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Obituary.
JOSEPH H. TOWNE, ’27.
The Rey. Dr. Joseph H. Towne, ’27,
died: July 31st at Andover, Mass.
JAMES GILMORE, '34.
Mr. James Gilmore, of the class of
’34, died at Innesbruck, Tyrol, Austria,
last July. Mr. Gilmore was a native of
Cincinnati and had been a banker for
nearly half a century. During the lat-
ter years of his life he travelled abroad
a great deal. He was a man of re-
markable intelligence and refinement,
and was a linguist of rare ability.
Three sons survive him.
J. MAMMOND TRUMBULL, “hh
Dr. James Hammond Trumbull, ’42,
who held the degree of LL.D. from
both Yale and Harvard, died at his
home at Hartford early in August, in
his seventy-sixth year. He was one of
the best-known scholars in the country
and a member of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences, American Philologi-
cal Society and many other societies
for the advancement of knowledge.
Since 1863 he had been librarian of the
Watkinson Library of Reference, hav-
ing selected its books. He was presi-
dent for twenty-six years of the Con-
necticut Historical Society, was secre-
tary of Connecticut from 1861 to 1865,
was executor of George Brinley and
catalogued the famous Brinley Library
and edited the history of Hartford
County, published in 1886. Mrs. Trum-
bull, a sister of Henry C. Robinson,
survives him, and their daughter, Annie
E. Trumbull, known in literature as
“Annie Elliott.” Two brothers, Rev.
Dr. Henry Clay Trumbull of Philadel-
phia of the Sunday School Times, and
Gordon Trumbull, the artist of Hart-
ford, and a sister, Mrs. Annie Trum-
bull Slosson of New York, are living.
WILLIAM J. WEEKS, ’44.
An obituary sketch of William J. —
Weeks, who died Sept. 2, at his home
in Yaphank, L. I., will be found in the
next issue of the paper.
DR. ROBERT HUBBARD, ’5I M.S.
Dr: -Robert:: Hubbard, 51-7 MS.7 ror
Bridgeport, Conn., while entering his
office on the afternoon of July 4,
slipped on the stairs and received such
injuries to his head that death resulted
a few hours later. Dr. Hubbard was a
native of Cromwell, Conn. During
the late war he was surgeon of the Sev-
enteenth Connecticut Volunteers and
was actively engaged at the battles of
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He
represented Bridgeport in the General
Assembly of 1874 and 1876. He has
lived in Bridgeport since the time of
‘his graduation.
PROF, FREDERICK DEFOREST ALLEN,
"790 HON.
Classical Philology as well as Har-
vard University has met with a heavy
loss in the death of Professor Frederic
DeForest Allen, who was stricken by
paralysis on August 4, as he was riding
on his bicycle from Cambridge toward
the White Mountains. Yale claims
Professor Allen as an adopted son,
since she gave him the honorary degree
of A.M. in 1879.
He was born May 25, 1844,in Oberlin,
Ohio, where his father served as profes-
sor in the College for thirty years.
Receiving the degree of A.B. from
Oberlin in 1863, in the Spring of 1866,
before he was twenty-two years old,
he was made professor of Ancient Lan-
guages in the University of East Ten-
nessee, where he remained until 1873,
with an absence of two years for study
in Leipzig, where he received the de-
gree of Ph.D. in 1870. During the
academic year 1873-74 he was tutor of
Greek at Harvard.
the newly established University of
Cincinnati as professor of Latin and
Greek, but in 1879 was called to Yale
as professor of Greek, and taught the
class of 1882 in its Sophomore year.
Just at that time Harvard determined
to strengthen her Graduate Department
in the field of Ancient Languages, and
Professor Allen was called thither in
1880, with Professor Lanman for Sans-
krit, and Professor Toy for Semitic
languages.
He was particularly fitted for the
guidance of advanced students and has
a
In 1874 he went to -
WALZ (AL UO Ives
done more than any one else, perhaps,
for the graduates in the Classical De-
partment at Harvard. His revision of
Hadley’s Greek Grammar has _famil-
iarized his name even to school boys.
His edition of Euripides’ Medea has
been much used for a score of years.
His Remnants of Early Latin has been
used not only in this country but in the
lecture room of German _ universi-
ties. He prepared also an edition of
the Prometheus of Aeschylus for the
College series of Greek Authors. His
other. published contributions to. the
science of philology are important. He
was a skilled musician and composed
the music for the Harvard presentation
of the Pharmio of Terence, a few years
ago, as well as for two operettas which
have been sung privately in several
cities of our country. No other
American was so high an authority as
he on ancient music and metres. He
was a student of language rather than
of literature, but his colleagues valued
highly his opinion on any matter of
scholarship. For a score of years he
has been recognized as the leading
American scholar of his generation.
Tuomas D. SEYMOUR.
DR. MORISON T. HUTCHINSON, ’86 Ss.
Dr. Morison Thomas Hutchinson,
86 S., died suddenly, September 11,
at Crawford, N. H. The funeral was
from his residence in Englewood, N. J.
Dr. Hutchinson was graduated from
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, New York, and practiced a
short time in
engaged with his father in manufac-
turing.
CLAYTON H. BRIGHAM, ’88.
Clayton H. Brigham, ’88, died very
suddenly, at his home in Savannah, of
heart disease, on Wednesday, July 28th.
Mr. Brigham had not been well for
some time, but was not thought to be
in a critical condition, and the news of
his death was therefore all the greater
shock when it came.
Mr. Brigham was born at Savannah, -
July 5th, 1866. He was prepared for
Yale at St. Paul’s School at Concord,
and was graduated here in the Class of
Fighty-eight. In College he was a
generally well-liked man, while he had
a large number of intimate friends, who
became particularly attached to him on
account of his sunny and cordial nature
and his strong qualities as a friend.
He was, among other things, a mem-
ber of Sophomore, Junior and Senior
Societies.
After graduating he took a course
in assaying in Columbia, and later went
to California. .From there he returned
to his home in Savannah. About a
year ago he came North and took a
seat in the Consolidated Stock Ex-
change.of New York. This position
he was obliged to give up before long
owing to his ill health, which finally
compelled him to return to his home.
Mr. Brigham was 31 years and 6
months old at the time of his death.
His brother, William S. Brigham, was
graduated one year before him in
college.
THEODORE MOORE BARNES, JR., 97.
On Wednesday, July 14, Theodore
Moore Barnes, Jr., died at his summer
home at Ridgefield, Conn., after a
short illness of eleven days. Mr.
Barnes was taken sick the day after
his graduation, but it was not until two
days later that the disease was diag-
nosed as typhoid fever. In spite of
every effort, he grew worse rapidly.
He was unconscious for a week before
the end. The interment was in Trinity
Cemetery, 155th street and Hudson
river.
Born in New York on December 13,
1874, he was prepared for Yale at the
Berkeley School in that city, entering
college at the age of eighteen. While
at Yale he wrote for both the News
and Record, being one of the first of
his class to be elected an editor of the
latter publication. He was a member
of the Kappa Psi and Alpha Delta Phi
societies, and of the ’97 Sophomore
German Committee and was popular
in his own Class and the University at
large.
It had been his intention to enter
upon the study of law in New York
this Fall, and everything seemed to
point to an excellent future for him.
His untimely death in the twenty-sec-
ond year of his age deprives the Class
of one of its brightest and most lovable
men.
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