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"I took a sabbatical leave in 1929 and went to Europe and North Africa to study agricultural methods and soil conservation in areas where land has been in production for several centuries."
Wilder was born January 15, 1873, at Sunderland, Massachu- setts, the son of Alden and Jennie (Woodbury) Wilder. He pre- pared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and attended Amherst Col- lege before entering Harvard. He was with our Class three years and received his A.B. at our graduation. As an undergraduate, he was a member of Theta Delta Chi and played on the Lacrosse Team in 1896 and 1897. He married Gertrude May Bent, August 16, 1900, at Allston, Massachusetts.
He is a member of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Lions Club.
FREDERICK SMITH WILLIAMS
I WORKED in the Waltham Watch factory from 1897 to 1899," writes Frederick Williams. "I attended Harvard Medical School from 1899 to 1903, receiving my M.D. in the latter year. After interning, I practised medicine for five years. I joined the New York City Health Department in 1911 and remained there until my retirement in 1945."
Williams was born February 12, 1875, at Springfield, Massachu- setts, the son of Peter and Minna (Janell) Williams. He pre-
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pared at the Waltham High School in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1897.
His marriage to Caroline Vogel took place October 20, 1915, at New York City. Their son, Frederick Henry, was born May 21, 1919. Williams is a member of the Congregational Church.
+ HARVEY LADEW WILLIAMS
H ARVEY LADEW WILLIAMS was born March 31, 1875, at New York City, the son of John Townsend and Louise (Ladew) Williams. He attended the Cutler School in New York and was with our Class for four years, graduating cum laude and with honorable mention in economics. He then became associated with his father's business of managing New York real estate and mining interests in North Carolina and Tennessee and at the time of the Second Report was a member of the firm. In the spring of 1901 his health broke down and he was temporarily forced to give up business. He died in Bristol, Tennessee, on August 4, 1905. His wife was the former Hannah Haydock Willis, whom he married at New York City on April 6, 1899. They had two children: Harvey Ladew, Jr., born July 10, 1900, and Rebecca, born February 25, 1905.
His unselfish nature led him to take a great interest in the welfare of others and to keep his own troubles to himself. While in college he suffered from poor health but was able to find recrea- tion in track athletics and other outdoor activities. He was a diligent student and brought to everything he did an intense and earnest purpose.
+ LOMBARD WILLIAMS
L
OMBARD WILLIAMS died February 24, 1941, at Boston. The son of George Lombard and Annie (Addicks) Williams, he was born at Buffalo, November 7, 1874, and was prepared for Harvard by a private tutor. He was active in extra-curricular affairs in college, being a member of the Class football teams and the varsity cricket team. He was also an editor of the Harvard Advo- cate and a member of the Signet and O.K. Societies.
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After leaving college, he entered the real estate business in Boston in association with William Sumner Appleton, '96. He made his home in Medford and soon became interested in local politics. In 1900 he was elected to the City Council and later be- came its president, although its youngest member. From 1902 to 1904 he represented his district in the State House of Representa- tives, and then retired from public office. However, in 1913 he was urged to seek office again, and for two years was a member of the State Senate. During this period he served on a special legislative committee to draft the bill for the Washington Street tunnel, he and the chairman being the only members who were not residents of Boston. From 1915 to 1917 he was a director of the Port of Boston, and he was appointed by his close friend, Governor Roger Wolcott, '70, to membership on the Massachu- setts commission to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
During the first World War he belonged to the State Guard Company in Dedham, where he had moved from Medford, and was also on the Public Safety and Liberty Loan committees. He had, for some time, left the real estate business and been engaged in stock brokerage, but he returned to his former profession with the establishment of his own firm, the Lombard Williams Com- pany, which he successfully carried on until his death.
He maintained an intense interest in the fine arts and was a member of the Boston Art Club. He was also one of the leading whist players in Boston, often representing the city in New York inter-allied tournaments.
On February 8, 1898, at Medford, Massachusetts, he married Ruth Bradlee, who survived him, as did four daughters - Ruth Lombard (Mrs. William B. Breed), Elizabeth (Mrs. L. Manlius Sargent), Marion, and Margaret Keep (Mrs. Frederick C. Dumaine, Jr.) - and eight grandchildren.
