Class of 1879 Hartford Public High School Mary B. Abbott Lakeside, California Sarah J. Adgate Sharon, Vermont Lillian L. Bissell 34 Willow Street, Hartford *Mary E. Buck *Harriet M. Bundy Josie M. Butterfield (Mrs. Albert Carr) 102 Ashland Avenue East Orange NJ A. Bertha Cambridge 102 Mather, Hartford *E. Louise Carey *Phoebe A. Daniels (Mrs. A. G. Carter) Charlotte W. Dennis (Mrs. Thomas Little) 54 Forest Street Hartford Mary W. Gridley (Mrs. Charles M. Henney) Damariscotta, Maine * Eva I. Harrison (Mrs. Charles B. Thompson) Mary E. Hatch (Mrs. Russell G. Andrews) The Ambassador, 39th Street & Canterbury Road, Baltimore MD Mary C. Henney 32 Vernon Street Hartford *Philena Hibbard (Mrs. Hawley Pettibone) *Genevieve B. Karr (Mrs. J. Aspinwall Hodge) Harriet E. Kellogg 133 Woodland Street, Hartford * Fanny C. Lucas (Mrs. Frank A. Grant) *Isabel L. Mill *Addie Ransom (Mrs. William G. Baxter) Anna B. Rice (Mrs. Lyman W. V. Kennon) 1616 22nd Street, Washington D.C. Elizabeth J. Shephard (Mrs. C. L. Merrell) 14 Blackburn Place, Summit NJ *Eva A. Smith (Mrs. George L. Howe) *Mary E. Taintor (Mrs. Frederick W. Davis) Elizabeth H. Talcott Elmwood, Connecticut *Mary Welch *Mary C. Welles Lucy H. Willard Wethersfield, Connecticut Frank H. Adkins 19 Christopher Street, New York, New York *John R. Ayer Lucius Boltwood 151 Boltwood Drive, N. E., Grand Rapids, Michigan *Charles M. Boswell George Ernest Bowman 9 Walnut Street, Boston, Massachusetts Charles P. Boyle 373 Asylum Street, Hartford *James M. Bunce *Albert Carr Louis Richmond Cheney 40 Woodland Street, Hartford Samuel Beresford Childs 930 Pearl Street, Denver, Colorado Chung Mun Yew 72 Ee May Hong, Kiangsee, Province, Soochow, China Laurent C. Deming 417 Park Avenue, New York, NY *Harry I. Horton *John W. Huntington *Allyn Cooke Loomis *William C. Pease Theodore L. Phelps 1040 South 28th Street, Omaha, Nebraska James Edward Prior 36 E. Cox Street, Boston, Massachusetts *Mark Tucker Robbins *Frank W. Rood *Dennis F. Ryan *Herbert Wilson Thompson *Clarence B. Treat *Tsai Shou Kie *Edward Martin Welch Clarence Horace Wickham The Pines, PO Box 1438, Hartford *Wong Kai Kah Frank D. Woodruff 34 Gramercy Park, New York, New York *Deceased Short Biographies of Members Class of 1879 Mary B. Abbott Lakeside, California After graduation 1879, taught in private schools in around New York City until 1895, when she went to Colorado, a popular resort across bay day from San Diego, California. Here she made her home with her mother and brother, Dr. Abbott, who was the resident physician in the hotel. After three years, they removed to Pasadena, where they stayed until 1916, when Doctor Abbott retired, and they came to Lakeside, a little town in the mountains, 30 miles in San Diego. Sarah J. Adgate Sharon, Vermont Following graduation from the high school, Miss Adgate studied at the New York College Of Pharmacy, receiving the degree of ph. G. Ffor a number of years she was engaged in the drug business in Farmington, Connecticut, but retired some time ago, and has since been living in Sharon, Vermont.. Lillian L. Bissell Hartford Ms. Lillian L. Bissell of Hartford, is well-known is a teacher of instrumental music. She is studied continuity teaches in this country and a broad, among them Villa Whitney White, William Willis, Willem Willeke. Aurelio Giorni, N. H. Allen and Edward Noyes. She became connected with the Hartford school of music in October 1895, following a study of music and German in Berlin, Germany in the summer of that year, and was, for a time, while with that school, accompanist for Emilio de Gogorza. Ms. Bissell was a church organist several years, Chairman of the Music Committee for the International Kindergarten Union for Two Years and introduced the idea of music appreciation is a practical course in the kindergarten, And Carried on Such a Course in the West Middle School Kindergarten in Hartford more bid two years. She also organized the Sunday afternoon concerts under the Mayor's Americanization Committee, which were given at the school of music for several years, and for two seasons at the Broard Street Auditorium. She is made addresses before various organizations, and is a member of several musical and educational organizations. In her travels and study abroad, she has visited England, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. A song, " Wake Not, But Hear Me, Love" written by Ms. Bissell, was published by Oliver Ditson & Company. Her teaching has not been confined to music, but includes English branches. Lillian M. Bogert (Mrs. John W. Strahan) Hartford Mrs. Strahan writes:" It was my good fortune to have been the class Salutatorian 55 years ago. As I look back upon that day in April, 1879, when I extended the greeting of the graduating class to the school committee, the teachers and friends assembled together, I can hardly imagine that the time is passed so quickly. Oh, what happy, happy days we spent together in the dear old high school during those four years which came to an end altogether too soon! Since I bid my classmates goodbye, I have lived a quiet, humble life in this city, thankful for the blessings of health and strength which have been mine in great abundance. I am exceedingly fortunate in the possession of three children, who've grown up into a healthy, educated Christian manhood and womanhood. With these to comfort and cheer me in the eventide of life, I have nothing to fear in the future, striving to lead a life of faith in concentration, which is the only life worth while living. As in 1879, so in 1934, I extend greetings to all who meet to celebrate our 55th anniversary. God bless you, one in all. Mary E. Buck Mary E. Buck, the daughter of Reverend and Mrs. George Buck, And to the Hartford Public High School from the West Middle District. Following graduation, she taught school for a time, but was forced by ill health to give up her work. Ms. Buck died in 1886. Harriet M. Bundy Harriet Mabel Bundy was born on April 5, 1860, in North Springfield, Vermont, the daughter of Horace L. and Lucy M. (Barrows) Bundy. After graduation from the high school, she was in business with her father twelve years, when he retired. Mr. Bundy was long in the photographic business in Hartford, and was the class photographer for the high school class of 1879. Mrs. Bundy died in 1907, and a year later this Bundy accompanied her father on five month trip abroad, and for the next five years made yearly trips, going to Europe, the West Indies, Mexico, California and Nova Scotia. Mr. Bundy died in 1918, and Ms. Bundy then made her home with a friend in Hartford, until her death, which occurred January 19, 1929. Ms. Bundy was deeply interested In the Work of the Goodwill Club, and served as the director. She was a charter member of the town and country club, Hartford, and Was a Member of Center Church. Josie M. Butterfield (Mrs. Albert Carr) East Orange NJ Josie M. Butterfield (Mrs. Albert Carr) was a resident of Simsbury during her school days. Following graduation she taught for several years in around Hartford, and on Feb. 9th, 1888, married Albert Carr, also a member of the class of 1879, and a prominent engineer in subway builder. Mr. Carr died on June 18th, 1924, at his home in East Orange NJ. Mrs. Carr's present address is 102 Ashland Avenue, East Orange A Bertha Cambridge Hartford Annis Bertha Cambridge was pointed Hartford, Jan. 16, 1860, the fourth daughter of Ichabod L. and Samantha (Way) Cambridge. She is a descendant of the Pequot Indians on her mother's side. Her mother was born in Wapping and lived in and attended school in Windsor. Mrs. Cambridge's grandmother was a squaw of the Pequot tribe, and her mother, grandmother of Ms. Cambridge, was an Indian and white. On her father's side, Ms. Cambridge was descended from Narragansett Indians, his grandmother, Abigail Rodgers, whose Indian name was Naby War-Boy, was a squaw of the Narragansett tribe. A number of the families of the tribe move from the Indian Reservation in Charlestown, Rhode Island, and settled in South Glastonbury, where I L. Cambridge was born, Jan. 9, 1825. His grandmother and her sister traveled on foot twice a year from South Glastonbury to Charlestown to collect rent for a house they owned. Ms. Cambridge's paternal great grandfather, Sawnee Anderson, brought on his sloop from Portland, Connecticut, to Wethersfield, the stone for the old state prison at Wethersfield. After Graduating from the Hartford Public High School, Ms. Cambridge intended to go South to teach, but go into her parents objections and her own poor health, gave up the idea. For a number of years she conducted a private primary school at her home mornings, in the afternoon working with her sister, who was a dress maker. Later she gave up this school to devote all her time to dress making. She United with the Fourth Congregational Church in 1875, also for several years she served the Talcott Street Congregational Church and Sunday School as organist and teacher, and was a member of the choir. In August 1882, she became the organist Of the Union Baptist Church of Hartford, Later Becoming pianist for the Sunday School And Young People Society, which position she filled until January 1912. After Resigning from the Union Baptist Church, she joined the Talcott Street Congregational Church, and has served the Church, Sunday School and Y.P.S.C.E. in different capacities, Including Assistant Superintendent, Teacher in the Sunday School, and