. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. al Club andnumerous fraternal associations. On June 4, 1891,he married Lizzie Tobey Lincoln (who died May6, 1892) and has one son : Henry Lincoln Perkins. GRIFFING, Edward Stetson Harvard in Lexington, Mass., 1867 ; educated at Har-vard (1890) and in Germany; in business as a me-chanical engineer, practised law at Saratoga and laterat New York City. E1)W.\RD STfrrSON ;, Lawyer,was born in L
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. al Club andnumerous fraternal associations. On June 4, 1891,he married Lizzie Tobey Lincoln (who died May6, 1892) and has one son : Henry Lincoln Perkins. GRIFFING, Edward Stetson Harvard in Lexington, Mass., 1867 ; educated at Har-vard (1890) and in Germany; in business as a me-chanical engineer, practised law at Saratoga and laterat New York City. E1)W.\RD STfrrSON ;, Lawyer,was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, July29, 1867. His father, Abner .Augustus Griffing,was a descendant of Jasper Griffing, a Welshman UmrERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 455 who came to Long Island about 1675. His mother,Abbie Cliaudler Stetson, was tlescended fromCornet Stetson, who settled in Plymouth county,Massachusetts, about 1635. After being educatedat Phillips-Exeter Academy ami at Dunimer Acad-emy, Mr. Griffing entered Harvard and was gradu-ated in 1S90. He next spent two semesters at theTechnical High School at Charlottenburg, Germany,and then returned to America to engage in business. as a mechanical engineer. In 1894 he took up theprofession of law at Saratoga Springs and in April189S removed his office to New York City. WELLS, David Ames Harvard 1851, in Springfield, Mass., 1828; graduated Wil-liams, 1847; Harvard Scientific School, 1851 ; publisher1851-66; U. S. Special Commissioner of the Revenue,1866-70; Commissioner on local taxation, N. Y., 1870-72; Lecturer on Political Science. Yale, 1872; (Hon.) Berkshire Med. Coll., 1863; Williams,1871, Harvard 1889; Lecturer at Harvard, 1889-90;prolific writer on economic subjects ; died i8g8. AMES WELLS, , Economist,was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, June17, 182S. He was a lineal descendant of ThomasWelles, Governor of Connecticut in 1655, and on his mothers side of David Ames who built the Ar
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