Ill • . ■ i 1 ' CLASS OF NINETY-THREE 1803-1918 LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN C Y12U 1S93 / Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/twentyfiveyearreOOyale TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY RECORD CLASS OF 1893, YALE COLLEGE NATHAN HALE 1773 TWENTY-FIVE YEAR RECORD CLASS OF NINETY-THREE YALE COLLEGE INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANNIVERSARY REUNION IN JUNE, 1918 PUBLISHED BY NOAH H. SWAYNE, 2D Class Secretary PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA 1918 The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company New Haven, Conn. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Twenty-fifth Reunion Schedule of Events . The Reunion . n 15 Then and Now An Article by Edwin Oviatt, '96 81 Biographical Sketches Graduates .... 107 Non-Graduates 443 Statistics and Roll of the Class Necrology .... 475 Families .... 475 Occupations .... 476 Locality Index 477 Roll of the Class 480 THE TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION Mi: > ** 13 >' - ^-T *, T v- : ' •EfeSSS?^ p"*wp-> laic '9;-! <<5 TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION Saturday. June 15th to Wednesday. June 19th 1918 SCHEDULE OF (ttlass nnh J3nt6ersttg ^E&cnts *a^ HEADQUARTERS CLUB ROOM AND DlNING ROOM HOTEL TAFT. TENTH FLOOR DORMITORY .... DURFEE HALL SCHEDULE N. B. — Immediately on arrival in New Haven, men will please first register at Headquarters, tenth floor of Hotel Taft, and so have their room assignments confirmed. SATURDAY, JUNE 15: This day (and previous day) men going to New Haven by New York City are urged while in New York to get in touch with the Committee and other New York '93 men, so that all courtesies may be extended. Yale Club, 45th St. and Vanderbilt Ave. (across from Grand Central Terminal). University Club, Fifth Ave. and 54th St. Dinner at Headquarters, Hotel Taft, Tenth Floor. SUNDAY, JUNE 16: Breakfast and Luncheon at Headquarters. 10:30 a. m. *Baccalaureate Sermon, Woolsey Hall. 5:00 p. m. *Organ Recital by "our" Professor Jepson, Woolsey Hall. Afternoon. Sea bathing at The Momauguin, Cosey Beach, East Haven. (Take trolley.) 7:00 p. m. Dinner at The Momauguin, Cosey Beach, East Haven. MONDAY, JUNE 17: Breakfast and Luncheon at Headquarters. Golfers, tennis enthusiasts, etc., may go to the New Haven Country Club, Lake Whitney. (Sign slips, which will be turned over to the Committee.) Men who wish to spend the day at the Country Club may take luncheon there. Afternoon. *Class Day Exercises (Class of 1918) on the Campus. 7:00 p. m. Dinner at New Haven Country Club. (Take Whitney Ave- nue trolley.) Dinner will be preceded by "Athletic Contests." Clarence Harmstad, Manager. TUESDAY, JUNE 18: Breakfast, luncheon and dinner at Headquarters. 10:30 a. m. *Annual Yale Alumni Meeting at Sprague Memorial Hall, 126 College Street (where President Dwight's house was when we were at College). Addresses by President and representative graduates. 12:15 p. m. *Memorial Service, Battell Chapel, in loving memory of Dean Henry P. Wright. 2:45 p. m. '93 Class Reunion Meeting, Headquarters. 3:15 p. m. Class Reunion Picture: On steps at Chapel Street entrance to Osborn Hall. No cuts allowed. * Events starred are from University Calendar. TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 13 4:00 p. M. *A11 Graduates assemble on College Campus. Procession to Hewitt University Quadrangle (on block bounded by High, College, Wall and Grove Streets, in angle made by Dining Hall and Woolsey Hall). 4:30 p. m. *Patriotic Meeting of assembled Yale Alumni and Under- graduates, Hewitt Quadrangle. Let no one miss this. 7:30 p. M. Twenty-fifth Reunion Dinner, Headquarters. John Robin- son, toastmaster. Unanimous attendance expected and required. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19: 10:00 a. M. *Annual Commencement Procession from College Campus to Woolsey Hall. 10:30 a. m. *Commencement Exercises, Woolsey Hall. 12:45 p. m. ^Assembly of Alumni, Hewitt Quadrangle, preparatory to Annual Alumni Dinner. 1 :oo p. m. *Annual Alumni Dinner, Yale Dining Hall. Free to all. Everyone should attend this, as it is one of the events of Commencement Week. 4:30-6:00 p. m. *President's Reception, Memorial Hall. MISCELLANEOUS The Class Fund, as usual, provides the foregoing Class arrangements without charge, and, in addition, a substantial Reunion Gift to Yale. Men who have reserved lodgings in the Hotel Taft incur a special charge. No uniforms ; no band ; only Class insignia will be hatbands with Class numerals. Some of the men want it known that they are thinking of bringing along their blue serge coats and their white trousers. Golfers and tennis men may use the New Haven Country Club, signing slips which the Committee will take charge of. Automobiles : Garage facilities and accommodations for chauffeurs may be obtained on application to desk at Headquarters. Finally: An even hundred men have already signed up for the Reunion, with the probability of twenty-five more, thus exceeding all previous records. Such a response shows that '93 men realize that the Reunion this year (in addition to its being our "Twenty-fifth") is one not to be missed, — taking place as it will in the midst of a memorable Yale gathering of Alumni and Undergraduates, assembled at the special instance and request of the University authorities. The War Time patriotic thrill and inspiration will give it a distinction that has not been present and may not recur, in any of our reunions. jRftmum (Rammltttt: CHARLES J. FAY, CHAIRMAN 14 WALL STREET. NEW YORK CITY 'Phone Rector 8790 WILLIAM R. BEGG WILLIAM H. HACKETT 24 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK CITY 38 LYNWOOD PLACE, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 'Phone Rector 4600 GERALD M. BORDEN EDWARD M. WILLIAMS 35 EAST 51ST STREET, NEW YORK CITY CLEVELAND, OHIO 'Phone Plaza 2610 (Elaaa £tttt targ att& (SlasH JFunfo Ag*nt NOAH H. SWAYNE, 2nd UNITED STATES FUEL ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON. D. C. OUR REPRESENTATIVE IN CHARGE OF HEADQUARTERS BUREAU. HOTEL TAFT THOMAS F. CLARK THE REUNION To Frank Gatchel goes the honor of being number one on the register on Saturday morning, June 15, 1918. Frank was accom- panied by his young son, "Bill," and closely followed by Wil- liams, Harvey, Hay, Trask, and Yates, burdened with the happy dignity of being the first grandfather in the Class. Wilcox, hav- ing dodged submarines all the way from Cuba, arrived in the afternoon with Shaw and Colonel Ficken. Twenty-five dined together at headquarters and handed to Fay, chairman of the Reunion Committee, the first of a long series of bouquets for the completeness of the arrangements for the comfort of the men who attended, and for his wisdom in going ahead with his plan to use the top floor of the Taft for headquarters and club rooms. This feature, with cheap and comfortable sleeping quarters in Durfee, made an ideal arrangement. By Saturday night there were thirty present, eleven more than at the same time five years before. On Sunday morning many heard the baccalaureate sermon, and a few went to the New Haven Country Club for golf and tennis. Frank Donnelly averred that his score would have been better had not a mosquito bitten him on the first tee. All lunched together at headquarters. Arrivals during the lunch were Mrs. Fay and John, Mrs. Hay and two daughters, and Fox with the two "little Foxes," each somewhat over six feet tall. Immediately after lunch someone got Gatchel a guitar, which he played with the old assurance and facility. Everybody gath- ered around him and had an old-fashioned "sing" for nearly three hours. All the old favorites were revived: The Days of '93, Mary Green, Denny Grady's Hack, Down by the Riverside, Predicaments, The Fishers Swore a Feud, Hold the Ball, Down the Field, and a host of others. Major Louis B. Runk, the only one of our men in uniform who could attend the reunion, arrived during the singing. At five o'clock the party moved to Woolsey Hall to hear Pro- fessor Harry Jepson's organ recital. There were many expres- sions of regret that his modesty should have kept his own compositions ofT the program, which was as follows : i6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE GIGOUT— Grand Choeur Dialogue. KARG-ELERT— Improvisation, Op. 34 b. (Ostinato e Fughetta.) BACH — Toccata in F major. FRANCK— Piece Heroique. JONGEN— Caprice, Op. 37, No. 2. ROPARTZ— Priere pour les Trepasses. RACHMANINOFF— Serenade. VIERNE— Final from the First Organ Symphony, Op. 14. Grra*tdfa*lier* Vate* a*d (Br©v«i) Dwigkt* Trolley cars and automobiles took the men to Momauguin for a shore supper. Forty-one men and four sons, — Hastings' boy in his army uniform, the little Foxes, and Bill Gatchel. During supper Q. Dwight arrived and was greeted with loud applause. Dr. Roby, as toastmaster, called upon "Deacon" Yates to ask the blessing, which the "Deacon" did so fluently that the absence of the clergy was hardly noticed. With the aid of a small orchestra, or perhaps in spite of it, there was a great deal of singing dur- ing supper. Roby led the Class cheer, "The Equation of Intercept B," and called on Wendell Strong to ex- plain its meaning. Wendell confessed that if he ever had known he didn't know now. "Deacon" Yates was then called upon to tell "Tales of a Grandfather." The most noteworthy feature of his response was his grin. Roby then turned to serious things. He said that he was in doubt as to his present duty, and uncertain whether he ought to get into uniform or, his chief having gone into uniform, he ought to remain in his present work as Health Officer of Rochester. He felt that the one most important thing just at this time is the health of the army. This has been brought up to present stand- ards by vaccination, inoculation, and experimental vivisection. Whatever our personal views on these practices, he felt that we should not actively oppose them during the war because opposi- tion or criticism tends to undermine the discipline of the army. TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 17 He said that active opposition was confined to a relatively small number and centered chiefly in one periodical. He believed that that periodical should be silenced and could be if men like our- selves would take active steps to silence it. He was not at all certain that a class reunion meeting was just the body to start such a movement, but to arouse discussion he was going to ask Dick Holbrook to read some resolutions on the subject. In closing he said that if the deaths from typhoid in the army had been the same in the last four months of 191 7 as in the Spanish war there would have occurred in those four months 15,000 deaths from that cause instead of the 144 which actually occurred. Asserting that if periodicals such as he mentioned were to be silenced the movement must originate with laymen and not with the medical profession, he called upon Holbrook to read the resolutions. The resolutions were enthusiastically received. Scoville promptly seconded them, remarking that we should not tolerate sneers at the great things of life. John Morgan followed, voicing his general approval but suggesting postponement of action for further consideration. Ed Williams was much in favor of the movement but afraid that action by us might do more harm than good. He felt that the initial publicity ought to come from some other source than a class reunion supper. Cravens spoke in much the same strain. Holbrook then suggested that we might individually accomplish something. Scoville then suggested reference to a committee with approval and with instructions to consider such action as might be best calculated to produce favor- able results. Donnelly suggested postponement for twenty-four hours for consideration. Hastings thought that the entire alumni body should be consulted. Strong said that he knew one of the editors of the periodical in question and felt that he might per- haps be persuaded to drop this subject during the war as he felt sure that he was patriotic. Harmstad thought that all that was necessary was to bring the matter to the attention of the United States Attorney for New York. Fay questioned the amount of harm that this particular journal could do and agreed with Harm- stad that the Department of Justice could be relied upon to act. Holbrook ended this discussion by stating that the object of the resolutions was to start discussion and that that object had been accomplished. Roby then introduced Williams to tell of his work on the Board of Education, the Liberty Loans, and the War Chest Committee of Cleveland. 1 8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Williams said that Cleveland had had fifteen years of expe- rience of federated giving through the Chamber of Commerce, which represented eighty per cent of the givers. The propaganda of numerous campaigns for educational purposes was not needed in Cleveland. He said that the Board of Education began with a preliminary campaign, before war was declared by the Presi- dent, arranging all school lessons for three weeks. The first week had as its topic "Winning Freedom/' the second week "Sharing Freedom," and the third week "Securing Freedom." All the lessons, English, history, geography, etc., were so chosen as to emphasize these topics and finally each child was compelled to write a composition to be taken home and read to its parents on each topic. He said that eighty per cent of the population of Cleveland is foreign born or first generation descendants of foreign born and that there are 100,000 Germans, largely of vot- ing age, and not naturalized. Through the children's lessons, and through meetings held nightly in school auditoriums, and through a great pageant these people were reached and educated. The result of this was 500,000 contributors to the War Chest out of a population of 800,000. This ended a highly successful supper. The night adjournment at headquarters followed with forty-five on the register. On Monday morning there were many arrivals, including two of the Clergy, Goodenough with his daughter, and Mathison. The morning was spent at headquarters where all lunched together. In the afternoon everyone went to the New Haven Country Club. After golf and tennis, there was a baseball game with a soft ball between teams captained by Parsons and Robinson assisted by Bill Gatchel and Joe Roby, Jr. This was followed by a foot race, 100 yards, for men weighing over 175 pounds. The starters were J. W. Allen, Goodenough, Hurlbert, Mathison, Scoville, and Strong. Goodenough, barefooted, won by a good margin from Scoville, in stocking feet, who was the only real contender. Harvey and Chisholm then won a putting contest from Lambert and Harmstad. The result of this match was influenced by Skee's fatigue, resulting from his arduous duties as Manager of Athletic Events. Seventy-three classmates, and three sons, were entertained dur- ing dinner by piano solos by Skee. Colonel Ficken acted as toastmaster. TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 19 2o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE The stenographic report of the speaking, somewhat expurgated, follows : — The Toastmaster: Now, gentlemen, to-night we are going to have Mr. Cravens speak to us. Voices: No, no. The Toastmaster: He will speak to us on the Washington Viewpoint of the War. Mr. Cravens: Mr. Toastmaster and classmates — A Voice: Dear classmates. Mr. Cravens: About a week ago I received a note from Jack Robinson asking me to speak here to-night, and I was a little disposed to decline because under any circumstances any kind of speechmaking is a thoroughly non-essential industry with me (shouts of dissent) and ought to be suppressed. I might make a very humorous speech, but I will be serious. I was going to decline but Jack Robinson puts it so nicely that you can't very well say no. Instead of being a prince of good fellows he ought to be the king of confidence men. Now when I get up here I find instead of working for Jack I am working for Henry Ficken. When Jack wrote me I wondered what I would talk to you about. Down in Washington a few days ago I was thinking of talking a little bit — A Member: Does that mean you had six months to prepare this speech ? Mr. Cravens: I was rather confident in my ideas that that was a pretty good thing to talk about. A Member: Get through with the explanation and come to the speech. (Laughter.) Mr. Cravens: Now seriously, I am going to talk for a few minutes about the Council of National Defense, its organization, its composition, and how it functions. You needn't be afraid that I have a long speech prepared, for I have come up here for part of the only vacation I shall get this summer. I know some of you are very familiar with part of what the Council of National Defense is doing, and a great many are not. The Council of National Defense was organized in the latter part of 1916 by an act of Congress. It is composed of six members of Mr. Wilson's cabinet, — the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture. The Secretary of War is the chairman. Mr. Walter Gifford, who had heretofore been the chief statistician of the American Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany, is director of the Council. Its purposes and objects are to TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 21 investigate, advise and organize. It is not in itself a functioning body. Shortly after the outbreak of the war Mr. Baker, as chairman of the Council of National Defense, wrote a letter to each one of the governors of the states asking that there be appointed in each one of the states a State Council of Defense. That was on April 9th last year. In response to that request there has been formed in each one of the states and in the terri- tory of Alaska and in the District of Columbia a State Council of Defense. Some states call them "Committees of Public Safety" but they are all State Councils of Defense. There is one central council. In addition to that the Council of course is naturally subdivided into different sections to conduct particular lines of activity. There is a War Industries Bureau, a Women's Com- mittee, the Highways Transport Committee, and the General Medical Board. I have forgotten the others; there are several of them. The section with which I am personally connected is the State Council Section and it is of their activities that I want to speak because it is the one that I do know something about. The business of our section is working with the State Councils of Defense. Under the State Councils there have been organized the County Councils, and the extension of the organization now is to the community councils under the county councils. There are about 4,800 county councils in the states, — about one hundred to each state on the average. I don't know the number of com- munity councils that will be eventually organized, but I presume in the neighborhood of 45,000. The work of the State Council is divided, it might be said, into four general lines of activity; first, the awakening of the people to the war, what the war means and what must be done to win it; second, the coordination of all the different agencies that are trying to help the Federal government in its work of prosecuting the war; third, the direct cooperation by the state councils with the Federal representatives in the respective states ; and in addition to that the State Council Section acts as a clear- ing house between the different states, transmitting to each other the different experiences and the results obtained. You might say the fourth activity of the State Council organization is the initiation of such work as might be required in the several states that does not result from requests and instructions from Wash- ington. As instances of how the coordination goes, there are numberless agencies doing all forms of war work, both relief and educational. In New York Citv alone there are something like 22 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE one hundred agencies established in one form or other of that work, all helpful, all well-intentioned but frequently misguided and confused. One of the functions of the State Council body is to take that work in hand and through the State Council and the County Council to direct and coordinate that work to eliminate lost motion and waste and lack of efficiency. Another work in the direction of cooperation with Federal agencies might be illus- ScTnr©ckliclik?i-tr at First" Base trated in this, that when the Fuel Administrator wanted to extend the organization by appointing Fuel Administrators in the respective states the Fuel Administration asked the state councils to nominate men who would be best fitted to hold those posts, and most of them were appointed that way. The same thing applies to the Food Administration, and to the work of the several federal agencies of the Department of Agriculture. Plans have been laid by the state councils to enlarge food pro- duction and to obtain labor for making the harvest. In con- TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 23 junction with the War Department we have been of great assistance to General Crowder in getting assistants on the draft boards. The State Councils have trained organizations for pro- viding legal aid for men about to enlist. We are holding through the same organizations meetings for draft men, men who are about to go into the military service, and we get a military man to give them talks on what military life is and what it means; a good lawyer who is interested in the work will tell them some- thing about what they ought to do and what they may do to protect themselves as they are about to go to war ; a member of the medical section will speak to them and tell them something about their bodies and the care of their bodies. In conjunction with the authorities the State Councils have worked in the Red Cross campaigns, and in many cases they have conducted them. Those are illustrations of what the state and county councils are doing to cooperate with the Federal agencies as well as with the agencies conducting more immediate work. But of all the work that the council agencies are doing, unquestionably the most important is that which pertains to the education of the people in what the war really means. In our country, in the last analysis, there is one thing that is needful, and there is only one, and that is a well ordered and a crystallized public opinion. With that there is very little that is impossible, and without it everything will of itself fall to the ground. A well ordered public opinion is the only means that a democracy has of imposing its own conclusions upon itself. Little short of actual sedition is that deadly apathy, that empty optimism so charac- teristic of the American people. It is to reach those people that is one of the tasks that we have, to give them eyes that will see and ears that will hear and an understanding that will compre- hend. It is to wake them and to arouse them and to enlist their active support behind the war that is one of the tasks of the Council of National Defense, and we found that the county councils were doing that only in part, and so we turned to the fourth activity, the organization of the community councils. They are the terminals of the Council of National Defense system, the long arm as it were that will reach out and get into the body of the state militant every individual member of the community. That work is done by organization of the com- munity into such units that every member of the community can feel that he has found a place where he can do something in the war work of the government, where every worker may find his 24 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE work and where there may be a work for every worker. That is done through a general propaganda campaign, through the Speakers Bureau of the State Council of Defense, through other general publicity, through meetings, through war rallies, and, further, through personal contact with men and women of the community. It is a clear case of trying to beat apathy and a propaganda of sedition by counter propaganda that will make them see our way. Now that is the present task of the Council of National Defense ; and when I speak of that I speak (please understand me) of our section because other sections of the council also have their work of just as great, if not greater, importance. That is our work for the present, but there is something to be thought of the future. I have said for a long time that victory would be perfectly profitless unless it should bring with it an understanding and a knowledge that will enable us to properly solve the problems that will necessarily come with that victory. There is not one of us who is thinking in the same terms that we thought a few years or even a few months ago. If that is true of us over here, how much more is it true of the fellows who have gone over there. They are doing for us now ; what are we planning to do for them? Their point of view will be changing. They will see things with a new vision. Life will look a little different to them when they come back. Our whole order, industrial, social, and political, will be undergoing, must undergo, mighty read- justment. In the new order of things we must find a place for millions who will come back here, find the means by which they shall be re-incorporated into the new order, — and that without friction, and as quickly as possible. This Council of National Defense and its subordinate organizations, the state councils, are already giving thought to that problem. The term of life of the council is already made by legislation to extend to a cer- tain period beyond the end of the war, because everybody recog- nizes that not only must a work be done then but it must be done by those who are thinking about it now. It is a problem to seek for the answer ; we must not wait until the problem is upon us with its full gravity. Therefore to the present task of winning the war is added the task which in my opinion will require more statesmanship, patience, and wisdom than the conduct of the war itself. Have you heard about the man from the South who entered TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 25 the war? He came from one of those southern districts where the family feud was rather the order of the day, and he played a full part in that game. Somebody asked him if he had ever been to war before and he said that he had had lots of private fighting down his way but this was the first public war he had ever been in. Now this is a public war and the question every one of us has got to ask himself is not "Am I doing something to help," but "Am I doing all that I can?" That great service flag that hangs over the entrance to the Yale Club in New York bearing its silent testimony to what Yale men in arms are doing is always a source of inspiration to f and otner* =, A k attd otliar* A Notable Entry m the Putting Contest me. For myself, I thank Heaven that when the opportunity to serve came, I was so situated that I could answer the call. Often I feel that there is really little that I am doing, but I do have the satisfaction of knowing that I am doing so far as in me lies. If I could name a single resolve that I might like to awake in some or to confirm in others it would be a resolve to follow without turning that gospel to which we all subscribe, no matter how our creed is fashioned or what faith we profess, and that is the gospel of helpfulness and undivided loyalty. It is the gospel that must be driven into the hearts of as nearly every- one as may be of our hundred million people if we are to carry through to a successful issue this cause upon the success of which certainly hangs the future of Anglo-Saxon civilization, and if we are really to have a great state, a unified republic, 26 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE which shall be dedicated to one principle and one purpose and one performance. (Applause.) The Toastmaster: Just a few days before I left home the Council of Defense, whose able work has been referred to, sent a telegram to our chief of police and it advised him to close industries that were not essential throughout the country. Well, he immediately got busy and he told the electric light company not to turn any more lights on in the red light district. Now I want to hear from Mr. Warnock what the people in Pennsylvania regard as non-essential. Mr. Warnock: "Brethren of '93": To adopt the phrase that Allen gave us, I believe, or "Old Veterans of '93," I must confess that the colonel has me guessing when he starts in, and that's a good scheme for I have two guesses now. The question of non-essential industry I suppose is a pretty large one. I know a large section of Young America who think that the chief non-essential industry is that of education, and I don't know but they may be right. Sometimes at the end of the year the teacher has got to that point of pessimism that he thinks that teaching is a non-essential industry, except for the salary he draws. That, of course, is quite an important feature. When Henry asked me this afternoon if I wouldn't say some- thing to you I weakly said yes, and forgot all about it, I was so busy talking with everybody and hearing everybody, and having such a good time that I really didn't have time to prepare any- thing; so what I am going to say is extemporaneous. It seems to me if I only could I should like to adopt the statement that Gladstone is said once to have made, that eloquence consists in drawing in as a mist the inspiration from an audience and pour- ing it out as a flood. Well, we have had the flood and the elo- quence is missing. But I do feel as we gather here together that this is one of the times when we find that education after all has been a great success. When we look over a gathering like this, made up of so many men who have achieved so much, — their achievements by the way we are aware of not so much by what they say as by what they leave unsaid — I think we realize that education is not a non-essential but the one essential industry of this country. Cravens also has verified that in stating that it takes brains of the highest kind and brains of the most devoted kind to carry out a great enterprise such as we are engaged in. I feel, as we gather together and see how each one has gone his way since we received our diplomas, every one bears more or less TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 27 of the scars of the conflict; and I think most of us have also some palms of victory which we have won, and deservedly won. I feel that coming- back to such a reunion as this is a great inspiration. You fellows who are in the thick of the fight and, I suppose, get awful tired of it, have this satisfaction at any rate, that we who are more or less spectators receive inspiration and help from you. Education seems to me, to misquote the quotation, to take the best things of the world and preserve them unto the young generation so they shall grasp the principles on which we are proceeding, that they may adopt and improve the principles which their fathers have laid down and fought for to make our heritage secure forever. It seems to me that the solidarity of this Class has been as great as, and possibly greater than, any of the other classes I have any intimate knowledge of, and I suppose when we get to Heaven we still shall be characterized in the same way we have been since graduation. I for my part shall expect that Swayne will furnish our biographies to Saint Peter, and I am quite sure that Fay's job will be to give us proper housing accommodations in that other land. Now then with men like Strong to insure our lives, why worry ? I was thinking as I sat here of the time when we all suffered and bled together on an occasion of the Freshman year when we read what Charlie Moore used to call the Amisishia. The "Amicitia," it seems to me, means something very different to-day. It has a meaning more than Cicero ever gave to it, — a meaning which we have wrought out for ourselves by rubbing up against each other. We have become in a real sense a part of what we have met; in the first place a part of each other, and in the second place a part of a pretty large world which we have been able to cover. I am quite sure that that large world. — and I may say for myself that I also am part of you and the world is a part of what it has met. In other words, each man here has given a part of himself to some good and useful purpose. Now, as we gather here year after year we are going to find these ties of friendship grow much stronger in what may be the brighter memories of that particular amicitia. It may be sweet- ened a great deal in that sense, so to speak, by what we are thinking each for himself. Furthermore, we are going to move on in about the same way as our fellows are who are spread abroad over the whole world, and whom we are growing to know more fully than before. We can 28 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE feel that '93 is really putting its name on the map, and I am quite sure that the world will have been better that a fellow will have gone on these frontier regions and there given good account of himself in one of these different ways. I think too that while, as a great man once said, the world will little remember what we say here, it will always remember what we do here, — I think these reunions are very precious to each one of us. The fun we have and the jokes we have are to each one of us a precious memory, and I think as we go on these will be beautified by our lives, by the haze of memory through which we look at these things, and as the sun rises every morning and touches them with the glory of beauty we shall have in our lives the beautifying each day of these occasions. We have a school song written by an eminent man in Richmond, Virginia. He says, in the close of that song, "Each one shall do his single best" and I am quite sure we can adopt that to ourselves. And he says "Each one shall stand his single test" and I think we can justly say we have done that. And he winds up by saying "with back of each the strength of all." That's the thing, and it is most heartening. Every one wherever he goes can be sure of this one fact, that back of him is the strength of the Class of '93. (Applause.) The Toast master: Gentlemen, you have heard Mr. Warnock express the appreciation that he feels in coming to these meet- ings, but he only expresses in a small degree the appreciation which I feel and which men who live far apart from Yale life as I do must feel when they come here. Where I live there is no influence of Yale at all. I don't see a Yale man once a year. I have always derived the greatest pleasure in the world from coming on here every five years and meeting you men. I go back and I look forward to the next visit. My country is a very desolate country; plantations are very large and the people that live on them are very ignorant. To illustrate what I mean: About two weeks ago we were cutting hay on a plantation very near to us. All of a sudden the peculiar sound was heard of an aeroplane, — the first one that ever came over that country. The darkies who were cutting hay looked up and saw this thing and every fellow ran. There wasn't one fellow left in the field except an old nigger who couldn't run; he had to sit down and take what was coming. The aeroplane had to land in just about that locality and the fellow got out of the aeroplane and started to walk to this old nigger, and the old nigger looked at him, — he couldn't run. He was a very polite old fellow and he hobbled TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 29 up to the aviator. He pulled his wool and scratched the ground with his foot as he was taught to do when in the presence of his boss and he looked at this man and said "Good morning, Massa Jesus ; how do you do, sir ?" The aviator looked at the man and didn't know exactly what to say. The old nigger didn't get any reply, so he looked at him again and said "Say, boss, how did you leave your pa?" That illustrates the atmosphere, and you can readily appreciate how much I love to come on here. That's an absolutely true story. I never told anything else. (Laughter.) Goodetiougk re-tains ilt© -Kile of Leading All Round AWtlef© When I look over our Class biography I notice the Reverend Goodenough states in his record that he has already married fifty women, and I am going to ask him to explain to the Class what he means by such a statement. (Cheers for Goodenough.) Mr. Goodenough: Mr. Toastmaster, such things as an answer to Nony Swayne are privileged. I object to answering anything of the kind. Only a few moments ago they were discussing here in my presence the intricacies of anatomy, having as an inspira- tion, as they strung words together, the coming of Aphrodite out of the foam of the sea, and Doc Ficken was dissecting. 3 o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE I have considered that if there was anything I wished to say- to you gentlemen it was not along the line that brother Ficken has suggested, although that is undoubtedly a very interesting line of discussion ; nor following the enthusiastic plan of brother Harmstad, which is undoubtedly a harmless plan; but instead of that taking this opportunity of saying in a few well-chosen words something that brother Swayne suppressed in my biog- raphy. He thought probably it was camouflage of some kind, or possibly a bit of boastfulness, when I calmly recited a few of the things that a minister is supposed to be and to do. Now there is not one of you that knows very much about country ministers of my own persuasion, and for that reason — as I explained — Begg: What is your persuasion? Mr. Goodenough: Perhaps that will come out in the context. (Cheers.) I may say that part of our labors is in giving an illus- tration to trained librarians of what books were and how to use them; giving an explanation to teachers of the young idea so that they can shoot them straight; of giving explanations to farmers of how to till the soil to make the most out of it; of teaching, in fact, every living thing how to be it. And the only invitation that had slighted me and passed me by was to teach a bunch of members of the bar what were the essentials of law. I shall not follow the suggestion of brother Warnock who referred to a gentleman as having a congestion of ideas and a diarrhea of words. Undoubtedly brother Sutphen and others will understand the reference. The fact of the matter is that I am going to follow the plan, as this is an entirely extemporaneous speech pushed upon me in a moment just before the remarkable excitement of the race, and I will, therefore, with your kind — A Member: Take your time. Mr. Goodenough: I am now going to. The point is that we were discussing words, what words meant; and sometimes you men do not realize that the word religion means law of the ultimate fact, — re ligio. I am going to call your attention to that fact. Back of any kind of distribution of law such as is shown in the remarkable ability of one of your number to merge rail- roads, and another of your number to follow the meanderings of the feminine mind as it makes its will, and another — (The speaker was interrupted by several members.) Ask Sammy Scoville. And various others of you as you follow various other laws, you do not realize that way back in the early days the parson TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 31 did it all. He was the man to examine the leper to see if the spots had gone off or not ; he was the man — even in this enlight- ened age he has not lost any of these functions. In time of emergency they come to him. I had a brother in the ministry who went to South Carolina, and in that benighted land they had not doctors enough, and some ladies in extremities asked him for his services in very confining conditions. He was able to reach forth and produce the man. Now, gentlemen, I speak of this as simply an illustration of what the common experience A Le£al Luminary learits \ro loavh.otofira.f>k in front of Oshorti. himself or about anybody else, so far as he wants to and no further. I propose to avail myself of that privilege this evening. I have not enjoyed my dinner, I have been quite uncomfortable. It is true I have a capacious stomach, but, gentlemen, it is not large enough to hold a dinner and a serious speech at the same time. This ordeal began for me some ten days since, when I received a letter from Hartford, informing me that this particular subject was assigned to me. I accepted the subject. I wish I hadn't. I happen to have a cousin out in Springfield who is a deacon TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 59 in one of the churches there. I don't know whether you gentle- men are familiar with the ways in which money is raised to pay a church debt in the West. This cousin of mine was at one of those meetings where they were seeking to raise money to pay a church debt. He had been recently married. They came down to him and he put down $10,000. They thought he should have put down more and asked the deacon for an explanation of why he had given that small amount, so as not to discourage others, and then it was announced, "Deacon Coleman says he will give $10,000. He says he would have given $15,000 if he hadn't been married." (Laughter.) The other night down at the shore Mr. Williams told us of the Christian-like ways in which they raise money for the Red Cross out in Cleveland, and he attempted to impose on this Class that that was an original method discovered by him out in Cleveland. As a matter of fact, that was only an adaptation of the way in which they raise money to pay off church debts. Now I do not know, when Mr. Robinson, the gentleman from Hartford, assigned me this particular subject on which to speak, whether he thought that central Illinois was the habitat of the prairie dog or not. I suppose his dense ignorance may be par- doned, if he thought it was. However that may be, I cogitated on the subject of the prairie dog as I came along on the train, and soon abandoned that subject. I shortly after abandoned the subject of the submarine. As Professor Beers has said, there were only two subjects upon which the mind could fix itself, one was the coming Class meeting, and the other was the war. When I reached New York I went to see my friend Harmstad at 176 Broadway and he kindly invited me out to lunch. I did not notice whether the Title Guarantee & Trust Company closed its doors when he left, but however that may be, during the two hours of our absence from that institution, its real activities fell into a state of innocuous desuetude. He proceeded to tell me of the achievements of the Class of '93 and of the various members. He told me that no man stood higher in Podunk than John Robinson, then he proceeded to say, "There is Francis Parsons, who the other day applied for membership in a New York club and I was asked to give him a recommendation. I said in my letter, 'No man of the Class of '93 is more highly regarded than Parsons.' " Then he proceeded to say, "The fact of the matter is, the Class of '93 is the most brilliant Class that graduated from Yale between 1883 and 1903." Now I don't know whether 6o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ABOVE THE ELMS, on., SITTING AROVND ON he was right or wrong in that particular. This is not a time when we are measuring things so much by individual achieve- ment. That is not the way I like to take the Class of '93. I like to think of our Class as a Class which has not perhaps got a few brilliant individuals, but as a Class of rather high intellectual ability, as a Class having a strong individuality of character, a Class having tolerance one for the other, a Class having, as it were, charity, a Class having in a high degree that reserve force, that characteristic which was so marked in George Case, which we all recognized in him and which led us to feel easy when he came to the bat at a particularly critical moment of the game. I think perhaps the Class lacked something in ideality, and perhaps something in moral purpose. But those defects perhaps were due to one truly genuine quality, — the Class genuinely hated shams. Dr. Goodenough said that in more forceful language than I can, in his speech of last night. It has been a pleasure to me as I have come back here for one reunion after another, and as I have met the individuals of this Class, to think that I discovered that out of the individual experiences which each of us were meeting in our lives there was developing a charity, a greater moral earnestness, a greater ideality than those indi- viduals possessed in college. It was a pleasure to me to see that many of them, even before these strenuous times of the last two years, were drawing on that reserve force in them which I like to picture as characteristic of the typical '93 man. Under the stress of the last two years, and under the moral awakening which has resulted from the present war, it has seemed to me that the Class has in full measure corrected that lack; that we have as a Class developed moral earnestness and ideality which was absent, perhaps, and lacking in the Class when we graduated from college. This twenty-fifth year after college marks the half-way period, perhaps, in our after-college life. As we look back at the con- ditions as they existed then, none of us realized that at our TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 61 fKMm PPfw Ml THE FENCE AT THE TAFT CAMPVS twenty-fifth reunion we would be engaged in a war of this char- acter, in which our sons would be making the ultimate sacrifice on the fields of France, in which our daughters would be serving in auxiliary units. All that was utterly beyond our ken. As I think of our philosophy of life I am reminded of Dr. Roby. In the days before he left college he would probably have stated his philosophy of life in somewhat these terms, that every man had a right to go to hell if he wanted to, and that it was every man's business to take care of himself and let the devil take the hindmost. Some of us heard Dr. Roby's speech the other night at the shore on the subject of anti-vivisection, and it did not sound much like the philosophy that Roby had in college. I do not mean to say that Roby lived up to the ideals I have expressed, that in his college days he lived up to the philosophy of life that I have attributed to him. He lived up, as a matter of fact, to a much higher philosophy, and he has lived up to a much higher philosophy since he left college. He would not have had the position he has if he hadn't. But, gentle- men, it is a pleasure to me to see Dr. Roby becoming a crusader, deeming it his duty to reform other people and his right to do so. I have observed one characteristic of this reunion which has very much struck me, and that is the power of the Class at this reunion to pass from the serious to the ridiculous, and again from the ridiculous to the serious. That, as you know, as we learned from Professor Beers, is one of the strengths of Shakespeare. I might speak at length (Cries of "No, no") but being Dr. Lambert's friend I will now sit down. But before I sit down I want to direct your thoughts seriously to a sentiment in Lincoln's second inaugural, which it seems to me sums up the situation in our day. You all remember that quotation, those words in which he said, "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the 62 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." (Applause.) The Toastmaster: The Class of '93 has always been very strong on critics. We are overrun with legal luminaries. (Laughter.) I was not thinking of myself — but since the death of our beloved poet Rufus Gibbs, I have had some doubt whether we were strong on creative literature. However, a couple of weeks ago I told Parsons he had got to prepare a poem. He came to me to-night and told me he had prepared a poem. I was thunderstruck, but told him to go ahead. (Laughter and cheers.) Mr. Parsons: Mr. Toastmaster and other Gentlemen: I have to confess that this so-called poem was not primarily written for this occasion. In fact, it is lugged in very obviously for want of a better. It represented at the moment the passing mood of the writer, and its only appropriateness is this : We have got to a period of life, all of us, where the triumphs of life have probably taken on a very different aspect from the anticipation of those triumphs twenty-five years ago. The triumphs may be greater, or they may be less, but they are different, as a rule. Now what is triumph? What is success? What is victory? Is it fighting the good fight? Is it perhaps sacrifice? This is a little picture of a quiet man, burning with high adventure, but compelled to spend years of drudgery at a useless task. He drank down a sleeping draught, shut off the light and sank on his narrow bed, and while oblivion held him he dreamed. [The reporter could not get the poem.] The Toastmaster: You all know now whether or not we have a poet. This is a pretty hard crowd to talk to, therefore I take great pleasure in throwing before you the next speaker, because, although he is small, he has no more fear than Daniel had when he entered the den of lions, and he is good at repartee. His toast is "Fence Oration." Twenty-eight years ago on this spot, this Class labored under the delusion that I was an orator. (Laughter.) Twenty-eight years have gone before you asked me to represent you again, which shows how short a thing is memory, which cannot span so few years. But to-night the toast is given to John Morgan. I hope he will bring us back beneath the elms to the times when we used to chase around with Mul- vaney and Hotchkiss, and will revive in us the spirit of those TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 63 long-gone days. It gives me great pleasure to introduce John Hill Morgan. Mr. Morgan: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: I have been given, in the great wisdom of the Chair, the duty of pronouncing the fence oration. My memory of that college institution is that as Freshmen we could be roasted by name, but that we could not reply except by anonymous reference. But my recol- lection fails to convince me that the gentlemen who represented us in those capacities did either roast the Class of '92 by name, or hold up the idiosyncracies of the ever ridiculous Class of '94 sufficiently to suit the men who are here, and who are always desirous of hearing those men roasted. Now brother Mathison has told you that you will not listen to anything except a serious speech. Therefore, to be serious for a moment, I would begin by two quotations from the Bible, knowing well that any quotation from that source to you will be entirely new and fresh. (Laughter.) The first quotation is from the book of Isaiah, and which applies to you: "Their strength was to sit still." If I had been writing the Bible I would have added to that phrase, "and keep your mouth shut." The second quotation, which comes from Ecclesiastes, applies to me, and it is, "Let your words be few." (Laughter and applause.) Now I have got to be serious for a moment, so here goes. Twenty-five years is a long time to be out of college, and the laurel crowns which should be upon our brows seem to be as far away as ever, and to be rapidly dissolving into the hope of a halo to come. Another fact which is dawning upon us is, that what we are is pretty much what we are going to be. A man who has made money is going to make more. A man who gets tight is going to get tighter. (Laughter and cries of "It can't be done.") The man who is a failure is going to continue to put what is left of his religion and his money in his wife's name and sit down and wait for something to turn up. Now as I journey along through life, it is more and more borne in upon me that life is a strange series of contradictions and paradoxes, in which all the rest of mankind differ from me in my point of view. But remembering the words of Mathison again, we must be serious, I have prepared these notes for your delectation, a few sentences of my combined wisdom of fifty years which take the form of some concrete propositions. Man comes into the world without his consent, and leaves it against his will. In infancy he is an angel, in youth he is a devil, 64 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE in old age he tries to be a saint. The sages tell you that every man ought to have a wife, yet if a man hasn't got one, and he merely tries to borrow one from a neighbor for a short time, they put him in jail. If a man loves his fellow man they call him a philanthropist and put up a statue to him. If he loves his fellow women they call him names and he probably gets put in prison as well. If a man drinks water he gets typhoid, if he drinks champagne he gets boozed up ; if he drinks whiskey he gets delirium tremens ; if he drinks not at all they call him a teetotaller but he dies just the same. If a man dies young they tell you what a wonderful career he had before him; if he dies old they tell you of his lost opportunities. When a baby he has to be taught everything; as a youth he exhausts the infinite resources of the human mind in resisting the introduction of knowledge, and knows it all ; in old age he can be taught nothing. If he starts business as a salesman he spends his time trying to sell some- thing he has not got to those who do not want it. If he is a banker, he is trying to bank your money to keep for himself. If he is a lawyer, his mistakes live and ever rise up to call him blessed, but if he is a doctor his mistakes die and they are hidden in the cold silence of the grave. If a man's life is filled with curious paradoxes, how about a woman's life? In our day women used to show their legs at the seashore and their necks and shoulders in the ball room, but if they showed them both at the same time they were run out of society. Nowadays — but what's the use? Society is no place for a respectable married man. That is the reason I live in Brooklyn where no such condition of society exists. If you speak about a baby before it is born you bring a blush of shame to the cheek ; but after it is born, if you speak of anything else you are a brute. Life is full of complexities. Perhaps you remember the man from Tennessee who tried to explain a rather unfortunate cir- cumstance by averring that a cyclone arose and blew him into the bosom of his neighbor's wife. Then the neighbor's wife's husband arose and blew him into Abraham's bosom and he enjoyed the change. The fact is, when a man first comes into the world everybody wants to kiss him ; in a few years everyone wants to kick him, and if he lives too long everyone wants to kill him. I think this philosophy of life has been best illustrated by the saying of TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 65 Oliver Wendell Holmes: "A man's learning dies with him and even the memory of his virtues dies away; but the dividends from the stock which he bequeaths to his children ever live to keep his memory green." I hope you will take these thoughts along with you. Life is a funny place, but we are all mighty serious about living it. (Applause.) At this point the toastmaster introduced Harmstad, who, as chairman of the Athletic Committee, presented to Goodenough a cup awarded to him for prowess in the games held on Monday afternoon. Fay then read letters and telegrams of regret from various absentees, including L. Allen, Clark, Birdsall, Hickox, Field, Jordan, Maffitt, Osborn, and Quintard. Fay closed by reading the following letter from George Slade, Deputy Director General of American Railways in France: Somewhere in France 22 May, 1918 My dear Fay : — The censorship rules are such that I cannot answer, as fully as either you or I would wish, your letter of 16 April suggesting that I send a mes- sage to the Class of '93 to be read at the reunion in New Haven on 15 June. Ever since war was declared on Germany by the United States on 6 April, 1917, I have been impressed with the fact that it would be neces- sary for us all to do not only our "bit" but everything in our power, if we were to have our part in "making the world safe for democracy." As the war progressed and became centered on the western front, I was convinced that the final decision would be reached on the historic soil of France, and that our every resource in men, money, and material would have to be put in the balance there. I felt, and still feel, that there are as great oppor- tunities for helpful service at home as abroad, that a united country must stand behind our Army, contributing to its personnel, providing its equip- ment, supplies and the means of its transportation, and that this demands arranging and directing talent of the highest type. It was particularly difficult for me though to decide whether I was more needed at home than abroad, and I had much conflicting advice from my friends on the course I should pursue. Finally there came a call from General Atterbury, who is, as you know, a Yale man and head of our transportation in France, for some railroad men who had had executive as well as practical operating experience. That seemed to offer one the opportunity of having some entirely outside and impartial authority decide my case, because the call was made after the railroads of the United States had been placed under gov- ernment control, and by applying for a commission and assignment to our transportation in France I could make the government for which I would be working in either case determine whether I should stay or go. 66 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE I therefore made my application, was accepted and on March 9 commis- sioned Major in the Railway Transportation Corps of the National Army. The decision consequently was made for me and my mind was quite at ease. I received my sailing orders the last of March and left soon after. I had excellent accommodations on a fine ship and the voyage was uneventful. I landed in another country and was thus enabled to see a good many interesting things on the way to the headquarters of my department in France. When I reached there I was temporarily assigned to some special work which kept me traveling by motor and train for about three weeks. This allowed me to learn on the ground some of our activities and to become familiar with our organization and plans for future development. I was then appointed to my present position of Deputy Director General of Transportation with headquarters in this large city. My office is in a building principally occupied by a French department with which a good deal of my business is transacted, and I am finding the work extremely interesting. I have joined a club which has been established here for the allied offi- cers and I meet there a great many interesting men who are doing big and important things. There is an astonishing number of college men in the army and its allied activities here now, with new arrivals almost every day, an indication of the patriotic spirit which our curriculum develops. One connected with our army now is proud that he is not only an American but an American College man. It is quite evident that more and still more is expected of and must be done by the United States in the war, which means that we shall not only have to increase the size of our military organization abroad, but organize our resources of every sort at home so as to keep our army and those of our allies supplied with every thing they need which we are in any way able to furnish. The United States have not yet, as I can assure you from my personal observations, thrown themselves into the business of making war as have the nations over here and it is absolutely necessary that they should if they are to put into the scale the weight of men and material needed to turn tht balance for the Allies. Of course you know that nearly every family in France, England, and Italy has lost a father, husband, son or brother. These losses overshadow the other sacrifices which every one has been called upon to make, but they too, have been a real contribution to the cause and have been borne so patiently and uncomplainingly that we have heard but little of them. Some of those who are doing their part at home will be called upon to make the greater sacrifices, to suffer losses as have so many over here, but all can, by putting the winning of the war ahead of everything else, make those other contributions which are so essential at this time. When one sees how non-essentials have been subordinated to the essen- tials over here, and then calls to mind how little headway a similar policy has made at home, it makes one fear that our democracy cannot perfect the organization which will make us fill in history the place we ought to have. TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 67 My message, therefore, to my fellow classmates is this : Put yourselves, your sons, your talents, your strength, and your money at the disposal of your government and make it your business, every one of you, to do some- thing as a part of your daily work to help win the war. Come over here if you know there is a place you can fill, but if you stay at home, don't think that you have not the same obligation to work for the cause. Team work, which for so many years put Yale in the front rank of our univer- sities, is something you all understand well, and it was never more neces- sary than it is to-day in the organization of the body politic. I have seen Arthur Lord and I shall look for Babbitt and Bacon. Per- haps later on we can find enough '93 men in France to hold a miniature reunion — I hope so. With my best wishes to all the members of the finest class that ever graduated from Yale, believe me Faithfully yours George T. Slade San Francisco I was very much pleased to receive your telegram regarding the reunion, but I am very sorry to say that at present there appears little prospect of my being able to come on. This is a great disappointment to me. G. L. Rathbone San Mateo, Calif. I want you to express to the class members how sorry I am that I will not be able to make the trip, and express to all of them my most sincere wishes for their welfare and happiness. Charles W. Clark Gladstone School, 123 1 South Robey Street, Chicago, III. It is mainly just because I am in charge of a school that does not close for the year till June 28 that I feel it inadvisable to be away for the week preceding the last week or for any other entire week, for that matter. H. S. Vaile St. Louis Absolutely impossible for me to be with you. Please present my regrets to all; also my wishes for a pleasant and profitable reunion. William Maffitt Pittsford, Vt. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am that I cannot in all probability attend our reunion. I have been a little out of health and am in Vermont trying to get well quick, but it won't be quick enough, I am afraid, for the '93 meeting. Will you please give everybody my best remembrances — I shall be with you in spirit and think of you all, all the time. John H. Field 68 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Embarkation Hospital, Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va. There is no question that I will be unable to be at the party on the 15th of June as I probably will be here at Newport News or abroad by that time. There is very little to tell you except that I am in command of the Embarkation Hospital at this port, a very large hospital and one that is steadily growing. This is a rather big command and is keeping me very busy. Give everybody my regards and tell them that I am sorry that I cannot get away. Wm. S. Terriberry, Lieut. Colonel, M. C, N. A. St. Paul, Minn. This is the day I should be leaving but there is no prospect of it. Remember me to all the boys. I realize that there never will be another reunion like this one and I am simply sick at heart when I think of you all and the chance I have to miss. It would do me good to give those old faces the O. O. though my recollection and conclusion from my experience five years ago is that age has not raised the average pulchritude. I would be perfectly willing to subject my aesthetic self to torture, however, under the circumstances. To us who rarely run across any of the class during the year, to miss one of these gatherings means more than you realize. About all we ever hear of anyone is through the Alumni Weekly and an occasional encounter with a wandering classmate. If these were other times and less serious, I would hold a solemn vigil simultaneously with the Shore Dinner next Sunday night, surrounding an appropriate number of Scotch highballs ; would repeat the performance at an appropriate hour on Monday and make a humorous after-dinner speech to myself and would pour in several libations to Bacchus on Tues- day evening, trusting to the telepathic effect of the New Haven gathering for a good time. I shall have to vigilize without the assistance of the highball but my heart will be with you all anyway. Webster Wheelock Somewhere in Ulster County, N. Y. My kindest regards and greetings to the men of '93 with whom I am not permitted to gather. I never expected to miss it and my disappointment is great, but I shall not cherish vain and lasting regrets. Life is too full of the future to worry over a dying and dead past. The present calls for every man to stand up and be counted, "for God, for country, and for Yale." When the count is made every man of '93 will register, "Here." h. c. quintard Christ Church Rectory, Cooperstown, N. Y. Gentlemen of Ninety-Three : — The biggest thing in Yale life, next to Yale herself, is the Class. The high prizes of Yale are carried off by ability and effort. Brains and study win Baccalaureate honours. Pluck and skill are rewarded by imperishable athletic fame. TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 69 But the striking truth is that, after twenty-five years, what warms a man's heart is not his own position or achievement in college or after- ward. He is proudest of the one thing for which he cannot claim any personal credit whatever — the sheer gift of God that made him, by a turn of the calendar, a member of the Class of Ninety-Three! Ralph Birdsall Kelly Field, Texas Ninety-Three Reunion Committee : Your message helps greatly. Wish could be with you. Charles R. Hickox Washington, D. C. Class Reunion Committee: Appreciate telegram of yourself and others urging me to be present in New Haven to-morrow. Inability to be there cause of very deep regret not only to myself but to Mrs. Eddy and my three boys, all of whom expected to attend. Give my regards to all who ask for me. Charles B. Eddy New York City You will remember that when you wrote me recently and paid me the compliment of selecting me as one of the speakers at our Class Dinner, I replied saying that it was quite uncertain whether I could attend, and suggested that someone else be chosen who could certainly be there and be far more qualified than I to address such a notable gathering. I am sorry to have to write you and say that my fears were justified and that I shall not be able to be with you to-morrow at New Haven. This is a real disappointment to me, and I trust that you will not consider me a slacker. The toast which you have allotted to me smacks of things that are absolute. Poor Denny Grady's hack has gone the way of many ancient institutions, like Kirk, Murray, and Hugh J. Reynolds, and in these modern days has been superseded by the joy-riding taxi or the "rubberneck wagon." For those of the class who have been fortunate enough to reach New Haven this reunion must be a peculiarly interesting one. When we look back to what we were, and then consider what we are now, I think the Class of '93 has every reason to be proud of its record. Around your tables to-morrow night will sit men who have "made good." Many dif- ferent careers and vocations will be represented, and if it is proper to throw ourselves a few bouquets, — and if we do not, probably no one else will — I think it can be truly said that the representatives of this Class of '93 are in each instance in the "first division." Military science, the church, medicine, law, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, education, science, finance and the fine arts, all have felt the influence of Yale '93 and have been correspondingly benefited. Well do I remember that June day twenty-five years ago when we gathered as the youngest Yale graduates and marched forth to seek our 7o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE fortunes, and I am confident that if the conditions which now exist had been then present, our class would have been as willing, ready and eager as are the graduating classes of today to divert its march from this goal and, instead, to turn its steps to the service of our country. Won't you be good enough to say for me how much I regret my inability to attend the reunion, and also express my best wishes for its success. Lawrence Greer The Toastmaster: I wish to call for a few minutes' talk from the one man in the service whom we have here to-night. Major Runk: Mr. Toastmaster and fellow members of the Class of '93 : After hearing George Slade on his work in France I am not sorry to tell you that the mere sight of the statue of Frederick the Great there in Washington made my fingers itch for a month to get hold of a rope and get it around his neck. What would have happened I do not know, but President Wilson relieved the strain by ordering it taken down. There is a real spirit of democracy abroad in the land. As I was coming up from Annapolis there was a group of engi- neers from Camp Devens and they were singing the song about "We will all go over there together. Some will come before and some will come after but we will all go over there together." I am in the service just as all the rest of you are, only some are serving in a civil capacity. You are all helping just as much. I am in because I could not help it. When the war broke out I studied for a while what it meant, and I made up my mind that this war was big enough to justify a man in giving up what he was doing and going into it. The issue that presented itself to me was this, — and the issue has not changed: Shall force and fraud and fear rule the world? It is nothing more than that, nothing less than that. We have seen the German nation, as a nation, seeking to rule the world. They have announced the doctrine that they are better than anybody else, that anybody else can only live by their permission. With them it is a case of submit or be exterminated, to all the world. To that, of course, we can have only one answer. They have carried out their policy of frightfulness for the purpose of terrorizing every- body who could be terrorized, — raping women, killing old men, murdering innocent children to frighten the mothers, turning the mothers that were left into mere brood mares to breed more cannon fodder. We have seen them deliberately killing all the men they could, deliberately wrecking the lives of prisoners, TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 71 breaking down their constitutions, with no other purpose than establishing their power and making everyone who came under their power submit to them or become physical wrecks for the rest of their days. That is the whole history of the war; that is the issue that has drawn me into it and that is the issue we have to fight out. We belong to the nations who believe in the doctrine of live and let live, who recognize the brotherhood of man. The German nation recognizes neither. We have to bear in mind, too, that their whole history is founded on the policy of war and domination by war. Since the time of Frederick the Great, every time they have been in war they have taken territory, from Austria, from France, and now in this war they are trying to take more than they ever got before. And this war has got to continue until the German nation as a nation learns that crime and robbery do not go, that the world will not stand for it. We must make the German nation see as a nation that they have got to atone, they have got to make reparation for all the wrong they have done. Personally I fear this war is just beginning. I feel that this country is just to-day awaking to the issues. I feel it is the part of educated men, men of our insight, of our breadth of view and of our gifts of education and knowledge, if we have the spirit Yale has given to us, to show just where we are, to set our faces firmly against any premature peace, and keep this fight up until this horrible thing we know as Prussian militarism is forever driven from the earth. (Applause.) It rests with us to bear the brunt. England and France have given of their blood, of their money, of their strength for three years and for two years we profited by it. Now we must spend our best blood and our best strength and our money. It is America to-day that has got to win the war. It is the American soldiers in France to-day who have prevented the German offensive from being successful, have prevented the British and French armies from being separated. It is American boats which are wrecking the submarines. It is America that is financing the nations at war. And we have got to continue that. We have to-day over one-third of the Class in some way serving the gov- ernment, many in a way that does not show in the record. I hope that number will improve, I hope it will get nearer one-half. I believe that this country has been allowed to grow up isolated from European jealousies and European strife, over 72 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE on this side, the most exclusive continent in the world, and that we have been permitted to develop and become the greatest, richest nation in the world, in order that at this time we can come to deliver the world from force, fraud, fear, and all the powers of hell that threaten. And I call upon you to be loyal, and to pledge to the government of which we are members, as our fore- fathers did in '76, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. (Applause.) The Toastmaster: It is gratifying to me to find that some of the legal profession have been able to go into the service of the country. Louis Runk was a lawyer. Other lawyers are actually giving their services to their country. I had an idea that lawyers were a more or less non-essential group and the only way a lawyer could do anything for his country was by giving up the law and helping the Red Cross and one thing or another, although before the war I was a little bit proud of the law. Some of us who are members of the legal fraternity had to sit and take a most powerful castigation (Laughter) from a member of another profession. I shall have to ask the help of you gentlemen, those of you who were at our supper last night, because to-day I came across something, I will not call it a poem although it is in the form of a poem. I shall ask those of you who heard the proceedings last night to listen to this and see if you can throw any light upon the author. The thing as I find it is headed "Curiosity" and reads as follows : He is a rural dominie, And looked quite harmless unto me. For I, old friends of '93, Am of the law's fraternity. I thought to test the dominie, To find what sort his faith might be. In Ledyard town 'tis hard, you see, To tell a parson from a bee. 'Twas idle curiosity, But his faith is Goodenough for me, And I must say, the dominie Is rather good at repartee. The next toast is "America Reborn." To that toast another dominie is to respond. When the toast was selected, which was in August, I did not know that brother Mathison was the father of a fifteen-year-old boy who stands six feet two and one-half inches in his stocking feet, and of another boy eleven years old TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 73 who has outgrown his eighteen-year-old breeches, and it was in no sense of that sort that I assigned to him the toast "America Reborn." (Laughter.) He comes of the race of the sons of Anak. I believe he will be able to interest us and to instruct us seriously on this noble topic which has been assigned to him. Mr. Mathison: Mr. Toastmaster and members of the Class of '93 : We have been abundantly supplied with splendid speeches this evening, and I am going to decline to go into this splendid subject which has been allotted to me and which I would far prefer to leave to your own pregnant imaginations to bring forth for me all of that which you might in confidence ascribe to me of eloquence or philosophy. I want to say a word with reference to Ralph Birdsall. He has been spoken of as having attained great repute in the field of a country parish. I am sure you will all be pleased to know that he has gone far beyond that. This spring he was at Berkeley Divinity School to deliver a series of lectures which obtain in that institution, a yearly course of lectures delivered by men selected because of their eminence or scholarship, and it was, I think, a unique tribute in the annals of Berkeley Divinity School to select a man who was serving and had served his entire min- istry in so inconspicuous a place and so small a field as that offered by Christ Church parish. I attribute it to the forceful mentality of this man, which shone forth in spite of the small place in which he labored. At the close of that series of lectures there was accorded to him the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, the highest tribute of scholastic honor that Berkeley Divinity School ever bestows upon any man outside of the episcopate. (Applause.) The degree of Doctor of Divinity from our institu- tion here would be only an expression of the same tribute of honor as that for which the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from the Berkeley Divinity School stands. I wanted to say that because I know you feel an interest in him. I would not want to discuss the matter of the inspiration of prophecy. In the olden days it was supposed to emanate from a species or degree of intoxication, and theologians even debate as to whether it is conscious or unconscious. A little while ago Skee Harmstad declared that the oratory and poetry of the evening had come to an end, and I would not for a moment want to take away from him the repute and the record of a true prophet. I merely want to suggest one thought. You who are physicians and you who are fathers know that 74 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE birth is always attended with pain. And there is not a student of human experience but knows that somehow in war, somehow in the awful pain of national and home life, the great steps of advancement and uplift have been made. I do not know why this should be ; I only know that it is. And as we see the awful desola- tion, the horror, the suffering of this war, we cannot fail to recog- nize that they must be birth pains of something great and lasting. And with this thought thrown out to you I am going to leave what might very properly follow in the way of philosophy or oratory in the discussion of this subject, and let that one thought sink into your minds. And let us watch with expectancy for that which will be, I doubt not, the outcome of the war in a vastly glorified America, through its new birth. (Applause.) The Toastmaster: The next toast I think will be at this stage of the evening, "Silence is Golden." It gives me great pleasure to present the long-distance trophy to our classmate who has come here from the distant republic of Cuba, Mr. Wilcox, "Wally" Wilcox. (Cheers and cries of "Speech.") Mr. Wilcox: I don't know whether you appreciate what it means to me to be asked to make a speech to-night, when I have never made one before in my life. I want to tell you that I have been for four months on the War Trade Board of Cuba and we have been trying to distribute the fruit and arrange the shipping for Cuba along the lines that we have in this country. We have been distributing 70,000 barrels of flour a month, and our ordinary amount is 82,000 barrels. That makes about five pounds a month for each person in Cuba. We have allowed six pounds a month for all those who are interested in the distribu- tion of sugar. Mr. Harry H. Morgan is my chief. He was formerly consul for the town of Hamburg and came out of Germany after Mr. Gerard. He was appointed by the War Trade Board and the Fuel and Shipping Boards in Cuba. Mr. Morgan has been trying to see that the island of Cuba should send out as large a crop of sugar as possible. The island of Cuba sends out as a general rule one-third of the entire world's supply of sugar. Now we say, why should we send flour, lard, pork, and all those things to Cuba? Why shouldn't they raise their own food? They do raise their own food. They send it to us, — but in another form. Sugar is a very important item, tobacco is a very important item, pineapples, oranges, and other fruits are important. (Voice : What about bananas?) Yes, and bananas. While we are send- ing food to Cuba we have an important power over the distri- TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 75 Lon£ Distance Presentation ofaCujo sugar to Mexico? going sugar trying States coal." bution of coal, which may be indicated by the fate of one ship that came from Spain with the idea of going to Mexico. When she came to Havana she was to take a large cargo of sugar to Mexico. Mexico is essentially pro-German, and Cuba is essen- tially pro- Ally. So when this shipment arrived in Havana harbor Mr. Morgan says, "What are you going to do? Do you want to take a lot of If you are to Mexico with this which we have been to get to the United I will not give you This ship stayed seven days in the harbor of Havana and then it was sent back to Spain and the sugar never got to Mexico. That is one of the things we are doing. I don't know as these things will be very interesting to you. But I want to say that when I came up here I came on a ship. Everybody said, "Why do you go to sea and take the risk of submarines ?" I talked with a friend of mine on the way and I said to him, "Why did you take this trip?" He said, "I didn't want to have the Germans scare me." That was the attitude of many on the boat, we didn't want German fright- fulness to scare us, so we came up by water. (Applause.) We came out from Havana about seven o'clock in the evening. The next morning about seven o'clock one of our patrols came out and said, "Captain, you will go along the coast as close as you can go to Jacksonville, and you will go at night with no lights, nobody will be allowed to smoke or show any lights on the boat." We turned in to Jacksonville, and in the meantime the aeroplanes were around us and a dirigible passed over us, the first dirigible I had seen in my life. It showed the wonderful power they had of standing right over us. It was armed with bombs. We reported at Jacksonville and again at Charleston. At Charleston the lightship had been removed on account of the submarines. We passed by Hatteras and there was a light. In about four hours we got a radiogram saying the captain of our ship was to pick up sixteen survivors from the Carolina. We learned from them that the submarines have a wireless by which they 76 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE pick up news from all over the world. They have Associated Press news and also pick up news of baseball games and bet on them. It seems incredible that Germans should bet on the baseball games of our country, but they do it. One or two more remarks about the life on a submarine. They say they live in comparative luxury. One thing the captain of the Didn't liappeti to see anybody from '93 }ixin-piit<5 Ihrougk one of mesolioojoS- submarine said was that whatever room they were in they must stay in, because the submarine goes down at great speed and the sailors have to balance the boat. If it is going too much by the front the sailors run to the back. From five in the morning until eleven they do the most work, from then on they rest and at night they come up to recharge their batteries. On our trip from Havana to New York we passed three sub- TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 77 marines, but we only got notice of them after we had passed them, by wireless. (Applause.) At the conclusion of Wilcox's remarks America was sung and the formal session was adjourned. The party separated at the Old Fence about 3 : 30 a. m. About sixty of our men joined in the Commencement proces- sion and attended the Commencement exercises in Woolsey Hall on Wednesday morning. Honorary Degrees were conferred as follows : Masters of Arts Alfred Lawrence Aiken, '91 Paul Wayland Bartlett Henry Stanford Brooks, '85 Benedict Crowell, '91 S. Frank Lyon Polk, '94 Robert Scoville Doctors of Science Henry Drysdale Dakin Edward Sylvester Morse Doctor of Letters John Masefield Doctors of Divinity James Edgar Gregg, '03 D. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle Doctors of Laws Herbert Clark Hoover William Renwick Riddell Henry Pomeroy Davison Rt. Hon. Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Reading Lord Chief Justice of England and British Ambassador The usual Alumni Luncheon followed in the Dining Hall. The service was by ladies of the New Haven Chapter of the American Red Cross. After dinner President Hadley announced that the threatened deficit in University income had been met by a contribution through the Alumni Fund of $502,737.50. Our contribution of $15,000 was exceeded by the Class of '78, which gave $78,000, and by the Class of '76, but so far as we could hear, not by any of the other classes. The other speakers were John Masefield, Chief Justice Riddell of Canada, Lord Reading, and ex-President Taft. 78 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE The dinner concluded with the singing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Swayne, the audience joining in the refrain. With this function formally ended the best reunion that the Class has held. About twenty men dined at headquarters in the evening and a few stragglers remained for breakfast on Thursday morning, Those who attended the reunion were: Allen, H. C, Allen, J. W., Avery, C. L., Barnes, Bates, Beadleston, Beebe, Begg, Bliss, Boardman, Borden, Bristol, Brownson, Bull, Burchard, Candee, Cartwright, Chisholm, Clarke, J. D., Cooke, Cravens, Crouse, Donnelly, Dwight, H. R., Dwight, W. E., Ewing, Faxon, Fay, Ficken, Folk, Fox, Gallaudet, Gatchel, Goodenough, Hackett, Harmstad, Harvey, Hast- ings, Hay, Higgins, Hobbie, Holbrook, Hurlbert, Jepson, Judson, Lambert, Lamson, E. R., Lamson, W. J., Marvin, Mathison, Merritt, Mills, C. W., Morgan, Nadler, Newton, Parsons, Peck, Peirce, Robinson, Roby, Rogers, Runk, Scott, Scoville, Sedgwick, Shaw, Smith, Spencer, Stoeckel, Strong, Sutphen, Swayne, Thomas, Thomson, Tracy, Trask, Wachsman, Warnock, Welles, L. A., Wheeler, Wilcox, Williams, Woolner, Wright, Yates, — Johnson, E. C, Paine, Tyler; 85 graduates, 3 non-graduates; total 88. 