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"I then entered the employ of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts in the then brand-new Income Tax Division of the De- partment of Corporations and Taxation. My duties were princi-
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pally of a legal nature and consisted largely in supervising the taxation of estates of deceased persons, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, and the like. The work included the interpreta- tion of wills and trusts, and the determination of future interests, whether vested, vested subject to be divested, or contingent. My work brought me in contact with assistant attorneys general, at- torneys, accountants, and representatives of banks and trust com- panies. During the course of my work, I met many fine, intelligent men, which made the work very enjoyable.
"On March 25, 1945, my seventieth birthday, I was retired on pension by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, after more than twenty-eight years of service with the Income Tax Division. Since retirement I have been quite inactive due largely to a partial crippling by arthritis."
Miller was born March 25, 1875, at Boston, the son of Emerson Selden and Carrie Adelaide (Pray) Miller. He prepared at the Public Latin School in Boston. After three years' work with our Class, he was graduated with distinction. He studied for two years in the Law School, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1899.
He married Harriet Jane Kirkwood, September 8, 1910, at Malden, Massachusetts. She died August 29, 1934. He married Elizabeth Murphy on October 16, 1943.
HENRY WISE MILLER
T HE accomplishment of which I am most proud and life's dur- able satisfaction," writes Henry Miller, "is that I was happily married for forty-three years. I believe the world is a better place than it has been at any time in my lifetime."
Miller, the son of Jacob William Miller, U. S. Naval Academy, '67, and Katherine (Wise) Miller, was born November 16, 1875, at Nice, France. He prepared at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. at our graduation. As an undergraduate he was editor of the Harvard Monthly, Advocate and Daily News. He married Alice Duer, October 5, 1899, in New York City. She died August
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22, 1942. Their son, Denning Duer, a member of the Harvard Class of 1922, was born October 29, 1901.
"I had and lost fourteen jobs from graduation to 1907," he writes. "In that year I went into Wall Street and I have been there ever since. The jobs included reporting, street car conducting, radio, and raising bananas, coffee and rubber."
He served on the U.S.S. Yankee during the Spanish War and was a member of a Norton Harjes Ambulance Unit during World War I. He received decorations from the French and Finnish gov- ernments. He is the author of All Our Lives, a life of Alice Duer Miller, and has contributed articles and stories to magazines. He is a member of the Knickerbocker Club in New York.
DAVID EATON MITCHELL
I WAS born January 15, 1876," writes Mitchell, "the son of Claudius Augustus Mitchell and Julia LeDora Eaton, in Titus- ville, Pennsylvania, near the site of the first oil well drilled in 1859. I spent my school years in Bradford, Pennsylvania, likewise a fa- mous oil town. My preparation for college was somewhat sketchy with three local preachers acting as tutors in German, the Classics, and mathematics.
"I received my A.B. cum laude with honors in history. As an undergraduate, I was an associate editor of the Harvard Daily News, which had a precarious existence of about two years.
"I obtained my LL.B. in 1899. When I left Law School, I went to work as a junior attorney with the Carter Oil Company, a pro- ducing branch of Standard Oil Company. After five years at this job, I went into private practice, specializing in the law pertain- ing to petroleum and natural gas.
"I discovered that I was not cut out for an advocate and in 1924 I retired from active practice and became general counsel and an executive with natural gas companies operating in the Pittsburgh area, formerly subsidiaries of the Ohio Fuel Corporation and now of Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation. I was retired due to age as of April 1, 1946, and am now acting as legal consultant with the same companies.
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"As to 'durable satisfactions,' I ought to mention my family, church, and Harvard. My daughter has just finished her freshman year at Smith College, and my son is a geologist in the oil business in Texas. He lives in Denton, Texas, with his family of three children."
Mitchell married Grace Whiting, December 2, 1903, in Lexing- ton, Massachusetts. She died May 8, 1919. He married Grace Hauck, April 19, 1927, at Pittsburgh. His children: George Whit- ing, born August 17, 1906 (died March 13, 1920); David Eaton, Jr., born July 20, 1909; and Janet, born April 7, 1928. David, Jr., is a member of the Harvard Class of 1932.
During World War I, Mitchell did Red Cross work. In World War II, Mrs. Mitchell was active in Red Cross work and had charge of several sections in the Nurses Aides' activities.
