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Do not deface books by marks and writing. Cornell University Library LD6329 1858k raphical record of the class o olin 3 1924 030 632 487 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030632487 FIFTH Biographical Record OF THE CLASS OF FIFTY-EIGHT, YALE UNIVERSITY. 1858— 1908. BY WILLIAM PLUMB BACON, CLASS SECRETARY. NEW BRITAIN, CONN. THE RECORD PRESS, 1908. "A health to our future — a sigh for our past We love, we remember, we hope to the last; And for all the base lies that the almanacs hold, While we've youth in our hearts we can never grow old.'' — Holmes. RECORDS OF '58. Pages Copies Printed First, 130 400 1865 Second, 110 250 1869 Third, 102 300 1883 Fourth, 265 300 1897 Fifth, 250 1908 PREFACE. The Secretary was officially floating idly upon a sea of contentment, "believing that '58 was gorged and would call for no more class records, when he awoke and found it all a dream. . In 1865, in the first class record, he included the non-graduates. He then concluded that the duties of a Secretary, especially because the numbers graduating were larger and increasing, could not be properly done if non-graduates were included. He therefore omitted them in the next three records. In July, 1908, he yielded^to a second earnest appeal from the Secre- tary of the University to secure for him the addresses of the living non- graduates and secured them all. When the class in June, 1908, asked the Secretary to issue a record supplementary to that of 1897, he concluded to supplement also the non- graduate part of the record of 1865. The result is before you. In brief, the whole non-graduate record is in the 1865 and the 1908 records, and the whole graduate record is in the 1897 and the 1908 records. Thus practically closes a class secretarial career of fifty years, which has probably been unequalled in duration. W. P. BACON, Class Secretary. New Britain, Conn., December 31, 1908. CLASS MEETINGS. CLASS MEETINGS. 1898. Pursuant to the resolution of 1893, the Class met in June, 1898. There was no business to be transacted. Brinton spoke acceptably for the Class at the alumni meeting, and presided at our six o'clock dinner on Church and Chapel streets, after the usual lunch at noon and the pilgrimage to the Athletic Field. There were present of 57 survivors: Adams, Bacon, Boyn- ton, Brinton, Chalmers, Cqlgate, Franklin, . Gallaway, Gibbs, Greenwood, Harris, Hewitt, Howe, Hubbell, Kim- ball, Lee, Magill, Mathewson, Mills, Neide, Perkins, E. A. Pratt, Scott, Sleight, Stevens, Street, Van Name, Williams, Woodruee. (29.) 1901. At the bi-centennial celebration of Yale, although no effort had been made by the Class Secretary to assemble the Class, the following were present of 52 survivors : Bacon, Chalmers, Gibbs, Harris, Howe, Kimball, Lee, Mathewson, Noble, Perkins, Street, Tomlinson, Van Name, Wilbur, Williams, WoodruEE. , (16.) 12 CLASS MEETINGS. I903. Pursuant to the resolution of 1898, the Class met June 23, 1903, in Professor Thacher's old home at 255 Crown street, where, also, the Class of '53 met. Besides resolving to meet in 1908, no business was transacted. A parlor was open all day as a rendezvous, a lunch was provided at noon, and at six o'clock dinner was served in the next room. There were two pleasant incidents. The Class of '58, that the Class of '53 might keep its spirits up by pouring its spirits down, presented to it, through a committee of Armstrong and Bacon, a maximum, or four-quart bottle of champagne, for which the Bishop of Michigan returned thanks in a few happily chosen words. Presently a committee from '53, Stedman and Thomas, came in and officially presented '58 a box of cigars, and unofficially said that '53 had procured for us a bottle of wine, but their gift had been forestalled. Richard Waite, once Captain of the Shawmut Club, and in 1853 the first Commodore of the Yale Navy, had, it seems, with^ out the knowledge of Bacon of '58, the sixth commodore, sought in vain the back-board of the Shawmut. Bacon, who had owned this for forty-five years, sprung a delightful surprise upon Waite, his boat-club and his Class, by lending the board to '53 for the evening and placing it upon the mantle-piece, whence it evoked many old and pleasant memories. The next day, with the approval of Waite, Bacon deposited it, with a suitable inscription, together with the back-board of the Augusta of '49 and '52, in the Trophy Room of the Yale Gymnasium. Since then, Bacon, effectively aided by William Gilbert Ander- son, Director of the Gymnasium, has placed in the Trophy Room, the graduation pictures of the fifty-six Commodores and Presidents of the Yale Navy from 1853 to 1908. They have been framed and hung. There were present of 47 survivors: Adams, Armstrong, Bacon, Chalmers, Kimball, Lee, Mathewson, Neide, Per- kins, E. A. Pratt, Sleight, Stevens, Williams, Woodruff. (14.) CLASS MEETINGS. 13 I908. Pursuant to the resolution of 1903, the Class met June 23, 1908, in the southeast first story corner room of Dwight Hall, on the College Campus, next south of Alumni Hall, where a room was reserved for us by the University for the day. The Class was seated on the platform in Alumni Hall at 10 o'clock, where, among a few other speeches, the following, by Rev. William Stone Hubbell of '58, evoked more than usual hearty applause : It has been said that the easiest way to become celebrated is to outlive all of one's contemporaries. The Class of '58 is on its way to this goal, but has not yet fully arrived. Of the one hundred members with which our class graduated, forty still survive, and twenty-four of these are present here to-day in reasonably good health. We acknowl- edge our years, but have not reached the celebrity of the late Hannibal Hamlin of Maine who was wont in old age to pose as the last survivor of the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln and as having been an office-holder for fifty years in his native State. It was said of him that "he was so old that he could remember when Mount Katahdin was a hole in the ground." Suffer me to recall a few events of interest in the life of a Yale student of fifty years ago. Not long after our college life began, something happened, which seemed trivial at the time, but proved of great and lasting importance to Yale. One morning, in accordance with the trying custom which then prevailed of recitations by gas-light before breakfast, our division was to meet that formidable instructor in Greek, Prof. James Hadley, at 7 a. m. We found the class-room locked and we scattered at once with joy at our escape from his penetrating inquiries. Later it appeared that the Professor was observing the Feast of the Nativity at his own home. The occupant of that cradle was named Arthur Twining and the date was on or about April 23, 1856. On that morning we congratulated our- selves ; to-day we congratulate the University on that advent. But other great events were occurring in those days. On the 17th of June, 1856, the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first National Republican Convention met at Philadelphia and nominated John C. Fremont for President, and forthwith the stirring campaign burst upon us. Abraham Lincoln came to New Haven to make his first speech in New England. He was not yet famous here, but the Democrats were taking no chances. They hired every commodious hall in the city and locked it up for that evening. Mr. Lincoln spoke in a small dance-hall over a livery-stable on Union" street. The room was 14 CLASS MEETINGS. packed to suffocation. When the speaker arose — or began to get up — an Irishman near me cried out— "Look at him ! there's two hundred men in this town better looking nor that." Mr. Lincoln joined in the uproarious laugh that followed and said — "That reminds me of a story.'' He gained at once the rapt attention and applause of the crowd without respect to party lines, and spoke for two hours, using every variety of political address and making the most wonderful speech of its kind ever given in this city before or since. It was well worth a four years' stay at Yale to have included this one marvelous feat of oratory as a part of our education. Later on, Senator Thomas H._ Benton of Missouri came to deliver his lecture on the History of the U. S. Senate, and, his address being non-political, he spoke in the Centre Church. He had just published a colossal work entitled, "Benton's Thirty Years in the U. S. Senate,'' which publication by a typographical error was first printed under the significant title — "Benton's Thirty Bears in the U. S. Senate." This plausible mistake promised a volume of "nature studies" which would have delighted the heart of President Roosevelt, and was not altogether wide