Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-21
PENN DEGREES FOR
SIX PROMINENT MEN
Sketches of Honor Recipients
Reveal Interesting Careers
of Public Service

received honorary degrees touhy from
the University of Pennsylvania
Rear Admira! William Sowden Sims
Doctor Of Laws. Born at Port Hope.
Canada. October 10. 1858, the son oi
Alfred William and Adelaide (Sowden)
Sims. He was appointed to the United
States Naval Academy from Pennsyl-
vania in 1880. He was promoted
through various grades to the rank OF
commander on July i, 1907. He was
made captain on March 4, 1911, rear
admiral on January 5, 1917 and vice
admiral on May %, 1917. After being
continuously in service with the navy
in various capacities here and abroad,
he was made commander of the Atlantic
torpedo hotilla in 1918. On April %
American naval operations in European
versity Club of Philadelphia, the New
York Yacht Club and the Army and
Naval Club, Washington.
Judge George Boal Orlady-Doctor
of Laws. Born at Petersburg, Pa.
February %, 1850, the son Of DR.,
Henry and Martha G. (Boal) Orlatls
He was educated in the public school:
and attended Pennsylvania State Col
lege one year. 1854 1855. He gradu
ated from Washington and Jefferson
College in 1870 and received the degree
of doctor of laws from this institution
in 1898. He graduated from Jefferson
Medical College of this city in 1871,
He was admitted to the bar in February
1875. He was appointed Judge of the
Superior Court of PENNSYLVANIA in
July, 1895 and in 1896, 1906 and 1915
e-elected for terms of ten years each.
He was Grand Master of the Masons
of Pennsylvania in 1908 1900 and was
president of the Pennsylvania State
Bar Association in 1913.
Edward ]. Fox, doctor of laws, borr
at Easton. Pa, April 3, 1858, the sol
of Edward J. and Mary Wilson Fox
He was graduated from LAFAYETTE Col
lege in 1878 with the degree of A. b
He received the degree of A. NJ. in 1SSI
from the same institution. He was ad
| mitted to the bar in 1880. He was ap.
| pointed justice of the Pennsylvani;
State Supreme Court in June, 1918.
! Theodore William Richards, docto
of laws, born in Germantown in 1868
the son of William 7. Richards, painte
of landscapes and marines. He entere,
the sophomore class at Haverford Col
lege at the age of fifteen and was grad
uated in 1885. He was graduated from
Harvard in 1856 with the degree of L
A. and with the highest honors in chem
istry. He took the degrees of A. M
and Phi. D. in 1888. After studying il
Europe he returned to Harvard in 1S8!
and rose to professor of chemistry an,
80 Ia Lh, 10
Laboratory. In 1916 he received III
Franklin medal from the Franklin In
stittte, of this city.
Herbert Adams Gibbons. doctor O
April 8, 1880. He attended the viii
liam Penn Charter School, of Philadel
phia, and from there went to the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. where he re
ceived the degree of B. A. in 1902. H
received his NJ. A. degree from Prince
ton in 1907 and the degree of Phi. d
from the same university in 1913.
, During the world war and the nego
tiations of the Peace Conference Docto
Gibbons lived in Paris. AS the specia
correspondent for a number Of America
periodicals he came in contact FIRE
quently with leaders Of the Allied an
associated powers. lie was decorate
by the French Government with th
Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The Rev. DR.. Robert Johnston, doc
/ tor of sacred theology, rector of tn
Church of the Savior, came from Edin
burgh. Scotland, eleven years ago. Fl
has had wide experience in the minis
; try, having served in England. Canada
i Scotland, as we'll as in the Unite
States, of Shich he is citizen. Hi
theological education was obtained 9
st. Augusrine's Church. Here
graduated with honors in theology. Doc
/, tor Johnston was ordained in 1895 b
Bishop Wilberforce. After five year
in Canada he returned to England
where he was put in charge of s
, Georges Church Canterbury. Viii
: in charge of st. Iartin's, Edinburgh
! he visited CO ada and was invited
| speak at the annual convention of til
brotherhood of st. Andrew, at Mi
; waukee. As a result he received ca
to the Church of the Saviour, Philade
phia.
:, In 1913 Kings College, Nova Scotii
= conferred on him the degree of d. G.