1 II- j V THEN AND NOW ALUMNI HALL Scene of so many torturous examinations, Commencement Dinners and glee club rehearsals, was torn down in iqio-ii to make room for the Wright Memorial Hall. The towers have been rebuilt back of Skull and Bones by G. D. Miller, ' 7 o THEN AND NOW My dear Swayne: You were good enough to want me to tell something about what has happened to Yale since Ninety-three were under- graduates, and it is a pleasure to do it. Yet somehow it seems rash in me to try it. You men were Seniors when my class entered Yale. I think we all have a peculiar reverence for those who were in that relation to us when we were college youths. But you asked me, so here goes ! I remember, when I was a New Haven schoolboy in the late 'Eighties, strolling down Chapel street of a spring evening for a boyish look at the Yale Campus, which seemed to me to be a place apart from the clattering world of affairs and which someday I might myself have a part in. That must have been about the time that Ninety-three was entering college, a different place, — amazing how the world moves along! — from that to which our sons are going to-day. You remember, as I can, the Chapel street of that day. You came down from York, past the delectable Hillman's, and between rows of old-fashioned white houses close on the sidewalk, to the ivy-covered Art School and then a long stretch of diamond- shaped rail fence, over which you looked down the leafy distances of the Old Campus. "Hanc Statuam" stood in the middle of this open space, where Vanderbilt is now, and past his flowing gown and buckled shoes you could see, along High street, the recently-built Chittenden Library, the ivy-turreted Old Library, Dwight Hall and the gray uncompromising bastile of Alumni Hall, scene of so many torturous examination hours and Commencement dinners. In the middle, under tall elms, was the Treasury Building, where the patriarchal and beloved Prexy had his kindly abode and the courtly-mannered Treasurer. I think the old Cabinet Building must have been standing then, back of South Middle, though long in disrepair. They pulled it down about your time, and the homesick Freshmen who formerly had had to climb to its attic to read the few out-of-town news- papers the College took in, thereafter journeyed to the more 82 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ■ BEFORE OSBORN HALL SPREAD ITS BYZANTINE SQUATNESS OVER THAT FAMOUS COLLEGE CORNER spacious quarters of the north wing of the Old Library, where the peripatetic custodian, great in Hebrew learning, presided, watery-eyed, behind a high desk near the door. Your class came to Yale just after the Old Fence had passed, Osborn Hall having only recently spread its Byzantine squatness over that famous college corner. Osborn Hall was regarded as a remarkable architectural affair in those days and visitors came to New Haven especially to see it. To-day, — so the world changes, — the Dean has a fund, to which now and then some patriotic modern visitor contributes, towards pulling it down. Most of the buildings that were the Old Yale of mellow memories, were standing in the fall of 1889. The Old Brick Row, that collection of entomological museums, as one critic dubbed it, but to most of us, I think, the finest thing in Yale's outward investiture because it was the oldest, was still there. We of our day knew well the four long brick barrack-like dormitories, high-tiered Athenaeum, Lyceum with its quaint old- fashioned recitation room opening out under the elms, and the Old Chapel, with its winding stairs and great assembly room, where all of the classes in those days held their meetings and Lit elections, and where, as I remember it, a good deal of quiet THEN AND NOW 83 worldly wisdom was inoculated into us by the venerable Presi- dent. We, at least, a few years later, listened to Timothy Dwight's five-o'clock winter afternoon Freshman lectures there, unless, youth-like, we were lucky enough to get onto the rear benches where we could read French novels in the darkening room that was lighted only by the President's tiny lamp over his manuscript on the reading desk below us. Overhead certain undergraduates were allowed to room, and they not infrequently let down tattoo strings to tap against the windows during those sleepy and yet, somehow, in retrospect, inspiring long hours. I believe that this sort of moral fatherliness on the part of the President has long since disappeared. The latter-day college president is engrossed in the manifold affairs of a very large educational business and, while on his infrequent public appear- ances he gives very sound and eloquent advice to the under- graduates, there is lacking that intimacy between the Freshman and the head of the institution that we knew in Old Chapel. Between the buildings of the Old Brick Row ran sandy grass- less lanes, affording long slides in winter and convenient BATTELL FLANKED BY DURFEE AND FARNAM 84 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ambushes for unwary underclassmen in fall and spring terms. There occurred the famous Thermopylaes of our day, when the mettle of the Freshmen was tested by kicking and cuffing and beating them through lanes of Sophomores armed with various wooden instruments of torture for the occasion. If we all got our physical dressing down at those times I think we got some- thing else with it — the undergraduates to-day who do not have any of those barbarous old-time rushes to undergo cannot have quite the affection for the place that was then and there pounded into us through our epidermis. Hard knocks at the hand of traditional authority bring forth a loyalty that lasts. Durfee, Battell, Farnam and Lawrance, now relics of the middle architectural ages (though Battell is a good college build- ing), completed the Campus which was "Yale" in our day. Of course the Divinity School buildings stood at Elm and College, uptown replicas of the railroad station, and built in the same Early Pullman period. The Divinity School had a very respect- able attendance in those days — perhaps because there was no tuition or room rent for men studying to be ministers, — but I do not think that we had a very high opinion of them. Muscular Christianity came along a little later, with the Y. M. C. A. movement. The theologs of our time did not appear to be very muscular and a good many of them wore low cut vests and white ties, though I have no doubt a great many very fine men were among them. To-day the former Theological School has become a very different institution, a School of Religion, under a modern Faculty of believers in social service. It trains tenement workers, and Y. M. C. A. secretaries, and missionaries, and I believe is regarded as the pioneer in a new type of Christian ministry. It hasn't as many students now, but I have a notion that it is doing a larger public service. The Divinity School of our time I remember particularly as the scene of a fire of vast and spectacular proportions. It was in East Divinity, the College street building, and the whole college turned out. I raced down to it as a schoolboy, to watch the raging flames devour the attic floor and to laugh with the crowd of onlookers at the efforts of the students to help the firemen empty Lake Whitney on the blaze. It was the best fire Yale had ever had and rivalled in popularity with the students the one this year that destroyed the old railroad station. The Divinity School buildings were outside of our own Yale. THEN AND NOW 85 The block on which they stood had a number of ancient home- steads on them, and a tree-embowered expanse of gardens and high board fences within, the same board fences contributing to our bonfires near the Herrick Oak. In your Senior year the houses here were torn down and the beginning made on the new Berkeley Oval which since has become an upperclass dormitory square. Afar off, occasionally glimpsed on Satur- day afternoon walks about town, one came upon the outlying THE OLD LIBRARY, SOON TO BE USED FOR THE COLLEGE The former Graduate School offices and a portion of Peabody Museum, seen to the right, have been razed to provide room for the Memorial Quadrangle and scattered brick and stucco buildings of Sheff, — a department of the University that we knew little about and the denizens of which were not usually of our life, though I imagine that a good deal more solid work was done there (judging from what I know of its graduates) even in those days than certainly was done by us in our Senior years in the College. To-day there is hardly such a cleavage between Sheff and the College, though each retains its own peculiar social institutions that we knew. So far as the undergraduates went, the need of stalwart Sheff oarsmen and football players to uphold the University's athletic honors, when her rivals became too strong for the College to handle alone, has tended to pull down the old separating walls; to-day a Varsity captain is the best man, regardless of whether he is College or Sheff. The University Dining Hall also has 86 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE WRIGHT HALL Given by graduates in honor of Dean Wright and erected on the site of Alumni Hall played its part in this social fusing of the two departments. The Scientific School now has the beginnings of a superb dormitory system on the block south of the original Sheff square, and I think in time will be hardly distinguishable, in her social organi- zation, from the College. Structurally, therefore, Yale to-day is a vastly changed place from the single quadrangle your class found it to be in the fall of '89. The Old Brick Row, except for Connecticut Hall, is gone ; Alumni Hall has been replaced by a fine dormitory built in honor of the late Dean Wright ; a second Campus has sprung into existence across Elm street; the empty spaces on the Old Campus have been filled in. A prodigious (almost too dominat- ing) limestone structure turns the corner of Grove and College streets with the Dining Hall and Woolsey Hall. Almost all of the land within the logical confines of the future University is now owned by Yale against the time when it will be needed. The Medical School has moved from York street over to the New Haven Hospital grounds, where it is beginning a new career as a great American professional school on an adequate endow- ment. Sheff since 1893 has slowly elbowed her way out Prospect street and across Hillhouse avenue, and down College street. The University itself, putting into concrete form its policy of combination scientific workshops for all departments, has bought the enormous tract of the Hillhouse Place, and has already begun there what will eventually become a scientific laboratory center. Various institutions, new to returning visi- THEN AND NOW 87 tors of our day, have sprung up around the University. A new Senior club, the Elihu, has moved into the old Revolutionary- times house next to the Law School on Elm street; a Music School building has been erected on the site of President Dwight's former College street home ; new ShefT society houses, and beautiful ones, have appeared; The Elizabethan Club, a University book-collectors' rendezvous for the literary under- graduates of both departments, and the possessor of one of the finest private libraries in America, stands on College street near Wall ; The Yale University Press, one of the many activities of Yale's many-sided and constructive Treasurer, George Day, has a house opposite the Elizabethan Club, — its publications have put the University in the forefront of American productive scholarship, and the Press itself at the head of American pub- lishers who believe in good printing; on High street, in one of the square brick boarding houses of our time, the Yale Publishing Association produces the Alumni Weekly (which your class secretary had a good deal to do with establishing in your Junior year and of which he was an editor) and The Yale Review. This last named publication (I am only the publisher of it, so I am not expected to be modest in its praises) is one of the most important intellectual enterprises, with the Press, that Yale has seen begun since our time. It has given the Yale name to a national literary and public affairs review of the first grade and every Ninety-three man ought to be a heeler of it. But this is not all that has changed or is changing. Until just before the War, which has temporarily upset everything every- where, the most insistent need of the College was more room for the undergraduates. In the 'Nineties we roomed on the Campus if we could, and anywhere else we happened to if we couldn't. The result was that a lot of men lived in private dormitories, like the Hutch' and the York street houses, and that a condition seemed likely to develop that would not be in line with Yale demo- cratic traditions. The College authorities ended this, by build- ing more dormitories and by taking over the private ones. But even this did not solve the question, — more dormitory room was still needed. It will be one of the greatest events in the Deanship of Dean Jones when the new Memorial Quadrangle, to be built in memory of Charles W. Harkness, '83, by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness of New York, is finished. This amazing project is now just started. To prepare for it, the entire block where the 88 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Peabody Museum stood and the Old Gym and Pierson Hall, has been razed. Here, eventually, will rise the towers and stone buildings of what may well be the finest college quadrangle in America. The change has resulted in a new University heating plant on York street and Grove, and the coming construction of a new Peabody Museum on the Pierson-Sage Square. At Com- mencement this year another noble gift to Yale, this time from William L. Harkness, '8i, was announced. This will be a new College recitation building which will go up, after the War, on the site of the present Dwight Hall on the Old Campus. One of the most pressing questions at the University in recent years has been the wise decision regarding the ultimate plans for the University Library. Begun on the Old Campus, when Chitten- den was built in your day, the problem had become a serious one whether it was wise to continue it down the High street side of the Campus, where even then the space possible for it would not be sufficiently large for the purpose. The coming Harkness recitation building has precipitated the necessary decision to remove the Library to some other site and give over the whole Old Campus, as is proper, to the College alone. The plans, there- fore, are for the ultimate use of perhaps a whole new city block near the Campus for the great University Library that the present Librarian, Mr. Andrew Keogh, has the vision to see in the future; the transformation of Chittenden and Linsly Library Halls to College use; and the making over of the Old Library, which long has been closed to the undergraduates, into a place where they may have their Y. M. C. A., their grill, their Linonia and Brothers Library back again where they can step into it from the Campus, their newspaper reading room and debating and glee club quarters. After the War, these fine things are to materialize, as the gifts for them, excepting for the new Library, are in hand. And as I write these lines, Yale men everywhere are thrilled by the munificence of the will of the late John W. Sterling, '64, whose residuary estate, estimated at this writing at around thirteen millions, comes at once to Yale and may likely not only build the Library but numerous other structures and found professorships and establish a multitude of things that the University needs and has been dreaming of. These building changes have brought about a new Yale for the returning graduate of the 'Nineties, and there have been changes, also, in their daily routine that the students live in THEN AND NOW 89 them. I have spoken of the new University Dining Hall, where we have our Alumni Dinners at Commencements instead of in the tent outside of the Alumni Hall of our times. Twelve hundred undergraduates of both departments, eat there daily. Sunday Chapel, compulsory for us, is optional between two succeeding services, in Battell and Woolsey Hall. The College Choir is a real affair nowadays, thanks to that gifted classmate of yours who has done so much to give Yale a reputation throughout the musical world, and whose organ recitals are an event for a much wider circle than the New Haven music-loving public. A good many of us wouldn't last long, with our raucous voices, in the College Choir nowadays. And it would not be possible to-day for any rapscallion choir to conspire together to haze an offensively chesty tenor, as we did, and, when the tenors' turn came to answer in unison the basses' query, "Who is the Lord FROM VANDERBILT COURT Ivy-covered since our day, the open Campus now extends to Durfee, the Treasury Building long since having disappeared 9o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE God Almighty?" let that self-satisfied individual unexpectedly bawl out all by himself that it was he. The Campus, when Ninety-three were Freshmen, had an open space between Lawrance and Osborn Halls (Welch and Phelps Halls were to come later) double elm-lined and open to the avaricious hack stand on College street, through which the fortu- nate residents in South Middle and North Middle could look down across the Green and thus in timely season avoid missing their belated part in the underclass riots that not infrequently surged up from the downtown theatres. Prokaski's Yale Hotel (where the Freshmen got beer shampoos) was on Center street, and Traeger's was on Chapel. There we drank to the lady's health and then magnificently smashed the glass in the open fire- place when a classmate's engagement was dragged out of him. Traeger's had a rather dreary sawdust-floored bar below the street level and an excellent grill upstairs that you went up to from the street by a high stone staircase that had a convenient baluster on either side for the return journey. Then there was Billy's, of mammoth egg-on-toast fame, up on Park street near the engine house, and Mory's of ale-laden atmosphere and round tables that you carved your initials on, on Temple. These college taverns of our day have long since departed, though Mory's has miraculously translated itself to York street and there strives to keep up the traditions of good fellowship and college atmosphere that it had in its downtown days. You would think yourself back in the old Temple Bar if you dropped in there to-day; there are the same doors and windows, the same fireplaces, it seems, and tables and chairs and piles of dusty Lits and Banners on the mantelpiece, and certainly the same old German gentleman, in a wooden nightcap reading a wooden book which we may hope is not Pangermanic, and the identical championship oars and all the old prints and other things on the walls. But the undergraduate has not followed there in large numbers. Some of us drop in now and then for a chop and mug of Burton after the manner of the aged at the end of a winter afternoon constitutional. But the undergraduate — certainly the drinking undergraduate — of a former generation has passed, as indeed American life outside of college has changed in that particular, and drinking is now casual and, from what the grill keepers say, hardly pays the bartenders for serving it. I do not wish to infer that in the early 'Nineties we all were THEN AND NOW 9* topers, because we were not ; but there was much freer and more general downtown drinking in that decade than there is in this, and such as there was absorbed itself in the undergraduate code much more naturally than it would to-day. Speaking of the last normal period at Yale, two years or more ago, the almost com- plete absence of carousing in the College was one of the most striking things to a casual dropper-in of the old traditions. The whole code of manners (for the matter is one of manners rather than of morals in undergraduate life) has swung over onto a cleaner and more polished plane. A recent newcomer to the Faculty, who knew English and Canadian college life, came to me after he had been at Yale a few months, to express his sur- prise at the sobriety and morality of the Yale undergraduate body; from experiences elsewhere (even in this country) he had expected quite another thing. I was not wise enough to tell him why this was so, though I knew that it was. Perhaps it is the reflection in college, of the undoubtedly higher plane of manners to which America in general has risen since our college days. I found that new Faculty man, discovering Yale for the first time, had the idea that athletics and class lines and the THE NEWBERRY ORGAN IN WOOLSEY HALL IS THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD The Hall, accommodating 3000 people, is the center for musical events in New Haven, and Jepson has made himself and the organ famous 92 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ip \\iy !Mt V ■Iff ^ ZHBmX? . • • p -4, ^#' ffjjj 1- § ML " ^rtri %'.'"•■'■- ! - f^n#, H w \ **»«* THE AVARICIOUS HACK STAND HAS BEEN REPLACED BY TAXIS AND JITNEYS senior societies had had a good deal to do with it. He had not found those characteristic Yale things so pronounced at other colleges, just as he had found them to be entirely missing, in the American sense, in Canada and England. What I say, therefore, is that the kaleidoscope of modern life outside of the college has wheeled the old carefree drinking and careless morals out of the modern Yale and brought in a more quiet and self-contained era in which those things have lost the old appeal. But I do not mean by this that Yale life to-day is any the less joyous on that account. On the contrary, I am quite sure that it is a much better college life, just as I am sure that our sons are better fellows than their fathers ! We were not over-fine in our feelings, perhaps ; we came at the end of the Homeric period at Yale, of crude living conditions and athletic prowess and segregation from the world outside and aloofness from other departments of the University and a nar- row and prescribed curriculum. Your class came into a provincial Yale, compared with what it is to-day, when the things we liked to do were a part with the life we lived in the century-old barracks and with the simple intellectual fare we received in the classrooms from the small and tradition-bound Faculty of that day. I recall, as can you, our class rushes and the Campus fracases with the Sophomores and the downtown THEN AND NOW 93 riots in Bunnell's Grand Opera House and occasional dance halls. There was a theatre way down Chapel street (Proctor's New Haven Opera House it was — I had nearly forgotten the name), that had a portable ticket office in the lobby in which an anaemic young man in a pink tie sold us peanut-gallery tickets ; it, and the anaemic young man inside, frequently went along with us into the street as we came out. That sort of rough-house hasn't been so frequent — I was going to say possible — at Yale in later days. There are fewer theatres, and moving-picture places have sprung up, as everywhere, in scores all over the city. The under- graduates patronize these very extensively, in droves daily. It is a pretty poor substitute, even for the kind of thing we used to see, I think ; but it has seemed to dissipate the undergraduate night prowling about the city, just as the single occasional show of our day seemed to centralize it. A score or so underclass- men, strolling out from a moving-picture place of an evening, and rubbing shoulders, probably, with New Haven graduates and their families that they know, or even with an instructor or two, haven't the opportunity or the youthful desire to explode that the three or four hundred of us pounding out of the theatre used to feel and generally exercise. Perhaps the emotional SENIOR DAYS SEEM FAR AWAY TO US NOW 94 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE heights to which he has been raised by the movies has something to do with the modern undergraduate's lack of nocturnal ginger. The stored-up energies of a week's Campus monotony have been displaced by a continuous daily sapping of his manly powers. Strong men who have wept over a movie heroine's two-hour plight, have no strength left with which to assault the populace afterwards. If the downtown precincts are thus more quiet to-day, so far as college disturbances go, the Campus itself is hardly less so. The Freshman Rush has long since departed, just as have the Campus celebrations of athletic victories, at least on the magnifi- cently unforgettable scale we knew. The two lower classes now carry on what shadowy rivalry they have, in a very orderly manner. I believe they have joint committee meetings before one of these surviving traditions of our day is to be carried out. These committees map out a program and the News prints editorials urging the Freshmen and Sophomores to be in town for the occasion and to show some class spirit. Then they have a parade on the Old Campus and go through a mummery of what we did in our day, and possibly have a tug-o'-war. I sup- pose they wonder just what it was that we old fellows used to find in a Fence Rush to interest us. The Sheff Freshmen appear to-day to be the last survivors of our cruder days in these respects. They occasionally burst forth, but the College senti- ment is against over-doing it, and the New Haven public has very decidedly come to the conclusion that such affairs are public nuisances, as they properly are. All of which illustrates the change in undergraduate public relations since our day. I am not sure that even a Phelps Battalion would bring out the men to-day as it brought us out, pell-mell down the dormitory entries, in that Cleveland campaign of '92, when you were Seniors and my class were Freshmen. You recall that affair. I* remember jostling through High street that torch-lit night (you got your torches at Ratner's on Chapel street and your kerosene from the nearest residents to the Campus), and scrambling over the Hopkins Grammar School lot fence to where, in a hurrahing throng of upperclassmen, your own class secretary (who got me into this rambling paper that I'm trying to finish, but find diffi- culty in doing so, so many memories crowd in on me as I write), massive and dominating the bedlam with his clarion voice, was giving out mortar-boards and cambric gowns for the Republican THEN AND NOW 95 Party street parade to escort "Our Chauncey" and some lesser dignitaries to the Hyperion. We all marched in it, I remember, and were duly rotten-egged in the downtown streets of the Democratic wards, through which we quite as enthusiastically paraded the next night (shall I confess it), in the Democratic column, to receive glasses of very poor beer from the same populace that the evening before had mobbed us. The under- 96 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE graduate hasn't done anything like that since then, so far as I can remember. But that is only another instance of what I have said before, — the American people, from whom these boys come, hasn't either. Again, in such an instance as this, the reflection of the outside world is seen on the Campus. Much the same sort of thing has become true of the under- graduate and his athletics. We were in the heyday of these when Ninety-three was in College, and when Ninety-six was, until Harvard wouldn't play with us any more because some- body's nose got bitten in that last and most glorious of all foot- ball games at Springfield. I suppose we did bite people's noses off in those days for the honor of our university and break their legs and collar-bones and roughhouse them on general principles. But we were not alone in that. It was the American way of doing things. Big business was battle in the outside world; athletics was our business. They obsessed us, possessed us, and were our reflection of that battle, all in a very normal and healthy way, I think, but altogether more than they have our successors. I think that a great many graduates miss this lack in the modern undergraduates, and do not understand it. But it is not difficult to understand. We lived in a pretty small college world, and our life in it was the more intense because it was a small world. We did not have automobiles to play with, there were not so many convenient trains to New York, nor did we have the money to spend in New York if we got there. We did not have the distractions from Campus life that our successors have. So we did very hard what we found to do, and athletics were the most natural vent for those energies. In this particular the University has paid the price of being a larger and more diffused kind of place than we knew it. Also the classes are larger, and this makes for lessened interest in what each of us is doing. But, also, I think the general trend of American col- lege sports has had a good deal to do with the changed condi- tions. Yale was the leader in football and rowing in our times ; we, almost alone, knew the trick. Since then dozens of small colleges have learned it, and come to New Haven quite often able to hold or even beat Yale teams that formerly swept the field with all comers. Athletic preeminence has passed from the hands of a small group of specialized places and become dis- tributed among all of them. This has let down the excitement at Yale over athletic successes. And the enormous development THEN AND NOW 97 X ■ r .^y^^ ff! 8L5A \n «^p™»- ONE OF BOB COOKS CREWS (The old Boathouse on East Chapel Street is now gone and the crews are trained at a new one across the river, which temporarily is a U. S. Navy Training Station) of college sports in a financial way has also had its deteriorating effect on the undergraduates' interest in them. We knew nothing of professional coaching as it is practiced to-day. We had only comparatively small attendances at the games. To a considerable extent we had no general public following them, certainly not as is the case to-day. When we piled out in droves to a football game at Yale Field, it was our game that we went to. Now, seated in the Bowl, with seventy thousand people all around us, we go to a huge American athletic spectacle. In the old days we did our own forecasting of the outcomes, and knew our players because they were our classmates or upperclass friends. To-day the sporting pages of the metropolitan newspapers advise the paid coaches what they should do, the players are likely as not to be unknown new men from another department or "finds" among the horde of unknown youths in the College itself. The old personal interest has gone. The modern undergraduate has lost touch with his University team because the place has become so big and the public has become so interested that it isn't any more his own team that he is going out to see. I sat with a youthful News editor at a recent Yale-Harvard game ; he could not tell me the names of half of the twenty or more Yale sub- stitutes as they trotted out to be successively annihilated by one of Harvard's best-coached championship elevens. He got into the frenzied cheers that followed some good play down below, but 9 8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ' Mm 2T *M tF*\,-t?r **^ M& 0M •rWRJWBEto. \w>^ — -^rv^ |r^| jt^j , : -i, YALE FIELD FOOTBALL BLEACHERS The old Football Field, where Homeric combats took place in the Nineties and where we had a personal interest in our teams that the modern undergraduate lacks when he goes to the Bowl was not at all abashed when it turned out to be a Harvard end run that scored. I think, for one, that our college athletics have all been going the wrong way in the last decade or so. There has been too much money spent, there is too much coaching, they are too big. I liked the old wooden benches of Yale Field, and the small college crowds that you felt yourself a part of, more than I do the modern huge spectacles. The undergraduate, who did not know the Yale sports we knew, feels this and does not know the reason why. It would be a very good thing if we could put them back, as far as possible, on their former less public basis. Or is it, merely, if one of us hoary old grads feels that way, that it shows that he is growing older? I am making this reply to your request for something about the changes that have taken place at Yale since your and my time in College, longer than I had intended to or you may want. But there is a good deal to say, — a good deal more to say, that we are all interested in knowing about, than you will want me to take space saying. But I cannot end, without a word about the things that are happening at the University which are of a good deal more moment, I think, than even the material develop- ment and the undergraduate changes I have been discussing. THEN AND NOW 99 The University to-day has a good deal larger mission to ful- fill in American life than it had, or imagined, in the Nineties. It is sensing that broadened opportunity and is in a fair way to realize the obligation it entails. This is a large subject, and I cannot do more than hit the high spots in touching on it. You can all fill in the gaps that I shall have to bridge as I do it. You, and I, were in college in a period which was, as we can clearly enough see it now, toward the end of an era in American life and American higher education. The outside world of affairs was in the heyday of that industrial period which followed the Civil War and which so rapidly developed the country finan- cially and productively. It was a world that was so engrossed in making its way that it did not have the time to stop and think about the way it was going ; it was in a good deal of a scramble to make money and thereby get the power that money can bring. It was a world that smiled at theoretical dreamers who believed in running the government as a democracy and on scientific principles, that had little use for the colleges, and the leaders of which felt no necessity for looking ahead a bit and preparing for trouble. We do not seriously blame these men now; we know that that period could not have been different and that it was not yet time for American life to consolidate the ground it had gained and build for the future. But the War has suddenly brought us to a realization that we cannot go ahead on that line any longer. A totally new problem lies ahead of us, of recon- structing our whole national life and thought, so that we may not only build up a strong and self-supporting nation, but take our place as perhaps the leader in modern democratic civilization. In this effort every constructive factor in our American life must have its part; the universities not the least. That is, the place of an institution such as Yale in the American national reconstruction that is to follow the War is bound to be a very important place indeed. A university like Yale must be able to contribute to the country an intellectual leadership which it was not called upon to give until now. The new era is to be founded upon the application of modern science to human affairs, — the universities must be the nation's laboratories for such sciences, and the men who train there must go forth to apply their knowledge practically to this end. The new era is to form its public policies on the scientific principles of human intercourse, — the universities must give us those principles and ioo CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE mould its students on them so that they may go out and apply them in the politics and government of the country. The new era cannot be one of secluded provincialism, it must see America take its place as one of the world nations and world leaders, — the universities must supply something at least of that broader world feeling and acquaintance with what the world outside has done and is doing, its culture must be broader and more useful. America, if it is to cope with the problem before it, must recognize that in its thinkers and scientific discoverers it has a force which it must harness to the public life. Out of the uni- versities must come the higher thinking that we shall need to put into national practice if we are to succeed in the new times. How is Yale, our Yale that we are so loyal to, prepared to step out of the secluded corner of its traditional past and take a hand in this novel and very important American business. I am glad to be able to say that not only is the organization of the place already so far along toward consolidation and effi- cient management that it will be able to do its part when the time arrives, but that the realization of the opportunity so per- meates the forward thinking of its leaders, both Faculty and graduate, that it will be ready. An enormous change has come upon the University, educationally, since our time. For one thing, it is to-day almost, not quite as yet, a consolidated and centralized unit instead of the loose association of unrelated departments that it was in the 'Nineties.* I have spoken of the seclusion which we felt from the rest of the place. That has gone. The College is one spoke in the wheel, if still the most important spoke, and not the whole place. The University is moving along as a whole. In our day we knew, only by hearsay, if we knew them at all, the professors in the other departments. The demarcation in the Faculties was vertical, divided by departments. To-day a beginning has been made toward consolidating the teaching forces in the different departments ("Schools," they are now called) along the line of the subjects they teach. This has been done in chemistry this year. It will shortly be done in one or two more subjects. Eventually it will be done in all. Sheff and College students will thus have a common Faculty, and take their work in either place as the occasion demands. The horizontal Faculty policy which has been devised by the new Dean of the Graduate * Since this was written the University has been reorganized on modern lines by the Corporation. THEN AND NOW IOI School for that department, will shortly become the policy of the whole institution. Financially, the University, except for some of the Sheff funds, and a trusteeship or two like Peabody Museum's, is being handled as a whole.* Alumni Fund givers give to the whole University on this larger plan, rather than to keep alive the old differences and separations that are no longer possible or forward-looking. The University is building Univer- THE ART SCHOOL AND CHITTENDEN LIBRARY OF OUR TIME UNCHANGED TO-DAY EXCEPT FOR AN ENLARGEMENT OF THE FORMER BUILDING * Note: The financial development of the University since 1893 has been even more striking than the other changes here discussed. In 1892-3 the total funds of the University were $4,000,000; this year, exclusive of the great Sterling and other bequests since June 30, 1918, they are $22,000,000. io2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE sity laboratories rather than departmental ones. In a short time it should be possible, as it is now being considered, to reorganize where necessary so that there should be no further duplication of equipment or teaching force. That is, Yale is reorganizing for its coming part in the nation's leadership. But that leadership will be intellectual. What is Yale doing to meet the new needs of the times in that all important particu- lar. In the first place, speaking now of the College, the educa- tion given is vastly broader than it was in our day. We gave two years to a prescribed course in the traditional three R's of college education, and then had a little leeway in the two last years, though we had to have certain philosophic courses which the philosophy professors had been able to save from the down- fall of the old system. Since then the College has gone through a long period of experiment with the partial elective system, to come out of it on an entirely new theory, which the experience of the military courses since we entered the War has shown to have in it the most useful possibilities, that theory being the group system of studies for men of varying types of mind, the course in them to be prescribed when chosen. Sheff has had this system ; the College is coming to it. Again, we were driven through the traditional classical education that had come down to us from the ages. We entered on Prep-school Latin and Greek, we had both in college. The field of human thought has amazingly broadened since our day, however, and this condition does not exist to-day. A boy does not need Greek to enter Yale now; he can drop Latin on entering. One of these days Latin will not be longer required to get in. In the new education, if four years of Latin remain essential in a rounded culture, as most of us still believe they do, they will not necessarily be the first four years of the eight from Prep-school matriculation to college graduation. In the college course itself, the trend, since the War began and for some time before it, has been unmis- takably toward the use of the four short years to prepare the undergraduates for the broader mental life that modern times have brought about, as compared with our time. The traditional classical course has long since given way to a broader curriculum. The Faculty to-day is manned by scores of teachers and specialists of broad culture and practical usefulness, where we had one or two in our time. From now on, it is unquestionably the fact that very great further advances will be taken along both curriculum THEN AND NOW 103 and Faculty strengthening. The coming Yale graduate must know what has been the matter with the industrial system, with the government, with politics as we have known it, and must have very practical and useful ideas of how to contribute toward the better organization of the American nation for the world place it is bound to take when the War is over. I do not mean by this that Yale College must change over from the traditional cultural education to a utilitarian one. I do mean that all the keenest minds in the Yale Faculty to-day are adjusting them- selves to the new and larger call that the country is making and shortly will make to an even greater extent upon the colleges, to do their part in the new era that is immediately ahead of us. As I write (and the editorial trick of lecturing people from the altitudes of a superior outlook upon the world seems to have got into my pen), I hear the tramp of feet past my windows on High street and the surge of voices. It almost seems as if Ninety-three were marching over to the Hopkins Lot for our MEMBERS OF THE YALE BATTERIES BEING SWORN IN TO GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN JULY, I916 io 4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Class Rush. And then I hear the staccato of military commands, and glance out to see a column of Yale boys in khaki with red cords on their campaign hats swinging along, their undergraduate company officers at their head. Three hundred and fifty of them are spending the summer in the hardest kind of artillery training, billeted on the Old Campus, in the dormitories that you and I lived our careless, happy life in so long ago. I remember two years ago when the Yale Batteries were formed, in Prepared- ness for what might follow. Twelve hundred of these youths have volunteered for the War since that time. They have gone in dozens and scores and hundreds, as the calls came, and nobody — fathers or Deans if they had tried — could have kept them from going. They are now in France or in the last weeks of their training on this side to get there. Those that have not gone, because they were too young to go, are training at the University to go. The whole place is a military camp. Members of the Faculty, once teachers of English literature and paleon- tology and Latin and German, are training them under Army officers or training the Yale Naval Unit, which is quite as important an undergraduate war movement as the artillery. Of those that have gone, a score or more have made the supreme sacrifice. That Honor Roll is increasing. Yale is giving of her best to the mighty struggle for our civilization. And when T see these things and watch with a surging heart these fine boys spring to the colors, as I have these last two years, I know that, regardless of all the changes that have come to Yale since you and I were there, and of all the disappointments that perhaps some of us have felt now and then over the loss of some things in Yale life that we cared for, the soul of Yale is the same, the boys are the same, their loyalty to the place and to the country is as great as ours was, if not greater. Yale is a new place in many ways. But it is a better place. And it is looking forward to a time when it will be of more use to America than it used to be. The old slogan of service to the country, to-day being realized in the military enlistments of its sons, to-morrow will mean more than we can know to-day. For Yale to-day is getting ready to be the greater Yale of the future. Edwin Oviatt. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 107 Franklin Jones Abbe Managing trustee of the Home Builders Associates, 105 Main Street, Brockton, Massachusetts Residence, 12 Wyman Street, Brockton, Massachusetts Abbe is a son of Burr Reeve and Julia Arnold (Jones) Abbe, who were married August 16, 1865, and had five other children, three daughters and two sons : Burr Reeve Abbe, Jr., B.A. Yale 1889, M.D. Columbia 1895 (died at Long Beach, California, FRANKLIN J. ABBE in 1898), and Harry Allen Grant Abbe, B.A. Yale 1892, B.D. Hartford Theological Seminary 1900. A descendant of John Abbe, who came from England about 1635 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, Dr. Abbe (1830-1897) was the son of Alanson Abbe, B.A. Yale 1821, and Eliza Woodruff (Barnes) Abbe, and grandson of Jonathan Barnes, B.A. 1784. He was graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 1854 and his two brothers, Frederick Randolph and Edward Payson Abbe, from the College in 1848. He went to California in 1849; after graduating from college he practiced medicine in New Bedford, io8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Massachusetts, and Westport, Rhode Island, for a few years, then went to Hong Kong, China, where he was a commission merchant. His first wife was Elizabeth Swift Nye of New Bedford and she died in 1863 from the effects of exposure after being shipwrecked off the coast of China. In the late sixties Dr. Abbe returned to the States and spent the rest of his life in Hart- ford, Connecticut, as a banker and broker. Julia (Jones) Abbe (born March 29, 1839, in Southington, Connecticut) is the daughter of Rev. Elisha Cowles Jones, B.A. Yale 183 1, and Julia (Chappell) Jones. Mr. Jones was a member of the Yale Corporation from 1862 until his death in 1872. His son, Rev. Franklin Chappell Jones, was graduated at Yale in 1857. The family is probably of Welsh descent. Franklin Abbe was born July 2, 1872, in Hartford, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Hartford Public High School. He received a Berkeley Premium of the first grade, an oration Junior and a dissertation Senior appointment. From 1893 to 1896 he taught school in Connecticut and during the last year was principal of Center School in Farmington. He then became senior member of the firm of Abbe, Adam & Com- pany, fire insurance brokers, Canaan, Connecticut, but after three years took up newspaper reporting. He was on the Evening Gazette, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Evening News of Newark, New Jersey, in 1902 returning to the Gazette as city editor and becoming managing editor in 1903. The following year he became telegraph and county editor of the Brockton Times. In December, 1906, he became a partner in the insurance firm of Abbe & Jones but sold out in 19 12 in order to give his entire time to the real estate business. In November, 1916, he organized and was elected managing trustee of the Home Builders Associates, for the purpose of developing a high class residence section. He still holds this position, but is also trustee of the Brockton Investment Trust, which he organized in September, 191 7, and a member of the insurance firm of Clifford & Abbe, which he entered in November, 19 17. In politics he is a Republican, with Democratic leanings at the present time owing to world conditions. He was a delegate to the Connecticut senatorial convention in 1898. He is a charter member of the University Club of Brockton and a member of the Brockton Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Piedmont Congregational Church, Worcester, but attends the First Congre- gational Church of Brockton. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 109 He was married December 21, 1894, in Falls Village, Connect- icut, to Olive, daughter of Edwin Henry and Ida (Egleston) Wilcox. They have three sons: Francis, born November 22, 1895, in Falls Village; Alfred Chappell, born April 22, 1897, in Canaan, Connecticut, and Douglas, born April 17, 1902, in Worcester. Francis is a musician in the U. S. Navy. r HENRY C. ALLEN Henry Crosby Allen Lawyer, Silk City Trust Building, Paterson, New Jersey Residence, 149 VanHouten Street, Paterson, New Jersey Allen is a son of Samuel C. M. and Josephine Amelia (Crosby) Allen, who were married June 14, 1865, an d had four other children: Pauline Crosby Allen (Mrs. Alexander Murray), Maude J. Allen, Samuel Morgan Allen, and Elisha Morgan Allen (died in infancy). The immigrant ancestor was Samuel Allen, born in 1605, who came from the parish of Bridgewater, County of Somerset, England, with his wife, Anne. They arrived at Boston about 1630 and settled at Braintree, south of Boston, no CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE being among the first settlers there. He was made a freeman May 6, 1635. Our classmate's father, Samuel Allen (born June 13, 1828, in Lisbon, Connecticut; died June 7, 1877, in Paterson, New Jersey), was engaged in business under the firm name of Allen & Brother, provision dealers, New York City, from 1855 to 1870, and as a partner in the Allen Woolen Mills, Baltic and Hanover, Connecticut, and Allen & Brother, wool merchants, New York City, 1870-77. His wife was born January 8, 1842, in Paterson, New Jersey, and died there December 31, 1896. She was descended from Simon Crosby, born in England in 1608, who came to America in May, 1635, in the ship Susan and Ellen. He settled at Cambridge (then known as Cambridge Farms), where he became a proprietor in November, 1635. On her mother's side Mrs. Allen was the great-granddaughter of General John Hathorn of New York, member of the Continental and First and Fourth U. S. Congresses, and a Major General in the Revolutionary War. Henry C. Allen was born May 13, 1872, in Paterson, and was prepared at Williams Academy, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; University School, Baltimore; McChesney School, Paterson, and St. Paul's School, Garden City, New York. In college he played on the second Banjo Club, and was a member of the second Glee Club, the College Choir in Senior year, and Zeta Psi. He received the degree of LL.B. from the New York Law School in 1895 and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in November of that year. He has practiced in Paterson ever since. He is executor and trustee of the estate of Henry B. Crosby. A Republican in politics, he was a member of the House of Representatives, Fifty-ninth Congress, 1905 to 1907. He served on the Committee on Manufacturers and the Committee on the Militia. He is an associate member of the Legal Advisory Board for Passaic County and Government Appeal Agent on Local Exemption Board No. 1, of Paterson. He is a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Paterson. He served as second reader of the Paterson church for two years and as first reader for three years, and for three years has been a member of the Board of Trustees. He belongs to the Hamilton Club, Paterson, Chamber of Com- merce, Benevolent Lodge, No. 45, Free and Accepted Masons, and to the New York Association of Zeta Psi. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES in He was married September 10, 1917, to Anne M. Steele (Mrs. Robert H. Winans), daughter of Ira S. and Haidee F. (Govett) Steele. Mrs. Allen has two children, both born in Ridgewood, New Jersey : Margaret Steele Winans, born April 7, 1 90 1, now attending Northfield Seminary, and Robert Govett Winans, born March 30, 1904. A daughter, Josephine Crosby, was born September 27, 1918. Mrs. Allen died December 25, 19 1 8, in Paterson. Allen writes : "My life, since graduation, has been one of ups and downs. I have practiced law — which means that sometimes I ride in chaises, but often walk. I have traveled abroad — I have struggled at home. I have dipped into politics, touching a high spot or two — but have never been really inoculated with the virus. I have tasted of the frivolities of life and I have preached — though reading in a Christian Science Church is not preaching in the commonly accepted — Birdsall, Goodenough, Mathison, Spald- ing, Tyler — sense of the term. I have even had the obituaryists sharpening their pencils — but have lived to attend some of their funerals. I have drunk deep of the cup of single blessedness — I am now married and have an interesting family." John Weston Allen Lawyer, 330 Tremont Building, Boston, Massachusetts Residence, 219 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts Allen is a son of Walter and Grace Mason (Weston) Allen, who were married October 9, 1866, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and had six other children: Agnes (died in Newton High- lands) ; Grace Weston Allen, B.L. Smith 1891 (married Frederick Stearns Hollis, Ph.D., B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1890) ; Walter Hinds Allen, B.A. Yale 1895, Ph.B. 1896; Abby Louise Allen, B.A. Smith 1899; Ethel Clara (died in Newton Highlands), and Alice Miller Allen, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics 1908. Walter Allen (born March 21, 1840, in Boston, died February 7, 1907, in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts), son of Josiah White and Nancy (Hinds) Allen, was descended from Walter Allen, who came from England and was settled in Newbury in 1640. Among his other ancestors were Henry Adams, grandfather of President John Adams and Major 112 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE General Humfrey Atherton, who was a member of the first School Committee and became commander of all the military forces in New England in 1661. Mr. Allen was graduated from Yale College in 1863 and served during the Civil War with the 26th J. WESTON ALLEN Massachusetts Volunteers for a short time, being mustered out in order to accept an appointment as Acting Assistant Paymaster in the U. S. Navy. After the war he engaged in newspaper work and was associated with or a contributor to the New York Herald, World, Times, and Evening Post, the Boston Herald and Daily Advertiser; Atlantic Monthly and New England Magazine. His contributions were chiefly to the editorial page and from 1885 to 1887 he was editor-in-chief of the Boston Daily Advertiser. For four years he was one of the editors of Webster's International Dictionary and was the author of two volumes, "Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina," and a "Life of General Grant." His wife (born September 5, 1840, in New Braintree, Massachusetts) was the daughter of John Granger and Adeline Augusta (Tidd) Weston. Her earliest ancestors in this country were Richard Warren and George Soule, both of whom came to Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620; Edmund BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 113 Weston, the son of the first Weston ancestor in America, mar- ried the granddaughter of George Soule and lived in Duxbury. J. Weston Allen was born April 19, 1872, in Newton High- lands and received his preparatory school training at the Newton (Massachusetts) High School and at the Hillhouse High School, New Haven. In college he received a TenEyck Prize, was on the editorial board of the Courant, and in Sophomore and Junior years was a member of the Track Team. In 1896 Allen was graduated from Harvard with the degree of LL.B. and has practiced his profession in Boston since March, 1897. He is one of the incorporators of the Newton Center Savings Bank. For several years he was a director of Lasell Seminary and lecturer on "The Law in its Relation to Women." He has served in the House of Representatives from the 4th Middlesex District for four terms (1915-18) with committee assignments as follows : chairman, Committee on Bills in the Third Reading, 1915-17; Banks and Banking, 1915; chairman, Committee on Public Service, 1916-17; Committee on Consolida- tion of Commissions, 1916-17; Committee on Street Railways, 1918; Committee on Administration and Commissions, 1918; House chairman, Committee on Investigation of the Fish Indus- try, 19 1 8. He is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Attorney- General of Massachusetts. He has continued his interest in the American Indian and is a trustee of the Roe Indian Institute, Wichita, Kansas ; chairman of the Boston Indian Citizenship Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Indian Industries League. His church membership is in the Newton Highlands Congrega- tional Church and he has served in the following capacities : assistant superintendent of the Church School (three years) ; superintendent (three years) ; member of Church Committee (three years); president, Men's League (two years). He is now acting as chairman of the Standing Committee and Trustee of the Men's League Fund. He is a member of the Massachusetts Club, Society of May- flower Descendants, Braeburn Country Club, Massachusetts Republican Club, Bar Association of the City of Boston, Sons of Veterans (Past Junior Vice-Commander), Boston Yale Club, The Players, and Highland Glee Club (associate member). He was married June 12, 1901, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Caroline Cheney Hills, B.L. Smith 1899, daughter of Henry F. ii4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Hills, a manufacturer, and Adelaide (Spencer) Hills. They have three daughters, all born in Newton, Massachusetts : Helen Spencer, born April 8, 1902; Grace Weston, born November 5, 1905, and Caroline Hills, born June 26, 1914. Allen writes : "No man who graduates from Yale and who has drunk deep at her fountains can ever afterward be satisfied with what he may achieve in the life of service to which Yale has dedicated him. There is always a restless longing to do more. If we become complacent, we may be sure we have lost the Yale spirit. "I have fallen far short of the ambitions of twenty-five years ago, but I still have the vision and the purpose of that Commence- ment Day. In the environs of Harvard I have loved Yale. Among Harvard men I have done my work. After ten years of association with John D. Long, Harvard '59, and Alfred Hemen- way, Yale '6i, I have had twelve years of general practice. My clients have kept me busy. My vacations have been few but worth while. In 191 1 I traveled in Europe with my family, and my last vacation was three years ago in Porto Rico where I saw Joe Anderson for the last time. Until I entered public life, I gave much of my spare time to work for the American Indian, serving on three expeditions to investigate conditions among the Chippewas in Minnesota, the Five Tribes in Oklahoma, and the Navajoes in New Mexico and Arizona. It was while investi- gating land and timber frauds with Professor Moorehead of Andover, that I was taken into the Navajo tribe as a member of the Mississippi Band at the instance of Chief Me-zhuc-ke-ge-shig, who gave me his name. "During my four years in the Legislature I have had to give up active participation in Indian work. When I started in at the State House, I thought it would be somewhat of a relaxation from the steady grind of a law office but I have found that work in committee and on the floor takes more out of a man than the pressure of work in court and I am glad when the session is over and I can get back to my desk. Nevertheless, it is a keen satis- faction, working with other college men, to have a part in the struggle to solve the present-day problems of taxation, rehabili- tation of our public utilities, and war finance. If any of you fellows want to serve your day and generation and die poor as a vicarious sacrifice on the altar of democracy, get into the State Legislature/' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "5 La fon Allen Partner in the law firm of Barret, Allen & Attkisson, Lincoln Bank Building, Louisville, Kentucky Residence, Glenview, Kentucky Allen is a son of Charles James Fox and Caroline (Belknap) Allen, who were married June 6, 1865, and had four other chil- dren: William B. Allen, Ph.B. Yale 1889, Ethel (Allen) Gage, Charles W. Allen, B.A. Yale 1901, and Arthur D. Allen, B.A. LAFOX ALLEN Yale 1901. Charles J. F. Allen (born August 14, 1834, in Pitts- field, Massachusetts; died June 8, 191 1, in Glenview, Kentucky) was graduated from Yale College in 1855 and received the degree of LL.B. from Harvard in 1859. He practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri, until 1862, when he entered the Army, serving as Addi- tional Paymaster with rank of Major until 1865. For the rest of his life he was associated with the Belknap Hardware & Manufac- turing Company of Louisville, of which he was vice-president for many years. His wife was born July 2, 1846, in Louisville, and died May 30, 1897, in that city. n6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Lafon Allen was born August 2, 1871, in Louisville, and was prepared at the Louisville Male High School and at Andover. He received a second colloquy Junior and a second dispute Senior appointment and one-year honors in political science in Senior year. He served on the Ivy Committee and was a member of the University Banjo Club, Andover Club, Alpha Delta Phi, and Wolf's Head. After one year in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, he received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in June, 1894. He has since practiced in Louisville, in 191 2 having formed a partnership with Alexander G. Barret and Eugene R. Attkisson, his present associates. In 1897 he was assistant secretary, treasurer, and a member of the executive committee of the Louisville Good City Govern- ment Club, and in 1900 he served as secretary and treasurer of an organization to secure a "fair" election law to replace the so-called "Goebel Election Law." In 1904 he was the Republi- can nominee for county attorney and in 1909 for chancellor. He was president of the Yale Alumni Association of Kentucky in 1916 and 1917. He is chairman of the Louisville War Camp Community Service Board, which is affiliated with the Fosdick Commission, and chairman of the Louisville Chapter of the American Red Cross. He published in the American Law Review for November and December, 1895, articles on the 'Towers of the United States Supreme Court." He was married September 21, 191 1, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Emma Hunter, daughter of Hunter H. Powell, a physician, and Emma (Baker) Powell. They have two daughters, both born in Louisville: Elizabeth Powell, born October 9, 191 2, and Caroline Belknap, born June 3, 191 5. * Joseph Anderson Died March 26, 1917 Anderson was the son of Joseph and Anna Sands (Gilder- sleeve) Anderson, who were married January 24, 1859, an d had four other children, a son and three daughters : William Ander- son, Yale ex-"&4 (died in May, 1884) ; Mary Rose (married Carl E. Munger, '80S.; died November 25, 1889), Isabel Hoyt BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 117 (died in infancy), and Anne Sands Anderson. Joseph Anderson, Sr., the only child of William and Mary (Rose) Anderson, was born at Broomton, Easter Ross, Scotland, December 16, 1836, and was brought to the United States six years later. He was JOSEPH ANDERSON graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1854, and received the degree of M.A. three years later, being grad- uated from the Union Theological Seminary in the same year. In 1878 Yale conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. He was pastor successively of several churches in Connecticut, for forty years serving the First Church of Waterbury actively and from 1905 as emeritus pastor. On October 9, 1884, ne became a member of the Yale Corporation as a successor to the Original Trustees and had completed nearly thirty-two years' service at the time of his death on August 18, 1916. He was a clergyman of broad theological and public interests, a scholar in Church history, and a life-long student of historical matters per- taining to Connecticut and Yale. Mrs. Anderson, who was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Dorothy (Hamilton) Gilder- sleeve, died April 6, 1914, in Woodmont, Connecticut. Joseph Anderson, Jr., was born July 9, 1871, in Waterbury, n8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Connecticut, and was prepared at the Waterbury High School. He was a member of the Class Football Team in his Senior year and received a second colloquy appointment. He belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon. From 1893 to 1895 ne was a student in the School of Law, receiving the degree of LL.B. in the latter year. He served on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal. The four years following his admission to the Connecticut Bar in June, 1895, were spent in the practice of law in Water- bury. In November, 1899, he went to Porto Rico, and shortly afterwards opened a law office in San Juan. He was appointed United States commissioner for the district of Porto Rico in 1 901, and served in that capacity for about six years. He was greatly interested in the commercial development of the island. He returned to the United States in September, 1916, and had since resided in Woodmont, Connecticut. He had been in poor health for several years, and his death occurred in a sanatorium in West Haven, Connecticut, March 26, 1917, from cirrhosis of the liver and nephritis. Burial was in the Westville (Connecticut) Cemetery. He was married September 12, 1899, in Bridgeport, Connect- icut, to Mary Adelaide, daughter of Thomas Clarkson and Ella (Lines) Lewis of New Haven. They had two daughters, Mary Rose, born June 10, 1905, in Hato Rey, Porto Rico, and Anna Gilder sleeve, born December 28, 1908, in San Juan, Porto Rico. Christopher Lester Avery Member of the firm of Waller, Waller, Avery & Gallup, lawyers, Plant Building, New London, Connecticut Residence, Groton, Connecticut Avery is a son of Christopher Lester and Ellen Barber (Copp) Avery, who were married November 1, 1870, and had two children, a son and a daughter. The Avery family came from England about 1630 and our classmate's great-grandfather and his brother were killed in the Revolutionary War at the battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. C. L. Avery, Sr. (born June 8, 1826, and died January 1, 1904, in Groton, Connecticut), was in the grain business. He was first married on January 30, 1850, to Sarah Wisner Smith. Mrs. Ellen (Copp) Avery was BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 119 also a native of Groton and descended from English emigrants who settled in that part of Boston now called Copps Hill early in the seventeenth century. She was born July 30, 1832, and died April 4, 19 16, in Groton. Christopher Avery, Jr., was born September 4, 1872, in Groton, and was prepared at the Norwich (Connecticut) Free Academy. In college he was a member of the Tug-of- War Team for two years, received second prize in the Intercollegiates each year and won the light, middle and heavy-weight championship in wrestling. He maintained an oration rank for the whole course. The first two years after graduation he taught at Cen- tral University, Danville, Ken- tucky, and then took up the study of law at Yale. He received the degree of LL.B. in 1897 and was admitted to the New York Bar the fol J lowing year. From 1898 to 1900 he was associated with the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Steele, New York City, and then opened his own office on Broadway. Since 1904 he has practiced in New London, Connecticut, where he is now a member of the firm of Waller, Waller, Avery & Gallup. The senior member of the firm, ex-Governor Thomas M. Waller, received an honorary M.A. at Yale in 1883, and others are Yale graduates, — Mr. Tracy Waller, B.A. 1882, and Charles B. Waller, LL.B. 1896. Avery is a direc- tor of the New London City National Bank and of the Mariners Savings Bank. In politics he is a Democrat. He served as warden of the borough of Groton in 1909-10, was a member of the state legisla- ture in 1913-14, has been the Connecticut member of the Com- mission on Uniform Legislation since 191 5, and a member of the Commission on Rivers, Harbors and Bridges, and of a sub- CHRISTOPHER L. AVERY i2o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE committee having charge of the terminals at New London, since 1916. In 1898 he enlisted in the Brooklyn Naval Militia and was subsequently made a Quartermaster in the U. S. Navy; after five months' service he was honorably discharged. He was a Colonel on the staff of Governor Baldwin, 1913-15. He is now serving as chairman of Draft Board No. 9, in New London. He is a member of Groton Congregational Church and chair- man of the society committee. He belongs to Brainard Lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. M., and was a master of the lodge in 1910, He was married (1) January 2, 1901, to Betsey Ann, daughter of Isaac P. Bouse of Groton. A son, Christopher Lester, Jr., was born August 25, 1902. Mrs. Avery died March 3, 1903. He was married (2) October 17, 1906, to Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of William Brander of New London. They had four children: Betsey Ann, born December 22, 1907; Catherine Barber, born August 24, 1909; William Brander, born January 12, 191 1, and Elizabeth Brander, born December 22, 1913. He was married (3) October 2j, 19 17, to Ethel Gray Bailey. John Whitney Avery Avery is the only child of John and Cornelia M. (Curtis) Avery, who were married August 21, 1886. John Avery (born September 18, 1837, in Conway, Massachu- setts; died September 1, 1887, in North Bridgton, Maine) was graduated from Amherst in 1861 and three years later received an M.A. degree. In 1863 he entered upon a four years' course of study in philology at Yale College, and during the last two years of that time he was also a teacher in the department of physics in the Sheffield Scientific School. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1887 by Bowdoin. He was elected a member of the American Oriental Society in 1870 and was assistant editor of the American Antiquarian and Oriental Jour- nal from 1875. He was master of fifteen languages. Mrs. Avery was the daughter of Judson Curtiss of New Haven, Con- necticut. John W. Avery was born March 26 or 2J, 1869, in Huntington, Massachusetts, and was prepared for college at Phillips Andover and at the Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Connecticut. He received dispute appointments in college. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 121 For three years following graduation he was a student in the Yale Graduate School, pursuing courses in ancient languages. In 1896-97 he taught in Pennsylvania at the Media Academy and then for two years was at St. John's Military Academy, r: ] Sing Sing (Ossining), New York. A year at the Gunnery School, Washington, Connect- icut, was followed by another year of study at Yale. From 1901 to 1903 he was an in- structor at the Mount Beacon Military Academy, Fishkill- on-Hudson, New York; in 1903-4 he was an instructor in Greek at the Princeton Preparatory School, Prince- ton, New Jersey, and from then until 19 12 he taught at the Manor School, Stamford, Connecticut. In recent years he has not been actively en- gaged, having retired to de- vote himself to family affairs. He has not married. JOHN W. AVERY James Addison Babbitt Director of Chateau Hospital, Sermaize-le-Bain, Marne District, working under the American Friends' Reconstruction Unit of the Red Cross Address, 53, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France Professor of hygiene and physical education, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania Address, 1901 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Babbitt is a son of James Howard and Mary French (Abbott) Babbitt, who were married August 12, 1868, and had five other children, three sons and two daughters : Win f red Howard Babbitt, B.A. Williams 1895, Mar Y Elizabeth, Harold French (died August 4, 1875), Theodore Perley Babbitt, Pharm. D. 122 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Massachusetts College of Pharmacy 1905, and Alice Evelyn (died April 19, 1899). James H. Babbitt, born January 13, 1839, in Taunton, Massachusetts, and died September 14, 1903, in Andover, was graduated at Amherst in 1865, received the degree JAMES A. BABBITT of M.A. from that institution in 1868 and in the same year com- pleted his course in the Andover Theological Seminary. His pastorates were in Vermont and he showed especial interest in educational work, serving as president of the board of trustees of Brattleboro Academy and as superintendent of schools in Swanton and Brattleboro. The first mention of his earliest ancestor in this country was in 1643 m Plymouth, when Edward Bobbit's name appeared in a list of fifty-four others, between sixteen and sixty years of age, able to bear arms. Mrs. Babbitt was born June 2, 1848, in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and graduated from Abbot Academy in 1867. James A. Babbitt was born October 2.2, 1869, in Waitsfield, Vermont, and prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. He sang on the Freshman Glee Club, received a first dispute BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 123 Junior year, a dissertation appointment Senior year, and was a member of the Andover Club. He has been a member of the faculty of Haverford College twenty-five years, having served ten years as registrar and physical instructor, nine as associate professor of physiology, and the balance as professor of hygiene and physical education. He received the degree of M.A. at Haverford in 1896 and that of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. He has practiced medicine in Philadelphia in addition to his college duties and has served as assistant laryngologist and laryngologist in the Children's Hospital, in the Philadelphia Home for Train- ing in Speech of Deaf Children, and in the German Hospital; assistant instructor in otology in the University of Pennsylvania, instructor in diseases of the nose and throat at the Polyclinic Hospital, and assistant in the ear department of the University Hospital, Philadelphia. In the summer vacations he has been director of the Boys' Department, Chautauqua, New York, and a member of the medical board and attending laryngologist, otologist, and ophthalmologist of the Chautauqua Lodge Hospital. He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a member and former president of the A. M. P. O. medical fraternity, a Fellow of the American Laryngological, Otological and Rhinological Society, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 191 5 he was elected chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Committee and had pre- viously served on various committees of this organization. He is a Republican in politics. A member of the Congrega- tional Church and of the Society of Friends, his clubs are the Merion Cricket, Union League, and University. He is a Mason. Early in September, 1917, he sailed for France to engage in reconstruction work, and is now director of the Chateau Hospital, Sermaize-le-Bain, and head of the American Friends' Recon- struction Unit in the Marne District. He was married September 11, 1895, in Swanton, Vermont, to Mary Abigail, daughter of Edward Payson and Helen Best Adams. They had four daughters: Mary Evelyn, born June 21, 1896, a student at Bryn Mawr College; Helen Adams, born August 15, 1899; Elizabeth Dixie, born November 22, 1906, and died November 25, 1906, and Mary Adams, born March 30, 191 1. Mrs. Babbitt died March 31, 191 1. 12 4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Henry Selden Bacon Captain, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, American Expeditionary Forces Home address, 23 Faraday Street, Rochester, New York Bacon is a son of Theodore and Julia (Selden) Bacon, who were married February 18, 1864, in Rochester, New York, and had one other son, Leonard Beaumont Bacon, '96, and two daughters. Theodore Bacon (born May 6, 1834, in New Haven, HENRY S. BACON Connecticut, died January 22, 1900, in Rochester, New York) was graduated at Yale in 1853. He served through the Civil War as Captain of the 7th Connecticut Regiment, and assistant Adjutant General on General Terry's staff, and subsequently practiced law in Rochester. He was the son of Rev. Leonard Bacon (B.A. Yale 1820), a member of the Yale Corporation and for fifty-seven years minister of Center Church in New Haven, and of Lucy Johnson of Boston. The family came from Eng- land in 1636, and settled at Dedham, Massachusetts. Theodore Bacon's seven brothers all received Yale degrees. Julia (Selden) Bacon (born September 24, 1835, in Clarkson, New York; died November 20, 1915) was a daughter of Judge Henry Rogers BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 125 Selden of Rochester, a lawyer and judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who received the honorary degree of LL.D. at Yale in 1857, and was a Lieutenant Governor of New York. Her mother was Laura Ann Baldwin of Clarkson. Henry S. Bacon was born March 25, 1872, in Rochester, New York, and received his preparatory training at Phillips Andover. In college he received oration appointments and was a member of Psi Upsilon. After a year in his father's law office he entered the Harvard Law School where he remained for two years. In 1896 he was admitted to the New York Bar and practiced in Rochester until 1911. He was a candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket in 1904, and in 1909 was the nominee for Municipal Court judge. In January, 191 1, he was appointed second deputy Attorney Gen J eral of New York and six months later was promoted to first deputy. In September, 1914, he resigned this position to resume private practice and became associated with the firm of Duer, Strong & Whitehead of New York City. He received a commission as Captain in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps on August 15, 1917, and has been in foreign service since October, 1917, in Paris and London, for the most part. He has not married. Henry Burr Barnes Member of the firm of Moen & Dwight, lawyers, 45 Cedar Street, New York City Residence, 67 East Ninety-first Street, New York City Barnes is a son of Henry Burr and Hannah Elizabeth (Dixon) Barnes, who were married June 16, 1869, and had five other children: Elizabeth Williams (married William B. Potts, who attended Columbia University) ; Priscilla Dixon (married Mar- shall J. Dodge, Yale '98) ; Sarah Palmer (married A. Edward Borie) ; Courtlandt Dixon Barnes, Yale '02, and Thomas Sloane Barnes, Yale 'io. Henry B. Barnes, Sr., son of Alfred Smith and Harriet Eliza- beth (Burr) Barnes, was born December 14, 1845, * n Brooklyn, 126 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE New York, and died in New York City, January n, 1911. A graduate of Williston Seminary and Yale College (1866), Mr. Barnes entered his father's business, A. S. Barnes & Company, publishers of school and hymn books, in which firm he main- HENRY B. BARNES tained an active interest until his death. He was editor of the International Review for several years. He was a director of the American Book Company from its incorporation and had a num- ber of other business interests. His wife, who was the daughter of Courtlandt Palmer and Hannah Elizabeth (Williams) Dixon, was born February 16, 1849, in Brooklyn, and died March 14, 1915, in New York City. Robert Dickson was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and died in the province of Ulster, Ireland, before 1700; his son, John Dixson, in 1719 emigrated to Boston, but shortly afterward moved to New London, Connecticut. Nathan Fellows Dixon, Mrs. Barnes' grandfather, was U. S. senator from Rhode Island in 1839. Her maternal ancestor came from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, about 1620. Besides his father and brothers, a great uncle, Charles P. Williams, 1862, three uncles, William P. Dixon, 1868, William D. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 127 Barnes, 1880, and Ephraim W. Dixon, 1881, several uncles by marriage, and many cousins are Yale graduates. Henry B. Barnes, Jr., was born September 15, 1872, in Stoning- ton, Connecticut, and was prepared at Everson's School in New York City. In college he re- ceived oration and dissertation appointments, was a member of the Yale Union, treasurer of the Y. M. C. A. in Junior year and attended the Students' Confer- ence at Northfield in 1892. He was editor of the Yale Daily News in Senior year, and a mem- ber of the University Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. He received the degree of LL.B. at Columbia in 1897 and has since practiced law in New York City. He entered into his present partnership in the firm of Moen & Dwight (Frederick Dwight, Yale '94) in June, 191 1. In addition to the law he has been associated with a number of companies : vice-president and a director of the Barnes Real Estate Association (secretary and treasurer, 1911-16) ; president and treasurer, H. B. Barnes Real Estate Corporation; vice-presi- dent, Yale Leasing Corporation, 1916-17 (this corporation holds the title to the building of the New York Yale Club). He is a member of the Workshop Committee of the New York Association for the Blind which has charge of Bourne Work- shop, and has been vice-president of the South Harlem Neighbor- hood Association since 191 5, and a member of the East Side Y. M. C. A. for the same time. He is a member of the Metro- politan Museum of Art and of the American Museum of Natural History. He is chairman of the Board of Deacons and secre- tary of the Men's Bible Class of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and has previously served as secretary and treasurer of the Board of Deacons. He belongs to the Republican Club of the Fifteenth Assembly District. From August 23 to October, 1917, he served as Government Appeal Agent for Local Board for Division No. A FAMILY GROUP i28 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE 147, and since December 15, 1917, in the same capacity for Local Board for Division No. 164, New York City and State. He has traveled extensively, visiting Europe five times, Alaska, Mexico, and the West Indies. His clubs are the Yale, Reform, and University of New York ; he is a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the American and New York City Bar associations, the Philharmonic Society, and the League to Enforce Peace. He was married March 27, 191 1, in New York City, to Mabel Irving, daughter of Edward Renshaw and Mary Elizabeth (Baldwin) Jones of New York. Mrs. Barnes was one of the founders, in 1898, of an organization auxiliary to the New York Children's Aid Society to provide transportation for crippled children to and from school, which has now become the Associa- tion for the Aid of Crippled Children of New York; she is one of the publication committee for the Federation of Associations for Cripples, and active in the work of the State Charities Aid Society. They have three sons, all born in New York City: Henry Burr, Jr., born August 12, 1912; Edward Jones, born October 10, 1916, and Alfred Smith, born November 15, 1917. His only comment upon his aims is : "My desire to reform the universe has given away to the hope that I will not retard its regular progress by my own interference." Ellery Alphonso Bates Commercial designer, 31-33 West Twenty-seventh Street, New York City Residence, 518 West 204th Street, New York City Bates is a son of Benoni and Lucy Wright (Matteson) Bates, who were married November 13, 1871, and had three other children: Elsie Wright Bates (Mrs. Albert E. Saunders), B.A. Smith College 1900, John Clark, and Abigail Wilson Bates. The father was born October 13, 1843, in Coventry, Rhode Island, the son of Solomon King and Alsa (Nichols) Bates, and lived in his native town until 1877 when he removed to Windham, Connecticut. He was a store clerk, farmer, and school teacher, having attended the Rhode Island State Normal School for a time. Mrs. Bates, who was the daughter of Levi and Cynthia Bowen (Wright) Matteson, was born September 7, 1843, m BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Phenix, Rhode Island, and died January 5, 1916, in Windham, Connecticut. One Henry Wright, a maternal ancestor, was a resident of Dorchester, Massachusetts, prior to 1636, and Mrs. Bates was a descendant, in the seventh generation, from Roger ELLERY A. BATES Williams. Both the Bates and Matteson families came from England before the Revolution. Ellery A. Bates was born September 12, 1872, in Harris, Rhode Island, and was prepared for college at the Willimantic (Connecticut) High School. He received dispute appointments. From 1893 to 1895 he was engaged in tutoring in Westfield, Massachusetts, and during the three succeeding years he com- bined work at the Art Students' League and Academy of Design in New York City with tutoring. In 1898 he became an instructor in the Chicago Latin School and continued in this work until 1905, when he returned to New York and accepted a position in the art department of the American Lithographic Company, designing advertising matter. In 1907 he was employed by a syndicate illustrating and editing a humorous pictorial page for newspaper use and since that time has been engaged in commercial designing independently. i3° CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE In reply to the question regarding writings he says : "I have had jokes, jingles, and sketches paid for and published just about enough to ruin my amateur standing. Life, Judge, and the Woman's Home Companion are publications that I recall as victims." Bates was married June 20, 1907, in Chicago, Illinois, to Ida R., daughter of John and Mary Rosina (Hiebler) Stahl, who is of French and Alsatian descent. They have no children. HENRY C BEADLESTON Henry Colwell Beadleston Lawyer, 120 Broadway, New York City Residence, 115 East Sixty-fifth Street, New York City Beadleston is a son of William Henry and Susan Ann (Col- well) Beadleston, who were married in 1870 and had four other children: William L. Beadleston, B.A. Yale 1895 (died in March, 1915, in Montclair, New Jersey); Randolph; C. Perry Beadleston, B.A. Yale 1908, and Edith Beadleston. William H. Beadleston (February 24, 1840, to October 24, 1895) lived in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES New York City all his life. Descended from English and Scotch ancestors, the family names were Nash, Benedict, and Strickland, John Benedict, B.A. Yale 1747, being a great-great-great-grand- father. These families settled in this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A graduate of New York University in 1862, Mr. Beadleston was president of the firm of Beadleston and Woerz and a director of a number of banks. His wife, Susan A. Colwell, was born in January, 1845, m New York City, and died January 2, 191 1. Her ancestors were English and Dutch, family names being Colwell, Adams, and VanAuken. They settled in this country before 1750. Henry C. Beadleston was born May 31, 1871, in New York City, and was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He played on the Freshman Football Team, received colloquy appointments, and was a member of the Senior Prom Committee, the Renaissance Club, St. Paul's School Club, University Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head. After two years of graduate study he received the degree of LL.B. cum laude at the New York Law School in 1895 and was admitted to the New York Bar in June of that year. He has since practiced independently in New York. He is secretary, counsel, and a director of the Controller Company, Inc., manu- facturers of calculating machines, and president and a director of the Beadleston Realty Corporation. In 1917 he accepted an appointment as an associate member of the Legal Advisory Board for the city of New York under the provision of the Selective Service Regulation, and is now serv- ing thereunder. He is a Republican in national politics. He is a member of the Racquet and Tennis, the University, Yale, and Rockaway Hunt clubs, and the New York Bar Associa- tion. He was married December 22, 1896, in New York City, to Alice Lee, daughter of Alfred Seton and Alice Lee (Morgan) Post, and sister of A. Seton Post, Ph.B. Yale 1898. They have one daughter, Alice Lee, born July 16, 1903, in Cedarhurst, New York, who is attending the Brearley School, and expects to enter Miss Porter's School at Farmington next year. Mrs. Beadleston is active in Junior War Relief and Red Cross work. 132 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE George Palmer Beebe Practicing law independently, 34 Nassau Street, New York City Residence, 10 Sidney Place, Brooklyn, New York Beebe is the only son of Isaac N. and Mary Elizabeth (Palmer) Beebe, who were married September 18, 1854, and also had one daughter, Minnie (Mrs. Myron N. Clark). The father, born August 7, 1833, in Falls Village, Connecticut, was of English descent ; he was a farmer and lived in Salisbury and East Canaan, where he died Jan- uary 21, 1887. Mrs. Beebe was born in Norfolk, Connect- icut, November 2, 1835, and died in the same town Novem- ber 24, 191 5. Her ancestors came from Ireland. George P. Beebe was born December 8, 1867, in Salis- bury, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Robbins School in Norfolk. He re- ceived colloquy appointments. He is a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He was a student in the New York Law School from 1893 to 1895, when he re- ceived the degree of LL.B.; he had been admitted to the New York Bar the previous year. From 1895 to 1897 he was associated with the corporation counsel of Brooklyn and he then practiced in Brooklyn until 1905. Since the latter date he has practiced in New York but continues to reside in Brooklyn. He was married December 8, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, to Frances, daughter of Edward and Hannah (Dougherty) Peele. Mrs. Beebe graduated from the Medical department of the University of Michigan in 1888, and was a practicing physician and surgeon before her marriage. They have no children. * GEORGE P. BEEBE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES *33 William Reynolds Begg Member of the firm of Taylor, Humes & Begg, lawyers, 24 Broad Street, New York City Residence, 315 Central Park West, New York City Begg is a son of James and Mary (Shackleford) Begg, who were married in 1863 and had three daughters and four sons. Two of the daughters are deceased. James Begg was born December 25, 1834, in Tariffville, Connecticut, the son of James and Mary Begg, who came from Paisley in Ayrshire, Scotland, and settled in Jersey City in 1826. He lived in the North until 1855 and thereafter until his death on June 2, 1882, in South Carolina. Before the outbreak of the Civil War he was a manufacturer of silver plating; from 1861 to 1865 he worked in a Confederate armory, and after the war was engaged in brick WILLIAM REYNOLDS BEGG making, as a master mechanic on the Spartanburg & Union Rail- road, and from 1872 to 1882 was connected with the construction of cotton mills in Glendale and Clifton. Mrs. Mary (Shackle- ford) Begg was born in September, 1843, in Nashville, i34 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Tennessee, the daughter of George W. and Mary (Reynolds) Shackleford. On her father's side she is of Dutch ancestry, members of the family having settled in Tennessee about 1790; her mother was of English descent. William R. Begg was born February 12, 1869, in Spartan- burg, South Carolina. He attended private schools in the South and prepared for college at the Hartford (Connecticut) Public High School. He was the ranking scholar of the Class and valedictorian ; he received honorable mention in the award of the Hugh Chamberlain Greek Prize, was the Hurlbut Scholar in Sophomore year, won a Berkeley Premium of the second grade, and took a second DeForest Mathematical Prize; in 1891-92 he received a first Lucius F. Robinson Latin Prize and held the Waterman Scholarship during Junior and Senior years. He was president of the Yale Union and of the Cleveland (Demo- cratic) Club, served on the Senior Prom Committee and was a member of He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa. One year in the Yale School of Law was followed by another in the same department of the University of Minnesota and Begg received the degree of LL.B. at that institution in 1895 and was admitted to the Minnesota Bar. During his second year of graduate study he entered the office of the legal depart- ment of the Great Northern Railway Company and maintained this connection until 1899. From 1900 to 1902 he was a mem- ber of the firm of Squires & Begg and in 1902 of Armstrong & Begg. This partnership was dissolved in 1903 when Begg returned to the Great Northern as assistant general solicitor; in 1907 he was advanced to the position of general counsel, con- tinuing until 1909, when he resigned to reengage in private practice as a member of the firm of Byrne & Cutcheon of New York City. On June 1, 191 6, the firm name was changed to Byrne, Cutcheon & Taylor, and on December 1, 1917, dissolved, and succeeded by Taylor, Humes & Begg. He is a director of Wilson & Company, packers. His clubs are the Metropolitan, University, Yale, Down Town, City Midday, and Reform of New York City, the University Club of Chicago, and the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. He is a member of the American, New York State, New York City, and Minnesota Bar associations. In politics he is a Democrat. He was married April 21, 1897, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Louise, daughter of Norman H. and Alice (Church) Spencer BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES i35 of Hartford. Mrs. Begg attended the Hartford Public High School and spent one year at Wellesley College. They have one son: William Spencer, born November 24, 1907, in St. Paul, Minnesota; he is attending Trinity School, New York City. RALPH BIRDSALL -'Ralph Birdsall Died September 23, 1918 The first American ancestor of the Birdsall family was a French Huguenot who settled at Oyster Bay, Long Island, about 1660. Ralph's father, Elias Birdsall, was born in Hammonds- port, New York, February 21, 1831, and died in Los Angeles, California, November 4, 1890. He was graduated from Nashotah Seminary in 1856 and was thereafter engaged in the ministry of the Episcopal Church, — until 1862 in Indiana, and then in California. He also served as editor of the Pacific Churchman and was a deputy to the General Convention. He married on May 3, 1859, Cornelia Bennett, who was born September 7, 1834, in New Berlin, New York. She is descended 136 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE from Thomas Bennit, who came from Stratford-on-Avon, Eng- land, and settled at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639. Ralph Birdsall was born December 27, 1871, in Stockton, Cali- fornia, and was prepared at St. Paul's School and at McPherron Academy, both in Los Angeles. He made colloquy rank in college. After two years of newspaper work in New Haven he was a student at the General Theological Seminary in New York for one year. In 1896-97 he attended the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut, was then ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church and appointed assistant minister of St. Paul's Church, Albany, New York. The following year he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Doane, and from 1899 to 1902 served as rector of St. Andrew's Church, Albany. Since 1903 he had been at Christ Church, Cooperstown, and he died at his home there on September 23, 1918. When furnishing data for this book he wrote: "Visited Eng- land in 1902, and made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Elihu Yale, at the parish church of Wrexham, in W r ales. With Mrs. Birdsall, made a brief visit in Italy in 191 1. But, as the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 137 years pass, I grow less inclined to travel away from home, even for moderate distances. A stay of a few days in New York City surfeits me with metropolitan delights, and sends me back to the woods almost determined never again to forsake them. This disinclination to move is due, I think, not so much to the gradual inertia of middle age, as to my utter contentment in the charms of village life that have cast their spell upon me in the quaint and picturesque environs of my home. Fortunately the fame of Cooperstown as a summer resort brings hither now and then a member of the Class of Ninety- three, and adds to the duty of acting as guide to Cooper's grave and other points of interest the pleasure of renewing old acquaintance." In 1907 Birdsall served as chairman of the Cooperstown Centennial Celebration. He was trustee and secretary of the Susan Fenimore Cooper Foundation (a vocational school for boys and girls), Cooperstown. He was appointed archdeacon of the Susquehanna by the Bishop of Albany in 19 13 and was a deputy to the General Convention from the diocese of Albany in 1913 and 1916. Yale conferred the degree of M.A. upon him in 191 1. He received an appointment as lecturer on the Page Foundation, Berkeley Divinity School, for 1918. His publications are "Fenimore Cooper's Grave," The Grafton Press, New York, 191 1 ; "Sermons in Summer," The Crist Com- pany, Cooperstown, 1912, and "The Story of Cooperstown," The Crist Company, 19 17. He was married August 25, 1904, in Cooperstown, New York, to Jessie Cicely, daughter of Harry Maurrelle Reid, judge of the City Court, Atlanta, Georgia, and Gertrude (Carleton) Reid. Mrs. Birdsall is a graduate of the Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Georgia. They had two children: Gertrude, born June 29, 1905, who is attending St. Agnes' School, Albany, and Ralph, Jr., born April 14, 19 12. The following is taken from an editorial entitled "The Rector of the Village" in The Oneonta Star: "Practically the whole of his priestly life was spent in Cooperstown, the short period of service elsewhere being merely preparation for that work, which eighteen years ago he took up at the county seat. From the day he became a citizen, he entered heart and soul, body and mind, into its life. Hampered much by ill health, the bufferings of fate did not cast him down. He saw his community whole and not through any narrowed eye of prejudice. "Whatever was good for the town, in that he took active part. There i3§ CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE was no enterprise for its betterment in which farther than his health permitted, he did not engage. His sermons were marvels of scholarly diction and reasoning, and his addresses on public occasions will long be remembered for their civic and patriotic spirit. Embracing to the full the life of the village, he entered more deeply than many to whom Coopers- town was the place of nativity into its history and traditions. One evi- dence of this is his 'Story of Cooperstown,' a volume which for all time pictures and portrays events, which but for him might and probably would have been lost forever." mil * Harry Llewellyn Bixby Died October 20, 1902 Harry L. Bixby, a son of Jotham Bixby, who was prominently connected with farming and real estate interests in California, and Margaret Winslow (Hathaway) Bixby, was born December 20, 1870, at Los Cerritos, near Longbeach, California. George Hatha- way Bixby, Yale '86, is an elder brother. Harry received a disserta j tion Junior and dispute Senior appointment, and was a mem- ber of the University and Andover clubs, the Class Sup- per Committee, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. After graduation he spent a year at Longbeach and then entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Ill health com- pelled him to give up profes- sional study at the end of two years, and he then engaged in sheep raising in Arizona. On October 20, 1902, after a brief illness, he died of appendicitis, at Phoenix. He was married November 15, 1899, to Juliette Winston Graham of Chicago. They had one son, Henry Llewellyn, Jr., born August 27, 1900. HARRY L. BIXBY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES i39 Clifford Douglass Bliss Local representative for White, Weld & Company (New York City), investment bankers, 36 Pearl Street, Hartford, Connecticut Mail address, Box 1281, Hartford, Connecticut Bliss is one of the eleven children of Robert and Susan Maria (Handy) Bliss, who were married November 13, 1861. Of eight sons and three daughters only one son is deceased. Robert Bliss (born December 3, 1828, in Jewett City, Connecticut; died CLIFFORD D. BLISS September 12, 1905, in New York City) attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and was graduated at Yale in 1850. He was a member of the firm of Bliss, Fay & Allen and later of Bliss & Allen, drygoods merchants in New York City, from 1861 to 1882, and from 1883 to 1888 was vice-president of the National Bank of New York. The son of Rev. Seth Bliss (honorary M.A. Yale 1830) and Jennette Frances (Root) Bliss, he was descended from Thomas Bliss of England, one of the first settlers in Hartford. Mrs. Bliss, who was the daughter of Parker and Marian (Sloan) Handy, was born i 4 o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE September 12, 1837, in Fairfield, Connecticut, and died February 20, 1913, in Highwood, New Jersey. Her first American ancestors settled in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1725, and she was a Daughter of the American Revolution. Clifford Bliss was born July 16, 1870, in New York City, and was prepared at Andover. He was on the Varsity Squad for three years, played right half-back on the 1892 Team, and third base on the Freshman Baseball Team. He is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was in his father's office in New York from 1893 to 1896; with Armour & Company, Indianapolis, 1896 ; with the Standard Oil Company in Kansas, 1897, and again in his father's office, 1898 to 1 90 1. During 1901 he was an agent for the construc- tion department of the New York Telephone Company and then became a traveling salesman. From 1902 to 1908 he worked in this capacity for the Weidman Silk Company, Paterson, New Jersey; 1909, Belding Brothers, silks, Cincinnati, Ohio; 1910-11, Printz-Biederman Company, manufacturers of cloaks and suits, Cleveland, Ohio; 1912-14, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Boston branch; 1914, Green & Swett, automobile supplies, Boston; 1915, N. W. Halsey & Company, Boston; 1916, White, Weld & Company (New York), investment bankers, Hartford, Connecticut. In April, 1917, he joined the naval division of the Connecticut Home Guard and ranks as a Coxswain. Republican in politics. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His clubs are the Hartford, Hartford Golf, and the Yale of New York. He has not married. His brother, Laurence Thornton Bliss, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1893. William Bradford Boardman Lawyer, 502 Security Building, Bridgeport, Connecticut Residence, 303 Mill Hill Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut Boardman's parents were married September 17, 1863, and had two other sons, Francis Barber and Henry Bradford, and a daughter, Sarah Bradford Boardman (died February 22, 1869). Moses Bradford Boardman, the father (born May 25, 1833, in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 141 Francestown, New Hampshire ; died September 22, 1907, in New Britain, Connecticut), was descended through his father from Thomas Boreman, who came from England to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1634, and through his mother, Sarah Eaton WILLIAM B. BOARDMAN Bradford, from William Bradford, one of the leaders of that first company of Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. He was graduated from Amherst College in i860, then spent two years at Union Theological Seminary, and received the degree of B.D. from Andover Theological Seminary in 1863. The rest of his life was spent in the work of a Congregational minister in Massachusetts and Connecticut. His wife, Ellen Emeline (Barber) Boardman, was born August 28, 1839, in Greensboro, Georgia, and died May 12, 1910, in New Britain, Connecticut. Her parents were Orville and Emeline (Brooks) Barber, and her ancestor, Thomas Barber, came to New England in 1635 and settled at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1638. William B. Boardman was born August 22, 1871, in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and was prepared at the New Britain High School. In college he received oration appointments and, in 142 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Senior year, honors in history. He played on the Senior Foot- ball Team, was on the editorial board of the Courant, and a member of Zeta Psi. Like several others in the Class he turned first to teaching and was connected with the University School of Bridgeport until 1896. He then entered the Yale Law School and in 1898 received the degree of LL.B., having been admitted to the Connecticut Bar in January of that year. With the exception of the time from September, 1906, to November, 1907, when he served as an assistant attorney for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, with offices in New Haven, he has practiced in Bridgeport. He was in the office of Stoddard & Bishop from 1898 to 1902, then became a member of the firm of Stoddard, Marsh & Boardman, which continued until he went to the railroad. After resigning from this position he formed a partnership with George E. Hill, '87, under the name of Hill & Boardman, which terminated on Mr. Hill's death in 1916; he is now practicing alone. He is a director in three local business concerns. In June, 1907, he was made a member of the State Bar Examining Committee and since January, 19 12, has served as its secretary. From 19 12 to 19 16 he was a member of the Board of Education of Bridgeport. He is a Republican. He has served as a Four-Minute Man (1918), as Chairman of the Legal Advisory Board attached to the Local Board for the Fourth District (Bridgeport), and as chairman of all the Legal Advisory boards in the city. In the spring of 191 7 he enlisted as a private in Company I, 4th Regiment, Connecticut Home Guard. He is a member of the Park Street Congregational Church and, since 191 1, has been treasurer of its Ecclesiastical Society. He belongs to the University, Country, and Contemporary clubs of Bridgeport. He was married February 22, 1901, in Bridgeport, to Alice Burr, daughter of the late Judge Frederic Byron Hall. They have one son, Bradford, born December 5, 1901, now attending the Bridgeport High School. A nephew, Allen Hitchcock Boardman, was graduated from Yale College in 1916. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES J 43 Gerald Mark Borden Residence, 35 East Fifty-first Street, New York City Borden is a son of Henry Lee and Theresa (McConnelough) Borden, who were married June 20, 1866, and had one other son, Louis Lambert Borden. Henry L. Borden was born January 18, 1828, in Galveston, Texas, but spent most of his life until 1885 GERALD M. BORDEN in Chicago, and thereafter in New York City. He died in Los Angeles, California, November 21, 1902. His parents, Gail and Mary (Mercer) Borden, came to New York from Scotland about 1800. Theresa McConnelough was born July 19, 1846, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of John and Mary (Kelly) McConnelough, natives of Ireland, who settled in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1824. Gerald Borden was born January 28, 1871, in Chicago, Illinois, and entered Yale from the Senior Class of Christian Brothers College, St. Louis, Missouri. After two years at Northwestern University Law School he received the degree of LL.B. in 1895 and was admitted to the i 4 4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Illinois Bar the same year. He practiced in Chicago until 1901, when he went to Pasadena, California, and remained somewhat over a year. In 1903 he removed to New York City to accept an executive position with the United Lead Company and a little later he was elected secretary and vice-president of the American Smelting & Refining Company. He held this position until 1908. He is a Republican in politics. He belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. He was married February 14, 1898, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Lucille, daughter of Theophile Papin, a broker, and Emily (Carlin) Papin. They have no children. Charles Wilder Bosworth Lawyer, Court Square Theatre Building, Springfield, Massachusetts F Charles W. Bosworth, son of Henry W. Bosworth, was born August 28, 1871, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was prepared for college at the Springfield High School. He received a Berke- ley Premium in Freshman year. After graduation he entered his father's office and studied law, being admitted to the bar in June, 1894. He has since practiced in Springfield. Upon the establishment of a police commission in 1901 he was elected a commissioner and served in this office until 1907, when he resigned in order to serve as the city's legal advisor in promoting a plan for the river-front development. Although he has never held any elective position he has been prominent in municipal affairs. He was appointed referee in bankruptcy for the United CHARLES W. BOSWORTH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES r 45 States District Court for Hampden County, Massachusetts, in 1908. He has been president of the Union Trust Company since 1906 and in October, 1913, he was elected a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He has been active in alumni matters and served as president of the Yale Alumni Association of Western Massachusetts in 1905 and as vice-president in 191 3. He has not married. HARRY H. BOTTOME Harry Howard Bottome General solicitor, New York Life Insurance Company, 346 Broadway, New York City Residence, West Orange, New Jersey Bottome is the youngest son of Francis and Margaret (McDonald) Bottome, who were married September 17, 1850, and had three other sons, now deceased : Rev. William McDonald Bottome, B.A. Dickinson College 1873, M.A. Oxford, England; Rev. George Hill Bottome, B.A. Yale 1883, B.D. General Theological Seminary 1887; Frank Archer Bottome, M.D. Columbia 1889, also studied at the University of Berlin. Rev. 146 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Francis Bottome (born May 26, 1823, in Belper, England, died June 29, 1894, in Tavistock, England) in 1846 became a Wesleyan missionary among the Blackfeet Indians in Canada. Later he was installed pastor of the Sands Street Methodist Church in Brooklyn and in 1850 entered the New York East Conference, serving in a number of churches until 1870, when he was trans- ferred to the New York Conference. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Dickinson College in 1873. His wife (born December 29, 1827, in New York City, and died there November 14, 1906) was the daughter of William and Mary (Willis) McDonald. She was interested in various activities of the Methodist Church, many charitable and philanthropic organiza- tions and movements, was the founder and first president of the King's Daughters, and for many years contributing editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. Harry H. Bottome was born June 26, 1870, in Yonkers, New York. He attended several preparatory schools and graduated from Pennington Seminary in Pennington, New Jersey, in 1888. From 1888 to 1889 he was in the employ of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, entering college in the fall of 1889. He rowed in the Academic eight-oared shell in the fall race of that year, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. On graduation he entered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company and pursued his law studies at the New York Law School at the same time, graduating in June, 1895, with the degree of LL.B. cum laude. He was admitted to the New York Bar the same month. He served as assistant solicitor of the New York Life Insurance Company until he was appointed general solicitor in 1903. In June, 1905, he resigned this position and entered private practice in New York City, specializing in the law of life insurance. In 191 1 he re-entered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company and was appointed general solicitor in 1913, which position he still occupies. From 1896 to 1903 he was a member of the 7th Regiment, New York National Guard. His clubs are the University, Yale, Essex County Country, New Jersey, and Seaview Golf. He was married February 2y, 1904, in New York City, to Mary Madeline, daughter of Richard Morgan. They were divorced December 28, 1913. He was married a second time, April 16, 19 18, in New York City, to Mrs. Marion Letcher Ward, daughter of George Brown Letcher, deceased, of Nicholasville, Kentucky. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES i47 Howard Sidney Bowns Major, Quartermaster Corps, Fuel and Forage Division, New York District Office Member of the firm of Pattison & Bowns, 1 Broadway, New York City Residence, 8 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn, New York Bowns is the only son of Henry Edgar and Felicite Marie (Menuez) Bowns, who were married November 19, 1869, and had three other children, daughters: Blanche E. (Bowns) Begg, Felice M. Bowns, who attended Smith College, and Cecile M. HOWARD S. BOWNS Bowns. Henry Bowns was born February 4, 1831, in New Haven, Connecticut, where his family had come from England in the previous century, and died October 10, 191 1, in Brooklyn, New York. He was connected with Candee & Company of New Haven until 1865, when he went into the coal business in New York with Packer & Company and later in his own name. His first wife was Grace L. Beach, to whom he was married on May 8, 1855. Our classmate's mother was born September 18, 1850, in Louisville, Ohio, where her parents had come from France in 1833- 148 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Howard S. Bowns was born January 28, 1873, in Brooklyn, New York, and was prepared at Adelphi Academy and the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. He received a high oration Junior and an oration Senior appointment, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was coxswain of the University Crew in 1 89 1 and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He has been engaged in the wholesale coal business in New York City since graduation, and since 1902 has been in partner- ship with Mr. Gardner Pattison, under the firm name of Pattison & Bowns. He is treasurer of the Bowns-Pattison Transporta- tion Company of New Jersey and is president of the Buck Ridge Coal Mining Company and the Johnson City Store Company of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and of the Alcorn Lumber Company of New Brunswick, Canada. On May 6, 1918, he was commissioned a Major in the Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, and assigned to service in the Fuel Section, Control Bureau, at Washington, in charge of anthracite coal. Later he was transferred to the Quartermaster Corps and assigned to the Fuel and Forage Division. He is a Democrat. He attends the Episcopal Church. His clubs are the Yale, Metropolitan, Lotus, Manhattan, and Whist of New York; the Hamilton, Crescent, and Brooklyn of Brooklyn ; the Richmond County Country Club and the Seaview Golf Club. He was married January 15, 1902, in Bay Ridge, New York, to Mary Bliss Kelley (Mrs. F. Roger Whittlesey), daughter of George V. and Frances (Bliss) Kelley. They have two children, both born in Brooklyn: Priscilla, born December 13, 1902, and Howard Sidney, Jr., born March 6, 1905. Bowns writes : "Principal hobby and recreation is big game hunting in the North. Bashful — and don't talk much." Henry Dana Bradley Bradley was a son of Dana A. and Caroline L. (Tuttle) Brad- ley, who were married April 28, 1857, and had one other child, Frederic Wakeman Bradley (died November 24, 1918, in East Haven, Connecticut). Dana A. Bradley (born December 15, 1824) was a son of Dana and Mehitable Bradley; the family BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 149 settled in East Haven toward the end of the seventeenth century, having emigrated from England in 1635 in the ship Elizabeth. Caroline L. (Tuttle) Bradley (born December 6, 1835) was the daughter of William Frederic Tuttle. Henry Dana Bradley was born September 1, 1870, in New Haven, Connecticut, and was prepared for college at the Hillhouse High School. For three years after grad- uation he was a surveyor in New Haven, but in 1897 he became associated with the Photene Company, dealers in electrical supplies in Brook- lyn, New York. In 1898 he served as secretary and treas- urer of the Eagle Realty Com- pany, New York City, and from 1898 to December, 1902, he was engaged in the real estate and insurance business in his own name in Brooklyn. He left his place of business at that time and has not been heard of since. By the provisions of the will of his brother the estate is left to Henry D. Bradley, and a special provision is made that a search of the country should be made to locate him if possible. Six years ago, on the death of the mother, in order that the estate might be settled, he was declared legally dead. HENRY D. BRADLEY William Edwin Breckenridge Associate in mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, and head of the mathematics department, Stuyvesant High School, New York City Residence, 21 Sycamore Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York Breckenridge is a son of John Albert and Harriet Eliza (Kellogg) Breckenridge, who were married November 10, 1868, i5o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE and had one other son, John Eliot Breckenridge, Yale '96. John A. Breckenridge (born February 19, 1842, in Palmer, Massa- chusetts) is the son of Azel and Eliza (Smith) Breckenridge of Palmer. The family emigrated from Scotland to Ireland in 1720 and in 1727 came to America and settled at Palmer. Mr. Breckenridge was the proprietor of a retail shoe store as well as a paint- ing business. His wife, who was born June 20, 1842, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the daughter of John and Laura (Chapin) Kellogg, died in Palmer, June 6, 1900. William E. Breckenridge was born September 28, 1869, in Palmer, and prepared for college at the local high school. He received disser- tation appointments and was a member of the Yale Union. He commenced teaching in the fall of 1893 at Siglar's School, spent the following year at the Haverford Gram- mar School, and from 1895 to 1899 was in the Montclair High School. He has since taught in New York City, from 1900 to 1905 in Peter Cooper High School, and since 1905 in the Stuyve- sant High School. On July 1, 191 1, he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in Teachers College, Columbia, and was promoted to the rank of associate in 1915. He writes : "My chief interest is in making mathematics democratic, — i. e., of the most use to the most people, by administrative work in a technical high school of 4,700 boys, by lectures in Teachers College, Columbia Uni- versity, on 'The Teaching of Mathematics/ and by editorial work on books and periodicals." In 1902 Breckenridge received the degree of M.A. at Yale, having completed the requirements in absentia, and in 1903 he was elected a member of the American Mathematical Society. He has served as chairman of the department of mathematics of WILLIAM E. BRECKENRIDGE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 151 the New York City High School Teachers Association (1906) and vice-president of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics of the Middle States and Maryland (1907). The textbook, "Shop Problems in Mathematics," by Breckenridge, Mersereau and Moore, is now in its seventh edition. BRECKENRIDGE S HOME He is a member of the Chester Hill Methodist Episcopal Church of Mount Vernon, and is president of the Men's Club. In politics he is an Independent Republican. Regarding war service he says : "Have furnished the Government with trained men for expert computing in making Range Tables for the big guns at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, Fort Hancock, New Jersey, where the first tests are made of anti-aircraft and other guns. For the war work of deepening the rivers and harbor of New York City to admit freer passage of battleships, he has supplied the engineers of the War Department with fifty young men trained in the technical work of surveying, drafting, and computing. Other war service consists of promoting sales of War Savings Stamps and, as president of the Associated Charities of Mount Vernon, helping to care for the poor of the city during the coal and food famine. Mrs. Breckenridge is vice-chairman of the Red Cross of Mount Vernon. My son aided the cause as a farm cadet from May to October, 19 17." He was married July 12, 1899, in Palmer, Massachusetts, to Addie Louise, daughter of William H. and Frances (Harvey) Rogers. They have one son, Harvey Kellogg, born October 28, 1902, in Mount Vernon, New York, who is attending the Mount Vernon High School. Mrs. Breckenridge is a graduate of i5 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Monson Academy and before her marriage was director of music at the Westfield (Massachusetts) State Normal School, and assistant principal of the State Street Grammar School, Spring- field. THOMAS H. BREEZE Thomas Hamilton Breeze Lawyer, Insurance Exchange, 433 California Street, San Francisco, California Residence, Hillsborough (Post Office, San Mateo), California Breeze is a son of Thomas and Louisa (McCrea) Breeze, who were married August 10, 1865, and had in all six children, four of whom are still living: William Francis Breeze, Ph.B. Yale 1889, Louisa Breeze, and Mary Frances (Breeze) Benson, whose son, Lieutenant Thomas Mardenbro Benson, 5th Cavalry, U. S. A., is a non-graduate member of the Class of 1917 S. Thomas Breeze (born in October, 1820, in Killileagh, near Bel- fast, Ireland), son of Hamilton Breeze, came to the United States about 1837 and lived in St. Louis, Missouri, prior tc 1848. In the fall of that year he started for California and arrived in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 153 San Francisco in April, 1849, having come via the Isthmus. He remained in San Francisco until his death, April 6, 1874, and was a partner in the wholesale drygoods firm of Murphy, Grant & Company. His wife was born April 22, 1834, in Killileagh, the daughter of Allen and Matilda (Thistlethwaite) McCrea, and died January 12, 1913, in San Francisco. Thomas H. Breeze was born December 27, 1871, in San Francisco, and was prepared for college by a tutor. He received a Berkeley Premium in Latin composition Sophomore year and a first dispute appointment in Senior year. He is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Continuing at Yale two years longer he received the degree of LL.B. cum laude in June, 1895, was admitted to the Con- necticut Bar the same year, and in 1896 to the California Bar. After one year in San Francisco he went to Stockton, remaining until 1900, when he returned to San Francisco, where he has since practiced. He was associated with the firm of Reddy, Campbell & Metson from July, 1900, to January, 1903, when he was admitted to membership in the firm of Campbell, Metson & Campbell. Since 1905 he has practiced independently. He is a member of the University Club of San Francisco. In politics he has Republican "tendencies." He was married August 5, 1905, in Menlo Park, California, to Frances Hay, daughter of Austin Dickinson Moore, B.A. Princeton 1852, and Frances Jane (Phillips) Moore. They have two sons : Thomas Hamilton, Jr., born October 24, 1906, in San Francisco, and Austin Dickinson Moore, born April 26, 191 1, in Menlo Park. Breeze writes: "Absent but not forgetting — and I hope not altogether forgotten. The friendships of college days are to me just as real to-day as they were twenty-five years ago. Some day I shall get East when those two great essentials — time and money — coincide. The chief plan, aim, special interest, and hobby of myself and my wife are to make good Yale men out of two rather promising boys." *George Justus Briggs Died June 15, 191 1 George J. Briggs, son of George Washington and Mary Anna (Arnold) Briggs, was born July 23, 1871, in Grosvenordale, 154 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Connecticut, and was prepared at the Worcester (Massachusetts) Academy. He received a second dispute Junior and a colloquy- Senior appointment, and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. The year following graduation he taught in the private school of John Leal, Yale '74, in r 1 Plainfield, New Jersey, but then engaged in business. From 1894 to 1897 he was the Providence (Rhode Island) representative of Leonard & Ellis, dealers in oils, Boston; from 1897 to 1900 he repre- sented the American Trading Company in Yokohama, Japan; from 1900 to 1905 was the sole agent in Japan for valvoline oils of the Crew- Levick Company, and during 1905 he was the general agent in Japan for the White Auto- mobile Company. For three years after his return to the United States in 1906 he was engaged in raising poultry at Petuluna, California. In December, 1909, he was ap- pointed general agent in Rhode Island of the White Automobile Company. He died June 15, 191 1, after a short illness from dysentery at Atlanta, Georgia, where he was spending a vacation. He was buried at Anthony, Rhode Island, near his old home. He was married September 28, 1902, in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, to Sarah Marvine Giberson of St. Johns, Ohio. They had no children. GEORGE J. BRIGGS Theodore Louis Bristol President and treasurer of the Ansonia Water Company, 100 Main Street, Ansonia, Connecticut Residence, 67 North Cliff Street, Ansonia, Connecticut Bristol is a son of Charles Edward and Frances Ellen (Bartholomew) Bristol, who were married September 17, 1867, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 55 and had three other sons : Charles Edward Bristol, Yale ex- 96, Howard Bartholomew (died in infancy), and Ralph Bristol, Yale '03. The Bristol family settled first at New Haven about 1650, Henry Bristol dying in that city in 1695 ; they later removed to Milford, Connecticut. Charles E. Bristol was born in Derby, December 21, 1847, and died in Ansonia in May, 1892, the son of Charles Bristol, a shoemaker, and Harriet (Bradley) Bristol. He was postmaster of Ansonia for sixteen years pre- vious to Cleveland's administration (1869-85) and was vice- president of the Ansonia National Bank. His wife, descended from William Bartholomew of England, who came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1634, and afterwards lived in Ipswich, was the daughter of Jeremiah Hotchkiss Bartholomew, a manufacturer of Ansonia, and Polly H. Root of Farmington. She was born October 5, 1848, and died October 7, 1908, in Ansonia. Theodore L. Bristol was born April 25, 1870, in Ansonia, and prepared at the high school in that town and at Phillips-Exeter. r - THEODORE L. BRISTOL He received colloquy appointments and honors in natural and physical sciences in Senior year. He substituted occasionally on the Class Crew, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Wolf's Head. 156 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Immediately after graduation he became identified with the Bristol Drug Company and the McArthur Hypophosphite Com- pany as treasurer and now, in addition to this office, he is president of the former and secretary of the latter firm. In 1903 he was made president and manager (now president and treasurer) of the Ansonia Water Company, a director of the Ansonia National Bank, and treasurer (president also now) of the Ansonia Novelty Company, and in 19 13 he was elected president of the Ansonia Forest Products Company. He is secretary and treasurer of the Lumber Manufacturers Associa- tion of Southern New England and a director of the Morris Plan Company of the Lower Naugatuck Valley. He was president of the Connecticut Forestry Association from 1909 to 19 1 3, for one term held this place on the Board of Public Works of Ansonia, and was a director of the American Forestry Association. In 1903 he represented Ansonia in the General Assembly of Connecticut. He is the local representative of the State Council of National Defense, campaign manager of the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. War Fund campaigns, fuel and food administrator, chairman of the War Savings Committee, and of the Ansonia War Bureau. He is serving as a sergeant in the Ansonia Home Guard Reserve Company. He is a Mason and a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven. He was married October 5, 1893, m Ansonia, to Florence daughter of Charles and Melvina (Farrel) Espe. They have five children, all born in Ansonia: Theodore Louis, Jr., Class Boy, born May 6, 1895; Frances Bartholomew, born June 21, 1899; Florence, born July 16, 1903; Elleda, born May 3, 1905, and John Thorvald, born March 7, 191 1. *Frank James Brown Died February 14, 1900 Frank J. Brown, son of Benjamin S. Brown, was born in Lander, Warren County, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1866. He prepared for college at the Jamestown Union School, James- town, New York, and at the Collegiate School in that city. In he entered Yale and earned his expenses by various means ; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES i57 at first he worked for one of the daily papers, then went into the Co-op, was for a time superintendent of the Boys' Club con- ducted by the United Workers, and during Junior and Senior years was principal of a public evening school. He received colloquy rank in his college work, was editor of the Senior Class Book and in the Law School was one of the editors of the Yale Shingle. After graduation from the College he entered the School of Law and received the degree of LL.B. in 1895. He was then admitted to the bar and opened an office with Judge A. McClellan Mathew- son, 1884 L. In July, 1897, he became city attorney of New Haven, and discharged his duties with an evenness of temperament, fairness, and freedom from prejudice, ap- parent to all with whom he came into official contact. The strain of constant appli j cation to which he had held himself from the time he entered college at length became evi- dent, and in the fall of 1898 he was obliged to relinquish his work for a time. He returned somewhat benefited but again had to give up his work. His death occurred, from anaemia, in New Haven, on Febru- ary 14, 1900. He had not married. FRANK J. BROWN Lawrence Edward Brown Lawyer, 32 Broadway, New York City Residence, 64 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, New York Brown is a son of Edward Flint and Eleanor (Bonney) Brown, who were married April 22, 1869. Three other sons attended 158 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Yale, — Benjamin W. B. Brown, ^r-1891, Arthur F. Brown, Ph.B. 1896, and Alfred J. Brown, B.A. 1899, M.D. Columbia I 9°3 > — an d a daughter, Edna Florence Brown (Mrs. John F. Wherry), received the degree of B.A. at Barnard in 1907. Edward F. Brown (born September 3, 1839, in Sebago, Maine; died September 2j, 1909, in New York City) was grad- uated at Yale in 1863 and then located in New York City, where he practiced law. He was one of the organizers of the Federal Club of New York; St. John's College, Maryland, conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1893. His brothers, Anselm B. and Horace A. Brown, were graduated at Yale in 1867 and 1863 with the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. respectively. His ancestors settled in Concord, and his great-grandfather was David Brown who commanded the Continental troops at the bat- lawrence e. brown tle f Concord Bridge. Mrs. Brown is the daughter of Benjamin West Bonney, B.A. Dartmouth 1824, and Adrianna (Rapelje) Bonney, and is of English and Dutch descent. She was born in New York City, March 2, 1850. Lawrence Edward Brown was born March 2, 1872, in New York City, and prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East- hampton, Massachusetts. He received a dissertation appoint- ment Senior year. The first year after graduation he taught in the Yale School, New York City, at the same time commencing the study of law. In June, 1897, he was admitted to the New York Bar and has since practiced in New York City. From 1898 to 1906 he was a member of the firm of Hone & Brown but is now in independent practice. He served in the State Legislature in 1897. He was married June 1, 1906, in New York City, to Janet BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 59 Lamond, daughter of George Massey (deceased) and Margaret (Lamond) Massey. They have two sons, both born in New York City: Lawrence E., Jr., born March 19, 1907, and Stuart Flint, born April 25, 191 1. Wendell Greene Brownson Lawyer, Court Square Theatre Building, 31 Elm Street, Springfield, Massachusetts Residence, 27 Westminster Street, Springfield, Massachusetts Brownson is a son of Dr. William Greene and Caroline Louise (Barstow) Brownson, who were married September 5, 1854, and had four other children, three sons and a daughter: William Clarence Brownson, M.D. New York University 1878, Frances M. (Brownson) Beers, Carleton Lewis Brownson, B.A. Yale WENDELL G. BROWNSON 1887, Ph.D. 1897, and Carl Ward Brownson (died in December, 1865). William G. Brownson was born August 6, 1830, in Peterboro, New York, of English parentage, his ancestors hav- ing settled in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1650. He was 160 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE graduated from the New York State Normal School in 1853 and taught school until 1862 when he took up the study of medicine. He received an honorary M.A. degree from Hamilton College in 1864, and an M.D. from New York University in 1865. He served as a surgeon in the U. S. Army, 1864-65, and then practiced his profession in New Canaan, Connecticut, until his death, which occurred January 3, 1899, in Noroton, Con- necticut. Mrs. Brownson, who was also of New England colonial stock, was born September 1, 183 1, in Oswego, New York, and was graduated at the New York State Normal School in 1854. Wendell G. Brownson was born May 26, 1869, in New Canaan, and prepared for college at Dr. King's School in Stamford. He received a first dispute Junior and a dissertation Senior appoint- ment and was a member of the Yale Union. After two years in the Yale School of Law he received the degree of LL.B. In December, 1895, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and has since practiced in Springfield. He formed a partnership with James L. Doherty, Bowdoin '89, under the firm name of Doherty & Brownson in January, 1903, but has practiced alone since 1914. He is a Republican in politics and in November, 1916, was the unsuccessful candidate for district attorney of Hampden and Berkshire counties. In 191 3 he was elected a vice-president of the Yale Law School Alumni Association; in 1915 treasurer of the University Club of Springfield; in June, 1916, secretary of the Nyasset Club, and in September, 1917, president of the Winthrop Club, both of Springfield. He is also a member of the Country and Manch- conis clubs, the Chamber of Commerce and Elks. He belongs to the First Church of Christ, Springfield. He was married April 21, 1897, in Taunton, Massachusetts, to Adelaide DeVille, daughter of Alfred C. and Liely L. (Weeden) Place. They had one son, Alfred Gardner, born April 15, 1899, in Springfield, now a student at Andover. Mrs. Brownson died April 12, 1904. He writes : ''My life has been rather quiet and uneventful. I have practiced law steadily since my admission to the bar, and cherish no particular ambition except to attain success and honor in that profession. My principal recreations are walking, play- ing tennis, and bridge whist. Am fond of travel, and usually BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 161 spend my summer vacation enjoying that diversion, although never extensively. Since the death of my wife in 1904 my mother, who is a widow, has made her home with me." C. SANFORD BULL Cornelius Sanford Bull Partner in the firm of Holmes & Bull, investment brokers, 136 Grand Street, Waterbury, Connecticut Residence, 151 Hillside Avenue, Waterbury, Connecticut His father, Cornelius Wade Bull (born April 8, 1839, in Tallahassee, Florida; died May 19, 1876, in Hartford, Con- necticut), was the son of Jabez Benedict and Mary (Ford) Bull, and a direct descendant of Henry Bull, who came from Eng- land in the James in 1634, went to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1637, and was the first governor of that colony. A graduate of Yale College in 1863, he served in the U. S. Navy as assistant paymaster for two years and then entered the Yale Medical School and received the degree of M.D. in 1867. He married on August 16, 1869, Sarah Alice, daughter of Porter and Sarah Ann (Allen) Sanford. Mrs. Bull was born in Terry ville, Con- i6 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE necticut, April 9, 1850. She traces her descent to Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony. C. Sanford Bull was bom June 2.J, 1871, in Terryville and was prepared for college at the Hartford Public High School. He received a dissertation Junior appointment and a dispute Senior year, and was a member of Zeta Psi. From 1893 to 1898 he was purchasing agent for the Water- bury Watch Company and then, until 1905, was associated with the New England Watch Company in the same place. In November, 1905, he was admitted to membership in the firm of C. L. Holmes & Company, which later became Holmes & Bull, dealers in investment securities. He also holds the positions of treasurer of the Waterbury Castings Company, and a director of the Waterbury Button Company. Republican in politics. He is a member of the First Congre- gational Church of Waterbury, and belongs to the Waterbury Club and the Waterbury Country Club. He was married October 24, 1906, in Waterbury, to Helen Ives, daughter of J. Richard and Helen (Lane) Smith. They have no children. He writes: "If I have a hobby it is my farm. Principal products are apples and stones." *Ross Burchard Died November 14, 1918 Burchard was the son of Boardman Burchard, who was born in Mentor, Ohio, May 26, 1823, and died in South Norwalk, Connecticut, May 8, 1910. On his father's side he was of French descent (Alsace-Lorraine), and on his mother's of Irish. Mr. Burchard was in the wholesale drygoods business throughout his life and was a partner in L. O. Wilson & Company, New York City, and John V. Farwell & Company, Chicago. His wife, Lunette Ross, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1848, and died in South Norwalk, Connecticut, November 13, 1909. She was of Scotch ancestry. Ross Burchard was born April 8, 1870, in New York City, and prepared for college by tutor in South Norwalk, Connecticut. Tennis was his principal recreation in college and he played half- back on the Senior Class Football Team. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 163 For two years after graduation he was in Chicago with J. V. Farwell & Company and from 1895 to 1912 he was employed as purchasing agent by the same company in New York City. During 19 12 he was engaged in the real estate business in Nor- ROSS BURCHARD walk, but since January 1, 191 3, he had been with Sweet-Orr & Company, Inc., manufacturers of workingmen's clothing, serving as a director of this company and attending especially to the pur- chase of materials. He was a Democrat. He was a member of the West Side Tennis Club, New York City, Knob Country Club, South Nor- walk, Norwalk Country Club, Norwalk, and Wee Burn Golf Club, Noroton. On November 14, 1918, Burchard died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Norwalk. He was married October 2*j , 1904, in Newburgh, New York, to Mabel, daughter of Clayton Emmett and Charity Louise (Manning) Sweet. They have one daughter, Mabel Manning, born September 23, 1905, in Norwalk. 164 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE *Frank Howard Button Died ^ November 1, 1902 Frank H. Button, son of William E. and Louise L. (Fokkes) Button, was born December 24, 1868, in Summit, New Jersey. The father was a farmer and when the son entered college his home was in Peekskill, New York. He was prepared at the Lyons (New York) High School and at Hopkins Grammar School ; in college received dispute appoint- ments. After graduation he studied law in the New York Law School and received the degree of LL.B., being admitted to the New York Bar in September, 1895. From that time he practiced in Buffalo, as a member of the firm of Button & Kean, making a specialty of com- mercial law. He was secre- tary of the Lawyers' Coopera- tive Union, Inc., publishers of the Cooperative Law List. His home continued to be in Peekskill, where he died of tuberculosis on November 1, 1902. He was married June 25, 1895, to Maude, daughter of Henry and Martha F. Sultz- bach, of Patterson, Kansas. They had one child, a daugh- ter, Dorothy Maude, born FRANK H. BUTTON J U ty 2 7> J ^97' Harvey Peters Butz Pe Ell, Washington Butz is a son of Jonathan LaRos Butz, a merchant, and Eliza Jane Butz. His American ancestry dates back to the year 1720, when John Butz, a Bavarian, landed in Philadelphia; there has since been an intermixing with French and English. Our class- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 165 mate was born April 8, 1871, in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, and was prepared at the Kutztown Normal School and at Muhlen- berg College, where he was graduated in 1892. He was variously engaged in studying, traveling, and writing "*.*, m .„" TS HARVEY P. BUTZ occasionally for newspapers for two years, then tutoring for a year, before entering the mercantile business in Breinigsville. He was also for a time treasurer of the Lyceum Theater in Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1905 he went to the Pacific Coast and, until 1909, was a tutor in Los Angeles ; from 1909 to 1916 he was cashier of the Leslie Grocery Company in Seattle, Washington, and then for one year was recuperating in San Diego, California. He is now located at Pe Ell, Washington, engaged in ranching. Nehemiah Candee Member of the firm of Keogh & Candee, United Bank Building, South Norwalk, Connecticut Residence, 10 Arch Street, Norwalk, Connecticut Candee is the only living son of Jason and Caroline Amelia (Canfield) Candee, who were married in February, 1850, and i66 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE had nine children, seven sons and two daughters. The surviv- ing daughter is Mrs. P. G. McCollum, of Richmond, Virginia. Jason Candee, a farmer, was born June 8, 1829, in Southbury, Connecticut, and died May 18, 1913, in Dorset, Virginia. His ■^ ° 1 : : : 1 NEHEMIAH CANDEE ancestors, who were of Welsh and French origin, came to New Haven about 1647. He attended Staples Academy, Easton, Connecticut, and spent most of his life in that state. His wife, who was of English descent, was born April 1, 1832, in Redding, Connecticut, and died in November, 1910, in Easton. John Dutton Candee, B.A. Yale 1847, LL.B. 1849, 1S a cousin. Nehemiah Candee was born August 9, 1870, in Easton, and was prepared at Staples Academy. He first entered Sheff but after one year transferred to the College as a member of '93. He received dispute appointments and, while taking the Law School course, was an editor of the Shingle. Before preparing for his profession he taught two years and then with two years of study received the degree of LL.B. from Yale in 1897. The first year he spent in Chicago with Thompson, Clark & Wilkins, but in 1898 he returned to New Haven and, after assisting in the Law School that year, became a member BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 167 of the firm of Candee & Morse. This partnership continued until 1907 and during this period (in 1901) he served as a select- man. Another year was spent in Chicago in the firm of Magruder, Thompson & Candee, which was followed, in 1908, by the forming of his present partnership with John Keogh, LL.B. Yale 1897. He is a director of the People's Trust Com- pany of South Norwalk. In 191 1 he was elected president of the Board of Trade of South Norwalk and, in 1914, a director of the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce. He represented the Town of Norwalk in the General Assembly in 1917 and was chairman of the committee on Forfeited Rights, and a member of the committees on Banks and on Federal Relations. On June 1, 19 17, he was appointed judge of the City Court of Norwalk for a two-year term. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Board for Draft Registrants for the 26th Senatorial District, and a Four-Minute man. He was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in Hartford in June, 191 8. { He is president of the Board of Trustees of the South Nor- walk Baptist Church. He belongs to the Norwalk Club and to various chapters of the Masonic order. In October, 1917, he was elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias for the domain of Connecticut. He ranks as a corporal in the 2d Nor- walk Company, Connecticut State Guard, having enlisted in April, 191 7, for two years. He was married June 29, 1901, in New Haven, Connecticut, to Annie M., daughter of Mark Bourne Chunn, a planter and magistrate of Maryland, and Annie M. (Dent) Chunn. They have had four children: Mark Chunn and Marjorie Dent, born October 22, 1903, in New Haven ; Randolph Frederick, born June 29, 1905, in New Haven, and died July 14, 1909, in South Norwalk, and Dorothy Caroline, born April 19, 191 1, in South Norwalk. Mrs. Candee has written short stories, articles, and verse for a number of women's and children's magazines. Three of her brothers were graduated at Yale: Mark Wilson Chunn, B.D. 1886, Clay Dent Chunn, B.D. 1889, and Frederick Chunn, LL.B. 1895. Candee writes: "Have a very keen interest in public affairs and am usually on the stump in all local, state and national campaigns. Try to keep in touch with literary affairs through my wife's interest in them. My boy Mark received a war medal 168 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE as boy scout, for sale of Liberty Bonds. My daughter Marjorie has taken literary prizes for articles written by her, and my little daughter Dorothy (age six and a half) keeps us all guessing as to future achievements. On the whole, I am busy and happy." WILLIAM T. CAPPS William Thomas Capps Vice-president, J. Capps & Sons, Ltd., 1018 West State Street, Jacksonville, Illinois Capps is a son of William Edward and Margaret (Gallaher) Capps, who were married in 1866 and had three other children: James Gallaher Capps, Sarah Ellen (Capps) Tingle, and Alice A. Capps. The father was born in 1842 in Jacksonville, Illinois, and spent his entire life in that town, dying in September, 1896. He was engaged in the woolen manufacturing business as vice- president of J. Capps & Sons, Ltd. The family originally lived in North Carolina. Mrs. Capps was born in 1854, in Jackson- ville, and died there in 1873. Her father came from Ireland, her mother from Germany. Mr. Capps was married again in 1880. William T. Capps was born April 12, 1871, in Jacksonville, and was prepared at Whipple Academy and at Illinois College. He received a second colloquy Senior appointment. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 169 He returned to his home town after graduation and, with the exception of a few months in 1896, has been continuously engaged in the family business, manufacturing woolen goods and clothing under the name of J. Capps & Sons, Ltd. He is vice- president of this company and a director of the Southern Gypsum Company, Inc. He has been a vestryman of Trinity Church, Jacksonville, for ten years. He was married April 2.7, 1897, in Jacksonville, to Louisa May, daughter of James F. and Welthea (Clark) Potts. Mrs. Capps died November 13, 1901. He was again married October 5, 1905, in Jacksonville, to Louise, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Henshaw) Stryker. They have three children, all born in Jacksonville: William Thomas, Jr., born February 12, 1908; Henry McClure, born November 26, 191 1, and Elizabeth Stryker, born April 11, 1913. Otho Grandford Cartwright Certified public accountant, 25 Broad Street, New York City, and director- manager of the Westchester County Research Bureau, 15 Court Street, White Plains, New York Residence, 126 Claremont Avenue, New York City Cartwright is the only son of Alphonso Goodrich and Lovia D. (Etheridge) Cartwright, who were married March 6, 1864, and had one other child, a daughter, who died in childhood. A. G. Cartwright was born August 29, 1839, in Alfred, New York, and died May 24, 1877, in Belmont, New York. His ancestors came from England and settled at Martha's Vineyard about the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was a partner in a drug business before and for a few years after the Civil War and then engaged in the shoe and leather business ; he served as Captain, Company I, 85th New York Volunteers, from 1862 to 1865. His wife, Lovia DeLery Etheridge, was born February I, 1844, at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and died in November, 1907, in Belmont, New York. She is a descendant of Baron Lery, who emigrated from France to Cape Breton in 15 18, then- returned to France. Later descendants went to the Carolinas. Otho G. Cartwright was born September 7, 1869, in Belmont, and was prepared at Phillips-Andover. In college he received 170 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE dissertation appointments, was a member of the Yale Union and the Andover Club. He was a member of the Track Team in 1891, 1892, and 1893, and was a substitute on the Freshman Football Team. He writes : "It is already recorded in the class history that fte r OTHO G. CARTWRIGHT Cartwright taught here and there for 'X' years. My present view of that experience is that 'X' years is too large a number. I regret that I allowed summer vacation roll around so many times before becoming really active in the field, described below, that grew more and more attractive every year. This is the only serious regret that I have over my teaching experience. "That experience and its resultant studies in history and economics led me more and more into investigations of American political, social, and economic institutions. As these fields opened out, the revelation of American extravagance and American wastefulness became startling. At first this seemed to me perhaps an unavoidable condition when viewed in connection with our unparalleled national growth, and of the wonderful develop- ment of industry, science, education, and culture of which all true Americans are so justifiably proud. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 171 "But the conviction grew that, as civilization develops, waste ought to decrease. Industrial engineers were demonstrating every day the economic uses of by-products from material that important industries had formerly thrown away as waste. Why should not social waste and political waste be reduced, — perhaps eliminated, and civilization and society be thereby vastly the gainer? You see I was late in realizing the existence of some very old problems. "I found opportunity to discuss these problems with economists of high rank, both in this country and elsewhere. Encouraged on all sides by the views of such men, I finally decided that I could serve no more useful purpose in life than to contribute the resources at my command toward the solution of such problems ; i. e., to work for the elimination of social, economic, and political waste, and the conservation of human energy within such fields. "I believe that I am fortunate in the respect that I have been able to make my professional vocation cooperate directly with my avocation in the following way. "Having a natural mathematical bent and a fondness for statistics, accounts, and finance, I have taken the New York State degree of Certified Public Accountant (1916) and set up in the practice of that profession. "The modern profession of auditing and accounting is con- cerned directly with elimination of waste in business and industry, development of efficiency therein, and the conservation of busi- ness energy and business resources. Moreover, the work of this profession is encouraged and developed by the increased profits of men and enterprises who use our services, — whether they are merchants, manufacturers, financiers, professional men, or others. Municipal auditing and studies of governmental efficiency in general, constitute a large part of my own work in that profession. "So far, I have been very happy in my work, and have earned a comfortable livelihood. There are no roads without some rough spots and I have to acknowledge that, like everyone else, I encounter now and then a bump in life's highway, but I have met no obstacle so far that I have not been able to get past satis- factorily, — sometimes with the help of friends when needed. "I have several times declined nomination for public life. I have said, in reports on several municipalities that we have 172 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE audited, that politics and law together handcuff, shackle, and gag a public officer and then we throw him into his office and tell him to make good. It has always seemed to me that I could serve my fellow-men better by working unfettered, for the simplification and reconstruction where necessary of many of the features of our political structure that have become antiquated and brought to misuse by our politicians. So here I am pegging away. "Thanks to a kind Providence my professional practice is growing. If it continues to do so I may be able to disprove before I die the celebrated assertion of beloved Mark Twain, that 'nobody can afford to live in New York.' But I am not particularly exercised at present over that proposition. "I cannot write much about hobbies. I have hobbies. One of them is music. My wife is a musician and has exercised a good deal of influence on the position of music in education. But my boy, Roger, marvelous child that he is, of course, although seven years old is unable to sing a note. Heredity and environment are mysteries despite the revelations of science. "My classmates may remember that I used to pole vault at Yale. As an indication of physical health I am happy to inform them that I can still do ten feet. I went into a gymnasium the other day and proved it to the astonishment of some small fry gymnasts around the age of twenty or twenty-five who were trying to get over the bar at a height of nine feet or so. I weigh five pounds more than I did when I graduated in 1893 and my vaulting triceps is as big as it ever was, although I found it a little stiff and sore after the unwonted test to which I put it the other day. "I suppose the Class wants to know every man's war record. I have offered my services to the government in every branch of the army and navy and have been thankfully declined because of defective vision and having passed the age limit. Therefore, I am doing what I can in a civilian capacity, selling bonds, speak- ing publicly on National Defense, and contributing free profes- sional services to governmental departments, bureaus, and com- missions. None of such work is much in the public eye but I hope and believe that it all counts. "I have always been glad and thankful that I am a Yale man and I hope that I may never cause anyone connected with Yale to wish I were otherwise." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 73 Cartwright is independent in politics. A member of the Baptist Church and a Mason, he belongs to a number of clubs, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the American Institute of Public Accountants. He was married July 15, 1908, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Harriet May, daughter of Samuel B. Garton, a merchant, and Martha (Berry) Garton. Mrs. Cartwright is a graduate of Des Moines College and of Des Moines Musical College and before her marriage was the head of the school-music depart- ment in Bush Temple of Music, Chicago, and later, head of the music departments in several New York schools. They have one son, Roger Garton, born April 26, 191 1, in New York City. THOMAS I. CHATFIELD Thomas Ives Chatfield Judge of the U. S. District Court, Federal Building, Brooklyn, New York Residence, 31 Linden Avenue, Brooklyn, New York Chatfield is the only son of Thomas Ives and Lucy Benton (Goodrich) Chatfield, who were married June 22, 1858. The father, born September 16, 1818, in Great Barrington, Massa- i74 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE chusetts, and died May 2, 1884, in Owego, New York, spent the greater part of his life in the latter town. He was in the whole- sale and retail grocery business and held many town offices, being also a member of the Assembly, a State senator, and a delegate to the convention which nominated General Grant for President. Mr. Chatfield was descended from one of four brothers who came from England to Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1636, and from the Dwight and Ives families in Connecticut. Lucy (Goodrich) Chatfield was born July 15, 1830, in Owego and died in Brooklyn, New York, on November 3, 1903. Her ancestors settled in Con- necticut early in the seventeenth century. Thomas I. Chatfield, Jr., was born October 4, 1871, in Owego, New York, and prepared at the Owego Free Academy. In college he received a philosophical oration appointment Junior year and a high oration in Senior year and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He played on Class and scrub football teams, rowed in the single scull race in the fall regatta in 1891, and in the eight-oared shell Class races in 1892 and 1893, and was a substitute on the University Crew in 1892. He was a member of the Class Day Committee and of Zeta Psi. Entering Columbia in the fall following graduation he com- pleted his course in 1896, having spent several months in the South for ill health in 1894-95. The month after he received his law degree he was admitted to the New York Bar and began the practice of law with Miller & Miller. In May, 1902, he left this firm and entered into the partnership of Decker, Allen & Chatfield, but on January 1, 1903, was appointed first assistant U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Four years later he was advanced to be judge of the district court in that district. He was married June 7, 1899, in Owego, to Laura Dwight, daughter of Warren Leroy Ayer, M.D. Long Island College Medical School 1868, and Sarah Adelia (Dwight) Ayer. They have three children, all born in Brooklyn, New York : Katharine Ives, born January 29, 1901 ; Helen Ayer, born May 30, 1903, and Thomas Dwight, born September 21, 1910. Chatfield writes : "My aim seems to have been to work hard and then to work some more, trying to live up to the great office which I hold, to follow worthily in the footsteps of the great men who have brought honor to that office in the past and to uphold the United States of America in all things with personal honor as my guide. My recreation is limited to crowding into a vaca- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES !75 tion, usually spent largely in fishing in the wilds, all the benefit I can gain so as to get strength for the next year of close applica- tion to hard work. Details do not add to the statement and are not interesting to others. I try to do all I can for my family and fell that I do not accomplish much that I would like to do, but what is there in life beyond doing your duty as God gives you the opportunity to do? Our best is what we do after all but it can always be made better and we always fall short of what we wish. Then try again before it is too late." ALVAH S. CHISHOLM Alvah Stone Chisholm Assistant to the president, American Steel & Wire Company, Western Reserve Building, Cleveland, Ohio Residence, 12717 Lake Shore Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio Chisholm is a son of William and Mary Henrietta (Stone) Chisholm, who were married September 22, 1864, and had three other children: Henry (died May 26, 1869, in Chicago) ; Mary Ann (married Kenyon V. Painter, '89 s.; died June 26, 1901, in Cleveland), and Jean (married Francis E. Drake, ex-'gS S.). 176 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE The son of Henry Chisholm, who was born in Lochgelly, Scot- land, and came to Montreal, Canada, in 1842, William Chisholm was born in the latter city May 22, 1843. He lived in the United States after 1850, studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Philadelphia (now part of the University of Pennsylvania), from 1864 to 1879 was vice-president and general manager of the Union Rolling Mill Company of Chicago, and from 1880 to 1898, president of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company of Cleve- land, Ohio. His death occurred in that city on December 6, 1905. Mrs. Chisholm was born February 3, 1846, in Auburn, Massachusetts, and died May 25, 191 5, in Cleveland, Ohio. Yale relatives are William A. Osborn, '93, Wilson K. Chisholm, '98, Henry Chisholm, '01, Clifton Chisholm, on her mother's side she is descended from French and Dutch families in the seventeenth century. George M. Creevey was born July 4, 1872, in Hope, New York, and was prepared at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn. He received an oration Junior appointment, a high oration Senior appoint- ment, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of Zeta Psi and the Elihu Club. Graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1896, he was licensed to practice in New York and appointed to the house staff of Roosevelt Hospital for four years' service. In May, 1899, he became assistant to Dr. McBurney in New York City, where he has since practiced. In January, 1901, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 185 he was appointed attending surgeon at the Cornell University Medical School Dispensary but resigned the following year. He practiced general surgery and more anaesthesia until 1907, since which time he has practiced anaesthesia exclusively, at various times having appointments as anaesthetist to Bellevue Hospital, New York Hospital, and Roosevelt Hospital. He is now "all over the lot as special anaesthetist" and adds, "in my own specialty have invented considerable apparatus and several new methods which did not seem wonderful enough to publish although they have been widely copied and used." He is a Republican. He belongs to several medical societies, and to the Century and University clubs. He was married September 5, 1901, in New Hartford, Con- necticut, to Lucy Morris, daughter of William W. Ellsworth, formerly president of the Century Publishing Company, and Helen Yale (Smith) Ellsworth. Mrs. Creevey's uncle, Frederick W. Davis, graduated at Yale in 1877; her cousin, Carl W. Davis, in 1902; her brother, Bradford Ellsworth, in 1903, and her brother-in-law, Frederick S. Goucher, in 191 1. There are three children: Carlotta, born September 13, 1902, in New Hartford, Connecticut, attending Brearley School; Kennedy, born July 13, 1905, in New York City, attending Kir- mayer School, and Eileen, born July 20, 1910, in New York City, attending Brearley School. In reply to the request for a personal letter Creevey writes: "As I am a monogam I take it this question does not apply to me. The preceding questions, though discreet, have searched out all there is to know, so help me God." Beecher Maynard Crouse Treasurer, Avalon Knitwear Company, Utica, New York Residence, 369 Genesee Street, Utica, New York Grouse's parents were married June 30, 1869, and had one other child, a daughter, Mary Louise Crouse. The father, John M. Crouse, was born December 12, 1847, m Canastota, New York, and died July 10, 1906, in England. His ancestors, who came from Bavaria, settled in the Mohawk Valley. He spent most of his life in Utica, where he was president of the Utica Steam & i86 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills Company. The mother, Mary L. Maynard, who was of English and Scotch descent, was born March 22, 1847, m Utica, and died in that city June 30, 1893. Beecher M. Crouse was born August 22, 1870, in Utica, New York, and was prepared for college at the Utica Free Academy BEECHER M. CROUSE and at the Lawrenceville School. He played on the Class Foot- ball and Baseball teams, was an editor of the Courant, and a member of the Junior Prom Committee, the Yale Union, Lawrenceville Club, University Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. He was with the firm of John M. Crouse & Son, wholesale grocers, Utica, from 1893 to 1898, when he became secretary and treasurer of the Avalon Knitwear Company. He is a director of the First National Bank of Utica and is an officer or director in eighteen business concerns of various kinds. From 1910 to 1912 he served as a park commissioner. He belongs to the Episcopal Church and is a director in several war relief activities. He has served as president of the Yale Club of Utica and is now vice-president of the Fort Schuyler Club. He BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 187 also has a membership in the Sadaquada Golf Club, Tennis Club, Yahnundasis Golf Club, all of Utica, the University Club of New York, and the Adirondack League Club. He was married September 5, 1894, in Guilford, Connecticut, to Louise Shultas, daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Shultas) Knous. They have had two daughters : Caroline Shultas, born February 26, 1896, and died January 4, 19 13, and Catharine Maynard, born November 26, 1902. Crouse writes : "Several of the companies I am intimately interested in are working for the Government and we are doing all we can, in our small way, to help in this great crisis. I have several hundred acres in the Adirondacks where I go for my recreation whenever possible. I believe in work, rest, and recreation. I go all the three hard and make my men do the same." Elliot S. Curtis, son Elliot M. Curtis, was born in Tidioute, Warren County, Pennsylvania, on June 18, 1870. He received his pre- paratory training with Mr. S. T. Marks in Tidioute and in college he had first colloquy rank. After graduation he en- gaged in business in his home town. On July 1, 1894, he was killed by a stroke of light- ning. He was on a lake in an open boat when a thunder- storm came up and, seeking shelter under a large tree ashore, he was killed by the same current which struck the tree. He had not married. *Elliot Stone Curtis Died July 1, 1894 Of ELLIOT S. CURTIS CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Howard Dorrance Day Instructor in science, Classical High School, Providence, Rhode Island Residence, 216 Medway Street, Providence, Rhode Island Day is one of nine children. Two brothers and two sisters attended Brown University; Robert Harvey Day, B.A. Brown 1896, M.A. 1897 (died March 2, 1900), Horace Talbot Day, ^'-1901, Anne Marjorie Day, B.A. Vassar 1898, M.A. Brown 1917, and Emily Brainard (Day) Macomber, student at Pembroke College, Brown University, 1900- 1901. The father, James Williams Day, was born March 11, 1839, m Ellicottville, New York, the son of Samuel Dorrance and Emily (Fuller) Day, who was of the seventh generation from Edward Fuller, one of the passengers on the May- flower. From 1856 until his death on August 23, 19 14, in Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Day was in business in that city. He was married June 7, 1865, to Anne Read Allen, who was born April 7, 1842, in Seekonk, Massachu- setts. Howard D. Day was born January 8, 1871, in Providence, and was prepared at the Classical High School. He spent Freshman year at Brown and after entering Yale took a second DeForest Mathematical Prize, received a first colloquy Junior appointment and a second dispute Senior appointment, and was a member of Zeta Psi. After graduation he returned to Brown as an instructor in English (1893-94) and a student in physical science and mathe- matics (1893-96). In 1895 he became instructor in science in the English High School at Providence, where he continued until September, 19 17, when he transferred to the Classical High School. He received the degree of M.A. at Brown in 1899. HOWARD D. DAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 189 He is a Republican in politics. He belongs to the Congrega- tional Church and is on the educational committee of St. Andrew's Industrial School of Barrington, Rhode Island. He is a member of the University Club of Providence, the Wannamoisett Country Club, Rumford, the Barnard Club of Rhode Island and the Yale Association of Rhode Island, serving as chairman of the committee on relations with Yale. He has not married. ROBERT K. DICKERMAN ^Robert Kerr Dickerman Died September 4, 1907 Dickerman was a son of Dr. Lemuel K. Dickerman and Maria (Knapp) Dickerman. Josiah P. Dickerman, B.A. Amherst 1886, Yale School of Religion ex-iSgo, is a brother. Robert K. Dickerman was born June 29, 1870, in Foxboro, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and was prepared for college at the Boston Latin School and at Phillips-Andover. Following graduation he attended the Harvard Law School from 1893 to 1895 and in September, 1896, was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He handled corporation and bankruptcy 190 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE cases and for the last six years was associated with Mr. Charles G. Bartlett in Boston. He was also interested in the development of a large tract of land in Salem, having joined Mr. Henry M. Whitney in this project. He was a member of the Boston Bar Association and of the Yale and University clubs. In 1907 ill health forced him to give up his work and he died at the Fletcher Sanitarium in Salem on September 4. He was married August 27, 1904, to Lorita, daughter of Louis Preston Hollander, a merchant of Boston. They had one child, a daughter, Emma, born October 4, 1907. -, ; '§t * Jonathan Boynton Dill Died April 22, 1900 1 Jonathan B. Dill, son of ' Rev. William H. Dill, Penn- ^p* sylvania College i860, and Edith (Boynton) Dill, was born in Clearfield, Pennsyl- vania, January 30, 1871. He was prepared at Media Acad j emy and in college was a member of the University Club and Psi Upsilon. The three years following graduation he spent in Phila- delphia, and then went to Hastings, Pennsylvania, where, in 1897, he became manager of the Alport Coal Company, and acquired an in- terest in the Byrnes Run Sup- ply Company, of Spangler, Pennsylvania. He won the esteem of all classes in the community, and the workers in the mines held him in the highest regard. He was elected Chief Burgess of Hastings in February, 1900. He died at his home, on April 22, 1900, of acute spinal menin- gitis, after an illness of less than twenty-four hours. He was unmarried. JONATHAN B. DILL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 191 Frank Edward Donnelly Lawyer, 905 Mears Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania Residence, 734 Clay Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania Donnelly is a son of Thomas H. and Bridget (Farrell) Donnelly, who were married May 17, 1862, and had five other children, three daughters and two sons. One of the sons, Richard Julian Donnelly, was graduated from Sheff in 1899. FRANK E. DONNELLY The father, born in 1837 in New York City, lived also in Friends- ville, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York, but died in the city of his birth February 18, 1901. He started life as a school teacher, was then a farmer, and about 1872 became a grocer and commission merchant in Binghamton. His grandfather came to New York from County Clare, Ireland, in 1804. Mrs. Donnelly (born June 15, 1836, in County Longford, Ireland) was the daughter of Bernard Farrell, who came to America in 1842, and settled at Smithville, New York. She died November 23, 1904, in Oxford, New York. 192 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Frank E. Donnelly was born September 23, 1869, near Mon- trose, Pennsylvania. He was valedictorian of the Class of 1888, Oxford Academy, and at Yale received a dissertation appoint- ment. He was editor of the Class Book and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In the Law School he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Shingle, a Townsend Prize speaker, and a member of Corbey Court. He first gained admission to the New York Bar in December, 1895, having been graduated in June with the degree of LL.B., and in the following June was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar. He practiced in Wilkes Barre from 1896 to 1900 when he moved to Scranton, where his office has since been located. For several years he and Rice, '93, had offices together, and, although they planned to become partners, the arrangement was never completed. He was elected third vice-president of the Scranton Board of Trade in 1917 and 1918. He has been active in alumni matters and served as vice- president (1906) and president (1907, 1916-17) of the Yale Alumni Association of Scranton. He has been president of the Class of 1895, Yale School of Law, since 1905. He is a Republican in politics. A member of the Roman Catholic Church; he belongs to the Country Club of Scranton and the Yale Club of New York. He was married November 27, 1901, in Wilkes Barre, Penn- sylvania, to Jean, daughter of Conrad and Agnes (Weir) Lee. They have a son and a daughter, both born in Scranton : Frank Lee, born January 14, 1905, and Jean Lee, born February 4, 1912. *Francis Oswald Dorsey Died June 17, 1915 Francis O. Dorsey, son of Robert Stockton Dorsey, a manu- facturer, and Katharine (Layman) Dorsey, was born on Novem- ber 12, 1869, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was prepared at the Shortridge High School. In college he made a colloquy stand and served on the Cap and Gown Committee. From 1893 to 1896 he studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and received the degree of M.D. in the latter year, being also awarded a prize of two hundred dollars for excellence in the work of his entire course. Before return- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES i93 ing in 1899 to Indianapolis, where he had since been engaged in the practice of his profession, he served for three months on the house staff of the Sloane Maternity Hospital and for two years on that of the Presbyterian Hospital. He associated himself with Dr. Henry Jameson in Indian- apolis and in October, 1899, was appointed assistant pro- fessor of the principles and practice of medicine in the Indiana Medical College (the medical department of Purdue University), and the follow- ing year became assistant demonstrator in pathology in the same college, a position he retained until 1907, when he became associate professor of medicine. The following year he accepted a similar appointment on the staff of the Indiana University School of Medicine. He was profes- sor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Indiana Dental College for four years ; was consulting physician at the Indianapolis Dispensary from 1902 until his death, and was assistant attending physician at the same institution from 1904 to 1906, and attending physician from 1906 until his death. From 191 1 he was clinician at the Bobbs Free Dispensary. He was a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Medical societies and of the American Medical Association, and was president of the Mount Jackson Sanitarium Association, vice- president of the Tucker & Dorsey Manufacturing Company, and a director of the Phoenix Castor Company. He served as the physical examiner of the Brooks School in Indianapolis. His death occurred, from peritonitis, in Indianapolis on June 17, 191 5, and the burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery. He was married on October 15, 1902, in Indianapolis, to Edith Maria, daughter of William H. and Marintha (Robe) Smith. There were no children. FRANCIS 0. DORSEY 194 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ^Richard Edward Dunham Died March 21, 1896 m RICHARD E. DUNHAM Richard E. Dunham, son of James Dunham, was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, on January 29, 1865. He was fitted for college at the War- ren High School. While in college he suffered a serious injury to one wrist, and by over-exercise increased the difficulty. He attempted after graduation to teach in New York City and Mil ford, Connecticut, but was finally obliged to abandon all work and undergo treatment. He was for some months in the New Haven Hospital, and again in a hospital in Cleve- land, Ohio. He died of blood poisoning at his home in War- ren on March 21, 1896. He had not married. Henry Rutherford Dwight President and treasurer, Goodale, Perry & Dwight, Inc., real estate, 137 West Twenty-third Street, New York City Residence, 891 Park Avenue, New York City Dwight's parents, Frederick Augustus and Antoinette Ray- mond (McMullen) Dwight, were married November 1, 1866, and had seven other children : Frederick Dwight, Yale '94 ; Grace (Mrs. Henry Elmer Gibb) ; Amos Trowbridge Dwight, Yale 'ooS.; Antoinette; Thornton (died April 3, 1888); Clarissa (died in 1876), and Isabel (died in 1869). Mr. Dwight, a descendant of Captain Timothy Dwight, who came to America from Dedham, England, in 1648, was a member of the firm of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES J 95 Dwight & Piatt, shipping merchants, until 1883, when he retired from active business. Pie was born February 18, 1842, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and died September 30, 1916, in Seabright, New Jersey. A sister married George Theodore Bliss, B.A. v ;.,'.,- HENRY R. DWIGHT 1873, an d Stanley Dwight, B.A. 1876, is a cousin. Mrs. Dwight was born November 4, 1845, m Albany, New York. Her ancestors came from Holland about 1650. Henry R. Dwight was born September 26, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York, and was prepared at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and at the Brooklyn Latin School. In college he joined Zeta Psi. Dwight has been in business in New York City since gradua- tion and since 1900 especially real estate has been his field. From 1893 to 1897 he was with Dominick & Dominick, bankers ; 1897, assistant secretary, Merchants' Safe Deposit Company; 1898, treasurer of the Wool Exchange; 1899-1900, with the American Thread Company. In the real estate business he has been associated with E. S. Willard & Company (1900-06) and with Goodale, Perry & Dwight (president and treasurer). He is also 196 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE treasurer of the 320 West Eighty-third Street Company and of LaTula Mining Company. He is an Independent Republican. He is a member of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. He was on guard duty at the Croton Aqueduct during August, 1917, being a member of the 9th Coast Artillery Company, New York Guard. His clubs are the University, Yale and Hardware of New York, Rumson of New Jersey, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the St. Nicholas Society. He is not married. WINTHROP E. DWIGHT Winthrop Edwards Dwight Member of the firm of Dwight & Scoville, lawyers, 62 Cedar Street, New York City Residence, 22 East Forty-seventh Street, New York City Dwight is the only son of Timothy and Jane Wakeman (Skinner) Dwight, who were married December 31, 1866, and had one other child, a daughter, Helen Rood Dwight (died Octo- ber 16, 1909). Timothy Dwight (born November 16, 1828, in Norwich, Connecticut; died May 26, 1916, in New Haven), a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 197 descendant of John Dwight of England, who settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1634, was the grandson of Timothy Dwight, B.A. 1769, president of Yale College from 1795 to 181 7. He also traced his ancestry in a direct line from Rev. Jonathan Edwards, B.A. 1720, third president of Princeton. Graduating from Yale in 1849, our classmate's father then studied Greek and theology and in 1858 became professor of sacred literature at Yale. He continued in this position until 1886 when he was elected president of Yale College, which office he resigned in 1899. Mrs. Dwight (born April 2, 1832, in New York City) is the daughter of Roger Sherman Skinner, B.A. 1 81 3, and Mary Lockwood (DeForest) Skinner. She is descended from Isaac DeForest of Picardy, France, who settled in Manhattan in 1637. Winthrop E. Dwight was born December 23, 1872, in New Haven, and was prepared for college by private tutors. He was Class Secretary, an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, and a member of the Junior Prom Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Delta Theta, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. He remained at Yale three years for graduate study, being enrolled in the Graduate and Law Schools, in 1895 and 1896 receiving the degrees of Ph.D. and LL.B. Although admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1896 he did not practice until 1899 when he was admitted to the New York Bar, having been a student in Balliol College, Oxford, and in Paris for two years. He was with Simpson, Thacher & Barnum from 1899 to 1901, when he opened an office for general practice. In May, 191 1, he formed a partnership with Herbert Scoville, Yale 1901, his present associate. He was married October 30, 191 7, in New Haven, to Mary (Ketcham) Talmage, widow of Thomas Hunt Talmage, and daughter of William Piatt and Lydia C. Ketcham. Mrs. Dwight has two children. *William Walton Eccles Died August 16, 1914 William W. Eccles, son of Richard and Mary (Walton) Eccles, was born February 7, 187 1, in Auburn, New York. He was prepared in his native town and received a dispute appoint- ment in Junior year and a colloquy Senior year. 198 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE After graduation he returned to Auburn and entered the Richard Eccles Company, manufacturers of carriage hardware, in the fall of 1893. In 19 12 he was made secretary and treasurer of the company and continued in these offices until his death. He was also a trustee of the Cayuga County Savings Bank during this period. He died from cancer on August 16, 1914, at his sum- mer home on Owasco Lake. He was married October 18, 1899, to Margaret Allan, daughter of William Ander- son of Auburn. They had three children : Marion Allan, born December 9, 1900; Robert Anderson, born June 6, 1902, and Arthur Walton, William w. eccles born December 6, 1904. Charles Brown Eddy Associate director, Division of Finance, U. S. Railroad Administration, Washington, D. C. Member of the firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, 62 Cedar Street, New York City Residence, 765 West Eighth Street, Plainfield, New Jersey- Eddy is the son of James H. and Maria N. (Brown) Eddy, who were married September 5, 1864, and had one other child, a daughter, Bessie M. Eddy. Mr. Eddy (born January 27, 1838, in New Britain, Connecticut, and died there June 12, 1902) was the son of William H. and Mary (Dobson) Eddy, whose ancestors settled in Plymouth in 1630. He was connected with the Stanley Rule & Level Company for forty-five years, served two terms in the New Britain Common Council, and was presi- dent of the New Britain Gas Light Company. His wife (born March 13, 1841, in New London, Connecticut; died May 20. