The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11
THELkTE FRANCIS WAYLAND
4 SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND USE
 FULNESS.

or Distinguished Ancestry, He Honored
 His Henored Name, the city and Yale
 Universify-His Devotion and Bril-
 liant Work for Yale Law School
 many other Fields of Usefulness.
 In the death of Francis Wayland. there has passed away a most estima- ble citizen, one whom all delighted to honor, a man of noble presence and noble character, a citizen influential and interested in all that pertained to the welfare of the city which for the greater part of his life had been his home, man whose presence as presid- ing officer on public occasions lent dlg- nifty to the office and altogether citl- zen whose death is not only a loss to the city but to the state and nation. Coming here a young man compara- lively full of strength and vigor he at once entered into the practice of law and early became a factor in the higher type of our local politics and here in the city of his adoption his influence eHQ ldlGutG were 4c1b dllu SNSA OAA eAAS side of purer politics and higher ambi- tions. Of distinguished and command ing presence, unusually handsome. genial and with an unfailing fund of ready hurnor, and a man of distin- guished family, and ancestry, he at once was marked as a man sure to ad- vance rapidly in public life. Perhaps no citizen of note was more generally known to the public at large than he owing to his almost daily practice of horseback riding, and none made finer figure than he when mounted up- on a splendid horse, he rode in prince ly style. He early became associated with the states military corps of off, cers and for years was a member of the staff of the late Major General Rus sell and a splendid figure he made among the mounted officers in reviews and other state military occasions. But as years went on he devoted more and more of his time to the practice of his profession and to the forces that make for the amelioration of the condition of the poor and of the prisoners in our reforma tories, jails and penitentiaries. He also occasionally lectured in the Yale Law school Cor Kent club, pub-l lie courses of lectures which were att tended by the most cultured and refined classes. his lectures being graced with the refined and enjoyable hunlor which was one of his characteristics. Called by Yale to become dean of Yale Law school he devoted his energies to the welfare of that department of the uni- versity and with magnificent success, having the great satisfaction of realiz- ing, when at last through physical de- cline, unable to longer remain at the helm, that the growth of the school had been phenomenally great and not only in numbers but also in character and influence. For the greater part of his life his home had been on the beau tiful estate on Whitney avenue, which is one of the finest in the city or state and which, originally in the city's sub- urbs, is now lovely private park with to and beyond it, reaching out Whitney avenue to the city line, mile away.
 Francis Wayland died Saturday af- ternoon at his home. For the last ten days his condition had been serious. Symptoms of diabetes developed less than two weeks since and Dr. Thomas H. Russell, the family physician, had been directing his treatment with hope of aneliorating his condition and of extending his life, but with no pros pect of effecting a recovery. On Satur- day morning his lungs began to fill and symptoms of acute bronchitis appear ed. This could not be controlled and to this complication the venerable and much beloved director of a leading de- partment of Yale succumbed.
 It is now nearly three years since Dean Wayland was suddenly attacked with a rather remarkable stoppage of the circulation of the blood in one of his legs. He had been in his usual health till the time of his illness but was suddenly prostrated. Specialists were called and pronounced it type of embolisn not frequently met. From active duties at the head of the law school he was compelled to give his attention to his own recovery and right manfolly he fohght his disease for two years. It was seen, however, from the
  gressive head of the law school was past. The breakdown of the dean oc- cured when the spring term had just ended and he was about to start on his summer vacation.
 By the time the fall term opened the corporation of the university had decided to name Professor Theodore s. Woolsey the acting dean. He contin- ued in this capacity till last spring when Dean Wayland decided not to hold nominally the position of the dictatorship of the school any longer and his formal resignation was hand ed to the Yale authorities, who elect ed Professor Henry Wade Rogers, for merly president of the Northwestern university, as the new dean. Professor Rogers assumed charge of the school at the beginning of the fall term.
 At that time Dean Wayland seemed much better. His leg had never re- covered it's strength and he was un- able to walk freely but otherwise he was in excellent health physically. He had never ceased to be in tip-top men, tai vitality. During the past fall the venerable ex-dean had been somewhat familiar figure on the streets of the city driving about in his carriage. His return to the joy of living was by no means quite complete but the lim- ited amount he was able to enjoy gave k |. T