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diplomate of the National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Incorporated. His clubs include the Harvard Club of Worcester, the Worcester Club, and the Tatnuck Country Club.
+ FREDERIC ANSON BURLINGAME
F REDERIC ANSON BURLINGAME died December 28, 1939, at New York City. He was born November 14, 1873, at Staten Island, New York, the son of Edward Livermore and Ella Frances (Badger) Burlingame. He prepared for college at Browne and Nichols and took an A.B. at Harvard in 1897 and an LL.B. at Columbia in 1900. After two years with Peckham, Miller & King, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Robert C. Beatty. This was dissolved in 1911, and for nine years Burlingame prac- tised alone. In 1920 he joined the firm of Ver Planck & Prince, which later became Burlingame, Nourse & Pettit, and he was asso- ciated with this firm until his death. He was greatly interested in the work of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and was for three years on the Committee on Unlawful Practice of the Law, serving as its chairman in 1935-36.
During the first World War, he helped to organize a military company and served on Red Cross, liberty loan, and war savings committees. In October, 1918, he enlisted in the Army as a private and at the time of the Armistice was an officer candidate. He was discharged a month later. Active in church affairs, he was a vestry- man, clerk of the vestry, and a member of the Social Service Board of the Diocese of New Jersey, and of the Social Service Commis- sion of the Diocese of New York.
Burlingame married Charlotte Sanger Gannett, sister of our late classmate, Thomas Brattle Gannett, on April 26, 1905, at Cam- bridge. She, their two sons - Anson, '30, born February 25, 1908, and Richard Gannett, born February 13, 1911 - and two grand- children - Edward Livermore, born January 21, 1935, and Susan Harlow, born September 21, 1939 - survived him.
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JOSEPH BURNETT
J TOSEPH BURNETT was born at Southboro, Massachusetts, on De- cember 28, 1874. His parents were Edward and Mabel (Low- ell) Burnett. He was a grandson of James Russell Lowell. After preparing at the Browne and Nichols School, he spent four years in the College, graduating with the Class. He then spent a short time abroad and in September, 1897, became a manufacturing chemist with the Joseph Burnett Company, a firm established by his grandfather. He died at Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, on July 31, 1909, after a long and painful illness, having borne his suffering with uncomplaining cheerfulness and courage. He never married.
+ HENRY CHARLES BURNSTINE
H ENRY CHARLES BURNSTINE died at Elberon, New Jersey, on March 10, 1943. He was born in New York City on July 30, 1874, the son of Henry and Lena (Fox) Burnstine. He prepared at the Dwight School in New York and entered college in 1894, remaining until he received his degree in 1897. He then attended the New York Law School, taking an LL.B. in 1899 and an LL.M. in 1901.
On September 1, 1909, at Columbus, Ohio, he married Flora Rothschild, who survived him. He spent most of his life in New York City practising law. The Secretary advises those who had lost sight of Burnstine during these later years to read his unusual and interesting accounts which appear in our 25th and 40th Re- ports. He ends his 25th with these words: "I have lived and loved and labored, and all is well."
His modest and useful career indicates an unusual life carried to fulfillment.
R. L. S.
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+ CHARLES VALENTINE BUSCH
C CHARLES VALENTINE BUSCH died at Kenmore, New York, on Octo- ber 25, 1943. He was born at Buffalo, New York, on December 22, 1873, the son of Jacob and Regina (Glasser) Busch, and at- tended the Buffalo Central High School. He became affiliated with our Class while attending the Lawrence Scientific School, where he studied civil engineering.
He entered the contracting and engineering business in Buffalo with Arthur William Percival of our Class under the name of Busch & Percival. This firm maintained offices in the Brisbane Building in Buffalo for many years. He was also associated at one time with the Erie County Engineer's Department.
One of the pioneers in the foundation of the village of Kenmore, and active in the Greater Kenmore Party, Busch served for a num- ber of years as treasurer and engineer in early Kenmore adminis- trations. As an engineer he laid out the village sewer system and many of its streets.
On December 18, 1898, at Buffalo, he married Ann Ferris, who with a daughter, Jane Ferris (Mrs. Philo Atwood), born May 11, 1901, and two sons, Richard Ferris Busch, born August 16, 1904, and Charles Valentine Busch, Jr., born April 18, 1908, survived him.
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EDWARD GAY BUTLER
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DWARD BUTLER, the son of Lawrence Lewis Butler, University
of Virginia, and Mary Susan Gay, was born April 18, 1872, at Peaguemine, Louisiana. He prepared for college at Smith Acad- emy in St. Louis, Missouri. He was with our Class two years as a special student.
