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It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present) by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. .I W4r Wrtuttn Qlnllrgr iullrttu NE.CROLOGY Hartford 6, Connecticut July, 1947 VOLUME XLIV NEW SERIES NUMBER 3 Issued Quarterly by the College. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Conn., as second class matter under the Act of Cong ress of July 16, 1894. Accepted for mailing at special rate ·of postage provided for in Section 1130, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized March 3, 1919. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue; Re­ ports of the President, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announce­ ments, Necrology, and Circulars of Information. f NECROLOGY TRINITY MEN Whose deaths were reported during the year 1946-1947 Hartford, Connecticut July, 1947 ,I PREFATORY NOTE This Obituary Record is the twenty-seventh issued, the plan of devoting the July issue of the Bulletin to this use having been adopted in 1918. The data here presented have been collected through the persistent efforts of the Alumni Office. Readers who find it in their power to correct errors or to contribute further information will confer a great favor if they will at once communicate with the Alumni Office. Material corrections and additions will be incorporated in the next issue of the Necrology. Attention is particularly called to those alumni for whose biographies we have only meagre data. It is hoped that relatives and friends may be able to supply additional information, so that ·an adequate record may be preserved. JOHN A. MASON, '34. I OBITUARY RECORD Richard Howell Carpenter Class of 1881 Richard Howell Carpenter, son of Dr. James S. Carpenter, Potts­ ville, Pennsylvania, died on December 29, 1946, at his home in Westport, New York. He was born in Pottsville on March 2, 1858, and spent one year and a half at college with the class of 1881, but had to withdraw because of ill health. His fraternity affiliation was I.K.A. Mr. Carpenter was associated with the New York Life Insurance Company, in Philadelphia, but was forced to leave the city on account of threatened tuberculosis. He settled in Westport, New York, where he was associated with a Dairy Products Company, but retired from active business many years ago. He was unmarried, and made his home with his cousins in Westport. Silas Henry Parks Class of 1882 Silas Henry Parks, the son of Dr. Silas Henry and Sarah Sprague Parks, was born on November 10, 1861, at Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He prepared for Trinity at Great Barrington High School and entered college in 1878 with the class of 1882. He was a member of the I.K.A. Fraternity. Leaving college in his junior year, he entered the Albany Medical School, and was graduated in 1883. He practiced medicine in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, until 1890, when he moved to Reading, Massachusetts. There he continued his practice as physician and surgeon until his retirement. In World War I he served as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. 6 TRINITY COLLEGE On February 15, 1892, he married Miss Mabel F. Brown of Reading, and they had three children, Edith, Catherine, and Silas Henry, Jr. Mr. Parks died November 7, 1943, at Pitts.field, Mass. His brother-in-law, Charles E. Hotc;hkiss, was a Trinity classmate. Frank Dutton Woodruff Class of 1883 Frank Dutton Woodruff, son of Samuel Woodruff and Lucy E. Dutton, was born July 24, 1862, at Hartford, Connecticut. He prepared for college at Hartford Public High School and entered Trinity in 1879 with the class of 1883 and stayed in college for three years. His fraternity affiliation was the Phi Kappa Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. Mr. Woodruff was a salesman of elementary and secondary school books published by Maynard, Merrill and Company, and later by its successor, Charles E. Merrill Company. He traveled extensively throughout the country in this work. He retired twenty-seven years ago and lived in Gramercy Park, New York City. For many years he was a member of the Players Club in Gramercy Park, the Knollwood Country Club at Sleepy Hollow, New York, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He was said to have been the las.t surviving member of a band of youths who climbed ladders up a 272 foot granite tower of the Brooklyn Bridge when it was being constructed in 1882. They walked across a temporary catwalk to the Brooklyn side and back. Mr. Woodruff used to tell his friends the feat was accomplished at noon when the workmen were at lunch. Mr. Woodruff died on June 6, 1947, in New York City. There are no immediate survivors. William Agur Beardsley Class of 1887 William Agur Beardsley was born in Monroe, Connecticut, May 5, 1865, the son of Agur and Elizabeth Ann Lewis Beardsley. OBITUARY RECORD 7 He prepared for college at the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, and entered Trinity in 1883. He became a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Active in student affairs he played on the baseball team, was an editor of The Tablet and Salutatorian of his class. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with the class of 1887, and delivered the Class Day oration. Three years later he was graduated from the Berkeley Divinity School, receiving the same year an M.A. from Trinity, and later in 1922, an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. In 1890 he was appointed assistant to his uncle, the late Rev. Dr. E. Edwards Beardsley at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New Haven, and he succeeded him as rector two years later, when his uncle died. He remained in this position, until he retired in 1934 as rector emeritus. On December 28, 1946, he died unexpectedly of a heart attack in New Haven, ~onnecticut. During his long career Dr. Beardsley held many posts in the Church. In 1910 he was appointed examining Chaplain for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and seven years later he became secretary of the board of examiners. He went to the General Con­ vention of the Episcopal Church held in St. Louis in 1916 as a deputy. For more than 25 years he served as secretary-treasurer of the New Haven Archdeaconry, and was also a trustee of the Berkeley Divinity School and the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut. He held membership in the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars, the American Historical Association, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, of which he was president from 1913-22, and the Church Historical Society. Dr. Beardsley was the author of "An Old New Haven Engraver and His Works-Amos Doolittle," 1914, and a monograph on Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster, 1942. He compiled "Notes on Some of the Warwicks of Virginia," 1937, and "History of St. Thomas' Church, New Haven," 1940. His marriage to the late Alletta Hollister Warwick of Richmond, Virginia, took place on June 23, 1897, in New Haven, and they had one son, Warwick. He is survived by his son who is an attorney in Miami, Florida, and a brother, Edward G. Beardsley of Stepney, Connecticut. 8 TRINITY COLLEGE Charles William Bowman Class of 1887 Charles William Bowman, son of Nelson Blair Bowman and Elizabeth Lorraine Dunn, was born September 19, 1867, at Browns­ ville, Pennsylvania. He prepared for college at Trinity Hall, Wash­ ington, Pennsylvania, and entered Trinity in 1883 with the class of 1887. He was a member of the I.K.A. Fraternity. Mr. Bowman graduated from Trinity with a B.A. degree and received his M.A. in 1890. He also did graduate work at Columbia University in architecture, and entered the architect's firm of D. Knox Miller, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1890 to 1893. Returning to Brownsville Mr. Bowman became Magistrate and acting Mayor. He was president of the Brownsville Light, Heat and Power Company and a member of the Board of Managers of the Monongahela Bridge Company. On June 30, 1897, he married Miss Lelia Calvin Jacobs of Brownsville and they had two children: Nelson and Charles. Mr. Bowman died October 4, 1945, at Brownsville. John Thomas Carpenter Class of 1888 John Thomas Carpenter was born on October 29, 1866, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the son of John Thomas and Eliza Adelaide Hill Carpenter. He was a direct descendant of Samuel Carpenter, the first Treasurer of the Province of Pennsylvania. His father served throughout the Civil War and became Medical Director of Ohio. After preparing for Trinity at Pottsville High School, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, he entered Trinity in 1884 with the class of 1888. He was a member of the football, baseball and track teams, and his fraternity affilitaion was I.K.A. He left Trinity after one year and went to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School from which he graduated in 1889. He served as acting professor of Ophthalmology at the University during World War I, and previously was professor of Ophthalmology at Polyclinic Hospital, now a part of the University's Graduate OBITUARY RECORD 9 School of Medicine. He also lectured on eye diseases at the Wills and the Bryn Mawr Hospitals.