. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. married, August 25, 1885, Florence , and they have three children : Lester Holt,Leone Florence and Samuel Clyde Spalding. CRAVATH, Paul Drennan Columbia in Berlin Heights, O., 1861 ; educated in Brook-lyn Polytechnic Institute and in Europe; A B. OberlinCollege, 1882; in course; LL Columbia LawSchool, 1886, taking the prize instructorship, which heheld three years; began
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. married, August 25, 1885, Florence , and they have three children : Lester Holt,Leone Florence and Samuel Clyde Spalding. CRAVATH, Paul Drennan Columbia in Berlin Heights, O., 1861 ; educated in Brook-lyn Polytechnic Institute and in Europe; A B. OberlinCollege, 1882; in course; LL Columbia LawSchool, 1886, taking the prize instructorship, which heheld three years; began practice as a member of the UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 153 firm of Carter, Hughes & Cravath, and since 1899 amember of the firm of Seward. Guthrie & Steele. PAUL CRAVATH, Lawyer, wasborn in Berlin Heights, Ohio, July 14, 1861,son of Erastus Milo and Ruthana (Jackson) Cravath. Steele. He is a member of the University andUnion League Clubs, the New England and OhioSocieties and the Republican Club, although he hasnever taken an active interest in politics. He mar-ried, November 13, 1893, Agnes Huntington, andthey have one child: Vera Agnes D. Through his father he is descended from an old Mas-sachusetts family, and his mothers ancestors, whowere Quakers, have resided in Chester county,Pennsylvania, for eight generations. He receivedhis early education in the Brooklyn Polytechnic In-stitute, then studied abroad for two years, and onhis return to this country entered Oberlin College,graduating in 1882 and subsequently receiving thedegree of Master of Arts from the same was graduated from Columbia Law School in1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, c/niilaude, took the first municipal law prize and theprize instructorship for that year. He continued asprize instructor at Columbia Law School for threeyears. Mr. Cravath began professional work as alaw student in the office of Carter, Hornblower &Byrne, and upon the dissolutio
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