1949-1950 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University

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BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY

OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES OF THE UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS DECEASED DURING THE YEAR I949-I95O

SERIES 47 I JANUARY I951 NUMBER I BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Entered as second-class matter, August 30, 1906, at the post office at New Haven, Conn., under the Act of Congress of July 16,1894. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage pro- vided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3,1917, authorized August 12,1918. The BULLETIN, which is issued semimonthly, includes: 1. The University Catalogue Number. 2. The Report of the Treasurer Number. 3. The Catalogue Numbers of the several Schools. 4. The Alumni Directory Number. 5. The Obituary Record Number. BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY

OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES OF THE UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS DECEASED DURING THE YEAR ENDING JULY i, 1950

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY, HITHERTO UNREPORTED

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NEW HAVEN 1951 YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD* YALE COLLEGE

HENRY MALTZBERGER, B A 1879 Born October 10, 1858, Reading, Pa , died November 21, 1949, Reading, Pa Father, Charles Coleman Maltzberger, a merchant in Reading, son of John Maltzberger Mother, Margaret Catherine (Haas) Maltzberger, daughter of Charles F Haas Hopkins Grammar School Oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Lmonia Studied law in Reading 1879-81 and lawyer there 1881-1949, U S Commissioner Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1905-29, member Berks County Bar Association and First Reformed Church, Reading Married February 20, 1917, Reading, Rose Ann Lotz Anderson, daughter of Andrew and Ellen Catherine (Lieb) Lotz Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading Survived by wife, two stepdaughters, Dorcas and Ellen Anderson, a stepson, James Anderson, and a sister, Mrs Robert Job

CHARLES LOCKE SCUDDER, B A 1882 Born August 7, 1860, Kent, Conn , died August 19, 1949, Boston, Mass Father, Rev Evarts Scudder (B A Williams 1854, grad Andover Theological Seminary 1858), a Congregational minister, son of Charles and Jane (Marshall) Scudder Mother, Sarah Patch (Lampson) Scudder, daughter of Asa and Sally (Patch) Lampson Williston Academy First colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Commencement speaker, Class deacon, Yale Society of Natural History, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Sigma Epsilon Ph B 1883 (Commencement speaker) M D Harvard 1888, physician and surgeon in Boston 1889 until retirement about 1941, assistant clinical surgery Children's Hos- pital, Boston, 1889-93, demonstrator clinical apparatus 1893-95, and assistant operative surgery 1895-1903, attending surgeon Massachusetts

*If the father of an alumnus is a Yale graduate, the father's record is not usually given in this volume, but may be found in published form elsewhere 4 Yale University Obituary Record

General Hospital 1903-13, chief surgeon 1914-43, consulting surgeon 1944-49, lecturer surgery Harvard 1907-13, associate 1913- 16, assistant professor and member advisory board of graduate in- struction 1916-20, acting dean Graduate School of Medicine 1918- 19, author Treatment of Fractures, Tumors of the Jaw, president Boston Surgical Society 1916-18, fellow American College of Sur- geons (chairman committee on fractures 1921-33, honorary chairman 1933-49) and American Surgical Association, honorary member American Association for Surgery of Trauma and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, member Massachusetts Medi- cal Society, Boston and American Medical associations, Society of Clinical Surgery, American Urological Society, American Associ- ation for Thoracic Surgery, and Old South Church (Congregational), Boston Married September 5, 1895, Northampton, Mass , Abigail Taylor Seelye (B M Smith 1889), daughter of Rev Laurenus Clark Seelye,D D , LL D , and Henrietta Sheldon (Chapm) Seelye Children Evarts Seelye, '18, Hilda Chapm (Mrs James Higgmson Manning) Mrs Scudder died 1939 Death due to pneumonia Buried in Mahaiwe Cemetery, Great Barrmgton, Mass Survived by children and four grandchildren

HENRY CARVER, B A 1883 Born December 12, 1860, Doylestown, Pa , died July 11, 1949, Doylestown, Pa Father, Elias Carver, a lawyer m Doylestown WiUiston Academy Coxswain Dunham Blue four-oar crew, Tennis Club, Kappa Sigma Epsilon Attended School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 1883-84, LL B University of Pennsylvania 1886, lawyer in Philadelphia 1886 until retirement 1904 Unmarried Death due to heart disease Buried in Doylestown Cemetery Survived by no immediate relatives

CLIFFORD DUDLEY HAM, B A 1883 Born January 2, 1861, Detroit, Mich , died January 10, 1950, Akron, Ohio Father, Moses Mason Ham, a newspaper man in Detroit, and Dubuque, Iowa Mother, Helen (Tucker) Ham Dubuque High School First dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, Kappa Sigma Epsilon On staff Dubuque Herald 1883-1903 (editor 1892-1903), provincial treasurer and deputy collector of customs Manila, P I , 1903-8, collector of customs Iloilo 1908-10, and surveyor Port of Manila 1910- Yale College 5

11, U S collector general of customs Managua, Nicaragua, 1911 until retirement 1928, engaged in historical and literary work after retirement, military secretary to Governor Boies of Iowa 1890-93, Lieutenant Colonel Iowa National Guard (served in Spanish-Ameri- can War), author Report of the Collector-General of Customs, translator Customs Tariff of Nicaragua, compiler Leyes de Aduanas y Puertos, Comercio Maritimo y Buques de la Republica de Nicaragua, member Military Order of the Spanish-American War, Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society, and St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Akron Married June 28, 1892, Waterloo, Iowa, Mary Yaw Barber Children Marian Barber (Mrs Eugene C Noyes), Cifford Dudley, Jr (Class of 1928) Mrs Ham died 1946 Death due to bronchopneumonia Survived by children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren

JULIUS TYLER ANDREWS DOOLITTLE, B A 1884 Born October 18, 1861, Utica, N Y , died August 21, 1949, Whitestown, NY Father, Charles Hutchms Doohttle, LL D (B A Amherst 1836), justice New York State Supreme Court, and mayor of Utica, son of Harvey W Doolittle, M D , and Hanna (Hutchms) Doolittle Mother, Julia (Shearman) Doolittle, daughter of William Pitt and Maryette (Andrews) Shearman Yale relatives include Samuel Andrews (B A 1759) (great-great-grandfather), Samuel J Andrews (B A 1785) (great-grandfather), William S Doolittle (B A 1876) (brother), John H Mann, f83 S , Frederick J Mann, '90 S (brothers-in-law), Alfred C Coxe, '01, Lytton W Doolittle, '13 (nephews), Alfred C Coxe, Jr (Class of 1936), Duncan H Doolittle, '43, Samuel H Coxe, '43 (grandnephews), Douglas Tyler Putnam (Class of 1954) (grandson) St Paul's School, Concord, N H Second colloquy appointment Junior year, president University Tennis Club Senior year (winner Class tournament), editor Yale Daily News Senior year, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, Scroll and Key, Eta Phi Teacher St Raul's School 1884-86, attended Columbia University 1886, lawyer m Utica 1887 until retirement 1921, special surrogate Oneida County 1905, member Oneida County Bar Association and Grace Episcopal Church, Utica Married February 8, 1893, Utica, Sophia, daughter of James Ford Mann (Class of 1859) and Emma Louise (Oberteuffer) Mann Children Louise Shearman (died 1894), Maryette Andrews (Mrs Archibald Douglass Russell), Sophia Mann (Mrs Samuel Robert Campbell), Julia Tyler, the wife of Lyonel H Putnam, '24 Death due to tuberculosis Survived by wife, three daughters, 6 Yale University Obituary Record ten grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren

CHARLES LABAN PARDEE, B A 1834 Born July 7, 1864, New Haven, Conn , died July 23, 1949, New York City Father, Charles Hezekiah Pardee (Class of 1854), a coach lace manufacturer, New Haven, son of Laban and Mary (Thompson) Pardee Mother, Anna Eliza (Austin) Pardee, daughter of William Porter and Eliza (Brockway) Austin Yale relatives include Mary P Lamport (School of the Fine Arts 1888-90) (cousin), Pardee Marshall, '35 (grandson) Hopkins Grammar School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon B D Berkeley Divinity School 1887, minister Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) and St Luke's Church, Bridgeport, 1887-89, Christ Church, Stratford, Conn , 1889-91, St Andrew's Church, Waverly, Ind , 1891-94, St Paul's Church, Kittannmg, Pa , 1894- 96, St Andrew's Church, South Orange, N J , 1896-1909, St Michael's Church, Naugatuck, Conn , 1909-15, corresponding secretary American Church Building Fund Commission 1915-46, secretary House of Bishops 1922-40, secretary-treasurer Clergyman's Retir- ing Fund Society 1923-48, D D. Washington College 1913, author The Way to the Altar, The Three Hour Service, The What and Why of Con- firmation, editor Whittaker Sunday School magazines 1909 until about 1915, member Church of the Ascension, New York City Married February 7, 1888, Farmmgton, Conn , Emilie Marie, daughter of Leopold Rene and Marie Anna (VonLatum) Charpentier Children Rene Mead, '10, Marie Anna (Mrs Robert Palmer Marshall), Charles Laban, Jr Mrs Pardee died 1942 Death due to acute heart failure Buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N Y Survived by children and three grandchildren

HENRY TWEEDY SHELTON, B A 1884 Born July 27, 1862, Bridgeport, Conn , died April 10, 1950, Paris, France Father, Henry Tweedy Shelton, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Tweedy) Shelton Mother, Josephine (Lyon) Shelton* daughter of Hanford and Hetty Ann (Thompson) Lyon Yale relatives include Philo Shelton (B A 1775) (great-grandfather), George A Shelton (B A 1820) (great-uncle) Hopkins Grammar School First colloquy appointment Junior year, second colloquy appointment Senior year, secretary University Boat Club Junior year, Class Tennis Club, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, He Boule, Psi Upsilon LL B magna cum laude 1886 (Junior honors, Jewell prize Senior year) Yale College 7

In office Townsend & Watrous, lawvers, New Haven, 1886-87, lawyer in Bridgeport 1887 until retirement about 1900 (member Stoddard, Bishop & Shelton at retirement), member Bridgeport, Fairfield County, and Connecticut State Bar associations, and St John's Episcopal Church, Bridgeport Married March 23, 1907, Washington, D C , Frances, daughter of Edward Swift and Frances (Burch) Isham Death due to uremia Buried m Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridge- port Survived by wife

LOUIS BENNETT BISHOP, B A 1886 Born June 5, 1865, Guil- ford, Conn , died April 3, 1950, Pasadena, Calif Father, Timothy H Bishop (M D 1860) Mother, Jane Maria (Bennett) Bishop Yale relatives include Jeremiah Curtis (B A 1724), John Hotchkiss (B A 1748) (great-great-great-grandfathers), Gabriel Hotchkiss (B A 1774), Frederick W Hotchkiss (B A 1778) (great- great-great-uncles), Seth Lewis (B A 1783), Timothy Bishop (B A 1796), (great-grandfathers), Oliver Lewis (B A 1780) (great-great- uncle), Lorenzo T Bennett (B A 1825), E Huggins Bishop (B A 1826) (grandfathers), Alexander H Bishop (B A 1830) (great-uncle), A Louis Bishop (LL B 1857) (uncle), Herbert M Bishop, r90 (brother), J Walcott Thompson (LL B 1897) (brother-in-law), Walcott B Thompson, '28 (nephew) Hopkins Grammar School First dispute appointment Junior year, dissertation appointment Senior year, Class Tennis Club, Yale Society of Natural History M D 1888 Interne New Haven Hospital 1889-90, house officer 1890-91, physician New Haven 1892-1908 (specialized in pediatrics 1895-1908), clinical assistant surgery Yale University 1893-95, clinical medicine 1895-99, instructor pediatrics 1899-1908, on staff New Haven Dispen- sary 1892-1908, on advisory board Peabody Museum of Natural History 1908-46, since 1908 devoted time to studying and collecting North American birds (his collection of some 50,000 specimens housed in Chicago Natural History Museum), contributed to ornithological publications, honorary research fellow Chicago Natural History Museum and Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, fellow American Orni- thologists Union, honorary fellow Cooper Ornithological Club of California, member American Ornithological Society, American Asso- ciation for Advancement of Science, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Washington Biological Society, New Haven and New Haven County Medical associations, Connecticut State Medical Society, So- ciety of the Cincinnati, Society of Colonial Wars, and All Saints' Episcopal Church, Pasadena Married July 16, 1910, Brooklyn, N Y , Leona Anna Bayles 8 Yale University Obituary Record

Sturtevant, daughter of Thomas Lloyd and Phoebe Ann (Dickenson) Bayles Son Herbert Bennett (Class of 1935) Death due to benign prostatic hypertrophy Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, son, and one grandchild Dr Bishop gave land for a bird sanctuary in New Haven and also a collection of North American birds' eggs and nests to Peabody Museum

CHARLES BULKLEY JENNINGS, B A 1887 Born October 21, 1865, Fairfield, Conn , died May 9, 1950, Bridgeport, Conn Father, Isaac Jennings, partner Jennings Brothers, manufacturers of hemp fibre ware, son of Abraham Gould and Anna (Burr) Jennings Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Bulkley) Jennings, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Beers) Bulkley Yale relatives include Lewis B Jennings (B A 1847) (uncle), Walter Jennings (B A 1880), Oliver G Jennings (B A 1887) (cousins), Samuel C Morehouse (LL B 1885) (brother-in-law), Samuel Morehouse (B A 1922) (nephew) Bridgeport High School Dissertation appointment Junior and Senior years, member The Pundits With Jennings Brothers 1887-1904, managed estates 1904-10, assistant treasurer Southport Savings Bank 1911-19, treasurer and director 1919 until retirement January 1950, owner Henry H Perry Insurance Agency, Southport, 1919-50, vice-president Fairfield Memorial Library Company 1928-38, president 1938-47, treasurer Oak Lawn Cemetery Association 1919-34, secretary-treasurer Fairfield Cemetery Association 1909-50, secretary Gould Homestead Summer Home for Women 1908-50, treasurer Wakeman Memorial Association 1924-29, member Board of Equalization, Fairfield, and Board of Zoning Appeals, attended Fairfield Congregational Church (treasurer First Ecclesiastical Society 1902-38) Married November 17, 1892, Fairfield, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Angelme (Burr) Morehouse Children Anne Elizabeth, Marjorie Burr (died 1897) Mrs Jennings died 1943 Death due to carcinoma Buried in East Cemetery, Fairfield Survived by one daughter

GEORGE DANIEL PETTEE, B A 1887 Born July 24, 1864, Sharon, Mass , died October 30, 1949, Boston, Mass Father, Daniel Webster Pettee, owner Pettee Company, general merchandise, Sharon, son of Daniel and Adeline (Hewms) Pettee Mother, Emily Frances (Allen) Pettee, daughter of Lemuel and Adeline Yale College 9

(Fisher) Allen Yale relatives include Bernard M Allen, '92, Philip R Allen, '96, Frederic W Allen, '00 (cousins), Dwight P Colburn, '23, Lemuel G Pettee, Jr , '27 (nephews), Daniel S Pettee, '51 (grandson) Phillips-Andover Second mathematical prize Freshman year, high oration appointment Junior year, oration appointment Senior year, Freshman Lacrosse Team, Class Tennis Club, editor Yale Banner Senior year, The Pundits, Phi Beta Kappa MA 1896 Instructor mathematics Phillips-Andover 1887-1900 (secretary faculty 1890-1900, registrar 1892-1900), principal University School, Cleveland, 1900-1908, founder, and director Berkshire Hills schools, Mount Washington and Great Barnngton, Mass , 1908-14, in father's business 1914-20, real-estate operator Sharon 1920-28, started College Club Inn, Searsport, Maine, summer 1917 and manager with wife 1928 until retirement 1942, author Plane Geometry, trustee East End School Association, member Headmasters' Association and Roman Catholic Church Married August 27, 1888, New Haven, Rose Maria, daughter of Danforth Otis and Frances Maria (Mathewson) Lombard Children Allen Danforth, '11, Frances Howard (B A Wellesley 1918), Ruth (died m infancy), Harold (died in infancy) Mrs, Pettee died 1947 Death due to carcinoma Buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Sharon Survived b/two children, three grandchildren, and a brother, L Gardner Pettee, '98

WALTER BRADLEY SHEPPARD, B A 1887 Born November 22, 1865, Penn Yan, N Y , died October 2, 1949, Denver, Colo Father, George Ashbndge Sheppard, a farmer in Penn Yan, son of Morris Fletcher Sheppard Mother, Antoinette (Bradley) Sheppard, daughter of Walter Goodyear and Henrietta (Todd) Bradley Williston Academy First colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Freshman and University Baseball teams, Gamma Nu, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones Superintendent wheel manufacturing company, Penn Yan, 1887-91, editor Penn Yan Democrat 1891-98, resided in Colorado since 1898, newspaper editor Fort Collins 1900 until retirement 1903 Married January 29, 1889, Penn Yan, Margaret Reliance, daughter of George Henry Townsend and Margaret Pryor (Castner) Lapham Ashes to be interred in Lake View Cemetery, Penn Yan Survived by wife

HENRY HALL COVELL, B A 1888 Born September 8, 1862, Chicago, 111 , died April 7, 1950, Bernardsville, N J 10 Yale University Obituary Record

Father, Charles Covell, in paint and oil business Rochester, N Y , son of Myles and Almma (Miller) Covell Mother, Minerva Jane (Smith) Covell, daughter of James and Percis (Bell) Smith Yale relatives include a cousin, James S Havens, '84 Williston Academy Second colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, Second and University Glee clubs, College Choir, Dunham Boat Club, Gamma Nu M D Harvard 1892, house surgeon Rochester General Hospi- tal 1892-93, physician in Rochester 1892 until retirement 1915, secretary-treasurer Certified Milk Commission of Medical Asso- ciation of Monroe County 1918-27, secretary-treasurer Scholarship Fund, Yale Alumni Association of Rochester, 1913-29, secretary Class of 1888, agent Yale War Memorial 1920, alternate member Yale Alumni Board 1925-27, member 1927-39, trustee Baptist Temple, Rochester, member Rochester, Monroe County, New York State, Massachusetts, and American Medical associations, Rochester Academy of Medicine, Rochester Pathological Society, American Museum of Natural History, American Ornithological Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Archaeological Institute of America, National Association of Audubon Societies, and St John's on the Mountain Church (Episcopal), Bernardsville Married September 8, 1927, Rochester, Ethel Mary, daughter of Robert and Anne (Meeson) Price Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried m Mount Hope Ceme- tery, Rochester Survived by wife

ALFRED HAND, B A 1888 Born February 7, 1868, Scranton, Pa , died September 1, 1949, Montrose, Pa Father, Alfred Hand (B A 1857) Mother, Anna (Jessup) Hand Yale relatives include Samuel Hunttmg (B A 1767) (great-grandfather), William Jessup (B A 1815) (grandfather), Horace E Hand, '84, William J Hand, '«7, Miles T Hand (Class of 1893) (brothers), William H Jessup (B.A 1849), Henry H Jessup (B A 1851), Samuel Jessup (B A 1860), Huntting C Jessup (B A 1864) (uncles), William J Chandler (B.A 1864), Alfred C Hand, '82, William H Jessup, '84, Stuart D. Jessup, '91 (cousins) School of the Lackawanna First dispute appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Second Glee Club, chairman Senior Promenade Committee, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Wolf's Head Ph B 1889 (Banjo Club) M D University of Pennsylvania 1892, resident physician Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, 1892-93 and German Hospital 1893-94, pedia- trician in Philadelphia 1894-1949, assistant demonstrator pathological histology Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Yale College 11

1896-99, professor pediatrics 1920-29, professor emeritus 1929-49, on staff Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Widener Memorial School, Drexel Children's Hospital, secretary Class of 1888 and Class agent, chairman section on medicine Medical Society of the State of Pennsyl- vania, member Philadelphia Pediatric Society, elder Second Presby- terian Church, Philadelphia, 1900-1949 Married June 6, 1899, Philadelphia, Louise, daughter of Eugene Fayette and Phebe (Jenkins) Gregg Children Phebe, Alfred, Jr , '24, John Gregg, '25, Benjamin Chapman {Class of 1934) Death due to myocardial failure Buried m Montrose Cemetery Survived by wife, children, and three grandchildren

THEODORE LOCKWOOD LEVERETT, B A 1888 Born October 8, 1867, New York City, died November 30, 1949, Yonkers, N Y Father, Josiah Salisbury Leverett, hardware commission merchant, New York City, son of John and Elizabeth (Salisbury) Leverett Mother, Annie Matilda (Lockwood) Leverett, daughter of Rev Peter Lockwood (B A 1817) and Matilda (Davenport) Lockwood Yale relatives include Abraham Davenport (B A 1732), Noah Welles (B A 1741) (great-great-grandfathers), James Davenport (B A 1732) (great-great-great-uncle), John Davenport (B A 1770) (great-grandfather), Benjamin Welles (B A 1775), James Davenport (B A 1777) - (great-great-uncles), John A Davenport (B A 1802) (great-uncle), William Leverett (B A 1834), John D Lockwood (Class of 1848) (uncles), John S Davenport (B A 1866) (cousin), John Leverett, '87, William J Leverett, '91 (brothers) Williston Academy First Berkeley Premium in Latin Composi- tion Freshman year, high oration appointment Junior year, oration appointment Senior year, Yale Assembly, University Chess Club, Phi Beta Kappa Teacher School of the Lackawanna, Scranton, Pa , 1888-89, graduate Union Theological Seminary 1892, with Board of Home Missions Presbyterian Church 1896-97, minister Presbyterian church Nichols, N Y , 1892-93 and Ogdensburg 1901-2, minister Congre- gational and Christian churches Denmark and Deer River, N Y , 1902- 8, Rensselaer Falls, 1908-10, Java, 1913-16, Black Creek 1916-18, Chenango Forks 1918-25, Saugerties 1925-30, Macedonia parish, Hoschton, Ga , 1931-34, and Woodbury, 1936 until retirement 1940, member First Congregational Church, Daytona Beach, Fla Unmarried Death due to cardiorenal disease Buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N Y Survived by no immediate relatives 12 Yale University Obituary Record

DUNCAN SALISBURY MERWIN, B A 1888 Born June 5, 1866, South Hadley Falls, Mass , died September 8, 1949, Niagara Falls, Ontario Father, Rev Samuel J M Merwin (B A 1839) Mother, Arethusa Esther (Salisbury) Merwin Yale relatives include Samuel Merwin (B A 1802) (grandfather), Timothy T. Merwin (B A 1827) (uncle) Phillips-Andover First Berkeley Premium in Latin Composition Freshman year, oration appointment Junior and Senior years, one-year honors in ancient languages Senior year B D 1892 Teacher Granby, Mass , 1888-89, organist United Church, New Haven, Conn , 1891-93, First Congregational Church, Pasadena, Calif , 1893-95, and Church of the Angels, Garvanza, Calif , ordained deacon Episcopal church 1911 and minister churches in Diocese of Los Angeles 1912, organist Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church, Pasadena, 1920 until retirement 1943 and Scottish Rite Cathedral, El Paso, 1925-29, 1932-38, substitute organist at various churches since 1943, gave radio recitals from Pasadena Presbyterian Church, owned and operated an orange ranch m Pasadena 1893-1914, member Pasadena chapter American Guild of Organists and chaplain Southern California chapter 1923-24, member All Saints1 Episcopal Church, Pasadena Married (1) April 25, 1898, Pasadena, Minnie Lee, daughter of Edwin Booker and Elizabeth Frances (Childress) Collins Mrs Merwin died 1903 Married (2) November 9, 1904, Niagara Falls, Maude May Slater (B A Umv Toronto 1898), daughter of Robert Peter and Mary Lucretia (Lutz) Slater Children Mary Ellen Ruhamah (B A Univ. Toronto 1932, Yale School of Nursing 1932-34, Mrs McClelland Barry Watson), Robert Duncan (B A Umv Toronto 1931, M D. 1940), Alice Dorothy Amelia Mrs Merwin died 1938 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Niagara Falls Su-rvived by children and a grandson

HUBERT WETMORE WELLS, B A 1889 Born December 29, 1866, Madison, Wis , died August 19, 1949, Chevy Chase, Md Father, Lewis Gray Wells, manufacturer in Savannah, Ga , son of Lewis Wheeler and Affa Maria (Gray) Wells Mother, Mary Ellen Hubbard (Wetmore) Wells, daughter of Chauncey and Rebecca (Hubbard) Wetmore Yale relatives include Philip P Wells, '89, Ernest H Wells, '93, Chauncey W Wells, '96 (brothers), Rebecca Prescott Wells (School of Fine Arts Class of 1884), Eleanor Munger Wells (cert School of Fine Arts 1893) (sisters-m-law), Alliene W Treadwell, '91, George Gray (LL D 1903), Albert Woodruff Gray, '04 (cousins), John C Wells, Jr , '45W S , Douglas B Wells, f49 (grandsons) J W Chenault's Preparatory School Wesleyan University 1885- Yale College 13

86 Entered Yale College Sophomore year, first declamation and third English composition prizes Sophomore year, first dispute appointment Junior year, second dispute Senior year, Junior Exhibition speaker, Class Orator, Class Crew, Second and University Glee clubs, College Choir, chairman Yale Literary Magazine Senior year, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chi Delta Theta, Skull and Bones Yale Divinity School 1889-90 Principal Westville (Conn ) Grade School 1890-91, teacher Hillhouse High School, New Haven, 1891-92, assistant minister Grace Church (Episcopal), New York City, 1892-95, minister Christ Church, Waltham, Mass , 1895-1900, St Andrew's Church, Wilmington, Del , 1900-1913, Mariner's Church, Wilmington, 1914-15, manager employment and service Thilmany Pulp & Paper Company, Kaukauma, Wis , 1916, deputy labor adviser Wisconsin State Council of Defense 1917, associate national director U S Boys' Working Reserve, Washington, 1916-18, secretary Y.M C A 1919 (instructor Army Educational Corps, University of Beaune, France), vocational director James W Elliott's business builders, New York City, 1919-22, secretary-treasurer Guarantee Goods Corporation 1923-24, editorial work Ameri- can Periodical Literature 1924-27, in real-estate business New York City 1927-29, superintendent Home for the Blind 1929-33, secretary Kemwell Associates 1933-35, associate field and legislative director National Child Labor Committee 1935-38, editorial research work for anthology of works of Quintus Horatius Flavius (modern library) 1935- 42, m defense work Bellanca Aircraft Corporation, New Castle, Del , 1944-45, Delaware representative Babson's Reports, Inc , 1945 until retirement 1947, author For Mine Own People, The Face and the Cross, Talks with Jackie, field secretary American Child Life, Philadelphia, 1914, member Masonic order and Christ Church (Episcopal), Delaware City, Del Married (1) December 25, 1890, New York City, Lucy Tuttle, daughter of Henry Martyn and Lucy (Tuttle) Colton Children Colton Wetmore (died 1894), Margaret Colton (Mrs C Colden Miller), John Colton (Class of 1919, died 1929), Kathenne (Mrs James M Wmfield), Mary Wetmore (Mrs Francis Compton) Mr and Mrs Wells were divorced 1918 Married (2) March 1920, Esther Michael Mrs Wells died 1933. Married (3) July 8, 1944, Delaware City, Rose Standish Sliney Davidson, daughter of William Franklin and Harriet (Heald) Sliney Death due to carcinoma Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D C Survived by wife (died 1951), three daughters, eight grandchildren, and a half brother, James L Wells

GEORGE WILLIAM GEDNEY, B A 1890. Born May 17, 1868, 14 Yale University Obituary Record

Newburgh, N Y , died August 15, 1949, Glen Ridge, N J Father, George Washington Gedney, in transportation business Dutchess Junction, N Y , son of William H Gedney, M D , and Eleanor (Smith) Gedney Mother, Mary (Wygant) Gedney, daughter of Cornelius and Mary Deborah Harcourt (Pmkney) Wygant The Siglar School High oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Phi Beta Kappa LL.B Albany Law School 1892, lawyer in New York City 1892-94, in charge estates and investment counselor in New York 1894 until retirement 1938, member Society of Colonial Wars, Society of Founders and Patriots of New Jersey, and Sons of the American Revolution Married June 6, 1896, Montclair, Lida Adelia, daughter of Samuel Ayres and Josephine Augusta (Gilbert) Cokefair Daughter Constance Elizabeth (New Jersey Coll Women 1921-23, Mrs Edwin Scobie Baker). Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Bloomfield (N J ) Ceme- tery Survived by wife, daughter, a grandson, and a sister, Mrs George Allan of Norwalk, Conn

ALLIENE WETMORE TREADWELL, B A 1891 Born January 3, 1869, New Haven, Conn , died January 16, 1950, San Diego, Calif Father, George E Treadwell (B A 1865, LL B 1867) Mother, Caroline Tudor (Wetmore) Treadwell Yale relatives include John Treadwell (B A 1767) (great-great-grandfather), Oliver W Treadwell (M A Hon 1861) (grandfather), Hubert W Wells, '89 (cousin) Hopkins Grammar School Dunham Boat Club Part owner and vice-president New Castle (Pa ) News 1891-1950, reporter New York Herald 1893-94, organizer, and president Treadwell News Company, New Castle, 1895-1931, studied law in office of Harry K Gregory, New Castle, 1907-10, lawyer in New Castle 1910-14 and San Diego 1914-50 (partner Treadwell & Griffin at time of death), a founder, and president Yale Alumni Association of San Diego 1926-32, secretary-treasurer 1935-38, first vice-president Yale Club of South- ern California 1925-27, member Masonic order and Trinity Episcopal Church, New Castle Married (1) June 27, 1895, New Castle, Bright, daughter of Daniel McClure and Louisa (TenBroeck) Smith Children Louise TenBroeck (Lake Erie Coll 1914-16, Mrs Spencer Tracy), Eleanor Wetmore (B S Umv Michigan 1928, Mrs Kenneth Turner Payson) Mrs Treadwell died 1918 Married (2) August 6, 1915, Los Angeles, Edna Ritchey, daughter of Benjamin Milton and Laura Eva (Cubbison) Love Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Greenwood Mausoleum, San Diego Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs James T Ray Yale College 15

BERNARD MELZAR ALLEN, B A 1892 Born December 19, 1869, Walpole, Mass , died September 14, 1949, Cheshire, Conn Father, Melzar Waterman Allen, contractor and builder, Walpole, son of Lemuel and Adeline (Fisher) Allen Mother, Martha (Metcalf) Allen, daughter of Joseph Addison and Chloe Fale (Adams) Metcalf Yale relatives include Frederic W Allen, '00 (brother), John L Keedy, '93 D. (brother-in-law), George D Pettee, f87, L Gardner Pettee, '98 (cousins), Philip K Allen, '33 (nephew) Phillips-Andover First Berkeley Premium in Latin Composition Freshman year, second DeForest Mathematical Prize Freshman and Sophomore years, second Lucius F Robinson Latin Prize and third prize in English composition Sophomore year, philosophical oration appointment and second Winthrop Prize Junior year, first Lucius F Robinson Latin Prize, oration appointment, and two-year honors in political science, history, and law Senior year, salutatorian, Phi Beta Kappa, awarded B A cum laude Teacher The Siglar School, Newburgh, N Y , 1892-93, instructor in Latin Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass , 1893-1919, head Latin department Cheshire Academy 1919 until retirement 1945, justice of the peace Cheshire 1927-28 and member Board of Education, author Augustus Caesar, coauthor Second Year Latin, Latin Composition, Latin Word Lists, president Romance Language Association of America, member American Philological Association, deacon First Church (Con- gregational), Cheshire Married September 4, 1894, New Haven, Conn , Emma Neva Hotchkiss Children Winthrop Hotchkiss (Class of 1917, died 1916), Elizabeth Mae (cert Wellesley 1917, Mrs Walter Kerr Belknap), Ruth Emily Hotchkiss (Smith 1918-19), the wife of Kent T Healy (M A Hon 1945), Daniel, '26, Robert Melzar (Class of 1936) Mrs Allen died June 1949 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven Survived by four children, eleven grandchildren, a great- grandson, a sister, Mrs John L Keedy, and two brothers, Charles Metcalf Allen and Philip R Allen, '96

STANLEY GANO BURT, B A 1892 Born May 31, 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio, died April 29, 1950, Stuart, Fla Father, Pitts H Burt (B A 1859) Mother, Kathenne Winifred (Thomson) Burt Yale relatives include an uncle, Andrew S Burt (Class of 1861) Franklin School, Cincinnati First colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year Studied ceramics in Germany 1892-93, chief chemist, secretary, and general superintendent Rookwood Pottery Company, Cincinnati, 16 Yale University Obituary Record

1894 until retirement 1931 (awarded silver medal QParis^ and gold medal £St Louis3), charter member American Ceramic Society (treasurer 1899-1906, president 1907), director English Speaking Union, member Cincinnati Home Guard and Masonic order Married March 1, 1910, Cincinnati, Edith, daughter of Joseph John and Anna (Rogers) Noonan Death due to chronic myocarditis Buried in Spring Grove Ceme- tery, Cincinnati Survived by wife

WILBUR PARKHURST FISH, B A 1892 Born February 22, 1869, Sagmaw, Mich , died October 2, 1949, Geneseo, N Y Father, Wilbur Wheeler Fish,dry-goods merchant, Elmira, N Y , son of Joseph H and Lucia (Field) Fish Mother, Eliza Ford (Parkhurst) Fish, daughter of Dr Curtis Parkhurst and Jane Ann (Kasson) Parkhurst Hopkins Grammar School Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, Junior Exhibition Speaker, winner second place University Tennis Tournament Senior year, winner Class Tournament Studied law in office of Judge John Foster Parkhurst, Bath, N Y , and took special courses at Cornell University 1892-95, lawyer in Bath 1895-1910, U S loan commissioner 1897-1909, with New York State Tax Department 1910 until retirement 1936 (mortgage tax examiner 1927-36), member Park Presbyterian Church, Elmira Married (1) September 4, 1894, Bath, Susan Dudley, daughter of Edwin Lawrence and Augusta Ellen (Bull) Church Children Eleanor (Mrs Arthur S Burrell), Howell Church (B.S United States Naval Academy 1924) Mrs Fish died 1911 Married (2) February 6, 1914 Albany, Valentma, daughter of Valentine' and Mary (Cunningham) Brother Daughter Barbara (B A Sweet Briar 1938, Mrs Herman Max Schiebel) Death due to carcinoma Buried in Grove Cemetery, Bath Survived by wife, children, one grandson, and a brother, Edwin Cook Fish

DANIEL TRUMBULL HUNTINGTON, B A 1892 Born August 4, 1868, Norwich, Conn , died May 1, 1950, Wellesley, Mass Father, Col Robert Watkmson Huntmgton, U S.M C , Ret (B A Trinity 1864), son of Samuel Howard and Sarah Blair (Watkinson) Huntmgton Mother, Jane Lathrop (Trumbull) Huntmgton, daughter of Daniel Lathrop and Alexandrine Navarre (Wilson) Trumbull Yale relatives include Henry W Huntmgton (B.A. 1811) (great-uncle), Samuel Huntmgton China 1895 until retirement 1940, in charge district Normal School, Hankow, 1895-1902; established, and head of trade school for boys at Ichang 1901-11, bishop-elect of Anking 1911, bishop 1912-40, vice-chairman Famine Relief Committee, Anhwei Province, author Primer (Chinese), History of Diocese of Anking, translated into Chinese The Practice of the Presence of God, and many articles, D D Berkeley Divinity School 1912, director China Sunday School Union, member St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Wellesley Married December 7, 1916, Anking, Virginia Ethel Haist (B A Northwestern 1912), daughter of Rev Frederick William Haist and May F (Brubaker) Haist Children Jane Trumbull (Gmlmg Coll 1936-3 7, Radcliffe 1937-39, Mrs Manuel Werner), Mary Champion (Smith 1937-38), Jonathan Trumbull (M A Boston Umv 1950), Elizabeth Catherine (Boston Umv 1949-50) Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Welle sley Survived by wife, children, and six grandchildren

PIERRE JAY, B A 1892 Born May 4, 1870, Warwick, N Y , died November 24, 1949, New York City Father, Rev Peter Augustus Jay (B A Columbia 1863), an Episcopal minister, son of John Clarkson and Laura (Prime) Jay Mother, Julia (Post) Jay, daughter of Alfred Charles Post, LL D , and Harriet (Beers) Post Yale relatives include William Livingston (B A 1741) (great-great-great-grandfather), Peter vanB Livingston (B A 1731), John Livingston (B A 1733), Philip Livingston (B A 1737) (great-great-great-great-uncles), William Jay (B A 1807) (great- great-great-uncle), Peter A Jay (M A Hon 1798) (great-grandfather), John Jay, '98 (brother), Alexander Jay Bruen, '78, Rudolf Wurts, '78, John Wurts, '78, Charles P Wurts, '80, Alexander J Wurts, '83 S , P Jay Wurts, '91 S (cousins) Groton School Second colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, editor Yale Daily News Junior year (financial edifor Senior year) and Yale Courant Senior year, editor and business manager Yale Alumni Weekly, president Berkeley Association Senior year, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones Traveled abroad 1892-93 and 1895, with New York Commercial Company 1893 and West Side Construction Company 1894, secretary- 18 Yale University Obituary Record

treasurer St Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, New York City, 1896, president Second Avenue and Central Cross Town Railroad companies, New York City, 1897-99, with Strong, Sturges & Company, bankers and brokers, New York City, 1899-1900, in charge bond department Post & Flagg, New York City, 1899-1903, vice-president Old Colony Trust Company, Boston, 1903-06, Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts 1906- 09, vice-president Manhattan Company, New York City, 1909-14, Federal reserve agent and director Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1914-26, member transfer committee and deputy agent general for reparation pay- ments under Dawes Plan 1927-30, chairman board Fiduciary Trust Com- pany, New York City, 1930 until retirement 1945, honorary chairman 1945 until resignation 1949, M A Hon Yale 1917, commander Legion of Honor (France), trustee Groton School, Barnard College, American Aca- demy m Rome, president board of trustees Brearley School, vice-president finance committee Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America 1940, national treasurer Russian War Relief, Inc 1941, member Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, New York Board of Education, and New York National Guard Married November 23, 1897, New York City, Louisa Shaw, daughter of Francis Channing and Ellen (Shaw) Barlow Children Ellen (Bryn Mawr 1917-21, Mrs Lloyd Kirkham Garrison), Anna Maricka (B A Bryn Mawr 1922, Mrs Alexander Duer Harvey), Frances (B A Bryn Mawr 1926), Louisa (Bryn Mawr 1925-26, Mrs Jay deVegh) Buried in Jay Cemetery, Rye, N Y Survived by wife, children, seven grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Mary Rutherford Jay

FRANK JULIAN PRICE, B A 1892 Born February 3, 1870, Brooklyn, N Y , died March 4, 1950, New York City Father, George Allan Price, chairman board Lamson & Hubbard Corporation, furs and women's apparel, Brooklyn, son of William and Jane Gray (Dunbar) Price Mother, Adelaide Augusta (Wentz) Price, daughter of William and Beulah Rose (Williams) Wentz Yale relatives include a nephew, Allan M Price, '18 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Third prize in English composition Sophomore year, first colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, editor Yale Record Junior year and Yale Literary Magazine Senior year, University Glee Club, College Choir, Class Historian, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, Chi Delta Theta, Skull and Bones. LL B New York Law School 1895, lawyer New York City 1895-1926, member New York State legislature 1899-1901, assistant corporation counsel New York City 1911-18, attorney for State comptroller Kings County 1903-7, vice-president and chairman board Lamson & Hubbard Corporation (Boston and Brooklyn) 1926 until retirement 1948 Unmarried Yale College 19

Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by a brother, Henry Allan Price

HOMER THRALL JOY, B A 1893 Born December 9, 1872, Newark, N J , died October 9, 1949, New York City Father, Edmund Lewis Joy (B A Umv Rochester 1856), lawyer in Newark, son of Charles and Harriet (Shaw) Joy Mother, Theresa Rugg (Thrall) Joy, daughter of Homer Loveland Thrall, M D , and Parthema (Rugg) Thrall Yale relatives include Robert D Martin, '80, Michael M van Beuren (Class of 1896), Frederick T van Beuren, Jr , '98 (brothers-in-law), Frederick T van Beuren, 3d, '29 S , Michael M van Beuren, 2d (Class of 1934 S ) (nephews) Newark Academy Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Second Banjo Club M D Columbia 1896, interne Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1896-97, house physician 1898, house surgeon 1898-1900, physician, specializing in internal medicine, New York City, 1900-1916, Santa Fe, N Mex , 1916-17, Redlands, Calif , 1917-24, and Colorado Springs 1924 until retirement 1933, on staff Roosevelt and Presbyterian hospitals. New York City, and Redlands (Calif ) Hospital and honorary medical staff Morristown (N J ) Memorial Hospital, New York State examiner in lunacy, medical examiner Equitable Life Assurance Society 1900-1907, medical director Eastern Life Insurance Company 1907-8, on medical advisory board San Bernardino County, Calif , World War I, president Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital 1944-45, associate member Morris County (N J ) Medical Society, member New York, California, Colorado, and New Mexico Medical societies, New York Academy of Medicine, Society of Colonial Wars, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and Sons of the Revolution, attended Episcopal Church Married (1) November 9, 1905, New York City, Elizabeth Josephine, daughter of Frederick Theodore and Elizabeth Anne (Potter) van Beuren Children Homer van Beuren, '29 S , and Frederick van Beuren, '34, '37 L Mrs. Joy died 1926 Married (2) January 26, 1928, Morristown, Elizabeth Sayre Fitz Randolph Ballard, daughter of James and Jennie Weston (Sayre) Fitz Randolph Death due to postoperative shock Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Newark Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, a stepdaughter, Mrs E Laurence Springer, and a stepson, William Fitz Randolph Ballard

HARRY SELDEN VAILE, B A 1893 Born April 22, 1871, Columbus, Ohio, died December 12, 1949, Lemon Grove, Calif Father, Edwin Orlando Vaile (Univ Michigan 1865-66), teacher, and editor and publisher of school journals, Oak Park, 111 , son of 20 Yale University Obituary Record

Jonathan and Elizabeth (Estabrook) Vaile Mother, Emma L (Bramard) Vaile, daughter of Calvin C and Sophia (Fitch) Bramard Yale relatives include William W Bramard, '04, Frank S Bramard, '10 (cousins) Oak Park High School First Berkeley Premium Freshman year, philosophical oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Yale Union, Phi Beta Kappa With Chicago school system 1893 until retirement 1936 ^teacher Chicago High School 1893-94, Hyde Park High School 1894-1910, principal John Crerar School 1910-12, Froebel Day and Evening School 1912-15, Gladstone School 1915-21, Julia Ward Howe School 1921-31, Jacob Rns School 1931-36), member University Church of Disciples of Christ, Chicago Married June 29, 1896, Maywood, 111 , Carrie Adeline Merrill (Univ Minnesota 1893-94), daughter of Franklin Hazen and Harriet Edith (Herrmgshaw) Merrill Children Adeline Elizabeth (Ph B Univ Chicago 1924, Mrs Edwin Elliott Smeeth), Edwin Merrill (B A Oberlin 1928) Mrs Vaile died 1937 Death due to generalized arteriosclerosis Ashes scattered in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, 111 Survived by children, one grandchild, a sister, Mrs Florence Vaile Hall, and two brothers, Robert Bramard Vaile and Edwin O Vaile, Jr , '01

WALTER DWIGHT WILCOX, B A 1893 Born September 24, 1869, Chicago, 111 , died July 18, 1949, Chevy Chase, Md Father, Sextus Newel Wilcox, lumber merchant in Chicago Mother, Sarah (Adams) Wilcox, daughter of Rev Henry Adams and Sophia (Field) Adams Phillips-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, Alpha Delta Phi Studied science in Washington, D C , 1893-94, on expedition in Canadian Rockies 1894-95, engaged in photography and writing Hawaiian Islands summer 1897 and in photography for Sportsman, Arts and Decora- tion, Town and Country, Good Housekeeping 1933-36, made first art photographs of Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, 1933, developed timber- lands near Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1904-45, photographer National Park Ser- vice 1936-42, discovered pass between North Saskatchewan and Athabasca rivers which was named Wilcox Pass, author Guide-Book to the Lake Louise Region, Camping in the Canadian Rockies, The Source of Sas- katchewan, Picturesque Landscapes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Caoba the Mahogany Tree, Rockies of Canada, on staff General H H Morgan representing War Trade, Fuel and Shipping boards 1918-19, president Trail Riders of Canada 1931-33, second vice-president Yale Alumni Association of Washington 1914-15, secretary American Alpine Club 1920, fellow Royal Geographical Society, associate member Yale College 21

Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, honorary member Alpine Club of Canada (chairman New York section 1933) Married November 27, 1901, in Cincinnati, Annie White, daughter of Franklin Hey and Annie (Riland) Lawson Son Walter Dwight, Jr (died 1910) Death due to a concussion Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Wash- ington Survived by wife (died 1950)

WILLIAM GENUNG CHASE, B A 1894 Born February 19, 1869, Jerusalem, N Y , died May 13, 1950, Bridgeport, Conn Father, Allen Birdsall Chase, a merchant in Lakemont, N Y , son of John and Adeline (Robinson) Chase Mother, Sarah Maria (Genung) Chase, daughter of William and Bethana (Sisson) Genung Starkey Seminary, Eddytown, N Y Oration appointment Junior and Senior years Teacher Starkey Seminary 1894-95 and Chestnut Hill Academy, Phila- delphia, 1895-96, headmaster Flushing (N Y ) Institute 1896-97, re-established Selleck School (name changed to Norwalk University School) 1897- 1902, stock and bond salesman in Massachusetts for a New York financial concern 1902-3, organized Chase School for Boys, Bridgeport, 1904-7, owner Lyon & Chase, manufacturing stationers, New York City, 1907 until retirement 1942 (in New York City 1907-15 and Bridgeport 1915-42), corporal Connecticut State Guard, librarian First Methodist Church of Bridgeport Married July 28, 1896, Bridgeport, Alma Louise, daughter of James Willis and Jane Ann (Fox) Lyon Daughter Erma Vivian (Mrs John Harold Venman) Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport Survived by wife, daughter, and four grandchildren

WALTER BARNES CRUTTENDEN, B A 1894 Born January 27, 1873, East River, Conn , died September 5, 1949, near Pittsfield, Mass Father, Samuel Dudley Cruttenden of Madison, Conn , son of Eber Dudley and Olive (Dudley) Cruttenden Mother, Rhoda Barnes (Chitten- den) Cruttenden Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Conn Oration appointment Junior and Senior years LL B 1896 (vice-president Kent Club, Phi Alpha Delta), LL M 1897 Lawyer in New Haven 1897-1900, examiner underwriting department National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford 1900-1906, special agent and adjuster 1906-12, special agent and adjuster Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Company 1912-19, assistant secretary 1919-24, vice- president 1925-40, president 1940 until retirement 1947, chairman of 22 Yale University Obituary Record board 1947-49, member National Board of Fire Underwriters and Third Congregational Church, Guilford, Conn Married June 15, 1904, Menden, Conn , Mane Ella Hmsdale Death due to heart attack Buried in Meriden, Conn Survived by wife

GEORGE FRANCIS EATON, B A 1894 Born May 30, 1872, New Haven, Conn , died November 6, 1949, Groton, Conn Father, Daniel C Eaton (B A 1857) Mother, Caroline (Ketcham) Eaton (cert School of the Fine Arts 1898) Yale relatives include William P Ketcham (B A. 1862) (uncle), Thorvald F H Tenney (Class of 1915 S ) (nephew) Hopkins Grammar School Dissertation appointment Junior and Senior years, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Psi Upsilon Ph D 1898 (Sigma Xi) Assistant in osteology Yale University 1898-99, instructor com- parative osteology 1899-1919, curator osteology 1902-20, associate curator paleontology 1904-20, osteologist Yale Peruvian Expedition 1912, secretary Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1905 until retirement 1946 (editor publications 1916-46), exhibited first res- toration of a prehistoric animal at St Louis World's Fair (gold medal awarded to Yale), invited to Congres International des Ameri- canistes m Gothenburg 1924, author Collections of Osteological Material from Machu Picchu, Osteology of Pteranodon, contributed to American Journal of Science and other publications, Lieutenant Connecticut Naval Militia, Spanish-American War, and U S Naval Reserve Force 1917-19, member Society of Colonial Wars, Pale- ontological Society, American Anthropological Society, American Geographical Society, American Society of Naturalists, and Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science Married October 24, 1899, Branford, Conn , Julia Henrietta Hammer (Vassar 1886-88, Yale School of the Fine Arts Class of 1899), daughter of Thorvald Frederick and Delphma (Lundsteen) Hammer Children Frederick Selden, '23, and Richard Lawrence, '30 Mrs Eaton died 1920 Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried in Center Cemetery, Branford Survived by children and a grandson

FRED D GALLUP, B A 1894 Born June 16, 1872, Smeth- port, Pa , died December 25, 1949, Bradford, Pa Father, William Dennison Gallup, a merchant in Smethport, son of Daniel and Luciana (Dennison) Gallup. Mother, Harriet Elizabeth (Shepard) Gallup, daughter of Darius V and Sarah Abigail (Barret) Yale College 23

Shepard Yale relatives include a daughter-in-law, Harriet Robbins Gallup (Law School 1933-34) Smethport High School, Trinity College (Conn ) 1890-92 Entered Yale Junior year, second dispute appointment and one-year honors in political science and law Senior year, University Orchestral Club Clerk in law office of Joseph W Bouton 1894-96, lawyer in Smeth- port 1896-1920 and Bradford 1921-49 (senior partner with son and son-in-law in Gallup, Potter & Gallup), solicitor for McKean County 1919-20, 1922-49 and school director 1900-1915, solicitor Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1907-49, general counsel Interstate Window Glass Company, Bradford, 1919-22, trust officer Hamlm Bank and Trust Company, Smethport, secretary-treasurer Smethport Gas Company 1915-45, president Smethport Water Company 1929-49, secretary Board of Examiners for Admission to Practice 1896-1903 and 1925-49, member McKean County Bar Association (president 1942-49), Masonic order, and Church of the Ascension (Episcopal), Bradford Married September 22, 1896, Smethport, Margaret Mary, daughter of James A and Julia (Fox) McKean Children Marion Gertrude (Mrs Ernest Gurdon Potter), William Dennison, '26, '34L Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Willowdale Cemetery, Bradford Survived by wife, children, eight grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs J Scott Walker

CHARLES NELSON HULBURT, B A 1894 Born December 12, 1873, Norwich, Conn , died May 2, 1950, Weehawken, N J Father, Charles Henry Hulburt, councilman and street commissioner, Norwich, son of Henry Hancock and Emelme (Field) Hulburt Mother, Caroline Maria (Kibbe) Hulburt, daughter of Alvm and Hannah (Aborn) Kibbe Norwich Free Academy Second dispute appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year, Beta Theta Pi Studied law in Norwich 1894-97, lawyer in Bridgeport and Green- wich, Conn , 1897-99, city editor Morning News, New Haven, Conn , 1899-1900, reporter New York World 1900, with New York American 1900-1905, New York Sun 1905-17, and Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1917-18, with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York City, 1918-32 (assistant editor Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering 1918-25, assistant to editorial director of the company 1925-29, assistant editor Engineering News-Record 1929-32) and Braunworth & Company, publishers, Brooklyn, 1933-34, successively with New York American and New York Times 1934 until retirement 1937, author Liquor Laws of Connecticut and Abstracts of Decisions Thereon, member Masonic order and Methodist church Married (1) September 7, 1902, Brooklyn, Grace Virginia, daughter 24 Yale University Obituary Record of David and Harriet (Lounsbury) Evans Son Paul Kibbe Mrs Hulburt died 1903 Married (2) February 4, 1930, Weehawken, Lilly Anna, daughter of Niels Henry and Mary (Jorgensen) Nielsen Death due to myocardial infarction Ashes interred in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich Survived by wife, son, a grandson, and a brother, Clarence Kibbe Hulburt

LAWRENCE BULLARD JONES, B A 1894 Born January 8, 1872, Fitchburg, Mass , died March 8, 1950, Wilkes-Barre, Pa Father, Rev Henry Lawrence Jones, S T D (B A Columbia 1858, M A 1861), minister St Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wilkes- Barre, son of Rev Lot Jones, D D , and Lucy Ann (Bullard) Jones Mother, Sarah Eastman (Coffin) Jones, daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Eastman) Coffin Yale relatives include two brothers, Carleton C Jones, '98, Paul Jones, '02 Harry Hillman Academy Second colloquy appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year, coxswain Freshman and Class crews, editor Yale Daily News Junior and Senior years, Alpha Delta Phi Studied law in Wilkes-Barre 1894-96 and lawyer there 1896- 1950, member Wilkes-Barre Common Council 1907-13 (president 1909-13), vice-president Yale Alumni Association of Wyoming Valley 1922, president 1923-24, member St Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre Married June 15, 1899, Wilkes-Barre, Martha Phelps, daughter of George Slocum and Ellen Woodward (Nelson) Bennett Sons Henry Lawrence, 2d (B A Wesleyan 1923), George Bennett, Nelson (died 1923) Death due to a heart attack Buried in Forty Fort (Pa ) Ceme- tery Survived by wife, two sons, two grandchildren, one great- grandchild, and a sister, Mrs James Pryor Williamson

OLIVER CLAYTON MOSMAN, B A 1894 Born September 27, 1870-, St Joseph, Mo , died May 20, 1950, Kansas City, Mo Father, Chesley Augustus Mosman, lawyer in St Joseph, son of John L and Mary Jane (Graham) Mosman Mother, Rocelia (Norton) Mosman, daughter of Burroughs and Margaret (Weber) Norton Norwich Free Academy Alpha Delta Phi New York Law School 1894-96, lawyer Kansas City 1896 until retirement 1948 (partner Mosman, Rogers, Field & Gentry at retirement), attorney The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford 1908- 19, member Kansas City and Missouri State Bar associations and Sons of the American Revolution Yale College 25

Married June 29, 1898, Chicago, Cornelia, daughter of Lewis Morton and Seba (Moulton) Barber Children Oliver Clayton, Jr , '23, Phoebe (Sorbonne 1927-30, Mrs Thomas Orton Harrington) Death due fo uremia Buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City Survived by wife, children, a sister, Mrs Fred W Sweney, and a brother, Burroughs N Mosman (Class of 1899)

ANSEL PHELPS, B A 1894 Born December 15, 1872, Brooklyn, N Y , died February 24, 1950, New York City Father, Charles Phelps, wholesale dry-goods merchant, Brooklyn Mother, Helen Minerva (Stowe) Phelps Yale relatives include a nephew, Stowe C Phelps, '39 Brooklyn Latin School First colloquy appointment Senior year, Psi Upsilon With Moffat & White, bankers, New York City, 1895-1902, broker in New York City 1902 until retirement 1940 (partner Phelps & McKee at retirement), on board of managers East Side Settlement House, member New York National Guard, New York Stock Exchange, and St James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City Married June 1, 1905, New York City, Georgiana L , daughter of John Christopher and Georgiana (Heckscher) Wilmerding Death due to a stroke Buried m Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by wife and a brother, Stowe Phelps, '90

ANDREW SANFORD TAYLOR, B A 1894 Born September 28, 1867, South Orange, N J , died November 20, 1949, Stamford, Conn Father, Lewis Pier son Taylor, surveyor and land agent South Orange, son of Ira and Samantha (Beach) Taylor Mother, Jennie Clinton (Stephens) Taylor, daughter of George Clinton and Martha Sipp (Benjamin) Stephens Phillips-Andover Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Yale Union Attended New York Law School and studied law in Newark 1894- 97, lawyer in Newark 1897-1915, police justice South Orange 1897- 1905, magazine editor Pleasantville, N Y , engaged in writing since about 1920, on motion picture committee South Orange Home and School Association, member South Orange Board of Education and First Presbyterian Church Unmarried Death due to uremia Ashes interred in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange Survived by two sisters, the Misses Louise Clinton and Elizabeth Berdan Taylor, and a brother, Frederic Beach Taylor 26 Yale University Obituary Record

(Class of 1895, died June 28, 1950)

HARRY LITTLE WELCH, B A 1894 Born November 6, 1872, Wmsted, Conn , died November 6, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, William C Welch (M D 1877) Mother, Elizabeth Maria (Little) Welch Yale relatives include Benjamin Welch (M D Hon 1838) (great-grandfather), Benjamin Welch (M D 1823), William W Welch (M D 1839), Myron R Hubbard (M D 1840) (great-uncles), John B Welch (M D 1860), Edward H Welch (M D 1876) (uncles), William B Ely, '04 (cousin) Birmingham High School, Derby, Conn Yale Union, Zeta Psi M D 1897 (president Senior class) Interne New York City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, 1897-98, studied in Europe 1899-1900, physician New Haven 1900 until retirement 1943, assistant gynecology Yale University 1902-11, surgeon New Haven Fire Department 1919-28, examining surgeon British Canadian Recruiting Mission 1917-18, Captain Medical Corps 1918- 19 (overseas October 1918-January 1919), member International Association of Police and Fire Surgeons and of Medical Directors of Civil Service Commission, and Methodist church Married December 15, 1898, New York City, Annette, daughter of A Frederick and Elizabeth (Price) Vail Daughter Nathalie Whitfield (Mrs Clarence Dale Mickelson) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried m Evergreen Cem- etery, New Haven Survived by wife, daughter, one grandchild, and two great-grandchildren

WILLIAM WALLACE WOODRUFF, JR , B A 1894 Born September 12, 1873, Knoxville, Tenn , died September 13, 1949, Knoxville, Tenn Father, William Wallace Woodruff, president W W Woodruff Hardware Company, Knoxville Mother, Ella Therese (Connelly) Woodruff Yale relatives include Gerald Hughes, '97, Lafayette M Hughes, '02 S , Berrien Hughes, '05 (brothers-in-law), William E Hughes, '36 (nephew) University of Tennessee 1888-90 Class football team at Yale, Alpha Delta Phi With W W Woodruff Hardware Company 1894-1949 (vice-president 1919-25, general manager 1921-27, president 1927-49), president Knoxville Community Chest, member Baptist church Married April 30, 1902, Denver, Colo , Ethel, daughter of Charles James Hughes, Jr , and Lucy Slaughter (Menefee) Hughes Daughter Lucy (Mrs A B Baumann, Jr ) Mrs Woodruff died 1945 Yale College 27

Death due to heart attack Survived by daughter and a grandson

FREDERICK WILLIAM BURGE, B A 1895 Born September 4, 1872, Brooklyn, N Y , died December 27, 1949, Hyde Park, Vt Father, John Henry Hobart Burge (M D Coll City New York 1848), physician and surgeon, Wickford, R I , and Brooklyn, son of Rev Lemuel Burge and Elisabeth Frances (Shaw) Burge Mother, Louise (Schneider) Burge, daughter of Edward and Johonna Maria (Probst) Schneider Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute First dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, secretary-treasurer Berkeley Association Junior year B D General Theological Seminary 1898, assistant St John's Episcopal Church, Richfield Springs, N Y , 1898-99, minister St Michael and All Angels'Church, Seaford, 1900-1903, Christ Church, Rye, 1904-5, St James Church, Hammondsport, 1905-9, St Peter's Church, Westfield, 1909-20, Trinity Church, Warsaw, 1920-23, assistant St Paul's Church and All Saints' Chapel, Burlington, Vt , 1923-25, minister St Peter's Church, Lyndonville, Vt., 1925 until retirement 1940 (established Mission of the Resurrection, Morris- ville). Unmarried Death due to heart failure Ashes interred in Green-Wood Cem- etery, Brooklyn Survived by a sister, Miss Marie Louise Burge

ROBERT STEWART McCLENAHAN, B A 1896 Born June 5, 1871, Wyoming, Iowa, died November 8, 1949, Philadelphia, Pa Father, Rev. James Urie McClenahan (M A Monmouth Coll 1866), minister United Presbyterian Church, son of Robert and Mary (Stewart) McClenahan Mother, Margaret Ann (Lonmer) McClenahan (grad Madison Coll 1859), daughter of William and Emily (Mitchell) Lonmer. Olathe (Kans ) High School, B A Tarkio College 1893, teacher Mission College, Norfolk, Va , 1893-95 Entered Yale Senior year, high oration appointment and one-year honors in ancient languages Senior year, Phi Beta Kappa Instructor Latin and Greek Phillips Academy, Andover, 1896-97, on staff Assuit College, Egypt, under United Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 1897-99, professor religion and ethics 1899-1910, president 1910-18, a founder American University at Cairo 1918, dean College of Arts and Sciences 1919-28, of the University 1928-32, and School of Oriental Studies 1932-39, dean emeritus 1939-49 and trustee, 28 Yale University Obituary Record

chairman Board of Education of Protestant Church in Egypt 1903 and Committee on Missions and Governments Egypt Inter-Mission Council 1931-39, director Cairo Y M C A , M A Tarkio 1906, Yale 1919, LL D Westminster 1913, Commander of the Order of Ismail (Egypt) 1945, author The Proposed American University at Cairo, member Gezira Club of Cairo, Presbyterian Men's Social Union, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Esbakiah Church of Cairo and Wayne Avenue United Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Pa Married September 1, 1897, Bellevue, Nebr , Margaret Jeanette Wallace (Tarkio 1887-90, grad Connecticut Training School for Nurses), daughter of William and Amanda (Mclntire) Wallace Children William Urie (B A Princeton 1921, M D Umv Pennsyl- vania 1925), James Lorimer (died m infancy), Robert Wallace (B A Princeton 1924), Helen Jeanette (B A Mount Holyoke 1929, Mrs Orville Carrier King), John Lorimer, '37 (M D Univ Pennsylvania 1941) Mrs McClenahan died May 17, 1949 Death due to pulmonary embolism Buried in Friends' Cemetery, West Chester, Pa Survived by four children, seven grandchildren, and three brothers, Francis Mitchell McClenahan, '00, William L McClenahan, and John Wallace McClenahan

FREDERICK MAURICE THOMPSON, B A 1896 Born April 12, 1875, Philadelphia, Pa , died November 12, 1949, Valley Stream, N Y Father, Rev Robert Ellis Thompson, D D (B A Univ Penn- sylvania 1865, Ph D Hamilton 1879), Presbyterian minister, son of Samuel and Catherine Thompson Mother, Mary Jane (Neely) Thompson, daughter of Robert and Catherine (Hawkins) Neely Cheltenham Military Academy Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years LL B New York Law School 1899, lawyer in New York City 1899-1949 (partner MacLean & Thompson at time of death) Married (1) March 31, 1898, New York City, Agnes Maud, daughter of Frank Lockwood and Agnes Maud (Jones) Murray Children Frederick Murray, Jane Margaret; Robert Ellis Mr and Mrs Thompson were divorced 1911 Survived by his second wife, Grace Thompson, and children

GEORGE CHILDS WESTON, B A 1896 Born December 24, 1872, Honesdale, Pa , died June 13, 1950, Coral Gables, Fla Father, William Wesley Weston, president Wayne County Savings Bank, son of Horace and Caroline Elizabeth (Briggs) Weston Mother, Annie Elizabeth (Foster) Weston, daughter of Isaac Post and Yale College 29

Mary (Howell) Foster Phillips-Andover Member Delta Kappa Epsilon Studied law with Hon Frank P Kimble, Honesdale, 1896-99, lawyer in Philadelphia 1899-1902, with Customs Service, U S Treasury Department, Newport News, Va , 1902 until retirement 1932, member First Church of Christ Scientist, Lynchburg, Va Married July 2, 1932, Bedford, Va , Gertrude Wood Dillard, daughter of James Harvey and Laura Lucretia (James) Wood Death due to cardiac failure Ashes interred in Woodlawn Park, Miami, Fla Survived by wife, a brother, Charles Wesley Weston of Mineola, N Y , a stepdaughter, Mrs Mary Dillard Stafford, a step- grandchild, and a step-great-grandchild

SHELTON BISSELL, B A 1897 Born September 4, 1875, Washington, D C , died August 15, 1949, Pasadena, Calif Father, Arthur Harry Bissell (Class of 1869, LL B Northwestern 1869), chief law clerk assistant Attorney General's Office, Washington, son of Edward Clark and Betsie (Havens) Bissell Mother, Fanny Arabella (Shelton) Bissell, daughter of Charles S Shelton (B A 1840) and Henrietta Mills (Hyde) Shelton Yale relatives include Aaron Burr (B A 1735) (great-great-great-great-great-uncle), Samuel Sherwood (B A 1749), Joseph Bissell (B A 1751), Zebulon Ely (B A 1779) (great-great-great-grandfathers), Samuel B Sherwood (B A 1786) (great-great-grandfather), Clark Bissell (B A 1806) (great-grandfather), Samuel B S Bissell (B A 1830) (great-uncle), Edward Havens Bissell (Class of 1870),^Charles H Shelton, '77 (uncles), 'Arthur H Bissell, '97 (brother), Emery Bissell (M D Hon 1839), Frank A Bissell, '79 D , Arthur D Bissell, '82 D , Sherwood B Ives, '93, Samuel B S Bissell, '94, Ernest S Van Tassel, '03, Henry Wood Shelton, '04, Kenneth M Bissell, '07, Clifford H Bissell, '08, G Shelton Bissell, '09, Malcolm H Bissell, '11 S , Willis H P Shelton (Class of 1912), A Shelton Keith, '13 S (cousins), Arthur H Bissell, Jr , '34 (nephew) Montclair (N J ) High School High oration appointment Junior and Senior years, elocution prize Sophomore year, Phi Beta Kappa B D 1902 Teacher Thacher School for Boys, Nordhoff, Calif , 1897-98, with New York Sun, Newark Daily Advertiser, and Montclair Times 1898-99, minister Congregational church Verona, N J , 1902-3, Immanuel Church, West Wmfield, N Y , 1903-7, First Church, Long Beach, Calif ,1908-10, Union Church, La Jolla, Calif , 1910-15, First Church, Boise, Idaho, 1916-18, Union Church, Venice, Calif , 1918-19, Union Church, San Dimas, Calif , 1919-29, Village Church, Franklin, N H , 1929-36, Danbury and Grafton Center (N H ) churches 30 Yale University Obituary Record