Clerk of the Church. Ms. Cambridge at present livess with her sister at 102 Mather Street, Hartford. She E. Louise Carey Ms. Carey, during her lifetime, was deeply interested in Church work, and gave much time to this form of service. She was for a number of years a member of the South Baptist Church, Now a Part of the Central Baptist Church, and served in many ways. For eleven years, Ms. Carey was Superintendent Of a Junior Christian Endeavor Society; and for 30 years she was Secretary Of the Women's Missionary Society. She Also Served As Leader of a Circle of the King's Daughters, Treasurer of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society Association of Hartford, and Secretary of the Women's Baptist Mission Society of Connecticut. Ms. Carey was a lover of music, and for many years sung in the choir of her own, and other churches. Ms. Carey died August 20th, 1931. Phoebe A. Daniels (Mrs. A. G. Carter) Phoebe A. Daniels was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Daniels, and came to Hartford from Worcester, Massachusetts. She Entered the Hartford Public High School Sept. 9, 1874, as a member of the class of 1878, but by reason of sickness, she was obligated to leave her class Feb. 9, 1877. After her return to school in January 1878, she joined the class of 1879. Ms. Daniels married Mr. A, G. Carter, and died in 1906. Mary W. Gridley (Mrs. Charles M. Henney) Hartford Mrs. Henney writes:" As memory travels back over the many years since 79, years that have seen so swift in passing, it finds no "great achievements" to record. High school days were ended, but not so the influence of the class motto, nor the lessons learned and friendships formed. For a year there was freedom from school duties, then the experience of teaching for short time in Windsor, and for a few years in Hartford, gave many pleasant associations. My marriage to Charles M. Henney was the beginning of 36 happy years together, most of them spent in Hartford. Affection, family ties and loyal friendships, together with interests and activities which have given opportunity for usefulnessss along various lines; these other blessings which have come into my life, and I look steadfastly forward in the hope and belief that at least some of these blessings will continue to be mine." Eva I.Harrison (Mrs. Charles B. Thompson) Eva I. Harrison was born Sept. 29, 1861, at Hartford Connecticut, the daughter of John and Helen (Quigley) Harrison. Following Her Graduation from the Hartford Public High School in 1879, she was for a time organist at the first Presbyterian Church in Hartford. On June 30, 1884, she was Mary to Charles Babcock Thompson, the son of Charles and Mehitabel (Slate) Thompson. In 1885, they moved to Melrose, remaining until 1889, when they went to New York, living on Madison Avenue and that city for two years, and John Lenox Avenue for five years. In 1896, the family moved to Mount Vernon, New York, and here Mrs. Thompson lived until her death, which occurred April 20, 1925. Mr. and Mrs. time to send had two sons, Marshall Babcock Thompson, and Roy Harrison Thompson. Mary B. Hatch (Mrs. Russell G. Andrews) Baltimore Maryland Mary E. Hatch, class poetess of the class of 1879, returned to her home in Meriden, following her graduation from high school. She remained there until her mother's death in 1886, when she went to Southington to make her home with her sister. She was married in Southington, Jan. 1st, 1892, to Russell G. Andrews. They had one son, Donald Hatch Andrews, who was born in 1898. He is a graduate of Philips-Andover, of Yale, class of 1920; and received his Ph.D. from the graduate school in 1923. Mr. Andrews died in February 1933, and Mrs. Andrews is now making her home with her son in Baltimore MD. Mary C. Henney Hartford Ms. Henney's life sense graduation has been a busy, useful and most interesting one; she was for many years a homemaker for her brother, the Honorable William F. Henney, (mayor of Hartford 1904-1908) until his death in 1928. Philena Hibbard (Mrs. Hawley Pettibone) Philena Hibbard was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hibbard of North Manchester. Mr.Hibbard was a merchant by occupation. After graduation from high school, Ms. Hibbard married Hawley Pettibone, but left only a few years, passing away and 1884. Genevieve Baldwin Karr (Mrs. J.Aspinwall Hodge) Born May 10, 1861, Brooklyn, New York, daughter of William Stevens and Lucasta Ophelia (Noyes) Karr. Married May 29, 1888, 2 Atwood Street, Hartford Connecticut, to John Aspinwall Hodge (Junior), Princeton 1883, son of John Aspinwall and Charlotte (Morse) Hodge. Mr. Hodge died March 22, 1916. Died August 16, 1929, 123 Marvel Road, New Haven, Connecticut, buried in the Morse Cemetery plot, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY. After her husband's death Genevieve Hodge spent most of her time with or near one or other of her daughters, living in New York until 1921, when she went abroad for about a year. She had made New Haven her headquarters, spending part of each year either in Texas or England, and her summers with her sister, Louise Karr, in New Hampshire, until her last year, 1928-1929, when she returned to New York, living with her lifelong friend and sister in law, Mrs. Richard M. Hodge, whose only daughter, Genevieve, was named after her. She had just decided to make her home with her eldest daughter, Charlotte, when she became acutely yellow and died within a few weeks after going to New Haven. She was H. devoted mother and grandmother, absorbed and her children and their children, keenly interested in politics and economics, and alive to all new issues and ideas. She was always an inveterate reader and imbued her children with her love of books and the years in which the habit of reading everything; history, biography and fiction, was firmly formed, while she was with the class of 1879 In the Hartford High School. Her children remember almost nothing of her Hartford home, but it was a great joy to her that her grandchildren were to grow up in New England where her own youth had been spent. Genevieve Karr Hodge is survived by three sisters, Louise Karr, Francis Karr and Helen Karr Ryce, three children and eight grandchildren, as follows: 1. Charlotte Morse (Hodge) Peters (librarian, department of physiology, Yale University) born May 25, 1889, New York City, married June 19, 1915, New York City, to John Punnett Peters (Jr.), Yale University 1908, M.D., John Slade Ely professor of medicine, Yale University, 123 Marvel Road, New Haven Connecticut. a. John Hodge Peters, Yale University 1937, born Aug. 4, 1916, New York City. b. Alice Richmond Peters, born Sept. 6, 1920, New York City. c. Richard Morse Peters, born February 21, 1922, New Haven, Connecticut. d. Charles Hodge Peters, born February 19, 1927, New Haven Connecticut. 2. Louise Karr (Hodge)Lahee, Radcliffe 1911, born July 6, 1890, New York City, married December 23, 1912, New York City, to Frederick Henry Lahee, Harvard University 1904, geologist, 3429 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas TX. a. Genevieve Lahee, Radcliffe 1934, born Oct. 23, 1913, Cambridge MA. b. Henry Lahee, born Sept. 6, 1915, Cambridge, Massachusetts. c. Ruth Holden Lahee, born Sept. 19th, 1917, Cambridge MA d. John Aspinwall Lahee, born Feb. 13, 1921, Dallas Texas 3. Katherine Aspinwall (Hodge) Egerton, Secretary, American Consulate, London, England, born Jan. 26, 1896, New York City, married Nov. 3, 1923, London, England, Col. Frederick Clement Christie Egerton, editor; American Consulate, Cavendish Square, London, England (no children) and Harriet E. Kellogg Hartford Harriet E. Kellogg was born in Hartford,December 2nd, 1858, the daughter of Ebenezer Noble and Lydia Maria (Billings) Kellogg. Following her graduation from high school, Ms. Kellogg taught for a time in a school for boys outside of Saratoga Springs, New York, and also did kindergarten work, teaching a friend's small daughter. She is a member of the Episcopal Church, and has been active in church work for a number of years. Ms. Kellogg is now living at 133 Woodland Street, Hartford. Fannie C. Lucas (Mrs. Frank A. Grant) Fannie C. Lucas was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lucas, who resided 18 Wolcott Street, Hartford; she entered the high school from the South School District. Following graduation, Ms. Lucas married Frank A. Grant of Hartford, and for a number of years they lived in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, where Mrs. Grant died in 1922. Isabel L. Mill Soon after Graduation from the Hartford Public High School and 1879, Ms. Mill went to live in Allen Place, Hartford she was one of four sisters both parents being dead. For a number of years she was associated with her sister, Ms. Charlotte Mill, in a hair dressing and beauty parlor on Pratt Street, Hartford, when they had a large clientele. They were pioneers, in those early days, in an industry which is since become the fifth largest income producing in United States. Ms. Mill was a most diligent and painstaking worker, and strove, with her sister, to establish a reputation which will live after her for many years to come. Her death occurred in 1916, at her home on Allen Place. Addie Ransom (Mrs. William G. Baxter) Addie Ransom was born in Hartford, April 28, 1861, the Daughter of Major Henry C. and Emily (Chapman) Ransom. After graduating from the Hartford Public High School, she was actively interested in the work of the Park Church, under the leadership of Doctor N. L. Burton. She was married to William G. Baxter of Hartford, I Nov. 30, 1887, by Rev. William DeLoss Love. