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Surveyor, real estate, probate prac- tice; b., Marlow, N. H., July 30, 1852; s. John Q. and Cynthia (Gould) Jones; seventh in line from Hugh Jones, Salem, Mass., 1635-1690 (his father, John Q. Jones, was a leading citizen of his town and county for many years); ed. Marlow and Mont Vernon acad- emies and Dartmouth College, 1874;
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resided in Marlow until 1911, following the business of a civil engineer, and taking an active part in public affairs and in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the community; with his father gave Jones Hall to the town, and after the disastrous fire of 1916, gave the ladies of the M. E. Church a
new chapel building; Christian; Demo- crat; deeply interested in education, having served for a time as principal of Marlow Academy, and as superintend- ent of schools for the town, and was instrumental in organizing the first county school board in the state; served for more than thirty years in different town offices in Marlow, and represented the town in the legislature of 1911, in which year he removed to Keene, though still holding extensive real estate interests in his old home town. In Keene he has conducted an extensive probate business in addition to real estate, of which he has the care and management of large amounts. He is a trustee and auditor of Cheshire County Savings Bank, director of
Ashuelot National Bank, and an auditor of Cheshire County; m., Nov. 24, 1880, Sarah C. Boynton, Grafton, Vt. Residence, Keene, N. H.
Cavanaugh, John Bernard
Lawyer; b. June 19, 1871; s. Thomas J. and Mary A. (Gallagher) Cava- naugh; ed. Park St. grammar school, Manchester high school, 1889, Boston University Law School; studied law in the offices of Drury & Peaslee and George W. Prescott of Manchester and admitted to the bar and com- menced practice in. 1897; Catholic; Republican; member, N. H. house of representatives, 1899, 1901, 1903; N. H. senate, 1905; constitutional convention, 1912, 1918; executive
council, 1915-16; Manchester board of health, 1911-14; member, Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hiber- nians, Catholic Order of Foresters, Sons of Veterans, Manchester His- torical Soc .; m., Margaret E. McDer- mott, Aug. 15, 1906. Residence, Man- chester, N. H.
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Chapman, Charles E.
Educator; b., Franklin, N. H., June 3, 1880; s. Frank H. and Ella Frances (James) Chapman; ed. Franklin high school, Peekskill, N. Y., Military Academy, Andover Academy, 1898, Princeton Univ., Tufts College, A.B., 1902, Harvard, LL.B., 1905, Univ. of California, A.M., 1909, Ph.D., 1915, Univ. of Seville, Spain (in residence) 1913; teacher of History in the Univ. of California; representative of the state and Univ. of California at the second Serra Centenary in Petra, Majorca, 1913; representative of the Univ. of California at the Congress of Bibli- ography and History, Buenos Aires Argentina, 1916, and member of permanent committee of said Congress. Author of "The Founding of Spanish California," "A History of Spain," "Catalogue of Materials in the Ar- chivo General de Indias on the History of the Pacific Coast and the American Southwest," "A Californian in South America,"' and numerous historical articles; editor of the Spanish Ameri- can Historical Review; member Cali- fornia Historical Survey Commission, American Historical Ass'n; m., June 22, 1907, Elizabeth A. Russell, Win- chester, Mass .; one son, Seville Dudley Chapman. Residence, Berkeley, Cal.
