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QUINDECENNIAL RECORD, 
 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 
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Quindecennial Record 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Class of Ninety- Two 
 
 OF 
 
 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 
 
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 NEW YORK 
 
 THE GRAFTON PRESS 
 
 1907 
 

James Ormsbee Murray, D.D., LL.D. 
 
DEAN MURRAY 
 
 WE cannot allow a portrait of the Dean — he will ever 
 remain " the Dean " in Ninety-two's memories — to 
 appear in this book without a brief tribute of our affection. 
 The last time, as a class, we saw him, it was on the steps of 
 his house during our Quinquennial, when he welcomed us back 
 and alluded again to his appreciation of our desire in June, 
 1892, that he should preach our Baccalaureate Sermon when 
 the President proved unable to officiate. The telegram of sym- 
 pathy sent to him by a meeting of the Class during his illness 
 in March, 1899, deeply touched him. And when he died — on 
 March 27, 1899 — a delegation of the Class attended his funeral. 
 It would be difficult to tell how Ninety-two's intimacy with 
 the Dean sprang up, or exactly why we loved him as we did. 
 He was not a teacher who sought popularity. We felt the 
 gentle manliness, the honest transparency of his beautiful char- 
 acter. He was bigger than his office ; we forgot the officer in 
 the scholar, the man, the friend. 
 
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CLASS OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 
 
 President: John Benem Kouwenhoven. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer : William Kelly Prentice. 
 
 Memorial Committee: 
 
 1892 — 1895 : John W. Easton, C. W. Hillyer, Charles 
 
 0. MuDGE. 
 
 1895 — 1902: Chairman, Howard C. Butler; Secretary 
 and Treasurer, C. O. Mudge, (1895-97), 
 F. J. Moses (1897-1902) ; G. W. Burleigh, 
 A. W. Butler, E. D. Duffield, J. W. 
 Easton, C. W. Hillyer, J. B. Kouwen- 
 hoven, W. K. Prentice, J. B. Riggs. 
 
 1906—1907 : G. W. Betts, M. V. Bergen, M. A. Christy, 
 P. F. Cook, Richard Coulter, Jr., W. K. 
 Prentice, J. G. Wilson. 
 
 Reunion Committee: Chairman, George W. Burleigh; Treas- 
 urer, James Westervelt ; Charles D. 
 Hart. 
 
 Class Record Committee: H. C. Butler, V. L. Collins, W. K. 
 Prentice. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 To the Class: 
 
 Your Committee appointed to prepare and publish the Quin- 
 decennial Record herewith presents the results of its labors. 
 Labors is the word all right. 
 
 Not including the 23 deceased members listed in the 
 Necrology, the names of 186 graduates and non-graduates 
 appear in the following pages. Of this number 11 have not 
 responded to our repeated requests for material; 3 are living 
 in retirement; and of 11 others we do not know the present 
 whereabouts. Concerning these 25 men we have supplied what 
 facts we could. We fear that two or three are dead; most of 
 them we know are living. We have no explanations to offer 
 for the delinquents, this volume being advertised to contain 
 only " what's fit to print." It may be noticed, however, that all 
 the graduates of the Class have responded. 
 
 In the hope then that our work will meet your approval, 
 supply a long-felt want, and warm the cockles of your hearts, 
 we salute you. 
 
 Howard Crosby Butler, 
 Varnum Lansing Collins, 
 William Kelly Prentice. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 History of the Class ........ 1 
 
 The Changes of Fifteen Years at Princeton ... 9 
 Biographies . . . . . . . . .19 
 
 Necrology .......... 247 
 
 The Hot Air Furnace ....... 255 
 
 Summary .......... 273 
 
HISTORY OF THE CLASS 
 
 To the Glorious Class of '92, Greeting: 
 
 When we graduated it seemed to us that there never had 
 been a Class so united and loyal, and never could be another. 
 We had not been tried. Now we have had fifteen years of 
 experience: the class officers have not been always attentive to 
 class business, the class committees have had lapses of activity, 
 the class members generally have suffered from chronic pro- 
 crastination. The truth is that most of us have been very 
 busy. Some of the Class have been so far away in body or in 
 spirit, that they themselves believed that they had lost touch 
 with the College and with the Class, a calamity which once 
 seemed unthinkable to us all. But now, when fifteen years are 
 over, and each has made his place in the world, it behooves to 
 review our history as a Class, and to consider what we have 
 accomplished. The records of the individual members of the 
 Class will follow: here you have the record of the Class 
 Organization. 
 
 In the first year after our graduation we held five reunions, 
 exclusive, of course of our graduation dinner. At the first of 
 these, held at Muschenheim's in New York City on June 18, 
 1892, there were only twenty-seven present. But that is not 
 to be wondered at, under all the circumstances. The motions, 
 adopted on that occasion, were embodied in the secretary's first 
 circular, dated July 15, 1892: two of these demand republica- 
 tion, since they were designed to have a permanent application. 
 They are: 
 
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 " 1. That at nine o'clock on the evening before the Yale- 
 Princeton football game, and at nine o'clock on the evening of 
 December 31, each year, every member of the Class, wherever 
 he may be, drink three toasts, one to Princeton College, one to 
 the memory of the members of the Class who have passed away, 
 and one to the Glorious Class of '92." 
 
 " 2. That all members of this Class who at any time in the 
 future may have brothers or sons in Princeton should notify 
 the Class Secretary in order that he may notify all other mem- 
 bers of the Class, that any who have occasion to visit Princeton 
 may know where to seek hospitality in the name of the Glorious 
 Class." 
 
 Our second reunion was at the " Arena " also, on November 
 23, and then there were sixty-four of us on hand. At that time 
 the class roll contained 209 names, including those who left 
 college before we graduated. Two more reunions were held in 
 that same year before Commencement ; these were both held in 
 Princeton, one on Washington's Birthday, and the other, I 
 think, in April. And then our first annual reunion in June. 
 So we began well. Since then we have held a reunion each year 
 at Commencement time, although a few times recently this 
 reunion has consisted in our taking part together in the peerade 
 to and at and from the Commencement game. But generally 
 we have had a dinner at Commencement and also at some other 
 time, usually in New York in the Autumn. At our Triennial 
 Reunion in June, 1895, there were sixty-eight present, and on 
 this occasion our second Memorial Committee was appointed, 
 consisting of ten members, and all that they did, behold it is 
 written in the report published by the Class Secretary, June 
 1, 1903. In June, 1896, we held a small reunion at which there 
 were only twent3 r -five present, Mrs. Henry Campbell serving 
 the dinner at her apartments on Dickinson Street. This 
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 was on October 22, at Odd Fellows' Hall, Witherspoon Street, 
 when the University was celebrating the sesquicentennial of its 
 founding. I do not know how many of us were present then ; 
 but I know that I hold a receipt, signed by H. D. Thompson, 
 secretary, for seventy-five lanterns used by the Class of '92 in 
 the peerade on October 21. 
 
 In April, 1897, George Burleigh, who styled himself then 
 " Secretary de facto," but who was in fact good and regular 
 Secretary of the Class, the present secretary having resigned 
 famous " '92 Dutch Company," which held a good many sue- 
 that honorable office and having fled the country, organized the 
 cessful sessions and did much to promote class spirit. 
 
 June 11 to 14, 1897, the Class held its Quinquennial Reunion, 
 the chief est event of which was the dinner at Ivy Hall on June 
 the twelfth. The following passage from the Duke's prelimi- 
 nary circular will serve to recall this occasion to those who were 
 fortunate enough to be present : " The Class of '92, forming 
 on the campus, will proceed to their headquarters by a cir- 
 cuitous route, and partake of a Reunion Dinner at 7 p. m. 
 At 7.30, presentation of our Class Cup to Henry Wheeler 
 Young, who will walk down the table to receive his cup from 
 the hands of our Class President. Toasting and congratula- 
 tory offering to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Young and the Class 
 Boy, in acknowledgment of this additional blessing to the Class 
 of '92." It was on this occasion that the poem to the 
 Class Boy, by Wilkie Collins, was read ; a copy of the poem 
 is filed in the archives of the Class. 
 
 At the subsequent reunions until the Decennial, no such in- 
 teresting occurrences are recorded. At the dinner on June 8, 
 1901, however, a Reunion Committee was appointed, to have 
 charge of all reunions of the Class for all time to come. This 
 committee, whose names will be found on another page, abun- 
 dantly justified their existence by the splendid Decennial Re- 
 union held under their administration from June 6 to June 11, 
 
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 1902, for which all men unite in praising the Class of '92 and its 
 Reunion Committee. At the dinner at the Princeton Inn on 
 June 9, 1902, George Burleigh having refused to be considered 
 Class Secretary any longer, the former secretary was re- 
 elected to his sinecure position, and has not been discharged 
 since. The second Memorial Committee having also retired, 
 the task of providing for a Class Memorial was entrusted to the 
 Class Secretary for the present, and power was given to him 
 and to the President of the Class to appoint a new Memorial 
 Committee, when this should seem desirable. A committee to 
 produce a Class Record was also appointed at this meeting, 
 consisting of Howard Butler, Wilkie Collins, and the Class 
 Secretary ; they have finally produced a Record, in spite of the 
 procrastination of the members of the Class. 
 
 Since 1902 we have not had a formal banquet. We have 
 been economizing with a view to the large projects we had 
 undertaken. We have, however, held informal gatherings. 
 One of these was typical of the informal reunions of the Class 
 in recent years, and, partly for that reason, the minutes are 
 given here in full. These minutes also contain, both explicitly 
 and implicitly, certain suggestions for the years to come. 
 
 " Friday, December 16, 1904. A dinner of '92 was held at 
 the New Hotel Astor, the new palace of our old friend, Mr. 
 Muschenheim. Present : Aikman, Atkinson, Ball, Bailey, 
 Benet, Bradley, Burleigh, Carter, Church, P. Cook, Denniston, 
 Doty, Duffield, Hale, Hall, Kouwenhoven, McWilliams, Moses, 
 Prentice, Roberts, Stevenson, Wight, and Williams. The 
 Baron presided, the Duke talked. Lon Church knocked a little 
 and was reproved by the Duke. Freddie Moses nearly had his 
 feelings hurt. The Secretary made no great speech. The 
 Duke told at great length of the last meeting of the Dormitory 
 Committee, at which he represented the Class. Some money 
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 never paid]. It was decided that there was too much dunning 
 at reunions and not enough reunions. It was also decided to 
 revive the '92 Dutch Company, the Duke to call the first meeting 
 in January, and after that someone else to take charge of the 
 arrangements. It was decided to ask other '92 men in other 
 cities to start similar organizations. 
 
 " The rear guard, consisting of the Duke, the Secretary, and 
 four privates, retired at 1 a. m. in good order. 
 
 " J. Besson, Brewster, Homans, Stork and Stump, having 
 engaged places at the dinner and having failed to attend, were 
 charged two dollars apiece by the Secretary. J. Besson, 
 Brewster and Stump paid." 
 
 There was also a meeting of loyal members of the Class at 
 the Hofbrau Haus in New York City on November 16 last, to 
 provide assistance to the Secretary in raising the money due 
 for the Class Memorial, and also in collecting from procrastina- 
 tors biographical material and photographs for the Class 
 Record. 
 
 The Class published its first Record in 1894 at the end of 
 the second year after our graduation. Twice since then a list 
 of addresses has been published in pamphlet form. The 
 present volume completes the list of our Class publications. 
 All these publications have been paid for from the general 
 Class fund. 
 
 The Class further procured for itself, by special subscription, 
 the large silver loving-cup which most of us know, and which is 
 used at our reunion banquets. We have presented to our Class 
 Boy a loving-cup which is a token of the affection which we 
 feel for him. We have started a movement which, in spite of 
 some difficulties and disagreements, has resulted in the erection 
 of a dormitory by the ten classes, '92-'01, each of which has 
 made an entry in this dormitory, its memorial gift to the Uni- 
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 there are plans for a series of similar buildings which shall 
 enclose the Brokaw Field on the east and south sides, and in 
 which an indefinite number of classes may participate. Our 
 own dormitory is already in use. It has been named Patton 
 Hall, and the following is the letter, signed by the representa- 
 tives of the classes concerned, and presented to Dr. Patton by 
 the Secretary of '92: 
 
 " Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, N. J. 
 
 " Sir: — The ten classes from 1892 to 1901, who have recently 
 presented a dormitory to the University, have desired to give 
 it a name intimately associated with the progress of Princeton. 
 
 " We have therefore unanimously decided to call the building 
 ' Patton Hall,' believing that in this way we shall also indicate 
 the respect and admiration with which our classes regard you, 
 under whose administration as President of Princeton Univer- 
 sity our undergraduate courses were spent." 
 
 To this letter the following answer from Dr. Patton was 
 received : 
 
 " Springdale, Princeton, New Jersey, 30th March, 1906. 
 " Gentlemen : 
 
 " I have the honor to be informed through your kind letter, 
 which I shall always keep as a cherished possession, that my 
 name has been given to the new Dormitory which the graduates 
 for whom you are acting have presented to the University. 
 
 " I thank you most sincerely for being made the recipient 
 of an unusual compliment, and I am especially grateful for the 
 sentiment of personal regard which prompted your action. 
 
 " The new Hall is a worthy memorial of the classes concerned 
 in its erection and will be a living witness to their loyal devotion 
 to their Alma Mater. 
 
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 handsome building my name will be permanently associated 
 with ten of the classes whose members spent their undergraduate 
 days in Princeton University during the period of my admin- 
 istration of its affairs. 
 
 " I am, faithfully yours, 
 
 " Francis L. Patton." 
 
 Our share in the cost of this building, thirteen thousand 
 dollars, will be paid in full this June. There is good reason to 
 hope that, except for the running expenses of the Class, which 
 are fortunately light, the Class may be free from subscriptions 
 and from dunning for Class purposes for perhaps a decade to 
 come. One thing, however, remains to be said. Too much of 
 the burden of Class expenses has been borne by a small group 
 of men. What we have accomplished would not have been possi- 
 ble if the men who attended the meeting last November had not 
 stood by the Class handsomely. For on that occasion twenty- 
 two men underwrote the Class undertakings to the extent of 
 about thirty-five hundred dollars in addition to their own sub- 
 scriptions, with the understanding that, if the other members 
 of the Class defrayed their proper share of the Class expenses, 
 this money should be repaid to the underwriters. Nearly all 
 of these underwriters had already paid all, or more than all, 
 that they should have contributed. And members of the Class 
 who have not paid their subscriptions to the fund should con- 
 sider that they have laid on others a burden which they them- 
 selves, in loyalty, should bear. 
 
 William Kelly Prentice, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Princeton, N. J., February 16, 1907. 
 
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THE CHANGES OF FIFTEEN YEARS 
 AT PRINCETON 
 
 EVERY now and then 1 meet upon the campus a graduate 
 of some class away back in the '60's or '70's who has 
 returned to Princeton for the first time since graduation, and 
 who wants to know the name of this or that building, by whom 
 it was built, and for what purpose. With each of these men it 
 is the same story : all are aghast at the great changes that have 
 taken place here since they were in college. But men who were 
 here in the early '80's talk in about the same way, and, indeed, I 
 believe that our classmates, of whom I hope there are few who 
 have not seen Princeton since June, 1892, must be of the same 
 mind, with regard to these changes, as the men who graduated 
 before most of the members of '92 were born. 
 
 All this means that the great outward transformation of 
 Princeton has taken place since we went out from our Alma 
 Mater. It is hard to say whether the external, physical changes, 
 or those which are internal and have to do with life and work 
 in Princeton, are the greater. Every Princeton man, I am sure, 
 will agree that they are all for the best. This is not purely 
 optimism, nor the prejudiced view of one who is in daily 
 contact with University affairs and is blind to Princeton's 
 defects ; but it is the opinion of every graduate that I know 
 who has taken time to know Princeton well, and to keep in touch 
 with the life of the place. 
 
 Some familiar objects are gone, gone to our regret; some 
 well-remembered spots are no longer as they were; but in 
 
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 every case something more beautiful, or, at least, more useful 
 to the University, has filled their places. East College, the old 
 home of some of us, and full of associations for all, is no more. 
 The old Chapel, the scene of our early oratorical efforts, and 
 of those exciting doings of Washington's Birthday, when 
 " birds of a feather flocked together," and the Class yelled 
 itself hoarse in praise of '92, is gone; but those of us who have 
 come, by daily observation, to know what a world of usefulness 
 to the University is represented by the successor of the old 
 landmarks, even those of us who were most regretful at seeing 
 them go, have learned that they are worthily succeeded by the 
 new library. This great new building is not a mere repository 
 of books in which volumes are grudgingly handed out during a 
 few hours each day, but a real library, open from early 
 morning until ten at night, well lighted and comfortable, where 
 students of all classes, in ever increasing numbers, may be seen 
 at all library hours consulting books, making notes or reading 
 for the simple pleasure of it. In this we may see an example 
 of the internal as well as the external change that has come 
 over Princeton since our day. 
 
 But let me dwell first upon the changes that appeal to the 
 eye, for they are the first to be noticed by anyone who is not 
 often in Princeton, and let me begin at the point where, in our 
 freshman year, a woodland path connected the campus with 
 Prospect Avenue, where now one finds the stately, elm-shaded 
 way dignified by the name of McCosh Walk. Here in his 
 latter years one might meet the Old Doctor walking with Mrs. 
 McCosh, who, I am glad to say, still graces Princeton with 
 her noble and venerable presence, and here, as he became 
 more feeble, a seat was made for him, and the passing students 
 would hear his cheerful " Hoo are ye! " on their way to their 
 clubs, and learned to love the old man as we had loved him in 
 our day. One of the finest and largest of our new buildings, 
 McCosh Hall, a magnificent recitation building, is approach- 
 
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CHANGES OF FIFTEEN YEARS 11 
 
 ing completion on the north side of the walk, extending from 
 the Marquand Chapel to Washington Street. 
 
 The front campus remains as it was in our time, but for a 
 new iron fence and three fine monumental gateways on Nassau 
 Street, built as part of the Fitz-Randolph memorial. A large 
 triple gateway stands directly in front of Old Nassau and 
 smaller gates were placed at the entrances near the Dean's 
 house and below the library. 
 
 The lot behind Reunion, where we used to kick football and 
 knock up flies, was already chosen for the site of a new build- 
 ing while we were seniors ; '94 saw Alexander Hall completed. 
 With its wealth of exterior carving and interior mosaics it is 
 unquestionably the costliest building ever erected for the hold- 
 ing of Commencement exercises and other college functions. 
 The old First Church no longer resounds to the oratorical 
 flights of Salutatorians and Valedictorians. The use of Alex- 
 ander Hall is by no means narrowly restricted ; for of late 
 years we have often been treated to Shakespeare there, given 
 by good players in " the Shakespearean manner." Another 
 obvious change ! 
 
 How well we all remember the slope between the old gym- 
 nasium and the railway station, and the stretch of irregular 
 ground, half field and half marsh, that lay between Wither- 
 spoon, Edwards, and the railway, including the field where 
 several '92 men played in the last lingering years of lacrosse's 
 popularity at Princeton. It is here, perhaps, that the great- 
 est physical changes have taken place, for all along this bound- 
 ary of the campus our famous wall-dormitory and the new 
 gymnasium have been placed. About the time of the Sesqui- 
 centennial the happy idea was conceived of separating the 
 campus from the town and from other neighbors by a series of 
 long, low dormitories, like an inhabited wall, with gates in 
 it here and there with towers above them, and now that the 
 University has come into practical possession of all the prop- 
 
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 erty on the south side of Nassau Street, it looks as if this scheme 
 could be easily carried out. Blair Hall was the first attempt 
 at carrying out this idea. It begins just south of the Observa- 
 tory, extending along University Place, turning a right angle 
 at the corner and then, running along the slope toward Wither- 
 spoon, to a massive tower with a great arch below it, about 
 where the old steps to the station used to be. A fine flight of 
 stone steps leads down from the arch. Blair tower, with its 
 lofty pinnacles, its spacious arch and broad steps, is perhaps 
 the finest bit of architecture in Princeton, or even the finest 
 bit of college architecture in America, and it is fortunately the 
 first thing that the visitor's eye rests upon. Beyond the tower, 
 Blair Hall turns another angle and stops beside the west end 
 of Witherspoon. At this point there is a slight drop and a 
 narrow roadway, and then Upper and Lower Little Halls con- 
 tinue the wall along the west side of the old Lacrosse field, 
 turning eastward to make a quadrangle with Edwards and 
 Witherspoon, and turning southward again to where the little 
 old ice pond used to be, but where now stands the pride of the 
 Alumni — the new Gymnasium — with its trophy hall and swim- 
 ming tank, one of the most complete buildings of its kind in 
 the world. A uniform style of architecture was fortunately 
 chosen for this entire series of buildings, — Blair Upper and 
 Lower Little and the Gymnasium, — which extends for several 
 hundred yards along the western boundary of the campus, and 
 this style — the Collegiate Gothic, so characteristic of Oxford 
 and Cambridge — seems to have become the one for the future 
 development of Princeton. It is highly suitable, not only on 
 account of its origin, but because of its grace in adapting itself 
 to rural surroundings, and uneven surface conditions. 
 
 Adjoining the far end of the new Gymnasium on the east 
 comes the Brokaw Memorial building, designed by Joe Huston, 
 with its arch that forms an entrance to the Brokaw Field, and 
 its side rooms that were once dressing-rooms for the field 
 
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 and the Brokaw swimming tank, but which is now given over 
 to such uses as rooms for the French Club. The name of one 
 of our classmates is thus associated with one of the most beau- 
 tiful parts of the campus. 
 
 When Dod Hall was erected in the cornfield behind the 
 Halls it seemed quite far out in the country ; it is now near 
 the center of undergraduate life. The Class of '92 saw Whig 
 and Clio Halls practically completed, saw Dod finished, and 
 the grading of the cornfield, where we buried the flat bat in 
 Junior year, begun. We were hardly out of college before 
 Brown Hall was added to the campus, to the southeast of Dodd, 
 and a new quadrangle was formed with the two Halls and the 
 Art Museum. That seemed like the end in that direction ; but 
 now the meadows far down the slope are within the campus, 
 and the double row of elms which bordered the path that led 
 down to Potter's woods is an avenue. At its top stands Patton 
 Hall, its first entry bearing the numerals '92. This new dormi- 
 tory extends in ten entries southward along the avenue of elms, 
 overlooking Brokaw Field, and an extension of it has been 
 planned to bound the entire eastern and southern limits of that 
 field. 
 
 The Art Museum is still wingless ; but below it extends the 
 President's garden beautifully laid out, and below that is a 
 broad, well-made path that branches in one direction to the 
 Infirmary on Washington Road and, in another, to the end of 
 Prospect Avenue. " Prospect," the president's house, is thus 
 within the campus, and not on its outer edge, as it used to be. 
 East of " Prospect," out where the lonely grave of Catherine 
 Bullock used to excite ghastly fears on darksome nights, 
 stands another new dormitory, that built by the class of '79. 
 This is another part of the proposed campus wall, and its cen- 
 tral tower and great arch face the head of Prospect Avenue. 
 This brings us to McCosh Walk again and completes our giro 
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 Within the campus itself various improvements have been 
 carried on. The building of the Philadelphian Society has been 
 enlarged by the addition of a large library, reading-room and 
 four class prayer-meeting rooms, besides an apartment for the 
 general secretary. It is now called Murray-Dodge Hall, and 
 the new part is connected with the old by a cloister walk ; the 
 old hall being still used for large meetings. 
 
 The dinosaurs, icthiosaurs and other gruesome tenants of 
 the main hall of Old North have been banished, and the great 
 room has been handsomely done over in the style in which it 
 is supposed to have been when the Continental Congress met 
 within its walls. It is now called the Council Chamber and 
 serves for meetings of the faculty and as a starting place for 
 academic processions. It is proposed to convert the whole 
 interior of Nassau Hall into administration rooms, so that the 
 grand old pile will be actually, as well as sentimentally, the 
 center of the University. The old dormitories, heated by 
 steam, lighted by electricity and provided with baths, are far 
 more luxurious than they were in our day, and one building is 
 almost as comfortable as any other. Throughout the newer 
 parts of the campus much grading and planting has been done, 
 so that the whole presents the appearance of a park. 
 
 Away from the campus the parts of Princeton most inti- 
 mately connected with college life are, of course, the Varsity 
 Field and the Street of Clubs. The appearance of the old field 
 has greatly altered since we won the baseball championship of 
 the College. A new field house, a baseball cage, a greatly 
 enlarged grandstand, and huge uncovered stands make it look 
 more like Manhattan Field than like its old self. We have 
 probably the most beautiful diamond of any college. Every- 
 thing about the whole athletic field is much more convenient 
 and comfortable and cleanly than in our time. While we were 
 in college there were only a couple of clubs that had their own 
 houses ; there are now over a dozen, most of which own their 
 
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 own lots and have fine club houses, situated on one side or the 
 other of Prospect Avenue. Almost every house on that fine, 
 broad avenue is now a club with an average membership of 
 about 30 Seniors and Juniors. The new Commons provides 
 for most of the freshmen, and the number of men dependent 
 upon the boarding houses is thus greatly reduced; moreover, 
 the boarding houses have been improved by competition with 
 the Clubs and the Commons. The club system was the nat- 
 ural outgrowth of conditions prevalent in Princeton in our 
 day. Poor food at high rates, bad service and cheerless and 
 often unclean surroundings were not to be borne for four 
 years, and such conditions were not conducive to mental or 
 moral well-being. Group after group of students broke from 
 the old regime and secured houses for themselves and provided 
 for their own food and service. These groups became perma- 
 nent by elections from the lower classes, funds were raised and 
 property was bought and houses of greater or less cost were 
 erected. These clubhouses provided comfortable accommoda- 
 tions and pleasant surroundings for the alumni members 
 whenever they should return ; this met a long-felt want in 
 Princeton, and the upper class clubs have become an important, 
 perhaps an almost too important, factor in Princeton life. 
 
 Those of us who live in Princeton, and have opportunity to 
 observe the trend of undergraduate life, are often asked what 
 effect all these changes are having on the undergraduate — the 
 coming Princeton man. There are many of the older alumni, 
 even some of the men of our own time, who seem to be dubious 
 as to the influence of all these things upon the student, and 
 who seem to feel, that by reducing the hardships of college life 
 and providing all sorts of luxuries unheard of in the old days, 
 Princeton is in danger of turning out an effete race of 
 graduates incapable of facing the hard knocks of life that come 
 when they leave college. If, in her new development, Prince- 
 ton knew no other changes, if the morning bath, the splendid 
 
16 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 gymnasium, the luxurious club were all that she had to offer 
 in addition to all that was offered fifteen to twenty years ago, 
 I should feel that there was something in these fears. But the 
 new luxuries are offset, completely, I think, by other things 
 that are an integral part of Princeton's new life, and the gen- 
 eral belief on the part of the closest observers, in and out of 
 Princeton, is that the Princeton student of to-day is not 
 materially changed in the midst of all these outward changes, 
 except for the better. The Princeton spirit that we all know 
 and are so proud of, has not changed ; the undergraduate is 
 certainly cleaner, better fed, and better dressed; he is also 
 cleaner morally and better equipped in mind; but he is the 
 same Princeton man at heart. These offsets to the softer condi- 
 tions of living, though less conspicuous, are perhaps the most 
 important of the changes introduced here since our gradua- 
 tion. Among them may be mentioned the raising of the 
 requirements for entrance and for remaining in college, the 
 introduction of the Preceptorial System, and the general effort 
 to bring the student into greater sympathy with his work and 
 with his teachers. Men enter college better equipped for their 
 work, and when they have entered, every facility and aid is 
 offered to keep them in. Close contact between the student and 
 the teacher and careful oversight of his work at once stimu- 
 late a greater interest on the part of the student and work 
 becomes less like drudgery. Many a student has said to me 
 that to fail in enough studies to drop from one's class a fellow 
 must be either intentionally negligent, willfully obtuse, or so 
 dull that he would be better off never to have come to college. 
 
 This is not the place to describe the Preceptorial system and 
 its workings ; there are papers by President Wilson, Dean West 
 and Professor Hibben that do the subject justice: but the new 
 scheme, together with other changes in methods of teaching 
 and in the regulation of courses, are working, and have already 
 worked, a transformation of the undergraduate. Of course 
 
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CHANGES OF FIFTEEN YEARS 17 
 
 no one would say that Princeton students are now all " pollers ; " 
 I would not urge that all of them are even serious students ; 
 but they all work, they all accomplish something, because they 
 must do so if they remain here, and they accept the situation 
 gracefully. There are some who grumble about their hard 
 lot ; but these same men, when they are at home or among 
 friends outside of Princeton, enjoy boasting that it is no 
 " cinch " to remain in college, and, with a few exceptions, 
 they are proud of the improved condition of affairs. 
 
 There is certainly a far larger proportion of men who are 
 really interested and get enjoyment out of their work than 
 there used to be. It seems strange to those who have not become 
 accustomed to it to hear the fellows discussing or arguing about 
 their work ; yet this is now a very common thing to hear among 
 all grades of students, and it is not put on or forced, but quite 
 as natural as if they were discussing a game. Yet they talk 
 about football and baseball just as much as ever; you never 
 hear them raving over the Odes of Pindar or discussing the 
 influence of taboo on primitive thought on the bleachers before 
 a game ; they are not prigs ; they are the same good-natured, 
 happy-go-lucky, irresponsible, inconsistent, lovable youths that 
 we knew, but work has at last found a place with them all, 
 and they are far better for it. 
 
 And what of us? What of those who have the privilege of 
 taking part in all these transformations, and of watching them 
 from the inside? What of the poor old faculty? I have, of 
 course, no means of comparing the new conditions with the old 
 on this score ; but I know we have a happy lot. Interest in 
 our work for these new Princetonians, and in our own outside 
 work, makes life well worth living. In so large a group of 
 educated and cultivated men every one should be able to find 
 congenial associates. Everybody in Princeton seems to be doing 
 something worth while, and the society is interesting. The 
 Nassau Club and a number of small clubs that meet at stated 
 
18 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 intervals with more or less serious purpose afford opportunity 
 for the pleasant spending of one's leisure hours. Few of us 
 are troubled by breaks in the stock market, not because we 
 are all bears, but for better reasons. Some of the faculty 
 are athletic, others enjoy farming or gardening. This is a 
 peaceful life, intensely interesting to most of us. The new 
 system keeps us all pretty hard at work in term time; but we 
 have a longer vacation than most people and this we may use 
 for work or play as we choose. 
 
 Princeton has changed, Princeton has grown, she has im- 
 proved. She will continue to change; for without change she 
 must stagnate, and with the hearty support and devotion of her 
 alumni which has never failed her, she will continue to grow 
 and to improve. 
 
 Howard Crosby Butler. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 LUCIEN ABRAMS 
 
 Artist. Address, 9 rue Falguiere, Paris, France. Unmarried. 
 
 1UCIEN is the only painter in the class. He and Ben White 
 JL took Art 4 seriously while in college. Now Lucien paints 
 and Ben builds. Joe Huston didn't take Art 4 ; he had had 
 it before he came to college, and he too builds. Howard Butler 
 took it, and is now teaching it, but under the cabalistic nu- 
 merals of 33, 34, 43, 44, 103, 104, and 106. You see times 
 have changed; but Art is long — longer than it used to be. 
 
 Lucien continued his Art 4 at the Art Students' League, New 
 York, getting out before the Anthony Comstock raid, and going 
 to Paris, where he entered the Academie Julian. The rest of his 
 story is told in his letter, which has in itself a whiff of exotic 
 atmosphere that is refreshing. Painting and music are his 
 chief delight, and in pursuit of the Goddess Art he has travelled 
 in Italy (1896), Belgium and Holland (1900 and 1903), Spain 
 (1901), and Northern Africa (1905). It was on this last 
 innocent expedition that he fell among thieves, like the gentle- 
 man who was going down to Jericho, and was stripped of all 
 his possessions. He says he seldom sees a '92 man in Paris, 
 though he did once run across Fish Hall, and at a Princeton 
 dinner met Jesse Williams, and on another occasion acted as 
 guide and interpreter to poor Billy Schick, who was in Paris 
 for two weeks. " He left with his steamer ticket and five 
 dollars, while I went home to rest." 
 
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20 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " Paris, January 31, 1907. 
 " My dear Kelly : 
 
 " At last I send you my statistics, photograph, and a letter. 
 You may use this in its entirety or expurgate at your pleasure. 
 You'll get my subscription if I have to sell a picture ! Had a 
 letter from Wilkie Collins recently, which recalled old times 
 and did something towards stirring me up. It put me in mind 
 of the coming reunion and made my desire to be there even 
 stronger than before. 
 
 " No doubt you are all by now professors, bank presidents, or 
 only common or garden millionaires, but I think of you as I 
 knew you. Am considering seriously the question of returning 
 to the States and attending the reunion. The announcement of 
 the reunion makes me ask myself, ' can it be possible? ' and also 
 reminds me that I have missed all of the reunions since gradua- 
 tion. This has happened principally for geographical reasons. 
 That is to say, since leaving Princeton, except for two winters 
 in New York, my life has been spent in Europe, with Paris as 
 headquarters, with the pursuit of the elusive art of painting as 
 my object. 
 
 " After a year or two of academic drudgery, I gave up the 
 schools. For quite a while was confused in the maze of Parisian 
 art. I worked some but did more dreaming and trying to col- 
 lect my ideas. Visited Italy, where I spent several months. 
 Came back and went to the country near Paris. 
 
 " An American painter of note asked me, in reference to a 
 decorative painting which I was about to do, ' Did you ever 
 see any nymphs ? ' Then said : ' Why don't you look at the 
 beauty round about you and paint? ' 
 
 " Since then I have tried to express the beauty of reality. 
 
 " A couple of months spent in Madrid studying and copying 
 Velasquez did me much good. In painting he was so far in 
 advance of his own time that he is now especially instructive 
 to painters of the present day. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 21 
 
 " A couple of years ago I attended a Princeton dinner, where 
 it did me good to hear the old songs again. Was in the States 
 last in '04, during which visit I saw the St. Louis Exposition 
 and afterwards painted landscapes in Maine and Connecticut. 
 Last winter with a fellow painter, I crossed the Mediterranean 
 to Algiers. This place, though interesting at first, is become 
 too much Europeanized, so we pushed on in pursuit of the real 
 thing. We ended at Bon Sa'ada, ' place of happiness,' where 
 we found Arabs and camels enough to suit the most exacting. 
 To reach it one travels by rail for a day up on a high plateau, 
 then rising at 2 a. m., across the mountains in a lumbering 
 diligence down to the plain and palm trees beyond. The last 
 day one spends in a bone-breaking kind of ' Deadwood coach,' 
 drawn by seven or eight horses across the sands of the Sahara. 
 
 " To rest the horses, one has to walk a few miles now and 
 then. At last the oasis of date palms and Bon Sa'ada are seen, 
 and one agrees with the Arabs in calling it ' place of happiness.' 
 Aside from the French officers there are very few Europeans. 
 
 " We stopped there until the 15th of May, seeing much of 
 Arab life and making many studies, for there was nothing else 
 to do. 
 
 " I have exhibited at the Salons for half a dozen years, and 
 have sent several pictures to American exhibitions. Now am 
 thinking of returning to my native land to settle down. 
 
 " Will attend the reunion if possible. 
 
 " Best wishes to all of the class." 
 
22 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 WALTER M. AIRMAN, JR. 
 
 Business. Address, Central Stamping Co., 591 Ferry Street, 
 Newark, N. J. Residence, 47 South Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 Married Alice Daise Burton, Chicago, October 14, 1903. Children, 
 Ruth, b. July 1, 1906; d. July 3, 1906. 
 
 AS Wallie's admirable synopsis of his activities shows, he 
 L has held various positions in electrical business, street 
 railroading, and tinware manufacturing since the good old 
 days when his hobby was other people's thermometers. Now 
 his hobby is mechanics ; and it is commonly said around Prince- 
 ton that thermometers have been a drug on the local market since 
 he left. It is moreover many a year since he climbed the water 
 tower and painted thereon the first class numerals to decorate 
 that landmark. Now his exercise is confined to climbing around 
 the Newark factory of the Central Stamping Company, where 
 he bosses an army of 900 men. During his six years' service 
 in the 23d Regiment of the New York National Guard he saw 
 service on strike duty in Buffalo and Brooklyn. But here is 
 his autobiography : 
 
 " Newark, N. J., December 20, 1906. 
 " Dear Mike : 
 
 " The Committee's requirement that we write only the ' news 
 that's fit to print,' may shorten materially some of the letters 
 that are sent you. I don't say that this applies to my case. 
 Since leaving Princeton, I've been busy most of the time hus- 
 tling for a living. Worked with a big electrical concern for five 
 years, took the experience I had picked up into street railroad- 
 ing, first in Washington and then in England, where I was in 
 charge of the Wolverhampton car barns a year, until the 
 property was turned over to the city. Then got into the manu- 
 facture of cooking utensils as clerk, assistant superintendent, 
 

 
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 and now as superintendent over nine hundred men. For some 
 years things didn't seem to come my way, but then the tide 
 turned some four years ago, mostly by my sticking to what 
 looked like a poor job. Then I married and have my own 
 home. Happy and contented. 
 
 " I even expect soon to answer some of your duns with real 
 money instead of promises. Quit acquiring thermometers by 
 unauthorized methods soon after I left college. This is not 
 evidence of reform — I had secured enough [meaning ther- 
 mometers. — Eds.] to last the rest of this life, and couldn't find 
 any high-temperature ones. 
 
 " Really, Mike, I haven't done anything worth writing about, 
 except picking my wife, and I couldn't equal that performance 
 again. " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " Waleie Airman." 
 
 3 
 
 ALONZO A. ALTER r 
 
 Journalist. Office, Pittsburg Press, Pittsburg, Pa. Address, Par- 
 nassus, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 A LTER was very hard to find ; but the Committee got him at 
 j^Jl last; and his letter is so frank and honest that we felt 
 amply repaid for our long chase. 
 
 " Pittsburg, Pa., January 25, 1907. 
 " Dear Prentice : 
 
 " If I owe an explanation to anybody, I owe it to our Class 
 Committee. The fact is that I am incurably careless and lazy 
 about everything except my own work. I could not add very 
 much to the short biography I sent you. Since leaving college, 
 with the exception of a year's teaching, I have worked at news- 
 paper work either as reporter or editor. Most of my work on 
 this paper has been as telegraph editor. I was with the Times 
 
24 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 the longest, in different positions. I am not married and there 
 is little about my personal life that would interest anyone. 
 
 " I am very proud of the class, especially of the success of 
 some of its members. You must not blame me if I felt a little 
 bit like an intruder — as not entitled to full membership. Your 
 letter, however, puts all doubts about that to rest. What 
 hurts me is that you should think I was annoyed or did not 
 appreciate my class. That is the reason that I have written 
 pretty plainly how I feel about the matter. I feel so bad that, 
 as a penance, I may go and get my picture taken. I am not 
 quite sure about the outcome of this resolution, however. 
 
 " I wish some one would send me an account of my share of 
 class expenses. I will reply as promptly as I do to your letter. 
 Part of my difficulty has been that college letters have always 
 been sent to my home, and for a good deal of the time, while 
 working at night, I stayed in Pittsburg. I am not trying to 
 excuse all my carelessness. 
 
 " Very sincerely, 
 
 " A. A. Alter." 
 
 BENJAMIN AMES V 
 
 Manufacturing. Business Address, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Resi- 
 dence, Lakehome, Mount Vernon, Ohio. 
 
 Married Isabel Cooper Kirk, Mount Vernon, October 25, 1896. 
 Children, Kirk Delano, b. July 22, 1898. Elizabeth Delano, 
 b. Feb. 22, 1900. Benjamin II., b. June 22, 1903. Delano, 
 b. May 28, 1906. 
 
 BEN says he is a banker, manufacturer and farmer. He is 
 secretary and treasurer of the Chillingsworth Foundry 
 and Machine Company of Mount Vernon, Ohio ; but does not 
 enlighten us as to the banking and farming. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 25 
 
 / 
 
 JAMES PURVIANCE ATKINSON, M.S. 1 
 
 Chemist. Business Address, Department of Health, East l6th 
 Street, New York City. Residence, Fox Lane, Flushing, L. I. 
 
 Married Maria Henrietta Normand-Smith, New York City, June 1, 
 1899. Children, Maria Elena, b. January 5, 1901. Eliza Pur- 
 viance, b. August 23, 1902. 
 
 POP is a chemist. " Chemistry and vacation," he claims as 
 his hobbies. The former he labors with in New York, and 
 the latter he enjoys at Keene v'alley in the Adirondacks. He 
 was an assistant in the Chemical Laboratory at Princeton from 
 1892 to 1897, earning his degree as Master of Science in 1896- 
 Entering the service of the Health Department of New York 
 City in 1897 as assistant chemist, he is now The Chemist of the 
 department. Ed. Duffield, Doc Bailey and others who have in 
 years past succeeded in tracking Pop through the mysteries of 
 the Department Laboratory, say that he spends most of his time 
 experimenting with antitoxin on rabbits, guinea pigs and horses. 
 At any rate, Pop is an authority in his chosen field, and has 
 published important contributions to science, as reference to 
 his list in the Hot Air Furnace at the end of this book shows. 
 He says he takes no part in politics, always voting the best 
 ticket. His military service has been confined to six years' drill 
 in the 7th Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and Pop in the padded full- 
 dress uniform of the 7th was a glad sight. It is alleged that 
 he was wounded once, climbing a barbed wire fence during a 
 field-day skirmish. He reports that he has never travelled 
 " more than one day's journey from New York City," although 
 he belongs to the American Chemical Society, the Society of 
 Chemical Industry, the Society of Physiological Chemists, and 
 the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine. He takes 
 no exercise, and his only recreation is gardening " when I get 
 time." As for a letter to the class, he says : " I am quite at sea. 
 One year is very much like the previous and your very com- 
 
26 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 prehensive blank covers everything, it seems to me. However 
 I will try to make it as interesting as possible if I write it. 
 Otherwise I shall let you make it up." Owing to the fact that 
 shortly after making this statement, Pop was stricken with 
 appendicitis and has had a very slow recovery from the opera- 
 tion then performed on him, the letter has not materialised ; 
 hence the editors have " made it up." Pop addressed the 
 Chemical Society of Princeton on April 1-i, 1905, on the Milk 
 Supply of New York City. 
 
 PAUL CLARK AYLESWORTH 
 
 Lawyer. Address, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Married Florence E. Wygant, Dennison, Iowa, June 7, 1897- 
 Children, Beulah, b. Oct. 5, 1898. Evelyn, b. Sept. 29, 1900. 
 
 AYLESWORTH has not responded to our efforts ; and 
 we can only state that he studied law and for several 
 years practiced in Council Bluffs, la. He then went to Seattle, 
 Wash. A year ago last autumn he moved to Los Angeles, Cal., 
 where he was employed in the interests of Jim Westervelt's 
 Columbian Life Insurance Co. He is now in the East. 
 
 FREDERICK RANDOLPH BAILEY, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Address, 1165 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth N. J. 
 Married Minnie Josephine Wooden, Brooklyn, N. Y., December 17, 
 
 1896. Children. Ruth Kendall, b. January 11, 1898. 
 
 Frederick Randolph, Jr., November 8, 1902. 
 
 DOC Bailey entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 Columbia University, immediately after graduation, and 
 in 1895 received the degree that at length entitled him to his 
 nickname. He has been retained on the staff of the P. & S. 
 as a lecturer on Histology, and this work, with the extensive 
 
J. P. Atkinson 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 27 
 
 practice in Elizabeth which is his, has kept him closely down 
 to business. His textbook on histology, published in 1904, went 
 into a second edition two years later. We suppose Doc makes 
 his classes at the P. & S. buy the book ; and we call the atten- 
 tion of Redney Hart, Joe Huston and other reformers to this 
 obvious case of graft. Doc says his classes don't dare " egg " 
 him when he lectures and they wouldn't cheer under any cir- 
 cumstances. We are led to infer therefore that the Doctor is 
 suffered. He has travelled in Europe; is a Republican School 
 Commissioner at Elizabeth ; and belongs to the Elizabeth Town 
 and Country Club, the Elizabeth Y. M. C. A., the Princeton 
 Club of N. Y. (juxtaposition here accidental — Eds.), the 
 American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, the 
 N. Y. Pathological Society, the Alumni Association of the 
 P. & S., the N. J. Medical Society, the Union County Medical 
 Society, and the Clinical Society of Elizabeth General Hospital. 
 The Doctor has not had time to send us a letter fit for publi- 
 cation. 
 
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 ARTHUR DENTON BALL 
 
 Residence, 140 Clinton Avenue, Newark, N. J. Married . 
 
 BALL has not responded to our requests for biographical 
 data. After graduation he went to Newark, where he 
 practiced his profession as civil engineer for a short period. 
 Within a year or so he became interested with a number of 
 local financial men in the consolidation of some of the Newark 
 gas companies, and was very active in that work. He was 
 reported to have made a considerable sum of money through 
 the success of this consolidation, and in addition became rec- 
 ognized as a promoter of financial enterprises. For several 
 years he was, we think, in the employ of the consolidated gas 
 companies. At the time of the formation of the Public Service 
 Corporation the gas companies were purchased by that Cor- 
 
80 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 IMLAY BENET, M.D. 
 
 Physician. Office, 34 Pine Street, New York City. Residence, 
 
 137 West 87th Street, New York City. 
 Married Edith Elizabeth Laidlaw, New York City, November 5, 
 
 1896. Children, none. 
 
 IMLAY studied medicine at the Long Island College Hos- 
 pital, taking his degree in 1895, and has resided in New 
 York ever since, travelling daily for the last ten years from 
 Harlem to the Battery. Golf and automobiles are his exercise 
 and recreation. He has a large volume of souvenir postal 
 cards, postmarked Princeton, sent to him by the " Record " 
 Committee. This volume is for sale cheap, or he will exchange 
 it for any useful article. He came in out of the wet just before 
 the C. 0. D. telegrams began to arrive. 
 
 ROBINSON POTTER DUNN BENNETT, A.M. 
 
 Minister. Residence, 7013 Greene Street, Germantown, Pa. 
 Married Lucy Glover Collins, Washington, D. C, November 6, 
 
 1895. Children, Mary Adelia, b. March 19, 1897. Elbert 
 
 Lansing, b. July 1. 1899- 
 
 BOB, of " Benediction " fame, entered the Seminary and was 
 duly graduated in 1895, receiving at the same time in 
 cursu the degree of A. M. from the University. His first 
 charge was at Lyons Farms, N. J., where he remained until 
 1900. In that year he was called to the pastorate of the Sum- 
 mit Church, Germantown, Pa., where he is still. (N. B., adverb, 
 not adjective). Answering our question as to politics — whether 
 he has worked for the good of party, or worked the party for 
 his good, he says: "I live in Philadelphia — draw your own 
 conclusions." We have drawn them; and with deep regret. 
 Bob stumped for McKinlev in 1896 and asks us to believe 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 31 
 
 that the only reason he was suffered and not egged was because 
 eggs were high. He has done a lot of public speaking for 
 the Junior C. E. movement, and though he calls himself a 
 " sprig of a pastor " is one of the most popular young preach- 
 ers in and around Philadelphia. He has published several 
 sermons and a tract on the " Eldership," all listed in '92's Hot 
 Air Furnace. He belongs to the Union League (Clerical Roll) 
 and to the Adelphoi of Philadelphia. His exercise is limited 
 to " pulpit-pounding, jaw-motions, and walking," with a little 
 fishing and boating thrown in. 
 
 "7013 Greene St., Germantown, Sept. 25, '06. 
 " Dear Brethren : — 
 
 " I am sitting in my study looking out upon the green 
 grass and the princely dwellings of fair Germantown, and 
 wondering what sort of a piece of Homiletics my patient flock 
 are going to have dealt out to them next Sabbath by their 
 sprig of a Pastor. And amid all the externals of ecclesiasti- 
 cism, and the indications of a ministerial office that surround 
 me, amid the odor of sanctity, more or less pronounced, that 
 steals from the piles of sermons upon the shelf above me, I 
 laugh to myself, as I think back over the years and see the 
 apparent incongruity between the ' Rev.' gentleman to whom 
 the trustful congregation looks up, and the be-tighted, be- 
 spangled, be-daubcd, * Pocahontas ' of college days. 
 
 " But it is a gradual evolution. Five years of enlightening 
 a most loyal and patient country flock, on the intricacies of the 
 Augustinian Theology, and then six more years of an attempt 
 to apply that same theology to a suburban congregation of 
 Philadelphians. 
 
 " It has been delightful, but often strenuous, yet the finished 
 product is no less of a boy, and yet more of a preacher — I 
 hope. During these years my life has been made worth while 
 through the joys and disciplines of married life. The sweetest 
 
32 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 and best of women, toiling with me, even while fighting ill 
 health, is the mother of two dear children, a girl and a boy. 
 " The horseplay and the ' stunts ' of college days have kept 
 me still verdant and served to open doors to human hearts. 
 The routine of a minister's life is uninteresting to the world 
 at large. But it is full enough of zest and of dramatic inci- 
 dent, both in melodrama and comedy, to rob life of ennui. I 
 have been stump speaker, lecturer, travelling secretary, author, 
 stage manager, comedian, child's nurse, physician, sexton, ag- 
 riculturalist, trained nurse, etc., etc., ad lib; have been a dele- 
 gate to General Assembly, Moderator of Presbyteries and 
 indulged in other doubtful ecclesiastical prerogatives. My 
 Church and its work are rapidly growing, and ere long I shall 
 be the senior pastor, in point of time, in Germantown. I own 
 neither a steam yacht nor an ' auto ' — ' and yet I was once 
 a poor boy." I had no money in the Philadelphia Real Estate 
 Trust Co., — nor anywhere else. But I weary you. Best wishes 
 to all the Glorious Class. " R. P. D. Bennett." 
 
 MARTIN VOORHEES BERGEN, JR., A.M. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 1503 Land Title Building. Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Residence, 1631 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 MIKE BERGEN studied law privately and was admitted 
 to the New Jersey bar in 1895 as an attorney, and as 
 a counsellor in 1898. He resided first in Camden, N. J., but 
 since 1901, when he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, has 
 made his headquarters in Philadelphia. He is a Republican, 
 but has done little political work and has held no offices. His 
 military service has been confined to watching, as an interested 
 spectator, the parades on Broad Street. Squash, tennis, golf, 
 and baseball are his recreations. He frequently served on the 
 football coaching staff at Princeton, and has been eminently 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 33 
 
 successful in his education of the De Lancey School football 
 teams at Philadelphia. His name is found on the roll of mem- 
 bers at the Philadelphia University and Racquet Clubs, the 
 Princeton Club of Philadelphia, the Camden County Country 
 Club, the Camden Republican Club, and the Nassau Club of 
 Princeton. For several years he has been one of the editors 
 of The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania District Re- 
 ports. 
 
 " Philadelphia, February 14, 1907. 
 " Since our decennial my life has spun on in much the same 
 courses as before then. I have worked fairly hard and enjoyed 
 life pretty well, am unmarried and have no immediate prospects 
 of getting so. I am throwing more and more energy into 
 every path of my life from work to play, and although no gold 
 mines or wreaths of laurel blossoms have opened to me or 
 twined my brow, yet I think I have held my own with my con- 
 temporaries, and that my results are not entirely negative. Our 
 old college friendships ever become choicer and better to me 
 and I continually meet the members of the now old class with 
 ever-increasing pleasure, and find that the only change I can 
 discover in myself is the steadily growing satisfaction which is 
 given me from the fact of being a Princeton man. In other 
 words my report of myself is nothing other than of progress. 
 
 " Yours, 
 
 " Martin V. Bergen, Jr." 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM RUFUS BESSON, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 1 Newark Street, Hoboken, N. J. 
 Residence, 800 Hudson Street, Hobokerr, N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 LITTLE BESS studied at the New York Law School and 
 received his degree in June, 1894, since when he has been 
 practising law in Hoboken, as a partner of the firm of Lewis, 
 Besson & Stevens. As a Democrat he " also ran " for the 
 
34 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 New Jersey State Assembly in 1902, but was elected in 1903 
 and 1904 from Hudson County, making many speeches amid 
 " much cheers " and doing his best for the good of the party. 
 He travelled in 1895 through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 
 France, and England, and is a member of the Cottage and 
 Nassau Clubs, Princeton, the Princeton Club of New York, 
 and the German Club of Hoboken. He is an enthusiastic golfer. 
 Here is his modest letter to the class : 
 
 " Hoboken, N. J., Oct, 27, 1906. 
 " My Dear Secretary : 
 
 " Since graduation I have been practising law in Hoboken, 
 N. J., having formed a partnership with Edwin A. S. Lewis, 
 '91, and Richard Stevens. Edwin Lewis I am sure most of 
 our class will remember. He was my lifelong friend and in 
 his death on September 5, 1906, I suffered an immeasurable 
 loss. With the exception of two terms in the New Jersey 
 Legislature my life has been along the quiet road of a gen- 
 eral practitioner of the law, but it has always been sweetly 
 flavored with the friendships formed at Princeton. I am look- 
 ing forward to our reunion in June, 1907. As ever, 
 
 " J. W. Rufus Besson." 
 
 LEONIDAS HUSTON BESSON, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 In Business. Address, 5 Nassau Street, New York City. Residence, 
 800 Hudson Street, Hoboken, N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 BIG BESS also entered the N. Y. Law School and took his 
 degree there in June, 1894. In 1895 he travelled on the 
 Continent and in 1906 visited Mexico and Canada. For the 
 last eleven years he has been connected with the St. Joseph 
 Lead Company. He belongs to the Cottage and Nassau Clubs 
 of Princeton, the Princeton Club of New York, the Strollers 
 Club, and the German Club of Hoboken. 
 

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BIOGRAPHIES 35 
 
 FREDERICK GREGORY BETTS, A.M. 
 
 Lawyer and coal business. Address, Clearfield, Pa. 
 
 Married Bessie Bridge, Clearfield, Pa., November 9, 1897- Chil- 
 dren, Margaret Catharine, b. March 19, 1899- Frederick 
 Gregory, Jr., b. January 15, 1902. William Wilson, b. May 
 11, 1903. 
 
 ZWEI BIER is an attorney-at-law and General Manager 
 of the Madeira Hill Coal Mining Company. He studied 
 at no educational institution after leaving college, save the 
 world, and received no degrees, though he has experienced them 
 all, he says, from frost to torrid. He has not contributed to 
 literature, but has occasionally written letters and notes of a 
 promisory character. " I have delivered speeches on political 
 and religious subjects and the audiences did as well as could 
 be expected. Have been cheered, never egged; but there has 
 been intense suffering." Answering question 9 on politics he 
 says " I was a candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Rep- 
 resentatives in 1896, but since then have worked for the good 
 of the party — the Democratic." After one year in the State 
 militia and service at one State encampment, Betts procured 
 an honorable discharge. Back to Clearfield, for him. 
 
 As for travelling, he confesses he has never visited Missouri, 
 but says he has " been from Maine to Florida, have seen Chi- 
 cago and Buffalo, have had a glimpse of New York and can 
 find my way about Philadelphia." He is lucky. A Free 
 Mason, and a director in a good strong safe bank at Clearfield, 
 which is a county seat, he is trusted with his own money. The 
 only club he belongs to is composed of five members, " my wife, 
 three children, and myself. I was elected president, but re- 
 signed in favor of my wife. It is hoped the membership will 
 grow." Betts says his chief exercise is walking and thinking, 
 though he has been known to take a day off to hunt or fish ; 
 
36 PRINCETON NINKTY-'DVO 
 
 but he is generally too busy to " recreate." Coin collecting is 
 his hobby and the collection is not confined to coins of an- 
 cient date. Zwei says he sees no '&S men frequently; and as 
 the members of the class seem to have been able to keep out of 
 
 tin 1 newspapers he knows no gossip about them. As for the 
 $18,000,000 Capitol which Joe Huston designed for the State, 
 
 Zwei philosophically remarks that the Governor says the cor- 
 porations paid for it, so it didn't cost him (Zwei) anything. 
 He sends no letter; which will be the more regretted if we 
 recollect the crreat oration he delivered at our decennial dinner. 
 
 GEORGE WHITEFIELD BETTS, JR., A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, ill Broadway, New York City. 
 
 Residence, Englewood, N. J, 
 Married Mary Howard Hall, Troy. N. Y.. November 28, 1908. 
 
 Children, none. 
 
