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

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48 cLASs or 1891 S., YALE COLLEGE. His father, Zenas Newton Estes, a planter and cotton manufacturer, with the Z. N. Estes 8 CO., was born Janu- ary 10, 1833, at Estes plantation, near Holly Springs, Miss. His father's ancestors, who were Hugenots, settled about 200 years ago in South Carolina. The French name was D,Este. The genealogy in detail will be found in the 'fEstes Genealogy. In this country they have always been cotton planters. He was married in 1868 and was educated by tutor at home in Memphis, Tenn. He then traveled. He served four years in the Confederate army, was captain in the Forrest cavalry, was wounded three times, com- mended for gallantry, and came out of the army broke. He was also a successful merchant, President of the Planters Compress Co., and was a director of the State National Bank. He died September 15, 19o4, in Nashville, Tenn. His mother, whose maiden name was Janet lfVallcer Col- lier, was born June 15, 1845, at Collierls plantation, near Florence, Ala. Her parents and antecedents were Captain Ralph Collier, first of name in the country-1647-vid. Collier excursus. Goode genealogy by the late Professor Browne Goode of Smithsonian Institute. All of the family were planters except Hy Collier, Governor of Alabama. and later Chief justice in 1840, and Wfilliam VValker, the filibuster, who tried to found a republic where slave-trad- ing would be legal in Nicaragua, when he saw the North would abolish slavery. H He has two brothers: Richard Pinson, who entered Yale with the Class of 1896, but died in Memphis, Tenn., January 18, 1893, and Z. N. Estes, jr. CUniversity of Virginia BL., 18985, also three sisters: janet Douglas CRandolph School, Baltimore, Md., and Miss Ely's, New Yorkj, Edith and Evelyn. He married at Memphis, Tenn., November 22, ISQZ. Evelyn Peters CMiss Cary's School of Baltimore, Md., ISQID, daughter of George B. Peters, a graduate of Leabanon, Tenn., June, 1872, and lawyer of theifirm of

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BIOGRAPHIES. 47 of Republican heritage, reform principles. He received the degree of M.A. from Wfooster University, Ohio, in IQO3, and BD. from Princeton Seminary in 1895. He drilled under Professor Totten while at Yale, won first prize in the Military essay, and holds honorary second lieutenant com- mission. He has been minister in Congregational churches. After leaving Sheff. he turned to Y. M. C. A. work and the minist1'y, studying in Union Seminary, N. Y., and Princeton, was traveling Secretary of the Student Volunteer Move- ment under the Y. M. C. A. in colleges, was licensed to the ministry by the New Haven Association in 1895, and sailed to India, working among student classes in universities of India and Ceylon. He has passed much time in literary work, producing Christian literature for Tamil speaking people, in which language he is very proficient. He spent the year 1904 in the United States. Following is a list of his publications: pamphlet, Supreme Decision of the Christian Student''-International Y. M. C. A., 1894, pamphlet, 'fChristian Stewardship''-International Y. M. C. A., 18955 book, Studies in the Epistles -Y. M. C. A. of India-Calcutta, pamphlet, Modern Revivalsi'-Y. M. C. A. of India-Calcutta, a score of articles and pamphlets in Young Men of India, Foreign Mail, etc., articles in Missionary Review of the W'orld-Neglected Helds of India, etc., etc. Business add1'ess: Care of International Y. M. C. A., Kodai Kanal, South India QMadura Districtj. H 011-10 add-1'ess.' Leavenworth, Kan. WYATT COLLIER ESTES was born March 30, 1870, in Memphis, Tenn. He prepared at Bingham School, Mebane, N. C., and entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year, choosing the Select course. Before entering Bingham he attended the R. M. Rolfe School. VVhile at Yale he spoke at Commencement, and was appointed Class Poet, also historian, but declined.

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BIOGRAPHIES. V 49 VVright, Peters ck VVright, of Memphis, Tenn. They have one child, Katherine Peters, born August 15, 1893, at Memphis. September 28, 1905, Estes became senior partner of the firm of Estes Sz Harwell, cotton brokers. He has written for the New York C0l'll17Z67'C2'CZZ, Memphis C017Z7'716'7'C'lCll, Appeal and the Shreveport Times. He is a Democrat, and is a member of Caddo club of Louisiana, and the Tennessee club of Memphis, Tenn. I Bm-mess address: 126 Milam St., Shreveport, La. H0-me cz.ddress.' 310 Market St., Shreveport, La. GEORGE CHANDLER -FORREST was born August 11, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He prepared at Dr. Charles I-Iearns School, Hartford, Conn., and entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, taking the Mechanical Engi- neering course. VVhile in college he won many first prizes as a canoeist, and at one time held the championship for canoe athletics. His father, Charles Robert Forrest CYale 18655, was born January 28, 1843, in New Orleans, La. He was married October 15, 1868. He is a son of George james Forrest and Sarah A. Hooks of Duplin County, North Carolina, daughter of Charles Hooks, one of the earliest members of the Congress from Wilmington. Mr. Forrest resides in New Orleans, New York and Hartford. He is Vice President of the Connecticut Valley Lumber Co., director of the American Type Founders Co., and several other corporations. His mother, whose maiden name was Harriet Tisdale Chandler, was born April 1, 1846, at Thompson, Conn. She is the daughter of VVilliam H. Chandler CYale I83QD, a member of Skull and Bones society, of Providence, R. I., and Martha Helen Allen, of Pomfret, Conn., a descendant of Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, Governor of Connecticut for sixteen years. 4 X