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had two children; a son, John Wells Baxter, and the daughter, Beatrice Ransom Baxter, now Mrs. Elmer A. Robinson. Mrs. Baxter's deep interest in church work continued throughout her life, and she took a prominent part in the affairs of the Pearl Street congregational Church, and its successor, the Farmington Avenue Congregational Church, during the pastorate of Doctor William DeLoss Love. Mrs. Baxter died Sept. 5, 1927. Anna B. Rice (Mrs. Lyman W. V. Kennon) Washington, D.C. Mrs. Lyman Walter Vere Kennon (Ms. Anna B. Rice) writes: "I married a soldier, the late General Kennon, then the adventures began. With great energy, unusual ability and high purpose, one important detail succeeded another. For years I' followed this valiant swiftly moving figure, Utah Indian reservations, North, South, East, West, Central America, Europe, Cuba, the Philippines, China, Japan, Korea, South America, Alaska, Hawaii, our Mexican border; circling again and yet again this round globe, the life of changing impressions and ideas." Elizabeth J. Shephard (Mrs. C. L. Merrell) Summit, New Jersey Following her graduation from the high school, Elizabeth J. Shephard taught school for two years, having as she wrote," the unusual ambitions of in 18-year-old girl, namely to do big things." After two years as a high school teacher, she married Mr. C. L. Merrell. For a number of years they lived in Meriden, Connecticut, we Mr. Merrell was engaged in the drug business. Mr. and Mrs. Merrell had two children, a daughter Irene E., who is now Mrs. George R. Martin, and a son, Leslie C. Merrell, who is in business in New York. There is also a grandson, Richard K. Merrell. After Mr. Merrell's death, several years ago, Mrs. Merrell went to live with her daughter in East Orange, later moving to Summit, New Jersey. Eva Augusta Smith (Mrs. George L. Howe) Eva Augusta Smith was the daughter of Mrs. Fannie M. Smith, whose home was at 11 Myrtle Street, Hartford. She entered the high school from the West Middle District. Several years after her graduation, Ms. Smith was married to George L. Howe. Mrs. Howe died in 1916. Mary E. Taintor (Mrs. Frederick W. Davis) Mary E. Taintor (Mrs. Frederick W. Davis) was born in Hampton, Connecticut, on Oct. 8, 1860. In 1872 she was sent to boarding school, where she remained for two years, and then entered the Hartford public high school with the class of 1879. She was married on Oct. 1st, 1884, to Frederick Wendell Davis of Hartford, (Yale University 1877) and lived here since that time, for a number of years at 79 Vernon Street. Mrs. Davis had three children, and a step son: Carl Willis Davis (Yale University 1902 and M.A. Yale) now living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is married and has one daughter; Dorothy Wendell Goodwin (Smith 1907) married James Lippincott Goodwin, (Yale 1905 and B.S. Yale Forestry 1911) Roger Wolcott Davis (Yale 1911 and Yale Law school 1913). He is married and has three sons. Frederick Ellsworth Davis, (U.S. Naval Academy 1913) Now Lieut. Commander. He is married. All of these children, as well as their parents, were graduated from the Hartford Public High School. Mrs. Davis died Sept. 18, 1933. Elizabeth H. Talcott Elmwood Mr. Elizabeth H. Talcott was graduated from Smith college in 1885, and was a student (English literature and history) at Oxford (1894 -- 1895);(pedagogy) teaches college, 1899; (Latin) Chicago University, 1901 -- 1902. She was a teacher in secondary schools from 1886 to 1884, principal of a private school from 1896 to 1898, and instructor in Latin in the Wadleigh High School, New York City, 1901 to 1909. Ms. Talcott has made several trips abroad. She was a student at the Clarence M. White's School of Photography in 1915 and 1916, and is a member of the Pictorial Photographers of America. Mary Welch Ms. Welch entered the high school, April 18, 1875, at the age of 13 years, and two months, after graduation from the Brown School. One of her classmates describes her as a modest, gentle soul, one of the hard-working students of her class, and her scholarship record during her high school days was excellent. Ms. Welch died 1886, living only seven years after her graduation. Mary G. Welles Ms. Mary G. Welles was born in Newington, Connecticut, Nov. 1, 1860, the daughter of Roger and Mercy Delano Aikin Welles. She was valedictorian of the class of 1879, maintaining a reputation for scholarship which he had back in the Brown School, from which he entered the Hartford Public High School in 1875, with the standing which made her second among the more than 200 applicants for admission. She was graduated from Smith College in 1883, being one of the "pioneers" among girls as a college graduate, Ms. Elizabeth H. Talcott, of ' 79, being another graduate of Smith, both Ms. Welles and Ms. Talcott receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Northampton. In 1904, Ms. Welles received the degree of Dr. of Philosophy from Yale University. For a number of years she taught in high schools in colleges. In 1907 she accepted the position of General Secretary of the Consumers League, which he still held at the time of her death in 1929. The League, which has its headquarters in Hartford, takes a prominent part in the effort to secure proper working conditions in hours for women, and is interested in child welfare movements. Ms. Welles was particularly active during sessions of the Legislature in promoting such legislation as the League is interested in. in 1909, Ms. Welles was sent abroad, to investigate the vocational opportunities for children under 16 years of age, and visited about 80 schools in Belgium, Germany, Holland, England and the United States. On her return she prepared a book entitled "A Glance At Some European And American Vocational Schools for Children Under 16 Years of Age. This was published by the League and was widely distributed. She was also the author of a number of pamphlets for the League. Lizzie H. Willard Wethersfield Following graduation from high school, Ms. Willard talks sometime in a "village school". Later she took a stenographic course, and for several years had an office position. For the past ten years, Ms. Willard has been living at her home in Wethersfield, and has become, as she expresses it: "somewhat of a farmerette". Frank H. Adkins New York City Frank H. Adkins was born March 5th, 1860 in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the son of Frederick A. and Mary Murphy Adkins. After his graduation from high school, he worked as a machinist in Hartford until 1901. He next went to Springfield, where he remained for nine years. In 1910 he returned to Hartford, leaving in 1923 to go to New Haven. In 1925 he moved to New York, where he is now living, his address being numbere 19 Christopher Street. He was married in Hartford, on April 16, 1896, to Ms. Ella H. Daniels. They have one son, Nelson F. Adkins, who is an instructor at New York University. John R. Ayer John Rogers Ayer was born at South Killingly, Connecticut, Feb. 15, 1856, and was the oldest son of Reverend Charles L. and Mary Bishop Ayer. After leaving the high school he entered Amherst College, graduating in 1883. The next served as secretary to a cousin, who was interested in large orcharding projects and in 1885 went with two brothers on a large farm in Sturbridge, Massachusetts where he remained for two years. During this time, he married Caroline Rankin, of Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Reverend Edward E. Rankin, for many years pastor of the Congregational Church of Fairfield, Connecticut. He next engaged in work as a civil engineer for the New York Central Railroad, and later, in Yonkers, New York, was employed in surveying and plotting a great tract of land in adjoining Van Cortland Park, New York. His last years are spent in Richmond, Massachusetts, where he died in 1909. Lucius Boltwood Grand Rapids, Michigan Lucius Boltwood, whose father, Lucius M. Boltwood, was librarian of the Young Men's Institute, the predecessor of the Hartford Public Library, many years ago, was born July 27, 1862, at Amherst, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Yale University (academic) in 1883, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and then took the three-year course in Yale Law School, being graduated in 1886, receiving the LL.B. degree, cum laude. He stood second in his law school class, and received the O.S. Seymour prize in his junior year for passing the highest examination, and was one of the Townsend speakers at graduation. In November 1886, Mr. Boltwood went to St. Paul, Minnesota, but since February 1887, he has lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he is associated with his brothers, George S. Boltwood (H.P H. S. 1878 in Yale University 1882, Yale Law School 1885) and Charles W. Boltwood (Yale University 1890 andYale Law School 1892) in the law firm of Boltwood M. Boltwood. Mr. Boltwood married Sept. 1, 1890 Ms. Etta M. Comstock of Grand Rapids, who has been prominent in the Democratic Party of Michigan, having been a candidate on its state ticket, and a member of the Democratic National Committee for a years. Two children were born to Mr. & Mrs. Boltwood; Lucius Comstock Boltwood, (May 3, 