 COLONEL BETTS studied electrical engineering at Prince- 
 ton for a year after graduation, ami then entering the 
 New York Law School, took his degree in 1SJ)o. As an active 
 
 lawyer he says he has written ** numerous briefs teeming with le- 
 gal learning, many o\' which proved convincing arguments." As 
 a member of the Executive Committee of Englewood, N. J., he 
 
 lias taken active interest in New dersey Republican polities, 
 lie is an enthusiast ie traveller, having erossed the Atlantic live 
 times, four ot' thorn since graduation. Perhaps this is how he 
 eomos to be a " Proctor in Admiralty," as we learn he is from 
 his letter head. In September, 1902, he was one o\' the three 
 American delegates to the International Marine Congress at 
 Hamburg, Germany. He has also explored Canada and Brit- 
 ish Columbia, climbing some ot' the Canadian Hookies and 
 Selkirks. not to mention summer expeditions to the Yellowstone, 
 
 Western Idaho, California, and Colorado, lie belongs to the 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 37 
 
 University Club, the Lawyers' Club, and the Princeton Club 
 of N. Y. City, the Englewood Golf Club, and the Englewood 
 Field Club. He says he sees Turk Davis once in a while, 
 " usually when the latter is passing on his way to Atlantic City, 
 Bar Harbor, Asheville, or some other equally busy place," 
 also Shep Homans, Shellabarger, and Clarence McWilliams, 
 who " is becoming one of the leading choppers in the surgical 
 line," but who has not succeeded as yet, so far as we know, in 
 cutting his way permanently into any female heart. The Col- 
 onel writes thus genially: 
 
 " New York, October 20, 1906. 
 " '92 Memorial Committee, 
 
 " Most Honored Gentlemen: — Although I appear to be on 
 your Committee so far as the raising of funds is concerned, I 
 am thankful to say that I do not appear to be on it so far 
 as the investigation of the past and present of our distinguished 
 classmates is concerned, whose records, I fear, would not bear 
 too close examination. For instance, when I was in Philadelphia 
 this week I was informed that the billion dollar Pennsylvania 
 State Capitol, which Joe Huston says he designed all alone, was 
 the subject of an official investigation, as well as the solid gold 
 cuspidors inserted therein, and that another party claims to 
 have given Joe all the ideas for this magnificence. 
 
 " So far as I am concerned, I am surprised that anyone should 
 want to know anything about what I have been doing since 
 graduation, for I had supposed that all my acts and accomplish- 
 ments were well known from Maine to California, not to say 
 South Africa, where Whiskers Woods is supposed to be teach- 
 ing the Hottentots how to sing ' Old Nassau.' 
 
 " After graduating in '92 I spent a year under the tutelage 
 of Prof. Brackett in Princeton ; then went to the New York 
 Law School, where I learned all the law in two years. I then 
 went into the office of Convers & Kirlin of New York, in the 
 
38 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 capacity of office boy and managing partner, and after getting 
 things there running smoothly in five years, I decided to form 
 a triple league, and accordingly took as partners L. J. Hunt 
 of Harvard and C. B. Hill of Yale, making a Princeton, Yale, 
 Harvard combination, so as to let no one escape. We have 
 our office on the 20th floor of the Trinity Building, overlooking 
 Trinity Church and the New York Harbor, so as to get the 
 proper inspirations. 
 
 " Mrs. Betts and I live out in Englewood, N. J., where our 
 door is always opened to any '92 man who will give us the 
 pleasure of a visit. 
 
 " Yours fraternally, 
 " George Whitefield Betts, Jr." 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARD BIEDERWOLF, A.M. 
 
 Evangelist. Business Address, 195 State Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Residence, Monticello, Ind. 
 Married Ida Belle Casard, April 16, 1899- Children, none. 
 
 BID took the seminary course, and then studied two years 
 at Erlangen and Berlin. He then went into evangelistic 
 work, and has become one of the best known and most successful 
 men in the country in that sphere. His earnestness is his chief 
 characteristic, and indeed, is the key to his success. As chap- 
 lain of the 161st Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry he 
 " fought, bled, and died " in Cuba during the Spanish War. 
 He has written the history of the regiment. (See the Hot Air 
 Furnace.) He travelled in Europe in 1897, and in 1898 
 visited the Holy Land and Egypt. He is a socialist. He still 
 exercises on the horizontal bar ; golf, horseback riding, and 
 fishing are his recreations, New Testament Greek his hobby ; 
 and he has a private secretary. Here is Bid's letter: 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 39 
 
 " Monticello, Ind., October 4, 1906. 
 " My Dear Prentice : 
 
 " I wish I knew what to say in response to your request 
 that I say something about myself worth hearing. I can- 
 not say that I have become great, for two reasons: First, 
 because there are some things it is always best to let other 
 people say ; and second, because Princeton theology will 
 not stand for a man telling a lie. I met a fellow the other day 
 who said he could not sleep with a newspaper in his room 
 because the reports kept him awake. I have suffered some little 
 from insomnia myself but not for a cause like that; the chief 
 reason being the sweet dreams of those dear old days back at 
 Princeton when I broke down a vigorous constitution trying 
 to set a good example for the rest of you fellows. 
 
 " I have been preaching hard and straight ever since I've been 
 at it. One of the papers said this morning, ' If ever a minister 
 called a spade a spade, Mr. Biederwolf did so last night.' You 
 know more about what he means by a spade than I do, but I 
 took it for granted that he meant I talked straight. If any 
 of the fellows have ever spent any time in a lunatic asylum 
 (as a visitor) they doubtless noticed that every one of the 
 inmates had a hobby. I have mine. It is to hit sin as hard as 
 I can and get men to keep clean. 
 
 " Yours for the best, 
 
 " W. E. Biederwolf." 
 
 HARRY ELMER BIERLY 
 
 Educator. Address, Chattanooga, Tenn. Unmarried. 
 
 BIERLY says he is " single, of course." But the inference 
 that he is a woman-hater is not justified. He is too busy to 
 get married. He is up to his neck in educational work in the 
 South; for besides being Professor of Philosophy at Grant 
 
40 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 University, and Lecturer on Neurology and Psychiatry at Chat- 
 tanooga Medical College, he is editor and publisher of the 
 Southern Educational Review, Managing Editor of the South- 
 ern Education Series, and Director of Child Study Department 
 
 of the Southern Education Association — and it would be a 
 mighty strong woman who could heat that combination of inter- 
 ests. Bierly has studied at Harvard, Chicago, Boston, and 
 Clark Universities, and was Fellow-eleet of Psychology at 
 Clark, lie has been successively Professor of Science in Belle- 
 vue College. Wyo., Superintendent of Schools in Pennsylvania, 
 Professor of Philosophy in Virginia College, and Professor of 
 Biology in Florida State College, so that his travels through 
 this country have been varied and wide. The only '9°. fellows 
 he sees " are those who have successfully pulled the wires in 
 getting back to old Princeton ami are now the wells of knowl- 
 edge for the reform as professed by President Wilson, verifying 
 the statement made by President Patton one day in Ethics that 
 the elass of *92 was either the brightest or dullest class he had 
 ever seen." The editors of this Record are three of the M wells " 
 alluded to. Bierly has published a number of articles and ad- 
 dresses on educational subjects, a monograph on the Develop- 
 ment of the Conception of God, and a pamphlet on the 
 Comparative Development of the Child. (See the Hot Air 
 Furnace.) Politically he is a Democrat. 
 
-HRDERWOLF 
 
 W. L. Bradley 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 41 
 
 CASSIUS EDWIN BIXLER, A.M. 
 
 Missionary. Address, Estancia, Sergipe, Brazil. Residence (until 
 July, 1907), 134 West Commerce Street, Bridgeton, N. J. 
 
 Married Florence Beatty Elwell, Bridgeton, N. J., July 19, 1899- 
 Children, Atilia Fithian, b. May 21, 1900. Helen Hench, 
 b. May 20, 1902. Paul Edwin, b. October 8, 1903. Henry 
 Elwell, b. April 7, 1005. 
 
 AFTER a year at Chicago and two in the Princeton Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Bixler was graduated from the latter 
 institution in 1895, obtaining his A.M. degree from the Uni- 
 versity at the same time. Then spending a year at Armstrong, 
 Iowa, he went to Brazil as a missionary, laboring six years at 
 Larangeiras, Sergipe, and for three and a half at Estancia. 
 From September, 1899, until August, 1906, he did not see a 
 classmate, which is in a way a record. As a busy missionary he 
 has no time for recreation, his exercise being horse- or mule- 
 back riding into the interior. He was the director of an 
 " Eschola Americana " at Larangeiras, " internato e externato 
 para ambos os sexos " offering a " Curso Primario," a " Curso 
 Intermediario " and a " Curso Secundario " — three strikes and 
 out. Here is his letter. 
 
 " 134 Commerce St., Bridgeton, N. J., Dec. 7, 1906. 
 " Dear Mr. Secretary : 
 
 " My doings since leaving Old Nassau can be told in a 
 very few words. The first three years were spent in the 
 Theological Seminary, — '92-'93 in the Chicago Theological, 
 and '93-'95 in Princeton. After leaving Princeton in '95, 
 I went to Iowa, where I served as pastor of the Presby- 
 terian Church of Armstrong for one year, from July, 1895 
 to July, 1896. During that year I was appointed by the 
 Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for service in Brazil, 
 
42 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 S. A., whither I sailed in October, 1896. I left New York 
 October 20th, reaching Bahia November 6th, and Larangeiras, 
 in the State of Sergipe, November 19th. Here I remained in 
 all about six years. During this time, however, in 1899, I re- 
 turned to the States for my bride. I was married to Miss 
 Florence Beatty Elwell of Bridgeton, N. J., July 19, 1899, 
 Havens, '92, acting as best man and W. L. Mudge, '92, as 
 one of the ushers. Returning to Brazil in October of that 
 year, I remained three years more in Larangeiras. In October, 
 1902, I moved with my family to the city of Estancia, in 
 the same State, where we labored for three and a half years 
 until our return to the States in June last. 
 
 " Estancia is a city of about 10,000 inhabitants situated 
 about fifteen miles inland on the River Piauhy at the head of tide 
 water. It is built on high ground and is very healthful. I 
 spend about half my time in Estancia, where we were the pioneers 
 in regular missionary work, and though a most fanatical Ro- 
 man Catholic city, we have to-day an organized church. The 
 other six months of each year I spend in evangelistic work, 
 preaching in nearly all the towns in my district. In a few I 
 have been unable up to the present to secure house, hall, or 
 hovel, in winch to hold a service. In such places at the start, 
 work has to be individual, conversational, in stores, on the street, 
 or in private houses, as I may be able to secure a hearing. 
 
 " If any member of the glorious class should desire a little 
 outing trip for his health, I should be only too glad to take 
 him over my parish, muleback, a short ride of about 600 miles, 
 introducing him to Brazilian hospitality, which is generous, and 
 Brazilian fare, which consists regularly of meat and farinha, 
 and, less frequently, beans and rice. 
 
 " An evangelistic trip over my whole field occupies about ten 
 weeks' time. We have groups of believers in various places 
 and many interested persons not yet members of the church. 
 I cover my whole field about twice a year and the more important 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 43 
 
 places I visit three or four times. My audiences vary any- 
 where from half a dozen to 250. 
 
 " The old saying, ' Variety is the spice of life,' is untrue, even 
 in missionary work. This variety is served up to us sometimes 
 in hootings, sometimes in stonings, frequently in such pet terms 
 as Devil, Satan, Antichrist, pe do boi (cloven-footed, literally, 
 oxfooted), etc., and occasionally in armed mobs, organized and 
 led by a priest or some fanatical emissary of his. 
 
 " We reached the United States on our furlough, July 3d, 
 and expect to sail again for our field of labor in Estancia, 
 Sergipe, Brazil, about July 5th, 1907. 
 
 " Yours in the bonds of '92, 
 
 " C. E. Bixler." 
 
 LOUIS G. BORGMEYER, M.D, 
 
 WE do not know where Borgmeyer is. He was connected 
 with the Eye and Ear Hospital at Newark, and his 
 permanent address used to be Rahway, N. J. We have not 
 succeeded in finding him. 
 
 WILLIAM LITTLE BRADLEY, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Office and residence, 55 West 75th Street, New York 
 City. Unmarried. 
 
 BRADLEY got his medical training at Columbia (P. & S.), 
 receiving his degree in 1895, and has made a specialty of 
 gynecology, in which subject he was Assistant Instructor at 
 Columbia for five years. He is now Attending Gynecologist to 
 Vanderbilt Clinic and General Memorial Hospital, and is also 
 Physician and Surgeon to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum in New 
 York City. Walking and golf are his exercise, and dancing and 
 the theatre his chief recreations. He belongs to the Princeton 
 
44 PRINi ETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 and Knickerbocker Clubs, the N. Y. State and County Medical 
 Societies, the Riverside Practitioners' Society and the Physi- 
 cians' Mutual Aid Association. Naturally his hobby is 
 medicine — especially from the gynecological and obstetrical 
 standpoints. He is a good deal of a philosopher, as his letter 
 plainly shows : 
 
 " Yv\ i mv Cl assmavfs : 
 
 " Having decided during my Senior year at Princeton to 
 
 follow Medicine and Surgery as a means ot' livelihood. 
 I began to make preparations for same immediately after 
 graduation. Faltering the College ot' Physicians and Sur- 
 geons in October, 189%, 1 took up the many duties — both 
 pleasant and onerous — required of all men studying there, and 
 was graduated in dune. 1895. I then served as a regular interne 
 in two ot' the largest New York hospitals, securing a diploma 
 in each institution. Life here, from both practical and theoret- 
 ical standpoints, was decidedly different from that experienced 
 in the outer world. Although wearisome at times, it was most 
 interesting in every way. The day I left my last hospital 
 seemed to be the most dreary and lonesome in my whole life. 
 The absolute seriousness ot' life and its many vexatious prob- 
 lems were then fully realized. Being rather fatigued. I took 
 a short vacation, preparatory to finding a location for start- 
 ing in the practice ot' professional work. 
 
 •' Finally decided to settle here in West 75th Street, in Oc- 
 tober, 1897, a place that I have ever since found to be most pleas- 
 ant in every respect. There are many. I'huiji ^uc<<c> coming to 
 all who think it a sinecure to rapidly gain a lucrative income 
 from professional work in a large city like New York. The 
 necessary large expense of living is the chief factor in its pre- 
 vention. One's path is certainly not thickly strewn with rose- at 
 any time. Patience and perseverance have to occupy very promi- 
 nent places in the ladder of virtues. Disappointments are many 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 45 
 
 at quite frequent intervals. There are still quite a number of 
 visible rays of sunshine and hope that help to cheer you on 
 your so-called weary road. Personally I can't say that I have 
 great reason to complain. The benefits derived from hard 
 work have ever been in evidence. 
 
 " Never having thus far entered the matrimonial field, I sup- 
 pose that I am missing very much that goes to make life worth 
 living. I trust that such will not always be the case, as I 
 well recognize the advantages to be obtained by such a pro- 
 cedure. No sane man can truthfully deny that a happy mar- 
 riage is the grandest thing on earth. Life is to me more and 
 more complex as the years pass by. It is this complexity, how- 
 ever, that makes it decidedly interesting. The meeting and 
 studying of people of all classes and conditions is the source 
 of the greatest pleasure and profit. Life is indeed a highly 
 interesting problem in all of its aspects. No person can do 
 better than follow the good old Golden Rule. In conclusion, 
 let me say that I am sure I would not be as happy and contented 
 as at present had my lot been cast in other places than those of 
 dear old Princeton. 
 
 " Very sincerely, 
 
 " William L. Bradley. 
 " 55 West 75th Street, New York City." 
 
 JOHN MENIFEE BRENNAN, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 2 Bank Row, Paris, Ky. Residence, 
 
 509 Pleasant Street, Paris, Ky. 
 Married Fannie May Hamilton, Mt. Sterling, Ky., February 6, 
 
 1907. Children, none. 
 
 HORSES studied at the N. Y. Law School, obtaining 
 therefrom the degree of LL. B., and from Princeton 
 the degree of A. M. Although a prominent lawyer in the great 
 
46 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 metropolis of Paris (Ky.), he has never held office nor been a 
 candidate; but he has managed several campaigns and presided 
 over county and congressional district conventions of the Re- 
 publican party. He has travelled through the Northwest and 
 Canada, and spent two years in Europe, part of the time com- 
 paring Paris with Paris. He is a Mason, an Elk, and a member 
 of the Jolly Fellows. Like a true Kentuckian, his recreation is 
 horseback riding, and his hobby the fair sex — but he laments 
 that although he lives on Pleasant Street and his latch string 
 is always out it is never pulled by a '92 man. The diversity of 
 his interests is clearly revealed in his letter. Anyone would 
 feel at home with such a well-rounded host — even if he does date 
 his letter four years back. 
 
 " Paris, Kentucky, Oct. 10, 1902. 
 " Dear Mike : 
 
 " Am glad to hear you are engaged to be married. I 
 know she is a lucky girl. I was engaged once myself but 
 it didn't take. I am still trying, and hope some day to win 
 a wife. When I hear of the different members of '92 who have 
 married I wonder why it is that I can't. I have nothing exciting 
 about myself to write. I am an officer in the church and own 
 race horses, am a director in a fair association, and in a bank, 
 so you see my electives are not specialized, and are not all snaps. 
 Am trying to buy a farm and have an old-fashioned Kentucky 
 home, where any of the old class will always find a cordial wel- 
 come and a welcome cordial. 
 
 " Yours, 
 
 " John M. Brennan." 
 
 [Since the above was written the farm has been bought and 
 its owner is now head over heels in debt, of course ; but the latch- 
 string is still out and the old house is being fitted up for the 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 47 
 
 entertainment of any '92 man who drops into old Kentucky. 
 —Eds.] 
 
 \hater still. Evidently John's plight was not so hopeless as 
 his letter would indicate, for just as this volume goes to press 
 there arrives the announcement of his marriage. Another 
 happy Kentucky Colonel! — Eds.] 
 
 JAMES CHESTER BREWSTER, A.M 
 
 Coke and coal business. Business Address, 230 Avenue C, New 
 York City. Residence, 53 New England Avenue, Summit, 
 N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 IN spite of the hard winter the Green Grass is still growing. 
 He is single, and discreetly silent as to his hopes or other- 
 wise. His letter is a modest record of good hard work without 
 much play. For his vacation Jimmy goes to Maine and New 
 Hampshire. Here is what he says: 
 
 " 230 Avenue C, New York, Oct. 17, 1906. 
 " My Dear Kelly : 
 
 " I must beg your pardon for delay in writing, but when 
 your circular came I laid it aside to consider what I had done 
 worth recording. But with all my efforts I cannot find any- 
 thing. Since leaving college I have been living quietly in the 
 suburban city of Summit, N. J. 
 
 " The first year after leaving college I taught in a private 
 school in that town, but the next year got a job with the Con- 
 solidated Gas Co. of N. Y. With this company I held various 
 positions until I was appointed Manager of the National Coke 
 & Coal Co., which is an offshoot of the Consolidated. Here I 
 have been located for several years past, in this rather out-of- 
 the-way corner of the city, ' far from the madding crowd.' 
 I find the job on the whole a pleasant one, though when my 
 
48 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Irishmen get drunk or go on strike it is not entirely a cinch. 
 I haven't got married nor grown rich nor famous, but have had 
 uniform good health, and, take it altogether, have enjoyed life 
 pretty well. Of course I have had to keep close to New York, 
 and so have been unable to travel except so much as I could do 
 in week-end trips, or in my annual vacation of two weeks or so. 
 However, I think I have utilized these opportunities pretty 
 well, and seen a good deal of the Northeastern part of the 
 country. 
 
 " Although there are a good many good Princetonians in 
 Summit, I regret there are so few chances to meet '92 men. But 
 I hope that next June there will be a good lot of us back in 
 Princeton to march to the game and to sing ' Old Nassau.' 
 
 " So here's to all the old friends. 
 " Sincerely, 
 
 " James C. Brewster." 
 
 ERIC G. BROTHERLIN 
 
 WE have not been able to locate Brotherlin. His address 
 used to be 1514 Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa. There 
 is an impression among some of the class that he is dead ; but 
 as this lacks verification we leave him here hoping that he may 
 yet turn up. 
 
 ARTHUR G. BROWN 
 
 Chemist. Business Address, Roosevelt, N. J. Residence, Wood- 
 bridge, N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 FARMER BROWN tells us very little about himself, but 
 from his answers we secure the following: he is a Repub- 
 lican ; he is the chemist for the U. S. Metal Refining Company, 
 where he has been three years ; previous to that he was three 
 months with the American Smelting and Refining Company, 
 
J. M. Brennan 
 
 J. C. Brewster 
 
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 into whose employ he had gone from Ledoux & Co., N. Y. 
 City. He belongs to the Woodbridge Athletic Club, the Wood- 
 bridge Bowling Club and the Woodbridge Rifle and Gun Club. 
 Swimming, skating, hunting, tennis, bowling, billiards, pool, 
 etc., are all included in his exercise and recreation answer. He 
 is also one of the most regular attendants at the '92 Dutch 
 Company Meetings, thereby setting many of us a good example. 
 
 WILLIAM S. BROWN , 
 
 WE know nothing about Senior Brown. His address used 
 to be 62 White Street, N. Y. City. But we have not 
 found him there — nor anywhere else. 
 
 GEORGE WILLIAM BURLEIGH 
 
 " Sixty per cent. Business; forty per cent Law." Business Address, 
 52 Wall Street, New York City. Residence, 42 West 9th 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 Married Isis Yturbide Potter Stockton, Trenton, N. J., November 
 21, 1894. Children, none. 
 
 THE DUKE studied law at the N. Y. Law School, and was 
 admitted to the bar three months before his class 
 graduated ; hence, not completing his course, he did not receive 
 his degree. He has taken active part in New York municipal 
 politics, as a member of the Committee of Organization of the 
 Citizens' Union, delivering several speeches in the mayoralty 
 campaigns of Low and McClellan. He has held no office, but 
 has worked persistently for the good of the city. In national 
 politics he is a Republican. He claims to be forty per cent, a 
 lawyer and sixty per cent, a business man, and has filled the 
 following positions of trust, honor, and love : Secretary of the 
 Princeton Club of New York and member of its council ; direc- 
 
50 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 tor, secretary, and treasurer of the Harvey Steel Company, the 
 Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, the Princeton Publishing 
 Company, and the Willner Wood Company, being also president 
 of the last ; director of the Mitchell Mining Company ; treasurer 
 of the Cottage Club at Princeton ; chairman of the Finance 
 Committee of the West Side Branch Y. M. C. A. of New York ; 
 first secretary of the Committee of Fifty of Princeton Univer- 
 sity, resigning this arduous position to Big Murray, '93. He 
 belongs to the Cottage and Nassau Clubs of Princeton, the 
 Downtown Association and Princeton Club of N. Y. City, the 
 University Club of Washington, D. C, the West Side Branch 
 of the New York Y. M. C. A., the New York Zoological So- 
 ciety, the American Museum of Natural History, the Camp Fire 
 Club, the Canadian Camp Club and Preserve, and last but not 
 least, the '92 Dutch Company, of which he has long been presi- 
 dent. Summing up, the Duke's activities run along three lines 
 — political reform, Princeton's development, and business. His 
 hobbies are fishing and hunting, and nature study afield and in 
 the New York Zoological Park and the Museum of Natural 
 History. But so busy a man as he is — and there has not been 
 a more prominently active Princetonian in New York these last 
 ten years than he — does not have much time for recreation ; the 
 only exercise he admits is walking to his office and setting-up 
 exercises at home if he cannot chase the elusive golf ball, or 
 hook the wily trout, or handle the tiller of a yacht, and these 
 things he seldom gets a chance to do. The Duke has not sent 
 us a letter. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 51 
 
 ARTHUR W. BUTLER, C.E. 
 
 Banker and Broker. Office, 85 Wall Street, New York City. 
 
 Residence, 30 East 39th Street, New York City. 
 Married Elizabeth Marshall Hoffman, New York City, October 29, 
 
 1903. Children, none. 
 
 THE author of the following letter is the " Bro." in the 
 firm of Geo. P. Butler & Bro., of Wall Street. Among 
 the numerous clubs and societies to which he belongs is the 
 New York Zoological Society, which he explains by saying that 
 farming is his pet hobby and the exercises and recreations he 
 most enjoys are those " incident to country life." He began 
 the New Year by writing this : 
 
 " Your last call for my autobiography reminds me that I 
 have been more or less delinquent in the matter, and therefore 
 craving your forgiveness, I will now attempt to write a brief 
 account of what you are pleased to style my mis-spent life. 
 To go back to the beginning: One week after my graduation 
 from the Alma Mater I followed famous advice and went 
 West to seek my fortune. Not willing to do things by halves, 
 I did not stop until I got as far West as I possibly could — 
 Northwestern Washington. In that remote region I followed 
 the profession for which I had been training all through those 
 four long years of college, namely, that of a C. E. The awful 
 life I led in that far away country, my exciting adventures and 
 my hairbreadth escapes, might well fill a book, but it is not for 
 me to dwell here upon those early events. Although I remained 
 West fully half a year, I did not find that fortune I went in 
 quest of. I thereupon returned East, renounced the calling of 
 a civil engineer and began business life on the bottom-most rung 
 of the ladder, first in an insurance company, and afterwards 
 for five years in the Central Trust Co. In July, 1898, I be- 
 
52 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 came a member of the New York Stock Exchange, forming 
 with my brother, the firm of Geo. P. Butler & Bro., and have ever 
 since conducted with him and other partners a general banking 
 and brokerage business. I remained a bachelor all too long, for 
 not until 1903 did the best event of my life occur — my marriage 
 to Miss Elizabeth Marshall Hoffman of this city. We live 
 during the winter in New York, and the balance of the year at 
 Mt. Kisco, where we own a country place and attempt farming 
 in a moderate way. I see entirely too little of my classmates, 
 and am looking forward with pleasure to the coming reunion." 
 
 COURTLANDT PATTERSON BUTLER, A.M. 
 
 Minister. Residence, 313 Third Street, Lakewood, N. J. 
 Married Maud Valentine, Hackettstown, N. J., November 24, 1897- 
 Children, none. 
 
 AFTER going through the Seminary and taking his A. M. 
 at the University, Butts became in January, 1896, the 
 pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church of Riverton, N. J., 
 where he remained until July, 1900. From October, 1900, to 
 date he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at 
 Lakewood. In politics he is " mostly a Republican, but they 
 have never given me anything." The only active part he has 
 taken in politics, save to vote, was to open a session of the New 
 Jersey Legislature with prayer on one occasion. Ed. Duffield 
 and Little Bess were members at the time, hence Butts' concern 
 for the Legislature. The only military service he has seen is 
 that of " the church militant." No writings of his will be 
 found in the Hot Air Furnace, but he has made more speeches, 
 he says, than it would take to fill many books ; and yet he holds 
 his job. In 1896 he travelled in Great Britain and Ireland 
 and in France and Switzerland. Occasionally he may be seen 
 peacefully riding his wheel around Lakewood, and once in a 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 53 
 
 while he rolls tenpins. His hobbies are " stars and locomo- 
 tives " ; and annually he sees the Hon. Edward D. Duffield — 
 " is not that enough? " 
 
 Butts is another who saved ink and paper by not sending a 
 letter for this record. 
 
 HOWARD CROSBY BUTLER, A.M. 
 
 Teacher. Address, Merwick, Princeton, N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 HOWARD studied at the School of Architecture, Colum- 
 bia University, during 1894-95, and at the American 
 School of Classical Studies at Rome in 1896-97, after which, 
 until 1905, he was Lecturer on Architecture at Princeton — 
 that is, as often as he was in Princeton. For he was in Europe 
 in 1892, 1893, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 
 1905, and 1906, in Asia Minor in 1899-1900, and again in 
 1904-1905, while in 1897, 1898, and 1900 he visited Africa. 
 In 1905 he was made Professor of Art and Archaeology at 
 Princeton. His hobby, as may be suspected, is Ancient Archi- 
 tecture, and if you want to know what exercise and recreation 
 he takes ask of the horse that far and near with dust-clouds 
 strews the air, with Merwick, Princeton, as a starting point. 
 Every afternoon the Master of Merwick sallies forth for a ride, 
 and takes no other exercise. He has lectured on architectural 
 subjects before the Boston Architects' Association, and numer- 
 ous schools and clubs. And he has also lectured, like Prentice, 
 on the Princeton Syrian Expedition results before the allied 
 sections of the Archaeological Institute of America, and before 
 various clubs and schools. These lectures are illustrated by 
 lantern slides. Terms on application. 
 
 Howard belongs to the University, Players and Princeton 
 Clubs of New York, to the Nassau Club and Tiger Inn of 
 Princeton, and to the American Institute of Archaeology. He 
 writes : 
 
54 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " It must be easier for those members of the Class who are 
 really in the wide, wide world to write their own histories, 
 than for those of us who have remained in the crew of the old 
 ship, Princeton. The life of the man of affairs must be of 
 more general interest than that of the teacher in a University. 
 Yet residence in Princeton is far more exciting now than it 
 was in the undergraduate days, for the faculty as well as for 
 everyone else. With important changes being made on the 
 policy of the university and in the system of teaching, with 
 constant additions to the faculty, with interesting people com- 
 ing here every year to live, our life is not the sleepy humdrum 
 existence that we imagined the professorial life to be fifteen 
 years ago. 
 
 " The instructions to the Class were that these letters should 
 be personal biographies. I have filled out the blank for sta- 
 tistics so far as I was able, never having been a soldier or a 
 politician. I had to confess to being single, and without 
 immediate hopes. My life since graduation has been chiefly 
 given to study, teaching, and travelling. A year in Princeton 
 as a fellow, a year in Columbia School of Architecture, one in 
 The American School at Rome, and one in Athens were devoted 
 to study, with a little teaching sandwiched in between. I 
 chose a profession, and a branch of that profession that would 
 give ample excuse for travel ; and practically all of my time 
 these fifteen years, that I have not spent in Princeton, I have 
 spent in knocking about the Old World. After I had travelled 
 for several years, I took to exploration, and was so fortunate 
 as to find friends who wanted exploring done for them. I 
 was sent, with Mike Prentice, Robert Garrett, '97, and Dr. 
 Enno Littmann, who later became an honorary member of '92 
 on an American Archaeological expedition to Central Syria. 
 There we cast about up and down the partly explored and the 
 unexplored and deserted country that lies between the moun- 
 tains of Lebanon and the River Euphrates. Living in tents 
 
■ 
 
 C. P. Butler 
 
 
 D. Campbell 
 
 A. M. Candee 
 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 55 
 
 and on horseback, always on the move, and always in the 
 open air, we found much that was tremendously interesting 
 to us, and much that is important for the study of history, 
 archaeology, and ancient languages and civilizations: for the 
 land that is now deserted was a populous, rich, thriving, and 
 highly civilized country 1500 years ago, and the mere fact 
 that the region has been deserted for over 1000 years makes 
 it all the more easy to study, for the reason that things have 
 remained practically as they were left, but for the action of 
 earthquakes. 
 
 " Four years after our return to Princeton, and after the 
 publication of the results of our expedition was about com- 
 plete, some of our Princeton friends thought it would be a 
 good plan to have a Princeton Expedition to Syria. Two 
 members of the former party, Dr. Littmann and myself, with 
 Fred. Norris, '95, who went to fill Garrett's place as surveyor, 
 started out on a second journey to Syria in the autumn of 
 1904 ; in the spring Prentice joined us at Damascus. 
 
 " Some of our doings and experiences having been recited 
 in the Alumni Weekly, I shall not weary you with a repetition 
 of them here, and shall only say that the preparation of our 
 Princeton publications is still in progress, and that a part of 
 our collection of casts and our little collection of antiquities 
 have been placed on exhibition in the Art Museum on the 
 Campus, where all members of the Class will be very welcome 
 when they come to Princeton, and where they can count on me 
 for a personally conducted view of the show. This was an 
 exploring, rather than an excavating or collecting, expedition, 
 the study of the ancient arts of Syria and of the ancient in- 
 scriptions, the collecting of data that can be published in books 
 being our chief aims ; still, the glassware and pottery, the 
 bronze ornaments and objects of daily use, the trinkets in 
 silver and gold that we brought home, are not without interest 
 as throwing sidelights on the life and history of the people 
 
56 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 that once made Syria rich and great. I have dwelt upon this 
 subject a little longer, perhaps, than I should have done in 
 this letter, if the personnel of the two expeditions had not 
 been more than half made up of '92 men, two regular and one 
 honorary member created at our decennial, and I want the 
 Class to know about it. 
 
 " Outside of the group of six or eight '92 men residing in 
 Princeton, I see comparatively few classmates. It is a source 
 of regret to those of us who live here that so few members 
 of our Class return to the old sod, except at the time of big 
 games, when it is impossible to see the fellows for more than 
 a moment, as they rush to and from trains. This is, of course, 
 due to a variety of causes, not the least of which, doubtless, 
 is matrimony, and the necessity of providing for future Prince- 
 tonians. Nevertheless, as the fortunes of our members grow, 
 when it is no longer necessary to walk the floor with sub- 
 freshmen, and when the lady of the house begins to feel that 
 her bald and portly spouse is safe away from home, I trust 
 that we who live in Princeton shall see more of our classmates, 
 and more frequently. The latch-string of my rooms at the 
 Graduate School is always out for '92 men, and a warm wel- 
 come, with bed and board, is hereby offered to you all, if you 
 come a few at a time. Bring your sons, and let them have a 
 foretaste of the joys of Princeton undergraduate days. Hurry 
 up and get your boys in college, while Covey, YVilkie. Farr, 
 Mike Prentice. Critch, Pop Vreeland, and I are here to guide 
 their ways, and before we are too old to remember that we were 
 once sophomores. 
 
 " Yours forever, 
 
 " Howard Crosby Butler." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 57 
 
 DUNCAN CAMPBELL. M.D. 
 
 Physician. Address, 130 South Broad Street, Woodbury, N. J. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 DUNC studied medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College, 
 Philadelphia, and received his M. D. in 1895. He 
 lectures once a week at the college on Medical Terminology and 
 Prescription Writing. He has kept clear of politics and mili- 
 tary service and marriage ; he is " simply single, thank God ! " 
 Another case that needs investigation. With the exception of 
 trips to California in 1900 and 1903, and Jamaica in 1905, he 
 has lived the busy life of a practitioner of medicine, and has 
 resided in Woodbury eleven years. His hobby is automobiling, 
 and golf is his pastime. He sees very few of his classmates 
 and was doubly glad to welcome to Woodbury a few months ago 
 ex-Assistant Attorney-General Duffield, who was there on busi- 
 ness and needed expert help. Dune says he steered him to the 
 Court House and " tried to put him wise." The ex-Assistant 
 Attorney-General has not reported on this incident. 
 
 Dune's apology for not forwarding a photo is that he is out 
 of them just now — he has to give one to every baby he brings 
 into the world, and the supply is exhausted temporarily. No 
 letter. Paper and ink are luxuries in Woodbury. 
 
 ALEXANDER MITCHELL CANDEE 
 
 Iron business. Address, Care Worden- Allen Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Residence, 206 Knapp Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 Married Mary R. Taylor, September 24, 1897. Children, Elizabeth 
 
 Cecilia, b. September 26, 1898. Kenneth, b. October 6, 1899. 
 
 CANDEE has resided in Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, 
 Alabama and Denver. Until the summer of 1893 he was 
 with the Radford Pipe and Foundry Company at Anniston, 
 Ala., then he moved up to the headquarters of the company at 
 
58 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Radford, Va. A few years later we heard of him at Detroit, as 
 connected with the Detroit branch of the New York Life Insur- 
 ance Company. Then in 1900 he became cashier of the Denver 
 branch. A couple of years later he was in the advertising 
 business at Denver, and when we found the trail again, was 
 editing a new catalogue for the Mine and Smelter Supply 
 Company. Since then, 1902, his son has been very ill and it 
 was deemed wise to leave Denver. And so it comes that Candee 
 is now at Milwaukee in the structural iron business, and he says 
 he expects to live up to his name, and stick there. 
 
 ALFRED BANGS CARHART, E.E., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 97 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Residence, 22 Parker Street, Maiden, Mass. 
 Married Mabel R. Millett, Maiden, Mass., December 2, 1903. 
 
 Children, Laurence Millett, b. August 7, 1906. 
 
 CARHART was a lawyer in patent litigation when these 
 lines were being written. He received the degree of Elec- 
 trical Engineer at Princeton in 1893, and the degree of LL.B. 
 from the New York Law School in 1895. Until May, 1906, 
 ne had offices in New York and lived in Brooklyn, being general 
 counsel and director, with supervision of the manufacturing 
 plant, of the Carolina Mineral Company until 1901. From 
 1902 to 1906 he occupied the same position for the Bates 
 Machine Company of New York. He is now connected with 
 the Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Company of Boston, and in 
 May, 1906, he moved to the Hub, where according to him, 
 " dough congeals in larger chunks " — an opinion changed 
 since these words were written. He is a member of the Society 
 of Colonial Wars, the American Society of Mechanical 
 Engineers, and when in Brooklyn was a member of the Mon- 
 tauk and Crescent Athletic Clubs. He has as his hobbv the 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 59 
 
 preparation of a growing and diverting collection of newspaper 
 clippings relating to successful and unsuccessful bunco and 
 confidence swindles, and contributions will be welcomed. None 
 devised by '92 has as yet been publicly exposed, so he says, ex- 
 cept the great counterfeit two dollar game of 1891. Like 
 Zwei Bier Betts, his exercise is confined to thinking — " chiefly 
 in the open air, in great moderation, carefully avoiding ex- 
 haustion." His contributions to literature are not in demand 
 for popular reading, being chiefly briefs in patent cases — suc- 
 cessful enough in their persuasive purpose on the judicial mind 
 apparently, but not fit to appear in the list of the Hot Air 
 Furnace. 
 
 Carhart seemed to have some doubts as to whether we con- 
 sidered him really a member of the Great and Glorious, be- 
 cause he didn't graduate with us, but was seduced by Uncle 
 Brackett's Electrical School, and got his degree there in '93. 
 It didn't take us long to clear his mind on this point; we don't 
 consider him an ex-member, just for that one lapse from virtue. 
 See how soon, alas, he has acquired the baked beans habit ! No 
 wonder he is giving up litigation for manufacturing. Nothing 
 should be allowed to mar the peace that reigneth beneath the fin 
 of the Sacred Codfish. 
 
 " Boston, December 1, 1906. 
 " Dear Fellows : 
 
 " I have always felt dead sure that being ex-'92 was going 
 to count with St. Peter as a big enough item to outweigh a 
 bushel of faults, for it is the best class going, and he must have 
 heard something of its glorious career. As none of my own 
 stunts, so far, have been inscribed in any hall of fame, I am the 
 more glad to chip in what I can toward that '92 Entry, where 
 the Class name will be carved in stone for all of us. 
 
 " The small son, so touchingly depicted in the photograph, 
 at the early age of three months, already clamors for food and 
 
60 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Princeton in the same breath, and the air here has had no 
 Harvard influence upon him. This Boston atmosphere is not 
 so bad, after all, and even if lawyers' bills are smaller than in 
 New York, manufacturers seem to prosper, so it is easy to see 
 why I should gradually take more interest in the manufactur- 
 ing of new inventions and less in fighting patent suits over them ; 
 so when any of you fellows get to Boston you may not always 
 find me in my law office, but always ready to go out at any time 
 of day to eat baked beans with wandering travelers. 
 
 " Alfred B. Carhart." 
 
 HERBERT SWIFT CARTER, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Address, 66 West 55th Street, New York City. 
 
 Married Mabel Stewart Pettit, Orange, N. J., January 12, 1898. 
 Children, Alida Stewart, b. October 26, 1898. Herbert Swift, 
 Jr., b. September 30, 1900. Alan, b. July 29, 1904. 
 
 HERB CARTER holds a medical diploma from Columbia 
 (the P. & S.), dated 1895. He went over to Berlin 
 in 1898 for a year's further study, and on his return was an 
 instructor in Pathology at the Cornell Medical School from 
 1899 to 1900. He is attending physician at the Episcopal 
 Orphan Home and at Lincoln Hospital, besides being chief of 
 medical clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He 
 has published several articles in the American Journal of Medi- 
 cal Science, the Medical News, the Medical and Surgical Re- 
 port of the Presbyterian Hospital, and in the New York State 
 Journal of Medicine. He tells us that these articles are on 
 medical subjects. Somehow we suspected it. 
 
 " My dear Committee : 
 
 " Your repeated appeals for my life's history since 1892 
 have been a distinct shock to my native modesty, and only their 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 61 
 
 urgency (third notice) has induced me to come out of my 
 shell and tell you ' all the news that's fit to print.' 
 
 " I suppose you want to know it all, down to the subconscious 
 self, for the barometric variations of a medical man's life are 
 numerous. However, the reports of the everyday physician 
 are not loud enough, as a rule, to be heard down the block, and 
 like the ' still, small voice,' need a quiet environment to be heard 
 at all. The little bunch of '92 men who elected to study their 
 fellow-men's failings had three good years together, and they 
 proved a rude awakening from the four years of more or less 
 easygoing life at Princeton, there having been no preceptorial 
 system in the good old days, and compared with what we had 
 enjoyed, we discovered ourselves up against a large proposi- 
 tion. The one difference of note between our university and 
 medical school life, was the one fact, that some of us had been 
 sent to college while we had individually chosen to study medi- 
 cine. Three years of hospital work, more or less, kept some of 
 us still together. That and a lot more of our work is not of 
 the fortune-amassing type, and although it has its disadvan- 
 tages, it does not lay us open so readily to an investigation. In 
 fact the man who goes into medicine for purely financial rea- 
 sons is usually doomed to disappointment, for few can bring up 
 a family and amass a fortune at one and the same time. 
 
 " One of the most successful operations of my life was that 
 of getting married (McWilliams needn't read this part of my 
 letter unless he wants to), and next to that, collecting a family 
 — two young Princetonians and a strong rooter of the opposite 
 sex. I find this family a very absorbing combination, so much 
 so in fact that I have little time for club life, and consequently 
 do not see as much of the men as I should like to, with a few 
 exceptions, although I am a pretty regular attendant at im- 
 portant baseball and football games. 
 
 " It would be difficult to write as you ask of my everyday 
 life, and even if I did, it would hardly contain reading matter 
 
62 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 of general interest. We medical men are trying to ' make 
 good ' with the same spirit that you, the lawyers, divines, pro- 
 fessors and business men are doing; we differ only in details. 
 To develop a working philosophy of life is what we are all, in 
 our own way, trying to do, I take it; sometimes we get selfish 
 in the process, and sometimes we develop in this latter; let us 
 hope that it may be said as of yore, ' Ninety-two's the stuff the 
 people say.'" " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " Herbet S. Carter. 
 " 66 W. 55th Street, N. Y." 
 
 MARSHALL A. CHRISTY 
 
 Lawyer. Office Farmers' Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pa. Resi- 
 dence, Sewickley, Pa. 
 
 Married Irene B. McVay, Sewickley, Pa., April 21, 1897. Children. 
 Sarah Marshall, b. December 21, 1898. Annie Huntington. 
 b. November 22, 1900. 
 
 CHRISTY is practicing law at Pittsburg, being chiefly en- 
 gaged with patent cases. He took two years of the three- 
 year course at the Harvard Law School, and did not graduate, 
 lie is a member of the Princeton Club of New York, the Pitts- 
 burg Club, the Allegheny Country Club and the Edgeworth 
 Club. He votes the Republican ticket. We were beginning to 
 despair of getting him when he responded. 
 
 " Pittsburg, January, 15, 1907. 
 "My pear Prentice: 
 
 " Please understand me as offering abject and profuse 
 apologies for my failure to answer your many and very proper 
 appeals for data for the Class Record. 
 
 " I enclose herewith answers to your questions, but I regret 
 to say, no photograph as yet. Natural remissness and pressure 
 of other matters must be mv only excuse. If there is still time. 
 
H. S. Carter 
 
 A. Church 
 
 V. L. Collins 
 
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 HOflUHO ./. 
 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 63 
 
 I will have one taken and send it on ; if not, the Record will 
 have to get along without that embellishment. Please let me 
 know how much time I have. As to my personal history since 
 graduation, the answers to your questions tell the story so 
 fully that I can think of nothing specific to add — practically 
 the usual life of a married professional man, pretty steady 
 work, which is more often close than otherwise, and for results 
 a fair allowance of hay, with an occasional bite at the clover, 
 and what has been, I suppose, the proper ratio of the troubles 
 which every man has to have and to get by somehow. That is 
 about all that there is to be said." 
 
 ALONZO CHURCH, A.M. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 800 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 
 Residence, 688 High Street, Newark N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 ION entered journalism immediately after graduation, and 
 _J made a reputation for himself, but the attractions of the 
 legal profession making themselves felt, he studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1898, as an attorney, and as a counsellor 
 in 1901 ; the Chief Justice appointed him a Supreme Court 
 Commissioner in 1902, and the Chancellor made him a Special 
 Master in Chancery in 1904. 
 
 Lon's long service on the Essex County Park Commission is 
 something for which the county owes him a debt of gratitude. 
 He is largely responsible, we understand, for the excellent park 
 system now in use; and the only occasions he has appeared on 
 the public platform have been when he was lecturing before 
 local clubs and societies on the topic of public parks. 
 
 He says that the only military service he has seen is that 
 of his brother, Dr. James R. Church, '88 — and when you speak 
 of Robb Church you are going some ; certainly enough for one 
 family. 
 
64 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Lon belongs to the Cannon and Nassau Clubs of Princeton, 
 the Princeton Club of New York, the Sons of the American 
 Revolution of New York, and the St. Johns Lodge, No. 1, 
 F. & A. M. Here is his letter : 
 
 " Newark, N. J., November 13, 1906. 
 " Messrs. Howard Crosby Butler, V. Lansing Collins and 
 
 Willlvm K. Prentice, 
 
 " Committee of the Class of '92 : — Your communication of 
 May 15 has been received, and with the promptness which 
 always characterizes my actions, I hasten to reply. 
 
 " It is difficult to write very much about my career since I 
 left Princeton. Nothing very interesting has happened in my 
 life, and no stupendous honors have thus far been thrust upon 
 me. 
 
 " The day after graduation I came to Newark, and secured 
 a position as reporter on the Newark Daily Advertiser, in which 
 capacity I wrote many remarkable literary efforts; none of 
 which made me very famous. 
 
 " In 1894 I was appointed secretary of the Essex County 
 Park Commission, an organization which that year had been 
 created. The commission was authorized to spend two million 
 five hundred thousand dollars on laying out a system of public 
 parks for Essex County. Owing to this fortunate fact, I was 
 able to begin the study of law, which I did in the office of Henry 
 Young, Esq., '62. I was admitted as an attorney in 1898, and 
 formed a partnership with Henry Young, Jr., Esquire, '93. 
 This partnership continued for about two years. In 1901 I 
 was admitted as a counsellor at law, and shortly thereafter 
 formed a partnership with Honorable Joseph L. Munn, '62, 
 which partnership is still in existence. 
 
 " In 1901 I was made counsel to the Park Commission, with 
 an additional salary, which helped considerably. 
 
 " The practice of the law is a confining occupation, and 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 65 
 
 takes up almost all of my time. I seldom go away from 
 Newark, and have not had an opportunity to interest myself in 
 politics, except, as Mr. Hearst says, to serve in the ranks. 
 
 " The only offices I have ever held are those identified with 
 the legal profession, as Supreme Court Commissioner and 
 Special Master in Chancery. 
 
 " I have been faithful in my attendance at class reunions. I 
 have paid my subscription to the Class Memorial, and I have 
 been to every Yale football game since 1888. 
 
 " In spite of the most earnest efforts on my part, I am still 
 unmarried, and am like to continue in that sad state. The 
 only hope that I have is that my nephew and namesake, who 
 is now four years old, may one day be an undergraduate at 
 Princeton. 
 
 " There are only a few '92 men in Newark, and of these I 
 see but little. Duffield began life as a reformer, and wound up 
 as a devoted adherent to a most frightful octopus ; therefore, of 
 course, I cannot chum with him. A. Ball is the only other 
 classmate who resides here, except some who are in the insane 
 asylum. 
 
 " I regret that I am unable to further electrify the Class, but 
 trust that I may be counted as one who will ever retain his 
 affection for his Alma Mater, and for those who, in under- 
 graduate days, were bound to him by lasting ties of friendship. 
 " Very sincerely yours, 
 
 " Alonzo Church." 
 
 " Please return my photo, this one is my last." 
 
66 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 VARNUM LANSING COLLINS, A.M. 
 
 Teaching. Address, 31 Bank Street, Princeton, N. J. 
 Married Princetta Lee Hanger, Georgetown, D. C, November 20, 
 1901. Children, none. 
 
 " Gentlemen and Sirs : 
 
 " Taking up the thread of my biography where C. P. Butler 
 left it with a roast in the Triennial Record, I would say that my 
 life since 189-1 has been spent here in Princeton, mostly in the 
 University Library, where from 1896 to 1906 I was Reference 
 Librarian. I was practically in charge of the public end of 
 the Library, which accounts for the fact that whenever any of 
 you belated seekers after knowledge dropped in, you found me 
 in evidence. In connection with the reference work, I had 
 charge of the Princeton collection and the collections of auto- 
 graph manuscripts, etc., and a few other things. This, as much 
 as anything else, developed my interest in early Americana, 
 especially New Jerseyana, and anything bearing at all on 
 Princeton and Princeton men. I suppose, therefore, that my 
 hobby is Princetoniana. In 1903 the New Jersey Library 
 Association elected me its President for the year ; and last year 
 I was made General Editor of the Princeton Historical Associa- 
 tion ; and with Howard Butler and Vreeland I edited for a 
 couple of years that charming and unpopular quarterly, the 
 Princeton University Bulletin. It quit business under our ex- 
 pert management. These I believe are all the distinctions I 
 can claim, having as yet neither run for the Legislature nor 
 tried to reform spelling. Besides the two associations men- 
 tioned above I am also a member of the American Library 
 Association, the Modern Language Association, the American 
 Bibliographical Society, the N. J. Historical Society, the Ameri- 
 can Historical Association, and the Nassau Club of Princeton, 
 of which I am Secretary. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 67 
 
 " The public platform has not been graced to any extent by 
 my person — not to the extent that Prentice and Howard Butler 
 have gone, for instance. They travel the country over in one- 
 night stands with lectures and lantern slides in their pockets. 
 I did once make a journey to the Orange where the Hon. Ed. 
 Duffield lives, to lecture on Princeton in the popular course 
 arranged by him for his Public Schools — he being President of 
 the local Board of Education. The janitor said it was a grand 
 lecture; but to me it was memorable for the fact that the local 
 stereopticon operator ran the pictures in wrong end foremost. 
 But nobody save the President and the Lecturer seemed to 
 know the difference, and the former soon after quit his job. 
 Another time I betook myself to Mount Holly, N. J., to lecture 
 before a club of which Dunham, '91, was president, and I was 
 guilty once of reading a paper before the Graduates' Club 
 here, on " The Charlemagne Romances," and I have had the 
 honor two or three times of addressing the college Senior 
 Elective class in American History, on the visit of the Con- 
 tinental Congress to Princeton in 1783. Of course I have had 
 to read my share of papers before various Library gatherings, 
 and those published are listed, with my other invaluable con- 
 tributions to knowledge, in the Hot Air Furnace. By the way, 
 if any one suffers from insomnia I can recommend an examina- 
 tion of my " Newark Bibliography." It is a rapid, delightful 
 and sure cure. In October, 1906, I was the orator at the com- 
 memorative meeting of the New Jersey Society of Colonial 
 Dames held in Nassau Hall, when I spoke about the historical 
 associations of the building. In June, 1906, I resigned my 
 position in the Library to accept a Preceptorship in the Modern 
 Language Department of the University. 
 
 " In 1901 I did the best thing ever, being married to Miss 
 Hanger of Georgetown, D. C, and since then, having handed 
 my bachelor quarters in the Bank Building over to Mike 
 Prentice, I have lived at 31 Bank Street, a boulevard not notable 
 
68 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 for its architectural or landscape beauties, but where at least, 
 bed, bath, and board are ready for any '92 visitor. 
 
 " In 1904, a year's leave of absence coming my way, Mrs. Col- 
 lins and I sailed for Europe and spent the year making a big 
 circle through Scotland, England, France, Sicily, Italy, Switzer- 
 land, and so back to Paris and England. It didn't seem to 
 be '92' s year abroad ; we met only three of the Great and 
 Glorious. At Pompeii I found Joe Huston looking very fit 
 and piloting a party of friends ; and later that afternoon I 
 heard him testing the acoustic properties of the amphitheatre 
 by impressing his audience across the ruin that the war had 
 to go on — we had to fight through — and if the war had to go 
 on, why put off longer, etc. I supplied the missing Roman 
 Mob and cried Huzza at fitting moments. He and I hadn't 
 spent hours in the Old Chapel for nothing ! Then one fine after- 
 noon at Weggis on Lake Luzerne we were joined by Prentice, 
 fresh from Syria. We had several beers. At Paris later on 
 Howard Butler took me one morning to call on some of his 
 alleged acquaintances in the administration offices of the 
 Louvre. They saw us first. I did not meet them. 
 
 " My recreations are golf, bridge, and billiards, with an oc- 
 casional powwow on the affairs of the nation, held in my old 
 rooms in the Bank Building. Despite my modesty, I am com- 
 pelled to say that I still make a bluff at singing, having been 
 a member of the choir of Trinity Church here for some fifteen 
 years. Marcus Farr's son Vernon is one of our boy soloists. 
 Members of the class are welcome, admission free, any Sunday 
 — to listen. I am also on the staff of lay readers of the parish. 
 Politically I am a Republican, but have found no opportunity 
 to work the party for my good. Nothing doing as regards 
 military or naval service. Had all I wanted of the latter cross- 
 ing the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. 
 
 " Looking back over these fifteen years I very easily reach the 
 conclusion that, up to our necks in work though we are, we 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 69 
 
 who live here, this " academic life " is not one wherein we make 
 money or win prominent public positions. But there are com- 
 pensations. For instance, speaking for myself, I have made 
 any number of new friends and have ripened friendships begun 
 years ago. Then there is the opportunity we have of being on 
 the ground when reunions and other gatherings bring you 
 fellows back to the old burg. And there is also the fact that 
 we who work here have a chance to aid in the development of 
 an institution which despite its faults we have grown to love 
 more intimately and dearly as the years go by. The boyish 
 enthusiasm of undergraduate days has become something deeper 
 and more earnest. Princeton is a very different place from the 
 college you knew ; we hope it will be a still better place before 
 we get through with it. And finally, there are the compensa- 
 tions which the academic life brings to those who live it, but 
 which cannot be explained without going into details and mak- 
 ing this letter an essay. It's too long already." 
 
 LEON MARTIN CONWELL 
 
 Editor. Business Address, Union Square, Somerville, Mass. 
 
 Residence, 1 Harvard Square, Somerville, Mass. 
 Married Harriette Brewster, Worthington, Mass., June 19, 1901. 
 
 Children, Agnes Elizabeth, b. July 6, 1903. 
 
 CONNY, like Carhart, has gone to New England. String 
 Beans is now Baked. He is the editor of the celebrated 
 Somerville Journal. He went into journalism after graduation, 
 and became in 1900 news editor of the Philadelphia Press. He 
 is a Republican and not an officeholder. He travelled around 
 the world in 1892-1893 and has since lived in Philadelphia and 
 Somerville, holding all sorts of editorships. He keeps his weight 
 down by tennis and bowling, and for recreation he plays bil- 
 liards and bridge. At the Philadelphia welcome to President 
 
70 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Wilson in April, 11)0:5, Conny spoke for the Princeton Club of 
 Philadelphia, on " Trusts." One oi' the thoughts embalmed In 
 the amber of liis remarks was this: " While not able to count my 
 
 first thousand I love to bask in the sunlight of those who possess 
 
 millions. When I see the Steel Trust and the Standard Oil 
 
 Trust ami the Beef Trust I often wish that Princeton could 
 follow the words oi' the poet and 'be sustained and soothed by 
 an unfaltering trust/ " Conny is one oi' the regular attendants 
 ami orators at meetings of the Princeton Alumni Association 
 oi' New England. 
 
 ELMER JACOB COOK, LL.B.^ 
 
 Lawyer. Address, Towson, Md, 
 
 Married Edith Eliiabeth Lawson, Galveston, Texas, June t>. 1905. 
 
 Children, none. 
 
 FROM 1898-1895 Cook was Principal oi' the Academy at 
 Bel Air, Md. He thou studied law at the University oi' 
 Maryland, taking his degree in 1896, since when he has been 
 located at Towson. lie belongs to the Baltimore Country 
 Club and to the Pimlico Country Club. He is a Democrat, and 
 is counsel for Baltimore County, for the United Railways & 
 Electric Company of Baltimore, counsel for Baltimore County 
 for the G. B. S. Brewing Company, ami for the l T . S. Fidelity 
 and Guaranty Company. He is the suburban member of the 
 '92 syndicate that runs Baltimore, oi' whom more later. 
 
