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NECROLOGY

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT April, 1935 NECROLOGY

TRINITY MEN

Whose deaths were reported during the year 1934-1935 .

Hartford, Connecticut April, 1935 TRINITY COLLEGE BULLETIN

Issued quarterly by the College. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Conn., as second class matter under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1904. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage pro­ vided for in Section 1103, Act of October J, 1917, authorized March J, 1919. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue; Reports of the President, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announcements and Circulars of Information. PREFATORY NOTE.

This Obituary Record is the fifteenth issued, the plan of devoting the July issue of the Bulletin to this use having been adopted in 1918. The data here pre­ sented have been collected through the persistent efforts of the Treasurer of the College, who makes it his con­ cern to secure and preserve as full a record as possible of the activities of Trinity men as well as anything else having value for the history of the College. 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 Treas­ urer, Roger H. Motten, Litt.D. Material corrections and additions will be in~orporated 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 Il)ay be preserved. ARTHUR ADAMS. OBITUARY RECORD

Thomas Potter Fordney Cla of 1862 The death of Thoma Potter Fordney of the Class of 1862 has been reported, but the date ha not been learned. He was born in Lanca ter, Pennsylvania, ...... , 1840, a on of William Busch Fordney, a lawyer of Lancaster, who e wife was Ellen J. Jenkin . He received hi preparation for college in St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hamp hire, and entered the Junior cla s in Trinity College in 1860. He left college in 1861 to enter the army during the Civil War, erving a a Sergeant. After the War, he engaged in farming in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1933. In 187 5 he married Ida Cox, a daughter of Friend Cox, of Virginia, whose wife wa Sarah Michael. The children were Ellen, Julia Thomas P., Mary R., Sarah Cox, Alice P., and W. B. Mr. Fordney wa an Episcopalian and is buried in Woodward Hill Cemetery in Lanca ter, Pennsylvania.

Josiah Cleveland Ca pen Cla s of 1865 Notification of the death of Jo iah Cleveland Capen of the Class of 1865 ha been received, but data for a biographical sketch are not yet in hand. It i expected that one will be included in the next issue of the Necrology. Thomas White Cla of 1869 Thoma White wa born November 26, 1845, in Butler, Penn­ sylvania, a son of the Rev. Dr. William White, of Butler, whose wife was Mary Bredin. 6 TRINITY COLLEGE

He was graduated from Trinity College with the degree of B. A. in 1869, and from the General Theological Seminary in 1872, but details of his ministerial labours are not in hand. He had served in Baltimore and in Decatur, Illinois, before he became Rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Rensselaer, N. Y. in 1888. He became Emeritus in 1933, and at the time of his death, October 6, 1934, he was senior Priest of the Diocese of Albany. The funeral service was held October 8, 1934, Bishop Oldham officiating. The burial was in the family plot in Butler, Pennsylvania. May 31, 1887, in Baltimore, Maryland, he married Mary Myer, a daughter of Captain James Myer, of Baltimore, whose wife was Sarah R. Bradford. One son James Bredin White, a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1910, with his widow, survives him. ·

Richard Mabie Campbell Class 1878 Richard Mabie Campbell was born October 30, 1857, in Inde­ pendence, Iowa, a son of Richard Campbell, a banker of Indepen­ dence, whose wife was Margaret Mabie. He was prepared for College at Racine College, Racine, Wiscon­ sin, and entered Trinity College in 1874 with the Class of 1878. He was a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of Psi Upsilon and was an Editor of the Ivy in his Junior year. · Mr. Campbell, all his active life, was a banker and lawyer in Independence, Iowa. After his retirement some twenty years ago, he lived in Los Angeles, where he died July 17, 1931. February 4, 1886, in Independence, Iowa, he married Ella Juliette Stout, a daughter of Zephaniah Stout, a lumberman and banker of Independence, whose wife was Cornelia Smock. The only child was Margaret Stout, born October .13, 1894, who married Gerald A. Ryder, September 6, 1922.

The Reverend William Edward Hyde Class of 1879 William Edward Hyde was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1858, a son of William and Mary Ann Johnson Hyde. The family came to the. United States and lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts. OBITUARY RECORD 7

In 1875, he and his brother, Thomas Alexander Hyde, entered Trinity College, remaining till Christmas, 1877. Later they entered Harvard and were graduated in 1881. Both likewise graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge in 1884, with the degree of S. T. B. He was ordained Deacon in 1884 and Priest in 1885 by Bishop Benjamin H. Paddock, of Massachusetts. For forty-five years, retiring in 1930, he was Rector of Trinity Church, Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he died April 7, 1935. He was the author of numerous periodical articles and of "A Natural System of Elocution and Oratory" and of "The Functions of the Brain". Mr. Hyde never married. He is survived by two sisters, Agnes and Elizabeth.

Henry Clarence Loveridge Class of 1880 Henry Clarence Loveridge was born in Cuba, New York, August 13, 1856, a son of Judge Noah Preston Loveridge, a lawyer of Preston, Connecticut, whose ~vife was Marietta King Vance. He was prepared for college at the High School in Clearwater, Michigan, and entered Trinity in the fall of 1876 with the Class of 1880. He was a member of the Alpha Chi Chapter of D. K. E., and was College Marshal in his junior year. Daniel Everett Love­ ridge of the Class of 1850 was an uncle. After his graduation with the degree of B.A. in 1880, he entered the Law office of Loveridge and Barlow. He was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1882, and practiced his profession there all his life, either independently or as a member of the firm of Barlow and Loveridge or L9veridge and Loveridge. He was a member of the Bon Ami Club and the Coldwater Country Club and served as Pre ident of the Board of Education and President of the Library Board for many years. September 5, 1883, in St. Mark's Church, Coldwater, Michigan, he married Jessie Elizabeth Moore, a daughter of Colonel Orlando Hurley Moore U. S. A., whose wife was Sarah Abigail Haynes. The children were: Sarah Moore, born February 7, 1886, Uni­ versity of California 1922; and Homan Livingstone, born November 21, 1898, who graduated from the University of Michigan in the Class of 1922. 8 TRINITY COLLEGE

Mr. Loveridge died in Coldwater, Michigan, March 2, 1934, after several years of ill health. He was a vestryman of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Coldwater, Michigan; was a Republican; and during the World War served as a member of the Legal Advisory Board of District No. 15.

