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French was born May 4, 1876, at Boston, the son of Charles Davis and Susan Eckstein (Schober ) French. He came to Harvard from the Roxbury Latin School. After four years with our Class, he was graduated with distinction. He married Anna Morton Davenport, April 20, 1908, at Boston. This marriage ended in divorce. He married Madeline Mathilde Piercy, January 21, 1926, at Brooklyn, New York.
HERBERT JACOB FRIEDMAN
F RIEDMAN, the son of Jacob and Henrietta (Kahn) Friedman, was born March 2, 1876, at Chicago. He prepared for college at the South Division High School in Chicago and Morgan Park Academy in Morgan Park, Illinois. After three years' work with our Class, he was graduated cum laude. He entered the Law School immediately after graduation and took his LL.B. in 1900. He has practised law ever since.
He married Elsie Sidenberg, October 1, 1907, in New York City. Their two daughters are: Laura, born November 31, 1909; and Madge E., born January 18, 1918. There are two grandchildren. During World War I, Friedman served as secretary of the Selec- tive Service Association. In World War II Madge worked for the American Red Cross in charge of entertainment.
Friedman is a former president of the Municipal Voters League of Chicago.
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FRED AUGUSTINE FULLER
F RED FULLER did not return a questionnaire. After leaving col- lege, he was in the employ of the Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath Street Railway Company and later was division superintend- ent of the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railroad Com- pany. In 1918 he entered the employ of the Shaw Auto Company, Bath, Maine, as superintendent of the garage and salesrooms, and he held that position at the time of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report. When the last Report was published, he was division circulation manager of the Gannet Publishing Company.
Fuller was born May 15, 1875, at Bath, Maine, the son of Edwin Motley and Lizzie Ellen (Gross) Fuller. He prepared at the Bath High School and Westbrook Seminary, Maine, and was in the Lawrence Scientific School from 1893 to 1895. He married Bernice Elvona Morse on September 9, 1914, at Auburn, Maine.
ROBERT WARREN FULLER
T HE Secretary has received no word from Robert Fuller, who, at the time of the Fortieth Anniversary Report, was teaching at the Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he had been appointed head of the department of physics and chemistry when the school was organized in 1904. Later the growth of the school dictated the division of the department, and he became head of the department of chemistry. Earlier in his career, he had taught Chemistry 1 at Harvard, done research in the Graduate School, and headed the department of chemistry in the De Witt Clinton High School in New York City. He is co-author of many books on physics and chemistry.
The son of Horace Baker and Mary Frances ( Horton) Fuller, he was born at Boston on January 18, 1871, and attended the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He studied in the Lawrence Scientific School from 1893 to 1896, in the College dur- ing 1896-97, and in the Graduate School from 1897 to 1899. He received the degrees of A.B. cum laude and A.M., in 1897 and 1899, respectively. He married Emily Boylan on June 15, 1905, at
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New York City. Their children were Helen, born November 20, 1908, and Robert Everett, born December 14, 1911. After his wife's death he married Mrs. Louise Brinckerhof Wadsworth Foster, who has since died.
ALBERT MONTGOMERY FULTON, JR.
F ULTON has been "lost" since 1934, when mail addressed to him at the Hotel Bristol, New York City, was returned by the Post Office. He was admitted to the Bar of New York State in 1899, according to an earlier Report, and spent a year in the law depart- ment of the Metropolitan Street Railway. He then began an in- dependent practice but gradually gave up law for real estate. For a number of seasons he managed a summer hotel at Monticello, New York, but this he sold after the first World War. He then moved to New York City, where he dealt in investment securities.
Fulton was born at Montgomery, New York, on August 15, 1872. His parents were Albert Montgomery and Mary E. (Mould) Ful- ton. He attended Ithaca High School and Cornell University be- fore coming to Harvard, where he took an A.B. cum laude with the Class. He then went to New York Law School, where he received an LL.B. in 1899.