 "Towson, Md., Oct. 88, 1900. 
 
 " My Him; PrENTICE: 
 
 " I enclose photo, as requested. After graduating 1 was 
 
 elected principal of the Academy at Bel Air, Md.. which 
 position I held three years, reading law at the same time 
 in the office oi' Hon. Stevenson A. Williams, '70. Was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, and afterwards took the course in law at 
 
 the University oi' Maryland, graduating in class of 1896. Have 
 

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 been located at Towson, Baltimore County, since then, having 
 a city office with Messrs. Grain & Hershey, 809-819 Calumet 
 Building, Baltimore. 
 
 " On June 6, 1905, I was married to Miss Edith Elizabeth 
 Lawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lawson, of Gal- 
 veston, Texas. I am getting along well and like the practice of 
 law. Within the past year I assisted in organizing the Second 
 National Bank of Towson, of which I have been elected 1st 
 Vice-President and Counsel. Am also local counsel for The 
 United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore, and sev- 
 eral other corporations. I fear I am talking too much about 
 myself ; hope to see all the '92 men in June, 1907, at Princeton. 
 " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " Elmer J. Cook." 
 
 PIERRE FREDERICK COOK, A.M. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 1 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 
 Residence, 146 Jewett Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Married Marie E. Cottraux, New Orleans, April 26, 1905. Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 PETER COOK says he has written no books, but has ad- 
 dressed petitions at various times to the Memorial Com- 
 mittee, denunciatory previous to his appointment on the 
 Committee, since then nothing but praise. In politics he is a 
 good Democrat and has written letters to Executives and other 
 public functionaries urging the appointment of various '92 
 men to positions annexed to substantial salaries ; but he himself 
 has never held office. He has, however, occupied positions of 
 Commissioner in lunacy cases, and others of trust and con- 
 fidence " too sacred to be thus publicly revealed." When free 
 from the cares of his profession he walks and does odd jobs 
 about the house, or else indulges " in such harmless diversions 
 as the neighboring metropolis affords." His hobby is domes- 
 
7% PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 ticity and a constant endeavor to demonstrate to his bachelor 
 classmates the folly of their way. 
 
 " 1-H> Jeweti Avenue, Jvusfy City, N. J., Nov, 18, '06. 
 
 " Ml Dvak Kfi i.y : 
 
 " Ever since the day you sauntered into my office and 
 announced that before lunch you were disgusted with those 
 
 of our class who had subscribed to the Memorial and hail 
 failed to make good, and that after lunch and some Jersey beer 
 you loved them all, I have been postponing- this letter in response 
 to the inquiries of the Record Committee; but I can no longer 
 withstand the urgent calls which have been showered upon me 
 ami submit the enclosed answers to interrogations, 
 
 '" After fifteen years the dear faces ot' my classmates are as 
 plainly before me as they were the evening Tommy Bell turned 
 out the counterfeit dollars, and I wish to pay a slight tribute 
 to-night to the little company we all love so well. Some have 
 grown richer and some poorer; some have designed State Houses 
 and have addressed assemblies to which gatherings ot' Phila- 
 delphia alumni have failed by comparison; some have grown 
 larger and have found that life's greatest happiness lies not 
 in the material benefit, ami others. God help them, have grown 
 smaller and care for nothing else. But through and around us 
 all is the old *9- spirit winch is like wine in our veins and which 
 needs only the grasp ot' a classmate's hand to burn up bright 
 and strong. 
 
 " Of myself I have little to say that would be ot' interest other 
 than that I have found happiness in my profession and in the 
 blessings which a kind Providence has furnished. The limita- 
 tions set by the Committee have somewhat restricted me, but I 
 trust none ot' them will be transgressed if I express the hope 
 that the old loyalty which has stood many trials and has lived 
 through all these years will live as long as the last survivor of 
 dear old *9& " Sincerely yours. 
 
 " Fikrre F. Took." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 73 
 
 RICHARD COULTER, JR. 
 
 Lawyer. Address, Greensburg, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 THE King of the Cotton-Tops is passed master at 
 standing pat. We extracted a small collection of bare 
 facts from him and had to go elsewhere for their cloth- 
 ing. He says he has taken no part in politics and has never 
 held office ; he travelled in the Hawaiian and Philippine Is- 
 lands and Japan in 1898 and 1899; he is connected with 
 the First National Bank of Greensburg and with several 
 coal companies ; farming is his hobby ; horseback riding and 
 golf are bis recreations. Up at the Adjutant General's 
 office, in Harrisburg, they have him recorded with this entry : 
 " Enrolled 2d lieutenant, Company I, 10th Regiment Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteer Infantry on April 27, 1898 ; mustered in 
 May 11, 1898, mustered out with his company, August 22, 
 1899." He is now Major of the 10th Regiment, National 
 Guard of Pennsylvania. But between the lines of that des- 
 iccated record there is a whole lot of exciting adventure 
 hidden. Dick has forgotten all about it and couldn't tell the 
 story himself, so we had to dig out at least one episode from 
 other sources. This is how the King of the C. T.'s won his 
 spurs. It happened in March, 1899, during the seven days' 
 march on Malolos for which Funston and the 20th Kansas got 
 so much glory. Dick led his gallant men through a murderous 
 fire to the relief of the artillery and then directed the fire upon 
 the enemy across the river. The fusillade lasted an hour, when 
 the Filipinos displayed a flag of truce. Richard with a couple 
 of men saw his chance, and hustling down the river a bit, swam 
 across and running up to the insurgent stronghold with his 
 band of two demanded instant surrender, or he'd fight it out 
 along that line if it took all summer. The Filipinos were so 
 
74 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 surprised to see this yellow-haired chap in their midst that they 
 couldn't surrender quick enough ; and Dick and his two trusties 
 surrounded 50 guns and 20 men, receiving himself the com- 
 mander's sword. After a while General Funston and a couple 
 of companies came charging up to capture everything in 
 sight. They found Lieutenant Coulter in possession chewing 
 a wooden toothpick and drying his clothes in the sun. They 
 were disgusted. Dick held on to the sword. It was all he got. 
 
 HARRY FRANKLIN COVINGTON, A.M. 
 
 Teaching. Address, 84 Edgehill Street. Princeton, N. J. 
 Married Priscilla Upshur, Blue Ridge Summit, October 25, 1905. 
 Children, none. 
 
 WE got a reaction from Harry only by sitting over him 
 with a club. He has threatened in consequence to issue 
 an unexpurgated biography of the editors of this book, and 
 we have urged him to do it. Harry was one of the ninety and 
 nine Rednev Hart proudly alludes to, who obtained their 
 Master's degree for the asking in June. 1895. The year fol- 
 lowine graduation he was a Fellow in Princeton, in 1893 was 
 made an Assistant in Oratory, in 1898 Assistant Professor of 
 Oratory, and in 190-t his title was changed to Assistant Pro- 
 fessor oi' English. He has now been in the Department longer 
 than anyone else, excepting Professor Hunt. He has been 
 prominently associated with the debating interests of the col- 
 lege, and has for several years acted as chief coach of our 
 intercollegiate debating teams. In 1903 he published a 
 " Pamphlet on Debating and Brief Drawing " which we under- 
 stand is the embryonic form of an important work on the sub- 
 ject which he has on the stocks. Coming from the Eastern 
 Shore Harry claims to be a Democrat of the old school; but 
 he admits having voted and worked for the election of Professor 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 75 
 
 H. D. Thompson, Republican, to the State Legislature. The 
 summer of 1906 Harry and his wife spent in Europe; otherwise 
 he has confined his travels to the Pennsylvania Railroad between 
 New York and Baltimore, with summer sidesteps to Snow Hill, 
 Md., and other points on the Eastern Shore. He is an en- 
 thusiastic tennis player, and during the pingpong craze claimed 
 to be the Faculty champion, having (also claimed) an unbroken 
 series of victories. 
 
 " In attempting to answer your request for an autobiograph- 
 ical letter, I am reminded of a sentence in Tristram Shandy to 
 the effect that ' the circumstances with which everything in 
 this world is begirt, give everything in this world its size and 
 shape.' And so Sterne tells of many things, but barely suc- 
 ceeds in allowing Tristram Shandy, the hero, to be born! No 
 class of recent graduation has more successful, more promising, 
 or more representatives in the University Faculty at Princeton, 
 than the class of Ninety-Two ! At present, we are eight in all — 
 Butler, Collins, Critchlow, Farr, Hulett, Prentice and Vree- 
 land, — besides myself. In addition, our Princeton colony in- 
 cludes our distinguished classmates, Jesse Williams and Wistar 
 Hodge, so that there are really ten of us living in the shades 
 of Old Nassau. But how unlike the good old days when we 
 were all here together, loafing much, studying less, and singing 
 to our hearts' content " '92 is the stuff " ! Listen to the 
 more stately tread of your Faculty members ! Five of them are 
 shaping the tongues of our youth, two are giving guidance into 
 scientific depths, and one expounds wisdom from an accumulated 
 knowledge of the art and architecture of the ages. Think of 
 Mike and Howard making " squeezes " on the Arabian desert ! 
 Behold Howard also presiding over the graduate school as 
 " Master of Merwick," and behold Mike a toga-ed scholar of 
 Greek antiquity, who makes boys stand up and say Ttecpdaofiac 
 rd deovra ttocstv. Wilkie (the bearded '92 man in the Faculty) 
 
76 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 has forsaken his important function as Reference Librarian, 
 or bureau of information of the University, to become allied 
 with the Department of Modern Languages, of which, by the 
 way, " Pop " Vreeland is the dignified head. Farr wears the 
 honored title of " Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology," while 
 Hulett is one of the valued additions to the Department of 
 Chemistry. 
 
 " Among such learned personages, I must not entirely lose 
 sight of my Hero. He has been connected with the University 
 since graduation. Besides teaching, he has given a good deal 
 of his time to the intercollegiate debating work. His chief 
 interest at present is in English Literature, and in giving to 
 the Halls something of their former prominence and usefulness. 
 
 " The climax of this epistle is not to be — as in the case of 
 Tristram Shandy — the birth of the Hero, but his marriage — 
 Professor Hunt says of him that the best thing he ever did was 
 to get married, and I am quite sure that I agree with him. 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " H. F. Covington. 
 
 " Princeton, N. J., Jan. 1907." 
 
 MILTON BOYD CRAIGHEAD 
 
 Paymaster, Gaar, Scott & Co. Address, Richmond, Ind. 
 Married Martha B. Carson, Knightstown, Ind., April 11, 1906. 
 Children, none. 
 
 CRAIGHEAD is paymaster of Gaar, Scott & Co., manu- 
 facturers of threshing machinery, at Richmond, Indiana. 
 Possibly he elected this particular firm because it is famous as 
 being the makers of the " Tiger Thresher Line." The firm's 
 registered trademark is a lifelike representation of the beast — 
 passant, sinister, guardant, or, super two hemispheres, argent, 
 motto: "Gaar, Scott & Co., the Tiger Thresher Line, Rich- 
 mond, Ind., U. S. A." Craighead's garden is his hobby in 
 
H. F. Covington 
 
 M. B. Craighead 
 
 F. L. Critchlow 
 

 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 77 
 
 summer and his furnace is his " constant delight " in winter. 
 He says: 
 
 " It seems a long time since June, 1892, when we left Prince- 
 ton, but as I call up personal matters I can see ' something 
 attempted, something done.' Publicly, I am a nonentity ; the 
 only official work I have ever done has been the deeds of a 
 notary public. Privately I now hold the position of paymaster 
 in a large manufacturing plant in this city. Best of all, I have 
 taken unto myself a wife. We were married in April, 1906, 
 and after a fine trip to Hot Springs, Va., Old Point Comfort, 
 New York, and a visit to Princeton, settled down in our home 
 in Richmond where a warm welcome awaits any classmate at 
 211 N. 8th Street. " M. B. Craighead." 
 
 FRANK LINLEY CRITCHLOW, A.M., Ph.D. 
 
 Teaching. Address, 8 N. W v Princeton, N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 THIS is the story of the Man That Was. Critch, as we all 
 recollect, died and was " resolution-ized " and then came 
 back to college and was graduated with the class of 1896. He 
 taught at the Pingry School, Elizabeth, from 1896 to 1899. 
 Entered Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student, ob- 
 taining his doctorate in Romance Languf ges in 1903. He was 
 called to Princeton in 1902 as an instructor in French, and 
 since 1905 has been a Preceptor in Modern Languages under 
 the new system. Critch has crossed the Atlantic several times, 
 the last time (1902) on a tramp ship, being listed as surgeon 
 in the ship's company. He has travelled or resided in England, 
 France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. He belongs to 
 the Harmonic Saenger Verein of Baltimore, the Alpha Delta 
 Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa and the Nassau Club of Princeton. 
 He offers this explanatory statement: 
 
78 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 "Princeton, Oct. 8, 1906. 
 " My Dear Kelly : 
 
 " That photograph you asked of me recently has spoiled 
 in the making and I cannot obtain one for you at any price 
 at so late a day. Please allow me a word picture instead. 
 
 " I am, to begin with, very much alive, and also delighted at 
 this opportunity of making a statement to that effect from 
 my own pen. My business is teaching and the more I engross 
 myself in that otiose calling the more I enjoy it. At the 
 University here a preceptor's life is an enviable one when com- 
 pared with some of the more profitable yet less sordid occupa- 
 tions than that of a teaching-man. Not married yet, but receive 
 constant, admonition from friends to put off no longer the 
 dreadful day. Perhaps I won't much longer if only for the 
 sweet sake of our friend, the secretary of the class. As the years 
 elapse I find my interests growing in books (the inside part). 
 and I cannot close without asking the class to give a thought 
 to our Library here ; it needs books and money. With very best 
 wishes to every one, I remain, 
 
 " Very fraternally yours, 
 
 ,,~ ~ ,™-„ " F. L. Critchlow." 
 
 " October 8, 1906." 
 
 ORVILLE PLATT CURRAN, Jr., C.E. 
 
 Coal operator. Business Address, Mercantile Library Building, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. Residence, 4219 Floral Avenue, Norwood, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Married Marie I. Brown, Chicago, May 29, 1895. Children, Doro- 
 thy I., b. February 25, 1900. 
 
 ALTHOUGH Punk's offices are in a library building he 
 disseminates not knowledge but heat. He is a coal mag- 
 nate^ — and he has had lots of experience. Here is his 
 record to date: Assistant Engineer, Shailer and Sniglean Co. 
 of Chicago, partner in Curran and Hussey Co. Engineering 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 79 
 
 and Contracting, of Pittsburg, President and Manager of the 
 Economy Fuel Co., Charleston, W. Va., President of the Curran 
 Coal Co. and Manager of Black Band Coal and Coke Co., Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio. He is a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of 
 Commerce and of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club and the 
 Masonic Club. His hobby is machinery. He is a Republican. 
 Follows his greeting: 
 
 " Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 7, 1906. 
 " Class of '92, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 " Dear Classmates : — There is so much that I could say to 
 you that there would not be room enough for the other letters 
 if it were all printed, so I will confine myself to a few lines. 
 
 " I have been chasing about the country a great deal since 
 leaving college, in pursuit of my fortune, and have come to the 
 conclusion that the old saying a " rolling stone " is about true, 
 so have decided to locate and try to accumulate some moss. 
 
 " I am married, happy, and have one daughter almost seven 
 years old. If any of you ever come to Cincinnati be sure and 
 let me know. Wishing you all much happiness and prosperity 
 in the future, I remain, 
 
 " Most sincerely, 
 
 " O. P. Curran." 
 
 JOHN C. DaCOSTA, Jr., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Residence, 1022 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Married Elizabeth S. Hays, Carlisle, Pa., October 24, 1894. Chil- 
 dren, John C. IV., b. October 28, 1896. Jean Van Ness, 
 b. April 30, 1898. 
 
 JACK DaCOSTA was graduated from the Jefferson Med- 
 ical College at Philadelphia in 1893, following his work 
 there with a postgraduate course of one year at the University 
 of Pennsylvania Medical School. During the Spanish War he 
 
80 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 was an Assistant Surgeon in the Volunteers with rank of First 
 Lieutenant. He is the author of " Clinical Hematology," 
 which has gone into a second edition, and of other medical 
 works listed in the H. A. F. He belongs to the Art Club of 
 Philadelphia, and is an enthusiastic fisherman, his specialty 
 being salmon and trout. 
 
 GEORGE KIDDER DAVIS 
 
 Coal business. Business Address, Warrior Run Coal Co., Warrior 
 Run, Pa. Residence, 166 South Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, 
 Pa. 
 
 Married Helen Dawson Gallatin, N. Y. City, Dec, 1898. Children, 
 none. 
 
 AT the Hofbrau reunion last winter Turkey seemed to labor 
 under the impression that he would send us his replies to 
 the circular issued for this Record. Repeated reminders subse- 
 quently had no result other than this penciled note of January 
 10, 1907: 
 
 " Dear Mike : 
 
 " I haven't time to spit, let alone writing up my biography 
 for you. I expect to have it done later by the best historians. 
 I am 5 ft. 9, weigh 165 and try to behave myself. Nothing 
 ever happens to me anyway. You will find G. Davis' picture in 
 the Rogues' Gallery." 
 
 We kept after him until the time came for C. O. D. telegrams. 
 The one we sent him was returned by the Western Union, 
 " Party sailed for Europe, Monday," dated Feb. 6, 1907. 
 
 From other sources we learn that Turkey is secretary of the 
 Warrior Run Coal Company, that he is a twin and of the blonde 
 type, that his skin goes all around him with the bones inside, 
 that otherwise he looks normal, that he lives mainly in the Sab- 
 
J. C. Dacosta, Je. 
 
 G. K. Davis 
 Taken in '92 
 
 H. S. Davis 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 81 
 
 bath school, and that he does not smoke, drink, chew, swear, 
 play bridge, or anything in fact, and is a devotee of the rest 
 cure. Our informant regrets that he can't help us out with 
 more details, and says " his [Turkey's] peregrinations are so 
 very sporadic I can't sidestep him." 
 
 HERMAN STEARNS DAVIS, A.M., Ph.D. 
 
 Astronomer, Civil and Electrical Engineer. Office, 52 William 
 Street, New York City. Permanent Address, Dover, Del. 
 
 Married Coreita Register Hoffecker, Dover, Del., May 24, 1894. 
 Children, Erminia, b. February 28, 1906; d. February 28, 1906. 
 
 DAVIS is one of America's most widely known astronomers. 
 After postgraduate study at Princeton (1892-1893) 
 and Columbia (1893-1895), taking his A.M. degree in 1894, 
 he won his Ph. D. in 1895. He has travelled pretty much all 
 over the world in the pursuit of his scientific work, having 
 visited the Azores, Cape Verde and St. Helena in 1889, 
 West, Central and South Africa in 1889-1890, and the West 
 Indies in 1890. In 1896 he visited Holland, Belgium, Ger- 
 many, the Tyrol, Switzerland and Northern Italy, reserving 
 Southern Italy, Sicily and France for 1899. During 1900 he 
 was in the South and in 1905 out West. During these years 
 he has held the following appointments : Assistant Astronomer 
 U. S. Scientific Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90; Uni- 
 versity Fellow, Astronomy and Geodesy, Columbia University, 
 1893-95 ; Instructor in Astronomy and Geodesy, Columbia, 
 1895-99 ; Expert Computer, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
 Washington, D. C, 1900 ; Assistant U. S. Coast and Geodetic 
 Survey, 1900 ; First Assistant Astronomer, Allegheny Observa- 
 tory Eclipse Expedition, Union Springs, Ala, 1900 ; Director 
 International Latitude Observatory, Gaithersburg, Md., 1900- 
 05; Lecturer, Board of Education, N. Y. City, 1896-99 and 
 
82 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 1905-07 ; American Editor of the Astronomischer Jahresbericht 
 (Berlin), since 1900; Consulting Civil and Electrical Engineer, 
 N. Y. City, since 1906 ; Astronomer of the Carnegie Institu- 
 tion and National Academy of Sciences, in charge of " New 
 Reduction of Piazzi's Star Observations," since 1895. He was 
 elected to life membership of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 
 1895, and to fellowships in the American Association for the Ad- 
 vancement of Science in 1901, and he is a charter member of 
 the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America. More- 
 over he is an Ancient and Accepted Freemason and a Scottish 
 Rite Mason. His military service has consisted in seeing 
 parades from balconies and second story windows, but he was 
 for eight months an " honorary " officer in the U. S. Navy by 
 presidential appointment, serving on the U. S. S. Pensacola in 
 a scientific capacity. His hobbies are printing — " the Art 
 Preservative"; shorthand (Pitman's) and brief methods of 
 astronomical calculations. 
 
 As an author he has Jesse Williams and Hulett and the rest 
 of us small fry left at the post. " American Men of Science " 
 and Poggendorf's Biographisch-Literarisches Handworter- 
 buch, vol. 4, page 301, contain a list of over 50 volumes and 
 magazine articles by Davis. He has moreover delivered some- 
 thins; like 85 lectures for the Board of Education of N. Y. 
 City and elsewhere, and he has always been either cheered or 
 suffered, having " been egged only by the boarding houses." 
 
 Altogether Davis' record of achievements is hard to beat, 
 and he is a scientist whom the class has a right to be proud to 
 have on its roll. 
 
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 JAMES LUCAS DeLONG 
 
 Business. Business Address, Pioneer Trust Co., Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Residence, 1836 Pendleton Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
 Married Alice Chappell, Kansas City, April 26, 1899- Children, 
 
 Edmund Shackelford, b. February 14, 1900. 
 
 CHIP DeLONG is manager of the Real Estate Depart- 
 ment of the Pioneer Trust Company, K. C, Mo. He 
 was so busy that he had little time to attend to his letter for 
 the class and we nearly lost the photo. The following telegram 
 of February 7th explains itself: 
 
 " W. K. Prentice, Princeton, N. J., 
 
 " Three cameras broken. Great triumph. Photo mailed. 
 
 " J. L. DeLong." 
 
 He is a member of the University Club at Kansas City. 
 Horses are his hobby, and he votes the straight Democratic 
 ticket. The only '92 man he sees frequently is Ed. Ellison — 
 " great lawyer, strictly domestic, very bald, aged and unso- 
 ciable, can be seen by appointment only." 
 
 ROBERT DENNISTON, A. M., M. D. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. Residence, Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 
 Married Sarita Stiles Wight, New York City, June 23, 1898. 
 
 Children, Robert, Jr., b. March 14, 1900. Mary Wight, b. 
 
 March 9, 1901. A son, b. July 21, 1903; d. July 22, 1903. 
 
 Henry Scott, b. November 5, 1904. 
 
 BOBBIE is quite some at Dobbs Ferry. Armed with the 
 medical degree of Columbia (P. & S., 1895) and further 
 study at Heidelberg, he landed at Dobbs Ferry after prelimi- 
 nary canters in New York and Yonkers, and has been Presi- 
 
84 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 dent of the Dobbs Ferry Republican Club, a member of the 
 Board of Education, and President of the Board of Health. 
 Replying to what he terms our " impudent question " he ad- 
 mits to have both worked the Republican party for his good 
 and to have worked for the good of the party. We learn from 
 private sources that Dr. Robert has a specially reserved seat 
 in the front row at the Dobbs Ferry theatre. But whatever 
 his head may have lost externally he has certainly developed a 
 hitherto unsuspected literary talent ; and everyone who has 
 read this book through to this point will welcome the following 
 change from the continuous prose performance hereinbefore 
 exhibited. 
 
 Poeta nascitur, non fit — which Punk Curran translates " A 
 nascent poet, not a fit." — Enter Dr. Denniston, Poet. 
 
 " Dear Mike and the other two members of that expectant 
 Committee: — This report would have been sent in long ago, 
 save you wanted a letter ; that is something I never do, write 
 letters, but have been told by some of my medical colleagues 
 that a famous poet was lost when I took up medicine, so here 
 goes: 
 
 " All the news " of me " that's fit to print " 
 
 Could easily be seen at a single squint. 
 
 No fear that the lines will be " too long," 
 
 For my muse never sang a langsome song — 
 
 Nor will I cut it out " too short," 
 
 For then I'd hear some things I had not ought. 
 
 I cannot sing in a " serious " vein 
 
 For people's talk to me is most on pain, 
 
 And should I be too frivo-lous 
 
 I fear the committee 'd begin to cuss. 
 
 So here's my life for fifteen years 
 
 Its joys and its sorrows, its hopes and its fears: 
 
 For three years after graduation 
 
 Worked hard for a medical education, 
 
 Along with Baron, Herb Carter, and Mac — 
 
 But, alas, I went to bed on my back, 
 
 So the appointment I worked for I failed to make. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 85 
 
 To assuage my feelings a journey did take, 
 
 Then two years in a hospital did me good, 
 
 From thence to Dobbs Ferry to gain daily food. 
 
 Here they've treated me well, so I cannot kick, 
 
 Though all I hear is the groans of the sick. 
 
 One hour an appendix operation I've planned, 
 
 The next I'm spanking an infant, his lungs to expand. 
 
 As to personalities: I have grown fat, 
 
 Although I still wear the same sized hat. 
 
 The hair on my head is very thin, 
 
 So I won't be scalped by an Indi-in. 
 
 I've a dandy wife, and children three, 
 
 A combination that just suits me — ■ 
 
 Two boys and a girl, just full of life, 
 
 But well looked after by this self-same wife, 
 
 I send their picture along with this; 
 
 If you don't like it my guess is a miss. 
 
 I've missed but one Yale game since '88, 
 
 That Saturday train arrived a little too late. 
 
 But the Commencement games I've lost not a season, 
 
 And to miss that game I'll ne'er find a reason. 
 
 To Princeton I'll always be loyal and true, 
 
 Especially when you're talking of '92. 
 
 So here's to old Princeton, and all of you, 
 
 For we're both still solid through and through. 
 
 " Yours as ever, 
 
 " Robert Denniston." 
 
 ARTHUR LeGRAND DOTY, C.E. 
 
 Business. Business Address, 17 State Street, New York City, or 
 
 Doty & Young, Casilla 623, Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic. 
 
 Residence, Princeton Club, 72 East 34th Street, New York 
 
 City. 
 Married Florence Rosman, New York City, April 16, 1902; d. 
 
 January 16, 1904. Children, none. 
 
 DOTE is almost better known in Buenos Aires, or at Mor- 
 ley's on Trafalgar Square, London, than he is in New 
 York. He exports railway and engineering material, special- 
 izing in freight cars. He is travelling on business continually 
 
86 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 in Europe and South America, and is the only '92 member of 
 the celebrated Logia de Caridad at Montevideo, Uruguay, and 
 of the equally familiar North American Society of the River 
 Plate, Buenos Aires. When he is in our part of the world he 
 remembers that he is a member of the N. Y. Society of Sons 
 of the Revolution (hence in part his popularity in South 
 America?) and of the Princeton Club of New York. When he 
 visits Princeton, as he does at every opportunity, he does not 
 forget that he is on the rolls of Tiger Inn and the Nassau 
 Club. He pulled off a big stroke when he came back from 
 Argentina in December, 1904, with the largest order for 
 railroad equipment ever placed in this country by a foreign 
 government. It amounted to nearly $750,000, and was for the 
 national system of railroads in Argentina. Dote, who was rep- 
 resenting the Middletown, Pa., Car Works and the Wason 
 Manufacturing Company, got the order in competition with 
 fifteen German, British, Austrian and French car builders, and 
 his feat was considered a great victory for the American car- 
 building industry. 
 
 Here is his letter, written last Fall before he sailed again for 
 South America and new conquests : 
 
 " New York, September 26, 1906." 
 " Dear Kelly : 
 
 " I have nothing very interesting to add ' for publication ' 
 to the statistics which you will find enclosed. 
 
 " Since our graduation I have experienced much happiness 
 and also much sorrow, and am now jogging along toward 
 middle age at a moderate pace. A large portion of my time in 
 recent years has necessarily been spent away from the States, 
 as I am among the number engaged in active campaigning on 
 the outposts of American Commerce, and have to be often 
 present in the far-off countries where the fight is most strenu- 
 ous. I have experienced some very satisfactory victories and 
 

 S. G. Dunning 
 
 B. Denniston 
 
 A. LeG. Dott 
 
 E. D. DUFFIELD 
 

 r .OaJ .A 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 87 
 
 some rather discouraging setbacks, but the life appears to suit 
 me well. 
 
 " I have an office in Buenos Aires, as well as in New York, 
 and divide my time between them and Europe. 
 
 " I am looking forward to our reunion next June and arrang- 
 ing to be here for it, and with the liveliest sentiment of regard 
 for all my classmates, I am, 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " Arthur LeGrand Doty." 
 
 RICHARD DOWNESV 
 
 DOWNES is a minister — or was when last heard from. 
 His address used to be Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
 After March, 1904, it was 10 Ardwick Terrace, Manchester, 
 England. We do not know where he is now. 
 
 EDWARD DICKINSON DUFFIELD, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, The Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, N. J. 
 
 Residence, No. 116 Scotland Road, South Orange, N. J. 
 Married Josephine Reade Curtis, Troy, N. Y., April 21, 1897. 
 
 Children, Elizabeth Morrison, b. April 4, 1898. Dickinson 
 
 Curtis, b. October 5, 1903. 
 
 DUFF is our most prominent New Jersey legal light. He 
 obtained his LL. B. at the New York Law School in 1894 
 and his A. M. at Princeton in 1895. He says he did not study 
 for the latter degree. He does not know that '92 is the last 
 class that can get it for the asking. As an author he has done 
 nothing to equal his celebrated and perennial " Scotch Gran- 
 ite " — the memory of which immortal classic is still fragrant ; 
 but he has " delivered a few speeches in behalf of the G. O. P." 
 On the strength of these he was a member of the State As- 
 sembly in 1904 and 1905 and was made Leader on the floor. 
 
88 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 On his election to this post the Trenton Times said editorially: 
 " While a new man in New Jersey politics, Mr. Duffield is con- 
 ceded to be one of the ablest members sent to the Assembly in 
 recent years. With ability, strict integrity, industry, absolute 
 fairness and fearlessness he has the respect and confidence of 
 his fellow-members and under his guidance there will be no 
 danger of serious blunders." In May, 1904, he was made As- 
 sistant Attorney-general of New Jersey. From 1901-1904 he 
 was President of the South Orange Board of Education and 
 did good work in teaching the young Orange ideas how to shoot. 
 He has travelled extensively and daily between Newark and 
 Trenton. He belongs to the Nassau Club of Princeton, the 
 Princeton Clubs of New York, Newark and Orange, the Law- 
 yers' Club of Newark, the South Orange Field Club and the 
 New Jersey State Bar Association. His hobby is reforming 
 reformers. On November 15, 1906, he resigned his position in 
 the Attorney-general's office to become General Solicitor of 
 the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, and his office is 
 in the Newark " Gibraltar." Here is his letter: 
 
 " Newark, N. J., June 22, 1906. 
 " My Dear Prentice : 
 
 " Replying to your circular letter of May 15th, I enclose 
 herewith statistics for the Quindecennial Record of the Class 
 of 1892. 
 
 " At the present time I have no photograph of myself ' suit- 
 able for reproduction in this record.' I will endeavor, how- 
 ever, to procure one sometime between now and June, 1907. 
 This will, therefore, comply with your first two requests. 
 
 " I am a little at a loss to know just what to put in the letter 
 which you desire. All the really important matters I have 
 included in the statistical information, above referred to. 
 
 " Ever since my graduation I have been located here in New- 
 ark, engaged in the practice of law. In 1897, having entered 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 89 
 
 into the holy state of matrimony, I moved to South Orange, 
 where I now reside; keeping my business, however, in Newark. 
 For a while after my admission to the Bar I was engaged with 
 one or two law offices here, and in 1896 I commenced practice 
 with William B. Kinney, '94, under the firm name of Duffield & 
 Kinney. I continued with Kinney until 1902, when we dissolved 
 our partnership and I formed a partnership with Edward M. 
 Colie, under the firm name of Colie & Duffield. This continued 
 until May, 1904, when I received the appointment of Assistant 
 Attorney-general of New Jersey. The duties of this office 
 forced me to dissolve my partnership with Mr. Colie, and since 
 that time I have been practicing alone at the above address. 
 My duties as Assistant Attorney-general are of such a character 
 that I am more often out of the office here than in it, as I am 
 obliged to go pretty generally over the State in order to take 
 care of the various matters in which the State is interested. 
 We have a rather different system here than prevails in most 
 States, of requiring all the departments of the State Govern- 
 ment, together with all the various boards, to do their legal 
 business through our office, thereby preventing a very easy 
 graft for a number of ambitious lawyers, who formerly acted 
 in the capacity of counsel, and at the same time systematizing 
 and simplifying the work. This, however, keeps me at it pretty 
 steadily. 
 
 " In the Fall of 1903, much to my surprise, I was thrown into 
 politics by being nominated for the General Assembly of our 
 State Legislature. I served here for two terms, 1904 and 
 1905, and during the last year I acted as Republican Leader 
 on the floor. I was gratified at being able to secure the passage 
 of a bill requiring the State to purchase a portrait of the Hon- 
 orable John Witherspoon, deceased. I intended on the occasion 
 of the passage of this bill to deliver a large hunk of ' Scotch 
 Granite,' but owing to the fact that none of my Classmates 
 were present, I feared it would not be appreciated. 
 
90 PRIN( ETON NINET1 TWO 
 
 " During my first year in the Legislature 1 had the pleasure 
 of serving with " Little" Besaon, who was a member of the 
 House ticin Hudson County, 
 
 " Although 1 am so near Prineeton, we seem to !><■ here a little 
 oil* the track; for somehow we verj seldom have any Prineeton 
 men look us up, There are a number of tin- Class practicing 
 law in (lie State and all doing well, Pierre Cook and Fish Hall 
 arc both iu Jersey City, "Little" Besaon at Hoboken, John 
 Rankin, Ion Church and myself here, and Mike Bergen is hold 
 ing u[> Ins end in the lower end ^( the State. 
 
 "I am glad to report thai the Princeton spiral in the Oranges 
 has multiplied a thousand per cent, since Bob Anniu, o( '80j 
 organised the Prineeton Alumni Association of the Oranges, 
 The meetings of this glorious organisation partake ol' the char 
 acter oi' the class reunion, and are realty thoroughly beneficial, 
 promoting a healthy Princeton spirit. The Oranges are rather 
 a quirt community, so that this display "i Princeton spirit may 
 In- somewhai more marked than it would In- elsewhere. 
 
 M Since moving to South Orange I have endeavored to di> my 
 share in looking after the work >>t" the Town, serving for three 
 years as a member of the Board of Education, and being Presi 
 
 dent of that bodj during the term n\' my service, 'The only 
 
 burdensome thing connected with this office was the making of 
 an annual address to the graduates, However, 1 managed to 
 
 Survive it, and turned the job over to my successor, who is 
 
 still handing them out, 
 
 *• Although 1 have rather gotten out of active politics since 
 1 took my present appoint incut , I occasionally mix in to some 
 small extent, and regret to sav tli.it at present writing 1 have 
 not seen my way clear to ally myself with the SO called Reform 
 Party in this State. Still 1 don't douht we need reform, and 
 tlu- way things look now, we will probably get it. If they will 
 only change the kind of 'reform' to some other than that 
 which they are dealing out to US at the present time, no douhl 
 we will all be happy w hen it comes. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 91 
 
 " As you will observe in the statistics, I have two children, 
 but unless Princeton becomes co-educational, I do not see how 
 I can contribute an undergraduate until 1919; if it does, I 
 may be able to have one there some years sooner. 
 
 " I fear that this is not at all what you want, and if it is not 
 return it to me with such criticism as ' Granny ' Hunt used 
 to favor us with, only writing it more legibly than he used to, 
 and I will see what can be done towards sending you another. 
 
 " Ever sincerely yours, 
 
 " Edward D. Duffield." 
 
 GEORGE THOMAS DUNLOP, C.E., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, Fendall Building, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Residence, 1413 21st Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 Married Jeannette Thurston McCook, Dayton, Ohio, November 8, 
 
 1900. Children, Alexander McCook, b. September 16, 1901. 
 
 Katharine, b. March 24, 1905. 
 
 IF everybody in the class had turned in his statistics in the 
 shape the Snipe adopted this Record would have been a 
 cinch for the editors. A pair of scissors and a pot of paste 
 was all that was necessary to prepare the following for the 
 printer. Dunlop studied law at George Washington Univer- 
 sity (formerly Columbian) and is an LL. B. He says, regard- 
 ing books, articles, speeches and lectures : 
 
 " I have spared the public, usually so patient and long-suffer- 
 ing, from my literary and oratorical efforts by withstanding 
 the blandishments of the clamorous publisher. I have confined 
 my writing of verse and prose fiction to my wife, the best- 
 natured woman in the world; my lectures to my son, because he 
 needs them most; and my speeches to the jury, because they 
 can't escape and can't talk back. I have been cheered and 
 solaced by the silence of my wife, egged by my son, and suf- 
 fered by the jury, and so far, by the Court." 
 
92 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 As for politics, public offices, " the good of the party," 
 etc., he remarks : " I have not been engaged in any questionable 
 pursuits, and so far I have been able to make an honest living."' 
 And this is how he managed it: 
 
 " Immediately upon my graduation I entered the Engineer 
 Department of the Capital Traction Co., where I remained for 
 about 18 months. Then for two years I was private secretary 
 to the President of the same Company, during which time I 
 studied law. Was admitted to the D. C. Bar in November, 
 1896, and at once began the practice of law." 
 
 He is a member of the following organizations : the Metro- 
 politan Club of Washington, D. C, the University Club of 
 Washington, the Chevy Chase Club (Country Club), Wash- 
 ington, D. C.j the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 
 the Lawyers' Association of the District of Columbia, the Board 
 of Trade of the District of Columbia, the National Geograph- 
 ical Society, the American Society of Political and Social 
 Science, the American Bar Association, Tiger Inn, Princeton, 
 the Nassau Club, Princeton, the Princeton Club, New York 
 City, and the Princeton Alumni Association of the District of 
 Columbia. He is as much of a golf fiend as his busy life will 
 permit, and he also plays tennis, " as poker is too hard on the 
 heart." Hobby? — "if you have any old Oriental rugs you 
 don't want or can't use, I will gladly give them storage room 
 indefinitely." 
 
 " What '92 men do I see frequently? Jack Hanna, Fish Hall. 
 Peter Cook, Fred Moses, Wilton J. Lambert, Runt Spooner, 
 and Duke Burleigh ; but I understand that this is to be a respect- 
 able publication." And then the Snipe sends a letter which is 
 not of the common or garden variety : 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 93 
 
 " Washington, D. C, October 25, 1906. 
 " Dear Classmates : 
 
 " Inasmuch as I am limited under the rules, to giving you 
 only the news about myself ' that's fit to print,' my letter 
 must be short, and especially uninteresting — to most of you. 
 For instance, how dare a married man write interestingly of 
 that unsettled period between his graduation and his wedding, 
 and how can he write even approximately the truth about his 
 wife and children, without incurring the risk of having them 
 kidnapped by that envious throng of unfortunate bachelors 
 yet extant? 
 
 " But about my domestic life, I may simply hint to you that 
 Mrs. Dunlop was the daughter of General Alexander McCook 
 of the ' Fighting McCooks,' and our son, his namesake, five 
 years of age, inherits the characteristics of his maternal ances- 
 tors. Well, yes, I am getting quite bald, though not so bad as 
 Fred Moses and Bob Denniston, but my spot is in the rear, 
 which would seem to reflect upon my courage. 
 
 " Mrs. Dunlop reminds me right here that it would be proper 
 for me to say that my wife is young, beautiful, charming, a 
 brilliant conversationalist, and of a lovely disposition, and I 
 do say so with a great deal of feeling. My boy is a corker — 
 wins all the sprints and acrobatic performances in his set, but 
 is not yet old enough to take up football, baseball, golf or 
 poker. I have a dreadful apprehension, however, that his 
 devotion to wheels of all descriptions is the precursor of a 
 passion for roulette. My baby girl is a dear, ' that's all.' 
 Perhaps you have a baby girl. 
 
 " As for my daily life and work, it would hardly be of in- 
 terest to many of you, for a lawyer's work, while rather 
 diversified, is usually not very exciting, except to his clients, 
 if he does not take criminal cases. And when those clients are 
 largely corporations, you might be tempted to remark that he 
 
94 PMXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 could hardly write interestingly * without showing his books.' 
 Now, if you will pardon a somewhat serious digression, perhaps 
 it will not be out of place to remark that so much rottenness 
 has been exposed recently in the affairs of certain, yes many, 
 corporations, that one might be pardoned for feeling that the 
 very word is tainted, yet we all know and everyone must realize 
 that the corporation is a necessity, and an institution with un- 
 limited powers of usefulness and for good in these days of large 
 affairs. To help guide these artificial citizens in the paths of 
 honorable and fair dealing and plain old-fashioned common or 
 garden honesty in their relations with the public, such as be- 
 comes the ideals of a Princeton man, is certainly a useful field 
 of labor, and I am not ashamed to be engaged in it. 
 
 " Since I separated from you at the station, in June, '92, 
 I have seen a few Yale football games, and fewer Princeton 
 victories. Perhaps someone can tell me why. Fortunately I 
 have seen many more Princeton-Yale baseball victories and 
 championships. I have traveled about our own country on 
 business, and sometimes on pleasure, and have had the common 
 experiences of most of you. I have spent some part of several 
 summers in Canada, and I have for pleasure spent about a 
 month in Cuba, in 1901, during our former occupation of that 
 frivolous, but not altogether unhappy, island, which rejoices 
 in its own insanity. I was also the greater part of the past 
 summer in England, where among other things I was not made 
 ashamed of Princeton, even in the shadows of Oxford and 
 Cambridge, although in the matter of architecture they can 
 beat Reunion Hall. But of the English colleo-es, for me — 
 Eton. And what a place is Eton Chapel ! All the grand 
 cathedrals to my eyes fade into comparative nothingness, are 
 petrified, become mere cold stone, in the presence of that puls- 
 ing heart of all that is best in England. Oh, such a place! It 
 is not to me a building, it is not a monument, it is not a place 
 of worship — it is a memory, an inspiration, a soul alive with 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 95 
 
 every passion and emotion, and it runs the gamut from the old 
 to the new. Why do we not hear more of Eton Chapel? 
 
 " Of course while in England I ' did ' all the sights, including 
 that shopworn, shoddy old ' palace,' Hampton Court. If I 
 had to be a king and live there, I'd throw up the business. 
 Such a lot of trash I never saw. And then of course I had to 
 do Stratford-on-Avon, with its Shakespearian curios, museums, 
 books under glass, chunks of rotten wood, bits of stone, soiled 
 sheets, and all (all labeled) — in true tourist fashion; all for the 
 sake of clearing the decks, so that in the future such things 
 may not stand in the way of my enjoyment of beautiful old 
 England. For a leisurely boating trip up the Thames from 
 London to Oxford, and a number of other such unconventional 
 holidays, including the beautiful English lakes and especially 
 Windermere (where I might have seen Woodrow Wilson, had 
 I known that he was there) — discovered to me the real charm 
 of the place, so that I long to know more of it. If Kelly Pren- 
 tice and the rest of the Globe-Wernicke Building Committee, 
 and Duke Burleigh, aided by the Committee of Fifty, in their 
 most laudable efforts, which, by the way, should be encouraged, 
 and which I highly commend to your distinguished considera- 
 tion, shall leave me any surplus, I certainly expect to see it all 
 again, and hope you will be with me. But the traveling to 
 which I look forward with greatest interest in the future, is that 
 ' good old summer time,' those ' days in June,' 1907, when we 
 will get together for our 15th Annual Reunion and begin to 
 realize that we are not even yet old men. 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " G. Thomas Ditnlop." 
 
96 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN TATHEM DUNN, A.M. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 423 Connell Building, Scranton, Pa. 
 
 Residence, Delaware Street, Scranton, Pa. 
 Married Theodora Grace Brown, Wyalusing, Pa., December 19, 
 
 1906. 
 
 SERGEANT DUNN wrote the following letter last sum- 
 mer, since when the " proposal " he alludes to has been 
 taken up and he is open to congratulations. 
 
 " Scranton, Pa., August 31, 1906. 
 " Prof. William K. Prentice, Secretary, 
 " 12 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J. 
 
 " Dear Kelly: — Your letter of the 29th inst., asking for the 
 ' stuff for the Class Record,' just at hand. I will look up a 
 photograph very soon, and see that you get it. If there have 
 been lists of questions sent out for the Class Record, I have 
 failed to receive the same, so that I don't exactly know what 
 you are after. I suppose what you want is the story of my life 
 after leaving college. There being no love story connected 
 with the same, I am of the opinion that it would be of little 
 interest, and the briefer I can make it the better. 
 
 " Following graduation at Princeton, I entered McCormick 
 Theological Seminary at Chicago; where I took my first year. 
 The following year I went abroad and entered the University 
 of Gottingen, Germany. The year following, I entered Prince- 
 ton Theological Seminary, and was graduated there in 1896. 
 I accepted a call as assistant pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
 Church, at Scranton, where I preached for two years. Then 
 I resigned, and went to Brunswick, Georgia, and accepted the 
 position of inspector of customs of the Port of Brunswick, 
 which I held for about nine months. Then I returned to Scran- 
 ton, and took up the study of law in the law offices of Dunn & 
 
G. T. Dunlop 
 
 J. T. Dunn 
 
 H. S. Dunning 
 
 A. F. Baenshaw 
 
 

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BIOGRAPHIES 97 
 
 Walker. In the spring of 1900 I was admitted to practice 
 law at Scranton, and the firm of Dunn & Walker having been 
 dissolved, I became a partner of the firm of Dunn & Dunn, 
 at 424 Connell Building, Scranton, where I have remained since. 
 I am not married, but want to be and am open to proposals. 
 " Hoping that this is the ' stuff ' you are looking for, I am 
 
 " Yours for '92, 
 
 "John T. Dunn." 
 
 HARRY SLAWSON DUNNING 
 
 Minister. Address, Port Jefferson, Long Island, N. Y. 
 Married Irene Gardner, Middletown, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1900. Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 IITTLE DUNNING was an Instructor in English at Lehigh 
 _J the year after graduation, and then entered Hartford 
 Theological Seminary, where he pursued his studies preparatory 
 to entering the ministry. Since his ordination he has filled 
 the following pastorates: Three years at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 five years at Corry, Pa., and for the past two years at Port 
 Jefferson, L. I. After this book had gone to press he was 
 heard from personally for the first time and to the following 
 effect : 
 
 " My dear Prentice : 
 
 " When the blank came last summer, I was having a run of 
 fever. It was mislaid and did not come to light for a long time. 
 When it was discovered, I confess that my interest was lagging 
 and needed a large amount of stimulating. But your fusillade 
 of missives is too strenuous for me. I surrender. 
 
 " Yours truly, 
 
 " H. S. Dunning. 
 " February 20, 1907." 
 
98 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 SMITH GARDNER DUNNING 
 
 Minister. Address, Camden, Ohio. 
 
 Married Agnes Rose Powers, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 29, 1899- 
 Children, Norma Pennoyer, b. April 26, 1901. Ronald Gard- 
 ner, b. October 6, 1902. Ruth Eyman, b. March 15, 1905. 
 
 DUNNING studied at McCormick Theological Seminary, 
 Chicago, after graduation. He has been a missionary in 
 Equatorial West Africa and has also visited the Canary and 
 Madeira Isles, Germany and England. His hobby is breeding 
 fancy chickens and his garden is his chief recreation. He 
 wants the class to know that Master Ronald, above mentioned, 
 is coming to Princeton. 
 
 '* Classmates of '92 : 
 
 " Did any of you receive the mitten in public? Such was 
 my experience. In the year 1896, while still somewhat in the 
 ' veal ' state as a preacher, I invited a certain damsel, newly 
 graduated from college and under appointment to go out that 
 fall to China as a missionary, to address my congregation one 
 Sabbath evening. In the midst of her remarks she took oc- 
 casion to lay the responsibility upon the membership at home of 
 upholding the hands of the missionaries abroad. And in order 
 to correct any possible impression that she was making an 
 appeal for herself personally, she said, ' I don't want you to 
 think that I am here on a dunning expedition.' I was so 
 obtuse as not t*> understand for a time why a wave of laughter 
 passed over the audience. I can simply add that this mitten 
 was sufficient. However, it did not discourage me, for I now 
 have ' the best helpmeet in the world,' who for a term of three 
 years was Grand President of Delta, Delta, Delta, so that I 
 have been known as the husband of Mrs. Dunning. I may also 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 99 
 
 add, last but not least, there are three little Dunnings, one of 
 whom is a candidate for Princeton. 
 
 " With three cheers and a tiger, 
 
 " S. G. Dunning. 
 "Osborn, Ohio, October 24, 1906." 
 
 ALBERT FROST EARNSHAW, A.M. 
 
 Minister. Address, Chelmsford^ Mass. Unmarried. 
 
 EARNSHAW studied at the Union Theological Seminary, 
 N. Y. City, at Columbia and at the American School of 
 Classical Studies, Rome. He travelled on the Continent in 
 1896-97, and visited England in 1899. As a Congregational 
 minister, he has filled charges at Phillips and Portland, in Maine. 
 He is a Free Mason and belongs to the Princeton Club of New 
 England, and to the Congregational Club of Lowell, Mass. 
 He is just as earnest and modest a seeker after knowledge as 
 ever, for he says, " If I have a hobby it is general information. 
 I like to keep tab on what is going on in the world of thought 
 and of affairs. So I strike too many scents to follow any one 
 to the finish and I know no subject thoroughly. 
 
 " At present I am living in a quiet New England village of 
 Revolutionary antecedents, even as Princeton ; but I may be 
 elsewhere when I get the Quindecennial Record, for like others 
 of my profession, I am ' always roaming with a hungry heart.' 
 (Cf. ' Ulysses,' as read to us by Prof. Winans in Senior year). 
 
 " I own to thirty pounds more weight than when we graduated, 
 and a few more gray hairs. Of the latter I have the fewer, I 
 am sure, for ranking myself hitherto with that more discrim- 
 inating part of the class whose numbers, alas, grow continually 
 smaller. In other words, I follow Geo. Herbert's advice to the 
 parson when it is ' Never exceed thyself ' and ' Be sweet to all ' ; 
 but not when it is ' Get a sharp wife.' 
 
100 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " One of my chief regrets for the past is that I did not get 
 back in 1902, and one of my treasured hopes, that I shall be 
 on hand in June, 1907, for the Quindecennial. 
 
 " Deeply sensible of the high aim of the committee * to pro- 
 long life and to encourage the pursuit of happiness,' I entertain 
 a corresponding gratitude for the privilege of aiding in the 
 enterprise by handing over for the widest distribution this full 
 and veritable account of the career and emotions of a humble 
 member of a renowned class. 
 
 " Having thus served my class, my Alma Mater, and my 
 fellow-man, I am, 
 
 " Your much relieved classmate, 
 
 " Albert F. Earnshaw. 
 " Chelmsford, Mass., September 18, 1906." 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM EASTON, A.M., E.E. 
 
 Teacher. Business Address, Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. J. 
 
 Residence, Blairstown, N. J. 
 Married Elizabeth White, Cleveland, Ohio, November 22, 1898. 
 
 Children, Katherine, b. November 12, 1903. 
 
 OUR old friend Toughey came up with a good letter after 
 much prodding. He was graduated from the Electrical 
 School in 1894, was in Cleveland, Ohio from 1894 to 1898, and 
 since then has been instructor in Physics and Chemistry at the 
 Blair Academy, sending pupils to Princeton every year. In his 
 travels he has believed in cultivating home products ; he says 
 he has travelled about New Jersey chiefly, " for here one can 
 travel many hours and accomplish only short distances." He 
 is a member of the Chemistry Teachers' Club of New York, and 
 his hobby is photography. C. P. Butler and John Van Ness 
 occasionally visit Blairstown — Butler to visit his family, but 
 " as he is not of a roving disposition, he sticks pretty closely 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 101 
 
 to home. Butts is really a good preacher." Here is the rest 
 of the letter: 
 
 " Blairstown, N. J., November 13, 1906. 
 
 " ' Send along that letter for publication ' has been coming 
 to me frequently from both Mike and Wilkie, and so I yield to 
 the inevitable and make my contribution to the Record. It is a 
 difficult undertaking to make an interesting personal sketch of 
 an uneventful career. Others, however, may have had a more 
 varied experience and so can balance things up in the general 
 report of our class history. 
 
 " After securing the official document of graduation, I stuck 
 to Princeton for two years of postgraduate work with Prof. 
 Brackett in the department of Electrical Engineering. Geo. 
 W. Betts, now a patent lawyer of some note, and Wm. Elmer, 
 Jr., as report has it, Master Mechanic of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad, both men of our class, were also following the same 
 line of work. Upon the completion of my graduate course in 
 1894 I accepted an appointment as Instructor in Physics and 
 Mathematics at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, 
 Ohio, where for two years I looked after the Physics laboratory 
 and assisted with the Freshman Mathematics. In 1896 the 
 practical field of work offered its attractions and in the two suc- 
 ceeding years I busied myself in chemical and electrical work 
 with the Walker Electrical Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland. 
 Then another change and September, 1898, witnessed my de- 
 parture for Blairstown, N. J., to take charge of the department 
 of Physics and Chemistry at Blair Academy — attacking again 
 the educational problem, this time, however, along secondary 
 school lines. 
 
 " Here I am still — nine years in a prep, school devoting my 
 energies to ' the kids,' and nine exceedingly pleasant years have 
 they been. Located as we are among the hills of Northern 
 Jersey, near the Delaware Water Gap, in a most beautiful 
 country and with the added pleasure of working with laboratory 
 
102 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 equipments for science teaching equalled in few preparatory 
 schools in the country, the work is thoroughly enjoyable. Sev- 
 eral of our men have visited our school and they can tell of 
 its beauty of location and of its equipment. 
 
 " In November, 1898, Miss Elizabeth White of Cleveland, 
 Ohio, came to Blairstown as Mrs. Easton and we are now living 
 in the house which sheltered 'Amicus populi ' Butler (C. P.), 
 '92, in the days of his infancy. We have one daughter, Kath- 
 erine, three years of age. I hear of the men of our class fre- 
 quently through the boys attending the Academy, but seldom 
 see any of them. Some of you, however, may be called upon 
 to make us a visit to act as judges in the various school contests ; 
 so have your acceptance ready (all expenses paid). 
 " Yours for Princeton and '92, 
 
 " J. W. Easton." 
 
 EDWARD DAVID ELLISON 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 936 New York Life Building, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Residence, 3709 Belleview Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
 Married Mary W. Stone, Lawrence, Kan., December 5, 189 k 
 
 Children, Emily Stone, b. ; d. Aug. 22, 1897. Elizabeth 
 
 G., b. February 6, 1899- 
 
 ED ELLISON is Lecturer on Constitutional Law and on 
 Negotiable Instruments in the Kansas City School of 
 Law, of which institution he is Secretary. He has lived in 
 Kansas City ever since graduation. He belongs to the Uni- 
 versity Club there and frequently sees DeLong, who he says 
 " runs the club and a Trust Company." As a member of the 
 Missouri Republican Club he has worked for that party, but 
 has never held office. He has travelled through the New Eng- 
 land States, Canada, Nova Scotia and Mexico several times. 
 In his spare time his specialties are bridge and pool. 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 103 
 
 WILLIAM ELMER, Jr., E.E. 
 
 Master Mechanic, Pittsburg Division, Pennsylvania Railroad. 
 Business Address, P. R. R. Shops, Liberty Avenue and 28th 
 Streets, Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 5127 Center Avenue, Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. 
 
 Married Helen Gray, Beach Haven, N. J., September 12, 1906. 
 
 FEW of us can realize the hard work, physical and mental, 
 that underlies the interesting story the Babe so modestly 
 tells of his advance to the position he now occupies. Summar- 
 ized, here is his record: 1895, Electrical Engineer for the 
 Trenton Iron Company; 1896, apprentice in the Meadows 
 Shops of the P. R. R. at Newark; 1898, special apprentice in 
 the Altoona Machine Shops of the P. R. R. ; 1900, General 
 Foreman of Electric Car service, N. J. & S. R. R. at Atlantic 
 City; 1901, Assistant Master Mechanic, P. R. R. Machine 
 Shops at Altoona; 1903, Assistant Engineer of Motive Power 
 P. R, R. Division, Altoona ; 1906, Master Mechanic, Pittsburg 
 Division, P. R. R. The Hot Air Furnace is lighted by half 
 a dozen of his incandescent contributions to knowledge. 
 
