He was killed in a railroad accident in 1909. Mr. Cleveland was the Stafford Little lecturer until his death in 1908. A lawyer by profession, Little was active in New Jersey politics and was the first president of the New York and Long Branch Railroad Company. He died, greatly mourned, in 1904. By direction of the executors, at least one-half of the income of this foundation is to be used for a series of public lectures before the University annually on subjects of scientific interest.
Provision is made for publication of the lectures.
Vanuxem pursued a career in insurance, eventually specializing in insurance law. He died in 1903. So reported the Princeton Alumni Weekly in 1941. Walter E. Edge Lectures in Public and International Affairs Founded in 1957 in memory of Walter E. Edge, LL.D. 1946, who served twice as Governor of New Jersey and also as United States Senator and Ambassador to France. The lectureship is supported by a bequest from his estate assigned to the University by his family, and supplemented by additional gifts from them, as a means of bringing to Princeton eminent statesmen from abroad as well as leaders in American public life.