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HENRY VINCENT HUBBARD
M Y previous report," writes Henry Hubbard, "had, I fear, more length than interest. This time, at least, I can cut the length. "The teaching of Regional Planning at Harvard did not soon become, as I had hoped, an integral part of a School of Design recognizing the mutual contributions of the world's developing thoughts whether labeled Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, City Planning, Fine Arts, Government, or whatever else.
"The first result under the School of Design was, rather, less support of the instruction in Landscape Architecture and Re- gional Planning, and a concentration of official enthusiasm on architectural design of a certain kind.
"I believed, and still believe, that Regional Planning is based first on a recognition of the topography, the economics, the law, the political machinery, the predispositions and backgrounds of the people who are to be served, or, more properly, who are to be enabled to serve themselves.
"My teaching at Harvard came to an end when I reached retire- ment age in 1941. Apparently circumstances have now proved, not without help from men who were exposed to my teaching and survived, that comprehensive public planning is a technical profession in its own right, having many different manifestations and tangencies with very many other professions.
"I hope and believe that Harvard will yet promote Regional Planning in America, not as the adopted child of any other pro-
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fession, but as an essential common effort calling upon all those who can think creatively.
"Since my 'retirement,' I have accomplished more and had more fun at it than I did for many years before. The Olmsted office has moved with the times more and more into work for the public as a client. For instance, I have been planning consultant, with different degrees of profit and pleasure, to Boston, Balti- more, and Providence, and (unpaid, of course) for the last thir- teen years a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Among other interesting jobs has been my partici- pation in the design by Olmsted Brothers of Analostan Island as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt.
"On June 30, 1937, I married Isabel F. Gerrish and, up to the present minute, we have lived happily ever after.
"Like most of the brethren of '97 apparently, I 'don't know what the world is coming to,' but I try to rationalize my own feelings thus: There is still no better bet for a governmental system than what we call 'democracy.' The United States must make a reasonable success of democracy if it is to discharge the duties to which it has so unwillingly and unpreparedly fallen heir. This means making the main essentials of our present system work, not throwing away the greater good with the lesser bad and starting some new experiment.
"If, then, I can be of some microscopic help in applying intelli- gent thought to the healthy development of the form of our com- munities and the self-governance of the people in them, I am to that extent not only making somebody here a little better off, but I am making the democracy which we are trying to sell so much the more salesworthy."
Hubbard, the son of Charles Thacher Hubbard, M.D. '61, and Clara Isabel Reed, Wheaton Seminary, '63, was born August 22, 1875, at Taunton, Massachusetts. He came to Harvard from the Taunton High School. After graduating with our Class magna cum laude, he spent two years at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, from where he received an A.M. in 1900, one year at the Lawrence Scientific School, receiving an S.B. in 1901, and two years at the Bussey Institution. He married Theodora Kim-
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ball, June 7, 1924, at Milton, Massachusetts. She died November 7,1935.
During the first World War, Hubbard was a designer on the United States Shipping Board, an expert on the Council of Na- tional Defense, and assistant manager and later acting chief of the Town Planning Division of the United States Housing Cor- poration. In World War II, he was a consultant on planning and housing to several government agencies in Washington and handled private jobs in war housing for Olmsted Brothers.
He was Norton Professor of Regional Planning at Harvard from 1929 to 1941. He was a practising landscape architect and city planner and since 1910 has been the editor of Landscape Archi- tecture. He edited City Planning, later the Planners Journal, from 1925 to 1941.
He has been a member of the Milton Planning Board since 1938, and of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion since 1932. He is the author of Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design (with Theodora Kimball), 1917; Landscape Architecture, A Comprehensive Classification Scheme, 1920; Our Cities Today and Tomorrow (with T. K. Hubbard), 1929; Air- ports - Their Location, Administration and Legal Basis (with Miller McClintock and F. B. Williams), 1930; and Parkways and Land Values (with John Nolen), 1937. He was the editor of the "Harvard City Planning Studies," Volume I through XII, and of the "Report of the United States Housing Corporation," Volume II, in 1919. For the Boston City Planning Board he wrote "Prog- ress Report on Reconstruction" in 1943, and "Progress Report on Reconditioning" in 1946. For the Baltimore Commission on City Planning, he wrote "Redevelopment of Blighted Residential Areas in Baltimore" in 1945. For the Federal Housing Adminis- tration (with Fred Bigger) he wrote "A Handbook on Urban Development for Cities in the United States" in 1941.
