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YALE ALUMNI WHEREY 34°] Dodge, Dr. Arthur, Seventh St., Roseville, N. J. Doolittle, Thomas E., with Gallagher & Co., Bankers, Atkinson, Neb. 7 Goodspeed, George E., Treasurer Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 87 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Hardenberg, John W., President Commercial Trust Co. of New Jersey, 55 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J. Hitchcock, Dr. Walter, 68 Wall St., Norwalk, Conn. Ingersoll, Colin M., Jr., Chief En- gineete Ns Vg No PH .6..H. Ry Ra. Cos, New Haven, Conn. Jensen, Martin E., Instructor of Natural Sciences, Norwich Free Acad- emy, Norwich, Conn. Liefeld, E. Theophilus, U. S. Consul at Freiburg, Baden, Germany. McCrea, W. S., Treasurer of People’s Gas Light and Coke Co., Chicago, III. Moorhead, John, Jr., Vesuvius Iron Works, Moorhead Brother & Co., Sharpsburg, Pa. Carl E., Waterbury, Munger, Dr. Conn. Needham, Edward B., Assistant Ticketgegemt, PC. CC. & StL. Riek. Richmond, Ind. Phelps, George B., 2822 Prairie Ave., Chicago, III. | Porter, Dwight, Prof. Hydraulic En- gineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. Porter, Edward F., Melville, North Dakota. ° Raynolds, Edward V., Instructor of Debating at Yale University, 62 Trum- bull St., New Haven, Conn. Rogers, Edwin McN. Care Guggen- heimer Exploration Co., 30 Broad St., New York City. Sargent, Edward R., with Sargent & Co., Mfrs. Builders Hardware, New Haven, Conn. Schofield, William B., Major and Faye U. S. Volunteers, Manila, 287. North Starkweather, Henry, Care Westing- house Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pitts- burg, Pa. Wadsworth, Adrian R., Farmington, Conn. 7 Warren, William C., Buffalo Com- mercial, Buffalo, New York. Wehner, Adolph F., Secretary Is- bell-Porter Co., Mfrs. Gas and Re- frigerating Plants, 46 Bridge St., New- ark, No«j. Williams, George G., The J. B. Wil- liams Co., Manufacturing Chemists, Glastonbury, Conn. <> <> ee YALE OBITUARIES. CYRUS SWAN, EX-~’4I. Cyrus Swan, ex-’41, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Monday, May an Mr. Swan, the son of Judge Swan of Sharon, Conn., was born in Sharon, March 15, 1821, and fitted for college at Manchester, Conn., entering Yale with the Class of Forty-One. In the middle of Sophomore year he went into the office of Johnson & Cole of Pough- keepsie to study law and was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1843. Soon after mission to practice, he be- came orney and confidential friend of Matthew Vassar, the founder of Vas- sar College, for whom he drafted the bill for the incorporation of the College. From 1861 to 1865 he was superinten- dent of its construction and furnishing, and for three years from its opening in September, 1865, he was General Super- intendent. From 1861 until his death he was one of its trustees and was Secretary until 1874. On November 12, 1855, Mr. Swan married Miss Frances’ S. Walker of Scranton, Pa., to which marriage three children were born, Frances W., a graduate of Vassar in ’77; Harriet R., a graduate of Vassar in ’80, and Wil- liam W. THE LATE DR. ROBERT AIKMAN, 743. The Rev. Dr. Robert Aikman, ’43, whose death at Madison, N. J., May 12, was recorded in the last issue of the WEEKLY, was born in New York City, June 29, 1816, and lived there during the early part of his life. Upon gradu- ating from Yale he was engaged in teaching in ~ Norwich, Conn., until December, 1844, when he entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Leaving there in July, 1847, he was soon after settled as pastor of Wis. the Congregational Church in Coventry, R. I., where he remained nearly two years. The years 1850 and part of 1851 were passed n° Troy, N.Y.) as an associate pastor. In September, 1851, he became Pastor of the newly organ- ized Third Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown, N. J. This position he held until 1869, when he resigned to become Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Madison, N. J. After a very successful pastorate of twenty-five years, Dr. Aikman was made pastor emeritus in 1894 and retired from active work. During the year 1871 he was Modera- tor of the Synod of New Jersey, and from 1874 to 1881 was President of the New Jersey State Alliance. Dr. Aikman was married January 