seven o'clock, St. Patrick’s Day. Do
not miss the opportunity to attend the
first large gathering of Ninety-Nine
men since graduation. The syndicate
composing the committee begs to an-
nounce that S. M. Hawley, 17 East
Twenty-Sixth Street, New York, is
authorized to sell shares in the game at
two dollars per. An early reply is
requested. Every Ninety-Nine man is
invited. Personal notice will be sent
only to those living in and near New
York -Cityc =
Committee—E. T. Noble, S. M. Haw-
ley, E. S: Parmelee, W. H. Field.
YALE OBITUARIES.
REV. JOHN S. DAVENPORT, 733.
Rev. John S. Davenport, 33, died at
his home in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 17.
John S. Davenport was born in Staim-
ford, Conn., September 26, 1808. After
graduating from Yale he studied theol-
ogy at the Yale Divinity School and en-
tered the Congregational ministry, hold-
ing pastorates in Boson, Mass., and
Gorham, Me. In 1842 he took orders
in the Episcopal church and held rector-
ships in New York City, and Oswego,
N. ¥. Leaving the ministry in the late
fifties on account of failing health, he
began a mercantile life in New York,
but in a few years he. gave it up and
entered the Catholic Apostolic Church.
He moved to Hartford and made it his
home a few years ago. Mr. Davenport.
published various articles in the Church
Review, and a small volume entitled
“Christian Unity, and its Recovery.”
He was a direct descendant, in the sixth
generation, of the Rev. John Davenport,
the first minister of New Haven.
Mr. Davenport was married in 1836,
to Miss Elizabeth Levrett. He had five
children, the youngest of whom, John
S., graduated from Yale in 1866.
REV. GEORGE W. NICHOLS, 735.
Rev. George W. Nichols, ’35, died at
his home in Norwalk, Conn., February
16. He had been in ill-health for a long
time and death was due to a general
breaking-up of his system.
Mr. Nichols was born at Fairfield,
Herkimer County, N. Y., May 12, 1817,
his father being Rev. Samuel Nichols,
D.D., once a teacher in Fairfield Acad-
emy. After graduation he entered the
General Theological Seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New
York and afier two years study was or-
daned. During the twelve or fourteen
years of his ministry he held charges
at East Haven, Bantam Falls, Milton
and East Haddam, all in Connecticut.
On account of ill health he was com-
pelled to leave the ministry, so engaged
in business with his brother, E. H.
Nichols, Yale, ’41, in New York, making
his home in Brooklyn. In 1860 he pub-
lished a book called ‘The Pastor’s
Wreath.” Dr. Nichols was married in
New York City in 1870.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, 736.
Judge William Thompson, ’36, died at
the residence of his daughter, Mrs. J.
H. Haughton, at Palatka, Florida, Feb-
tuary 2, 1900.
William Thompson was born at
Shawnee Springs, Mercer County, Ken-
tucky, May 16, 1814. He was a erad-
tate of the Class of 1836 of Yale Col-
lege, and was the last person to be
elected to the office of “Class Bully.”
A few years ago at Commencement he
turned over his club to the Corporation
to be preserved as a relic of that old
institution. In early life he was a large
slave-holder, but he liberated all his
slaves of his own accord long before
the Civil War, and sent them to Liberia.
He then sold his homestead. and re-
moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where he en-
gaged in the banking business, until
1871. He was an active business man
and built the large business house now
occupied by the Iowa State Insurance
Company at Keokuk. He was very
much interested in church work and was
an Elder of the Presbyterian Church
in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, also of the
same church in Keokuk and Palatka
Florida, to which latter place he re.
moved in 1871. In Florida he practiced
law and was elected once to the office
“expenses while in College.
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of County Judge for Putnam County.
Wherever he lived he had the confidence
and respect of the people who constantly
honored him. Funeral services were
first held in Palatka, Florida, and the
body was then sent to Keokuk, Iowa,
for interment.
CHARLES PHILIP HELFENSTEIN, “a:
Charles Philip Helfenstein, ’41, died
at his home in Shamokin, Pa., Feb-
ruaryuis.
He was born at Carlisle, Pa., Septem-
ber 12, 1820, and was the son of John
Philip” Helfenstein and Elizabeth
Leonard Helfenstein. While he was
preparing for College his family moved
to Dayton, Ohio. He entered Yale with
the Class of Forty-One, but left Col-
lege before finishing his Senior year.
He was later given his degree with his
ree In 1880 he took the degree of
ALY,
In 1855 he married Miss Caroline Per-.
kins, the daughter of Captain John Per-
kins, and since that time his home has
been at Shamokin, Pa. He has had a
great deal to do with the development
of that town, and at the time of his
death was interested in a number of its
municipal corporations. In 1872 he re-
tired from active business. Four of his
seven children survive him, two sons,
John P. and William L., being graduates
of Yale in the Classes of 1880 and 1896
respectfully.
FRANK VAN DYKE ANDREWS, 776.
Frank VanDyke Andrews, ’76, died
suddenly at his home in Glendale, O.,
a suburb of Cincinnati, February 14.
His death was caused by a clot of blood
on the brain.
Mr. Andrews was born at Cincinnati,
O., August 19, 1853, and prepared for
Yale at Phillips Exeter Academy.
After graduation from Yale he studied
law at the University of Cincinnati, and
was admitted to the bar of Ohio in
1878. Since that time he has been con-
nected with the law firm of Healy &
Brannan. His ‘wife, who was Miss
Mary Louise Richardson, survives him
without children.
FRANK J. BROWN, 793.