+ STILLMAN PIERCE WILLIAMS
TILLMAN PIERCE WILLIAMS was born May 27, 1874, at Boston, S the son of Robert Breck and Mary Ellen (Pierce ) Williams. He graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in 1893 and from
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Harvard in 1897. For a time thereafter he was associated with his father in the importation of tea, but in 1914 left to devote his time to the care of trust property. He was in addition a director of the Commercial Wharf Company and the Granite Railway Company, a proprietor of the Boston Pier or the Long Wharf, and a trustee of the Winchester Savings Bank. In his quiet, mod- est, and generous way, he contributed much to the public welfare, acting as vice-president of the Winchester Home for Aged People, a trustee of the Winchester Unitarian Church, and a member of the Winchester School Board. On November 12, 1906, at Salem, Massachusetts, he married Frances Ropes. Their children are: Constance, born August 24, 1907; Robert Breck, born September 26, 1909; Stillman Pierce, Jr., born June 13, 1912; and Louisa King, born January 19, 1917.
Williams died at Winchester on January 18, 1925. He was sur- vived by his wife and children.
+ WILLIAM TAYLOR BURWELL WILLIAMS
W ILLIAM TAYLOR BURWELL WILLIAMS, vice-president of Tuske- gee Institute, died March 26, 1941, at Tuskegee, Alabama. He was born July 3, 1866, at Stonebridge, Virginia, the son of Edmund and Louisa (Johnson) Williams. After graduating from Hampton Institute in 1887, he took further preparation at Phillips Academy, Andover, before coming to Harvard. In college he won the deep respect of both teachers and fellow-students and was graduated magna cum laude. For five years he was principal of a school in Indianapolis, where he helped to introduce industrial training into the public schools and organized a night school for negro men and women. He was then called back to Hampton Institute to serve as its field representative in projects for im- proving negro education. He later became engaged in the same sort of work for the John F. Slater Fund and the Anna T. Jeanes Fund. He was a member of all the more important conferences on negro education and addressed various teachers' associations. For two terms he was president of the National Association of
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Teachers in Colored Schools. He was also a member of the Gen- eral Education Board.
After the death of Booker T. Washington, the new principal of Tuskegee Institute, Major Robert R. Moton, asked Williams to come to Tuskegee, where there was need of his extensive knowl- edge of negro education. He maintained his association with the Slater and Jeanes Funds but was able to accept an appointment as dean of the Institute. In this capacity he was influential in reorganizing the school on a collegiate basis. In 1936 he be- came vice-president of the Institute. He had published numerous articles and papers on negro education and received the Spingarn Medal for his important work in this field.
On June 29, 1904, at Detroit, he married Emily Augustine Harper, who died in 1933. He was survived by his second wife, the former Mrs. Kate Ruff Green, whom he married in 1937.
CHARLES STETSON WILSON
C HARLES WILSON writes that he entered the Foreign Service in 1899 and lived in Europe until September, 1941. He is now retired and living quietly at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston.
The son of Franklin Augustus Wilson, Bowdoin College, and Caroline Stetson, he was born June 10, 1874, at Bangor, Maine. He prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School. He was graduated with our Class in 1897, receiving his A.B. with distinc- tion. He had two Harvard brothers: the late John Wilson, '00; and the late Hayward Wilson, '05.
He is a member of the Somerset Club and Harvard Club of Boston. He is unmarried.
HERBERT EMERSON WILSON
H RBERT WILSON, the son of David and Anna ( Bayley ) Wilson, was born June 3, 1874, at Cambridge. He prepared at the Cambridge High and Training School. He was with our Class only two years as a special student in the Lawrence Scientific School. He married Alice Annette Willard, September 20, 1899, at Cam-
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bridge. Their children are: Elsie May, born April 4, 1900; and Paul Emerson, born July 24, 1903. There are four grandchildren. Since 1897 Wilson has been an accountant with the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company.
* WILLIAM TULLOCH WILSON
W ILLIAM TULLOCH WILSON died December 1, 1933, at Jackson- ville, Illinois, where he was born November 29, 1870, and where he had practised law since 1897. The son of Hugh and Isabella (Smith) Wilson, he attended Illinois College at Jackson- ville and was at Harvard only during 1893-94. He married Edith Wolcott Ross on November 24, 1898, at Jacksonville, Illinois. Their children: Hugh Monroe, born October 21, 1902; William Tulloch, Jr., born January 18, 1908; and Catherine Kirby, born December 8, 1904.
