Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . eas. of the James Company, 1890-96, and President since 1896. WILLI.\M STUART KENNY, President ofthe James H. Rice Company of Chicago,lUinois, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 26,1855 ; the son of John and Emilie Augusta (Par-rott) Kenny. He was educated in youth at aschool in York, Pennsylvania, and later at RussellsSchool in New Haven, and entered Yale in 1871,graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1875
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . eas. of the James Company, 1890-96, and President since 1896. WILLI.\M STUART KENNY, President ofthe James H. Rice Company of Chicago,lUinois, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 26,1855 ; the son of John and Emilie Augusta (Par-rott) Kenny. He was educated in youth at aschool in York, Pennsylvania, and later at RussellsSchool in New Haven, and entered Yale in 1871,graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1875. He readlaw with the Hon. John Gibson, late a Judge of theCommon Pleas Court of York county, Pennsylvania,was admitted to the Bar in 1877, and after prac-tising for a year in York removed to Bismarck, inwhat was then the Territory of Dakota. He assistedin organizing the First National Bank there, andacted as its Cashier until 1S82, when he becameconnected with a bank in Chicago. From 1887 to1890 he was associated with the German NationalBank of Denver, Colorado, and in the latter yearreturned to Chicago and became Secretary andTreasurer of the James H. Rice Company, dealers. KENNY, William Stuart • ^- ^^^^^ Yale 1875. Born in Baltimore, Md., 1855; educated in private in plate and window glass. In 1896, on the death schools in York, Pa., and New Haven; graduated of James H. Rice, he assumed the Presidency and Vale, 1875; read law and admitted to the Bar, 1877; , , , , , . , • , , 1 ^- J ? r> 1 ? r , , J general charge of the bnsmess, which he has smce practised in Pennsylvania for a year and then removed B*-- i,iiai£,<- <ji mv- u^^cm^ , to Bismarck, North Dakota ; Cashier, First National directed. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 395 MEAD, George Washington Yale 1851, 1853, in Lewisboro, N. Y., 1827; fitted for Collegeprivately; graduated Yale, 1851; Yale Law School,1853; practised his profession in Brooklyn; President,New York, Housatoni
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