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Yale University Obituary Record
49, incorporator Piedmont, Calif, 1907
(city attorney 1907-16) and Albany, Cahf,
1908, instructor in law Hastings College
of Law 1904-7, assistant professor 1907-29,
professor 1929-43, acting dean 1907-9,
dean YMCA Law School 1902-6, founder, and dean San Francisco Law School
1906-23, author Law Dictionary with
Pronunciations and Ballentine's Law Dictionary, prepared material for Heyburn's
Idaho Laws & Decisions, annotated Civil
Code of Idaho, made a digest of Texas Reports (40 vols ), contributor Encyclopedia
of Evidence, assisted in revision of Pom-
eroy's Equity Jurisprudence and in preparation ot Treadwell's Annotated Codes of
California, secretary-treasurer Yale Alumni
Association of Cihfornia 1910, on building committee Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, senior warden St Peter's Church
(Episcopal), San Francisco
Marned October 23, 1901, in Williamsburg, Va, Frances Rebecca, daughter of
Edwin Gilliam Booth, M D, and Clara
Haxall (Thomson) Booth Children Clara
Booth (Mrs Frederick Temple Weeks),
Frances Booth (died 1907), James Arthur,
Jr , Ellen Truesdale (B A Umv California
1933, Mrs Alexander Hamilton), Mary
Lawrence (B A Umv California 1934),
Francis Booth, Rosamond Dana (Mrs
Charles Coates Horton), and Lucy Edwina
(B A Umv California 1939, Mrs Matthew
A Little, Jr ).
Death followed an operation Buried in
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Cahf.
Survived by wife, five daughters, sons, and
fifteen grandchildren
JOHN MILTON BERDAN, ba 1896
Born July 9, 1873, Toledo, Ohio, died
April 3, 1949, New Haven, Conn
Father, Peter Frederick Berdan, wholesale grocer, Toledo, son of John and Pamela
(Frieze) Berdan Mother, Mary Elizabeth
(Ketcham) Berdan, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Sutton) Ketcham Yale relatives
include James Berdan (B A 1824) (great-
uncle) , James O Rodgers, '98 (brother-in-
law) , George M Bodman, '05, Herbert L
Bodman, '05, Arthur L Baker, '21 S, William W Baker, '24, James O Rodgers, Jr.,
'28, Gerald V C Baker, '28 S, LeRoy R
Brooks, '33, Lloyd T. Williams, Jr, '39,
Wilham Williams, '43 E, Arthur B. Williams, '45 E (nephews)
St Paul's School, Concord, NH. High
oration appointment Junior and Senior
years, one-year honors in English Senior
year, Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa
PhD 1899
Studied at The Sorbonne 1899-1900, instructor in English literature Polytechnic
Institute, Toledo, 1900-1902; on Yale faculty 1903-49 (lecturer rhetoric 1903-4, instructor 1904-6, assistant professor 1908-14;
instructor English 1906-8, assistant professor 1914-23, professor 1923-27, Emily
Sanford Professor English literature 1927-
41, professor emeritus 1941-49, Daniel S
Lamont Memorial Lecturer 1911-12, 1925-
26), author Lady Tudor Poetry, 1485-
1547; editor The Poems of John Cleveland
with a Biography and Historical Introduction, Modern Essays, and Fourteen Stones
from One Plot, coeditor The Life of
Hemy the Eighth, contributed to Modern
Language Notes, visiting lecturer University of California, summer 1931, associate
fellow Saybrook College (Yale) 1933-35,
fellow 1935-41, and fellow emeritus 1941-
49, honorary member Torch and The
Colony and Berzehus, member Modern
Language Association of America and First
Congregational Church, Toledo.
Married June 25, 1902, in Toledo, Anna
May, daughter of James Scott and Mary
Lurancy (Parker) Rodgers. Daughters:
Mary Anna (Vassar Class of 1925), the wife
of Edward Holloway Wray, Jr, '23; Pamela Rodgers (Vassar Class of 1926); and
Jean Milton (B A Vassar 1937, M S. Yale
1943, PhD 1949).
