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YALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY ALUMNI NOTES. [ Graduates are invited to contribute to this column.) *52—Daniel C. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, will be one of the speakers at the meeting to be held in New York City, February 12th, to further the interest of the movement of negro industrial education. *53—Charlton T. Lewis was recently elected president of the Prison Asso- ciation of New York. °54—Ex-Judge Henry E. Howland, at the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers held in the Waldorf-Astoria on Jan. 27, spoke on “The Industries of the Nation as affected by its Laws.” *55—Charles P. Stetson was re-elected President of the European & North American R. R. during the latter part of December. ’61—The wife of Theron Baldwin died in New York City, Jan. 17. Mrs. Baldwin was the daughter of the late Charles Steele Thomson, Yale, ’22 M.S. *66—Rev. Marcellus Bowen, who has been residing for several years at Constantinople as the agent for the Levant of the American Bible House, has returned to this country with his family for a visit of a few months. His address at present is at Hartford, Conn. *71—Charles Hopkins Clark has been in attendance on the currency confer- ence at Indianapolis. ’*76—Lispenard Stewart was elected Vice-President of the Prison Associa- tion of New York at the last meeting. 77 L.S.—On January 18, President McKinley sent to the senate the nomi- nation of William J. Mills of New Haven, Conn., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. *80—Henry W. Taft has resigned on account of his health, from the Com- mittee on Instruction of the New York City Board of Education. ’*85—C. E. Harris is Provincetown, Mass. "85—G. W. Mallon has moved his law offices to 36 Carlisle Bldg., Cin- cinnati. ’85—A. A. Crane has been elected chairman of the Waterbury School Committee. *85—Rev. H. D. Leland has left Bremen, Ind., to become pastor of the i aang Church at Niagara Falls, residing at 85 T. S.—Rev. Charles L. Kloss has resigned from the pastorate of the Tabernacle Congregational Church, Kansas City, Mo., where he has been stationed for seven years, and has ac- cepted a call to the First Congrega- tional Church at Webster Groves, Mo., where he will begin work on February Ist. *91—Henry C. White has returned from his long sea-voyage around Cape Horn. ’*91—George S. Brewster has been re- cently elected a director of the Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific R. R. *91 S.—E. B. Sanger has been ap- pointed one of the visiting surgeons to the Eastern Maine General Hospital. ’93 S.—Charles E. McLane sailed for Europe on the 27th of January. ’°93—William B. Boardman passed the examination for admittance to the Con- necticut Bar on Saturday, Jan. 15th. ’93: T. S—Rev. Lincoln B. Goodrich has changed his address from Bound Brook, Ni«j.,° to 36:diahten’ ‘streef, Marlborough, Mass. ’94— Albert S. Briggs is principal of the High School of Mattapoisett, Mass. ’°94—A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chamberlin Meserve on January Ist. *94—Shelton K. Wheeler was recently elected alderman of his ward in Chatta- nooga, Tenn. 794—On Nov. 25th, 1897, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Tracy Potter of North Adams, Mass. *°94—Raymond Lloyd has become Professor of the classics and higher branches in the Angelica Academy, Angelica, N. Y. ’94——Casselberry Dunkerson has been elected a director in the Louisville Tobacco Warehouse Company and appointed manager of the Falls City Warehouse. ’904—W. E. Sanders has been placed at the head of the Scientific Depart- ment of the Michigan Military Acad- emy. His permanent address is Or- chard Lake, Mich. ’94—Clinton Spencer Bissell is em- ployed as Assistant Engineer on the Coast Line Railroad Development Co. of Nova Scotia, Canada, where he will remain until Spring. ’94—Dr. I. K. Phelps is studying chemistry in the post-graduate depart- ment of Harvard University. His ad- dress for the present year will be No. 61 Oxford st., Cambridge, Mass. ’°94 and ’97 T.S.—The Rev. Amos Thomson Harrington was recently or- dained at the First Presbyterian Church of Lyons, N. Y. Mr. Harrington has been called to the pastorate of the ESS Si 3: Church of Avon, ’94—On account of lack of financial | and it stood a chance of being destroyed and so cutting off your income, you would not rest until you had taken enough of that $100 a month and ‘nsured yourself against the loss of it. support the Secretary has decided to postpone for the present the publica- tion of the Triennial Record and refund immediately the amount that has been sent to him by each subscriber. The address of the Secretary after April Ist will be Avon, N. Y. ’94—Dr. Frank H. Chase, who has been studying the Anglo-Saxon manu- scripts in the libraries of London, Ox- ford and Cambridge, has published in the “American Journal of Germanic Philology,” a review of Wulfing’s “Syntax in den Werken Alfred’s des Grossen;” and in the hundredth volume f the “Archiv fur das Studi dcr. neuleren Sprachen” has an article on , loss of your property. But they cannot have it unless you give it to them. neueren Sprachen” has an article on “Alfric’s Old English translation of Genesis.” ’95—Edward W. Beattie was ad- mitted to the Connecticut Bar on Jan- uary 15th. ‘95—George W. Hamlin moved to Colorado Springs, Col., late last Fall to enter business there. 795 and ’97 L.S.—Lloyd Lowndes has recently left New Haven to begin the practice of law at Cumberland, Md. ’96—Fred F. Bennett was recently admitted to practice at the Massachu- setts Bar. His address is Holyoke, Mass. ’96—-The engagement is announced of Arnon Augustus Alling to Miss Kathryn Terrill of New Hartford, Conn. - ’96 Announcement is made of the engagement of Charles W. Birely to Miss Charlotte A. Bushnell of New Haven, Conn. *96—R. S. McClenahan is an instruc- tor in the American College at Asynt, Egypt. He was married on Sept. 1, 1897, to Miss Jeanette M. Wallace. ’97 T.S.