He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Archi- tects, of which he was president from 1931 to 1934, and the City Planning Institute, now the American Institute of Planners.
His clubs are the Union Club of Boston, Laurel Brook Club, of which he was president from 1929 to 1940, Harvard Clubs of
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Boston and New York, Century Club of New York, Cosmos Club of Washington, and Milton Club of Milton, Massachusetts.
+ HOWARD ROBARD HUGHES
H OWARD ROBARD HUGHES was born September 9, 1869, at Lan- caster, Missouri, the son of Felix Turner and Jean (Summer- lin) Hughes. He prepared for college under a private tutor and was at Harvard as a special student from 1893 to 1895. He then studied law at Iowa State University and was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1896. Until 1901 he was engaged in prospecting and mining for zinc, then entered the field of oil production in Texas. He invented the Hughes rotary rock bit for drilling oil, water, gas, and sulphur wells and organized the Sharp & Hughes Tool Company in 1913 to manufacture the tool, the use of which spread rapidly to oil fields all over the world. Two years later the company was reorganized into the Hughes Tool Company, of which he became president, manager, and owner. He supple- mented his original invention with improvements on the rock bit and other tools used in drilling oil wells. During the first World War, he invented and developed a horizontal boring machine for undermining enemy strongholds and artillery positions, for which he received the personal thanks of the Secretary of War.
On June 24, 1904, at Dallas, Texas, Hughes married Allene Gano, who died a few years before his own death on January 13, 1924, at Houston, Texas. Their son, Howard Robard, Jr., born December 24, 1906, survived him, as did his brother, Rupert Hughes, the well-known writer.
+ DAVID HUNT
D AVID HUNT was born February 8, 1875, at Boston, the son of David and Mary Louise (Rice) Hunt. He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School and was at Harvard from 1893 to 1895. He then embarked on a business career which progressed rapidly and ended all too soon, when he died near Yale, Michigan, on November 26, 1910. He had been successively
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manager of the Cleveland branch of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, treasurer of the Baush Machine Tool Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, general sales manager of the Warner-Swasey Company, Cleveland, and general manager of the E.M.F. Auto- mobile Company of Detroit. His abundant energy and enthusi- asm, his open and winning personality, and his knowledge of machinery were important factors in his success. He was survived by his wife, the former Lilian Louise Jewett, whom he married at Cambridge on February 8, 1900, and their daughter, Phyllis, born May 20, 1903.
+ RICHARD HAROLD HUNT
R ICHARD HAROLD HUNT died May 14, 1937, at Springfield, Massa- chusetts. The son of Henry Herbert and Emma (Frogley) Hunt, he was born June 29, 1874, at West Newton, Massachusetts, and prepared at Newton High School. After graduation, he worked for a year and a half in the City Engineer's Office, New- ton. He then decided to enter in the investment bond business, in which he remained until his death. He was associated suc- cessively with N. W. Haine & Company, Merrill, Oldham & Com- pany, and F. S. Moseley & Company, all Boston firms, and was in the western Massachusetts offices of each. After settling in Springfield, he became a leader in the community life of that city, and was held in high regard by his business associates.
On September 9, 1903, at Northampton, Massachusetts, he married Mabel Ross, who, with their three children - Ross Frank- lin, born November 27, 1904; Mrs. Rosemary H. Spencer, born April 6, 1907; and Richard Henry, born May 29, 1910 - survived him.
HENRY BARRETT HUNTINGTON
A s my most intensive teaching period was prior to 1922," writes Huntington, "and is recorded in the Twenty-fifth Report, I shall simply say that I continued the active teaching of English at Brown University until my retirement in 1945 in various
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courses, including courses in the Romantic and the Victorian periods of English literature, and particularly in my special field of argument, both written and spoken, where I largely carried on the traditions of our English 30 and English 6 as set forth by my distinguished chief, George Pierce Baker. I found myself with in- creasing satisfaction to myself, if not to my students, a proud and convinced 'late Victorian.'
