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*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,
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_’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.
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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. He
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