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office to accept a position with Joline, Larkin & Rathbone, after- wards Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, the predecessor of my present firm, and was admitted to partnership in 1909. In my professional life I have specialized in the administration of estates and in trial work in the federal and state courts. I am a member of the Asso- ciation of the Bar of the City of New York and have served on the Grievance and Judiciary Committees.
"During the first World War, I was enrolled in the Army, but did not get into service prior to the Armistice. I was chairman of one of the Exemption Boards in New York City. In religion I am an Episcopalian and for a number of years have been a member of the Vestry of Trinity Church Corporation in the City of New York and clerk of the Vestry.
"My daughter, Elizabeth Weston, who was born July 16, 1908, married W. Ogden McCagg in 1929. She has four children: William O. McCagg, now at Groton School; Edith King, Katharine Howard, and Anne McCagg. My son, Howard Lapsley, who was born October 14, 1909, was graduated from Kent School in 1929 and entered Harvard with the Class of 1933. During the second World War, he was with the Office of Strategic Services. My son, William, who was born August 30, 1911, and also went to Kent School, died October 24, 1933, after graduating from Harvard with the Class of 1933. My son, Albert, Jr., who was born Novem- ber 20, 1914, also went to Kent School and was graduated from Harvard with the Class of 1938. In the second World War he was commissioned ensign and later was promoted lieutenant in the Navy. He was married in 1941 to Eleanor Herrick, and they have one son, Albert, 4th.
"This class questionnaire asks about grandchildren and I have two grandsons. In bygone days if a father had gone to Harvard, that was a sufficient reason for staying out of Yale. But the old traditions no longer exist. However, in the matter of choosing their university it may still be possible to rekindle in them the an- cestral spark. I am doing my best."
Stickney, the son of Albert and Elizabeth Hart (Weston) Stickney, was born November 8, 1874, at Staten Island, New York. He prepared at Cutler's School in New York City. He mar-
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ried Katharine Howard Lapsley, September 14, 1907, at New York City. He is a member of the Knickerbocker, Harvard, and City Midday Clubs.
CHESTER FRANKLIN STILES
I THINK my greatest satisfaction in life comes from the associa- tion with those identified with the development and progress of photography," writes Stiles, "which I like to think of as the great crosstown railroad which connects all the arts and sciences and industries. It has been my rare good fortune to bridge the period from the static times of the messy wet plate to the marvel- lous advances of today such as color film, to see the motion picture born in a practical way, the rise of photostatic methods, sound recording and its many uses as a routine tool hardly known to the general public today, and to verify the incredible X-ray experi- ment in Cambridge within a few days of its vague announcement.
"My avocation for thirty years has been mathematics aside from its routine use as a tool for optical thought. It was a mere puzzle problem that started a train of thought which led to hours and hours of avocational time. Out of this came methods for finding the coefficients of any algebraic expression, and not those few special ones that appear in the binominal theorem. It works up to the sixth degree and sometimes higher and will be published as such with the hopes that perhaps a general expression can be set down instead. The satisfaction from such creative work is a thing apart. You do it because you want to do so and if you fail to complete it, what of it?"
Stiles, the son of Frank Joseph and Lydia Harriett (Pickett) Stiles was born June 24, 1877, at Reading, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Cambridge Manual Training School. He was with our Class three years as a student in the Lawrence Scientific School. He married Gladys Lynda Willcox, October 15, 1902, at Providence, Rhode Island. His second wife, formerly Ida Ellyn Mason, died in 1929 at Washington, D. C.
During World War I, Stiles was a member of the Optometry Commitee of the Submarine Defense Association, and served as
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technical adviser to the United States Marshal in the Department of Justice at Rochester, New York. He also worked with cam- ouflage devices and detectors. In World War II, he did advisory and supervisory work and conducted a survey for strategic min- erals in Massachusetts.
"My interest in photography, which dated from 1889," he writes, "tended to influence me toward chemistry courses in col- lege. I was soon diverted to the physical optical lines and became technical editor of a new photographic magazine still existent in another publication of current date. This led me to the key center of photography, Rochester, New York, where I was in charge of the Photo Lens Department of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Com- pany. In this capacity I developed very extensive contacts with new methods and applications, with those who created them, or with the users of such optical tools. Such were inventors needing lenses, industrial special uses, explorers and writers or lecturers who might be using their apparatus afield, amateurs, profes- sionals, and scientists, all of whom had problems.
