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ALUMNI NOTES. (Graduates are invited to contribute to this column.) ‘61—During the Summer, Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin delivered addresses before the meeting of the Georgia Bar Association and that of the American Social Science Association. ‘79 L. S—Governor Cooke has ap- pointed Judge Gideon H. Welch of Torrington, Conn., as judge of the Common Pleas Court of Litchfield County, to fill the vancancy caused by the appointment of Judge Roraback to the Superior Court bench. *71Hon. Joseph A. Burr, the pres- ent Corporation Counsel of the City of Brooklyn, has been nominated for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of New York by the Republican party. ’75—Albert F. Jenks was fsermanent chairman of the Democratic Conven- tion of Greater New York. 80 M. L.—Edwin B. Smith of the Chicago Bar is Professor of Law in the Law Department of Northwestern University, Chicago. ’*87—James Archbald, Jr. is to be married October 21, to Miss Mar- garetta —Thompson. ’*89—William H. Corbin has resigned from his position at Pingrey School and has become Secretary and Treas- urer of the Central Woolen Co. at Stafford Springs, Conn. *°90—Henry Opdyke has removed his law. offices to 20 Nassau street, New York. The consulting counsel in the same stiite are Messrs. Opdyke, Wilcox & Bristow. °90—Lieutenant Edward L. Munson, ‘90, Surgeon U. S. Army, stationed at Fort Assiniboine, Montana, has been ordered to Fort Adams, Newport, R. I., for four years service. The transfer is to date from October 15th, 1897. ‘9r—Albert Lee will contribute one of the serial stories to Harper’s Round Table in 18098 entitled, ‘Four For a Fortune.” The Round Table of which Mr. Lee is editor, has just announced a radical change in form and time of publication. It will now “Decome a--monthly-- magazine::.for youth.” Its featureas in the. past will be stories. ’92—_A. C. Thompson has changed his address from Rutland, Vt. to Pal- mer, Mass. ‘92 and ’o7 T. S.—C..P. Pierce is pastor of the Congregational Church at East Douglass, Mass. ‘94 and ’97 T. S.—W. S. Beard was ordained Sept. 28, over the Congrega- tional Church at Durham, N. H. ‘o3—Irwin B. Laughlin sailed for Europe October 6th. He will spend the Winter in France. ‘95 S.—John Richard North, ’95 S., and Miss Margaret Alden, of Fair Haven, Conn., will be married in Dwight Place Church, New Haven, Conn., on Friday, October 22, at 3.30 P. M. ’96—Charles F. Spellman, Yale ’96, took the law examination in September and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He is now practicing law with his father, C. C. Spellman, Yale ’67, in Springfield, Mass. 97 S.—H. G. Bockius is studying law at Canton, O. : 97 L. S—R. C. Stoll has opened a law office in Lexington, Ga. 97 T. S—W. H. Short is preaching at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. 97 S—H. M. North, Jr. is studving law at his home in Columbia, Pa. ‘97—F. Boardman is with a railroad construction company in Michigan. ’°97—A. H. Hitchcock has gone to Munich for a year’s work in mathe- matics. ‘97 T. S—H. F.. Rall 4s pursuing studies in Germany on the Hooker Fellowship. ’97 T. S.—Shepherd Knapp is settled over the Congregational Church at Southington. ’97_ 1. S.—D. H. Evans is pastor of the Congregational Church at North Hampton, N. H. 97 L. S.—M. F. Hatcher is practicing law with Guery & Hall, 10s Cotton avenue, Macon, Ga. 97 :5.—Clifford H. Buckingham sails from San Francisco Oct. 14th, for a trip around the world. "97 T. S—C. C. Merrill has accepted’ the pastorat of the Coneresati Church at Stenbenville, Ohic. gational YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY ’97 L. S.—Charles F. Peterson has been appointed Assistant District Magistrate of Honolulu, H. I. ’97 T. S.—Austin Rice, the Yale- Princeton debator of 95-6, is pastor of the Congregational Church at Forest Grove, Oregon. ’97 T. S.—Charles S. Macfarland has an article in The Golden Rule on ‘‘The Christian Young Man in College.” It deals principally with the Y. M. C. A. ’97—Henry George Lapham will be married on October 26, to Miss Rebecca Bird Lounsbury at the Har- vard St. Baptist Church, Brookline, Mass. 97 L. S.—A. Maxcy Hiller, T. H. Smith and J. R. Booth have formed a law partnership in New Haven, under the firm name of Hiller, Smith and Booth. ’°907—S. D. Babcock of New York is travelling in Europe. He will return in December and will then enter into business with Hollister & Babcock, bankers and brokers. —_—_—__+4—____—_ Obituary. THOMAS J. BRADSTREET, 734. Thomas J. Bradstreet of Thomaston, Conn., died at his home on Tuesday, October 5, aged, 90 years and six months. He was born at Topsfield, Mass., in 1807 and was a direct descend- ant of Governor Bradstreet of Massa- chusetts. _ Mr. Bradstreet studied for the ministry but failing health forced him to give it up. He entered the em- ploy of the Seth Thomas Clock Co. and was travelling salesman for that firm till the Civil War broke out. Since then he has been engaged in farming. In 1840 he married Amanda Thomas, daughter of Seth Thomas. Five child- ren, four sons and a daughter, by this union survive him. Two of the sons are Yale graduates; Albert P., ’71, Judge of the District Court of Water- bury and Edward T., ’74, a physician | of Meriden. His daughter, Mary A., is the wife of Joseph R. French, ’56, of this city. x STEPHEN CONDIT, 756. Stephen Condit of Brooklyn died on the 6th instant at the residence of his niece in that city. He had suffered for some time with a disorder of the stomach, but continued at his office till a day or two before his death. He studied law in the office of Gov. Pen- nington of New Jersey, and the Yale Law