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300 YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY YALE OBITUARIES. REV. DR. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, ’42. The Rey. Dr. Alexander H. Clapp, died on Thursday, April 22, at his resi- dence, the Chelsea, West Twenty-third street, New York City, after a short illness. He was born in Worthington, Mass., Sept. 1, 1818, and received his preliminiary education at Phillips Acad- emy, at Andover, Mass. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1842, and took two years at the Yale Theological Seminary and one at Andover, finishing his course in 1845. While in Andover he edited selections from the writings of Bishop John Hall. In 1846, he was temporary Professor of Rhetoric at Middleburg College, Middleburg, Vt. His first pastorate as a Congregational minister was at Brattleboro, Vt., from 1846 to 1853, but in January, 1853, he resigned on account of trouble with his eyes, and became cashier of the Pacific Mills in Boston and Lawrence, Mass. From 1855 to 1865, he took charge of the Beneficent Church, at Providence, R. I. During his pastorate he resigned to serve as chaplain in the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. He served through most of the war, being stationed near Washington, D. C. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Iowa College in 1868. After leaving his work in Providence, he was elected Secretary of the Ameri- can Home Missionary Society, holding that position for thirteen years and con- tinuing as Treasurer for several years more. He then became Editor of the Home Missionary, the official organ of the Society. In 1874, he was appointed lecturer on Home Missions at the Andover Theological Seminary. From 1875 to 1895, he was New York Editor of the Congregationalist of Boston. He was a member of the Congregational Club and the New England Historical Society. He was married in 1845, to Miss Emily P. Copeland of Boston, who survives him. Among his publica- tions was “The Lives of the Presidents,” which he edited in 1846. — GEORGE WALKER MEEKER, 79S. George Walker Meeker, ’79S., died at his residence in Chicago, April 21, 1899, after a short illness, at the age of 41. | Mr. Meeker was graduated in the Class of 1879, in the Scientific School, and immediately after leaving College, engaged in the coal business with the firm of E. L. Hedstrom & Co., of the City of .Chicago. He very soon be- came a partner in the firm and con- tinued with them until his death. He was very successful in business and was _ universally respected as a citizen. He was always a loyal Yale man and fre- quently an officer of the Alumni Asso- ciation in Chicago. He was married in 1882 to Louise Ackerman, who, with two children, Lawrence and Margaret, survive him. He was held in high esteem by the University Club, of which he was Treasurer and which, upon his death adopted the following resolution: “We, the friends and associates of George Walker Meeker, desiring to at- test our affection for him and our re- spect and admiration for his high and noble qualities, can do so in no better way than by the adoption of a resolu- tion which shall express our sense of the loss which we have sustained in his death: Therefore be it Resolved, That we recognize and shall miss the fidelity with which he devoted himself, not only to the responsibilities of life which were his own immediate concern, but also to those which devolved upon him as a valued officer of this Club. So long as intregrity, manhood and adherence to principle shall be held in *honor, so long must all who knew our friend keep him in loving remembrance. And so far as it is acceptable we wish to assure those whom he has left behind of our tender sympathy.” ROBERT STORER TRACY, ’93. 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