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 199 1916) was the daughter of George S. and Nancy S. (Chapman) Brown. Her ancestors were also English, settling in Plymouth in 1620. Charles B. Eddy was born November 29, 1872, in New Britain, and was prepared at the high school in his native town. He CHARLES B. EDDY received philosophical oration appointments, honors in political science in Senior year, was a member of the executive com- mittee of the Yale Union, and of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi. A year in the Yale Law School was succeeded by the same length of time at the New York Law School, where he secured the degree of LL.B. in 1895. He was admitted to the New York Bar in December of that year and has since practiced in New York City. On August 1, 1901, he entered the office of Reed, Simpson, Thacher & Barnum (now Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett) and has been a member of the firm since 1905. In May, 1918, he was appointed assistant to the general counsel of the U. S. Railroad Administration, Washington, D. C, and in January, 191 9, associate director of the Division of Finance. He will still retain his interest in the firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. 200 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He is a Republican. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and a member of the University, Yale, and Grolier clubs, the Down Town Association of New York, and the Biblio- graphical Society of London. He was married June 7, 1902, in Alexandria, Virginia, to Ellen Coolidge, daughter of John Woolfolk Burke, a banker, and Martha Jefferson (Trist) Burke. They have three children, all born in Plainfield, New Jersey: James H., born January 29, 1907; Charles Brown, Jr., born October 19, 1908, and John Burke, born November 15, 1910. EDDYS HOME John Percival Edmison Editorial writer, The Star, Indianapolis, Indiana Edmison is a son of Percival Hall and Margaret (Jameson) Edmison, who were married November 19, 1868, and had two other children: Thomas George Edmison, and Margaret Grace (Edmison) Brown. Percival H. Edmison was born February 24, 1844, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where he lived until 1867, when he moved to Winthrop, Iowa, and was there owner of a general store until 1880. He has since been occupied with real estate interests and with a lumber and building materials business in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His parents came from England to Canada about 1830. On January 8, 1908, he married Lillian M. Thomas. Our classmate's mother was born May 15, 1843, m Caledonia, New York, and died December 26, 1895, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her parents were Thomas and Margaret (Mouat) Jameson, who came from Lerwick, Shetland Isles, to America in 1841. John P. Edmison was born September 1, 1869, in Winthrop, Iowa, and was prepared at the Sioux Falls High School and at Andover. In college he contributed to the Courant and Record, won the lightweight wrestling cup at the winter athletic meet in Junior year and was a member of Zeta Psi. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 20I In Sioux Falls he studied law for a year and in December, 1894, was admitted to the South Dakota Bar. He practiced this profession in Sioux Falls from 1894 to 1897. From 1898 to 1914 he was associated with the St. Paul Pioneer Press in various JOHN P. EDMISON editorial capacities, and became associate editor in 1912. Since July, 1914, he has been on the staff of the Indianapolis Star. He is the author of "Stories of the Northland," a book on Scandi- navian mythology, published in 1909 by the Penn Publishing Company. He is a Republican in politics. He has not married. Charles Hull Ewing In the real estate and investment business, 1642 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois Residence, Lake Forest, Illinois Ewing is the youngest child of Robert Finley and Aurelia (Culver) Ewing, who were married December 1, 1853. Of their 202 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE two other children, the daughter, Emily (Mrs. John F. Peck), is living. Robert F. Ewing (born October 14, 1823, in Victor, New York; died July 28; 1897, in South Dayton, New York) was the son of Samuel and Margaret (Morford) Ewing, and CHARLES H. EWING grandson of Rev. James Ewing, a Scotchman who settled in Princeton, New Jersey, and Amelia Bailey (Emery) Ewing. His middle name was that of his mother's uncle, Samuel Finley, fifth president of Princeton College, 1761-1766. Mr. Ewing was a civil engineer connected with a number of different rail- roads ; he held the position of chief engineer with several roads which were afterwards absorbed by the Erie System. Aurelia (Culver) Ewing (born March 9, 1828, in Little Valley, New York; died December 20, 1914, in Seattle, Washington) was the daughter of Lyman Culver of Wallingford, Connecticut, ances- tors from Wallingford, England, having settled there. Her grandfather served in the War of 181 2 and her great-grandfather in the Revolution. Charles H. Ewing was born July 11, 1868, in Randolph, New York, and attended Oberlin Preparatory Department and Oberlin College before entering Yale. Entering Yale in 1890, he main- tained a high stand and received high oration appointments, a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 203 second DeForest Mathematical Prize, an elocution prize, had charge of the siderial clocks at the Yale Observatory and of the field work in surveying. He sang on the Second Glee Club and the College Choir, played on the Senior Class Football team, was a member of the Yale Union and of Phi Beta Kappa. He is a graduate member of the Elihu Club. During the summer following graduation he was in charge of the Yale exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and then registered as a student in the Law School of North- western University. In 1895-96 he was manager of the Moor- head Stave Company, Moorhead, Mississippi. He then went to Chicago as manager of the Helen Culver Fund of the Univer- sity of Chicago, continuing in this position until 1908 and also transacting general real estate, insurance and investment busi- ness, in which he is now engaged. He is president of the Napanee Plantation Com- pany, secretary and treasurer of the Southern Gypsum Company, treasurer of Walter S. Syrett & Company, engi- neers and contractors, and a director of the First National and State Banks of Lake Forest, and of the Booth Fisheries Company. In 1906- 07 he was president of the People's Water & Light Com- pany, Harrisburg, Illinois, and from 1909 to 191 1, a director of the Midland Casu- alty Company. He has held various offices in the Lake Street Business Men's Association. He is in- terested in the Hull House Social Settlement and has served as a director of the Legal Aid Society, Chicago Geographic Society, and Committee of Fifteen. Formerly a Republican, he is in accord with Democratic principles under President Wilson's leadership. He is a member of the University and City clubs of Chicago, KATHERINE AND HELEN 204 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE the Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest, and is a life member of the Press Club, Art Institute, and Chicago Geographic Society. He belongs to Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He was married October 8, 1906, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mary Sleight, daughter of Thomas H. Everts, M.D. Univer- sity of Michigan 1855, and Caroline Griffin (Sleight) Everts. Mrs. Ewing studied at the University of Minnesota and at the School of Expression in Boston ; before her marriage she was instructor in vocal interpretation of literature and dean of women at the State University of Iowa. There are two daughters: Katherine Everts, born November 8, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, and Helen Culver, born December 5, 1909, in Lake Forest, Illinois. ARCHER L. FAXON Archer Linwood Faxon Instructor in the Boston Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts Residence, 31 Rosewood Street, Mattapan, Massachusetts Faxon is a son of Micah Braman and Adelaide V. A. (Mayhew) Faxon, who were married May 20, 1865, and had two other children, daughters. The father, born May 18, 1838, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 205 in Randolph, Massachusetts, is descended from English people who settled in Braintree in 1632. Mrs. Faxon, who was born April 28, 1841, in Buckfield, Maine, is of Scotch ancestry. She was educated at Howard Seminary, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Archer L. Faxon was born November 7, 187 1, in Holbrook, Massachusetts, and was prepared at the Boston Latin School. He received oration appointments in college and was a member of the Yale Union. Except for the years 1901 to 1905 when he was associated with Faxon & Ludden, shoe manufacturers, of Lynn, he has taught school. The list of his various positions is as follows: Glenwood Collegiate Institute, Matawan, New Jersey, 1893-94; South Orange (New Jersey) High School, 1894-99, vice- principal, 1900; Utica, New York, 1905-09; Boston Latin School since 1909. He was married June 30, 1904, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Katharine Hall, B.A. Mount Holyoke 1901, daughter of George W. M. Hall, B.A. Bowdoin 1859, and Katharine F. (Woodbury) Hall. They have had four children: Barbara Adams, born January 1, 1906; Raymond Hall, born November 23, 1907; George Ryder, born January 29, 1909, and Linwood Archer, born January 29, 1914, and died December 25, 1917. Charles Jarvis Fay Partner in the firm of White & Case, lawyers, 14 Wall Street, New York City Residence, Romer Road, Dongan Hills, Staten Island Fay is the only son of Gilbert Otis and Mary Jane (Jarvis) Fay, who were married April 14, 1869, and had also one daughter, Elizabeth Fay. Born November 8, 1834, in Wadsworth, Ohio, the son of Rev. Gilbert Fay, B.A. Brown 1826, and Clarissa (Walker) Fay, Gilbert O. Fay was graduated at Yale College in 1859 and three years later received his M.A. degree. In 1862 after completing the course at Andover Theological Seminary he was licensed to preach but was never settled as pastor of a church although he preached regularly at the institutions with which he was connected. In 1862 he married Adelia C. Allen, who died in November, 1866; there was one daughter by this marriage. 2o6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE From 1862 to 1880 he was a teacher and principal of the Ohio Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and from 1880 until his death, February 18, 19 10, professor in the Hartford School for the Deaf. In 1880 Western Reserve University conferred upon him CHARLES J. FAY the degree of Ph.D. Mary (Jarvis) Fay was born September 9, 1833, in Lowville, New York, and died March 15, 1903, in Hart- ford, Connecticut. Charles J. Fay was born August 26, 1871, in Columbus, Ohio, and was prepared for college at the Hartford Public High School. He received philosophical oration appointments, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of the Yale Union. He is a graduate member of the Elihu Club. He taught one year at Morris Academy, Morristown, New Jersey, and one at the Franklin School, Cincinnati, Ohio, before commencing the study of law. He was enrolled in the New York Law School during 1895-96 but transferred the next year to Columbia where he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1899. He was admitted to the New York Bar in June, 1899, and was associated with the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Steele, 1899-1900. From October, 1900, to February, 1907, he was with Lord, Day & Lord, and from June, 1905, to February, 1907, a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 207 member of the firm, from which he withdrew to become a partner in White & Case, his present firm. The other Yale partners are George B. Case, '94, and Irving S. Olds, 'oy. "My law work," he writes, "has been general corporation work; principally banking and trust company and corporate trust work. Have been active in work of war contracts for British and French Governments and in some shipbuilding mat- ters growing out of the present war. "For every good thing I have in life, I have my good wife, my father who sent me to Yale, and my partners and business associates to thank; therefore, my interests are (1) my family and home; (2) Yale and my Class of '93, and (3) my work. With such fundamentals, I try to respond to the requirements of good citizenship/' Fay is a Republican. He belongs to the Congregational Church. He served on the Vicennial Reunion Committee and is chair- man of the Twenty-five Year Reunion Committee. He is a life member of the Yale and University clubs, and belongs to the Down Town Association, India House, Richmond County Country Club, Century Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (member of executive committee, 1917-20). He was married June 26, 1909, in New York City, to Emily Bartlett, daughter of Walter and Harriet Alexina (Ely) Ives. They have four children : John Gilbert, born June 2, 1910, in New York City; Jane Ely, born November 20, 191 1, in Dongan Hills; Charles Jarvis, Jr., born February 12, 1914, in Dongan Hills, and Elizabeth Ives, born July 8, 1916, in Dongan Hills. Irving Bruce Ferguson Certified public accountant, 511 Fifth Avenue, New York City Residence, Pelham, New York Ferguson is the only living child of Dudley Marvin and Caroline Virginia (Hoppock) Ferguson, who were married about 1857. The father, born in March, 1824, in Cohoes, New York, and died in Brooklyn, July 5, 1894, was a merchant. He was of Scotch descent. The mother was born July 9, 1836, in New York and is of Dutch descent. CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Irving B. Ferguson was born June 22, 1872, in New York City, and was prepared for college at various schools in Europe and at St. Paul's School, Con- r cord, New Hampshire. He received colloquy appoint- ments and was a member of St. Paul's School Club, the University Club, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. From 1893 to 1&96 he was associated with the New York Life Insurance Company at St. Paul and for five years following he was cashier of their West Superior, Wiscon- sin, office. In 1901 be be- came general manager of the Holoplane Glass Company in New York City, and from December, 1905, to 1913, he was secretary and auditor of the American District Tele- graph Company. In 1909 he passed the examinations of the New York State Board of Regents and received the degree of Certified Public Accountant. Since 1913 he has practiced that profession, opening his own office that year. In 191 1 he was elected a trustee of Pelham and also served as street commissioner and second deputy chief of the Volunteer Fire Department. He filled the office of school treasurer for one term. In politics he is a Republican. Since 1900 he has been a member of the Christian Science Church. He belongs to the Pelham Country Club, the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and to the American Institute of Accountants. He was married October 2, 1900, in Duluth, Minnesota, to Julia Stanley, daughter of Arthur B. and Electa W. Chapin. They have three children : Irving Bruce, Jr., born October 24, 1901 ; Dudley Chapin, born November 14, 1906, and Jean, born July 4, 191 1. IRVING B. FERGUSON BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 209 Henry Horlbeck Ficken Member of the firm of Ficken & Erckmann, lawyers, Charleston, South Carolina His father, Colonel John Frederick Ficken, was born June 16, 1843, i n Charleston, South Carolina, where he has always made his home. He received an M.A. degree at the College of Charles- ton and also studied civil law at the University of Berlin. He fought in the Confederate Army, and after the war practiced law with Colonel Isaac Hayne. He served for many years in the House of Representatives of South Carolina, resigning in 1891 to become mayor of Charleston. He is president of the South Carolina Loan & Trust Company and of the Board of Trustees of the College of Charleston. Of Swedish descent, he traces his ancestry from Henrik Friherr von Ficken, who was Governor- General of Arensburg in 1530. He married on May 30, 1871, HENRY H. FICKEN Margaret Buckingham Horlbeck, daughter of Captain Henry Horlbeck, a grandson of John Adam Horlbeck, who fought against Sir Henry Clinton in the war of the Revolution. She was born December 13, 1847, an d died May 14, 1873. 2io CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Henry H. Ficken was born August 17, 1872, in Charleston, and was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He received dispute appointments and one-year honors in history; was colonel of the Cleveland Guards, Class Historian, and a member of the University Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon. In the Law School he joined Phi Delta Phi. He was admitted to the bar of South Carolina in 1894 after one year in the Yale School of Law, and has since practiced in Charleston. He was a member of the firm of Ficken, Hughes & Ficken until 1912, when he became a partner in Ficken & Erckmann. He has served as vice-president of the South Carolina Loan & Trust Company for sixteen years and as presi- dent of the Security Savings Bank since 1908. In addition, he is president of the Myakka Company and vice-president of the Charleston Bridge Company. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the War Council of the Red Cross, and a vestryman of the Episcopal Church of St. John's Parish. He belongs to the Charleston Light Dragoons Reserve Corps. His clubs are the University of New York, the Charleston, Carolina Yacht, Otranto, and Charles- ton Ancient Light Artillery. He was married June 23, 1896, to Julia, daughter of Isaac Ball of Rice Hope Plantation, South Carolina, whose family emigrated in 1690 from the County of Devon, England, to Charleston, and of Mary Louisa (Moultrie) Ball, a descendant of John Moultrie, laird of Seafield Castle in Fife, who came from Scotland to Charleston in 1724. They have three children: Katharine M., born June 22, 1898; Loti Moultrie, born August 2, 1902, and Margaret Buckingham, born April 6, 191 5. John Howe Field Manager of the New York sales department, The American Agricultural Chemical Company, 2 Rector Street, New York City Residence, Hewlett, Long Island, New York Field is the elder son of Henry Francis and Annie Louisa (Howe) Field, who were married June 21, 1865, and had one other son, William Henry Field, B.A. Yale 1899. Henry F. Field (born October 8, 1843, m Brandon, Vermont), son of William Morton Field, is a descendant of Zachariah Field, who came to America from England in 1630 and settled in Hartford, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Connecticut. Since March, 1862, he has lived in Rutland, Vermont, shortly after this date entered the Rutland County National Bank, of which subsequently he became cashier and president. He served as state senator in 1884, was a member JOHN H. FIELD of the House of Representatives in 1888, and was state treasurer from 1890 to 1898. He has also held various town and county offices and has been county treasurer since 1877 ; he is president of the Rutland City Hospital. Mrs. Field was born April 1, 1843, m Boston, Massachusetts, and died May 18, 1913, in Rut- land, Vermont. The daughter of John and Louisa (Goddard) Howe, her ancestors on both sides were of English origin and came early to America, settling in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her mother, Louisa Goddard, was born in England, and was the daughter of Samuel and Mehitable (Dawes) Goddard, the latter a descendant of William Dawes, a compatriot of Paul Revere who shared in the "midnight ride," going in another direction to spread the alarm. John H. Field was born February 12, 1871, in Rutland, Vermont, and was prepared for college in Rutland and at Andover. He received oration appointments, was one of the speakers at Junior Exhibition, and was an editor of the Yale 2i2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Literary Magazine. He played class football and baseball after Freshman year, served on the Junior Prom and Class Day com- mittees, was a Class Deacon and president of the University Y. M. C. A., was president of the Andover Club, and a member of He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. During 1893-94 he studied law in Rutland, Vermont, was with the Ogdensburg (New York) Transit Company several months, and then in the state treasurer's office in Montpelier and in Rut- land until 1895. He was then connected with the Great Eastern Fertilizer Company in Rutland until 1899 when he was appointed secretary of the Milson Rendering & Fertilizer Company of Buffalo, which, in the same year, became a subsidiary of the American Agricultural Chemical Company. He lived in Buffalo until April, 191 7, when he was made manager of the New York sales department of the latter company. He is a Republican In politics. From 1914 to 1916 he served on the executive committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Buffalo, and for two years was president of the Andover Alumni Association of Western New York and of the Westminster Club of Buffalo. He is a member of the Westminster (Presbyterian) Church of Buffalo. He belongs to the Yale Club of New York. He was married October 29, 1895, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Amorette, daughter of Erastus Chester and Jane (Hurlbut) Lockwood. They have three children: John Howe, 2d, and Amorette Lockwood, twins, born October 20, 1896, in Rutland, Vermont, and Maurice Goddard, born February 25, 1902, in Buffalo, New York. The daughter married, on June 29, 191 8, Ensign DeLancey Rochester, Jr., U. S. N. R. F. Field writes : "As the years pass, may the friends remain. As the anniversaries come, may the men of '93 go to them, with hearts as young and seats as comfortable as in the good old days when our comradeship first perched upon the Yale fence." George Ernest Folk General patent attorney, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 195 Broadway, New York City Residence, New Rochelle, New York Folk is a son of Levi E. and Louisa A. (Neel) Folk, who were married in November, 1868, and had three other children, sons. By a previous marriage his father had three sons and his BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 213 mother one son. The father, born January 15, 1830, in South Carolina, and died May 31, 1880, in Newberry, that state, was a planter. He was of German and English ancestry, his first American ancestor having moved from Germany to England and GEORGE E. FOLK later (about 1732) from England to South Carolina. Louisa A. (Neel) Folk was born February 9, 1836, and died November 26, 1890, in Newberry. Her great-grandparents came from Ire- land, England, and France, respectively, and settled in South Carolina, one of them being a Quaker, who moved there from the North. George E. Folk was born April 13, 1872, in Newberry, and was prepared at Newberry College. At Yale he received one- year honors in political science. The first four years after graduation he was connected with schools in Texas, teaching at the Ball High School, Galveston, and serving as principal of the Cleburne High School. In 1894 he received the degree of M.A. at Yale. From 1898 to 1905 he was an examiner in the Patent Office in Washington and in 1904 was admitted to practice in the courts of the District of Columbia. The following year he entered upon the practice of patent law in 214 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Chicago, Illinois, and from July, 1906, to June, 191 5, was a member of the firm of Barton & Folk. He then moved to New York to become the patent attorney for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, and in July, 19 17, was made general patent attorney. He is a Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Church. His clubs are the Chicago Law, Yale, and Machinery of New York, and Wykagyl Country. He was married June 6, 1895, m Mexia, Texas, to Mary Helen Jackson, who attended Southwestern University, daughter of Benjamin W. Jackson, merchant and banker, and Ellen T. (Rice) Jackson. They have had three children: Eloise, born May 9, 1897, in Marble Falls, Texas ; died April 4, 1900, in Washington, D. C. ; Margaret Lois, born June 21, 1903, in Washington, D. C, and Mary Theodosia, born June 20, 1909, in Chicago, Illinois. George Mark Foos Audubon Plantation, Hope Villa, Louisiana George M. Foos, son of John Foos, was born April 3, 1871, in Springfield, Ohio, and was prepared for college at Golden Hill, Kingston, New York. After gradua- tion he entered machine shops in Springfield, Ohio, but from 1894 to 1896 was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as secre- tary of the Baton Rouge Sugar Company. He re- turned to Springfield in 1897 and for two years was with the Foos Gas Engine Com- pany. During 1900 he was prospecting for gold in the Cape Nome region and the following year was again with the Baton Rouge Sugar Com- pany. Since 1905 he has been engaged in planting at Hope Villa, Louisiana. GEORGE M. FOOS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 215 He was married April 25, 1905, to Leah Margaret, daughter of Edwin S. Kelly of Springfield, Ohio. They have three children: Patti Linn, born October 10, 1906; Edwin Kelly, born October 21, 1908, and Mary Theodosia, born June 20, 1910. JAMES C. FOX James Charles Fox President of the Fox-Becker Granite Company, Rapello Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut Residence, 275 Washington Terrace, Middletown, Connecticut Fox is a son of Dr. David Austin Fox and Aurelia (Wood) Fox, who were married June 6, 1866, and had three other chil- dren: Pauline S. (Fox) Murdock, David A. Fox, Jr., M.D. New York University (Bellevue Hospital Medical College) 1902, and Theresa A. (Fox) Miner. David A. Fox, Sr. (born August 14, 1829, in Lebanon, Connecticut; died July 2, 1903, in Clinton, Connecticut), was graduated from New York University with the degree of M.D. in 1852, and thereafter practiced his profes- sion, from 1853 to 1865 in Thompsonville, Connecticut, and from 1865 to 1903 in Clinton. His wife was born in Clinton, Decern- 2i6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ber 23, 1839, and died there on January 23, 1917. Ancestors on both sides of the family were English. James C. Fox was born June 6, 1869, m Clinton, where he was prepared for college at the Morgan High School. He received a first dispute Junior appointment, was a member of the Fresh- man Baseball Team and of the Yale Union. After graduation he located in Middletown and from 1893 to 1898 held the position of deputy collector of internal revenue. On January 1, 1898, he became a member of the firm of Fox & Becker, dealers in marble and granite, and is now president of the Fox-Becker Granite Company, which succeeded the original firm. For several years he was a director of the First National Bank of Middletown and the Middletown Trust Company, trustee of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank and the Middlesex Banking Company, and vice-president of the Central National Bank, but resigned from all of these this year as, for business reasons, he was unable to give proper attention to the banking interests. He is still a director of the Arrigoni Coal Company. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. He was married April 11, 1894, in Niantic, Connecticut, to Florence W., daughter of Rev. Charles E. Becker, president of Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, and Mary (Curtis) Becker. They have two sons, both born in Middletown: James Charles, Jr., born September 20, 1895, and Frederick Curtis, born September 19, 1902. The elder son graduated from Williams College in 1916 and is now a member of the Class of 1920 at Johns Hopkins University; the younger is attending the Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut. Edson Fessenden Gallaudet Chairman of Board of Directors and chief engineer, Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation, East Greenwich, Rhode Island Residence, 152 George Street, Providence, Rhode Island The first member of the Gallaudet family in this country was one of a company of Huguenots who left La Rochelle, France, and settled New Rochelle, New York. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, grandfather of our classmate, was graduated at Yale in 1805 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1812 ; he is known BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 217 as the founder of deaf-mute instruction in America. His son, Edward Miner Gallaudet (born February 5, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut; died in that city September 26, 1917), was gradu- ated from Trinity College in 1856, received an honorary Ph.D. at EDSON F. GALLAUDET Yale in 1895, and LL.D. at George Washington University in 1869, an d was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1856 he took charge of a school in Washington for Amos Kendall, and developed it into the National Deaf Mute College (now known as Gallaudet College), of which he was president until 191 1. He first married Miss Jane Fessenden of Hartford, and their children are Katherine Fessenden and Grace (Gallaudet) Closson. In December, 1868, he married Susan Denison, a descendant of Colonel George Denison of Stonington, Connecticut. She was born January 24, 1847, in Royalton, Vermont, and died Novem- ber 3, 1903, in Washington, D. C. Their children are Denison Gallaudet, Amherst ex-'g^, Edson F., Herbert Draper Gallaudet, Yale '98, and Marion (Gallaudet) Edgerton. Edson Gallaudet was born April 21, 1871, in Washington, D. C, and was prepared for college at the Hartford Public High School. He received an oration Junior appointment and a dis- 2i8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE sertation in Senior year; was stroke of the Class Crew in Fresh- man and Sophomore years and of the University eight in Junior and Senior years. He is a member of Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones. From 1893 to J896 he was a student in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1896. One year with the Westinghouse Company in Pittsburgh was succeeded by three at Yale teaching physics and coaching the crew. In July, 1900, he reentered business with William Cramp & Sons' Ship & Engine Building Company at Philadelphia, working in the engineering department until Feb- ruary, 1903, when he went with the National Cash Register Com- pany of Dayton. After a few months he resigned to become assistant to the president of the Stillwell-Bierce & Smith- Valie Company of Dayton, and, on the reorganization of this company as the Piatt Iron Works, he was made general superintendent. On January 1, 1908, he organized the Gallaudet Engineering Company, mechanical and consulting engineers at Norwich, Con- necticut, and about 19 10 began to devote his attention to aero- nautical engineering, the Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation giving place to the former company in 191 7. He is chairman of the Board of Directors and chief engineer. July 16, 191 1, he secured his aviator's license from the Aero Club of America with a Wright biplane at Garden City, and in the following November a pilot's brevet from the Aero Club of France with a Nieuport monoplane at Mourmelon, France. Now his efforts are being expended in endeavors to make the Air Service of the United States supreme. He says : "The work of our company has grown into the development of advanced types of battle air- planes for the Government. It is my aim to produce a machine or machines that shall give our Air Service a distinct advantage, and render real service in winning the war. I can see ways of accomplishing the desired results, but the chief difficulty lies in accomplishing them in time. All my efforts and the efforts of all who are associated with me are spent in working out our new machines to the highest possible degree of perfection in the mini- mum possible time, and I am sure we shall have the satisfaction of seeing the results of our efforts before this summer. The more we accomplish the more we are called on to do, and I do not expect any change in occupation for some time to come." Gallaudet is a Republican. He is a member of the Park Con- gregational Church of Norwich. His clubs are the Aero of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 219 America, Engineers, and the American Society of Aeronautical Engineers, all in New York City. He was married February 14, 1903, in Washington, D. C, to Marion, daughter of Senator Francis M. Cockrell of Missouri, and Anna (Ewing) Cockrell. They have three children : Francis Cockrell, born April 14, 1904; Marion, born February 10, 1907, and Denise, born November 27, 1909. *Thomas Augustus Gardiner Died October 30, 1913 Thomas A. Gardiner, son of Thomas Augustus Gardiner, treasurer of Kings County, New York, and Elizabeth T. Gar- diner, was born January 8, 1 87 1, in Brooklyn, New York. ¥ : — ■ He was prepared at the Poly- technic Institute of Brooklyn and in college was an editor of the Pot Pourri, and a mem- ber of the University and Renaissance clubs and Psi Upsilon. After graduation he began work with Been & Sampson, stock brokers ; later he went to Redmond, Kerr & Com- pany, bankers, in New York g City, being admitted to part- nership January 1, 1898, and at the same time entering the Philadelphia banking house of Graham, Kerr & Company. On July 1, 1904, he withdrew from these firms and was thereafter a member of the banking house of Plympton, Gardiner & Company in New York. He had spent one year at Saranac Lake and, in the fall of 1 91 2, tubercular tendencies again recurring, he returned to Saranac, where he remained continually until his death on Octo- ber 30, 1913. He had not married. THOMAS A. GARDINER 2 2o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Frank Edwin Gatchel Owner of W. D. Gatchel &.Sons, photographic merchandise, Republic Building, Louisville, Kentucky Residence, Pewee Valley, Kentucky Gatchel is the only living son of Welcome Durf ee and Frances (Tripp) Gatchel, who were married March 19, 1856, and had two other children: Mary (Gatchel) Wilson, who graduated from Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1878, and Albert D. FRANK E. GATCHEL Gatchel (died September 11, 191 2, in Louisville, Kentucky). Descended from Irish immigrants who settled in Massachusetts about 1760, W. D. Gatchel was born June 28, 1825, in Farming- ton, New York. From 1856 to i860 he lived in Chicago, then spent two years in Dubuque, Iowa, and from 1862 to 1881 made his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the latter year he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, where he continued to conduct a business in photographic materials, which he had started in 1862. He died December 29, 1895, i n Louisville. His wife, who was of English descent, was born November 28, 1833, in W^ellsdale, New York, and died January 19, 1895. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 221 Frank Gatchel was born November 3, 1869, m Cincinnati. Ohio, and was prepared at the Louisville Male High School, at Professor Chenault's private school, and at Phillips-Andover. In college he received second colloquy appointments, was Class Historian, and a member of the Andover Club, University Club. University Drum Corps, University Banjo Club, and Alpha Delta Phi. After graduation he entered his father's business, W. D. Gatchel & Sons, dealers in photographic supplies. Since the death of his brother in 1912 he has been the sole proprietor. He is a Republican in politics but "voted for Wilson and strong for him." He is a deacon and treasurer of the Presby- terian Church. He was married April 14, 1903, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, to Alice Craig, daughter of Austin and Alice (Craig) Peay. Left an orphan when a child, she was formally adopted by her grandmother and took her mother's name of Alice Craig. She died March 28, 1908. They had two children : Frances Craig, born April 1, 1904, and William Culbertson, born March 1, 1908. Gatchel writes : "At last I have been up in the attic, while the thermometer was hovering around zero, and on a 'heatless Mon- day' at that, and have been down to the bottom of a trunk full of old family albums, books, and war time collections of illus- trated papers, and got out the old family Bible. The attic was just as cold as it is pictured in melodramas and had I not become a disciple of Zoroaster, after this long, hard winter, I would never have had the courage to go up there without my arctics and sleeping bag. "Had it all planned to make a fortune and retire at the age of forty and be a devil of a fellow thereafter. "Something skidded along the route and I moved to a suburb seventeen miles from the city. Resigned from the club. Never joined any fraternal orders as I did not have time to go out at nights. For the past twelve years have been raising two very fine children and what with these responsibilities and the entire charge of the business for the past six years, I have not had time for outside interests or recreations. Took a vacation twelve years ago, in Florida, and it has lasted me ever since. But it was a dandy trip. Living out in the country, I find recreation and relaxation in working about the place and playing with the kids, and after all that is just about the best sport I know of. 222 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE "Of course I have been in all the daily civic movements like Boy Scout campaigns, Red Cross, Liberty Bond and the many charitable and civic improvement campaigns. But I have never accepted office nor taken up the management that would require time away from home, so do not feel that they should be men- tioned. "Sorry that I have not pulled off some big league stuff for the honor of the Class." RUFUS M. GIBBS *Rufus Macqueen Gibbs Died February 5, 1916 Gibbs was a son of John Sears and Helen (Macqueen) Gibbs, who had two other children: John Sears Gibbs, Jr., and Mrs. Charles B. Penrose. The father (born in Bridgton, Maine) was the son of Rufus and Adeline (Sears) Gibbs. He estab- lished the Gibbs Preserving Company at Canton and continued as president until 1902. His wife was the daughter of Peter and Sara (Sullivan) Macqueen, who came to the United States from England in 1840. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 223 Rufus M. Gibbs was born December 1, 1871, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but spent his boyhood in Baltimore. He was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. In Freshman year he was awarded a Berkeley Premium; he con- tributed numerous poems to the college papers and was elected an editor of the C our ant. He was a member of the University Club, and Psi Upsilon, and in Senior year was elected to Chi Delta Theta, and chosen Class Poet. After spending the year following his graduation on the staff of the University Magazine of New York City, Gibbs returned to Baltimore and entered his father's business, the Gibbs Pre- serving Company, as vice-president. In 1902 he succeeded his father as president and served in that capacity until his death. He had also been president of the Canned Goods Exchange of Baltimore and was a director of the Maryland Trust Company. From 19 1 3 to 191 5 he served as president of the Board of Trade of Baltimore. He was a vestryman of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, and shortly before his death had been instrumental in organizing a men's club in connection with it. He had taken an active part in public affairs as vice-president of the Maryland League for Defense and a member of the board of managers of the Maryland School for Boys. His death occurred in Baltimore, February 5, 1916, following an operation for the removal of a tumor at the base of the brain. He was buried in London Park Cemetery at Baltimore. He was married in New York City, April 20, 1898, to Cornelia Noyes, daughter of James F. and Harriet (Noyes) Andrews, and sister of Charles Prentiss Andrews, a member of the Yale Class of 1918. Their children are: Helen MacQueen, born March 2, 1899; Harriet C, born June 21, 1900; Frederick Andrews, born February 9, 1903, and Marian Hungerford, born May 17, 1904. The following tribute is taken from a privately printed memo- rial volume : "He was one of the most constructive men I have ever known, and one of the most stimulating. He combined in the rarest degree the brain of a builder and statesman, the courage of a warrior, the heart of a child. Greatness and modesty went hand in hand; more than any man I have ever known he gave, though not a minister, the strongest spiritual impulse and direction to those about him. . . . No man ever had a truer idea of democracy and no man in our midst ever labored harder to bring about a better understanding between the employing and the employed class." 224 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Giles Frederic Goodenough Pastor of Ledyard Congregational Church, Ledyard, Connecticut Residence, Bill Parsonage, Ledyard, Connecticut Mail address, R. F. D. 6, Norwich, Connecticut The Goodenough family is descended from Samuel, son of Thomas Goodnow and Jane, his wife, who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. On the other side they trace their ancestry to Pieter Oostrander and Katrina, his wife, who reached Kings- GILES F. GOODENOUGH ton, New York, in 1660. They were scalped at Esopus but their three children had thirteen children each. Rev. Arthur Goodenough, our classmate's father, was born May 13, 1838, in Jefferson, New York, the son of Giles C. and Alida (Cooper) Goodenough, and was graduated from Yale College in 1862 and from the School of Religion in 1865. Since 1870 he has been pastor of the Congregational Church in Winchester Center, Con- necticut, and for twenty-five years served as school visitor, hav- ing now retired from this office. On July 1 1, 1864, he married Hannah Brett, who was born February 18, 1833, in Boston, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 225 Massachusetts, the daughter of Cyrus Brett, a direct descendant of Joseph, one of the eleven children of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens. Her mother, Mary Ann Winchester, was descended from Peter Aspinwall, 1661, and Lieutenant Griffith Crafts, who came from England early in the seventeenth century. Our class- mate's brothers and sisters are: Edward Winchester Good- enough, Yale 1887; Mary Alida (Goodenough) Sherwood, Mount Holyoke 1886; Francilla Jane Goodenough, Helen Evelyn Goodenough, Mount Holyoke 1891 ; Silas Hurlbut Goodenough, accidentally killed November 20, 1893, while a member of the Yale Class of 1895, and Gertrude Lillian Goodenough, Mount Holyoke 1901. Giles F. Goodenough was born February 23, 1872, in Win- chester, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Robbins School, Norfolk, and at the Irving Institute, Tarrytown, New York. In college he made a first dispute rank and was a member of the Yale Union. From 1893 to 1896 he was a student at the Hartford Theo- logical Seminary and was ordained to the ministry of the Con- gregational Church at Nepaug, Connecticut, on May 26, 1896. Subsequently he served a number of pastorates in Connecticut, on December 6, 191 4, coming to the Ledyard Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. He has been active in the Grange and has held office in that organization since he entered it. He has served as a school visitor (Sharon) and as a member of the School Board of Litchfield. He was married June 17, 1898, in Nepaug, to Jessie May, daughter of Gustavus Cornelius and Frances Kellogg (Merrill) Beckwith, who died August 30, 1905. Their children are: Dorothy Augusta, born June 1, 1899, now attending Smith College ; Frieda Merrill, born May 19, 1902, and Barbara Alden, born October 14, 1903, attending the Norwich Free Academy. On July 31, 1907, he married Nellie Virginia, daughter of Edson Warburton Davis, B.A. Wesley an College 1869, and Anna (Griswold) Davis. They have four children: Virginia Alice, born August 1, 1908; Arthur Griswold, born April 27, 191 1 ; Priscilla Pauline, born June 12, 1914, and Ralph Frederic, born November 11, 191 7. Goodenough writes : "My ambition in college was to be a country minister or a foreign missionary. They turned me down 226 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE on the second and I became the first. I lived the first two years on $500 per annum. For the next seven years my annual income ranged from $600 to $700, when I took up the school work. As my family enlarged, the dollar grew smaller. It also grew smaller for all the world. I found the necessity of enlargement somewhere, much as I liked the work and people. For another seven years I tried $750 per annum, trying to eke out on litera- ture. My total literary income being $11.50 didn't do as well as poultry which cleared $2.00 per hen. Three years ago a pastorate with a fifty-acre farm and $900, as the living measure, was offered me. It seemed good. Then I found out a lot of things. First, the farm had to be stocked, — then it had to be zvorked. The first has doubled my floating debt; the second demanded my too scanty time. "In spite of that I believe it is a good spot to dwell in. Gales Ferry is on one edge of my jurisdiction, — Brewster's Neck (Norwich Hospital for the Insane) in another corner, Lantern Hill rises on corner No. 3, near the Indian Reservation for what is left of the Pequots; corner No. 4 is Quakertown where the descendants of the 'Jumping John Rogers/ by whom (and at whom) early Connecticut used to swear, continue to enjoy pecu- liarities of religious excitement. I rise at 5-5.30 A. M. all the year round, when I don't sleep over, and fall asleep over my reading at 8 or 9 p. m. I am hired man, chambermaid to two cows, one horse, and several hens — 365 mornings and evenings; I have already married fifty women, — only two of whom stayed with me long. "I like folks — all sorts. But I especially like a two-fisted, rash and direct animal like Rudyard Kipling in literature, and Theodore Roosevelt in politics. A chap that will make a hundred mistakes will make something else, if he keeps going. The things I hate most are the oily and sleek, the dude and the sneak. "I like to preach. Analysis, interpretation, illumination, exhor- tation, suggestion, arousement, are all delightful exercises for the tongue or the mind. Sympathy, denunciation, or invitation, although not so agreeable, come along the line of my work and I try to look after them. "I am awkward with the sick, too easy on the fellow-sinner, and, as I said elsewhere, am no money raiser. "So long as I have a good healthy appetite nobody pities a fat man, and nobody wants them to." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 227 James Edward Grafton Vice-principal of the Crosby High School and principal of the Crosby High Evening School, Waterbury, Connecticut Residence, 380 West Main Street, Waterbury, Connecticut Grafton's parents were married in 1858 and had four other children, a son, John T. Grafton, who studied at the New York College of Pharmacy, and three daughters, now deceased. The father, James Grafton, was born in 1838, in Dublin, Ireland, though his father and grand- father were both English. From 1856 to 1878 he was connected with the Norwich & Worcester Railroad, and then for fifteen years con- ducted a grocery store. He died in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1912. His wife, Mary (Carroll) Grafton, was born in 1840, in Dublin, Ireland, and died in 1900 in Norwich. James E. Grafton was born July 27, 187 1, in Norwich, and was prepared at the Nor- wich Free Academy. He re- ceived philosophical oration appointments, two-year hon- ors in classics, one-year hon- ors in German, a Berkeley Premium of the second grade, and a Lucius F. Robinson Latin Prize (second). He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. For two years, 1893-95, he was principal of the Evening High School in Norwich, Connecticut, and then he accepted a position as teacher of Latin, Greek, and mathematics in the Crosby High School, Waterbury. In 1906 he was appointed vice-principal of this school and he also served as principal of the Crosby High Evening School in 1917. He writes: "I was asked to accept the principalship of the Crosby High School here in Waterbury but I refused the offer because I thought I could be of more service to the city if I JAMES E. GRAFTON 228 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE continued as a teacher. I have charge of all the Greek. We have kept up that study here although most schools have abandoned it. I studied Greek under two of the best teachers in America, Dr. Robert P. Keep at the Norwich Free Academy and Professor Seymour at Yale, and the interest and enthusiasm of these two men has not ceased to actuate me yet. I can vouch for the genuine profit that any industrious student may derive from the study of Greek." Grafton is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He ha^ not married. Charles Andrew Graham Physician, 1554 California Street, Denver, Colorado Residence, 1109 Marion Street, Denver, Colorado Graham is a son of John William and Mary (Gardiner) Graham, who were married February 22, 1870, and had two other children, a son, John William Graham, Jr., B.A. Princeton 1897, and a daughter who died in 1875. John W. Graham (born May 2, 1843, m West Fair- field, Pennsylvania, and died February 18, 1908, in Denver, Colorado) served as Captain during the Civil War in a Pennsylvania regiment, was graduated at Jefferson Medi- cal College in Philadelphia in 1867, and then practiced his profession in the West. From 1869 to 1877 ne resided in Corinne, Utah, and then in Denver until his death. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Graham was born April 14, 1844, in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, and died May 14, 1877, in Philadelphia. Charles A. Graham was born December 4, 1870, in Corinne, Utah, and was pre- i CHARLES A. GRAHAM BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 229 pared for college at the East Denver High School. He received a first dispute Senior appointment and was a member of the Uni- versity Club. He spent four years in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1898. The next two years he continued his graduate work in Vienna, Austria, and then commenced to practice in Denver. From 1902 to 1906 he was physician to the Denver City and County Hospital and he held the position of associate professor of medicine in the Denver and Gross College of Medicine from 1903 until the school was consolidated with the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Colorado. He is an elder and trustee of the Central Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the American Medical Association, Colorado State, Denver City and County Medical societies, and to the University and Country clubs. He was married December 6, 1904, in Denver, Colorado, to Alice McClintock, B.A. Smith 1899, daughter of Washington and Anna (Colton) McClintock. They have a son and daughter, both born in Denver : Elizabeth, born January 2, 1906, and Charles Andrew, Jr., born January 10, i< Lawrence Greer Member of the firm of Pierce & Greer, lawyers, 37 Wall Street, New York City Residence, 126 East Fifty-sixth Street, New York City Greer is a son of the Right Reverend David Hummell Greer and Caroline A. (Keith) Greer, who were married June 29, 1869. The father, born March 20, 1844, in Wheeling, West Virginia, is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in 1862 and then attended the Protestant Episcopal Seminary at Gambier, Ohio. He holds the honorary degrees of D.D. (Kenyon College 1880, Brown 1890, University of the South 1901, Harvard 1915), LL.D. (Wash- ington and Jefferson 1902) and S.T.D. (Columbia 1904). He was rector of Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island, from 1871 to 1888, and of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City, from 1888 to 1907, when he was appointed Bishop of New York, having served as bishop coadjutor since 1904. His wife, who is 2 3 o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE of Scotch ancestry, was born November 19, 1846, in St. Louis, Missouri. Lawrence Greer was born October 25, 1872, in Providence, Rhode Island, and was prepared for college by a private tutor LAWRENCE GREER in New York City. He received a dispute appointment in Junior year, sang in the College Choir and the Glee Club, and was a member of the University Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. He was graduated from the New York Law School with the degree of LL.B. cum laude in 1895, and admitted to the New York Bar in June of that year. He commenced the practice of law in the office of John F. Dillon in New York City, and since May 1, 1902, has been a member of the firm of Pierce & Greer. He is president of the Western Maryland Railway Company. He is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, University, and Yale clubs of New York, the Rockaway Hunting Club, and the Turf and Field Club. He was married October 19, 1896, in Mamaroneck, New York, to Georgiana, daughter of Thomas F. and Abby R. (Haskell) Oakes. They have one daughter, Dorothy, born January 13, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 231 1898; married, November 8, 1916, Robert C. Myles, Jr., of New York City. Greer writes : "Since a puritanical conscience has compelled me to admit in the foregoing deposition that I have held no public or church office, have no military record or philanthropic interests, and have contributed nothing to the literature of the nation, it would be the height of presumption at this point to enter upon an elaborate review of my accomplishments, plans, or aims. As to travels, thty have been of a commuting character in the sum- mer months, and many weary miles to and from the West, South, and Southwest in the interest of various railroad companies requiring legal aid and assistance. There remain my recreation or special interests and my hobbies. My recreation is work. 'Special interests' is a term which I dislike — perhaps because of my office location in Wall Street. At great personal sacrifice I have been compelled to forego hobbies as too expensive, both in time and money. On the subject of my family there is more room for enthusiasm. It is small but compact. Having no son of my own I acquired a son-in-law about a year ago, and have good reason to believe that he will become the support of my declining years. My profession requires me both to think and talk for my living, and I try to do so on such topics as necessity demands from time to time. "The foregoing should, I believe, give an accurate impres- sionistic sketch of your beloved classmate." William Henry Hackett Tax collector, City of New Haven, Connecticut Residence, 38 Lynwood Place, New Haven, Connecticut Hackett is one of eight children of Thomas and Mary Ellen (McCracken) Hackett, who were married in June, 1865. His brothers and sisters are: Mary E. (Hackett) Farrell, Sarah J. (Hackett) Strack, Catherine C. (Hackett) Johnson, Thomas C. Hackett, Jeremiah W. Hackett, Margaret (died January 1, 1908), and John, died January 15, 1914. The father was born October 2, 1837, in Kildare, Ireland, but spent all his life after 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died May 17, 1899. Mrs. Hackett was born December 21, 1839, in Longford, Ireland, and died May 20, 1914, in New Haven. 2 3 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE William H. Hackett was born July 15, 1871, in New Haven, and was prepared for college at the Hillhouse High School. He received dissertation appointments. From 1894 to 1909 he taught Latin in the Hillhouse, now New Haven, High School. During most of this period (1896-1909) iilii||||, : 8k — 1 : 1 WILLIAM H. HACKETT he was also principal of the evening session at the Boardman Manual Training School, and from 1899 to 1906 of the evening session at the Hillhouse High School. In 1904 he was president of the Athletic Association of the New Haven High School, from 1905 to 1909 Senior Class officer, president of the New Haven Teachers' League and editor-in-chief of the New Haven Teachers' Journal. On January 1, 19 10, having been elected on the Democratic ticket the preceding fall, he took office as tax collector of New Haven and was reelected for two successive terms, and again in the fall of 1917. During the term when he was not in office he taught at the Roxbury Tutoring School. In 191 2 he was elected president of the Connecticut Tax Col- lectors Association, in 19 16 of the Young Men's Democratic Club of New Haven, in 19 17 chairman of the New Haven Branch, Military Training Camps Association of the United States, and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 2 33 in 1918 a member of the Finance Committee of the New Haven War Bureau. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus, Graduates Club, and New Haven Lawn Club. He was married June 30, 1897, in New Haven, to Elizabeth Mildred, daughter of William Connor, a concrete contractor, and Mary Louise (Egan) Connor. They have two children, both born in New Haven : Mildred Louise, born April 23, 1898, now attending Smith College, and Thomas William, born February 28, 1900, graduated from the New Haven High School in 1917. *Donald Cameron Haldeman Died July 25, 1914 Haldeman was the son of Richard Jacobs and Margaretta Brua (Cameron) Haldeman, who were married in 1869, and had another son, Richard Cameron Haldeman, B.A. Yale 1896, and a daughter. Richard Jacobs Haldeman, son of Jacob Miller and Eliza Ewing (Jacobs) Haldeman, was born May 19, 1831, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he died October 1, 1885. The family came from Neuf- chatel, Switzerland, in 1722, and settled in Rapho Town- ship, Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania. Mr. Haldeman graduated at Yale in 1851, and then went abroad and studied in the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He held the office of secretary of the United States Legation in Paris, France, and spent the earlier part of the year 1854 in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the same DONALD C. HALDEMAN 234 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE capacity. From 1869 to 1873 he was a representative for the Fifteenth District of Pennsylvania in the United States Congress. Margaretta (Cameron) Haldeman was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Simon Cameron, a United States Senator, a member of President Lincoln's Cabinet, printer, con- tractor, and banker, and Margaretta Brua, both of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and sister of ex-United States Senator J. Donald Cameron. Donald C. Haldeman was born July 29, 1871, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and prepared for Yale at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. After graduation he studied law in Harrisburg and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in June, 1895. He opened an office for practice in Harrisburg, and subsequently became a director of the Harrisburg Bridge Company, and of the First National Bank; vice-president of the Hagerstown Railway Company; a manager of the Harrisburg Hospital; a trustee of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum, and vice- president of the Hagerstown Railway Company. He continued in active practice until December, 1909, when he was compelled by a complete nervous breakdown to retire from all business and professional activities. He died of paresis, July 25, 1914, at the Pennsylvania Hos- pital for the Insane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he had been confined since 1909. He was married August 30, 1909, in Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, to Mary Kelly. They had no children. Montgomery Hare Partner in the firm of Rush & Hare, lawyers, 22 William Street, New York City Residence, 109 East Sixty-fourth Street, New York City Hare is a son of J. Montgomery and Mary (Meredith) Hare, who were married June 6, 1867, and had eight other children. The four who are now living are Meredith Hare, Yale '94; William Hare, Yale '96 S. ; Mary M. Hare, and Morin S. Hare, Yale '05. The father (born January 20, 1842, in Princeton, New Jersey) is the son of Rev. George Emlen Hare, D.D., LL.D., and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES '35 was educated at the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadel- phia. He is resident manager of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society (Limited) of Norwich, England, and since 1888 has resided in New York City. His first American MONTGOMERY HARE ancestor came from London, England, in 1773. Our class- mate's mother, daughter of Joseph Dennie and Sarah (Emlen) Meredith, was born February 14, 1844, in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, and died May 7, 1907, in New York City. Her ancestors came from England and on the maternal side she is descended from John Morin Scott, B.A. Yale 1746. Hare was born February 5, 1870, in Orange, New Jersey, and was prepared at the Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. In college he joined the University Club and Psi Upsilon. He entered Columbia for his professional training and re- ceived the degree of LL.B. in 1897. He has always practiced in New York and since 1906 has been professionally associated with Hon. Thomas E. Rush, at present surveyor of the Port of New York, under the firm name of Rush & Hare. 236 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE In politics he is a Democrat. From 1901 to 1906 he was assist- ant corporation counsel of the city of New York. He belongs to the Protestant Episcopal Church. His clubs are the Knickerbocker, Union, Racquet and Tennis, Midday, Tuxedo Country, and Lido Golf. He was married March 11, 1908, in New York City, to Con- stance, daughter of John E. Parsons, a lawyer, and Mary (Mcllvaine) Parsons. They have two children, both born in New York City: Meredith, 2d, born January 17, 1909, and Montgomery, Jr., born August 21, 191 1. Clarence Clifford Harmstad Treasurer of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, 176 Broadway, New York City Residence, 147 Jewett Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey Harmstad is the only son of Francis C. and Margaret (Weckerly) Harmstad, who were married February 19, 1867, and had also one daugrn ten Adelaide Harmstad (died in 1880 in Jersey City). The first of the name in this country was Samuel Harm- stad, who emigrated from Holland to Philadelphia in J ■tab. J 7S°- The parents of Francis Harmstad were Samuel, born in Philadelphia in 1802, and Wilhelmina (Bargh) Harm- stad, born in the same city in 1812. He was born April 9, 1842, and has lived in Phila- delphia, New York, and Jer- sey City. His wife was born December 26, 1839, in Phila- delphia, the daughter of George Weckerly, born in 181 2, and Hannah (Hallowell) Weckerly, born in 181 7, both in Philadelphia. CLARENCE C. HARMSTAD BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 237 The first ancestor was John Hallowell, who came to Darby, Pennsylvania, from Hucknow, parish of Sutton, Nottinghamshire, in 1682; his Quaker certificate is dated December 19, 1682. Clarence C. Harmstad was born June 9, 1871, in New York City, and was prepared at the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn. In college he was a member of the University Club and of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In 1895, after two years' study, he was graduated from the New York Law School with the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the New York Bar. He practiced alone until May, 1900, when he formed a partnership with Robert E. L. Lewis under the firm name of Lewis & Harmstad, which continued until December 1, 1901. He then became connected with the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, was elected assistant secretary in 1909, and in 1916 treasurer, his present position. Since 1906 he has been secretary of the New York Investors' Corporation, since 191 2 vice-president of the Fire Brokerage Company, and since July, 1914, secretary of the City Real Estate Company. He is a member of the Yale and University clubs of New York. He has not married. Allyn Fitch Harvey Vice-president of the Pittsburgh Steamship Comparry, Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio Residence, 9619 Lake Shore Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio Harvey is a son of Henry Allyn and Mary Cushing (Williams) Harvey, who were married January 21, 1868, and had two other sons: Perry Williams Harvey, B.A. 1891, and Mervin Clark Harvey, B.A. 1899. Born on July 21, 1842, in Chillicothe, Ohio, Henry A. Harvey lived in Cleveland after 1846, and his death occurred there February 16, 1881. The Civil War called him from his studies at Western Reserve University and he did not complete the course. He spent his life in the milling business as a partner in H. Harvey's Sons. Mrs. Harvey was born January 18, 1846, in Cleveland, and died there April 21, 1907. The Harvey and Williams families are descended from early English and Scotch settlers in Connecticut. 2 3 3 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Allyn F. Harvey was born February 3, 1871, in Cleveland, and was prepared in the public schools and by a private tutor. He was a member of the Freshman and University Baseball teams, secretary of the University Baseball Association, and belonged to ALLYN F. HARVEY the University Club, He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key. He studied bookkeeping in 1893-94, and then was associated with Pickands, Mather & Company, iron ore brokers, Cleveland, until 1901. From 1901 to 1907 he was assistant general manager of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation; 1907 to 1916, general manager, and since 1916 he has been vice-president. He is a director of the Cleve- land Folding Machine Company. In politics he is a Republican rather than anything else, and further describes his affiliations as "Mugwumpy." He is chair- man of the Committee on Lake Transportation serving under the U. S. Shipping Board. He is a trustee of the Babies Hospital and a member of the executive committee of the Red Cross. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 239 His clubs are as follows: in Cleveland, — Union, Tavern, Country, Mayfield, Chagrin Valley Hunt and Chamber of Com- merce; in New York, — Yale and Racquet, American Iron and Steel Institute; in Duluth, — the Kitchi Gammi, and in New Haven, — the New Haven Lawn Club Association. He has not married. Frank Williams Hastings, Jr. Lawyer, 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey Residence, 131 Overlook Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey Of English descent, the first ancestor in this country was Thomas Hastings, who sailed from Ipswich, England, on the ship Elisabeth in 1634 and settled in Massachusetts. Franklin W. Hastings was born February 20, 1839, in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Rochester, but did not graduate. In 1859 he was admitted to the New York Bar and several years later to the Pennsylvania; since 1884 he has lived in Bradford, Pennsylvania. On June 2, 1868, he married Margretta Kin- near Smiley, by whom he had five children: our classmate; William Truman Hastings, LL.B. Cornell 1895 ; Mary Williams (Hastings) Lowe (died June 7, 1913, in Bradford) ; Harold 240 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Edward Hastings, M.E. Cornell 1901, and Nelson Smiley Hast- ings, B.A. Yale 1905. Mrs. Hastings was born April 23, 1840, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and died December 9, 1909, in Brad- FRANK W. HASTINGS, JR. ford. She was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, the daughter of William and Jane Smiley. Frank Hastings was born December 8, 1869, in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He was prepared at the Bradford High School and entered Yale in Sophomore year from Western Reserve University. He received an oration appointment in Junior year and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He studied law in Bradford from 1893 to 1895, and at the New York Law School in 1895-96, being admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in the latter year. He commenced to practice in Bradford in 1896 but in November, 1898, opened an office in Jersey City, where he has since been located. He has served as master and special master in chancery, Supreme Court examiner, and, since December, 1909, as secretary of the Hudson County Bar Association. In December, 1917, he was appointed an associate member of the Legal Advisory Board BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 241 of Jersey City, and since January, 1918, he has been assisting drafted men on the questionnaire. He is a Republican. In April, 191 7, he joined the Home Defense League of Hackensack, which is uniformed and organized on a military basis. He belongs to the Episcopal Church. He is a member (formerly president) of the Univer- sity Club of Hudson County. He was married September 14, 1898, in Bradford, Pennsyl- vania, to Edith Janet Straight, B.A. Leland Stanford, Junior, University 1896, daughter of Russell J. Straight, formerly an oil producer and refiner, and Augusta (Shirley) Straight. They have had five children : Russell Straight, born August 4, 1899 ; Barbara Tudor, born August 12, 1901 ; Seth Truman, born March 3, 1904; Randall, born November 25, 1905, and Janet Shirley, born February 4, 19 10. Russell Hastings enlisted on April 22, 1918, in the Medical Department, U. S. Army, for ambulance service. He died of pneumonia at Fort Slocum on October 8, 191 8. Logan Hay Partner in the firm of Brown, Hay & Creighton, lawyers, 514 East Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois Residence, 1220 West South Grand Avenue, Springfield, Illinois Hay is the only son of Milton and Mary Trigg (Logan) Hay, who were married in i860, and had one other child, Kate Logan (Hay) Brown. Milton Hay (born July 3, 181 7, in Lexington, Kentucky; died September 17, 1893, in Springfield, Illinois) was the son of John and Jemima (Coulter) Hay. He was of French descent, his ancestors having settled at York, Pennsyl- vania, about 1750. Mr. Hay was a lawyer and lived in Illinois after he was fifteen years old. He was a member of the Con- stitutional Convention of Illinois, 1870, and a representative to the General Assembly from 1872 to 1874. Catherine Forbes was his wife by a previous marriage. Our classmate's mother was also a Kentuckian by birth; she died March 4, 1874. Her ancestors came to, Virginia from Scotland about 1750. Logan Hay was born February 13, 1871, in Springfield, Illinois, and was prepared at the Lawrenceville School in New 242 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Jersey. He held a philosophical oration stand for the entire course, received a third DeForest Mathematical prize, two-year honors in political science/ and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. LOGAN HAY He was a member of the Lawrenceville Club, University Club, Class Day Committee, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. During 1893-94 he was again at Yale as a student of economics, but the following year he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of LL.B. cum laude. From 1895 to 1897 ne was an editor of the Harvard Law Journal. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois the same year and began practice in the firm of Brown, Wheeler, Brown & Hay. He is now a member of the firm of Brown, Hay & Creighton. A Republican in politics, he was an alderman from 1903 to 1906, served in the Illinois Senate from 1906 to 1914, from 1911 to 191 3 serving as a member of the joint legislative committee on County and Township Organization, and in 1914 of the Efficiency and Economy Committee. He is vice-president of the Illinois State Bar Association. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 243 He was married November 9, 1899, in Springfield, to Lucy Langdon, daughter of George P. and Cornelia (Pope) Bowen. They have two daughters, both born in Springfield: Mary Douglass, born October 21, 1900, who entered Bryn Mawr College in 1918, and Alice Houghton, born December 18, 1901, who enters Rosemary Hall. ^Theodore Woolsey Heermance Died September 29, 1905 Heermance was the son of Edgar Laing and Agnes (Wool- sey) Heermance, who were married May 14, 1863, an d had two other children: Edgar Laing Heermance, B.A. Yale 1897, M.A. 1899, B.D. 1901, and Laura Woolsey Heermance, Bryn Mawr ^f-1893. Edgar Laing Heermance, senior, son of Henry and Catharine Edgar (Laing) Heermance, was born April 30, 1833, in New York City. He graduated at Yale in 1858, receiving his M.A. in 1861. He studied theology for two years at Yale Divinity School and for one year in Andover, being ordained pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in Castleton, New York, Novem- ber 12, 1 86 1. From 1869 to 1874 he resided in New- Haven, Connecticut, and after that date in White Plains, New York, where he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church until a few months before his death, which occurred April 29, 1888. Agnes (Woolsey) Heermance was the daughter of Theodore Dwight Woolsey, B.A. Yale 1820, President of Yale College from 1846 to 1 87 1, and Martha Elizabeth (Salisbury) Woolsey. Besides his grandfather, father, and brother, our classmate had the following Yale relatives : two great-great-great-grand- THEODORE W. HEERMANCE 244 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE fathers, Benjamin Woolsey, 1709, and Jonathan Edwards, 1720; a great-great-uncle, Timothy Dwight, 1769, President of Yale College from 1795 to 181 7; an uncle, Professor Theodore Salis- bury Woolsey, B.A. 1872, and four cousins: Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, B.A. 1901, M.F. 1903, Heathcote Muirson Woolsey, B.A. 1907, John Munro Woolsey, B.A. 1898, LL.B. Columbia 1901, and Convers Buckingham Woolsey, 1901. Theodore W. Heermance was born March 22, 1872, in New Haven, Connecticut. He prepared for Yale at Alexander Mili- tary Institute in White Plains, New York. He received a high oration Junior and a philosophical oration Senior appointment; a second Winthrop prize; a DeForest prize; a Townsend pre- mium ; and an election to Phi Beta Kappa. The year after graduation he spent at Yale in graduate study, and the two years following in Greece as the holder of the Soldiers' Memorial Fellowship. In 1896 he returned to Yale and served three years as tutor in Greek, meantime receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1898 at Yale. In 1899 he was appointed instructor in classical archaeology for three years, but the year 1900- 1901 he was abroad on leave of absence, most of the time engaged in research in Germany and Italy. In 1902 he was chosen for a year as secretary of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the following year he succeeded Professor Rufus B. Richardson (Yale 1869) as director of that institution. To gain skill and facility in conducting archaeological exca^ vation and exploration, he made himself a competent surveyor and draughtsman. He also studied architecture and gathered extensive material on this subject, although not in shape for printing except the historical introduction and descriptions to accompany the publication of the drawings of the Erectheum made by the architect of the school. He was chosen a member of the Archaeological Society of Athens in 1904, and in 1905 of the Imperial Archaeological Institute of Berlin and the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He died of typhoid fever at Athens, Greece, September 29, 1905. Burial was in New Haven, Connecticut. He was unmarried. In 1907, as a permanent tribute to his memory, a fund was started, the interest of which is to be used for the purchase of books on ancient architecture for the library of the School at Athens ; each book purchased with the income of this fund is to bear a special book-plate. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 245 Under his will the Department of Archaeology of the Uni- versity came into possession of the valuable collection of photo- graphs and pottery made by Dr. Heermance during his work in Greece as Director of the American School at Athens. The collection includes about a thousand photographs of specimens of Greek and Roman sculpture, among which are many pictures of the recent excavations at Olympia and Athens. Among the plasters in the collection is one of the head of a horse from the east pediment of the Parthenon and a large collection of frag- ments of Greek pottery. Of particular value is a collection of eighty squeezes of Greek inscriptions taken direct from the originals by Dr. Heermance. There are many specimens of marbles. Charles Ralph Hickox Major, Judge Advocate Department, American Expeditionary Forces Member of the firm of Kirlin, Woolsey & Hickox, 27 William Street, New York City Residence, 557 Madison Avenue, New York City Hickox is a son of Charles Ralph and Helen Berenice (Church) Hickox, who had in all seven children, three of whom are now living: Ralph Hickox, B.A. Yale 1886, Helen Church Hickox, who married George Coggill, B.A. Yale 1889, and our classmate. Charles R. Hickox, Sr. (born July 21, 1837, in Warren, Ohio; died in 1901 in New York City), lived in Ohio until the Civil War, served throughout the war as a Lieutenant of the 5th U. S. Infantry, and was then a commission merchant in New York City the rest of his life. He was on the New York Produce Exchange as a partner in Hughes, Hickox & Company and C. R. Hickox & Company. Mrs. Hickox, who was born at Fort Hamilton, Long Island, and died in 1882 in New York City, was a descendant of one of the Mayflower passengers. Her husband's people came also from England and settled in Wash- ington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Charles R. Hickox was born January 11, 1873, in Bay Ridge, Long Island, and was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He received a colloquy appointment Senior year, was secretary of the Republican Club, an editor of the Yale Daily News, and a member of Psi Upsilon. 