He married Emily Mansfield, June 7, 1898, at St. Louis. From the time he left college until 1920, he was a farmer, and since the latter year has been engaged in horticulture.
During 1917-1918, he worked with the American Red Cross as director of the Southampton Area in Southampton, England. He
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is a member of the University Club of St. Louis, Blue Ridge Hunt Club and Millwood Country Club, both of Millwood, Virginia.
* HENRY AUDUBON BUTLER
H ENRY AUDUBON BUTLER was the son of Joseph Green and Har- riet Voorhees (Ingersoll) Butler. He was born on October 8, 1872, at Youngstown, Ohio, and died there on April 26, 1934. Coming to Harvard from the Rayen High School in Youngstown, he was with the Class for four years. For twenty-one years he was engaged in the iron and steel business, serving in various capaci- ties with the Youngstown Steel Company, the Shenango Furnace Company, and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company.
From October, 1918, to July, 1919, he served in France as chief of the Home Service Section of the American Red Cross. Upon his return to this country he became a broker in local stocks and at the time of his death was senior member of the firm of Butler, Wickes & Company. He was also president of the Valley Invest- ment Company and the Mahoning Valley Mortgage Company, and director of the Portage Silica Company, the Bessemer Lime- stone & Cement Company, and the Mahoning National Bank.
He was at one time president of the Harvard Club of Youngs- town. A leader in civic affairs, he was president of the Board of Education, director of the Butler Art Institute (a gift to the city from his father), chairman of the Community Chest, president and treasurer of his church, Boy Scout councillor, and director of the Y.M.C.A. and of several hospitals. He gave forty years of devoted service to his community.
He was survived by his wife, the former Sarah Grace Heath, whom he married October 18, 1900, at Youngstown; a son, Joseph Green, 3d, born September 5, 1901; an adopted daughter, Mary Grace Heath, born November 17, 1910; and a foster daughter, Annabelle Maxine Heath.
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HARVARD CLASS OF 1897 WILLIAM BYRD
B YRD, the son of George Harrison and Lucy Carter ( Wickham) Byrd, was born January 11, 1876, at New York City. He pre- pared at Wilson and Kellogg's School there. After receiving his A.B. with distinction with our Class, he entered the Law School. He was awarded an LL.B. in 1900.
He married Rita Fox, December 4, 1901, at Andalusia, Pennsyl- vania. She died in Virginia on May 15, 1941. He married Julia K. (Pitcher ) Martin, December 22, 1941. His children are: Lucy Carter (Mrs. Bredin), born August 16, 1902; and William, Jr., born January 7, 1904. There are four grandchildren. William, Jr., is a member of the Harvard Class of 1926. Byrd has a Harvard brother, Francis Otway Byrd, who was graduated in 1900.
During World War II, William, Jr., was a commander in the United States Naval Reserve.
"From May, 1925, to July, 1935," writes Byrd, "I served as chair- man of the Committee on Grievances of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
"My daughter, Lucy Bredin, is living in Bath, England. Her son, Mark, enters Stowe School in September. Her daughter, Ann, will be a senior in Goucher College, Baltimore, in the same month.
"On May 1, 1940, my old firm of Harrison, Elliott & Byrd was dissolved by the retirement of my partner, Robert W. B. Elliott. On the same day I became a member of Choate, Byrd, Leon & Garretson, 44 Wall Street. The senior member is our classmate, Joseph H. Choate, Jr."
Byrd is a member of the Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, New Jersey; Short Hills Club, Short Hills, New Jersey; the University Club, New York; Knickerbocker Club, New York; the Pilgrims; and the Down Town Association.
+ WILFRED BYRNES
W TILFRED BYRNES was born January 5, 1875, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, the son of William Bradshaw and Frances Rebecca (Keeler) Byrnes, and prepared for college at the Rox- bury Latin School. He was in college during our freshman and
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sophomore years, leaving then to enter business in Winooski, Vermont. He later became an assistant postmaster in St. Albans and subsequently entered the U.S. Customs Service at Swanton, Vermont. His death occurred on March 16, 1903, at Swanton. He was unmarried. During the two years he spent at Harvard he made many friends and took an active part in the life of the University, of which he remained a loyal son.
