Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . olding that position to the time of his death. Heedited seventeen volumes of Reports. He was amember of the Massachusetts Historical Society anda fellow of the .American .Academy. Dartmouthmade him an honorary Master of .-Vrts in 1794, andHarvard conferred upon him the degree of Doctorof Laws in 1823. From 1S15 to 1821 he was amember of the Board of Overseers of Harvard. Hedied in Newburyport, August i, 1829. UNIVE
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . olding that position to the time of his death. Heedited seventeen volumes of Reports. He was amember of the Massachusetts Historical Society anda fellow of the .American .Academy. Dartmouthmade him an honorary Master of .-Vrts in 1794, andHarvard conferred upon him the degree of Doctorof Laws in 1823. From 1S15 to 1821 he was amember of the Board of Overseers of Harvard. Hedied in Newburyport, August i, 1829. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 21 I BALL, Charles Backus Yale in New Haven, Conn., 1854; graduated HighSchool, Warren, O., 1876; studied at Conn. StateNormal School: graduated Yale Scientific School, 1880;Civil Engineer; Assistant Examiner U. S. PatentOffice 1886-87; Assistant Engineer Sewer Department,1887-94; Inspector of Plumbing, District of Columbia. CHARLES B.\CKUS , Civil Engineer,was born in New Haven, Connecticut,August 31, 1854, the son of Charles and SarahLathrop (Backus) Ball. His paternal ancestors,who are traceable through five generations, resided. CHARLES B. BALL tion on the New Haven & Northampton, Burling-ton & Missouri River, and the New York, ^^?estShore & Buffalo Railroads, and while at work uponthe last named line he resided in Newburgh, NewYork, from December 1881, to June 1884. Hisnext employment was as Superintendent of Con-struction of the Flower Street Bridge, Hartford,Connecticut, a flat brick arch of seventy-seven feetspan, and for the succeeding two years was FieldAssistant on the Potomac River Improvement atWashington, District of Columbia. Passing a suc-cessful competitive examination by the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission he was in October1886, appointed an Assistant Examiner in theMetal-Working Division of the United StatesPatent Office, but resigned in the following Juneto become Assistant Engineer in the Sewer Divi-sion of
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