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February 23 and 24.
St. Louis, Planter’s Hotel, Feb-
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Columbus, March 1 and 2.
Harrisburg, March 3.
F. A. CORBIN,
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dered the appointment of Minister to
Spain by President Harrison, but de-
clined it.”
Mr. Robinson was leading counsel
for the Republican party in the quo
warranto proceedings growing out of
the contest for the Connecticut gov-
ernorship of 1891-93. Besides his posi-
tion as leading director of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Co. he was a director of the Connecti-
cut Mutual Life Insurance Co., the
Connecticut Fire Insurance Co. and the
Hartford Steam Boiler & Inspection
Insurance Co.; a trustee of the Connec-
ticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co., a mem-
ber of the Hartford Board of Trade,
for several years President of the Re-
publican Club of Hartford, and was also
American ‘Trustee’ for the Scottish
Union Insurance Co. He was offered
some years ago the presidency of the
Consolidated Road, but declined it.
Mr. Robinson was always prominently
identified with the charitable, philan-
thropic and educational movements of
his city. He was a charter member and
President for several years of the City
Missionary Society, a member of the
Hartford Tract Society, and a trustee
of the Hartford Grammar School. He
was Vice-President of the Bar Associa-
tion of Connecticut and of that of Hart-
ford County. He was also one of the
founders of the Connecticut. Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
He was third president of the Hart-
ford Yale Alumni Association, and was
always active in promoting Yale inter-
ests by work and by counsel. He was
for many years a Law School lecturer
on the ethics of. the legal’ profession.
For fifty years Mr. Robinson was a
member of the South Church of Hart-
ford and was a close personal friend,
adviser and helper of its pastor, Rev.
Dr. Edwin Pond Parker, one of the
members of the Yale Corporation. He
has been very active in all departments
of the life of the church.
Mr. Robinson was an orator of a very
high class. His eloquence was founded
on a fine enthusiasm, a rich imagination,
a liberal scholarship and an excellent
and confident presence. His speeches
at the dedication of the Putnam eques-
trian statue at Brooklyn, Conn., at the
Hartford services at the deaths of Presi-
dent Garfield and General Grant, at the
semi-centennial of the Hartford Public
High School, and at the 4ooth anniver-
sary of the birth of Martin Luther at
the Park Church, and Memorial Day
speeches before members of the Grand
Japanese Crepe.
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Army of the Republic, may be especially
mentioned.
Mr. Robinson was married August 28,
1862, on his 30th birthday, to Miss
Eliza Niles Trumbull, daughter of John
F. Trumbull of Stonington. Mrs.
Robinson and five children survive him.
The children are Lucius F. Robinson,
85 and John T. Robinson, ’93, law part-
ners of their father; Henry S. Robin-
son, ’89, Secretary of the Connecticut
Trust & Safe Deposit Company; Lucy
T., the wife of Sidney T. Miller of
Detroit, and Miss Mary S. Robinson
of Hartford. Mr. Robinson also leaves
four grandchildren. Two sisters sur-
vive Mr. Robinson, Mrs. Sarah A.
Trumbull, widow of Dr. J. Hammond
Trumbull, and Mrs. Shipman, the wife
of Judge Nathaniel Shipman, ’48..
Among the many tributes to his
memory, the Hartford Courant pub-
lished on Thursday morning a letter
from ex-President Dwight, which was
an expression of warmest personal re-
gard and contained the finest tribute to
his personal character. The funeral
services were held at the South Church
in Hartford, Friday morning, February
16. The bearers were his three sons
and his son-in-law, Sidney T. Miller of
Detroit, and his two nephews, Rev.
Frank R. Shipman, ’85, and Arthur L.
Shipman, ’86.
ELIJAH CONE, ’55.
Elijah Cone, 755, died Feb. 11 in Fond
du Lac, Wis. Mr. Cone was born in
Locke, N. Y., April 4, 1831, and pre-
pared for College in that town. After
graduating from Yale he taught Latin
and Greek at Cortland Academy, Cort-
land,  N. .Y. Sand at: (Ciilton, avis.
