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'4s—Prof. Henry B. Carrington has
written a new book entitled “Washing-
‘on the Soldier.” The book is now in
press and will be soon published.
'*6—Rev. Dr. William J. Harris of
Barre, Vt., is publishing the Mountain
Mountain Echo, a quarterly which
appears in January, April, July and
October, and is devoted primarily to
the Missionary interests of the Diocese
of Vermont. |
‘6s—G. H. Ely has been’ elected
President of the Yale Alumni Associa-
tion of Cleveland.
’67—At the recent meeting of the
American Economic Association, Pro-
fessor Charles S. Walker of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College read a
paper on the subject “Recent Economic
Changes in the State of Massachusetts.”
Professor Walker has lectured quite
extensively upon the relation of polit-
ical economy and civics to agriculture,
and is the author of many published
articles and reviews on this and related
subjects. }
’67—At the funeral services in Chi-
cago of the late Judge John William
Showalter of the United States Circuit
Court, Judge Jenkins of the United
States Court spoke as follows: “My
friends, we are met to pay the last sad
ofaces toa friend and a citizen. He
needs no eulogy. His life spoke and
still speaks its character. <A_ plain,
modest, unassuming, self-contained,
scholarly, strong man, with feelings as
tender and sympathetic as those of a
girl. He was a man that feared and
loved God with a firm and _ steadfast
frankness. As a Judge he was able,
patient, painstaking, studious, and im-
partial; slow to form a conviction, but
fearless to declare his conclusions. He
was absolutely incorruptible. Neither
the blandishments of power nor the
howling mob could sway him from true
judgment as he read the law. No
nobler crown awaits him. His life was
a beacon light shining out into the
datkness, pointing out to the coming
generations that the one true road to
usefulness and to honor lies in the faith-
ful and intelligent discharge of duty.
His official friends who but a few years
enjoyed familiar intercourse with him
came almost imperceptibly to love and
honor him. In consultation he was in-
dulgent of the opinions of others, but
firm as a rock in the expression of his
own convictions. His genial ways and
kindly manner bound us to him with
hoops of steel. We knew not until he
was gone how close that attachment
was. We now know how cruel was
the summons. Farewell, friend and
brother; after life’s fitful fever thou
sleepest.”
‘“o—L. E. V. has sent a letter to the
Bridgeport Standard, saying that a
member of the Yale Corporation from
Bridgeport would be fitting, and sug-
gesting the Hon. Morris B. Beardsley
for one of the vacancies.
72 The engagement is announced of
Miss Marion Rumsey, daughter of M.
Rumsey, Esq. of St. Louis, Mo. to Dr.
D. Bryson Delavan of New York City.
’72-The marriage of Miss Edna
Maxfield Whited, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Whited, to the Hon. Fred
T. DuBois, took place on January II,
at 784 Flournoy st., Chicago. Mr. and
Mrs. DuBois will be at home after
March 1, in Blackfoot, Idaho.
75 S—Amos A. Browning is a can-
didate for election to the assistant
poseship of the City Court of Norwich,
onn.
"79 S.—Col. Isaiah: -K; -Stetson. has
been elected Speaker of the Maine
House of Representatives.
’79—The weekly publication Success
of Jan. 14 has a brief sketch and a
half-tone portrait of Lieut.-Governor
Timothy L. Woodruff of New York.
’80—The marriage of Miss Mary Bell
Brown and John S. Harding took place
at Chattanooga, Tenn., on January 5.
Miss Brown is a_ stepdaughter of
Xenophon Wheeler, ’60.
"81 L.S.—At a recent meeting of the
National Life Association held at Hart-
ford, Sidney E. Clarke was elected a
director of the Association.
’81—John C. Colman is one of the
counsel on behalf of the property
owners on Amsterdam avenue, who
object to four tracks on the avenue.
On January 12, the counsel secured
from Justice Giegerich an order to show
cause why a_ permanent
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should not be granted, restraining the
Forty-second street, Manhattanville and
St. Nicholas Railway from constructing
or operating an underground trolley
system on the two outward tracks
owned or operated by them from
Seventy-second street to Manhattan
street, on Amsterdam avenue.
’82—Dr. Burnside Foster is the editor
of a new medical journal just published
in St. Paul, Minnesota.
’80-Frank E. Page is teaching Latin
and Mathematics in the Columbus
Central High School, Columbus, Ohio.
’83S.—Prof. A. W. Phillips has. en-
tirely recovered from his attack of grip.
’83--The engagement has been an-
nounced of Miss Mary Lusk of New
York City, to Cleveland L. Moffett.
’84—Allison V. Armour of Chicago
is on his yacht in Southern waters, and
intends to visit Havana and other ports.
’85—-Guy Ward Mallon has_ been
elected President of the Young Men’s
Mercantile Library Association of Cin-
cinnati for the year 1899. This library is
one of the oldest institutions in Cin-
cinnati, having been founded in 1835.
It has been closely connected with the’
growth of that city and has always
figured prominently in its social and
business life.
