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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY een ‘eee YALE OBITUARIES. GEORGE DOUGLAS, 749. George Douglas, ’49, died at his home, 106 West Ninety-second street, New York City, May 11. He was born at Waterford, N. Y., October 10, 1829, and entered the Class from the Univer- sity of the City of New York, at the beginning of Junior year. After grad- uation he studied law in New York City and Ballston, N. Y., with an inter- val of sixteen months in Europe and the Eastern countries. In 1853, he established himself in th practice of his profession in New York City, and he has been a lawyer in that city ever since that time. At the beginning of the Civil War, he served in one of the Three Month’s Regiments of New York. From 1876 to 1883 he had his residence in Summit, N. J., but, with the exception of those years he has re- sided in New York. Since 1890 he was a member of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, at No. 45 Wall st. Mr. Douglas was married to Miss Martha H. Montague of Hartford, Conn., October 26, 1854. They had four children: Ellen Montague; John Montague, and George Malcolm. His daughter, Ellen Montague, was mar- ried March 31, 1880, to Frederick Stuart Stedman, son of Edmund Clarence Stedman, Yale 753. GEORGE MAYER FRANKLIN, ’58. George Mayer Franklin of the Class of Fifty-Eight died suddenly at~ his home, Lancaster, Pa., Monday, May 15. He had just recovered from an attack of pneumonia. The weakness conise- quent upon this illness was more than an already weakened heart could stand, and he died without pain, heart failure being the immediate cause. Mr. Franklin was born at Lancaster, Pa., June 9, 1839, his father being Thomas Emlen Franklin, an eminent “Jurist and Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, and his grandfather, Walter Franklin, Judge of the courts of Lancaster County and also Attorney- General of the State. He entered Yale with the Class of Fifty-Eight, and grad- uated the youngest member of the Class with one exception. After graduation he studied Law in the office of his father and was admitted to the bar in August, 1861. He practised Law until August, 1862, when he enlisted with Company A, 122d Pennsylvania Volunteers, being commissioned First Lieutenant. He was promoted to the Captaincy Jan- uary, 1863, and served in the third corps of the Army of the Potomac. He par- ticipated in the engagements of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Chantilly, Snick- er’s Gap, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville, and Hazel Grove. He was dis- 5” Twenty YEAR COUPON GOLD BONDS OF THE . METROPOLITAN LIFE Insurance Co. are of the denomination of $1,000 each; every Bond carries 40 coupons (each for $25), payable to bearer on January land July 1. Bothinterest and principal are payable in Gold Coin of present standard of weight and fineness, at the METROPOLITAN TRUST COMPANY OF YORK. (Can be registered.) 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Schenck Company, General Agents, 160 Broadway. NEW charged with his regiment on the ex- piration of his term of service, May, 1863. After a few months’ resumption of his Law practice, he was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant-Gen- eral and assigned to duty on the staff of General Wm. B. Franklin, now liv- | ing in Hartford, Conn., commanding the Nineteenth Army Corps, Depart- ment of the Gulf. On this assignment he took part in the Sabine River expedition and the at- tack on Sabine Pass, and was wrecked off Sabine River. He was in the Red Riven campaign and the engagements at Henderson’s Mills, Bayou Rapids, Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill and Caen River Crossing. His duty done, he resigned Oct. 29, 1864, and resumed the practice of Law. After following his legal vocation for two years he en- tered the hardware business of his father-in-law, George which occupied his chief attention up to the time of his last illness. In addi- tion to these business duties, he was at the time of his death President of the Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, and Treasurer and Manager of the Juniata Sand Co. of Lewiston and Mill Creek, Pa. Always taking a deep in- terest in church affairs, he was for some years Vestryman and Warden of St. James’ Episcopal Church and delegate to the church convention. His military affiliations were preserved by his mem- bership of the Loyal Legion, the United Service Club, and the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1866 he married Sarah Mayer Steinman and all of his children, four sons, survive. Of these William Buel graduated from Yale in 1892, and Frederic Steinman in 1895. Thomas Emlen is a member of the present Academic Junior Class. | His married life was singularly happy and beautiful, and as a kind, loving and thoughtful husband and father, he was all the heart could desire or the imagination conceive. JAMES LANCELOT PHELPS, EX-’79 L.S. Judge James L. Phelps, son of Judge James Phelps, died at his home in Hart- ford, Conn., Thursday morning, May 18, after a week’s sickness with diabetes. He had recently returned from a trip through Texas, where he spent the past Winter in the company of a physician. Judge Phelps was born in Hartford, May 5, 1856. He received his early education in his birthplace and spent the year 1878 in the Yale Law School, but did not graduate. In the follow- ing year he was admitted to the Con- necticut State Bar anl soon proved himself to be an able lawyer. Mr. Phelps entered into partnership with his father soon after graduation. He was elected Town Clerk and Judge of Pro- bate and has held these offices for many years. He was also Chairman of the Democratic Town Committee for many years and held several minor offices. He was an enthusiastic yachtsman and owned at various times several fine yachts. Judge Phelps married, about ten years ago, Miss Harriet Coulter, daughter of the late Judge James Coul- ee of New York City, who survives im. The funeral took place on May 20, at the residence of his father. The Rev. Percy Barnes of St. John’s Episcopal Church officiated. ROBERT STORER TRACY, 793. ‘The late Robert Storer Tracy, ’93, was born October 6, 1871, in New York. His father, J. Evarts Tracy, lawyer, was a graduate of the Yale Law School, in the Class of Fifty-Seven. Tracy entered College with the Class of Ninety-Three, in the Fall of 1880, sg received his degree of A.B. in June, 1893. After graduation, Tracy attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, graduating from there in June, 1896, when he received the de- gree of M.D., and was licensed to prac- tice in the State of New York. At the same time, as a result of a competitive examination, he received an appoint- ment to the resident staff of the New York Hospital, in New York City. 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