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CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS
The happiest days of my life are those I spend in dear old Princeton, and especially when I meet my classmates there. There is inspiration and fond memory and love in the very atmosphere that surrounds our Alma Mater. I hope to be able, some day, to do something to make her proud of me. Since our last Reunion I have been jogging along pretty much as usual, painting a few pictures and modeling a few statues each year and within the past year or two have done some work as landscape architect, designing gardens, etc. Have a farm of about four hundred acres in Lenox, Mass., and live there with my family from May till November cultivating potatoes and fine-arts. Statues (of bronze or marble) are my most profitable crop. One of them paid for the farm. Re- cently we have been suffering with a dry season.
Am president of The Lenox Garden Club and much in- terested in the preservation of the forests and of game and song birds. I hope our boys will come to see me on the farm.
COLLIS, WILLIAM E.
No report. Is engaged in farming at Chester, N. J. At- tended the Reunion.
CORNWALL, FRANCIS M.
No report. Is living in Savannah and in a recent letter ex- pressed great regret at not being able to attend the Reunion.
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CREW, HENRY
Replying to the circular note of the 29th ult., if I were an artist I would send, instead of a letter, a sketch of an old- fashioned grindstone, such as I used to have to turn when a boy, with my nose flattened against it, and ask you to accept this as my life history since our last reunion five years ago.
Replying to the two questions :
I. As to what Princeton did for me, I might answer "every- thing". And yet this is not quite true, for an experience of twenty-five years in teaching college men has convinced me that they get out of college a return which is strictly propor- tional to their investment of time and energy. If distinctions were not invidious I should like to say just who, in my opin- ion, were the most inspiring men at Princeton in our day, and having done this I should say that Princeton did for me just what these men did for me. And those generous spirits who now rise in my memory were by no manner of means con- fined to the faculty. Many of them were in our own class. Some of them were in classes just preceding ours. Two of them, I recall, were in classes just following ours.
2. As to what I am doing for Princeton-nothing finan- cially ; nor does my conscience hurt me on this score. Very little indeed in any way; only this: I have been instrumental in sending to Princeton for graduate work some of my very best students. One of these men took his doctor's degree in physics there this year, another one two years ago. This autumn the first honor man of last year's class in North- western University goes to Princeton as fellow in physics.
It is a matter of deep regret to me that I was unable to be at this last reunion. But I am playing golf with great regu- larity in the hope that I may live another five years and be there on the fortieth anniversary.
CRITCHLOW, EDWARD B.
I have little or nothing to say for myself other than to summarize what has been set down to my credit or discredit at intervals of five years during the past three decades. "What's Past is prologue." Mine are the simple annals of the poor
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EDWARD B. CRITCHLOW
WILLIAM E. COLLIS
JEREMIAH C. CROMER
lawyer. Next August will complete my twenty-ninth year of practice in this (Salt Lake) City. Here I brought my wife in 1886 from New Jersey. Here we have raised our family of seven children. There were eight, but one (Edward B., Jr.), died several years ago. Of these a daughter, the eldest, is married, and since March this year I have played, with more or less success, the part of venerable grandsire.
Three young men come next, all sons of Princeton, two of them students in my office. Next two young ladies nearly as tall as I, and lastly the youngest, named after Walter Murphy, preparing for Princeton '23.
I have no special honors to boast of, in fact no distinc- tions, save those that may be reasonably expected in the line of my profession, such as member of Legislature, Assistant U. S. Attorney, president Bar Association, etc.
My literary activity has resulted in an output of thirty volumes, an average of about one a year during my career. It would be difficult to classify them. These children of my brain certainly are not included among the best sellers, per- haps because of their highly controversial character ; they can scarcely be called scientific because of the large admixture of fiction and fancy. Some of them have been crowned as meri- torious by certain learned bodies sitting as Courts in Wash- ington and elsewhere. Others have been ignominiously con- demned and declared to be veriest piffle by these same tri- bunals. But I am not utterly cast down and shall continue to write and to print my limited editions as the needs of the hour demand.
All my travels have been constructive rather than actual. Although devoted to the Constitution, I have never followed it abroad or to any of our outlying possessions.
Next to watching Bobby Clark at a reunion, my chief amusement is, theoretically, golf ; that is to say, I have a set of sticks in the locker at the Country Club. When I grow old I'm to take up nostology. I will then take a week off and master the game. I tried it some years ago and found I was not yet old enough.
