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

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WILLIAM HORACE PELTON Died August 28, 1905

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90 CLASS or 1891 s., YALE COLLEGE. connection with the tunnel under the East River from Ravenswood, L. I., to Sixty-third St., New York City. The construction of this tunnel was largely under his direc- tion. Later he was connected with the engineering division of the American Gas Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. About three years ago he entered the Lowell Gas Co., where he remained until the time of his death. He was Assistant Engineer on the Chicago 81 Alton R. R. in 1891, held the Same posi- tion with the Burlington Sz Missouri River R. R. in 1892, took a post-graduate course in Yale in 1893, in which he received the degree of Civil Engineer, was draughtsman for the VVillrian1 Wlmartoii, Ir., 81 Co., from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1898, was Assistant Engineer for the East River Gas Co., New York, in 1896, same position with the United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, in 1898-99, same position with Westcliester Lighting Co., Mt. Vernon, N. Y., from 1900 to 1902, Superintendent for the same company at Yonkers, N. Y., from 1902 to 1904, and then took the last position of his life as Superintendent for the Lowell Gas Light Co., Lowell, Mass., from 1904 to 1906. He was a member of the Congregational church, the American Gas Institute, and the Guild of Gas Managers of New England. Z: WILLIAM HORACE PELTON was born January 12, 1870, in Hartford, Conn. He prepared at the high school of Hartford, and entered college in the beginning of Fresh- man year, taking the Mechanical Engineering course. Wliile in college he was a member of the Berzelius society and Freshman crew. His father, Williain Norcott Pelton, a wholesale merchant of Hartford, Conn., was born january 25, 1835, in Port- land, Conn. His parents were Chute Pelton and Lydia Norcott. The first of the family came to Boston in 1635. He was married in 1863.

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92 CLASS OF 1891 s., YALE COLLEGE, His mother, whose maiden name was julia Goodwin Still- man, was born July 15, 1837, in Hartford, Conn. Her parents were Peter Deming Stillman and Julia Goodwin. Her ancestors came from Cambridge to Hartford in 1636, among them being Governors Wfelles and Wfebster, Richard Freet, Wfilliam and Gyais Goodwin, and Rev. Samuel Stone. He had two sisters: Edith Chester CColumbia University BS., IQOSD, Julia Louise, who died December 28, 1875. Pelton, after graduation, was in the employ of fffhomson and Houston Electric Co.j, General Electric Co. at Lynn and Boston, Mass., but since 1893 had been with the Hart- ford Eire Insurance Co. He died of heart trouble at his home, August 28, 1905, at the age of 35 years. He was unmarried, and his parents and one sister survive him. He was a member of the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, Colonial club of Hartford, and several clubs for sports. In politics he was a Republican. He was Secre- tary of the Yale 1902 club. GEORGE NATHANIEL PRENTISS was born November IO, 1868, in Wfatertown, WVis. He prepared at Racine Grammar School, Racine, Vlfis., and Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, Mass., and entered college in the beginning of Freshman year, taking the Chemistry course. He says that while he was in college he was a plain dub.U His father, Theodore Prentiss, a lawyer, and graduate of the University of Vermont, was born September IO, 1818, in Montpelier, Vt. He is the eighth son of Judge Samuel and Lucretia Prentiss. Judge Samuel Prentiss was U. S. Senator and Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He was the first Mayor of VVatertown, Wfis., being elected three times, was a member of both constitu- tional conventions of XNisconsin, and a member of the Legislature of WVisconsin in 1861. He resides in Wfater- town, Vt. He was married December 4, 1855.