WE eee ot er 392, a TALE ALUMNI WEEKLY ALUMNI NOTES. [Continued from 389th page.] ply the Taylor Church in New Haven, during July and August. The pastor, Rev. A. M. Hall, is in Europe. ’98—J. H. Hart will spend the Sum- mer studying in Leipzic, Germany. ’98—Edward Sawyer is with an im- porting firm on Wall street in New York. ’o8—Morris U. Ely will return to Yale next Fall and study for the degree or. Lis: ’98—William E, Selin will enter the Yale Medical School this Fall for a year’s special work. ’98—J. M. Woolsey has entered the law office of Convas & Kirlan, Temple Court Building, New York. ’98—Franklin A. Lord was awarded the third prize at the Wayland Prize Debate held in the Law School on June 5. ’98—A. I. Lewis has become con- nected with the Bailie Coal Co., a wholesale and retail company, of which he is Secretary. : ’98—Herbert Gallaudet will pursue a course of study in Theology during the Summer at the University of Mar- burg, Germany. ’98—W. G..Erving is traveling in Europe, his trip including Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, etc., to Hamburg. ’98—George H. Hanford of Syracuse, N. Y. has been appointed an assistant in the Biological Laboratory of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. ’98—At the recent Commencement of Columbia University the degree of M.A. was conferred upon Robert K. Richardson for graduate work in His- tory. During the present Summer Mr. Richardson, in company with W. G. Erving, also of ’98, is taking a bicycle trip in Southern Italy, Sicily and Greece. He expects to spend next Winter in Paris, doing advanced work in History. ’98 S.—Clarence G. Spalding is en- gaged in business with the drug manu- facturing firm of Park, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. ’98 S—Edward L. Freeland has left his position with the National Lead Co. of New York City, and is now in the laboratory of the Boston « New York Dyewood Co. ’98' T:Si—John... P.... Deane ‘has ac- cepted the position of assistant to Dr. T. T. Munger, the pastor of the United Church. ’°o9—A. G. Vanderbilt and W. F. H. Whitehouse, Jr., are making a trip around the world. ’99 T.S.—E. W. Lyman has gone to Berlin, where he will study for two years under the Hooker Fellowship. YALE OBITUARIES. REV. B. A. SMITH, 743. Rev. Burritt A. Smith, ’43, died in Worcester, Mass., June 16, at the house of his son-in-law, Frederick J. Barnard, 63. Mr. Smith was born in Oxford, Conn., August 4, 1820. After gradua- tion he taught in New London for a year, and then for two years in the Uni- versity of Michigan. He resigned this position to begin the study of Theology in New Haven, but a year later went to Leicester, Mass., to become, as First Assistant Principal, then, after two years, Principal, of Leicester Academy. In 1852 he opened a boy’s school of his own in Fair Haven, soon removing to New York, where he taught for the next eight years. In 1862 he returned to his original purpose of entering the ministry. He completed his studies in Union Theo- logical Seminary, and began pastoral work at the Congregational Church in Unionville, Conn. In 1865 he was called to the pastorate of the Congre- gational Church in Southampton, Mass., and was afterwards settle S_uth Mendota and Ottawa, He aed East Hampton, Conn. In 1875 he gave up the ministry and began to teach again in Middletown, Conn., where from 1876 to 1883 he was proprietor of a girl’s school. At the end of this time he went to Worcester, which was his home for the remainder of his life. ; es Mr. Smith was married three times. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel W. Colburn, of Leicester, to whom he was married in 1848, and who died in 1855. He was married again in 1857, to Mary, daughter of Dr. Waldo Hutchins of New York. Her death occurred in 1861. In 1865 he was married to Ellen Rowley, of Farming- ton, Conn., who died in 1881. He leaves three children. His only sur- viving son, Herbert A. Smith, is a graduate of Yale College, of the Class of Eighty-Nine. THEODORE LANAHAN HOOPER, ’80 S. Theodore Lanahan Hooper, ’805S., died on Wednesday, May 10, of pul- monary trouble, at El Paso, Texas, where he had gone for his health. Mr. Hooper was born about forty years ago at Baltimore, Md. He grad- uated from the Sheffield Scientific School with the Class of Eighty, and almost.immediately entered the whole- sale cotton firm of William E. Hooper & Sons, Baltimore, Md. His health began to fail about three years ago, and since that time he has been traveling extensively. He spent one year in the Bahamas and then went to Colorado Springs until four months ago, when he left for El Paso, Texas. Mr. Hooper’s father and two: sisters survive him. REV. CHARLES A. SAVAGE, ’80T.S. The Rev. Charles Albert Savage, pastor of the Orange Valley Congrega- tional Church, died Thursday, May 11, at the parsonage in Orange, N. J. Mr. Savage was born in Stowe, Vt., in 1849, eraduated from Dartmouth College in 1871, and taught for three years in the Academy at St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was then appointed professor of Mathema- tics in Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey, where he remained for a period of four years. He returned to this country in 1878 and was graduated from the Yale Divinity School with the Class of Eighty. He held charges at Berkeley, California, and Enfield; Mas- sachusetts, and went to Orange in 1890. He married Miss Mary E. Fiske, of Newburyport, Mass., in 1882. She and two children survive him. Be