In answer to your first query, I can only say that Princeton
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taught me how little we any of us know about any sort of thing whatsoever, and taught me how to set about to learn a few things, probably none of them very much worth while.
As to whether or not I am doing anything for Princeton, the next twenty years and the next generation will tell.
CROMER, JEREMIAH C.
The story of my life is not a great one except to myself. I first saw the light of day in a pioneer home in the woods of Indiana, Middletown Henry County, Feb. 20, 1858. Here, amid the simple folk who cleared the forests, began the schools and churches, voted for Abraham Lincoln, and went to the war to prove their loyalty to country, the years of my boy- hood were spent. The years of preparation and the major part of my college training were gotten at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. My gratitude has always gone out to Princeton because she took me within her capacious fellow- ship, granting me the A.B., along with the best men she ever graduated-the Class of '82. Whig Hall honored me with a Lynde Debate position the honors of which I proceeded forth- with to turn over to George Yardley Taylor of sainted memory for the sufficient reason that he was the better man. Three years study in Yale brought me a Bachelors degree in Divinity, and threw across my path "my fate", in the person of Miss May Miner, who has presided in the Manse ever since, and is the mother of my four children, Mrs. W. C. Sage, Mary E., Ruth W., and J. Miner Cromer. I have been preacher and pastor through life, with pastorates of varying lengths in Fort Wayne, Ind., Chicago, Michigan, St. Louis, Ohio, and now in Vermilion, S. D. Have not sought in any way for degrees honorary or other kind, and have had no recognition of my work in any way. My sources of recreation are golf and farming. The good fellowship of the men in the State Uni- versity here provides the means for the golf, and a little farm left me in Indiana by my father supplies the farm dreams and the vacations in the country. My particular ambition for the immediate future is to win the local golf tournament this fall, and to see my small herd of pure bred shorthorns sur-
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pass any others in this section of Indiana. Along with these things I have still my hopes out for the coming kingdom. I am a Bull Moose for the simple reason that I do not want to belong to any party that has men in it, however great, who presume to set aside the will of the people, when that will is once expressed. Regular, or irregular, any men who do that can just "get out'. So we think in S. D. I may vote for Wilson however.
DARLINGTON, CHARLES F.
Some men are born great; some undoubtedly achieve great- ness, and others still have greatness thrust upon them. From being a member of '82 to this final class I claim membership; further than this I am afraid that my claims to fame and distinction are not well founded.
After graduating from Princeton in 1882 I entered Colum- bia Law School, and graduated with the class of '84 receiving an LL.B., and Princeton very kindly the same year gave me an A.M. I was at once admitted to the Bar of New York and have since practiced in that state until the present date.
On January 28th, 1903 I married, in New York City, Letitia Craig O'Neill, and we have two fine children, Charles Francis Darlington, Jr., who I hope will some day go to Princeton, and a daughter Caroline Craig Darlington. I certainly feel that I owe a great deal to Princeton and she does and ever will occupy a very dear place in my thoughts and affections.
DENBY, CHARLES (JR.)
"Born at Evansville, Indiana, November 14th, 1861. After graduation (Princeton, 1882) studied law at Evansville until June 1885; was then appointed Second Secretary of Legation at Peking, China. In 1893 was promoted to position of First Secretary of Legation at the same post, and acted as Chargé d'Affaires of the United States in China in 1894 and again in 1896. Was entrusted with the charge of the interests of Japan in China during the war between the two countries in 1895-96, and was received in audience by the Emperors of the two countries at Peking and Tokio after the war, and was offered
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decorations and thanks for services. Resigned from U. S. Government Service in 1897, and entered into business in North China as a limited partner in the firm of Arnhold Karberg & Co. of Berlin, London, New York, and China. In 1900, during the Boxer outbreak in China, Denby was asked by the Military Government of the Allied Powers to accept the position of Secrétaire Général of the Provisional Govern- ment which ruled over North China from July 14th, 1900, until September, 1902. On the turning over of the govern- ment to Chinese Viceroy Yuan Shih-Kai, now President of China, Denby was at once engaged as adviser to the Viceroy, which functions he performed until, on his return on leave to the United States in 1905, he was offered the position of Chief Clerk of the Department of State at Washington. In 1907 was sent as Consul-General of the United States to Shanghai, China, and was transferred in 1909 to Vienna, Austria, where he is now Consul-General of the United States.
