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Blakemore married Priscilla Endicott Alden on June 26, 1906, at Newton, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Priscilla Alden (Mrs. Boisvert), was born October 16, 1922. There is one grandchild, "brighter than her grandfather ever was."
During World War I, Blakemore served in the State Guard and re-enlisted for service during the Police Strike. Mrs. Blakemore worked in the Women's Auxiliary, Automobile Division.
"I have held various church offices," Blakemore writes. "I was an alderman in Newton for six years and served as president of the Board for two years. I have written various law books, in which I am afraid my classmates are not interested. The only learned society of which I am a member is the Eight O'clock Club of Newton, which is a talking and eating society whose members are all my intellectual superiors, or think they are. I belong to the Boston, Middlesex, and State Bar Associations, and my clubs are the Down Town and Oakley Country Clubs."
CORNELIUS NEWTON BLISS
B' LISS, the son of Cornelius Newton and Elizabeth Mary (Plum- er) Bliss, was born April 13, 1874, at New York City. He prepared at Cutler's School in New York City. In addition to his
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A.B., received with our Class, he holds an LL.D. from New York University, conferred in 1937. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Institute of 1770, D.K.E., Signet, and Fly Club, and was vice-president of the Hasty Pudding Club.
He married Zaidee Cobb, April 26, 1906, at Washington, D. C. Their children are Elizabeth (Mrs. Parkinson), born April 25, 1907; Cornelius Newton, Jr., born March 29, 1910; and Anthony Addison, born April 19, 1913. There are seven grandchildren. Bliss's sons also attended Harvard: Cornelius, Jr., is a member of the Class of 1933, and Anthony was graduated in 1936.
During the first World War, Bliss was appointed by President Wilson as a member of the War Council of the American National Red Cross, and served in this country and overseas. In World War II, he was chairman of the War Advisory Committee of the American National Red Cross and for five months acting chairman of the Central Committee. Mrs. Bliss served on various committees in the Red Cross. Cornelius, Jr., was a captain in the Army Air Forces, and Anthony served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve. Bliss's daughter also worked for the Red Cross.
From 1897 until he retired in 1937 Bliss was a member of the firm of Bliss, Fabyan & Company and served as chairman of the Board.
He served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee for the Hughes Presidential Campaign in 1916; chairman of the Republican State Committee; a member of the New York State Reorganization Committee; and president of the New York Asso- ciation for Improving the Condition of the Poor from 1913 to 1934. He was honorary vice-president of the Community Service Society, and was appointed by Mayor Walker to serve as chairman of the Emergency Work Relief Committee from 1930 to 1932. In 1929 he was appointed by Governor Roosevelt to serve on the New York Committee on Old Age Security. In 1928 he served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of Long Island, and from 1920 to 1929 he was vice-president of the New York City Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been a member since 1899. Since 1909 he has been governor of the Society of the New York Hospital.
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In 1919 he served on the American Friends Service Commit- tee and Belgium Relief Committee. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Hospital and Ambulance in Russia in 1916, and has served as director of the Army Relief Society since 1900. In 1923 and 1924 he was treasurer of the American Peace Award. He was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to serve as trustee of the National Founda- tion for Infantile Paralysis, from which he has since resigned.
He has been a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1931, of the Metropolitan Opera Association, Incorporated, since 1931, and for many years served as chairman of its Board of Di- rectors. From 1914 to 1929 he was director of the Associated Dry Goods Corporation. In 1914 he was president of the Associated Merchants and United Dry Goods, but has since resigned both positions.
He has served as director of the Mills and Gibbs Corporation; several New England cotton mills; Bank of America, from 1909 to 1922; Bankers Trust Company, since 1916; Central Union Trust Company, from 1912 to 1917; Fifth Avenue Bank, from 1910 to 1930; Fourth National Bank, from 1911 to 1915; Mechanics and Metals National Bank, from 1915 to 1916; Atlantic Mutual In- surance Company; City of New York Insurance Company; Home Insurance Company, from 1912 to 1930; New York Life Insurance Company, since 1912; Radio Corporation of America and sub- sidiary companies, including the National Broadcasting Company, from 1927 to 1942; New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, from 1928 to 1933; New York Westchester & Boston Railroad Com- pany, from 1930 to 1933; and Southern Pacific Company, from 1913 to 1915. From 1911 to 1940, he was trustee of the United States Trust Company of New York.