* JOSEPH FYFFE
OSEPH FYFFE, retired captain in the United States Navy, died
J January 13, 1942, at Chicago. Born October 5, 1874, at Ripley, Ohio, he was the son of Joseph and Clifford Neff (Moody) Fyffe. His father was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, retiring in 1896 as commandant of the Boston Navy Yard. Fyffe prepared for college at the Boston Latin and Newton High Schools. After three years at Harvard, he took to the sea, joining the Navy Pay Corps (now the Supply Corps). During the Spanish-American War, he served in the Caribbean and received the Sampson and Spanish War medals. After two years in Boston, he was in Chinese waters during the Russo-Japanese War, and then was stationed in Newport before going to South America. During the first World
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War, he was Fleet Paymaster of the Pacific Fleet. Later he was responsible for the supply of cargo ships leaving New York for Europe. After the war, he was one of a group who improved the paper work at the Navy Supply Depot at South Brooklyn, New York, and initiated methods which he later carried to Pearl Har- bor, the New York Navy Yard, and the San Diego Operating Base. He was the recipient of the Navy Cross and the Victory Medal with Patrol Clasp. He retired in 1938.
Fyffe married Katharine Ellen Bacon on October 17, 1901, at Norwich, Connecticut. She died in 1914 and in 1915 he married Anne Lockwood, who, with his son, Joseph Bacon, born February 10, 1909, and three grandchildren, survived him.
THOMAS MORTON GALLAGHER
INCE the last Report," writes Gallagher, "I have been busy in S medicine and legal medical work. This entails a great many appearances in court as medical expert for the state. Many of my cases have been of the capital nature. Five years ago Dr. Moritz, professor of legal medicine at Harvard, found himself in a dilemma with a $600,000 endowment for a chair of legal medicine and a laboratory. He had no material for his demonstrations or teaching. He was surrounded by two full-time medical examiners in Suffolk County. The situation was a unique one and, insofar as he was concerned, an impasse.
"Dr. Jesse Battershall of North Attleboro was the president at the time. He was not a Harvard man, but was a very cooperative person. With the help of Dr. Battershall and Dr. Brickley of Bos- ton, I carried the fight for several months with the hope of placing Dr. Moritz in the Public Safety. There was quite a little opposi- tion, but that was broken down. The final result was that the Legal Department of Harvard Medical School was taken into the Public Safety, and Dr. Moritz and his assistants were able to go throughout the state to help all medical examiners other than Suffolk County.
"Today the Medical Legal Department of Harvard has a place in the sun with all the material necessary for teaching and dem-
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onstrations. This combination is probably the most complete in the whole United States.
"I feel justly proud in helping to do this for an institution that had done so much for me."
Gallagher, the son of Thomas and Beatrice (Merrick) Gal- lagher, was born March 22, 1872, at Wellesley, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Wellesley High School and was with our Class for one year as a special student in the Lawrence Scientific School. He received his M.D. at the Medical School in 1898. He married Susan E. Hart, January 28, 1906, at Newton, Massachusetts. She died January 1, 1921. His daughter, Ruth Marie, was born No- vember 13, 1908. He married Mary C. Cronin, December 26, 1928, at Newton. There are three grandchildren, two boys and a girl. The two boys hope to enter Harvard.
During World War I, Gallagher was a member of the Exemption Board. In the second World War, as medical examiner, he was a member of the Public Safety Committee. He was a member of the Newton Board of Aldermen from 1928 to 1938. Since 1912 he has been medical examiner for the Seventh Middlesex District, up to the present time the longest continuous service in the state. He belongs to the B.P.O.E., Knights of Columbus, Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, and Massachusetts Medical Society. He is a fellow of the American Medical Association and was president of the Massachusetts Legal Medical Society for two terms. His club is the New England Fox Hunt Club.
GEORGE HENRY GALPIN
HE Secretary has been unable to learn Galpin's address since 1930, when mail addressed to him at 21 North Walnut Street, East Orange, New Jersey, was returned by the Post Office. Ac- cording to earlier Reports( after leaving college he became in- structor in English at St. John's School, Manlius, New York, then instructor in English and elocution at Kenyon Military Academy. His next posts were assistant commissioner of public buildings and clerk of the Board of Health, Somerville, Massachusetts. He then moved to New Haven, where he was head of the Department of
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Oral English and Public Speaking at Hillhouse High School and the Commercial High School, as well as president of the Lincoln Club and director of the York Square Players, which produced plays of his authorship.
