Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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120 CLASS OF ISQI S., YALE COLLEGE. throughout his life, and no man was ever graduated from Sheff. who did more to bring these two branches of the University together. After a keen competition he was elected an editor of the N ews in the spring of his Freshman year, and he served on the board until his graduation. It has been said that he originated the idea of the Yale All!-7'l'Z'7Zf Weelelgf, and after this paper was established by the 792 Board, he was selected as one of the Advisory Board, which position he still occupied at the time of his death. He took a keen interest in all branches of athletics, as he did in every phase of college life. He became a member of the Book Sz Snake society, and lived in the Cloister during his Junior and Senior years. His untiring ehforts in the inter- ests' of the Cloister, in which he always took a most active and leading part, especially endeared him to its members. After graduation Mr. Van Ingen spent a year at New Haven in the Law School, but in the fall of 1892 a vacancy occurred among the instructors of the Hill Schoolg Profes- sor Meigs offered him the position, which he accepted and retained until a suitable person could be found to fill it per- manently. Of his life as a scholar and as an instructor at the Hill School Professor Meigs says: 'Entering the Hill School in the autumn of 1885, shy, sensitive, yet strong, he quickly won the interest and affec- tion of his associates,-boys and men. Individual in his thinking, he had a rare sense of community, obligations and service. Public spirited and resourceful in initiative, the boy indicated the man. No enterprise was too large and no service too lowly for his sympathetic devotion. To this day the impress of his touch is recognized in the school's organizations and traditions. Nature studies were his pas- sion, and like a true lover he would not be denied her most intimate conndences. His hercely persistent quest of Indian relics still lingers in the memory of his generation at the Hill. His droll wit was ever hitting off situations with a facility delicious and rare. He had the same capacity for friendship, and for the same reasons, as Stevenson, the

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BIOGRAPHIES. I I 9 resides at 9 East 71st St., and is a member of the firm of E. H. Van Tngen Co., woolen merchants. His mother's maiden name was Mary Lawrence McLane. He married Mae Anderson Bell, a graduate of Miss Morton's School, and daughter of Edward T. Bell, a banker, January 27, 1897, in Paterson, N. They have three children, two of whom are twins: Edward Hook 2d and Lawrence Bell, born October 18, 1898, in New York, and Katherine, born February 21, 1900, in New York. Van Ingen died Gctober 27, 1905, in Roosevelt Hospital, New York City of appendicitis. He was heartily inter- ested in all forms of athletics and in every phase of college life. He was well known throughout the University, and formed many friendships among the Academical students. In the spring of 1890 he was elected an editor of the Yale News. Following is an extract from the Yale Almmzi Weekly of December 13, 1905: 'lEdward V an Tngen, eldest son of Edward Hook V an Ingen and Mary Lawrence McLane, died at Roosevelt Hos- pital October 27th, after an operation for appendicitis. He was born at Lenox, Mass., August 29, 1869, and until 1889, when his family moved to New York, lived in Brooklyn. He attended boarding school at Darien and at Norwich, Conn., for a short time, and in 1885 entered the Hill School, at Pottstown, Pa., where he prepared for Yale under the care of Dr. john Meigs. He entered the Sheffield Scientific School in the Class of 1891, and was graduated among the first ten men of his class. He was a careful and industrious student, his accuracy and ability in expressing his thoughts and the ease with which he acquired knowledge soon made him a favorite with all his instructors. These qualities were developed to a marked degree in his later life. As a Freshman Mr. Van Ingen immediately gained great popularity with his classmates, and soon became well known throughout the University. Nor were his intimacies con- fined to the Scientific Department, indeed in no department was he more generally liked and esteemed than in the Aca- demic. The many friendships he made there endured

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BIOGRAPHIES. I 2 I same delight in clean mirth and sweet humor. Nothing could bear finer testimony of his purity and sweetness of character than that instinctive way in which the shyest of little children sought his companionship .... As boy and man he held opinions strong and true, he hated cant and hypocrisy with a bitter hatred 5 he loved and lived the clean, sincere and Godward life, he was both a hearer and a doer of the VVord 3-in the world, but not of it, he loved not the world nor the things of the world-he loved the folk of the world .... ' Leaving the Hill School in the spring of 1892, Mr. Van Ingen spent some months in preparation, and entered the Columbia Law School, from which he received his degree in 1893. Passing his bar examinations in 1894, he entered the law office of Logan, Clark 81 Demond. In 1896 he accepted a proposal from Masten 81 Nichols, gaining marked success, until 1902, when he became the senior member of the f1rm of V an Ingen, Siebert gl Paddock. His record at the bar left no doubt of the professional distinction that awaited him had he lived. I-Ie was a skillful, persuasive. forcible speaker, and he combined with other valuable endowments the faculty of application, the spirit of industry, and remarkable energy. For several years prior to the time of his death Mr. Van Ingen had taken a deep interest in, andexhibited a natural talent for public affairs, and there is good reason to believe that had he lived, he would have been called to important public stations. lrVhile always a strong Republican, he was the positive and practical foe of party offenses. In 1902 Mayor Low appointed him a member of the City Board of Education, but no sooner had he become a useful member of that important board than another opportunity presented itself for more valuable public service. For years the abuses at Ellis Island, New York, the chief immigrant sta- tion of America, had been notorious. To put an end to these abuses, President Roosevelt appointed Williain Wil-