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In 1901 he began the practice of law in Terre Haute. In 1904 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Vigo County on the Re- publican ticket and two years later was re-elected. Later he be- came a member of the firm of Cooper, Royse, Gambill & Craw- ford. He specialized in corporation and business law and became associated with several mining and industrial companies as coun- sel and as an officer. In 1922 he was elected a director of the Terre Haute Trust Company and seven years later became its president. After giving up prosecution, he held no public office, but he continued to take a part in civic affairs as a private citizen.
On June 12, 1907, he married Susan Meade Strong at Terre Haute. A son, Stewart Blake, born May 12, 1908, died March 6, 1914. A second son, David Meade, born February 23, 1914, sur- vived him.
+ HERBERT C. DEV. CORNWELL
H ERBERT C. DE V. CORNWELL, formerly a lieutenant colonel in the United States Medical Corps, died April 25, 1927, at Scars- dale, New York. The son of Charles Carpenter and Cerdá (de Vilarrestau) Cornwell, he was born April 7, 1875, at Annapolis, Maryland, and prepared for college at the Columbia Grammar School, New York. He was in college from 1893 to 1896 but took his A.B. in 1897. He then entered the Medical School, taking an M.D. degree cum laude in 1900. He held appointments at the Boston City and Lying-in Hospitals before moving to New York, where he was associated with St. Bartholomew's Clinic and Randall's Island Hospital of New York for Mental Defectives and Epileptics. He also held the posts of adjunct professor of nervous and mental diseases at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and of consulting neurologist to the Fordham Division of the Bellevue Hospital.
During the first World War he served in the Medical Corps from August, 1917, to June, 1919, and was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison and Camp Meade before going to France. He was with the 316th Infantry during the entire Meuse-Argonne offensive and was twice cited for gallantry in action. After re-
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turning to the United States, he resumed his practice, concen- trating almost exclusively on neurology. He was a member of several professional associations. He was survived by his wife, the former Dalia Orozco, whom he married August 8, 1914, at New York City.
* WILLIAM CLARKE COTTON
W ILLIAM CLARKE COTTON was born at Porsmouth, New Hamp- shire, on November 2, 1873, the son of William Wallace and Anna (Moses ) Cotton. He attended the Portsmouth High School and was at Harvard for one year. He then returned to Portsmouth to enter his father's hardware firm of Rider & Cotton. Later he accepted a position in St. Louis, Missouri, which necessitated his travelling in the South and West. His fine character and attrac- tive personality made him many friends wherever he went. He died July 21, 1901, at St. Louis. He never married.
WILLIAM DUDLEY COTTON
W ILLIAM DUDLEY COTTON, the son of William Dudley and Eliza- beth Emery ( Kehew) Cotton, was born November 1, 1875, at Boston. He prepared at the Roxbury Latin School. After graduating cum laude with our Class, he entered the Law School and was awarded an LL.B. in 1900.
He married Hester Sherman, June 10, 1911, in Boston. Their children are: William Dudley, Jr., born June 20, 1912; Sherman Page, born May 12, 1914; and Helen Elizabeth, born March 21, 1916. William, Jr., is a member of the Harvard Class of 1935, and Sherman was graduated in 1938. Cotton's brother, John Page Cotton, received his A.B. in 1899.
During the first World War, Cotton was a member of the American Protective League, Bureau of Investigation in Boston, and the Legal Advisory Board. In World War II, he served as an air-raid warden and plane spotter. Mrs. Cotton worked for the British War Relief and American Red Cross. William, Jr., was a captain in the Quartermaster Corps, Army of the United States; Sherman was a first lieutenant in the Anti-aircraft Branch of the
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Army of the United States; and Helen served in the Aircraft Warning Service of the Women's Defense Corps.
Cotton has been a trustee, officer, or director of the Roxbury Latin School, Institution for Savings in Roxbury, Boy Scouts of America, Roxbury Charitable Society, Roxbury Home for Aged Women, and Boston Provident Association. He has been an alder- man of the City of Boston and a vestryman of St. James Church in Roxbury, St. John's Church in Jamaica Plain, and the Church of the Epiphany in Winchester. He is a member of the Harvard Clubs of New York and Boston, Union Club of Boston, and Ab- stract Club.
