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(II) Zachariah, son of Mordecai and Eliza- beth (Hawkins) Marks, was born in Derby. June 28. 1,34. and died in Milford, August
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>5, 1802. He located near the "Marble Quarry," in Milford, and his land was di- vided by the Indian river. He died suddenly of "heart trouble," and left a good estate. He married Mary Bryan, bom in Milford. in 1736. daughter of Richard and Sarah ( Treat) Bryan. the former born in Milford in 1707, died there February 19. 1702, the latter born in Milford, June 6. 1699, died November 12. 1748; granddaughter of Richard and Sarah ( Platt ) Bryan, the former born in Milford in 1666. died January 18. 1734. the latter born in Milford. September. 1073: great-grand- daughter of Richard and Mary ( Pantry) Bryan, the former born in England, the latter born in 1629. married in Milford in 1640: also granddaughter of Joseph and Frances (Bryan ) Treat, the former born in Milford in 1662. died August 6. 1731, the latter born in Milford in 1668, died in 1703 ; great-grand- daughter of Governor Robert and Jane ( Tapp) Treat. the former born in England in 1622, died July 12, 1710, the latter born in England in 1628. Children: Abraham, see forward: Comfort, married Josiah Pardee : Content. married James Downs: Edward. probably died young.
( III ) Abraham, son of Zachariah and Mary (Bryan ) Marks, was born in Milford. No- vember 23, 1765. He inherited the home- stead and resided on it until his death. He was a very industrious man. a mechanic as well as a farmer, and there was a mill on the river at the rear of his house which he util- ized as a workshop in stormy weather. Some of his grandsons inherited this mechanical tendency and have achieved eminence in the manufacture of artificial limbs and kindred necessities. Mr. Marks owned a tract of land of about two hundred acres in the town of Bethany, and there he pastured his young stock, of which he had numbers, during the summer months. He was noted for his in- tegrity and for the stanch support he gave to the Protestant Episcopal Church, at which he had been a regular attendant and every Sunday within his memory. as he was fond of telling. He married Content. born in Mil- ford. September. 1768, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Buckingham) Merwin. John Mer- win was born in Milford in 1734 and was descended from Miles Merwin. born in Eng- land in 1623. died April 25, 1607: Elizabeth ( Buckingham) Merwin was born in Milford, April II. 1738, died in 1833. descended from Thomas Buckingham. born in England. Chil- dren: 1. John. see forward. 2. Abraham. married Mary, a descendant of John Bur- well. a founder: he died young, leaving son Abram. 3. Nehemiah, went to Ohio at the
age of twenty-one years, and married Clarissa Palmiter : he prospered and left numerous de- scendant -. 4. Content, accompanied her brother to Ohio, and married Cyrus Palmiter, of Stratford, brother of her brother's wife. 5. Levi, born in Milford, February 8. 1792, died February 21, 18So; lived on a farm in Waterbury twenty years, then removed to Bethany, where he spent the remainder of his life. His children were all born in Water- bury : the three eldest attended the Academy. and all became teachers. He married. April 18. 1813, Esther Tolles Tuttle, born in Wood- bridge, Connecticut, December 23. 1792, died in New York. January 12. 1858, daughter of Amasa and Esther ( Tolles) Tuttle, and a descendant of William and Elizabeth Tuttle. the immigrants. Children: i. Mary Esther. born October 20, 1814. died August 2. 1800: commenced teaching at age of sixteen years and was so successful that she continued in this occupation as long as her strength per- mitted her to do so; she is well known as both a prose and poetical writer, the greater number of her writing's have a religious ten- deney, and were productive of excellent re- sults. ii. Minerva Content. born May 18. 1817, married January 1. 1837. Elia, Newton Clark. iii. David Beecher, born November 9, 1819. married, in Hallsport, New York. November 9. 1846, Seraphina Helen Hall. iv. William Levi. born August 27, 1822. died March 10. 1832. v Amasa Abraham. horn April 3. 1825, married. in New York, August 22. 1850. Lucy Ann Platt. vi. Eliza Jennette. Born July 13. 1828, married (first ). January 21, 1853. in New Haven. George H. Clinton, who died July 2, 1879, ( second ), December 1. 1881. Jairus F. Lines, who was graduated! from Yale Medical School in 1862, received his commission from Governor Buckingham as assistant surgeon in the civil war, and con- tinned in service until the close of the war.
