#t>LLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD OF YALE GRADUATES 1923-1924 NEW HAVEN PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY TWENTIETH SERIES • AUGUST 1. 1024. • NUMBER TWENTY-TWO 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 3 2, 1918. The BULLETIN, which is issued semi-monthly, includes: 1 The University Catalogue. 2. The Reports of the President and Treasurer. 3 The Catalogues of the several Schools. 4. The Alumni Directory and the Quinquennial Catalogue. 5. The Obituary Record. YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES DECEASED DURING THE YEAR ENDING JULY i, 1924 INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY, HITHERTO UNREPORTED NUMBER 4 OF THE EIGHTH PRINTED SERIES AND NUMBER 83 OF THE WHOLE RECORD THE PRESENT SERIES CONSISTS OF FIVE NUMBERS NEW HAVEN PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1924 YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD YALE COLLEGE William Augustus Reynolds, B.A. 1852. Born August 23,1833, in New Haven, Conn. Died May 18, 1922, in London, England. Father, William Augustus Reynolds, a lawyer; son of Hezekiah and Martha Davenport (Wolcott) Reynolds; great-grandson of Thomas Goodsell (B.A. 1724^ and of Alexander Wolcott (B.A. 1731); descendant of the Rev. Abraham Pierson, the first president of Yale. Mother, Jane D. (Lynde) Reynolds; daughter of John Hart Lynde (B.A. 1796) and Elizabeth Deall (Nicoll) Lynde; granddaughter of William Lynde (B.A. 1760); great-granddaughter of the Rev. William Hart (B.A. 1732); great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Blague (B.A. 1714) and of the Rev. John Hart (B.A. 1703); descendant of Stephen Hart, who emigrated from Braintree, Essex County, England, to Massachusetts about 1632, moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1635, and was one of the settlers of Farmington, Conn., a few years later. Yale relatives include: Rev. Benjamin Lord (B.A. 1714), and Elijah Blague (B.A. 1750) (great-great-great-uncles); John Hart (B.A. 1771) and the Rev. Frederick W. Hotchkiss (B.A. 1778) (great-great-uncles); Thomas G. Wolcott (B.A. 1783) (great-uncle); and the following cousins: Ebenezer and Joseph Lord (B.A. 1753), Lynde Harrison (LL.B. i860), William L. Harrison, ^-'87 S., and Paul W. Harrison (LL.B. 1896). _ ^ General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute, New Haven. Scholar of the House for three years; Latin oration appointment Junior year; first Berkeley and Clark scholarships Senior year; salutatonan; member Phi Beta Kappa. 991 992 Obituary Record Taught Greek at General Russell's school 1852-53; admitted to degree of B.A., ad eundem, at Trinity College, Hartford, 1853; had charge of the classics department in the Friends School, Haverford, Pa., 1853-55; studied philology at Yale 1855-57; conducted a private school m Philadelphia 1857-1861, was engaged in tutoring and writing in London for a few months during 1862, afterwards taught in Eltham, Kent, England, returning to the United States in September, 1862, lived in Pans from 1863 to 1891, serving as professor of the English language and literature in the Lycee St. Louis from 1871 to 1891, and also being connected with the Lycee de Vauves at Issy; Fellow of the University of France since 1871 y had lived in London since his retirement from teaching in 1891, devoting his time mainly to the study of Sanskrit; author of several textbooks on Sanskrit and early English, and of a guide for field walks around London; member Roman Catholic Church, belonged to the Carmelite Order, being known as "Brother Joseph of St. Teresa'*; attended the Church of St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, where he served as an acolyte for fifteen years; secretary of the Class of 1852 from 1852 to 1854. Married September 16, 1854, in New York City, Rosalie, daughter of the Marquis Alexandre F. deBelen, of Mons, Belgium. No children. Mrs. Reynolds died July 30, 1911. Death due to apoplexy, complicated with bronchial pneumonia. Interment in the Cemetery of St. Mary, Kensal Green Survived by a sister, Mrs. Henry Hamilton Finley, and a niece, Mrs Edward Russell Thomas, both of whom live in New York City. Augustus Hall Walker, B.A. 1856. Born December 22, 1833, in Fryeburg, Maine. Died June 16, 1923, in Bndgton, Maine. Father, Capt. Isaac Walker, a farmer in Stow, Maine; took an active part in the affairs of the town, serving on the Board of Selectmen; connected with the military affairs of the state; son of James and Olive (Charles) Walker; descend- ant of Capt. Richard Walker, who came from England to Yale College 993 Lynn, Mass., in 1630. Mother, Eliza (Colby) Walker; daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Evans) Colby; descendant of Anthony Colby, who came from England to Boston in 1630. Bridgton Academy; attended Bowdoin