Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . Fair-field county in 1875 and established himself atBridgeport, where he has since practised his pro-fession with gratifying success. He was a memberof the Common Council of that city in 1879-1880and of the Board of Aldermen in 1881. In 1883he was City Attorney for Civil Business, and since1881 he has been Director and Secretary of theBridgeport Public Library and Reading 1889 he has been President of th
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . Fair-field county in 1875 and established himself atBridgeport, where he has since practised his pro-fession with gratifying success. He was a memberof the Common Council of that city in 1879-1880and of the Board of Aldermen in 1881. In 1883he was City Attorney for Civil Business, and since1881 he has been Director and Secretary of theBridgeport Public Library and Reading 1889 he has been President of the BridgeportHydraulic Company, a private corporation supplyingthe city and vicinity with water, and has numerous other business connections, among them Secretaryof the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson SteamboatCompany, Director in the Bridgeport Ice Companyand the Standard Association, and Director andSecretary of the Bridgeport Patent Leather Manu-facturing Company. He was President of theBrooklawn Country Club in 1898, and is a memberof the Algonquin and Bridgeport Yacht Clubs, of theYale Club of New York City, and a Trustee of theBridgeport Young Mens Christian CHARLES SHERWOOD January 12, 18S1, Mr. Sherwood married Emma , and has one son, Charles Sherwood, Jr. STOSKOPF. Louis Yale 1865, 1868 —Columbia near Freeport, 111., 1842; fitted for College atMichigan University; graduated Yale, 1865; studiedmedicine at the Chicago Rush Medical College andcompleted his course at the Medical Department ofColumbia; practised medicine in Freeport from 1870,holding many professional positions of trust; died1895. LOUIS STOSKOPF, , Physician, was bornon a farm near Freeport, Illinois, November14, 1842. His father, Valentine Stoskopf, a nativeof Alsace, was one of the sturdy pioneers who laidthe foundation of the present great wealth of Illinois, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 35 and his mother, Catherine Schaub, was also ofAlsace. He receive
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