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OBITUARY RECORDOF

GRADUATES OF TALE UNIVERSITYf

Deceased during the Academical year ending in

JUNE, 1897,

Including the Record of a few who died pieviously, hitherto unreported

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 29TH, 1897 ]

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YALE COLLEGE

(ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT)

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WILLIAM HENRY MILLS, the youngest son of the Hon IsaacMills (Y C 1786) and Abigail (Phelps) Mills, of New Haven,was born m this city on April 2Q, 1S05

He entered college in 1820, and spent the larger part of hiscourse with the class which was graduated ID 1824.

He studied law in the Yale Law School, and was admitted tothe bar, but nevei practiced the profession His father beingone of the owners of the temtoiv now occupied by the city ofSandusky, Ohio, he emigiated at an early date to that locality,where the lest of his life was spent, in charge of his large landedinteiests. He acquired the title of General by connection withthe State militia He married on January 30, 1830, Miss Caro-line Hurd, who now survives him with then children, two sonsand three (Jaughteis.

In 1894 General Mills's health began to fail, and in April, 1895,he took up his residence with his younger son, also in Sandusky.After this he was mostly confined to the house ; his death, onMarch 6, 1897, in his 92d yeai, was the result of a fall.

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1829

GEORGE THOMPSON TODD, son of Captain Eli and Rachel(Thompson) Todd, of New Milfoid, Conn., and half-brother ofWalkei Todd (Y C 1810), was born in New Milford on Sep-tember 6, 1810.

His earliest professional study was in the Yale Law School ;but in 1831 he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, andafter taking one year there completed the full course in thePrinceton Seminary

He served as acting pastoi of the Gilead Presbyterian Church,m Caimel, Putnam County, N. Y , fiom 1835 to 1838, and onOctober 11, 1838, was ordained as pastor. He left that churchin 1844, and for a few months had charge of the CongregationalChinch in Bethel, Conn. He was then pastoi of the Presby-terian Chinch in Ballston Spa, N Y , foi two yeais (1845-4*7);and from 1847 to 1855 was over the Smithfield PresbyterianChuich in Lithgow, Duchess County, N Y His health thenfailed and he letired from active labor. His lesidence was inFond du Lac, Wisconsin, for most of the time until 1894, whenhe went to Abeideen, South Dakota, where his youngest son wassettled in the Presbyterian ministry. He died in Aberdeen onFebruary 10, 1897, in his 87th year He had been nearly blindfor many years

He married on June 27, 1844, Mary A., second daughter of theRev. James M Winchell (Brown Univ. 1822), late pastor of the1st Baptist Chinch m Boston, who died on December 29, 1850,leaving two sons and one daughtei He next mamed on April12,1854, Corahe, daughtei of Calvin Chamberhn, who is still living;by her he had one son and two daughtei s. His children are allliving, except one daughter

1830

HENRY ROGERS WINTHROP, the eldest son of John Still Win-thiop (Y C 1804) and Harnet (Rogers) Winthrop, was born inNew York City on January 31, 1811

Aftei leaving College he studied law under Judge Daggett inNew Haven, and was admitted to the bar m September, 1832.He immediately entered the law office of Johnson & Kent m NewYoik City, and after this for about twenty years he was activelyand successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in NewYork, devoting himself mainly to office business and consultation.

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resided throughout life in New York and used the advantagesconferred by a distinguished ancestry and high social position forthe advancement of nobler ideals in the community.

He died at his country place, Far Rockaway, L. I , on October23, 1896, in his 86th year.

He married on November 20, 1838, Margaiet L., daughtei ofThomas Hicks, of New York City, who died on February 26,1873. After her death he mamed Mary Jones Gelston, whosurvives him, as well as one daughter and one son (Yale Coll.1862), the children of his first marriage.

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SETH COLLINS BRACE, the third child and eldest son of theRev. Dr. Joab Brace (Y C, 1804) and his wife, Lucy, daughteiof Seth Collins, was born in Newington, then a parish in Wethers-field, Conn., on August 3, 1811

From 1832 to 1835 he taught in Lenox and Noithampton,Mass , being also for a brief part of this time editor of the Massa-chusetts Eagle at Lenox From 1835 to 1838 he was a tutor inthis College, and at the same time studied in the Divinity School.1

In March, 1839, he became the editor of the North American,then begun in Philadelphia, and was connected with the editor-ship, at intervals, until 1845. For the year 1842-43 he was Pio-fessor of Mathematics in Delaware College, at Newark, Del

From 1847 to 1851 he taught in a Young Ladies'Semmaiyin Pittsfield, Mass. He then returned to Philadelphia, and forone year (1855-56) filled with great acceptance the post ofLibrarian of the Meicantile Library. In 1857-58 he supplied thePresbyterian Church in Newaik, Del., and in 1859-60 the Con-gregational Church at Curtisville in Stockbridge, Mass. InAugust, 1860, he took chaige of the Congregational Church inBethany, New Haven County, Conn., where he was ordained onJune 26, 1861. He was dismissed from this pastorate on May 18,1864, and for the next six yeais was occupied as a private tutorin New Haven. He then removed to Philadelphia, wheie therest of his life was spent. After a veiy brief illness he died inthat city on January 25, 1897, in his 86th year, having retainedhis mental faculties unimpaired to the last. He was never mar-ried.

Mr Brace was through life a keen and accurate scholar, witha mind well furnished by reading and study, but his letiring dis-

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position made it difficult for him to take the place to which hiscapacities and attainments rightfully entitled him.

JAMES HARRISON CARRUTH was born in Phillipston, Worces-ter County, Mass , on Februaiy 10, 1807, the eldest in a familyof seven childien. In 1826 he entered Amherst College, but leftthere early in 1828, and in February, 1830, joined the SophomoreClass at Yale

After graduation he taught school for thiee years, and thenbegan theological studies at the Seminary m Auburn, N. YTwo veais later, m the fall of 1837, he removed to the YaleDivinity School for the closing year of his course For the nexteighteen yeais he was mainly occupied in teaching m Salem,Cherry Valley, and Watertown, N Y., and m preaching in thesame State, aftei his oidination as an evangelist, on June 25,1851, at Cooper^town.

In May, 1850, he went to Kansas and took up a claim nearOssawatonne. In the spring of 1863 he went to Baldwin City, inthe same State, wheie he was Piofessor of Natural Sciences inBakei Umveisity, a young Methodist institution, for nearly threeyears In the fall of 1866 he removed to Lawrence, and for theyear he supplied acceptably the pulpit of the Presbyterian Churchin Clinton This was his last pastoral service, and the rest of hislife was occupied with miscellaneous hteiary work, with special at-tention to peifectmg a list of the flora of the State, on which sub-ject he was recognized foi many years as the highest authority Heinsti acted in Botany in AVashburn College, at Topeka, for a shoittime about 1880 In May, 1892, he removed from'Lawrence forthe sake of his wife's health, and the remamdei of his life wasspent in a more southern climate, piincipally in New Mexico. Hesettled in Van Buren, Aikansas, m April, 1896, and died there onSept 1 5, altei an illness of about twelve days, in the 90th yearof his age. His bodily and mental poweis and his interest inbiblical and scientific studies were wonderfully preseived to thelast His pnncipal publications were in connection with hiswoik as State Botanist

He married on Sept. 13, 1841, Jane Grant, of Steuben County,N. Y , by whom he had two daughters and five sons His wifedied in March, 1875, and he was again marned on March 14, 1883,to Mis. Maiy E Pednck, of Noith Topeka, Kansas, who surviveshim.

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GEORGE WILLIAM EDWARDS, the fifth son of Jonathan WalterEdwards (Y C 3 789) and Elizabeth (Tryon) Edwards, and agrandson of the younger President Edwaids, was born in Hait-ford, Conn, on Novembei 1, 1811

After graduation he went to New Yoik City, to engage inmercantile pursuits, and was thus occupied (making Brooklyn hishome aftei 1847) until his retirement to Stamford, Conn , inMay, 1887. In both Brooklyn and Stamford he was an elder mthe Presbyterian Church, and a? long as his health pei nutted amost successful Sabbath-school teacher and superintendent.

He died, of old age, in Stamfoid, on July 21, 1896, in bib 85thyeai

He man led, on Novembei 27, 1839. Mis Donnda (Baikei)Cheney, of New York, who died on August 25, 1850 He nextman led, on October 13, 1864, Miss Hannah L Abbott, ot Bath,Me, who siuvives him .One daughter and one son by the fiistmarnage, and one daughter by the second mainage, also suiwvehim.

ALFRED HEBARD, fourth son of Augustus and Bathsheba(Learned) Hebaid, was boin in Wmdham, Conn , on May 10,1811. ,

On leaving College he engaged ai once m teaching, in theEdgehill Seminary, Pimceton, N J , whence he went about twoyeais latei to the charge of a boyb' school in New London, ConnIn 1836 he left New London foi the West, and spent a year mengineering seivice on a lailroad m Indiana This woik beingsuspended in 1837, he removed to Wisconsin Temtoiy, and beganthe lmpiovement of a laige farm neai Builington, in ^hat isnow Iowa. He mamed Anne M., second daughtei of the RevDaniel Huntmgton (Y C 1807), of Noith Bndgewatei, Mats,on April 20, 1841 He continued to reside in the subuibs of Biu-hngton until 1860, and was a lepiesentative horn the county mthe 3d, 4th, and 6th Legislative Assemblies of the Territory, andalso in the 1st Geneial Assembly of the State. He letumedgradually to his favonte occupation as a civil engmeei, and inthe later years of his stay in Builington was busily employed inrailroad service of this natuie.

During the wai of the Rebellion he wTas occupied in budgeand lailroad constiuction for the Union government m SouthernMissouri and Tennessee, with headquarteis at St Louis and after-

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wards in Nashville After the close of the war he was engagedm rebuilding bridges in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, until1868, when he established himself in the new settlement of RedOak, in the southwestern part of Iown, wheie the rest of his lifewas spent. He was a membei of the State Senate from 1875 to1883, and gained universal respect and esteem in that body forhis attractive personal qualities and his practical wisdom as alegislator. Meantime he was honored in Red Oak as having solargely determined through his influence the character of thatcity for culture and righteousness.

In the summei of 1896 he visited New England and while herewas suddenly attacked with gangrene of the foot, and after fiveweeks' painful illness died at the home of his sister in NewLondon, Conn , on Septembei 21, in his 86th year. His wife sur-vives him, with two of their four children.

1833

JOSHUA THOMAS TUCKER, only surviving son of Joshua andWealthy (Thomas) Tucker, was born in Milton, Mass., on Sep-tember 20, 1812

On graduation he went to St. Louis, Mo, and in 1835 enteredLane Theological Seminary, m Cincinnati, Ohio. On leavingthere in 1837 he took charge of home-mission woik in Chester,Randolph County, Illinois, and on May 30 married in St. LouisMaiy O , daughter of Chiistopher Stibbs, of London, EnglandOn November 16 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Alton,111. In 1838 he lemoved to Rushville, in Schuyler County, andin 1840 became pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Chuich in Hanni-bal, Mo, where he remained for six years. His wife died thereon August 31, 1844, and he married in St. Louis on October 7,1845, Anne D , daughter of John Shackford, of Portsmouth, N H.

In 1846 he went to St Louis as pastor of the North Presbyte-rian Church and associate editor of the Herald of ReligiousLiberty Leaving there in 1848, he was installed over theCongiegational Church in Holhston, Mass., on June 6, 1849,where he fulfilled an able and faithful ministry of nearly eighteenyeais, until his resignation on April 1, 1867. In 1863-64 he wasone of the editors of the Boston Recorder; and m 1861 one ofthe founders of the Boston (Congregational) Review, and aneditor of it until 1868. On April 8, 1868, he was installed pastor

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of the 2d Congregational Church in Chicopee, Mass., from whicha dismission, on account of failing health, was reluctantly grantedhim in April, 1878. He then removed to Boston, where the restof his life was spent.

He died in Boston (Dorchester District), on June 11, 1897, mhis 85th year.

His children (by his tirst marriage) were two daughters, whosurvive him, and two younger children who died in infancy.The eldest daughter is the widow of Edward P. Nettleton (Yale1856).

Besides his extensive contubutions down to almost the end oflife to the periodical press, and occasional sermons, he publisheda life of Christ, entitled The Sinless One, in 1855 (12°, pp. 324),and Christ's Infant Kingdom, in 1870 (16°, pp 104). Thedegree of Doctor of Divinity was given him by Iowa College in1875

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JOHN PHELPS ATWATER, the youngest child of the Rev. Di.Jeremiah At water (Y. C 1793) and Clarissa (Storrs) Atwater,was born on March 4, 1813, in Carlisle, Pa , his father at thattime being President of Dickinson College About two yearslater the family removed to New Haven, President Atwatei'snative place.

He studied medicine after graduation, mostly in the YaleMedical Schqol, and received the degree of M.D. here in 1837.In that year he removed to Cincinnati, O , where he resided until1861. In 1845 he retired from the practice of his profession, anddid not again resume it. He foresaw at an early day the devel-opment of Chicago and invested in leal estate there whichincreased greatly in value. On leaving Cincinnati he went toBrookhne, Mass., but in 1862 settled in New Haven. Finally in1870 he removed to Poughkeepsie, N Y., where he resided untilhis death He had been in poor health for several yeais, butdied suddenly and without pam, as he was sitting in his chair, onMay 23, 1897, in his 85th year. He showed his regaid foi theUniversity by the bequest of a valuable piece of landed estatewhich he owned in New Haven.

He married on July 27, 1845, Lucy J Phelps, of West Town-shend, V t , who survives him with one son (Y. C. 1875) and onedaughter ; four other children died in infancy.

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1836

PIXCKNEY WEBSTEK ELLSWORTH, the eldest child of GovernorWilliam W Ellswoith (Y. C. 1810) and Emily (Webster) Ells-worth, was bom m Hartfoid, Conn., on December 5, 1814

After graduation he began the study of law, but soon changedto medicine and completed the usual course, partly in Philadel-phia and partly m New Yoik City, receiving his degree at theCollege of Physicians and Surgeons in the latter city in 1839He then opened an office in Haitford, and on October 11, 1842,mamed Julia M , daughter of Jesse Sterling, of Budgeport. In1843 he went abroad foi special studies, which he pursued mPai*is, London, and Dublin, and on his leturn he settled in Provi-dence, K I , but soon went back to Hartford, where he remainedin active practice with distinction until his retirement in 1894.He was most eminent as a surgeon, and also made a specialty ofdiseases of the eye and ear

On the breaking out of the civil war he was appointed BrigadeSurgeon by Goveinoi Buckingham, but in consequence of expo-suie on the field was obliged to lesign m the wintei of 1861-62.

His wile died on March IS, 1854, their only child havingalieady died in infancy. He next married, on December 7, 1857,Julia T , daughter of Lucius K Dow, of New Haven, by whomhe had five daughters (of whom one died in infancy) and twosons The latter aie giatluates of Yale (B A 1890 and Ph.B.1893, lespectrvely)

Di ElLswoith died m Haitfoid, from paialysis, on November29, 1896, at the age of 82 yeais.

GEORGE MIXIER, youngest son of Jason and Susan (Cutler)Mixtei, of Haidwick, Mass , was born in that town on April 28,1815

In the year of his giaduation he visited St Louis, and again in1837, when he went West permanently, settling in May in RockIsland, Illinois, which city was atterwaids his residence, except-ing for thiee yeais duimg which he was Registiai of a LandOfhce in Dixon in the same State

In 183S he was admitted to the bar, but never practiced theprofession His choice of an occupation was always limited bya leference to his health, being a sufferer from asthma. He wasthus at different times engaged in faiming, in the lumber busi-ness, and in manufactures.

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He died at his home in Rock Island on Apul 20, 1897, at theage of 82.

He manied on January 1, 1846, Miss Susan E Gilbeit, ofMoline, Wisconsin, who died about hve years befoie him Theirchildren were four sons and four daughters. Of the three sonswho survive them, the eldest was giaduated at the SheffieldScientific School m 1867, and the second m 187*7 , one daughteiis also living.

THOMAS PORTER SCOVELL, son of Dr. Sevmoui and Cynthia(Porter) Scovell, was born m Palmyra, Wayne County, K Y ,on November 22, 1814, and enteied College from Lewiston,Niagara County, his father being among the eaily settleis in thatvicinity.

After giaduation he began the study oi law in Lockpoit, thecounty seat of Niagara County, but abandoned it aftei a fewmonths, for reasons of health and from distaste foi the studyIn 183V, during the excitement attending the Canadian msunec-tion, he edited a paper called The Frontier Sentinel In 1839The Niagara Democrat passed into his hands and was edited andpublished by him at Lockpoi t until 1846, when he retnetl frombusiness on account of illness He spent the next winter at theSouth, and returned to his home in Lewiston with health le-estab-lished. In 1849 he became the agent of the zEtna Fire Insur-ance Company of Hartford, and continued in that business foinearly half a century He was also for ovei forty yeais, untilhis resignation in 1892 on account of feebleness, town cleik ofLewiston, and was most highly respected both in public and pn-vate life.

He died in Lewiston of paialysis on August 6, 1896, m his82d year He was unman led

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WILLIAM STUART FLEMING was boin neai Zion Chinch, MamyCounty, Tennessee, on April 23, 1816, the eldest son of ThomasF. and Margaret E. (Armstrong) Fleming His parents were ofScotch-Irish descent, and had emigiated from South Caiolina in1805. He was excellently piepared for College undei a piivatetutoi, and entered at the beginning of the Sophomore year

He taught in his native county for a short time after gradua-tion, and then began the study of law. In January, 1842, he was

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licensed to practice and opened an office in Columbia, the countyseat of Maury County, where, he practiced with distinguished suc-cess until his election, in August, 1870, as Chancellor of theEighth Chancery Division of the State, embracing Maury, Giles,Williamson, and Marshall Counties To this judicial position hewas 1 e-elected by an overwhelming majority of the popular votein August, 18*78, for another term of eight years. In 1886, whenenfeebled by age, he declined to offer himself for re-election,though urged by the bar to do so, and letired from the benchwith tokens of the deep affection and veneration felt for him bythe members of the bar in the courts over which he had piesided.

