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

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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

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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 FOURTH DECADE 1895-1905 Harvard School for Boys moves to 47th and Lake Park . . . Miss Butts' Ken- wood Institute for Girls just across street . . . Horseless carriage appears . . . Trains go around Loop . . . Gillette razor blades . . . X rays . . . Pneumatic auto tires . . . Dr. O. Chanute experiments with gliders at Miller, Indiana . . . McKinley elected President . . . Spanish War . . . Remember the Maine, To H- with Spain . . . One cylinder autos run 10 mph, cost S1000 .... Popula- tion of U. S., 1900, 75,000,000 Chicago, 1,700.00 . . . First movie studio opens . . . U. S. acquires Philippines . . . Height of buildings limited to 231 feet . . . Zipper developed . . . World's largest telescope at Williams Bay . . . U. S. out- produces Great Britain in open-hearth steel . . . Boxer Rebellion . . . McKinley assassinated . . . Theodore Roosevelt President . . . Eruption of Mount Pelee de- stroys St. Pierre, Martinique . . . Cable links U. S. and Honolulu . . . Wright brothers experiment with flying machines at Kitty Hawk . . . United States takes over building of Panama Canal. 1895 OSWALD LOCKETT, first of the three Lockett boys, is a broker of grocery products on North Wells Street. He has two sons in the Army, Lt. Col. Iohn Lockett and Lt. David Lockett. CHAUNCEY B. BORLAND carries on his real estate business at 105 S. La Salle St. He has two married daughters and another daughter, Lt. tiql Harriet Borland who is in the U.S.N.R. LEWIS LEE LOSEY is practicing law at 111 W. Monroe Street. He was married a few years ago. EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, of Tarzan fame, still lives in California. SOLO- MON SMITH, President of the Northern Trust Company Bank of Chicago, is active in civic and charitable Work. 1896 AYRES BOAL lives in Winnetka and is fol- lowed by a number of younger Ayres Boals. 1897 ROBERT C. HOSMER, President of The Excelsior Insurance Company of Rochester, N. Y., is Director of The Rotary Club, Trustee of The May Memorial Church and has three sons in service overseas. We hear that he has a great library of cook books, is a gourmet and con- cocts wonderful food. BRUCE BORLAND lives at 2430 N. Lakeview, carries on his real estate business and is interested in many charities and civic organizations. RUSSELL MOTT re- tired from his law practice in Chicago in 1929 and lives at Charlottesville, Va. He has two sons in service. HERBERT P. ZIMMERMAN, Vice-President of R. R. Donnelly G Sons, lives at Geneva, Illinois. He has been most active in Alumni affairs at the University of Chicago. He has one son and two daughters. 1898 C. LEWIS WOODRUFF has lived in New York at 29 Charlton Street for many years. He is an insurance broker and unmarried. 1899 URI B. GRANNIS lives at 550 Rosemary Road, Lake Forest. He has three sons. IOSEPH M. CUDAHY was elected President of the Chicago Historical Society upon the death of Charles B. Pike. E. I. CUDAHY, publisher of law books, has four sons and has been active on the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Latin School. ALFRED WHITAL STERN, of 179 Lake Shore Drive, has an outstanding collection of Lin- colniana. THOMAS H. SIDLEY lives in Wil- mette. 1900 RAYMOND BURNHAM lives at 930 East 45th Street. He was, until recently, engaged in con- struction cf U. S. Army Ordnance works and other engineering construction. His two sons are in the service. fSee 1934 and 1944.1 ALFRED E. HAMILL lives in Lake Forest. IAMES G. KELLOGG, who started at Harvard in third grade with Charles Dewey and Iimmy Ames, has his home in Winnetka and has retired from business. A. K. SELZ is at 20 East Cedar Street. He has four daughters, three of them married, and six grandchildren. NORMAN P. REAM lives at Porchuck Road, Greenwich, Conn. His brother, ROBERT C. REAM, Pres- ident of the American Re-Insurance Co., lives in New York and has two sons in the Army, Capt. Iohn Ream and Sgt. Henry Ream. WALTER V. PECK lives at Largo, Florida, and says he takes simple honors in poultry.