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*52—Senator William M. Stewart will
have an article entitled
Slave Power”
the Arena.
"52—Col. Homer B. Sprague of the
in the May number of
Drew Theological Seminary of Madi- .
son, N. J., is giving a course of lec-
tures on Milton at the Newark Semi-
nary.
°54—John S. Barkalow has been ap-
pointed Judge of the Common Pleas
ee in Paterson, Passaic County,
°54—Henry E. Howland was one of
the Speakers at the complimentary din- ,
ner given to Joseph Jefferson, ’o2 H.,
in New York last week.
*54—The Hon. Henry E. Howland
has been elected a Director of the
newly incorporated Muncipal Art So-
ciety of New York City. |
*56—Reyv. Prof. Isaac Clark was re-
elected President of the Washington
Congregatonal Club at the annual meet-
ing recently held.
*56—Hon. C. M. Depew, who has
beén for thirteen years President of the
New York and Hudson River R. R,
has announced that he will retire from
that office on April 20 next. Mr. Depew
is to take up the more responsible work
of looking after the general railroad in-
terests of the Vanderbilts, which he will
do as Chairman of the Boards of Direc-
tors of the New York Central and Hud-
son River, the Lake Shore, the New
York, Chicago and St. Louis, and the
Michigan Central railroads.
*60—William L. Bradley has recently
purchased the historic Lester place of
this city, which is the old homestead of
Timothy Lester Woédruff, ’70.
°61—Miss Marian Park, daughter of
Rev. W. E. Park, has taken at Bryn
Mawr the first European Scholarship,
$500, the highest possible scholarship
distinction in the college.
°62—Reyv. Cornelius L. Kitchel has
edited Plato’s Apology of Socrates and
Crito, and a part of the Phaedo, lately
published by the American Book Com-
pany, New York, and now used as a
text-book in the University by the
Freshman class.
*7I1—Thomas Thacher is delivering a
course of lectures at the Law School,
on “The Essential Nature of Incorpora-
tion.
°*71 S.—T. W. Mather, principal of the
Boardman High School, New Haven,
has been offered the chair of Mechani-
cal and Electrical Engineering at the
Michigan School of Mines. The
School of Mines, located at Houghton,
is one of the largest in the country.
Professor Mather has not yet decided
what he will do, but it is likely that he
will not accept.
’*80—Henry W. Tait has been ap-
pointed by the President of the New
York City Board of Education to serve
on the Committee on Sites for the
present year.
’82—Frank Frost Abbott, Professor
of Latin in Chicago University, has
been given leave of absence, owing to
injuries sustained in a bicycle accident,
and has gone abroad.
°83—Prof. John Franklin Crowell has
just published through Henry Holt &
Co., New York, a volume entitled
“The Logical Process of Social De-
velopment.” Professor Crowell sailed
for Europe on March 30.
*83—Denison B. Tucker, who for the
last six years has been general agent in
New Haven for the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company has severed his
connection with that company and
formed a mining company called the
Seward Gold Mining Company, of
whch he is President and General
Manager. He will leave for Alaska in
about two months.
’°83—The Ohio Underwriter printed
the following recently: George W.
Johnston, Cincinnati Manager of the
Mutual Life and the newly elected
President of the Cincinnati Life Under-
writers Association, is a gentleman of
the highest ability in life insurance
field work and science. A large per-
sonal writer, he combines with it the
rare faculty of handling men. As
Manager of the Mutual Life he has
charge of a large number of agents,
and on immense renewal income for
Lawton & Son, state agents. The
Mutual collects over half a million
premiums in Hamilton County. Mr.
Johnston came to Cincinnati from
Louisville, and started in wth the Mu-
tual as a special agent, but his gen-
“The Great -
uine merit soon brought him promo-
tion. He will make a good President
for the Cincinnati Life Underwriters.
’84—Dr. James F. Scott, of Washing-
ton, sailed March 20, from Seattle for
the Klondike.
’°84—James B. Reynolds has been re-
elected a member of the Graduate Ad-
visory Committee of Dwight Hall.
’°84—Rev. George W. Judson has re-
signed his pastorate at Orange, Mass.,
and accepted a call to the Congrega-
tional Church at Winsted, Conn.