 " My dear Mike: 
 
 " After graduating from the Electrical School, Kep Hall 
 of '93 and myself started in the Electrical Engineering and 
 Contracting business in Trenton. There wasn't a very howl- 
 ing demand for our services, but we gained some experience 
 and declared a few dividends until I was offered a position 
 as Electrical Engineer for the Trenton Iron Co. at a salary 
 of $1500 per year. That looked very attractive, so I took 
 the job. The immediate business in hand was the construc- 
 tion of an installation on the banks of the Erie canal near 
 Buffalo of an electric scheme for towing canal boats. It was 
 to revolutionize the canal business and rejuvenate the moribund 
 
104 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 canal, but I notice the mules are still doing business. I 
 afterwards learned that the whole scheme was a political one 
 put forward to create newspaper excitement and induce the 
 voters of the State to authorize the expenditure of $9,000,000 
 for the benefit of the grafters. But the mile installation worked 
 successfully and towed the boats all right. Anybody can buy 
 the outfit cheap now. The next job at the Trenton Iron Co. 
 was a series of experiments on the electric welding of steel 
 wires. The new Brooklyn bridge was then under consideration, 
 and it was thought that an improvement could be made on the 
 screw couplings used in the first bridge. The problem given 
 was to have 90 per cent, of the welds show 90 per cent, of the 
 strength of the original stock, and after hundreds of experi- 
 ments and nearly ruining my eyes, I was able to pronounce a 
 weld good or bad at the instant it was made. The bad ones 
 would be cut out and made over and the final result was that 
 100 per cent, of the welds showed 95 per cent, of the strength 
 of the original stock. At the end of my first year I resigned 
 to begin my apprenticeship with the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
 The Superintendent of Motive Power of the New York Division 
 had been good enough to tell me at the end of my period of 
 firing in the vacation of our Senior year, that any time I wanted 
 to re-enter the service he would give me a job. So I applied 
 for one and he laughed at me. He asked me what I was getting 
 then and when I told him he said it would be ten years before 
 I would be earning as much in the P. R. R. But I stuck to 
 it, so he took me in at the Meadows Shops halfway between 
 Newark and Jersey City, between the manure piles and the 
 fertilizer factory, at five cents an hour. I went to work in the 
 Erecting Shop, October 1st, 1896, and served a year. Then 
 to the Machine Shop for a time with occasional periods of 
 special duty, when I was in the drawing room or on the road. 
 One was the designing of the electric fog bell at the 23rd 
 Street Ferry ; another the test of a car equipped with an 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 105 
 
 axle-driven electric light outfit; another the re-design of the 
 Atlantic City Electric Railway Power Plant. A very interest- 
 ing piece of work was the test of the Burlington & Mt. Holly 
 Railroad, a seven-mile standard-gauge line, operating under 
 steam railroad conditions. 
 
 " On March 31st, 1898, I was tranf erred to the Altoona 
 Shops as a Special Apprentice, in order to complete my course 
 under the eyes of the officers who would later be responsible 
 for my promotions. In the Fall of that year I was taken out 
 of the shops and put on special duty by the Superintendent of 
 Motive Power, who was chairman of the Master Car Builders' 
 Association Committee on Couplers. I learned a lot about car 
 couplers and collected a great deal of material for the Com- 
 mittee's report. Later I made a report to the General Superin- 
 tendent on the coaling facilities on the Pittsburgh, West Penn, 
 Monongahela, C. & C. and Tyrone Divisions. I never went 
 back to the shops again, for on January 14th, 1900, I was 
 sent to Atlantic City to take charge of the electric railroad, 
 my predecessor having died suddenly. That summer was a very 
 busy and interesting one, as the railroad did the largest busi- 
 ness in its history, and it was with real regret, mingled with 
 joyful pride, that I left Atlantic City to go to Altoona on 
 October 1st, 1900, as Assistant Master Mechanic of the Al- 
 toona Machine Shops. It was very gratifying also to recall 
 the prediction of my old Superintendent M. P. that it would 
 be ten years before I was earning the salary I had received 
 previous to beginning my apprenticeship. I had it back again 
 in just four years. 
 
 " The Altoona Machine Shops employed over 5000 men and 
 turned out more than 100 repaired locomotives a month, besides 
 manufacturing thousands of articles every year for use in other 
 shops all over the railroad. Several new buildings were planned 
 and erected and the experience gained has been of inestimable 
 advantage in all my subsequent work. 
 
106 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " On January 1, 1903, I was promoted to Assistant Engineer 
 of Motive Power, P. R. R. Division, with headquarters at Al- 
 toona, and during this period had charge of the design and 
 construction of several important plants. The East Altoona 
 roundhouse is the largest in the world and handles nearly 300 
 engines a day. The coal wharf handles 40,000 tons of coal 
 a month and the storage yard will hold 150 locomotives. The 
 South Altoona Foundries are the latest expansion of the 
 P. R. R. group of shops at Altoona, and the wheel foundry is 
 the largest in the world. It turns out 900 car wheels a day. 
 The iron foundry makes all the castings used by the railroad 
 and the power plant is up-to-date in every respect. Two large 
 pieces of work which were carried on simultaneously are the 
 coal and ash handling stations at Denholm and Thorndale — one 
 on the Middle and the other on the Philadelphia Division. At 
 each of these points the railroad fans out from four tracks to 
 twelve, and five trains in each direction can have the locomotive 
 fire cleaned, front end and ash-pan cleaned, and take coal, water 
 and sand at the same time. Over a thousand tons of coal a day 
 is delivered to engines and the ashes are taken away by con- 
 veyors running in tunnels underneath the tracks. 
 
 " On February 1, 1906, I was promoted to Master Mechanic 
 of the Pittsburg Division, having ten engine houses, numerous 
 air-compressing and electric power plants, pumping stations 
 and coal wharves to look after. There are 650 locomotives in 
 service and 2300 men employed in my department. 
 
 " On September 17th I was married to Miss Helen Gray at 
 Beach Haven, N. J., where her father's summer cottage is 
 located. A delightful wedding trip through Canada followed 
 and at our apartment the latch-string will always be out and 
 a bed ready for any deserving member of the good old class 
 of '92." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 107 
 
 ALBERT S. ENGLISH 
 
 OUR Nassau Herald said English was a lawyer. He left 
 college in 1889. We know nothing more about him, and 
 have not been able to find him. 
 
 ALFRED EVANS 
 
 Engineering. Office, Division Engineer's Office, New York State 
 Canals, Syracuse, N. Y. Residence, Warners, N. Y. 
 
 Married Lillian Byrnes, New York City, March 1, 1895. Children, 
 James Frederick, b. January 28, 1896. 
 
 A LFRED EVANS is still able to view things cheerfully. 
 j[V. Asked whether he is married, engaged, or single, he 
 replies "Why ask? Don't you remember my good looks? 
 Caught March 1, 1895." And he has a son — " one masculine 
 heir " he calls him. Professionally he is General Inspector of 
 the State Engineer's Department, the State being New York, 
 and he is also a " Gentleman of Leisure doing the poor down- 
 trodden taxpayer " — the allusion being the State canals. His 
 forensic reminiscence is brief but vivid : " I have addressed my 
 country constituents upon the Great, Grand and Galorious 
 principles of Republicanism twice. I still smell the odor of the 
 cheering — suffered until I took a Russian bath." He has taken 
 many parts in politics — " tax collector, school trustee, path 
 master, three months unexpired term of village constable." 
 But he is no more of an altruist than the law allows ; order is 
 " Self, first ; Republicanism, second ; Party, still running." He 
 travelled to Denver " after leaving Princeton for my health." 
 In 1901-1902 he visited Cuba. He is waiting for cheap rates 
 to Heaven. In the meantime he has lived mostly all over New 
 York State, and he was, for a time, Chemist to the Portland 
 Cement Works, Inspector of State Public Works and General 
 
108 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Inspector of State Barge Canals. He is a Mason and an Odd 
 Fellow. His chief exercise has been taken while serving as lead- 
 ing pall bearer among his country friends. For exercise he 
 recommends bending the elbow and saying " Here's to '92 — 
 Let's have another." He has also taken a great fancy to 
 Ping Pong. What is his hobby? "To write like Jesse Wil- 
 liams, eat like Conwell, sing like Mike Bergen, dun, beg and 
 plead like Wm. K. P." It is a thousand pities the Little Devil 
 didn't have time to compose a letter for the Record. It would 
 have been a joy. 
 
 EVAN MORTON EVANS. B.S., M.D. 
 
 Medicine. Office and Residence, 38 West 48th Street, New York 
 
 City. 
 Married Elizabeth Maverick Allen, Virginia, 1898. Children, none. 
 
 EVANS studied at Edinburgh University and took his med- 
 ical degree at Columbia (P. & S.) in 1895. He is At- 
 tending Physician at the City Hospital, New York, and since 
 1901 has been an Instructor in Medicine at Columbia. His 
 hobbies are botany, natural history and music, and in spite of 
 his reticence he confesses that he is " tickled to death to be 
 alive." 
 
 MARCUS STULTS FARR, A.M., M.S., D.Sc. 
 
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 Teaching. Address, 12 Maple Street, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 Married Luella Conover Bergen, Cranbury, N. J., October 24, 1894. 
 Children, Vernon Boyd, b. July 20, 1895. James Frederick, 
 b. October 21, 1898; d. February 24, 1902. James Frederick 
 II., b. November 11, 1901. 
 
 FARR is Preceptor in Geology and Curator of Vertebrate 
 Paleontology at Princeton. He was Fellow in Biology 
 for a year after graduation and took his Master of Science 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 109 
 
 degree in 1893 ; then he went to Chicago as Fellow in Zoology 
 at the University and earned his Master of Arts degree in 1894. 
 Then for the next two years he was a graduate student at 
 Princeton and in 1896 he proceeded to his doctorate of science. 
 He then became Assistant in the Paleontological Laboratory, 
 serving until 1898, when he went to Albany as Assistant Zo- 
 ologist at the New York State Museum. In 1900 he came back 
 to Princeton as an Assistant in Geology and in 1905 when the 
 preceptorial system was put in he became a Preceptor in Ge- 
 ology. With such a training it is not to be wondered at that 
 Dr. Farr declares that his hobby is his work in general and 
 vertebrate fossils in particular, and that he does not get much 
 time for exercise or recreation. He has, however, been a mem- 
 ber of Company L, 2d Regiment N. G. N. J., for the past six 
 years. This company, be it known, is formed of Princeton citi- 
 zens, has an armory of its own — the Casino that Joe Huston 
 erected — and was raised, drilled and until recently commanded 
 by Colonel William Libbey, who taught us what Historical 
 Physical Geography we know. It is commonly known as 
 " Bill's Army," and has a number of crack marksmen in it, 
 one of them being Farr himself, who has been a member of 
 the N. J. State Rifle Team for the past three years. In 1894 
 he went with the University of Chicago expedition to South 
 Dakota and Nebraska, and in 1901, 1902 and 1903 he headed 
 the Princeton expeditions to Montana and Wyoming. He says, 
 " My travels have not been extensive ; for an ' homme de f a- 
 mille ' living expenses are high, salaries are low — and the walk- 
 ing is poor." He never spoke a truer word. The titles of his 
 contributions to knowledge are given in the H. A. F. At pres- 
 ent he is working on Lower Eocene Mammals, and on Fossil 
 Birds of Patagonia, the material brought back by the Prince- 
 ton Patagonian Expeditions. 
 
110 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 
 
 MAX FARRAND, A.M., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. 
 
 Teaching. Residence, Stanford University, California. Unmarried. 
 
 THE Head of the History Department at Leland Stanford 
 says that our prodding postals remind him of Marion 
 
 Mills Miller's cards " Your oration is now due. Go to etc." 
 
 Which shows how dilatory Max was even then; for the rest of 
 us do not recollect having received so peremptory a reminder 
 of engagements at the Old Chapel. Here is his present " ora- 
 tion " : 
 
 " Stanford University, Cae., October 24, 1906. 
 " To the Members of the Class of '92 : 
 
 " I'm a teacher by profession, a bachelor by force of circum- 
 stances, and a fisherman through pure love of the sport. The 
 last, I am forced to admit in this solemn hour of confession, 
 has been the controlling factor in my life. The necessity of 
 long summer vacations for the pursuit of my chosen sport led 
 me into teaching; the greater freedom of university life induced 
 me to try that rather than preparatory school work ; the rest 
 was inevitable. 
 
 " By a process of exclusion — some subjects were too hard, 
 and others I didn't like — I chose History and Politics for my 
 field. Two years of graduate study in Princeton and two years 
 at Leipzig and Heidelberg were necessary by way of prepara- 
 tion, and shortly after my return to this country in 1896 
 Wesleyan offered to give me a trial. 
 
 " Five strenuous years were spent in Middletown. Drinking 
 was forbidden, dancing and card-playing were tabooed, and 
 even smoking was frowned upon. But I kept sane by long 
 camping and fishing trips in the summer. I worked hard, but 
 work was a pleasure, because it was directed toward a definite 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 111 
 
 end and one that was worth while. Gradually my interest cen- 
 tered in United States History. 
 
 " Then came an offer from Stanford. It was hard to go so 
 far away, and the conditions were somewhat dubious. The 
 decision to accept was determined largely by a conviction that 
 had grown upon me through a chance remark of Woodrow 
 Wilson's, that no man could understand the history of our 
 country until he had learned to know the West. So I've thrown 
 in my lot with the Pacific Coast, and even earthquakes have 
 failed to make me regret it for a single instant. (Perhaps that 
 is because I happened to be East when the big shake came a 
 few months ago.) I've had to revise all my ideas of American 
 history, and of a few other things as well. You can't cross this 
 great country of ours — and I do so once or twice a year — 
 without realizing that the West has been an all-powerful force 
 in American development. 
 
 " I'm a teacher by profession, and my work has resolved itself 
 into two simple but very big propositions : — To save my stu- 
 dents from the mistakes and defects of my own early training; 
 and to help others get a little clearer insight into what has 
 been the real development of American history. 
 
 " Three other bachelors — all good fellows — have taken me 
 into their company. We have a place of our own, a French 
 chef in the form of a Chinaman, a cellar that is always stocked, 
 and we live so well that, as a friend from the East remarked, 
 ' it is positively immoral.' 
 
 " Not so very long ago, and just over the hills a few miles 
 away, with a five ounce rod and number 14 coachman, I caught 
 a three-pound trout. 
 
 " Max Farrand." 
 
 From 1896 to 1901 Max was Professor of History at Wes- 
 leyan, and in 1901 he was called to Stanford. During the 
 year 1905-1906 he was Acting Professor of History at Cornell. 
 
112 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 
 
 Fishermen are notoriously good mixers, and Dr. Farrand, being 
 no exception, belongs to the University and Bohemian Clubs of 
 San Francisco, the Princeton Club of New York, the Nassau 
 Club of Princeton, the American Historical Association, and 
 several local historical societies. He is also a Fellow of the 
 Royal Geographical Society. For exercise he plays billiards 
 and dodges earthquakes. Cornell helped him to dodge the big- 
 one last year. His hobby is fly-fishing for trout and he has 
 caught them in most of the good streams in the country; he 
 spends his summers camping, tramping and fishing. The only 
 '92 men he sees on the coast are Tommy Irvin and Al Lillev — 
 and everyone in San Francisco who has seen Tommy and Max 
 compare polls on the street declares the former the balder. 
 There should be a hot contest when these two get next to Poet 
 Denniston, Fred Moses, Pop Atkinson and other shining marks 
 in the Eastern baldheaded row. Max does not mention Al 
 Lilley's hair, but says he is the same good fellow at the Uni- 
 versity Club that he was in college. By the way, examination 
 of a picture treasured with care in our Archives shows that 
 Max had enough hair to grow a beard, once. 
 
 ROBERT FIELD 
 
 United States Army. Address, care of War Department, Washing- 
 ton. D. C. Residence, 1928 N St. N.W., Washington, D. C. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 POP FIELD with characteristic military modesty sent no 
 response to the call issued for material for our Triennial 
 Record, and has sent none for this. He is a very busy officer 
 and completely absorbed in his profession. 
 
 From the U. S. Army Register, from a letter by his father, 
 the late Colonel Edward Field, '61, published in Professor 
 Libbey's " Princeton in the Spanish War," and from data very 
 kindly supplied by his mother, Mrs. Edward Field of Washing- 
 
M.. S. Farr 
 
 M. Farrand 
 
 E. Field 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 113 
 
 ton, we have been able to construct the following sketch of his 
 career since lie quit making limericks for the Class and left 
 college to serve his country: 
 
 He entered the army in January, 1894, as a private in Com- 
 pany II, 8th IT. S. Cavalry, and in due- time was promoted 
 corporal and sergeant. After passing examination at Fort 
 Leavenworth, he was commissioned a C ZA Lieutenant of the 14th 
 Infantry in February, 1897, being stationed at Vancouver 
 Uarracks, Portland, Ore. In the wint.er of '97 he- was ordered to 
 Alaska on special duty, being stationed at Skagway and Dyea, 
 and making the trip over the Chilcoot Pass. 
 
 lb- remained in Alaska until the Spring of 1898. When 
 w;u- was declarer! with Spain, he was ordered with his regiment 
 (14th Infantry) to proceed to San Francisco and embark for 
 the Philippine Islands. He sailed for the islands August, 1898. 
 W.is on duly ah Cuartel Malate, near .Manila, until the breaking 
 out, of the insurrection, February 4, 1899. He was engaged in 
 this first, battle, commanding Company M of the 14th Infantry. 
 Prom that lime until the end of the insurrection he was con- 
 stantly on the firing lin* — promoted March, 1899, to 1st Lieu- 
 tenant, 14th Infantry. Commanded stations in the towns of 
 Bacoor and Emus, P. I. His service during this period of 
 fighting was all under General Lawton, commanding our forces. 
 At the battle of " Tapote Bridge," he was recommended by 
 General Lawton for a brevet for gallant service, his work during 
 that bailie being considered by General Lawton most gallant 
 and efficient. 
 
 He returned to the United States in 1900 with the Home 
 Battalion, and took station at Fort Wayne, Detroit. In No- 
 vember of that year he was ordered for duty as aide to General 
 Elwell Otis, then commanding the Department of the Lakes, 
 with headquarters at Chicago. In November, 1901, he was 
 promoted Captain in the 5th Infantry, and went back to the 
 Philippines in May, 1902. He returned to the United States 
 
114 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 in November, 1903, by way of the Suez Canal, and was stationed 
 at Plattsburg, N. Y., the winter of 1903-4. In June, 1905, he 
 was detailed to inspect the Virginia Military Institute, and in 
 duly, 1905, to inspect the Connecticut Militia in camp at 
 Nyantic, Conn. During the winter of 1906 he was detailed to 
 inspect the armories at Albany and other cities of New York 
 State; and the Spring of 1906 was spent in inspecting the 
 militia organizations of Massachusetts. 
 
 At the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire he was 
 ordered to the Pacific Coast on the Relief Service. On October 
 1, 1906, he was ordered with his regiment to embark for Cuba, 
 where he is still with the " Army of Pacification," at Sagua Pa 
 Grande, commanding Company F, U. S. Infantry. 
 
 H 
 
 HARRY K. FREEMAN 
 
 ARRY K. FREEMAN left college in 1889. We know 
 nothing about him. 
 
 JOHN MONTGOMERY GASTON, A.M 
 
 V 
 
 Minister. Residence, 5S2i Coral Street, E. Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Married Harriet Gertrude Cramp, Crafton, Pa., December 81, 1895. 
 Children, Marion Grosvenor, b. November 11, 1897. Jean 
 Montgomery, b. June 17, 1902; d. April 8, 1904. John Mont- 
 gomery, Jr., b. December 3, 1905. 
 
 GASTON survived the Princeton Theological Seminary and 
 at the same time got his A. M. from the college ; since 
 then he has lived in Pittsburg continuously and has had three 
 different charges in succession in that city. He has seen no 
 military service — "'but have been married for eleven years!" 
 Yes. for discipline there's nothing like it. Perhaps that cham- 
 pion marble heart. Dr. Claude Arthur McWilliams, is right 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 115 
 
 after all ! Gaston's hobby is a good horse. He writes as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 " On leaving the Seminary I came to the Smoky City to 
 become pastor of a Presbyterian Church here. Some time after, 
 at a social function in the Church parlors I spied a young lady 
 who happened to be visiting some of the young ladies of the 
 Church. I soon decided that if she was willing I was, the result 
 being that she is now Mrs. Jno. M. After a very delightful 
 pastorate in this Church of three years, I was called to the 
 Hazelwood Church, this city, where I spent six years. Now I 
 am in my third Church, all in the same presbytery. Next to 
 old Princeton, Pittsburg is the best place on earth, although 
 they say it is 'Hell with the lid off.' 
 
 " We have a few Princeton men here, though not many of our 
 class of '92. The world has dealt kindly with me and I am 
 an optimist in my Philosophy and Theology. 
 
 " I have a girl nine years old and a boy a little over one year, 
 who is bound for Princeton ; but I suppose the present rules 
 will exclude the girl. " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " Jno. M. Gaston. 
 " Friendship Avenue Presbyterian Church. 
 
 " Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 15, 1907." 
 
 HERBERT BUDD GIBBY, A.M., M.D.I 
 
 Physician. Office, 15 South Main Street, Pittston, Pa. Residence, 
 
 225 Wyoming Avenue, West Pittston, Pa. 
 Married Emma Bodner, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 7, 1904. 
 
 Children, Helen, b. July 19, 1905. 
 
 GIBBY was so busy cutting up people in Pittston that he 
 nearly missed the last call. But finally he laid down 
 his knives long enough to tell us that he studied medicine at the 
 University of Pennsylvania and carried off a diploma in 1895, 
 
llti PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 and hung his shingle, or whatever it is doctors hang, in Pitts 
 ton. Surgery is his hobby and he has devoted himself more 
 and mure to that branch of practice, He is surgeon to the 
 Pittston Hospital, the L. V, H. R. and the 1.. & W. V. R, R. and 
 is a member of the American Medical Association, and the Lu 
 seme County Medical Society. Here is his Letter: 
 
 •• Samuel Johnson hail a Boswell, and George Washington a 
 Washington [rving to chronicle the interesting events of their 
 lives, but alas, tor me, the entreaties and threats of your im 
 portunate committee have compelled me in self-defense to write 
 a short autobiography. 
 
 M We are told that a man is only estimated at his true worth 
 bv succeeding generations, so 1 shall endeavor to adhere closely 
 
 to facts, and allow posterity to deal as it may see tit with the 
 
 subject of this short sketch. 
 
 "In the fall following his graduation from Princeton, this 
 member of the Glorious Class of '98, in company with a half- 
 dosen fellow classmates, began the study of medicine at the 
 University of Pennsylvania, After three years of hard work 
 he was graduated in 1895 with the much-coveted degree of 
 M. D., and in this year also Princeton conferred upon him the 
 degree of A.M. 
 
 " After serving for one year as interne at tin- Pittston llos 
 pita! he began the practice of medicine at Pittston, Pa., in the 
 famous Wyoming Valley, the centre of the anthracite coal 
 fields. lie was elected Attending Surgeon to the Pittston Hos 
 
 pita! in 189*7, and has been eloselv associated with the Hospital 
 work ever since. Two years later, after visiting the principal 
 
 eities of Europe, he journeyed to Vienna, Austria, the Mecca 
 of the medical students of the world, and here at the old Uni- 
 versity, made famous by such men as Hilroth ami Kokitanskv, 
 he pursued his medical studies for nearly a year. On his return 
 
HI r 0G RAP HIES in 
 
 to America he resumed the practice of medicine at Pittston, 
 
 when- lie has continued to Hi'- present date. 
 
 " He was married in 1904 to Miss Emma Bodmer of Will.' 
 Barre, and the following yn-r a daughter was born to them. 
 
 " In pursuance of his special studies in surgery, in the summer 
 of 1906 he visited Rochester, Minn., and spent jome time at the 
 clinic of the May,'', at St. Mary's Hospital. 
 
 "His tastes lean particularly to surgery. An estimate of 
 
 what, In- has so far accomplished is more or less difficult. He 
 
 has made mistakes, he has had some measure of success, but he 
 i ru.ts that before he shall have reached the chloroforming age 
 he may accomplish something for- the advancement of the noblest 
 
 of all professions that shall he worthy of Princeton and the 
 
 Glorious ('lass." 
 
 JOHN 5TOUNG GRAHAM, M.S., Ph. J). 
 Teaching. Address, University of Alabama. 
 
 Married Isabella Hummel, Mount Vernon, X. Y ., July 5, 1900. 
 
 Children, none. 
 
 BROWNBREAD was Demonstrator in Jiiology at Prince- 
 ton from 1892 to 1894, when he earned his Master of 
 Science degree; then he went to the University of Munich and 
 put, in three more years, at the end of which time he was given 
 his I'h. J). The University of Alabama thereupon claimed him 
 and has kept him as its Professor of Biology. He was abroad 
 again in 1905. He belongs to the Tuscaloosa Club; and had 
 he the time chess would be his hobby. He never sees a '9£ man 
 in Alabama; has never held a political office; votes the Demo- 
 cratic ticket, for State offices, but would be glad to vote for 
 Roosevelt all the rest of his life. He has sent no letter. 
 
118 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 ROBERT D. GRAHAM 
 
 Address (in 1892), 13 West 17th Street, New York City. 
 
 THE following entry written in 1893 concerning Graham, 
 who was a brother of Malcolm Graham, '90, is to be 
 found in the Secretary's first address book : " Graham was in 
 the class for a few months only ; I think in Junior year ; also 
 I think he was a special. After graduation I wrote to him to 
 ask if he wished to be enrolled as a member of the class. He 
 failed to send any answer, so his name has been struck from the 
 rolls. Signed, W. K. P." 
 
 WILLIAM M. GRAHAM 
 
 WE have no information about Graham. He left the 
 Class in June, 1889, and his address then was Mont- 
 gomery, Ala. 
 
 EDWARD GRAVER, M.D. 
 
 Physician. Residence, 5537 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 GRAVER is a doctor at Pittsburg. We have a registered 
 letter receipt signed by him on February 11, 1907, but 
 nothing else. 
 
 ANDREW CALDWELL GRAY 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 9th and Market Streets, Wilmington, Del. Resi- 
 dence, Wilmington, Del. Unmarried. 
 
 SENATOR GRAY took a special course at the Harvard Law 
 School, and when he appeared last in our Record he was 
 fresh from helping Hutch attend the annual convention of the 
 Daughters of the Revolution at Washington, D. C. Since then 
 he has settled down to the sad life of a Delaware lawyer, who 
 
J. Y. Graham 
 
 A. C. Gray 
 
 LeR Gresham 
 
 II. E. Hale, Jr. 
 

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BIOGRAPHIES 119 
 
 takes no exercise, and whose sole recreation is " looking forward 
 to retiring " — whether eventually or every evening Andy doesn't 
 say. He has taken but a small part in politics and has " never 
 gotten any good out of it, for the party or self." He was on 
 the staff of the Governor of Delaware from 1897 to 1901. His 
 hobby is the " elevation of the masses," with the additional 
 endeavor of " keeping a haughty distance above them myself." 
 He is a member of the law firm of Ward & Gray, of Wilming- 
 ton. 
 
 " Wilmington, Delaware, January 22, 1907. 
 " Dear Prentice : 
 
 " I have received, for the past several months, a communi- 
 cation from you regularly every morning, and I have delayed 
 answering because it gave me such a feeling of pleasure 
 and importance to realize that I should always find some mail 
 awaiting me at my office. I am afraid, however, that if I delay 
 longer your facile pen might write a letter for me for the Class 
 Record. While I have no doubt it would be more interesting 
 than anything I could put down, hampered by facts, at the 
 same time I am afraid of your imagination. 
 
 " I have really nothing to contribute to the Class Record, 
 except the fact that I am still practicing law at Wilmington, 
 where I started. The blank that you sent me for the statistics 
 for the Record seems to have provided for even more than the 
 events that have entered into my life. I sincerely trust that 
 other members of the Class may be able to do better for you 
 than I have. Please keep a copy of the Record for me. I will 
 certainly be on at the reunion in June, unless an earthquake 
 prevents. 
 
 " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " Andrew C. Gray." 
 
120 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 A 
 
 C. ALBERT GRAY 
 
 LL trace of Gray has been lost. His last address known 
 to us was No. 228 121st Street, New York City. 
 
 LEROY GRESHAM, A.M., LL.B., B.D. 
 
 Minister. Address, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 
 
 Married Mary Jessie Rhett, Baltimore, Md., January 7, 1903. 
 
 Children, Thomas Baxter, Jr., b. February 17, 1904. Francis 
 
 Rhett, b. August 30, 1906. 
 
 G 
 
 RESH writes as follows : 
 
 " Chapel Hill, N. C, Oct. 31, 1906. 
 
 " My dear Prentice : 
 
 " My history in brief since I graduated is as follows : I 
 spent one year in postgraduate study at Princeton, and 
 one at Johns Hopkins University in the department of His- 
 tory and Political Science. Then, in the fall of 1894 I 
 entered the University of Maryland Law School, graduating 
 in May, 1896, with the degree of LL. B. I began the 
 practice of law in Baltimore, having formed a partnership with 
 Frank G. Turner. This partnership lasted about five years, 
 and was dissolved by mutual consent. I continued to practice 
 alone until the summer of 1903, when I determined to do what 
 had been in my mind shortly after my graduation, viz., to enter 
 the Presbyterian Ministry. Financial and other considerations 
 led me to go to Richmond instead of to Princeton. In con- 
 junction with the work in the Seminary I edited for two years 
 the Union Seminary Magazine, a religious publication con- 
 ducted by the faculty and students of the institution. I was 
 graduated from the Seminary in May with the degree of B. D., 
 and in June accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 121 
 
 Chapel Hill, N. C. My work is very largely among the students 
 of the University of North Carolina, which is located here. 
 
 " I was married in January, 1903, to Miss Rhett of Balti- 
 more, whose father came from Charleston, S. C. We have two 
 future Princeton men ; their lung capacity will entitle them to 
 seats of honor in the cheering section. 
 
 " I have no recent photograph ; but send under separate 
 cover the last one taken. 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " LeRoy Gresham." 
 
 CHARLES VAN DYKE GULICK 
 
 Business. Business Address, 76 Nassau Street, Princeton, N. J. 
 Residence, 18 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton, N. J. 
 
 Married Emma Duryea, Blauenburg, N. J., Aug. 19, 1899- Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 CHARLIE GULICK is prospering on Nassau Street in the 
 Upper Pyne Building, as purveyor of athletic goods and 
 men's goods to the university at large. His store is the most 
 popular dry resort in town, and is an attractive center of 
 athletic interests and general college news. He belongs to no 
 clubs, and hard work is his exercise and recreation. 
 
 HENRY EWING HALE, Jr., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Residence, 752 West End Avenue, New York City. 
 Married Frances Hibbard Ward, Chicago, September 13, 1900. 
 
 Children, Mary Folsom, b. March 18, 1902. Henry Ewing, 
 
 b. October 12, 1906. 
 
 HALE received his M. D. in June, 1896, from the P. & S., 
 New York, since when he has been interne at the New 
 York Presbyterian Hospital, interne at the Sloane Maternity 
 Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy at the P. & S., Medical 
 
122 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Assistant in Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt clinic, Medical Assist- 
 ant in the Out-patient department of the Babies' Hospital, 
 and Assistant Attending Physician at Randall's Island Hos- 
 pital. He is a member of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, the 
 N. Y. and County Medical Societies, the Alumni Associations 
 of the Presbyterian and Sloane Maternity Hospitals, the Quiz 
 Medical Society, and he is Vice-President of the well-known 
 male singing society, Musurgia. His writings will be found 
 listed in the Hot Air Furnace. The Editors have not expur- 
 gated the first sentence of Hale's letter, because they wish to 
 give prominence to the glorious tribute it contains to those 
 brilliant qualities which distinguish the make-up of this Record 
 — this being their only chance. 
 
 " 752 West End Ave., New York, N. Y., May 28, 1906. 
 " Dear Committee : 
 
 " Never before have I so longed for the style of Collins, the 
 Hellenic accuracy of Prentice and the archaeological powers of 
 Butler, for I see they are all called for in the joint letter re- 
 cently received from these gentlemen, for the Glorious Class 
 of '92. 
 
 " The story of my life is simple. I think a wisely ordered life. 
 My choice has been made not to live at highest pitch all the 
 time. From October first to June first business has the first 
 call. Every summer finds me away from New York, willing to 
 do the little work that comes my way, but bent on enjoying to 
 the full the woods, the mountains and water with my wife and 
 children. Life is too short when spent this way, but shorter 
 when Jack has no play. 
 
 " My principal diversion during the winter is music. A few 
 weeks ago I was for the third time elected Vice-President of 
 Musurgia of New York, a chorus known to many Princeton 
 men. 
 
 " The busy life of our greatest city has not crowded out Re- 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 123 
 
 ligion from my soul. There is time for Church attendance and 
 an active part in Sunday School work in nearly all of my 
 weeks. 
 
 " My advance as a physician has not been startling, though 
 continuous. The medical rather than the surgical especially 
 appeals to me. I find most congenial the work with the children 
 and it is my hope, ere long, to do no other. 
 
 " This letter, I know, is short. Whether it be too formal or 
 stilted, I know not. This must be left to the Committee. 
 
 " Yours for '92, 
 
 " Henry E. Hale, Jr." 
 
 FRANK HILLMAN HALL 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 25 Broad Street, New York City. 
 Residence, 115 Bentley Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Married Alice Scudder, Jersey City, N. J., April 22, 1897. Chil- 
 dren, Alice M., b. April 22, 1903. 
 
 FISH received his legal training at the Law School of 
 Georgetown University, D. C, and at the New York Law 
 School. He is counsel to the Hudson County Park Commission. 
 As a Republican he has worked, and worked for, the G. O. P. 
 He belongs to several political clubs, to the Princeton Club of 
 New York, to the Hackensack Golf Club and the Union League 
 of Hudson County. He has delivered a few political speeches 
 in his day, and says he has been received with applause or ridi- 
 cule, according to the political color of his audiences. " From 
 my experience," he writes, " I am satisfied that the Great Ameri- 
 can Public lost a great orator when I retired as a public speaker. 
 Still, there is the great Duffield to take my place ! " Fish is 
 an altruist ; his hobby he believes is to try to make other people 
 happy, and so he refuses to tell what he really knows about 
 Duff and Peter Cook and Rufus Besson. " I realize this is a 
 great chance. But if I am to exercise my ' hobby ' as set forth 
 
124 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 above I must keep mum. How could anyone be happy if we 
 told all the gossip we know? I don't know what to say about 
 myself, except that I am content. Am not rich and do not 
 want to be. Have enough to live comfortably and expect al- 
 ways to have enough. Am glad I am a member of the Glorious 
 Class and know that to the associations among so many fine 
 fellows I owe much of my happiness. Try to do right, don't 
 always succeed, but am much happier when I do. Hope to meet 
 the boys next June and find them all as well satisfied with what 
 '92 has done for them as I am. 
 
 " Sincerely, 
 " Frank H. Hall, sometimes called Fish." 
 
 Since the above was received and beautifully edited we have 
 had a further communication from Fish to this effect : " Since 
 handing in my ' memoirs ' I have become a member of the firm 
 of Steele & Otis with name changed to Steele, Otis & Hall, of 
 25 Broad St., N. Y. City. Now as to photograph. I find only 
 one copy of my handsome visage remains in the possession of 
 my fond wife. This you may have upon your solemn promise 
 made over the body of Joe Huston's imitation corpse to return 
 it forthwith in good order. Do you so promise? " Prentice 
 promised. 
 
 FRANKLIN H. HALLIDAY 
 
 Politics. Business Address, Democratic League, 142 Market Street, 
 Newark, N. J. Residence, 857 South 14th Street, Newark, 
 N. J. 
 
 Married Viola Dey, Princeton, N. J., April 21, 1892. Children, 
 Hildegarde, b. September 12, 1902. 
 
 HALLIDAY has been more or less active in the ranks of 
 New Jersey Democrats ever since he left Princeton, al- 
 though for some years he was engaged in the life insurance 
 business. He has been Treasurer of the State Democratic 
 
F. H. Hall 
 
 F. H. Hallidat 
 
 
 H, Hanson 
 

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BIOGRAPHIES 125 
 
 League and is Secretary of the Essex County Democratic 
 League, besides being Secretary to Colonel Edwin A. Stevens of 
 Hoboken. 
 
 Here is his letter. It is a pleasure to learn that they are 
 even monogamous in Newark. 
 
 " Newark, N. J., Nov., 11, 1906. 
 " Wm. K. Prentice, Sec'y. 
 
 " My dear Kelly : — It is rather a difficult matter for an 
 ordinary man to write a suitable answer to such a bright letter 
 as our Class Committee sent out ; but as the Committee expressly 
 state the letter must not be too long, nor too short, nor too 
 serious, nor too frivolous, nor formal, nor stilted, it makes it 
 easier — there is so little left for a fellow to write, especially if 
 he follows the directions. I only followed part of the direc- 
 tions about the photograph, and have sent a copy of my best 
 looks. I only have one wife and child, so can not comply 
 with your advanced request for a photo of my wives and chil- 
 dren. We are still monogamous in Newark. It is not time yet 
 for a story of my life. I need more time for that. My story 
 isn't ready. I've only begun. It has been fifteen years of in- 
 terruptions, limitations, mistakes and lots of them, but no lost 
 time, thank God, and I have heart and hope enough to make 
 a really good story before I get through. 
 
 " I often think I would rather be an honor to the Class of '92 
 than to have any gift of Heaven or earth ; and it is a satisfaction 
 to know that no body of men have a more just appreciation of 
 loyal effort than that same Class. 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " Franklin H. Halliday." 
 
126 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN HUNTER HANNA, C.E. 
 
 Engineer. Business Address, Capital Traction Co., 36th and M 
 Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. Residence, 1343 30th St., 
 N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Married Jane Edwards Soaper, Henderson, Ky., November 18, 1896. 
 Children, Nancy Pringle, b. December 25, 1898. William 
 McAfee, b. January 16, 1902. John Hunter, Jr., b. Decem- 
 ber 10, 1903. Robert Calloway Soaper, b. February 5, 1906. 
 
 THE OLD LADY has been Assistant Chief Engineer and 
 Superintendent of the Capital Traction Company of 
 Washington since 1894. He says he hasn't accumulated wealth 
 but has had his share of the other two essentials, health and hap- 
 piness, and he hopes to keep it up. He also has three little 
 shavers heading, of course, towards Princeton, aged five, and 
 three and a half years, and eighteen months respectively. Their 
 daddy is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
 and the Washington Society of Engineers, and the Washington 
 Golf Club — at which last he takes his recreation trying to play 
 the ancient and honorable game. 
 
 HOWLAND HANSON 
 
 Minister. Address, 1227 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 Married Sadie C. Whited, Morrison, 111. Children, Hope, b. 1896. 
 
 HANSON is pastor of the First Baptist Church, corner 
 of 8th and High Streets, Des Moines, la. After leaivng 
 Princeton he studied at the University of Chicago Divinity 
 School, but took no degree. He regrets that he has not been 
 back to Princeton since '92, and has thus in a measure lost 
 touch with the Class and college. It seems like another world 
 out in Iowa, he says, and one's energies and time are absorbed 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 127 
 
 in keeping pace with the hustlers. He has written several news- 
 paper articles, among them a series dealing with the problems 
 of child life, and also a work entitled " The Art of Spiritual 
 Husbandry." He is a member of several boards of trustees of 
 colleges, Baptist State conventions, etc. In the summer of 
 1897 he made a trip to Europe, especially to the Mediterranean. 
 His exercise and recreation are tennis, golf and preaching, and 
 preaching is his hobby. He is a Modern Woodman and a 
 member of the Equitable Fraternal Union, and of the Fraternal 
 Reserve. The only '92 man he has seen in recent years is 
 Biederwolf. 
 
 " Des Moines, Iowa, January 7, 1907. 
 " Dear Prentice: 
 
 " You are justified in replying that I am no friend of yours. 
 Uriah Heep was no more humble than I now am. But I really 
 do not know how to answer your communications with reference 
 to my ' biography and photograph,' for I have neither. 
 
 " Since leaving Princeton I have been lost in these Western 
 wilds, and have been back to New Jersey but once, although I 
 have been among the Rockies and on to the Pacific Coast and 
 intermediate lands of marvel. I went to the Divinity School of 
 the University of Chicago and unlearned a lot of bad theology 
 secured in Princeton Theological Library. No one is able to say 
 what has taken its place. In 1892 and '93, while still a student, 
 I went to a small Baptist church in Savanna, 111. There was a 
 membership of 33, a scandal of immoral conduct against the 
 man who preceded me, a church council which expelled him from 
 the ministry, no property, and the gloom of despair hanging 
 over all. Three months afterwards they broke ground for a 
 new building and three months still later dedicated a property 
 worth $10,000 with no bonded debt ever having been placed on 
 the building. The membership was multiplied by four in the 
 year and a half I remained in that town. 
 
128 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " We moved into Chicago, where a similar work was accom- 
 plished during the years 1894 to 1898. A building was there 
 dedicated. Then in 1899 we moved to ' Beautiful Beloit,' 
 where we remained until June of 1905. The work there was 
 the usual kind needed in a church of about four hundred mem- 
 bers. For the last eighteen months I have been pastor of First 
 Baptist church in this city. We have a building worth $80,000, 
 a membership of about seven hundred, the finest people that ever 
 banded together in church fellowship, and are called the largest 
 Baptist church in Iowa. The daily papers write me up on 
 Monday mornings ; the latest clipping is here enclosed from this 
 morning's paper. There are no sensations, but direct preach- 
 ing against besetting sins, and the uplift of ideals. I write 
 this last sentence fearing that clipping may suggest sensational- 
 ism. But, while avoiding the sensational, we also seek to avoid 
 stagnation. 
 
 " I have married a wife whose reputation as a minister's wife 
 is in every particular perfect. We have a ' little girl ' who has 
 now become our big daughter of eleven years of age. Her 
 name is Hope, and she has the misfortune of not being like her 
 mother. But she is the exact reproduction of her father in 
 looks and disposition. Barring these two handicaps she bids 
 fair to rival the finest of daughters who used to set ' our hearts 
 aglow ' in the days when '92 ruled Princeton. I hope for the 
 pleasure some day of escorting her through the campus, thus 
 visiting upon the grandsons the same sort of stage fright I 
 suffered as their grandsires led their mothers among the elms 
 in front of Nassau. 
 
 " Well I have rambled along for these several lines without 
 any definite notion of what you desire. But I know what you 
 deserve. As the various letters, cards, etc., came, I found my 
 conscience continually saying, ' Kelly deserves an answer in 
 return for his courteous, friendly, faithful and manly appeals 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 129 
 
 for class spirit.' Silence has seemed to me the most appro- 
 priate attitude for myself. 
 
 " Now as to photograph, I once had one — that is, it seems to 
 me that I think that I once had one. Or, to put it more 
 seriously, the only one I now have is in the hands of some Des 
 Moines newspaper. If I can find it I will forward it to you. 
 
 " Wishing you well and the Class of '92 prosperity during 
 this year, I am, sincerely yours, 
 
 " Howland Hanson." 
 
 WILLIAM HARRIS, Jr., A.M. V 
 
 Missionary. Address, Chieng Mai, Siam. 
 
 Married Cornelia H. McGilvary, Canton, China, November 3, 1897- 
 Children, Christina Butler, b. May 1, 1904. 
 
 CHUCK was graduated from the Princeton Seminary in 
 1895, and sailed for Siam, via Europe. He travelled 
 in China in 1897, and expected to be in America at the time of 
 our decennial, but was unfortunately hindered. He visited 
 Princeton in 1903, and returned to Siam a year later via Japan 
 and China. He is principal of The Prince Royal's College at 
 Chieng Mai, Treasurer of the Mission, Pastor of the Maa 
 Dawk Dang Church, and Hon. Librarian of the Chieng Mai 
 Public Library, the upbuilding of which is his hobby, and which 
 he founded in 1899. We had not been able to get replies to 
 our circular direct from him when this went to press, and got 
 from his brother, Professor Walter Harris of Princeton, the 
 following account of his work: 
 
 " Will is working hard on his boys' school in Chieng Mai. 
 Very early in his career he began to realize that the best results 
 could only be obtained by training up teachers taken from 
 
130 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 among the native boys, consequently almost his entire time has 
 been devoted to teaching and organizing. The quarters soon 
 proved entirely too small and Will set himself the task of plan- 
 ning a boys' school which would be large enough to meet the 
 ever-increasing needs, and provide for the education of teachers 
 and ministers. 
 
 " Through the liberality of relatives, friends and classmates, 
 he has succeeded in raising about $9000 towards his school. 
 With the first money obtained he was fortunate enough to 
 secure a four-sided tract, almost square, containing about ten 
 acres, convenient to the city and well located. The various 
 school buildings are to be located around the edges of the tract, 
 leaving the central part open for playground and lawn. The 
 William Allen Butler Recitation Hall was the first building 
 started, at the dedication of which the Crown Prince of Siam 
 was present and took an important part in the exercises, laying 
 the cornerstone himself. He complimented the Mission on its 
 work, and expressed himself as in hearty sympathy with the 
 school, which he was pleased to name the Prince Ro} r al's College. 
 
 " Will's first reverse came in the collapse of the Recitation 
 Hall during a storm. Good friends came forward with the 
 funds, and by this time a new building is ready for occupancy. 
 The next building to be undertaken will be a combined dormitory 
 and commons. He says in his last letter : ' There is no doubt 
 but what this school ought to be an exceedingly important one, 
 especially as there is no other mission in the region. The people 
 are friendly to our work, and the demand for an English educa- 
 tion is increasing very rapidly. Of course the main object of 
 the school, which we always keep in mind, is the training of our 
 Christian boys to become useful Christian men.' " 
 
 Since then, we have heard from Will himself: "For the 
 Record I really haven't anything either brilliant or startling 
 to write, and I presume it is too late now anyway. The prin- 
 
W. Harris, Jr 
 
 C. D. Hart 
 
 H. C. Havens 
 
 C. W. Hillter 
 

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BIOGRAPHIES 131 
 
 cipalship of this Boys' School, and the finances of the Mission 
 keep me humping, besides which I have a Church twelve miles 
 away, and the charge of a Library which I started some years 
 ago for the foreign residents, and which has grown very 
 satisfactorily. I send my love to the Class. I often wish 
 I could see them once more. But my chances of ever attend- 
 ing a reunion again seem to be dwindling with each successive 
 year." 
 
 CHARLES DELUCENA HART, A.M., M. D. 
 
 Physician. Address, 1317 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Un- 
 married. 
 
 HERE is a prompt and breezy letter written from Phila- 
 delphia : 
 
 " 1317 Walnut Street, 
 
 "Philadelphia, May 24, 1906. 
 " Dear Kelly : 
 
 " If you want the story of my life, here goes. After graduat- 
 ing from our glorious class, I travelled for a year in the Ear 
 East and India, and in the autumn of '93 began the study of 
 medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where nothing hap- 
 pened except hard work. I stopped, however, long enough to 
 go up to Princeton to get in line for the last batch of A. M. 
 degrees that were handed out to our class. I need not mention 
 the fact that I was accompanied by many members of the class 
 who had also distinguished themselves by their studious habits 
 while at Princeton [about fifty in all. — Eds.] 
 
 " After graduating from the Medical School in '97 I was for 
 two years resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital, and 
 a few years after leaving there was appointed chief to the Out- 
 patient Department of the Hospital, which position I still hold. 
 Varied by occasional short trips to different parts of the world 
 in order to quiet my insatiable desire for sightseeing, I find that 
 
132 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 the years roll quietly by — a circumstance which has been noted 
 in their own cases by more than one Philadelphian. Some four 
 or five years ago I became interested in criminology, possibly 
 prompted by my experiences at the U. of Pa., and was, fortu- 
 nately for myself, appointed inspector of the Eastern State 
 Penitentiary, and have found the work most interesting. Re- 
 cently I was put on the Board of County Prisons, and so have 
 a large field for observations. 
 
 " John Pendleton and Alfred Riggs say it is a cinch and that 
 now when they commit their crimes, they come to Pennsylvania 
 for the purpose. To all those who care to read, be it known 
 that I am in the best of health, weigh over 200 lbs., and am 
 looking forward with the greatest interest and pleasure to our 
 coming reunion in '07, when we can all get together and ex- 
 change the stories of our lives with more detail than is possible 
 here. With best of luck to all '92 men, I am, 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " Charles D. Hart." 
 
 Redney has forgotten to add that for two years he was a 
 ward committeeman of the 8th ward of Philadelphia, and has 
 worked for the City Party in the interests of good government, 
 
 his sentiments being thus tersely expressed : " To H with 
 
 the grafters ! " — a phrase replete with clearness, force and 
 beauty. He has held office as inspector of the Eastern State 
 Penitentiary, and is also Inspector of Prisons, and thus finds 
 great opportunity for the cultivation of his hobby — crimi- 
 nology. He is a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Racquet 
 Club, Princeton Club and Penelyn Club and the Nassau Club 
 of Princeton. He sees Woods, Mitchell, Mike Bergen, Gray, 
 the Riggs, Charlie Rieman, and John Pendleton, and reports 
 that they are all " exceptionally prosperous." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 133 
 
 HAYWARD A. HARVEY 
 
 Business. Residence, 21 Clarendon Place, Orange, N. J. 
 
 DOC HARVEY has not responded in any manner to our 
 repeated requests for some reply to our circular and 
 letters. 
 
 HENRY CLAY HAVENS, A.M. 
 
 Teacher. Residence, Lawrenceville, N. J. 
 
 Married Anne Elizabeth Swain, Allentown, N. J., June 18, 1902. 
 Children, Paul Swain, b. September 19, 1903. 
 
 " Lawrenceville School, 
 
 " Lawrenceville, N, J., October 22, 1906. 
 " My dear Kelly : 
 
 " Why should I be importuned for a photograph to be put 
 in any Class Record, when in that persistent circular dispatched 
 to us long-suffering people, it was specially requested that only 
 such reproductions as were 'fit to print' should be sent? 
 Everybody knows I never had one of that sort. 
 
 " Nor have I anything of vital interest to record concerning 
 myself. No checkered career has been mine since the days when 
 we sequestered. I have not, like Duff and others, been called to 
 thunder forth in legislative halls ; nor yet like Howard Butler 
 to set up mosaics for the Sultan of Turkey. Still, upon leaving 
 college I did spend more or less of the ensuing three years in 
 wandering at will over the land where the Princeton expedition 
 has since found fleas, curios and archaeological honors, in 
 varying ratio, probably, but certainly in the order named. 
 
 " Climbing cedars of Lebanon, the Mount of Olives, and the 
 pyramid of Cheops — ' Mr. Chops,' as the guide said — were all 
 easier, as the sequel proved, than climbing the road to fortune; 
 for after three years with headquarters at Beirut, I was but 
 
134 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 little better off, financially, than a certain well-known character 
 of antiquity, when, like him, I determined to ' arise and go to 
 my father.' 
 
 " This was in August, 1895. In November of the same year 
 — the only November of my life that I recollect spending in 
 any other way than in school work — I was about to join the 
 throng of seekers after philological honors and Ph. D.'s in 
 a German University, when argument, partly verbal in nature 
 and partly not, was brought to bear, resulting in my coming 
 to Lawrenceville. Therefore, I never became a Fuclis, nor ever 
 saw the inside of a German University until, in 1902, a portion 
 of my summer vacation was spent at Heidelberg. 
 
 " That, by the way, was my wedding trip. 
 
 " Five years before I had spent a summer in France, in 
 study, one evident result of which was the deepening of the 
 conviction that the time at command was only too brief for the 
 purpose I desired to accomplish. 
 
 " Those vacations were ' graund days,' however — second only 
 in their absorbing nature to my last one (1906), which was 
 spent in superintending the erection of a house which, at the 
 date of writing, I hope soon to occupy with my wife and boy. 
 The boy is now three years old and heading for Princeton when 
 his day shall come ; where I trust he may find as mates, some at 
 least, who shall be sons of those whose memory of old and whose 
 present acquaintance are cherished by 
 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 "Henry C. Havens." 
 
 For two years Havens was Associate Principal and for one 
 year Principal of the Preparatory Department of the Syrian 
 Protestant College at Beirut. He has been a full master at 
 Lawrenceville since 1901. He is a Phi Beta Kappa man, with 
 a penchant for genealogy in a mild form, having anciently 
 emanated from the Roger Williams Baptist Community. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 135 
 
 CLARENCE WINANTS HILLYER 
 
 Living in Paris. Address, Care Harris & Towne, 258 Broadway, 
 
 New York City. 
 Married Frances Nelson, June, 1892. Children, Clive Nelson, b. 
 
 June, 1895. 
 
 HILLYER writes briefly from Paris that at present he 
 has no business nor home address, and has done nothing 
 worth mentioning since leaving Princeton. " I should be 
 pleased to expatiate further if I could with truth." His 
 grandfather, the late Garret E. Winants of Bayonne, N. J., 
 left a large estate, to the care and management of which, we 
 understand, Hillyer, as executor and trustee, has devoted all 
 his time and attention. 
 
 CASPAR WISTAR HODGE, A.M., Ph.D. 
 
 Teacher. Residence, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 Married Sarah Henry, Princeton, N. J., November, 1897. Children, 
 Lucy Maxwell, b. March 5, 1902. 
 
 WIS studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, and received the 
 degree of Ph. D. from Princeton in 1894. For two 
 years he was instructor in Philosophy at Princeton, then for 
 one year Associate Professor of Ethics at Lafayette. Since 
 then he has been Instructor in Dogmatic Theology at the 
 Princeton Theological Seminary. He writes as follows : 
 
 " You ask for a letter telling all about myself. I believe 
 nothing of importance to tell has occurred since the last Record, 
 the date of which I forget. But I take this opportunity to 
 express my best wishes for all members of '92. 
 
 " Yours ever, 
 
 " Princeton, May 29, 1906." " C. Wistar Hodge. 
 
186 PRINCETON NINETYrTWO 
 
 SHEPPARD ROMANS, Jr. 
 
 Life Insurance. Office, Prosser & Homans, 180 Broadway, New 
 
 York City. Residence, Englewood, N. J. 
 Married Loraine Eleanor Yandt rpool, Newark, N. J., April i.">, 
 
 1001. Children. Loraine K leanor, I). November 25, 190S. 
 
 Sheppard, Jr., l>. July 28, 1 905; d. November 28, L906. 
 
 SHEP is in the insurance business. He has never held an\ 
 political office, anil always votes tin' Republican ticket. 
 
 He belongs to the Englewood Golf and Field Club, the Engle- 
 
 wood Club and the Princeton Club of New York. He has sent 
 no letter for publication. 
 
 ,1. FREDERICK HOSFORD 
 Residence, Kinderhook, X. Y. Unmarried, 
 
 FRED began the Library School course at the Albany 
 Library; but on the failure of his health, returned to his 
 
 home and is livina there in retirement. 
 
 
 ROBERT POLLOCK HOWIE, A. M. 
 
 Minister. Residence, Pleasant Grove, N. J. 
 
 Married Rebecca Lippincott Wetherill, Jobstown, Pa., February 
 
 If). 1900. Child ten, Marion Burton, b. January :>, 1Q01. 
 Thomas Wetherill, b, January 28, 1902. James Alexander, 
 1>. October si. 1908, 
 
 HOWIE makes a clean breast of his career in the follow 
 Ing letter: 
 
 " Pleasant Geove, X. J., October 81, 190(5. 
 "As you know, tin' beni of my mind was serious and my long 
 face indicated that I was bent on the Sister Institution; and. 
 
C. W. Hodge 
 
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 therefore, I was placed under the loving care of its Professors 
 for three years' instruction and careful training. In '95 I 
 left the company of many select ones of '92. There in our 
 club was ' Sinbad ' Wight and his brother Van Dyke, Bieder- 
 wolf, Parker, Symmes. I tell you, '92 kept things lively in the 
 sacred place, for R. P. D. Bennett, and ' Bieder ' were a ' whole 
 team.' Smiley and Sam Huston, Bixler, Butler C. P., Gaston, 
 Harris, Hodge, Mogel, the Mudges, Van Ness, were, along with 
 several P. G.'s, a gallant representation for three years to keep 
 up the Spirit of '92. It was a lively class in Seminary, and the 
 Faculty, I believe, were glad to get rid of us. 
 
