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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY xs -_-_— eee YALE ALUMNI NOTES. Please _ report concerning yourself, facts which should be recorded in this column, Make report, also, about Yale men you know, and on matters, proper . for record here, concerning which you have definite record. This will make the page of the greatest possible value. On request the Alumni Weekly will be glad to send postals to those | who are in the way of getting, more or less often, Yale news and Yale per- sonals, | *46—Mrs. Kingsbury. wife of the Hon. Frederick J. Kingsbury of Water- bury, died at her home December 7. A character sketch of Mrs. Kingsbury, written by Dr. Joseph Anderson, ap- pears in the Waterbury American of December 8. 56 M.S.—Oliver Hayden Bronson took charge of the Congregational ce of Simsbury, Conn., Decem- er IO. °61—Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin has been chosen one of the judges of the Harvard-Princeton Vebate. 64 and ’92—Charles L. Atterbury and Thornwell Mullally have formed a partnership under the firm name of Atterbury & Mullally for the general practice of the Law at 30 Broad street, Johnston Building, New York City. "80 T.S.—Professor G. B. Stevens was present and made a speech at the cele- bration of Thanksgiving Day at the Kaiserhof, by the American Colony at Berlin, Germany. ’81—Ernest E. Hart of Council Bluffs, Towa, is in the East on a business trip, and spent several days in New Haven recently. ’*8i1—Mrs. Aiken, wife of the Rev. Edwin Edgerton Aiken, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lockwood of New York City, died at Tientsin, China, October 28. ’°81—Edwin S. Underhill is one of the firm of E. S$. Underhill & Co., proprie- tors of the Steuben Farmers’ Advocate, at Bath, N. Y., who have recently pur- chased the Corning, N. Y. Daily Demo- crat and will conduct both papers. "85 T.S.—Rev. George E. Paddock is called trom Vermilion,..S. D. to the pastorate of Plymouth Church, Omaha. "86 T.S.—Rev. Norman Plass. has settled in Buffalo, N. Y., and is in charge of the work of the Anti-Saloon League in the northern half of the State. "88 S.—W. T. Bull, who is now study- ing at the Yale Medical School, will enter the Columbia College of Physi- es and Surgeons, New York, next all. "88 L.S.—The marriage of Miss Laura Wells Hately to Allen B. Forbes took place September 25, 1899 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Kenwood, Chicago. ’°89—A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry. FE... Mason cot. .Ghicago,: JIL; Wednesday, November 20. ’*890—Henry S. Robinson had a letter in the Hartford Courant of December 4, entitled “Underpaid ‘Directors.’ The letter comments on a proposition re- cently made to the shareholders of the National City Bank of New York. ’89 S.—James Bailey has been elected Assistant General Manager of the Cen- ae Tron’ & Stee! Co. of Harrisburg, a _’92—Henry B. Hinckley has an article in the December issue of the Critic, entitled “Concerning Literature.” ’92—Henry S. Graves, superintendent of working plans in the Division of Forestry of the Department of Agricul- ture, has just edited an illustrated bulle- tin of 84 pages on “Practical Forestry in the Adirondacks.” ’93—Henry R. Dwight has just ac- cepted a position with the American Thread Company, 260 West Broadway, New York City. °93—-The engagement is announced of Miss Ellsworth, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. William W. Ellsworth of New York City, to Dr. George M. Creevey. °93—George T. Slade has resigned his position as Superintendent of the Eastern Railway of Minnesota to accept a position with the Pennsylvania Coal Co. His address hereafter will be No. 1 Broadway, New York City. °93—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anderson, Jr., sailed from New York, November 10, on the steamship Arkadia for Puerto Rico. They have settled in San Juan, where Mr. Anderson has entered the law office of Mr. F. H. Dexter. Their address is Calle Tetuan. No. 1. ex-’93 S.—Samuel C. Pierce is with Shepherd, Ballard & Kent, Mining Brokers, Cripple Creek, Colo. The cor- respondence of the WEEKLY was in error in regard to his present. business. 93 S —A daughter was born Decem- ber 7, 1899 to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. McMullen, of Evanston, Ill. ’94— Ernest Knaebel has opened an office for the general practice of Law at No. 450 Equitable Building, Denver, Colo. ’°95 S.— George H. Seward has re- cently prepared a pamphlet on Belt Type Machines. 93 S. and ’97 M.S.