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

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'l'lll'l VALIC SlllNGl.l'I. 39 by the action of the Faculty in abolishing them. Ile studied law one year at that University. .Maries I-iM151:soN O,CONNL3li was born at Chester, Conn., February 4, 1869, and has lived there since. His father, William O'Connor, has retired from busi- ness. His blood is Irish, traceable to his grandfather. As yet, he has no distinguished relatives. He attended the East Greenwich Academy, and was for some time engaged in business. G1+:oRo14: OWEN R1-:D1NGToN was born at Syracuse, N. Y., April 30, 1871. His father, I. C. O. Reding- ton, is a publisher. His ancestry, of English origin, can be traced to 1640, when the first of the name came to America. Preparing at the Syracuse High School, he took two years at Syracuse University, receiving many class and athletic honors. MA'r'r11Ew Aiviimosis REY'NOI,I7S was born at North Bradford, Conn., March IO. 1871, and has since lived in New Haven. His father, Martin Reynolds, was a carriage trimmer. He traces his Irish blood to Ire- land and no farther. He graduated from the Hill- house High School in 1888, valedictorian of his class, and from Yale in 1892, receiving high honors, espec- ially in mathematics. :FRANK VV1uo11'1' S14:vMoUR was born on the morning of August 7, 1871, at Colebrook, Conn., where he spent the first live years of his life, then moving to Winsted. His father, .lohn Seymour, is a carriage

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33 Fllli Y.1Xl.l'l SIIINHLIC. CQICLJRGIC IQEIDINGTON MoN'1'oo1w11e1u' was born at Marash, Turkey, .Tune 17, 1870, and has lived in 'l'urkey, New York, Vermont and Hew Haven. His father, Rev. G. F. Montgomery, was a missionary. He traces his ancestry to the colonists of New ling- land, and his blood is English, Scotch, Irish and French. He prepared for College at St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont, and graduated from Yale in 1892. He has farmed to a small extent,and has served as assistant librarian in New Haven. .'XI.1SliR'1' Am-'oxzo lVlOORl'I, Jr., was born in Oakland, Cal., August 16, 1872. His father is a lawyer, and has been District Attorney for Alameda County for two terms. He can t1'ace his ancestry for ten gener- ations, and his blood is an infusion of Scotch, English and Hibernian. H14:N1w Mouoixx was born August 23, 1871, in Brockport, N. Y. His father, D. S. Morgan, was a manufacturer. His blood is Welsh. He graduated from the New York State Normal School, and attended Cornell for a while, being compelled to leave on account of bad health. Glcokou F1u':1:1:1ueK Mum. was born at Manilla, Ind. December 7, 1868. Cyrus Mull, his father, is a farmer and trader. English, Scotch and German blood Hows in harmonious tide in his veins, and his ancestry can be traced half a dozen generations. He received a degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at De Pauw, where he was deprived of honors and prizes

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40 Tlllgl YALE SIIINGLE. manufacturer. He t1'aces English, Scotch and Irish ancestry to the time of Henry VIII. He prepared for college at the Winsted High School, and gradu- ated from Yale in 1862. AuNo1.1m W1x'1'soN S1114:1nx1AN was born amidst uni- versal rejoicing in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 29, 1373. His father is a coffee merchant in that city. IIe traces his blood to 1560, locating the home of his tribe in Dedham County, Essex, England. In his encyclopedia of distinguished relatives appear the names of many Shermans, Nathaniel Taylor, Isaac Hayes and others without number who have held or declined positions of honor, emolument and trust. IIe attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Among the honors which fell to him were a prize for an essay and tl1e nomination to a fellowship of Columbia College. James Cl.1XIili S111f:1:woo11 was born in Brooklyn, Mass., January 26, 1874. Rev. James M. Sherwood, D. D., an author and editor, is his father. IIC traces his English blood to A. D. 500, to Sherwood forest in Merry England. He attended the Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute and Hopkins Grammar School. AI.l 1ll42Il wVll,l.OUtilI15X' SM1'1'11 was born in Odessa, Russia, September 24, 1870. His home is in Middle- bury, Vt. His father, Timothy D. Smith, physician, was United States Consul at Odessa, and at Galatz, Roumania. On his father's side he traces his blood to the settlement of Massachusettsg on his mother's