1894) and Chester Guild Boltwood (April 19, 1896). The former died in France, Oct. 14, 1918, in the World War. Chester G. Boltwood, who was graduated from Yale University in 1925, is with the Boltwood law firm in Grand Rapids. Mr. & Mrs. Lucius Boltwood live at 151 Boltwood Drive, N.E., and Chester lives opposite them, with his wife into children, Chester McBride, born November 20, 1925, and Barbara Comstock, born July 1, 1927. Charles M. Boswell Following graduation from the Hartford Public High School, Charles M. Boswell entered Yale University, where he continued to maintain his high standard of scholarship of his Hartford high school days. After he been at Yale for two years, he was taken ill, and died. A former classmate at Yale writes:" he is held in affectionate remembrance by all who knew him in college. This brief career may be summed up in these few words:" Charles M. Boswell walked with God, and he was not; for God took him." George Ernest Bowman Boston Massachusetts George Ernest Bowman was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Jan. 5th, 1860, the son of Reverend George Augustus & Ernestine (Lord) Bowman.. He is a descendant of Nathaniel Bowman, who settled at Watertown Massachusetts in 1630, and of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower, 1620; also of Thomas Prence, 18 times Governor of Plymouth Colony, and Thomas Hinckley, nine times Governor of Plymouth Colony. Mr. Bowman was graduated from Yale University in 1883, receiving the A.B. degree, and is unmarried. He has devoted 38 years to the study of the history of the Mayflower passengers, and the complitation of the Mayflower genealogies, planned to include every descendant of the passengers. In 1896 he founded the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, and has since been it's secretary; he was the founder in 1899, and has since been editor of the Mayflower Descendant, a quarterly magazine; the founder (1913) and editor, Pilgrim Notes and Queries (monthly magazine 1913 -- 1917). He was founder (1895) of the Boston Chapter, sons of the American Revolution, it's first secretary, and second president; deputy governor, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1927 -- 1936; in 1915 was elected an honorary life member of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, and in 1920 of the California Society of Mayflower Descendants. He is a life member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati; Massachusetts Society, Sons of the American Revolution; Pilgrim Society of Plymouth; Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association; Standish Monument Association; Old Colony Historical Society; Society of Colonial Wars; Order of Colonial Governors; Boston Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution; New England Historic -- Geological Society; and is a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Mr. Bowman is a Republican, a Congregationalist and a Mason. His a member of the Yale, and Boston City Clubs. He was the compiler (1904) of the Vital Records of Brewster, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Halifax, Massachusetts (1905); Gravestone Records in the Ancient Cemetery in Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Massachusetts (1906); Governor William. Bradford's Letter Book (1906); The Mayflower Compact and It's Signers(1920); Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts (1933). His offices located at No. 9 Walnut Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles P. Boyle Hartford Charles P. Boyle was born November 24, 1859. Following his graduation from the Hartford Public High School in 1879, he went to Ireland, in 1880, for the study of languages. He also attended for a time the Christian Brothers where he studied vocal and instrumental music. He was employed as an accountant by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad until 1910, and from the time until 1929, he worked is a private tutor. He is not been in active business since 1929. James M. Bunce James M. Bunce died in 1883, four years after his graduation from the Hartford Public High School. Albert Carr Albert Carr was born in Collinsville, April 13, 1859, the son of Rodney Carr and Esther (Pettibone) Carr. Following graduation from Hartford Public High School in 1879, he entered Yale University, the graduated in 1883, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At the time of his death on June 18th, 1924 at his home in East Orange, New Jersey he had long been well-known is a civil engineer, having been in charge of important engineering projects in Mexico, California, Colorado and elsewhere. Mr. Carr went to Buenos Aires in 1913, the retained by J. G. White & Co. to collect data and make investigations regarding subway work in that city, and making a report of the same at the London office. He did no construction work in either city. Mr. Carr was first employed on the Hartford and Harlem Railroad survey in Connecticut, going in 1885 to Brooklyn, New York, and working for the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, the Long Island Railroad in the union Elevated Railroad, rising from rodman to assistant engineer in charge of all field work of the last named railroad. He became division engineer on the Broadway Cable Railroad, New York City in 1891. He was then in the employee of the Broadway Railroad Company, the Metropolitan Traction Company and the Metropolitan Street Railroad in New York, his responsibilities steadily increasing until in 1897 he became a principal assistant engineer of the Metropolitan, in charge of all field work. Mr. Carr built about 90 miles of cable and underground electric road, and did much miscellaneous work on power houses, car barnes, etc.. From March 1900 until January 1905, Mr. Carr was division engineer Of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, having charge of the construction of the first division of the New York Subway, from Bowling Green to Forty -- Second Street. He Next Went to Mexico, As Manager of Construction of the Mexican Light and Power Company for its hydroelectric development at Mecaxa, State of Pueblo, this been the largest water power development in the republic, furnishings light and power to the city of Mexico, and a large mining district. In December 1906, Mr. Carr took up the work of rebuilding the street railway system in San Francisco, following the earthquake, The Chief Engineer of United Railroads. In September 1907, he left California to go to Colorado is superintendent of construction for the Central Colorado power Company of Colorado Springs. The next year he returned to New York, where he gave this time to the work of a consulting engineer, acting in that capacity for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York, and other important clients. During the WorldWar he was in charge of building operations at Camp Sherman, Ohio. At the time of his last illness he was engaged in supervising the new 42nd Street subway, and the extension of the Queensboro Subway. Mr. Carr was elected an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineer's on March 2, 1892, and a member on Oct. 7, 1903. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and the Yale Club of New York. Mr. Carr married, Feb. 9, 1888, Ms. Josie Maria Butterfield, who had been a classmate at the Hartford High School, and who had been a resident of Simsbury in the school days. Eight children were born to them, of six are living: Joanna, married Wilbur A. Swain, ex. '15, M.I.T.; Katherine, Smith '13, married Clyde Morton Wilson, Dartmouth '11; Robert, Michigan College of Mines ' 21; Rodney and Allen died in infancy; Laura, Smith '19; Lucy, Smith '23; Isabel, Clifton Springs Training School '23; married Philip W. Tieman. Louis Richmond Cheney Hartford Louis Richmond Cheney was born at South Manchester, Connecticut, April 27, 1859. His father, George Wells Cheney, was a member of the Cheney Brothers, silk manufacturers of the town. His mother was Harriet Kingsbury (Richmond) Cheney. The family is a English origin, the name "Cheney" being one of the earlier surnames in use in England, the present branch of the family coming to the United States and 1636, in the person of John Cheney. Louis R. Cheney was educated in the schools of his native place and at the Hartford Public High School. In 1879 he began his commercial activities with Cheney Brothers in Manchester, later entering their mills at Hartford, after which he was for four years in their sales department in New York City. Mr. Cheney has always been active in public affairs, having been Councilman and Alderman in Hartford for five years, was Col. and Quartermaster -- General of Connecticut from 1895 to 1897, and was the seven years Major, Commandant of the First Company, Governors Foot Guard (from 1898 to 1903 and from 1907 to 1909). He was elected Mayor of Hartford in 1912 and was State Senator from 1915 to 1917. He was President of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, 1915 -- 16 and 1923 -- 24. He was also a director of the Connecticut River Banking Company, of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Hartford Electric Light Company, Colts Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, the Phoenix and Connecticut Fire Insurance Companies, the Automatic Refrigerating Company, Connecticut River Bridge and Highway District. He is a trustee of the Hartford -- Connecticut Trust Company, the American