JOHN ARCHIBALD COVENEY
OHN ARCHIBALD COVENEY, son of William and Annie Maria J (McGann) Coveney, was born May 1, 1876, in Boston, and died September 7, 1937, in Brighton, Massachusetts. He prepared for college at the Somerville High School. After graduating with us, he attended the Law School, from which he received an LL.B. in 1899. He then entered the law office of Charles F. Donnelly in Boston. During the first World War he served as a member of a legal advisory board. He later moved to New York, where he continued to practise law and in addition served as an editor of Corpus Juris, the legal encyclopedia. He returned to Boston seven years before his death.
He is survived by his wife, the former Orphise Anemone Morand, whom he married on June 29, 1904, at Boston.
+ WALTER FRANCIS COYNE
W ALTER FRANCIS COYNE, son of M. Francis and Katherine Louise (Meehan) Coyne, was born December 17, 1873, at Chelsea, Massachusetts, and died there March 31, 1894. He at- tended the Chelsea High School and entered the Lawrence Scien- tific School as a special student in the fall of 1893. During his brief association with the Class his earnestness and capacity for studious endeavor earned him much respect and good will.
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HARWARD WARREN CRAM
W HILE I come from old New England pioneer stock, I had the misfortune of being born in Paris, France," reports Cram. "I attended schools in Paris and Dresden, Saxony, up to the age of sixteen, and for two years in New York City.
"After graduation in 1897, I went to Depew, New York, where, in jumpers and overalls, I received intensive training in the art of manufacturing cast-iron railroad car wheels. Thereafter I was transferred to Reading, Pennsylvania, as inspector and tester of production for the Reading Car Wheel Company.
"In 1898 I became purchasing agent for the New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company. In 1900 I was made assistant to the secretary of the Locomobile Company in charge of exports and agents. From 1903 to 1919, when I retired, I was a commercial paper broker in New York. From 1898 to 1911, I served in Squadron A, Cavalry, New York State National Guard, from which I resigned with the rank of second lieutenant.
"My World War I service proved a short one. On October 22, 1918, I enlisted and became a 'candidate' for commission, at- tended the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, in time, as we thought, to par- ticipate in the Big Spring Drive of 1919. But the Armistice came the next month and I was discharged on November 29, 1918, and my battery never got a chance to fire its message to the Boche. So, my manly chest still bears no 'Decoration for Valor.'
"While with the New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company, I was sent to Cuba in May, 1899, with E. M. Cravath, Yale '96, to in- vestigate and report on Cuban asphalt deposits. This was shortly after the Spanish War. Conditions in Cuba were still chaotic, resulting in a number of interesting adventures, some humorous, others quite exciting. Our explorations took us to some of the least frequented parts of the island. In one place we were the first Americanos the natives had seen, and in another place we were the first white men to pass through since the Cuban Ten Years' War. I am told that our report on 'Cuban Asphalt De- posits,' though written almost fifty years ago now, still holds good.
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"I have been a lover of horses. The mountains and the tall timber have been my playgrounds. From the states of Maine, New York, and Montana, also from Newfoundland and from the Provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick I have brought back some well over the average big-game trophies to remind me of younger days spent in God's country. My hunting days are over. I now make my home in the heart of a State of Maine Game Preserve, surrounded by wildlife, which in the course of years has become very tame."
Cram, the son of Charles Warren Cram and Ella Brooks (Carter) Cram, was born August 1, 1875. He prepared for college at the Berkeley School in New York City. As an undergraduate he was president of the Cercle Français and secretary of the Deutscher Verein. He also played as a substitute on the Class football team. He married Katherine Lyall Moen, May 25, 1919, at Camden, New Jersey.
He is a member of the Association of Ex-Members of Squadron A and a member of its Board of Governors in New York City. His clubs are the University and Harvard Clubs of New York City.
* LEWIS FERANDUS CRAWFORD
L EWIS FERANDUS CRAWFORD died April 23, 1936, at Minneapolis, The son of Franzo Kosciusko and Sarah Eliza (Wheeler) Crawford, he was born February 25, 1870, at Wagoner, Missouri, and came to Harvard from the Warrensburg, Missouri, State Normal School. He was in college from 1895 to 1897 and then spent two years in the Graduate School, taking an A.M. in 1898. From 1899 to 1903 he was superintendent of the city schools of Dickinson, North Dakota, and for the next twelve years was a cashier in the Inter-State Bank, Sentinel Butte, North Dakota. From 1915 to 1919 he was president of the State Board of Regents, which has charge of higher institutions of learning. Later he was executive secretary of the North Dakota Industrial Commission and afterwards secretary of the Home Builders Asso- ciation of Bismarck. His later residence was in Minneapolis. He was district chairman of the American Library Association, presi-
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dent of the North Dakota Bankers' Association, a member of sev- eral historical societies, and of the American Economic Associa- tion.
