the following November and reelected for a similar term in 1917, chairman of Fayette County Republican Com- mittee 1893-95; member American, Pennsylvania, and Fayette County Bar associations and First Presbyterian Church, Uniontown. School of Law 301 Married April 16,1903, in Union town, Edwina Null Fuller, daughter of Henry Harrison and Ellen Gerhardt (Dom) Null, of Greensburg, Pa No children Death due to pneumonia. Interment in Oak Grove Ceme- tery, Uniontown. Survived by wife and three sisters, Mrs Anna M Henshaw, of Uniontown, Mrs. Adam Nicholson, of Franklin Township, Pa., and Mrs. Belle Chalfant, of Browns- ville, Pa. Patrick Kane, LL.B. 1888. Born November 14, 1848, in New York City. Died June 6, 1926, in Bridgeport, Conn Father, Patrick Kane, a tailor, born in Dublin, Ireland; came to America m 1847; served as member of Company D, 9th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, during the Civil War; son of George and Mary (O'Brien) Kane Mother, Catherine (Smith) Kane; born in Dublin; daughter of Patrick and Honora (Ellis) Smith. Brother, George Kane, '97 L. Day Select School, Bridgeport; attended Bryant and Strat- ton Commercial School, Boston; engaged in newspaper, book, and stationery business in Bridgeport 1865-1885; state editor for Catholic Total Abstinence Union 1870-78; attended Yale School of Law 1886-88; had since been engaged in active practice of law in Bridgeport; in 1893 appointed deputy judge of City Court of Bridgeport for the two-year term, but by reason of the death of the judge of the court in October, 1893, acted as sole judge for remainder of the term; served as a justice of the peace and as indexer of Bridgeport Law Records 1893-97; member Board of Taxation 1896-98 and Board of Public Charities 1909-1910; member Fairfield County Bar Association, Bridgeport Board of Trade, Sons of Veterans, and St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Bridgeport. Married July 20,1899, in Bridgeport, Amy Belle, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Britain) Jukes Children: Amy Belle (died in childhood), Patricia; Richard Sarto; Elizabeth Britain, a member of the Tufts Class of 1929; and Ruth Marion. Death due to uraemia. Buried in St Michael's Cemetery, Bridgeport Survived by wife, son, three daughters, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth A K Hornby, of Bridgeport 302 Obituary Record Frank Harrison Kelley, LL.B. i Born December 28, 1863, in Worcester, Mass. Died January 6, 1915, in Tacoma, Wash. Father, Frank Harrison Kelley (M.D. Cincinnati Medical College 1852), a surgeon, practicing in New Hampton and Dover, N H., and Lawrence and Worcester, Mass.; first president of board of trustees of Worcester City Hospital; councilman, alderman, and mayor of Worcester; son of Michael B and Rachel Anna (Cram) Kelley; descendant of Darby Kelley, who came to Exeter, N. H , from England in 1715, and of Tristram Cram, who came to Deerfield, N. H., from England about 1760 Mother, Lucy Ellis (Draper) Kelley. Phillips-Exeter. Entered Yale College with the Class of 1886, but left at end of Sophomore year (treasurer of Foot- ball Club Freshman year; member $6 Glee Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon); was in the commission business in New York City for a time and was also on the staffs of several New York newspapers; studied,,at Yale School of Law 1886-88; during his Junior year there was a reporter for New Haven Palladium; city editor New Haven Morning News 1888-89; resigned his position to take up practice of law in New Haven as member of firm of Kelley, Rinehart & Stewart (had been admitted to the bar in 1888); left New Haven in 1896 and practiced law independently in Worcester until 1899; had since practiced independently in Tacoma; member Pierce County Bar Association. Married May 21,1886, in New Haven, Jean Leslie, daugh- ter of John L. and Jessie (Duechars) Richardson. Children: Frank Harrison, Jr., who graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1910; Ruth Leslie (Mrs Clarke A. John- son); Bruce Draper, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in 1925; John Ellis, a student at the University of Washington; and Daysie Winston. Death due to cancer of the liver Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Tacoma Survived by wife, five children, and seven grandchildren. School of Law 303 Howard Nichols Wakeman, LL.B. 1888. Born November 21, 1856, at Greenfield Hill, Conn. Died February 22, 1926, in Bridgeport, Conn. Father, Zalmon Wakeman, a school teacher; member Connecticut General Assembly; son of John and Clara (Nichols) Wakeman; descendant of John Wakeman, who came to Hartford, Conn , from England in the seventeenth century. Mother, Susan Warner (Nichols) Wakeman; daugh- ter of Bradley Hull and Charlotte (Banks) Nichols; descend- ant of Francis Nichols, who came to Hartford from England before 1700. Yale relatives include a nephew, George E. Beers, '89 L., and a grandnephew, William L. Beers, ex-2j L. Day Select School, Bridgeport, and Trinity School, South- port, Conn.; entered Yale School of Law in 1886; also studied in law office of Curtis Thompson (honorary M.A 1871) in Bridgeport; admitted to Fairfield County Bar in 1887 and began practice in Bridgeport; member of firm of Thompson, Wakeman & Thompson (in which Curtis Thompson was senior partner and his son, James W Thompson, '90, junior partner) 1894-1904; admitted to New York State Bar 1904; examiner in law department of Lawyers Title Insurance & Trust Company of New York City 1904-1914; practiced law in Bridgeport from 1915 until his death; personal tax col- lector of town of Fairfield, Conn , from 1916 until his death; member Fairfield Republican Town Committee for forty years; member Connecticut General Assembly in 1897 (House chairman of Committee on Public Health and clerk of Committee on Legislative Expenses and Procedure); secretary of Bridgeport Historical Society and in charge of Phineas Taylor Barnum Museum at time of his death; served as a Private in Home Guard of Fairfield from its organization in 1917 until 1919; was also member of Legal Advisory Board of Division No. 13; member Sons of the American Revolution, Bridgeport Scientific and Historical Society, Fairfield Histori- cal Society, and Trinity Episcopal Church (vestryman since 1879 and senior warden since 1920); had lived in Southport since 1889. Married October 28, 1891, in Bridgeport, Grace Melville, 304 Obituary Record daughter of Henry and Catherine (Silhman) Hall. Children: Tallmadge Nichols,, '14 S , who held a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department during the war; Catherine DeForest (Mrs Henry A. Wedelstaedt), of Chicago, 111.; and Clara Lacey (Mrs. Howard E. Allen), of Westport, Conn Death, due to bronchopneumonia, occurred in Park City Hospital, Bridgeport. Survived by wife, son, two daughters, and two grandchildren. John Wright Cox,, LL.B. : Born January 16, 1863, in LaGrange, Ga Died April 10, 1916, in Atlanta, Ga Father, Albert Ewing Cox, a lawyer, attended Franklin College (now the University of Georgia) and Randolph- Macon College, judge of City Court of LaGrange; represented Troup County in the Georgia Legislature, senior partner in dry goods firm of Cox & Pullen; trustee of LaGrange Female College, son of Dr Zachary Cox and Margaret (Morrow) Cox, grandson of William Cox, a Revolutionary soldier; great-grandson of Abraham Cox, who came to America from England and settled in Fauquier County, Va. Mother, Juliet Warren (Alford) Cox, daughter of Julius C. Alford, a member of Congress, and Eliza (Cook) Alford; descendant of William Alford, who was born in London in 1608, came to Salem, Mass , in 1634, and settled at Boston the next year. LaGrange High School and LaGrange Military Academy; LL.B University of Georgia 1885; practiced law in Atlanta 1885-88, Senior in Yale School of Law 1888-89, resumed practice in Atlanta in 1889, forming partnership with his elder brother, Albert H. Cox (B A Georgia 1868), under firm name of Cox & Cox; withdrew from firm in a short time, however, and practiced alone until Spanish-American War; enlisted as a Private in the 29th Regiment at Fort McPherson, Ga , transferred to 28th U S Volunteer Infantry at Camp Meade, Md , in April, 1899, and sent to the Philippines; made First Sergeant and served on island of Luzon until December 3, 1900, and then on island of Mindanao until summer of School of Law 305 1901, when he received his discharge; returned to Atlanta and continued to practice until 1914, when his health failed com- pletely; was subsequently a patient at Army and Navy Hos- pital at Hot Springs, Ark ; for some time member Young Men's Democratic Association and St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Atlanta. Married October 15,1903, in Atlanta, Mary Edna, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Ida May (Curtis) Waddey. Children: John Wright, Jr., and Edna May. Death due to cirrhosis of the liver caused by malaria contracted in the Philippines. Buried in LaGrange. Survived by wife, son, daughter, two brothers, Albert H. Cox, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Sterling A. Cox, and five sisters, Mrs. W. A. Wright, the Misses George and Fanny Cox, Mrs. F. F. Stiles and Mrs. Herbert E. White. Reuben Louis Cates, LL.B. 1891. Died May 12, 1925 It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Mr. Cates *in time for publication in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a sub- sequent issue of the Obituary Record Francis Willcox Treadway, LL.B. 1892. Born January 7, 1869, in New Haven, Conn Died December 24, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio. Father, Augustine Russell Tread way, son of Russell and Mary (Willcox) Tread way; ancestors came to Massa- chusetts from England in 1682 Mother, Mary Louisa (Mansfield) Treadway; daughter of William Lyon and Elizabeth Rachel (Bradley) Mansfield; descendant of Major Moses Mansfield, who commanded New Haven troops in King Philip's War. Cleveland High School; B S. Worcester Polytechnic In- stitute 1890 (president of Senior Class and of Tennis Associa- tion; treasurer of Athletic Association, manager of Baseball 306 Obituary Record Association), entered Yale School of Law in 1890 (an editor of Tale Law Journal; winner of Munson Prize; member of Corbey Court); had practiced law in Cleveland since 1892 (senior partner in firm of Treadway & Marlatt, in which William H. Marlatt, '92 L., was the junior partner, since May 10, 1893); United States commissioner for Northern District of Ohio 1902-03; member Ohio House of Representa- tives 1904-05; lieutenant governor of Ohio 1908, director Per- fection Stove Company, Baker-Raulang Company, Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company, Guardian Trust Company, and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, secretary of Jones Home for Friend- less Children since 1898; former treasurer of Cleveland Bar Association, president New England Society of Cleveland; alumni trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute; was in- strumental in introducing the idea of an endowment policy, based on the Yale plan, and became honorary chairman of Alumni Fund Board, on February 6, 1926, the Alumni Gen- eral Committee voted that the principal account of the alumni fund was henceforth to be known as "The Francis W. Treadway Principal Fund", trustee Pilgrim Congregational Church, life member Cleveland Associated Chanties and Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (trustee 1911-1924), member Cleveland, Ohio State, and American Bar Associations, Ohio Board of Commerce, and American Academy of Political Science; author (with his partner) of Ohio Mechanic's Lien Law in 1901 (second edition 1904); during World War served as member of Committee on Public Information, as a Four-minute speaker, and as an active worker in the various Red Cross and Liberty Loan campaigns Married January 5, 1897, in Cleveland, Esther Sutliff, daughter of William Judah and Anna Maria (Sutliff) Fnsbie. Children. Frances Sessions (B A. Smith 1921) and Augustin Russell (B A. Dartmouth 1924), a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Death due to angina pectons. Interment in Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland. Survived by wife, daughter, son, a brother, Charles F Treadway (B.S. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1890), of New Haven, and a sister, Mrs. James Mathers (a non-graduate member of the Wilson College Class of 1897), of Cleveland School of Law 307 Lebbeus Redman Wilfley, LL.B. 1892. Born March 30, 1867, in Audram County, Mo Died May 26, 1926, in Greenwich, Conn. Father, James Franklin Wilfley, a farmer. Mother, Sarah (Pindall) Wilfley; daughter of Evan Shelby and Drusilla (Morgan) Pindall, of Monongaha County, W. Va. Prepared at Central College, Fayette, Mo.; received M A. there 1891; entered Yale School of Law as a Senior in 1891; admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1892 and practiced law in St. Louis until 1901, from 1899 being in partnership with his brother, Xenophon P. Wilfley; attorney-general of the Philip- pines 1901-06; when the United States Court for China was created and established at Shanghai in 1906, was appoint- ed first judge of the court; because of his crusade against the lawless and vicious element of Shanghai, they preferred charges against him and he was summoned to Washington; after failure of an attempt to induce the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives to impeach him, and the high commendation of his conduct of affairs in China by President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State, Elihu Root, Mr. Wilfley returned to China in May, 1908, and sued the editor of the China Gazette in the British Supreme Court in China, on a charge of libel, which resulted in the imprison- ment of the editor and the complete vindication of Mr. Wilfley; resigned his judgeship in December, 1908; engaged in the practice of law for a short time in the City of Mexico, where he represented the Chinese Government in a claim against the Mexican Government, growing out of the massa- cre of a large number of Chinese at Toreon during the Madero revolution; moved to New York City in 1917 and formed the law firm'of Wilfley, Williams & Evans; was practicing alone at the time of his death; LL D. Clark University 1909; while in the Philippines, served as United States delegate to Uni- versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904; member Southern Methodist Church. Married January 27, 1917, in Greenwich, Belle Loader Zabnskie, daughter of John W. and Margaret (Huer) Loader. No children. 308 Obituary Record y Death due to pneumonia. Interment in Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich. Survived by wife, a stepson, Nicholas Lansing Zabnskie, 2d, ex-i%y and two brothers, Xenophon P. Wilfley, of St. Louis, and J. Douglas Wilfley, of Philadelphia. George Washington Klett, LL.B. 1895. Born February 22, 1874, in New Britain, Conn. Died January 27, 1926, in New Britain, Conn. Father, Leopold Klett, a contractor; born in Zella, Saxe- Gotha, Germany; came to America in 1858; member New Britain Common Council four years, New Britain School Board six years, and Board of Street Commissioners nine years; son of Frank and Augusta (Ritz) Klett. Mother, Augusta Laura (Neuschulten) Klett; born in Elberfeld, Germany; daughter of Charles and Catherine (Ernst) Neuschulten New Britain High School; business manager of New Britain Daily Record 1892-93; entered Yale School of Law 1893 (member Kent Club); since 1895 nac ^ practiced law in New Britain (senior member of firm of Klett & Ailing since Novem- ber, 1906); clerk of City and Police Court 1895-1902; assist- ant city attorney 1897-98 and 1900-01; clerk of Probate Court for District of Berlin 1898-1902; judge of Probate Court 1902-04, prosecuting attorney of City and Police Court in 1902 and again from 1909 to 1921; judge of same court from 1921 to 1923, when he resigned to resume private practice; member State Senate in 1915, 1917, and 1919 and Republican leader in special session of 1916; chairman Re- publican Town Committee two years and member State Central Committee since 1914; member St Mark's Church (Episcopal), New Britain. Married September 1, 1897, i n Worcester, Mass , Louise Julia, daughter of Frank and Julia (Mayberger) Diemar. No children Death, due to septic poisoning, followed an operation the previous October, and occurred in the New Britain Hospital. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, New Britain. Survived by wife and a brother, Frank W. Klett, '05 S. School of Law 309 Francis Joseph Kearful, LL.B. 1896. Born June a8,1871, in St Joseph, Mo Died August 23, 1925, at Arlington Heights, Mass Father, Charles Kearful, a market gardener; born in Saxony, came to America in 1837, and became naturalized, changing his name from Carl Kirchvogel. Mother, Phoebe (Dike) Kearful, of an old Virginia family. Attended St. Joseph's (Christian Brothers) College, en- gaged in farming in Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory 1886-1892; stenographer in a law office and court stenographer in Oklahoma City 1892-93, during which time he studied law; admitted to Oklahoma Bar in 1893 and practiced in Oklahoma City a year; admitted to Utah Bar and practiced at Salt Lake City in 1894; entered Yale School of Law in 1895; received degree of LL B. in 1896, with special honorable mention, and an LL.M. cum laude in 1897; assisted William D Guthne (honorary M.A. 1904) in two cases before U S. Supreme Court during winter of 1897-98; practiced law in Oklahoma City 1898-1901, in New York City 1901-06 (assistant to Mr Guthne 1902-04; then practiced independently), and in San Antonio, Texas, 1906-1910; special assistant to Attorney- General 1910-11; joined law firm of Wilson & Baz in Mexico City (which then became Wilson, Baz & Kearful) in 1912 and continued in that connection for several years, served in De- partment of Justice at Washington 1915-19 as an attorney (February 22-July 3, 1915)5 special assistant to Attorney- General (July 3, 1915-March 18, 1917, and again July 16- August 31, 1919), and Assistant Attorney-General in charge of Public Lands Division (March 19, 1917-July 15, 1919); counsel for Senate sub-committee investigating Mexican affairs September, 1919-May, 1920, subsequently counsel for Pantepec Petroleum Company of Tampico, Mexico, until 1923; member bars of Oklahoma, Texas, New York, and United States Supreme Court; during course at Yale wrote articles for Edward Thompson Company (American and Eng- lish Encyclopedia of Law, second edition), and during 1901-02 contributed articles to Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure, published by American Law Book Company; subsequently 310 Obituary Record contributed articles to Century Law "Journal and, in conjunc- tion with George E. Beers, '89 L., to American and English Encyclopedia of Law; since 1919 his home had been in Brook- line, Mass. Married May 8,1898, in Oklahoma City, Josephine Dorsey, daughter of Dan J. and Elizabeth A. (Gray) Cline, of San Antonio. Children: Godfrey Gray and Francis Jerome. Death, due to paralysis, occurred after an illness of almost two years at the Ring Sanitarium at Arlington Heights. Inter- ment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington. Survived by wife, two sons, two brothers, Jerome A. and John H. Kearful, both of Chinook, Mont., and a sister, Mrs. N. H. Collins, of St Joseph. Mason Loomis Decker, LL.B. 1897. Born November 8, 1874, in Denver, Colo Died January 27, 1911, in Littleton, Colo. Father, Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker (LL.B. Univer- sity of Michigan 1867), a lawyer in Kankakee, 111, and Denver, Colo (member of firm of Decker & O'Donnell); city attorney of Kankakee; county judge of Kankakee County; U. S district attorney for district of Colorado under President Grant; judge of ad Judicial District of Arapahoe County, Colo , of Holland Dutch stock, his immediate ancestors set- tling in and about Kingston, N. Y.; his first American ancestor came from Hamburg, Germany, and settled in Albany, N. Y., in the seventeenth century. Mother, Katharine Ellsworth (Worden) Decker, of English ancestry on her father's side, her mother's ancestors being French Huguenots, who settled in New Rochelle, N. Y. Peekskill Military Academy, entered Yale School of Law as a Senior in 1895 (member Book and Gavel), practiced law for a few years, but was obliged to give up practice on account of his health Married in November, 1896, in Peekskill, N. Y., Jeanne McCullough, daughter of Thomas Stuart. One daughter, Katharine Worden. Death due to tuberculosis. Buried in Fairmount Cemetery, School of Law 311 Denver. Survived by wife, daughter, and a sister, Mrs Cora Decker Sargent, of Chicago, 111. Charles Frederick Peterson, LL.B. 1897. Born January 19, 1870, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Died October 14, 1925, in Honolulu, Hawaii Father, Ichabod Barstow Peterson, an accountant with C. Brewer & Company of Honolulu; later assistant and deputy postmaster-general at Honolulu; son of Charles Peterson, who fought in the War of 181a, and grandson of Reuben Peterson, who fought at Lexington. Mother, Henrietta Copeland (Austin) Peterson; daughter of James Austin, a Scotchman, and Kaulukane, a direct descendant of Kamehameha I. Public schools in Honolulu; after completing preliminary education, worked as a telephone operator, clerk in a lawyer's office, and clerk in office of Department of the Interior under the monarchy of Hawaii and in the Circuit and Supreme courts of Hawaii; in 1893 served as secretary of Hawaiian Commission sent by the provisional government, following the overthrow of the monarchy, to Washington, to work for annexation; attended Yale School of Law 1895-97 (honors Junior year; LL B. cum laudey member Corbey Court); judge of District Court of Hawaii 1898-99; then began private practice of law, in which he continued until his death; special- ized in land cases, although he had a general practice; served as a notary public 1905-1925; member Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, Hawaiian Civic Club, and Central Union (Protestant) Church, Hawaii. Married June 15, 1898, in Honolulu, Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary (Kaawa) Wright, of Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii. Children: Frederick James, '22; Muriel Kalaniheia; Edwin Wright, '26; and Robert Howland. Death, due to cancer of the liver, followed a long illness. Body cremated and ashes buried in Nuuanu Cemetery, Hono- lulu Survived by wife, four children, three brothers, Robert C. A. Peterson, of New York City, and William L and David L. Peterson, both of Honolulu, and two sisters, Mrs. Henrietta Andrade and Mrs. Rudolph M. Duncan, both of Honolulu. 