Mitchell is a member of the Duquesne, University, and Fox Chapel Golf Clubs of Pittsburgh, and is a past president of the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Unitarian Church and is a past president of the Pittsburgh Board of Trustees.
ALFRED KEANE MOE
M OE writes: "Youth gives out, expands; senility withholds, con- tracts. Neither the first nor the second impulse gives 'dur- able satisfactions.'"
He was born October 5, 1874, at Buffalo, New York, the son of Alfred Myron and Sarah Jane (Mahony) Moe. He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy. After three years' work with our Class, he received his A.B. at our graduation and spent the year 1896-1897 at the Law School. In 1901 he took his M.P.L. degree from Columbian (now George Washington University).
Moe and Charlotte Mae Campbell were married June 6, 1906, at Elizabeth, New Jersey. She died there January 25, 1939.
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SAMUEL SKERRY MONTAGUE
D URING the interval since our last report," writes Montague, "I followed along the same routine of construction work until the last year or so when I relaxed in the struggle. All of this time I have continued to live in the country near Portland, Oregon, where I have attempted farming and gardening on a small and amateurish scale as time from business has permitted. Now the city is encroaching on our country ways of life and my energies in that line are retrenching correspondingly."
Montague was born in Oakland, California, February 5, 1875, the son of Samuel Skerry and Louisa Adams (Redington) Mon- tague. He prepared at Kendall's School in Cambridge. After four years in the Lawrence Scientific School, he received an S.B. at our graduation. He married Jane Lamson, February 8, 1913, at New Rochelle, New York. She died May 10, 1945, in Portland. His marriage to Florence Swan took place June 15, 1946 at St. Louis.
In both World Wars, Montague was engaged in construction work deemed essential to the war effort. Since 1897 he has been employed entirely in engineering construction work. From 1898 to 1906 he was successively employed in various capacities by the Warren-Scharf Asphalt Company, New York, Warren-Burnham Company, New York, Warren Brothers Company, Boston, and Warren Construction Company, Portland. His work took him to New York State, Illinois, Province of Quebec, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In 1909 he organized and became vice-president and manager of the Montague-O'Reilly Company in Portland, general contractors en- gaging in municipal and state highway construction until 1924. Subsequently he operated individually on highway work in Ore- gon, Washington, and Idaho, and more recently his principal work was in connection with the U. S. Engineers on flood control and navigation projects on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.
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CLARENCE KING MOORE
I TAUGHT French and German at the Belmont School in Belmont, California, from 1898 to 1901," writes Clarence Moore. "Dur- ing 1903-1904, I was a graduate student at Stanford University. I was an instructor in Romance languages at the University of Rochester in 1904-1905, an assistant professor in 1905-1906, and a professor from 1906 to 1939. I became a professor emeritus in 1939. I live mainly in Pasadena, California, where I have access to the Huntington Library.
"I have edited three volumes concerned with my chosen life work: Three Prose Writers of the Italian Renaissance ( selections from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano, and Niccolo Machiavelli's Il Principe), 1916; Un Drama Nuevo, of Tamayo y Baus, 1920; and La Congiura dei Pazzi of Vittorio Alfieri, 1937.
"The death of my parents during my teens was, of course, a severe shock, but fortunately two sisters of my mother, one living in Cambridge, the other in Belmont, Massachusetts, generously provided homes for me during my Cambridge Latin School and Harvard College days.
"I have made five journeys abroad during my teaching career, mainly sabbatical leaves of absence to expand my knowledge of the Romance languages and literatures, and always in the much-valued companionship of my wife. Paris, Grenoble, Rome, Florence, Madrid, and Seville were most familiar to us, al- though we enjoyed seasons in England, Scotland, Sicily, Greece, and even penetrated as far as Egypt and Palestine. I have never regretted my choice of life profession. Now in my maturity, I am much impressed with Longfellow's 'Life is real, life is earnest.'"
Moore, the son of James Morrison and Angela Starr (King) Moore, was born October 1, 1873, at New York City. He received his A.B. magna cum laude after three years with our Class. He spent a year in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and was granted an A.M. in 1898 and a Ph.D. in 1906. A Litt.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Padua (Italy) on the
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occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of the founding of that University in 1922.