1936 until retirement 1939, supply minister Charlestown (N H ) church August-October 1941, scribe Southern California Congregational Con- ference, with International Y M C A 1918-19, religious work director Camp Whistler 1918 and religious work secretary British Expedition- ary Forces in England and India October 1918-April 1919, author Unofficial Christianity, contributed to Congregationalist, The Outlook, The Christian Century, and Advance, trustee Venice Union Polytechnic High School, member Masonic order and First Church (Congregational), Pasadena Married (1) June 19, 1902, Pittsburgh, Pa , Charlotte Douglas, daughter of Alfred Horton and Emily Douglas (Raymond) Keith Chil- dren Keith (B A Pomona 1926, M S Cornell 1928), Arthur Harry, 3d (B Arch Carnegie Inst Technology 1930), Charles Raymond (died 1936), adopted daughter Margaret Horton (Umv California Class of 1931, Mrs John Rodrick Gibbons) Mrs Bissell died 1940 Married (2) January 2, 1942, Pasadena, Sarah Margaret Gilliland riatfield, daughter of James Polk and Nancy Elizabeth (Morgan) Gilliland Death due to acute myocardial failure Ashes interred in Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn Survived by wife, three children, and six grandchildren

WILLIAM CHURCHILL, B A 1897 Born November 3, 1876, New But am, Conn , died August 28, 1949, Jackson Heights, N Y Father, Frederick H Churchill (Ph B 1870) - Mother, Annie (Smith) Churchill The Hotchkiss School Philosophical oration appointment Junior and Senior years, one-year honors in philosophy Senior year, president Freshman Union, Yale Union, Phi Delta Gamma, Phi Beta Kappa Ph D 1901 In educational department Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, 1897-98, student University of Leipzig 1901-2, tutor in philosophy Yale University 1902-4, established development laboratory Corning (N Y ) Glass Works 1904, assistant sales manager and head optical laboratory 1912-17, sales manager and optical engineer 1917-23 (developed formula for Pyrex glassware and standardization of colors of signal lenses for railroads), engaged in research and compilation of results of twenty years of research 1923-33, consulting engineer Jackson Heights 1933-47, fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, charter member American Optical Society, member Chicago Engineering Club, Illuminating Engineering Society, Railroad Signal Association, Society of Chemical Industry, Inter-Society Color Council, Masonic order, and St Thomas Church (Episcopal), New York City Married June 17, 1908, in Syracuse, N Y , Elizabeth Hyde, Yale College 31 daughter of George Watson and Amelia Seaman (Nichols) Durston Children Durston, and William Randolph (B S Massachusetts Inst Technology 1934) Died following an operation Ashes interred in Fairview Ceme- tery, New Britain Survived by wife, sons, three grandsons, and a sister, Miss Rose Churchill

MELVILLE GOSS CURTIS, B A 1897 Born August 21, 1875, Olean, N Y , died May 23, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa Father, Rev Henry Melville Curtis, D D (B A Western Reserve 1871, Auburn Theological Seminary 1874), Presbyterian minister, Cincinnati, son of Rev Eleroy Curtis, D D (B A Western Reserve 1845) and Eliza (Coe) Curtis Mother, Evelyn Cramer (Goss) Curtis, daughter of Albert ,Healy and Mary Anna (Curtis) Goss Yale relatives include a brother, Kenneth W Curtis, '03 Franklin School, Cincinnati First dispute appointment Junior and Senior years With Collins & Aikman Corporation, manufacturers of pile fabrics, Philadelphia, 1897-1950 (assistant manager manufacturing 1 SOS- IS, general manager 1913-16, treasurer 1916-18, president 1917 until retirement 1928, chairman board of directors 1928-50), director Grad- uate Hospital University of Pennsylvania, member Mount Auburn Pres- byterian Church, Cincinnati Married May 24, 1909, Philadelphia, Emma, daughter of Frederick P. and Lizzie Earp (Safford) Warren Children Evelyn Goss (Mrs James Houston Young), Katharine Wilson (Mrs Theodore Herman Vetterlein, Jr ) Death due to leukemia Buried in churchyard of St Asaph's Church, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa Survived by wife, children, and four grandchildren

LOUIS CHARLES ILFELD, B A 1897 Born January 30, 1876, Las Vegas, N Mex , died March 29, 1950, Las Vegas, N Mex Father, Charles Ilfeld, owner Charles Ilfeld Company, wholesale general merchandise, Las Vegas, son of Lezer and Betty (Wolff) Ilfeld Mother, Adele (Nordhaus) Ilfeld, daughter of Jacob and Elise (Bentheim) Nordhaus Dr Sach's Collegiate Institute Second colloquy appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year LL B New York Law School 1899, lawyer m New York City 1899- 1903 and Las Vegas 1903-50, State senator New Mexico 1912-17, 1925- 27, director Charles Ilfeld Company, Inc , 1915-50 (vice-president and treasurer 1937-50), organized and financed Auxilio de Don Carlos, 32 Yale University Obituary Record

a New Mexico charitable corporation, established and a benefactor St Anthony's Hospital, Las Vegas, LL D New Mexico Highlands Univer- sity, member San Miguel County Bar Association and Congregation Montefiore, Las Vegas Married September 2, 1939, Las Vegas, Hattie, daughter of Julius and Charlotte (Rj.ndskopf) Liebstadter Death due to uremia Buried m Masonic Cemetery, Las Vegas Survived by wife

CHARLES SAMUEL LEAVENWORTH, B A 1897 Born July 17, 1874, New Haven, Conn , died October 2, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, Daniel C Leavenworth (M D 1865) Mother, Julia Amelia Mary (Hill) Leavenworth (Mount Holyoke Class of 1861) Hillhouse High School, New Haven, B A Wesleyan 1896 (Phi Beta Kappa) Entered Yale Senior year, high oration appointment M A 1899 Traveled in Europe 1897-98, student Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and University of Cambridge 1900-1901, professor of history Imperial Nanyang College, Shanghai, 1899-1900 and 1901-5, U S vice- consul Nagasaki, Japan, 1905-6, retired 1914, author The Arrow War With China, The Great Siberian Thoroughfare, The Siberian Railway (translated into Chinese), The Loochoo Islands, The Lessons of History, and articles on Far East in Encyclopaedia Britannica, received Order of the Double Dragon (China) 1905, delegate from Yale to International Congress of Orientalists, Hanoi, French Indo-Chma, 1902, member American Historical Association, Royal Asiatic Society, American Oriental Society, Japan Society of London, and Trinity Church (Epis- copal), New Haven Married June 1, 1916, New Haven, Katherme Rose, daughter of John and Sarah (Knowland) Maloney Son Robert Wing (B A Duke 1938, LL B 1941) Mrs Leavenworth died 1937 Death due to peritonitis Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Survived by son and one grandchild

ARTHUR ROBERTSON MANICE, B A 1897 Born February 10, 1876, New York City, died June 9, 1950, New York City Father, Edward A Manice (B A 1858) Mother, Phebe (Robertson) Manice Yale relatives include John B Robertson (B A 1829) (grandfather), Samuel H Dickson (B A 1814) (great- uncle), William D Manice (B A 1851), George A Ward (M D 1861), A Heaton Robertson (B A 1872) (uncles), Heaton Manice (Class of 1885), Edward A Manice, '91 (brothers), B Robertson Ward, '88, Heaton R Robertson, '04, William DeForest Manice, '11 (cousins), Yale College 33

William DeF Manice, Jr (Class of 1937), Edward A Manice, '45 W (nephews) St Paul's School, Concord, N H Occupied m New York City 1897 until retirement 1929 (successively partner E A Manice & Company, brokers, manager Indian Refining Company, and vice-president Independent Ware House Com- pany), member New York Stock Exchange, member Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal), New York City Married (1) December, 1901, Denver, Colo , Katharine, daughter of Henry Ellsworth and Belle (McGmnis) Wood Daughter Katharine Wood Mrs Manice died 1902 Married (2) 1903, Shanghai, Wyo , Louise Mott Bell Whitney, daughter of Louis Valentine and Anna (Wood) Bell Mrs Manice died 1919 Married (3) September 4, 1924, Nan- tucket, Mass , Vera Schermerhorn Randolph, daughter of George Jacob and Isabel (Schuyler) Schermerhorn Death due to uremic poisoning Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City Survived by wife, daughter, and a stepson, Robert S Randolph (Class of 1934)

GEORGE BARTHOLD PFINGST, B A 1897 Born December 28, 1873, Louisville, Ky , died March 15, 1950, Fort Lauderdale, Fla Father, Ferdinand J Pfmgst of Louisville Mother, Maria A (Judt) Pfmgst Louisville Male High School Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, Delta Kappa Epsilon Manager Fashion Hosiery Company, Philadelphia, 1898-1907 and Lee Hosiery Mills, Philadelphia, 1908-12, secretary and treasurer Wohlfeld Trunk & Bag Company, luggage manufacturers, Philadelphia, 1912-16, president Cameron & Pfingst, Inc , cotton and silk yarns, Bethlehem and Gainesville, 1915-22 and George B Pfingst, Inc , yarn manufacturers, 1922-26, vice-president Best Manufacturing Company 1935 until retirement 1943, member Park Central Methodist Church, Fort Lauderdale Married June 21, 1898, Philadelphia, Evelyn May, daughter of Owen and Katharine (Rowen) Osborne Children George Bart- hold, Jr (Univ Pennsylvania Class of 1921), Ferdinand Osborne, Catherine Mane (B A Wellesley 1926, Mrs Roy Riddel Coffin) Mrs Pfingst died 1943 Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in St Paul's Church- yard, Ogontz, Pa Survived by children and six grandchildren

PORTER FARLEY SHELDON, B A 1897 Born November 27, 1875, Brooklyn, N Y , died November 15, 1949, Belleville, 34 Yale University Obituary Record

N J Father, Alexander Esleeck Sheldon (B S Umv Rochester 1857), son of Smith and Anne (Esleeck) Sheldon Mother, Delia (Farley) Sheldon Brooklyn Latin School Second colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years With Rochester (N Y ) Show Case Works 1897-1901 and H. B. Hooker & Son, contractors, Rochester, 1901-2, secretary-treasurer Eureka Foundry Company, Rochester, 1903-8, in ship painting business with brother, Brooklyn, 1908 until retirement 1936, attended Fewsmith Memorial Presbyterian Church, Belleville Married July 18, 1917, Alexandria Bay, N Y , Mary, daughter of Dr Charles Whitlock Wilbor and Julia Electa (Chapin) Wilbor Children Porter Farley, Jr (B A Syracuse 1939, M B A Colum- bia 1950), Frances (B S Pratt Inst 1947, Mrs Stevo Popovich), and Smith Death due to heart trouble Buried in Albany (NY) Rural Ceme- tery Survived by wife, children, a grandchild, and a brother, Smith Sheldon

CHARLES HEITLER STUDIN, B A 1897 Born April 25, 1876, Mansfield, Ohio, died March 5, 1950, New York City. Father, Michael Studzmski, formerly mayor of Pueblo, Colo Mother, Laura (Heitler) Studzmski, daughter of Joseph Heitler Yale relatives include Louis M Sonnenberg, '97 (brother-in-law), Eugene H Lehman, '02 (cousin) Pueblo High School, attended University of Colorado 1893-95 Entered Yale College Junior year, high oration appointment and Thacher prize Senior year, president Yale Union Senior year, Class orator, Phi Beta Kappa LL B 1899 (Class honors, second Way- land, Townsend, and Yale Law Journal^prizes, president Kent Club, business manager Yale Law Journal, contributed to Yale Shingle, member Yale Debating Club, Corbey Court) Lawyer in New York City 1899-1950, assistant district attorney New York County 1902-3, director National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, secretary and director Edward MacDowell As- sociation, member Association of the Bar of the City of New York and New York County Lawyers Association Married June 17, 1902, New Haven, Conn , Hettye, daughter of Michael and Ida (Shoninger) Sonnenberg Children Robert Michael and Daniel Charles Death due to a heart ailment Buried in Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, sons, and a brother, Clarence R Studinski Yale College 35

ROBERT WODROW ARCHBALD, JR , B A 1898 Born Janu- ary 10, 1876, Scranton, Pa , died March 7, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa Father, Robert W Archbald (B A 1871) Mother, Elizabeth Baldwin (Cannon) Archbald Yale relatives include James Arch- bald, Jr , '87, Joseph A Archbald, '88 S , Thomas F Archbald, '96 (cousins) School of the Lackawanna Freshman honor division, divided second Edward T McLaughlm English Prize and first Berkeley Premium in Latin Composition Freshman year, philosophical oration appointment and second Henry James TenEyck Prize Junior year, high oration appointment Senior year, Yale Union, Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa LL B University of Pennsylvania 1901, lawyer in Philadelphia 1901-50 (partner Archbald and Busser at time of death), solicitor Philadelphia Home for Incurables and Philadelphia Medical Club, chairman Philadelphia County Board of Law Examiners, member Decedents' Estates Committee of the Joint State Government Com- mission of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State Board of Law Examiners, and St Andrews' Society Married January 14, 1904, Philadelphia, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Presocia (Hickey) Minster Children Eleanor (B A Bryn Mawr 1927, Mrs Ralph Cox Busser, Jr ), Marion (Bryn Mawr Class 1937, Mrs Taber deForest) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried m West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia Survived by wife, children, six grandchildren, and a brother, Hugh Archbald, '03

DAVID DeFOREST BURRELL, B A 1898 Born June 29, 1876, Chicago, 111 , died February 22, 1950, Bethlehem, Pa Father, Rev David J Burrell (B A 1867) Mother, Clara Sergeant (DeForest) Burrell Yale relatives include George F DeForest (B A 1831) (grandfather), Henry A DeForest (B A 1832) (great-uncle), Joseph D Burrell, '81 (uncle), Norman M Burrell, '99 (brother), Louis H Burrell (Class of 1893) (cousin) Collegiate School, New York City Freshman honor division, dissertation appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Alice Kimball English Prize (School of the Fine Arts) Senior year, business manager Yale Literary Magazine Senior year, Class Crew, Dunham Boat Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chi Delta Theta B D Princeton Theological Seminary 1901, assistant minister First Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Pa , 1901-2, instructor New Testament Princeton University 1903-4, minister First Presby- terian Church, La Porte, Ind , 1904-7, and South Orange, N J , 36 Yale University Obituary Record

1907-18, professor of English Bible at University of Dubuque 1918-20, minister Westminster Presbyterian Church, Dubuque, Iowa, 1920-23, First Presbyterian Church, Williamsport, Pa , 1923 until retirement 1941, interim minister First Presbyterian Church, Greensburg, Pa , 1943-46 and First Church, Bethlehem, 1946-49, author The Gift, Christmas Guests, Those Little Angels, The Lost Star, The Hermits, How They Came to Bethlehem, Letters from the Dominie, Belligerent Peter, The End of the Way, David James Burrell, a Biography, D D Dubuque 1917, director American Tract Society, Lord's Day Alliance of the USA, and Princeton Theological Seminary, president Presbyterian Publishing Company (associate editor The Presbyterian), member New Jersey National Guard. Married April 29, 1905, New York City, Margaret Yonker, daughter of George Humphreys and Harriet (Robbms) North Children Elizabeth North (B A Wells 1928, Mrs William Kellogg Carter), Margaret De- Forest (B. A Wells 1929, Mrs Joseph Willard Wells), and Catharine Death due to a stroke Buried in Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs Raymond Hornby and Mrs Fitzhugh C Speer

PAUL AUGUSTINE McQUAID, B A 1898 Born June 20, 1875, New Haven, Conn , died January 2, 1950, White Plains, N Y Father, Peter McQuaid, a realtor in New Haven, son of Patrick and Janet (Petrie) McQuaid Mother, Ellen Sabrina (Carney) McQuaid, daughter of John T and Sophroma (Lamb) McQuaid Yale relatives include a brother, Henry P McQuaid, f95 S. Hillhouse High School, New Haven Second dispute appointment Junior year, second colloquy appointment Senior year, treasurer Class Boat Club Sophomore year Teacher in Somers, Conn , 1898-99, LL B New York Law School 1901, lawyer New York City 1901 until retirement 1942, trial department legal staff Interborough Rapid Transit Company 1901-40, assistant corporation counsel Board of Transportation of the City of New York 1940-42, member St John's Roman Catholic Church, White Plains Married July 27, 1909, Boston, Mass , Louise Josephine, daughter of John and Anne (Jones) Gaffney Children Anne Jones (B,A Coll New Rochelle 1932, Sister Mary Elide), William Lamb, Paul Augustine, Jr , '37, John Gaffney, '40, '47 L. Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Greenburgh, N Y. Survived by wife, children, and two brothers, Samuel Arthur McQuaid and William A McQuaid, '89.

WILLIAM HAZEN PECK, B A 1898 Born October 5, 1875, Yale College 37

New Britain, Conn , died November 26, 1949, Montclair, N J Father, John H Peck (B A 1863) Mother, Sarah Frances Marshall Waterman Peck Yale relatives include Frank N Waterman (Class of 1888 S ) (half brother), Joseph H Pratt, '93 S (cousin) New Britain High School Freshman honor division, high oration appointment Junior year, oration appointment Senior year, captain University Basketball Team Junior and Senior years, Yale Union, Zeta Psi, Phi Beta Kappa Student New York Law School and in office of Roger Foster, '78, New York City, 1898-1900, lawyer in New York City 1900-1949 (partner with son in Peck & Peck at time of death), president Glen Ridge Sinking Fund Commission, on Glen Ridge Borough Council, member Society of Colonial Wars and Glen Ridge Congregational Church Married January 14, 1909, Hartford, Conn , Emma Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Wells and Cynthia Elizabeth (Tuttle) Elmer. Children Elmer Waterman, '36, William Hazen, Jr , '36, Elizabeth Elmer (B A William and Mary 1939, Mrs Charles Leon Hayden) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Ashes interred in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, Conn Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, a brother, Henry W Peck, '97 S , and a half sister, Mrs John G Peck

LEBBEUS HARDING ROGERS, JR , B A 1898 Born July 28, 1874, New York City, died May 7, 1950, Colorado Springs, Colo Father, Lebbeus Harding Rogers, organizer Rogers Manifold Carbon Paper Company, New York City, son of Hiram and Cordelia Draper (Harding) Rogers Mother, Laura Effie (Clearwater) Rogers, daughter of Hiram Clearwater and Eliza (Van Vredenburgh) Clearwater Phillips-Andover Second declamation prize Sophomore year, Delta Kappa Epsilon LL B New York Law School 1902, lawyer in New York City 1902 until retirement 1940, author A Sketch of the Life and Times of Eli Hart, member New York County Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New England Society, Sons of the Revolution, and St Paul's Methodist Church, New York

Married (1) May 17, 1898, New York City, Marie Dorcas, daughter of Swits and Apama Isabelle (Tucker) Conde Twin daughters Marie Conde" (died in infancy), Marie Conde (Mrs DeForest Altpeter) Mrs Rogers died 1899 Married (2) October 4, 1915, New York City, Margaret Elizabeth (Ross) Jordan, daughter of William Adam and Ida May Ross Children' Dorothy Clearwater (Mrs Frank Hearst), Douglas Harding (Drake Univ 1940-43), John Tyler, '49 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Ashes interred in Garden of 38 Yale University Obituary Record the Gods, Colorado Springs Survived by wife, four children, four grandchildren, and a brother, Homer A Rogers, '04 S

OLIVER SARSON BRYANT, B A 1899 Born February 7, 1877, Cincinnati, Ohio, died January 25, 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio Father, Oliver Dexter Bryant, vice-president Crane Com- pany, manufacturers undertakers' supplies, Cincinnati Mother, Kate Rose (Sarson) Bryant Franklin School Second dispute appointment Junior and Sen- ior years LL B Harvard 1902, lawyer in Cincinnati 1902 until retirement 1940, assistant city solicitor two years, coauthor Loveland on Bankruptcy, vice-president Cincinnati Literary Club, secretary Military Training Camps Association World War I, secretary and treasurer Cincinnati Yale Club 1907-8 Unmarried Death due to heart block Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati No immediate survivors are known

KEITH OSMOND GUTHRIE, B A 1899 Born October 25, 1878, Iowa City, Iowa, died October 3, 1949, Elizabeth, La Father, Alfred A Guthrie, a lawyer Mother, Ella (Osmond) Guthrie Albany (N Y ) High School Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, Yale Union With United Traction Company, Albany, 1898-1900, successively field engineer Old Waterside Station Drafting Room, New York Edison Company, and Coal Storage Plant, Shadyside, N J , 1900- 1904, construction manager Henry Dumary & Fort Orange Construc- tion Company, Albany, 1904-13, engineering contractor Schenectady, N Y , 1913-21, president and in charge construction hydro-electric plants Domill Construction Company, Inc , and Domill Construction Company of Canada, Ltd (International Paper Company), 1921-31, president Gumte & Waterproofing, Ltd , Montreal, 1931-32, engineer m New York City 1932-36, resident engineer St Joe Paper Company, Port St Joe, Fla , 1937-38, salesman Hubbard & Floyd, Inc , construction equipment, New York City, 1939-41, manager Preload Company, builders of tanks and wate~ towers, 1942-43, resident engineer paper board mill of Puerto Rico Pulp & Paper Corporation 1944-45 and Macon (Ga ) Kraft Company mill, 1946- 48, engineer Calcasieu Paper Company, Elizabeth, 1948-49, president Yale Alumni Association of Schenectady 1918-19 Married May 7, 1912, Waterford, N Y , Grace Conaughty Children Grace, Keith Osmond, Jr (M D Cornell 1940), John Yale College 39

Conaughty (B A Williams 1937), William A , Barbara J Death due to cerebral vascular accident Buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, N Y Survived by wife, children, and grandchildren

NELSON CLARKE HOLLAND, B A 1899 Born October 11, 1875, Buffalo, N Y , died December 24, 1949, Belchertown, Mass Father, Nelson Holland, owner Holland, Manbert & George, manufacturers and wholesalers lumber, Buffalo, son of George and Susan Ann (Graves) Holland Mother, Susan Ann (Clarke) Holland, daughter of Dudley and Chloe (Sears) Clarke Yale relatives include Carlton R Jewett (B A 1878), Lyman M Bass, !97, Joseph L Hudson, '20 S (brothers-in-law), N Holland Jewett, '09, Carlton C Jewett, '10 (nephews) Nichols School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Psi Upsilon and He Boule. In business with father in Buffalo and New York City, 1899- 1919, owner Nelson C Holland Company, wholesalers of pine lumber, New York City, 1919 until retirement 1932, owner Holland Farm (raised White Holland turkeys), Belchertown, 1932-49, member Ehhu Club and Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City Married April 20, 1903, Buffalo, Elizabeth Lowthian, daughter of William and Mary Eliza (Dye) Hudson Children Nelson, '27, Mary (Mrs Ethelbert Herrick Low), Hudson (Class of 1935) Death due to carcinoma Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Belchertown Survived by wife, children, and nine grandchildren

MacINTOSH KELLOGG, B A 1899 Born May 21, 1875, New Brunswick, N J , died April 6, 1950, New York City Father, Luther Laflm Kellogg, LL D (B A Rutgers 1870, M A 1873, LL B Columbia 1872), partner Kellogg & Rose, lawyers, New York City, son of Nathan Kellogg Mother, Eliza Stout (Mclntosh) Kellogg, daughter of Gen John Baillie Mclntosh, USA and Eliza (Stout) Mclntosh Yale relatives include a brother, Luther L Kellogg, '01 Callisen's School, New York City First colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Psi Upsilon LL B New York Law School 1900, lawyer in New York City 1900-1950 (member Nevius, Brett & Kellogg at death), member New York County Bar Association, Metropolitan Art Association, and Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal), New York City Married June 14, 1905, New York City, Genevieve Morse, daughter of George Wesley and Eva (Manahan) Robinson Children 40 Yale University Obituary Record

Genevieve Robinson (Mrs Robert Cutting Lawrence, Jr ), Luther Laflm, 2d Buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, N J Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Trowbridge Callaway

THOMAS FISHER LAWRENCE, B A 1899 Born February 16, 1877, Hartford, Conn , died July 4, 1949, Evanston, 111 Father, Charles Henry Lawrence, secretary Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hartford, son of Thomas Fisher Lawrence Mother, Juliette (Hamhn) Lawrence, daughter of Thomas Hamlm Hartford Public High School Dissertation appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Class Ivy and Senior Promenade committees, Alpha Delta Phi With Aetna Life Insurance Company, Hartford, 1899-1903, successively assistant secretary, secretary, and vice-president Hartford Life Insurance Company 1903-13, secretary Missouri State Life Insurance Company, St Louis, 1913-18, vice-president 1918-25, president Life Insurance Company of Detroit 1926-40, insurance broker Chicago 1940-49, member St Luke's Episcopal Church, Evanston Married (1) October 19, 1905, Providence, R I , Hortense, daughter of Clinton R and Eva (Corliss) Weeden Daughter Elizabeth Grmnell, the wife of William Slater Allen, !27 S Mr and Mrs Lawrence were divorced Married (2) February 14, 1913, New York City, Lyn Fernald Pullman, daughter of James W Fernald Mr and Mrs Lawrence were divorced Married (3) March 8, 1926, Waukegan, 111 , Julie Burr Davis Gruner, daughter of Frederick Lewis and Rose Marie (Powers) Davis Daughter Julie Jeanne (Northwestern 1940-42, Mrs Robert Joseph Motl) Death due to chronic myocarditis Buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago Survived by wife, daughters, and two grandchildren

GEORGE HENRY MITCHELL, B A 1899 Born December 3, 1877, New Britain, Conn , died September 26, 1949, Salisbury, Conn Father, Charles Elliot Mitchell (B A Brown 1861, LL B Albany Law School 1864), president Stanley Rule & Level Company, New Britain, patent lawyer New Britain and New York City, U S Commissioner of Patents 1889-91, son of George Henry and Laurene (Hooker) Mitchell Mother, Cornelia Ann (Chamberlain) Mitchell, daughter of Abiram and Sophroma (Burt) Chamberlain Yale rela- Yale College 41

tives include a brother, Robert C Mitchell (Class of 1891 L ) Hotchkiss School Assistant organist Yale College Choir LL B Columbia 1903 (member Phi Delta Phi and Phi Gamma Delta), patent lawyer New York City 1903-49, assistant corporation counsel and patent counsel law department City of New York 1935-47, member American Bar Association and Second Church of Christ Scientist, New York City Married June 10, 1902, Lime Rock, Conn , Harriett Louisa, daughter of Nelson Asia and Abbie Susan (Gillette) MacNeil Child- ren MacNeil, '26, George Henry, Jr , Eleanor (deceased) Buried in Salisbury Survived by wife, two sons, four grandchildren, and a brother, Charles H Mitchell (Class of 1897)

ERNEST SHURLY RASTALL, B A 1899 Born August 25, 1870, Mamstee, Mich , died October 24, 1949, Rockford, 111 .Father, John Edward Rastall, owner of a newspaper, Burlm- game, Kans , son of Richard and Sarah Rastall Mother, Fanny (Hawley) Rastall, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stubbs) Hawley Mount Hermon School First dispute appointment Junior and Senior years President Cuitoit Company, manufacturers flavorings and perfumes, Chicago, 1899-1904, auditor State Bank of Chicago 1904-9, organizer, and cashier Ashland State Bank 1909-10, manager Rock- ford Frame & Fixture Company 1910-13, bookkeeper Rockford & Interurban Railway Company 1913-15, certified public accountant Rockford 1915-49, director Civic League of Rockford, a founder, and auditor Rockford Municipal Tuberculosis Association 1914-49, chairman Illinois State Board of Examiners of Public Accountants 1927-42, president Illinois Institute of Accountants 1909-10 and Public Account- ants Association of Illinois 1928-29, treasurer Rockford Civic Or- chestra Association 1943-45, treasurer and trustee, Tinker Swiss Cottage Association 1937-49, chairman Interclub Council, Rockford, member Masonic order and Church of the Christian Union (Unitarian), Rockford Married August 21, 1918, Rockford, Mabel De Ette, daughter of Ebenezer John and Louisa Sarah (Nigh) Wakeford Death due to carcinoma Buried in Willwood Cemetery, Rock- ford, Survived by wife and two brothers, Walter Henry Rastall and John Edward Rastall

ERNEST TURRELL BOWER, B A 1900 Born March 22, 1877, Danbury, Conn , died March 14, 1950, Clearwater, Fla Father, Frederick Emil Bower (grad Univ Bonn and Umv 42 Yale University Obituary Record

Oxford), lecturer and author of books on chemistry, son of Frederick Von Bora Mother, Chloe Maria (Turrell) Bower, daughter of Nathan and Maria (Hopkins) Turrell Staples Academy Second Berkeley Premium m Latin Composi- tion Freshman year, philosophical oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Phi Kappa Sigma, Book and Bond, Phi Beta Kappa Graduate student 1900-1901 LL B cum laude 1904 (editor Yale Law Journal second year) In business department Title Guarantee & Trust Company, New York City, 1904-6, manager Harlem branch 1906-19, president and treasurer Ernest T Bower, Inc , real estate and insurance, New York City, 1919-50, treasurer Danne Corporation 1925-50 and Kath- nod Holding Corporation 1927-50, director Yonkers Y M C A and Family Service Society, trustee First Presbyterian Church, Yonkers Married April 12, 1913, Yonkers, Katharine May Bunker (B A Vassar 1907), daughter of Albert and Kate Knapp (McElroy) Bunker Children Ruth Elizabeth (B A Smith 1936, Mrs Robert Littlefield Hatch, Jr ), Albert Bunker, '37, Robert Turrell, '41, Jocelyn (B A Vassar 1945), the wife of C Frazier Booth, '42 Death due to coronary accident Buried in Quogue (NY) Cemetery Survived by wife, children, and five grandchildren

HENRY EDWARDS ELLSWORTH, B A 1900 Born March 27, 1878, Simsbury, Conn , died February 20, 1950, Lake Wales, Fla Father, Lemuel Stoughton Ellsworth, treasurer and vice- president The Ensign-Bickford Company, fuse manufacturers, Simsbury, son of Abner Moseley Ellsworth, Jr , and Lucy Wetmore (Stoughton) Ellsworth Mother, Annie Jane (Toy) Ellsworth, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Osier) Toy Yale relatives include Joseph R Ensign, '89, Frederick H Ellsworth, '89 S (cousins), Robert E Darling, '26 (cousin), John S Ellsworth, Jr , '29 (nephew) Hotchkiss School Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Freshman, Apollo, and University Glee clubs (club quartet), Senior Cup Com- mittee, Eta Phi, Alpha Delta Phi With The Ensign-Bickford Company 1000-1950 (vice-president 1919-35, president 1935-44, vice-chairman of board 1944-50), inventor Clover fuse 1912, secretary Simsbury Bank & Trust Company 1916-25, acting president and chairman of board 1932-34, vice-president Simsbury Cemetery Association 1936-40, president 1940-50, treasurer Village Water Company of Simsbury 1903-25, president 1925-48, and Simsbury Historical Society 1911-20, curator 1935-50, trustee Simsbury Free Library (president 1931-50), member Simsbury Congregational Church Yale College 43

Married (1) February 11, 1903, Bridgeport, Susan Hotchkiss, daughter of William Wright and Susan Townsend (Ireland) Starr Children John Edwards, T26, Mary Amelia Ellsworth Pratt Smith (Mrs Stuart F Smith), Jane Osier Ellsworth Reeve Bent (Mrs H Blake Bent), Susan Townsend (Mrs Milton H Glover) Mr and Mrs Ellsworth were divorced 1919 Married (2) September 6, 1919, Sims- bury, Abigail Eno Curtiss, daughter of Chauncey Hart and Martha (Goodrich) Eno Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Center Cemetery, Simsbury Survived by wife, children, eight grandchildren, two stepsons, Joseph T Curtiss, '23, '26 Ph D , and Austen Eno Curtiss, and a brother, John S Ellsworth, '05

CHARLES HENRY FREDERICK, B A 1900 Born January 15, 1875, Brooklyn, N Y , died August 10, 1949, Penns Neck, N J Father, Charles Holmes Frederick, teller Corn Exchange Bank, Brooklyn, son of John and Abigail (Holmes) Frederick Mother, Anna Boothby (Colman) Frederick, daughter of John Henry and Lucy Hubbard (Clough) Colman Yale relatives include Rest Fenner Smith, Jr , '94, Ernest S Smith, '99 (cousins) Peddie School First colloquy appointment Junior year, first dispute appointment Senior year B D Rochester Theological Seminary 1905, minister Baptist church North Lyme, Conn , 1906-9, South Windsor 1909-12, Hyannis, Mass , 1912-14, Jamaica, N Y , 1914-16, Easton, Conn , 1917-20, Clinton 1920-24, Baptistown, N J , 1924-27, Princeton 1927 until retirement 1937, clerk and treasurer Trenton Baptist Association 1927-49, member Princeton Baptist Church, Penns Neck Married October 12, 1904, Danbury, Conn , Maud Arzelia Woodruff Andrew, daughter of John W and Alice Maud (Sexton) Woodruff Children Alice Elizabeth (B A Bucknell 1929, M A Hartford Seminary Foundation 1930), Luana Colman (Centenary Col- legiate Inst 1931-32, Mrs Lewis Walter Cottrell), Jeannette Hubbard (B A New Jersey State Teachers Coll 1934, Mrs Nelson MacGilvray Loudon) Death due to angina pectoris Buried in Princeton Baptist Church Cemetery, Penns Neck Survived by wife, children, and five grandchildren

CRISPIN OGLEBAY, B A 1900 Born October 10, 1876, Wheeling, W Va , died October 23, 1949, Gates Mills, Ohio Father, James Hill Oglebay, with Oglebay & Sons, wholesale grocers, Wheeling, son of Crispin and Caroline Scott (Rhodes) 44 Yale University Obituary Record

Oglebay Mother, Anne Delaplame (List) Oglebay, daughter of John and Catherine Ann (Donaldson) List St Paul's School, Concord, N H Manager Freshman Football Team, Alpha Delta Phi, Scroll and Key, and He Boule Clerk Swift & Company, Kansas City, Mo , 1900-1901, shipping clerk J G Peppard Seed Company 1901-2, in real-estate business Kansas City 1902-3, secretary and treasurer Hoffman Hinge & Foundry Company, Cleveland, 1903-6, president of successor Ferro Machine & Foundry Company 1906-20, chairman of board 1920-48, president Oglebay, Norton & Company, miners and shippers of ore, Cleveland, 1924-49, chairman board July-October, 1949, LL D Bethany (W Va ) College 1941 and West Virginia University 1942, president Brule Smokeless Coal Company, Columbia Transportation Company, Fortune Lake Mining Company, Sagmaw Dock and Ter- minal Company, Toledo, Loram & Fairport Dock Company, St James Mining Company, Pickens Peerless Coal Company, Atwater Dock Company, Bristol Mining Company, Bristol Equipment Company, Fairport Machine Shop, Inc , Pringle Barge Line Company, Rich- wood, Sewell Coal Company, and North Shore Land Company, vice- president Reserve Mining Company, Castile Mining Company, Ferro Engineering Company, Montreal Mining Company, Standard Box Company, Lake Superior Land Company, Marine Forwarding Com- pany, Northern Land Company, Toledo Lakefront Dock Company, Wheeling Steel Corporation, trustee Oglebay Institute, Western Re- serve University, Cuyahoga County Conservation Council House, The Play House Foundation, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, director Cleveland War Chest and American Planning and Civic Association, member National Recreation Association, Cleveland council Boy Scouts of America, Newcomen Society, and St Christopher's by-the- River Church (Episcopal), Gates Mills Unmarried Death due to coronary arteriosclerosis Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling Survived by a sister, Miss Kate Oglebay

PLINY SEXTON RIGGS, B A 1900 Born August 28, 1877, Macedon, N Y , died October 30, 1949, White Plains, N Y Father, Herman Lewis Riggs, a farmer and breeder of horses, Palmyra, N Y , son of Miles Bradley and Martha (Warner) Riggs Mother, Margaret Turner (Sexton) Riggs (B S Wells 1873), daugtiter of Orsamus Turner and Sarah (Middlebrook) Sexton Yale relatives include Warner B Riggs (B A 1871) (uncle), Miles B Riggs, f06 (brother) Palmyra High School First dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, Freshman Union Yale College 45

With U S Forestry Service and on ranch in Texas 1900-1902, LL B Harvard 1903, lawyer in New York City 1903-12 and White Plains 1912 until retirement 1942, title examiner Westchester Title and Trust Company, White Plains, poultry farmer White Plains 1942-49 Married September 16, 1905, Washington, D C , Helen Powers Manning (B A Smith 1902), daughter of John S and Mary Lytle (Powers) Manning Children Caroline (B A Wells 1928, M A Col- umbia 1930, Mrs Earl Corliss Holley), Helen (Smith 1929-31, Mrs Vincent Joseph Cunningham) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Ashes interred in Palmyra Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and three sisters, Mrs Richard Porter Bloom, Mrs John B McDougal, and Mrs Russell Lord Tarbox

DAVID STANLEY SMITH, B A 1900 Born July 6, 1877, Toledo, Ohio, died December 17, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, William Henry Harrison Smith (Western Reserve Class of 1862), lumber dealer in Toledo, son of David and Sarah Bishop (Mandeville) Smith. Mother, Julia Welles (Griswold) Smith, daughter of Hezekiah Griswold, Jr , and Frances Norton (Welles) Griswold Yale relatives include Solomon Welles (B A 1739) (great-great- great-grandfather), Roger Welles (B A 1775) (great-great-grandfather), William Griswold Smith (Class of 1891) (brother), Henry S Graves, '92, John M Games, '96, Charles W Gross, '98, Pierce N Welch, '98 (brothers-in-law), John M. Games, Jr , f24, William W Games (Class of 1926), Spencer Gross, '28, Pierce W Games, '27, Robert W Games, '37 S., Huntington P Welch, '43 (nephews) Toledo High School Oration appointment Junior and Senior years, two-year honors in music Senior year, Alpha Delta Phi, Elihu Club, Phi Beta Kappa Graduate member Elizabethan Club Studied in London, Munich, and Paris 1901-1903, Mus B Yale 1903, instructor theory of music Yale University 1903-9, assistant professor 1909-16, professor of music 1916-25, Battell Professor of the Theory of Music 1925 until retirement 1946, professor emeritus 1946-49, Dean of the School of Music and chairman department of music 1920-40, associate fellow Berkeley College (Yale), lecturer department of music University of California summer 1914, organist Church of the Redeemer 1903-8, Center Church 1908-12, United Church on the Green 1913-16, composer Symphony No 1, in F Minor, £P 28, Symphony No 2, in D Major, op 42, Symphony No 3, in C Minor, jop 60, Symphony No 4, op 78, Symphony No 5, op. 99, Prince Hal (overture), Rhapsody of St. Bernard, op 38, and other choral and orchestral works, many songs, anthems, concertos, 46 Yale University Obituary Record chamber music, and sonatas, winner Paderewski International Prize for musical setting George Darley's The Fallen Star (1909), received four awards Society for Publication of American Music, author Gustave J Stoeckel, Yale Pioneer in Music, conductor Horatio Parker choir 1918-26, and New Haven Symphony Orchestra 1919-46 (board of directors 1947-49), Woman's Choral Society, and New Haven Carol Choir, guest conductor symphony orchestras throughout the country, M A Hon Yale 1916, Mus D Northwestern 1918 and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 1927, fellow American Guild of Organists, on governing board Neighborhood House Music School, member National Institute of Arts and Letters, Council of American Academy in Rome, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Connecticut State Guard, attended Congregational church Married December 6, 1913, New Haven, Cora Demmg Welch (B A Vassar 1904), daughter of Pierce N Welch (B A 1862) and Emma Cornelia (Galpm) Welch Adopted son Christopher Stanley (B A Bard 1947) Death due to carcinoma Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, son, and two grandchildren

ELDRIDGE LYON ELIASON, B A 1901 Born June 6, 1879, Chestertown, Md , died March 6, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa Father, Wilbur Eliason (Class of 1874); son of Thomas Wilson and Mary (Walker) Eliason Mother, Mary Comegys (Brown) Eliason, daughter of Hiram and Mary Comegys (Merritt) Brown Yale relatives include John Eliason (B A 1869) (uncle), John Eliason, '03 (brother) Hotchkiss School Philosophical oration appointment Junior year, high oration appointment Senior year, Freshman Baseball Team, manager University Baseball Team, University Gymnastic Team (captain Senior year, intercollegiate amateur gymnastic all round champion of the United States and Canada), Yale Athletic Financial Union, Zeta Psi, Phi Beta Kappa M D University of Pennsylvania 1905 (Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha), on staff University of Pennsylvania Hospital 1905-50 (interne 1905-7, assistant surgeon 1908-22, surgeon 1922-50, chief surgical clinic, president medical board, and chairman nursing school committee), assistant instructor surgery University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 1907-16, instructor 1916-19, associate in surgery 1919-23, assistant professor 1923-25, professor clinical surgery 1925-36, John Rhea Barton Professor of Surgery 1936-45, professor emeritus 1945-50, assistant professor surgery University of Penn- sylvania Graduate School of Medicine 1923-26, professor clinical surgery 1926-38, professor surgery 1938-46, professor emeritus Yale College 47

1946-50, volunteer coach University of Pennsylvania gymnastic team 1906-30, on staff Philadelphia General, Delaware County, Mt Sinai, and Presbyterian hospitals, author- Fractures of the Humerus, Radius and Ulna; Practical Bandaging, First Aid in Emergencies, coauthor Surgical Nursing, Dislocations and Fractures in Nelson's Loose Leaf Surgery, Fractures about the Elbow Joint and Dislocations at the Elbow in Christopher's Surgery; Sc.D. Washington College 1924 and University of Pennsylvania 1945, Award of Merit General Alumni Society of University of Pennsylvania 1950, Lieutenant Colonel Medi- cal Corps in World War I (overseas 1918-19, chief surgical service Base Hospital No 20, commanding officer surgical team No 61), fellow American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, American Board of Surgery, and International College of Surgeons; member Philadelphia County and Pennsylvania State Medical societies, Surgical Research Society, and Methodist Church, Chestertown. Unmarried Death due to penartentis nodosa Buried in Chestertown Cem- etery Survived by a sister, Mrs. Harrison W. Vickers, Jr , and a brother, Edwin Holt Ehason

BURTON PARKER TWICHELL, B.A 1901. Born June 8, 1878, Hartford, Conn ; died August 7, 1949, Keene Valley, N Y Father, Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, D.D , LL D (B A 1859) Mother, Julia Harmony (Cushman) Twichell Yale relatives include David C Twichell, '98 (brother), Charles E. Ives, "'98, John R. Hall, •02 (brothers-in-law), Edward T. Ware, '97, Reuben C Twichell, '00 (cousins); Howard O Wood, Jr , '16, Joseph Talcott Hall, '32, Jesse Angell Hall, '36 (nephews), Howard O. Wood, 3d, '43 E (grand- nephew) . Hartford Public High School. Second colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, president Freshman Baseball Association; Apollo and University Glee clubs; on board of managers Yale Co- operative Corporation, Ivy Committee, He' Boule', Alpha Delta Phi Graduate member Torch Society Principal Weiser (Idaho) Academy 1901-2, teacher 1906-7, student in forestry and engaged in business in Hartford 1902-3; LL B. Yale 1905 (Betts Prize), lawyer in Bridgeport, Conn , 1905-6, teacher of Latin Thacher School, Ojai, Calif , 1907-17, dean of students Yale 1920-23, instructor in Latin 1923-27 and 1928 until retirement 1932, teacher of Latin Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 1935-38, M A Hon. Yale 1920, Y M C A secretary Camp Upton in World War I (overseas 1918-19), trustee Hamden Hall, Hop- kins Grammar School, and Milton Academy, president Keene Valley 48 Yale University Obituary Record

Library Association 1923, national council member American Provi- dent Society of New York City, council member Farnam Community House, on advisory committee New Haven State Teachers' College, on board of control Yale University Athletic Association 1920-21, on board of managers Dixwell Community House, member Congregational Church, Keene Valley Married June 22, 1916, Glen Cove, N Y , Katharine Eugenia Pratt (B A Vassar 1914), daughter of Charles Millard Pratt (M A Hon 1903) and Mary Seymour (Morris) Pratt Children David Cushman (B A Williams 1941, M A Yale 1949), Margaret Frost (Benmngton Coll 1938-40, Mrs Henry Siddons Mowbray), Harmony (B A Vassar 1943, Mrs Samuel Prescott Bush Clement), Charles Pratt, '45 W Death due to carcinoma Buried in Pratt family cemetery, Glen Cove Survived by wife, children, six grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs Charles E Ives, Mrs John R Hall, and Miss Sarah Dunham Twichell, and a brother, Rev Joseph H Twichell, '06

FRANCIS BLACKMAN BARNETT, B A 1902 Born May 29, 1882, Canaan, Conn , died October 15, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, Rev Francis Walter Barnett (B A Brown 1872), rector Christ Church, Canaan, and St Luke's Church, South Glaston- bury, Conn , son of William Noyes and Mary Sullivan (Pritchard) Barnett Mother, Mary Frances (Blackman) Barnett, daughter of Joseph and Mary Botsford (Bailey) Blackman Yale relatives include William E Barnett (B A 1864), John F Barnett (M D 1869) (uncles), William L Barnett, '98 (cousin) Housatonic Valley Institute First colloquy appointment Junior year, second colloquy appointment Senior year Teacher Thornbury College 1902-3, salesman J B Williams Company, soap manufacturers, Glastonbury, Conn , 1903-4, shipping clerk Swift & Company, Hartford, 1904-6, B D Berkeley Divinity School 1909, rector St Mary's Episcopal Church, Mitchell, S Dak , 1909-15, Christ Church, Ridley Park, Pa , 1915-19, St David's Church, Manayunk, 1919-22, St Andrew's Church, Yardley, and St Wilfrid's Church, Dolmgton, 1922-35, chaplain Christ Church Hospital, Philadelphia, 1935-40, assistant Trinity Church, New Haven, 1940-41 and vicar All Saints' Church, Trinity Parish, 1941-49, made missionary inspection trip to Liberia 1922 (Holy Cross Hospital founded later), cofounder Country Center Mission, Bucks County, Pa , chaplain (Captain) Base Hospital No 15, and later Chemical Warfare Service, World War I, author A Thousand Miles on Foot in Africa, trustee Berkeley Divinity School (acting librarian 1940-41), president New Haven Clericus and board of trustees Yardley Library, Yale College 49 vice-president Yardley Board of Education, member Masonic order and American Legion (commander Yardley post) Married June 5, 1909, South Glastonbury, Conn , Emily Maudsley, daughter of John Howard and Addie Rosalvia (Stancliff) Hale Children Dorothy Hale (Mrs Arthur Waldo Pelton), Francis Blackman, Jr , Walter (died 1931) Death due to*coronary thrombosis Buried in Old Church Ceme- tery, Glastonbury Survived by wife, two children, two grandchildren, a sister, Miss Mary Barnett, and two brothers, Rev Joseph Noyes Barnett and William E Barnett

CHARLES PAXSON FLORA, B A 1902 Born July 20, 1878, Columbia, Pa , died April 4, 1950, Watertown, Mass Father, Samuel Slocum Flora, with Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany, son of John and Eleanor M (Cain) Flora Mother, Emma Elizabeth (Daugherty) Flora, daughter of Robert and Catherine (Trainer) Daugherty Columbia High School High oration appointment Junior and Senior years, two-year honors m physical sciences Senior year, special honors in chemistry, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa Ph D 1905 (assistant in chemistry 1903-5) Instructor chemistry Derby (Conn ) High School 1903, chemist Hood Rubber Company, Watertown, 1905-7, assistant superintendent 1907-17, factory manager 1917-22, manager standards department 1922-43, superintendent salary administration 1943 until retirement 1945, held numerous patents including method for deresmating rubber, author "The Estimation of Cadmium", contributed to scientific periodicals, lecturer Harvard Graduate School, Northeastern University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1922-23, official arbitrator Rubber Association of America 1918, member Industrial Engineers Club of New England, American Chemical Society, American Economic Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Phillips Congregational Church, Watertown Married November 5, 1906, New Haven, Conn , Margaret Ann, daughter of Thomas Rexter and Elizabeth Ann (Hunter) Cairns Son Charles Cairns (B S Harvard 1929, M A 1930) Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, son, three grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs Robert T Taggart, Mrs Maud Patterson, and Mrs Claude B Henderson, and a brother, William A Flora

WALTER LESTER LYON, B A 1902 Born April 24, 1881, Berlin, Germany, died November 27, 1949, Bryn Mawr, Pa 50 Yale University Obituary Record

Father, Jonathan Fish Lyon (B A. and M A Brown 1870, M D Heidelberg 1880), physician in New York City Mother, Louise (Miller) Altroggen Lyon Yale relatives include a cousin, William H Lyon, '08 Dwight School, New York City Member Zeta Psi Attended College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- sity, 1902-3 (Omega Upsilon Phi), successively with J H Flagg Cutlery Company, New York City, Clark, Granms & Lawrence, brokers, and Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company, New Britain, Conn (assistant sales manager New York City office), with Bell Tele- phone Company of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1912 until retirement about 1930, member St David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pa Married February 1, 1911, Philadelphia, Beatrice, daughter of Henry and Pauline (Jolly) Cochran Children Dorothy Erskine (Mrs Thomas Langdale Bishop), William Cochran, !36 S Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in St David's Churchyard, Radnor Survived by wife (died May 25, 1951), children, and five grandchildren

RALPH MERRIAM SIMONDS, B A 1902 Born October 24, 1878, Westminster, Mass , died April 22, 1950, Arlington, Mass Father, Samuel Dwight Simonds, lawyer in Westminster, son of Albert G and Sarah (Woodcock) Simonds Mother, Ida Eliza (Merriam) Simonds, daughter of Artemus and Salome (Holden) Merriam Cushmg Academy Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Freshman and Class Baseball teams Clerk Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company, leather belting, Worcester, Mass , 1902-3, assistant manager Philadelphia office 1903-4, traveling salesman 1904-5, in advertising department Worces- ter 1905-6, manager promotion department Sherwm-Williams Company, paints, Boston, 1906-9, salesman Wadsworth, Howland & Company, Boston, 1909-10, New England sales manager Globe Register Company and United Autographic Registers, Boston, 1910 until retirement 1946, associated with Thomas Groom Company, stationers, Boston, and Cereseal Distributing Company, Southbridge, Mass , at time of death, member Masonic order and St John's Episcopal Church, Ar- lington Married September 20, 1906, Allston, Mass , Zulma Eliza, daughter of George Washington and Abbie Florence (Clark) Lunt Children Ralph Merriam, Jr (Tufts Class of 1935), Barbara (B A Simmons 1937, Mrs Roland Hoag), Dwight Lunt (Duke Class of 1944) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, Yale College 51

a sister, Mrs Charles Arnold Pellett, and a brother, Donald D Simonds

JOHN FERGUSON TENNEY, B A 1902 Born October 19, 1880, Methuen, Mass , died September 5, 1949, New York City Father, George Washington Tenney, shoe manufacturer in Methuen, son of John Ferguson and Hannah (Woodbury) Tenney Mother, Alzaidia Maria (Tourtellot) Tenney, daughter of Amasa and Maria (Curtis) Tourtellot Yale relatives include a cousin, Daniel G Tenney, '91 Phillips-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years LL B Harvard 1905, lawyer in Seattle 1905-9, salesman C H Tenney & Company, commission hat merchants, New York City, 19t)9-26, underwriter New York Life Insurance Company 1926-49 (senior Nylic 1946-49), trustee Golden Rule Foundation and Endow- ment Fund of American College in Madura, India, deacon Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational), New York City (in charge hospitality center for enlisted men during World War II and until his death) Married October 5, 1910, Picton, Ont , Gena Branscombe (B M Chicago Musical Coll , M A Hon Whitman 1932), daughter of Henry William and Sara (Allison) Branscombe Children Gena (B A Barnard 1934, Mrs Philip Henry Phenix), Vivian Allison (B A Barnard 1935, M D Cornell 1939), Elizabeth (died 1919), Beatrice Branscombe (Barnard 1934-37, Mrs Edgar Lloyd Brokow, Jr ) Death due to carcinoma Buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Methuen Survived by wife, three daughters, two grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Roy V Baketel

WILLIS GAYLORD TUCKER, B A 1902 Born January 20, 1881, Albany, N Y , died September 25, 1949, Saratoga Springs, N Y Father, Willis Gay lord Tucker (M D Albany Medical Coll 1870), director New York State Board of Health Laboratory, son of Luther Tucker Mother, May (Newman) Tucker, daughter of Charles and Mary (Page) Newman Yale relatives include Luther H Tucker (B A 1855), Henry Newman (Class of 1880) (uncles), Luther H Tucker, '91, Carll Tucker, '04 (cousins) Albany Academy First dispute appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year Reporter Albany Argus 1902-4, advertising department General Electric Company, Schenectady, N Y , 1904-6, owner advertising agency Albany 1906-10, manager New York City offices William D McJunkin Advertising Agency 1910-13, founder, and president The 52 Yale University Obituary Record

Tucker Agency, Inc , advertising, New York City, 1913 until retirement about 1932, organized The Commonweal, member National Electric Light Association Married June 10, 1905, Albany, Alice S , daughter of Francis H Woods Death due to bronchopneumoma Buried in St Agnes Cemetery, Albany Survived by wife and two sisters, Mrs A William Putnam and Mrs Harry Holt

JOHN JARED WELSH, B A 1902 Born September 4, 1880, South Orange, N J , died February 14, 1950, South Orange, N J Father, William Welsh, landscape gardener in South Orange, son of Robert and Margaret Welsh Mother, Matilda (Irvine) Welsh, daughter of Robert and Prudence Irvine South Orange High School First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years Teacher mathematics and European history South Orange High School 1902-4, attended Columbia University summer 1903, instructor German, French, and mathematics Morris Academy, Morristown, N J , 1904-7, teacher mathematics St Paul's School, Concord, N H 1907 until retirement 1946, member Church of the Holy Communion (Episcopal), South Orange Unmarried Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Fairmount Ceme- tery, Newark, N J Survived by a sister, Miss Rebecca Welsh

ERWIN MINSEL CALMER, B A 1903 Born March 31, 1880, Joliet, 111 , died March 1, 1950, Dos Rios, Calif Father, Michael Calmer, merchant and mill operator, Joliet, son of Daniel Calmer Mother, Therese (Minsel) Calmer, daughter of August Minsel Stoekig Joliet High School Second colloquy appointment Junior year, treasurer Fencing Club Junior year, president Team Senior year, Zeta Psi Student Colorado School of Mines 1903-4, with Calmer Dry Goods Company, Joliet, 1905-10, engaged in raising alfalfa and fruit McFarland, Calif , and La Canada 1910-18, with Illinois Steel Com- pany, Chicago, 1918-20, owner Calmer's California Wild Flower Nursery, Dos Rios, 1920-50, devoted much time to painting, and raising Airedales, trustee Western Reserve Historical Society, governor Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland 1934-35 Married (1) July 24, 1905, Chicago, Florence Briggs, daughter of Richard and Cynthia (Briggs) Terhune Children Richard Terhune I

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and John Augustus (B.S Umv Washington 1932) Mr and Mrs Calmer were divorced 1922 Married (2) 1930, San Francisco, Ann Finseth Death due to a heart condition Buried in Santa Rosa, Calif Survived by wife, sons, and two brothers, Howard Carl Calmer and Harry Calmer

JAMES RYLE COFFEY, B A 1903 Born July 11, 1881, New Haven, Conn , died March 30, 1950, Stamford, Conn Father, Lawrence John Coffey, a mason contractor, New Haven, son of James and Bridget (Flannigan) Coffey Mother, Jenny (Holloran) Coffey, daughter of John and Ellen (Costello) Holloran Hillhouse High School, New Haven M D Yale 1907 Interne Lying-In Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital, New York City, 1907-9, physician in New Haven 1909 until retirement January 1950, assistant in medicine Grace Hospital, studied in Vienna and Budapest 1932, assistant surgeon (Lieutenant j g ) Naval Reserve Force in World War I, member New Haven Medical Association, Connecticut State Medical Society, and St Rose's Roman Catholic Church, New Haven Married June 14, 1911, New Haven, Margaret Theresa, daughter of William Henry and Margaret Theresa (Reilly) Boyle Daughter Margaret Theresa (died at birth) Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried in St Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs Charles Richmond, and three brothers, John C , Lawrence J , and Raymond C Coffey

PHILIP KING CONDICT, B A 1903 Born October 20, 1880, Newark, N J , died September 1, 1949, South Strafford, Vt Father, Stephen Albert Condict, vice-president Orange Valley Building & Loan Association, son of Stephen Hayes and Sophia (King) Condict Mother, Clara (Agnew) Condict, daughter of Rev John Holmes Agnew and Sarah Emeline (Taylor) Agnew Yale relatives include Lewis E Condict (B A 1869) (uncle), Stephen C Walke, '34 (nephew) The Hill School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Uni- versity Tennis Team, manager University Tennis Association Senior year, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Elihu Club With Western Electric Company, Inc , 1903-17, 1919-25 (chief clerk Philadelphia branch 1905-7, secretary Nippon Electric Company, Japan, 1907-10, Far Eastern manager 1910-13, foreign sales manager New York City 1913-17, vice-president 1919-25), vice-president 54 Yale University Obituary Record

International Telephone & Telegraph Company 1925 until retirement 1937, vice-president International Standard Electric Corporation 1919-25, executive vice-president 1925-36, president 1936-37, owner Willow House Farm, South Strafford, 1931-49, assistant director Bureau Export Licenses, War Trade Board, 1917, Major Signal Corps in World War I, decorated with Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) 1919, vice-president American Asiatic Association, member Highland Avenue Congregational Church, Orange, N J , and trustee Community Church of the Straffords Married November 10, 1937, Rye, N Y , Fonrose, daughter of Jonathan Mayhew and Laura Wallace (Buchanan) Wainwright Death due to pericarditis Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, South Strafford Survived by wife, his ward, James Rylee Condict, and a sister, Mrs Roger A Walke

TRUSTEN POLK DRAPER, B A 1903 Born October 20, 1880, Wilmington, Del , died April 29, 1950, Wilmington, Del Father, James Avery Draper (M D Umv Pennsylvania 1860), physician and surgeon Wilmington, son of Avery Draper, 3d, and Elizabeth (Green) Draper Mother, Mary (Polk) Draper, daughter of Trusten Polk (B A 1831) and Elizabeth Newberry (Skinner) Polk Yale relatives include James A Draper, '95 (brother), James Avery Draper, '31, Ford B Draper, '32 (nephews) Friends School, Wilmington Member Alpha Delta Phi With Youngstown (Ohio) Car Manufacturing Company 1903-5, Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown, 1905-7, Inland Steel Company, Indiana Harbor, Ind , 1907-9, assistant superintendent blast furnace and steel department Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company 1907-17, general manager Trumbull Steel Company, Warren, Ohio, 1917-19, successively vice-president and general superintendent Sharon (Pa ) Steel Hoop Company and vice-president and general manager Worcester (Mass ) Pressed Steel Company 1919-50 Married (1) April 27, 1910, Richmond, Va , Caroline, daughter of Dr Charles M Shields and Margaret (New) Shields Mrs Draper died 1913 Married (2) November 18, 1915, Richmond, Edith Stuart, daughter of Walter E Grant Children Mary Polk (Mrs Edwin C E Lord, Jr ), Edith Grant Mrs Draper died 1926 Survived by children

BRADFORD ELLSWORTH, B A 1903 Born October 31, 1880, New Hartford, Conn , died April 16, 1950, Bridgeport, Conn Father, William Webster Ellsworth, president Century Com- pany, publishers, New York City, son of Oliver and Caroline Cleveland (Smith) Ellsworth Mother, Helen Yale (Smith) Ellsworth, Yale College 55

daughter of Morris Woodworth and Julia (Palmer) Smith Yale relatives include Noah Webster (B A 1778), Oliver Ellsworth (LL D 1790) (great-great-grandfathers), William W Ellsworth (B A 1810) (great-grandfather), Oliver Ellsworth (B A 1799), Martin Ellsworth (B A 1801), Henry L Ellsworth (B A 1810), (great-great-uncles), Pinckney Ellsworth (B A 1836) (great-uncle), Frederick W Davis (B A 1877) (uncle), Carl W Davis, '02 (cousin), George M Creevey, '93 (brother-in-law), Kennedy Creevey, '26 (nephew) Hotchkiss School Freshman, Apollo, and University Glee clubs, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta Phi Secretary Brewster & Company, carriage manufacturers, New York City, 1903-6, 1912-17, with Century Company 1906-8, Gude, Winmill & Company, bankers, New York City, 1908-12, manager branch office 1919-20, manager Seligsberg & Company, New York City, 1920-22, Edward W Clucas & Company, brokers, New York City, 1922-27, M J Meehan & Company, brokers, New York City, 1927-37, raised Aberdeen Angus cattle New Hartford 1937-42, Manning, Maxwell & Moore Company, Inc , manufacturers of gauges and tools, Bridgeport, 1942-50 (vice-president 1945-50, general manager 1947-50), chairman Class dinner committees, with Squadron A on Mexican Border, Captain Infantry, World War I (awarded Dis- tinguished Service Cross, Croix de Guerre, Silver Star, second Dis- tinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart), member St Bartholomew's Church (Episcopal), New York City Married (1) December 1, 1904, New York City, Juliet, daughter of George Inness, Jr , and Julia Goodrich (Smith) Inness Son George Mr and Mrs Ellsworth were divorced 1919 Married (2) September 4, 1920, Hartford, Alice, daughter of Alexander and Alice (Reilly) Dickson Death due to pulmonary edema Buried in Old Town Hill Ceme- tery, New Hartford Survived by wife, son, and two sisters, Mrs George M Creevey and Mrs Mauritz vanLoebensels

GEORGE SINCLAIR HURST, B A 1903 Born March 12, 1876, New York City, died November 2, 1949, Hartford, Conn Father, George Gilfillan Hurst, compositor Bullinger & Com- pany, New York City, son of Joshua and Frances (Bilyea) Hurst Mother, Emily Amanda (Sinclair) Hurst, daughter of James and Martha (MacMurray) Sinclair Mt Hermon School Freshman, Apollo, and University Glee clubs, College Choir, chairman Ivy Committee, Zeta Psi, Elihu Club Assistant business manager Yale Alumni Weekly 1903-4, business manager 1904-6, advertising department J B Williams Company, soap manufacturers, Glastonbury, Conn , 1907-17, 56 Yale University Obituary Record

advertising manager 1917 until retirement 1937, president Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce Married August 12, 1907, West Redding, Conn , Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Edwin Henry and Amanda Pamelia (Pierce) Osborn Death due to subarachnoid hemorrhage Buried an Whitneyville Cemetery, Hamden, Conn Survived by wife and a brother, Robert B. Hurst

CHARLES ARTHUR MOORE, B A 1903 Born June 23, 1880, Lynn, Mass , died August 23, 1949, Greenwich, Conn Father, Charles Arthur Moore, a founder Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc , machinery and machinists' supplies, Bridgeport, Conn , son of William Ropes and Caroline (Van Nest) Moore Mother, Mary (Campbell) Moore, daughter of John Kyse and Elizabeth (Sheffield) Campbell Yale relatives include Colby M Chester, '97 S (brother- in-law) St Paul's School, Concord, N H Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, Elihu Club Successively vice-president, president, and chairman of the board Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc , 1903-49, an explorer and member of expeditions to Arctic, Hudson Bay, and Baffin Land, importer Arabian desert horses, member Connecticut National Guard, Major Coast Artillery Corps World War I, member New York Philo- logical and Zoological societies, and American Museum of Natural History Married (1) January 18, 1907, Nashville, Tenn , Annette, daughter of Henry Sperry Children Elsie Annette Moore Kellogg Shaul, Charles Arthur, 3d, Henry Sperry Mr and Mrs Moore were divorced 1919 Married (2) June 5, 1920, Greenwich, Conn , Elizabeth, daughter of Seymour Jairus and Elizabeth (Worrall) Hyde Children John Campbell (Class of 1945, killed in service 1943), Bettme (Mrs William Taliaferro Close) Death due to coronary occlusion Survived by wife, three children, grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Colby M Chester

ROLAND GEORGE DWIGHT RICHARDSON, B A 1903 Born May 14, 1878, Dartmouth, N S , died July 17, 1949, South River Lake, N S Fatner, George Richardson, a teacher in Dartmouth and Lawrencetown, N.S , son of Rev George Richardson and Sarah (Williams) Richardson Mother, Rebecca (Newcomb) Richardson, daughter of Judson and Greselda Detchmann (Archibald) Newcomb Yale College 57

Lawrencetown High School, B A Acadia 1898 Entered Yale Senior year, philosophical oration appointment, honors in mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa M A 1904, Ph D 1906 (instructor in mathematics 1904-7) Assistant professor mathematics Brown University 1907-12, associate professor 1912-15, professor and head department 1915-42, dean Graduate School 1926-48, dean emeritus 1948-49, in charge department of astronomy and acting director Ladd Observatory 1917-18, student University of Gottingen 1908-9, teacher University of Chicago summer 1918 and University of California 1920, assisted in writing mathematical program for college Army and Navy units in World War I, D C L Acadia 1931, LL D Lehigh 1941, Brown 1948, vice-president Mathematical Society of America 1919 and* American Mathemati- cal Society 1920 (secretary 1921-40), fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science, member Deutsche Mathematiker Vereimgung, Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Sigma Xi, and First Baptist Church, Provi- dence, R I Married June 4, 1908, Montreal, Que , Louise Janet, daughter of Alexander John and Janet (McHattie) McHattie Son George Wendell (B A Brown 1942) Death due to thrombosis Buried in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, N S Survived by wife, son, and one grandchild

