History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . d. Mr. Culley attended the re-union of his class at Ann Arbor inJune, 1900, and thereafter collected and published and distrilnUed,at his own expense, considerable information concerning the mem-bers of his class. Harlow Palmer Davock, , , Mich. Was Ijorn in Ikiitalo, N. Y.,:\larch nth, 1848. His father,John W. Davock, a dealer inhardware and lock supplies, wasof Irish descent; was born inDublin, Ireland, Init came to thiscountry from Alanchester, Eng-land, in 1832. His mother, MariaDavock, was of New


History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . d. Mr. Culley attended the re-union of his class at Ann Arbor inJune, 1900, and thereafter collected and published and distrilnUed,at his own expense, considerable information concerning the mem-bers of his class. Harlow Palmer Davock, , , Mich. Was Ijorn in Ikiitalo, N. Y.,:\larch nth, 1848. His father,John W. Davock, a dealer inhardware and lock supplies, wasof Irish descent; was born inDublin, Ireland, Init came to thiscountry from Alanchester, Eng-land, in 1832. His mother, MariaDavock, was of New Englanddescent, but was born in NewYork State. Harlow P. mixedself support and education fromthe time he was fourteen years ofage until he was graduated fromthe Buffalo High School in 1865,and then was admitted to the classical course in bothRochester and the present Colgate University, but on accountof the special facilities offered in engineering work took theliterary course of the University of Michigan, working vaca-tions and savins: monev to enable him to carrv on his. Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 81 studies. At the age of 14 he was office boy for the Buffalo & ErieRaih-oad, and afterwards traveHng agent for the same road. Incollege he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the AlphaNu literary society, was for a time one of the editors of theLniiicrsity Clironiclc, a speaker at the first Sophomore exhibitionand was secretary of his class in the Senior year. Immediatelyafter his graduation in 1870, he commenced to practice as a civilengineer; was engaged as such upon different railroads in variousparts of the United States; assisted as U. S. civil engineer in theconstruction of the government locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michi-gan, and the Cascade Locks, Oregon. ^Meantime he had studiedlaw; was admitted to the l)ar in 1878, and resigned from thegovernment service in 1882. He has made the practice of law hischief occupation since that time, taking a hand,


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