When the Civil War began he enlisted
as a private in the 4th Wisconsin In-
fantry, engaging in many battles. Re-
turning to Chilton in 1863 he resumed
teaching, varying it somewhat with grain
trading. At the time of his death he
was editor of the Fond du Lac Daily
News. Mr. Cone was married Nov. 20,
1867 to Miss Ellen Agnes Beall, a
daughter of Governor Samuel Beall of
Wisconsin.
JOHN DUNN woop, ’56.
- John Dunn Wood, ’56, died at his
rooms in the Cambridge Hotel, New
York, Monday, February 12, after a very
brief illness.
Mr Wood was born in New York
City,. Oct. 5) 1837: and was the son of
the late Ross W. Wood. After gradu-
ating from Yale he went into the East
Indian house of William A. Sale & Co.,
in New York City and in three years
was sent to represent that firm at Singa-
pore. In 1861 Mr. Wood returned from
the East Indies and engaged in the ship-
ping business in New York, dividing his
residence between the city of his birth
and England. For many years, up to
1893, when he retired, he was the active
partner in the firm of E. S. Higgins &
Co., carpet manufacturers. He was
married in 1868 to Miss Alice R. Col-
gate, who survives him with three
children.
GEORGE WILLIAM FISHER, 68.
George William Fisher, ’68, died at
his home in Grafton, Mass., Wednes-
day, Feb. 17.
Mr. Fisher was born in Grafton, Nov.
18, 1843. He prepared for College at
the Worcester High School. Immedi-
ately after graduation he went into busi-
ness at Fisherville, Mass., becoming a
partner of the firm of E. Fisher & Sons,
manufacturers of cotton goods. The
Fisher Manufacturing Company, for
which Mr. Fisher was agent at the
time of his death, was incorporated in
1882. He was married Jan. 18, 1876 to
Miss Ella F. Farnam, who survives him.
GUSTAVE MOZART STOECKEL, 71.
~ Dr. Gustave Mozart Stoeckel, ’71, died
at his home in Norfolk, Conn., Thurs-
day, Feb. 15, after a short illness.
Dr. Stoeckel was the son of Gustave
Jacob Stoeckel, for a time Battell Pro-
fessor of Music in Yale College, and
Matilda Wilhelmina Stoeckel, and was
born in New Haven, March 1, 1850. He
fitted for Yale at the Hopkins Grammar
School and while in College was much
interested in music, being one of the
founders of the Glee Club. After grad-
uation, he studied a year at the Yale
Medical School and at the College of
WEL S
Physicians and Surgeons in New York
for two years more, graduating in the
Fall of 1874. The next six months he
spent as an assistant physician in the
Infants’ Hospital and from 1874 to
1875 as assistant at Bellevue. Later he
went to Europe, where he spent a year
in London, Paris, and Vienna studying
medicine and surgery. On his return
from Europe he went into the German
Dispensary in New York as assistant
surgeon and in 1879 received the ap-
pointment of assistant sanitary inspector,
being reappointed in 1880 and _ 1881.
Dr. Stoeckel did a great deal of benevo-
lent work among the poorer classes of
the West Side.
SAMUEL J. CORNELL, EX-’84 S.
Samuel J. Cornell, ex-84S., died at
Kingston, N. Y. of pneumonia, Dec. 24,
1899. At the time of his death, Mr.
Cornell was manager of the Grand
Hotel in the Catskills.
WILLIAM CLARK CATLIN, 788 s.
William Clark Catlin, ’88S., died of
pneumonia at his home in Johnstown,
Pa., Friday; Feb. 2. He was: ii: only
a few days.
Mr. Catlin was born April 19, 1867,
in Burlington, Vt., and after he gradu-
ated from Yale went into the employ
of the Illinois Steel Company at South
Chicago. Later he was moved to the
company’s works at Joliet as General
Superintendent, and in 1898 resigned
with that company to accept a position
with the Cambria Co., of Johnstown, in
the draughting department. A _ few
weeks before his death he was made
Superintendent of the Bessemer Depart-
ment of the same company and had
just begun his duties when he was taken
with the fatal disease. Mr. Catlin in-
vented a number of processes while at
Joliet, which are well known ‘to steel
manufacturers, and was regarded as
particularly brilliant in the particular
line he had chosen for a life work.
He married Miss. Frederika Smith,
Pee 17, 1891. There “is one’ child
iving.
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