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Lewis, the son of Charles Sanford Lewis and Nettie Farnum Brown, Wheaton '69, was born March 18, 1875, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a Harvard undergraduate he wrote "Notes on Mintopsis bumbullbeza" for the Lampoon of January, 1897, and designed the ticket for the "Tree." He taught botany for a term at the Prospect Union and was graduated magna cum laude, with honorable mention in natural history twice. He received his M.D. cum laude in 1901. His brother, the late Charles Arthur Raymond Lewis, graduated with the Class of 1901.
Lewis married Ethel May Stickney, July 30, 1904, at Clinton, Massachusetts. Their son, Thomas Lothrop, was born May 30, 1914. There is one grandchild. In World War II, Thomas, a member of the Harvard Class of '37, served in the Army from January, 1941, to August, 1944. He was overseas with the Seventh Army and participated in the invasion of Sicily. Mrs. Lewis did volunteer work at the New England Deaconess Hospital and for the Red Cross.
During 1901-1902, Lewis was an Austin Teaching Fellow in Histology and Embryology at the Harvard Medical School. He
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was an instructor in those subjects from 1902 to 1906, and assist- ant professor of Embryology from 1906 to 1915. He became associate professor of Embryology in 1915 and served as such until 1931, when he was made James Stillman Professor of Com- parative Anatomy. He continued in this position until 1941, when he became emeritus.
He is the author of "Stöhr's Histology Arranged Upon an Em- bryological Basis," published in Philadelphia in 1906; sixth edi- tion, rewritten by H. L. Weatherford, published in Philadelphia in 1944; second Chinese edition, translated and edited by R. T. Shields, published in Shanghai in 1928. He wrote "The Develop- ment of the Intestinal Tract," printed in Volume 2 of Human Embryology, edited by Keibel and Mall, German edition, Leipzig, 1911, English edition, Philadelphia, 1912. His early papers, which appeared in the American Journal of Anatomy in 1902 and 1905, were on the development of veins and lymphatics. His later studies were in part historical: "The Hollises and Harvard," in the Harvard Graduates Magazine in 1933; and "The Advent of Microscopes in America," in the Scientific Monthly, 1943. Chiefly he has dealt with "The Typical Shape of Polyhedral Cells in Vegetable Parenchyma," in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1923-33, and "The Shape of Cells as a Mathematical Problem," which appeared in the American Scientist in 1946.
Lewis is a member of the Harvard Faculty Club; American Association of Anatomists, of which he was vice-president from 1914 to 1916 and president from 1936 to 1938; American Society of Zoologists; Botanical Society of America; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Royal Microscopical Society; and the In- stitut International d'Embryologie.
+ CHARLES LIFFLER, JR.
C HARLES LIFFLER, JR., son of Charles and Edna Graham (Wheel- ock) Liffler, died January 29, 1935, at Cambridge. He was born August 4, 1874, at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and prepared for college at the Berkeley School, Boston. He was at Harvard
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only during 1893-94, leaving to take up an apprenticeship of sev- eral years in the insurance business. He became special agent and inspector for the Royal and other fire insurance companies, with headquarters in Boston. In 1906 he left this position to accept an appointment from the London and Lancashire and Orient insurance companies as special adjuster of losses resulting from the earthquake in San Francisco. He returned to Boston, becoming associated with the insurance firm of Kaler & Carney. In 1907 he became a partner in the firm, which added his name to its title. Later changes brought the company's name to Kaler, Carney, Liffler & Company. His love of the sea resulted in his spending much time at Eastern Point and Rockport, where he raced in the Sonder and R Classes. He was for many years a member of the First Corps Cadets of Boston.
On May 20, 1896, at Boston, he married Rebecca Colburn Billings Thacher, who predeceased him. Their daughter, Eliza- beth Bates (Mrs. Thomas Worcester ), born August 21, 1899, and his second wife, the former Linda A. Ekman, whom he married in 1927, survived him.
* JOHN WILLARD LINCOLN
OHN WILLARD LINCOLN died on November 7, 1924, at Black- J well's Island, New York. The son of Luther Joshua Barker and Mary Agnes (Fuller) Lincoln, he was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, on October 2, 1875. He was in college from 1893 to 1895. Unfortunately, little is known of his subsequent activi- ties, although at one time he was with the Livermore Falls Pulp Company of Plymouth, New Hampshire, and was later engaged in advertising.