"Denby, while in Tientsin, was Chairman of the Tientsin Land Investment Company, of the Hotung Land Company, of the Tientsin Native City Water Works Company, of the Pek- ing Electric Company, and of the East Cliff Land Company, and was a member of the British Municipal Council and of the Committee of the Tientsin Club. In Washington Denby was a member of the Board on Geographic Names and of the Board of Managers of the National Geographic Society ; in Shanghai he was Vice-President of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and President of the American University Club, the American Relief, and other societies.
"Denby was married to Martha Orr of Evansville, Indiana, in March 1896, and is the father of three sons.
"He has written sporadically on Chinese subjects for the Forum, North American, Harpers, and the daily news- papers. His studies have been chiefly government and lan- guages, Chinese, French, and German.
"Princeton did more for Charles Denby than he can do for Pinceton, a debt which he is glad to acknowledge."
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CHARLES DENBY, JR.
JOHN B. DOLAND
JOHN DUNLAP
DOLAND, JOHN BLAIR
My record since '82 has been very prosaic. I entered Co- lumbia Law School, was graduated in June 1884, and was ad- mitted to practice law in New York City the same month. In 1888, I received an appointment in the law department of the New York Customs Service. I resigned in 1893, and went into the carriage business at Wellington, Ohio.
Returned to New York City in 1899 and took up newspaper work, which I deserted to take my present position in the New York Register's Office in 1905. I was married in Feb- ruary 1892, and have one daughter, who is a member of the Junior class at Oberlin College.
DUNLAP, JOHN.
Nothing new since last record was published. I have been practising medicine in Seattle for the past five years.
DUNNING, HENRY W.
The work of a lawyer, with its incidents, has been my occu- pation. I have been fortunte enough to be kept busy with sufficient success to provide a comfortable living for my family and a little in addition.
The family includes the best wife in the world and two of the finest daughters ever born.
Princeton gave me the "Princeton Spirit"; to add more is superfluous except that I am the debtor to that spirit to the extent of never being able to square the account.
EDGAR, MORGAN
"History none, outside of the short and simple annals of the poor."
ELMENDORF, DWIGHT
No report. Is still engaged as a lecturer on travel subjects. Spends most of his time on long trips collecting material. Attended the Reunion.
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ELMER, MATTHEW K.
After graduation I entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was appointed one of the demonstrators in chemistry for the class. Graduated M.D. in 1885.
Received the appointment to St. Mary's Hospital, 1885-6, and have practiced medicine in Bridgeton, N. J. since that time.
I was U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon from 1890 to 1894, and also physician to the Bridgeton Board of Health. I am a member of the County Medical Society, the New Jersey State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. I- was married in 1901. No children.
EMMONS, HORACE H.
No report.
ERNST, EDWARD H.
It is pretty hard to answer question I. As for question II, Jack Hibben tells me, that the Cincinnati Princeton alumni kind of started his boom for the presidency. If you agree with me, then I think I have done a whole lot for "Old Nassau". Still secretary and treasurer of the Cincinnati Equi- table Fire Insurance Company.
FINE, JOHN B.
No report. Is still headmaster of the Princeton Prepara- tory School.
GABRIEL, CHARLES V.
Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York City, 1894-1895. In charge of the newly established Block-Index system, County Clerk's Office, N. Y. City, 1895-1896. Chairman 149th Street Commission, N. Y. City, 1895-1905. Now engaged in practice of profession at 38 Park Row, N. Y. City.
My son, Albert, enters Princeton Preparatory School this fall.
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DWIGHT L. ELMENDORF
MATTHEW K. ELMER
GAYLEY, HENRY B.
No report. Is engaged in the banking business in New York.
GILL, THEOPHILUS A.
No report.
GOLOKNATH, HENRY
No report. Is a Presbyterian missionary in India.
GREENE, GEORGE FRANCIS
Born in the township of North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, N. Y., June 5th, 1858. Graduated at the New York State Normal School in Albany, June, 1876.
Entered the freshman class in the College of New Jersey in September, 1878, and graduated in June, 1882.