"The 1917 war conditions brought up many very specialized advisory situations covering Army, Navy, and engineers' branches for both Washington and our allies, such as the rise of aërial photography along with the airplane, control instruments, im- provements in the motion picture, problems of camouflage, tele- photo and panoramic devices, and the like. This was a situation repeated to some extent in the more recent unpleasantness.
'Of late years this field has broadened, but it always follows the newer developments such as new reproduction processes, the utilization of ocean products as a source of valuable chemicals and similarly in mineral fields.
"In connection with this I have prepared many catalogues and booklets of instruction and have contributed to the technical press. From time to time I have been a member of various tech- nical societies."
Stiles was technical editor of Photo Era, Boston; sales and ad- vertising manager of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Photo Lens Department, Rochester, New York; consultant to F. B. Gil- breth, Incorporated, Montclair, New Jersey; sales and advertising
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manager of the Goerz American Optical Company, New York City; and has done consulting work for the Plastolith Company and Ocean Harvests in Boston.
FRANK VICTOR STONE
F RANK STONE was born June 13, 1874, at Somerville, Massachu- setts, the son of Stephen Henry and Elizabeth (Stoddard) Stone. He prepared at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachu- setts. He entered the Lawrence Scientific School in 1893, and after a year there, transferred to the College and became a mem- ber of our Class. He received an A.B. in 1897. His brother, the late Ralph Edgarton Stone, obtained an M.D. in 1905.
Stone married Helen Sarah Smith, October 1, 1901, in Red Wing, Minnesota. Their daughter, Jean Stoddard (Mrs. Rhoades ), was born July 23, 1906. There are three grandchildren.
+ MELVILLE EDWIN STONE
M ELVILLE EDWIN STONE was born November 3, 1875, at Chicago. His parents were Melville Elijah and Martha Jameson (McLacland) Stone. He prepared for college at Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, and took an A.B. with the Class in 1897. He lived for a time in Chicago, where he married Lucretia Hosmer on October 27, 1900. She died on August 3, 1901. In 1906 he moved to New York. He was actively engaged in the publishing busi- ness, successively as a partner in a book publishing company, general manager of the Associated Sunday Magazines, and presi- dent of the Metropolitan Magazine Company and editor of the Metropolitan, a monthly magazine. In 1911 he left the business world because of ill health and went to the Adirondacks and later to Bedford Hills, New York. He did a considerable amount of writing and was part author of two plays, Brewster's Millions and Graustark. He later went to Switzerland and Arizona and finally made his home in California, where he died, at Pasadena, on January 4, 1918.
Such is the bare outline of the life of an extraordinary man.
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Ned Stone was genuinely friendly, deeply interested in people for their own sakes. He was a man of strong convictions and brooked no compromise. When he undertook a crusade, he threw himself into it whole-heartedly, regardless of the effect the effort might have on his health. During the long years when he strug- gled to regain his health, he remained as cheerful as he had always been, enjoying life and winning affection and admiration by his charming manner and sterling qualities.
R. L. S.
CHARLES WILLIAMS STOTT
C YHARLES WILLIAMS STOTT died June 15, 1934, at St. Paul, Minne- sota, where he was president of the Stott Briquet Company, a firm which he had founded with his father-in-law, E. N. Saund- ers, in 1909, and which became the first commercially successful briquet company in the country to sell in large quantities. He was at Harvard during 1893-94 and from 1895 to 1897. He then began to learn the textile business from the bottom up, becoming a wool sorter in the Middlesex Woolen Manufactory in Lowell, Massachusetts. The following year he went to the Belvidere Woolen Manufacturing Company in Lowell, where he worked up to superintendent, general manager, and finally, assistant treas- urer.
On June 27, 1907, he married Cornelia Saunders, of St. Paul, and in 1909 moved to Duluth, where he started the business to which he devoted the rest of his life. The manufacturing of "briquetted fuel" was a new industry in that part of the country, and it was largely through his efforts that a market was built up and the company became a successful million-dollar organization. He had a great interest in coal mines and numbered among his other interests the Children's Hospital of St. Paul, of which he was treasurer. During the first World War he was a member of the Minnesota National Guard.