of the truth. After the lecture he went to his room at the New Haven House, and a crowd of Yale boys went over from "The Fence", (Alas, that now it has disappeared!) and by their cheering for the Senator called him out, a willing victim, on the balcony for a speech. Something boisterous in the audience led him to ask — -"Young gentlemen, perhaps you desire my views on the use of alcoholic stimu- lants? Let me tell you then, what seems to me the best rule: total abstinence till forty : temperance afterward." Many of his audience slid away dejected, longing to grow old in a single night, so as to reach the time-limit of indulgence specified. But the passing years have remedied that difficulty for us here to-day. A little earlier than this the New Haven colony, under Deacon Lines, had gone out to help in making Kansas a Free-State. They were presented with Sharpe's rifles in an address by Dr. Leonard Bacon given from a platform built against the outside wall of the Centre Church and near the Regicide's grave. These colonists thus conspicuously armed were never molested by the raiding parties from Missouri, then known as Border Ruffians. Herein we find an argument which our President, or his successor (who may or may not belong to the Class of '78) might use in his plea for a competent army and navy in the interests of peace. Taught by these stirring lessons during life at Yale, when the Great Rebellion began, the Class of '58 took active part in the struggle. Sev- eral of them were prominent in the Sanitary and Christian Commissions ; eight of them, including our Salutatorian and De Forest Medal man, entered the Confederate Army; thirty-three enlisted in the Union Army and Navy. Forty-five per cent, of the entire class thus served in the bitter war and many of the noblest of these laid down their lives on CI,ASS MEETINGS. . 15 the battlefield. The 21st Conn, was sometimes called the Yale Regiment, because of the large proportion of Yale men among its officers. Two Colonels, a Lieutenant Colonel, two Adjutants and four Captains came from this College. Its first Colonel, Arthur H. Dutton, went from the Sheffield School to West Point, was placed after his first examination there, at the head of his class, was graduated No. 2, and at the age of twenty-three was mortally wounded at Bermuda Hundred at the head of his Brigade a Captain of Engineers in the Regular Army, a Colonel of Volunteers and already nominated as Brigadier General. When the regiment returned it was our good fortune to be mustered out at New Haven during Commencement week in July, 1865. The officers who were Yale men received a special invitation from the Faculty to attend the Commencement exercises, and were met at the old fence corner by Prof. Noah Porter, who decorated each with a special badge of blue worth more to us than the prizes we had missed during our col- lege career. We also had high seats in the synagogue at the Commence- ment dinner. But we have, as a class, other names more honored still in the ranks of peace. Perhaps no alumnus of Yale has ever added more lustre to her fame in Europe than the late Josiah Willard Gibbs. It is said of him that he took up the work of Sir Isaac Newton where the latter left it and carried it on to regions of discovery in Mathematical Physics of which Newton never dreamed. In the realm of Ethnology, Daniel Garrison Brinton has added a multitude of volumes to the literary treas- ures most highly prized by scholars in that department of knowledge. Arthur Mathewson has been a conspicuous Ophthalmologist and Otologist. Bishops like the gentle Elisha Smith Thomas, great preachers like Frederick Alphonso Noble, great educators like the United States Com- missioner of Education William Torrey Harris, Presidents Walter Scott Alexander and Samuel Henry Lee, and Superintendent John Edwin Kim- ball, great librarians like our modest valedictorian Addison Van Name, all these are ours, and there are others ; for it is a case where not only comparisons but selections are ungracious if not odious. For fifty years we have tried to carry out the Yale spirit, under our class motto, "Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter." We love our Mother and gladly could sing to-day as we did fifty years ago in the old parody — "God bless our Mother Yale, Her star shall never pale, In storm or night." Every honor, deserved or undeserved, which time has brought us, we modestly lay here to-day at our Mother's feet. 1 6 CLASS MEETINGS. When we graduated, our beloved Prof. Denison Olmsted gave to each of us, in addition to his autograph, this parting sentiment, "Doing good is a work of inherent dignity." To this noble task we hope to devote the residue of our lives. At noon lunch was furnished in the Dwight Hall room, where at a business meeting the Secretary was requested to print a fifth Class Record, supplementary to the preceding ones. The Class then posed on the steps of the old library where an excellent photograph of the twenty-four present was taken. Seats in the covered grandstand having been secured, the most of the fellows took the trolley out two miles to the Athletic Field to see the Yale-Harvard ball game, and incidentally the unusual concomitant of ',78's parade with their Classmate Taft. At six o'clock, Adams and Gallaway having been obliged to return to New York, the other twenty-two sat down to dinner at a round table in the President's Reception Room, in the north- east corner of the second floor of the Woolsey Hall, on the southwest corner of College and Grove streets. Sleight presided, and exhibited the Wooden Spoon * given to him by the Class, June 15, 185,7, which, with the assent of the Class, he the next day deposited in the Trophy Room. A very unusual and touching feature of the dinner was the presentation by the Class, through Bacon, of a beautiful solid gold Tiffany spoon to Stevens, with the following remarks. The following letter came to the Secretary of '58: New York, June 3, 1907. I have to announce to you the birth of a daughter to the class of '58, Frederica Stevens, born June 1st, a fine, healthy specimen, weighing 8J4 pounds. Mother and child doing well. I am 68 years old. This should stand as a record, and should merit even Teddy's approbation. The old Adam again at his old trick of shifting responsibility ! However, the proud father is a lawyer, and the Class of '58 remembers "qui facit per alium facit per se," and accepts the responsibility. [* The Wooden Spoon was introduced by Henry T. Blake of '48 as a burlesque on the Junior Exhibition, and. the last one was given by 71.] CLASS MEETINGS. 17 Among the many surprises to which Time has treated us, per- haps the most conspicuous is this of proclaiming to us at our 50th anniversary the arrival of the Stork at our door. We wel- come the bird and we compliment him upon his exceedingly good judgment in the selection of a father for the child. And now my dear Istie, selected by the Class to mark the recognition and appreciation of this delightful honor which you have brought to us, and qualified for the task only by the deep affection I have for you, I beg you to accept from us this gold spoon on which is inscribed the name of your daughter Frederica. Being as you were in 1858 among the first in scholarship and among the first in athletics, you were an early and much needed proof at Yale that a sound mind and a sound body were not incompatible. And had the witty Frenchman who wrote "Si la jeunesse savait et si la veillesse pouvait!" known you in your earlier and your later years, he had not written it. You will take with -this simple gift the hearty good wishes of us all for the future of yourself, your wife and your daughter. Stevens was greatly surprised and deeply affected. He made a few fitting remarks, and testified, by his emotion even better than by his words, his gratification and his appreciation of the esteem and affection that had prompted the gift. He has laid away the spoon "for Frederica to hold fifty years from now, as her most precious memorial of her father and his dear friends of '58." It afforded all of us much unexpected pleasure to have with us Jones of Massachusetts, and Kellogg of Louisiana for the first time in fifty years. Altogether, the meeting was universally agreed to have been the best one we ever had. Of forty survivors the following were present: Adams, Bacon, Gallaway, Greenwood, Harris, Hewitt, Hubbell, Jones, Kellogg, Kimball, Lee, Mathewson,Neide, Perkins, Pratt, Scott, Sleight, Steele, Stevens, Tomlinson, Van Name, Wilbur, Williams, Woodruef. (24.) 