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"Roger Scaife objected to the chronological record I sent for the Twenty-fifth Report. I had the same problem then as now - how to draw the real picture in a few lines; how I got to know William H. Taft as I did; how I was made a Datto by the Moros of Mindanao; how I became a volunteer aide to General Funston the morning of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; and how I watched two Jap planes that almost hit my house on the morning of December 7. Damn them, they just didn't collide or hit the water, so I haven't a wing for a summerhouse, nor a pilot's equipment added to a varied collection of weapons.
"A curious coincidence of World War II was that my son, a colonel in the First Cavalry Division, took the 8th Cavalry through the same part of Luzon that I went through in 1900 with the 4th Cavalry.
"We made three grave errors in World War II: (1) Holding Eisenhower back from Berlin and eastward to let Stalin in; (2) Not dropping A bombs on Japan before Stalin declared war; and (3) Not dropping some ordinary bombs around the A's and keeping our mouths SHUT. The sooner we drop an A on the Kremlin the sooner will peace settle o'er the world.
"I think the best I can do is to quote my favorite toast: 'From quiet home and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, save laughter and the
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love of friends.' To my friends who have made life for me such a happy one - Aloha Nui Loa."
Tuckerman was born March 25, 1876, at New York City, and is the son of Walter Cary Tuckerman, '70, and Florence Harding Fenno. He prepared at the Westminster School at Dobbs Ferry, New York, and received an A.B. at our graduation. As an under- graduate, he was assistant manager of freshman football and sub tackle on the varsity in '95 and '96.
He married Flora Elizabeth Girard, November 23, 1907, at Winnemucca, Nevada. She died January 31, 1909, Chicago. He married Alice R. Bellamy, January 4, 1913, at New York City. His adopted son, Alfred Girard Tuckerman, who was born Sep- tember 12, 1901, is a member of the Harvard Class of 1922. Tuck- erman's brothers, Wolcott Tuckerman and Walter Rupert Tuckerman, were graduated from Harvard in 1903.
During World War I, Tuckerman was a major of Infantry, and served at Governor's Island, New York; Camp Merritt, New Jer- sey; and Camp Mills, New York. On giving over his command, his troops presented him with an engraved saber, the highest honor an officer can receive. He also received two recommenda- tions for promotion, but writes that no officer at Camp Merritt obtained a promotion. Mrs. Tuckerman was chairman of the Ulster County Red Cross Chapter, and later worked with women's organizations in New York City and Camp Merritt. In World War II, Tuckerman was district chairman of the Office of Civilian Defense and served as chief air-raid warden and fire marshal. Mrs. Tuckerman was a nurse's aide and registrar at a first-aid station and Office of Civilian Defense headquarters.
Tuckerman was county chairman and district chairman of the State Executive Committee, and a delegate to the State and Na- tional Conventions of the National Progressive Party in 1912 and again in 1916. He has been vice-president of Hui O Kailua, a local community association; chairman of the Rural Oahu Water Committee; chairman of the Kawainui Flood Control Committee; and chairman of a Boy Scout committee. He writes that the title of "Mayor of Kailua," meaning general choreman, was wished on him by his district's delegate to Congress.
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+ C. HUNT TURNER, JR.
C HUNT TURNER, JR., was born January 3, 1875, at St. Louis, Missouri, and died in the same city on June 13, 1934. The son of Charles Hunt and Margaret Dickson ( Barlow) Turner, he came to Harvard from St. Paul's School. Although of well-to-do parentage, he learned the banking business from the bottom up, starting as a clerk in the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and holding at the time of his death the office of vice-president. In the 25th Report he wrote that he was treasurer of Turner Devices, Incorporated, a manufacturing firm started by himself, his brother, and others. He was a director of the Municipal Theatre Associa- tion of St. Louis and during World War I belonged to the Missouri Home Guards. To think of him carries one back to college days, for his youthful enthusiasm, generosity, and gaiety were always of the vintage of '97.
He was survived by his wife, the former Florence Mary O'Fal- lon, whom he married at St. Louis on November 19, 1899, and two daughters, Margarette Carter, born December 21, 1902, and Lucy Anne, born November 30, 1908.
HERMAN VALENTINE ULLMAN
M Y achievements have not been extraordinary," writes Ullman, "although in the long period of over fifty years I have at- tained a fair measure of success.
