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OE ee ee ee EA Sey ae a ee oe ae ee a globe-trotter.” He is still a bache- ALUMNI NOTES. Conducted by JOHN Jay. [ Graduates are invited to contribute to this column. ] — ’67—The folowing news of members of the class of ’°67 have been furnished by the class secretary: Brown H. Emerson has for the past ten years been an evangelist, supplying pulpits in the neighborhood of Philadel- phia. His son Arthur, is an employe in the Reading Railroad. His residence is on Spruce Street, Philadelphia. William Thomsen is still at the old stand where he has been for the past twenty-five years, office of Lawrence Thomsen & Co., 8 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, Md, dealer in all kinds of wines, liquors, etc. Charles K. Cannon is practicing law at 24 Newark Street, Hoboken, which has been his address for the past twen- ty-five years. He met with a sad be- reavement in the death of his wife on the 22d of March last. He has succeed- ed well in his practice, having held many positions of trust. W. A. ‘Peck has been engaged in the work of civil engineer at Denver, Col. He’ was in the office of the chief engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad for several years, then was assistant to the town engineer of Highlands, one of the suburbs of Den- ver. He is now practicing on his own account with varying success. Charles G. Coe has continued the practice’ of patent law under the firm name of Frost & Coe, until the death of his partner in 1891, when he practised under his own name. In the spring of 1888 hevisited England, France Ger- many and Switzerland. He has been very successful as a patent lawyer. Jacob A. Cartwright has practised law for the last ten years at his home, Nashville, Tenn., with the exception that in 1894 he was special judge of the Circuit and Chancery Courts of David- son County. In 1893 he was made assig- nee of the Nashville Savings Co., wasa member of the Executive Committee of the Cumberland River Improvement Association. He has held many other positions of trust in the city and_=— state and also been connected with the- religious. in- terests of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he was presiding eld- er. Benjamin F. Erhmon has been prac- tising law at Cincinnati for the past twenty-five years. He has one daughter, recently married. His wife died in 1872, and he has not married again. He has just been made a grandfather by his daughter presenting him with a little girl. : Ernest G. Stedman has been practis- ing law in New York for the past twen- ty-five years, very successfully. He is married, but has no children. W. A. Brother since the Spring of 1879 has been engaged in mining in Leadville, Col. He has had, so he writes, poor luck. “It hardly seems possible,”’ he writes, “that thirty years have elapsed since we marched forth so strong and confident, all unconscious of the trials of this terrible world!’’ Wallace Bruce, in July, 1889, was ap- pointed United States Consul to Edin- burgh, Scotland, under Harrison’s ad- ministration. He returned to. the United States in the Summer of 1893, and took up his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since his return he has deliv- ered over 500 lectures, published a vol- ume of “‘Wayside Poems.’ He has written for Harper’s, the Century and Scribner’s, and has held many posi- tions of honor and trust. He will sure- ly be present at the Class Diriner. Frank H.. Hathorn. for. the - past twenty-five years has been located at ~ Saratoga Springs. He is proprietor of the Hathorn Springs. He is married, and has one child, a girl. George H. Perkins has been profes- sor of geology at the University of Vermont for the past ten years. He has a son in the Junior Class at this college. He is doing good work. Ex- pects to be at the meeting. George J. Plant, ex-’67, died of cirrhosis of the liver on Avril 30, 1892. He was in the flour business at St. Louis, Mo.. early in his course. Orlando M. Harper. M. ‘A., 1892: has been in the business of commission merchant at 69 Worth street. New York citv, for the past ten years. He has been very successful. He is a member in good standine of many of the nrominent clubs of the citv. William CG. Budineton. ex-’67, has Tust returned from snending the Win- ter in the Tsland of Jamaica. He writes that nothine of importance has hap- nened to him. He has travelled ex- fensively, and visited most of the in- ferestine places in the world. The re- nort in his ease is that he “travels for pleasure, and not to make a record as married at the bride’s home. since he left the class, YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY lor. . "71 S.