[Since the above was received, Samuel Cabot Almy has received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Third Battery, Field Artillery Section, Officers' Reserve Corps.] NICOLA ALTROCCHI DIED at Florence, Italy, October 26, 1894. See Seventh Report, page 8. JOHN FORRESTER ANDREW DIED in Boston, May 30, 1895. See Seventh Report, page 8. JOHN COLEMAN AVERY BORN at Cincinnati, O., December 29, 1847 PARENTS: John Coleman, Lydia (Robinson) Avery YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1868-1872 DEGREE: A.B. 1872 UNMARRIED DIED in Cincinnati, O., June 20, 1916 AVERY'S life in College was retired and, although of kind heart and genial temperament, he was reserved in manner, having few intimates, but making warm friends of those few. After graduation he returned to Cincinnati and established his home on a farm at College Hill, now a part of the city, where he and his sister resided for the remainder of their lives, neither marrying. Possessed of a considerable estate he passed his life as a gentleman farmer, interested in horses and cattle, as to which he became and expert judge and authority among his associates. As a result of paralysis he was an invalid for some months prior to his death. He avoided public affairs, clubs, and offices, and closed his life true to the characteristics of his early years. E. R. D. GEORGE FRANKLIN BABBITT BORN at Barre, Mass., November 25, 1848 PARENTS: Pliny Henry, Lydia (Parry) Babbitt SCHOOL: Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. DEGREE: A.B. 1872 MARRIED: Eunice (Humphrey) Allen, Brooklyn, N.Y., March 22, 1905 OCCUPATION: Retired journalist ADDRESS: (summer) Rockport, Mass.; (winter) 15 Stearns Road, Brookline, Mass. NOTHING of general interest has occurred in my life since the publication of the last report of the Class Secretary in 1912. I still devote my time and attention to the occupations of the retired life to which I retreated in 1909, after an active career of about forty years in journalism. My only other later activities have been in the capacity of a Trustee of the Public Library of Brookline, to which position I was elected in 1916, and serving on various committees appointed to promote the public safety and welfare in connection with the world-wide war. My only club is the St. Botolph of Boston. CHARLES FRANCIS BAKER BORN at Lunenburg, Mass., December 9, 1850 PARENTS: William, Olive Rebecca (Boutwell) Baker SCHOOL: Fitchburg High School DEGREE: A.B., 1872 MARRIED: Henrietta Woods, Swampscott, Mass., April 24, 1879, who died October 7, 1913 OCCUPATION: Lawyer ADDRESS: (business) 327 Main St., Fitchburg, Mass.; (home) 15 Arlington St., Fitchburg, Mass. I HAVE continued in the practice of the Law. Have been blessed with good health, and attended to my professional duties with reasonable diligence." He is Trustee of the Burbank Hospital, and Vice President and Trustee of the Worcester North Savings Institution, a Director of the Fitchburg Bank and Trust Co., of the Fitchburg & Leominster Rwy. Co., and a member of the Fay Club. CECIL BARNES DIED in Portland, Me., March 19, 1880. See Seventh Report, page 12. HE GEORGE SCHUYLER BATES E was born at Roxbury, Mass., December 19, 1850, the son of George Henry and Mary Holbrook (Covington) Bates; and died at San Diego, California, of Angina pectoris, January 3, 1917. The family moved soon after his birth to Brooklyn, N.Y. During his early life he suffered from hip disease which left him permanently lame. Immediately after graduation he entered the Law School and in the following spring became connected with the Boston Daily Globe as reporter and later as assistant night editor. In 1875 he entered the Law School of the University of New York, in the following May received his degree of LL.B., and was soon after admitted to the New York bar. In 1876 he again took up journalism in San Francisco, where he remained until the spring of 1880, when he rejoined the editorial staff of the Boston Daily Globe. His health, however, at that time was not equal to the task, and after a short time in Chicago, where he undertook to practice his profession, he went South to Louisiana and later to Texas, where he was married, June 9, 1884, at Dallas, to Ellen Sanders Dixon, daughter of the Rev. Thomas F. and Sarah A. Dixon. He soon after returned to California and was connected with the Los Angeles Times until May, 1893, when he went to Riverside, to edit the Daily Enterprise, and, after remaining there for two years, became an editorial writer for the San Diego Union. This position he retained to the end of his life with the affection and high appreciation of his associates. In the notice of his decease published in the paper with which he was connected was