YALH ALUMNI WEEKLY
A
ALUMNI NOTES.
Conducted by JoHN Jay.
[ Gradwates are invited to contribute to this column.)
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‘653—George W. Smalley has an article
in the May Harper’s entitled “English
Country-House Life.”
‘S7T---By a postal card vote the class
of *57 chose Rev. Samuel Scoville, Rob-
ert Brown, of the Yale Observatory,
and Professor Arthur M. Wheeler, of
Yale, a committee with power to ar-
range for the Fortieth anniversary of
the graduation of the Class which oc-
curs this summer.
*58S—Captain Electus <A. Pratt, who
has resided at Minneapolis for a num-
ber of years, has accepted a govern-
ment position in the War Department
and will hereafter reside in Washing-
ton D..C.
*60—Prof. O. C. Marsh has an article
entitled ‘“‘Affinities of Hesperos,”’ in the
current number of the American Jour-
nal of Science.
*62—Chief Justice A. Francis Judd, cof
Honolulu, is now in the United States.
He was in New Haven last week and
will doubtless be here at Commence-
ment, when his sons graduate and his
class meets.
Ex-’64---News has been received from
the Class Secretary of the death of
Stewart Rapalje, editor of several Law
Reports, which are well known to the
legal profession, at his home in North-
port, Long Island, N. Y., on October
8 1896. He left a widow, two daugh-
ters and a son, who still reside at
Northpecrt.
’68S.—The May number of Harper’s
contains an article by Prof. Henry 8.
Williams, of Yale, on “Geological
Progress of the Century.”’
7™7—On April 23, at his home in Or-
ange, N. J., occurred the death of Sam-
uel Colgate, whose six sons have all
been graduated from Yale as follows:
Richard M., °77; Gilbert, ’83; Austen,
86; Sidney M., °86; Samuel, ’91, and
Russell, °96. Mr. Colgate was the head
of the soap and perfumery house of
Colgate & Co., in John Street, New
York. His munificent gifts to Madison
University led to its name being
changed several years ago to Colgate
University, in his honor. He was a
prominent member of the = Baptist
Church, and had held many important
positions on its Missionary and Educa-
tional boards.
’*80.—Rev. Arthur Cushing Dill, M. A.,
is the Moderator of the Presbytery of
Champlain, N. Y.; Chairman of the
Presbytery Committee of Systematic
Benevolence, and alternate delegate to
the Presbyterian General Assembly.
The announcement has been made of
his engagement to Miss Helen A. North,
in her twenty-first year, the only
daughter of Philetus F. North, Esquire,
of Chazy, New York, a graduate of the
University of Vermont.
*82---Rev. Henry S. Snyder has ac-
cepted a call to the Congregational
Church of Weymouth, Mass.
’83—A.ustin Lord Bowman is located
at 26 Cortlandt Street, New York City,
as a civil and consulting engineer.
’83S.—The statement in a recent is-
sue of the Weekly that Samuel M.
Chase was to be married to Miss Ayer
was an error which arose from mis-
taking his name for that of his cous-
in, Samuel T. Chase, a graduate of
Harvard.
’831..S.—Walter Pond was married to
Miss Linna E. Downs, of Westville,
Conn., on Thursday, April 22.
°g5---John H. Briggs, who has been
engaged in journalism for a number
of years at Minneapolis, Minn., has
gone to Ashland, Oregon, where he
will go into the mining business.
89S. —Boynton W. McFarland will be
married in June to Miss Jessie Brown,
daughter of Prof. Robert Brown, ‘57,
of the Yale Observatory:
°90—Professor Albert C. Crehore, of
Dartmouth College, read a paper be-
fore the American Society of Mechan-
ical Engineers in New York, on April
21, describing a new method of very.
rapid telegraphing by the use of alter-
nating currents, which has been devel-
oped by him and by Lieut. G. O. Squier,
of the United States Army. By his
method, a speed of 3,000 words a minute
may be attained over a single wire.
*91—_J. G. HEstill’s new book on ‘‘Nu-
mercial Problems” has just ben pub-
lished by Longman, Green & Co. The
book is written with special reference
to Yale’s entrance requirements in Ge-
ometry.
*91---Seward Davis and Lewis T.
Knox have opened offices at 31 Nassau
Street, New York City, for the gen-
eral practice of the law, under the
firm name of Knox and Davis.
Professor Whitney’s great work,
the Century Dictionary, is completed.
There is a chance to get it very rea-
sonably. For more particulars see
the last page of this paper.— Adv.
*91---M. C. Arnot was married on
Apirl 19 to Miss Alice Hale Up de Graf
of Elmira, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Arnot
will reside in that city.
