Taken from the book "Obituary of Yale Graduates", thank you contributor Toni Doubleday for this information.
Milwaukee (Wis.) Academy. High oration appointment Junior and
Senior years; English composition prize Senior year*president Class Debating Club Senior year; Class poet; member Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa
Attended Union Theological Seminary 1878-81, teacher Cornwall-on Hudson 1876-78 and Brooklyn and New York City 1884-87; traveled in Europe studying French and German 1882-84; ordained in Presbyterian church 1894; minister Trinity Congregational Church of Tremont, New York City, 1895-99; associated with Young Men's Christian Association 1887-94 and 1899 until retirement about 1921; general secretary of the
Association in France and minister American chapel in Pans 1887-94, instrumental in erection of new building in Pans; general secretary in Russia 1899-1917 and took active part in organization and incorporation of Society for the Moral and Physical Development of Young Men, Leningrad,and similar work in Moscow; aided Russian refugees in Berlin, Warsaw,and Belgrade; secretary American hospital for wounded Russian soldiers during World War I; served in Russia until all Americans were withdrawn from Russian territory, general secretary International Committee, Y M C A., 1918-21 and represented Committee at Odessa, Constantinople,and Cairo 1920; lectured in the United States and many European cities
1921; author: The Builders of the Atoll (1935) and of many other poems published in magazines; translated several Russian poems, presented to Czar Nicholas II in 1907 and 1911, chevalier Order of St Anne (third class) 1902, Order of St Stanislaus 1916, and of the Russian Red Cross 1920; resided at West Englewood, N.J., 1919-43; trustee James Stokes Society,
acting Class secretary 1930, Class secretary 1930-43, and Class agent 1930-42; member Town Hall Club, Clergy Club of New York, and Authors Club (London).
Married September 10, 1891, in New York City, Mary Louise, daughter of Rev Charles Seymour Robinson, D D , LL.D (B A. Williams Coll. 1849; grad Princeton Theological Seminary 1855), and Harriet (Church) Robinson. No children.
Death due to cerebral thrombosis. Ashes interred in Torrington, CT. Survived by wife (died November 5, 1943)
Milwaukee (Wis.) Academy. High oration appointment Junior and
Senior years; English composition prize Senior year*president Class Debating Club Senior year; Class poet; member Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa
Attended Union Theological Seminary 1878-81, teacher Cornwall-on Hudson 1876-78 and Brooklyn and New York City 1884-87; traveled in Europe studying French and German 1882-84; ordained in Presbyterian church 1894; minister Trinity Congregational Church of Tremont, New York City, 1895-99; associated with Young Men's Christian Association 1887-94 and 1899 until retirement about 1921; general secretary of the
Association in France and minister American chapel in Pans 1887-94, instrumental in erection of new building in Pans; general secretary in Russia 1899-1917 and took active part in organization and incorporation of Society for the Moral and Physical Development of Young Men, Leningrad,and similar work in Moscow; aided Russian refugees in Berlin, Warsaw,and Belgrade; secretary American hospital for wounded Russian soldiers during World War I; served in Russia until all Americans were withdrawn from Russian territory, general secretary International Committee, Y M C A., 1918-21 and represented Committee at Odessa, Constantinople,and Cairo 1920; lectured in the United States and many European cities
1921; author: The Builders of the Atoll (1935) and of many other poems published in magazines; translated several Russian poems, presented to Czar Nicholas II in 1907 and 1911, chevalier Order of St Anne (third class) 1902, Order of St Stanislaus 1916, and of the Russian Red Cross 1920; resided at West Englewood, N.J., 1919-43; trustee James Stokes Society,
acting Class secretary 1930, Class secretary 1930-43, and Class agent 1930-42; member Town Hall Club, Clergy Club of New York, and Authors Club (London).
Married September 10, 1891, in New York City, Mary Louise, daughter of Rev Charles Seymour Robinson, D D , LL.D (B A. Williams Coll. 1849; grad Princeton Theological Seminary 1855), and Harriet (Church) Robinson. No children.
Death due to cerebral thrombosis. Ashes interred in Torrington, CT. Survived by wife (died November 5, 1943)
Taken from the book "Obituary of Yale Graduates", thank you contributor Toni Doubleday for this information.