18 CLASS MEETINGS. There were present in 1865 of 96 living 46 1888 of 74 living 22 1868 " 94 " 35 1893 " 72 " 15 1873 " 90 " 24 1898 '* 57 " 29 1878 " 84 " 35 1903 " 47 14 1883 " 80 " 24 1908 " 40 '* 24 Class Living Attended 50th Anniversary Per cent. '53 43 31 72 '54 38 18 50 '55 43 18 42 '56 39 24 61 '57 43 33 77 '58 40 24 60 Total average per cent. 60. The following letters explain themselves : Dear Bacon : It is the pleasant duty of the committee appointed for this purpose at our late reunion, to send you this testimonial of your classmates' affection. To find words to say what was of necessity left unsaid in the inscrip- tion, is far from easy. For half a century you have been the central organ of the Class life, giving to its current warmth and impulse. Your admirable Class Records have kept us in touch and sympathy with one another. Even those who for one cause or another had left the Class before graduation, you have been unwilling to let go from your watch and ward. That this work, to which you have given such generous and uncommon devotion, has been to you a labor of love, only adds to the weight of our obligation. "Owe no man anything, save to love one another," wrote the Apostle Paul to the Romans. What we owe you we can never pay; the saving clause alone fits our case. Therefore we tender you this loving cup, which bears from each one of us an over- flowing measure of the substance of which it is itself the symbol. Faithfully yours, ADDISON VAN NAME, CHAS. H. WOODRUFF, THATCHER M. ADAMS, New York, November 24, 1908. Committee. CLASS MEETINGS. 19 Addison Van Name, Charles H. Woodruff, Thatcher M. Adams, Committee of the Class of '58, and Classmates . Dear Friends All. Shakespeare has said, "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much." I would be silent. I may not. The superb Loving-cup which reached me this day before Thanksgiving Day, compels me to attempt fit words of acknowledgment. How can I speak? The room seems filled with the thirty-eight, and the air crowded with the shadows of the sixty-six, and I seem to hear all the spoken and written words of approval and affection that have been stored up in my memory for fifty years burst forth at once as one grand paean of praise. It is a marvelous experience to read such words from so many widely separated friends after a probation of fifty years, and to hear them still sing with Burns, "We'll take a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne." I can only say with Tiny Tim "God bless us every one." Sincerely yours, WILLIAM PLUMB BACON, Secretary of '58. New Britain, Conn., November 25, 1908. The cup is eight inches in diameter and eight inches in height, and when mounted on its ebony pedestal is twelve and a half inches high. It weighs fifty ounces and holds a gallon. It is hand-wrought sterling, of Roman pattern, of three-handle design, each handle studded with three blister pearls. It is inscribed : 20 CI,ASS MEETINGS. Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter 1858 1908 WILLIAM PLUMB BACON SECRETARY FOR FIFTY YEARS' OF THE CLASS OF 1858 IN YALE COLLEGE. IN TOKEN OF LOVE AND GRATITUDE FROM HIS CLASSMATES. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. * MONTEUUS ABBOTT. 1838 — 1877. See Record of 1897. THATCHER MAGOUN ADAMS. He is a descendant, in the seventh generation, of Henry Adams, who came in 1634 to Braintree, Mass. He has been a member of the firm of Adams & Comstock, Attorneys at Law, since May 1, 1887, an d since January 1, 1902, has been a special partner in the firm of Day, Adams & Co., Stock Brokers, 45 Wall street. His clubs are the Union, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, City Midday, Down Town, Whist and Yale. * WALTER SCOTT ALEXANDER. He resigned his pastorate in Philadelphia in 1898, and returned to Cambridge, Mass. His wife died in Cambridge, Mass., September 14, 1898. He died there May 15, 1900, at the age of 64, after being ill five months with cancer. "Alexander was a gifted scholar, a faithful minister and a •delightful friend. Not only in religion and theology was he a progressive and fearless teacher of truth, but in historical and literary researches he proved himself a master. His articles and historical addresses reveal a graceful style and commanding knowledge. 24 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. "For forty-five years he had been collecting thousands of autograph letters from the poets, statesmen and distinguished men and women of the world, a collection among the most valu- able and extensive, in certain lines, in this country. "He bore his suffering with a courage and cheerfulness mar- velous and inspiring to his friends, keeping to the end his sunny, loving outlook on the world, his unwavering faith in God, to whom he looked with confidence and absolute faith, as a son to his father. Living in closest sympathy with his fellows, yet preserving a soul unspotted from the world, he laid down his life with no struggle, making death forever beautiful to those who loved him." "He said to his daughter, almost as his last conscious word : 'Two things are eternal : the Saviour's love and my love for you.' " Constance G. taught in the Cambridge Latin School from 1893 to 1907. In 1907-8 she was Secretary of Mr. Bernard Berenson in Italy. She has published poems in the Atlantic, Century and other magazines. In September, 1908, she was teaching in the Dana Hall School, Wellesley, Mass. * VOLNEY STAMPS ANDERSON. Mrs. Anderson is living with her son, Volney S., in Salt Lake City. Both sons are yet unmarried. Volney S. has lived in Salt Lake City for the last eight years, and is Secretary of the firm of Windsor & Co., General Insur- ance Agents. George P is engaged in mining in Goldfield, Nev. * GEORGE PIERCE ANDREWS. In 1898 he was re-elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 25 He died of apoplexy in New York May 24, 1902, aged 66. His remains were cremated and the ashes placed in the Garrison mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery. Andrews was a descendant in the eighth generation from Captain Robert Andrews, who came to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, as owner and master of the ship "Angel Gabriel." When Andrews, as Assistant U. S. District Attorney, by his zeal and industry, effected the execution on the 21st of February, 1862, of Captain Gordon, the only slave-trader ever executed, he ended in this country a trade that had continued for more than 300 years, and had been illegal over forty-two years. As Corporation Counsel he recovered for the city several mil- lions of dollars. He was recognized as a high authority on municipal and corporation law. and in cases, in equity. He was quick to perceive, deliberate in action, modest, of untiring indus- try, wise, learned and just. A bronze portrait bust of him by George T. Brewster of N. Y. City, given by Mrs. Andrews, was unveiled June 17, 1904, in the County Court House. A Replica was placed in the library of the Bar Association. Mrs. Catherine Mahala (Garrison) Van Auken, daughter of Cornelius Kingsland Garrison, former wife of Barret H. Van Auken, and widow of Andrews, died at her summer home at Lake George, N. Y., August 13, 1905, aged 66. * WILLIAM NEVINS ARMSTRONG. After 1903 he lived in Washington, D. C. In 1904 he issued a book "Around the World with a King," pp. 290, F. A. Stokes Co., N. Y. City. He died after having been ill all the summer, from catarrh of the liver, in the Garfield Hospital in Washington, October 16, 1905, at the age of 70. His body was cremated and the ashes were placed near his father's on Oahu Island in the Old Mission burial ground adjoining the Kawasahas Church. 26 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. Mrs. Armstrong died at Hampton, Va., February 7, 1903, and was buried in Saybrook, Conn. Matthew C. is in the Oyster and Real Estate business in Hampton, Va. He married in Boston, Mass., November 1, 1905, Grace, daughter of Charles Henry Taylor and Georgianna Olivia Davie. CHILD. Elizabeth, b. Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1906. Richard is in business with Matthew C. He married in Hampton, Va., April 21, 1906, Rosa Fairfax, daughter of Wills Lee and Florence Beverly Whiting. Morgan K. (Yale Sheff. 1901) is a manufacturer of roofing paper in Kansas City, Mo., and is unmarried. Dorothy, unmarried, is at Hampton. WILLIAM PLUMB BACON. He still resides in New Britain, Conn. In 1902 he became a member of the Conn. Historical Society and of the N. Y. Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; in 1907 Cor. Member of the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society ; and in 1908 member of the Conn. Society of the Order of the Cincinnati. In October, 1907, he retired from business. In December, 1907, he issued a genealogy of his wife's ances- tors, "Whittemore-Clark, pp. 125, Adkins Printing Co., New Britain, Conn." He has also ready for the press a similar volume of Bacon- Plumb, his own ancestors, pp. circa 250. Corinne (Packer 1890) was from December 1, 1894, Assistant Librarian of the New Britain Institute until 1901, when she went to the New York State Library School in Albany, N. Y., where WILLIAM PLUMB BACON. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 2"] she was graduated with the degree of B. L. S. Since 1903 she has been Instructor in the Library School, and has had full charge of the Summer School. Adele (Mrs. Clinton Peters) is a painter of miniatures, and lives at 360 W. 23d street, N. Y. City. CHILDREN. John Clinton, b. Paris, France, Jan. 24, 1891. Margaret Elizabeth, " " Aug. 25, 1892. Emily Ruth, " " " June 6, 1894. William S. lives in New Britain, Conn. He has remained with the American Paper Goods Co. in Kensington, and is now the Assistant Secretary and Treasurer. He married in Rockville, Conn., June 15, 1904, Margaret, daughter of Dennis Bradley. CHILD. Robert Bradley, b. New Britain, Conn., Tuly 14, 1905. Arthur W was graduated from Yale Sheff. in 1903, receiving honorable mention in all engineering subjects and being elected to the honorary high stand Society of the Sigma Xi. In July, 1903, he was Assistant Instructor in topographic and hydrographic surveying to the Senior Class in the Sheffield Scientific School. From September 1, 1903, to February 1, 1904, he was transit- man and assistant engineer in the office of Fred. L. Ford, City Engineer of Hartford, Conn. Engaged during this time on general city work, with special attention to sewer construction. From February 1, 1904, to July 1, 1905, he was in the office of Lindon W. Bates, Consulting Engineer, of 74 Broadway, New York City, and also acted as Secretary of the United States Engineering Company, engaged in raising the grade of the city of Galveston, Tex. From July 1, 1905, to December 1, 1905, he was resident engineer in charge of preliminary work on contract No. 1 of the New York State Barge Canal Improvement for the Empire Engineering Corporation of New York City. 28 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. From December i, 1905, to January 20, 1906, in the office of the executive engineer of the above corporation in Albany, and from January 3, 1906, to October 1, 1908, engineer and assistant superintendent on contract No. 4 Erie canal, also for the Empire Engineering Corporation. JOHN TAYLOR BAIED. "July 11, 1905, having preached for forty-four years and having served the same church in Plattsmouth, Neb., thirty years to a day, I was, at my own request, honorably retired from the pastorate by the order of my Presbytery." William N. (Bellevue Coll. 1900) has since 1901, been book- keeper in the Commercial National Bank of Omaha, the U. S. National Bank of Omaha, the U. S. Bank of Denver, Col, and since 1906 in the First National Bank of Salida, Col. Mary A. H. lives in Plattsmouth. She married in Plattsmouth, Neb., January 19, 1904, George Lord Farley, owner and editor of the Evening News. CHILDREN. Helen Louise, b. Plattsmouth, Neb., May 13, 1905. Edith Maria, " " " May 13, 1905. ' m Caroline I. and Bdith E., both B. S. Bellevue College, 1905, live at home. Florence B. expects to graduate from Bellevue College in 1910. * EDWARD PAYSON BATCHELOR. 1835 — 1876. See Record of 1897. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 01? GRADUATES. * ROBERT MARSHALL BEALE. 1839 — x 866. See Record of 1897. 29 * DAVID MARKS BEAN. Mrs. David M. Bean is living at 20 N. 9th avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Annie H, (Mrs. Willafd Bean Howe) lives in Burlington, Vt., and has David Willard, Ruby Frances, Katherine Emily, Elizabeth Anne, George Frederick, Edward Gilman, Laurence Prescott, CHILDREN. b. Burlington, Cedar Beach, Burlington, Vt.. June 22, 1892 Mch. 2, 1894 Feb. 14, 1896 July 11, 1898 July 1, 1901 Jan. 19, 1903 Nov. 25, 1905 Susan H., (Mrs. Laurence T. Gray) lives in Colorado Springs, Col., and has Natalie, Laurence Tenney, Seymour Bevier, CHILDREN. b. Chicago, • 111., May 21, 1894. " Colorado Springs, Cal., May 9, 1902. " July 18, 1903. Elizabeth H., (Mrs. Harry P. Wilcox) lives in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and has a Faith, CHILD. b. Stamford, Conn., July 14, 1894. Grace S. married in Stamford, Conn., July 6, 1897, R ev - Warren Morse (Williams, 1896), now pastor of the Congrega- tional Church in Brewer, Me. 3° BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. CHILDREN. Lucy Marston, b. Bennington, Vt, July 23, 1901. Frances Margaret, " Brewer, Me., Mch. 8, 1906. * WILLIAM COMSTOCK BENNETT. 1836— 1886. See Record of 1897. * EDWARD FOSTER BLAKE. 1837 — 1862. See Record of 1897. * GEORGE MILES BOYNTON. He continued as Secretary of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society until he was no longer able to speak in public meetings. In 1905, Rev. Frank S. Sanders, D. D., (Ph. D. Yale, 1889,) was elected Secretary of the Society, and in the work of reor- ganization and extension the new office of Missionary Secretary was created, and Dr. Boynton was elected to the position. In July, 1907, he resigned and the Directors adopted the following resolution :• "Inasmuch as Rev. George M. Boynton, D. D., has, on account of impaired health, resigned the office of Missionary Secretary of The Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, the Directors wish to record their high estimation of him as a man and their grateful acknowledgement of the wise and efficient way in which he has discharged the onerous duties of his high office. For more than nineteen years he has served this Society with tireless and tactful assiduity — seventeen as Corresponding and two as Missionary Secretary, doing much in each depart- ment to make this the most fruitful period in the history of the organiza- tion. With true business instinct he has carried on the routine work in a prompt and orderly way. With fine literary taste his voluminous correspondence has been clear and comprehensive, his varied printed BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 3 1 pages informing and attractive. Scanning the needs of our country with a statesman's eye, he has sought to answer the many calls for aid both east and west in a judicial way, giving a portion to each in due season. "An entertaining and forceful speaker, he has found ready access to the larger as well as to the smaller pulpits of the denomination, and received numerous calls to present the cause at conferences and Sunday school conventions all over the land. "As a result one million, ninety-five thousand, six hundred and twenty dollars have been received for the Missionary Department during this administration — forty-five thousand the first year and seventy-five thou- sand the last — making a gain of over sixty-six per cent. In this time nearly nine thousand Sunday schools have been established in about all the states and territories, out of which have grown something like five, thousand churches, not a few of which have become not only self-sup- porting, but also generously contributing bodies to the missionary enter- prises of the denomination. "Under Dr. Boynton's careful supervision an exceptionally strong and efficient corps of laborers has been kept constantly at work on the most promising fields, without running the Society into debt at the close of any single year, and without exciting friction between employer and employed. Instead, the missionaries at the front have regarded the Secretary at home, not as an executive officer merely, but as a personal friend as well, whose tender sympathy and sane advice were always available to help them on in their hard tasks. "We congratulate our brother on the high favor and grand success which have attended his administration, and we dare express the hope that even greater harvests will be gathered from seed he has already sown.'' His three books, The Model Sunday School, The Pilgrim Pastor's Manual, and The Congregational Way, are examples of a great amount of wise teaching and counsel he has given which has contributed largely to the growth and prosperity of Congregational churches. For nearly a year his health steadily failed, and he died of paralysis at his home in Boston, May 1,7, 1908, aged 71. He was buried in Newton Centre. Mrs. Boynton lives at 64 Sewall avenue, Brookline, Mass. Louis H. is an architect at 1170 Broadway, New York City. He married in Rome, Italy, March 25, 1897, Miss Maude Franklin, daughter of James Seymour Reynolds and Margaret Mason. 