After graduation from Princeton entered Princeton Theo- logical Seminary, September, 1882, and graduated in May, 1885. The same month was ordained to the ministry and was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Cranford, N. J., which pastorate has been since held. During the past 27 years a new house of worship has been built, and the membership of the church has been approximately quadrupled. Married, Oct. 7th, 1886, Margaret L. Greene, daughter of a prominent lawyer of Providence, R. I. Have had three children, of whom two. are living-Katherine Celia, and Thomas Casey. The latter is now 15 and is preparing for Princeton. In 1885 received the- A.M. degree from the College of New Jersey. In 1902 re- ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Prince- ton University.
Have been moderator of the Presbytery of Elizabeth, and vice-moderator of the Synod of New Jersey. Author of "The Many-Sided Paul," a book published by the Presbyterian Board of Publication in 1901, and of many pamphlets and articles for various weeklies and magazines on religious and sociological subjects ; also a history of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranford, published in 1902. For 15 years was on the staff of lecturers of the New York City Board of Educa-
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tion. Declined a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of Rondout, N. Y., in 1889. Has a place in "Who's Who in America."
Spent the summer of 1894 in Europe, and made a trip across the Continent in 1910.
Since 1909 has been a director of Princeton Theological Seminary ; and is also a director of the Board of Ministerial Relief and Sustentation of the Presbyterian Church.
Is a Free Mason, and a member of several other fraternal organizations.
What has Princeton done for me? I think it instructed me how to think accurately, and to express myself in clear Eng- lish ; it gave me a sense of responsibility for civic righteous- ness ; and it introduced me to a delightful circle of university men, and contributed to the joy of life in consequence of a life-long identity with one of the noblest educational centers in America. What have I done for Princeton? Very little in a material way; but I have helped to point young men toward Nassau Hall, and I have tried with God's help so to conduct myself that my Alma Mater would have no cause to feel ashamed of my character as a man and citizen.
GRIER, EDGAR B.
I was only with the Class during sophomore year. In the spring of 1880 I was unfortunate enough to have typhoid fever at Princeton, but I made a good recovery, and in the fall of 1880 I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied medicine, graduating in 1883. The following two years were spent in hospitals and travel, and in July 1885 I settled in Elizabeth, where I have practiced since. In 1890 I married Fanny W. Crane, and I have one boy now eighteen years old. My work has been general and I have enjoyed it.
It was a disappointment to me to have had only one year in Princeton, for I have always felt I did not know the men as I should like to have known them, and since I left I have seen but little of any of them. Probably all of them do not feel as I, but we should know each other better.
The Reunion was fine and I enjoyed it all. I only trust we may have many more.
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EDWARD H. ERNST
MORGAN EDGAR
EDGAR B. GRIER
GUERIN, THEODORE B.
No report. Has been living in the Adirondacks for several years on account of his health.
HALLOCK, GERARD B. F.
The 1912-1913 edition of Who's Who in America says the following things about your humble servant, and as that inter- esting publication is supposed to know all about a man I quote : "Gerard Benjamin Fleet Hallock, clergyman; born Holiday's Cove, Hancock Co., West Virginia, January 28th, 1856; son of Homan Benjamin and Adelia (Farnesworth) ; brother of Henry G. C. H. (q. v.) ; A.B. Princeton University, 1882 ; grad- uate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1885; post-graduate work under President McCosh, Princeton; honorary A.M., Princeton 1901; D.D., Richmond College, Richmond, Ohio, 1901 ; married Anna Catherine Cobb, of New York, May 8th, 1888. Ordained to Presbyterian ministry, 1885 ; pastor Wheat- land Church, Scottsville, N. Y., 1885-9; one of pastors of the Brick Church, Rochester, since January 1890 (one of the largest in denomination in U. S.) and superintendent of the Brick Church Sunday School (1700 members). Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Rochester; associate editor of The Ex- positor. Made extensive tour in Europe, Egypt and Holy Land in 1902. Secretary of Princeton Club of Western New York, member Sons of Veterans. Author of 'Upward Steps', 1899; 'The Model Prayer', 1900; 'Sermon Seeds', 1900; God's Whispered Secrets', 1901 ; 'Beauty in God's Word', 1902; 'The Homiletic Year', 1903; 'Journeying in the Land Where Jesus Lived', 1903; 'Growing Toward God', 1904; 'Wedding Man- ual', 1904; 'The Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Christian Life', 1906; 'Christ in the Home', 1911. Also numerous book- lets, tracts, etc., and over 600 articles in religious and secular magazines and journals. Address : 10 Livingston Park, Roches- ter, N. Y."