He then associated himself with his youngest son in practiceand entered again on the labois of the profession In 1893 heletned from active life and passed the remainder of his dayspleasantly occupied in writing reminiscences and poems, andespecially in the devotional study of the Sciiptures. He was forthe greater pait of his life an elder in the First PresbyterianChuich in Columbia, and always devoted to the cause of Christ.The most impoitant of his writings was a History of MauryCounty, published in 1876

He married on September 5, 1839, Miss Frances M. Stephenson,who died on April 28, 1849 ; of her six children, one daughterand one son are still living. He next married, on Januaiy 12,1854, Mary W., second daughter of J W. S. Frierson, M.D., ofColumbia, who died on November 8,1858 ; her three children diedearly. He married again, on February 8, 1860, Ruth A. John-son, widow of Albert Booker, who bore him thiee children, ofwhom one son onlv is living

Judge Fleming died in Columbia, after a long life of honorand usefulness, on July 13, 1896, in his 81st year.

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RICHARD ELISHA RICE was boin in Wmthrop, a village mSaybrook, Conn., on February 8,1816.

For eighteen months after graduation he taught school inDelaware, Ohio, and was then foi three years principal of theAcademy m Madison, Conn. In the fall of 1844 he went toAugusta, Ga , wheie he was engaged for about three years inmercantile business He then lesumecf the charge of the Madi-son Academy, but in May, 1850, removed to Stamford, Conn,and established a boarding-school for boys, which he conducted

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successfully for fourteen years. In Apnl, 1864, his health givingway, he gave up his school and soon removed to New Haven, hiseldest child being just ready to enter College. For the rest ofhis life he found employment in acting as trustee foi seveialestates and as an office-bearer in the church He had served asdeacon of the 1st Congregational Chuich m Stamfoid from 1854to 1864, and after his removal to New Haven was deacon foitwenty years m the North, now the United Church, and also itsclerk and treasurer. He was compelled by advancing age andinfix mides to resign the office of clerk about a year befoie hisdeath, but retained the position of treasurer to the end.

He died at his home in New Haven on May 30, 1897, in his82d year.

He married on Septembei 11, 1845, Parnella, younger daughteiof Hubbard Scranton, of Madison, who died on March 28, 1893.Of their four children, one feon (Y. C. 1868) and one daughtei,the wife of Professor W. T. Sedgwick (S. S S 1877), are stillliving

EDWARD WELLS was bom in Durham, Gieene County, N Y ,on December 2, 1818, and enteied College iiom Sing Sing,N. Y , during the first teim of Junioi year.

After graduation he studied law, at first in the office of theHou. Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing, and later with Minott Mitchell,of White Plains In Octobei, 1842, he was admitted to the bai,and settled two months aftei in Peekskill, N Y., for the piacticeof his piofession, in which he, attained eminent success. Thoughresiding in a district opposed to him in politics, he was electedDistrict Attorney of Westchester County by the Whigs in 1850,and was re-elected three yeais latei, but declined a third nomi-nation As an orator and public speaker he held a foremost placein the bar of the State. He was foi many yeais an eldei m theFust Piesbytenan Church of Peekskill, and was always mosthighly esteemed for his upnghtness and fidelity

He died, after a protracted illness, at his home in Peekskill, onOctober 9, 1896, in his 78th year

He married on Octobei 21, 1856, Hannah H , daughter of theRev. Dr. Charles W Nassau, of Lawrenceville, N J His tw osons and one daughtei suivive him, the elder son being a giad-uate of Yale College in 1884.

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JOSIAH DWIGHT WHITNEY, the eldest child of Josiah DwightWhitney, of Noithampton, Mass., and Saiah (Wilhston) Whit-ney, was born in Noithampton on November 23, 1819.

Aftei six months' study in the chemical laboratory of Dr Rob-eit Haie, in Phila lelphia, he began his active geological work asassistant under Dr Chailes T Jackson on the survey of NewHampshne, where he was engaged for two years He thenundertook an extended course of study m chemistry, mineralogy,and geology, at the School of Mines in Pans, and the universitiesoi Beihn and Giessen. Returning in the spring of 1847 he wasappointed by the U. S Government, with J. W Foster, to assistJackson in the geological exploration of the Lake Superiorlegion After two years the woik was committed to Foster andWhitney alone, and the results of then labois appeared in theiriinal leport, in two volumes (1850-51) lie then spent two yearsin an extended investigation of the mines and mineral regionseast oi the Mississippi, in prepaiation for his Metallic Wealth ofthe U &, published in 1854 In 1855 he was appointed StateChemist of Iowa and Piofessoi of Chemistiy in the State Uni-vei&ity, and m the same year began geological woik in Iowa inconnection with Professoi James Hall. The results weie pub-lished in Pait I of the Repoit on the Geology of Iowa in 1858.lie withdiew fiom his piofessoiship aftei two or t-hiee years

lie next undeitook the unestigation of the Upper MississippiLead Region, in connection with official surveys of Wisconsin andIllinois, and printed the results of his exploiations in the Reporton the Geological Surve)r of Wisconsin in 1862

In I860 he was appointed State Geologist of California, anduntil the spung of 187 4 (when the woik was discontinued by actot the Legislatuie) was engaged in the organization and conductof a thoiough topographical, geological and natuial-histoiy sur-\ ey of that State. His Repoits of this suivey, m six volumes(1864-70), weie his most elaboiate woik and exhibit his bestpowers

In the meantime he was appointed in 1865 Profesoi of Geologyin Hai vaid College, with chai i e of the School of Mimnsr and Prac-tical Geology, which professoi ship he held until his death, thoughlie did not begin actrve duty for some years

After a period of failing health he died suddenly, at LakeSunapee, N I I , on August 19, 1896, in his 77th yeai.

He mamed on February 5, 1854, Louisa, daughter of Samuel

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Goddard, of Brookhne, Mass, who died on May 13, 1882. Theironly child, a daughter, died a few hours after hei mother

Professor Whitney received the honorary degree of LL D fromYale in 1870, and was one of the original members of the NationalAcademy of Sciences Mount Whitney, the highest mountainin the United States (outside of Alaska), was named in his honor.

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THOMAS SPENCEE HUNTINGTO^ was born on June 20, 1820, inHartford, Connecticut

After graduation he ;yvent to Augusta, Ga, the home of acousin. In the meantime his father had removed to Cincinnati,0., whither the son also went about 1842 He adopted the pio-fession of civil engineering and was connected with the suiveyand construction of seveial laihoads, especially with the Cincin-nati, Hamilton & Dayton R R , of which he was chief engmeeifor about six years. He lesided pnncipally m Ohio and Wis-consin until 1850, and foi the next ten yeais in Cincinnati Hethen removed to a new settlement on Lake Pepm, a shoit dis-tance below St Paulj Minnesota

He returned to Cincinnati about 1886, but soon after became apatient in Longview Asylum, at Carthage, in the subuibs of thecity, where he died on October 10, 1890, in his 77th yeai.

He married soon after his return to Cincinnati in 1850, andleft children.-

WILLIAM NOREIS was born in Baltimore, Md., on Decembei 6,1820.

He began life after giaduation as a merchant in Baltimoie, butsubsequently studied law and was admitted to the Baltimore baiin 1844. He then went to Texas as a surveyor, and in 1845 set-tled m New Oi leans for the practice of his profession. In 184$he went to California and while there was engaged in mining,surveying, and speculating, as well as in the practice of law Heacted for a time as Judge-Advocate of the Pacific squadion ofthe U S Navy, then lying in the Bay of San Fiancisco, andwhile thus engaged visited Valparaiso, Chili, in 1851, and theiemet and manied Miss Ellen L., daughter of XL S Consul GeoigeG. Hobson

He then returned to Baltimore, where he was engraved in busi-ness at the outbreak of the Civil War. In Julv, 1861, he

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entered the Confederate service, and was appointed as a Captainon the staff of General Magruder. In October, 1862, on theGeneral's recommendation, he was appointed Chief of the SignalService of the Confederate army, with the rank of Major. Hewab subsequently promoted to be Colonel, and was appointedCommissioner for the exchange of prisoners, and Chief of theSecret Service Bureau.

At the close of the war he retired to his ancestial estate calledBrookland, near Reisterstown, in Baltimore County, where helived, highly respected, until his death. He was offered m 1870a high position m the army of the Khedive of Egypt, butdeclined it.

He died suddenly, from apoplexy, at Brookland, on December29, 1896, at the age of 76 His wife survives him with their fouichildren, two daughters and two sons.

Colonel Noiris published in 1879 a graphic account of the navalbattle between the Monitor and the Meirimacin Hampton Roadsin 1862, of which he was an eye-witness.

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EDMUND PARKER CHASE, son of William Chase, was born onMay 30, 1821, in Boston, Mass, but entered College from NewYork City.

After graduation he began reading law at his home in Pepper-ell, Mass , with the Hon Asa F. Lawrence He continued hisstudies with David A. Hall, of Washington, D. C , and after hisadmission to the bar he settled for practice in St. Louis, Mo., in1S44 Aftei about a year he removed to Beardstown, 111, and in1846 gave up his profession for meicantile business in Rushville.In 1850, having been unsuccessful, he returned to Beardstown,where he prospeied. In the fall of 1870 he sold out his business,and in December of that year removed to Des Moines, Iowa InMay, 1894, he suffered partial paralysis as the result of a sun-stroke, which also affected his brain, so that his mind graduallyfailed He died at his home in Des Moines on June 21, 1896, inhis 76th yeai

He mained on October 12, 1846, Eliza A. D , eldest daughterof the Rev John Scripps, Presiding Elder in the Methodist Epis-copal Church, who suivives him. Their children were seven sonsand three daughteis, of whom five sons and one daughtei are stillIn ing.

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WILLIAM TEMPLEMAN SAWYER, son of Wilson and Sarah G(Sawyer) Sawyer, was born in Elizabeth City, N. C , on Febru-ary 20, 1821. His father died in 1823, and he resided chiefly inNorfolk and Alexandria, Ya , before entering College in the fallof 1839.

On returning to the South after graduation he found that hisproperty had been dissipated thiough the speculations ot hisguardian, so that he was forced to abandon his plan of study inthe Yale Law School He remained for some yeais m feeblehealth among his kindred in Greensboio, Hale County, Alabama.In 1853-4 he was well enough to teach a select school; and a lit-tle later he took up the study of medicine, and received thedegree of M.D. at the University of Louisiana in 1860. Duringthe civil war he served as suigeon in the Confedeiate aimy,chiefly in hospitals m Mississippi and Alabama. In the winteiof 1865-6 he settled in New Oi leans for the practice of his pio-fession, but on the partial failme of his health m 1S66 heremoved to Whistler, Ala., near Mobile, where he was a success-ful practitioner for twenty-eight years. He never marned, andwhen no longer able to undergo the fatigues of piofessionallife he removed in 1894 to the house of a niece, at his old homein Gieensboro, where he died on July 9, 1896, m his 76th yeai.

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LEMUEL SANFORD DAVIES, son of the Rev. Thomas F Davies(Y C 1813), was born in New Haven, Conn (wheie his fatherwas then editing The Christian Spectator), on Febiuary 28, 1823

On graduation he entered the Law School, but in the fol-lowing spring was obliged by the failure of his health to lehn-quish study He then spent a year in Cayuga County, N. Y ,and was sufficiently recruited to undertake a year's engagementas a teacher in Northampton County, N C , after which renewedfeebleness drove him again to Cayuga County Finally he ie-turned to New Haven in the fall of 1846 to complete his studies,and in the spring of 1847 he was admitted to the bar. On Sep-tember 14, 1847, he married Stella M , elder daughter of EdwardScovill, of Waterbury, Conn., and m the uncertain condition ofhis health he again returned to Cayuga County and devoted him-self to agricultural puisuits In the spnng of 1855 he opened alaw office in Waterbury, and practiced his profession with suc-

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He was Mayor of the city for the year 1863-64, and Judgeof Piobate from 1866 to 1868 His health, however, finally com-pelled him to abandon professional wTork, and after trying forbrief visits the climate of Minnesota he removed to Santa Cruz,California, where he died on June 15, 1897, in his 75th year.

EDWARD EELLS was born in Middletown, Conn., on November10, 1818, the son of Samuel and Lucena (Woodward) Eells of ithat town

After leaving College he taught for one year in Baltimore,Md, and then went to the Princeton Theological Seminary,where he was graduated in 1847 For nearly two years he wasa home missionaiy in Boone County., Kentucky, and was ordainedtheie as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Ebenezer on Septem-ber 14, 1848 He was then lecalled to Connecticut, and fromJune, 1849, to April, 1850, supplied the Congregational Churchm Boziah Next followed an engagement for home missionwToik m Atlantic County, N J , principally at Absecom Afteranother mteival of seivice in Northern Kentucky, he went in1855 to mission work among the Choctaw Indians, and in 1856to Texas, wheie he spent three years in preaching and teaching inLaraar and San Augustine Counties He then removed to noith-westein Louisiana, and preached for nine years in De Soto Par-ish In 1868 he leturned to the neighborhood of his early Ken-tucky ministry, and from 1869 to 1882 labored faithfully andsuccessfully in Coalsmouth, now St Albans, West Virginia.Then, on the failure of his health, he fixed his home in Washing-ton, D C , where he died, after a long and at times very painfulillnes>, on Maich 11, 1897, m his 79th year

lie man led on Januaiy 4, 1848, Hetty, daughter of the Rev.Christian Wiltberger, of Yardleyville, P a , who survives him.Their children weie five in number, all but one of whom are now

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CYPRIAN PORTER WILLCOX, son of Cyprian and Catharine(DeWitt) Willcox, w as bom in Sparta, Ga, on November 26,1822 He enteied Yale at the opening of the Junior yeai, hisfamily having lemoved to New Haven in his childhood.

The yeai aftei graduation he spent in his native State Thenext four years were mostly employed m teaching in New York

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City, where he also attempted to study medicine, but found theprofession uncongenial. In October, 1849, he went to Europe,and remained there until the summei of 1856, pi incipally occupiedin teaching pnvate pupils and in the study of modem languagesHe then formed the plan of establishing a Home School forAmerican boys on the Continent, but was delayed by the finan-cial panic of 1857 He was married in Augusta, Ga., on October7, 1859, to Mary F , daughtei of James M S my the, and immedi-ately returned to Europe and opened his projected school inGeneva, where it was eminently successful until interrupted bythe outbreak of the civil war After this he engaged in businessin Brussels, and in the fall of 1869 returned to Amenca, andsettled m Columbus, Ga , wheie an older brother was living InJanuary, 1872, he accepted the chair of Modern Languages inthe Univeisity of Georgia, at Athens, where he lemamed as avalued officer until his death The honorary degree of Doctoi ofLaws was conferred on him hj the University of the South in1891. Besides being honoied for his scholaiship, he was alsohighly esteemed for his integrity of chaiacter For many yearsbefore his death he was Senioi Wai den of the leading EpiscopalChurch in Athens

He died at his home in Athens \ery suddenly, fiom heartdisease, on Sept 4, 1896, in his 74th year. His wife suiviveshim, with their six sons, an only daughter having died severalyears before him.

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OLIVER CRANE, the eldest son of Stephen F and Matilda H(Smith) Crane, was bom in West Bloomfield, now Montclair, N. J ,on July 12, 1822 His father was a well-to-do farmer, and hewas prepared for the Sophomoie Class in the face of consideiabledifficulties, with a view of becoming a foreign missionary.

He taught after graduation in a boarding-school in Bordentown,N. J.. until he entered Andover Theological Seminary in the fallof 1846. A year later he removed to Union Seminary, where hefinished the course in May, 1848 On June 18, 1848, he wasordained by the Presbytery of Newark, being already underappointment as a missionary of the American Boaid to theArmenians of Turkey. On Sept 5, 1848, he was mamed toMarion D., daughter of John Turnbull, of New York City, andhe sailed for his new field of duty in January, 1849 After-he

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had acquired the Turkish language he did efficient service, mainlyin Aintab, Syria, until compelled to return home by his wife'shealth m the fall of 1853.

In January, 1854, he was installed as pastor of the Presbyte-nan church in Huron, IS". Y , on the shores of Lake Ontario, butthe rigor of the climate proving tpo severe for Mrs Crane, hewas obliged to accept another call, in May, 1857, to the Presby-terian Church in Waverly, in Tioga County. In the spring of1860, JVIrfa Crane's health seeming to wairant it, he was reap-pointed missionary, and then spent nearly three years in Adrian-ople, Turkey Mrs. Ciane's illness again compelled her husbandto lehnquihh his post in JuljT, 1863.

In the hummei of 1864 he was elected Professor of BiblicalLiteiature and Moial Science in Rutgeis Female College, NewYoik City, but declined in oider to accept a call to the pastorateof the Presbvtenan Church in Caibondale, P a , where he wasinstalled in October, 1864. In the spring of 1870 he resignedthis charge, and a year later settled in Moinstown, N. J , wherehe devoted himself largely to literary pursuits, and where Mrs.Crane died on July 23, 1890, after a lingering illness. Threedaughters and a son (Yale 1879) survive their parents, anotherdaughter having died in infancy.

On Sept 1, 1891, he was married to Miss Sibylla A., daughterof Heniy Bailey, of Boston, and thenceforth made that city hishome He died theie of paralysis on November 29, 1896, in his75th year

The honoraiy degree of M.D. was conferred on him by theEclectic Medical College of New York City in 1867, that of D.D.by the University of Wooster, Ohio, in 1880, and that of LL.D.by Westminster College, Missouri, in 1889

He published in 1888 a line-by-lme translation of Vergil'sAeneid in dactylic hexameter, and in 1889 a small volume ofmiscellaneous poems As secretary of his College Class, he pub-lished a remaikablv full record in 1881

LEONARD EUGENE WALES was born in Wilmington, Del., onNovember 26, 1823, the third child of the Hon. John Wales(Y C 1801) and Ann (Patten) Wales

On graduation he read law in his father's office for three years,and was admitted to the bar in May, 1848. He settled in prac-tice in his native city, and for two years was an associate editor

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of- the Delaioare State Journal, then the organ of the Whigparty in t*he State For several years from May, 1849, he wasclerk of the United States Court for the district of DelawaieIn July, 1853, he was elected City Solicitor of Wilmington, andwas re-elected the following year. In April, 1861, he enlisted inthe 1st Regiment of Delaware Volunteers, for three months' ser-vice, and was chosen 2d Lieutenant. In May, 1863, he wasappointed a Commissioner of Enrolment for Delaware, to super-intend the draft of troops ; and while still serving on this Boardhe accepted, in October, 1864, the position of Associate Judge ofthe State Courts for Newcastle County He retained this placeuntil his appointment by President Arthur in March, 1884, asJudge of the United States District Court for the distuct of Dela-ware, and the duties of this office he perfoimed with much accepta-bility until his last illness.