Moore married Rida Freeman Saunders, July 18, 1900, at Mill Valley, California.
+ GUY BARRACLIFFE MOORE
G UY BARRACLIFFE MOORE, who died in Buffalo, New York, Feb- ruary 6, 1941, was associated with the Class of '97 during our freshman year only. He was the son of William Bowen and Lucy Eliza (Biddle) Moore and was born in Washington, D. C., Sep- tember 3, 1873.
Evan Hollister wrote the Secretary that he and Moore were schoolmates together at the Buffalo High School, entering Har- vard in '93, but Moore left within the year. He returned to Buffalo and studied law at the Buffalo Law School, where he received an LL.B. in 1896. He practised in that city and made a fine reputa- tion as district attorney. For our Twenty-fifth Report he wrote that in 1921 he was tendered the Republican nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court, but declined because he preferred to continue the practice of law. During the first World War, he was government appeal agent for local draft boards in Erie County, New York. He was a member of the New York State Bar Association.
He married Annette M. Armstrong in 1909. She died nine years later. He is survived by his son, Guy W., who was born in 1910, and a daughter, Annette A., who was born in 1912.
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+ HENRY HAVEN MORGAN
H ENRY HAVEN MORGAN died March 17, 1934, at East Falls Church, Virginia. The son of Elias F. and Anne Matilda Reeves Morgan, he was born October 10, 1872, at New London, Connecticut. He was with the Class only during our freshman year and spent the following year in the Law School. At the time of the Second Class Report, he wrote that he was an architect in New London, and as travelling representative of the Morgan Iron
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Works of New London had toured the West and South. During the year 1899 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New London. On October 16, 1901, he married Henrietta Beaumont Griswold. Unfortunately, the Secretary has been un- able to learn anything further about his activities.
FRANK NASH MORRILL
RANK MORRILL, the son of Edmund Needham and Caroline
F Jenkins (Nash) Morrill, was born November 10, 1875, at Hiawatha, Kansas. He prepared at the Hiawatha Academy. He was graduated with distinction in 1897, and from the Law School in 1900.
He married Anna Elizabeth McCoy, December 6, 1913, at Hiawatha. Their children are: Frances Ann, born November 27, 1923; Mary Carolyn, born June 20, 1925; and Edmund Needham, born July 8, 1927.
Since 1897 he has been engaged in banking, farming, and elec- tric utility work.
SAMUEL MORRILL
A FTER graduation from Noble's School in Boston," writes Sam- uel Morrill, "I spent about a year in Europe with my parents. I entered college in October, 1893. Three years later I went to Europe with a companion and stayed there eighteen months. We bicycled from Geneva to Heidelberg, where I attended lectures, and returned in the autumn to Geneva for more lectures. I was preparing for the Diplomatic Service, which I entered early in 1899. In 1899 and 1900 I was Secretary of Embassy to France, and from 1900 to 1902 was Secretary of Embassy to the Court of Berlin.
"Owing to ill health after two very trying winters in that cold, damp climate, I resigned and spent the winter of 1902-1903 in Egypt, where I recovered my health and tried to re-enter the Service. As my late chief, Ambassador Andrew D. White, and President Eliot of Harvard kindly asked President Roosevelt to
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re-appoint me, I had hopes, but owing to my absolute lack of political influence, I failed to receive anything.
"My parents passed nine winters in Egypt and it enabled me to study hieroglyphics and Arabic, a fascinating language which I was glad to add to my other languages.
"I married in 1919 and we spent two years travelling around the world. Later we kept house in Florence, Italy, staying abroad about three years.
"Earlier in life I enjoyed hunting with the Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds and with the New Forest Packs, both the Fox and the Deer, and visiting English country houses. I also made pleas- ant visits in Italy, one being at the Castle of Marcarese of Prince Rospigliosi. Stokes of New York published in 1926, Lanterns, Junks and Jade, a book I wrote on travel in China and a descrip- tion of her art, temples, and palaces. I quote from my preface:
"'I realize that it is not possible to portray the inner soul of Far Cathay, no matter how near one listens to her heart, which still throbs bravely; but I have tried to paint, in far too inadequate words, the blue roofs of the Temple of Heaven, the vast spaces of Mongolia, the lotus-filled moats by old gray walls, and to show China "in her little rain," soft, elusive and charming, the rice- fields, the junks, the pagodas, which like the Yangtze - "road-of- a-hundred-pagodas" - stream and flow through her Flowery Kingdom like the golden thread in an old Chinese brocade.'
