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ALUMNI NOTES. Conducted by JOHN Jay. [ Graduates are invited to contribute to this column.) '52—Rev. John Elderkin has resign- ed the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Ekonk, Conn., after hold- ing it for fifteen years. ’66-—Henry B. Barnes has_ been chosen vice-president of the Manhat- tan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York City. 71 T. S—Rev. Edward P. Herrick has handed in his resignation as pas- tor of the Congregational Church at Tampa, Florida, to take effect on Ja~- uary 4, 1897. °72-EXx-Mayor Greene Kendrick, of Waterbury, Conn., was married at West Haven, on November 19, to Miss Natalie Lockwood. '77—John M. Whitehead of Janes- ville, Wisconsin, has been’ elected State Senator by a large majority on the Republican ticket. -77John F. Keator of Philadelphia was elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania at the recent election, from the Germantown district. His plurality was about 700. In speaking of his election the Ger- mantown “Telegraph” says: ‘The Telegraph has supported his candi- dacy because it believed in him, in his independence and ability, and while it is true that a_ single representative cannot accomplish much alone, yet it is equally true that the only way to elevate the dignity and strength of any legislative body is to improve the qual- ity of the individual members. Mr. Keator is well equipped for the po- sition to which he has been elected and the experience he lacks is someth'ng that will come and will certainly be made the most of.” 729 'T S—Rev. John E. Tuttle gf the College Church at Amherst, Mass, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Union Church at Worcester, Mass. °89 The marriage of Mrs. Anna Truax Thurber to Wilber McBride took place in the Collegiate Church, New York City, on Tuesday morning, November 24. The ceremony was per- formed by the rector of the Church, Rev. Edward B. Coe, D. D., *62, and the bride was given away by her brother, Justice Charles Truax, of New York. Henry B. Platt, ’82, was best man, and the ushers were W. P. Eno, 29: J. R. Ely, ’82; Dudley Phelps, °83; A. S. Osborne, ’82; Walter I. Badger, 29, and C. W. Layman, 82. ’°83S.—A. J. Wurts January at Cornell University on ‘The Handling of Electric Currents.”’ °839.—John EH. Lockwood has become an instructor in the Whittier State School, Whittier, Los Angeles county, California. 88 The marriage of Hector W. Thomas to Miss M. B. Sturgis took place recently in New York. °89--The marriage of Miss Helen M. Hyde, daughter of Mr. and~Mrs. Al- bert G. Hyde, of New York City, to Charles A. Valentine, took place in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, on Wednesday, November 25. 7°90—Roger S. Baldwin, of 44 Wall Street, New Haven, Conn., has been made Class Secretary. 7°90S.— Eugene Lentilhon was married on Wednesday, November 18, to Miss Rosa Parran Buchanan in Christ Church, Rye, N. Y. 7409.—The engagement has been an- ncunced of Miss Mary C. O. Pierson of Hartford, Conn., to Horace B. Cheney of South Manchester. °90—The following ’90 men took sup- per at Sherry’s in New York the night before the Princeton game: Collins, De- Camp, Humphrey, Opdyke, Parker, Parsons, Sanford, Townsend and Shel- don. 7919.—-The marriage of Burton D. Blair to Miss Helen D. Walton, of Beverly, N. J., took place in St. Ste- phan’s Church, Beverly, on Novem- ber 17. 791—John H. Buck, of Hartford, Conn., who has been for some time As- sistant State Attorney, has been ap- pointed by Governor Cooke, Execu- tive Secretary. Company, will lecture in. 3 Ase A Ms NN 91 T. S.—Rev. Joseph M. Adams hag resigned the pastorate of the Congre- gational Church at Rochester, N. H. "91S.—The marriage of David L. Hun- tington to Miss Helen Longacre, sis- ter of J. McC. Longacre, ’96, twill take place in the Arch Street Church, Phil- adelphia, Pa., on December 8. ’"91—-The marriage of Wallace §. Moyle to Miss Clara Belle Adams, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Adams, of New Haven, Conn., took place in the Grand Avenue Congregational Church in that city on November 26. dick] Blake; 91; C.K. Bancroft, .’91, and FEF. S. Benninghoff, °91, acted as ushers. 