Stacy, Thomas Hobbs
Clergyman; b., North Berwick, Me., July 26, 1850; s. Daniel Lowe and Elizabeth Ann (Hobbs) Stacy; ed. West Lebanon (Me.) Academy, pri- vate tutor, Bates College, A.B., 1876; B.D. (Cobb Divinity School) 1879; D.D., 1906. Taught in Bates College three years, in Cobb Divinity School one year; ordained to the Free Baptist ministry, Sept. 17, 1879; pastor, Fair- port, N. Y., 1879-82; Lawrence, Mass., 1882-6; Auburn, Me., 1886-93; Saco, Me., 1893-1902; Concord, N. H., since Feb., 1902 .. Member, F. B. General Conference ten times; cor- responding secretary, F. B. Foreign Miss. Soc., 1882-94; made tour of the world as Mission Secretary, 1890-1; member, General Conference Board,
since 1904-, executive committee, since 1905 (recording secretary both bodies); member, committee of twelve on con- ference with other Christian people, 1905-10 (now committee of five and secretary of same); president, Minis- ters' Conference, Maine F. B. Ass'n, 1894-1902; trustee, Bates College; trustee, New Hampton Lit. Inst .; president, N. H. Sunday School Ass'n, 1903-4 (since member executive com- mittee); member, board of managers,
American Bap. Foreign Miss. Soc., 1911 -; member, Federal Council, Churches of Christ in America; secre- tary, N. H. Interdenominational Com- mission, 1906 -. +BK. Author, "In the Path of Light Around the World," 1895; "Conditions of Spiritual Life," 1901; "Life of O. R. Bacheler, M.D., D.D., Fifty-three Years Missionary to India," 1904; "Wayside Garniture," 1912; "Historical Sketch, Bengal Mis- sion," 1912, and many articles, prose and poetry; m., 1st, Aug. 27, 1879, Clara I. Farnham, Kennebunk, Me., d. March 20, 1884; 2d, Dec. 26, 1891,
MRS. HARRIET G. BURLINGAME
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Leonora M. Harlow, Auburn, Me .; children, Anne Clarabel, b. Jan. 5, 1881 (Mrs. Frank I. Spooner, Salt Lake City); Elizabeth May, b. March 14, 1894. Residence, Concord, N. H.
Burlingame, Harriet Grace Boyd
(Mrs. William Burlingame); club- woman; b., Providence, R. I., Sept. 4, 1852; dau. Colville Dana and Harriet M. (Campbell) Boyd; descendant of Chad Brown, Gregory Dexter, Thomas Angell and Obadiah Holmes, founders of Rhode Island; ed. Swansea, Mass .. and Providence, R. I., schools; Con- gregationalist, member First Church in Exeter; member and past president, Exeter Woman's Club; president, N. H. Federation Women's Clubs, 1910-11; member Colonial Dames; Eastern Star (Grand Matron, 1907); president, N. H. Cent Institution and Home Missionary Union-the oldest woman's organization in the United States; member, Exeter Current Events Club; treasurer, Exeter Relief Soc .; director, Children's Aid Ass'n; Red Cross; chairman, local committee, Woman's Section, Council of National Defense; m. William Burlingame, Aug. 22, 1877; children (1) Harold Dana, b. June 23, 1879 (ed. Phillips Exeter and Worces- ter, Mass., academies), m. Mary Henderson, Lynn, Mass .; with Stand- ard Steel Car Co., Butler, Pa .; (2) Amy, b. April 15, 1884 (Vassar, 1906) ; m. 1914 William J. E. Sander, lawyer of Boston; (3) Robert Anson, b. Feb. 24, 1886 (Phillips Exeter, 1904, Lehigh. Univ., 1908), m., 1911, Estelle Wal- bert, So. Bethlehem, Pa .; (4) Ella Wins- low, b. Nov. 22, 1887 (Simmons Col- lege), m., 1910, Henry Lewis, banker of Portland, Me. Residence, Exeter, N. H.
Hough, Arthur Hugh
Banker; b., Woodstock, Vt., Aug. 28, 1882; s. Rev. Alfred James and Celia Elizabeth (Harrington) Hough; ed. public schools; Congregationalist; Independent; treasurer, People's Trust Co., Lebanon, N. H. (previously for twelve years teller, First National
Bank, White River Jct., Vt.); treas- urer, town of Lebanon; president, Lebanon chamber of commerce; vice- president, Trust Co. Section, Amer- ican Bankers' Ass'n; director, Grafton County Electric Light and Power Co .;: member, A. F. & A. M., P. B. O. E., Sunset Club; located in Lebanon in 1913 and organized the People's Trust. Co .- the first Trust Co. charter granted
in sixteen years; m., Oct. 20, 1899,. Elizabeth Irene Edson; children,. Katherine Celia, b. Jan. 22, 1911; Alfred George, b. Jan. 22, 1913. Resi- dence, Lebanon, N. H.
Weeks, John W.