(IV) John, son of Abraham and Content (Merwin) Marks, settled in Harwinton. Con- necticut, and was a prosperous farmer. He married Anna Fenn ( see Fenn).
(\) Julia Ann. daughter of John and Anna ( Fenn) Marks. married Michael Bronson ( Bronson VID).
(The Fenn Line).
(I) Benjamin Fenn. the immigrant ances- tor. was of great prominence in the affairs of Milford, as well as those of the entire colony. He was first of Dorchester and probably came to this country in 1630 in the ship "Mary and John," with Governor Winthrop. He served as assistant governor from 1665 to 1672. He was the owner of large estates
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both here and in Aylesbury, England, and died in 1672. He married ( first ) Sarah, who was baptized in Aston, Clinton. Bucks county. England. 1621. died 1063, daughter of Syl- vester and Sarah ( Bryan ) Baldwin. He mar- ried ( second). March 12, 1004. Susannah Ward, or Wood, who died in 1675. AAmong his children were: Benjamin. married the only daughter of Jasper Juun, M. D. : James. see forward.
( II ) Lieutenant James Feun, son of Benja- min, was born May 14. 1072, and died in 1754. He married Joanna Prudden, born in May, 1676, daughter of Samuel Prudden, born 1644, who married. December 31, 1669. Grace Judson, born February 19. 1051. Joanna (Prudden) Fenn was the gran ldaughter of Rev. Peter Prudden, who was born in Eng- land in 1600. died in July, 1666. He owned a good estate in Edgeton, York county. Eng- land, and for many generations his heirs te- ceived renis from the same. He came with Rev. John Davenport to Boston : was in New Haven in 1638: in Milford in 1639, where he was the first pastor. He married. in Eng- land, Joanna Boyce, who died in 1651. Will- iam Judson, grandfather of Grace ( Judson ) Prudden, was born in Yorkshire, England, and died in New Haven, Connecticut, July 29. 1662. He came to New England in 1034: was first in Concord, then removed in suc- cession to Hartford, to Milford in 1639. to Stratford, to New Haven. He married Grace who died in 1659. Joseph, son of William and Grace Judson. was born in Eng- land, in 1619. and died Octorer 8. 1690. He was ensign and lieutenant during King Phil- ip's war. and deputy from Stratford in 1055. He married, October 24. 1644. Sarah. bora in 1627. diedl March 16, 1697, daughter of John and Rose Porter.
(III) John, son of Lieutenant lames and Joanna (Prudden) Fenn. was born in 171.4. and died September 4. 1703. He married Susanna, born in 1727, died February 13. 1,09. daughter of Gamaliel and Susanna Gibson.
(IV) Isaac, son of John and Susana , Gib- son) Fenn, was born in February. 1778. and died November 16, 1824. He married Anna Hotchkiss, born in 1788. died in 1872.
(V) Anna, daughter of isaac in Auns (Hotchkiss) Ferm, married John Marks. Chce Marks IV ).
William Cheney, the immigrant CHENEY ancestor, probably born in Eng- land in ifix. was a very early resident of Roxbury. Massachusetts Bay Col- ony (now included in the city of Boston). One record fixes the date of his death as June
30, 1667, and the church record gives it: Died. "1667, month 5 day 2, William Cheany Sen." The records show that he was a land- holder and resident at Roxbury before 1040. In that year or the year before he owned twenty-four and a half acres of land there, and there are land deeds which show that he possessed other tracts. His homestead lay in a bend of the old highway. now Dudley street, near its junction with Warren street. In 1045 the Roxbury Free School was found- ed, and the name of William Cheney is found on the list of subscribers to the school fund, also among the few who specially guaranteed the town the payment of their yearly contri- butions. Late in 1664 he was chosen a mem- ber of the board of directors, or "ferfees." of this school. In 1648 he was elected a inem- ber of the board of assessors, and February 23. 1653, as one of a committee to raise a certain sum for the maintenance of the min- ister. In 1654-55 he was one of the two constables, and January 10. 1656-5;, was a member of the board of selectmen. May 23. 1666, he was made a freeman of the colony. He was admitted to full communion of the church, March 5. 1664-65. and his wife. April 22. 1644. His wife wa. Margaret After his death she married (second) a Mr. Burge or Burges, and was again a widow before 1670. She spent her last years in Boston, but was buried in Roxbury. July 3. 1686. Children: Ellen, horn in England about 1626; Margaret, married, April, 1050. in Roxbury. Deacon Thomas Hastings ; Thom- as, mentioned below : William : John, Septem- ber 29. 1639. in Roxbury: Mehitahel. June I. 1643. in Roxbury: Joseph, June 6. 1647, in Roxbury.