+ FRANK WINCHESTER
F RANK WINCHESTER died in January, 1914, at San Rafael, Cali- fornia. After leaving Harvard in 1896, he joined his father in the leather business in San Francisco, moving out of the city to San Rafael after the earthquake. On September 18, 1898, at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, he married Elizabeth Hiller Foster. Their children were Margaret, who was born May 19, 1900, and died October 19, 1915, and Patience, who was born August 21, 1901.
The son of Ezra Hitchings and Abbie Josephine ( Odiorne) Winchester, he was born May 28, 1873, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and attended the Carleton School, Bradford, Massa- chusetts, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Although he became an enthusiastic Californian, he retained a lively interest in the friends he made in the East and welcomed them to the pleasures of country life at his charming home.
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+ BEEKMAN WINTHROP
B' EEKMAN WINTHROP, one-time governor of Puerto Rico, died November 10, 1940, at New York City. The son of Robert and Kate Wilson (Taylor) Winthrop and a descendant of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he was born September 18, 1874, at Orange, New Jersey. He prepared for Harvard at Cutler's School, New York. He received an A.B., magna cum laude, in 1897 and an LL.B. in 1900 at the Law School, where he graduated second only to Joseph P. Cotton, later Under- Secretary of State. He passed the New York Bar examinations and went to the Philippine Islands as secretary to Governor William H. Taft. In 1901 he became assistant executive secretary of the Philippine Islands and during 1903-04 was Judge of the Court of First Instance, holding court in Malolos and Manila. At the age of thirty he was appointed governor of Puerto Rico by President Theodore Roosevelt.
From 1907 to 1909 he served as Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury and for the next four years was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The election of a Democratic president in 1913 closed his political career, and he turned to banking. From 1914 to 1939 he was senior partner of the old, established New York firm of Robert Winthrop & Company. At the time of his death he was a member of the executive committee and board of managers of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company and presi- dent of the Cayuga & Susquehanna Railroad Company. In all his dealings, his associates valued his advice, and his reputation as a wise and honest man was well-founded.
On October 7, 1903, at New York City, he married Melza Riggs Wood, who died in 1928.
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+ CHANDLER WOLCOTT
C HANDLER WOLCOTT, who died on September 18, 1943, at Mount Vernon, Maine, was associated with the Class during our senior year, receiving his degree in 1898 as of 1897. He attended
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the Law School for two years. Before coming to Harvard he had studied at Cornell University.
Wolcott was born August 8, 1875, at Rochester, New York, the son of Henry and Helen ( Chandler) Wolcott. He was a descend- ant of the early settlers of New England and a grandson of George D. Wolcott, one of Rochester's early residents.
After leaving Cambridge, he returned to Rochester to practise law. At the time of his death he had been an attorney in the Bankruptcy Court for fifteen years. His wife survived him.
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NATHANIEL KNIGHT WOOD
T UBERCULOSIS has continued to claim my major interest in medi- cine," reports Nathaniel Wood. "During my years of practice it has changed from a disease for which little or nothing was done, to one which is treated ably, and from a disease which was con- sidered fatal, to one that has been proved to be curable with no impairment of health.
"The Arlington Street Church, Tuberculosis Class, of which I wrote in our Twenty-fifth Report, continued until 1940. By this time tuberculosis was being treated so efficiently by cities, coun- ties, and state, that it was decided that this particular work was needed no longer. During the thirty-four years of the existence of the Class, however, well over three hundred individuals and their families were put on their feet and kept well as a result of our efforts.
"In the early twenties I became much interested in the treat- ment of tuberculosis by what is known as artificial pneumothorax. This consists of placing the lung in an air splint by introducing air into the pleural cavity by a hollow needle passed through the chest wall. This procedure was started by Forlanini in Italy as early as 1895. It was copied by Saugman of Sweden and intro- duced into the United States by Murphy of Chicago. For many years this treatment met with little encouragement but strong opposition because of the dangers connected with it. In time the technic of method improved, the dangers lessened and the results
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steadily improved. At first I was one of six men to do this work in Massachusetts despite the bitter opposition to it. Today about 70 per cent of the cases of tuberculosis have this treatment with a marked shortening of the active stage and a correspondingly marked increase of the chances of ultimate recovery.
