Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . JAMES H. WHEELER ber 21, 1862, Anna Draper, daughter of Eli Frenchof New York City, and had four children, two ofwhom are now living: Herbert Rogers, of Boston,and May Hale Wheeler. Dr. Wheeler died inDover, January 26, 1893. WELLS, James Simpson Chester Columbia 1875, in Brooklyn. N. Y.; fitted for College at theBrooklyn Polytechnic Institute; graduate of theSchool of Mines at Columbia, 1875 ;
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . JAMES H. WHEELER ber 21, 1862, Anna Draper, daughter of Eli Frenchof New York City, and had four children, two ofwhom are now living: Herbert Rogers, of Boston,and May Hale Wheeler. Dr. Wheeler died inDover, January 26, 1893. WELLS, James Simpson Chester Columbia 1875, in Brooklyn. N. Y.; fitted for College at theBrooklyn Polytechnic Institute; graduate of theSchool of Mines at Columbia, 1875 ; Assistant inAnalytical Chemistry, 1875-79 ; Instructor since 1879. JAMES SL^SON CHESTER WELLS, ,Instructor in Analytical Chemistry at Colum-bia, was born in ]?rooklyn, New York. Through 5 8 UNIVERSiriES AND THEIR SONS his father, James Simpson Wells, he comes of anold New England family, the first member of whichin this country was Hugh Welles, who left Col-chester, fjigland, and came to New England in. JAS. S. C. WELI^ 1630. James Simpson Chester Wells received hisearly education in the public schools of his nativecity, and afterwards took a course at the BrooklynPolytechnic Institute, fitting himself for the Schoolof Mines of Columbia. He graduated from thelatter Institution in 1875, and immediately on hisgraduation was appointed Assistant in AnalyticalChemistry. He held this position for four yearswhen he was given his present position in the Uni-versity. Mr. Wells married in 1883 Alice Jacob-son. They have one child, Josephine Aikens is not bound by the trammels of partisan alle-giance, supporting always the best man for publicoffice irrespective of party. He is a member ofthe London Chemical Society, the Society of Chem-ical Industry and the Deutsche ElectrochemischeGesellschaft and other scientific societies. A Modern Law, University of Leyden, 1874; practisedlaw in Rotterdam, 1874-79; , Columbia LawSchool, 1882; admitted to New York Bar, 1884; hasprac
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