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Yale College
year, vice-president Senior year) and Psi
Upsilon Graduate student Yale University
1882-87 (PhD. 1887).
Assistant paleontologist US. Geological
Survey, stationed at Peabody Museum,
Yale University, 1882-88; Stone Professor
of natural history and geology Iowa College 1889-91, member faculty University
of Nebraska 1891-1947 (professor of paleontology 1891-1906, 1934-41; professor of
geology and head of the department 1906-
34; professor ementus 1941-47); organized Nebraska State Museum 1891, director
1892-1941, director ementus 1941-47; represented University of Nebraska at Chicago
Columbian Exposition 1893; superintendent of mining, forestry, and university educational exhibits Omaha Trans-Mississippi
Exposition 1897, 1898, and Louisiana
Purchase Exposition 1904; delegate to
Conservation Conference, Washington,
1908, State geologist of Nebraska 1891-
1918, member State Board of Agnculture
1893-1902 and US Agricultural Experiment Station staff, president Lincoln Board
of Education 1914-16; on Lincoln City
Planning Board and Lincoln Park Board,
received Bicentennial medal from Yale
1901, silver medal from US Department
of Agriculture for best designed homemade
windmill 1904, sweepstake medal from Ins
Society of America 1932, and Kiwanis
medal for outstanding community service
1935, author of 400 books, pamphlets, and
monographs, mostly scientific, and contributed drawings to newspapers, magazines,
books, and scientific articles, geologist
State Council of Defense, Washington, and
on Council of War Minerals, World War
I, chairman Court of Honor, Boy Scouts
of America, Lincoln, fellow Geological Society of America, American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Amencan
Association of Museums, Paleontological
Society of America, Amencan Ornithologists Union, and Nebraska Academy of
Science; member Lincoln Phdharmonic
Society, City Improvement Society (Lincoln), Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln
Commercial Club, Masomc order, Sigma
Gamma Epsilon, Sigma Xi (president University of Nebraska chapter 1905); honorary member University Nebraska Chapter
Phi Beta Kappa; attended Congregational
church.
Married December 6, 1887, m New
Haven, Conn, Margaret Roxanna, daughter of William Lamson (BA 1856) and
Juha Ann (Morse) Lamson. Daughter.
Eleanor Barbour Cook (B A. Univ. Nebraska 1910).
Death due to coronary occlusion Buried
in Wyuka Cemetery, Lmcoln. Survived
by wife, daughter, and four grandchildren
WILBUR HARVEY [NASH] FORD
B.A. l882
Born September 30,1859, in Milford, Conn.
Died December 17, 1946, in Chicago, III.
Father, Nathan Rogers Ford; son of
Harvey and Mary Jane (Clark) Ford of
Milford. Mother, Mary Bryan (Smith)
Ford, daughter of Nathan and Mary Bryan
(Somers) Smith of Milford Yale relatives
include a brother, Sereno Ford (Class of
1881).
Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
Conn Dissertation appointment Junior
and Senior years.
Taught Latin, mathematics, and history
in Poughkeepsie, NY, 1882-85, Pafk ln~
stitute, Rye, NY, 1885-86, Porter Academy, Charleston, SC, 1886-90 (principal
1889-90), in his own school in Pekin, 111,
1890-91, and Harvard School for Boys,
Chicago, 1891-1943; unoccupied 1943-46
because of ill-health, member St Paul's
Church (Episcopal) and vestryman St.