WILLIAM DEWEESE CAIRNS
C AIRNS, the son of Samuel Alexander and Mary Brooke (Gunn ) Cairns, was born November 2, 1871, at Troy, Ohio. He pre- pared for college at the Troy High School. In 1892 he received an A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan University. He spent one year with our Class and another in the Graduate School of Arts and Sci- ences, and received an A.B. and an A.M. in 1897 and 1898 re- spectively. In 1907 he was awarded a Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen.
He married Iva Minette Crofoot, August 25, 1898, at Troy. She died November 2, 1926. They had two children: Mary Cath- erine, born January 29, 1907 (deceased); and Robert William, born December 23, 1909. Cairns married Bertha Noble June 17, 1930. There are three grandchildren.
From 1899 to 1939 Cairns was a teacher of mathematics at Oberlin College. From 1899 to 1904 he held the title of instructor; from 1904 to 1920, associate professor, from 1920 to 1939, pro- fessor; and since 1939, professor emeritus.
He was secretary-treasurer of the Mathematical Association of America from 1915 to 1942, served as its president from 1942 to 1944, and in 1944 became an honorary president for life. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, a member of the American Mathematical Association, Mathematical Association of America, National Council of Teach- ers of Mathematics, and Phi Beta Kappa.
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GROSVENOR CALKINS
M' Y preparation for college, directed by a father orthodox in religion but not in education," writes Calkins, "was erratic. I had only five or six years in school, eighteen months' language study in France and Germany, and private instruction for the rest. Except for half a course I finished college in three years. During the fifteen years which intervened between graduation from col- lege and marriage, my profession was my only interest. The following twenty years were active and prolific in professional and business accomplishment, community service, and children.
"For the last fifteen years my children have been my chief con- cern and interest. Counting in two Harvard sons-in-law, James Davies Lightbody, Jr., '40, and Edward Herrick Cook, '43, the boys include a doctor, a lawyer, a clergyman, a production engi- neer, and a musician, all with fine prospects for carrying on the best traditions of our Class. In these children and a married life of great happiness and contentment I take the greatest pride and find the most durable satisfaction."
Calkins was born July 17, 1875, at Buffalo, New York, the son of Wolcott Calkins, Yale '56, and Charlotte Grosvenor Whiton. He prepared at the Newton High School in Newton, Massachu- setts, and after three years with our Class, was graduated cum laude. He spent the following three years in the Law School and received his LL.B. in 1899.
"These college years were devoid of athletic or literary distrac- tions," he writes. "I still cherish warm friendships with classmates which not only have survived but improved with age. I failed by half a course to graduate magna cum. Although a son and brother of Congregational ministers, from the time of my marriage I have been an active member of the Episcopal Church."
Calkins married Patty Phillips, December 31, 1912, at Pasa- dena, California. They had six children: Grosvenor, Jr., born November 3, 1913; Phillips, born March 23, 1916 (died in 1918); Patricia (Mrs. Lightbody), born March 15, 1919; Evan, '43, M.D. '45, born July 15, 1920; Anne (Mrs. Cook), born Septem- ber 18, 1922; and Hugh, '45, born February 20, 1924. Calkins
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writes that under the heading "grandchildren" there are three Lightbodys and one Cook to date. His brothers also attended Harvard. Leighton Calkins, '90, received his LL.B. in 1895; and the Reverend Raymond Calkins, '90, received an A.M. in 1894.
"During the first World War," writes Calkins, "my services were unimportantly restricted to service on liberty-loan commit- tees, legal advisory work and occasional four-minute speeches. My World War II activities were patriotically delegated to an energetic wife who served as air-raid warden, hospital aide, and in other capacities. Evan was a first lieutenant in the Army Medi- cal Corps, and Hugh was a captain in the Army Air Forces.
"Since 1899 I have been a lawyer practising independently in Boston, and am still active and in splendid health. I have been a member of the Newton Board of Aldermen and Newton School Committee. I have been a trustee or director of the Newton Hospital, Y.M.C.A., and Family Service Bureau, and have served as a vestryman. I am the author of Manual of Massachusetts Business Corporation Law, and have had occasional articles ap- pear in legal and economic publications. I am a member of the American, Boston, and Middlesex Bar Associations, and of several literary clubs."
+ SPRIGG DESPARD CAMDEN
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PRIGG DESPARD CAMDEN died at Parkersburg, West Virginia, on
December 20; 1943, after a long illness. The son of Richard Pindall and Flora (Davisson) Camden, he was born at Parkers- burg, September 10, 1873, and after attending Columbian Col- lege, Washington, he became associated with the Class of '97 during our freshman year.
