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and interests other Yale men.
'33-Frederick E. Mather celebrated
his ninetieth birthday, May 23d, at his
home in New York.
*25—William C. Bissell celebrated his
eighty-eighth birthday on June 8 at his
home in Humboldt, Neb.
’°36—William D. Ely will celebrate his
eighty-fourth birthday on June 16, at
his home in Providence, R. I.
’°37-Rey. Elisha W. Cook of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., has just completed a new
book entitled “The Origin of Sin and
Its Relations to God and the Universe.”
*42—Dr. Samuel W. Skinner of
Toledo, O., has retired from the prac-
tice of medicine because of ill health
growing out of his four year’s service as
Surgeon in the Civil War. He is de-
voting himself to practical mathematics
and has recently invented a “perpetual
calendar’ by which may be ascertained
on what day of the week any given date
—past, present, or future—will fall.
He is now working on a method of
computing the date of Easter for an
unlimited period in the future or past.
’47—Prof. Henry G. Jesup has re-
signed the Professorship of Botany at
Dartmouth College owing to ill health,
He has been connected with the Col-
lege for over twenty-two years.
’49—President Dwight will spend the
greater -part of the Summer at his home
in Litchfield.
*50—Rev. Willis S:. Colton has re-
cently retired from the Ministry and is
living at 35 13th street, Toledo, Ohio.
Mrs. Colton was run down by a bicy-
clist a short time ago and quite seri-
ously injured.
’*50—Rev. Samuel Johnson was elected
President of the American Congrega-
tional Association, May 29.
’51—J. W. Hendrie has recently given
$10,000 to the California Academy of
Sciences. He has also made a gift of
$1,000 to the Ferguson Library of
Greenwich, Conn., within a short time.
’5I—Rev. James G. Vose, D.D., of
the Beneficent Congregational Church
of Providence, recently returned from
Lakewood, N. J., where he has spent
the Winter for his health.
’53—Hon. H. C. Robinson delivered
an address at the Hartford High
School semi-centennial which was held
in Hartford, June 9.
’53—Joshua Coit was elected Cor-
responding Secretary of the American
Congregational Association, May 29.
’53—Charlton T. Lewis has been re-
cently elected a Director of the North
American Trust Co.
’56—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. French
of New Haven, have returned from a
trip to Washington, Gettysburg and
Norfolk.
’56—Rev. Prof. Levi L. Paine, D.D.,
Professor of Church History in the
Bangor Theological Seminary, spent
the past week in New Haven.
’56—General Wager Swayne, LL.D.,
delivered an address before the Mo-
honk Lake Arbitration Conference on
June 2.
’56—Chauncey M. Depew sailed for
Europe on Wednesday, June 7.
*58—F. A. Noble has been elected
Vice-President of the International
Congregational Council to be held in
Boston, Sept. 20.
’50—Rey. William K. Hall delivered
the sermon on the cccasion of the 261st
anniversary of the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company of Boston on
June 5.
’590—Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Twichell
will sail for Europe, June 28, to be
abroad until the end of September.
’60-—Prof. Eugene L. Richards repre-
sented Yale at the meeting of the Grad-
uate Committee of Appeal of the I. A.
A. held in New York, May 26.
’60—Dr. and Mrs, Francis Delafield
will spend part of the Summer at
Southampton, L. I.
’6bo—An article on the late O. C.
Marsh of Yale University appears in
the June number of the American Jour-
nal of Science.
61—Samuel Arthur Bent has recently
resigned his position as Clerk and
Treasurer of the Bostonian Society,
Old State House, Boston, to which he
was elected in 1890. His address will
be Brookline, Mass.
’62—P. N. Welch was elected Treas-
urer of the Connecticut Law and Or-
der League, June 7.
’62—Rev. James B. Chase has ac-
cepted a call to the pastorate of the
Congregational Churches at Hull and
Perkins, Ia., in connection with the
principalship of the Hull Educational
Institute.
’63—Walter Allen has an article en-
titled ‘New Haven” in the current
number of the New England Magazine.
’66—Mr. and Mrs. M. Dwight Collier
sailed for Europe, June I. ~
66 M.S.—Dr. George R. Shepherd of
Hartford, Conn., was recently -unani-
mously elected President of the Na-
tional Association of Medical Directors
of Life Insurances Companies.
’68—John H. Wilson was ordained a
Deacon of Trinity Church, New York,
May 28.