792A son was born to Richard S. and Margaret Whittier Colton, on November 9, 1896. "92—-The engagement is announe:d of Miss Louisa Shaw Barlow, daughter of General Francis C. Barlow, of New York City, to Pierre Jay. 792—-Dr. Frank A. Keller will sail from San Francisco on December 6th, for the Province of Hu Nan, China, as a medical missionary. : 792—Norman C. Whittemore has been stationed at Pyeng Yang, missionary of the Presbyterian Board since the last of October. 929-Dr. Arthur S. Brackett, who graduated from Jefferson Medical School in 1895, has opened an office at 337 North Main Street, Bristol, Conn. 793—-Alfred H. Jones was married on November 17th to Miss Sophie B. John- son of St. Louis, Mo. °93—The marriage of George H. Rice to Miss Agnes Graham Reynolds will take place in Scranton. Pa., on De- cember 2. °93S.—Phelps B. Hoyt has_ recently become connected with the W. M. Hoyt wholesale grocers, in New Haven, Conn. °93—Lawrence HE. Brown, by official count, was elected member of Assem- bly from the 29th Assembly District in the city of New York at the last elec- tion, by a plurality of 4,885. 7°93 L. S.—The Daily Tribune of Great Falls, Montana, says: ‘“‘For the speak- ership of the Montana House of Rep- resentatives there will no doubt be many aspirants. The Democrats and Populists will be in a majority and a member of either one of those parties will be chosen. Amone the names of gentlemen that will be presented for the position will be that of George H. Stanton of Cascade County. Whether he secures the prize or not the Trib- une has no hesitancy in saying that no aspirant will be better qualified for the post. Mr. Stanten is young, eloquet, an able lawyer, and has all the elements that fit a man to pre- side over the deliberations of a legis- lative body. His popularity in this county is evidenced by the fact that “he received a much larger vote than any candidate upon the legislative ticket. We take more than ordinary pleasure in commending the name of Mr. Stanton to the consideration of the members-elect, satisfied that if he is chosen he will grace the chair and preside with dignity and impartiality.” 7"94—Ulysses S. Kendall has’ been made City Solicitor of Fairmont, West Virginia. 764—Raymond Lioyd is studying law with Richardson and Robbins at An- gelica, N. Y. 794—The engagement of Merwin J. Gibbons to Miss Jennie Dean, of West- field, Mass., is announced. °94S.—Irvine Keyser has taken a po- sition with the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Co., Baltimore, Md. "94—William G. Chase, who married Miss A. L. Lyon on July 28, is now head master of Mlushing Institute at Flushing, N. Y. *94—Dean B. Lyman is now with the Empire and New England Transporta- tion Co., his address being 120 Cot- tage street, New Haven, Conn. "94—The marriage of Miss Merry Mitchell of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to William R. Moorhouse, was celebrated on November 17, at Cedar Rapids. ’94—-Clinton §S. Bissell has given up his position in the Engineer Corps of the Pennsylvania Railroad and is now Instructor in Latin at the Delancey School, Philadelphia. W hh KRLY China, as, ’'94—James E. Brown, who married, Miss Ella C. Scott on October 21, sailed for Europe on November 14, in- tending to spend the year abroad. ’94—Warwick J. Price after January Ist, will give up his position as in- structor at St. Paul’s School and will enter the employment of the Mutual Life Insurance of New York. ’°94—-Charles A. Smith is studying at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middle- town, Conn., and has changed his home address from 149 West Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn., to 30 John street, in the same city. 94—-F'rederick lL. Keays has sur- rendered his position as instructor in Dwight School, New York City, and is studying medicine at the New York University Medical School, his address being 79 West 45th street, New York City. . 705—A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Weller on October 7, 1896, 95—The marriage of Lindsay Denison to Miss Bertha Lee Bennett of Wash- ington, is announced. Mrs. Denison was a graduate of Smith College in the class of 1895, and editor-in-chief of the Smith College Monthly. 795 L. S.—Joseph S. Peery has re- cently been elected District Attorney for Weber County, Utah. "95 S—George B. Massey is now in the mechanical department of the Mexican International Railroad. Ad- dress P. O. Box 109, Eagle Pass, Texas. *95—E'verett W. Hobart is a senior in the Cincinnati Law School, and elerk in the law office of Matthews & Cleveland, 56 Carew Building, Cin- einnati, Ohio. ’96S.