That he was successful in his business career is indicated by the fact that he was at various times president of the Union Trust & Deposit Company of Parkersburg, president of the Parkersburg, Marietta and Inter-Urban Railway Company, vice-president of the Consolidation Coal Company, and director of the Fidelity Trust Company of Baltimore. His business required that much of his time be spent in New York, although his headquarters were
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at Pleasantville. His summers were pleasantly passed at Edgar- town, Martha's Vineyard.
'Ninety-seven men will regret that Camden's association with Cambridge was so brief that they were unable to know and enjoy his pleasant personality more intimately. He was survived by his wife, Ira Hart Goff Camden, whom he married on December 5, 1900, at Clarksburg, West Virginia.
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EDWARD WILLIAM CAPEN
C APEN notes merely that life's "durable satisfactions" are: "Fre- quent periods of thought in a setting of absolute silence, prolonged."
He was born February 10, 1875, at Wollaston Heights, Massa- chusetts, the son of Edward Augustus Capen, '66, and Helen Marian Thomas. He prepared at the Cambridge Latin School and at Cutler's School in Newton, Massachusetts. As an under- graduate he was a member of Delta Upsilon. He was with our Class four years, receiving an A.B. at our graduation.
He married Lois Gertrude Fitch, January 30, 1902, at Water- town, Massachusetts. Their children are: John Brewster, born February 18, 1904; and Thomas Fitch, born September 28, 1907. There are four grandchildren. Capen's brother, Randall Thomas Capen, is a member of the Harvard Class of 1895.
Since leaving college Capen has been in the wholesale bond business and has been interested in the development of the South.
HUBBARD CARPENTER
AS s an undergraduate in the early '90's," writes Hubbard Car- penter, "I recall a lecture given by Charles Eliot Norton, Fine Arts IV, in which he stated that there were no 'American gentlemen,' but many a 'gentlemanly citizen.' I trust I may be so catalogued."
Carpenter, the son of George Benjamin and Elizabeth Curtis (Greene) Carpenter, was born September 29, 1874, at Chicago. He prepared at the University School in Chicago. After four years
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with our Class, he was graduated cum laude in 1897. He married Rosalie Sturges, June 9, 1898, at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She died January 3, 1945. Their children are: Mary Delafield Carter, born April 7, 1899; and George Sturges, born January 22, 1901. There are three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Carpenter's son, George, is a member of the Harvard Class of 1923. Three of his brothers also attended Harvard: the late Ben- jamin Carpenter, '88; the late George Albert Carpenter, '88; and John Alden Carpenter, '97.
"I am No. 3 member of the four loyal Harvard men of our family," he writes. "In the spring of 1898 I joined up with my father's firm, George B. Carpenter & Company, which was estab- lished in 1840. I continued in this business association until June, 1931, when I retired.
"During these years I progressed from a minor co-partnership, through official recognition, after our firm was incorporated, to secretary, secretary-treasurer and, finally, after the demise of my eldest brother, to the office of president. These were great busi- ness years for me because I gradually became acquainted with our Boston associates from whom we derived our principal prod- ucts and also those of New York City.
"May I add in conclusion, as I look back in retrospect on the last fifty years, that my Harvard association and the contacts which I have kept up through the years, missing out on only one stated reunion, namely the thirty-fifth, have enabled me to keep my chin up and take whatever has been offered."
Carpenter's clubs include the Chicago Club, the University Club of Chicago, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Lake Geneva Country Club, and the Harvard Club of New York.
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
M Y work, my family, and my faith are my 'durable satisfac- tions,'" writes John Carpenter. "I was a merchant from 1897 to 1936, and have composed music continuously since the latter year. My principal compositions with the dates and places of their first performances are as follows:
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"Adventures in a Perambulator, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1915; Concertino for orchestra and piano, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Percy Grainger as soloist in 1917; Birthday of the Infanta, a ballet, per- formed by the Chicago Opera Company in 1919; Krazy Kat, a ballet, performed in the Town Hall, New York, in 1922; Sky- scrapers, a ballet, performed by the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany in New York in 1926; the German production of Skyscrapers, performed at the State Opera in Munich, Bavaria, in 1928; Song of Faith, a cantata for chorus and orchestra, written for the Wash- ington Bicenteninal Commission, with simultaneous performances in Washington, New York, and Chicago in 1932; Sea Drift, a tone poem, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933; Violin Concerto, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1936; Symphony I, performed by the Chicago Symphony Or- chestra in 1940; Symphony II, performed by the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra in 1944; and The Seven Ages, an orchestral suite, performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1945. Under chamber music, my Sonata for Violin and Piano was performed by Mischa Elman in New York in 1912; String Quartet was performed at the Coolidge Festival in Washington in 1928; and Piano Quintet was performed at the Coolidge Festival in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1934.
