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

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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.

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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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1901 OSCAR W. IOHNSON lives at Palm Beach, Florida. RAYMOND E. DANIELS lives at 4717 Greenwood Avenue and deals in coal, whole- sale and retail. His daughter is married to 'Walter Monroe, lr. tHarvard '33l. For Raymond E. Daniels, lr., see 1936. EDMOND P. COBB is a canners representative and lives at 672 WL 71st Street. HAYDEN B. HARRIS retired in '39 as Vice President of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank and divides his time between New York and a farm in Virginia. His two sons are in the service. OSCAR MCPHERSON has made an enviable reputation as librarian of Lawrenceville School and a great contribu- tion to the reading habits of hundreds of boys. His hobby, he says, is breakfast in bed, and his honors dubious, twe don't believe thatl. WM. SCHOBlNGER is attorney for the London Guarantee of Accident Companyg his home is Hastings-on-the-Hudson. His son William lohn is in the Tank Corps overseas in the European theatre. 1902 MASON PHELPS lives in Lake Forest and is still President of his manufacturing business at 5700 Roosevelt Road. IOHN HEATH WOOD, who lives at 4900 Greenwood, is President of the Standard Varnish Works. He has two Harvard School sons-in-law, Lt. Peter Iordan tl936l and Lt. lames Anderson tl94ll. GEORGE SCHOBINGER is Vice-President of Day and Zimmerman, constructors, of Philadelphia. His son, Sgt. lohn Schobinger, is in the Army in France or Germany, one daughter is in the American Red Cross in France, one teaches Art at Oberlin and another is in high school. 1903 CARL H. ZEISS is a lawyer at 50 S. La Salle Street and has three sons. STUART LOGAN handles investments at 208 S. La Salle Street. He loves to hunt and fish in his spare time. ln World War 1 CLARENCE F. WlLEY, of 1320 N. State St., was a captain in the Om. Corps, construction division and is now the sales manager of the Electrical, Wire Rope and Con- struction Materials Department of the American Steel and Wire Co. He has one son. Those who spend their summers in Estes Park have become acauainted with IULIAN HAYDEN'S beautiful and unusual moving pictures of wild life. He is the senior partner of The Hayden Realty Company and has a son and a daughter. 1904 WILLIAM W. RENSHAW has retired from bus- iness and lives at 1320 North State Parkway. NEWTON C. FARR is one of Kenwood's well known residents and is prominent in civic work. He is on the Board of the Faulkner School. STANLEY M. WILEY is a grain broker, lives at 4940 East End Avenue and has two married daughters. LAWRENCE A. WEAVER lives in Evanston, sells hearing aids and has one son in the V12 Unit, U.S.N.R. at Northwestern Uni- versity. GEORGE S. LE VALLY is Vice-Pres- ident of the Lincoln Engineering Company of 2415 S. Michigan Avenue. ALVAR R. SUTTER lives at 827 Prospect Avenue, Winnetka, is en- gaged in property management, has one rnar- ried daughter and one in the American Red Cross SAF overseas. COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY A busy day on Clark Street 1887.