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ii4 Yde Umverstty Obituary Record
Henry Albert Foster, B.A. 1907.
Born January 14, 1874, in Maxwell, Tenn.
Died August 7, 1944, tn Maryvtlle, Mo.
Father, Thomas Foster, Jr, a farmer in Maxwell; son of Thomas and
Cynthia (Hawes) Foster of Maxwell Mother, Hattie Elizabeth (Al-
spaugh) Foster, daughter of Henry Penalton Smith and Elizabeth (West)
Alspaugh of Garrard County, Ky.
Terrill College, Decherd, Tenn Shared third Benjamin F. Barge Mathematical Prize Freshman year; honors in English composition Sophomore
year, first dispute appointment Junior year, dissertation appointment
Senior year, member Pi Gamma Mu.
Tutor in Chicago, and Waco, Texas, 1907-08; manager McAlester
(Okla ) Construction Company 1908-10; teacher of history and mathematics The Terrill School, Dallas, 1910-12; assistant in history University
High School of the University of Chicago 1912-13 and Lewis Institute,
Chicago, 1913-14, head history department Northwest Missouri State
Teachers College, Maryville, 1914-44 (chairman department of social
science 1914-39, chairman of faculty and acting president 1926-27); attended University of Chicago 1912-14 (M.A 1912) and Leland Stanford
University 1928-29 (Ph D 1929); author: "From Old Mesopotamia to the
New British Mandate in Iraq" (1929) and The Maying of Modern Iraq
(1935), overseas with Y M.C.A. 1918-19 (engaged in educational work
at Orley Field, near Pans, and on history faculty AE.F. University,
Beaune, France); member Missouri State Teachers Association, American
Association of University Professors, National Council for Social Studies,
American Historical Association, and Baptist church, Maxwell.
Married September 8,1908, in Asheville, N C , Laura Clayton, daughter
of James William Terrill (William Jewell Coll. ex-'6o; M.A. Hon. Univ.
Missouri 1872) and Elizabeth Martha (Bradley) Terrill, sister of Menter
B. Terrill, '03, and half sister of Joe C. Terrill, '11 S No children.
Death due to heart and respiratory failure. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Maryville Survived by wife, two sisters, Mrs. Leonard H. Ruch of
Huntsville, Ala , and Mrs. Jess Mason of Birmingham, Ala., and a brother,
Walter Lee Foster (B A Univ. Chicago 1917) of Tulsa, Okla.
Lewis Edmund Sisson, B.A. 1907.
Bom July 16, 1884, in New Yor\ City.
Died August 28, 1944, in Greenwich, Conn.
Father, Henry Hobhtzell Sisson, DD S, a dentist in New York City;
son of Lewis Edmund and Martha (Hobhtzell) Sisson of Marietta, Ohio.
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1940-1945 |
| 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 114 |
| Transcript | ii4 Yde Umverstty Obituary Record Henry Albert Foster, B.A. 1907. Born January 14, 1874, in Maxwell, Tenn. Died August 7, 1944, tn Maryvtlle, Mo. Father, Thomas Foster, Jr, a farmer in Maxwell; son of Thomas and Cynthia (Hawes) Foster of Maxwell Mother, Hattie Elizabeth (Al- spaugh) Foster, daughter of Henry Penalton Smith and Elizabeth (West) Alspaugh of Garrard County, Ky. Terrill College, Decherd, Tenn Shared third Benjamin F. Barge Mathematical Prize Freshman year; honors in English composition Sophomore year, first dispute appointment Junior year, dissertation appointment Senior year, member Pi Gamma Mu. Tutor in Chicago, and Waco, Texas, 1907-08; manager McAlester (Okla ) Construction Company 1908-10; teacher of history and mathematics The Terrill School, Dallas, 1910-12; assistant in history University High School of the University of Chicago 1912-13 and Lewis Institute, Chicago, 1913-14, head history department Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, 1914-44 (chairman department of social science 1914-39, chairman of faculty and acting president 1926-27); attended University of Chicago 1912-14 (M.A 1912) and Leland Stanford University 1928-29 (Ph D 1929); author: "From Old Mesopotamia to the New British Mandate in Iraq" (1929) and The Maying of Modern Iraq (1935), overseas with Y M.C.A. 1918-19 (engaged in educational work at Orley Field, near Pans, and on history faculty AE.F. University, Beaune, France); member Missouri State Teachers Association, American Association of University Professors, National Council for Social Studies, American Historical Association, and Baptist church, Maxwell. Married September 8,1908, in Asheville, N C , Laura Clayton, daughter of James William Terrill (William Jewell Coll. ex-'6o; M.A. Hon. Univ. Missouri 1872) and Elizabeth Martha (Bradley) Terrill, sister of Menter B. Terrill, '03, and half sister of Joe C. Terrill, '11 S No children. Death due to heart and respiratory failure. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Maryville Survived by wife, two sisters, Mrs. Leonard H. Ruch of Huntsville, Ala , and Mrs. Jess Mason of Birmingham, Ala., and a brother, Walter Lee Foster (B A Univ. Chicago 1917) of Tulsa, Okla. Lewis Edmund Sisson, B.A. 1907. Bom July 16, 1884, in New Yor\ City. Died August 28, 1944, in Greenwich, Conn. Father, Henry Hobhtzell Sisson, DD S, a dentist in New York City; son of Lewis Edmund and Martha (Hobhtzell) Sisson of Marietta, Ohio. |
