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was in the Rochester office of the German-American Button Com- pany and with its successor, Art in Buttons, Incorporated.
He was born on March 8, 1873, at Shortsville, the son of Charles Wallace and Mary Maria (Stafford) Brown. He came to Harvard from Canandaigua Academy, New York, and was with the Class four years, receiving an A.B. magna cum laude.
FREDERIC WILLIS BROWN
F REDERIC WILLIS BROWN, the son of William Henry and Marcella (Hurd) Brown, was born May 24, 1876, at Concord, Massachu- setts. He prepared at the Concord High School. He received his A.B. in 1900 as of the Class of 1897, and was granted an A.M. in 1903, and a Ph.D. in 1906. As an undergraduate he was a member of the D.U. Club. He married Eleanor Merrill Karskaddon, Sep- tember 18, 1901, at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. She died April 13, 1938, at Boston. Their children are: John Merrill, born July 22, 1906; and Elizabeth Winship, born July 26, 1917. There are four grandchildren.
After leaving college, Brown was a college teacher. From 1905 to 1907, he was an instructor in Romance languages at Clark Col- lege. From 1907 until his retirement in 1945, he was professor of Romance languages at Bowdoin College.
HAROLD HASKELL BROWN
TN 1924," reports Harold Haskell Brown, "I moved to Red Bank, New Jersey, and stopped working at being married. My wife still lives in Centerport, Long Island. My finances are not as good as they were, but I manage to get along and enjoy life, and I have a lot of both new and old friends.
"I have been unsuccessful in either drowning myself in some sort of boat or breaking my neck in a plane or glider, but I have hopes. I figure, barring making a success of that, I shall live to be at least eighty-five years old as, other than being hard of hearing, I am in pretty good shape for my age. I have very little to lose and, anyhow, I have a Spanish War pension which will support me, and for that reason I have nothing to worry about.
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"I am most proud of having kept most of my old friends, and I am able to make new ones, particularly with the younger genera- tion who don't regard me as an old fossil."
Brown was born November 4, 1872, at Boston, the son of Sam- uel Newell and Ruth Coombs (Haskell) Brown. He prepared at the Public Latin School in Boston and at Noble's School and Hale's School. He was with our Class three years in the College and spent our senior year at the Lawrence Scientific School. He mar- ried Idylla Warland, January 23, 1913, at Brookline, Massachusetts.
He went into the service in 1917 as a first lieutenant in the 28th Company, Coast Artillery, National Guard of New York. He was promoted captain in December, 1917, and served at Fort Totten, Long Island. He was discharged in February, 1919. During World War II, he worked in factories around Lancaster.
HAROLD WINTHROP BROWN
'T is pleasant to be on the retired list and let the other fellow do
I' the worrying," writes Harold Winthrop Brown. "Two horses, a cow, and a garden keep me busy in the summer, and the effort to find satisfactory investments to take the place of called bonds and preferred stocks for the various trust funds in my care give me all the worry I need.
"This summer I saw my daughter and grandson for the first time in eight years. They flew from England and are filling up on our good food and resting from the frequent bombing."
Brown was born November 8, 1875, at Dover, New Hampshire, the son of Elisha Rhodes and Frances ( Bickford ) Brown. He pre- pared at Phillips Academy, Andover. He was with our Class four years and was graduated in 1897. On June 15, 1899, he married Katherine Van Hovenberg, at Norwood, Massachusetts. She died January 6, 1926, at Dover. He married Edith Lawrence Huse, May 15, 1926, at Dover. His daughter, Margaret Van Hovenberg (Mrs. Coughlin), was born July 3, 1912. There is one grandchild. Brown has two Harvard brothers: Philip Carter Brown, '07, and the late Raymond Gould Brown, '07, LL.B. '10.
Since 1897 Brown has been a banker and served as president
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and trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank of Dover, and as director and chairman of the Board of the Strafford National Bank. He has been treasurer of the Annie E. Woodman Institute and Dover District Nursing Association, and served as trustee of the Went- worth Home for the Aged.
PERCY BROWN
"THE span of years between 1897 and 1947 has been a long one," writes Percy Brown, "but the older I grow the more clearly the events of long ago come to my mind.