Banker, U. S. senator; b., Lancaster, N. H., April 11, 1860; s. William D. and Mary Helen (Fowler) Weeks; ed. Lancaster schools and U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., graduating in 1881; midshipman in U. S. Navy two years, resigning in 1883, to take up the profession of civil engineer; in 1885 became a member of the firm of Horn- blower & Weeks, bankers and brokers,
HON. JOHN W. WEEKS
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Boston, Mass., continuing till 1913; served ten years as a member of the Mass. Naval Brigade, the last six years as commander; served in the volunteer navy during the Spanish American War, as commander of the Second Division, U. S. Auxiliary Naval Force on the Atlantic coast; Uni- tarian; Republican; member, Newton, Mass., board of aldermen, 1900-02; mayor of Newton, 1903-4; member, U. S. house of representatives, 1905-13; U. S. senator from Massachusetts, 1913 -; member, Senate Committee on Banking and Currency and active in the perfecting of the Banking and Currency Act of 1914, to which he gave his support; has been specially active in forest preservation legislation and the establishment of the White Mountain Reserve: other Senate Com- mittees, of which he is a member, are Coast Defenses, Irrigation and Rec- lamation, Library, Military Affairs, Post Offices and Post Roads, and Pub- lic Health and National Quarantine; member, Board of Visitors, U. S. Naval Academy, 1896; chairman, Mass. Republican state convention, 1895; has served as president of the Newton- ville, Mass., Trust Co., and vice-presi- dent, First National Bank of Boston; member, Boston Chamber of Com- merce, University Club, Army and Navy Club, Chevy Chase Club, Metro- politan Club, Exchange Club, Country Club of Brookline, and Societies of the Sons of the Revolution, War of 1812, Spanish American War, Cincinnati and Military Order of Foreign Wars; m., Oct. 17, 1885, Martha A. Sinclair (dau. Hon. John G. Sinclair, Bethle- hem, N. H.); children, Katharine Sinclair, b. Aug. 19, 1889, (Mrs. John W. Davidge); Charles Sinclair, b. June 16, 1892 (Harvard, 1914), 1st Lieut. U. S. Field Artillery, in service in France. Residence, West Newton, Mass .; summer home, Lancaster, N. H.
Woodworth, Edward Knowlton
Lawyer; b., Concord, N. H., Aug. 25, 1875; s. Albert Bingham and Mary (Parker) Woodworth (see page 53); ed.
Concord High School, 1893, Dart- mouth College, B.L., 1897, Harvard Law School, LL.B. cum laude, 1900; member of firm, Streeter, Demond, Woodworth and Sulloway; counsel, vice-president and secretary of The Parker-Young Co .; Episcopalian; Re- publican; member, Concord Common Council, 1907-10 (president, 1909-10); vice-president, Dartmouth Alumni Ass'n; trustee, St. Mary's School; director and member, investment com-
mittee, N. H. Savings Bank; member, standing committee, N. H. Diocese of the P. E. church, vestryman of St. Paul's church; president, Concord Oratorio Society; trustee, Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital; member, N. H. Historical Soc., N. H. S. A. R., Wonolancet, Golf, Passaconaway and Bow Brook Tennis clubs; Knight Tem- plar; m., Clara Farwell Holt of Clare- mont, N. H., June 25, 1903, d. July 20, 1917; children, Constance, b. May 10, 1906; Elizabeth, b. April 9, 1909; Margaret, b. Aug. 5, 1912; Mary, b. July 19, 1917; Residence, Concord, N. H.
