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YALE: ATU Nee. NOTICE! The Publishers of the Yale Alumni Weekly weuld like to secure, at an early date, several complete sets of Vol. I. They ere willing te pay a fair price. Please communicate at once with this office. ALUMNI NOTES. Conducted by JoHN Jay. | Graduates are invited to contribute to this column.) *52—Rev. A. N. Lewis thas been elected Grand Prelate of the Grand Commander of Knights Templar of Vermont. He has been Rector of Christ Church, Montpelier, since 1891. ‘52—The Strand Magazine for Sep- tember speaks of Dr. Ephraim Cot- rer’s microscope as “the most powerfu! in the world’ for “fine detail’ in proportion of 136,000 Imes to the inch. It magnifies 15,000 di- ameters, or 225,000,000 times. *53—Andrew D. White has an article in the September Forum entitled, ‘“En- couragements in the Present Crisis.” It is his answer to many communica- tions which have come to him in: re- gard to his recent open letter ad- dressed, “Tio Patriotic Democrats.” ’*56—Rev. William A. Bushee has re- cently settled in charge of the Con- gregational Church of Northwood, N. H. ’56—Rev. James O. Denniston has removed from Williamsburgh, N. Y., to take charge of a church at State College, Penn. ’56—Justice Henry. ‘B. Brown, LL. D. and wife have spent the summer abroad. They were among the Yale quota at the Henley regatta. ’*60—William H. Hale has an article in the Recreation number of the Bachelor of Arts entitled, “The Mon- etary Standard.” ’61—-Frederick R. Jones is the au- thor of a new book entitled, “History of Taxation in Connecticut.” *63—Judge Irving G. Vann, LL. D. was nominated for Judge of the Court of Appeals by the Republicans of New York State. ‘66—The Democrats of the Second District of Connecticut have nomina- ted Dr. Austin B. Fuller for Congress. ’66—Judge C. F. Brown, of the New York State Supreme Court, has sailed for home from HBurope, where he has been spending the summer with his family. ‘67—_W. A. Peck was recently elected County Surveyor for Asapahoe Coun- ty, Col. ’69—Louis R. HBhrich, a member of the National Committee of the gold wing of the Democratic party, is the author of a new book, entitled, ‘“‘Ques- tion of Silver.” This book is a brief summary of legislation in the United States, a practical analysis of the present situation, and of the argu- ment of the advocates of unlimited Silver coinage. Published by G. P. Putnam & Sons. , 73—Clarence D. Ashley ‘has been chosen dean of the New York Univer- sity Law School. 73—Frank B. Tarbell is the author of a history of Greek art just publish- ed for the Chautauqua Association by Flood & Vincent. "73—Plato Mountjoy has been ap- pointed an examiner in the National Department of Justice. He travels about the country investigating the accounts of United States District At- torneys, Commissioners and Marshals. ‘75—Newell Martin has been ap- pointed Secretary of the Class. 75 'T. S.—Rev. William P. Clancy, of Troy, N. H., has accepted a call to the Congregational Churches at He- bron and Gilead, N. H. "76—Horace R. Buck is a candidate this fall on the Democratic ticket of Montana, for the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. 77_Frederick J. Stimson is the au- thor of a book published by Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Boston, entitled, “King Noanett; A Story of Old Virginia.” 77 T. §—Prof. George B. Adams, of Yale, has written a new book, en- titled, “The Growth of the French Nation,” published by Flood & Vin- cent. microscope ‘79—Timothy L. Woodruff, of Brook- lyn, is the Republican nominee for the lieutenant-governorship of New York. 79—Margrave Coxe has been ap- pointed Envoy and Minister to Hion- ~ duras and Guatemala by President Cleveland. . 79—Poultney Bigelow is to have a series of articles on South Africa in Harper’s Monthly Magazine. He has been for some months on the ground gathering material. | *80—W. D. Bishop, Jr., of Bridge- port, Conn., Secretary of the N. Y., N: H. & H.R. R. has severed ‘his connec- tion with the law firm of Bishop & Shelton. *80—Henry W. Taft was appointed a member of the Board of Education of New York City by Mayor Strong on September 10. He succeeded John L. N. Hunt, who had resigned. ’82S.—S. L. Williams is the Gen- eral Manager of the Gladstone Co., and Secretary and Treasurer of the Oliver Typewriter Co., with offices at the Atwood ‘building, Chicago, Il. "828.—E. L. Whittemore went abroad in August for .a six week’s trip. He sailed in company with his brother Norman C. Whittemore, ’92, who goes to Corea as a missionary gunder the Presbyterian Board. °83—John Franklin Crowell is the author of an article on “The Position of the Church in France,” in the July. number of the Methodist Review pub- lished iat Nashville, Tenn. °83S.