Harvard Boys High School - Review Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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CLASS of 1898 las. A. Valentine Chas. L. Woodruff Ben H. Iudah Geo. Fernald Clifford G. Wells Philip B. Hosmer Irwin R. Green E. S. Sidley Homer L. Dixon R. S. Kirchberqer Hugh B. Marston Edward Burnham, Ir. Kenneth Locket! Frederic Burnham August Richard Frank Absent: Harry B. French 1895-1900 First motion picture studio organized, Essanay . . . Capt. Anson and play- ers fined 53.00 each for playing ball on Sunday . . . Diphtheria antitoxin . . . First L train around the Loop . . . Spanish War . . . Roosevelt Rough Riders . . . Mr. Dooley . . . The Rosary . . . Horseless carriage appears . . . Motor- cycle race Won at hair raising speed of 54 miles in 10 hrs. 23 minutes . . .P. D. Armour breaks Leiter's wheat corner by breaking through ice with 2,000,000 bushels of wheat. 1895 One of the old boys unearthed last summer via The Saturday Evening Post, was Edgar Rice Burroughs, the small boys' favorite. He is one of the few men in this country who has a post office of his own, Tarzana, California. He has been kind enough to write us the little article which appears in this bulletin. His home address, when not at his ranch, is 719 North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California. The first of the three Lockett boys is Oswald CYale 18991, who lives at 66 Essex Road, Winnetka, has two sons, and has for thirty years been either owner or president of the Lockett Company and manufacturing representative of Grocery Products. One of our teaching alumni is Morton A. Mergentheim CChicago 1899, MA 1900, Northwestern, LL B 19031, who was a professor of Law first at lohn Marshall Law School and then at Northwestern until 1932. He carries on his law practice at 38 South Dearborn. He has one son and one daughter and lives at 411 Fullerton Parkway. Robert E. Stone CYale 18983, President and Treasurer of Robert E. Stone df Co., Insurance, 33 Broad Street, Boston, has three children, and lives at 21 Kilsyth Road, Brookline, Massachusetts. He is a major in the U.S. Marine Reserve. Leon A. Werthheimer sells wholesale seeds at 206 Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. He has two PAGE 30

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ton, Connecticut. Dr. Streeter has three sons and a daughter. lulian Mason, ex '93, lives at Glen Head, Long Island, New York, and is one of the editors of a New York newspaper. He has two children. l894 We heard of Wallace D. Kimball, who was lost, through his nephew, Sears Wait, a recent graduate. Mr. Kimball is first vice-president in charge of production at the Standard Knapp Corporation, Long Island, New York, and lives at 3439 87th Street, lackson Heights. He has one daughter and three granddaughters. His summer home is Tall Timber, at Orange, Virginia. Walter G. Zimmerman CMlT 18983 lives in Hinsdale and is the contracting manager ot the American Bridge Company, and a member ot the Chicago Engineers Club, American Society oi Civil Engineers, and the Western So- ciety ot Engineers. Walter Byron Smith lYale l899l is a director ot the Nor- thern Trust Co. Bank. He lives in Lake Forest. Boy McWilliams has tor many years been an American consul in the south of France, department of Basses Pyrenees. lohn W. Walsh, formerly in the railway business, now lives at Bloomington, Illinois. Francis E. Drake CYale l899l lives at Stalheim Farm, Bye Beach, New Hampshire. He has three children and has just celebrated his tortieth wedding anniversary. He spent nine of his early years in the school. De Witt Wheeler Buchanan, ex '94, CPurdue l898l is president of the Old Ben Coal Corporation, 23l South La Salle Street, Chicago. He lives in Lake Forest and has two daughters besides the son who once attended the Harvard School. CLASS oi 1897 Herbert P. Zimmerman Francis Baldwin E. D. Mandel Robert C. Hosmer E. F. Kirchberger M. R. Rothschild Elmer Schlesinger Frederick W. Renshaw Norman LeVally PAGE Z9

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daughters, and lives at 610 South Main Street. Albert M. Barrell has retired from the investment business and lives at the Ambassador Hotel. We know Bruce Borland at school as the President of the Glenwood Manual Training School to which our boys contribute. He has his real estate offices at 105 South La Salle Street. Solomon A. Smith CYale 18997 follows in the footsteps of his father as president of the Northern Trust Company. He is also Treasurer of the United Charities. He lives in Lake Forest, and his four children are married. 1896 Ayres Boal fHarvard 19007, of Ayres Boal and Ayres Boal lr., real estate, lives at 701 Sheridan Road, Winnetka. He has three sons and a daughter. Lewis Lee Losey lChicago 1900, Lake Forest 19007 is a lawyer on West Monroe Street and lives at 5034 Blackstone Avenue. He was married in 1933. Edwin Rothschild is a stockbroker at 134 South La Salle Street and lives at 2142 North Lincoln Parkway. He has two sons. Laurence Hamill CChicago 19007, who spent ten years in the school, lives at 1787 Crawford Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Maurice Mason CYale 19017 is an investigator of patents: he lives at 7301 Sheridan Road. His brother Norman is on the Philadelphia Transcript, Philadelphia. Bruce D. Smith lives in the East, or in Coral Gables, Florida. Samuel N. Harper CChicago 19027, whom some old boys remember as Ule, has for many years occupied the chair of Russian at the University of Chicago. He is unmarried and lives at 5728 Woodlawn Avenue. William W. Dixon fHarvard 1900, LL B 19037 is a lawyer, at 105 South La Salle Street in the firm of Rawlins and Dixon. S. 1. T. Straus, Ex. 1896 is the head of the Straus Securities, 135 South La Salle. His son, Frederick lHarvard School 19227 is in business with him. Mr. Straus spent the winter in Florida. 1897 lf we ever turn up in Syracuse, New York, it will be to get a meal cooked by the gourmet and cookbook collector, Robert Collyer Hosmer CCornel1 19027. Besides indulging in this hobby, he makes furniture by hand, does photog- raphy, and has time to be president of the Excelsior Insurance Company. He has three sons, one still in college at Dartmouth. Eugene S. Mandel CDartmouth 19027, another of the Mandel Brothers, lives at 357 Moraine Road, Glencoe, and is in the investment business at 208 South La Salle Street. He has two sons. Russell Mott, Ex. 1897, CYale 1901, Harvard Law 19047 has retired from his law practice to live at Charlottesville, Virginia. He has three sons and one daughter. Frank H. Silverthorne, Ex. 1897, lives in New York and is the inventor of devices for sealing bottles. CDon't get excited-just ink bottles.7 Herbert Paul Zimmermann fChicago 19017 is vice president of R. R. Donnelley ci Sons on East 22nd Street, and lives at Geneva, lllinois. He has one son and two daughters. Francis E. Baldwin is a lawyer and lives in Evanston. Chauncey Blair Borland lYale 19017, lives on Lake View Avenue. His three daughters are married. He has offices in the Borland Building, 105 South La Salle Street with his brother and manages the Borland Estate. 1898 We have rather complete news of this class. Frederic Burnham lYa1e 19027, who lives in Winnetka and is well known in legal circles, is one of the directors of the School Building Company. Homer L. Dixon fYale 19017 is vice president and Secretary of the Dixon Transfer Company. He lives at 417 Barry Avenue and breaks Harvard alumni records by being the father of seven children, one boy and six girls. Kenneth Lockett CMIT 19027 is an engineer, has offices in The Merchandise Mart, is unmarried, and lives at 4440 Beacon Street. Theodore Peyton Murphy, Ex. 1898, lives at 7527 Stewart Avenue, and has retired from business. You may recognize him in the Banjo Club picture on PAGE 31