YALE ALUMNI NOTES.
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to this column, news concerning himself or
concerning any other alumnus. The column
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and interests other Yale men.
’57—Augustus F. Beard, Secretary of
the A. M. A., returned last week from
Porto Rico, whither he had gone in
company with Dr. William H. Ward of
the Independent to make a study of
educational and religious conditions.
General Henry and the post comman-
ders gave him every possible facility,
and, although he was there only during
January, he is able to make what is per-
haps, the most exhaustive study of
affairs yet made by a secretary of a
missionary organization. ‘A two-col-
umn account of Dr. Beard’s observa-
tions and conclusions is to be found in
the Congregationalist of February 16.
°68—Governor Roosevelt announced
on February 15 the appointment to the
ofice of Surrogate of New York
County of General James M. Varnum.
The New York Tribune says of the ap-
pointee: “Governor Roosevelt’s choice
of a successor to Surrogate Arnold
was particularly satisfactory to acquaint-
ances of General Varnum, whose esti-
mate of his character and ability made
them feel sure that he would correct
abuses in the Surrogate’s office. :
“General Varnum is fifty years old
and a New Yorker by birth. He was
educated partly in this city and was
graduated from Yale and from the
Columbia Law School before he was
admitted to the bar in 1871. He is the
senior member of the law firm of Var-
num & Harrison, at 62 William st. He
was elected to the Legislature in 1870,
and he was the Republican candidate for
Attorney-General of the State in 1880.
He also was.a candidate for Judge of
the Superior Court in 1890. From 1880
to 1883 he was a colonel in the National
Guard on the staff of Governor Cornell.
In 18904 he was commissioned by Gover-
nor Morton as Paymaster-General of
the State, with the rank of Brigadier-
General. In 1891 he was Chairman of
the Republican State Convention at
Rochester. He is a director of the
Lawyers’ Title Insurance Company and
a trustee and counsel of the Real Estate
Trust Company. He is a member of
the Bar Association. Union, Metropoli-
tan and Century Clubs, and has been
one of the Governing Committee of the
University Club and also a member of
the Union League, Republican, Players’
and other clubs.”
*71—Edward Cramer is U. S. Consul
at Florence, Italy.
*71—Cortland Wood’s new address is
Exchange Building, Boston, Mass.
*71—Edward A. Wilson and wife, after
making a tour of Europe, have taken |
a house at Monterey, Mexico, where
they expect to remain for a year, at
least.
"78 S.—Mr. and Mrs. Granger Farwell
sailed for Europe on the “Lucania,”
Saturday, February 11.
*80—The engagement of Miss Eliza-
beth Watt. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Watt of Oakland, Cal.. to
Donald Y. Campbell has recently been
announced. Mr. Campbell is a member
of the law firm of Campbell & Fowler.
’°81—Major Isaac Bromley, who has
been connected with the management
of the New York. New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Company ever since
he abandoned the reportorial staff of
the New York Tribune, has been made
the advertising manager of the system.
which includes a score or more of rail
and water routes in New England. It is
a position that does not give him much
scope for the exercise of that graceful
flippancy and pretty humor that were
as characteristic of his writing as they
were of the penwork of his sincerely
mourned father, Isaac H. Bromley,
when at his best.» It will be hard to
inject into the dry statistics of time-
tables such wholesome fun as made
Major Bromley’s “Fence Oration” of
his Freshman year at Yale—1877—one
of the humorous classics of that staid
old University. That was a bit of spark-
ling wit that will live long in College
traditions.—N. VY. Times.
"87—William"T 9 Pieioss fas. heen
elected an honorary member of the
“Pundit Club,” a literary club recently
reorganized in the Class of Nineteen
Hundred and One at Yale College.
WY AAG
88 S—Selden Y. Osborn, who for
several years has been with the E. S.
Wheeler Co., has accepted a position as
Secretary with the Vacuum Oil Com-
“pany of Rochester, where he went last
week to assume his new duties.
’890—William Clifford Moore arrived
home from his trip abroad on the Furst
Bismarck, Saturday, February 1. ©
’791—Vertner Kenerson, M.D. _ has
_been stationed at Fort Myer near Wash-
ington, D. C. since the outbreak of the
late war. He has been appointed head
surgeon at the fort, where there have
been fewer cases of typhoid fever re-
ported than at any other army post.