"I have always had a great fondness for Harvard, and to prove my point, my second son, Bill, was graduated with the Class of 1927.
"I am now retired and living in Beverly Hills, California. The climate, the houses, and the flowers are all beautiful. Visit us sometime and see for yourself."
Ullman, the son of William and Helen (Valentine) Ullman was born January 23, 1876, at Selma, Alabama. He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, and was with our Class during fresh- man year only. He married Josephine Messing, March 25, 1901, at Chicago. Their children are: Arthur, born September 15,
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1904; William, born October 8, 1906; and Jane, born June 2, 1913. There are two grandchildren.
Ullman writes that his son played second base on the Harvard Varsity Ball Team for three years. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Naval Reserve and rose from lieutenant (j.g.) to lieutenant commander.
+ LORING UNDERWOOD
L ORING UNDERWOOD was born February 15, 1874, at Belmont, Massachusetts, and died in the same town on January 13, 1930. The son of William James and Esther Crafts (Mead) Underwood, he prepared at the Noble and Greenough School. After his graduation he followed his love of nature. At the time of his death he was one of Boston's best known landscape architects. Among his creations is the open-air theatre at Vassar College, which shows his skill in harmonizing the natural beauties of environment with man-made construction. His own gardens gave him much pleasure, and he shared them with his friends by frequent gifts of fruit and flowers. He was president of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, a member of the Visiting Com- mittee of the School of Landscape Architecture at Harvard, and a trustee of the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture and of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
On October 14, 1897, at Newark, New Jersey, Underwood mar- ried Emily Walton, who, with their three daughters - Lorna, born April 2, 1901; Nina, born August 30, 1903; and Esther Mead, born January 6, 1907 - survived him.
+ ROGER UPTON
R OGER UPTON died on January 9, 1931, at Marblehead, Massa- chusetts. The son of George and Marian ( Cloutman ) Upton, he was born September 15, 1873, at Peabody, Massachusetts. Before coming to Harvard he studied in Paris and at Hale's School in Boston. He was in college from 1893 to 1896 and during 1897-98, but left before receiving a degree to take charge, tempo- rarily, of a business in which his brother was interested. Unex-
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pectedly, he remained in this business for five years. He acquired several business associations, among them the American Glue Company, of which he was secretary and assistant treasurer, and the Cape Ann Isinglass Company, in which he was clerk, treas- urer, and director. He was a great lover of boats and sailed the coast from Maine to Virginia in his own vessels, frequently enter- taining on board. When the first World War started, he suggested to the Navy Department a plan for training yachtsmen to use motorboats as an auxiliary coast defense against submarines. This resulted in the organization of the United States Power Squadron, to which Upton gave his spare time for five years.
On October 25, 1899, at Easton, Maryland, he married Eliza- beth Phoebe Key Lloyd, who survived him, together with their four children - Lloyd, born July 25, 1900; Edward, born March 18, 1902; Dorothy, born August 23, 1903; and John Cloutman, born March 13, 1910.
+ LANGDON BARRETT VALENTINE
L' ANGDON BARRETT VALENTINE, son of Henry Chamberlain and Grace (Barrett) Valentine, was born October 12, 1873, at New York City. He died there on August 26, 1931. He prepared . for Harvard at Cutler's School, New York. After college he entered the employ of the John Stephenson Company. He served in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War and, after his dis- charge in 1898, began the career with Valentine & Company, manufacturers of paints and varnishes, which lasted until his death, when he was vice-president. He was also associated with a subsidiary, the Valspar Corporation. While in college he belonged to the Polo, Zeta Psi, and Hasty Pudding Clubs and the Institute of 1770. His friendliness and wit made him one of the most popular members of the Class.
On October 25, 1900, at Lawrence, New York, he married May Hoe Harper, who died November 8, 1904. He was survived by his second wife, the former Louise Hollister, whom he married at New York City on March 27, 1909, and two daughters - Urling, born December 24, 1901, and Anne, born April 28, 1911.
