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

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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.

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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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Tllli YALE SIIINULIC. 31 H Alain' Einoixlz Fisiuus was born at South Norwalk Conn., October 16, 1868. For the last twelve years he has made Rowayton, Conn., his home. His father, Samuel I-I. Ferris, is a farmer. His ancestry, of Norman French blood, can be traced to the Nor- man Conquest. He attended the New York Law School for a year, but acted under the advice of friends, and changed to Yale. Y Picncv F1N1,1xv was born at Memphis, Tenn., July 15, 1872. His father, Luke W. Finlay, is a lawyer. His blood is chieliy Scotch and Irish. After prepar- ing at home, he came to Yale and graduated in 1892. W11,1,1A1x1 Fiusoisiucic Fosricn was born in London, England, September 16, 1851, and has spent the greater part of his life in England. He attended the Harris School, Brighton, England, afterwards going to Christ's College, Finckley. His father is William Francis Foster. HA1a1usoN BARBER FREEMAN was born in Hartford, Conn., August 22, 1869. His father, Harrison B. Freeman, a lawyer, is Judge of Probate in Hartford. His blood is bright red and dull red, arterial and venous. He prepared at the Hartford High School and graduated from Yale in 1892. RICIIARD PATRICK FREEMAN, Jr., was born at New London, Conn., April 24, 1869. His father, of the same name, is a hotel proprietor. His ancestry, of English, Scotch and Irish blood, can be traced to a hero tall were heroes thenj of the Revolution.