He was born April 22, 1874, at Lowell, the son of Charles Adams and Lizzie (Williams) Stott, and prepared for college at the Holderness School in New Hampshire and St. Mark's School,
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Southborough, Massachusetts. He was survived by his wife and three daughters - Mary Elizabeth, born March 24, 1908; Cornelia Saunders, born July 7, 1913; and Caroline Williams, born Octo- ber 4, 1915.
* PERCY SELDEN STRAUS
P RCY SELDEN STRAUS was born in New York City on June 27, 1876, the son of Isidor and Ida Rosalie (Blun) Straus. He died in the same city on April 6, 1944, of a heart ailment which first afflicted him in 1939.
He prepared for college at Sachs' Collegiate Institute in New York, entered Harvard in the autumn of 1893, and was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. A degree of D.C.S. was conferred upon him by Oglethorpe University in 1930. Quiet and studious during his college years, he prepared himself to be an educator or a diplomat.
He entered the employ of R. H. Macy & Company in Septem- ber, 1897, and soon became buyer for the furniture department. After serving one year, he resigned to accept an appointment as attaché to the United States Legation at Constantinople. His uncle, Oscar Straus, was then Minister to Turkey. This proved to be a most interesting experience. After serving for eight months, he returned to R. H. Macy & Company. In 1919 the business was incorporated. His brother Jesse was elected president and Percy became vice-president. When Jesse was appointed Ambassador to France, Percy succeeded him as president.
After his illness in 1939, he became chairman of the Board of Directors. During Percy's presidency R. H. Macy & Company became the leading department store in New York. He took great interest in the employees and knew a host of them by name. For their recreation he established Camp Isida, named for his par- ents, in Sullivan County, New York.
Percy and his brothers, Jesse and Herbert, were generous givers. They gave Straus Hall to Harvard in memory of their parents who were lost in the tragedy of the Titanic in 1912. They gave $1,000,000 to New York University in 1929, and Straus Park
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on upper Broadway to the City of New York. In 1924 they en- dowed the Isidor Straus Professorship of Business Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in memory of their father.
Percy was one of the organizers of the New York World's Fair in 1939-1940. He was chairman of the Committee on Architec- ture and Planning and served as a director of many business and charitable corporations. In politics he was a Democrat, but not a New Dealer.
On November 27, 1902, Percy married Edith Abraham at New York City. They had three sons: Ralph Isidor, '25, M.B.A. '27, born October 11, 1903; Percy Selden, Jr., born September 17, 1906; and Donald Blun, '38, M.B.A. '40, born June 28, 1916. In his business life Percy combined gentleness, patience, and tact with outstanding ability. His family life was equally happy; few men have been so greatly blessed. He was particularly sweet and gracious to his daughters-in-law, and they responded with deep affection for him. His wife and sons survived.
To Harvard and to his classmates Percy's death was a heavy loss. He never failed to respond to any call from his Alma Mater. In the words of our Secretary: "We look upon his passing with tenderness, respect, and gratitude."
W. B.
+ ARTHUR FREDERIC STREET
A RTHUR FREDERIC STREET, son of William Augustus and Lucy Ely (Morgan) Street, was born February 13, 1875, at New York City. His love of travel carried him far afield, and he died December 13, 1934, at Sydney, Australia, where he had had his headquarters for many years. After leaving college after four years with the Class, he travelled for about a year in Europe and Egypt. In June, 1898, he entered the employ of R. W. Cameron & Company, New York, and in October, 1900, became a partner in the firm. It was on business that he went to Australia and New Zealand. Another trip there in 1913 was supposed to last a year, but at the time of the 25th Report he wrote that it had "actually
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extended up to the present, except for three brief visits to New York in the interim." He was survived by his wife, the former Ina Mary Ricardo, whom he married in Sydney on February 18, 1914.
Though far from the United States for most of his post-college life, he kept alive the firm friendships he made in Cambridge. One of these friends wrote, "I never knew a man whose reactions were more kindly and right toward everyone than Street's; that he was not perhaps as widely known as some others was unim- portant but amongst his varied contacts, I think he was appreci- ated as deeply as anyone in our Class."