—George E. Ladd has be- come the pastor of the Congregational Church of Waterbury, Vt. ’°97 S.—Robert S. Kilborne has gone into the office of A. W. Kilborne & Co., brokers, 42 Wall st., New York. ’97 T.S.—Rev. Wesley E. Page has received and accepted a call to the pas- torate of the Congregational Church of Milton, Conn. ’97:‘T.S.—The engagement of the Rev. David H. Evans to Miss Cor- nelia Draper of Canandaigua, N. Y., has been announced. Mr. Evans recently became pastor of the First Congregational Church of Northamp- ton, wy: ET: ’98 S.—The marriage of Stanley Y. Beach to Miss Ellen Birdsey Curtis of Stratford, Conn., has been an- nounced. Mr. Beach is the son of. Frederick C. Beach, ’68 S. ——--+4- Obituary. STEPHEN C. FOSTER, ’40. Stephen C. Foster, of the Class of Forty, died at his home in Downey, Los Angeles Co., Cal., in the last part of January. Mr. Foster was born in East Machias, Me., in 1820. After graduation he went South, and taught school in Amelia County, Virginia, in 1840 and 1841, and in Alabama during the next two years. He then studied medicine at the Louisville Medical College in New Orleans, and later practised medicine in Westport, Miss. In 1845 he crossed the plains to New Mexico as a trader and began prac- tising medicine at Oposura, New Mex- ico. In January, 1846, he went to Santa Fé, and from there to California, as interpreter to Col. Cook, com- manding the battalion of Iowa infantry during the Mexican war. In March, 1847, he arrived at Los Angeles, where he remained in the government em- ploy as interpreter until May, 1849. He Cen- | -month, You have put them at the risk of losing it by losing you. The Family’s Point of View. F you are thirty-five years old and are in good health, and are earning $100 a month, your life, on which this earning depends, is worth $22,700 in cash to-day to your family. If you die they lose the $100 a month, the equivalent of which is the $22,700. The cash value of your life to them is therefore $22,700. They lose that if you die. | You have made your family dependent on you: dependent on that $100 a If you had a piece of property which was bringing you in $100 a month You would consider that you had not done your duty by yourself until you had so protected yourself effectually. Your life is just such a piece of property to your family: you have made itso. They need just that same effecttial protection against its loss which may come any day. And they cannot protect themselves. you for that as much as they do for the $100 a month itself. They rely on They need protection against that loss even more than you need protection against the You have exposed them to the loss: you have made them dependent on you: you alone can protect them in their dependence. THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Makes its plans from the family’s point of view: to give them the most absolute protection, at the least cost to you and with perfect equity to both. It will be glad to serve you and your family in this great matter. JACOB L. GREENE, President. JOHN M. TAYLOR, Vice-President. EDWARD M. BUNCE, Secretary. DANIEL H. WELLS, Actuary. was Alcalde of Los Angeles in 1848-49 and a member of the convention to form the Constitution of California in 1849, and was state senator from 1851 until 1853. In 1854, ’55 and ’56 he was Mayor of Los Angeles. In August, 1848, he married Mercedes Lugo, a member of a prominent Spanish family. His wife and two sons survive him. WILLIAM JARVIS CRAW, ’52 S. William Jarvis Craw died. on Octo- ber 26, 1897, at his home in Rowayton, Connecticut. He was a member of the first class which graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School. He was born at Norwalk, Connecti- cut, January 27, 1830, and entered the Yale Analytical Laboratory, the pre- sent Scientific School, in 1848. Soon after graduation Mr. Craw en- tered the field of commercial chemistry, in which he was successful. Within a period of two years, however, he suf- fered a complete breakdown in health, which made it necessary for him to abandon it. After his health failed he went into the oyster-growing busi- ness at Rowayton, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was a pioneer in artificial cultivation of oysters in the | State of Connecticut. On November 27, 1879, he was mar- ried to Miss Josephine Chapin of New Berlin, New York, who survives him. LINUS M. CHILD, ’55. Linus Mason Child of Boston was stricken with apoplexy in the Park Square railroad station in Boston on _the evening of January 25, and died soon afterwards. Mr. Child was born at Southbridge, Mass., on March 4th, 1835. He gradu- ated from Yale with the Class of Fifty- Five, and for the next three years studied law in Lowell and Cambridge, receiving his admission to the Massa- chusetts Bar in 1859. He practiced law in Lowell in the office of his father, but soon moved to Boston, where he rapidly became recognized as one of that city’s leading lawyers. Mr. Child was the Republican rep- resentative in Boston’s city council, a member of the School Board and in the years 1868 and 1869 served in the Legislature. For twenty years, up to [Continued on 6th page.] THEODORE B. STARR JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH, 206 FIFTH AVE., | MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK, asks attention to the very useful College Pitchers and Mugs which he offers—for Yale, Harvard, Prince- ton (the new seal), University of Pennsylvania, Amherst, Williams, Columbia. They are of earthen- ware, of the College color, and bear on the front the College seal, executed in solid Silver. MADISON SQUARE. IMP ENGLISH AND SCOTCH SUITINGS. 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