"I retired from active business in 1937," Bliss writes, "but since that time I have maintained an interest in several business or- ganizations and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metro- politan Opera Association, Incorporated, and the Society of the New York Hospital."
His clubs include the Harvard Clubs of New York, Boston, and Long Island, Century Association of New York, University
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Club of New York, the Pilgrims, Turf and Field Club, Racquet & Tennis Club, and Jekyl Island Club.
CHARLES ROWELL BLOOD
B LOOD, the son of Samuel Lewellyn and Imogene (Manning) Blood, was born April 18, 1872, at Chicago. He prepared for college at the Lowell High School in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. in 1913 as of 1897. He attended the Harvard Divinity School for one year as a special student and was graduated from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1900. Since that year he has been in the active Congregational ministry.
He married Annie Crombie Beard, April 2, 1902 at Rantoul, Illinois. She died February 8, 1920, at Rantoul. He married Elinor Bates, May 9, 1921. Her death occurred November 27, 1923. His children are: Charles Beard, born November 6, 1912; Robert Blood-Arner, born August 3, 1922; and Fredric Blood- Arner, born November 25, 1923. There are two grandchildren.
In World War I, Blood and his wife were both engaged in social work. During the second World War, Robert served with the Engineers, U.S. Naval Reserve. Fredric was in the Air Force as a gunner on a B-29.
Blood writes that he organized the first Boy Scout troop in Illinois. He has served as minister, mayor, and justice of the peace in Rantoul, Illinois.
* SCHUYLER COLFAX BLOSS
S CHUYLER COLFAX BLOSS died suddenly in Winfield, Kansas, on November 29, 1945. He was born at Salem, Indiana, on Oc- tober 7, 1869, the son of Isaac Scott and Jane (McKnight) Bloss. He prepared for college at the High School in Clay Center, Kansas, and received an A.B. at the University of Kansas in 1894. He was with our Class only during our senior year, receiving an additional A.B. degree in 1897.
For eight years he was principal of the Winfield, Kansas,
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High School, and during that time studied law. He was admitted to the Bar in 1914, thereafter practising law in Indiana and Okla- homa. He was elected to the Kansas Legislature in 1929, and in 1935 became Speaker of the House.
In 1899, at Arkansas City, Kansas, he married Lillian Stewart, who with their son, Stewart Scott Bloss, born August 10, 1900, survived him.
Probably few members of the Class recall Bloss because of his short stay with us, but the following chronicle of his life and accomplishments as it appeared in the Topeka Journal is worth recording:
"Communities seldom produce such men as Judge Bloss. Yet he grew and developed in a small Kansas town that was noted for its men of talent and prominence. And with all of them Judge Bloss had intimate personal contact. He was a law partner of Judge Buckman when he won the house speakership over Robert Stone as a feature of the power display of the Stubbs administra- tion. He was associated with Judge A. M. Jackson, a Democrat of note and talent, and he tried many bitter law suits with and against the colorful William P. Hackney, was an adviser of Ed Greer in the days when newspapering was no snap. He was asso- ciated with James McDermott in the practice of law and was a legal godfather to the illustrious George T. McDermott.
"That is a lifetime accomplishment under any normal man's yardstick. But not Judge Bloss. He fought for municipal owner- ship of the local utilities, put his home town on a pay-as-you-go basis, came to the legislature, was quick to be recognized as the legal star of the house, was chairman of the judiciary committee, leader in every major battle on the floor, became speaker as a natural right. He drafted the articles of impeachment against state officials charged with corruption in connection with the Finney bond scandal. He helped delve into the Finney scandal itself and was on the side lines preparing evidence for lawyers who pre- sented the case to the trial court and jury.
"As state pardon and parole officer under Governor Schoeppel, the able jurist displayed uncanny judgment in his appraisal of clemency pleas. He recommended approval of court decisions
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ordering capital punishment in Kansas for the first time in seventy- five years. So thorough was the case Judge Bloss presented that Governor Schoeppel's course was received almost without a single dissent. It was another display of courage, integrity and under- standing.
