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.
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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-
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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
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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
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of fiduciary responsibilities, some of the cardinal principles
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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:
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JACOB L. GREENE, President.
JOHN M. TAYLOR, Vice-President,
EDWARD M. BUNCE, Secretary.
DANIEL H. WELLS, Actuary.
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