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He married Susan Holdrege, October 4, 1911, at Omaha, Neb- raska. Their children are: Russell Holdrege, born October 5, 1912; Barrett, born February 24, 1914; Nathaniel Rogers, born May 18, 1915; and Marjorie (Mrs. Wilson), born December 6, 1918. There are six grandchildren.
During World War II, Russell worked with the General Motors Corporation, developing a process for aluminum crank cases for airplane engines and worked for the duration producing them. Barrett, a Quaker and conscientious objector, worked for the Friends Service Committee. Nathaniel was a captain in the Army Medical Corps. He served for twenty months in Europe, ending as a consultant in neurosurgery for the American forces. Mrs. Hollister gave volunteer service in the Red Cross work room dur- ing both wars.
* STANLEY HOLLISTER
TANLEY HOLLISTER was born November 6, 1874, at Santa Bar- S bara, California. The son of William Wells and Hannah Ann (James ) Hollister, he prepared for college at the Belmont School, California. He was with our Class for four years, graduating with honorable mention in history, and then entered the Law School. He left his studies to join the Rough Riders, Troop A, First United States Volunteer Cavalry, when the Spanish-American War broke out. In the battle of San Juan he was wounded. While recover- ing, he became ill and died in the hospital at Fortress Monroe, Virginia.
Santa Barbara suspended business and placed all flags at half- mast in his honor, and he was given a military funeral. All honors
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paid him were well-deserved. In athletics and in scholarship he showed great ability, and his fine character and charming person- ality won him much respect and many friends.
+ CLEMENT ELTON HOLMES
C LEMENT ELTON HOLMES, who was associated with our Class only during senior year, died at Haydenville, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1944. He was born at Short Creek, Ohio, on Feb- ruary 3, 1864, the son of Rezin and Emeline ( Mansfield) Holmes. Before coming to Harvard he had received an A.B. at Franklin College in 1886, and an S.T.B. at Boston University in 1890. He was ordained to the ministry in 1889. In 1904 he took a Ph.D. at Boston University, writing his thesis on Jonathan Edwards, His Philosophy in Relation to His Theology.
Holmes served as pastor of the Methodist Church in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1893, in Nahant, Massachu- setts, during 1893-94, at Winchester, Massachusetts, from 1894 to 1896, at Newton, Massachusetts, from 1896 to 1900, and at Northampton, Massachusetts, during 1900-11. He then entered the denomination of the Congregational Church, and was called to the Second Congregational Church in Westfield, Massachu- setts, in 1911. On leaving the Northampton church he was given the following tribute:
"In the roll-call of pastors of the First Methodist Church in Northhampton is a name forever enshrined in the hearts of our church and it is the name of a greatly beloved servant of the church - Dr. Clement E. Holmes. In his personality, this church discovered those elements which go to make up the true servant of the church of God. In the ministry of Dr. Holmes over a period of eleven years, exceeding in point of service that of any other pastor, we feel that we are happy to present this eulogy as a sincere expression of his service to the church militant."
Holmes was pastor at Westfield for thirteen years and left in 1924 to accept a call to the First Congregational Church of Had- ley, where he served until his retirement on January 1, 1936. At that time he was honored by being made pastor emeritus of that
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church. He had long been recognized as one of the most able men in the Congregational ministry and was considered an au- thority on the Bible.
On August 27, 1890, at Athens, Ohio, he married Jessie R. Barricklow, who died in 1940. One son, Max Donald, born Au- gust 22, 1895, survived him. The Secretary is indebted to him for much of the information in this obituary.
WILLIAM ABERNETHY HOLT
F ROM 1897 to 1922," reports Holt, "the course of my experience led me through secondary-school teaching into business fields, large and small, as stenographer, salesman, and manager. In 1923 I was appointed city manager of the City of New London, Con- necticut, with final responsibility for all executive departments, except education. The City Council wanted a local man to carry on a non-partisan, efficient administration of the affairs of a city of 30,000 people. I applied for the position and was appointed. For thirteen consecutive years I served under fifteen different councils and fourteen mayors. Charter changes, permitting par- tisan nomination of mayors and councils, brought in the influence of party politics, and I resigned in July, 1936.