He died in Wilmington on Febr. 8, 1897, in hib 74th yeai,after less than a week's illness, from bronchitis, lesulting fiom anattack of the grip He was unmarried, and a maiden sister whohad for many years lived with him, died about two weeks eaiher

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CHARLES JOSEPH GOBRECHT, the eldest son and second child ofChristian and Mary Gobrecht, was boin in Philadelphia, P a , onAugust 15, 1825

He studied law in Philadelphia for two years after graduation,and was admitted to the bar in October, 1848 He then beganthe practice of his piofession m that city and thus continueduntil within a few years of his death He also did editorial workfor a long series of yeais on the Philadelphia Ledger At thetime of his death he was Secretary of the Board of Diiectors ofthe Mercantile Library, of which he had for the past six yearsbeen a member.

He died very suddenly, from valvular disease of the heart, mPhiladelphia, on December 22, 1896, in his 72d year He wasnever married.

JOSEPH FRANKLIN GRIGGS, fifth son of John and Maiy (Thurs-ton) Griggs, was born m Sutton, Worcester County, Mass., onApnl 24, 1822.

He entered the Andover Theological Seminary in September,1846, and again in February, 1847, but each time was soonobliged to withdraw on account of ill health.

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In September, 1847, he began his career as a teacher, and wasemployed foi two years in his native county. He then opened aboys' classical school in Alleghany City, Pa. In 1855 his schoolwas meiged in the "Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pitts-burg, m which he became Piofessor of Ancient Languages. In1864 his professorship was divided, and he letained the chair ofGieek until 1880, when he was made Secretaiy and Treasmer ofthe Board of Tiustees,—an office which he held until disabledby paralysis in 1892.

He died in Pittsburg on April 1, 1897, at the age of 75.Professor Gnggs had been an elder in the Third Piesbyterian

Chuich in Pittsbuig foi thirty-five years, and was one of themost honored and useful citizens of that city.

He man led, on April 16, 1863, Eliza B , daughter of Dr J BBrooks, of Pittsburg, who survives him with one daughter andthiee sons , a second daughter died in infancy*

FEAXKUX HOLMES was born on Mai eh 26, 1823, m WestBoylston, Mass, the son of Peter and Olive (Giaves) Holmes.Soon aftei his birth his father removed to Amherst, Mass., and in1833 to what is now Albion, Michigan, nearly a him died mileswest of Detioit. He had taught for two or thiee years in Mich-igan and m Massachusetts befoie entering College

Aftei graduation he taught foi two yeais m Napanoeh, UlsterCounty, X Y , and then continued teaching m New Haven whilea student (foi two yeais) in the Yale Divinity School. Hepieached foi a few months in North Brookfield, Mass., and whilea resident licentiate at Andover Seminary he was called (inMarch, 1 852) to settle over the Tiimtauan Congiegational Churchin Koiton, Mas*, where he was oidarned pastor on Septembei15, 1852, and where his memoiy is still held m affectionateremembiance.

He lesigned this charge in 1860, when a tendency to pulmonarydifficulties made it seem expedient foi him to seek some otheioccupation He was then foi ten years engaged in a manufac-tuimg business in New York City, and in 1870 became connectedwith the New York 3Tercantite Journal as editor. In thiscapacity, and as part owner, he was actnely engaged until illhealth compelled him to give up business life in 1883

After suffeimg much from asthma for some years, he died sud-denly of paralysis, in Paxton, Mass., on September 30, 1895,aged 72J yeais

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He married on August 5, 1855, Martha Sawyer, of Charles-town, Mass. His widow and his two childien, both sons, suivivehim.

ANTHONY PRATTE, elder son of Bernard and MarieLouise (Cheme) Pratte, was born in St Louis, Mo , on August 5,1825, and entered College in March t>f Freshman veai. Hisfather was engaged in the fur ti'ade in early life, and was con-nected with the old French Cieole families of St Louis by bloodand social position.

A'fter graduation he studied law and established himself inpractice in St.Louis He mariied on June 5, 1856, ELza G ,daughter of Frederick G. Edwards, of Louisville, K y , who sui-vives him .without children

He seived as an officer in the Ordnance Department of theConfederate Army during the civil war, and after its close heremoved to Atlanta, Ga., wheie he was at fiist m business as acommission mei chant and aftei wards clerk un a Life Insuianceoffice.

He removed finally to Decatur, in Noithein Texas, where hedied on Februaiy 1, 1897, m his 72d yeai.

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CHARLES THEODORE HART PALMER, the second son oi Benja-min F. and Eliza Palmei, was botn at Mystic Budge, in Stoning-ton, Conn , on January 15, 1827 His mother was a daughtei ofthe Kev. Ira Hait (Y. C. 1797).

He studied law aftei giaduatiofi, for six months with the Hon.LaFayette S. Foster, of Koi wich, Conn , and latei in the Yale LawSchool ; and early in 1849, when the gold fever was at its height,he emigrated to California and began practice in San Francisco.His office was soon burnt out, and he then lemoved to Sacra-mento, where he established the first school in that city. Fromthis occupation he passed into various business ventuies, chieflyconnected with mining operations He was for some yeaih inthe banking and assaying business in Folsom, and thence lemovedto the suburbs of San Francisco.

He, died at his residence, in Berkeley, on Febiuary IS, 1897,in his 71st year.

He was general manager, at the time of his death, of severalextensive poiphyry paving companies, and a fall in a quarry:

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which he was inspecting, some three months before, is believedto have hastened his death.

He man led in May, 1857, Hattie K , daughter of Sherman Day(Y C 182^7), who survives him. They had no children.

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EDWARD PAYSON ABBE, eldest son of Alanson Abbe, M.D.(Yale 1821) and Eliza W. (Barnes) Abbe, was born in Litchfield,Conn , on November 28, 1825, and entered the Yale MedicalSchool in September, 1844. A yeai later he joined the Sopho-more Class in College.

In 1849 he made a voyage to California for the sake of hishealth, and in March, 1850, resumed his medical studies at theHarvard Medical School, where he was graduated m August,1852. Aftei a brief engagement as Assistant Physician at theHospital on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, he settled in NewBedford, Mass , in May, 1853, for the practice of his profession,and there continued, an honored citizen, through his life. Hewas Piesident of the Southern Massachusetts Medical Society in1880-81.

He died m New Bedford on February 25,1897, in his 72d year.He marned, on May 2, 1854, Mary H., daughter of Captain

William G Blackler, of New Bedford, who died before him.One daughter and one son (a physician) are still living.

HOMER NORTHROP DUNNING, son of Hermon and Flora (North-rop) Dunning, was bom in Biookfield, Conn., on July 17, 1827,and enteied College .at the beginning of the Sophomore yeai fiomPeek&kill, N. Y.

Foi a yeai aftei graduation he was the piincipal of theAcademy at Sag Harbor, Long Island, and then took the fullcouise of study in the Union Theological Semmaiy, New YorkCity. On December 2, 1852, he was ordained and installed as thefirst pastor of the Congregational Church in Gloversville, N. Y.where he remained until his acceptance of a call to the Con-giegational Chinch m South Norwalk, Conn He was installedat thib place on April 17, 1866, and continued in service until hisletnement from the active work of the ministry on May 1, 1883.

The lest of his life was spent m literary labor and in privateteaching m South Norwalk, wheie he died fiom the effects of anattack of the grip, on March 27, 1897, in his 70th year. *

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He married, on October 19, 1852, Sarah, daughter of Wales ACandee, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who survi\es him with their twodaughters,—an only son having died in infancy.

Mr. Dunning was recognized as a preacher of unusual ability,and was especially well versed in Hebiew, Greek, and German.He was a skillful translator from these languages into English,the best known of such efforts being a poetical version of theBook of Job.

JAMES HEDDEN TRUMBULL, son of John M and Eliza (Bruen)Trumbull, was born in Elizabeth, N J , in Maich, 1828, andenteied College fiom Colchester, Conn., at the opening of Soph-omore year

On graduation he began the study of medicine at the Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and after someinterruptions completed the course and received the degiee ofM. D. in 1852. He then went to Chili, settling at first in Valpa-raiso, and ultimately in Talcahuano, wheie he lesided forupwards of thirty years He retned from the active practice ofhis profession some yeais befoie his death

In June, 1859, he manied Eulogia, daughter of Richaid Lind-say, of Talcahnano, by whom he had five sons and four daughtersThe two elder sons were graduated at the Sheffield ScientificSchool m 1881. Two sons and three daughters suivive him

While on a visit to Iquique, at the noithern extremitv of Chili,for his failing health, he died there on Nov. 12, 1896, in his 69thyear. His wife died m 1891.

BENHAM DANIEL YOUNG, also known m later life as D I N I E L

BENHAM YOUNG, but in College only as BEN D. YOUNG, wasborn in Christian County, Kentucky, on October 16, 1822, theson of Harvey and Lucretia (Benham) Young He enteied Col-lege at the opening of the Sophomore year, being then a residentof Huntsville, Alabama, and his progress having been delayedby lack of money.

On graduation he returned to Huntsville to study law, andmeantime was occupied in teaching. He was soon admitted tothe bar, and for a number of years lived m the family of Dr.John Y. Bassett, whose daughter, Alice L , twenty years hisjunior, he married on Januaiy 13, 1859. Although his sympa-thies were strongly southern, he was opposed to secession, anddeprecated the war. He did not serve in the aimy

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For several years after the 1 ebellion he continued at the bar,but eventually turned from an unlucrative practice and devotedhimself to teaching The drudgery of the latter profession was,however, distasteful to him, and the death of his wife on April6, 1877, served to make him more of a recluse. His taste for lit-erature and his skill as a writer, which were known to his class-mates, continued to the last. He died in Huntsville on May 12,1895, in his 73d yeai, leaving several childien

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BELA HORTOX COLE&ROVE was bom in Coventry, K I , onMaich 22, 1824, and entered the class from Brown University inJanuary, 1846.

Alter giaduation he studied for two years in the Yale LawSchool, and then practiced his piofession in Buffalo, N. Y., untilMaich, 1873, when he removed to Shaipsburg, in noithe'asternKentucky, to take chaige of a school. For the lest of his life,howevei, he ^\as mainly employed m farming and stock laismg.

He died in Shaipsburg on April 27, 1897, from the effects of aparalytic stioke, aftei two weeks' illness, in his 74th year.

He married on July 29, 1856, Miss Laura H Saunders, of Buf-falo,, by whom he had two sons (both of whom died in infancy)and four daughters

JOB LEWIS SMITH, son of the Hon. Lewis and Chloe (Benson)Smith, was bom in Spaffoid, Onondaga County, N Y , on October15, 1827, and entered College m May, 1846

He began the study of medicine with Di. Caleb Green, ofHomei, X Y , and aftei attending lectures in the Buffalo Medi-cal School was giaduated at the College of Physicians and Sur-geons in Xew York City in the spring of 1858 From that dateuntil his last sickness he practiced hib profession in !N~ew YorkCity. He made a specialty from the first of the diseases of chil-dren, and published a most valuable Treatise on that subject,which leached an eighth edition in 1896 (pp. 987), and is regardedas a standaid authonty In 1878 he was appointed Professor ofthe Diseases of Childien in Bellevue Hospital Medical College,and so continued until he was made Professor Emeritus shortlybefore his death. He had been Second Piesident of the NationalPediatnc Association. Hev had also served for many years as

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Physician to the City Hospital, the New Yoik Foundling Abylum,and Infant Asylum, and was especially devoted to faithful laborsamong the poor

He married on Apnl 22, 1858, Maiy Anne, eldest daughter ofGeorge Hannah, of New Y^ork City, who died on January 27,1878. Their children were four daughteis, who aje still living,and three sons, all deceased. The eldest son was a giaduate ofColumbia College (1881) and the Bellevue Medical School

Dr. Smith died from heart failure m New York Citv, on Junev 7

9, 1897, m his 70th year, He had been in poor health for se\eialyears, but was engaged m active practice until a few days befoiehis death. He received a severe neivous shock m a runawayaccident several months earlier, and had scarcely recoveied fiomthis when an accident on a cable car i t suited m such lamenebsthat he was confined to his bed, and impaired digestion sapped,his strength.

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SYLVANUS SANFORD MTJLFORD was born in Montiose, Susque-hanna County, Pa., on Januaiy 24, 1830, and enteied Yale in thefirst term of the Sophomoie year

He spent the year after graduation engaged in civil engineer-ing in his native county, and did not begin until October, 1852the study of his chosen profession at the College of Physiciansand ^uigeons in New York City In 1855 he received thedegree of M.D, and was then for two years house physician mthe New York Hospital. A year of travel and study in Europefollowed, after which he settled m Cherry Valley, N. Y In thespring of 1861 he gave up his practice to enter the Union Armyas Surgeon of the 33d N Y Volunteers, with which he lemaineduntil November, 1862 ; he continued in the army until August,1865, and after a year's rest in travel he settled, in accordancewith his oiigmal intention, in New York City, wheie he remaineduntil his sudden death there, fiom apoplexy, on Septembei 9,1896, m his 67th yeai He was unmariied

HUBERT ANSON NEWTON, the fifth son in a family of elevenchildren of William and Lois (Butler) Newton, was born m Sher-burne, Chenango County, N Y., on March 19, 1830, and enteredCollege the second term of Fieshman year.

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He spent the first two and a half years after graduation atSherburne and in New Haven, pursuing mathematical studies.In Januaiy, 1853, he enteied on the office of tutoi in the College,and fiom the first had the care of the whole department of math-ematics, m consequence of the illness and death of ProfessorStanley At Commencement in 1855 he was elected Professor ofMathematics, with leave of absence for a year, which was spentin study in Parib. From this time until his last illness he wasactively employed in the discharge of his duties, so that at thetime of his death he was not only the oldest Academical Pro-lessor in service, but had had a longer uninterrupted connectionwith the teaching body of the Univeisity than any one who sur-vives him.

Besides his special work of instruction, Professor Newton wasdeeply interested in the development of the Yale Observatory,for the dnection of which he was, if not nominally, really respon-sible ever since its inception

After several years of feeble health, he died in New Haven onAugust 12, 1896, in his 67th \ear.

He married, on Apnl 14, 1859, Anna C , eldest child of theRev. Di. Joseph C. Stiles (Y. C. 1814). Mrs. Newton, who hadlong been a great invalid, survived her husband for three months^dying on November 12, 1896 Their two daughters are stillliving.

In his earlier years Professoi Newton's special studies were inthe held of modern higher geometry; but he soon became mostdeeply mtciested in the complicated pi obi ems of meteoric astron-omy, which engrossed the best efforts of his life. His ingeniousinvestigations, conducted with charactenstic and indefatigablepatience, enlaiged widely the boundaries of knowledge in thisdirection and gave him a solid claim to remembrance a.mong themasters of astronomical science.

He was one of the fifty original members (1863) of theNational Academy of Sciences, and was honored by election intomany othei learned societies, at home and abroad, including theRoyal Society of London (1892) The degree of Doctor of Lawswas conferied on him by the University of Michigan in 1868.In the administration of the College he was a strong and efficientforce, and the simplicity and lovableness of his character en-deal ed him to all his associates

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THOMAS STOUGHTON POTWIN, the oldest child of Thomas andSarah (Stoughton) Potwin, of East (now South) Windsor, Conn.,was born theie on April 4, 1829 He was a victim of peimanentill-health from early boyhood.

After graduation he was tutor in Gieek and Latirf in BeloitCollege, Wisconsin, for two years, and then began the study oftheology m the East Windsor Seminary From the fall of 1854to the spring of 1858 he was a tutoi at Yale, after which heresumed his theological studies in East Windsor On Decembei29, 1858, he married Hainet A., daughter of Colonel BenjaminKing, of Boston, and settled m New Haven, where he foundfurther employment as a teacher. In the fall of 1860 he tookcharge of the Congregational Church in Franklin, DelawaieCounty, N. Y , of which he was ordained pastor on Febiuary21, 1861.- Ill health from overwork compelled him to lesignin February, 1867, and aftei two years' rest m East Wmdsoi, heremoved to Amherst, Mass, wheie he lived until the springof 1875.

His health being still insufficient to pastoral service, and MrsPotwin being specially adapted to the care of children, they thentook the supermtendency of the Orphan Asylum in HaitYord,Conn., which they retained for twelve years In the spring of1887, in consequence of seveie throat troubles he attemptedorange culture in Wintei Park, Florida, but returned after oneyear to Hartford, where he lived afterwards in retnement

After several months of mental depression he died m Hartfordon October 22, 1896, in his 68th year His wife survives him,with an adopted daughter and an adopted son.

He published in 1887 a small volume (193 pp \ entitled TheTriumph of Life, m support of the doctrine of conditionalimmortality. As historian of his College Class, he issued ina volume of Class History (348 pp.).

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HENRY ISAAC BLISS, younger son of Charles and LuciaBliss, was born on January 8, 1830, in Hartford, Conn. He andhis eldest biother (Yale 1852) lost then father m 18S6, andlived with their grandfather in Hartford during then early edu-cation.

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He adopted the profession of civil engmeeiing and was thusemployed in Wisconsin for the year after giaduation. For a partof the next year he was m chaise of the Grammar School in Hart-ford, but he returned to Wisconsin in August, 1855, and everaftei lesided there In Maich, 1856, he settled in La Crosse andwas an esteemed citizen of that place until his death. He wasannually elected City Surveyor from 1856 to 1884/and was alsoemployed in the survey and construction of various railroads inthat region

During his last yeais feeble health withdrew him in a measuretrora active life. He died in La Ciosse during the night of July9, 1896, aged 66£ years

He married on April 28, 1858, Harriet H , second daughter ofSamuel D Parti ldge (Amherst Coll 1827), of Brooklyn, N. Y.,who survives him with then only daughtei, an only son died ininfancy

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LUTHER HENRY TUCKER, the only son of Luther Tucker by hissecond, wife, Mary Sparhawk, was born in Rochester, N. Y., onOctobei 19, 1834 His fathei, the founder of the first dailypaper in New York State west of Albany, removed to Albany in1S39 He entered College at the beginning of the Sophomoreyeai. and left in January of the Junior year, but was enrolledwith the class in 1858

Hib withdrawal fiom College was foi the sake of helping hisfather, the editoi and publisher of the Cultivator and CountryGentleman, a weekly journal devoted to agriculture, horticulture,and lural affaiis. He became a partner in the firm in December,1855, and editoi-in-^hief after his father's death in January, 1873.During the eailier years of his busy editorial life he was promi-nent as a public lectuiei on agricultuial topics ; on the establish-ment of the State College of Agricultuie at Rutgers College,New Jersey, in 1865, he was appointed Professor of Agriculture,but he found the duties incompatible with his other engagementsand soon resigned the office.