"In our Twenty-fifth Report, I spoke, also, of being an associate in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. I continued to work there in that capacity until 1942, when I was retired be- cause of the age limit.
"My management of the Arlington Street Church Tuberculosis Class led me to join the church in 1906. There I became well acquainted with the Reverend Paul Revere Frothingham and later became his physician. The deep friendship which resulted from this intimate association with him is one of my most prized memories.
"Another great source of pleasure to me has been the oppor- tunity to help twenty or more boys to go to college or to finish their college course. Although not blessed with much money myself, I have had a large number of generous friends who have contributed to the funds at my disposal for this worthy purpose. Not only have I helped these boys financially, but I have visited them at their various colleges, correspond with them and, in a few instances, tutored them in their studies. One of these boys, who was attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lived with me for three years. My efforts along this line have been well rewarded as all these boys have done well in later life and one of them received no less than five decorations in the recent world war.
"For many years I have been a member of the Board of Direc- tors of the Boston Tuberculosis Association. After the depression of 1929 and all through the early 1930's, the Association was sadly lacking in funds and had to meet the expenses of November and December out of the anticipated gifts for the following year. With the hope of cutting down this deficit, I decided to give a benefit concert in Symphony Hall. I chose the very gifted Polish pianist, Jan Smeterlin, as my artist, hired the hall and also a manager, and obligated myself to meet the estimated expense of
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$1700. I started work on this plan in December, 1935, and chose the second Sunday of November, 1936, for the day of the concert. This was a beautiful Sunday afternoon and the hall was filled nearly to capacity. Smeterlin gave a superb concert and I was able to meet all expenses and turn over to the B.T.A. $2,050. The Association ended its year in the black. I have arranged other concerts for charity since then, but none has given me quite the kick that this first venture of bucking the concert world afforded.
"In addition to my sincere gratification from the practice of medicine and the broadening influence from church affiliations, I have had the most pleasurable connections as a result of my interest in and my love of music. Since 1893 I have attended the Boston Symphony concerts regularly and in 1921 became a mem- ber of the Harvard Music Association at 57-A Chestnut Street, Boston.
"In 1929 Courtenay Guild, president of the Harvard Musical Association, asked me to assist him in arranging the annual dinner of the association. This dinner was such a success that I was asked to become chairman of the Entertainment Committee of the H.M.A., a position I have held continuously since 1930. Dur- ing the winter months the Association has ten evening concerts of chamber music and an annual dinner. The good fellowship that is developed at these concerts and suppers is outstanding and well worth the time and effort put into making them successful.
"The duties of the chairman are manifold, but the following are among the most important: choosing the artists for the concerts, engaging the speakers for the annual dinner, providing for the suppers, writing and sending out the notices for the vari- ous events, and, finally, providing in every possible manner for the comfort of the artists. This has proved to be a most delight- ful task and has made it possible for me to become acquainted with a long list of artists of national and international fame. Many are the friendships which have sprung from this activity. Few, however, have been so delightful or more helpful than that with Courtenay Guild, one of the kindest and most thoughtful philanthropists I have ever known. His death in April, 1946, has left another gap in my life which will never be filled.
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"Any young man who has chosen medicine for his profession has my sincere wishes for his success. It is impossible for him to have any greater pleasure or any greater satisfaction in his work than I have enjoyed in the practice of medicine. It is a great profession and it challenges the best that anyone has to offer. Though full of hard work, trying moments, and much responsi- bility, its rewards are equally great and they fill life with countless inspiring memories."
Wood, the son of Alexander Morris Wood, M.D. '63, and Mar- garet Coffin Cox, Mt. Holyoke Seminary, was born March 30, 1876, at Somerville, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Somer- ville High School. He received his A.B. after four years with our Class, and his M.D. at the Medical School in 1901.
"I lived at home during my college years," he writes. "I tried for the Track in my freshman and sophomore years and ran for the Class in the interclass races. One year in the 100-yard dash I won my heat, so all the runners for the final were '97 men. Walter Mansfield won. I knew very few men while in college. I saw to it, however, that I knew every man in my class at the Medical School.
