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he received from Columbia College the
degree of Doctor of Laws. He was
Vice-President of the International
Congress of Instructors of the Deaf,
held in Milan, Italy, in 1880, and in 1882
was President of the Conference of
American Schools for the Deaf. He
was the first President of the Washing-
ton Heights Century Club, and also a
member of the Yale Alumni Associa-
tion of New York. :
By his classmates he is remembered
as a gentleman of genial disposition,
pure life, enthusiastic devotion to
worthy ends and of scholarly habits.
These won for him the esteem and af-
fection of all his associates and fitted
him for the accomplishment of import-
ant service,—service which gained for
him a cherished place in the memories
of many, many lives made richer by his
life. One of his earliest, latest and
most valued friends was his classmate
Edward Olmstead, to whose memory
the loving tribute published in the last
issue of the ALUMNI WEEKLY he con-
tributed.
As a public speaker, Dr. Peet was
happy in expression. He was distin-
guished for his ability to use spoken
languages and signs at the same time,
thus being able to address an audience
of deaf and hearing people simultan-
eously. His last appearance at the in-
stitution was as the guest of Dr. Cur-
rier at the annual celebration of his
birthday, on Dec. 4, and his last address
to the deaf was on the occasion of the
celebration of “Gallaudet Day,” on Dec.
10.
Funeral services were held in the
chapel of the New York Institution for
the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb,
163d st. and Western Boulevard, Fri-
day afternoon, Dec. 30, 1808.
REV. WILLIAM KIRTLAND DOUGLAS, ’5I.
Rev. William Kirtland Douglas died
at Francisville, La., on Monday, Dec.
26, aged 69 years.
Mr. Douglas was born in New
Haven, Conn., May 29, 1820, and grad-
uated from Yale in the Class of Fifty-
One. After graduation he remained in
New Haven teaching, and reading law
for a short time, but afterwards re-
moved to Hartford. In 1857 he went
to Waterproof, La., and in the same
year was married to Miss Sarah L.
Tucker. Three years later he accepted
the Presidency of Jefferson College,
near Natchez, Miss. He soon resigned
from this position to establish a train-
ing school for candidates for the minis-
try at Dry Grove, Miss. The location
of the school was not a fortunate one,
for an epidemic of yellow fever wiped
out the entire mission. In the same
disaster Mr. Douglas lost his wife.
Since that time Mr. Douglas has held
ao in New Orleans and Bayou
ira;
THE LATE. EDWARD G. MASON, ’60.
Funeral services for the late Edward
G. Mason, Yale ’60, of Chicago, were
held on Tuesday, December 20th, 1808,
at the house on Ellis Avenue. Rey.
Joseph H. Twichell, Yale 59, conducted
the services.
time is reproduced elsewhere in this
issue of the WEEKLY.
The pall bearers were eight of Mr.
Mason’s sons: Henry E, Mason, Yale
"89; Edward H. Mason, Yale ’92; Ros-
well B. Mason, Yale 95; Julian S.
Mason, Yale ’98; Huntington Mason,
Yale ’99; Maurice Mason, Yale igor;
Norman Mason, Yale 1902 and Law
rence Mason. The interment was in
Rose Hill Cemetery.
A few of the main facts in Mz
Mason’s life were given in the last issue
of the paper. It has been possible, in
the meantime, to collect some further
material concerning him. It seems by
all means desirable to make the history
as nearly complete as possible.
Mr. Mason was born August 23d,
1839, at Bridgeport, Conn., the son of
Roswell B. Mason. He received his
preparatory schooling at the East
Windsor Hill Academy near Hartford.
After that he went to Chicago with his
father and worked under him for a
short time in the construction of the
Illinois Central Railroad, of which Mr.
Mason had charge. He then came to
Yale and graduated in the Class of
Sixty. Here he was a member of Phi
His short address at the :
YALE ALUMNI WwWHRHEXKLY
Beta Kappa and a Junior Exhibition
speaker; he took a Townsend premium
in Senior year, being tied for the De-
Forest on the first ballot with Luther
Jones, who subsequently reyeived it.