—The marriage of Russell Wheeler Davenport to Miss Cornelia Whipple Farnum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Farnum, will take place Tuesday afternoon, June Ist, at four o’clock, in St.. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. ’"75L..S.—C. La Rue Munson, who for several years past has lectured in the Yale Law School on “The Beginnings of Practice,’ is the author of “A Man- ual of Elementary Practice,’ recently published by the Bowen-Merrill Com- pany, of Indianapolis. *76—Otto T. Bannard, President of the Continental Trust Company, has been appointed School Commissioner of New York City, by Mayor Strong. *81— Wilson H. Pierce, of Waterbury, Conn., has just been appointed Prose- cuting Agent by the New Haven Coun- ty Commissioners. 782 L.S.—John A. Stoughton has been appointed Judge of the newly-estab- lished Town Court of East Hartford, Conn. 85—Rev. Manley D. Ormes, of Colo- rado Springs, Col., has recently been elected a School Commissioner of that city by a large majority. °85L.S.—Hon. John G. Tod has been elected Judge of the Civil District Court of Houston, Texas. *87S.—Isadore Dyer, M. D., Professor of Dermatology in the New Orleans Polyclinic, is the author of a pamphlet on “Leprosy,’’ published by Lea Broth- ers & Co., New York. _ 789--On Tuesday. May 18, Miss Bertha De Forest Brush. daughter of Prof. and Mrs. George J. Brush, and Rev. Edward Lambe Parsons, were quietly The cere- mony was performed by President Dwight and Dr. Huntington, of Grace Church, N. Y. Miss Brush, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and Herbert Parsons, ’90, a cousin of the groom, was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons will live at Menlo Park, Cal. °89S.— Edwin K. Dillingham is now ‘at the head of the E. K. Dillingham Furniture Company, of Houston, Texas. _’90—Clayton C. Dorsey will be mar- ried to Miss Margaret Montgomery in -June, at Denver, Col. °90S.—The following notes concerning mebers.of.’908. have been contributed by the Class Secretary, Mr. Harry G. Day. Oliver S. Lyford, Jr., is Chief Engin- eer of the Siemens & Halske PE lectric Company, 1215 Monadock Building, Chi- cago, Ill. Herbert McBride is Secretary of the Root, McBride Co., Cleveland, Ohio. His address is 13857 Euclid Avenue. Everett G. Griggs is superintendent of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, Washington. Ex-’90S.—Harry J. English is in the lumber business in Denver, Colorado. His address is 1517 Emerson Street. Neil Gray, Jr., is the President of the Oswego Machine Works, Oswego, N. Y. Harrison I. Drummond is Vice-Presi- dent of the Drummond Tobacco Com- pany, of St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Walter Dodge is practicing medi- cine in Orange, New Jersey. His ad- dress is 51 Cleveland Street. Dr. Nelson Lu. Deming has left New York City and is now practicing at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gains F. Paddock is engaged in the iron hardware business in St. Louis. His address is South West 10th. and Spruce Streets, St. Louis, Mo. Edgar B. Northrup is a banker and broker in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Ex~’908.—Ww. S. Post is Vice-Presi- dent and Secretary of the W. S. Post Carnet Co., Hartford, Conn. William A. Simms is manager of a stock farm at Dayton, Ohio. Clarence B. Dawnson is a member of ‘the firm of Bayne & Davison, importers of coffee, New York city. W. Frank Judson is with the law firm of Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse, 54 Wall Street, New York City. -°91S.— Stanley H. Pearce has returned from Peru, and will take up his resi- dence in Denver, Col. 799--W. L.. Kitchell is recovering rap- idly from a recent operation for ap- pendicitis in the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. 