Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ther. General William Washington Gordon(Yale 1854), was a Brigadier-General of UnitedStates Volunteers during the late war with Spain,and a member of the Porto Rican Peace Commis-sion. On the maternal side he is a descendant inthe eighth generation of Captain Timothy Dwight(1630-1707), the sixth in descent from GovernorRoger Wolcott (i 704-1 767) Governor of Connecti-cut ; and John Kinzie, the first white settler i
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ther. General William Washington Gordon(Yale 1854), was a Brigadier-General of UnitedStates Volunteers during the late war with Spain,and a member of the Porto Rican Peace Commis-sion. On the maternal side he is a descendant inthe eighth generation of Captain Timothy Dwight(1630-1707), the sixth in descent from GovernorRoger Wolcott (i 704-1 767) Governor of Connecti-cut ; and John Kinzie, the first white settler in Chicago, Illinois, was his great-grandfather. Hav-ing attended St. Pauls School, Concord, NewHampshire, five years, he took the regular coursein Civil Engineering at the Sheffield ScientificSchool of Yale, graduating in 1886, and after spend-ing a year in the cotton business, he studied law atColumbia, graduating and being admitted to theNew York Bar in 1889. He took a further courseat the Lumpkin Law School, University of Georgia,and was admitted to the Bar of that state in that time he has practised law in Gordon was Secretary of the Savannah Park. \\M. W. GUIUJON, JR. and Tree Commission from 1896 to 1898, andin January of the latter year was made a Directorof the Southern Bank of the State of Georgia. Inthe late Spanish-American War, he served as Second-Lieutenant in the Eighth United States Volunteersand Aide-de-Camp to his father, being the fourthof his family in a direct line to hold a military com-mission in the service of the United States. Hewas also an attache of the Porto Rican Peace Com-mission. He is a Second Lieutenant in the firstRegiment of Cavalry, Georgia Volunteers, the onlyregiment of Cavalry in the National Guard of theUnited States ; and was a member of the regimentalteam which won the first prize and the cup trophyin the military revolver contest which took place I70 7 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS in September 1899, at Sea Girt,
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