College for two years (1852-54) before entering Yale as a Junior in 1854. Member Delta Kappa Epsilon. Studied law for two years (1856-58) in Lovell and Portland, Maine, under David R. Hastings, William P. Fessenden, and Moses M. Butler, all graduates of Bowdoin; admitted to the bar in 1858; practiced law in Anoka, Minn., from 1858 until the summer of 1859, when he was called home by the fatal illness of his only brother; opened an office in Fryeburg in i860 and practiced law there until the fall of 1861; then moved to Lovell and practiced there until 1881 (in partnership with David R. Hastings for two years); served as aide-de- camp to Major General William Wirt Virgin, under a state commission, in 1862; appointed judge of probate of Oxford County by the Governor and Council in 1867 (reflected in 1871 and 1875); moved to Bridgton in 1881 and continued in practice until 1919 [in 1893 his nephew, Edward Colby Walker (B.S. University of Maine 1878), became associated with him under the firm name of A. H. & E. C. Walker, and after 1905 Mr. Joseph B. Pike was associated with them under the firm name of Walker & Pike]; member of the State Senate 1881-83; president Bridgton Savings Bank 1892- 1923; member board of directors Fidelity Trust Company of Portland 1910-1923; trustee Fryeburg Academy; attended the First Congregational Church, Bridgton. Married (1) October 1, 1863, in Bangor, Maine, Mary Ehzabeth, daughter of Samuel and Charlotte (Goodale) Thurston. One daughter, Alice Thurston (died in childhood). Mrs. Walker died February 16, 1873. Married (2) November 16, 1881, in Lovell, Mrs. Emma Thurston Wood, a sister of his first wife. No children by the second marriage. Mrs. Walker died December 23, 1921. Death due to arteno-sclerosis. Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor. Survived by a nephew, Charles Edward Abbott, and a grandniece, Elizabeth Walker Ingalls (Mrs. Ralph M. Ingalls), of Portland, Maine. 994 Obituary Record Stephen Decatur Doar, B.A. 1857. Born in January, 1838, in St. James, S. C. Died January 29, 1923, in McClellanville, S. C. Father, Stephen Duvall Doar, a rice planter; son of John and Mary (Doar) Doar; descendant of John Doar, who came to America from Holland in the eighteenth century and settled at St. James, Santee, S. C. Mother, Charlotte Ann (Cordes) Doar; daughter of Dr. Samuel Cordes, a graduate of a medical school in Philadelphia, and Mary (Smith) Cordes; descendant of Dr Antoine Cordes, who came to America from France in 1680 and settled in St. Stephen's Parish, S. C. Coats and Miles School, Charleston, S. C; Charleston High School. Entered Yale in July, 1854, as a Freshman; second colloquy appointment Junior year; member Alida Boat Club and Alpha Delta Phi; one of the Cochleaureati. Studied at Medical College of SoutfiXarolina 1857-1860 (M D. i860); spent the next year in Paris, in further medical study; joined the Confederate Army in November, 1861, as a member of Captain Pinckney's Company of the Santee Mounted Riflemen; subsequently became Assistant Surgeon in Colonel Chngman's Regiment of North Carolina Infantry and served on the coast of South Carolina and in Virginia; transferred to Thornton's Battery, as Surgeon, Virginia Artillery^ and served in that capacity until 1864, when he was ordered to take charge of the smallpox hospital at Wilming- ton, N. C; remained there until the capture of Fort Fisher and the evacuation of Wilmington; surrendered with rest of army on April 26, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C; engaged in rice planting with his father, who had large interests on the Santee River, at the same time practicing medicine without remuneration; moved to McClellanville, S. C, in 1878 and practiced his profession there and in the surrounding country until a few weeks before his death; vestryman and warden, St. James* Episcopal Church, St. Paul's Parish, Santee, during the greater part of his life. Married (1) May 22, 1862, in Grahamville, S. C, Sarah Virginia, daughter of Dr. Thomas Edwards Screven and Cornelia (McNash) Screven. No children. Mrs. Doar died Tale College 995 September 8, 1864. Married (2) April 4, 1866, in Charleston, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher John and Jane Elizabeth (Screven) Gadsden. Eight children: Charlotte Cordes (Mrs. George D. Shore, of Sumter, S. C.); Harriet Gadsden (died October 19, 1903); Sarah Screven (died in infancy); Jane Screven; Stephen Duvall (died in infancy); Christopher Gadsden (died in infancy); Percival Ashe (died in infancy); and James Cordes (died in childhood). Mrs. Doar died December 1, 1882. Married (3) April 14, 1885, in Charleston, Harriott Rutledge, daughter of John and Ellen (Boylston) Toomer. No children. Death due to heart trouble and pneumonia. Interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery in St.