GEORGE ARTHUR SMITH, B A 1903 Born December 12, 1879, Hartford, Conn , died January 22, 1950, Long Hill, Town of Trumbull, Conn Father, Edwin Jones Smith, sheriff Hartford County, son of David Tilton and Maria (Jones) Smith Mother, Sarah Henrietta (Moses) Smith, daughter of Luther and Mary (Lampson) Moses Yale relatives include a stepbrother, H DeWitt Smith, '08 S Hartford Public High School Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, Yale University Dramatic Association M D Johns Hopkins 1907, on house staff Hartford Hospital 1907-8, physician in Hartford 1908-11, Stepney, Conn , 1912-19, Long Hill 1919 until retirement 1945, visiting physician Hartford Dispensary, member Bridgeport and Connecticut State Medical societies*, Fairfield County and American Medical associations, and Con- gregational church Married August 7, 1909, Setauket, N Y , Lillie Roe, daughter of William Roe and Sarah Rebecca (Hawkins) Davis Daughter Janet Sarah (B A Smith 1935, Yale School of Fine Arts 1935-37, Mrs Harold Welton Ballard) Death due to cerebrovascular accident Survived by wife, 58 Yale University Obituary Record daughter, three grandchildren, and a brother, Merton T Smith

COLMAN CURTISS, B A 1904 Born January 26, 1881, Denver, Colo , died February 22, 1950, Buffalo, N Y Father, Alexander Mam Curtiss (M D Cornell 1880), president Charles G Curtiss Company, malt manufacturers, Buffalo, son of Charles Gould and Amelia (Mam) Curtiss Mother, Sophia Jane (Colman) Curtiss, daughter of Truman and Emma Colman Yale relatives include Charles G Curtiss, '08, Geoffrey Curtiss (Class of 1909)(brothers) St Paul's School, Concord, N H Class Picture Committee, Alpha Delta Phi, Elihu Club Occupied m Buffalo 1904-46, successively manager, assistant treasurer, and secretary Charles G Curtiss Company 1904-6, vice- president 1906-18, president Colman Curtiss Feed Company, Inc , 1918-24, automobile salesman J.924-29, special representative John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc , and salesman Deuel, Lapey & Company, Inc , 1929-40, salesman Factory Fuels Corpora- tion, bituminous coal, 1940-46, vice-president Geneva Brewing Com- pany 1909-12, treasurer Riverside Malting Company 1907-18, member New York State Guard and St John's Church (Episcopal), Buffalo Married June 25, 1905, Batavia,. N Y , Sallie, daughter of Trumbull and Grace (Truscott) Cary Children Jane (died 1919), Trumbull Cary (died 1922), Colman, Jr , '32, Alexander Main, 2d (died 1911), Thomas, '37, Margaret Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Forest Lawn Ceme- tery, Buffalo Survived by wife, three children, and eight grandchildren

MORGAN GOETCHIUS, B A 1904 Born May 21, 1881, New York City, died June 14, 1950, Smithtown Branch, N Y Father, John Milton Goetchius, member James L Morgan & Company, chemical manufacturers, New York City, son of John Embler and Julia (Strong) Goetchius Mother, Sarah Gilbert (Kellogg) Goetchius, daughter of Henry and Caroline (Frisbie) Kellogg Yale relatives include Edward Jewell (Class of 1869) (uncle), Henry K Goetchius, '88 S , John M Goetchius, '94 S (brothers), Thomas L Clarke, '97, Raymond Ives, '08 (cousins) Pomfret School Freshman Football Team, Yale University Dramatic Association, Junior Promenade Committee, Cup Committee, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Scroll and Key Bond salesman William Salomon & Company, New York City, 1904-6, salesman Dennis & Preston, real-estate brokers, 1906-7, Yale College 59 traveled and student The Sorbonne 1908-11, engaged in farming Smith- town, N Y , 1912-18, Captain, Military Intelligence World War I, Major Officers Reserve Corps 1920, with General Motors Export Com- pany and General Motors Acceptance Corporation 1919-22 and General Motors Corporation 1922-24, associated with Fahnestock & Company 1924 until retirement about 1947, member New York Stock Exchange, mayor Smithtown Branch 1942-43, member Sons of Colonial Wars and Episcopal church Married (1) November 4, 1904,Tuxedo Park, NY, Marie Louise, daughter of George Rutledge and Laura (Belden) Gibson Children Rutledge (died in infancy), son (died at birth) Mr and Mrs Goetchius were divorced 1910 Married (2) February 19, 1914, New York City, Gladys Marguerite, daughter of John P and Mary Theresa (Griffith) Kane Children Mary Theresa (Mrs Charles D Plumb), Sarah Kellogg Mrs Goetchius died 1944 Death due to cerebral palsy Survived by daughters, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs William Fahnestock

HAROLD MAR WICK MEECH, B A 1904 Born September 18, 1882, Middletown, Conn , died August 2, 1949, Red Wing, Minn Father, George Thomas Meech, president Meech & Stoddard, Inc , gram and feed business, Middletown, son of John Tyler and Rebecca Mather (Waite) Meech Mother, Ella Jean (Burr) Meech, daughter of Dr Ellsworth Burr and Maria T (Haling) Burr Yale relatives include Hugh Harbison, '14, Alexander W Harbison, '16 (brothers- in- law) Middletown High School First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, Apollo Mandolin Club With Meech & Stoddard, Inc , 1904-21 (secretary and treasurer 1906-21), vice-president Middlefield Gram & Coal Company 1916-30 and Meech Gram Company, Hartford, 1918-30, president Red Wing Milling Company 1921-49, councilman Middletown 1910-11, 1912-13, alderman 1914-15, mayor 1916-18 (president Mayors' Association of Connecticut 1917), representative Connecticut General Assembly 1919-20, member board Y M C A and City Hospital, Middle- town, Sons of Veterans, and South Congregational Church, Middletown Married January 8, 1916, Hartford, Conn , Lucy Anderson, daughter of Hugh and Annie Marshall (Phelps) Harbison Children Elizabeth Harbison (B A Smith 1939, Mrs Jefferson D Sogard), Harbison, *42 S Death due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease Buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown Survived by wife, children, one grandchild, and a sister, Mrs Arnold B Hubbard 60 Yale University Obituary Record

JOHN OLMSTED, B A 1904 Born January 2, 1882, Buffalo, N Y , died January 29, 1950, Buffalo, N Y Father, William Davenport Olmsted, president Niagara Falls Mailing Company, Buffalo, son of John and Lucinda (Davenport) Olmsted Mother, Mary Olive (Mathews) Olmsted, daughter of James E and Ann Emelia (Hill) Mathews Yale relatives include George B M Olmsted (Class of 1933), William D Olmsted, 2d, '35 Mus , Ashley W Olmsted, '38 (nephews) Hotchkiss School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Freshman and University Glee clubs, Triennial Committee, Alpha Delta Phi With Buffalo Elevator & Supply Company 1904-5, secretary Niagara Falls Milling Company 1905 until retirement about 1930, vice- president Penn Arms Gas & Oil Company, Mill Creek Gas & Oil Com- pany, Pine Creek Gas & Oil Company, Somerset Gas & Oil Company, member First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo Married December 31, 1906, Buffalo, Gertrude, daughter of Orsamus George and Elizabeth (Bates) Warren Children Elizabeth Warren (B A Smith 1931, M A 1933), Mary Louise (B A Smith 1933), John, Jr (Class of 1937 E ), James Warren (B A Harvard 1938) Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Forest Lawn Ceme- tery, Buffalo Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, a sister, Mrs Henry B Master, and a brother, George W Olmsted, '94

LOUIS MALCOM ATHA, B A 1905 Born September 28, 1882, Newark, N J , died May 15, 1950, St Louis, Mo Father, Benjamin Atha, member Benjamin Atha & Company, steel manufacturers, Newark, son of Andrew and Henrietta (Armitage) Atha Mother, Sarah Ann (Gurney) Atha, daughter of Henry Gilmore and Margaret (Hayes) Gurney Yale relatives include Herbert B Atha, '92 S , Charles G Atha, '99 S (brothers), Howell G Lord, '04, Leslie H Lord, '07 S (cousins) Hotchkiss School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Ehhu Club With Benjamin Atha & Company 1905, secretary The Titan Com- pany, Newark, 1905-15, superintendent 1908-10, treasurer 1915-17, assistant manager U S Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia, 1918-19, with Atha & Lucey, steel merchants, New York City, 1920-22, treasurer Evans-Wallower Lead Company and Evans- Wallower Zinc Company, Charleston, W Va , 1924-29, president Rhodes Perry Martin, Inc , St Louis, 1930-33, an organizer Mid- west-Radiant Corporation, St Louis, 1933, treasurer 1935-44, treasurer and secretary 1944-50, director 1947-50, member Ladue Yale College 61

(Mo ) School Board and Zoning Commission and St Peter's Episcopal Church, Ladue Married November 24, 1926, Charleston, Katharine Lloyd, daughter of David Watson and Julia Dorsey (Kaufman) Patterson Daughter Julia Patterson (Washington Univ Class of 1952) Death due to myocardial infarction Buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston Survived by wife, daughter, andabrother, AlbertH Atha, '99

GEORGE MILMINE BODMAN, B A 1905 Born June 8, 1883, Toledo, Ohio, died May 6, 1950, New York City Father, Edward Cushman Bodman, gram exporter Milmihe, Bodman & Company, New York City, son of Luther and Philena (Hawlcs) Bodman Mother, Ida Maria (Berdan) Bodman, daughter of Peter Frederick and Maria (Waite) Berdan Yale relatives include Henry M Waite (B A 1809)(great grandfather), Richard E Selden (B A 1818), James Berdan (B A 1824)(great-great uncles), Morrison R Waite (B A 1837), George C Waite (B A 1840), Richard Waite (B A 1853)(great uncles), Edward T Waite (B A 1869), John M Berdan, '96 (uncles), JeanM Berdan(MS 1943, Ph,D 1949)(cousm) The Hill School President Freshman Baseball Association, University Tennis Team, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Psi Upsilon With Cyrus J Lawrence & Sons, brokers, New York City, 1905-50 (senior partner 1911-50), treasurer Madison Square Boys' Club, head intelligence service, War Trade Board, New York City, World War I, with U S Treasury Department 1942, American Red Cross Commissioner in charge clubs in British Isles 1942-44, member Association of Ex-members of Squadron A, Newcomen Society of England, and Church of the Holy Trinity (Episcopal), New York City Married November 2, 1918, Rumson, N J , Louise, daughter of Edward Arthur Stanley and Louisa Hall (Ward) Clarke Death due to pneumonia Survived by wife and a brother, Herbert L Bodman, '05

WALTER BANNISTER CONGDON, B A 1905 Born Novem- bers, 1882, Minneapolis, Minn , died October 20, 1949, Yakima, Wash Father, Chester Adgate Congdon (B A Syracuse 1875), lawyer and mine owner, Duluth, member Minnesota State legislature, son of Rev Sylvester Laurentus Congdon and Laura Jane (Adgate) Congdon Mother, Clara Hespena (Bannister) Congdon (B S Syracuse 1875), daughter of Rev Edward Bannister and Elizabeth Georgiana (Mannenng) Bannister Yale relatives include a brother, Edward C Congdon, '08 The Hill School First division stand Freshman year, first 62 Yale University Obituary Record

colloquy appointment Junior year, second colloquy appointment Senior year, University Track Team, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Zeta Psi Attended University of Minnesota School of Mines 1905-6, engineer and mill operator Oliver Iron Mining Company, Coleraine, Minn , 1906-10, purchasing agent Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, Warren, Ariz , 1910-13, director 1917-31, engaged in various mining enterprises in Duluth 1913-49 (president Camsteo Mining Company, iron ore, 1941-45), president Penokee Iron Company 1921-49, Marengo Development Company 1930-49, and Congdon Orchards, Inc , 1932-49, vice-president Duluth Symphony Orchestra Association 1938-43, director North Star council Boy Scouts of America, member American Mining Congress, American Geographical Society, American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, American Museum of Natural History, Masonic order, and St Paul's Episcopal Church, Duluth Married November 4, 1914, Duluth, Jessie Woodward, daughter of Guilford Graham and Caroline Eliza (Woodward) Hartley Children Chester Adgate, 2d (Class of 1938), Guilford Graham Hartley (Class of 1941), John (Bowdoin Class of 1943), Clara Bannister (Mrs Stephen Lee Spencer), Caroline Woodward (Mrs Robert Francis Gerber) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Forest Hill Ceme- tery, Duluth Survived by wife, children, six grandchildren, mother, three sisters, Mrs Harry Chittenden Dudley, Miss Elisabeth M Congdon, and Mrs Hubert Hart d'Autremont, and a brother, Robert Congdon, '21

WILLIAM THEODORE DARBY, B A 1905 Born June 14, 1877, Stayner, Ontario, died July 4, 1949, San Diego, Calif Father, George Lestock Darby, city clerk Stayner, son of George and Mary (Baker) Darby Mother, Agnes (Curts) Darby, daughter of Michael and Mary (Lever) Curts Centenary Junior College Second dispute appointment Junior year, dissertation appointment Senior year Instructor in English and Greek Williston Academy 1905-6, M A Columbia 1907, instructor m English University of Washington 1907-12, assistant professor 1912-18, on leave of absence 1918-20, engaged in farming in Washington 1920-22, professor English literature University of Redlands 1922-25, farmer in Chula Vista, Calif , 1926-30, investigator California State Social Welfare Department 1930-40, supervisor civilian personnel 11th Naval District, San Diego, 1940 until retirement 1946, member Philological Association of the State of Washington, Washington State Educational Association, and Congregational church, Redlands, Calif Married July 11, 1906, Pownal, Vt , Inez, daughter of John Yale College 63

Wilber and Frances Louise (Mooar) Combs Children William Theodore, Jr (died 1925), Francis Combs (B A Pomona 1931, M A Umv Oregon 1932) Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Green-Wood Ceme- tery, Brooklyn, N Y Survived by wife, one son, and a granddaughter

FRED ELIJAH GLEASON, B A 1905 Born March 17, 1883, Montpelier, Vt , died December 2, 1949, Hartford, Conn Father, Louis Pomeroy Gleason, a merchant in Montpelier, son of Huzziel and Emily H. Richardson (Hinds) Gleason Mother, Anne Louise (Timothy) Gleason, daughter of Helan B and Anne Louise (Smith) Timothy J Williston Academy Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club Harvard Law School 1905-7, studied law in office of Edward H Deavitt, Montpelier, 1907-9, lawyer in Montpelier 1909-49, city prosecutor 1908-12, city grand juror 1911-14, state's attorney Wash- ington County 1914-17, and city attorney 1943-45, member Vermont State Legislature 1948-49, chairman Montpelier Board of School Commissioners 1935-40, secretary Montpelier Board of Trade 1909-10, president Yale Alumni Association of Vermont 1939-49, member Washington County Bar Association (secretary 1910-15), Vermont Bar Association (treasurer 1920-25, president 1933-34), American Bar Association, Vermont Board of Education, Board of Civil Authority, National Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier Married October 3, 1911, Cambridge, Mass , Letitia Elizabeth Butcher (Radcliffe 1904-5), daughter of Charles and Mary Elisabeth (Laramy) Butcher Children Letitia Elizabeth (Bennington 1934-35, Mrs Edward Hopkmson, 3d), Frederick Carlisle, '39, John Tower (died in infancy), Esther Tower (B A Vassar 1942, Mrs David Gelston Nichols), Pnscilla Warren (Vassar 1944-45), the wife of Charles W Carter, '43 E Death due to adenocarcmoma Buried in Green Mountain Ceme- tery, Montpelier Survived by wife, four children, and five grandchildren

EDWARD VICTOR HARD WAY, B A 1905 Born October 30, 1877, Winston, W Va , died January 9, 1950, Houston, Texas Father, John Ellison Hardway, farmer and lumber dealer, Zela, W Va , son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Sparks) Hardway Mother, Angelme Margaret (Morris) Hardway, daughter of William H and Nancy Ann (Chapman) Morris 64 Yale University Obituary Record

B A National Normal University 1902, teacher Fayetteville Academy 1902-3 Entered Yale Senior year, high oration appointment LL B Washington and Lee University 1906, lawyer in Durant, Okla , 1906, Dallas, Texas, 1906-8, Houston 1908-50 (partner Hardway, Harwell, Smith & Gwm at time of death), member Houston, Texas State, and American Bar associations, Masonic order, and Second Presbyterian Church, Houston Married January 12, 1918, San Antonio, Texas, Velma Scott Hall Austin (B S Centenary Coll [Tenn ] 1899), daughter of John Madison and Mary (Person) Hall Son Edward Victor, Jr (B S Massachusetts Inst Technology 1941, M A 1947) Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Forest Park Ceme- tery, Houston Survived by wife, son, two stepsons, Francis Marion Austin and Dwight Hall Austin, two grandchildren, a sister, Miss Leonora Hardway, and a brother, Chapman Hardway

CHARLES LANIER LAWRANCE, B A 1905 Born September 30, 1882, Lenox, Mass , died June 24, 1950, East Islip, N Y Father, Francis C Lawrance (Ph B 1877) Mother, Sarah Eggleston (Lanier) Lawrance Yale relatives include an uncle, Thomas G Lawrance (B A 1884) Groton School Fencing Team four years (captain Senior year), treasurer Fencing Club Freshman year, secretary Sophomore year, second football team, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Yale University Dramatic Association, Psi Upsilon, Wolf's Head Partner B L M Motor Car Company, New York City, 1905-8, traveled abroad 1908-9, architectural student Ecole des Beaux Arts 1909-13 (diplome 1913), consulting engineer Healey & Company, New York City, 1914, engineer, specializing in development aircraft engines since 1915, founder, and president Lawrance Aero Engine Corporation, New York City, 1916-23, vice-president Wright Aeronautical Corpora- tion, Paterson, N J , 1923-24, general manager 1924-25, president 1925-28, vice-president Curtiss-Wright Corporation 1928-30, established Lawrance Engineering & Research Corporation, Linden, N J , 1930, president and chief engineer 1930-44, chairman board and director of engine research 1944-46 (firm became Lawrance Aero- nautical Corporation 1943), chief engineer and chairman board Power Industries, Inc , 1946 until retirement 1948, designer Wright "Whirl- wind" air cooled plane engine 1927 (awarded Collier trophy and Cresson medal), chairman board Curtiss Reid Aircraft Company, Ltd , president C. L Lawrance Corporation (real estate), Lawrance Farms Corporation, Emergency Shelter (New York City), Nitralloy Corpora- tion, Voice of the Sky, Inc , Teterboro Airport, Inc , Islip Airport, and Fuel Oil Motors Corporation, M A Yale 1927, Harvard 1929, Yale College 65

Sc D Tufts 1928, Chevalier Legion of Honor (France), Ensign New York Naval Militia 1916-17, honorary trustee South Side Hospital, Bay Shore, N Y , fellow Royal Aeronautical Society of England and Insti- tute of Aeronautical Sciences (president 1934-35), honorary member Sigma Xi, member Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America (president 1931-32, awarded medal 1927), Society of Automotive Engineers, Manufac- turers Aircraft Association (treasurer 1925), National Aeronautical Association, and St Mark's Episcopal Church, New York City Married August 3, 1910, Mount Kisco, N Y , Emily Margaret Gordon, daughter of Rev Morgan Dix, D D , and Emily Woolsey (Soutter) Dix. Children Emily (Mrs Joseph Sherman Frehnghuysen, Jr ), Margaret Lamer Lawrance Cochran Frost (Mrs Winston Frost), Francis Cooper (B A Harvard 1939) Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Locust Valley (NY) Cemetery Survived by wife, children, seven grandchildren, and a half sister, Princess Andre Poniatowski

JOHN RYAN WASHBURN, B A 1905 Born August 3, 1883, Brooklyn, N Y , died May 31, 1950, Baltimore, Md Father, Rev Henry Homer Washburn (Brown 1855-57, grad Union Theological Seminary 1875), minister Christ Church, Oyster Bay, N Y , son of Henry Stevenson and Maria (Loring) Washburn Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Ryan) Washburn, daughter of John and Susan (Keener) Ryan Yale relatives include a nephew, Henry S Washburn, Jr , '36 S St Paul's School, Garden City, N Y University Football and Hockey teams Teacher in London, England, 1905-6, traveled m France 1906, engineer New York Telephone Company 1906-7 and chief clerk engineering department 1907-8, teacher mathematics Trenton (N J ) High School 1908-10, tutor in French Hargrove School 1910-12, private tutor French, Latin, and mathematics Brooklyn, Conn , 1912-18, teacher Huntmgton School, Boston, 1918-19, teacher French and Latin Donaldson School, Ilchester, Md , 1919-22, in charge Latin department Boys' Latin School, Baltimore, 1922-27, teacher of French City College, Baltimore, 1927-50, author The Lay of the Land, sergeant Connecticut State Guard, member Episcopal church Married (1) March 16, 1908, Oyster Bay, Claire Desiree, daughter of Francois and Leontme Isaline Lelievre Son Henry Homer, 2d (B A Univ Maryland 1932) Mrs Washburn died 1919 Married (2) September 12, 1924, Baltimore, Katherine Elizabeth, daughter of Herman Dedrick and Christina (Diffenbach) Wehland Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Meadowridge 66 Yale University Obituary Record

Memorial Park, Baltimore Survived by wife, son, a grandchild, a sister, Miss May Washburn, and a brother, Henry S. Washburn (Class of 1907).

WALTER PRESTON ARMSTRONG, B.A 1906 Born October 26, 1884, Pittsboro, Miss.; died July 27, 1949, Memphis, Tenn. Father, George Wells Armstrong, a merchant in Coffeeville, Miss , son of Alexander and Nancy Ann (Wells) Armstrong. Mother, May (Cruthirds) Armstrong, daughter of Bartholomew and Hester Amelia (Brown) Cruthirds Yale relatives include a half brother, Frank B Armstrong, '18. Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tenn.; University of Mississippi 1901-2. First division stand Freshman year, dispute appointment Junior year, third Henry James Ten Eyck Prize and DeForest Prize, LL B. magna cum laude 1908 (Townsend prize Senior year, editor Yale Law Journal, Yale debating team, Corbey Court). Lawyer in Memphis 1908-49 (partner Armstrong, McCadden, Allen, Braden & Goodman at time of death); city attorney 1920-24, special assistant to U.S Attorney General under Selective Service Act, member U S. War Department Advisory Committee on Military Justice, president Memphis and Shelby County Bar Association 1932- 33, Tennessee Bar Association 1936, American Bar Association 1941- 42 (an editor Journal 1934-49), Federal Board of Legal Examiners, and Yale Club of Memphis 1920-24; LL.D. Boston University 1942 and Southwestern College 1943, on general advisory council Yale Law School Association and American Law Institute; contributed to legal journals, honorary member Canadian Bar Association, member Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Tennessee Historical Commission, Academy of Political Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science, and First Methodist Church, Memphis. Married November 12, 1912, Memphis, Irma Lewis, daughter of St John and Ada Elizabeth (McCrosky) Waddell. Son Walter Preston, Jr (B A Harvard 1938, LL.B 1941) Death due to cardiac failure. Buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis Survived by wife, son, two half sisters, Mrs Louise Armstrong Taylor and Miss Margaret Bates Armstrong, and a half brother, George Wells Armstrong, Jr.

EDWARD MACFUNN BIDDLE, B.A 1906 Born May 29, 1886, Carlisle, Pa ; died ^flarch 13, 1950, Ardmore, Pa Father, Edward William Biddle (B.A. Dickinson 1870, M A. 1873), lawyer in Carlisle, son of Edward Macfunn and Julia Anna (Watts) Biddle Mother, Gertrude Dale (Bosler) Biddle, LL.D , Yale College 67

L H D (B A Wilson 1875), daughter of John Herman and Mary J (Kirk) Bosler Yale relatives include Elihu Spencer (B A 1746) (great-great-grandfather), Charles P Biddle (B A 1866) (uncle) Dickinson College Preparatory School, Dickinson College 1901-4 Entered Yale Junior year, second colloquy appointment Junior year LL B University of Pennsylvania 1909, with M Hampton Todd, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1909 and S J Clark & C L McKeehan 1910-15, practiced independently 1916-21, general counsel Insurance Company of North America and its subsidiaries 1921 until retirement 1949 (vice-president 1943-49), First Lieutenant Ordnance Reserve Corps, and Field Artillery in World War I, trustee Dickinson College and Irwin Memorial and Retirement Funds, on board of managers City Parks Association, Philadelphia, founder, and president Yale Club of Philadelphia 1920-22, member Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and American Bar associations, and Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal), Bryn Mawr, Pa Married (1) May 20, 1922, Bryn Mawr, Anna Hope, daughter of Richard Colgate and Maida (Wade) Dale Children Lydia Spencer (Benmngton Coll Class of 1948), the wife of Douglass M Allen, Jr , '39, Edward Macfunn, 3d, Richard Colgate Dale (Umv Pennsylvania Class of 1952) Mr and Mrs Biddle were divorced 1933 Married (2) December 18, 1948, Philadelphia, Mary Robinson (The Comtesse de Borchgrave df Altena), daughter of Percy Morris and Ruth (Worthington) Robinson Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Church of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr Survived by wife, children, a granddaughter, and mother

HAROLD WILLIAM CONDE, B A 1906 Born October 4, 1884, Watertown, N Y , died March 25, 1950, near Hamlet, N C Father, William Wheeler Conde, founder and president W W Conde Hardware Company, Watertown Mother, Catherine Elizabeth (Clute) Conde, daughter of Eleazer and Jane (Pollard) Clute Yale relatives include a brother-in-law, Nathan F George, '10 Hotchkiss School Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Delta Kappa Ep- silon With W W Conde Hardware Company 1906-50 (vice-president 1911-18, president 1918-50), vice-president Watertown Savings Bank, chairman board Watertown National Bank 1931-50, trustee House of the Good Samaritan, Henry Keep Home (vice-president 1943-50), Flower Memorial Library, and City Hospital (secretary-treasurer), president New York State Association of Hardware Jobbers, member National Hardware Association and Masonic order, trustee First Pres- byterian Church, Watertown 68 Yale University Obituary Record

Married June 10, 1911, Danbury, Conn , Grace Caroline, daughter of Nathan Munroe Flower and Flora Grace (Downs) George Son William Wheeler (B A Cornell 1938) Death due to a heart attack Buried in Brookside Cemetery, Water town Survived by wife, son, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Theodore E Knowlton

SIDNEY BRADFORD CURTIS, B A 1906 Born May 7, 1885, Brooklyn, N Y , died May 25, 1950, Brooklyn, N Y Father, Sidney Wright Curtis, partner Curtis & Romaine, bankers and brokers, Brooklyn Mother, Grace (Kerswell) Curtis Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute First colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Class Swimming Team, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Beta Theta Pi With Kissel, Kinnicut & Company, brokers, New York City, 1906-17, partner Rhoades, Williams & Company, brokers, New York City, 1917 until retirement 1938, ambulance driver with French Army and Captain Air Service in World War I, member New York Stock Ex- change Unmarried Died following a long illness Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by no immediate relatives

EDWIN ROGERS EMBREE, B A 1906 Born July 31, 1883, Osceola, Nebr , died February 21, 1950, New York City Father, William Norris Embree, telegrapher with Union Pacific Railroad Company, son of Norris Jones Embree Mother, Laura Ann (Fee) Embree, daughter of Rev John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College, and Matilda (Hamilton) Fee Yale relatives include two nephews, Norris Embree (Ph D 1934), William Dean Embree, Jr , !37 Hillhouse High School, New Haven First division stand Fresh- man year, dissertation appointment Junior year, first dispute appointment Senior year, Freshman and University Mandolin clubs, Apollo and University Banjo clubs, manager Senior Debating Team, member Zeta Psi M A 1914 Reporter New York Sun 1906-7, associate editor Yale Alumni Weekly 1907-9, alumni editor 1909-11, with Clarence S. Day, Jr , '96, an organizer Class Secretaries Bureau 1910, director 1910-17, alumni registrar and executive assistant to secretary Yale University 1911-17, secretary Bureau of Appointments 1914-17, secretary Rocke- feller Foundation, New York City, 1917-23, director Division of Studies 1924-27, vice-president 1927, vice-president and director Yale College 69 Division of Human Biology, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Chicago, 1928-30, president 1930-48, president Liberian Foundation, New York City, 1948-49, consultant John Hay Whitney Foundation and Greenwood Foun- dations, New York City, 1949-50, Litt D University of Hawaii 1936, LL D University of Iowa 1941, Howard University 1948, specialized in race relations, cultural anthropology, and Negro educational and sociological problems, author Brown America, Prospecting for Heav- en, A New School in American Samoa, Indians of the Americas, Ameri- can Negroes, Brown Americans; Thirteen Against the Odds, and many articles and monographs, coauthor Human Biology and Racial Welfare, Our Children, Island India Goes to School, The Collapse of Cotton Tenancy, Investment in People, the Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, trustee Sarah Lawrence College, Radcliffe College, and Fisk Univer- sity, member Mayor's Commission on Race Relations, Chicago, 1943- 48, member executive committee World Citizens Association 1940, member committee First International Congress on Mental Hygiene 1930, organizer American Council on Race Relations and Bureau of In- tercultural Education, president Association of Alumni Secretaries of American Universities (now American Alumni Council) 1914-15, a founder and chairman board of trustees Roosevelt College Married July 16, 1907, New Haven, Conn , Kate Scott, daughter of James and Annie Elizabeth (Redding) Clark Children John Fee (B A Univ Hawaii 1931, M A Umv Toronto 1934, Ph D Univ Chicago 1937), Edwma Rogers (Univ Hawaii 1929-30, 1932-34, Swarthmore 1930-32, Mrs Edward Clifton Devereux, Jr ), Catherine Day (B A Swarthmore 1941, M Ed Graduate Teachers Coll of Wmnetka 1945), the wife of Arthur Lee Harris (Ph D 1942) Death due to a heart attack Ashes interred at family summer home, Lake Rosseau, Ontario Survived by wife, children (son died December 22, 1950), four grandchildren, one of whom, Clare Embree, died December 22, 1950, two sisters, Mrs Nellie Embree Hill and Mrs Ida Embree Miles, and two brothers, Royal H Embree and William Dean Embree, '02

HAROLD MANSEL FINLEY, B A 1906 Born July 21, 1882, Quaker City, Ohio; died March 28, 1950, Los Angeles, Calif Father, Samuel Judson Finley (B S Muskingum Coll 1877), superintendent schools Oskaloosa and Knoxville, Iowa, son of Daniel and Nancy (Roe) Finley Mother, Laura Ellen (Johnson) Finley, daughter of Thomas Mansel and Margaret (Irwin) Johnson Oskaloosa High School, Ph B William Penn College 1904 First dispute appointment at Yale, editor Intercollegiate Sociological work New York Federation of Churches 1906-7, press agent Charity Organization Society, New York City, 1907-8, 70 Yale University Obituary Record on staff Bisbee (Ariz ) Daily Review 1908, on editorial staff The Times, Los Angeles, 1909 until retirement 1948 (real-estate and financial editor 1915-18, editor Farm and Garden magazine section 1918-37, editorial writer 1937-48) Married (1) April 1, 1912, San Diego, Jessica Marshall, daughter of Oliver P Dennis Mr and Mrs Fmley were divorced 1928 Married (2) October 17, 1932, Yuma, Ariz , Irene, daughter of Ivar Thompson and Althea (Sangstad) Dahl Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Hollywood Ceme- tery, Los Angeles Survived by wife, a sister, Miss Margaret Finley, and two brothers, Victor Paden Finley and Halleck Fmley

ALEXANDER REX FLINN, B A 1906 Born February 5, 1885, Pittsburgh, Pa , died May 29, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa Father, William Flinn, founder and president Booth & Flmn, Ltd , contractors, Pittsburgh, son of John and Mary (Hamilton) FUnn Mother, Nancy (Galbraith) Flinn, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Early) Galbraith Yale relatives include George H FUnn, '97 S , Ralph E Flmn (Class of 1900 S ) (brothers), Simon T Patterson, '07 (brother-in-law), George H Flinn, Jr , '26 S , Lawrence Flinn (Class of 1932 S ), George R Patterson, '46 (nephews) Hotchkiss School University Football Team, University Hockey Team (captain Junior and Senior years), University Track Team, Alpha Delta Phi Timekeeper Booth & Flmn, Ltd , 1907-8, president Freehold Lumber Company, secretary-treasurer Pittsburgh Lumber Company and Duquesne Lumber Company 1911-22, treasurer 1922-24, president 1925-28, partner Braemar Supply Company, became secretary- treasurer Red Square Company, Inc , manufacturers and dealers in office appliances, New York City, in 1915, secretary-treasurer Booth & Flmn Company, contractors, 1926-27, president 1929-50, Captain Field Artillery m World War I, director Western Pennsyl- vania Hospital and Pittsburgh Newsboys Home, on Pittsburgh Board of Education, secretary Yale Club of Pittsburgh 1910-11, vice- president 1922-23, president 1930-33, chairman for western Pennsyl- vania National Yale Alumni Placement Service, Inc , member National Economy League and Calvary Church (Episcopal), Pittsburgh Married November 6, 1915, Boston, Eleanor Bradley Children William, 2d (Class of 1941, killed in service 1944), Mary Louise (B A Vassar 1939, Mrs Henry Jerome Stringer, Jr ) Mrs Flinn died 1947 Survived by daughter, two grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs John Wheeler Lawrence and Mrs Simon Truby Patterson, and a brother, William Arthur Flinn Yale College 71

MASON ANTHONY FREEMAN, JR , B A 1906 Born January 17, 1885, Bradford, Pa , died September 8, 1949, Albany, N Y Father, Mason Anthony Freeman, accountant National Transit Company, Bradford, son of Isaac and Eurilla Freeman Mother, Imogene Scott (Eaton) Freeman, daughter of Charles and Lavma Eaton Bradford High School Honors of the third rank and second dispute appointment Junior year, dissertation appointment Senior year, Freshman Mandolin Club Bookkeeper Prairie Oil & Gas Company, Independence, Kans , 1906-7 and engineer 1907-10, manager Scranton branch Price & Lucas Cider and Vinegar Company 1910-24, secretary-treasurer and sales manager (West Virginia) Vernon D Price Vinegar Com- pany, Inc , Pittsburgh, 1925-26, manager Suburban Laundry Com- pany, White Plains, N Y., 1927-31, cashier and accountant Fair- chester Bakers, Inc , White Plains, 1932-38, with Summerbell Roof Structures, Los Angeles, 1939-42, auditor shipbuilding division Consolidated Steel Company, Ltd , Wilmington, Calif , 1943-47, an artist and writer he founded Society of Independent Artists (exhibited in annual shows), and contributed verse to magazines under name Mason Junior, member Masonic order and Church of the Ascension (Episcopal), Bradford Married March 4, 1922, Huntington, W Va , Sallie Spriegel Patrick Mr and Mrs Freeman were divorced 1930 Death due to injuries received in an automobile accident Ashes scattered Survived by two sisters, Mrs Frank P Blackman and Mrs Alvah Harlow Atwood

WILSON SHAW McCLINTOCK, B A 1906 Born January 4, 1882, Pittsburgh, Pa , died May 9, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa Father, Jonas Roup McClmtock of Pittsburgh, son of Jonas Roup and Rachel Ball (Graham) McClmtock Mother, Elizabeth Carswell (Arbuthnot) McClmtock, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Shaw) Arbuthnot Yale relatives include Thomas S Arbuthnot, '94 (uncle), Charles Arbuthnot, 3d, '12 (cousin) The Hill School Freshman Football Team, coach 1909 Fresh- man Football Team, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Fence Orator, Class historian, Alpha Delta Phi -" Partner Cook & McClmtock, real estate, Pittsburgh, 1906-10, vice-president E J Thompson Company, automobile construction, Pittsburgh, 1910-14 and manager Stevens-Duryea department 1915- 17, vice-president National Surety Company, Pittsburgh, special representative Moore, Leonard & Lynch, brokers, Pittsburgh, 1930- 72 Yale University Obituary Record

50, State senator Pennsylvania 1922-26, First Lieutenant Air Service in World War I (in Mejise- Argonne offensive), trustee Pittsburgh Hos- pital and Pittsburgh Newsboys Home, president Yale Club of Pitts- burgh 1924-26, member Shady Side Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh Unmarried Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Homewood Ceme- tery , Pittsburgh Survived by a brother, Charles Arbuthnot McClintock

GEORGE BRADDOCK OGLE, B A 1906 Born September 14, 1882, Albert Lea, Minn , died October 9, 1949, Pasadena, Calif Father, George Alden Ogle (LL B Illinois Coll of Law 1899), president George A Ogle & Company, publishers, Chicago, son of Rev Joseph C Ogle and Annie (Mast) Ogle Mother, Janie (Braddock) Ogle, daughter of John M Braddock Prepared privately Second dispute appointment Junior year, first dispute appointment Senior year, Apollo Choir, awarded Yale Record owl charm, composed Yale Memories Partner George A Ogle & Company 1906-32 (manager 1918-32), director Chicago Trust Company, owner with son Ogle Oil Company, Lexington, Ky , and subsidiary Chicago Engineering Company, research and manufacturing experimental munitions, Pasadena, 1943- 48, owner Ogle, Inc , aluminum furniture, Pasadena, 1945-49, Second Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps in World War I, member First Methodist Church, Pasadena Married (1) September 24, 1906, Chicago, Ruth Caroline, daughter of George Herbert and Myrtilla Alice (Colbert) Jones Mr and Mrs Ogle were divorced 1917 Married (2) January 7, 1920, Chicago, Elsie, daughter of William Zoller Sons Robert Walter, George Alden, 2d (Class of 1946), William Charlton Mrs Ogle died 1942 Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Forest Lawn Mauso- leum, Glendale, Calif Survived by sons and five grandchildren

ARTHUR WERNER RINKE, B A 1906 Born September 11, 1884, New York City, died July 31, 1949, Old Greenwich, Conn Father, Emil Rmke, partner Edelhoff & Rinke, commission merchants, New York City, son of Isaac and Caroline Rinke Mother, Grace Trend (Berliner) Rinke, daughter of Henry and Anna (Rust) Berliner Columbia Grammar School, New York City Dissertation appointment and honors of the third rank Junior year, oration appointment Senior year LL B Columbia 1909, lawyer, specializing in tax and corpora- Yale College 73

tion law, New York City, 1909 until retirement 1948, assistant to chief counsel Central Railroad Company of New Jersey 1909-14, member New York Bar Association, Railroad Club of New York, and First Con- gregational Church, Old Greenwich Married May 10, 1911, Brooklyn, N Y , Ida Scholes, daughter of Arthur Bunker and Susan Wyckoff (Scholes) Raymond Children Grace Scholes (Mrs Peter Albert Cygan), Barbara (Mrs Stoddard Daniels Nelson), Helen Raymond, and Elizabeth (died 1918) Death due to carcinoma Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by wife, three children, mother, and a brother, George Raymond Rmke

HENRY FRANKLIN WHITCOMB, JR , B A 1906 Born May 15, 1884, Milwaukee, Wis , died June 20, 1950, Milwaukee, Wis Father, Henry Franklin Whitcomb, president Wisconsin Central Railroad Company, son of Henry Franklin Whitcomb, M D , and Maria Lydia (Torrey) Whitcomb Mother, Lovisa Margaret (Clock) Whitcomb, daughter of James Barnet and Eliza Jane (Simmons) Clock Milwaukee Academy Freshman Baseball Team, Yale Corin- thian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta Phi, Scroll and Key Secretary Eastern Wisconsin Railway & Lighting Company, Fond du Lac, 1906-8 and treasurer in Milwaukee 1908, vice-president and treasurer Wisconsin Electric Railway Company, Fond du Lac, 1908- 14, president and treasurer Whitcomb & Company, investments, Mil- waukee, 1922-43 and Richardson Ball Bearing Skate Company, Chi- cago, 1939 until retirement April, 1950, Captain Cavalry World War I (overseas 1918-19), member First Church of Christ Scientist, Mil- waukee Unmarried Death due to fibrous myocarditis Buried in Forest Home Ceme- tery, Milwaukee Survived by four sisters, Mrs Claire W Hickcox, Mrs Anne W Johnson, Mrs Lillian W Fox, and Miss Margaret Whitcomb, and a brother, Edwin R Whitcomb, '03

RUMSEY CAMPBELL, B A 1907 Born August 28, 1886, Chicago, 111 , died September 17, 1949, Carmel, Calif Father, Treat Campbell (B A 1878) Mother, Ada Williams (Rumsey) Campbell Yale relatives include Coler Campbell, '00 S , Nathaniel Wheeler, '14 (cousins) Hopkins Grammar School Second colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years Clerk Continental & Commercial National Bank, Chicago, 1908- 74 Yale University Obituary Record

11, assistant auditor 1911-14, bond salesman C F. Childs & Com- pany, Chicago, 1914-16, private Illinois National Guard (on Mexican border 1916), commissioned Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery Re- serve Corps, May 1917, assigned Officers Training Camp, Fort Snell- mg, promoted Captain August 1917, instructor Fort Snellmg, graduate School of Fire, Fort Sill, May 1918, trained in France with 125th Field Artillery, overseas September 1918 until mustered out January 1919 (battery commander and regimental adjutant), applied for commission in regular Army, assigned to Field Artillery School, Camp Zachary Taylor, 1919-20 (promoted Captain July 1920), stationed Camp Henry 1920-21, Camp Stotsenberg, Philippine Islands, 1922-24, Fort Sam Houston 1924, Fort Sill 1924-25, instructor in military history R O T C Iowa State College r925-30, instructor North Carolina National Guard 1930-34, transferred to Fort Sill 1934-40 (promoted Major 1935, appointed adjutant Field Artillery School 1936), professor military science and tactics R O.T C University of Utah 1940-43 and 1944-46 (promoted Lieutenant Colonel September 1940 and tem- porary Colonel December 1941), commanding officer Camp Haan 1943-44, retired by operation of law 1946, member Episcopal church Married May 5, 1934, Raleigh, N C , Elsie, daughter of Harry Clifford and Harriet (McCord) Allen Death due to myocardial infarction Buried in Graceland Ceme- tery, Chicago Survived by wife and mother (died June 7, 1951)

BARZILLA PARKS GOODEN, B A 1907 Born March 18, 1882, Willow Grove, Del , died April 2, 1950, Brooklyn, N Y Father, William Tennessee Gooden, justice of the peace, Willow Grove, son of Thomas and Ellen (Marvel) Gooden Mother, Catherine Lowber (Cooper) Gooden, daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Broadway) Cooper Hopkins Grammar School Assistant to president New Netherland Bank, New York City, 1908-17, assistant secretary Mercantile Bank of the Americas, Inc , New York City, 1917-19, assistant manager Mercantile Bank of Brazil, Inc , Pernambuco, 1919-20, treasurer United Jewelers, Inc , New York City, 1920-21, comptroller Fordham Savings Bank, New York City, 1921-25, secretary Church Lane Savings Bank, Brooklyn, 1925- 30, secretary City Savings Bank, Brooklyn, 1930-45, president 1945- 50, trustee 1932-50, treasurer Ridgefield Lakes Association, Inc , 1947-50, member American Institute of Banking, Brooklyn and New York State Chambers of Commerce, and Masonic order, attended St Paul's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn Married (1) June 27, 1910, New Haven, Conn , Ruth Wing, daughter of Charles and Ida Louise (Benjamin) Ellis Son Ralph Ellis Yale College 75

Mrs Gooden died 1933 Married (2) June 16, 1934, Brooklyn, Mildred Frances, daughter of Frank O and Ella Victoria (Newton) Beuerman Death due to sarcoma Buried m Odd Fellows Cemetery, Cam- den, Del Survived by wife, son, and two sisters, Mrs Eugene Creed and Miss Frances Louisa Gooden

NATHAN EVERETT LINCOLN, B A 1907 Born October 9, 1&82, Waterloo, N Y , died August 24, 1949, Walton, N Y Father, Albert Hastings Lincoln, bank clerk, Walton, son of Giles H and Rhoda M (Beebe) Lincoln Mother, Charlane (Pierson) Lincoln, daughter of Robert and Emily (Smith) Pierson Walton High School Two-year honors and dissertation appointment Junior year, oration appointment Senior year Teacher Overlook Military Academy, Norwalk, Conn , 1907-9, vice-principal Walton High School 1909-11, principal Northville (N Y ) High School 1911-17, Montgomery (N Y ) High School 1917-18, and Garfield (N J ) High School 1918 until retirement 1944, director Garfield Y M C A 1926-44 (president board 1942-44), member Na- tional Education Association, elder First Presbyterian Church, Gar- field, 1926-44, trustee First Congregational Church, Walton Married June 28, 1911, Deposit, N Y , Hazel Maude, daughter of Charles Anson and Jennie Mabel (Beebe) White Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Walton Cemetery Survived by wife

EDWIN CYRUS MILLER, B A 1907 Born December 16, 1878, Baltimore, Ohio, died August 2, 1949, Superior, Nebr Father, Benjamin Franklin Miller, a farmer in Baltimore, son of David and Frances (Geil) Miller Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Brandt) Miller, daughter of Jacob R and Keziah Ann (Thompson) Brandt B S National Normal University 1904, B A Lebanon 1906 Entered Yale Senior year, philosophical oration appointment, Phi Beta Kappa Ph D 1910 Instructor botany Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science 1910-11, instructor in plant physiology 1911-17, associate 1917-19, professor 1919-45, professor emeritus 1945-49, assistant plant physiologist Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station 1911-20, plant physiologist 1919-45, author "A Physiological Study of the Germination of Heleanthus Annuus", Miller's Plant Physi- ology, A Physiological Study of the Winter Wheat Plant at Different Stages of its Development, The Rise of Abraham Lincoln, contributed to scientific journals, president American Society of Plant Physiolo- 76 Yale University Obituary Record

gists (member editorial board), fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, honorary member Alpha Zeta, member Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Botanical Society of Ameri- ca, trustee and elder First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, Kans Married August 3, 1911, Manhattan, Zina Delia Slye (B S Lebanon 1906), daughter of Joseph and Abigail Josephine (Jordan) Slye Children Josephine Elizabeth (B S Kansas State 1936, M S Cornell 1938, Mrs Philip Alden Henderson), Jordan Yale, '42 Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried m Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, and five sisters, Mrs Dolly Ann Ensor, Mrs Bessie Sullivan, Mrs Eudella Tussing, Mrs Nellie Sherwood, and Mrs May Morehead

ERNEST WILSON SHELDON, B A 1907 Born November 3, 1881, Portland, Ont , died June 14, 1950, Edmonton, Alta Father, Rev Samuel Sheldon (cert McMaster Univ 1888), minister Cornwall, Ont , son of Samuel and Sarah (Wilson) Sheldon Mother, Williametta (Stafford) Sheldon, daughter of William Harrison and Catherine (Gilbert) Stafford Athens (Ont ) High School, B A McGill 1904, M A 1905 Entered Yale Senior year, DeForest Mathematical Prize and philosophical oration appointment, Phi Beta Kappa Ph D 1910 (instructor mathematics 1907-9, Bible study secretary Y MCA 1910) Head department mathematics University of Alberta 1910-47 (assistant professor 1910-12, professor 1912-47, professor emeritus 1947-50), acting professor mathematics Acadia University 1949-50, author "Critical Revision of deHaan's Tables of Definite Integrals", in charge military Y M C A Sarcee Camp, Calgary, and chairman military Y M C A , Edmonton, in World War I, member Sigma Xi, American Mathematical Society, American Journal of Mathematics, and All Saints' Cathedral (Anglican), Edmonton Married December 23, 1910, New York City, Helen, daughter of William and Sophia (Ruppert) McHugh Daughter Ruth Eleanor (B Sc Uruv Alberta 1936, Mrs William John Sellhorn). Death due to thrombosis Buried in Edmonton Cemetery Sur- vived by wife, daughter, two grandchildren, and mother

ALFRED LEON STOWE, B A 1907 Born March 30, 1879, New Britain, Conn , died May 16, 1950, Saratoga Springs, N Y Father, Edgar Lewis Stowe, a power engineer in New Britain and Southington, Conn , son of Charles Stowe Mother, Anna Caroline (Ebert) Stowe, daughter of William C and Caroline (Sinderman) Ebert Lewis High School, Southington Yale College 77

Instructor Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, N Y , 1906-7 and Collegiate School, New York City, 1907, cost man for manufacturing firm Plamville, Conn , 1908-10, assistant manager sales department Bobbs-Mernll Company, publishers, Indianapolis, 1910-13 and 1914-18, with Russel M Leeds Company, advertising agents, Indianapolis, 1913-14, office manager and auditor Mitchellite Explosives Company, Dayton, Ohio, 1919, credit manager Russell & Erwm Manufacturing Company, New Britain, 1919-20, assistant to president Arden-Bennett Corporation, manufacturers, New York City, 1919-21, assistant treasurer Commonweal Syndicate, New York City, 1921, accountant Austin, Nichols & Company, Inc , New Haven, 1921- 22, teacher mathematics and science Drury High School, North Adams, Mass , 1922-31, proprietor Daffodil Tea House, West Hartford, Conn , 1931, teacher civics and problems of American democracy Lewis High School 1932-47, bursar St Faith's School, Saratoga Springs, 1947-50, office manager Army Ordnance, Cincinnati and In- dianapolis, June-October 1918, Field Artillery Officer Candidate School October-November 1918, member Masonic order, vestryman St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Southington Married (1) July 19, 1910, Indianapolis, Augusta Verna, daughter of Louis H and Augusta Mary (Klussman) Peehl Son Thomas Dwight (B S Massachusetts Inst Technology 1949) Mrs Stowe died 1943. Married (2) April 10, 1944, New York City, Gertrude Jewella Beatrice, daughter of John B and Gertrude (Holtan) Haven Death due to infarction of myocardium Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Southington Survived by wife, son, and a brother, Arthur E Stow

THOMAS ALLEN TULLY, B A 1907 Born February 15, 1886, Stapleton, N Y , died May 13, 1950, New Haven, Conn Father, Thomas A Tully, collector for George Bechtel Brewing Company, Stapleton Mother, Annie Elizabeth (Dougherty) Tully Staten Island Academy Freshman honors and Berkeley Pre- mium in Latin, second Lucius F Robinson Prize Sophomore year and first prize Junior year, high oration appointment Junior and Senior years, honors in classical languages and literature Senior year, member Phi Beta Kappa MA 1909 Recorder Yale College 1907-13, an organizer, headmaster, and treasurer Berkeley Preparatory School 1913-17, sales manager Wmona Mills, manufacturers knit goods, New Haven, 1917-19, assistant secretary Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, printers and stationers, New Haven, 1919-32, vice-president 1932-45, vice- president and treasurer 1937-47, president 1945-46, manager 1946- 47, alderman New Haven 1921-28 (president board 1926-28), traffic 78 Yale University Obituary Record

commissioner 1924-25, recreation commissioner 1926-28, mayor of New Haven 1928-31, member City Plan Commission, School Custo- dians' Retirement Board, Greater New Haven Advisory Board, director Grace Hospital and New Haven Chamber of Commerce, president New Haven Printing-House Craftsmen 1931-34 and New England Print- ing-House Craftsmen 1932-33, vice-president Tri-State Water Pollu- tion Commission 1931, on executive committee Health Council of New Haven 1929, New Haven representative Regional Planning Authority for South Central Connecticut, editor Location Book and History of the Class of 1907 Yale College (vol 2), Class secretary 1913-19, Cap- tain Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard, charter member New Haven Advertising Club, honorary member Veterans of Foreign Wars, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Reserve Officers Association, member National Credit Men's Association and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, New Haven Married November 1, 1921, New Haven, Inez Minturn, daughter of Julius and Theresa (Schwab) Negbaur Death due to acute congestive heart failure Buried in St Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife

IRA DAVENPORT WATERMAN, B A 1907 Born June 28, 1883, Detroit, Mich , died June 5, 1950, Detroit, Mich Father, Cameron D Waterman, '74 Mother, Elizabeth Hall (Beach) Waterman Yale relatives include Thomas G Waterman (B A 1806) (great-grandfather), Joshua W Waterman (B A 1844) (grandfather), Thomas W Waterman (Class of 1842) (great-uncle), Cameron Waterman, 3d, '32, Reuben M Waterman, '33 (nephews) Hotchkiss School Second colloquy appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year, Delta Kappa Epsilon Orange grower Mayan, Cuba, 1907-10, occupied in Detroit 1910-24 (salesman Krit Motor Car Company 1910-14, in production department Buhl Malleable Iron Company 1915-17, production manager 1919-20, secretary-treasurer Standard Pattern Works of Detroit, designers and makers wood and metal patterns, 1920-22 and Standard Service Tool Company 1922-24, vice-president Water- man Corporation, manufacturers automobile parts and tools, 1924), resided in Colorado Springs 1924-39, director Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs, 1929-31, vice-president Ute Park Lane & Water Company, Colorado Springs, 1931-33, manager Ira Scott Estate Farms, Union City, Mich , 1939-40, liaison officer Chase Brass and Copper Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Conn , in Washington 1940-46, engaged in managing and selling family farm lands Grosse He, Mich , 1946-50, Second Lieutenant Air Service, Signal Corps, World War I (overseas 1918-19, instrument officer Yale College 79

First Air Depot, Colombey-les-Belles); vice-president Colorado Yale Association 1933-34, president 1934-35, trustee Davenport Home (Bath, NY.); vestryman Grace Episcopal Church, Colorado Springs. Married (1) September 15, 1915, Concord, Mass., Marjory Wilmot, daughter of Dr Frank Brown and Frances (Bagley) Brown. Son. Ira Davenport, Jr. (Class of 1943). Mrs Waterman died 1928 Married (2) March 9, 1929, Colorado Springs, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Fremont and Elizabeth (Lasher) Van deWater Death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease. Buried in Ever- green Cemetery, Detroit. Survived by wife, son, and a brother, Cameron B. Waterman, '01.

DONALD CAMPBELL BAKEWELL, B.A 1908. Born Decem- ber 5, 1887, Salem, Ohio; died September 10, 1949, Hyannisport, Mass. Father, Thomas Howard Bakewell (Massachusetts Inst. Tech- nology 1871-75), member Duquesne Steel Foundry Company, Pitts- burgh; son of Thomas Woodhouse and Euphemia Mason (Campbell) Bakewell. Mother, Annie Esther (Mullins) Bakewell, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Bustard) Mullins. Yale relatives include William M. Bakewell (Class of 1908 S.), Benjamin P. Bakewell (Class of 1914) (brothers), Robert C. Clifford, »10, Berthoud Clifford, '13 (cousins). Hotchkiss School. Dissertation appointment Junior year, secretary Baseball Association Junior year; Class crew and hockey squad, contributed to Yale Record, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta Phi, Scroll and Key. Attended Massachusetts Institute Technology 1908-9, 1910-11, with Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Altoona, Pa , 1909-10, assistant superintendent Duquesne Steel Foundry Company 1911-17, president 1917-30; vice-president and chairman executive committee Con- tinental Roll & Steel Foundry Company, Pittsburgh, 1930-37, vice- president Blaw-Knox Company, steel fabricators and engineers, Pitts- burgh, 1937-49; president Lake Superior Steel Foundry Company, Captain Ordnance Department in World War I (overseas October- December 1918); on advisory committee on steel castings War Pro- duction Board and Office of Price Administration in World War H; president National Founders Association; vice-president Employers Association of Pittsburgh 1941-43, member Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, American Iron & Steel Institute, American Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and St Stephen's Episcopal Church, Sewickley. Married June 7, 1913, Pittsburgh, Margaret Jenifer, daughter of Richard Morley and Ella Sara (Henry) Jennings Children Donald 80 Yale University Obituary Record

Campbell, Jr (died 1918), Richard Jennings (Class of 1941), Margaret Jennings (Mrs Roy Lamar Rather, Jr ), Dorothy Evan (Mrs Lester Mclntosh Strong) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Allegheny Ceme- tery, Pittsburgh Survived by wife, three children, four grandchildren, and a brother, Alan A Bakewell (Class of 1911 S )

CLINTON CLARK, B A 1908 Born March 27, 1886, Buffalo, N Y , died March 10, 1950, New York City Father, Martin Clark, '79 Mother, Cora Lee (Bedell) Clark Yale relatives include J Howard J Adams, '11 S (brother-in-law), Elizabeth Adams Dodge (Class of 1939 Art) (niece), John H Adams, Jr , '41, Bruce Clark Adams (Class of 1952) (nephews) Phillips-Andover Substitute Freshman Baseball Team, Chapel Choir, Delta Kappa Epsilon Bank clerk, Buffalo, 1908-9, clerk Lautz Bros & Company, manufacturers soap, Buffalo, 1909-12, salesman Buffalo Scale Com- pany 1912-15, in charge Chicago office 1919, treasurer and sales manager Stimpson Equipment Company, manufacturers mining and milling machinery, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1919-21, in charge New York office 1921-22, salesman Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Com- pany, Inc (later Glore, Forgan & Company), investment bankers, New York City, 1922-50, member First New York Cavalry (served on Mexican Border), First Lieutenant Field Artillery World War I (overseas 1918-19), Class agent Alumni Fund, vestryman St John's Episcopal Church, Tuckahoe, N Y Married March 16, 1921, Salt Lake City, Muriel Jane, daughter of Herbert Frederick and Sarah Johnson (Simkins) Lilley Daughter Janie Katherme (B A Barnard 1944) Death due to heart failure Buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo Survived by wife, daughter, three sisters, Mrs Joseph Eberle Stinson, Mrs J Howard J Adams, and Mrs Howard Williams Morey, and two brothers, Martin Lee Clark, '10, and Stephen B Clark, '13

GOMER HENRY REES, B A 1908 Born March 22, 1885, Emporia, Kans , died September 14, 1949, Greenwich, Conn Father, Rev Luther Rees, engaged in real-estate and mortgage business, son of Henry and Gwen (Jones) Rees Mother, Esther (Jones) Rees, daughter of Evan L and Mary Jones Yale relatives include David E Jones (B D 1871) (great-uncle) Mt Hermon School Member Zeta Psi New York Law School 1908-10, attorney DeForest Brothers, Yale College 81

New York City, 1910-20; secretary and counsel Continental Insurance Company, Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Company of New York, American Eagle Fire Insurance Company 1918-21, vice-president Baird & Company, insurance agents, 1921-23, operated Rees Mace Manufacturing Company, manufacturers portable radio sets, London and Pans, 1923 until retirement 1940 Married November 7, 1914, Brooklyn, N Y , Pauline Morris, daughter of William and Clara Anne Mason, Children William Mason, '37, John Evan Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Green-Wood Ceme- tery, Brooklyn Survived by wife, sons, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Theodore J Mosher

JOSEPH BYRON SIEBER, B A 1908 Born December 26, 1886, Akron, Ohio, died April 10, 1950, Akron, Ohio Father, George Washington Sieber (Umv Akron 1877-80, LL B Cincinnati Law School 1882), partner Sieber & Sieber, lawyers, Akron, son of Joseph and Sarah (Moyer) Sieber Mother, Elsie Catherine (Motz) Sieber, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Freed) Motz Central High School, Akron, Western Reserve University 1904-5 (member Delta Upsilon) Entered Yale Sophomore year, dissertation appointment Junior year LL B Harvard 1911, lawyer in Akron 1911-50 (partner Sieber & Sieber at time of death), member Akron and Ohio State Bar associations, Masonic order, and Trinity Lutheran Church, Akron Married (1) November 28, 1911, Easton, Maine, Leila Marian, daughter of John F and Rebecca (Furbish) Tuttle Mr and Mrs Sieber were divorced 1923 Married (2) April 4, 1927, Akron, Evalyn Marie Murphy Sudbury, daughter of David H and Minnie (Irvm) Murphy Adopted daughters Alice Corinne (Mrs Robert Jones), Martha Marie (Mrs John R Kramer) Mr and Mrs Sieber were divorced 1936 Death due to carcinoma Buried in Glendale Cemetery, Akron Survived by daughters, four grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs Ferdinand Farmer Dugan and Mrs Armar Theophilus Carnahan

JAMES MULFORD TOWNSEND, B A 1908 Born June 20, 1886, Pelham Manor, N Y , died June 23, 1950, West Windsor Town- ship, N J Father, James M Townsend (B A 1874) Mother, Harriet Bailey (Campbell) Townsend Yale relatives include William K Townsend, '71 (uncle), George H Townsend, '08 (cousin), John C 82 Yale University Obituary Record

Townsend, '10 (brother), Robert E Sherwood (Litt D 1941) (brother- in-law) Taft School Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years. Freshman four-oar crew, University Crew Squad, Junior Prom- enade Committee, Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones New York Law School 1908-10, partner Watkms Coal Company, New York City, 1910-11, 1912-23, Philadelphia 1911-12, vice-president and secretary Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corporation 1923-50, First Lieutenant Infantry, World War I, member St James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City Married July 27, 1910, Westport, N Y , Cynthia, daughter of Arthur Murray and Rosina (Emmet) Sherwood Children Elizabeth Wilson, James Mulford, Jr (killed m service 1942), Julia Mrs Townsend died 1943 Death due to coronary occlusion Survived by daughters, one grandchild, two sisters, Mrs William Lawrence Bottomley and Mrs Ronald M Ferry, and two brothers, Donald C Townsend and Edward H Townsend, '12

ARTHUR GOTZIAN DRISCOLL, B A 1909 Born July 30, 1888, White Bear Lake, Minn , died December 21, 1949, St Paul, Minn Father, Arthur Brown Driscoll, member McKibbm, Driscoll & Dorsey, manufacturers of hats, caps, gloves, furs, St Paul, son of Frederick and Anna Lavma (Brown) Driscoll Mother, Helen Evelyn (Gotzian) Driscoll, daughter of Conrad and Caroline (Busse) Gotzian Yale relatives include Ambrose Tighe, '79 (uncle), Harry M Robbms, '02 (brother-in-law), Conrad G Driscoll, '08 S , Robert Driscoll, '13, Theodore G Driscoll, '15 S , Egbert G Driscoll, '20, Donald G Driscoll, '20 S (brothers), Laurence G Tighe, '16, Richard L Tighe, '23 (cousins), William N Driscoll, '40 (nephew) St Paul Academy First dispute appointment Junior year, Class crew, Alpha Delta Phi Located in St Paul 1909-49, with C Gotzian & Company, wholesale shoes, 1909-14, salesman Wells-Dickey Company, investments, 1915-17, manager bond department Merchants Trust & Savings Bank (later First National Bank) 1919-34, vice-president Greenman, McGuire & Driscoll, investment securities, 1935-37, vice-president and secretary Driscoll-McGuire Company, 1937-49, First Lieutenant Field Artillery, World War I (overseas 1918-19), member House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St Paul Unmarried Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Oakland Cemetery, §t Paul Survived by a sister, Helena Driscoll Robbins, and four Yale College 83 brothers, Robert, Theodore G , Egbert G , and Donald G Driscoll

ROLAND WERNER KLUEPFEL, B A 1909 Born April 18, 1887, Hoboken, N J , died August 10, 1949, Sarasota, Fla Father, Carl Rudolf Kluepfel, general agent Oelnchs & Com- pany, steamship agents and importers, New York City, son of Dr Karl Kluepfel and Sophie Adelheid (Schwab) Kluepfel Mother, Henrietta Emily (Schrader) Kluepfel, daughter of Wilhelm and Clementine (von Post) Schrader Yale relatives include Alfred C Kluepfel (Class of 1910 S ) (brother), Laurence V P Schwab, '13 (cousin), Sidney Tuttle Bogardus (Class of 1954) (nephew) Irving School, New York City Dissertation appointment Junior and Senior years Successively junior partner Oelrichs & Company and salesman Joseph Walker & Sons 1909 until retirement 1937 because of ill-health, served with New York National Guard on Mexican Border 1916-17, First Lieutenant, Infantry, August 1917-July 1919 (overseas September 1918-July 1919, Meuse-Argonne Offensive), secretary Yale Club of Sarasota 1941-48, president 1948-49, member Episcopal church, Sarasota Married December 5, 1925, Johnson City, Tenn , Christina Norman, daughter of Dr Walter Carl Klotz and Gertrude Ostrander (Whitehouse) Klotz Children Bettina (Bryn Mawr 1944-46, Mrs George Shackelford), Jane Meredith Death due to coronary thrombosis. Survived by wife, children, and two sisters, Mrs Egbert H Bogardus and Mrs Clementine Noltenius (died 1951)

FRANKLYN THOMAS RAYMOND, B A 1909 Born December 17, 1885, Inwood-on-Hudson, N Y , died July 9, 1949, Rye, N Y Father, James Raymond, stockbroker, New York City, son of Thomas and Anna Raymond Mother, Lavinia Lyon (Brooks) Raymond, daughter of Elisha and Matilda (Randall) Brooks Yale relatives include Philip W Boardman, '07, Ernest Reed Hudson (Class of 1909 S ) (brothers-in-law) Pomfret School First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, Zeta Psi Successively with Mabon & Company, brokers, New York City, and McDonnell & Company, New York City, 1909 until retirement some years ago, private Motor Transport Corps April-November 1918, member Squadron A, New York National Guard, and St Thomas' Episcopal Church, New York City Unmarried 84 Yale University Obituary Record

Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City Survived by three sisters, Mrs Philip W Boardman, Mrs Ernest R Hudson, and Mrs F Aubrey Powell, and two brothers, James Ludlow Raymond (Class of 1913 S ) and Kenneth L Raymond

HORACE WINSTON STOKES, B A 1909 Born March 2, 1886, New York City, died January 18, 1950, New York City Father, Frederick A Stokes, f79. Mother, Ellen Rebecca (Colby) Stokes Yale relatives include Horace S. Stokes, '89 (uncle), Frederick B Stokes (Class of 1911)(brother) Phillips-Andover Second dispute appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year, chairman Yale Literary Magazine Senior year, Chi Delta Theta, Alpha Delta Phi, Wolf's Head Associated with Frederick A Stokes Company, publishers, New York City, 1909-10, 1925 until retirement 1941 (secretary 1925- 32, treasurer 1932-39, president 1939-41), reporter New York Sun and New York Herald Tribune 1910-14, engaged in advertising agency work, special article writing, and with Crowell Publishing Company 1914-25, advertising with Berrien Company, Inc , 1922-23, Frank Seaman, Inc , 1923-24, author Frog Face and juvenile books and short stories, private Squadron A, New York National Guard (on Mexican Border 1916-17), First Lieutenant Infantry, World War I (overseas 1917-19) Married May 22, 1920, Burlington, Vt , Mary Sanford, daughter of Dr John Brooks Wheeler and Anna Griffin (Sanford) Wheeler Children Ellen (B A Sarah Lawrence 1945), Mary Wheeler (B A Skidmore 1950, Mrs George M French, Jr ) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Burlington Survived by wife and children

THOMAS WILSON BOWERS, B A 1910 Born August 18, 1888, Wmona, Minn , died March 16, 1950, New York City Father, Lloyd W Bowers, '79 Mother, Louise Benton (Wilson) Bowers Yale relatives include Robert A Taft, '10 (brother-in-law), William H Taft, 3d, '37, Robert Taft, Jr , f39, Lloyd B Taft, '44, Horace Taft, '50 (nephews) Westminster School Second colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Psi Upsilon LL B Harvard 1913, attorney and examiner Interstate Com- merce Commission, Washington, 1913-15, with Holt, Cutting & Sidley, Yale College 85

Chicago, 1915-17, Cravath & Henderson, New York City, 1919-22, assistant general counsel Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1922, vice-president National Bank of Commerce in New York 1922-29, special representative Wabash Railroad, New York City, 1929-30, vice-president Bank of the Manhattan Company 1930^42, lawyer New York City 1942-50, chairman board Universal Oil Products, Chicago, private Illinois National Guard (served on Mexican border), Captain Marine Corps World War I Married October 31, 1914, Washington, D C , Louise, daughter of Ben and Mary Ellen (Thorn) Hellen Children Lloyd Wheaton, '38, Thomas Wilson, Jr , Ellen (B A Vassar 1949) Death due to a heart attack Buried in Washington (Conn ) Cemetery Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Robert A Taft

HENRY ROE CLOUD (WO-NA-XI-LAY-HUNK A), B A 1910 Born December 28, 1886, Winnebago, Nebr , died February 9, 1950, Siletz, Ore Father, Na-Xi-Lay-Hunk-Kay, a Winnebago Indian Mother, "Hard-to-See " Adoptive parents Dr and Mrs Walter C Roe Mt Hermon School Honors of the third rank Freshman year, dissertation appointment Junior year, first dispute appointment Senior year, second Henry James TenEyck Prize Junior year, second Town- send Premium Senior year, Senior debating team, contributed to Yale Courant, Beta Theta Pi, Elihu Club MA 1914 Attended Oberlm Theological Seminary 1910-11, B D Auburn Theological Seminary and ordained Presbyterian minister 1913, founder Roe Indian Institute, Wichita, Kans , 1915 and superintendent 1915-30 (became American Indian Institute 1920), special regional representative U S Office of Indian Affairs 1931-33, assistant superintendent Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans., 1933-36, assistant supervisor Indian education at large U S Office of Indian Affairs 1936-39, superintendent Umatilla Indian Agency, Pendleton, Ore , 1939-47, field representative Indian affairs Portland (Ore ) region 1947-50, regional representative Grande Ronde and Siletz Indian Agency 1948-50, editor The Indian Outlook, coauthor Problems of Indian Administra- tion, contributed to periodicals and lectured on Indian life and legend, D D Emporia 1932, chairman official delegation of Winnebagos to the President 1912-13, member survey commission on Indian Schools (Phelps Stokes Fund) 1914, survey of Indian Affairs Institute for Governmental Research 1926-27, 1929-30, received Indian achievement award 1935, member advisory committee Boy Scouts of America, member Masonic order and First Presbyterian Church, Oregon City Married June 12, 1916, Philadelphia, Elizabeth Georgian Bender 86 Yale University Obituary Record

(grad Hampton Normal Training School 1912), daughter of Albertus and Mary Bender (a Chippewa) Children Elizabeth Marion (B A Wellesley 1938, Mrs Edward L Hughes), Anne Woesha (B A Vassar 1940, M A Ohio Umv 1944, Mrs Robert C North), Lillian Alberta (Umv Kansas 1939-41, Mrs Leo D. Freed), Ramona Clarke (B A Vassar 1943, Mrs Raleigh C Butterfield), Henry Roe, 2d (died in infancy) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Beaver ton, Ore Survived by wife, daughters, and ten grandchildren

JOSEPH CURTIS PL ATT, B A 1910 Born November 18, 1887, Cold Spring, N Y , died March 19, 1950, Danville, Pa Father, Frank Elbert Platt (C.E Rensselaer 1879), treasurer Scranton (Pa ) Coal Company, son of Joseph Curtis and Catherine (Scranton) Platt Mother, Elizabeth Augusta (Skinner) Platt, daughter of William and Artemesia (Meigs) Skinner Yale relatives include Erastus Scranton (B A 1802), George E Hand (B A 1829) (great- great-uncles), Alice Wheeler Skinner (Class of 1898 Art) (aunt), Worthmgton Scranton, '98 (cousin), David N Platt, f51 (nephew) The Hill School Freshman Track and Football teams, manager Freshman Basketball Team and University Basketball Team Senior year, Psi Upsilon, Scroll and Key With Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company, West Virginia and Georgia, 1911-16 and Scranton Axle & Spring Company 1915-16, general supply manager Scranton Coal Company 1917-19, assistant secretary and assistant director 1919-25, assistant treasurer 1925- 28, treasurer Scranton Lackawanna Trust Company 1928-37, vice- president 1937-42, president 1942-47, chairman of the board 1947-50, president Mississippi Central Railroad Company, U S Lumber Com- pany, Scranton, and J J Newman Lumber Company, treasurer P D K Store Company, Dickson Store Company, Keystone Store Company, Ltd , Anthracite Valley Water Company, Priceburg Water Company, president Lackawanna Historical Society 1941-42, Dunmore Cemetery Association 1941-48, and Board of Supervisors Abmgton Township, vice-president Geismger Hospital, Danville, 1942-50, director Visiting Nurse Association, Scranton, 1928-48 (treasurer 1928-30) and Pennsylvania State Chanties Association, trustee Penn- sylvania State Oral School for the Deaf (treasurer 1932-50), member Pennsylvania National Guard, First Lieutenant Field Artillery, World War I, secretary Yale Alumni Association of Scranton 1915-22, trustee Westminster Presbyterian Church, Scranton Married (1) March 19, 1930, Lordsburg, N Mex , Margaret Lowe Chamberlin, daughter of William Ebbets and Mary (Wheeler) Yale College 87

Lowe Mrs Platt died 1944 Married (2) August 25, 1945, Chatham, Mass , Frances Mears Acker, daughter of John Alexander and Evangelme (Farnham) Mears. Death due to a heart attack Buried m Dunmore (Pa ) Ceme- tery Survived by wife, two stepdaughters, Mary Lowe Chamberlin Scranton, the wife of William W Scranton, '39, and Marion Acker Fuller, a stepson, W Lawson Chamberlin, '38, ten step-grandchildren, and two brothers, Philip S Platt, '12, and Leonard S Platt, •23

ROBERT BRUCE ANDERSON, B A 1911 Born December 30, 1887, Salem, Ohio, died May 25, 1950, Salem, Ohio Father, James Anderson (B A Mount Union Coll 1874, M D Umv Michigan 1876), physician and surgeon in Salem, son of William and Isabel (Little) Anderson Mother, Henrietta (Brooke) Anderson, daughter of Jesse and Agnes (Diehl) Brooke Salem High School, Adelbert College 1906-7 Second colloquy appointment and honors of the third rank Junior year, Delta Kappa Epsilon Manager export sales Silver Manufacturing Company, Salem, 1911-21, manager domestic implement sales 1921-25, vice-president 1925-28, secretary-treasurer National Sanitary Company, Salem, 1928-29, in brokerage business Chicago 1930-32 (member Chicago Stock Exchange), with National Recovery Administration 1932-35, export sales manager The Buda Company, manufacturers Diesel and gasoline engines, Harvey, 111 , 1935 until retirement 1948, member Salem Chamber of Commerce and Presbyterian church, Salem Married April 11, 1914, Salem, Rebecca Jane Silver (Goucher 1906-7), daughter of Albert Otis and Elizabeth (Walton) Silver Child- ren Elizabeth Jane (B A Umv Chicago 1937, Mrs James Reed Schlademan), Robert Bruce, Jr (B A Umv Chicago 1938), and James Otis (B A Umv Chicago 1940) Mrs Anderson died 1945 Death due to pulmonary emphysema Buried in Grandview Cemetery, Salem Survived by children, five grandchildren, a sister, Mrs William Henry Dunn, and a brother, Brooke Anderson

HENRY MORRISON HILLE, B A 1911 Born November 27, 1889, Bath, N Y , died November 13, 1949, Bath, N Y Father, Louis Charles Hille, a farmer in Bath, son of Ludwig and Apolonia (Alvmseder) Hille Mother, Charlotte Fitch (Morrison) Hille, daughter of Henry and Bridget (McLaughlm) Morrison Princeton Preparatory School Second colloquy appointment Junior year first colloquy appointment Senior year, Class baseball 88 Yale University Obituary Record team and crew; Beta Theta Pi In adjusting department Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Company, wholesale hardware, Chicago, 1911-13, division superintendent Swift & Company, St Paul, Minn , 1913-23, salesman Houseman, Spitzley Corporation, real estate, Detroit, 1923-24, owner Henry M Hille Insurance Agency, Bath, 1924-49, trustee Davenport Estate (secretary Davenport Home for Girls 1925-49, vice-president and manager 1931-49), Grove Cemetery Association, and Davenport Library, Bath, treasurer Bath Board of Education 1931-49, secretary Bath Chamber of Commerce 1925-30, commissioner Bath Electric, Gas, and Water System 1938-49, First Lieutenant Infantry, World War I, past commander Charles E Westcott post American Legion, member Military Order of the World War, Masonic order, elder First Presbyterian Church, Bath Married October 3, 1931, in New York City, Clara Alice, daughter of Frank Eugene and Evelyn Huntmgton (Matthews) Rowe. Son Henry Morrison, Jr (Class of 1954) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried m Grove Cemetery, Bath Survived by wife, son, and three sisters, Mrs Chester Losee, Miss Bessie Hille, and Dr Louise M Hille

JOSEPH MATTHEW LYNCH, B A 1911 Born October 1, 1888, Menden, Conn , died March 6, 1950, Oakland, Calif Father, Peter Hanley Lynch, assistant superintendent Metro- politan Life Insurance Company, son of John and Rose (Hanley) Lynch Mother, Mary (McCabe) Lynch, daughter of Matthew and Mary (Kane) McCabe Phillips-Andover Freshman Basketball Team, Delta Kappa Epsilon In Boston office United Shoe Manufacturing Corporation, Lynn, Mass , 1911-12, Rochester 1912, Montreal 1913, part owner shoe manufacturing business New York City 1913-14, insurance salesman Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, New York City, 1914-16, deputy superintendent Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Dayton, Ohio, 1916-17 and assistant manager Hanford, Calif , 1922-24, associated with Bender- Moss Company, publishers of law books, San Francisco, since 1924 (vice-president and general manager at time of death), purchasing agent Royal Tiger Mines, Breckenridge, Colo , 1919 Married November 14, 1913, Arlington, N.J , Florence Lorraine, daughter of William and Josephine (Tucker) Cook Child- ren Mary Josephine, Joseph Matthew, Jr , Florence Lorraine (died 1927), Robert, and Richard (Umv California 1952) Death due to myocardial infarction Ashes interred in Mountain Yale College * 89

View Cemetery, Oakland Survived by wife, four children, a sister, Mrs Rose Murray, and a brother, James Thomas Lynch

ARCHER ROBERTS SIMPSON, B A 1911 Born May 6, 1885, Dover, N H , died January 17, 1950, Springfield, Mass Father, Joseph Archer Simpson, president Orange (Mass ) Hardware Company, son of Samuel W and Ellen (Pearson) Simpson Mother, Inis E (Roberts) Simpson, daughter of Seth and Ellen M (Bennett) Roberts Yale relatives include a half brother, J Fenton Simpson (Class of 1919 S ) Phillips-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior year, second dispute appointment Senior year, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club LL B George Washington University 1915 (Delta Tau Delta and Phi Delta Phi), lawyer in Springfield 1915 until retirement 1944 (partner Simpson, Clason, Callahan & Giustma at retirement), manager Burden-Bryant Company, Springfield, 1937-50, owner since 1942, president Walsh Steam Boiler Works, Holyoke, Mass , and Standard Electric Time Company, owner Highland Grinding Company, Spring- field, 1942-46, director Warren Woolen Company, Stafford Springs, Conn , 1931-50 (secretary 1931-45), on faculty Springfield branch Northeastern Law School 1922-28, president Springfield Common Council 1917-19 and police commissioner 1918, trustee Springfield College, served in Coast Artillery Corps World War I, secretary- treasurer Yale Alumni Association of Western Massachusetts 1921-24, member Hampton County and Massachusetts Bar associations, Mason- ic order and South Congregational Church, Springfield Married November 17, 1915, Hightstown, N J , Maude Ethel Gordon (cert Music 1911), daughter of Forman Hutchmson and Elizabeth (Pernne) Gordon Children Barbara (B A Wellesley 1944, died March 21, 1951), Russell Gordon, '51, Beverly (Wellesley Class 1954) Death due to coronary arteriosclerosis Ashes entombed in Hillside Park Cemetery Mausoleum, Springfield Survived by wife and children

CYRIL BROWN, B A 1912 Born January 6, 1887, Roches- ter, N Y , died October 6, 1949, Oceanside, N Y Father, George Alvord Brown (Columbia Class of 1882), with Home Life Insurance Company, son of Edwin Jones and Mary (Strong) Brown Mother, Alice Scudder (Price) Brown, daughter of J Wilbur and Hannah (Scudder) Price Yale relatives include Harold S Brown (Class of 1907), P Mortimer Brown (Class of 1909) (cousins) Plamfield (N J ) High School Freshman honors, Andrew D 90 Yale University Obituary Record

White History Prize and third Benjamin F Barge Mathematical Prize Freshman year, third Lucius F Robinson Prize in Latin Sophomore year, philosophical oration appointment Junior and Senior years, contributed to Yaxe Record, Yale Courant and Yale Literary Magazine, Senior Literary Society, Elizabethan Club, Phi Beta Kappa Reporter city staff New York Times 1912-13, in London 1913- 14, Berlin 1914-17, Berlin correspondent 1921-24, staff correspondent New York World, Scandinavia and Netherlands, 1918-21, free- lance writer and editorial staff writer Fox Films, Inc , 1924-29, interviewer Paramount News 1929-49, author Germany as it is Today, translator Bolsche's Love Life m Nature, wrote introduction to Cameron's Ten Months in a German Raider Married July 13, 1918, The Hague, Netherlands, Jeanne Leonie Bentmck de Mil, daughter of Josef Marie and Victoria (de Mil) Bentmck Mrs Brown died 1930 Death due to acute cardiac failure Buried in Greenfield Ceme- tery, Hempstead, N Y Survived by two half sisters, Miss Helen Alvord Brown and Mrs Matthew William Fegan

STANLEY EASTON G1FFORD, B A 1912 Born January 3, 1891, Jamaica Plain, Mass , died September 24, 1949, Lebanon, N H Father, Charles Houghton Gifford, mechanical engineer Masters Manufacturing Company, automotive accessories, Boston, son of John Easton and Catharine Augusta (Jenner) Gifford Mother, Nellie Maria (Davis) Gifford, daughter of Gideon P and Melissa (Fulton) Davis Yale relatives include a brother, Raymond M Gifford, '15 Phillips- Andover Honors and oration appointment Junior year, Apollo and University Banjo and Mandolin clubs, Alpha Delta Phi J D University of Michigan 1914, lawyer in Detroit 1915-17, Boston 1921-41, Lebanon 1942-49 (partner Carr & Gifford at time of death), associated with father in Masters Manufacturing Company 1919-21, First Lieutenant, Field Artillery, later Cavalry, World War I, member New Hampshire Bar Association Married (1) June 3, 1924, Campello, Mass , Ruth Laton, daughter of Harvey Laton and Hannah Maria (Nye) Howes Son Stanley Easton, Jr (B S m E E Case Inst Technology 1946) Mrs Gifford died 1938 Married (2) April 4, 1941, Lynn, Mass , Eleanor Gammon Kmgsley, daughter of Guy Norman and Julia Ellen (Stone) Gammon Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Sagamore, Mass Survived by wife, son, and a sister, Mrs Eleanor Gifford Hartford

DAVID ROBERT KREIDER, B A 1912 Born May 8, 1888, Yale College 91

Lawn, Pa , died September 20, 1949, Lebanon, Pa Father, Aaron Shenk Kreider, owner A S Kreider Shoe Com- pany, Annville, Pa , son of David and Magdalena (Shenk) Kreider Mother, Elizabeth Bucher (Horst) Kreider, daughter of Henry and Anna (Bucher) Horst Yale relatives include D Albert Kreider (Ph D 1895), Charles V Henry (LL B 1895), William H Kreider (LL B 1896), J Lehn Kreider (M A 1905), C Vincent Henry, Jr , '19 (cousins), Robert N Kreider, '45, Clement H Kreider, Jr (Class of 1953), William R. Boger, Jr (Class of 1953 E ) (nephews) Lebanon Valley College Preparatory School, Lebanon Valley Col- lege 1908-10 Entered Yale Junior year, first colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club With Kreider-Cushman Company, Chicago, 1911-14 (treasurer 1913-14), third vice-president A S Kreider Shoe Company 1914-22, vice-president 1925-30, president 1930 until retirement 1947, director A S Kreider Shoe Manufacturing Company, Elizabethtown, Pa , 1927-47, general manager 1940-47, director A S Kreider & Son, Palmyra, Pa , and National Shoe Manufacturing Association, member % Masonic order and United Brethren Church, Annville Married (1) October 30, 1915, Detroit, Dorothy, daughter of Charles Hubbard and Jennie (Rieves) Tobey Mrs Kreider died 1928 Married (2) August 25, 1937, Bethlehem, Pa , Florence Rebecca Bear Chase (Wilson Class of 1916), daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Alice Sarah (Keller) Bear Death due to cerebral embolism Buried in Mt Annville Ceme- tery Survived by wife, two stepsons, Samuel Parker Chase, Jr , and Benjamin Keller Chase, three sisters, Mrs Cyrus Eckert, Mrs Rodham Kenner, and Mrs William Harris, and five brothers, Aaron S Kreider, Jr , Howard B Kreider, Henry Kreider, Clement H Kreider, '17 S , and George L Kreider, '29 S

CLIFFORD HAYES PANGBURN, B A 1912 Born November 18, 1888, Washington, D C , died December 16, 1949, St Augustine, Fla Father, Rev Lycurgus E Pangburn (B D 1883) Mother, Annie Elizabeth (Hayes) Pangburn Yale relatives include a brother, Dwight B Pangburn, '10 S New Haven (Conn ) High School, Second dispute appointment Junior and Senior years, an editor Yale Record, Beta Theta Pi Reporter New York Telegraph 1912-14. in charge motion picture department New York Tribune 1914-15, advertising manager Henry Tetlow Company, toilet preparations, Philadelphia, 1915-17, 1919-21, with Federal Advertising Agency, New York City, 1921, eastern manager _Peogl£^s_Po£ular_Monthl^, New York City, 1921-25, with J Walter Thompson Agency, advertising, New York City, 1925-32 and McCann- 92 Yale University Obituary Record

Enckson, Inc , Chicago, 1932-35, copy writer Lord & Thomas, New York City, 1935-41, copy executive J Sterling Getchell, Inc , 1941- 42, with Price Adjustment Board, U S War Department, 1942-43, retired 1945, authority on birds and contributed to scientific ornithological journals, Major American Red Cross Field Service (Morgan Harjes) World War I, Major (chief editorial section) Air Corps, World War II (promoted Lieutenant Colonel, A U S [Ret j April 16, 1948), member Plymouth Church (Congregational), New Haven Married July 2, 1919, New York City, Marjorie Metcalfe (Hollms Coll 1910), daughter of William Cortelyou and Mabel (Cornish) Metcalfe Children Robert Morton (Umv Virginia 1939-40), Marjorie Hayes, the wife of William Frost (Ph D 1946) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in The National Cemetery, Arlington, Va Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and mother

HENRY ELDREDGE PERRY, B A 1912 Born October 8, 1889, Crete, Nebr , died March 15, 1950, New York City Father, Rev David B Perry, D D (B A 1863) Mother, Helen Clark (Doane) Perry Yale relatives include Howard K Hollister (Class of 1910), John B Hollister, '11, George B Hollister, '17 (brothers-in-law) Crete High School, Doane College 1908-10 Entered Yale College Junior year, first dispute appointment Senior year, University Football Team, University Wrestling Squad (captain Senior year, champion heavyweight wrestler), Alpha Delta Phi, Wolf's Head With Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Railroad Com- pany 1912-17, 1919-22, assistant to vice-president Commercial Sol- vents Corporation (Terre Haute plant) 1922-23, manager 1923-34, vice-president New York City 1934-39, director and vice-president in charge of production 1939-45, executive vice-president 1945-47, president 1947-50, president Thermatomic Carbon Company, trustee Doane College, Second Lieutenant Infantry, World War I, member Presbyter- ian church Married March 9, 1918, Cincinnati, Mary Evelyn, daughter of Howard C Hollister, '78, and Alice (Keys) Hollister Children Phebe Baker (B A Vassar 1942, Mrs James Murchie Eaton Mixter), Henry Eldredge, Jr , '43, Howard Hollister, '45 E , Evelyn Keys, Polly Munson Death due to injuries received in a fall Survived by wife and children

ASA ALLEN WOODRUFF, B A 1912 Born October 1, 1889, Yale College 93

Scranton, Pa , died July 21, 1949, Oxford, England Father, Clarence S Woodruff, !78 Mother, Susan Melinda (Bullock) Woodruff Yale relatives include Aaron Hutchmson (B A 1747) (great-great-grandfather), Frank W Wheaton, '77, George W Woodruff, '89 (cousins) Scranton High School First dispute appointment Junior year, oration appointment Senior year; University Soccer Team, Freshman Union, Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Studied law 1912-15, lawyer in Philadelphia 1915-49 (partner Morgan, Lewis & Bockius at time of death), authority on financial, real estate, public utility, and general corporation law, author unpublished volume on Bacon and the Baconian theory, member Pennsylva- nia National Guard, Ensign (radio) U S Naval Reserve Force World War I, member Philadelphia, Pennsylvania State, and American Bar associations, and Society of Friends Married October 28, 1922, Kingston, Pa , Gertrude Ahlborn Marvin (B S Cornell 1913, M L D 1914), daughter of Ira George and Sophie Louise (Ahlborn) Marvin Children Allen Marvin, '46, Gertrude Marvin, Jr (Cornell Class of 1952) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Coulter Street Meeting Burial Ground, Philadelphia Survived by wife, children, three sisters, Mrs Robert A Hull, Mrs Francis J Stokes, Mrs Charles F B Thomforde, a brother, Lewis H Woodruff, '14, seven half sisters, Misses Amy L , Ruth J , Florence V , Dorothy H , and Eleanor Woodruff, Mrs George W Allen, and Mrs Harmon Lushbaugh, and a half brother, Clarence S Woodruff, Jr

DOUGLASS MARSHALL ALLEN, B A 1913 Born April 11, 1891, Cincinnati, Ohio, died August 11, 1949, Cincinnati, Ohio Father, Jonathan Harris Allen, member Allen & Munson, flour and gram merchants, Cincinnati, son of Thomas Humphrey Cushmg and Jane Deverdier (Woodruff) Allen Mother, Anna Williamson (Handy) Allen, daughter of Truman B and Mariette (Huntmgton) Handy Yale relatives include Thomas H C Allen (Class of 1911 S ) (brother), Waldemar H Jacob, '11 (brother-in-law), Henry H McHenry, '14 S (cousin), George Owen Knapp, 2d, '35, William J Knapp, Jr , '41 (nephews) Asheville School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Uni- versity Track Team, Freshman Glee Club, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta Phi and Wolf's Head Clerk Queen & Crescent Railroad, Cincinnati, 1913-14, clerk and salesman Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Company 1914-17, engaged in advertising business in Cincinnati 1919-49, assistant advertising manager Fleischmann Company 1919-20, with Blaine, Thompson 94 Yale University Obituary Record

Company 1920, vice-president and secretary Prather-Allen Advertis- ing Gompany 1920-24, president 1924-35, president and treasurer Procter & Collier Company 1935-37, president Douglass Allen & Leland Davis, Inc , 1937-39, president Allen, Heaton & McDonald, Inc , 1939-49, Captain Infantry World War I (overseas 1918-19), president Cincmnatus Association and 4-H Life magazine, Dayton, secretary Cincinnati Yale Club 1921-22, member Church of Our Savior (Episcopal), Cincinnati Married (1) June 9, 1917, Cincinnati, Emily Gaylord, daughter of Nathan and Susan (Pendleton) Powell Children Douglass Marshall, Jr , '39, Susan Pendleton (Mrs Harry William Taylor, Jr ), Emily Powell, the wife of Polk Laffoon, 3d (Class of 1942 E ) Mr and Mrs Allen were divorced 1942 Married (2) June 26, 1943, New York City, Eleanor Combs, daughter of William Courtland and Rose Helen (Combs) Moore Death due to acute pulmonary edema Ashes interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, and three sisters, Mrs William J Knapp, Mrs Waldemar H Jacob, and Mrs Templeton Briggs

SAMUEL KENNEDY BROWN, B A 1913 Born December 2, 1890, Germantown, Ohio, died August 17, 1949, Waukesha, Wis Father, Orvon Graff Brown, president Miami Military Institute, Germantown, son of Rev William Kennedy Brown, D.D , and Martha (McClellan) Brown Mother, Lulu (Reed) Brown, daughter of John Henry and Martha (Zeller) Reed Miami Military Institute, B A Twin Valley College 1909 Second dispute appointment Junior year, Delta Kappa Epsilon Professor Greek and modern languages Miami Military Institute 1915, Greek and French 1916, registrar 1915-23, treasurer 1923-32, and headmaster 1927-35, with Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Dayton, Ohio, 1935-38, secretary public relations St John's Military Academy 1938-49 and director reading clinic 1941-49, member Metho- dist Episcopal Church, Germantown Married (1) June 28, 1916, Cincinnati, Nellie Marie, daughter of Ernest J and Nellie (Schlenz) Knabe Children Dorothy Knabe, Kennedy Knabe, Anne Knabe Mr and Mrs Brown were divorced Married (2) February 22, 1942, Tulsa, Okla , Louise, daughter of Leona Finch Mrs Brown died 1945. Married (3) March 29, 1949, Memphis, Tenn , Ruth McCormick Surgume, daughter of Frank McCormick, 2d, and Mary Cason (Keller) McCormick. Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Germantown Cemetery Survived by wife, children, mother, three sisters, Mrs Ralph S Saunders, Mrs David W. Welday, Mrs George H Stapley, Yale College 95 and two brothers, Reed M Brown, '10 S , and Orvon Graff Brown, Jr (Class of 1932)

AUGUSTE JULIEN CORDIER, B A 1913 Born April 7, 1891, Brooklyn, N Y , died July 20, 1949, New York City Father, Auguste Julien Cordier, president Lalance & Grosjean Manufacturing Company, sheet metal ware, Woodhaven, N Y , son of Ferriol Valbert and Josephine (Rofinot) Cordier Mother, Alice Marie (Grosjean) Cordier, daughter of Florian and Eugenie (Rosselot) Grosjean Yale relatives include Constantme J MacGuire, Jr , '07 (brother-in-law), John D MacGuire, '44 (nephew), Donald Anderson, '27 (cousin). Polytechnic Preparatory School First colloquy appointment Junior year, captain Squash Team and second Golf Team. Senior year, first prize University Squash Tournament Junior year, managing editor Yale Daily News, treasurer Yale Corinthian Yacht Club Sopho- more year, vice-commodore Junior year, commodore Senior year, Omega Lambda Chi, Alpha Delta Phi, and Elihu Club Assistant treasurer Lalance & Grosjean Manufacturing Company 1913-21, second vice-president 1922-26, president 1927-49, president Woodhaven Water Supply Company 1923-26, First Lieutenant Infantry World War I, secretary Yale Club of New York 1926-29, vice-president 1929-32, president 1932-35, champion National Squash Tennis Association 1920, member Yale Committee of Military Training Camps and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City Married (1) April 23, 1921, Brooklyn, Helen Ogden, daughter of Howard Ogden and Julia Curtis (Twichell) Wood Children Auguste Julien, Jr (died 1929), Helen Wood (Vassar Class of 1946, Mrs Thomas Nelson Page Johns) Mr and Mrs Cordier were divorced 1937 Married (2) December 30, 1937, New York City, Betsey Page Gaynor, daughter of Rev Frank Page, D D , and Lettie (Morris) Page Death due to carcinoma Buried m Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by wife, daughter, a stepdaughter, Mrs Lamont S Bryan, a stepson, Norman J Gaynor, Jr , a grandson, and a sister, Mrs Constantme J MacGuire

EDWARD RAYMOND EASTON, B A 1913 Born April 5, 1892, Holyoke, Mass , died February 3, 1950, New York City Father, Edward Chauncey Easton, a farmer m Granby, Mass , son of Isaac E and Sybil L (Chapm) Easton Mother, Mary Ann (Daley) Easton, daughter of Dennis J and Mary (Devaney) Daley Williston Academy Oration appointment Junior year, first dis- 96 Yale University Obituary Record pute appointment Senior year M D Columbia 1915, interne Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled 1915, on surgical service Bellevue Hospital 1915-17, First Lieutenant Medical Reserve Corps World War I (special course orthopedics Uni- versity of Pennsylvania April-June 1918, orthopedist Camp Logan and Camp Grant 1918-19, commissioned First Lieutenant Medical Corps 1918, Captain 1920, resigned May 1923), resident physician New York Hospital 1923-24, physician and orthopedic surgeon New York City 1924-50, established surgical clinic U S Fidelity & Guaranty Com- - pany and resident surgeon 1924-25, assistant surgeon Broad Street Hospital 1927-29, associate surgeon 1929-32, acting assistant surgeon and assistant surgeon Knickerbocker Hospital, senior assistant surgeon Polyclimc Hospital 1940-50, on staff St Clare's, Flower, Lex- ington, and St Mark's hospitals, contributed to medical journals, medical director Royal Indemnity Company, resident physician Amer- ican Women's Association 1929-34, fellow American College of Surgeons and New York Academy of Medicine, member International Association of Industrial Surgeons, New York County Medical Society, and St Catherine's Roman Catholic Church, Pelham Manor Married April 27, 1918, Chattanooga, Tenn^, Gwendolen, daughter of Theodore Hamilton and Florence (Foster) Lasley Children Edward Raymond, Jr (B A Columbia 1940, M A 1941), Theodore Lasley (B A Columbia 1948, M A 1950) Mrs Easton died 1945 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Mount Hope Ceme- tery, Hastings, N Y Survived by sons, two grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs L, Henry King

HENRY PITT WARREN, JR , B A 1913 Born September 8, 1892, Albany, N Y , died May 22, 1950, Greenwich, Conn Father, Henry P Warren (B A 1870) Mother, Annie Laurie (Lyman) Warren Yale relatives include a brother, Samuel Warren, '11 S Albany Academy Freshman and University Football teams, assistant manager University Wrestling Team Junior year, manager Senior year, Freshman Debating Team, Freshman Union, business manager Yale Record, Alpha Delta Phi and Wolf's Head Inspector Albany Car Wheel Company 1913-14, Albany representative E H Rollins & Sons, bankers, 1914-15, vice-president 1936-37, with Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Albany, 1915-20 and manager Detroit office 1920-21, occupied in New York City 1921- 50, representative Dillon, Read & Company, investment bankers, 1921- 31, manager bond department J & W Seligman & Company, 1931-38, manager bond department Tucker, Anthony & Company, 1938-40 and investment department 1940-44, manager bond department W C Yale College 97

Langley & Company 1944-45, general partner 1946-50, captain Infan- try World War I (St -Mihiel and Argonne offensives), trustee Albany Academy (president Metropolitan alumni chapter), on Greenwich Board of Education, secretary Harvard-Yale-Princeton 1913 Association in 1948, a governor 1949-50, secretary-treasurer Yale Alumni Associa- tion of Northeastern New York 1915-17, member First Presbyterian Church, Albany Married October 8, 1921, Cleveland, Ohio, Henrietta Wick, daughter of George Dwight and Florence (Judd) Upson Children George Upson, '45 W , Henry Pitt, 3d, '49 Death due to injuries received in an automobile accident Ashes interred in Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich Survived by wife, children, and two sisters, Miss Constance Warren and Dorothy Lyman Warren Andrews (Yale School of Fine Arts 1905-6)

WILLIAM FORBES WOODWARD, B A 1913 Born February 3, 1892, Ottawa, Kans , died July 1, 1949, Jeffersontown, Ky Father, Felix James Woodward, salesman Simmons Hardware Company, St Louis, son of William Rittenhouse and Adelaide (Lavendar) Woodward Mother, Jessie Fremont (Howard) Woodward, daughter of William Witt and Sarah Elizabeth (Chapman) Howard Yale relatives include a brother-in-law, John H McLennan, '16 Phillips-Andover First colloquy appointment and second Henry James TenEyck Prize Junior year, first dispute appointment Senior year, contributed to Yale Courant, Yale Record, Yale Daily News, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Zeta Psi Successively in stock department and claim, credit, and mail order departments Philadelphia branch Simmons Hardware Company 1913- 15, traveling salesman 1915-16, and with Frye, Phipps Company (New England agents), Boston, 1916-17, assistant to vice-president First National Bank, Louisville, Ky , 1919-24, vice-president 1924-28, vice- president Title Savings Bank and Trust Company 1920-25, secretary Kentucky Title Company, partner Reynolds & Company (manager Reynolds Investing Company, New York City), Louisville, 1928-30, treasurer 1930-32, secretary-treasurer 1932-35, and of Jersey City office 1935-39, supervisor branches Granberry & Company, brokers, Louisville, 1939-41, assistant to president Reynolds Metals Company, Louisville, 1941 until retirement 1946, vice-president Selected Indus- tries, Inc , 1930-32 and United States Foil Company, Jersey City, 1932-35, captain Field Artillery World War I (St -Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne offensives), member Leyden Congregational Church, Brooklme, Mass Married January 18, 1921, Louisville, Elizabeth Berry, daughter of Alexander and Margaret Rosanna (Harbison) McLennan Children 98 Yale University Obituary Record

William Harbison, Hugh McLennan, '50 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Cave Hill Ceme- tery, Louisville Survived by wife, children, and three sisters, Mrs, Harry B Collins, Mrs Leon W Rand, and Mrs Robert R Nelson

THOMAS GILBERT HOLT, B A 1914 Born February 1, 1889, Grand Rapids, Mich , died September 28, 1949, Pans, Ky Father, John Caldwell Holt, president Superior Iron Company, Grand Rapids, son of Joseph Holt Mother, Kate Huntmgton (Gilbert) Holt, daughter of Caroline Elizabeth (Troope) Gilbert Yale relatives include Henry W Wright, '12 (brother-in-law), Francis D Gilbert, '09, Howell Gilbert, '10 (cousins), John C Holt, 2d, '44 S (nephew) Westminster School Second colloquy appointment Senior year, manager Freshman Hockey Team, Freshman Glee Club, Yale Corin- thian Yacht Club, Psi Upsilon and Elihu Club With Antrim Iron Company, Grand Rapid-S, 1914-16, farmer in Paris 1920-49, with American Ambulance Service, France, 1916, Captain Field Artillery 1917-19 (awarded Croix de Guerre) Unmarried Death due to myocarditis Buried in Paris Cemetery Survived by three sisters, Mrs Henry W Wright, Mrs Randal Davey, and Mrs Grove Cullum, and two brothers, John Caldwell Holt, Jr , and Henry G Holt, '10

GEORGE deFOREST LORD, B A 1914 Born December 18, 1891, Lawrence, N Y , died February 2, 1950, Savannah, Ga Father, Franklin Butler Lord (B A Columbia 1870), partner Lord, Day & Lord, lawyers, New York City, son of Daniel deForest Lord (Yale La* School 1839-41) and Mary Howard (Butler) Lord Mother, Josephine (Gillet) Lord, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Higgin- botham) Gillet Yale relatives include Daniel Lord (B A 1814) (great-grandfather), Henry Grant deForest (1840-41 L*) (great-great- uncle), George deForest Lord (B A 1854) (great-uncle), Daniel Lord, 3d, '92 (cousin), William H Symington, '12, James M Symington, '16 (brothers-in-law) Westminster School Honors of the third rank Freshman year, oration appointment Junior year, dissertation appointment Senior year, Freshman Glee Club, Yale University Dramatic Association, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta Phi and Wolf's Head LL B Columbia 1917 (editor Columbia Law Review), partner Lord, Day & Lord 1919-50 (senior partner at time of death), authority on admiralty law, instructor admiralty law Columbia summer 1920 and spring 1921, coauthor Cases on Admiralty, First Lieutenant Field Yale College 99

Artillery, World War I (overseas 1918-19, saw action m Marbache sector and before Metz), counsel British Ministry of War Transport and British Merchant Shipping Mission, Washington, World War II, created Honorary Officer, Civil Division, Order of the British Empire 1946, president Downtown Association 1944-50 and Maritime Law Association of the United States 1948-50, vice-president Children's Aid Society, New York City, 1942-49, president 1949-50, trustee New York Public Library and United Charities, member St James Protes- tant Episcopal Church, New York City Married June 27, 1914, Seabright, N J , Hazen, daughter of Albert Symington, '83, and Edith Louise (Harris) Symington Chil- dren EdithdeForest, the wife of Charles G Meyer, Jr , '33, George deForest, Jr , '42 (Ph D 1951), Edward Crary, 2d, '45 W Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Memorial Ceme- tery, Cold Spring Harbor, N Y Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, and two brothers, Franklin B Lord, '05, and Edward C Lord, '13

PHELPS NEWBERRY, B A 1914 Born December 8, 1891, Detroit, Mich , died July 8, 1949, Detroit, Mich Father, Truman H Newberry, '85 S Mother, Harriet Josephine (Barnes) Newberry Yale relatives include an uncle, A Victor Barnes (Class of 1891 S ) Hotchkiss School Freshman Glee Club, College Choir, Yale Uni- versity Dramatic Association, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Alpha Delta Phi Treasurer Detroit Steel Casting Company and O & W Thum Company 1915-17, assistant to president Detroit Seamless Steel Tubes Company 1919-20, resident manager Newberry Estate, Inc , 1921-25, president 1945-49, with Guardian Trust Company 1925-27, Union Guard- ian Trust Company 1927, vice-president Guardian Detroit Bank 1927-33, with Goodbody & Company, brokers, 1933-34 and McCann-Erickson, Inc , advertising agency, 1934-38, manufacturers' agent 1938-45, civilian aide for Michigan to Secretary of War 1936-47, Major Air Ser- vice World War I, Colonel (chief of personnel and base services) Air Corps World War II, vice-president Military Training Camps Associa- tion, treasurer Michigan Children's Aid Society, trustee Grace Hospital (Detroit), member Sons of the American Revolution and Grosse Pointe memorial Church (Presbyterian) Married January 18, 1916, Detroit, Christina Mmr, daughter of Harry and Christina (Muir) Van Husan Children Phelps, Jr , Truman Handy, 2d, Christina Muir (Mrs James Douglas Darling, 2d) Death due to rupture stomach varix Buried in Elmwood Ceme- tery, Grosse Pointe, Mich, Survived by wife, children, three grand- 100 Yale University Obituary Record children, a sister, Mrs Robert Owen Lord, and a brother, Barnes Newberry, '15

SCOTT SEDDON, B A 1914 Born June 9, 1892, St Louis, Mo , died November 2, 1949, Philadelphia, Pa Father, James Alexander Seddon (M A Umv Virginia 1870, LL B 1872), partner Seddon & Holland, lawyers, St Louis, son of James Alexander and Sarah (Bruce) Seddon Mother, Louise Quarles (Scott) Seddon, daughter of William Poston and Martha Minor (Hall) Scott Smith Academy, St Louis Second colloquy appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year LL B Washington University 1916 (Phi Delta Phi, secretary and coeditor St Louis Law Review), lawyer in St Louis 1916-17, 1919-21 (assistant counsel Simmons Hardware Company 1919-21), and in Phila- delphia 1921-49 (member Barnes, Dechert, Price, Smith and Clark at time of death), Second Lieutenant Field Artillery World War I, member Philadelphia Bar Association, Commercial Law League of America, and Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal), St Louis Married July 10, 1920, St Louis, Martha Ann, daughter of Richard Chester and Anna (Sanford) Seifert Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Valhalla Cemetery, St Louis Survived by wife and three brothers, Bruce Seddon, James A Seddon, '27, and Dr John W Seddon, '31

WILFORD LAWSON SPENCER, B A 1915 Born January 5, 1893, New York City, died December 12, 1949, Newton, Mass Father, Guilford Lawson Spencer, D Sc (B S Purdue 1879, M S Univ Michigan 1882), chief of sugar laboratory U S Department of Agriculture, son of Israel and Helen Virginia (Shipley) Spencer Mother, Emma Louise (Fiske) Spencer, daughter of Samuel and Amanda (Stoddard) Fiske Friends School, Washington First dispute appointment Junior and Senior years LL B Harvard 1919, associated with Johnson, Clapp, Ives & King, lawyers, Boston, 1919-49 (partner since 1937), chief Department of Purchases and Supplies of the Commission for Prevention of Tuber- culosis in France (under Rockefeller Foundation) 1917-49, member Boston and Massachusetts State Bar associations and St Paul's Epis- copal Church, Natick, Mass Married (1) June 20, 1917, Natick, Alice Gardner Mulligan (B A Wellesley 1914, B S Simmons 1916), daughter of Henry Coolidge and Minna (Rawson) Mulligan Children Ann Moor (B A Oberlin 1940, Mrs William Law), Guilford Lawson, 2d (B A Williams 1943, M S Yale College 101

Massachusetts Inst Technology 1948), Gloria (B A Swarthmore 1947, M A Columbia 1949) Mr and Mrs Spencer were divorced 1929 Married (2) August 12, 1939, Carver, Mass , Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Rev George L Parker, '97, and Helen Mary (McGillivray) Parker Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Dell Park Ceme- tery , Natick Survived by wife, children, and one grandchild

WALTER STUART, B A 1916 Born January 25, 1879, Mt Clare, W Va , died February 11, 1950, West Union, W Va Father, Charles Stuart, a farmer in Harrison County, W Va , son of Edward and Margaret Stuart Mother, Letitia (Radcliff) Stuart, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Ryan) Radcliff Preparatory department University of West Virginia, B A National Normal University 1906 and University of Virginia 1910 Entered Yale Senior year, dissertation appointment Principal high school Handley, Texas, 1916-18, head Latin department Petersburg (Va ) High School 1918-28, owner and editor West Union Record 1928-50, member West Virginia Editorial Associa- tion and West Virginia Historical Society, attended West Union Meth- odist Church Married September 16, 1929, Carson, Va , Essie Corinne Warren (Madison Coll 1912), daughter of Alfred Joseph and Corinne E (Leonard) Warren Death due to malignancy of liver Buried in Greenhill Cemetery, Harrison County Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs Jessie Stuart Mmear, and two brothers, Stephen E Stuart and George C Stuart

JOHN CORNELIUS DEMPSEY, B A 1917 Born May 16, 1895, Cincinnati, Ohio, died May 14, 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio Father, Edward John Dempsey (LL B Cincinnati Law School 1879), superior court judge and mayor of Cincinnati, son of John Shiel and Anne (Brereton) Dempsey Mother, Mary Agatha (O'Leary) Dempsey, daughter of Cornelius and Margaret (Sullivan) O'Leary Hughes High School, Cincinnati Freshman honors, honors of the first rank Junior year, philosophical oration appointment Junior and Senior years, Freshman Track Team, Phi Beta Kappa LL B Cincinnati Law School 1920, LL M University of Cin- cinnati 1930, partner Dempsey and Dempsey, lawyers, Cincinnati, 1920-50, general counsel for Archbishop and Archdiocese of Cincin- nati 1920-50, judge Common Pleas Court, Hamilton County, 1937-38, professor of contracts Chase College of Law (Y M C A ), Cincinnati, 1926-50, lecturer on legal aspects of nursing Good Samaritan Hospital 102 Yale University Obituary Record

School of Nursing 1933-50 and on trial practice University of Cincin- nati 1939-50, arbitrator Motion Picture Arbitration Tribunal 1941-50, director Cincinnati City Charter Committee and member Hamilton County Charter Commission, on Hamilton County Advisory Board, Aid for the Aged, trustee Sinking Fund of Cincinnati and on board of commissioners of Sinking Fund of Cincinnati City School District, trustee The Athenaeum of Ohio, The Newman Foundation of the University of Cincinnati., Ohio Humane Society, Juvenile Protective Association, Good Samaritan Hospital, Hamilton County Good Government League, Bureau of Governmental Research, Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati Music Hall Association, trustee, secretary Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, The Fenwick, The Boys' Home of Cincinnati, on advisory board The Fontbonne, board of re- gents Institutum Divi Thomae of The Athenaeum of Ohio, member corporation College of Music of Cincinnati, member West District committee Hamilton County council Boy Scouts of America, LL D The Athenaeum of Ohio 1942, Knighthood, Order of St Gregory the Great, 1948, Second Lieutenant Ordnance Department and Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) World War I, member Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi, Kappa Xi Delta, Cincinnati Yale Club, The Medievalists, Cin- cinnati Law Library Association, Cincinnati Bar Association (third vice-president 1949-50, elected second vice-president April 1950), Ohio State and American Bar associations, American Judicature Society, Army Ordnance Association, Historical and Philosophical Society of Cincinnati, American Legion, and Church of the Holy Fam- ily (Roman Catholic), Cincinnati Unmarried Death due to uremia Buried in St Joseph New Cemetery, Cincinnati Survived by two sisters, Misses Margaret Ann and Vir- ginia Mary Dempsey, and a brother, Edward James Dempsey

SANFORD BROCKETT KELLOGG, B A 1917 Born March 21, 1894, Tacoma, Wash , died October 28, 1949, Los Angeles, Calif Father, Dr Francis B Kellogg (B A 1883) Mother, Elizabeth (Brockett) Kellogg Yale relatives include Shubael Bartlett (B A 1800) (great-great-uncle), John Bartlett (B A 1807) (great-grandfather), Herbert H Kellogg, '94, Morrison B Yung, '98 S , Charles A Kellogg, '00, Bartlett G Yung, '02 (cousins) Hollywood High School, Los Angeles First dispute appointment Junior year, Freshman Glee Club Yale Medical School 1916-19 (member Nu Sigma Nu) Private Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps World War I, successively engaged as chauffeur, salesman, and in assisting his father until Yale College 103

1927, agent Sundstrand division General Office Equipment Corporation, Pasadena, 1927-31, assistant supervisor attendance and child welfare Boys Division, Los Angeles Board of Education, 1931-45, flight instructor War Training Service, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Manzanar, Calif , 1943-45, successively instructor Air School, Salt Lake City, and engaged as a salesman in Los Angeles since 1945, scoutmaster Boy Scouts of America 1915-30, member Glendale Pres- byterian Church Married June 9, 1918, New York City, Lucile, daughter of George H and Teanie (MacKenzie) Covey Children Jean Helen (Mrs Jerry Car 11), Sanford Brockett, Jr Mr and Mrs Kellogg were divorced Death due to carbon monoxide poisoning Survived by children, three grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs Mary Kellogg Hornaday and Mrs Frances Kellogg Walther

HAROLD SHAW LESLIE, B A 1917 Born September 3, 1895, Brooklyn, N Y , died January 25, 1950, New Haven, Conn Father, Israel Alfred Lebsky, a merchant in Brooklyn Mother, Anne Lillian (Brynlaw) Lebsky Boys1 High School, Brooklyn Second colloquy appointment Junior year Correspondent Western Union Telegraph Company, New York City, 1917-18, executive assistant and salesman Rosenfeld Company, house furnishings, Atlanta, Ga , 1918-19, secretary and director Rosenfeld-Kent Company, New York City, 1919-20, J D New York University 1924 (Class president), lawyer in New York City 1924-37, sales representative Delaware Floor Products, Inc , manufacturers of floor coverings, Wilmington, 1939-48, member Mishkan Israel Con- gregation, New Haven Married June 26, 1918, Atlanta, Eva Beatrice, daughter of Jacob and Gertrude (Dorfman) Selnik Son Alan (Univ Connecticut 1945-47) Death due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease Buried m Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, son, a sister, Mrs Bertha Simon, and two brothers, Louis Leslie and Benjamin Lebsky

MAURICE [COMPTON] BARBER, B A 1918 Born June 18, 1893, Toledo, Ohio, died April 29, 1950, Frankfurt, Germany Father, Jason Alonzo Barber (B A Oberlm 1879), a lawyer in Toledo Mother, Ida May (Hull) Barber, daughter of John and Evangelme (Walker) Hull Toledo High School, Oberlm College 1913-14 First colloquy 104 Yale University Obituary Record

appointment and honors of the third rank Junior year, Apollo Glee Club, College Choir, business manager Eli Book, Yale R O T C , Zeta Psi Second Lieutenant Engineers World War I, successively with C D Mallory Steamship Company, New York City and Baltimore, and General Motors Export Corporation, New York City, 1919-21, associated with Thomas H Ince Studios, Culver City, Calif , 1921, general manager and secretary Cinema Finance Corporation, Los Angeles, 1922-31, resided in France 1931-40 and produced play Love on the Dole and films in French for United Artists, Paris (awarded Medaille de la Renaissance Franchise), commander American Field Service, France, 1940, special representative American Red Cross Relief, France and Spam, 1941 (awarded Croix de Guerre) and acting director Near East 1942, ambulance driver American Field Service 1942, special assistant to Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D.C , 1942-44, executive officer United Nations Relief Rehabilitation Administration mission to France 1944-47, senior representative American Zone Inter-Allied Reparation Agency, Germany, 1947 and deputy chief of mission 1947- 50, member Congregational church Married December 17, 1923, Santa Barbara, Calif , Dorothy, daughter of Henry Nuney and Florence (Doty) Farnum Death due to cardiac failure Buried in Protestant Cemetery, Cannes, France Survived by wife, two sisters, Mrs W R Morri- son and Mrs Edward J Lorenz, and two brothers, William M Barber and John E Barber, '10

PHILIP BARRY, B A 1918 Born June 18, 1896, Rochester, N Y , died December 3, 1949, New York City Father, James Corbett Barry, president James C Barry Com- pany, marble and tile contractor, Rochester, son of Corbett Barry Mother, Mary Agnes (Qumn) Barry, daughter of James Qumn East High School, Rochester First dispute appointment Junior year, editor Yale Literary Magazine, Yale Daily News, and Yale Banner and Pot Pourri, Yale University Dramatic Association (produced first play Autonomy - A Political Satire), Alpha Delta Phi, Chi Delta Theta, and Elizabethan Club With code department American Embassy, London, World War I, reporter and editorial writer Rochester Post-Express 1919, copywriter Enckson Advertising Agency, New York City, 1920-21, graduate student Harvard 1921-22 (47 Workshop), playwright 1922-50, author You and 1, A Punch for Judy, The Youngest (47 Workshop prize plays), In a Garden, White Wings, John, Paris Bound, Cock Robin, Holi- day, Hotel Universe, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The"Animal Kingdom, The Joyous Season, Bright Stars, Spring Dance Here Come the Clowns, The Philadelphia Story, Liberty Jones, Without Love, Foolish Notion, Yale College 105

My Name is Aquilon, Second Threshold, and novel War in Heaven, Trowbridge lecturer Yale University 1936, member Philadelphia Art Alliance, Dramatists' Guild, Authors League of America, American Society of Dramatists, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Century Association, Yale Men in Advertising, and St Vincent Ferrer Church (Roman Catholic), New York City Married July 15, 1922, Mt Kisco, N Y , Ellen Marshall, daughter of Lorenzo and Mary (McAnerney) Semple Children Philip Semple, '45, Jonathan (Class of 1946), Mary Ellen (died in infancy) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in St Philomena's Cemetery, East Hampton, N Y Survived by wife, sons, a granddaughter, a sister, Rev Mother Agnes Barry, and a brother, James C Barry, '08 (died August 9, 1950)

BENJAMIN TOWNSEND HOOGLAND, B A 1918 Born January 22, 1896, Brooklyn, N Y , died August 17, 1949, New York City Father, John William Hoogland, associated with H L Judd & Company, brass and hardware furnishings, New York City, son of Benjamin Townsend and Mary Jane (DeWitt) Hoogland Mother, Mary Alice (Vrooman) Hoogland, daughter of Frederick Clute and Elizabeth (Pearse) Vrooman Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, Cornell University 1914-15 Enter- ed Yale Sophomore year, second dispute appointment Junior year, Apollo Glee Club and College Choir, member Yale Naval Training Unit, commissioned Ensign U S Naval Reserve Force January 1918, U S Naval Academy January-June 1918 (commissioned Ensign (T) U S Navy, June 1918), convoy duty U S S Utah; discharged March 5, 1919, B A awarded 1919 with enrollment in Class of 1918 Copy writer and assistant account executive Walter Thompson Company, advertising agency, New York City, 1919-27 and 1943-49, associated with the theatre as singer, actor, and director, and engaged as free lance writer 1927-42, author Let's Do Some Gilbert and Sulli- van, Second Lieutenant Squadron A, New York National Guard, World War II, member Holland Society of New York, Association of Ex-members of Squadron A, and Flatbush Congregational Church, Brooklyn Unmarried Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Green-Wood Ceme- tery, Brooklyn Survived by two sisters, Mrs Sheridan Johns and Mrs Walter Raymond, and a brother, Frederick V Hoogland, '31

JAMES ELDREDGE GREENE FRAVELL, B A 1919 Born May 27, 1896, Dayton, Ohio, died June 21, 1950, New York City Father, Howard Fravell, manufacturer of cider and vinegar, 106 Yale University Obituary Record

Grover's Mills, N J , son of Jesse and Rachel Gunsallus (Yarnell) Fravell Mother, Estelle (Greene) Fravell, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Wright) Greene Trenton (N J ) High School, Rutgers University 1914-15 Delta Upsilon Overseas with Morgan Harjes Ambulance Unit 1917-18, commissioned Lieutenant in French Army (awarded Croix de Guerre), with American Express Company, New York City, 1919-20, employment manager Rogers Peet & Company, New York City, 1921-27, in sales and editorial work college department Macmillan Company, New York City, 1927-50, special representative American Red Cross 1940-42, commissioned Lieutenant U S. Naval Reserve and assigned to New York area 1942-43, promoted Lieutenant Commander, liaison officer French battleship Richelieu 1943-44, appointed U S Naval Attache, Dakar, French West Africa, 1945 (made chevalier Legion of Honor), member Episcopal church Unmarried Death due to coronary sclerosis Buried in Dutch Neck, N J Survived by two sisters, Mrs Norman Penmcuik and Mrs Harry P Merchant

CHARLES SAMUEL HOFF, B A 1919 Born March 2, 1898, New York City, died May 17, 1950, New York City Father, Samuel Hoff, lawyer in New York City, son of Simon and Amelia (Warsaw) Hoff Mother, Amanda (Liebmann) Hoff, daughter of Charles and Sophia (Bendix) Liebmann Yale relatives include a cousin, Carl H Liebman, '22 River dale School Scholar of the third rank Junior year, oration appointment Junior and Senior years, University Soccer Team, Univer- sity Orchestra, Yale R O T C , Second Lieutenant Field Artillery September-December 1918 LL B Columbia 1922, lawyer in New York City 1922-50 (associated with father 1922-29), president Southbury Realty Corpo- ration 1938-46, Baho Corporation, real estate, 1941-50, and West- chester Symphony Orchestra, Major New York City Auxiliary Corps 1942-45 Married June 3, 1921, New York City, Virginia deForest Herring (Barnard Class of 1923), daughter of Hubert C and Mary (Woodbridge) Herring Children Hubert Clinton (B A. Univ Wisconsin 1948), Christopher, '47 Nov Death due to a heart attack Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs Erich W Zimmerman, Dr Amanda Hoff, and Mrs T Achilles Polyzoides, and a brother, William Jay Hoff, '28 Yale College 107

PHILIP HULL THOMAS, B A 1920 Born October 31, 1896, Omaha, Nebr , died July 24, 1949, Hartford, Conn Father, Elmer E. Thomas, '89 L Mother, Mary Irwin (William- son) Thomas Omaha High School Second dispute appointment Junior year Master in Latin LawrencevUle (N J ) School 1920-22 and Mer- cersburg (Pa ) Academy 1922-23, in educational book department Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, 1923-25, field representative Harper and Brothers, publishers, New York City, 1925-27, master in English Gunnery School, Washington, Conn , 1927-30, senior master Romford School, Washington, Conn , 1930-37, M A Columbia 1932, headmaster New Canaan (Conn ) Country School 1937-38, teacher of English Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass , 1938-42, headmaster Moore- land Hill School, New Britain, Conn , 1942-49, member South Congre- gational Church, New Britain Married June 30, 1928, Bernardsville, N J , Catherine Mc- Geary (B.A Wellesley 1926, M A 1927), daughter of Martin Thomas and Mary (Duffy) McGeary Children Philip Hull, Jr , and Emy Death due to rheumatic heart disease Buried in Stocking's Cor- ner Cemetery, Kensington, Conn Survived by wife, children, a sister, Mrs Thomas Lawson, and three brothers, Lyman H Thomas (Class of 1916 S ), Elmer Ellsworth Thomas, 2d, and John M Thomas, '37 M.

HAROLD WRIGLEY SCOTT WALTERS, B A 1920 Born September 25, 1897, Wyoming, 111 , died January 14, 1950, Evansville, Ind Father, John William Walters, member Scott, Walters & Rake- trau, bankers, Wyoming, son of Rev William Walters and Sarah (Neal) Walters Mother, Alice (Wrigley) Walters, daughter of Samuel and Betsy (Jarrod) Wrigley Yale relatives include a nephew, Arthur E Walters, '51 Mercersburg Academy Freshman and University football teams, Apollo Glee Club, Zeta Psi, Elihu Club, private Yale R O T C , Second Lieutenant Air Service, World War I With I Remhardt & Son, insurance, Dallas, Texas, 1920-22, E R Haase & Company, real estate, Chicago, 1922-26, assistant cashier and director Scott, Walters & Raketrau 1926-31, with Jackson Brothers, brokers, Chicago, 1931-34, Walraven Book Cover Com- pany, Dallas, 1939-41, sales manager Studebaker Machine Company, Chicago, 1941-42, with Ames, Emerich & Company, investment banking, Chicago, 1945-47 and Francis I duPont & Company, investments, Chicago, 1947-48, associated with classmate, S Louis Remhardt, in oil business in Evansville, Ind , 1948-50, First Lieutenant, Air Corps 108 Yale University Obituary Record

Intelligence, World War II, member Wyoming Congregational Church Unmarried Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Wyoming Cemetery Survived by four sisters, Mrs John Dexter, Mrs Ann Miller, Miss Edith Walters, and Mrs Helen Eldred, and a brother, William A Walters (Class of 1906)

EARLE LEWIS McGILL, B A 1921 Born November 15, 1897, New Haven, Conn , died November 4, 1949, New York City Father, William Cosgrove McGill, conductor New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, son of James Edward and Ann (Cosgrove) McGill Mother, Nellie Louise (Kiernan) McGill, daughter of John and Roseanna (Quinn) Kiernan New Haven High School, Georgetown University Law School 1916- 17 S A T C at Yale, student Graduate School 1924-25 Accountant Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company 1923-24, writer book synopses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount 1925-26, associated with Jed Harris, producer, 1926-34, put sound tracks into pictures for Fox Film Corporation 1929-30, Eastern story editor Columbia Pictures 1932, with Columbia Broadcasting Company 1934-45 (directed and produced "American School of the Air" 1934-40, "Colum- bia Workshop" 1937-41, and "Millions for Defense" 1941), free-lance radio producer 1945-49, produced and directed over 2,000 broadcasts, including "Great Scenes from Great Plays," "Report to the Nation," "Eyes and Ears of the Air Force, " "Waves on Parade", instructor Eng- lish and radio directing Barnard and Sarah Lawrence colleges, New York and Fordham universities, and universities of Michigan, Iowa, and California, author Radio Directing, Best Plays From Radio, coauthor Plays for Radio, contributed to periodicals and produced many plays for the Red Cross, Y M C A , and other philanthropic organ- izations, free-lance radio director Office Inter-American Affairs (cited by U S Treasury Department 1941 and American Red Cross 1945), founder Radio and Television Directors Guild (president New York and national societies, observer and war correspondent Pacific area World War II), on executive board American Theatre Wing (gave course in radio directing), examiner for radio employment New York Civil Defense, member St Ignatius Loyola Church (Roman Catholic)> New York City Married August 31, 1930, Rye, N Y , Constance Gould, daughter of Louis Francis and Edith (Gould) Brown Son Douglas Brown, '51 Mr and Mrs McGill were divorced 1944 Death due to brain tumor Buried in Beaverdale Memorial Park, New Haven Survived by son, a sister, Miss Elsa Eulalie McGill and a brother, William Henry McGill Yale College 109

MORTIMER LEGGETT DOOLITTLE, B A 1922 Born October 4, 1900, Washington, D C , died April 17, 1950, Stamford, Conn Father, Charles Benjamin Doolittle, secretary and treasurer Southern New England Telephone Company, New Haven, Conn , son of Thomas Benjamin and Mary (Bradley) Doolittle Mother, Laura Leggett (Seymour) Doolittle, daughter of Henry Albert and Mary (Leggett) Seymour Yale relatives include George Dudley Seymour (M A Hon 1913) (great-uncle) New Haven High School Freshman Class crew, University Wrestling Squad, Class Hockey team, Freshman Glee Club, private S A T C at Yale LL B 1925 (Phi Delta Phi, John Currier Gal- lagher Prize) With Cummings & Lockwood, lawyers, Stamford, 1925-50 (partner 1936-50), president Stamford Boys Club 1937-40, secretary Stamford Children's Home, trustee Stamford Family and Children's Center, secretary and Alumni Fund agent Class of 1925 L (executive committee Yale Association of Class Secretaries, council "Yale Alumni Association of Fairfield County), Lieutenant, Field Artillery Reserve, World War II, commander Stamford Power Squadron, member Stam- ford, Connecticut State, and American Bar associations, Masonic order, and St John's Episcopal Church, Stamford Married December 26, 1930, New Haven, Dorothy Rowley Per- kins (Class of 1926 Mus ), daughter of Edwin Charlton and Helen (Smith) Perkins Mrs Doolittle died 1945 Death due to carcinoma Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Survived by mother.