He was born at Claremont, New Hampshire, on September 9, 1874, the son of Henry and Nellie Barbara (Johnson ) Galpin. He prepared at the Somerville Latin School and was at Harvard during 1893-94.
+ THOMAS BRATTLE GANNETT
T HOMAS BRATTLE GANNETT, a member of our Class Committee, died May 6, 1931, at Milton, Massachusetts. He was born February 28, 1876, at Cambridge, the son of Thomas Brattle and Edith (Bates ) Gannett, and prepared for Harvard at the Browne and Nichols School. After graduation he entered the investment banking business with the firm of Parkinson & Burr, of which he became a partner in 1905. In 1929 the name of the firm was changed to Burr, Gannett & Company, and he remained a member until his death. His financial acumen made him a much sought- after counsellor, and he served on the boards of many companies. He was a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Suffolk Savings Bank, president of the Infants' Hospital, and treas- urer of the Boston Provident Association. His charitable affilia- tions were many, but his good works were always accomplished as inconspicuously as possible. During the first World War, he worked under classmate Norwood Penrose Hallowell in Liberty Loan campaigns. He was devoted to Harvard, where he made a host of friends, and his death was a loss felt throughout the Class.
On November 21, 1911, at Hopedale, Massachusetts, he married Dorothy Draper, who, with their five children - Thomas Brattle, Jr., born October 5, 1912; John Draper, born October 12, 1915; Robert Tileston, 2d, born September 26, 1917; Dorothy, born February 28, 1921; and William Bristow, born September 26, 1923 - survived him.
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+ BERTRAM GARDNER
B' ERTRAM GARDNER died June 11, 1924, at Baldwin, Long Island, New York. After graduating with our Class, he entered the New York Law School, taking his LL.B., in 1899. He became a member of the New York Bar in the same year. He began a prac- tice in New York and extended it to Nassau County, Long Island. From 1914 to 1918 he represented Nassau County on the Demo- cratic State Committee. From November, 1916, to July, 1921, he was in turn Chief Deputy Collector, Acting Collector, and Col- lector of Internal Revenue for the First New York District. He then returned to private practice, specializing in tax matters. He was a director of the Citizens' National Bank of Freeport and a member of the Advisory Board of Long Island Bankers. At the time of his death he held the presidency of National Tax Consultants, Incorporated. To his activities he brought a quiet and forceful personality, faithfulness, and real business ability.
Gardner was born on November 4, 1871, at Brooklyn. His par- ents were Alfred Hussey and Emily Augusta (Atwater) Gardner. He prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Garden City, New York. On May 7, 1899, at Garden City, he married Gardina Green- leaf Yvelin, who, with their two children - Yvelin, born July 2, 1906, and Ruth, born January 21, 1912 - survived him.
WILBERT ANDREW GARRISON
A' FTER four years as principal of the Preparatory School of West- minster College, Westminster, Maryland," writes Wilbert Garrison, "I accepted the position of assistant professor of engi- neering mathematics in the Engineering School of Union College in Schenectady. I held this post for ten years. In order to dis- charge my duties efficiently, I took intensive work in mathematics and mechanics, for my teaching requirements consisted chiefly of calculus, analytical mechanics, and least squares. After writing the solution of four or five thousand problems, I attained sufficient skill to be able to solve, mentally at least, 75 per cent of all the problems in any standard text. The training obtained made teach-
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ing easy and saved me much time in preparing lessons. I tried to reduce the subjects taught to fundamental principles so that the students could more easily comprehend the subject matter.
"Union College offered me a residence course, consisting of electrical science as a major and a few other subjects as minors, which would lead to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. I had desired this degree before entering Harvard, but financial means and leisure had not been available. The work for the degree con- sisted of electrical science as a major, history and education as minors, and was undertaken and continued for several years as far as time and opportunity permitted. Progress was slow and often exhausting because studying took time that should have been given to sleep and recreation.
