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

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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-

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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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'mic v.x1.14: SI-I lNo1,ic. 43 missioner. His blood is English, and his descent from the Massachusetts Bay Colony can be traced. He attended Rockland College. Ro1s1':R'1' VVRIUIIT was born at Oldham, England. August 19, 1867, living since in Hartford, Conn. His father was Robert Wright, now deceased. His blood is pure English and can be traced for four or live generations. He received a common school education. An examination of the names of our class will show that those of George Preston Breckenridge and George Redington Montgomery are the longest, each requiring twenty-live letters for a full signature. Loren Pinckney Wzildo Marvin, who rejoices in a greater number of names than any of the rest of us, is second, with twenty-four. Morgan and Finlay have the shortest names, eleven letters sullicing lor them, while, Conlon and VVright come next with a dozen each. 'l'he venerable Callahan, of martial fame, is the patriarch of the class, with Foster second. The close of the Civil War witnessed the birth of several of us, while many more were born before the encl of the seventh decade of this century. Sher- wood is the youngest man in the 'classy he will be just old enough for admission to the bar exactly one year from commencement. Adams is but a month and two days older than the infant, with Merritt following him in the race of the juveniles. Those under legal disability owing to age are quite numerous.