Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . his father he is descended from old Col-onial stock, the first member of the family havingcome from England and settled in New Havenabout 1650. His mothers family, also originallyEnglish, have been residents of New York since1750. Sherman Morse received his early educationand prepared for College at the Fort Hill Schoolunder the Rev. James Hattrick Lee at Canandaigua,and entered Yale in 1SS7, graduating
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . his father he is descended from old Col-onial stock, the first member of the family havingcome from England and settled in New Havenabout 1650. His mothers family, also originallyEnglish, have been residents of New York since1750. Sherman Morse received his early educationand prepared for College at the Fort Hill Schoolunder the Rev. James Hattrick Lee at Canandaigua,and entered Yale in 1SS7, graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1891. Immediately upon graduation hebegan newspaper work. He was reporter for theBuff;\lo Courier and the Buffalo Express for sometime. He then became Telegraph Editor of theBuffalo News and later its City Editor. Mr. Morseis now Manager of the Niagara Falls Gazette Pub-lishing Company, publishers of the Daily Gazette,and conducting a general printing and book-bind-ing While at College he became a mem-ber of the Zeta Psi, and is also a member of theLniversity Club of Buffalo and the Buffalo PressClub. His political sentiments are SHERMAN MORSE He married, November 28, 1894, KatharineDouglas Lansing of Burlington, New Jersey. Theyhave two children : Lansing and Barbara Morse. TRACY, Evarts Yale in New York City, 1868; fitted for College atJohn Leals School, Plainfield, N. J. ; graduated Yale,i8go; studied architecture in the office of McKim,Mead & White, New York City, and at the Ecoledes Beaux Arts, Paris; practised his profession inNew York City since 1897. EVARTS TRACY, Architect, was born in NewYork City, May 23, 1868. His parentswere Jeremiah Evarts and Martha Sherman (Greene)Tracy. The first member of the family in this UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 465 country was Stephen Tracy, who came from Eng-land in 1623. Roger Sherman, signer of theDeclaration of Independence, was a great-great-grandfather of the subject of
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