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Hutchins, Harry Burns
Educator, president of the University of Michigan; b., Lisbon, N. H., April 8, 1847; s. Carlton B. and Nancy Walker (Merrill) Hutchins; ed. Ver- mont Conference Sem., Newbury, Vt., Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, Conn. (leaving on account of ill health); special study in anatomy, physiology and surgery at Vermont Univ. and Dartmouth College; Univ. of Michigan, Ph.B., 1871 (class orator and commence-
ment speaker); supervisor of schools, Owosso, Mich., 1871-2; instructor in history and rhetoric, Univ of Mich., 1872-3; asst. professor, 1873-5; in prac- tice of law, with Thomas M. Crocker, at Mt. Clemens and Detroit, Mich., 1875-83; Jay professor of Law, Univ. of Mich. 1884-7; called to Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N. Y., to organize a law department, and continued at its head until 1895, when it had become one of the leading law schools of the coun- try; recalled to Ann Arbor as dean of the law department of Michigan Univ. in 1895, then the largest insti-
tution of its class in the Union; acting president of the University during absence of President Angell in Turkey, 1897-8, and again in'1909-10; president since June, 1910; under appointment of the supreme court of Michigan, he revised and annotated several volumes of the supreme court reports; he also published in 1894 an American edition of "Williams on Real Property" revised, annotated, and adapted to American Jurisdictions, and "Hutchins's Equity Cases" in 1900. In addition to his professional work he has given numerous addresses before educational and other learned bodies, including the Charter Day Address at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Univ. of California, and con- tributed a biography of the late Judge Thomas M. Cooley to the "Great American Lawyers." Member, New York Bar Ass'n, American Historical Ass'n, and the Mich. Political Science Ass'n. He received the degree of LL.D. from the Univ. of Wisconsin in 1897 and the same degree has been conferred upon him by Wesleyan Univ., Notre Dame Univ., and the Univ. of California; m., Dec. 26, 1872, Mary Louise, daughter of Thomas M. Crocker, Mt. Clemens, Mich .; one son, Harry Crocker, b. Aug. 14, 1880 (Uni- versity of Mich. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1903), civil engineer in New York City till Jan., 1918, when called into public service as civil engi- neer in Quartermaster General's De- partment, Washington, D. C. Resi- dence, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Folsom, William Odlin
Insurance and surveying; b., Henni- ker, N. H., Sept. 28, 1838 (in same house in which Edna Dean Proctor was born); s. John O. and Mary (Fletcher) Folsom; ed. public schools and Henniker Academy; reared to farm life, and in 1861 had charge of Horace Greeley's farm at Chappaqua, N. Y .; taught school thirteen winters; learned the trade of a stonecutter and followed the same ten years; was in trade in Henniker, 1869-71; traveled
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in the West in 1872; in trade at Temple- ton, Mass., from Nov., 1872 till fall of 1875, when he opened a general store in Henniker, continuing in busi- ness twenty years; Universalist; Demo- crat; selectman in Henniker, 1863; reg- ister of deeds for Merrimack County, 1867-8; postmaster of Henniker, 1893- 7; member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1907-8; justice of the peace for fifty years; has been engaged in fire insurance since 1876, and has also done most of the surveying and civil engi- neering in town in that time; promi- nent in Odd Fellowship, being a char- ter member of Crescent Lodge of Henniker, instituted in 1876 and previously initiated in Rumford Lodge of Concord; was grand master of the N. H. Grand Lodge in 1887, and grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge in 1888 and 1889; member, A. F. & A. M., having passed the chairs in Aurora Lodge and Woods Chapter of Henniker; m. 1st, in 1861, Carrie F. Foster of Henniker, d. 1866; 2d, in 1869, Julia F. Whitney, also of Henniker; one daughter, Carrie E., b. Feb., 1873 (Mrs. Edward K. Cogs- well). Residence, Henniker, N. H.
Abbot, Stanley Harris
Farmer, land surveyor; b., Wilton, N. H., Oct. 20, 1863; s. Harris and Caroline Ann (Greeley) Abbot; ed. public schools and Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., 1882; resides on farm where his grandfather and great uncle, a hundred years ago, originated and developed the potato starch pro- cess; specially interested in forestry and music; member or director of local church choir for more than thirty years; Congregationalist; Republican; member, school board, 1906-15; member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1917-18, serving on agricultural committee; member, N. H. Vocational Education Commission, 1917 -; mem- ber and director, N. E. Milk Producers Union (president, 1905-14); Patrons of Husbandry; m., Nov. 15, 1894, Mary Kimball, Lowell, Mass .; children, Leonard Harris, b. Sept. 19, 1895
(Clark College and Worcester Poly- technic Inst., leaving in junior year to accept position in Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.); Marion Kimball, b. March 5, 1898 (grad. Wilton high school, now in Keene Normal school); Howard Stanley, b. Jan. 7, 1900 (Wilton high school, now in N. H. College, Durham); Edith Hale, b. Nov. 7, 1901; Sidney Greeley,
b. Aug. 19, 1903; Charles Mack, b. March 15, 1905; Helen, b. July 10, 1906 (the last four are now students in the Wilton high school). Residence, Wilton, N. H.