"After leaving the Medical School, I spent six months in the Out-Patient Department of the Boston City Hospital, from July to December, 1901. From January 1, 1902, to March 21, 1904, I interned at the Boston City Hospital, and at the Boston Lying-In Hospital from June 1, 1904, to December 1, 1904. Since Feb- ruary 1, 1905, I have practised medicine in Boston."
During World War I, Wood was physician-in-chief of the Boston Dispensary. In World War II, he was engaged in active practice, which, he writes, was hard work as so many men had been called into service.
He served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Unitarian Club for two years; he has been vice-president of the Central New England Sanatorium for many years; a member of the Prudential Committee of the Arlington Street Church several years; chair- man of the Adult Group of Adult Education of the Arlington Street Church for four years; Chairman of the Music Committee of the Harvard Club of Boston for the last two years, and Chair-
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man of the Educational Committee of the Boston Tuberculosis Association for four years.
He is a former member of the Union Boat Club of Boston, St. Botolph Club of Boston, and University Club of Boston, to which he belonged for about thirty years. He is a member of the Shakespeare Society of Boston, of which he is a past president, and American Clinical and Climatological Association. He is a director on the New England regional section of the Rachmaninoff Foundation, "which has for its purpose the encouragement of pianists, composers and conductors - the three lines of music in which Rachmaninoff excelled."
WILLIAM WOOD
W ILLIAM WOOD moved to France in 1912 and the Secretary lost track of him there in 1935, when mail sent to him at 6 Rue Eugene Manuel, Paris, was returned. Previously he had been with Charles D. Brown & Company in the wholesale paper busi- ness, the International Paper Company, the Slater-Jennings Com- pany, Nelson Morris & Company of Chicago, and the Central Wharf Company of Portland, Maine, of which he was treasurer from 1904 to 1911. The son of William Rufus and Isabella Pres- cott (Hammond) Wood, he was born July 24, 1873, at Portland, Maine, and prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was at Harvard from 1893 to 1895.
+ MALCOLM CARR WOODS
M ALCOLM CARR WOODS died October 5, 1938, at Marion, South Carolina. The son of John and Augusta (Moore) Woods, he was born December 29, 1874, at Darlington, South Carolina. Before coming to Harvard he attended the Marion Public School, Randolph Macon College, and Wofford College. He was with the Class only in the junior and senior years, receiving his A.B. with the Class. After a year of teaching and a few months as a newspaper reporter, he studied law with his uncle, C. A. Woods, later Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the
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Fourth Circuit, and passed the Bar examinations. He practised law, at first with his uncle and later by himself, in Marion, and during the first World War was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board for his county.
On November 26, 1902, at Marion, South Carolina, he married Sara Dozier Power, who, with their three children - John, born February 8, 1904; Malcolm Carr, Jr., born January 26, 1906; and William, born April 5, 1909 - survived him.
+ WILSON WARD WORMELLE
W ILSON WARD WORMELLE was born January 13, 1871, at Abing- ton, Massachusetts. The son of Benjamin and Lizzie Johnson (Reed) Wormelle, he came to Harvard in 1894 after a year at Brown University and specialized in economics and history with the intention of taking up law and teaching. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Old South Historical Society, in which he had won two prizes. He died at Brighton, Massachu- setts, on March 6, 1897.
+ MOSES HANNIBAL WRIGHT
M OSES HANNIBAL WRIGHT died June 8, 1906. The son of Moses Hannibal and Sarah McLean (Sehon) Wright, he was born September 6, 1872, at Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended the Male High School. He entered Harvard in 1891 with the Class of 1895, but in 1893 ill health forced him to withdraw. When he re-entered in 1895 he became associated with our Class. He received an A.B., cum laude, in 1897 and spent the following year in the Lawrence Scientific School, taking an S.B., magna cum laude, in 1898. During the summer session of that year he was assistant to Professor W. M. Davis and later he assisted Mr. D. L. Turner in the Harvard Surveying Camp on Martha's Vineyard. In 1899 he was civil engineer for the Tennessee Phosphate Com- pany and assistant engineer for the Louisville & Nashville Termi- nal Company. At the time of the Second Report he was road-
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