312 Obituary Record Bryan DeForest Sheedy, LL.B. 1897. Born October 17, 1864, in Norwalk, Conn. Died March 5, 1926, in New York City. Father, Michael Sheedy, a retired farmer; of Irish ancestry. Mother, Johanna (Hanlon) Sheedy Norwalk High School; M.D. New York University 1885; took special clinical courses in London (1890), Berlin (1891), and Vienna (1899 anc ^ 1906); practiced medicine in Northamp- ton, Mass , in 1888, special student at Yale School of Law 1895-96, taking a course in medical jurisprudence, and then joined Class of 1897 L as a Senior; practiced medicine in Bridgeport, Conn., for a number of years after his graduation from the Law School; then moved to New York City and con- tinued his practice there until about three years before his death, specializing in diseases of the nose and throat; instruc- tor in department of rhinology in New York Post-Graduate Medical College and Hospital; had been health commissioner of Bridgeport and medical examiner for several New York and Massachusetts insurance companies; was interested in real estate in Northampton and Bridgeport and also had extensive holdings in New York City; director in several corporations; member American Medical, New York County Medical, and New York State Medical associations, Massachusetts State, Connecticut State, and Fairfield County (Conn.) Medical societies, Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York, American Irish Historical Society, and Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in New York. Married August 19,1905, in Meadville, Pa., Eleanor Mane, daughter of Thomas Francis and Mary (Kane) Connors Children Bryan DeForest, J r , Edmund Theodore, and Eleanor Mane Death, due to bronchopneumoma and myocarditis, followed twelve years of failing health Buried in Gate of Heaven Ceme- tery, Hawthorne, N. Y Survived by wife, sons, daughter, and two sisters, Mrs M J. Riordan, of Norwalk, Conn., and Sister Mary Catherine, of the Order of St. Joseph, Westfleld, Mass i School of Law 313 Wilfred Clary Lane, LL.B. 1901. Born June 23, 1878, in Hadley, Mass Died November 14, 1925, in Norwich, Conn Father, the Rev. John William Lane (B A. Amherst 1856), a Congregational minister; son of Charles and Hannah (French) Lane; descendant of William Lane, who came from England to Boston in 1650 and later settled at Hampton, N H. Mother, Mary (Haynes) Lane, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary (now College) in 1864; daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Spauld- ing) Haynes; descendant of Walter Haynes, who came from England to Sudbury, Mass , in 1635. Cousin: Rev. Charles S. Haynes, '94 D. Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Williston Academy, and Phil- lips-Andover; attended Brown University during 1897-98 as member of Class of 1901 (member Phi Delta Theta); LL B Mercer University 1900 (member of Baseball Team and later baseball coach); entered Yale School of Law in 1900; practiced law in Macon, Ga., 1901-05 (also member of faculty at Mercer University); deputy clerk of United States Circuit and Dis- trict courts for Southern District of Georgia and United States commissioner at Augusta 1905-07; delegate to Republican National Convention at Chicago from n t h Congressional District of Georgia in 1908; referee in bankruptcy at Valdosta, Ga., 1907-1912; practiced law in Des Moines, Iowa, 1912-16, specializing in patent, trade-mark, and corporation law and bankruptcy litigation; then lived in Chicago for a short time; had since been in poor health and had not engaged in practice, making his home in New Haven for the greater part of the time; member American Bar Association and several state bar associations, Commercial Law League of America, Sons of the American Revolution, and Second Congregational Church, Hadley. Married October 2,1907, in Burlington, Vt., Lila, daughter of Urban A. and Pauline (Darling) Woodbury. One son, John Woodbury. Mr. and Mrs. Lane were later divorced. Death due to heart disease Buried in Stratham, N. H Survived by two brothers, Dr. John E. Lane, '94, and Wallace R. Lane, 'oo L , and two sisters, Mrs. William P. Powell, of Springfield, Mass., and Miss Susan K. Lane, of Philadelphia. 314 Obituary Record John Joseph Bennett, LL.B. 1905. Born October 6, 1881, in Ansonia, Conn. Died May 16, 1926, in Ansonia, Conn. Father, Dennis Bennett, a mechanic; son of John Bennett, who came to Ansonia from County Cork, Ireland, in 1876, and Elm (Noonan) Bennett Mother, Catherine (Steevens) Ben- nett, daughter of James Steevens, who came to Ansonia, from County Meath, Ireland, in 1862, and Bridget (McGuiness) Steevens. Ansonia High School, attended Yale School of Medicine 1901-02 and then entered Law School; in 1905 began practice of law at Derby, Conn , with James F. Torrance, '94 L., under firm name of Torrance & Bennett; in 1910 established an office of his own in Ansonia; served as clerk of City Court of Ansonia for several years and had been prosecuting attorney of the court since the creation of the dual city court system in July, 1925; one of founders of Ansonia Juvenile Court; an incorporator of Ansonia Bank & Trust Company in 1924; had served as advisor for Ansonia Boy Scouts, Troop 8, Young Men's Republican Club, and Polish and Italian Republican clubs; member Republican Town Committee for several years; Republican nominee for representative from Ansonia in 1922, but failed of election; interested in development of beach property near Milford, Conn, (president of Oak Grove Amusement Company and one of the largest realty holders at Myrtle Beach); member Connecticut Bar Association, An- sonia Chamber of Commerce, and Holy Name Society of the Church of the Assumption, Ansonia; honorary member W. H Gordon Post of American Legion. Married August 31, 1909, in Ansonia, Catherine, daughter of William H. and Mary A. (Walsh) Kane. Children: John Joseph, Jr , William, Marion, and Thomas. Death due to myocarditis; had been in ill health for about a year, following a nervous breakdown due to overwork, but had continued his law practice and court duties. Buried in Mount St. Peter's Cemetery, East Derby. Survived by wife and four children School of Law 315 William Alexander Johnson, LL.B. 1907. Born November 15, 1882, in Marion, S C. Died March 13, 1926, in Portland, Ore. Father, James William Johnson, a lawyer of Marion; at- tended University of the South and Davidson College; son of James Stevens Johnson, a jurist and member of the Secession Convention in Mississippi (entered Yale College as a Fresh- man in 1835, studied at Princeton for two years, and gradu- ated at Union in 1838), and Falba (Love) Johnson Mother, Annie Prince (Johnson) Johnson; daughter of William Dalrymple Johnson (B.A. Princeton 1843), a jurist and mem- ber of the Secession Convention in South Carolina, and Sarah (McCall) Johnson; of Scotch descent; ancestors came to this country prior to the Revolution and settled in Virginia and North Carolina. Marion High School; studied law in his father's office two years and was admitted to South Carolina Bar m 1903; in the summer of that year took a course of lectures at Summer Law School of University of Virginia; entered Yale School of Law in 1904, but left at end of the year to accept a position with the law firm of Teal & Minor in Portland; practiced there sixteen months, being admitted to Oregon Bar in 1905, then returned to Yale and joined Class of 1907 in the Law School in January of Senior year, resumed practice in Portland in 1907, being associated with firm of Teal, Minor & Winfree; since 1911 had been a member of that firm, which later became Teal, Winfree, Johnson & McCulloch; considered one of the best authorities on municipal bonds in the West; member Oregon and American Bar associations and First Presbyterian Church, Portland. Unmarried. Death, due to spinal trouble, occurred in St. Vincent's Hospital. Buried in Riverview Cemetery, Portland Survived by father, three sisters, Miss Falba Love Johnson, of Wash- ington, D. C , and the Misses Annie Blewett and Carroll Burnet Johnson, of Marion, and two brothers, James Stevens JoKnson, of Marion, and Cecil Johnson, of Columbia, S C. 316 Obituary Record Arnold Orestes Schramm, LL.B. 1908. Born August 3, 1880, in New York City. ' Died September 13, 1925, in New York City. Father, Arnold Herman Eric Schramm, a broker, son of Dr Karl Schramm and Ida Juliana (Berggraf) Schramm; de- scendant of Johann T. Schramm, who came to New York City from Prussia in 1849 Mother, Helen M. (Vandenhove) Schramm, daughter of Guillaume L. D. and Adelaide (Schmidt) Vandenhove, first ancestor in America was Guil- laume Vandenhove, who came to New York City from Bel- gium in 1845. Horace Mann School, New York City; B A. Columbia 1903; engaged in clerical work in his father's office in New York for two years before entering Yale School of Law in 1905 (member Book and Gavel); admitted to the bar in 1908 and practiced independently in New York City from that time until his death, member New York County Lawyers* Association. Unmarried. Died by his own hand Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Survived by his mother. Albert Francis McCarthy, LL.B. 1911. Born August 27, 1888, in Ansonia, Conn. Died December 19, 1925, m Bridgeport, Conn. Father, William James McCarthy, a plumber; son of Patrick and Sarah (Blackburn) McCarthy; descendant of Patrick McCarthy, who came to America from Ireland in 1843 a n d afterwards lived in Monroe, Conn. Mother, Mary A. (Kelly) McCarthy, daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth Kelly Studied at Niagara University 1906-08; attended Yale School of Law 1908-1911 (member Kent Club); practiced law in Muskegon, Mich , 1912-16; since then had not been in active practice owing to ill health, although he practiced oc- casionally until 1924; member Church of the Assumption, Ansonia. School of Law 317 Unmarried. Death due to heart trouble. Buried in St. Mary's Ceme- tery, Ansonia. Survived by mother, two brothers, Frederick M. McCarthy, '05 L , and Christopher M. McCarthy, of Ansonia, and four sisters, Miss Rebecca McCarthy, of Hart- ford and Mrs. James J. Sullivan, Mrs. Edward E. English, and Mrs. John Carroll, all of Ansonia. Joseph Charles Hedges, LL.B. 1923. Born February 9, 1896, in Seattle, Wash. Died October 3, 1925, in Seattle, Wash Father, Joseph Eugene Hedges (B A. 1891), a lawyer; mem- ber Oregon State Senate 1907-1911 and of Board of Higher