—J. Prescott Burton, Jr., is in business with his father as surveyor and inspector of coal mines in Ohio. oe Obituary. _ PINCKNEY W. ELLSWORTH, M. D. ’36. Dr. Pinckney Webster Ellsworth, ’36, died at his home, 68 Collins Street, Hartford, Conn., on November 29. The direct cause of his death was a stroke of paralysis received two days previ- ous. Dr. Ellsworth was born in Hart- ford, December 5, 1814. His father was Hon. William W. Ellsworth, ’10, Gov- ernor of Connecticut, “and his grand- father was Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Jus- tice of the United States. He prepar- ed for college at the Mt. Pleasant Classical School, Amherst, Mass., and at the Hartford Grammar School. He was graduated from Yale College in 1836. . After graduation Dr. Ellsworth com- menced the study of law, but goon took up that of medicine and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1839. He then opened an office in Hartford, where he continued in active practice until 1894, when ill-health compelled him to re- tire. In 1842 he was married to Miss Julia M. Sterling, of Bridgeport, Conn., who died in 1854, two years af- ter the death of her only child. On December 7; 1856, he was married to Miss Julia T. Dow, of New Haven, by . whom he had eight children, six of whom are now living—four daughters, and Rev. W. W. Ellsworth, ’90, and E. B. Ellsworth, ’938. In 1843 Dr. Ellsworth went to Eu- rope and studied his profession in London, Paris and Dublin. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he was appointed surgeon to the Connecticut Brigade of Volunteers and participa- ted tin the battle of Bull Run. After that battle he received a commission as Brigade Surgeon of Volunteers, but was forced to resign in the following Winter on account of a severe illness. Hie was then made an examiner of re- eruits. Dr. Ellsworth was one of the found- ers of the Hartford Medical Society and was a member of the Connecticut Medical Society and the Hartford County Medical Society. He was also an honorary member of the New York State Medical Society. He was a di- rector of the American Asylum for the Deaf, the Collins Company, and the State Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany. He was a man of deep religious feeling and had been for over fifty years a member of the Center Church. As a physician he made a specialty of diseases of the eye and ear. He per- formed the first surgical operation in which anethesia was used. Cuts of Watches gine oH 4a E,W. EMERY 246 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Tailor... Correct Styles for Dress, Business Golf, Riding 7 ee Bicycle Suits oe TIFFANY & CO. 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Y. —_++—____- Juniors Elected to Zeta Psi, Zeta Psi gave out the following elections in the Junior Class on Tues- day, November 24th: Philip Earl Dud- ley, New London, Conn.; Charles Fred- erick Gehrmann, Peoria, Ill.; Charles Edmund Goodman, - St. Louis, Mo.; Samuel Andrew Marshall, Cromwell, Conn.;. Edward Norris, New York City; John Treadwell Norton, Jr., Al- Dany. Ne ¥s Goodrich Barbour Rhodes, Cincinnati, O.; Edward Reed Whittemore, New Haven, Conn. The publication of the above names was accidentally omitted in the last issue of the Weekly. —_-_ ~~ The Thanksgiving Club. On the evening of Thanksgiving Day, November 26, a club of fifteen mem- bers of the Class of Ninety-nine was founded and owing to the date of its foundation it was given the name of “The Thanksgiving Club.” At its @r- ganization a dinner was held at which appropriate resolutions were passed and the officers of the Club were elect- ed. The object of the Club is of a literary nature. Bi-weekly meetings will be held at which papers will be read and matters of general interest discussed. —— ——~+$+o—_ To Prohibit Football. It is certain that a bill will be in- troduced in the Missouri State Legis'a- ture some time this Winter making it a misdemeanor or a felony to play football in the State. A number of members have drawn up measures which would place football upon the Same plane as prize fighting, and as soon as the Legislature meets, a num- ber of bills of this nature will un- doubtedly be introduced.