27, 1848, to Miss Jerusha L. Stedman of Norwich, Conn. He had no children. THE LATE DR. WILLIAM I. SOULE, ’5I M.S. The late William I. Soule, 751 M.S., whose death at Jewett City, Conn., May 15, was recorded last week, was born in Chaplin, Conn., August 24, 1827, a direct descendant of George Soule of the Mayflower party. Dr. Soule taught school for some time, but gave this up to enter the Yale Medical School. Since graduation he has spent his life in the practice of medicine. He was married twice, his first wife being Harriet A. Hall of Chaplin, Conn., who died in 1857. His second wife was Martha P. Chapman. Six children survive him. THE LATE WALTER SCOTT ALEXANDER, 758. The death of Walter Scott Alexander, 58, at his home in Cambridge, Mass., May 15, was briefly recorded last week. Mr. Alexander was born in Killingly, Conn., August 29, 1835 and prepared for college with a tutor. Entering Yale with the Class of Fifty-Eight, he re- mained in College but two years and a half. In September, 1858, he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1861. His classmates at Andover petitioned the Yale Faculty that he might receive his degree with his Class, and in 1861 he received it, and his name was entered in the Trien- nial. From 1861 until 1866 he was Pas- tor of the First Congregational Church at Pomfret, Conn., and from that time until 1872 he had a church in Racine, In 1872 he went to Italy as mis- sionary of the American Board of For- eign Missions at Florence, returning to this country in 1874, and taking again his old pastorate at Pomfret. In 1876 he became Professor of Theology in Straight University in the South, and in 1877 he was made its President. The degree of S.T.D. was conferred on him in 1880, by Beloit College, and in 1884 he resigned the Presidency of Straight University. He went to Cambridge, a and took a pastorate there until 1896. Mr. Alexander was an honorary mem- ber of the historical societies of Wiscon- sin, Maine and: Connecticut, and Secre- tary of the New Orleans Academy of Science. He was married to Miss Con- stance Eldredge of Pomfret, Conn. in 1866, and is survived by one child, Con- stance S. WILBUR RUSSELL BACON, ’65. Wilbur Russell Bacon, 65, Captain of the University Crew in 1865, died at. the New York Hospital, May 9, from consumption, which followed an attack, of grip. Mr. Bacon was born in Middletown, Conn., March 25, 1844, and prepared for College at Russell’s Military School, in New Haven. While at Yale he was a member of Linonia, Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, and Psi Upsilon societies, and stroked the University Crews of 1864 and 1865, which by their victories turned the tide of the long series of de- feats by Harvard. In his Senior year he was Captain of the Crew. In the Fall, after his graduation from Yale, he entered the Law School of Columbia College, New York, graduating in May, 1867. After being admitted to the bar he joined the firm of Bacon Brothers & Starr of New York. Under the head “Death of a Great Yale Oar,” the New York Tribune of May 25 printed the following: To the Editor of the Tribune: Sir: Wilbur R. Bacon, stroke oar of the Yale University Crews of 1864 and 1865, died at the New York Hospital on ~ the May 9 from consumption, which fol- lowed an attack of grip. I have just heard of his death, no notice of it hav- ing been published, so far as I know. In the forty-eight years since Harvard first rowed Yale, he and Captain Cook have been the latter’s most famous oars- men. He richly deserved the great name he won, and which for many years made every Yale man know him well and every Harvard man know him too — well, for he was the first to bring Yale victory on the water in a university race. In those days so undisturbed had been Harvard’s success that she could not believe it possible for Yale to win. But to do it twice was demoralizing, and he and his men did it beyond all question, as one who rowed against him can testify. Winner of the Townsend oration, successful stroke and captain, he trained his men with a thoroughness and severity never known at Yale before, or very likely since. Superbly developed himself, he had splendid men behind him, such as William W. Scranton, then and now of Scranton, Penn.; Judge Seymour of Bridgeport; Morris Stoz- kopf, a stalwart Russian, from