ALUMNI NOTES.
Conducted by JoHN JaY.
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*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,
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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-
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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.
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