JOSEPH PORCH JONES, B A 1922 Born September 19, 1894, Palmyra, Ohio, died May 16, 1950, Youngstown, Ohio "Father, William William Jones, proprietor of a barber business in Youngstown, son of Thomas William and Kathryn (Huges) Jones Mother, Anna (Porch) Jones, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann (Davis) Porch Rayen High School, Youngstown, Oberlm College 1914-16 Enter- ed Yale Sophomore year Second Lieutenant Coast Artillery, 1917-18 Master in Latin Choate School, Wallingford, Conn , 1921-22 and Mercersburg Academy 1922-23, master in Latin, French, and mathematics Mackenzie School, Monroe, N Y , 1923-25, master in Latin Miami Military Academy, Coral Gables, Fla , 1925-31, attended Ohio State University summer 1931, commanding officer Civilian Conserva- tion Corps, Huntington, Ind , 1934-35, teacher English East High School, Youngstown, 1935-50, Second Lieutenant Coast Artillery World War I, Captain Coast Artillery Reserve, president Youngstown Teach- ers of High School English 1946, member Youngstown, Ohio, and Na- 110 Yale University Obituary Record tional Educational associations, Coast Artillery Association, and Cen- tral Christian Church, Youngstown Married March 9, 1935, Huntington, Goldie Irene, daughter of Fred and Grace (Fulton) Schoeff Daughter Joann Grace Died suddenly Buried in Brookfield (Ohio) Cemetery Survived by wife, daughter, mother, and a brother, Walter R Jones

EDWIN WOODFORD TUCKER, B A 1922 Born June 4, 1899, Hartford, Conn , died March 31, 1950, West Hartford, Conn Father, Edwin Hovey Tucker, banker and agent Mutual Life In- surance Company of New York, Hartford, son of Edwin Tucker Mother, Ada Maria (Woodford) Tucker, daughter of David Robinson and Julia Isabella Woodford Yale relatives include John T Tucker (B A 1861) (great-uncle), Lewis W Pratt, '13 S (cousin) Choate School Apollo Mandolin Club, University Band and Or- chestra, apprentice seaman Yale Naval Training Unit September- December 1918, B A awarded 1923 with enrollment in Class of 1922 Inspector New England Insurance Exchange of Boston 1922-24, manager insurance department Connecticut Mortgage & Title Guaranty Company, New Haven, Conn , 1924-26, salesman Putnam & Company, investments, Hartford, 1926-34, agent Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany of New York, Hartford, 1934-37, supervisor Shepard & Company, general agents Aetna Life Insurance Company, Hartford, 1937-50, private (1st class) U S Army Air Force October 1942-November 1944, member Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal), Hartford Married (1) September 12, 1924, New Haven, Gertrude Margaret, daughter of Ingram Durwood and Daisy Maude (Reinhard) Marshall Children Edwin Marshall (Umv Connecticut Class of 1953), David Woodford (Williams Class of 1952). Mr and Mrs Tucker were divorced 1935 Married (2) October 6, 1946, Hartford, Mary Event Bauer, daughter of Edward Hotchkiss and Delia Stanley (Peck) Ev«rit Death due to gastrointestinal hemorrhage Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford Survived by wife, two sons, three stepsons, Joseph E Bauer, Arthur E Bauer, and Robert E Bauer, and mother

FRANCIS OTTO MATTHIESSEN, B A 1923 Born February 19, 1902, Pasadena, Calif , died April 1, 1950, Boston, Mass Father, Frederic William Matthiessen, Jr , mining engineer LaSalle, 111 , and Colorado, and cattle rancher and horse breeder, California, son of Frederic William and Fanny (Muller) Matthiessen Mother, Lucy Orne (Pratt) Matthiessen, daughter of Dwight and Lucmda Howard (Orne) Pratt Yale relatives include Conrad H Matthiessen, '86 S (uncle), Ralph H Matthiessen, '12 S , Conrad H Yale College 111 Matthiessen, Jr , '16 S , Erard A Matthiessen, '24 S (cousins) Hackley School, Tarrytown, N Y Honors of the second rank Freshman year and first rank Sophomore and Junior years, high oration appointment Junior and Senior years, DeForest Prize and Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, managing editor Yale Daily News, editor Yale Literary Magazine, vice-president Dwight Hall Junior year, Class deacon, Class orator, Playcraftsmen, Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones, Chi Delta Theta, Elizabethan Club, Phi Beta Kappa Rhodes scholar University of Oxford 1923-25 (B.Litt 1925), M A Harvard 1926, Ph D 1927, instructor in English Yale University 1927- 29, instructor and tutor history and literature Harvard University 1929- 30, assistant professor and senior tutor Eliot House 1930-34, associate professor 1934-42, professor and tutor of history and literature 1942- 50, Alexander Lecturer University of Toronto 1944 and American semi- nar Salzburg, Austria, 1947, visiting lecturer Charles University (Pra- gue) 1947, Bergen lecturer Yale 1948, Litt D Princeton 1947, author Henry James the Major Phase, American Renaissance, Henry James the Latter Phase, From the Heart of Europe, The James Family, Ameri- can Novels and Stories of Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett A Critical Biography, Translation An Elizabethan Art, The Achievement of T S Eliot An Essay on the Nature of Poetry, Russell Cheney A Record of his Work, coeditor The Notebooks of Henry James, editor Selected Poems of Herman Melville, The American Novels and Stories of Henry James, selections and introduction Oxford Book of English Verse, a volume F O Matthiessen, 1902-50, A Collective Portrait, edited by P M Sweezy, was published after his death, editor New England Quarterly 1938-41, advisory editor Journal of History of Ideas, secretary Rhodes Scholarship Committee of Massachusetts 1933-38, student pilot Royal Canadian Air Force World War I, member Christ Church (Episcopal), Tarrytown Unmarried Took his own life Buried in Maple Street Cemetery, Springfield, Mass Survived by a sister, Mrs Harold George Neubrand, and two brothers, Frederic William Matthiessen and George Dwight Matthies- sen

CLEVELAND HITCHCOCK STORRS, B A 1923 Born May 10, 1900, Orange, N J , died January 31, 1950, Trail, Ore Father, Charles B Storrs (B A 1882). Mother, Gertrude Maria (Cleveland) Storrs (B A Vassar 1887) Yale relatives include Richard S. Storrs '85, Guy C Cleveland, '08 (uncles), Mather Cleve- land, '11 (cousin) The Hill School Scholar of third rank Sophomore and Junior years, oration appointment Junior year, Freshman Track and Golf teams, 112 Yale University Obituary Record

University Football and Track teams, S A T C , Delta Kappa Epsilon President Oil Reclamation Company of Oklahoma 1923-27, vice- president Campbell, Peterson & Company, Inc , investments, 1927-31, partner Smith, Graham & Rockwell 1932-34 and Graham & Company 1934-37, broker Fuller, Rodney & Redmond 1937-39, manager investment advisory department Fuller, Rodney & Company and Shearson, Hammill & Company 1940-41, chairman board Industro-Matic Corpora- tion of America 1941-50, president Stace, Inc , Hunchbell Mining and Milling Company, Harrisburg Engineering Corporation, and Shir gun Corporation, vice-president American Aerial Surveys Corporation, Second Lieutenant Field Artillery World War I, Major Military Intelli- gence U S Office of Strategic Services (Alaska, Aleutians, Philip- pines, Japan) 1943-46, commander Moses Hawley post American Legion, Casper, Wyo , member Bankers Club of America, National Association of Manufacturers, and Presbyterian church Married (1) October 13, 1923, Philadelphia, Mildred, daughter of Charles Scott and Alice (Green) McKmley Daughter Katharine Hitchcock Storrs Hall Mr and Mrs Storrs were divorced 1947 Married (2) Ruth Mattison Son Cleveland Mattison Took his own life Survived by wife and children

FESTUS JOHN WADE, JR , Ph B 1923 Born January 29, 1899, St Louis, Mo , died February 12, 1950, St Louis, Mo Father, Festus John Wade, president Mercantile Trust Company, St Louis, son of Thomas and Mary (MacDonagh) Wade Mother, Kathenne Virginia (Kennedy) Wade Newman School, Hackensack, N J Freshman Football Squad, Cross Country Squad, Senior Promenade Committee, Elizabethan Club, Alpha Delta Phi, Scroll and Key Vice-president Mercantile Trust Company 1923-29, president Festus J Wade, Jr & Company, brokers, St Louis, 1929-37 and Eightlo Land Investment Company 1936-50, special representative Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company 1937-41, partner Major Ad- vertising Company, St Louis, 1945-46 and Margaret Caradme Wright, real estate, Clayton, Mo , 1946-50, served in Field Artillery World War I (overseas 1918-19, Verdun offensive, Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Pont-a-Mousson), Major U S Marine Corps 1942-44, director Mission School for the Blind and International Institute, secretary Yale Club of St Louis Married (1) January 20, 1927, St Louis, Catherine Louise, daughter of Frank Payne and Elizabeth (Chittenden) Crunden Chil- dren Festus John, 3d (B S 1949), Elizabeth Crunden (Vassar Class of 1951) Mr and Mrs Wade were divorced 1937 Married (2) December 26, 1941, St Louis, Margaret Caradme Wright, daughter Yale College 113 of James Thomas and Florence (Evans) Caradme Death due to a gunshot wound Buried in the National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Survived by wife, son, daughter, two stepdaughters, Elizabeth and Margaret Wright, and two sisters, Mrs Lee P Warren and Mrs Sewell Thomas

LAIRD SHIELDS GOLDSBOROUGH, B A 1924 Born March 6, 1902, La Fayette, Ind , died February 14, 1950, New York City Father, Winder Elwell Goldsborough (M E Cornell 1892), consulting engineer and economist, New York City, son of Washington Elwell and Martha Pierce (Laird) Goldsborough Mother, Charlotte Poole (Wallace) Goldsborough, daughter of Wilson DeWitt and Anna Mary (Shields) Wallace Prepared privately Managing editor Yale Literary Magazine, editor Yale Record, dramatic critic Yale Daily News, Chi Delta Theta, Zeta Psi, Elizabethan Club Fellow Royal University of Norway 1924-25, foreign affairs editor Time magazine 1925-40, associate editor Fortune 1929-34, special assistant to chairman of board of Time 1941, coordinating officer in New York City for Counter Espionage, U S Office of Strategic Services, World War II, free lance writer at time of death Married June 17, 1929, in England, Florence, daughter of Charles Washington and Ella (Wallace) McConaughy Death due to injuries received in a fall Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa Survived by wife and parents

THOMAS HOFFMAN CLEARWATER, B A 1925 Born Sep- tember 15, 1903, Kingston, N Y , died May 3, 1950, Scarsdale, N Y Father, Ralph Davis Clearwater, merchant in Kingston, son of Isaac and Emily Boudoin (Trumpbour) Clearwater Mother, Mary Frances (Hoffman) Clearwater, daughter of Ira and Cornelia Catherine (Tremper) Hoffman Kingston High School Freshman Crew Squad, Fencing and Bowl- ing squads, Phi Kappa Epsilon, Book and Bond LL B Columbia 1928, lawyer in New York City 1928-50 (partner Martin & Clearwater at time of death), attorney Medical Society of the State of New York, member Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Huguenot Society of America, St Nicholas Society, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers and New York State Bar associations, Masonic order, and First Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston Married June 24, 1933, Kingston, Thelma Margharetta, daughter of Walter Daniel and Frances Selma (Fieldhouse) Bellows Children 114 Yale University Obituary Record

Susan Bellows and Peter Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery, Kingston Survived by wife, children, and father

JAMES ALBERT PHILLIPS, JR , Ph B 1925 Born Febru- ary 11, 1901, Ottumwa, Iowa, died June 7, 1950, Pasadena, Calif Father, James Albert Phillips, owner department store in Ottumwa, son of Thomas H and Martha (George) Phillips Mother, Virginia Herrick (Bell) Phillips, daughter of Major Horace Bell and Georgia (Herrick) Bell Los Angeles High School, University of California at Berkeley 1918 and 1921-22 Member Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa at Yale In collection department California Bank, Los Angeles, 1926-27, president Latin-American Trading Company, Inc , Los Angeles, 1927- 29, owner Phillips & Company, investment securities, 1929-33, member Los Angeles Stock and Curb exchanges, president Aero Engineer- ing Corporation, Los Angeles, 1934-38, president Phillips Aviation Company, manufacturers aircraft and engines, 1938-50, secretary- treasurer Yale Club of Southern California 1928-32, secretary 1932- 33, second vice-president 1933-34, member Society of Automotive Engineers, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, and St John's Episco- pal Church, Los Angeles Married November 23, 1924, Greenwich, Conn , Florence, daughter of Frank Henry and Florence (Jones) Reilley Son James Albert, 3d (B A Pomona 1949) Death due to ventricular heart failure Ashes interred in Rose- dale Cemetery, Los Angeles Survived by wife, son, mother, a sister, Mrs Virginia Phillips Adams, and a brother, Overton Axton Phillips

THOMAS GEOFFREY HORSFIELD, Ph B 1926 Born January 15, 1904, Manchester, England, died January 6, 1950, New York City Father, Harold Ingham Horsfield, president John Layton & Com- pany, importers, New York City, son of Thomas Baptist Horsfield Mother, Ada Gertrude (Robinson) Horsfield, daughter of George Andrew and Anne (Pritchard) Robinson South Side High School, Newark, N J On board Freshman Year Book, Alpha Sigma Phi In brokerage business 1926 until retirement December 31, 1948, security trader Herrick Company, Cleveland, 1926-30 and Mitchell, Herrick & Company, Cleveland, 1930-31, vice-president in charge New York office Wm J Mericka & Company, Inc , of Cleveland 1931-39, 1941-48, m Cleveland office 1939-41, second vice-president Security Yale College 115

Traders Association of New York, Inc , 1945-46, secretary 1946-47 Married October 25, 1930, New York City, Margaret Thomas, daughter of Dr Julian T Power Children Nancy Ingham and Susan Niven Mr and Mrs Horsfield were divorced 1949 Death due to pneumonia Buried in Arlington (N J ) Cemetery Survived by children, mother, and a brother, Robert Horsfield

WILLIAM GEORGE HYNSON, JR , Ph B 1928 Born March 16, 1905, Baltimore, Md , died June 17, 1950, Bronxville, N Y Father, William George Hynson, vice-president and treasurer United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Baltimore Mother, Lucy Erskine (Bams) Hynson Gilman Country School Freshman Swimming Squad With Harris, Forbes & Company (later Chase, Harris, Forbes Corporation), investment bankers, New York City, 1928-33, finance engineer Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Wash- ington, 1934-36, with G M P Murphy & Company, brokers, New York City, 1936-37, underwriter Hartford Accident and Indemnity Com- pany, New York City, 1937-50 Married June 14, 1930, Bronxville, Grace, daughter of Ellis Warren Gladwin Children William George, 3d, and Lawrence D Huntmgton Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Coutant Cemetery, Bronxville Survived by wife, children, mother, and a brother, Richard Hynson

RAYMOND KENNEDY, B A 1928 Born December 11, 1906, Holyoke, Mass , died April 27, 1950, near Tomo, West Java Father, John Aloysius Kennedy, a merchant in Hartford, Conn , son of Joseph and Ellen (O'Leary) Kennedy Mother, Ellen Louise (Curtm) Kennedy, daughter of John and Johanna (Donahue) Curtm Hartford Public High School, Trinity College 1924-25 Honors of the second rank Junior year, Phi Beta Kappa Ph D 1935 (member Sigma Xi) Teacher of Greek and biology Brent School, Baguio, Philippine Islands, 1928-29, field representative General Motors Corporation, Java and Sumatra, 1929-32, instructor sociology Yale University 1935- 40, assistant professor 1940-43, associate professor 1943-47, professor 1947-50, research associate Ethnogeographic Board and consultant Asia section Military Intelligence Service 1942-44, consultant Division Southeast Asian Affairs of the Department of State and Far Eastern Division Office Strategic Services 1944-46, author The Age- less Indies, Islands and Peoples of the Indies, The Islands and Peoples 116 Yale University Obituary Record of the South Seas and their Cultures, Bibliography of Indonesian Peoples and Cultures, and four unpublished volumes on "Indonesian Peoples and Culturesr\ coauthor Jews in a Gentile World, The Science of Man in the World Crisis, Most of the World, Studies in the Science of Society, The Netherlands, associate editor American Sociological Review 1943-44, 1948-49,, vice-president Eastern Sociological Society 1948, director Far Eastern Association and Southeast Asia Institute, member Netherlands University League of North America, American Anthropological Asso- ciation, and American Sociological Society Married July 20, 1939, Philadelphia, Pa , Ruby Jo Reeves (B S Texas State Coll for Women 1929, M A Yale 1936, Ph D 1938), daughter of Felix M and Birdie (Saunders) Reeves Daughter Ellen Reeves Professor Kennedy left New Haven in June 1949 to spend fifteen months in the Pacific on a field trip to study the influence of western civilization on native culture He and his companion were held up in their jeep by armed natives, taken to a clearing and shot Buried m Christian Cemetery, Bandoeng, Central Java, where a bronze plaque given by members of the Yale faculty has been erected Survived by wife and daughter

HIRAM NORCROSS, JR , B A 1928 Born October 18, 1906, Wichita, Kans , died August 26, 1949, Edenbndge, England Father, Hiram Norcross (B A Monmouth 1897, LL B Washing- ton Umv 1900), a cotton planter m Tyronza, Ark , son of William Charles and Isabella (Bevendge) Norcross Mother, Kathryn Mc- Claughry (Fmdley) Norcross (B A Monmouth 1899), daughter of Stuart Speer and Catherine (McClaughry) Fmdley Yale relatives include a cousin, George N Foster, '25 Country Day School, Kansas City, Mo Beta Theta Pi LL B 1930 With Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young, lawyers, St Louis, 1930-33, in legal department Shell Oil Company, St Louis, 1933-36, in land department Tulsa, Okla , 1936-38, land manager Centralia, 111 , 1938-41, engaged m process licensing in San Francisco for Shell Development Company 1941-42 and in New York office 1942-49 (vice-president 1944-49, special assignment London 1948-49), member Congregational church, New Canaan, Conn Married September 24, 1936, Clayton, Mo , Emily Westwood Lewis (Bryn Mawr 1927-28), daughter of Joseph William and Emily (Westwood) Lewis Children Emily Frances and Kathenne McLaurie Died suddenly Buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn Survived by wife, children, parents, and a brother, Herrick Norcross Yale College 117

WILLIAM BERTICE THOMAS, JR , Ph B 1928 Born Sep- tember 22, 1905, Cincinnati, Ohio, died April 26, 1950, Cincinnati Father, William Bertice Thomas, clerk Lodge and Shipley Machine Tool Company, Cincinnati, son of Leomdas Lent Hamlin and Elizabeth (Talbot) Thomas Mother, Adelaide Eleanor (de Serisy) Thomas, daughter of Edward Louis and Laura (Cobb) de Serisy Hughes High School, Cincinnati University Orchestra, Alpha Chi Rho Clerk change division, Home Office Union Central Life Insurance Company, Cincinnati, 1928-31, assistant manager 1931-34, manager 1934-36, technical supervisor Home Office Agency 1936-37, assistant manager 1938-50, manager pension trust department 1942-50, member Life Underwriters Association, Cincinnati Council of Life Under- writers and Corporate Trustees, General Agents and Managers Asso- ciation, and Camp Washington Methodist Church, Cincinnati Married March 1, 1930, in Cincinnati, Evelyn Herbst (B A Umv Cincinnati 1928, B Ed 1929), daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Winters) Herbst Children Joan and James Hamlin Death due to multiple myeloma Buried in Spring Grove Ceme- tery, Cincinnati Survived by wife, children, and parents

FREDERICK SUGDEN MURPHY, B A 1929 Born October 28, 1906, Providence, R I , died June 22, 1950, North Hampton, N H Father, Frederick Duncan Murphy, president Art Gravure Cor- poration, New York City, son of Frederick Duncan and Ida Augusta (Sandford) Murphy Mother, Josephine (Sugden) Murphy, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Sugden Lawrenceville School Freshman Track and Football squads, University Track Team, Chi Psi In mill International Paper Company, Cleveland, 1929-30 and salesman New York office 1930-34, salesman Art Gravure Corporation 1934-35, vice-president and general manager 1935-42, executive vice- president and director 1946-50, Lieutenant Commander U S Naval Reserve 1942-46 (executive officer on mine sweeper 1943-44, commanding officer LST 1944-46), member First Presbyterian Church, Montclair, N J Married (1) May 4, 1932, Cleveland, Sarah Louella, daughter of Michael and Sarah Gallagher Mr and Mrs Murphy were divorced 1935 Married (2) June 17, 1937, Bronxville, N Y , Frances Mary, daughter of James Severn and Julia Brayshawe (Welling) Crooke Children Gail, Frederick Sugden, Jr Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, N J Survived by wife, children, parents, and a sister, Mrs Florence Murphy Pearson 118 Yale University Obituary Record

JOSEPH JOHN RAYMOND, B A 1929 Born February 12, 1905, New Haven, Conn , died January 31, 1950, Vancouver, B C Father, William Raymond, a farmer in Giziai, Lithuania, son of Vincent and Ursula Rimavicius Mother, Agnes (Pieters) Ray- mond, daughter of George and Agatha Pieters New Haven High School Scholar of the third rank Junior year Ph D Princeton 1932, fellow American Council of Learned Societies, Vytauto Umversitetas, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932-33, lector of Lithuanian Language University of Warsaw 1933-35, instructor Greek Marianapolis College 1935-41 and Lithuanian at Columbia and New York Universities 1936-42, teacher French, German, and Latir Woodberry Forest School 1942, Master in French and Russian at The Hotchkiss School 1942-43, and German and Spanish Middlesex School, Concord, Mass , 1943-45, instructor classics department New York University 1945-46, instructor German Mohawk College 1946-47 and assistant professor modern languages 1947, assistant professor Department of Slavonic Studies University of British Columbia 1947-50, president Lithuanian Students and Professional Association of Connecticut, contributed many articles to language publications, member Linguistic Society of America and Roman Catholic Church Unmarried Death due to congestive heart failure Buried in St Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven Survived by mother, two sisters, Mrs Joseph Stadolnick and Mrs Walter Dzuba, and a brother, Victor George Raymond

WILLIAM SMYTH, B A 1932 Born June 15, 1910, New York City, died November 1, 1949, Washington, D C Father, Nathan A Smyth (B A 1897, M A 1899, LL B 1900), lawyer in New York City, son of Rev Newman Smyth (D D 1895) and Anna Marsten (Ayer) Smyth Mother, Kathleen LaRue (Bulkley) Smyth, daughter of L Duncan Bulkley (B A 1866) and Kate LaRue (Mellick) Bulkley Yale relatives include Henry Daggett (B A 1771) (great-great-great-grandfather), Henry D Bulkley (B A 1821) (great-grandfather), Winifred Smyth (cert Art 1906), Mary W Smyth (Ph D 1910) (aunts) Phillips-Andover Freshman Football Squad, Freshman Tennis Team and University Tennis Squad, Class Hockey and Foot- ball teams, Yale Daily News board (awarded gold charm), Alpha Delta Phi Associated with Schick Dry Shaver, Inc , Stamford, Conn , 1932-34, industrial analyst Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 1934-42, on staff Materiel Control Officer, U S Navy, 1942- 43, secretary Joint Logistics Plans Committee 1943-44, associate Yale College 119 member 1944-45, on staff Navy Plan for Unification of Military Ser- vices 1945, retired with rank of Lieutenant Commander 1945, secretary and treasurer Eberhard Faber Pencil Company, Brooklyn, 1946-49, secretary Yale Alumni Association of Bergen County, N J , 1934-36, member Manhasset Congregational Church (secretary Board of Christ- ian Education) Married June 5, 1936, Plamfield, N J , Helen Corwm, daughter of John Whitney and Theodora (Faber) Baker Children William New- man, Whitney Baker, Theodora Faber, Linda Ann (born posthumously) Mr Smyth was killed in an airplane accident Buried in Hillside Cemetery, Plamfield Survived by wife, children, parents, and four sisters, Mrs Leonard B Allen, Mrs Frederic Geake Hirsch, Mrs Milton Richard Berliner, and Mrs Grant L Ambrose

RICHARD vanDYCK KNIGHT, B A 1933 Born June 28, 1910, Greenwich, Conn , died October 30, 1949, New York City Father, William Knight, president Knight & Company, gram brokers, New York City, son of William and Hannah (Dare) Knight Mother, Florence May (Lane) Knight, daughter of Richard Henry and Marietta Louise (Brown) Lane Yale relatives include George A Wyeth, Jr , '37 (brother-in-law), Elisabeth Crawford Knight (Ph D 1938) (sister-in-law) Hotchkiss School Freshman Football Squad, manager Glee Club Senior year, Yale Daily News board (chairman News Pictorial Senior year), Alpha Delta Phi, commissioned Second Lieutenant Field Artil- lery, Officers Reserve of the Army of the United States, on graduation M D Columbia 1937 (Nu Sigma Nu), interne Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1937-39, Sloane Hospital for Women 1939-40, resident surgeon Lenox Hill Hospital 1940-41, resident in obstetrics and gynecology Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center 1942-45, member Summit (N J ) Medical Group 1945-49, member Union County Medical Society, American Medical Association, and First Baptist Church, Summit Married September 3, 1938, Hanover, N H , Jane, daughter of George Austin Wyeth, M D , and Mabel Russell (Beeson) Wyeth Children Valerie, Mary Elizabeth, Martha Death due to uremia Buried m Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich Survived by wife, children, mother, a brother, J Stephen Knight, f34, '37 L , a half sister, Katherine Boker, and a half brother, William Knight (Class of 1920)

SIDNEY JOSEPH COHEN, B A 1938 Born April 4, 1917, Scranton, Pa , died June 1, 1950, San Francisco, Calif 120 Yale University Obituary Record

Father, Charles Cohen, associated with Cohen's Furniture House, Bayonne, N J , son of Jacob and Deborah (Klugman) Cohen Mother, Mary (Shapiro) Cohen, daughter of Nathan Shapiro Yale relatives include Russell H Wilde, '24 (uncle), Jerome Alan Cohen, '51, (cousin) Bayonne High School Scholar of the second rank Freshman year, third rank Sophomore year, oration appointment Junior year, Timothy Dwight College M D New York Medical College 1943, interne Montefiore Hospital, New York City, 1943-44, resident physician Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1947-48, resident psychiatrist University of California Hospital 1948-50, Captain Medical Corps November 1944-January 1947 (Okinawa and Korea), member American Medi- cal Association and Beth Abraham Synagogue, Bayonne Married May 1, 1946, Yokohama, Japan, Elizabeth Mead Rey- nolds (B A Umv California 1938), daughter of Norman Trow- bridge and Bertha (Mead) Reynolds Children Laurie Margaret and Lisa Death due to cardiac failure Buried in Baron D'Hirsh Ceme- tery, Staten Island, N Y Survived by wife, children, parents, a sister, Mrs Geraldme Cohen Margolin, and a brother, Norman Cohen

JOHN MIRAN WEEKS, J3 A 1940 Born December 8, 1919, Tomngton, Conn , died February 17, 1950, Rockville Centre, N Y Father, John Paul Weeks (U S Naval Academy 1917), accountant Ethyl Corporation, New York City, son of John Henry and Laura (Dingman) Weeks Mother, Lillian Belle (Miran) Weeks, daughter of John J and Ellen (Morgan) Miran Mt Hermon School Scholar of the second rank Freshman year, oration appointment Junior and Senior years, on board Yale Daily News (associate editor and feature sports writer Junior year), Pierson College, Beta Theta Pi Editorial and feature writer Paul Block & Associates, New York City, 1940-41, enlisted as apprentice seaman U S Naval Reserve, September 18, 1941, attended Midshipman's School, North- western University, September 1941 until commissioned Ensign January 1942, assigned Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 1 (Ellice Is- lands, Tulagi, Treasury Islands, Bougainville) July 1942-March 1944, promoted Lieutenant (j g ) March 1943, Lieutenant April 1944, Lieutenant Commander January 1949, instructor Melville Torpedo Training Station, Newport, R I , March-September 1944, division leader Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 38, September 1944- August 1945, and squadron commander August until discharge from Yale College 121

active duty November 1945, reporter and rewrite editor Associated Press, Baltimore, November 1945-May T947, contributing editor Time magazine since May 1947, member Old First Church (Presbyterian), Newark, N J Married January 21, 1942, Forest Hills, N Y , Gertrude Eliza- beth, daughter of Herman Joseph and Margaret (Hartman) Specht Children John Henry and Robert Paul Death due to injuries received in a tram wreck Buried in Long Island National Cemetery, Pmelawn, N Y Survived by wife, children, mother (Mrs Albert G Taaffe), and father

JOHN HARPER MALLORY, JR , B A 1941 Born October 23, 1918, Mineola, N Y , died November 29, 1949, New York City Father, John Harper Mallory (Class of 1909), executive assistant Trinity Operating Company, New York City, son of George B Mallory and Lydia (Harper) Mallory Mother, Mabel Louise (Wiske) Mallory, daughter of Frank Edmund and Florence Augusta (Searing) Wiske Yale relatives include Orlando M Harper (B A 1867) (great- uncle), Robert Mallory, 3d, !38 S , G Barron Mallory, '41 (cousins) Romford School Freshman crew, baseball, and track squads, Junior Varsity Football Team, University Track Team, Pier son College (football and baseball teams), Fence Club ^ Entered U.S Marine Corps as private (first class) June 21, 1941, commissioned Second Lieutenant, U S Marine Corps Reserve, November 1941, assigned 6th Reserve Officers Class, Quantico, Novem- ber 1941-January 1942, 1st Marine Regiment, New River, N C , Jan- uary-March 1942, and 3d Brigade March-April 1942, promoted First Lieutenant November 1942, Captain April 1943, Major May 1945, South Pacific service 1942-44 (British and American Samoa, Maui, T H , Eniwetok, Guadalcanal, Guam), commanding officer Motor Transport Company, Camp Lejeune, 1945 until discharge January 1946, catalog copywriter Montgomery Ward & Company, New York City, 1946-47, advertising manager Taylor, Pmkham & Company, Inc , commission textile selling agents, New York City, 1947-49, member Trinity Church (Episcopal), Hewlett, N Y Married May 17, 1947, Scarborough-on-Hudson, N Y , Mary Anne Gouge (B A Vassar 1945), daughter of George Frederick and Bessie (Westerberg) Gouge Son George Gouge Died of injuries received in a fall Buried m Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, Conn Survived by wife, son, and parents (father died 1950)

ROGER WOLCOTT CONVERSE, JR „ B A 1945 Born May 6, 1922, Boston, Mass , died September 23, 1949, Boston, Mass 122 Yale University Obituary Record

Father, Roger Wolcott Converse (Class of 1922), president- treasurer Pmey Point Estates, Inc , Marion, Mass , son of Harry Elisha and Mary Caroline (Parker) Converse Mother, Barbara (Ware) Converse, daughter of Robert Dexter and Helen Frances (Thaxter) Ware Yale relatives include John M Butler, '16, Elisha E Converse, '16, Parker Converse (Class of 1919) (uncles), John M. Butler, Jr , '41, Morton Butler, 2d (Class of 1942), H Peter Con- verse, '44 (cousins) Taft School Member Chi Psi and Pierson College Entered U S Marine Corps February 1943 with V-12 at Yale, trained at Parr is Island, Camp Lejeune, Quantico, and Camp Pendle- ton, commissioned Second Lieutenant November 1944, promoted First Lieutenant March 1946, stationed on Guam 1945 and Tientsin, China, until May 1946, member Pmey Point Estates, Inc , 1947-49, member Christ Church (Episcopal), Marion Married March 20, 1943, Boston, Evelyn, daughter of Talbot Coggeshall and Frances (Bradley) Chase Children Nathalme and Anne Talbot Death due to poliomylitis Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Marion Survived by wife (Mrs Edwin B Holmes, 2d), children, father, mother (Mrs Richard M Gorham), three sisters, Misses Vera, Rose, and Christina Converse, all of Boston, and two brothers, Costello Converse of Westwood, Mass , and Chandler B Converse (Class of 1954)

ALBERT EDWARD EASINGWOOD, B A 1947 Born January 11, 1924, Lakewood, Ohio, died September 13, 1949, Las Vegas, N Mex Father, Albert Huntmgton Easingwood (B A Hamilton 1912), cable editor Chicago Daily News, son of Arthur Lavarack and Harriett (Keck) Easingwood Mother, Cecile Marguerite (Striegel) Easing- wood (Northwestern 1927-28), daughter of William John Henry and Elizabeth Anne (Ramsden) Striegel Evanston Township High School, Kenyon College 1942-43 (Sigma Pi) Entered Yale 1943, University Glee Club, College Choir, Yale Political Union, Torch Society, Jonathan Edwards College Graduate student and assistant in English New Mexico Highlands University 1948-49, member St Luke's (Episcopal) Church, Evanston, HI Unmarried Death due to tuberculosis Buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Survived by parents, a sister, Miss Elizabeth Anne Easingwood, and two brothers, William Dale Easingwood and Richard Striegel Easingwood Yale College 123

ARTHUR EVERETT JACKSON, B A 1947 Born May 21, 1925, Sheridan, Mont , died June 24, 1950, Lake Michigan Father, Frank Russell Jackson (Montana State Coll 1915-16), owner Sheridan Bakery, son of Benjamin Franklin and Esther (Dye) Jackson Mother, Leona Mary (Mallender) Jackson, daughter of Arthur Sylvester and Catherine (Geller) Mallender Sheridan High School Entered Yale 1945, member Yale Band Junior year, Saybrook College, and N R O T C In U S Naval Reserve May 1943 until discharge June 1946 (attended Quartermaster and Submarine schools and entered submarine service, member V-12 training program at Trinity College 1944-45), appointed Ensign Organized Naval Reserve August 1947 and division personnel officer and instructor basic submarine course Submarine Division 3-3, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1947-50, credit representative Chase National Bank, New York City, 1947-50, attended New York University Graduate School of Business Administration 1949, member Central Baptist Church, Hartford, Conn Married April 8, 1950, Hartford, Geraldine Mary, daughter of Thomas F and Gladys Mary (Young) Reilly Mr and Mrs Jackson were killed in an airplane crash over Lake Michigan Survived by parents, a sister, Miss Doris Marie Jackson, and two brothers, Frank Roy Jackson and Leslie Fay Jackson

PETER ISRAEL HERSHMAN, B A 1947 March Born July 28, 1927, New Haven, Conn , died August 23, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, Samuel Isaac Hershman (LL B Umv Michigan 1913), president I Hershman Company, Inc , wholesale paper stock, paper mill supplies, and pulp, New Haven, son of Israel and Sophia (Schwartz) Hershman Mother, Esther (Goodman) Hershman (B A Cornell 1924, Yale Law School 1924-25), daughter of Henry Joachim and Sadie (Engel) Goodman Yale relatives include Abram H Hershman, '08 M (uncle), Morton H Adelman, '31 (cousin) Milford School Philosophical oration appointment Senior year, on board Yale Literary Magazine (business manager Junior year, contributing editor Senior year), coxswain University crew squad Junior year, Timothy Dwight College, Phi Beta Kappa Awarded B A June 1948 (Scholar of the House, honors with exceptional distinction) Independently engaged in writing 1948-49, did research work at The Sorbonne, Paris, September 1948-January 1949, member Temple Mishkan Israel, New Haven Unmarried Death due to tubular bronchiectosis Buried in Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven Survived by parents and a brother, James David Hershman SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

LUTHER HENRY GAGER, Ph B 1875 Born March 19, 1853, Coventry, Conn , died February 16, 1950, West Hartford, Conn Father, Luther Porter Gager, a farmer in Coventry, member State legislature, son of Simon and Anna (Porter) Gager Mother, Julia Augusta (Brewster) Gager, daughter of Shubael and Cynthia Wing (Kingsbury) Brewster Willimantic (Conn ) High School Civil engineering course Construction engineer Flynt Building & Construction Company, Palmer, Mass , 1883 until retirement 1910, resided in Palmer until 1946, deacon Second Congregational Church, Palmer Married June 20, 1878,, Hartford, Conn , Jennie Louise, daughter of Alfred Butler and Martha Jane (Lyman) Pitkm Children Frederick Pitkin (died in infancy), Ruth (B A Mount Holyoke 1904, Mrs Oliver Ferry), Alice (B A Wellesley 1909, died 1936) Mrs Gager died 1946 Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Palmer Survived by one daughter, three grandchildren, and four great- grandchildren Mr Gager had been the oldest living graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School since April 1, 1946

JOHN ELIJAH MORPETH HALL, Ph B 1877 Born July 15, 1857, Sydney, Australia, died March 6, 1950, New York City Father, Hayden H Hall, a commercial agent of the United States in Sydney Select course LL B Columbia 1879 Steward Staten Island Club, St George, for fifty years and Elks Club 1943 until retirement 1947 Married Anna A Swenson Survived by no immediate relatives Mr Hall was the last surviving member of his class

WILLIAM ANNIN VLIET, Ph B 1878 Born July 6, 1856, Cleveland, Ohio, died December 20, 1949, Shaker Heights, Ohio Father, William French Vliet, president W F Vliet Company, decorators, Cleveland, son of Jasper Vliet Mother, Sarah Jane (Williams) Vliet, daughter of John and Ann (Mullm) Williams Mt Pleasant Academy Select course, York Hall and Chi Phi Secretary and treasurer W F Vliet Company and Commercial Real Estate Company, president American Honduras Company and Sheffield Scientific School 125

Patuca Fruit Company, in real-estate business Cleveland 1908 until retirement 1920, original member Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery, member St Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Married February 21, 1906, in Cleveland, Jane Staley, daughter of William Staley Children Sara Jean (B A Smith 1929, Mrs Wil- liam Burlmgame Belden), Kaatje (Mrs James A Upstill),and Margue- rite (Mrs Forrest E Vaughan) Mrs Vliet died 1931 Death due to carcinoma Buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleve- land Survived by children and five grandchildren Mr Vliet was the last surviving member of his class

ROBERT WILLIAM WATSON, Ph B 1881 Born September 23, 1860, near Bmghamton, N Y , died December 5, 1949, Edgartown, Mass Father, Peter Hill Watson, a patent lawyer, assistant to Secre- tary of War during Civil War Mother, Rose Rebecca (Pike) Watson Brooks Military Academy Dynamic engineering course, Uni- versity Football Team (captain Senior year), University and Sheff Base- ball teams, vice-president Yale Athletic Association, St Anthony and Delta Psi Mining engineer in Colorado 1881-91, consulting engineer Harris- bur g, Pa , 1904-11 and New York City 1911 until retirement about 1920, resided in Switzerland 1920-25 (president Yale Alumni Association in France 1924-25), Alumni Fund agent 1918-24, member Edgartown Associates Married June 14, 1910, Adeline, daughter of Edward Shirley and Mary (Ferguson) Finnegan Daughter Ann Momette (B A Smith 1933, Yale Graduate School 1933-34, Mrs Courtenay Barber, Jr ) Mrs Watson died September 1949 Death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease Buried in West Side Cemetery, Edgartown Survived by daughter and three grandsons

RICHARD LAWRENCE EVERIT, Ph B 1882 Born December 19, 1861, New York City, died April 18, 1950, Yarmouth Port, Mass Father, Richard Mansfield Event, partner Burdett & Event, export merchants, New York City, son of Richard and Sarah (Mansfield) Event Mother, Mary Talman (Lawrence) Event, daughter of Effing- ham and Augusta Maria (Nicoll) Lawrence Yale relatives include John Hart (B A 1703), Benjamin Nicoll (B A 1734), William Nicoll (B A 1734), John H Lynde (B A 1796) (great-uncles), Arthur M Event, '87 S (brother), Louis S deForest, '79 (brother-in-law), L Effingham deForest, f12, C Shepard deForest, '12 S (nephews), 126 Yale University Obituary Record

Annie Lawrence Event Pitkin (Class of 1910 Art) (niece) Hopkins Grammar School Civil engineering course In office city engineer New Haven 1882, office superintendent New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, Brooklyn, 1883-84, in charge father's real estate business, South Frammgham, Mass., owner apple orchards Barre, Mass , 1912 until retirement 1940, Class secretary 1882-88 Married January 16, 1896, South Framingham, Hattie, daughter of Edward Lewis Sturtevant (B A and M D Bowdoin 1866) and Mary Elizabeth (Mann) Sturtevant Son Richard Sturtevant (B S Harvard 1919, died 1938) Death due to cardiac failure Buried m Edgell Grove Ceme- tery, Frammgham Survived by wife and a grandson

EDWARD PEERS EASTWICK, JR , Ph B 1883 Born March 16, 1864, Baltimore, Md , died January 25, 1950, Greenwich, Conn Father, Edward Peers Eastwick, partner Havemeyer & East- wick. New York City, son of Andrew McCalla and Lydia Anne (James) Eastwick Mother, Maria Josephine (West) Eastwick, daughter of Joseph English and Huldah Ann Perry (Stewart) West Yale relatives include a grandson, William D Davies, Jr , '50 Wilson and Kellogg School Civil engineering course, The Cloister and Book and Snake S E Columbia 1889, C E 1892, sanitary engineer New York City Board of Health 1884-92, chief engineer and refiner American Sugar Refining Company, New Orleans, 1892-99, established East- wick Engineering Company, Ltd , 1899, president 1899-1950, consultant to sugar industry and refineries in Mexico, Cuba, and United States Married April 7, 1896, Philadelphia, Helen Anna, daughter of John George and Maria James (Eastwick) Klemm Children Helen Klemm (Mrs William Death Davies), Marjorie Stewart, Marie Edna, Edward Peers, 3d (Syracuse Umv 1920-25) Mrs Eastwick died 1930 Death due to carcinoma Buried in Putnam Cemetery, Green- wich Survived by children and six grandchildren

JOHN EDMUND NEWELL, Ph B 1883 Born December 14, 1861, Amboy, 111 , died December 2, 1949, Mentor, Ohio Parents, John and Judith P. (Hills) Newell. Yale relatives include Newell Garfield, '18, Ashbel B Newell, Jr , '20, Rudolph H Garfield (Class of 1921 S ) (nephews), Newell Garfield, Jr , '45 W (grand-nephew) Sheffield Scientific School 127

Boys High School, Chicago Second prize in English composition Freshman year, Sheff Baseball Team, captain Consolidated Baseball Club, '83 Sheff Barge Crew, Class President, Class Supper Committee, Yale Society of Natural History, Franklin Hall and Theta Xi Chemist North Chicago Rolling Mill Company 1-884-85, superintendent Bessemer department 1885-86, with Armour & Company 1887, coal inspector Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company 1887-88, vice-president and Chicago agent New Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany 1888-89, manager of mines James W Ellsworth & Company, Cleveland, 1890-99, successively vice-president and treasurer and president Morris Coal Company and Jefferson Coal Company, Cleve- land, retired about 1940, trustee Society for Savings Bank of Cleveland Married December 8, 1891, Chicago, Annie' Carpenter Sons Augustus Carpenter (Class of 1916, died 1941), John Mrs Newell died 1938 Death due to a heart attack Buried in Knollwood Cemetery, Cleveland Survived by one son and a brother, Ashbel B Newell, '90 (died August 27, 1950)

WILLIAM SHERMAN RANDALL, Ph B 1883 Born August 5, 1861, Brookfield, Conn , died August 13, 1949, Shelton, Conn Father, Charles Wesley Randall, general storekeeper, South- bury, Conn , son of Jonathan J and Abigail (Gorham) Randall Mother, Elizabeth Ann (Ruggles) Randall, daughter of Sherman and Sarah (Oakley) Ruggles Derby (Conn.) High School, Yale School of Medicine 1883-84 M D Columbia 1885, postgraduate student New York Eye and Ear Hospital, house physician New Haven Hospital 1885-86, physician in Derby 1886 until retirement 1942, staff physician Griffin Hospital, Derby, town health officer Shelton 1894-1908, member State legislature 1893-94, vice-president New Haven County Public Health Association, contributed to scientific publications, president Fairfield County Medical Society, director Plumb Memorial Library, Shelton, member Connecticut State Medical Society, American Medical Association, and Masonic order, vestryman Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal), Shelton Married September 7, 1887, in New Milford, Conn , Hattie Lacy, daughter of Daniel Glover and Harriet Elizabeth (Starr) Beers Children Harold Beers, 'US, Helen Starr, the wife of Charles R. Williams, '05 S Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Alfred C Sperry 128 Yale University Obituary Record

SAMUEL BROWN HAWLEY, Ph B 1884 Born December 2, 1862, New York City, died September 26, 1949, Yonkers, N Y Father, David Hawley (B A 1864) Mother, Catherine Ann (Brown) Hawley Holbrook Academy Dynamic engineering course, first prize in English composition Freshman year, Sheff Tennis Team, Class statistician, Class Picture Committee, St Anthony and Delta Psi Studied law in father's office and attended Columbia 1884-86, lawyer 1886-1903, managed family property, Yonkers, 1903-49, Class secretary 1904-49, treasurer 1919-24, vice-president Yale Association of Class Secretaries 1919-22, president 1922-23, trustee Y M C A , Yonkers, American Scenic and Historic Preserva- tion Society (chairman committee which operated PhiUipse Manor), and Westchester County Historical Society, member American Asso- ciation for Advancement of Science, New York State Historical Asso- ciation, American Geographical Society, Society of Mayflower Des- cendants, trustee First Presbyterian Church, Yonkers Married November 15, 1889, Fermme du Buisson, daughter of Henry Martyn and Susan (Baldwin) Baird Mrs Hawley died 1937 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Woodlawn Ceme- tery, New York City Survived by no immediate relatives

ELMORE ABRAM WILLETS, Ph B 1884 Born September 8, 1861, Bradford, Pa , died December 12, 1949, Sewickley, Pa Father, Isaac Willets, pioneer oil producer in Bradford, son of Abraham and Henrietta (Frost) Willets Mother, Harriet (Ayers) Willets, daughter of John Wilson and Electa (Frace) Ayers Phillips-Andover Select course, Class Supper Committee, St Anthony and Delta Psi Engaged in oil business with father and active in developing fields m vicinity Washington, Pa , and Bolivar, N Y , 1884-1949, founder State Bank of Belmont, N Y , 1888, president 1888-1949, president Citizens National Bank, Wellsville, N Y , 1897-1905, president Willets & Paul Corporation, operation of farms and oil producing properties, 1922-49, trustee New York Home for Children, Randolph, N Y , member American Museum of Natural History, New York Hor- ticultural Society, New York Zoological Society, New York Philologi- cal Society, and American Humane Association Married September 13, 1917, New York City, Lucy Penn, daughter of Frank Reid and Annie (Spencer) Penn Children Harriet Ann (Univ Florence [Italy] 1937-38, Columbia 1939-41), Elmore Abram, Jr , '42 S Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Forrest Hills Ceme- Sheffield Scientific School 129 tery, Belmont Survived by wife, children, and three grandchildren

JAMES ARTHUR ATWOOD, Ph B 1885 Born May, 1864, Wauregan, Conn , died September 26, 1949, Wauregan, Conn Father, James Sheldon Atwood, agent Wauregan Mills, textile manufacturers, son of John and Julia Ann (Battey) At- wood Mother, Julia Ann Marie (Haskell) At wood, daughter of Willard and Lydia (Fretter) Haskell Yale relatives include John W Atwood (Class of 1885 S ) (brother), Earle C Hopkins (Class of 1894 S ) (brother-in-law), James A Atwood, 3d (Class ofl945W) (grandson) Phillips-Andover Dynamical engineering course, Sheff and Uni- versity Baseball teams, vice-president University Athletic Association, Class Picture Committee, Delta Psi Agent Wauregan Mills, Inc , 1889-1908, treasurer and general manager 1908-37, president 1937-49, agent Qumebaug Company, Daniel- son, Conn , 1897-1908, general manager 1908-17, treasurer 1917-32, treasurer Ponemah Mills, Taftville, Conn , 1909-32, president 1932- 49, president Williamsville (Conn ) Manufacturing Company 1890-92, general manager Lockwood Company, Waterville, Maine, 1908-11, president Wmdham County National Bank, Danielson, 1904-14, Brook- lyn (Conn ) Savings Bank, director Cotton Textile Institute, National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Rhode Island Hospital Trust Com- pany, American Bleached Goods, American Mutual Insurance Company, and Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, member Order of Colonial Wars

tMarried (1) December 11, 1888, Central Village, Conn , Helen Louise, daughter of Philip and Helen W (Fenner) Mathewson Son James Arthur, Jr , '12 S (died 1922) Mrs Atwood died 1917 Married (2) November 4, 1926, Worcester, Mass , Elsie Hopkins Young, daughter of Timothy Earle and Marcella Sayles (Cook) Hopkins Daughter Dorothy Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Westfield Cemetery, Danielson Survived by wife, daughter, three granchildren, and a stepdaughter, Elsa Hopkins Young Brown, wife of R Hunt Brown, '27 S

JOHN EDWIN DOANE, Ph B 1886 Born February 19, 1864, Chicago, 111 , died March 22, 1950, New York City Father, John Wesley Doane, an importer and banker in Chicago, son of Joel and Olivia Primrose (Hascall) Doane Mother, Julia Ann (Moulton) Doane, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Barnard) Moulton Yale relatives include Frederick S. Wicks, '73 (brother-in-law), J Wesley Doane, '91 (brother), Bartlett Wicks (Class of 1919) (nephew) 130 Yale University Obituary Record

Harvard School Select course, Sigma Delta Chi, The Cloister and Book and Snake Bank clerk Merchants' Loan & Trust Company, Chicago, 1886- 1900, partner J W Doane & Company, tea and coffee importers, 1900- 1916, engaged in farming Thompson, Conn , 1900-1908, president Bos- ton branch Caementium Sales Company of London, England, 1916 until retirement 1920, member Trinity Episcopal Church, Chicago Married December 12, 1894, Burlington, Iowa, Anna Persis, daughter of John Sigman and Amelia Persis (Williams) Schramm Children Julianne (died 1935), Marian (died 1912), Olivia, the wife of William Holabird, '27 S , John (died 1920) Death due to a heart attack Buried in Mt Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass Survived by wife and one daughter

MAHLON HENRY MARLIN, Ph B 1886 Born July 23, 1864, Windsor Locks, Conn , died September 14, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, John Mahlon Marlin, founder and president Marlm Fire- arms Company, New Haven Mother, Martha Susan (Moore) Marlm, daughter of Henry and Susan A Moore Yale relatives include a nephew, John B Marlin (Class of 1934 S ) Hillhouse High School, New Haven Mechanical engineering course, Freshman and University Football teams, University Polo Team Associated with Marlm Firearms Company 1886 until retirement 1915 (president and treasurer 1900-1915), director First Nation- al Bank and Trust Company Married October 26, 1887, South Deerfeild, Mass , Mary Moore Aldrich (Smith 1884-86), daughter of Charles Phelps and Eliza- beth M (Moore) Aldrich Daughter Janet Ripley Marlin Gifford Castle (Mrs Janet Marlm) Death due to myocardial failure Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife (died April 9, 1950), daughter, and a brother, John Howard Marlm

ALEXANDER HOLLEY RUDD, Ph B 1886 Born March 8, 1867, Lakeville, Conn , died September 17, 1949, Salisbury, Conn Father, William Beardslee Rudd, manager The Holley Manu- facturing Company, Lakeville, son of Rev George Robert Rudd and Frances (Beardslee) Rudd Mother, Maria Coffing (Holley) Rudd, daughter of Gov Alexander Hamilton Holley and Marcia (Coffing) Holley Yale relatives include Malcolm D Rudd (Class of 1900) (brother), HolleyR Cantme, '14S ,RoswellH Rudd, '30 (nephews), Thomas J Rudd, '44 S , A Holley Rudd, 2d, '46 E (grandsons) Hartford (Conn ) Public High School Mechanical engineering Sheffield Scientific School 131 course, York Hall and Chi Phi Draftsman real-estate department Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany 1886-88, in signal department 1888-92, assistant signal engineer lines east of Pittsburgh 1903-7, signal engineer 1907-20, chief signal engineer entire system 1920 until retirement 1937, inspector signals Hudson River division New York Central Railroad Company 1892-93, assistant superintendent signals 1893-94, signal engineer New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Hartford and Valley divi- sions, 1894-1903, pioneer m development of and widely known authority on railroad signaling practices, collaborated with William Churchill, •97, in producing position light signals, designed standard flashing signal for grade crossings, secretary Class 1911-49 and .Alumni Fund agent 1929-49, president Yale Engineering Association 1933-35, vice- president Railway Signal Association 1906-7, president 1908, honorary member Institution of Signal Engineers of Great Britain, member National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, American Railway Engineering Association (chairman 1908-13), Military Order of Loyal Legion of the United States, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Veterans, New England Society of Pennsylvania, and Salisbury Con- gregational Church Married November 28, 1888, Brooklyn, N.Y., Theoline Bancker, daughter of Richard Oliver and Maria (McClane) Oliver Sons William Beardslee, '10 S , Theodore Oliver, '24 S Death due to coronary occlusion Buried m Salisbury Cemetery Survived by wife, sons, four grandchildren, and a brother, Charles E Rudd, 01 S (died January 10, 1950, see biographical sketch in this volume)

ELBERT ELLSWORTH NORTON, Ph B 1888 Born March 22, 1867, Guilford, Conn , died June 14, 1,950, Long Beach, Calif Father, Henry Ellsworth Norton, owner Kenesaw (Nebr ) Ex- change Bank Mother, Lucy A. (Munger) Norton Yale relatives include Harold E Barnes, '08 Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Conn Civil engineering course, Senior appointment Bookkeeper Kenesaw Exchange Bank 1888-90, secretary Lyons (Colo.) Rock & Lime Quarry Company 1890-91, organized and operated private bank in Lyons 1891-95, assistant cashier Farmers' National Bank, Longmont, Colo , 1895-1900, reorganized and operated Kenesaw Exchange Bank 1900-1904, assistant cashier National Bank of Long Beach 1904-7, cashier 1907-21, and vice-president successor bank Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles 1921-22, organizer and partner Norton & Birchfield, mortgage loans, 1923 until retirement 1936, city treasurer Long Beach 1909-13, vice-president Mutual Build- 132 Yale University Obituary Record ing and Loan Association 1916-20, member Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and Masonic order, treasurer Plymouth Congregational Church, Long Beach Married (1) September 17, 1890, Kenesaw, Jennie G Allen (Doane Coll 1887-88), daughter of Robert B and Darthula S. Allen Daughter Marguerite Fay (Mrs Frank Chambers, died 1925). Mrs Norton died 1942 Married (2) October 26, 1944, Sacramento, Iva May, daughter of William Henry and Elvira Rachel (Hopkins) Cox Death due to urernic poisoning Buried in Sunnyside Mausoleum, Long Beach Survived by wife and two grandchildren

EDWARD EVEREST, Ph B 1889 Born June 1, 1867, Brook- lyn, N Y , died July 25, 1949, Mexico City, Mexico Father, Rev Charles Hall Everest, a Congregational minister, son of Fredench and Lucy (Hall) Everest Mother, Maria Louisa (Wadhams) Everest Yale relatives include a nephew, Charles E Rockwell, '19 S East Orange (N J ) High School Select course, member The Colony and Berzelius Successively assistant to city manager Boorum and Pease, blank book manufacturers, New York City, and manager branch office Secu- rity Trust Company, Nashua, N H , 1889-92, secretary and treasurer Searls Manufacturing Company, Newark, 1892-1902, manager sugar cane plantations, Mexico, 1902-9, owner 1909-17, m milk business Puebla 1917 until retirement 1938, president Union de Productores de Leche de Puebla, member Squadron A, New York National Guard and Methodist Episcopal church Married October 9, 1909, Mexico City, Maria AUonsa, daughter of Jacmto Cuesta and Guadalupe Perez Pena Children Lucy Maria, Charles Hall (died in infancy), Charles Edward, and Harriet Mrs Everest died 1941 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Moderno Ceme- tery, American Section, Mexico City Survived by daughters, one son, and seven grandchildren

CHARLES LOUIS KIRSCHNER, Ph B 1890 Born October 19, 1868, New Haven, Conn , died December 15, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, William Kirschner, superintendent iron foundry, son of John Henry and Marie (Strack) Kirschner Mother, Sophia (Ackerman) Kirschner Yale relatives include Edward O Sutton, '91 S , Herbert L Sutton, '97 (brothers-in-law), William H Kirschner (Class of 1931 S ) (nephew) Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Conn Mechanical engineer- Sheffield Scientific School 133

ing course, prize for excellence m mechanical engineering, Senior appointment, graduate member Aurelian Honor Society and Sigma Xi Mechanical engineer 1890-94, 1895-97 (successively with Mclntosh & Seymour Company, Auburn, N Y , Harris Corliss Company, Prov- idence, Nicholson File Company, Providence, Maryland Steel Company, Sparrows Point), instructor in drafting and machine design Boardman Trade School, New Haven, 1894-95, 1897-1902, director of the school 1902-8, organizer and first principal of Newton (Mass ) Technical High School 1908-10, principal Hillhouse High School 1910-31, advisory principal 1931-40, principal emeritus 1940-49, councilor and student adviser Stone College, New Haven, 1940-49, trustee Junior College of Physical Therapy, State director U S Boys1 Working Reserve 1917-18, appointed to Citizens' Advisory Committee, New Haven, 1945, author Mechanical Drawing, From the Principal's Desk, M A Hon Yale 1927, associate fellow Trumbull College (Yale University), Alumni Fund agent 1936-39, first vice-president Yale Alumni Association of New Haven 1936, acting president 1936, on Alumni Board 1941-49, president Head- masters Association of America 1924-26, member Gamma Delta Psi, deacon United Church (Congregational), New Haven Married (1) August 22, 1898, in Springfield, Mass , Carrie Hicks Sutton (Smith Class of 1894), daughter of George Haviland and Mary Elizabeth (Owen) Sutton Son Leonard Owen (B A Union Coll 1928) Mrs Kirschner died 1933 Married (2) June 27, 1935, New Haven, Fanny Rogers, daughter of Charles N and Betsey (Bradley) Holcomb Mrs Kirschner died 1941 Death due to mesenteric thrombosis Buried in Beaverdale Mem- orial Park, New Haven Survived by son, four granchildren, and a brother, Edwin W Kirschner

HENRY WHITMORE GREGORY, Ph B 1891 Born November 24, 1867, New Haven, Conn , died March 30, 1950, Norwalk, Conn Father, George Gregory, member Connecticut State legislature Mother, Sarah Jane (Whitlock) Gregory Stamford (Conn ) High School Select course. Freshman Crew, Yale Athletic Team Taught school 1891-93, lawyer in Norwalk 1893-1900, judge Probate Court, District of Norwalk, 1900 until retirement 1937, president Fairfield County Savings Bank, Norwalk, 1932-50, Mer- chants Bank and Trust Company, and Lounsbury & Bissell Company, member Norwalk and American Bar associations, State Bar Associ- ation of Connecticut, and Masonic order Married June 26, 1895, Stamford, Ella Ida, daughter of Christ- ian Miller Mrs Gregory is deceased Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Riverside Ceme- 134 Yale University Obituary Record tery, Nor walk Survived by no immediate relatives.

WILLIAM PIERSON HAMILTON, Ph.B. 1891. Born February 5, 1869, New York City, died May 8, 1950, Santa Barbara, Calif. Father, William Gaston Hamilton, president Jersey City Loco- motive Works, son of John Church and Marie (Van den Heuvel) Hamil- ton Mother, Helen Maria (Pierson) Hamilton, daughter of Henry Lew- is and Helen Maria (Pier son) Pier son. Yale relatives include a brother, Laurens Hamilton, f95. Descendant of Abraham Pierson, first president of Yale St Paul's School, Concord, N.H. Mechanical engineering course; captain Freshman Crew, vice-president Class Baseball Team Junior year, Delta Psi Cashier and later treasurer and director Manhattan Trust Company, New York City, 1893-97, associated with J. P. Morgan & Company 1897 until retirement 1922 (partner 1900-1922), partner Drexel & Company, Philadelphia, Morgan Grenfel & Company, London, and Morgan Harjes & Company, Paris, owned and operated a large stock farm in Bar Harbor, Maine, breeding Guernsey cattle and prize-winning thoroughbred horses and polo ponies, member St. Saviour's Church (Episcopal), Bar Harbor, and All-Saints-by-the-Sea, Montecito, Calif. Married (1) April 12, 1894, New York City, Juliet Pierpont, daughter of J Pierpont and Frances (Tracy) Morgan. Children Helen Morgan (Mrs Arthur Woods), Pierpont Morgan (Harvard 1916-17, 1918-19), Lau- rens Morgan, Alexander (Harvard 1921-24), Elizabeth Schuyler (died 1919). Mr and Mrs. Hamilton were divorced 1923. Married (2) January 2, 1924, Montecito, Mrs Theodosia Sessions Carlin. Mrs. Hamilton died 1941. Death due to hypertensive heart disease. Entombed m Santa Barbara Mausoleum Survived by one daughter, three sons, seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Philip M. Rhmelander.

