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

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Tllli YALE SIIINGLIQ. 41 to the Norman Conquest. Taken as a whole, l1is blood is English slightly tinctured by German a11d Italian. Among distinguished relatives, he names two VVilliams and one Walter Prout, General Liprandi, and Adam Smith. He went to a college in Odessa. I.lA1iu1soN Jo11N 'l'131.1.,1f:n was born i11 Central City, Col., September IO, 1869, and has spent his life there and in VVashington, D. C. His father, Henry M. Teller, a lawyer, is Senator from Colorado, and was Secretary of the Interior under Arthur. His blood, representing many nations of Europe, can be traced to I63Q. He prepared at Ritenhouse Academy and Hoplcin's Grammar School, and graduated from Yale in 1892. Jznxnas lflmivcis '1'o1z1mNc1f: was born in Birnnnff- H ham, Conn., April 9, 1872. His father, David Tor- rance, has been Secretary of State, Judge of Common Pleas, Superior, and Supreme Courts. His ancestry, Scotch and French, can be traced to IO66. IQICIIARIJ H1-:NNY 'l'YN1:11 was born at Davenport, Iowa, February IO, 1868. He has spent his life there and at Des Moines. His father, Jonas Tyner, is a farmer. His blood is English and Scotch and can be traced for fourteen generations. He was engaged in some kind of business before coming to Yale. C11AR1.15s Wulsisii first appeared at York, Pa., April 16, 1871. His father, Erastus Weiser, was a lawyer. His greatness does not rest in tl1e bones of a buried

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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

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42 'l'lll'1 YALE SllINGl.li. ancestry. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientihe School in 1892. Honors? Not. The only political office he has Hlled was serving as a repository for the key of a fire alarm box. Lxmics EVblIiE'1 l' W11m:1.1f:11 was born in New Haven, Conn., December 24, 1870. His father, E. S. Wheeler, a manufacturer, is president of the New Haven Wire Manufacturing Company. He traces his ancestry back two hundred and fifty years to emigrants from England. He graduated from the Hillhouse High School, and from Yale in 1892. C111x1u,15s Bo1xR11MAN W1l1'1 rl.Es1cv was born at Auburn, Mass., April 16,1871. He has lived in Oxford, Mass., and New London, Conn. Ezra C. XVhittlesey, his father, was a business man, and once an Assessor. His blood is English and can be traced to the first settlement of Connecticut. I-Ie went to the Bulkeley School in New London, where he received Hnothing special in the way of honors. FRITZ W11.1.1AM W11x 1'1-1 was born in St. Louis, June 30, 1872. His father, James G. Whyte, is a gentleman of leisure. He is unprepared to trace his English and French blood, or give the names of countless distinguished relatives. He attended the University of St. Louis, and took two years in Har- vard. AIQTIIUIQ Huisimno Woon was born October 23, 1870, at Pittsfield, Mass. His father, Edgar M. Wood, is a lawyer, and has been United States Com-