( II) Thomas, son of William Cheney. was probably born in Roxbury. there being no record of his birth or death. January 29, 1654-55, he was one of a committee appointed by the town to inspect the hounds between Roxbury and Dorchester. Somewhat Inter he selected a spot on the south side of the Charles river, within the limits of Cambridge at that time, hut later included in Brighton. and made his home there. The deed of his earliest pur- chase of land is dated April 26 2650: his second. December 20. 166 ;; his third. Feb- ruary 10. 1665-66. When the town of Cam- bridge divided the pasture lands, February 27, 1664. he received ten acres and two cow commons : in a later division, in 1683, he had five acres. In 16he he was one of the sur- vevors of highways in Cambridge: in ty one of the signers of a petition to the general court for the conservation of Cambridge rights and privileges. He became a freeman, with
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his father, May 23, 1666. In 1675 he served in Captain Johnson's celebrated Roxbury com- pany of soldiers, who marched from Boston, July 6, 1675, for Mount Flope, the stronghold of the Indians, and rendered very efficient ser- vice in December of that year. After his father's death, in 1667. he returned to Rox- bury to live with his mother, and continued there some years. April 13. 1684, three of his children. Thomas, John and William, "owned the covenant" in the Roxbury church. llis last years were spent in Cambridge. and his will was dated November 6, 1093. at Charlestown. March 4. 1604-95. the inventory of his estate, amounting to one thousand and sixty-four pounds, was presented by the widow and Mr. Fessenden. He married. January II. 1655, in Roxbury. Jane Atkinson, of whose birth and parentage no record has been found. She may have been a sister of Theodore At- kinson, of Boston, or a daughter of Thomas Atkinson, of Concord. She died. it is sup- posed, July 29. 1724. in Cambridge. Chil- dren: Margaret. November 26. 1656, mar- ried Nicholas Fessenden. one of the most effi- cient and prosperous men of the town : Thom- as. December 25. 1658: Mehitabel, February 20. 1660: John, 1662: William, June 30. 1663 : Mary. 1664: Jane. June 3. 1667 : Joseph. Feb- ruary 16, 1670; Hannah. July 6. 1673: Benja- min, mentioned below : Ebenezer, November 2, 1678.
(III) Benjamin, son of Thomas Cheney. was born January 20, 1675, died July 13, 1718. He lived in Cambridge, and in 1718 conveved to his brother-in-law. Josiah Cheney, of Med- field, certain lands in Cambridge, and all the interests which he or the children of his first wife might have in the estate of her father. In Cambridge he owned a homestead with house and barn and fifty-two and one-half acres of land, besides woodland, pasture and meadow lands. The appraised value of his estate was nine hundred and forty-eight pounds at the time of his death. but a second appraisal, in 1726, gave considerably larger Estimates. Administration on his estate was granted to his widow. January 9. 1718-10. He married ( first ) his cousin Mary, daughter of Joseph Cheney. of Medfield, born June 23. 1683. died October 31, 1705: ( second ). No- vember 14. 1706. Mary Harbert, who survived him. and married (second) Michael Felsshaw. of Killingly. Connecticut, and she died May !5. 1,60, at Ashford. Connecticut. Children : Mary. born April 21, 1701. died in infancy: Benjamin. September 7. 1703: Mary and Han - nah (twins), October 23, 1705 : Thomas, about 1708: Joseph. November 2, 1710: Ebenezer. about 1711, died about 1731 : Ruth, born about
1713: John, mentioned below : William, about 1717 : daughter, 1718. died before 1724.