JOHN WILLIAMSON HERRON, Ph.B. 1891. Born May 16, 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio, died January 8, 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio. Father, John Williamson Herron (B.A. Miami Univ. Cohiol 1845), U.S District Attorney 1889-92, member Ohio State legislature 1896-97, son of Francis and Jane (Wills) Herron. Mother, Harriet Clinton (Col- lins) Herron, daughter of Ela and Maria (Clinton) Collins. Yale relatives include William H. Taft, '78 (brother-in-law), Robert A. Taft, '10, Charles P. Taft, '18, James Espy Herron, '19, John H. More, '24 (nephews), Helen Taft Manning (M.A. 1917, Ph.D. 1924) (niece). Woodward High School, Cincinnati. Mechanical engineering course, Sigma Delta Chi, Franklin Hall and Theta Xi With Procter & Gamble Company 1891-92 and Royer Wheel Company, Sheffield Scientific School 135

Aurora, Ind , 1892-25 (president and general manager 1902-25), general agent The Laws Insurance Agency Company, Cincinnati, 1926-50, member Cincinnati Home Guard and Church of the Advent (Episcopal), Cincinnati Married May 28, 1896, Washington, D C , Georgie Mae, daughter of Truman Heminway and Anna (Morrison) Aldrich Children Eleanor Herron Forbes, Truman Aldrich (Williams Coll 1920-22, LL B Univ Cincinnati 1925), John Ogden(Kenyon Coll 1927-29) Mrs Herron died 1944 Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Spring Grove Ceme- tery, Cincinnati Survived by children and seven grandchildren

FRANCIS MULLIKEN ADAMS, Ph B 1892 Born June 7, 1871, Ridgefield, Conn , died July 25, 1949, Lewiston, Maine Father, Dr Daniel L Adams (B A 1835) Mother, Cornelia A (Cook) Adams Yale relatives include William Cook (B A 1861) (uncle), William L Elkm (M A Hon 1893) (brother-in-law), Roger K Adams, '26 S , Daniel P Adams, r29 S (nephews) Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Conn Mechanical engineering course, honorable mention in all studies Freshman year and in mathematics Junior year, Senior appointment Assistant in chemistry 1893-94 and physics 1894-96 Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Class of 1894), ordained deacon Protestant Episcopal church 1914, priest 1915, minister St James1 Church, Shelbyville, Ky , 1915-16, minister St Mary's Church, Mohegan Lake, N Y , and teacher Mohegan Lake School 1916-19, treasurer Clark Sales Company, Buffalo, assistant city missionary Los Angeles County 1923-31, in Weiser, Idaho, 1920, Auburn, Maine, 1933-35, Port Deposit, Md , 1936, Ridgefield, Conn , 1937, Sabat+us, Maine, 1940-47, national director Brotherhood of St Andrew, Brooklyn, N Y , and Sharon, Mass , and national treasurer 1894-1913, machinist (2d class) U S S Huntress in Spanish- American War Married (1) September 23, 1903, Providence, Edythe Grace Peck (Ph B Brown 1901), daughter of Arthur P. Peck Mrs Adams died 1907 Married (2) January 7, 1911, New York City, Helen Rock- well (Univ Pennsylvania Class of 1910), daughter of Joel Lawrence and Ann Eliza (Lounsbury) Rockwell Daughter Ann Catharine Adams Yerrington Horner (Mrs Robert H Horner) Death due to cardiac embolism Buried in Ridgefield Cemetery Survived by wife, daughter, three grandchildren, a sister, Mrs Wil- liam L Elkm, and a brother, Roger C Adams, '93 S

HENRY DWIGHT HUNT, Ph B. 1892 Born May 16, 1862, 136 Yale University Obituary Record xxx

Columbia, Conn , died May 6, 1950, Providence, R I Father, Amasa A Hunt, farmer and music teacher in Columbia, son of Thaddeus and Elizabeth (Clark) Hunt Mother, Eunice Hames (Abel) Hunt, daughter of Hoel Abel Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Conn , graduate Worcester State Normal School Select course, Senior appointment, Sheff Mili- tary Company Graduate student Yale and Brown universities 1892-93 and in France and Germany, master of modern languages and English literature Howe Grammar School, Lima, Ind , 1893-94, principal North Wmdham (Conn ) Grammar School and taught in various schools until 1898, instructor in modern languages New Hampshire College of Agri- culture and Mechanic Arts 1898-99, science teacher Elizabeth (N J ) High School 1899-1900, instructor Danville (Va ) Military Academy about 1900-1903, music teacher in Providence 1903 until retirement about 1945 (owner School of Orchestral Music and Language), member Trinity Union Methodist Church, Providence Married (1) June 30, 1892, Gertrude Tuttle Son Stanley Dwight (died 1918) Mr and Mrs Hunt were divorced 1896 Married (2) April 9, 1900, Isabelle Eunice, daughter of Matthieu and Lizzie (Cooke) Lehevre Son Theodore Alfred (B.A Oberlin 1928, Mus B 1929). Mrs Hunt died 1924 Married (3) July 31, 1926, Esther Carey Mr and Mrs Hunt were divorced 1927 Married (4) about 1934, Mrs Grace I Capen Staples Mrs Hunt died 1945 Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried in Columbia Ceme- tery Survived by one son and two grandchildren

OLIVER CHANDLER BILLINGS, Ph B 1893 Born October 25, 1871, New York City, died March 5, 1950, Mornstown, N J Father, Oliver Phelps Chandler Billings (B A Umv Vermont 1857, M A 1862, LL B Harvard 1860), corporation lawyer in New York City, son of Oel and Sophia (Wetherbee) Billings Mother, Char- lotte (Lane) Billings, daughter of David and Caroline E (Lamson) Lane Yale relatives include David L Billings, '91, Charles M Billings (Class of 1896 S ) (brothers), Jason Evans, '93 S (brother-in-law) Prepared privately Mechanical engineering course, vice-president University Tennis Club, Class secretary Freshman year, Class cup committee, The Cloister and Book and Snake Secretary Banner Packing and Provision Company, Cincinnati, 1894-98, partner George Copeland & Company, cotton brokers, New York City, 1898-1906 and John H Davis & Company (later Billings, Olcott & Company), bankers, New York City, 1907 until retirement 1947, member New York Cotton Exchange 1900-1908 and New York Sheffield Scientific School 137

Stock Exchange 1909-47 (a governor 1914- 15, 1917-38), treasurer New York Quotation Company 1922-35, president 1935-38, treasurer New York Stock Exchange Safe Deposit Company 1922-38, trustee Morristown School, chairman Morristown township committee 1914- 34 and on Board of Education and Board of Health, member Unitarian church, Woodstock, Vt Married June 14, 1899, Morristown, Elizabeth Bonbright, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Cassard (Bonbright) Evans Children Jason Evans, Oliver Chandler, Jr , '29 S , and Benjamin Evans Mrs Billings died 1947 Death due to cerebral arteriosclerosis Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown Survived by sons and nine grandchildren

EDWARD OLIN SMITH, Ph B 1893 Born August 4, 1871, Springfield, Mass , died January 19, 1950, Springfield, Mass Father, Olin Harris Smith, president E O Smith Company, wholesale grocers and millers' agents, Springfield, son of Harris and Adalme (Walker) Smith Mother, Violetta (Humphrey) Smith, daughter of Charles Timothy Allen Humphrey Springfield High School Select course, Senior appointment, winner Class tennis tournament Freshman year Treasurer and manager E. O Smith Company 1898-1916, president and manager 1916 until retirement 1933 Married January 14, 1904, Springfield, Ida Pearl, daughter of Edward Pliny and Edna (Kibbee) Chapm Death due to coronary thrombosis Ashes interred in Spring- field Cemetery Survived by wife and three sisters, Miss Rose M Smith, Mrs William Mathews, and Miss Winifred I Smith

EDWARD VERMILYE COX, Ph B 1894 Born December .28, 1873, Orange, N J , died December 8, 1949, New York City Father, James Sitgreaves Cox, coal merchant Mother, Mary Fullerton (Hazard) Cox Phillips-Andover Mechanical engineering course, Fresh- man Football Team, University Baseball and Football squads, Class deacon and statistician, St Anthony and Delta Psi E E Columbia 1895, general inspector and assistant wire chief American Telephone & Telegraph Company, New York City, 1894-99, engineer 1899-1907, assistant to general superintendent of plant 1907-11, in charge development of Bell System accounting methods and general auditor 1911-17, supply auditor 1919-22, assistant vice-president 1922 until retirement 1938, trustee Com- munity Chest, Plamfield, N J , and Plamfield Council Boy Scouts 138 Yale University Obituary Record of America (member,National Council), served with Troop A, New York Cavalry, May-November 1898, member Yale Engineering Asso- ciation, elder Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield Married (1) in 1902, Julia, daughter of Dr L Duncan Bulkley (B A 1866) and Kate LaRue (Mellick) Bulkley, granddaughter of Hen- ry D Bulkley (B A 1821), great-great-granddaughter of Henry Dag- gett (B A 1771) Children James Sitgreaves (deceased), Duncan Bulkley (Class of 1928), John Lyman, 2d, '31, Edward Veftnilye, Jr , '35 Mrs Cox died 1942 Married (2) April 20, 1944, New York City, Grace Louise Marshall Bowden, daughter of William Wallace Marshall Death due to a heart ailment Survived by wife, three sons, two stepsons, William Reeves Bowden and William Marshall Bowden, '32, grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs Howard Page, Mrs Charles Wood, Mrs Sidney Tabor, and a brother, John L Cox

HARRY PERRY DISBECKER, Ph B 1894 Born August 23, 1873, New York City, died July 11, 1949, Leonia, N J Parents, A Disbecker and Caroline M (Perry) Disbecker Berkeley School Select course, captain Sheff Military Com- pany Senior year, Theta Delta Chi Attended New York Law School, assistant U S Attorney for New York 1898-1901, consulting adviser to Persian counsul general, associated with Rmgwalt Linoleum Works, Inc , New York City, successively president Doric Electric Corporation, New York City, Dis- becker Electric Appliance Corporation, New York City, and Weaver Piano Company, York, Pa , until retirement 1941, executive vice- president Radio Manufacturers Association, Inc , New York City, major Quartermaster Corps World War I, an organizer Electrical and Gas Association of New York, member Masonic order and All Saints* Church (Episcopal), Leonia Married July, 1910, New York City, Maude Mai Morand Phelan, daughter of John E Morand Mrs Disbecker died 1948 Death due to acute coronary occlusion Ashes interred m Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis Survived by no immediate relatives

WASHINGTON IRVINE KEYSER, Ph B 1894 Born April 30, 1872, Baltimore, Md , died September 30, 1949, Stevenson, Md Father, Henry Irvine Keyser, a merchant, son of Samuel Stouf- fer and Elizabeth (Wyman) Keyser Mother, Mary Anne (Washington) Keyser, daughter of Col Lewis William Washington and Mary Anne (Barroll) Washington Sheffield Scientific School 139

The Hill School Mechanical engineering course, Dunham Boat Club and St Elmo and Delta Phi With Baltimore Trust & Guarantee Company 1895-97, receiving and paying teller Mercantile Trust & Deposit Company, Baltimore, 1897-1902, associated with his father 1904-19 and in charge of his estate 1919 until retiremexit 1932, president Baltimore Land & Improve- ment Company 1904-23, in charge Baltimore branch Whitehouse & Company, brokers, New York City, 1912-21, secretary and president Keyser Office Building Company, vice-president Home wood Apartment Company, engaged in farming in Stevenson after retirement, member St Thomas' Church (Episcopal), Garrison, Md Married June 1, 1906, Garrison, Ethel Howard, daughter of William Hall and Elizabeth (Graham) Whitridge Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in St Thomas' Ceme- tery, Garrison Survived by wife and a sister, Mrs DeComay W Thorn

FRANK LEE, Ph B 1894 Born March 7, 1873, Chicago, 111 , died May 21, 1950, Nanaimo, British Columbia Father, Elisha Lee, steamship owner, Trinidad, B W I , son of Elisha and Almyra (Scoville) Lee Mother, Fannie Birch (Black- burn) Lee, daughter of Henry Clay and Susan (Childs) Blackburn Yale relatives include J Latimer Lee, '19 S , Elisha Lee, Jr , f31 (nephews), Albert N Williams, '10 S (brother-in-law) Gunnery School Civil engineering course, Class Book committee, Phi Gamma Delta Associated withTrinidad Government Railway 1894-96, in engmeer- Img department Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Chicago, 1896- 1902, signal engineer Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, 1902-4, assistant engineer Western Lines, Winnipeg, 1904-5, division engineer 1905 until retirement 1940, district engineer, located at Esquimau and Vancouver, in charge construction of land facilities on Pacific Coast for Royal Canadian Navy 1941-46, member Yale Engineering Association and St Mary's Church (Anglican), Vancouver, and St Ann's Church, French Creek, B C Married November 9, 1920, Cleveland, Ruth, daughter of Pren- tice Madison and Clara (Laughlm) Skeel Daughter Frances Black- burn (B A Umv British Columbia 1945, Mrs Aldo Sparzam) Death due to thrombosis Survived by wife and daughter

EUGENE LAWRENCE MESSLER, Ph B 1894 Born April 6, 1873, Allegheny, Pa , died March 1, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa Father, Thomas Doremus Messier, vice-president Pennsyl- 140 Yale University Obituary Record vama Railroad Company, son of Abraham Messier Mother, Maria Remsen (Varick) Messier, daughter of John Remsen and Susan Brink- erhoff (Storm) Varick Yale relatives include Remsen V Messier, '80 (brother), Lewis F Frissell, '95, George Lauder, Jr , '00 S (cousins) Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course, Fresh- man Football Team, substitute University Football Team, Freshman and University crews, vice-president University Football Club, The Cloister and Book and Snake Football coach Centre College 1894, pattern maker Edgar Thompson Works, Carnegie Steel Company, Ltd , 1894-95, superintendent Duquesne blast furnaces 1895-1900, general superintendent blast furnaces and coke ovens Jones & Laughlm Steel Company, Pitts- burgh, 1900-1911, assistant to president Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company 1911-15, vice-president m charge construction and operations Witherow Steel Company 1915-17, president Eureka Fire Brick Works, Mt Braddock, Pa , 1903-50, president Class of 1894 S from 1893 to 1950, Captain Engineers, World War I (St -Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne operations), joined Engineer Reserves 1922, honorary Colo- nel 1937, president Pittsburgh post Society of American Military En- gineers 1929-30, member Reserve Officers Association, Sons of the American Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, Acad- emy of Science and Art (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Zoological Society, Army Ordnance Association, Yale Engineering Association, Engineer Society of Western Pennsylvania, American Iron and Steel Institute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Refractories Institute, and British Iron and Steel Institute Married December 31, 1898, in Pittsburgh, Elizabeth Verner, daughter of Joseph Daw son and Margaret (Dravo) Long Children Thomas Doremus and Eugene Lawrence, Jr Death due to intestinal obstruction Buried in Homewood Ceme- tery, Pittsburgh Survived by wife, sons, and two grandchildren

JAMES HOYT MILLER, Ph B 1894 Born September 12, 1872, Stamford, Conn , died May 4, 1950, Stamford, Conn Father, Franklin Miller, a banker, son of Ebenezer and Mary Elizabeth (Waterbury) Miller Mother, Helen Amelia (Hoyt) Miller, daughter of James Henry and Sarah Jeannette (Gorham) Hoyt King School Mechanical engineering course, Franklin Hall and Theta Xi Cashier Boston Mutual Insurance Company 1895, engaged in insurance business 1895-1900, treasurer and vice-president Ameri- can Engraving Company, New York City, 1900-1909, publisher Broad- way Weekly, engaged on an engineering project Traverse City, Mich , Sheffield Scientific School 141 with E I duPont de Nemours & Company, Virginia, during World War I, with Alex D Shaw & Company, importers, New York City, 1930-40, representative from Stamford in Connecticut General Assem- bly 1940-42, member St Maurice Roman Catholic Church, Stamford Married September 8, 1931, New York City, Helen Regma, daughter of John Walter and Margaret Maria (Cashman) Murphy Son James Hoyt, Jr Death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease Buried in Wood- land Cemetery, Stamford Survived by wife, son, a sister, Miss Helen A Miller, and a brother, Rev Franklin H Miller, '96 S

ALEXANDER PARKER ROGERS, Ph B 1894 Born May 25, 1874, New Canaan, Conn , died June 29, 1950, New York City Father, John Rogers, sculptor, son of John and Sarah Ellen (Derby) Rogers Mother, Harriet Moore (Francis) Rogers, daughter of Charles Stephen and Catherine Rebecca (Jewett) Francis Yale relatives include John Rogers, '87, Charles F Rogers, '90 S , David F Rogers, '98 (brothers), John Rogers, Jr , '20 S (nephew), Elizabeth Rogers Horan, '31 L (niece) King School Select course, Freshman and University crews, financial i editor and artist Yale Record, board of managers Yale Co- operative Society, chairman Class Book committee, St Anthony and Delta Psi Newspaper correspondent Cook expedition to Arctic 1894, clerk American Telephone & Telegraph Company 1894-95, C E Columbia 1898, field engineer Chicago Exploration Company 1904-7, consulting engineer New York City 1907-50 (traveled extensively in South Ameri- ca, Siberia, Dutch Guiana in connection with his work), president Par- tanen Malartic Gold Mines, Ltd , and Parkec Malartic Gold Mines, Ltd , co-owner and president Bonanza Mine, Oregon, and Q Hill Mine, California, postmaster Downeyville, Nev , chief Chemical Supply Sec- tion, Airplane Division, U S War Department, World War I, member Mining Club of New York, American Institute of Mining Engineers, and Mining and Metallurgical Society of America Married August 21, 1929, New York City, Adelaide Niven, daughter of Johnston Niven and Adelaide (O'Donnoghue) Hegeman Death due to carcinoma Buried in Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan Survived by wife, a sister, Miss Katherme Rebecca Rogers, and a brother, Derby Rogers, '93

RICHARD HOLDEN FOLLIS, Ph B 1895 Born February 6, 1876, San Francisco, Calif , died August 13, 1949, Baltimore, Md Father, Richard Holden Follis, a banker in San Francisco 142 Yale University Obituary Record

Mother, Anne (Flood) Follis Yale relatives include a nephew, Robert DeVecchi, '17 S Trinity School, San Francisco Biology course M D Johns Hopkins University 1899, externe, assistant resident, and resident surgeon Johns Hopkins Hospital 1899-1905, in private practice in Baltimore 1905-49, instructor surgery Johns Hopkins University 1902-5, associate 1905-14, associate in clinical surgery 1914-18, associate professor clinical surgery 1918-47, emeritus 1947-49, chief surgical clinic Johns Hopkins Dispensary 1906-23, on staff Hospitalfor Women of Maryland, Union Memorial Hospital, and Church Home and In- firmary, fellow American Medical Association and American College of Surgeons, member Interurban Surgical Society Married June 28, 1905, Washington, D C , Louise, daughter of Reuben Riggs Children Anne Riggs, and Richard Holden, Jr , '32 S Mrs Folks died 1923 Death due to pneumonia Buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Bal- timore Survived by children and a sister, Mrs Paolo DeVecchi

ALEXANDER JOHNSON, Ph B 1895 Born November 16,1869, Brooklyn, N Y , died July 19, 1949, Wareham, Mass Father, Rev Charles Gustavus Johnson, a Swedish Methodist minister in Brooklyn, Bridgeport, Conn , and Dover, N J , son of John Abrahamson and Anna Christina (Svenson) Abrahamson Mother, Anna Christina (Hill) Johnson, daughter of Gustaf Olaf and Maria (Anderson) Hill Bridgeport (Conn ) High School Civil engineering course, general honors Junior year, Sigma Xi Engineer in western United States 1895-96, assistant engineer Department of Bridges, New York City, 1896-1908, consulting engineer 1908-10, chief engineer 1910-14 (engineer of design New York Muni- cipal Building and Queensboro Bridge), supervising engineer Frederick Snare Corporation, contracting engineers, New York City, 1914-30, chief examining engineer Fall River district Works Project Administra- tion 1935 until retirement 1942, member American Society of Civil En- gineers Married May 5, 1898, Brooklyn, Alice, daughter of Edward Lap- ham and Fannie A (Hatfield) Kelly Son Edward Alexander Mrs Johnson died 1940 Death due to intestinal obstruction Ashes interred in Green- Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by son, two grandchildren, and a brother, J William Johnson

LEWIS CONDICT RICHARDS, Ph B 1895 Born November 3, Sheffield Scientific School 143

1873, Umonville, Conn , died December 13, 1949, Catonsville, Md Father, Lucas Richards, president Delaney & Munson Manufac- turing Company, paper manufacturers, Unionville, son of George H Richards Mother, Maria Condit (Hall) Richards, daughter of David Hall Unionville High School Electrical engineering course In engineering department Boston & Maine Railroad Company, Boston, 1895-98, with Hartford (Conn ) Electric Light Company 1898- 99, in charge electrical department New York Ship Building Company, Camden, N J , 1899-1906, electrical engineer erecting department Westmghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company 1906-18, district manager New York district 1918-22, general service manager East Pittsburgh, Pa , 1922 until retirement 1946, member Yale Engineer- ing Club, and Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh Married April 30, 1901, Hartford, Emily Marie, daughter of Paul James and Josephine (LeWardick) Clasby Children Lewis Condict, Jr (Pennsylvania State Coll 1924-25), Robert Wardick (Lehigh Umv 1923-27), Eleanor Hamlin (Mrs Robert Metcalf Baker) Death due to carcinoma Ashes interred in Beechwoods Ceme- tery, New Rochelle, N Y Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and two sisters, Miss Martha B Richards and Mrs J Fred Loader

FRANCIS HARRISON TODD, Ph B 1895 Born July 29, 1874, New Haven, Conn , died January 12, 1950, Pater son, N J Father, Theron Alfred Todd, a real-estate broker in New Ha- ven, son of Alfred and Hannah V (Harrison) Todd Mother, Hattie Emelme (Webster) Todd, daughter of Charles W and Jannett M (Clark) Webster Yale relatives include Hubert M Sedgwick, '93 (brother-in-law), Ruth Sedgwick (M A 1925) (niece), James S Rad- cliffe, Jr (Class of 1953 E ) (grandson) Hillhouse High School Biology course M D Yale 1897 (member Delta Epsilon Iota) Interne Paterson General Hospital 1897-99 and on staff 1899- 1950, physician in Paterson 1899-1950, a founder and consultant Valley View Sanitarium, captain Medical Corps World War I, third vice-president Association of Yale Alumni m Medicine 1928-29, president Passaic County Medical Society 1919-20, charter member New Jersey Pediatric Society, member Medical Society of New Jer- sey, American Medical Association, Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, Masonic order and St Thomas' Episcopal Church, New Haven Married April 25, 1900, Ottawa, Ont , Maude Isabelle, daughter of James and Isabell (Wisdom) Mitchell Daughters Roberta 144 Yale University Obituary Record

Webster (B A Wellesley 1925, Mrs James Stansfield Radcliffe), Frances Mitchell (Mrs Clinton Martin) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Evergreen Ceme- tery, New Haven Survived by wife (died June 20, 1951), daughters, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Hubert M Sedgwick

GEORGE HARRY BARBOUR, Ph.B. 1896 Born August 23, 1875, Akron, Ohio, died July 29, 1949, Orange, N J Father, George Washington Barbour, a furniture manufacturer in Akron, son of George and Mary Barbour Mother, Roxanna Upson Bailey Barbour, daughter of Nodiah and Sara Upson Hopkins Grammar School Mechanical engineering course M E (E E ) Cornell University 1897, draftsman and designer Akron Electrical Manufacturing Company 1897-98, assistant engineer B F Goodrich Company 1898-1900, in charge drafting room Webster, Camp & Lane, Akron, and Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company, Akron, 1900-1901, shop superintendent C W Hunt Company, New York City, 1902, chief engineer American DeForest Wireless Telegraph Company, New York City, 1902-6 (supervised erection of wireless stations in Europe and the United States), mechanical and electrical engineer and agent for sale of patents, New York City, 1906-15, managing director Century Investment Company 1906-49, secretary Sterling Watch Com- pany, Inc , Waterbury, Conn , 1921-40, contributed to technical journals and lectured on engineering subjects, president New England So- ciety of the Oranges 1940-43, vice-president Americanization Council of the Oranges, Maplewood, and Bloomfield 1925-45, member Orange Council Boy Scouts of America and Y M C A , member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York Electrical Society, Inter- national Electrical Congress, and First Presbyterian Church, Orange Married December 30, 1903, Akron, Hannah Theresa Alexander (Ph B Umv Akron 1897), daughter of William Wilson and Galena (Woodmanse) Alexander Death due to hypertensive vascular disease Buried in Restland Memorial Park, East Hanover, N J Survived by wife

JONATHAN PRESCOTT BURTON, Ph B 1896 Born January 12, 1876, Massillon, Ohio, died July 8, 1949, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Father, Jonathan Prescott Burton, a coal operator, son of Wil- liam and Rosanna (Thompson) Burton Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Zerbe) Burton, daughter of Jonathan and Christiana (Gorgas) Zerbe Yale relatives include a brother, Courtney Burton, '03 S University School, Cleveland Civil engineering course; chairman Class Day committee, Sigma Delta Chi, The Cloister and Book and Snake Sheffield Scientific School 145

Mining engineer Ridgway Burton Company, Massillon, 1896-98, secretary Burton, Beedler & Phillips Company, retail coal yards, Cleveland, 1898-99 (president 1899), operated coal properties in "Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky 1899 until retirement 1932 (president Kennon Coal & Mining Company, Trevorton Colliery Company 1909- 24, Legetts Creek Anthracite Company 1919-25, and J P Burton Coal Company 1921-32) Married January 8, 1903, Cleveland, Kate Winston, daughter of Thomas W and Katherine (Cull) Burnham Children Winston Prescott, '27 S., Katherine Burnham, David Rittenhouse, '33 Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Survived by wife and children

HO WELL ROSS HANSON, Ph B 1896 Born April 25, 1873, West Philadelphia, Pa , died December 30, 1949, Atlanta, Ga Father, Thomas Ross Hanson, president Greenmount Cemetery Company, Philadelphia Mother, Anna Jane (Howell) Hanson, daughter of William and Anna Jane Howell Friends1 School, Philadelphia Electrical engineering course, Apollo Banjo Club (president Senior year), Theta Delta Chi Sales engineer D'Olier Engineering Company, Philadelphia, 1896-1911, manager Philadelphia district for Kerr Turbine Company 1911-16 and Moore Steam Turbine Corporation, Wellsville, N Y , 1916-25, district sales manager Philadelphia Standard Turbine Corpo- ration, Scio, N Y , 1925 until retirement 1936, part owner and president Greenmount Cemetery Company and vice-president Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, at time of death, member St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ard- more, Pa Married (1) September 6, 1906, Wilmington, Del , Alvirda, daughter of Richard and Mary A (Mmner) Wallace Mrs Hanson died 1934 Married (2) June 16, 1938, Atlanta, Bennie Teabeaut Candler, daughter of Daniel Benjamin and Rena (Sparks) Teabeaut Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia Survived by wife, a stepdaughter, Mrs Rena Candler Chambers, a stepson, William Candler, Jr , and seven step-grandchildren

OTTO [HENSCH] MILLER, Ph B. 1896 Born July 3, 1874, Cleveland, Ohio, died June 13, 1950, Cleveland, Ohio Father, James Hawkins Miller, a merchant in Cleveland, son of Joseph Kirk and Margaret (Spangler) Miller Mother, Sophie Max- milian (Hensch) Miller University School, Cleveland Class secretary Senior year,The Cloister and Book and Snake 146 Yale University Obituary Record

Traveled around the world 1896-98, served in Spanish-Ameri- can War 1898, with Lamprecht Brothers & Company, bankers and brokers, Cleveland, 1899-1903, partner Hayden and Miller and successor Hayden, Miller and Company, investment securities, Cleveland, 1903-50, First Lieutenant Ohio National Guard (aide-de- camp to Governor Herrick 1904-5, Governor Pattison 1905-6), Lieutenant Colonel, Ordnance Department, World War I (service m Baccarat, Pannes sector, Meuse-Argonne, Ypres-Lys, twice awarded Croix de Guerre (Belgium and France), president Council on World Affairs 1937-39, member Northern Ohio Alien Enemy Hearing Board 1941-45 and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, trustee Western Reserve Historical Society (president 1928-34), member Connecticut and Virginia Historical societies, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Sons of American Revolution, and Military Order of Foreign Wars Married (1) December 5, 1900, Cleveland, Elisabeth Clark, daughter of Washington Samuel and Marion (Clark) Tyler Chil- dren Otto, Jr (B A Harvard 1925), Washington Samuel Tyler (Harvard 1922-27) Mr and Mrs Miller were divorced 1908 Married (2) May 24, 1913, Sandusky, Ohio, Elsa Gertrude, daughter of James and Julia Ann (Taylor) Woolworth Daughter Bar- bara Woolworth, the wife of Lawrence S Robbms, Jr , '30 Mrs Miller died 1944 Death due to artenosclerotic heart disease Buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Survived by children and ten grandchildren

HUBERT HILLARY SUFFREN AIMES, Ph B 1897 Born January 25, 1876, Woodmont, Conn , died July 21, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, J Martin Aimes (B A Columbia 1850, M D Yale 1858), son of Peter and Matilda Aimes Mother, Margaret E (Thornton) Aimes Gunnery School Select course, Senior appointment, George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Xi Teacher preparatory school U.S. Naval Academy 1900-1901, Ph D Yale 1905, tutor in history College of the City of New York 1905-6, acting professor history and economics Ursinus College 1906-7, research fellow in history and economics University of Pennsylvania 1907-9, in real-estate business 1910-15, associate professor social sciences University of the South 1915-16, professor 1916-20, treasurer and later president Sewanee Review, Inc (associate editor Sewanee Review), professor business man- Sheffield Scientific School 147

agement Syracuse University 1920-22, author History of Slavei y in Cuba, contributed to periodicals, member Academy of Political Sci- ence, Alabama and American Anthropological societies, Masonic order, and Episcopal church Married December 29, 1908, Kenton, Ohio, Eloise, daughter of Edward and Caroline (Fink) Sorgen Son Peter Martin (Univ Pennsylvania 1932-33) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Oak Grove Ceme- tery, West Haven, Conn Survived by wife and son

FRANK BENEDICT CLELAND, Ph B 1897 Born January 20, 1874, Brooklyn, N Y , died December 17, 1949, Hartford, Conn Father, James Washington Cleland, an importer, son of James and Elida (Schermerhorn) Cleland Mother, Josephine (Hubbell) Cle- land, daughter of Charles P and Martha (Morton) Hubbell Harvard School, New York City Select course With Allen, Sand & Company, bankers and brokers, New York City, 1898-1902, president Atlantic Motor Car Company, South Orange, N J , 1908-9, secretary and treasurer Cleland-Cunningham Company, real-estate brokers, New York City, district representative American District Telegraph Company until about 1919, engaged in farming in Suffern, N Y , until 1926 and in real-estate business until retirement about 1930, member New York Home Guard, St Nicholas Society of • New York, Royal Geographic Society of London, and St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, White Plains, N Y Married (1) January 24, 1907, Washington, D C , Elizabeth Isa- belle, daughter of Rhoades and Cornelia Eagle (Moore) Shepard Mrs Cleland died 1912 Married (2) December 20, 1915, Elizabeth, N J , Elizabeth Octavia, daughter of Felix Taylor and Anne (Penny) Talia- ferro Children Frank Taliaferro (Class of 1941), Elizabeth Jose- phine (Mrs Antony Hernandez) Death due to congestive heart failure Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by wife, children, and three grandchildren

JOHN D PERRY FRANCIS, Ph B 1897 Born October 31, 1876, Norn^andy, Mo , died February 6, 1950, Santa Barbara, Calif Father, David Rowland Francis, LL D (B A Washington Univ 1870), governor of Missouri 1889-93, Ambassador to Russia 1916-19, son of John Broaddus and Eliza (Rowland) Francis Mother, Jane (Perry) Francis, daughter of John Deitz and Eliza Jane (Turner) Perry ^ale relatives include David R Francis, Jr , ?00 (brother), David R Francis, 3d, '36, Sidney R. Francis, Jr , '39 E (nephews) 148 Yale University Obituary Record

Smith Academy, St Louis Select course, The Colony and Ber- zelius Associated with Francis, Bro & Company, St Louis, 1898 until retirement 1942 (senior partner 1927-1942), member New York and St Louis Stock exchanges, member St Peter's Episcopal Church, Ladue, Mo Married (1) January 31, 1900, St Louis, Emelie deMun, daughter of Dr Elsworth F Smith and Isabella (Chenie) Smith Mrs- Fran- cis is deceased Married (2) April 17, 1940, Tucson, Ariz , Ada Da- vis Burkham, daughter of Horatio Nelson and Cora Paschall (Tyler) Davis Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried in Bellefontaine Ceme- tery, St Louis Survived by wife, and four brothers, Charles B Fran- cis, '02, Talton T Francis, '07, Sidney R Francis (Class of 1912), and Thomas Francis

RICHARD IRVING NEITHERCUT, Ph B 1897 Born November 18, 1875, Albany, N Y , died April 2, 1950, Bridgeport, Conn Father, Richard Samuel Neither cut, in lumber business, Albany and Bridgeport, son of John and Margaret (Montgomery) Neither cut Mother, Emma A (Poole) Neithercut, daughter of John Poole, Jr , and Ellen (Strope) Poole Bridgeport High School Electrical engineering course With Bridgeport Brass Company 1897-1928 (assistant secretary 1917-18, secretary 1918-28), vice-president Industrial Administration, Inc , 1929-30, president American Fiscal Corporation, charity commissioner Bridgeport 1916-18, 1922-24, executive secretary State Un- employment Commission about 1930-32, with Hincks Brothers & Com- pany, Inc , investment bankers, Bridgeport, 1938-50 (vice-president 1944-50), industrial coordinator Fairfield County war training courses on engineering science and management, member Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, Yale Engineering Association, and Society of Colonial Wars, senior deacon United Congregational Church, Bridgeport Married November 8, 1899, Brooklyn, Harriet Sawm, daughter of Elliott and Edwina (Richards) Bigelow Children Margaret Mont- gomery (Mrs John F Windsor), Harriet Sawin (B A Smith 1928), the wife of Frank J Jones, '28 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Albany Rural Cemetery Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild

WILLIAM KINNEY PIKE, Ph B 1897 Born May 12, 1873, South Killingly, Conn , died January 27, 1950, Pomfret, Conn Sheffield Scientific School 149

Father, George Washington Pike, a civil engineer in Killmgly, son of Isaac and Rebecca (Briggs) Pike Mother, Laura (Stone) Pike, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Potter) Stone Yale relatives include a brother, George W Pike, '94 S Damelson (Conn ) High School Civil engineering course, Senior appointment, Sigma Xi Worked on electrification of railroad into New York City from vicinity of Stamford for short time after graduation, independently engaged as civil engineer in and around Damelson until retirement 1946, member South Killingly Congregational Church Married January 1, 1902, West Hartford, Conn , Lulu May, daughter of John Elijah and Martha M (Chamberlm) Wright Children Eunice Rebecca (B A Mount Holyoke 1925), Emily (B A Mount Holyoke 1927, Mrs S Daniel Juliani), William Wright (B C E Northeastern 1932), Mary Dixon (B A Mount Kolyoke 1937,/Mrs Darrison Sillesky) Mrs Pike died 1944 Death due to acute pulmonary congestion Buried in South Killingly Cemetery Survived by children, seven grandchildren, and a brother, Edward Pike

HAROLD HENRY PRATT, Ph B 1897 Born October 9, 1877, Bristol, Conn , died March 11, 1950, Douglas, Ariz Father, Henry S Pratt (B A 1863) Mother, Mary Eliza (Peck) Pratt, daughter of James G Peck Williston Academy Electrical engineering course, Franklin Hall and Theta Xi Engineering work with C & C Electric Company, George A Fuller & Company, Otis Elevator Company, Copper Queen Consoli- dated Mining Company, all in New York City, 1898-1903, with Cut- ler-Hammer Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, consulting engineer Pacific Electric Company, Los Angeles, and engineer with U S Reclamation Service, Roosevelt Dam, 1903-1905, engineer Dawson (N Mex ) Fuel Company 1905-11, assistant consulting engineer Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, 1911-26, chief engineer 1926 until retirement 1936, member American Society of Mechanical Engineers Married (1) April 28, 1906, St Joseph, Mo , Helen, daughter of Alfred G Holland Mrs Pratt died 1934 Married (2) June 13, 1936, New York City, Eleanor Carr (B A Umv Chicago 1908, M A Columbia 1926), daughter of Nelson and Ida (Roberts) Carr Death due to uremia Buried in Calvary Cemetery, Douglas Survived by wife 150 Yale University Obituary Record

CYRUS INCREASE BOSWORTH, Ph B. 1898. Born March 20, 1875, Elgin, 111 , died June 11, 1950, Wheeler, Ore Father, William Eugene Bosworth (B A. Umv Chicago 1866), drygoods merchant in Elgin, son of Increase Child and Mary Ann (Root) Bosworth Mother, Ida Louise (Woodruff) Bosworth, daughter of Cyrus Henry and Louisa (Sprague) Woodruff Phillips-Andover Civil engineering course, Franklin Hall and Theta Xi Civil engineer Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad Com- pany 1898-1900, levelman, transitman, and assistant engineer Oregon Short Line Railroad Company 1900-1903, bridge engineer Western Maryland Railroad Company 1903-8, with Canadian National Railroad Company 1911-14, retired 1930, member Baptist church, Elgin Married September 17, 1902, Pocatello, Idaho, Bertha Edna, daughter of Samuel Smith and Lucinda Abigail (Whittemore) Ramsey Son Samuel Eugene (B S Oregon State 1928) Death due to arteriosclerosis Buried in Sumner (Wash ) Cemetery Survived by wife, son, a sister, Mrs Ethel H Redeker, and a brother, Walter H Bosworth

ROBERT ERNEST BROATCH, Ph B 1898 Born August 31, 1874, Middletown, Conn , died February 19, 1950, Milford, Conn. Father, John Charles Broatch, secretary and superintendent Middletown Hydraulic Department, son of Robert and Margaret (Mar- tin) Broatch Mother, Gertrude Elizabeth (Allison) Broatch, daughter of Samuel Speer and Frances (Pilgrim) Allison Middletown High School Civil engineering course, Freshman Baseball Team, York Hall and Chi Phi Engineer Berlin Iron Bridge Company 1899-1900, John B. Mc- Donald Subway Construction Company 1900-1901, Berlin plant of the American Bridge Company 1901-3, Milliken Brothers, New York City, 1903-4, Berlin Construction Company 1904-9, New England representative Metropolitan Bridge Company of New York City 1909-11, sales department Locomobile Company of America, Bridgeport, Conn , 1911-14 and Pierce Arrow Company of America 1914-20, president and treasurer Bassick Service Corporation 1920, representative P W Brookes & Company, Inc , brokers, New York City, 1923-36, m landscaping department Woodmont (Conn ) Nurseries 1938, Connecticut representative priority department War Produc- tion Board 1943-45, retired 1946* member New York National Guard (served m Spanish-American War), attended Umversalist church Married June 18, 1902, Middletown, Alice Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Bradley and Rachel (Fielding) Clark Children Robert Sheffield Scientific School 151

Ernest, Jr (B A. Trinity [Conn ] 1941), Margaret Fielding, the wife of H Carl Frantz, '30 S Death due to dissecting aneurysm of aorta Buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and a brother, Frederick W Broatch

JAMES HESS, Ph B 1898 Born January 16, 1876, Easton, Pa , died December 1, 1949, New Rochelle, N Y Father, Harlan Page Hess, engaged in slate business in Easton, son of James and Annetta (Pauli) Hess Mother, Anna Elizabeth (Hart- pence) Hess, daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth (Johnson) Hart- pence Princeton Preparatory School Select course, Theta Delta Chi LL B New York Law School 1900, lawyer in New York City 1900- 1946 (assistant attorney and trial counsel Board of Transportation, New York City, 1905 until retirement 1946), attended Lutheran church Married October 5, 1910, New York City, Elsie Wmslow,daughter of Rev William Titus Pray and Adelia Mary (Bardm) Pray Death due to coronary thrombosis Ashes interred in Beechwoods Cemetery, New Rochelle Survived by wife and three sisters, Mrs James G Stradling, Mrs Carl T Bilyea, and Mrs Helen H Moore

LEWIS CAMP McEWEN, Ph B 1898 Born April 15, 1871, Seymour, Conn , died May 2, 1950, Seymour, Conn Father, Virgil H McEwen, a merchant in Seymour and Nauga- tuck, Conn , son of David J and Francis J (Wooster) McEwen Mother, Cornelia L (Camp) McEwen, daughter of Phmeas W and Louise B, (McNeil) Camp Seymour High School; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1895-96 Associated with S. B Church Company, Seymour, 1898 until retirement 1932, member Congregational church, Seymour Married (1) November 18, 1903, Fair Haven, Conn , Lulu A , daughter of Theodore Lennon Mrs McEwen died 1920 Married (2) May 4, 1929, Oxford, Conn , Per sis, daughter of Richard Clinton and Lena (Hutchinson) Jacobs Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Trinity Cemetery, Seymour Survived by wife and two sisters, Mrs Edward S Cooper and Mrs E. Treat Hubbell

ROBERT DODD REYNOLDS, Ph B 1898 Born June 27, 1877, East Orange, N J , died March 29, 1950, Orange, N J Father, James Everett Reynolds, a commission merchant, East 152 Yale University Obituary Record

Orange, son of Daniel Dodd Reynolds Mother, Phebe Ann (Day) Rey- nolds, daughter of Robert Patten Day Newark Academy Select course, chairman Triennial Commit- tee LL B New York Law School 1900, attorney in Newark 1900- 1950 (partner Reed, Reynolds and Smith at time of death), vice-president National Lock Washer Company, Newark, 1917-50, Y M C A secretary World War I, president Orange Bureau of Associated Chari- ties 1932-48, member Essex County and New Jersey State Bar associations, New Jersey Audubon Society, New Jersey Historical Society, attended Presbyterian church Unmarried Death due to hemorrhage from esophageal varix Buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange Survived by two sisters, Mrs Joseph M Merrill and Mrs Henry J Smith

CLARENCE GILMAN SPALDING, Ph B 1898 Born July 30, 1876, New Haven, Conn , died December 5, 1949, Milford, Conn Father, Warren A Spaldmg, '81 S Mother, Myra S (Sanborn) Spaldmg Yale relatives include Henry Spalding, '96 (brother), Otis M Bigelow, '04, Stuart C Merwin, f08 S (brothers-in-law), Ruth Spalding Bigelow (Class of 1909 Art) (sister); Warren S. Spalding (Class of 1931) (nephew) Hillhouse High School, New Haven Chemistry course, The Colony and Berzelius With Parke, Davis & Company, drug manufacturers, Detroit, 1898-1901, Ph G Detroit College of Medicine 1901, owner with father Chemist and Drug Store, New Haven, 1902-26, owner Spalding & Com- pany, drug manufacturers, New Haven, 1901-49, demonstrator in pharmacy Yale 1904-14, State chemist 1932-36, chief chemist and vice-president New Haven Laboratories, Inc , 1925-33, president Connecticut State Pharmaceutical Association 1910, member St Mary's Church (Roman Catholic), Milford Married February 17, 1914, New York City, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John Henry McLaughlm and Mary Ann (Moore) McLaughlin Children John Warren, Eleanor Death due to coronary heart disease Buried in St Mary's Cemetery, Milford. Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, a sister, Mrs Stuart C Merwin, and a brother, Edward B Spalding, '03 S

GEORGE CLARKSON THRALL, Ph B. 1898 Born September 10, 1876, Omaha, Nebr , died March 12, 1950, Detroit, Mich Sheffield Scientific School 153

Father, George Thrall, secretary Standard Screw Company, De- troit, son of Reuben Rose and Elizabeth (Gove) Thrall Mother, Jessie Eliza (Clarkson) Thrall, daughter of George Graeme and Mary (Parsells) Clarkson. Yale relatives include Frederick C Thrall, f96 S (brother), Barbara Thrall Rogers (Graduate School 1937-39) (niece) Phillips-Andover Mechanical engineering course, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Yale Battery Successively manager Taylor Water Tube Boiler Company, Detroit, and secretary-treasurer Kendall Peat Moss Company until retirement 1942, Major Infantry, World War I, member Christ Episcopal Church, Detroit Married (1) February 24, 1904, Detroit, Lillian Batchelor, daughter of Robert MacDougall and Lillie (Batchelor) Campau Children Con- stance (Mrs Sabme Lmton Baring-Gould), Robert MacDougall, r30 (died 1942). Mr and Mrs Thrall were divorced 1931 Married (2) July 17, 1941, Grosse Pomte Farms, Mich , Katharine Clemens Woodbury Alt- land, daughter of Edward and Mary (Simprecht) Woodbury Death due to leukemia Buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit Survived by wife, daughter, and two grandchildren

OSBORNE ATWATER DAY, Ph B 1899 Born October 2, 1877, New Haven, Conn , died January 30, 1950, New Haven, Conn Father, Wilbur Fisk Day, president National New Haven Bank, auditor Yale University many years, son of Zelotes and Eliza (Atwater) Day Mother, Mary Jane (Osborn) Day, daughter of Walter and Mary Jane (Reiner) Osborn Yale relatives include Arthur H Day, '89 S , Wilbur F Day, '92 S (brothers), Frank D. Tuttle, '87 (cousin), Breckmridge A. Day, '13, Walter B Day, '16 S , Clive C Day, '17, Gardiner M Day, '22 (nephews) Phillips-Andover Mechanical engineering course, editor Yale Scientific Monthly Senior year, Sigma Delta Chi and The Cloister and Book and Snake LL B 1902 (on Yale Law Journal board, member Corbey Court) Clerk White, Daggett & Tilson, New Haven, 1902-4, lawyer New Haven 1904-9, secretary Union & New Haven Trust Company 1919-29, vice-president 1929 until retirement 1948, director 1934-50, Class secretary 1899-1950, vice-president New Haven Lawn Club Association 1927-50, a founder and secretary New Haven Foundation 1928-46, trustee The Anna Fuller Fund, director Farnam Neighborhood House, New Haven Colony Historical Society, and Foote School, Lieutenant (j g ) U.S NavalReserveForce World War I, member Connecticut National Guard (naval aide to Governor Simeon E Baldwin), member New Haven County, Connecticut State, and American Bar associations, vestryman Christ Church (Episcopal), New Haven 154 Yale University Obituary Record

Married September 19, 1916, New Haven, Gertrude Smedberg, daughter of Capt George Hameken Kearny, U S N , and Isabella (Smedberg) Kearny Children Isabelle Kearny, the wife of Thomas Hooker, '38, Jane Osborn (B A Connecticut Coll 1944), the wife of Newell Garfield, Jr , '45 W , Osborne Atwater, Jr , '43 Death due to coronary artery occlusion Buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, children, and seven grandchildren

ROBERT PHILIP FLINT, Ph B 1899 Born April 13, 1876, St Paul, Minn , died April 18, 1950, Santa Monica, Calif Father, Rev Frederick Wilson Flint (B A Union Coll 1856) Mother, Emily (Beardsley) Flint Lawrenceville School Civil engineering course, Freshman and University crews, vice-president Yale Boat Club, chairman Class Day Committee, The Colony and Berzelius President Carbonic Acid Gas & Oxygen Company, Los Angeles, 1899-1903 and Los Angeles Carbonic Company 1903-23, salesman Wildman & Company., Los Angeles, 1923 until retirement 1931, engaged in war work with Douglas Aircraft Company, Santa Monica, 1942-43, Lieutenant (j g ) U S Naval Reserve Force World War I (on U S S Noma) Married (1) April 6, 1909, Evansville, Ind , Margaret Grant, daughter of James Gray Married (2) August 24, 1928, Riverside, Calif , Dorothy Dunham Taylor Survived by wife and a brother, Frederick Wilson Flint, Jr

FREDERICK BROWNE HARRISON, Ph B 1899 Born December 25, 1875, Hartford, Conn , died July 26, 1949, Washing- ton, D C Father, Wallace Harrison, a machinist, son of David and Mary (Plumb) Harrison Mother, Hannah (Browne) Harrison Yale relatives include Charles B White (Graduate School 1906-7)(cousm). Hillhous£ High School Select course, Senior appointment, Sigma Xi- Student Graduate School 1899-1903 (Ph D 1908) Teacher in School for Boys, St Paul's Parish, Baltimore, 1904-5, 1906-9, instructor English literature College for Women, Western Reserve, 1905-6, master Tome School, Port Deposit, Md , 1909-24, general reference and bibliography division Library of Con- gress 1926 until retirement 1946, supplied factual material for "The Factfinder, " a radio program, 1946-47, member St Paul's Episco- pal Church, New Haven Unmarried Sheffield Scientific School 155

Buried m Milford Side Cemetery, Woodbridge, Conn Survived by no immediate relatives

EDWARD CLARENCE DEAN, Ph B 1900 Born July 31, 1879, Washington, D C , died March 31, 1950, Coconut Grove, Fla Father, Edward Clark Dean, owner Michigan Car Company, Detroit, son of David and Susannah (Clark) Dean Mother, Amanda Marie Sibley Snell Dean, daughter of Hiram and Margaret (Harper) Sibley Yale relatives include Frank H Snell, '82 (half brother), Harold Sooysmith, '05, Kenneth C Sooysmith (Class of 1903 S ) brothers-in-law) Friends' School, Washington Mechanical engineering course, honorable mention in French Freshman and Junior years B S in architecture Columbia 1904, attended Beaux Arts, Paris, 1904-7, in office Delano & Aldrich, New York City, 1907-8 and John Russell Pope 1908-9, architect in Washington 1910-15, New York City 1915-32 (developed Turtle Bay district 1919), and in Westchester Coun- ty (N Y ), Connecticut, and Florida 1932 until retirement 1938, since 1938 devoted time to oil paintings and water colors, many of which have been exhibited and sold, member Greenwich Art Society Married November 12, 1918, Washington, Hilaire, daughter of Charles and Pauline (Olmsted) Sooysmith Children Peter Michael (B A Princeton 1941, M D Columbia 1944), Cynthia Haven Dean Schu- bart Couture (Mrs Emile R Couture) Death due to coronary occlusion Survived by wife, children, and four grandchildren

GEORGE WALTER DUDLEY, Ph B 1900 Born October 29, 1876, New Haven, Conn , died June 17, 1950, Milfordt Mass Father, George E Dudley, a merchant in New Haven Hillhouse High School, New Haven Electrical engineering course, Sigma Xi Electrical appraiser General Electric Company (Lynn, Mass ) 1900-1903, assistant superintendent power station New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Warren, R I., 1904-6, electrical engineer Boston Elevated Railway 1906 until retirement 1938, member American Institute of Electrical Engineers Married June 23, 1906, Warren, Amy Gage Children Vera Gage (died in infancy), Gladys Gage (died m infancy), Wil- liam Walter Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Ashes interred in Mt Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass Survived by wife, son, and one grandchild 156 Yale University Obituary Record

CHARLES DAVENPORT LOCKWOOD, Ph B 1900 Born Nov- ember 11, 1877, Stamford, Conn , died December 12, 1949, Stamford, Conn Father, Henry Lockwood, partner Lockwood & Palmer Company, hardware merchants, Stamford, son of Gideon Weed and Mary (Ayres) Lockwood Mother, Helen Maria (Davenport) Lockwood, daughter of George and Amanda (Fuller) Davenpoi t Yale relatives include a brother-in-law, Andrew J Bell (Class of 1904) John Davenport, origina- tor and champion of the idea for founding a college in New Haven was his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Stamford High School Select course, honors in history and natural science Junior year, two-year honors Senior year, University Debating Team, president Sheff Debating Club, captain University Basketball Team Junior and Senior years, Sigma Xi Honorary member Berzehus LL B. cum laude 1903 (on board Yale Law Journal, Class president, first Wayland Prize, Corbey Court) Deputy district attorney New York City 1903-6, lawyer in Stam- ford 1906-49 (partner Curamings & Lockwood at time of death), judge Probate Court 1907-13, representative from Stamford in State legislature 1912-13, president Citizens Saving Bank 1919-36 and Stamford Water Company 1932-43, vice-president First-Stamford National Bank & Trust Company 1929-45, secretary Lockwood & Palmer Com- pany 1914-34, judge advocate Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, president Stamford Boys' Club, trustee and vice-president Stamford Children's Home, on governing board Stamford Red Cross, Class agent 1920-36, member Stamford, Connecticut State, and American Bar associations, Masonic order, and St John's Episcopal Church, Stamford Married October 13, 1906, Stamford, Gertrude, daughter of Harry and Olive Elizabeth (Barber) Bell Children Charles Davenport, Jr , Walter Bell, '33, Barbara Elizabeth, the wife of Garrett Bunker (Class of 1935) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Woodland Ceme- tery, Stamford Survived by wife, children,and three grandchildren

WILLIAM ALBERT HYDE, Ph B 1901 Born August 10, 1874, Willmar, Minn , died April 27, 1950, Worcester, Mass Father, Albert Abbott Hyde,a bookbinder in New Haven, Conn , son of William Albert and Martha W (Sackett) Hyde Mother, Ella Rebecca (Hall) Hyde, daughter of William and Mary (Brown) Hall Hillhouse High School, New Haven Electrical engineering course, honors for excellence in mechanical drawing Freshman year, two-year honors m all studies Senior year, Sigma Xi Student Gradu- ate School 1901-3 Instructor mechanical drawing Boardman Manual Training High Sheffield Scientific School 157 School, New Haven, 1901-2, student Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology 1902-3 (assistant in electrical laboratory), with Signal Corps, Washington, 1904-5, electrical expert Ordnance Bureau, U S Navy, 1906-14, president Anchor Scale Company, construction engineers, Cambridge, 1914-16, First Lieutenant Air Service World War I, Cap- tain Aviation Section, Signal Corps Reserve, 1918-28, consulting engineer North Haven, Conn , director of research Leon J Barrett Company, manufacturers centrifugal machinery, Worcester, Mass , 1927-50, received Wetherill Medal 1939 from Franklin Institute for outstanding work m field of physical sciences, contributed articles to technical periodicals, state chairman community welfare committee American Legion 1926-27, member American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, Masonic order, and Chestnut Hill Congrega- tional Church, Worcester Unmarried Death due to coronary sclerosis Buried in Center Cemetery, North Haven Survived by a brother, Everett W Hyde

RAYMOND MESERVE KELLOGG, Ph B 1901 Born February 15, 1881, New Haven, Conn , died February 27, 1950, Mt Vernon, N Y Father, Cyrus William Kellogg, owner C W Kellogg & Com- pany, artificial stone makers, New Haven, son of Henry and Lorraine (Butler) Kellogg Mother, Fannie Georgia (MacLean) Kellogg, daughter of George and Ann (Bunnell) MacLean Hillhouse High School, New Haven Mechanical engineering course, Apollo Glee Club Superintendent Westchester Lighting Company, Yonkers, 1901-7, assistant gas engineer Mt Vernon 1908-21, engineer of tests Consoli- dated Gas Company, New York City, 1921-36, assistant engineer of gas production of the successor firm, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc , 1936-41, and assistant process engineer 1941 until retirement 1947, member Empire Gas Association, Society of Gas Engineers, American Gas Association, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Guild of Gas Managers of New England, Masonic order, and First Presbyterian Church, Mt Vernon Married July 7, 1906, Nyack, N Y , Grace Morgan, daughter of Michael and Maria Cnstma (Demarest) Kline Son William Klme (B A Cornell 1936) Death due to arteriosclerotic renal disease Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack. Survived by wife, son, and a brother, Harrison B Kellogg, '06 S

BENTON COOK MOSS, Ph B 1901 Born June 4, 1878, Lake 158 Yale University Obituary Record

Providence, La , died February 16, 1950, Kansas City, Mo. Father, Charles Eugene Moss, a county judge, son of Charles Eugene and Marcia (Castle) Moss Mother, Ida Lucretia (Green) Moss, daughter of David Prentice and Lucretia (Cook) Green Phillips-Andover Select course, Theta Delta Chi Successively purchasing agent Swift and Company, Kansas City, Kansas City Railway and Lighting Company, and United Mail Order Company, Kansas City, president Autogenous Welding Devices Company and Missouri Trucking Company, and vice-president Central Acetylene Lighting Company until 1917, general manager Me Williams Coal Pockets, Inc , Whitestone, N.Y , 1917-19, manager Sheldon School of Business Science, New York City, 1920, proprietor and sales engineer B C Moss, power machinery and supplies, Kansas City, 1920 until retirement, director Kansas City Theatre Association and Kansas City Board of Public Welfare, associate member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, member National Association of Steam Engineers, Engineers Club of Kansas City, Masonic order, and Presbyterian church Married February 26, 1910, Kansas City, Charlotte Frederica, daughter of Charles Frederick Hutchmgs Death due to probable bronchogenic carcinoma Buried in Kan- sas City Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs Cora Lucretia Mueller, and a brother, Castle Prentice Moss

CHARLES EDWARD RUDD, Ph B 1901 Born January 2, 1881, Lakeville, Conn , died January 10, 1950, in Monte lair, N.J Father, William Beardslee Rudd, manager The Holley Manufacturing Company, Lakeville, son of Rev George Robert Rudd and Frances (Beardslee) Rudd Mother, Maria Coffmg (Holley) Rudd, daughter of Gov Alexander Hamilton Holley and Marcia (Cof- fing) Holley Yale relatives include Alexander H Rudd, '86 S (See biographical sketch m this volume), Malcolm D Rudd (Class of 1900) (brothers), William B Rudd, '10 S , Holley R Cantme, •14 S , Theodore O Rudd, '24 S , Roswell H Rudd, '30 (nephews), Thomas J Rudd, '44 S , A Holley Rudd, '46 E (grandnephews) Hotchkiss School Mechanical engineering course, Phi Kappa Epsilon and Book and Bond Surveyor and general manager The Holley Manufacturing Com- pany 1902-6 and president, secretary and treasurer Hans Rees1 Sons, leather tanners, New York City, 1908-11, vice-president and general manager Asheville, N C ,1911-36, president 1936 until retirement 1945, director 1908-50 (chairman of the board 1945-50), vice-president Yale Alumni Association of Western North Carolina 1930-31, sergeant Reserve Militia of North Carolina, member Sons of Amen- Sheffield Scientific School 159

can Revolution, Sons of Veterans of Union Soldiers, and Congregation- al church, Salisbury, Conn Married April 25, 1905, New York City, Emma Sands Rees (Vassar 1902-4), daughter of John Krom and Louise (Sands) Rees Son John Krom (B S Princeton 1938, M E. 1939) Death due to subarachnoid hemorrhage Buried in Salisbury Cemetery Survived by wife, son, and a grandson

WILLIAM BENHAM PRICE, Ph B. 1902 Born September 22, 1877, New Haven, Conn , died February 7, 1950, Waterbury, Conn Father, William Whitney Price, founder Price Lee & Company, publishers of directories, New Haven, son of William and Jane (Hme) Price Mother, Adelaide Betsy (Benham) Price, daughter of William and Nancy (Ives) Benham Hillhouse High School, New Haven Chemistry course, Junior honors, general honors in all subjects Senior year Graduate member Sigma Xi Chemist Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, 1902-6, chief chemist and metallurgist 1906-42, research director 1942 until retirement 1948, a pioneer metallurgist in brass industry, patented alloy "admc" (admiralty nickel) 1925, awarded gold medal for development series of white gold alloys, coauthor Technical Analysis of Brass and the Non- Ferrous Metals, representative Institute of Metals division of mining and metallurgical engineers committee on Internation- al Cooperation, Switzerland, 1931, vice-president American Institute of Metals 1915, on non-ferrous metallurgical advisory board U S Ord- nance Department World War II, honorary member American Society for Testing Metals, member American Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers, American Chemi- cal Society, American Electrochemical Society, Institute of Metals (British), Yale Engineering Association, Chemists Club of New York City, Sons of the American Revolution, and First Church (Congrega- tional), Waterbury Married June 14, 1905, Cleveland, Elsie Helen, daughter of Thomas and Anna (Burns) Moore Daughter Betty Jane (Mrs Charles C Goodrich) Death due to a heart block Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven Survived by wife, daughter, and two grandchildren

BAXTER REYNOLDS, Ph B 1902 Born August 29, 1881, Flush- ing, N.Y , died December 5, 1949, Pittsburgh, Pa Father, William Wilson Reynolds (M D Jefferson Medical Coll 1891) Mother, Jessie (Charlick) Reynolds 160 Yale University Obituary Record

Peddie School Electrical engineering course With New York Edison Company 1902-5, sales engineer an New York City for Nernst Lamp Company of Pittsburgh 1905-6, manager electrical department Fairbanks Morse & Company, New York City, 1906-8, with Burke Electric Company, Erie, 1908-11, successively manager Eastern district Standard Life Insurance Company, district agent Allen-Bradley Company, Milwaukee, and manager Diesel-electrical department L B. Smith, machinery, Camp Hill, Pa , 1911-49, member Masonic order and Presbyterian church Married August 3, 1908, Middletown, N Y., Sara Elizabeth Simpson, daughter of L V Smsabaugh Children Richard Baxter, Arthur Simpson, '38 M , Martha Elizabeth (Mrs Arthur B Kent) Survived by children

WILLIAM TRAVIS AYER, Ph B 1903 Born February 22, 1880, Saybrook, Conn , died November 12, 1949, Wilmington, Del Father, Andrew Ayer, a farmer in Old Saybrook, son of William Travis and Louisa (Clark) Ayer Mother, Agnes McLean (Hynds) Ayer, daughter of John and Jean (McLean) Hynds Morgan High School, Clinton, Conn Electrical engineering course, honors in all studies Freshman year, Junior honors, Sigma Xi Assistant engineer New York Telephone Company 1903-8, assistant engineer Ronald^Smith Company, manufacturers electrical instruments, New York City, 1908-10, superintendent McKier- nan-Terry Drill Company, Dover, N J , 1910-18, design engineer Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, 1918-22, engineer in special fields 1922 until retirement 1946, inventor Ayer shell machine, and perfected many design improvements in explosives, water commissioner Dover, member American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers Married (1) November 20, 1915, Dover, LucyR., daughter of Frank and Catherine E Cox Mr and Mrs Ayer were divorced Married (2) Prudence L Connelly Curry Survived by wife, a stepdaughter, Mrs Charles M. Oberly, a stepson, James N Curry, and two sisters, Mrs Karl V Ray- mond and Miss Jean Ayer

JAMES MADISON BAYLES, Ph B 1903 Born July 22, 1880, Port Jefferson, N Y ; died November 9, 1949, Beulah, Mich Father, Hamilton Tooker Bayles, son of James Madison and Desire Ann (Hawkins) Bayles Mother, Rosa Josephine (Horton) Bayles, daughter of David and Sarah (Howell) Horton Sheffield Scientific School 161

Norwich Free Academy Select course With New York Bell Telephone Company 1903-5, 1906-14 (evening traffic manager New York City 1903-5, district traffic manager with headquarters in Mt Vernon, N.Y., 1906-10 and Jamestown, N Y , 1910-12, in Newark [N. J ] headquarters 1912-14) and New Jersey Bell Telephone Company 1914 until retirement 1935 (district traffic manager with headquarters Asbury Park 1914-30 and traffic employment supervisor Newark 1930-35), with Title Guarantee & Trust Company, Brooklyn, 1905-6, in charge Army switchboards in shore area, with headquarters Fort Monmouth, 1941-44, member Telephone Society of New York and First Presbyterian Church, As- bury Park Married June 2, 1908, Milwaukee, Althea Tooker Rogers (B A Umv Wisconsin 1905), daughter of Augustus James and Char- lotte Althea (Tooker) Rogers Children James Madison, Jr (B A Dartmouth 1934, LL B George Washington Umv 1940), Rogers (B A Dartmouth 1936), Richard Almy (died m infancy), David Hamil- ton (died in infancy), Donald Hamilton (B A. Amherst 1944, LL B Harvard 1950) Death due to leukemia Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Port Jefferson Survived by wife, three sons, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Frank S Child

DOUGLAS ROY HARTSHORNE, Ph B 1904 Born February 12, 1883, New York City, died April 21, 1950, New York City Father, Richard Bowne Hartshorne, partner James M Harts- horne & Brother, bankers, New York City, son of James Mott and Jane Ann (Bowne) Hartshorne Mother, Josephine Eugenia Roe (Cum- mings) Hartshorne, daughter of Thomas Levi and Jane (Cook) Cummings Wilson-Lyon School, New York City Select course, Class Golf Team, editor Yale Scientific Monthly Senior year, The Colony and Ber- zelius Broker m New York City 1904 until retirement 1938 (senior partner Hartshorne, Fales & Company at retirement), governor New York Stock Exchange 1931-35, general manager Blackett & Dalby, executive consultants, 1948-50, general salvage secretary Bureau of Industrial Conservation, War Production Board, and in Office of Strategic Ser- vices, World War II, member Society of Friends Married December 14, 1911, Rye, N Y , Leila Douglas, daughter of William M and Jessie (Stott) Whitney Children Whitney, '36, Douglas, Jr (Class of 1943) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Albany (N Y ) Rural Cemetery Survived by wife, sons, two sisters, Mrs Charles F Deshler and Miss Estelle Hartshorne, and two brothers, Howard M 162 Yale University Obituary Record

Hartshorne and Edward C Hartshorne.