—Allen Hubbard was married on Wednesday evening, September 23, to Miss Edna Louise Woodruff at Win- sted, Conn. Mr. Hubbard was cap- tain of the University Baseball nine during his Senior year. *86S.—The Republicans. of Great Falls, Montana, have nominated Sam- uel B. Robbins for Representative in the Legislature. ’*88—The marriage of Miss Edith Green, daughter of General and Mrs. Joseph G. Perkins of Lyme, Conn., to Wolcott G. Lane, took place at the bride’s home on ithe afternoon of Sep- tember 15. The ceremony was per- formed ‘by (Rev. Mr. ‘Thomas of North Andover, Mass. acted as best man, and the ushers were Mr. Charlton M. Lewis, ’86; Mr. Charles ‘Pierson, ’86; Mr. John J. Kutz, ’°88, and Mr. Richard G. Perkins. ’*88—Asa O. Gallup was on July 4, 1896, appointed President of the Board of Directors of the New York Prep- aratory School, at 15 West 43 Street. °39—Frederick W. Wallace and Miss Grace M. Seccomb, daughter of Mrs. Edward iA. Seccomb, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were married in Washington, Conn., September 9. Dr. William B. Brinsmade, ’88, acted as best man, and the ushers were A. H. Mosle, ’89; George E. Eliot, ’°86; Frederick C. Per- kins, °94; Harry Beecher, 88; Arthur ‘L. Shipman, °86, and Edwin Parsons, 88. °90—Thomas IF. Bayard, Jr., ‘was nominated for Congress, at Wilming- ton, Del., by the sound money Demo- crats. ‘91S.—Homer 8S. Cummings, of Stamford, Conn., has been nominated for Secretary of State by the silver Democrats. 92 L. S.—G. P. Steele has formed a law partnership with Charles Haut- zell of Denver, Col. ’°92—-The marriage of Miss Ruth Lambert, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lambert, of New York City, to Knight Dexter Cheney, Jr., will take place on Tuesday, October 138, at twelve o’clock, in the Congregational Church, New Canaan, Conn. °93—C. O. Graham is studying med- icine at the University of Pennsyl- vania. ’*93—Tihe engagement of Miss Adele Corning to Mr. Alvah S. Chisholm is announced. 793—Samuel Scoville has an article in the American University Magazine, entitled “The Progress of Track anid Field Athietiies at Yale.” °93--Miss Eidith Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heber R. Bishop, of New York, and Moses Taylor ‘were married in ‘Trinity Church, Newport, R. IL, on August 19. °93.—_-Charles W. Clark and Mrs. Clark have just returned from EHu- rope. Mr. Clark’s marriage took place last summer. Mrs. Clark was Miss Roberts of Butte, Montana. Dr. Alfred Hand, ’88,” = 4O3'¢ VW Ee hy "93 L. S—George H. Stanton has been nominated by the Democra's of Great Falls, Monttana, for the State Legislature ’94—Ellsworth D. Whiting of Rush Medical College, Chicago, was award- ed the L. C. P. Freer medal given to that member of the Junior class writ- ing the best thesis upon an assigned subject. The subject of Mr. Whit- ing’s thesis was “Malaria.” ’94S.— Frederick N. Sinks has re- turned from Belgium, and is now in the law office of Nash & Lentz, Co- lumibus, O. ’945.—Frederick H. Lee has become Superintendent of the Erie branch of ‘the W. 'L. Scott Coal Company, Erie, Pa. "94S.—Harold E. Hewlett was grad- uated from the College of Physicians 7 and Surgeons last June. 94 L. S.—John C. Clark, who has been connected this winter with ithe firm of E. B. Cuthbert & Co., of New York, will take charge of a branch office of that firm, about October 1. "95—Eid' ward Beatie of Helena, Montana, entered the Yale Law School this fall. | wee ’95—Henry G. Miller has been obliged to discontinue this law prac- tice in ‘Chicago on account of ill- health and is now travelling out west. ’"95—T. H. Stevenson has ‘been awarded a prize of fifty dollars for highest proficiency in the studies of the Junior year at the Chicago Col- lege of Law. 95—On Tuesday, August 4, Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Grace Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. ‘Wilson, were married at the home of tthe bride, in New York City. 3 : °95S.