"My administrative work and responsibilities on a number of committees after 1922 became more and more important and en- grossing, so that often my teaching load was reduced to a mini- mum. I served also on various intercollegiate committees and commissions, a service which led to many stimulating and pleas- ant associations, and gave an interesting variety to my life as a teacher.
"My time away from Brown University, often not very ex- tended, has been spent, not on the Connecticut River as before 1922, but in the unspoiled hill country of southern New Hamp- shire (Marlboro) and northwestern Massachusetts (Heath), re- gions beautifully adapted to the well being of growing children and grandchildren.
"As I see it, the 'durable satisfactions' lie largely in hard work, performed with relative effectiveness, and in a contented life with family and friends.
"Finally, I am forced to the conviction that the human race, with its so-called civilization, is too utterly ignorant of social and spiritual truths and practices to be trusted safely with the appall- ingly effective results achieved by science. This became devas- tatingly true with the invention of the gas engine and the air- plane and has taken on almost crushing significance with the atomic bomb. I see no hope for man as we have learned to know and love him except in education and religion; that is, in the mas- tery of social and spiritual truth, more wise education, and still more wise education. Tragically, it is now too late to avert the hideous losses of the last war and probably the worse losses of the next. But with courage and faith some precious things of lasting beauty and worth may be salvaged in the generations yet to come. I am convinced that it is a race against time. We are hearing
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truths about immaterial things faster, I suppose, than for many centuries, but are we learning fast enough?"
Huntington, the son of George Putnam Huntington, '64, and Lilly Saint Agnan Barrett, was born January 17, 1875, at Malden, Massachusetts. He prepared at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He received his A.B. magna cum laude in 1897, and an honorary A.M. was conferred upon him in 1943 by Brown University. As an undergraduate he was a member of Delta Upsi- lon Fraternity, Jowett Club, St. Paul's Society, of which he was secretary during 1895-1896, and president during the following year, and an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. He won the Second Boylston Prize in 1896, and the First Boylston Prize in 1897, and won second-year honors in the Classics.
"I was present in the front ranks in the 'Brown Game Riot' in 1897," he writes, "when G.M.H. Dorr was arrested, quite unjustly. Harry Foote or I might just as well have been nabbed as we were close to Dorr. I identified an undergraduate having his scalp sewed up by the police surgeon. I hung around the station with Herbert Schurz, who carried off the orator's honors, and A. Z. Reed and others till we had the trio bailed out."
Huntington married Alice Howland Mason, June 13, 1905, in Providence, Rhode Island. She died July 8, 1946, at Bellows Falls, Vermont. Their children are: Elizabeth (Mrs. Randolph Harri- son Dyer), born March 29, 1906; Arria Sargent and George Put- nam (twins), born July 24, 1909; and Mary Hopkins ( Mrs. Low- ell E. Pettit), born July 2, 1915. There are five grandchildren, the eldest of whom has just entered Bennington College. George Putnam Huntington is a member of the Harvard Class of 1932. Four of Huntington's brothers also attended Harvard: Constant Huntington, '99; James Lincoln Huntington, M.D. '07; Michael Paul St. Agnan Huntington, special student; and the late Frederic Dane Huntington, '12.
Huntington writes that during World War I, he was a special constable and "drilled regularly and served occasionally." He sums up his occupation since 1897 as "teacher and administrative officer." He was an assistant at Harvard in English and philos- ophy during 1897-1898; an instructor in English at Dartmouth
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College from 1898 to 1901; an instructor in English at Harvard from 1901 to 1902; an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of English at Brown University from 1902 to 1945. He also lectured at Harvard and Wellesley at various times.
He has served as vestryman and secretary of the Grace Church in Providence; secretary of the Cathedral Corporation of the Dio- cese of Rhode Island; trustee, vice-president, and president of the Mary C. Wheeler School; and secretary and treasurer of the John N. Mason Real Estate Company. He is the author of Princi- ples of Argumentation with G. P. Baker, revised edition 1905, new edition 1926, and of the History of Grace Church in Providence, 1932. He is a member of the Modern Language Association, Na- tional Association of Teachers of Speech, and has been a member, secretary, vice-president, and president of various R.I.N.V.E. so- cieties of teachers. He was formerly a member of the Agawam Hunt Club and University Club of Providence. At present, he be- longs to the Faculty Club of Brown University.
