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

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B1o0RAPH1Es. 6 I His mother, whose maiden name was Harriet Clinton Collins, died January 25, 1902, in Cincinnati, O. He has six sisters, all of whom are living, also one brother, 'William Collins C Harvard 1887J. - He married Georgie M. Aldrich of Birmingham, Ala., daughter of Truman Hemenway Aldrich, May 27, 1896, at Washiiigton, D. C. He is a graduate of the Troy Poly- technic Institute, and a consulting engineer and coal miner of Birmingham, Ala. They have two children: Eleanor, born August 22, 1900, and Truman Aldrich, born February 18, 1903. Herron became President and General Manager of the Royer VVheel Co. in January, 1902. In politics he is a Republican. 1 Business adciress: The Royer VV heel Co., Cincinnati, O. Home add1'ess: 1808 Dexter Ave., Cincinnati, O. ROBERT GIBSON HILTON, son of John and Anna L. Turner Hilton, was born June 26, 1868, in Newburgh, N. Y. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and entered college in the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Civil Engineering course. After graduating he was engaged as a civil engineer, and since 1902 had been in the office of the United States Engi- neer at Savannah, Ga. He was killed at Savannah, May I9, 1903, by jumping from a balcony of St. Joseph's Hospital to the street below. Hilton had been ill for several days with intermittent fever, and on the morning of May I8 went to the hospital for treatment. The next morning, after a restless night, he stepped from his window to a balcony and jumped to the ground 30 feet below. His skull was fractured and he died instantly. He was 34 years of age and unmarried. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a Republican. He left to mourn his loss, two brothers: John Ralph, of Yale, and 'William Txurner, also one sister, Mrs. F. C. Balfe.

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60 cLAss or 1891 s., YALE COLLEGE. he was in the engineering department of the C. C. C. Sz St. Louis Railway, during which time he had full charge of the construction of the present terminals of that road at Indianapolis, Ind., which cost over a half a million dollars. Erom 1893 to 1897 he was with the Vandalia Railroad Q Pennsylvania systemj, in the latter year reconstructing the terminals of that road destroyed by the cyclone of 1896 at East St. Louis. In 1897 he opened an office as consulting engineer in East St. Louis, Ill., doing a general civil engi- neering business. I-Iis line of Work has been principally sewerage and electric railway. I-Ie has made surveys for all the electric railroads that have been contemplated in southern Illinois,-about 5oo miles in all, and has con- structed a number of them. In IQO2 he built for the St. Louis Cotton Compress Co., what is said to be the largest cotton warehouse in the World, at East St. Louis. Since locating at East St. Louis he has done considerable invest- ing in real estate, so that now his real estate interests far exceed those of his profession. B17-Lsivzess address: 230 Collinsville Ave., East St. Louis, Ill. Home ada'1'ess.' 614 N. 13th St., East St. Louis, Ill. JOHN WILLIAMSON HERRON, JR., was born May 16, 1870, in Cincinnati, O. I'Ie prepared at W'ood- ward I-Iigh School, Cincinnati, and entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing th-e Mechanical Engineering course. I-Iis father, John Wfilliamson I-Ierron, an attorney, of Cin- cinnati, O., and a graduate of Miami University, was born May Io, 1827, in Shippensburg, Pa. I-Ie was married March 7, 1853. I-Ie held the office of United States District Attorney during the last half of President I-Iarrison's administration, was a member of the Ohio Senate for two terms, and President of the Board of Trustees of Miami University, Oxford, O. 4 I

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ROBERT GIBSON HILTON Died May 19, 1903