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GRADUATE SCHOOL
MASTERS OF ARTS
James Fairbanks Colby, M.A. 1877.
Bom November 18,1850, tn St Johnsbury, Vt.
Died October 21,1939, in Hanover, N.H
Father, James Kelsey Colby (B A. Dartmouth 1838), pnncipal St
Johnsbury Academy 1842-66; son of Isaac and Lucy (Berry) Colby of
Derry, N H Mother, Sarah Ann (Pierce) Colby; daughter of Aaron
Pierce, M D , and Sarah (Hough) Pierce of Barton, Vt. Yale relatives
mclude a brother, Edward A Colby, '80 S.
St Johnsbury Academy; B A. Dartmouth 1872 (member Delta Kappa
Epsdon and Phi Beta Kappa); attended George Washmgton Law School
1874-75 (LLB 1875) and Yale Graduate School (M.A. 1877); clerk
Committee on Revision of the Laws, Umted States House of Representatives 1873-75, admitted to Washmgton (D C ) bar 1875, Connecticut bar 1878, and New Hampshire bar 1889, in office of Scudder & Carter
James C , *oi Hon ], New York City, for a short time 1875; practiced
aw m New Haven, Conn , 1878-85, mstructor in political economy Yale
Umversity 1878-81, secretary New Haven Civd Service Reform Association 1881-85, instructor m history Dartmouth College 1885-93 and first
Parker Professor of Law and Political Saence 1885-1916, Parker professor ementus smce 1916, lecturer in jurisprudence and international law
Boston Umversity School of Law 1905-23, LLD Dartmouth 1901;
author "Disfranchisment For Crime" in Three Papers on Crime (1883),
Legal and Political Studies in Dartmouth College, 1796-1896 (1896); editor
Manual of the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire (1902 and 1912)
and A Sketch of English Legal History by Fredenc W. Maidand and Francis
C Montague (1915), had contnbuted to penodicals and to Dictionary of
American Biography, trustee St. Johnsbury Academy 1896-1925, and
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, 1901-28; on New Hampshire Forestry Commission 1893-99 (took pan m establishment of Pme
Park Reservation, Hanover), and delegate to State Constitutional Convention 1902, organizer and last surviving member Colby Club, member
Society for the Preservation of the White Mountam Forests, American
Political Science Association, Amencan Economic Association, New
Hampshire State Bar Association, American Society of International
Law, American Bar Association, and South Congregational Church, St
Johnsbury, and Church of Chnst at Dartmouth College
Unmarned
Death due to pneumoma Buned m Mount Pleasant Cemetery, St
Johnsbury Survived by no immediate relatives
232
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1935-1940 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1935-1940 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 232 |
| Transcript | GRADUATE SCHOOL MASTERS OF ARTS James Fairbanks Colby, M.A. 1877. Bom November 18,1850, tn St Johnsbury, Vt. Died October 21,1939, in Hanover, N.H Father, James Kelsey Colby (B A. Dartmouth 1838), pnncipal St Johnsbury Academy 1842-66; son of Isaac and Lucy (Berry) Colby of Derry, N H Mother, Sarah Ann (Pierce) Colby; daughter of Aaron Pierce, M D , and Sarah (Hough) Pierce of Barton, Vt. Yale relatives mclude a brother, Edward A Colby, '80 S. St Johnsbury Academy; B A. Dartmouth 1872 (member Delta Kappa Epsdon and Phi Beta Kappa); attended George Washmgton Law School 1874-75 (LLB 1875) and Yale Graduate School (M.A. 1877); clerk Committee on Revision of the Laws, Umted States House of Representatives 1873-75, admitted to Washmgton (D C ) bar 1875, Connecticut bar 1878, and New Hampshire bar 1889, in office of Scudder & Carter James C , *oi Hon ], New York City, for a short time 1875; practiced aw m New Haven, Conn , 1878-85, mstructor in political economy Yale Umversity 1878-81, secretary New Haven Civd Service Reform Association 1881-85, instructor m history Dartmouth College 1885-93 and first Parker Professor of Law and Political Saence 1885-1916, Parker professor ementus smce 1916, lecturer in jurisprudence and international law Boston Umversity School of Law 1905-23, LLD Dartmouth 1901; author "Disfranchisment For Crime" in Three Papers on Crime (1883), Legal and Political Studies in Dartmouth College, 1796-1896 (1896); editor Manual of the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire (1902 and 1912) and A Sketch of English Legal History by Fredenc W. Maidand and Francis C Montague (1915), had contnbuted to penodicals and to Dictionary of American Biography, trustee St. Johnsbury Academy 1896-1925, and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, 1901-28; on New Hampshire Forestry Commission 1893-99 (took pan m establishment of Pme Park Reservation, Hanover), and delegate to State Constitutional Convention 1902, organizer and last surviving member Colby Club, member Society for the Preservation of the White Mountam Forests, American Political Science Association, Amencan Economic Association, New Hampshire State Bar Association, American Society of International Law, American Bar Association, and South Congregational Church, St Johnsbury, and Church of Chnst at Dartmouth College Unmarned Death due to pneumoma Buned m Mount Pleasant Cemetery, St Johnsbury Survived by no immediate relatives 232 |