Curricula of Oregon since 1909; son of Joseph and Ellen Judith (Allen) Hedges. Mother, Lillian (Bray) Hedges; daughter of Charles Edward and Rebecca Thomas (White) Bray. Uncle. Gilbert L Hedges, '96. Oregon City (Ore.) High School; student at University of Oregon (Class of 1918) when the war broke out, enlisted as a Sergeant (1st Class) in the Ordnance Department November 21, 1917, and served at San Antonio Arsenal until January 2, 1918; was then at the Base Ordnance Depot at Camp Dodge until going overseas March 14,1918, served successively with Ordnance Depot, Services of Supply (until June 22, 1918), with Headquarters, Ordnance Armament School (June 22- December 13, 1918), and then with the Supply Company at that school; returned to United States July 13,1919, and was at Mitchel Field, Long Island^ until his discharge on July 21; was highly recommended for a commission in the Ordnance Department during his first months of service in America, and his recommendation for a commission was also presented in France, but the armistice put a stop to all promotions; upon his return to this country resumed studies at University of Oregon (member Phi Gamma Delta; received B A. in 1920, as of the Class of 1918); studied law at University of Oregon 1919-1921 (was an instructor in swimming there 1920-21; during the summer acted as assistant director of first aid and hfe-saving for the Northwest Division of the American Red 318 Obituary Record Cross in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington); studied at Yale School of Law 1921-23 (member Phi Delta Phi); admitted to Oregon Bar October 2,1923, and to Washington Bar January 29, 1924; began practice in Seattle with firm of Huffer, Hay- den & Bucey in October, 1923; at the time of his death was as- sociated with firm of Huffer, Hayden, Merritt, Summers & Bucey. Unmarried. Death due to wounds received on the Pacific Highway in Pierce County, Wash., in an unprovoked assault by shooting on September 19. Interment in Masonic Cemetery, Oregon City Survived by parents, two sisters, the Misses Dorothy A. and Janice M. Hedges, of Oregon City, and a brother, Dwight S. Hedges, a student at the University of Oregon. Thomas Davis Ross, LL.M. 1883. Born February 22, 1861, in Magnolia, Ark. Died May 31, 1926, at Fort Worth, Texas Father, Zeno Carl Ross, a lawyer; ancestors came to Amer- ica from Wales, where they had gone from Scotland. Mother, Mary Jane (Davis) Ross. Preparatory training received at public schools in Magno- lia; attended Arkansas Industrial University at Fayetteville (completed Junior year in 1880), University of Virginia (LLB. 1882), and Yale School of Law 1882-83; had since practiced law at Forth Worth as a member of firm of Ross, Ross & Alexander, which also included his nephew, Zeno C. Ross, ' n , and of which Francis G. Coates, '16, was at one time a member; was particularly concerned with land and corporation law and was considered an authority on real estate law in Texas; president of Fort Worth & Tarrant County Abstract Company, Texas Security Company, and Ross Title Insurance Company; member First Christian Church, Fort Worth. Married March 6, 1889, at Forth Worth, Clara Gatewood, daughter of James B. and Sallie J. Dunn. Children: Jeanne Dunn (Mrs. Fritz C. Crusemann) and Jessie MacLeod (Mrs. Chilton Jennings). School of Law 319 Death due to bronchopneumonia. Buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth. Survived by wife, two daughters, and three grandchildren. Harry Scheuer Haas, LL.M. 1908. Born April 7, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo Died February 21, 1926, in St Louis, Mo Father, Isaac Haas, a shoe merchant; son of Elias and Theresa (Levy) Haas; descendant of Isaac Haas, who came to St. Louis from Germany in 1838. Mother, Rachel (Scheuer) Haas; daughter of Simon Scheuer, who came to New York City from Alsace in 1849 Central High School, St. Louis; LL.B. Washington Univer- sity, St. Louis, 1907; admitted to bar of Missouri 1907; stud- ied at Yale School of Law 1907-08; secretary of Crown Mil- linery Company of St. Louis since 1908; member Temple Israel, St. Louis. Married October 19, 1921, in St. Paul Minn , Helen, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Bruckman) Elsinger. No children. Death due to angina pectoris. Buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery, St. Louis. Survived by wife and mother Henry Nowicki, LL.M. 1916. Born June 2, 1896, in Nanticoke, Pa Died April 26, 1925, in New Britain, Conn. Father, Felix Nowicki, a business man; born in Poland and came to America in 1898, settling in Nanticoke; son of An- thony and Mary (Sakowski) Nowicki. Mother, Pelagia (Nejfeldt) Nowicki; daughter of Julius and Anna Toma- szewski) Nejfeldt. Earlyveducation received at a Polish Catholic school; LL B Dickinson Law School, Carlisle, P a , 1915, studied at Yale School of Law 1915-16; practiced law in New Britain from 1916 until his death; elected assistant clerk of Connecticut Senate at the 1925 session of the General Assembly; member Sacred Heart Church, New Britain 320 Obituary Record Married July 4, 1920, A. Anna, daughter of Frank X. and Jadwiga (Ponicki) Piasecki. Children: Valaria and Gertrude. Death due to appendicitis Buried in St Raymond's Cemetery, New York City. Survived by wife, two daughters, and mother. DIVINITY SCHOOL Edward Payson Salmon, B.D. 1873. Born June 25,1842, in Peru, Ohio. Died July 23, 1925, on Madeline Island, Lake Superior. Father, the Rev. Ebenezer Putney Salmon; studied medi- cine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City; later attended Andover and Princeton Theological seminaries, was ordained to the Congregational ministry, and held pastor- ates in Ohio and Wisconsin, president of Allen Grove (Wis ) Academy, descendant of John Salmon, who came to America from England and settled near Syracuse, N Y. Mother, Elizabeth (Pomeroy) Salmon, daughter of Capt. William Pomeroy and Polly Pomeroy, ancestors came to Wilhams- burg, Mass., from England Oberlin preparatory department; engaged in business inNew York City and in teaching 1860-64; served with U. S Army Christian Commission at Washington, D C , and in Vermont 1864; later was appointed by President Lincoln inspector of oil refineries at Port of New York and Hunters Point, Long Island, attended Beloit College 1866-1870 (B.A 1870); trav- eled and studied at German universities 1870-71, studied at Yale Divinity School 1871-73, after pleaching in Connecticut for a time, was ordained to Congregational ministry July 6, 1874, at Depere, Wis., where he remained as minister until 1880, subsequent pastorates: Whitewater, Wis (18 80-82) and Church of the Covenant (now Fifth Avenue), Minneapolis, Minn. (1886-87), t n e n retired from ministry on account of ill health and in 1888 moved to Beloit, W7is , and was engaged with his brother, C. B. Salmon, in operating a flour mill for a time; later became connected with sales department of Pills- bury Flour Company of Minneapolis, Minn , eventually be- ing made general sales manager, in charge of agents west of Ohio; in 1892 joined his brother in building and operating the Beloit Water Works, which they owned until 1906, since then had not been engaged in active business, trustee of Beloit College 1899-1919 and then honorary trustee until his death; also served as vice-president of the college for a time during 321 322 Obituary Record the absence of the president; trustee of Rollins College, Fla., for about two years; M A. Beloit; had spent the winter in Florida during the last fourteen years of his life; had had a summer home on Madeline Island since 1895; pioneer mem- ber First Congregational Church, Beloit. Unmarried. Death due to heart disease. Interment in Oakwood Ceme- tery, Beloit. Survived by his brother, C. B. Salmon, of Beloit, a nephew, Edward Salmon, of Orlando, Fla., and a niece. Miss Loretta Salmon, of Beloit. Roswell Olcott Post, B.D. 1874. Born October i, 1850, in Logansport, Ind. Died June 9, 1925, in Jacksonville, 111. It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Dr. Post in time for publication in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a subsequent issue of the Obituary Record. Albert Temple Swing, B.D. 1877. Born January 18, 1849, in Bethel, Ohio. Died September 21, 1925, in Chicago, 111. Father, George Washington Swing, a Methodist preacher, business man, and farmer; son of Wesley and Nancy (Crane) Swing; descendant of Samuel Swing, who came with his brother, Jeremiah Swing, from Lorraine, France, in 1752 and afterwards lived in Salem and Cumberland counties, N. J. Mother, Rosannah (West) Swing; daughter of James and Mary (Edmunds) West; descendant of Thomas West; an- cestors went from Alexandria, Va., to Kentucky, and thence to Ohio Oberlm preparatory department, B.A. Oberhn 1874; studied at Yale Divinity School 1874-77; then preached for several months in Binghamton, N. Y. (declined a call to a pastorate there); ordained to the Congregational ministry June 25, 1878, at Fremont, Nebr., where he served as minis- ter until 1886; subsequent pastorates: Cortland, N. Y., 1886- 223 Bivintty School 87 and Trambull Avenue Congregational Church, Detroit, Mich., 1887-1890; then spent three years abroad (studied at University of Berlin 1890-91 and at University of Halle-Wit- tenberg 1891-93); professor of church history at Oberlin Theological Seminary 1893-1916; since then professor emeri- tus; financial secretary of Oberlin College for two years; mem- ber prudential committee 1895-1913; established (with his wife) the Mead-Swing Foundation, an endowment of $30,000, in 1924; spent a sabbatical year (1905-06) abroad and during 1913-14 visited universities in Germany, Scotland, and Eng- land; M.A. Oberlin 1894, D.D. 1901; author: Theology of Albrecht Rttschl (1901), Outline of the Doctrinal Development in the Western Church (1904), Life of James Harris Fair- child (1907), and Pre-Reformers and the Reformation (1910); contributed articles to various theological journals; since 1916 had made his home at Coconut Grove, Fla Married August 1, 1882, in Oberlin, Alice Edwards Mead (B.A. Oberlin 1879), daughter of the Rev Hiram Mead (B A Middlebury 1850, D.D. 1871), professor of homiletics at Oberlin Theological Seminary, and Elizabeth Storrs (Billings) Mead (honorary M.A. Oberlin 1890, L H D Smith 1900), president of Mount Holyoke College from 1890 to 1900. Children: Harold Mead, a non-graduate member of the Oberlin Class of 1908 (died in 1915); Elizabeth Storrs (B A Oberlin 1907) (died in 1915); Raymond Edwards, a non-gradu- ate member of the Oberlin Class of 1911; and Herbert Randolph. Death due to pneumonia, the result of a physical breakdown following typhoid fever and epithehoma. Buried in West- wood Cemetery, Oberlin Survived by wife, two sons, and nine grandchildren. Arthur Dart Bissell, B.D. 1882. Born October 25, 1858, in Ghordnadi, India. Died May 24, 1925, in Claremont, Calif. Father, the Rev. Lemuel Bissell (B.A Western Reserve 1848, B.D. Lane Theological Seminary 1851, D.D. Western Reserve 1886), a missionary of the American Board; son of 324 Obituary Record Anson and Joanna (Dart) Bissell; descendant of John Bis- sell, who came to America from Somersetshire, England, in 1628 and settled in Windsor, Conn , establishing "Bissell's ferry" across the Connecticut, which was operated by mem- bers of the Bissell family for many years. Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Beaumont) Bissell; daughter of Randolph and Mercy (Webster) Beaumont; paternal ancestors came to Rochester, N Y , from England; descendant of John Web- ster, who came to Massachusetts from England, was one of the original settlers of Hartford in 1636, a deputy governor and governor of Connecticut in 1655 and 1656, and a founder of Hadley, Mass , in 1659 Yale relatives include- Joseph Bissell (B A 1751), Noah Webster (B.A. 1778), Clark Bis- sell (B A 1806), Samuel B. S. Bissell (B.A. 1830), Henry N Bissell (B A 1839) (uncle), and Lemuel B. Bissell, '80 D., and Dwight W Bissell, ^-'89 (brothers) Philhps-Andover; B.A. Amherst 1879; attended Yale Divinity School 1879-1884 (also a student in Yale Graduate School 1882-84); ordained to Congregational ministry at New Haven, March 19, 1884; missionary of American Board at Ahmednagar 1884-85; M A . Amherst 1885; lived in New Haven during 1885-86, pastor of a Congregational church at Wailuku, Hawaii, 1886-88, professor of voice culture, piano, and French at Oahu College, Honolulu, 1888-1891; taught music in Los Angeles and Saticoy, Calif., 1891-92; professor of modern languages at Pomona College 1892-1906; since then professor of German there; had also had a class in music appreciation since 1920; for a number of years gave private lessons in vocal culture in Los Angeles; during leave of ab- sence in 1909-1910 studied in University of Leipsic, and dur- ing a second sabbatical year (1919-1920) studied philosophy, psycholgy of music, and education in Yale Graduate School (PhD 1920), his thesis on "The Role of Expectation in Music" being printed privately in 1921; had written some poetry and a drama on Moses (not as yet published); member Claremont Congregational Church since 1893. Married May 12, 1884, in New Haven, Ellen Augusta, daughter of Mernt Melville and Clara Wells (Dodge) Gower. Children: Howard Gower (B.A. Pomona 1908); Clara Louise (B.A. Pomona 1911); and Warren Melville (died in 1896). Divintty School 325 Death due to apoplexy. Interment in Claremont. Sur- vived by wife, son, daughter, a brother, the Rev Frank A Bissell (B A. Western Reserve 1876, B.D. Yale 1879), and two sisters. Miss Emily R Bissell (honorary M A Mount Holyoke 1925), of Bombay, India, and Julia Bissell (Mount Holyoke Zx-82, B.A. Wellesley 1886, M.D. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 1893), of Wellesley, Mass. Frederick Wells Tuckerman, B.D. 1885. Born October 26, 1855, in Providence, R I Died May 13, 1925, at Colorado Springs, Colo. Father, Benjamin Tuckerman. Mother, Mary (Norton) Tuckerman Attended Colorado College 1876-1882 (B.A. 1882); studied at Yale Divinity School 1882-85 and at Andover Theological Seminary (advanced class) 1885-86; ordained to Congrega- tional ministry November 3, 1886, at Falls Church, Va ; re- mained there as pastor until 1890, when he resigned and with- drew from the ministry; in U. S. Civil Service Department 1891-1915 (with Bureau of Pensions at Washington 1891- 1902 and then special examiner in the field in the West and Southwest); since his retirement in 1915 had made his home at Colorado Springs, spending the winter in Los Angeles, Calif ; member First Congregational Church, Colorado Springs Married May 1,1894, in Washington, D. C , Hattie Fuller, daughter of Stephen Arnold and Almeda (Tinker) Boyden. One daughter, Hattie (Mrs. Harry M. Keyser) Mrs. Tuck- erman died November 3, 1896. Death due to influenza; had suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis for some time. Buried in Glen wood Cemetery, Washington. Survived by daughter, two grandchildren, two nieces, and two nephews. 326 Obituary Record John Dunlap, B.D. 1887. Born January 29, 1852, m Woodstown, N. J Died November 4, 1925, in Seattle, Wash. Father, Gawn Dunlap, a farmer, who came to America from Forttrush, Ireland; of Scotch ancestry. Mother, Martha Jane (Christy) Dunlap; daughter of John Christy; also of Scotch ancestry. Preparatory training received at Bridgeton, N. J.; B.A. Princeton 1882; taught at Bridgeton 1882-84; studied at Yale Divinity School 1884-87 and at Auburn Theological Seminary 1887-88; M.A. Princeton 1887; ordained to Presbyterian ministry October 9, 1887, a t New Scotland, N. Y., where he was pastor until 1890, pastor of Dutch Reformed Church, Castleton, N. Y., 1890, and of Presbyterian churches in Miles City, Mont. (1891-93) and Port Henry, N. Y. (1894-96); traveled abroad 1896-97; then studied at Baltimore Univer- sity School of Medicine (M D. 1899) anc^ a t New York Uni- versity (M D. 1900); connected with Bellevue Medical Hos- pital and with Mothers and Babies Hospital 1899-1900; practiced in Chicago 1901; home missionary at White Sulphur Springs^ Mont, 1902-03; practiced medicine at Hill, Mont., 1904-06; took special courses of study in New Orleans Poly- clmic 1907 and in a London hospital 1908; in 1909 went to Seattle, where he practiced medicine and surgery until his retirement on account of failing health in February, 1925; at time of death was member of a Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Married June 9, 1900, in New York City, Margaret Jose- phine, daughter of Christopher and Sophia (Bishop) Young. One son, John F. Gordon. Death due to myocardial insufficiency. Buried in Overlook Cemetery, Bridgeton. Survived by wife, son, and a brother, James Dunlap, of Woodbury, N. Y. Divinity School 327 Frank Varnum Stevens, B.D. 1 Born September 16, 1856, near Bay City, Mich. Died May 14, 1926, in Vermontville, Mich. Father, John Varnum Stevens, a farmer. Mother, Jane (Bartlett) Stevens. * Preparatory department of Olivet College; B.A. Carleton 1884; principal of Excelsior (Minn) Academy 1884-85; studied at Yale Divinity School 1885-88; during vacations organized and served Congregational Church at Amenia, N. Dak.; ordained to Congregational ministry December 18, 1888, at Wellington, Kans , where he remained as minister until 1893; pastor of First Congregational Church, Sedaha, Mo., 1893-98, Westminster Congregational Church, Spokane, Wash., 1898-1900, First Congregational Church, White- water, Wis., 1900-06, First Congregational Church, Yankton, S. Dak., 1906-1921, and First Congregational Church, Bonne Terre, Mo., from 1921 until November, 1925, when he was obliged to give up work on account of ill health; during his entire pastorate at Yankton served on board of trustees of Yankton College; M.A. Carleton 188&, D D. Yankton 1912 Married September 18,1888, Katherine Maria, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Edwin Roy, D D. (B.A. Knox 1848), and Emily Stearns (Hatch) Roy, of Chicago, 111 Children: Mar- garet Frances (Mrs. Harry L. Hagan); Katherine Roy, and Paul Roy (died in childhood). Death due to pernicious anaemia. Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Vermontville. Survived by wife, two daughters, two grandchildren, and two brothers, Edgar W. Stevens, of Vermontville, and Albert E. Stevens, of Cogswell, N Dak. Charles Hatfield Dickerson, B.D. 1891. Born January 23, 1862, in Sumter, S* C Died March 31, 1925, in Louisville, Ky. It has been impossible to secure the desired information for an obituary sketch of Mr. Dickerson in time for publication in this volume. A biographical statement will appear in a subsequent issue of the Obituary Record. 328 Obituary Record Lincoln Baker Goodrich, B.D. 1893. Born November 24,1864, in Pembroke, N. H. Died April 16, 1926, in Taunton, Mass. Father, the Rev Lewis Goodrich (B.A. Bowdoin 1845); a graduate of Bangor Theological Seminary and pastor of Con- gregational churches in Maine and New Hampshire; son of John and Susan (Bosworth) Goodrich; descendant of William Goodrich, who came to America from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, in 1634 and settled first at Cambridge, Mass , and then at Watertown, Mass. Mother, Lucy Ann (Baker) Goodrich; daughter of Allen and Lucy (Russel) Baker, descendant of Francis Baker, who came to Massa- chusetts from England in 1635 Salem (Mass ) High School; B A. Amherst 1888 (president of his class four years; member Delta Kappa Epsilon); as- sistant principal of schools at Plainfield, N. J., 1888-89 and principal 1889-1890; studied at Yale Divinity School 1890-93; ordained to Congregational ministry in June, 1893, at Bound Brook, N. J , where he held a pastorate until 1896; pastor at Marlboro, Mass , 1896-1905; Trinitarian (Congregational) Church, Taunton, 1905-1921; mimster-at-large for south- eastern Massachusetts under Massachusetts Home Mission- ary Society from 1921 until his death (member of executive committee of the society for some years); religious work secre- tary of Y.M C A at Camp Devens, Mass., January 28-April 23, 1918; one of the speakers at centennial celebration of founding of Trinitarian Church, Taunton, October 31, 1921; honorary member G A. R Post 43 of Marlboro and Henry A. Williams Camp, U S W. V., of Taunton, Married June 19,1893, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Hattie Pegram, daughter of Joel Barlow and Sally Ann (Isler) Burnett Chil- dren Sheldon Burnett (B.A Amherst 1917); Charles Lyman (B P E Springfield College 1923; B B A. Boston University 1924), and Dorothy Isler, a non-graduate member of the Simmons Class of 1920, who married Palmer C. Williams (B A. Amherst 1917). Death due to an intestinal obstruction. Buried in Rocklawn Cemetery, Marlboro Survived by wife, sons, daughter, five Divinity School 329 grandchildren, a sister, Miss Welthie Isabelle Goodrich, of Manchester, N. H., and two brothers, the Rev Charles L Goodrich (B.A. Amherst 1879, B.D. Yale 1884) and John A. Goodrich, of Dorchester, Mass. William Watt Dornan, B.D. 1894. Born August 17, i860, in Glasgow, Scotland. Died February 6, 1926, in Whitman, Mass Father, John Dornan. Mother, Margaret (Watt) Dornan Early education received at an academy in Glasgow; came to this country in 1881; lived in Boston 1881-1891, working in a rolling mill and in a furniture store and attending Boston School of Languages and other night schools; studied at Bangor Theological Seminary 1891-93 and then at Yale Divinity School for a year, ordained to Congregational min- istry November 20, 1894, at Grandview, Tenn , where he was a minister under American Missionary Association for over two years, also serving aar principal of Grandview Academy, lived in Somerville, Mass , 1897-98; pastor First United Pres- byterian Church, Quincy, Mass., 1898-1902, Wmthrop Con- gregational Church, Holbrook, Mass., 1902-04; Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, Mass , 1905-1912, First Congrega- tional Church, Whitman, from 1912 until his death; while at Holbrook took a special course of study at Harvard, one of the founders of Whitman Church Federation in 1912 (president in 1917 and 1918); one of organizers of Whitman branch of American