George Bradley Pattison Class of 1881 George Bradley Pattison was born in Troy, N. Y. October 27, 1858, a son of Edward C. Pattison and Julia R. Dauchy. He was prepared for college at the Troy Academy and entered Trinity College in 1877 with the Class of 1881. He was a member of the Epsilon Chapter of the Delta Psi Fraternity. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior Year, and was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1881. In 1884, he received the M. A. degree. He entered the Law School of Columbia University, graduating in 1882, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1883. He prac­ tised Law in Troy till 1901, when he became a partner in the firm of J. D. Spicer & Company, lumber merchants. In 1927, he retired from active business. He was for many years a Director of the Troy and West Troy Bridge Company, serving also as Treasurer from 1894 to 1926. He ':vas a Director of the National City Bank of Troy. He was a Trustee and Treasurer of the Diocese of Albany, Treasurer of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of Albany, and a Trustee and Treasurer of the Church Home of the City of Troy. He was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church of Troy. November 26, 1890, in Troy, he married Lizzie Fitch Spicer, daughter of John D. Spicer, lumber merchant of Troy, whose wife was Mary A. Hammond. Mr. Pattison died July 17, 1931.

Reginald Hills Class of 1884 Notification of the death of Reginald Hills, of the Class of 1884, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1935, has been received, but data for a biographical account are not in hand. It is expected that a fuller sketch may be included in the next issue of the Necrology. Mr. Hills died of an heart attack at the early morning service at the Grace Lutheran Church at East Stroudsburg,· Pennsylvania. OBITUARY RECORD 9

Lewis Henry Paddock Class of 1888 Lewis Henry Paddock was born in Detroit, Michigan, March 20, 1866, a son of the Right Reverend Benjamin Henry Paddock, Bishop of .Massachusetts, from 1873 to 1891, a graduate of Trinity College in the Class of 1848. He was prepared for College at the Boston Latin School, and entered Trinity College in 1884 with the Class of 1888. He was a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of Psi Upsilon, and won distinc­ tion as a scholar. On his graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1888, he was Valedictorian, and received Honors in Latin and Modern Languages. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior Year. He received the M. A. degree in 1892, and the degree of D. C. L. honoris causa in 1932 . . After teaching two years at St. Paul's School, Concord, he graduated from the Law School of the U niveristy of Michig~n in 1893, and engaged in the practice of his profession in Detroit. The law partnership of which he was a member was known successively as Alexander and Paddock; Miller, Smith, Alexander, and Pad­ dock; Miller, Smith, Paddock, and Perry; and Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone. Sidney T. Miller, of the Class of 1885, has been a life-long friend and legal associate. Dr. Paddock was for many years a member of the Vestry of Christ Church in Detroit, and served the Episcopal Church in almost every way open to a layman. He was Chancellor of the Diocese of Michigan from 1918 to his death, and was a Deputy to the Gen­ eral Convention of 1931, serving on the Committee on Canons. He was a Director of the Detroit Episcopal City Mission, Treasurer of St. Luke's Home, Treasurer of the Harris Memorial Trust, Treasurer of Christ Church Parish, a member of the Executive Council of the Diocese of Michigan, and often a Delegate to the Diocesan Convention. He was a charter member of the Church Club of the Diocese of Michigan in 1908. He was a member of the Detroit Country Club, of the University Club, the Detroit · Club, the Yondatega Club, the Detroit Boat Club, and a member of the Michigan and the American Bar Associa­ tions. April 12, 1898, in Christ Church, Detroit, he married Jessica Ferguson, a daughter of Thomas Ferguson, an insurance man of 10 TRINITY COLLEGE

Detroit, whose wife was Nancy Kilbourne. The children were Thomas Ferguson, born January 9, 1899, Princeton, 1921; Benjamin Henry, born February 3, 1900, Princeton 1921; and Virginia Fergu­ son, born December 19, 1907. Dr. Paddock died May 11, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan.

Boyd Vincent Class of 1889 (honorary) The Right Rev. Boyd Vincent, Bishop of Southern Ohio, who received the honorary degree of Doctor in Divinity from Trinity College in 1889, died in Cincinnati Ohio, January 14, 1935. He was o'ver ninety years of age and was the senior bishop of the whole Anglican communion. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, May 18, 18+5, a son of Bethuel Boyd Vincent, a banker and civil engineer, whose wife was Sarah Ann Strong. His grandparents were John and Nancy (Ander­ son) Vincent, of Waterford, Pennsylvania, and Martin and Sarah (Drake) Strong. · He was prepared for college at the Erie Academy, and wa graduated from Yale in 1867. He was a member of D. K. E., Scroll and Key, and received election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1868, he entered the Berkeley Divinity School, graduating in 1871. He was ordained Deacon in 1871 and Priest in 1872 by Bishop John Barrett Kerfoot. After a short period of service as an Assistant Minister in St. Paul's Church, Erie, he became Rector of Cross and Crown Church, Erie, in 1872, serving till 1874. In that year, he became Rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, serving till 1889. The parish was much weakened by internal dissension when he became Rector, but under his ministry it developed into one of the strongest in the country. In 1888, he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio, and was consecrated January 25, 1889 by Bishops Spalding, Dudley, Penick, Whitehead, and Knickerbocker. Bishop Jagger, because of ill health, at once turned over the administration of the Diocese to him. For forty years he was active in the work of the church, and was singularly successful in developing his Diocese. He received the D.D. degree from Yale University in 1913 and the LL. D. degree from Kenyon College in 1920. He was chairman of the House of Bishops from 1910 to 1916. OBITUARY RECORD 11

Among his publications may be mentioned "God and Prayer," 1897; "Our Family of Vincents," 1924; and the "Pastoral Epistles for Today," 1930. He was unmarried. General Strong Vincent, for a time a member of the class of 1858, but who graduated from Harvard in 1859, and who was killed in the battle of Gettysburg, was a brother. B:shop Vincent was a member of the Loyal Legion in right of his brother, General Strong Vincent, and was Commander of the Ohio Commandery. ·