Frank J.. Brown, ’93, died in New
Haven, February 14, after a long and
trying illness.
Mr. Brown was born in Warren, Pa.,
February 22, 1866, and came to New
Haven in 1888 with a strong physique
and a determination to acquire an edu-
cation. Without money, he accepted the
opportunities which offered to pay his
His first
work was in the office of one of the
City papers and each morning he be-
gan work at two o'clock. He continued
this strain for more than a year and
then went into the Codp. and later was
at the head of the Boys’ Club and then
a teacher in, and for three years princi-
pal of, the New Haven evening schools.
During all this time he was working
hard in his studies and took a good
place in his Class. He was Editor of
his Class book at graduation, and was
also an Editor of the Yale Shingle, the
_ annual of the Yale Law School, from
which he graduated in 1895.
He immediately began the practice of
law in New Haven, and, throwing the
same energy and determination into that
work, was very successful. In July,
1897, he was appointed City Attorney,
which office he held until his death.
Mr. Brown was a self-made man and
a fine product of Yale. He lost his life
in the pursuit of an education, and yet
no word of complaint or regret ever
escaped his lips during his long. ill-
ness. He was. always cheerful and
hopeful and more ready to help others
than to ask for help himself. His strong
characteristics were his judgment of men
and his power of organization.
His life was one continual struggle,
but he always said that he would prefer
_ to live a short and useful life to a long
and monotonous one. In a book in
which he had written quotations and
which he used continuously was the
Owe; aptly expressing his idea of
ife-:
“Better to sail life’s craft where surges
beat;
Better the tempest and the wild winds
free,
Than idle drifting on a stagnant sea.”
WEEKLY
At a largely attended meeting of the
New Haven County Bar the following
resolutions were adopted:
“In the death of Frank J. Brown we
recognize that this bar and county has
sustained a severe loss.
“By natural endowments and by a
thorough preparation in the different de-
partments of Yale University, he was
mentally fitted for his profession, and
though one of the younger members
his ability and devotion to his work had
won for him the reputation of a true
lawyer. :
“As City Attorney he was in a posi-
tion in which his worth was fully tested
and in the performance of the duties
of that office he was fair, patient, and
courageous, and won the respect of all
who had dealings with that court.
“Resolved, That we desire to express
our sorrow at the death of Frank J.
Brown, and our admiration for his
manly qualities, and that a copy of this
resolution be spread upon the records,
and sent to his family.
“HENRY G. NEwrTOoN,
“ALFRED N. WHEELER,
“ALBERT McCLELLAN MATHEWSON.”
WARD CHENEY,
[Being the address delivered by the Rev. Joseph H.
Twichell, Yale ’59, of Hartford, at the funeral of
Lieutenant Ward Cheney, Yale 96, at South Man-
chester, Conn., February 16.]
As we come together in this place
to-day, and in this presence, with what
thoughts, what feelings, are our hearts
all filled! Yes, the deepest thoughts
and feelings that life knows are here.
Here is love, beyond words to tell,
that tears only can utter: mother love,
father love, the manifold affection,
pure, tender, generous, fathomless, the
beatitude of the hearthstone, which
makes home the earthly heaven. And
with it every other love, the friend’s,
the classmate’s, the comrade’s, the
neighbor’s. These all mingle and unite
their tide in the communion 6f. this
hour.
And here, answerable to that love,
and born of it, is grief, also beyond
words to tell, with the pain of which,
in this silence, every heart is bleeding.
Here, too, is sympathy unspeakable with
both love and grief, yearning to express
itself yet conscious of lacking power
to do so. These thoughts all enter
into the fellowship of our saddened
spirits to-day.
They are fed from memories that as
we sit here together are thronging in
upon tis each one; memories most sweet
and dear. From the moment we heard
that Ward was no more, all the while
we have day after day and in the wak-
ing hours of night been following the
ship that was bringing home across the
seas the relic of his vanished life that
lies at last before us, recollections of
him have been coming back to us. I,
for my part, have, among mine, vividly
recalled the time when I was first
thrown in with him in a way to put
us on terms of familiar and confidential
interchange.
It was in the Summer of 1893, in the
long vacation, after his first year in col-
lege. We were then for several days
together in a camp in the Adirondack
woods. He was not a stranger to me,
indeed, before; but there, in those cir-
cumstances, | had the opportunity to
observe him closely, to be with him
more or less alone and to look some-
what into his thoughts—which was not
difficult, for they were as open and
transparent as clear water. To those
of you who were at about that time be-
ginning to be knit to him in ties of
friendship, it is needless for me to say
that I found him with all his joyous
high spirits, not only of a nature most
unselfish, genial, modest, gentle, win-
some, but a perfectly true-hearted, right-
minded, clean-minded boy. He won
my heart completely. I have loved and
respected him ever since; and watching
with gladness the uninterrupted fulfill-
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man dandies in Pompey’s army at Phar-
salia turned their backs for fear their
beauty should be spoiled, and we have no
evidence but that of their enemies for the
statement, the gay young nobles of France
flung themselves on the cold steel of the
English infantry, and the Iron Duke acknowl-
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London puppies fought well’’ It may be
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genuine beau without possessing some intel-
lectual or moral force to carry him to the
front. If it is objected that there have been
famous leaders of fashion deficient in force
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the record is a defective one, and the world
does not really know its beaux. Take, for
instance, the type that comes first to the
recollection, Beau Brummel. In the infinite
number. of anecdotes related of him, very
few are in any way creditable to his heart,
but there is the stamp on nearly every one
of a strong will and a keen and ready wit.—
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