Red Cross in 1916; chaplain of Puritan Lodge, A. F. and A. M., since 1913 (made an honorary member of the Lodge 1924); member Whitman Company, Massachusetts State Guard, serving as its Chaplain, and on May 7, 1918, was commissioned as Chaplain of 14th Infantry of the State Guard (with rank of Captain) and served in that capacity until end of the war; member of the State Guard during police strike in Boston, and when the guards of his district were reorganized a few months before his death, was elected chaplain of the organization; had given illustrated lectures on subjects of Pilgrim historical interest and on European travel. Married (1) January 18, 1883, in Cambridge, Mass., Annie 330 Obituary Record McCloskey. Children: Charles Edmund and William John. Mrs Dornan died many years ago. Married (2) February 25, 1901, in Quincy, Addie Williams, daughter of George L. and Miriam B. Miller. One son, George Miller. Death due to carcinoma of the prostate gland. Buried in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy. Survived by wife, three sons, four grandchildren, a sister, who lives in Scotland, and two brothers, Charles Dornan and John Dornan, of Yoker, Scotland. Harry Chamberlain Meserve, B.D. 1894. Born July 1 iy 1868, in Quincy, 111. Died October 22, 1925, in Boston, Mass. Father, Harry Meserve, an agent of the Adams Express Company in Lowell, Mass ; son of John P. and Rebecca (Eaton) Meserve; descendant of Clement Messervy, who came to Portsmouth, N. H , from the Isle of Jersey in 1673. Mother, Nancy Lucena (Chamberlain) Meserve, daughter of Parker and Mary (Bryan) Chamberlain. Lowell High School; engaged in private study 1886-1891; attended Yale Divinity School 1891-95; pastor Faith Con- gregational Church, Springfield, Mass , 1893-1900, being ordained there March 14, 1894; pastor Plymouth Church, Indianapolis, Ind., 1900-03, First Congregational Church, Danbury, Conn., 1903-1914, and Presbyterian Church, Rye, N Y., 1914-17; commissioned as Chaplain (with rank of First Lieutenant) in Connecticut National Guard April 15, 1910; promoted to Captain April 15,1917; called to Federal service with Connecticut Coast Artillery July 25, 1917, and stationed at Fort H G Wright, Fishers Island, N. Y.; served overseas with 68th Coast Artillery Corps August 5-December 25,1918; received his discharge January 17, 1919, commissioned as a Major in Military Intelligence Section, Officers' Reserve Corps, October 12, 1923; active in Liberty Loan and War Insurance work; spent the year 1919-1920 studying industrial conditions in the United States and Europe; lectured for National Industrial Conference Board 1920-21; Cyrus Fogg Brackett lecturer at Princeton 1923; had been secretary of Divinity School 331 National Association of Cotton Manufacturers since 1921; had preached in Congregational churches in and about Lon- don during several seasons abroad and served as chaplain of Indiana Commandery of Loyal Legion in 1902 and 1903; author of Lowell—An Industrial Bream Come "True (1922); member Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Authors Club (London), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, American Legion, Military Order of the World War, the ^uartuor Coronatt of England, and (since 1904) First Congregational Church, Danbury, Conn.; served as secretary of Class of 1894 D. from graduation until 1922 and -again since 1924; his home was in Brookhne, Mass., from 1921 to 1924 and since then at Kendal Green, Mass. Married May 23,1894, in Lowell, Bertha Frances, daughter of Woodward Eells and Mary Ella (Home) Murkland. Children: Faith Lucena; Jean Chamberlain; Constance Lambert (Mrs. Harry Francis Young); and Harry Chamber- lain, Jr. Death, due to peritonitis, occurred at Massachusetts General Hospital, following an operation; had been taken suddenly ill ten days before. Interment in Hart Pond Cemetery, South Cheln sford, Mass. Survived by wife, three daughters, son, and one grandson. Anders Oswald Sandbo, B.D. 1894. Born December 25, 1868, in Vaaga, Gulbrandsdal, Norway, Died December 4, 1925, in Austin, Texas Father, Ole Sandbo, a Captain in the Norwegian Army, came to America about 1868 and in 1872 settled at Hills, Minn., where he was engaged in farming, son of Ole and Mari Sandbo. Mother, Elsie (Scott) Sandbo. Came to this country in 1878; attended Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn., one year, B A. St. Olaf College, North- field, Minn., 1890; engaged in newspaper work in Minneapolis 1890-91; studied at Yale Divinity School 1891-95; engaged in various occupations in New York City 1895-98, being in newspaper work for a time; studied law at University of Texas 1898-1900 (LL B. 1900); had practiced law in Austin since 332 Obituary Record 1900, member Travis County Bar Association and Swedish Lutheran Church, Austin. Married September 30, 1911, in Chicago, 111., Anna I Blomquist, daughter of C. J. and Emma Newberg. No children. Death due to a tumor on the brain; had been ill for about three years. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin. Survived by wife, a stepson, Eugene E. Blomquist, four brothers, Hans Sandbo, of Benson, Minn., Edwin Sandbo, of Roy, Mont, John Sandbo, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and Henry Sandbo, of Luverne, Minn., and three sisters, the Misses Ida and Mane Sandbo and Mrs. Anfin Osboe, all of Sioux Falls. Adam Ruth Lutz, B.D. 1895. Born July 7, 1862, in Fntztown, Pa. Died January 31, 1926, in Reading, Pa Father, Samuel K. Lutz, a merchant; son of Jesse and Elizabeth Lutz. Mother, Susana D (Ruth) Lutz; daughter of John and Sarah Ruth Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa ; B.A. Franklin and Marshall College 1886 (an editor of college pa- per) , then took up newspaper work, being on staff of Reading Morning Herald for a time; principal of schools in Strasburg and Myerstown, Pa., and supervising principal of borough schools before entering Yale Divinity School in 1892; ordained to Congregational ministry June 11, 1895, at Monroe, Conn., where he remained as minister for two years; later pastorates (all in Connecticut) were at Bethlehem, 1898-1901, Oakville, 1901-03, Bloomfield, 1903-08, and Whitneyville, 1912-19; assistant minister First Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn , 1908-1912; took a course in Biblical literature and Semitics in Yale Graduate School 1899-1903 (M.A. 1903); also studied at Hartford Theological Seminary (received degree of B R P. in 1907) and at University of Chicago; for several years previous to his death his home had been at Sinking Spring, Pa. Married Clara Walker, of Strasburg, who died January 26, 1914 No children. Divinity School Death due to diabetes Buried in Strasburg. Survived by a sister, Mrs Ida Riggs, and a brother, Jesse R Lutz, of Reading. Stephen Bogos Jacobian, B.D. 1898. Born November 21, 1856, in Albustan, Turkey. Died October 3c, 1925, in Pasadena, Calif. Father, Bogos Jacobian, a jeweler; son of Hagop and Zarmon Jacobian Mother, Martha (Aghbabian) Jacobian; daughter of Giragos and Aghvor Aghbabian. Attended Central Turkey College, Aintab, 1882-85 (B.A. 1885); professor of the Turkish language at that college 1885- 1895; also pastor of Third Congregational Church, Aintab, 1891-94; studied at Yale Divinity School 1895-98; assisted in publication of Armenian weekly, Gotcbnag, 1898-1902; pastor Armenian Church, Paterson, N. J., 1902-04; pastor of Armenian Presbyterian Church, Troy, N Y (which he was instrumental in building), 1904-1910, his ordination taking place on April 17,1906; pastor Armenian Evangelical Church, Providence, R. I., 1910-16; also connected with Haig Pub- lishing Company of New York as editor of Gihgia (weekly paper) 1914-18; pastor Armenian Presbyterian Church, Pat- erson, N. J , 1916-1920 and of Armenian Presbyterian Church, Troy (second pastorate), 1920-21; worked under a missionary board in Massachusetts among different communities of Armenians 1921-22; pastor First Presbyterian Church, Fres- no, Calif., 1922-25; since February, 1925, had lived in Pasa- dena, where he was engaged in assisting Armenians; had translated about one thousand gospel songs from different languages, principally English, into Armenian and Turkish Married April 17, 1877, in Marash, Turkey, Sarah, daugh- ter of Manoog and Margaret (Toonan) Manoogian. Chil- dren: Luther Baronag; Lucy Clara (Mrs Harry Artin Haljean); Lootfy Daniel, who received a certificate from the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1909; Aznive Fannie (Mrs Roupen Garabed Pangian); Leon Antramk, ex-\o M. (died in 1909); Paul Henry; and Stephen Manuel Death due to chronic nephritis, complicated with diabetes 334 Obituary Record Buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena. Survived by wife, four sons, two daughters, ten grandchildren, and a brother, Dr H B. Yacoubi, of Pasadena. , Charles Spurgeon Calhoun, B.D. 1901. Born October 8,1868, in Germantown, New Brunswick. Died September 19,1925, at Ann Arbor, Mich. Father, John Calbourn Calhoun, a farmer. Mother, Mary Ann (Kenny) Calhoun. B.A. Bates College 1899; studied at Yale Divinity School 1899-1901; ordained to Congregational ministry in New Ha- ven April 8, 1901; pastor of Congregational churches at Dex- ter, Mich , 1901-03 and at East Lake, Mich., 1903-05; was then obliged to give up the ministry on account of ill health; returned to Dexter and was engaged in farming there until 1924, when ill health prevented further activities; trustee Dexter School Board 1923-25; manager Dexter Agricultural Association 1920-22; moved to Ann Arbor only a few months before his death Married December 3,1903, in Dexter, Mabel Edith, daugh- ter of William Frederick and Clara (Phelps) Cairns. Chil- dren : Carl Phelps and Dorothy Verne. Death, due to Bnght's disease, occurred at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor. Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich. Survived by wife, son, daughter, four broth- ers, Edward W Calhoun, of Chillubach, British Columbia, Emerson J. and John C. Calhoun, both of Edmonton, Alber- ta, and George H. Calhoun, of Los Angeles, Calif, and three sisters, Mrs. J. E. Johnson, of Penhold, Alberta, Mrs. J. H. Fletcher, of Victoria, British Columbia, and Mrs. J. F. Stainton, of Kamloops, British Columbia. SUMMARY YALE COLLEGE DATE OF D.EATH CLASS NAME AND AGE AT DEATH PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH Dartmouth, Mass ; New Bedford, Mass. February 28, 1926 1852 W W. Crapo, 96 Sharon, Conn , Middletown, N. Y. June 18, 1926 1858 A. B. Wilbur, 92 Brooklyn, N. Y., Englewood, N. J November 8, 1925 i860 Nathaniel Norton, 86 October 20, 1925 Pans, Ky J H. Brent, 83 1861 October 18, 1925 Cooperstown, N Y ; Binghamton, N. Y. 1861 E P. McKmney, 87 October 16, 1925 Marietta, Ohio; New York City 1862 F H Bosworth, 82 October 16, 1925 to Bangor, Maine; Long Beach, Calif J H Crosby, 85 1862 February 13, 1926 | New York City 1862 R H Greene, 87 February 13, 1926 g Baltimore, Md ; New York City. Henry Holt, 86 1862 March 6, 1926 ^ Windsor, V t ; Ballardvale, Mass. R S Tracy, 84 1862 November 10, 1925 ^ Syracuse, N Y.; Los Angeles, Calif. D B Childs, 82 1863 November 17, 1925 Utica, N. Y. G L. Curran, 85 1863 April 17, 1926 South Reading, Mass ; Northampton, Mass 1863 T A Emerson, 85 September 1, 1925 Milltown, N. B , Brighton, Mass S C Darling, 82 1864 April 25, 1926 New York City 1864 George Douglass, 82 August 4, 1925 Coventry, N Y , West Newton, Mass. J 1864 P Hoyt, 81 c L Westcott, 82 December 7, 1925 Wilton, Conn , New York City 1864 November 18, 1925 Hartford, Conn , New York City E B Bronson, 82 1865 October 1, 1925 Elyna, Ohio. 1865 G H Ely, 80 June 30y 1926 New Haven, Conn Charles Kimberly, 82 1865 September 19, 1925 Philadelphia, Pa , San Francisco, Caltf S V Smith, 80 1865 Hartford, Conn , Paterson, N J. March 28, 1926 co F N Dodge, 81 1866 W1 B: Harding, 86 Putney, Vt , Springfield, Mass. * January 15, 1926 ^ 1867 CO DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH CLASS NAME AND AGE AT DEATH CO March 31, 1926 <* Lowell, Mass 1868 S G Bailey, 81 June 24, 1926 New York City, Lawrence, N. Y 1868 W. P Dixon, 79 May 9, 1926 New Haven, Conn , Los Angeles, Calif. 