"Upon leaving Cambridge, I immediately started to fulfill my ambition of early youth - the practice of medicine. But I did not then realize the fact that, for me, there had already taken place an epochal event which was to serve as the turning point of my future life; that is, the discovery in 1895 by the German physicist Rönt- gen, of that extraordinary series of phenomena he called 'x-rays.' The news of this discovery came to my ears, as I remember, in Dr. Sabine's Physics C lecture, and indeed it was news that rocked the world, even as that of the so-called atom bomb has done since. It was many a year, though, before I was ready to declare myself prepared to relinquish all collateral branches of my medical edu- cation in favor of the 'new science' for which, I was told by many an omniscient friend, the future as applied to medicine could be academic only.
"Such are the beginnings of things, and into the rush of these beginnings I was caught up as a pioneer. To abandon my early idealized conception of the general practitioner which I had hoped to be, was a difficult decision. Although at this time there were many who had become highly interested in this new science throughout the country, to my knowledge there was no man of medical training who had been sufficiently fascinated to adopt it exclusively as his life work. I felt, on the other hand, even so far as it had developed up to that time, that roentgenology could be a new and promising specialty worthy of one's entire time and effort. Therefore, at the termination of my internship at the Boston Chil- dren's Hospital, I established myself in Boston with this declared
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specialty in view, and soon became roentgenologist to this hos- pital, and somewhat later to four others in Boston. I also taught the same specialty at the Harvard Medical School. So, although this work was still very much in its infancy, I soon became quite active in its pursuance.
"About 1904 I began to notice curious changes in the structure of my finger nails and in the skin of my fingers around them. These appearances next spread generally over the skin of my hands. The skin of my face as well became roughened and scaly, and on the skin of both hands and face there appeared numerous warty out- growths, which in some areas were more persistent, here and there becoming undoubtedly cancerous. By this time roentgenologists and medical men in general were much concerned over such ab- normalities as these which had commenced to affect many among those engaged in x-ray research. The very serious nature of these lesions was now noted and realized. Such manifestations, varying in type and degree, have since been generally classified as the results of radio-activity, that subtle physical influence which has recently furnished the destructive force of the atom bomb. Many a scientist has suffered death as a result of this radio-active dam- age. Thus far I have been fortunate enough to escape, though my physical handicaps because of my injuries, such as excisions and amputations, have been many. I now realize that over all these years I have probably received in divided doses, as a sort of vol- untary guinea pig in a hospital laboratory, the same deleterious effects I might have sustained in one massive exlosive emanation had I been an experimental Bikini goat.
"At the outbreak of World War I, I was asked to join Base Hos- pital No. 5, the Harvard Medical School unit, organized by the late Dr. Harvey Cushing, and functioning under his medical di- rection. Colonel Horace Binney, '97, was also a member. We were sent overseas early, and it has been one of my life's satisfactions that this opportunity to practise my specialty in military work came to me. My service in the first World War, together with my civil practice before and since, gave me as great an opportunity for being of assistance in the saving of human life as any man could wish.
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"After my discharge from the Army, I became imbued with the desire to wander afield, common to so many veterans after the war. Anxious to experience more broadly certain phases of my work as pursued outside New England, I was given the chance for this additional activity in the form of group practice in Madison, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, and Phoenix, Arizona, and also at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, and at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City.
"Finally, in 1929, I was obliged to relinquish intensive practice because of ill health due to the effects of prolonged radiation, which had begun to involve my eyes also. I retired five years later.
"While these years of experience have produced the deepest satisfactions, made deeper with the passing of the years, I feel, as I look through our various Class Reports, each of which recites so vividly stories of accomplishment, that I have found my greatest stimulation in the lives of my dear classmates of '97."
Brown, the son of Isaac Henry and Mary Elizabeth ( Kennedy ) Brown, was born November 24, 1875, at Cambridge. He prepared at Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge. After three years in the Lawrence Scientific School as a special student, he entered Harvard Medical School in 1896. He received his M.D. in 1900. His brother, Chester Holbrook Brown, was graduated with the Harvard Class of 1905, and received his A.M. the following year.
Brown married Bernice Elliott Mayhew, December 7, 1904, at Cambridge. He is the author of American Martyrs to Science through the Roentgen Rays, published in 1935, The Science of Radiology, of which he was co-author in 1937, and of a number of monographs pertaining to roentgenology.
