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ALUMNI NOTES. Conducted by JoHN JaY. { Graduates are invited to contribute to this column.) *60—The death of Dr. J. H. Ward, noticed elsewhere, leaves sixty-seven survivors of this class out of 109 who graduated. Five have died since the reunion in 1895. *68—John H. Bishop has been en- gaged in engineering operations in Ok- lahoma Territory during the past year. *64—Clinton L. Conkling of Spring- field, Ill., is one of the Republican can- didates for Circuit Judge of the Seven- th District of Illinois. Mr. Conkling was sraduated from Yale in 1864, at twenty years of age, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He has been Secretary of the MUincoln Monument Association, organized the Springfield City Library, and has been identified with the Springfield Board of Education for some time. He is popular with his party, whose convention nomi- nated him by acclamation. *67—The Secretary has furnished the folowing personals of the Class: F. H. Wilson was from 1888 to. 1892 President of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, N. Y., during which time the club Was organized, and the house built at a cost of $228,000. He was chairman of the Kings County Presidential Cam- paign committee during the campaign of 1892. He was nominated and elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and re- nominated and elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He carried his first election by 612 votes and his second by 7,600. He . is a member of the House Naval Com- mitee. Mr. Wilson has three daugh- ters at school, in Washington. He has lost by death one son and one daugh- ter. Frank Moore, ex-67, for the past ten years has been located at St. Clair, Mich., connected with the St. Clair Re- publican, a weekly paper, of which he is the editor. He has two children and Suse continued health and prosperi- ss Richard W. Woodward, since 1884, at which time he returned from Colorado, has been practicing his profession as mining engineer, residing at Hartford, Conn. Franklin M. Sprague, ex ’67, during the past 10 years has written three books, two of which have already been published. One is on “Socialism from Genesis to Revelation’? of which there will soon be a new edition. Another is on “The Laws of Social Evolution,” which is a critique on Kidd‘s ‘Social Evolution.” The remaining one, now ready for the press, is entitled ‘“Hon- est Money.’”’ These books were written during a four-year respite from pastor- al work. He is now pastor of the First Congregational Church at Tampa, Fla. He expects to be at the class reunion. In the Summer of ’96 his daughter Em- ma was married to Rev. George M. Ward of Lowell, Mass., who graduated from Dartmouth and the Harvard Law School and Andover Seminary, and is now President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. James H. Tallman, for the past ten years has continued with the firm of George W. Moore & Co., of Hartford, negotiators of mortgage loans, being now the senior member of the firm. He has held the office of Chairman of the Committee of the West Middle School District of the city of Hartford. This is one of the largest grammar schools in the city and has recently, under his Supervision, erected the finest kinder- garten building in the State. He has three daughters. The first was educated in Massachusetts, the other two in Hartford. He expects to be at the re- union, C. C. Spellman, ex’67, for the past ten _ years, has been engaged in the prac- tice of law in Springfield, Mass, He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1887, and of the State Senate in 1888. His son, Charles EF. Spell- man, was graduated at Yale in the Class of ’96. Casper S. Bigler, ex’67, is still prac- tising law at Harrisburg, Pa, He is still a bachelor. He will surely be at the re- union. Albert Warren, for the past ten years, has resided at Lake Benton, where he has engaged in stock raising. He states that in 1890 he became inter- ested in politics and was one of the organizes of the Alliance Party which was purely a local organization. He was made secretary of the Campaign Committee and on the organization of the People’s Party, the Alliance Party went to pieces, the majority of them joining the People’s Party at that time he returned to the Republican Party. His son, Walter Chester (the class boy) married on November 26, 1891, Miss Emma Keffer, and has two children: Chester A., born November 8, 1892, and Llewllyn E., born October 3, 1893. The class of ’67 is thus a grand- father. Mr. Warren’s daughter Emily was married to Henry A. Gould of Leicester, Mass., September 19, 1896, Minn., - YALE ALUMNI Benjamin Smith was appointed Pro- fessor of Rhetoric in Swarthmore Col- lege in 1886 ,which position he held til] 1892, chiefly as teacher of English, men- tal philosophy and logic, with the title of Principal of Preparatory Depart- ment. For the last four years he has been Vice-President of the College. In 1892 he spent a year and a half in Chi- cago as Secretary of the Friends Re- ligious Congress. Since 1894 he has been principal of the Plymouth Meeting Friends’ School, near Phialedlphia, His eldest daughter has married and he now is a grandfather. Lewis C, Nelson, ex ’67, for the past ten years, has been actively engaged in banking at St. Louis, Mo. He has occu- pied many positions of trust during that period. He writes that lately he has retired from active work. He will be at the reunion. John W. Showalter, for the past ten years has been actively engaged in the practice of law at Chicago, Ill. He was appointed by President Cleveland, dur- ing his second administration, United States Circuit Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Other Yale men holding the position of United States Circuit Judge, are Le Baron B. Colt, ’68, and William H. Taft, ’78. He is still a bachelor. P. B. Porter, M. D., for the past ten years has been practising his profession in New York City, spending his Sum- mers usually at Southampton, L. I. Cc. R. Marks, ex ’67, has been prac- tising law at Sioux . City, Ia., for the last decade. His son, Rupell A. Marks, was graduated from Yale in the class of 1895. His son, C. R. Marks, Jr., graduated from the High Schools at Sioux City, and will go into business. James M. Spencer has resided, since 1874, at Munich, Bavaria. His address is Bonycrische Vereins Bank. In 1878 he was married to Mary Fisk of Boston, He has traveled extensively in nearly all parts of Austria, Italy and Switzer- land, also in Denmark. He states that the most unusual thing of this sort is a visit to friends on the Island of Pan- tellatha, on his way to North Africa. He is on this side of the pond at pres- ent, and will be at the reunion. Isaac J. Wiid, for many years con- nected with the New Haven Gas Light Company, has, since 1887, been Treas- urer of the Company. He has two sons, both grown up. He lost his wife many years ago. H. L. Swain, ex-’67, has, for the past ten years, been engaged in the practice of medicine at Middleboro, Mass. His health is not good. Luther H. Kitchel has given up all active practice as a doctor for the past ten years. He resides at Alden, N. Y., with his father-in-law. He has one daughter. Benjamin A. Fowler, ex-’67, and a graduate of ’°68, is at present engaged with Mr. L. L. Lewis, ’66, and Mr. O. H. Powers, in “Educational Specialties,” at 358 Dearborn Street, Chicago, III. J. W. Hopson, ex-’67, has been, for the past ten years, a resident of San Francisco, Cal. He is not now in ac- tive business. He writes that he has a place in the country, where he is in- terested in fruit-raising. He is a mem- ber of the’ California Academy of Sciences, especially interested in Bo- tany. Prof. William H. Goodyear, during the past ten years: has’ written ten books, which have been published, as follows: “‘History of Art,’ in two vol- umes; “Grammar of the Lotus,” “‘Ro- man and Medieval Art,’’ “Renaissance and Modern Art,” ‘Ancient and Modern History.’’ In 1895 the Brooklyn Insti- tute of Arts and Sciences raised $1,500 to defray the expenses of an expert in surveying and photography to spend five months in the survey of the Italian cathedrals, under his direction. The results are now being published in the Architectural Record Quarterly Mag- azine. In 1891 he discovered curves in the Roman Temple, known as the Mai- son Oarrie, at .Nismes, in Southern France. The facts were published and accepted by the Smithsonian Institute. This is the first discovery of curves in a Roman Temple. Again, in 1891, he made a trip to Egypt and discovered curves. in certain Egyptian temples, the facts of which were published, sub- mitted to the Smithsonian Institute and generally accepted. In 1896 he was in- vited by the Liverpool Local Commit- tee to read a-.paper on the ‘‘Conversa- zion of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Liverpool. During the past year he has received an appointment from the University of Chicago, as professional lecturer on the University Extension staff. He has lectured extensively on scientific subjects, giving courses for the American University Extension So- ciety of Philadelphia and for the Uni- versity Extension Department of the New York Board of Regents. He will be at the Class meeting. Prof. H. T. Eddy was Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cincinnati Uni- versity from 1874 to 1887. In the Au- WHEKBRLY tumn of 1890 he was invited to take the Presidency of Rose Polytechnic Insti- tute at Terre Haute, Ind., and