YALE ALUMNI! WEEKLY ee cee ALUMNI NOTES. Conducted by JoHN JAY. [ Graduates are invited to contribute to this column.) ——— '67.—The following notes concerning members of ’67 have been forwarded by the class Secretary, Mr. William H. Morse: A. D. Bissell is Vice President of The People’s Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. Has one son in the Junior class at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, and one son in the Freshman class at Yale. Rev. Ira S. Dodd is settled over the Episcopal Church at Riverside, N. Y. He has a son in the present Senior class at Yale. Morton Dexter is still connected with the Boston ‘“Congregationalist,’ of which he is one of the owners. In a literary line he has paid considerable attention to the history of the Pilgrims and the early Colonial history. In 1894 he published a small work for young people, entitled, ‘‘The Stone of the Pil- grim,” which has had a large sale. In 1890 he was elected a member of the Maine Historical Society. He has visit- ed Europe twice in the past ten years, once in 1891 and again in 1896. Both times he was delegate of the National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States to the International Congregational Council. His wife and daughters accompanied him each time. He is devoted professionally as art eritie of the editorial staff of the paper. A. E. Nolen still continues as in- structor in the Fitchburg High School, at Fitchburg, Mass. Rev. D. J. Burrell is pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Ave- nue and 29th Street, New York. He has two sons at Yale, one in the present Junicr class, and another in the Sopho- more class. F. L. Baldwin is practicing law at Massillon, O., the firm name being Baldwin & Young. George L. Wright, for a year or so past, has been suffering from nervous prostration, complicated with other troubles. He writes that nothing would give him greater pleasure than attend- ing the 30th anniversary of this class, but he feels that he will be unable to do so. He resides with his brother in Auburn, N. Y. Henry A. Chitenden has for fourteen years past been connected with the editorial staff of the New. York Herald, during which peri- od he was awarded the first prize of $500, offered by Mr. Ben- competition by Herald men. He is now in the service of the New York World. William H. Bishop resided in Europe, chiefly in the south of France, from 1888 to 1893. In the latter year he returned to America and accepted the position of instructor in French and Spanish | in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, which position he still oc- cupies. Since 1887 he has published the fol- lowing works: “The Brown Stone Boy and Other Queer People” (Carroll & Co.). 1888; “The Yellow Smoke”’ (Lov- ell & Co.), 1891; “A House Hunter in “Burope” (Harper Bros.), 1893; “‘A Pound of Cure” (Scribner & Co.), 1894; ‘“Writ- ing to Rupia” (The Century Co.), 1894; “The Faience Violin,” translated from the French (D. Appleton & Co.), 1893; “Sergeant Von” (Carroll & Co.), 1889. In the Century of the present month will appear a humorous story called “Anti-Babel” or Prof. Sandfog’s Uni- versal Language.’ In the Summer of 1295 he went to Spain and England. Charles A. Parke. for the past 30 years has been in the banking business at Mount Vernon, Ind. Edgar A..Turrell has been practicing law for the past 25 years at 170 Broad- way, New York City. He spends his Summers on his farm at Montrose, Pa. Frank Libbey, since graduation, has been in the lumber business in Wash- ington, D. C. He has been very suc- cessful in business, is married, and has three grown-up daughters. Rev. Charles S. Walker, for the past 10 years has resided at South Amherst, Mass., acting as Professor of Political Science, Secretary of the Faculty of Amherst and Chaplain of the College, at the Mass., Agricultural College. His eldest son graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1894: then spent three years in the Graduate Department of Yale Uni- versity, taking his Ph. D. degree this Commencement. He will probahlv be one of the voungest Doctors of Philoso- phy that Yale has ever graduated, be- ing only 22 years of age. His younger son is now a Junior in College, and ex- pects. after graduation, to take a post graduate course in music at Yale. Thomas Hedge is still practising law at Rurlineton. Ta..the firm name being Rilythe & Hedge. Hevis attorney for the Cc. B. and Q. Railroad Company. His eldest son graduated from the Hotch- kiss School, and was unconditionally admitted to Yale in the class of ’98, but nreferred to go into business at his home. His younger son graduated at Hotchkiss in 1896. and is now a mem- ber of the class of 1900. His father very characteristically observes that this son can be “distinguished from his father by his scholarship,’ which, as Prof. Gibbs once told: one of our class was “comfortable without being luxur- ious.’’ Matthew D. Mann is still a practising physician at Buffalo, Y. He has been elected President of the American Gynecological Society. His two sons are taking a course in civil engineering, one in the class of 1899, Yale, and the other at Cornell. His eldest daughter died in 1887. His younger was married last June. ‘ Strong Comstock resigned the Princi- ‘palship of the Walton, New York, Un- ion School, and accepted the same po- sition at Cooperstown, in 1890. He left the latter place in 1894, and became Principal of the Balmforth Avenue School at Danbury, Ct. His wife died at Cooperstown, May 6, 1894. His son Leonard graduated from Yale in the class of ’95, and a daughter, Harriet B., graduates from Vassar in 1897. George A. Adee has maintained his. interest in Yale and athletics during the past ten years. He was President of the University Athletic Club, ’92-96; Vice-President Yale Alumni. Associa- tion, ’93-’94; Chairman of the Building Committee, Yale Gymnasium; Director of Yale Alumni. University Fund As- sociation, ’95-’97; is a member. of the New York University Club, and one of the Governing Board of the Country Club, Westchester, from ’88-’93. He ‘s the same genial, courteous gentleman that he was while in College (and the class thinks he never was out of Col- lege), and the best all round athlete that Yale ever produced. His son, George T. Adee, graduated at Yale in "95, and is now in a private banking business. Like his father he was promi- nent in athletics while in College, being quarter-back of the ’Varsity footbatl team in ’93-’94, and President of the Yale University Boat Club in 795: His son, Charles Stanton Adee, was con- nected with the Class of ’97, but left to enter business: : Prof. H. C. Sheldon, after. holding the Chair of Historical Theology in Boston University for 20 years was transferred to the Chair. of Systematic .Theology, and began work in. that Department in the Fall of 1895.. He has published sev- eral works, the principal being a “Church History” in five volumes, in 1894. His oldest san is a Sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts, Boston Uni- versity. The vounger son is attending the Newton High School. William H. Ingham is President of the Yale Alumni Association of Phila- delphia, Pa., and of the Conference of Church Clubs of the United States. His eldest son. Howard Maxwell. gradu- ates in 1897 from the Yale Scientific School.- Homer Weston is still practising law at Svracuse. N. Y. His eldest daughter sraduated from the Syracuse Universi- tv, and is at present studying in Ber- lin. Germany. ; ’"71—Cortland Wood. who has been practicing law at Watertown, South Dakota, for a number of years, has moved to Boston, Mass., and onened an: office at 639 Exchange Building. *77—Henry Roberts was elected AlI- derman by the Republicans of the Sixth Ward, of Hartford, Conn., in the re- cent city elections. "77S.—Dr. and Mrs. A. Winslow Leighton were passengers on the North German Lloyds steamer that sailed last Saturday for Gibraltar. They are ex- pected to return in October. "77S.—J. Gilbert Calhoun has been ap- pointed prosecuting attorney for Hart- ford, Conn. : 83 L. S.—Carter H. Harrison has been elected Mayor of Chicago by a large Democratic majority. 87 Hon.—Prof. Frank A. Gooch and. C. F. Walker, ’97 Ph. D., have together published a pamnphliet entitled, ‘*The Avplication of Todic Acid to the Analy- sis of Iodides.’’ i °91— William T. Bartley, of the Ando- ver Seminary, has accepted a call to the Congregational Church of Salem, INGS A: 791 M. S.—Frederick O. Chamberlain, M. D., has removed his office to No. 36 bis Avenue de l’Opera (Equitable Build- ing), Paris, France. 792--Tnvitations are out for the wed- ding of, Walter P. Bliss to. Miss Kath- erine Baldwin, of Detroit, Mich. The ceremony ‘will take place at noon on Thursday, April 29, in St. John’s Church, Detroit. 799S.—_- At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Fall Brook Railway Company; held at Corning, N. Y., April 7. 1897, Tohn Magee was elected Presi- dent to fill the vacancy caused by the death of General George J. Magee. Duncan S. Ellsworth, ’92S., was ap- pointed Secretary in place of John Magee. , . 5 . Le *°98—James Norman Hill, on April 1st, assumed the duties of General Manager of the Eastern Railway of Minnesota, one of the lines of the Great Northern System, with headquarters at Duluth. 794—_Invitations are out for the wed- ding of George F. Van Slyck to Miss Edith Glenney, of New York, in the Collegiate Dutch Church, West End Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street, —_—_——. School, where he remained a year. New York city, at 5 o’clock, on April 22nd. ; . : 194-The address of G. W. Ryder is 318 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York city. ’94--Oliver C. Mosman is practicing law in Kansas City, Mo. 194 Samuel L. Orr is with the Orr, Griffith Company, 10 Sycamore Street, Evansville, Ind. 794 -—}. EF. Raymond is in the grain and provision commission business with his father in Chicago, Ill. : 1957.S.—Rev. Harley P. Womer, of Somersville, Conn., has accepted a call to the Congregational Church of Will- iamstown, Vermont. 1969.—J. T. Drummond, jr., was mar- ried to Miss Grace Greenleaf, of Minne- apolis, Minn., on April 8. P. Thompson, °96S., was best man.