(IV) John, son of Benjamin Cheney, was born in Cambridge about 1715-10. Ile re- moved some time after marriage to Roxbury. The time is determined approximately from the date when the selectmen of the latter town "warned" him and his family. December 28, 1750, a legal way by which a town se- cured itself against paupers. Both he and his wife were members of the church. He died intestate in 1758. The inventory of his per- sonal effects was presented at once, also an estimate of lands for which he had bargained with his brother, Colonel Thomas Cheney, rated worth two hundred and forty-two pounds thirteen shillings four pence. The will of his widow was dated March IS, 178 !. He married (published ). September 2, 1738. Martha, born February 20, 1;19. daughter of William and Martha ( Wyeth) Fessenden, of Cambridge: she was also a descendant of Thomas Cheney through his daughter Mar- garet. Children : Mary, born before 1744; Thomas, mentioned below : Lucy, January 9, 1755.
(\') Thomas (2). son of John Cheney, was born May 20, 1751, in Roxbury, died May 20. 1835. He went, when quite young, to live with his uncle, Colonel Thomas Cheney, of Dudley, and became almost a son to him. IIe lived in that part of old Dudley which was afterward included within the limits of South- bridge. He married. May 18. 1769, Eunice, born February 9. 1752, died February 18. IS33. daughter of Amos Gleason, of Charlton. Children: John. mentioned below : Thomas, born July 21, 1771: Sally, August 6. 1773: Mary, Angust 18, 1775: Lucy. January IS. 1778: Leonard, March 18, 1780: Joel. March 3. 1782: Hiram, March 3, 1784: Charles. No- vember 9, 1786: Eunice, July 22, 1789: Cla- rissa. July 31. 1791 : Hannah, May 12. 1793.
(TT) Jolin (2), son of Thomas (2) Cheney, was born November 19. 1769. in Sturbridge. Massachusetts, died at Xenia. Ohio. February 2. 1858. During the early years of his mar- ried life, and for many years later, he lived in Rowe. . Massachusetts. then removed to Xenia. Ohio. He married ( first ). January 12 1794. Luria, born December IS. 1774. (sec- ond), June 1847. Isabel Morris, widow. Chil- dren : John, born January 25. 1706: Lura. Amtrust 16, 1798: Polly. July 20. 18ot : David. October 17, 1803 : Lucy W., January 12. 1806; Laban Clark, mentioned below : Eunice, March 29. 1810. died December 17. 1826.
(VII) Rev. Laban Clark Cheney. son of John (2) Chenev, was born March 20, 1808. in Southbridge, Massachusetts, died April 15,
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18644, and was buried at Xenia. Ohio. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and preached at New Britain, Derby and other towns in Connecticut. He lived for some time in Vicksburg, Mississippi. where his eldest son was born; later in New York City. He was chaplain of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, a nine months' regiment ; was discharged July 17, 1862. He married, No- vember 1, 1831, Cynthia Jane Smith, of Derby, Connecticut, born April 13. 1813, died March 3, 1864. Children: Benjamin Hicks. men- tioned below ; Edward Olin. born and died in 1840; Harriet Josephine, born February 7, 1845.
(VIII) Dr. Benjamin Hicks Cheney, son of Rev. Laban Clark Cheney. was born Oc- tober 10, 1838, in Vicksburg. He was edu- cated at Amherst College in 1856 and lived first in New York City, afterward removed to New Haven, Connecticut. He is a prac- ticing physician of the homeopathic school. He is a member of the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences, also of the Graduates Club of New Haven, and of the New Haven Country Club. He married, March 10. 1863, at Westport, Connecticut. Sarah Jane Austin. born at Newcastle. Maine. August 27. 1841. Children : Benjamin Austin, born June 10, 1867, now at Joliet. Illinois: Arthur Sand- ford, October 4. 1860. at New Haven : Harold Clark, June 19, 1877 : Alice Josephine, August 5, 1879.
BROOKS Henry Brooks, immigrant an- cestor, settled in New Haven, Connecticut. about 1670, with his brother John. Subsequently they removed to Wallingford, and located in that part of the town which is said to have been named. Cheshire, for their former home in England. In the house of Henry Brooks was held the first religious meeting in Cheshire.
