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

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BIOGRAPHIES. 8 1 N. Y., from which he joined a regiment at Chickamauga, Tenn., at the outbreak of the Spanish VV'ar. He was Regi- mental Commissary at Tampa, Fla., and had charge of Co. C, 25'Cl'1 Infantry, during the expedition to Cuba. He led his company in a charge on the blockhouse at El Caney, July 1, 1897, and in all the skirmishes in front of Santiago until the surrender. He was stationed in North Dakota, Montana, Kansas, Texas and Arizona. He resigned his commission as First Lieutenant in March, 1899, on account of ill health, due to fever contracted in Cuba. He taught mechanical and civil engineering in New York University in 1900, went to California on account of sickness in 1902, and taught military tactics and mathematics in the Harvard School, Los Angeles, Cal., in IQO2-O3. l-le was appointed Major in the California National Guard, and has been Instructor in Mathematics in Morgan School, Clinton, since 1904. B I'L.S'li7Z6SS address: Morgan School, Clinton, Conn. Home address: Wfestbrook, Conn. PAUL FOX MURDOCK, the Class boy, was born Sep- tember 17, 1892, in Ft. Bufort, N. D. Wfhen two months old he came to Connecticut with his mother. ln August, 1893, he went to Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in 1895 to Ft. Assiniboin, Mont., in 1897 to VVillets Point, N. Y., and in September, 1898, to Denver, Colo. From Denver he went to San Carlos, Ariz., then to Connecticut in 1899, to Florida in 1902, Los Angeles, Cal., and back to Connecticut again in IQO3, so that he has been in nearly every State in the Union. His school life has been pretty well broken up, so that for his age he may be a little behind, but he has made up in scholarships what he has lost in grade. The following letter to the Class from President George F. Eliot, Ir., of Morgan School, Clinton, Conn., where the boy is at present, speaks for itself: 6

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So CLASS or 1891 S., YALE COLLEGE. He married Rose Lewis, daughter of Samuel Lewis, deceased, February 10, 1898, in New York City, and has two children: Lewis, born February IO, 1900, and Marian, born August 6, 1902. Munz has been President of' the Northeast Texas Railway Co. since March 2, 1903. In politics he is a Republican. P87'77ZU7l,C7'If mailrizrzg address: Texarkana, T-exas. I JOHN STEVENS MURDOCK was born June 7, 1866, in Wfestbrook, Conn. He prepared at the New Haven Military School. He took Freshman and junior years in the Class of 1890 in Biology. He entered ,QI in junior year, taking the Mechanical Engineering course. His father, Matthew Griswold Murdock, was born March 4, 1816, in VV'estb1'ook. He was a son of Peter and Bathsheba Murdock, Americans, -Scotch descent. He died June 22, 1898, in VVestbrook. He was a farmer and boat builder, and lived in 'Westbrook His mother, Mary Ann Stevens, was born August 14, 1822, in Clinton, Conn. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Stevens and Margaret Kelsey, Americans. She died in Qctober, 1878, in Wfestbrook. He married Pauline Saxton Fox CMorgan High School '87D, daughter of David Austin Fox CN. Y. U. Med. School '52j, a physician, November 6, 1891, in Clinton. They have one son, the Class boy, Paul Fox, born September 17, 1892, in Ft. Buford, N. D. Murdock was appointed Instructor in Mathematics in Morgan School, Clinton, in September, 1904. He is a mem- ber of the Republican party, the Congregational church, and the Masonic order. He has also had a brilliant military career. He passed a competitive examination and 'entered the United States Army as Second Lieutenant of infantry in October, 1891, and graduated from the Ft. Leavenworth Infantry and Cavalry School in 1895 Ctwo years' coursej. In 1897 he attended the School of Mines at Willets Point,

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