32 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. CHILDREN. Louise, b. Scranton, Pa., .Sept. n, 1898. Lucia Margaret, " White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1899. George Mills, 2d, " College Point, " Sept. 11, 1906. Henry W. lives in Bristol, R. I. He married first in Portland, Me., December 21, 1893, Miss Lucia Griswold, daughter of Rev. James Griswold and Louisa W. (Boutwell) Merrill. Mrs. Boynton died in Andover, Mass., September 19, 1899. He married second in Providence, R. I., March 26, 1908, Miss May Whittemore, daughter of Solon Vergil Whittemore and Maria Elizabeth Gleason. CHILDREN. Merrill Holmes, b. Andover, Mass., Nov. 15, 1895. Oliver Griswold, " " " Dec. 8, 1898. Percy H., (Amherst, 1897) A. M. Harvard, 1898, was Instructor in English in Smith Academy, St. Louis, 1898-1902 ; at the University of Chicago as Reader in English, 1902-3 ; Asso- ciate in English, 1903-5; Instructor, 1905-8; Assistant Professor, 1908, and has been University Extension Lecturer since 1906, and Secretary of Instruction, Chautauqua Institution since 1903. He married in St. Louis, Mo., October 11, 1902, Lois, daughter of Charles P Damon and Rosa Ewald. children. Holmes, b. Chicago, 111., Aug. 15, 1906. Damon, " Sept. 27, 1908. George H. spent three years at Amherst College, and then became a bookkeeper in the New England Trust Co. of Boston, and lives with his mother at 64 Sewall avenue, Brookline, Mass. DANIEL GARRISON BRINTON. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 33 * DANIEL GARRISON BRINTON. He died after a brief illness at Atlantic City, N. J., July 31, 1899, aged 62. He published twenty or more volumes and contributed about one hundred and fifty papers to scientific periodicals, including valuable reports on mounds, shell-heaps, rock inscriptions and other American antiquities, besides popular articles on science and literature. In 1899, he presented his entire collection of two thousand books and manuscripts on the aboriginal languages of America and nearly two hundred indexed pamphlets on the ethnology of the American Indians to the University of Pennsylvania. "In his death American science has suffered a grievous loss. Notably brilliant and versatile, endowed with exceptional acumen, and an indefatigable worker, he investigated much of the broad field of anthropology with signal success ; a fluent and forceful speaker and a clear and cogent writer, he was remarkably suc- cessful in putting the results of his work before general auditors and readers as well as students ; exceptionally public-spirited and appreciative of the normal human demand for better knowl- edge, he strove constantly to extend and improve instrumen- talities for the diffusion of science. Thus through rich natural endowment, coupled with wise and persistent effort, he materially advanced the Science of Man and placed himself in the front rank of the anthropologists of the world. His activity continued undiminished (despite the weight of well-guarded suffering con- sequent on military service) until checked by the illness which terminated with his life. "Largely by reason of his versatility, it is not easy to define his original additions to the body of definite knowledge com- prehended by the term anthropology ; his range was broad and his touch vivified many lines of thought. Perhaps his richest gift to scientific method was that embodied in his unique library designed 'to put- within reach of scholars authentic materials for the study of the languages and culture of the native races of America.' "Perhaps his richest contribution to the body of science is the second chapter of his 'Religions,' entitled 'Origin and Con- 34 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. tents of Primitive Religions,' which has well- been characterized as a work of genius ; while certainly the influence of his eloquent advocacy of the doctrine of mental unity will long remain in the minds of the anthropologists of the world. Yet despite the difficulty of signalizing special features of well-rounded work, the great fact remains that Brinton's investigations and expositions have served to set forward the outposts of the Science of Man along almost the entire front. "During the last two decades workers in various branches of science have benefited much by Dr. Brinton's readiness to pro- mote and diffuse knowledge by all means at his command ; he conducted a large and varied correspondence in which he freely gave of his information to numberless seekers ; he contributed voluminously to current periodical literature, both special and general ; he was given to attending scientific meetings, and was particularly free in formal and informal communications and discussions ; and he was a frequent and attractive lecturer. He was no less generous in editorial work ; his name has added strength to the editorial corps and his pen has added interest to the pages of other journals of scientific character. "Among scientific associates Dr. Brinton was rioted for court- esy and urbanity even more than for the vigor and insistence whereby his convictions were enforced. Clear and trenchant in statement, clever and terse in debate, incisive and even sharp in criticism he was instinctively fair and tolerant ; and no force_ful thinker was ever readier to recognize the right of free opinion. These and other qualities united to form a strong personality, which served the world well in attracting auditors and pupils toward useful lines of thought. "It was among intimates that Dr. Brinton was seen at his best. Of refined social sense and of peculiar delicacy in word and manner, an easy and often brilliant conversationalist, and a pleasing raconteur, he was a delightful companion, charming host, or ideal guest, as occasion demanded. Naturally his asso- ciations warmed into friendships, many and deep ; and the pass- ing of his life has rent unnumbered ties and wrought widespread sorrow. "Surviving more than three-score years des"pite an infirmitv of war concealed with Spartan care, and living a remarkablv BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 35 busy life, it is but natural that Dr. Brinton should become a prominent figure of his times. His death creates a void that must long be felt ; yet few American scientists have left worthier monuments in the form of finished works." Mrs. Brinton is living in Media, Pa. Robert T. is unoccupied and lives in Rutledge, Pa. He married in Chicago, 111., October 6, 1897, Pose, daughter of' Robert James Arkell and Rose Smith. children. Daniel Garrison, b. Chicago, 111., July 2, 1898. d. Apr. 30, 1902. Sarah Maria, b. Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 13, 1900. Robert Arkell, " Ridley Township, Pa., Nov. 4, 1907. Emilia G. married in Philadelphia, February 26, 1895, James Beaton Thompson. children. Elizabeth Hough, b. Philadelphia Pa., Jan. 13, 1896. Daniel Garrison, July 9, 1898. * ORLANDO BROWN. Mrs. Brown is living in Frankfort, Ky, with her daughters, Annie and Mary W., both of whom are unmarried. Hord is unmarried and lives in Frankfort. Mason P is unmarried and in the drug business in Frank- fort. Samuel is in the grain business at 68 Pavonia avenue, Jersey City, and lives at 315 W. 113th street, New York City. He married in Newark, N. J., February 23, 1903, Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Harry B. and Susan (Hudson) Innes. He has no children. j6 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. * SAMUEL CALDWELL. Mrs. Caldwell is living at 119 Flora avenue, Peoria, 111., with her brother, Leslie Robison, of '58. Elsie L. lives at 2380 Green street, San Francisco, Cal. She married in Peoria, 111., October 25, 1893, Loren E. Barnes. They have no children. * MATTHEW CHALMERS. He continued the practice of medicine at 24 W. 16th street, New York City until 1902, "when he retired. In November, 1905, he suffered a slight stroke of apoplexy. In December, 1908, he had another, which was followed by an attack of pneumonia, from which he died January 6, 1909, at the age of 72. He was buried in West Charlton, N. Y., whence the family came. He is survived by a brother, John C. Chalmers of Ann Arbor, Mich., by a half-sister, Julia H. Chalmers of New York City, and a half-brother, Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers of 29 West 9th street, New York City. * ADDISON LEWIS CLARKE. Elizabeth S., lives at 7 Regent Circle, Brookline, Mass. She married in Newton, Mass., June 19, 1890, Dr. George Franklin Harding (Harvard, 1885). CHILDREN. Dorothy, b. Boston, Mass., Feb. 14, 1895. Marjorie, " Brookline, " Apr. 7, 1900. Mary A. F., lives at Bretton HalL 86th street and Broadway, New York City. She married in Brookline, Mass., November 15, 1900, Joseph Wodell, a manufacturer. He died in Summerville, Ga., February 12, 1903. BIOGRAPHICAL KliCORD OF GRADUATES. 