"In 1917, King College of Bristol, Tennessee, on its fiftieth anni- versary moved from its circumscribed location in the city to a forty-acre tract two miles distant where there was room to expand. I accepted the position of professor of mathematics and French with a strong determination to help build up the college. I held this position, with a number of changes of subjects, for twenty-one years.
"From observation it soon became apparent that the work would have to be strengthened and broadened if the college were to expand and gain the recognition necessary to become a pros- perous institution. Too often efforts to raise standards are met with opposition or indifference, but such considerations in no way reduced my determination to persist in the efforts.
"Near the close of the first scholastic year, the president of the college proposed that French be shifted to some other member of the faculty and that I take biology and chemistry in its stead, for he had difficulty in inducing Army officials to allow the drafted incumbent to remain during the scholastic year. The medical colleges had just increased their requirements for admission, and there were students in King College who urged that they be given adequate preparation for the study of medicine. I told the presi- dent that I would accept the proposal if provision was made for me to do intensive work in chemistry and biology at some great university during the summer months. The trustees of the college
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furnished the funds and the University of Chicago offered a full summer quarter, and I enrolled there.
"At the close of the spring term of King College in 1918, I under- took intensive work averaging from sixteen to eighteen hours per day in biology and analytical chemistry at the University of Chi- cago, not so much for credit as to gain up-to-date knowledge of the subjects, methods of presentation, and to ascertain the best text and reference books. A period of twelve weeks spent in stren- uous work and close observation at a center of scientific activity made it possible for me to organize and conduct satisfactory pre- medical courses.
"On my return to Bristol, I was instrumental in ordering books and materials, having manuals typewritten, and outlining courses of study. To make sure that the students of King College had adequate preparation, we greatly extended the pre-medical courses of study. The work at King College proved so satisfactory that the wish was expressed that all medical students could receive similar preparation.
"After an experience of four years with specimens preserved in formaldehyde, I began to find the work unpleasant. Having been interested in the study of psychology for a number of years, and seeing the probability of a vacancy in the subject at King College, I took work in general and experimental psychology in the summer school of Cornell University. While I was there some members of the psychological faculty suggested that I take work leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Upon consultation with the head of the department, I found that the task could be completed in two more summers and one scholastic year.
"Shortly after the opening of King College in the fall of 1921, there was a vacancy in the Department of Psychology, which I filled. Toward the close of the scholastic year, I was granted a leave of absence for one year, and made arrangements to enter upon graduate study the following year.
"In the summer of 1922, I changed my residence to Ithaca, New York. I decided, after consultation with the heads of the depart- ments at Cornell, to take psychology as a major and education and mathematics as minors. I started work on my minor thesis, 'The
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Value of Intelligence Tests in Colleges and Universities,' before the summer school opened. When it opened I took laboratory courses in psychology and education along with other courses as a preparation for future investigation. The educational atmos- phere was as exhilarating as the climate, both conducive to strenu- ous mental activity. The days and nights were far too short for me to accomplish all that I desired.
"When the University opened in September, 1922, I had started the regular work on my major and minor subjects and joined sem- inars. Forty thousand observations were made by six observers and I tabulated the results for my major thesis, 'The Effect of Varied Instructions on the Perception of Distance in Terms of Arm Movement.' At the close of the session all the observations had been made and the results recorded. By the end of August, 1923, I had finished all the computations, the two theses were written and accepted, the examinations passed, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was recommended and later conferred.
"On returning to King College, I saw that some psychological apparatus was purchased and a psychological laboratory equipped.
"I spent the vacation of 1925 travelling through France, Spain, French Africa, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and England. It was another dream that had come true. I pur- chased travellers' language books in French, Spanish, and Italian before starting the trip. The books seemed to be written on the plan that the words most needed were omitted or could not be found when wanted.
"During the summer of 1927, I took an automobile trip through the western part of the United States and covered more than ten thousand miles. Among the interesting places I visited were the Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon, Sequoia National Park, and Yellowstone National Park. In the vacation of 1929 I toured the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
"The sad case of Bishop Brown of the Diocese of Arkansas is distressing. During his administration, ninety churches were built. He read a modern work on astronomy, could find no place for his New Jerusalem which he had been preaching for years, lost his faith, and was unfrocked after years of service. Did the college
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where he did his undergraduate work fail to do its duty by not requiring a course in astronomy for graduation?