Samuel Henry Jobe Class of 1893 Samuel Henry Jobe was born in Harrow, England, November 18, 1865, a son of Henry William Jobe, a jeweler of Harrow, whose wife was Jane Rachel Chew. In 1882, the family came to America. After entering St. Stephen's College, he entered Trinity College in September 1889 as a member of the Class of 1893. He was a member of the Connecticut Alpha Chapter of the S. A. E. Fra­ ternity, and was a member of the Glee Club and of the Track Team. He was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1893, and in 1899, received the M. A. degree. After his graduation, he went abroad studying at the University of Berlin. Returning home, he entered the General Theological Seminary. He was ordained Deacon in 1899 and Priest in 1900 by Bishop Henry Codman Potter. From 1899 to 1902, he was an Associate Missionary in Trenton, New Jersey ; from 1902 to 1908, Rector of Christ Church, Borden­ town, New Jersey; from 1908 to 1909, Assistant Minister in St. Matthew's Church, Brooklyn, New York; from 1909 to 1912, Rector of the Church of Our Father, Hull's Cove, Maine; from 1912 to 1914, Rector of St. Anne's Church, Lowell, Massachusetts; from 1914 to 1927, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts; during the year 1927-1928, he was at the Holder­ ness School, Plymouth, New Hampshir,e; from 1929 to 1931, Rec­ tor, Church of the Advent, Medfield, and of St. Paul's Church, Millis, Massachusetts; and from 1931 to his retirement December 1, 1933, Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. 12 TRINITY COLLEGE

After his retirement, he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking occasional services in Christ Church, Chambridge, and else­ where, until his death November 1, 1934. He is buried in Newton . Center Cemetery. He was unmarried and is survived only by a sister, Miss Jane Jobe, of Cambridge.

Perley Raymond Wesley Class of 1894 Perley Raymond Wesley was born in Columbia, Connecticut, September 3, 1871, a son of Joseph Burt Wesley, manager of a department store, whose wife was Laura Cooke Sayles. After graduation from the Hartford Public High School, he entered Trinity College in September 1890. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and in his junior year was Literary Editor of ·the Ivy. He was graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1894. Fram 1894 to 1898, he was associated with the firm of Wood, Bicknell, & Potter, dealers in crockery, cut glass, and silverware, in Providence. In 1898, he entered the service of the Davol Rubber Company, in Providence. Some twenty years ago he became General Manager of the Company. He died in Providence May 23, 1934, and is buried in Swan Point Cemetery there. November 16, 1896, in Providence, he married Alice Locke Pitman, daughter of Samuel Pitman, of Providence, whose wife was Almira G. Adatns. There were no children. He was a member of the Farmington Avenue Congregational Church in Hartford, of the University Club in Providence, and was a Republican. During the Spanish-American War period, he was Paymaster of the Third Division, Rhode Island Naval Battalion Reserve for three years.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler Class of 189 5 (honorary) Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Trinity College in 1895, died at his home in Hold­ craft, Charles City County, Virginia, February 12, 1935. Dr. Tyler was born in August 1853, a son of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, whose wife was Julia Gardiner, OBITUARY RECORD 13 daughter of David Gardiner, a descendant of Lyon Gardiner of Pequot War fame. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 187 4, and received the M.A. degree in 187 5. He received the LL.D. degree also from the University of Pittsburgh in 1911; from Brown University in 1914; and from William and Mary College in 1919. After teaching for a year at William and Mary College and erving for ·four years as Principal of the High School in Mem­ phis, Tennessee, he was admitted to the Virginia Bar, practicing in Richmond from 1882 to 1888. In 1888, he was chosen President of William and Mary College, serving till 1919, when he was made Pr.esident Emeritus. The college prospered greatly under his admini­ stration. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1887, and was a member of the State Board of Education from 1903 to 1907. He was a Vice-President of the Virginia Historical Society, a member of the American Historical Association, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the Maryland Historical Society, and of the American Philosophical Society, sitting in Phila­ delphia. In 1892, he founded the William and Mary College Quarterly Hi torical Magazine, of which he was also editor, continued after his retirement from the Presidency of the College as Tyler's Quar­ terly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. He edited Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625, and a Biographical Dictionary of Virginia (five volumes). Among his Books may be mentioned "The Letters and Times of the T ylers," three volumes, 1884; "Parties and Patronage in the United States", 1891; the "Cradle of the Republic", 1900; " England in America", 1904; and "Williams­ burg, the Old Colonial Capital,'' 1907. Dr. T yl.er was twice married. He married, first, November 14, 1878, in Pulaski County, Virginia, Annie Baker Tucker, a daughter of · Col. St. George Tucker, a lawyer of Ashland, Virginia, whose wife was Elizabeth Gilmer. The children were Julia Gardiner, born December 7, 1881, married Dr. J. S. Wilson; Elizabeth Gil­ mer, born March 13, 1885, married Alfred H. Miles; and John, born February 1, 1887, married Elizabeth Parker. He married, second, September 12, 1923, in Charles City County, Virginia, Sue Ruffin, a daughter of John A. Ruffin, of Charles City County, whose wife was Jane T. Morrison. There were two sons by the second marrige: Lyon Gardiner, born January 3, 1925, and Harrison Ruffin, born in 1928, when Dr. Tyler was 76 years old. He himself was born when his father was sixty-eight. 14 TRINITY COLLEGE

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright Class of 1895 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was born in Hartford, Con­ necticut, February 20, 1874, a son of Dr. William Augustus Muhlen­ burg Wainwright, a graduate of Trinity College in the Class of 1864, and an eminent physician of Hartford, whose wife was Helena Barker Talcott. His grandfather was the Right Rev. Jona­ than Mayhew Wainwright, Bishop of New York, who came to the United States from Liverpool, England, when a boy. Through his mother, Helena Barker Talcott, Dr. Wainwright was descended from John Haynes and George Wyllys, Colonial Governors of Connecticut, and from many other notable persons and famiJies of New Engand. He was prepared for college at the Hartford Public High School, and entered Trinity College in September 1891, with the class of 1895. He was a member of the LK.A. Fraternity, was Holland Scholar, and won the prize in Chemistry. In 1894, he· was manager of the football team. He was graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1895. He entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1899. After serving as an interne in St. Luke's Hospital in New York, he was appointed Chief Surgeon of the Delaware, Lacka­ wanna, & Western Railroad and placed in charge of the Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton. He devoted himself especially to the study of cancerous and parasitical diseases, and attained eminence in this field. In 1930, he was elected President of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and was reelected annually till his death. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and of the Society for Surgical Research. He contributed very many articles to technical periodicals as well as many articles of a more popular nature on cancer control. He was a member of the Army and Navy Club of New York, and of the Scranton Club in Scranton. He was a Republican and an Episcopalian. Dr. Wainwright was Adjutant of the First Connecticut Volun­ teers in the Spanish-American War, and was on duty at Niantic, at Fort Knox, Maine, and at Camp Alger, Virginia. In the World War, he was first a major in the Medical Corps, stationed at Char­ lotte, North Carolina. Later he was in command of Medical Base OBITUARY RECORD 15

No. 54 at Nesles, France. He was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel and after the War, was commissioned a Colonel in the Reserve. May 31, 1901, in Englewood, New Jersey, he married Jessie Bell Hart, daughter of William E. Hart, a merchant of Englewood, whose wife was Isabell Duell. The children were : Jonathan May­ hew, born 1902, died 1916;' Talcott, born 1904, Yale 1927, M.D. Columbia, 1933; Grosvenor, born 1907, Yale 1931; and Ruth \Vyllys, born 1911, Vassar 1931. Dr. Wainwright died of cancer at his home in Scranton, August 31 , 1934. He was survived by his widow, Jessie Hart Wainwright, by his three children, by his brother, Philip S. Wainwright of Hart­ ford, by his sisters Mabel Wyllys Wainwright, and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hall, widow of Dr. Joseph B. Hall of Hartford.