Aftei thnty yeais of unremitting industry, his health failed,m December, 1884, and for the rest of life he was largely with-diawn fiom active woik. He died suddenly, from Bright's dis-ease, at his home m Albany, on February 23, 1897, in his 63dveai

He married, on Novembei 28, 1865, Cornelia S , daughter ofHaivey W. Vail, of Islrp, L I., who survives him with theirchildren, thiee sons and one daughtei The eldest son was giad-uated at Yale College m 1891, and the second is now a Sopho-more m Union College.

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GROVE PETTIBONE LAWRENCE, the second son of the Hon EGrove and Jerusha" S Lawrence, of Norfolk, Conn , was born mthat town on November 20, 1830.

He assisted his father on his farm until May, 1858, when heremoved to Pana, m central Illinois, wheie be was occupied as afarmer and merchant until 1863, when he gave up the latteiemployment on account of his health From 1S67 to 1870 liewas engaged in banking, and m the fall of 1871 he becameactively interested m the construction of a railioad m Missouriwhich occupied him until the panic of 1873. After that date hisattention was divided between dealing in leal estate and farm-ing. He had been elected mayoi of the city of Pana, and heldnumerous other positions of trust and responsibility which testi-fied to the regard which he had secuied in his adopted home

A severe illness about 1S85 undeimined his robust constitution,and from that time he failed gradually until his death, in Pana,on October 27, 1896, in his 66th year.

He married on October 24, 1866, Ella G. Blackburn, of Pana,who survives him with two sons and one daughter,—an eldeidaughter having died m infancy.

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JAMES MARSHALL was born in Grove, Allegany County, N Y.,on October 4, 1831, of Scotch-Irish parentage In his boyhoodthe familv removed to the next town northwards, Nunda, mLivingston County, from which place he entered Yale

In the year after graduation he began the study of law mSyracuse, N. Y , where he continued foi the next thiee years aspiincipal of a Young Ladies' School Meantime he had lesolvedon the ministry as a profession, and in 1861 he entered PrincetonSeminary. In June, 1862, he was appointed Hospital Chaplain,and served as such for four years at Fortiess Momoe

In October, 1866, he married Jeannie M., daughter of RobertMcNair, of Mt. Morris, N Y , and spent the next thiee years in

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European travel and in study in Edinburgh and Heidelberg. Onhis return he settled in Syracuse, and in 1871 organized the West-minster Presbyterian Church in Troy, N Y. From 1872 to 1876he was pastoi of the First Presbyterian Church of Hoboken, N. J.,and thence went to New Yoik City, where he remained engagedm city missionary woik until 1884, at first in connection with theLebanon Chapel (1876-81), and afterwards with the DeWittMemorial Church, which he founded.

From 1884 to 1887 he resided in Nunda, engaged in literarywoik. He had already declined (in 1881) the Chancellorship ofIngham University (for women) in LeRoy, N. Y , and thePiesidency (in 1885) of Blair (N J.) Presbytenal Academy andof Berea College, Ky. In September, 1887, he accepted thePresidency of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he didefficient service until his death from pneumonia on September 11,1896, m his 65th year. His wife died nearly four years beforehim. They had no children.

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ROBERT CHANDLER HASKELL, the youngest child of John C.and Randilla (Whipple) Haskell, was born in Weathersfield, Vt.,on September 6, 1834.

At graduation he accepted an appointment as Professor ofMathematics in Oahu College, Honolulu, which he held for nearlytwo years He was then obliged by the death of his only brotherto succeed him in his business, the manufacture of floor oil-cloth, in Lansmgburgh, N. Y., where the rest of his life wasspent As school-trustee for nearly thirty years, he devQted him-self, in the midst of an engrossing business, to the improvementof the Lansmgburgh school system, and by his wise and liberalpublic spirit left an enduimg impression on the community. Inmore than one instance he employed instructors at his ownexpense in order to ensure the high standard of efficiency atwhich he was aiming. The city Board of Education recognizedin 1894 his useful services by naming a new public school in hishonor.

He was stricken with paralysis in May, 1895, and neverlecoveied health. After November 1, 1896, he was confined tohis loom, and an attack of pneumonia in his weakened conditionended his life after a week's illness, in Lansingburgh, on May 12,1897, m his 63d year.

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He married on November 5, 1863, Saiah H , daughtei of EhasR. Parmelee, of Lansmgburgh, who survives him. Their only-child, a son, died in infancy

ARTHUR KELSON HOLLISTEE, the eldest child of Kelson andEdith (Sawyer) Holh&ter, was born in Andover, Conn , on Decem-ber 28, 1835. In his boyhood his father removed to Hartfoid,Conn.

He remained at home in imperfect health for two years (1858-60), and then spent a year in New Haven in graduate study.For the next eight years he was occupied m teaching m Hart-ford, for most of that time in the Hartford Grammar School In1869 his health compelled him to retire, but in 1873 he took aposition m the office of the Chartei Oak Life Insuiance Com-pany, which he held until August, 1877 In 1878 he was pei-suaded to return to teaching, and continued in that work until1883, but then found his nervous system exhausted For the restof his life he lived m retirement at his father's hous'e in Hait-ford, where he died suddenly on January 18, 1897, m his 62dyear.

He married on August 25, 1863, Fanny R , daughter of Cyp-rian Willcox, of New Haven, who died on December 1, 1864.Then only child died in infancy.

WILLIAM ALLEN MACDOWELL, son of Robert and Saiah M.(Horreil) MacDowell, was born in Allensville, Mifflm County, Pa ,on July 15, 1828, and removed with his family to Uniontown, thecounty seat of Fayette County, m 1844. He had taught schoolwith success for some years before entering college in September,1856.

After graduation he taught in Uniontown and lead law forthree years. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 16thPennsylvania Cavalry, and was made within two months regi-mental commissary with the lank of 1st Lieutenant He seiveduntil the end of the war, participating in eighteen engagements,and retiring with the title of Captain by brevet

He then resumed his law studies, was admitted to the bar inDecember, 1866, and began practice in Uniontown. Fiom June,1868, until the spring of 1870 he was associate principal of theTuscarora Academy in Academia, Pa. Af tei an interval of travelin California he acquired in 1871 an interest in The Genvus of

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Liberty in Uniontown, and edited that paper with ability for tenyear^ He then disposed of the property and after that devotedhimself successfully to the improvement of some real estatewhich he owned in the town. He spent a part of each year intravel, and kept up his interest m books and music. For tenyears or more before his death his health prevented his engagingin any active occupation He died suddenly, at his home inUniontown, on January 18, 1897, m his 69th year, from hearttrouble and asthma, of which he had complained for a short timepre\ lously He was a leading member of the First PresbyterianChinch, and one of the best known and most respected citizensot Uniontown

He mained m Peiu Mills, Pa , on May 21, 1873, Clara, daugh-tei of John Patteison, by whom he had one daughter and oneson.

D v XIEL TERTTUS POTTER, son of Deaccn Tertius D and EstherB (Fnsbie) Pottei, and grandson of General Daniel Pottei(Y. C 1780), was born m Plymouth, Conn., on January 18, 1829.He enteied Gollege in 1853, but left the class before the close ofthe fhst term, and returned to the next class a yeai later

Dm ing the first three years after graduation he taught mvarious places near home, and began the study of law in Hait-ford In 1861 he went West and taught, at first in Illinois andWisconsin In 1863 he settled in St.Loms and was occupied mteaching and in further legal study until his admission to the barm Decembei, 1865. He continued m practice theie, and wasfiom September, 1874, the editor andpiopnetor of the InsuranceJjf/u Journal, a successful monthly publication, which he dis-posed of m December, 1876, because it engrossed too much ofhis time In June, 1877, he lemoved to Dead wood, DakotaTemtory, where he was engaged in law practice and m miningbusiness until he again lemoved, to Speaifish, in the same terri-toiy (now South Dakota), in October, 1883. In October, 1895,he was taken suddenly ill with a disease of the heart (myocar-ditis), the biam also being slightly affected. He came East imme-diately and spent some weeks with one brother m Brooklyn,N Y , and a like time with another brother in Thomaston, Connlie was then taken to the Retreat in Hartfoid for treatment, butfailed rapidly and died there on December 22, aged neaily 67veais Pic was never married.

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HENRY ANDREWS PRATT, son of Fiancis H and Emelme(Morse) Pratt, was bom in Waterbury, Conn, on August 27,1833, and enteied College as a lesident of Litchfield, Conn

For the fiist year after giaduation he taught in General Rus-sell's School, in New Haven (at which he had finished his ownpieparation for College), and ior the next yeai he was puncipalof the Haydensville (Mass.) High School. He then became pnn-cipal of the Waterbuiy (Conn ) Academy, and left this positionin March, 1862, to become 2d Lieutenant m the 1st ConnecticutHeavy Artillery. He was mustered out in Maich, 1865, with therank of Brevet-Captain, for gallant and meiitouous services.

For the next two yeais he was in the seivice of the State ofConnecticut as Militaiy Store-keeper at the Haitford Aisenal.In Septembei, 1867, he became pmicipal of what was then knownas the Union Seminary, in Gloversville, N. Y , and he continuedas principal of the Union Fiee School in that place until his elec-tion as supeimtendent of schools m 1881 He letamed the latteipost for nine yeais, and throughout his long seivice impiessedhimself by a consistent example of fidelity and conscientiousnesson all who came under him

He died at his home in Gloveisville on June 17, 1896, agednearly 63 years.

He married on March 29, 1860, Harriet J , daughter of EhshaMorgan, of Northfield, Mass, who survives him with then twodaughters.

CHANNING RICHARDS, the eldest child of Channing and LydiaH. (Williamson) Richaids, was bom in Cincinnati, O , on Febiuai y21, 1838.

After giaduation he was engaged in studying law and teachingin Cincinnati until April, 1859, when he received the degiee ofLL B from the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to thebar. He practiced his profession in that city until his enlistmentin April, 1861, on the fiist call for troops, as a private in the 6thOhio Infantry. In January, 1862, he was appointed 1st Lieu-tenant in the 13th Missoun Infantrv (a regiment raised in Ohiobut adopted by Missoun) and a month later was piomoted to acaptaincy foi gallant service. For conspicuous ability and gal-lantry at the battle of Sbiloh Geneial Grant recommended himfor the colonelcy of a new regiment, but through some clash ofauthority between the National and State officials the promotion

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was not sanctioned by the governor of Ohio. In May, 1862, the13th Missouri was accredited to Ohio as the 22d Infantry, andCaptain Richards letamed his connection with the legiment,though frequently detailed on othei important service. In April,1863, he was assigned to duty as Provost Marshal of the Districtof Jackson, Tenn , and on the change of quarters of the troops,m August, continued the same duties at Memphis. After thecapture of Vicksburg he was ordered back to Memphis, where heserved as Acting Judge Advocate and as Acting Assistant Adju-tant-General, and from November, 1864, to July, 1865, as MilitaryMayor of the city He married in Memphis, on April 11, 1865,Harriet S , eldest child of Paschal P. Learned, of Norfolk, Va.

On being mustered out of the army he resumed the practice oflaw in Memphis, where he remained in honored and successfulprofessional work until Maich, 18*71, when the effect of the cli-mate on his health induced him to leturn to Cincinnati Just atthis time he was offeied by Governor Brownlow the position ofChancellor of the Court of Memphis, but the reasons for achange of lesidence seemed imperative.

In September, 1871, he was appointed Assistant District Attor-nev of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio, andheld this office until appointed District Attorney by PresidentGrant m Febiuary, 1877 He was le-appomted by PresidentHayes and retained the office until 1883, when he entered thelegal him of King & Thompson From 1888 he was Professorof Commeicial Law m the Law School ot the Cincinnati CollegeHe was elected Piesident of the Cincinnati Bar Association in1893 He was a devoted member of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch and active m seivice to all its interests From 1872 to1892 his residence was in the village of Glendale and for therest of his life in Mt. Auburn.

His health failed in 1895 and he was taken to Battle Creek,Michigan, for the following summer He died there on Sep-tember 12, 1896, in his 59th year

His wife suivives him with four sons and one daughter.

SMITH, son of Deacon Thomas and Mary Ann(Ripley) Smith, was born in Hartford, Conn , on August 6, 1836

After giaduation he studied medicine in New York City untilOctober, 1861, when he received the degree of M.D. from theCollege of Physicians and Surgeons For the next two years

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he served as an Assistant Physician in the New Yoik Hospital,and then began practice in the same city. In June, 1867, hesailed for Europe, where he lemamed for five years, engaged inmedical study in Beilm and Vienna, and in travel He marriedin Munich on December 2, 1871, Elena, daughter of HeinnchMax Im-Hoff, who survives him. On his return in 1872 he set-tled m New Yoik City, but removed his residence to Yonkers in1881. From 1888 to 1894 he lived m Dresden, Germany, paitlyon account of his wife's health, and partly for the sake of musicaladvantages for his children. In January, 1896, while apparentlyin perfect health, he suffered from a slight attack of cerebralapoplexy, from which he reco\eied bodily but not mentally. Asecond attack ended his life on July 30, at Keene Valley, N" Y.,where he had spent his summers for many yeais.

Dr. Smith was a man of much natural refinement, and beingpossessed of a competent foitune he was able to devote himselfsuccessfully to the cultivation of his pionounced literaly andmusical tastes.

His five children survive him, three daughters and two sons,the elder son being a member of the Junior Class in Yale College.

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LAWEENCE VOOEHEES COETELYOU, son of Jacques Cortelyou,was born in Brooklyn, N Y., on October 30, 1837.

After graduation he devoted himself, with some inteiruptionsfor foreign ti avel, to the study of medicine, and in 1864 he receivedthe degree of M D. from the Bellevue Hospital Medical Collegeof New York City.

He practiced his profession intermittently in Brooklyn for someten years, until the death of his father made it possible for himto retire from business and devote himself to the care of hisfortune Later his health failed, and while mentally irresponsiblehe met his death by leaping from a window of his residence, inBiooklyn, on August 5, 1896, m his 59th year.

He married m April, 1865, Ida, only surviving daughter ofJohn T. Tuttle, M.D (Yale 1830), of New York City, who diedon July 3, 1866, soon after their return from a wedding trip toEurope.

He next married Mi^s Caroline Townsend, of Newbuigh, N. Y.?who survives him. He had no childien.

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EDWARD STEOXG HINCKLEY, youngest son of Justin and Phoebe(Grant) Hinckley, was born m Lebanon, Conn, on November 12,1834 Before he entered College his father had removed fromLebanon to Norwich, Conn

The first two years after graduation he spent in Norwich,engaged in teaching and in studying law Dining the next yearhe was Piincipal of the Academy in Lebanon, and in August,1862, he enlisted m the 18th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Hewas promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and afterwards tothat of Captain, though the commission did not reach him untilafter he was mustered out of the service, at Harper's Ferry, inJune, 1865

A great pait of his after life he spent in teaching, being formany years Piincipal of Lebanon Academy, and gaining in thisvocation remarkable success He was also well read on all thetopics of the day, and took an active part in political debate,being a fluent and eloquent speaker

He died at his home in Norwich on August 10, 1896, in his62d yeai

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WILLIAM THOMPSON LUSK was boin in Noiwich, Conn, onMay 23, 1838 He left college at the end of the Fieshman year,but was em oiled with his class by the action of the Corporationin 1872

He studied medicine m Heidelberg and Berlin fiom 1858 to1861, and on his letuin enlisted a a private in the 79th High-landeis, New York Volunteers. He was promoted to a captaincym Januaiy, 1862, and resigned his commission on February 28,1863 He then lesuraed his medical studies at the Bellevue Hos-pital Medical College, and received the degree of M.D in 1864He mamed on May 4, 1864, Mary H , only daughter of the Hon.Simeon B Chittenden, of Brooklyn, N. Y , and spent the most ofthe next four years in fuither study in Europe. He then estab-lished himself in practice in New York City, and also from 1868to 1871 filled the Professorship of Physiology m the Long IslandCollege Hospital. In 1871 he became Professor of Obstetrics andGynecology in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and continuedin that i elation until his death; from 1890 he was also the Presi-

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dent of the Faculty of the College. As one of the leading physi-cians of the country, he was honored with election to many scien-tific societies at home and abroad. He contnbuted largely tomedical and surgical journals, and was the author of The Scienceand Art of Midwifery (3d edition, 1892, pp 763), which has beentranslated into French, Italian, and Spanish This Universitygave him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1894

He died veiy suddenly, of apoplexy, at his home in New Yoik,on June 12, 1897, in his 60th year

His wife (in whose memory the Chittenden Memorial Libiaiyof Yale University was built) died on September 13,1871, leavingtwo sons and two daughters, who are still living The eldei sonis a Professor in this University, and the younger is a giaduateof the College in 1890, and was associated with his fathei m hispractice Di Lusk leaves also a daughtei hy his second wife,Mrs. Thome, of Albany, who died some three years befoie him

MOSES LYON, the eldest &.on of Moses and Catharine (Wright)Lyon, was born in New York City, on October 8, 18*20, andbefoie enteiing College had been in the employ of his biother-in-law, "William W Cornell, an iron-merchant on Centre Street

Aftei graduation he taught for a few months, and then enteiedthe Methodist ministry, connecting himself with the New YoikEast Conference. His fiist station was in Middlebuiy, Conn.,1860-62. He remained in the itineracy for less than twelveyears, owing to pooi health, especially due to the loss of an e\ ein 1864, which was soon followed by impaired heaung.

He then engaged in business, the sale of milling machinery,and while thus occupied lived foi eight yeais in London. Hereturned to New York in veiy poor health, but though unable toapply himself rigorously to business he found pleasaie in theuse of his pen for occasional publication. Since about 1890 hehad resided in Philadelphia, where he died, after weaiy monthsof sufferings on November 13, 1896, in his 68th year

He married in August, 1804, a daughter of David B Moseley,of Hartford, Conn. Two daughters survive him.

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GEORGE LYNDE CATLIN, the eldest child of George and Cath-arine L (Kearney) Catlin, was born on Staten Island, 1ST Y., onFebruary 13, 1840.