the following: 66 San Diegans are familiar with his articles, but generally speaking they knew little of the man, for it may be said that most of George Schuyler Bates's life was spent at his desk or in other parts of the editorial rooms. But his associates all came soon to learn that, besides being one of the best equipped and keenest editorial writers in California, he was also one of the most lovable gentlemen who ever worked for a newspaper. The word gentleman has been used advisedly in the preceding sentence, for George Schuyler Bates's life was full of what might be called old-fashioned courtesy and a kindly natural dignity which made his companionship doubly enjoyable to all who worked with him." Although closely devoted to his work and seldom taking any recreation or any vacation at all, he was an enthusiastic member of the Rowing Club of the city in which he lived. His wife and two of his four children, George Dixon Bates and Edwin Marvin Bates, survive him. WILLIAM STACY BEAMAN BORN at Welfleet, Barnstable County, Mass., July 25, 1848 SCHOOL: Salem High School, Salem, Mass. DEGREES: A.B. 1872, LL.B. 1874 UNMARRIED OCCUPATION: Lawyer ADDRESS: (business) 80 Maiden Lane, New York, N.Y.; (home) 18 East Tenth St., New York, N.Y. HAVE continued in the practice of law with office address and residence unchanged. Voted for Woodrow Wilson's re election. MEMBER: Association of the Bar of the City of New York since 1877, and the Harvard Club of New York City. PERRY BELMONT BORN at New York, N.Y., December 28, 1850 PARENTS: August, Caroline Slidell (Perry) Belmont YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1868-1872 DEGREE: LL.B. (Columbia), 1876 MARRIED: Jessie Robbins, April 28, 1899 ADDRESS: 1618 New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D.C. Sa delegate to the Baltimore Convention of 1912, to which reference is made in your report of that year, I secured the passage of a resolution, committing the Democratic Party by its Platform declaration to the policy of providing a strong Navy, and to the establishment of a Council of National Defense. The Republican platform contained no reference to a Council of National Defense. My action in 1912 was in accord with my record in Congress upon the proposition for an interoceanic canal, that subject having been referred to the Committee on Foreign affairs of which I was chairman during four years. I pointed out to the House that our responsibility of an exclusive guarantee of free use and neutrality of the proposed canal would compel us to become a military nation. Events have, in my judgment, demonstrated the correctness of that opinion. It was on that account that, before the outbreak of the present war, and upon the completion of the canal, I became an active member and Vice President of the Navy League, and suggested the formation of the Army League, of which I am also Vice President. I enclose a few articles which will illustrate my activity in these directions. [These were published in Sea Power and Seven Seas Magazine. L.] Having served as Major and Inspector General of the 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, U.S.V., in the Spanish War, 1898, I offered my services in the present war and have passed my examination and received my commission as Captain in the Officers' Reserve Corps, U.S.A. and am in the Remount Service. [At the request of the Government, Belmont has loaned his house in Washington for the Japanese War Commission, headed by Viscount Ishii. The house was formerly owned by Commodore Perry, Belmont's maternal grandfather, and contains many mementos of his visit to Japan when he succeeded in opening her gates to the nations of the world.] ARTHUR SMITH BIRD BORN at Portland, Me., June 8, 1851 PARENTS: Robert Alexander, Sarah (Emerson) Bird SCHOOL: Portland High, Portland, Me. Degrees: A.B. 1872; M.D. (Col. Phys. & Surg., N.Y.), 1876 MARRIED: Julia Edith Churchill, Portland, Me., May 22, 1877, who died July 15, 1883. MARRIED: Kate Ramee Prall, Paterson, N.J., October 26, 1892 OCCUPATION: Physician ADDRESS: Pleasantville, N.Y. AT present I am in Pleasantville, N.Y., practicing medicine. Have been there five years. No incidents of interest or importance have occurred. MEMBER: Amer. Med. Association, Westchester County Med. Society, N.Y. State Medical Society, and Harvard Club of New York City. CHARLES ROBERT BRICKETT DIED at Haverhill, October 22, 1900. See Eighth Report, page II. JOHN COTTON BROOKS DIED in Paris, France, January 3, 1907. See Ninth Report, page 13. HORACE BROWN DIED at West Newbury, July 5, 1883. See Seventh Report, page 19. JOHN FREEMAN BROWN BORN at East Douglas, Mass., March 20, 1848 PARENTS: Adolphus Frederick, Mary Eliza (Johnson) Brown |