Chase, Russell MacMurphy
(Mrs. Charles B. Chase); musician, b., Fond du Lac, Wis., Sept. 29, 1871; dau. Rev. Jesse Gibson and Lucy Stuart (James) MacMurphy; ed., Home School, Racine, Wis., New Eng- land Conservatory of Music (piano), 1892, Berlin, Germany, 1895-6; head of Piano Department, St. Mary's College, Dallas, Tex., 1892-5, 1896-7; West Virginia University, 1897-1903;
LOREN D. TOWLE
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piano instructor, University of Wis- consin, 1903-4, 1907; Wheaton Col- lege, Wheaton, Ill., 1906-11; president, N. H. Federation of Music Clubs, 1915- 18; chairman, music committee, N. H. Federation of Women's Clubs, 1916- 18 (member since 1912); director, MacDowell Club School of Music, 1912-18; director, MacDowell clubs, Wheaton College and Derry, N. H., and Derry, N. H., Woman's Club, 1914-17; has given piano and lecture recitals in various states from coast to coast during the last twenty-five years; Episcopalian; m. Charles Burnside Chase, Derry, Sept. 2, 1911. Resi- dence, Derry, N. H.
Towle, Loren Delbert
Real estate operator; b., Newport, N. H., March 25, 1874; s. George H. and Mary A. (Goward) Towle; ed. public schools, Newport high school, 1892; Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1893; engaged in real estate business in Boston in April, 1894, and has since continued; Congre- gationalist; Republican; member, New- ton, Mass., board of aldermen, 1910- 11; director, International Trust Co .; trustee, Newton Savings Bank, Newton Hospital; member, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston Real Estate Exchange, Mass. Horticultural Soc., Bostonian Soc., Boston City Club, Twentieth Century Club, Braeburn Country Club, Newton, Common- wealth Country Club, Newton Golf Club (president), Hunnewell Club, Newton Improvement Ass'n (presi- dent, 1911); member and deacon Eliot Congregational Church, Newton; trustee and director, Newton Y. M. C. A .; director, American Congrega- tional House Ass'n; member, A. F. & A. M., Dalhousie Lodge, Newton (life member), Newton Chapter, R. A., Gethsemane Commandery, K. T. Mr. Towle has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of his native town, and, on June 24, 1916, made a gift of $75,000 for the erection therein of a modern high school building. m., June 28, 1899, Helen M. Leland; children,
Evelene M., b. March 18, 1902, Char- lotte F., b. May 18, 1906. Residence, 215 Franklin St., Newton, Mass.
Slayton, William Harvey
Superintendent of schools; b., Leb- anon, N. H., March 17, 1878; s. George W. and Caroline (Thomas) Slayton; ed. Lebanon high school, 1897, Dart- mouth College, 1904 (on editorial staff of The Dartmouth in college); superintendent of schools in Rochester,
1905-07; Franklin, 1907-13; Claremont, 1913-18; Portsmouth, 1918 -; Congre- gationalist; Republican; member, Chi Phi fraternity; N. H. State Teachers' Ass'n (president, 1914); N. H. School- masters' Club (president, 1915); N. H. Educational Council; instructor in English, Keene summer school, 1915; Institute lecturer for state department of Public Instruction; m. July 19, 1905, Marion B. Dewey, Montpelier, Vt., children, Rachel Dewey, b. Feb. 16, 1909; Norman Thomas, b. July 16, 1910; Marion, b. Oct. 11, 1912. Resi- dence, Portsmouth, N. H.
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Flint, William Willard
Lawyer, registrar; b., Colebrook, N. H., Aug. 16, 1850; s. Lyman Thomas and Hannah Wilmarth (Wil- lard) Flint; ed. public schools of Con- cord-high school, 1865, Dartmouth College, 1871, Columbian University Law School, Washington, D. C., 1874; Episcopalian (lay reader); Republi- can; clerk in U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington, 1871-5; in law practice at Clinton, Mass., for a short time, but
returned to Concord on account of his father's death in 1876; became con- nected with St. Paul's School in 1878, and has been its registrar for many years, still continuing; member, Con- cord board of education, 1876-86; trustee, Concord public library, since 1885; member, N. H. house of repre-
sentatives, 1893-4, N. H. constitu- tional convention, 1912; trustee and treasurer, Orphans' Home, Concord; member, N. H. Soc. Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution, N. H. Historical Soc .; corresponding member, Nuttall Ornithogical Club, Cambridge, Mass .;
formerly a voluntary observer of the Weather Bureau, and furnished for the History of Concord a chapter com- piled from weather records of nearly fifty years; m., 1st, Jan. 4, 1888, Caroline Chapman, Sackville, N. B., d. Dec. 30, 1893; 2d, July 23, 1901, Susan Eliza Cogswell, also of Sackville; one son, William Willard Flint, Jr. (see next sketch). Residence, Concord, N. H.