HOWARD SHEFFIELD JECK, Ph B 1904 Born March 24, 1883, Nashville, Tenn , died December 29, 1949, New York City Father, Peter Jeck, wholesale and retail grocer, Nashville, son of Johannes and Wilhelmenia (Klaar) Jeck Mother, Anna Maria (Barth) Jeck, daughter of Johann and Elizabeth (Birkenmayer) Barth Bowen School, Nashville Biology course, honors in German, French, and biology Junior year and special honors Senior year, editor Yale Scientific Monthly Senior year, Class statistician Instructor modern languages Bowen School 1904-6, M D Van- derbilt University 1909 (member Alpha Omega Alpha), postgraduate student University of Vienna 1909-10, physician Nashville 1910-13, interne Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1913-15 and St John's Hospital, Brooklyn, 1913, urologist New York City 1915-49, assistant visiting surgeon department of urology Bellevue Hospital 1920- 33, associate 1933-38, visiting surgeon in charge department of urology 1938-46, consultant 1946-49, professor urology and attending urologist New York Polyclmic Medical School and Hospital 1937-49, instructor clinical surgery department of urology Cornell University Medical College 1920-30, assistant professor 1930-38, associate professor 1939-49, associate visiting surgeon department of urology New York Hospital 1932-48, urologist St Mark's Hospital, New York City, 1926-33, consulting urologist St John's (Brooklyn), Good Sa- maritan (Suffern), Rockland State (Orangeburg), Nyack, Dobbs Ferry, White Plains, Tarrytown, and Nor walk General hospitals, and Summit Park Sanatorium, Pomona, N Y , president Society of Alumni of Belle- vue Hospital 1946, fellow American College of Surgeons, member American Urological Association,American Association of Genito-Urin- ary Surgeons, New York Academy of Medicine, American Medical As- sociation, Chi Phi, and St George's Episcopal Church, New York City Married October 10, 1918, in New York City, Norine Harriet, daughter of Walter David and Mary Ellen (Rowan) Lever Children Henry Keyes, '42, Howard Sheffield, Jr , '42 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Willowbrook Ceme- tery, Westport, Conn Survived by wife, sons, and a sister, Mrs James B McKee

HAROLD KNIGHT, Ph B 1904 Born October 28, 1881, Stock- port, Pa , died September 28, 1949, Middletown, N Y Father, Warner Preston Knight, merchant and lumberman, Stock- port, son of Richard and Cassandra (Lakin) Knight Mother, Henrietta Maria (Hoxie) Knight, daughter of Allen Kenyon and Gulielma (Preston) Sheffield Scientific School 163

Hoxie Lawrenceville School Civil engineering course, St Anthony and Delta Psi Rodman, transitrnan, and engineer Erie Railroad Company 1904-5, assistant engineer 1905-8, division engineer Allegheny Division, Sala- manca, N Y , 1908-14, signal engineer Jersey City 1914-17, assistant superintendent of maintenance New York City 1917-20, regional engineer in charge of maintenance of way Ohio region 1920 until retirement 1928, member American Railway Engineering Association, Railway Signal Association, Masonic order, attended Presbyterian church Unmarried Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Stockport Cemetery Survived by four sisters, Miss Annie P Knight, Mrs Floyd W Morgans, Miss Elma H Knight, and Mrs Archibald E Vail, and a brother, Sam- uel P Knight, '99

WILLIAM JOHN O'MEARA, Ph B 1904 Born March 10, 1882, New Haven, Conn , died December 27, 1949, New York City Father, Thomas O'Meara, a construction foreman, New Haven, son of Patrick and Sarah (Clarey) O'Meara Mother, Bridget (Dore) O'Meara Yale relatives include Edward P O'Meara, '99 L , Walter E Joyce, '07 S (cousins), John W O'Meara, Jr (Class of 1939)(nephew) New Haven Higfh. School Mechanical engineering course With New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company 1904 until retirement 1947 (apprentice 1904-6, locomotive inspector Westing- house Electric & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, 1906-7, in charge electrical equipment New Rochelle 1907-8, general foreman electric equipment Grand Central Terminal, New York City, 1908-12 and in Stamford 1912-17, road foreman electric locomotives 1917-29, assistant master mechanic Harlem River Division 1929-47), member American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York Railroad Club, and Church of the Blessed Sacrament (Roman Catholic), New York City Married September 16, 1914, New York City, Anna Gertrude, daughter of James and Mary Ann (Short) Duffy Daughter Anita Marie (New York Umv 1935-38, Mrs Arthur Carton), Death due to a heart attack Buried in Madonna Cemetery, Fort Lee, N J Survived by wife, daughter, a granddaughter, and a brother, John W O'Meara (died September 1950)

CHARLES DONNELLY RAFFERTY, Ph B 1904 Born August 17, 1879, Pittsburgh, Pa , died October 27, 1949, Greenwich, Conn Father, Gilbert Thomas Rafferty, president McClure Coke Com- 164 Yale University Obituary Record pany, Pittsburgh Mother, Harriett Martin (Oliver) Rafferty Yale relatives include William H Gelshenen, '03 S (brother-in-law), Bernard Rafferty, '43 (nephew) Phillips-Andover Select course, University Football Team (captain Senior year), Baseball Squad, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, chairman Triennial Committee, Book and Snake Football coach at Yale 1904, with Homestead (Pa ) Works of U S Steel Corporation 1904-13 and H J Baker & Brother, importers and dealers in chemical and fertilizer supplies, New York City, 1913 until retirement about 1940 (senior partner at retirement), member Yale Board of Athletic Control 1923-40. Married June 15, 1912, New York City, Corinne, daughter of William Henry and Katharine (Dunne) Gelshenen Children Brendan Gelshenen, '37, Kevin Gelshenen, '38 (killed in service 1945), Martha Endicott, Walter Gelshenen, '42 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Putnam Ceme- tery, Greenwich Survived by wife, daughter, two sons, a grandson, and a brother, Maxwell L Rafferty (Class of 1910 S )

WALTER HOWARD SEAGRAVE, Ph B 1904 Born September 12, 1881, Toledo, Ohio, died August 10, 1949, Cleveland, Ohio Father, Francis E Seagrave, '68* Mother, Charlotte Caroline (Lee) Seagrave Mercersburg Academy Select course LL B Western Reserve 1907 (member Alpha Delta Phi), lawyer m Cleveland 1907-49 (partner Snyder, Seagrave, Roudebush & Adrion at time of death), secretary and treasurer Universal Products Company, charter member Canterbury Golf Club, Cleveland, member Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Bar associations, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Western Reserve Histori- cal Society Married June 6, 1911, Cleveland, Alice Duty (B A Western Re- serve 1905), daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Cozad) Duty Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Lake View Ceme- tery, Cleveland Survived by wife and a sister, Mrs Jessie S Eastell

HAROLD GRAHAM ALEXANDER, Ph B. 1905 Born September 5, 1882, Cleveland, Ohio, died June 28, 1950, Cleveland, Ohio Father, William David Brown Alexander, manufacturer in Cleve- land Mother, Lida Jane (Graham) Alexander Asheville (N C ) School Select course, University Track Team, Class statistician Private secretary to president National Screw & Manufacturing Sheffield Scientific School 165

Company, Cleveland, 1906-20, president 1920 until retirement 1940, member St Paul's Episcopal Church, East Cleveland Married June 9, 1908, Cleveland, Eleanor, daughter of George Lewin and Winifred (Johnston) Quayle Children Eleanor (Mrs John Venning), Winifred Jane (Mrs William Gerhauser) Death due to congestive heart failure Buried in Lake View Ceme- tery, Cleveland Survived by wife, children, and five grandchildren

STEPHEN CLARK CHENEY, Ph B 1905 Born February 4, 1883, Manlius, N Y , died January 5, 1950, Manlius, N Y Father, Walter William Cheney, president S Cheney & Son, grey iron foundries, Manlius, son of Stephen and Mary Melissa (Pierce) Cheney Mother, Delia Leora (Clark) Cheney, daughter of Bronson and Charlotte Chloe (Barnes) Cheney Yale relatives include a brother, Walter W Cheney, Jr , '10 S St John's School, Manlius Mechanical engineering course Draftsman American Window Glass Company, Jeannette, Pa , and Pennsylvania Rubber Company 1905, in shipping department S Cheney & Son 1905-6, time clerk 1906-12, assistant superintendent 1912-15, secretary 1915-39, president and general manager 1939-50, trustee Manlius Village, on board of managers Onondaga Tuberculosis Sanatorium, member First Universal Church, Syracuse Married August 30, 1910, Fayetteville, N Y , Ladye Katharine Smith (B A Vassar 1909), daughter of L Bertrand and Ladye Love (Hall) Smith Children Charlotte Katharine (Radcliffe 1933-34, Mrs Gorham Kingman Crosby), Stephen Smith (B S Syracuse 1939) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Manlius Cemetery Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, and a brother, John P Cheney, '07 S

WARREN WITHERELL HILDITCH, Ph B 1905 Born October 5, 1883, Thompsonville, Conn , died January 11, 1950, Erie, Pa Father, Hugh Hilditch, a grocer m Thompsonville, son of William and Isabella (Harrison) Hilditch Mother, Mary Cecelia (Callahan) Hilditch, daughter of John and Ann (Cleary) Callahan Enfield (Conn ) Public High School Biology course, honors in biology Junior and Senior years, general two-year honors Senior year Ph D 1909 With Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Company 1905-6, student Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1905-7, instructor chemistry Syracuse University 1909-10, assistant professor in charge department of physiological chemistry 1910-11, chief of staff clinical laboratories of Dr Ernest E Smith, '88 S , New York City, 1911-14, owner 166 Yale University Obituary Record

Hilditch Laboratory, Newark, 1914-15, pathologist and director Graves Laboratory, Memorial Hospital, Orange, N J , 1915-20, pathologist and director laboratory Harriot Hospital, Erie, 1920-27, owner Hilditch Laboratory, Erie, 1927 until retirement 1946, contributed to many scientific periodicals, member American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, American Chemical Society, Masonic order (secretary Grotto Club [later Saga Club], Erie, 1946-50), and Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian), Erie Married October 6, 1911, Warehouse Point, Conn , Martha Isabel Fiske (B A Mount Holyoke 1909), daughter of Walter Ellsworth and Julia Aurelia (Pascoe) Fiske Children Julia Fiske (B A Mary- ville Coll 1936, Mrs Robert Howard Toms), Warren Fiske (B A Gannon Coll 1947), Barbara Fiske (B A Lake Erie Coll 1942), Hugh Fiske (killed in service 1945) Death due to coronary occlusion Buried m Erie Cemetery Survived by wife, daughters, one son, four grandchildren, a sister, Miss Isabel H Hilditch, and a brother, Eldon L Hilditch, '10 L

JOSEPH WALKER KENNEDY, Ph B 1905 Born December 16, 1885, Pittsburgh, Pa , died March 28, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa Father, Julian Kennedy (Ph B 1875) Mother, Jennie Eliza (Breneman) Kennedy Yale relatives include a nephew, Julian K Miller, '31 Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course Successively with Adrian Furnace Company, DuBois, Pa , Iro- quois Iron Company, South Chicago, Wickwire Steel Company, Buffalo, and Spartansburg (S C ) Power Company 1906-9, consulting engineer with father in Pittsburgh 1909-32, associated with brother m Ontario Coal Company and Fowler Coal Company, vice-president Poland Coal Company 1912-50, secretary Emerald Coal Company 1912-41, trustee Arnold School, Pittsburgh, member American Society of Mechanical Engineers and First United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh Married April 5, 1911, Pittsburgh, Kathenne Browne Worcester (B A Vassar 1907), daughter of Edward and Jane Tunis (Sargent) Worcester Children Joseph Walker, Jr , '32 S , Jane (B A Vassar 1934, Mrs John Charles Ferguson), Worcester (died m infancy), Wmthrop Sargent, '38 E , Taylor Linn (Colgate Class of 1942), Kathenne Worcester (B A Wheaton 1943, Mrs George Williams), Abigail Worcester (Sweet Briar Class of 1945, Mrs Charles Kenneth Bryant) Death due to an embolism Buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh Survived by wife, daughters, three sons, eleven grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs R Templeton Smith and Mrs John L Miller, and a brother, Julian Kennedy, Jr , '08 S Sheffield Scientific School 167

HAROLD MILTON ROBERTS, Ph B 1905 Born July 16, 1884, Montclair, N J , died December 26, 1949, New York City Father, Frederick Emmons Roberts, commission merchant New York City, son of Frederick Augustus and Mary Sterling (Emmons) Roberts Mother, Mathilda Irene (Smith) Roberts, daughter of Atchi- son Preston and Maria (Eagles) Smith Montclair High School Electrical engineering course, Fresh- man Banjo and Mandolin Club, Phi Sigma Kappa Assistant engineer New York Telephone Company 1905-11, construction engineer James Stewart & Company, Inc , contractors, New York City, 1911-14, 1930-49, assistant sales engineer Edison Storage Battery Company 1914-22, business manager Hearst Publications, Inc (New York Journal-American) 1922-30, member Church of the Heaven- ly Rest (Episcopal), New York City Married May 2, 1917, New York City, Hazel Young, daughter of Egerton Ames and Margaret Emma Bliss Children Millicent Mar- garet (Mrs George Krieger), Harold Milton, Jr , '45 WE Death due to coronary sclerosis Buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, N J Survived by wife and children

EARL TAPPAN STANNARD, Ph B 1905 Born December 9, 1882, Chittenango, N Y , died September 9, 1949, near St Joachim, Quebec Father, Burdette Stannard, a farmer in Chittenango, son of William Henry and Lucy (Morris) Stannard Mother, Valenta Emaline (Young) Stannard, daughter of James Hawley and Ann Elizabeth (Tappan) Young Phillips-Andover Mining engineering course, honors in mathematics Freshman year, honors in mining engineering Junior and Senior years, general two-year honors Senior year, Sigma Xi,The Cloister and Book and Snake Student Graduate School 1905-6 Superintendent milling Federal Lead Company, Flat River, Mo , 1906-10, with Braden Copper Company, Rancagua, Chile, 1911-14, president 1933-49, general manager mining operations Kennecott Copper Corporation in Alaska 1915-23, vice-president m New York City 1923-33, president 1933-49, head Alaska Steamship Company 1920- 42, D Eng Michigan College of Mining and Technology 1936, vice-president Class 1930-49, member executive committee Yale Alumni Board 1941-44, and member-at-large 1943-46, chairman Engineering Division President's Committee on University Development, as head of United States Copper Association worked out cooperative understanding with world producers of copper (decorated 1935 by King Leopold of Belgium), chairman Code Authority for the copper industry under National Re- covery Administration, member Yale Engineering Association and 168 Yale University Obituary Record

Chittenango Episcopal Church Married June 11, 1918, New York City, Jeannette, daughter of Michael and Kate (Reardon) Condon Daughter Ann Tappan (died 1928) Killed m an airplane crash Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Ardsley, N Y Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs Louise Stannard Tifft, and a brother, Bruce Morris Stannard

GEORGE BROOKS ARMSTEAD, Ph B 1906 Born May 30, 1883, New Haven, Conn , died March 7, 1950< Wethersfield, Conn. Father, James Benson Armstead, a carriage manufacturer in New Haven, son of James Benson and Elizabeth (Story) Armstead Mother, Louise (Brooks) Armstead, daughter of Herrick and Matilda (Doolittle) Brooks Booth Preparatory School, New Haven Select course, Univer- sity Gymnastic Team, Alpha Chi Rho Reporter New Haven Leader 1906-7, city editor New Haven Evening and Sunday Leader 1908-9, editor Lynn (Mass ) Evening News 1909-11, Sunday editor New Haven Union 1911-13, editor 1913-16, city editor New Haven Journal-Courier 1916-18, editor Sunday section The Hartford (Conn ) Courant 1920-21, assistant managing editor 1921-24, managing editor 1924 until retirement 1940, news com- mentator WDRC (Hartford) 1943-46, an authority on Connecticut government affairs, editor administrative reports for State 1947-50 (State Services, Connecticut State Government), Y M C A secretary American Expeditionary Forces World War I, in publicity department British Expeditionary Forces, Palestine and Egypt, 1918- 20, president Connecticut circuit Associated Press, member Ameri- can Society of Newspaper Editors, Foreign Policy Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Yale Engineering Association, and Masonic order Married (1) October 7, 1908, Brooklyn, N Y , Marion, daughter of Henry B and Emily Brinsmade (Grannis) Gorham Son James Gorham (B S Rensselaer 1932) Mrs Armstead died 1912 Mar- ried (2) January 5, 1927, Oak Park, 111 , Frances Josephine Lakm (B A Univ Michigan 1914), daughter of Henry Robert and Jessie Fremont (Lytle) Lakin Children George Brooks, Jr (B S. Univ Connecticut 1950), Jessie Louise (Russell Sage Coll Class of 1952) Death due to myocardial infarction Buried in Wethersfield Cemetery Survived by wife, children, and two grandchildren

KARL HOWELL BEHR, Ph B 1906 Born May 30, 1885, Brooklyn, N Y , died October 15, 1949, New York City Sheffield Scientific School 169

Father, Herman Behr, owner Herman Behr & Company, Inc , New York City, son of Henry Edward Behr Mother, Grace (Howell) Behr, daughter of William Wallace Howell Yale relatives include a brother-in-law, William M, Newsom, '09 S Lawrenceville School Select course, Freshman Baseball and Football teams, Freshman honors, University Hockey Team, Univer- sity Tennis Team (captain Junior and Senior years), vice-president Intercollegiate Tennis Association 1904-5, Junior Promenade and Triennial committees, Linonia Society, The Cloister and Book and Snake In selling department Herman Behr & Company, Inc , 1906-7, director 1912-25, LL B Columbia 1910, with McKeen, Brewster & Morgan, lawyers, New York City, 1910-12 and Kidder, Peabody & Company 1912-13, secretary-treasurer Eastern States Oil Company, president Martin Metals Corporation 1920-23, head industrial department Dillon, Read & Company, Inc , investment bankers, 1924- 28, president 1928-49, listed as nation's No 3 tennis player 1907 and 1914 (member U S. Davis Cup Team 1907), Alumni Fund agent 1906- 25, 1934-49, director Yale Alumni University Fund Association (vice- chairman 1938-40), captain Motor Transport Corps World War I, member Association of Ex-members of Squadron A, St Nicholas Society, Yale Engineering Association, and St James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City Married March 1, 1913, New York City, Helen Monypeny, daughter of Logan Conway and Sally (Monypeny) Newsom Children Karl Howell, Jr , '37, Peter Howell, '37, James Howell, Sally Howell Death due to carcinoma Buried in Morristown (N J ) Ceme- tery Survived by wife (Mrs Dean Mathey), children, seven grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs Archibald M Reid and Mrs John Milne, and two brothers, Herman Behr and Max H Behr, '05 S

LAWRENCE ABRAHAM SIMMONS, Ph B 1906 Born April 15, 1883, Lmcolnville, S C , died November 10, 1949, Clifton Park, N Y Father, Rev Abraham Simmons (B A Talladega Coll 1893) Mother, Maria (DeWitt) Simmons B A Talladega 1903 Mechanical engineering course at Yale Became engineer with General Electric Company, Schenectady, in 1906 (turbine experimental and research work), member Yale Engineering Association and Congregational church Married November 15, 1913, Margaret H Williams Children Williams DeWitt, Lawrence Hutchmson, Margaret Adelaide Death due to cerebral embolism Buried in Park View Cemetery, Schenectady Survived by wife (died July 1950), 170 Yale University Obituary Record

children, and one grandchild

WILLIAM ROSE BENET, Ph B 1907 Born February 2, 1886, Fort Hamilton, N Y , died May 4, 1950, New York City Father, Colonel James Walker Bene't, USA Ret (grad U S Military Academy 1880), son of Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Bene't and Laura (Walker) Benet Mother, Frances Neill (Rose) Bene't, daughter of William John and Mary Lee (Mahon) Rose Yale relatives include Laurence V Bene't, '84 S (uncle), Stephen Vincent Bene't, '19 (brother), Thomas Carr Bene't, f49 (nephew) Albany Academy Select course, editor Yale Record and chairman board Yale Courant Senior year, member Elizabethan Club Free lance writer 1907-11, reader Century Magazine 1911-14, assistant editor 1914-18, assistant editor The Nation's Business, Washington, 1919-20, associate editor "Literary Review" New York Evening Post 1920-24, a founder and associate editor weekly column "The Phoenix Nest" Saturday Review of Literature 1924-29, contributing editor 1929-50, contributed to "The Conning Tower" New York Herald Tribune, author Merchants from Cathay, Falconer of God, Great White Wall, Burglar of the Zodiac, Perpetual Light, Moons of -Grandeur, First Person Singular, Flying King of Kurio, Wild Goslings, Man Possessed, Rip Tide, Starry Harness, Golden Fleece, With Wings as Eagles, The Dust which is God (Pulitzer Prize 1942), Day of Deliverance, A Book of Poems in Wartime, American Parable, Stair- way of Surprise, Spirit of the Scene, My Brother Steve, Inheritance, Day's End (National Playwriting Award 1939), coauthor Saturday Papers, and Adolphus, editor Poetry of Freedom, Fifty Poets - An American Auto-Anthology, Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry, Prose and Poetry of Elinor Wylie, Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie, Great Poems of the English Language, Reader's Encyclopedia, The Chimaera, Poems for Youth, coeditor Twentieth-Century Poetry, Oxford Anthology of American Literature, Poetry of Freedom, The Stag's Hornbook, Adventures in English Literature, translator Claudel's The East I Know, contributed to Encyclopaedia Britannica and many periodicals, vice-president National Institute of Arts and Letters 1944-46, secretary 1947-50, lecturer Mills College 1936 and 1937, Hon M A Yale 1921, Litt D Dickinson College 1933, Second Lieu- tenant U S Air Service, World War I, member Episcopal church Married (1) September 3, 1912, Port Washington, N Y , Teresa Frances, daughter of James Alden and Josephine (Moroney) Thompson Children James Walker, 2d (B A Stanford 1935), Frances Rosemary (Mrs Richard Smith Dawson), Kathleen Anne (Mrs. George Blanchard Fry) Mrs Benet died 1919 Married (2) October 5, 1923, Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie, daughter of Henry Martyn and Anne Sheffield Scientific School 171

(MacMichael) Hoyt Mrs Benet died 1928 Married (3) March 15, 1932, New York City, Lora, daughter of George M Baxter Mr and Mrs Bene't were divorced 1937 Married (4) June 22, 1941, New- town, Conn , Marjorie, daughter of George Nelson and Charlotte Augusta (Brooks) Flack ^ Death due to arterial disease Ashes interred at summer home, Pigeon Cove, Mass Survived by wife, children, ten grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Laura Bene't

FLOYD LINSLEY HAMILTON, Ph B 1907 Born November 18, 1885, Ogallala, Nebr , died February 25, 1950, San Francisco, Calif Father, William Henry Hamilton, engaged in real-estate and insurance business Wayne and Ogallala, Nebr , and postmaster Ogallala, son of Edwin and Louisa (Helfenstem) Hamilton Mother, Mary Emma (Lmsley) Hamilton Cornell University 1904-5 Entered Yale Junior year, select course With Marshall Wells Hardware Company, Spokane, Wash , 1908-9, owner hardware business Pullman, Wash , 1910-21 and F L Hamilton Planing Mill, manufacturers of window and door frames, San Francisco, 1921-50 Married January 7, 1913, Pullman, Sylvia Odessie, daughter of Jesse Bowman Son Wade P Mr and Mrs Hamilton were divorced Death due to empyema of gall bladder Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, San Mateo County, Calif Survived by son, a grandson, a brother, Claude Irving Hamilton, a half sister, Miss_Mildred Louisa Hamilton, and a half brother, Clarence Edwin Hamilton

ROLLAND MILES HASTINGS, Ph B 1907 Born December 19, 1883, Braceville, 111 , died December 12, 1949, Glendale, Calif Father, Charles Eli Hastings, associated with Hastings Indus- trial Company, Chicago, son of Eli and Elizabeth (Kerr) Hastings Mother, Elizabeth (Baker) Hastings, daughter of Captain William Baker and Elizabeth (Viner) Baker Chicago Latin School Select course With Hastings Industrial Company 1907-13 (vice-president in 1913), president National Dairy Machine Company, Goshen, Ind , 1914- 20, with Federal Securities Corporation, Chicago, 1920-27, Gundlach Advertising Company 1929-30, and Paine, Webber & Company, Chicago, 1931-49, member Belden Avenue Presbyterian Church, Chicago Married May 22, 1909, Milwaukee, Wis , Edith Rexford, daugh- 172 Yale University Obituary Record

ter of Joseph Purmort and Mary (Rexford) Eames Children Elizabeth Janet (B A Northwestern 1932, Mrs Rufus S Camp), Richard Eames (Umv Michigan Class of 1939) Death due to acute myocardial infarction Ashes interred in Glendale Columbarium Survived by wife, children, one grandchild, a sister, Mrs Albert S Martin, and a brother, Charles E. Hastings

ROSWELL PARK, Ph B 1907 Born August 12, 1885, Buffalo, N Y , died August 28, 1949, Buffalo, N Y Father, Roswell Park, LL D (B A Racine 1872, M D North- western 1876), professor surgery University of Buffalo, son of Rev Roswell Park and Mary Brewster (Baldwin) Park Mother, Martha Prudence (Durkee) Park, daughter of Julius Augustus and Delight (Champlm) Durkee ^ The Hill School Select course, Freshman and Class football teams, captain Class crew, University Track Team, vice-president University Athletic Association Senior year, Freshman, Apollo, and University Glee clubs, secretary Sheff Y M C A Junior year, Fresh- man Class president, cup man, Senior Promenade Committee, St An- thony and Delta Psi With Wickwire Steel Company, Buffalo, 1907-10, president and treasurer Seneca Rubber Company, manufacturers agents, Buffalo, 1910-12, vice-president Republic Engineering & Construction Com- pany 1912-13, with Deuel, Lapey & Company, Inc , general insurance, Buffalo, 1914-17, president Park, Harrison & Thomas, Inc , insurance, 1917, vice-president Park, Thomas & Company, Inc , 1919-22, president 1922-28, independently engaged in insurance business 1928- 31, insurance broker Gurney, Overturf & Becker, Inc , Buffalo, 1931- 49, First Lieutenant Infantry World War I, vice-president Yale Associ- ation of Western New York 1923-24, president 1926-27, member Trinity Episcopal Church, Buffalo Married (1) October 31, 1910, Buffalo, Phoebe, daughter of George Ingraham and Grace (Tappan) Seney Mr and Mrs Park were divorced 1921 Married (2) New York City, Vera King, daughter of Christian Wagener Mrs Park is deceased Death due to cirrhosis of liver Ashes interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo Survived by a brother, Julian Park, LL D

JOHN SHERMAN PECK, Ph B 1907 Born November 27, 1885, Syracuse, N Y , died February 2, 1950, Willoughby, Ohio Parents, Frank Andrew and Elizabeth (Hulett) Peck Yale relatives include Wilber S Peck, Jr , '99 Lawrenceville School Select course, Freshman Football Squad, Sheffield Scientific School 173

Sheff Debating Society, York Hall and Chi Phi With American Multigraph Company, Cleveland, 1907-10 (manager Buffalo branch 1908-10) and Crowell & Little Construction Com- pany, Cleveland, 1910-34 (vice-president 1919-34), president Peck & Udell Construction Company, Cleveland, 1934-50, member executive board Building Trades Employers Association Married (1) April 14, 1909, Cleveland, Helen Mary, daughter of Arthur and Alice Cogswell Children Carolyn Cogswell (Mrs Maurice L Jenks, Jr ), Janet Ritchie (Mrs Albert C Fisher), Katharine B (Mrs Allen F Thomas), Helen C (Mrs Robert N Ball) Mrs Peck died 1939 Married (2) November 19, 1942, Catherine Russel Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Lake View Ceme- tery, Cleveland Survived by wife, daughters, and six grandchildren

ARTHUR HARDING BOSWORTH, Ph B 1908 Born February 4, 1886, Denver, Colo , died November 1, 1949, Boston, Mass Father, Joab Otis Bosworth, president Denver Fire Clay Com- pany, son of Daniel L and Mary (Case) Bosworth Mother, Leonora Nettie (Snyder) Bosworth, daughter of George and Mary Adelaide Hard- ing) Snyder East Denver High School Mechanical engineering course, Fresh- man Glee Club, secretary Freshman Union, vice-president Sheff Debat- ing Society Senior year, treasurer Sheff Y M C A Senior year, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, St Elmo and Delta Phi With William E Sweet & Company, investment bankers, Denver, 1908-13 and vice-president its successor Sweet, Causey, Foster & Company 1913-16, founder, and president Bosworth, Chanute & Lough- ridge & Company, investment bankers, Denver, 1916-46 and chairman board merger firm Bosworth, Sullivan & Company 1946-49, vice-president Denver Union Stockyards Company 1926-49, Denver War Chest, Inc , and Civic League, secretary-treasurer Colorado Yale Associa- tion 1917-19, president 1928-29, chairman Yale Endowment Fund Cam- paign (Denver) and Alumni War Service Committee, member Masonic order and Church of the Ascension (Episcopal), Denver Married October 22, 1912, Denver, Loula, daughter of John Al- bert and Loula (Bartlett) Ferguson Children Arthur Ferguson, '38, Elizabeth Ferguson (Mrs Barry Morey Sullivan) Death due to coronary artery disease Buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, and a brother, Robert Graham Bosworth

CONSTANTINE MEGERDITCH CONSTANTIAN, Ph B 1908 Born December U, 1881, Killis, Asia Minor; died June 11, 1950, Perm Yan, N Y 174 Yale University Obituary Record

Father, Megerditch Car abed Constantian, a shoe dealer in Killis Mother, Mariam Hogop (Varshabedian) Constantian B A Central Turkey College 1902 Chemistry course at Yale, general honors Junior year, two-year honors Senior year Technical chemist Tabriz Renovating Company, New York City, 1909-11, general manager chemical processing fabrics plant, Brook- lyn, N Y , 1911-12, partner plant for chemical treatment of oriental rugs, London, England, 1913-15, 1920-21, acid plant superintendent Atlas & Hercules Powder Companies, Reynolds, Pa , 1915-18, dye manufacturer American Aniline Products, Inc , Lock Haven, Pa , 1918-20, president Kashmir Refimshing Company, Inc , Long Island City, N Y , 1922-38, president Standard Rug Refimshing Company, New York City, 1938-39, partner and general manager Consolidated Rug Washers, Inc , chemical processing of imported rugs, Jersey City, N J , 1939-50, member Congregational church Married January 8, 1910, Jersey City, Lillian Josephine Haase Coerr, daughter of Frederick William and Elisabeth (Gates) Haase Death due to ruptured retroperitoneal aneurysm Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn Survived by wife, two stepdaughters, Mrs James Gule and Mrs Joseph Stanley Woyden, and one step-grandchild

JOSEPH ALLEN PECK, Ph B 1908 Born March 14, 1885, Hartford, Conn , died June 8, 1950, Worcester, Mass Father, Franklin Joseph Peck, associated with Rowland Ma- chine Company, son of Seth and Wealthy Ann (Sheldon) Peck Mother, Mary (Ensign) Peck Crosby High School, Waterbury, Conn Electrical engineering course, prize for excellence in German Freshman year Engineering assistant United Wireless Telegraph Company, New Jersey Works, 1908-10, 1911, with Crocker-Wheeler Company, Ampere, N J , 1910-11, engineering and inspection department Western Electric Company, New York City, 1911, engineering department Public Service Electric Company, Newark, N J , 1912-19, assistant engineer New England Power Service Company, Worcester, Mass, 1919-28, assistant engineer mechanical engineering department New England Po"wer Association, Boston, 1928-50, inventor hydraulic meter, a patented system of pressure taps for hydraulic tur- bines, with Munitions Development Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1944-45, member Wesley Methodist Church, Worcester Married June 18, 1913, East Orange, N J , Iva May, daughter of Frederick Lupton and Alice May (Jackson) Snedeker Children Allen Snedeker (B A Bluefield Coll 1936), Virginia Laurel (Mrs Norman Frank Blais) Mrs Peck died 1934 Sheffield Scientific School 175

Death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease Buried in Hope Cemetery, Worcester Survived by children and four grandchildren

JOHN WILLIAM SHEA, Ph B 1908 Born June 29, 1885, Springfield, Mass , died June 2,, 1950, Springfield, Mass Parents, James Henry and Agnes (Lynch) Shea Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass, Massachusetts Institute ol Tech- nology 1905-6 Entered Yale Junior year, civil engineering course Worked in New Haven, Conn , much of the time since graduation (associated with New Haven Paving Commission and Board of Education), at Hog Island Shipyard, Philadelphia, during World War I Unmarried Death due to bronchopneumonia Buried in St Michael's Cem- etery, Springfield Survived by no immediate relatives

GEORGE WILLIS SHUBERT, Ph B 1908 Born May 10, 1885, New Haven, Conn , died December 27, 1949 Father, Willis Brooks Shubert, a mechanic in New Haven Moth- er, Ella (Townsend) Shubert Boardman Manual Training School, New Haven Mechanical engineering course, University Choir Successively with Hewitt Motor Company, New York City, test engineer Standard Aniline Products, Inc , Wappingers Falls, N Y , representative De La Vergne Machine Company, Eustis, Fla , and president Tropical Refrigerating Company, Tampa, Fla , until 1941, chief of refrigeration for overseas supply Division Engineering and Development Branch O C E , Washington, 1941-43, district engineer Universal Cooler Corporation, Washington, 1943 Married June 11, 1913, New Haven, Emma L , daughter of Charles Haible Survived by wife

WILLIAM WALTER TAYLOR, Ph B 1908 Born October 25, 1888, Birmingham, England, died August 13, 1949, Owensboro, Ky Father, Walter William Taylor, engineer New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, son of John and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Taylor Mother, Ellen (Halward) Taylor, daughter of William and Mary (Davis) Halward New Haven High School Mining engineering course, honors in mining engineering Junior year, two-year honors Senior year With Ray Consolidated Copper Company, Arizona, 1909-11 and Canadian Copper Company 1911-16, assistant superintendent construe- 176 Yale University Obituary Record

tion Braden Copper Company, Chile, 1916-20, with T L Smith Com- pany, construction equipment, Milwaukee, 1920-22, Dwight P. Robin- son & Company, Inc , 1922-31 (built sulphur plant Freeport, Texas, 1922-23, steam heating plant Pittsburgh 1923-25, sugar refinery Sugar Land,Texas, 1925-27, steam heating plant New York City 1927, Youngstown [Ohio] Sheet & Tube Company 1927, superintendent construction La Croze subway, Argentina, 1928-31), and M W Kellogg Company 1931-37 (Whiting, Ind , 1931-32, m France 1932-33, 1934-35, Bradford, Pa, 1935-37), engineer Calco Chemical Company 1933-34 and in Philadelphia 1937-38, with F H McGraw & Company, Pittsburgh, 1938-39 and Ulen & Company, New York City, 1939-41, in charge construction Naval Ordnance plant Louisville, Ky , 1941-42, project engineer high octane aviation gasoline plant, Houston, Texas, 1943-44, construction manager Chilean Trading Company, Corporacion de Formerito, and Cia de Acero del Pacifico, Chili, 1944-48, project manager Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Lexington, Ky (pipe line construction Texas Gas Transmission Lines, Memphis) 1949-49, member Yale Engineering Association, American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and All Saints' Church (Episcopal), New Haven Married October 25, 1916, Lexington, Margaret, daughter of Stanley and Elizabeth (Featherston) Milward Children Elizabeth Milward (B A Cornell 1941, Mrs John Jay Roscia), Margaret Mil- ward (B A Cornell 1945, Mrs James Ross Macdonald) Death due to a heart attack Survived by wife, daughters, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Gilbert H Fulton

WILLIAM LLEWELLYN FOX, Ph B 1909 Born September 21, 1887, Cobourg, Ont , died June 23, 1950, New Haven, Conn Father, Denman Fleming Fox, dry goods merchant in Cobourg, son of Mitchell and Mary (MacDonald) Fox Mother, Mary Abigail (Rush) Fox, daughter of Daniel Frederick and Jane (MacKenne) Rush Yale relatives include Denman F Fox, '04 (brother), Phyllis Ross Saranec (M A 1944) (niece) New Haven High School Select course at Yale Assistant manager Mexican department Munson Steamship Lines, New York City, 1909-26, manager 1926-32, successively manager properties of Douglas L Elliman & Company, Inc , New York City, and vice-president Flaherty Associates, New York City, until 1942, executive vice-president Van Dam Management Company, New York City, 1942-45, representative in Manila for Plastic Wire & Cable Cor- poration 1945-46, president Rayco, Inc, Hope Valley, R I , 1946-50, member St Brendan's Roman Catholic Church, New Haven Married June 22, 1917, Marjorie, daughter of George and Sarah Sheffield Scientific School 177

(Franz) Leonard Son William Llewellyn, Jr , (grad Cotton Coll fEnglandJ 1937) Mr and Mrs Fox were divorced Death due to carcinoma Buried in St Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven 'Survived by son, two grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs Margaret Fox Ross and Carolyn Fox Lawton (Yale Department of Edu- cation 1921-22, 1925-26), and a brother, Frank Fox

ALEXANDER NIMICK, Ph B. 1909 Born October 30, 1888, Pittsburgh Pa , died November 20, 1949, in Sewickley, Pa Father, William Howard Nimick, president Keystone National Bank, Pittsburgh, son of Alexander and Henrietta (Howard) Nimick Mother, Letitia (Tyson) Nimick, daughter of James Wood and Eliza- beth (Dawson) Tyson. Yale relatives include William H Nimick, 3d, f45 W (nephew). Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1909-10, with Colonial Steel Division, Vanadium Alloys Steel Company, Monaca, Pa , 1910-14, 1915-49 (in shipping department 1913, clerk and chief engineer 1915-29, works manager 1929-49), with Koppers Company 1914-15, member Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania and Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh Married February 19, 1916, Baltimore, Md , Martha Keyser, daughter of Frederick Augustus and Catherine Elizabeth (Webb) Levering Children Alexander, Jr. (B F A Umv Pennsylvania 1941), Webb Levering, '44 S , Howard Tyson (Class of 1952 E,) Death due to heart attack Buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs William S MacLaren, Mrs Henrietta N Jennings, and Mrs Gordon Millspaugh, and two brothers, Tyson Nimick and William H. Nimick, Jr (Class of 1913 S ).

JAMES PARKER, 3D, Ph B 1909 Born January 4, 1885, Harnsburg, Pa., died September 20, 1949, West Palm Beach, Fla Father, Colonel James Parker, Jr , U S A (Columbia Class of 1880), son of James Parker Mother, Gertrude Wyeth (Shunk) Parker, daughter of Colonel William Shunk and Gertrude (Wyeth) Shunk St Paul's School, Concord, N H Select course Civil engineer Guayaquil & Quito Railway 1909-10, chief engineer 1924-25, in automobile sales business New York City (successively with Locomobile Company of America and Fuller-Luce Com- pany), engaged in real-estate business in West Palm Beach at the 178 Yale University Obituary Record

time of his death, did research work among primitive head hunters of the Andes, associated with Old Hickory Plant, explosives, Nashville, Tenn , World War I, senior administrative assistant Radar Division, Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washington, World War II Married in 1914, New York City, Elizabeth Staley Mr and Mrs Parker were divorced 1924 Death due to coronary thrombosis Ashes interred in Florida Survived by no immediate relatives

ROSWELL JOHN ROTH, Ph B. 1909. Born February 10, 1884, Watertown, N Y , died March 18, 1950, Grabill, Ind Father, Florentine Daniel Roth, president and general manager F D Roth Company, real estate and dry goods, Watertown, son of John W and Elizabeth Roth Mother, Emily Virginia (Santee) Roth, daughter of Palmer and Mary Elizabeth (Lerch) Santee. Lawrenceville School Select course, cup man, member St Anthony and Delta Psi Secretary and treasurer F D Poth Company 1909 until retirement 1922, engaged in farming Ashevnle, N C , 1930-37, resided m Grabill since 1941, member Watertown Presbyterian Church Married July 17, 1930, Greenville, S C , Leah Victoria, daughter of Elias and Queen Victoria (Lawhead) Amstutz Death due to pneumonia Buried in Leo Memorial Cemetery, Allen County, Ind Survived by wife

WILLIAM EDWARDS BREWSTER, Ph B. 1910 Born June 14, 1883, Iron Mountain, Mich , died December 19, 1949, Chicago, 111 Father, Edward E. Brewster, '78 S Mother, Elizabeth (Edwards) Brewster Yale relatives include a cousin, William B Hubbard, '01 S Hotchkiss School Metallurgy course at Yale Inspector of steel Wisconsin Steel Works of International Har- vester Company 1910-14, assistant superintendent blast furnace department 1914-28, superintendent 1928-36, assistant general superintendent 1936-45, general superintendent and manager of operations 1945 until retirement January 1, 1949, iron and steel production consultant 1949, charter member Blast Furnace & Coke Association (secretary 1920-22, president 1923), member Sheet and Plate Institute of Northern Indiana (secretary 1934-35), American Institute of Metallurgical and Mining Engineers (chairman iron and steel division 1946-50), American Iron & Steel Institute, Yale Engi- neering Association, Illinois chapter Sons of the American Revolution, Sheffield Scientific School 179 and Bryn Mawr Community Church, Chicago Married June 16, 1925, Latrobe, Pa , Jean Lucille Hughes (Pittsburgh Coll for Women 1908-9), daughter of James Wilson and Jane (Zimmers) Hughes Death due to cardiac failure Buried in North Cornwall (Conn ) Cemetery Survived by wife, two sisters, Misses Margaret H and Frances Brewster, and a brother, Edwards Pierpont Brewster

CHARLES GOODWIN, Ph B 1910 Born November 23, 1886, Brooklyn, N Y , died December 7, 1949, Forest Hills, N Y Father, George Bennett Goodwin, president George B Good- win & Bro Coal Company, Brooklyn, son of Charles and Hannah (Bennett) Goodwin Mother, Eleanor Eliza (Goodman) Goodwin, daughter of Doctor S and Emma Zelpha (Whipple) Goodman Polytechnic Preparatory School, Brooklyn Forestry course, Freshman Hockey Team, University Basketball Team, Delta Theta ajnd The Colony and Berzelius Student School of Forestry 1910-11 Assistant superintendent of woodlands Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company 1911-17, secretary-treasurer E G Moore Com- pany, Inc , wholesale drygoods, Plattsburgh, N Y , 1917-27, trav- elled 1927-29, manager Plattsburgh branch Jenks, Gwynn & Com- pany, stock brokers, New York City, 1929-33 and Hemphill, Noyes & Company 1933-34, president Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, 193"4-49, member St Thomas' Episcopal Church, Brooklyn Married June 4, 1913, Brooklyn, Anita Marie, daughter of Henry Peter and Jeanette Marie (Kornder) Alsgood Children Charles, Jr (Class of 1936 S ), George Bennett (B S Columbia 1938), Robert (B S Rutgers 1943) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by wife, children, seven grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Hannah Goodwin Hamblet

KENNETH STONE HALL, Ph B 1910 Born September 5, 1888, Portland, Ore , died September 28, 1949, Portland, Ore Father, Robert Foote Hall, owner general hardware business Portland, son of Charles Belden and Sarah (Foote) Hall Mother, Aletta (Lindsley) Hall, daughter of Aaron Ladner and Julia (West) Lindsley Choate School Civil engineering course, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club With U S Engineering Department Portland 1910-12, partner Gilbert-Hall Company, testing and inspecting engineers, Portland, 1912-17, superintendent Burrell Engineering & Construction Com- 180 Yale University Obituary Record

pany, Portland, April-October 1917, designing engineer and superintendent Utah Lime & Stone Company, Salt Lake City, October -Decem- ber 1917, engineer Oregon State Highway Department 1919-23, owner automotive business Dallas, Ore , 1923-26, with Sun-Portland Cement Company, Portland, 1926-27, president and manager Bitumels As- phalt Sales Company, Portland, 1928-41, construction designer and supervisor Civil Aeronautics Administration, Seattle, 1941-45, paving consultant and engineer Portland Gas & Coke Company 1945-49, First Lieutenant Engineer Corps World War I (overseas 1918-19), member Oregon Society of Engineers, American Association of Engineers, American Legion, Masonic order, and First Presbyterian Church, Portland Married March 12, 1920, Eugene, Ore , Eileen Fannie Tom- kins (Umv Oregon 1917-18), daughter of Valentine Walter and Quida J. (Bunker) Tomkins Death due to cirrhosis of the liver Buried in Riverview Cem- etery, Portland Survived by wife and a brother, Lmdsley Foote Hall

ALBERT KERR, Ph B 1910 Born April 24, 1888, Brooklyn, N Y , died August 3, 1949, Newport, R I Father, Robert Kerr, member Stemecke & Kerr, manufacturers of cigars, Brooklyn, member Rhode Island House of Representatives, son of Robert Johnston and Elizabeth Ball (Rusher) Kerr Mother, Anna (Burggraf) Kerr, daughter of Mathias Burggraf Yale relatives include Robert W Kerr, '03 M (brother), Robert Johnston Kerr (Class of 1952), John Hoare Kerr (Class of 1955) (nephews). Roger High School, Newport Civil engineering course With Kerr Brothers, contractors, Newport, 1910-24, president Kerr Store, Inc , drygoods, Newport, 1924-48, E S Peckham Coal Company and E S Peckham Ice Company 1920-48, and E S Peck- ham Towboat Company 1934-48, member St George's Episcopal Church, Newport Married October 18, 1913, Newport, Maude Caswell, daughter of Edward Major and Elizabeth (Caswell) Riley Children Maude, Anna (Mrs Arthur Roche, Jr ) Death due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease Buried in Island Cemetery, Newport Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and two brothers, Francis R Kerr (Class of 1912) and Edgar J Kerr

FREDERICK LEE McNALLY, Ph B 1910 Born November 16, 1839, Chicago, 111 , died March 24, 1950, Chicago, 111 Father, Frederick George McNally, president Rand McNally & Sheffield Scientific School 181

Company, printers and publishers, Chicago, son of Andrew and Delia (Hyland) McNally Mother, Lydia L (Wyles) McNally, daughter of William Henry and Anna C. (Pickett) Wyles Yale relatives include Andrew McNally, 3d, '31, Ward McNally, '38, Frederick G McNally (Class of 1941) (nephews) University School, Chicago Select course, member The Colony and Berzehus Salesman Rand McNally & Company 1910-20, general sales manager 1920-24, executive vice-president and general sales manager 1924- 34, executive vice-president 1934 until retirement 1938, director 1938- 50, Lieutenant (j g ) U S Naval Reserve Force in World War I, president Chicago Hospital Council, founder Leland (Mich ) Foundation, second vice-president Yale Club of Chicago 1931-32, vice-president 1932- 33, president 1933-34, chairman Yale Scholarship Trust of Illinois 1931-46, director 1946-50, chairman Committee on Enrollment and Scholarships Yale Alumni Board 1944-46, director Grant Hospital, member National Press Club, Washington, and Art Institute of Chicago Married July 31, 1920, Chicago, Helen Constance Walsh Castle, daughter of Robert John and Margaret Cecelia (White) Walsh Death due to myocardial infarction Buried in Graceland Ceme- tery, Chicago Survived by wife, brother, Andrew McNally (Class of 1909 S ), and a stepdaughter, Mrs Charles Y Freeman, Jr

CHARLES SOLBERG TRAER, Ph B 1910 Born November 24, 1890, Chicago, 111 , died October 25, 1949, Chicago, 111 Father, Glenn Wood Traer, president Illinois Collieries Com- pany, Chicago Mother, Ida (Solberg) Traer Harvard School for Boys Forestry course, Sophomore Crew, York Hall and Chi Phi Superintendent Traer Coal Company, Danville, 111 , 1910-12 and Illinois Coal Operators Mutual Employers Liability Insurance Company, Chicago, 1912-15, treasurer and manager MacMurray Steel Hoop Company, Chicago, 1915-17, general manager River- dale Works of Acme Steel Goods Company, Chicago, 1919-36, treasurer 1922-35, second vice-president 1935-36, vice-president and manager production 1936-41, president 1941-48, chairman of the board 1948-49, director Truax-Traer Coal Company, Captain Infan- try World War I, member American Iron and Steel Institute Married (1) July 2, 1931, Evanstdn, 111 , Josephine Louise, daughter of Ira Louis and Mary Lena (Shumate) Thomas Children Thomas Norton (died in infancy), Mary Rose Married (2) August 23, 1940, Chicago, Mrs Marjone Arnold Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Graceland Cem- etery, Chicago Survived by wife, daughter, a stepdaughter, Pat- 182 Yale University Obituary Record

ricia Arnold, and a brother, Glenn W Traer, '09 S

MYRON ELMER FULLER, Ph B. 1911 Born June 4, 1889, Boston, Mass , died August 31, 1949, Mountain Lakes, N J Father, George Warren Fuller (B S Massachusetts Inst Tech- nology 1890), partner Fuller & McClintock, consulting sanitary engineers, New York City, son of George Warren and Harriet (Craig) Fuller Mother, Lucy (Hunter) Fuller Phillips-Andover Sanitary engineering course, Freshman and University Football teams, member York Hall and Chi Phi Assistant engineer Fuller & McClintock 1911-16, 1920-22, Bu- reau of Surveys, Department of Public Works, Philadelphia, 1916-17, and U S Shipping Board, Hog Island Shipyard, Philadelphia, 1917-19, sales engineer asphalt department Atlantic Refining Company, Phila- delphia, 1923-24, production engineer Vogt Manufacturing Company, Rochester, 1924-25, Philadelphia representative Charles E Bedeaux Company, industrial engineers, New York City, 1925-26, vice-president 1926-42, vice-president Albert Ramond & Associates, Inc , industrial engineers, New York City, 1942-49, head line football coach at Yale 1922-27 and Tulane and West Virginia universities, University of North Carolina, Colby College, and Stevens Institute of Technology, director Yale Football Y Association 1941-49, member American So- ciety of Civil Engineers and St Peter's Episcopal Church, Mountain Lakes Married October 18, 1911, New York City, Grace, daughter of Richard Handfield and Harriet (Bishop) Tithermgton Children Don- ald Craig, '37, Myron Elmer, Jr , Marjorie Ann, Nancy (Mrs Thomas Stanley Light) Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried m West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, and two half brothers, John Kemp Fuller and Asa W. Fuller, '24

PIERPONT LANGDON MINOR, Ph B 1911. Born December 10, 1889, Greenwich, Conn , died January 22, 1950, Clearwater, Fla Father, Sheldon E Minor, '82 S Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Pierpont) Minor Yale relatives include James Pierpont (B A 1718) (great-great-great-grandfather), Samuel Pierpont (B A 1718) and Benjamin Pierpont (B A 1726) (great-great-great-great-uncles), John Pierpont (B A 1804) (great-great-uncle), Henry Pierpont (M D 1854) (great-uncle), John Pierpont, '83 (uncle) Greenwich Academy Civil engineering course, honors m Ger- Sheffield Scientific School 183 man Freshman year, Sheff Debating Society Assistant engineer S E Minor & Company, Inc , Greenwich, 1911-17, superintendent of highways Town of Greenwich 1920-40, research fellow Bureau of Street Traffic Research, Yale University, 1940-41, superintendent paving division Austin Company of Cleveland, construction of defense plants, Fort Worth, Texas, 1941-42 and Ok- lahoma City 1942-43, assistant civil engineer Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration, Danville, Va , 1943 until retirement 1944, First Lieu- tenant Engineers World War I (overseas 1917-18), member Connect- icut Society of Civil Engineers, Sons of the American Revolution, and Bridge water (Conn ) Congregational Church Married October 28, 1918, Hastings-on-Hudson, N Y , Olive Marie, daughter of Frederick Upham and Alice (Whitaker) Adams Daughter Nancy Adams (B A Guilford Coll 1944, Mrs Carrell Graham Mead) Death due to chronic parenchymatous nephritis Buried in Morris (Conn ) Cemetery Survived by wife, daughter, and two grandchildren

ANGELO HERBERT BENNELL, Ph B 1912 Born June 13, 1885, Sydenham, England, died July 2, 1949, Youngstown, Ohio Father, Angelo Jethro Archibald Bennell, in insurance business in Morristown, N J , son of James Bennell Mother, Mary Ann (Langham) Bennell, daughter of Mary Ann Langham Hopkins Grammar School Select course, Freshman Glee Club, Phi Gamma Delta Salesman Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company 1912-21, with Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 1922-49 (special agent Youngstown 1922-31, manager Pittsburgh agency 1931-33 and 1941- 49, and Cleveland 1933-41), awarded C L U (American College of Life Underwriters) 1929, captain Ohio Home Guard, secretary Yale Alumni Association of Youngstown 1924-25, 1930-31, member Masonic order and First Presbyterian Church, Youngstown Married February 3, 1916, Youngstown, Laura Belle, daughter of Frank Woodruff and Lide Morris (Ward) Powers Children Charles Herbert (Williams Class of 1940), David Langham (Lehigh 1940-41, killed in service 1945), Frances Death due to ruptured aneurysm of abdominal aorta Buried in Belmont Park Cemetery, Youngstown Survived by wife, daughter, one son, and three grandchildren

CLARENCE IVINS BRADLEY, Ph B 1912 Born August 13, 1891, Branford, Conn , died April 29, 1950, Rocky Hill, Conn 184 Yale University Obituary Record

Father, Charles Francis Bradley, owner Charles F Bradley Store, drygoods, Branford, son of James Harvey and Olive (Kelsey) Bradley Mother, May (Ivms) Bradley, daughter of John and Isabella .(Downing) Ivins Branford High School Mining engineering course, Alpha Sigma Phi Postgraduate student Sheffield Scientific School 1912-14 Associated in father's business 1913-15 and with Cheney Broth- ers, silk manufacturers, South Manchester, Conn., 1915-16, partner Bradley Brothers, general merchandise, Branford, 1916 until retirement 1947, town assessor, Branford, 1927-46, private (1st class) U S Army Ambulance Service, attached to French Army World War I (awarded Croix de Guerre), captain Connecticut State Guard World War II, commander and adjutant Corcoran-Sundquist post American Legion, member Trinity Episcopal Church, Branford Married October 4, 1919, Branford, Hazel Marguerite, daughter of Clarence Herbert and Hattie Melissa (Hughes) Ryder Children Dorraine Ivms (B S Umv Connecticut 1945, Mrs James Ross Leake), Alan Ryder (B S Springfield Coll 1951) Death due to peritonitis Buried in Center Cemetery, Branford Survived by wife, children, two grandchildren, and a brother, J Ar- thur Bradley

HAROLD MENDELL COBB, Ph B 1912 Born November 25, 1889, New Bedford, Mass , died April 24, 1950, Mt Airy, Pa Father, Oliver Warren Cobb (M D Univ. Virginia 1897), a physician in Easthampton, Mass Mother, Ella Frances (Bassett) Cobb Yale relatives include Zenas M Briggs, '98 Williston Academy Civil engineering course, University Basket- ball Team Senior year, Picture committee Successively engineer Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Boston & Albany Railroad, and with U S Reclamation Service, Montana, 1912- 15, farm manager and irrigation engineer Montana Ranches Company, Helena, 1915, special agent Mountain States Telegraph & Telephone Company 1915-17 and Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Dallas, Texas, 1919-21, salesman G H Walker Company, investments, St Louis, 1921-23, independent broker St Louis 1923-25, engineer and superintendent construction Texas Power & Light Company, Dallas, 1925-27, engineer Philadelphia Electric Company 1927-42, engineer Safety and Security branch, Ordnance Department, Springfield, 1942- 43, assistant to plant engineer Budd Manufacturing Company, Phila- delphia, 1944 until retirement about 1946, First Lieutenant Signal Corps World War I (overseas 1918-19), member First Methodist Church, Germantown, Pa Sheffield Scientific School 185

Married April 28, 1918, Dallas, Anna Shelly, daughter of Rich- ard S. Card Son- Harold Mendell, Jr., '43 E Death due to ulcers and complications Buried in Marion, Mass Survived by wife and son

BOARDMAN CONOVER, Ph.B 1912 Born January 19, 1892, Chicago, 111 , died May 5, 1950, Chicago, 111 Father, Charles Hopkins Conover, president Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Company, wholesale hardware, Chicago, son of William Schenck and Elizabeth (Gangwer) Conover Mother, Delia Louise (Boardman) Conover, daughter of Henry Elderkm Jewett and Ann (Gookin) Boardman The Hill School Civil engineering course, member Phi Sigma Kappa and Alpha Mu Lambda Rodman and levelman U S Reclamation Service, Las Cruces, N Mex , 1912-13, in engineering corps Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1913-14, \salesman Stewart Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of die castings, Chicago, 1914-17, associated with Chicago Natural His- tory Museum (Field Museum) 1920-50 (associate in ornithology and made life member 1924, patron 1926, contributor 1930, research associate in birds 1936, trustee and corporate member 1940, benefactor 1950, participated in expeditions to Canada, Venezuela, Chile, Argen- tina, Alaska, Belgian Congo, Tanganyika, and Uganda), on Bering Sea Expedition Biological Survey of U S Department of Agriculture, had a unique collection of over 18,000 birds, author Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and Adjacent Islands, contributed to scientific publications, member advisory council Peabody Museum (Yale) 1931-45, First Lieutenant Field Artillery World War I (overseas 1918-19), trustee Chicago Zoological Society, fellow American Ornithologists Union and American Geographical Society, member American Legion and St Chrysostom's Church (Episcopal), Chicago Unmarried Death due to cardiac failure Buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago Survived by three sisters, Miss Margaret Boardman Con- over, Mrs Eugene S. Talbot, and Mrs Ralph W Owen

LLOYD SCRIBNER COONEY, Ph B 1912 Born August 15, 1891, Babylon, N Y ; died December 17, 1949, Riverside, Conn Father, William Stearns Cooney, cotton converter Lesher, Whitman & Company, Greenwich. Mother, Josephine Goldsmith (Scribner) Coone, , Brunswick School, Greenwich Mechanical engineering course, contributed to Scientific Monthly, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Phi 186 Yale University Obituary Record

Sigma Kappa Successively economic engineer, general superintendent, and chief engineer Abendroth Brothers, stoves, heaters, and grey-iron castings, Port Chester, N Y , 1912-32, office manager law firm Cummmgs & Lockwood, Stamford, 1932 until retirement 1947, warden Saint Saviour's Church (Episcopal), Greenwich Married (1) March 29, 1913, Greenwich, Roberta Jay, daughter of Robert Jay and Anna Augusta (Merritt) Walsh Children Robert Scribner (died 1943), Roberta Walsh (Mrs Robert Ignatius Reynes) Mrs Cooney died 1930. Married (2) April 16, 1932, Greenwich, Christine Boylston (grad New York School of Design 1918), daughter of Rev Charles Walter Boylston and Eliza Bates (Smith) Boylston Death due to cirrhosis of the liver Buried in Old Church Cem- etery, South Glastonbury, Conn Survived by wife, daughter, three grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs Mary Cooney McCord and Mrs Claire Cooney Atwood, and a brother, Stanley Cooney

SPAULDING HOWE, Ph B 1912 Born May 1, 1889, Wheaton, Minn , died September 13, 1949, Spokane, Wash Father, Peirce Lyman Howe, president Imperial Elevator Com- pany, gram elevators and lumber yards, Minneapolis, Minn Mother, Minerva Adele (Marble) Howe Yale relatives include a brother, L Vernon Howe, '09 S Haverford School Select course, Freshman and University Track teams, secretary-treasurer Class Junior year, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, York Hall and Chi Phi Worked in sawmill and as salesman Eureka (Mont ) Lumber Company 1912-16, vice-president Imperial Elevator Company 1916-17, secretary-treasurer 1919-49, executive partner Howe & Betcher Lum- ber Yards, Inc , Minneapolis, 1935-44, secretary-treasurer Turtle Mountain Supply Company, building materials, 1925-35, executive partner 1935-44, owner Idaho Pine Mills and Dairyland Yards, lumber manufacturing and retailing, Spokane, and Eau Claire, Wis , 1942-49, Second Lieutenant First Field Artillery, Minnesota National Guard, 1916, Second Lieutenant Field Artillery in World War I (St -Mihiel drive and Argonne offensive, certificate University of Toulouse 1919), graduate 4th Army Orientation course, Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, 1943, member Wisconsin and Northwestern Retail Lumbermen's Association and Cathedral of St John the Evange- list (Episcopal), Spokane Married January 7, 1920, Minneapolis, Mary Watzek, daughter of Charles Howard and Marguerite Lodge (Hopkins) Hood Children Mary Hopkins (Smith 1938-39, Univ Minnesota 1939-40), Spaulding, Jr , '44, William Hood, '50 Sheffield Scientific School 187

Death due to aortic aneurism Buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis Survived by wife, children, and a brother, Lyman Howe

RAYMOND WHEELER PR ANN, Ph B 1912 Born July 20, 1891, Westbrook, Conn , died March 28, 1950, Milford, Conn Father, Chester Webb Prann, a grocer in Branford, Conn , son of John Wheeler and Helen (Webb) Prann Mother, Alice Eliza (Stannard) Prann, daughter of Richard and Eliza (Lay) Stannard Branford High School Civil engineering course, honors in German Freshman year and in French and German Junior year Civil engineer and roadmaster The Connecticut Company, New Haven, Conn , 1912-41, superintendent of construction Robert R Prann Construction Company, Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1941-43, plant layout engineer Sargent & Company, New Haven, 1943, manager Milford Water Company 1943-50, member Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, Masonic order, and St Peter's Episcopal Church, Milford Married January 9, 1915, New Haven, Annice Bartholomew, daughter of Arthur Samuel and Charlotte Squire (Bartholomew) Fowler Children John Richard, '39 S , Robert Fowler, '44 Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Center Cemetery, Branford Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, mother, and three brothers, C Perry Prann, '12 S , Robert R Prann, '14 S , Clifford P Prann, '19 S

CHARLES CLARK AYRES, Ph B 1913 Born June 25, 1887, Farmmgton, Conn , died August 10, 1949, Hartford, Conn Father, Henry Wilcox Ayres (Class of 1871 S ), civil engineer in Hartford, son of Jared Augustus Ayres (B A 1835) and Sarah L (Wilcox) Ayres Mother, Lettie M (Snow) Ayres Yale relatives include William O Ayres (B A 1837) (great-uncle), William A Ayres (B A 1864), Frederick H Ayres (Class of 1872) (uncles) Mt Hermon School Civil engineering course, Phi Kappa Epsilon and Book and Bond Attended College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, 1913,'engineer American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York City, 1913-17, in real-estate and insurance business and superintendent Boys' Club, New York City, 1919-22, assistant treasurer and busirfess manager Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn , 1922-30, with Connecticut State Welfare Department, Hartford, after 1930, First Lieutenant Military Police, American Expeditionary Forces World War I. Unmarried 188 Yale University Obituary Record

Death due to carcinoma Survived by two sisters, the Misses Alice May and Bessie Newcomb Ayres

HAROLD KIMBALL ENGLISH, Ph B 1913 Born August 2, 1891, New Haven, Conn , died January 29, 1950, New Haven, Conn Father, Henry F English (LL B 1874) Mother, Alice Nancy (Kimball) English Yale relatives include James E English (M A Hon 1873) (grandfather), Paul B Valle', '14 S , Harold R Woodruff, '22, Walter A Woodruff, '23 (brothers-in-law), Paul Barbeau Valle, Jr (Class of 1952 E ), James Dana English (Class of 1954) (nephews) Phillips-Andover Select course, Senior Promenade Committee and Yale Corinthian Yacht Club Student Law School 1913-16 In auditing department New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road Company 1916-17, became associated with father, and trustee English Real Estate, New Haven, 1920-50 (joined by brother in 1948), vice-president Connecticut Savings Bank, New Haven, 1933-50, chairman Municipal Sinking Fund Commission 1936-45 and Proprietors Committee which controls New Haven Green 1947-50, vice-president Family Society of New Haven 1931-33, secretary budget committee Community Chest and Oquossoc Angling Association (Indian Rock, Maine), on advisory council Goodwill Industries 1936-39, adviser to Woman's Seamen's Friend Societv of Connecticut, on executive council New Haven Council of Social Agencies, chairman board City Em- ployees Retirement System 1937-45, assistant treasurer Connecticut State Forest and Park Commission 1935-44, treasurer 1944-50, treasurer Sleeping Giant Park Association 1940-50, member New Haven Board of Park Commissioners, director Evergreen Ceme- tery Association, Sergeant Connecticut National Guard (New Haven Grays) on Mexican border, First Lieutenant Infantry overseas World War I, member New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven Grays Veterans Association, and Yale Alumni Association, vestryman St Paul's Episcopal Church, New Haven (secretary Church Home for Aged Women) Married August 18, 1917, Mt Carmel, Conn , Rose Cath- erine Woodruff (Yale School of Music 1916-17), daughter of Arthur Edson and Emma (Bertram) Woodruff Children Eleanor (Mrs Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman), Caroline Fowler (Mrs Victor Al- bert Stanchff), Henry Woodruff, '43 Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Evergreen Ceme- tery, New Haven Survived by wife, children, five grandchildren, a sister, Alice Marian English Valle (Yale School of Fine Arts 1915- Sheffield Scientific School 189

17), and a brother, Philip H English, '15

WILLIAM HALL HOPSON, Ph B 1914 Born March 27, 1893, Stratford, Conn , died March 5, 1950, Phoenix, Ariz Father, Frank Swift Hopson, commercial salesman Seeman Brothers, New York City, son of Seth and Harriet Swift (Fuller) Hop- son Mother, Bertha Gibbs (Hall) Hopson, daughter of Turney and Sarah Eliza (Gibbs) Hall Yale relatives include William R Hop- son, '70 S (uncle), Laurence M Cornwall, '12, Victor C Cogswell, '37 (cousins) Danbury (Conn ) High School Sanitary engineering course, second honors Freshman year With Connecticut State Highway Department 1914-15 and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company 1915-16, engineer John W. Ferguson Company, Paterson, N J , 1917-20, White Con- struction Company, New York City, 1920, sales engineer Preserva- tive Wood Products Company, New York City, 1920-23, secretary I H Meyers, Inc., building contractors, Brooklyn, N Y , 1923-33, partner Hopson & Denihan, building and contracting, New York City, 1933-36, construction supervisor W T Grant Company, New York City, 1937-47, because of ill-health resided in Phoenix since 1947, member American Society of Mechanical Engineers and St George's Episcopal Church, Stratford Married February 9, 1924, New York City, Caryl Dorothy, daughter of Maurice and Dorothea (Miller) Gantz Death due to cerebrovascular hemorrhage Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, N Y Survived by wife and two sisters, Mrs Adalene Hopson Hale and Mrs Grace Hopson Kissam

JOHN ROBERT BRYDEN, JR , Ph B 1915 Born March 16, 1892, Minersville, Pa , died November 9, 1949, Fountain Springs, Pa Father, John Robert Bryden, vice-president Price-Pancoast Coal Company, Scranton, son of James and Christina (Witherspoon) Bryden Mother, Dora (Edwards) Bryden Hotchkiss School Civil engineering course, honors in German Freshman year, Phi Sigma Kappa Assistant superintendent Racket Brook Coal Company, Carbon- dale, Pa , and Sacandaga Coal Company, Scranton, 1915-16, superintendent Price-Pancoast Coal Company 1919-27, general superintendent Price-Pancoast and West End Coal companies 1927-30, mining engineer Price-Pancoast Coal Company, Scranton Coal Company, West End Coal Company and Monarch Anthracite Company 1930-35, 190 Yale University Obituary Record and Centralia Collieries Company, Inc , 1936-39, mining engineer and vice-president Hammond Coal Company, Girardville, Pa , 1939- 49, First Lieutenant Pennsylvania National Guard (Mexican Border 1916-17), Captain Engineers World War I (overseas 1918-19), member Yale Engineering Association, American Institute of Mining Engi- neers and First Presbyterian Church, Bloomsburg, Pa Married September 4, 1920, Lebanon, Pa , Laura Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Gress and Laura (Benson) Adams Son John Robert, 3d (Class of 1945). Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in New Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg Survived by wife, son, one grandchild, two sisters, Mrs Fred S Durham and Mrs George F Wood, and a brother, Philip Bryden

SETH CHANDLER HANDY, Ph B 1915 Born May 23, 1894, Ashmont, Mass , died September 17, 1949, Rockville Centre, N Y Father, Frank L Handy, salesman M S Ayer & Company, wholesale grocers., Boston Mother, Alice P (Harlow) Handy Mechanic Arts High School, Boston Chemistry course, Fresh- man Baseball Team, University Baseball Squad Assistant to superintendent of agencies New England Mutual Life Insurance Company 1915-17, with Fisk Rubber Company, Chico- pee Falls, Mass , 1919-23, salesman Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Company, Cambridge, Mass , 1923, sales engineer Illinois Zinc Company, Peru, 1923-29 and in New York office 1929-31, in export department American Brass Company, New York City, at time of death, Ensign U S Naval Reserve Force World War I (on U S S, Mallory) Married June 24, 1926, Brooklyn, N Y , Louise L Schriefer Children Seth Andrew (B A Williams 1948), Marguerite Elise (B A Swarthmore 1951) Death due to asphyxia Buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn Survived by wife and children

STEVENS WOODRUFF, Ph B 1915 Born September 26, 1892, Detroit, Mich , died July 16, 1949, Tucson, Ariz Father, Fremont Woodruff, treasurer Iron Silver Mining Com- pany, Detroit, son of Charles Pierson and Manet (Boyd) Woodruff Mother, Annie (Stevens) Woodruff, daughter of William H and Ellen (Pethenck) Stevens Yale relatives include William P Stevens, '93 S , Henry Glover Stevens, '02 S (uncles), Arthur W King, Jr , '32, William F Stevens, '37 (cousins) Thacher School, Ojai, Calif Metallurgical course Sheffield Scientific School 191

Clerk Detroit Trust Company 1915-17, served in Ordnance De- partment World War I, secretary-treasurer LeadviHe Deep Mines Company, Detroit, retired 1938, member Yale Engineering Association and First Presbyterian Church, Detroit Married April 12, 1919, Waterford, Va , Dora, daughter of Eppa Hunton and Martha Clarke (Dade) Heaton Children Martha Anne Woodruff Loud Guernsey (Mrs Lisle R Guernsey), Stevens, Jr (Univ New Mexico 1946, Umv Denver 1947-48), Nathalie Heaton (Mrs John Preston Croff), William Heaton Death due to coronary occlusion Ashes scattered in Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs Charles Beecher Crouse, Miss Mary Woodruff, Mrs John Owen, 3d, and Mrs George M Black, Jr

WILLING WALDO RYAN, Ph B 1916 Born September 27, 1894, Fort Worth, Texas, died May 29, 1950, Fort Worth, Texas Father, John C Ryan, president John C Ryan Land Company, Fort Worth,.son of Patrick and Catherine (Marry) Ryan Mother, Elizabeth (Willing) Ryan; daughter of Robert Patton and Mary (Durr) Willing Yale relatives include John C Ryan, 3d (Class of 1945), Edwin Stripling Ryan (Class of 1953) (nephews) Ternll School, Dallas Select course, Senior Promenade Com- mittee, Student Council, The Cloister and Book and Snake Ensign U S Naval Reserve Force World War I (on U S S Von Steuben), associated with John C Ryan Land Company 1919-47 (secretary-treasurer 1927-47), director Ryan Properties, Inc , 1947-50 (consolidation of John C Ryan Land Company, South Fort Worth Land Company, and Fort Worth Land Company), president Willing W Ryan, Inc , 1928-50, executive vice-president Ryan Mortgage Com- pany 1946-50, chief underwriter in Fort Worth and Dallas offices Federal Housing Administration 1934-46, member St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Forth Worth Married October 21, 1926, Fort Worth, Mary Frances, daughter of Charles Briggs and Velma (Hogg) Simmons Children Martha, Marian, Judy Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Greenwood Cem- etery, Fort Worth Survived by wife, children, mother, and three brothers, John C Ryan, Jr , '13 S , Thomas M Ryan, '19 S , and Robert W Ryan, '31

