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

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THE THIRD DECADE 1885-1895 Harvard School for Boys occupies its own building at 2101 Indiana Avenue . . . Mrs. Holman's School for Girls conveniently next door . . . Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in Chicago . . . Potter Palmer mansion built . . . Haymarket riots . . . Daily railroad service between Chicago and San Francisco . . . Acetylene gas accidentally discovered . . . Smokeless powder . . . Chicago newspaper woman, Nelly Bly, encircles world in 72 days . . . Population of the U. S., 1890, 63,000,000: Chicago, 1,000,000 . . . Electrolytic production of aluminum . . . Halftone process . . . Photographic film . . . The Kodak . . . Add- ing machine . . . Electric light switch . . . Hyde Park annexed to Chicago . . . Auditorium Theater . . . Electric street cars . . . Elevated transit . . . University of Chicago on Midway . . . World's Columbian Exposition . . . Naismith de- vises basketball . . . Field Museum . . . Depression . . . Free lunches in saloons save people from starvation. 1885 CARYL B. YOUNG lives in Lake Forest and has retired from active business. His son, Bennett Bottsford Young, was in school at Harvard be- fore the family moved North. 1886 FREDERIC CLAY BARTLETT, artist and gener- ous patron of Chicago's Art Institute, gives his address as 18 S. Michigan Ave. EUGENE ROCKWELL PIKE, who manages The Pike Estates at 6 North Michigan Avenue, lives on the North side, and spends his winters in Florida. We had the pleasure of several long chats with GEORGE H. WEBSTER in Colorado Springs a few summers ago. He has retired from ranching, and remembers many incidents of early Harvard days. I 1887 HERBERT W. HAMLIN writes a friendly note of congratulations on the 80th Anniversary from his home in Greenwich, Conn. IOSEPH E. OTIS, one of the men most instrumental in help- ing us to build our present school building, and always our staunch friend, has had an out- standing career in Chicago. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Knox College in 1934 in recognition of his achieve- ments. ARCHIBALD IOHN FREDERICK Mac- BEAN lives at 830 Caroline Street, Ogdensburg, N. Y., where he has retired from the practice of law. CHARLES C. WALKER, who lives at Woodho1m , Manchester, Mass., is a retired lawyer. He has one son twenty-three years old. 1888 Our genial world traveler and lecturer, BURTON HOLMES, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of lecturing in 1944. A golden jubilee dinner was tendered him in Chicago, in November 1944, with many newspaper, literary and radio guests present. In his 78th year of happy existance , he carries on a busy lecture program, giving delight to his great following. IOHN B. DRAKE is engaged in business in the Hughes Oil Com- pany and lives at 1235 Astor Street. 1889 FRANK HIBBARD, Chairman of the Board of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett and Company, lives at 1301 Astor Street. ROBERT K. WARREN, Treasurer of the Morton Salt Company, is still active in business and lives in Morgan Park. 1890 Our distinguished Columbia University profes- sor, CHARLES CHENEY HYDE, LLD, has iust published the second revised edition of his three volume work, International Law chiefly as in- terpreted and applied by the United States . LEONARD I. MANDEL lives at 5555 Sheridan Road and is active in Mandel Brothers. ROBERT ALLERTON, generous donor to the collections of the Art Institute, lives at Monticello, Illinois, when not at home in the Hawaiian Islands.

