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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.
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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 ~
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He brought with him a
years.
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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.
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