’84—F rank D. Pavey, United States
Senator from Ohio, has an article in
the March number of The Forum, en-
titled, ‘State Control of Political Par-
ties.” :
784 L. S.—Prof. John Wurts has been
selected as one of the judges for the de-
bate between the Kent Club of the Law
School and the Leonard Bacon Club of
the Divinity School on the 23d of this
month.
’*86—Edgar C. Stiles is to become
principal of the West Haven High
School next Fall.
*86—Professor J. C. Schwab has been
elected a member of the Board of
Governors of the Gounod Society,
New Haven.
’86—Lippincoti’s Magazine for April
contains an article by Harvey B.
Bashore, entitled “The Making of
Man.”
*86—J. C. Schwab has recently pub-
lished a monograph on “The Revolu-
tionary History of Fort Number
Eight,” particularly the story of that
British redoubt in the northern part of
New York City during the campaign of
1776. It is based on an examination of
the original authorities, and of the
relics discovered on the site of the fort.
’°87 S.—A pamphlet by Isadore Dyer on
“Multiple Benign Cystic Epitheliomata”
has just been published. It is reprinted
from the New Orleans Medical and
Surgical Journal of March, 1808.
’°87—The engagement is announced
of Francis B. Trowbridge and Miss
Mabel Christine Nelson, daughter of the
late James A. Nelson, ¢éx’73 S.,. of
Brooklyn, N. Y., and niece of John F.
Nelson, ’76.
ex-’88—B. W. Schwab was admitted
to the firm of Oelrichs & Company,
New York, on April 1. He is a repre-
sentative of the fourth generation in the
history of that firm, which celebrates
the 1ooth anniversary of its existence
during this year.
’89—An annotated work on Macau-
lay’s “Essay on Addison,” edited by
Dr. H. A. Smith, has recently been
issued by Ginn & Co.
"89 L.S.—The engagement is an-
nounced of Miss Sallie T. Clark, daugh-
ter of Mr. Charles P. Clark of New
Haven, to Prof. Edward G. Buckland.
*890—William P. Aiken, author of a
chapter on appeals in the American and
English Encyclopedia of Pleading and
Practice, has removed his law offices
from New York City to No. 1 Chest-
nit st Albany. N.Y.
’*901 S.—Arvine Wales is cashier of the
Massillon Savings and Banking Co.,
Massillon, O.
’°91—Norman McClintock is with The
Aultman Co., of Canton, O., makers
of oil engines. ;
°93:«Cand *°93 L. S.—Lawrence E.
Brown, ’93, and John Hone, Jr., ’93,
L. S., have formed a law partnership
at 31 Nassau street, New York City,
under the name of Hone & Brown.
704 S.—E. L. Messler has assumed,
for the present, the management of the
Duquesne Blast Furnaces, Carnegie
Steel Co., at Oliver, Penn.
’°95—Henry Farnam, who has been
traveling in Europe for a year, will
return in August.
’°95—_John H. Brown is. practising
law for himself in Springfield, Mass.
His office is 486 Main street.
’95—John W. Dixon is now practis-
ing law for himself in Nebraska City,
Neb., his office being 809 First ave.
’95—Burton J. Hendrick has an arti-
cle on the late William J. Linton in the
current number of the New England
Magazine. Some of the famous en-
gravings of the artist are repro-
duced in the article.
’96—John M. Gaines is an Assistant
in Political Economy at Yale.
’96 Edward D. Collins is Assistant
Instructor in History at Yale.
796. S.—Otto Miller has just returned
from a three months’ trip to Europe.
’°96—M. M. Whitaker is studying
Naval Architecture at Cornell Univer-
sity.
’96 S.—Winthrop Brainerd is now
with the Hamilton Powder Co., in
Montreal.
’96—Herbert S. Brown has been ap-
pointed Managing Editor of The
Chauties Review.
’96—Douglas Stewart sailed for Eu-
rope on March a2ist, on the steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
796 « S.—W. F. Forepaugh has left
the office of the Evening Sun and en-
tered the oil business in New York.
*96—Arnon A. Alling, who has just
recovered for an illness with scarlet
fever, has gone South for the benefit
of his health.
*96—L. P. Sheldon has recently be-
come Private Secretary to Geo. H. Day,
Vice-President of the Pope Manu-
facturing Company, Hartford, Conn.
’97 S.— J. E. Shaw will enter Harvard
next Fall.
’97 S—W. H. Gould is employed in
the Lawrence Mills of Lawrence, Mass.
