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ALUMNI NOTES. Graduates are invited to ec ntribute to this column.) '41—Judge Learned has taken a trip to Alaska this summer. '41—Rey. William H. Gilbert has removed from New Haven to 226 Sar- gent st., Hartford, Conn. '41—Donald G. Mitchell has just completed the fourth volume of his English Lands, Letters and Kings, covering the period of the later Georges to Queen Victoria. °4I—Prof. Joseph Emerson was hon- ored with the degree of LL.D. by Beloit College at its semi-centennial in June last. Prof. Emerson and the late Prot. J. J. Bushnell of the same class were chosen to professorships at Beloit in 1848. Dr. Pearsons is erecting a noble building for Beloit which he has named Emerson Hall. Prof. Emerson has just edited, by request, a volume of kis lectures and sermons. '52—Theron W. Towner, formerly of ] . 52, was seen in New Haven a few days before Commencement. *52—Class Secretary A. N. Lewis is at work upon the ’97 Class-Book, which is to contain, besides statistics, sketches, etc., half-tone pictures of all the 47 survivors whose photographs can be obtained. Information is desired of the following former members of ’s2: - Henry S. Bennett, (grad. ’53), William B. Clarke, George R. Downing, Thomas Dunlap, Matthew W. Edmonds, Benj. C. Flake, Hon. Alexander J. Fraser, James R. Frisbie, Sherwood D. Gould, Alvin P. Hildreth, Charles W. Kendall, Fleming J. McCartney, Jesse McCurdy (Dartmouth, ’53), D. Hastings Mason, Alonzo Megarge, Washington H. Mer- ritt (Harvard, ’56), Wm. N. Richard- son, Cyrus A. Royston, Daniel. T. Russel; Wm. H:- Sharp; -“John > G Thomas (753), Theron W. Towner (Trinity, °52), Geo. C. Tucker, Gurdon H. Wilcox, Geo. S. Williams, Giles B. Williams. Address A. N. Lewis, Mont- pelier, Vermont. °66—Mr. and Mrs. William W. Far- nam recently returned from Europe, where they have been for the last four months. ’69—The Buffalo University Club has taken a lease for 12 years of the elegant Delaware ave. home of Wilson S. Bis- sell, late Postmaster-General of the United States. The Club moved from its cramped Main st. quarters into its spacious new house early in Septem- ber. Sheldon T. Viele, Yale ’68, has been the president of this club ever since its organization. 69 S.—Dr. J. J. Skinner has passed the summer in the Maine woods, where he has bought a tract of land and will establish a headquarters for hunting and fishing. *72—Rev. Dr. E. S. Lines has been chosen President of the Board of Direc- tors of the Free Public Library of New Haven. ’72—To the vacant chair of economics in the Atlanta University (colored)— left vacant by the death of the lamented John H. Hincks, Yale ’72—has been appointed W. E. B. DuBois, a Ph.D. of Harvard, and a distinguished negro scholar. Such a choice must more than satisfy Prof. Hincks if he is where he can still know of these things which most closely interested him during the earthly career.—Waterbury American. ’'73-Dr. Charles H. Thomas of Cov- ington, Ky., passed several months of the summer in Europe. °73—Frederick J. Shepard became, July 1, reference librarian of the Buf- falo Library, which has just been changed from a subscription to a free library. nearly 17 years connected with the Buf- falo Courier, which early in May was consolidated with another journal. °73--The Rev. David S. Schaff has accepted the position of instructor in Biblical history in Lane Seminary, Cincinnati. ’°732—_Eleanor Spurrier, oldest child of Prof. Eben Alexander, late U. S. Min- ister to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, was married Sept. 8 to Andrew Henry Patterson at Chapel Hill, N. C. ’'74—John G. Brady is the governor of Alaska, appointed under President Mc Kinley. ’77—E. C. Cook spent the summer in Europe. °77—T. Dwight Merwin has left St. Paul, and formed a partnership for the practice of law in New York City. *80—Rev. William