37 SANFORD HOADLEY COBB. From July, 1900, to May, 1901, he was pastor of the Presby- terian Church in Greenwich, Conn., but resigned because his health failed. In 1902, he published The Rise of Religious Liberty in America, a History, pp. 541, Macmillan Co., New York. From November, 1903, to May, 1904, he supplied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre', Pa., and from November. 1904, to September, 1905, the pulpit of the Reformed Church of Catskill, N. Y. In the spring of 1905, he removed from Richfield Springs to Cooperstown, N. Y., and in September his health became so much impaired as to prevent his preaching. He has spent the last three winters in California. Farrar C. was graduated from Harvard in 1890, from the Harvard Medical School in 1892, the Mass. General Hospital in 1893, and began practice in Boston in August, 1893. He married October 12, 1893, Miss Frances McMurray, of Chicago, 111., and has children. Leslie Frances, b. Boston, Mass., Apr. 24, 1897. Farrar McMurray, " " Mch. 11, 1902. Bernard C. married in Detroit, Mich., November 19, 1901, Caroline Ellis of Detroit, and has CHILDREN. Margaret Elizabeth, b. Saginaw, Mich., Jan. 1, 1903. Mary Katherine, " " Nov. 30, 1904. Alby Eugenia, " " " Feb. 3, 1906. Alice Emmet, " New York, N. Y., June 29, 1907. Julia N. married December 29, 1892, Rev. George Reynolds, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Richfield Springs, N. Y., and has two 38 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. CHILDREN. Sanford Cobb, b. Richfield Springs, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1893. Katharina Rainsford, " " " May 16, 1896. Caroline B. married in Richfield Springs, June 20, 1899, McNaughton Miller, of Albany, and has a SON. Ernest John, b. Albany, N. Y., July 21, 1906. * ABNER WEYMAN COLGATE. He died in Pasadena, Cal., of heart disease, March 20, 1904, aged 65. He left a widow but no children. He was a member of the Century and Yale Clubs, the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Geographical Society. Retiring early from commercial pursuits, he found in private life the leisure favorable to systematic methods of charity and other well doing, and for the cultivation and enjoyment of his artistic predilections and public spirit, as well as for occasional contributions to the press in behalf of the current interests of the community in various fields. Greatly interested in astronomy, he built at the country house where he and Mrs. Colgate gave their friends so hospitable a welcome a well arranged observa- tory, supplying it with a telescope powerful enough to give him full opportunity for close study of constellations, and for noting those periodical movements of the firmamental bodies which carry conviction to the mind of the scientific observer that "order is heaven's first law." In those finer arts which find their manifestation in plastic and graphic rendering Colgate was no less at home. As a water colorist he excelled, and in earlier years his pictures were occasionally on public exhibition. His work in the medium of water colors, especially when architecture was their subject, elicited the admiration alike of professional artists and of ama- BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 39 teurs, and he introduced in the hall and stairway of his house in town a fine example of Pompeiian decoration. Nor was his knowledge of architecture confined simply to the delineation of its surface development, as found in executed work. He made a design— never shown, except privately to a few friends — for the "flatiron" building, which, in execution would have been infinitely more pleasant to the eye than the wedge shaped and hurricane breeding structure to the production of which its architect was doubtless driven by the necessity of yielding to his client every possible square inch of floor space to secure adequate return in rent, and so make his investment profitable. At the time of the fall of the Campanile di San Marco, in Venice, the writer hereof was so struck by a diagram prepared by Colgate for his inspection, and covering certain features of interior construction designed to prevent any possible recur- rence, from causes within the proposed new structure itself, of a calamity everywhere deplored, that he introduced the designer and his project, as set forth in said diagram and its acompany- ing descriptive text, to the architect charged with the restoration of the famous tower. Such a life as Colgate led tends strongly, not only to the betterment of one's self and one's neighbors, but to that of one's entire community, affording, as it does, a quiet but steadfast example of what, even in the private walks of life, conduces to the advancement of civilization in its best aspects. * RALPH HASTINGS CUTTER. From 1893 until perhaps 1898, he practiced law in Boston, and later was for several years in Nashua, N. H. He died of paralysis in Taunton, Mass., February 19, 1904, aged 68. Mrs. Mildred M. Cutter is living at 306 Charlton street, E. Savannah, Ga. Cutter has two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Whiting, who lives at 3604 Broadway, New York. City, and Mrs. C. M. Gage, at 34 Phillips street, Andover, Mass. 40 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. Mr. Dixie Hines, New York Times Building, is a son of Mrs. Cutter by her first husband. John H. is a cotton broker in Charlotte, N. C. He married in Charlotte, N. C, February i, 1906, Miss Grace, daughter of George H. King, of Charlotte, N. C. They have no children. Ellen D. married in Savannah, Ga., December 28, 1898, Homer Hopkins of Pittsburgh. CHILDREN. Ruby Cutter, b. Savannah, Ga., Apr. 2, 1900. Miriam Ellen, " " " Oct. 18, 1902. Raymonde P lives at the Shirley Hotel, Denver, Col. She married in New York City, January 20, 1908, Charles Frederick Smutzer, of Denver, Col. ISAAC DELANO. He is still living in the house he bought February 12, 1879, in East Saginaw, Mich. Neither of his two sons has married. Edward W. at sixteen, entered the coal business in November, 1899, and is now head of the office of Morley, Ewen & Co., East Saginaw. Evans H. at twenty-one entered the machine shop of Mitts and Merrill in January, 1906. * LOUIS DEMBINSKI. He was born in Poland, and was the son of a wealthy vine grower and wine manufacturer and merchant. When eighteen years of age he was compelled to flee the country on account of a debate at college in which he participated, on the question of the Russian dismemberment of Poland. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 41 Mrs. Dembinski and her daughter Hmma, who is unmarried, are at 2717 Paloma street, Los Angeles, Cal. They went from Cleveland, Tenn., to Chattanooga in the autumn of 1889, to St. Louis, Mo., in July, 1893, and to San Francisco, Cal., in June, 1905. They suffered much in the earthquake of April 18, 1906, and in the same month removed to Los Angeles. Malvina (Mrs. Edward B. Parry) lives at 31 14 Bell avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where he is an accountant. CHILDREN. Edna, b. Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1886. Lilli, " Cleveland, Tenn., Sept. 6, 1888. * ROBERT ODGEN DWIGHT. In 1866, he removed to South Hadley Falls, Mass., for a year or more was paymaster of the Glasgow Mills, and then opened a law office, which he later moved to Holyoke. In South Hadley Falls he was Selectman, on the School Com- mittee, a member of the Library Board of Trustees, of which he was also for a while President, and for several terms Town Attorney. In 1904, he received the degree of A. B. from Yale, and was enrolled with his old class of '58. He was a descendant, in the sixth generation, from John Dwight of Dedham, England, who came in 1634 or 1635 to Watertown, Mass., and was a great-great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards. He married October 6, 1869, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of John Simontoh Coburn of Rockland, Me., and Sarah Elizabeth Levensaler. His wife died, without issue, in Holyoke, July 2, 1908, after an illness of twentv-one months. 42 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Ol? GRADUATES. And Dwight followed her on the 1st of November, at the age of 70, yielding to an acute attack of Bright's disease. He was deeply interested in town affairs and was an authority on local history. At the 150th anniversary of the settlement of the town he delivered the address. As a lawyer he was at least the equal of any in western Massachusetts. He was a frequent contributor to the press. * MARTIN SMYSER EICHELBERGER. 1836 — 1893. See Record of 1897. EDWARD THOMAS ELLIOTT. He lived in England from 1899 to July, 1905, and is now in Hawarden, Iowa, with his daughter. He wrote in December, 1908: "I am doing nothing and suc- cessful in that line. I lectured in England on the topic, 'Toward Some Great End.'