School for the Deaf, the Institute for the Blind, the Hartford Retreat for the Insane and the Loomis Institute. He is President of the Hartford Hospital, the Hartford Morris Plan Bank, and Honorary President of the Hartford Council of Boy Scouts. He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the American Revolution, former Governor General of the Society of Colonial Wars, former Commander of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and a member of the Mayflower Society and of the Order of Founders and Patriots. Mr. Cheney is likewise a member of the Hartford Club, the Hartford Golf Club, the The Union League Club of New York, and of many sports men's clubs, in and out of the state. He has been chairman of the several Red Cross Campaigns since 1917. Mr. Cheney was married on April 16, 1890 to Mary Alice Robinson, daughter of the late Lucius F. Robinson and Eliza (Trumbull) Robinson; they for the parents of one daughter, who is now Mrs. John T. Roberts. Mrs. Cheney died May 8, 1926. On December 8, 1933, Mr. Cheney was married to Mrs. Margaret Bennett Crain, the widow of Robert Crain, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, Maryland. Samuel Baresford Childs Denver, Colorado Samuel Baresford Childs was born in East Hartford, November 5th, 1861, the son of Doctor Seth Lee and Juliet Wood Childs. His early education was obtained in one of the district schools in his native town, and he passed the entrance examinations for the admission to the Fourth Class, H.P.H.S.in April 1875, and graduated with the class in 1879. He entered Yale in the fall of 79, and obtained his A.B. degree in 1883, and his M.D. degree in 1887 from the University of the City of New York. He served as an intern and the Hartford Hospital and 87 -- 88 and after a few months and post graduate work in New York City, opened an office in Hartford, where he remained in practice until 1895, when he went to El Paso, Texas, for his health, and six months later to Denver, Colorado. During his practice in Hartford, he was one of the police surgeons and surgeon to the fire department, and in addition acquired quite extensive private practice in Hartford and adjoining towns. He resumed practice in Denver in 1898, and was invited by Dr. George B. Packard to she his suite of offices. Dr. Packard was a former distinguished orthopedic surgeon in Hartford for several years prior to his coming to Denver in 1889. It was while associated with Dr. Packard that he began to specialize in x-ray diagnosis and treatment, the specialty he is followed since 1902. He was Professor of Anatomy and the Denver and Gross Medical College from 1900 -- 1911 and has been Associate Professor of Roentgenology and the University of Colorado Medical School since 1911. His hospital appointments include:Roentgenologist, St. Joseph's Hospital; Consultant Roentgenologist, Colorado General Hospital, Denver General Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and National Jewish Hospital. He is a Fellow of the American College Radiology and was President of this organization in 1895; is a member of the American Medical Association, the Radiological Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Colorado State Medical Society (President 1928 -- 1929) Denver County Medical Society (President 1917), Colorado Yale Association (President 1927). He has contributed numerous articles published in current medical journals. He married Henrietta Wilett of West Hebron, New York, in 1890 (died 1906), one son, John Wood Childs, graduated Colorado Agricultural College. Married Ane Starling of Henderson, Kentucky, Sept. 2, 1908. One son, Samuel Baresford Childs, Jr., who graduated from Yale, Academic, 1931, and is now in a second-year Yale Medical School. Residence: 930 Pearl Street. Office: Metropolitan Building, Denver. Chung Mun Yew Soochow, China place of birth --Chungshan District, Kwongtung Province date -- January 14, 1861 education: In his native language in classics and a slight knowledge of the English language prior to sailing for America in 1872 Studied in New England schools preparatory to matriculation into Yale in 1879. Returned to China before graduation, but subsequently received the B.A. degree from that University. After his return to China, Chung spent the first few years as Interpreter and the Foreign Office of the Shanghai Customs Taotai, who at one time loaned his services to honorable F. D. Cheshire during his tenure of office as U.S. Acting Console General, under whom Chung got on Uncle Sam's payroll for 23 months. After a few years spent in the employ of an American firm in Tientsin, where he gained much experience in the shipping business, Chung became enrolled in the government railroad service under the late Dr.Wu Ting-fang. In 1893 Chung entered the diplomatic service and got on the suite of the Chinese Minister at Washington,Yang Yu, where he served as Secretary and Interpreter of the Legation for 10 years. In 1903 Chung was promoted to Spain to take charge of the Legation at Madrid as Charge d'affaires of China. In January 1904, Chung was transferred from Spain to Manila, where he, as Console General, looked after the interests of China in the Philippines until August 1905, when he returned to China to take up an appointment as Adviser on foreign affairs under the Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai at Tientsin. In 1906 Chung was dispatched to Shanghai as official representative of the Director General of Railways, the Honorable Tong Shao Yi, to supervise the construction of the Shanghai --Nanking Railway; on the completion of which he was appointed by the Ministry of Communications to take charge of its operation as Managing Director, a post which he held for 10 years, with the intermission of a few months in 1908 -- 1909, when he was detached for service says First Secretary of Embassy to the Ambassador Tong Shao-Yi in his special mission to the United States, Japan and the several Great Powers of Europe.Chung filled the position of managing director of the China Merchants Steamship Company in 1907 -- 10 and that of the Shanghai --Hangchow-Ningpo Railway in 1914 -- 16 concurrently with his directorship of the Shanghai --Nanking Railway. After resigning from these positions of heavy responsibility in 1916 in a few months of rest, Chung accepted in 1917 the appointment of Commissioner on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Board which position, entailing no arduous work or heavy responsibility, he held for another 10 years. In 1920, under appointment by the Ministry of Finance as Chairman of the National Mint Organization Committee, Chung devoted his entire attention for several months to the task, with the very valuable assistance of the American mint expert, Mr. Hewitt, whose timely services he secured on the completion of his engagement with the Philippine mint authorities. After having drawn up the general outline of a scheme for a mint of the desired coinage capacity and secured the option of a suitable site, Chung resigned to accept a position as one of the counselors of the Chinese delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Washington in 1921. After his return from America in 1922, aside from his connection with the S.N. Railway, as one of the Commission's, Chung was called to serve on various committees in Peking; the Wei-Hai-Wei rendition conference in 1923, the Tariff Conference in 1924 -- 5 and others. In college Chung was admitted into the Delta Kappa Epsilon Greek letter fraternity, Phi Chapter, of Yale, in 1881. Chung took part as coxswain in a number of boat races during his years in Yale, including inter -- class races and eight oar, four mile university races at 2 annual regattas between Yale and Harvard. Although Chung always came in at the tail end of the boatl, he was fortunate to be sitting with the winning crew in every race. In 1889 he was made a master Mason, and member of Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, D.C., taking in subsequent years in Shanghai the highter degrees up to the attainment of the 32nd degree of the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. Chung was married in 1886 to Miss Tan, a sister of Yew Fun Tan of Yale 83. She died in 1894 during Chung's absence in Washington. She was survived by a daughter and a son, Daniel McClean Chung, who graduated from Yale Sheffield College in 1912, and has been engaged in various capacities in the locomotive department. Of several government rail ways and North China ever since his return to China in 1913. Chung's second marriage took place in 1906 in Shanghai to Miss Mark, who is the mother of three sons and five daughters. Three of the daughters are married, and to I still studying in St. Mary's Hall Seminary in Shanghai. One of the sons died when two years old. The other two are attending school in Soochow. Decorations, marks of honor received from Chinese government; Red Button of the second rank of Taotai. Order of the Chia Ho, 2nd Grade (Peking Republican Government). Order of the Tiger, 5th Grade (Peking Republican Government). Medal of High Merit (Peking Ministry of Communications). Decorations from the respective sovereigns of Austro-Hungry, Germany, Italy, Russia and France. (Received in 1909). Laurent Clerc Deming New York City Laurent Clerc Deming, class orator on '79's Class Day, and treasurer in senior year, was born in Hartford, Nov. 21, 1860, the youngest son of the late Honorable Henry