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In December after graduation he became the editor of theRichmond County Gazette, pnblished on Staten Island, but inthe following April he enlisted in the 5th N. Y. Volunteers, withwhich he remained until his discharge, on account of protractedill health, with the rank of 1st Lieutenant, in November, 1862.After a long period of confinement he was able, m December,1863, to re-engage in the service, and was employed in the Quar-termastei's Department in New Orleans up to the close of thewai He mained on April 10, 1864, Miss Louise E. Pradat, ofPass Chnstian, Miss.

Aftei an expenence of mercantile life in Mobile, he returnedto New Oileans in October, 1866, as local editor of the DailyCrescent, and so continued until a visit to New York City inApul, 1869, as conespondent of the New Orleans Bee. Insteadof returning in the fall, as he had intended, he was induced tolemain in New York (with his residence in Paterson, N J.), atfi1 >t in the editorial office of the Commercial Advertiser, but forthe most of the time until September, 1873, in charge of thenewspaper and advertising department of the Erie Railway Com-pany. He was next for four and a half years again connectedwith the Commercial Advertiser, and then entered the consularservice of the TJ S Government. From May, 1878, to May, 1880,he was stationed at La Rochelle, France, next at Stuttgart,Germany, until Octobei, 1884, and finally at Zurich, Switzerland,until 1895

He then leturned to the United States and while residing againin Pateison, died at St. Luke's Hospital in New Yoik City, whileundei going a surgical operation, on December 14, 1896, in the57th year of his age.

His wife suivives him with their children, a daughtei anda son.

Mi Cathn was a sprightly writei, both of prose and verse, andhad published several volumes of onginal work, besides transla-tion b

JULIUS HAMMOND WARD, only son of Hammond and Laurinda(Lathe) Ward, of Charlton, Worcester County, Mass, was bornin that town on October 12, 1837.

Pie taught school for six months after graduation, and thenentered the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Conn.,wheie he was oidained Deacon by Bishop Williams on June 4,

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1862. He then took charge of Grace Chapel, in Yantic, a part ofNorwich, Conn, and on May 6, 1863, he was advanced to thepriesthood. In February, 1864, he became lector of ChristChurch, Ansonia, Conn , and went thence in August, 1865, toSt. Petei's Church, Cheshire, Conn. In the fall of 1866 he pub-lished the Life and betters of James G. Percival, which he hadbegun to prepare while a student in College

In December, 1867, at the earnest call of Bishop Neely, hetook charge of an extensive missionary field in Thomaston andRockland, Maine, where he labored assiduously until the eailypart of 1875. By this time he had become gieatly oveiworked,and he removed to St Michael's Church, Marblehead, Mass ,wheie his health was re-established In the beginning of 1877he acted for thiee months as editor of the Sbrth AmericanReview, and in September of that year began a connection withthe ^Boston Herald, which he served as literary editor and edito-rial writer until his last illness. In 1878 he removed to Bostonand undertook a series of Sunday afternoon lectures in the UnionHall, which he hoped might lead to the organization of a perma-nent People's Chuich, but the experiment was abandoned afterthree seasons and he found instead an abundant oppoitunity forinfluence in his successful editonal work. Besides his constantseivice on the Herald, he wiote largely for other daily andweekly papers, and for monthly magazines, especially on ques-tions in religion, social movements, and education. He also pub-lished several volumes, the most important of which was TheChurch in Modern Society (1889). His health failed in Novem-ber, 1896, and an attack of paralysis which occurred on May 25,1897, left him unconscious, and led to his death, five days later,in Worcestei, Mass., in the 60th yeai of his age

He married on September 2, 1862, Olive E , daughter of JohnWitter, of Brooklyn, Conn, who smvives him with twodaughters.

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EBENEZER ANDREWS, younger son of Ebenezer Andrews (Y C.1817) and Rachel (Hyde) Andrews, and a great-grandson ofEbenezer Jesup (Y C. 1760), was boin in Milan, Ene County,Ohio, on July 21, 1837. Befoie entering Yale he had spent oney&ir in Western Reserve College, Ohio.

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and then removed to Chicago, where, in connection with hisbrother (Y C 1859), he engaged in the coal and vessel tradeuntil May, 1866 During the next ten years the fiim gave theirattention more especially to real estate In 1876 he removed toa farm in his native town, and remained there for the rest of hislife.

He died in Milan, aftei a brief illness, on November 18, 1896,in his 60th yeai

He married, on December 25, 1862, Miss Ella A Blanchard,of New Haven, who died on April 10, 1864, leaving an infantson who died a iew weeks later.

He next mained, on September 15, J869, Miss Helen E. Rob-inson, of Fulton, 111, who suivives him with their only child, adaughter

PETER COLLIER, son of Jacob and Maiy E Collier, was bornin Chittenango, N. Y, on August 17, 1835.

After graduation he entered the Sheffield Scientific School, inwhich he served as Assistant in Chemistiy from 1862 to 1866,receiving m the latter year the degiee of Doctor of Philosophy.In 1867 he accepted the Professoiship of Chemistry, Mineralogyand Metallurgjr m the Univeisity of Vermont, at Burlington,being also Professor in the Medical Depaitment, and its Deanfrom 1871. The honorary degree of M D. was conferred uponhim there in 1870 Dunns; these years he was active in awak-envng an mteiest m agricultuial and applied chemistiy, and in1873 he served as one of the IT S. Scientific Commissioners to theVienna Exposition In August, 1877, he lesigned his professoi-ship to accept an appointment as Chief Chemist of the Depart-ment of Agricultuie at Washington, where he remained untilApul, 1883 During this period he entered with characteristicenthusiasm into the problems of sugar pioduction and becamewidely known as an advocate of the economical cultivation ofsorghum. He published in 1884 a comprehensive volume on thelattei subject (pp 570)

He continued to live in Washington until after his election, inOctober, 1887, to the post of Director of the New York StateAgricultural Expenment Station, at Geneva He held this postwith distinguished credit until his prostration by disease in thesummer of 1895. In November, 1895, he rallied sufficiently tobear the journey to the house of his brother-in-law, in Ann

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Arbor, Mich., where he died on June 29, 1896, aged nearly 61years.

Efe married on October 18, 1871, Caroline F , daughter ofAndrew A Angell, of Scituate, R. I , who survives him withtheir only child, a daughter.

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WILLIAM LAMPSON, eldest son of Miles P Lampoon, was bominLeRoy, Genesee County, N. Y., on February 28, 1840

He visited Europe after graduation, and by the death of hisfather in 1864 inherited a large estate In 18b5 he enteredColumbia College Law School, where he received the degiee ofLL.B m 1867. He never, however, practiced the profession, buton his return home gave himself unreservedlv to business and themanagement of the family estates He succeeded his father mthe office of president of the Bank of LeRoy, and remained mthat position until his death The successive deaths of his mother,his only sister, and one of his two brothers, left him alone with aninvalid brother, neither of them being married In January,1896, Mr. Lampson suffered a slight stroke of paralysis, whichconfined him to his house for several months. He graduallyrallied, but the shock of his brother's death, in December, 1896,prostrated him completely, and his own death followed, on Feb-ruary 14, 1897, at the age of 57 yeais

The main part of his estate, valued at over $500,000, isbequeathed by his last will to Yale University.

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WILLIAM HENRY BELDEN, third son of the Rev. WilliamBelden (Union Coll. 1835) and Mary (Magie) Belden, was bomon August 3, 1841, in Newark, N J., where his father was thenpastor of the Central Presbyterian Church

For four years from the winter after graduation he studiedtheology in Union Seminary, New York City, and during thattime 'and foi four years later he was largely interested and occu-pied with journalism and editorial work. On Januaiy 1, 1872,he took charge of the Presbyterian Church m Branchville, N. J.,where he received ordination to the ministry on May 2, ] 872. Helaid down his pastorate on October 15, 1877, to accept a call tothe Second Presbyterian Church in Scranton, Pa , wheie he wasinstalled a fortnight later. He married on February 4, 1879,

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Ellen H., daughter of Colonel Charles Scranton, of Oxford, 1ST. J.,and was dismissed fiom his pastoral charge on the 15th of thefollowing August, having accepted an appointment from theAmerican Board of Foreign Missions. He then went to Constan-tinople to become co-editor of the Bulgarian mission-papei andthrew himself with his accustomed energy into other literarywork foi the mission ; but overwork and ill-health in his familycompelled his return home late in 1881.

His next pastorate, in the West Presbyterian Church, Bridge-ton, N J , began on February 4, 1884, and thence he went inMay, 1890, to the Congregational Church in Bristol, Conn., wherehe laboied with vigor and devotion foi about nine months, untilhis prostration by a stroke of apoplexy, which disabled him forfurther pastoral service

As soon as he was able he removed to Clifton Springs, K. Y.,where he lesided until his sudden death, from a second apoplecticstioke, on July 31, 1896, at the age of 55 years

He had been since 1888 the secretaiy of the International Mis-sionary Union, and through all his pastorates and since hisenfoiced retirement he had been remarkable foi his devotion tothe missionary cause

His wife survives him with their five children.

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GEORGE PHILIP DUTTON, the only child of Deacon Samueland Elizabeth (Leach) Dutton, was born in Ellsworth, Me., onMay 28, 1842 He entered Yale in 1860, and remained for twoterms and a half, returning a year later to the same rank in thenext class.

On graduation he began the study of law in the office of A A.Stiout, Esq , in Poitland, Me , and took a concluding year (1867-68) with distinction m the Law School of Harvard Univeisity.A few months later he began practice in his native city In 1874he was chosen State Attorney for the County on the Republicanticket, and for the last eleven years of his life was Judge of theEllsworth municipal court He was elected mayor of the city in1895 He was very popular in both social and business circles,and was also a leader m church work, a deacon in the Congrega-tional Church (since 1881), and a tiustee of the Bangor Theologi-cal Seminary

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able to attend to his professional duties until within two monthsof his death, which occurred in Ellsworth, from Bright's disease,on September 8, 1896, in his 55th year.

He married Miss Annie B Craig, of Augusta, Me, daughterof the late Rev. Wheelock Craig (Bowdom Coll. 1843), on July18, 1878, who survives him with their only child, a daughter

JAMES SAGER NORTON was born in Lockport, 111., on December6, 1844, the son of Hiram Norton. He passed the first two yearsof his College course at Ken yon College, Ohio

After graduation he spent nine months m Europe, and thenbecame a member of the Columbia Law School, in New YoikCity, from which he received the degree of LL.B in 1867 Inthe fall of that year he removed to Chicago, where he piacticedhis profession until his last illness with singular success Inaddition to his high position at the Bar he was a brilliant wnterand speaker and a prominent figure m the social and literaly lifeof Chicago, as is abundantly shown in the volume of Addressesand Fragments in Prose and Verse, which has been publishedsince his death

In the prime of life and the maturity of his powers his healthbegan to fail He went abroad m 1894 and spent a year m travel,but after his return it was found that he was suffering from afatal internal disease, which entailed a lingering and very painfulillness, borne with heroic fortitude. He died at his summer homein Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Geneva, on Septembei 17,1896, in his 52d year.

He married on October 14, 1873, Frances, daughter of GeorgeF. Rumsey, of Chicago, who survives him with their twodaughters, their only son having died in infancy

CHARLES EPGAR SMITH, son of George S Smith, was born mMachias, Maine, on December 25, 1839 His residence on enteringCollege was in Ellsworth, Maine. In the summer of 1864 he servedfor thi'ee months in the Union army, as a private m the 60thMassachusetts.

After graduation he began the study of law in the office ofEx-Governor Boutwell in Boston, and was also for a few montusin the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to ptactice mMay, 1867, but finding the Boston climate too harsh he soonsettled in Northampton, Mass , where he practiced his profession

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with credit until the fall of 1872, when he removed to New YorkCity and entered into partneiship with his classmate Chandler.

In the spring of 1878 his health failed, and after visiting theWest he settled m Colorado in May, 1880, and opened a lawoffice, at first in Boulder and then in Denver. In 1885, for thesake of a more out-of-door life and consequent benefit to hishealth, he relinquished his profession and took up mining anddealing in real estate. About 1889 he became also the editor ofthe Boulder Sentinel, a leading democratic paper. In the sum-mer of 1892 he returned to his native State, with such good effectsthat in the ensuing winter he re-opened a law office in New YorkCity, and continued in piactice until his death.

About 1890 he became a silver Democrat and in the summer of1 896 he went to the nominating convention m St. Louis as a dele-gate from the People's Party. The intense heat at that timeleft a peimanent effect on his health, and he died very suddenlyfrom pneumonia, at his residence m Brooklyn, N. Y., onDecember 8, 1896, aged 57 years

He mained, in Lowell, Mass, on November 12, 1874, Mar-garetta W Moffitt, who survives him with their three children—a son, now a Junior in Yale College, and two daughters.

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GEORGE FICKLEN BKITTON, son of the Hon. James H Bntton,was born in Troy, Mo, on December 17, 1842. His fatherlemoved m 1857 to St. Louis, from which city he entered College.Dunng the civil war he fought in the Confederate army.

Aftei graduation he engaged in the wholesale dry-goods busi-ness in St. Louis, until 1878, when he removed to New York City.His father was intimate with Governor Tilden, and this perhapsled to his appointment by Mayor Cooper in 1879 as secretary ofthe Board of Public Chanties and Correction. He held thisposition in the department until its recent division, and thenbecame Secretaiy of the Boaid of Charities. His health had beenfailing for several months and on March 15, 1896, he was obligedto lesign his post. He died in New York City on June 28, 1896,ot Blight's disease, m the 54th year of his age. He was un-man led.

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CHAELES BROWN HERRICK, elder son of William and Cathar-ine E (Brown) Herrick, was born in Milan, Duchess County,N. Y , on August 15, 1845. Before coming to College his fatherhad removed to Salt Point, a village in the town of PleasantValley in the same county.

Soon after graduation he entered a law office in Poughkeepsie,Duchess Countv, and was admitted to the bar theie in June,18*70. His industry and devotion to his profession made him oneof the most piominent and successful lawyers in that citv Heserved for three terms, or sixyeais, as City Attorney with maikedsuccess.

About 1893 his health broke down under an attack of spinaldisease which made a steady mioad on his vitality He lemamedat work as long as possible, but while on a visit to the CatskillMountains for relief othei symptoms supervened, and he died inHames Falls, Greene Countv, on July 29, 1896, at the age of 51

He married on September 11, 1872, Ada VanBenschoten, ofDuchess County, who survives him. They had no childien

CHARLES THEODORE WEIIZEL, son of Dr Louis and FiedencaW (Beighlin) Weitzel, was born m Bucbau, Wuitemberg, Ger-many, on May 12, 1847 The family remo\ed to Haitfoid,Conn, about 1860.

After giaduating he taught in Yonkeis, N Y 7 until July,1872, being married on Apnl 2, 1872, to Sophia W., daughter ofProfessor Forrest Shepherd (Y C 1827), of New Haven. Hethen spent two years in Germany, after which he completed histheological studies in the Union Seminar}7, New York City InJune, 1875, he became acting pastor of the Fust CongregationalChurch in Noiwich, Conn., at Norwich Town, where he wasordained and installed on April 18, 1876 He was dismissed onSeptember 1, 1885, the condition of his wife's health requinnga change of climate He then went to Santa Barbaia, Cal, asacting pastor of the Congiegational Church, and there MrsWeitzel died on June 4, 1892. On Apul 1, 1893, he closed hisengagement with the church theie and returned to the EastThe bame fall he went abroad for travel, returning in August,1894, and in the following October he became assistant pastor ofPlymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. His genial disposition and

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sympathetic manner were of special value in the pastoral work,which was bis special duty in this field.

He died in Brooklyn, after a brief illness, of meningitis, onDecember 20, 1896, in his 50th year. His two children died ininfancy

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EDWARD FISKE MERRIAM, youngest son of George and Abby(Fiske) Memam, was born in Springfield, Mass, on May 5, 1847.

After graduation he spent a year in Cambridge, Mass., in theoffice of the Riveiside Press, and then travelled for a year, mainlyin the South, for his health He was then for a short time inthe office of his father and uncles, Messrs G & C. Merriam,publishers, of Springfield From 1878 to 1881 he was associatedwith the Rev. Dr Gladden in editing and publishing the maga-zine called Sunday Afternoon and afterwards Good Company,In the latter pait of this engagement he removed to New YorkCity, and after the winding up of the magazine remained there, livingin seclusion, though genuinely interested in all humanitarian efforts.He was an able wntei, of refined taste in literature and an artistictemperament. Early in Apnl, 1896, he had a severe attack ofpneumonia, from which he never fully recovered. In July hewas brought to his old home m Springfield, where he died onAugust 25, m his 50th year, unmarried

1872

Lucius SYLVIUS BOOMER, son of Lucius B. and Elizabeth(Messenger) Boomei, was born in Louisville, Ky., on December5, 1850, and enteied College as a resident of Chicago, 111.

After giactuation he made a thoiough practical study of bridgebuilding m the shops of the American lion Bridge Company ofChicago, and in November, 1874, entered on that business inpartneiship with his father^ a prominent buildei and the foundeiof the Araencan Budge Company. In December, 1879, he wentinto the employ of the Union Iron and Steel Company of Chicago,and in 1882 engaged in the manufacture of railway frogs andswitches on his own account. In May, 1884, he became assistantto the manager of the Gautier Steel Department of the Cambrialion Company of Johnstown, Pa., wras promoted to be managerm 1885, and commeicial agent from 1886 to 1889. He was nextfor two yeais m Pittsburg, with the Black Diamond Steel Works,

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and then went into business in Chicago, representing iron andsteel manufacturers. He died in that city, from pneumonia, onMarch 6, 1897, in his 47th year

He mairied on March 13, 1877, Miss Beitha Sterling, who sui-vives him with their children, two sons and two daughteis

WILLIAM FISKE SAJSDFOKD, son of William and Rebecca (Fiske)Sandford, was born in Bangor, Maine, on Decembei 30,1850, andentered Bowdom College in 1867 He remained there until theclose of the Junior year, and entered Yale with the same lank ayear later.

For a year after graduation he taught in Gaidner, Illinois, andthen obtained a position as Instructor in Latin in one of the pub-lic schools m St Louis, Mo, in which city he I emained as ateacher until his death. In 1880 he was appointed Piincipal ofthe Polytechnic or Branch High School, and when that schoolwas absorbed in the new High School he was made AssistantPrincipal. He was regarded as an excellent disciplinarian andinstructor, and a brilliant and able man, but his woik told uponhis health, with the result that he was fatally stiicken with paial-ysis at the age of 46. After less than a month's illness, he diedat the Mullanphy Hospital in St.Louis, on June 13, 1897 Hewas never married.

