| Name |
Class |
Areas of Note |
George B. Case
|
1890 |
cofounder of New-York-based international law firm, White & Case [1901]; As a member, Red Cross War Council during World War I, with rank of major general, transformed the Red Cross into an international institution; as an alumnus & PA trustee, a major force in fundraising & shaping redevelopment of the campus during the 1920s; donor of Case Memorial Cage [1923]; at Yale, inventor of baseball's "squeeze play" |
Thomas Cochran
|
1890 |
Banker, JP Morgan partner [1917-1936]; philanthropist; Andover's greatest benefactor, creator of teaching foundations, builder of buildings, donor of the Addison Gallery of American Art -- all accomplished in a decade [1922-32] |
Joseph Bowne Elwell
|
1890 |
Known as "The Wizard of Whist," leading authority on & player of whist & bridge; author, "Elwell on Bridge" [1902] & many similar volumes; turfman, Thoroughbred breeder, Florida real estate investor; victim of a famous, still unsolved "locked door" murder [1920] |
Jessie Guernsey
|
1890 |
Head, Academic Dept., Calhoun Colored School [1912-], Calhoun, Alabama |
George Rapall Noyes
|
1890 |
Professor of Slavic languages, author; instituted Slavic Studies at UC Berkeley [1901] |
Charles Grosvenor Osgood
|
1890 |
Princeton English professor, bibliophile; author, "The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems" [1900], "The Voice of England" [1935]; known as "the Dean of Princeton Humanists" |
Alfred E. Stearns
|
1890 |
Headmaster, Phillips Academy [1903-33]; chairman, Amherst College Board of Trustees [1937-49] |
Charles Greeley Abbot
|
1891 |
Astrophysicist; director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [1906-44]; secretary, Smithsonian Institution [1928-44]; pioneer in developing solar energy power production [patents ca. 1922-73]; recipient, National Academy of Sciences Draper Medal [1910], American Academy of Arts & Sciences Rumford Prize [1915]; namesake, the Moon's Abbot Crater |
Robert LeMoyne Barrett
|
1891 |
Explorer in the Rockies [1890s], Asia & Latin America [1900-1930]; founding member, Association of American Geographers [1902] |
Frederick H. Bartlett
|
1891 |
Pediatrician; pre-Spock authority on child rearing; author, "Infants & Children" [1933] |
Irving Bonbright
|
1891 |
President, CEO, Bonbright & Company, investment bankers [1917-25]; major donor to Yale |
Bernard C. Cobb
|
1891 |
Founder & president, Commonwealth & Southern electric utilities holding company [1929-1933]; promoter of his protégé, Wendell Willkie |
Andrew J. Gilmour
|
1891 |
Mountain climber, noted for several first ascents of mountains in the Canadian Rockies [ca.1915] |
Thomas King Hanna Jr.