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+ HENRY ASA VAN LANDINGHAM
H ENRY ASA VAN LANDINGHAM was born October 10, 1872, at West Point, Mississippi, the son of Henry Jackson and Mary Frances (Hearn) Van Landingham. He took an A.B. at Missis- sippi College in 1893 and taught for one year at the Douglasville, Georgia, High School and for two years at the Georgetown, Ken- tucky, Academy. In the fall of 1896 he entered Harvard, receiv- ing an A.B. with the Class and an A.M. the year following. Subse- quently, he went to the Thacher School of California as master of English and Classics, remaining until 1904, when he was ap- pointed acting professor of English in Georgetown College, Ken- tucky. In 1905 he became professor of English at Mercer Univer- sity, Georgia. He was associate professor of English at Richmond College, Virginia, from 1908 until 1912, when he received a full professorship. During 1910-11 he held a fellowship at Harvard in dramatic work. Although he devoted most of his time to the teaching which he performed so ably, he also contributed sketches and critiques to periodicals and gave literary lectures. He died May 15, 1914, at Saranac Lake, New York.
+ WILLIAM HOWARD VINCENT
W ILLIAM HOWARD VINCENT died December 19, 1937, at Norfolk, Virginia, while traveling in the South. Born at Boston, on June 28, 1874, he was the son of Dennison Howard and Abbie Frances (Robertson) Vincent. He came to Harvard from Boston Latin School. As an undergraduate he was famous for his prowess on the track team, of which he was captain, and on which he set several records. He was a member of our Class Committee until his death. After graduation he attended Harvard Law School, taking his LL.B. in 1900. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and began practising in Boston. In 1903 he entered practice with classmate Sydney Russell Wrightington, and they were joined in 1917 by Stanley Marshall Bolster, also of the Class. Vin- cent partially withdrew from active practice in 1935. He travelled extensively both in this country and abroad. He brought to all
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his activities sincerity and diligence, which, combined with his highly developed sense of sportsmanship and geniality, account for a large part of his success in his profession. Much of his work was as a trial lawyer, especially for insurance companies.
On October 21, 1914, at Bangor, Maine, he married May True Sanborn, who, with their son, Sanborn, '38, LL.B., '41, born March 28, 1916, survived him. There are two grandchildren, William Howard Vincent, 2d, born in February, 1944, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent, born in July, 1945.
+ ROYDEN WOODWARD VOSBURGH
R OYDEN WOODWARD VOSBURGH died May 18, 1931, at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. The son of William Henry and Caroline Estelle (Woodward) Vosburgh, he was born February 5, 1875, at Buffalo, New York, and came to Harvard from the Browne and Nichols School. He left college after three years to enter the real estate and investment securities business in Buffalo. In 1901 he moved to New York, where he became vice- president and a director of J. Milhau's Sons, Incorporated, drug- gists and importers. He was elected president of this firm in 1903.
In 1913, as archivist and historian of the New York Genealogi- cal and Biographical Society, he began the work of translating and transcribing old Dutch, Latin, and English records of New York State, having received a commission for the work from the Con- gressional Library, the New York State Library, and other libraries throughout the country. Before the task was completed, shortly before our 25th Report, he had covered the records of 92 churches, comprising 101 volumes and 19,674 pages. He then became a professional genealogist and historian, editing and writing several books in his field. He was vice-president of the Holland Society and a member of the leading genealogical, biographical, and his- torical societies of New York, New Jersey, and Staten Island, in- cluding the American Historical Association and the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences.
On April 15, 1896, at Brooklyn, he married Leonie Marie Milhau, who survived him, as did five children - Philip Milhau,
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born February 7, 1897; William Henry, born August 9, 1898; Pieter Coeymans, born January 10, 1901; Catharine, born August 16, 1903; and Elizabeth Moore, born May 8, 1905 - and eight grandchildren.
+ JOHN ROSS WADE
OHN ROSS WADE entered Harvard with our Class as a freshman J in the Lawrence Scientific School, after having studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the end of his sopho- more year he transferred to the College as a special student and left at midyears of his fourth year without having received a degree.
It appears that although his first choice of vocational training was in the field of engineering, he was inspired - perhaps by the influence of Phillips Brooks - to study for the ministry. Unfor- tunately, his somewhat unorthodox views on social and religious questions rendered him unacceptable to the authorities of the Episcopal Theological School. This was presumably the reason for his sudden withdrawal from college. On February 11, 1897, he married Margaret Elizabeth Orr Munn at Brooklyn, New York.