+ DANIEL SULLIVAN
D ANIEL SULLIVAN, one of the outstanding scholars of the Class, died December 8, 1932, at Middleton, Massachusetts. The son of James Joseph and Margaret Mary (Linehan) Sullivan, he was born March 25, 1875, at Peabody, Massachusetts, and there he attended high school. At Harvard he received a detur in his sophomore year, the Bowditch scholarship in 1894-95, the Lowell scholarship in 1895-96, and the Kirkland scholarship in 1896-97. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received an A.B. magna cum laude in 1897. After graduation he taught in preparatory schools and then entered upon a career of editorial work and journalism. He was associated with trade and class publications for a time, and in 1906 joined the staff of the New York Sun and was later on the old Tribune. In 1910 he was appointed secretary to the superintendent of buildings for the Borough of Manhattan and in 1916 was appointed by Mayor Mitchel secretary of the newly created Board of Standards and Appeals, a supervisory body in building construction, a post he held for about two years. During the first World War, he did government publicity work for liberty loan drives. He was also associated with the Red Cross in publicity work. After the war he free-lanced in public relations. He was unmarried.
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JAMES AMORY SULLIVAN
AMES SULLIVAN writes as follows on the page reserved for the
J story of his life: "I was born with no gift for writing, and cursed (?) with a modest disposition. I leave this part to my biographer."
The son of John Langdon and Helen (Lynde ) Sullivan, he was born August 17, 1875, at Malden, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Groton School. After receiving his A.B. with our Class, he spent a year at the Law School.
He married Lavinia Kaufman, December 19, 1900, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She died in Asolo, Venito, Italy. He married Mrs. Edith Lawrence Coolidge, June 30, 1935, at Boston. His children: Hélène Amory (Mrs. Norman Stewart Walker ) born January 11, 1903; Nancy Lloyd (Mrs. Austin Lamont), born November 15, 1906; and Joane Russell, born December 20, 1919 (deceased). There are eight grandchildren, one of whom, Norman Stewart Walker, received his A.B. as a member of the Harvard Class of 1946. He and James Sullivan Walker both served in the Navy in World War II. Two of Sullivan's stepchildren also served in the second World War. Lawrence Coolidge was in the Navy and received a decoration for his service. Harold Coolidge was with the Army in the Office of Strategic Services and was also deco- rated. Sullivan himself did emergency rescue work for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. During World War I, he was a major in the Army and served with the 303d Machine Gun Battalion.
Since leaving college he has been a painter and an architect. His clubs are the Tavern, Somerset, Myopia Hunt, Varsity, and Society of the Cincinnati of New Hampshire.
JOHN BENJAMIN SULLIVAN, JR.
J OHN SULLIVAN, JR., has been engaged in the practice of law since graduation from the Law School in 1900.
He was born February 10, 1876, at Taunton, Massachusetts, the son of John Benjamin and Ellen Frances ( Coppinger ) Sullivan.
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He prepared at the Taunton High School and was graduated cum laude after three years' work with our Class. He married Hortense Estes, September 30, 1922, at Boston.
+ THOMAS RANDOLPH SULLIVAN
T HOMAS RANDOLPH SULLIVAN was born January 19, 1874, at Central City, Colorado, the son of Dennis and Jenny ( Barnes ) Sullivan. He attended Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, New York, and remained in Harvard only for the freshman year. He then studied law for a time and entered business in association with the Consolidated Gas Company of Denver, Colorado. When the Spanish-American War broke out, he obtained a commission as a first lieutenant in the First Regiment of Volunteer Engineers and went to Puerto Rico. There he contracted malarial fever, which compelled his return to the United States and which caused his death on November 3, 1898.
+ JOHN FREDERICK SWIFT
A s this Report goes to press your Secretary has just discovered that Swift died on September 12, 1943. We have heard noth- ing from him for years. His previous reports recount that in 1899 he became an electrician with the Electrical Construction Divi- sion, Public Building Department, city of Boston, of which he later became head. He was also associated with the Boston Elevated Railway Company. He was at one time a member of the Democratic Ward and City Committee of Boston and was ap- pointed electrical expert by the mayor of Boston.
The son of Percival Joseph and Alice (Lyon) Swift, he was born May 17, 1872, in Boston, and prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Berkeley School in Boston. He was in the Law- rence Scientific School during 1893-94. He graduated from the Lowell Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1909.
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+ CHARLES VALENTINE TAYLOR
C YHARLES VALENTINE TAYLOR was in college for four years, and graduated with the Class. During the years between gradua- tion and his death on August 18, 1902, at Boston, he was associ- ated with the firm of Dodge & Olcott in Boston. The son of Charles Barker and Fanny Gertrude (Bond) Taylor, he was born March 8, 1873, at Cambridge, and was prepared for college under a tutor.
