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Ninety-Six Smoker.
A smoker is to be held on the even-
ing of March 19th at Winthrop Hall,
Cambridge, by a number of Yale men
of the Class of Ninety-Six living in
Boston and the vicinity. It is desired
that other Ninety-Six men, living in or
near Boston, send their names to G. X.
McLanahan, 6 Winthrop Hall, Cam-
bridge, so that they may be informed
of other meetings of the class.
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Fifty-Two’s Class Record.
The Secretary of Fifty-Two, Rev. A.
N. Lewis of Montpelier, Vermont, an-
nounces that the record of the ninth
reunion, June 29, 1897, is nearly ready,
and will probably be issued during the
present month. It will contain, besides
the usual statistics and reports, half-
tone pictures of most of the surviving
and of many of the deceased members,
and views of the later College build-
ings. Reports have been received from
all but L. C. Duncan, Hardy, Hend-
rickson, and Stewart. Much new in-
formation has been received concerning
non-graduate members. The price of
the Record is $5.00 (additional copies,
$1.00), and the cost of half-tones (from
photographs furnished) is $2.00. The
book will be handsomely bound, and
printed upon the best quality of paper.
Only a limited edition will be published.
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Obituary.
JOHN C. PARSONS, 755.
John Caldwell Parsons, Yale ’55, died
Friday, March 11, at his home in Hart-
ford after a serious illness that had
lasted nearly a month. The funeral
services were at the Center Church of
that city Monday afternoon.
Major Parsons was born in Hartford
June 3, 1832. His father, Judge Fran-
cis Parsons, was of the Yale Class of
1816 and his mother was a daughter
of William Brown of the Yale Class of
1784. He entered Yale with the Class
of Fifty-Four, but after two years his
health compelled a year of rest, and he
was graduated with the Class of Fifty-
Five. After a course at the Harvard
Law School, he entered the office of his
great uncle, Connecticut’s Chief Jus-
tice, Thomas S. Williams. Major Par-
son’s legal work was largely that of
administration and advice. The fol-
lowing is from a sketch in the Hartford
Courant by Professor Williston Walker:
“Major Parsons never was ambitious
for office, but he had the respect and
confidence of his fellow citizens always,
and many offices of trust were filled by
him. The title by which he was fami-
liarly known was derived from his ser-
vice as major of the First Company of
the Governor’s Foot Guard, from 1875
to 1877—an organization with which he
was associated for many years. He
was long identified with the interests of
the Brown School, he was president of
the association for the care of the.
ancient graveyard behind the Center
Church, belonging to the town, where
sleep so many of those whose names
are honored in our colonial history,
and he took an active interest in the
efforts of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution to adorn and render it
attractive. For eight years, 1872 to
1880, he was president of the board of
street commissioners. At the time of
his decease he was president of the
Society for Savings, an office which he
had held since 1804; and he was a
director in the National Exchange
Bank, the Phoenix Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, the Connecticut Fire
Insurance Company and the Security
Company, of which latter organization
he was president from 1894 to 1806. °
He was, and had been for many years,
a director of the American Asylum for
the Dedf and Dumb. now the American
School for the Deaf.
““He was also a trustee of the Perkins
estate, and of that of the late Lieuten-
ant-Governor Julius Catlin. As one of
the two trustees of the latter property,
he recently erected the building on the
corner of Main and Asylum streets oc-
cupied by George O. Sawyer. He was
at one time a trustee of the Industrial
School for Girls at Middletown. With
the First Church he was most inti-
mately associated. Brought up in it
under the ministry of Dr. Hawes, he
dating from boyhood, and which never
waned. He was conspicuous in all the
concerns of the First Ecclesiastical
Society, and was long a member of its
committee. Few actions have been
taken by that society for more than a
generation past without his active par-
ticipation or his counsel. His services
and his benefactions to the interests of
the church of his affection have been
unwearied, self-sacrificing and continu-
ous. It was characteristic of his mod-
est self-distrust, however, that though
always interested in the spiritual wel-
fare of the church, he did not make a
public confession of his religious faith
till 1881, when he and his son united
with. its membership on the same day.