C. Deming, lawyer and noted orator, and his wife, Sarah (Clerc) Deming. Mrs. Deming was the daughter of Laurent Clerc, A.M., a French gentlemen, who with Dr. Thomas H.Gallaudet was one of the fundus of the American Asylum for the Deaf in Hartford, and the first teacher of the Deaf and Dumb in America. Hon. Henry C. Deming served as mayor of Hartford from 1854 to 1858, and again from 1860 to 1862, residing in order to accept a commission in the Civil War; this is believed to be the only instance of the resignation of a Mayor of Hartford. At the beginning of the war, he was asked by general Benjamin F. Butler to organize a regiment in Connecticut to form a part of the Brigade which Gen. Butler and others, had previously been War Democrats, were raising in New England for Butler's New Orleans expedition. Col. Deming accepted and early in 1862 was commissioned by Gov. Buckingham Colonel of the 12th Connecticut Volunteers and left on Feb. 8, 1862, with his regiment to accompany General Butler to New Orleans. Upon the surrender of that city, Col. Deming was appointed provisional mayor, and filled this office until January 1863, when he resigned both with his civil and military positions and returned to his home in order to run for Congress, it being felt that he could render even more valuable service in this capacity,. In the spring of 1863, he was elected by the Republican Party representative from the First (Hartford) District in serve for four years in the 37th and 38th Congress, in which he took a prominent part in the conduct of the War, and introduced and sponsored the resolution appointing Gen. Grant, Lieutenant General. After graduation from Yale college in 1883, our classmate entered Railway business in Florida, where he resided from 1884 to 1889. In 1889 he became connected with the Atchison Railroad Company in New York and in 1890 was appointed Assistant Secretary of that Company and resided in Boston until 1896, when the present Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company was formed and the offices moved to New York. Since then he has been Assistant Secretary of the Company and Clerk of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and in 1924 was elected Comptroller in charge of the New York offices, which are now located in the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway. He is director of several Corporations and charitable institutions, and a member of the Atchison's affiliated Companies. He is a member of the University, New York Yacht and Yale Clubs of New York, and the Skull and Bones and Graduates Club of New Haven, and his unmarried. He resides at 417 Park Avenue, New York City. Harry I. Horton "Harry I. Horton was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Jan. 9, 1862, the son of Harry Wilde and Sylvia Azora (Gay) Horton. He came to Hartford when a boy, and was educated in the West Middle School, and at the Hartford Public High School, from which he was graduated in 1879. Immediately after his graduation, he became a clerk in the bookstore of Brown and Gross, predecessors of Belknap and Warfield, at 77 Asylum Street. For several years remained at the bookstore, leaving to enter the employ of the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. He remained here from 1884 until February 1903, working his way up from junior clerk to supervisor of the reinsurance department. May 1, 1904 he entered the editorial department of The Courant, reporting city news until 1914, when he became city editor. In September 1925, he became an editorial writer for The Courant, a position which he held until his death. In addition to editorials, Mr. Horton daily wrote the widely read "Lighter Side" by H.I.H. Mr. Horton was also widely known as a humorist, and for many years in addition sold his witticisms and abounding humor to Life, Judge, Puck, London Punch and many other publications. He was an authority on local in national political history, his mind was encyclopedic concerning political statistics, and the main currents of political thought in United States; and concerning his hobby, which was baseball, he was no less an historian and enthusiast. Mr. Horton was a man of indefatigable application to newspaper work, and of never failing enthusiasm for its tasks. Until long after he had completed his 21st year with paper, it was his custom to chide weaker spirits in the office with the observation that never had he remained away a single day because of illness, and while he was city editor, Mr. Horton's working day, by his own choice, was seldom less than 15 hours. Mr. Horton was keenly, even passionately interested in the politics of the wards, school districts and city, and was forever trying to help the men of good intention in politics and honest performance in public affairs. He was intolerant of the frauds, and never tired of flinging darts their way, and as a reporter, keeping informed of their tricks to expose them. One seldom finds any man so interested in the politics of a city was not looking for something for himself, but Mr. Horton never accepted any of the many chances he had to secure office. He was perfectly content to boost the other man, and remain, himself, mailing the news gatherer. For this reason, and because of his integrity and unusual ability to keep it to himself the secrets of others entrusted to him, he was the confidant of many men in public life. Mr. Horton married, February 6, 1925 Mr. Viola Collins, formally a teacher in the of the South District, and the daughter of James M. Collins of Hartford, widely known citizen, and for years a leader among the men of the G.A.R." (from the Hartford Courant, Oct. 28, 1929) Mr. Horton died Oct. 27, 1929, and Mrs. Horton survived only a short time, passing away the spring of 1930. John W. Huntington John W. Huntington was born July 28th, 1859, in New Haven Connecticut. The family moved to Hartford in 1864, and Mr. Huntington was graduated from the Hartford Public High School in 1879. He then entered Trinity College, and graduated in 1883. He was a Phi Beta Kapa man. After graduating from Trinity, he studied at Stevens Institute, at Hoboken, New Jersey, but was taken ill. and went to Florida in hope of regaining his health. He died in Florida, Nov. 22, 1893. Allyn Cooke Loomis Allyn Cooke Loomis is born in Windsor, Connecticut, Nov. 21, 1860. After graduation from the Hartford Public High School, he entered Yale University, and was graduated in 1883, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the fall of the year of his graduation from college, he went to St. Paul, Minnesota is a tutor of the class of 6 boys. He died in that city, June 20, 1884, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. William C. Pease William Church Pease is born in Warehouse Point, Connecticut, July 31, 1861, the son of Henry and Anna (Church) Pease. In 1863 the family moved to Hartford, establishing their home at 38 Charter Oak Place, Mr. Pease living in the same house until his death in 1926. His first business venture after leaving the high school, was with the old "Bee Hive" a prominent dry good store of the time, located at the corner of Main and Temple Streets, and what was then the Cheney Building, and is now the Brown, Thompson Building. The store was owned by William H. Bulkeley, who later became Lieutenant -- Gov.. Mr. Pease went with Smith, Northam and Robinson, a large grain concern, in December 1880; he remained here about 13 years, until January 1, 1894, when he formed a partnership with his brother, Charles A. Pease, a graduate of the Hartford Public High School in 1875, in the grain house of C A Pease & Co. Travel always was of interest to Mr. Pease. He went abroad several times, and in 1924, with sister, Ms. Laura B. Pease, made a trip around the world. He was a member of St. John's Church, the Church Club of Hartford, the Hartford Club and the Hartford Golf Club. Mr. Pease died at his home in Hartford, on Aug. 13, 1926. Theodore L. Phelps Omaha, Nebraska Theodore L. Phelps, who lived in the town of Windsor during his high school days, is a direct descendant of William Phelps, who came to this country in 1630, and settled in Windsor in 1635. Among his ancestors were Edward Griswold, from whom two Governors of Connecticut were descended; Thomas Buckland, Benedict Alvord, Thomas Barber, Nicholas Palmer and William Hayden, all of whom took part in the Pequot War; and William Gillespie, who fought in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Phelps is also a descended from Joseph Loomis, emigrant on the "Susan and Ellen", Peter Brown, emigrant on the "Mayflower" and John Hoskins, emigrant on the "Mary and Jane". Other ancestors of Mr. Phelps are John Drake, also ancestor of Governor Roger Wolcott; John Ellsworth, ancestor of Chief Justice Ellsworth and Governor Ellsworth, and Matthew Grant, from whom General U.S. Grant was descended. Fourty-four generations ago, through the Lyman family an ancestor by the name of Cerdic founded a settlement in 495, on the cost of Hampshire, England, and in 519 assumed the title of King of the West Saxons. Fourten generations later he was followed by Alfred the Great, and then by Richard Lyman, the emigrant in 1680. In 1883, for years after his graduation from the High School, Mr. Phelps went West. The early summer was spent visiting relatives in Illinois, Kansas and Eastern Nebraska. Later he went into the range country in Western Nebraska, Eastern Colorado and Southern