1868 Jonathan Ingersoll, 78 Pomfret, Conn , Thompson, Conn. 1868 C E Searls, 79 July 14, 1925 East Bloomfield, N Y ; Canandaigua, N Y 1869 F H Hamhn, 79 January 17, 1926 Hartford, Conn 1869 J M Holcombe, 77 January 15, 1926 Stamford, Conn 1870 W J Betts, 78 January 30, 1926 New Haven, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio 1871 W H Charnley, 74 June 10, 1925 1871 A W Cooper, 78 Whitestown, N Y ; Ocean Grove, N J. September 25, 1925 Mechanicsville, N J , Algiers, Algeria 1871 I. D Decker, 62 October 25, 1906 Coffeeville, Miss , Portland, Ore 1871 J S Sanborn, 57 January 27, 1908 §2 Providence, R I , Westfield, Mass 1871 P C Smith, 80 May 13, 1926 g Sauquoit, N Y , Hartford, Conn. 1871 W R Sperry, 83 February 13, 1926 ^ Port Gibson, Miss , Plainfield, N J. 1871 G A. Strong, 77 May 25, 1926 ^ New York City 1872 F H. Baldwin, 76 January 20, 1926 >3 Cincinnati, Ohio, Denver, Colo 1872 F O Brannan, 68 April 3, 1918 ^ Buffalo, N Y , Winter Park, Fla 1872 G P Sawyer, 68 January 13, 1920 3 Roxbury, Conn , New Haven, Conn. 1872 E N Sheppard, 75 October 5, New Haven, Conn. 1873 J H Bennett, 75 March 31, 1926 Hartford, Conn 1873 Atwood Collins, 74 May 8, 1926 Middletown, Conn ; East View, N. Y. 1873 J C Hubbard,75 April 28, 1926 Wilhston, V t , Los Angeles, Calif. 1873 E S Miller, 75 August 21, 1925 Portland, Maine, New Haven, Conn 1873 A. B. Mornll, 72 March 18, 1926 Clarksville, Mo , Salt Lake City, Utah 1873 Plato Mount]oy, 74 November 9, 1925 Manchester, England; New York City. 1873 W E Wheelock, 74 February 3, 1926 St Albans, Vt., Paris, France. 1874 O F. Aid is, 73 August 5, 1925 Mount Sterling, Ky.; Kent, Conn. 1874 Pearce Barnes, 74 November 22, 1925 Brooklyn, N. Y. September 24, 1925 1874 R S Bussing, 72 1874 w.A . Coffin, 70 October 26, -^-^ Pittsburgh, Pa ; New York City. Detroit, Mich ; near Freewater, Ore. December 25, 1925 1874 DeW . C. Holbrookj 74 Niagara Falls, N. Y ; Buffalo, N. Y. December 15, 1925 1874 P A Porter, 72 New York City. May 18, 1926 1874 W .E D Stokes, 73 1875 H J McBirney, 73 Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, 111. May 29, 1926 Allegheny City, Pa ; Pittsburgh, Pa August 4, 1925 1875 F T McClmtock, 70 Alexandria, Mo ; Keokuk, Iowa. December 19, 1925 1875 Cortes Maxwell, 74 November 30, 1923 Brooklyn, N Y 1876 -L. F Burchard, 69 Rochester, N. Y. May 15, 1926 1876 J. E Durand, 70 Huntington, Mass ; Northampton, Mass. February 16, 1926 1877 F E Clark, 71 Colcliester, Conn ; Omaha, Nebr. 1877 J. S ]Foote, 74 June 30, 1925 New York City, Nyack, N Y. June 2, 1926 1877 D. D,. Sherman, 68 Paterson, N J ; New York City. 1877 F. J Stimson, 70 M a y 31, 1926 Port Jefferson, N. Y ^ Greenwich, Conn. September 17, 1925 1877 L F. Tooker, 70 Utica, N. Y ; Washington, D C. June 13, 1925 1877 C C Tyler, 70 Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Detroit, Mich. February 15, 1926 1877 P J Wilson, 72 w Boylston, Mass , Worcester, Mass. r November 23, 1925 1878 H Cobb, 69 Eastford, Conn , Orange, N. J. May 17, 1926 1878 A H Sherman, 73 Kyoto, Japan, Koyado, Magome, Japan August 14, 1923 1878 I T Taj in, 68 Washington, D Q ; Pasadena, Calif May 17, 1926 1879 H. K Willard, 69 North Auburn, Maine; Chelmsford, Mass. November 3, 1925 1880 C A Holbrook, 71 New Haven, Conn., Kansas City, Mo March 19, 1926 1880 W . F Hutchison, 66 Green Spring, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio September 5, 1925 1880 C. R., Smith, 68 Chicago, 111 , Pinehurst, N C March 26, 1926 1881 G S Isham, 66 Yonkers, N Y., New York City. December 24, 1925 T H Myers, 66 1881 Boston, Mass ; Cambridge, Mass. March 17, 1926 W.I Badger, 67 1882 May 19, 1926 Brooklyn, N Y. M. S Bate, 66 1882 November 22, 1925 St Stephen, N B , Calais, Maine F M Eaton, 65 1882 April 7, 1926 New Haven, Conn , Boston, Mass. C W Lyman, 64 1882 DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH CLASS NAME AND AGE AT DEATH 00 November 12, 1925 Charleston, S C 1882 B H Rutledge, 64 November 10, 1925 Manchester, Conn 1883 A E. Bowers, 70 August 22, 1925 Peekskill, N. Y.; Beach Bluff, Mass. 1883 E B Frost, 65 March 25, 1926 Erie, Pa. 1883 J W Galbraith, 65 October 25, 1925 Brooklyn, N. Y , Binghamton, N. Y. 1883 C H Hall, 6$ May 22, 1926 New Haven, Conn , Belmont, Mass. 1883 H G Hoadley, 64 August 23, 1925 New York City. 1883 J. H. Nelson, 66 October 4, 1925 1883 R. A Sawyer, 64 Yonkers, N. Y ; Harnsburg, Pa. June 18, 1926 1883 H C. M. Thomson, 63 New Haven, Conn.; New Britain, Conn. September 6,1925 1883 J B. Woodward, 64 Wilkes Barre, Pa , Glen Summit, Pa. January 18, 1926 Hoboken, N J ; Speonk, N Y 1885 E A Schultze, 61 January 21, 1926 Colhnsville, Conn.; Westfield, N. J 1886 C N. Codding, 64 I June 13, 1926 Wilkes Barre, Pa ; Kingston, Pa 1886 Thomas Darling, 63 Apnl 16, 1926 Philadelphia, Pa 1887 A. B Coxe, 60 July 2i, 1925 New York City. 1887 G. G. Haven, 59 December 10, 1925 Schenectady, N. Y ; Asheville, N. C. 1888 W. A Campbell, 59 1 February 10, 1926 Litchfield, Conn.; Flushing, N. Y. 1888 F. W Hubbard, 60 May 3, 1926 Brooklyn, N. Y ; New York City. 1888 C, A Klots, 58 February 24, 1926 Boston, Mass ; Vevey, Switzerland. 1888 F. I. Paradise, 66 January 12, 1926 Guilford, Conn.; Baltimore, Md. 1888 B. C. Sterner, 58 August 1, 1925 Memphis, Tenn. 1889 I H. Peres, 57 March 3, 1926 Hartford, Conn.; Nassau, Bahama Islands. 1889 H. S. Robinson, 57 September 16, 1925 New York City; Pittsfield, Mass 1890 Herbert Parsons, $$ May 6,1926 Chicago, 111.; Baltimore, Md. 1890 H VanD Shaw, 57 June 13,1925 Gowanda, N. Y.; Torrance, Calif. 1890 G. S Welch, 57 November 27,1925 New York City; Tornngton, Conn. 1890 L. B. Woodruff, 57 June 29,1926 New York City; Campbellton, N. B. 1891 L. F. H Betts, $6 July 26,1925 New York City; Pinehurst, N C 1891 E. A. Manice, $$ March 30, 1926 Louisville, Ky.-; Rochester, N. Y. F. W . Sackett, 58 1891 June 2, 1926 Chicago, 111; Plainfield, N. J. C. H Frost, 56 1892. July 14,1925 Walhngford, Conn.; Chicago, 111. R. W . Morns, 56 1892 January 16, 1926 Brooklyn, N. Y., Boston, Mass. I. C. West, 54 1892 December 14, 1925 Providence, R. I ; New York City. Lawrence Greer, 53 1893 August 10, 1925 Weedsport, N. Y ; Ocean City, N. J. C W . Mills, 54 1893 January 14, 1926 Teaneck, N J.; New York City. F. P. Dodge, 54 1894 June 20, 1926 New York City; London, England. John Howland, $3 1894 January 2, 1926 Kennett Square, Pa ; Cambridge, Mass. C. S. Jackson, $3 1894 Cincinnati, Ohio; Gilbertsville, N. Y. G. D. McBirney, $3 July 2, 1894 Chicago, 111.; Trout Lake, Wis. W. R. Moorhouse, 52 August 17, 1925 1894 Pana, 111.; Red Oak, Iowa. Ralph Pringle, 51 April 7, 1924 1894 Springfield, 111; Philadelphia, Pa. G. M. Townsend, 54 February 19, 1926 Co 1894 Utica, N. Y.; New York City. 1895 D. C. Adams, $3 June 17, 1926 I Manchester, Vt.; Honolulu, Hawaii. 1895 C F. demons, 53 September 17, 1925 3 Wilmington, Del. 1895 J. A. Draper, 51 December 9, May 5, 1926 Q New York City; Boston, Mass. 1895 F. R. Galacar, $3 Tonawanda, N. Y , Southern Pines, N. C. 1895 F A. Hinkey, 55 December 30, Baltimore, Md ; Waterbury, Conn. I895 H S Scarborough, 55 September 21, 1925 Meredith, N. H ; at sea. 1896 J. L. Burnham, 54 September 5, 1925 Lawrence, Mass.; New York Gity. 1896 J. A Carley, 51 July 15, 1919 Bridgeport, Conn.; New York City. 1896 F W. Hoemnghaus, 51 January 7, 1926 Pittsburgh, Pa. 1896 Douglas Stewart, 53 April 21, 1926 Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mount Kisco, N. Y. 1896 David Stuart, 51 August 25, 1925 Chicago, 111; Montana, Switzerland. 1897 H. E. Nolan, 50 December 15, 1925 Dayton, Ohio, New York City. 1897 D V. Sutphm, 50 May 18, 1926 Rochester, Vt.; Los Angeles, Calif. 1898 F. J. Fassett, 50 March 24, 1926 New York City. 1898 A. P. Fitch, 49 May 21, 1926 Gaysville, Vt., New York City. R H Gay, 49 November 25, 1925 OO PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH DATE OF DEATH CLASS NAME AND AGE AT DEATH New York City; Chicago, 111. May 5, 1926 1899 G E. Hecker, 48 March 15, 1926 1899 Isham Henderson, 48 Louisville, Ky , New York City. September 3, 1925 1899 J E Wilson, 47 St. Louis, Mo ; Chicago, 111. January 12, 1926 1900 Franklin Carter, Jr , 47 New Haven, Conn., New York City. 1900 Foster Crampton, 48 Brooklyn, N. Y., West Hampton Beach, N. Y. April 21, 1926 1900 S C. Rosenberg, 49 New Haven, Conn.; West Haven, Conn December 27, 1901 F. A. Clark, 47 July 29, 1925 Scranton, Pa.; Mount Holly, N. J. April 16, 1926 1901 E W. Smith, 47 Farmington, Conn 1902 Raymond Bissell, 45 February 23, 1926 Buffalo, N. Y. 1902 R C. Vanderbilt, 44 September 4, 1925 New York City; Portsmouth, R. I. S 1904 M. S Damon, 43 December 15, Honololu, Hawaii; Loudonville, N. Y. 1907 M. G. Bulkeley, J r , 40 March 22, 1926 Hartford, Conn. 1907 H A Rosenbaum, 40 June 9, 1926 New York City; Germany. 1909 A L Davison, 39 April 8, 1926 Thornpsonville, Conn.; Springfield, Mass 1910 A S. Hildebrand, 37 Hartford, Conn.; died 1924 or 1925. December 30, 1925 1911 H. B. Davis, 37 Grand Rapids, Mich , E. Grand Rapids, Mich. 8. May 23, 1926 1911 J. V. McDonnell, 36 New York City. February 20, 1926 1911 M. A Morgan, 34 Ilion, N. Y ; Oroya, Peru. Macao, China February, 26, 1924 1912 C. W. S Afong, 36 Greenbush, N. Y., Cobleskill, N. Y. March 20, 1926 1912 H. B. Bartholomew, 39 Cincinnati, Ohio; New Haven, Conn. December 6, 1925 1913 C E. Barton, 34 Bergen Point, N. J ; New York City. July 1, 1925 1918 R. R. Paret, 28 Dayton, Ohio, Toledo, Ohio. December 19, 1925 1918 R R, Theobald, 34 Buffalo, N. Y. March 25, 1926 1919 J. A Daniels, 28 West Newton, Mass. January 20, 1926 1923 N. T Lovell, 25 Hanover, N. H.; Washington, Conn. January 28, 1926 1925 Henry Adams, 21 SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL A August 23, 1914 Jackson, La.; Altanta, Ga. 1857 - H. Kent, 75 May 6, 1926 Norway, Maine; New Haven, Conn. 1867 S. I. Smith, 83 January 25, 1926 East Haven, Conn.; Easton, Pa 1869 A. D Chidsey, 77 December 1, 1925 Utica, N Y.; Philadelphia, Pa. 1871 F S Dickson, 75 November 28, 1925 Mornstown, N. J. 1876 G. E Sherman, 71 December 20, 1925 Winsted, Conn. 1878 R. S Hulbert, 71 January 3, 1926 Litchfield, Conn ; Peace Dale, R. I 1879 N. T. Bacon, 67 December 5, 1925 East Haddam, Conn , Brookhne, Mass. 1880 G E Goodspeed, 66 June 22, 1926 Evansville, Ind ; West Orange, N. J. 1884 J* M Maghee, 60 May 14, 1926 Philadelphia, Pa , Minneapolis, Minn. 1885 J J Flather, 63 April 8, 1926 Waverly, N. Y., Rochester, N Y. 1885 P L Lang, 64 January 11, 1926 New York City; Great Neck, N. Y. 1887 F F Georger, 60 November 5, 1925 Moravia, N Y ; Buffalo, N. Y 1887 C S Jewett, 60 August 9, 1925 New Haven, Conn , St Paul, Minn. 1887 R McK Woods, 61 December 1, 1925 New Haven, Conn. 1888 W H Bean, 58 November 7, 1925 New Haven, Conn , South Orange, N J. 1888 S Y Osborn, 59 March 6, 1926 New Haven, Conn ; Punxsutawney, Pa 1888 E. W. Robinson, 58 April 23, 1926 New Haven, Conn. 1889 A. H. Day, 57 March 24, 1926 San Francisco, Calif , at sea. 1890 F. D McCaulley, 55 September 1, 1925 Chicago, 111 , Baltimore, Md 1892 W. W Keith, 56 January 5, 1926 Brooklyn, N Y , Stamford, Conn 1893 Hampton Howell, 53 January 16, 1926 Chicago, 111. 