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

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44 THE YALE SI'IINGl.1'2. Our homes are scattered over sixteen states and two foreign countries. Connecticut contributes 35- one less than half, New York, QQ Massachusetts, 4, Vermont and Illinois, 3 each, Missouri, Ohio, Penn- sylvania, Tennessee, California, and Iowa, 2 eachg while South Carolina, South Dakota, Maine and Indiana each have a single representative. England and Turkey furnished our two exotics. Our fathers are or were engaged in about thirty different occupations. Nine of them are lawyers, six farmers, five have retired from business, four doctors, and the rest are pursuing vocations of various kinds. Ministers, missionaries, manufacturers, bank- ers, financiers, carpenters, inventors, printers, publishers, editors, harness-makers, jewellers, hotel proprietors, painters, sea captains, oyster dealers and many others are named in the long list. J MEI? ,..,t.N J Q : if 'ffl .P ng - Mr : 'fill' A

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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.

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FORMER MEMBERS. TI-IE NAMES OF THE NEW MEMBERS CAN BE READILY ASCERTAINED BY INSPECTION OF THE PERSONAL SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF EACH MEMBER OF THE CLASS. GIVEN BELOW ARE THE NAMES AND THE FEW FACTS WITHIN OUR KNOWLEDGE CON- CERNING THEM, OF THOSE WHO WERE IN THE CLASS FOR A PART OF THE COURSE, BUT WHO HAVE EITHER ABANDONED THE STUDY OF LAW, OR ARE PURSUING IT ELSEWHERE. OF THESE SOME WERE ONLY NOMINALLY ENROLLED, WHILE OTHERS WERE EARNEST MEN, WHOSE ABSENCE WE SIN- CERELY R EGRET. IANDREW IAe14soN Bix1,1,1u'1', Lehighton, Pa., left us at the end of Junior year, and went to Seattle, Wash., Where he entered the office of Mr. Kiefert, to prepare for admission to the har of that State. JEREMIAII' ROISINSON BEARD answered to his name a few times last year, but soon gave up the study of law and returned to his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. HENRY C1-1EsT1zR BEIIJLEMAN, Easton, Pa., remained with us until the end of the base ball season, during which he did his most effective work-behind the bat.