This is a brief, and I suppose "unvarnished tale," of my life up to date. I may add that our first child, mentioned in the Decennial Record of the class, Clarissa Cobb, died on January 29th, 1893. We have a son, Archibald Cobb Hallock, born
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June 13, 1893, who is booked to enter Princeton next year. We also have twin daughters, Marianna Cobb Hallock and Adelia Cobb Hallock, born May 11th, 1897.
I write these notes out of loyalty to the surviving members of '82; for the longer I live the more I value such accounts of classmates as I find in former reunion records. I am just a busy pastor, and the longer I live the harder I work, and the harder I work, the more I love it. I have preached 1947 sermons or addresses, not including any at funerals. I have conducted 1124 funerals, and have married 658 couples.
What did Princeton do for me? Too much to be told. I value my college life more every day. No man can know what he misses when he fails to go to college. Hail Alma Mater! And hail Jack Hibben, our popular classmate presi- dent !
What am I doing for Princeton? First, sending my only son. (I wish I had ten to send). But I send him not so much thinking that an honor to Princeton, but knowing the great benefits he will receive. Princeton puts honor on her sons. Almost annually for the past twenty years I have conducted Princeton entrance examinations in Rochester, and have sent many good men. I have circularized the preparatory schools and high schools in Western New York, calling attention to the examinations. I am secretary of the Western New York Alumni Association, though, I regret to say, the association is not as active as it ought to be.
I send my love to every one of the classmates, and wish for each his best wish for himself and his.
HALLOCK, ROBERT C.
I was not able to be at the Trigentennial; and my "biogra- phy up to date" has little of interest. When the 25th reunion was held I had just left my ten year pastorate over the "Old Stone" church at Clinton, New York, the seat of Hamilton College, and was on my way to Porto Rico. I remained on that beautiful Island a year, in charge of a plantation; and then, with restored health, returned to the pastorate, and have been for more than four years in charge of the Presbyterian church of Scottsville, near Rochester, N. Y.
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GEORGE FRANCIS GREENE
C. V. GABRIEL
GERARD B. F. HALLOCK
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My "scholastic" and other honors have leen few, because undeserved; though I do hold the degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy. My "travels" have been limited to a couple of trips to California, to the Pacific north-west, and to Porto Rico. My "special lines" have consisted in trying to be a decent sort of preacher. As to "family statistics" : I have four boys and four girls ; two boys graduated with honor from Hamilton, one taking Greek fellowship, and has just returned from two years study abroad. Oldest girl graduated this June from Mt. Holyoke College, with high stand. The others are doing finely.
As to what Princeton did for me? Everything that I was capable of receiving ; besides winning my heart and my life-long loyalty. What am I doing for Princeton? All that my praise, influence, testimony can do : but I could not afford to send my boys to Princeton, living as we did in a college town; and a preacher has little money to contribute, especially if he have eight children to rear and educate. But I love Princeton with undying affection ; and '82 centralizes that affection upon her- self ! Love to all the dear old fellows!
HIBBEN, JOHN GRIER
Since our Twenty-fifth Reunion my life has been passed wholly in Princeton in the work of my professorship until January IIth, 1912, when I received at the hands of the Board of Trustees the honor of election to the presidency of the University. It seems hardly necessary, however, to state this as an item of news to the members of the Class, who have so splendidly expressed their warm feelings of affection and con- gratulation to me both individually and as a class, and in so many ways delightful to me. This gives me an opportunity which I long have wished,-to express to the members of the Class, one and all, my deep appreciation of their affection and goodwill.
I have been particularly pleased by the enthusiastic response of the Class to the appeal for our memorial gift. It has been not only a benefit to the College, but at the same time it has been a great gratification to me and a great help as well to
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have my own friends of the Class of '82 come forward in such a generous manner.
Of the books which I have written during this period of the last five years, the following have been published :
In 1910-The Philosophy of Enlightenment, one of the volumes in the philosophical series, "Epochs of Philosophy", of which I am the general editor.
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