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noTrick Pwblishers of the Yale Alumnét eoowld Mike to secure, at an early Wevkiy Sate. several complete sets of Vol. I. They are erilling te pay a fair price. Please oom wnicate at once with this office. ALUMNI NOTES, ———— Conducted by Joun Jay. ’ Qradwates are invited to contribute to this column.] 40—Professor James M. Hoppin has written a new book on Greece, which is now being published. -It combines a resume of the lectures given by: him m the Art School last winter. 68—Hon. William C. Whitney, L.L. _ Was married on Tuesday, Septem- r 29. to Edith S. Randolph, widow of Captain Arthur Randolph of the Fif- teenth Hussars, Queen’s Own Regi- ment, of England. The ceremony, which was private, took place at Bar Harbor, Me. The engagement was an- nounced the previous Sunday. Mr. Whitney has known Mrs. Randolph nearly all her iifetime. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney will remain at Bar Harbor for an indefinite period of time. *65—-Rev. Marshall R. Gaines, for the past four years Professor of Latin at the University of New Mexico, Al- buquerque, N. M., is President of Til- Lotson College, Austin, Tex. : *66—The Rev. A. F. Hale has chang- ed his residence from Ridgefield, Il- linois, to Nattoway C. H., Virginia. °"73—-The Reoublicans of the Third District of Coanecticut have nomina- ted Colonel Charles A. Russell for re- election to Congress. °"75—Miss Jennie S. Catherwood, a eranddaughter of the late Judge Hast- ings of San Francisco, was married to Dr. Morton Grinnell of New York, at Rutherford, Cal., October 5, by the Ro- man Catholic Archbishop of Califor- nia. The best man was William M. Grinnell, ’&1. . °*77—The note in the last issue in re- gard to Mr. Stimson was an error, which arose from the confusion of the name with that of a Harvard grad- uate of the same year. *79—Aaron V. S. Cochrane, of Hud- son, was named on October 2, as the Republican candidate for Congress from the Nineteenth District of New York. *8i—Reuben Post Halleck is the au- thor of a book entitled, ‘‘The Educa- tion of the Central Nervous System.’’ *8i—Edward L. Simonds has return- ed to the practice of law in New Or- of e leans, La., after an absence of seyv- . eral years. *84—_Howard H. Higbee has become Associate Professor of Chemistry at Hamilton College. ‘'86—Henry D. Sheldon started Sep- tember 23 on a ‘hunting trip in Colo- rado. *86—W. B. Goodwin has _ recently been appointed general agent for the Aetna Insurance Company in the State ot Washington. *$7—James R. Sheffield has just been elected president of the Board of Fire Commissioners of New York City. *87—Rev. Edward F. Root has re- signed his pastorate in Baltimore, Ma., and removed to Providence, R. I. ’87—‘The Ashley Genealogy,” by Francis B. Trowbridge, was favorably reviewed in the New York Evening Post of September 18. *88—O. S. Isbell, has opened a law office in the Equitable Pome: Denver, Col. *88—Leonard Woolsey Bacon has an article in the New England Magazine for October entitled, ‘‘Norwich, Con- necticut.” *88—Mr. Morison R. Waite is to be married to Miss Fannie Resor, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Burnet Resor, of Cincinnati, O., on Thursday, Octo- per 15. *99—George H. Danforth is at present traveling in Oregon. *S0—J. F. McGuire is in the employ of the Akron Rubber Works, Akron, O. °90—Arthur W. Colton has a poem entitled “Twenty Years Hence,” in the October number of Scribner’s Maga- zine. YALE ALU Migs '90—Dr. H. T. Fowler has been made Professor of Ethics at Knox Univer- sity, Illinois. ’99—G. D. Holmes is in the book pub- lishing business with A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, Ill. 90—Dr. G. N. Lawson has been ap- pointed Health Commissioner for Mid- dle Haddam, Conn. *90—A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. George D. Yeomans, of Buffalo, N. Y., on October 1. 90—Dr. H. S. Matthewson is station- ed at San Francisco, Cal., in the Ma- rine Hospital service. 90—A. W. Colton is teaching in Washington, Conn., at “The Ridge,’’ the school of Mr. William Brinsmade. ’90—Charles F. Lester has a poem in Godey’s Magazine for September, entitled, “A Sketch of Kitty.” 790S.—Dr. Ralph S. Gceodwin has started for a trip around the world. *91—Charles S. Ingham is travelling abroad. His present address is Hotel Normandie, Paris, France. ’91—Vertner Kenerson has been ap- pointed house surgeon at the New York Hospital, 16th St., between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York. 799 John Lorance is one of the edi- tors of the Denver Evening Post. 799A. J. Balliet, of Keifer & Balliet, has recently been appointed counsel at Seattle, Wash., for Salvador. ’938—C. 'W. Mills is president of the Pueblo Soap Co., Pueblo, Col. ’94—-Albert T. Ryan has opened a law office in Blackfoot, Idaho. ?94--HT, W. Dunning has been ap- pointed assistant in Semitics at Yale. 794—-C’, #*. Word has been admitted to practice law in the courts of Montana. °94--William Todd is now with the Maryland Manufacturing and Con- struction Company of Baltimore. "94--E. H. Lay is at present teach- ing in the New York Military Acad- emy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. °94-Harry P. Whitney and his wife are about to leave Lenox, Mass., where they have been staying lately, for Vancouver, B. C., to take passage on the “Eimpress. of India’? for Japan. 