George Washington University Law School - Class Book Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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A meeting of the Class was held june 5, 1897. A resolution vacating the office of President and declaring SAMUEL CARROLL FORD to be the ' President of the Class of'97 was introducedg a second resolution directed the insertion of this notice in the Class-book. Both ofthe resolutions were adopted by a unanimous vote. ,

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the class banquet in '96. Expects to take the Post-Graduate course at Columbian and possibly a special course. Prefers Corporation or Patent Law, ' Is a member of the Ohio Republican Association, Columbia Athletic Club and Kappa Sigma fraternity. FRANK M. BENJAMIN, Treasurer. Francis Moulton Benjamin Was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873, in ISQO moved to W'ashington, where he obtained a position in the odice of a Well-known attorney, and is there employed at the present time. While in Cincinnati he held a responsible position in the Equitable National Bank. WILLIAM F. WOOLARD, Historian. William Francis Woolard, of Fairfield, Ill., son of Francis M. and Margaret CCrevvsD Woolard, was born at Lawrenceville, Ill., March 5, 1865, and has resided at Fairheld since 1867. For five generations his paternal ancestors lived in North Carolina, they being among the earliest English settlers in the colony. He was educated in private and public schools of the State, graduated from Hayward College, and attended the Scientific School, Columbian University, 1886-85 appointed a clerk in the Interior Department under the Civil Service lavv, in August, 1884, and is novv a Second Assistant Examiner in the Patent Oiiice, having been appointed on the examining corps of that office in July, 1891. Although born a Democrat, he is a Republican by instinct and education 5 is a Metho- dist, and married. Belongs to the order of Sons of Veterans. 241

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