at the same time was offered the Presidency of the Cincinnati University, but ac- cepted the former position, which posi- tion he held till 1894. In that year he became Professor of Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minne- sota, Minneapolis, the President of which instituicn is Professor Northrup, Yale, °57. In 1892 Center College con- ferred upon him the degree of LL.D. In 1897 he was made President of the Sor ciety for the Promotion of Engineering Education, which will hold its annual meeting this Summer at Toronto. His eldest daughter, Ruth Elizabeth Eddy, graduated from Vassar in June, 1893, and is now pursuing a graduate course in Bacteriology at the Minneapolis Uni- versity. His son graduated as Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Uni- versity in 1895. His second daughter, Ethel Mabel Eddy, is now a Junior in the Classical Course at the University. His teaching has to do with theoretical mechanics, the mechanics of machinery and structures, with the theory of tur- bine wheels, of steam engines, gas and oil engines, refrigerating apparatus, electrical generators, motors and trans- formers, together with the various branches of mathematical physics. J. J. Brooks is counsel for the Penn- sylvania Railroad on all lines west of Pittsburg, at which city he resides. He is an extremely busy man, and very successful. H. S. Clark is still teaching in the Hartford Deaf and Dumb Asylum, where he has been for over twenty- flVve years. He spent the Summer of 1888 in Great Britain on a camera tour. He had typhoid fever in ct- ober of that year, and was laid up for over a year. His eldest daugh- ter graduated from the Hartford Pub- lic High School, and is teaching in the same school with him. ‘Henry D. Cleveland, ex-’67, since 1886 has been in the employ of the United States Revenue Department, with headquarters at St. Louis, Mo. He is now Chief Deputy Collector in the Department. A. E. Dunning in 1889 resigned the position of secretary of the Congrega- tional Sunday School and Publishing Society, and became the editor of the Congregationalist. He represented the Congregational Churches of the United States in the International Sunday School Lesson Committee since 1884, and was re-elected last year for a term of six years. He was a delegate to the World’s Congregational Council in London in 1891. In 1895 he conducted a party on an extensive tour through Egypt, Palestine and the shores of Asia Minor, visiting Athens, Constan- tinople and other BHastern cities of Europe. Last year he visited England and Holland. He believes in sending his sons to different colleges. He was the first member of ’67 to have a son graduate from Yale, who is now in- structor in the Semitic languages in the Graduate Department of the Uni- versity. His second son graduated from Amherst last year, and his third son is just finishing his first year at Harvard. He has one daughter, who expects to enter Wellesley next year. Horatio Seymour, Jr., is resident manager of the Michigan Land ana Iron Company (Limited), a corpora- tion dealing in timber and mineral lands. His girl, fifteen years old, is at school in Utica, and his son is at Watertown in the school of H. D. Taft. Bishop Boyd Vincent left Pittsbure for Cincinnati in 1889. He has had a very active and busy life. Published a volume of lectures on the subject of “Prayer in the Light of Reason and Modern Science.”? He may be unable to attend the reunion, as he is a dele- gate to the Pan-Anglican Conference in London to be held in June. Francis H. Wilson is a Representa- tive in Congress. : *71S.—Russell W. Davenport, of South Bethlehem, Pa., was married to Miss Cornelia Whipple Farnum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Farnum, at noon Tuesday, June 1, in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. ‘74.—James M. Townsend, Jr., deliv- ered a lecture on ‘‘Monetary Securi- ties’? before the Law Department of the Brooklyn Institute, Tuesday, May 25. A reception was later given to the speaker in the newly opened Civic Club, where President Frederick W. Hinrichs acted the part of host. (Continued on tenth page.) C. Pp. WURTS, - - Yale ’80, Insurance and Investments. 184 LaSalle Street, - Chicago, Ill, Direct cable code with English Lloyd Patriotic Assurance Co. of Dublin (ca aty £1,500,000), and other foreign companies. Bpe cial facilities for placing surplus and difficult lines. Correspondence solicit ith i and agents. ed with insurew Choice 6 per cent, mortgages on improved Chicago property for sale, . Tere ae E.W.E MERY | 246 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Tarlor... Correct Styles for Dress, Business Golf, Riding .» Bicycle Suits [eae THEODORE B. 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