He felt a personal sense of pride and
possession in its ancient house of wor-
ship, evidenced during the last four or
five years by its adornment with a
beautiful window, representative of the
Angel of the Resurrection, and com-
memorative of Major John Caldwell,
whose name he bore. More recently
he has placed two tablets on its walls,
one in memory of Dr. Hawes, the pas-
tor of his youth, and the other in
honor of Chief Justice Williams.”
Major Parsons wrote a paper on
“The Early Topography of Hartford,”
which was read in 1883 at the celebra-
tion of the 250th anniversary of the
founding of the First Church of Hart-
ford. He also wrote a paper on ‘The
Duties and Responsibilities of Direc-
tors and Trustees of Financial Institu-
tions,’ which was issued in a privately
printed edition. :
He was married in 1870 to Miss
Mary McClellan of Philadelphia, who
died in the following year. He is sur-
vived by a son, Francis, a lawyer of
Hartford and a graduate of Yale in the
Class of Ninety-Three, and by two
sisters, Mrs. Watson Webb and Mrs.
Elizabeth P. Newton, also of Hartford.
AN EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Hartford Courant speaks edito-
rially of the late John C. Parsons as
follows: ?
“Few men who have lived in Hart-
ford in the past half century have so
impressed upon the community a sense
of their integrity and: fidelity as John
C. Parsons. He was a modest and re-
tiring man and did not make his mark
in any demonstrative way. It was the
natural result of his life of simple hon-
esty. Everybody trusted him and he
deserved the trust. Business men used
his name and opinion as their standard.
You would hear such expressions as
“Well, it may be all right, but John
Parsons would not approve it.” But
what he did say was right needed no
other indorsement. Director in as many
of our great and successful business
corporations as he would go into, trus-
tee of as many estates as he would take
care of, officer of all the charitable and
benevolent organizations that came to
him for aid and guidance, and adviser
of all the friendless and unfortunate, he
was always busy and much of the time
gratuitously so. The trust in him was
universal.”
JAMES DETRAFFORD BLACKSTONE, ’68 s.
James DeT. Blackstone died at his
home, No. 110 West Fifty-seventh
street, New York City, Monday, March
7, 1808. Mr. Blackstone had been an
invalid for five years, and on Friday
last was stricken with apoplexy, from
which his death resulted. He was born
in Manchester, England, and was fifty
years old, and was graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School with the
Class of Sixty-Eight. He was the
Treasurer of the Totokett Mills Com-
pany, Norwich, Conn., and Seéretary
of the Attawaugan Company and of the
Occum Company. of Occum, Conn.
His wife and a son survive him.
Be
Reeord Elections.
At a meeting of the board of editors
of the Record, on Monday night, John
Brown Adams, ’99, of New York City,
was elected to fill the last vacancy on
the Ninety-Nine board.
On Tuesday evening the Ninety-
Nine board organized and_ elected
Charles Edward Hay, Jr., of Spring-
field, Tll., Chairman, and Henry Hunt
Tomkins, Jr., of Denver, Col., Business
Manager.
ceived elections to the University Club:
Mac Intosh Kellogg, ’99; H. H. Tom-
kins,
was attached to it with an affection .D
‘Sp.; E. F. McIntosh, M.S.; and from
J. ¥. Archbold, J. C. Greenleaf, G. P.
a series of services which he is now
-was made up of D. B. Eddy, ’08; D. L.
Eddy, ’98; L. G. Billings, ’98, and E.
D. Pouch, ’o8 S.
lish Philology.”
University Club Elections.
The following men have recently re-
Jr., 90; R. Z. Buchwalter, ’o9;
. R. Hooker, ’99; E. J. Thompson,
mon. C.). Freeborn, |B, F. Tritech,
B. V. Norton, C. R. Drummond, C. C.
Conway, W. W. Knight, E. A. McCul-
lagh, R. P. Flint, J. T. Walker, J. McL.
Walton, C. A. Warden, E. DeN. Sands,
Docker and W. E. Stanley.
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Last Sunday, at the request of Mr.
Moody, a quartet from the University
Glee Club assisted him in the first of
holding in New York. The quartet
It has been decided that the Har-
vard-University of Pennsylvania foot-
ball game next Fall will be played on
November 5th at Cambridge. :
Prof. A. S. Cook has published his
address delivered before the Modern
Language Association of America last
December on “The Province of Eng-
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