Milwaukee (Wis.) Academy. High oration appointment Junior and
Senior years; English composition prize Senior year*president Class Debating Club Senior year; Class poet; member Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa
Attended Union Theological Seminary 1878-81, teacher Cornwall-on Hudson 1876-78 and Brooklyn and New York City 1884-87; traveled in Europe studying French and German 1882-84; ordained in Presbyterian church 1894; minister Trinity Congregational Church of Tremont, New York City, 1895-99; associated with Young Men's Christian Association 1887-94 and 1899 until retirement about 1921; general secretary of the
Association in France and minister American chapel in Pans 1887-94, instrumental in erection of new building in Pans; general secretary in Russia 1899-1917 and took active part in organization and incorporation of Society for the Moral and Physical Development of Young Men, Leningrad,and similar work in Moscow; aided Russian refugees in Berlin, Warsaw,and Belgrade; secretary American hospital for wounded Russian soldiers during World War I; served in Russia until all Americans were withdrawn from Russian territory, general secretary International Committee, Y M C A., 1918-21 and represented Committee at Odessa, Constantinople,and Cairo 1920; lectured in the United States and many European cities
1921; author: The Builders of the Atoll (1935) and of many other poems published in magazines; translated several Russian poems, presented to Czar Nicholas II in 1907 and 1911, chevalier Order of St Anne (third class) 1902, Order of St Stanislaus 1916, and of the Russian Red Cross 1920; resided at West Englewood, N.J., 1919-43; trustee James Stokes Society,
acting Class secretary 1930, Class secretary 1930-43, and Class agent 1930-42; member Town Hall Club, Clergy Club of New York, and Authors Club (London).
Married September 10, 1891, in New York City, Mary Louise, daughter of Rev Charles Seymour Robinson, D D , LL.D (B A. Williams Coll. 1849; grad Princeton Theological Seminary 1855), and Harriet (Church) Robinson. No children.
Death due to cerebral thrombosis. Ashes interred in Torrington, CT. Survived by wife (died November 5, 1943)
Milwaukee (Wis.) Academy. High oration appointment Junior and
Senior years; English composition prize Senior year*president Class Debating Club Senior year; Class poet; member Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa
Attended Union Theological Seminary 1878-81, teacher Cornwall-on Hudson 1876-78 and Brooklyn and New York City 1884-87; traveled in Europe studying French and German 1882-84; ordained in Presbyterian church 1894; minister Trinity Congregational Church of Tremont, New York City, 1895-99; associated with Young Men's Christian Association 1887-94 and 1899 until retirement about 1921; general secretary of the
Association in France and minister American chapel in Pans 1887-94, instrumental in erection of new building in Pans; general secretary in Russia 1899-1917 and took active part in organization and incorporation of Society for the Moral and Physical Development of Young Men, Leningrad,and similar work in Moscow; aided Russian refugees in Berlin, Warsaw,and Belgrade; secretary American hospital for wounded Russian soldiers during World War I; served in Russia until all Americans were withdrawn from Russian territory, general secretary International Committee, Y M C A., 1918-21 and represented Committee at Odessa, Constantinople,and Cairo 1920; lectured in the United States and many European cities
1921; author: The Builders of the Atoll (1935) and of many other poems published in magazines; translated several Russian poems, presented to Czar Nicholas II in 1907 and 1911, chevalier Order of St Anne (third class) 1902, Order of St Stanislaus 1916, and of the Russian Red Cross 1920; resided at West Englewood, N.J., 1919-43; trustee James Stokes Society,
acting Class secretary 1930, Class secretary 1930-43, and Class agent 1930-42; member Town Hall Club, Clergy Club of New York, and Authors Club (London).
Married September 10, 1891, in New York City, Mary Louise, daughter of Rev Charles Seymour Robinson, D D , LL.D (B A. Williams Coll. 1849; grad Princeton Theological Seminary 1855), and Harriet (Church) Robinson. No children.
Death due to cerebral thrombosis. Ashes interred in Torrington, CT. Survived by wife (died November 5, 1943)
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