History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . Rev. John Alex. still tills that position. He has also been professor ofGreek in the college. ()n December 23d. i8y8, his only daughter, Alary Evangeline,twenty years of age, was taken to the better land. She had justentered the Junior year in Kansas Lniversity at Lawrence. It isbelieved that overwork in her studies l)rought on the trouble thatterminated a beautiful and promising life. Tames Fisher Tweedy, York City. James Fisher Tweedy, theoldest son of John H. Tweedv,of Danbury, Conn., and Ann
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . Rev. John Alex. still tills that position. He has also been professor ofGreek in the college. ()n December 23d. i8y8, his only daughter, Alary Evangeline,twenty years of age, was taken to the better land. She had justentered the Junior year in Kansas Lniversity at Lawrence. It isbelieved that overwork in her studies l)rought on the trouble thatterminated a beautiful and promising life. Tames Fisher Tweedy, York City. James Fisher Tweedy, theoldest son of John H. Tweedv,of Danbury, Conn., and AnnaMarion Eisher, of iJoston, was l)orn in Alihvaukee,Wisconsin, on the 20th ofATarch. 1849. His father, bornin Danbury. in 1814. was ofScotch-Irish ancestry. He stud-ied in the village schools to pre-pare for Yale, where he wasgraduated from the academicand legal departments. Aftergraduation in 1836, he traveledthrough the West, . and iinallysettled in Alihvaukee, where he engaged in the practice of law,and entered actively into local and state politics. In 1848 he. 194 Class of 70, University of Michigan. was elected territorial delegate to Washington, and there wasintluential in procuring- the admission of \\isconsin into the rankof statehood. He died Xovemlier 12th. 1901, at his home inMilwaukee. James was educated at the private and pul)lic schools of Mil-waukee till his fifteenth year, when he was sent to Phillips ExeterAcademy at Exeter, X. H., to prepare for Harvard College. On completing- the Exeter course, he was induced l\v westernfriends to enter the University of Michigan instead of an Easterninstitution, which he did in Septemher, 1866, with the class of the Freshman and first half of the Sophomore vear at AnnArhor he lived at the Mott hotise, situated opposite the presentgymnasium, then the hall held. There lived the (Juarles hrothers,Joseph, now senator from \\isconsin, and Charles, a prominentlawyer; the former in the law school and the latter
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