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

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42 crass or I8QI s., YALE COLLEGE. HOMER STILLE cU1v1.1v11NGs was boi-H Apru 30, 1870, in Chicago, Ill. He prepared at Heathcote School, Buffalo, N. Y., and entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Select course. He won his first medal for scholarship in preparatory school. VVhile in college he was Class Poet and played on the Class Base- ball team. I His father, Uriah Cummings, a cement manufacturer, of Akron, N. Y., was born April 30, 1833, in the Town of New- stead, village of Akron, N. Y. His parents were Hezekiah Cummings, Scotch descent, from Massachusetts and Ver- mont, and Betsey Bates, English descent, from Rhode Island and Vermont. Mr. Cummings held several positions of trust, some of which were President, Cummings Cement Co., Akron, N. Y. 5 President, Chickamauga Cement Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. 5 Vice President and Director, Pacific Stone Co., San Francisco, Cal., and President of the Stevens Stone Co., Chicago, Ill. He was married March 31, 1869. His mother, whose maiden name was Audie Schuyler Stille, was born March 14, 1847, in Buffalo, N. Y. Her parents were jacob Schuyler Stille, Erench and Holland Dutch descent, and Audelia Laurence Wfeekes, Scotch and Connecticut Yankee. He married Helen W'oodruff Smith CCatherine Aiken Schoolj, daughter of James Dickinson Smith, a broker, of Stamford, Conn., June 29, 1897, at Larchmont, N. Y., and they have one child, Dickinson Schuyler Cummings, born june 17, 1898, at Stamford, Conn. g Cummings is practicing law in Stamford. In politics he is a Democrat, was Mayor of Stamford three times, member of the Democratic National Committee 1900-1908, Delegate at Large to Democratic National Conventions IQOO and 1904, and was candidate for Congressman at Large in Con- necticut in 1902. He received the degree of LL.B. at Yale in 1893. He is a member of the Masons, Odd Eellows, Elks, Royal Arcanum, .Knights of Pythias, Knights of Maccabees and Eagles g also the Art club of New York, and

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BIOGRAPHIES. 4 I I-Ier parents were James Kennedy and Lydia Hollingsworth. She died August 12, 1872, at Hagerstown, Md. He has one sister, Marie Louise. He married Zoie Ruth Brown, of Bowling Green, Ky., daughter of Edward Obrey Brown, a merchant, November 14, IQO4, in Saratoga, N. Y. In August, 1906, Cooper became Manager of the E. R. Chapman tv Co., bankers and brokers, members of New New York Stock Exchange. In politics he is a Democrat. Business GC17CZi'1'6'SS.' 358 Fifth Ave., New York City. Home ada'1'css.' Larchmont, Wfestchester County, N. Y. BENEDICVT CROWELL was born October 21, 1869, in Cleveland, O. He prepared at St. Paulls School, Con- cord, N. H., taking the Chemistry course at Yale. He attended the Case, School of Applied Science before entering Yale. His father, Wfilliam Crowell, of Cleveland, O., was mar- ried in 1867, and died in Cleveland in 1883.' His father was Judge john Crowell. His niotherls maiden name was Mary Benedict. He married julia Root Cobb, daughter of Lester A. Cobb, December 2o, IQO4, at Cleveland, O. Crowell is now President of the Crowell Sz Peck Rein- forced Concrete Construction Co. He is also a member of the University and Yale clubs, New York City, Cleveland Automobile club, American Society for Testing Materials, California Miners' association, Dominion Institution of Amalganiated Engineering, Canadian Mining Institute, American Institute of Mining Engineers, N. Y., Union, Tavern, Country, Roadside, Cleveland Gun and Gentle- men's' Driving clubs of Cleveland. Buszbzess add1'ess.' 731 VVilliamson Building, Cleve- land, O. Home add1'c5.v: 933 Prospect St., Cleveland, O. X .

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1210612111211-11Es. 43 Wee Burn Golf and Suburban clubs of Stamford, Conn. He has practiced law in Stamford since his admission to the Connecticut bar in 1893, was President of the Stamford Board of Trade, President of the Varuna Spring Water Co. of Stamford, Conn., Secretary of the Cummings Cement Co, of Akron, N. Y., Secretary of the Chickamauga Cement Co. of Rossville, Ga., also officer and director in other cor- porations. He represented Yale in a joint debate with Harvard, at Cambridge in 1892, was President of the Yale Kent club, and member of the Book and Gavel society of the Law School. He also delivered several sundry, political, literary, memorial and patriotic addresses, which were published in various newspapers in Connecticut and else where. He delivered several official messages and docu- ments as Mayor of the City of Stamford. Busiiiiess address: First National Bank Building, Stam- ford, Conn. Home address: Stamford, Conn. LAURENCE ANDREW DODS-WORTH was born April 1, 1870, in New York City. He prepared at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and entered college in the fall of 1888, taking up the Mechanical Engineering course. His father, Nathan Frederick Dodsworth, a graduate of Oxford University, was born in 'England He was married in 1869, and died in New York City, january 27, 1901. His mother, whose maiden name was Alwilda Prouty Dam, was born in 1845, in New Bedford, Mass. She was the daughter of Andrew jackson Dam, of New Bedford, born in 1824 in Maine. Her mother was Hannah Wallag'e of Cambridge, Mass., born in 1822. Mrs. Dodsworth died February 2, 1881, in New York City. He has two sisters: Blanche D. Van Ness, and Isabella, who died in August, 1876. He married at Charlotte, N. C., September 25, 1895, Mary Moore Young, daughter of joseph H. Young, Charlotte, N. C., a graduate of the University of Virginia.