George Nahum Holcomb Class of 1896 George Nahum Holcomb was born in Granby, Connecticut, March 26, 1872, a son of Joel Byron Holcomb, a farmer of Granby, whose wife was Delia Jane Holcomb (born Holcomb). He was prepared for college at the Episcopal Academy in Che­ shire, Connecticut, and entered Trinity College in 1892 with the Class of 1896. He was President of the Missionary Society, was ele·cted a member of Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, and was graduated in 1896 as Valedictorian of his class. During the years 1896-1898, he was a student in the Philadelphia DiviD:ity School, and was ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster of Connecticut. During the year 1898-1899, he was. Minister in Charge of St. Gabriel's Mis­ sion, East Berlin, Connecticut. He returned to Philadelphia in 1899, and was an Assistant Minister in St. Barnabas' Church and a student in the Philadelphia Divinity School and the University of Pennsylvania. During the year 1900-1901, he was an Assistant Minister in the Church of the Incarnation and a graduate student in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. During the years 1901-1903, he was a graduate student at Harvard holding the Williams Fellowship. In 1903 he received the degree of S.T.B. He was Pastor of the First Unitarian Parish at Tyngsboro, Massachu­ setts, during the year 1903-1904. In 1905, he became an Assistant 16 TRINITY COLLEGE

Professor in the Connecticut Agricultural College, and during the year 1905-1906, he was an Instructor in Economics and Govern­ ment at the Massachusetts Agricultural' College; from 1905 to 1909, Assistant Professor of Political Science; and from 1909 to 1913, Lecturer in History and Rural Literature, there. In 1913, he became Rector of St. Stephen's Church and Priest in Charge of Grace Chapel, East Haddam, Connecticut. He was from 1917 to 1920, Priest-in-Charge of Trinity Church, Colling­ dale, Pennsylvania, and from 1920 to 1926, Rector of St. Mark's Church, Honeybrook, Pennsylvania. From 1920 to 1926, he was Editor of the Rural Department of the "Church News" of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. From May 15, 1926, to his death Feb­ ruary 25, 1934, he was Missionary in charge of Rural Work in the Diocese of Rhode Island, living in Washington, Rhode Island. He died suddenly in Greene, Rhode Island, and is buried there. June 11, 1905, in Montague, Massachusetts, he married Flor­ ence Anne Gibson, of Manchester, New Hampshire, a daughter of John C. Gibson, a farmer of Londonderry, New Hampshire, who e wife was Sarah Jane White. The children were: George Nahum, Jr., born March 5, 1908, died March 5, 1908; Sylvia Daphne, born June 6, ·1900, married Kenneth Tourville. The Reverend Mr. Holcomb was a member of the American Historical Association, the American Economics Association, the Rhode Island Fruit-Growers Association, the American Country Life Association, and the Rural Worker's Association of the Epi - copal Church.

Walter Wood Parsons Class of 1896 Walter Wood Parsons was born in Hoosick Falls, New York, February 3, 1874, a son of James Russell Parsons, whose wife wa Ellen Edgerton Hinsdill. He was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and entered Trinity College in September, 1892, with the Class of 1896. He was a member of the Epsilon Chapter of the Delta Psi Fraternity, and was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1896. James Russell Parsons, '81, Hinsdill Parsons, '83, and Edger­ ton Parsons, '96, were brothers. Practically all of Mr. Parsons' active business life was spent in the service of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. He served OB ITU ARY RECORD 17 for a number of years a Vice-President, and in 1930 was elected President. He was also Vice-President and a member of the Board of Managers of the American Bureau 0£ Shipping. He wa a director of the American Institute of Marine Under­ writer, President of the Board of Underwriters of New York, Chairman of the Board of Man'agers of the American Marine In­ surance Syndicate , a member of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, and a director and President of the United States Salvage A ociation. He wa active in the affairs of the Seamen' Church Institute, Vice-President of the Life-Saving Benevolent As ociation, a trustee of the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, a direc­ tor of the Atlantic Safe Deposit Company, a trustee of the Bank of New York and Tru t Company, and a tru tee of the Seamen's Bank for Saving in the City of ew York. He wa junior warden of All aint Epi copal Church of Great eek. He was a member of the University Club and of the Downtown As ociation of New York. · June 5, 1901 in All Saint Church, Great Neck, Long Island, he married May Hall Childs, a daughter of Harris C. Childs of Great N eek. The children were: May Hall; Harris Childs; and Emily, who married Howard Clark, son of Howard F. Clark, of Great Neck. Mr. Par on died at hi home in Great N eek, July 29, 1934.

March Frederick Chase Class of 1897 March Frederick Chase was born in Alton, Illinois, December 12, 1876, a on of the Reverend March Chase, a graduate of Jubilee College, who e wife was Annie Matthews. The father was Rector of the Episcopal Church in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, for ome thirty year . He wa prepared for college in the Mineral Point High School, and entered Trinity College in 1893 with the class of 1897. He was Class Trea urer and Pre ident of his Class in the Senior Year. He was an excellent tudent and received election to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior Year. Later he received election to Sigma Xi, the honorary ·scientific ociety. After his graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1897, he studied Law for a year at the University of Wisconsin, 18 TRI ITY COLLEGE but finding this uncongenial, he entered the service of the Mineral Point Zinc Company a a weigher of ore. In 1901 he entered the employ of the New Jer ey Zinc Com­ pany, and became Superintendent of their plant at Depue, Illinoi , remaining with this company till 1905. During the year 1905-1906, he was Superintendent of the acid department of the Mineral Point Zinc Company. He became Gen­ eral Superintendent in 1906 and General Manager in 1912. In 1915, he became Vice-President of the Commercial Acid Company, of St. Louis, Mi souri, having acquired a reputation a an authority_ on sulphuric acid. In 1918, he became a partner in the firm of L. L. Summers Company, and in 1918 of the Chae and Waring Com­ pany. From 1919 to 1921, he was Vice-Pre ident of the Butter­ worth-] udson Corporation, an