After travelling abroad, he returned to his family home in Pittsburgh, where he was employed in his father's foundry and machine shop. Five years later he became interested in gold dredging in northern California. After twenty years, World War I having put an end to successful operations, he was employed as a mechanical engineer by the Union Construction Ship Yard at San Francisco and later by the Pioneer Pipe Company.
In 1941, having given up active work, he made his home in Los Altos, where, after three years of failing health, he died on March 22, 1946.
That Mr. and Mrs. Wade were disappointed that they were not blessed by children is attested by their philanthropic action in bringing from Brooklyn, and rearing as their foster-children three little orphan girls and their brother, whom they surrounded by every advantage which tender care could suggest. Their foster-mother writes that: "The three girls became outstanding
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in their various fields, and the boy went Communist. They are a memorial to my husband's life and a comfort to me today."
Wade's college friends may well be surprised by the variety of his interests as indicated by this account. The boyhood spent in his father's beautiful home in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania - where he was born March 16, 1869, the son of William and Elizabeth (Hoops) Wade - with horses, dogs, beautiful gardens, and luxurious comforts as his setting, the summers on the Maine coast, pre-college schooling in Boston, the taste for physical sci- ence which attracted him to Technology and the Scientific School, the spiritual experience inspired by Phillips Brooks, and its dis- couragement as a vocation by the School of Theology, the long years of dredging for gold, and the kindly charity which prompted the up-bringing of four orphan children constitute expressions of a personality whose analysis might balk a psychologist, but was one which was, after all, intensely human.
D. C.
+ GEORGE PEIRCE WADLEIGH
G EORGE PEIRCE WADELIGH, who was affiliated with our Class for two years, died on August 3, 1943, at New York City. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 9, 1874, the son of Dole and Elizabeth Carrol (Peirce) Wadley. He attended St. Paul's Preparatory School before entering Harvard.
At one time he was associated with the Amalgamated Copper Company and later with the New York Life Insurance Company. During the first World War he enlisted in the Naval Reserve and later served as chief quartermaster.
In more recent years he acted as representative of several manu- facturers and commission brokers. He married Julia A. Long- street, October 4, 1899, at Boston. This marriage ended in divorce in 1912. On October 12, 1912, at Portland, Maine, he married Beatrice Lanem. Their children are: Beatrice Brewster, born August 13, 1913; Thomas Dole, born August 31, 1914; Dacre, born November 9, 1915; Ruth Howland and Jean Alexis (twins), born June 2, 1919; and George Peirce, Jr., born January 22, 1921. Wadleigh was survived by his wife and children.
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CRAIG WHARTON WADSWORTH
U NTIL 1902 I was a manager of estates," reports Wadsworth. "From 1902 to 1926 I was in the U. S. Foreign Service, and was placed on the disability list in the latter years."
Wadsworth, the son of Craig Wharton and Evelyn (Peters) Wadsworth, was born January 12, 1872, at Philadelphia. He pre- pared for college at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He spent his two years in college as a special student in the Law- rence Scientific School.
During the Spanish-American War, he served as a sergeant in the First U. S. Cavalry ( Rough Riders ).
He is a member of the Knickerbocker Club, New York; Metro- politan Club, Washington, D. C .; University Club, Washington, D. C .; Harvard Club, Rochester, New York; and Roehampton Club, London, England. He is unmarried.
+ HARRY ULYSSES WAGNER
H ARRY ULYSSES WAGNER died on October 12, 1946, at Denver, Colorado, where he was born on March 14, 1871, the son of Herman and Anna (Raymond) Wagner. He prepared for college at the Denver High School. He entered Harvard in 1892, with- drew in 1894, and returned the following year and graduated with us in 1897 .. He received honorable mention in philosophy at graduation.
For our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report he wrote a delight- fully gay-hearted and amusing account of his career since gradu- ation, entirely unassuming, and yet carrying with it a happy, underlying story of obligations well met, and labors cheerfully and well performed.
He was married at Denver on June 12, 1901, to Amalia Marie Biegel. They had two children: Harold Biegel, born June 27, 1902 (married Virginia Fonda), and Raymond August, born September 4, 1904 (married Mary Josephine Mizer). Both sons were graduated from Harvard, Harold in 1923 and Raymond in 1926. There are three grandchildren.