’°91S.—George M. Landers was re-
cently elected Councilman of New Brit-
tin, Conn., from the Sixth Ward. The
New Britain ‘‘Morning Dispatch” gives
the following account of the election:
“The Sixth Ward was the seat of the
only genuine contest of the day, and
George M. Landers came out a winner.
He not only defeated Councilman
O’Brien for re-election, but ran ahead
of all the candidates. The election of
Mr. Landers was the result of good
solid work. From the hour that the
polls were opened Mr. Landers and his
friends hustled until the clock struck
five. Imagine the surprise of even the
workers in the ward when the result
was made known. The ward is so sol-
idly Democratic that no one ever
thought for a minute that a Republi-
can could carry it. Few realized how
popular Mr. Landers was and it was
a surprise to many to hear the senti-
ments expressed in the ward during
the day. Mr. Landers won a good vic-
tory, and is to be congratulated on his
success.”’
°93.—The marriage of William Rk.
Begg to Miss Louise Spencer of Hart-
ford, Conn., took place Wednesday,
April 21, in the South Church, Hart-
ford. Doctor Joseph Roby, ’93, was
best man. Among the ushers were:
John T. Robinson, ’93, Francis Par-
sons, 93, and James Terry, ’95S.
"938 S.—Nelson B. Burr has recently
opened an office for the general prac-
tice of law at 31 Nassau Street, New
York City.
°94—William H. Sallmon made an ad-
dress at the closing exercises of the
Bridgeport Conn., Y. M. C. A. Bible
School on Apirl 6.
’944—The address of HE. M. Cravath,
Jr., will be hereafter Port of Spain,
Trinidad, B. W. I., where he has gone
to take the position of General Mana-
ger of the Bermudez Asphalt Mines.
°"95—B. J. Hendrick has recently left
the Palladium, on which he was editori-
al writer, to become Editor of the
Morning News.
795 S.—The following account of the
Home for Consumptives to be presented
to the Order of the Brothers of Nazar-
eth by Mr. and Mrs. Roe, of New
York, in memory of their son, the late
Stephen Bogert Roe, ’95S8S., is taken
from the ‘Nazareth Chronicle,’ of
Verbank, N. Y.:
“Tt will be remembered that we have
from time to time made mention of our
great desire to resume our work for
poor consumptives. This branch of our
charities, was, like the Home for Con-
valescents, swept away by the fire. It
is with much thankfulness that we an-
nounce to our friends, and all who are
interested not only in us and our work,
but in the care of consumptives, that
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Roe, of New
York City, have very generously offer-
ed to erect upon Priory Farm a pavilion
for consumptives, entirely at their own
expense. It is to be constructed in such
a way that patients can be treated in
the most scientific manner, and will
accommodate ten persons. Each one
will have his own room. The plans
which have been drawn up for the
Home for Consumptives, provide for
two pavilions, a large sun parlor, and
an administration building. All are
connected with wide covered and en-
closed passage-ways. The sun parlor
will be entirely of glass, and the pas-
sage-ways leading to it from the two
pavilions will also have glass roofs and
sides. The several passage-ways will
provide ample and very desirable space
for patients to walk about in, when the
weather is unfavorable for out-of-door
exercise. The pavilion which Mr. and
Mrs. Roe will erect is to be a memorial]
of their only son, Mr. Stephen Roe,
who at the time he was stricken down.
by consumption, was a brilliant student
at Yale University.”’
’"95S—The Class of ’95 Sheff. has 2
larger number of contributors to the
Yale Alumni University Fund than any
other class, Academic or Scientific, in
Yale, the number being 76.
’96—Edwin S. Oviatt has recently
been made Assistant Editor, and City
reer of the Morning News of this
city.
’96S.—A. R. Williams is now with the
Potoniska Mills, New Bedford, Massa-
chussetts.
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93 Reunion in New York.
A reunion of the Class of 1893 was
held at the Circle, Highth Avenue and
Fifty-eighth Street, New York, on Sat-—
urday, Avril 24, at 7 p. m. About 30
members of the class were present at
supper and several others came in late
in the evening. Those present were
Woodruff, Sutphen, Dorsey, Day, Rob-
inson, Bull, Welles, H. Dwight. J. W.
Allen, Joy, Woolner, Fay, Terriberry,
L. E. Brown, Newton, Roby, Cooke,
Hickok, Shaw, Faxon, Eddy Pope,
Harmstad, Thomson, Lambert, Wallis,
and Swayne. The meeting was entirely
informal. There were no speeches.
Obituary.
GEORGE MIXTER, ’36.
