Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ton College in recognition of it. married, in August 1833, Frances ElizaLothrop of Utica, New York, a niece of President RAWSON, Edward Kirk Yale in Albany, N. Y., 1846; educated at AlbanyAcademy; graduated Yale, 1868; spent one year atYale Theological Seminary, and graduated from An-dover Theological Seminary, 1872 ; taught for a year atCollegiate and Commercial Institute, New
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ton College in recognition of it. married, in August 1833, Frances ElizaLothrop of Utica, New York, a niece of President RAWSON, Edward Kirk Yale in Albany, N. Y., 1846; educated at AlbanyAcademy; graduated Yale, 1868; spent one year atYale Theological Seminary, and graduated from An-dover Theological Seminary, 1872 ; taught for a year atCollegiate and Commercial Institute, New , U. S. N., 1871-90; Prof, of Mathematics,U. S. N., 1890-97; Librarian, Navy Dept. Library, andSupt of Naval War Records since 1897. EDWARD KIRK RAWSON, long a Chaplainin the United States Navy, was born inAlbany, New York, February 21, 1846, son ofThomas Reed and Louisa Warner (Dawes) is eighth in direct descent from EdwardRawson, first Secretary of the Colony of Massachu-setts, who landed at Newbury in 1632 and afterwardssettled in Boston. On his mothers side he is alsodescended from old New England stock. Mr. Raw-son graduated from the Albany Academy in 1863,. E. K. and after serving for two years as a clerk in theProvost-Marshals office at Springfield, Massachu-setts, entered the Sophomore Class at Yale in 1S65,graduating in 186S. He spent the following years 2l6 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS at the Yale Theological Seminary, and later studiedat the Andover Theological Seminary, graduatingthere in 1872, also teaching for a year of this period1868-1869 in the Collegiate Commercial Instituteat New Haven, Connecticut. He was appointed aChaplain in the United States Navy in 1871, andspent the year January 1873 to January 1874 travel-ling in Europe. He served successively on theSouth Pacific station and in training-ships, wasordered to the United States Naval Academy in1886 as Chaplain, and remained there until 1890,acting as head of the English Department dur
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