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26 Yale '88, S. Orville Emerson Sloat left in the firsthalf of Junior year. I-Ieis now purser on a steamer of the Indian River line in Florida. Stanley Matthews Stagg left at the end of Freshman year, and is now engaged in business with his father and brother in Frankfort, Ky. George Parker Thompson left in the first half of Freshman year. Frank Nehemiah WVatterman left at the end of Freshman year, and entered the SibleySchoo1 of Engineering at Cornell University. He will graduate with the class of '89 at that institution. Charles Spencer YVells was obliged to leave because of poor 'health in the Spring of Junior year. He is now working in a ma- chine shop in Bridgeport. Herbert Kip VVood left in the Fall of Freshman year. Albert Joseph Young died June 14th, 1886. Wxzanmlxs, God, in His innnite wisdom has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved classmate, Albert Joseph Young, be it RESOLVED, That we, his classmates, desire to express our pro- found sorrow at the loss of one whose thorough manliness, warm- heartcd generosity and Christian character have always commanded our respect and admiration. Also, we would testify to our appreciation of the 1'are privilege which we have enjoyed in having among us so good an influence .and example as his. Be it further Rszsonvmn, That we convey to his family an expression of our -sympathy with them in their bereavement, and. as a token of our :sorrow wear a badge of mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and published in all the College papers. J. E. DOCKENDORF, ' S. H. MCCREA, JR., C. -B. BERGER, Committee for the class.

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Class Book. 25 John Ambrose Doolittle left in Spring of Junior year. Is now attending lectures at the Law School and reporting for the Mw' Haven News. Pedro Florentino Francke left during Junior year, and is now at. the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Addison Graves left in the Spring of Senior year, and is unen-- gaged at present. ' Stephen Benedict Grummond left during Junior year. He studied law for a time and is now proprietor of a hotel in Detroit.. Edwin Richard Hodge left at the end of Freshman year and entered Johns Hopkins University. George Snowdon Howland left during Junior year, and is now engaged in the banking business at El Paso, Texas. Harry Ly ndstone Johnson left durin.g Junior year, and went into- business in Boston, where he still remains. ' Charles Wilbur' Knox, entered the class at tl1e beginning of' Junior year, but remained only a short time. He is now living in New York, but is not engaged in any business. Charles Edward Montgomery left at the end of Freshman year, and is now engaged in mining at Plymouth, California. Augustus Lester Moss left early in Junior year. He is now bank- ing in Sandusky, Ohio. Edward Marshal Ney' left in the Spring of Junior year, and is- in business in Hartford,'Conn. , .Frank Weyman Parmenter left at end of Freshman year, and spent the following year in the banking business. He entered 89' in the fall of 87, and will graduate with that class. Edward Horatio Parker entered' the class at the beginning of Junior year, but left at Christmas. He is now on the engineering corps of the Y., N. H. and H. road, with headquarters at New Haven. Daniel Tucker Coiiin Perkins left in March of Senior year. He- inteuds to go into the lumber business somewhere in Oregon. Solomon Franklin Rupert left at the beginning of Junior year, and traveled extensively in the west. He is now banking in Minne- apolis, Minn. Henry Pinney Sage left the class in the Spring of Freshman year- on account' of ill health. He has traveled considerably since, and is at present located in New Haven. '

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Class Book. 27 ANCESTRY. In the matter of ancestry, the class cannot be surpassed. Ander- son traces his ancestry back to the Dutch emigration in 1681, and numbers among his ancestors Alexander Hamilton, Gen. Philip Schuyle1', Thomas Benton and Gen. John C. Fremont, Archbald to Robert Wodrow, a celebrated Scotch divine, Bull to Henry Bull, twice Governor of Rhode Island, and Rev. Obediah Holmes, proto-martyr to religious liberty, Davol to Alfred the Great, De Wolf to one of the buccaneers, Dockendorff has an uncle who has been Vice-President of Peru and a grandfather who was a general in the army of Peru, Easterbrook is a descendant of Hen. NVarren, of Bunker Hill fame, Farquliar traces his family back to the palmy days of old Scotland, Funk to the rhizopods, Gray is a descendant of Ethan Allen, while Hamlin traces his family back to his ug. g. g. g. grandfather's tombstone, dated l689, in Middletown, Conn., Kleeberg is dcgenerated from a Pithecus ape, king of the tribe, Darwin has traced Moore's ancestry-in 1779 he had an ancestor who weighed 413 pounds, Nelson and Patrick are descendants of Lord Admiral Nelson, and in addition, Nelson has the blood of John Smith in his veins. The ancestors of Richards all came over in the Maytiowerf' Robinson looks back to Gov. Morgan of New York, Lowell Mason, Rebecca Winslow of the MayHower, and John Robinson of Leyden, Sherman to Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Thomas Ewing of Ohio, Shigemi to Seegami, a great warrior, who had his castle on lop of Mt. Mayozin, near Imabare, Japan, Spanntius to a former rector of the Univer- sity of Rotteiiberg, Tucker, to a great-grandfather who was a gen- eral under Washington , Tuttle to one Zofa Tuttle of Naugatuck, who had three wives and each wife 11 children, Walcott to Sir John Wolcott of Wolcott QIOGOQ, and to Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and to Mwynvawr fMorganj, a Welch prince who died in 1001. Ellis and Norris claim Adam and Eve as ancestors, while Osborn and Shelton are descended from Noah. Tucker can trace his an- cestry back to 1473, Bull and Robinson back over 300 years, Bean, Carter, Curtiss, Easterbrook, Leeds and Miller over 250 years, De Wolf, Norton, Prouty, E. E. Smith and P. F. Smith over 200 years, Jenner and Mason over 150 years, Curtis, Dann and Dock- endorlf over 125 years, Greer, Kimball, Taylor and Woodruff 'five generations.