. Lectures seemed to interest audiences. Since then have occupied myself with telepathy, the molecular motions, the power of mind over matter so as to move the latter without manual touch, etc., etc.'' William H. left the nail mill in Lock Haven, Pa., in 1894, and engaged in life insurance until July, 1903, when he became a rural mail carrier in the U. S. Postal Service in Towanda, Pa. children. George Henry, b. Lock Haven, Pa. July 25, 1888. Edward Laning, " Oct. 17, 1891. Robert Thomas. " " Aug. 1, 1893. Elmer T., " Towanda, " Jan. 24, 1906. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 43 Annie M. (Mrs. Charles T. Fox) lives in Philadelphia. He is manager of the Philadelphia branch of the Pillsbury- Washburn Flour Mills Co. CHILDREN. Laning, b. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 13, 1889. d. Towanda, Pa. Apr. 17, 1890. Robert Taylor, b. Minneapolis, Minn., Mch. 3, 1891. Mary L,. married first in Towanda, Pa., September 12, 1882, George Washington Van Brunt, and divorced him in Cleveland, O., September 19, 1898. She married second in Minneapolis, Minn., December 27, 1904, Elmer Ellsworth Maynard and lives in Hawarden, Iowa. He travels for the Cudahy Packing Co. CHILD. Theodore Edgar, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1884. d. Minneapolis, Minn., May 21, 1901. * LEMUEL RILEY EVANS. 1838— 1870. See Record of 1897. * GEORGE MAYER FRANKLIN. After an illness of three weeks from pneumonia, he died sud- denly from disease of the heart at his home in Lancaster, Pa., Mav 15, 1899, at the age of 60. There passed one of nature's noblemen. In peace and war, in church and state, in business and idle- ness, conservative, yet progressive, efficient, faithful, modest, gentle. It is no wonder that his death was hardly believed in Lancaster. 44 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OV GRADUATES. George S. (Lehigh University, 1888,) is a member of the Steinman Hardware Co. in Lancaster. William B. (Yale, 1892,) is with the M. S. Pipe, , Iron and Foundry Co., Land Title Building, Philadelphia. He married in Lancaster, Pa., June 9, 1896, Ellen Julia Ford- ney, daughter of Thomas Potter Fordney and Ida Mary Cox. CHILDREN. Sarah Steinman, b. Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 26, 1897. Sidney Josephine, " " " July 30, 1899. William Buell, " Florence, Ala., Sept. 15, 1902. Frederick S. (Yale, 1895,) is freight solicitor of the P. R. R., and lives in Hamburg, N. Y. He married in Lancaster, Pa.,. November 17, 1904, Carolyn Musselman Herr, daughter of Reuben Daniel Herr and Harriet Frances Musselman. CHILDREN. Frederick Steinman, b. Germantown, Pa., Aug. 25, 1905. Barbara Ann, " Hamburg, N. Y., Apr. 20, 1908. Thomas E. (Yale, 1900,) died suddenly in Lancaster, October 20, 1900. DE LANCY FREEBORN. He retired from business in 1898, and still lives in Knox- ville, Pa. Gertrude E. (Mrs. George H. Davis) lives yet in Proctor, Vt., and has had no children. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 45 Angela C. is Supt. of the Building Dept. of the Vermont Marble Co., in Proctor, Vt. He married in Falls Village, Conn., May 15, 1907, Mary Emeline, daughter of Erastus Deming Goodwin and Julia Emmons. Emeline, CHILD. b. Proctor, Vt., Mch. 11, 1908. Fair De L. (Cornell, 1895,) is unmarried and in business. Faun W (Cornell, 1897,) was from 1898 to 1900 Supt. Glenns Falls Portland Cement Co., Glenns Falls, N. Y. ; from 1901 to 1904 Supt. Cayuga P. Cement Co., Ithaca, N. Y. ; from 1904 to 1905 Manager of the Iola P. Cement Co., Dallas, Tex., and in 1908 became President of the Freeborn Engineering and Construction Co., Kansas City, Mo. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 8, 1902, Louise Edgell, (Wellsley, 1899,) daughter of Rev. Stephen Livingston Baldwin and Esther Eliza Jerman. CHILDREN. Faun William, Jr., b. Ithaca, N. Y. , Sept. 16, 1903. Elizabeth, " Smyrna, Del., June 17. 1904. d. a July 30, 1904. David Davis, b. Bloomfield, N. J., June 5. 1906. Jane, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 14, 1908. WILLIAM RUSSELL FRISBIE. He was born September 25, 1836. He is still connected with the Bureau of Pensions in the Department of the Interior in Washington, D. C. 46 BIOGRAPHICAL RJJCORD OF GRADUATES. ROBERT MACY GALLAWAY. He is still President of the Merchants National Bank at 42 Wall street, and lives at 68 E. 55th street, New York City. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, University, Union League, and New York Yacht Clubs. He is a Director of the Bowery Savings Bank (Trustee), Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co., Iron Mountain Railroad Co., Manhattan Life Insurance Co., Manhattan Rail- way Co., New York Mutual Gas Light Co. (President and Director), New York Mutual Telegraph Co., The Night & Day Bank, Rio Grande Western Railway Co., St. Louis, Iron Moun- tain & Southern Railway Co., St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., Southern Railway Co., Texas & Pacific Railway Co., Wabash Railroad Co., and Western Union Telegraph Co. Merrill W. (Yale, 1892) lives at 68 E. 55th street, New York City, and is unmarried. He has practiced since 1894 in the law offices of the Manhattan Railway Co., and Interborough Rapid Transit Co. He is a member of the Union, Union League, Yale, and Salmagundi Clubs. John M. lives at 68 E. 55th street, and is in business. He married in New York City, September 30, 1905, Miss Annie Beatrice, daughter of John Bascom Wright and Annie Louise Hanchett of San Francisco, Cal. child. Robert Wright, b. New York, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1906. Mary died in New York City April 9, 1905. JEPTHA GARRARD. Mrs. Garrard died May 19, 1887. There is nothing to add to his record. He still lives in Cincinnati, where his office is at 405 Johnston Building. Verlag -rati "Wilhfilm Engelmam.Leipzicf. Meiseribadi Riffarfe &. Co.Leipzicj, JC f friStC&u-T^Os BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 01? GRADUATES. 47 * JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS.. * He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, February 11, 1839, and died in the same city, April 28, 1903. He was descended, in the fifth generation, from Robert Gibbs, the fourth son of Sir Henry Gibbs of Honington, Warwickshire, who came to Boston about 1658. One of Robert Gibbs's grandsons, Henry Gibbs, in 1747 married Katherine, daughter of the Hon. Josiah Willard, (Harvard, 1698) Secretary of the Province of Massa- chusetts, and of the descendants of this couple, in various parts of the country, no fewer than six have borne the name Josiah Willard Gibbs. The subject of this memorial was the fourth child and only son of Josiah Willard Gibbs, (Y. C, 1809), Professor of Sacred Literature in the Yale Divinity School from 1824 to 1861, and of his wife, Mary Anna, daughter of Dr. John Van Cleve (Princeton, 1797). An intellectual calling was his by right of inheritance. The father, grandfather and great-grandfather of the elder Professor Gibbs, were graduates of Harvard, as were also Secretary Willard and his father, President Samuel Willard. Among his mother's ancestors also were two Yale graduates, one of whom, Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, (Yale, 1706) became the first President of the College of New Jersey. He was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and entered the Class July 24, 1854. B. — $>• B • K • — 1856, Berkeley Premium for Latin Composi- tion — 1857, Bristed Scholarship.^ — 3d Prize Latin Examination, 2d term Junior. — Berkeley Premium for Latin Composition.— 1858, 1st DeForest Mathematical Prize. — Clark Scholarship. — Latin Oration. [ * For the appreciative -notice of our classmate, Gibbs, we are indebted to. Henry A. Bumstead, Ph. D., Professor of Physics and Director of the Sloane Physical Laboratory, Yale University, a former pupil of Professor Gibbs and joint-editor of his "Scientific Paper" It is abridged from two papers, one a somewhat extended review of his work, which appeared in the American Journal of Science for September, 1903, (reprinted in "Scientific Paper" vol. I), the other in the Yale Alumni Weekly of February 6, 1907.] 