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WEEKLY
ALUMNI NOTES.
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*31—Rev. Dwight M. Seward has for
some time been seriously ill at his home '
in South Norwalk, Conn.
’52 S.—Prof. George J. Brush has al-
most recovered from an attack of bron-
chitis which confined him to his house
for the past fortnight.
°57—Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler, who
has been seriously ill with pleurisy at
his home in New Haven, is now con-
sidered by his physician to be well out
of danger.
’60-—Rev. Samuel Dunham, who re-
cently celebrated his twenty-fifth anni-
versary as pastor of the West Presby-
terian Church, of Binghamton, N. Y.,
will soon begin services in a new stone
edifice which his congregation has just
erected at a cost of $50,000.
64 L.S.—Col. DeWitt C. Sprague has
been appointed Commissioner of Deeds
for the State of New York and Connec-
ticut, resident in Washington, D. C.
’68—George H. Cowell has been ap-
pointed Judge Advocate General on
Governor-elect Lounsbury’s staff.
’69—On Tuesday evening, November
25th, Professor and Mrs. E. G. Coy
celebrated the 25th anniversary of their
marriage.
‘71—The note which appeared in the
issue of Oct. 6, saying that Charles Ly-
‘man had taken up a Government posi-
tion at Washington was erroneous.
Mr. Lyman is a member of the firm of
Lyman, Knox & Co., importers and
wholesale druggists, Montreal, Canada.
"72—L. E. Curtis has taken up the
practice of law at Colorado Springs,
Col. 3
'72—David N. Beach will assume the
pastorate of the First Congregational
Church of Denver on Jan. Ist.
‘76—Prof. A. T. Hadley will read a
paper on the “Relation Between Eco-
nomics and Politics,” at the meeting of
the American Economic Association, at
New Haven on December 27th-2oth.
‘77T.S.—Prof. George Burton Adams
is well on the way to recovery from his -
attack of malarial fever.
‘77—Rev. Frederick R. Sanford has
been elected Chaplain of the “Sons of
the Revolution” of Connecticut.
80 M.S.—J. Francis Calef has been
appointed Surgeon-General on the staff
of Governor-elect Lounsbury.
’81—Rev. Benjamin W. Bacon has re-
cently completed a pamphlet entitled,
“An Introduction to the Acts,” which
will be used in connection with lectures
before the Middle class of the Divinity
School.
°83—Prof. John F. Crowell, recently
of Smith College, is spending the year
abroad in sociological study and re-
search.
’83—Prof. Samuel B. Platner has re-
sumed his work at Adelbert College,
Cleveland, after a year’s absence in
Europe.
’83—Victor E. Helleberg has become
President of the American Process En-
graving Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio,
through the consolidation of the above
company with the Helleberg Photo.
Engraving Co.
84 T.S.—Prof. E. H. Sneath lectured
on Saturday, December toth, before the
Saturday Morning Club of Hartford.
’84—Clinton Ross was struck by a
falling sign in New York on Decem-
ber 10, and received several severe in-
Juries, from which, however, he is now
recovering.
’84—Dr. Frank Strong will read a
paper at the meeting of the American
Historical Association, on December
28th, at New Haven, on “A Forgotten
Danger to the New England Colonies.”
’°85—David Plessner is a member of
the law firm of Ward, Ward & Plessner,
practicing in Denver. The other mem-
bers of the firm are sons of Thomas
Ward. .°s6; os
°86—Miss Margaret Wilson Anderson
was married to Harry Leighton Rollins
on December 6th, at Wellesley, Mass.
’86—Prof. J.C. Schwab will read a
paper on “Prices in the Confederate
States During the War,” at the meeting
of the American Economic Association,
at New Haven on December 27-29.
°87—-Lewis Seymour, Quartermaster
of Company H, First Regiment, New
York Volunteers, returned from Hono-
- lulu with his regiment on December
6, on the “Australia.”
’°88—Rev. Theodore L. Leverett has
returned from his missionary work
among the Mormons and is resting at
his home in Binghampton, N. Y.
88 L.S.—Bacon Wakeman and Henry
C. Burroughs, ’95 L.S., now occupy the
law offices of Judge Nobbs, who will
officiate next month as Judge of Pro-
bate of Bridgeport, Conn.
*°88—Prof. Irving Fisher and Mrs.
Fisher have taken a cottage at Saranac
Lake, New York, for the Winter. Prof,
Fisher is taking a long rest, in order
to fully recover his general health,
which had suffered from over-work and
a slight illness last Fall. Good reports
have been received from him since his
residence in the mountains.
