The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-03
HEREDITARY YALE FAMILIES.

| Some weeks ago James o. Denniston
of the class of 1856, after laborious
task, gave the results of certain compi-
| lations of figures from the last triennial
catalogue of 1898. He showed that it
contained the names of S,449 graduates,
having about 1900 different surnames, OF
which however, 800 surnames represent
ed 9,007 graduates, or about half the
whole number-in other words, about
one-twelfth of the families represented
by surnames supplied almost fifty per
cent. of the Yale graduates, living and
dead, in all departments of the univer-
sity up to 1899. The surnames of these
hereditary Yale families represented
| by groups of ten graduates or more,
We're not given by Mr.. Denniston They
| have genealogical, as well as academic,
| interest and are here annexed
| Abbott, Adams, Alexander, Allen, An
derson, Andrews, Armstrong, Arnold,
Ashley, Atwater, Austin, Avery, Ayres,
Babeock, Bacllus, Bacon, Bailey, Baker,
Baldwin, Banks, Barbour, Barker, Bar
nard, Barnes, Bartlett, Bates, Beach,
Beard, Beardsley, Beckwith, Beecher,
Beers, Belden, Bell. Benedict Bennett,
Belts, Bigeow, Bidwell, Billings, Bing-
ham, Bishop Bissell, Blake, Bliss,
Boardman, Booth, Botsford, Bowen,
Brace. Bradley, Barnard, Brainerd,
Brewer, Brewster, Briggs, Brlnsmade,
Bristol, Bronson Brooks, Brown, Buck,
Buckingham, Buel, Buckley Bull, Burn
ham, Burr, Bush, Bushnell, Butler,
| Caldwell, Camp, Campbell. Carpenter,
| Darlington, Garter, Catlin, Chamber
| lain, Chandler, Chaplin, Chapman.
| Chase, Chauncey, Cheney, Chester,
Childs, Chittenden, Church Churchill,
Clapp, Clark Clarke, Cleveland, Cobb,
Colt, Coe Coleman, Collins Cotton,
Comstock, Cone, Cook, Cooke Cooley,
Cooper, Cowles, Cox, Crane, Crosby,
Curtis, Curtiss, Cutler Daggett, Dana,
Darling Davenport, Davies. Davis, Day,
| De Forest, Deming, Denison, Dickinson.
| Dodge, Doolittle, Douglass, Dubois,
Dudley, Dutton, Dwight, Eaton, Ed
wards, Eells, Eliot, Ellsworth, Ely, EN-
erson. Evans, Ewing, Fem, Field Fish
er, Fisk, Fitch, Foot, Foote, Ford, Fos-
ter, Fowler Franklin, French, Frost,
Fuller, Gale, Gardiner, Gaylord, Gibson,
| Gilbert, Goddard, Gold, Goodrich, Good
win. Gordon, Gould, Grant Graves,
Gray, Green, Greene, Gregory, Gridley
Grggs, Grlswold, Hale Hall, Hamilton,
Hamlin, Hammond, Harris, Harrison,
Hart, Haskell, - Hatch, Hawley, Hayes,
Hedges, Herrick Hill, Hillhouse
Hinckley, Hine, Hitchcock, Holden, Hol-
lister. Holmes, Holt, Hooker, Hopkins,
Hotchkiss, Hough Howard, Howe,
Hoyt, Hubbard Hubbell, Hull, Hunt,
! Huntington, Hutchins, Hyde, 1ngersoll,
Ives, Tsham, jackson, James, Jennings,
Jewett, Johnston, Johnson, Jones, Judd,
| Judson, Kellogg, Kennedy, Kent, KIM
! ball, King, Knapp, Knight. Lamb, Lam
bert, Lathrop, Law, Lane, Lawrence,
Leavenworth, Leavitt Lee, Leonard,
Lewis. Little, Lockwood. LOOMS, Lord,
Lymtu. Lynde, Lyon, Mansfield, Marsh
Marshall, Marvin, Mather, Mead, Mer-
ril. Merwin, Mills. Miller, Minor,
Mitchell, Moore, Morgan, Morris,
Morse, Moseey, Munger, Munson, Muir
ray, Nelson, Newell, Newton, Nichols,
! Norris, North, Northrop, Norton,
Noyes, Olmstead, Osborn, Owen, Page,
Palmer Parker, Parsons, Patterson,
Peck, Peet Perkins, Perry Peters,
! Phelps, Pierce, Pierson, Pitkin, Platt,
Pond, Porter, Potter, Powell, Pratt,
RAYMOND Reid, Reed, Reynolds, Rice,
| Richards, RICHARDSON, Ripley, Robbins,
Roberts, Robinson, Rockwell, Rogers,
| Root, Rowland, Russell, Sage, St John,
Salstonstall, Sanford, Sargent Saund-
ers, Sawyer, Scott, Selden, Seward, Sey-
mour, Shaw, Sheldon, Shelton, Shepard,
Sherman, Sherwood Sill, Siliman,
Skinner, Smith, Spalding, Spencer,
Sprague, Stanton, Starr, Stearns, Steele,
Sterling, Stevens, Stewart, Stiles, Stod-
dard, Stone, Storrs, Strong, Sturges,
Sumner, Swift, Taft, Talcott, Taylor,
Terry, Thacher, Thayer,, Thomas,
Thompson Thomson, Todd, Tomlnson,
Townsend, Tracy, Treat, Trowbridge,
Trumbull, Tucker, Turner, futile, Ty-
Ter, Wadsworth Waite, Wales, Walker,
Ward, Warner, Warren, waterman.
Watson, Webster, WEIGH, Welles, Wells,
Wetmore, Wheeler, White, Whiting,
Whitney, Whttlesey Whittelley, Whit
temore. Wilcox, Willard, Williams, Will
SON winthrop, Writer, Wolcott, Wood
| Woodbridge woodruff, Woodruff,
| Woodward, Wright Young.
There are a few more surnames in the
| foregoing tnan the j9U T6IelTeu 10 ny
Mr. Denniston, owing, probably to the
fact that he united groups in which
surnames have slight difference in
spelling. The extreme prevalence of the
Puritan and English names will be
noticed, the list, in fact, hardly sup
plying one of other extraction if we al
low for the Anglicizing of Continental
surnames The list however, derives
most of its English and Puritan
strength from the first half of the pres
ent century, and the first century Of the
college. Thus, Mr.. Denniston cited as
singularly "elect family Of Yale
the Huntingtons, with siXty-five names
on the graduate list. Yet in the annual
Yale catalogue for the present college
year. containing the name of almost
9. 700 undergraduates and graduates,
that surname does not appear even
once.
The ninth Yale-Harvard debate will
be held May y at Cambridge. Harvard
will have the choice of subjects and
Yale of Sides AS usual, the names of
twenty persons Tor judges Will De Sc
lected--in this case by Harvard-of
whom will choose six, and from these
the three judges will be chosen, Fol
lowing the debate of the Yale Union
with the Sheffield Debating society last
Wednesday, night won by the Union,