799—The marriage of Miss Lillian Es-_ tella Shepard to Herbert O. Bowers, took place Wednesday, May 12, at the Congregational Church, West Hartford. The ceremony was performed by Rev. T. M. Hodgdon. The ushers were Frank E. Healy, °93L.S.; William S. Griswold, Harold R. Durant, and Clinton F. Nich- ols. The best man was Mr. Ridgeway, of New York. °"983—Henry R. Dwight has been elect- ed Assistant Secretary of the Mer- chants’ Safe Deposit Company of New. York City, '94—W. S, Beard has accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of Durham, N. H. < *94-Charles N. Hurlburt has opened a law office in Room 15, Bishop Block, Bridgeport, Conn. 94 Sy. I. Nettleton has received the appointment of resident physician for the Backus Hospital of Norwich, Conn. ——~»>—_—_——_-__ Obituary. MAJOR BRADLEY D. LEE, 66 L. S. Major Bradley David Lee, ’66 L. &., one of the most prominent lawyers in Monday, May 10, from heart disease. He was born in Litchfield County, Gonn., March 24, 1838. He was a son of Henry B. and Mary Austin Lee, and received his education in the public schools and at the Williston Seminary, Massachusetts. He read law for two years, and then entered the army as first lieutenant of the Nineteenth Reg- iment, Connecticut Volunteer Infan- try. Later he was assigned by Presi- dent Lincoln to general staff service of the United States Volunteer Army, with the rank of captain. He served in the Army of the Potomac, and at the close of the Civil War was brev- eted major for meritorious conduct. Major Lee then returned home, and entered the Yale Law School, graduat- ing in 1866. Soon after he went to St. Louis, where he practiced law up to the time of his death. He was coun- sel for a number of railroads and in- surance companies. He was also a member of the St. Louis Bar Associa- tion, Loyal Legion, Ransom Post, G. A. R., St. Louis Club and was a Ma- son. DR. ELISHA MUNGER, 75 M. S, ‘Dr. Elisha Munger, ’75 M. S., died at his home in New London, Conn., May Mat the age of forty-nine. He had been ill for some time, but his death was directly due to an operation for appendicitis performed a few weeks ago. Dr. Munger practiced medicine in New London County for the past twen- ty years, commencing in East Lyme and later removing to New London, where he has lived for nine years. Dr. “Munger leaves a wife and son, William R. Munger, who ‘is at present a Junior .in the Yale Medical School. : JOHN H. PACKARD, °76. John Howard Packard, ’76, a well known lawyer of Boston, Mass., died at his home on Sunday, May 9, after a short illness. He was the son of E. F. Packard, was born at Auburn, Me., March 14, 1856. He spent three vears at Amherst College, and entered Yale, in the Class of 1876, at the begin- ning of Senior year. After graduation he spent a year at New Haven in the study of political science, and after- wards studied law at Lewiston, Me., and at the Boston Law School. He was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in 1879, and since then has practiced law continuously in Boston. - er en Yale Men in New York Educa- tion. Otto T. Bannard, Yale ’76, has just been appointed a member of the Board of Education of New York city by His Honor, Mayor Strong. Out of a Board of 21 members, controlling the 250,000 children and $12,000,000 of property of the public schools of that city, four are Yale graduates—William H. Hurl- burt, ’60; Edward H. Peaslee, ’72: Ot- T. Bannard, ’76, and Henry W. Taft, —__ oe Glee Club Manager. At a meeting of the Glee and Banjo clubs held on Monday, May 17, Ed- ward Sawyer, 798, of Dover, N. H., was elected manager, and Thomas Skinker Maffitt, ’99, of St. Louis, Mo., assist- ant manager for the ensuing year. Tighe, Lane Wheeler & Farnham Attorneys at Law, 109-112 Manhattan Building, St. Paul, Minn. AMBROSE TIGHE. . JOHN W. Lanz. HOWARD WHEELERre CHARLES W. FARNHAM C. P. 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Yale Medical School. Chartered in {S10O. For announcements of the Curriculum, Apply to HERBERT E. SMITH, Dean. J MR. THACHER’S SCHOOL at Casa de Piedra Ranch, in the Ojai Valley, Southern California, Begins its ninth year September 29th, 1897, preparing boys for college or scientific school, in an ideal climate and surround- ings. Highest references required. Address: SHERMAN DAY THACHER, (A.B., LL.B., Yale,) Nordhoff, Ventura Co., California. WitiiaM L. THacueEr, A.B., Associate Headmaster, may be addressed at New Haven, Conn., from June 28th till September Ist.
