St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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Tuscarora. At the termination of this cruise Lieutenant Voorhees was ordered to the Naval Academy at Annap- olis as Assistant Instructor in Steam Engineering. In February, 1868, he resigned his commission in the Navy, renewed his law studies and was admitted to the Mary- land bar. After a short service in the Examining Depart- ment of the Patent Oiiice, he practiced patent law in Washington, D: C., and then in New York, where he soon obtained a large and remunerative practice. THE REv. JOHN P. HYDE, D. D., LL. D. ' CLASS '57. Rev. John Poisal Hyde, A. M., D. D., LL. D., was born in Annapolis, Md., January 31, 1836. His ancestors for several generations were prominently and honorably associated with the various business interests of that city. Dr. Hyde was graduated from St. Iohnls College in 1857 with the first honors of his class. At iirst he studied medicine, but, his health being impaired, he accepted the position as principal of Front Royal Academy, Va. Whilst thus engaged, he diligently pursued a theological course, and linally entered the Baltimore Conference of the M. E. Church South, receiving, in 1869, his first regular appointment at the hands of Bishop Simpson. After the war he took charge of Sonvah College, at Mar- tinsburg, Va., but was soon thereafter called to the Presi- dency of the Valley Female College, a position which he has retained till the p1'CSf-mt time. HoN. SOMERVILLE PINKNEY TUCK, M. A., LL. D. CLASS '62, Mr. S. P. Tuck, the son of Hon. William Tuck, was born September 24th, 18485 was educated at St. john's College, and, having graduated there, attended the Uni- versity of Virginia from which he was graduated in 1869. He studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to practice in the Maryland Appellate Court in I87I, and in the New York Supreme Court in the following year. From 1882-85 Mr. Tuck was an Alabama Claims Com- missioner. In 1888 President Cleveland appointed him Assistant Commissioner-General to the Paris Exposition. He was appointed February, 1894, judge of the Inter- national Court, Alexandria, Egypt, and received from his alma mczler the degree of LL. D. the same year. Mr. Tuck is now Vice-President of the St. johns Alumni Association. THE RT. REV. CLELAND Krxrocn NELSON, D. D. CLASS y'f2. Bishop Nelson, the great grandson of General Thomas Nelson, ex-Governor of Virginia, was born near Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia, May 23rd, 1852. Having graduated at St. johns College in 1872. he received theological instruction partly from his uncle. the Rev. C. K. Nelson, D. D., and partly from the Berk- eley Divinity School at Middletown, Conn. He was

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