1893 T. H Lewis, 53 December 14, 1925 Baltimore, Md , New York City 1894 W. W. Savage, 53 March 18, 1926 Waterbury, Conn ; New Haven, Conn 1894 H M Steele, 53 November 20, 1925* Chicago, 111 1894 F C Waller, 52 January 19, 1926 Huntsville, Ala , New York City 1895 J C Greenway, 53 December 20, 1925 Oxford, Conn , Waterbury, Conn. 1895 C E. Meigs, 53 January 7, 1926 Pine Grove, Pa 1895 R R. Miller, 52 DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH CLASS NAME AND AGE AT DEATH October 20, 1925 Hartford, Conn , New Haven, Conn. 1895 H H Robinson, 52 June 26, 1925 Alton, 111 , St. Louis, Mo. 1896 J T. Drummond, 52 May 30, 1924 Harris, R. I.; Anderson, Ind. 1896 G A, Lanphear, 48 March 1, 1925 Brooklyn, N. Y 1897 C H. Hall, 48 December 14, 1925 Cheektowaga, N. Y.; Buffalo, N Y 1897 J L Hitchcock, 49 April 3, 1926 1897 R M Lester, 50 Savannah, Ga September 4, 1925 Toledo, Ohio, West Cornwall, Conn. 1901 W B Hubbard, 47 April 20,1926 1901 O T McClurg, 47 Chicago, 111. March 2, 1926 1904 A. C Prime, 42 Philadelphia, Pa June 26, 1925 1906 Marie tte Crouse, 40 Syracuse, N. Y. November 15, 1925 1908 B. R. Hawley, 38 Farmmgton, Conn ; East Aurora, N. Y. August 30, 1925 je 1908 H M. Root, 39 Burlington, Iowa, New York City. June 12, 1926 1910 Alexander Laughlm, Jr., 37 Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pa. 5 December 29,1925 ^ 1911 J. B. F. Lawrence, 37 Mastic, N Y , Liberty, N. Y. February 26,1926 J^ 1912 John Remick, 37 Methuen, Mass ; North Dighton, Mass. October 8, 1925 £ 1913 D. B. Brockett, 34 New Haven, Conn , near Spooner, WJS May 12, 1926 § 1913 W. H. Forde, 33 Natick, Mass.; Conowingo, Md. February 6, 1926 ^ 1913 J. W. Martindale, Jr., 34 Louisville, Ky.; Honolulu, Hawaii. May 10,1926 Roseville, N. J.; Loyal ton, Calif 1916 A. I. Cleveland, 31 October 17, 1925 Chicago, 111.; Richmond, Va. 1921 John Wettstein, 26 August 21, 1925 1923 J. E. Lally, 23 Menden, Conn. March 29,1926 1925 M. H. James, 24 Evanston, 111.; Daytona Beach, Fla May 22,1926 1926 I. A Bogdanoff, 25 Odessa, Russia; New Haven, Conn. GRADUATE SCHOOL MASTERS OF ART December 6, 1925 Pittsfield, Mass.; Newtonville, Mass. 1881 H. R. Gibbs, 74 February 22, 1926 Qumcy, Mass ; Bridgeport, Conn 1903 H N. San born, 46 July 4,1925 Wilton, Conn ; Providence, R. I. 1905 A. L Morgan, 52 MASTER OF SCIENCE January 13, 1926 Elizabeth, N. J ; Worcester, Mass. 1922 J L Bunsch, 28 DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY November 26, 1925 Penobsquis, N. B ; Dartmouth, N. S. 1872 R. C. Weldon, 76 January 14,1926 Vesteras, Sweden; Norwalk, Conn. 1899 C. A. Harstrom, 62 April 3, 1925 Fremont, Kans ; Palo Alto, Calif. 1903 C. E. Stromquist, 47 March 20, 1926 Topeka, Kans.; Manhattan, Kans. 1923 Margaret Russel, 2S SCHOOL OF THE FINE ARTS September 19, 1925 Stockbndge, Mass. 1903 E. P. Sperry SCHOOL OF FORESTRY June 10, 1925 Albion, N. Y.; Los Angeles, Calif. 1904 S. J. Flintham, 45 February 5, 1926 Manila, P. I , Baguio, P. I 1910 M. J, Oteyza, 39 July 4, 1925 1918 Shoitsu Hotta, 52 Tokyo, Japan; Fukuoka, Japan SCHOOL OF MEDICINE December 20, 1925 Boonville, Ind 1858 D A DeForest, 92 January 7, 1926 North Guilford, Conn 1871 W R Bartlett, 77 July 8, 1925 Saugerties, N Y ; Cheviot, N. Y. 1875 F. D Clum, 72 June 23, 1926 Windham, Conn , Norwalk, Conn. 1876 S H Huntington, 71 April 10, 1926 Summit Bridge, Del; New Haven, Conn. 1893 I. N. Porter, 60 April 26, 1926 New Haven, Conn. 1895 J. H J Flynn, 52 August 3, 1924 Long Branch, N. J , Rhodesia, S Africa. 1901 Samuel Gurney, 64 September 9, 1925 Menden, Conn., Bridgeport, Conn. 1903 E B. Ives, 47 Bethel, Conn ; June 1, 1926 1904 E. F Crofutt SCHOOL OF LAW t BACHELORS OF LAWS PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH DATE OF DEATH CLASS NAME AND AGE AT DEATH March 19, 1925 San Francisco, Calif. 1873 Joseph Rothschild, 69 December 10, 1925 New Haven, Conn 1876 David Strouse, 77 February 29, 1920 New Haven, Conn , New York City. 1876 J H Whiting, 70 October 16, 1925 Wattsburg, Pa , Milwaukee, Wis. 1877 J S Maxwell, 75 April 8, 1926 Waterbury, Conn. 1878 C A Colley, 68 July 17, 1924 Grafton, V t , Seattle, Wash. 1878 Leonard DamelSj 72 February 10, 1926 New Haven, Conn ; New York City, 1878 C L UHman, 71 May 6, 1926 Windsor Locks, Conn.; Hartford, Conn. 1879 J W Coogan, 70 January 22, 1925 <^ Walhngford, Conn , Menden, Conn. 1881 W I Fenn, 70 December 31, 1916 ^> Ottawa, Ontario, Seattle, Wash 1883 G. M Sinclair, 58 September 16, 1925 ^ Greenfield, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio. 1884 C. C Pavey,68 June 21, 1915 ^ Charleston, S C 1885 W E. Butler, 64 March 31, 1926 >3 Dunbar Township, Pa ; Uniontown, Pa. 1886 J C Work, 67 June 6, 1926 g New York City, Bridgeport, Conn. 1888 Patrick Kane, 77 January 6, 1925 ^ Worcester, Mass ; Tacoma, Wash. 1888 F . H Kelley, 61 February 22, 1926 Greenfield Hill, Conn , Bridgeport, Conn. 1888 H N. Wakeman, 69 April 10, 1916 LaGrange, Ga ; Altanta, Ga. 1889 J . W . Cox, 53 May 12, 1925 1891 R. L Cates December 24, 1925 New Haven, Conn.; Cleveland, Ohio 1892 F . W Treadway, 56 May 26, 1926 Audrain County, Mo , Greenwich, Conn. 1892 L R. Wilfley, 59 January 27, 1926 New Britain, Conn 1895 G W. Klett, 51 August 23, 1925 St. Joseph, Mo ; Arlington Heights, Mass 1896 F J. Kearful, 54 January 27, 1911 Denver, Colo; Littleton, Colo. 1897 M L Decker, 36 October 14, 1925 Honolulu, Hawaii. 1897 C. F Peterson, $$ March 5, 1926 Norwalk, Conn ; New York City. 1897 B. DeF Sheedy, 61 November 14,1925 Hadley, Mass ; Norwich, Conn 1901 W. C Lane, 47 I May 16,1926 Ansonia, Conn. 9°5 J* J* Bennett, 44 March 13, 1926 Marion, S C ; Portland, Ore. 1907 W. A. Johnson, 43 September 13, 1925 New York City. 1908 A. O. Schramm, 45 December 19, 1925 Ansonia, Conn ; Bridgeport, Conn. 1911 A F McCarthy, 37 October 3,1925 Seattle, Wash 1923 J. C. Hedges, 29 MASTERS OF LAWS M a y 31, 1926 Magnolia, Ark , Fort Worth, Texas 1883 T . D . R o s s , 65 February 21, 1926 St. Louis, Mo. 1908 H S. Haas, 39 April 26, 1925 Nanticoke, Pa , New Britain, Conn. 1916 Henry Nowicki, 28 DIVINITY SCHOOL July 23, 1925 Peru, Ohio, Madeline Island, Lake Superior 1873 E. P. Salmon, 83 June 9, 1925 Logansport, Ind ; Jacksonville, 111. 1874 R O Post, 74 September 21, 1925 Bethel, Ohio, Chicago, 111. 1877 A T. Swing, 76 May 24, 1925 Ghordnadi, India; Claremont, Calif 1882 A D . Bissell, 66 Providence, R I ; Colorado Springs, Colo May 13, 1925 1885 F W Tuckerman, 69 Woodstown, N J , Seattle, Wash November 4, 1925 1887 John Dunlap, 73 Near Bay City, Mich , Vermontville, Mich May 14, 1926 1888 F. V. Stevens, 69 Sumter, S C ; Louisville, Ky. March 31, 1925 1891 C H Dickerson, 63 Pembroke, N. H ; Taunton, Mass April 16, 1926 1893 L B Goodrich, 61 Glasgow, Scotland, Whitman, Mass February 6, 1926 1894 W W. Dornan, 65 Quincy, 111 , Boston, Mass October 22, 1925 1894 H C Meserve, 57 Gulbrandsdal, Norway, Austin, Texas. December 4, 1925 1894 A O Sandbo, 56 Fntztown, Pa ; Reading, Pa. January 31, 1926 1895 A R Lutz, 64 Albustan, Turkey, Pasadena, Calif October 30, 1925 1898 S B. Jacobian, 68 Germantown, N B , Ann Arbor, Mich September 19, 1925 1901 C S Calhoun, 56 7 years. The number of deaths recorded this year is 284, the age of the 163 graduates of the College averages The oldest living graduate of the College is John Donnell Smith (B A 1847), of Baltimore, Md , born June 5, 1829 INDEX Graduates of the different Schools of the University are distinguished from graduates of YALE COLLEGE by italic letters as follows SCHOOL OF THE FINE ARTS, art; DIVINITY, d, GRADUATE, ma, ms> or dp; LAW, / or ml; MEDICINE, m; SCHOOL OF FORESTRY,/; SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, S. CLASS PAGE CLASS PAGE Adams, Daniel C. I895 Charnley, Walter H. 164 I87I 47 1925 213 I869 J 217 Adams, Henry Chidsey, Andrew D. Afong, Chun W. S. 206 I863 Childs, Daniel B. 1912 20 68 I877 I874 Aldis, Owen F. Clark, Frank E. 84 1879J Bacon, Nathaniel T. Clark, Fred A. 223 iqOI 190 Badger, Walter I. 103 I895 Clemons, Charles 1882 165 36 1916 s Cleveland, Arthur I. 268 1868 Bailey, Stephen G. 285 Baldwin, Frederick H. 54 1875 m Clum, Franklin D. 1872 92 I874 Barnes, Pearce 69 1878 Cobb, Holhs W. Bartholomew, Howard B. 207 1886 Codding, Charles N. 1912 122 71 1871 m Bartlett, Walter R. 285 1874 Coffin, William A. !9J3 294 Barton, Clarence E, 208 1878/ Colley, Charles A. Bate, Mortimer S, Collins, Atwood 60 1882 104 1873 296 *33 1879/ Coogan, John W. 1888 s Bean, William Hill 1905/ 1871 Bennett, John J Cooper, Albert W 4« Bennett, Joseph H. S9 1889/ Cox, John W. 3O4 1873 1891 124 Betts, Louis F H 1887 Coxe, Alexander Brown 188 46 1900 1870 Betts, William J. Crampton, Foster 1882 d Bissell, Arthur D. 3*3 1852 Crapo, William W. 3 192 1904 m Crofutt, Edward F. 291 Bissell, Raymond 1902 1926 s Bogdanoff, Ivan A. 271 1862 Crosby, James H. 12 10 1906 s Bosworth, Francke H. Crouse, Marlette 259 1862 1863 Curran, George L. Bowers, Arthur E 1883 22 in 1872 Brannan, Frank I. Damon, Maurice S. 1904 195 $5 1861 8 1919 Brent, J Harry Daniels, J. Alden 211 Brockett, Donald B. 265 1878/ Daniels, Leonard 295 I9I3J Bronson, Edward B. 30 1864 Darling, Samuel C 1865 25 123 197 1886^ Darling, Thomas Bulkeley, Morgan G , Jr. 1907 82 1911 1876 Burchard, Louis F. Davis, Henry B 2O2 I99 1922 ms Bunsch, John L. 275 Davison, Arthur L. 1909 m 1896 Burnham, John L 171 1889 s Day, Arthur H. 1874 Bussing, Robert S. 70 1871 Decker, I. Dayton 49 310 1885/ Butler, W. Enston 299 1897/ Decker, Mason L. 284 1901 d Calhoun, Charles S. 334 1858 m DeForest, Daniel A. 327 127 iSgid Dickerson, Charles H. Campbell, William A. 1888 213 1896 Carley, John A. 173 1871 s Dickson, Frederick S. Carter, Franklin, Jr. 186 1868 Dixon, William P. 1900 38 Cates, Reuben L 305 1894 Dodge, Francis P. 156 1891/ 34,6 Index 347 CLASS PAGE CLASS PAGE Dodge, Frederic N. 1866 Hoadley, Horace G. 34 I883 115 1894 d Dornan, William W. Hoeninghaus, Fntz W. I896 1864 Douglass, George Holbrook, Charles A 26 I88O 97 1895 167 I874 Draper, James A. Holbrook, DeWitt C. 74 1896 J Drummond, James T. 250 1869 Holcombe, John M. 44 326 1862 1887