"That fall I took and passed the United States Civil Service examination for the Employment Service, and was appointed manager at Norwich in 1937. I served the state and federal gov- ernments as manager, there and in New London, until January, 1945. I then took Civil Service examinations for the position of deputy area director of the War Manpower Commission, was appointed, and served as such in New London until the depart- ment was abolished in August, 1945.
"I am now retired. Of all the occupations which I followed in my active life, I am best satisfied with my work as city manager. Under the Council-manager Plan, and with a completely loyal personnel, we accomplished lasting beneficial results for the city. The work was not without strain and stress, but to me it proved what could be done under the Manager Plan when given a chance.
"Life has been good to me. I paid my way and have only minor
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regrets. My son has made good and will carry on. As to life's durable satisfactions,' the question immediately arises: 'How long- lasting is durable?' I noted that most of life's dissatisfactions stem from the common excuse, 'It seemed a good idea at the time.' Such satisfactions as I have had came from deciding on the right course as I saw it, and then sticking to it. It appears to work out in the end, though at times the going is tough. I have checked out clean from every job I had, and so far as I know have made no lasting enemies. Life in retirement, though too uneventful, has its moments of satisfaction."
Holt, the son of William Abernethy and Sarah Ann (Skinner ) Holt, was born January 7, 1875, at New London, Connecticut. He prepared at Dean Academy in Franklin, Massachusetts. He was with our Class four years, two years as a special student.
"Socially," he writes, "college life for me was uneventful. I tried out for the Track Team every year, but never made it. Try- ing was lots of fun, however, and I met and came to know Coach Jim Lathrop. My opinion of him as a coach and as a man is still very high. He gave us all every possible encouragement. My field of study was Romance languages. I still have a most grateful memory of the ability and personality of Professor de Sumichrast. I was graduated cum laude, made the dissertation list, and re- ceived honorable mention in French."
Holt married Grace Morton Chandler, June 28, 1905, at Rox- bury, Massachusetts. They had two children: Natalie, born April 6, 1906 (died April 7, 1906); and Chandler, born December 16, 1908. Chandler is a member of the Harvard Class of 1930.
During World War I, Holt served for twenty-three months in the Connecticut State Guard as a first lieutenant. He was clerk of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Connecticut State Leg- islature. In World War II, he was with the State and United States Employment Service from 1940 to 1945. Mrs. Holt worked for the American Red Cross.
Holt was a member of the Board of Education of New London for four years. He was a representative in the Connecticut State Legislature for two terms from 1916 to 1920. In 1920 he was a member of the New London Ferry Commission for six months,
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and was city manager of New London from 1923 to 1936. He is a member of the Rotary International.
* GEORGE ALLEN HOPKINS
G EORGE ALLEN HOPKINS died June 19, 1935, at New York City. He was born November 22, 1875, at Madison, Wisconsin, the son of George Bates and Julia (Proudfit) Hopkins, and attended the Powder Point School at Duxbury, Massachusetts. He was associated with the Class only during 1893-94, transferring then to the University of Wisconsin, from which he took an A.B. in 1899. Repeated efforts have failed to produce further informa- tion regarding this classmate than that which was printed in the Fourth Report, in 1912. At that time he was unmarried and living in New York, where he was engaged in the contracting business. His previous business associations had been with the transporta- tion department of the Erie Railroad from 1900 to 1904, with the Delaware and Hudson Railroad from 1905 to 1907, and surveying for the State from 1907 to 1909.
+ STEPHEN UPSHUR HOPKINS
S TEPHEN UPSHUR HOPKINS collapsed and died suddenly on De- cember 11, 1945, in a New York subway station with whose building he had had much to do. He was born at Onancock, Virginia, February 13, 1872, the son of Stephen and Alicia Anna (West) Hopkins, and attended the Onancock Academy. He was one of those whose distinguished careers brought credit to the training received in the old Lawrence Scientific School of which Nathaniel S. Shaler was the dean. Graduating with honors, he was made an instructor in engineering and hydraulics. In 1900 he became assistant engineer of the New York City Rapid Transit Railroad Commission and had charge of the construction of two sections of the original New York City subway.