’92—The sexennial record ot the Class
of Ninety-Two is completed and will
be published shortly.
’93—G. B. Spalding, Jr., is completing
his course in Theology at Andover
Theological Seminary.
93 S—Huson T. Jackson has been
obliged to go to the Adirondacks on
account of ill-health. :
’93—Derby Rogers returned to his
home in New York last week from the
West, where he has been for several
years for his health.
’94—William Todd is associated with
the James River Construction Co.,
Richmond, Va., who are engaged in
developing the water power of the
James River.
*94—J. C. Sawyer is conducting a
European Traveling Agency through
Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy
and France in connection with H. W.
Dunning, instructor in Scientific Lan-
guages at Yale.
’94—F. S. Chapman for the last 11
months has been employed as civil engi-
neer at the Plum Island fortifications.
His work was the 10-inch emplacements,
which have been finished. He is still
in the employ of the Government.
’95—G. S. Sumner has just returned
from Australia.
’95—J. H. Brown is taking a year’s
trip through the Orient.
’95—The address of Louis Hewlett
is asked for by the class secretary.
’95—The address of George A. Lewis
is asked for by the class secretary.
’95—The address of William K. Fow-
ler is asked for by the class secretary.
’°95—W. N. Whitelaw is studying law
at the State University of Missouri, Mo.
’95—The address of William A.
Moore is asked for by the class secre-
tary.
795—Burton J. Hendrick is on the
editorial staff of the New York Evening
Post.
’9s—F. L. Lee has recently been ad-
Be to the bar of the State of New
York.
’95—-George FE. Batcheller has re-
signed his position in the State Trust
Company of New York City and has
gone on a trip to California with De
Witt. Sage, ’97.
’"95—William H. Scoville is Business
Manager of the “Southern Workman
and Hampton. School Record,” a
monthly published at the Hampton
Institute in Virginia.
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313 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
and at sporting goods stores throughout
the country—By the way, the B.G. I.
Golf Calendar for ’99 is a work of
art—wrrite for one.
ALUMNI
WEEKLY
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’95—Charles A. Kimball is teaching in
the Fitchburg High School, Fitchburg,
Mass. Flis address*is “35 .Mt..Ver-
non street. The note which appeared
in the issue of Dec. 8 stating that Mr.
Kimball wa§ teaching in Littleton,
Mass. was incorrect, his home address
only being there.
96 and ’98 L.S.—Clement A. Fuller is
with the law firm of Fessenden, Carter
& Cummings, Stamford, Conn.
’96—The marriage of Miss Marie
Louise Mott and Edgar S. Auchincloss
took place in New York at the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church on Tues-
day aiternoon, February 14. H. Auch-
incloss, I90I, was the best man and
Wendell P. Colton, ’96, was one of the
ushers.
’97—Graham Sumner was recently
elected an editor of the Harvard Law
Review.
’907—S. F. Johnson was married on
June 29, 1898 to Miss Curtiss of
Meriden.
’°97—G. B. Cutten was married on
July 7, 1898 to Miss Winnie W. Brown
of Westfield, Mass.
’97—W. D. Baldwin pursued the
study of Medicine in Germany during
the Summer of 1808.
’97—-A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Brubacher of East Hampton,
Mass., on October 18, 1808.
’97—G. W. Samson has been made
an assistant superintendent in the Pope
Manufacturing Co. of Hartford, Conn.
’97—E. E. Garrison has gone to
Texas to purchase horses for General
Wood’s mounted police force at San-
tiago.
’97—J. H. Thompson, Jr. is in the
office of Stuart F. Randolph, Attorney
and Counsellor at Law, 31 Nassau st.,
New York City.
’o7—B. B. Kauffman is at present
taking a special course in medicine at
St. Louis, but will rejoin his class in
the Johns Hopkins Medical School in |
April. :
’97—R. D. Mills has left the banking
firm of Kountze Brothers, and is now
with the Stock Exchange house of W.
H. Goadby & Co., 24 Broad street, New
York. ore:
*98—F. W. Tenney may be reached by
letter at the First National Bank Build-
ing, Chicago. ;
°98—The address of F. E. Williamson
is 200 Park av., Albany. N. Y., and not
as before stated in the WEEKLY.