JAMES LOVELL LITTLE
A' FTER my discharge from the Army in 1919," writes Lovell Little, "I tented out for six weeks in August and September with my family in the Katahdin region in Maine. Later I took a trip to France and visited battle areas, mostly in Belgium.
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"I have been engaged in the practice of architecture and have had some success and pleasure. I have also been interested in professional affairs.
"I have made several vacation trips and went salmon fishing on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. In 1935 I had an inter- esting visit to England in connection with the production of the Harvard Tercentenary chinaware. I spent most of my time at the Wedgwood Works at Stoke-on-Trent.'
Little, the son of James Lovell and Mary Robbins (Revere) Little, was born November 14, 1874, at Boston. He prepared at Noble and Greenough's School in Boston. He received his A.B. at our graduation after four years' work. As an undergraduate he ran with the Mott Haven Team and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club.
In October, 1917, he entered the Army with a first lieutenant's commission in the Aviation Section, Construction Division of the Signal Corps. Two months later he sailed for overseas. He was construction officer at St. Maixent until March, 1918, when he was appointed chief construction officer at the Second Aviation Instruction Center outside of Tours. He was later assigned to duty in the Provost Marshal General's Department. He was com- missioned captain in the Air Service in August, 1918, and relieved from active duty the following March.
Little married Leonora Schlesinger, June 2, 1902, at Brookline. Their children are: Barbara, born June 30, 1904; and James Lovell, Jr., born May 24, 1908. There are three grandchildren, two girls and a boy. The boy is the fifth generation to bear the name of James Lovell Little.
During World War II, Little's son, James, Jr., served as a lieu- tenant commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve.
Little is a member of the Town Planning Board and a Town Meeting member in Brookline. He was president of the Boston Society of Architects from 1924 to 1926, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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+ JOHN MASON LITTLE
J' OHN MASON LITTLE was born June 7, 1875, at Swampscott, Massachusetts, the son of John Mason and Helen (Beal) Little. He came to Harvard from the Noble and Greenough School and took his A.B. in 1897. During the next four years he studied at the Medical School, receiving his M.D. in 1901. Fol- lowing a period as house officer in the Massachusetts General Hospital, he spent a year in travel and study abroad. He then returned to the United States to become assistant to Dr. S. J. Mixter of Boston. In 1907 he joined Dr. Grenfell's mission in Labrador, and for three years travelled along the coast by boat during the summer and inland by dogsled during the winter. For the next seven years he was settled at St. Anthony, New- foundland, where he developed a hospital. On September 24, 1911, at St. Anthony, he married a co-worker, Ruth Esther Keese. They returned to Boston in 1917, and Little became a surgeon in the Out-Patient Department of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital, assistant visiting surgeon to the Long Island Hospital, ex- aminer for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, and instructor in surgical technique at the Harvard Medical School.
The pressure of time forced him to resign from some of his work, but later he accepted the post of chief surgeon of the Boston and Albany Railroad. He maintained his interest in the Grenfell Mission and was president of the New England Grenfell Association, a director of the New York Board of the Grenfell Association, and a member of the International Board of Direc- tors. He published many papers of a medical nature and be- longed to professional associations. His death occurred on March 23, 1926, at Brookline, Massachusetts. His wife survived, with their six children - John Mason, born July 1, 1912; Charles Ogden, born September 28, 1913; Louis Adams, born November 24, 1914; Ruth, born March 27, 1916; Thomas, born March 20, 1919; and Luther.
Little's efforts to help his fellow-men through his knowledge of healing were tireless, and the love and esteem in which he was widely held were well deserved.
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ROBERT RESTALRIG LOGAN
T To record here the family losses and personal sorrows of these past twenty-five years," writes Logan, "would smack a little of self-pity as if I thought I had suffered more than my fellow- pilgrims of mortality. Let it be enough to state that I am a child- less widower, sharing with friends my country place and farm at Eddington, Pennsylvania, and with other friends during the winter and spring my house and orange grove in the Ojai Valley, California.