Freeport, Ill., and Edmund Coffin of this city. Sliding seats were as unknown as tele- phones in those ‘days. Not the 32 or 33 strokes, as now, but the 40 to 42 strokes to the minute, rowed chiefly with the back, and with but moderate leg drive, carried the coxswainless crews over the three miles with a turn in very credit- able time. Bacon’s influence at Yale became great. Admitted to the bar, he soon joined the firm of stock brokers of Bacon Brothers & Starr, of No. 54 Broad Street, this city, and with varying fortune had lived here ever since, shortly before his death coming into consider- able property in the South. His many friends will recall with regret the man who in their youth was their pride and who was the first to bring Yale her great name in aquatic struggles which at home and abroad has been so well upheld in the whole generation ever since. WILLIAM BLAIKIE. New York, May 19, 1900. JOHN HENDRICK TRAYNHAM, ’60. John Hendrick Traynham, ’69, died suddenly at his home in Austin, Tex., March 10, of heart disease. His widow survived him only two weeks. dying April 2. Mr. and Mrs. Traynham are survived by two sons and a daughter. Mr. Traynham was born in Austin, Texas, August 19, 1846, and when he was 18 years old enlisted in the Con- federate army and served till the end of the war. He entered Yale in the last term of Sophomore year, and at gradua- tion took a high stand in his Class. For two years he taught school and then turned his attention to the politics of Texas, in which he has been a prominent figure for more than twenty years. HENRY S. HOYT, 7735S. Henry S.: Hoyt, -'73 S:, died* at. his home, 20 Washington Square, North, New York, Wednesday, May 23, of ap- pendicitis. He was born at Staatsburgh, N.Y. in 1852 and was the son of the late L,.-M. Hoyt. At the time of his death, Mr. Hoyt was Vice-President of Racquet: Club, Treasurer of the Knickerbocker Club and a member of the Century Club and Bar Association of New York. HOTEL TOURAINE, YOUNG’S HOTEL, _ PARKER HOUSE, Boston. J. R WHIPPLE & CO. The Murray Hill Hotel, PARK AVENUE, 40th and 4ist Streets, New York. One block from the Grand Central Station, AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS. Baggage transferred to and from the Grand Central Station free of charge. Headquarters Yale. HENRY EDWARD FISK, ’83. Henry Edward Fisk, ’83, died of can- cer, Appl ore 4s Mr. Fiske was born in Chicago, Sept. I1, 1862. After graduation he entered the employ of Sprague, Warner & Co. of Chicago, wholesale grocers. In 1892 he began business for himself as a commission broker in canned goods. He devoted himself. most earnestly to his work and in the Spring of 18099 his health broke down. From that time until the end he was ill, for several months hopelessly so. His business was recently reorganized as the Fisk-Kyle Co., with Mr. Fisk as President. He married Dec. 31, 1885, Miss Hannah S. McNeish, who survives him with one son, thirteen years of age. Mr. Fiske was the second son of Professor Frank- lin W. Fisk, ’49, until recently President of Chicago Theological Seminary. In College Mr. Fisk was independent in character and reserved in disposition, but always the courteous gentleman. He secured and retained the respect of all who knew him. ADIRONDACKS. Hiawatha Lodge, SPECTACLE LAKES. Upper Saranac, one half mile. Indian Carry Golf Links. per week. Adjacent to Rates $12 to $18 Entirely rebuilt cottage plan. Post office, Axton, N.Y. New York office, 1216 Broadway. ADIRONDACKS. THE AMPERSAND. A most delightful Mountain and Lake Resort. OPENS JUNE 23. PERFECT GOLF LINKS. New York office, Astor Court Bldg., 25 West 33d st. C. M. EATON, Manager. ADIRONDACKS. WAYSIDE INN AND COTTAGES. On LAKE LUZERNE, five hours from New York. This delightful resort will be under the management of F. M. COLEMAN, late proprietor of the EVERETT HOUSE, New York. Open from June 14 to October 1. Golf, tennis, boating, fishing, bathing. Write for pamphlet. New York address, Everett House, Union square. Do you wish to Rent or Sell A House in New Haven or somewhere else; or a Cottage, or a Camp in the woods or by the sear The YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY goes to Yale families everywhere. There are many of them looking for quarters in New Haven every year. Most all of them go away for the summer.