Gilbert Edward Pember Class of 1897 Gilbert Edward Pember was born in New York City, November - 19, 1876, a son of Arthur Pember, a journalist of New York, whose wife was Alice Greaves. He was prepared for college at St. John's School, Presque Isle, Maine, and entered Trinity College in September 1893 with the class of 1897. He remained, however, only one year. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. After serving for five years as Secretary of a wholesale paper house in New York, he entered the Berkeley Divin:ty School. He was graduated ·in 1902, and ordained Deacon in that year and Priest· m 1903 by Bishop Chauncey Bunce Brewster, of Connecticut. From June 1902 to January 1905, he was an Assistant Minister in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, Connecticut; from 1905 to 1912, he was Rector of Christ Church, Walton, New York; from 1912 to 1915, Rector of Christ Church, Ridley Park, Pennsylvania; and from 1915 to his death, Rector of St. Michael's Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania. From 1917 to his death, he was an Examining Chaplain of the · Diocese of Pennsylvania, and from 1920, President of the Church Mission of Help. He was a Deputy to the Provincial Synod from Pennsylvania in 1923, 1924, 1926, and 1927, and a Deputy to the General Conventions of 1928 and 1931. In 1921 he received the degree of Doctor in Divinity from Temple University, Philadelphia. He contributed many articles to the church periodicals. He was a member of the City Club and of the Union League Club, Phila­ delphia. · July 5, 1898, he married in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, Eva Tabitha Holah, daughter of John T. A. Holah, of New York City, whose wife was Ellen Louise Lewis. There were no children. Mr. Pember died suddenly July 5, 1934, at his summer home on Orr's Island, Ca co Bay, Maine.

Jacob Alexander Laubenstein Class of 1902 Jacob Alexander Laubenstein was born in Collinsville, Connecti­ cut, October 27, 1880, a son of Jacob Laubenstein, a tailor of- · Collinsville, whose wife was Mary Craig. 20 TRINITY COLLEGE

After his graduation from the Collinsville High School, he entered Trinity College with the Class of 1902, graduating in that year with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He was a member of the Tau Alpha Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. From 1902 to 1903, he was employed by the Union Electric Light Company, of Unionville, Connecticut; from 1903 to 1905, by the Stanley In truments Company, Great Barrington, Ma a­ chusetts; from 1905 to 1907, by the Public Service Company of New Jersey; from 1907 by the General Electric Company. At the time of his death, November 5, 1934, he was in the service of this company in Fort Wayne, Indiana. October 23, 1907, in Newark, New Jersey, he married Mamie Sharp, a daughter of George Sharp, a ma ter painter of Newark, whose wife wa Annie Sheridan. There were at least two children: Craig Alexander, born November 13, 1907, and Wil on Alexander, born August 17, 1917. Mr. Lauben tein is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Anthony Toomer Porter, Jr. Class of 1902 The death of Anthony Toomer Porter, Jr., of Atlanta, Georgia, has been reported, but the date has not been learned. It is hoped that a fuller account of his life may be pre ented later. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, May 28, 1880, a son of the Rev. Theodore Atkinson Porter, Trinity '76, whose wife was Kate Fuller. He was prepared at the Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S. C., and entered Trinity College in September 1898, with the class of 1902, after having been a student at the University of the South. He, however, remained in college only till February of his freshman year. He was a member of the I.K.A. Fraternity. After leaving college, he entered the cotton business, and in 1902, entered the service of the J. B. Holst Company as a buyer. His active business life was spent with this company, becoming Manager of their Atlanta Office and a Director in the Company. He was a member of the Atlanta Lodge of Elk , and was a Democrat and an Episcopalian. June 6, 1905, in Atlanta, Georgia, he married Ruth Stow, daughter of Edward Stow, a merchant of Eufaula, Alabama, whose wife was Rabun Brantley. There was at least one daughter, Kate Fuller, born May 15, 1908, in Atlanta, Georgia. ~'f7

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Edmund William Fothergill Class of 1903 The death of Edmund William Fothergill, of the Class of 1903, has been reported, but the date has not been ascertained. He was born September 7, 1874, in Gerardville, Pennsylvania, a son of the Reverend Ralph Fothergill, whose wife was Lucy Mar­ tin. He was prepared for college at the Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, and entered Lehigh University in 1894. ln 1899, he entered Trinity College as a Special Student, remaining one year, studying Mathematics and Chemistry. In 1900, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, to enter the service of the Shelby Steel and Tube Company as a draftsman. In 1901 1 he returned to Hartford as chief draftsman for the Hartford Rubber Works, remaining with them until 1924. In 1924, he became Vice­ President of the Hartford Gas Appliance Company, but in 1927, he entered the service of the New Departure Manufacturing Com­ pany as a draftsman. He was a member of St. Paul's M. E. Church, serving as President of the Board of Trustees from 1906. He was for eight years a member of the Governor's Foot Guard, retiring in 1927 as Paymaster Sergeant. He was a member of the A. F. and A. Ma ons and of the Odd Fellows. October 18, 1893, he married Alice Richards Newman, a daughter of Samuel Newman,· a jeweler and engraver, whose wife was Charlotte Manning. The children were Burdette Wilmot, born April 3, 1895 Boston University 1921, George Howard, born January 20, 1897 and died ,in October, 1918, Edmund LeRoy, born April 7, 1902, Ruth Louise, born August 2, 1903, married September 18, 1926, George Sturgeon McKinney.

Hugh North Crider Class of 1907 Hugh North Crider was born September 27, 1883, in Belle­ fonte, Pennsylvania, a son of Fountain Wilson Crider, a lumber merchant and manufacturer of wooden novelties and matches, of Bellefonte, whose wife was Rebecca North. 22 TRINITY COLLEGE

He was prepared for college at the Bellefonte Academy, the· Chambersburg Academy, and Lawrenceville School entering Trin­ ity College in 1903 with the Class of the 1907. He remained, how­ ever, only one year. He was a member of the Epsilon Chapter of the Delta Psi Fraternity. After leaving college, he returned to Bellefonte and engaged in business with his father. June 25, 1908, he married Myra Cameron Freeman, daughter of Reuben Byron Freeman, head train despatcher, of the Pennsyl­ vania Railroad Company, of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. Mr. Crider died in Ventnor, New Jersey, December 3, 1934. It is hoped that a fuller account may be included in a later issue of the Necrology.