CHBISTOPHER WETHERILL, Jr., son of Chnstophei Wetheull,was born in Philadelphia, Pa } on November 13. 1849, andentered College in January of the Sophomore year

After graduation he studied law m the office of Richaid CMcMurtrie, of Philadelphia, and after being admitted to the barpracticed his profession successfully in that city until his death

He married on October 16, 1890, Maiy Lawience Wetheiill,who survives him.

He died at his residence in Germantown, Philadelphia, onMarch 11, 1897, in his 48th yeai «

1873

ARTHUR BIDDLE, the youngest and last surviving son of GeorgeW. Biddle, an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, and Maria(McMurtrie) Biddle, was born in Philadelphia on September 23,1852. His brothers were graduated here in 1863fand 186*8 Heentered College in the third teim of Freshman yeai.

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He was in Europe from September, 1873, to November, 1875,and then began the study of law in his father's office. Afterfurther inteiruptions for foreign travel he was admitted to thebar m the spring of 1878, and subsequently became a memberof his father's firm By his noteworthy abilities and his remark-able industry he won his way steadily to the front ranks of hisprofession, distinguishing himself especially by his research incertain bianches. In 1881 he published in connection with hiseldest brother a useful Treatise on the Law of Stock JBrofrers,and in 188$ he issued a Treatise on the Law of Warranties in theSale of Chattels His most extensive work, on The Law ofInsurance^ in two volumes, appeared in 1893. He received thedegree of Mastei of Arts fiom Yale in 1893 in recognition of hispublished woik.

He was seveiely attacked with the grip in January, 1897, andwent to Atlantic City, N J , in the hope of recovering strength,late in February, but died there on March 8, in his 45th year.

He married on Novembei 18, 1880, his second cousin, Julia,daughter of Thomas A Biddle, of Philadelphia, who surviveshim with one daughtei and two sons.

1874

AKTIIUR MURRAY DODGE, the youngest child of William E.and Melissa (Phelps) Dodge, was born in New York City onOctobei 29, 1852

After an interval of foreign travel, he engaged in March, 1875,in the lumber business with the firm of Dodge, Meigs & Co., ofNew Yoik City, in which he afterwards became a partner, and socontinued until his death After nearly a year of ill health hedied at his country home in Simsbury, Conn., on October 17,1896, at the age of 44.

He man led on October 9, 1875, Josephine M., daughter of theHon Marshall Jewell, of Hartford, Conn., who survives himwith five bons,—the oldest being a Junior and the next oldest aSophomore in this College.

Mi. Dodge was a man of warm sympathies and upright life, ageneious friend of the University, and deeply interested in itspi ogress and welfare.

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AUGUSTUS TORREY METNSALF, the eldest son of Jabez H. andMercy F Metcalf, was born in Canandaigua, N Y , o n the 12thof March, 1854.

After graduation he read law m his father's office in Canan-daigua, and was admitted to piactice in October, 1877. He thenopened an office in St Louis, in partnership with his classmateMitchell and with Charles J. Hams, foi merly of the Class of1874.

At the close of the year 1878 he returned to the practice ofhis profession in Canandaigua, and in 1882 went West, wherehe spent five years, chiefly in San Francisco and Dakota. Thelast nine years of his life were passed in Canandaigua oi vicinity.His sudden death, from heart disease, occurred in Rochestei,1ST, Y., on the 11th of September, 1896, in his 43d yeai.

On the 8th of Februaiy, 1894, he marued Mrs Carrie SMathiot, daughter of the Hon. A J Stewart, of Smithheld, Pa ,who survives him. They had no children.

CHARLES ALBERT MYERS, fifth son of Colonel James S. andEmily (Bunnell) Myers, was born in Fiankhn, Pa., on May 21,1853."

He began the study of law with his father, and was admittedto practice in his native city in August, 1877. By his ability andindustry he won a leading rank in his profession, and from 1887held the responsible place of attorney for the County Commis-sioners. He was elected Mayor of the city in 1893 and re-electedin 1894.

On the morning of December 20, 1896, he went into a smallbath-room in his lodgings to take a bath, and wTas found deadthere some houis later, having been oveicome by the heat andcloseness of the room and having fallen while endeavoring toreach the window. He was in the 44th year of his age andunmarried.

1876

AUGUSTUS WYNKOOP DUNNING was born in New Yoik Cityon October 3, 1855, the son of William H. and Eliza A. (Wyn-koop) Dunning.

After a brief experience in other business he engaged m thedry-goods commission business in New York City, and so con-

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tmued until his death He manied on April 12, 1888, May,daughter of Thomas N. Bolles, of New York, and then fixed hisresidence on Staten Island, removing two years later to Orange,N. J , where he died of consumption on October 18, 1896, atthe age of 41 years.

His wife survives him with their two children, one daughterand one son

JOHN HOWARD PACKARD, son of E. F. Packard, was born inAuburn, Maine, on March 14, 1856, and spent the first threeyears of the College course at Amherst College

After graduation he lemained for a year at Yale as a studentof political science, and then studied law in Lewiston, Maine, andin the Law School of Boston University. He was admitted tothe Massachusetts bar in 1879, and from that date was a practic-ing lawyer in Boston, until his death theie on May 9, 1897, aftera brief illness, m his 42d year. He was unmarried.

1878

CHARLES PUTNAM WOODBURY, son of Isaac B. and Mary A.(Putnam) Woodbury, was born m Norwalk, Conn, on July 11,1857

After giaduation he taught in Easton, Conn , for one year, atthe same time studying law He then entered the Yale LawSchool, wheie he was admitted to the degree of LL.B. in 1881.He at once began practice m his native town. In 1882 he wasClerk of the State House of Representatives and in January,1883, was made Clerk of the Senate. Owing to bioken health hewas obliged in 1885 to give up practice and seek a milder climate.He settled in Ashland, Kansas, and spent some eight years there,engaged m banking and the negotiation of loans on mortgage.He then returned to Norwalk, and was employed in similar busi-ness until his death, from pneumonia, which occurred on Decem-ber 30, 1896, in the 40th year of his age, while on a visit in (East)Moms, Conn

1881

FREDERICK ARNOLD MANNING, son of Frederick R. Manning,was born in Eddyville, Iowa, on May 3, 1859, and entered theclass from Biooklyn, N. Y

On leaving New Haven he went to the College of Physicians

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and Surgeons in New York, where he was graduated in 1884.He then obtained upon examination a position on the staff of theNew York Hospital, and in 1887 was appointed attending surgeonto the Manhattan Hospital. He had developed a good privatepractice, when in 1894 symptoms of tuberculosis interrupted hiswork. He, then went to the Adiiondacks for a yeai and subse-quently to Colorado, He died m Denver, on December 3, 1896,in his 38th year.

1882

WALTER MURPHY, son of James Murphy, was bom in WestPhiladelphia, Pa , on April 26, 1861, and entered Yale from theSophomore Class of Princeton College in December, 1879.

On graduation he went to the Law School of the University ofPennsylvania, where he took the degree of LL.B. with the high-est honors in 1884 He received a gold medal foi an essay on" Remainders to Children as a Class," which was published Hepracticed law in Philadelphia for four years, and in the meantimepublished also "A Digest of the Partnership Law of Pennsyl-vania "and " A Digest of the Corporation Law of Pennsylvania."

In the fall of 1888 he removed to Salt Lake City, Utah, andentered into partnership with the Hon. J. G Sutherland. Hedied there, after thiee days' illness, on February 5, 1897, m his36 th year

1884

JAMES MILTON CLAGGETT, son of James P. Claggett, was bornin Northboro, Worcester County, Mass, on December 31, 1862,and entered College from Hollis, N. H.

Upon graduation he established a school, called Maple GioveAcademy, in Eatontown, K, J , which he conducted until hisremoval in 1889 to New York City, where he taught in the pub-lic schools and also took two terms of study m the ColumbiaCollege Law School. He was about to complete his legal piepara-tion when an acute attack of neuralgia in the face caused hisdeath, after a week's illness, in New York City, on January 7,1897, at the age of 34 years He was never married.

GEORGE EUGENE COHEN, son of Hemy Cohen, was born onJuly 24, 1862, in Pittston, Pa.

He studied law after graduation and entered on the piactice ofhis profession in Wilkes-Barre, retaining his residence in West

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Pittston. He died suddenly of heart-failure, in the County CourtHouse in Wilkes-Barre, on October 9, 1896, in his 35th year.

He raairied in 1888 Lillian Stein, of Montgomery, Alabama,who survives him with two sons.

WARD WEBSTER SAVERY, eldest child of Rufus L and Har-riet W. (Hathaway) Savery, was bom in Wareham, PlymouthCounty, Massachusetts, on May 16, 1860, and entered Collegefrom the adjoining town of Marion.

For the year after graduation he taught in the Harry HillmanAcademy m Wilkes-Barie, Pa ; but during that time he con-tracted an affection of the throat which led to his going to NewMexico in the fall of 1885. He taught a private school inSocorro for a year, and then took up a claim in the northeasternpart of the Territory, where he spent thiee years m the cattlebusiness In the fall of 1889, believing his health to be fullyre-established, he removed to Chicago, and obtained a situation asteacher He also at the same time studied law in the LakeForest University, and was admitted to the bar in 1892. Afterthis his health again failed, and m 1893 he went with a sister whowas also in feeble health to Redlands, California, where she soondied and he continued for two years to struggle on, withoutmoney or fnends In June, 1895, he was obliged to give up andleturn to Ins parents in Marion, wheie good care and home com-forts prolonged his life foi another yeai. He died theie on June19, 1896, in his 3?th veai

1888

EDWARD SHERJIAX FARRIXGTOX was born in Biooklyn, N Y.,on Februaiy 26, 18b6, the son of Haivey and Juliet (Chase)Famnofton

Aftei gi aduation he taught for a year in the WestminsterSchool, at Dobbs Feny, N. Y., and then entered the College ofPhysicians and Suigeons in New York City, where he receivedthe degiee of M D in 3 892. He was then for two years Interneat Bellevue Hospital, and began private piactice in New Yoik inMay, 1894 He had aheady established a lucrative practice, withapparently brilliant prospects, when he was stricken down withtyphoid fever. He died at his home in New York, on September1, 1896, in his 31st vear.

He married on Apul 18, 1894, Josephine, daughter of John M.Copeland, of New York City, who survives him

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1893

WILLIAM JAMES MCKENNA, son of Francis McKenna, wasborn in Westboro, Mass., on February 9, 1870

After graduation he enteied the Medical School of HarvaidUniversity, and remainded there until the spunej of 1895, whenhe went to Colorado for the sake of his health The chancrefailed to benefit him, and he returned to his home in Westboroin July, 1896. He died there of consumption, on December 18,in his 27th year.

ROBERT EDWIN ROWLEY, son of E A. Rowley, was born inWilhamsport, Pa., on March 30, 1869, and was fitted for Collegeat Phillips Academy, Andover.

After graduation he became a member of the firm of Rowley& Hermance, manufactuiers of wood-working machmeiv in Wil-liamspoit, and was thus engaged at the time of his death, m thatcity, fiom pneumonia, on March 14, 1897, at the age of 28

He married on December 3, 1895, Annie C , daughtei of theRev. Dr. E A. Woods, of Wilhamsport, who smvives him

1894

DECIUS LATIMKR PIERSON, the only sin viving son of StephenO Pierson (Yale Coll 1864) and Hannah P. (Latimei) Pieison,of Meiiden, Conn., was born m Menden, on December 8, 1871.After his mother's death, in 1883, he lived mainly with lelatuesm Hartfoid.

After graduation he returned to Hartford, and was connecteduntil his death wTith the actuarial department of the Travelei'sInsurance Company On Saturdaj^, January 16, 1897, he wentto Weatogue, in Simsbury, to spend Sunday with friends, butwas taken suddenly ill on Saturday night, and submitted thenext day to an operation foi appendicitis. All seemed to begoing well when complications arose from Bnght's disease, andhe died early in the morning of Tuesday, the 19th, in the 26thyear of his age.

1895

LAURENS HAMILTON, second son of William G and Helen M(Pierson) Hamilton, and a great-grandson of Alexandei Hamilton,was born in Ramapo, N. Y , on September 14, 1872 He wasprepared for College at St Paul's School, Concoid.

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After graduation he entered the office of the Manhattan TrustCompany, in New York City. He died in New York, after aweek's suffeung from appendicitis, on March 19, 1897, in his 25thyear.

EUGENE NATHAN SOLOMON, son of Nathan Solomon, a lawyerof New York, was born in that city on March 4, 1874.

He had completed his first year in the New York Law Schooland was anticipating the resumption of his work there when hedied, in New York City, after a brief but very severe illness, fromappendicitis, on August 8, 1896, mhis 23d year.

1896

WHEELEE ARMSTRONG, J r , was born in Rome, N. Y , July4, 1874. He was taken ill during his Senior year in College,,and was not able to complete the regular work of the course.He died from quick consumption in Hartford, Conn , on Nov. 12,1896, in his 23d year

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1836

HENRY WIGHTMAN HOUGH, the eldest child of William andPhilena (Wightman) Hough, was born m Bozrah, Conn., oQJFeb-ruary 6, 1810, and began the study of medicine with SamuelJohnson, M D. (Yale 1829), of Bozrah, taking only the closingyear of the course at Yale.

He mained on June 6, 1837, Hannah D., daughter of IsaacHuntington, of Boziah, and settled in the piactice of his profes-sion m the village of North Killingly, now called PutnamHeight^, m the present town of Putnam, Conn. In 1846 helemoved to Putnam Center, wheie he remained until his death.His wife died, after many years of physical prostration, on Janu-aiy 7, 185 5, and he next married, on January 17, 1856, MaryTnpp, of Putnam, who died in 1894 In September, 1862, heenlisted in the 18th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, as Assist-ant Surgeon, but resigned six months later.

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He was a successful practitioner, and a man of upright andbenevolent character.

He died at his home in Putnam on January 21, 1897, at theage of 87 years. He left no children.

1839

HENRY GASSBTT DAVIS was born in Trenton, Hancock County,in the District of Maine, on Novembei 4, 1807, the second sonand fourth child of Isaac and Polly (Rice) Davis. His fathei, abrother of Governor and Senator John Davis (Y. C 1812),returned to his native town of Northboio, Worcester County,Mass., in 1819, to engage in cotton manufacturing, and this sonwas put in charge of the factory at an early age, thus having theimpulse to develop his mechanical ingenuity

In 1835 he started for the South to establish a manufactoiy ofcotton bagging, but while visiting on the way a sister who wasunder treatment for curvature of the spine he became so im-pressed with the imperfect methods of surgery that he resolved totake up the study of medicine with a view to the treatment ofsimilar cases He attended the lectures in the Yale MedicalSchool m the following winter, and then went to BellevueHospital, N. Y.

After his graduation he practiced for a short time in Worcester,and then removed to the neighboring town of Millbury. In1855 he left Massachusetts for New York City, where hedevoted himself chiefly to the practice of surgery. He wasskillful in the invention of new surgical apparatus, and publisheda volume called Conservative Surgery, on one of his specialties,the use of extension in joint diseases His inventive genius "wasnot confined to professional matteis, and he is said to have beenthe first to suggest the raising of the outer rail on railroad curves,to allow of continuous speed at such points.

He remained in New York until ill-health induced his returnto Massachusetts, and in 1885 he settled in Everett, MiddlesexCounty, where he died on November 18, 1896, having justentered on his 90th year He retained his mental faculties andhis interest in his profession up to the time of his death Awidow, one son, and two daughteis survive him.

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FRANCIS LEMUEL DICKINSON, son of Lemuel and Sarah Dickin-son, was born in Portland, then part of Chatham, Conn, onJanuary 29, 1817. His father died in his infancy, and hismother removed to Colchester, Conn He had taught school forthree winters and had piosecuted his medical studies with DrFredeiick Morgan, of Colchester, and with Dr. Alvan Talcott, ofVeinon, before entering Yale

On his giaduation he settled at first in Hampton, Conn , and ayear later in Wilhngton, Conn, as a physician, and removedthence to Rockville, m the town of Vernon, in the summer of1863 He represented Wilhngton in the General Assembly in1850 and 1857, and Yernon in 1875, and for thiee years(1877-79) he was a member of the State Senate.

He retired from active practice seveial years before his death,which occuried in Rockville on June 2, 1897, three weeks after hehad suffei ed from a sti oke of paralysis, at the age of 80.

His wife, a daughter of Colonel Francis McLean, of Yernon,survives him with three sons

1842

WILLIAM HENRY GOODE, the only son of William EmbiyGoode and Martha (Pegram) Goode, was bom in DmwiddieCounty, Va , on March 9, 1814. His parents died in his earlychildhood, and he was then taken to the house of his giandfather,

'John Goode, of Powhatan County, who was a first cousin ofPresident Jefferson He was educated at Hampden Sidney Col-lege, Yirgima (Class of 1839), and when Professor John W.Drapei left that institution m 1839 to become Professor ofChemistry in the Umveisity of the City of New York, Mr.Goode, who had studied especially under him, accompanied himthither as his assistant, and also leturned to this position afteitwo yeais at Yale.

A few years later he came back to Yirgmia, settling on a plan-tation in Goochland County, where he practiced medicine suc-cessfullv until the outbreak of the civil war

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In 1872 he removed to Staunton, Ya , wheie he died on Feb-luaiy 2, 1897, after ten weeks' illness, aged nearly 83 years Hewas a member of the Second Presbyteiian Church in Staunton,and faithful to every tiust.

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He married in 1849 Elizabeth, daughtei of Owen C. Moms,who with two sons and two daughters survives him ; two othersons died before him—the youngest six months befoie his father.

1850

JOEL WASHINGTON SMITH was bom in Fiankhn, DelawareCounty, N. Y., on July 23, 1824, the second son of Silas andLydia (Gillett) Smith. His father was a native of West Spi ing-field, Mass, and his mother of Hebion, Conn. He had been asuccessful teacher before entering on his medical studies, foiwhich he gained the means by his own exeitions.

