Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ed toBar at Pittsburg, 1882; Bar of the Supreme Court ofPennsylvania, 1885 ; practised in Pittsburg since thattime. REMSEN YARICK MESSLER, Lawyer, wasborn in Poughkeepsie, New York, March 8,1858, the son of Thomas Doremas and Maria Rem-sen (Varick) Messier. He is a lineal descendantin the direct male line of Jan Adamsen Metselaer,who emigrated from Holland to .\merica and settledin New Amsterdam about the year 1649
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ed toBar at Pittsburg, 1882; Bar of the Supreme Court ofPennsylvania, 1885 ; practised in Pittsburg since thattime. REMSEN YARICK MESSLER, Lawyer, wasborn in Poughkeepsie, New York, March 8,1858, the son of Thomas Doremas and Maria Rem-sen (Varick) Messier. He is a lineal descendantin the direct male line of Jan Adamsen Metselaer,who emigrated from Holland to .\merica and settledin New Amsterdam about the year 1649. Hismother was a member of an old Dutch family prom-inent in early New York history. He was educatedin the primary schools and Ayers Latin School ofPittsburg, and fitted for College at , Massachusetts, in the Class of 1876. Hethen entered Yale, graduating with the degree ofBachelor of Arts in 1880. During his College courseMr. Messier was a member of the different classsocieties, a member of the Junior Promenade Com-mittee in 1S79 and Chairman of the Class DayCommittee in 1880. On graduation he was ad-mitted, after examination, as a student of law at. REMSEN V. MESSLER Club, being Chairman of the Green Committee ofthe latter organization. He is a Republican inpolitics, but has never held or sought public married December 12, 1883, Agnes Caldwell,of Pittsburg. DENTON, Frank Benjamin Yale, in Middletown, N. Y., 1846; educated at Phil-lips-Andover Academy; graduated Yale, i86g; en-gaged in banking business, 1870-95; retired from activebusiness in that year. FRANK BENJAMIN DENTON, Banker, wasborn in Middletown, New York, October 23,1846, son of Samuel and Pauline (Darling) Denton. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 33 He fitted for College at Phillips Academy, Andover,Massachusetts, graduating in the Class of 1865, andthen entered Yale. While in College he became amember of Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon
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