246 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He received the degree of LL.B. at Harvard in 1896 and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in Septem- ber, and to the New York Bar in January, 1897. He has since practiced in New York City. In October, 1899, ne became CHARLES R. HICKOX associated with Convers & Kirlin and was admitted to partner- ship in the firm on March 1, 1908. The present name of the firm is Kirlin, Woolsey & Hickox. In May, 1898, he was mustered into service with Troop A, New York National Guard, and in July was commissioned a 2d Lieutenant of the 2d U. S. Infantry, reaching Cuba soon after the surrender. He returned to Montauk Point, resigned his commission, and was then for several weeks a patient in Roose- velt Hospital, having contracted malarial and typhoid fevers. He retained his membership in Squadron A, New York. Cavalry, until 1903. He attended the second Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg in the fall of 191 7 and was commissioned a Captain in the Aviation Section of the Signal Reserve Corps. He was then ordered to Washington and detailed temporarily as legal advisor to the War Credits Board. In February he was trans- ferred to the Air Division and ordered to Kelly Field, San BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 247 Antonio, Texas. On August 17 he was promoted to Major in the Judge Advocate Department and sailed for France on September 14. He was stationed at Tours handling admiralty claims for some time and then transferred to Paris as chairman of the Board of Contracts and Adjustments. He is a member of the Century, University, Yale, Coffee House, Adirondack League, St. Andrew's Golf, and the West Side Tennis clubs, the Down Town Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Maritime Law Association, and the International Law Associa- tion. From 1897 to 1902 he was a member of the Committee on Admissions to the Yale Club, of which he was one of the incorporators. He was married August 27, 1918, in San Antonio, Texas, to Lydia, daughter of Samuel Davenport Bridge. William McKimmie Higgins Owner of the Sydenham Laboratories, 616 Madison Avenue, and the Higgins Laboratories, 40 East Forty-first Street, New York City Residence, 375 Manhattan Avenue, New York City Higgins is the son of William and Margaret (Lockhart) Higgins, who were married November 12, 1853. A daughter, Christina Miller Higgins, married George S. McLaren, B.A. Yale 1896. William Higgins, born June 14, 1828, in Glasgow, Scotland, came to the United States in 1879, and lived in Thomp- sonville, Connecticut, from 1879 to I 9°9> when he moved to West Haven. His wife was born May 24, 1829, near Glasgow, Scotland, and died February 27, 1899, in Thompsonville, Con- necticut. William McK. Higgins was born March 8, 1869, in Glasgow, Scotland, and was prepared for college at Phillips-Andover. He received a dissertation Junior and a dispute Senior appointment, and was a member of the Andover Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was engaged in teaching at the University School, Kansas City, Missouri, in 1893-94, and was then for three years principal of Butler Academy, Butler, Missouri. In 1898 he returned to Yale to take the medical course and received the degree of M.D. in 1902. While taking this course he worked in the Cooperative 248 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Store. He served a term as pathological externe at the Presby- terian Hospital, New York City, and then entered on general practice in New York. In 1906 he was appointed assistant chief physician of the Good Samaritan Dispensary and in 1910 WILLIAM MC K. HIGGINS pathologist to the Lincoln Hospital, New York. Deciding to specialize in pathology, in 1908 he gave up general practice and has since conducted two private laboratories, — the Sydenham Laboratories and the Higgins Laboratories, both in New York City. In politics he is an Independent Republican. He belongs to the Yale Club and to various medical societies. He was married June 27, 1906, in New York City, to Ella Louise, daughter of William James and Mary (Sutton) Ford. They have no children. Higgins writes : "At the start when you have some dough behind you, you can choose your place to root, but if you haven't, you are compelled to stay where you are put. Conditions put me in Manhattan. It has been said that the intelligence of the United States has been concentrated in New York City by the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 249 flocking to it from all parts of the country of 'what is best and bravest in brains and character of every State in the Republic/ That may be true but, with every opportunity for seeing and doing, Manhattan is a poor place to live in. For the last fifteen years I have been pushing the daily routine across, always ready to help or be of service but secretly and just as earnestly trying to increase the number of days that I could spend elsewhere than in this unfinished town. My annual fourteen days' vacation has lengthened out considerably and I have advanced as far as acquiring, not acres, but just a hundred feet or so of land near the old town of Mil ford, Connecticut, the same town the boys used to convalesce in, back in the nineties. There's the usual green grass and the war-time vegetable garden and I have won blue ribbons at the local shows for cabbage, tomatoes, and other such things, but my hobby is the rose. As yet my rose garden is in the kindergarten class and my knowledge of rose growing on the same lowly plane but I'd rather grow a good rose than make a discovery in medicine. My work depends largely upon the effect of 'bugs' on the human organism; my recreation on inhibiting the effect of other bugs in a small corner of the world of flowers." ^Frederick Asbury Hill Died August 31, 1907 Hill was the only son of Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill and Mary Ellen (Mosman) Hill, who were married June 15, 1868, and had also three daughters: Clara Mosman Hill, B.A. Vassar 1895; Helena Charlotte Hill, B.A. Vassar 1896, M.A. 1902 (Mrs. Walter H. Weed) ; and Elsie Mary Hill, B.A. Vassar 1906. Ebenezer J. Hill (born August 4, 1845, m Redding, Connecticut, died September 27, 191 7, in Norwalk, Connecticut) left the Class of 1865 at Yale in Sophomore year to enter the army but in 1892 was given an honorary degree and enrolled as a graduate of 1865. He was the son of Rev. Moses Hill, one of the pioneers of the Methodist Church in New England, and Charlotte Ilsley (McLellan) Hill; on both his father's and mother's side he came of the earliest colonial stock. Mr. Hill was identified with promi- nent business interests in Norwalk, conducting a lumber business for twenty-five years, serving as president of the Norwalk Street Railway Company, the Norwalk Gas Company, and the 250 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Norwalk Mills Company. In 1894 he was elected to the 54th Congress and, except for the term from 191 3 to 191 5, served continuously until his death. His wife, Mary Ellen Mosman, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and died May 23, 1918, in Norwalk, Connecticut. Frederick A. Hill was born July 4, 1869, in Norwalk, Con- necticut, and was prepared at Williston Seminary, East- hampton, Massachusetts. He joined our Class in Sopho- more year, and after gradua- tion entered the Yale School of Law from which he re- ceived the degree of LL.B. in 1895- He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1895 and practiced law in Norwalk until the outbreak of war with Spain. He had enlisted in the First Division of the Naval Battalion, Connecticut Na- tional Guard, in 1893 and served until 1895 ; in 1897 he became Captain of Company D, 4th Infantry, and held that command until 1898. On May 9, 1898, President McKinley appointed him Lieu- tenant Colonel and Judge Advocate of the U. S. Volunteer Army; he went to Porto Rico as a member of the staff of General Wilson and was senior officer in Ponce, in charge of the customs and internal revenue, until the taking of San Juan. He was honorably discharged June 24, 1899, and returned to Norwalk, becoming secretary and treasurer of the Norwalk Mills Company at Winnipauk. In 1899 he was appointed Captain and Aide-de-Camp on the staff of General Russell Frost, and on July 20, 1900, was pro- moted to the rank of Major and Judge Advocate. He died at Norwalk August 31, 1907, from typhoid fever, complicated by injuries received in a fall from his horse. He had not married. FREDERICK A. HILL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 251 James Norman Hill Railway official, 20 Nassau Street, New York City Residence, 555 Park Avenue, New York City Hill is the son of James Jerome and Mary Theresa (Mehegan) Hill, and has three sisters and a brother, Louis Warren Hill, 1893 S. His father, of Scotch-Irish descent, was born near Guelph, Ontario, September 16, 1838. In 1865 he became agent of the Northwestern Packet Company; in 1875 he organized the Northwestern Fuel Company; from 1865 to 1875 he was local agent of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which he bought and reorganized as the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Rail- road Company in 1879, serving as its general manager from 1879 to 1881, vice-president 1881 to 1883 and president 1883 to 1891 ; and from September 11, 1899, until April, 1907, when his son, Louis Warren Hill, succeeded him, he was president of the Great Northern Railroad. In 1910 an honorary LL.D. de- gree was conferred upon him by Yale University. He died May 29, 1916, in St. Paul, Minnesota. J. N. Hill was born Febru- ary 13, 1870, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was prepared at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. In college 4 he was a member of Delta H Kappa Epsilon and the Uni- versity Club. After graduation he began his railroad career as a clerk in the office of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and in 1905 became vice-president of the tames n. hill company, in which capacity he served until his retirement in 1913. In January, 1916, he was elected a director of the Chase National Bank in New York City. He is also a director of the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Erie, the Colorado and Southern, and 2 5 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE the St. Paul and Northern Pacific railroads, the Pacific Coast Company, the Northern Securities Company, the Northwestern Improvement Company, and the Texas Company; president of the Northern Express Company ; vice-president of the Minnesota and International Railroad ; and a trustee of the New York Trust Company and the Washington and Columbia Trust Company. He was married August 23, 19 12, in London, England, to Mrs. Marguerite Sawyer Fahnestock, daughter of Arthur W. Sawyer of Boston, Massachusetts. JOHN P. HOBBIE John Payson Hobbie Conducting a real estate business under the name of Nichols & Hobbie, 7 East Forty-second Street, New York City Residence, Ossining, New York Hobbie's parents were married in 1865 and had the one son and a daughter, Frances L. Hobbie, Wells College ex-'S6. The father, John Hobbie (born December 30, 181 5, in Geneva, New York; died in 1897 in Cazenovia, New York), lived in Cazenovia from the time he was ten years old. He was a merchant. The BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 253 mother, Louise (Payson) Hobbie, was born in August, 1836. in Lyme, Connecticut, and died in 1897 in Cazenovia. She was descended from English people who settled in Massachusetts about 1642. Mr. Hobbie was also of English descent. John P. Hobbie was born January 5, 1872, in Cazenovia, New York, and was prepared at the Reid School, Hartford, and at Lakeville, Connecticut. During 1893-94 and also in 1895 he was with the Morning Courier, Syracuse, New York, in the intervening time having served as secretary of the Good Government Club in New York City during the municipal election campaign in the fall of 1894. In 1896-97 he was a member of the firm of C. J. Hildebrandt & Company, advertising agents, Syracuse, and from October, 1897, to January 1, 1900, carried on this business in his own name. On the latter date he sold out and on February 1 became a member of the firm of Abram Hyatt & Company, real estate, New York City, and in July, 1905, succeeded to this business. In 1910 he combined with the real estate business of H. W. Nichols under the name of Nichols & Hobbie, and since his partner's death in May, 1916, has continued the business under the same name. He is a trustee of the Bank for Savings in Ossining. In politics he is a Republican. He is a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Ossining, a member of the Yale Club of New York, and of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Scarboro, New York. He was married July 20, 1898, in Sing Sing, New York, to Alice Louise, daughter of Abram Hyatt, real estate dealer, and Mary (Stoutenburgh) Hyatt. They have no children. Benjamin Hodge Fifth and Marion Streets, Redlands, California, or P. O. Box 383, Redlands Hodge is the only child of Lyman Davis and Mary Norton (Granger) Hodge, who were married February 18, 1869. Lyman D. Hodge, B.A. Yale 1857, was born November 1, 1835, in Black Rock, near Buffalo, New York, and died May 28, 1899, in Mount Vernon, Washington. He was the son of Benjamin and Eliza (Patton) Hodge, and traced his ancestry to John Hodge, who lived in Windsor, Connecticut, in the seventeenth 254 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE century. Mr. Hodge studied law and was admitted to the bar in Buffalo, but later, in St. Paul, engaged in the wholesale grocery business and was also interested in banking and real estate. His wife, the daughter of Warren Granger, was born November 22, BENJAMIN HODGE 1840, in Buffalo, New York, and died January 23, 1906, in Platteville, Wisconsin. The first record of her ancestors in this country is found in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1640. Benjamin Hodge was born March 5, 1871, in St. Paul, Minne- sota, and was prepared for college at the St. Paul High School. He received a first colloquy Junior and a second dispute Senior appointment and two-year honors in natural and physical science. He rowed in the single skull races, Spring Regattas, 1891 and 1892, was captain of the Dunham Boat Club, and a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Wolf's Head. From 1893 to 1895 he studied mining engineering at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology and until 1909 he followed this profession. In 1896-97 he was in St. Paul ; 1898-1904, assistant engineer of the London & British Columbia Gold Fields Com- pany, Nelson, B. C, and 1904-09, engaged in mining engineer- ing in Platteville, Wisconsin, and a member of the Jarrett & BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 255 Hodge Company, dealers in mining supplies at Platteville. In 1909 he moved to Redlands, California, on account of Mrs. Hodge's health, and is growing oranges. In politics he is a Democrat. He was married January 18, 1899, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Ruth Stickney, B.A. Vassar 1894, daughter of Alpheus Bede Stickney, formerly president of the Chicago & Great Western Railway, and Kate (Hall) Stickney. They have three children: May Norton, born December 22, 1901 ; Benjamin, born February 17, 1904, and Ruth Ursula, born December 13, 1907. Hodge writes : "Raising oranges in California is not very exciting but at the same time it is very interesting. I am strong on hobbies. Before the war my boy and I were engaged in wireless work and since then in other electrical work. I have also been engaged in developing a new type of gas engine with some success. Recently I have taken up gauze machinery for Red Cross work, and have made a gauze cutting machine that cuts gauze into sixteen inch squares at the rate of 150 yards per hour. I have just enlisted Homer Joy to assist in running the machine and he will be a valuable acquisition. If any of you chaps want the plans and specifications I will be glad to forward them, gratis, and any good mechanic who has access to a machine shop can build it for less than $100.00. I might also add that the biggest expense is two electric motors. What I want to see is gauze and more gauze sent out by the Red Cross. "And as for other hobbies, well I have lots of them; — one of them is to see all you fellows again and some day I am going to do it." Richard Thayer Holbrook Director of foyer, Y. M. C. A., Morhange, France Address, care D. G. Holbrook, Drawer 51, Hartford, Connecticut Holbrook is a son of Timothy Dwight and Kalista White (Thayer) Holbrook, who were married February 10, 1863, and had one other son: Dwight Gerard Holbrook. The first Hol- brook ancestor in America was John Holbrook of Derby, Eng- land, who settled at Oyster Bay, Long Island, before 1663. His son, Abel, was the first white child born at Oyster Bay (1663). 256 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE D wight Holbrook (born April 10, 181 7, in Derby, Connecticut; died in 1891 in Evanston, Illinois) was the son of Josiah Hol- brook, B.A. Yale 1810, an inventor and manufacturer of educa- tional and scientific apparatus. His early business life was spent RICHARD T. HOLBROOK in Berea, Ohio ; he later settled in Wethersfield and Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Mrs. Holbrook's American ancestry (Eng- lish, by origin) began in the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The founder of the New England Thayers was Richard Thayer, recorded as a freeman in Braintree, Massa- chusetts, in 1640. Born October 11, 1840, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, she attended Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in the Class of i860, and from 1877 to 1893 conducted a private school at Yonkers, New York. She has been a great traveler, has given many talks on various sub- jects, and in 19 14 began to work for sufferers in France. Richard T. Holbrook was born December 13, 1870, in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and received his final preparatory training at Phillips Academy, Andover. At Yale (so he states), trigonometry and like subjects pre- vented him from rising above a dissertation appointment, but he BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 257 managed to win two-year honors in French and a prize for Latin composition. He was a member of the Andover Club, Chi Delta Theta, and Alpha Delta Phi. He writes : "From 1893 to 1896 I studied in Europe, chiefly in Paris. In 1896 I became a tutor (in French and Italian) at Yale. In 1901 I went from Yale to Columbia; from Columbia I went to Bryn Mawr College and taught there (Old French and Italian), from 1906 to 1916. In my contract with Bryn Mawr College (as in all other like contracts therewith) was a clause to this effect: 'And the said Richard Thayer Holbrook furthermore agrees that he will not give more than one lecture a year out- side of Bryn Mawr College without the express permission of the Board of Directors, to be obtained through the President.' " Shortly after the third refusal of the authorities above-named to allow Holbrook to give summer courses at the University of Chicago, he terminated his connection with Bryn Mawr College, although, by reason of the stand taken by him, radical changes affecting the appointment, promotion, and privileges of the faculty, were enacted. In 191 7 he became Romance language editor for D. C. Heath & Company, a post which he resigned in June, 1918, in order to serve in France. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Columbia in 1902. Pre- vious to voting for President Wilson he had always voted for Republican candidates for the presidency. He is a member of the Yale Club of New York City, the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pennsylvania, the Societe des anciens textes fran^ais, Paris, the Modern Language Association of America, etc. He has not married. Concerning his writings he says : "My first book, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1900, entitled 'Boys and Men: a Story of Life at Yale,' described (of course as I then under- stood them) certain aspects of undergraduate life. Long ago I began to realize how far short I had fallen of what might have been written on such a theme, and especially I deplore various melodramatic or unduly romantic elements that pervade and mar the said work. So much for the father confessor." Other books of mine are: "Dante and the Animal Kingdom," Mac- millan, 1902; "The Farce of Master Pierre Patelin" (translated from the Old French), Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1905 — my first version of this old farce; "A Poet and his Music: an account of John Milton's relations to Music and to Musicians," composed in 1908-1909 but for 258 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE various reasons not published; "Portraits of Dante," Medici Society (London) and Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 191 1 ; An annotated edition of "Gobseck" and "Jesus-Christ en Flandre," by Honore de Balzac, Oxford University Press, 1912; "The Farce of Master Pierre Patelin" (Popular Edition), Walter H. Baker & Co., 1913. In this later version, "Patelin" has been performed for more than 20,000 persons by various amateur companies, of which the latest known to me (1918) is "The Patelin Players," founded by Mr. Oliver W. Larkin (Harvard 1918) ; "Living French : a New Course in Reading, Writing, and Speaking the French Language," Ginn & Company, 1917 ; "Etude sur Pathelin : Essai de bibliographie et d'interpretation," Champion, Paris, 1918. "I shall easily be forgiven for not desiring to lengthen this list with a catalogue of numerous contributions to learned periodicals, popular magazines, and the like. My chief interest at the present time (1918) and my keenest large desire, is to see the Central Powers defeated and led, however this may be accomplished, to follow more civilized practices in their rela- tions with the rest of the world — a change which seems to require greater individual freedom and a more humane frame of mind within their own boundaries. My most personal aim is to return to my teaching and my philological or other historical researches before my brain and the rest of me have grown too feeble for profitable studies and for the enjoyment of lawn tennis, squash, and like blessings." John LeRoy Hurlbert Lawyer, 18 East Second Street, Dunkirk, New York Residence, Dunkirk, New York Hurlbert is the only son of Simeon LeRoy and Mary J. (Johnson) Hurlbert, who were married May 10, 1865, and had two other children, daughters, who were both non-graduate mem- bers of the Class of 1889 at Mount Holyoke College: Florence Amy Hurlbert and Sylvia White Hurlbert (married George J. McAndrew, B.A. Yale 1884). The father (born November 14, 1837, in Forestville, New York; died there March 31, 1913) attended the Forestville Free Academy, was a farmer, cattle buyer and dealer, railroad man, and justice of the peace, Town of Hanover. The mother (born October 21, 1842, in Forest- ville; died there June 1, 1918) attended the Forestville Free Academy and Alfred University. On both sides the family is of Colonial ancestry descended from English lines. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 259 John L. Hurlbert was born February 28, 1871, in Forestville, New York, and was prepared at the Free Academy in his native town. He received a first dispute Junior and an oration Senior appointment and two-year honors in history. JOHN L. HURLBERT From 1893 t0 I ^9^ ne taught in the Dunkirk (New York) High School, in the last year acting in the capacity of principal. He had studied law during these years and in October, 1897, was admitted to the New York Bar. He has since practiced in Dun- kirk. He is a director of the Merchants National Bank, vice- president of the Chautauqua Abstract Company, and a director of the Lake Shore Savings & Loan Association, and others. In November, 191 5, he was elected a member of the Board of Education, Dunkirk, for a term which expires January 1, 1920. He is chairman of Local Board No. 1, Chautauqua County, New York, under the Selective Service Law. He is a member of Dunkirk Lodge 767, Free and Accepted Masons, Jamestown Lodge of Perfection and Buffalo Consistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, and Ismailia Temple, Buffalo, A. A. O. N. M. S. 26o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He was married February 14, 1906, in Dunkirk, to Helen Maude Hequembourg, B.A. Vassar 1898, daughter of Charles E. Hequembourg, civil engineer and oil promoter, and Harriet E. (Thurber) Hequembourg. They have two children, both born in Dunkirk: Jessie Florence, born September 25, 1908, and LeRoy Hequembourg, born April 6, 1913. Hurlbert writes : "Mostly talk about troubles in the exemption, or local draft board. If the present war continues for a long time, our professional work will be nothing. No 'rubber stamp position' in an exemption board, — make more enemies than a dozen political campaigns could produce. "Children seem to be normal, as yet, and both say they are going to the colleges their parents attended. Hope to attend all of our Class reunions as long as we live, have found them very inspir- ing and one of things that makes life worth while. Find much pleasure in keeping up college friendships and believe that one of the most valuable features of a college course." Shubael Cady Hutchins Traveling manager for the J. T. Finnegan Company, manufacturing and retail jewelers Residences, Danielson, Connecticut, and Arborway Court, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Hutchins is the only son of Shubael and Josephine Amelia (Gladding) Hutchins, who were married in 1862 and had one other child, a daughter: Maria (Hutchins) Belden. Shubael Hutchins, descendant of Shubael Hutchins who settled in Plain- field, Connecticut, about 1740, was of English ancestry. He was born in April, 1830, in Mansfield, Connecticut, and died in Prov- idence, Rhode Island, in April, 1900. As a young man he was a cotton broker in Providence but soon after his marriage returned to the old homestead in Danielson. Mrs. Hutchins, also of English ancestry, was born in January, 1840, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in that city in May, 1907. S. Cady Hutchins was born September 17, 1871, in Danielson, and was prepared for college at Andover. He received a second colloquy appointment and was a member of the Andover and University clubs. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 261 From 1893 to 1896 he was a dealer in electrical supplies in Providence, Rhode Island, and in New York City. Then he became associated with the American Oil Company in Providence and remained with them until 1903 when, owing to ill health, he gave up busi- ness and resided in Danielson for six years. From 1909 to 191 2 he was agent for the Franklin automobile in Hart- ford, and since 191 5 he has worked for the J. T. Finne- gan Company, manufacturing and retail jewelers, with whom he now has the position of traveling manager. In politics he is a Republi- can. He belongs to the Con- gregational Church. He was married October 30, 1907, in Boston, Massa- chusetts, to Helen Raphael, daughter of Michael Burke Finnegan, real estate dealer, and Ellen (Conroy) Finnegan. They have had two children: John Cady, born and died April 15, 1909, and Helen Gladding, born January 21, 191 1. Hutchins writes : "Doubtless the majority of '93 like myself find recreation in and with their families and special interests in their interests. "Although my business at present requires me to live the greater part of the year in Boston my family and I are looking forward with the keenest pleasure to an all year around life at our country home. Our little daughter, now seven years old, seems to have inherited our love for the old homestead. "As I look back on the past twenty-five years they have been very happy years crowned by a most devoted wife and daughter representing as they do all the best in life to me. My most sin- cere desire is that I may so live the remainder of my life as to be worthy of their love and respect and the respect and confidence of all with whom I may come in contact." S. CADY HUTCHINS 262 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE *Sherwood Bissell Ives Died' February 16, 1907 Sherwood B. Ives was the son of Brayton and Ellen A. (Bissell) Ives, who were married February 6, 1867, an d had three other children: Winifred Ives, Eunice (Ives) Maynard, and Frances Havens Ives. Brayton Ives was born August 23, 1840, in Farmington, Connect- icut, the son of William A. and Julia (Root) Ives. An ancestor was William Ives, who settled in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and a little later became one of the founders of the New Haven Colony; he was also descended from Eli Ives, B.A. 1799, one of the originators and first professors of the Medical Department at Yale. After graduating at Yale in 1 861, Brayton Ives served throughout the Civil War, be- ing brevetted Brigadier Gen- eral on March 13, 1865. After 1866 he engaged in business in New York City, where he held many positions of prominence and responsi- bility in the financial world. He died at his country home in Ossining, New York, October 22, 1914. In February, 1916, by settlement of his estate, the Brayton Ives Fund amounting to $321,998.96 was established at Yale. Mrs. Ives was Ellen A. Bissell of Norwalk, Connecticut, before her marriage. Walter Tracy Ives, 1890 S., is a cousin of our classmate. Ives was born December 30, 1870, in New York City, and pre- pared for Yale at the Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. He received a second colloquy Junior appointment, was captain of the University Crew as a Senior, served on the Junior Prom- enade Committee, and was a member of the University Club, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. SHERWOOD B. IVES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 263 In 1896 he received his M.D. degree at Columbia University, and after two years of service as an interne in the Presbyterian Hospital, he began practice in New York City. At the same time he was on the teaching staff of Cornell Medical School, and the attending staff of Lincoln Hospital. After spending a few months as assistant to Dr. Trudeau at his Saranac Lake Sani- tarium because of ill health, in 1900 he went to New Mexico. On February 16, 1907, at Datil, New Mexico, he died of perito- nitis due to a wound inflicted by the accidental discharge of a revolver. He was unmarried. Harry Benjamin Jepson Director, Yale Bureau, American University Union in Europe, 8 Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France Professor of applied music and University Organist, Yale University Residence, 295 Crown Street, New Haven, Connecticut Jepson is a son of Benjamin and Mary Louise (Wiswell) Jepson, who were married September 9, 1858, and had three other children : Arthur Wiswell Jepson, Ph.B. Yale 1889, Clara Louise Jepson, Smith ex-cj& (married Clifford W. Beers, Ph.B. Yale 1897), and Edward Lincoln Jepson (died August 2, 1862). Benjamin Jepson (born May 22, 1832, in Sheffield, England; died June 7, 1914, in New Haven, Connecticut) came to New Haven in 1838 and, except for two years in Kansas as Captain of his Company during the Kansas Rebellion, and four years during which he served as a Captain in the Civil War, spent the rest of his life in that city. He was supervisor of music in the public schools of New Haven for fifty years ending in June, 191 3, and in recognition of his important work in this line was given an honorary M.A. by Yale in 191 2. He published a series of books on musical subjects and was president of the National Associa- tion of Music Teachers. His wife, born August 3, 1839, m Bridgeport, and died February 13, 1910, in New Haven, was a descendant of John Eddy, who came from Cranbrook, England, in 1630, and settled in Watertown, near Boston. Harry B. Jepson was born August 16, 1870, in New Haven and was prepared at the Hillhouse High School. He sang in the 264 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Glee Club and was a member of Zeta Psi. He is a graduate member of the Elihu Club. He has been connected with Yale since graduation as organist, student, and teacher. He received the degree of Bachelor of HARRY B. JEPSON Music in 1896 and was then appointed instructor in organ playing and harmony, having served as organist in the Chapel since 1894. In 1899 he was promoted to assistant professor and in 1907 appointed professor of applied music. In that year he received the honorary degree of M.A. ex-officio. In 1903 he was appointed curator and official organist of the Newberry Organ in Woolsey Hall and in 191 5-16 was in charge of the work of rebuilding and enlarging this organ to 163 stops. He has studied abroad sev- eral years. He edited "University Hymns" for male voices, A. S. Barnes & Company, has contributed to current magazines on musical subjects, and has composed a large number of compositions for the organ. The New Haven public pays tribute to his skill as an organist on Sunday afternoons during the winter, when Woolsey Hall, which seats about three thousand people, is filled for his recitals. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 265 As to politics he says : "Born Republican, voted for Wilson." He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and of the executive committee of the Neighborhood House Music School. In November, 1918, he was given a leave of absence from the University to serve as director of the Yale Bureau of the American University Union in Europe in Paris. He belongs to the Graduates Club and to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was married August I, 1895, in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Mabel Preston Wyatt, B.A. Smith 1893, daughter of Rev. Albert Harmon Wyatt and Martha Washington (Preston) Wyatt. They have no children. Jepson writes : "Having been granted leave of absence for my sabbatical year I spent from February to September, 19 14, in Europe. The war drove me home. "I played at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 191 5. Have just published four new organ pieces through G. Schirmer, New York. "For the rest I give weekly organ recitals in Woolsey Hall from October until Easter with an occasional recital away from New Haven, though I have given up touring the country. I spend my days more or less happily in teaching here in the Music School. I give some time to composition though that has to be done largely in the summer months. My aim in life is to become a musician and it takes most of my time every day and occupies most of my thoughts, though I do give some attention to my cat- boat on occasions when my poor fat head refuses to function. " Jesse Breland Johnson Professor of mathematics, Baylor University, Waco, Texas Residence, 1724 South Seventh Street, Waco, Texas Johnson is one of ten children of Jacob Elijah and Louvenia (Miller) Johnson, who were married in 1856. The father (born in 1835 in Clayton, Alabama; died January 7, 1907, in Cookville, Texas) was a farmer and merchant who removed to Texas in 1868. Before i860 the family were large slave and land owners. The family originally settled in Jamestown, 266 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Virginia, then moved to Western North Carolina and then to Alabama. Mrs. Johnson was born in 1840, in Clayton; her parents were of Irish descent. Two of our classmate's brothers attended college, — Elmore Johnson received the degree of B.S. at Baylor University in 1905, and Foreign M. Johnson that of M.D. from the University of Chattanooga. JESSE B. JOHNSON Jesse B. Johnson was born November 25, 1866, in Clayton, Alabama, and was graduated at Baylor University with the degree of B.A. in 1891, before entering Yale. In Senior year he received honors in mathematics. He secured his four years at Yale by pursuing graduate work in mathematics from 1893 to 1895, when he received the degree of Ph.D. He taught languages at Henry College, Campbell, Texas, in 1895-96; studied at the University of Chicago, 1896-97, and was professor of mathematics at Burleson College, Green- ville, Texas, in 1898-99. He has been professor of mathematics at Baylor University since 1899. For fifteen years he has served as a deacon in the Baptist Church. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 267 He was married December 20, 1895, in White wright, Texas, to Jessie C, daughter of John Herring Brown, a farmer, and Elizabeth (Davenport) Brown. They have had ten children, all born in Texas: Ruth, born September 24, 1896, in Campbell; Frederick Edgerton, born November 17, 1898, and died February 23, 1899, in Greenville; Florence Elizabeth, born November 17, 1898, in Greenville; Margaret, born December 19, 1899; Jessie Brown, born June 25, 1902 ; Halbert Herring, born January 6, 1905 ; Hubert Newton, born January 6, 1905, and died June 16, 1905; Catherine, born January 12, 1908; Jesse Breland, Jr.. born October 12, 1910, and Louise, born October 7, 1913, the last seven being born in Waco. Johnson writes : "My first business concern is my work as teacher. My business hobby is farming. A large amount of my recreation is spent in managing my farm. My chief interest is in rearing and educating eight children. This is 'some' undertak- ing for a Texas pedagogue. A large amount of my time (which otherwise might be called leisure time) must be put in enter- taining these eight. However, I am delighted with my family and the work I am doing. "These children are the greatest pleasure I know. They are all strong physically and do well otherwise. "It is easy to see why I should not do some things." * Alfred Henry Jones Died January 15, 1901 Jones Avas the son of the Hon. Charles Jones and Emilie T. (Yosti) Jones, and had a brother, Charles Jones, Jr. His father was a judge and State Senator of Missouri, at one time. Alfred H. Jones was born April 17, 1868, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended Smith Academy. In college he was captain of the Freshman Baseball Team, captain of the Athletic Team as a Senior, and a member of the Banjo Club, the University Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. In October, 1890, he won the 100 yard dash at the meet. After graduation he studied in the Washington University Law School in St. Louis and received the LL.B. degree in 1895. After his admission to the bar, he practiced in St. Louis until :68 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ~>v ALFRED H. JONES June, 1900, when tuberculosis developed after an attack of pneumonia. When he first went to New Mexico he seemed to improve, but an at- tack of grippe caused his death in Las Vegas, San Miguel County, January 15, 1901. Burial was in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a Roman Catholic. He was married November 17, 1896, in St. Louis, Mis J souri, to Sophie Bates, daugh- ter of Dr. John Bates John- son. They had a daughter, Emilie Theotiste, born No- vember 23, 1897, and a son, Alfred Henry, Jr., born Octo- ber 1, 1899. Charles Davies Jones Secretary and treasurer of the Little Miami Railroad Company, Fosdick Building, Cincinnati, Ohio Residence, 2828 Vernon Place, Cincinnati, Ohio Jones was preceded at Yale by his father and three uncles and followed by his brother, Edmund Lawrence Jones, B.A. 1901 ; another brother received the degree of M.D. at Columbia in 1902. There are also two sisters. His father, Frank Johnston Jones (born April 22, 1838, in Cincinnati, Ohio), is one of thirteen children of John Davies Jones and Elizabeth (Johnston) Jones. He was graduated from Yale in 1859 and received the degrees of LL.B. from the Cincinnati Law School in 1866 and M.A. from Yale in 1906; his brothers, John Johnston Jones and Walter St. John Jones, received B.A. degrees at Yale in 1852 and 1873 respectively, and two brothers went to Kenyon College, one to West Point and one to Annapolis. Major Jones served throughout the Civil War and then practiced law in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 269 Cincinnati. He has been prominently identified with business and educational interests in Cincinnati, and is commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion. On the paternal side he traces his descent from David Jones, who came from Wales to Eastern Pennsylvania about 1721 ; his maternal ancestor is Colonel John Johnston, who came from North Ireland in 1786 and settled in Philadelphia. On May 30, 1866, he married Frances Dering, daughter of Samuel and Sarah A. (Wood) Fosdick, and sister of Wood Fosdick, Yale ex-' 59. Mrs. Jones was born June 30, 1841, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died there April 6, 1917. The Fosdick family was first represented in this country by Stephen Fosdick, who came from England to Charles- town, Massachusetts, in 1635. Charles D. Jones was born April 3, 1871, in Cincinnati and was prepared for college at the Franklin School in that city. He received colloquy appointments, and was a member of the Board CHARLES D. JONES of Governors of the University Club, of the Senior Prom Com- mittee, He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key. He writes: "After graduating from the Cincinnati Law School in 1895, I was actively engaged in the practice of law 270 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE until 1908 when I became connected with the Little Miami Rail- road Company. I have since devoted most of my time to that company and to the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, of which I am president. "Since graduation I have made three trips to Europe; the first in 1893 with Jack Field; the second in 1896, and the third — my wedding trip — in 1904. In 1899 with Irv Laughlin I spent five months in Japan and China. "At present my hobby is a farm of forty acres, just outside of Cincinnati, where we spend six months of the year. As a farmer I probably know less than any other man alive, but am learning. "Am deeply interested in the Cincinnati Home Guard (Ser- geant-Major). We have a regiment of 3000, fully uniformed and armed and have been drilling twice a week since May, 191 7. Am doing some work for the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A." In addition to the business interests mentioned above Jones is a director of the Central Trust Company, Dayton & Michigan Railroad Company, Dixie Terminal Company, and a trustee of the Widows' and Old Men's Homes. Normally Republican in politics, he is independent in municipal affairs. He is a vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church. He has held different offices in the Yale Alumni Association of Cincinnati and is a member of the University Club of New York, the Cincinnati Country Club, The Pillars Club, Queen City Club, Cincinnati Golf Club, and the Loyal Legion. He was married January 19, 1904, in Detroit, Michigan, to Grace Ella, daughter of Ford DeCamp and Mary (Thompson) Hinchman. They have three children, all born in Cincinnati: Francis Johnston, 2d, born February 3, 1906, Ford Hinchman, born May 25, 1908, and Grace Davies, born December 16, 1913. Riverda Harding Jordan Instructor, Department of Rhetoric, 114 Engineering Building, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Residence, 74 Bedford Street, S. E., Minneapolis, Minnesota Jordan's parents were married June 20, 1872, and had four other children : Helen Jordan, attended the University of Chi- cago; Ruth (Jordan) Weary, attended Randolph-Macon Women's College; Loring Kenneth Jordan, Ph.B. Yale 1909, and William BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 271 Amos Jordan, 2d, B.A. Yale 191 5. The father, William Amos Jordan (born October 28, 1844, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; accidentally drowned May 30, 1892, in St. Joseph, Missouri), was the son of Jeremiah and Margaret (Foresman) Jordan. His RIVERDA H. JORDAN first known American ancestor was Roger North, who came from England to Philadelphia about 1680; the first Jordan was John, who probably came from Ulster prior to 1694 and settled in Pennsylvania. Mr. Jordan engaged in the lumber business in Missouri and Kansas, was cashier of the Commercial Bank of St. Joseph from 1888 to 1892, and manager of the St. Joseph Clearing House Association. His wife, Clara (Harding) Jordan (born July 24, 1851, in St. Joseph), is the daughter of Captain Benjamin Harding, one of the earliest settlers of Kansas and a member of its first senate ; her mother, Emily Williams, was descended from the early Dutch settlers of New York. On the paternal side she traces her ancestry to William Pynchon, who came from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1630; he was an original proprietor of Springfield, Massachusetts. Other ancestors were John Talcott, who came to Boston in 1632 and 272 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE was one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636, and Edward Holyoke, who came to Lynn in 1630. R. H. Jordan was born April 12, 1873, m St. Joseph, and was prepared at the Central High School in that city. In college he received first dispute appointments and "also ran" with the track squad. From 1893 to 1895 he was cashier for the R. Douglas Crock- ery Company, St. Joseph. Then for one year each he was asso- ciated with Johnson, Rusk & Stringfellow, lawyers of St. Joseph, and with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in that city. He then turned to educational work and has since been engaged in teaching. From 1897 to 1902 he was head of the department of mathematics at the Central High School, St. Joseph, and from 1902 to 1904 head of the department of Latin and Greek; during this entire period he was also direc- tor of athletics and gymnasium instructor. In 1904 he was appointed principal of the High School and director of the Nor- mal Training School and held this position until 191 1 when he was appointed principal of West High School in Minneapolis. This latter post he resigned in June, 1917, and in September he was appointed teaching assistant in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota and instructor in business Eng- lish in the School of Agriculture. He has entered the Graduate School and is working on educational administration in the Col- lege of Education. He has been appointed instructor in the Department of Rhetoric for the year 1918-19. He is also con- ducting correspondence courses in secondary education and rural education in the University Extension Department. In 191 3 he received the degree of M.A. at Yale. While con- nected with the Missouri schools he was elected in 1901 secre J tary of the Northwest Missouri Teachers' Association, was president of the Missouri Valley Athletic Association, president of the Northwest Inter-High School Association, 1909-1911, treasurer of the Missouri State Teachers' Association, 1902-04, vice-president of the Missouri Society of Sciences and Mathe- matics, secretary of the Missouri Classical Society, 1908-11, and a member of the City Teachers' Examining Board, 1904-11. In April, 191 2, he was elected Chairman of a committee of the Minneapolis Schoolmasters' Club to confer with employers and representatives of labor on the best methods of bringing employees and the public schools into closer relationship. He BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 273 has presented a number of papers before these associations most of which were later published in the Proceedings of the Missouri State Teachers' Association and in educational reports, including the National Educational Association and Southern Educational Association Proceedings. He has also contributed to such edu- cational journals as the Journal of Education, Boston, and others. He compiled and published the "Handbook of the Missouri Valley Interscholastic Association" in 1910. He was editor of the Edu- cational Section of the Western Home Journal, 1909-1911. War work : He was captain of the Graduate School in the Second Liberty Loan Drive; assisted in giving and scoring psychological tests to second O. T. C. at Fort Snelling; these tests were made the official government intelligence tests for selection of officers in all training camps. Is a member of War Savings Society of the College of Engineering, and has done sal- vage work in connection with the Red Cross. In politics he is a Democrat, being an "original Wilson man." He is now a member of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episco- pal Church of Minneapolis; in St. Joseph he was actively iden- tified with the Francis Street Church. He belongs to the University Club of Minneapolis, School- masters* Club, Sons of the Revolution, Civic and Commerce Asso- ciation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a Fellow of the American Geographic Society, and a member of the National Educational Association, and of the American Society of Educational Research. He has been elected to the honorary professional educational fraternity of Phi Delta Kappa, and is president of the Minnesota Chapter. He was elected representative of the Graduate School to the All-University Council of the University of Minnesota. He was married August 3, 1909, in St. Joseph, to Mary Vinette, daughter of George H. Hoover, a merchant, and Barbara Ann (Bechtel) Hoover. They have two sons, both born in Minne- apolis: Richard Hollister, born September 21, 191 1, and Hoover Harding, born September 13, 1913. June 1, 191 7, was designated by the pupils of West High School, Minneapolis, as R. H. Jordan Day and badges with this inscription were worn. In the evening a farewell demonstra- tion was held at the school under the auspices of the Parent- Teachers' Association. "A short time ago," says the Minne- apolis Morning Tribune of June 2, 191 7, "a member of the 274 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Parent-Teachers' Association, after much and varied strategy, learned Mr. Jordan's hobby — fishing. And he was a surprised man last night when a complete angler's outfit, including all sorts of wearing apparel and paraphernalia, was handed to him." The Senior Class at West High proposed as a Class memorial a "large full length picture ; a bronze tablet, or statue of Mr. Jor- dan, instead of adding to the collection of Sir Galahad pic- tures." Unfortunately the Class was not allowed thus to give expression to its gratitude to Mr. Jordan. HOMER T. JOY Homer Thrall Joy Physician, 60 West Fifty-eighth Street, New York City Residence, 49 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City Temporary address, Redlands, California Thomas Joy, who came from England in 1635 and settled in Boston, was the first American ancestor. Our classmate's father, Colonel Edmund Lewis Joy, son of Charles and Harriet (Shaw) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 275 Joy, was born October 1, 1835, m Albany, New York, and died February 14, 1892, in Newark, New Jersey. He was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1856, admitted to the New York Bar, but soon after settled in Ottumwa, Iowa, where he was city attorney, 1860-61. He was Judge Advocate, 7th Army Corps, Department of Arkansas, during the Civil War, and afterwards was admitted to partnership with his father in Newark, New Jersey, and continued the business until his death. He served in the New Jersey legislature, was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884, and government director of the Union Pacific Railroad. On November 24, 1862, he mar- ried Theresa R. Thrall, daughter of Homer Thrall, M.D., pro- fessor of chemistry at Kenyon College and of materia medica at Starling Medical College, and had three children : Edmund F. S. Joy, B.A. Williams 1886, Ph.D. Columbia 1892; Harriet Shaw Joy (married Robert D. Martin, B.A. Yale 1880), and H. T. Joy. Mrs. Joy was born June 9, 1836, in Utica, Ohio, and died June 8, 191 1, in Newark, New Jersey. Her first American ancestor, William Thrall, came from England in 1633 an d set- tled in Windsor, Connecticut. Homer Joy was born December 9, 1872, in Newark, New Jer- sey, and was prepared at the Newark Academy. He received a Senior colloquy, an elocution prize, Sophomore year, and was a member of the second Banjo Club. He was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, from 1893 to 1896 when he received the degree of M.D. His hospital service was in Bellevue, where he finished as house physician in 1898 and house surgeon in 1900. He has since practiced in New York City. From 1900 to 1907 he served as New York City examiner for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and then for one year as medical director of the Eastern Life Insurance Company. Since 1900 he has been attending physician to the O. P. D. Department at Roosevelt Hospital, and is examiner in Lunacy for New York State. He is a Republican. He attends the Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Yale Club ; New York Chapter, Sons of the Revolution; Oakland Golf Club, New York City; Society of the Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, and New York Academy of Medicine. He was married November 9, 1905, in New York City, to Elizabeth Josephine, daughter of Frederick Theodore van Beuren, 276 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE manager of the van Beuren & Spingler Estates, and Elizabeth (Potter) van Beuren. They have two sons: Homer van Beuren, born September 16, 1907, in Morristown, New Jersey, now attending the Buckley School, New York, and Frederick van Beuren, born July 2, 191 1, in New York City. Mrs. Joy's brothers are Frederick Theodore van Beuren, Jr., B.A. Yale 1898, M.D. Columbia 1902, and Michael Murray van Beuren, Yale ex-96. Joy writes : "Three years ago Mrs. Joy's health broke down following a severe operation for appendicitis, and for two years we have been in the West : for the past year in California and for the year preceding in New Mexico and Arizona. Mrs. Joy's health is greatly improved and she looks forward to our return East. "While in New Mexico and Arizona we visited several of the Indian Pueblo villages and witnessed many of their religious and ceremonial dances. The tranquillity in these states was undis- turbed by any care of foreign relations till uneasiness developed last spring over the Mexican situation." Walter Parmelee Judson Lawyer, 185 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut Residence, 311 Orchard Street, New Haven, Connecticut Judson is a son of Charles E. and Martha J. (Parmelee) Judson, who were married April 21, 1856, and had four other children: Charles W., Homer L., Jerome T. and Ada B. Judson. The father (born July 5, 1833, in South Britain, Connecticut; died February 18, 1898, in New Haven) lived in New Haven from 1850 until his death. He was a merchant, being a member of the firm of Judson Brothers, provision dealers, for twenty- four years, and president of the company of the same name for nine years. His first American ancestor, William Judson, came from England, settled first in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 at Concord, removing to Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639, being one of the first settlers of that town. The mother (born April 26, 1836, in New Haven; died there November 14, 1897) was also descended from English settlers in Massachusetts, one BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 277 John Parmelee having come from that colony as one of the first settlers of Guilford, Connecticut. Walter Judson was born December 30, 1869, in New Haven, and was prepared at the Hillhouse High School. He received colloquy appointments in college. For one year he was in business with Russell Brothers, grocers, New Haven, before entering the Yale School of Law. During WALTER P. JUDSON his second year of graduate study (1895-96) he was also teach- ing at the school in Highwood. He received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in June, 1896, and has since practiced in New Haven. A Republican in politics, he has taken an active interest in the party, serving at different times on ward committees in New Haven. During the winter of 1917-18 he has been acting as associate member of one of the local legal advisory boards under the Selective Service Regulations. He belongs to the Methodist Church. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Union League Club, Yale Alumni Association of New Haven, and the American Bar Association. He has not married. 278 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Adrian VanSinderen Lambert Surgeon, and associate professor of surgery, Columbia University, New York City Residence, 168 East Seventy-first Street, New York City Lambert is a son of Edward Wilberforce and Martha Melcher (Waldron) Lambert, who were married September 9, 1858, and had nine other children : Samuel Waldron Lambert, Yale '80, Alexander Lambert, Yale '84, Elliot Cowdin Lambert, Yale '86 (died April 8, 1914), Mary (died in August, 1862), Sally (married Dickinson W. Richards, Yale '8o), Katharine, Edith (married William R. Barbour, Yale '80), Ruth (married Knight D. Cheney, Yale '92), and Gertrude Hammond Lambert (died April 17, 1883). Edward W. Lambert (born February 15, 1831, in Boston, Massachusetts; died July 17, 1904, in New York City) was graduated at Yale in the Class of 1854 and from the ADRIAN V. S. LAMBERT College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1857. He practiced his profession in New York and was medical director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society from its foundation BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 279 until his death. The Lambert family traces its ancestry from Francis Lambert, who came from Rowley, England, in 1639, and settled a town by the same name in Massachusetts. Martha (Waldron) Lambert was born September 14, 1832, in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, and died February 11, 1913, in New York City. Adrian Lambert was born June 30, 1872, in New York City, and was prepared at a small private school in New York. He received a Senior colloquy appointment, was treasurer of the University Football Association in Junior year and a member of Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. Following the lead of his father and two brothers, he entered Columbia and in 1896 received the degree of M.D. and was licensed to practice in New York. He served his internship at the New York Hospital, both medical and surgical service, and in July, 1899, went abroad to study in Germany for a year. Since 1900 he has practiced in New York. His hospital work has been as follows : assistant surgeon, New York Lying-in Hospital, 1900-1904; attending surgeon, Lincoln Hospital, 1906-1909; assistant surgeon, Bellevue Hospital, since 1905 ; chief surgeon, Vanderbilt Clinic, since 1908; associate attending surgeon, Presbyterian Hospital, since 191 3, and director of surgical service, Presbyterian Hospital, since 1917. He has been associated with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in teaching capacities since 1900 and in 1917 was appointed acting professor of surgery. He has published various technical articles on surgical topics in medical journals and has contributed to several systems on surgery, etc. He is a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven, the University, Yale, Century, and Union clubs of New York, the New York Surgical Society, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, New York County Medical Society, New York Neurological Society, Association of American Anatomists, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He was married June 1, 1905, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Shipman, daughter of Henry Cornelius Robinson, Yale '53, and Eliza Niles (Trumbull) Robinson. They have four children: Mary Robinson, born March 4, 1908, in New York City ; Adrian, born September 21, 1909, in New York City; John Trumbull, born August 24, 1912, at Scarsdale, New York, and Ruth, born 28o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE October 31, 19 14, in New York City. Mrs. Lambert's three brothers are Yale graduates : Lucius F., Henry S., and John T. Robinson, of the Classes of 1885, 1889, and 1893, respectively. Lambert writes: "When I returned from Europe I had the ambition to make a living. I thought that it would be a difficult thing to do, and a proper, decent thing to do. I still consider it proper and decent but soon found it so easy I took an active part in teaching. This had really always interested me and I have been doing it ever since. I have never become a great or brilliant teacher although rather better than the average but not much. I have always hoped to become better but doubt now if I ever shall. I have always desired to do some original research but among the many other duties which seemed neces- sary I have not made the time. I have no hobbies or special interests outside of my work and would qualify rather well among that vast army of uninteresting, colorless citizens who lead humdrum lives, keep out of scandal, die, and are forgotten." Edwin Ruthven Lamson President, The Dustoline for Roads Company, 93 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey Residences (winter), 120 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey (summer), "Waveland," Belle Terre, Port Jefferson, Long Island Lamson is a son of John Sawyer and Mary Hart (Hunter) Lamson, who were married June 15, 1859, in Yonkers, New York, and had five other children: Harriet Newell Lamson (died in 1862) ; John Sawyer Lamson (died November 28, 191 5, in Summit, New Jersey); William Judson Lamson, Yale '93; Horace Holden Lamson, and Mary Judson Lamson (married George Clarke Musgrave). The father (born April 21, 1833, in Andover, Massachusetts; died August 21, 1883, in Boxford, Massachusetts) founded the firm of John S. Lamson & Brother, New York City, in i860 and was the head of the firm until his death. It dealt in gums, manganese, asphaltum, and other South American products, and it was through Mr. Lamson's efforts that the large and valuable collection of Chiriqui pottery was made and secured for Peabody Museum. He was descended from William Lamson of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who came BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 281 from England in 1634; his father was Rev. Samuel Lamson, B.A. Brown 1828. His wife (born July 15, 1837, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, and died June 21, 191 1, in Summit, New Jersey) was a student at Mount Holyoke Seminary (now College), in 1854. Her ancestor, John Hunter, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to New York about 1800. Her father was Rev. John Hart Hunter, a graduate of Union College, Schenectady. Edwin Lamson was born March 12, 1867, in New York City, and was prepared at Dr. Pingry's School in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and at the pre- paratory school of Oberlin College, after five years in business following his father's death. At Yale he received two-year honors in history, took a second prize in a Uni- versity Bicycle Race, second place in the Class Tennis Tournament, and won a place, by competitive debate, on the debating team which met Harvard at Cambridge. After graduation he worked for Carter, Dinsmore & Company, manufacturers of inks, etc., in Boston, during 1893- 1894, and then engaged in the advertising business under the name, E. R. Lam- son Company, for a year. In 1895 he became senior member of the firm of Lamson, Wolffe & Company, publishers, Boston, and continued in this business until 1899, although after the first four months he was the only member of the company. From June, 1899, to January, 1901, he was New York representative of the Guardian Trust Company, and for a short time in the latter year was associated with Schwart, Dupee & Company, stocks, New York City. After leaving this company he was, for two years, manager of the New Haven branch office of the American Finance & Securities Company of New York. Then he was with Catlin-Powell Company, brokers, New York, until 191 1, EDWIN R. LAMSON 282 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE when he was made director of the Proprietary Mines Company of America, and vice-president and president of the Dustoline for Roads Company of Summit, New Jersey. He now devotes all of his time to the last named company. He has a summer home called "Waveland," at Port Jefferson, Long Island. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Con- gregational Church. From 1896 to 1899 he was a member of the 1st Corps of Independent Cadets, Volunteer Militia of Massa- chusetts, and went to Cuba on the Yale with General Miles, arriving in time to see the final surrender of Santiago. He is a member of the Union League Club of New York. He has not married. Lamson writes: "As for my hobby of recent years (1907 on, when I have had spare time, instead of cards, etc.), I have tried to study art and have modelled a number of heads and small pieces. My interest in sculpturing arose through my intimate friend- ship with Rudolph Evans, the sculptor at 71 Washington Place. The latter has achieved very high distinction from France. "Literature and art and bookplates and especially sculpture have interested me most until I have exhausted myself trying to help to do my bit to influence the U. S. to help put down the Hun — the unspeakable Hun, which has brought me into as close association in this war as I enjoyed in the Spanish War with the Navy, for which I have most unbounded admiration and respect. "To help my fellow beings has always been my supreme aim and I only regret that life or fate has not given me greater capacity and opportunity to do more." William Judson Lamson Physician, 120 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey William J. Lamson, youngest son of John Sawyer and Mary Hart (Hunter) Lamson, whose history is recorded in the pre- ceding sketch, was born May 14, 187 1, in Orange, New Jersey. He was prepared at the Montclair (New Jersey) High School, and in college received a high oration Junior and a philosophical oration Senior appointment, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Second Banjo Club. He was graduated with the degree of M.D. from the College BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 283 of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1896, and licensed to practice in June of that year. The following year he studied in Berlin and Vienna and then, returning to New York, he spent WILLIAM J. LAMSON two years, 1897- 1899, at St. Luke's Hospital as interne. He was attending physician to Demilt Dispensary, New York City, in 1900 and 1901, and in 1902 moved to Summit, New Jersey, where he has since practiced. He is president of the Medical Board of Overlook Hospital, Summit, and a member of the Union County (New Jersey) Mosquito Extermination Commission, and of the Medical Milk Commission of Union County. Since 1909 he has served as medical inspector for the schools of Summit. He has written occasional articles for medical journals and has recently published a family genealogy, entitled, "Descendants of William Lamson of Ipswich, Massachusetts." He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Summit. He belongs to the Canoe Brook Country Club, the Highland Club, to the Summit Medical Society, and to the American Medi- cal Association. He has not married. 284 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Lamson writes: "I am still a bachelor, because, perhaps, as the poet says, T would rather be lonely than bored,' or possibly because I have not yet found a girl who 'would eat out of my hand/ I am living with two 'trained aunts/ who make me so comfortable that I fear to change my habits. Besides, I am getting old. "I am a general practitioner, in a city of 10,000, famed for its charm and beauty, and enjoy my work to the full. My recrea- tions are golf, billiards, theatre, bridge, and motoring. My vacations have taken the form of motor trips all over the eastern part of the country, with a few congenial medical colleagues. My accomplishments are few, — my aims high. No work in life is so satisfactory as that of a physician, — no profession offers such rewards or has higher ideals. My health is excellent, my friends many, my work always interesting, — what more can a graduate of twenty-five years wish?" Irwin Boyle Laughlin Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy, London, England Business address, care Department of State, Washington, D. C. Home address, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Laughlin is the eldest of the three sons of George McCully and Isabel Bowman (McKennan) Laughlin, who were married November 16, 1865. The other sons are George McCully Laughlin, Yale ex-'g$ S., and Thomas McKennan Laughlin, '97 s. (died March 11, 1910, in Pittsburgh). George M. Laughlin, Sr. (born October 21, 1842, in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania; died in that city December 8, 1908), was of Scotch-Irish ancestry ; his father, James Laughlin, came from Ulster to Bal- timore, Maryland, about 1830. He entered Washington and Jefferson College but left on the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion to volunteer as a private. He was later commissioned a 2d Lieutenant of the 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers, served on Major General Griffin's staff as Captain until the end of the war when he was brevetted Major. He was a steel manufacturer and a director in many banks and trust companies. Mrs. Laughlin (born October 10, 1843, in Washington, Pennsylvania; died December 5, 1891, in New York City) was descended from Scotch and French ancestors. Her first American ancestor BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 285 (Rev. James McKennan) came from Barbadoes, West Indies, to the Brick Church, New Jersey, before 1750. His son, William IRWIN B. LAUGHLIN McKennan, was a Captain in the Continental Army during the Revolution and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Irwin B. Laughlin was born April 26, 1871, in Pittsburgh, and was prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. In college he received colloquies in Junior and Senior years, was an associate editor of the News and chairman of the Board in Senior year, and a member of the University Club, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. He spent the year following graduation in a trip around the world, and then, from 1894 to 1897, was with the Jones & Laugh- lin Steel Company. In 1897-98 he studied French at Tours and in the winter of 1898-99 traveled in the Orient again. From 1899 to 1903 he was treasurer of the steel company. In November, 1903, he began his diplomatic career and the following catalogue of his appointments suggests a varied experience : November, 1903, appointed private secretary to the United States Minister to Japan, at Tokio ; January, 1905, advanced to second secretary 286 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE of Legation; June, 1906, appointed second secretary of Legation and Consul General at Bangkok, Siam; March to September, 1907, acting first secretary at Peking; June, 1907, appointed second secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg (Petrograd) ; September, 1908, transferred to Athens as first secretary of Legation ; August, 1909, advanced to second secretary of Embassy, Paris; December, 1909, first secretary of Embassy, Berlin; October to November, 1910, secretary, special Embassy to Sultan of Turkey; June to October, 191 1, charge d'affaires at Berlin; September, 1912, advanced to first secretary of Embassy at London; December 15, 1912, to May 24, 1913, and July to October, 1916, charge d'affaires at London; July 17, 1916, appointed by the President to be counsellor of Embassy at London. He was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun (fourth class) "as an expression of his high appreciation of the services rendered to Japan during the recent war between Japan and Russia." He belongs to the Episcopal Church and from 1910 to 1912 was chairman of the Church Committee of St. George's Church in Berlin. He is a member of the following: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Golf clubs; Union, University, and Knicker- bocker clubs (New York) ; Metropolitan Club (Washington) ; St. James' and Turf clubs (London). He was married September 18, 191 2, in New Rochelle, New York, to Therese, daughter of Adrian and Louise (Caylus) Iselin. They have a daughter, Gertrude Louise Isabel, born December 11, 1914, in London, and a son, Alexander George Adrian, born April 11, 1918, in Reigate, Surrey. Laughlin says : "Since August, 1914, I have had only one thought ; the one that now fills the minds of all of us." *Burton Emerson Leavitt Died November 19, 1912 Leavitt was the son of Nason W. and Jennie (Martin) Leavitt. His father was a traveling salesman and later a teacher of music in the public schools of Willimantic, Connecticut. Burton E. Leavitt was born October 13, 1871, in Scotland, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 287 Connecticut, and was prepared for Yale in the Willimantic High School. Before entering college he composed an opera, "The Frogs of Windham," based on a local tradition, which was presented under his direction in nearly all the cities and large towns of Connecticut. In spite of frequent necessary absences from college to con- duct these performances, he received a second colloquy Junior and a first colloquy Senior appointment. After graduation he con- tinued his study of music under Dr. Stoeckel, and re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1894, when that degree was first awarded. The popularity of "The Frogs of Windham" induced him to compose six other operas, all founded on local legends and introducing In- dian characters, and he de- voted much of his time to producing these operas throughout New England. He wrote many songs, "The Factory to the Potter's Field," on the child labor problem, which created quite a sensation, being the best known ; published two books, "The Music of the Lake" and "Songs of Protest"; and nearly completed a Biblical opera, "Tea-Tephi." He directed historical pageants at Norwich and New London, Connecticut, in commemoration of the settlement of those places, and wrote the band music for the various scenes. In each of these pageants over 1,000 people took part. In 1906 he was nominated on the Socialist ticket for Congress- man-at-large from Connecticut, and during the last four years of his life edited Our Race Quarterly, a magazine founded by Charles A. L. Totten who was in charge of the military instruc- tion at Yale from 1889 to 1892. He died of sarcoma, November 19, 191 2, in Putnam, Connecticut. He was unmarried. BURTON E. LEAVITT CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ^Frederick Merwin Lloyd Died May 13, 1905 Lloyd, only son of Samuel and Josephine (Merwin) Lloyd, was born March 23, 1871, in New Haven, Connecticut, where his father was for many years cashier of the City Bank. After graduating at the Hill j house High School he was with Stoddard, Kimberly and Company for a year. In col- lege he received a first dispute appointment both Junior and Senior years, was an editor of the Yale Daily News, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In January, 1894, he en- tered the office of the Security Insurance Company of New Haven as clerk. Later he was made special agent for New England, and from Jan- uary, 1904, until his death, which occurred May 13, 1905, he had been assistant secre- tary of this company. He was married June 6, 1901, to Bertha Frances Herrick, B.A. Smith 1896, daughter of Dwight S. and Frances S. Her- rick of Peekskill, New York. His sister, Edith Merwin Lloyd, who married Charles Ailing Tuttle, Ph.B. 1888, M.D. 1890, died November 9, 1907. FREDERICK M. LLOYD Arthur Power Lord Divisional Secretary, Knights of Columbus, Paris, France Address, care of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, Paris, France Arthur P. Lord, the son of George Washington Taylor Lord, was born October 22, 1868, in New York City. In college he received second colloquy appointments both Junior and Senior BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 289 years, and was a member of the University Club and of Alpha Delta Phi. From 1893 to 1898 he studied art in Paris, France, having received his M.A. degree at Yale in 1896. The year 1898- 1899 was spent in graduate work at Yale, for which he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1899. He then returned to Paris, where he remained until 1903, when he returned to New York. While in France he acted as agent of the University Library, purchasing with University funds necessary books for different departments. He has also made generous gifts to the Univer- sity Library of books necessary to make the department of French History complete. In 1904 he reorganized the Athens Knitting Company, and in 1905 was elected vice-president of the company. He was from 1907-1908 vice-president of the Morri- son Oil Company, treasurer of the Seneca Falls Woolen Com- pany, and in September, 1907, was appointed general manager, Eastern Division, of the In- dian Refining Company, with offices in New York City. In September, 1907, he was also appointed president of the Bridgeport Oil Company. On July 1, 1907, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in connec- tion with his duties with the Indian Refining Company; but early in 1909 he returned to New York City as eastern and foreign manager of this company, and in May of that year moved to Paris, to take charge of the company's foreign headquarters. In 191 1 he was appointed assist- ant to the president, and re- turned to New York City, but continued to direct the foreign business of the company. He resigned in 191 2, and has since been living in Paris, representing the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, of which he was appointed assistant to the vice-president in January, 191 3. ARTHUR P. LORD 2 9 o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE During the war he has been actively engaged in caring for the business affairs of French friends serving at the front and as Divisional Secretary of the Knights of Columbus. In 1896 he published a sketch of Frederick the Great, and in 1899, "Regency of Marie de Medicis," Henry Holt and Com- pany, New York. He was married February 8, 1897, in San Francisco, to Marion, daughter of Andrew Anderson Louderback of San Francisco, California. A son, Arthur Andrew Lord, born November 20, 1897, after completing his education at Eton, came to New York City for a period of training in the Guar- anty Trust Company, and is now occupying a position of respon- sibility in the Paris office of that company. Irving Phillips Lyon Major, Medical Corps, Chief of Medical Service, Base Hospital, Camp Upton Physician, 531 Franklin Street, Buffalo, New York Lyon is a son of Irving Whitall and Mary Elizabeth (Tucker) Lyon, who were married in 1866 and had two other children: Charles Woolsey Lyon, ^r-1895 S., and Mrs. Chester B. Albree. Of English descent on both sides, the paternal line traces its ances- try to Thomas Lyon, who settled at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1647. Irving W. Lyon (born October 18, 1840, in Bedford, New York; died March 4, 1896, in Hartford, Connecticut) was gradu- ated from the University of Vermont in 1862 with the degree of M.D. and received a like degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1863. He was an acting assistant sur- geon in the U. S. Army in 1862 and from 1864 until his death practiced his profession in Hartford. For thirty years he was medical director of the Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance Company. In 1891 he published a book on "The Colonial Fur- niture of New England." His wife was born September 12, 1838, in New York City, and died May 1, 191 2, in Buffalo, New York. Irving P. Lyon was born January 12, 1870, in Hartford, Con- necticut, and was prepared at the Hartford Public High School. He was a member of the Yale Union, received a high oration Junior and an oration Senior appointment, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 291 He pursued his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and received the degree of M.D. in 1897, in the previous summer having been appointed bacteriologist and pathologist at Wilson Sanitarium, Baltimore. The summer of 1895 was spent in travel IRVING P. LVOX abroad and that of 1897 in study in Germany. He served on the house staff at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1897-98 and in Decem- ber, 1898, opened an office in Buffalo. In 1899 ne was appointed to the faculty of the University of Buffalo, as instructor in medi- cine, serving in this capacity until 1907, when he was made lecturer on clinical medicine; since 1914 he has been assistant professor of medicine. From 1910 to 1916 he was assistant attending physi- cian to the Buffalo General Hospital ; since 1916 he has ranked as attending physician. He was commissioned a Major in the Medical Corps on June 27, 1918, and began his active service at the Base Hospital, Camp Upton, July 10, 1918, being assigned as assistant to the Chief of Medical Service. He became Chief of Medical Service on August 14, was later attached to Overseas Base Hospital No. 154 and was awaiting orders for foreign service when hos- tilities ceased, and on December 2 was ordered to resume his duties at Camp Upton. 292 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He has contributed about twenty-five articles on medical sub- jects in various medical journals and textbooks. Among recent works published are the chapters on "Diseases of the Spleen," in Osier's "Modern Medicine," first edition, 1908; second edition, 191 5. Among the medical societies to which he belongs are the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Amer- ican Medical Association, New York State Medical Society, Erie County Medical Society, and the Buffalo Academy of Medicine. He is an Independent in politics. He is a member of the Uni- versity Club of Buffalo. He was married October 23, 1900, in New York City, to Kate Parker, daughter of Hervey W. Lathrop, deceased, formerly president of the Cotton Exchange of Savannah, and Anna (Kinsley) Lathrop. They have had three children, all born in Buffalo: Kate Lathrop, born October 9, 1901, and died October 23, 1901 ; Mary Phillips, born December 20, 1903, and Kate Lathrop, born August 1, 1908. They are attending the Frank- lin School, Buffalo. *William James McKenna Died December 18, 1896 William J. McKenna, the son of Francis McKenna, was born February 9, 1870, in Westboro, Massachusetts, where he attended the high school. In both Junior and Senior years he received a first dispute appointment. After graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, where he remained until the spring of 1895, when he went to Colorado because of ill health. The change did not benefit him, so in July, 1896, he returned to Westboro, Massachusetts, where he died of tuberculosis, December 18, 1896. WILLIAM J. MC KENNA He was unmarried. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 2 93 Stuart McKnight With Charles Chreste & Company, real estate, 431 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky Residence, 1518 Third Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky McKnight is a son of William Henry and Attia (Porter) McKnight, who were married December 1, 1869, and had four other children: Henry Porter McKnight, Ph.B. Yale 1890; STUART MC KNIGHT Elizabeth (died January 3, 1904, in Rochester, New York) ; Viola (McKnight) Miller, and Lucille Lowry (McKnight) Bowmen The father (born August 4, 1826, near Bedford, Indiana; died December 17, 1916, in Louisville, Kentucky) was the son of Samuel Stuart McKnight, who was born in 1772, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, his parents having emigrated from Scotland. He pursued his studies under the direction of his father, a teacher, and then attended the Bedford (Indiana) Seminary. In 1853 ne entered the drygoods business in New Albany, Indiana, under the name of McKnight & Webber; in 1863 the firm established a branch house on the opposite side of the Ohio River, at Louisville, and Mr. McKnight, after the dis- 294 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE solution of the partnership the same year, continued the new store, confining the business to carpets. Mrs. McKnight, who was born February 27, 1847, m Corydon, Indiana, and died September 5, 1917, in Louisville, was the daughter of William A. Porter. His parents came from Omagh, Ireland ; after com- pleting his education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, he taught in the Corydon School. His daughter was a graduate of Glendale Female College, Glendale, Ohio. Stuart McKnight was born December 22, 1871, in Louisville, and attended J. W. Chenault's private school in that city. He was graduated from the University of Louisville in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in January, 1896, and to the firm of W. H. McKnight Sons & Company, carpet dealers, having been associated with this company since 1893. In 1902, upon the incorporation of this firm he was elected secretary and in 1908 treasurer. In 191 1, owing to his ill health, it became necessary to close out the business and he then engaged in the real estate and insurance business, and in 1913 was elected president of the Buy and Sell Company, real estate. Since March 1, 1918, he has also been associated with Charles Chreste & Company, real estate, in Louisville. For several years he served as secretary of the Yale Alumni Association of Kentucky. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has not married. He writes : "Am planning to purchase a small place in the country and move into it some time next year. "Am at present seeking a Government position in the Internal Revenue Office in Louisville, as I am anxious to serve my country in these strenuous days of war and have much time to devote to Government service. "Am my own chauffeur and stenographer." William Maffitt Vice-president of the Mercantile Trust Company, St. Louis, Missouri Residence, 4409 West Pine Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri Maffitt is a son of Pierre Chouteau and Mary Isabella (Skinker) Maffitt, who were married August 26, 1868, and had BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 295 four other children: Thomas Skinker Maffitt, B.A. Yale 1899; Julia Chouteau (Maffitt) Keiser; Jane Maffitt (died April 10, 1890), and Pierre Chouteau Maffitt, Jr. (died July 25, 1883). Mr. Maffitt was born September 3, 1845, in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Washington University. He was vice- president of the Iron Moun- tain (Mining) Company from 1870 to 1881, and president of the Missouri Railroad Com- pany until 1897 when he re- tired from active business. His first American ancestor came from England to Upper Norfolk, Virginia, in 1635 ; his father was a combination of Scotch-Irish and English; his mother was French. Mrs. Maffitt was born April 17, 1847, m St. Louis, and is of English, Welsh, and Irish an- cestry; the first one came to Virginia from England in 1620. William Maffitt was born August 15, 1869, in St. Louis, and was prepared at Smith Academy in that city and at the Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire. In college he was president of the University Football Association and a mem- ber of Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Wolf's Head. He was engaged in street railroad work in St. Louis for one year and was a superintendent in the Union Stock Yards for two years. In 1900 he became assistant treasurer of the Mer- cantile Trust Company, in 1905 treasurer, and in 1908 vice- president. The following year he was elected to the same office in the Mercantile National Bank which, on February 5, 1918, was absorbed by the Mercantile Trust Company. He is also a director and officer in several other corporations, but is not active. In politics he is Independent, with Democratic leanings. He is treasurer and a director of St. Luke's Hospital, and a vestry- man in the Church of the Holy Communion (Episcopal). WILLIAM MAFFITT 296 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He is a member of the St. Louis, Racquet, Country, and Noon- day clubs of St. Louis, the University of New York, Graduates of New Haven, and Tuna of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California. In 191 1 and 1912 he was president of the Yale Alumni Association of St. Louis. He was married January 28, 1902, in St. Louis, to Ellen Humphreys, daughter of Julius Sylvester Walsh, chairman of the Board of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, St. Louis, and Josephine (Dickson) Walsh. They have had two boys, both of whom died in infancy. ARTHUR J. MARTIN Arthur James Martin Partner in the firm of Maguire & Martin, lawyers, 200 West Seventy-second Street, New York City Residence, 154 Jewett Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey Martin is a son of James Frazer and Sarah (Northrup) Martin, who were married November 22, 1855, and had two other children, daughters: Margaret (Martin) Roe and Mary (Martin) Burckett. The father (born January II, 1836, in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 297 Wantage Township, New Jersey, and died there December 16, 1 891) was a flour and feed merchant in Newark, New Jersey, from 1856 to 1868, when he returned to his native town where he resided the rest of his life and was engaged in farming. He was a descendant of John Martin, born in 1620 at Devon- shire, England, who settled in 1634 in the plantation of Dover on the Piscataway River, Massachusetts Bay Colony, under the patronage of Gorges and Mason of the Plymouth Colony; in 1666 he removed his family to what was later named Piscataway, New Jersey, after sixty families had removed there from Dover and he, with two others, had received a grant of the 60,000 acres of that settlement ; he died there in 1685. The mother (born January 21, 1835, in Wantage Township and died there Novem- ber 5, 1901) was a descendant of Joseph Northrup, born in York- shire, England, who was one of the Eaton and Davenport Com- pany on the ship Hester and Martha in 1637, wno settled at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638. Arthur J. Martin was born October 23, 1872, in Wantage Township, New Jersey, and was prepared for college at a private school. He received a first dispute Junior and a dissertation Senior appointment. He received the degree of LL.B. at the New York Law School in 1895 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1896, since which time he has practiced in New York City. He is now a member of the firm of Maguire & Martin. He is a Democrat. He is a member of the Summit Avenue Baptist Church of Jersey City. He belongs to the Hudson County University Club. He was married April 26, 191 o, in Jersey City, to Emily E., daughter of Louis Jones Apgar, merchant and member of the New York Stock Exchange, and Sarah Peck (Patterson) Apgar. They have one son: Arthur James, Jr., born November 21, 191 1. *George Greene Martin Died February 24, 1907 George G. Martin, the son of George Martin, a grain mer- chant, and Lorinda Isabella (Greene) Martin, was born February 22, 1 87 1, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but in early life moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he prepared for Yale at Smith 2 9 8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Academy. In college he received a second dispute appointment, both as a Junior and at Commencement and was a member of the Senior Promenade Committee, the University Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. After graduation he spent a year with the National Bank of Commerce in St. Louis, and the next year in the employ of the United States Internal Revenue Department. He was also a student at the St. Louis Law School, 1894- 95. In 1895 he entered the service of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Com j pany at Indianapolis, Indiana ; was manager of this com- pany's long-distance tele- phone system at St. Louis, Missouri, from 1895 to 1899; and was appointed superin- tendent of the company's Arkansas and Texas division, located at Little Rock, Arkan- sas, in October, 1899, a posi- tion which ill health forced him to resign in 1906. He died of tuberculosis in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, February 24, 1907. He was unmarried. GEORGE G. MARTIN Walter Rumsey Marvin Vice-president of the National Biscuit Company, 409 West Fifteenth Street, New York City Residence, 701 Madison Avenue, New York City Our classmate's father, Sylvester Stephen Marvin, was born November 18, 1841, in Monroe County, New York, and after two years in the Union Army conducted the business of S. S. Marvin & Company (1863- 1898), since which time he has been a director of the National Biscuit Company. He is also a director of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 299 Union National Bank of Philadelphia. On September 21, 1870, he married Matilda Earle Rumsey, and had two sons, Walter and Earle R. Marvin, Yale £^-'96 S. He was married a second time May 27, 1897, to Edith, daughter of William Henry and Margaret (Rumsey) Bonnett. Walter's mother was born February 7, 1847, m Eastchester, New York, and died January 24, 1895, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father's ancestors came from England and settled on Long Island ; her mother's from England and Holland and settled in New York City. The first Marvin ancestor in this country was Matthew, who came from England and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1635. Walter Marvin was born August 7, 1872, in Allegheny, Penn- sylvania, and was prepared at Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh. In college he received dispute appointments and was a member of the University Club and Psi Upsilon. Upon its formation he was elected to the Elihu Club. WALTER R. MARVIN He has been connected with the National Biscuit Company or its predecessors since graduation, and now holds the position of vice-president. He holds the same office in the Pennsylvania Chocolate Company. 