He continued as assistant engineer and assistant division engi- neer of the New York subway system until September, 1911, with the exception of the year 1909, when he served as consulting
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engineer on the construction of a bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. From 1911 to 1914 he was chief engi- neer of the Fourth Avenue subway and for the next four years was construction and chief engineer of the Lexington Avenue subway in Manhattan when the additional sections were built under his supervision. When the constructing corporation was forced into a receivership in 1918 he was appointed one of the receivers.
In later years Hopkins headed his own organization at 84 William Street and acted as consulting engineer and contractor on many large projects, including the Sixth and Eighth Avenue subways of the Independent Subway System. During the war he was retained, successively, by the Navy Department for the supervision of construction of a large shipbuilding plant in Mill- ington, New Jersey, and by the War Department as consulting and special engineer for important construction work in the Panama Canal Zone.
"Hoppy," as we used to call him in college, was married Octo- ber 26, 1898, to Leila Margaret Powell, at Onancock. She sur- vived him. Their only child, Powell, died about ten years ago.
Those of us who sat with him in class in college, who camped with him at the summer surveying school on Martha's Vineyard, and worked with him at our first engineering job, the draining and building of Soldiers Field, recall his sunny disposition, his unfail- ing courtesy and consideration for others which are the marks of a true gentleman. We admired his character and respected his ability. He was a chap one likes to remember.
D. H. M.
+ KENNETH HORTON
K' ENNETH HORTON was born April 28, 1876, at Quincy, Massa- chusetts. The son of Henry Kenny and Marian Glyde (Bigelow) Horton, he attended the Belmont School, Belmont, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard with our Class. He remained only two years, then entered a well-known Boston real estate firm. He died in Boston on February 20, 1908, and was survived by his wife, the former Marguerite Wagnière, whom he married at
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Boston on April 28, 1900. His kindliness, humor, cheerfulness, and sympathy endeared him to his many friends.
+ PERCY HOUGHTON
P ERCY HOUGHTON, who was at Harvard only during 1893-94, died April 15, 1933, at Brooklyn, New York. The son of Oliver Cleveland and Lillian (Brain) Houghton, he was born March 5, 1873, at St. Paul, Minnesota. After leaving Harvard, he entered the University of Minnesota as a student of medicine, and in 1900 received an M.D. degree from Georgetown University. Later he took up the study of law, taking an LL.B. from the New York Law School in 1908 and an LL.M. in 1909. He concentrated on medi- cine and surgery, taking an occasional sidestep into law. He re- ceived a first lieutenant's commission in 1917 and was discharged in March, 1919.
He married Katherine Houghton on June 26, 1901, at Bristol, Tennessee. Their children were Percy, Jr., born April 26, 1905, and Katherine, born April 21, 1907. The Secretary has been un- able to learn about Houghton's activities during the later years of his life, or of the whereabouts of his family.
CARL HOVEY
H OVEY, the son of Charles Henry and Caroline Louise (Perry) Hovey, was born October 2, 1875, at Boston. He prepared for college at the Public Latin School in that city. He was with our Class four years and received an A.B. in 1897. As an under- graduate, he was president of the Harvard Advocate and a mem- ber of the Signet and O.K. Clubs.
His marriage to Jean Edgerton took place June 29, 1899, at Charleston, South Carolina. She died June 20, 1915. He mar- ried Sonya Levien, October 12, 1917. His children are: Copeland, born May 15, 1900; Bettina, born January 30, 1902; Sergey, born March 10, 1919; and Tamara, born December 16, 1922. There is one grandchild. Copeland is a member of the Harvard Class of 1922.
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During World War II, Hovey worked for the Broadcast Con- trol, Office of War Information, Overseas Radio, in San Francisco. Since 1897 he has been a newspaper reporter on New York papers, a magazine writer, editor of a metropolitan magazine, and a scenario writer in Hollywood.
+ HENRY WAINWRIGHT HOWE
H ENRY WAINWRIGHT HOWE died September 15, 1931, at Bedford Hills, New York. The son of Henry Saltonstall Howe, '69, and Kate Wainwright, he was born September 20, 1875, at Nor- wich, Connecticut, and prepared for Harvard at the Noble and Greenough School. After graduation, he entered the employ of Lawrence & Company, wholesale textile merchants, a firm of which his father had been a partner for many years. He himself later became a member of the firm. When the company was dissolved, he retired from active business and devoted the greater part of his time to raising pure bred cattle on his Bedford Hills farm. His Harvard associates will remember him especially for his musical talents and for the pleasure his singing gave at reunions.