Thomas ·Cook Curtis Class of 1907 Thomas Cook Curtis was born April 3, 1886, in Point Pleas­ ant, New Jersey, a son of Thomas Cook Curtis, a lawyer of Point Pleasant, whose wife was Hetty Blanche Safford. He was prepared for college at the Hoosick School, Hoosick, New York, and entered Trinity College in September 1903, with the class of 1907. He, however, remained only one year. He was a member of the Phi Kappa chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fra­ ternity. He was a member of the football team, the Glee Club, the Hockey Association, and was Secretary of his class the first semester and President the second semester. William Redmond Curtis, of the Class of 1913, is a brother. From October 1904 to June 1905, he wa employed by the· Dennison Manufacturing Company in New York City; from January 1905 to June 1907, he was in the law office of McKeen, Brewster, and Morgan; from June 1907 to February 1910, in the, law office of Hornblower, Miller, and Potter; and from 1910 to 1925 in the law office of Guthrie, Bangs, and van Sinderen; and Chadbourn, Babbitt, and Wallace. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1908, and in June 1908, received the degree of LL.B. from the Law School of St. Laurence University in Brooklyn, hav­ ing been a student there from September 1906. In 1925, he entered the service of Mack Trucks, Inc. April 7, 1910, in New York City, he married Virginia Hollins Jerome, daughter of John Vanderbilt Jerome, an assayer and banker OB ITU ARY RECORD 23 of Helena, Montana, whose wife was Cora May Day. A son, Thomas Cook, III, was born April 3, 1913. Mr. Curtis died February 22, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, .and is buried in Flushing, Long Island.

Charles Lamb Trumbull Class of 1908 Charles Lamb Trumbull was born in Old Mission, Michigan, July 18, 1884, a son of Walter Trumbull, whose wife was Hannah Mather Slater. The father was a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, but was by profession a lawyer in Chicago. He was prepared at the Westminster School in Simsbury, Con­ necticut, and entered Trinity College in the fall of 1904 with the class of 1908. He was a member of the Beta Beta chapter of Psi Upsilon, and was active in student affairs. He was President of his das in the freshman year, a member of the Sophomore Dining Club, of the German Club, of Medusa, of the Ivy Board, played on the freshman baseball team, was Manager of the football team, and chairman of the Junior Promenade Committee. He left college at the end of his junior year to go into business. For a year, he wa_s manager of an automobile agency. For two years, he was in the real estate busines in Chicago. In 1910, he became Assistant Treasurer of the Cobb Cocoa Company, and in 1911 Trea urer of the Prendergast-Trumbull Company, manufac­ turing cocoa and chocolate acting also as Treasurer of Pierpont & Co. He then entered the Chicago office of Halsey, Stuart & Co., leaving in 1920 to become manager of the investment department of George H. Burr & Company. In 1923, he founded the firm of Trumbull, Wardell, & Company, becoming its President. · He was a member of the University Club of Chicago, the Indian Hill Golf Club, the Old Mis ion Yacht Club, the Psi Upsilon Club -0f Chicago, and the .Buccaneers Club. He was a Democrat and a communicant of Christ Church, Winnetka. October 27, 1909, in Peoria, Illinois, he married Lucy Neal Proctor, a daughter of John Cleveland Proctor, a lumber dealer of Peoria, whose wife was Lucy Neal. The children were: Lucy Proc­ tor, born March 7, 1913; Charles Lyman, born October 25, 1915; and Mary Proctor, born June 12, 1917. Walter Slater Trumbull, -0f the class of 1903, is a brother. · Mr. Trumbull died October 8, 1934. 24 TRINITY COLLEGE

Harry Foster Ferguson Class of 1910 Harry Foster Ferguson was born in Adams, Massachusetts, March 12, 1889, a son of William Ferguson, a textile manufac­ turer, of Adams, whose wife was Elizabeth Jane Donaldson. He was prepared for college at the Adams High School and entered Trinity College in 1906 with the Class of _1910. He was . a member of the Phi Psi Chapter of Alpha Chi Rho, played on the class football team in 1907, and won the Second McKay-Smith Mathematics Prize. He left college at the end of his sophomore year because of his father's illness. In 1909, he entered the Massa­ chusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. During the summer of 1910 and 1911, he was employed in the · Engineering Department of the City of Boston, and during the sum­ mer of 1912 by the Engineering Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. From September 1912 to M ay 1917, he was an Assistant Engineer with the Illinois State Water Survey. In May 1917, he entered the first Officers Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Engineering Corps of the United States Army, June 13, 1917, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was on duty in France with the 115th Engineers from December 1917 to January, 1919. From February 1919 to June 1919, he was a Principal Assistant Engineer with the Illinois State Water Survey. From June 1919 to May 1920, he was Principal Assistant Engineer with the Illinois Department of Public Health, and from May 1920 to his death, January 16, 1935, in the Illinois Research Hospital in Chicago, he was Chief Sanitary Engineer of that Department. December 4, 1920, in Village Grove, Illinois, he married Zelda Nadine Henson, a daughter of Milton M. Henson, a farmer of Village Grove, whose wife was Dixie Newell. There was at least one child, Nadine, born November 24, 1925.

John Wolcott Robbins Class of 1913 John Wolcott Robbins was born in Hartford, Connecticut, May 9, 1899, a son of Philemon Wadsworth Robbins, a furniture manu­ facturer of Hartford, whose wife was Harriet Elizabeth Cook. OB ITU ARY RECORD 25

He was prepared at the Hartford Public High School and en­ tered Trinity College in September, 1909 with the class of 1913. He, however, remained only one year. He left college to go to East and Central Africa as the repre­ sentative of Childs, Parr & Joseph, coffee and ivory merchants, of New York. He learned to speak the Swahili dialect fluently. He also spent some time at Aden, Arabia. In 1914 he served as a motor despatch rider with the First East African Rifles, in Nairobi British East Africa. Returning to Hartford, from 1915 to 1924, he was connected with his grandfather's firm, the Asa S. Cook Company. From 1924, he was engaged in the retail coal business in Hartford. He was a member of the Hartford Golf Club, and of the Avon Country Club, and of the American Legion. He was a vestryman of the Church of the Good Shepherd. December 9, 1916, in Thompsonville, Connecticut, he 'married Marion Ames Garside, daughter of John B. Garside, a manufac­ turer of rugs, of Thompsonville, whose wife was Sarah Ames. Mrs. Robbins was a graduate of the Enfield High School in Thompson­ ville. The children are John Garside, born May 8, 1918, and Phile­ mon Wadsworth, born Mav 2, 1926. Mr. Robbins died in H·artford May 19, 1934, and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery there.