"I am still president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society and the editor of its magazine, the A.V. I am president of Ryerss Infirmary for Dumb Animals at Bustleton, Pennsylvania, where old horses, especially old police horses, are retired and cared for, and vice-president of the Happy Valley Foundation established in Ojai, California, in 1927 by the late Annie Besant.
"While my civic activities have been confined chiefly to humane education, my mental interest has been largely concerned with the teachings of the Indian mystic and moralist, Krishnamurti (whose philosophy might perhaps be summed up as the psychol- ogy of self-discovery), and several of his seminars or discussion groups have been held on my property. In both fields of interest I have tried to keep free of intolerance and that insidious fanati- cism which so easily makes a man the slave instead of the master of his ideas, and if I am less heatedly loyal to Harvard than I was fifty years ago, I hope I am more loyal to the spirit of her motto than I was when I applauded John the Orangeman's translation, 'to hell with Yale.'
"Few generations in history have lived through such momen- tous changes as we have, and no easy optimism can have a place amid our atomic bombs, class hatreds, and international rivalries; and yet it has always been true that sufficient unto the age is the evil thereof and the steady tramp of fifty student years behind us should be our guarantee that with veritas as their motto, men can do and will do what men have done before."
Logan, the son of Algernon Sydney and Mary Wynne (Wister) Logan, was born December 3, 1874, at Philadelphia. He was
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privately prepared for college by tutors. He was graduated with our Class magna cum laude, and received an LL.B. at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1900. He married Sara Wetherill, June 6, 1898, at Philadelphia. She died December 2, 1938. Their daugh- ter, Deborah, born February 16, 1900, died June 18, 1939.
ALBERT JAMES LONNEY
TI HE Secretary has been unable to learn Lonney's address. He has not been heard from since 1907, when he reported that he had been teaching since graduation except for two years spent in the Law School. Mail sent to him in 1917 at Bloomington, Illinois, was returned with the suggestion that the Superintendent of Schools in Boston might have information about his address, but the latter disclaimed any such knowledge.
Lonney was born on May 8, 1868, at Bloomington. He was in college from 1895 to 1897, taking an A.B. cum laude with the Class. His parents were James and Mary McCaw Lonney. He was married in June, 1904, and has a son born in 1905.
+ FREDERICK TAYLOR LORD
F VREDERICK TAYLOR LORD was born in Bangor, Maine, January 16, 1875, and died in Boston, November 4, 1941. The son of Samuel Veazie and Kate (Taylor) Lord, he prepared for Harvard at the Lexington, Massachusetts, High School, and after gradua- tion from college attended The Harvard Medical School, where he received an M.D. degree in 1900. As an undergraduate, he was ranked by the Sargent tests as the strongest man in college. He concentrated on gymnastics and tumbling rather than on organ- ized athletics, but he was a member of the Class baseball team. After receiving his medical degree, he served an internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was physician to out- patients from 1903 to 1912, visiting physician from 1912 to 1935, and a member of the board of consultation from that date until his death.
In 1905 he was appointed assistant in clinical medicine at Har-
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vard Medical School, rising to instructor in 1909 and professor in 1930. He retired as professor emeritus in 1935. He was a mem- ber of various medical associations and held offices in several. He also served as a member of advisory committees of the state department of public health and the Boston city health depart- ment. At the time of his death he was a member of the National Research Council. In 1917 he was a member of the American Red Cross Commission to Serbia and for his service in that capacity was decorated by the Crown Prince with the Serbian Red Cross at Corfu and the second order of St. Sava at Salonica.
Lord was the author or co-author of several medical publica- tions, including Diseases of the Bronchi, Lungs and Pleura, Pneu- monia, Lobular Pneumonia and Serum Therapy, and Chemo- therapy and Serum Therapy of Pneumonia. He gained national recognition as a pioneer in the field of serum treatment of pneu- monia, of which he made a special study under a grant from the Commonwealth Fund and was influential in making it available to practising physicians. In addition to his organizational, hos- pital, research, and professorial activities, he found time to engage in a large practice. Always his important work was done modestly and unostentatiously, with generosity and kindliness.
On November 25, 1901, at Boston, he married Mabel Delano Clapp, whose death preceded his by three months. He was sur- vived by a daughter, Carol Veazie (Mrs. Henry Butler), born December 26, 1903, and two grandchildren.
