. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. is family participated in the Rev-olutionary War. Dr. Grant was educated in thepublic schools of Lockport, Illinois, and at BeloitCollege, and graduated at Yale in 1869 as Bachelorof Arts. He received the degree of Master of Artsfrom Yale in 1872. From 1869 to 1874 he wasengaged in teaching in the Academy at Lake Forest,Illinois, and from 1874 to 1879 in pedagogical workin Chicago. After a year spent in European t
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. is family participated in the Rev-olutionary War. Dr. Grant was educated in thepublic schools of Lockport, Illinois, and at BeloitCollege, and graduated at Yale in 1869 as Bachelorof Arts. He received the degree of Master of Artsfrom Yale in 1872. From 1869 to 1874 he wasengaged in teaching in the Academy at Lake Forest,Illinois, and from 1874 to 1879 in pedagogical workin Chicago. After a year spent in European travel hereturned to Chicago as Principal of the HarvardSchool for Boys, and since 1892 has also beenDean of the Kenwood Institute for Girls. He wasadmitted to the Bar of Illinois in 1892, but hasnever practised law. Fargo College in 1897 con-ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Hehas been very successful in the work which he hasundertaken: twice during his career he has beencalled to, and declined. College Harvard School — a private institution — is thelargest of its kind in the Northwest, and from itmore young men have entered Yale and Harvard. JOHN C. GR.\NT died in 1883, leaving one child, Susan CowlesGrant. In 1886 he married Anna Foote Coffin, ofWiscasset, Maine, by which marriage he also hasone child, Mary Foote Grant. The motto StandFast of the Grant family, has been frequently illus-trated by the tenacity and directness of purpose thathas been a characteristic of Dr. Grants life. DILL, James Brooks Vale 1876. Born in Spencerport. N. Y., 1854; graduated Yale,1876; at the University of New York Law School, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 195 1878; corporation law specialist in New York City;actively interested in financial and business enter- JAMES BROOKS DILL, Lawyer, born inSpencerport, Monroe county, New York, July25, 1854; son of Rev. James Horton and Catha-rine (Brooks) Dill. Her father was a native ofBoston. Massachusetts, and his mo
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