Flint, William Willard, Jr.
Student, war-worker; b., Concord, N. H., July 7, 1892; s. William Willard and Caroline (Chapman) Flint; ed. St. Paul's School, Concord, 1908, Dartmouth College, A.B. 1912; Prince- ton University, A.M .; at St. Paul's he. won the Ferguson Scholarship; in his sophomore year, at Dartmouth he took the leading part in "Oedipus Tyran- nus," the Greek play given by the classical students of the college; he also won several scholarship prizes, was editor of the Dartmouth Literary Magazine and at graduation was poet and valedictorian of his class. He continued classical study in the grad- uate school at Princeton, receiving his A.M., and in December, 1913, was awarded the Rhodes scholarship from New Hampshire in Oxford University, England, where, in Balliol College, for three years from the autumn of 1914, he was student of the classics and philosophy, receiving the degree of A.B. Granted leave of absence in the winter of 1914-15, he assisted in the work of the Belgian Relief Commission, within the German lines. With other Rhodes men he had the advantage of training in the Officers' Training Corps, and early in 1918 was given a responsi- ble position in the Quartermaster's De- partment, London, at Headquarters of American troops in England.
Drury, Samuel Smith
Clergyman; b., Bristol, R. I., 1878; s. Samuel Smith (M.D.) and Hannah Wheeler (Goodwin) Drury, both de- ceased; ed. Harvard, A.B., 1901, Berke- ley Divinity School, S.T.B., 1910,
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Trinity, L.H.D., 1910, Dartmouth, D.D., 1917; Episcopalian, deacon, 1905; priest, 1908; chaplain to Bishop Brent, Philippine Islands, 1905-7; rector, Calvary Church, Providence, R. I., 1908; St. Stephen's Church, Bos- ton, 1908-10; vice-rector, 1910-11, rec- tor, 1911- St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H .; author, "Christian Increase," 1910; m., Apr. 18, 1911, Cornelia Froth- ingham Wolcott, daughter of Gov. Roger and Edith (Prescott) Wolcott (great granddaughter, William H. Pres- cott, the historian) of Massachusetts; children, Samuel Smith Drury, Jr., Roger Wolcott and Edith Prescott. Residence, Concord, N. H.
Hale, William Gardner
University professor; b., Savannah, Ga., Feb. 9, 1849; s. William Bradford Hale of Savannah and Upton, Mass., and Elizabeth (Jewett) Hale of Peter- borough, N. H. His boyhood was mostly spent in Peterborough, and it is to this town that he has always felt himself to belong. Graduated at Phillips Exeter Academy, 1866, Har- vard College, 1870; appointed Tutor in Latin at Harvard, 1874, and served there, with a year of absence at the Universities of Leipzig and Goettingen, until 1880; professor of Latin at Cornell University, 1880; head of the Latin department at the University of Chicago since 1892; first chairman, 1895-9, and first director, 1895-6, of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome; received the degree of LL.D. from Union and Princeton universities in this country, and from St. Andrews and Aberdeen in Scotland; member of various philological asso- ciations in America and England, and of the Archaeological Institute of Berlin, Rome, and Athens; associate editor of several philological journals in America and England; member of the advisory board of the Loeb Classi- cal Library. While Mr. Hale holds that the preeminent value of classical studies lies in their power to develop the literary sense, his own published work has been mainly on the linguistic
side, and, in particular, in the field of syntax. Nor has it been confined to Greek and Latin. He has worked and published in the syntax of the Romance languages, especially French, Spanish and Italian, and the syntax of English and German. He is chairman of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Nomenclature commissioned by the National Education Ass'n, the Modern Language Ass'n, and the American Philological Ass'n, to prepare a re-
formed terminology for use in the schools of the United States. The results are being rapidly incorporated into our school grammars, especially of English. Mr. Hale, though brought up a Republican, is independent in politics. He worked for the first election of Grover Cleveland, opposed the Philippine War, and made the first campaign of publication (begin- ning in the N. Y. Times, Sept. 5, 1914) in favor of the participation of America in the war to save civiliza- tion, democracy, and herself, and to establish a world-court with power
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