‘90—Professor Albert C..Crehore, of
Dartmouth, has been granted a two
years’ leave oi absence and is now at
Cleveland, O., engaged in scientific
work,
‘gi—Rev. William J. Leverett was
among the missionaries in China who
recenuy had to tiee tor their lives on ac-
count oi the uprising against the Chris-
tians in that country.
‘gi L.S.—Kev. Willard B. Thorp, of
Binghamton, N. Y., occupied the pul-
pit oi the Congregational Church on
the corner of the Drexel Boulevard and
Forty-eighth street, Chicago, on De-
cember 4, as a candidate tor the va-
cant pastorate of that church.
’92—The engagement of Daniel E.
Manson to Miss Ettie M. Coney has
been announced.
92 T.S.—James Hunter has accepted
a call to the West End Presbyterian
Church, New York.
93 L.S.—Jesse A. Stewart was re-
cently mustered out of the Pennsyl-
vania Cavalry, U.S. V.
93 L.S.—John W. Banks has been ap-
pointed referee at Bridgeport, Conn.,
under the new bankruptcy laws.
- ’93—Francis Parsons has been ap-
pointed Assistant Quartermaster Gen-
eral by Governor-elect Lounsbury.
’93—Charles W. Mills has recently
been appointed a special agent for the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
°93—Robbins Battell
been elected Judge of Probate for Dis-
trict of Norfolk, Litchfield County,
Conn.
'94 S.—The engagement of Miss
Elizabeth Stetson, of New York, to
Morgan P. Brooks has been announced.
_ ’94—Charles G. Osgood is publish-
ing a book entitled, “The Classical
Mythology of Milton.”
°94—James S. Jenkins was appointed
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of the
Stamford City Court on December 13.
°94—Philip F. Rogers has completed
his term of service at Mercy Hospital,
Chicago, and will open an office for the
practice of surgery in Milwaukee,
Wis., about the first of the year.
’°95—John E. Good is now residing in
New York City. :
’95—J. F. Talmage is practicing law
at 27 William street, New York.
"95—A. D. Levi is Assistant Manager
of the Standard Mfg. Co., Erie, Pa.
’95—A. R. Clark has opened a law
office in Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y.
’95—Gordon B. Chase is with the
Midland Mining and Milling Company
at Gunnison, Col.
’°95—J. J. Dunn has been appointed
instructor in The Catholic University
of America, Washington, D. C.
*95—The engagement is announced of
Miss Katherine Osterhoudt of Kings-
ton, N. Y:, to Daniel C: Adams.
95 S.—The engagement is announced
of Miss. Leslie Whitman of Brooklyn
to Frederick D. Sherman of Brooklyn.
°95—W. M. Copp is a member of the
6th Artillery, U. S. Army, which was
assigned to do guard duty at the funeral
of General Garcia.
’°95—J. G. Mitchell is convalescing in
Columbus, Ohio, from typhoid fever,
contracted while serving as Corporal in
Troop A, Ist Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
’95—The marriage of Miss Gussie
Ayer Thorn to Henry D. Parmelee will
take place on December 3ist, at the
Church of Divine Paternity, New York.
95 and ’97 L.S.—George Jay Gibson
and J. Walcott Thompson, ’97 L.S., and
"98 M.L., have formed a partnership for
the practice of law, under the firm name
of Thompson & Gibson, with offices at
Stoeckel has _
58, 50 Commercial Building, Salt Lake
City, Utah. see .
95. S.=-The marriage of Miss Mar-
garet Manson, datighter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. Manson, of New Haven, to H.
C. Holcomb, took ulace at the Grace
M. E. Church in New Haven on Wed-
nesday, December 14. The best man
was Arthur E. Foote, ’96, and among
the ushers were: John Sargent, ’94 S.;
Henry Brewer, ’948.; E. L. Uhl, ’94S.,
and D. E. Manson, ’o2.
’96—James B. Tailer, who was taken
sick while with the Rough Riders and
was compelled to go abroad, has re-
turned much improved in health.
°96—H. J. Fisher has resumed his
position with Hartley & Graham.
which he left to go with Troop A, of
Squadron A, New York Volunteer
Cavalry.
’97—F rederick Tilney has a position
as reporter on the New York Sun.
97 S.—G. P. Morrill is now in the
city engineer’s office in Springfield,
Mass.
97 T.S.—A daughter was born on
December 3d, to Rev. and Mrs. B. M.
Wright. .
’97 L.S.—Harry Stevenson has se-
cured a position in the Bridgeport Pro-
bate office.
’97 S.—N. C. Bradley is with the Win-
chester Repeating Arms Co. of New
Haven, Conn.
