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YALE ALUMNI NOTES.
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sonals.
’>3—Rev. William F. V. Bartlett, pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian Church of
Lexington, Ky., has returned from a
four months’ stay in England.
’s6—-Hon. Chauncey M. Depew ad-
dressed the Congress of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, held in
Washington last week.
’65—Dr. Robert P. Keep was elected
a member of the Executive Committee
of the Connecticut High and Classical
School Association, at its annual meet-
ing held in New Haven recently.
°66—G. Pierrepont Davis of Hartford,
Conn., has just presented the Hartford
Hospital with a very valuable outfit of
electrical apparatus.
’°67—Rev. A. E. Dunning has an
article in the Congregationalist entitled
“The Messiah’s Healing Ministry.”
’67—Prof. William H. Goodyear,
curator of the museum of the Brooklyn
Institute, will deliver a course of lec-
tures at the Berkeley Lyceum, New .
York, on “Ttalian Cities.”
Ex-’68—George Manierre of Chicago
has recently been elected a- trustee of
the Newberry Library of that city.
’69—Prof. Talcott H. Russell of the
Law School, addressed the Eastern
Conference of Anti-Imperialists, held in
Association Hall, Philadelphia, Febru-
ary 23.
’69—Prof. R. B. Richardson, director
of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens, has completed the
excavation of the old fountain of Pirene
at Corinth.
’69—At the annual meeting of the
Connecticut High and Classical School
Association, held in New Haven re-
cently, Edward G. Coy was elected a
member of the Executive Committee.
’69 M.S.—Dr. G. A. Shelton, who was
severely injured by a fall from his car-
riage some time ago, is completely re-
covered and is resuming his practice.
’7t—Alfred Bishop Mason left New
York, February 17, for the City of
Mexico.
7a 3G_: TF, Dutton = .addressed * the
National Education Association in Chi-
cago recently.
*4—Owen F. Aldis is traveling
around the world. His address is,
Bank of Scotland, London.
74—Dr, William S. Halsted has an
article “Contributions to the Surgery of
the Bile Passages” in the Johns Hop-
kins Hospital Bulletin for January.
’74Rev. Hollis B. Frissell addressed
a meeting in the chapel of the United
Church, February 27 on “The Educa-
tional Work at Hampton,” illustrating
his address by a stereopticon.
’74—Fon. John G. Brady, who is
territorial governor of our Alaskan pos-
sessions, made a speech on the “Possi-
bilities of Alaska,” before the Board of
Trade in Bridgeport, at their annual
banquet, held February 27.
*75-Hon John Patton, Jr., was toast-
master at the banquet of the Michigan
Club, held at Detroit, February 21, when
Lieut.-Governor Timothy L. Woodruff
was the guest of honor.
’76—President Arthur T. Hadley has
an article in the Review of Reviews for
March entitled “Should We Subsidize
Steamship Lines?”
’76—President Hadley is American
editor of the supplement to the ninth
edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
now being prepared by the London
Times.
Ex-’76—Harry Hamlin of Buffalo, N.
Y., left last week for a two months’
trip through Mexico to inspect gold
mines. A train in which he traveled in
Arizona was held up by train-robbers.
76 S.—James L. Houghteling left Chi-
cago March 1, for a month in the
South.
76 L.S.—President McKinley has ap-
pointed Francis H, Parker United
States Attorney for the District of Con-
necticut. The appointment has been
confirmed.
77 M.S.—Dr. William C. Welch re-
cently fell and injured his knee so that
he has been compelled to use crutches.
’78—A banquet is to be given to Judge
William H. Taft, March 24, in honor
of his appointment to the Philippine
Commission, by the Bar of the Sixth
Judicial District, which includes the
states of Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and
Tennessee.
’79—Poultney Bigelow has an article
entitled ‘““Germany’s First Colony in
China,” in the March number of Har-
per’s Magazine.
’79—Timothy L. Woodruff, during his
recent Western trip, was the guest of
President Harper of Chicago Univer-
sity, and addressed the students while
he was there. :
S7_C’ P.. Cofin lost by death his. -
only son, William King Coffin, Sunday,
February 25.
’81;—-Sherman FEvarts delivered an ad-
dress before the Alumni Association of
St. Paul’s School, in New York re-
cently.
8; S.—Charles Francis. Adams has
written a biography of his father Charles
Francis Adams for the American States-
men Series.
’*83—Cleveland L. Moffett
article on Edmund Rostrand
March number of McClure’s.
’°83—At the closing session of the
Connecticut High and Classical School
Association held in New Haven, Febru-
ary 24, Frank H. Beede, New Haven,
was elected Vice-President.
’°83—George W. Johnston made an
address on “Study of History,” at the
annual Washington’s Birthday celebra-
tion of the Ohio Sons of the Revolution,
held in Cincinnati, February 22. At the
business meeting he was elected one of
the Board of Managers for one year.