3 oo CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He is an Independent Republican. He is a director of the New Rochelle Hospital and junior warden of Trinity Church, New Rochelle. From 1901 to 1906 he was a private in Squadron A, New York National Guard. He belongs to the Yale Club of New York and to the Country Club of Westchester. He was married June 13, 1899, at Blue Ridge Summit, Penn- sylvania, to Julia Armstrong, daughter of William Armstrong Collins, a journalist, and Eliza Leet (Shields) Collins. They have two children: Walter Rumsey, Jr., born August 15, 1900, who is attending St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and Judith Huntington, born October 19, 1903, who is attending Miss Spence's School, New York. Marvin writes : "Possibly the two most important ideas which some of us took away from college were the watchword of Socrates, 'awcfrpoavvr],' and the fact that the world is so full of a number of things. The importance of the first idea is universally recognized. It has led me to hold in check an inherited ten- dency toward embonpoint, to live outdoors as much as possible, to walk, to ride horseback, to play tennis and golf, sail a boat, shoot a gun; to take part in various activities of a public or semi- public nature 'not gainful.' The second idea has been the open sesame to some of the most delightful experiences imaginable. Fortunately for us, the rising tide of philistinism, now happily in its ebb, had not reached its flood in 1893, and many men took home with them a taste for knowledge for its own sake, or for the fun of knowing things and a power to see, even if through a glass darkly, the possibility of continuing one's education through the coming years. Happy are those men who brought this vision away with them. Those fellows who collect books, prints, who have cultivated their taste for music, who have studied the history of peoples and of their arts, and possibly most of all those who lay out flower gardens in color schemes in which work, with critical eye and just sense of proportion, friend wife collaborates, these I say are realizing the fruits of their zest for study acquired at college. These are the men who discovered that the world is so full of a number of things. It is to be regretted that in addition to a 'required' knowledge of Kant, there was not also required at least a bowing acquaintance with 'the late M. Angelo' and some of his distinguished contempo- raries. Had we been taught that he was a great scientist, engi- neer, and architect, some of us might have been more interested BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 301 in the painter of the Sistine Chapel. But that would have been asking a great deal, or as we are supposed to say nowadays, a large order. "Those of us who were fortunate enough to have visited Europe before the storm broke remember the thrills we expe- rienced in finding that the things we had read about were real and not dreams, and we learned then by personal experience what Berensen meant when he spoke of a 'sense of well-being , when one beheld a masterpiece. Of the other things that have made life livable during twenty-five years, the gradual acquire- ment of a degree of economic independence, watching one's children grow and develop, most of us, fortunately, have experienced. "Whatever the future may have in store for us and our beloved country, whatever valleys of shadow we may be called upon to pass through, we shall always have the solace of the tranquil pleasures of the mind which neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and which thieves do not break through nor steal, as men in all ages have found out before us." Edward Thomson Mathison Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Rockville, Connecticut Mathison is a son of Robert Lauder and Catherine Susan (Roberts) Mathison, who were married June 11, 1862, and had six other children: Robert Nash Mathison (died September 7, 1878) ; Charlotte Elizabeth (born and died July 12, 1865) ; Sarah Matilda Ames (Mathison) Eliot (died September 7, 191 5) ; Frederic Huntington Mathison, Yale '96 (died August 24, 1906) ; Nellie Roberts (Mathison) Geren, and Isabella Selwyn (Mathi- son) Stewart, Mount Holyoke '03. The father (born June 20, 1838, in Middletown, Connecticut) was graduated at Wesleyan University in i860 and was a Methodist itinerant minister. His parents were Robert Mathison, B.A. Wesleyan 1840, M.D. New York University 1848, a druggist, and Rebecca Desborough. Peter Disbro, from whom his mother was descended, settled in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1668. Catherine (Roberts) Mathi- son (born May 17, 1842, in Granby, Connecticut; died May 3, 1917, in Guilford, Connecticut) was the daughter of John Eno 302 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Roberts, a merchant, and Deborah (Blakeslee) Roberts. Mrs. Mathison's father fought in the Mexican War and her grand- father and great-grandfather in the Revolution. Her grand- father was mustered out of service at the close of the war, — the youngest soldier from the state of Connecticut. EDWARD T. MATHISON Edward T. Mathison was born June 21, 1870, in Old Town, Maine, and was prepared at Guilford Institute and attended Washington and Jefferson College before entering Yale. He received a first dispute Senior appointment in college. Following his graduation from Yale he entered the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, where he was graduated in 1895, and ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was rector at Marbledale, Connecticut, 1895-1896; at Ansonia, 1896-1900, and of St. Michael's Church, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1900-1907. In April, 1907, he moved to Massillon, Ohio, to become rector of St. Timothy's Church, and in October, 1910, went to Grace Church, Oak Park, Illinois, the second largest Episcopal church in the state. On March 31, 191 3, he was elected associate rector of Shattuck School, Faribault, Minnesota, assuming his duties on BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 303 August 1. He resigned in September, 1914, and since September, 191 5, has been rector of St. John's Church, Rockville, Con- necticut. In politics he is a Republican. He was chairman of the Muni- cipal Christmas Tree Association, 1916 and 1917, president of the municipal playgrounds of Rockville in 191 7, and has served as chairman of the Rockville War Bureau since 19 17. He was chairman of the second Red Cross War Fund drive for Tolland County. He is secretary of Fayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He was married February 16, 1898, in Ansonia, Connecticut, to Elizabeth Hull, daughter of Frederic Erastus Colburn, a real estate dealer, and Flora Ann (Smith) Colburn. They have five children : Flora Annette, born December 24, 1898; Catharine, born January 21, 1900; Elizabeth, born June 16, 1901 ; Robert Edward, born January 26, 1903, and Frederic Huntington, born April 23, 1907. Alfred Kindred Merritt Registrar of Yale College Office, Connecticut Hall Residence, 145 Canner Street, New Haven, Connecticut Merritt is a son of Munson Lyman and Cornelia Jane (Kin- dred) Merritt, who were married in 1861, and had four other children: Minnie Eunice (died in 1903) ; Nellie Katharine (Mrs, B. A. Strawbridge) ; Florene Greenwood, and George Munson Merritt. The two daughters who are living are graduates of the Minnesota State Normal School. Munson L. Merritt (born April 10, 1837, in Morris County, New Jersey; died in 1896 in Dover, New Jersey) was a building contractor who spent most of his life in Newark, New Jersey, and Brainerd, Minnesota. Mrs. Merritt was born February 3, 1842, in Cliffwood Valley, New Jersey, and died December 19, 1906, in Brainerd, Minnesota. Her father was descended from a French soldier who came with Lafayette to fight in the Revolution ; her mother was of English ancestry. Alfred K. Merritt was born November 25, 1866, in Weldon, New Jersey, and was prepared at Shattuck School, Faribault, 3°4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Minnesota. He was a substitute on the Freshman Baseball Team, was the Waterman Scholar in Junior year, received an oration Senior appointment, a second TenEyck Prize, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Wolf's Head. ALFRED K. MERRITT He has served as registrar of Yale College since 1893. In politics a Republican, he acknowledges that he "roots" for Wilson. He is a member of Trinity Methodist Church. He belongs to the Graduates Club and to the New Haven Country Club. He was married January 24, 1904, in New York City, to Nettie L., daughter of Rufus Bartlett and Henrietta Grace (Monson) Hoyt. They have had one son, Alfred Kindred, Jr., born Decem- ber 30, 1904, in New Haven, and died June 1 1, 1918, in New Haven. Merritt writes : "During the season golf is my chief recrea- tion ; varied this year for several weeks by sawing good hickory logs into stove wood, to help save the coal — which we could not get." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3°5 Charles William Mills President of the Climax Coal Company, 1210 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 904 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware Residence, 605 Phil-Ellena Street, Germantown, Pennsylvania Mills is the son of William B. and Alice O. (Havens) Mills. His grandfather was one of three brothers who came to New England from Kent County, England, and went with the western movement from Connecticut to central New York State, settling in Cayuga County. W. B. Mills (born August 26, 1836, in Memphis, New York; died November 30, 1890, in Denver, Colorado) attended Syracuse University, afterwards studied law and for many years was judge of the Circuit Court at Auburn, New York. In 1872 he moved to Colorado and practiced law in CHARLES W. MILLS Denver until his death. Mrs. Mills (born in Weedsport, New York, October 21, 1842; died November 20, 1900) was the daughter of Dexter C. and Mary Purple Havens, and sister of James S. Havens, B.A. Yale 1884. 3 o6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Charles W. Mills was born August 27, 1870, in Westport, New York, and was prepared at the Harrington School, West- chester, New York. In college he played on the Freshman Foot- ball Team and rowed on the Freshman Crew; was a substitute on the University Football Team in Sophomore and Junior years, a substitute on the University Crew in Sophomore year, a Class Historian, and a member of the Yale Union, the University Club, and Psi Upsilon. From 1893 to 1898 he was engaged in banking and manufac- turing in Denver, Colorado, and then for four years was special agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, in January, 1901, removing to Alameda, California. In Novem- ber, 1902, he became manager for California of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of San Francisco, but in 1904 went to New York City as inspector of agencies for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York. The next year he was general agent for greater New York of the Union Central Life Insurance Company. In 1906, after several months in France and Belgium studying coal mines and explosives, he was engaged in the manufacture of blast powder at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and was seriously injured in an explosion of the powder mill. After his recovery he was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association of Cen- tral Pennsylvania at Clearfield, in 1907 the offices being moved to Philadelphia. In January, 191 1, he resigned to become iden- tified with the Climax Coal Company, which operates two mines in Central Pennsylvania, the office headquarters being in Philadel- phia. In 1914 he was elected president and since 191 5 he has devoted his entire time to the management of this company and other interests. He is a director of the Fostoria Oil Company, the United Oil and Fuel Company, and director and general manager of the Ball Grain Explosives Company of Wilmington, Delaware. In June, 1914, he was appointed by the Secretary of Labor as a member of the Board of Conciliators which settled a serious strike in the Kanawha Coal Fields in West Virginia, and one of the employees of the Westinghouse Company, Pittsburgh. On appointment by President Wilson in December, 191 4, he acted for the Government in an effort to prevent further conflict between the coal operators and miners in Colorado. On October 9, 1915* the Secretary of Labor named him as federal conciliator to adjust BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3°7 the strike of machinists in jobbing shops in Pittsburgh, and on July 31, 1916, member of the commission to adjust questions in the dispute between the New York garment workers and their employers. In politics he is a Republican. He was married December 6, 1893, in Stamford, Connecticut, to Elizabeth Davenport, daughter of Charles Burrall, of Stam- ford, Connecticut. They have two daughters : Louise Ritch, born February 27, 1895, and Mary Havens, born May 10, 1904. GEORGE E. MILLS George Edward Mills Lawyer, 714-715 Mercantile Library Building, Cincinnati, Ohio Residence, 2472 Observatory Road, Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio Mills is a son of Edward and Henrietta (Flinn) Mills, who were married January 20, 1869, and had two other children, daughters: Alice (Mills) Cadwallader and Clara (Mills) Rey- nolds. The father (born November 28, 1837, m Norwood, Ohio) is a retired farmer. For fourteen years he served on the School Board of Sharpsburg, Ohio, and was the first president of the 3 o8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Norwood National Bank. He is of English ancestry ; his grand- father, Abner Mills, lived in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and removed to Ohio in 1798, settling in a place near Cincinnati now known as Norwood, formerly Sharpsburg. Mrs. Mills was born in Indian Hill, Ohio, on November 29, 1841. George E. Mills was born October 23, 1869, m Norwood, and was prepared at the Woodward High and Franklin Schools in Cincinnati. He received a dissertation Junior and an oration Senior appointment, won the Scott Prize in French in 1893, and was a member of Zeta Psi. In June, 1895, he was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School with honors and was admitted to the Ohio Bar. He has since practiced in Cincinnati, from February, 1901, to March, 1905, as a member of the firm of Coffey, Mallon, Mills & Vordenberg. For one year he served as first vice-president of the Norwood Savings Bank & Trust Company, and since 1907 he has been a director of the Norwood National Bank. He is a Democrat. From 1895 to 1901 he was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Sewers, and, from 1901 to 1905, Mayor of Norwood. He was treasurer of the Democratic Cam- paign Committee, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1902, and a can- didate for presidential elector in 1904. He is a permanent member of the Legal Advisory Board to County Draft Board No. 1, Hamilton County, Ohio; a four-minute man serving under the direction of the Committee on Public Information, and a member of the Joint Defense Council, Red Cross Legal Sub- Committee for Hamilton County, Ohio. He is a member of the Norwood Presbyterian Church and from 1895 to 1900 was treasurer. He was a member of the Cin- cinnati Literary Club from 1895 to 191 5, and a director of the Duckworth Democratic Club (1902) and is a member of the Hyde Park Business Men's Club, Hyde Park Masonic Club, Nor- wood Lodge, F. and A. M. ; Scottish Rite Mason, Syrian Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Kirkup Lodge, I. O. O. F., Yale, University, and Cincinnati Golf clubs. He was married October 19, 1904, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mar- cia Olive, daughter of N. Ashley Lloyd, a manufacturing phar- macist, and Olive (Gardner) Lloyd. Mrs. Mills attended Wellesley College for one year. Their children are : May Lloyd, born December 28, 1905 ; Edward Lloyd, born May 19, 1907, and Olive Lloyd, born December 30, 191 2. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3°9 Franklin Arthur. Moore 55 Edmund Place, Detroit, Michigan Franklin A. Moore was born September 16, 1870, in Detroit, Michigan. He was prepared in Worcester, Mas- sachusetts, and at Phillips Academy, Andover. In col- lege he received a colloquy Junior appointment. After graduation he trav- eled around the world and spent the year 1895-96 in Europe. He was president of the Merchants' Truck Company, Detroit, in 1897-98. So far as known he has not since been connected with any company. FRANKLIN A. MOORE John Stanley Moore Assistant to the Director, War Board of the American Electric Railway Association, Washington, D. C. Residence, 915 James Street, Syracuse, New York Moore is a son of Jerome B. and Elizabeth (Huyck) Moore, who were married June 12, 1865, and had one other son, Ernest C. Moore, ex-'g6. The father (born April 28, 1830, in Rensselaer-' ville, New York; died October 17, 1891, in Syracuse, New York) was engaged in the wholesale drug business in Syracuse after 1866. He was of English ancestry. The mother (born July 8, 1840, in Rensselaerville) is of Dutch ancestry; she attended Ontario Female Seminary at Canandaigua, New York. John S. Moore was born January 16, 1870, in Syracuse, New York, and was prepared at The Hill School, Pottstown, Penn- sylvania. He was editor of the C our ant, served on the Ivy Com- mittee, and was a member of the University Club, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head. 3io CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE The year after graduation he spent in Europe. From 1894 to 1898 he was with Sanderson Brothers Steel Company in Syra- cuse, and from 1898 to 1900 he was ranching in Texas. During 1900 he was secretary of the National Mercantile Agency, New York City. From 1900 to 1909 he was engaged in farm- ing in Skaneateles, New York, and during this time was water inspector of Skaneat- eles Lake and a trustee of the School of Onondaga County. In 1909 he was appointed general passenger agent of the Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern (Electric) Railway: the Auburn & Syracuse Elec- tric Railway; the Syracuse, Lake Shore & Northern (Electric) Railway; the Syra- cuse & South Bay Electric Railway, and the Auburn & Northern Electric Railway, with headquarters in Syra- cuse. In 191 5 he was appointed military secretary to Governor Whitman and now holds the commission of Major in the reserve list of the New York National Guard. In August, 191 7, he served as executive secretary to District Draft Board No. 3, New York State ; in November was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, 3d Regiment, New York Guard, and in December went to Wash- ington as assistant to the director of the War Board of the American Electric Railway Association and as an assistant to the Fuel Administrator. He is a Republican. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has not married. J. STANLEY MOORE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3 11 John Hill Morgan Partner in the firm of Rumsey & Morgan, 20 Exchange Place, New York City, and 166 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York Residence, 14 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, New York Morgan's parents, who were married June 4, 1866, had one other son, Lancaster Morgan, Ph.B. Columbia 1888. James Lan- caster Morgan, the father (born May 20, 1845, in New York City), was seventh in descent from Charles Morgan, who pur- chased a house in New Amsterdam April 30, 1652, from Francis Doughty, the original patentee, on what is now Bowling Green. Charles Morgan was a Welshman and his house is shown on the Costello plan of New Amsterdam as Lot 5 in Block H, known as Stuyvesant's Hoeck. Mr. Morgan was a partner in the James L. Morgan Company from 1866 to 1898 when it was absorbed by JOHN H. MORGAN the General Chemical Company, of which he was treasurer until 1914. He is now vice-president and a director as well as a direc- tor of several banks. For forty years (1870-1910) he was a director of the Market & Fulton Bank. His wife, Alice M. Hill 3 i2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE (born September 10, 1845, in Albany, New York), is fourth in descent from John Hill of Philadelphia, a tobacco factor. John Hill Morgan was l>orn June 30, 1870, in Brooklyn, New York, and was prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He was an editor and business manager of the Record, Class Historian, and a member of the University Club, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head. Previous publications of the Class have related in detail Mor- gan's work to 1914. In 1917 Governor Whitman offered him an appointment as Judge of the County Court to succeed Mayor John F. Hylan, but he preferred to continue in active practice and in December, 191 7, he formed a partnership with David Rum- sey, William A. Lockwood (Williams '96), Leroy A. Lincoln (Yale '02), and Richmond Lennox Brown (Yale '07), under the name Rumsey & Morgan. He is a trustee of the Franklin Safe Deposit Company. He is a member of the executive committee of the New York State Bar Association, has been designated by the Governor to represent the Provost Marshal on draft appeals, and was a mem- ber of Mayor Mitchell's Defense Committee. He is a trustee and secretary of the Brooklyn Public Library, a trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and on the Governing Committee of its Museums, and a trustee of the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society. He serves as chairman of the Men's Association of Grace Episcopal Church. As a member of the 5th Battery, Veteran Corps of Artillery, he saw active service guarding the New York Aqueduct. On the reorganization of the Guard effective October 1, 19 17, he became a member of the Machine Gun Company, 23d Regiment, New York Guard. He belongs to the University, Hamilton, and Rembrandt clubs. He was married November 10, 1903, in Richmond, Virginia, to Lelia Augusta, daughter of Major William Barksdale Myers, a lawyer and portrait painter, and Martha West (Paul) Myers. They have one daughter: Lelia Adela Pegram, born May 30, 1907. Morgan writes : "Every boy worth his salt visualizes his future and as I left college my ambitions did not then appear so immod- est as they now seem. As far as I can remember they were: to be admitted to the bar as soon as possible, rise to be a leader in my profession in the space of a few years, and retire when BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3*3 I approached fifty to my extensive country estate (still in Spain) with a comfortable fortune, surfeited with honors ; to spend what I then considered my old age (i. e., fifty to about seventy-five or eighty with eighty preferred) in thought, reflection, and in giving audiences to delegations of my faithful people who would come to consult the seer, until finally I passed away surrounded by a score or two of sorrowing children and grandchildren. This was the dream ; the reality follows : "Very shortly after my admission to the bar I entered active politics. Through the dropping out of men old in service in the Legislature, the opportunity was afforded me to fill posi- tions of some importance which have had a considerable bearing on my after career. The work as chairman of the Taxation Committee in the session of 1902 gave me a knowledge of, and experience in, this subject which has been of great benefit in my profession. The work as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and acting leader (in the absence of the Speaker) in 1903 gave me a state-wide acquaintance and brought me many friends who have helped along. "After four busy years in the Legislature, practicing law dur- ing the sessions as best I could and during the succeeding nine months almost without break, I left politics in order to marry, and here happened one of those incidents unnoted at the time which so often influence a man's course for the better. "If I had remained in active politics I might have filled more important offices with credit, but no one realizes more clearly than I do that politics is a selfish game where one man rises by stepping upon the body of his fellow, and I might just as well have been the body as the man who rose, while the necessity of making a living has kept me during the last fifteen years to the strict practice of my profession with its accompanying steady and increasing reward. "After finishing my course at the Law School I returned to Brooklyn to live, largely because my mother and father still resided there, but my ambition was, as soon as my means per- mitted, to move over to the great Borough and make my life and friends there. Instead, I have remained in Brooklyn where I was born and where I expect to die, and contrary to expectation I have found there a home, profession, clients, friends, happiness, and content. "I have been able to sandwich in many delightful trips 314 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE between long months of work. I visited Central America, Hawaii, and Japan in 1894; England, France, and Switzer- land in 1901 ; Ireland, ^England, Scotland, and France in 1905; England in 1906; I enjoyed a long motor trip in France and Germany in the summer of 1908 and another in Italy and France in the winter and spring of 1914. I have made the time to go South to shoot for a week or ten days for several winters, SERVING WITH THE VETERAN CORPS OF ARTILLERY and in the spring and summer I have spent my Sundays playing golf, which I have at last partially learned after years of travail. "I spoke of my marriage as a turning point in my life. My wife, a Virginian, had studied art and music abroad for several years before her marriage and immediately took up my educa- tion along those avenues till then closed by the barrier of dense ignorance. In young manhood I had been dragged to the opera which I dismally failed to understand, and had spent weary hours gazing at long walls in the galleries abroad filled with can- vases which had no meaning. After marriage I was taken to the opera regularly and led to study pictures, and it has followed that I progressed from one stage to another until I now go to the opera because I love it, and my interest in art is wide although centered BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 315 in American paintings of the Colonial and early Constitutional period, that is, — from 1725 to 1825. I have read most of the available books and articles on this subject and whenever a trip, either of business or pleasure, has called me from home I use my leisure in examining the old canvases in City Hall or Historical Society in the various cities I visit, and then I began to write a little on the subject. Several years ago I was placed on the Governing Committee of the Museums of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for the purpose of utilizing the knowledge I had gained, and am frequently sent to other cities to pass on or purchase these early portraits for its collection or for private individuals. Nothing causes me more quiet amusement when I occasionally see my name referred to as somewhat of an expert in this line, than to remember that when I was in college, I never entered the Trumbull Gallery to see the collection there contained, unrivalled in its examples of that artist, and never once looked at Smybert's portrait of Governor Berkeley and his family now hanging in Commons Hall, and if I had I would not have under- stood its connection with the history of art in America. With what scorn and contempt would I have contemplated my own portrait twenty-five years ago as one having knowledge in these lines, and yet this hobby, if it has brought me no profit, has at least brought great pleasure in its riding. "I have sent two kodaks of myself in compliance with the Secretary's request, one at real work and the other at play. The one in khaki was taken at the Fort Hill Sector of the New York Aqueduct, near Tuckahoe, where the Veteran Corps of Artillery was on guard in the summer of 191 7. I was attached to the Headquarters Squad, and I may explain that the colored gentle- man was not one of my brothers in arms but was the cook for the seven posts in that Sector. "And now what of my dreams have been realized. When I started practice I had a well denned ambition of going on the Bench some day but when the chance came entirely unsought last November, I found that I was not so keen to give up the inde- pendence which the private practice of your profession gives and again go into the harness of public office, and so one at least of my ambitions was voluntarily relinquished. "Another ambition was to retire at the old age of fifty, but now that I see the time approaching I think that probably by the well- known legal process of procrastination, I may defer its fulfill- 3 i6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ment until I am really old, — say sixty, and when that time comes, a motion to reconsider may again be entertained. " After twenty-two years of hard work at the bar, I find my- self with neither the great fortune I sought nor the position of assured leadership I confidently expected, nor yet the numerous family I saw in my mind's eye, but I have realized happiness and content to an extent greater than most because circumstances have brought home to me the truth of the prayer of the poet Rogers, which I quote from memory, — Grant me, O Lord, that middle state Neither too humble nor too great, With quite enough to meet life's ends And something o'er to treat my friends." Albert Hooker Morse With the Symington Forge Company, Rochester, New York Residence, 6 Elm Street, Fairport, New York Morse is a son of Francis B. and Alice (Burnham) Morse, who were married in 1854 and had six other children, only two of whom lived to matu- rity: Francis B. Morse and Henry Harvey Morse (B.A. Amherst 1885, B.D. Yale 1888) (died February 19, 1912). The father was born in Rumford, Maine, in 1816, but lived in Connecticut after 1856; he was superintendent of the Henry Hooker Com- pany, New Haven, from 1856 to 1868, and of H. D. Smith & Company, Plantsville, until his death in 1873. The mother was also born in Maine (Bridgton, 1838) and albert h. morse died in Plantsville in 1889. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 317 On both sides the family is of Colonial ancestry, having settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1632. Albert H. Morse was born March 28, 1868, in New Haven, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Bridgton (Maine) Acad- emy. He received a colloquy appointment and one-year honors in philosophy in Senior year. The year after graduation he taught at the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, and from 1894 to 1896 at the Boardman Manual Train- ing School, New Haven. After serving as superintendent of schools at Webster, Massachusetts, from 1897 to 1904, he went into business and was manager of Balch Brothers, publishers, Boston, until 191 3, and then for two years held the same position with Houghton, Mifflin & Company. In September, 1916, he entered the employ of the General Railway Signal Company, Rochester, and was engaged in the heat treatment of metals generally, with special work on tools, dies, and parts of gun shells and air-plane motors. In April, 1918, he transferred to the Symington Forge Company, Rochester, and is working on the heat treatment of billets and shells. He resides in Fairport. He is a Republican. He belongs to the Congregational Church and is a member of the Masonic Order and is an Odd Fellow. He was married December 24, 1895, in New Haven, to Nellie V., daughter of Albert Warren Angus. They have nine children : Alice Burnham, born August 22, 1896; Emma Diantha, born November 28, 1897; Nellie V., born July 7, 1899; Harvey Francis, born February 22, 1901 ; Albert Henry, born May 18, 1903; Elizabeth Kingman, born April 13, 1905; Roger Winfield, born July 9, 1906; Gilbert Balch, born May 11, 1908, and Donald Stewart, born July 4, 191 1. Morse writes : "Things are going pretty well with me on the whole — by that I mean we are alive and progressing as a family. Seven of the children are in school. I have only one in college, my oldest daughter, a Junior. There are several in high school and all down along the educational ladder there is a representa- tive of the family. "I shall try to do all I can to push the education of the whole 'bunch/ It goes without saying that one or two at the very least are heading for Yale. "Economic and educational matters pertaining to the family have used much of my time and strength and yet I am well and still hustling with the problems as they arise. A career in the 3i 8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ordinary sense has not been mine and probably will not be. I am satisfied to live as I have had to within the family and never get sore and disheartened. I have gotten and am getting a great deal of joy out of life. "In the splendid achievements of my classmates and all Yale men I am immensely happy. "As we have used the educational equipment of the community, so we have been a small part of the religious circle and all to our benefit. "Being the only member of the family hitherto with the suf- frage right, I have tried to do my duty, and bear some of the burden, serving frequently as now in the capacity of election inspector. I have had no ambition politically speaking. "The outdoor life of the sportsman and the agriculturist both strongly appeal to me. The former I gave up some years ago through necessity, and the latter I am now taking up almost for the same reason. "For some years before the war started I found great pleas- ure in Nature Club work. It was my good fortune to meet during those years the famous naturalists of both this country and Canada. The results of our work were far reaching and served to enrich the lives of thousands. I can with some satis- faction recall the names of several men and women of the lecture platform in this line in whom I really planted the first love of nature. "Last year I had a war garden of three acres. This year I am stretching out even farther. Drafting the services of my chil- dren, I planted last Saturday three bushels of potato seed to a little less than half an acre in three hours and thirty minutes, — the ground being previously prepared for us. "That there is great need of food production I am convinced so I shall hustle along this line with every bit of strength I can rally after serving ten hours at night in the shell works." *William Henry Murphy Died February 15, 1906 W. H. Murphy was born October 11, 1869, in Southville, in the town of Southboro, Massachusetts, the son of James D. Murphy, a farmer, and Mary (O'Brien) Murphy, and was pre- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3*9 pared for Yale at the high school in Westboro, Massachusetts, and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. In college he received a first dispute appointment both as a Junior and as a Senior; was a member of the University Baseball Team for three years and its captain in Junior year; and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. For a year after graduation he played on the New York League Baseball Team. In 1894 he entered Bellevue Hospital and Medical College (New York University) and received his M.D. degree in 1897. The next two years he practiced his profession in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and also coached the baseball team of the University of Pennsylvania. He was then coach for a year, 1899- 1900, at Leland Stanford, Junior, \ University and practiced medicine in Palo Alto, Cali- fornia, in 1 901. In 1903-1904 he coached the Yale Univer- sity Nine, and the next year acted in the same capacity for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. In Janu- ary, 1906, he went to Saranac Lake, New York, for treatment, and February 15, 1906, he died of tuberculosis at his home in Westboro, Massachusetts. He was unmarried. WILLIAM H. MURPHY Alfred Goldstein Nadler Physician, 377 Orange Street, New Haven, Connecticut Nadler is a son of Isaac Hirsch and Lena (Goldstein) Nadler, who were married October 29, 185 1, and had seven other children : Hugo (died November 26, 191 1), Rachel, Julia, Mollie (died April 12, 1915), Yetta (died April 16, 1900), Dora, and Hannah 320 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE (Nadler) Myers. The father (born April 8, 1815, in Tachau, Bohemia [Austria] ; died July 22, 1893, in New Haven, Con- necticut) came to the United States in 1845 and spent the rest of his life in New Haven except from 1859 to 1866, when he ALFRED G. NADLER lived in Columbus, Georgia. He was a drygoods merchant. The mother was born April 9, 1828, in Wilhelmsdorf, Bavaria, and died June 2.7, 1905, in New Haven. Alfred G. Nadler was born November 19, 1873, in New Haven, and was prepared at the Hillhouse High School. In col- lege he received a dissertation Junior and an oration Senior appointment. He continued at Yale until 1896, in that year being graduated with the degree of M.D. He was licensed to practice in Con- necticut, and, after a year's service in the New Haven Hospital, has practiced in New Haven continuously. He has been con- nected with the School of Medicine since 1900 as follows : assistant in the Pathological Laboratory, 1900-06; assistant in pediatrics, 1902-06; assistant in dermatology, 1906-12, and clin- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 321 ical instructor in dermatology since 191 2. In 1901 he was med- ical inspector of the public schools of New Haven, and from 1902 to 1909, attending physician at Springside Hospital. He spent the year 1909 abroad, studying dermatology in Paris, Berne, Breslau, Berlin, and Vienna. In politics he is a Republican; in 1897-98 he served on the Common Council. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Board, District of New Haven. He is a member of the Mishkan Israel Congregation. His professional affiliations are the New Haven Medical Asso- ciation (officer at different times), New Haven County Medical Society, Connecticut Medical Society, American Medical Asso- ciation, American Roentgen Ray Society, and Yale Medical Alumni Association. He is a member of the Harmonie Club, Racebrook Country Club, Young Men's Republican Club, New Haven Lodge of Elks, Horeb Lodge No. 25, I. O. B. B., Hiram Lodge No. 1, A. F. and A. M., Quinnipiac Lodge No. I, I. O. O. F., and the Yale Alumni Association of New Haven. He has not married. Nadler writes : "We have now reached that period in our career commonly known as 'turning out' ; what we are going to be, we pretty nearly are. "Most of us can still hope, some of us are firmly seated on our hobbies and breaking into a steady trot, and all of us are as thickly plastered with habits which go to make the sum and sub- stance of our lives as a fish is with scales. "If we can become philosophers also and after having done our level best say with calm conviction 'Whatever is, is' and 'There's an end on't' then shall we go down the hill towards the sunset unafraid and supremely indifferent to our increasing waist line and our decreasing hair. "It is no tax on the imagination to realize that the life of a busy practitioner of to-day is not adventurous. It does not remotely resemble the popular mind's eye picture of St. George going forth to slay the Dragon. Dragons of fearful and devastating mien I meet daily but there is nothing spectacular in the manner of their death. Nor can I become the envy and admiration of the block by riding out in casque and plume on an incomparable steed gaily and sumptuously caparisoned. Rather at any hour of the day or night I slip away in my trusty Haynes 322 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE with my rusty bag which, from a Romanticist's view, resembles the wren's tail, not worth mentioning. "In the words of the old country deacon, T ain't so handsome as some nor so homely as some, but perfectly genteel.' For the rest — I am a law-abiding citizen, think that the U. S. A. and the American nation is something to be proud of and thankful for, pay my bills promptly, Tear God and honor the King,' which little platform is enough to keep any one man busy. "And now, Gentlemen, what more would you?" Emerson Root Newell Captain, Field Artillery, U. S. N. A., Instructor, Officers' Training Camp Senior partner, Newell & Neal, patent lawyers, 2 Rector Street, New York City Residence, Greenwich, Connecticut Newell is the only son of Edward E. and Piera Hender- son (Root) Newell, who were married in 1870 and had also one daughter, Antoinette Newell, Vassar '97 (Mrs. A. S. Brackett). E. E. Newell (born December 12, 1834, in Farmington, Connect- 1 icut) has lived in Bristol, Con- necticut, since he was a young man. He was a clock manu- facturer with S. E. Root & Company, but has now retired. His earliest American ances- tor, Thomas Newell, came from England in 1640 and settled at Farmington. Mrs. Newell was born October 6, 1849, m Bristol and is a de- scendant of Thomas Root who came from England and was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. EMERSON R. NEWELL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3*3 Emerson R. Newell was born January i, 1872, in Bristol, and was prepared at the high school there. He received dispute appointments and was a member of the second Glee Club, the College Choir, the Yale Union, and Zeta Psi. He studied law in Bristol from 1893 to 1895 and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar. He then went to Washington as an examiner in the Patent Office (1895-98) and at the same time enrolled in the Graduate Department of Columbian University. In 1896 he received the degree of Master of Laws and was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, and in 1897 the degree of Master of Patent Laws was conferred on him. He commenced the practice of patent law in New York in 1898 and on March 1, 1910, formed a partnership with Chester T. Neal, Yale '05. Having served in Squadron A, Cavalry, New York National Guard, from 1900 to 19 13 through all the ranks from private to captain, he entered the second Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg in 191 7 and was commissioned on November 27, Captain of Field Artillery, U. S. N. A. On December 15, 1917, he was detailed to Camp Stanley as Artillery Instructor and writing from there says : "At present (January 29, 1918) my principal 'plans, aims/ etc., are to 'teach the young idea how to shoot,' literally and fig- uratively, for I am here as an artillery instructor of about 200 candidates for commissions, with hopes of getting overseas soon and helping to finish up this difference of opinion between the Germans and us." From Camp Stanley he was transferred to Camp Jackson and on May 5 was made commanding officer of the 12th Battalion; a later detail was to Camp Wadsworth. Newell is a Republican. He has been a member and chairman (1917) of the Greenwich Board of Health. He belongs to the Congregational Church. He is a member of the Yale Club, Squadron A Club, and Law- yers Club (New York City), and the Country Club, Field Club, Greenwich Riding Association, and Fairfield County Hounds (Greenwich). He was married November 24, 1907, in Galveston, Texas, to Ella, daughter of George Sealy, a banker, and Margaret (Willis) Sealy. They have two children : George Sealy, born May 23, 1910, and Eleanor, born January 14, 191 5. 3 2 4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE William Lewis Newton Secretary and treasurer, Albro J. Newton Company, 528 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York Residence, 275 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York Newton is the only son of Albro J. and Delia A. (Lewis) New- ton, who were married August 16, i860, and had three other children, daughters : Grace (married Arnold G. Dana, Yale '83 ; their son is Albro Newton Dana, 1920) ; Harriet (Newton) WILLIAM L. NEWTON Dimond, and Delia (Newton) Graves. Albro J. Newton, son of William and Lois (Butler) Newton, was born August 16, 1832, in Sherburne, New York, and attended the Sherburne Academy. Since 1861 he has lived in Brooklyn, New York, and has been engaged in the lumber business, first with Kenyon & Newton, and since 1897 as president of the Albro J. Newton Company. His brothers, Isaac S. Newton, Professor Hubert Anson Newton, and Homer G. Newton, were graduated at Yale in 1848, 1850, and 1859, respectively; his nephews, all sons of Isaac S., are BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 325 Howard D. Newton, '79, I. Burkett Newton, '83, and Edward P. Newton, '97; his grandnephew, Lieutenant Burkett D. New- ton, is a member of the Class of 1914. Mrs. Newton (born June 12, 1840, in Exeter, New York; died August 2, 1878, in Brook- lyn) was the daughter of Nathaniel Lester and Cornelia Greene (Ball) Lewis. William L. Newton was born December 17, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York, and was prepared at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. In col- lege he received a dispute Junior and a dissertation Senior ap- pointment. He has been associated with his father's firm, the Albro J. Newton Company, lumber, since graduation and holds the posi- tions of secretary and treasurer. He is a trustee of the South Brooklyn Savings Institution. He is a Republican "most of the time." He is a trustee of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital and president of the Board of Trustees of the Church of the Pilgrims. He belonged to the Veteran Corps of Artillery and 23d Regi- ment, New York Guard, and served two weeks on guard duty at the Aqueduct in August, 1917, but resigned in March, 1918. He is a member of the Hamilton Club. He was married October 19, 1899, in Brooklyn, to Florence Lavinia, daughter of Joseph Epes and Lavinia M. (Iveson) Brown. Mrs. Newton's brothers are Nathan H. Brown, r^*-'o2 S., and Joseph Epes Brown, Jr., '13. There are four children: Florence, born February 4, 1901 (Brooklyn Heights Seminary) ; Joseph Epes and Nathan Brown, born November 4, 1902 (Polytechnic Country Day School), and William Lewis, Jr., born March 11, 1910 (Brooklyn Heights Seminary). NEWTON S SONS 326 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE William Allan Osborn 191 1 East Seventy-fifth Street, Cleveland, Ohio Osborn is a son of Alanson T. and Catharine A. (Chisholm) Osborn, who were married October 7, 1868, and had two other children: Jean (Osborn) Phillips and Henry C. Osborn. The father (born April 11, 1845, in Rensselaerville, New York) WILLIAM A. OSBORN moved to Cleveland when about eighteen and has been in business with the Sherwin-Williams Company, paint manufacturers, 1867-82; the A. T. Osborn Company, paint retailers, 1882- 1906, and the Subers-Fabric & Rubber Company, manufacturers of rubber fabrics, since 1906. His grandparents were of English birth ; they emigrated to America in early life and settled in New York State. Catharine (Chisholm) Osborn was born June 30, 1845, i n Montreal, Canada; her parents, natives of Scotland, came to Canada in 1842 and came to Cleveland in 1850, where they spent the remainder of their lives. William A. Osborn was born October 27, 1869, in Cleveland, and was prepared at the Cleveland public schools and with a tutor. In college he received an oration Junior and a dispute BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 327 Senior appointment, was treasurer one year and on the Board of Governors of the University Club, secretary of the University Banjo Club, and a member of Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. He was a graduate student in chemistry in 1893-94 and received the degree of M.A. at Yale in 1895. In 1894 he entered the employ of The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company (now U. S. Steel Corporation) as chemist and became in 1897 head of the analytical department. In 1900, on account of ill health, he gave up his position with the Steel Corporation and spent about a year traveling. From 1901 to present time he has been engaged with the affairs of an estate (that of his mother), looking after certain small business interests of his own and doing some chemical work, analytical and research. He is vice-president and a director of the A. A. Mudge Company, brokers. Republican in politics. He is a member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. He belongs to the Union and Country clubs of Cleveland. He has not married. Osborn writes : "I don't know as there is much to add to the 'cold facts' comprising the biographical and genealogical data as given in Nos. 1-42. The cross-examination by the Secretary has been so searching that at least in my case there remains little to be said. It gave me some jolt when the 'questionnaire' arrived and reminded me of the fact that twenty-five years (a quarter of a century!) had passed since we stood together ' 'neath the elms of Dear Old Yale' and as step by step I have laid bare the innermost secrets of my life during that period I have experienced feelings of regret, yes I may say shame, that my 'plans' have not been better made, my 'aims' higher and my 'accomplishments' greater. Would that I might at this time be able to fill ream upon ream with the record of deeds great and glorious, done by me. But some must play the humbler roles and for such a part I seem to have been cast. My 'travels' while not extensive have been one of my forms of recreating. As to 'hobbies,' books, especially those dealing with history and science, have been my chief delight, while 'picturizing' with the camera has enabled me to pass many interesting hours. 'My family.' Alas ! that I cannot respond to this toast. But who knows? Perhaps, when another cycle has passed, I too may have something to say on this subject. Here's hoping !" 328 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE William White Wilson Parker Lawyer 1738 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. Parker is the son of E. Southard Parker, a banker, of English and Scotch ancestry. He was born August 18, 1868, in Mifflin- town, Pennsylvania, and was prepared for Yale at Mifflin Acad- emy and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In college he was a member of the Yale Alumni Weekly committee, financial editor of the News, secretary and treasurer of the Athletic Association, and a member of Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones. After graduation he studied law in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, for two years, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in November, 1895. From 1895 to 1900 he prac- ticed in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania. In 1900 he was vice- president of the Alaska Bank- ing and Safe Deposit Com- pany, Nome City, Alaska. From 1 90 1 to 1909 he was assistant cashier of the National Metropolitan Bank, in Washington, D. C, after which he resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In December, 191 6, he went to Washington, D. C. ; in October, 1917, was in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania; and then in January, 1918, returned to Washington, D. C. He has not married. WILLIAM W. W. PARKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3 2 9 Francis Parsons Captain, American Red Cross, Great Britain Vice-president and trust officer, Security Trust Company, 56 Pearl Street, Hartford, Connecticut Residence, 27 Forest Street, Hartford, Connecticut His father, John Caldwell Parsons, Yale '55 (born June 3, 1832, in Hartford, and died there March 11, 1898), was a son of Francis Parsons, B.A. 1816, and Clarissa (Brown) Parsons (daughter of William Brown, B.A. 1784), and great-grandson FRANCIS PARSONS of David Parsons, Plonorary B.A. 1705. His first American ancestor, Joseph Parsons, came from England and settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1635. Mr. Parsons was a lawyer, his practice being chiefly concerned with trusts and estates ; he was also for a time president of the Security Company and of the Society for Savings of Hartford, and a director in a number of local banks and insurance companies. On April 7, 1870, he married Mary, daughter of Professor Samuel McClellan, M.D. 1823, of Philadelphia, a well-known physician of his day and one 330 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE of the founders of Jefferson Medical College, and Margaret Carswell (Ely) McClellan. Her first American ancestor came from Scotland; her grandfather was Ezra Stiles Ely, B.A. 1804, and her great-grandfather, Zebulon Ely, B.A. 1779. She was born May 31, 1844, in Phila- delphia, and died January 22, 1 87 1, in Hartford. laA^ ^% <^ ■ Francis Parsons was born j Connecticut, and was pre- pared at the Hartford Public ra|k High School. Pie received *§£& ML HP i dispute appointments, was a |£ : I DeForest and a Townsend wmfflr tttw. imFWtmi Prize speaker, an editor of the near castine, maine Lit, chairman of the Junior Prom Committee, a Class Deacon, on the Class Day Committee, and a member of Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, Chi Delta Theta, and Skull and Bones. He was a reporter for the Hartford Courant from 1893 to 1895, and then entered the Yale School of Law. In 1897 he received the John Addison Porter Prize, was graduated with the degree of LL.B. and admitted to the Connecticut Bar. He has since practiced in Hartford. In 1904 he was elected secretary, trustee, and trust officer of the Security Company and in 191 2 was promoted to vice-president and trust officer. He is also a trustee and vice-president of the Society for Savings, and a direc- tor of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. In politics he is a Republican. In 1 899-1900 he served on the staff of George E. Lounsbury, Governor of Connecticut, as assist- ant quartermaster general of the state. In 1906 he was elected a member of the Board of School Visitors, and in May, 1918, completed a ten-year term as a member of the Board of Park Commissioners, Hartford. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the Connecticut Commission on Sculpture. He has been a member of the First Church of Hartford for many years and from time to time has served on its Prudential Committee. He is a director of the Hartford Public Library and of several charitable and benevolent institutions. In 1914 he was appointed a trustee of Mount Holyoke College and in 1916 chosen as secretary of the Board. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 33* From 191 1 to 1914 he was a Sergeant in Troop B, 5th Con- necticut Cavalry, and in April, 1917, joined the State Guard with rank of 1st Lieutenant. In January, 191 8, he was advanced to Captain of Company B, 1st Regiment. He went abroad in July, 19 18, for six months' service with the American Red Cross, and in November was appointed Direc- tor of the Bureau of Home Service for Great Britain. In May, 1916, he published a pamphlet on "Modern Militia Training." He has contributed occasionally to the Hartford C our ant, and is the author of a story, "The Borderland," pub- lished in Scribner's for March, 191 5. A paper on Elisha Williams, fourth president of Yale, is printed in the Proceedings of the New Haven County Historical Society. In 1907-08 he served as president of the Yale Alumni Association of Hartford ; he is also a member of the Eliza- bethan and Graduates clubs, New Haven, the University Club of Hartford, Hartford Club, Golf Club, etc. He was married June 22, 1897, in Brandon, Vermont, to Elizabeth Alden, daughter of Major Robert Ambrose parsons' family Hutchins, who was assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Major General O. B. Willcox during the Civil War, and Georgiana Alden (Jackson) Hutchins. They have had four children: Mary, born May 13, 1898; John Caldwell, born April 26, 1900; Francis, born September 14, 1905, and died September 16, 1905 ; and Elizabeth Hutchins, born February 25, 1909. George Leete Peck Partner in the firm of Clark, Hall & Peck, lawyers, 129 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut Residence, 395 Main Street, West Haven, Connecticut Peck is a son of George Lyman and Fannie Craft (Fosdick) Peck, who were married September 15, 1864, and had four other children, only one of whom, Fannie Caroline Peck, is living. 33 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE George L. Peck (born September 30, 1832, in Wallingford, Con- necticut; died February 3, 1907, in Jamaica, New York) was a druggist for over fifty years in Jamaica, treasurer of the Jamaica Savings Bank, a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, and of GEORGE L. PECK the Village of Jamaica. His parents were William Augustus and Lucretia (Leete) Peck, and his first paternal ancestor in this country was Henry Peck, who emigrated to this country in the company of Governor Eaton, Rev. John Davenport and others, arriving at Boston June 26, 1637, an d in the next year founding New Haven. On his mother's side he was a direct descendant of Governor William Leete of Connecticut. He married a second time on November 4, 1889, Elizabeth D. Hendrickson. Our classmate's mother (born November 24, 1843, m Springfield, New York; died December 15, 1875, in Jamaica) was a daughter of Hon. Morris Fosdick, a direct descendant of Stephen Fosdick of Lincoln County, England, and of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower, and Catherine (Baylis) Fosdick. George Leete Peck was born August 3, 1870, in Jamaica, New York, and was prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School. Following graduation he was a student in the Yale School of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 333 Law, received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the Con- necticut Bar in 1895. He has always practiced in New Haven and since January, 1896, has been a member of the firm of Clark, Hall & Peck, who specialize in land titles, conveyancing and pro- bate practice. He is vice-president and treasurer of the New Haven Real Estate Title Company, vice-president and a director of the Orange Bank & Trust Company, and a director of the Eastern Machine Screw Company. Republican in politics, he is an ex-member of the Board of Burgesses, West Haven, and since 1910 has been a member of the Board of Finance of the Town of Orange. He has been a trustee of the West Haven Congregational Church for six years. He belongs to the Auto Club of New Haven, Chamber of Commerce, Society of Founders and Patriots, New Haven Col- ony Historical Society, New Haven Congregational Club, Union League, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, New Haven Commandery, Knights Templar, Lafayette Consistory, Pyramid Temple of Shriners, Young Men's Repub- lican Club, the Jamaica Club, and the Yale Alumni Association of New Haven. He was married December 16, 1897, in New Haven, Connect- icut, to Katherine May, daughter of James Tolles, of the New Haven Bank, and Ida L. (Pardee) Tolles. They have three chil- dren: George Morris, born July 3, 1902; Lawrence Tolles, born February 21, 1905, and Katherine, born April 3, 1914. Alton William Peirce Superintendent, Worcester County Training School, Oakdale, Massachusetts Peirce is the only living child of William H. and Ruby L. (Holden) Peirce, who were married November 27, 1867, and had two other children who died in childhood. The father (born May 29, 1840, in Orange, Massachusetts ; died May 6, 1916, in Petersham, that state) lived in New Salem and in Petersham. He enlisted as a private in Company B, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, October 3, 1861, and was honorably discharged Jan- uary 24, 1865. He was in several battles; was severely wounded twice; was finally taken prisoner of war and was confined over six months in Confederate prisons, the larger portion of that time 334 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE in Andersonville. On December 2, 1890, he married Joanna H. Wilkinson, who survives him. Our classmate's mother was born July 17, 1842, in New Salem, and died there January 24, 1873. ALTON W. PEIRCE Alton W. Peirce was born September 25, 1868, in New Salem, and was prepared at the Athol High School and at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts. In college he received oration appointments and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. From 1893 to 1896 he was a graduate student and an assistant in chemistry, receiving the degree of Ph.D. at the end of this period. He then accepted a position as principal of the high school in Shelton, Connecticut, where he remained until 1903. Although elected superintendent of the schools of Huntington, Connect- icut, he accepted the position of principal of the Punchard Free High School, Andover, Massachusetts. After one year he became principal of the Murdock School, Winchendon, where he was located from 1904 to 1906. He then transferred to business and was a traveling salesman for the International Time Record- ing Company of Binghamton, New York, for seven years. In 191 3 he became a special agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he had BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 335 resided since 1906. In 1918 he returned to school work as super- intendent of the Worcester County Training School at Oakdale, Massachusetts. In 1896-97 several of his articles were published in the American Journal of Science and translated in Zeitschrift fur Anorganische Chemie ; the titles are : The gravimetric deter- mination of selenium ; The iodometric determination of selenious and selenic acids ; A method for the separation of selenium and tellurium based on the differences of the volatility of the bromides, and on the existence of selenium monoxide. He is a Republican. He belongs to Plymouth Congregational Church, Worcester, and is active in the Men's Bible Class. He is a member of the United Commercial Travelers of America, Worcester Council No. 136. He was married December 12, 1894, in Oakdale, Massachusetts, to Alice Lillian, daughter of Asa F. and Almira R. (Davis) Rice. They have two children: Meredith, born July 4, 1896, in New Haven, Connecticut, now teacher of household arts at Per- kins Institution for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts, and Lillian Evelyn, born April 24, 1905, in Winchendon, Massa- chusetts. ^Albert Wells Pettibone, Jr. Died September 29, 1899 Albert W. Pettibone, the son of Albert Wells Pettibone, who graduated at Union Col- lege in 1849, was born Janu- ary 30, 1870, in Hannibal. Missouri, but prepared for Yale at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. After graduation he took a position with the Hannibal Saw Mill Company of Hanni- bal, Missouri, but later moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he continued with the same company until his death, which occurred from pneu- monia September 29, 1899. ALBERT W. PETTIBONE 33^ CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He was married January 8, 1895, to Jessie C, daughter of H. A. Newell of Brooklyn, New York, and had two sons : John Samuel, born September 20, 1895, and Wilson Newell, born February 6, 1897. CHARLES M. POPE Charles Macauley Pope Volunteer work, Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice, 327 West Fifty-sixth Street, New York City His father, Charles Frederick Roehr Pope (born February 17, 1829, in Orlishausen, Saxony, Germany; died July 2, 1899, in New York City), was the son of Christian Frederick Roehr, an architect and advanced thinker of fine literary attainments, who enjoyed the friendship of Goethe and was also closely associated with the most prominent men of Thuringia. His republican political opinions led him to emigrate in 1834 to America, where he settled in Rochester, New York, with his wife, Johanna Maria Papst, and family. After his father's death Charles F. Roehr assumed the surname Pope, it being that of his mother's Anglo- Saxon ancestors (among whom was Sir Thomas Pope, founder BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 337 of Trinity College, Oxford). He achieved prominence in the theatrical profession as a legitimate actor of distinction and a manager with high ideals. At different times he owned or con- trolled theaters in Indianapolis, New Orleans, Kansas City, and St. Louis. From 1889 to 1893 he was U. S. consul at Toronto, Canada. In April, 1861, Mr. Pope married Virginia Cunning- ham, an actress, supposed widow of P. C. Cunningham, but this marriage was annulled in August, 1863, when it was dis- covered that the latter was alive in Australia. On January 12, 1867, he married Margaret Elizabeth Macauley, and they had four children: Helen Macauley, Katharine Huntington (Pope) Burke, Charles Macauley, and Alfred Macauley Pope, Yale '94. Mrs. Pope (born October 23, 1845, m Cincinnati, Ohio; died December 4, 191 5, in New York City) was the only daughter of John and Bridget (Smith) McAuley, who came to the United States from County Antrim, Ireland, in the thirties. Her father was an architect and builder, and was of Scotch-Irish descent, his ancestors being of the clan MacAulay of Ardincaple in Row, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, having located there in the twelfth century. Charles M. Pope was born July 30, 1871, in Indianapolis, and was prepared at Smith Academy and Peet School in St. Louis. He received colloquy appointments, was on the Freshman Crew, the Class Crew Sophomore and Junior years, member and man- ager of the Class Football Team in Senior year, an editor of the C our ant, a contributor to the Lit, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Wolf's Head. The year after graduation he was a reporter and special writer for the New York Evening Sun. From 1895 to 1897 ne was engaged as organizer, director, and treasurer of the St. Nicholas Skating & Ice Company, formed to build the St. Nicholas Rink, New York. This led to the real estate and insurance business as president of the Standard Realty Com- pany and later as a member of the firm of Pope & Jones. In 1903 he went to Canada and was at first connected with the Sovereign Bank, later representing in that country the New York Lubri- cating Oil Company. In 1905-06 he was again in New York, in the theatrical business and writing, and for two other periods was also in theatrical production there, 1908-11 and 191 3-1 5. In 1907-08 he was in Goldfield and Rawhide, Nevada, mining and prospecting, and also as a contractor and builder. In 33* CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE 1912-13 he was president and general manager of the Knicker- bocker Motor Car Sales Company and sales manager of the Regal Auto Sales Company, New York City. For the last two years he has been supervising building alterations and improve- ments on the family property in New York. He is a Republican (independent). At present he is engaged in volunteer work in connection with the Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice. He was married December 18, 1905, in Yonkers, New York, to Katharine Josephine Roberts, daughter of Charles Pease, a mer- chant, and Anna Agnes (Foley) Pease, whose second marriage was to David Huyler Roberts, window glass manufacturer, whose name was assumed by her children by her first husband. Mrs. Pope was educated at the Convent du Roule in Paris and finished at the Misses Ely's in New York City. She was on the stage at the time of her marriage and has acted occasionally since. In July, 19 1 7, she enrolled as a Yeoman (1st Class) in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force, and was assigned to duty in the office of the Cable Censor, New York City. There is one son, Charles Roberts, born October 26, 1906, in Stamford, Connect- icut, now attending McBurney School, New York. Albert Hutchinson Putney Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Residence, 3408 Thirteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Putney is the son of Albert Baker and Sarah Bliss (Abbott) Putney, who were married December 25, 1869. The father (born August 28, 1841, in Bow, New Hampshire) has lived in Boston or Newton, Massachusetts, since about 1871, and during most of his business life was owner of a carpet store in Boston. On his father's side the family can be traced to John Putney, who was living in Salem, Massachusetts, before 1670; on his mother's side he is descended from Peter Brown, one of the Mayflower company. Sarah B. (Abbott) Putney was born June 15, 1847, m Manchester, New Hampshire, and died May 14, 1892, in Newton. Her ancestors came to this country from England about 1660. Albert H. Putney was born September 28, 1872, in Boston, and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 339 was prepared at the Newton High School. He received a dis- sertation Senior appointment, two-year honors in political science, history, and law, was a Townsend speaker, and a member of the Yale Union. ALBERT H. PUTNEY After two years at Boston University he received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. From 1895 to early in 1898 he practiced in Boston but, owing to ill health, was forced to give up his work and moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 1899 he resumed practice in Chicago and, with the exception of one year, 1903-04, when he was in the office of the attorney-general of the Philippine Islands, remained there until 1913. In addition to his practice he was, from 1900 to 1912, a professor at the Illinois College of Law, and from 1904 had the added duties of dean. Since 1913 he has been chief of the Divi- sion of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State, Wash- ington, and has continued his teaching as a professor in the National University Law School. His writings, which have been entirely professional, are : "Law Library" (an outline of law in twelve volumes, 25,000 sets of which have been sold), 1908; "United States Constitutional His- 340 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE tory and Law," 1908 (used as textbook in several law schools) ; "Currency, Banking, and Exchange," 1909; "Bar Examination Review," 1910; "Government in the United States" (published by the Government for use as textbook in the public schools of the Philippines) ; "Foreign Commercial Laws," etc. He is joint author with Senator J. H. Lewis of a "Handbook of Election Laws," and has written many articles which have been published in the Yale Law Journal, Bench and Bar, etc. He is a member of the National Press Club and Chicago Press Club, and belongs to the Masons, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias. He was married April 6, 191 1, in Chicago, to Pearl L., daugh- ter of Jesse O. and Ida J. (Meek) Avery. They have no children. Harry Campbell Quintard Conducting a magazine subscription agency, 70 Grove Street, Stamford, Connecticut Quintard and his brother, Charles Granville Quintard, are the children of Henry Ferris and Mary Jane (Campbell) Quin- tard, who were married in December, 1868. The father (born April 10, 1845, in Greenwich, Connecticut) is a retired farmer of Sound Beach. He is descended from the French Huguenots who settled at New Rochelle in the seventeenth century. The mother was born July 10, 1845, m Fairfield, and died July 24, 1914, in Glenbrook, Connecticut. Her father came from County Ayr, Scotland. Harry C. Quintard was born September 19, 1869, in Green- wich, and was prepared at the Stamford High School and at Hudson River Institute, Claverack, New York. He received a dissertation Junior and an oration Senior appointment. From 1893 to 1901 he taught at the University School, Bridge- port, and then entered business. He was first with the Non- pareil Cork Manufacturing Company of Bridgeport and from 1906 to 191 3 was assistant manager of the New York office of the insulation department of the Armstrong Cork Com- pany of Pittsburgh. In February, 191 3, he resigned this position on account of ill health and in the fall opened a magazine sub- scription agency, which he conducts from his home and for the most part by mail. In politics he is an Independent Republican. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 34i He is a member of the First Congregational Church, Stamford, has been a member of its various administrative boards and presi- dent of the Men's Club, and is now a deacon. HARRY C. QUINTARD He was married June 28, 1894, in South Britain, Connecticut, to Ada M., daughter of Samuel Phineas Averill, a farmer, and Julia Tyler (Mitchell) Averill. They had three children: Dorothy, born February 4, 1896; Elizabeth, born November 13, 1897, and Frank Averill, born March 22, 1900. Mrs. Quintard died October 8, 1905. He was married January 7, 1909, in Stamford, to Frances Isabel, daughter of Samuel Ferris and Frances (Hoyt) Scofield. A daughter, Virginia, was born June 4, 1910. Quintard writes : "Nothing could be fairer than our patient Secretary's invitation to kindly oblige with a little prose, a bit of verse, perhaps, or just a few yards of film. It sure is wide open for trouble. On 'Writings' we score a goose egg, and as for 'Corporate, institutional, and philanthropic interests' we are again among the perfectly useless. But it is our own fault when for the small sum of two dollars our obituary may record that, 'He was a member of the National Geographic Society.' 342 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE "I have more or less family life ; more than Skee and less than Morse. Two grown daughters, one a Junior at Connecticut College, New London, the other in the midst of a secretarial course at the Beechwood School, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Providentially a way opened for them to have these advantages which I could not afford to give them. "Son, since finishing high school in 191 7, has been employed on a farm and in office work preparatory to tackling a 19 19 version of the little drama entitled Through College on Nothing a Year/ Virginia, age eight, completes the quartet. "As to 'Travel/ I have not been west of Chicago, east of Boston, south of Cincinnati or north of Montreal. Tourist rates are still too high and I have done nothing to intimidate the rail- roads into giving me a pass. "We have had our jolts and illnesses and are painfully aware that the dollar does not purchase as much as it did in the consul- ship of Dwight. Such simple joys as living the golden rule, having the respect of the community and the love of friends do not flash like a star shell, but the glow warms and does not go out. "My vocation (magazine subscriptions and books by mail) is a refuge for the lame, halt, blind, and completely paralyzed, hun- dreds of whom are making a more or less precarious living thereby. Eliminating their stereotyped form of appeal, I have tried to have my methods diffuse an atmosphere of cheerfulness, originality, and business-like vigor that would be refreshing. "The physical jolt which came in 19 12 menaces still. Those who have personal knowledge of its vagaries know the life- long sacrifices that must be made to keep it in subjection. I write this in bed on the porch at ten above zero. It is some com- fort to be told that I am making a good fight. As I told you in Twenty-three Years After/ '93's support has been a great factor in making it. If I need more of it, I know it is there. "It is not my aim or aspiration at this time to be the last sur- viving member of '93. I will leave that to sturdier men. And I daresay that in the maturity of fifty years we shall all agree that, We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 343 Gerald Laurence Rathbone Lieutenant, U. S. N. R. F., Branch Office, Naval Intelligence, San Francisco, California Vice-president and secretary of Macondray & Company, 149 California Street, San Francisco, California Residence, Burlingame, California Rathbone is a son of Henry Reed and Clara Hamilton (Harris) Rathbone, who had two other children : Henry Riggs Rathbone, B.A. Yale 1892, and Clara Pauline Rathbone (died in May, 1918). The father, a native of Albany, New York, was graduated at Union College in 1857; he served in the Civil War, at- taining the rank of Major of Infantry. He has lived in Albany, Washington, and var- ious cities abroad. Mrs. Rathbone is the daughter of Senator Ira Harris, and both father and mother are de- scended from English ances- tors who settled in Connect- icut in the seventeenth cen- tury. The family afterwards moved to Albany, New York. Gerald Rathbone was born August 26, 1 87 1, in Albany and was prepared at the Albany, Washington, and va- rious cities abroad. Mrs. sachusetts, and at Andover. He was a member of the Triennial Committee, An- dover Club, University Club, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. From 1893 to 1895 he worked in the Cleveland office of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and since that time he has been associated with Macondray & Company, export and import commission insurance, San Francisco. He now fills the positions of vice-president and secretary. GERALD L. RATHBONE 344 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE In November, 1898, he was appointed volunteer aide to Gen- eral Greene and accompanied him to Manila. When the latter was ordered home Rathbone traveled in the Orient for a short time in the interest of his business. In 1918 he received a com- mission as Lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force and was assigned to the Branch Office of Naval Intelligence at San Fran- cisco, ranking as second in command. He is a member of the Pacific Union, University and Bur- lingame Country clubs. He was married June 30, 1908, in San Francisco, to Gertrude Greenwood, daughter of Charles and Mary (Greenwood) Josselyn. They have no children. George Howard Rice Lawyer, Room 604, 44 Broad Street, New York City Residence, Scranton, Pennsylvania Rice is the son of Gilbert L. Rice. He was born September 22, 1867, in Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, and prepared for Yale at Monson Academy, Monson, Massachusetts. In college he received a disserta- tion Junior and high oration Senior appointment, and one- year honors in political science. For two years after gradua- tion he taught at San Mateo, California. The next year he was a lawyer at Phoenix, and district attorney of Gila County, Arizona, and then was postmaster and store- keeper in Globe, Arizona. From 1898 to 19 10 he prac- ticed law in Scranton, Penn- sylvania, part of the time in george h. rice offices with Frank E. Don- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 345 nelly, '93, though an actual partnership was never arranged. During that period he was also director and secretary of the Fargo and Moorhead Street Railway Company, Fargo, North Dakota, and of the Harrison Silk Manufacturing Company, and the Chenango Silk Company, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In May, 1904, he was elected solicitor of Dickson City, Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was vice-president of the Yale Alumni Association of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1910 he moved to New York City. The New York City directory gives the address used above. He was married December 2, 1896, to Agnes Graham, daughter of George B. Reynolds of Scranton, Pennsylvania. They have had three children: a son, born December 2.7, 1897, who has since died; a daughter, Elizabeth, born June 21, 1899, and a second daughter, Eleanor, born August 31, 1902. John Trumbull Robinson Partner in the firm of Robinson, Robinson & Cole, lawyers, 11 Central Row, Hartford, Connecticut Residence, 1283 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut The Robinson family traces its descent to William Brew- ster, of the Mayflower company, and to Thomas Robin- son, who settled in Guilford, Connecticut, about 1667. Our classmate's father, Henry C. Robinson, Yale '53, was born August 28, 1832, in Hartford, and died in that city February 14, 1900. His brother, Lucius F. Robinson, was Yale '43, and two of his sisters married J. Hammond Trumbull, '42, and Judge Nathaniel Shipman, '48, three of whose sons are Yale graduates. After graduation from college Mr. Robinson took up the study and practice of law in which he was eminently successful, being well-known as a public orator and was active in both state and national politics, served as Mayor of Hartford from 1872 to 1874, and Republican nominee for Governor in 1876. He was closely identified with the business, philanthropic, and educa- tional interests of the city. On August 28, 1862, he married Eliza Niles, daughter of John F. and Eliza (Smith) Trum- bull, and had five children: Lucius F. Robinson, '85 (his sons, Lucius F., Jr., and Barclay Robinson, members of Yale 191 8 and 1919, are absent for war service) ; Lucy Trumbull Robinson (married Sidney T. Miller; their son is Sidney T. Mil- ler, Jr., 1916, now serving in the U. S. Army) ; Henry S. Robin- 346 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE son, '89; John T. Robinson, '93, and Mary Shipman Robinson (married Adrian V. S. Lambert, '93). Mrs. Robinson (born July 15, 1833, in Stonington, Connecticut, died June 25, 19 16, in JOHN T. ROBINSON Hartford) was a descendant of John Trumbull, who came from Newcastle-on-Tyne about 1637, and settled at Rowley, Massa- chusetts; he died in 1657. John T. Robinson was born April 25, 1871, in Hartford, and was prepared at the Hartford Public High School. He received dispute appointments, a first TenEyck Prize at Junior Exhibition, was fence orator in Freshman year, and a member of Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. He studied law in Hartford and was admitted to the Connect- icut Bar in 1896. He practiced as a member of the firm of Rob- inson & Robinson until 191 3, when the name was changed to Robinson, Robinson & Cole. He is a director of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and of the Hartford City Gas Light Company. He is a Republican. He has held public office as fol- lows: executive secretary, Connecticut, 1901-02; charity com- missioner, Hartford, 1902-04, and delegate-at-large, National BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 347 Republican Convention, 1904; chairman, Hartford Republican Town Committee, 1904-05, and U. S. attorney, District of Con- necticut, 1908-12. He is serving as government appeal agent under the draft law for Local Board No. I, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the Hartford Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is chairman of the Hartford Com- mittee for National Prohibition and is a member of the South Congregational Church of Hartford. He is president of the Yale Alumni Association of Hartford for 1917-18, and is a member of the Hartford Club, Hartford Golf Club, Graduates Club (New Haven), Republican Club, and Tourilli Fish and Game Club of Quebec. He was married April 25, 1905, in Utica, New York, to Gertrude Doolittle, daughter of Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe and Maryette (Doolittle) Coxe, and sister of Alfred C. Coxe, Jr., Yale 1901. They have two children: Gertrude Trumbull, born February 12, 1906, and John Trumbull, Jr., born March 20, 191 5. Joseph Roby Physician, 234 Culver Road, Rochester, New York Roby is a son of Sidney Breeze and Sarah Eliza (Loop) Roby, who were married September 30, 1857, and had four other chil- dren: Margaret Breeze (Roby) Curtis, Samuel Sidney Breeze Roby, Yale '88, William Sterling Roby, '90 S., and Catherine Graves (Roby) Dorrance. The Roby family came from England and settled in Massachusetts. If his grandfather had not married into the Breeze family our classmate thinks he would be the sixth Joseph Roby in line. Through this marriage he is related to Sam- uel Finley Breeze Morse, B.A. 1810, the inventor. Sidney B. Roby (born June 2, 1830, in Albany, New York; died May 28, 1897, in White Plains) was in business as a partner in Roby & Stevens and Roby & Carey, and owner, S. B. Roby & Company and Rochester Wheel Company. Mrs. Roby (born September 30, 1834, in Elmira, New York) is the daughter of Peter and Eliza Irene (Ross) Loop, and granddaughter of General William Ross, who was given a sword by the State of Pennsylvania for distinguished service at the time of the Wyoming massacre. Joseph Roby was born August 19, 1871, in Rochester, and was prepared at the Rochester High School and at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He received a colloquy Senior 348 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE appointment, was secretary of the Football Association in Junior year, a Cup man, a member of the Junior Prom Committee, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. JOSEPH ROBY He received the degree of M.D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1896, being awarded the Harsen Prize of $500 for maintaining the highest scholarship grade throughout the course. His medical internship was served in the New York Hospital, the surgical in the Nursery and Child's Hos- pital, New York. He has practiced in Rochester since 1899, and is attending physician to the Rochester General Hospital (on the staff since 1899), and to the Rochester Municipal Hospital and Orphan Asylum, and consulting physician at the Social Settle- ment Dispensary. He has been specially interested in securing proper inspection and distribution of the milk supply of the city of Rochester and has written considerable on that subject. He is a deputy health officer and, since March, 1918, acting health officer. In politics he is always a Republican locally ; in national issues more often a Democrat. He adds further: "I am a free trader and more or less of a philosophical anarchist." