Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ta Wicks, daughter WILSON S. BISSELL member of the Board of Visitors at the West PointMilitary .Academy in i885 and was one of the com-missioners to propose amendments to the of New York State Constitution in the first two years of President Clevelandssecond administration he was Postmaster-General ofthe United States, but resigned in 1895 to devotehimself exclusively to private busin
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ta Wicks, daughter WILSON S. BISSELL member of the Board of Visitors at the West PointMilitary .Academy in i885 and was one of the com-missioners to propose amendments to the of New York State Constitution in the first two years of President Clevelandssecond administration he was Postmaster-General ofthe United States, but resigned in 1895 to devotehimself exclusively to private business. In 1893 hewas made Doctor of Laws by Vale. He is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, and is amember of the Buffalo Club and the Universityand Manhattan Clubs of New Vork. Mr. Bissellmarried February 6, 1890, Louise Sturges. Theyhave one child : Margaret Hally Bissell. CURTIS, Frederick Smillie Vale 1869. Born in Stratford. Conn, 1850; graduated Yale Sci-entific School, 1869; Assistant in Chemistry there,1869-70; Chemist to the Scovill Manufacturing Com-pany, ; Professor of Science and Mathematicsat the West Chester (P. A.) Normal School, 1871-72;. FREDERICK. S. CURTIS of Haverlyn Wicks, of New Vork. She was de-scended from Thomas Weeks, of Huntington, LongIsland, through Thomas 2d, Joseph, Ezekiel, Jesse(Wicksj, Haverlyn. Haverlyn Wicks married 26 UNIVERSITIES JND THEIR SONS ^[ary Scudder, and had eleven children, ofwhom Elizabeth Augusta was second. From theStratford Academy, Frederick S. Curtis enteredthe Department of Mining Engineering at theSheffield Scientific School, from which lie wasgraduated in 1869, and while pursuing post-graduate work there the succeeding year, heacted as Assistant in Chemistry, and also pri-vately to Professors Brush and Johnson. He nexttook the post of chemist to the Scovill Manufactur-ing Compan}, Waterbury, Connecticut; was Pro-fessor of Science and Mathematics at the newlyorganized Normal School at West Chester, Pe
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