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

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BIOGRAPHIES. 123 CLARK GREENWOOD VOORHEES was born May 29, 1871, in Old Lyme, Conn. Chapin's Collegiate School of New York City prepared him, and he entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Chemistry course. His father, Charles Henry Voorhees, was born April 14, 1831, in New York City. He is a descendant on his father's side from Steven Coert Van Voorhees, who came from Heeze in Holland in 1660, and settled at New Amersfort, L. I. Cn his motherls side from the Vlfeld, Willsloxv and Weiiclell families of Boston. Before his death, which occurred in New York City, March 8, 1893, he was a stock broker in New York. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Greenwood, was born in New Y orkCity. She was a granddaughter of John Greenwood, surgeon to George VVashington and others, who fought at Bunker Hill, Bennington, Trenton, and was later Captain of a privateersman. He has four sisters: Eliza Van Namee, Clara Meeker, Jane Daniels and Margaret Dorland. He married Maud Christine Folsom, daughter of George Wfinthrop Folsom, a graduate of Columbia, August 10, 1904, in Lenox, Mass. In 1896 Voorhees started in to become an artist, having received the degree of M.A., in Columbia in 1894. He wrote two subjects, one Proteids of VVheat Kernel, being published by the Academy of Science in 1893, and the other, '4Proteids of 'Cotton Seed, published by Thomas Osborne, Ph.D., under whom he worked at the time of publication. He had a Fellowship in Chemistry at Columbia in 1893. He received a bronze medal from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, for a picture entitled Lyme church, and was also given the Hallgarten prize at the exhibition of the National Academy of Design, in New York, 1905, on a picture entitled Spring afternoonf' He says he is a hereditary Republican. He is a member of the Yale, Century, Salamagunde and Badminton clubs of New York. x

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122 CLASS OF ISQI S., YALE COLLEGE. liams, Yale '84, Immigration Commissioner at New York. Selected by Mr. Williaiiis as his counsel, Mr. Van Ingen entered upon his new work with great zeal, and only those having knowledge of the complicated questions to be solved, both in applying the laws and in ferreting out and securing the dismissal and punishment of the gratters in the service, can appreciate the extent and value of his labors at that time to both the people and the immigrants. I-Ie devoted himself to these tasks for fifteen months, when the demands of his law practice compelled him to resign, but not, how- ever, until he had so systematized his work that an intel- ligent successor was able to carry it on with relative ease. At its last session it became evident that the New York Legislature was likely to pass a mortgage tax bill, which aroused an unusual amount of hostile criticism. There- upon Mr. Van Ingen became president of the Allied Real Estate Interests, and presented arguments to the legislature and the governor against the bill. Although it subsequently became a law, it is generally recognized that his arguments were exceedingly effective. Indeed they were so ably presented that a large number of members of the new legis- lature have given assurance that they will vote to repeal this obnoxious measure. Although a member of several clubs, Mr. Van Ingen's greatest interest was in the University club, and he was a member of its council from March, 1904. In all matters pertaining to the work of the house committee, of which he was chairman for three years prior to his death, he gave unstinted time and careful attention, and the results bore witness to his efforts in years of exceptional prosperity. I-Ie was greatly esteemed by members and employes alike, and his loss is deeply felt in the daily life of the club. The funeral was held in St. Bartholomewls church, on Monday, October 30, and the throng of men and women of every rank of life who filled the church bore conclusive testimony to the place he held in a multitude of hearts. The interment was at VVashington, Connf,

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124 CLASS or 1891 s., YALE coLLEG1a. He has passed about four years in France, Holland, Italy and England, studying art and painting. He Worked at 'KAcademie julian under Benjamin-Constant, jean Paul Laureus and Mesreuis for three winters. He now has a studio at Lyme, Conn. P67'7l7fCl7L6lIf vnaili-1'zg add1'e.9s: Old Lyme, Conn. ARVINE WALES was born October 21, 1869, in Mas- sillon, O. He prepared at Wfilliston Seminary, Easthamp- ton, Mass., and entered college in Freshman year, taking the Chemistry course. VVhile in college he played on the Freshman and Consolidated Baseball teams, played minor games with the University nine, and was a member of the Book Sz Snake society. His father, Arvine Chaffee XfVales, was born May 2, 1827, in Spring Hill, Massillon, O. He was a lawyer and graduate of Harvard University, and resided at Spring Hill, Mas- sillon. He was Treasurer of Union Schools, Massillon and Charity Rotch School, Ohio State Senator, and member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. He was married December 28, 1864, and died July 26, 1882, in Spring Hill. His mother, whose maiden name was Eliza Ann Weimer, was born December 28, 1839, in Marshallville, O. Her parents were German. He has one brother, Horatio W. QYale Ph.B., IQO3D, and one sister, Helen. He married, October 25, 1900, at Massillon, O., Edna Elizabeth McClymonds CFarmington, Miss Porter's School, 18985, daughter of john VValter McClymonds, a manufac- turer and banker. They have two daughters, born in Mas- sillon: Elizabeth Russell, born November 23, 1901, and Martha, born November 22, 1906. Wfales was elected Treasurer of the Russell Engine Co., Massillon, in january, 1901. He votes the Republican ticket. From 1891 to 1893 he was in the machine shop and erecting department of Russell 81 Co., from 1894 to 1897 he was bookkeeper in the Union National Bank, Massillon,