"Few men have left a more indelible mark on state development than did Judge Bloss. His was an understanding of the principles of sound law, human weakness and a devotion to good govern- ment building that has been attained by few men in this state."
+ MONTGOMERY DUNCAN BOAL
M ONTGOMERY DUNCAN BOAL was born October 19, 1872, at Iowa City, Iowa. The son of George Jaque and Margaret (But- tolph) Boal, he attended the Browne and Nichols School before coming to Harvard. He was in the College as a special student for three years, but the sudden death of his father prevented his com- pleting the work for a degree. He devoted himself to administer- ing the complicated affairs of his father's estate, a task which his ability enabled him to accomplish with great success. His death occurred at Denver, Colorado, on November 9, 1898, and was a very real loss to the Class, as well as to the wide circle of friends which his winning personality had brought him.
CLAUDE KEDZIE BOETTCHER
B OETTCHER, the son of Charles and Fannie (Cowan) Boettcher, was born June 10, 1875, at Boulder, Colorado. He prepared at the Holbrook School in Ossining, New York, and was at Har- vard for three years as a special student in the Lawrence Scientific School. He first married De Allen McMurtrie, January 29, 1900, at Kansas City, Missouri. Their son, Charles, 2d, was born Sep- tember 21, 1901. There are two grandchildren. He married Edna Case, January 10, 1920, at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.
During the first World War, Boettcher was a major in the United States Army. His club memberships in Denver include the Denver Country, Denver, Cherry Hills, and Cherry Hills Saddle
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Clubs. He belongs to the Harvard, Racquet, and the Brook Clubs of New York, Everglades, Bath and Tennis, and Seminole Golf Clubs of Florida.
STANLEY MARSHALL BOLSTER
I SPENT the three years following graduation at the Harvard Law School," reports Bolster. "I received my LL.B. in 1900 and was admitted to the Bar the same year. I started practising law with my father, Solomon Alonzo Bolster, LL.B. '59, then a justice in the Roxbury District Court, and my brother, Wilfred Bolster, '88, LL.B. '91, who soon thereafter became chief justice of the Boston Municipal Court. I was appointed to the Law Department of the Metropolitan Park Commission, but in 1907 resigned to give my entire time to general practice of the law, which steadily increased and demanded my undivided attention after the death of my father. My practice soon began to drift quite largely to the settle- ments of estates and trust work, of which, as years went by, quite a volume was entrusted to my hands.
"Later on I became interested in various business enterprises, most of which, I am thankful to say, were successful and are even to this date in spite of the hectic items of the last decade.
"Quite some years ago I became associated with the late Wil- liam H. Vincent and Sydney R. Wrightington of our Class, and this association proved to be one of the happiest of my life.
"During all these years, I have been fortunate in a happy mar- ried life with Lucy Catherine Daniell, whom I married June 12, 1902, at Boston. She is the daughter of Mr. Grant Daniell of Latin textbook fame, who is remembered by most of us who were for- tunate or unfortunate (whichever way you look at it) enough to spend many years of our early life with that dead language.
"My two sons went to Harvard. Marshall Grant, who was born January 31, 1903, received his A.B. in 1924 and his LL.B. in 1927; Richard Daniell, who was born May 16, 1906, was graduated with the Class of 1928, and obtained an M.B.A. degree in 1930. My daughter, Catherine Mary, who was born June 25, 1909, went to Smith College. I have seven grandchildren (beautiful specimens ),
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including one set of twins born last February 29. I have only one grandson to date, who, unless the College becomes coeducational in future years, is the only one who can qualify for Harvard.
"My life has been quite lacking in anything spectacular or of public interest. I have held no public office nor taken any active part in politics. My war service was confined to draft-board work as government appeal agent in the first World War. Nevertheless, as I look back upon my fifty years of postgraduate life, while I am perhaps not satisfied, I am at least content that I have done some good and enjoyed a happy and reasonably prosperous life."
Bolster was born March 21, 1874, at Roxbury, Massachusetts. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Jane Gardner. He prepared at the Roxbury Latin School. After four years with our Class, he was graduated cum laude. In addition to Wilfred, who is men- tioned above, Bolster had another Harvard brother, the late Percy Gardner Bolster, who received an A.B. from Harvard in 1886 and an A.M. in 1890.