 " I went to England and joined the English Presbyterian 
 Church, and what is laughable, they said I was too much of a 
 Yankee and I concluded to go back to the Western Land, and 
 after supplying for a year in Columbus, N. J., I left for 
 Nebraska, and resided for two and a half years in Ruskin, and 
 drove my ' broncho ' over the prairies every Sunday to a neigh- 
 boring charge — Deshler. I left there for Hansen, Nebraska, 
 and ministered to this people for two and a half years and left 
 to come East. I have been in Jobstown, N. J., since and am 
 entering upon this charge at Pleasant Grove, N. J., where I 
 hope the members of the class will feel free to call at any time. 
 
 " In 1900 I married and have three children. I enclose a 
 photograph of my countenance. 
 
 " Yours of '92, 
 
 " Robt. P. Howie." 
 
 Howie says he is an independent in politics ; and like Andrew 
 Carnegie, believes in Peace, so has had no military service to 
 boast of. He loves horses, but his chief recreation is entertain- 
 ing the (his) rising generation. While in Nebraska he ran 
 across Dr. Van Dyke Wight, President of Hastings College, 
 and once saw " Josie Hoffman " in Lincoln and called at his 
 office. Joe Mayhew was " as good as gold," played the organ 
 
138 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 in a church, of course, and incidentally was medical adviser to 
 the University of Nebraska's football team. Lately Howie has 
 seen the Rev. J. E. Sackus Symmes and says the latter has a 
 good story on Joe Huston and the celebrated " corpse " in- 
 cident. 
 
 ARTHUR BAIRD HUEY 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 602 Commonwealth Building, 12th and 
 Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Residence, 4117 Walnut 
 Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Married Ellen Cadwallader Smith, Philadelphia, Pa., June 6, 1900. 
 Children, none. 
 
 HUEY studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He 
 is a Republican, has horses for a hobby, and loves riding 
 and golf. He is a member of the Union League, the Lawyers' 
 Club, the Merion Cricket Club and the Loyal Legion. 
 
 GEORGE AUGUSTUS HULETT, A.M., Ph.D. 
 
 Teaching. Residence, 2 Murray Place, Princeton, N. J. 
 Married Dency Minerva Barker, Colorado Springs, Col., August 
 15, 1901. Children, infant daughter, deceased. 
 
 HULETT remained in Princeton as an Instructor in Chem- 
 istry until 1896, when he went to Leipzig, and in 1898 
 obtained his Ph. D. magna cum laude. From 1899 to 1905 he 
 was Instructor and then Assistant Professor of Physical Chem- 
 istry at the University of Michigan. In 1905 he was recalled 
 to Princeton as Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry. 
 He has made a reputation for himself as a physical chemist, and 
 most of the results of his researches have been published in the 
 Zeitschrift fiir Physikalische Chemie, the Zeitschrift fur An- 
 organische Chemie, the Journal of the American Chemical So- 
 ciety, the Physical Review, and the Transactions of the American 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 139 
 
 Electrochemical Society. A full list is given in our Hot Air 
 Furnace. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, 
 the American Electro-technical Society, and the American Phys- 
 ical Society. On the side, he is one of Princeton's few Faculty 
 expert golfers. Last year he was appointed a member of the 
 U. S. Assay Commission. Here is his letter : 
 
 " The questions asked by our committee so thoroughly cover 
 the ground of one's activities that, in my case, there is little to 
 add. Perhaps this might be a good place to express a regret 
 that I have often felt — the regret that I missed the freshman 
 and sophomore years with the class of '92. Although I was 
 here as assistant in chemistry until 1896, that was quite different 
 from being with the class, even though it had its very good side. 
 
 " After studying in Germany, I had the good fortune to be 
 connected with the University of Michigan, and found there 
 much of interest. It was a pleasure to meet a number of 
 Princeton men who were taking advantage of the exceptionally 
 good professional schools of the University, and undoubtedly 
 many more would go there if Princeton better understood the 
 opportunities and life at Michigan. Teaching the mixed classes 
 was an interesting experience — the young ladies do most excel- 
 lent work, and seem very much in earnest ; but with all the 
 pleasant work at Michigan, you can readily understand that I 
 was quite ready to come back to Princeton, and I hope that '92 
 men will not fail to call at the Chem. Laboratory when they are 
 back home, and see what a laboratory of Physical Chemistry is 
 like. 
 
 " Sincerely, 
 
 " G. A. Hitlett." 
 
140 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 
 
 CURTIS GRUBB HUSSEY 
 
 Looking for a job. Business Address, 005 Maehesney Building, 
 Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 308 Cedar Avenue, Allegheny, Pa. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 CURTIS balked hard at both a letter and a photograph — 
 what kind of a letter was wanted? What was he to say? 
 Was the photo wanted for a Princeton Rogues' Gallery? How 
 could he be allowed to spoil the artistic features of the Record 
 by the insertion of his own? and so forth. But the prodding 
 postals did the trick. He was a member of the late firm of 
 Curran & Hussey, and is president of the Hussey Steel Com- 
 pany, and secretary and treasurer of the Electrical Equipment 
 & Supply Company. In 1898 he enlisted in the 18th Infantry, 
 Pennsylvania National Guard, was promoted to a second lieu- 
 tenancy in May, 1901, and became first lieutenant in December, 
 1902. In June last he was made a Battalion Adjutant. Hus- 
 sey is a prominent Mason and clubman and is on the rolls of the 
 following organizations : Crescent Lodge, No. 576, F. & A. 
 M., the Dusquesne, the American Republican, and the Univer- 
 sity Clubs of Pittsburg, the Allegheny Country Club of 
 Sewickley, Pa., the Princeton Club of Western Pennsylvania, 
 the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, the Princeton, Strollers, 
 and L T niversity Clubs of New York. 
 
 " Allegheny, November 9, 1906. 
 " To the Members of the Class of 1892 : 
 
 " In the fifteen years since graduation I have been connected 
 with several different business enterprises. Last January I sold 
 out my interest in the business I was in, and since then have been 
 taking life easy and having a good time. Business and pleasure 
 have furnished the excuse for many very pleasant trips in the 
 last fifteen years, among which might be mentioned one to 
 
A. B. Huey 
 
 G. A. HULETT 
 

 
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 oton R<> 
 
 and so forth. ' 
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BIOGRAPHIES 141 
 
 Europe, two to the Pacific Coast, and one to the Canadian 
 Rockies. 
 
 " The last named was a bear hunt in the ' Great Bend of the 
 Columbia River.' ' I came, I saw,' but I did not ' conquer,' 
 as my aim was not good enough. 
 
 " I had a good time, however, which was the main object of 
 the trip. 
 
 " Early in October of this year I went down to Harrisburg 
 as a member of the provisional regiment from the Second 
 Brigade of the Pennsylvania National Guard, to the dedication 
 of Joe Huston's new thirteen million dollar capitol. Joe's all 
 right. Every '92 man should be proud of Joe and his capitol. 
 
 " Good luck to all. My address is always the same — 308 
 Cedar Avenue, Allegheny — where the latch string is always out 
 to the members of '92. " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " Cuetis Grubb Hussey." 
 
 JOSEPH MILLER HUSTON, A.M. 
 
 Architect. Business Address, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, 
 Pa. Residence, Lehman "Lane, Germantown, Pa. 
 
 Married Mathilde MacGregor, Louisville, Ky., October 8, 1901. 
 Children, Judith MacGregor, b. August 21, 1902. Craig, 
 b. August 16, 1904. 
 
 " And it was at this point that Corpse Huston made the awful discovery 
 
 that there was a " 
 
 O. Washington's Last Pants. By W. W. Smith. 
 
 JOE has lived in Philadelphia and has practiced his profes- 
 sion there ever since graduation. He was abroad in 1898 
 and 1905, and also in 1899-1900, when he went around the 
 world in the interests of his architectural education, for he still 
 holds to his undergraduate theory about architecture being 
 " literature in stone." Among Joe's most successful creations 
 
142 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 have been the Press Temple at Philadelphia's National Export 
 Exposition in 1899, the celebrated Court of Honor at the 1898 
 Peace Jubilee at Philadelphia, the Witherspoon Building, at the 
 dedication of which Duff was not permitted to use " Scotch 
 Granite," and the State Capitol at Harrisburg, of which 
 descriptions have been published in the newspapers. Joe also 
 assisted in drawing plans for the new Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Station at Broad Street, and he designed the beautiful Hall of 
 the Keil Memorial at Mercersburg Academy, which was dedi- 
 cated in 1900. Besides the elaborate decoration, in the shape of 
 frescoes, glass, carving, mosaics, etc., which characterizes this 
 hall, it is specially remarkable as containing on its ornamental 
 pilasters the most complete collection of university shields in 
 America. The shields of foreign universities were donated by 
 friends and alumni. Joe also designed the Majestic Hotel, 
 Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. His designs 
 for the State Capitol were on exhibition at Bailey, Banks & 
 Biddle's in 1902. and the X. Y. Mail and Express of July 12 
 of that year contained a detailed and illustrated account of the 
 building, and the Philadelphia Xorth American of September 
 28, 1902, contained a double page drawing and description of 
 it. Sam Huston has recently copyrighted and issued a beauti- 
 fully gotten up pamphlet guide and description of this mag- 
 nificent edifice. 
 
 A new magazine called The Silver Lining appeared in 
 March, 1902, with the first of a series of articles entitled 
 " Types of Success," Joe being the subject of the initial num- 
 ber. The demand for this magazine was so great that a second 
 edition had to be issued. Joe is still an orator. He had the 
 privilege of introducing the celebrated Captain Richmond P. 
 Hobson, U. S. N., when the latter lectured on " The Nation 
 and the Navy," at the Kensington Presbyterian Church in Phil- 
 adelphia, back in 1902. He also delivered the oration at the 
 unveiling, in 1900, of the tablet to the Revolutionai-y Soldiers 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 143 
 
 buried in Washington Square, Philadelphia, and after his return 
 from his round-the-world trip he gave an illustrated lecture 
 before the Philadelphia Yacht Club, December 15, 1900, on 
 " Expansion." Joe does not state what part he has taken in 
 politics, though he tells us he has never held office and votes the 
 Republican ticket. His hobby is the " University of Men and 
 Events." He is a member of the Union League, the Undine 
 Boat Club, the Germantown Automobile Club, the Manheim and 
 Germantown Cricket Clubs, and the Princeton Club. He also 
 belongs to the New York and the Lotos Clubs of New York 
 City. 
 
 SAMUEL CRAIG HUSTON, A.M. 
 
 .Ministry. Address, Witherspoon Buildings Philadelphia, Pa. Un- 
 married. 
 
 IT has been difficult for the Editors to classify Joe's brother. 
 Sam says of himself that his occupation is " lecturing, 
 preaching, writing, investing, travelling, and passing a little 
 time and money away in the interests of the Presbyterian His- 
 torical Society, and the Pennsylvania Historical Society." 
 
 After leaving Princeton he studied at Edinburgh and Oxford. 
 In 1896 he was called to the Chambers-Wylie Presbyterian 
 Church at Philadelphia. In 1901 he went to the Tompkins 
 Avenue Congregational Church of Brooklyn. In 1905 he went 
 abroad on his third trip, and since his return has resided at 
 Philadelphia. His hobby is " philosophical observations on 
 the subject of humanity." He is the author of " The Satiated 
 Age," being a study of our times, published in the Century. 
 
144 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 FRANK M. HUTCHINSON 
 
 Residence, 245 Broad Street, Sewickley, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 HUTCHINSON is trying to keep out of debt supporting 
 an automobile. He was for a while an assistant sales- 
 man with La Belle Steel Company of Allegheny, Pa., but golf 
 and automobiles were too absorbing. He spends his winters at 
 Pasadena, Cal., and during the summer of 1905 travelled in 
 China and Japan ; but a fellow can't do much of this when he 
 has a machine to look after. 
 
 WILLIAM B. IRISH, M.D. 
 
 Physician. Business Address, 127 North Highland Avenue, Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. Residence, 6906 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Un- 
 married. 
 
 PAT IRISH studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege of Philadelphia, where he obtained his degree. 
 He says he has travelled during the last ten years from his 
 residence to his office and back, but has not ventured off that 
 straight and narrow road. Politically he is a Republican and 
 cultivates no hobbies. Mason and McCune he sees frequently, 
 but the only gossip he knows about them " will not bear publi- 
 cation." Pat is one of the vice-presidents of the Western Penn- 
 sylvania Princeton Club, a member of the American Medical 
 Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the Alle- 
 gheny County Medical Society, and the Pittsburg Academy of 
 Medicine. 
 
S C. Huston f - m - Hutchinson 
 
 T. S. Irvin 
 W. B. Irish Taken about '97 
 

 
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BIOGRAPHIES 145 
 
 THOMAS SMITH IRVIN 
 
 Office, 1129 McAllister Street, San Francisco, Cal. Residence, 2153 
 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Unmarried. 
 
 TOMMY IRVIN has not been heard from since the San 
 Francisco earthquake, though Al Lilley has seen him 
 once. His brother Richard, in '90, tells us that up to that time 
 Tommy was ranching and mining in California, and during the 
 San Francisco fire did patrol duty in the city. He belongs to 
 the University Club of San Francisco. 
 
 R. S. JAMISON 
 Banking and Mining. Address, Deadwood, S. D. 
 Married Emma Patrick, Denver, Colo., September 8, 1904. Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 UNTIL 1895 Jamison was civil engineer at Greensburg, 
 Pa., from 1895 to 1898 he was a civil and mining 
 engineer at Seattle, Wash. Since then he has been located 
 at Deadwood in mining engineering, banking, and promoting. 
 
 HENRY LANG JENKINSON 
 
 Salesman for American Oil Supply Co. Business Address, Lafay- 
 ette Street, Newark, N. J. Residence, 57 Avon Avenue, 
 Newark, N. J. 
 
 Married Mary Elizabeth Dey, Rahway, N. J., June 28, 1893. 
 Children, Elizabeth Dey, b. August 18, 1894. 
 
 JENKINSON has lived in Newark continuously since leav- 
 ing Princeton, with the exception of the period of his 
 service in the Army during the Spanish War. He has been 
 manager of the manufacturing department of T. B. Peddie 
 
146 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 & Co., makers of trunks and bags, manager of Hunt's Stone 
 and Monument Works, and he is now a successful salesman 
 for the American Oil Supply Company. 
 
 Automobiling and horseback riding are his pet forms of 
 exercise and recreation. Pie is a member of the New Jersey 
 Historical Society, the Essex Club, the St. John's Lodge of 
 Masons, and the New Jersey Veterans' Association of the Span- 
 ish War, in which organization he is an officer. 
 
 At the time of the war he organized, and commanded as 
 captain, a company of colored volunteers, officially known as 
 Co. A, 8th U. S. Colored Immune Regiment. He went to 
 the Philippines as Captain of Co. C, 33d U. S. Volunteers, 
 under Major March. He did excellent work in the Army, and 
 his friends are all proud of his military record; but we have 
 not been able to get any statement or narrative of his ex- 
 periences from him. In fact he has been so busy selling oil 
 that he hasn't responded in any way at all to our circulars, etc. 
 We obtained the above material from other sources. 
 
 WILLIAM VAIL JOHNSON 
 
 Business. Business Address, 77 Mechanic Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 Residence, 108 Second Avenue, Newark, N. J. 
 Married Kathryn Dorrance Laverty, Scranton, Pa., October 14, 
 
 1902. Children, none. 
 
 OUR former tennis champion graced the landscape of 
 Scranton, Pa., for some years after graduation, acting 
 in various capacities from " water boy to foreman " in the 
 Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company. This does not mean that 
 the foreman had a special thirst, but that Johnson began at the 
 bottom and worked up. He was in charge of the Special Steel 
 Department for some time ; and incidentally held the Scranton 
 Challenge Tennis Cup for a couple of years against all comers. 
 Having given Scranton and steel a taste of his mettle, he de- 
 

 
 
 
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 H. L. Jenkinson 
 
 W. V. Johnson 
 
 T. B. Kennedy 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 147 
 
 cided to quit the hardware business and returned to New Jersey 
 to become a partner in the wholesale grocery firm of T. F. 
 Johnson & Company of Newark, where he is now. 
 
 From 1893 to 1900 Johnson was a member of the Pennsyl- 
 vania National Guard, and was one of the little band of heroes 
 from '92 who " fought, bled and died " for their country during 
 the recent misunderstanding with Spain. In April, 1898, when 
 the 13th Pennsylvania from Scranton was ordered out, Johnson 
 was 4th Sergeant. After enlistment and physical examination 
 of the regiment, he found himself promoted to 1st Lieutenant in 
 Company A, 13th Pa. Volunteer Infantry, was enrolled April 
 27, 1898, and mustered in on May 15, 1898. His company was 
 sent to Falls Church, Va., in May, where they remained until 
 August, when they moved to Dunn Loring, Va. On the last 
 day of August they were shifted back to Camp Meade, six miles 
 from Harrisburg, Pa., and there, after three weeks, Johnson 
 went down with typhoid and for nine weeks was laid up at the 
 Harrisburg City Hospital. While he was on the sick list his 
 regiment left for Camp McKenzie, at Augusta, Ga. On March 
 11, 1899, he was mustered out with his company. 
 
 "October 28, 1906. 
 " Dear Kelly : 
 
 " Better late than never ; so don't be too hard on a fellow. 
 Haven't much to say regarding my past life, but will send along 
 a sort of outline, hoping you won't make too many slurring 
 remarks. 
 
 " Since '92 I have been interested in two lines of business. 
 First in Scranton, where in 1893 I started with the Lackawanna 
 Iron and Steel Company, learning the business. 
 
 " Gradually worked up to position of foreman in steel works. 
 But upon removal of plant to Buffalo in 1902 resigned to enter 
 business in Newark with T. F. Johnson & Co.'s Tea, Coffee & 
 Spice Mills. 
 
148 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 
 
 " Held championship of N. E. Penna. in tennis while in 
 Scranton, and served nearly ten years in 13th Regiment, 
 National Guard of Pennsylvania. At time of leaving was hold- 
 ing position of Captain of Co. A, same regiment. Since my 
 return to Newark in 1902 have been office boy, shipping clerk 
 and traveling salesman, now being junior member of firm. 
 
 " Have been married four years and only wish I had started 
 wedded life ten years before. 
 
 " Am getting stouter and no better looking, year by year. 
 I anticipate meeting all the boys again next June and compar- 
 ing the events of the rest of the boys in the Record." 
 
 THOMAS B. KENNEDY 
 
 Railroading. Business Address, P. O. Box 130, Chambersburg, Pa. 
 
 Residence, 273 East Market Street, Chambersburg, Pa. 
 Married Annie Trimmer, Chambersburg, Pa., April 4, 1895; d. 
 
 December 11, 1903. Children, Kathleen Stewart, b. August 23, 
 
 1896. Ariana Riddle, b. October 28, 1898. 
 
 TOM KENNEDY has been railroading ever since he left 
 Princeton. Two years he spent in the West working for 
 the Great Northern, and since then has been at Chambersburg 
 with the Cumberland Valley Railroad. He has made his way 
 up slowly and surely through various grades of office until he 
 is now Freight Trainmaster, and is close in line for a superin- 
 tendency. He is a member of the Tau Chapter of the % W 
 Fraternity, of the Kittochtinny Historical Society, the Penn- 
 sylvania Scotch-Irish Society, and the Engineers' Club of Cen- 
 tral Pennsylvania. He says he gets all the exercise he wants 
 hopping on and off freight trains and his favorite recreation 
 is hunting. 
 
 Kennedy did not write a letter for publication, but sent a 
 private letter to the Secretary, parts of which we are permitted 
 to use. He says : " Your request for a short letter giving a 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 149 
 
 brief history of personal doings, etc., will, I am afraid, have to 
 be omitted as I am not much of a hand at letter or history 
 writing. Since leaving Princeton — ahead of my class — I have 
 devoted myself to railroading, and for the past fourteen years 
 have been employed by the Cumberland Valley Railroad Co., 
 in my home town. Until November, 1906, I was in the Main- 
 tenance of Way and Engineering Department, and since that 
 time have been in the Transportation Department, being pro- 
 moted to the position of Freight Trainmaster on November 
 1, 1906. . . . 
 
 " I have written you these few lines under personal cover so 
 that you can at least say that I have been heard from and am 
 still alive. While I am not a graduate of Princeton, still I 
 hold most dear the memories of several happy years spent in 
 the old college, and count as some of my most valued assets some 
 little knowledge which was thrust upon me there; and also I 
 will never be able to give up my portion of the dispensation of 
 that which we have called the Princeton Spirit. With best 
 wishes for yourself and the Class and old Princeton, 
 
 " I am sincerely yours, 
 
 " January 14, 1907." " Thos. B. Kennedy." 
 
 JOHN BENEM KOUWENHOVEN, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Residence, 185 Palisade Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Married Grace Atlee, Philadelphia, May 24, 1906. Children, none. 
 
 HE Baron sends this letter : 
 
 " 185 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 
 " Dear Mike : 
 
 " Well, you most certainly have had troubles of your own 
 with me, and I am very sorry. But your request for pictures 
 has been the rub — I simply have not been able to find time for a 
 session with a photographer — and I am compelled finally to send 
 
150 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 you a two-year-old production by a rather non-artistic Yonkers 
 artist. I enclose it together with a rather bad picture of my 
 wife. 
 
 " You ask for a brief review of the past, since you last heard 
 from us all for publication. Right at the start, I desire to state 
 that I have recently become one of the most favored of men. 
 On the twenty-fourth day of May of this year, Grace Atlee of 
 Philadelphia, Pa., became Mrs. John Baron K. — and my cup 
 of rejoicing has been full to overflowing ever since. 
 
 " I had lived long in error. I had believed that the old way 
 — going it alone — was the better way for me to live and do my 
 work. But it was all wrong — I have known that for a splendid 
 half year now. There is so much of added interest and incen- 
 tive in this new life. 
 
 " But — I have anticipated. I must begin at the beginning — 
 away back in '92 — and give brief details of things as they have 
 come. 
 
 " After graduation I went to New York and spent three 
 years very hard at work, at the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons. It was simply a grind, for the three long years. Mc- 
 Williams and Baldy Denniston and I had rooms in the same 
 boarding house near the college, and managed to keep up one 
 another's interest somehow. It was all hard work, with a brisk 
 walk for an hour each day as our only recreation. 
 
 " In 1895 we succeeded in getting our M. D.'s and Mac and 
 Herb Carter and I won places as Internes at the Presbyterian 
 Hospital, which was very gratifying. We had two splendid 
 years there, getting all sorts of experience, and at the end of the 
 service I accepted an appointment as Interne at the New York 
 Foundling Hospital. There I spent one year — a most valuable 
 training in the line of children's diseases. Towards the end of 
 that service, which expired July 1, 1898, I looked for an open- 
 ing, and the field at Yonkers promptly presented itself. I came 
 here that autumn to be associated with a former Presbyterian 
 
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 Hospital alumnus who had established a very wide practice and 
 needed help. And — all has gone well — and here I have con- 
 tinued to live and to practice medicine ever since. 
 
 " About a year after starting the work here, I was appointed 
 an attending physician to St. John's Hospital — and two years 
 ago came an appointment as physician to the Leake and Watts 
 Orphan House, so that I have been well favored with oppor- 
 tunities for clinical study in various lines. 
 
 " My work in private practice has grown extensively — and on 
 the whole, I have been a busy man (at times more than busy) 
 during the past five years or more. It is a good work though. 
 I don't know about a life-work more satisfying in very many 
 respects. There are draw-backs, of course. One's time is 
 never his own. The best laid plans must constantly be given 
 over. The practice of general medicine is more exacting than 
 any profession that I know about. But — I love my job all 
 right — and I am in it to stay — and do the best work I can. 
 The field is good, I am blessed with good health, and the outlook 
 at present and for the future seems bright. 
 
 " The Baroness and I have established ourselves in a new 
 home where we hope that you and many of the good men of '92 
 will find opportunity to come to see us. 
 
 " Most sincerely, 
 
 " John B. Kouwenhoven." 
 
 PRESTON STEWART KRECKER 
 
 Advertising. Business Address, 1 West 34th Street, New York 
 City. Residence, 829 Seventh Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Married Marguerite Helen Maddern, New York City, November 
 1, 1904. Children, Preston Stewart, Jr., b. August 21, 1905. 
 
 AFTER graduation Krecker taught Latin at Schuylkill 
 Academy, Fredericksburg, Pa., for a year, and then 
 moved to Lebanon, Pa., where he was editor of the Daily Re- 
 
152 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 port. Later he resided in Philadelphia, where he was on the 
 staff of the Philadelphia Press, and in New York as assistant 
 night editor of the New York Times. He is an Independent 
 Democrat and belongs to the Crescent Athletic Club of Brook- 
 lyn. His hobbv is tennis. 
 
 AMOS L. LAKEY, Jr. 
 
 We have not succeeded in tracing Lakey. 
 
 WILTON JOHN LAMBERT, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 410 5th Street, N. W., Washington, 
 D. C. Residence, 1620 S Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Married Elizabeth Gorman, Washington, D. C, June 26, 1896. 
 Children, Elizabeth Gorman, b. August 15, 1897. Arthui 
 Gorman, b. February 9, 1899- 
 
 1AMBERT pursued his legal studies at Georgetown Univer- 
 _j sity, and has attended strictly to business ever since, with 
 the result that he is now one of the leading younger lawyers in 
 the District, representing a number of large corporations at 
 the capital. By marriage a son-in-law of the late Senator 
 Gorman of Maryland, Lambert has also done his own share of 
 political work in that State, stumping it in several campaigns 
 for the Democratic party. He has persistently refused, how- 
 ever, to run for any office, but devotes himself entirely to his 
 profession. He is Associate Counsel for the Business Men's 
 Association, and was sent to the opening of the St. Louis Ex- 
 position as a representative of the District of Columbia. His 
 hobby is his collection of firearms ; it is well worth seeing. 
 
 " In my last letter which was sent for use in the triennial 
 record, I announced to you that I had just finished my course 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 153 
 
 in the Law Department of Georgetown University, standing 
 second in my class, and having had the honor of being its presi- 
 dent. I immediately passed my examination for the Bar in the 
 District of Columbia, and formed a partnership with my father, 
 which continued along with considerable success until he retired 
 in '99 from active professional business. I then formed a 
 partnership with Mr. D. W. Baker, a promising young attorney 
 of this city, which was attended with much success and con- 
 tinued until about one year ago, when Mr. Baker was selected 
 by the President of the United States to fill the office of the 
 United States District Attorney for the District of Columbia, 
 since which time with the assistance of our clerks I have been 
 carrying on the practice in my individual capacity. My time 
 has been almost entirely spent in professional work, and I have 
 been very fortunate in securing the clientage of large corpora- 
 tions and well-to-do individuals. I was attorney for the Amer- 
 ican League Baseball Association in connection with their legal 
 battles to obtain a foothold in Washington, and represented 
 them in some of the important injunction proceedings against 
 the National League. I have been for some time attorney in 
 the District of Columbia for the Frank A. Munsey Company 
 and the Washington Times Newspaper Corporation. I also rep- 
 resent some of the theaters here as well as banks. I have 
 recently been retained by the Eastern Oil Company in its legal 
 work in the District of Columbia, and am associate counsel for 
 the Business Men's Association, which is one of the two largest 
 associations of influential citizens of this District. Among the 
 principal cases which I have tried was the Thornton will case, 
 which was fought successfully through the Supreme Court of 
 the United States, and the large libel suit brought against the 
 Washington Times on account of alleged injurious publications 
 against Mrs. Becker, which after being stubbornly fought for 
 a number of days, resulted in a verdict of one cent for the 
 plaintiff. I will not attempt to enumerate further matters in 
 
154 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 connection with business, but will conclude by remarking that 
 I was married on the 26th of June, 1896, to Miss Bessie Gor- 
 man, daughter of Senator Gorman of Maryland, and have taken 
 considerable interest and done considerable work in the line of 
 political speech-making in Maryland on behalf of the Demo- 
 cratic party since that time. 
 
 " With sincerest wishes for the welfare of each and every 
 member of the Class of '92, 
 
 " I am, cordially yours, 
 
 " Wilton J. Lambert." 
 
 THOMAS COWDEN LAUGHLIN, A.M., B.D., Ph.D. 
 
 Real Estate Broker. Address, P. O. Box 1299, Seattle, Wash. Un- 
 married. 
 
 THE year following graduation, Laughlin taught mathe- 
 matics in Parsons College, Fairfield, la. During 1893- 
 94» he was Instructor in Greek at Kenyon College, Gambier, 
 Ohio, then for three years he attended the Princeton Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, where in 1897 he earned the degree of S. T. B., 
 following this with a year at Harvard, where he obtained the 
 degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1898. Then he went abroad 
 for study at Gottingen, Berlin and Paris, returning in 1900 to 
 Princeton for another residence of two years, at the end of 
 which period he successfully crowned his long and hard prepara- 
 tory work by obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, his 
 dissertation being a discussion of the " Solecisms of the 
 Apocalypse." Accepting the chair of New Testament Litera- 
 ture and Greek Exegesis in the Pacific Theological Seminary at 
 Berkeley, Cal., he turned his steps westward once more. 
 
 His inaugural address was on " The Pastoral Epistles in the 
 Light of one Roman Imprisonment." At Berkeley he remained 
 for five years. 
 
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 " In addition to the usual experiences which most of us have 
 had since graduation," he writes on the back of his circular, " it 
 has fallen to me to be shipwrecked " (when the Patria burned 
 in the North Sea, November 15, 1899, and Laughlin lost all he 
 had, with nine diplomas, five of them from Princeton, and was 
 picked up by a lumber ship after several hours in a boat. — 
 Eds.), " to be quarantined in New Orleans during the yellow 
 fever siege in the summer of 1905, and now to have passed 
 through the terrible earthquake and fire in San Francisco of 
 April, 1906- I shall not attempt to tell of my personal experi- 
 ences in those disasters in one short letter. It is enough to say 
 that I have each time escaped personal injury." 
 
 After all these warnings — perils of fire, perils of waters and 
 perils of fever — Laughlin has at last decided to reform, and 
 just as this book goes to press he writes hurriedly to say that 
 he has quit teaching, hocked his remaining diplomas, and has 
 started finally on the Simple Life as a real estate broker in 
 Seattle, Washington. 
 
 ALEXANDER S. LILLEY 
 
 Contractor. Office, 604 Mission Street, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Residence, San Rafael, Cal. 
 Married Juliette Williams, May 2Q, 1902. Children, Ethel 
 
 Rodgers, b. . Alexander Neil, b. . 
 
 WE would try to gild the lily, but we haven't the goods ; 
 he hasn't sent them. Al tells us, however, that he is 
 president of the Lilley & Thurston Company, engaged in the 
 structural steel and contracting business. He has resided in 
 Columbus, 0., New York City, and Chicago since graduation. 
 He belongs to the University Club of San Francisco, where he 
 sees Max Farrand, who, he understands, is hard to beat in his 
 specialty at Stanford University — viz., trout fishing. Al is 
 also a member of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, the San 
 
156 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Francisco Golf and Country Club, and the San Rafael Country 
 Club. He used to see Tommy Irvin before the earthquake of 
 April, 1906, and " he was getting three meals a day " then ; 
 but he has seen him only once since. Golf, swimming, riding 
 and squash are Al's exercise and recreations and he believes in 
 " eating a little and drinking enough." 
 
 FINLEY HALL LLOYD 
 
 Wholesale Dry Goods. Business Address, 933 Penn Avenue, Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. Residence, Shields, Pa. 
 
 Married Sara Scott Spencer, Glenshaw, Pa., September 25, 1895. 
 Children, Elizabeth Hall, b. May 30, 1898. Finley Hall, Jr., 
 b. May 14, 1900. 
 
 HERE is an honest man. He admits that, all in all, eating 
 and sleeping are his principal recreations, with a little 
 golf thrown in to taste. His hobby is the " shortest possible 
 time from bed to train," and as for gossip about any '92 men 
 he quotes to us (or rather begins the quotation) " Do unto 
 others," etc. He has " kept away as far as possible from 
 politics." Of army service he has seen none, but has played 
 golf with a commander in the navy, so is not without naval 
 experience. Asked where he has lived, he proudly exclaims, 
 " Pittsburg forever ! " He belongs to the Duquesne, Pitts- 
 burg and Allegheny Country Clubs, and also to a few Prince- 
 ton Clubs. 
 
 LORENZO GRENVILLE LYON V 
 
 Teaching. Residence, 5 Wall Street, New Brighton, N. Y. Un- 
 married. 
 
 I YON has moved around a good deal in pursuit of his profes- 
 _J sion. From August, '92, to June, '93, he taught Greek, 
 French and general subjects at the Delaware Academy, Delhi, 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 157 
 
 N. Y. From September, '93, to November, '95, he taught the 
 Classics and French and Rhetoric at the West Jersey Academy, 
 Bridgeton, N. J., his old school. Then he took a long jump 
 and in February, 1896, landed bag and baggage at Mackenzie 
 College, S. Paulo, Brazil, where besides assisting in the adminis- 
 tration of the institution, he also taught his favorite subjects of 
 Latin, Greek and English. There he remained until April, 
 1899. Then, feeling lonely, he took another transcontinental 
 leap and woke up in January, 1900, at Mt. Hermon School, 
 Mt. Hermon, Mass., where he supplied local deficiencies in 
 Latin and Greek. From February, 1902, to June, 1903, he 
 was principal of the High School at Woodstown, N. J., and 
 taught in the three upper grades. In the following September 
 and until the next February, he taught in the Grammar and 
 Evening Schools. Then for the next two years he was in the 
 New Brighton, S. I., Academy teaching Latin and Greek with 
 general assistant work. He is at present a tutor at New 
 Brighton and substitute in the N. Y. Schools, and heads 
 the eligible list for regular appointment as high school assistant 
 in Latin. He has travelled in all the New England and Middle 
 Atlantic States, and half a dozen countries on the Continent, be- 
 sides the British Isles, Canada and South America. 
 
 V 
 WILLIAM ADAMS MACKENZIE, Jr., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 541 Onondaga Savings Bank Building, Syracuse, 
 
 N. Y. Residence, 1017 East Adams Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Married Mariella Grant, November 1, 1904. Children, none. 
 
 MACKENZIE studied law at Albany and was graduated 
 in 1894, and since 1895 has been practicing at Syra- 
 cuse, being at present partner in the firm of Mackenzie & 
 Wade. While he has never been an officeholder or seeker, yet 
 he has always taken a degree of interest in municipal politics as 
 
158 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 a Republican, and has even delivered a few burning political 
 speeches, on which occasions, however, he says both he and the 
 cause suffered. Fish Hall is the only frankly self-appreciative 
 political orator in the Class. But, like Mackenzie, everyone else 
 has fizzled as a speaker, according to his own statement. Mac- 
 kenzie doesn't know what his hobby is — " no man can recognize 
 his own insanity." But it looks as if a bunch of his classmates 
 have made a pretty good shot at it ; and as for the others we 
 can point theirs out for them. He is one of our Spanish War 
 veterans, having been Sergeant of Co. A, 203d N. Y. Infantry ; 
 but owing to the mosquitoes at Camp Black he never got the 
 chance to fire a gun or see the enemy. The mosquitoes and 
 their poison landed him in hospital with malaria and by the 
 time he got well the late misunderstanding was over. In the 
 Princeton Club of Syracuse he is one of the most enthusiastic 
 members. He balked at the photograph idea, but his military 
 training helped us and he capitulated — 
 
 His not to reason why — 
 His but to do and die! 
 
 " Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1907. 
 " My Dear Prentice : 
 
 " I had not appreciated the fact that you wished to make a 
 complete pictorial record of the Class of '92, but supposed the 
 contribution of that material was more or less optional; and 
 having neither beauty nor celebrity I didn't think that it would 
 make any difference. 
 
 " With the other view, however, I am only too glad to do 
 anything that I can to help along, and have this morning ex- 
 posed myself to the photographic camera, with hopes for the 
 result, which will be forwarded to you promptly. 
 
 " I think that the answers to your questions cover my bi- 
 ography, but as I see from a more careful reading of your 
 

 masmmmfflm 
 
 
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 W. A. Mackenzie, Jr. 
 

 
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BIOGRAPHIES 159 
 
 letter that you specially request a letter in reply I will give a 
 few further particulars, endeavoring to keep in mind your 
 words of caution, and giving to you full authority to use, 
 disregard, abridge, or amplify — 
 
 " After graduation I studied Law at the Albany Law School, 
 from which I graduated in 1894. The next year I came to 
 Syracuse and entered the office of Stone, Gannon & Pettit, re- 
 maining with that firm until the summer of 1898, when I en- 
 listed on the second call for volunteers for the Spanish War. 
 After six weeks at Camp Black I contracted a fever and was 
 in the hospital until my discharge. Returning to Syracuse I 
 formed a partnership with Frank E. Wade, Yale, '94, which 
 has continued until the present time. 
 
 " Although there are no other '92 men in Syracuse, we have 
 a small but enthusiastic Princeton Club. The Van Duyns, '62, 
 '94, and '04, McAllister '88, Belknap '89, Jenney '94, and 
 others all gather whenever a victory is to be celebrated or 
 a Princetonian gives us a chance to furnish entertainment. As 
 yet, no member of the Class of '92 has given us that opportun- 
 ity, but should he come this way I trust that he will let me know 
 and give us a chance to show our hospitality." 
 
 JOHN MACLEAN MAGIE, A.M. 
 
 Journalist. Business Address, The New York Tribune. Residence, 
 
 227 East 72d Street, New York City. 
 Married Gertrude von C. Klein, Trenton, N. J., April 23, 1903. 
 
 Children, none. 
 
 MAGGIE MAGIE studied at Leipzig and Erlangen from 
 1893 to 1895, and then taught classics in the Pingry 
 School at Elizabeth until 1897. Since then he has been on the 
 Tribune. So much of a journalist is he that he shuns station- 
 ery and ink, and uses the office pencil and scratch paper (to call 
 it no worse name) for his private correspondence. He must 
 
160 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 have lost his moral sense reading the comic supplement. Here 
 is his pencilled autobiography : 
 
 " Dear William : 
 
 " For the last three years I have attended strictly to business, 
 and because this business was done in the night time I have had 
 neither recreation nor friends. My charming personality has 
 not been copied by the camera in years, and it is too late to bid 
 for fame in that way now. When senile dementia comes I shall 
 turn muck-raker, and then my portrait will be in all the maga- 
 zines. In the meantime, my photograph would not embellish 
 the Book of Beauty. Why not try to turn out an artistic 
 work ? 
 
 " I trust that I violate no Princeton ideal in this reference to 
 Hopped-on Eclair. The Bungle, I understand, is about to be 
 removed to Englewood, which also possesses its fair share of 
 fools. 
 
 " There is nothing which I could put into a class letter which 
 would be of interest to the men I used to know, and the queries 
 which I have answered cover all the necessary facts." 
 
 ALBERTUS McLAREN MARSHALL, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 716 Reibold Building, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 Residence, 640 Superior Avenue, Dayton, Ohio. 
 Married Mary Moore Elder, Dayton, Ohio, October 25, 1900. 
 
 Children, Robert Dickson, b. March 5, 1902. Thomas Elder, 
 
 b. April 17, 1905. 
 
 SPORT MARSHALL studied a year in his father's Dayton 
 law office and then returned to the Great White Way and 
 entered the New York Law School, taking his degree there. 
 Since then he has been practicing at Dayton. He is a Demo- 
 crat, is fond of hunting and fishing, and still plays baseball. 
 His hobby is bird dogs. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 161 
 
 HENRY LEE MASON, Jr. 
 
 Stationer and Bookseller. Business Address, 429-431 Wood Street, 
 Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 608 North Highland Avenue, Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. 
 
 Married Martha Frew Lockhart, Pittsburg, Pa., June 25, 1895. 
 Children, none. 
 
 MASON went into his father's book and stationery com- 
 pany at Pittsburg after leaving college and has con- 
 tinued doing business at the old stand. Like all Pittsburg 
 Princetonians, he is an enthusiastic Princeton rooter and at- 
 tends all alumni gatherings. He is a member of the Duquesne, 
 Union, and Monongahela Clubs of Pittsburg, and of course 
 belongs to the Princeton Alumni Association. As for politics, 
 he replies " not interested — too crooked ; politics, I mean, not 
 myself." His chief exercise is chasing clerks around the store, 
 and his recreation, automobiling, which is likewise his hobby. 
 The '92 men he most frequently sees are McCune and Reddy 
 Smith, but he does not tell us what he knows about them — 
 " not fit for publication." There will probably be a free fight 
 in the store when this appears in print — if McCune and the 
 Rosy-haired One can tear themselves away from their ordinary 
 pursuits long enough to start in to clean up our book-selling 
 joker. Mason won't chase clerks that day, no sir! 
 
162 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN MILLS MAYHEW, M.D. 
 
 Physician. Office, 207 Funke Building, Lincoln, Neb. Residence, 
 1420 G Street, Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 Married Winifred Grace Busbey, Chicago, 111., June 6, 1898. Chil- 
 dren, Alice Dorothy, b. December 24, 1900; d. January 10, 
 1901. Winifred Busbey, b. November 1, 1902. 
 
 COLONEL WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S fellow-townsman was 
 landed after a desperate struggle, and here is the result. 
 He studied medicine at the Chicago College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons and took his degree in 1895. He remained in the 
 Windy City until 1901 and then moved to Lincoln, where he 
 finds exercise and recreation in playing pinochle, bunco and 
 the organ. His profession is medicine, but his hobby is the 
 same as ever — music ; and if rumor is not at fault he is living 
 up to his Freshman nickname. He has travelled, not widely 
 but well — " Lincoln to Bull's Crossing and return, 20 miles 
 in 1897 (overland)." Said Crossing isn't on the map. He 
 sees Dr. VanDyke Wight, President of Hastings College, 
 occasionally, a divine " who is spending his time between raising 
 a family and raising funds for his college. Intimate friend of 
 the magnates, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Pearson, or any other 
 fellow who has money to give away." Sam Small alleges that 
 Joe has found a gold mine somewhere, and has struck it rich ; 
 but. Joe has not confirmed the allegation. Sam, you know, is 
 a dealer in water stock, and probably sees visions and dreams 
 dreams more than occasionally. 
 
 We regret we cannot reproduce the red-ink letter-head Dr. 
 Mayhew uses. But you can all note the delicate compliment 
 in his opening words : 
 
 " Lincoln, Nebraska, January 10, 1907. 
 " Gentlemen and Kelly Prentice : 
 
 " I am coming on to Princeton in the Spring. When I get 
 there I'm going to hunt up Jim Westervelt and Tommy Bell, 
 
H. L. Mason. Jr. 
 
 J. M. Mayhew 
 
 H. P. McDowell 
 
 A. C. McIlvaine 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 163 
 
 and then proceed to annihilate the whole bunch of '92 men who 
 have been hounding me for three months — viz., the Publication 
 Committee. What do you want to hurry a man so for? I 
 only knew about this matter six months ago and have been 
 considering it ever since. My motives are worthy, if my con- 
 duct doesn't seem to be. 
 
 " In this short resume of my past I cannot go into much 
 detail, but will let it go with saying that for the past nine 
 years I've been one-half sick, the other half not so much so. 
 This climate has commenced to show some result now, and I'm 
 improving. This bit of information carries with it everything 
 in the way of ups and downs in my career. When a man's only 
 half up to the mark he amounts to about one quarter and 
 street car fare. This sounds on re-reading rather discouraged, 
 but I'm not that. On the other hand, in the ' words of the im- 
 mortal Buck Ewing,' I'm ' up and coming now,' and want to 
 see the whole Class, one by one, separately and collectively, in 
 June. 
 
 " Photographs in six natural and easy poses — ' coming up,' 
 soon. " Yours to a Cinder, 
 
 " Joe." 
 
 JOHN ROBINSON McCUNE 
 
 Banking. Business Address, Union National Bank, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 M 
 
 cCUNE signed a registered letter receipt, but that is all 
 we have from him. 
 
16-t PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 HARRY FLEMING McDOWELL, M.D. 
 
 Physician. Office, 39 12th Street. Franklin, Pa. Residence, 45 
 
 12th Street, Franklin, Pa. 
 Married Edith Lytle Jones. Franklin. Pa.. September 17,. 1902. 
 
 Children, none. 
 
 TRACY was graduated from the University of \Vestern 
 Pennsylvania Medical College at Pittsburg in 1895, and 
 since then has followed the busy life of a physician. He belongs 
 to the usual County, State and American Medical Societies, plays 
 golf and tennis occasionally, and is a crank about dogs and 
 guns. As modest as ever about his own life and doings, he 
 writes : 
 
 " To the Class Committee, Princeton, X. J. 
 
 " Dear Sirs: — To sit down and tell to friends and acquaint- 
 ances one's achievements and accomplishments, where no record 
 of exaggerations is kept and where boasts are forgotten when the 
 sparkle and foam have gone, is easy, but to write of them with 
 name attached is different. 
 
 " In '92 I looked ahead and dreamed of great things. Fif- 
 teen years later I look back and reluctantly confess that along 
 my pathway there are mighty few things worth placarding. 
 
 " After studying medicine and practicing it for six years in 
 hospitals of several varieties, I located in 1901 in Franklin, 
 Pa., where I married and where I am probably located to stay. 
 
 " I am, therefore, a busy general practitioner of medicine, 
 contented, fairly successful, fairly prosperous in a small city 
 which has been called ' The Nursery of Great Men.' Need I 
 add more, therefore, in writing of my achievements? 
 
 " Yours sincerely. 
 
 " H. F. McDowell. 
 
 " October 16, 1906." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 165 
 
 ALAN CASSILIS McILVAINE, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 1406 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Residence, Winnetka, 111. 
 Married Bertha Marie Hately, Chicago, April 24, 1899- Children, 
 
 Helen, b. January 20, 1905. 
 
 THE Managing Editor of the Tiger studied law at the 
 Chicago College of Law and was graduated in 1895, 
 since when he has assisted in disentangling legal complications 
 in the City of Chicago. His eloquence before juries has usually 
 been cheered by his clients and occasionally he has been suffered. 
 In politics he has hustled out voters and has had several chances 
 to work the party, but couldn't afford to take office. On due 
 consideration he believes he might be classed as a Republican. 
 The only positions he has occupied have been the sad one alluded 
 to in the beginning of this sketch, and the trusteeship of one 
 or two charitable organizations. For exercise he cuts the grass 
 and rocks the baby, like a good commuter ; and for recreation 
 he plays golf. He has no hobbies — " am not a crank — merely 
 a cog." 
 
 CHARLES ALBERT McKENNEY 
 
 Civil Engineer. Business Address, Municipal Building, 14th and 
 
 E Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. Residence, 1523 Rhode 
 
 Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
 Married Frances Marion Miller, Washington, D. C, February 14, 
 
 1901. Children, James Hall, 2d, b. November 25, 1902. 
 
 William Miller, b. September 30, 1904; d. October 11, 1905. 
 
 IT will be remembered that Mac started operations in the 
 office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of 
 Columbia and made good at once. He is now the Assistant 
 Engineer of the new Municipal Building going up in the 
 
166 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Capital. He is a member of the following professional socie- 
 ties: the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Washington 
 Society of Civil Engineers, and the National Geographic So- 
 ciety. 
 
 As for the bust to which he alludes, it was decided that it 
 would be somewhat unwieldy to keep among the class archives, 
 so with keen regret the offer was declined. It seems to be up 
 to Mac to keep it for his own tomb, as he suggests ; or may be 
 it could be planted in front of the Municipal Building in Wash- 
 ington, where there is plenty of room. 
 
 " Washington, D. C, Nov. 15th, 1906. 
 " My Dear Prentice : 
 
 " I send you herewith the statistics which you requested. As 
 for a letter I have but little to say in regard to myself. The 
 fall after leaving Princeton I entered upon the pursuit of my 
 chosen calling, Civil Engineering, and have been steadily en- 
 gaged in that work ever since. In recent years I have been 
 associated with or in charge of some of the largest engineering 
 works in this community. At present I am in charge of the 
 construction of the Municipal Government Building ; cost about 
 $2,500,000, all of which the city will get the benefit of, as 
 there is no ' graft.' Your request for a photo of myself is a 
 hard one to comply with as I dodge the photographer the same 
 as I would a dentist, and I have not posed for the camera for 
 at least ten years. However, I send you a photo of a bust 
 which has just been completed of me by a friend who has quite 
 some standing as a sculptor in this locality. I am sorry I 
 cannot send you the bust, as I do not know what else to do 
 with it unless I hurry up and die so that it can be placed at the 
 grave. With very best regards to the entire Class. 
 
 ".Sincerely, 
 " Charles Albert McKenney." 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 167 
 
 AUSTIN McLANAHAN, LL.B. 
 
 Banker. Business Address, Care Alex. Brown & Sons, Baltimore, 
 Md. Residence, " Misery Hill/' Melvale, Baltimore Co., Md. 
 
 Married Romaine Le Moyne, Melvale, Baltimore Co., Md., Novem- 
 ber 6, 1902. Children, none 
 
 " Messrs. Howard Crosby Butler, V. Lansing Collins, Wm. 
 
 K. Prentice, Committee Expectant of the Class of '92. 
 
 " Gentlemen: — I have received two copies of your extrava- 
 ganza dated May 15th, and hasten to return herewith the 
 bordereau you enclosed. 
 
 " When I told my wife of your request for our photograph 
 and explained to her in what company it would be found, she 
 put her foot down. If I can get out from under in time I shall 
 try to forward you my own likeness. 
 
 " About myself, there is really nothing worth chronicling. 
 From the time I graduated until May, 1894, I loafed at home, 
 then I came to Baltimore in the capacity of private secretary 
 to Mr. Alexander Brown, head of the banking firm of Alexander 
 Brown & Sons, and in the meantime studied law at the Uni- 
 versity of Maryland, graduated and was admitted to the 
 Baltimore Bar, although never practiced. In January, 1902, 
 I was admitted to partnership in the firm. Since then the only 
 event of exceptional importance was my wedding in the fall of 
 that year. A wee bit of a story, but there is all of it. 
 
 " Any details I shall cheerfully furnish at the June Reunion. 
 
 " Vale, 
 
 " Austin McLanahan." 
 
 In the meantime here are a few extra details which Reddy 
 can embellish at the reunion. He was graduated from the 
 University of Maryland Law School in 1897 with the degree of 
 LL.B. He is up to his neck in business and has no time for 
 
168 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 hobbies and very little for exercise and recreation. He doesn't 
 even develop his chest as he used to do in the old Gym. But he 
 is important enough in Baltimore to have quarter-column inter- 
 views in the papers when he returns from his vacations, giving 
 his opinions on the weather, crops, politics, business outlook, 
 and his own health. One of these days he will get half-columns. 
 With Billy Wilson running the B. & 0., and Reddy superin- 
 tending as much of the haute finance as Pop Rieman acci- 
 dentally neglects, and Jesse Riggs insuring everyone's life, and 
 Alf. Riggs looking after the legal end of things, and E. J. 
 Cook monopolizing business in the suburbs, and the extenuated 
 Pendleton watching the tape and juggling the stocks, while the 
 Stork dispenses music and Chattolanee Spring water, it seems as 
 if '92 had got Baltimore right where it wants it. There appears 
 to be room, however, for a '92 doctor and perhaps a minister 
 or so — and an undertaker. Bids on any or all of these remain- 
 ing jobs will be received by Alf. Riggs. 
 
 CHARLES S. McMAHON 
 
 Banking. Office, National Bank of Cambridge, Ohio. Residence, 
 935 Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge, Ohio. Unmarried. 
 
 McMAHON is cashier of the National Bank of Cambridge, 
 Ohio, in which town he has resided since graduation. 
 He is a member of the Princeton Club of New York, and is a 
 golfer. He disclaims any particular hobby, but says he is a 
 crank in general. He's a pretty good crank, however. He 
 comes on to Yale games, and had planned to be at the smoker 
 last November in New York, but that evening he got " hitched 
 up " with some friends — non-Princetonians — and did not make 
 connections with the Hofbrau House. And yet we did not see 
 anything about his doings in the next morning's papers. Or 
 do we misunderstand him? 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 169 
 
 CLARENCE ARTHUR McWILLIAMS, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Surgeon. Residence and Office, 112 West 55th Street, New York 
 City. Unmarried. 
 
 DR. McWILLIAMS has no prospects matrimonially and 
 has been given up as an incurable by his immediate 
 friends. Surgically, however, he has literally carved out a 
 reputation for himself. He is a graduate of the P. & S. (Co- 
 lumbia) and studied an extra year at Berlin. Besides relieving 
 people of superfluous or defective portions of their anatomy, 
 he teaches other young gentlemen how the Lord intended to 
 make them. For he has lectured on Normal Histology in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, was for three years Assist- 
 ant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Cornell Medical College 
 at New York, and for the past three years has served as an 
 Instructor in Surgery at the P. & S. For five years now he 
 has also been Assistant Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, 
 Surgeon to Trinity Hospital, and Surgical Chief of the Out- 
 patient Ward, Presbyterian Hospital, N. Y. City. During 
 the Spanish War he " fought, bled, and died " for his country 
 for two months as Assistant Surgeon in the Volunteers with 
 rank of Lieutenant, being assigned to the U. S. A. Hospital 
 Ship " Relief." " During this time (August 10th to October 
 11th)," says he in the official record of Princeton in the Spanish 
 War, " we made trips between Porto Rico and the northern 
 ports in the United States, conveying the sick from Porto Rico. 
 We also acted as an ambulance ship to convey the sick from 
 Montauk Point to Boston and Philadelphia at the time the 
 authorities were hurrying the sick away from Montauk as fast 
 as possible." He has appeared prominently in the Medical 
 Societies, and a list of his writings on topics ranging from 
 movable kidneys to ingrowing toenails is given in the Hot Air 
 
170 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Furnace. The medical fraternity tells us that McWilliams has 
 a great future before him. Here is his tale of woe: 
 
 " 112 West 55th St., New York City, Nov. 30, 1906. 
 " My Dear Kelly : 
 
 " I cannot chronicle that I have acquired either wealth or 
 fame during the past fifteen years — neither have I attached to 
 myself that summum bonum, a wife. To inquiring friends as 
 to the ' how ' of that last deplorable condition, I may give the 
 following reason: Having been ' thrown down ' about fourteen 
 times, I have given it up as a bad job and expect to spend the 
 remainder of my days in single 'loneliness' (?), but notwith- 
 standing this drawback, I have managed to be happy and con- 
 tented, and pleased with the world generally. 
 
 *' For over ten years Baron Kouwenhoven, Bob Stevenson, 
 Herb Carter and myself have not missed going to the Yale 
 game together. Baron was a little weak about going with us 
 once or twice at about the time he was hovering around Phila- 
 delphia anxiously and expectantly, but since then he and Bob 
 Stevenson have made antenuptial agreements which absolve 
 each of them from the necessity of taking their wives to the 
 games, and the annual custom is to be perpetuated despite matri- 
 mony. 
 
 " On leaving Princeton a number of our Class went to the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Department 
 of Columbia University. Among these were Herb Carter, Baron 
 Kouwenhoven, Bob Denniston, Bailey, Bradley and myself. 
 Completing our course there, a great hick ordained that Herb 
 Carter, Baron Kouwenhoven and myself should be admitted 
 together as Internes to the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. 
 New York. A more delightful two years it would be hard to 
 imagine than we spent there together — abundance of agreeable 
 and instructive work amidst most congenial surroundings. It 
 looked several times as though the Baron was getting seriously 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 171 
 
 entangled with some pretty nurse, and I may say confidentially 
 that I had to warn him a number of times, even chide him on 
 his frivolity in awakening false hopes in some young bosom. 
 We all got through our course in the Hospital unscathed, how- 
 ever, in that regard, and we trust the others did likewise. 
 
 " On leaving the Presbyterian I then served as Interne in 
 the Sloane Maternity Hospital, where the proper mode of en- 
 tering the world is taught. Following this I went to Berlin 
 to study medicine for a year, since which time I have been located 
 in New York. My practice has largely turned into a surgical 
 one. The positions I hold at present represent surgery en- 
 tirely, namely, Instructor in Surgery at the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University ; Surgeon to Trinity 
 Hospital, Assistant Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital and 
 Chief of the Surgical Clinic, Out-patient Department of the 
 Presbyterian Hospital. 
 
 " Members of the good old Class of '92 will always find a 
 hearty welcome at the above address. 
 
 " Always sincerely, 
 
 " Clarence A. Mc Williams." 
 
 ELMER LLEWELLYN MEYERS, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Residence, 158 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 Married Grace Hampton Morgan, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 22, 1903. 
 Children, Margaretta Foulke, b. March 9, 1904. 
 