—H. Hollister Robinson will take a post graduate course at Yale in Civil Engineering. © 90—Tf. KF. Archbaid is at the Av- burn Theological Seminary this fall. ’°96-—G. H. Nettleton is taking a post graduate course in English at Yale. ’96—Ward Cheney is pursuing a course of study at Brunswick, Ger- Many. ’96—A. E. Hunt, Jr., is working with the Hunt & Cornell Co., of Seranton, Pa. ’"96—The engagement is announced of Carroll H. Fitzhugh and Miss Mary M. Bell, both of Pittsburg, Pa. ’96—G. L. Buist. was assistant in heavy gymmastics, and coached the ‘boat crews at Chautauqua during the summer. : +o The First Sunday. The opening sermon of the collegiatte year was preached Suniday in Bait'teld chapel ‘by Professor Ladd on thie text: “Hor none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.” ; In the evening Dean Wright talked to the studentts at the general meet- ing in Dwight Hall. He emphasized the necessity of absolute honesty at all times, suggested the great oppior- tunities ffor usefulness that a college life opened for onle, dwelt on the value of the constant forming and streng th- ening of a good character, and the wisdom of taking a positive istamd in matters religious and moral. The meeting of the Freshman classes hield immediately after brought a very lange numiber together. A great dieal of interest in religious ‘work ‘was showin. ———2»4> > —_——- Reception to Freshmen in | Dwight Hall. A reception to the members of the Academic and Scientific Freshman classes was given in Dwight Hall last Friday evening ‘by the University Young Men’s Christian Association and proved a decided success. Music was furnished by quartets from the University Glee and Banjo Clubs and light refreshments were served. In the absence of President Dwight, Pro- fessor Henry P. Wright, Dean of the College Faculty, welcomed the new members of the University, and the entertainment committee consisted of the following: William H. Sallmon, 94, chairman; °97, L. M. Bass, G. C.- . Brooke, E. E. Garrison, F. T. Mur- phy; 98, D. F. Rogers, E. Sawyer, and L. M. Williams; 99, C. A. Brayton, W. H. Field and T. Wright; 97S., T. W. Best and E. H. Brewer; 988., A. Cheney and G. C. Greenway. : dl in New Haven, TIFFANY WATCHES. The movements of the TrFFANY WATCHES are constructed upon the most advanced scien- tific methods and are guaranteed timekeepers. 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The following year he gave up this occupation, start- ed westward, and settled in southern lowa, near Burlington. He was one of the earliest settlers in that part of the country. | In 1841, Mr. Hebard married Miss Anne M. Huntington of New London, Conn. They had four children. From 1853 he engaged in the construction of railroads for several years. During the Civil War he was employed in maintaining lines of railway in south- ern Missouri and Tennessee. After the war he became a member of sev- eral of the first Legislatures of the new State of Iowa. Albout 1869 Mr. Hebard settled himself permanently at ‘Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa. In 1875 he was elected to the State Senate, being re-elected again in 1879. He was one of the two United States Commissioners from Iowa to the Paris Exposition. PROF. JOSIAH DWIGHT WHITNEY, 839, The death of Professor Josiah 'D. Whitney, 39, occurred at New Lon- don, N. H., August 19. He had been Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology and Metallurgy at Harvard since 1865 and was a prominent member of the American Association and of the National Academy of Science. Professor Whitney was born in Northampton, Mass., November 23, 1819. After leaving Yale he devoted himself to the ‘study of chemistry, minerology and geology at Philadel- phia and elsewhere in this country, and spent nearly five years abroad as a pupil of the School of Mines in Par- ils and att thie Universities of Berlin ‘amid! Giessen, Re- turning in 1847 he commenced the geological survey of the Lake Supe- rior region under the authority of the United States Government, complet- ing it in 1851. He also was engaged in the surveys of Iowa and Wisconsin and had made explorations in at least twenty-five states. Complete reports of his surveys have been published by hhim from time to time. In 1854 he published a work on “The Metallic Wealth of the United States.” He was unmarried. The burial took place at Northampton, Mass. DR. PETER COLLIER, ’61. (Peter Collier, Ph. D., ’61, died at Ann Arbor, Mich., on June 29, last. He was born at Chittenaugo, N. Y., August 17, 1835, and after graduating from Yale in ’61, entered the Sheffield Scientific School, where he devoted himself to the study of chemistry. For several years he was assistant in the laboratory. In 1867 he removed ito Burlington, Vt., having been appoint- ed Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy, in the University of Vermont. Four years later he was elected Secretary of the State Board of ‘Agriculture, Mining and Manufac- tures, and Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University, which conferred up- on him the degree of M. D. Dr. Collier was a member of the United States Scientific Commi ission appointed by President Grant to visit the International Exposition at Vien- na in 1873. He resigned this professor- ship in the University of Vermont in [Continued on fifth page. |