On August 15, 1899, he married Cora Belle Hazlett at Oswego, Kansas. Their children were Franzo Hazlett, born July 5, 1900; Margaret Alverda, born January 15, 1902 (died December 14, 1915); Kenneth Julian, born January 18, 1904; and Helen, born July 19, 1906. Franzo was a member of the faculty of the physics department at Harvard until his resignation in October, 1945. He took his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1928.
ERNEST BOYD CRESAP
C YRESAP, the son of Thomas James and Iantha Maria ( Mozena ) Cresap, was born February 12, 1870, at Dennison, Ohio. He prepared at the Cambridge Latin School. After receiving his A.B. degree with our Class, he entered the Law School, and was awarded an LL.B. in 1900. While in Law School, he served as secretary to Dean Shaler and taught in the Boston Evening High School.
Cresap married Clara Eastburn, November 11, 1908, at Seattle, Washington. Their son, James Barton, was born March 4, 1914. He is a commander in the regular Navy. There is one grandchild.
+ EDGAR CROCKER
E DGAR CROCKER died April 3, 1928, at New York City, while returning to his home in Cambridge from a Caribbean cruise. The son of Uriel Haskell and Clara Garland (Ballard ) Crocker, he was born October 22, 1873, at Boston, and prepared for college at Hopkinson's School. After graduation he travelled in Europe and during succeeding years made three other trips abroad. In business he was at first associated with Tucker, Anthony & Com- pany, Boston, and then went into stock and note brokerage with the firm of Edgerly & Crocker, of which his brother, Joseph B. Crocker, '89, and Walter H. Edgerly, '86, were members. He himself later became a member of the firm, remaining as such
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until 1914, when he retired from active business, maintaining an office in town.
Crocker devoted himself to the study of investments and was always ready with his sound advice for friends and acquaintances. He was secretary and a member of the board of trustees of the Cambridge Hospital, a director of the Cambridge Trust Com- pany, and a director and vice-president of the Northern (New Hampshire) Railroad. Although his home was in Cambridge, he spent a part of each year at his large farm in Marlboro. His generous hospitality will be remembered by those members of the Class and their families (over six hundred strong) to whom he opened his house for luncheon during our Twenty-fifth Re- union. His kind and cheerful personality, his great helpfulness, and his many good works, quietly accomplished, made him a welcome companion, true friend, and genuine philanthropist.
He married Edith Gannett on November 9, 1898, at Cam- bridge. She and two children - Uriel Haskell, born May 10, 1901; and Katharine, born November 4, 1902 - survived him. Another daughter, Ruth, born December 22, 1905, died March 8, 1906.
* CHARLES HENRY CRONIN
C HARLES HENRY CRONIN, Boston lawyer, died September 8, 1933, at Forest Hills, Massachusetts. The son of John Henry and Mary Catherine (Flynn) Cronin, he was born July 13, 1874, at Boston. He prepared for college at the Agassiz and Boston Latin Schools and received his A.B. cum laude with our Class. He then entered the Law School, where he took an LL.B. in 1900, having been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar a year previously. For the remainder of his life he practised in Boston with his brother in the firm of Cronin & Cronin. He was a member of the Ameri- can Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, the Law Society of Massachusetts, the Boston City Club, the Knights of Colum- bus, the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, and the Cath- olic Alumni Sodality of Boston. He was unmarried.
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CHESTER MURPHY CULVER
I WAS born October 5, 1870, at Pontiac, Illinois," writes Culver. "My parents were Joseph Franklin Culver, Dickinson College, and Mary Murphy. In 1878 I moved to Kansas, where I grew up. Until 1886 I attended city schools and then entered Kansas State Normal School, graduating from the English course in 1890 and from the Latin course in 1892.
"I taught school in Pratt, Kansas, in 1892 as principal of the High School for the magnificent stipend of $50 per month in city warrant, which had to be discounted for $47.50 in cash.
"I was city editor of the Emporia Daily Gazette for a year and then accepted a position in the High School of Topeka. I attended the University of Chicago in the summer quarters and was gradu- ated thirty-one years later in 1925. At the end of the summer of '95, I decided that a western man ought to go east to school, hence I entered Harvard in '95. I held an advanced standing in the Class of '97. Circumstances prevented my return to Harvard in the fall of '96 until college had been in session one week. The committee on advanced standing refused to allow me to graduate in '97 because of my lateness in arrival. Therefore, I entered the Law School as a Harvard senior.