FREDERICK PEREZ BONNEY
B ONNEY did not return a questionnaire. He was in college from 1893 to 1895. He was at one time vice-president of P. R. Bon- ney's Sons, Boston clothing firm, and later was in the candy business.
He was born July 22, 1872, at Andover, Maine, the son of Perez Fish and Helena Cleuthia (Marston) Bonney, and prepared at the Cambridge Latin School. He married Josephine Alice Quick on April 13, 1901. Their children were Lena Louise, born January 18, 1902; Perez Fish, 2nd, born July 28, 1903; and George Albert, born December 13, 1904. When last heard from, Bonney had moved to Maine.
SYDNEY HOWARD BORDEN
M OST of the time," writes Borden, "I have enjoyed good health and I am glad to be alive. For several years I was a member of the Planning Board of the City of Fall River and at times as-
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sisted in public welfare work. In World War I and II, both my wife and I did Red Cross work. My wife was vice-chairman of the Fall River Red Cross Chapter of Nurses' Aides."
Borden was born March 22, 1874, at Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Isaac Hathaway and Louisa Camilla (Burne ) Borden. He prepared at the B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, and after four years with our Class, was graduated with distinction. He married Lillian Frances Crapo, June 10, 1918, at Fall River.
From 1897 to 1932, Borden was a textile manufacturer. He was retired in 1933, but in 1940 became treasurer of the Fall River Co-operative Bank, a position he retained until 1946.
+ DEWITT CLINTON BOSLER
D eWITT CLINTON BOSLER was born April 25, 1873, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of James Williamson and Helen (Betz- hoover ) Bosler, and prepared for college at the Browne and Nich- ols School. After graduating from Harvard he spent his time managing his large dairy farm at Boiling Springs, one of the best in Pennsylvania. He died December 22, 1903, at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
JOHN MASON BOUTWELL
I HAVE devoted the fifty years which have passed since gradua- tion from Harvard chiefly to my profession of economic geol- ogy," writes Boutwell. "Following graduation, I had three years of graduate study and teaching geology at Harvard. I occupied the next ten years by service on the United States Geological Survey in surveying and reporting on the geology of the ore de- posits of various mining districts in Utah, California, and Arizona. Then, on resigning from federal service, I entered upon the inde- pendent practice of applying geology to finding and developing mineral resources for private corporations, mainly in the United States, Mexico, and Peru.
"In the first World War I desired military service, but yielding to urgent official request, I devoted my professional experience to seeking and developing natural resources, such as copper and
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platinum, required for war use. Subsequently, in response to the request of the chairman of the Committee on Mineral Imports and Exports, I was arranging to go to Washington to cooperate in that work when the armistice was signed. In World War II, I was engaged as a consultant to the Metals Reserve Company in Wash- ington, D. C., for the Utah Intermountain region, carrying out a policy of securing and stock piling essential war minerals. At the same time I cooperated with the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Mines in developing deposits of war minerals.
"During World War II, my wife's services consisted of cooperat- ing, developing, and carrying out within the local U.S.O. the as- sembling of published short and serial stories for use in overseas service and local hospitals. For this work she received a citation. She also served as a knitting supervisor and day chairman of the Production Hearquarters of the Salt Lake Chapter of the Red Cross. She also received a citation for this work.
"My daughter, Mrs. Joseph B. Paul, of Washington, D. C., served in the American Red Cross Motor Corps in World War II. She received the Army and Navy 'E' for her work with blood- donor service, camp and hospital service, the equipment of day rooms for anti-aircraft patients, and Production Corps knitting and making surgical dressings. She was active in the War Finance Division of the Treasury Department in bond selling programs, and received a citation for her work. She also worked with the Daughters of the American Revolution in their Buddy Bag project, preparing hospital bags for overseas.
"Since the close of the war I have been occupied in aiding operating mining companies to obtain suitable mining ground to enable them to build up their ore reserves so seriously depleted by war requirements. The essential part played by mineral resources in bringing on the last war and in successfully waging the war, and the controlling part minerals play in industry in peace time convincingly demonstrate the great and rapidly increasing rôle of economic geology in world industry.