On October 19, 1898, at Brookline, he married Ethel Gardner, who died in 1919. He was survived by his second wife, the for- mer Mary Barton Potter, whom he married in 1921, and three sons - Henry Wainwright, Jr., '23, born May 14, 1901; Nathaniel Saltonstall, '26, born September 4, 1903; and Philip Gardner, born August 31, 1907.
JAMES ALBERT HOWELL
E VER since graduation from the Law School in 1899," writes Howell, "I have lived continuously at Ogden, Utah, and for the greater part of that time in the same house, although it was remodeled from time to time to meet changing needs. Ogden, at the turn of the century when I began to practise, was a small city compared with other cities of the country, although it was the second largest city of the state, having about 15,000 inhabitants. But it has increased in size approximately six times during the
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period. It is beautifully situated at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains (a spur of the Rockies) and in the Salt Lake Valley between the confluence of two rivers, the Ogden and the Weber, which flow out of the canyons of the mountains into the Great Salt Lake.
"It has always had, however, an importance disproportionate to its size because of its being the county seat of the agricultural district in which it is located, because of its being a railroad terminus with lines running to the west, the southwest, and the northwest Pacific Coast, and because of the fact that its citizens branched out into businesses in that territory. In serving my clients, I have had to try cases and be admitted to practise ( espe- cially in the federal courts) of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.
"When I began to practise I knew practically everyone in town, which had a more or less homogeneous population. But now that is no longer so, and the population has become more and more heterogeneous. And so, occasionally I say somewhat wistfully: 'How Green Was My Valley.'
"I have, however, tried to keep pace with the growth of my city in its business and social development and accommodate myself to the changing conditions.
"With the exception of a year or so, the first fifteen years of my life in the law were spent on the Bench as a judge of nisi prius courts, and I enjoyed that service and would have been willing to continue in the work but for the fact that, as is true in many places, our judges are underpaid and are elected on political tickets, which, absurd as it is, still continues and renders the term of office insecure. So, in 1916, when 'Wilson kept us out of war," I was defeated for re-election, and then a few months later, he took me along with many others into World War I.
"I was commissioned major in the Judge Advocate General's Department in August, 1917, and assigned to Headquarters of the 40th Division. I sailed for France in August, 1918, and was transferred to the Office of the Judge Advocate, American Expe- ditionary Force in November. I was promoted lieutenant colonel and returned to the United States in 1919. Then I was assigned
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to Headquarters at Camp Custer, Michigan. In August, 1919, I was transferred to the Office of the Judge Advocate General in Washington, D. C., and appointed chief of the General Adminis- tration Section. In October, 1919, I was transferred to the War Plane Division, Office of the Chief of Staff in Washington, D. C. I was honorably discharged October 22, 1920. I had participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and was cited in General Orders from Headquarters of the 32nd Division, A.E.F., 'for exception- ally meritorious services as division staff officer.' I was commis- sioned major, Judge Advocate General's Department, in the Regu- lar Army in October, 1920, and detailed to the War Department General Staff. I resigned the following December. I was then commissioned a lieutenant colonel, Judge Advocate General's Department, Officers' Reserve Corps, and served until I retired because of age just prior to World War II.
"After my return, I was elected to the Bench again and offered membership in the firm I now head. I decided, as I sometimes facetiously put it, to determine if I could earn an honest living by the practise of the law, distinguishing between that and a living by the honest practice of the law.
"To that, and the many outside interests that have come nat- urally to me, steadfastly eschewing politics, I have devoted myself ever since, and apart from my family life, it is my practice that has given me my keenest satisfaction. It has been a practice that has changed materially during the period. While I always en- joyed, and still do, the rough-and-tumble trial work, as the years have gone by, I find, without any volition on my part, I go less and less into the trial of cases. This is due to the development of administrative tribunals and the fact that I represent largely cor- porations, who prefer to retain me to keep them out of court rather than to give me any opportunity to display strategy in the trial of cases. I have often wished for a personal injury action in which I could appear for the plaintiff, because then the sympathy of the jury would be for me instead of against me. But the hope is still unfulfilled, because what few I have had have been settled before trial. I sometimes wonder in the later years whether I am entitled to be called a lawyer at all because in the multitude of
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laws and regulations which govern business, it is so difficult to distinguish between what is a legal question and what is a ques- tion of policy that my clients operating businesses or industries talk to me about practically every move they make; so I ought to call myself a business adviser rather than a lawyer.
