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’98—Edwin B. Treat has been elected ~ a member of the School Committee of Oxford, Conn. 2 ‘98—Fred M. Gilbert, Intercollegiate Secretary of the Y. M. C.:A. in Bos- ton, addressed the Williams College As- sociation recently in the interest of the Summer Conference delegation. Stere- opticon views were used to illustrate the address. ’98—S. K. Ruick, Jr., and E.° H. Knight graduated from the Law De- partment of the University of Indiana- polis, May 24. ex-’99—Charles. E. Hay,: <Jr...° of Springfield, Ill., who was recently ap- pointed Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Army, has been assigned to the Twenty-Fourth Infantry. *99—Edgar Atkin will coach the foot- ball team of Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo., next Fall. *99 S.—The engagement is announced of Miss Anna Holmes Galpin, only daughter of William Dwight Galpin of Ansonia, Conn., to Nelson Arthur Howard, son of Capt. Arthur L. Howard of Brownsburg, Quebec, Can- ada. NOTICES. [Alumni Association and Class Secretaries are in- vited to contribute to this column.]} Forty-Nine. The Class of Forty-Nine will meet at President Dwight’s house on Tuesday evening, July 26. This will be the soth year after graduation. W. B. Clark, Sec. Eighty-Nine Decennial. A sufficient number of replies have been received by the Eighty-Nine De- cennial Committee to make it sure that the reunion will be a large one. The tone of the replies and the plans of the reunion assure an enthusiastic and suc- cessful decennial. What is now most wanted is word from those who have not responded anid concerning whom there is no good reason why they should not attend. The Committee must get word right away and it needs but a few more answers to ensure the best reunion in the history of the Class. The Decennial Committee. Ninety-Six 8. Extensive preparations have been made for the first Triennial of the Class of Ninety-Six Sheff. The headquarters of the Class will be at the Tontine Hotel and it is expected that over a hundred members will attend. Squadron A Band of New York will furnish the Music. Registration will take place at the Tontine, Monday morning, May 26; the Class meeting will be Tuesday morning; the Yale-Harvard ball game Tuesday afternoon, and the Class sup- per will be held at Anderson Gym- nasium on Tuesday evening. The committee in charge is composed of Samuel L. Quinby, Grosvenor T. Nichols, and Jonathan Ingersoll. All inquiries as to the Triennial should be addressed to the WNinety-Six Sheff. Triennial Committee Yale Club, 17 Madison Square. YALE OBITUARIES. WILLIAM EDWARD SPARROW, 747 M.S. Dr. William E. Sparrow of Matta- poisett, Mass, died suddenly Monday, May 15, of heart failure, while visiting a patient. Dr. Sparrow was born near Roches- ter Center, Mass., about seventy-five years ago. He graduated from the Yale Medical School with the Class of Forty-Seven and almost immediately commenced the practice of Medicine at Mattapoisett. Dr. Sparrow was Act- ing Surgeon and Medical Examiner at two periods during the Civil War and for nearly thirty years was Postmaster of Mattapoisett. He was also inter- ested in a sawmill business and in ex- tensive cranberry culture. Dr, Sparrow was twice married, and leaves a widow. HON. FREDERICK W. M. HOLLIDAY, °47. Hon. Frederick William Mackey Holliday, ’47, ex-governor of Virginia, died at his residence in Winchester, Va., on Monday, May 29, in the seventy- second year of his age. | Mr. Holliday was born in 1828 and ‘entered the Class of Forty-Seven in Junior year at the age of eighteen. After graduation he studied law at the University of Virginia, where he took his degree and was later admitted to the bar in his native town, Winchester, Va. When the Civil war broke out he ‘took command of a newly formed in- fantry company and soon was promoted to the cee of Colonel of the 33d Vir- ginia Regiment of Stonewall Jackson's brigade. He lost his right arm in the battle of Cedar Run in 1862. Being unfitted for field work, he was elected to the Confederate Congress, in which he continued till the end of the war. After the war he practiced law at Winchester and was appointed Com- missioner for Virginia at the Philadel- phia Centennial and a Democratic Elector-at-Large in the Presidential Campaign of 1876. In 1877 he was elected Governor of Virginia on the Democratic ticket. At the expiration of his term he refired from politics and in the latter part of his life he traveled extensively, visiting almost every por- tion of the globe. In March, 1896, he was stricken with paralysis, which af- fected his whole right side and from which he never entirely recovered. _ Mr. Holliday was married to Miss Hannah Taylor McCormick in January, 1868, who died in December of the same year. In: -October;.: 1871,: he married Miss Carrie Calvart Stewart, who also died in 1872. DR. W. E. MOORE, 747. Rev. Dr. William Eves Moore, ’47, died at his home in Columbus, . O., June 5. a! Dr. Moore was born April 1, 1823, and was a native of Lancaster County, Pa. After graduating from Yale, he studied Theology under Rey. Dr. Ly- man H. Atwater, while teaching in the Academy at Fairfield, Conn. On Octo- ber 30, 1850, he was installed Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at West- chester, Pa. He resigned his pastorate there in 1872 and accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church of Colum- bus, O. He held this charge until April, 1894. For ten years he was President of the School Board in Westchester, Pa., and, at its founding, was President of the Board of the Normal School at West- chester. For twenty years he was a trustee of Marietta College, Ohio, and of Lane Theological Seminary at Cin- cinnati, O. He is the author of’ several Digests of the Acts and Deliverances of the General Assembly of the Presby- terian Church in the United States of America. These are of the years 1861, 1873, 1886, 1897. He was Modera- tor of the Presbyterian Assembly in 1890, at Saratoga Springs and served as a member of the Commitee to prepare a new “Book of Discipline’ between 1878 and 1883. He was of the committee appointed to revise the Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian Church. He was Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Synod of Ohio since 1882, and Perma- nent Recording Clerk of the General Assembly since 1884. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Marietta College in 1873 and of Doctor of Laws from Lake Forest Uni- versity in 1891. During the Civil War he was active in the Christian Commis- sion and in 1863, at the time of the Con- federate invasion of Pennsylvania, en- listed as a private in a battery of artil- lery,. was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and then served during the Gettysburg campaign until discharged with the battery. Dr. Moore was married September 19, 1850, to Harriet F. Foote, daughter of the Rev. George Foote, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Newark, Del- aware. At the time of the preparation of the Jubilee renort of the Class of Forty-Seven, six of his ten children were living. These were the following: Rev. George Foote Moore, D.D. (Yale 72), Professor of Hebrew in Andover Theological Seminary; Rev. Edward Caldwell Moore, D.D. (Marietta 777), Pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Providence, R. I.; Henry M. W. Moore (Marietta ’82), Instructor in Bacteriology in Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio: Rev. Charles A. Moore (Yale ’86), Tutor in Yale 1889-1892, now Pastor of the Congrega- tional Church, Rockland, Maine; Frank G. Moore, Ph.D. (Yale ’86), Tutor in Yale 1888-1893, now Associate Profes- sor of Latin in Dartmouth College; Frederick A. Moore (Marietta ’go), now in railway service in Columbus, O WILLIAM MCALPIN, ’60. William McAlpin, ’60, died suddenly at his home in Cincinnati, O., Friday morning, June 2, from the effects of an internal hemorrhage. Mr. McAlpin was born in Cincinnati, Jan. 20, 1839, and was the son of Scotch parents, Andrew and Margaret McAI- pin. He received his early education at Herron’s private school in Avon, Conn., and entered Yale with the Class of Sixty. After graduating Mr. Mc- Alpin returned to Cincinnati and en- gaged in commercial pursuits as a part- ner in the house of McAlpin, Hinman - & Co., cabinet and general hardware dealers. In 1865 he made a tour of Eu- rope, spending nearly a year there for his health. Mr. McAlpin was a Commissioner of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition and Chairman of the Art Department; an organizer of the College of Music in Cincinnati, and at the time of his death its President; President of the Cincinnati Y. M. C. A. for five years; a member of the International Commit- tee of the New York Y. M. C. A., and deeply interested in the work abroad, especially in Japan and India; a Direc- tor of the Board of Trade and Trans- portation; President of the Young Men’s Bible Society and the Presby- terian Sunday School; a Director of the Humane Society and of the Mer- cantile Library; President of the Yale Alumni Association of Cincinnati, and a Director of the Society for the Sup- pression of Vice. Mr. McAlpin was also a Trustee and Secretary of the Presbyterian Church and was identified with the Associated Charities of his birthplace. At the time of his death he was not actively engaged in commer- cial pursuits, but spent his leisure in literary studies. Mr. McAlpin leaves a widow and four children. 349 2 ES Se ees MAJOR ARTHUR M. DIGGLES, EX-’77 5, Major Arthur M. Diggles of the Thirteenth Minnesota Regiment was shot through the forehead on May 5, while leading a reconnoitering party at the advance on San Isidro, Philippine Islands. He was taken to the hospital - at Manila, where he died soon after- wards. Major Diggles was born in Boston on May 18, 1855, and was the only son of John H. Diggles of Manchester, England, who came to Boston in 1824, and married Miss Helen M. Johnson. The family somewhat later moved from Boston to their country place, # dtry- town-on-the-Hudson. Major Diggles received his first military training at Dr. Gibson’s military academy at Sing sing, N. Y., where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, the present Governor of New York. He was a member of the Class of Seventy-Seven in the Sheffield Scienti- fic School, but did not graduate. Leav- ing College he first went into business - in New York, but in 1882 moved to Minneapolis, where he actively en- gaged in the real estate and the life in- surance business. He soon became in- terested in the State Militia and rose until he became Captain of Company B, one of the crack companies in the First Regiment, M. G. Captain Diggles volunteered for service with his regiment at the first call for troops. Before sailing from San Francisco he was commissioned Major in his regi- ment, which was later known as the. Thirteenth Minnesota. He was in com- mand of the battalion which formed the advance guard of General Lawton’s forces and which was driven back on May 5, by a large force of the insur- gents, who were strongly intrenched. It was in this engagement that Major Diggles received the wound that caused his death. In 1888 he married Miss Carrie Brackett of Dubuque, Ia., who survives him with a daughter, Ruth, a child of eight. tLe kN A Newspaper published in New York City and sold e for Two Cents, is a paper adapted to SOUND INTELLECTS -.- AND... - Patriotic Hearts. Among other things tt believes in this American Republic.
