. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. r of marble, but a recognized authority in geol-ogy, of which he has made a special study. In hisfrequent and long tours abroad, he has had oppor-tunity to gratify his love of art, to which the collec-tion in the gallery of his residence at Hartford, inpainting, as well as in sculpture, attests his taste andjudgment. It was he who settled the affairs of the cured a charter for his company, authorizing it towrite p
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. r of marble, but a recognized authority in geol-ogy, of which he has made a special study. In hisfrequent and long tours abroad, he has had oppor-tunity to gratify his love of art, to which the collec-tion in the gallery of his residence at Hartford, inpainting, as well as in sculpture, attests his taste andjudgment. It was he who settled the affairs of the cured a charter for his company, authorizing it towrite policies covering accidents of all kinds. Tothis was added later a general life insurance Batterson received the degree of Master of Artsfrom Williams in 1868, and from Yale in is a Trustee of Brown University, a member ofthe Society for Biblical Exegesis and an activemember of the Baptist Church. He marriedEunice Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Goodwin,of Hartford, Connecticut, and has two childrenliving: James G., Jr., Vice-President of the NewEngland Granite Works, and Mary Elizabeth, wifeof Charles Coffing Beach (Yale 1896, Colum-bia 1882).. JAMES G. EATTERSi IN sculptor Bartholomew, after the death of that talentedartist at Rome, and brought back to America hisworks. The great accomplishment of Mr. Batter-sons career, and that by which he will always bemost widely known, is the establishment in thiscountry of the business of accident insurance. Hebrought the idea back with him from observationof the system of railway passengers assurance whichhe found in operation in England on his visit therein 1863, and established in Hartford The TravelersInsurance Company, the pioneer in this field, whichhas held its place, under Mr. Battersons presidency,against all followers and imitators. Mr. Battersonsoon saw what possibilities lay in the developmentof the English idea of railway insurance, and pro- BROMLEY, Isaac Hill Yale, Class of 1853, and M
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