’8s—The leading article in the current
number of the Journalist is a sketch of
Edward Bunnell Phelps, owner and
editor of the insurance paper Thrift,
written by Mr. Allan Forman. On the
first page is a large and well-executed
half-tone portrait of Mr. Phelps. After
handsomely introducing Mr. Phelps,
Mr. Forman sketches his newspaper
career as follows:
“He began newspaper work in New
Haven soon after graduating from col-
lege, but soon drifted to New York and
obtained a position on the New York
World. He served on the Herald, the
Times, the Mail and Express, and finally
developed a specialty of club news
which he syndicated to a number of the
leading New York papers. He was
very sticcessful in this and made many
friends among the leading club men of
New York. He edited The Club so long
as that periodical lasted, and then was
associated with Baron de Grimm as
editor of “The de Grimm Syndicate.”’
He was a regular contributor to the
American Press Association’s service
and did considerable general work.
“About this time it occurred to him
that insurance was a good field. He
was equipped with a clear and logical
style of writing, a natural bent for statis-
tics, a broad newspaper experience and
a vast and comprehensive ignorance of
his subject. He secured backing and
started Thrift, originally a paper de-
voted exclusively to the assessment in-
terests, but since broadened out so as
to cover the whole field. He studied
and worked and had pushed his paper
well along toward success when he was
attacked by convulsions proceeding
from an abscess in the brain, a tempero-
spheroidal abscess, the doctors call it. It
necessitated an operation which in all
previous cases had been fatal—Phelps
recovered. Five times he has gone
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to. the operating table, each time to
undergo an operation in which the
chances were all against him. But his
indomitable pluck, his cheerful spirit
and strong constitution have pulled him
through. He is a noted case among
the medical profession, who look upon
his recovery as little short of a miracle.
Through it all, in his intervals of con-
valescence, he has run his paper to such
good purpose that it has steadily grown
in strength and influence, and is now
one of the recognized factors in the in-
surance world.
“In his paper he is forceful and ag-
- gressive, quick to see the flaws in his
adversary s argument and clever in tak-
ing advantage of them, but he is a fair
fighter and never stoops to pettiness.
Entering the business a perfect stranger,
he has won the esteem and good will of
the magnates, who like his courteous
manner and respect his sterling integ-
rity of purpose. He is yet a young
man and if he is permanently cured of
his brain abscess, which the doctorsseem
to think is the case, he has a brilliant
and useful future before him. That he
and Thrift may live to enjoy the pros-
perity they deserve, is the earnest wish
of his host of friends, among whom
the writer is glad to count himself, per-
haps, the most intimate.”
’°87—A son was born to Dr. and Mrs.
John Rogers on January 8th.
’°87—The Dial of Chicago of January
I contains the following notice: “Our
weekly contemporary ‘Unity,’ which
has been published in Chicago for
twenty years, announced an enlarge-
ment of scope whereby it will in future
champion the cause of civic integrity
in addition to its services in behalf of
broad religious truth. Mr. William
Kent is now associated with Mr. Jen-
kins Lloyd Jones in the editorship, a
conjunction from which much may be
expected. Mr Kent has long been a
fighter in the good cause of upright
politics, and is, besides a direct and
vigorous writer.”
°87—Governor Roosevelt announced
on January 12 the appointment of
Thomas H. Penny as District Attorney
for Erie County. The Buffalo Com-
mercial has the following sketch of his
life: “Thomas Penney was born in Lon-
don, England, on May 6th, 1859. At
the early age of ten years he was com-
pelled to earn his own living, and he
secured employment in a mercantile
establishment in London. He soon
realized that there was no chance of
advancement for a poor boy, situated as
he was, and after five years of hard
work he made up his mind to come to
America. He sailed for this country
and arrived in New York City when he
was but fifteen years of age, entirely
alone and without friends or money. -
He soon found employment, but was
embarrassed by his lack of education,
and sought means to acquire a proper
schooling. He had no money, but
made arrangements for attending Wil-
liston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass.,
while working in a store during his
spare moments. Mr. Penney succeeded
in three years’ time in passing through
the entire classical course, usually cov-
ered by a period of four years, by work-
ing nights and holidays, and in addition
he earned sufficient money to pay all his
expenses. He determined then to se-
cure a collegiate education, and by fol-
lowing the same course, of working
nights and holidays, he passed through
the four years’ course at Yale College
and the two years’ course at the Yale
Law School.
was admitted to the Bar in Connecticut.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Penney came to
Buffalo and began his professional life
as a clerk in the law office of Green &
Marcy, composed of the late Justice
Manly C. Green and William L. Marcy.
He was promoted in a short time to the
position of managing clerk and was
admitted to the Bar of New York State.
He afterwards formed a partnership
with Attorney Pennell under the name
of Penney & Pennell, but it was later
dissolved and Mr. Penny united with
Frank C. Laughlin, now a justice of the
Supreme Court, in forming a partner-
ship under the firm name of Laughlin
& Penney. Mr. Penney continued the
practice of the firm until January I,
1894, when he was appointed first
assistant district attorney under Daniel
J. Kenefick. At the time of his ap-
pointment, Mr. Penney relinquished his
private practice and ever since then he
has devoted his entire time and attention
to the duties of the district attorney’s
office. During the five years that Mr.
Penney has served as first assistant dis-
trict attorney he has handled some of
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been in sole charge of the office, and the
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’88—Edwin Parsons has gone South
for the Winter. His address is Ash-
ley Phosphate, South Carolina.
’88S.—The condition of Prof. Percy
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