He is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, American College of Physicians, and of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He is a member of the American Roentgen Ray Society, of which he was president in 1911, and Caldwell Lecturer in 1922; New York Roentgen Society; Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society, of which he is an honorary member; New England Roentgen Ray Society; Röntgen Society of London; Deutsche Röntgen Gesell- schaft of Berlin ( until 1917); and state medical societies of Wiscon- sin, Michigan, New York and Arizona, and the American Medical
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Association. He is a Gold Medalist of the Radiological Society of North America and diplomate of the American Board of Radiol- ogy. His clubs are the Harvard Club of Boston and the Aescula- pian Club ( Honorary).
ARTHUR ALEXIS BRYANT
HE outer circumstances of my life have been singularly un- eventful," reports Bryant. "I was teaching in the DeWitt Clinton High School in New York at the time of our Twenty-fifth Report. I continued there for close to thirty years, and was then transferred to the Newtown High School in Queens. My service there ended on September 9 of this year, and I am at present getting better acquainted with my two grandchildren.
"I have had a full life as a teacher. There are few angles of the work that I haven't seen. I have done good work, but I don't be- long to the class of innovators and I can't point to any specific contribution I have made to the organization, mechanics, or theory of education. Such personal success as I have had is perhaps due to the fact that I have tried to say 'come' and not 'go' to my pupils, and that my belief in Democracy and the 'brotherhood' of man is a part of me and not a pose.
"I am not convinced that I have 'all the answers' nor indeed do I expect to have them in this life. But I have seen no reason to abandon the objectives or surrender the principles of the years gone by. My retirement from active teaching was not a compul- sory one. I wouldn't have been discarded for a year or two, but the demands of one of my Masonic bodies will take all my time and more for the present year, and they couldn't well be put aside."
Bryant was born November 10, 1877, at Somerville, Massachu- setts, the son of Albert Bryant, Amherst '62, and Mary Emmons Torrey, Wheaton Female Seminary. He prepared at Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his A.B. magna cum laude in 1897, an A.M. the following year, and a Ph.D. in 1905.
"Curiously enough," he writes, "my social development had
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very little to do with the Class. I was associated with the Shepard Memorial Church (Congregational), Dr. Alexander McKenzie, pastor. As I lived at home after my freshman year, I had com- paratively little association with my '97 mates, after I was excused from 'coxing' the freshman crew when I ran our shell into the float in the gathering dusk. My academic work was focused perhaps too largely on Latin and Greek. I was graduated with honors in Classics and was one of the Commencement speakers, probably because I was one of the few with any Latin.
"Since leaving college I have been fairly active in the various professional societies and associations that particularly interested me. I was for a number of years a member of the American Philo- logical Association; a member, and in due time president of the New York Classical Club. For the past twenty years my main interest has been Masonry. I am an active member of the Ameri- can Lodge of Research and have been busy in all branches of the crafts."
Bryant married Louise Frances Stevens, December 26, 1908, at New York City. This marriage ended in divorce. He married Helen Katherine Lund at Stamford, Connecticut, March 13, 1913. Their adopted daughter, Dorothy Lee, was born January 29, 1920.
During the first World War, he had charge of a group of farm boys from the New York High School, called the Long Island Farm Battalion, at Bay Shore, Long Island.
GEORGE BUCKMAN
B UCKMAN did not return a questionnaire. He was born August 13, 1874, at Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, and prepared for col- lege at the State Schools in Trenton, New Jersey, and Lehigh Preparatory School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was in the Lawrence Scientific School from 1894 to 1897, taking an S.B. magna cum laude. After studying in the Graduate School during 1897-98, he became engaged in steam and electric railroad con- struction and in banking in Trenton. He travelled in Europe and Mexico and held several offices in the business world, including the presidency of the Point Albino Land Company. He later moved his offices to New York City.
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Buckman's parents were Charles and Henrietta (Anderson) Buckman. His wife, whom he married January 25, 1905, at Buffalo, New York, was the former Charlotte Stephens Todd.
HENRY DOUGLAS BUELL
I AM proud of my wife," writes Buell, "four daughters, ten grand- children, and also of my sons-in-law, one of whom lived twelve years in the Arctic as manager of Hudson's Bay Company posts and made my youngest daughter vivaciously happy in the midst of Eskimos and snow houses with mail but once a year. Possibly no other Fiftieth Report has contained a similar family item.
