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

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COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The World's Fair, 1893. THE FIFTH DECADE 1905 -1915 l-Iarvard School for Boys occupies Leland House at 47th and Drexel . . . De Forest invents audion tube . . . Bleriot crosses channel in plane . . . Sperry gyroscope . . . Evinrude outboard motor . . . Peary at North Pole . . . Taft President . . . Sanitary and Ship canal . . . Classes for crippled children in Public Schools . . . Chicago Plan Commission . . . United Charities . . . Law for registration of births and deaths . . . Free bathing beaches . . . Population of U. S., 1910, 92,000,0005 Chicago, 2,185,000 . . . Airplane takes off U. S. Cruiser Birmingham . . . First trans-continental flight, 84 hours . . . International Avia- tion Meet, Grant Park, 35 flyers from England, France, Ireland, Australia . . . Iroquois Theatre fire . . . Cadillac cars have electrical self starters . . . Titanic sinks in mid-Atlantic . . . Income Tax law . . . Panama Canal opens . . . Chicago Council of Boy Scouts . . . Municipal Pier . . . Iohn C. Grant, co-principal of Harvard School for Boys, died Ianuary 1914 . . . World War l . . . Electric sur- face cars . . . Woman's suffrage . . . Motor coaches . . . Chicago Chapter, American Red Cross. 1905 PAUL ALBERT lives in Elmhurst. He has two sons and one daughter. IAMES C. HUTCHINS is a stock broker at 231 S. La Salle Street, lives at 1450 Astor Street and has three married children. DR. SELIM MCARTHUR is the darling of St. Luke's Hospital where he has long been known as an eminent surgeon. He has two daughters. 1906 RICHARD H. MABBATT lives at 245 Vine Street, Lake Forest, is at the Board of Trade and has two children, a son and a daughter. IOHN S. MILLER lives at 1210 N. Astor Street. He is a lawyer and during World War I was a Major in the Field Artillery. He has two daughters. GERALD BURNHAM is President of the Burn- ham Laboratories and lives in Winnetka. He has one son, and two of his three daughters are married. 1907 CHARLES S. TRAER is President of the Acme Steel Company and lives at 5555 Everett Ave- nue. In World War I he was a Captain in the l0th U. S. Infantry. ln his vacations he loves to hunt and fish. WALTER A. HILDEBRAND, who manufactures Swiss embroidery in Chi- cago, has been seriously ill at his home in Wilmette. He has two sons, one engaged in his business, now doing work for the Army, and one son in the Navy. 1908 LEWIS F. GIFFORD lives at Lexington, Ken- tucky. His three sons are in the Army, one in the Engineers and two in the Air Force. 1909 HAROLD BURNHAM lives at Flossmoor and is district sales manager for the Chicago, Wil-

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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.

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mington QS Franklin Coal Company. MORTON HUNTER is a resident of Milwaukee where he is President of the Hunter 5: Tractor Co. He has done much interesting work in engineering, as the Who's Who will tell. THEODORE PHILIP SWIFT, Vice President of the Continental Illinois National Bank, lives in Lake Forest. 1919 GEORGE W. BLOSSOM is an insurance broker at 175 W. Iackson and lives in Lake Forest. ERNST W. PUTTKAMMER teaches law at the University of Chicago, is President of the Im- migrants Protective League, and Secretary of the Chicago Crime Commission. He has one son. RODERICK PEATTIE is Professor of English on the faculty of Ohio State University. He has two sons and one daughter. He spent two year in France in World War I. At 7:55 AM, when Ouaker Oats tunes in on WMAO, we are reminded daily of DONALD B. DOUGLAS, Vice President of that Company. He has two sons and lives in Lake Forest. He spent two and a half years in World War I as a lst Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. 1911 IULIAN BURNHAM is Vice President of E. Burn- ham ci Company. EUGENE SCHOBINGER is engaged in engineering construction, lives in Beverly Hills. He has a freshman daughter at Illinois and two stalwart sons, see 1938 and 1942. LT. COL. DONOVAN YEUELL commands the 411th Regiment of the 103rd Division of the 7th Army, active on the fighting front in France and Germany. 1912 ERNST SCHMIDT is in the real estate and in- surance business at 39 South Dearborn St. Yachting is his great hobby. He is a member of the Chicago Yacht Club and for a long time managed the Lake Geneva Yacht Club. Ernst is one of our few eligible bachelors. MONROE HEATH, handsome Monnie of former days, is a high official of the Lilly Varnish Company, Indianapolis. 1913 STANLEY STONE lives in Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, at 2015 E. Glendale Ave. KENNETH D. CLARK lives in Evanston, is in the investment business with Harris Hall 51 Co., has a married daughter, one son in the Infantry and one son at Choate. Kenneth says he has no honors but lots of hobbies. ABRAHAM S. HART re- cently retired as Vice President and Director of Hart Schaffner and Marx and lives in Ravinia. He was a 2nd Lieut. in World War I and his only son, Max, is a lst Lieut. in World War II. ROYAL F. MUNGER entered World War II as a Captain in the Marines, and went into active service at once in the Pacific theatre. He was reported missing in Spring 1944 and has not been heard from since. Roy's son, Iohn Robin, is a senior at the Harvard School, Class of 1945. 1914 WEST WUICHET lives in Evanston, has a handsome office in the Railway Exchange and sells lumber when the government per- mits. In the last war he was a Corporal in the 124th Field Artillery, in the same region of the Argonne and Meuse where our troops fought earlier this year. HOWARD PEABODY lives in Lake Forest. He has four children, two boys and two girls. C. TREGO PRINDE- VILLE lives at 10112 S. Hoyne Ave., is Vice President of Swift and Company. In World War I he was a 2nd Lieut. in the 307th Field Artillery and in World War 11 a Lt. Col. on the General Staff, and on the WPB and the WFA in Washington. His son, Trego, is a junior at the Harvard School and his daughter, lane, has completed her third grade there, the last grade that admits girls. . ..,.. - , Harvard School at 47th Street and Lake Park Avenue.