|
1891 |
Magazine illustrator for Harper's, Scribner's & Saturday Evening Post |
Frank Hinkey
|
1891 |
Andover's most celebrated football player; All American, Yale [1891-94] -- one of only three players in the history of football named All-American for four years. A defenseman, considered by sports columnist Grantland Rice "the most remarkable figure in all American football history," and called "the greatest football player of all time" by Pop Warner, Hinkey made Yale the leading college football team in the nation; Yale head football coach [1914-15] |
Francis J. McConnell
|
1891 |
Methodist theologian, bishop & educator; advocate for ecumenicalism & social justice; president, DePauw University [1909-12]; Methodist Bishop of Denver [1912-20], Pittsburgh [1920-28] & New York [1928-44]; president, Board of Foreign Missions; president, Federal Council of Churches; national chairman, World's Parliament of Religions [1933]; best known for his quote: "We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us." |
Vance C. McCormick
|
1891 |
Yale All-American Quarterback [1892]; newspaper publisher & progressive politician; publisher, Patriot Newspaper, Harrisburg, PA; mayor of Harrisburg [1902-05]; chairman, Democratic National Committee [1916-19]; ran Woodrow Wilson reelection campaign [1916]; chair, War Trade Board [1917-19]; member, US Peace Commission [1919] |
Charles Edward Park
|
1891 |
Unitarian minister & liberal theologian, "the Grand Old Man of Unitarianism"; pastor, First Church, Boston [1906-46]; professor of homiletics, Harvard Divinity School [1926-43] |
John Heywood Roudebush
|
1891 |
Sculptor; explorer in Himalayas with Sir Martin Conway [1892]; student of Saint-Gaudens & MacMonnies; winner, silver medal for sculpture, Pam-American Exposition [1901] |
Thomas Jackson Baldridge
|
1892 |
Pennsylvania attorney general, associate justice, later chief justice, Pennsylvania Superior Court [1929-47] |
Fanny Gordon Bartlett
|
1892 |
Dean of Women, Doshisha University [ca.1920-1936] |
Russell Colgate
|
1892 |
Chairman, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company; a major benefactor of Colgate University |
Huntington Crouse
|
1892 |
Co-owner, Crouse & Hinds, electrical equipment manufacturer, inventor of the traffic light [1924] |
Frederick K.S. Fales
|
1892 |
President, Standard Oil of New York [1932-] |
Henry Johnson Fisher
|
1892 |
Publisher; president, McCall Corporation [1917-45] & Harper Brothers; president, English Speaking Union [1936-47] |
John Campbell Greenway
|
1892 |
Business executive & mining engineer; much-decorated participant in the Spanish-American War, as a Rough Rider, & First World War, ultimately promoted to rank of brigadier general [1922]; developed iron mines, Western Mesabi Range, Minnesota [1905-10]; developed copper mines in Ajo, Arizona [1911-25]; leader in efforts to dam Colorado River as a water supply for Arizona; statue, by Gutzon Borglum, in Statuary Hall, US Capitol |
Frank L. Hitchcock
|
1892 |
Mathematician; professor of mathematics, MIT [1910-]; specialist in quaternions |
Grant Mitchell
|
1892 |
Lawyer turned character actor [ca.1932-50], including the part of Ernest Stanley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" [1942] |
Ira Nelson Morris
|
1892 |
US minister to Sweden [1914-23]; author, "From an American Legation" [1923], an account of Northern European diplomacy during World War I |
George Henry Nettleton
|
1892 |
Yale professor of English literature; author, "English Drama of the Restoration & 18th Century" [1914] |
Lewis P. Sheldon
|
1892 |
Set intercollegiate pole vault & running jump records [1895] for Yale; US Olympic Team [1900], winner, bronze medals in standing high jump & triple jump |
Lloyd W. Smith
|
1892 |
Collector of Americana; leader in preserving Revolutionary War battlefield at Morristown, NJ; donor of Washingtoniana to National Park Service [1955] |
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser
|
1892 |
President, Weyerhaeuser Lumber [1934-45]; innovator in sustainable forestry, timber research & marketing |
Alva Blanchard Adams
|
1893 |