7"94—-Anson P. Stokes, Jr., is on his way around the world with T. HE. Stockwell, Brown, ’90, recently of the T'nion Theological Seminary. He is now in Janan and will proceed west- ward by wav of China, India, Ceylon, Egypt and Europe. °94S.—Charles R. Knapp is attending the Cornell Law School. °"945.—James D. Skinner is with the Colorado National Bank. 794--F’‘rank H. Chase is instructor in English, at Cheshire pea Ches- hire, Conn. 794S.—- Fred 'M. Lande is with F. H. Smith. contractor, 16 Exchange Place, New York City. 794S.—John iC. Peck is now with the Betts Machine Co., address 305 West St., Wilmington, Del. 794S.—Albert De Wolf Erskine is now treasurer of the East Chicago Land Company, Chicago, Il. 795—John E. Good is with the First National Bank of Denver, Col. 795—John G. Talcott is taking a course at the Philadelnhia Textile School. *95—Edward TT. Buckingham has been appointed assistant librarian in : the Yale Law School. 795—Thomas M. DeBevoise is now with the law firm of Perkins & Jack- son, New York City. *95—George Jacobus is now teaching classics and mathematics at St. Paul’s School, Garden City, L. I. 795—Charles A. Kimball is teaching -Latin and mathematics in the Fitch- burg, Mass., High School. 795—Ralph H. Burns has been ap- pointed principal of the High School in Bathgate, North Dakota. 795—Ulysses S. G. Bassett is in- structor in mathematics in the High School of Washington, D. C. 795—Selden W. Tyler has given up studying at Harvard and has gone in- to business in New Haven, Conn. °95—Henry D. Parmelee has become vice-president of the Kittredge Pub- lishing Company of New York City. '95—L. F. Wrissell, who last year was in the Yale Graduate School, has en- tered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. ‘persevere. VW El aa Obituary. CYPRIAN P. WILLCOX, LL.D., ‘44. Cyprian Porter Willcox, ’44, Profes- sor of Modern Languages in the Uni- versity of Georgia since 1872, died at Athens, Ga., on September 4, 1896, in his seventy-fourth year. son of Cyprian and Catharine (De Witt) Willcox, and was born in Sparta, Hancock County, Ga., on the 26th of November, 1822. The Wilcox (Willcox, Willcoxson) family is of Saxon origin and was seated at Bury St. Edmunds in Coun- ty Suffolk, Eng., before the Norman conquest. Sir John Dugdale in the visitation of County Suffolk, mentions fifteen generations of the family living prior to A. D., 1600. The American progenitor was Wil- liam Wilcoxson (Wilcox) born in 1601 at St. Albens, Hertfordshire, Eng., who came in the ship Planter in 1635 to the Massachusetts Bay colony where he was made a freeman the fol- lowing year. certificate from the minister of St. Al- bans. In 1639 he removed to Stratford, Conn. He was a deputy to the Gen- eral Court and held other offices. Many of his descendants have lived in — Fairfield and New Haven Counties. One of these, Cyprian Willcox, en- gaged in business in Georgia. His wife was of the De Witt family, eminent in its New Netherlands line and still more illustrious in the history of Hol- jand. Their son, Cyprian Porter Will- cox, received his middle name through a maternal line of his father, from John Porter, an early settler of Hart- ford. At the time of his entering col- lege, his father was residing in New Haven. His elder brother, De Witt F. Willcox, who for a time was a mem- ber of the Yale class of 1838, returned to the south and embarked in the in- surance business at Columbus, Ga. Cyprian P. Willcox, not having visit-. ed his native state since childhood, © spent, after graduation, a period of rest with his relatives at Columbus, and occupied the remainder of a year in teaching there; then came north and spent the next four years partly im New Haven, but mostly in New York, studying medicine a portion of the time to please his relatives, but clinging to his favorite study, lan- guages. In October, 1849, he went to Europe for the purpose of travel and study, and resided at different times in Ge- neva, Berlin, Goettingen, Vienna, Flor- ence, Rome, Madrid, Dresden and in Paris, maturing while at the French capital a plan for the establishment on the Continent of an Institute for the education on foreign soil of Amer- ican youth, for which his knowledge of modern languages and his experi- ence in foreign life eminently fitted him. He returned to this country in 1856, and was encouraged by friends to The commercial panic in- tervened, and he was forced to delay the execution of the plan until 1859, when he married and left immediately for Europe, with a number of youth in his charge. The Institute was estab- lish at Geneva, and for two years was remarkably successful, when the breaking out of the Civil War proved fatal to his plans. He disposed of the establishment, removed to Germany, and thence to Brussels, where he re- sided for seven