"My principal interest is heraldry. I identified all heraldic seals in the Massachusetts State Archives to 1776 and at Suffolk Court to 1730. I found that a seal next a signature did not always belong to the signer, but often to a judge, court official, lawyer, or anyone present. Some notaries owned seals with different blazons and used them indiscriminately. Sometimes a seal was owned by an individual whose name is mentioned in the document, one who did not sign; or the owner's name was on other papers of case, but not on the paper with the seal. Often a seal was engraved with arms not the owner's, which meant that it may have been obtained from a relative or purchased or obtained in other ways. I found seals with devices of about one hundred families in the Massachusetts Archives and of about ninety in Suffolk Court, a
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number which will probably be greatly augmented when I ex- amine the latter up to as late a date as I did the former. Seals usually show arms and crest, but often shield only.
"I own nine dictionaries containing all the most difficult Chi- nese characters which I pretend to understand, but of course I don't!"
Morrill, the son of Ferdinand Gordon Morrill, M.D. '69, and Arria Niles, was born March 12, 1873, at Boston. He married Adeline Eldridge, November 28, 1919, at New York City.
In 1889 he was elected a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, and a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In 1914 he was elected a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
DAVIS HARRINGTON MORRIS
T THE poet speaks of 'The simple annals of the poor,'" writes Morris. "Perhaps I should call this the poor annals of the simple. For six months after graduation I continued to work on the construction of Soldiers Field and completed the stands in time for that disappointing tie game that marked the resumption of our athletic relations with Yale. I started as an installer putting in magneto phones. I wired Philadelphia's first steel frame office building and placed the first tile underground conduit in that city.
"In 1902 I resigned, and for three years managed a small tool company in Connecticut. My wife and I were very happy in Westport and formed some delightful friendships there. How- ever, my contacts with mosquitoes while building pole lines in Jersey had filled me with malaria and I had a serious illness. I disposed of my interest in the factory and went out to my wife's home in Dayton, Ohio, to recuperate.
"For the next four years I was associated with the Dayton Hydraulic Machinery Company, building turbine pumps. This company went out of business. I applied to the Central Union Telephone Company for a job and got it. I told my wife that this time the telephone company would have to fire me to get rid of
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me. Instead, they pensioned me thirty-two years later. So much for my working hours.
"What my former chief used to call my 'unassigned time' has been devoted to various interests. Being Welsh, music has been one of my great enjoyments. I sang in choirs and concerts for many years. I played the piano and organ well enough for my own pleasure. I conducted several choruses and sponsored the first industrial chorus in Cleveland, which still exists, and turned hundreds away from a crowded hall at its last concert.
"Another of my interests was travel. Before the last war mussed up the world and made travel more difficult, it was my good fortune to visit many foreign lands on five continents and all but four of our own United States. This broadened my education and knowledge of people. If more persons had this experience, inter- national peace would be more possible.
"Genealogy has been another interest. This has not been prompted solely by pride in my personal ancestry. To under- stand history, one must know something of the motives and char- acters of the people whose actions history records. I know a lady, one of whose ancestors, a Quaker girl, was whipped out of a New England village with her hands tied to the tailboard of an oxcart. My friend is equally descended from the Puritan minister who laid on the lash. Out of such mergers of opposing ideals have come our present idealogies.
"Perhaps my greatest interest has been in people themselves. My philosophy of life has crystallized into this - 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' I owe my neighbor, be he next door or on the other side of the world, for his contribution to my comfort and pleasure. I must repay him by making my own contribution to society to the best of my ability, doing my task as if it were a labor of love.
"All of the ills of life spring from selfishness. Even officials think more of re-election than of statesmanship. I know my philosophy will work, for I have tried it out. For twenty years I had charge of industrial relations in an organization numbering at one time more than fifteen thousand workers. During that time we never had a strike. The chairman of an employee meeting
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once introduced me as 'a friend of all employees.' My most treas- ured gift on retirement was two beautifully bound volumes of letters labelled 'Notes from Telephone Friends.' They came from every level and all told me I had helped their authors to be happy. In spite of my official position as a top executive, most of them addressed me as 'Dave.'
