St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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entered the practice of medicine, at which he prospered for one year. In january, 1900, he yvas appointed assistant surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital, outdoor depart- ment. Rising higher and higher in his noble calling, he Was, in Qctober, 1900, appointed assistant attending surgeon of Trinity Hospital, New York City. JJ The Rt. Rev. Cleland K. Nelson, B. A., D. D., '72 Bishop Nelson, the great-grandson of General Thomas Nelson, ex-Governor of Virginia, was born near Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia, May 23, 1852. Having graduated at St. John's College in 1872, he received theological instruc- tion partly from his uncle, the Rev. C. K. Nelson, D. D., and partly from the Berkeley Divinity School, at Middletown, Conn. He was ordained to the deaconate in 1875, by Bishop Pinkney, of Maryland, and to the priesthood in 1876 by Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania. From this time until 1891 he was rector in several of the churches in Pennsylvania. On November 12, 1891, he Was elected Bishop of Georgia, and on February 27, 1892, he was consecrated in St. Luke's Cathedral, Atlanta. Bishop Nelson's entry upon the episcopate has been marked by great spiritual blessings upon the diocese of Georgia. 9 J Q29 William Ritchie, B. A., ' 73. ' I William Ritchie, born at Frederick, Maryland. His late home place is almost next door to that of old Barbara Fritchie, and near by-resided Admiral Winfield Scott Schley. Mr. Ritchie's father, Dr. Albert Ritchie, was exec- utor of Mr. Fritchie's estate. Mr. Ritchie graduated from St. John's in the class of 1873, studied law in the office of his elder brother, the late Hon. John Ritchie, Judge of the Court of Appeals. Later on he removed to Chicago, succeed- ing the Hon. John IS. Wirt, now oi Elkton, Maryland, as a member oi the law iirm of Judd 81 VVhitehouse, of-Chicago. On the death of the senior member of the firm, Mr. Ritchie succeededto that position, his firm being now Ritchie, Esher 81 Knobel. Mr. Ritchie took a very prominent part at the bar in Chicago, A 37

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of the array of jurists of the country. They adorned the bench of their own State, compeers of Marshall, Taney, B. R. Curtis and Storey. Judge Dorsey died in 1855, and Judge Brewer, like him, was gathered to the sleep of the valiantand just in 1864. The triumvirate of M1aryland's judiciary among the older alumni of St. Iohn's would be incomplete without here adding the name of that learned, wise and good man, Judge Alexander Contee Magruder, an alumnus of 1794, a member of the Executiev Council, State Senator and Judge, and official reporter of the Court of Appeals. ' Since the closing of the hiatus in the work of the College, 1866, the sons which St. Iohn's has given to the world have well fulhlled their missions. The Church, the Law and Medicine, and various other departments of human effort and industry have been enriched by their presence and energies. The survivors are yet young enough to reach the summit of their several vocations or ambitions. One of the Class of '72 already adorns the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Henry David Harlan, and another of the Class of ,73 is an eloquent divine, who, as the orator of the day by request of the Alumni, will address you, and upon whose time I fear I have already too long intruded. Another son, Commander Dennis Mullan, of th Navy, bearing at the time St. John's honorary degree M. A., was on duty with his brother heroes in the recent Samoan hurricane, and, of her dead, Lieut. James Lockwood, of the Army, died after extending the boundary of know land twenty-eight miles nearer the pole, reaching the most northerly point on land that ever has been attained by man. Jaap Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, B. A., M. A., M. D., ' 93 Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, Ir., son of the Maryland hero of the battle off Santiago, was born at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., on August 1, 1873. The early part of his life was a transitory one, having made Boston, Vlfashington, and then Philadelphia hisihome. At each of these cities he attended public and private schools, and in Philadelphia he attended a military boarding school. In Qctober, 1889, he entered St. Iohn's Co-llege where his illustrious father was destined to have attended, but was prevented by his insatiable desire for a career in the navy. While at college Dr, Schlev was actively connected with all the athletic, social and literary functions of the school and in his senior year was president of the Philokalian Society. He graduated 11? gi11e,.I.893, with the degree of B. A. In October, 1893, he entered the College p iysliciaqns and Surgeons, New York, QColumbia University, Medical Dept.j, Sion?-JLTLQE 155288 he graduated In June: 1396- Nearly a year later he entered - pltal, where he served two and a half years on the house staff 'l l - - . , , 1 HHH lu Y: 1399- Then, f0H0W111g UP hls profession as a physician, he became con- nected with Sloane Hospital, being on the staff. But in November, ISQQ, he 36

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having tried a number of important cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, During the agitation of the present few years at Chicago over the subject of municipal taxation and the granting of street railway franchises, Mr. Ritchie took a very active part and was a prominent member of the Anti-Yerkes forces, which in the State Legislature defeated Mr. Yerkes' corrupt measures. A high compliment was paid to Mr. Ritchieis standing as an authority upon these questions by the Legislature, which after hearing a discussion by him before its special committee, requested his attendance later before a joint session of the House and Senate, which was called for the sole purpose of hearing Mr. Ritchie discuss these various issues again. At a subsequent session of the Legislature, when similar measures were brought before that body by the corporate interests. the committee summoned Mr. Ritchie again by special invitation to hear his criticisms of the pending measures. In deference to his judgment upon that occasion, the Legislature rejected the propositions of the interested parties and the interests of the public were thereby safeguarded. In consequence of his course in these matters Mr. Ritchie was urged to enter political life, and Was, in fact, nominated for the Legislature at the succeeding session as a candidate on the reform ticket, but his disinclination for political life and pressure of his private business prompted him to decline the honor. Mr. Ritchie when at St. Iohn's was a member of the Philokalian Society, and his interest in his Alma,lVIater is as lively novv as the day he received his diploma. J Q55 De Witt C. Lyles, B. S., '98. Graduated from St.ljohn's in 1898 with a first-grade distinction, with the degree of S. Immediately after his graduation he enlisted in the Fifth Regi- ment of Maryland Volunteers, where he savvl six monhs of Spanish-American War service. From that time until the present day he has been in the United States Army. 9 IQ, 0C'f0bC1', 13955, he became associated with the staff of the Baltimore NEWS, Ellid later resigned to accept a position as assistant engineer on the construction of the Chesapeake Beach Railroad. In the fall of I899 he was a candidate for the Maryland Legislature.. from Anne Arundel countv, and was sent as a delegate to the county and State conventions of that year. J He accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Thirty-fourth Unitgd States Volunteers In Augugf, 1399. He arrived in the Philippine Islands in 38