"All in all, life has been good. My health has been extraordi- nary, and though I sometimes flirt with the idea of retiring, I can still do my full share of the work of the office, and I assume that as a Westerner should, I shall die 'with my boots on.' My family life has been happy, and having survived what is apparently the worst of the terrors of the 'New Deal,' having observed that even administrative agencies clothed with judicial or quasi-judicial authority, which I used to curse until the air was blue, are really improving, I still look forward to a roseate twilight of life here upon the earth, although when the time comes to depart from it, I shall undertake the voyage without regret.
"Incidentally, those cards notifying me of the deaths of my classmates have been coming pretty regularly, and while I do not know that I am the youngest, yet I have not noted any younger, and so when I get one and note the date of birth, I figure that I still have a year or two left."
Howell, the son of Reese Howell, University of Deseret, and Jennie Chaplow, was born September 3, 1876, at Kelton, Utah. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover. He was graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1897, and entered the Law School, from which he received his LL.B. in 1899.
He married Catherine Costley, July 9, 1909, at Ogden, Utah. Their children are: Jennie Margaret, born March 27, 1911; Mar- tha Elizabeth (Mrs. Drumm), born January 12, 1913; Mary Louise (Mrs. Barker), born July 29, 1915; and Ann Patricia, born March 16, 1923. There are three grandchildren.
Howell was municipal judge of Ogden City from 1901 to 1905, judge of the District Court, Second Judicial District, State of Utah, from 1905 to 1916, and in January, 1920. He has since resigned. He has been director and president of the Reese Howell Company, Howell Investment Company, and Highway Machine Works. He was director and vice-president of the Ogden Union
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Stockyards Company, Park City Consolidated Mines Company, W. H. Wright & Sons Company, E. C. Olsen Company, and Mountain Oil Company. He served as director and secretary of Produce Containers, Incorporated, Wrights, Incorporated, and of the Ogden Troy Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company. He is a member and past senior warden of the Church of the Good Shep- herd, Ogden, Utah (Episcopal); a member of the Bishop's Coun- cil, Episcopal Church in Utah; director and vice-president of the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Church in Utah; and a mem- ber of the Provincial Council of Synod of the Pacific. He is presi- dent of the Children's Aid Society of Ogden.
He is a member and director of the Ogden Rotary Club, a member of Ogden Lodge No. 719, B.P.O.E., and past exalted ruler thereof, and past deputy grand exalted ruler of the national organization. He is a member of Merrill-Baker Post No. 9, Ameri- can Legion, and past national vice-commander of the American Legion. He is a member of Ogden Lodge No. 2, Knights of Pythias, past grand chancellor, Knights of Pythias domain of Utah and supreme representative of the same. He is a past presi- dent of the Reserve Officers' Association, Department of Utah, president of the Utah State Horticultural Society, director and member of the Executive Committee of the Utah State Farm Bu- reau, member of the Utah Centennial Commission and of its Ex- ecutive Committee, director of the Utah Water Users Association, chairman of the Utah Taxpayers Committee, member of the 32nd and 40th Division Association, member and past president of the Weber County Bar Association, and a member of the Utah State Bar and American Bar Associations.
+ ELBERT GREEN HUBBARD
E LBERT GREEN HUBBARD was lost on the Lusitania on May 7, 1915. The son of Silas and Frances ( Read ) Hubbard, he was born June 19, 1856, at Bloomington, Illinois, and was associated with the Class during 1893-94 as a special student in English. An honorary A.M. degree was conferred on him by Tufts College in 1899.
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At one time he was called in the National Magazine "one of the three greatest writers in the world today." In our Third Report he described himself as "proprietor of the Roycroft Shop, devoted to printing de luxe books." He was also editor of The Philistine and Little Journeys.
Hubbard was twice married. His marriage in July, 1903, to Bertha C. Crawford, was terminated by divorce. He later mar- ried Alice Moore.
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