ARTHUR LOVERING
M Y life work has been along engineering lines," writes Lovering, "(electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and the like) with some financial activities thrown in for good measure. On first leaving college I spent five years with the Boston Elevated Railway Com- pany, where I obtained much valuable experience of a practical nature in the repair shops, power stations, in construction and re- pairs, electrical and steam engineering, and the like.
"Subsequently I spent three years with the Bay State Street Railway Company and its predecessor, part of the time in charge
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of car repairs and shops in the cities and towns north of Boston and the balance of the time as an engineer on power-station ex- pansion. I was then appointed manager of the Manchester Elec- tric Company, an associated corporation, where I designed and constructed the underground electric street lighting system still in use there.
"For the seven-year period from 1919 to 1925, I was trust officer of the Federal Trust Company and the Federal National Bank of Boston and managed the Trust and Transfer Departments. I resigned late in 1925 to devote my entire time to engineering matters.
"At different periods for a total of over twenty years I engaged in the practice of consulting engineering work and numbered among my clients electric light, power, and railway companies, manufacturing and mining companies, steel mills, banks, trustees of estates, partnerships and individuals. I also served some of the preceding corporations as president, treasurer, manager, or en- gineer. In November, 1941, I was appointed as an engineer in New England headquarters of the War Department where I served until it was abolished in September, 1946.
"While my progeny have not been numerous, I console myself with the reflection that what they lacked in quantity they made up for in quality."
Lovering, the son of James Walker Lovering, '66, A.M. '70, and Susan Rockwell Dow, was born August 13, 1875, at Cambridge. His grandfather, Joseph Lovering, 1833, A.M. '36, LL.D. '79, was Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1838 to 1888. He prepared at the Cambridge Latin School and was with our Class four years. He spent an extra year in college, receiving his degree in 1898. As an undergraduate he played on the second eleven varsity in the fall of 1893 and sang in the Appleton Chapel Choir for three years. He was an honorary member of the Institute of 1770, and in 1897 established a new Harvard strength record under Dr. Sargent's original sys- tem, a system which had been in use about fifteen years. He writes that shortly after that Dr. Sargent modified his system so that subsequent records are not comparable.
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Lovering married Gladys Twining Tupper, February 8, 1905, at Cambridge. They had two children: Dorothy, born March 16, 1911 (died September 20, 1920); and Rosamond Lea, born July 18, 1906, A.B. Radcliffe '27.
"In November, 1941," writes Lovering, "I was assigned as an engineer to the War Department Headquarters for the New Eng- land area, then located at the Boston Army Base. In August, 1942, I was given the responsibility of reviewing and approving the terms and conditions of electric and gas service contracts for all forts, camps, air fields, armories, arsenals, and defense installa- tions in the New England area. Subsequently, water, heating, sewer, and elevator contracts were added to the list.
"In June, 1946, the First and Second Service Commands were merged to form the First Army with headquarters at Fort Jay, New York. As of August 31, 1946, the Boston office was abolished and I retired. My work had covered the approval of over twenty- five hundred contracts and many modifications thereof, and had resulted in a saving to the government of more than two million dollars."
Lovering was a justice of the peace in Massachusetts from 1903 to 1910. He is a member of the Harvard Engineering Society, Handel and Haydn Society, and Cecilia Society, of which he was librarian from 1935 to 1940, and vice-president from 1940 to 1946.
+ WALTER JOHN LUEDKE
W ALTER JOHN LUEDKE was born June 8, 1874, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Herman August and Emma (Pritzlaff) Luedke. He attended the Milwaukee High School and during 1893-94 was in the Lawrence Scientific School. He spent the following year in the college and then entered the Law School at the University of Wisconsin, taking an LL.B. in 1897. He prac- tised law in Milwaukee for three years and then accepted a posi- tion with the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee, of which he was credit manager at the time of the Third Report. He died at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on June 20, 1907. On June 4, 1901, he married Louise Kieckhefer. Their children were Ger-
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trude, born January 4, 1903, and John August, born November 13, 1905.
HARRY MILLER LYDENBERG
M Y undergraduate life was happy and uneventful with no dis- tinctions of any kind," writes Lydenberg. "All the spare time I had I spent on the river when the Weld Club was open and the water free of ice. I was graduated magna cum laude and with second-year honors in history. I recall, too, that I made Phi Beta Kappa, by some freak or error of course.