’97 S.—Arthur Corlies is with A. D.
Juilliard & Co. in dry goods business,
New York City.
97 S.—F. S. North is at present in
the Engine Department of the Wm.
Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Build- —
ing Co. of Philadelphia, Pa.
97 T.S.—Charles S. Macfarland has
an illustrated article in the December
number of the Congregationalist, entitled
“Among the New Haven Churches.”
’97 S.—R. C. Merwin is President of
the C. P. Merwin Brick Co., located at
Berlin, Conn., and also Secretary of the
Central New England Brick Co. with
office at New Britain, Conn.
’97 S.—E. A. Edwards having com-
pleted a scientific course in the art of
brewing at the “National Brewers
Academy,” is now acting as Assistant
Brewmaster in the Washington Brew-
ery, Brooklyn.
97 S.—A. C. Middleton served during
the late war on board the U. S. S. Pan-
ther, first as electrician in charge and
subsequently as ship’s writer. He is
now with the General Electric Co. at
schenectady, N. Y.
97 S.—C. M. Gallup is in the employ
of Engineering Department of the
Board of Street Commissioners of
Hartford, Conn. On June 15th last, he
was mustered into the U. S. service with
the Conn. Naval Reserves and assigned
to the “East Boston” of the mosquito
fleet. He was honorably discharged
Aug. 6th. He is engaged to be married
to Miss Christine R. Ewing of Hart-
ford, Conn.
’98—T. M. Smith is taking a course
at the Columbia Law School.
’98—J. R. Paxton will spend the Win-
ter in the South with his father.
98 S.—E. J. Drummond is with
Henry W. Peabody and Co., exporters,
New York.
98 S.— R, N. Barnum has a position
with the Limelock Iron Company at
Limelock, Conn. =
*98—A. I. Lewis has returned from
visiting in the Hawaiian Islands and is
in Detroit, Mich.
"98—W. S. Packer is studying at
the Episcopal Theological Seminary at
Cambridge, Mass.
’*98—William R. Flint is with the
Severy Impression Process Company,
at Room 522, 253 Broadway, N. Y.
’98—H. A. Scheftel has a position
with J. S. Bache and Company, corner
of New st. and Exchange Place, New.
York.
98 S.—Z. H. Sikes is employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His
address is 70 East Grant street, New
Castle, Penn.
’98—The following Ninety-Eight men
have recently been elected to the New
York Yale Club: F. H. Simmons, W.
S. Ray, H. T. Van Beuren, E. C. Per-
kins, W. F. Dominick, and C. E. Mer-
TH it:
98 L.S.—William L. Burdick, for-
merly a member of the Faculty of the
“Does Life Insurance Pay as
an Investment ?
ACTUAL EXPERIENCE
IN THE
Aitna Life Insurance Co.
Statement of a $10,000 Ten-Payment,
Twenty-Year Endowment, issued by the
ETNA LIFE, in 1878, and payable to the
insured in 1898. (Age 30.)
Year.| Premium. | Divipenp. |Net Payment.
4870 |. $604.30 bo $694.30
pet I en a $27.06 667.24
1600; 6 45.53 648.77
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4005 | Gee 109.41 — 584.89
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Dividends
Paid in Cash.
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Total Cash Dividend Paid to Insured, $1,789.9 3
Net Cost to Insured,
$4,403.56
Gain to Insured, .
5,590.44
For each $100.00 paid, the insured re-
ceived $227.06 and twenty years’ insurance
free of cost.
E. E. HALLOCK, MANAGER,
Room 5, Hubinger Building,
840 CHAPEL ST. NEW HAVEN.
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 seai), 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.
State University, Colorado, has located -
in Hartford for the practice of law. |
’98—The wedding of Miss Josephine
Whitney Brooks to John R. Livermore
was celebrated in Trinity Chapel, New
York, on December 14th. Among the
ushers were P. Whitney, 798; H. R.
Winthrop, 798, and A. H. Barney, ’98.
’98 S.— Edward Roesler won the open
50-yard novice swimming race at the
Knickerbocker Club in New York on
December 13. Mr. Roesler was a mem-
ber of the Yale Battery and always won
the informal and numerous swimming
races held by the Battery at the Niantic
camp.
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Obituary.
REV. EDWARD STRONG, ’38.
Rev. Edward Strong of the Class of
Thirty-Eight, died suddenly at his home
in Pittsfield, Mass., on Tuesday, De-
cember 13th, where he had resided since
1864, when he took the pastorate of the
South Congregational Church of that
city.
Dr. Strong was born in Somers,
Tolland County, Conn., October 25,
1813. His father was Rev. William L.
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