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

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128 cLAss or 1891 s., YALE COLLEGE. course. 'Wliile in college he was a member of the Berzelius society, and was President of the Freshman Class. His father, Frederick VVeyerhaeuser, son of John and Margaret CGabelj Wfeyerhaeuser, was born November 21, 1834, in Niedersaulheim, Germany. He is a lumber merch- ant and manufacturer, residing in St. Paul, Minn. He was married October 11, 1857. His mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth S. Boedle, daughter of Philip and Appledonice Cliisselj Boedle, was born April 20, 1839, in Niedersaulheim, Germany. He has three brothers: John P., Charles A., a graduate of Andover, and Frederick E. CYale 18965, also three sisters: Margaret, Elise, a graduate of Wellesley, and Appledonice. He married Louise Lindelce, a student at Vassar for two years, and daughter of Albert H. Lindelce, a dry goods merchant, October 29, 1896, in St. Paul, Minn. They have one daughter, Margaret Louise, born October 20, 1902, in Cloquet, Minn. lfVeyerhaeuser was made Vice President and General Manager of the Northern Lumber Co., Cloquet, Minn., in March, 1896. He is another Republican voter. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been trustee. He is also a member of the following branches of the Masonic order: Blue Lodge, Royal Arch and Knights Templar, of Rock Island, Ill., and the Shrine and Osman Temple, of St. Paul, Minn. Perfzzanent mavilmg address: Cloquet, Minn. HENRY WICK was born May 15, 1870, in Cleveland, O. The Cleveland High School prepared him for college, and he entered in Freshman year, taking the Chemistry course. His father, Alfred Henry Vlfick CYale Ph.B.j, a chemist, of Elyria, O., was born January 4, 1838, in Youngstown, O. His parents were Henry and Mary QI-linej VVick.

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BIOGRAPHIES. I 27 member of the Class of 1890 S., but lost a year on account of typhoid fever at New Haven in the fall of 1898. Buszfazcss address' P. O. Box 603, Savannah, Ga. ROBERT KARL WEHNER, JR., was born January 4. 1874, in New Haven, Conn. He prepared at Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and entered college in the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Mechanical Engineering course. His father, Robert Karl VVehner, was born September 5, 1832, in Germany. His parents were Germans. He was married August 27, 1857, and resided in New Haven. He died September 4, 1898, in New York City. He was a musician. His mother, whose maiden name was Lina Elizabeth Peinthel, was born April 3, 1837, in Germany. Her parents were Germans. She died May 22, 1884, in New Haven. He has one brother, Adolph E. QYale Ph.B., 1880j, and one sister, May P. A As regards the marriage question he says nothing doingf' VVehner entered the engineering department of the Isbell- Porter Co., manufacturing, in Gctober, 1891, and has been with this company continuously since then. He was made Assistant Treasurer in 1899, and Treasurer in 1903, which office he holds at the present time. He was also made Manager and Secretary of the Summit Gas Light Co., of Summit, N. I., in 1894, and held this position for several years, giving it a portion of his time. B'lftS1'7Z65S adclress: 46 Bridge St., Newark, N. I. Home address' 2 Lombard St., Newark, N. I. RUDOLPH MICHAEL WEYERHAEUSER was born March II, 1868, in Coal Valley, Ill. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and entered college in Freshman year, pursuing the Mechanical Engineering x

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BIOGRAPHIES. I 29 His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Tennis, was born in Cleveland. Her father was john Tennis. He'has one brother, Tennis. He married Florence Wiclc Bissell, daughter of Charles Bissell, September 18, 1894, in Cleveland. They had three children: Florence, Barbara and Henry. Wick went to work for the Fox Furnace Co., Elyria, O., in 1894, and is now Manager, Secretary and Treasurer of the company. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been a trustee, the Elyria club, and the Union and Euclid clubs of Cleveland. P67'77ZCl1'L87Lf 711ia'iZ'i1'Lg' add1'ess.' Elyria, O. ARAS JAMES WILLIAMS was born July 15, 1870, in Utica, N. Y. The Utica QN. YQ Free Academy prepared him for college, which he entered in Freshman year, taking the Mechanical Engineering course. lNilliams says that he lived, loved and lost before entering Yale. VVhile in col- lege he was on the Freshman Glee club, Second University Glee club, the Class crew Cafter Freshman yearj, and was a member of Delta Phi fraternity. His father, Irvin Abijah Vlfilliams, a retired manufac- turer of Utica, was born june 9, 1829, in Oriskany, N. Y. He is the son of Abijah jewel VVilliams and Mary Billing- ton. The earliest ancestor in this country was Thomas Williains of X!VC'Cl1C1'Sl:lClCl, Conn., 1640. He was twice married, September 25, 1851, to Cynthia B. Rogers, who died October 15, 1860, and October 24, 1865, to Charlotte L. Smith. His mother, whose maiden name was Charlotte Louise Smith, was born March 7, 1840, in London, England. He has four sisters: Mary Cynthia, Fannie Jane, Ella Louise, who died August 10, 1906, at Big Moose Lake, N. Y., and Charlotte Elizabethg also one brother, Charles Irvin. He married, May 16, 1894, in Rochester, N. Y., Eugenia Davison Barnard, a graduate of Mrs. Piatt's School, Utica, 9 X