Attorney & politician; Democratic senator from Colorado [1923-24, 1933-41]; chairman, Senate Committee on Public Lands, Senate Committee on Irrigation & Reclamation |
Russell Alexander Alger II
|
1893 |
With Henry Joy [Class of 1883], a founder of Packard Motor Car Company & the person primarily involved in bringing Packard to Detroit; vice president & director of Packard [1902-30]; his Grosse Point estate, The Moorings [1910] designed by Charles Adams Platt, is a major architectural monument and serves as a war memorial & civic center |
Abram Brubacher
|
1893 |
President, University of Albany [1915-39] |
Charles D. Millard
|
1893 |
All-American football player, Brown [1897]; New York attorney & politician; member & sometime president, Westchester County Board of Supervisors [1907-31]; Republican congressman [1931-37] |
Fred T. Murphy
|
1893 |
Yale football All-American [1895, -96]; surgeon; chief of surgery, Washington U. Medical School [1911-18]; manager, Murphy Family Trusts [1919-], Detroit; art patron & donor; donor of professorships, Yale Medical School; president, Detroit Symphony |
William Belmont Parker
|
1893 |
Expert on Latin America in the early 20th century; author of biographical dictionaries of notable Argentines, Cubans, et al [ca.1915-25] |
Walter A. Pinchback
|
1893 |
African-American government official & later attorney; Lieutenant, Spanish-American War [1898-99] |
Rolland H. Spaulding
|
1893 |
Progressive Republican; reformer Governor of New Hampshire [1915-17] |
W.T. B. Williams
|
1893 |
Educator, author & advocate for improved education for African-Americans; agent, John F. Slater Fund, Jeanes Fund, General Education Board [ca.1900-1930]; president, American Teachers Association [1911-12]; dean, Tuskegee University [1930s]; recipient, NAACP Spingarn Medal [1934] |
Walter S. Adams
|
1894 |
Astronomer; director, Mt Wilson Observatory [1923-46]; pioneered spectroscopy in astronomical investigation; president, American Astronomical Society [1931-34]; president, Carnegie Institution for Science [1904-56]; recipient, Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal [1917], National Academy of Sciences Draper Medal [1918]; Bruce Medal [1928]; French Academy of Sciences Janssen Medal [1935] |
Hiram Bingham
|
1894 |
Explorer, archeologist, aviator & politician; rediscovered Machu Picchu [1911]; lieutenant governor of Connecticut [1922-24]; Republican senator from Connecticut [1924-33]; promoter of aviation |
Edgar Rice Burroughs
|
1894 |
Fantasy & science fiction writer, including the Tarzan novels [1912-40s]; oldest US war-zone correspondent, WWII; namesake, Burroughs Crater, Mars [his Tarzana Ranch namesake of Tarzana, California] |
Burr Chamberlain
|
1894 |
All-American tackle [1897] & Yale football captain [1898]; Stanford head coach [1898] |
Irénée du Pont
|
1894 |
Industrialist; as a director [1904-58] & president [1919-25], a shaper of the modern DuPont Company |
Samuel S. Hinds
|
1894 |
Attorney turned character actor, best known for parts in "Destry Rides Again," "It’s a Wonderful Life," "Stage Door," & the Dr. Kildare series |
Ellen Lombard
|
1894 |
Head, parent education, US Department of Education [1914-44] |
Julian Starkweather Mason
|
1894 |
Journalist; managing editor, Chicago Evening Post [ca.1915-], NY Tribune [1922-26], NY Post [1926-] |
Arthur Putnam Morrill
|
1894 |
Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives [1918-19], president, NH Senate [1919-21] |
Grace Fallow Norton
|
1894 |
Poet, author of "Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's" [1912] & poetry inspired by World War I |
Lewis Perry
|
1894 |
Principal, Phillips Exeter Academy [1914-46] |
Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr.
|
1894 |
President, Phillips Gas & Oil; Republican congressman from Pennsylvania [1923-27] |
'Colonel' John Wing Prentiss
|
1894 |
Investment banker, leader in financing automobile industry & Wall Street affairs [ca.1910-1938]; partner, Hornblower & Weeks[1906-38]; a founder & later president, Association of Stock Exchange Partners [1913-]; president, Investment Bankers Association of America [1924-25]; chair, NY Stock Exchange Committee on Emergency Employment [1930-] |