James Buick Moody, Jr. Class of 1914 James Buick Moody, Jr., who was for a short time in the year 1910-1911, a member of the Class of 1914 as a non-matriculated student died at the U. S. Veterans' Hospital in Newington, March 11, 1935. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, August 28, 1886, a son of Jame B. Moody, and was prepared for college at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts. After newspaper work in Springfield and Hartford, in 1910, he entered the service of the Travelers Insurance Company, and for a time was cashier of the Des Moines, Iowa, Agency. In 1914, he entered the Hartford Office of the New England Mutual Life In­ surance Company. In 1917, when the United States entered the World War, he went to the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburgh, New York, and wa commissioned a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the -26 TRINITY COLLEGE

301st Supply Train at Camp Devens, and in July 1918 went to France with the 76th Division as a Captain, serving there for eight months. On March 1, 1923, he was commissioned a Major in the. Reserve . .From the close of the War until 1923, he was with the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. In August 1923, he be­ came Superintendent of Massachusetts Agencies for the Columbian National Life Insurance Company, with his office in Boston. From . 1929 to 1931, he was with the .lEtna Life Insurance Company, leaving because of ill health. Later he was associated with the Con-· necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was the first State Chairman of the American Legion in Connecticut, and was a member of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., and ~ member of Pythagoras Chapter, R. A. M ,. , of Hartford. His wife was Lydia Le Baron Davies. He leaves also a daughter, Eleanor Le Baron, and a son Donald Moody. The family home is in West Hartford.

Charles Edmund Dowling Class of 1916 Charles Edmund Dowling was born in Hartford February 18, 1893, a son of Thomas Lawrence Dovding, a master plumber of Hartford, whose wife is Mary M. Cass. He was prepared for college at the Hartford Public High School and entered Trinity College in September 1912 with the Clas of 1916. He was a member of the Glee Club and of the Sophomore Hop and Sophomore Smoker Committees. After his graduation with the degree of B. S. in 1916, he studied for a time at the Catholic University in Washington, D. C. He then engaged in the insurance busine s in Hartford for nine years. He then went to New York to engage in the same occupation, continuing in it until his death February 11, 1935, at his home in Hollis, Long Island. He married Marie Maloney and at hi death, left five children. He was survived also by his parents and a brother Thomas F. Dow­ ling, of Hartford. The funeral service was held at St. Joseph's Cathedral, Thursday, February 14, 1935. OB ITU ARY RECORD 27

George Emerson Quaile Class of 1920 (honorary) The Rev. George Emerson Quaile, Headmaster of the Salisbury School ince 1901, who received the honorary degree of L.H.D., from Trinity College in 1920, died in Salisbury, Connecticut, Octo­ ber 15, 1934. He was born at Omagh, Ireland, June 22, 1867, son of George Quaile, a business man of Omagh, whose wife was Harriet Bailey. He was prepared at Priors School, Liffard, Ireland, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, taking the B. A. degree in 1889, and the master's degree in 1892. Coming to the United States, he was a Master in St. Austin's School, Castleton, Staten Island, New York, from 1889 to 1894, and from 1894 to 1901, Headmaster. From 1897 to 1901, he was also Rector of St. Mary's Church, Castleton, Staten Island. In 1901, he founded the S~li bury School, and was its Headmaster till his death. He was ordained Deacon in 1893 and Priest in 1894 by Bishop Henry Codman Potter, of New York. June 7, 1899, in Bayonne, New Jersey, he married Mary Louise Cook, who died November 8, 1929, a daughter of Martin R. Cook, of Bergen Point, New Jersey, whose wife was Louise Demarest. The children were Emerson Blauvelt, B. A., Ya.le 1923, who succeeds him as Headmaster of the Sali bury School, and Reginald George. Alfred Burnett Quaile, Trinity 1902, is a brother. Dr. Quaile was a member of the University Club, of New York, and of the Headmasters' Association, of which he was President in 1929.

Archibald Ashley yY elch Class of 1922 (honorary) Archibald Ashley Welch, who received the degree of Master of Arts, lzonoris causa from Trinity College in 1902, died at his home in Hartford, May 8, 1935. He was born in Hartford, October 6, 1859, a son of Henry Kirk White Welch, a lawyer of Hartford, whose wife was Susan Leavitt Goodwin. The founder of the vV elch family in America was James Welch, a soldier in King Philip's War. His great-grand­ father, the Rev. Dr. Mose Cook Welch, was for forty years Pastor 28 TRINITY COLLEGE of the Congregational Church in North Mansfield, Conn. Mr. Welch's mother was descended from Ozias Goodwin, an original proprietor of Hartford. Mr. Welch was prepared for college in the Hartford Public­ High School in 1878, and entered Yale. He left at the end of his junior year to enter the office of the Actuary of the Travelers Insur­ ance Company. Later, however, he received his degree a of the Cla s of 1882. From 1881 to 1890, he was with the Travelers Insurance Com­ pany, but in 1890, he became Actuary of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1903, he was chosen Assistant-Secretary, and Second Vice-President in 1904. In 1914, he was elected Vice-Pre i- · dent of the Company, and in February 1924, President, holding the office till his death. Mr. Welch won a foremost place among life insurance presi-­ dents, and the Company prospered greatly under his leader hip. April 24, 1890, about a year after its organization, he was elected a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of America. He served the Society as Treasurer from 1901 to 1906, a Vice-President from_ 1906 to 1910, and as President from 1910 to 1912. He was elected a member of the High School Committee in 1898, and served as Chairman of the Committee from 1900 to 1912. He· served as a member of the Board of Park Commis ioners, was a trustee of the Wadsworth Atheneum, of the Business Memorial, of the Children's Museum, was Vice-President of the American School for the Deaf, and was President of the Hartford School of Music. He was a member of the Hartford Automobile Club, the Choral Club of Hartford, the Farmington Country Club, the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Art Society of Hartford, the Hartford Club, the Hartford Golf Club, the Univer ity Clubs of Hartford and New York, the Twentieth Century Club, the Yale Club of New York, the Graduates Club of New Haven, and of the Century Association of New York. , He was a director of the Society for Savings, the Phoenix State· Bank and Trust Company, the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, and the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company. October 24, 1889, he married Ellen Bunce, daughter of Jame M . Bunce, of Hartford. She died a number of years ago. There were no children. Mr. Welch was one of the foremost citizens of Hartford, and:. the College took pride in counting him among her adopted sons. OBITUARY RECORD