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 349 He usually attends St. Luke's Church. He is a member of the Genesee Valley and University clubs. He was married December 2, 1902, in Rochester, to Alice Montgomery, daughter of Clinton Rogers, wholesale and retail dealers in carpets and furniture, and Fannie (Cooper) Rogers. They have three children: Joseph, Jr., born February 20, 1906; Helen Rogers, born October 25, 191 2, and Rochester Ross, born October 19, 1914. Roby writes : "On the whole we are an extremely happy fam- ily. My mother at present lives with us. We have an attractive corner house on one of 'the' streets in Rochester — with all the modern improvements of heat, light, and electricity and inci- dentally bath tubs and some water. A small shed in the rear used to house a Ford — now a Packard. A Saxon is kept across the way. The older boy, Joe, Jr., is quite a husky lad weighing one hundred pounds stripped at twelve. Occasionally stands first in a class of four or five, but usually last. Apparently inherits his father's brains and good looks. The others also inherit their father's good looks — too young to tell about their brains. Just at present we are thinking and talking about only one thing. Avant la Guerre we mostly talked about paying our bills. In 1916 I had an extremely interesting but short trip to Europe (my first) visiting France, Italy, and Switzerland in com- pany with Bayne, '92. We motored from Marseilles to Menton through Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo and again over the Italian coast road from Vinti Milia to Genoa. Superb trip. Don't miss it if you ever get the chance. No other travels except to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, or New York City. I have no form of recreation or special interest or hobbies except the medical business and perhaps a slight interest in farming, especially milk farming. My accomplishments have been almost 'nil,' two or three mechan- ical devices, one for finding tubercle bacilli in spinal fluid and an apparatus for giving spinal and intravenous injections. How- ever, in a medical way I think I have more or less 'arrived/ Consulting work is growing all the time and my opinion is apparently valued by some. I have no other plan except to try to do my duty in my present situation and leave a small amount for the family. "I think it was at the New York City winter meeting in 1917 that Sam Spencer asked me if I had come to any conclusion as to what it was all about. I had to confess that to me life was as 350 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE much of an enigma as ever. However, some philosophical and governmental questions very much interest me. As to religion — a future life, etc. — for myself I have put those things down as unknowable and consequently not worth worrying about. For some time past I have been convinced that religion has abso- lutely nothing to do with morality and since August, 1914, I have been quite sure of my previous convictions. Before August, 19 14, 1 was a pacifist and I hope to be so again. I think we ought to have gotten into the war when Germany went through Belgium, but I think that the statement that preparation for war insures you of peace is perfectly absurd. "I believe very decidedly in the self determination of nations and also of individuals. I believe that everyone has or rather ought to have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- ness so long as they do not interfere with other peoples' right to the same things. Consequently the thing that I have gotten to hate most is socialism, and to love most is anarchy (or individ- ualism). I do not believe in prohibition and I am an ardent free trader. I do not believe in an income tax and my anarchy goes so far that I am not quite sure that I believe in public schools. I think this government was formed more or less with this idea of personal liberty and that we have not 'progressed' but retrograded when we try to force our opinions on our own or other peoples. "If we are honest and are going to continue to talk about Liberty we have got to see to it that there are no more Philippines — Panama Canals — Porto Ricos — Santo Domingos — Haiti s, etc. " 'You cannot combine injustice and brutality abroad with jus- tice and humanity at home' any more than 'this nation can exist half slave and half free/ " Derby Rogers New Canaan, Connecticut His parents were John and Harriet Moore (Francis) Rogers, who were married April 26, 1865, and had six other children: John Rogers, B.A. 1887, Ph.B. 1888, M.D. Columbia 1891 (his son is John Rogers, Jr., 1920S.) ; Katherine Rebecca; Charles Francis Rogers, Ph.B. 1890; Alexander Parker Rogers, Ph.B. 1894, C.E. Columbia 1898; David Francis Rogers, B.A. ic BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 35i and Laura Derby Rogers (died November 1, 1897). John Rogers, Sr. (born October 30, 1829, in Salem, Massachusetts; died July 26, 1904, in New Canaan, Connecticut), was the son of John and Sarah Ellen (Derby) Rogers, and descended from DERBY ROGERS English emigrants who settled in Ipswich in 1636. In i860 Mr. Rogers began modeling small statuette groups, mostly war sub- jects, while the war lasted and later social subjects, which are known as "Rogers' Groups" ; numbers of these have been repro- duced in composition. In larger works he made a statue of General Reynolds for Philadelphia, and one of Abraham Lincoln. His wife, who was born August 18, 1841, in New York City, is a daughter of Charles Stephen and Catherine Rebecca (Jewett) Francis. The first Francis ancestor came from England in 1636 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Derby Rogers was born December 15, 1871, in New York City, and was prepared at Dr. King's School in Stamford. He received dissertation appointments, a Townsend Prize, was presi- dent of the University and Dunham Boat clubs, a member of the Junior Prom Committee, Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones. 35 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He was a student in the Harvard Law School for two years and then entered the office of Parsons, Shepard & Ogden, New York City, where he remained until 1898, having been admitted to the New York Bar in 1896. In June, 1900, he did some tutoring in Bourne, Massachusetts, but from 1900 to 1907 was unable to work. In 1907-08 he lived at New Canaan and was engaged in teaching in Stamford, and from 1909 to 1913 he was a tutor in the family of Mr. John Sanford, Yale '72, of Amsterdam, New York. He writes : "I have not been very well, and have been living in the country to recover my strength. I have not been able, there- fore, to form any serious plans other than recuperating." Rogers is a Republican. He is a Supply Sergeant in the New Canaan Company of the Connecticut State Guard. He has not married. * Robert Edwin Rowley Died March 14, 1897 ROBERT E. ROWLEY Robert E. Rowley, the son of E. A. Rowley, was born March 30, 1869, in Williams- port, Pennsylvania, and pre- pared for Yale at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massa- chusetts. After graduation he became a member of the firm of Row- ley and Hermance, manufac- turers of wood-working machinery, in William sport, Pennsylvania. He died of pneumonia, March 14, 1897, at his home. He was married December 3, 1895, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to Anne Cram- mond, daughter of the Rev. E. A. Woods, D.D. They had no children. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 353 Louis Barcroft Runk Major, Ordnance Department, U. S. A. Lawyer, 1832 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Residence, 407 West Price Street, Germantown, Philadelphia Runk is a son of William M. and Elizabeth Cogswell (Hill) Runk, who were married January 11, 1872, and had four other children: Marshall Hill; Elizabeth Cogswell (Runk) Hall ; William TenBroeck (died March 4, 1885), and Florence Lincoln LOUIS B. RUNK (died March 31, 1885). The first American ancestor, Jacob Runk (Runck), who came over in the ship Winter Galley from Rotterdam with 252 Palatines, took the oath of allegiance at Philadelphia, September 5, 1738, and bought a plantation of 222 acres, now known as the Robert Fisher Farm in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. William M. Runk (born October 11, 1846, in Kingwood, New Jersey; died Octo- ber 5, 1892, in St. David's, Pennsylvania) was the eldest son of Peter TenBroeck and Fanny (Barcroft) Runk. He was in the drygoods business as a member of the firms of Barcroft, Beaver 354 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN N INETY THREE & Company, Barcroft & Company, and Darlington, Runk & Com- pany, and was a director of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany. On June 3, 1886, he married Evelyn TenBroeck Runk, and there were three children by this marriage. Our classmate's mother (born November 5, 1850, in Philadelphia, and died in that city March 1, 1885) was the youngest daughter of Marshall Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Harriet Smallwood (Field) Hill of Philadelphia. The family traces its ancestry to Peter Hill of England, who sailed from Plymouth in the ship Huntress under John Winter and landed in America with his son Roger, March 22, 1632-33. He settled on the Saco River at the place now known as Biddeford, Maine. Louis Barcroft Runk was born June 13, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was prepared at the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia. He attended the University of Pennsylvania one year before entering the Sophomore Class at Yale in 1890. He received oration appointments, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Zeta Psi. He received the degree of LL.B. at the* University of Pennsyl- vania in 1896, and was admitted to the bar. He has always practiced in Philadelphia. In January, 1901, he was admitted to the firm of Read & Pettit, which firm, in December, 1908, became Read, Gill & Runk. On July 1, 19 12, he withdrew from this firm and formed a partnership with Francis Fisher Kane, under the name of Kane & Runk; this firm was dissolved January 1, 191 7, and he practiced independently until entering the Army. He was commissioned a Major, Ordnance Reserve Corps, August 28, 191 7, and was at once assigned to duty at the works of the Remington Arms Union-Metallic Cartridge Company, Bridge- port, as Inspector of Ordnance, and was, in addition to the Bridgeport Works, in charge of the company's Hoboken (New Jersey) Works from November 17 to December 3, 19 17. On the latter date he was transferred from Bridgeport to Washington to the Office of the Chief Inspector of Small Arms Ammunition which office was, on January 14, 1918, merged into the Inspection Division. He was transferred to the Watervliet Arsenal in August. He has recently been appointed head of the Information Branch of the Inspection Division of the Ordnance Department and is also his Division Liaison Officer. He acted as Chairman of the Division Third Liberty Loan Committee, which secured BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 355 subscriptions for the loan from representatives of the Division throughout the United States and Canada aggregating $1,104,000, ranking second in the Ordnance Department in its grand total and being exceeded by another Division only through one very large subscription. In 1903 he received the degree of M.A. at Yale for graduate work in economics. He has been an active member of the Yale Alumni Association of Philadelphia, serving as an officer, includ- ing a two-year period as its president, and on various committees. In 1916-17 he was corresponding secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Philadelphia. He is a Democrat. In 1902 he was nominated on the Demo- cratic and Municipal League tickets for State Senator but was not elected. From 1910 to 1912 and from 1916 to 1918 he was secretary of the Law Association of Philadelphia and a member of its Board of Governors from 1913 to 191 5. He was corresponding secretary of the Church Club of Phila- delphia from 1899 to 1904 and recording secretary from 1906 to 1913; he was elected church advocate of the Diocese of Pennsylvania on March 6, 1914, which office he stills holds. He belongs to the University Club, Philadelphia, Cosmos Club, Washington, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, and Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. He was married October 23, 1907, in Philadelphia, to Mary Amelia, daughter of William Washington Rankin, a lumber mer- chant, and Maria Amelia (Jefferies) Rankin. They have three children: Elizabeth Hill, born December 10, 1908; Mary Amelie, born November 24, 1910, and John TenBroeck, born January 30, I9I5- Runk writes: "I have had many plans and aims that remain unfulfilled — some of them beyond my reach, and yet the planning and striving to attain have been well worth while. I have recalled often the text of President Dwight's Baccalaureate Sermon to our Class, 'See that ye lose not the things which we have wrought/ To us he always gave of his best. Those things which Yale 'wrought' most for me have been— the love of beauty for its own sake, the desire for truth and the eager- ness to follow wherever she may lead, and the willingness to make personal sacrifices and, if need be, to suffer, whenever public duty called." 356 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Herbert Irving Sackett President, H. I. Sackett Electric Company, and Sackett Electric Con- struction Company, 256 Pearl Street, Buffalo, New York Residence, 12 Brantford Place, Buffalo, New York Sackett is the nephew of Professor D. P. Sackett and was born August 8, 1 87 1, in Oakland, California, where he attended the Sackett School. In college r he received a first dispute Junior appointment. The year after graduation he was with the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Power Company, Niagara Falls, New* York. Since 1894 he has lived in Buffalo, New York, being a contractor for electrical construction and equipment and dealer in elec- trical supplies. In August, 1899, he was elected president of the Electrical Contractors' Association of Buffalo. Since June, 1903, he has been Cap- tain of the 74th Regiment, National Guard of New York. The business conducted under the trade name of H. I. Sackett was divided and in- corporated under the two concerns above mentioned in June, 191 1. He was married September 30, 1895, in Buffalo, New York, to Lillian Gertrude, daughter of Charles B. Huck. They had one son, Russell Pierce, born November 4, 1896. He was married a second time, July 2, 1902, to Lillian, daughter of William Stevens of Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Sackett died November 2, 1914. HERBERT I. SACKETT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 357 William Clement Scott Secretary and treasurer, Newburgh Planing Mill Company, Newburgh, New York William C. Scott and James Bradley Scott, Yale ex-'gs L -> are the only children of David Alexander and Harriet Elizabeth (Bradley) Scott, who were married October 17, 1867. The father (born August 18, 1825, in Montgomery, New York; died August 24, 1890, at Indian Lake, New York) graduated at Wesleyan University in 1846 and was a lawyer by profes- sion. He was surrogate of Orange County, 1859-68, and a school trustee, Newburgh, 1887-90. His ancestors came from Dundee, Scotland, to Montgomery, New York, in 1788. The mother (born in 1841 and died August 14, 1876, in Newburgh) was of English ancestry. William C. Scott was born February 21, 1869, in Newburgh, and entered college from Siglar's Preparatory School. He received second dispute appointments in Senior year. WILLIAM C. SCOTT He was variously employed before 1899 when he became secretary, treasurer, and a director of the Newburgh Planing 358 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Mill Company, the positions which he has since filled. In 1908 he was made a director of the National Bank of Newburgh. He is a Republican. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church. His clubs are the Newburgh City, Powelton, and Yale of New York. He was married October 20, 1897, in Newburgh, to Margaret LeFevre, daughter of John Schoonmaker, a merchant, and Mary (Vail) Schoonmaker. They have two children: Elizabeth Schoonmaker, born July 23, 1898, and William Clement, Jr., born July 2, 1907. A nephew, Frederick C. Scott, is a member of the Class of 1921. Samuel Scoville, Jr. Lawyer, Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Residence, Haverford, Pennsylvania Scoville is a son of Samuel and Harriet Eliza (Beecher) Scoville, who were married September 25, 1861, and had five other children : two died at birth ; William Herbert Scoville, Yale '95, Harriet Beecher (Scoville) Devan, Wellesley '83, and Ann B. Scoville, who studied at Wellesley and Oxford. Samuel Scoville, Sr. (born December 21, 1834, in West Cornwall, Con- necticut; died April 15, 1902, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), graduated from Yale College in 1857 and then studied at Andover and Union Theological Seminaries. He became a Con- gregational minister and served churches in Norwich, New York (1860-1879), Stamford, Connecticut (1879-1898), and Brooklyn, New York (1898-1902). The Scoville family came to this country from England, but they came originally from a village, D'Escoville, in Normandy. Mrs. Scoville (born May 16, 1838, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and died in 19 12 in Cornwall, Con- necticut) was the daughter of Henry Ward and Eunice W. (Bullard) Beecher, sister of William C. Beecher, Yale '72, and aunt of Harry Beecher, Yale '85. Samuel Scoville, Jr., was born June 9, 1872, in Norwich, New York, and was prepared at the Stamford High School. He received a dispute Junior and a dissertation Senior appointment, was vice-president of the Chess Club, and a member of Chi Delta Theta and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was on the Track BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 359 Team for four years, won the Freshman mile, the Varsity mile twice, the Varsity quarter- and half-mile, and cross-country championship, the lightweight championship in boxing and his "Y" in the Dual Games and ran third in the mile and fourth in the quarter-mile at the Intercollegiates. SAMUEL SCOVILLE, JR. He received the degree of LL.B. at the University of the State of New York in 1895, and practiced in New York until 1903, being admitted as junior member of the firm of Beecher & Scoville in 1899. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903 and to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1910, and has since maintained his offices in Philadelphia, in recent years specializing in court work, especially jury trials. He is an officer and director in a number of corporations in New York and Phila- delphia. The Vicennial Record lists his various activities in for- mer years. He is a Republican. He is a member of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, a director of the American Sunday School Union, a member of the Council of Boy Scouts of Philadelphia, and that of Delaware and Montgomery counties, the Girl Scouts 360 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE of Philadelphia, vice-president and a director of the Main Line Forum. His clubs are the University, Merion Cricket, Le Coin D'Or, and Yale, and the Franklin Inn. He is a member of the Geo- graphical Society of Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, the Browning Society, the ^^g^HB^^^. -^ aw Association of Philadelphia and the American Ornithological Society. He was married October 17, 1899, in Philadelphia, to Katharine Gallaudet, daughter of Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull, D.D., and Alice Cogswell (Gallaudet) Trumbull, sister of Charles G. Trumbull, '93, and a cousin of Gallaudet and Rob- inson, '93. They have had five children : Samuel, 3d, born Febru^ ary 19, 1902, and died March 8, 1904; Gurdon Trumbull, born November 1, 1904; William Beecher, born January 13, 1906; Henry Ward Beecher, born July 13, 1909, and Alice Trumbull, born July 3, 191 1. Scoville's letter follows: "Our honored Secretary advises me that the Class is waiting breathlessly for me to write fully, freely, and unrestrainedly about myself to them. In fact I gather from his last four letters that it is difficult for most of you to do business or to eat and sleep with any comfort until I unbosom myself at length. I must say, however, that I have some doubts in regard to the Secretary's statements. Five years ago in response to similar entreaties I dredged the tides of my troubled past and submitted a few pages of the resulting jetsam and flotsam. My efforts were received with loud hoots by my lov- ing classmates and with rough, coarse jokes from the perfidious Secretary. So, although the story of my life would unques- tionably be an inspiration to you all yet I shall confine myself to a comparatively few pages from the same — not over twenty or thirty at the outside. "The first, the last, and the intervening matters about which I wish to write are my hobbies. I submit that when a man reaches his meridian years anything that makes life more inter- esting and vivid and enjoyable, even in these days of war and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 361 wreck, is worth chronicling. Personally, I get so much health and happiness from them all that I am glad to write about them. It is of course dangerous for a professional man to have hobbies. Prospective clients or patients may think that he is neglecting his business for his avocations. In order, therefore, to prevent you from taking your crimes, torts, and contracts to less deserv- ing members of the Class, I hasten to state that first, last, and all the time, hobbies or no hobbies, I am a lawyer in active practice in the City and County of Philadelphia. As to said hobbies there are four, to wit : scribbling, books, boys, and birds. Considering them seriatim I may say that the cacoethes scribendi (you will remember that I was the pride and pet of St. Moore, Pliny Peck, Baldy Wright and other eminent Latinists) early attacked me. I had more alleged jokes in the Record than any one else in the Class. Inspired by the poly- syllabic prose of Lemuel Aiken Welles, and the passion and pathos of Parsons and Winthrop Dwight, I tried for the Lit and landed among the 'also ran' in Chi Delta Theta. That has been the history of my writing ever since. I have had printed in divers magazines a hundred or so stories, essays, articles, and poems, quantities of newspaper material and four books but — they are all EXPLORING NATURE second and third class. Yet I can't stop. On trains, late at night, between cases in court, in vacations, on holidays, and during odd moments I must be always scribbling, with the faint hope ahead that on some morrow-day I may write something worthy of our Class. "Next come boys. I have three of my own here and one that waits for me beyond, to say nothing of a little girl who is worth 362 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE the world and all to us. I have always liked to play and work and talk and tramp with boys and since leaving college have organized and run a dozen or so boys' clubs and bands and troops and classes. Of late years the Boy Scouts have taken up most of my spare time. I am on two Boy Scout councils and for two years had charge of all the nature work of some ten thousand boys, lecturing to different groups each week, writing a weekly nature article and taking them on nature-hikes and camping-trips whenever possible. I once persuaded a reformatory to let me take twenty-five of their worst boys out for a tramp, a swim, and a camp-fire. They all came back safely and some of my best friends are among the ex-boys of that institution. "Next come books. My house, my office, and my camp are stacked with books and books and still more books. To me they are one of the greatest pleasures of life. "Last of all come birds, which to me mean all out-of-doors. Let me urge any of you who may find life a little tiresome or who are over-worked or over-tempted or over-tried to get out into the open. With a smattering knowledge of out-of-door subjects I spend all my holiday time in the open air. Last week (March) I went down to Delaware to help find an eagle's nest. The week before I walked forty-two miles in the snow through the mountains in a day and a half to see the first raven's nest ever found in Pennsylvania, and last summer I traveled a thousand miles through Canada, birds-nesting. One year two of us caught and photographed and described practically every variety of snake in eastern America. There is a bog in New Jersey full of orchids, a rattlesnake-den in Connecticut, a mountain full of rare birds among the Poconos, a hidden trout-brook in the Berkshires and a host of other interesting places that I visit every year. In the depths of the pine-barrens on the brownest, sweetest, crookedest stream in the world I have a canoe and a little cabin full of books and fireplaces. There I escape for a day or so now and then at all times of the year. It is a great way to get acquainted with your- self and your children and it gives you time to think. If you don't believe it come out and spend a day and a night with me in the Barrens and I'll convert you. "So I end as I began. I believe in hobbies and believe that a multitude of interests and sympathies keep a man young and happy and hopeful through this life until he is ready for the greater life beyond." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 363 Hubert Merrill Sedgwick Secretary, Athletic Committee, U. S. Navy Commission on Training Camp Activities Newspaper correspondent, 683 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut Sedgwick is a son of Butler and Minerva Marcia (Hastings) Sedgwick, who were married April 4, 1861, and had one other son, Otis White Sedgwick, B.A. Brown 1899. The father was of the ninth generation in direct descent from General Robert HUBERT M. SEDGWICK Sedgwick, who was born in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, in 1613, and came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1637. He constructed the earliest fortifications of Boston and died in Jamaica, May 24, 1856, at the head of the Cromwell expedition to recover that island. Butler Sedgwick (born March 4, 1832, in Belchertown, Massachusetts; died June 26, 1906, in Bonds- ville, that state) was connected with the wholesale and retail meat firm of Clark & Hastings at Palmer, Massachusetts, for thirty-five years. His wife, whose ancestors came from England 364 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE about 1700, was born November 2, 1835, in Palmer, and died April 18, 1875, in Bondsville. Hubert Sedgwick was born April 29, 1867, in Belchertown, and was prepared at Worcester Academy. In college he received colloquy appointments. He has been engaged in journalism since graduation, serving as New Haven and Yale correspondent for various large news- papers, including the New York Times, New York Tribune, Boston Transcript, Boston Post, and Chicago Tribune. He has contributed articles, largely on athletic matters, to newspapers all over the country, and to many magazines, notably Collier's and Leslie's, since graduation. He is also secretary of the Athletic Committee of the U. S. Navy Commission on Camp Activities. Republican in politics, he was secretary to Mayor John P. Studley, 1907-08, to Mayor Frank J. Rice, 1910-17, and to Mayor Samuel Campner, 19 17- 18, the last named having filled out the unexpired term of Mayor Rice. He is a vestryman and parish clerk of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. Since April 1, 19 12, he has been a member of the 2d Company,, Governor's Foot Guard ; for five years he has been a member of the Union League, for six years of the New Haven Economic Club, and for three of the New Haven Civic Federation. He belongs to Old Hiram Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and to the New Haven Rotary Club. He was married August 4, 1897, in New Haven, to Edith, daughter of Major Theron A. Todd and Hattie E. Todd. They have had two children : u Ruth, born May 28, 1898, and Butler Todd, born July 6, 1900 ; died August 5, 1900. Albert Judson Shaw Lawyer, 18 East Forty-first Street, New York City Residence, 805 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City Shaw's parents were married January 24, 1859, an< ^ na d three other children: Adele Marie Shaw, B.A. Smith 1887; Gertrude L. Shaw, graduated at the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1887 (married William J. Bevins), and Frederic Beecher Shaw BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 365 (died January 6, 1879, * n Andover, Massachusetts). The father, Judson Wade Shaw (born September 6, 1833, in South Paris, Maine; died February 22, 1905, in Falmouth, Maine), received the degrees of B.A. and M.A. at Colby College in 1858 ALBERT J. SHAW and 1865. He engaged in educational work, published several books, and was a Congregational minister settled over various churches in New England ; he founded the Young Citizens' Loyal League and was field secretary of the organization until his death. The original Shaw ancestor in this country is said to have come from England and to have settled near Boston in the seventeenth century. On his father's side he was also descended from John Alden and through both mother and father from the Cole family, who were of the Mayflozver company. Our class- mate's mother, Anne Dana (Barrows) Shaw, was born January 4, 1837, in Hebron, Maine, and died May 28, 1898, in Falmouth. Before her marriage she was preceptress of Hebron and Anson Academies. She was descended from William Barrows, who settled in Hebron, Maine, very early, and was the founder of Hebron Academy, and from the Myricks, who came from Wales. Albert Shaw was born January 16, 1871, in Concord, New 366 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Hampshire, and was prepared at Andover. He received a dis- sertation Junior and an oration Senior appointment, and two- year honors in history. He was president of the Tennis Association, champion in 1892, and represented Yale on the Ten- nis Team in the intercollegiate tournaments for three years. He was a member of the Andover Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He studied law in New York City and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1896. He has since practiced in New York City. In 1904 he became president of the Colonial Mortgage Company and general counsel of the State Realty & Mortgage Company; in 1909 he was elected secretary of the Holland Hold- ing Company. He is co-author with his sister of a novel, "The Coast of Freedom," published by Doubleday, Page & Company, in 1902, and of various short stories which have appeared in Scribner f s and other magazines. In politics he is a Republican. He has worked for better labor laws, fire prevention measures, etc., in New York. He is a mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He belongs to the West Side Tennis Club (president in 1912), the University Club of New York, and to the Yale Club. He has not married. Shaw writes : "Of course I hope and intend to play tennis till I depart this life and in the interstices to attend as intelligently as I can to whatever may be my 'job' before trying to run the rest of the world. Also I'm trying to help in the keeping in the world of faith, sanity, and restraint. "I also cheer myself with the hope each year of escaping to the Maine woods and waters, there to play with the other loons and the beaver, to breathe God's air and get twenty miles of paddling each day." George Theron Slade Major, Railway Transportation Corps, American Expeditionary Forces Vice-president, Northern Pacific Railway Company, 1128 Northern Pacific Railway Building, St. Paul, Minnesota Residence, 435 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota Slade is a son of George Patten and Cornelia Wheeler (Strong) Slade, who were married March 1, 1870, and had one other son, Arthur Jarvis Slade, Ph.B. Yale 1892. His father, born Sep- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 367 tember 29, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has lived in New York during all his business life. He is in the drygoods business and has real estate interests. Mrs. Slade was born April 29, 1844, in Palmyra, New York, and she, with her husband, is descended from New England Colonial stock. GEORGE T. SLADE George T. Slade was born July 22, 1871, in New York City, and was prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He served on the Senior Prom Committee and was a member of the University Club and Psi Upsilon. He has been connected with three great railroads in the twenty-five years since graduation — the Great Northern, Erie, and Northern Pacific. His positions and length of service follow in chronological order: 1893-95, various positions with the Great Northern Railway Company at St. Paul and St. Cloud, Minne- sota; 1895-96, chief clerk in office of the Eastern Railway of Minnesota (subsidiary of the Great Northern) ; 1896-97, assistant superintendent; September, 1897-99, superintendent; 1899-1901, general manager, Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company, Scranton; 1901-03, general superintendent, Erie Railroad, Jersey City; 1903-07, general superintendent, Great Northern Railway 368 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Company; 1907-09, general manager, Northern Pacific Railway Company; 1909-13, third vice-president, and since 1913, first vice-president. He is a director of the First National Bank of St. Paul and of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. He has never held a political office ; usually votes the Republi- can ticket. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Among his clubs are the University of New York, Chicago, and St. Paul, the Down Town Association of New York, the Minnesota of St. Paul, Sons of the Revolution, and Colonial Wars. He was married October 9, 1901, in St. Paul, to Charlotte E., daughter of James J. Hill, a railroad magnate, and Mary M. Hill. They have a son and a daughter: George Norman, born July 25, 1902, in Englewood, New Jersey, and Mary Elizabeth, born August 16, 1903, in St. Paul, Minnesota. James M. Hill, '93, Louis W. Hill, '93 S., Anson M. Beard, '95, and Michael Gavin, '95, are brothers-in-law. William Warren Smith President of the A. B. Smith Chemical Company, manufacturers, 915 White Building, Buffalo, New York Residence, 135 Oakland Place, Buffalo, New York Smith's parents were married April 29, 1856, and had four children; the three daughters died in childhood. Elisha T. Smith (born June 14, 1834, in Buffalo, New York, and died there April 7, 1891) was in the banking business until 1881, being cashier of White's Bank. He was afterwards a member of the firm of A. B. Smith & Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. His wife, Julia (Warren) Smith, was born May 23, 1836, in Clarence, New York, and died March 3, 1913, in Buffalo. Mrs. Smith's nephew, William C. Warren, graduated at Yale in the Class of 1880 S., and his son, William C. Warren, Jr., in 1914. The ancestry is English on both sides. William W. Smith was born July 11, 1872, in Buffalo, and was prepared at a private school. He was an editor of the News and of the Pot Pourri, a member of the Class Baseball Team, floor manager of the Senior Prom Committee, chairman of the Class Cup Committee, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Scroll and Key. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 3 6 9 In 1893-94 he was in the crockery business in Buffalo and the next year he was with M. H. Birge & Son, wall paper manufac- turers. In 1895 he entered the family business, A. B. Smith Chemical Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania, and for some years WILLIAM W. SMITH has been president of the company; the offices are in Buffalo. From 1895 to 1897 he was also associated with the Alumina Shale Brick Company as president. He has been president of the Hazelhurst Chemical Company and the Warren Chemical Com- pany since 1902, is vice-president and chairman of the executive committee, Manufacturers' Charcoal Company, Bradford ; a gov- ernor of the National Wood Chemical Association ; a director of the Chemical Charcoal Company of Buffalo and of the Flower City Charcoal Company of Rochester, and president of the Dominion Charcoal Company of Toronto. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Children's Hospital of Buffalo and of the District Nursing Association, and from 1912 to 1916 was president of the Babies Milk Dispensary. From 1900 to 1905 he was a vestryman of Ascension Church, Bradford, and from 1906 to 1912, clerk of the vestry of 37Q CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo; he now attends the Westminster Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Saturn Club (dean in 1918), Buffalo Tennis and Squash Club, Yale Club of New York, and Graduates of New Haven. He has been active in the work of the Yale Alumni Association of Buffalo, serving from 1895 to 1900 as secretary and treasurer, as president in 1914, and acting as general chairman of the thirteenth meeting of Associated Western Yale Clubs, which met in Buffalo June 16, 1916. He was married October 4, 1898, in Buffalo, to Mary, daughter of Daniel E. Newhall, a grain commission merchant, and Anna Scott (Hayden) Newhall. Mrs. Smith is president of the Chil- dren's Hospital of Buffalo. Their children are : Adrian Warren, born June 3, 1900, now at Andover ; Hayden Newhall, born June 21, 1902, graduating from Nichols School, Buffalo, and Margaret, born February 5, 1904, a graduate of the Elmwood School, Buffalo. George Brown Spalding Pastor of Cocoanut Grove Congregational Church, Miami, Florida Residences, Miami, Florida, and Stonington, Connecticut Spalding is a son of George Burley and Sarah Livingston (Olmstead) Spalding, who were married in 1861 and had four other children, all daughters : Mary Livingston, Martha Reed, Katharine Olmstead (died in 1881), and Gertrude Parker Spalding, B.A. Wellesley 1892 (Mrs. F. L. Henderson). The Reverend G. B. Spalding (born August 11, 1835, in Montpelier, Vermont; died March 13, 1914, in Syracuse, New York) was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1856 and received the degrees of D.D. in 1878 from Dartmouth College and LL.D. in 1894 from Syracuse University. His pastorates were in Hart- ford, Connecticut, Dover and Manchester, New Hampshire, and Syracuse, New York. The Spalding ancestor, Edward, came to America from England and settled at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, but removed to Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1630. Sarah L. (Olmstead) Spalding (born October 28, 1838, in Boston) is a descendant of Robert Livingston, Jr., nephew of Robert R. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 37 1 Livingston; he came from Scotland to New York in 1650 and was one of the founders of Albany. George B. Spalding was born December 19, 1870, in Dover, New Hampshire, and was prepared at the Syracuse High School GEORGE B. SPALDING and at Andover. He received a colloquy Junior and a dispute Senior appointment, was president of the Woolsey Club, and a member of the Andover Club and Psi Upsilon. In 1893-94 he taught English and languages in Hartford, the next year was a student in Auburn Theological Seminary, and after two years of foreign travel for his health, spent the years 1897 to 1900 in the Seminary. Pie was licensed to preach by the Syracuse Presbytery May 7, 1900, and in December became assistant to Rev. C. H. Parkhurst, D.D., pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. In 1902-03 he was temporary pastor of the church at Fryeburg, Maine. In 1903 he removed to the West as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Victor, Mon- tana, and in 1905 transferred to the First Congregational Church of Red Lodge. In February, 1906, he was called to the New England Congregational Church at Saratoga Springs, New York, 372 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE and on September 17, 1908, accepted a call to the First Congrega- tional Church of Stonington, Connecticut. In October, 191 2, he went to the church at ^Rocky Hill, Hartford, and in 1914 to the First Congregational Church at Key West, Florida. Since 191 5 he has been minister of the Cocoanut Grove Congregational Church in Miami, Florida, and in 1917 a new church building was completed. It is of pure Spanish mission architecture ; the structure is an exact reproduction (with modern institutional features) of a Spanish temple in old Mexico City. Spalding is a trustee of Atlanta Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia, and a trustee of the General Conference of Florida and the South East. He is local chairman of the Florida War Work Council, and on the executive committee of the Miami Chapter of the Red Cross. He has been appointed a delegate for four years to the National Council of Congregational Churches. In 1899 he wrote ''Coronet Memories," the record of the voyage of the yacht Coronet on its return from the Eclipse Expedition to Northern Japan. He is a member of the New York Chapter of the Society of Colonial Wars. In Montana he was active in an anti-saloon league and in Saratoga was president of the Christian Endeavor Union for the county. He was married September 2, 1909, in Stonington, to Emeline, daughter of the late Noyes Stanton Palmer and Emeline (Palmer) Palmer. Mrs. Spalding was graduated from Smith College in 1901. Samuel Reid Spencer President, Spencer Brothers, Inc., coal, lumber, and grain, Suffield, Connecticut Spencer is a son of Alfred and Caroline Frances (Reid) Spencer, who were married March 20, 1846, and had seven other children, only two of whom are now living : Alfred Spencer, Jr., and Jennie (Spencer) Montgomery; one son, Clinton Spencer, B.A. Yale 1878, LL.B. 1881, died on December 18, 1917. The father (born January 21, 1825, in Suffield, and died there Decem- ber 30, 1891) was a farmer and tobacco merchant; he was a very progressive man and gave seven children a liberal education. His ancestors came from England in 1632; Sergeant Thomas BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 373 Spencer settled first at Cambridge and later at Hartford ; his son Thomas was one of Sufifield's first settlers. The family still owns some of the land originally alloted to him and the farmhouse, built in 1726, has sheltered six generations. Our classmate's SAMUEL R. SPENCER mother was born October 22, 1827, in Colchester, and died August 31, 1898, in Suffield. She was also of early Colonial ancestry; her people settled at Fall River. Samuel R. Spencer was born November 4, 1871, in Suffield, and was prepared at the Connecticut Literary Institution in that town. In college he received dissertation appointments. From 1893 to 1900 he worked in Windsor Locks with the J. R. Montgomery Company, manufacturers of cotton yarns. He has since been a member of the firm of Spencer Brothers, Inc., dealers in coal, lumber, and grain, holding the position of presi- dent. He is president of the Suffield Savings Bank, a director of the First National Bank of Suffield, president of the Board of Directors of Kent Memorial Library, trustee of the Suffield School, chairman of the executive committee and chairman of the town committee of the Council of Defense. He has taken part 374 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE in various local public activities, such as the Red Cross, Liberty Loan, and Y. M. C. A. campaigns. He is a Republican. He has been treasurer of the town of Suffield since 1900, in 1914 was elected to the State House of Representatives, and in 1916 was reelected. During both terms he served on the Finance Committee and in his second was chairman. He attends the Second Baptist Church. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason. He was married December 12, 1899, in Windsor Locks, to Helena Ellsworth, daughter of Ezra Brewster Bailey, a chuck manufacturer, and Katie E. (Horton) Bailey, and sister of Philip Horton Bailey, B.A. 1897. They have no children. *Henry Crosby Stetson Died April 16, 1907 H. C. Stetson, son of Isaiah and Sarah (Griffin) Stetson, was born February 1, 1869, in Bangor, Maine. He was prepared for Yale at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massa- chusetts. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon and the University Club. After graduation he studied at Harvard Law School, re- ceiving the degree of LL.B. in 1896, and for special work in history he received his M.A. degree at Yale in 1899. He was admitted to the Maine Bar and the Suffolk, Massa^ chusetts, Bar in 1898, and then practiced in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a member of the original committee which formed the Non-Partisan municipal party, and for three years was a HENRY C. STETSON BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 375 member of the Common Council, being made its president in 1907. He was one of the incorporators of the Cambridge Savings Bank, a director of the Y. M. C. A., treasurer of St. John's Memorial Chapel, secretary of the Yale Alumni Asso- ciation of Boston, and secretary and treasurer of the Yale Club of Boston. On April 16, 1907, he died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Cambridge. Burial was in Bangor, Maine. He was married July 8, 1899, to Eleanor Morland, daughter of the Rev. Frederick Morland Gray of Albany, New York. They had a son, Henry Crosby, Jr., born December 10, 1900, and a daughter, Eleanor Livingston, born August 15, 1905. Robbins Battell Stoeckel Lawyer, Norfolk, Connecticut Gustave J. Stoeckel, father of R. B. Stoeckel, was, until the age of twenty-eight, a teacher in Landstuhl, Bavaria, Germany. He took ship for Boston on a sailing vessel which was wrecked off Nantucket, and was taken ashore by an old fisherman. He pos- sessed letters of introduction to prominent citizens of New Haven among whom was the Reverend Leonard Bacon. He was at once installed as College organist. The older generations of Yale men remember that he was connected with the University in this capacity from 1849 an d as first professor and head of the Depart- ment of Music until his retirement at the age of seventy in 1897. In his early years at Yale he was a pioneer in assembling con- certed organizations and was the leader of several small orchestras and glee clubs in the University and among the citizens of New Haven. After his retirement from the University he moved to Norfolk, and spent the last ten years of his life very happily, often saying that he could now undertake the work for which he had previously had no time. During those ten years he composed, and the family now has the scores of at least four operas ; one in particular, "Miles Standish," being a work which will probably be produced. Extracts from it have been used on many occasions. Matilda Wehner, mother of R. B. Stoeckel, came to the United States in 1850 to be married. She was highly educated but came to the United States without any knowledge whatever of English. She never had any active interests outside of her family and home 376 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE life. She took the greatest interest in all of the news of the day, in all discussions and all matters appertaining to political activ- ities. Robbins B. Stoeckel was born September 20, 1872, in New Haven, and was prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School. He ROBBINS B. STOECKEL received a dispute Junior and a dissertation Senior appointment, sang in the College Choir and was a member of Zeta Psi. He was graduated from the New York Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1895 an ^ was admitted to the Connecticut Bar the following year. He has practiced in Norfolk since 1896 and since 1898 has been judge of probate for the District of Nor- folk. He is interested in the real estate upbuilding of Litchfield County and especially in exploiting the summer facilities of the county. He was elected to the State Senate from the Thirty-first District in 1916, and was chairman of the Committee on Incor J porations and of the joint Committee of Senate and House rules. On May 1, 19 17, he was appointed commissioner of motor vehicles for Connecticut for four years. He is a member of the State Council of Defense and of the Y. M. C. A. State Committee. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 377 He belongs to the Yale Club of New York, Graduates Club of New Haven, and the Norfolk Club. He was married November 9, 1905, in Norfolk, to Katharine Mildred Fales, Smith College School of Music 1893, daughter of Lowell Emerson Fales, a paper manufacturer, and Martha A. (Farwell) Fales. They have no children. Stoeckel writes : "Just at present I am on widely diversified propositions and keeping up my practice and real estate work to some extent. I am organizing the Motor Vehicle Department. The legislative act creating this department has given it wide power and it can become one of the large influences exercised for the regulation and better enforcement of law. "On the Transportation Committee of the State Council of Defense I have been working on a plan to further goods trans- portation. While this is primarily an attempt at better handling facilities as a war measure, there is no reason why it should not persist in times of peace. I am most interested in the accomplish- ment of the purposes of the Motor Vehicle Department. The policy to be followed is a constructive one, based on the prin- ciple of foresight and prevention in advance of catastrophe rather than on punishment after the catastrophe has happened. "In connection with the work of the Automobile Commission it will be of interest to you if I explain a step I have recently taken in connection with University students. I had in the depart- ment a large number of complaints about the improper use of cars by students. Therefore, I passed an order that after December 1, 191 7, no student shall have a license to operate a car without he first obtains from the Dean of his Department a certificate to the effect that he is a proper person to have such license. I believe that this will regulate the use of machines by students. I hope to make it impossible for any student to have a car unless with full consent and knowledge of his parents or of those people who will be responsible for him and for his being at Yale. "I have no accomplishments. Regarding recreation and hob- bies. I am first, last, and all times interested in the woods and in everything appertaining to them. I have regularly been to New- foundland, New Brunswick, and Maine for summer fishing trips and have carefully studied the habits of the animals and fishes indigenous to those parts. "My family consists of myself and wife and three dogs. My 378 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE wife is immensely interested in everything appertaining to the war. She claims that she is not a good knitter and flatters her- self that she can drive an automobile. Consequently she has con- fined her war work to getting and bringing into the center, on stated days, all of the ladies who can knit and cannot drive auto- mobiles. She organized and her organization sold the Liberty Bond quota for Norfolk. She is Church organist and has been since 1896, having a large choir under her direction. Her ideas and mine seem to be pretty nearly alike. She takes interest in all of my plans and I certainly take an interest in her accomplish- ments. We are not Society people. We like to go out and meet people but our daily work is so strenuous that we rarely if ever get out to any of the parties or Club functions and while belong- ing to the various organizations such as the Golf Club and Country Club we do not use them." Wendell Melville Strong Associate actuary, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 32 Nassau Street, New York City Residence, 175 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, New Jersey The first representative of the Strong family in this country was Elder John Strong, who came from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630. Melville Strong (born January 7, 1841, in Thompson, Ohio) has been in business in Indianapolis and New York City. On August 13, 1865, ne married Persis Fidelia Griffith and they had the one son, our classmate. Mrs. Strong was born November 20, 1841, in Hamburg, Michigan. In two lines she is descended from early emigrants from England; Lion Gardner came about 1636 to Saybrook, Connecticut, and Gardner's Island, and Michael Humphrey settled in Windsor, Connecticut, about 1640. Wendell M. Strong was born February 6, 1871, in Indianapolis, and was prepared at the Montclair, New Jersey, High School. He received a philosophical oration Senior appointment, one-year honors in mathematics, several mathematical prizes, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. From 1893 to 1900 educational matters held his attention; he studied at Cornell, 1893-94, at Yale, 1894-95, at Gottingen, 1895; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 379 from 1895 to 1900 was a tutor in mathematics at Yale. In Octo- ber, 1900, he entered the actuarial department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, New York City, and was admitted to the Actuarial Society in 1902 after passing the required examination. WENDELL M. STRONG In 1904-05 he was assistant actuary in Chicago, and from 1905 to 191 1, when he was advanced to associate actuary, held a sim- ilar position in New York. He received the degrees of M.A. at Cornell in 1894, Ph.D. Yale 1898, and LL.B. New York University 1903. He has published the following : Linkages for tracing the conic sections, in "Annals of Mathematics," 1894; Is Continuity of space necessary to Euclid's geometry, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 1898; a chapter on Modern Geometry in "Phillips and Fisher's Geometry," and a key to this book ; in collaboration with Professor A. W. Phillips, "Elements of Trig- onometry" and "Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables" ; non- quaternion number systems, Transactions of the American Mathe- matical Society, 1902; Annuities for joint lives, Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, 1902. Since May, 1909, he has 380 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE been editor of the Transactions and further papers by him are entitled : The incontestible clause in life insurance policies ; An important factor in the interest rate; Legal Notes (sixteen papers). For the last six years he has prepared the article on "Life Insurance" for the American Year Book. In politics he is an Independent Republican. He is a member of the University Club of New York, Glen Ridge Country Club, Glen Ridge Club, Actuarial Society of America, Casualty, Actu- arial and Statistical Society, American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Economic Asso- ciation. He is a member of the insurance committee of the American Red Cross. He was married June 9, 1909, in Brooklyn, New York, to Susan Hoyt, daughter of Rev. Philip S. Evans, D.D., and Isabel (Ovington) Evans. Mrs. Strong graduated from Vassar in 1895. They have one daughter: Helen GrifYeth, born December 10, 1913. Carlyle Edgar Sutphen Major, Medical Corps, Base Hospital No. 123, American Expeditionary- Forces Physician, 31 Roseville Avenue, Newark, New Jersey Sutphen is a son of Carlyle Edgar and Jennette (Johnston) Sutphen, who were married March 27, 1865, an d had three other children: Robert Johnston (died February 21, 1891); Eliza Woodruff (died August 26, 1887), and Anne Janet Sutphen, B.A. Barnard 1896. The father (born December 23, 1837, in Camptown, New Jersey; died February 7, 1918, in Deland, Florida) was engaged in shirt manufacturing for fifty years under the name, C. Edgar Sutphen Company, in Newark, New Jersey. His ancestors came from Holland to New Utrecht, Long Island, in 1652. The mother, whose parents came from Scot- land in 1830, was born in August, 1837, in New York State, and died February 20, 1907, in Newark. Our classmate was born May 28, 1871, in Newark, and was pre- pared in the public schools there. He received colloquy appoint- ments, was captain of the Class Football Team in 1892, a substitute on the University Team, a member of the Class Crew and a member of the University Club and Alpha Delta Phi. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 381 He was graduated with the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, in 1896, and was appointed to the staff of Roosevelt Hospital for two years' service from January 1, 1897. He commenced to practice in Newark in CARLYLE E. SUTPHEN 1899, was appointed assistant surgeon to the Newark City Hospital in November, 1901, and has been visiting surgeon since 1904. He has held the same position at the Presbyterian Hos- pital since June, 1913. He is a member of the Local Exemption Board in Newark. His previous military service comprised eight years in the New Jersey National Guard, when he served as Private, Hospital Steward, and 1st Lieutenant. He was commissioned a Major in the Medical Corps as of June 26, 1918, and entered service July 13 at the Medical Officers' Training Camp at Camp Greenleaf. He was transferred to the Base Hospital at Camp Jackson on September 3 and on November 10 went overseas. He belongs to the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church. He has membership in the following: American Medical Association, Essex County Medical Society (president in 1914), Society of 382 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Surgeons of New Jersey, American College of Surgeons (elected a Fellow in 191 5), Academy of Medicine (Northern New Jer- sey), Practitioners Club, Essex County Country Club, B. P. O. E., Masons, and Shriners. He was married September 21, 1897, in Newark, to Edna Ethel, daughter of Leon F. Blanchard, retired, and Larin (Roberts) Blanchard. They have one son, Kenneth Carlyle, born June 12, 1900, now attending Exeter Academy. NOAH H. SWAYNE, 2D Noah Haynes Swayne, 26. Assistant to the United States Fuel Administrator, Washington, D. C. Proprietor of Swayne & Company, 814 Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Residence, 153 Mill Creek Road, Ardmore, Pennsylvania Swayne's father, Wager Swayne, as well as three uncles, Henry S., Noah H., and Francis B. Swayne, were graduates of Yale in 1856, 1868, 1870, and 1872, respectively. The son of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 383 Noah Haynes Swayne (LL.D. Yale 1865), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Sarah Ann (Wager) Swayne, Wager Swayne was born November 10, 1834, in Columbus, Ohio, and died December 18, 1902, in New York City. On graduation from Yale he immediately took up the study of law and, except during the Civil War, he practiced with marked success. Commissioned a Major of the 43d Ohio Vol- unteers, at the beginning of the Civil War, he saw active service with this regiment, being promoted to Colonel after the battle of Corinth. In a skirmish at Salkehatchie Bridge on February 2, 1865, he received a wound which necessitated the amputation of his right leg. He was then brevetted Brigadier-General and later Major General. On December 22, 1868, he married Ellen, daughter of Alfred Harris, a lawyer, and had three sons and two daughters: Alfred Harris Swayne, B.A. Yale 1892; Noah H., 2d; Wager Swayne, ^-'95, Virginia (Swayne) Lomas, and Eleanor Swayne. Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia was one of Mrs. Swayne's ancestors and she is a direct descendant of George Washington's brother. She died December 2, 1909, in New York City. Noah Swayne was born December 29, 1871, in Toledo, Ohio, and was prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. In college he was president of the Freshman Baseball Club, Uni- versity Baseball Association, Yale Financial Union, Phelps Bri- gade, and editor of the News, chairman of the Alumni Weekly, soloist of the Glee Club, a member of the College Choir, the Cup Committee, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was a student at the New York Law School from 1893 to 1895, receiving his degree and being admitted to the New York Bar in the latter year. During his Senior year he was editor-in- chief of The Counsellor, the New York Law School Journal. For the five years succeeding he practiced law in New York City with his father, under the firm name of Swayne & Swayne. In February, 1900, he became president and general manager of the Alabama & Georgia Iron Company and the Frog Mountain Ore Company, Cedartown, Georgia, which position he resigned in 1904 for the presidency of the Nittany Iron Company of Belle- fonte, Pennsylvania. From 1906 to 1914 he was resident man- ager in Philadelphia for Rogers, Brown & Company, pig iron, coke, and iron ore, and a director or officer of several iron and 384 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE mining companies, and has since been engaged in a general brokerage and commission business in coal, pig iron, and coke under the name of Swayne & Company. He is also president of the Calorie Coal Company, Jaffy Coal Mining Company, etc., and of the Philadelphia Wholesale Coal Trade Association. In October, 1917, he was appointed Commissioner of the National Coal Jobbers Association in Washington where he has been cooperating with the United States Fuel Administrator in making available the resources and facilities of the members of the Association. In April he became an assistant to the Fuel Administrator, serving without compensation and at his own expense. He is a Republican. His only active participation in politics was in 1902 when he was elected without opposition an alderman in Cedartown, Georgia, and was chosen by his associates as Mayor "pro tern." He belongs to the Protestant Episcopal Church. Always actively interested in alumni matters, he has served as Class Secretary since 1894, as Alumni Fund Agent since 1895 (director, 1898-1900) ; was one of the incorporators of the Yale Club of New York and a member of its Council, 1897-1900; member of the executive committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Alabama, 1903-04; vice-president, Yale Alumni Association of Central Pennsylvania, 1905-06, member of executive committee, 1907-10; member of the Alumni Advisory Board since 1908, and member of its executive committee, 1913-16; a governor of the Yale Publishing Association since 191 1, was chairman of the Wright Memorial Committee, 1910-12, and a member of the Committee of Twenty-one, Inc., which had charge of the secur- ing of additional property for athletic purposes and of the funds for the Bowl. His clubs are the Yale and University, New York ; Graduates, New Haven ; University, Union League, and Merion Cricket, Philadelphia; Metropolitan and Chevy Chase, Washington, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He was married September 28, 1898, in Pittsburgh, to Chris- tine, daughter of Joseph G. Siebeneck, owner and editor of the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph, and Estelle (King) Siebeneck. They have one son : Noah Haynes, 3d, born December 9, 1909. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 385 Moses Taylor Member of the firm of Kean, Taylor & Company, bankers, 5 Nassau Street, New York City Residence, Annandale Farm, Mount Kisco, New York Taylor is a son of Henry Augustus Coit and Charlotte J. (Fearing) Taylor, who were married in 1868 and had two other children: Henry Richmond Taylor, B.A. Columbia 1891, LL.B. 1894, and Harriet Taylor. Our classmate's father was born January 19, 1841, in New York City, graduated from Columbia University in 1861, receiving the degree of M.A. in 1864, and was a member of the firm of Moses Taylor & Company, bankers, until he retired from active business in 1882. In 1903 he married Josephine Johnson. Char- lotte (Fearing) Taylor was born in New York City in 1844 and died in 1899. Moses Taylor was born January 30, 1871, in New York City, and was prepared at the Cutler School. He was a member of He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key. He writes: "Since return- ing from around the world I have been actively engaged in the steel and banking business and still am, being the only officer now connected with the Lackawanna Steel Company who was then with the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company when it moved its plant from Scranton to Buffalo. Am now senior member of the banking firm of Kean, Taylor & Company." Taylor is a director of the Interlake Steamship Company, Lackawanna Steel Company, South Buffalo Company, Lake Champlain Railroad Company, Witherbee Sherman Com- pany, New York, and Queens Gas Company, New York Life MOSES TAYLOR 386 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Insurance & Trust Company, Tilly Foster Iron Mines, and numerous gas, iron, and railroad companies. He is a Republican. For four years after graduation he was a member of Squadron A, National Guard of New York. He is president of the Moses Taylor Hospitals in Scranton and Buffalo, the Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary Hospital, New York City, and vice-president of the Northern Westchester Hos- pital, Mount Kisco, New York. He belongs to the Episcopal Church. His clubs are the Metropolitan, Midday, Brook, University, Yale, Racquet and Tennis, New York; Graduates, New Haven, and Mt. Kisco Golf Club. He was married August 19, 1896, in New York City, to Edith, daughter of Heber R. and Mary (Cunningham) Bishop. They have had five children : Moses, Jr., born June 8, 1897 ; Reginald B., born September 23, 1898; Francis, born June 14, 1900; Marion, born February 7, 1902, and Edith, born June 6, 1903. Moses Taylor, Jr., graduated from St. Mark's School in 191 5, and was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant, 9th U. S. Infantry; he went to France early in September, 19 17, and died of wounds received in action in the fall of 1918. William Stoutenborough Terriberry Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, National Army Residence, Fisher's Island, New York Terriberry is a son of George Washington and Martha Grif- fith (Stoutenborough) Terriberry, who were married April 28, 1868. George Gilson Terriberry, M.E. Cornell 191 5, is a half brother. George W. Terriberry (born April 7, 1840, in Hampton, New Jersey; died July 14, 1913, in Paterson, New Jersey) is a descendant of Hans Michael Tornberg, a Protestant of the Pala- tine, South Germany, who emigrated to western New Jersey in 1732. He attended Muhlenberg College, but left to enter the army, later receiving the degree of M.D. at Bellevue Medical College in 1866. He was a medical officer in the United States Army, — being a medical Cadet and later an Assistant Surgeon, 1 st Lieutenant (1862-65). He afterwards held various grades in the New Jersey National Guard from Major to Colonel, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 387 retiring as Brigadier General. In 1890 he married Fanny E. Gilson. From 1867 to 19 13 he lived in Paterson, New Jersey. Our classmate's mother (born in May, 1846, in Paterson; died WILLIAM S. TERRIBERRY there, December 13, 1888) was of Dutch and English descent, her ancestors coming from Holland to Albany and New York about 1648-49. William S. Terriberry was born July 3, 1871, in Paterson, and attended St. Paul's School, Garden City, in 1889. In college he received Junior and Senior colloquies, was an editor of the Record and a member of Zeta Psi. After graduation he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, and graduated in June, 1896, with the degree of M.D. In March of that year he was appointed to the house staff of the fourth division Bellevue Hospital surgical ser- vice. When the Spanish War broke out in 1898 he was com- missioned 1st Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon, 2d Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, proceeding with that regiment to Jacksonville, Florida. Late that year he resigned his position and was appointed acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army. 3S8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He saw service at Headquarters, 7th Army Corps, at Savannah, Georgia, at Quemados de Mariano, Havana, Cuba, and at the headquarters of General Fitzhugh Lee, and General Brooke. He was discharged in April, 1899, returning to New York City and active practice. Since that time he has served in various capaci- ties at the Bellevue Hospital. He is a graduate of the United States Army Field Service School at Fort Leavenworth. He was mustered into the United States service for Mexican border duty in June and mustered out in December, 1916, receiving the commission of Colonel, Medical Corps, New York National Guard, March 20, 191 7. As a Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, National Army, he has been in charge of the Embarkation Hospital at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Virginia. He has written a number of articles in various medical and mil- itary service publications, mostly on military medicine or the organization of the army medical department. His clubs are : Yale Club, Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hos- pital and Riverside Practitioners Society, of New York; New York State and County Medical Society; Army and Navy Club, Washington, D. C. ; Military and Naval Order Spanish-x\merican War, and Military Service Institution. He was married October 17, 1907, in New York City, to Emilie, daughter of Charles Stanley Reinhart, artist and illustrator, and Emelie V. (Varet) Reinhart. Born in New York City, Mrs. Terriberry lived in France for many years, and in New York and Flushing. They have no children. Terriberry writes : "Have been actively engaged in the mili- tary service for a number of years, and for the past five years chief surgeon of the National Guard of New York, an assignment which made it necessary for me to give up all private practice. Am now on active duty as a Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, National Army, having taken an Irish promotion from Colonel, National Guard, to Lieutenant Colonel, National Army, — if the war lasts long enough I may hope to be a Sergeant before it ends. You ask what I am talking and thinking of. I am not talking at all, and since the uplift hit the army I am principally thinking how good beer used to taste. Soldiering is a hard life but there are no meatless or wheatless days in it so far, and besides it is the fashion, — we are all heroes now and not the mercenary bums and murderers we were ante helium. So far so good." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 389 John Booth Thomas Town clerk and treasurer, clerk of City Court, and owner of the Thomas Pharmacy, Memorial Building, Rockville, Connecticut Residence, 6 Chestnut Street, Rockville, Connecticut The first generation of his family to be born in the United States, Thomas is one of five children of James and Mary (Hoyle) Thomas, who were married in this country in 1861 ; the other children are Annie E., Alfred, Jennie (Thomas) Ronk, JOHN B. THOMAS and Arthur Thomas (died October 6, 1908). The father (born February 16, 1836, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died May 8, 1906, in Rockville) settled in Millville, Massachusetts, in 1859, and later lived in Uxbridge and Otter River, that state, Westerly, Rhode Island, and Rockville, Connecticut. The mother (born January 20, 1839, in Holmfirth, Yorkshire) is the daughter of Jonas and Esther Hoyle, who came to Uxbridge, Massachusetts, in 1859. John B. Thomas was born July 22, 1865, m Westerly, Rhode Island, and was prepared at the Rockville High School. He 39° CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE received a dispute Junior and a dissertation Senior appointment, prizes in mathematics in Freshman and Junior years and honors in mathematics and history in Senior year. After one year of teaching Thomas entered the drug business and until 1908 was with the following companies : Spalding & Company, New Haven, 1894-95; Calhoun & Company, New Haven, 1895-98, and J. Hutchinson & Company, Bran ford, Con- necticut, 1900-08. In December of the latter year he passed the Connecticut Bar examinations and opened an office in Branford. In 191 3 he moved his office to Rockville and has since been actively identified with the government of that town. He became a partner in and manager of the Woodhall Drug Company in 1914 and three years afterward bought out the business and changed the name to the Thomas Pharmacy. In politics a Republican, he has served as clerk of the City Court of Rockville since 1914, clerk of the Town of Vernon since May, 191 5, treasurer of the Town of Vernon since October, 1914, and deputy coroner of Tolland County, 1914 to 191 7. He served as chairman of the military census bureau, was a recruiting officer of the Connecticut Home Guard ; member and clerk, Registration Board, Town of Vernon, and secretary, Tol- land County Auxiliary Committee, State Council of Defense. On December 15, 191 7, he was appointed chief clerk of the Local Exemption Board for Division No. 23, State of Connecticut, and on January 2, 1918, secretary of the War Bureau, City of Rockville. He is a member of the Congregational Church of Rockville. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge and Knights of Pythias. He was married June 2, 1896, in New Haven, Connecticut, to Harriet Gertrude, daughter of George E. and Jennie (Abbey) Barber. They have one daughter: Dorothy Kenyon, born March 6, 1901. Thomas writes : "Being unfit physically for active military service by both age and condition I am trying in every way pos- sible to do my bit for my country in these trying times. While 1 have been consistently and slowly gaining in this game of life, yet at this age of fifty-two, I have not ceased striving to reach the goal of my student days. This goal I may never reach, but still have much ambition left and am (as the English say) still 'carrying on,' and whether I reach the goal or not life is much more interesting for the reason that I still have something to look BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 39 forward to. While family life is more or less uninteresting to those outside of the family circle, I can say in this respect that my only child, a daughter, now seventeen years old and a Junior in the Rockville High School, is following in her father's footsteps in the love for study and promises to be a more thorough and consistent student than her father, while at the same time an athletic outdoor girl, skilled in all outdoor sports." Herbert Gorden Thomson President, Anchor Post Iron Works, manufacturers of iron and steel fences and railings, 165 Broadway, New York City Residence, 810 Park Avenue, New York City Thomson is a son of William Hanna and Catherine Sarah (Van Dyck) Thomson, who were married May 7, 1861, and had two other children : Evelyn M. and William DeForest Thomson, B.A. Yale 1895, The father (born November 1, 1833, in Beirut, Syria; died January 18, 191 8, in New York City) attended Wabash College in 1849-50 and Albany Medical College. He also received the degree of LL.D. He was physician to the Roosevelt Hospital, consulting physician to the New York State Man- hattan Hospitals for the In- sane, and to the New York Red Cross Hospital, professor of the practice of medicine and of diseases of the nervous system in the New York Uni- versity Medical College, and was at one time president of the New York Academy of Medicine. The family is of Scotch ancestry, being descended from members of Clan McTavish, who came to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1780. The mother (born June 10, 1832, in HERBERT G. THOMSON 392 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Albany, New York ; died May 29, 1905, in New York City) was a descendant of Holland Dutch emigrants, who came to this country early in the eighteenth century and settled near Albany. Herbert Thomson was born December 23, 1871, in New York City, and attended the James H. Morse Preparatory School in New York City. He received colloquy appointments, was an editor of the Record, a member of the Class Crew, and of Alpha Delta Phi and Wolf's Head. He writes : "Since leaving college, the manufacturing business of which I am president has demanded all of my working hours, and given me very little leisure for anything else. Manufactur- ing, however, is an interesting and absorbing occupation, and at this time more so than ever. It is a great source of satisfaction to me to work for the Government, and to put the resources of our company, such as they are, to Government service. "I am very much interested in farming, and spend as much of my leisure time as I can from business at my farm in Fairfield County, Connecticut. I would like to live on a farm, but as I cannot do that, I have devised the next best thing and have a farm that lives on me. However, it is an excellent place for children and for play. "If I could take the time from business, I would prefer trav- eling to almost anything else. "Is not the War the only thing worth talking about just now?" In politics Thomson is a Republican. He is a vestryman in the Episcopal Church. He was married October 7, 1902, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, to Anna Theodora, daughter of Theodore Hoe Mead, a partner in R. Hoe & Company, of New York City, and Anna R. (Johnson) Mead. They have one daughter: Theodora Gordon, born December 20, 1909. Dexter Edgar Tilley Address unknown Tilley is the son of Bennett Tilley and was born November 28, 1872, in West Springfield, Massachusetts, where he prepared for Yale at the high school. He received first dispute Junior and Senior appointments in college. For a year after graduation he was at the Yale Law School. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 393 The next year he continued the study of law in Spring- field, Massachusetts, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in June, 1895. He prac- ticed in Springfield, Massa- chusetts, being made a mem- ber of the firm of Webster, Taft and Tilley in 1898. He was a selectman of West Springfield, Massachusetts, for three terms, and also town clerk. Since about 1905 nothing has been known of his occupation or address. He was married February 9, 1901, to Grace M., daughter of Charles S. Willard of West Springfield, Massachusetts. DEXTER E. TILLEY Horace Gates Torbert Farmer, R. F. D. 5, Concord, New Hampshire Torbert is a son of George Lansing and Margaret (Rockwell) Torbert, who were married October 20, 1869, and had two other children : Katharine K. Torbert, and James R. Torbert, Yale 1895 S., a physician in Boston, Massachusetts. George L. Torbert (born January 1, 1831, in Camden, New York; died April 3, 1905, in Dubuque, Iowa) is a descendant of Lamb Tor- bert who emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania about 1740, and was a son of Horatio Gates and Clarissa (Ransom) Tor- bert. He lived in Camden, New York, until 1855, and then removed to Dubuque, Iowa, where he was postmaster from 1872 to 1880; he was engaged in the real estate and insurance busi- ness and was president of the Iowa Trust & Savings Bank. Mrb. Torbert is a daughter of James and Cynthia (Kellogg) Rockwell, and was born in Utica, New York, May 13, 1842. Her ancestor, William Rockwell, settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630. Horace G. Torbert was born February I, 1871, in Dubuque, 394 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Iowa, and attended the Dubuque public schools and Phillips Academy, Andover. He was a member of the Freshman and Class Football teams, the Andover Club and Delta Kappa Epsi- lon. In 1893 he entered the real estate and insurance business in Dubuque, and was a member of the firm of G. L. Torbert & Son HORACE G. TORBERT until 1904. During 1897-98 he was receiver of the Dubuque Street Railway. In 1904 he moved to Washington, D. C, to accept a position with the Washington Railway & Electric Com- pany, remaining there until 191 5 when he was employed in the office of the president of the Boston Elevated Railway Company. In May, 191 7, he removed to Concord, New Hampshire, and has since been engaged in farming. He says : "After trying to get into several branches of the army and being turned down on account of old age, we decided to buy a farm and try to raise something. We are enjoying the experience though I shall have to admit that our crops cost us more last year than we got for them. We expect, however, to tackle it again next summer." In politics Torbert is a Republican. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 395 He was married November 9, 1910, in Bethesda, Maryland, to Alice Kearny, daughter of the late Randolph Coyle, U. S. District Attorney, and Mary (Radford) Coyle. They have one son: Horace Gates, Jr., born October 7, 191 1. Mrs. Torbert attended Radcliffe College with the Class of 1901. Edward Holman Tracy Lawyer, 410 American Trust Building, Cleveland, Ohio Residence, 1892 Taylor Road, East Cleveland, Ohio Melville Merrick and Abigail Durham (Weston) Tracy, parents of Edward H. Tracy, were married August 4, 1863, and F EDWARD H. TRACY had three other children : Frank Tracy (died in 1864), Emma Louise Tracy (died 1874), and Frances Maude (Tracy) Oviatt, B.A. Washburn College 1885. Melville M. Tracy (born in 1836, at Whitney's Point, New York; died in Longmount, Colo- rado, September, 1889) was of English descent. He received 396 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE the degrees of B.A. at Amherst College in i860, M.A. from the same institution and B>D. at the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1876. He was principal of schools in Barre, Springfield, and New Marlboro, Massachusetts, from 1862- 1875, becoming a Con- gregational clergyman in 1876, and preaching in Minnesota, Kansas, and Colorado. He married Ruth Kent in October, 1876, of which marriage was born one daughter, Abby Ruth Tracy, B.A. Wellesley 1900. Our classmate's mother (born Septem- ber 6, 1829, in New Braintree, Massachusetts ; died October 22, 1875, m Hartford, Connecticut) was also of English ancestry, her people having come to Plymouth in the Mayflower. She attended the public schools of New Braintree and Miss Campbell's Boarding School, Springfield, Massachusetts, and was a success- ful school-teacher. Edward H. Tracy was born June 5, 1868, in Springfield, Massa- chusetts, and attended Washburn College before entering Yale. He received dispute appointments, and one-year honors in polit- ical science in Senior year. After graduation he continued his studies at the Yale Law School, teaching in the Evening High School 1893-94, and at Highwood School 1894-95, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1895. The same year he was admitted to the Ohio Bar, but was engaged in tutoring for another year in Dayton, beginning the practice of his profession in Cleveland in 1896, where he is now in business without associates. He is a director in the Art Engraving & Color Type Company. He is a member of the Congregational Church, having been a deacon and chairman of the board of trustees and is clerk at the present time. In politics he is a Progressive Republican. He acted as solicitor for the Village of Collinwood in 1906-07 and was president of the Board of Education, 1908-09. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Real Estate Board, and the East Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He was married September 4, 1902, in Canton, Illinois, to Anna Lee, daughter of John Bangs Allen, a lumber dealer, and Sarah (Dunlap) Allen. Before her marriage Mrs. Tracy was a piano teacher and organist, having attended Oberlin College and Con- servatory of Music. They have two children: Charlotte, born October 6, 1904, in Cleveland, and Barbara, born January 2^, 1906, in Collinwood, Ohio. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 397 *Robert Storer Tracy Died April 13, 1899 Robert S. Tracy was the son of Jeremiah Evarts and Martha Sherman (Greene) Tracy, who were married September 30, 1863, and had eight other children, three sons and five daughters: Emily Baldwin Tracy; Howard Crosby Tracy, B.A. Yale 1887, LL.B. Columbia Law School 1889; Evarts Tracy, B.A. Yale 1890; Mary Evarts Tracy ; Margaret Louisa (Tracy) Mix; Edith Hast- ings Tracy; Martha Tracy, B.A. Bryn Mawr 1898, M.D. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 1904; and Wil- liam Evarts Tracy, B.A. Yale 1900, E.M. Columbia School of Mines 1904, who died Feb- ruary 18, 1916. Our class- mate's grandfather, Ebenezer Carter Tracy, B.A. Dartmouth 1819, Andover Theological Seminary 1822 (born June 10, 1796, in Hartford, Vermont, and died May 15, 1862, in Windsor, Vermont), was a newspaper editor living in Boston, Massachusetts, and Windsor, Vermont. He was the son of Joseph Tracy, a grand- son of Thomas Tracy, and a great-great-great-grandson of Stephen Tracy, an Englishman who, after spending some years in Leyden, Holland, where, in 1621, he married a young English- woman, came in 1623, in the ship Ann, to Plymouth, Massachu- setts, later moving to Duxbury, Massachusetts, the descending line running thence through Windham, Connecticut, to Hartford, Vermont. His wife, Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy, born July 31, 1809, and died April 10, 1889, was the younger daughter of Jeremiah Evarts, B.A. Yale 1802, and Mehetabel Sherman, widow of Daniel Barnes, and daughter of Roger Sherman, treas- urer of Yale College from 1765 to 1776, who was the only man ROBERT STORER TRACY 398 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE who signed all four of the great state papers : the Association of the Congress of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States. Our classmate's father, J. Evarts Tracy, one of eight children, was born January 31, 1835, in Windsor, Vermont. After receiving his LL.B. degree at Yale in 1857, he went to New York City, where he practiced law until his retirement in 1907. His wife, Martha Sherman Greene, born May 24, 1839, was a daughter of the Rev. David Greene, B.A. Yale 1821, Andover Theological Seminary 1826, and Mary Evarts, eldest daughter of Jeremiah Evarts, whose mother was the daughter of Timothy Todd, B.A. Yale 1747, and whose sons were John Jay Evarts, B.A. Yale 1832, and William Maxwell Evarts, B.A. Yale 1837, LL.D. 1865 and Union 1857 and Harvard 1870, Attorney-General, Secretary of State, and United States Senator. Our classmate's mother also had a brother, Jeremiah Evarts Greene, who grad- uated at Yale in 1853 ; and Roger Sherman Tracy, B.A. Yale 1862, M.D. Columbia 1868, is another uncle. Robert S. Tracy was prepared for Yale at Mr. Leal's School, Plainfield, New Jersey. He was a member of the University Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon. In June, 1896, he received his M.D. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. As the result of a competitive examination he served on the staff of the New York Hospital from January, 1897, to July, 1898, and later occupied a similar position in the Sloan Maternity Hospital for six months. In January, 1899, he went to Dr. Trudeau's Sanitarium at Sara- nac Lake, New York, because of threatened tubercular trouble. He was accidentally drowned in Saranac Lake about midnight, April 12, 1899. The body was recovered May 12, 1899, and on May 14, 1899, was buried in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was unmarried. Thomas Cann Quincy Trask Head of the Department of History, Commercial High School, Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, New York Residence, 1081 Park Place, Brooklyn, New York Trask is the only son of Brainard P. Trask and Mary Sanger (Cann) Trask, who were married in 1869. The family is Eng- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 399 lish, descended from Ormond Trask, one of the first planters of Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1625 ; his son, Edward, was killed at Bloody Brook in King Philip's War, 1675. The father (born August 6, 1834, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is a son THOMAS C. Q. TRASK of Reverend George Trask and Nancy (Quincy) Trask (a sister of Josiah Quincy). He is a teacher and lawyer; during the Civil War he served in the Navy and at the battle of the Merrimac and Monitor was an Ensign on the Congress. Mrs. Trask (born January 21, 1851, in Wilmington, Delaware, a graduate of Boston College) was descended from Captain George Barbour (Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635), the chief military officer of the district. She also traces her ancestry in a direct line from Richard Sanger, the first man on the Com- mittee of Safety with President Locke, and one of the Second Provincial Congress. Thomas Trask was born August 18, 1870, in Frederick, Mary- land, and was prepared at the School of the Lackawanna, Scran- ton, Pennsylvania. In college he played tennis, baseball and 4oo CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE football, and was a member of Theta Delta Chi ; he received one-year honors in history. He has taught continuously since graduation, as instructor in the Brooklyn Latin School, 1893-95 J Newburgh, New York, Academy, 1895-99; Morris High School, 1899- 1900, and from 1902 to 1910; Peter Cooper High School, New York City, 1900-01. In 1907 he was fourth on the eligible list of New York City Civil Service Examiners for the position of first assistant principal, and in February, 1910, was appointed head of the department of history in the Commercial High School, Brooklyn. He received the degree of M.A. at Yale in 1903. He has been a member of the American History Association since 1902. He states that in politics he is a Mugwump with Progressive tendencies. He was treasurer of the Young Men's Democratic Club of the Bronx in 1902-03, and gives occasional lectures on politics and sociology. During the war he has given much time to draft board work. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His clubs are the Theta Delta Chi, Crescent Athletic, West Side and Kings County Tennis. He was married June 28, 1900, in New Windsor, Connecticut, to Mary Cornell, from whom he was divorced in 191 5. On February 8, 19 16, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he married Jessie Parsche, a graduate of the University of Chicago and the New York Hospital. She is a daughter of Francis Xavier Parsche, a manufacturer in Chicago, and Margaret (Crawford) Parsche. They have one daughter, Margaret Craw- ford, born November 5, 1916. Charles Gallaudet Trumbull Vice-president, secretary, and director of The Sunday School Times Company, 103 1 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Residence, 432 State Road, Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Trumbull is a son of Henry Clay and Alice Cogswell (Gallau- det) Trumbull, who were married May 23, 1854, and had seven other children: Sophy D. (Trumbull) Wattles; May (Trum- bull) Field; Alice G. (Trumbull) Sparhawk ; Annie S. (Trum- bull) Howard; Katharine (Trumbull), wife of Samuel Scoville, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 401 Jr., Yale '93; Fannie Webb Trumbull (died August 13, 1863) ; and Henry Camp Trumbull (died September 21, 1869). The Trumbull family is descended from Elder Brewster of Plymouth Colony. Many of the earlier generations were graduates of CHARLES G. TRUMBULL Yale ; the first recorded is John Trumbull, who received his degree in 1735. Henry Clay Trumbull (born June 8, 1830, in Stonington, Connecticut ; died December 8, 1903, in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania) was educated at Williston Seminary, expect- ing to go to Yale, but ill health prevented. He received the honorary degrees of M.A. from Yale in 1866, D.D. in 1881 from Lafayette, and from the University of the City of New York in 1882. He was employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1851, appointed a missionary of the American Sunday-school Union in 1858, and was editor of The Sunday School Times from 1875 to 1903. During the Civil War he served as Chaplain with the 10th Connecticut Regiment. Mrs. Trumbull (born September 15, 1833, in Hartford, Con- necticut; died August 23, 1891, in Philadelphia) was a descend- ant of Peter Elisha Gallaudet, who fled from France after the 4Q2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE French Revolution and the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling at New Rochelle, New York, about 1700. She attended the Hart- ford Seminary for Young Ladies, being a piano teacher from the age of eighteen, when her father died. Additional facts regarding the Gallaudet family are contained in the biography of Edson F. Gallaudet. Charles G. Trumbull was born February 20, 1872, in Hart- ford, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Hamilton School in Philadelphia. He received Junior and Senior colloquies, was a member of the University Banjo Club, went out for track athletics, winning a copper cup in the high jump Freshman year, was superintendent of the Bethany Mission School, and a mem- ber of Psi Upsilon. He has been with J. D. Wattles & Company, publishers of The Sunday School Times, Philadelphia, since graduation, becoming a member of the firm and associate editor in 1897. He was elected secretary in 1900 and is now vice-president and director. He has published "A Pilgrimage to Jerusalem," 1904; "Tak- ing Men Alive," 1907; "Men Who Dared," 1907; "Messages for the Morning Watch," 1912; "Anthony Comstock, Fighter," 1913; and a number of pamphlets. He is a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; honorary secretary for America of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Great Britain ; associate member of the Victoria Institute of Great Britain; member of the International Y. M. C. A. Bible Study Advisory Committee; treasurer of the British and Allied Soldiers Evangelistic Campaign; the U. S. Council of the Inland-South America Missionary Union; the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; the Presbyterian Social Union of Philadelphia; the Yale Alumni Association, and City Club of Philadelphia. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church and teaches a Men's Bible Class. In politics he is a Republican. He was married November 18, 1897, in New York City, to Aline Marguerite, daughter of Edward vanOrden, a retired business man, and Margaret (Vanderhoof) vanOrden. They have no children. Trumbull writes : "As I think back into my feelings when I was living in 228 Durfee, and recall how hopelessly aged, with BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 403 life all behind them, seemed the 'old graduates' who were back in New Haven at their Twenty-fifth, I marvel how I could ever have felt that way. You and I know now that we're just fairly at the beginning of what we really want to do and, please God, confidently expect to do. We've been getting ready since 1893 ; now for the next twenty-five years we're going to do it. And if we've done some things that haven't helped us, but have rather hindered in getting ready, we're not leaving them for- ever behind. "I'm grateful for the traveling I've been privileged to have; saw how things were 'made in Germany' way back in '95 ; have been several times in England and Scotland and rejoiced in close acquaintance with some of the sturdiest of Scotch and English friends, in their intimate family life in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London ; and traveled the whole length of the Holy Land, from Damascus to Jerusalem, on horseback, so that the present con- quest of that land by Christian powers, preparatory to giving it to its God-covenanted owners the Jews, means more to me than general news. And I have been taken constantly by my work into almost every part of North America except the Pacific Coast. "My married life has been an ideal one, and still is, — come to 'The Willows,' at Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, and you'll see why. "But, fellows, as I study Swayne's request for an unrestrained expression of our aims and special interests, I cannot but say that, as I look back over twenty-five years, and look about me now, and look ahead, the biggest and best and only interest worthy to be counted worth while in life as I've seen it and still hope to see it is Jesus Christ. "Some of you know what a miserable imitation of the real thing I've often made of it; but He is the real thing; and whenever I've let Him fill my life He has infinitely more than satisfied. This war crisis, while it's got to be fought through and won, has made many a man think more of God and His plans for this world. And so I can only say — and none of us would be fools enough to bring any affectation into this word among ourselves — that I hope that the coming years will find Christ at the absolute center of things for me; and that I may do my part as I've never yet done it to satisfy hungry folks evervwhere with the Good News about Himself." 404 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Harry Selden Vaile Principal, Gladstone School, 1231 South Robey Street, Chicago, Illinois Residence, 603 North Sixth Avenue, Maywood, Illinois Vaile is a son of Edwin Orlando and Emma L. (Brainard) Vaile, who were married July 14, 1870, and had five other children: Robert Vaile, B.A. University of Michigan 1898; Edwin Orlando Vaile, Jr., B.A. Yale 1901 ; Florence Isabella Vaile, B.A. Smith 1904; Anna Elizabeth, and Emma Vaile. Edwin O. Vaile (born No- vember 21, 1843, m Piqua, Ohio) is the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Estabrook) Vaile, whose ancestors came from England or Wales. He attended the University of Michigan in 1865-66, and was a teacher in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, from 1868 to 1 87 1, in the Woodward High School, Cincinnati, 1871-78, the public schools in Chicago, 1878-81, and an editor and publisher of a school journal, 1880-1905. Since 1880 he has lived in Oak Park, Illinois. Mrs. Vaile (born July 15, 1844, in Canfield, Ohio) is the daugh- ter of Calvin C. and Sophia (Fitch) Brainard. Harry S. Vaile was born April 22, 1871, in Columbus, Ohio, and was prepared at the Oak Park (Illinois) High School. He received philosophical oration appointments in Junior and Senior years, a Berkeley Premium of the first grade, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Since graduation he has taught in Chicago high schools, in 1910 being appointed principal of the John Crerar School after sixteen years in the Hyde Park High School. In September, 191 2, he was advanced to the principalship of the Froebel Day BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 405 and Evening School and three years later he was made principal of the Gladstone School, Chicago. He is a member of the Red Cross, the Fatherless Children of France, and a member of the First Congregational Church of Oak Place, Illinois. In politics he is an Independent, inclining to the Republican party. He was married June 29, 1896, in May wood, Illinois, to Carrie A., daughter of Frank H. and Harriet Edith (Herring- shaw) Merrill. Her father is in the Chicago office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Mrs. Vaile attended the University of Minnesota and is active in Woman's Club and Red Cross work. They have two children : Adeline Elizabeth, born November 29, 1903, and Edwin Merrill, born April 10, 1906. *William Henry Vanderbilt Died May 23, 1892 William Henry Vanderbilt was the son of Cornelius and Alice Claypoole (Gwynne) Vanderbilt. Cornelius Van- derbilt, born on Staten Island, New York, a capitalist, con- nected with the New York Central and Harlem River Railroad, died in 1899. Alice Claypoole (Gwynne) Vander- bilt was a resident of Cincin- nati, Ohio, before her mar- riage. The following are Yale relatives : an uncle, Fred- erick William Vanderbilt, 1876 S. ; three brothers, Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, B.A. 1895, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, B.A. 1899; an d Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, B.A. 1902; and three cousins, WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT 406 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE James Watson Webb, B.A. 1907, William Seward Webb, B.A. 1909, and Vanderbilt Webb. B.A. 191 3. W. H. Vanderbilt was born December 21, 1870, in New York City, and was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. As a Freshman he was a member of the Class Crew. He was vice-president of the Class Boat Club, one of the board of governors of the University Club, and a member of the Junior Promenade Committee and of Psi Upsilon. He died May 23, 1892, of typhoid fever, but his degree was con- ferred post obitum in 1893. ISIDORE WACHSMAN Isidore Wachsman Secretary, Board of Contract and Supply of the City of Albany, City Hall, Albany, New York Residence, 19 South Pine Avenue, Albany, New York Samuel Wachsman (born in 1823, in Cracow, Austria; died there, in 1889) came to this country in 1867, and resided in Brooklyn and New York City until 1876, where he was in the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 407 employ of Colgate & Company, soap manufacturers and per- fumers, for a number of years, then in the same line of business for himself; from 1876 until the time of his death he was in the hotel business in Albany, New York. He married Charlotte Pitzele (born August 9, 1842, in Cracow, Austria; died in Albany, New York, July 16, 191 7) in 1864, and they had one son, our classmate. By a previous marriage he had three sons and one daughter. Isidore Wachsman was born July 11, 1870, in Brooklyn, New York, and was prepared at a private school, Albany public schools, and at the Albany High School. He received philosophical ora- tion appointments, Junior and Senior years, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After one year at the Albany Law School he received the degree of LL.B., and was then in the office of the Corporation Counsel, Albany, during 1894-95, being admitted to the New York Bar in June, 1895. He has since practiced in Albany, — as a member of the firm of Reick & Wachsman from January 1, 1896, until its dissolution, and then alone. He has been secretary of the Board of Contract and Supply, of Albany, since 1900. On May 27, 1909, he was shot and seriously wounded by a demented Italian, but after a long illness was fully restored to health. He is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Jewish Church. He has not married. Wachsman writes: "The past fourteen years of my life have been devoted practically to two things, — my work and the care of my mother. Stricken at the time of our Decennial from which I was hurriedly called home, she was a helpless invalid from that time until her death, last July. Her condition was such that I never felt safe in going very far from home so that I have traveled but very little. Her death undoubtedly means a change in my life but I am unable at this time to state exactly what form it will take. "Living in the suburbs and circumstanced as I was, I took up gardening and from this I have derived considerable pleasure and much benefit. ,, 408 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Robert Buchanan Wade Broker, Room 909, 66 Broadway, New York City Residence, 1261 Madison Avenue, New York City Wade is the son of R. B. Wade, a banker, who graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1865. He was born October 26, 1870, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was prepared for Yale at Smith Academy. In col- lege he was president of the Yale Athletic Association and of the Intercollegiate Ath- letic Association ; chairman of the Senior Promenade Com- mittee; editor of the Pot Pourri, and a member of the following: the Yale Athletic Team, University Club, Class Day Committee, Cup Commit- tee, Psi Upsilon, Scroll and Key. For two years after gradu- ation he studied at Harvard Law School and the next year was with Masten and Nichols in New York City. In 1898 he was mining in Butte, Mon- tana. In January, 1900, he was connected with Bennett, Wasserman and Company, stock and bond brokers in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to New York City in 1906, where he is engaged in the brokerage business. He was married July 25, 1907, to Clara Louise, daughter of Hinman H. Clark of St. Louis, Missouri. ~m ROBERT B. WADE *Richard Charles Wells Wadsworth Died August 2, 1905 R. C. W. Wadsworth was the son of Strong and Maria C. (Phelps) Wadsworth, who had one other child, a daughter. Strong Wadsworth was born in Hastings, Oswego County, New BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 409 York, September 10, 1833, the son of Daniel Wadsworth of Farmington, Connecticut. He attended Beloit College, Wiscon- sin, for three years, and entered the Class of 185 1, Yale, at the beginning of Senior year. After his admission to the bar in 1853, he practiced for about a year in Chicago, Illinois, after which he engaged in business as a real estate and stock broker. In 1866 he moved to New York City, where he was a member of the Stock Exchange until his death, which occurred July 1, 1887, in Staple- ton, Staten Island, New York. Mrs. Wadsworth was Maria C. Phelps of Delavan, Wisconsin, before her marriage. Wadsworth was born September 25, 1870, in Delavan, Wiscon- sin, but received his preparation for college at the Staten Island Academy and Latin School. As a Junior in college he was chosen editor and business manager of the Yale Literary Magazine. He won a Townsend premium, received a first dispute Junior and a second dispute Senior appointment, and was a mem- ber of Chi Delta Theta, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head. After graduation he was first a reporter, then assistant financial editor, and from 1900 to 1902, assistant city editor of the New York Evening Post. He resigned this posi- tion to become private secre- tary to Dr. Ernest J. Lederle (Ph.D. Columbia 1886), Health Commissioner of New York City under the reform administration of Mayor Low. On January 1, 1904, he be- came secretary and treasurer of the Lederle Laboratories, and was engaged in this busi- ness until he died, of typhoid fever, at the Roosevelt Hospi^ tal, New York City, August 2, 1905. Burial was in the Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, New York. He was married November 21, 1903, to Alice Gertrude, eldest daughter of James Benedict, a retired merchant of New York City. They had no children. RICHARD C W. WADSWORTH 4io CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Alexander Hamilton Wallis Colchester, Connecticut Hamilton and Alice (Waldron) Wallis were married October 13, 1868, in Jersey City, New Jersey, and had four children: Emmeline Waldron (Wallis) Dunn; Nathaniel Waldron Wallis, B.A. Yale 1897; Clinton Geib Wallis, Ph.B. Yale 1897, and ALEXANDER H. WALLIS our classmate. The father (born November 25, 1842, in New York City; died April 1, 1916, in Orange, New Jersey) is a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth (Geib) Wallis of New York City ; his great-grandfather, Joseph Wallis, was born in London, England, in 1758, was pressed into the British Navy, sent to this country, and deserted in 1776, and settled in New York. He received the degrees of B.A. at Yale in 1863, and LL.B. at the Columbia Law School in 1865. From 1865 to 1905 he practiced law, being a member of the firms of Wilson & Wal- lis, Marsh, Wilson & Wallis, and Wilson & Wallis up to the date of his retirement in 1905. He married Josephine B. Taylor, June 29, 1905, at East Orange, New Jersey, and they had a son BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 41 1 and a daughter. He resided in Colchester, Connecticut, from 1905 until his death. Our classmate's mother (born April 21, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died at East Orange, New Jersey, December 7, 1899) was the daughter of Nathaniel Wal- dron of Stonington, Connecticut, and Emmeline Graham of Philadelphia, and was descended from George Waldron who came from England in the seventeenth century and lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bristol, Rhode Island. On the ma- ternal side her lineage was Scotch and Dutch. Alexander Hamilton Wallis was born March 29, 1872, in Jersey City, New Jersey, had a private tutor until 1880, attended the Ashland Public School at East Orange, New Jersey, and Newark Academy. He was a member of the Class Football Team, the Class Crew, the University Football Team, the University Club, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. In 1895 he received the degree of LL.B. from the New York Law School and was admitted to the bar in June of that year, practicing in New York City until 1898 when he took a position as salesman with Thomas Kech & Son, cut soles and leather, Boston, Massachusetts. From 1902 to 1903 he was with the New Jersey Street Railway, Newark, New Jersey, and in 1904 with the United Railways of San Francisco, California. For several years he has resided in Colchester, Connecticut. He is a Republican. In 191 5 he joined the First Congrega- tional Church of Colchester. He enlisted as a private in the Colchester Company of the Connecticut Home Guard and has been promoted to the rank of Corporal. He has not married. John Dorrance Warnock Head of the Department of Latin, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania Residence, 711 High Street, Pottstown, Pennsylvania Warnock is the only living son of Hugh and Susan Maria (Hurlbut) Warnock, who were married June 7, 1867, and had two other sons: Charles Willets Warnock (died February 20, 1896), and William Aaron Warnock (died February 1, 1917). Hugh Warnock (born June 22, 1810, in Bally friars, County 412 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Down, Ireland; died April II, 1886, in Geneva, New York) was a farmer, residing in Flushing, Long Island, from 1830 to 1851, and later moving to Geneva, New York. In 1847 he married Martha S. Willets. Our classmate's mother (born July 15, 1832, JOHN D. WARNOCK in Arkport, New York; died December 26, 1873, m Geneva, New York) was a descendant of Thomas Hurlbut, who came from England in 1636, and settled in Massachusetts Colony. John D. Warnock was born February 11, 1868, in Geneva, and attended the Geneva High School and Hobart College before entering Yale. He received philosophical oration appointments, a third Lucius F. Robinson Latin Prize, a Berkeley Premium in Latin Composition, was treasurer of the Yale Union, a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Douglas Fellow at Yale from 1893 to 1896, studying for the ministry, and an instructor at the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, until 1899 when he received the degree of Ph.D. Since that time he has been teaching at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, being in charge of the Latin. He has compiled two pamphlets containing the material embodied in all the examination papers in Latin for entrance to BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 413 leading colleges of the United States issued within the last ten years, which were published by the University Publishing Com- pany, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917, under the titles "First Latin," and "Second Latin." In politics he is a Republican but is a supporter of President Wilson. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Session ; a director of the Associated Charities of Pottstown, and Chairman of the Finance Committee. He was married September 1, 1897, in Rochester, New York, to Gertrude, daughter of Cassius Carrol Peck, a heating engineer, and Mary D. (Kelly) Peck. They have three children: Constance, born October 30, 1899; Dorrance Hurlbut, born November 4, 1900, and Charles Alden, born September 23, 1903- Warnoek's letter follows: "I had always supposed that the Recording Angel could be evaded till the end of my life, but, to my dismay, I find you assuming that prerogative along with many others in your helpfully busy life, and requiring of me an accounting in mid-career. "What am I talking about? The war. Thinking about ? The war. My travels? From home to school and return, two hundred yards each way; but in imagination I go to the limits of that 'far-flung battle line' ; for like the school-master in Old England, many of the boys 'over there' have passed through my class-room, and they have conducted me in thought into all the vicissitudes of this tremendous strife. I have no accomplishment apart from them, and those that shall follow them. "As to a hobby, my recreation is that, — golf ; and my most absorbing ambition is to make the round in 'par.' At the present rate of achievement, this will require 999 years. "Space would fail to tell about my family. You should have been here this Christmas Day, and seen us reunited, our daughter back from school and looking forward to Vassar next year ; the two boys discussing the new military course at Yale, one ready for it in the autumn, the other with three years yet to wait ; and my wife, 'the very pulse of the machine.' Well, it was great! "And let me say to my classmates, in confidence, that the only reason I deserve all this, if I do at all, and the chief reason I can appreciate it, is the background rich in memories, unfailing in inspiration, formed by the years spent at Yale, together with the associations dating from that time and growing more precious every year." 4i4 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Lemuel Aiken Welles Attorney for the American Can Company, 120 Broadway, New York City Residence, Bronxville, New York Welles is a son of Roger and Mercy Delano (Aiken) Welles, who were married June 16, 1858, and had six other children: Martin Welles, B.A. Yale 1882; Mary C. Welles, B.A. Smith 1883, Ph.D. Yale 1904; Roger Welles, United States Naval LEMUEL A. WELLES Academy 1884; Edwin Stanley Welles, Yale ^-'90; Grace Mather Welles, and Sarah Aiken Welles (died November 3, 1870). Roger Welles (born March 7, 1829, in Newington, Connecticut; died May 15, 1904, in the same town) was a son of Roger and Electa (Stanley) Welles and was seventh in descent from Thomas Welles, Governor of Connecticut, who came from England and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1637. His grandfather, Roger, and great-grandfather, Solomon, gradu- ated from Yale in 1775 and 1739 respectively. He graduated from Yale in 185 1 and, with the exception of three years (1857-60) which he spent in Minnesota, he resided in New j ington, and practiced law, having offices at Hartford, Con- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 415 necticut. In 1864 and 1871 he was a representative in the Connecticut Legislature. Mrs. Welles (born August 31, 1832, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts) is a daughter of Captain Lemuel S. Akin and Sarah (Coffin) Akin, of Fairhaven, fourth in descent from Captain John Akin, who settled in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, before 1689, and who is supposed to have come from Scotland. Lemuel A. Welles was born November 18, 1870, in Newington, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Hartford Public High School. He received high oration appointments, a second Ten- Eyck Prize at the Junior Exhibition, was portfolio editor on the Yale Literary Magazine, Class Orator, a member of Chi Delta Theta, Psi Upsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1893-94, he was a Macy Fellow, studying history and philosophy, and received the degree of M.A. in June, 1895. The following two years he spent in the New York Law School, graduating with the degree of LL.B. in 1896 and being admitted to the bar in New York City, where he began to practice. Since 1 90 1 he has been attorney for the American Can Company, and is a director of the Metal & Thermit Corporation and the Duesenberg Motors Corporation. He has published "Letters of Colonel Nathan Whiting written from camp during the French and Indian War" (Volume 6, New Haven Colony Historical Society Papers). A paper on "The Loss of Charter Government in Connecticut" is now in the press. He is a Republican. In April, 191 2, he was elected Com- mitteeman-at-Large from the town of Eastchester, County of Westchester, New York, the same year being village counsel of Bronxville (donating the salary of the office to the village). He says : "As Republican County Committeeman-at-Large, I succeeded in electing a reform supervisor of the town with the result that his Democratic predecessor served a term in state prison for embezzling town funds. When this reform was accomplished I resigned the position and gave up politics." He belonged to the Connecticut Naval Militia in 1894. From 191 1 to 1917 he was a deacon and chairman of the Finance Committee in the Reformed Dutch Church of Bronx- ville. His clubs are the University, Yale, Bankers, Society of Colo- nial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, all of New York; the New 416 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE York County Lawyers' Association; Gramatan Lodge, No. 927, Free and Accepted Masons (treasurer, 191 5-17, trustee, 1918) ; Connecticut Historical Society, and New Haven Colony Histori- cal Society. He was recently elected to graduate membership in the Elizabethan Club. He was married July 12, 1906, in New Castle, to Mary (Cotton) Tufts, daughter of William Wallace and Anna (Moses) Cotton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Welles had one son by her previous marriage: Nathan Tufts (Yale 1920). They have two children: Dorothy, born February 1, 1908, and Roger, born May 9, 1912. Welles writes : "Travels: Spent the summer of 1905 taking testimony in Germany and Holland in a chancery suit; in 1906 visited, with Mrs. Welles, Switzerland ; have been to the Pacific coast on business more than once. "Special Interests: Have made a study of American, and particularly early New England history and have a collection of books on New England and of early Connecticut imprints, and of historical society publications. Have read papers before the Connecticut Historical Society and the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and expect to publish further results of historical research. Have been and am strongly impressed with the great importance of maintaining unimpaired our form of representative government established by the United States Con- stitution, and believe that to-day the greatest internal danger to the Republic is from the proposition of the initiative, referen- dum and recall. "Recreations: Automobiling, horseback riding and trout fishing. "Beliefs: Am still old fashioned enough to 'doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs.' " Ernest Hubbard Wells Lawyer, 150 Nassau Street, New York City Residence, 544 West i62d Street, New York City Wells is a son of Lewis Gray and Mary Ellen Hubbard (Wet- more) Wells, who were married in 1865 an d had five other sons: Herbert W. Wells, B.A. Yale 1889; Philip P. Wells, B.A. Yale 1889; Chauncey W. Wells, B.A. Yale 1896; James L. Wells, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 417 and Thomas F. Wells (died in Yucatan, Mexico, May, 1912). The Wells family is English, being descended from Thomas Welles, Colonial Governor of Connecticut. This branch settled in Stratford, Connecticut. Lewis G. Wells (born June 17, 1841, in Columbus, Georgia; died in August, 1913, in Madison, Wis- ERNEST H. WELLS consin) had a grandmother (a Paterson) whose Scotch ancestor was sold to the Colonies as an indentured servant because he was a Covenanter. On his mother's side he is descended from the Grays who came from England and settled in Massachusetts. He attended a private school until eighteen years of age when he went to California and worked on a ranch for an uncle, Samuel Gray, afterwards being a clerk in the Quartermaster Depart- ment of the United States Army. He married and went into the dry goods business in Madison, Wisconsin, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, but gave this up to go into a fruit commission com- pany in Baltimore, Maryland; afterwards he was employed by Turner, Day & Company, manufacturers of axe, pickaxe, hammer, etc., handles. The firm moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and became known as Turner, Day & Woolworth Manufacturing 4 i8 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer until he sev- ered his connection with it in 1893. In 1880 he married Eliza J. Leech of Louisville. Our classmate's mother (born in 1835 in Middletown, Connecticut; died in April, 1874, in Baltimore, Maryland) was also of English descent, her paternal ancestor, Thomas Whitmore, emigrated in the early part of the Puritan Emigration. He had the rank of "gentleman," was one of the founders of Middletown and had seventeen children. A grand- son, a Colonial judge or magistrate, received a land grant from the Governor and built the house where Mrs. Wells was born, which was visited by the elder Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Edwards, whose sister married into the family. Judge Wet- more owned a number of slaves who were divided among his children. His black cook planted a tree on his place which is still standing. Mrs. Wells attended district and private schools, was very bookish and had a remarkable memory, being able to repeat speeches which impressed her, word for word, and was able to quote a great deal of prose and poetry. A cousin, Reverend James Wetmore, graduated from Yale in 171 4. Ernest H. Wells was born June 12, 1870, in Baltimore, Mary- land, and was prepared at public and private schools, having as a teacher Jason W. Chenault, a Harvard graduate. In college he received a Junior colloquy and Senior dispute appointments, and took honors in political science in Senior year. Since graduation he has practiced law in New York City. He received the degree of LL.B. from Yale in 1900. He is secretary of the Keewaydin Camps Company, a corpora- tion running camps in Canada, Vermont, and Massachusetts, a secretary of the Hidalgo Steel Company, and the Carbolite Chem- ical Company. "It was formed to carry out, in 191 5, some Rus- sian ammunition contracts in conjunction with the Tennessee Copper Company. Two mills were built at Copperhill, Tennes- see, for the manufacture of T-N-T. On the 21st of March, 1916, the fifty tons which had been made blew up and away went my dreams of unearned increment together with a substantial earned decrement. The company had another factory at Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, for the manufacture of Phenol. This enter- prise failed because the purchaser or man who gave the order refused to carry out his contract." He has written quite a number of articles on different legal subjects for the "Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure" and for a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 419 work called "Ruling Case Law," having also done some revising work for the last named publication. In politics he is an independent Democrat. In 1913 he was a headquarters man for the Fusion Committee which elected Mayor Mitchell. He is a member of the Yale Club of New York. He has never married. Wells writes : "Apart from trying to get along in a professional way, I have been much interested in the Spanish language and literature. I have learned to speak the language fluently and I have read the modern Spanish literature quite widely, particularly imaginative literature. I refer especially to novels and plays. Some verse of course I have read and considerable of Castelar, the great Spanish orator of the last century. I have studied quite a bit of the Spanish Civil Code. The method I pursued in learn- ing the language was to study first Knapp's Spanish Grammar and exercises, reading easy prose, etc. I then went to live in a boarding house where hardly anything but Spanish was spoken. I never had a regular teacher; I got hold of it after awhile. I have carried on considerable correspondence in the language between here and Cuba. This is the most difficult of all: To write in a foreign tongue. I have read quite a lot of President Eliot's 'five-foot-shelf of books. It is a splendid collection. Of course I had read before many of the works composing the 'Har- vard Classics,' but many I had not read and of some I had never heard. I have read some of the Greek tragedies in translation and I was very deeply impressed by them." Carl Westerfeld Attorney-at-law, 425 Call Building, San Francisco, California Residence, The Family, San Francisco, California Westerfeld is a son of Louis and Minna (Westerfeld) Wes- terfeld, who were married February 14, 1864, and had three other children: Emma (Westerfeld) Hertel, Ida (Westerfeld) Ankele, and H. William Westerfeld (died in October, 1913, in San Francisco). The father was born February 12, 1826, in Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, Germany, and came to San Francisco. 42o CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE California, in 1851, where he resided until his death, November 26, 1903. He was a member of the firm of Schroth & Wester- feld. His second wife, Adelheid Peters, whom he married August 19, 1893, died in February, 1899. Our classmate's mother, who CARL WESTERFELD came to San Francisco in 1863, was born April 4, 1846, in Syke, near Bremen, Germany, and died February 16, 1891, in San Francisco. Carl Westerfeld was born December 11, 1869, in San Fran- cisco, and was prepared at St. Matthew's Hall, San Mateo, Cali- fornia. Following graduation from Yale he was a student in Hastings Law School, San Francisco, from 1893 to 1896, and was admit- ted to the California Bar in May of the latter year. He has since practiced independently in San Francisco. He is also president of the Bay Shore Development Company. From 191 1 to 1916 he was a member of the Fish and Game Commission of California receiving his appointment from Gov- ernor Johnson and since 1916 he has served as executive BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 421 officer of the commission. He served as president of the Pacific Fisheries Society in 1914, yachting commissioner from California to the Panama-Pacific Inter- national Exhibition, is a mem- ber of the advisory boards of the Federal Migratory Bird Law and of the U. S. Food Commission of California, and an associate member of the Legal Advisory Board, un- der the selective service regu- lations. In 1916 he attended the training camp at Monterey. He is a member of the Family, Olympic Club, Lag- unitas Rod and Gun Club, Elkhorn Country Club, Corin- thian Yacht Club (Commo- dore, 1898-1900) and the Native Sons of the Golden West. He was married June 27, 1906, in San Francisco, to Clara Bell Douglas. They were divorced October 3, 191 6. IN MODOC COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Arthur Leslie Wheeler Professor and head of the Latin Department, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Residence, 221 Roberts Road, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Wheeler is a son of William Ruthven and Emily Elizabeth (Crego) Wheeler, who were married July 3, 1855, and had seven children, four of whom are now living : William R., Jr. ; Grace (Wheeler) Sumner; Lillian Emily (Wheeler) Wyckoff, and our classmate. The Wheeler family came from Hull, England, in the seventeenth century, and is descended from Wheelers who were first heard of near Middletown, Connecticut ; some of them removed later to western New York, and Prosper Wheeler to Michigan about 1825 or 1830. He settled finally at Adrian, Michigan, and died about 1880. William Ruthven Wheeler (born July 4, 1832, in Scio, Michigan; died July 13, 1893, 422 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE at Twin Lakes, Connecticut, his summer home) resided in Napoleon, while a child, then in Adrian and Detroit, Michi- gan, and finally settled in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1682. He studied art in De- troit, and began painting por- traits at the age of sixteen. From the date of his settle- ment in Hartford he was one of the foremost artists in Con- necticut, and was especially well-known for children's por- traits. Some of his work is in the State Capitol at Hart- ford, and a portrait of Oliver Ellsworth is in the Supreme Court at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Wheeler (born Decem- ber 10, 1837, in Dundee, Michigan ; died March 19, 19 14, in Hartford, Connect- icut) was of Scotch ancestry on the paternal side. Her mother, Hanah Frost, was a daughter of a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Arthur L. Wheeler was born August 12, 1872, in Hartford, Connecticut, and was prepared at the Hartford Public High School. He received philosophical oration appointments, took two-year honors in classics, a Lucius F. Robinson Latin Prize (second), the Winthrop Greek Prize, a Berkeley Premium (first grade), was a Waterman Scholar, Historian and Salutatorian, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. He also played on the Senior Baseball and Football teams. For a year following graduation Wheeler was a graduate student in Latin, and from 1894 to 1900 was an instructor at Yale. He received the degree of Ph.D. in 1896, and in June was elected assistant professor and head of the Latin Depart- ment at Bryn Mawr College, in 1905 being advanced to a full professorship. During the years 1901-03 he was a member of the managing committee, American School of Classical Studies in Rome, Italy. ARTHUR L. WHEELER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 423 He has published in the American Journal of Philology, articles entitled "The Imperfect Indicative in Early Latin," "Hieremias de Montagnone and Catullus" ; in Classical Philology, three articles on Roman elegy and its Greek sources, entitled : "Propertius as Praeceptor Amoris" and "Erotic Teaching in Roman Elegy and the Greek Sources" ; these articles have been favorably received by scholars in this country and in Germany. In June, 191 2, he was appointed editorial contributor to the American Journal of Archaeology, and in December, 1912, was elected member of the examining committee of the American Philological Association and reelected for the next four years. In addition to these articles he has published reviews in Classical Philology, the Classical Weekly, and reports in the American Journal of Archaeology ; delivered addresses before classical clubs at Yale, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and before classical associa- tions of the middle states ; has contributed various articles to Forest and Stream on camping, canoeing, etc. His recent scientific work consists of: Satura as a Generic Term (Classical Philology, VII, 191 2, 457-477), which was mentioned with approval by F. Leo, the greatest authority on Roman satire; Catullus as an Elegist (American Journal of Philology, XXXVI, I 9 I 5» I 55 _I 84), and The Plot of the Epidicus of Plautus (American Journal of Philology, XXXVIII, 191 7, 237-264). He was president of the Philadelphia Classical Club, 1902-03, and a member of St. David's Golf Club (Handicap Committee). He is a Republican "when it is not a question of mere machine politics or local issues." He was married June 20, 1894, in Hartford, Connecticut, to May Louise, daughter of Horace Waters, a wholesale milliner in St. Louis at the time of his death, and Belle E. (Church) Waters, a descendant of one of the oldest of Connecticut families, and connected with the Wadsworths of Charter Oak fame. Mrs. Wheeler died May 13, 1915. They had one daughter: Ruth Wadsworth, born April 21, 1897. Wheeler writes : "I see that you want material for our obituaries ! Well, here goes. There are few things in which I am more interested and none of which I am prouder than the achievements of the Brother j hood of '93, and I believe that many of them take a friendly inter- est in me as a member of that Brotherhood. Therefore I do not believe it right for me to hold back the kind of 424 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE revelation which I should like to have from them. Manns manum lavat. "I went in for classics partly because I was fond of literary and linguistic study, partly because I was poor and the way opened easily before me of making an immediate living by teaching, whereas the law, which I had some idea of following, seemed to offer at best a somewhat distant fruition and I had to pay my way as I went. I was fully aware that teaching, even college teaching, never would bring me any considerable monetary reward. But there were other things : the sense of doing congenial work, having some leisure for reading, travel, and the enjoyment of the things which I prized most, and the chance to influence (for good, as I hoped) young minds. Money was an entirely secondary con- sideration, but I may here add my testimony to that which has so often been given by American teachers, that it is a shame and a danger to our civilization that good teachers are paid relatively such small salaries. I don't pity the teachers — they did not have to go into this profession — but the profession is from top to bot- tom so important for our life that the greatest care should be taken to attract into it the best material. As things are now one has to renounce at the outset even a living wage, and naturally almost all those who are excellently adapted to it are frightened off. "But I wanted to be a college and university professor and so I stayed on at Yale and took the higher degree of Ph.D. My ambi- tion was and is to be known both as a good teacher and a good scholar. My chief ambition in a professional way has always been to be a professor at Yale. At one time this seemed a fairly reasonable hope ; at present it looks far away. But I am not dis- contented. I am doing a good work where I am, and although I feel that I could serve the old college well, it is not for me to say that I shall have the chance. "As an investigator I want my name to stand for careful, sound, sensible work, and I have never published anything in the nature of investigation which has not been carefully done. I hope before my workings days are over to be able to attach my name to larger pieces of work than I have yet turned out, but at present the war makes all such work as mine useless for the time being and I often wish that I might temporarily be a technical expert in submarines or some other art which might help us to win the war. "Temporarily ! Yes, for the very object of this war, one of the hopes of humanity, is to ensure so far as possible a world of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 425 peace, and in peace, which we all hope to make the normal state of mankind, literature is more important than the practical arts in every way that concerns the higher moral and intellectual life. This is my faith. For this in large part I believe that we are fighting — the chance of free development towards the best that man is capable of, and if art and literature are not parts of this 'best/ then I do not know the meaning of civilization. And in this ideal the classics have a valuable place, both intrinsically and historically, for all who wish really to grasp the essentials of literature. "So much for my main life work. It is not great, but I have been happy in it and I would not change this part of my life, if I could start once again from the hurly-burly of Freshman year. "With my recreations and my hobbies you, old friend, are pretty well acquainted. One of my faults has been that I have been interested in too many things and there are many more in which I could easily get interested. But nature — the woods, the mountains, the streams, and everything connected with them — has always been my chief and almost passionate interest. I have loved tennis, baseball, football, golf, and many other sports, but I have got more real down-deep-in-the-heart joy from the wilder- ness. If I were not convinced that man owes a duty to man, I would gladly spend nearly all my time in the woods of different parts of the world. There is something aboriginal about me that craves close contact with nature, and a little trip into the woods cheers me for months. Just to be in the woods, near a wild stream, is pure joy for me. "But one cannot make a recreation out of life nor have I wished to do so. I have found joy in nearly every part of life, both work and play. "I will close with a statement of some of the principles by which I have tried to guide my life. I have tried to be just in all my dealings, to be honest with myself and with others, to try to see the other fellow's point of view and to make allowances for it, i. e., to rid myself of prejudice and try to take a broad view of problems ; to adhere rigidly to the truth even when the truth was certain to give offense if it had to be spoken, to pursue a frank, straightforward course and let my opponents know exactly where I stood. I may be too easy going, too inclined at times to procras- tinate, but I have never dodged a real issue and I have tried to deal with such issues without fear or favor. In this connection I 426 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE wish to say that among the most cherished things of my life are the friendships that have been vouchsafed me ; I have many friends on whom I feel that I can absolutely rely and many of them are of the Brotherhood of '93. Write me down as one who has tried to live up to his instincts of justice, truth, and sincerity." WEBSTER WHEELOCK Webster Wheelock Special agent, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 803 Pioneer Building, St. Paul, Minnesota Residence, St. Paul, Minnesota Wheelock is the only son of Joseph Albert and Kate (French) Wheelock, who were married May 14, i860, and had also two daughters : Katrine Wheelock, B.D. Hartford Theological Semi- nary 1904 (professor of sacred history at Wellesley College, died June 2, 1917), and Ellen W'heelock. Joseph Wheelock (born February 8, 1831, in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, and died May 9, 1906, in St. Paul, Minnesota) was descended from Eng- lish people who came to Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1637, Ralph Wheelock being the first schoolmaster in the first free school in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 427 America. He was the founder of the St. Paul Press and editor until 1875, then editor-in-chief and principal owner of the St. Paul Pioneer Press until 1906. From 1893 to 1906 he served as president of the Park Board, being the father of the present St. Paul Park and Parkway system. Mrs. Wheelock (born April 7, 1836, in Concord, New Hampshire) is a descendant of William French, who came from County Antrim, Ireland, to London- derry, New Hampshire, in 1636. Webster Wheelock was born December 7, 1870, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was prepared at the St. Paul High School and at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He received ora- tion appointments, was chairman of the C our ant Board, and a E- \ r member of the Republican Club, University Club, Alpha Delta Phi, and Wolf's Head. He has lived in St. Paul continuously since graduation and until 1909 was connected with the Pioneer Press, from 1897 to 1906 as associate editor and from 1906 to 1909 as editor-in-chief. After selling his interest in the Pioneer Press in 1909 he entered the real estate and insurance business as a member of the firm of Wheelock & Gilfillan, and from 1910 to 1913 was a member of the firm of Lynch & Wheelock, farm mortgages. In the latter year this firm turned over its business to the Farm Mortgage Bond Company, of which Wheelock was assistant secretary and a director. In 191 5 he was first associated with the Capital Trust Company, but on May 1 of that year he accepted his present position as special agent in St. Paul of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is also secretary of the Minnesota Co-operative Plantation Company. He is a Republican and served as secretary to the Mayor in 1896-97. From December, 191 1 to 1915 he was a member of the St. Paul Charter Commission. Since 191 3 he has been a member of the executive committee of the Ramsey County 428 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Council of Boy Scouts of America, from 1904 to 1910 served on the executive committee of the Ramsey County Good Roads Association, and has been on various other civic committees. He is a corporal in Company D, First Battalion, Minnesota Home Guard. He belongs to the Junior Pioneers, a "local fraternity of native sons and ancient residents," and to the St. Paul Association of Commerce. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married October 13, 1900, in St. Paul, to Martha McMasters, daughter of James Gilfillan, a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, and Martha (McMasters) Gil- fillan. They have two sons, both born in St. Paul : Webster, Jr., born November 2, 1902, and Joseph Albert, born April 3, 1905. The older son is in the St. Paul High School and both are "headed for Yale." Wheelock writes : "I have pursued persistently a planless path accomplishing anything anywhere and anyhow as occasion arose, but recreating regularly and repeatedly whenever my intense interest in insuring illiterati and illuminati indiscriminately was not incompatible therewith. "To tell of my travels truthfully would titillate nobody and a facility for fiction is far from me (except when tempted). "As to hobbies I have had a hundred. How hawful hall this !" Albert Beebe White Professor of history, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Residence, 325 Sixth Avenue, S. E., Minneapolis, Minnesota White's parents, Edmund and Sarah (Beebe) White, were married May 17, 1870. His father, born August 21, 1823, in East Randolph (now Holbrook), Massachusetts, and died Janu- ary 4, 1905, in Minneapolis, was descended from Thomas White, who was born in England in 1599 and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, about 1630. Mr. White lived in Holbrook until 1899 an d bad an extensive business as a manufacturer of boots and shoes. He served in the Massachusetts General Court for the session of 1883. By former marriages he had two sons: Emmons White and Edmund Burr White, B.A. Yale 1889 (died February 18, 1913, in Chicago, Illinois). Our classmate's mother (born July 2, 1831, in South Wilbraham (now Hamp- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 429 den), Massachusetts, and died April 4, 1895, m Holbrook) grad- uated from Mount Holyoke Seminary (now College) in 1856, and taught school before her marriage. She was a descendant of Samuel Beebe, born in Broughton (Northamptonshire), A:+-: : : 1::\ : . ALBERT B. WHITE England, in 1633, who settled in New London, Connecticut, in 1650. Mrs. White's mother was Eunice McCray, who repre- sents a Scotch strain through her father. Albert B. White was born September 11, 1871, in East Ran- dolph, and was prepared at the Boston Latin School, the oldest institution of learning in the United States. He received an oration Junior and a high oration Senior appointment in college and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. For two years he taught at Siglar's School, Newburgh, New York, and then returned to Yale for graduate work. In 1898 he received the degree of Ph.D. and the following year taught in the New Haven High School and was a lecturer at Yale. In September, 1899, he accepted an appointment as instructor in mediaeval and English constitutional history at the University of Minnesota, was promoted to assistant professor in 1900 and to professor in 1907. 43° CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He has written many reviews for the American Historical Review and other historical publications, and is the author of "The Making of the English Constitution, 449-1485," G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908, pp. xxvii, 410; "Scholarship," an address, privately printed, Minneapolis, 1908; The first concentration of juries: the writ of July 21, 1213. American Historical Review, October, 191 1, xvii, 12-16; Early uses of "parliamentum." Modern Language Review, January, 1914, ix, 92, 93; Some early instances of concentration of representatives in England. American Historical Review, July, 1914, xix, 735-750; the name Magna Carta. English Historical Review, July, 191 5, xxx, 472- 475; (with Wallace Notestein) "Source Problems in English History." Harper & Brothers, 1915, pp. 422; the Oxford meeting of 1213. American Historical Review, January, 1917, xxii, 325-329; Note on the name Magna Carta. English His- torical Review, October, 191 7, xxxii, 554-555. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Minne- apolis. He was married October 1, 1893, in Holbrook, Massachusetts, to Mabel White, daughter of Joseph Jones, an organist and music teacher, and Ruth (White) Jones. They have one son, Richard Beebe, born January 7, 1901, in Minneapolis. White writes : "The list of writings indicates the field of research I have got started in. My work is about equally divided between teaching and research, with the latter perhaps weighing a bit heavier in the scale of my interest. Some day I may put these and a lot of other fragments (still to come out) together into some kind of ordered account of the beginnings of the English House of Commons, about which apparently trite subject much less is known than is commonly supposed. I find it a very pleasant thing to search for the very first traces of such things as the representative idea in government or popular election, and find how and why they started and grew ; or to examine and list the early political activities of the English middle class. And though in all this I am back in the Middle Ages (Twelfth and Thirteenth century England is my field), so far apparently from the issues of the Great War, yet I am on the trail of that democracy — spirit and method — that we are all fighting for. "Nineteen years in Minnesota make it seem like home to us, the University has been the pleasantest of places in which to work, and anything that I have done has more than had its reward. But we were born and bred New Englanders and each BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 43 1 summer go back for a few weeks to our house (acquired five years ago) in the Berkshires — Rowe, Franklin County, Massa- chusetts. Thus we alternate between two very opposite sur- roundings and ways of living, and wonder which we love the more." *John Harvey Wigginton Died May 21, 1909 Wigginton was the son of J. G. Wigginton, a mechanic, and was born December 8, 1864, near Bladensburg, Maryland. He pre- pared for college at Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massachu- setts. After graduation he studied at the Yale Law School, and received the degree of LL.B. in June, 1895. He then practiced law in Bladensburg, after his admission to the Maryland Bar. In 1897 he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he practiced for a year. He was called to teach Greek and Latin at Selma University, an institution devoted to the edu- cation of his race, at Selma, Alabama. In May, 1905, he was elected dean of the insti- tution, and continued in that capacity until the early part of 1909, when failing health compelled him to abandon his work. In 1909 he bought a house in Brentwood, Mary- land, thus realizing a long cherished hope of establishing a home for his mother to whom he was devoted. He died at this home, May 21, 1909, of nervous prostration, brought on by overwork. He was married September 26, 1906, to Mahalath Frances, daughter of Thomas Jackson of Washington, D. C. Their only child, a son, died in infancy. ,. ; ,:, r ^ mr. wmc JOHN H. WIGGINTON 43 2 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Walter Dwight Wilcox War Trade Board, Havana, Cuba 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C. Wilcox is the only* son of Sextus Newell and Sarah (Adams) Wilcox, who had one other child, a daughter, Anne Aline (Wil- cox) Halstead. Sextus N. Wilcox was born in 1824 in Stock- bridge, Massachusetts. His son says of him : "My father's death WALTER D. WILCOX was the result of an accident in Lake Superior, in which his canoe was upset and he and a friend were drowned and the Indian Guide was saved. As this event occurred when I was a boy about ten years of age there are naturally many facts of my father's life that I am not so fully informed about as would otherwise have been the case. In his youth he went to Chicago, then a mere village, and made a considerable fortune in lumber, his mills being located in Michigan. Practically ruined in the great Chicago fire, he started to build up his business and was on the road to success when his life was abruptly terminated BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 433 while on a short vacation trip." He was a park commissioner in Chicago for many years. Mrs. Wilcox (born in Quincy, Massachusetts; died December 27, 1907, in Washington, D. C.) was a daughter of Henry Adams, eighth generation from Henry Adams of Braintree, Massachusetts, who came to America in 1640 and who was the original ancestor of the Adams family in the country. John and John Quincy Adams belonged to a branch of this family. The family traces back to Lord John Apadam who died in 1310, in Tidenham, Wales. She had an excellent high school education and was proficient in music and painting. Walter D. Wilcox was born September 24, 1869, in Chicago, Illinois. In college he received Junior and Senior colloquies, was a member of the Andover Club and Alpha Delta Phi. He spent the early years after graduation studying science in Washington, D. C, making two trips in 1894 and '95 to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and in 1897 spending a summer in the Hawaiian Islands taking photographs and writing for maga- zines. A trip around the world occupied the year 1902-03, and since 1905 he has been engaged in developing timber lands near Cienfuegos, Cuba, but living most of the time since 1909 in Washington, D. C. On February 10, 1918, he was appointed to the staff of General H. H. Morgan, at Havana, representing the War Trade, Fuel and Shipping Boards. He has written: "Camping in the Canadian Rockies" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York) ; "The Source of Saskatchewan" (Geographical Journal) ; "A Type of Lake Formation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains" (Journal of Geology) ; "Pic- turesque Landscapes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains" (G. P. Putnam's Sons) ; "A Guide to the Lake Louise Region," with map and eighteen illustrations. He was elected a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1899, and in 1909 an honorary member of the Alpine Club of Canada. He served, in 1914, as second vice-president of the Yale Alumni Association of Washington, D. C. He was married November 27, 1901, to Annie White Lawson, daughter of Franklin Lley and Anna (Riland) Lawson. They have had one son : Walter Dwight, Jr., born November 14, 1909, and died July 2y, 1910. 434 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Edward Mason Williams Director, The Sherwin-Williams Company, manufacturers of paints, varnishes, dyes, etc., 601 Canal Road, Cleveland, Ohio Residence, 10916 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland, Ohio Williams is a son of Edward P. and Mary Louise (Mason) Williams, who were married in 1869 at Utica, New York, and had three other children: Ray (married Abram Garfield, Wil- liams '93) ; Reba (married Arthur D. Baldwin, Yale '98) ; and EDWARD M. WILLIAMS Lewis Mason Williams, Yale '98, now with the Red Cross in France. Edward P. Williams (born May 10, 1843, in Cleveland, Ohio, died May 3, 1903, in the same city) was of Welch ancestry, his family coming to this country some time prior to 1700. He received the degrees of B.A. and M.A. from Western Reserve University, where he roomed with George Trumbull Ladd. Mrs. Williams (born December 3, 1845, i n Utica, New York) is a descendant of Launcelot Granger, who was first known in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1648, and died in Suffield, Connecticut, in 1707. Her mother, Sarah Granger (died in 1872), married Squire Mason and lived at New Hartford, near Utica, New York. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 435 Edward M. Williams was born November 9, 1871, in Cleve- land, Ohio, and was prepared in the Cleveland public schools. He received a colloquy appointment, sang in the College Choir and Second Glee Club, and was a member of the University Club and Alpha Delta Phi. With the exception of two years (1895-97) which he spent in Montreal, Canada, he has been with the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company, of Cleveland, since 1893. He is president of the Children's Fresh Air Camp ; vice-presi- dent of the Morris Plan Bank of Cleveland; director of the Ozark Mining & Smelting Company, the Cleveland Box Com- pany, Superior Savings & Trust Company, and various other companies. For several years he was a member of the executive committee of the American Street Railway Manufacturers Asso- ciation. In 1913-14 he was a director in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and chosen in February, 1913, a member of a com- mittee of fifteen to prepare a new charter for the city. He was one of the organizers, and for two years served as vice-president of the Federation of Charities and Philanthropy, a member of the American Society for Prevention of Infant Mortality, and the National Child Labor Society, and vice-president of the commit- tee on Children of the National Conference of Charities and Correction; in 1914 was a member and vice-president of the Board of Education of Cleveland, and was reelected for a four- year term in November, 191 7. An address, "A Chamber of Commerce Militant," is published in the 1913 Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. He is a deacon of the Old Stone Church and a trustee of the First Presbyterian Society. His clubs are: the Yale and University of New York, the Union, Tavern, University, Cleveland Country, Mayfield Country, and the Chagrin Valley Hunt, all of Cleveland. He was married October 11, 1899, m Cleveland, to Mary, daughter of Samuel A. Raymond (Yale '70), a sister of Henry A. (Yale '05), Samuel E. (Yale '13), and J. S. Raymond (Yale '16). They have five children: Hilda, born July 24, 1900 (Hatha way-Brown School) ; Madeline, born December 26, 1902 (attending same school) ; Edward Porter, born January 2, 1907 (University School) ; Mary Raymond, born April 30, 1909 (Hathaway-Brown School), and Raymond, born May 8, 1916. 43 6 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE *Morris Woodruff Died December 31, 1897 Woodruff was the son of Morris and Juliette (Lane) Woodruff, who were married in October, 1863, and had three other children, of whom one son, George William Lane Woodruff, graduated from Sheff in 1895. Morris Woodruff, senior, was born July 30, 1838, in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were the Hon. Lewis Bartholomew Wood- ruff, B.A. Yale 1830, the first United States Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit, and Harriette Burnet (Horn- blower) Woodruff, the daugh- ter of Chief Justice Joseph C. Hornblower of New Jersey. He entered the Class of i860 at Yale as a Freshman, but left in 1858 to engage in the mercantile business in New York City. In 1874, how- ever, the degrees of B.A. and M.A. were conferred upon him and his name was en- rolled with his Class. He was head of the firm of George W. Lane and Conn pany, importers of teas, at the time of his death, which occurred March 3, 1894, at his home in New York City. Juliette (Lane) Woodruff, the eldest daughter of George W. Lane, president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, was born in 1841 in New York City. Woodruff was born May 23, 1870, in New York City, and pre- pared for Yale at Morse's School. In college he was a member of the University Club and Psi Upsilon. On graduation he became connected with his father in George W. Lane and Company, and was junior member of the firm at the time of his death, which occurred very suddenly from heart failure, December 31, 1897. He was unmarried. MORRIS WOODRUFF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 437 Alfred Charles Woolner Secretary and treasurer of the Colonial Distributing Company, 15 Water Street, New York City Residence, Woodmere, New York Woolner's parents, Adolph and Antonia (Black) Woolner, were married in 1865, an( l na ci three other children: Samuel; William B. ; and Henrietta (W'oolner) Baar. Adolph Woolner (born January 29, 1841, in Szenicze, Hungary; died May 9, 1891, in Peoria, Illinois) was the first of his family to emigrate to this country, coming in 1863. He was a graduate of Vienna Uni- versity, Austria. He lived in Louisville, Kentucky, and Peoria, Illinois, and was in the distilling business, being vice-president of the Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company from 1887 to 1891. His wife (born in Pelejte, Hungary, April 13, 1843; died July ALFRED C. WOOLNER 30, 1914, in the Catskill Mountains, New York) was also the first of her family to come to America, settling in Washington, D. C, in 1859. Alfred C. Woolner was born March 14, 1872, in Louisville, Kentucky, and was prepared at the Peoria High School (Illinois). 438 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE He received oration appointments Junior and Senior years, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He attended the Yale Law School, was an editor on the Yale Law Journal, and graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1895. He was admitted to the New York Bar, in February, 1896, and practiced law for the following eight years in New York City, being a member of the firm of Clark & Woolner from January 1, 1898, to 1904. Since that time he has been vice-president of the Woolner Distilling Company, partner in Woolner & Company, and partner in S. & A. Woolner Company, of Peoria, Illinois, and treasurer of the Colonial Distributing Company, New York City. He is a Democrat. He belongs to the Temple Emanuel (Hebrew), New York City. He was married November 28, 1906, in New York City, to Rose S., daughter of Morris H. Woolner, a distiller, and Theresa (Warshing) Woolner. They have three children, all born in New York City: Maurice A., born May 10, 1908; Theresa Antonia, born March 24, 1910, and Louise Rose, born December 22, 1912. Wilbur Seaman Wright Senior partner of Wright & Hirschberg, lawyers, 96 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut Residence, 32 West Elm Street, Greenwich, Connecticut Wright is a son of Benjamin Wright and Abigail (Mead) Wright, who were married June 26, i860, and had three other children: Benjamin M. Wright (Bangor Theological Seminary 1886; B.D. Yale 1897; M.A. 1903; died November 17, 1907); Clara ; and Abby L. Wright. The Wright family emigrated from England and settled in this country in Massachusetts in 1635. Benjamin Wright (born December 14, 1834, in Yorktown, West- chester County, New York; died May 16, 1913, in Greenwich, Connecticut) was the son of Joel and Ann (Banks) Wright. He attended Bedford Academy. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the 10th Connecticut Volunteers, was mustered in as First Sergeant, promoted to Second Lieutenant in September, 1862, and to First Lieutenant in January, 1863, and honorably discharged in October, 1864. He was a merchant at Greenwich until about 1880; he served three terms as representative from Greenwich in the General Assembly, State of Connecticut, 1876- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 439 1879. From 1880 to 191 2 he was a United States Custom House Official in New York City. Mrs. Wright (born September 29, 1839; died October 15, 1897, in Greenwich, Connecticut) was a daughter of Colonel Thomas A. Mead and Hannah (Seaman) Mead. Her father's family was English and settled in Massa- WILBUR S. WRIGHT chusetts in 1635. Her mother's family was English with some French and Dutch ancestry, settling in the United States in the seventeenth century. The latest of her ancestors who arrived was Hendrick Bush, who settled in New Amsterdam in 1661. She attended the Greenwich Academy. Rev. Abraham Mead, Rev. Solomon Mead, Henry Bush, Thomas Mead, Whitman Mead, Yale relatives, were graduated in 1739, 1742, 1756, 1773, and 1814, respectively. Wilbur S. Wright was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, November 16, 1871, and was prepared at Greenwich Academy. He received Junior, and Senior orations and honors in political science. He studied in the New York Law School, 1893-94; in Green- wich, 1894-97; and has been associated with Judge R. J. Walsh 440 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE since 1897. He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1899 and became junior partner in the law firm, Walsh & Wright. Since 1908 he has served on various town committees, is chairman of a committee for bonding the town for $250,000, for school improvements, and the committee for the issuance of bonds for $600,000, for permanent road construction, and was a member of the committee on town sanitation. For a number of years he was assistant prosecuting attorney, and is now trustee of Green- wich Savings Bank, secretary and treasurer of Belle Haven Land Company, and a director of The Boswell Drug Company. He served as chairman of the Board of Estimate and Taxation of the Town of Greenwich from 1909 to 19 17, and was appointed town counsel in February, 1918. He is a Republican. He is a member of the Second Congrega- tional Church, was a member of its Business Committee for six years, clerk of the Church, chairman of the committee for the restoration of the Church spire, involving an outlay of $60,000, and chairman of the pastoral committee in 19 17. He is a director of the United Workers, the Y. M. C. A. and Greenwich Library, a member of the Boy Scouts of America (Greenwich Organization), and the Connecticut State Council of Defense, Greenwich Committee. He belongs to the Sons of Veterans, Greenwich Field Club, and the Volunteer Hook, Ladder and Hose Company. First Lieutenant Donald K. Wright, Ph.B. 191 7, and Second Lieutenant Stanley B. Wright, 1919, are nephews. He has not married. Just a little grub worm Creeping up the hill, When I take a tumble Keep on climbing still ; Will not reach the summit But may get part way. When the game is over Hope my friends will say Wright was a true Yale man, Fought a good, clean fight ; Helped the other fellow, Tried to do the right. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 441 Frederick Washburn Yates Lawyer, 34 Nassau Street, New York City Residence, 11 12 Watchung Avenue, Plainfield, New Jersey Yates is a son of Joseph W. and Susan Gray (Jackson) Yates, who were married November 8, 1857, and had four other chil- dren: Clementine (Yates) Holman, attended Mt. Holyoke Sem- inary; Sam J. Yates, B.A. Princeton 1880 (died in San Bernardino, California, September 27, 1907) ; Katharyn (Yates) FREDERICK W. YATES Borden; and Margaret G. Yates, attended Wellesley College. Joseph W. Yates (born January 30, 1826, at Round Pond, Maine; died in Plainfield, New Jersey, July 29, 1904), son of Catherine and Samuel Yates, was left an orphan at nine years of age. He followed the sea and became master of a ship at the age of eighteen. He established the firm of Yates & Porterfield in New York City in 1854, a general shipping and commission business, importing and exporting to the west coast of Africa. He retired in 1884. His wife, daughter of Samuel R. and Jane F. 442 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE Jackson, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, November 8, 1831, and died in Plainfield, New Jersey, February 13, 1913. Frederick W. Yates was born March 9, 1866, in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he was prepared for college at Leal's Preparatory School. He held the lightweight wrestling championship during Freshman and Sophomore years, was a Class Deacon four years, Class Orator Sophomore year, was a member of the Class Foot- ball Team, University Club, He Boule, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. After graduation he entered the New York Law School, receiv- ing the degree of LL.B. in 1895, was admitted to the New York Bar in June of the same year, and has been practicing in New York City since that time. From 1898 to 1904 he was consul in New York for the Republic of Liberia. In politics he is an Independent Democrat. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married June 28, 1894, in Danielsonville, Connecticut, to Bertha Kedzie, daughter of Charles H. and Martha (Stanley) Cornwell. They have one daughter, Katharyn, born April 2, 1895, who attended Miss Hartridge's School, Plainfield, New Jersey; Rye Seminary, Rye, New York; Mrs. Somers' Mt. Vernon Seminary, Washington, D. C, finishing in 191 3. She was married to Russell P. Morris, of Plainfield, New Jersey, May 24, 19 1 7. On April 1, 19 18, a daughter, Katharyn Elizabeth, was born to them, incidentally making Yates the first grand- father in his Class. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 443 NON-GRADUATES ^Frederick Keith Bremner Frederick K. Bremner was born June 3, 1869, in Boxford, Massachusetts. He left college at the end of Freshman year. No information, except the fact that he died several years before 1909, is available. *Rupert Doty Brown Died October 16, 1889 Rupert D. Brown, the son of Robert D. and Clarissa Brown, was born November 25, 1871. A month after entering the Class he died of typhoid fever in New Haven. Louis Hood Burrell Senior member of the law firm of Burrell and James, Knowlton Bank Building, Freeport, Illinois Residence, 168 Foley Street, Freeport, Illinois Burrell is the son of Daniel W. and Adaliza (Hood) Burrell, who were married August 25, 1869, and had two other sons : Dr. Paul J. Burrell and Kenneth D. Burrell. Daniel W. Burrell, born February 4, 1847, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, is the son of David Burrell, who was born near Stahlstown, Pennsyl- vania, March 11, 1806, and died in Freeport, Illinois, February 21, 1882, and Elizabeth (Felgar) Burrell, born May 11, 1812. near Stahlstown, and died in Freeport, August 26, 1902. He is a descendant of Thomas Burrell and Rebecca Sinton, French Huguenots, on his father's side of the family. His maternal grandparents were Ludwig Felgar of Germany and Katherine Dunn of Scotland. Daniel W. Burrell moved to Freeport, Illinois, about 1848, where he was a merchant and manufacturer. Adaliza (Hood) Burrell was born March 17, 1849, m Westmore- 444 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE land County, Pennsylvania. William Hood, from the north of Ireland, and William Campbell, from Scotland, were two of her ancestors who settled in the United States in the pre-Revolu- tionary period. David James Burrell, B.A. Yale 1867, D.D. Parsons College 1876, LL.D. Hope College 1895, and Joseph Dunn Burrell, B.A. Yale 1881, M.A. 1893, D.D. Park College 1906, are uncles ; and David DeForest Burrell, B.A. Yale 1898, B.D. Princeton Theological Seminary 1901, and Norman Macleod Burrell, B.A. Yale 1899, LL.B. Columbia 1902, are cousins of our classmate. Louis H. Burrell was born September 10, 1870, in Freeport, Illinois. He prepared for Yale in Beloit Academy, Wisconsin. He was compelled to leave college on account of poor health in the middle of Junior year. From 1892 to 1895 he was with Burrell Brothers' Vinegar Works, Freeport, Illinois. He then studied law, was admitted to the Illinois Bar, November 4, 1897, and since then has been practicing in Freeport. In the Spanish-American War he was in the commissary department on the transport Manitoba from April, 1898, to January, 1899. He is a director of the Freeport Trust and Savings Bank, and of the Associated Charities, Inc., and was States Attorney of Stephenson County, Illinois, from 1900 to 1912. He is a mem- ber of the First Presbyterian Church ; and past commander-in- chief, Freeport Consistory S. P. R. S., past sovereign prince, Freeport Council P. of J., and honorary member of the Supreme Council S. G. I. G. thirty-third degree, Northern Masonic Juris- diction U. S. A. He is a member of District Exemption Board, Division No. 4, Northern District of Illinois. In March, 191 8, he writes : "Facing the present world crisis, individual plans, aims, and accomplishments are centered about one purpose — the defeat and punishment of Germany, and her exclusion — under probation — from civilization, as a world power. "The practical application of the lessons of democracy versus autocracy, crystallized by war into thought and words, and now first comprehended, will monopolize the attention and effort of this and future generations. "This must be the concentrated thought and talk of this nation and each citizen thereof, that by correct action good may come BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 445 out of evil, and our posterity be happier in a civilization purified by fire." He was married April 28, 1903, in Burlington, Vermont, to Jessie Mayer (Mrs. D'Armit), Wellesley (non-graduate), daughter of Urias and Addie (Welsh) Mayer. They have one son: David Mayer, born December 21, 1906, in Freeport, Illinois. Jacob Hagar Carfrey Salesman, H. I. Dallman Company, supply house, 106 Friend Street, Boston, Massachusetts Residence, Reading, Massachusetts Carfrey is the son of Morgan and Susan M. (Robbins) Car- frey, who were married in 1856, and had three other children, all daughters. Morgan Carfrey, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his grand- father Carfrey having been an educator in Scotland, died in 1902. Susan M. (Robbins) Carfrey had several cousins, graduates of Princeton, who were educators. Jacob H. Carfrey was born February 15, 1859, in Milford, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and prepared for college in Starkey Seminary, Eddytown, New York. He entered Yale from Syracuse University, to which he returned after one year with our Class, graduating in 1892 with the degree of Ph.B. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Delta Theta. In 1895 he received the degree of Ph.M. at Syracuse University. From 1892 to 1895 he was superintendent of schools in Sala- manca, New York; from 1895 to 1898 in Naugatuck, Connect- icut; and from 1898 to 1904 in Northampton, Massachusetts. The next year he was with the Equitable Life Insurance Com- pany. From 1905 to 191 1 he was superintendent of schools in Wakefield, Massachusetts; and from 191 1 to 1914 in Franklin and Wrentham, Massachusetts. He also did post-graduate work in the Education Department of Harvard University from 1904 to 1910. Since 1914 he has been traveling salesman for H. I. Dallman Company, supply house, in Boston. He has written some articles on educational topics and delivered a few addresses on the same also. He is an indepen- dent voter in politics ; a member of the Congregational Church ; and a member of the following: National Educational Society; 446 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE National Superintendents' Association ; Massachusetts Superin- tendents' Association;, and New England Superintendents' Association. He was married August 24, 1892, in Branchport, New York, to M. Edith, daughter of James and Emily Spencer. They have no children. Alphonse George deRiesthal Lawyer, 360 Fulton Street, Jamaica, Long Island Residence, Villard Avenue, Hollis, Long Island Alphonse George deRiesthal, the son of Alphonse Joseph deRiesthal, was born October 5, 1869, m Brooklyn, New York, where he prepared for Yale at the Polytechnic Institute. He left college at the end of Sophomore year. He was admitted to the bar, and from 1900 to 1904 lived at 244 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. He had an office with the firm of WyckofT, Clarke and Frost in Brooklyn, but later changed to the office of the same firm in Jamaica, Long Island, New York. James Edward Drake President, James B. Drake and Sons, Inc., lumber and insurance, 72 Front Street, Bath, Maine Mayor of Bath, Maine Residence, 972 Washington Street, Bath, Maine Drake is the son of James Brainerd and Georgianna (Lincoln) Drake, who were married July 3, 1867, and had two other children: Frederick Ellis Drake, B.A. Bowdoin 1898, and Georgie Drake (Mrs. James Otis Lincoln, B.A. Yale 1884, M.D. Bowdoin 1892). James Brainerd Drake was born June 7, 1838, in Orrington, Maine, and died June 19, 1906, in Bath, Maine. He was the son of the Rev. Samuel Stillman and Priscilla (iBrastow) Drake. The first American ancestor was Thomas Drake, who came from Colyton, Devon County, England, and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1650. The family was represented at the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, by eighteen BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 447 "Minute Men." James Brainerd Drake in 1858 established a shipping, lumber, and insurance business which since 1890 has been under the name of James B. Drake & Sons. He built over thirty ships. He held the office of president and general manager J. EDWARD DRAKE of many local corporations, but at the time of his death had given up all of them except the offices of vice-president of the Eastern Steamship Corporation, director of the First National Bank, and president of the Bath Trust Company. Georgianna (Lincoln) Drake, daughter of Captain Foster Lincoln and Martha (Rogers) Lincoln, was born December 16, 1845, in Wiscasset, Maine. Both her parents were of English descent, the first American ancestor having settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. James E. Drake was born December 9, 1871, in Bath, Maine, where he attended the high school. He left college at the end of Freshman year to enter business at home. He was engaged in the yellow pine lumber business at first, and since 1891 in fire and marine insurance and ship brokerage. Until 1901, when the companies were absorbed by the Eastern Steamship Company, he was treasurer of the Eastern Steam- 448 CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY THREE ship and the Kennebec Steamboat Company. From 1893 until 1895 he was a member of the city government of Bath. In 1906 he was elected president of James B. Drake and Sons, Inc., and in 1908 president of Sagadahoc County Board of Fire Under- writers, of which he had been elected vice-president in 1906. He is also director of the Lincoln National and First National Banks of Bath. On March 4, 1918, he was elected Mayor of Bath, the Republican ticket which he headed carrying every ward by a large majority. Upon the call, May, 191 7, for a "company of able bodied deputy sheriffs for guard duty at our industrial plants," he volunteered and was accepted and enrolled. He is county chair- man of the Y. M. C. A., Red Cross, Salvation Army, and Food Conservation executive committees ; vice-chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee, and a member of the Public Safety and Knights of Columbus executive committees. On January 24, 191 8, he represented Maine at the International Y. M. C. A. Conference at New York City. Since 1906 he has been chairman of the prudential committee of the Winter Street Congregational Church. He is a Knight Templar and an Elk. He was married July 23, 191 3, in Brunswick, Maine, to Eleanor Jane, daughter of Captain George Henry Dickson and Mercy Anne (Hodgdon) Dickson. They have one son: J. Edward, Jr., born October 18, 1914, in Bath, Maine. James Schneider Dwight Care of the Automobile Club, Providence, Rhode Island Dwight is the son of William Buck and Eliza H. (Schneider) Dwight, who were married November 17, 1859, and had five other children, two of whom survived infancy: Benjamin Har j rison Dwight, Yale 1895, and Elizabeth Dennison Dwight, Vassar 1898. William Buck Dwight, the son of the Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, Hamilton 1825, and Elizabeth (Barker) Dwight, was born at Constantinople, May 22, 1833, a descendant in the eighth generation of John Dwight, who came from Dedham, England, in 1634 or 1635, and was an early settler of Dedham, Massachu- setts. He graduated from Yale in 1854, studied for three years BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 449 at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and was licensed to preach in April, 1857. The two following years he was a stu- dent at Sheffield Scientific School, receiving the degree of Ph.B. in 1859. After teaching in Englewood, New Jersey, West Point, New York, and the State Normal School in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1878 he was appointed professor of natural history and curator of the museum in Vassar Col- lege, at Poughkeepsie, New York. He was one of the original Fellows in the estab- lishment of the Geological Society of America and pub- lished many articles in the American Journal of Science. He died August 29, 1906, at Cottage City, Massachusetts. Eliza H. (Schneider) Dwight was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Schneider, mission- ary at Aintab, Syria. The Rev. James H. Dwight, B.A. Yale 1852, is our former classmate's uncle, and Charles Abbott Schneider Dwight, B.A. Yale 1881, is a cousin. James S. Dwight was born October 11, 1870, in New Britain, Connecticut. He prepared for Yale at Riverview Military Acad- emy in Poughkeepsie, New York. In college he was a member of Sigma Nu. He has sent no recent information. JAMES S. DWIGHT John Leonard Emerson General investments and law, Titusville, Pennsylvania Emerson is the son of Edward Octavius and Lucy Harriet (Johnson) Emerson, who were married April 19, i860, and had three other children: Charles Francis Emerson,