"In 1941 a rule I had helped to formulate caught up with me and I was retired. I bought back this old farm which my thrice great-grandfather acquired in 1732. Here, as a simple country gentleman, I work like a horse and enjoy the visits of my friends. Like Tom Sawyer, I graciously permit them to help in the work. After all, useful work is one of the ingredients of happiness. I am happy to have been able to help others to be happy. Their affec- tion is my reward."
Morris, the son of Charles David Morris, D.D., University of Rochester, and Eliza Burke Harrington, Mt. Holyoke, '57, was born June 26, 1876, at Toledo, Ohio. He prepared at Granville Academy in Ohio. After three years in the Lawrence Scientific School, he received an S.B. cum laude in 1897.
"My three years in Cambridge," he writes, "were taken up with completing nearly four years of work required for the course in en- gineering. This left little time for extra-curricular activities. I was also compelled to find time to earn some part of my tuition. My Sundays were spent as a soloist in several churches in nearby cities. Having joined a national fraternity at Denison before com- ing to Harvard, I helped form a club of Phi Gamma Deltas, and I recall with distinct pleasure smoking a pipe in 36 Grays with Frank Norris while listening to his tales of the Matabele War in which he was a reporter. My last two years were spent with Will Stevenson in 9 Stoughton. We bathed at Hemenway, carried coal from the cellar to the third floor for our little grate, studied by kerosene lamps, and carried water in a wooden pail from the old pump in the Yard. The pail frequently froze in the little closet we used as a wash room. Student life in the nineties was somewhat rugged, but happy, and I know we achieved an edu- cation."
Morris married Olive Alma Ozias, October 31, 1899, at Dayton,
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Ohio. She died April 2, 1938. They had two children: Charles Ozias, born April 12, 1907 (died in infancy ); and Martha (Mrs. Floyd Walter Church), born November 18, 1909.
During World War I, Morris had charge of telephone service for the armed forces in Ohio. He also served as captain of teams selling bonds and as a member of the Military Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. In World War II, he took the course of training as an air-raid warden. His daughter also took this course and served as an airplane spotter for the Army and covered the telephone at the local air-raid report station. His son-in-law was an armament chief with the 449th Fighter Squadron of the 14th Air Force in China. He enlisted in July, 1941, and was honorably discharged January 8, 1946.
Except for seven years spent in manufacturing, Morris' entire active life was spent in the telephone industry. From 1921 to 1941 he was engaged in industrial-relations work as personnel officer for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. He has served as vice-president and general manager of the Doscher Plane & Tool Company, Saugatuck, Connecticut; director of the Dayton & Xenia Transit Company, Dayton; director and secretary of the Columbus Country Club Company, Columbus, Ohio; cemetery commissioner of the Town of Paxton, Massachusetts; ruling elder of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Ohio, and Church of the Covenant in Cleveland; and church representative of the First Congregational Church in Paxton.
He is a member of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution; New York Society, Order of Founders and Patriots; Worcester Rotary Club; Harvard Club of Worcester; Worcester Natural History Society; and Telephone Pioneer As- sociation of America. He is a fellow of the Institute of American Genealogy and a 32d-degree Mason, Knight Templar, and Shriner.
+ CLARENCE SYDNEY MORSE
C LARENCE SYDNEY MORSE died April 7, 1924, at San Angelo, Texas, where he was director of the San Angelo School of Music, which he had organized in 1908. He was at Harvard from
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1893 to 1896 and spent the next three years teaching music and serving as musical director in several churches in Boston and vicinity. From 1900 to 1904 he was director of music at the Preparatory School at La Plata, Maryland, and organist and direc- tor at Christ Episcopal Church there. He then went to Lancaster, Texas, as director of music at the Military School, moving the next year to Owensboro, Kentucky, as director at Owensboro College and organist at the First Presbyterian Church. In Sep- tember, 1906, he moved to San Angelo, where he directed music at the Collegiate Institute for two years and served as organist and director at the First Methodist Church before organizing his own music school.
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