"Life's only 'durable satisfaction' (not possessed by me!) is, it would seem, the feeling that one has done one's best."
Buell, the son of George Candee and Alice Elizabeth (Ely) Buell, was born November 10, 1875, at Rochester, New York. He prepared at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. at our gradua- tion. He obtained an LL.B. degree from the Law School in 1900.
He married Cornelia Robinson, October 17, 1905, at Rochester, New York. Their children are: Cornelia Alice (Mrs. Robert Mac Cameron), born January 26, 1907; Jane Douglas (Mrs. Thomas Ward), born June 20, 1908; Ruth Robinson (Mrs. Warren L. Hawkins ), born November 12, 1910; and Marion ( Mrs. Peter A. C. Nichols ), born November 16, 1914. There are ten grandchildren and Buell writes that there is more interesting information about them than he could begin to relate. His brother, the late George Clifford Buell, was graduated with the Harvard Class of 1882.
For twenty-four years Buell was clerk of session of the First Presbyterian Church in Rochester. He is a former member of the Harvard Club of New York, University Club of New York, City Club of Rochester, and Rochester Chamber of Commerce. He is at present a member of the Harvard Club of Rochester and Bar Association of Rochester.
Since leaving college he has been engaged in the practice of law and the management of real estate.
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+ WILLIAM ALBERT BULLIVANT
W ILLIAM ALBERT BULLIVANT died September 28, 1941, at Boston. The son of John Thomas and Mary Alice ( Freeland) Bulli- vant, he was born September 22, 1873, at Newark, New Jersey, and prepared for Harvard at Brockton, Massachusetts, High School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He was in college only during 1893-94. For a time he was in the employ of the W. L. Douglass Shoe Company and later the Crawford Shoe Makers. At the time of our 25th Anniversary Report he was associated with the Simp- son Spring Company. Chiefly, however, he followed a bent for journalism and politics. He was on the Brockton Enterprise and was city editor of the Brockton Times.
In 1904 he became a member of the Brockton Common Council, on which he served for ten years, and for two or three years was secretary to the mayor. In 1922 he was elected alderman and in 1924 and 1925 served as mayor, the first Brockton mayor to serve a two-year term. In addition to his interest in civic affairs, he took an active part in the social and musical life of Brockton, as a mem- ber of the Algonquin Club, which produced operas and plays, and of the Pythian Glee Club. Flags in Brockton were flown at half- mast at his death, and the mayor spoke of him as a man of high character who in his personal and political life had always insisted upon honesty and regard for others.
On December 9, 1914, at Brockton, he married Evelyn Hayward McKay, who died in 1930. In 1937 he married Mrs. Leora M. Gage, who survived him.
+ EVERETT CHAUNCEY BUMPUS
E VERETT CHAUNCEY BUMPUS will be remembered as the man who, although blind from childhood, took an A.B. with the Class and an LL.B. in 1900, and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar of Massachusetts before his untimely death in Boston on January 22, 1901. He shunned pity for his infirmity and was greatly ad- mired for his determination, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, and courage.
He was born October 19, 1873, at Weymouth, Massachusetts,
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the son of Everett Cephas and Emma Frances ( Russell ) Bumpus, and prepared for college at Thayer Academy. He was unmarried.
CLARENCE DWIGHT BURBANK
C (LARENCE DWIGHT BURBANK died at Thompsonville, Connecticut, on August 17, 1943. He was born at Suffield, Connecticut, on November 25, 1872, the son of Webster and Fanny ( Austin) Bur- bank. He came to Harvard from Thompsonville High School and spent but one year with our Class. After leaving college he re- turned to Suffield where he was engaged in raising tobacco and where he held the office of tax collector. At the time of our For- tieth Anniversary Report he was engaged in the motion picture business in Thompsonville.
He married Harriet M. Lord at Thompsonville on February 15, 1899. They had three daughters: Judith Lord (Mrs. R. B. Brown), born November 24, 1899; Bernice Lord (Mrs. C. J. Schlaeck), born August 4, 1903; and Dorothy Lord, born July 22, 1906 (died December 5, 1908). There are four grandchildren: Dorothy De- loria Brown, Raleigh B. Brown, Jr., Ronald Clarence Brown, and Dorothy Harriet Schlaeck.