Arthur W. Ryder
|
1894 |
Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard & Berkeley [1906-], translator of Sanskrit classics into English |
John M. Woolsey
|
1894 |
Attorney; US district judge, NY Southern District [1929-]; ruled James Joyce's "Ulysses" not obscene [1933], a landmark decision; for decades, Woolsey's decision was printed in copies of "Ulysses" |
John D. Clarke
|
1895 |
Republican congressman from New York [1921-25, 1927-33] |
Byron S. Harvey
|
1895 |
CEO & chairman, Fred Harvey restaurant & hotel chain [1928-54] |
Eugene Walter Leake
|
1895 |
New Jersey Democratic congressman [1907-09]; chairman, Railway Express Company [1931-] |
William Fessenden Merrill
|
1895 |
Corporate turn-around artist; president, Lamson, Inc. [1916-27], president & general manager, Remington-Rand [1928-31] |
Laurance Tweedy
|
1895 |
Stockbroker; president, Consolidated Stock Exchange [1923-24] |
Sidney A. Weston
|
1895 |
Biblical scholar & author; editor & general manager, the Congregational Publishing Society [1911-45]; author, "Theological Foundations for Ministry" [1928], "The Prophets & the Problems of Life" [1932], "The Bible Jesus Knew" [1947] |
Ralph Martin Barton
|
1896 |
Mathematician & golf course designer, New England & Bermuda [ca.1900-30] |
Harrison Morgan Brown
|
1896 |
First African-American PA graduate to become a physician, practicing in Pittsburg [1904-35]; namesake, Williams College Premedical Society |
Edward C. Carter
|
1896 |
Secretary, YMCA India, Paris, London [1902-22]; with world affairs periodical Inquiry [1922-41]; organized, US-Russia War Relief [World War II]; leader, Institute for Pacific Relations [1926-48] which became a focus of Congressional scrutiny by Senator McCarthy and others in the early 1950s; Provost, New School for Social Research, New York [1948-50] & director, division of International Studies [1950-] |
George M. Chadwell
|
1896 |
Director of Indianapolis colored schools [-1908] |
Emerson Brewer Christie
|
1896 |
Ethnographer in the Philippines; author, "The Subanuns of Sindangan Bay" [1909]; State Department translator [1918-45] & 1st chief, Translation Bureau [1929-40] |
Marlborough Churchill
|
1896 |
Brigadier general; head of military intelligence during World War I; instrumental in founding the top-secret MI-8 - "the American Black Chamber" - America's first peacetime cryptanalytic organization [1920s]. |
John V. Dittemore
|
1896 |
Leader, Church of Christ, Scientist; coauthor, "Mary Baker Eddy, the Truth & the Tradition" [1932] |
Walter Prichard Eaton
|
1896 |
New York drama critic [1902-]; poet; author & teacher on theatre & criticism; Yale professor [1933-47]; author of books on flora, fauna & landscape of the Berkshires |
Granville Roland Fortescue
|
1896 |
Rough Rider, Spanish-American War [1898] with his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt; US military attaché with Japanese Army, Russo-Japanese War [1904-05]; military aide to President Roosevelt; war correspondent during Riff War [1909] & World War I; explorer, Orinoco River, Venezuela & Brazil [1914]; author, "At the Front with Three Armies" [1914], "France Bears the Burden" [1917] |
Arthur R.T. 'Doc' Hillebrand
|
1896 |
Four-year Princeton football captain, All-American tackle [1898, '99]; Princeton head football coach [1903, '04, '05]; winner national championship, 1903 [team lost only 6 points that entire season]. |
William Jones
|
1896 |
First Native American to receive a PhD in anthropology [Columbia, 1904]; ethnographer of Native American peoples & Philippine tribes; murdered by Ilongot tribesmen [1909] |
Leeds Mitchell
|
1896 |
President, Chicago Stock Exchange [1922-23] |
Edwards A. Park
|
1896 |
Medical researcher & educator; pioneering researcher on rickets & other childhood diseases; professor of pediatrics, Yale [1920-26], Johns Hopkins [1926-46]; recipient, Goldberg Medal in Nutrition, Kober Medal, etc. |
Richard Sheldon
|
1896 |
US Olympic Team [1900]: gold medal, shot put; bronze medal, discus |
Forbes Watson
|
1896 |