(1) Simeon Brooks, the revolutionary an- cestor of this family, was born in 1,40 and was descended from the Brooks family of Haddam and Saybrook. Connecticut. He and Samuel Brooks were in the Saybrook com- pany, commanded by Captain John Ely. Ninth Company, Sixth Regiment. Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons, in the revolution, in 1775. Simeon Brooks was also in Captain Stevens' company, Colonel Samuel Mott's regiment, in the northern department in ty76. and in Captain Bezaleel Bristol's company. Colonel Newberry's regiment. in 177 ;. In 1790, ac- cording to the first federal census. James and Simeon Brooks were heads of families in Saybrook. Middlesex county, Connecticut, and Simeon had in his family two males over
sixteen, two under sixteen and three females. He lived in Chester, which was formerly part of Saybrook. He married Lois Church, daughter of Simeon and Eunice Church, of Chester, in Saybrook. fler father was born in 1708, and died in Chester, October 7. 1792; her mother Eunice died July 1. 1800. aged ninety. Children of Simeon and Eunice Church: Titus, lived at Pawlet, Vermont ; Eunice, married Phineas Warner : Philemon, lived at Saybrook : John, lived at Winchester : Samuel, at Saybrook : Lois. mentioned above ; , married Isaiah Huntley : Simeon. set- tled in Rensselaerville, New York. (See N. E. Hist. Reg., Vol. 16. p. 88., Simeon Brooks died May 9, 1819. in Chester. He had sons : Simeon, a prominent manufac- turer in Chester: Nathan. mentioned below ; and other children.
( 11 ) Nathan Brooks, son of Simeon Brooks, was born at Chester, January 23. 1,89. He was a stone cutter by trade. He married Nancy A. Clark, daughter of Joseph Clark, who was a soldier in the revolution, a farmer in Chester, and a man of mach ability. After his marriage Nathan Brooks lived for a time at Westbrook, Connecticut, and afterward set- tled in the lower part of Killingworth (now Clinton), where he followed his i-ade for many years. In 1839 he came to Guilford, wire he made his home until his death at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. He was buried at Guilford. In early life he was a Democrat, in later years a Republican in politics. His wife, a woman of lovely Chris- tian character, also die and was buried at Guilford. Three of her thirteen children died in infancy. Children: 1. Julius, born May 19. 1816, died February 2, 1849; married Louisa Griffin. daughter of James Needham Griffin, mentioned below ; children: Charles J. Brocks and George E. Brooks, both now reside in New Haven, Connecticut, and are engaged in business there, the manufacturing of special machinery. To Charles I was born a daughter. Louise, now living: to George E .. a daughter, died young. 2. Zerah Clark. mentioned below. 3. Roxanna MI .. married George IL. Chapman. of Saybrook, for many years a merchant in Boston, resid- ing in Winchester. Massachusetts 4. Cap- tain Oliver N .. boin February 7. 1822. mas- ter mariner. in 1851. appointed keeper of Faulkner's Island lighthouse. receiving med- als for rescuing shipwrecked sailors: retired in 1882: went to Arch Beach, California. in 1887. where he was postmaster : returned to Guilford in 1890: represented town in general assembly in 1892-98 : married, January 4. 1846, Mary M. Hart ; children: Oliver N. died
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young: Mary E., married Henry I. Thrall, now of Cuba: and Nancy Amelia. married Edwin G. Husted. 5. Eliza F., married James 11. Prince, of Winchester, Massachusetts. 6. Laura A., married Frederick H. Fowler. 7. John G., born August 16, 1830; unmarried; drowned in Nebraska, June 30. 1859, on his way to California. 8. Julia A., married Rich- ard H. Woodward, a real estate broker. of Long Branch, New Jersey. 9. Cynthia E., married Erastus H. Crosby. 10. Frances E., married R. H. Chipman, a coal dealer in New York City, residing in Philadelphia.
