Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ourt ofErrors and Appeals of New Jersey. The mother ofJohn J. Phelps was a daughter of Joseph E. Shef-field, founder of the Sheffield Scientific School atYale. The subject of this sketch was fitted forCollege at Siglars School at Newburgh, New York,and graduated from Yale with the Class of spent the ensuing two years in the employ ofFarmers Loan & Trust Company, in New YorkCity, obtaining a comprehensive gr
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ourt ofErrors and Appeals of New Jersey. The mother ofJohn J. Phelps was a daughter of Joseph E. Shef-field, founder of the Sheffield Scientific School atYale. The subject of this sketch was fitted forCollege at Siglars School at Newburgh, New York,and graduated from Yale with the Class of spent the ensuing two years in the employ ofFarmers Loan & Trust Company, in New YorkCity, obtaining a comprehensive grasp of the methods of management of the large financialinterests in the control of which he was to haveso large a share, and since 1885 has devoted him-self to the management of the various enterprises inwhich he is interested. He is a Director of theUnited States Trust Company, the Texas LandCompany, Cayuga & Susquehanna Railroad, Hack-ensack Trust Company, Hackensack Bank, thePennsylvania Brick, Tile & Terra Cotta Company,and is President of the Strong & Trowbridge Com-pany. He has also been for some time a memberof the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Bergen. JOHN JAY PHELPS county. New Jersey. On the outbreak of war withSpain in 1898, Mr. Phelps was commissioned en-sign in the volunteer forces of the United StatesNavy, and served throughout hostilities. He is amember of the University, University Athletic, Yale,and Union League Clubs of New York City, theOrder of Founders and Patriots of America, severalfield and driving clubs, and is an ardent 1885 he built and sailed the schooner yachtBrunhilde around the world from New York City,via England, Suez, India, Chinese ports, San Fran-cisco and around Cape Horn. The Brunhilde wasthe first .\merican yacht to accomplish this. married, April 26, t888, Rose Janet Hutch-inson, and has two children, Dorothy and Rose. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 221 EGBERT, Seneca Princeton A B. in Petroleum Centre, Pa ,
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