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The following report, evidently prepared by his family after his death, gives us a fine picture of our classmate and all that Harvard meant to him and of
That best portion of a good man's life - His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
"He was very much concerned about getting this report in on time, but he assumed that he would be able to prepare it himself. His outstanding characteristics were perseverance and an unlim- ited capacity for helping anyone who needed his assistance. His parents homesteaded several hundred acres near what is now Denver, and he was born in one of the first brick houses built in that city. He worked on the family place for a number of years, but determined that he would get his education at Harvard, after being inspired by a talk given in Denver by Professor Hanus. At great sacrifice he 'worked his way through' college, but it was a sacrifice he never regretted, and he always cherished above every- thing the fact that he was a graduate of Harvard.
"He taught for a time at Mt. Tamalpais Academy, California, and later took some postgraduate work at the University of Col- orado. Eventually he gave up the idea of a teaching career and entered his government service in the office of the United States Collector of Customs. He retired as Assistant Collector of Cus- toms in March, 1944.
"He was quite active for many years in church work, and was instrumental in the building and development of the Sixth Ave- nue Congregational Church in Denver. In later years he was a member of the First-Plymouth Congregational Church.
"His 'durable satisfactions' were his family to which he was devoted, his contacts with Harvard and Harvard men, and the pleasure he derived from helping others - whether it meant per- sonally assisting in the excavation of the basement for the Sixth Avenue Congregational Church or tutoring the children of friends, as well as his own, when their lessons became a bit too difficult.
"He frequently said that he had not accomplished very much in
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life and derived his greatest pleasure from watching his sons and grandchildren develop, but even an impartial observer would know that in the field of 'durable satisfactions' no man could have accomplished more than he did.
"While an undergraduate he enjoyed particularly the 21 Club, an informal organization with a membership of twenty-one men who ate their meals together and discussed the various problems of their day.
"He was a member of the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club and of Harmony Lodge, A.F. & A.M."
H. T. N.
* PHILIP KEYES WALCOTT
P HILIP KEYES WALCOTT, youngest member of the Class, was born December 11, 1877, at Concord, Massachusetts, where he attended high school before entering Harvard. After graduating cum laude in 1897, he studied for two years at the Law School and then entered the office of Peckham, Warner & Strong in New York. He continued his law studies, taking courses at New York University, and was admitted to the Bar in June, 1900. Four years later he became associated with the firm of Delafield & Long- fellow, of which he was made a member in 1912. He specialized in municipal corporate law and was called on to give advice to many eastern cities with regard to public loans. In spite of his youth, his professional position was well established. His parents were Charles Hosmer and Florence (Keyes) Walcott. He was survived by his wife, the former Anne Elizabeth Goedkoop, whom he married August 17, 1911, at New York City.
Walcott's keen wit, vigorous intellect, and spirited personality were facets of a character which included less obviously a delicate sensitivity, high ideals of honor, and affectionate loyalty towards his devoted friends.
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* AMASA WALKER
A MASA WALKER, who was associated with the Class only during 1893-94, died December 26, 1939, at New York City. The son of Robert Walter and Isabel Comy (Tucker) Walker, he was born November 12, 1870, at North Brookfield, Massachusetts. His grandfather, whose name he bore, was at one time secretary of the State of Massachusetts and is alleged to have been the first professor of political economy in the United States (Oberlin). His uncle, Francis Amasa Walker, was president of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology.
After leaving college, Walker was correspondent for the Spring- field Union. He next entered the employ of Harper & Brothers, New York publishers, in their educational department and was later made New England manager, with offices in Boston. For a period he was with D. C. Heath & Company, but left in 1901 to become New England manager for D. Appleton & Company. In 1903 he became general manager for Longmans, Green & Com- pany, New York, where he was engaged in schoolbook publishing. He was highly spoken of by his associates, who had a deep respect for his wisdom.
On June 29, 1898, at Lexington, Massachusetts, he married Anne Blashfield Babcock, who predeceased him. He was survived by a son, Philip, born December 3, 1900.
WALLIS DUNLAP WALKER
INCE the time of our Twenty-fifth Class Report," writes Wallis S' Walker, "I have continued to practise general medicine - at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, until 1926, and after that at Rye Beach, New Hampshire.
"It is most difficult for me to believe that my very ordinary and featureless existence can be of any interest to my classmates. Daily office patients, daily house calls, and once or twice a year a week's motor trip, usually to Canada, make up the warp and woof of my life, which, I submit, sounds very monotonous.
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