48 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. From 1858 he continued his studies in New Haven, and in 1863 received the degree of doctor of philosophy and was appointed a tutor in the college for a term of three years. Dur- ing the first two years of his tutorship he taught Latin and in the third year Natural Philosophy, in both of which subjects he had gained marked distinction as an undergraduate. At the end of his term as tutor he went abroad with his sisters, spend- ing the winter of 1866-67 m Paris, in attendance upon courses, mostly in pure mathematics, at the Sorbonne and College de France, and the following year in Berlin, where he heard the lectures of Magnus and other teachers of physics and of mathe- matics. In 1868 he went to Heidelberg, where Kirchoff was then stationed, returning to New Haven in June, 1869. Two years later he was appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics in Yale College, a position which he held until the time of his death. It was not until 1873, when he was thirty-four years old, that he gave to the world, by publication, evidence of his extra- ordinary powers as an investigator in mathematical physics. In that year two papers appeared in the Transactions of the Con- necticut Academy, the first being entitled "Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids," and the second "A Method of Geometrical Representation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Substances by Means of Surfaces." These were followed in 1876 and 1878 by the two parts of the great paper "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances," which is generally, and probably rightly, considered his most important contribu- tion to physical science, and which is unquestionably among the greatest and most enduring monuments of the wonderful scien- tific activity of the nineteenth century. Thermodynamics is the science which treats of heat as a form of energy, and of the various conditions which govern the trans- formation of heat into other forms of energy, such as, for example, ordinary mechanical work. To an unusual extent, among the sciences which appeal to experiment, it can be, and has been, cast in a deductive form. Sir Isaac Newton said that "it is the glory of geometry that from a few principles . it is able to produce so many things." Thermodynamics shares BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 49 in this kind of glory; it has only two fundamental principles, of which the first is the statement of the conservation of energy as applied to heat, and the second states the fact (so deeply founded in general experience that it seems almost axiomatic) that heat will not of itself flow from a body at a lower tempera- ture to one at a higher temperature. From these two simple principles, by an almost Euclidean method, a surprising number of facts and relations between work and heat, and various prop- erties of bodies were deduced about the middle of the last century by Kelvin, Clausius, Helmholtz, Rankine and others. These results have been constantly tested by comparison with the results of experiment and have never been found wanting; no excep- tions have been discovered and no changes in the fundamental ■ hypotheses have been rendered necessary or even probable either by experiments upon the earth or by observations upon the most distant stars and nebulae. As to the importance of the results thus mathematically deduced (taking first the practical side), one may point to the fact that every mechanical engineer must be familiar with them, and use them constantly if he has to do with heat engines ; that the present efficiency and economy of steam engines are mainly due to this body of mathematical knowledge; and that the improvements in details which are con- stantly taking place are more often suggested by theoretical considerations than by empirical knowledge. On the broader ground of its contribution to human knowledge, one may cite as an example that thermodynamics gives an irrefragable demon- stration that, unless at some time or some place the laws of nature are quite different from those we know, the universe is not a perpetual motion machine going forward in endless cycles of development; but that the present "order of nature" must have begun at a definite time in the past and must end at a definite time in the future, when all the active interchange of energy which makes up the life of the physical world will have ceased. Thermodynamics may well claim a share in the glory of having produced many and great things from a few simple principles. About 1870 the relations between heat and one other form of energy — mechanical work, which manifests itself in the move- 50 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. ment of visible bodies — had been pretty well worked out. Important applications were being made and are still being made but the theory was fairly complete and the science was, in some ways, stagnant. But there were other forms of energy whose relations to heat had hardly been touched. The energy of chemical action in particular has obviously a very intimate con- nection with thermal processes ; the evolution or absorption of heat accompanies nearly all chemical reactions, and our principal artificial source of heat, combustion, is merely a transformation of chemical energy. Some attempts had been made to bring chemical action within the scope of the thermodynamical laws but they had been successful only in a few isolated special cases ; a way could not be found to open up the whole subject and obtain the broad general relations, as had been done in the case. of mechanical energy. The way seems easy enough now ; but it is also easy to recognize that it is just one of those things which needs a stroke of genius to uncover it. It was Willard Gibbs who supplied this stroke of genius. He did more, however, than to open the way ; in a single publication he carried the study of the relations between heat and the energy of chemical combination to a degree of completeness equalling that of the older theory which dealt with mechanical work. The older theory had to do with a less complicated subject; it was the work of a number of men whose mathematical deductions were constantly being checked by experiment, and who had the stimulus of mutual suggestions from each other's work. Pro- fessor Gibbs worked alone in a field in which he had no rivals and no helpers ; he published practically all that he had to say upon the subject in a single paper of great length; and there were scarcely any experiments to which he could look for con- firmation or suggestion as to his theoretical conclusions. Yet his very numerous results were correct, were of the highest importance, and were extremely general in their application. Many things which had been mysteries, and concerning which our ignorance had been confessed by- such vague terms as '"affin- ity" or "catalytic action" were in this paper shown to be simple and direct consequences of the two laws of thermodynamics. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. 51 Relations between facts, and laws of chemical action were stated a priori which have since been verified by laborious and exact experiments ; and in fact there is little exaggeration, if any, in the statement that this paper contains, so far as general principles are concerned, practically the whole of the science which is now called physical chemistry and which had scarcely been begun when it was written. Considered merely as an intellectual tour de force, there are very few chapters in the history of science which can be compared with this ; as an example of scientific prediction it is probably without a rival in the number and complexity of the relations discovered, by a priori reasoning, in a science essentially experimental. This great paper, "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Sub- stances" did not at once attract attention ; for some ten years it was almost wholly neglected and in the meanwhile physical chemistry had been born. A -good many important facts and laws had been discovered and much interest was being shown in this new and interesting subject, when certain investigators in Holland and Germany awoke to the importance of Gibbs's work. In 1 89 1 it was translated into German by Professor Ostwald, who says in his preface : "The contents of this paper are to-day of immediate importance and its interest is by no means purely historical. Up to the present time, of the wealth of results which it contains or suggests, only a small part has been made fruitful. Untouched treasures in the greatest abundance and of the greatest importance for the theoretical or experimental inves- tigator reveal themselves in its chapters." Eight years later M. Le Chatelier, in translating the work into French, writes in a similar vein. Even now, more than thirty years after its publi- cation, the direct results of this work have not been exhausted ; and the indirect consequences of the stimulus which it gave to a new and important branch of science will be felt for many years to come. After the death of Professor Gibbs, the following notice appeared in the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, edited by Wilhelm Ostwald and J. H. Van't Hoff, at the end of vol. 43, for the year 1903 : 52 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF GRADUATES. ff( A.Mt 28.