+ HARVEY CLINTON TAYLOR
H ARVEY CLINTON TAYLOR died at his home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on March 8, 1944. The son of Martin and Laura Augusta (Floyd) Taylor, he was born at Haverhill, Massachu- setts, on May 15, 1875. He prepared at the Haverhill High School, entered Harvard in 1893, and received his A.B. with us in 1897. Clint Taylor will remain in the memories of our classmates for all time, vividly and most affectionately, because of the sweet and tenderly sympathetic qualities of his happy gift of song, an inheri- tance which he shared with his brothers, all Harvard men, and which, together with his naturally buoyant and stimulating per- sonality, made him an ever-welcome companion in all musical gatherings throughout our undergraduate days. Together with our classmates, the Carpenters, Hayden, Howe, Hills, Water- house, Fales, Fenno, Gleason, Rich, Whitman, Darling, and our illustrious and indefatigable Class Secretary, Scaife, Clint Taylor enlivened our freshman spirits with his light-hearted Glee Club minstrelsies, just as they were conspicuous in our later Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta musical productions.
After graduation Taylor became interested in the manufacture of shoes; first, in his native Haverhill, and in 1903, with the Gale Shoe Company at Portsmouth. That firm was later taken over by the Carter, Taylor Company, and he served as president until his retirement in 1937. As a resident of Portsmouth he early identified himself with the business and social activities of the community. He served as head of the Portsmouth Hospital's Board of Trus-
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tees, as a trustee of the Portsmouth Savings Bank, and as presi- dent of the Portsmouth Country Club and Abenaqui Golf Club at adjacent Rye Beach. He was elected a member of the New Hamp- shire Constitutional Convention and was at the session during which the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933. He served, with the title of colonel, on the military staff of Governor Charles M. Floyd, and was a director of the St. Croix Paper Com- pany. His was a leading spirit in all local War Loan and Commun- ity Chest drives and he was, up to the time of his death, a member of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, a privately organized and sup- ported library, founded in 1817, and possessing a rare and valu- able collection of early prints, pamphlets and manuscripts of the Provincial day, and rich in material pertaining to early New Hampshire history and of the towns therein embraced. He was also a member of the Federal Fire Society, a local patriotic organi- zation dating back to the year 1789 and to the age of "hand tubs" and leathern hand buckets.
Taylor was married to Mary Agnes Hobson, October 30, 1907, at Haverhill. She died in January, 1943. Their two sons and a daughter survived him. They are: John Hobson, '34, born Novem- ber 25, 1911; Marian (Mrs. Haley), born June 16, 1915; and Harvey Clinton, Jr., '42, born April 8, 1920. Both boys served as lieutenants in the Naval Reserve in World War II.
H. T. N.
+ GEORGE LEONARD TEEPLE
G EORGE LEONARD TEEPLE died May 21, 1931, at New York City. He was born August 10, 1864, at Champaign, Illinois, the son of John and Harriet Eliza (Herbert) Teeple, attended the State Normal School at Whitewater, Wisconsin, and received an M.E. degree at Cornell University in 1889. He came to Harvard in 1895 and took an A.B. in 1897. For the next year and a half he taught English composition and literature at the State Normal School at Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Ill health forced him to seek a more out-of-doors type of work, and he was for several years engaged in railway surveying. He then went as clerk, steward,
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and manager's assistant on a mining expedition to Nome, Alaska. After his return, he engaged in land surveying and writing. He published stories and sketches in Century Magazine, Collier's, Youth's Companion, and the Atlantic Monthly. He was unmar- ried.
+ CHAN LOON TEUNG
C IAN LOON TEUNG was born at Canton, China, on August 25, 1866, the son of Chan Chen We and Yu Lu Teung. He pre- pared for college at the Mt. Hermon School and attended the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, taking an S.B. in 1897. After graduating, he returned to China, where he taught English, physics, and chemistry in Foochow College for three years. Mov- ing to Nanking, he taught as a private tutor and then in a govern- ment school until 1911, when the revolution closed the school. He fled with his family to Shanghai, remaining until 1912, when he made a visit to the United States. The following year he went to Hong Kong, where he lived until his death on February 13, 1917. In his educational work in China, Chan pioneered in the introduction of many western customs and ideas, including the demonstration of the X-ray and the placing of emphasis on exer- cise and sports for students.
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