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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.
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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.
Confirmation of the accidental death,
by drowning, last month at Saranac
Lake, of Robert Storer Tracy, ’93, has
been furnished by the recovery of his
body on the tenth of this month, near
the spot where it had been reasoned
that he must have met his death. The
facts of his life and death will be given
in the next issue of the WEEKLY by
the Class Secretary.
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