George Mixter, ’°36, died at his homé
in Rock Island, ITll., on Tuesday, April
“0. He was born at Hardwick, Mass.,
April 28, 18%. He went to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1836, the year of his graduation
from Yale, and later in the year re-
turned east, to Pennsylvania. In 1837,
he again visited St. Louis, and then
went up the Mississippi to Rock Island,
which city has since been his home. On
January 1, 1846, he married Miss Susan
F. Gilbert, of Moline, Wis., who died
five years ago, leaving three children,
William G. Mixter, ’67S., now professor
in the Sheffield Scientific School;
Charles K. Mixter, ’778S., of Reck Isl-
and, and I'rank Mixter, who did not at-
tend college.
Mr. Mixter was one of the best-known
pioneers and citizens of Western Illi-
nois, and was also one of the original
Land Commissioners of the State. In
1888 he was admitted to the bar of Illi-
nois, but never practiced law as a pro-
fession. He had, at different times, been
engaged in farming, in the lumber bus-
iness and in manufactures.
CHARLES BILL, ’64 S.
Charles Bill, ’64S., died Thursday
morning, April 15, at Lithia, Georgia,
from. blood poisoning, due to an ulcer
in the throat. He was born at Led-
yard, Conn., June 7, 1840. The first
sixteen years of his life were spent on
his father’s farm. Then he spent a
year at the State Normal School at
New Britain, and later two years at
the Norwich Free Academy. He en-
tered the Sheffield Scientific Schioool in
61, and graduated three years later,
distinguishing himself in his studies.
After leaving college he went to Chi-
cago as a book agent for a Springfield,
Mass., firm. In 1869 he returned to
Springfield and. organized the baok
firm of Bill, Nichol & Co. Two years
later he was badly hurt in a gas ex-
plosion, causing him to retire from
business in 1873. Although Mr. Bill
took no active part in public affairs,
he was well known and universally re-
spected.
_ DAVID BROWN OLIVER, JR., EX-’97 S.
David Brown Oliver, Jr., ex.-978.,
died in Asheville, N. C., on Wednesday,
April 14, of Bright’s disease. He was
the son of David B. and Rebecca Oli-
- ver and was born in Allegheny, Penn.,
where he lived all his life. He gradu-
ated from the Allegheny High School
and after tutoring one year, entered
Yale with the class of Ninety-seven,
Sheffield. In his Freshman year, he
played short stop on his class nine. He
had two brothers in Yale in the class
of ’85S., one of whom, John, played
on the University base ball team. Mr.
Oliver left College in January of his
Junior year and remained at honie
until several weeks ago, when he was
taken sick and removed to Asheville.
Here he seemed to be recovering but a
week before his death he experienced
a, sudden relapse, and died most unex-
pectedly. He was about twnty-one years
old.
The Scientific Senior Class has
drawn up the following resolutions on
the death of Mr. Oliver:
“Whereas, Almighty God in His in-
finite wisdom has seen fit to remove
from our midst our beloved friend and
classmate, David Brown Oliver, Jr.,
and
‘Whereas, the members of this class
feel that they have sustained a deep
and personal loss and desire to extend
to his family their sincere sympathy;
therefore be it
‘Resolved, that we wear a badge of
mourning for thirty days as a token
of respect for his memory; and be it
further
“Resolved, that a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to his bereaved family
and a copy be inserted in the College
paper.
(Signed, for the class,)
John Perry Francis,
Thomas Howard Gillespie,
Harry Darlington McCandless,
Thomas Gould Otis, Jr.”
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Medical Appointments.
Frank H. Todd, of the Senior Class of
the Medical School, won the second ap-
pointment in the Paterson Hospital, of
Paterson, N. J.,one of the finest medical
institutions in the East. There were
thirty candidates and only three ap-
pointments were to be made. Mr. Todd
also won the first appointment in the
Passaic Hospital. In the examinations
for the St. Joseph Hospital, of Pater-
son, Francis H. Reilly, of the Medical
School, won an appointment.
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9948 Triennial.
Preliminary notices of the Triennial
Reunion of ’94S have been for-
warded to the class and the returns in-
dicate that a large number will be in
New Haven next June to celebrate.
The Committee has tried to reach ev-
ery man and if any have failed to re-
ceive a notification they will confer a
great favor by immediately advising
H. P. Hotchkiss, 1226 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Conn. The Committee
consists of H. P. Hotchkiss, J. Sar-
gent, and H, Brewer.
Yale Medical Schoo,
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For announcements of
the Curriculum,
Apply to
HERBERT E. SMITH,
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Tighe, Lane Wheeler & Farnham
Attorneys at Law,
109-112 Manhattan Building,
St. Paul, Minn.
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Direct cable code with English Lloyds, also
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