 JIM ROBINSON'S double located at White Haven, Luzerne 
 County, Pa., and was Supervising Principal of Schools 
 there for two years ; then he moved to Wilkes-Barre to become 
 Head of Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and 
 College Preparatory Department of Public Schools. He then 
 migrated to Philadelphia to take up the study of medicine at 
 the Jefferson Medical College, where, in 1900, he took his 
 degree. He was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy for a 
 year thereafter, and also City Vaccine Physician. For the 
 
172 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 last five years he has been practicing at Wilkes-Barre. He 
 belongs to the usual State and County Medical Societies, and 
 also to the American Medical Society and to the Philadelphia 
 Society for the Study and Prevention of Social Diseases, and 
 to the Wyoming Valley Society for the Prevention and Treat- 
 ment of Tuberculosis. Several of his medical papers have been 
 published. 
 
 RUSSELL KING MILLER 
 
 Musician. Business Address, 1714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 
 Pa. Residence, The Ivan, 47th Street and Baltimore Avenue, 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Married Emily Meyer Wilson, Philadelphia, Pa., November 22, 
 1899- Children, none. 
 
 DUSTY MILLER is very reticent. The few autobiograph- 
 ical data we have been able to gather are the following : 
 After he left college in the spring of 1890 he settled down to 
 musical work. In 1891 he went to New York for further 
 study, and in the following year was appointed Instructor in 
 Musical Theory and Composition at the New York Conserva- 
 tory. Returning to Philadelphia, for the last twelve years 
 he has been working steadily. Much of his composition has 
 been published by Schirmer, by Fisher of New York, and by 
 Ditson of Boston. 
 
 FRANK MONTGOMERY MILLIGAN 
 
 Piailroading. Business Address, 368 Washington Street, Boston, 
 Mass. Residence, 94 Boston Avenue, West Medford, Mass. 
 
 Married Sara Jessamine Jones, Newport, Pa., April 22, 1903. 
 Children, Frank Montgomery, Jr., b. January 14-, 1905. 
 
 IN June, '92, Milligan went back to his old position in the 
 Newport, Pa., Deposit Bank, leaving it in a couple of 
 years to go into railroading at Chicago as Passenger Rate 
 
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 Clerk for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, of which line 
 he is now Travelling Passenger Agent, having an office, first in 
 the Old State House at Boston, and now as above. He is con- 
 stantly on the go, and of course his hobby is railroads. His 
 bailiwick consists of the New England States and he is travelling 
 from Monday morning to Friday night. 
 
 JOHN KEARSLEY MITCHELL 
 
 Residence, 2419 South Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 JACK MITCHELL lives in Philadelphia and has not re- 
 sponded to our numerous calls yet. 
 
 LEVI SCHADE MOCHEL, A.M. 
 
 Minister. Address, Woodburn, Ore. Unmarried. 
 
 MOCHEL, whose name used to be Mogel, by his dilatori- 
 ness very nearly got into the same boat with the Foolish 
 Virgins of the parable. But he got wise at the last moment — 
 in fact after this book had gone to press. 
 
 After a boyhood and school education at Bernville, Pa., at 
 the age of sixteen he tried the West as a farm hand. In 1887 
 he was graduated from the Keystone Normal School, Pa., en- 
 tered Lafayette in 1889, and joined '92 at Princeton in 1890. 
 Three years at the Seminary followed, after which he took up 
 home mission work. For one year he labored at Delmar Junc- 
 tion, Iowa ; for two years at Farley, Iowa, and two at Chehalis, 
 Wash. Then he was stationed at Toledo, Wash., for five years, 
 with two at Summerville, Ore., and he has just moved to Wood- 
 burn in the same State. 
 
174 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN MONTGOMERY, D.D. 
 
 THE REV. DR. MONTGOMERY was graduated with 
 the Class, but he claims to have been an alien and desires 
 to have his name taken off the roll. As, however, he is officially 
 rated with '92 in the University General Catalogue we note his 
 name here as a matter of record, and subjoining a letter re- 
 ceived from him last year, consider the case closed. 
 " First Presbyterian Church, John Montgomery, Pastor. 
 
 " Findlay, Ohio, May 29, 1906. 
 " W. K. Prentice, Princeton, N. J., 
 
 "My Dear Sir: — At various times the past few years I have 
 received communications from you implying that I belonged to 
 the Class of '92. At the same time I have regularly been rated 
 with '91. It certainly is a case of honor overmuch. While in 
 Princeton I was with '91 ; but because of some back work my 
 ' Dip ' was not given till '92. It was not a case of ' condi- 
 tion ' but of being an Irregular on entering. My work was 
 finished up while in ' Sem.' So to save confusion you had best 
 erase my name from the roll of '92. 
 
 " Very truly yours, 
 
 " John Montgomery." 
 
 THEODORE WILSON MORRIS, JR., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 
 Residence, 101 West 80th Street, New York City. 
 Married Mary Maynadier Steele, New York City, April 20, 1898. 
 
 Children, Steele, b. August 9, 1901. Alice Schanck, b. July 20, 
 
 1903. 
 
 HERE is another modest lawyer who hasn't much to say 
 for himself save that he studied law at the New York 
 Law School, is married, has two children, votes as often as the 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 175 
 
 law allows, and his family is his hobby. Probably the reason 
 Titwillow is so shy on language is that he is a member of the 
 law firm of Moses, Morris & Westervelt — and anyone knows 
 that a fellow placed between the first and the last of this trio 
 might just as well quit trying to speak. 
 
 FREDERICK JOHN MOSES, C.E., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. 
 Residence, 102 Belmont Avenue, West New Brighton, Staten 
 Island, N. Y. 
 
 Married Elizabeth Aimee Lacombe, New York City, N. Y., Novem- 
 ber 23, 1898. Children, Henry Lacombe, b. March 21, 1901. 
 Frederick John, Jr., b. February 7, 1903. 
 
 HERE is the initial member of the legal firm just spoken 
 of. He is as bald as Westervelt is bearded, and runs 
 Poet Denniston close for First Baldhead Prize, with Pop At- 
 kinson about two hairbreadths behind. Freddy has travelled 
 once — out west with the Princeton Geological Expedition of 
 1895, as chief tenderfoot. He is a commuter, mowing the 
 grass in summer, shaking the furnace in winter, and catching 
 trains by the skin of his teeth all the year round. His hobby 
 is two small boys of his near acquaintance, and once in a while 
 the welkin is split again with his clarion cry S-T-A-R. 
 
 " New York, Nov. 1, 1906. 
 " Dear Kelly : 
 
 " This is an autobiography. I came to New York after 
 leaving college, studied law at N. Y. Law School, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in June, '94, clerk in various offices from 
 1892 to June 1st, 1897; then with T. W. Morris, Jr., '92, 
 formed partnership of Moses & Morris. In 1903, J. Wester- 
 
176 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 velt, '92, joined the firm, which has since been Moses, Morris & 
 Westervelt. 
 
 " Lived in New York with various Princeton men (among 
 whom were J. Williams and Pop Atkinson) until Nov. 23, 1898, 
 when I was married to Elizabeth Aimee Lacombe ; have two 
 sons (names and ages given on blank already sent you). Lived 
 in New York until 1901, when I moved to West New Brighton, 
 Staten Island, where I now live. 
 
 " Have lived a very quiet inconspicuous life like most young 
 lawyers. I have done nothing that has distinguished me or 
 brought me fame or fortune, but feel that the years have not 
 been altogether wasted, as I have managed to make a living, 
 for which I am duly thankful. 
 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 " Frederick J. Moses." 
 
 CHARLES OGDEN MUDGE 
 
 Minister. Address, East Downington, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 IN spite of poor health Charlie has been able to do a good 
 deal of hard work in the ministry. He has been pastor of 
 the Presbyterian Church of Montpelier, Idaho, and of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Nordhoff , California ; and was Stated 
 Clerk and Moderator of the Presbytery of Kendall, Synod of 
 L T tah. He has travelled widely through the West and has 
 worked with the Anti-Mormon party for moral reform. Sev- 
 eral articles from his pen have appeared in missionary and 
 church magazines. He is at present residing with his father, 
 the Rev. Dr. Mudge, at East Downington, but hopes soon with 
 restored health to be able to return to the West and continue 
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 WILLIAM LEROY MUDGE, A.M. 
 
 Minister. Residence, 108 North Brown Street, Lewistown, Pa. 
 Married Laura Maxwell Buck, Bridgeton, N. J., July 25, 1901. 
 
 Children, William Leroy, Jr., b. July 15, 1902. Sidney Reeves, 
 
 b. September 28, 1903. 
 
 BILLY MUDGE took a postgraduate course at Princeton 
 after graduation for which he received his Master's de- 
 gree in due time, and he was also graduated from the Seminary. 
 He was called from the pastorate of the First Church at Phoe- 
 nixville to that of the First Church at Lewistown ; and he is 
 making good. Indeed, great things are heard of him, and it 
 is believed that he is on the way to a big reputation. But like 
 the other ministers in the Class, he hates to write letters ; and 
 the Class Secretary doesn't own a phonograph outfit into which 
 they could talk, so the rest of us must linger in darkness as 
 to the real lives of most of our brothers of the cloth. Billy 
 is the author of an historical sketch of the Phoenixville Church, 
 and of a lecture on " The Land of Evangeline in Story and 
 Song " — which, unless memory is entirely at fault, was the 
 subject of either a prize essay or poem of his while in college. 
 
 MAX MUNGER 
 
 Salesman in importing. Business Address, 99 John Street, New 
 York City. Residence, Truell Inn, Plainfield, N. J. 
 
 Married Sue S. Weber, Plainfield, N. J., June 14, 1904. Children, 
 none. 
 
 MUNGER is a salesman in the importing firm of Moore 
 & Munger, travelling almost everywhere east of Du- 
 luth and New Orleans. He has also been in Canada, and on 
 the Continent. He has resided continuously at Plainfield since 
 
178 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 graduation, and has occupied two positions similar to the one 
 he now adorns. He is fond of water sports, and is an expert 
 swimmer. Theoretically, he is a Democrat ; in practice he is 
 a Republican. More than this deponent saith not ; and we had 
 hard work getting even that. 
 
 CLARENCE HITCHCOCK NEWTON I 
 
 Missionary. Address, Care A. P. Mission, Kiung chou, Hainan, 
 
 China. 
 Married Russella Easton Anderson, Palmyra, Mo., August 20, 1896. 
 
 Children, Harriet Ann, b. May 11, 1898. Frances May, b. 
 
 September 21, 1899- Clare Montgomery and William Russell, 
 
 b. January 28, 1902. 
 
 NEWTON took his theological course at McCormick, 
 graduating in 1896. He had spent the summer of 1893 
 as a missionary in Indian Territory, and we got a glimpse of 
 his work in his letter for our Triennial Record. The years 
 1894 and 1895 he spent at Hamilton, Mont., in home mission 
 work, being ordained by Butte Presbytery. On graduation 
 from McCormick he was appointed by the Foreign Board as 
 missionary to Hainan, China, for which country he sailed in 
 September, 1896, and where he has labored faithfully and suc- 
 cessfully ever since. In 1906 he was granted a leave of absence, 
 and we understand was in America, but we have not been able 
 to get in personal communication with him, and owe the above 
 facts to the courtesy of his father, Edmund B. Newton, Esq., 
 of Wilkinsburg, Pa. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 179 
 
 JAMES PORTER PARKER, C.E., B.L. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, Denegre Building, New Orleans, La. Residence, 
 2520 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Unmarried. 
 
 THE HON. J. PORTER PARKER went, in June, '92, 
 to the University of Virginia, where he received his 
 law degree in 1894. From there he went due south until he 
 struck New Orleans. Here he was admitted to the bar, and 
 spent his evenings at the Tulane University Law School, taking 
 his law degree over again in 1895. Since then it has been the 
 busy life for him. He has served on the Committee of the 
 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association for the revision 
 of the football rules to eliminate roughness, but does not vouch- 
 safe any information as to the results accomplished. From 
 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the Louisiana Legislature, 
 was elected to the State Senate in 1904, and is now District 
 Attorney of New Orleans. He is a Democrat, and has confined 
 his oratory to a few political stunts. 
 
 WILLIAM BELFRAGE PARSONS, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Business Address, P. O. Box 555, New York City. 
 
 Residence, Short Hills, Essex County, N. J. 
 Married Jean Hegan, New York City, June 7, 1904. Children, 
 
 none. 
 
 PARSONS studied law at Columbia, graduating in 1895, and 
 has stayed in New York ever since. He is connected with 
 the legal end of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Policy 
 Claims Division. We shall have to investigate him in June. 
 He says that the Seth Low Mayoralty Campaign of 1897 gave 
 him all the politics he wants, and yet he is a Republican. He 
 finds commuting to New York exercise enough, without going 
 
180 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 after any for the fun of it. He also throws a gentle light 
 on another of our insurance men, the Hon. Sheep Homans. 
 Says Parsons, who has cut his eye teeth all right : " I see 
 Homans frequently in business. He generally gets what he 
 wants except when he wants to insure me." It must be Parsons' 
 specialized training that alone saves him from being victimized 
 by Tommy Bell and the Sheep — the lion and the lamb respec- 
 tively, we might say, of New York life insurance. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARD PEARSON 
 
 Civil Engineer. Address, Federal Construction Co., Rockingham, 
 N. C. Unmarried. 
 
 HIS Grace, My Lord Pearson, the globe trotter, has 
 been caught up with. He has been pretty much all 
 over this country, was down in Mexico, and over in the Sand- 
 wich Islands ; has been located in Japan twice, and has resided 
 in all the coast cities of China, not including four years in 
 the Philippines. His specialty is building dams ; they aren't 
 in it with the kind we've used chasing him. Get out the atlas 
 and follow this route, strewn with His Grace's creations : 
 Chicago, where he held an engineering position in the Lunch 
 Department of the World's Fair in 1893 ; then due east to 
 Bay View, Massachusetts, where for eight years he superin- 
 tended the Cape Ann Granite Company's slab slicers ; then 
 east or west, as you please, half way round the world to Manila, 
 P. I., where he was in charge of the stone work for the new 
 harbor, and for three years in the Bureau of Engineering of 
 the Civil Government there; then a wild leap back again to 
 Yuma, Arizona, where the local dams weren't enough and My 
 Lord was asked to construct the best ever, across the Colorado 
 River; and then a few miles over to North Carolina, where 
 he is doing the same for the Federal Construction Company at 
 
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 Rockingham. This dam, like most others, is " for power pur- 
 poses " only. The betting is even that its constructor will go 
 to Greenland's icy mountains or India's coral strand next, with 
 Patagonia a close second. A partial explanation of his peri- 
 patetic manner is the fact that the Democrats of a Republican 
 town in Massachusetts once tried to put him up for the Legis- 
 lature. He handed them a lemon and since then has been moving. 
 And yet it was a pity he refused. There would have been hope 
 for Massachusetts with him in the Legislature, Baked Beans 
 Conwell writing editorials for the Sunday supplement, Carhart 
 deprecating litigation and Earnshaw preaching the Simple 
 Life. Pearson should have stayed by New England. He is 
 making a collection of " wild-cat " mining stocks (Carhart, you 
 remember, is collecting clippings describing other forms of 
 bunco). My Lord says they are often very pretty, and it 
 doesn't take much to fill an album. 
 
 GEORGE WILSON PEDDIE 
 
 Journalist. Business Address, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Resi- 
 dence, 1621 Summer Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 AFTER a long hunt we finally found " Poos " on the staff 
 L of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has resided in New 
 York, St. Louis, London, and Philadelphia since gradua- 
 tion, and travelled in Europe in 1901. He says he has also 
 travelled " in New Jersey, periodically." The only military 
 service he owns up to has been in the battle for bread. He is 
 single, but " with hopes." Of the writing of books he is guilt- 
 less, but he has done thousands of articles from murders to 
 meetings of the W. C. T. U., at space rates. Having never 
 made speeches, he has escaped the ripe egg. 
 
182 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN CHESTER BACKUS PENDLETON 
 
 
 Stockbroker. Business Address, 15 South Calvert Street. Baltimore, 
 Md. Residence, '.207 West Franklin Street. Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Married Mildred Morris. Baltimore, Md., January 81, 1907. Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 HE stockbroking member of the '92 syndicate that runs 
 Baltimore writes: 
 
 " In response to the request of our committee for news con- 
 cerning myself, would say that since leaving college have made 
 my home continually in Baltimore. But the long, thin John, 
 whom you once knew, is no more, as I now weigh two hundred 
 and seventeen pounds in my birthday clothes. In the year 
 1897 I became a member of the Baltimore Stock Exchange, in 
 which business I am still engaged, being associated with the 
 office of H. A. Orrick. In January of this year I was lifted 
 from the depths of single misery by being married, at which 
 event Alf. Riggs ably assisted as my best man. 
 
 " With my very best wishes and good fortune to the members 
 of "92, I am most sincerely, 
 
 " Jno. C. B. Pendleton." 
 
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 WARRINGTON WALWORTH PERIAM 
 
 E feel sure that this letter from Periam's sister will be 
 read with sincere regret. 
 
 " 55 Roseville Avenue, Newark, N. J., Dec. 29, 1906. 
 " My dear Mr. Prentice: 
 
 " In reply to your letter of to-day, I can only say that my 
 brother has been ill in a private sanitarium for a number of 
 years and there is little hope of his recovery. This will ac- 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 183 
 
 count to you for the fact that your communications to him 
 have been unanswered. " Very truly yours, 
 
 " Annina Periam." 
 
 BOWDRE PHINIZY 
 
 Journalist. Business Address, Augusta Herald, Augusta, Ga. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 BOWDRE studied at the University of Virginia, at Johns 
 Hopkins and the Harvard Law School, and had some 
 notion of becoming a lawyer, but the attractions of journalism 
 were too great and he is now president and editor of the 
 Augusta Herald — a daily, weekly and Sunday sheet with a 
 larger circulation in Augusta, Georgia and South Carolina, 
 than all other local papers combined. These facts are culled 
 from the headline of the Herald's official stationery. 
 
 " Augusta, Ga., March 1, 1907. 
 " Dear Committee : 
 
 " I really am ashamed of myself for putting you fellows to 
 this trouble in the vain effort to get a letter and photo and the 
 other things you want for the Record. But the truth of the 
 matter is that I haven't any photograph, that I am getting so 
 fat and bald and bay windowy that as much as I love you and 
 now want to please, I wouldn't have one taken for anything. 
 
 " In the next place, for the last month or two, ever since you 
 began to write, I have been too busy to even write business 
 letters. John D. Rockefeller and Stanley McCormick have been 
 spending some time down here, staying at our hotels, playing 
 golf at the Country Club, meeting and mingling with our 
 citizens, and because I am in the newspaper business, the old 
 man has been sending down every week or so a new photograph 
 of himself, and with his autograph under it, asking me to use 
 
184 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 it in the place of the one I used the da}' before. Yes, the 
 Herald is now Rockefeller's favorite newspaper, and so you can 
 see how busy it keeps me living up to the reputation. 
 
 " In addition to that. I have a little railroad proposition on 
 my hands — about the same as if you had finally decided to put 
 the Pennsylvania in the hands of a receiver — not that you 
 wanted to, but just simply because it was your duty as a 
 * soldier of the common good. 9 But I enclose the documents 
 so that you can see for yourself. Unfortunately Mrs. Hettie 
 Green of New York is the principal stockholder in this little 
 railroad, which pays 11 per cent, and is steadily piling up a 
 surplus and keeps on running its trains off the track and never 
 on time. No Southern gentleman likes to hit a lady, but really 
 something must be done. 
 
 ** But I suppose that I must be frank and really tell you just 
 why it has been impossible for me to write before, or even now 
 intelligently. The words Southern hospitality and Southern 
 courtesy and chivalry were originated right here in Augusta. 
 As long as we were simply a small Southern city, everything 
 went well. But now at this season every available pine tree 
 between here and Aiken, some sixteen miles, shelters on each 
 separate limb some Yankee family with millions to burn — if 
 thev were only poor and proud it might be different. Now 
 you can just imagine what is going to happen to a Southern 
 gentleman under these circumstances. No Southern gentleman 
 of the old school was ever known to refuse to take a drink. 
 especially if there had been any previous feeling about the 
 matter, or refuse to show a lady any and all possible considera- 
 tion and courtesy permissible under the circumstances. Con- 
 sequently from now on till the end of Lent the strain and 
 tension is something terrific. 
 
 •" Personally, up to the present time I have managed to hold 
 my own and remain single and stick to ' red liquor,' but I can 
 foresee mv finish in a few more seasons like this — I'll be marry- 
 
B. Phinizy 
 
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 ing many millions, playing golf, drinking scotch, and riding 
 around in autos. 
 
 " If I am still alive, and can dodge the railroad wrecks, out 
 of jail, sober and unmarried, I will certainly be with you when 
 the great Record is sprung on the dear old Class of '92. 
 
 " Cordially and sincerely, 
 
 " BOWDRE PhINIZY." 
 
 WILLIAM KELLY PRENTICE, A.M., Ph.D. 
 
 Teaching. Address, 12 Nassau Street, Princeton, N. J. Engaged. 
 
 AFTER delivering the valedictory, our distinguished Secre- 
 tary chartered one of the late Hon. Hungry Golden's 
 seagoing hacks and set sail for Lawrenceville, N. J., where they 
 needed an undermaster. He stayed a year, and then obeying 
 the call of the wild, entered the cloistered precincts of the 
 Theological Seminary, next door to Egypt. One year of this, 
 however, was sufficient to show him that no class secretary could 
 be a Seminole with any degree of liberty and comfort ; so he 
 went due east about a parasang and took up the instructing of 
 the youth in the mysteries of the Greek language and literature. 
 In June, 1895, he was in the '92 procession that wandered past 
 an outstretched diploma, and acquired the degree of Master 
 of Arts. In the summer of '94 he went to Marburg, Germany, 
 on a preliminary tour of inspection ; and behold, it was very 
 good. In 1897, therefore, he headed for Germany again and 
 stayed abroad three years, visiting Italy, Sicily, and Greece 
 incidentally, and spending 1899-1900 in Greece, Constantinople, 
 Syria, Palestine, and Egypt as a member of the American Ex- 
 pedition to Syria. In 1900 he successfully defended his thesis 
 at Halle, and was laureated a Doctor of Philosophy. Then for 
 five years he did business at the old stand as Assistant Professor 
 of Greek in Princeton. In 1905 he went back to Syria as a 
 member of the Princeton Expedition. The publication of the 
 
186 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 results of these expeditions is still being carried on. He was 
 promoted to a full professorship in 1905. Besides the above- 
 mentioned travels, he has also been to Kansas (in 1906). He 
 has lectured profusely on archaeological subjects] and boasts 
 
 that he was never egged but once — in St. Louis, when the 
 poliee were stationed at the door to keep the thirstv people 
 from going out. His military service has been confined to 
 carrying a gun in Syria on the expedition. The *98 men he 
 has most frequently seen in recent years have been those who 
 haven't paid their subscriptions to the Class Fund. It may just 
 as well be noted here that the idea of placing that Fund in a 
 dormitory ot' class entries was evolved in his brain. His letter 
 follows : 
 
 ** Before we came to college, after 1 stopped wanting to be a 
 stage driver or a locomotive engineer, I wanted to teach. I 
 have had eleven years of experience in this profession, ami I 
 still want to teach. Not very well satisfied with my success as 
 a teacher, I am well satisfied with a teacher's life and its oppor- 
 tunities, ami now. having found someone who will share it with 
 me, 1 am very, very happy in it. 
 
 " Since we graduated 1 have been a student again for three 
 more years, of which I spent one winter in the Princeton Theo- 
 logical Seminary, and two full years and a half in German 
 Universities. In the latter I found out what it is to investigate 
 without bias, not to prove some doctrine, nor for personal ad- 
 vantage, but to approach nearer the truth; there, too. I learned 
 that, if there is to be progress, each generation must always 
 review human knowledge in the light ot' its own experience. For 
 nearly a full year I have been in Syria, as a member of two 
 archaeological expeditions which Howard Butler led. We saw 
 there cities and villages ot' the fifth and sixth centuries ot' our 
 era. deserted, overgrown, dead, but still unburied, many ot' the 
 buildings lacking only roofs and floors to be habitable now. In 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 187 
 
 the ruined streets and houses antiquity seems very near, and 
 the life in the modern towns shows, in many ways at least, what 
 life in the ancient times was like. The men are still plowing 
 with the same old primitive plows, and disputing over the same 
 old questions in the shadows of the walls ; the women are still 
 grinding the wheat in hand mills and carrying water jars from 
 the wells ; and small boys are still put up on the housetops to 
 wait till their clothes are washed. 
 
 " And now I'm a professor at Princeton. My teaching is 
 only a part of my life ; I am trying to keep up with the progress 
 made here and in other countries ; to contribute something, for 
 my part, to the knowledge of the world, and to impart to Prince- 
 ton undergraduates the desire to do the same. A great change 
 has come over the college, and we, as we were fifteen years 
 ago, would hardly fit here now. These undergraduates read 
 good books, and while they read they think. It is really true, 
 what one of our class is reported to have said recently, ' Do 
 you know what they've done to Princeton? They've made it a 
 damned institution of learning, that's what they've done ! ' 
 Only the old cry of Fire, Fresh Fire still brings the windows up, 
 and the fellows still sit around in the rooms and talk and talk 
 and foster the Princeton Spirit as we did under the old regime. 
 
 " William Kelly Prentice." 
 
 JOHN LUTHER RANKIN, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 811 Prudential Building, Newark, N. J. Resi- 
 dence, 107 Halsey Street, Newark, N. J. Unmarried. 
 
 JOHN RANKIN has found it impossible for him to write a 
 letter for this Record. He forwards, however, the follow- 
 ing data. He studied law at the New York Law School, and is 
 practicing at Newark. He travelled in Europe in 1895 and 
 in 1900. He is fond of mountain climbing and belongs to the 
 Apalachian Mountain Club of Boston. His name is also on 
 
188 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 the members' list of the New Jersey Historical Society, the 
 Lawyers' Club of Essex County, the University and Princeton 
 Clubs of Newark, and the Princeton Club of New York. He is 
 a Republican. 
 
 GEORGE VAN DUSEN RICKERT 
 
 Electric Lighting. Address, Pottsville, Pa. 
 
 RICKERT signed the receipt for a registered letter, but 
 , did nothing else for this book. He is manager of the 
 Edison Electric Illuminating Company at Pottsville. 
 
 CHARLES ELLET RIEMAN 
 
 Banker. Business Address, Care Henry Riernan & Sons, Baltimore, 
 Md., The Western National Bank, Baltimore, Md. Residence, 
 Rodgers Forge P. O., Baltimore County, Md. 
 
 Married Elizabeth Taylor Goodwin, Baltimore, Md., February 8, 
 1899. Children, none. 
 
 POT RIEMAN is another member of the '92 Baltimore 
 syndicate. In 1904 he was President of the Commercial 
 and Farmers' National Bank of Baltimore for a while; resign- 
 ing, he became a director of the Western National Bank, of 
 which he is now President. He is also a director of the Colonial 
 Trust Company and of various other local institutions. The 
 Baltimore papers tell us that although Mr. Rieman is a young 
 man, he has had wide experience in the banking world, and as 
 one of the two trustees of his father's large estate he has shown 
 exceptional ability. His entrance into the financial field has 
 been favorably commented upon. He finds time, however, to 
 keep up his connection with the Maryland and Baltimore Clubs 
 and the Elk Ridge Fox Hunting and Green Spring Valley Hunt 
 Clubs. Fox hunting and farming are his recreations, and his 
 specialty in the latter line is the breeding of high-class Jersey 
 
C. E. ElEMAN 
 
 
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 cattle. He has visited Europe four times since graduation, and 
 is an independent Democrat in politics. 
 
 ALFRED RANDOLPH RIGGS, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 632 Equitable Building, Baltimore, Md. Resi- 
 dence, 814 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Md. Unmarried. 
 
 " My dear Prentice : 
 
 " I am sending under separate cover a photograph of myself 
 for the '92 Class Record. You asked in your circular for a 
 picture ' suitable for reproduction.' Please publish it anyhow. 
 My position is between ' Pot' Rieman and Jesse, so I will not 
 be noticed to any extent, except by the more intelligent members 
 of the class. Your statement that $6000 remained to be col- 
 lected from the class for the dormitory was a little startling, 
 and the fifteenth anniversary of the Relief of Princeton, com- 
 monly called the Quindecennial of the Class of '92, will be char- 
 acterized by enough hold-ups to make the Chicago members 
 feel at home. Nothing of great importance has happened to 
 me since leaving college. I studied law at the University of 
 Maryland and took my degree. Since then I have lived in 
 Baltimore and occupied my spare time with Law and Real 
 Estate, with an occasional vacation taken to see the world. 
 
 " With kind regards and best wishes to all, I remain, 
 
 " Most sincerely yours, 
 
 " Alfred R. Riggs." 
 
 For the benefit of the " more intelligent members " above 
 alluded to, we add that this modest Baltimorean has travelled in 
 Europe, Northern Africa and Japan, that when he is at home he 
 votes for the best man according to his opinion, that he is still 
 athletic, squash and tennis being his specialties, and that he is 
 prominently connected with the Baltimore Athletic Club, the 
 Maryland and Baltimore Clubs, the Automobile Club of Mary- 
 
190 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 land, the Maryland Jockey Club, and the Municipal Art Society, 
 the latter being his snap course. He is, of course, an enthu- 
 siastic Princeton rooter, belongs to the local Alumni Associa- 
 tion, and never fails to turn up at the Yale games played in 
 Princeton. In fact no Princeton-Yale game could be played 
 if the Baltimore contingent were not on hand to see it. 
 
 JESSE BRIGHT RIGGS 
 
 Insurance Broker. Office, 702 American Building, Baltimore, Md. 
 Residence, Catonsville, Baltimore County, Md. 
 
 Married Charlotte Symington, Baltimore, Md., October 5, 1893. 
 Children, Emily Symington, b. January 18, 1895. Marie 
 Bright, b. December 22, 1898. Charlotte Symington, b. Sep- 
 tember 4, 1906. 
 
 JESSE is secretary and treasurer of the Riggs-Rossmann 
 Company of Baltimore, insurance brokers. He declares it 
 impossible for him to write a biography of himself for he can- 
 not gather any notes sufficiently interesting for publication. 
 He is independent in politics and has made his presence felt on 
 more than one occasion when serving his country as a watcher 
 at the Baltimore polls during elections. He keeps himself in 
 trim during the Fall by coaching the football team at Prince- 
 ton. His hobby is his country home, his dogs and poultry, and 
 automobiling. He is not an author, nor is he a lecturer ; but he 
 recalls a speech he used to deliver, beginning in this wise : " If 
 the war must go on why put off longer the Declaration of 
 Independence? " which he will deliver again if asked, at the 
 Quindecennial. 
 
 Jesse is a member of the Baltimore Athletic Club, the Catons- 
 ville Country Club, the Princeton Club of New York, and the 
 Nassau Club of Princeton. He is also a Mason. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 191 
 
 JOHN SINCLAIR ROBERTS, JR., A.M. 
 
 Insurance. Address, Care Thomas Bell, 299 Broadway, New York 
 City. Residence, 69 West 48th Street, New York City. Un- 
 married. 
 
 Bobby writes: 
 
 " For several years after our farewell smoke I was engaged 
 in teaching. Later I occupied a business position in the ac- 
 counting department of The American Cotton Co., New York. 
 For the past six years I have been the cashier of St. Luke's 
 Hospital, New York. I still practice the gymnastics of college 
 days and can turn a handspring as easily now as I could fifteen 
 years ago. Perhaps the most commendable thing I have done 
 is to attend every reunion and smoker of the Glorious Class 
 since 1892." 
 
 For six years Bobby has been a member of the Naval Militia 
 of New York, and last summer went on the annual cruise with 
 the Naval Reserves. He is, we believe, the only gymnast of 
 the Class who is still in the business, and he has agreed to turn 
 handsprings all the way round the track at the Yale Game 
 Pee-rade in June. He keeps himself in shape by doing gymnas- 
 tic stunts before breakfast. He belongs to the Naval League, 
 the Sons of the Revolution (e. g. handsprings), the West Side 
 Tennis Club, and the Englewood Golf Club, and to Prince- 
 ton Club of New York and the Nassau Club of Princeton. 
 Bobby's record for attendance at class occasions is an enviable 
 one. He was off on a week's hunting in the Adirondacks at the 
 time of the Hofbrau smoker last November. On January 1, 
 1907, he left the Hospital and entered the game of Life Insur- 
 ance, under the expert guidance of Tommy Bell. By the time 
 
1918 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 this goes to print we presume another *98 automobile will be soon 
 dashing- gaily along the Groat White Way. Jim Westervolt 
 says that's what he sees of Tommy. But. then Jim dabbles in 
 insurance too. 
 
 EDWARD R. RODERICK 
 Physician. Address, 92 South Franklin Street. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
 GIBRY says he sees Roderick occasionally, but we have not 
 succeeded in getting anything from Roderick ourselves, 
 and Gibby has not found time to give us any assistance. 
 
 RANDOLPH SAILER, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 929 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. Residence. 
 2244 North 58d Street. Philadelphia. Pa. (Wynnetield Ave- 
 nue Station. P. R. R.) 
 
 Married Mary Sharswood Pairman. Philadelphia. Pa.. November 26, 
 1900. Children. Mary Emily, h. February 14, L908. 
 
 BIRDY is as chipper as ever. Not even a decade and a 
 half of life in Philadelphia has crushed his spirits. He 
 got his law diploma in 1894 from our esteemed contemporary, 
 the University of Pennsylvania. Two years later he ex- 
 purgated and otherwise adorned Hollingsworth on Contracts, 
 and got it. published in Philadelphia. Then two years after 
 that he became 2d Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the Second 
 Troop. Philadelphia City Cavalry. Otherwise he alleges he is 
 his own boss—" hut a poor job." It. is obvious that this allega- 
 tion did not have the benefit of revision from headquarters at 
 2244 North 58d St.. and that Birdy is another of those blessed 
 Benedicts who only imagine they are their M own boss." His 
 hobbv is " talking " — same as ever. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 193 
 
 " Philadelphia, January 21, 1907. 
 " Dear Committee : 
 
 " In belated response to your commands, I return my statis- 
 tics and a copy of the only photograph taken in the last ten 
 years. Don't judge me too harshly from the photo, but when 
 in the neighborhood drop in. At upwards of eleven stone I 
 may still be endurable. Added weight and a family only 
 slightly repress a buoyant spirit. I have had fifteen years of 
 a high average of health and happiness and as much prosperity 
 as, perhaps, a lazy man deserves. Financial stringency I have 
 learned to bear with outward calm, though with great mental 
 unrest. I am not a cynic, an idealist nor an anarchist. A 
 goodly share of the ' unearned increment ' would not be spurned. 
 ' Little I ask, my wants are few,' reveals the nature of my con- 
 tentment. The future looks pleasant to me, life is so mighty 
 interesting — and full of sudden jolts. I love my home and my 
 fellows and sadly miss communion with the sublime spirits of the 
 Glorious Class. The latch string is always out — I wish it were 
 pulled oftener. My rules on smoking and drinking have been 
 correctly stated by Mark Twain. This my biography. 
 
 " In haste, but with no trace of irritability, 
 
 " Yours, always for sublimity and punctuality, 
 
 " Randolph Sailer." 
 
 JOSEPH MITCHELL SHELLABARGER 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 141 Broadway, New York City. Residence, 514 
 
 West 7th Street, Plainfield, N. J. 
 Married Belle Van Heusen Davis, October 5, 1897- Children, 
 
 Katharine Belle, b. February 28, 1901. Mary Mitchell, b. 
 
 August 12, 1906; d. August 31, 1906. 
 
 SHELLY is a member of the firm of Hardy & Shellabarger 
 of New York. He is a Republican and has never held any 
 office, though he takes part in the local politics of Plainfield. 
 
194 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 He belongs to the Princeton Club of New York. Here is his 
 letter : 
 
 " February 13, 1907. 
 " Dear Secretary : 
 
 " Your oft-repeated appeals that I ' write ' for the Class 
 Record almost removes my deep-seated belief in my mediocrity. 
 Alas, I have no war record ; I am not in Tammany councils, al- 
 though a New York attorney ; and time has even rusted the 
 mandolin strings. 
 
 " However, something must be done, both for your sake 
 and mine, to stop this onslaught of postal card reminders. 
 
 " I settled here in the Metropolis after graduation, feeling 
 that Princeton was merely across the ferry, and, therefore, 
 easily accessible. And so, topographically, it has been ; but, 
 somehow, the cherished visits are not frequent, and the duties 
 of the daily grind have barred out easy opportunity to return 
 and keep up with the wondrous pace of present-day Princeton. 
 
 " It is, therefore, not difficult, for the moment, to overlook 
 the bothersome fact that a graduate of fifteen years' standing 
 is fast becoming an antique, when I realize that this very truth 
 will once more gather together the old crowd at the old stand — 
 the comrades of campus days. Don't fail to set aside a gen- 
 erous stein for me. 
 
 " My story since graduation is quickly summarized. I am 
 a plodding lawyer in the city, in the daytime ; a happy husband 
 and father in a Jersey suburb, ' after hours.' The combina- 
 tion has made life happy. 
 
 " Here's to '92 ! 
 
 " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " J. M. Shellabarger." 
 

 R. Saileb 
 
 J. M. Shellababgeb 
 
 E. D. Small 
 
 TJ. F. Smiley 
 

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BIOGRAPHIES 195 
 
 WILLIAM M. SKILES 
 
 We have no information regarding Skiles. 
 
 RALPH DUFFIELD SMALL, LL.B. 
 
 Investment securities. Office, 610 Royal Insurance Building, Chi- 
 cago, 111. Residence, Belmont and Foxdale Avenues, Win- 
 netka, 111. 
 
 Married Ethel Weaver, Chicago, 111., June 7, 1904. Children, 
 Elizabeth Weaver, b. April 1, 1905. 
 
 SAM'S reply to our circular was one of the kind that 
 cometh not forth but by fasting and by prayer. It 
 arrived at the 11th hour and as he intimated that the drinks 
 were on him — an obligation to be liquidated on sight — we let 
 him in. And it was worth waiting for. Here are a few pre- 
 liminaries. The year after graduation Sam wrote a little for 
 the newspapers and magazines. We asked him about a fad 
 magazine called Four O'Clock, in which he used to be interested 
 in those salad days. He threw up his hands : " Lord, I have 
 repented ! That part of my past should be allowed to stay 
 buried ! " The only other literary effort to which he confesses 
 is a series of convincing declamations in 1896, when he went on 
 the stump in Illinois and Indiana during the national campaign. 
 He is a Republican. He has had experience as a law clerk in 
 the office of Lyman & Jackson, as a law partner in the firm of 
 Pope & Small, then as manager of the securities department of 
 Otis, Wilson & Co., and he is now president of Small Brothers 
 & Co. They are strong on the financing of " Water Power 
 and Public Service Companies " ; they move in " bank stocks," 
 and have their being in " unlisted securities." What connec- 
 tion there may be between these three objects of Christian en- 
 
196 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 deavor only their clients know ; and the latter are standing 
 pat. 
 
 The presiding Small brother belongs to the Skokia Country 
 Club, the Kenwood and University Clubs, and the Kenwood 
 Country Club. He has embalmed his cornet. His recreations 
 are golf, tennis, baseball and automobiling, and his hobby is 
 collecting dollars. Here's luck to him. If he talks as well as 
 his letters read, he will probably sell all his " water " stock to 
 the Class next June. 
 
 " Chicago, January 9, 1907. 
 " Dear Wilkie, Mike and Howard : 
 
 " After having received your full series of notices, demands, 
 threats, orders and entreaties, through a period of five months, 
 I now hasten to send my ' vital statistics.' The only photo- 
 graph I have is the enclosed, with which occasionally my little 
 girl tries to frighten her toy cow, so I hope you will return it, 
 as it amuses her and does not hurt the cow. 
 
 " In addition to the statistics already sent you, I regretfully 
 confess to more waist, more eyes and less hair than in 1892. 
 
 " After reading through the sixteen ' let it nots ' suggested 
 in the Committee's letter of instruction, I tried to write a ' care- 
 less sort of breezy ' letter, thinking that was what they were 
 trying to hint at, but concluded after submitting my effort to 
 Mcllvaine, that I was deficient in ' carelessness ' and couldn't 
 deliver the article. You remember that Mcllvaine was the 
 editor-in-chief of the first number of The Tiger, and therefore 
 a regular trophy room in the hall of humor. His official 
 opinion was that my letter was about as mirthful as the man 
 whose dentist just informed him the wrong tooth had been 
 pulled, so I reposed that letter in a pigeon-hole, marked ' only 
 to be opened on my decease,' and am sending by special delivery 
 a few facts together with several lies. 
 
 " After the four years' chase for the little roll of parchment 
 with a ribbon around it, Billy Wilson and myself went abroad. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 197 
 
 Among the items connected with that trip that might find shelter 
 under the Committee's phrase ' fit to print,' was Billy's experi- 
 ment with his first beard. It was not a success, as it made its 
 debut in two colors and looked as if he was carrying the orange 
 and black idea to a fine point. 
 
 " On my return I took up the study of law in Chicago, and 
 received my education in the office of Lyman & Jackson, and at 
 the Lake Forest University Law School. After a long appren- 
 ticeship I was entrusted with the trial of some very important 
 cases. The first involved four crates of eggs. After several 
 changes of venue, new trials and appeals, and ' qui tarn's,' ' ne 
 plus ultra's,' and ' absque hoe's,' a decision was finally reached in 
 my favor, but it availed nothing, as the eggs, not having the 
 necessary patience, had become ' obtrusively inelegant,' and my 
 client, the owner, seemed very inappreciative of our victory. 
 Being stimulated, however, by this first success, I rapidly ad- 
 vanced in my profession until I had a real divorce case. I dis- 
 covered that the supposed husband had never been properly 
 divorced from his first wife. I performed that operation for 
 him and married him to the second wife, who was seeking the 
 divorce. I received the following fees — ' Thanks ' from the 
 first wife ; copy of the football rules on ' Interference ' from 
 the second ; and a wan and tired smile from the husband. This 
 proficiency as lawyer, umpire and referee all in one led at once 
 to an offer of partnership. After practicing as a partner in 
 the firm of Pope & Small for three years I organized a depart- 
 ment of Unlisted Bonds with Otis, Wilson & Co. At times, both 
 for my customers and for myself, I explored the New York 
 Market. When we were through exploring on May 9, 1901, 
 we could not tell whether we had reached the North Pole or the 
 middle of the earth, but we all immediately yearned for a room 
 and bath in the poorhouse. 
 
 " In 1902 the company which is now known as Small Bros. 
 & Co. was organized to handle investments. Recently, we have 
 
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 specialized in water power development. Someone has feelingly 
 suggested that this was due to a natural curiosity to see how 
 most stocks now being sold, were made. 
 
 " I have been out of college long enough to know that the 
 college vintage of friendship is a very superior article, and have 
 not found its equal ' on tap ' anywhere else. A lifelong Mason, 
 apropos of the Princeton spirit, said to me a short while 
 ago : " When two strangers meet and they find that they are 
 both Princeton men, the good feeling and confidence that imme- 
 diately and almost unconsciously springs into being, is to me a 
 continual source of surprise. Apparently in that first moment 
 of its birth, it is more to be relied upon than the majority of 
 friendships that I have met with in any of the Masonic orders, 
 where sympathy and loyalty are zealously taught as the first 
 precepts.' 
 
 " I am unable, like Jesse Williams, to enter the public library 
 of any of our large cities, nonchalantly take down a well-thumbed 
 volume and spend a delightful half hour re-reading the first 
 page where my name as author appears. Nor have I succeeded, 
 like Joe Mayhew, in owning an entire Western town. Nor have 
 I followed Howard Butler's example and scratched up an un- 
 regenerate old city that was misbehaving itself 2000 years b. c. 
 No, I have found the ladder I started to climb all rungs and full 
 of splinters at that, and have concluded I wrongfully used my 
 spare time kicking the football in front of Reunion, with Runt 
 Spooner, Freddy Moses, and Bobby Stevenson, instead of 
 practicing with ' Sachus ' Symmes on the old ladders in the gym. 
 
 " Here's to you, '92, and may you all be present on our 
 fiftieth anniversary, whatever that may happen to be in Latin. 
 
 " Ralph D. Small. 
 
 " P. S. — Golly, I'm glad to get that letter out of my sys- 
 tem.— R. D. S." 
 
 P. P. S.— So are we.— Eds. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 199 
 
 URIAH FRANKLIN SMILEY, A.M., D.D. 
 
 Minister. Residence, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 Married Agnes Macfarland, Clifton, Pa., July 17, 1895. Mrs. 
 Smiley died February 17, 1906, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.. Chil- 
 dren, Helen Agnes, b. July 5, 1896. Blanche Elizabeth, 
 b. November 10, 1899. 
 
 SMUG SMILEY entered the Seminary after graduation 
 from college and remained there three years. In 1895 he 
 was called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church 
 at Fort Collins, Colorado, where he preached a year. In 1896 
 he accepted a call to the Holmesburg Presbyterian Church at 
 Philadelphia, and remained in this charge until 1902, from 
 which date he has been pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian 
 Church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was honored with the 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity by Lenox College, Iowa, in 1905. 
 He is a member of the Princeton Club of Cedar Rapids. Noth- 
 ing doing for a hobby — " the people do not allow such follies 
 in this Western country." 
 
 FRANK W. SMITH, J 
 
 R. 
 
 
 Engineer. Residence, South Fork, Cambria County., Pa. 
 Married May M. Fitch, Elensburg, Pa., January 15, 1905. Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 IT will be remembered that our ex-President, when last heard 
 from, was treasurer of the Smith Bare Company, a lumber 
 firm with offices in the Betz Building, Philadelphia, over the 
 Rathskeller. He left this position to go into railroad engineer- 
 ing with the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., and is now a supervisor 
 in the P. R. R. This job he says gives him plenty of exercise; 
 but it does not prevent his cultivating his hobby — one of 
 Smiley's " follies " — cocker spaniels. He is also a member of 
 the National Guard of Pennsylvania, 1st Regiment. 
 
200 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 WILLIAM WATSON SMITH 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 1558 Frick Building Annex, Pittsburg, Pa. Resi- 
 dence, 5023 Castleman Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Married Florence Louise Aiken, Pittsburg, Pa., September 20, 1898. 
 Children, William Watson, Jr., b. June 13, 1899; d. May 14, 
 1903. 
 
 THE author of " George Washington's Last Pants " has 
 been living in Pittsburg ever since our Triennial Record 
 was published. But now-a-days he doesn't have to cut off his 
 letters abruptly because the chief clerk is calling him to throw 
 coal on the office fire, or to dust the ink pots. Not much. 
 Here is his present letter " fifteen years after " — very brief, 
 very serious. Have G. W.'s Last Pants been laid aside for- 
 ever ? 
 
 " Gentlemen : 
 
 " Since the fall of 1892 I have been living in Pittsburg, 
 which is a first-class place, all reports and New York news- 
 papers to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 " I was admitted to the bar in December, 1894. Since then 
 I have been practicing law alone until April 1, this year, when, 
 upon the death of Mr. William Scott, '68, I formed a partner- 
 ship with Mr. George B. Gordon, the surviving senior member 
 of the law firm of which Mr. Scott was a member. My life has 
 been rather quiet and uneventful — anything worth mentioning 
 is contained in the answers to the list of questions enclosed. I 
 have had very fair health, have worked reasonably hard, and 
 am not dissatisfied with life. 
 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 " William Watson Smith." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 201 
 
 It may be added that in 1899 Reddy was an Instructor in 
 the Pittsburg Law School, and from 1899 to date has been 
 Assistant City Solicitor of Pittsburg. He travelled in Eng- 
 land and on the Continent in 1904, and again in 1906. He 
 plays golf once each Spring and once each Fall, and then 
 swears off. He has no hobby — is looking for a good one and 
 is open to suggestions. 
 
 CHARLES WOOD SOMERBY, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Residence, 1501 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 Married. (?) „ 
 
 CHEW received his legal training at the University of 
 Minnesota. In 1898 he was Assistant Prosecuting At- 
 torney of Hennepin County, Minn. From 1899 to 1905 he 
 was Assistant Attorney-General of the State. Ed. Duffield tells 
 us he tried to see Chew in St. Paul recently, and called on him 
 four times in the two days he was there, but could never find 
 him in. He must have either a very large practice or none at 
 all. Everyone seems to know him there, and he appears to 
 have a number of friends. Judging from the fact that he 
 has a telephone at his residence as well as at his office, Duff, 
 who is the Newark Sherlock Holmes, believes Chew is married. 
 If you fellows can find out from the following document what 
 he is doing now, you are welcome. We print it verbatim, ques- 
 tions and answers. 
 
 CLASS OF '92. 
 
 STATISTICS FOR THE QUINDECENNIAL RECORD. 
 
 Name: Charles Wood Somerby. 
 
 1. Are you married, engaged or single? Yes. 
 
 2. If married, give your wife's maiden name in full, and the 
 place and date of your wedding. Yes. 
 
802 PRINCETON NINETI-TWO 
 
 3. If you have had any children, give the full name and 
 date of birth of each, and if any has died, the date of death. 
 Yes. 
 
 4. What is your profession or business: If you are a gen- 
 tleman ot' leisure, what are you doing to pass the time away? 
 No. 
 
 5. What is your business address? Yes. 
 
 6. Your present residence? Yes. 
 
 7. Did you study at any educational institution after leaving 
 Princeton? If so. where did you study? What degrees did 
 you receive? Many. 
 
 S. What books or articles have you written? Give the titles 
 in full, with the dates and places of publication. What lectures 
 have you delivered, or speeches? Were you cheered, egged, 
 or suffered? A few checks. 
 
 9. What part have you taken in politics? What public of- 
 fices have you held? Have you simply worked for the good 
 ot' the party, or have you worked the party for your good? 
 Which party? Was President of the United States from Sep- 
 tember. 1888, to June. 1892. 
 
 10. What military service have you seen in the army. navy, 
 or State militia? Saw P. Yredenburgh once in uniform. 
 
 11. Where have you travelled, and when? Cliffton, Eliza- 
 beth. Guttenberg. See James Porter Parker for details. 
 
 l!-2. Where have you lived, and what positions have you oc- 
 cupied since you left college? No. 
 
 IS. To what clubs or societies ot' any sort do you belong? 
 Sure. 
 
 14. What exercises do you take, and in what recreations do 
 you indulge? No. 
 
 15. What is your hobby? " Any man who is any good is 
 a crank about something." Xo. 
 
 16. What *9£ men do you see frequently? If you know any 
 gossip about them this is your chance, viz: — 
 
F. W. Smith, Jr. W. W. Smith 
 
 
 SAID TO BE 
 
 C. W. SoMERBTf C. P. Spooler 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 203 
 
 I have tried to keep up a constant correspondence with every 
 member of the Class, but we only get the mails here three times 
 a year and it has been rather difficult. Much of my informa- 
 tion is years old and has come to me from various sources. 
 Many ought to be dead since I last heard. Kelly Prentice has 
 written regularly each week and I have always been interested 
 in his letters. 
 
 Big Bess came out with his private car last Fall — come 
 again, Bess. 
 
 Tommy Bell went through here several years ago. He was 
 shot at a number of times, but bullets glanced off. 
 
 Ben Ames was in town for a few hours a while back — said 
 he was glad to see me, but Benny had been drinking a little 
 and I didn't take offense at what he said; Jim Westervelt has 
 called many times — Jim is getting rich ; Josie Hoffman is horse 
 doctor for the Nebraska football team; Mcllvaine is prosper- 
 ing in Chicago, — is attorney for beef packers, — says he met 
 Joe Huston recently and that Joe was smoking a cigarette; 
 Mike Bergen scuttled a Camden ferry-boat in 1899 ; Redney 
 Hart was kidnapped in Philadelphia, — friends refused to offer 
 any reward; Conny is running a country newspaper and Big 
 Bess says Duke Burleigh has recently bought the New York 
 Standard; Max Farrand is on the police force in Boston ; 
 Jimmy Parker is State President of the Sunshine Society of 
 La. ; Jack Mitchell is in the foreign mission work ; John Pendle- 
 ton will become Secretary of State at the next Cabinet turn- 
 over ; Farmer Brown is cashier at the Moulin Rouge ; Bowdre 
 Phinizy is clerking in a grocery store ; Dick Woods is a fireman ; 
 Alf Riggs is a Prof, at Johns Hopkins ; Rusty Miller is a 
 safe mover ; Pat Irish is Principal of a High School ; Zwei 
 Beer is on the stage ; Wally Aikman is head of a Trust Co. ; 
 Wilkie Collins is a bar-tender; Jess Riggs is captain in the 
 Salvation Army Volunteers of America ; Shep Homans is a 
 night clerk ; Charlie Spooner is instructor at a Ladies' Gym- 
 
204- PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 nasium in Milwaukee ; Truby is a train dispatcher ; Jack 
 Adams went down with the Maine ; Dunlop is a floorwalker and 
 P. Rieman is a sign painter ; Chip DeLong is a political pris- 
 oner in Russia ; Herb Carter is a bell-boy and Billy Stump is 
 manager of a Savings Bank. Easton, Havens, and Howie are 
 Railroad Presidents. 
 
 I am always glad to hear about my classmates and I often 
 wonder why someone does not get out a monthly record. It 
 seems to me if placed in the right hands it would be a great 
 success. I never expect to attend any reunions, but I wish that 
 someone would take the matter up. If the Class would only 
 incorporate under the laws of New Jersey with a large capital 
 stock, then issue bonds secured by a mortgage on something, 
 naming Joe Huston as Trustee, then elect a board of managers 
 and editors and the thing would be done. Each one in the Class 
 would at once subscribe for as many copies as there are mem- 
 bers in his family, and now that Conny and the rest of the class 
 are mostly married there is no doubt that the subscription list 
 would eventually become very large. As a suggestion I think 
 that if Mogel, Mudge, Peddie, and Tindle could be induced to 
 take hold they would be the right men to edit and manage it. 
 With kind regards, 
 
 C. W. SOMERBY. 
 
 P. S. I haven't had a picture taken for many years now, but 
 I send you the best one I could find. 
 
 I lost the fifteen or twenty copies of questions which were 
 sent me, and had to make up the foregoing list from memory. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 205 
 
 CHARLES PHILIP SPOONER, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 377 Colman Building, Seattle, Wash. 
 Married Susie Main, June 11, 1896. Children, Dorothy, b. Novem- 
 ber 1, 1897. Annie Main, b. June 1, 1906. 
 
 THE King of the Runts' understudy learned enough 
 law at the University of Wisconsin in the two years, 
 1892 to 1894, to get the degree of LL.B., and to practice at 
 Madison until 1896; then he went to that other town in Wis- 
 consin that has been made famous by something else, and there 
 he practiced some more until 1905, when he left Wisconsin and 
 went to Seattle, where he has become famous enough to appear 
 in a galaxy of " Prominent Members of the Seattle Bar " pub- 
 lished by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a large volume, called 
 "Prosperous Washington" (25c.) Replying to our question 
 about books or articles written, lectures and speeches delivered, 
 cheered, egged, or suffered, he says " Get out ! ! " Evidently 
 he has been there. Politically, he styles himself " a friend of 
 the people." What military service seen? " Have seen a num- 
 ber of lobsters in service, but have escaped myself." He belongs 
 to the Rainier Club, the University Clubs of Seattle and Mil- 
 waukee, and the Seattle Golf and Country Club. Golf is his 
 hobby. He dropped baseball about the end of Senior year. 
 We dragged the following from him by dint of postal cards 
 and other aids to reflection: 
 
 " The only thing that prevents the writing of this letter to 
 the class being a positive pleasure is the fact that I am able 
 to point to so little in my record that seems worth offering. 
 Still, the class of '92, as I knew it at the end of our course, 
 was very sweet in its charity toward its members and I have no 
 reason to doubt that the past fifteen years have broadened and 
 made permanent that charity, so I'll tell what little there is 
 to tell about myself. 
 
 " In the Fall of 1892 I entered the Law School of the Uni- 
 
206 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 versity of Wisconsin, and was graduated therefrom in June, 
 1894. I practiced law in Madison, Wis., as a member of the 
 firm of winch my father was the head, from 1894) to 1896, in 
 which latter year I was married and moved to Milwaukee, 
 where I practiced until September, 1905, when I removed to 
 Seattle. In nearly all of my Milwaukee practice of nine years, 
 I was associated with Clarke M. Rosecrantz, who was a law 
 classmate of mine. We were attorneys for the street railway 
 system of Milwaukee, which is very extensive, and which involved 
 a great deal of trial work. I found that I was drifting into 
 a specialty, and as I have a great love for the general practice 
 of law, I left our practice to my partner and came out here. 
 My partnership association here has been very satisfactory 
 from every point of view, and I am now quite certain the change 
 was a wise one. Our business is varied and all that I could ask. 
 