—Dr. Francis H. Todd has been appointed lecturer in Histology at the Paterson, N. J. Gen- eral Hospital. Dr. Todd is now located in Paterson, w-here he has an office at -the corner of Church street and Broad- way. ’96—Wolcott P. Robbins has opened an office for the practice of Law at 71 Broadway, New York City. ’96—W. H. Corbitt was recently ap- pointed referee in the case of Teets vs. The Mutual Life Insurance Co., of New Yorks 96-2 Bdear -€. “ackland, Jr5- who spent the Summer in Paris studying Music, has returned to his home in St: Louis; Mo. ’96—Christopher B. Coleman was or- dained September 17 in the Church of the Disciples at Springfield, Ills, He has decided to take up, in addition to preaching on Sundays, the work of teaching in Butler College, Irvington (near Indianapolis) Indiana. ’97—The wedding of Miss Mildred Williams, daughter of Mr. John P. Wil- liams of Nashville, Tenn. to Goodloe Lindsley, will take place Thursday, December 14, at Christ Church, Nash- ville, Tenn. ’°97 S.— Richard M. Lester has opened law offices in the Savannah Bank and Trust Company Building, 27 East Bay street, Savannah, Ga. ’98—J. R. Smith is studying English at Harvard University. ’°98—P. S. Goulding is classifier in the State Library of Concord, N. H. ’98-—R. W. Archbald is studying Law at the University of Pennsylvania. ’98—-N. B. Beecher has been elected an editor of the Harvard Law Review. ‘98 HB: Treat’ is “itistructor ‘1m Sciences at the Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. *98—W. K. Chisholm eS Superinten- dent of the Minnesota Grass Twine Co. of St. Paul, Minn. *98—J. D. Whitney has recently ac- cepted the position of reporter on the staff of the New York Evening Post. *98—R. B. Glaenzer spent the Sum- mer and Autumn in France and Eng- land studying book-binding and bib- liography. | ’98—Weston Spies Gales is interested in a series of four musicals to be given this month and next in the Third Pres- byterian Church, Elizabeth, N. J. ’98—Moreau Delano has left the office of Kingsley, Mabou & Co., 40 Wall st., New York, and entered that of Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall st. *98— Adelbert S. Hay, the son of Sec- retary. of State John Hay, has been appointed by the President, United States Consul at Pretoria, South Africa. ’98—F. M. Gilbert is to be an Ameri- can representative to the Student Volun- teer Conference, to be held in London, next January. On his return he will act as traveling secretary for the Stu- dent Volunteer movement among the eastern colleges of the United States. 98 S.—Robert F. Dyer is with the Saas Manufacturing Co., Buffalo, 798 S—C. Wayne Cunningham is in the Link-Belt Manufacturing Co., Nice- town, Pa. ’°99—Arthur S. Mann has been elected President of his Class in the New York Theological Seminary. ’°990-H. Chambers is taking an engin- eering course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. _ "99 S.—Clarence A. Warden is study- ing Law in Philadelphia. ’99 S.—Robert Sterling Clark was appointed Second Lieutenant in the regular army by the President in Sep- tember. He has been assigned to the oth Infantry, now serving in the Philip- pines. He sailed for Manila on the transport Thomas, which left New York Novy. 4. La L>» ~~ YALE. NOTICES, - [Class and Association Secretaries are invited to contribute to this column.] Fifty-Five. The Class Committee of Fifty-Five, met at the Yale Club, New York, on the 8th, to make arrangements for the regular Class meeting in New Haven, in June, 1900. The members of the Committee present were: Hon. L. D. Brewster of- Danbury; P. H. Wood- ward of Hartford; Edwin Corning and Rey. H. N. Cobb of New York. | Essex County (N. J.) Meeting. The annual meeting of the Yale Alumni Association of Essex County (New Jersey) will be held at Davis’s Restaurant Music Hall Building, Orange, N. J., Friday evening, Dec. 15, 1899, at 8 o’clock. Reports of Commit- tees will be received and the election of officers for the ensuing year will take place. The meeting was postponed from Dec. 6. Edward D. Duffield, Princeton ’92, of South Orange, N. J., will be present as the representative of Princeton. The annual dinner of the Association will probably be held early in January. Ninety-Six Triennial Record. The Triennial Record of the Class of Ninety-Six will be published next week and a copy sent to every member of the Class. The record is a verv complete one in all particulars, having a steno- graphic report of the business meeting last June, J. K. Berry’s cup speech, the response of H. E. Hawkes, and a well-told story of the whole triennial celebration “by C. o> Day ir = The frontispiece is a picture of the Class on the steps of Osborn Hall. There is besides in the Record the names of the members with their home and business addresses. The book concludes with a statement of all the Ninety-Six men who were in the service of