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

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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,

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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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BIOGRAPHIES. I 25 1897 to 1900, was cashier of the Massillon Savings and Banking Co., and from 1901 to date, he has held his present position. Busz'1zc'ss address: Massillon, O. Home address: Spring Hill Farm, Massillon, O. WILLIAM ERNEST WALKER was born November 19, 1867, in Covington, Ky. He prepared at Lakeville, Conn., and entered at the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Mechanical Engineering course. Wfhile in college he was a substitute on the Freshman Football team, and was Treasurer of the Freshman crew. His father, Samuel Johnson VValker, son of Henry and Caroline QCoope1'j'Wallce1', was born January 7, 1827, in Campbell, Co., Ky. He was married October 7, 1858, and died April 16, 1884. He resided in Chicago. His mother, whose maiden name was Amanda Morehead, daughter of Charles S. and Margaret QLeavyQ Morehead, was born in Frankfort, Ky. She died December 25, 1903, in Chicago. He has two brothers: Charles M. QYale AB., '84j, and Samuel J. QYale AB., '88jg also three sisters: Margaret M. XfVallop, Amy M. Monereiffe, and Carolyn XV. Goudy. He married Mildred Curtis Rogers, daughter of Edward Kendall Rogers, of 370 Ontario St., Chicago, Ill., May IO, 1905, in Chicago. They have one child, Edith, born janu- ary 27, 1906, in Chicago. Wallcer went into the architectural business for himself in 1899, under the firm name of VV. Ernest VValker, architect. ' Business address: 168 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Home czddress: 132 Lincoln Park, Boulevard, Chicago. Ill. EDWARD YOUNG WARE w-as born january 12, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo. He prepared at Hill School, Potts- town, Pa., and Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo., and entered x