*68—The Right Rev. Chauncey B.
Brewster was elected President of the
Alumni Association of Berkeley Divi-
nity School, June 7.
’68—Rev. and Mrs. Donald Mac-
Gregor of Troy, N. Y.; sailed .for
Glasgow recently on the Steamship
Furnessia.
’*68—Wm. M. Slay has been nomi-
nated as State’s Attorney by the Demo-
cratic party of Kent County, Md.
’68—The marriage of Miss Dickey
and Surrogate James M. Varnum will
take place in Grace Church, New York
City on Wednesday, June 14. Mr. and
Mrs. Varnum will spend their honey-
moon at Bar Harbor.
°69—Prof. Bernadotte Perrin has been
appointed a member of the State Com-
mission of Sculpture for Connecticut.
*69—E. P. Arvine was elected to the
Board of Directors of the Connecticut
Law and Order League on June 7. He
will sail for Rottendam, July 15.
’69—Dr. John P. C. Foster of New
Haven will spend the Summer travel-
ling through Europe.
’69—Rufus B. Richardson of the
American School at Athens is now con-
ducting the evacuation going on at
Corinth. Some valuable discoveries
have been made recently.
69 S.— Albert B. Hill of New Haven,
Conn., is at Berkeley Springs, West
Virginia.
’70—Charles W. Gould was elected a
member of the Board of Directors of
the Knickerbocker Trust Company on
June I.
*70—C. E. Perkins presided over the
Hartford High School semi-centennial,
which was held in Hartford on June 9.
"70-—Charles E. Shepard was re-
elected Vestryman and Junior Warden
of St. Mark’s Parish, Seattle, on May 1.
'70—The Hon. Morris B. Beardsley
of Bridgeport, Conn., who has been
traveling in Europe will return home on
June 20.
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’79—Charles H. Dix is engaged with
James Garrett in the stone industry,
with office at 3201 Walnut street, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
’790—Hon, John H. Perry has been
elected a member of the Executive
Committee of the Congregational Home
Missionary Society to serve until Igor.
*72—Rev. E. S. Lines was elected
Vice-President of the Alumni Associa-
tion of the Berkeley Divinity School,
June 7.
73 T.S.—Rev. Henry L. Griffin, Pas-
tor of the Hammond Street Congrega-
tional Church, Bangor, Me., sailed re-
cently for Europe. Most of. his time
abroad will be spent in Berlin.
"73 S.—Prof. Andrew W. Phillips was
one of the committee in charge of the
examinations for admission to West
Point held in New Haven, June 3.
"74—Prof. Henry W. Farnam has
been granted a year’s leave of absence
and will sail for Europe with his
family directly after Commencement.
’74—The marriage of Mrs. James D.
VanHoevenberg and Thomas G. Evans
took place at New Brighton, L. L.,
June 2.
"74—Henry A. James will spend Com-
mencement week in New Haven with
Prof. T. S. Woolsey.
"74—The marriage of Miss Elma C.
Hixson to Dr. Charles W. Benton,
Professor of French in the University
of Minnesota, took place May 29 in the
Grace M. E. Church at Fergus Falls,
Minn. The ceremony was followed by
a reception at the bride’s home. Prof.
and Mrs. Benton left immediately for
the East to sail for a four months’ Eu-
ropean trip.
74 'T.S.—George E. MacLean, Ph.D.,
LL.D., of Lincoln, Nebraska, has been
elected President of the University of
Towa.
75°5.—Mr. and Mrs. Alfred N.
Wheeler have taken a cottage at Wood-
mont, Conn., for the Summer.
’76—President-elect Arthur T. Had-
ley will pass his vacation this Summer
at Botsford, Fairfield County, Conn.,
about twenty miles from New Haven.
’76—In the sketch of President-elect
Hadley, by a typographical error his
term as Labor Commissioner was made
to extend from 1885 to 1880.
have been from 1885 to 1887.
’77—Dr. James B. Neal sailed June
9 from San Francisco for Chefoo,
China, where he has been engaged in
medical missionary work for many
years past. He has been in this coun-
try the past year.
77—J. G. Pyle is now located at
Everett, in the State of Washington,
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and reports good progress toward the’
recovery of his health, which has been
much impaired during the past two
years.
*78—Rev. Douglas P. Birnie has re-
ceived a call to the Presbyterian Church
of Rye, N. Y.