 " Seattle is apparently a great city in the making. It is so 
 completely sui generis that comparison is difficult and of little 
 use. There are about 200,000 people here, but everything is 
 done on the theory that it's to be another New York. Some of 
 this is laughable — much of it is wonderful. One of the prin- 
 cipal reasons for my leaving Wisconsin was the prominence of 
 my father there. I thought I'd get as far from it as possible. 
 You have to ' make good ' here, and when you do you are 
 credited with it. 
 
 " I have two little daughters, one nine years old and one 
 about the same number of months. There is only one thing I 
 regret, about them. They can never be Princetonians. 
 
 " As I look back over the years that have passed since we left 
 Princeton, I can see little of which I have thought I had reason 
 to complain which was not my own fault. I find innumerable 
 things for which I am thankful, and which I did not deserve. 
 I hope to see you all in June, and if I am not there you may 
 be sure that it was impossible. God bless you all. 
 
 " Charles P. Spooxer. 
 
 " Seattle, Jan. 8, 1907." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 207 
 
 ROBERT ALSTON STEVENSON, A.M. 
 
 Teacher. Business Address, 425 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Residence, 57 High Street, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Married Helen Cole, Yonkers, N. Y., June 14, 1906. Children, 
 
 none. 
 
 BOBBIE STEVENSON studied an extra year at Princeton, 
 one more at Johns Hopkins, another at Columbia, and 
 also one in Germany. He is now headmaster of the Allen- 
 Stevenson School, N. Y. City, and writes as follows : 
 
 " 57 High Street, Yonkers, N. Y., February 16, 1907. 
 
 " After many days here goes — by special delivery ! 
 
 " Just why I went back to Princeton in the fall of '92 to 
 take a graduate course I have never been able to decide. It 
 wasn't because there were any graduate courses in Princeton — 
 although Andy West was beginning to have dreams even at that 
 time about a Graduate School. Andy told me to sit down in 
 a comfortable chair and read books, which I did at 7 Edwards 
 Place with no direction and very little system. But I enjoyed 
 it. Jesse Williams plied his pen in the room above, busy with 
 the Princeton Stories, and Max Farrand, when he was not dis- 
 cussing football policy with Tracy Harris and Aleck Moffat, 
 played with mysterious tomes from the library. 
 
 " We had a good time — the Shanty was a convenient ren- 
 dezvous for men who came back to the burg — but the necessity 
 of paying for it caused me to take on a tutoring job at Law- 
 renceville. The job was rich in experience, was in fact the be- 
 ginning of work that I have been doing ever since — teaching 
 boys — and was pecuniarily successful in that it enabled me to 
 indulge in an operation for appendicitis, at a time when there 
 was some distinction in an appendixless existence. 
 
 " The fall of '93 found me at Baltimore taking courses in 
 
208 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 the Historical department of Johns Hopkins under Dr. Her- 
 bert Adams. The atmosphere of the department and Dr. 
 Adams' example gave me my first inkling of what graduate work 
 meant, and through the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, of which I 
 became a member. I saw a good deal of the undergraduate life. 
 Off days I played with Billy Wilson, Roy Gresham, and Johnny 
 Stork. Billy was dallying with the Law. Roy wasn't quite sure 
 whether he would eventually become an historian or a theo- 
 logian, and Johnny was working up a spring-water business. 
 
 " Everything German was popular at the University at that 
 time and Dr. Adams advised those of us who didn't know what 
 we wanted to do in the way of teaching, to go to Germany 
 ami find out. I went with a boy who needed supervision. I 
 needed the money. We reached Berlin in October, after a 
 summer in the Canada woods, where the boy and I got fairly 
 well acquainted, and, coached by Jesse Carter. '93. and Wis 
 Hodge. I matriculated at the University. It was exciting. 
 My knowledge of German was limited. It consisted of the 
 words necessary in a polite request for two beers, which I 
 found was not adequate to express my feelings when the Rector 
 gave me the glad hand of welcome. Consequently I took 
 everything for granted and proceeded to learn German fran- 
 tically, attending lectures meanwhile. 
 
 " Little by little the lectures became intelligible, and before 
 the end of the semester I was able to glean a few gems of 
 thought out of what I heard. At its close Wis Hodge and I 
 went to Heidelberg, where I remained for more than a year, 
 attending lectures, making explorations to various parts of 
 Germany, and cultivating my mind spasmodically. I took one 
 long walking trip in Switzerland and narrowly escaped meeting 
 Magie in Paris. 
 
 " Max Farrand was at Heidelberg at the time, learning a 
 lot of things. Perhaps he will tell you of a Rheinfahrt we 
 made. We visited all of the famous vineyards from Worms to 
 Cologne and floated the distance in a skiff. We recommend 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 209 
 
 the trip to those who wish to become experts in the use of Rhein 
 wine. 
 
 " In the spring of '96 I returned to the United States, and 
 spent a month in Princeton in an endeavor to get the German 
 out of my system. I succeeded, and in the Fall took on another 
 tutoring job in New York, attending lectures at Columbia 
 when I could. Finally I succumbed to an attack of philan- 
 thropy, and took up residence in an East Side Settlement. 
 There I found things to interest me and learned several things ; 
 among others that the average man that I met there knew a 
 great deal more about politics and sociology than I did ; that he 
 was not a strange animal and that I was not destined to uplift 
 humanity. I didn't even jar it. So I stopped trying to be 
 philanthropic and while I remained in residence devoted myself 
 to getting acquainted with a group of hard-working men, with- 
 out trying to investigate them. 
 
 " Meanwhile I tutored boys for a living. Gradually my work 
 enlarged until I had a fair-sized following. I liked the work, 
 and for four or five years pegged away at my job, spending my 
 summers in the woods and my winters pounding at the boys. 
 Nothing of particular interest happened. I wrote a few stories 
 and articles which were accepted, managed to get up a case of 
 neurasthenia, and worried along contented and happy. 
 
 " Now and then I saw something of various members of the 
 class, the fellows who turn up at the Princeton Club — and may 
 I be permitted to observe here that as a class I think that we 
 are wofully lacking in any system which brings us together. If 
 we have a system it is rotten. Twice and only twice since our 
 Decennial we have been summoned, not for the purpose of 
 good cheer unalloyed, but to be asked just about the time we 
 were getting well in touch with men we had not seen for years, 
 to be pathetic over mere sordid money matters. There are 
 those who say they have been stung. Address C. A. McWil- 
 liams. 
 
 " But to proceed. Much to the disgust of James Westervelt, 
 
210 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 who has never learned to like Harvard men, I formed a part- 
 nership with one, and with him I am now wrestling with a 
 school for boys in New York. 
 
 " You ask me whether I have any pet theories about second- 
 ary education. No ! All I know is that with the kindergarten 
 at one end teaching boys scientific methods of play and the uni- 
 versity at the other raising requirements for entrance every 
 rainy day and screeching for a display of intellectual intelli- 
 gence at the age of seventeen, the secondary teacher is kept 
 awake nights. I am not yet bald, however, and I haven't grown 
 taller. We try to turn out a good product and expect the 
 Preceptorial System to do the rest. 
 
 " Married life ! Yes. I was married last June to Miss Helen 
 Cole, of Yonkers, and I can't complain. It has broadened my 
 outlook. Not until this winter have I interested myself in the 
 Anthracite problem and the price of kindling wood. I am living 
 in Yonkers, commute with precision, and see more or less of 
 John Kouwenhoven, who is rapidly becoming It in the medical 
 profession in these parts. 
 
 " There isn't much more to tell. I went abroad again four 
 years ago and walked pretty much all over England. Walking 
 is my fad. The fifteen years since graduation have passed 
 quickly. Playing with boys has kept me young. I haven't 
 done anything startling and I find the game of living with its 
 ups and downs good fun and worth while. I am trying to build 
 up a school that will fit boys for college in a way that includes 
 more than a mere stuffing of their heads, and I like my job. 
 
 " By way of playtimes ; I am a member of the Players' Club 
 of New York, and I spend my summers in the open. I am 
 somewhat foolish on the subject of trout-fishing and have nearly 
 reached the stage when I shall make my own flies, and I am no 
 slouch of a carpenter. 
 
 " And there you are. 
 
 " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " R. A. Stevenson." 
 

 H. A. Stevenson 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 211 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM STORK 
 
 Mineral Water Business. Office, 424 North Charles Street, Balti- 
 more, Md. Residence, 513 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Married Hortense Rogers Mclntire, Baltimore, Md., January 23, 
 1907. Children, none. 
 
 JOHN STORK is still liquidating as the proprietor of the 
 Chattolanee Springs Water Company. In support of his 
 contention that the sparkling beverage he dispenses is not de- 
 rived from his cellar spigot, the Maryland Geological Survey 
 reports for him that " A careful study of the geological struc- 
 ture, over an area of more than ten square miles on all sides 
 of the Springs, clearly shows that the waters of the Springs 
 come from a DEEP-SEATED SOURCE, AND ARE NOT 
 DERIVED FROM ANY SURFACE FLOW." 
 
 Another tenstrike for the '92 Baltimore Syndicate. With 
 this fountain of life at hand no wonder Long John Pendleton 
 weighs 217, and Jesse Riggs has taken on weight, and Billy 
 Wilson's hair is still yellow, and — well, Chattolanee Spring de- 
 serves all the credit. John is trying to get the Quindecennial 
 Reunion Committee to substitute demijohns of his dope for the 
 customary buckets of suds at headquarters, but in deference to 
 the tastes of C. P. Butler, the Rev. Dr. Smiley, Leroy Gresham, 
 Bixler, and other Kentucky Colonels, this blatant attempt at 
 reform is to be kicked in the slats. We recommend copious 
 draughts of this tonic, however, to those helpless choristers, 
 Attorney Church, Judge Duffield and B. & 0. Wilson — the Only 
 Original Triolets. For mark this letter and tell how else this 
 songster acquired his late-born voice. 
 
 "To the Class of '92: 
 
 " My life since leaving college has been of a very simple and 
 uneventful character. I studied law for a short while ; then 
 
212 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 
 
 took hold of a Spring- Water Company, which I have run and 
 owned ever since. I probably have, therefore, entered a busi- 
 ness no other one of my classmates has ever even considered. 
 I feel that I have succeeded in what I have undertaken. If 
 your list of inquiries had asked for the degrees and honors 1 
 had not taken, I could have given you a longer and more de- 
 tailed answer. My recreation has been music, and had I sung 
 as much at college as I have sung since, I might have had the 
 honor of being a member of the Glee Club, especially as tenors 
 were at that time so scarce. [And this when we had Bob Ben- 
 nett and Tracy McDowell and Baron Kouwenhoven — who 
 wasn't a tenor! — Eds.] I can say in closing that should any 
 of you call this way I can treat you to a beverage that will 
 leave you none the worse for wear. 
 
 "John W. Stork." 
 
 IRVING W. STREET 
 
 Real Estate Dealer. Office, 6 '2 Genesee Street, Ltica, X. Y. Resi- 
 dence , L 21 Summit Place. Utiea. N. Y. 
 
 Married Eloise Wicks. Ctica, X. Y.. July 18. 1905. Children, 
 Elizabeth Head. b. August 27, 1906. 
 
 IN preparation for the real estate business Street studied at 
 McCormick Seminary, Chicago, at Berlin, and at Jena, in 
 Germany — following in some measure the method of Laughlin. 
 In addition he was Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Auburn, 
 X. Y., and he also lived at Lima, Ohio. He saw a sham battle 
 in Chicago in 1893 while he was Superintendent of the Prince- 
 ton Exhibit at the World's Fair, and dropped military service 
 forthwith. He is a plain Republican voter when he likes their 
 nominees, and has written nothing but checks — " always pro- 
 tested." 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 213 
 
 WILLIAM STUMP, M.D. 
 
 Physician. Address, Larchmont, N. Y. Unmarried. 
 
 STUMP was graduated from the Medical School of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania in 1895, having made a good 
 record for himself. He also took a five months' course at Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He has been located at Larch- 
 mont for several years. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman and, 
 of course, is a member of the local yacht club, one of the best 
 known in the country. 
 
 JOSEPH GASTON SYMMES, A.M. 
 
 Minister. Residence, The Manse, Lower Valley Presbyterian 
 
 Church, Califon, N. J. 
 Married Josie Gardner, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., September 5, 1900. 
 
 Children, Mary Sharpsteen, b. April 16, 1906. 
 
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 ACKUS is the same big hearty Satchelas he always was, 
 and we print his letter just as it is. 
 
 " After graduating from college in 1892 I entered Prince- 
 ton Theological Seminary in the Fall, and spent the year 
 '92-'93 in that institution. The year of '93-'94 I taught in 
 St. Albans School, at Radford, Virginia. I returned to Prince- 
 ton Seminary in the Fall of '94, where I was graduated in 
 1897. During the summer I travelled in Europe. November 
 the 30th, 1897, I was installed over the churches of Jackson- 
 ville and Providence, not far from Burlington, New Jersey. 
 From this charge I was called, in June, 1904, to my present 
 pastorate over the Lower Valley Church of Califon, New Jer- 
 sey, and the Cokesbury Church, with the manse situated at 
 Califon. 
 
214 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " Tho my life has been passed in comparative quiet since 
 graduation it has not been an idle one, but filled with the active 
 duties of a country pastorate. I have passed through no ex- 
 perience which has soured me on life, or aged my spirits. My 
 days are full of joys, and the doing of those things which bring 
 me ever increasing delight. I will not take second place to 
 any man in the class in my love for dear old Princeton, tho 
 I be one of her numerous sons who cannot express his love in 
 a very substantial manner. I mean, however, to have a part in 
 the building of the Memorial and it shall be as much as I can 
 possibly scrape together. Please inform me if the first of 
 January, 1907, will be too late for me to send a gift to the 
 ' Fund.' Hurrah for Princeton and the Glorious Class ! If 
 sound will do any good I can give that." 
 
 W 
 
 FRANCIS E. TALCOTT 
 
 E have no word from Talcott save the following note 
 from Mrs. Talcott, received in 1899: 
 
 " 7 West Fifty-Seventh Street, New York. 
 " Mr. W. K. Prentice : 
 
 " My dear Sir: — Mr. F. E. Talcott resigned some time ago 
 from the Princeton Association and has lived out of town for 
 the past five years. Will you kindly make note of this fact that 
 notices of various kinds may be discontinued, and oblige, 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 " " H. E. Talcott." 
 
C. W. TlNDALE 
 

 
 
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BIOGRAPHIES 215 
 
 CHARLES W. TINDfeE 
 
 Office, 223 Bakewell Building, Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 100 
 North Negley Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Unmarried. 
 
 TINDALE was in the Tin Plate and Sheet Steel manufactur- 
 ing business until about July 1, 1900 ; since then he has 
 been a gentleman of leisure and spends his time travelling. He 
 has thus far been all over the United States, Mexico, Canada, 
 and Central America, and almost all of Europe. He is very 
 seldom in Pittsburg. 
 
 CHARLES IRVIN TRUBY 
 
 Minister. Address, Winchester, Ind. 
 
 Married Mabel Phares, Indianapolis, Ind., May 11, 1899. Chil- 
 dren, none. 
 
 TRUBE is as uncommunicative now as he was when the 
 last Record was published. He admits having studied 
 at McCormick Seminary, Chicago, and says he has resided since 
 graduation at Chicago, Fowler, and Winchester. He has found 
 the training acquired by wresting the Whig Hall Lynde De- 
 bate appointment from Jim Westervelt in 1892 of great value 
 in his labors. 
 
 EDGAR TROTTER VAN DEUSEN, A.M 
 
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 Writing a book on Investments. Address, 102 Waverly Place, New 
 York City. Unmarried. 
 
 VAN DEUSEN was so busy on his book that he did not 
 send in his material for this Record until we had gone to 
 press. We are able to report that since graduation he has 
 resided in the States of New York, New Hampshire, Iowa and 
 
216 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Missouri, and has occupied various positions of honor or 
 emolument as school teacher, law clerk, private secretary, col- 
 lege and university instructor, lecturer, and writer. In 1901 
 he received his Master's degree from New York University, and 
 he was, for a while, Instructor in Public and Private Finance at 
 Dartmouth. He has lectured on investments in the School of 
 Commerce, New York University, and at the University of 
 Missouri on economic history and railroad history and finance; 
 and he is at present engaged in the preparation of a book on 
 Investments " treated from standpoint of an impartial student 
 of truth rather than of a baiting broker or a preying promoter 
 or a popular penny-a-liner." This, which no gentleman's 
 library should be without, is to be published during the present 
 year, after which its author intends to form a connection with 
 a financial house — but not of course as a " baiting broker." 
 His other contributions to economic literature are listed in the 
 Hot Air Furnace, to which readers are respectfully referred. 
 
 JOHN VAN NESS, A. M. 
 
 Minister. Residence, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Married Claudia M. Dorland, Washington, D. C, February 1, 1899- 
 Children, none. 
 
 JOHN VAN NESS informs us he is " preaching the ever- 
 lasting gospel," and has " no leisure time." He went 
 through Princeton Seminary and then became pastor of Ta- 
 koma Park Church, at Washington, D. C. For the past four 
 years he has been pastor of the Holmesburg Church at Phila- 
 delphia. He says he has so many hobbies that none seems 
 specially prominent. He ought to hand a few out to Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, or to W. Watson Smith. " Bob Bennett is the 
 '92 fellow I see most frequently. He preaches in Germantown 
 — and is all right. See John T. Dunn often ; he is in Scranton 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 217 
 
 making money. Shook hands with Howland Hanson at the 
 General Assembly's meeting at Des Moines, la., last spring — 
 he is pastor of a large Baptist Church there." 
 
 " Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1906. 
 " Dear Fellows of '92 : 
 
 " Prentice insists on a ' personal letter.' We made no mis- 
 take in electing him Class Secretary. He is accomplishing 
 what no other mortal could possibly accomplish for our Class. 
 I have my grave doubts, however, that my personal letter could 
 be of any possible interest to anyone, but — here goes. 
 
 " Everything in my life really centers around one happy 
 day in February, 1899, when I took unto myself a wife. Things 
 have been different since that immortal day, and decidedly bet- 
 ter. R. P. D. Bennett was one of the ushers at my wedding ; 
 he and I roomed together for three years in Old Sem., and later 
 both married Washington girls. Just before I was married I 
 had a fine trip across the country with the bride-elect and her 
 parents to the Pacific Coast, taking in Southern California, 
 Seattle, Salt Lake, and the Yellowstone Park. Later we set- 
 tled down to a very happy life among a kind people in Wash- 
 ington City, where I spent seven years. In 1902 we came to 
 Philadelphia in order to be nearer Princeton and Bennett. Two 
 years later we took rather an extended trip abroad, visiting the 
 principal ports on the Mediterranean and making a tour of 
 Palestine. We also spent some time in Constantinople and 
 Cairo and Rome, and returned with new vigor for the ' com- 
 mon deeds of a common day.' 
 
 " Philadelphia is near enough to Princeton to make it pos- 
 sible for one to run up once in a while, and I am always de- 
 lighted to meet the Ninety-Two men in that dear old college 
 town which grows dearer every year. 
 
 " Yours for Princeton and Ninety-Two, 
 
 " John Van Ness." 
 
218 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 PETER VREDENBURGH, LL.B., U.S.A. 
 
 United States Army. Official Address, War Department, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, or 1 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
 Residence, 868 West End Avenue, New York City. Unmarried. 
 
 IN reply to question No. 1 — " married, engaged, or single? " 
 — Pete lets loose this broadside : " When it comes to the 
 ' fatuous delirium,' the celestial idiocy that queers the brain 
 and impairs the vision — why, I have been unlucky, that's all. 
 Mumps have been mine and measles, and I have fooled with 
 grapejuice, but that other drunkenness has been denied me." 
 Then, as if unregretful that mumps, measles and grapejuice 
 have failed to end with matrimony, he bursts into song: 
 
 " I've taken my fun where I've found it; 
 I've rogued and I've ranged in my time; — " 
 
 We take it, however, that he is not as one without hope, for 
 he continues: 
 
 " There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, 
 There's times when you'll know that you might; 
 But the things you will larn from the Yellow an' Brown 
 They'll 'elp you an 'eap with the White ! " 
 
 Which suggests that this " soldier, soldier come from the 
 wars " will answer " Present " when the time comes. Leaving 
 Kipling, he goes on to say that he studied law in the New York 
 Law School, but since the outbreak of the Spanish War has 
 been in the military service of the United States. He has 
 written no books, but was the author of several articles in the 
 Manila Freedom and Cable News of November, 1899, and May, 
 1902, on prevailing conditions. During the presidential cam- 
 paign of 1895-1896 he was moved to deliver speeches on Free 
 Silver, and adds the sad comment " melancholy farce — ripe 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 219 
 
 eggs." Meanwhile he was captain, you remember, of the gal- 
 lant Vredenburgh Rifles, or Company E, 7th Regiment, New 
 Jersey National Guard, to whose annual military reception 
 and exhibition drill at the Freehold Opera House in February, 
 1894, the Class was invited too late to accept. When the 
 Spanish War came on Peter volunteered as Captain of the 3d 
 New Jersey Infantry, his commission dating May 12, 1898. 
 In February of the following year he was honorably mustered 
 out and was appointed a major by the Military Board, being 
 thus the youngest major in the National Guard. He had seen 
 service during the intervening nine months, but we have not 
 been able to get any account of it. Indeed, we haven't any 
 hint from Peter himself that he has ever done anything worth 
 notice, and the facts on which the following story is based are 
 due largely to the kindness of his mother, Mrs. W. H. Vreden- 
 burgh, who sympathized with our desire to tell her son's history 
 and lent us her collection of newspaper clippings about him. 
 These we supplemented with records from the War Department, 
 the Alumni Weekly, etc., etc. 
 
 In June, 1899, Peter had resumed the practice of law at 
 Jersey City ; but less than a month later he was appointed Cap- 
 tain of the 28th U. S. Volunteer Infantry — the regiment whose 
 record later won for it the name of the " Fighting 28th " — 
 and he found himself shipped on his first visit " east of Suez " 
 to the Philippines. Joining General Wheaton's Expedition 
 through Southern Luzon, of January 7th to 22d, 1900, he took 
 part in the battle of Putol Bridge on January 7, 1900, and the 
 next day at Dascobas, near Cavite, while standing on a rice 
 dyke a bullet passed through the lapel of his coat and knocked 
 him off the dyke; but his most dangerous experience came in 
 February, when he was ordered to disperse an insurgent am- 
 buscade waiting for a wagon-train. The Manila Times on 
 March 7, 1900, got out an extra edition about this episode, 
 telling how Captain Vredenburgh's command, advancing across 
 
220 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 a ravine was under fire from three sides. The Captain's hat 
 was shot off, but he led a charge and routed the enemy, saving 
 the wagon-train. He was in the skirmish at Sinishian River, 
 February 24, and on the 27th he was the senior officer present 
 in command of a detachment of his regiment in the battle of 
 Lemeri Bridge, when he captured a number of prisoners and a 
 large quantity of ammunition and supplies. On July 6 he 
 helped to repulse the attack on Taal, the worst proposition he 
 ever faced. On July 17 he took part in the engagement of 
 Barrio de Talang, and two days later, in the engagement near 
 Taal, Batangas Province. From December, 1900, to March, 
 1901, he was on Colonel Birkheimer's expedition through North- 
 ern Mindanao. He was honorably mustered out in May, 1901. 
 During 1900 he had been Military Governor of Caluca and 
 Taal, in Batangas Province, and had jurisdiction over several 
 small islands in the Southern Pacific and China Sea. When 
 Peter got back to Freehold, New Jersey, after his discharge, 
 he was given a public reception in the same Opera House where, 
 seven years earlier, the Vredenburgh Rifles had the dance to 
 which '92 was invited. 
 
 He had, however, applied for a commission in the Regular 
 Army, and having passed the necessary examinations, his com- 
 mission as First Lieutenant in the 28th U. S. Infantry was 
 duly given, dating from February 2, 1901 ; and it was not long 
 before he was sent back again to the Philippines. Some of 
 Peter's letters home were published in the Freehold papers, and 
 they are deeply interesting. 
 
 The principal task to which his regiment was allotted this 
 time was the building of the military road from Iligan, Min- 
 danao, to Lake Lanao, which for centuries was the center of 
 the " forbidden country " in the Philippines. The road was 
 cut through the jungle and work began in October, 1902. For 
 a long time, says the Army and Navy Journal, the Moros re- 
 garded the enterprise as a bluff; the country was so difficult 
 
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 of penetration that they freely predicted failure. But it was 
 not long before they found the Americans were very much in 
 earnest, and they then talked about getting into line for work. 
 By February, 1903, they began to be employed as laborers, 
 and in handling them, Peter's experience and tact achieved 
 wonders. Writing in March, 1903, he said " I am, as you 
 may know, an ambassador, so to speak, to the Sultans and 
 Datos of the interior. I go ahead, as the road advances, with 
 a small cavalry escort, and make deals with these savages. I 
 have learned enough of their language to converse with them, 
 but take an interpreter with us. We make them presents and 
 pay the Sultans and Datos quite large sums of money for the 
 use of their slaves. While calling on the Sultan of Buragao, 
 we had to ride between lines of human skulls stuck upon poles, 
 trophies of war, several hundred of them, many having the 
 flesh and hair still visible, but there was more odor than any- 
 thing else. The Sultan is said to be a head-hunter and can- 
 nibal, but he was very polite in his filthy den. We hired 150 
 slaves of him for work on this road. . . . My life is exciting, 
 but hard work is the keynote of it all. I am in the saddle 
 most of the time. Have seen some beautiful country in my 
 travels, often going for several days where white man was never 
 known before." 
 
 During the spring of 1903 Peter was on court-martial duty 
 at Iligan, a town which seems to have had drawbacks in the 
 shape of mosquitoes, Chinese, Moros (civilized), Viscayans, 
 Taj aloes, Spaniards, renegade Americans, wild men from Bor- 
 neo, and last of all, monkeys. The monkeys became a great 
 nuisance. Pete and another chap had the only bachelor mess 
 in town, and the monkeys — besides visiting officers — seemed to 
 know it. The monkeys belonged to no one in particular, and 
 were always swinging in at the balcony at most unexpected 
 times. At night especially did the contents of Peter's larder 
 attract them, and preserves and sweets were never safe. Pete 
 
222 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 and his friend had a Chino cook and four servants — and plenty 
 of visitors. But the simpler life outside was more attractive, 
 and the stiff uniform he had to wear in garrison chafed. He 
 longed for the blue flannel shirt and the slouch hat. So it was 
 with relief that he went in June to Marahui, on Lake Lanoa, 
 at the other end of the great road, to command Co. G, 28th 
 Infantry, and act as summary court officer. One isn't trained 
 a Jersey City lawyer for nothing. Fish Hall and Pierre Cook 
 should apply for vacant Chief Justiceships over there. Bunches 
 of room; and Peter would keep the monkeys and natives off. 
 Well, Marahui is a town which was strongly fortified by the 
 Spaniards, and the lake is so large that they had gunboats 
 on it, sinking them when the news of Dewey at Manila reached 
 them. The country is full of game which does not know what 
 fire-arms are. The wild boars almost run between your legs, 
 and the deer are just as innocent. The lake is 2200 feet above 
 the sea. The military road was duly completed, and, besides 
 opening up one of the richest countries in the world, is a monu- 
 ment to the 28th Infantry and Peter Vredenburgh. When last 
 heard from — in October, 1906 — Pete, who came back to 
 America and civilization in 1902, was stationed at Guana jay, 
 Cuba, and Mrs. Vredenburgh informed us in January last that 
 he was laid up in the hospital there with a light attack of 
 typhoid fever. His photograph is one taken when he was at 
 the Presidio in California. By the way, when Peter is in San 
 Francisco he always stops in to see Al Lilley and Tommy Irvin, 
 but with these exceptions, the only '92 man he has seen in recent 
 years is the Hon. Chew Somerby — one evening at a Prince- 
 ton dinner at St. Paul, Minn. Then he also met Chew's wife 
 and three children. He belongs to the Army and Navy Club 
 of Manila, the Order of Caraban, the Order of the Army of 
 the Philippines, and the Military Order of Moro Campaigns. 
 He says : " There being no news that's fit to print about myself, 
 I will spare you the letter and amplitude of rhetoric that a 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 223 
 
 checkered career might call for." Much of that career is out- 
 lined above ; the rest of it we hope to learn in June along with 
 
 — the lore of men that ha' dealt with men 
 In the new and naked lands." 
 
 WILLIAMSON UPDIKE VREELAND, A.M., Doct. es Lett. 
 
 Teacher. Residence, 180 Mercer Street, Princeton, N. J. 
 Married Alice May Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 9, 1900. Chil- 
 dren, May, b. February 26, 1901. 
 
 TO the biography of the author of the following so-called 
 " vindication " of the Class Secretary a few words by 
 way of preface must be added. After his escape from the 
 Spanish jail alluded to below, and his return to Princeton for 
 rest, he went back to Paris for a year's study at the Sorbonne, 
 and then after his marriage in 1900 he took another year 
 abroad, this time at Geneva, where he got the degree of Doc- 
 teur es Lettres. From 1894 to 1898 he was Instructor in Ro- 
 manic Languages at Princeton, from 1898 to 1904 Assistant 
 Professor, and from 1904 Professor. In 1904 he was made head 
 of the Modern Language Department of the University. He 
 is also an understudy to the Dean and has his hands full of 
 administrative and committee work. The Tiger recently re- 
 marked that you can fool some of the Examinations and Stand- 
 ing Committee all of the time, you can fool most of it some of 
 the time, but you can't ever, no never, fool Vreeland. Which 
 bit of philosophy suggests that certain undergraduates wish 
 he had remained in that Spanish jail. 
 
 Vreeland, with Howard Butler and Wilkie Collins, was an 
 editor of the Princeton University Bulletin during the last two 
 years of that popular quarterly's existence. His other con- 
 tributions to light literature are in the Hot Air Furnace. He 
 
ftfi PRINCETON N1NETI HVO 
 
 - . member of the Nassau Club and the Golf Club of Prince 
 tsponding Member of the lustitut de Geneve, ami 
 a member of the S©< - lean-Jacques Rousseau, of Geneva, 
 \n ( >.ill attention to h - spe< bargain offer to *9t men sending 
 sous to Princ< 
 
 *■ A:':,:' trying to ' satisfj the long felt rani ' of the Tour 
 mittee, imd * prolong- their life and encourage their pursu 
 ipp ness J b] answering their more or loss impertinent ques 
 -. anything 1 might sav in a letter would, I tun afraid) 
 seem not j lit « l twice-told tale.' Married Mid 
 
 .. 1 ench Dickinson Hall, room No 5, outlines what 
 has boon my career, And I should leave it at that it I wen 
 afraid that Mike would think my letter too short and would 
 : his throat and add some slanderous remarks, 1 >■ 
 \ . n \. to make a statement in vindication of Mike, 1 
 .\.. I think, soon rather more of him than most of you, and 
 I want to say that his question-blank does him an injustice, 
 In pi is a self respecting gentleman, not 
 
 g \. overmuch to prj ■-.-, into the affairs of others It 
 onlv when ho remembers ' s < iss seen fcary that his cur os tj 
 runs awaj with him. Ho thou, like other class secretaries, I 
 am afraid, is liable to ask you anything, even a<k you for 
 . j 
 ■• Mike left mo. 1 think, when ho * wrote mo up * for the * Tr 
 Sp si ■• - ■ 1. is needless to say that I escaped 
 alive, ami, in the fall of 1894 returned to Princeton as ' In- 
 structor • Romanic I • . -' \ twelve years 1 am 
 still at it, and shall hope to ho ready for your sons when 
 them along. " A perfect knowledge of the French langt 
 and literature guaranteed in two weeks, or money refund, 
 
 •■ I was married in 1900, went abroad for a year, and brought 
 back a daughter admitted to the United States 'roe of duty, 
 and a doctor's degree from the University of Geneva- i 
 
BIOGRAPHIES Mr, 
 
 gultations free! I am at present living a quiet and retired life 
 al 180 Mercer Street, and am always glad to welcome any mem 
 ber of the Glorious ( !la .. 
 
 " Cordially your ., 
 
 Peincetok, Oct. «0, L9O0. 
 
 FRKDFJUCK CLIFFORD WARD 
 
 Electrical Supplies. Address, Oneonta, X. Y. 
 
 Married Agnes Arbuekle, June 7, 18.09. Children, none. 
 
 WARD studied at the New Yorls Law School and at the 
 Albany Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1 896. Since then he das been doing electrical work, installing 
 toll Lines and telephone exchanges. He has travelled north* 
 
 south, and east on business and has lived at, Delhi, Malone, St. 
 
 Albans, Potsdam, Richford Springs, Cooperstown, New York 
 and Albany. J J is hobby is fighting the trusts more particu- 
 larly soaking the Bell Telephone Company. 
 
 J 
 CROWLEY WENTWORTH, LL.B. v 
 
 Lawyer. Residence, J 44 West 123d Street, Sew York City. 
 Married Harriet Fairchild, S<- w York City, November 28, J 894. 
 Children, Isabel, h. September J a, 18fja. 
 
 CROWLEY received his legal education at the New York 
 Law School. He is a lawyer, " hence, in a sense, a gentle- 
 man of leisure"; he says: "Devote some time to (raiting for 
 
 clients." He will not give himself away as to books, articles, 
 speeches, or lectures lie may have perpetrated on the ground 
 that it might, tend to incriminate or degrade him. His travel- 
 ling has been confined to trips to and from his office. From 
 January, 1896, to September, 1899, he resided at Randolph, 
 
226 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 N. Y. ; but since then has lived in New York City. When he 
 has carfare he takes no exercise, and he has no recreation fit to 
 mention. 
 
 JAMES WESTERVELT, A.M. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. Residence, 
 Boston Post Road, Rye, N. Y. 
 
 Married (1) Lily King Clarke, Montclair. N. J., June 10, 1896, 
 who died March 11, 1897. Children, Lily King, b. March 14, 
 1897. (2) Mary M. (Clarke) Power, Chicago, July 21, 1904. 
 Children, James, Jr., b. October 2, 1905. Stepchildren, John 
 Alsop, b. May 15, 1891. Alan Huntington, b. May 14, 1899- 
 
 JIM studied for two years at the New York Law School, but 
 on the days of his final exams had a pressing engagement 
 in Princeton, and so never took his degree. This has not hin- 
 dered him at all in his labors as a member of the firm of Moses, 
 Morris & Westervelt, nor in his work of organizing and 
 launching the Columbian National Life Insurance Company, nor 
 in his presidency of the American Agency Company, one of the 
 concerns allied with the Columbian. James' most successful 
 piece of oratory was delivered in the United States Supreme 
 Court at Washington, some years ago, when he made a ten- 
 strike, but didn't get all the pins. Since then he has delivered 
 many lectures in his capacity as parens multiplex familuv. He 
 has been suffered by the object of these lectures, sometimes 
 cheered by his or her brothers or sisters, or both, according to 
 who happened to be within hearing. During the Spanish War 
 lie organized a company for the defense of Pike's Peak, but 
 the Long Island City police arrested the gallant bunch en 
 route. For the past five years Jim has travelled over most of 
 the United States east of the Rockies on business ; the summer 
 of 1900 he spent in England, Germany, and Holland, with a 
 brief visit to Piris and Oberammergau. He belongs to the 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 227 
 
 Players' and Princeton Clubs of New York, is a governor of 
 Tiger Inn at Princeton, and a member of the Princeton Club 
 of Philadelphia, the Hamilton Club of Chicago, the Apa- 
 wannis Club at Rye, and the American Yacht Club, Milton 
 Point, N. Y. He is very much of a family man, and is crazy 
 about his children and his home. For some years he was a 
 vestryman at Montclair. His beard and shock of hair are the 
 envy of Moses and the joy of Morris, his partners. Besides 
 these members of the class, he sees Doty, Williams, Stevenson, 
 Big Bess, and the Duke most frequently ; Roberts occasionally 
 — Jim says he is quite a Chesterfield nowadays ; and once in 
 a while he catches a glimpse of Tommy Bell dashing by in a 
 whirl of dust preceded by a big motor car. 
 
 " Rye, N. Y., Sunday, February 10, 1907. 
 " Dear Kelly : 
 
 " There is no doubt that I have been most remiss in delaying 
 the sending of this letter until I am one of the last, if not the 
 very last, of the Class to come up with the goods. Especially 
 is this reprehensible in my case, inasmuch as I shall shortly be 
 gnashing my teeth as treasurer of the Reunion Committee be- 
 cause of the delays of others. 
 
 " I know of no better word to describe my life for the past 
 fifteen years than ' strenuous.' My study and practice of the 
 law up to the end of 1901 was strenuous. Hard fighting, give 
 and take, often perforce more ' take ' than ' give,' made for 
 me two or three bitter enemies, and many friends, both of whom 
 I still prize most highly. 
 
 " For the past five years, while for most of that time a mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Moses, Morris & Westervelt, I have given 
 almost all of my time to the promotion, organization and build- 
 ing of the Columbian National Life Insurance Company of 
 Boston. Bill Woodbridge, '93, was the founder of the Com- 
 pany, which began business on September 11, 1902. About a 
 
228 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 year before that time, the brilliancy of his ideas, and the size, 
 depth and breadth of the man's conceptions, added to his un- 
 usually winning and lovable personality, attracted, and then 
 bound me to him and his enterprise. From then until he was 
 killed in an automobile accident in June, 1905, he and I went 
 up and down over the country, together most of the time, some- 
 times separating so as to cover more ground, adding here a 
 director, there a group of them, in each principal city opening 
 an office, and getting a force of agents started. It was no 
 uncommon thing for us to spend five nights a week on sleeping 
 cars, and hardly a month went by in which at least ten or a 
 dozen nights were not so spent. ' Strenuous ' hardly describes 
 it. but it was worth while. At his death in June, 1905, the 
 ' Columbian ' had already some $1,300,000 assets, and insurance 
 in force of about $33,000,000. At the end of 1906 it had 
 assets of about $3,500,000, and insurance in force of nearly 
 $50,000,000. 
 
 " But now that the preliminary work is accomplished, I am 
 glad to remember that my profession is the law. It was valu- 
 able business experience, but it was too ' strenuous.' 
 
 " Yet it had its compensations. It kept me in touch with 
 many of the members of the Great and Glorious Class. I used 
 every now and then to see, for instance, Redney Hart or Jack 
 Mitchell in Philadelphia; Billy Wilson, Tall Pendleton (at the 
 Maryland Club about 5:15 p. m.), the Riggses, McLanahan or 
 Pot Rieman in Baltimore ; Fin Lloyd or Pat Irish in Pittsburg — 
 always telephoning to Greensburg for Dick, and uniformly find- 
 ing him at his office by 11 a. m., in time for him to catch the 
 noon train for Pittsburg; Ben Ames in various parts of the 
 Ohio Valley ; Mcllvaine and Brig Young in Chicago ; Ed. Elli- 
 son and Chip DeLong in K. C. ; and so on and so on. It was 
 pretty good fun in spots, but I am not sorry that the work I 
 was engaged in is practically completed. 
 
C. Wentworth 
 Taken in '92 
 
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 B. V. White 
 
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 " So, while I am still a director of the Company, I am settling 
 again into my stride (or is it a lope?) practicing law. 
 
 " My domestic life has also had its high lights and shadows. 
 Just four years after graduation I married, and I believe that 
 no man ever lived a happier life than mine was for a few 
 months. Her name was Lily, and an exquisite lily she was, and 
 perfect. She died early the next Spring, leaving me a 
 daughter, who will shortly be ten years old. 
 
 " Dark days followed. I never knew until then, though, how 
 bully were, and are, the friendships made in the dear old ' Burg.' 
 
 " And now, well, my life is ideally happy. Two and a half 
 years ago I married my first wife's sister. She, too, had been 
 married before, and her two boys, one just older and one just 
 younger, than their stepsister, give us a happy family indeed. 
 Of Mrs. Westervelt I will not write at length, lest she be em- 
 barrassed when she reads this. Nothing I could write would do 
 her half justice anyway. Ask any of the fellows who have met 
 her, and then size up my frame of mind next June, and you 
 will have a little idea of my good fortune. 
 
 " We have a little James, Jr., but I won't do the fond papa 
 act in writing. It is bad enough to have a man talk to you 
 about his children. 
 
 " Of course all of the boys are going to Princeton. As far 
 as I can see at present, there will be Westervelts there just 
 three-fourths of the time between 1912 and 1928. And I am 
 hoping John will lead off by making his P about twice. 
 
 " Well, that'll be about all. Eheu fugaces . . . labuntur 
 anni has no sad ring about it for me. The fifteen years have 
 been very full ones, full of much sorrow but much more happi- 
 ness. It is a bully old world and deserves to have a place like 
 Princeton in it. 
 
 " Always sincerely, 
 
 " James Westervelt." 
 
230 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 BENJAMIN VROOM WHITE, A.M. 
 
 Architect. Office, 110 East 23d Street, New York City. Resi- 
 dence, Summit, N. J. 
 
 Married Margaret H. Risk, Summit, N. J., March 14, 1905. Chil- 
 dren, William Risk, b. February 20, 1906. 
 
 BEN is an architect, which will explain his statement that 
 his exercise is climbing to the top of his creations, and his 
 recreation is driving from one to the other. Like all artistic 
 architects, he is a bit of a dreamer, and builds castles in the air 
 — so much so that he confesses his hobby is planning what he will 
 do when all his works are completed. It is not without fitness 
 that he took the prize in architecture at graduation, and that in 
 due course he claimed and received the degree of Master of 
 Arts. His checkered career is narrated in the letter which 
 follows. In addition to the facts there given, he informs us 
 that he has appeared on the public platform a few times — 
 occasions not named — and that he has been " suffered " ; but he 
 still shudders at the thought and adds, " bring not the memory 
 of them back to me." His sole appreciable effort in the in- 
 terests of politics was to ride fifteen miles in a semi-blizzard to 
 cast a vote for McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900, out in North 
 Dakota. When he was pressed for an autobiographical letter 
 he wrote that it would be crowded out by pressure of other 
 business, the more so as it would contain " but little of interest." 
 He was dunned some more and finally wrote : " Enclosed find 
 hasty sketch of my brilliant career. If you can't read it, in- 
 quire of the blacksmith." Here is the letter — written on a 
 train at midnight : 
 
 " D., L. & W. R. R. Co., 
 "In transit, October 22, 1906, 11.30 p. m. 
 " My dear Kelly : 
 
 " You have sprung your request for a letter upon me very 
 unexpectedly. I had expected to have five years yet in which 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 231 
 
 to do something worth recording in the annals of the ' Most 
 Glorious Class.' You can see by referring to my ' vital statis- 
 tics ' how dilatory I have been in approaching the great things 
 of life. Fifteen years out of college and nothing doing in the 
 political line, not yet president of these or any other United 
 States — or at least, president in name only since March 14, 
 1905, the real power behind the throne allowing me to assume 
 that title for my own gratification. Nothing doing in litera- 
 ture, my manuscripts being either returned marked ' no funds,' 
 or else so defaced with multilating devices that I can use 
 them no more for their original purpose, and with a resultant 
 loss of my esteemed (bank) reserve. Nothing doing in the line 
 of public speaking except to utter the one fateful answer, ' I 
 will ' to the great for-better-or-for-worse question, which, while 
 it has brought me much personal happiness, has not re-echoed 
 far and wide around the world. 
 
 " In my fancied security of five years more before being 
 called to account, I have let the years slip by and can only 
 report progress. 
 
 " For seven years after leaving college I labored like Jacob 
 of old for the bride of my professional life, only to find at the 
 end of that time seven years more of service staring me in the 
 face if I would prove of Jacobean mould. Two years of this 
 time I determined to put in studying abroad, and so in the Fall 
 of 1898 I moved the flocks and herds of my prospective pro- 
 fessional father-in-law many parasangs to the eastward, and 
 dwelt for a time in the land of the Gauls, till one day the herds 
 turned and rent me [Ben means he broke down from overwork 
 in Paris and barely escaped with his life. — Eds.] and I was 
 sent posthaste to the opposite corner of the earth — a ranch in 
 North Dakota — for recuperation. There I wrestled with 
 actual herds of hide and tallow, a complete metamorphosis from 
 gay Alphonse of the Latin quarter to Bronco Bill of the two- 
 bits region — cow puncher for the T. I. X. outfit, horse 
 wrangler, night hawk, cook, foreman and general utility dude 
 
232 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 for the Custer Trail bunch ; until suddenly realizing that Jacob 
 was not ' such a much ' after all, and that his ancient methods 
 could not be successfully applied in this twentieth century, I 
 headed for Little Old New York, hitting only the high places in 
 my haste and prostrated myself at the feet of Her who has 
 since proved to me that old Jacob was many times several kinds 
 of a fool ! Being somewhat reduced in finances by my long 
 years of service, I found it necessary to get very busy, which I 
 did at once, and have been keeping steadily at it ever since, so 
 much so that I find it impossible to comply with your request 
 except by snatching a few moments on the train and writing 
 on this paper, begged from the Lord of the side door Pullman 
 (Baggage Car No. 1892!) And with sufficient success to have 
 attained the summum bonum of life, a home of my own, pre- 
 sided over by One to be lived up to, and enlivened by ^the merry 
 laughter of a sub-freshman of the Class of 1924 of Princeton. 
 With best wishes to all the old Class, 
 
 " Yours truly and theirs, 
 
 " Ben V. White. 
 
 " P. S. — If Jacob wasn't the name of the old Israelite re- 
 ferred to above, please make proper allowance for the lateness 
 of the hour.— B. V. W." 
 
 (We leave the question in the hands of our ministerial class- 
 mates. — Eds.) 
 
 EDWARD VAN DYKE WIGHT, A.M., D.D. 
 
 Teacher. Residence, Hastings, Neb. 
 
 Married Kate O. Wilkerson, August 28, 1895. Children, Edward 
 
 Van Dyke, Jr., b. July 13, 1896. Elizabeth A., b. January 
 
 20, 1898. William K., b. June 10, 1906. 
 
 VAN DYKE studied at Chicago Theological Seminary for 
 two years, and at the Princeton Seminary for one, and 
 he writes us: 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 233 
 
 " After graduating from the Seminary, I was pastor of the 
 church at Wayne for a year and a half. For the last five years 
 I have been both pastor of the Presbyterian Church and Presi- 
 dent of Hastings College here at Hastings. I have just re- 
 signed the pastorate of the church, and taken the presidency 
 of the college alone. Much of my time has been spent in rais- 
 ing funds for this institution. We have just secured an en- 
 dowment of $100,000 and a building from Mr. Carnegie. This 
 seems like a small amount, but when you think that up to three 
 years ago we did not have one cent of endowment, it means a 
 great deal to us. The last year we have secured about $70,000 
 for permanent funds. 
 
 " I am blessed with a family of three. My oldest boy is a 
 little over ten years of age, and the youngest but a few months 
 old. 
 
 " I do not see many of my classmates. ' Josie Hoffman ' is 
 in Lincoln, and is doing very well both in his profession as a 
 doctor and also as a musician." 
 
 Dr. Wight — for Hastings College made him a Doctor of 
 Divinity in 1904 — is thus the only college president the Class 
 can boast of as yet, and the hard work he has put in gathering 
 shekels for his institution does not make the rest of us hanker 
 for the job. Hastings College has a faculty of twelve, is co- 
 educational, and consists of preparatory, college, teachers and 
 business departments. With Joe Mayhew handling the medico- 
 musical end and President Wight the educational, Nebraska bids 
 fair to blossom like the rose. 
 
834 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS. A.M. 
 
 Writer. Wj Washington Road, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 Married Alice Laidlaw, New York City. Juno 1. 1898. Children. 
 Henry Meade, b. May l, 1899. Jesse Lynch, Jr.. b. August 
 1900. 1 uo.hu Ouderdonk. b. Juno p. 100 k 
 
 JESSE -pout two years in Princeton as a post graduate, 
 writing " Princeton Stories," which is now in its twelfth 
 edition. He received the degree of A. M. in dune. 1895. Since 
 then he has devoted himself pretty strictly to the literary life. 
 His books, etc.. are listed with other *92 masterpieces in the 
 11. A. F. He has appeared but once on the public platform, when 
 he was representing Princeton at a Yale Alumni banquet ; he 
 was never asked again to represent anybody anywhere. In 
 regard to politics he says, " I confess to having taken practi- 
 cally no interest in politics and am heartily ashamed of the 
 confession. A couple of magazine articles about my friend 
 Everett Colby, our Jersey Reformer, are about my only work — 
 ami a short story founded on an incident in his career. I be- 
 lieve in him, would like to help a little: and have been much 
 entertained by the arguments of his opposers — including some 
 of our prominent alumni in classes ahead of ours." 
 
 Jesse came near " seeing" a lot of military service in Cuba 
 during the war: had a chance to go as a correspondent, but 
 stayed home to get married. The man who went in his place 
 was shot — u nearest I'll ever come to being a hero," says Jesse. 
 He was in Europe once before and once after marriage, and 
 recently he has been a little through the eastern and central 
 section-; of the country with the " Stolen Story " Company. 
 He spent the year of 1903-1904 in Normandy with his family, 
 but declares it was too much like work and he will never do it 
 asrain without two secretaries and about three trained nurses. 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 235 
 
 However, his trio of young huskies all chatter in French, and 
 when they get into college will be the delight of Professor 
 Vreeland. 
 
 Jesse was a reporter on the Sun, and then on the staff of the 
 Commercial Advertiser, and from 1897 to 1900 was on the 
 staff of Scribner's, for which he wrote those charming little 
 advertising pamphlets you get about the new books and the new 
 features of the magazine. He was editor of the Alumni Weekly 
 from its founding until 1904. He is still one of the directors 
 of the Princeton Publishing Company, which controls that valu- 
 able sheet. He walks when he can't play tennis, and plays golf 
 when he can't get out of it. But shooting is still his hobby, 
 and next to shooting and fishing, he gets most rest and enjoy- 
 ment from talking in a congenial crowd. He goes on to say: 
 " I see former room-mate Bobbie Stevenson more than any 
 other one. He was my best man in '98 ; I was his last June. 
 As the years roll on I see less and less of the others, except at 
 smokers and Dutches and reunions and big games, all of which 
 opportunities for meeting I attend rather faithfully. I shan't 
 go through the list of my former intimates. In most cases I 
 consider it more their fault than mine that ' we have drifted 
 apart ' — perhaps they would not agree with me. Perhaps it is 
 the fault of neither ; but in any case I consider it grievously my 
 misfortune. They are busily engaged in one sort of thing and 
 I in another — and there you are. It's the way of the world. 
 
 " But when we do get together, I notice that, as a rule, none 
 of these things seems to matter for more than about a minute 
 and a half. J. L. W." 
 
 A list of Jesse's books and stories will be found in the Hot 
 Air Furnace. 
 
236 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN GLOVER WILSON, A.M., LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, General Offices B. & O. Railroad, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Residence, 43 West Preston Street, Baltimore, Md. 
 Married, Evalina Orrick Bandel, Baltimore, Md., November 17, 
 
 1897. Children, John Glover, Jr., b. July 27, 1899; d. March 
 
 25, 1900. 
 
 THE Latin Salutatorian studied law at the University of 
 Maryland, and in 1894 was given the right to add 
 LL. B. to his name. Since then he has orated steadily, eloquently, 
 usefully. In fact his reputation as a speaker is such in Mary- 
 land that Alt'. Riggs gave it as his legal opinion that the easi- 
 est way to raise the needed money for the Class Fund was to get 
 the crowd into the right condition and then " let Billy Wilson 
 turn on the hot air." The latter says himself that he has 
 written, lectured and made speeches — but without materially 
 affecting the sum total of human knowledge, and his defense is 
 that a country lawyer (he was at Cumberland, Md., from 1894 
 to 1908) is a sort of mental Jack-at-all-trades. While in Cum- 
 berland, Billy was elected a School Commissioner for Allegany 
 Co., Md., serving from 1897 to 1899, and in the latter year he 
 was elected State's Attorney for the same county, serving it 
 right until 1903. He was elected on the Republican ticket. 
 Since 1903 he has been transferred to the main office of the Law 
 Department of the B. & O. Railroad at Baltimore. He 
 travelled in Europe with Sam Small (not the evangelist) in 
 1892, and has since visited Europe for rest and recuperation in 
 1896, 1897 and 1900. He is a member of the Maryland Club, 
 the Baltimore Country Club and the Green Spring Valley Hunt 
 Club, where he gets the fox hunting he loves. At the present 
 time his hobby is the house he is building in the Green 
 Spring (N. B. not Chattolanee Spring) Valley. He says he 
 sees Pendleton, Stork, Rieman- and Alf. Riggs occasionally — 
 
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 not to mention McLanahan, " who is cornering most of the 
 stray cash down this way," and E. J. Cook, " who is monopoliz- 
 ing the law business at Towson, Baltimore County. Billy could 
 not come on to the Class Smoker last November because the cor- 
 poration chains held him fast, and he was under obligation on 
 that date to keep certain wiJd West Virginians from stealing one 
 of the B. & O.'s branch roads. " Nothing," he wrote, " would 
 afford me keener pleasure (you can take Mrs. W.'s word for 
 this if you doubt mine — she says I'd go a thousand miles to 
 make a speech) than to act as a distributing center for hot air 
 at the Hofbrau House — but I can't get there — it isn't in the 
 wood." Alf. Riggs' diagnosis of the Hon. John G. W. was 
 correct just the same; and this letter proves it. 
 
 " Baltimore, Maryland, January 28, 1907. 
 " Dr. William K. Prentice, Princeton, N. J. 
 
 " Dear Sir: — I would take up Wilkie Collins on his proposi- 
 tion to write my letter unless it is in by the first of February, 
 but I am afraid of his fine Italian hand. So here is what I have 
 been doing: 
 
 " After Princeton and my celebrated trip abroad with Sam 
 Small, I had two years in the University of Maryland Law 
 School; then nine years in Cumberland, Maryland, where I was 
 local counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and shared, in 
 addition, the usual experiences of a country lawyer ; set off, 
 however, by such ornamental details as editing the Hour 
 Book, a magazine which, having no particular reason for 
 existence, gasped out its untimely end after being published ten 
 months. 
 
 " Then for two or three years I was School Commissioner, 
 which gave me an opportunity to emit torrents of eloquence, 
 which my college career had proved too short to exhaust, at 
 school commencements, teachers' institutes, and other inspiring 
 occasions. 
 
238 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 " Before long I got into politics. People sometimes asked 
 me if I found that sort of thing interesting. Then I think of 
 the three hours, which seemed years, I spent in an anteroom at 
 the City Hall in Cumberland listening to the Secretary of the 
 County Convention call over the roll of districts, of which I 
 had thirteen and the other fellow thirteen, until finally somebody 
 flopped and the other fellow only had eleven. ' Interesting ' 
 was not exactly the epithet at that moment, nor had it been 
 for the previous ten months in which I had been campaigning to 
 get that nomination for State's Attorney. I was elected for a 
 four-year term, and clung enthusiastically to the office and its 
 emoluments from January 1, 1900, to June 1, 1903, when I had 
 a chance to come to Baltimore as Assistant General Attorney 
 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Here I have been ever since. 
 
 " My official mail is addressed to me under this sonorous title, 
 but I confess it hurts my feelings when the newspapers speak 
 of me as ' Lawyer Wilson of the B. & O.' A couple years 
 ago I tried a case which lasted three months in court, and every 
 day I had to figure under this choice description. 
 
 " The Baltimore fire burned out our offices, but we are now 
 located in a fine new building, which only needs more '92 men 
 dropping in to make it just right. 
 
 " As a railroad lawyer, of course, my practice is specialized, 
 and I have gotten out of the old jury trial work of which I 
 did a great deal at Cumberland. I go before the Interstate 
 Commerce Commission frequently, and have been investigated 
 times too numerous to mention. 
 
 " Coming to Baltimore has changed my course of life in 
 many ways in addition to changing the character of my prac- 
 tice. Decoration Day has ceased to mean a chance to fire a 
 volley of words over our honored dead. If I am lucky now, it 
 means a day on horseback. Election day no longer involves 
 keeping an eagle eye on the votes, but it means a fine ride after 
 the hounds and a hunt breakfast. In short, I am no longer a 
 
BIOGRAPHIES 239 
 
 distinguished member of the community, but a very private 
 citizen, who works hard and gets as much fun in between times 
 as he can. 
 
