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

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154 CLASS or 1891 S., YALE COLLEGE. course. VVhile in college he was on the Second Glee club, was one of four to receive honorable mention at graduation, won first prize for Freshman mechanical and free hand drawing, took first prize in Freshman hurclling, and second prize for the Ereshman high jump at the athletic contests. His fatherf Prince Henry Bomer Saunders, son of VVilliam H. Saunders, was born July 24, 1831, in Hartford, Conn. He was a merchant in the P.,H. B. Saunders 81 Son Co., Hartford. He was married April 7, 1858, and died December 4, 1888, in Hartford, Conn. His mother, whose maiden name was Lucinda Mitchell, was born july 28, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. He has four brothers: Henry H., Thomas VV., Ernest KN., and Edmund L. QUniversity of Vermont M.D.j, also two sisters: Mary E., and Jessie E., a graduate of Smith College. He married Edith Marion Hayward, of Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Mass., and daughter of Daniel Hayward, May 20, 1899, in Boston, Mass. They have one child, Dorothy, born November 29, IQO3. Saunders entered the employ of the Pratt ci VVhitney Co., Hartford, Conn., manufacturers of machine tools, in 1886, and is now Sales Manager of the Boston office. He has had published the Hand-book of Practical Mechanics, the only work of its kind, and now in its third edition. He is a member of the Republican party. He was a private for one year in Co. K, First Regiment, C. N. G., but resigned, owing to non-residence. He is also a .member of the Asylum Avenue Baptist church, Hartford, and the XV ood- land club, Newton, Mass. He traveled through Great Britain and Ireland in 1894. -A Pernzazzelzt 11zaz'Iz'1zg add1'css.' 141 Milk St., Boston, Mass. EDWARD CARLTON SISSON. Af1d1'c5s.' Binghamton, N. Y. A

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BIOGRAPHIES. 153 of the State of Connecticut in 1889, and has served con-- tinuously since. He had previously been Mayor of Middlea town, and judge of Probate, District of Middletown. His mother, whose maiden name was Eannie Eliza Nor- ton, daughter of Isaac Ives and Nancy Elmina Norton, was born April IO, 18.43, in Qtis, Berkshire County, Mass. He had three sisters, one of whom is dead: Lucy N., Fannie J., who died July 27, 1876, in Middletown, and VVin- nifred H. 9 He married, july 6, IQO3, at Christ church, New Haven, Conn., Edith Avery Dole QAnclerson Normal School IQOID, daughter of 'William Collier Dole, an instructor, of 331 Edgewood Ave., New Haven. They had one child, Rebecca, born April 18, 1905, and died May 17, IQO5, in New Haven. Robinson is now an attorney in Havana, Cuba. Since leaving college he was Judge of Probate for one term CISQS -96j, District of Middletown. He says he has been a Republican since birth, and believes in a moderate tariff reform. He enlisted for war with Spain March 1, 1898, earned an early promotion to the rank of Corporal, and received an honorable discharge after fighting a fewicans of embalmed beef. He is a member of the Congregational church, the Masonic order, and the Vedado Tennis club Habana. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar july 1, 1893, and practiced law until ISQ7. The next five years he spent in XVashington and New York City. He has been in Cuba for the past ive years. Bnsivzess a.da'1'ess: Aguiar 81, Havana, Cuba. PC'I'7'7ZU7ZG7Zf 11za11'!i1z.g adciress: 189 College St., Middle- town, Conn. CHARLES FARNAM ROCKWELL. CHARLES HOWARD SAUNDERS was born Aug- ust 18, 1868, in Hartford, Conn. He entered Sheff. in Freshman year, pursuing the Mechanical Engineering 44 x

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1z1ooRixP1-1112s. 1 55 ARTHUR STEIN. Addvwss: 143-145 S. Clinton St., Chicago, Ill. CARL FRANCIS WESTERFELD was born Dec- ember 11, 1869, in San Francisco, Cal. St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Cal., prepared him, and he stayed with us one year and a half, after which he entered the 1893 Academic Class and graduated. He entered our Class in October, 1888. His father, Louis XfVesterfeld, was born February 12, 1826, in Neuenkirchen, Hanover, Germany. He was married February 14, 1864, and resided in San Francisco, Cal., where he died November 26, IQO3. His mother, Minna Wfesterteld, was born April 4, 1845, in Syke, near Bremen, Germany. She died February 16, 1891, in San Francisco. He has one brother, Herman, also Wfilliam, who died in San Francisco. He married Clara Bell Douglas, daughter of Alfred Henry Douglas QOxford University '58j, an artist, june 27, 1906, in San Francisco. VVesterfeld is now in the law business in San Francisco. He is one of the few members of this Class who are Demo- crats. He received the degree of LLB. at Hastings Col- lege of Law, University of California, in May, 1896. He is a member of the Family, Olympic and Corinthian Yacht clubs, and of the Native Sons of the Golden Wfest. BZISZTJZESS address: ZIQ3 Fillmore St., San Francisco, Cal. Home address: 2915 jackson St., San Francisco, Cal. NOAH ASHLEY WHITNEY. Add'1'ess.' Toledo, Ohio. GEORGE WATERS WOOD was born August 3, 1871, in McKeesport, Pa. He prepared at Shadyside Academy, Pittsburg, Pa., and entered college in the begin- ning of Freshman year, pursuing the Chemistry course. x