*78—The present address of Tudor
Jenks is Lawrence Park, Bronxville,
N.¥
*78—Edward B. Whitney will spend
the Summer at Wainscot, L. I.
"78—The Rev. Douglas Putnam Bir-
nie addressed the meeting of the Phi
Beta Kappa alumni held at the Savoy
Hotel, N. Y., recently. His subject
was “The White Man in the Tropics.”
*79—Ernest Carter, the Paymaster on
the cruiser Yale, sails for Honolulu and
Manila, July 27.
*80—Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Osborn will
spend the Summer at Castleton, Vt.
80 T.S.—Dr. John E. Russell, M.A.,
Professor at Williams, has been granted
a leave of absence for one year on ac-
count of poor health. i
80 T.S.—Macmillan Company an-
nounce the publication of a book by
Prof. William Freemont Blackman on
“The Making of Hawaii.”
sober and comprehensive discussion of
the forces developing the islands.
’°81—Prof. George Woolsey is one of
the editors of a new edition of Gray’s
Anatomy.
’°82—Prof. Frank F. Abbott of the
University of Chicago has been as-
signed to the American School at
Athens for the year 1901 to 1902.
82 S.—William H. Crocker of San
Francisco sailed for Europe on the
Kaiser Frederich, May 23.
°83—The marriage of Miss Margaret
Grosbeck Burnet, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacobs Staats Burnet, to Dudley
Phelps took place on Thursday, June-r,
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'83—Professor E. I. Bosworth =
conduct the class in “Studies ‘athe ea
and Epistles’ at the Northfield Sty-
dents’ Conference this Summer.
°84—Prof. Gustav Gruener will spend
the Summer traveling in Russia and
Germany.
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84—Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund P.
Cottle of the 2o1st New York Regi-
ment, upon retiring from the position
of Provost Marshal, was presented with
a handsome sword by the citizens of
Greenville, S. C.
’°84—Prof. George W. Patterson, Jr.,
Professor of Chemistry and Electrical
Science at the University of Michigan,
who has been pursuing a year’s course
of study abroad, will return to this
country the latter part of July, and as-
sume an advanced position.
’84—Dr. G. Hudson Makuen has re-
cently been elected President of the
American Academy of Medicine.
’84—Frank Strong has resigned his
position on the New Haven Board of
Education. The resignation will take
effect at the close of the present school
year.
°84—Rev. Prof. Reinert A. Jernberg
of the Dano-Norwegian department in
the Chicago Theological Seminary left
Chicago, May 22, for a Summer in Eu-
rope. He will visit Italy, Switzerland,
Germany, Sweden and Norway.
’85—The marriage of Miss Mary Ap-
pleton Ripley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Ripley, to Frank R. Shipman,
will take place Thursday, June 15, at
4.30 P. M. at South Church, Andover,
Mass. A wedding reception will be
held immediately after the ceremony at
48 Central street. .
*85—“The Development of the Eng-
lish Novel,” by Wilbur L. Cross, As-
sistant Professor of English in the Shef-
field Scientific School, will be published —
shortly by the Macmillan Company.
’85—Dr. William M. Carhart has been
elected Secretary of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Peekskill Training School
for Nurses.
85 M.S.—Dr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Vishno will occupy a cottage near the
Ansantawae, Savin Rock, Conn., during
the whole of the Summer.
’°86—Dr. L. B. Bishop left New Ha-
ven, May 24, for an extended trip in
Alaska.
’°86—The marriage of Miss Ida
Catherine Lilly to Lawrence William
Churchill took place Wednesday, June
7, in New York.
°86 T.S.—F..C. Porter will speak on
“Messages of the Old Testament for
To-day” at the International Congrega-
tional Council to be held in Boston,
Sept. 20.
’°87—Rev. Charles O. Scoville will
spend the Summer in the northern
woods of New England, as is his cus-
tom.
’°87—Dr. Charles A. Knight has been
elected to the Board of Directors of the
Peekskill Training School for Nurses.
87 L.S.—Benjamin F. James has re-
cently moved from Bowling Green to
Toledo, Ohio. His present address is
524 The Spitzer, Toledo, Ohio. He is
attorney for the Standard Oil interests
in Northwestern Ohio.
’88--The marriage of Miss Louise
Gregg of Philadelphia to Dr. Alfred
Hand, Jr., took place Tuesday, June
6, at St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia.
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