Art critic [1911-33], advisor on New Deal arts projects [1933-]; biographer of Winslow Homer |
George Hoyt Whipple
|
1896 |
Pathologist & medical researcher; discoverer of lipodystrophia intestinalis [1907], since known as Whipple’s Disease; recipient, Nobel Prize [1934] for research leading to a cure for pernicious anemia |
Harry P. Wood
|
1896 |
First Chief Justice, High Court of American Samoa [1921-37] |
Frank Yuengling
|
1896 |
President, D.G. Yuengling & Son [1899-1963], America's oldest brewery; sent a truckload of "winner" beer to Franklin D. Roosevelt the day FDR signed the constitutional amendment terminating Prohibition [5 December 1933] |
Oliver Winslow Branch
|
1897 |
Associate justice & later chief justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court [1913-37] |
Mary Smith Churchill
|
1897 |
Organized relief work in Paris, World War I [ca.1916-18]; author "You can Help: Letters from Paris…" [1918] |
Allan M. Hirsh
|
1897 |
As a Yale senior, wrote Yale's football fight song, "Boola-Boola" [1900] |
Ellis F. Lawrence
|
1897 |
Architect, founding dean, University of Oregon School of Architecture [1914-]; campus architect for the university at Eugene, designer of numerous buildings in Portland |
Alan Pinkerton II
|
1897 |
President, Pinkerton Detective Agency [1923-] |
Eltinge F. Warner
|
1897 |
Magazine publisher, literary figure & conservationist; as publisher of Field & Stream [1906-50], a force in game conservation; maker of wildlife films [1920-23]; as publisher of Smart Set [1914-22], Warner hired George Jean Nathan & H.L. Menken as editors, who published James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald; founder & publisher The Black Mask [1920-], a crime pulp, publisher of Dashiell Hammett; ; Fitzgerald made use of his publisher's name for the character Eltynge Reardon in "The Beautiful & Damned" [1922] |
Adelbert Ames II
|
1898 |
Pioneered psychological optics [1914-]; research director, Dartmouth Eye Institute [1935-47]; best known for the Ames "window", "chair" & "room" optical illusions [1934]; recipient, American Optical Society Tillyer Medal [1955] |
Rossiter Howard
|
1898 |
Director, Kansas City Art Institute [1932-40] |
Sara Patrick
|
1898 |
Pioneering industrial arts instructor, Teachers College, Columbia [ca.1920-43]; founder & president, Industrial Arts Cooperative [1924-], 1st teachers' cooperative in US |
Arthur Stanley Pease
|
1898 |
Classicist, educator & naturalist; president, Amherst College [1927-32]; author on flora of New Hampshire, orchids, etc. |
Paul Shivell
|
1898 |
Poet & Dayton poetry publisher; author, "Stillwater Pastorals" [1915] |
Ann Gilchrist Strong
|
1898 |
Dean of Faculty of Home Science, University of Otago, New Zealand [1921-41]; recipient, Order of the British Empire [1936] |
George E. Woodbine
|
1898 |
Legal historian & law professor; specialist in English medieval law; author, "Four Thirteenth-Century Law Tracts" [1910] |
Robert Grey Bushong
|
1899 |
Republican Pennsylvania congressman [1927-29] |
Ralph Davis
|
1899 |
Outstanding Andover & Princeton football player; All-American end [1901] |
Henry Holt
|
1899 |
All-American center, Yale football team [1901, 1902] |
Sol Metzger
|
1899 |
Football coach & sports columnist; as Penn head coach, won national championship [1908]; career coaching record [53-31-6] |
Robert W. Ruhl
|
1899 |
Publisher & editor, Medford, Oregon Mail Tribune; winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [1934] |
Henry Root Stern
|
1899 |
Attorney; prominent New York Republican; Chair, New York State Board of Social Welfare [1946-54]; permanent president, NY Electoral College |
Walter Smith Sugden
|
1899 |
All-American football player, Harvard [1902]; Imperial Potentate, Shrine International [-1938], promoter of Shrine hospitals |
George Stout Van Wickle Jr.
|
1899 |
World record holding angler for tarpon, snook, barracuda and trout |
Walter D. Wilcox
|
1899 |
Explorer, naturalist, author, photographer; early explorer in Canadian Rockies; namesake, Mount Wilcox & Wilcox Pass, Alberta [1898]; photographer of life on American Indian reservations [1930s] |