LEO GRANT SULLIVAN, Ph B 1916 Born January 9, 1887, Erie, Pa , died October 3, 1949, White Sulphur Springs, W Va Father, Patrick John Sullivan, traffic manager Burke Electric 192 Yale University Obituary Record

Company, Erie, son of Cornelius and Hannorah (Donovan) Sullivan. Mother, Mary Josephine (Grant) Sullivan, daughter of John and Ann (Ryan) Grant Yale relatives include a brother, John J. Sullivan, •30 S Erie High School Mechanical engineering course, general two- year honors, Freshman Baseball Team, Sheff Student Council, Sigma Xi, St Anthony and Delta Psi Engineer Hammermill Paper Company, Erie, 1916-17, manager New York office Atlas Steel Casting Company of Buffalo 1920-35, vice-president 1935-50, student Columbia University extension course 1921-22, Captain Ordnance Department World War I, member Class Reunion and Dinner committees, member American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, American Legion and Sacred Heart Church (Roman Catholic), Hartsdale, N Y Married (1) February 11, 1919, St Louis, Mo , Irene McLoud Foster (B A Coll New Rochelle 1918), daughter of Joseph and Irene (McLoud) Foster Daughter Irene Foster (Vassar Class 1945, Mrs George W Ewing). Mr and Mrs Sullivan were divorced 1935 Married (2) December 23, 1937, New York City, Maud Wohlbeck (B A Umv Missouri 1926, M A New York Univ. 1933), daughter of Frederick George and Lottie (Neityert) Wohlbeck Death due to rheumatic heart disease Buried in Calvary Ceme- tery, Erie Survived by wife, daughter, three grandchildren, a sister, Miss Grace Sullivan, and a brother, George Patrick Sullivan

FRITZ UHLENHAUT, Ph B 1916 Born October 14, 1893, Philadelphia, Pa , died March 31, 1950, New Haven, Conn Father, Fritz Uhlenhaut, Jr (M E Stevens Inst Technology 1888), an engineer, son of Fritz Uhlenhaut Mother, Gertrude (Goodhart) Uhlenhaut Phillips-Exeter Mechanical engineering course M E Yale 1919 (laboratory assistant in mechanical engineering 1918-19, instructor 1919-21) System operator Duquesne Light Company, Pittsburgh, 1917- 18, purchasing department New York, Now Haven & Hartford Rail- road Company 1921-23, assistant to general factory manager Hey- wood-Wakefield Company, Gardner and Boston, Mass , 1923-28, New England distributor Mechanical Devices, Inc , 1928, manu- facturers1 agent Boston 1928-31, treasurer Stakolite Products, Inc , Boston, 1931-36, Eastern division manager Fostoria (Ohio) Pressed Steel Corporation, the near infra-red process, industrial lighting, 1937-43, president, treasurer, and manager Industrial Service, Inc, engineering, lighting, infra-red, New Haven, 1944-47, president and treasurer Fostoria Infra-Red Service, Inc., New Haven, 1947- Sheffield Scientific School 193

50, member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of American Military Engineers, and Episcopal church Married (1) August 30, 1921, Sagamore, Mass , Anne Frances Keith (Smith Class of 1923), daughter of Eben S Smith and Melvma L Keith Children Keith, Nancy (Mrs Donald Ashley), Jeanne L Bond Mr and Mrs Uhlenhaut were divorced 1941 Married (2) April 23, 1942, Philadelphia, Camilla Ward, daughter of William Ward and Mattie B (Lmeweaver) Beam Daughter Susanne Death due to carcinoma Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N Y Survived by wife, children, and two grandchildren

ROBERT TREAT WALKER, Ph B 1916 Born March 21, 1894, Hinsdale, 111 , died July 11, 1949, Sturgeon Bay, Wis Father, Alfred Elisha Walker (Class of 1876 S ), manager in Chicago J P Stevens & Company, Inc of New York, son of Henry Kirk and Mary (Northrop) Walker Mother, Lulu Belle (Treat) Wal- ker, daughter of Leverett Bryant and Julia Victoria (Rogers) Treat Yale relatives include Jeremiah H Bartholomew, '00 S , Charles R Treat, '94 (uncles), Alfred N Walker (Class of 1906 S ), Walter T Walker, f07 S (brothers), James Walker, '94 S , Curtis H Wal- ker, '99, Jeremiah H Bartholomew, Jr , '24, Dana T Bartholomew, '28, Franklin G Treat, '28 S (cousins), Edward W Schaefer, '50, William T Walker, '48 (nephews) Chicago Latin School Electrical engineering course, honors in English literature Freshman year, Freshman Crew, Apollo Glee Club, St Elmo and Delta Phi Commercial student course Western Electric Company 1916-17, Second Lieutenant Field Artillery World War I, sales director Utility Securities Company, Chicago, 1923-36, industrial sales division Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Chicago, 1937-49, member St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Madison, Wis Married August 17, 1922, Hinsdale, Ruth Emily, daughter of Robert Edward and Mary Emily (Dynan) Turnbull Children Robert Treat, Jr (Umv Wisconsin 1941-42, 1945-46), Ruth Mary (B S Stanford 1948), Catherine Stuart (B A Univ Wisconsin t950) Death due to coronary thrombosis Survived by wife, children, a sister, Mrs Wellington Schaefer, and a brother, Aldace Treat Walker, '23 S

PHILIP GOSSLER VONDERSMITH, Ph B 1916 Born Feb- ruary 12, 1896, Wnghtsville, Pa , died May 4, 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio Father, Lucius Krotel vonderSmith, associated with First 194 Yale University Obituary Record

National Bank, Wrightsville Mother, Kathenne (Gossler) vonderSmith. Hotchkiss School Member St Anthony and Delta Psi Assistant electrical engineer Union Gas & Electric Company, Cincinnati, 1916-17, assistant combustion engineer 1919-29, general manager Union Light, Heat and Power Company, Covmgton, Ky , 1929-30, Cincinnati, Newport & Covmgton Railway Company 1930- 39, and Dixie Traction Company 1939-41, vice-president Cincinnati, Newport & Covmgton Railway Company and Dixie Traction Company 1941-44, president 1944-50, president Licking River Bridge Com- pany, vice-president Commonwealth Air Transport, Inc , First Lieu- tenant U S Ordnance in World War I, member Cincinnati and Coving- ton-Kenton County Chambers of Commerce, Covington-Kenton County Industrial Association, Yale Engineering Association, American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, and Presbyterian church Married July 16, 1921, Washington, D C , Margaret Powers, daughter of George W Littlehales Daughters Megan (B A Wellesley 1945), the wife of Sheldon Z Kaplan, '33, Lottchen (B A Wellesley 1947), Kathenne Gossler (deceased), and Emily Gossler (Skidmore Class of 1952) Death due to brain tumor Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati Survived by wife and three daughters

HOWARD BRUSH DEAN, Ph B 1918 Born February 28, 1897, New York City, died March 21, 1950, East Hampton, N Y Father, Herbert Hollmgshead Dean, senior partner Edward B Smith & Company, bankers and brokers, New York City, son of Isaac W and Eliza J Dean ' Mother, Marion (Brush) Dean, daughter of Joseph B and Sarah (Atwater) Brush Yale relatives include George J Brush (Ph B 1852) (great-uncle), Harry Cook, '13 S , Francis H Cook, '22, Franklin Field, '24 (brothers-in-law) Taft School Select course, cup man, contributed to Yale Daily News, member R O T C , Torch Honor Society, Kappa Beta Phi, and St Anthony and Delta Psi In bond department Guaranty Trust Company, New York City, 1919-21, partner Struthers & Dean, brokers, New York City, 1921- 42 (governor New York Stock Exchange 1937-42), vice-president Pan American Airways, Inc , New York City, 1943-47 and administrative vice-president 1947-50 (in charge Latin-American division), and Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc , 1945-50, president Associ- ation of Stock Exchange Firms 1939-41, mayor North Haven, N Y , 1932-44, First Lieutenant U S Field Artillery in World War I (aide- de-camp Brigadier General Robert M Danford), member Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal), New York City Married April 10, 1920, New York City, Maria, daughter of Sheffield Scientific School 195

Henry Francis and Lena Marianne (Fahys) Cook. Children Howard Brush, Jr , '42 S., Marianne Fahys, Nancy Cook (B A Sarah Law- rence 1945, Mrs. William Campbell Felch) Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Oakland Ceme- tery, Sag Harbor, N.Y. Survived by wife, children, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Franklin Field

REGINALD RADCLIFFE FROST, Ph B 1918 Born March 14, 1897, Toronto, Ont , died May 7, 1950, Mornstown, N J Father, Rev. Henry Weston Frost, D D (Princeton Class of 1880), secretary and later home director China Inland Mission, son of Mahlon Smith and Frances (Foster) Frost. Mother, Abigail Gridley (Ellinwood) Frost, daughter of Albert Gridley and Maria Arlotta (Bass) Ellinwood Yale relatives include Charles C Rockafellow (Class of 1905 S ) (brother-in-law) Kmgsley School, Essex Fells, N J Select course, Freshman Football Team, Freshman and University Basketball teams, St An- thony and Delta Psi With American International Corporation 1919-20, Gaston, Wil- liam & Wigmore 1920, American Express Company 1920-21, and Equitable Trust Company 1921-22, export manager L C Gillespie & Sons, New York City, 1922-27, with Chase Securities Corporation, San Francisco, 1927-29 and Hampson, Frost & Company, Ltd., Tor- onto, 1928-31, president Hudson County White Company, Jersey City, N J , 1931-33, vice-president Standard Spring & Manufacturing Cor- poration, San Francisco, 1929-30, boatswain's mate U S Naval Re- serve World War I, manager of supplies Rahway Arsenal in World War II, retired 1946, member First Presbyterian Church, Summit, N J Married (1) March 31, 1929, Pebble Beach, Calif , Lilias, daughter of Harry B Hollins, Jr , and Lilias (Livingston) Hollins, and granddaughter of Henry B Livingston (Class of 1877) Son Reginald Radchffe, Jr (B A Amherst 1951) Mrs Frost died 1930. Married (2) November 19, 1931, Far Hills, N J , Evelyn Shirley Behr Rogers, daughter of Max H Behr, '05 S , and Evelyn (Schley) Behr Son Henry Weston, 2d Mr. and Mrs Frost were divorced Death due to fractured skull Buried in Princeton (N J ) Cemetery. Survived by sons, three sisters, Mrs Fritz Salager, Mrs Charles C Rockafellow, and Mrs George H Carey, and three brothers, Ellinwood A Frost, Folger W Frost, and Inglis F Frost, '12 M

DONALD BURNHAM, Ph B 1919. Born December 1, 1897, 196 Yale University Obituary Record

Chicago, 111 , died May 20, 1950, Chicago, 111 Father, Edward Burnham, founder E Burnham, Inc., toiletries, Chicago, son of James and Lucy Ann (Taylor) Burnham Mother, Mary (McGee) Burnham, daughter of Peter and Alice (Murphy) McGee Yale relatives include Frederic Burnham, '02, and Clarence Burnham, '06 S (brothers) Lawrenceville School Select course, Freshman Football Team, Torch Honor Society, York Hall and Chi Phi Awarded Ph B 1920 with enrollment m Class of 1919 S In charge New York office E Burnham, Inc , and later in Chicago, vice-president R F Walker Advertising Agency, Inc , in sales promotion work Wilcox & Follett Company, publishers, Chicago, at time of death Married August 24, 1924, New York City, Beatrice Dymphna, daughter of Andrew J. O1 Boyle Son Donald, Jr Death due to myocardial infarction Buried in Oakwoods Ceme- tery, Chicago Survived by wife, son, a sister, Mrs Thomas F McNally, and five brothers, Raymond Burnham, '03 S , Norbert Burnham, Gerald Burnham, '09 S , Harold Burnham (Classof 1913 S ), and Julian Burnham, '16 S

JAMES WILTON PETERS, Ph B 1919 Born April 9, 1896, Bristol, R I , died May 27, 1950, Washington, D C Father, James Martin Peters, deputy sheriff Providence County, son of James Peters Mother, Margaret Elizabeth (Morris) Peters, daughter of Philip and Bridget (Maguire) Morris Phillips-Exeter Select course, Freshman Baseball Team, University Baseball Team (captain Senior year), R O T C , St An- thony and Delta Psi Member Yale Ambulance Unit and later commissioned Second Lieutenant Motor Transport Corps World War I, with Otis & Com- pany, investment bankers, Cleveland, 1921-31 (partner 1926-31), assistant to partners Charles D Barney & Company, securities, New York City, 1931-37, with Soucy, Swartswelter & Company, Cleveland, 1938-39 and Sweetser & Company, New York City, 1940- 42, deputy vice-chairman U S War Production Board 1942-44, president J Wilton Peters & Company, public relations and business consultants, Washington, 1944-48 (represented in particular Southern garment manufacturers), assistant to president Hamilton National Bank, Washington, 1948-50, member Roman Catholic church Married November 5, 1921, New York City, Marian, daughter of George Francis and Mabel (Gasaway) Hilton Children Janet (B A Skidmore 1946, Mrs Richard Steven Gardiner), Shirley (Mrs Frederick Lyttleton Hutchison, James Wilton, Jr Sheffield Scientific School 197

Death due to coronary disease. Buried in The National Ceme- tery, Arlington. Survived by wife, children, a grandson, parents, a sister, Mrs. Leo P Kenneally, and a brother, Harold M. Peters, '19 S

JOHN MARSH WADHAMS, 3D, Ph B 1919. Born June 13, 1897, Goshen, Conn , died April 28, 1950, Torrington, Conn Father, John Marsh Wadhams, president Torrington Savings Bank, vice-president Brooks Bank & Trust Company, member Con- necticut State legislature, son of John Hodges and Mary Georgiana (Pelton) Wadhams Mother, Annie Mary (Tenney) Wadhams (grad Mount Holyoke 1899), daughter of James Collins and Mary Elizabeth (Wheeler) Tenney Yale relatives include. Fred W Tenney, '98, Robert P Wadhams, '02 S (uncles), Noah S Wadhams, '97 S , Joseph P. Wadhams, '99 S. (cousins) Torrington High School. Mechanical engineering course, R O T.C , Sachem Hall and Phi Sigma Kappa In Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps World War I, Second Lieu- tenant Air Service Reserve 1919, with Scovill Manufacturing Com- pany, Waterbury, 1919-21, secretary Brooks & McNeil, Inc , insurance agents, Torrington, 1924-42, vice-president 1942-50, assistant treasurer Torrington Savings Bank 1922, vice-president and treasurer 1941-50, secretary Hillside Cemetery Association 1941- 50, treasurer Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial 1941-50, a corporator Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, trustee Torrington Library (secretary 1941-50), treasurer Torrington chapter American Red Cross, corporator and auditor Torrington Historical Society, president John Brown Association, vice-president Naugatuck Valley Alumni Association and Litchfield County University Club, member Litchfield County chapter American Institute of Banking, Ma- sonic order, and Center Congregational Church, Torrington Married June 17, 1922, Waterbury, Sela, daughter of Charles Warren Selah Frost (Class of 1877 M ) and Minnie Lu- cile (Wright) Frost Children Barbara (B A Connecticut Coll 1944, Mrs Robert L Youngbluth), Ann (B A Mount Holyoke 1947), the wife of Joseph Hugh Cobram, '50, Sela (B A Con- necticut Coll. 1948), the wife of Richard Clark Barker, '50 E , John Marsh, 4th (Cornell Class of 1955) Death due to coronary occlusion. Buried ia Center Cem- etery, Goshen. Survived by wife, children, and one grandchild

WILLIAM MENDEL, Ph.B 1920 Born June 26, 1898, Bridgeport, Conn , died June 7, 1950, Beverly, N J Father, Jacob Mendel, a clothier in Bridgeport, son of Harry and 198 Yale University Obituary Record

Gertrude Anna (Leventhan) Mendel Mother, Lea (Weinberg) Mendel, daughter of William and Augusta (Marks) Weinberg Yale relatives include Harry Mendel,'12 (brother), Morton Harris, '29 S (brother-in-law) Bridgeport High School Chemistry course, general two-year honors, R O T C , member Sigma Xi Chemist m Newark, N J , 1920-23, chief chemist Neidich Cel- lus-tra Corporation, converted cellulose products, Burlington, N J , 1923-26, general superintendent 1926-29, general manager 1929-30, vice-president 1930-50, vice-president Burlington Pen Company 1943- 50, member Yale Engineering Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Chemical Society Married March 25, 1923, New Haven, Conn , Ida Leah, daughter of Barnett and Bessie (Rabinowitz) Harris Son Harry Lewis (Class of 1945 E ) Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Beverly National Cemetery Survived by wife, son, and two sisters, Miss Augusta Mendel and Mrs Robert Edwards

RALPH JOHN HINES, Ph B. 1921 Born June 22, 1900, Chicago, 111 , died May 28, 1950, New York City Father, Edward Hmes, president Edward Hines Lumber Company, Chicago, son of Peter and Rose (McGary) Hmes Mother, Loretta Mar- garet (O'Dowd) Hmes, daughter of John J and Margaret (Dalton) O'Dowd Yale relatives include Edward Hmes, Jr , '18 S (brother); Ho well H Howard, '19 S (brother-in-law) Phillips-Andover Select course, Freshman Swimming Team, Yale R O T C , The Colony and Berzelius Attended University of Oxford 1922-23, with Edward Hines Lum- ber Company 1924-50 (senior vice-president 1925-32, president 1932- 41, chairman of the board 1942-50), director Edward Hmes Pacific Coast Lumber Company and Edward Hines Farm Land Company, Lieu- tenant Commander U S Navy World War II (in charge Navy Base, Aratu, Brazil), member Roman Catholic Church Married June 21, 1947, Mrs Elizabeth Borden Pine Death due to fractured skull Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs Howell H Howard, and a brother, Charles M Hmes (Class of 1925 S)

JULIUS EUGENE MUHLFELDER, B S 1922 Born September 15, 1901, Glens Falls, N Y ; died August 3, 1949, El Paso, Texas Father, Samuel Muhlfelder, a merchant in New Haven, Conn Mother, Doretta Ballin (Baumann) Muhlfelder New Haven High School Chemical engineering bourse, Class Baseball teams Sheffield Scientific School 199

Assistant supervisor South River (N J ) Spinning Company 1922- 24, associated in father's business 1924-25, salesman Julius Keyser & Company, manufacturers of gloves, underwear, hosiery, New York City, 1925-26, 1929-39 and in Chicago 1926-29, salesman Popular Dry Goods Company, El Paso, sales engineer Mine & Smelter Supply Com- pany, El Paso, at time of death, member Masonic order, treasurer Trinity Methodist Church, El Paso Married September 15, 1939, Las Cruces, N Mex , Aurora Perry Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Masonic Cemetery, El Paso Survived by wife

JAMES LEDDY ASH, B S 1924 Born April 3, 1902, Hudson, Mich , died January 9, 1950, New York City Father, James Wilson Ash, president Miami Cycle and Manu- facturing Company, Middletown, Ohio, son of Thomas and Catherine (Kelsey) Ash Mother, Rose Patricia (Leddy) Ash, daughter of James and Mary (Smith) Leddy Mercersburg Academy Administrative engineering course, Freshman Track Squad, Vernon Hall and Phi Gamma Delta Sales superintendent and later advertising manager Miami Cab- inet Company, Middletown, 1924-32, with Miami Art Metal Company, Middletown, 1932-34, salesman Eagle-Picher Sales Company, insula- tion, paint, metal goods, pigments, Cleveland, 1934-37, division sales manager Chicago 1937-49, promotion manager Cincinnati 1949- 50, member Yale Engineering Association and Presbyterian church, Middletown Married November 25, 1942, Evanston, 111 , Harriet, daughter of Henry Theodore and Marie (Sjolseth) Hoyme Daughter Carolyn Ann. Death due to heart failure Buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Hills, Minn Survived by wife, daughter, and mother

HENRY BELIN, 3D, B S 1924 Born February 9, 1901, Scranton, Pa , died March 17, 1950, Waverly, Pa Father, Paul B. Belin, '95 S Mother, Lucie Sherrerd (Welles) Belm Yale relatives include Henry Belin (B A 1863) (grandfather), Charles A. Belm, '99, Charles H Welles, Jr , '99, F Lammot Belin, '01 S , Paul B Welles, '04, Kenneth B. Welles, '08, G d'Andelot Belin, '08 S (uncles), Henry B Robertson, '14 S , Nathaniel G. Robertson, Jr , '17 S., Charles H Welles, 3d, '28, James D Welles, '31 (cousins). Hotchkiss School Administrative engineering course, one- 200 Yale University Obituary Record year honors for excellence in all studies, Freshman Crew, manager Lacrosse Team Senior year, on board Yale Graphic, Tau Beta Pi, York Hall and Chi Phi Associated with Scranton Lace Company 1924-50 (vice-president at time of death), president Waverly Community House 1930-50 and Abington National Bank, Clarks Summit, Pa , 1936-50, treasurer Scranton Airport Corporation, member Westminster Presbyterian Church, Scranton Married (1) September 29, 1925, Englewood, N J , Katharine Hoffman Children Henry, 4th, '51, Alice, Paul Beck Mr and Mrs Belm were divorced 1939 Married (2) September 2, 1939, in Easton, Md , Julia Wallace Jermyn, daughter of Harvey Clifford and Julia (Shively) Wallace Death due to carcinoma Buried in Hickory Grove Cemetery, Waverly Survived by wife, children, and a brother, C Welles Belm, '25 S

FRANK van DIEST COLLINS, B S 1924 Born January 10, 1903, New York City, died January 11, 1950, Webster Groves, Mo. Father, Frank Henry Collins, director of drawing in New York City public schools Mother, Constance Annette (van Diest) Collins, daughter of Peter Hemdrick and Anna Josine (Gude) van Diest Greenwich (Conn ) High School Chemical engineering course, honors in chemistry Freshman year, coxswain Sophomore B Crew, Alpha Sigma Phi Chemical engineer Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Bay- town, Texas, 1923-30, independently engaged in construction and real-estate business Greenwich, Conn , 1930-42, with Kaiser In- dustries, Inc , Denver, Colo , 1943-45, engaged in commercial poultry raising High Ridge, Mo , 1945 until retirement 1949. Unmarried Death due to complications following diabetes and ulcers Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo Survived by no immediate relatives

CHARLES WILLIAM GANO, B S 1927 Born July 23, 1904, Leetonia, Ohio, died January 17, 1950, Oakland, Calif Father, Martin Rea Gano, president Gano Moore Coal Mining Company, Inc , Philadelphia and New York City, son of William Shaw and Fannie Martin (Rea) Gano. Mother, Ethel May (Pape) Gano, daughter of Charles and Margaret Elizabeth (Elleford) Pape Phillips-Exeter General science course, The Cloister and Book and Snake Sheffield Scientific School 201

Customer's man with Wright Slade & Company, brokers, New York City, 1927-28 and Ware & Company 1928-31, associated with Bank of the Manhattan Company, New York City, 1931-42 and 1946, credit manager Central Bank of Oakland 1947, assistant vice-president and loan officer 1947-49, vice-president since January 1, 1950, in service 1942-46 (Lieutenant Commander U.S Naval Reserve, served in North Atlantic and South Pacific areas and in Armed Mer- chant Guard in Honolulu, Victory, American Theatre, Asiatic Pacific Theatre, and European-Middle Eastern medals), member Oakland Chamber of Commerce and Naval Order of U S Naval Reserve Married(1) June 23, 1927, New York City, Cathleen Moore, daughter of John Edward Baxter Children Charles William, Jr , Cathleen Baxter Mr and Mrs Gano were divorced 1946 Married (2) April 5, 1947, San Francisco, Loretta Marguerite, daughter of Alexander Closon and Edna Grace Good (Knight) Smith Death due to peritonitis. Buried in Arlington Cemetery, Drex- el Hill, Pa Survived by wife, children, mother, and a sister, Mrs Richard E Elliott

JOHN PENDLETON WILCOX, B S 1927 Born October 16, 1905, Stomngton, Conn , died February 7, 1950, Carlsbad, N Mex Father, William Frederick Wilcox, general manager American Velvet Company, Stomngton, son of George W and Anne B (Cox) Wilcox Mother, Charlotte Stark (Pendleton) Wilcox, daughter of Samuel B and Anna E (Burrows) Pendleton Yale relatives include a cousin, Carl Edward Hammond (Class of 1925) Stomngton High School Chemical engineering course, one- year honors for excellence in all studies Sophomore and Junior years, Class Baseball and Bowling teams, Sigma Xi Chemical engineer and statistical engineer Anglo-Chilean Ni- trate Consolidated Corporation of New York, Tocopilla, Chile, 1927- 33 and Potash Company of America, Carlsbad, 1936-50, member New Mexico Miners and Prospectors Association, American Insti- tute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and Grace Episcopal Church, Carlsbad Married January 11, 1939, Stomngton, Helen Nevens, daughter of Gilbert Henry and Addie M (Nevens) Chesebro Death due to malignant melanoma Buried in Evergreen Cem- etery, Stomngton Survived by wife and mother

FRANK FREEMAN FOSTER, B S. 1933 Born January 23, 1910, Wakefield, Mass , died July 30, 1949, Carmel Valley, Calif Father, Newton Hmckley Foster (B A Harvard 1911), a bro- 202 Yale University Obituary Record

ker in New York City Mother, Emily Franklin (Freeman) Foster (Wellesley 1902-5), daughter of Franklin Willard and Helen Augusta (Boit) Freeman Yale relatives include Harry B Freeman (Class of 1919 S ) (uncle) Roxbury School. Applied economics course, Freshman Swimming Team, captain Class Swimming Team Sophomore year, University Swimming Squad, Freshman Student Council, St Anthony and Delta Psi Associated with Swayne & Hoyt, owners of a fleet of freighters, San Francisco, 1933-34, special agent Thomas F Daly Agency Com- pany and Capitol Life Insurance Company, Denver, 1934-37, naviga- tor Pan-American Air Ferries, Inc , Miami, 1942-46, with C H. W. Read, real estate, Miami Beach, 1946-49, m Robles del Rio, Calif , 1949, member Emmanuel Church (Episcopal), Wakefield Married (1) June 2, 1934, Denver, Elizabeth Mane, daughter of Clarence J Daly Son Frank Freeman, Jr Mr and Mrs Fos- ter were divorced 1937. Married (2) September 7, 1943, Fort Lauder- dale, Fla , Mary Jane, daughter of Phillip N and Mary (Walker) Mac- donald Daughter Susan (died July 29, 1949) Died suddenly and accidentally Buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield Survived by wife, son, mother (Mrs Emily Paul), and two sisters, Mrs. Warren Ingersoll and Mrs Porter Ses- non SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

GEORGE INNOCENT SMITH, B E 1940. Born September 18, 1894, Newark, N J , died June 20, 1950, Kenton, Ohio Father, Mxchael Henry Smith, a grocer in Newark, son of Michael Patrick and Bridget (Larkin) Smith Mother, Maria Lor- etta (Gaskm) Smith, daughter of Patrick and Catherine (Hoey) Gaskm. Bar ringer High School, Newark, S T Lr, Catholic University of America 1922 (ordained priest 1921), teacher surveying and mechanics Providence College 1922-33 (treasurer of the college 1930- 33), president Aquinas College 1933-38, studied civil engineering Yale School of Engineering 1938-40 (member American Society of Civil Engineers ^secretary Junior year, treasurer Senior year]), assistant professor civil engineering University of Notre Dame 1941-43, associate professor 1943-45, associate professor engineering mechanics 1945-50 Death due to injuries received in a motorcycle accident Buried in Mt. Oliver Cemetery, Washington, D C. Survived by a sister, Miss Gertrude Marie Smith, and four brothers, Very Rev Ignatius Smith, O P , James A Smith, Francis T. Smith, Joseph R Smith, and Rev John R Smith

EDGAR DONALD MILLSTONE, BE 1945 Born July 20, 1924, St Louis, Mo , died February 19, 1950, Clayton, Mo. Father, Louis I. Millstone, agent and broker Herschberg Insur- ance Company, St Louis, son of Bernard and Rachael (Simon) Mill- stone Mother, Mary Esther (Apter) Millstone, daughter of Moses and Ethel (Marglous) Apter Soldan High School, St Louis Civil engineering course, Tau Beta Pi. BE. awarded June 1944 M Eng. 1947 Called to active duty July 1943, member V-12 Unit at Yale 1943- 44, Ensign Civil Engineer Corps, U S Naval Reserve, 1944, Lieuten- ant 0 S ) 1946 (with Special Naval Construction Battalion on Okinawa), architectural engineer I E. Millstone Construction Company, St Louis, 1947-50, member Engineers Club of St Louis and United He- brew Temple, St Louis Unmarried Death due to coronary heart disease Buried in Mt Olive Cem- etery, St Louis. Survived by mother, a sister, Mrs. Joshua A Collins, and two brothers, Isadore Erwin Millstone and Robert Ber- nard Millstone SUPPLEMENT

NOTICES OF DEATHS PRIOR TO JULY I, 1949, NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

EBENEZER LEARNED, B A 1899 Born August 26, 1876, Norwich, Conn , died July 14, 1948, Norwich, Conn Father, Bela P Learned (B A. 1857) Mother, Mary Worth- mgton (Bulkeley) Learned Yale relatives include* Nicholas Hallam (B A 1737) (great-great-great-grandfather), Amasa Learned (B A 1772) (great-great-grandfather), Ebenezer Learned (B A 1798) (great-grandfather), Ebenezer Learned (B A 1831) (grandfather), Robert McEwen (B A 1827), Billings P Learned (B A 1834) (great-uncles), Henry R Bond (B A 1896) (brother-in-law) Norwich Free Academy Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Freshman and University Glee clubs, College Choir, Mandolin Club Partner B P Learned & Company, insurance, Norwich, 1899-1948, trustee Norwich Free Academy Corporation and Norwich Savings Society (director 1913-48, vice-president 1939-48), director Buckingham Memorial Association, member Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Masonic order, treasurer Park Congregational Church, Norwich Married April 29, 1903, Washington, D C , Roberta Traill Spence, daughter of George Henry and Roberta Brooke (MacGill) Howard Children Constance Traill (Mrs Lawton Slade Bray- ton), Ebenezer, Jr , '28 Death due to coronary occlusion. Buried in Yantic Ceme- tery, Norwich Survived by wife, children, four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Mary Learned Ely.

[CHARLES] TEMPLETON CROCKER, B A. 1908 Born September 2, 1894, San Francisco, Calif , died December 12, 1948, San Francisco, Calif Father, Charles Frederick Crocker, vice-president South- ern Pacific Railroad, son of Charles and Mary Ann (Deming) Crocker Mother, Jennie Marine (Easton) Crocker, daughter of Ansel Ives and Adeline (Mills) Easton Yale relatives include Ansel M Easton (Class of 1886 S ), William H Crocker (Ph B 1882) (uncles), William W Crocker, '15, Charles Crocker, 2d Supplement 205

(Class of 1S26) (cousins), Frederick C. Whitman, '39 L. (nephew) Westminster School. Second colloquy appointment Senior year, Yale University Dramatic Association, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Zeta Psi Graduate member Elizabethan^ Club Research scientist Galapagos Islands for California Academy of Sciences 1932, Solomon Islands for Bishop Museum 1933, Polynesia, Pitcairn, and Easter islands for American Museum of Natural His- tory 1934-35, coast of Gulf of California for New York Zoological Society 1936, Hawaii, Tongareva, and Samoa for American Museum of Natural History 1936-37; Mount Crocker (highest peak in Galapa- gos) named for him, author libretto for operetta Fay-Yen-Fah (made Chevalier Legion of Honor), Cruise of the Zaca, and poems in The Fox God, a lyric ballet, Lieutenant U S Naval Reserve World War I; fellow Royal Geographical Society, member American Museum of Natural History, New York Zoological Society, Field Museum, Cal- ifornia Academy of Science, Sons of the American Revolution, So- ciety of Mayflower Descendents, and St Matthew's Episcopal Church, San Mateo, Calif. Married February 28, 1911, San Francisco, Helene, daughter of William George Irwm Mr and Mrs Crocker were divorced 1927 Death due to cerebral hemorrhage Buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, San Mateo County, Calif Survived by a sister, Mrs. Robert Burns Henderson

JAMES CARLTON THORNTON, B A 1908 Born July 11, 1884, Ford, Ky , died March 29, 1949, Greenwich, Conn Father, Edmund Braxton Thornton, president Ottawa (111 ) Silica Company, son of George Abram and Mary Louise (Carlton) Thornton Mother, Mary (Braxton) Thornton, daughter of James Carroll and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Carlton Phillips-Andover. First colloquy appointment Junior and Senior years, president Freshman Baseball Association, assistant manager University Baseball Team Junior year, University Foot- ball Team; Freshman Mandolin and Banjo clubs, Apollo Banjo and Mandolin clubs, Junior Promenade Committee, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Skull and Bones Engaged in mining white silica sand Ottawa, 111 , 1908-10, organized Miner-Thornton Company, marketing of minerals, 1910- 12, office manager Watkms Coal Company, New York City, 1912- 17, 1919-22, organizer and partner Spaldmg Construction Company, New York City, 1923-24 and Fowler Shirt Company, Inc., 1924-28, partner Trainer and Associates, investments, 1928-49, served with Squadron A, New York National Guard, on Mexican border, Captain U S Field Artillery World War I, member First Presby- 206 Yale University Obituary Record

tenan Church, Bedford Married June 4, 1919, Plamfield, N J , Lillian Mary, daughter of Charles Webster and Annie (Masters) King Death due to carcinoma Buried in Putnam Cemetery, Green- wich Survived by wife, two sisters, Mrs Philip MacDougal and Mrs Alfred Newton Wheeler, and a brother, George A Thornton, •22

WILLIAM GOSHORN CALDWELL, Ph B 1895 Born July 3, 1872, Wheeling, W Va , died June 25, 1949, Miami, Fla Father, Alfred Caldwell (Ph B 1867) Mother, Laura Ellen (Goshorn) Caldwell Yale relatives include Perry M Caldwell, '89 S (cousin), Alfred C Schroll (Class of 1923 S ) (nephew) Lmsley Institute Select course LL B University of Virginia 1896 and graduate student 1896- 97, partner Caldwell & Caldwell, lawyers, Wheeling, 1897 until retirement 1937, member West Virginia legislature 1903, member Ohio County Bar Association Married April 21, 1920, Wheeling, Juliette, daughter of Harry Keller and Phoebie Jane (Leek) Smith Children Helen Virginia (Butler Umv 1949-51, Mrs Hale Drury Fox), and William Goshorn, 2d Death due to cerebral thrombosis Buried in Greenwood Cem- etery, Wheeling Survived by wife and children

CHARLES GURNEY ATHA, Ph B 1899 Born October 12, 1877, Newark, N J , died November 7, 1942, Milnthorpe, England Father, Benjamin Atha, member Benjamin Atha & Company, steel manufacturers, Newark, son of Andrew and Henrietta (Armi- tage) Atha Mother, Sarah Annie (Gurney) Atha, daughter of Henry Gilmore and Margaret (Hayes) Gurney Yale relatives include Herbert B Atha '92 S (brother), Howell G Lord, '04, Leslie H. Lord, '07 S (cousins) Newark Academy Freshman Class Crew, Class Picture committee With Benjamin Atha & Illingworth Company, steel manufacturers, Newark, 1899-1901, Vickers Sons & Maxim, Ltd , London, 1901-2, William Beardmore & Company, Ltd , Glasgow, 1903-7, successively general manager Bolton Steel Works of Henry Bes- semer & Company, Ltd , Sheffield, managing director steel department Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd , Glasgow, and consulting engineer United Steel Companies, Ltd Married May 13, 1905, Lake Windemere, England, Sarah Supplement 207

Gwendolen, daughter of James Malcolm Hay Children Sara Eliza- beth, Andrew, Faith, Prudence, Susan Survived by wife, children, grandchildren, and two brothers, Albert H Atha, '99, and Louis M Atha, '05 (died May 15, 1950)

ELIAS ZARAGOZA, Ph B 1906 Born October 28, 1884, Ma- nila, P I , died July 5, 1946, Manila, P I Father, Jose' Zaragoza (grad Umv of Santo Toraas), consul of Liberia and Ecudor in Manila Mother, Dona Rosa (Roxas) de Zara- goza Yale relatives include a brother, Salvador Zaragoza (LL M 1905) Ateneo de Manila Electrical engineering course at Yale Meter tester and later foreman testing department Manila Elec- trical Railroad and Light Company, president Philippine Machinery Agency Company, secretary Cristobal Oil Company, president and manager Alpha Automotive Company, Inc , retired 1941, associate member American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Roman Cath- olic church Married October 2, 1909, Manila, Rosario Velez Infante, daughter of Ricardo Velez Corrales and Rosario Infante Children Paz Zaragoza de Araneta (St Scholastica Coll Mrs Vicente Araneta), Jose Ma Zaragoza (B S Umv of Santo Tomas), Ricardo V Zara- goza (B S C Umv of Santo Tomas), Antonio Zaragoza (B S Ateneo de Manila), Enrique V Zaragoza (LL B Umv of Santo Thomas 1947), Rosario Zaragoza de Garcia (Mrs Joaqum Garcia) Death due to carcinoma Buried in Catholic Cemetery of La Loma, Manila Survived by wife, children, and ten grandchildren

JAY HARVEY HUBBELL, Ph B 1907 Born October 7, 1885, Sagmaw, Mich , died October 25, 1947, North Hollywood, Calif Father, Harvey White Hubbell, president H W Hubbell Com- pany, dredging contractors Mother, Mary (Reed) Hubbell Phillips-Exeter Mining engineering course, Freshman Banjo and Mandolin clubs, editor Yale Scientific Monthly, The Colony and Berzelius Senior inspection engineer Public Works, Bureau of Inspec- tion, Los Angeles, 1924-47 Unmarried Death due to heart attack Ashes interred in Valhalla Memo- rial Park, Burbank, Calif Survived by a sister, Mrs R H Skinner

JOHN BURBANK NICHOLS, Ph B 1912 Born April 27, 1890. 208 Yale University Obituary Record

Haverhill, Mass , died December 17, 1948, New York City Father, George Nichols, a banker in Haverhill Mother, Emma (Barr) Nichols St Paul's School, Concord, N H Select course, member Ver- non Hall and Phi Gamma Delta Treasurer and general manager Nichols Shoe Company, Ames- bury, Mass , 1915-18, successively with B F Hood & Sons, dairy products, Charlestown, Mass , and Monument Mills, cotton yarns, Housatonic, Mass , 1919-43, traveling auditor Hygrade Food Products Corporation 1943-48, served in U S Field Artillery in World War I, member Episcopal church Married and divorced Died suddenly Buried in Walnut Cemetery, Haverhill Sur- vived by a son, John Burbank Nichols, Jr , a sister, Mrs Percy Owen, and a brother, Harry H Nichols

ARCH FRANK RAKATZKY, Ph B 1920 Born January 22, 1899, Sheppton, Pa , died April 20, 1948, East Hampton, Conn Father, Michael Kertes Rakatzky, clerk American Cham Com- pany, Bridgeport, Conn , son of Michael and Elizabeth (Ongai) Rakat- zky Mother, Gizella Sarolta (Duboczky) Rakatzky, daughter of Jos- eph and Piroska (Nagy) Duboczky Bridgeport High School Civil engineering course, one-year honors for excellence in all studies Freshman year, two-year honors Junior year, apprentice seaman U S Naval Reserve Force at Yale October-December 1918 Student Graduate School 1920-21 Structural draftsman Porcupine Company, Bridgeport, summer 1920 and A G Leake Erecting Company, Bridgeport, summer 1921, instructor m civil engineering University of Wyoming 1922-25 (assistant State engineer of Wyoming summer 1924), successively bridge designer and senior highway engineer Connecticut State Highway De- partment, Hartford, 1925-48, member American Society of Civil Engineers and St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, East Hampton Married February 6, 1927, Jackson Heights, N Y , Helene Mary Wall, daughter of William Henry and Joanna (Moriarty) Wall Death due to carcinoma Buried in St Michael's Cemetery, Stratford, Conn Survived by wife, a sister, Mrs. Wilma Rakatzky Daniels, and a brother, Joseph Rakatzky

PIETER JOHANNES VIVIER, Ph B 1921 Born January 4, 1893, Orange Free State, Union of South Africa, died March 25, 1948, Marquard, Union of South Africa Parents, Hendrik Jakobus and Aletta Francma (Muller) Vivier Supplement 209

Bethlehem High School, Orange Free State, attended University of Transvaal Ph B Yale 1921, M.D 1924 (member Nu Sigma Nu). Interne (obstetrics and gynecology) New Haven Hospital 1924-25, general surgical interne 1925-26, interne (contagious diseases) City Hospital^ Providence, R I , 1925, physician in Wallingford, Conn., 1926-32, staff surgeon Menden (Conn.) Hospital, resident surgeon Presbyterian Hospital and instructor in surgery College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 1932-34, assistant surgeon Johannesburg (Union of South Africa) Hospital and lecturer in surgery and surgical pathology Witwatersrand Medical School 1935-48, D Sc (Med ) Co- lumbia 1934, fellow American College of Surgeons, member Protes- tant church Married February 7, 1919, Pretoria, Elizabeth May van Et- veld (Yale School of Music 1920-21), daughter of Henry and Mane (Gardiner) van Etveld Children Lincoln and Isabelle Death due to carcinoma. Buried in Marquard Survived by wife and children GRADUATES OF THE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AND HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS WHOSE DEATHS HAVE BEEN REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1949-1950

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Alexander, Norman (LL B 1922) June 29, 1950 Alexander, Virginia Margstret (M P H 1941, Mrs William H Childs) July 24, 1949 Allenby, Hubert Alfonso (B D 1923) September 10, 1949 Anderson, John Bullions (M F 1903) February 28, 1950 Armstrong, Thomas James (B D 1913) August 24, 1949 Babcock, Rolla (LL B 1911) September 7, 1949 Backus, Jabez (B D 1881) May 18, 1950 Baker, Hugh Potter (M F* 1904) May 24, 1950 Barlow, Alpha Winifred .(M A 1918) June 25, 1950 Bollmann, Carl Frederick (LL B 1901) September 13, 1949 Bowman, Isaiah (Ph D 1909, LL D Hon 1921) January 6, 1950 Bristol, Harold Russell (M F 1904) January 11, 1950 Buell, Irwin Alfred (M A 1921, Ph D 1925) May 1, 1950 Burch, Eleanor Stuart (LL B 1924, Mrs John J Caskey) June 27, 1950 Burroughs, Henry Clarence (LL B 1895) May 11, 1950 Celeste, Jose Lopez (M A 1921) February 1945 Caskey, Mrs John J (see Eleanor Stuart Burch) Chapman, Paul Stanley (LL B 1908) June 30, 1950 Childs, Mrs William H (see Virginia Margaret Alexander) Cohane, Timothy Francis (M D 1897) September 7, J949 Crawford, Ralph Dixon (Ph D 1913) March 4, 1950 Creelman, Harlan (B D 1889, Ph D 1894, M A 1908) May 26, 1950 deHoll, Gesina Alaida Fredencha (M S 1931) July 1949 DesBarres, Thomas Cutler (B D 1892) October 25, 1949 Donovan, Jerome Francis (LL B 1894) November 2, 1949 Duhan, Ethel Rv"- F A 1934) August 23, 1949 Graduate and Professional Schools 211

Date of Death Dwyer, Robert Ernest (LL B 1911) April 16, 1950 Frank, Philip (M D 1907) April 21, 1950 Gales, Thomas Park (B D 1902) December 15, 1938 Ganter, Maxwell (MA 1905) July 26, 1949 Glass, George Courtenay (M D 1931) July 5, 1949 Godfrey, Edward John (M P H 1939) July 2, 1949 Goodman, Joseph Clarence (LL B 1894) January 6, 1950 Graves, Arthur Collins (LL B 1893) March 1, 1950 Gudgell, Frank Oliver (LL B 1897) May 13, 1950 Haigh, Albert William (LL B 1900) April 26, 1950 Harmon, Austin Morns (M A 1903, Ph D 1908) June 29, 1950 Hartwell, Harry Linwood (B D 1895) February 28, 1950 Hawes, Norman Emery (M F 1932) April 16, 1950 Hayakawa, Yasuyiro (M A 1909) March 1950 Hazen, William (M A 1900) July 7, 1949 Henmon, Vivian Allen Charles (M A Hon 1926) January 9, 1950 Hewes, Laurence Ilsley (Ph D 1901) March 2, 1950 Hitchcock, Lester Eugene (M F 1910) January 30, 1950 Holmes, Edward Hmman (LL B 1902) May 9, 1950 Holt, Kerchival Rogers (M D 1926) June 4, 1950 Hopwood, John Lloyd (B D 1903) October 3, 1949 Ireland, Gordon (J S D 1926) 1950 Isenberg, Leo Harry (LL B 1927) November 8, 1949 Jewett, Frank Baldwin (LL D Hon 1946) November 18, 1949 Jones, John Lewis (M A 1909, Ph D 1911) December 29, 1949 Kaiper, Daniel Bottenus (B D 1937) December 28, 1949 Kelleter, Paul Delmar (M F 1904) March 19, 1950 Kenealy, Matthew Henry (LL B 1910) February 26, 1950 Kerhn, Robert Thomas (Ph D 1906) February 21, 1950 Knight, Harry Clifford (M A Hon 1935) July 20, 1949 Koshiba, Saburo (M A 1908) February 19, 1950 Kreider, Titus Heilman (M A 1906) July 25, 1949 Kurtz, Daniel Webster (B D and M A 1908) November 22, 1949 Landfear, Harry William (B D 1894) October 21, 1949 Larson, Joshua (M A 1899, Ph D 1901) August 30, 1949 Lemke, William (LL B 1905) May 30, 1950 Lemon, Robert Clayton (B D 1920) August 31, 1949 Levy, Abraham Juda (D P H 1931) August 26, 1949 Lorenz, Robert Donald (LL B 1913) March 30, 1950 McCarthy, Frederick Michael (LL B 1905) July 21, 1949 Maclntyre, Irene (M N 1933) December 17, 1949 212 Yale University Obituary Record

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McKenzie, Mrs John H (see Vmnorma Shaw) Mann, William Brayton (LL B 1893) February 23, 1945 Martin, James Smith (M D 1905) January 7, 1950 Matsukata, Kojiro (LL B 1888, LL M 1889, D C L 1890) June 1950 Mead, George Gordon (LL B 1910) November 3, 1949 Merwin, Maxwell Edwin (LL B 1905) October 15, 1949 Meyer, Adolf (Sc D Hon 1934) March 17, 1950 Mikami, Seiki (M A 1903) January 21, 1946 Morrill, Walter Jean (M F 1905) August 22, 1949 Morse, Arthur Henry (M A Hon 1921) January 26, 1950 Moulton, Fay R (LL B 1903) February 19, 1945 Munroe, Duke Gray (B D 1915) June 2, 1949 Murphy, John Vernon (M S 1924) July 31, 1949 Neethlmg, Eraest Jacob (M F 1923) October 2, 1949 Nichols, Allen Penfield (LL B 1891) June 2, 1950 Nugent, Thomas Edwai d (B D 1906) January 26, 1950 O'Connor, James Francis Thaddeus (LL B 1909, M A 1910) September 28, 1949 Orcutt, Wallace Lyman (M D 1911) June 7, 1950 Peirce Paul Skeels (Ph D 1900) March 30, 1931 Pendleton, Cyrus Edmund (M D 1903) May 8, 1950 Phinney, Lola (Mus B 1900) December 14, 1949 Poteat, James Douglass (J S D 1933) March 16, 1950 Prichard, Reuben Parker (M F 1909) September 5, 1949 Purcell, Richard J (Ph D 1916) January 3, 1950 Reedy, John Henry (Ph D 1915) February 21, 1950 Rendall, Raymond Eaton (M F 1920) December 24, 1949 Rice, William Benjamin (M F 1912) January 13, 1950 Ritter, Harry Woodward (LL B 1908) August 2, 1941 Roberts, Floyd Lester (B D 1926, M A 1927) June 14, 1950 Robinson, William Alexander (Ph D 1913) June 10, 1950 Rolnick, Harry (Ph D 1930) September 9, 1949 Rolofson, John Jesse (LL M 1909) July 10, 1948 Ross, Alexander Herbert Douglas (M F 1906) April 6, 1950 Saer, John Benjamin (B D 1881) June 1946 Sanford, Henry Seymour (LL B 1895) November 22, 1949 Schhchtmg, Martin Hugo (B D 1919) September 25, 1949 Scofield, Irving Frank (M D 1906) October 18, 1949 Graduate and Professional Schools 213

Date of Death

Seashore, Carl Emil (Ph D 1895, Sc D Hon 1935) October 16, 1949 Shaw, Vinnorma (B F A 1918, Mrs John H McKenzxe) July 18, 1949 Sherwood, James Clark (LL B 1894) About 1949 Shont, Levon Sarkiss (MA 1910) 1949 Slade, Maxwell (LL B 1902) August 6, 1949 Smith, Karl Leavitt (M P H 1933) November 6, 1949 Sperow, Everett Hollmgsworth (B D 1904) June 15, 1950 Stauffer, Henry (B D 1889) October 10, 1949 Stearns, Alfred Ernest (M A Hon 1905) November 15, 1949 Stem, William Bement (M D 1945) November 21, 1949 Stewart, Wilson Reed (B D 1893) October 23, 1949 Strickland, Lesley Clyde (J D 1923) February 25, 1950 Sundberg, Edmer Kermit (M A 1946) July 14, 1946 Tack, Augustus Vincent (B F A 1912) July 21, 1949 Tanch, Joseph William (Ph D 1919) January 17, 1950 Thomas, John Evans (B D 1896) October 28, 1943 Timber lake, Ralph Moore (B D and M A 1911) August 27, 1949 Tittle, Ernest Fremont (D D Hon 1933) August 3, 1949 Trust, Harry Knowlton (Ph D 1947) August 26, 1949 Tyler, Heman Augustus (M D 1898) October 1, 1949 Ulnch, Adam Stewart (LL B 1901) March 8, 1947 Underwood, Homer Krepps (M A 1901) February 14, 1950 VanCott, William Vaughn (B F A 1928) December 25, 1949 Vorse, Albert Ogden (M F 1910) January 19, 1950 Walker, Robert Spiers (LL B 1904) April 7, 1950 Wecter, Dixon (M A 1926, Ph D 1936) June 24, 1950 Westenberg, Arthur Ewen (B D 1907) January 5, 1950 Williams, Clarence Russell (Ph D 1912) September 25, 1949 Winlock, Herbert Eustis (Litt D Hon 1933) January 26, 1950 Witman, Horace Montgomery (B D 1898) October 17, 1949 Woods, Joseph George (LL B 1910) October 27, 1949 Yetter, Harry Stanley (M F 1924) June 22, 1950 Zimmerman, Henry Martin (LL M 1896) June 1, 1949 Zundel, George Lorenzo Ingram (Ph D 1929) March 10, 1950 STATISTICS Yale College 192*

Sheffield Scientific School 143+

School of Engineering 2

Graduate School 32

School of Medicine 14

Divinity School 24

Law School 37

School of the Fine Arts 4

School of Music 1

School of Forestry 14

School of Nursing 1

Honorary Degree Recipients 8_ 472

The age of the 189 graduates of Yale College who died between July 1, 1949, and July 1, 1950, averages 65 8, and the age of 136 graduates of the Scientific School averages 68 3 The oldest living graduate of Yale College is Eugene Bouton (B A 1875) of Bloomfield, N J , born December 6, 1850 The oldest living graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School is Ethan A Andrews (Ph B 1881) of Baltimore, Md , born September 10, 1859

•Includes 3 in the supplement •Includes 7 m the supplement INDEX*

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1892 j; Adams, Francis M 135 1899 Bryant, Oliver S 38 1897 s Aimes, Hubert H S 146 1915 s Bryden, John R , Jr 189 1905 £ Alexander, Harold G 164 1895 Burge, Frederick W 27 1892 Allen, Bernard M 15 1919 s Burnham, Donald 195 1913 Allen, Douglass M 93 1898 Burrell, David DeForest 35 1911 Anderson, Robert B 87 1892 Burt, Stanley G 15 1898 Archbald, Robert W , Jr 35 1896 s Burton, Jonathan P 144 1906 s Armstead, George B 168 1906 Armstrong, Walter P 66 1895 s Caldwell, William G 206 1924 s Ash, James L 199 1903 Calmer, Erwin M 52 1899 j Atha, Charles G 206 1907 Campbell, Rumsey 73 1905 At ha, Louis M 60 1883 Carver, Henry 4 1885 s At wood, James A 129 1894 Chase, William G 21 1903 s Ayer, William T 160 1905 s Cheney, Stephen C 165 1913 s Ayres, Charles C 187 1897 Churchill, William 30 1908 Clark, Clinton 80 1908 Bakewell, Donald C 79 1925 Clearwater, Thomas H 113 1918 Barber, Maurice 103 1897 s Cleland, Frank B 147 1896 s Barbour, George H 144 1910 Cloud, Henry Roe 85 1902 Barnett, Francis B 48 1912 s Cobb, Harold M 184 1918 Barry, Philip 104 1903 " Coffey, James R 53 1903 s Bayles, James M 160 1938 Cohen, Sidney J 119 1906 s Behr, Karl H 168 1924 s Collins, Frank V D 200 1924 s Behn, Henry, 3d 199 1906 Conde, Harold W 67 1907 s Benet, William Rose 170 1903 Condict, Philip K 53 1912 s Bennell, A Herbert 183 1905 Congdon, Walter B 61 1906 Biddle, Edward M 66 1912 s Conover, Boardman 185 1893 s Billings, Oliver C 136 1908 s Constantian, Constantme M 173 1886 Bishop, Louis B 7 1945 Converse, Roger W , Jr 121 1897 Bissell, Shelton 29 1912 s Cooney, Lloyd S 185 1905 Bodman, George M 61 1913 Cor-dier, Auguste J 95 1908 s Bosworth, Arthur H 173 1888 Covell, Henry H 9 1898 s Bosworth, Cyrus I 150 1894 s Cox, Edward V 137 1900 Bower, Ernest T 41 1908 Crocker, Templeton 204 1910 Bowers, Thomas W 84 1894 Cruttenden, Walter B 21 1912 s Bradley, Clarence I 183 1897 Curtis, Melville G 31 1910 s Brewster, William E 178 1906 Curtis, Sidney B 68 1898 s Broatch, Robert E 150 1904 Curtiss, Colman 58 1912 Brown, Cyril 89 1913 Brown, S Kennedy 94 1905 Darby, William T 62 * s indicates the Sheffield Scientific School, je, the School of Engineering, no designation is used for graduates of Yale College 216 Yale University Obituary Record

Class Page Class Page 1899 s Day, Osborne A 153 1894 Gallup, Fred D 22 1900 s Dean, Edward Clarence 155 1927 s Gano, C William 200 1918 s Dean, Howard B 194 1890 Gedney, George W 13 1917 Dempsey, John C 101 1912 Gifford, Stanley E 90 1894 s Disbecker, Harry P 138 1905 Gleason, Fred E 63 1886 s Doane, John Edwin 129 1904 Goetchius, Morgan 58 1884 Doolittle, Julius T A 5 1924 Goldsborough, Laird Shields 113 1922 Doolittle, Mortimer L 109 1907 Gooden, B Parks 74 1903 Draper, Trusten P 54 1910 s Goodwin, Charles 179 1909 Dnscoll, Arthur G 82 1891 s Gregory, Henry W 133 1900 _s Dudley, G Walter 155 1899 Guthrie, Keith O 38 1947 Easmgwood, Albert E 122 1877 s il, John E M 124 1913 Easton, Edward R 95 1910 s Hall, Kenneth S 179 1883 j5 Eastwick, Edward P , Jr 126 1883 Ham, Clifford D 4 1894 Eaton, George F 22 1907 J; Hamilton, Floyd L 171 1901 Ehason, Eldridge L 46 1891 s Hamilton, W Pierson 134 1903 Ellsworth, Bradford 54 1888 Hand, Alfred 10 1900 Ellsworth, Henry E 42 1915 s Handy, Seth C 190 1906 Embree, Edwin R 68 1896 s Hanson, Howell Ross 145 1913 s English, Harold K 188 1905 Hardway, Edward V 63 1889 s Everest, Edward 132 1899 ^ Harrison, Frederick B 154 1882 s Event, Richard L 125 1904 s Hartshorne, Douglas R 161 1907^ Hastings, Rolland M 171 1906 Finley, Harold M 69 1884 £ Hawley, Samuel B 128 1892 Fish, Wilbur P 16 1891 s Herron, John W 134 1906 Flmn, A Rex 70 1947(Mar ) Hershman, Peter I 123 1899 s Flint, Robert P 154 1898 £ Hess, James 151 1902 Flora, Charles P 49 1905 s Hilditch, Warren W 165 1895 s Folks, Richard H 141 1911 Hille, Henry M 87 1933 s Foster Frank F 201 1921s Hmes, Ralph J 198 1909 s Fox, William L 176 1919 Hoff, Charles S 106 1897 s Francis, J D Perry 147 1899 Holland, Nelson C 39 1919 Fravell, James E G 105 1914 Holt, Thomas G 98 1900 Frederick, Charles H 43 1918 Hoogland, Benjamin T 105 1906 Freeman, Mason A , Jr 1914 j; Hopson, William H 189 1918 s Frost, Reginald R 195 1926 Horsfield, Thomas G 114 1911 s Fuller, Myron E 182 1912^ Howe, Spaulding 186 1907^ Hubbell, Jay H 207 1875 s Gager, Luther H 124 1894 Hulburt, Charles N 23 Index 217

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1892 s Hunt, Henry D 135 1911 Lynch, Joseph M 88 1892 Huntington, D Trumbull 16 1902 Lyon, Walter L 49 1903 Hurst, George S 55 1901 s Hyde, William A 156 1896 McClenahan, Robert S 27 1928 Hynson,, William G , Jr 115 1906 McClintock, Wilson S 71 1898 s McEwen, Lewis C 151 1897 Ilfeld, Louis C 31 1921 McGill, Earle L 108 1910 s McNally, Frederick L 180 1947 Jackson, Arthur E 123 1898 McQuaid, Paul A 36 1892 Jay, Pierre 17 1941 Mai lory, John H , Jr 121 1904 s Jeck, Howard S 162 1879 Maltzberger, Henry 3 1887 Jennings, Charles B 8 1897 Manice, Arthur R 32 1895 s Johnson, Alexander 142 1886 s Marlm, Mahlon H 130 1922 Jones, Joseph P 109 1923 Matthiessen, Francis O 110 1894 Jones, Lawrence B 24 1904 Meech, Harold M 59 1893 Joy, Homer T 19 1920 s Mendel, William 197 1888 Merwin, Duncan S 12 1899 Kellogg, Macintosh 39 1894 s Messier, Eugene L 139 1901 s Kellogg, Raymond M 157 1907 Miller, Edwin C 75 1917 Kellogg, Sanford B 102 1894 s Miller, James H 140 1905 s Kennedy, Joseph W 166 1896 s Miller, Otto 145 1928 Kennedy, Raymond 115 1945 e Millstone, Edgar D 203 1910 s Kerr, Albert 180 1911 s Minor, Pierpont L 182 1894 s Keyser, W Irvine 138 1899 Mitchell, George H 40 1890 s Kirschner, Charles L 132 1903 Moore, Charles Arthur 56 1909 Kluepfel, Roland W 83 1894 Mosman, Oliver C 24 1904 s Knight, Harold 162 1901 s Moss, Benton C 157 1933 Knight, Richard vanDyck 119 1922 s Muhlfelder, J Eugene 198 Murphy, F Sugden 1912 Kreider, D Robert 90 1929 117

1905 Lawrance, Charles L 64 1897 s Neithercut, Richard I 148 1899 Lawrence, Thomas F 40 1914 Newberry, Phelps 99 1899 Learned, Ebenezer 204 1883 s Newell, John E 126 1897 Leavenworth, Charles S 32 1912 s Nichols, John B 207 1894 s Lee, Frank 139 1909 s Nimick, Alexander 177 1917 Leslie, Harold S 103 1928 Norcross, Hiram, Jr 116 1888 Leverett, Theodore L n 11 1888 s Norton, Elbert E 131 1907 Lincoln, Nathan E 75 1900 s Lockwood, Charles D 156 1906 Ogle, George B 72 1914 Lord, George deForest 98 1900 Ogle bay, Crispin 43 213 Yale University Obituary Record

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1904 Olmsted, John 60 1866 £ Rudd, A Holley 130 1904 _s O'Meara, William J 163 1901 £ Rudd, Charles E 158 1916 s Ryan, Willing W 191 1912 Pangburn, Clifford H 91 1884 Par dee, Charles L 6 1882 Scudder, Charles L 3 1907 s Park, Roswell 172 1904 s Seagrave, Walter H 164 1909 s Parker, James, 3d 177 1914 Seddon, Scott 100 1907 s Peck, John Sherman 172 1908 s Shea, John W 175 1908 s Peck, Joseph A 174 1907 Sheldon, Ernest W 76 1898 Peck, William Hazen 36 1897 Sheldon, Porter F 33 1912 Perry, Henry E 92 1884 Shelton, Henry T 6 1919 s Peters, James W 196 1887 Sheppard, Walter B 9 1887 Pettee, George D 8 1908 s Shubert, George W 175 1897 Pfmgst, George B 33 1908 Sieber, Joseph B 81 1894 Phelps, Ansel 25 1906 s Simmons, Lawrence A 169 1925 Phillips, James A , Jr 114 1902 Simonds, Ralph M 50 1897 s Pike, William K 148 1911 Simpson, Archer R 89 1910 Platt, J Curtis 86 1900 Smith, David Stanley 45 1912 s Prann, Raymond W 187 1893 s Smith, Edward O 137 1897 s Pratt, Harold H 149 1903 Smith, George A 57 1892 Price, Prank Julian 18 1940 e Smith, George I 203 1902 s Price, William B 159 1932 Smyth, William 118 1898 s Spaldmg, Clarence G 152 1904 s Rafferty, Charles D 163 1915 Spencer, Wilford L 100 1920 s Rakatzky, Arch F 208 1905 s Stannard, E Tappan 167 1883 s Randall, William S 127 1909 Stokes, Horace W 84 1899 Rastall, Ernest S 41 1923 Storrs, Cleveland H 111 1909 Raymond, Franklyn T 83 1907 Stowe, Alfred L 76 1929 Raymond, Joseph J 118 1916 Stuart, Walter 101 1908 Rees, Gomer H 80 1897 Studin, Charles H 34 1902 s Reynolds, Baxter 159 1916 j Sullivan, Leo G 191 1898 s Reynolds, Robert D 151 1895 s Richards, Lewis C 142 1894 Taylor, Andrew S 25 1903 Richardson, Roland G D 56 1908^ Taylor, William W 175 1900 Riggs, Pliny S 44 1902 Tenney, John F 51 1906 Rinke, Arthur W 72 1920 Thomas, Philip H 107 1905 s Roberts, Harold M 167 1928 Thomas, William B , Jr 117 1894 s Rogers, Alexander P 141 1896 Thompson, Frederick M 28 1898 Rogers, L Harding, Jr 37 1908 Thornton, James C 205 1909 s Roth, Roswell J 178 1898 s Thrall, George C 152 Index 219

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1895 s Todd, Francis H 143 1913 Warren, Henry P , Jr 96 1908 Townsend, James M 81 1905 Washburn, John R 65 1910 s Traer, Charles S 181 1907 Waterman, Ira D 78 1891 Treadwell, Alhene W 14 1881 s Watson, Robert W 125 1922 Tucker, E Woodford 110 1940 Weeks, John M 120 1902 Tucker, W Gaylord 51 1894 Welch, Harry L 26 1907 Tully, Thomas A 77 1889 Wells, Hubert W 12 1901 Twichell, Burton P 47 1902 Welsh, John J 52 1896 Weston, George C 28 1916 s Uhlenhaut, Fritz 192 1906 Whitcomb, Henry F , Jr 73 1927 s Wilcox, John P 201 1893 Vaile, Harry S 19 1893 Wile ox, Walter D 20 1921 s Vivier, Pieter J 208 1884 s Willets, Elmore A 128 1878 s Vhet, William Annm 124 1912 Woodruff, A Allen 92 1916 £ Vondersmith, Philip G 193 1915 s Woodruff, Stevens 190 1894 Woodruff, William W , Jr 26 1923 Wade, Festus J , Jr 112 1913 Woodward, William F 97 1919 s Wadhams, John M , 3d 197 1916 s Walker, Robert T 193 1906 ^ Zaragoza, Elias 207 1920 Walters, Harold W S 107 FORMS OF BEQUEST N answer to many inquiries from alumni and friends of the University who I plan to remember Yale in their wills, the following forms are suggested (GENERAL) I give and bequeath to Yale University, a corporation existing under and by virtue of a charter granted by the General Assembly of the Colony and State of Connecticut, and located in the Town of New Haven in said State, Dollars, to be used (or, the income to be used) at the discretion of the Corporation of said University.

(SPECIFIC) I give and bequeath to Yale University, a corporation existing under and by virtue of a charter granted by the General Assembly of the Colony and State of Connecticut, and located in the Town of New Haven in said State, . . Dollars, to be used (or, the income to be used) for the following purposes: (Here specify the purposes for which the bequest—or the income therefrom—is to be used.)

(It is strongly recommended that a competent lawyer be employed to prepare the will and to supervise its execution in order to comply with all the requirements of the law of the state in which the maker of the will resides It is also wise to give the University considerable latitude in the use of any fund so that a change of circumstances may not impair the usefulness of the gift. The Treasurer of the University will be glad upon request to review the phrasing of any proposed form of bequest)