( III ) Zerah Clark Brooks, son of Nathan Brooks, was born in Chester, Connecticut, October 19. 1817. He was quite young when his father settled in Killingworth (now Clin- ton). Connecticut. From his father he learned the trade of stone cutting and stone mason work. Later he established a stone-yard in Clinton, and carried on the business of stone cutting and stone construction work up to within a few years of his death. He was a man of high moral standing, strict integrity, and was highly respected in his community and by all who came in contact with him. He died at the home of his son. James Weston Brooks. in Derby, Connecticut, May 14, 1903, and was buried at Clinton. Connecticut. He married. December 31. 1843. Susan Cecelia Griffin, of Clinton, Connecticut, born October 23. 1823. daughter of James Needham and Jemima ( Rossiter) Griffin. She was a woman of lovable disposition. She possessed bright intellectual qualities, a keen sense of humor and was beloved by all. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Clinton as was also her husband. She died March 25. 1899. Children: 1. John Henry. born Octo- ber 18. 1846, died April 17, 1851. 2. James Weston, mentioned below. 3. Ansel Jones. born November 16. 1853: married February 10. 1880, Jessica Sturges, of Clinton, Con- necticut : no children : he is president of the Huntington Piano Company, Shelton, Con- necticut, and a member of the board of di- rectors of the Sterling Company of Derby, Connecticut. piano manufacturers.
(IV) James Weston Brooks. son of Zerah Clark Brooks, was born at Clinton. Connecti- cut, March 21, 1850. He attended the public schools of his native town, and the aca lemy. He began his business career in the employ of Hull & Wight, manufacturers of ornamental tinware. Afterward, he was with the New Haven Organ Company of New Haven, and became an expert in tuning organs. For a number of years he had the contract for the tuning of the Monroe Organ Reed Company. of Worcester, Massachusetts. After a short
absence in the west he returned to New Ha- ven in 1878, and was again with the New Haven Organ Company, as a contractor until 1884, then by recommendation of the Monroe Organ Reed Company, was engaged to devel- op and perfect the tone qualities of the Vo- calion Organ. the inventor of this organ, James Baillee Hamilton, having in several years of experimenting in Europe and a num- ber of trials in this country been unable to find anyone who could satisfactorily do this work. Mr. Brooks successfully completed this undertaking in about one year, enabling Mr. Hamilton to form the Vocalion Organ Com- pany, in Worcester, and Mr. Brooks was placed in charge of the tuning and experi- menting department of their factory, which position he held until the latter part of the year 1887, when he resigned and came to Derby. Connecticut, under contract with the Sterling Company, piano manufacturers, in charge of the tuning department. and in Janu- ary, 1889, he was appointed to an important position in the office of that concern. In De- cember, 1894, the Huntington Piano Com- pany was organized at Shelton. Connecticut. and Mr. Brooks became secretary and gen- eral manager of the corporation : aiso a mem- ber of the board of directors. Largely through his efforts and executive ability this concern has grown rapidly and prospered greatly. Mr. Brooks makes his home at Derby. He is a member of the Board of Trade of Derby; of the Derby and Shelton Business Men's Association : the Union League Club of New Haven : the Golf Club of Derby; Humphrey Ward Chapter. Sons of the American Revolu- tion, of New Haven, as a descendant of Si- meon Brooks and Joseph and Reuben Clark. In religion he is a Unitarian. a member of the church at Derby and in politics a Repub- lican. He is past senior warden of Jephtha Lodge, No. 95. Free Masons, of Clinton. He served six years in the Connecticut National Guard, Company E. Second Regiment
Mr. Brooks married. April 13. 18;0. Sarah Esther Platt, born April 14. 1840, at Nor- walk. Connecticut. daughter of Nathan Bry- ant Platt. of Huntington. L. I. New York ( born December 26. 1800, died May 6. 1871). and Mary Jane ( Bixby) ( this name spelled Byxbee in deeds dated ISro , Platt, of Norwalk ( born March 31. 18(5, died February 21. 1861 ), a relative of Sheriff Bixby of Meriden. Con- necticut. Nathan Bryant Platt was a master mariner. Children: I. John, born May 5. 1871. died May 8. 1871. 2. Edith Louise, born June 21. 1873. 3. James Ansel. born April 7. 1876, graduate of Sheffield Scientific School. Yale University. 1897 ( Ph. B.), 1900
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