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YALE '94 CLASS BOOK. Thomas Shaw Arbuthnot has spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, Pa., but was born at Allegheny, Feb- ruary 18, I87I, and has since learned to spiel the banjo and baseball. 'His father's name is Charles Arbuthnot, who is a wholesale dry goods merchant. Tommy never traced his ancestors, but tells us that good Scotch-Irish blood is present in his veins. Lack of time forbids him giving us an itemized list of his distinguished relatives. Raymond Holbrook Arnot began to grow at San Francisco, Cal, September 29, 1873, and has spent a good part of his life looking at the Pacific. N. D. Arnot, lawyer, University of California '69, is his father. He doesn't trace his ancestry, but mentions the fact that he has several relatives graduates of Wellesley, Vassar and Harvard. f William Bacon Bailey, following a natural prefer- ence, was born at Springfield, Mass., May 7, I873, where he could easily get to Hamden Park in time to hold a seat. His father, William L. Bailey, is a farmer. English and Scotch blood in about equal proportion travels in his veins. Old Mother Bailey, who tore up her petticoat to make wadding for a cannon during the Revolutionary War, is mentioned as a distinguished relative. Harry Samuel Bandler arrived on the scene March 23, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y., but has spent most of his life in Owego, N. Y., where he had a good time and, incidentally, prepared for college. His father is Robert Bandler, a merchant, and is not a college graduate. ,

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The Class of 1894. So might we talk of the old familiar faces. -Charles Lamb. Samuel Stokes Allen was born at Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 8, 1874. His father, Theodore M. Allen,is a retired business man. He has cousins in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Geneva and Berlin. He traces his ancestry to the eleventh century directly and Greek and English blood are in his veins. Has renowned relatives too numerous to mention. William Boyd Allison began his fruitful career at Peosta, Iowa, july 31, 1871. His father, james H. Allison, a graduate of Wooster Academy lOhioj is a farmer and country gentleman. His paternal has held all the offices of the township in which he lives. English Scotch and Welsh blood keeps him alive. Hon. W. B. Allison, U. S. Senator from Iowa. is an uncle. Gustav Albert Andreen began life at Baileytown, Ind., March 13, 1864. His father, Andrew Andreen, a minister, is a graduate of Vexio Normal Academy. He is of good old Swedish stock with a small trace of German ancestry that emigrated from Germany sometime after the Thirty Years' War. i I I I E 'f nw X lt.:

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THE CLASS OF 1894. 3 Alexis Painter Bartlett was born in Washington, D. C., February 2, 1872. His father, D. W. Bartlett, a journalist, is not a college graduate, but has held .. offices in connection with the House of Representa- , ' tives. He has a brother and a number of uncles and . . . Columbia fhe is-sorry to sayj. Can trace his line ' ff' 1' cousins graduates of Yale, and one cousin of ' , . ,il I , i . back to Elder Brewster who came over in the May- ' flower. Blood, English and Dutch. ' William Spencer Beard first attracted attention at 5 Harwich, Barnstable Co., Mass., where he was born june 9, 1870, at 1:45-37M A. M. His life has been . spent at various places, but mostly at South Kill- ingly, Conn. His father, William H. Beard, QB. D. Union Seminaryj is a minister. G. M. Beard '62, E. S. Beard '59, A. F. Beard '57, and S. F. Beard, Amherst, are relatives. He traces his ancestry eight or ten generations and d6esn't mention the style of i blood that flows in his veins. Among his distinguished rela- tives, Dr. john Whitmore, Ph.D., is mentioned. Andre Alden Beaumont first saw the light in San Antonio, Texas, August 4, 1870, and has since divided his time between the four states, Texas, Penn- V H5 Sylvania, New York and Connecticut, and the ter- ritories Arizona and New Mexico. His father, Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont, is aretired army f officer and is a graduate of the United States Mili- tary Academy. Thomas Darling, a prominent man ' in the class of '86, was a cousin and numerous rela- A tives are graduates of University of Pennsylvania and a cousin Wellesley '93. His great-great-great-greatsgreat-grandfather landed at Saybrook, Conn., in 1635. Some of his distinguished relatives are, john Alden, Nicholas Stanforth, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts about 1635, William Beaumont, surgeon, noted for discoveries regarding action of the stomach on vari- ous foods, Andrew Beaumont in House of Representatives in Jackson's administration, and a great list of other notables. 1-' 'U 111' A . V 5 5