On April 4, 1850, he married Susan Maria, only daughter ofWilliam Wheat, of East Franklin, a village in his native town,where he practiced from 1851 to 1857. He then decided that theWest offered a better field to a young physician, and removed tothe new settlement of Charles City, Iowa, where he won his wayfrom the first by his good judgment, mdustiy, and kindliness, andwheie his chaiacter made and left a deep impress. He laboiedaidentlyand gave generously for education, lehgion, prohibition,and the punfication of politics, though avoiding office lor him-self, and accepting only that of postmaster, by appointment ofPresident Lincoln, which he held for nine years After a usefulcareer in that community for nearly forty years he suffered fioma stroke of paralysis in the summei of 1896 He lecoveied par-tially, but succumbed to a second stroke After lingering for afew weeks he died at his home in Charles City on June 6, 1897,in his 73d year.

His wife survives him, with one daughter and three sons; hiseldest son (already distinguished in his father's profession) andone daughter died before him.

1854

BUER REEVE ABBE, third son of Alanson Abbe, M.D. (Yale1821), and Eliza W. (Barnes) Abbe, of Litchheld, Conn , wasborn in that town on November 20, 1830 His elder brothers,one of whom is noticed above, on page 450, were both graduatesof Yale College in 1848. Before taking his medical couise hehad visited California, on the outbreak of the gold fever in1849.

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iemoved to Westport, near New Bedford, Mass, (the residence ofhis biother, Dr Edward P. Abbe). He there married Elizabeth,daughter of Gideon Nye, of Acushnet, a suburb of New Bedford,and thiough hei brothers, who were merchants in China, was ledto go to that country as a commission merchant. After a shorttime hib wife died from the effects of exposure in shipwreck asshe was starting for home with her two children. Dr. Abbe thenleturned home with the children, and went back to China, butonly foi a brief period.

After his final return to America he married, on August 16,1865, Julia A , only daughter of the Rev. Ehsha C Jones (Y. C.1831), of Southington, Conn, and in the ensuing fall settled inHartfoi d, Conn , and opened an oifice as a stockbroker. Hecontinued there in business as a banker and broker, with thehighest leputation for integrity and uprightness, until his lastillness. He died at his home in Hartford, from heart and livertroubles, on March 13, 1897, in his 67th year.

Mrs Abbe survives him, with her three sons (graduates ofYale College) and two daughters—an elder daughter having diedin infancy The son and daughter by his first marriage are also->till living.

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DANIEL CARROLL LEAVENWORIH, third son of Russell andEveline (Stone) Leavenwoith, was born in Woodbury, Conn., onApnl 29, 1828. He removed to New Haven before he was ofa«;e and be^an to learn the trade of a carriage-maker, but soonafter entered the diu« business in connection with his oldestbiothei, with whom he remained until 1855 or 6 He then openeda diug store by himself, on Chapel street, adjoining the NewHaven House, which he cairied on until about 1870.

Aftei his graduation at the Medical school he entered ongeneial piactice in the city, and so continued until induced toretire bv failing health

He died at his home in New Haven on December 19, 1896, fromparalysis, in the 69th jear of his age

He mamed on May 13, 1869, Julia A , daughter of the Rev.Aaron S Hill, who survives him. Their only child was graduatedat Wesley an University in 1896 and is a member of this year'sgiaduating class in Yale College.

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1869

BYRON WOOSTER MUNSOX, second child and elder son ofHarris B. and Maria (Leavenwoith) Munson, was born in Oxfoid,Conn., on December 3, 1845. In December, 1863, he enlisted mthe 1st Connecticut Cavahy, in which he served until the end ofthe war. ^

He practiced his profession for a short time m Easton, Conn,until disabled by a stroke of lightning, which necessitated a reston a farm for four years. He then practiced in Bndgepoit, Conn.,until April, 1887, when he became supenntendent and lesidentphysician of the State Soldieis' Home at Noroton, in Danen,Conn. He retained this office until the summei of 1891, whenhe removed for considerations of health to Shaion, Conn , wheiehe practiced medicine successfully until his last illness. He diedthere of asthma and heart disease, on Januaiy 3, 1897, in his 52dyear.

He married on December 2, 1867, Isabelle C , youngest daugh-ter of Dr. Thomas A. Dutton, of Milford, Conn , who died ofconsumption on the 6th of the following month He next maniedon February 23, 1870, Jemima, daughter of Thomas Maish, ofEaston, Conn., who survives him. Then childien weie thieedaughters (two deceased) and one son

1875

ELISHA MUNGER, son of William S. Munger, was born onApril 17, 1848, in Northfield, Litchfield County, Conn , andlabored on his father's farm and neighboring faims until the ageof twenty-four, when he began the study of medicine with DiRalph S Goodwin, of Thomaston

On his graduation he settled in the village of Niantic, in EastLyme, Conn., and soon obtained a large medical and suigicalpractice over an unusually wide extent of territory. With agood faculty of diagnosis, quick common sense, and until mgdevotion, he won the waim friendship of his patients and theconfidence of the community. In 1891 he removed to the neigh-boring city of New London and was busily occupied theie withprofessional duties until his death. In March, 1897, he undei-went an operation for appendicitis, and in his oveiwoiked condi-tion he was unable to lally, but died at his home in New Londonon May 14, in his 50th yeai.

His wife survives him with one son, a member of the JumoiClass in the Yale Medical School

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1866

BRADLEY DAVID L E E was born in Pleasant Valley, a villagem Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Conn, on March 24, 1838.After receiving a common-school education he read law for twoyears, and m September, 1862, joined the 19th Regiment Con-necticut Infantry, afterwards the 2d Heavy Artillery. Havingreached the lank of Captain, he was assigned in March, 1864, byPresident Lincoln, to the general staff service of the VolunteerArmy, and was mustered out at the close of the war with thebrevet rank of Majoi

Soon after his completion of his legal studies he settled inSt.Louis, Mo, at first in partnei ship with Daniel T. Potter(Y. C 1858), whose death is noticed on page 460 He rose rap-idly in his profession and was recognized for several yeais beforehis death as one of the best corporation lawyers in the cityAfter a senous illness of five months he died at his home inSt.Louis, on May 10, 1897, from valvular disease of the heart, inhis 60th year

He married on November 23, 1870, Belle F , daughter of A.P Wateiman, of Beloit, Wisconsin. She survives him withtheir two children, both sons, the elder of whom is a Senior inWilliams College

1867

MORRIS GOODHART, son of Jacob Goodhart, was born in thecity of Amsterdam, Holland, on August 7, 1838. His parentscame to New Yoik City in 1846, and thiee years later removedto Hartford, Conn.

After graduation he practiced his profession in New Haven fortwo years, during which time he was clerk of the City Court.He then went to the city of New York, where he continued inactive practice until a few weeks before his death.

He was largely interested in charitable work, being at thetime of his death President of the Hebrew Mutual BenefitSociety and of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, both ofNew York. He was also connected with the Independent OrderBenai Berith, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knightsof Honor, the Amencan Legion of Honor, and the RoyalArcanum, and was a Royal Arch Mason.

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He died at his home in New Yoik on Febiuarv 6, 1897, in his59th year.

He married, on May 9, 1871, Beitha, daughter of Judge PhilipJ. Joachimsen, of New York, who survives him with twodaughters and five sons.

1871

WILLIAM H E ^ R Y KENYON was born at Westfield, in Middle-town, Conn., on Januaiy 27, 1841.

He practiced law in New Haven from 1871 until his death ;during the last fifteen years his business was mostly in real estate.He was unmarried. After some months of ill health, he died athis formei home in Westfield, from consumption, on August 4,1896, m his 56th yeai.

1872

HENEY CHALMERS BALDWIN, the ninth in a family of fourteenchildren of Lucius and Maria (Willard) Baldwin, was boin mwhat is now Naugatuck, Conn , on Septembei 15, 1842. InAugust, 1862, he entered the Union army as a private in theFifteenth Connecticut, and served with credit until the close ofthe war. He then engaged in teaching in Naugatuck, and after-wards in manufactures.

After graduation he opened a law-office in Naugatuck and wona large practice, having also a branch office in New York City,and one in Waterbury during the last years of his life He gainedadditional prominence by advocating the Greenback movement(in 1876 and following years), and subsequently as an adherentof the Labor party and a defender of the Chicago anarchistsHe was once nominated as Governor of the State on the Gieen-back ticket, and in 1890 as Governor and Congressman on theLabor ticket. In the last Presidential campaign he was a delegateto the St.Louis convention of the People's party, and his exertionsfor Bryan's election bioke down his health. He died of nervousprostration, at his home m Naugatuck on January 15, 1897, in his55th year.

His widow, two daughters and a son survive him

1875

LEYI HITE was a native of Lancaster, Ohio, and entered intopractice there in partnership with Thomas H. Dolson, imme-diately after his admission to the bar in September, 1875.

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He man led m September, 18*79, Miss Elizabeth Courtright.In the summer of 188*7 he removed to Columbus, Ohio, retaininghis connection with Mr. Dolson until the summer of 1888, whenhe formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Edward W.Couitnght

During his stay in Lancaster he was appointed as ProsecutingAttorney for Fairfield County, and in geneial he was regardedas a well-equipped lawyer, of good professional reputation, whilesocially he was one of the most genial and companionable of men.

He had suffered for some four years from diabetes, complicatedwith other diseases, but kept at his business until about sevenweeks befoie his death, which occuned m Columbus on Decem-bei 17, 1896

Three daughteis and one son survive him.

1889

JAMES ALBERT WILSON was born in Fairfield, Conn., on Feb-ruary 11, 1845, the son of William S and Phebe A. Wilson. Hefinished his school education at the Golden Hill Institute inBridgeport, Conn, in 1868, and subsequently studied law byhimself before entering the Yale Law School. During this inter-val (1868-88) he was teacher and principal in the public schoolsof Fairfield, Bridgeport, and Bayshore, L. I.

On his graduation he was admitted to the bar and entered onthe practice of his profession in Bridgeport, where he remaineduntil his death.

He died in Bridgepoit on February 12, 1897, from pneumonia,at the age of 52 years.

He man led on October 3, 1872, Mary E., daughter of GilbertWordin, of Bridgeport, who survives him with two sons and twodaughters.

1893

DASIFL FREDERICK FOWLER, son of Frederick and Eliza H.Fowler, was born in Westfield, Mass., on December 3, 1873.

He was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Mass., on December4, 1894, when he had just passed his twenty-first birthday.

Before leaving the Law School his health had become impaired,and the tiouble soon developed into catarrhal consumption, whichcaused his death, at Oneonta, N. Y,—his father's present resi-dence,—on August 26, 1896, in his 23d year. He was buried inthe family lot at his native place.

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1880

LUMAN- AUGUSTINE PETTIBONE, son of the Rev Philo C andLouisa L. (Foster) Pettibone, was born on October 5, 1852, inStockholm, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where his father was thenpastor. The father removed to Burlington, Wisconsin, in 1856,thence to Beloit in 1863, and to Chicago just before his death in1870. The son was graduated at Beloit College in 1877.

Immediately after leaving Yale he took charge of Plymouth(Congregational) Church, in Burlington, Wisconsin, which hisfather had organized. He received ordination as an evangelist onJune 21, 1881, and labored with untiring fidelity until September,1895, when the progress of consumption compelled his resigna-tion A few weeks later came a call to the CongregationalChurch in Tucson, Arizona, but a brief trial there proved unfavoi-able and he returned to Burlington in June, 1896, to wait inpatience for the end. He died there on August 27, aged nearly44 years.

He married on December 30, 1885, Alma M, daughtei ofAnthony Meinhardt, who suivives him with three daughters

1883

MILTON SAEGENT PHILLIPS, son of Joseph and Deborah J(Hardy) Phillips, was born in Roxbury, N. H., on February 15,1853. He entered Drury College at Springfield, Missouri, in1875, and was graduated in 1880, having in the meantime beenordained there on March 1, 1879. ]

From the seminary he went to a Presbyterian Church in Holden,Missouri, as acting pastor, and the next year to a Congregationalchurch in Blue Springs in the same State. Fiom that place hereturned to Connecticut early in 1886. He supplied for shoitperiods successively the churches in Long Ridge (Stamfoid),Stony Creek (Branford), and Rocky Hill; and on Januaiy 1,1889, took charge of the Ferry Street Church in New Haven,with which he continued for three years In November, 1892,he became acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Chap-lin, Conn., but after a little moie than a year the inroads of con-sumption obliged him to seek a different climate He then wentto California, and as his health seemed to be improving he ventuied

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to assume the charge of the Congregational Church in Highland,but was able to retain it for only a few months. He died in High-land on September 7, 1896, in his 44th year.

He married on May 22, 1883, Harriet R., daughter of the Rev.Charles Dixon, of Kaugatuck, Conn., who survives him withthree of their four children.

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OLAUS DAHL was born in Nannestad, a village in the districtof Hedemarken, Norway, on September 15, 1859, and came toAmerica at an early agje He was graduated at Luther College,Decorab, Iowa, in 1885, his residence being in Lochiel, in thenorthwestern part of that State, and he found occupation inDecoiah for the ensuing year.

Aftei his giaduation from the Divinity School he pursued furtherstudy in the Semitic languages and received the degree of Ph.D.heiein 1891.

In the meantime he was employed in 1890-94 to offer elementaryinstruction in Swedish and Danish in the Academical Depart-ment In 1894 he accepted an appointment in the University ofChicago, as Lecturer in Scandinavian literature, and was thusoccupied for the rest of his life.

He died, after a brief illness, in the Chicago Hospital, on March10, 1897, in his 38th year He was unmarried.

1891

CALVIN UKSINTTS OLEVIANUS DEER, son of Levi K. and RachelB Derr, was born on December 30, 18633 in Tamaqua, SchuylkillCounty, Pa., and was giaduated at XJrsinus College in 1888. Hislesidence was then in Reading, Pa.

Soon aftei leceiving his degree at Yale he became pastor of theFiibtRefoimed Church in Spring City, Chester County, Pa., wherehe died in office suddenly, from the effects of quinsy, on March 12,1S97, in his 34th year. His wife died about five weeks before.

1892

JESSE BAILEY, son of John B and Rebecca (Gammon) Bailey,was bom in Woolwich, Maine, on January 29, 1860, and wasgraduated at Bates College in 1887 For the next two years hewas Piincipal of one of the departments of Talladega College,Alabama

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On July 28,1892, he was ordained pastor of Emmanuel (Congre-gational) Church, Wateitown, N. Y , but was attacked with con-sumption in the following Novembei. He resigned his pastoratein September, 1894, and went to Colorado, where he struggledfor health for two years longei, dying in Buffalo Creek on Sep-tember 9, 1896, in his 37th year

He mained on August 31, 1892, Thalia E , daughter of HeniyP. Mitchell, of South Britain, in Southbuiy, Conn , who surviveshim with one son.

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1869

EDWARD THOMSON NELSOX was born on October 14, 1815, inWorthington, Franklin County, Ohio, while his father, the Rev.Dr. Alexander Nelson, was Piesident of a Female College in thatplace. He served through the summer of 1864 in the 145th OhioVolunteer Infantry while a member of the Ohio Wesleyan TJni-veisity, in Delaware, Ohio, wheie he was giaduated in 1866, hisfather being then settled over a Methodist Chuich in that cityHe then came to Yale, and for the last yeai of his course heieserved as an Assistant in Mmeialogy m the Scientific School.

He leceived the degree of Ph.D. in July, 1869, and was almostimmediately elected Professor of Natural Science in HanoverCollege, Indiana, where he remained for two yeais He wasthen chosen to a new chair of Natural Histoiy in his AlmaMater, the Ohio Wesleyan Umvei sity, which place he filled withincreasing reputation until 1891, when the work was divided, andhe thenceforth held the chair of Physiology and Geology Hewas an unusually inspiring teacher and a prominent religiousforce in the community He was a membei of the State Boardof School Examiners from 1889 to 1893, and of the State Boardof Health from 1887 until his death.

While in Washington, D. C , for treatment for a complicatedform of heart-trouble, from which he had suffered foi somefmonths, he died suddenly, on February 28, 1897, m his 52d yeai.

He mariied, on August 17, 1871, Miss Jane Wilson, of Bellaire,Ohio, who survives him. Of their six children two were graduatesof the Ohio Wesleyan University; the eldest son, a Piofessor ofNatural Science at the West, died six weeks before his father

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1358

HORACE KENDALL KING, son of Henry F. and Mary King,was born in Tully, Onondaga County, N. Y , on June 18, 1839

After his graduation he studied law, and for many years prac-ticed that profession in his native town, and established anenviable reputation m the vicinity. After a failure of healthextending ovei seven or eight years, caused by heart troubleand a complication of diseases, he died at his home in Tully onMay 31, 1897, at the age of 58 years.

He married in 1863 Renette E , daughter of Dr. S. M Farn-ham, of Tully, who survives with one son and one daughter, onedaughter having died befoie him.

1859

HENRY AUGUSTUS DUBOIS, eldest surviving son of Dr HenryA and Helen (Jay) DuBois, was born in New York City onJune 26, 1840. His parents then resided in Newton Falls, Trum-bull County, Ohio, and lemoved to New Haven, Conn., in 1854.

He studied medicine in New York City after his graduation,and in Apul, 1861, joined the 12th N. Y State National Guardsas Hospital Stewaid, but in the following August was appointedAssistant Suigeon in the regular army and served m the fieldthrough the wai In 1865 he was placed in chaige of the Med-ical Laboiatoiy in Philadelphia, and in 1866 was sent to FortUnion, New Mexico. He letired from the service, with the rankof Brevet Major, in April, 1868, and then removed on account ofhis health to San Rafael, California, where he remained until hisdeath, on May 26, 1897, aged nearly 57 years.

He married on Decembei 1, 1880, Emily, daughter of SamuelBlois, M.D., of New York City, who survives him with fivechildren

1864

CHARLES BILL, the youngest child of Gurdon and Lucy (Yer-rington) Bill, was born in Ledyard, Conn., on June 7, 1840.After his fathei's death, in 1856, he entered the State NormalSchool, in New Britain, Conn., and completed his preparation forYale at the Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy.

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On graduation he went to Chicago, as an agent for a firm ofbook-publishers, and in 1867 he settled in Springfield, Mass., as amember of the subscription-book publishing firm of Bill, Nichols& Co., which succeeded to the veiy successful business previouslyconducted there by his older brother. In 1871 he was severelyinjured in a gas-explosion, from which he never fully recovered.On this account in 1873 he withdrew from business, and for therest of his life was obliged to devote himself mainly to the careof his health and to recreation,—his residence remaining inSpringfield.