Wyoming, thinking that he might enter the business of cattle raising. He followed, he writes," the gentle art of cow punching" in the summer and fall of 1883. Finding no place where he wanted to locate a ranch, Mr. Phelps returned to Eastern Nebraska at the beginning of the winter. Here he secured a position in the engineering department of Burlington Railroad, and has since then located to Omaha, engaged in maintenance work on the Chicago, Burlington in Quincy Railroad. James Edward Prior Boston, Massachusetts James Edward Prior was born in Plainville, Connecticut Nov. 9, 1860. He attended the Plainville Graded School, and was transferred to the Hartford Public High School in the spring of 1876. After his graduation from the H.P.H.S. he attended Holy Cross College, graduating from that institution in 1882, with the A. B. degree. Upon leaving college, he was engaged in business, especially as a railroad accountant, for twelve years. He then entered University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland and was graduated in 1896, with the M. D. degree. Dr. Prior located at once in Boston, on Beacon Hill., and has remained there, practicing his profession, his address being 36 Hancock Street. Mark Tucker Robbins Mark Tucker Robbins was born Jan. 11, 1861. Following his graduation from High School he entered business college, in upon completing his course, he was employed by the W. H. Post Carpet Company in Hartford. In 1888 he married Ms. Harriet Julia Hanmer of Burnside. In 1892 he went to Lee, Massachusetts, to engage in the writing paper industry, being connected first with the Eaton, May & Robbins Paper Company, and then for 20 years serving very successfully as manager of the Hurlburt Division of the American Writing Paper Company. He was a trustee of the Lee Savings Bank in the director of the Lee National Bank, and was president of the Latter for 16 years. He served the community in many other ways, holding official positions in the historic Congregational Church at Lee, the Public Library Association, Greenock Country Club, and Visiting Nurse Association, and was recognized as a man of outstanding business ability in character. His main hobby was genealogy. His death occurred on August 3rd, 1924, his widow continues to reside in Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins had two children, a son and the daughter, both whom are married. There are two granddaughters and 3 grandsons, one Mark Tucker Robbins, 2nd. Frank W. Rood Following graduation from the Hartford Public High School, Frank W. Rood entered the employee of the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. From March 1881 to Aug. 1882 he was a member of Company F., First Infantry, Connecticut National Guard (Hartford City Guard), and was discharged when he left Hartford to go to Tennessee. He was married a May 10, 1882 to Ms. Ida W. Larrabbe of Hartford, and a number of years ago moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he continued in the employ of the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company, and where he died in 1923. Dennis F. Ryan Dennis F. Ryan received his early education in a private school, conducted some years ago by the Christian Brothers, later entering the Hartford Public High School, and graduating with the class of 1879. Following graduation he took a course at Hannum's Business College, and was for a number of years bookkeeper at Marston's Lumber Company. Later he was for a time reporter on the Hartford Globe, and then returned to his former position with the Marston Company. This was last position he held, as he was an invalid for a number of years prior to his death in 1901. Herbert Wilson Thompson Herbert Wilson Thompson was born May 16, 1858 at Strykersville, New York, the son of Arba U. and Frances Warner Thompson. The family moved to Avon, in this state, when he was about three years old, and here he attended the district school, going to Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 12, to live with an uncle, who was a physician, whom he accompanied on his professional calls, studying in his carriage while waiting at the homes of patients. This he did for two winters, working on a farm summers. Mr. Thompson went to school one winter in New Britain, while living with a physician, and earned his board by taking care of the furnace and horses. In February 1873, he came to Hartford, and attended the School, entering the Hartford Public High School in 1875. Owing to illness, he was forced to give up the work by which he was paying his way for school, and he lived for a time in the home of his classmate, Clarence H. Wickham. Mr. Thompson joined Company F., First Infantry, Connecticut National Guard, (Hartford City Guard) in 1879, the year of his graduation from high school, and served with the militia seven years, making several trips with the company. After graduation, he worked in the office of the Connecticut Valley Railroad in Hartford, then at the foot of Ferry Street. After the company was taken over by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, the office was moved to Union Place, opposite the railroad station, and he continued there until 1887, then taking a place with Tiffany & Smith, who were in the Weston mortgage loan business. On the death of C. H. Smith, Jr., in 1894, Francis R. Cooley, who had been in the stock brokerage business about three years, added Mr. Smith's business to his own and Mr. Thompson then entered the employ of Francis R. Cooley & Company remaining with this firm for 40 years. Mr. Thompson married, in 1886, Ms. Annie Marshall Hardie, daughter of William Kier and Mary Collins Hardie. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson had two daughters and seven grandchildren. Mr. Thompson died at his home in West Hartford on February 18, 1934. Clarence B. Treat Clarence B. Treat was the only son of Owen and Lucy Treat of East Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated with high honor and scholarship; and his conduct was such, during the four years, that he will be remembered as the incarnation of true nobility and greatness. Unselfishness, kindness, appreciation and consideration for the other fellow, were his outstanding characteristics. Immediately after graduation from the High School, he began to teach in a district school in Hockanum. Here he remained until 1896, when he became assistant to the principal of the Glastonbury Free Academy. In 1900 he removed New York City, and taught in public schools until 1916, when he went to Washington, D.C., and became connected with a private school. He returned to New York in 1918, and died there the same year. His body was brought to Hartford, and buried in the Hockanum Cemetery. Mr. Treat never married. He wasreticent and retiring to a marked degree. In a letter which has been preserved, Mr. Treat, who has been suddenly bereftt of his betrothed, opens to his friend the contending hope and despair of his grief, in such touching word says these: "O my friend, in the midst of my sorrow, there are yet last moments when I vividly feel what a love ours was, and that surely this love is eternal, and it is impossible that God can destroy it: for God himself is love." Tsai Shou Kie Tsai Shou Kie entered Yale University, following his graduation from the Hartford Public High School in 1879. He was unable to complete discourse, however, being recalled in 1881, when the Empress Dowager feared, as he told it; "lest too much new learning would be dangerous to ancient China". After his return to China, he became a student interpreter to the Tientsin customs taotai, Chow Fu, who was later viceroy of several provinces. His salary at that time was equivalent of about $ 2.50 a month in American money, this however, included his board and lodging. He was afterward a clerk for the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company and an English translator for the Great Northern Telegraph Company. Next he taught English in a night school. He then went to Korea is a foreign secretary and atache to Resident General Yuan Shih-k'ai, who later became President of the the Republic of China. After three years service, he received the rank of magistrate. In 1893, Tsai became associate director of the Chien-p'ing gold mine, and the next year came the war with Japan and the hostilities in Korea resulted in his losing all his worldly goods after the war, and forced into making the start. He was next appointed director of Peiyang University in Tientsin, which he was instrumental in establishing with Dr. Charles D. Tenney. While at the University he held various official positions, and left the institution when it was temporarily suspended its work in 1900 on the account of the Boxer uprising, in which the former H.P.H.S. student lost all his worldly goods once more. Between 1897 in 1900 he had the distinction of being the first and only Chinese member of the British Municipal Extension Council. In 1903 he was appointed director of foreign affairs in Tientsin, and also adjunct commissioner of the native customs. In 1907 he was made substantive customs taotsi at Newchaung, a position which correspondent to that of the Port of New York. He also acted as judge for the civil and criminal cases. He was transferred to Tiensin to be customs taotai there, with the additional duties of aide-de-camp to the viceroy of Chihli Province and commissioner of Coast Defense. In 1911 he was called to Peking