Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . usanEverett (Greeley) Flanders. His great-grandfatherwas James Flanders (1740-1820), a Revolutionarysoldier and a noted lawyer of his day, who served inthe New Hampshire Legislature fourteen consecutiveterms. Walter Powers Flanders, born in 1805, wasgraduated at Dartmouth in 1831 and practised lawin New London, New Hampshire, till 1848, wlienhe moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died therein 1883. He was a member o
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . usanEverett (Greeley) Flanders. His great-grandfatherwas James Flanders (1740-1820), a Revolutionarysoldier and a noted lawyer of his day, who served inthe New Hampshire Legislature fourteen consecutiveterms. Walter Powers Flanders, born in 1805, wasgraduated at Dartmouth in 1831 and practised lawin New London, New Hampshire, till 1848, wlienhe moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died therein 1883. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature several terras. Susan Everett Greelev,whom he married September 23, 1834, was bornin Newburyport, Massachusetts, January 8, 1811,daughter of Jonathan and Polly Greeley, and herdeath occurred in Milwaukee, May 10, attended the Milwaukee High School, thesubject of this sketch prepared for College atPhillips (Exeter) Academy, completing the regularcourse there in 1861, and after teaching school fora time he entered Yale, from which he was grad-uated with the Class of 1867. His legal studieswere pursued at the Columbia Law School, then. G. FL.^XDERS IMcsided over by Theodore W. Dwight, where hewas graduated in 1869 and was admitted to theliar in New York the same year. Entering intopractice in Milwaukee, he has acquired prominencein the legal profession of that city, and is now amember of the firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith,Bottum & Vilas. Mr. Flanders was a member ofthe Milwaukee School Board, 1875-1877, and ofthe Wisconsin Legislature the latter year; was aDelegate at Large to the National Democratic Con-vention at Chicago in July 1S96, but refused tosanction the silver platform, and in the followingSeptember attended in the same capacity the Li-dianapolis Convention which nominated a nationalticket headed by Messrs. Palmer and Buckner. UNIVERSITIES JND THEIR SONS 27 He is a nu-iiibcr of the Milwaukee, University,Country and Deu
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