 " A thing which looms large on my horizon just now is a 
 country house, which is still on paper — but I put on the airs of 
 a landed proprietor in speaking of my 7.54 (don't anybody say 
 seven and a half) acres in the Green Spring Valley. Mrs. 
 Wilson and I are looking forward to getting into the house by 
 next fall, and then it will not be safe for any '92 man to show 
 up in Baltimore without coming around to my office to see me, 
 and letting me take him out to the farm. 
 
 " It will be observed that I use the plural number in speaking 
 of anything really important. Nine years ago I entered the 
 holy estate of matrimony ; I found it a large estate, and it has 
 not taken the entire nine years to show me that it is best 
 worked co-operatively. 
 
 " I think this is about all that's fit to print. The rest I hope 
 to relate at pleasant triangulations of benches on the campus in 
 front of Old North in June. " Sincerely yours, 
 
 " John G. Wilson." 
 
 PERCY WILSON, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Address, Silver City, New Mexico. 
 
 Married Violetta Bertha Ashenfelter, Silver City, N. M., December 
 25, 1900. Children, none. 
 
 PERCY studied law at the University of Michigan for two 
 years and took his degree in 1894. He was located in 
 Denver for the six following years, and since 1900 he has 
 operated (isn't that the term?) in Silver City. He is very, very 
 uncommunicative — acknowledging only that he is a Republican, 
 that once in a while he goes hunting or fishing, and that if he 
 has any pet interest at all it is books. Percy must be making 
 money. 
 
240 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 JOHN E. WITHERSPOON 
 
 Civil Service. Address, No. 11, R. D. 1, Sacramento, Cal. Un- 
 married. 
 
 POP WITHERSPOON is in Uncle Sam's employ carrying 
 rural mail at Sacramento. Since he left college he has 
 lived and visited in most of the States from New Hampshire to 
 California and from Virginia to Canada — in fact " in most of 
 the States of the Union except those of matrimony and intoxi- 
 cation," and he has occupied positions of trust and honor from 
 bootblack to business manager, from peddler to preacher. " I 
 once tried to work the Republican party for a township office, 
 but got worked myself. By virtue of my position, I am de- 
 barred from politics, but expect to see some of my articles in 
 the press under the headings ' John Doe's Address ' and ' Jim 
 Brown's views of the platform.' " Witherspoon has never en- 
 tered military service because, as he says, he holds the record for 
 comparative lightweight, being 5 ft. 10 in. in height, while 
 weighing only 115 pounds, and so cannot satisfy the physical 
 requirements. He belongs to no clubs nor societies, save those 
 auxiliary to the Presbyterian Church. He has done quite a 
 little writing, having reported for the county press of Frank- 
 lin Co., Pa., and having published several articles during the 
 late nineties and early nineteen hundreds in the Grocery World 
 of Philadelphia. Before going to California he was in the 
 grocery business. His pamphlet " Business and Religion " is 
 in the Alumni Collection in the University Library. Speaking 
 of his efforts at authorship he jokingly says, " My articles 
 showed that I had a wonderful ability in telling others how to 
 do business, get rich and be happy — something I could never 
 do for myself. I soon won a reputation for being able to tell 
 
BIOGRAPHIES Ml 
 
 the other fellow how, and of knowing how to attend to every- 
 body's business but my own. The only thing I have ever done 
 that would win for me a reputation was to write my autobiog- 
 raphy. This was purchased by the Sprague Publishing Com- 
 pany of Detroit, Mich., on account of .its uniqueness ; but the 
 editor has never had the courage to publish it. If it ever comes 
 before the public, WyckofF and his ' Workers ' will be far 
 eclipsed. I sometimes fear lest the editor should become 
 audacious enough to put it into print and I should be called 
 from my duties as an unassuming servant in Uncle Sam's Post- 
 office Department to the field of authorship." 
 
 Concluding, Witherspoon says : " Sacramento seems to be 
 as far from Princeton as Africa. Can't you send some good 
 men this way? " It is some years since he last saw a Princeton 
 man, but he has the right spirit. " I still have that filial feeling 
 for the College and my Class which time and adversity have 
 failed to eradicate." 
 
 CLINTON TYLER WOOD, A.M. 
 
 Minister and teacher. Office, The Institute, Wellington, Cape Col- 
 ony, South Africa. Residence, Cor. Hope and Joubert Streets, 
 Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa. 
 
 Married Jennie Stoddard Clark, Morija, Basutoland, South Africa, 
 January 15, 1899- Children, Clinton Tyler, Jr., b. February 
 18, 1900. Francis Clark, b. October 1, 1901. 
 
 CLINT WOOD is another of the little group of '92 men 
 who have devoted themselves to work in foreign lands. 
 He is at the head of the Mission Institute at Wellington, a 
 training school of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, 
 and he is also chaplain of the Huguenot College and Seminary 
 for Girls at Wellington, the only woman's college in South 
 
242 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Africa. His wife, by the way, was teaching in the College when 
 Clint first appeared on the ground. Their wedding was an 
 international affair, being solemnized at a mission station of 
 the Protestant Church of France, a Scotch missionary officiat- 
 ing and a French missionary acting as best man. Clint has had 
 uphill work, but has accomplished a great deal among the 
 Dutch young men. To get into closer touch with them, he 
 passed in 1904 his Colloquium Doctum or examination in Doc- 
 trine, and became a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of 
 South Africa. He says his two boys are booked for Princeton 
 '22 and '23, respectively. At present they are " playing 
 cricket and English Rugby." Clint, as you will remember, went 
 through the Seminary after graduation. One summer he was 
 supply at the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. For a 
 couple of seasons he coached the Washington-Jefferson foot- 
 ball team. Then he was supply at the Emmanuel Chapel, New 
 York City, being especially interested in City Missions. He 
 went out to South Africa in 1897, and with the exception of a 
 visit home in 1902-03 has been on duty ever since. He says he 
 has of course taken no part in politics, but he couldn't help 
 being a pro-Boer in the late South African war. He has visited 
 the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, and has become an 
 adept at ox-wagon travelling and can hold down a seat in a 
 Cape cart. Doubtless, too, he knows all about kopjes and the 
 veldt and laagers and treks. Indeed, he was thinking seriously 
 of trekking, at last writing. He finds the climate very enervat- 
 ing and has not been in good health. Probably he has been 
 driven too much, for besides his Institute Principalship and the 
 Huguenot College chaplaincy, he is chairman of the Student 
 Volunteer Movement in South Africa, member of the General 
 Committee of the World's Christian Student Federation for 
 South Africa, and Superintendent of the Quiet Hour Branch of 
 Christian Endeavor in South Africa. It looks as if " quiet 
 hours " were the least of his troubles ! His exercise is tennis, 
 
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 bicycling and cricket, and his hobby is Church History. He 
 sends his hearty love to every '9& man. 
 
 (For part of above material, we are indebted to Clint's father- 
 in-law, the Rev. Dr. Win. II. Clark of Detroit, Mich. — Eds.) 
 
 RICHARD FLAVEL WOODS, A.M., M.D. 
 
 Physician. Office, N. W. Cor. 15th and Spruce Streets, Philadel- 
 phia, Pa. Residence, 1501 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 DICK WOODS took his medical degree at the University of 
 Pennsylvania in 1895, but his hobbies are literature and 
 ;ul. There was a story from his pen in McClure's for July, 
 1904, which would have won him ail editorship of the Nassau 
 Lit hands down. Other light literature emanating from the 
 corner of 15th ami Spruce will be found mentioned in the II. 
 A. F. a i'vw pages further on. Like Reddy Hart, he is hot on 
 the trail of the grafters and gave his vote for the overthrow of 
 gang rule in Philadelphia. His military service has not been so 
 active " I saw the troops marching at the Peace Jubilee in 
 '98 and I frequently see our city troop marching down Broad 
 Street." lie has travelled extensively. In '97 he was in the 
 West Indies, the following year he visited South America, in '99 
 he was once more in the West Indies, and in the summer of '06 
 he saw Germany, France, Holland and England. He was resi- 
 dent physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and is a gyne- 
 cologist of wide reputation, having been surgeon at the 
 Gyneccan Hospital, Instructor in Gynecology at the University 
 of Pennsylvania and Assistant Gynecologist of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Hospital. Besides belonging to various medical societies, 
 he is a member of the Rittenhouse, University and Racquet 
 Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Nassau Club of Princeton. 
 
244 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 "Piiila., March 8, 1907. 
 " l)i- \i; Classmates : 
 
 M After leaving you the other day, in 1898, I entered the 
 University <>t" Pennsylvania, I spent three unhappy years 
 there; was graduated in medicine; served in Pennsylvania Hos 
 pita] for two years. Since that time I have been in active prac 
 tiee in the City of Philadelphia. Happy, prosperous, ami have 
 enjoyed good health with the exception of a had accident in my 
 
 automobile which confined me in the Hospital for six weeks. I 
 am not married and ilo not think, if the fates are kind, I will 
 he for some time. However, one never can tell. 
 
 " As each year rolls by they only seem to strengthen my love 
 for Princeton, and the dawning middle life seems rosier for all 
 she has given me in the past. 
 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 " R. F. Woons." 
 
 WALTER LIVINGSTON WRIGHT, JR., A. M. 
 
 Teacher. Address, Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa, 
 Married Jean Carr, Lincoln University, Pa, July 8, 1895. Chil' 
 dren, Jean Gray, b. July 19, 1896. Walter Livingston, 8d, 
 b. May 15, 1900. George Carr, b. November 18, 1901. 
 
 IT will he remembered that Wright won the Experimental 
 Science Fellowship at graduation and remained at Prince- 
 ton as Fellow during the year 1898-98. Since 1899 lie has 
 occupied the Reuben J. Flick ('hair of Mathematics at Lincoln 
 
 University, and Is also Instructor in Astronomy. lie is a con 
 sistent voter, has never held public office and has always sup- 
 ported thi' Republican National ticket and in Pennsylvania the 
 anti machine reform candidate. lie is a Fellow of the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of 
 
 the American Astronomical and Ast rophysical Society, and of 
 
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 the National Geographic Society. He travelled in England, 
 Scotland and on the Continent during the summer of 1898. 
 
 " I have no story of hardship, adventure, or great achieve- 
 ments in money or honor ; I can present only the record of 
 thirteen years spent in this institution, which for fifty years has 
 been endeavoring to give the negro a man's chance in the world 
 by offering to the best men of the race an opportunity to get 
 a college education. The work is pleasant, effective and full 
 of hope." 
 
 LAWRENCE ANDREW YOUNG, LL.B. 
 
 Lawyer. Office, 1014 Ashland Block, Chicago, 111. Residence, 
 1812 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Married Mabel Wheeler, 1812 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 111., Jan- 
 uary 11, 1894. Children, Henry Wheeler, b. December 2, 
 1894. Alice, b. May 23, 1898. Lawrence Robinson, b. Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1903. 
 
 THE father of the Class Boy is the most enthusiastic 
 Princetonian in Chicago, where he has lived for the past 
 ten years. There is never a Commencement in the Old Burg 
 but Brig turns up big and hearty as ever, with Mrs. Young 
 and The Boy in tow. He will even come all the way from 
 Illinois to attend a '92 Dutch. For the information of those 
 who do not know it, let it be said that Brig is a lawyer, having 
 been graduated from the University of Louisville Law School 
 in 1893. He is a good Democrat; ran for Judge of Superior 
 Court, Cook Co., 111., in November, 1900, but was defeated. 
 In 1897 he was Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of 
 Chicago. He belongs to the University and Princeton Clubs 
 of New York, the Nassau Club of Princeton, the Pendennis 
 Club, Louisville; to the Chicago, University, Calumet, Saddle 
 
246 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 and Cycle, and South Shore Country Clubs of Chicago ; to the 
 Chicago Golf Club, Wheaton, 111., and to the Onwentsia Club, 
 Lake Forest, 111. He plays baseball, golf and tennis ; is an 
 automobilist ; does not play bridge nor poker, and his hobby is 
 getting his boys ready for Princeton. When he was elected 
 chairman of the Board of Stewards of the Western Jockey Club 
 in February, 1901, the Chicago Times-Herald printed his pic- 
 ture and stated that he was President of the Washington Park 
 Club, and in his new position would be the most prominent figure 
 in the western controlling turf body. He took a leading part 
 in the effort begun some months previously, and reaching its 
 climax at his election, to elevate the turf. His interest in rac- 
 ing comes entirely from his genuine love of sport, a trait 
 exceedingly rare among the majority. 
 
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J. H. Adams 
 
 E. D. Ballantine 
 
 F. C. Buchek 
 
 Gk Clay, Jr. 
 
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NECROLOGY 
 
 John Howard Adams, C. E. Died- 
 
 Robert Dickson Ballantine, LL. B. Died December 
 9, 1905. 
 
 For the following sketch of Bob Ballantine we are indebted 
 to his brother-in-law, Henry Young, Jr., '93: 
 
 " Robert Dickson Ballantine was born in Newark, New Jer- 
 sey, July 8th, 1870. He attended the Pingree School at 
 Elizabeth and the Stevens High School, from which latter 
 institution he entered Princeton, matriculating with the Class 
 of '92. He did not complete his course, however, but left 
 Princeton in the beginning of his Junior year. After a year 
 of study in the law office of Teese & Pitney, in Newark, he 
 entered the Law School of the University of Virginia, from 
 which in due course he obtained the degree of Bachelor of 
 Laws. Upon the completion of his studies he made an extended 
 trip abroad, and upon his return took up his residence in the 
 city of New Orleans, where he studied medicine at Tulane 
 University. 
 
 " In 1902 he returned to Virginia and purchased an estate 
 known as Edgehill, about seven miles from Charlottesville, and 
 devoted the remaining years of his life to farming and the 
 development of his property. 
 
 " He died in Newark, New Jersey, the 9th of December, 
 1905." 
 
 Jeremiah M. Bamford. Died March, 1900. 
 
 247 
 
•J is PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Cu.vui t s \Y. Hkinmsik. Died dune 15, 1893. 
 
 Charlie Brenniser died at his home, 1914 Wallace Street, 
 
 Philadelphia, on June 15, 1898, after a brief illness, lie left 
 the (.'lass at the end o( the Freshman year and lived for a time in 
 Philadelphia and afterward in Colorado. 
 
 Frederick Broxaw. Died June 84, 1891. 
 
 Sixteen years ago — on June 84, 1891- Fred Hrokaw lost his 
 
 life at Elberon, X. J., trying to save a drowning girl. His 
 
 wide popularity, his personal attractiveness and his athletic- 
 skill hail given him a host o( friends and a reputation through 
 
 the country such as few undergraduates win. The shock of 
 
 his peculiarly tragic death we all remember. 
 
 In an editorial the following Fall the Ptincetonum said: 
 
 " The record o( this young life, so strong and hopeful for the 
 future, so unassuming and gentle in character, ami the noble 
 giving up of all at the call oi' duty will be preserved by Prince- 
 ton as one ol' her most precious heritages.*" 
 
 The Hrokaw Memorial stands as a lasting monument to our 
 classmate's noble self-sacritice. 
 
 The resolutions oi' the Class were published in the Pfince- 
 tonian of October 5, 1891. The following lines were written 
 at the time, and are reprinted from our Triennial Record: 
 
 How often in the diamond's mimic war 
 We marked his crouching form spring to its height, 
 
 Ami. like the shaft of Koine's young emperor. 
 His swift hall speed in its unerring flight ! 
 
 And, when the losing game was almost done. 
 How we awaited] all expectantly, 
 
 His long, hard hit that earned the run — 
 
 His daring dash that scored the victory! 
 
 So ever in our eyes his form will stand 
 
 \n antique athlete in a modern pose. 
 Gracefully tall, with ready hat in hand, 
 
 While hi- face in proud assurance glows. 
 
V I',]" 
 

 
NECROLOGY 249 
 
 " Handsome as Commodus," you say — 
 The beau ideal of jeunesse dor4e! 
 
 Elberon, June 24, 1891. 
 
 A gilded youth ! No ! Heart of gold ! Once more 
 A desperate chance he dared, a life to save; 
 
 Nor, till the sea its victim from him tore, 
 Sank spent at last beneath the swirling wave ! 
 
 Frederick C. Bttcher, M. D. Died October 30, 1906. 
 
 Married Estella Brandt, Mount Joy, Pa., Oct. 30, 1895. Children, 
 Frederick Brandt, b. Oct. 24, 1896. Martha Elizabeth, b. 
 Nov. 28, 1898. 
 
 Freddy Bucher entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania in the fall of '92 and received his 
 degree in 1895. In August of that year he located in Wrights- 
 ville, York Co., Pa., where he remained until April, 1899, mov- 
 ing then to Columbia, Pa. Here he practiced until February, 
 1905, when failing health compelled him to give up work. He 
 died at Mount Joy on October 30, 1906. While at Wrights- 
 ville Bucher joined the York County Medical Society and the 
 State Medical Society. At Columbia he became a member of 
 the Lancaster County Society and was a member of the staff of 
 the Columbia Hospital. A career of marked usefulness seemed 
 to be lying before him, and it was with a great shock that we 
 heard of his death. 
 
 Green Clay, Jr. Died May 3, 1896. 
 
 Elmer Baldwin Cole. Died November 23, 1897. 
 
 Cole died of consumption November 23, 1897, at his home 
 near Windsor, N. J. The year after graduation he taught at 
 the Dupuy School, Trenton. In the fall of '93 he was called 
 to the Classical Department of Peddie Institute at Hightstown 
 where he remained until a few months before his death. He 
 
860 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 was an enthusiastic and successful teacher, ami his loss was 
 
 deeply felt at the Institute whore he was doing such excellent 
 work. 
 
 Leavttt Howe, Jr. Died August 84, 1889. 
 Leaviti Howe was horn in Princeton, December (i. 1869, and 
 
 was prepared to enter college with the class of' '1)1 : on account 
 of ill health went to Colorado in September, 1SS7. returning in 
 July, 1SSS. He entered college that September with us, hut 
 illness prevented his remaining more than a few months. He 
 had considerable talent for artistic work, and was occupied 
 ♦luring the last year of his life in painting, drawing, and 
 carving. 
 
 I'vurs Ciniicii driri ksox. Died dune 4, 1893. 
 
 The following notice oi' Jeff is taken from the Triennial: 
 " Cyrus Jefferson died oi' appendicitis at his home in St. Paul 
 on dune t. 1893. He joined the Class at the beginning of 
 Sophomore year and left at the close oi' Junior year; hut his 
 interest in the (Mass and in the college was ever active, and only 
 a week before he died he wrote to the Secretary in eager antici- 
 pation oi' meeting us again at our first annual reunion. It is 
 hard to analyze his character and in cold type declare the 
 reasons why we loved him. And yet he was lined. His kindly, 
 sympathetic, simple-hearted nature won him many friends. He 
 was a manly man: yet, with all his unusual physical strength, 
 as gentle as a child, a true and loyal friend — a Christian." 
 
 James Peteb Kino. Died November, 1897. 
 
 Hugh Archie Lynn. Diet! January '2, 1896. 
 
 Lynn died at his home, Torkio, Mo., on January 8, 1896. 
 On graduation he went to Avalon, Mo., to till the Chair of Latin 
 
NECROLOGY 251 
 
 at Avalon College. There he remained for a year and a half 
 doing admirable work until ill health compelled him to resign. 
 He had high aspirations and noble ambitions and it seemed that 
 he was beginning a life of more than ordinary usefulness. But 
 overwork sapped his vitality and after his resignation he stead- 
 ily declined. He was a loyal Princetonian. 
 
 Irvine McColl. Died July 31, 1894. 
 
 Arthur M. Minot. Died r~k 
 
 Samuel J. Minot. Died May 16, 1898. 
 
 John Walter Parker. Died August 23, 1902. 
 
 Parker died on August 23, 1902. We reprint below a little 
 account of him taken from the 1903 Necrological Report of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, from Bob Bennett's record 
 of him — Bob being secretary of his class in the Seminary — 
 and from a letter of Biederwolf : 
 
 Tommy Parker was the son of the Rev. George Dickey and 
 Elizabeth (Matthews) Parker, and was born Sept. 29, 1867, in 
 Edinburg, Ind. His preparatory studies were pursued in the 
 Normal College of Danville, Ind., and at his home in Cutler, 
 Ind. He entered Wabash College, but did not remain long, 
 going to Princeton in 1888 and being graduated from that col- 
 lege in 1892. He entered the Seminary at Princeton the same 
 year, taking the full three years' course and being graduated in 
 1895. While a student in the Seminary he spent his first vaca- 
 tion in work in the Bowery Mission, New York, the second at the 
 Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, and also in supplying the 
 church at Fowler, Ind., and the third in supplying the 
 church at Muncie, Ind. He was licensed by the Presbytery of 
 Muncie, Oct. 14, 1895, and at the same time ordained an evan- 
 
252 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 gelist. Immediately upon his ordination he began serving the 
 church at Green sburg, Ind., as stated supply, and continued 
 to do so until October, 1900, when ill health obliged him to 
 sever his connection with this congregation. Early in 1902 
 he began what proved to be his last earthly toil as acting pastor 
 of the First Church of Indianapolis. These labors were cut 
 short by his death, Aug. 23, 1902, in Converse, Ind., of typhoid 
 fever, in the 35th year of his age. He was on his way to 
 Winona Lake to do some studying there with Biederwolf, and 
 had stopped off at Converse, where his parents lived. He was 
 buried at Converse. Biederwolf officiated at the funeral. A 
 memorial volume of his sermons was published by his friends 
 in the First Church of Indianapolis under the title, " The 
 Right Emphasis and other Sermons," 1902. Parker was 
 unmarried. 
 
 Pierre K. Satterfield. Died November, 1890. 
 
 Charles Henry Schick. Died January 20, 1904. 
 
 In March, 1904, the Secretary received the following letter 
 from Robert P. Schick, '90, brother of our Billy : 
 
 " University Club 
 " 1510 Walnut Street 
 " Philadelphia, March 17, 1904. 
 " Dear Mr. Prentice : 
 
 " I wish to inform you, as Secretary of the Class of '92, for 
 the information of '92 men, of my brother Charles H. Schick's 
 death on January 20th last. He had been ailing from the 
 nervous shock caused by our mother's death last summer and 
 in a fit of despondency put an end to his life. A farewell mes- 
 sage was inter alia : ' I suffer much in my head, so say " J'ai 
 fini " to this world.' " Very truly yours, 
 
 " Robert P. Schick, '90." 
 
L. Howe, Jr. C. C. Jefferson 
 
 C. Wight A. 0. Young 
 

 
 
NECROLOGY 253 
 
 John Tredinnick. Died July 15, 1891. 
 
 Calvin Wight, A. M. Died July 13, 1899. 
 
 Married Ida Jean Emerick, Chefoo, China, Dec. 7, 1897. Chil- 
 dren, Fannie Emerick, b. January 17, 1899- 
 
 Calvin Wight died of pneumonia on July 13, 1899, at 
 Chinan-fu, China, where he had been a missionary for four 
 years. The son of the Rev. Joseph Kingsbury and Elizabeth 
 (Van Dyke) Wight, he was born September 8, 1861, in New 
 Hamburg, N. Y. He entered college in 1881 with the Class of 
 1885, but owing to ill health brought on by over study to make 
 up deficiencies due to lack of preparatory work he was compelled 
 to leave college, and on medical advice went to sea for a number 
 of years, shipping as a sailor before the mast. He traveled 
 thus all over the seven seas and visited more ports in the 
 civilized and uncivilized countries than most of us know any- 
 thing about ; and it was because of his numerous shipwrecks 
 and other seafaring adventures that we called him " Sinbad." 
 But it was a difficult thing to get this gentle-voiced, blond- 
 bearded giant to tell anything about his experiences — the muti- 
 nies and fights and narrow escapes in which he had been either 
 participant or spectator — for he was one of the most modest 
 men that ever lived. He had been through his seven years of 
 sea service for but one purpose — to regain his health in order 
 to prepare himself for the missionary work on which his heart 
 was set. And thus it was that he returned to Princeton and 
 entered our class, of which his brother, E. Van Dyke, was 
 already a member. He spent the year after graduation in the 
 Congregational Theological Seminary at Chicago. In 1893 
 he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary and was 
 graduated in 1895. Having been already licensed to preach, 
 he was ordained an evangelist in June, 1895, and in September 
 he sailed from San Francisco for China, where he selected 
 
254 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 Chinan-fu, the capital of the Shantung province, as his field 
 of labor. At Chefoo on December 7, 1897, he married Miss 
 Ida Jean Emerick, who with one daughter, Fannie Emerick, 
 born January, 1899, survives him. 
 
 Four years seem a short time to be given a man for work 
 to which he has been devoted from boyhood and for which he 
 has prepared himself during fourteen years of ill health and 
 hard study. But Sinbad accepted it all as being for the best, 
 with never a murmur ; and he has won his reward. 
 
 William H. Witt. Died September 16, 1895. 
 
 John A. Yorke. Died August 7, 1890. 
 
 Alexander Oliver Young. Died April 28, 1893. 
 
 Fiji Young died of appendicitis on April 28, 1893, at the 
 age of twenty-two. After graduation with us in the preceding 
 June, he entered the Harvard Law School and settled down to 
 hard work. He was a member of the Story Law Club, and 
 during his brief course made many friends. Attacked by 
 appendicitis, he was taken to the Massachusetts General Hos- 
 pital, Boston, for operation, but his constitution, weakened by 
 the confinement of his studies and by lack of exercise, could 
 not stand the shock. Fiji was the Varsity shortstop for part 
 of the season of '91. His unassuming manner, his honest work 
 and his contagious laugh made him one of the most popular 
 men in college. Those who knew him intimately, however, 
 cherished his friendship because of his high ideals of what 
 friendship meant, because of his utter lack of self-conceit and 
 selfish motive, and because of his great, strong. Lovable nature. 
 Jesse Williams wrote the notice of him that was printed in 
 the Pr'uircton'itin at the time of his death, and resolutions were 
 passed by the Law School class to which he belonged. They 
 also appear in the Princetonian. 
 
 
THE HOT AIR FURNACE 
 
 OK 
 
 NINETY-TWO IN LITERATURE 
 
 IF we except the Nassau Herald and a little pamphlet pub- 
 lished at Princeton in 1891 entitled " Key to the Tiger " — 
 a valuable work, for a copy of which the University Library 
 would pay good money now, in the interests of its collection of 
 Princetoniana — Ninety-Two made its first appearance in liter- 
 ature in a sixteen-page octavo publication called " '92 Com- 
 mencement Orations," edited, we believe, by Charlie Mudge and 
 containing the impassioned Valedictory on " Loyalty " by our 
 esteemed Secretary, Gresham's popular oration on " A Reason- 
 able Irrationalism," and Jesse Williams' Class Poem with its 
 haunting last line : 
 
 " Return, O strange, sweet dreaming time called Youth." 
 
 Since then the Class has, on the whole, not gone extensively 
 into the writing business. Besides the journalists Alter, Con- 
 well, Magie, Peddie and Phinizy, we have only one man, Jesse 
 Williams, who has devoted himself to the making of literature ; 
 but at least twenty-five more have dabbled in it one way or 
 another. The list that appears here pretends to completion 
 neither as regards authors nor titles. A number of fellows have 
 written things and got them published, but won't tell ; and many 
 of those who have named their sins of Hot Air commission have 
 been guilty also of the sin of omission by neglecting to complete 
 their lists. We print the results as they are, and you will find 
 
 them a very curious lot. „, _, 
 
 Ihe Lditors. 
 
 255 
 
256 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 ATKINSON 
 
 1. The Relation of the Toxicity of Diphtheria Toxin to its 
 Neutralizing Value upon Antitoxin at Different Stages in the 
 Growth of Cultures. By Dr. William H. Park and J. P. A., 
 (Jour, of Exp. Med., Vol. 3, Nos. 4 and 5.) 
 
 2. A Criticism of " Die Wertbemessung des Diphtherieheil- 
 serums und deren theoretische Grundlagen." Von Professor 
 Dr. P. Ehrlich. 
 
 3. Strum Globulin and Diphtheric Antitoxin. A Comparative 
 Study of the Amount of Globulin in Normal and Antitoxic Sera 
 and thi' Relation of the Globulins to the Antitoxic Bodies. By 
 Philip H. Hiss and J. P. A. (Jour. Exp. .1/<y7.. Vol. 5, No. 1.) 
 
 4. Fractional Precipitation of the Globulin and Albumin of 
 Normal Horse's Serum and Diphtheria Antitoxic Serum and 
 the Antitoxic Strength of the Precipitates. (Jour. Exp. Med.. 
 Vol. 5, No. 1.) 
 
 5. The Period of Development, the Time of Greatest Accu- 
 mulation and the Persistence of Diphtheric Antitoxin in the 
 Blood of a Series of One Hundred Horses. (Jour, of Med. 
 Research, Vol. 9, No. 2.) 
 
 BAILEY 
 
 Text Book of Histology. (William Wood & Co. 1904. 
 Second Edition 1906.) 
 
 BENNETT 
 
 1. The Office of the Elder. (Phila. 1906.) 
 
 2. Spiritual Atmospheres. (Germantown 1903.) 
 
 3. This Nation on the Lord's Side. (Phila. 1900.) 
 
 4. Princeton Theological Seminary Class of 1895 Records. 
 No. 1, 1896. No. 2, 1901. 
 
 5. In the House of Simon. A novelette published in The 
 Westminster, Dec. 24 and 31, 1904, and Jan. 7, 14 and 21, 1905. 
 
IN LITERATURE 257 
 
 BIEDERWOLF 
 
 1. History of the 161st Regiment of Indiana Volunteer 
 Infantry. 
 
 2. A Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit. (Chicago 
 1902.) 
 
 3. How Can God Answer Prayer? (Chicago 1906.) 
 
 4. The Growing Christian. (Chicago 1904.) 
 
 5. The White Life. (Chicago 1898. 30th thousand.) 
 
 6. The Personal Worker's New Testament. Arranged by 
 J. W. Chapman, W. E. Biederwolf, R. A. Walton and H. 
 Ostrom. (Chicago 1906.) 
 
 7. Christian Science Tested by Revelation, Medicine and 
 Theology. 
 
 All of Bid's books are published by the Winona Publishing 
 Company of Chicago. 
 
 BIERLY 
 
 1. Monograph on the Development of the Conception of 
 God. 
 
 2. Pamphlet on Comparative Development of the Child. 
 Also a " number of articles and addresses on educational 
 subjects." 
 
 H. C. BUTLER 
 
 1. Scotland's Ruined Abbeys. New York (Macmillan) 1899. 
 
 2. Story of Athens. New York (Century Co.) 1902. 
 
 3. Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition 
 to Syria in 1899-1900. Part II. (Architecture.) New York 
 (Century Co.) 1903. 
 
 4. Articles in Architecture § Building, 1894-1899. 
 
 5. Articles in American Journal of Archaeology. 
 
 6. Articles in Revue Archeologique, 1901, 1905-1907. 
 
258 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 7. Articles In Century Magazine. 
 
 8. Articles in The American Architect. 
 
 9. Articles in Indoors and Out. 
 
 10. Articles in Princeton University Bulletin, etc., etc. 
 
 CARTER 
 
 1. Malaria in New York City. F. P. Solley, M. D., and 
 H. S. Carter, M. D. {Medical-Surgical Report of the Presby- 
 terian Hospital, N. Y. 1898.) 
 
 2. Some Observations on Blood Pressure. (Am. Jour. Med. 
 Sciences. Dec. 1901.) 
 
 3. A Contribution to Cyto-Diagnosis in Pleural Effusions, 
 with Special Reference to the Tuberculous Form. (The Medi- 
 cal News, Oct. 1, 1901.) 
 
 1. Report on the Clinical Chemistry of the Blood in Various 
 Diseases. (N. Y. State Journal of Med. Dec. 1906.) 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 1. Sketches of the New Jersey Historical Society. (New- 
 ark 1891.) 
 
 2. Dictionary of Quotations. 
 
 3. " A few poems." 
 
 COLLINS 
 
 1. Index to the American Journal of Archceology, Vols. 
 I-XI. (Princeton 1899.) 
 
 2. Newark Bibliography : Books, pamphlets and newspapers 
 printed at Newark, N. J. 1776-1900. (With F. P. Hill.) 
 (Privately printed, 1902.) 
 
 3. A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and 
 Hessians at Princeton 1776-1777. (Princeton 1906.) 
 
 4. Nassau Hall : Address before the N. J. Society of Colonial 
 Dames. (Princeton 1906.) 
 
IN LITERATURE 259 
 
 5. The Continental Congress at Princeton in 1783. (In 
 press.) 
 
 6. George Whitefield and the College of New Jersey. 
 (Princeton University Bulletin, Vol. IX., p. 23.) 
 
 7. Letter of Philip Freneau to James Madison. (Ibid., Vol. 
 X,p. 15.) 
 
 8. Valedictory Oration of Ashbel Green, 1783. (Ibid., Vol. 
 XL, p. 20.) 
 
 9. Princeton Addresses to Washington. (Ibid., Vol. XL, 
 p. 54.) 
 
 10. Bibliography of William Henry Green. (Ibid., Vol. XL, 
 p. 67.) 
 
 11. Bibliography of John T. Duffield. (Ibid., Vol. XII., 
 p. 92.) 
 
 12. Indian Wards at Princeton. (Ibid., Vol. XIII., p. 101.) 
 
 13. " Prospect, Near Princeton." (Ibid., Vol. XV., p. 164.) 
 
 14. The Universities and the Encouragement of Serious 
 Reading. (Amer. Library Journal, 1903, p. 233.) 
 
 15. Review of Evans's " American Bibliography." (Ibid., 
 
 1904, p. 30.) 
 
 16- Review of Bethleem's " Roman a lire et romans a pro- 
 serin." (Ibid., 1905, p. 488.) 
 
 17. Princeton's Preceptorial System and the University 
 Library. (Ibid., 1906, p. 163.) 
 
 18. Princeton and the Church. (The Churchman 1897.) 
 And various reviews and obituary notices of alumni in the 
 
 Princeton University Bulletin, Vols. X., XL, XIV. and XV. 
 
 CRITCHLOW 
 
 On the Forms of Betrothal and Wedding Ceremonies in the 
 Old French Romances of Adventure. (Modern Philology, April 
 
 1905, pp. 497-537.) 
 
 Also several book reviews in Modern Language Notes. 
 
260 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 DaCOSTA 
 
 1. Clinical Hematology. (Phila. 1902. Second Edition 
 Phila. and London 1904.) 
 
 2. Surgical Hematology. (Phila. 1906.) 
 
 3. Manual of diagnosis. (Phila. 1907.) 
 
 H. S. DAVIS (Incomplete list.) 
 
 1. Perpetual Calendar. (Milford, Del., 1887; Second Edi- 
 tion, Princeton 1892.) 
 
 2. Glossary to Homer's Iliad with text of Books XVI., 
 XVIII., XXII. (Princeton 1888 ; Second Edition, Princeton 
 1892.) 
 
 3. Seven Months' Cruise in a Man-of-War. (Dover 1890.) 
 
 4. Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1889. (Bait. Ameri- 
 can, March 9, 1890.) 
 
 5. Modern Progress in Astronomy. (Princeton 1892.) 
 
 6. Rediscussion of Bessel's Determination of the Relative 
 Parallaxes of f* and 6 Cassiopeiae. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. 
 Transactions, Vol. XIII., p. 75.) 
 
 7. A Novelist's Astronomical Blunder. (The Observatory, 
 April 1894.) 
 
 8. Mean Epochs of Observations of the DLX Stars of the 
 Abo Catalogue of Argelander. (Astron. Journal, 1894, No. 
 328.) 
 
 9. Parallax of f} Cassiopeiae Deduced from the Rutherford 
 Photographic Measures. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. Annals, Vol. 
 VIII., p. 301.) 
 
 10. Catalogue of Sixty-two Stars about f} Cassiopeiae from 
 the Rutherford Photographic Measures. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. 
 Annals, Vol. VIII., p. 381.) 
 
 11. Declinations and Proper Motions of Fifty-six Stars 
 Used in the Variation of Latitude Investigation at New York 
 and Naples. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. Memoir I., Part 1.) 
 
IN LITERATURE 261 
 
 12. Methods Employed in Deducing Definitive Declinations 
 and Proper Motions of Fifty-six Stars. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. 
 Transactions, Vol. XIV., p. 69.) 
 
 13. Oudeman's " Declinationes 101 Stellarum " with Reduc- 
 tion to the A. G. C. System. (Astronomische Nachrichten 
 3395.) 
 
 14. Some Calculating Machines. (Pop. Astron., Vol. IV., 
 1896.) 
 
 15. Life of David Rittenhouse. (Pop. Astron., Vol. IV., 
 1896.) 
 
 16. Account of Astronomical Work for Which an Observa- 
 tory Will Probably be Established at Dover, Del. (Dover 
 Index, July 23, 1896.) 
 
 17. Catalogue of Sixty-five Stars near 61 1 Cygni. (Colum- 
 bia Univ. Observatory Contributions, No. 12.) 
 
 18. The Parallax of 61 1 Cygni. (Columbia Univ. Obs. Con- 
 trib., No. 13.) 
 
 19. Catalogue of Thirty-four Stars near Bradley 3077. 
 (Columbia Univ. Obs. Contrvb., No. 14.) 
 
 20. Computation Forms for the Use of Classes in Practical 
 Astronomy. (Milford 1897.) 
 
 21. Progress of the New Reduction of Piazzi's Star Obser- 
 vations. (N. Y. 1899.) 
 
 22. Table for the Linear Interpolation of Numbers Whose 
 Logarithms Are Given. (Wash. 1900.) 
 
 23. The Variation of Latitude at New York; The Constant 
 of Aberration. (Astron. Jour., 1897-1900, pp. 401, 451, 474.) 
 
 24. Deterioration of Celluloid Films for Photographic Pur- 
 poses. (Science, 1898, p. 8.) 
 
 25. The Present State of Progress of the New Reduction of 
 Piazzi's Star Observations. (Science, 1900, p. 11.) 
 
 26. Mathematical Symbols. (Pop. Astron., 1897, p. 5.) 
 
 27. Biographical Sketches of Women Astronomers. (Pop. 
 Astron., 1898.) 
 
262 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 28. Parallaxes of 61 * and 62 2 Cygni. (Pop. Astron., 1898.) 
 
 29. Physical Connections. (Pop. Astron., 1898.) 
 
 30. Outlines of the History of Astronomy. (Pop. Astron., 
 1898.) 
 
 31. The Dial of Ahaz. (Pop. Astron., 1899.) 
 
 32. A Lunar Rainbow at the Straits of Gibraltar. (Pop. 
 Astron., 1899.) 
 
 ELMER 
 
 1. The Price of Gold. (Engineering Magazine, Sept. 1896, 
 p. 1184.) 
 
 2. The Use of Electric Power in Small Units. (Eng. Mag., 
 Nov. 1896, p. 233.) 
 
 3. The Fire Risk in Belt Transmission of Power. (Electrical 
 World, Nov. 14, 1896, p. 588.) 
 
 4. The Street Car Brake Tests. (Railroad Gazette, April 
 14,1899.) 
 
 5. A Possible Solution of the Coupler Problem. (R. R. 
 Gazette, June 9, 1899.) 
 
 6. Locomotive Designs. (R. R. Gazette, Oct. 27, 1899.) 
 
 FARR 
 
 1. Notes on the Osteology of the White River Horses (in 
 Proceedings of Amer. Philosophical Society, Vol. XXXV., pp. 
 147-175). 
 
 2. Check List of New York Birds. (Bulletin 33, N. Y. 
 State Museum, April 1900. Second Edition, Nov. 1900.) 
 
 FARRAND 
 
 1. Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organ- 
 ized Territories of the United States. (Newark 1896.) 
 
 2. Compromises of the Constitution. (Amer. Hist. Rev., 
 Vol. 9, No. 3.) 
 
IN LITERATURE 263 
 
 3. Delaware Bill of Rights of 1776. (Amer. Hist. Rev., 
 Vol. 3, No. 4.) 
 
 4. Judiciary Act of 1801. (Amer. Hist. Rev., Vol. 5, 
 No. 4). 
 
 5. Taxation of Tea 1767-1773. (Amer. Hist. Rev., Vol. 3, 
 No. 2.) 
 
 6. Territory and District. (Amer. Hist. Rev., Vol. 5, 
 No. 4.) 
 
 7. Jellinek's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citi- 
 zens. Translated by M. Farrand. 1901. 
 
 GIBBY 
 
 Papers on medical subjects, titles not given. 
 
 J. Y. GRAHAM 
 
 Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Trichina Spiralis. (Arch. 
 f. Micro. Anat., 1897), and the following lectures: "Nature 
 Study" (Ala. Educ. Assoc), "Evolution and Christian Be- 
 lief" (Y. M. C. A.), "Kant's Relation to Evolution Theory" 
 (Kant Jubileum), " Science: Methods, Scope, Ideals." 
 
 HALE 
 
 1. Human Anatomy. Phila. 1903 (in the Medical Epitome 
 Series). 
 
 2. Broncho-pneumonia (in Reference Handbook of Medical 
 Sciences. Wm. Wood & Co. 1902.) 
 
 3. Fibroid Pneumonia (in same). 
 
 4. Physical Signs in Diagnosis of Fractures. (Amer. Jour, 
 of Surgery, 1902.) 
 
 5. Lecture on Bacteria in Everyday Life, and Milk and Its 
 Care, with Special Reference to Infant Feeding. 
 
264 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 HANSON 
 
 The Art of Spiritual Husbandry. 
 
 Series of papers dealing with problems of child life, titles 
 not given. 
 
 HARRIS 
 
 Laos Book of Forms for Public Worship. (Chiengmai, 
 1902.) 
 
 HODGE 
 
 " My articles are few and far between, and my reviews are 
 too numerous to hunt up and list. Two articles in the Presby- 
 terian and Reformed Review; one (written jointly with G. A. 
 Tawney) in the Psychological Review; one in Hastings' Dic- 
 tionary of Christ and the Gospels; a discussion in the Philo- 
 sophical Review; and numerous reviews in the Psychological 
 Review, the Presbyterian and Reformed Review and the Prince- 
 ton Theological Review — this general statement should suffice." 
 
 HULETT 
 
 1. Ueber die Reinigung des Wassers durch Distillation. 
 {Zest. f. Phijs. Chem., 21, 297-301. 1896.) 
 
 2. Der Stetige Uebergang fest-flussig. (Zeit. f. Phys. 
 Chem., 28, 629-672. 1899.) 
 
 3. Ueber Kalibrierung einer Glasrohr und einige Kompress- 
 ibilitateskoeffizienten. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 33, 237-244, 
 1900.) 
 
 4. Die Distillation von Amalgam und die Reinigung des 
 Quecksilbers. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 33, 611-621. 1900.) 
 
 5. Beziehung zwischen Oberflachenspannung und Loslich- 
 keit. (Zeit. f. Phtjs. Chem., 37, 385-406. 1901.) 
 
 6. The Solubility of Gypsum. (G. A. Hulett and L. E. 
 Allen.) (Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 24, 667-680. 1902.) 
 
IN LITERATURE 265 
 
 7. Beziehung zwischen negatievem Druck und osmotischem 
 Druck. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 42, 353-368, Q 1902.) 
 
 8. Gesattigte Gipslosungen als Basis fiir Leitfahigkeit. 
 (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 42, 577-583. 1903.) 
 
 9. Loslichkeit und Korngrosse. Erwiederung an Professor 
 F. Kohlrausch. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 47, 357-367. 1904.) 
 
 10. Chlor in dem mittelst Chlorbarium neidergeschlagenen 
 Bariumsulphat. (With L. H. Duschak.) (Zeit. f. Anorg. 
 Chem., 40, 196-217. 1904.) 
 
 11. A Study of the Materials Used in Standard Cells and 
 Their Preparation. (With Professor H. S. Carhart.) (Pro- 
 ceedings of the Int. Electrical Congress, St. Louis. ) 
 
 12. Quecksilbersulphat und die Normalelemente. (Zeit. f. 
 Phys. Chem., 49, 483-501. 1904.) 
 
 13. Volatilization of Platinum. (With H. W. Berger.) 
 (Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 26, 1513-1516. 1904.) 
 
 14. The Solubility of Gypsum as Affected by Size of Par- 
 ticles and by Different Crystallographic Surfaces. (Jour. 
 Amer. Chem. Soc, 27, 49-56. 1905.) 
 
 15. A Low Voltage Standard Cell. (Trans. Amer. Electro- 
 chemical Soc, 333-339. 1905.) 
 
 16. Preparation of Nitrogen from the Atmosphere. (Jour. 
 Amer. Chem. Soc, 47, 1415-1418. 1905.) 
 
 17. The Volumetric Composition of Water. (School Science, 
 5,453. 1905.) 
 
 18. The Distillation of Amalgams an!2345e6taoic V-23456 
 Mercury. (With H. D. Minchin.) (Physical Review, 21, 388- 
 398. 1905.) 
 
 19. Mercurous Sulphate and the Standard Cells. (Physical 
 Review, 22, 320-338. 1906.) 
 
 20. The Cadmium Standard Cell. (Trans. Amer. Electro- 
 chemical Soc. 1906.) 
 
 21. The Cadmium Standard Cell. (Phys. Rev., 23, 166-183 
 1906.) 
 
266 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 S. C. HUSTON 
 The Satiated Age. {Century, date not given.) 
 
 LAUGHLIN 
 
 1. Solecisms of the Apocalypse. Princeton 1903. 
 
 2. The Pastorals in the Light of one Roman Imprisonment. 
 San Francisco 1905. 
 
 McWILLIAMS. 
 
 1. Movable Kidney and the Results of Operation in 61 
 Cases. {Medical News, Oct. 4, 1902.) 
 
 2. Results of Operation in 100 Cases of Cancer of the 
 Breast. {Med. News, Apr. 28, 1900.) 
 
 3. Treatment of Ingrowing Toe Nail. {N. Y. Med. Jour., 
 June 20, 1903.) 
 
 4. Dupuytren's Finger Contraction. {N. Y. Med. Jour., 
 Oct. 8, 1904.) 
 
 5. Report of 86 Cases of Intestinal Obstruction Following 
 Appendicitis Operations. {Med. Nexvs. Sept. 3 and 10, 1904.) 
 
 6. Tumors of the Kidneys. (In " Reference Handbook of 
 Medical Sciences.") 
 
 7. Report of 33 Cases of Intestinal Obstruction Following 
 Attacks of Unoperated Appendicitis. (A\ Y. Med. Jour., Feb. 
 25 and Mar. 4, 1905.) 
 
 8. Critical Analysis of 186 Operations on the Liver and 
 Gall Passages. {N. Y. Med. Jour., June 2, 9, 16, 1906.) 
 
 9. Infections with the Bacterium Coli Commune with Par- 
 ticular Reference to the Urinary Tract. {Med. Record, July, 
 1906.) 
 
 R. K. MILLER. 
 
 The following opera are published by Schirmer of N. Y. City : 
 
IN LITERATURE 267 
 
 Op. 3. Ricordanza. (Piano.) 
 
 Op. 4. Scherzo Symphonique. (Organ.) 
 
 Op. 5. Scherzo Waltz. (Piano.) 
 
 Op. 6. Nocturne and Epilogue. (Organ.) 
 
 Op. 7. Festival March. (Organ.) 
 
 These four organ pieces are in the catalogue of Fischer & 
 Bros., of N. Y. City: 
 
 Op. 11. Festival Postlude. 
 
 Op. 12. Impromptu. 
 
 Op. 13. Cortege. 
 
 Op. 14. Elegy. 
 
 These anthems and service scores are published by Oliver 
 Ditson & Co., of Boston. 
 
 1. Benedictus in E. 
 
 2. Agnus Dei. 
 
 3. Turn Thy Face. 
 
 4. Angels from the Realms of Glory (Christmas Anthem). 
 
 5. Op. 9. For Thee, Dear, Dear Country. 
 
 6. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Christmas Anthem). 
 
 7. What is Death? (Funeral Anthem.) 
 
 8. Words That Stabbed. 
 
 C. O. MUDGE 
 
 Several articles in missionary and church magazines, titles 
 not given. 
 
 W. L. MUDGE 
 
 1. Historical sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Phoenixville, Pa. Phoenixville 1897. 
 
 2. Lecture on " The Land of Evangeline in Story and 
 in Song." 
 
 PARKER 
 
 The Right Emphasis and other Sermons. Indianapolis, 1902. 
 
268 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 PHINIZY 
 
 1. Complaint to the Railroad Commission of Georgia against 
 the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. 1907. 
 
 2. Amendment to Complaint. 1907. 
 
 PRENTICE 
 
 1. Dion Chrysostom: The Hunters of Euboea. Edited with 
 notes. Boston 1897. 
 
 2. De Bacchylide Pindari artis socio et imitatore. Halle 
 1900. 
 
 3. Mosaic inscriptions from the bath at Serdjilla. (Revue 
 Archeologique, 1901, p. 68 ff. 
 
 4. Die Bauinschriften des Heiligthums auf dem Djebel Shekh 
 Berekat. (Hermes, 1902, p. 91 ff.) 
 
 5. Fragments of an Early Christian Liturgy in Syrian 
 Inscriptions. (Amer. Philological Association Transactions, 
 1902, p. 81 ff.) 
 
 6. The so-called Tomb of Diogenes in Hass. (Princeton Uni- 
 versity Bulletin, 1903, p. 14 ff.) 
 
 7. Bishop Pococke and the Tomb of Abedrapsas. (Ibid., 
 1904, p. 224. ff.) 
 
 8. Magical Formulae on Lintels of the Christian Period 
 in Syria. (Amer. Jour, of Archaeology, 1906, p. 137 ff.) 
 
 9. Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition 
 in Syria in 1899-1900. Part III., N. Y., 1907. 
 
 SAILER 
 
 Hollingsworth on Contracts. Phila. 1896. 
 
 STEVENSON 
 
 1. The Spook in the Closet. (Prize story in Life, 1900.) 
 
 2. The Poor in Summer (Scribner's, Sept. 1901.) 
 
IN LITERATURE 269 
 
 3. The Starboard Watch. (Scribner's, Oct. 1904.) 
 
 4. The Union and Billy Bell. (Scribner's, April 1901.) 
 
 5. Saloons. (Scribner's, May 1901.) 
 
 VAN DEUSEN 
 
 1. Private Corporation Securities. (N. Y. Bankers' Maga- 
 zine, Nov. and Dec. 1906, Jan. 1907.) 
 
 2. Farm Mortgage Loans and Investments. (Ibid., Feb. 
 1907.) 
 
 3. Stock Shares of Private Corporations, and Company Cap- 
 italization. (Ibid., Mar. 1907.) 
 
 4. Municipal Bonds. (To appear in the same magazine.) 
 
 5. Electric Interurban Railways. (To appear in the same 
 magazine.) 
 
 6. Contributions to a symposium on Industrial Bonds as 
 @n Investment Security. (To appear in the Annals of the 
 American Academy of Political and Social Science in Septem- 
 ber, 1907.) 
 
 VREELAND 
 
 1. Selections from Gil Bias, with introduction and notes. 
 N. Y. (Holt) 1900. 
 
 2. Etude sur les rapports litteraires entre Geneve et l'Angle- 
 terre (Geneva 1901). 
 
 3. French Lessons, in collaboration with Professor W. 
 Koren. N. Y. (Holt) 1907. 
 
 WILLIAMS (Incomplete list.) 
 
 Princeton Stories. N. Y. (Scribner's) 1895. 
 The Stolen Story and Other Newspaper Stories. N. Y. 
 (Scribner's) 1899. 
 
 The Adventures of a Freshman. N. Y. 1899. 
 Rudyard Kipling. N. Y. (Scribner's) 1899. 
 
&70 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 
 
 New York Sketches. N. V. (Scribner*s) 1000. 
 Historv of Princeton University, in collaboration with John 
 DeWitt, (Four Universities and Their Sons.) 
 The Daydreamer, a novel. N. Y. 1906. 
 Mv Lost Duchess, a novelette (in press). 
 The Burglar and the Lady, (Scribner's, Nov. 1900.) 
 Harvest (ScrifmerX January 1902.) 
 Rural New York City. {Scribiur's. Au^. 1901.) 
 Saratoga and Its People. (Outing, Dee. 1902.) 
 Walk Uptown. {Scribnrr's. dan. 1900.) 
 Woodrow Wilson. (McClure's, Oct 1902.) 
 Workers of the Great Lakes. {Outing. Nov, 1905.) 
 Day of the Game. (Outing, Sox. 1906.) 
 Everetl Colby. {Outlook. Feb. 24, 1906.) 
 Girl from the Machine, (Scribner's, Oct 1906.) 
 
 Instead of Fraternities. (Bachelor of Arts. dan. 1896.) 
 The Little Brother. {Harper's liazar. 180;?.) 
 When Girls Come to Princeton. (Harper's Bazar, 1893.) 
 Lawrence the Halfback. (Harper's Young People, 189S.) 
 In Football Season. (University Magazine, 1893. Illus. 
 by Booth Tarkington.) 
 Rodge. {Fashions. 1898.) 
 Karita Besida. {Fashions. 1898.) 
 The World at Twenty-five, {Scribiwr's. 1896.) 
 The Business of a Great Hotel. (Scribner's, 1807.) 
 The Spectator. {Outlook. 1807.) 
 Book Reviews in Boofc Buyer, 1807-1800. 
 The Girl and the Game. (Harper's, 1898.) 
 New York Correspondence in Hook News, 1808 and 1800. 
 The Real One. {Scribner's. 1800.) 
 Nathan. Man-About-Town. (Harper's, 1800.) 
 The Bargain. (Criterion, 1800.) 
 Commencement at Princeton. (Cottier's, 1000.) 
 The Girl and the Professor. {CoUicr's. 1001.) 
 
IN LITERATURE 271 
 
 A group of college stories in the Saturday Evening Post 
 during 1898-1900: "At the Corner of Lovers' Lane"; 
 "The Great College-Circus Fight"; "The Reformation of 
 Reddy Armstrong," and " The Story of the Corpse." 
 
 Three stories in the Youth's Companion prior to 1900 : 
 " The Man in the Window " ; " C. C." ; and " Hans, Where 
 Are You? " 
 
 Working Through College. (Ladies' Home Journal, 1898.) 
 A Princeton Commencement. (Readers' Magazine, 1904.) 
 Lost. (Collier's, 1903.) 
 
 The David Harum of the Cabinet. (Sat. Eve. Post., 1902.) 
 Talks with a Kid Brother at College. (Six articles in Col- 
 lier's, 1902-03.) 
 
 The Board Walk at Atlantic City. (Collier's, 1903). 
 James M. Barrie, a Triumph of Personality. (Appleton's, 
 1906.) 
 
 Putting on a Play. (Sat. Eve. Post, 1907.) 
 
 The Gates of the City. (Century, 1907.) 
 
 The Making of a Magazine. (Interior, 1899.) 
 
 The Princeton Sesquicentennial. (Golden Rule, 1896.) 
 
 How Dixon Did. (Golden Rule, 1900.) 
 
 Secretary Shaw. (Golden Rule, 1903.) 
 
 A Plea for the Pun. (Sat. Eve. Post, 1903.) 
 
 The Old Hunting and the New. (Sat. Eve. Post, 1903.) 
 
 WITHERSPOON 
 
 Business and Religion. 
 
 WOODS 
 
 Report of a Case of Brown-Sequard Paralysis. (Med. Jour. ) 
 Report of 210 Cases of Ventro Suspension of the Uterus. 
 (Med. Jour.) 
 
 Report of a Case of Suburethral Abscess. (Med. Jour.) 
 The Ringing of the Bell. (McClure's, July 1904.) 
 

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 SUMMARY 
 
 Total of graduates, non-graduates and deceased, 209. 
 
 Married, 118. 
 
 Fathers, 75. 
 
 Children: Boys, 66; Girls, 74. Total 140. Deceased, 9, 
 (Boys, 5; Girls, 4). Total living, 131. 
 
 Occupations : Army, 2 ; Art, 1 ; Architecture, 2 ; Author- 
 ship, 1 ; Banking and Broking, 9 ; Business, 27 ; Commercial 
 Chemistry, 2 ; Civil Service, 1 ; Engineering, 10 ; Insurance, 3 ; 
 Journalism, 5 ; Law, 37 ; Medicine, 21 ; Ministry, 22 ; Music, 1 ; 
 Politics, 1 ; Railroading, 2; Teaching, 18; Unoccupied, 1. 
 
 Spanish War Veterans, 10. 
 
 Deceased, 23. 
 
 Whereabouts unknown: Borgmeyer, Brotherlin, Brown, W. 
 S., Driwiies, English, Freeman, Graham, R. D., Graham, W. M., 
 Gray, C. A., Lakey, -Skiles. Total, 11. 
 
 
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