the United States during the Spanish war. In each copy of the Record is enclosed a cir- cular drawn up by the Committee which was appointed to take action in regard to a memorial for Gerald M. Ives, who died from fever contracted while waiting at Tampa. The circular is to learn what the wishes of the Class are about a memorial. YALE OBITUARIES. HENRY C. HALLOWELL, 752. Henry C. Hallowell, ’52, died at Sandy Springs, Md., August 11, 1899, after an illness of two weeks. He was 70 years of age. Henry C. Hallowell was born in Alexandria, Va., June 16, 1829 and after eraduation from Yale spent three years in teaching. After a rest and a trip to Europe he took up his residence. at Sandy Springs, Montgomery Co., Md., 18 miles from Washington, devoting much of his life to farming, though from 1878 to 1892 he conducted a school for girls in connection with his farm. A wife and eight children survive him. In a memorial sketch of the late Mr. Hallowell read at a meeting of the Far- mers’ Club of Sandy Springs, shortly after his death, the following tribute was ~ paid him: ‘With a liberal education and a kind and loving heart, with which nature had blessed him, he was equipped for a career that brought him honor, confidence and respect from his fellow- men in all the duties and responsibilities he assumed or that were placed upon him.” JUDGE MARCUS LYON, ’52. Judge Marcus Lyon, ’52, of Ithaca, N. Y., died at the Sanitarium at Owego, September 18, 1899. He had been an invalid for several years. Judge Lyon, son of Moses and Laura Lyon, was born at Genoa, Cayuga County, N. Y., September 23, 1827, ~ Bloxham of Florida. entering Yale in 1848. By tutoring and teaching in neighboring academies, he paid the greater part of his way through College. In 1852 he began teaching Latin and Mathematics in the Ithaca Academy, studying Law at the same time. Admitted to the Bar in 1854, the next year he was appointed District Attorney of Schuyler County, and was later School Commissioner of Tomp- kins County. For eight years he — served as District Attorney of Tomp- kins County. In 1872 he was appointed County Judge and Surrogate for Tomp- kins County, which office he held for twenty years. Judge Lyon was attor- ney for a number of railroads, was a member of the Board of Education for twelve years, a Trustee of the First Con- gregational Church, a thirty-second. de- gree Mason and Commander of the st. Augustine Commandery for a num- ber of years. , In 1885, he was married to Miss Susan Schuyler, daughter of Philip Schuyler. They had five children, three of whom survive their father. — JUDGE ELEAZAR K, FOSTER, 763. Judge Eleazar Kingsbury Foster, ’63, died at the New Haven Hospital, Fri- day evening, December 8, from the effects of an amputation of a leg less than a week ago. Judge Foster, the son of Eleazar K. Foster, ’°34, was born in New Haven, - Conn., October 31, 1841, and prepared for Yale at the Collesiate and Com- merical Institute. Studying Law dur- ing the -Winter...of 1864;: he “was: ad- mitted to the Bar at New Haven in the Spring of 1865. During his entire life, after graduation, Judoe Foster was afflicted with ill health, which caused frequent changes in residence and occu- pation. St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Sanford and Tallahassee, have in turn been his home. At first engaged as Collector of the port of St. Augustine, in 1868, he was appointed State’s Attor- ney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida. Resuming the practice of Law in Jacksonville in 1871, he was later ap- pointed Superintendent of Public In- struction in the Cabinet of Governor In 1885 he was ap- pointed Judge of the Circuit Court for the Seventh Judicial District of Florida. Judge Foster has served about ten years as attorney for several of the railroads belonging to the Plant System. Judge Foster was married. November 19, 1874, to Miss Mary G. Benedict of St. Augustine. He is survived by a widow and three children, and by two brothers, Dr. John P. C. Foster, ’69, of New Haven and Edward Foster of Buffalo, N. Y. : DANIEL AGNEW MOORE, 80. Daniel Agnew Moore, ’86, died at his home in Pittsburg, Pa., Tuesday even- ing, Nov. 14, of blood poisoning. In order to sectire a complete record, an obituary notice is deferred until - next week. AUGUSTUS CANFIELD LEDYARD, ’98. The cable from Manila announces the death, in the recent uprising in the Island of Negros, of Lieutenant Led- yard, Yale ’98, of the Sixth Infantry, U. S. A. The news was confirmed by a dispatch from Secretary of War Root to Lewis Cass Ledyard of New York, uncle of Lieutenant Ledyard. Augustus Canfield Ledyard was born February 17, 1877 at Chicago, Ill. 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