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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.
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YALE OBITUARIES.
CYRUS SWAN, EX-~’4I.
Cyrus Swan, ex-’41, died at his home
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Monday, May
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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.
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goes to Yale families
everywhere. There are
many of them looking
for quarters in New
Haven every year.
Most all of them go
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