* OWEN BENJAMIN HUNTSMAN
O WEN BENJAMIN HUNTSMAN died May 10, 1935, at New York City. The son of Benjamin Toch and Martha Grove (Brown) Huntsman, he was born September 23, 1871, at Con- yngham, Pennsylvania, and came to Harvard from the State Nor- mal School at West Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he re- ceived a B.E. degree in 1892. A year after graduating with our Class, he took an A.M. in psychology and philosophy at the Grad- uate School and then received an appointment as fellow in philos- ophy at Columbia University. Continuing his studies at Colum- bia, he taught mathematics and English at the Wilson-Vail School in New York City. He was later acting headmaster of St. George's Hall, Summit, New Jersey. It was through Columbia University that he met George Gould, the railroad financier, who persuaded him to become private tutor to Kingdon and Jay Gould. In teaching these two a variety of subjects in preparation for their entering Columbia, he so proved his worth that he was taken into the Gould railroad offices. In 1907 he was elected a
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vice-president of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. More positions followed, until he held forty executive posts in the rail- roads. He was associated with the Missouri & Pacific Railroad, the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, the International- Great Northern Railway, the Missouri-Illinois Railway Company, the Western Pacific Railway Companies, and the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern. His interests were not entirely in railroads, however. He was also a director of the New York County Na- tional Bank, the Uehling Instrument Company, and the Western Coal and Mining Company of St. Louis. His memberships in- cluded the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the English Speaking Union, the New York State Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Club of New York, and the Harvard Clubs of New York and New Jersey.
He was survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Marie Van Buskirk, whom he married September 18, 1902, at Aurora-on- Cayuga, New York.
+ JOHN COLLINS HURLEY
J
JOHN COLLINS HURLEY was, because of ill health, forced to leave
Harvard shortly after the beginning of our freshman year and was never able to renew his studies or to engage in any regular occupation. His last years were spent on a farm in Sharon, Massa- chusetts, where he died on May 22, 1915. He was an excellent student and an accomplished violinist and had a keen interest in astronomy. In spite of his short association with the Class, and although he was not able to attend reunions, he always main- tained an active interest in Harvard affairs.
He was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, on November 2, 1875, the son of Patrick Joseph and Margaret Annie (Collins ) Hurley, and prepared for college at the B.M.C. Durfee High School in that city.
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JAMES SATHER HUTCHINSON
I DO not like to write an autobiography," states Hutchinson. "I am wondering if I am the oldest living member of our Class.
"My hair is gone; it was once brown. I know that I am slowing down and that the world would see the sham if I act younger than I am. Physically, I have reached the stage where I'm resigned to be my age, but, if to be my age means I'm to talk about a bygone time when men were stronger, women prettier, food better, humor wittier; or if to be my age means that I'll sniff and snort and grumble at whatever isn't neatly cast into the pattern of the past, if that be requisite to gauge how thoroughly I am my age, being my age will never suit me, and if it does I hope you'll shoot me. In other words, I am trying to grow old gracefully.
"I have spent most of my summer vacations mountaineering in the High Sierras and many winters skiing there. During Septem- ber, 1945, I took a pack-train trip to the High Sierras and climbed Mt. Whitney. During August, 1946, I took another pack-train trip to Sequoia National Park and Kings River National Park, crossing six passes over twelve thousand feet elevation.
"If I had my life to live over again, I would not make many changes. I am satisfied with the profession I chose and have en- joyed my work."
Hutchinson, the son of James Sloan and Coralie Demahaut (Pearsol) Hutchinson, was born December 4, 1867, at San Fran- cisco. He attended the University of California at Berkeley be- fore coming to Harvard. He was with our Class four years as a special student and received his A.B. in 1897. After one year in the Law School, he transferred to the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where he took his LL.B. in 1899. He has been practising law continuously since then.
He married Eleanor Upton Averell, September 12, 1906, at Oak- land, California. She died October 12, 1929, at San Francisco. Hutchinson's brother, the late Lincoln Hutchinson, received his A.B. from Harvard in 1893 and his A.M. in 1899.