’97 S.—Laurence B. Hamlin is in the
employ of the Elgin Milkine Co., Elgin,
Til.
’97—E. Hill coached the University
bicycle squad several days during the
past week.
’°97—E. H. Hume has been elected
leader of the Johns Hopkins University
Glee Club.
’97 S.—Henry Meinkin, Jr., is in the
wall paper business with his father in
New York City.
’97 S.—Levi Wilcox is head chemist
of the Apothecaries Hall Company of
Waterbury, Conn.
’97—-Harry M. Keator coached the
University Baseball Team three days
during the past week.
’97 L. S.—Herbert C. Bartlett has
opened an office for the general practice
of law at Vineland, N. J.
’907 S.—George Langford has taken
a position with the McKenna Rolling
Co., of Kansas City, Mo.
’97—George B. Farnam is in the
grain business with F. H. Peavey &
Co., in Minneapolis, Minn.
’97 Edgar Laing Heermance intends
to spend the Summer in Europe and to
study in Edinburgh next year.
’97 S.—J. D. Perry Francis is in the
grain commission business with his
father, D. R. Francis, in St. Louis, Mo.
’°97—Alfred G. Bookwalter has ac-
cepted the appointment of Instructor
in Latin and Greek at St. Paul’s
School.
’97 S.—Dudley B. Deming has re-
ceived the appointment of Assistant in
Physiological Chemistry at the Yale
Medical School for the remainder of
the school year.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
[Class and Association Secretaries are invited to
use this column.]
Seventy-Eight Reunion.
The Committee on Arrangements for
the coming twentieth anniversary of the
Class of Seventy-Eight, at New Haven,
next June have progressed far enough
to announce the program.
The business meeting will be held on
Tuesday, June 28, at 11.30 A. M., at
Room 175 Lyceum. At I P. M. there
will be lunch at the New Haven Lawn
Club on Whitney avenue, to which
the members of the class and families
are invited. After lunch the baseball
game will be attended and conveyance
provided. The Class dinner will take
place at the Anderson Gymnasium, on
York street, at 7.30 P. M. Tuesday
evening. Arrangemnts have been made
for rooms in West Divinity at the price
of one dollar a day. Those who wish
rooms here will notify E. F. Hill, West
Divnity Hall, New Haven, Conn., or
H. W. Lamb, 437 East st., New Haven.
Those who wish to go to New London |
to see the boat race, should notify H.
W. Lamb immediately, as arrangements |
Lam- |
berton is now preparing a biographical —
record, covering the time since the last |
reunion, which will be issued before the |
COOPER & COMPANY,
have been made for the Class.
reunion.
To defray the expenses of the re-
union and records, the committee have
asked the members of the class to sub-
scribe ten dollars each as soon as possi-
ble, and as many as can to send more,
by way of a guarantee fund as was done
five years ago. Alfred L. Ripley,
National Hide & Leather Bank, Boston,
Mass., is Treasurer of the committee,
to whom the money should be sent.
Eighty-Eight 8. Reunion.
Forty men of ’88S., have notified the
Secretary of their intention to be pres-
ent at the decennial reunion of the Class
in June. The décennial banquet will
be held at Heublein’s on June 28th.
A band has been secured for a street
parade just previous to the Harvard
game, which the Class will attend in a
body.
Ninety-Five 8, Reunion,
The Class Secretary of Ninety-Five,
Scientific, has sent a circular letter to
each member of the Class, asking for
information from which to compile the
triennal record. If for any reason any
one has failed to receive his letter, the
Secretary, Norman Leeds, Stamford,
Conn., will send him another notifica-
tion.
Sa ake
Obituary.
JOHN B. BRISBIN, 746.
The Hon. John B. Brisbin, ’46, died
on Tuesday, March 22, 1808, at his
home in St. Paul, Minn: Mr. Brisbin
had been in ill health for some time, but
his death,-which was caused by heart
failure, was unexpected. He was born
in Schuylersville, N. Y., on January Io,
1826, his father being an eminent phy-
sician. While in College he was on the
editorial staff of the Yale Literary Maga-
zine. After graduating he studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1849,
practising in his native town for four
years, when he removed to St. Paul,
Minn. Along with practising his pro-
fession he entered politics and was a
member of the territorial council in
1856-57; a member of the State Legisla-
ture in 1858 and again in 1863. He-was
unanimously elected Mayor of St. Paul
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