’*84—Rev. E. M. Chapman will be at
St. Johnsbury, Vt., after April Ist, as
pastor of the North Congregational
Church. :
’*85—Lucius F. Robinson has. been
elected a director of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford,
to succeed his father, the late Hon.
Henry C. Robinson, ’53, who was for
many years a director of the Company.
’*86—Frank E. Wing is one of the in-
corporators and directors and the clerk
of the L. S. Starrett Co., manufacturers
of mechanical tools, of Athol, Mass.
’°86 and ’90 S.—Announcement is made
by the firm of William A. Otis & Co.,
bankers and brokers of Colorado
Springs. Col., that the interest of Mr.
James C. Connor in the firm has ter-
minated and that the partners are now
Charles A. Otis, ’00S. of New York,
Philip B. Stewart. ’86, and William P.
Sargeant. In addition to its banking
and brokerage business, the firm offers
expert service in mining, and undertakes
the management of mining properties.
’°87—Ira C. Coplev sailed February
10 with his family for a six months’
tour of Europe. Mr. Copley will make
a studv of the manufacture and distribu-
tion of gas in the continental cities.
has an
in the
’°87—On reporting for duty October
2t, 1899, at Manila, Dr. Franklin A.
Meacham was assigned to duty in Gen-
eral McArthur’s Division as Brigade-
Surgeon on the staff of General Joseph
Wheeler, Ist Brigade. He served with
this brigade during its advance north
from Angeles to Dagapan, particivatine
in many of its engagements. His ad-
dress is, care Chief Surseon, Depart-
miene Paciic. Mania. v,..5.
’87 'T.S.—Prof. Edward S. Parsons has
an article on Colorado College in the
Coneregationalist of February 22.
’*88—George B. Fowler, formerly of
Thompsonville, Conn.. has formed a
partnership in Detroit. Mich., with
Charles S. McDonald, known as Mc-
Donald & Fowler. Mr. McDonald has
a large practice and has had many
years’ experience in the law business.
’°890—Gifford Pinchot spoke at Har-
vard Friday evening. March 2, on
“Forestry as a Profession.”
*90—A son was born February 12 to
Mr. and Mrs. John Crosby.
’90-—Samuel A. York of New Haven
left on February 24 ‘for Florida, where
he will spend a few weeks.
’90 S.—-Theodore D. Irwin has been
appointed manager of the branch office
‘of Post & Flagg. which has just been
ee at 346 Broadway, New York
ity.
’91-—Alfred M. Coats has been elected
a member of the Executive Committee
of the United States Golf Association.
’oi— William F. Poole has moved
from Chicago to Boston, where he is
attorney for the Massachusetts Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company at 15
Congress street. :
’92—Dr. Walter R. Steiner has an
article in the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Bulletin for February entitled “Haemo-
philia in the Negro.”
’92 S.—B. B. Boltwood delivered a
lecture on “Liquid Air’ on Wednesday
of last week in North Sheffield Hall.
793 S.—A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Bradley Stoughton, February 20.
’94—W. R. Callendar was elected a
member of the Admission Committee of
the Rhode Island Yacht Club, at its
annual meeting in Providence, Febru-
ary 20. :
’94—Harry Brent Mackoy responded
to the toast, “Building a Constitution,”
at the Washington’s Birthday celebra-
tion of the Ohio Sons of the Revolution
in Cincinnati, February 22. Later, he
was elected Secretary of the Associa-
‘tion,
’94 S—F. D. Wanning is now with
the Birmingham Iron Foundry, Birm-
ingham, Conn. .
94 S.—Henry H. Holly sailed the first
of last month to complete his studies in
Architecture in Paris.
94 S.—Sanford H. Wadhams is acting
Assistant Surgeon in the United States
Army at San Juan, Porto Rico.
94 S.—Joseph H. Pratt, who gradu-
ated from Johns Hopkins University in
98, is stationed in the Boston City
Hospital, where he is studying Bac-
teriology.
’94 S.—Edward H. Hart who has
been representing several Connecticut
_firms in South Africa, has returned to
his home in New Britain to await the
settlement of the Boer war.
’95—Rev. George H. Thomas has
been settled as rector of All Saints’
Church, Minneapolis.
’95—George F. Truesdell has a poem
in the current number of Scribner’s en-
titled “Crafty Cupid.”
’95—Roger S. Baldwin and Raymond
S. White have formed a partnership for
the practice of Law, under the firm
name of Baldwin & White, with offices
a Singer Building, 149 Broadway, New
ork.
’95 L.S.—George H. Huddy, Jr., was
elected a member of the Admission
Committee of the Rhode Island Yacht
Club at its annual meeting held in
Providence, February 26.
’95 T.S.—Charles S. Thayer has just
come back from four years study in
Germany, and is now pastor of Union
Church, Providence, R. I.
’°96—George L. Buist is recovering
from an attack of grip.