B. Boomer, who has been missionary in Chile for the Mr. Shepard had been for- YY ALE <A ka ie WEEKLY last ten years, was in this country for the summer. ’°84—Dr. Frank Strong will be in- structor in history at the Hillhouse High School of this city for the coming school year. ’*84—James B. Reynolds is chairman of the executive committee of the Citi- zens’ Union of New York City, and has taken a most active part in the preliminary canvass, the nomination and the campaign, undertaken by that body, for the purpose of making Seth Low mayor of Greater New York. ’88—Bernard C. Steiner of Baltimore, Md., returned home from Europe Sep- tember 2d. "89—A. H. Mosle has returned from Europe. "89—R. W. Huntington Jr. is in Can- ada on a hunting trip. *89—Prof. F. W. Ellis, of the faculty of Washburn College, has been east during the summer. : *89—Robert L. Luce and Walter H. Bunn have formed a partnership for the practice of law in New York City with an office at 58 William st. They an- nounce that Customs and Revenue law will be given special attention. ’°90—-The engagement is announced of Chas. H. Hamill, ’90, to Miss Adela Barrett, of Chicago. ’°90—Mr. and Mrs. John Crosby have returned from their European bridal tour and will reside at Minneapolis. ’°90—_The engagement of C. C. Bovey to Miss Kate Koon, daughter of Judge M. B. .Koon, of .Mimneapolis, is an- nounced. ’°90—Mr. Henry Thatcher Fowler was married on the 14th of July last to Miss Harriet Mansur at Clifton Springs, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler will live at Galesburg, III. ’°90—George H. Gilman has entered a partnership for the practice of law with offices at Nos. 30-35 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building, 49 Pearl st., Hartford, Conn., under firm name of Hungerford, Hyde, Joslyn & Gilman. ’°91—-Walter K. Birdsey was married on August 24th to Miss Fannie E. Watson at Perry, N. Y. ’91. S.—W. W.. Heffelfinger was crowned King of the Carnival, as Pudge I, at Minneapolis, Monday evening, Sept. 6. ’°92—_Dr. Geo. S. C. Badger has an- nounced his engagement to Miss Grace Marie Spear of Cincinnati. ’92—F rank J. Price has been in Japan since May and will return home some time this month. He made a very extensive tour through the country. ’94—Mr. Carl Frederick Stahl and Miss Ruth E. Beardsley were married on the 11th of September at the home of the bride, 376 George st., New Haven. ’93—-Miss'. Edith . Webster . Todd, daughter of Major and Mrs. Theron A. Todd of New Haven, and Hubert M. Sedgwick were married on Aug. 4, at the residence of the bride’s father. The bride is a graduate of Smith College and until recently was principal of the School of Observation at Worcester, Mass. The best man was Frederick Coonley, 796, of Port Richmond, N. Y. ’94 S.—The engagement is announced of R. E. Brooks to Miss ‘Cornelia Ewing of Philadelphia. ’°94—_W.. R. Callender will spend the Fall months at the New York office of the Callender, McAuslan & Troup Co., 2 Walker st. ’904 S.—Mr. Charles W. Hoytand Miss Effie Clayton Smith were married re- cently at the bride’s residence in Fair Haven. Mr. Tracy S. Lewis and Henry Holcomb, classmates of the bridgroom, were the ushers. | ’94 L.—William Frederick Foster of the Yale Law School has handed in his resignation to Dean Wayland and will zo to New York City to practice law. A year ago Dr. Foster was made Lec- turer of Contracts. ’95—Emerson Gifford Taylor has a story in the September Harpers, enti- tled “Without Incumbrance.” ’°95 S.—The engagement of H. C. Holcomb to Miss Margaret Manson of New Haven is announced. ex-’95 S.—Geo. P. Savidge was elected mayor of Spring Lake, Michigan, on the Republican ticket, last Fall. | ’95 S.