"During these fifty years out in the world, as one college asso- ciate after another has passed on, and the part college associations have played in our lives is borne home to us, one comes to realize
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more and more clearly the truth of Dr. Peabody's words in his baccalaureate sermon to our Class, that college friendships, unlike all other friendships, grow dearer with the passing years. Witness my feelings when a chance meeting with my undergraduate asso- ciate in mineralogy, Minot Weld, who had returned from his great work in examining and reporting on possibilities for an iron and steel industry in India, brought me together with classmates at an annual class dinner in New York; and likewise when, on my return from a long season of geological field work in the high Andes of Peru, my lifelong friend and classmate, James Dean, prevailed upon me to attend with him our annual class dinner in Boston.
"Our Class may be justly proud of the accomplishments of such classmates, of Minot Weld, for his development of mineral re- sources, and of James Dean, for his contribution toward high ethical standards in financial dealings. With the passing years one also comes to value more truly the privilege that we enjoyed of studying under such masters in their fields as Eliot, Norton, Royce, Taussig, Shaler and Wendell.
"Today, with the world looking to our country for sound leader- ship, one realizes the wisdom of President Eliot's challenging words of half a century ago, that America's most pressing call to its young men is to the field of public service. Despite current difficulties in establishing lasting world peace, the general trend clearly is upward toward improvement in human relations. What- ever one's personal views, the broadening experience through the years tends to show that no one religious sect or political party holds exclusively the right, that all religious beliefs embody some good and are helpful to some and deserve respect accordingly. In my judgment a competitive, free-enterprise system under which American industry has flourished in the past, affords our best hope for the continued advancement of American industry in the future.
"In reviewing my endeavors of the last fifty years and weighing the results attained in the scales of accomplishment, I find lasting gratification in work well done, such as gaining the objective by correctly working out difficult geology of ore deposits leading to discovery of valuable new mineral resources, counselling young men on their preparation for their life work and then following
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through by aiding them in making their start in their occupation, devising and operating a constructive program for character build- ing among young men, such as the Boy Scouts, and playing one's part as an American citizen in furthering worthy undertakings to enable them better to accomplish their beneficial services, such as educational, civic and religious activities. In short, the lasting satisfactions of life clearly are derived from the things that money will not buy, particularly from unselfish service."
Boutwell, the son of Henry Thatcher Boutwell, '66, M.D. '70, and Helen Grace Willis Boutwell, was born May 1, 1874, at St. Louis, Missouri. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and attended Amherst College for one year before entering Harvard. After two years in college, he received an A.B. degree magna cum laude in 1897, and obtained an S.B. magna cum laude the follow- ing year after two years' work in the Lawrence Scientific School. He was awarded an S.M. in 1899. As an undergraduate he was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity and attended the Unitarian Church. He was an usher at the Arlington Street Church in Boston.
He married Esther Graeme Miner, January 22, 1910, at Law- renceville, New Jersey. This marriage ended in divorce in 1916. He married Ruth Crellin, September 28, 1922, at Pleasanton, California. His daughter, Jean Miner (Mrs. Joseph Barrett Paul), was born February 2, 1911. There is one grandchild, Elva Jean Paul.
Boutwell has served as trustee of All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D. C., and of the Unitarian Church in Santa Barbara, California; vice-president of the Allied Social Service Organiza- tion, Santa Barbara; president of the Santa Barbara Men's Club; vice-president of the Salt Lake Council, and member of Council Region No. 12, and of the National Council, Boy Scouts of Amer- ica.
His publications include: "Economic Geology of the Bingham Mining District, Utah," professional paper No. 38 of the U.S. Geo- logical Survey, published in Washington, D. C., in 1908; "Geology and Ore Deposits of the Park City District, Utah," professional paper No. 77, U.S. Geological Survey, 1912; "Vanadium and Ura-
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nium in Southeast Utah," U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 260, 1905; "Copper Deposits at Bingham, Utah," published in Copper Resources of the World, XVI, international Geological Congress, Washington, D. C., 1933; Guide Book No. 17, Salt Lake Region, International Geological Congress, Washington, D. C., 1933; "Eco- nomic Geology," Presidential Address, Society of Economic Geol- ogists, Economic Geology, Volume XL, No. 7, November, 1945. He is the author of a number of private confidential reports for mining companies.
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