He was also a member of the Junior
Society, Psi Upsilon and of the Senior
Society of Scroll and Key. He received
the degree of M.A. from Yale in 1863
and LL.D. from Knox College in 1895.
Mr. Mason returned to Chicago after
graduation and studied law with H. G.
Miller, who afterwards married his sis-
ter. Afterwards he was associated with
John Maddocks, with whom he later
formed a partnership under the firm
name of Maddocks & Mason. _
Mr. Mason was abroad at the time of
the Chicago fire, his father being then
Mayor of that city. He raced for the
steamer at Liverpool and received a
message from his father, thrown him
from the shore after the boat had
started, which announced that all the
members of the family were safe. On
his return he formed the firm of Mason
Brothers, with Henry B. Mason, ’70
and Alfred B. Mason, ’71. The latter
withdrew to conduct the railroad con-
struction business. In recent years Mr.
Mason’s eldest son, Henry E. Mason,
has been a member of the firm. Mr.
Mason gave special attention to real
estate law and represented a number of
eastern insurance companies.
On Dec. 25, 1867, Mr. Mason mar-
ried Miss Julia M. Starkweather, daugh-
ter of Charles Starkweather of Chicago.
They had thirteen children—Henry L.,
Edward H., Roswell B., Julian S.,
Huntington, Maurice, Norman, Ethel
M., Edith H., Lawrence, Marjorie H.,
George C. and Frederick O.
From the time of the fire, the family
lived, until a year or two ago, at the
corner. of: izth -street and; Michigan
avenue, but recently sold this place and
moved to No. 4623 Ellis avenue.
Mr. Mason’s services in the Yale Cor-
poration since 1891, have already been
spoken of in the WEEKLy. Of his
work in his own city in furthering his-
torical, literary and other interests, an
article in the Chicago Times-Herald
speaks as follows:
“The Historical Society had been
founded in 1859, and had an endow-
ment which made its growth very rapid, |
but the loss of its building and
all of its records at the time of
the fire of 1871 made its members
despondent, and little was done for the
society until Mr. Mason took active
hold. The fine building in Dearborn
avenue was erected only as the result
of his long-continued work in interest-
ing Chicagoans and in raising money,
but that was only a small part of what
he did. To the collection of material
and to the building up of the library he
gave a great part of his time. Trip
after trip was made by him to old set-
tlements in various parts of the State.
He hunted the ground over, rescued all
the documents and treasures bearing on
early history that he could, and brought
them together where they could be
preserved for the future. :
“This work was, however, only one
side of the broad historical interest
which all through life gave Mr. Mason
perhaps his chief delight. It was the
practical side, and over against it was
always the work of the scholar proper.
Mr. Mason utilized much of the material
he gathered for monographs and books
on various phases of the history of early
Illinois. He never wrote without
knowing well the ground of which he
was telling from personal inspection.
Many were the trips he made for the
purpose of making himself more accu-
rate in details, and he had at the same
time the insight that made him a true
historian. Some of his writings were
“The March of the Spaniards Across
Illinois,” “Old Fort Chartres,’ ‘Illinois
in the Eighteenth Century,” “Kaskaskia
and Its Parish Records,” “The Story
of James Willing—an Episode in the
Revolution,’ and papers on La Salle
and the first settlers of Chicago. He
also edited the work, “Early Chicago
and Illinois,” published by the Chicago
Historical Society.
“Great as was his contribution to the
culture of Chicago in this way, it was
only one of his many activities directed
to a similar result. As president and
prominent member of the Chicago Lit-
erary Club, he was the foremost Spirit
in that organization for many years.
Some of his friends can remember how
In earlier days he used to go with the
greatest regularity every Monday even-
ing to attend the meetings, and how he
was always: intent on devising some
new methods to improve the quality of
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“Corporations under the Bankruptcy
Act of 1898.” H. Campbell Black; ‘“The
Causes and Results of Our Recent War
with Spain from a Legal Standpoint,”’
Judge Elmer B. Adams, of the United
States Supreme Court of Missouri;
“The Beginnings of Civil Service Re-
form,” S. W. Kellogg, "46, of Water-
bury; “The Status of Cuba,” Professor
T. S. Woolsey, 72, of the Yale Law
School; and the usual departments.
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