"After graduation from the Law School in 1899, I began the practice of law in Detroit. I was admitted to the Bar of Michigan in August, 1899, and practised law until May, 1904. I served as vice-president and general manager of the Murphy Iron Works from 1904 to 1908.
"The accomplishment of which I am most proud is the contri- bution of the Employers' Association to the unprecedented in- dustrial growth of Detroit. I shall not bore you with details, but the crusade for industrial freedom inaugurated and prosecuted by the Association under my management is the largest contributing factor in an amazing story of civic development."
Culver married Etta I'Dell Clarke, October 30, 1900, at Em- poria, Kansas. Their children are: William Clarke, and Mary Charlotte. There are four grandchildren. William is a member of the Harvard Class of '26.
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During World War I, he was a member of the Committee on Stabilization of Wage Rates in the metal trades industry and in the building trades industry. He writes that the chairman of these committees was Mr. Justice Frankfurter. In World War II, Culver was a member of the Area Board of the War Manpower Commission for metropolitan Detroit.
Until 1916 he was managing director of the Southwestern Sugar and Land Company. Since 1916 he has been general manager of the Employers' Association of Detroit. His clubs are the Harvard Club of Michigan, Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, and Detroit Golf Club.
+ ATKINS BUIE CUNNINGHAM
A TKINS BUIE CUNNINGHAM was born September 28, 1875, at St. Louis, and died at New York City on October 31, 1918. His parents were Albert Baxter and Martha Priscilla (Thorpe) Cun- ningham. He studied in private schools in England and France and at the Browne and Nichols School before coming to Harvard. He took an A.B. with the Class and then spent two years in the Law School. In 1899 he entered the law office of Tracy, Board- man & Platt in New York and the following year was admitted to the New York Bar. In 1902 he began to practise independently and was also a criminal court reporter for the New York Sun. His marriage on October 26, 1904, at Cincinnati, to Edna M. Craw- ford, was terminated in divorce, and on March 1, 1913, at Pater- son, New Jersey, he married Katharine O'Shea. He had one child, Courtenay, born January 5, 1906.
Atkins Cunningham was interested in public affairs and had a great love for music. He performed on several musical instru- ments and served as vice-president of the Pierian Sodality while in college.
+ ROBERT WADE CUNNINGHAM
R OBERT WADE CUNNINGHAM died October 7, 1894, at Brookline. The son of Henry Crawford and Charlotte Bourne (Wade) Cunningham, he was born November 24, 1874, at Lonsdale,
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Rhode Island, and prepared for college at Chauncy Hall, Boston, and Noble and Greenough's School. Ill health forced him to leave Harvard during our freshman year and to go to Colorado, where he carried on his studies with the hope of re-entering college. His health did not improve, however, and he returned to Brookline. Earnest and conscientious as a student, he was a young man of high ideals and fine character.
+ ROBERT BAYARD CUTTING
R OBERT BAYARD CUTTING, son of Robert Fulton and Nathalie Charlotte Pendleton (Schenck) Cutting, was born Decem- ber 15, 1875, at New York City. He prepared for college at Cutler's School, the Westminster School, and Groton. He gradu- ated cum laude with the Class, and after a year of travel, spent a year in a New York banking house. He then taught at Groton for three years before going into the office of his father, where he was in touch with most of the altruistic and charitable movements and organizations of New York. He helped to organize the Intercol- legiate Civic League and was at one time its chairman and later its treasurer. He was chairman of the New York Commission on Feeblemindedness and treasurer of the National Commission on Provision for the Feebleminded. His interest in philanthropy was evident when he was an undergraduate and was the expression of a nature characterized by unselfishness.
When the United States entered the first World War, he at once tried for the service. Physically unfit for Military Service, he joined the French Y.M.C.A. as assistant organizer in August, 1917, and in the spring of 1918 was transferred to the American Y.M.C.A. He became ill and died at an American Base Hospital in Chaumont, France, on April 1, 1918, dying as he had lived - in service for others.
+ CHARLES CLAYTON DANA
C HARLES CLAYTON DANA was born July 22, 1873, at Chicago, and died in that city, August 6, 1906. The son of Charles Durkee and Lucy Bakewell Cooke (Clayton) Dana, he prepared at the
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University School, Chicago, and was with our Class for four years. He then entered the real estate business in Chicago and became manager of the firm of Regelin, Jenson & Company. At the time of his death he was associated with the advertising firm of Gundlach & Gundlach. On July 11, 1901, he married Ethel Marguerite Liebling, at Waukegan, Illinois. Their son, John Hamilton, was born May 18, 1902.