Hutchinson is a member of the Sierra Ski Club, Sierra Club, Bohemian Club, University Club, Commonwealth Club, Faculty
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Club of the University of California, Harvard Club of San Fran- cisco, American Alpine Club, and Society of California Pioneers. He is trustee and treasurer of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and trustee, secretary, and at- torney of the San Francisco Ladies' Protection and Relief Society. This is a home for elderly ladies, the oldest charitable organiza- tion in California.
EDWIN JAMES HYLAN
T HE Secretary has not received a reply from Hylan. Earlier Reports relate his business career in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was, successively, proprietor of the Musketaquid Wor- sted Company, treasurer and manager of the Musketaquid Mills, treasurer and general manager of the Wachusett Mills, Incor- porated, and proprietor of the E. J. Hylan Textile Company.
He was born in Lowell on June 4, 1874, and attended high school there. His parents were Eugene Sumner and Esther Jane (Holt) Hylan. He was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School during 1893-94. He married Susannah W. Simpson in 1908.
+ HENRY DU PONT IRVING
H ENRY DU PONT IRVING was born March 26, 1875, at Staten Island, New York, the son of Alexander Duer and Ellen Eugenie (du Pont) Irving. He attended St. Paul's School, where he was outstanding as a football player and oarsman. He entered Harvard with our Class and captained the Freshman football team and stroked the Freshman crew in its race with Yale and Columbia. His death on September 24, 1895, took from the Class one of its most admirable leaders.
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+ HOWARD BIGELOW JACKSON
H OWARD BIGELOW JACKSON was born September 27, 1874, at Peterborough, New Hampshire, the son of Abraham Willard and Caroline Bradford ( Bigelow) Jackson. He prepared for col- lege at the Concord, Massachusetts, High School. After gradu- ating cum laude with our Class, he entered the Medical School, where he took an M.D. degree in 1901. During his last year in the Medical School and during the year following he was house officer in the Boston City Hospital and afterwards practised medi- cine for a year in Concord. In July, 1903, he was appointed first medical officer of the Boston Almshouse and Hospital, resigning after about two years to establish a general practice in Melrose, Massachusetts, where he became a member of the hospital staff. At the time of the Fifth Report he was still thus engaged. In July, 1918, he entered the Army Medical Corps. On October 13 of the same year he died at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, of pneu- monia, ending a life of unselfishness, service to his fellowmen, and inconspicuous fortitude.
On June 1, 1910, at Melrose, Massachusetts, he married Mary Evelyn Smith. Their children were: Anna Carolyn, born April 3, 1911; Albert Willard, born August 31, 1912; Howard Bigelow, Jr., and Henry Smith (twins ), born December 25, 1916.
* PAUL FRANKLIN JACOBSON
P. AUL FRANKLIN JACOBSON was born May 7, 1873, at Kirkhaven, Minnesota. The son of John Peter and Emma (Manning) Jacobson, he came to the Lawrence Scientific School from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After leaving Harvard at the end of his sophomore year because of ill health, he entered the employ of the Carter's Ink Company of Boston, his duties taking him through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He then became agent for the company in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1898 he entered the engineering corps of the Great Northern Railway. Late in 1899 he went into the United States Railway Mail Service, continuing in this service until he had
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reached the highest point of efficiency in that branch. On Febru- ary 7, 1907, he died in a railroad accident at German Valley, Illi- nois, in the discharge of his duty. He was survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Kilgore, whom he married at Minneapolis on June 14, 1901, and a daughter, Alice Elizabeth, born July 11, 1903.
+ WALTER HOLMAN JAQUES
W ALTER HOLMAN JAQUES died in Amherst, New Hampshire, August 3, 1942. He was born May 13, 1874, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, the son of Alden Potter and Marcia (Avery) Jaques. He was brought up in West Newton, Massachusetts, where he attended the Allen School. As a special student he was affiliated with the Class during our freshman year only.
After leaving college he was employed for a short time in the newspaper office of the Denver, Colorado, Mining Review. Later he went into the shoe business in Haverhill with the J. R. Russ Company. At the time of our Fifth Report he was refinery sales manager of the Cornplanter Refining Company. He continued in the distributing end of the petroleum industry and became New England sales manager of the Seaboard Oil Corporation of New York, and was later associated with the Richfield Oil Company.
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