by the Imperial Government to be senior deputy vice president of the Board of Foreign Affairs, a place which he held until the downfall of the empire that year. He declined in 1912, the governorship of Mukden, and the next year he said "no" to the offer of the post of Chinese Minister to the United States. He retired from active business life several years ago, but until his death gave part of his time to the interest of real estate companies of which he was the director. He was twice married. His first wife died in 1902. He had eight sons, eight daughters, four granddaughters and six grandsons. Three of his sons have been students at American educational institutions, and two of his daughters are married to men who have been students in this country. As indicative of the important part played in his native land by this Hartford High School graduate, it is worthwhile to call from the letter of Oliver McKee, a classmate of Tsai at Yale University, whose life has been given to journalism and letters, into travel much abroad in the interest of the "Encyclopedia Brittanica" and at one time, when in the Far East, had headquarters at Tientsin. About 15 years ago, Mr. McKee wrote of his classmate: "Tsai occupies the most important official position in Tientsin, a city of over 700,00 inhabitants. His duties as taotai correspond to those of Mayor, Treasurer, tax assessor and tax collector of an American city. His position has considerable diplomatic significance, and he is very popular among the foreign presidents." In early letter Mr. McKee wrote: "Tsai is director of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Tientsin and the right hand man of Viceroy, China's strongest in most progressive official. Tsai has been much responsible for the educational progress of North China." Tsai Shou Kie died at his home in Tientsin, in June 1933. Edward Martin Welch Edward Martin Welch was son of George M. and Eliza (Kellogg) Welch, born February 5, 1861. He entered the High School from the Second North School, and after graduating studied architecture and civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later he took art, and made it his vocation. He was associated with Frederic Crowinshield of Boston, as a designer of stained glass. They went to New York in 1886, remaining until 1892, when they went abroad for ten years, spending much of the time in Paris and Venice, in art study and watercolor painting. Mr. Welch made New York his home, but went abroad frequently. He was recognized to New York is a watercolor artist of great ability, and excelled also is a colorist. He possessed a genial disposition, and made many friends and kept them, being for several years a member of the Players Club.Crowinshield & Welch were pioneers in the field of designing glass; and their most notable work was Gallaudet Memorial Window in Center Church, Hartford. Mr. Welch never married. He died in New York City, Dec. 30, 1913 and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford. Clarence Horace Wickham Manchester, Connecticut Clarence Horace Wickham was born on Jan. 12, 1860, at New Haven, Connecticut, the only son of Horace John and Fylura (Sanders) Wickham, of Manchester. His childhood was passed to New Haven, Watertown, New York, and at Springfield, Massachusetts, in which places his father was a mechanician, engaged in the armories, or firearms industries. With the closing of the Civil War, the family settled in Manchester, and after having lived there for six years, moved to Hartford. Before entering to High School, he attended to Brown School for one year, and the Second North (now Henry Barnard) for three years. He participated in the High School graduation exercises with an essay on Barnard Taylor, entitled "The Lesson of a Life". He was appointed corresponding Secretary of the class of 1879 by Principal Joseph Hall, and has retained a place ever since. He was prominent in athletics, especially in football, playing on the school team his fourth and third class years, in his junior and senior years he was captain of the team. During a part of his high school days, he was connected with the Plimpton Manufacturing Company at Hartford, serving under his father, and after graduation, continued with the company, and later became the Supervisor of the Stamped Envelope Division. This connection continued 23 years. Mr. Wickham became Secretary in Treasurer of the Hartford Manila Company, formed and 1881, which later became the Wickham, Manufacturing Company. He was also for years Secretary and Treasurer of the Hartford, Manchester and Rockville Tramway Company. Mr. Wickham served two terms in the Hartford Court of Common Council as republican councilman from what was at that time the First Ward, 1885 -- 1887. In 1896, Mr. Wickham, with his parents, returned to Manchester, where they builta a country home, in which has since been the family residents. Also in 1896, on the first of many journeys to foreign lands, Mr. Wickham met Ms. Edith Farrell McGraft, daughter of ex-mayor Newcomb Farrell McGraft of Muskegon, Michigan, on June 26, 1900. He was a member of Company F. (Hartford City Gaurd) First Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, from 1879 to 1892, the last 2 1/2 years as captain. In 1924, he was Major of the Veteran Battalion. He was president of the Col. Jeremiah Wardsworth Branch, Connecticut Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1911 -- 1913; president of the Connecticut Society, Sons of the American Revolution 1916 and 1918. He was Governor of the Connecticut Society of the Founders and Patriots of America for two terms, 1916 and 1918; and president of the Automobile Club of Hartford, 1917 and 1919. He served as president of the Republican Club of Hartford in 1925 -- 1927, president of the Connecticut Society, Sons of the Revolution in 1928 -- 1929. Besides these organizations and which Mr. Wickham has held office, he is a member of the Society of Colonial Families, of the General Society of Colonial Wars, of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, of the Order of Indian Wars, of the Connecticut Historical Society. He is a Republican, a Congregationalist, a Mason, (Knight Templar, 32nd Degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine). Clubs of which is a member include the Republican, Automobile, Rotary, Get Together, 20th Century, Hartford Club, Wampanoag Country Club, Sunset Ridge Country Club, Yorktown Country Club of Virginia, and the Midland Golf and Country Club, Midland, Ontario, Canada. For many years Mr. would come has greatly enjoyed travel, has visited every state in his own country several times. In 1925 -- 1926 he made a continuous journey around the world, by way of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. In 1919 -- 1920 if is it was paid to China, Japan and the Philippines. In China, Mr. Wickham had several reunion's with his classmates, Mr. Chung Mun Yew (Shanghai) and Mr. Tsai Shou Kie (Tientsin) and got in touch with James Wong (Peking) son of Wong Kai Kah (1879). He also met on several occasions, Liang Tun Yen, of the class of 1878. He has traveled in Alaska and South America, and one especially interesting visit included Iceland and Spitsbergen, coming down, as it were, via Norway and Sweden. In 1927 -- 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Wickham spent nine months in a journey around the world. The later part of 1931, a visit was made to Central Europe, ending in the Near East, and finding them in the Holy Land and for the Yuletide Season. They have several times motored to California and back. Mr. Wickham's Treasurer of the Alumni Association of the Hartford Public High School. As Secretary of the class of 1879, he has been instrumental in getting the members together for their 40th, 45th and 50th anniversaries, and is greatly looking forward the 55th anniversary gathering on June 25th, 1934. Wong Kai Kah Wong Kai Kah, a member of the first group of Chinese students to come to this country, and to deal University following his graduation from High School in 1879, but was recalled, with the other Chinese students, by the government in 1881. However, in 1904 he received his degree (Bachelor of Arts) from Yale. After returning to China, he made his home in Shanghai. He was Secretary of the Chinese Embassy at the coronation of King Edward, VIII of England, and was Chinese vice -- commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. On a number of visits to this country he met old friends and classmates.Kai Kah's death in 1906 cut short a brilliant career. The daughter who was studying in this country at the time, was a guest at the 1924 reunion of her father's high school class. Frank D. Woodruff New York City After graduating from the Hartford Public High School, with the class of 1879, Mr. Woodruff entered Trinity College. Because of the death of his father, he left college in 1882, and entered the office of the Hartford Engineering Company, the successors of the old Woodruff and Beach Iron Works, where he remained several years. Late in 1888, on account of poor health, he took a long sea trip on a sailing vessel, landing in Buenos Aires, in returning to New York on the same vessel in 1890. Upon returning to New York, he entered the educational publishing business, he continued and it until 1926, when owing to ill health, he retired from active work. He has since lived in New York City, spending most of his winters in the South.