—W. W. Pike is president of the Chicago Concentrating Co., manufac- turers of flavoring extracts and essential oils. ’os —H. T. Halbert and C. W. Hal- bert are this fall in New York, engaged in publishing the programmes for the Yale-Harvard and the Yale-Princeton games. ’95—W. F. Carter was in New Haven early this month, having been obliged to seek repairs for his wheel, on which he has ‘“‘ridden off’ several thousand miles during the Summer. His trips have been principally in New England. ’95—Charles A. Wheeler has received the appointment of instructor in mathe- matics in Storrs Agriculture College. He has been tutoring for the past year in Richmond, Virginia. His first year out of college was spent teaching Latin at the Brooklyn Latin School in New York. ’96—Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., will study next year at the Cambridge Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. ’°96 T.S.—Rev. Arthur G. Beach, who spent last year at the German Univer- sities, is settled with a large and flour- ishing church at Ashland, Wisc. °96—_Mr. Chauncey W. Wells was married on Wednesday, Sept. 8th, to Miss Mary Prescott at the home of the bride in Elizabethtown, N. Mr. Wells was recently appointed instructor in English in the Academic Depart- ment. ’°96 T.S.—Charles N. Thorp, for the past year assistant pastor at Rutland, Vt., has been called to the First Con- gregational Church of Albany, N. Y., and aise’ to “the: First: Church: of Oswego, N. Y. He has accepted the latter call and thereby becomes the successor of Rev. Benj. W. Bacon, now a professor in the Yale Divinity School. The church has a membership of 380 and is in excellent condition. ’a7—-C. M. Fincke will teach at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. the coming year. “ ’97—R. deP. Tytus will study art in New York. ’97—A. B. Kerr will enter the New York Law School this fall. ’97—S. K. Gerard will enter the Har- vard Law School in October. ’°97—H. E. Nolan is in the Insurance business with his father in Chicago. ’°97—J. B. Tytus, Jr. is with the Tytus-Gardner Paper Mills, Middle- town, O. ’°97—-H. V. Ryder is connected with the Atlantic Trust Co., William st., New York. ’97—R. W. Carle will enter the Im- perial Granum business in. New Haven in October. °97—T. L. Clark has a position with the banking firm of Brown Brothers of New York. | ’°97—McKinley Boyle isinthe Freight Department of the Illinois Central R. R- CO. tite, All: ’97—Dean Sage, Jr. has been abroad this summer. In October he enters the Harvard Law School. | ’°97—T. M. Brown will be with Brown Brothers & Co.,. bankers, New York City, after October I. ’97—-H. M. Keator will spend the coming year at Williston Academy, where he will instruct in physics. *O7—-Dean Sage, 315°C. Bio Pincke, 3. I. Lineaweaver and W. L. Goodwin have spent the summer traveling abroad together. ’97—George P. Day will enter busi- ness Sept. 15th, with his father, Clar- ence S. Day, banker, at 40 Wall street, New York City. ‘67-1, Mi bass atid A.J. Draper have been travelling abroad this sum- mer and will enter the Harvard Law School October I. ’97—H. S. Coffin has been travelling abroad this summer preparatory to en- tering upon the study of theology in Edinburgh this fall. ’97—-LeRoy McKim is recovering from a long illness. He will sail on Oct. 30th for the South of France, where he will spend the winter. ’97—-N. A. Williams, owing to poor. health, will not enter the Harvard Law School as he intended, this fall, but will spend the winter in travel abroad. ’97—E. E. Garrison will study law at the New York Law School, and occupy the position of private secretary to J. S$ Auerbach, attorney-at-law, New York City. ’97 S.—Just after the close of college it was announced that Bennett William Farnham, ’97 S., and Miss Dana Foote were married quietly at Bridgeport on November 27th, 1895. ’98: T.S.—Burt L: York and Miss Clara Belle Olney of Putnam, Conn. were married July 27th. Po oy od E.W. EMERY 246 FIFTH AVENUE NEw YORK Parlor... 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