+ ELMER HERVEY DARLING
E' LMER HERVEY DARLING, son of Henry H. and Caroline Cady (Martin) Darling, was born July 19, 1874, at Troy, New York, and died there December 3, 1932. He came to Harvard from Phillips Exeter Academy, and received an A.B. with the Class. For the remainder of his life he was in the wholesale grocery business in Troy, having become associated with his father's firm, Henry H. Darling, Benedict & Company, after his graduation. He served during the Spanish-American War as a corporal in Company A, Second New York Volunteer Infantry. After the death of his father in 1906, and, soon after, the death of the surviving partner, Darling was left in complete control of the business, which he incorporated with himself as president and treasurer. Although most of his time was devoted to the expan- sion and development of the company, he found time to take an interest in the affairs of his city. He was a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce, Traffic Club, and other organizations. During the first World War he belonged to the Troy Citizens' Corps, through which he was closely associated with welfare work.
Darling married Clara Alice Paul, September 14, 1899, at Blue Mountain Lake, New York. He was survived by their son, Elmer Paul, born July 16, 1901.
HOWARD HITTINGER DAVENPORT
"AM glad to be alive," writes Davenport. "I wish I could live
I forever around these parts. I didn't have much to say about coming here, and I shall not have much to say about leaving, but
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I have had a nice time all the while. I would like to try it over again in spite of the bumps along the way.
"I like the big ocean, I like to be in it and on it. I like the country, particularly in the spring. I like people - happy ones. I don't want to grow old."
Davenport, the son of Charles Willis and Sarah Anderson (Hittinger ) Davenport, was born June 16, 1872, at San Francisco. He prepared at the Cambridge Latin School, and received his A.B. after four years with our Class. He married Alice Frances Davenport, September 14, 1898, at Watertown, Massachusetts. She died in September, 1919, at Worcester, Massachusetts. On November 2, 1929, he married Louise Churchill Meserve. His children are: Edward Augustus, 2d, born June 7, 1900; Howard Hittinger, Jr., born October 30, 1902; and Lawrence Adams, born March 7, 1909. There are two grandchildren. Howard, Jr., is a member of the Harvard Class of 1925.
In World War II, Edward was a captain in the Army Air Forces. Lawrence served as a private in the Army of the United States.
Since 1897 Davenport has been in the ice business. He is chair- man of the Board of Trustees of the National Service Companies.
* IRVILLE FAY DAVIDSON
TRVILLE FAY DAVIDSON died at New Orleans, on December 27, 1940, having retired a year before as professor of Latin and Greek at Bard College, formerly St. Stephen's College, where he went in 1898 as an instructor. He was made professor in 1913. The son of Jonas Keith and Henrietta Cordelia ( Nash ) Davidson, he was born January 26, 1875, at Weymouth, Massachusetts. He prepared for Harvard at Brookline High School and North High School, Weymouth. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1897, an honorary A.M. from St. Stephen's College in 1907, an A.M. from the University of Chicago in 1908, and an L.H.D. from St. Stephen's College in 1914. He taught at St. Thomas Hall, Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Ossining, New York, before going to St. Stephen's College. From
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1900 to 1904 he taught at the Lakewood (New Jersey ) School. In addition to his teaching activities at St. Stephen's College, he was dean from 1918 to 1925 and acting president in 1919.
He married Helen Van Wegner September 4, 1901, at Wey- mouth. His wife and two children, Dorothy, born September 10, 1902, and John Irville, born July 11, 1904, survived him.
MALCOLM BROOKS DAVIS
M ALCOLM DAVIS did not return a questionnaire, but told the Secretary that he is still selling bonds and had no changes to report. The son of Henry Brooks and Lucy Tucker ( McKen- dry) Davis, he was born September 4, 1875, at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended Kendall's School in Cambridge. He was in college for four years and then studied at the Law School for three years. He then held various positions in New York, in- cluding work in journalism and the coal business, for about twelve years, and spent two years in Canada in charge of some coal mining operations. In 1915 he returned to Boston and en- tered the investment security business, going into partnership in 1918 with George E. Stokes under the name of Stokes & Company. In 1923 he went into business under his own name.
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