Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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'rim YA1.1f: SlllNtil.l'2. 29 JESSE WALLEN CHAIN was born in North Carolina, May 5, 1868, and has spent most of his time since that epoch-marking event in East Tennessee. His father is Lewis Crain, an agriculturalist. His blood is English. He graduated from Tusculum and Carson Colleges. PIARRY IRWIN CROMER was born May 13, 1865, at Albia, Iowa., and has lived in Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Colorado and South Dakota. His father is Geo. vV. Cromer, harness maker and brick manufacturer. His blood is English, German and Scotch. All of his relatives are justly distinguished for being fairly hon-- est, notwithstanding the Bohemian life some of them have led, he his the lirst with legal aspirations. He resigned the position of Ofhcial Stenographer of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of South Dakota, which he held for three years, to study law. He went to the Kent Law School of Chicago, but left it for Yale, the former being, in his opinion, more practical, while the latter he considered better for him as being more theoretical. 4 W1L1.1AM 'IIIIAW DENNISTON was born at Pittsburgh, Penn., May 2, 1873, and has since resided there. John Thaw Denniston, his father, is General Account- ing Ofhcer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. His blood is French, Scotch and Norse, and can be traced to the sixteenth century. He graduated from Shady Side Academy and went one year to the Western University of Pennsylvania, and two years to the Lycee Du Havre, at Havre, France. I-Ie stood hrst in his class at Shady Side Academy and took six honors of unknown character at the Lyeee.

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28 'l'lIl'l YALE SIIINULE. father, A. R. 'Clark, is too strong to work. He traces Irish blood Qof which he is very proudj for one generation. Many Clarks related to him are well known and famous. After attending several prepar- atory schools at home, he entered the Shehcield Scien- tific School, which he was obliged to leave on account of his health, after two years. M.x1a'1'1N CoN1.oN was born at New Haven, Conn., July 19, 1862, and has since lived there. His father, Patrick C. Conlon, was an engineer, and his blood is thoroughly Irish. For six years he has held public ofhces of diderent kinds in New Haven. IIQIIOMAS Dimkis COUI.'1'Eli was born January 1 1, 1873, in New York, since residing at Essex and Saybrook, Conn. His father, James Coulter, has retired from active life, but was formerly an Alderman, Police Justice, and member of the New York Legislature. llis blood is Scotch and English, and he traces his ancestry back two centuries. He attended Morgan School at Clinton, Conn. I-IowARD Ailmaosle Cousls, was born at Girard, Penn., August 17, 1871, and has since lived in Tidi- oute. His father, A. W. Couse, is a bank cashier. On one side he traces his ancestors about two cen- turies. German, Scotch, Welsh and Dutch blood 11nited to produce his strain. After preparing at home, he graduated at Alleghany College in 1891, with honors which he is too modest to enumerate. Ile was a telegraph operator and a bank cashier for a year before entering the Law School.

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3Q Tllli YALE SIIINULIC. Rom: FR,xNc1s DoNovAN was born in New Haven, Conn., February 1, 1872, and has made that place his home. His father, Jeremiah C. Donovan, is a gro- cer. He readily traces his ancestry to Ireland, where his ancestors lived. He attended the Hillhouse High School before entering the Law School. His famous relatives will be posthumous as to himself. VV111:AToN FAYl'I'1 1'li Down was born at New Hart- ford, Conn., August 21, 1867, and has lived in Hart- ford, Bristol and Litchheld. His father, Alfred M. Dowd, was partner in a printing concern. He traces his ancestry several generations back to I1'ish and English sources. His only distinguished relative is his father, who owes his celebrity to his son. IIAROLD IQIGGS DULQANT was born in New Haven, January 13, 1871, and has led a wandering life since, living in nearly all the eastern cities of importance. F. A. Durant, his father, is a hotel proprietor. The blood of all nations Hows in and out of his veins. His most distinguished relative was lynched by Vigi- lantes for too much business astuteness. He traces his ancestry to the serpent in the garden of Eden. 'IIIIOMAS FRANCIS FARRIQL1, was born at Webster, Mass., August 22, 1868. His father, Thomas Far- rell, has retired from business. He traces his Irish ancestry about ten generations, losing the line in the bogs of Ireland and the fogs of time. He went to Exeter before coming to Yale, and taught school for four years.