ISAIAH TOWNSEND BURDEN
I HAVE very little to add to the full statement which I made in our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report," writes Burden, "except that I retired from business several years ago and now live here in New York during the winter season and at our place, Fairlawn, Newport, Rhode Island, during the summer.
"Occasionally I take trips to visit my wife's relatives in Denver, Colorado, and to visit my nephews in Beverly Hills, California. I still play golf."
Burden, the son of Isaiah Townsend Burden, Troy Polytechnic Institute, and Evelyn Byrd Moale, was born October 31, 1875, at New York City. He prepared at the Groton School. He took his A.B. at our graduation after four years' work and received an LL.B. in 1900 from the Law School. As an undergraduate he
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played on the first Harvard golf team ever organized, of which Tom Gannett was captain. He helped organize and played on the first Harvard polo team in the summer of 1892 with Jimmy Still- man, Reggie Brooks and Elliott Cowden. He writes that he also rowed on the first Harvard Law School crew and won races on the Charles River. His brother, the late William Armstead Moale Burden, was graduated with the Harvard Class of 1900.
Burden married Florence Elizabeth Sheedy, June 17, 1911, at Denver, Colorado. They had three children: Isaiah Townsend, Jr., born in May, 1913; Alvin Beresford, born in February, 1917 (died in September, 1943); and Dennis Sheedy, born in August, 1919. There are three grandchildren.
In the first World War, Burden was assistant to J. Leonard Rep- logle, who was in charge of steel production during the war. He was also interested in the production of ferro manganese for war consumption. During World War II, his son, Dennis, was a chief aviation pilot in the Naval Reserve. Alvin, an officer in the Coast Guard Reserve, died in the performance of his duty in the service of his country in September, 1943.
Since leaving college Burden has been a lawyer and industrial- ist. At one time he was assistant corporation counsel of the City of New York. His clubs are the Knickerbocker, Racquet & Tennis, Garden City Golf, and Newport Country.
BENJAMIN THOMAS BURLEY
INCE our last Report," writes Burley, "probably my most inter- S esting professional problem occurred in 1930. In April of that year there suddenly appeared in Worcester several cases which I recognized as a new type of paralysis. It was characterized by foot-drop and paralysis of the legs and, in severe cases, ten days later, wrist drop. At first the origin was unknown, but we soon learned that these patients had been fortifying their pop or beer with Jamaica Ginger, at least that was the label on the bottles. The product, however, had been made up in bulk, adulterated with a varnish-like substance containing tri-ortho-cresyl phos- phate, and distributed in small bottles. This shipment went all
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over the country causing thousands of cases of paralysis, some of which were permanent, and consequently, millions of dollars of expense. I reported this epidemic and its pathology at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Philadelphia in 1931. Sad to relate the poisonous product came from Boston, but sadder still is the fact that the Boston and New York police never caught up with the culprits.
"Doubtless it would seem sufficient for anyone fifty years out of college simply to state that he is alive. But no! We must be 'geriatric' and carry on.
"For my part my tag has largely changed from visiting to con- sulting neurologist in the hospitals near Worcester with which I am associated, thus saving me some shoe leather.
"Recently I have been getting education and enjoyment out of the care of returned veterans. In general they are a plucky lot, somewhat ill at ease in their strange environment, but when they are encouraged and adjusted to some regular employment, many of their psychoneurotic symptoms disappear.
"Naturally I am looking forward to our Fiftieth Reunion and am wondering who will play golf with me if it rains as it did at our Twenty-fifth."
Burley, the son of Joseph Cilley and Sarah Elizabeth (Haley) Burley, was born November 26, 1874, at North Epping, New Hampshire. He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. After receiving his A.B. with our Class, he entered the Medical School, from which he obtained an M.D. with distinction in 1901. He writes that his chief diversion as an undergraduate was playing lacrosse and that he was made captain of the team in our senior year.
He married Angelyn Jefferds, August 20, 1921, in Chicago. In the first World War he served as a captain in the Medical Corps. In World War II he was a surgeon with the United States Public Health Service and neuropsychiatrist to the Veterans Adminis- tration.
He is a member of the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neu- rology, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Dis- ease, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is also a
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