As had been his custom for many years, he went to FLoiida inJanuary, 1897, to escape the rigors of the Northern climate, andwhile on his way home died suddenly at Lithia Springs, Ga , onApril 15, from blood-poisoning, bi ought on by a surgical opera-tion for an ulcerated tooth. He was never mamed.

Although he took no active part in public affairs, Mr Bill waswell known in the community and universally respected for hisexemplary life and high character By his last will he madeliberal bequests to Wellesley College for scholarships, and to thecity of Springfield for the Hospital, besides smallei sums to theBill Public Library and the Congiegational Chinch in his nativetown.

1868

SAMUEL SWIFT was born in Brooklyn, N Y, on August 5,1849.

He studied medicine, and received the degree of M.D from theCollege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1872.

In 1873 he settled in Yonkers, N. Y., where besides his medi-cal practice he was much engaged in public affairs, being for oneterm Mayor of the city, and also President of the Board ofEducation.

He was stricken with apoplexy in a public place ol entertain-ment in New York City on the evening of July 25, 1896, anddied at Flower Hospital on July 29, at the age of 47

His wife, Lucy, daughter of Judge Henry E. Davies, of NewYork City, died on February 4, 1897 One daughter survivesthem.

1871

JOHN FRANKLIN QUIGLEY, oldest son of Philip and ElizaQuigley, was born m Wilmington, Del, on November 14, 1848.

After graduation he accompanied Piofessoi Marsh on a six-

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months' tup to the west for the collection of fossils, and afterhis return engaged in business with his father in his profession asa civil engineer. They received the contract for building theMachmeiy and Agricultural Halls at the Centennial Exhibitionheld m Philadelphia in J 876, and soon after that date he wentinto the manufactuie of wood-pulp He built and owned theCliff Pulp and Paper Mills at Niagara Falls, and aftei wardsengaged in a similar woik at Harpei's Ferry, Ya. At the timeof his death he was president of the American Hard Fibre Com-pany of Newaik, Del.

He died suddenly, at his home in Wilmington, from hemor-rhage of the brain, on March 27, 1897, in his 49th year.

He married on October 28, 1875, Maitha E , daughter of AbelJ Barrett, formerly of Concord, Mass , who survives him.

1875

CL\EENCE HOYT STILSOX, son of Hnara H and Laura A. (Bost-wick) Stilson, both natives of New Milford, Conn , was born inEdinburgh, Ohio, in Septembei, 1849. His patents lemoved toCleveland, Ohio, in his bovhood

Immediately after giaduation he mamed Martha P., youngestdaughter of Minott A Osboin, ot New Haven, and went to Pans,Fiance, where foi two vears he studied architectuie. On his

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return he settled m New Haven and enteied into partnership inhis profession with David R Brown. This connection was dis-solved thiee yeais before his death by the serious failure of Mr.Stilson's health. For the last two years of his life he was entirelyhelpless, and he died in New Haven, from progressive paialysis,on June 20, 1897, m Ins 48th yeai.

His widow suivives him with then thiee sons, the eldest ofwhom graduates this yeai fiom the Scientific School.

FEEJDERICK MONCEIEFF TUKNBULL, son of the Rev RobertTurnbull, D D., a well-known Baptist cleigyman of Haitford,Conn , was bom in that city on June* 28, 1853

He remained at Yale for a year after giaduation, pursuing pre-paiatory studies in medicine, and then completed his course inthe Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he wasgiaduated M D in 1877.

He practiced his piofession m Oshkosh, Wise, for two years,and then accepted the position of 2d Assistant Physician at the

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McLean Asylum for the Insane, in Somerville, Mass, which heheld for six years, from 1880 to 1886, when he began generalpractice in Boston

In 1891 he married Evelyn, daughter of James M Hilton, ofCambridge, and removed his residence to that cit}r He was aninvalid from 1893 and abandoned his practice and settled, foi thesake of his health, in Cataumet, a village m Bouine, Masb Dur-ing these later years he employed himself mainly m painting,having long made a careful study of art He died in Taunton,Mass., on January 15, 1897, in his 44th year His wife and threechildren survive him.

1876

JOHN MOFFAT CUNNINGHAM was boin in New Yoik City onJuly 10, 1855, the son of William and Sarah (Moffat) Cunningham

Aftei leaving Yale he studied mining engineering for twoyears in Freiberg, Saxony, and then returned to this country andfollowed hispiofession.

He was engaged in the development of mines m Oiegon,Washington, California, Arizona, and New Mexico, and about tenyears before his death settled in San Francisco, where he marnedin 1890, Clara, daughter of Nicholas Lumng He was instru-mental after Mr. Lumng's death in organizing his laige estateinto The Lumng Company; and of this corpoiation he was adirector and the active manager up to the time of his death

He died in New Yoik City, from typhoid iever, on January 14,1897, in his 42d year His wife suivives him with thiee daughters.

FEEDEEICK PLUMB MILES, son of the Hon Fiedeiick andEmily (Plumb) Miles, was born m Goshen, Litchfield County,Conn, on June 3, 1854. In 1858 the family removed to Chapin-ville, in Salisbury, in the same county, where Mr Miles engagedin the manufacture of charcoal pig iron

In his course at the Scientific School the son studied metal-lurgy and chemistry especially, with the intention of joining inhis father's business, in which he continued from his giaduationuntil his last illness. The iron works in which he was concernedwere situated at Copake, Columbia County, N. Y., but his resi-dence was in Lakeville, where he was much interested and activein all^town affairs He died at his home in Lakeville, fromBright's disease, on February 19, 1897, m his 43d year

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He married on February 24, 1881, Miss Clara L. Gray, ofBridgeport, Conn, who survives him with one son and onedaughter

1881

CLAEK WRIGHT, the son of Dr. Claik and Harriet (Sherman)Wright, was born in New York City on June 15, 1859, andentered the Scientific School at the beginning of the Junior year.

After graduation he studied medicine at the College of Physi-cians and Surgeons in New York, receiving his degree of M.D.in 1885 He then went into Bellevue Hospital as Interne^ andremained there for two years,^-one year as House-Physician.

In 1888 he went abroad and completed his studies in Berlin,Paris, and Vienna, returning to New Yoik in 1890. After thishe was for five years attending Physician in the Out-PatientDepartment of Roosevelt Hospital, and established a good prac-tice He died of pneumonia, in his native city, on March 16,1897, in his 38th year

He married, on October 29, 1885, Marion A., daughter ofThomas M. Stockman, of Boston, Mass. She survives him, withone daughter

1885

JOHN FRANK BABCOCK, son of Erastus F. and Martha J .(Nicks) Babcock, was born m Elrnira, N. Y , on Febi'uary 8,1863. He received his early education in Elmira and completedhib prepaiation for Yale at Wilhston Seminaiy, Easthampton,Mass

After giaduation he read law m the office of his father andwas admitted to the bar m 1888. He practiced his profession inhis natrve city, where he died on July 9, 1896, in the 34th yearof his age He was unmarried.

1888

GEORGE DAVID COLTON, son of Lawrence Colton, of Collins-ville, Conn , was born in Collinsville on January 16, 1865.

Aftei graduation he was employed as a draughtsman in variousplaces in Connecticut, as by the Coe Brass Company of Toiring-ton, the Waterbury Brass Company, and the Pope ManufacturingCompany of Hartford. ^

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For several years he had suffered from consumption, and hewas for some months confined to his bed before his death, at hishome in Coliinsville, on January 1, 1897, at the age of 32. •

1892

EGBERT WHEELER CORNWALL, the eldest child of James H.Cornwall (Y. C. 1866) and Belle (Wheeler) Cornwall, was bornin Patterson, Putnam County, N. Y., on March 6, 1871

After graduation he continued at the Scientific School for ashort time in the further study of civil engineeung, and wasafterwards employed in that piofession by the New Yoik, NewHaven & Hartford Railroad, and subsequently by the SoutheinNew England Telephone Company, with his headquarters inNew Haven. He died here from typhoid fever, on October 24,1896, in his 26th year.

1893

FRANK ALLEN LITTLE, eldest son of Charles L and Genevieve(Stiles) Little, was born in Menden, Conn , on August 30, 1864The last half of his Senior year was broken into by a seveieattack of the grip, from which he never recovered

A year in California after graduation gave flattering promiseof entire restoration, and he then returned to a position asmechanical engineer in a large bridge-building establishment inthe East, which had been kept waiting for him, but a month'slabor showed that the disease was still mastei A summer atColorado Springs only delayed the end, which came peacefully athis home in Meriden, on December 26, 1895, m his 32d year

He was a young man of exceptional attainments and a futuieof unusual promise in his chosen profession.

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT

(YALE COLLEGE;

Cia^s Name ind Age182o William H Mills, 921829 George T Todd, 861830 Hemy R Wmthrop, 851832 Seth C Brace, 851832 James H Cairuth, 891832 Geoige W Edwards, 841832 Alfred Hebaid, 851833 Joshua T Tuckei, 841834 J o h n P Atwatei, 8418-36 Pinckney W Ellswoith, 821836 George Mixter, 821836 Thomas P Scovell, 811838 Will iam S Fleming, 801839 Richard E Rice, 811839 Edward Wells 781839 Jofeiah D Whitney, 761840 Thomas S Huntmgton , 761840 Will iam Norns , 761841 Edmund P Chase 751841 William T Sawyer, 751843 L Sanford Davies 741843 Edward Eells, 781844 Cyprian P Willcox, 731845 Oliver Crane, 741845 Leonaid E Wales, 731846 Chailes J Gobiecht, 711846 Joseph F Gnggs, 751846 F iank lm Holmes, 721846 Bernard A Pia t te , 711847 Chailes T H Pa lmei , 701848 Edward P Abbe, 711848 Homei N Dunning, 691848 James H Trumbull, 681848 Ben D Young, 721849 Bela H Colegrove, 731849 J Lewis Smith, 69

Place and

Sandusky, OAberdeen, S DFar Rockaway, N. Y.Philadelphia, PaVan Bui en, Ark.Stamford, ConnNew London, Conn.Boston, Mass.Poughkeepsie, N Y.Hartford, ConnRock Island, 111Lewiston, N YColumbia, TennNew Haven, ConnPeekskill N. YNew London, N H.Cincinnati, OBaltimore, MdDeb Momes, IowaGieensboro, AlaSanta Cruz, CalWashington, D CAthens, GaBoston, MassWilmington, Del.Philadelphia, Pa.Pittsbuig, PaPaxton, MassDecatui, Tex.Beikeley, CalNew Bedfoid, MassSouth Norwalk, Conn.Iquique, ChiliHuntsville, AlaShaipsburg, KyNew York City

Time of DeathMarch 6, 97Feb 10,'97Oct 23, '96Jan. 25, '97

Sept. 15, '96July 21, '96

Sept 21, '96June 11, '97May 23, '97Nov 29, '96Api 20, '97Aug 6, '96July 13, 96May 30, '97

Oct 9, '96Aug. 19, '96Oct. 10, '96Dec 29, '96June 21, '96

July 9, '96June 15, '97

Maich 11, '97Sept 4, '96

Nov. 29, '96Feb 8, '97

Dec. 22, '96Apr 1, 97

Sept 30, '95Feb 1, '97

Feb 18, '97Feb 25, '97

Maich 27, '97Nov 12, '96May 12, '95Apr. 27, '97June 9, '97

501

1850 Sylvanus S. Mulfoid, 661850 Hubert A Newton, 661851 Thomas S Potwm, 671853 Hemy I. Bliss, 661855 Luther H Tucker, 621856 Grove P Lawrence, 661857 James Mar&hall, 651858 Robert C. Haskell, 621858 Arthui N Hollister, 611858 William A MacDowell, 681858 Daniel T Potter, 671858 Hemy A. Pratt, 621858 Channmg Richaids, 581858 Normand Smith, 60.1859 Lawience V Cortelyou, 581859 Edwaid S Hmckley, 611859 William T. Lusk, 591859 Moses Lyon, 671860 George L Catlm, 561860 Julms H Ward, 591861 Ebenezei Andrews, 591861 Peter Collier, 611862 William Lampson, 571863 William H Belden, 551865 George P. Dutton, 541865 James S. Norton, 511865 Charles Edgar Smith, 571866 George F. Button, 531869 Chailes B Hernck, 511869 Chailes T Weitzel 491870 Edward F Meiriam, 491872 Lucius S. Boomer, 461872 William F Sandford, 461872 Christopher Wetherill, Ji , 471873 Aithm Biddle, 441874 Aithur M Dodge, 441875 Augustus T Metcalf, 421875 C Albert Myeis, 431876 Augustus W. Dunning, 411876 J o h n H Packard, 411878 Chailes P Woodbury, 391881 Fiedenck A Manning, 371882 Walter Murphy, 351884 James M Claggett, 341884 George E Cohen, 341884 Ward W. Savery, 36

' 1888 Edward S. Famngton, 301893 William J McKenna, 27

New York CityNew Haven, ConnHaitford, ConnLa Crosse, WiseAlbany, N YPana^ 111Cedai Rapids, IowaLansmgburgh. N. YHaitford, Conn.Umontown, PaHartford, ConnGloveisville, N YBattle Cieek, MichKeene Valley, N. Y.Brooklyn, N YNoiwich, ConnNew York CityPhiladelphia, Pa.New Yoik CityWoicestei, Mass.Milan, O.Ann Aibor, MichLeRoy, N YClifton Spnngs, N Y.Ellsworth, MeLake Geneva, WiseBiooklyn, N YNew York CityHaines Falls, N. YBiooklyn, N Y.Splingfield, MassChicago, 111St Louis, MoGermantown, PaAtlantic City, N. JSimsbuiy, ConnRochester, N YFranklin, PaOrange, N. J.Boston Mass.Moiris, ConnDenver, ColSalt Lake City, UtahNew Yoik CityWilkes-Barie, Pa.Mai ion, MassNew York CityWestboro, Mass

Sept 9 '96Aug 12, 96Oct 22, '96July 9, '96

Feb 23, '97Oct 27, '96

Sept 11 96May 12, '97Jan 18, 97Jan 18, 97Dec 22, 95June 17 '96Sept 12, 96July 30, '96Aug 5, 96

Aug 10, '96June 12, 97Nov 13, 96Dec 14 96May 30, 97Nov 18, '96June 29, '96Feb 14 '97July 31, '96Sept 8, 96

Sept 17, 96Dec 8, '96

June 28, 96July 29, 96Dec 20 '96Aug 25, '96Maich 6 97June 13, '97

March 11 '97March 8, 97

Oct 17, 96Sept 11 '96Dec 20, '96Oct 18, 96May 9, '97

Dec 30, 96Dec 3, '96Feb. 5, '97Jan 7, 97Oct. 9, '96

June 19, '96Sept. 7, '96Dec 18, '96

502

18931894189518951896

Eobert E. Rowley, 28Decius L Pierson, 25Laurens Hamilton, 24Eugene N Solomon, 22

Williamsport, PaSimsbury, Conn,New York CityNew York City

Wheelei Armstrong, Jr. , 22 Hartford, Conn.

March 14, '97Jan 19, '97

March 19, '97Aug. 8, '96Nov 12, '96

YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL

1836 Hemy W Hough, 871839 Henry G Davis, 891840 Fiancis L Dickinson, 801842 William H Goode, 831850 Joel W Smith, 731854 Bun R Abbe, 661865 Daniel C Leaven worth, 681869 Byron W Munson, 511875 Ehsha Munger, 49

Putnam, ConnEverett, MassRockville, Conn.Staunton, Va.Charles City, IowaHaitford, ConnNew Haven, ConnSharon, ConnNew London, Conn

Jan 21, '97Nov. 18, '96

June 2, '97Feb. 2, ?97

June 6, '97March 13, '97

Dec 19, '96Jan. 3, '97

May 14, '97

YALE LAW SCHOOL

1866 Bradley D Lee, 591867 Morris Goodhart, 581871 William H Kenyon, 551872 Henry C Baldwin, 54

Levi Hite,187518891893

James A Wilson, 52Daniel F Fowler, 22

St Louis, MoNew York CityMiddletown, Conn.Naugatuck, Conn.Columbus, OBridgeport, ConnOneonta, N. Y.

May 10, '97Feb. 6, '97

Aug. 4, '96Jan 15, '97Dec 17,'96Feb. 12, '97

Aug. 26, '96

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL

1880 Luman A Pettibone, 441883 Milton S Phillips, 431889 Olaus Dahl, 371891 Calvm U O Derr, 331892 Jesse Bailey, 36

Burlington, Wise.Highland, Cal.Chicago, 111.Spring City, Pa.Buffalo Creek, Col.

Aug. 27, '96Sept 7, '96

March 10, '97March 12, '97

Sept. 9, 96

GRADUATE SCHOOL

1869 Edward T Nelson, 51 Washington, D C Feb 28, '97

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

1858 Horace K King, 581859 Henry A DuBois, 571864 Chailes Bill, 571868 Samuel Swift, 471871 John F. Quigley, 48

Tully, N YSan Rafael, CalLithia Springs, GaNew York CityWilmington, Del.

May 31, '97May 26, '97Api. 15, '97July 29, '96

Maich 27, '97

503

1875 Clarence H. Stilson, 471875 Frederick M. Turnbull, 431876 John M Cunningham, 411876 Frederick P Miles, 421881 Clark Wright, 371885 John F Babcock, 331888 George D Colton, 321892 Egbert W. Cornwall, 251893 Frank A Little, 31

New Haven, ConnTaunton, MassNew York CityLakeville, ConnNew York CityElmna, N Y "Collinsville, ConnNew Haven, ConnMeriden, Conn

'fir-20, '9Jan 15 '97Jan. 14, '97Feb 19, "97

Maich 16, '97July 9 '96Jan 1, '97

Oct 24, '96Dec 26, 95

The mimbei of deaths lecoided this year is 125, and the aveiage ageof the giaduates of the Academical Department is about 61 yeais

The oldest living giaduate of the Academical Department isClass of 1824, Hon BENJAMIN D SILLIMAN, LL D., of Biooklyn, N.

Y., born Sept 14, 1805The oldest living graduate of the Medical Department isClass of 1831, CHAUNCEY AYRES, of Stamford, Conn., bom Aug 14

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PageWales, Leonard E 446Ward, Julius H 466Weitzel, Charles T 473Wells, Edward 439Wetherill, Christopher 475Whitney, Josiah D 440Willcox, Cyprian P 444Wilson, James A 490Wmthiop, Henry E 430Woodbuiy, Charles P 478Wnght Claik 498Young, Ben D 451