Mark's Church (Episcopal), Chicago
Marned September 18, 1889, in Milford,
Hattie Winslow, daughter of Henry Samuel and Harriet Belden (Munson) Downs
Mrs, Ford died April 21, 1926
Death due to hypostatic pneumonia
Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago
Survived by no immediate relatives
HENRY BUIST
B.A. 1884
Born March 3, 1863, at Woodlawn Plan-
tation, near Charleston, S C
Died November 7,1946, in Charleston, S C
Father, George Lamb Buist (Coll of
Charleston 1855-58), a lawyer in Charleston, Major of Artillery Confederate States
of America, State senator from Charleston
County, trustee College of Charleston 1887-
Object Description
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1945-1950 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1945-1950 |
| 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 |
Description
| Title | Page 9 |
| Transcript | Yale College year, vice-president Senior year) and Psi Upsilon Graduate student Yale University 1882-87 (PhD. 1887). Assistant paleontologist US. Geological Survey, stationed at Peabody Museum, Yale University, 1882-88; Stone Professor of natural history and geology Iowa College 1889-91, member faculty University of Nebraska 1891-1947 (professor of paleontology 1891-1906, 1934-41; professor of geology and head of the department 1906- 34; professor ementus 1941-47); organized Nebraska State Museum 1891, director 1892-1941, director ementus 1941-47; represented University of Nebraska at Chicago Columbian Exposition 1893; superintendent of mining, forestry, and university educational exhibits Omaha Trans-Mississippi Exposition 1897, 1898, and Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904; delegate to Conservation Conference, Washington, 1908, State geologist of Nebraska 1891- 1918, member State Board of Agnculture 1893-1902 and US Agricultural Experiment Station staff, president Lincoln Board of Education 1914-16; on Lincoln City Planning Board and Lincoln Park Board, received Bicentennial medal from Yale 1901, silver medal from US Department of Agriculture for best designed homemade windmill 1904, sweepstake medal from Ins Society of America 1932, and Kiwanis medal for outstanding community service 1935, author of 400 books, pamphlets, and monographs, mostly scientific, and contributed drawings to newspapers, magazines, books, and scientific articles, geologist State Council of Defense, Washington, and on Council of War Minerals, World War I, chairman Court of Honor, Boy Scouts of America, Lincoln, fellow Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Amencan Association of Museums, Paleontological Society of America, Amencan Ornithologists Union, and Nebraska Academy of Science; member Lincoln Phdharmonic Society, City Improvement Society (Lincoln), Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln Commercial Club, Masomc order, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Sigma Xi (president University of Nebraska chapter 1905); honorary member University Nebraska Chapter Phi Beta Kappa; attended Congregational church. Married December 6, 1887, m New Haven, Conn, Margaret Roxanna, daughter of William Lamson (BA 1856) and Juha Ann (Morse) Lamson. Daughter. Eleanor Barbour Cook (B A. Univ. Nebraska 1910). Death due to coronary occlusion Buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lmcoln. Survived by wife, daughter, and four grandchildren WILBUR HARVEY [NASH] FORD B.A. l882 Born September 30,1859, in Milford, Conn. Died December 17, 1946, in Chicago, III. Father, Nathan Rogers Ford; son of Harvey and Mary Jane (Clark) Ford of Milford. Mother, Mary Bryan (Smith) Ford, daughter of Nathan and Mary Bryan (Somers) Smith of Milford Yale relatives include a brother, Sereno Ford (Class of 1881). Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn Dissertation appointment Junior and Senior years. Taught Latin, mathematics, and history in Poughkeepsie, NY, 1882-85, Pafk ln~ stitute, Rye, NY, 1885-86, Porter Academy, Charleston, SC, 1886-90 (principal 1889-90), in his own school in Pekin, 111, 1890-91, and Harvard School for Boys, Chicago, 1891-1943; unoccupied 1943-46 because of ill-health, member St Paul's Church (Episcopal) and vestryman St. Mark's Church (Episcopal), Chicago Marned September 18, 1889, in Milford, Hattie Winslow, daughter of Henry Samuel and Harriet Belden (Munson) Downs Mrs, Ford died April 21, 1926 Death due to hypostatic pneumonia Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago Survived by no immediate relatives HENRY BUIST B.A. 1884 Born March 3, 1863, at Woodlawn Plan- tation, near Charleston, S C Died November 7,1946, in Charleston, S C Father, George Lamb Buist (Coll of Charleston 1855-58), a lawyer in Charleston, Major of Artillery Confederate States of America, State senator from Charleston County, trustee College of Charleston 1887- |