years, interested in business during a portion of the time, and in the autumn of 1869 returned to America. In January, 1872, the professorship of inodern languages in the Georgia State University was tendered to him. Equipped as few have ever been for such a position, he occupied the chair with great acceptance until his de- cease, having an average of about one hundred and twenty students under personal instruction, which implies constant hard work. His colleagues came to recognize him as “chief among the adornments of the institu- tion and the foundaticns of its strength.” In the spring of 1891, he visited Eu- rope again, and remained for a year. While absent he received, in the au- tumn of 1891, the degree of LL. D., from the University of the South, Sewance, Tenn., having received the degree of M. A. from Yale in 1847. The Academic Council of the Uni- versity of Georgia has recorded its high regard for him as “a lover of learning, a profound scholar, a skill- ful teacher, a cultured gentleman, a He was the ~ :jJan,”” He brought with him a years. TIFFANY WATCHES. The movements of the TIFFANY WATCHES are constructed upon the most advanced scien- tific methods and are guaranteed timekeepers. The casings are all of the best and most refined forms and exact workmanship. The dials are Siege gtty and accurately marked, and in har- mony with the casing, making each watch a perfect example of its particular style. WATCHES FOR MEN. 18 KARAT GOLD HunTiNG VASE. Medium size, - - fro 6 Large Fe SER ee a Ries ere Se ir 5.00 3.00 Mine WATCHES FOR COLLEGE SPORTS. Sterling Silver Cases, —- from -$35.00 18 Karat Gold #6 =. 125 00 beloved friend and a faithful Christ- The students have expressed their appreciative admiration for his ripe scholarship, his sunny-hearted disposition and his enthusiastic devo- tion to their welfare. By his wife, Mary F., daughter of James M. and _ Victoria (Harris) Smythe, whom he married in Augusta, Ga., October 7, 1859, he had ten child- ren; two died in infancy, one in Bu- rope and one in this country; of the others, seven were born in Europe. DR. SILVANUS 8. MULFORD, 700, Dr. Silvanus Sanford Mulferd, ’50, died September 9, 1896. He was born at Monrose, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1830. After graduating from Yale Col- lege, he became a student at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and remained there two He then went to Europe, re- turning the following year, and loca- ted: at Cherry. Valley;..N.-Y. He: re- mained there until the spring of 1861, when he 2nlisted as surgeon in the army. At the close of the war Dr. Mulford resumed the practice of his profession in New York City. He was unmarried. REV. JAMES MARSHALL, D.D., 57. Rev. James Marshall, D. D., ’57, for nine years the president of Coe Col- lege, died at his nome in Cedar Rap- ids, Iowa, on Friday, September 11, of pneumonia. He was born in 1834, and after graduating from Yale College studied law and taught in Syracuse, N. Y. Abandoning teaching and the law for. the clerical profession, Dr.. Marshall studied theology at Prince- ton, and in 1862 was made a chaplain in the United States army. During the war he conducted the funeral services of no less than 6,000 soldiers. By his efforts a chapel was built near the Chesapeake General Hospital and a monument costing $15,000 erected to the memory of Union soldiers. He af- terwards served as pastor in Troy, N. Y., New York City and Hoboken, N. J. At the funeral service brief words of appreciation were spoken by friends of the deceased, and then, wearing the Grand Army button and the rosette of the Legion of Honor, the body of this army chaplain of four years, this faithful pastor of thirty years, and college president of nine years, was laid at rest. EDWARD F. MERRIAM, 770. The death of Edward Fiske Merri- am, ’70, occurred on August 25, 1896, at Springfield, Mass. He was born at that place, May 5, 1847. After graduating from Yale in the class of 1870, he spent . a year at the Riverside Press, Cam- bridge, Mass., and then traveled a year, mainly in the south, for his health. Later he entered the office of G. & C. Merriam, Springfield, Mass., publishers of Webster’s Dictionaries. Mr. Merriam was always interested in literature, and was a_ philanthropist, seeking to know the poor personally. DR. EDWARD S. FARRINGTON. ’88. Dr. Edward S. Farrington, ’88, died at his home in New York City. Sep- temiber 7, from typhoid fever. He was born February 26, 1866, and prepared for Yale at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After graduating from Yale, he became instructor in Mathe- matics at Westminster School, Dobb’s Ferry, N. Y., where he remained un- til June, 1889. He then took the course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and subse- quently was admitted to Bellevue Hospital. In April, 1894, Dr. Farring- ton began the private practice of his profession in New York. He was also Medical Examiner for fourteen insur- anee companies. On April 18, 1894, he married Miss Josephine Copeland, of New York, who survives him. [Continued on sixth page. |