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THE SECOND DECADE 1875-1885 September 1875 lohn 1. Schobinger takes over Harvard School for Boys at 18th Street between Michigan and Wabash Avenues . . . Enrollment, 16 boys . . . Daily News first sold on street . . . White Sox first National baseball cham- pions . . . Swift uses refrigerator car . . . Classes for deaf in Chicago Public Schools . . . Department of Health created . . . Flies accused of carrying dis- ease . . . lohn C. Grant enters Harvard School as teacher . . . First words heard over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone . . . Pullman car . . . First moving picture made . . . Population of U. S., 50,000,000 in 1880 . . . Population of Chicago, 500,000 . . . Theodore Thomas gives classical orchestral music . . . First incandescent street lighting . . . 1880, lohn C. Grant becomes co-principal . . . French begin Panama Canal . . . U. S. Grant aspires to third term . . . Sarah Bernhardt visits stockyards, says a dreadful and magnificent sight . . . Cable cars . . . Brooklyn Bridge . . . Mergenthaler linotype . . . Telegraph and telephone wires put underground . . . Art lnstitute built at Michigan and Van Buren . . . Presbyterian Hospital . . . Heaviest annual rainfall, 45.86 in. 1880 ROBERT WALBRIDGE HAMILL is president of The Lyon Company and lives in Hinsdale, Illinois. Allison V. Armour lives at 435 E. 52nd Street, New York. 1881 GEORGE A. SEAVERNS when last heard from Was living in Nokomis, Florida. 1882 A pleasant note comes from W1LLlAM H. COWLES, editor and publisher of The Spokes- man Review of Spokane, Washington, and president of The Cowles Publishing Company. He has two married children living on the West Coast. 1883 ARTHUR MEEKER has only recently retired from active business after a long and distin- guished career in Chicago's meat packing and grain industry. 1884 OREN E. TAFT has retired from his banking business and lives at 220 E. Walton Street. VZ LaSalle Street looking 1 north at Madison before the fire. COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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1891 CHARLES H. PAIEAU, who lives in Evanston, is President of The Toy Tinkers, makers of Tinkertoys that all parents know so well. BRUCE CLARK has retired and lives most of the year in Florida. IOHN I. ABBOTT, vice- president of The Continental Illinois National Bank, still lives in the family home at 3224 South Michigan Avenue. WALTER S. BREW- STER has retired from active business and lives on the North side. 1892 NORMAN WILLIAMS retired from his manu- facturing business in Chicago in 1922 and has since been living at Woodstock, Vermont. IOHN ARTHUR FARWELL lives in sunny Cali- fornia at the Los Angeles Country Club. In Warld War I he was Director of Motor and Canteen Service of the American Red Cross in the U. S. HARRY LEE TAFT, after retiring from banking, travelled widely and then moved to Santa Barbara. In World War I he was Direc- tor of the National Organizations War Savings Committee. He has one son, Oren Taft III. COLONEL A. A. SPRAGUE refuses to tell us of his many honors and offices, but they are well known to all Chicagoans. He is living at ll3O Lake Shore Drive. His son, Lt. Albert A. Sprague Ir., was one of the men rescued after I I I COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Chicago in Flames. the sinking of the aircraft carrier Princeton . WALLACE D. KIMBALL is a busy manufactur- er of paper containers in New York, now, no doubt, providing them for the Army. SAMUEL I. T. STRAUS is in business with his son, Frederic V221 at 135 S. La Salle Street. DANIEL I. SCI-IUYLER lives at 1500 Lake Shore Drive and goes to his law business daily. A lively family of three grand children live with the Schuylers while their father, Wm. Schuyler, V271 is in the Army. 1893 IULIAN S. MASON, who formerfy was manag- ing editor of The Chicago Evening Post and The New York Herald Tribune and then editor of The New York Evening Post, has now retired to Glen Head, Long Island. EDWARD C. STREETER has retired from his medical prac- tice, lives in Stonington, Conn., and is curator of museum collections of the Yale Medical Library. He was a Captain in the Quarter- master Corps in the A.E.F. in World War I. C. FRANKLIN LEAVITT, M.D., lives in Vfilmette, where he also maintains his office. 1894 DE WITT BUCHANAN, President of The Old Ben Coal Corporation at 231 S. La Salle Street, lives in Lake Forest. For his son, De Vfitt Buchanan Ir., see 1934. Corner Dearborn and Mad- ison Streets before the fire. ES, COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO HIS O C L OC ET