"In the light of this incident, I gave courses in astronomy and geology as extras even though my schedule was seldom or never less than eighteen hours.
"For a short time I was the acting president of King College and later dean. In 1939 I retired in my eightieth year, and the college, in grateful recognition of my devotion to its interests through twenty-one years of service, granted me a yearly allowance.
"I maintain my memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and the Southern Associa- tion of Philosophy and Psychology."
Garrison, the son of Andrew Holdzykum and Phebe Shimp Gar- rison, was born October 15, 1859, at Deerfield, New Jersey. He prepared at the Woodstown Academy in Woodstown, New Jersey, and attended Garfield University in Wichita, Kansas. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1897 and an A.M. in 1899. He married Mary Cornelia Wissler, July 15, 1890, at Shreveport, Louisiana.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
I COMPLETED the required college courses in three years," writes William Garrison, "and was granted a leave of absence in my senior year to attend the Harvard Law School. I received the degree of A.B. in the spring of 1897 with our Class, and was awarded honors in history, which had been my major field of study. At Commencement I was elected Class Secretary. I at- tended the Law School a second year, but did not return for the final year, having gone to work in Boston in the summer of 1898 as a messenger in the National Bank of Commerce, whose presi- dent was Colonel Norwood P. Hallowell of the Harvard Class of 1861.
"At the end of the summer I found employment with a newly formed investment banking firm, Perry, Coffin & Burr, located at 60 State Street. There I was initiated into the mysteries of invest- ment finance and became, in due course, a junior partner. On
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April 4, 1916, when that firm was dissolved and the existing cor- poration of Coffin & Burr, Incorporated, came into being, I was named president of the new undertaking. I served as such until the summer of 1933, when I withdrew and was succeeded by my partner, the late Philip S. Dalton of the Class of 1898.
"Since 1933 I have acted in various fiduciary capacities, and am still endeavoring to perform what seems to be a complicated and recondite task in a period of constitutional anarchy.
"The only public position I have held was membership for a term on the School Board of the City of Newton, Massachusetts, my home at that time being in West Newton. As to club affilia- tions, I am a member of the Union Club of Boston, and for several years was an active member of the Tuesday Club of Newton along with our classmates, Grosvenor Calkins and the late Charles Swain Thomas, who was, at the time of his death, its presiding officer. I have greatly enjoyed the meetings of the Signet Society of Cam- bridge, and shall never forget the delight of those occasions when Charles H. Grandgent, '83, and E. K. Rand, '94, displayed their brilliant and scholarly virtuosity.
"Over the years, I have spoken, and written, very ineffectually, in behalf of various 'causes,' and am now quite content to do the listening. As a diversion, I write inconsequential verse, and have ever been held in proper restraint by the monitory words of Don Marquis, to the effect that, 'Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.'
"As indicated by the foregoing outline, my fifty years afield have been lamentably homespun. In my domestic life, both before and after marriage, I was peculiarly fortunate. And I realize that when the time came for competitive business effort I chanced upon a propitious period wherein energy and enthusiasm could have ample scope, as evidenced by the achievements of a goodly group of men who graduated in the spring of 1897.
"I am glad to record that I am on speaking terms with my kith and kin. But I reluctantly admit that I cannot keep pace with the speed and footwork of my grandchildren, especially the girls, al- though I have always prided myself upon winning the medal in the
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Potato Race at the spring meeting in the Hemenway Gymnasium in our senior year."
Garrison, the son of William Lloyd and Ellen ( Wright ) Garri- son, was born December 5, 1874, at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He prepared at Hopkinson's School in Boston. He married Edith Stephenson, March 16, 1901, at Newton Center, Massachusetts. Their children are: William Lloyd, Jr., born January 28, 1902; Claire (Mrs. Robert Emerson), born May 21, 1903; David Lloyd, born September 1, 1906; John Bright, born February 14, 1909; Faith (Mrs. Reed Harwood), born December 21, 1910; and Edith Lloyd (Mrs. Lloyd G. Wheatley), born November 9, 1913. There are ten grandchildren.
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