’°96—Neil B. Mallon will resign the
management of the Newark (Ohio) Gas
Light and Coke Co., about March 20
to engage in business in Cincinnati.
’96—Samuel Thorne, Jr., has just been
admitted to the practice of law in New
York, and is at present in the office of
Stimson & Williams, 55 Liberty street.
’96 — William G. -Baker, Jr., has
formed a partnership with Sewall S.
Watts, for the transaction of a general
banking business, under the firm name
of Baker, Watts & Co., with offices at
2 South street, Baltimore, Md.
’96—Walter H. Clark of the law firm
of Clark & Arnold, Hartford, Conn.,
has been apnointed instructor in the
course of Economic debates, to take
the place of Prof. E. V. Raynolds, ’80 S.,
who is taking a trip on the Carribean
Sea for his health. |
’96—The marriage of Miss Ada E.
Connett of St. Joseph, Mo., to Morris
H. Reed, took place February It.
After leaving Yale, Mr. Reed spent
three years in the law department of the
University of Michigan and is at present
practicing that profession in St. Joseph,
making a specialtv of Railroad and Cor-
poration Law. He is now with the St.
Joseph & Grand Island and the Kansas
City and Omaha Railwav Companies.
His home address is 1852 Clay street.
’°97 S—Mrs. F. L. Danforth of Buf-
falo. N. Y. announces the engagement
of her daughter Grace to G. Barrett
Rich, Jr.
’°97 S.—On the death of Alexander
Grant. a hardware merchant of Syracuse,
N. Y.. which occurred January 28,
Robert J. Grant and his brother suc-
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ceeded to the business under the name
of Alexander Grant’s Sons.
’98—Thomas M. James of Kansas
City, Mo., has been in New York for
the past month on business.
’98—N. A. Burr has been elected to
the assistant editorship of the Yale
Medical Journal.
°98—Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Borden have
returned from the South and are living
at 25 West 56th street, New York City.
’98—Hiram Bingham has been forced
to give up his missionary work in the
Sandwich Islands on account of his
health and is now taking a course in
Political Economy at the Leland Stan-
ford University, California.
— 98 M.S.—Dr. Alfred H. Thomas has
opened an office at Greenridge, Staten
Istand «N.Y:
’90—Harold C. Cheney is in the edu-
cational department of Charles Scrib-
ner’s Sons, New York.
‘99— William G. Wallace, who is now
taking a trip in Europe, intends to re-
main for the Paris Exposition.
’99—W. H. Field has been since Janu-
ary I at the publishing house of Frank
A. Munsey, in the advertising depart-
ment.
’990— William. E. S. Griswold, who
rowed on last year’s University Eight,
was in New Haven last week on busi-
ness, and helped in coaching the crew
candidates.
’°99 S.—Richmond M. Graff of Pitts-
burg, Penn., has just returned from a
three months’ carriage trip through the
Petite
’99 M.S.—Dr. Dean Foster began his
term of service at the New Haven Hos-
pital, March 1.
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YALE NOTICES.
[Class and Association Secretaries are invited to
contribute to this column.]
Class of 1875.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
graduation from Yale of the Class of
1875, Academic, will be celebrated at
New Haven, next Commencement. The
Class supper will be held on the even-
ing of Tuesday, June 26. All arrange-
ments are being made by the Special
Committee, and printed circulars giving
details will shortly be mailed to all
living members of the Class, graduate
and non-graduate. The Committee will
welcome any information or suggestions,
which should be directed to its Secre-
tary, as below.
Special Committee on 25th Anniver-
Sary.
John Patton, Chairman.
Samuel R. Betts,
Almet F. Jenks,
Edward H. Rogers,
Edward C. Smith,
Edward W. Southworth,
Edwin H. Weatherbee,
Newell Martin, Secretary,
7 Nassau St., New York City.
Eighty-Five.
There will be a reunion of those mem-
bers of the Class of Eighty-Five who
are in and near New York, at the Yale
Club, 17 Madison Square North, on Fri-
day, March 23, at 7 o’clock. :
Plans for our Quin-decennial will be
discussed, and a large attendance will
insure a good start for June.
Price of dinner will be $3.00, which
please remit to Emil Schultze, Jr., 141
Broadway.
An early reply will be considered a
favor. There will be no further notice.
FRANK R. SHIPMAN,
WiipBur L. Cross,
JosrepH A. BLAKE,
EMILE SCHULTZE, JR.
Committee.
Ninety Dinner.
There will be a reunion of the Class
of Ninety at the Yale Club, 17 East
26th St., New York City, on Friday
evening, March 9, 1900, at 7 P. M.. The
charge for dinner will be $2.
Two similar reunions have been held
in previous years, and have proved very
enjoyable, about thirty men being pres-
ent each time. It is expected that this
will be even more successful as it will
be the last meeting before our decennial
in New Haven next June.
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