’98—The marriage of Victor Morris
Tyler to Miss Jessie B. Patterson,
daughter of Mrs. Alfred Solona, took
place Tuesday. February 14. at Los
Angeles, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler will
live at the New Haven House, New
Haven. :
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NOTICES.
[Alumni Association and Class Secretaries are in-
vited to contribute to this column.]
Yale and Harvard Dinner.
The Kentucky Harvard and Yale
Alumni Asosciations will dine together
at the Galt House, at Louisville, Satur-
day evening, Feb. 25 at 7.30 sharp.
An attendance of about sixty to seventy-
five is expected including visitors from
the alumni of other cities. sees
The annual meeting of the Yale
Alumni Association for the election of
officers and the transaction of business
will be held just before the banquet.
Long Island Dinner.
The regular Midwinter Banquet of
the Yale Alumni Association of Long
Island will be held at the Oxford Club.
Lafayette Avenue and South Oxford
street, on Friday, March 3d, at seven
Pp. M. sharp. The annual business meet-
ing will be called at six-thirty.
The Executive Committee are pleased
to announce the following exceptional
list of speakers: Governor Theodore
Roosevelt; Lieutenant-Governor Tim-
othy L. Woodruff; General Stewart L.
Woodford arid Mr. James W. Alexan-
der, President of the Princeton Club of
New York. Lieutenant John C. Green-
way of the Rough Riders, and right
hand man of Governor Roosevelt at
Santiago, will be present, at the request
of the Governor, to act in the same
capacity at the dinner.
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Apropos of the above list, the Execu-
tive Committee would remind the
Association that the seating capacity
of the Club is limited to one hundred
and fifty, and that seats will be re-
served in the order of application.
Tickets for the dinner ($4.50) may be
obtained from Mr. Wyllys Terry, 71
Wall street, New York City, at any
time before 12 o’clock noon on Thurs-
day, March 2d. | 3
Seats will be assigned according to
classes, unless otherwise requested.
Members in arrears for dues will kindly
include $3 in their -remittances for
ticket. All indications seem favorable
to making this dinner memorable in the
annals of the Long Island alumni.
FRANK D. TUTTLE.
Secretary.
To Ninety-Seven.
The Secretary is very anxious to re-
vise his list of the occupations and ad-
dresses of the members of the Class of
Ninety-seven, and to this end postals
have been sent out. There are many
from whom no answers have, as yet,
been received. These members are
now earnestly requested to send at once
their present address and occupation
and also to state whatever knowledge
they may have of engagements, mar-
riages, deaths and births, or other
events of Class interest. It is only
through the codperation of the Class
that the Secretary can keep a complete
record of its affairs.
YALE OBITUARIES.
THE LATE ROBERT H. CHAPMAN, ’5o.
Robert Hett Chapman, Yale 50,
oldest child of William S. and C. A.
Chapman, was born near Greensboro,
Alabama, February 7th, 1828, and died
at the home of his brother, Alfred B.
Chapman, on the “Chapman Place,”
near San Gabriel, California, February
4th, 1899. His boyhood was mostly
spent in Talladega, Ala., where he was
prepared for College by Rev. R. B.
Cater, D.D., of the Presbyterian
Church. He graduated from Yale,
second in his Class, in the Summer of
1850. One year was spent in Tuska-
loosa, Ala., where he taught a class of
young men, fitting them to enter the
University. Returning to Talladega he
went into the law office of Hon. Wm.
P. Chilton and John T, Morgan, now
United States Senator Morgan of Ala-
bama, where, with Chancellor Walker
as instructor, he prepared himself for
the practice of Law, which profession
he followed with varying success till
the last year of his life.
r.Chapman was in the Confederate
service throughout the Civil War. After
the war he resumed the practice of Law
in Camden, Ala., but with him the
rights of conscience were always sacred,
his spirit chafed under the new regime,
and in Dec., 1867, he left his native
state and went to Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia. Here he found a home; an
ardent lover of nature, California, with
its sunshine, fruits and flowers satisfied
him. -
From early childhood, Mr. Chapman
had a keen thirst for knowledge, added
to a love of the beautiful and true,
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