School. In 1859 he commenced practice in the office of his brother, Charles Condit, ’48, who died in 1876. To his business he succeeded and has continued it with success. He took an ardent interest in politics, but always declined to become an _ office-holder. | He was widely known for his accurate knowledge of.men and affairs, and was which he was connected. He was un- married. WILLIAM A, STILES, ’59. William A. Stiles, ’590, died on Wed- nesday, Uctober 6, at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. H. Davey, in Jersey City. His death followed a complication of disorders, of which the most acute was cancer of the stomach. He was taken ill August 12. Mr. Stiles was born in Deckertown, N. J., March:9, 1837. He was the son of the late Edward A. Stiles, a promi- nent educator of New Jersey. He showed his versatility as a child and at ten years was considered almost a prodigy as a pianist. He read so con- stantly as to weaken his constitution and permanently injure his eyesight, before he was fourteen years old. In Yale his pen, his musical talent and his wit all made him a marked member of the Class of Fifty-Nine. After gradu- ating, he taught in his father’s school, and began the study of law, but was obliged to give up both. In 1864 he went to San Francisco, where he taught music and English literature. Later, he connected himself with the Union Pacific Survey, but the work of map- . making overtaxed his weak eyes, and he was taken to San Francisco, practi- cally broken down. As soon as his health permitted, he returned to his New Jersey home, and not long after- ward he connected himself with. the 7étna Life Insurance Company as an actuary, his mathematical genius being | one of his distinguishing traits. In 1869 he accepted a position as gauger in New York City, retaining this posi- INSURANCE PRINCIPLES. One who has ever looked into the subject of insurance—and an educated man who has neglected that, is not making a very good account of the practical value of his academic training — has generally early come upon the polemics of the subject. Unfortunately these fill large volumes and long shelves of the insurance library. The contest, by the apparent complexity of the problems involved, sometimes repels the reader, but he generally goes far enough into it to meet the names of some of the champions of one form or the other of insurance. It is a safe assumption that you are familiar, as a result of even ~ dipping into that literature, with the name of the Connecti- cut Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, Connecticut. (It is probably as safe an assumption that you were familiar with it before, but that is neither here nor there at present.) It is not the purpose of the Connecticut Mutual, in its use of these columns, to fight over these battles; but to indicate here to men of education, who not only can understand these things, but who also appreciate the peculiar character of fiduciary responsibilities, some of the cardinal principles of safe life insurance, for which the Connecticut Mutual has stood for more than half a century, and whose value to the policy holder it has demonstrated. The CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. tion until the accession of President Arthur to office. Later, he became a contributor to the editorial page of the Tribune, and for some time had charge of the agricultural department of the Philadelphia Press. -He-did some public speaking, in which he was most accomplished, and made such an active canvass when nominated in 1879 by the Republicans of Sussex County, N. J., for the State Senate as to reduce the usual Demo- cratic majority of over 1,000 to less than 200. Mr. Stiles was chosen managing edi- tor of the Garden and Forest, on the foundation of the magazine. Of his tastes and abilities in this direction, a writer in the Evening Post says: ‘‘De- voted as Mr. Stiles was to music, lit- erature, etc., there was probably noth- ing which claimed his zealous admira- tion so much as nature itself—every- thing, one might say, which the earth produced in the way of living things. He was not in any sense a botanist, nor was he a practical horticulturist, but he had a strong feeling and most correct taste in the arrangement of plants for -the production of artistic effects, and he was, therefore, an admirable critic of landscape-gardening. He was fully alive to the importance of urban parks and to the necessity of preserving their quiet landscape conditions, as opposed to gaudy floral decorations best service he has rendered to the community in which he last lived was his championship of the parks. Long before he was thought of as a Park Commissioner in this city, he was an enthusiast over our city recreation grounds and a sturdy, though generally anonymous, defender of them against every kind of attack, whether by the militia, the speedway, the Columbian exhibition, the menagerie. the railroads, or any other agency; and it has been his efforts that have delayed and modi- fied the schemes of the Botanical Soci- ety people.” On November 9 1895, he was ap- pointed Park Commissioner by Mayor Strong. He devoted himself most whole-heartedly to this work and the burden of it undoubtedly overtaxed his strength. Mr. Stiles was unmarried. He leaves three sisters: Mrs. James Ben- nett, of Port Jervis, N. Y.; Mrs. E. Newton Millen, a resident of the Mount Retirement Farm; and Mrs. E. He Davey of Jersey City. One of Mr. Stiles’ nephews was Dr. John A. Hart- well, ’89 S. The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell writes of him to the Post as follows: [Continued on sth page. | and the 1846 ~- 1897 JACOB L. 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