"There are also miscellaneous published songs and piano pieces, among which I may mention: Gitanjale, a song suite to verses of Tagore, 1913; Water Colours, four Chinese songs, 1918; Improv- ing Songs for Anxious Children, with Rue Carpenter, 1904; and The Home Road and Berceuse de Guerre, songs of World War I."
Carpenter, the son of George Benjamin and Elizabeth Curtis (Greene) Carpenter, was born February 28, 1876, at Park Ridge, Illinois. He prepared at the University School in Chicago, and received his A.B. with our Class. As an undergraduate he sang with the freshman and varsity glee clubs, and was a member of the Institute of 1770, Zeta Psi, Signet, Hasty Pudding Club, and Harvard Crimson. In 1896 he composed some of the music of Branglebrink, and the following year composed most of the music of the Flying Dutchman. In 1922 Harvard conferred upon
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him an honorary A.M. degree. The University of Wisconsin and Northwestern University honored him with a Doctor of Music degree in 1933 and 1941 respectively.
Carpenter married Rue Winterbotham, November 10, 1901, at Chicago. She died December 7, 1931, at Chicago. Their daugh- ter, Genevieve Baldwin, was born October 23, 1903. His second marriage was to Ellen Waller Borden, on January 3, 1933, at Cambridge. There is one grandchild. Three of Carpenter's brothers also attended Harvard: the late Benjamin Carpenter and the late George Albert Carpenter were both members of '88, and Hubbard Carpenter is also a member of '97.
In 1939 Mrs. Carpenter was chairman of the Chicago Women's Committee, working for the British War Relief. During 1942- 1943, she was chairman of the Cook County Women's Committee, War Savings Staff.
Carpenter is a member of the University. Club, Tavern Club, Arts Club, Cliff Dwellers Club, and Casino Club, all of Chicago. In 1921 he was made a member of the French Legion of Honor. He will be the recipient of the 1947 Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which is awarded once in nine years. It will be presented in recognition of his "distinguished services in the field of music, based upon his entire work."
EDWARD PARRISH CARR
T HE Secretary has not been able to get in touch with Carr since mail sent to him at Thermal, California, was returned by the Post Office in 1940. The son of Albert Gallatin and Annie E. (Parrish) Carr, he was born October 8, 1876, at Durham, North Carolina. He took an A.B. at the University of North Carolina in 1896 and spent the next year at Harvard, receiving an A.B. with our Class. The next four years he spent in the Graduate School, receiving an A.M. in 1898. At the time of the Third Report he was with the Durham Hosiery Mills in New York City, and at the time of our Twenty-fifth Anniversary he was engaged in ranching in California.
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+ JAMES WELD CARRET
AMES WELD CARRET died November 14, 1929, at Brookline.
J The son of José Francisco and Sarah Swan (Weld) Carret, he was born May 16, 1876, at Cambridge, and attended Miss Smith's School there before coming to Harvard. After graduation he entered the investment business, specializing in the sale of bonds, and remained in that field up to the time of his death. He lived first in Hingham and later in Brookline, but his real home was his summer place on Nantucket, where he enjoyed a simple, out-of- doors life, swimming, sailing, gardening, and entertaining his many friends.
On October 6, 1906, at Kenilworth, Illinois, he married Eliza- beth Hammill Calkins, who with their daughter, Elizabeth, born September 24, 1908, survived him.
+ ARTHUR THOMAS CARTER
A RTHUR THOMAS CARTER was born July 3, 1875, at Ashland, Nebraska, the son of Oscar Martin and Cinderella (Thomas ) Carter. He prepared at St. Paul's School and was in college for four years, taking his A.B. with the Class. Almost immediately he went into mining in Ohio City, Colorado. He became first treas- urer and later secretary of the Ashland Mining Company and was also president of the Houston Furniture Manufacturing Company of Houston, Texas, where he died on December 9, 1905. He was unmarried.
+ TIMOTHY PARKER CASTLE
T Quincy, 1 TIMOTHY PARKER CASTLE was born September 18, 1873, at Quincy, Illinois, and died there August 21, 1933. He was engaged in the stove manufacturing business in that city, with the firm of Comstock, Castle & Company. His parents were Chauncey Harlow and Mary Elizabeth (Parker) Castle. He pre- pared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was at Har- vard from 1893 to 1895. He married Edith Halloway Berry on
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