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History of the Academic Class of 1856, Yale University, to 1896 This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com Historyoftheacademicclass1856,YaleUniversity,to1896 YaleUniversity.Classof1896,TheronBrown s* iCthranj llntttf rBttg of ■Ptflratwitt of tip Hnttte rfittg nf Minamata To long-remembering love that smiles With pride to count thy grander piles Thy elder beauty cannot pale, Athenian Mother! Ancient Yale! No breath that triumph's bugle fills Can stir so sweet a note as thrills When by that name affection calls Thy dear old rank of homely walls. And still in fadeless palimpsest The vision of our youth is best, When, radiant in their long array, Thy windows kissed the morning day. CLASS HISTORY. HISTORY OF THE ademic Class of i Yale University, To 1896. A night of story-telling ! Old expression Comes crowding back on memory's overflow, And jovial voices, tuned in quaint confession, Ring all the notes of forty years ago. BOSTON: Printed for the Class, 1897. J41 588323 to \ \ - SECRETARY'S PREFACE. My Dear Classmates : At the meeting of the class on our fortieth anniversary there was plainly a general desire that I should continue my official relations with you, in spite of the disability which has come upon me. To this desire it seemed wise to yield, as long as my residence should continue here. The class committee kindly agreed to render all necessary aid in the preparation of future reports, and you all have had the proof of their thorough efficiency. The meeting was so peculiarly successful that a plan was formed, at first, to issue without delay a small pamphlet, containing a full account of the proceedings, and such biographical matter as had accumulated since the report of 1891. Then the idea was suggested of trying to secure the pictures of the surviving class mates. Finally, a plan was matured for obtaining as many pictures as possible of the entire original class, and revising the previous reports so as to present in one complete book the entire story of our lives. Forthwith Catlin and Morse set about the pursuit of photos, and continued it with a persistency which could have left no doubt of their interest in you. Fortunately we had just the right man who was willing to undertake ; the revision of the history. Our beloved poet, as ready with his pen in prose as in verse, was fitted by many years of editorial experience to , do this work in the best way. He has performed it with all possible dispatch, and has spared no pains to make it perfectly accurate. To his zeal in hunting up children and grandchildren we owe the large additions to the imposing array of descendants of '56 registered in the ' biographical pages. He has found "the class girl" and put into her hands the silver cup, which was rightfully hers nearly forty years ago. This book which he has so ably edited ought to be a delightful reminder of our college days for many years to come. Let me urge you to advise me promptly of any changes that hereafter may occur in your lives, or those of your families, so that future records may be easily made. It is needless for me to add that I hope you will always seek me out when you come to New Haven, and give me the opportunity to welcome you to my home. Cordially yours, JOSEPH R. FRENCH, Class Secretary. New Haven, April 5, 1897. EDITOR'S PREFACE. Dear Classmates : It was with no expectation of assuming so large a part of the work, and the responsibility, that I gladly promised to aid our secretary in preparing this history. The misfortune that disabled him from literary labor, and the flattering confidence expressed by himself and by the class committee, seemed finally to make my duty plain. The book has been made up in the short leisure between busy days, and if its faults are many this must be its apology. As in the case of every previous class report, publication has been delayed by slow returns. But for Catlin's constant and tireless help in the toil of correspondence and transcription, and his enterprise and energy, ably seconded by his associate, Morse, in collecting and superintending the illustrations, our book would have been kept waiting much longer. Having no power to subpcena facts or send for "persons and papers," I have tried to put in form what I could get after going the entire round and playing the whole gamut of epistolary appeal. That I have been under continual obligation to the past labors of our patient secretaries, Pardee and French, goes without saying. Their records have been transcribed or condensed, and in very few instances has any alteration been necessary in matters of fact or date. Personal communication or the authority of friends has supplied much recent history, and often a more comprehensive life-sketch. Where second hand information was uncertain it has been left with a mark of doubt (?), Now that the work is done, it is fair to say that the delights and surprises of it have largely outnumbered its disappointments. Entire failures in our search for baccalaureates have been next to none ; and by intelligence direct or indirect the living of '56 have seemed to grow into new intimacy, and the dead almost to rise again. The length of time spent in gathering the records of our graduate members made it impossible to continue a drastic system of search through the non-graduate list. The few in that list whose perennial interest in the old class has made it easy to hear from them are the ones whose biographies are brought down to date. The amplitude of the book must be credited in part to the feeling that it might be our last class history, and in part to the additions time has made. More or less matter of business, professional and obituary mention has been presented by the changes of the past few years, and our married " boys' " honor-roll of one hundred and seventy-six children has been appendixed with fifty-eight grandchildren. Counting non- graduates' families, so far as heard from, there are two hundred and X. EDITOR'S PREFACE. twenty of the second generation and sixty-eight of the third. 'Fifty- Six has one foot already in the twentieth century. Every man of us can read the lives of his classmates in this "private" volume with pleasure and pride — even if he is too modest to include his own. , Vital chronology makes a horoscope as we go to press. To-day the figures of our class annonym are the figures of our surviving number. Nomen fit omen. It is a benignant sign for the birth of the book. Is there a dream in it for the 'Fifty-Six that will meet in 1900? Yours continually, THERON BROWN. Boston, April 29, 1897. OUR PORTRAITS. When the committee decided that the effort was worth making to secure the likenesses of members of the class, and place them with their biographical records, it was with the feeling that a complete collection was too much to hope for ; but the result has more than justified the attempt, for we have the pictures of eighty-four graduates out of the ninety-seven, besides nine of the non-graduates. Only one of the fifty-six survivors has failed to send us his fac-simile. The expectation was to show each man with the face of his latest years. In most cases this has been realized — not always. Every possible persuasion was used to induce each living classmate to furnish a photograph of himself taken expressly for this book, or at least to supply one of recent date. But conditions beyond the control of the committee and the historian have compelled us to be content with some portraits of a past age. For this anachronism the class will place the responsibility where it belongs. Of the pictures of our dead several of the originals were either fading metallic "types" or photographs done when the art was less perfect than now. They are the best that could be obtained, and being all likenesses at the time of taking, are welcome souvenirs to us — as they are priceless to those who lent them. The engraver could do no more than copy them as they are. As far as can be ascertained, the following dates approximate the periods represented in the portraits of our classmates which appear in this publication : Nelson Bartholomew, Eakin and Kinzer, 1856; Shaw, 1858; Bacon, Bulkeley, C. E. Fellowes, F. Fellowes, Lamson, Nettleton, Peck, E. A. Walker, Woods, Wootton, 1860-64; Dubois, 1868; Buehler, Mills, Morehead, Packard and Taylor, 1870 ; Coit, 1876 ; J. M. Brown, Campbell, Harriott, Pardee, Robbins, 1887; Pease, 1888; Hall, Hallock, Hulse, Leftwich, Northrop, Smith, Williams, 1890-95. The other pictures are from photographs taken during or since the year of our 40th anniversary, 1896. The class is under special obligations to the following ladies and gentlemen (relatives or intimate friends of classmates now deceased) for their kind interest manifested in many helpful ways, and for the loan of valued portraits : For photo of Bacon, to his brother, Hon. Theodore Bacon, Rochester, N. Y. " " Baker, to Mrs. Robert M. Baker, Alexandria, Va. " " Bartholomew (Nelson), to his brother, Hon. A. J. Bartholomew, Southbridge, Mass. " '* J. M. Brown, to Mrs. John Mason Brown, Louisville, Ky. " Buehler, to his daughter, Miss Martha Wolf Buehler, Harrisburg, Pa. XII. OUR PORTRAITS. For photo of Bulkeley, to Hon.
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