"The New York Public Library took me on its staff in July, 1896, and was kind enough to permit me to spend most of the rest of my life in its service. That, my garden, and my chickens took more of my interest than most other earthly affairs. Oh, yes, now that you mention it, the family did get occasional and incidental attention.
"After I'd been on the staff of the Library for some forty-five years and had checked off sixty-seven years on the calendar, I came to feel that I was running the danger of falling into a physi- cal and mental rut. I felt that the Library would be better off if younger hands took the wheel and brought fresher points of view to library problems. I, therefore, asked to be retired, think- ing that then I could settle down and decide whether my failure to do some of the things I'd been hoping to check off was due to lack of ability or to lack of time, as I'd probably been foolishly trying to explain, foolishly or charitably.
"My retirement became effective at the end of September, 1941, but the very next month the American Library Association drafted me to go to Mexico to start a library in the capital as part of the current work of the co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs. This library, the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, was opened on the 13th of April, 1942, and I stayed on as director-librarian until July, 1943, when the American Library Association called me to Washington to head the work of its board on International Rela- tions. This post I held until September, 1946, when I resigned for good.
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"The work of the office took me on several trips outside the country. From June through August, 1944, I made an inspection trip for the observation of libraries in Latin-America, down from Mexico through Central America, down the west coast of South America to Santiago, Chile, across to Buenos Aires, up the east coast to Venezuela, and home.
"In December, 1945, as part of this same work I joined the staff of the Library of Congress to serve as a member of its Mission to Europe for the War Department. We sailed on the 6th of January, 1946, and I returned in July. From our headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, my duties called me to Berlin to Leipzig, south to Munich and Switzerland, east to Vienna, to various parts of the American, British, French, and Russian zones of occupation.
"Having set out to 'retire' in 1941, and having failed year after year, in 1946 I swore that I really would quit in September. As I write now (July, 1946), I rather believe I shall finally succeed. I confess I look forward with some curiosity to that time, wonder- ing just how the new experience may feel, perhaps somewhat foolishly inclined to believe I shall weather the shock.
"Among my manifold sins, weaknesses, and errors I must con- fess, admit, and avow that I get a lasting and soul-satisfying joy out of my walks, tramps, and hikes in rain or shine, summer or winter, city or country, with companions or with no one else than my own poor self.
"From 1914 to 1941 I lived in Scarsdale, a Westchester County village some twenty miles north of New York City. There I tried to do my duty as a citizen in various village affairs, serving as assessor of the town from 1922 to 1933; as secretary of the trustees of the local public library from March 8, 1928 (when the board was organized) until June 24, 1940; as a county grand juror for many years; and so on.
"I thought I had three or four titles to mention under the head- ing 'Books, articles, plays, or other literary works,' but a look at the record shows that my sins bulk somewhat larger. When I retired from the New York Public Library in September, 1941, some of my friends honored me with 'Bookmen's Holiday: Notes and Studies Written and Gathered in Tribute To' me, a tome of
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some five hundred and seventy-five pages. Scanning the 'bibliog- raphy' produced for it by industrious George L. Mckay, I find one hundred and thirty-seven sins of this kind chalked up against me, many if not most of which I have forgotten, but most if not all of which I have to confess to with proper apology and compunc- tion when confronted by the evidence in black and white.
"I served as president of the New York Library Club in 1917- 1918, of the Bibliographical Society of America from 1929 to 1931, and of the American Library Association in 1932-1933.
"The Bibliographical Society named me as one of the first two delegates it sent to the American Council of Learned Societies when it was admitted to the Council in 1929, and I have been reappointed term after term since then.
"In 1930 I was a member of the Executive Committee of the Council, and from 1937 through 1941 I served as its secretary- treasurer.
"I am a member of the American Philosophical Society at Phila- delphia; American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Massachu- setts; New York Historical Society; and a life member of the American Historical Association. I belong to the Grolier Club in New York City, having served as a member of its council for sev- eral terms; Century Association of New York City, having served as a member of its Board of Management for one term; the Har- vard Club of New York City; and of the Cosmos Club of Wash- ington, D.C."
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