Death due to cerebral thrombosis Ashes
interred in Forest Cemetery, Toledo. Survived by wife, daughters, and two grandchildren
CLARENCE DeWITT, b.a. 1896 Born
December 26, 1873, New York City; died
August 11, 1948, Miami, Fla
Father, John Evert DeWitt, president
Union Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Portland, Maine, son of Cornelius Wyn-
koop and Charity Hornbeck (Van Gas-
beeck) DeWitt Mother, Naomi Newell
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 30 |
| Transcript | 3° Yale University Obituary Record 49, incorporator Piedmont, Calif, 1907 (city attorney 1907-16) and Albany, Cahf, 1908, instructor in law Hastings College of Law 1904-7, assistant professor 1907-29, professor 1929-43, acting dean 1907-9, dean YMCA Law School 1902-6, founder, and dean San Francisco Law School 1906-23, author Law Dictionary with Pronunciations and Ballentine's Law Dictionary, prepared material for Heyburn's Idaho Laws & Decisions, annotated Civil Code of Idaho, made a digest of Texas Reports (40 vols ), contributor Encyclopedia of Evidence, assisted in revision of Pom- eroy's Equity Jurisprudence and in preparation ot Treadwell's Annotated Codes of California, secretary-treasurer Yale Alumni Association of Cihfornia 1910, on building committee Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, senior warden St Peter's Church (Episcopal), San Francisco Marned October 23, 1901, in Williamsburg, Va, Frances Rebecca, daughter of Edwin Gilliam Booth, M D, and Clara Haxall (Thomson) Booth Children Clara Booth (Mrs Frederick Temple Weeks), Frances Booth (died 1907), James Arthur, Jr , Ellen Truesdale (B A Umv California 1933, Mrs Alexander Hamilton), Mary Lawrence (B A Umv California 1934), Francis Booth, Rosamond Dana (Mrs Charles Coates Horton), and Lucy Edwina (B A Umv California 1939, Mrs Matthew A Little, Jr ). Death followed an operation Buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Cahf. Survived by wife, five daughters, sons, and fifteen grandchildren JOHN MILTON BERDAN, ba 1896 Born July 9, 1873, Toledo, Ohio, died April 3, 1949, New Haven, Conn Father, Peter Frederick Berdan, wholesale grocer, Toledo, son of John and Pamela (Frieze) Berdan Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Ketcham) Berdan, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Sutton) Ketcham Yale relatives include James Berdan (B A 1824) (great- uncle) , James O Rodgers, '98 (brother-in- law) , George M Bodman, '05, Herbert L Bodman, '05, Arthur L Baker, '21 S, William W Baker, '24, James O Rodgers, Jr., '28, Gerald V C Baker, '28 S, LeRoy R Brooks, '33, Lloyd T. Williams, Jr, '39, Wilham Williams, '43 E, Arthur B. Williams, '45 E (nephews) St Paul's School, Concord, NH. High oration appointment Junior and Senior years, one-year honors in English Senior year, Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa PhD 1899 Studied at The Sorbonne 1899-1900, instructor in English literature Polytechnic Institute, Toledo, 1900-1902; on Yale faculty 1903-49 (lecturer rhetoric 1903-4, instructor 1904-6, assistant professor 1908-14; instructor English 1906-8, assistant professor 1914-23, professor 1923-27, Emily Sanford Professor English literature 1927- 41, professor emeritus 1941-49, Daniel S Lamont Memorial Lecturer 1911-12, 1925- 26), author Lady Tudor Poetry, 1485- 1547; editor The Poems of John Cleveland with a Biography and Historical Introduction, Modern Essays, and Fourteen Stones from One Plot, coeditor The Life of Hemy the Eighth, contributed to Modern Language Notes, visiting lecturer University of California, summer 1931, associate fellow Saybrook College (Yale) 1933-35, fellow 1935-41, and fellow emeritus 1941- 49, honorary member Torch and The Colony and Berzehus, member Modern Language Association of America and First Congregational Church, Toledo. Married June 25, 1902, in Toledo, Anna May, daughter of James Scott and Mary Lurancy (Parker) Rodgers. Daughters: Mary Anna (Vassar Class of 1925), the wife of Edward Holloway Wray, Jr, '23; Pamela Rodgers (Vassar Class of 1926); and Jean Milton (B A Vassar 1937, M S. Yale 1943, PhD 1949). Death due to cerebral thrombosis Ashes interred in Forest Cemetery, Toledo. Survived by wife, daughters, and two grandchildren CLARENCE DeWITT, b.a. 1896 Born December 26, 1873, New York City; died August 11, 1948, Miami, Fla Father, John Evert DeWitt, president Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, Portland, Maine, son of Cornelius Wyn- koop and Charity Hornbeck (Van Gas- beeck) DeWitt Mother, Naomi Newell |