Leon Alverden Mansur Class of 1925 Leon Alverden Mansur was born in Brooklyn, New York, June- 29, 1902, a son of Charles Leon Mansur, a fire insurance engineer of East Hartford, whose wife is Mary Emma Cornman. After his graduation from the East Hartford High School, he ­ entered Trinity College in September 1921, with the Class of 1925. He was graduated with the degree of B.A. in that year, and entered the Berkeley Divinity School. He was graduated from the Divinity School in 1928, and was ordained Deacon in that year and Priest in 1929 by the Right Rev-­ erend Edward Campion Atchison. He took charge of Christ Church, Middle Haddam, and was Priest-in-charge of St. John's Mission, East Hampton, of St. James' Church, Ponsett, and of Christ Church, Middletown. He devoted him elf with great energy to his rural work and was mo t successful, especially with young people. He was often desig­ nated by the Court a a probation officer and his influence over his charges was always strong for good. He died of pneumonia at the Middlesex Hospital in Middle-­ town, March 23, 1935. His early death terminates what had prom­ i ed to be a mo t devoted and useful ministry. June 15, 1929, in Portland, Connecticut, he married Gertrude­ Lansing. The children were Margaret David, and Leon. He is survived by his parents, his wife and three children, his brothers, R. Oliver and Charles Paul Mansur, of East Hartford, and his sisters, M. Mildred Mansur, of East Hartford, and Mrs. Frances Kendrick of Whateley, Massachusetts. The funeral service was held in Christ Church, Middle Haddam, Bishop Budlong officiating, and the burial was in the Middle Haddam Cemetery.

George Meade Bond Class of 1927 (honorary) George Meade Bond, who received the degree of Master of Science, honoris causa in 1927, died at his home in Hartford, J anu­ ary 6, 1935. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, July 17, 1852, a._ son of Daniel George Bond, whose wife was Wilhelmina Kruger. He was graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1880,,. 30 TRINITY COLLEGE and m 1921, received the honorary degre of E. D. from his alma mater. From 1880 to 1902, he was manager of the standards and gauge department of the Pratt and Whitney Company. During this period, he designed and the company manufactured many gauges, which came into use throughout the country. Among them was the "com- · parator," worked out with the cooperation of Professor William A. Rogers, professor of Astronomy at Harvard. He designed the Bond standard measuring machine, by the u e of which gauges may be accurately reproduced at any time and after any interval. Mr. Bond contributed much to make possible the manufacture of machinery on an interchangeable basis throughout the world, and . was looked upon as an expert in this field. From 1902 till his death, Mr. Bond carried on his work in this field as a consulting engineer. At the time of his death, he was the oldest member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was a fellow of the . American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the New England Hi toric Genealogical Society, and the Connecticut Historical Society. He was a member of the Hartford Clµb, the Union League Club (New York), and the Royal Societies Club (London). He was a Republican and an Episcopalian. He· contributed a number of important technical papers to the transactions of the i\merican Society of Mechanical Engineers, and read papers before the American A sociation for the Advancement of Science and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.

George Schirm Keeney Class of 1932 George Schirm Keeney, of the Clas of 1932 died July 29, 193+. He was born May 15, 1910, in Manchester, Connecticut, a son of Robert R. Keeney, who is engaged in the automobile busine in Manchester. He was prepared for college in the Manchester High School, entering Trinity College, after a year at Canisius College, in Feb­ ruary 1929, remaining only to the end of the year. He was a member of the Methodi t Church in Manchester. Robert Raymond Keeney, of the Class of 1930, is a brother. OBITUARY RECORD 31

Lionel Llewellyn Long Class of 19 34 Lionel Llewellyn Long, who was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science, in 1934, died of heart d:sease on a train return­ ing to his home after a visit in Hartford, May 27, 1935. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, September 17, 1911, a son of Cecil Percival Long, a salesman of New Haven, Connecticut. He entered Trinity College in 1929 after graduation from the West Haven High School. Throughout his course, he was much handicapped by ill health, and his graduation represented a triumph of will-power and courage. He won the esteem of all, and his early death was a source of grief to both faculty and students.

William Greenough Thayer Class of 1934 (honorary) Dr. William Greenough Thayer, for thirty-six years Head­ master of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, who re­ ceived the honorary degree of D. D. from Trinity College in 1934, died at his home in Boston, November 27, 1934. He was born December 24, 1863, in New Brighton, s·taten Island, New York, a son of Robert Helyer Thayer, whose wife was Hannah Fuller Appleton. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1885; received the M. A. degree in 1888; and the D. D. degree in 1907. He was a • student at the Union Theological Seminary in New York during the years 1885-1886 and 1887-1888, and was graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the degree of B. D. in 1889. In 1906, he received the M.A. degree from Columbia University. He was ordained Deacon in 1889 by Bishop Henry Codman Potter and Priest in 1890 by Bishop Benjamin H. Paddock. He was a master in Groton School during the year 1886-1887, and after his ordination returned, serving as a master from 1889 to 1894. He became Headmaster of St. Mark's School in 1894, and served till he was made Emeritus in 1930. During this period, he made St. Mark's School one of the most distinguished and significant of American private secondary schools, and won for himself not only the reputation of a great school master but the love and respect of the many boys passing through the School during those years. :32 TRINITY COLLEGE

From 1900 to 1930, he served also as Rector of St. Mark's Church, Southborough, Massachusetts, and became a distinguished and influential figure in the affairs of the Diocese of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Standing Committee during the year 1902-1903, and from 1905 to 1916, serving as President from 1912 to 1916. He was a member of the National Board of Religious Edu­ cation from 1919 to 1930. He was a Delegate to the General Con­ vention of 1922, and was a Delegate to the Synod from 1919 to 1925, and to the Synod of the First Province in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, and 1929, and was a member of the Department of . Religious Education of the National Council from 1921 to 1928. He served as Chaplain of the 13th Regiment of the Massachusetts State Guard. He was a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity at Amherst, of the University Club of New York, and of the Tavern and Union Clubs in Boston. He was a founder and President of the Trustees of Lenox School,

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