Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . merican descent as is possible of anyfamily of English ancestry. John .Ashley, his great-grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War,and several other collateral ancestors served duringthe Colonial and Revolutionary Wars. The firstmember of the family in this country settled inConnecticut in 1637. He was educated at a privateschool in Bloomfield, New Jersey, later attendingthe Montclair Higii School, and en
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . merican descent as is possible of anyfamily of English ancestry. John .Ashley, his great-grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War,and several other collateral ancestors served duringthe Colonial and Revolutionary Wars. The firstmember of the family in this country settled inConnecticut in 1637. He was educated at a privateschool in Bloomfield, New Jersey, later attendingthe Montclair Higii School, and entered the Sopho-more Class in the School of .Arts of Columbia in1875, graduating as Bachelor of .Arts in on graduation Mr. Spalding engagedin business life. He was occupied with manufac-turing interests in Middletown, Connecticut, during1879 and 1880, and connected with an organfactory in Bloomfield, New Jersey, during the fol-lowing year. In 1881 he returned to New Yorkand went into the Peoples Bank as general assist-ant, where he remained until the end of in 1884 he entered the employ of the BoweryBank as bookkeeper, and in 1890 became teller in. JOSEPH \V. SP.^LDING Lodge. He is a member of the New York .Athleticand the New Rochelle Rowing Clubs, the .Association and several other societies. Hehas never taken an active interest in politics. married, August 25, 1885, Florence , and they have three children : Lester Holt,Leone Florence and Samuel Clyde Spalding. CRAVATH, Paul Drennan Columbia , in Berlin Heights, O., 1861; educated in Brook-lyn Polytechnic Institute and in Europe; OberlinCollege, 1882; in course; , Columbia LawSchool, 1886, taking the prize instructorship, which heheld three years; began practice as a member of the UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 153 firm of Carter, Hughes & Cravath, and since 1899 amember of the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Steele. PAUL DRP:NNAN cravath, Lawye
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