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

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Tllli YALIC SllINGl.I'I. 33 being English and French. Among innumerable noted relatives, a French Marquis and Marshal are named. He attended Harrow School, England, and Koniglicke Polytechniche Hochschulc von Har- mover, Deutchland. l'flARMON S11r:1.11oN Gimvus lirst breathed the breath of life in Cambridge, N. Y., on October 4, 1870, and now lives in Burlinton, Vt. His father, Rev. G. Graves, was Superintendent of the Public Schools at one time. He traces his English and Scotch blood to the settlement of America. Chief Justice Chase and Bishop Bissell he considers his most distinguished relatives. After preparing at the Burlington'Irligh School, he graduated from Trinity in 1892, with many football honors. GEOl1Cll'I E1,1s111x H1x1.1. was born in New llaven, Conn., May IO, 1870, and has since lived in Wolver- ha1npton, England, Pittsburgh, New Britain, VVater- bury and New Haven. His father, Elisha Hall, is a model-maker and inventor. His ancestors have left no traces, but their blood was unadulterated English. The Bard of Avon was his only distinguished rela- tive. tHe has' failed to explain the discrepancy apparent in two of the foregoing statementsj He graduated by request and herein lie his honors. He has been a machinist, draughtsman and designer, as well as foreman of a machine shop. IU11soN S. HA1.1. was born in Meriden, Conn., March 30, 1866. His father, Seth I. Hall, is a lead- ing business man of that place, and has held many

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32 'l'lIli YALE SIIINULE. Among distinguished relatives he numbers G. W. C. Nobles of Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1891, receiving the degree of B. A. mm !zzzuz'c. He has held the ofhce of Alderman in New London. lJIERl'ON'l' FU1.1,1c1a was born in New Haven, June 25, 1869. His father is Austin B. Fuller, a physi- cian. He traces his ancestry to the hull of the May- flower, and Anglo-Saxon blood rushes through his organism. He went to the New York Law School for one year. He is decorated with a B. A. degree from Yale in 1892.. Jo C1..x1uaNc1-: Goomnxx was born at Columbia, Ohio, February 26, 1873. His father, Jacob Good- man, is a jeweller. His blood is a combination of German, French and Spanish, and he can trace his ancestors four generations back. He graduated from the Columbus High School in 1890, and then went to the Ohio State University. He attended the Law School of that institution for a while. Glconur: FAUVEI. GOUllfXUIl was born in New York, June 25, 1872, and has lived in America, Eng- land, France, Germany and Belgium. His father, Colonel George E. Gouraud, a financier, formerly of the United States Army, was once Inspector-General of Cavalry, and Honorary Commissioner to the Paris Electrical Exposition of 1876. He is a lineal descend- ant of Colonel Jackson of the First Congress, and of the squires of Leicestershire, England. On the male side he traces his ancestry to Charlemagne, his blood

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34 Tllli VALIC SIIINGLI-1. public positions, as that of State Senator, as well as many private offices of trust a11d honor. His family came from Normandy inthe eleventh century, pre- sumably with or after VVilliam the Conqueror, and formerly had the aristocratic territorial prefix de before their name, which was Halle then. '1'hirty of the leading Connecticut pioneers, including Governors and what not, are numbered among his ancestors. His blood is English with one excep- tion, Bacon from Ireland in I64O.H He went to the Meriden High School, and afterwards to Cornell and Columbia, studying languages and belies lvlfzws under a private tutor. lI1f:1us151i'1' W11.1,1,xx1 H1xi11.1N, was born December 3, 1870, at Chicago, Ill. His father, John A. Hamlin, is the proprietor of the Grand Opera House in that city. He traces his ancestry to Hclengone, and Eng- lish, Irish, French and Hot-Scotch blood flows in his veins. Preparing at the Harvard School in Chicago, he graduated from the Shefheld Scientihe School in 1892, with the degree of Ph. B., Hllllfgfllillllu rum fum !azm'c. 'I'11oMAs W1ss'1' HARDY was born at San Jose, Cal., January 22, 1869. His father, W. B. Hardy, is an attorney-at-law and has held the office of city attorney and recorder, and is now ax ojicio treasurer of the Hardy family. He traces his ancestry to the moss- backs, and, on examination of his red corpuscles, Ends traces of Hibernian and Semitic blood. Admiral Hardy and the late lamented Mr. Crowley of Central Park were the most celebrated of his relatives.