Yale University. Class Of
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...Residence--20 West Twelfth Street, New York City Business address--30 Broad Street, New York City Born April 24, 1854, in Baltimore, Md., the son of Henry and Amelia(Cate) James. He was prepared by a private tutor. He was married September 21, 1891, in East Hampton, L. I., to Miss Laura Brevoort Sedgwick (died November 1, 1907), daughter of William Ellery Sedgwick (deceased), a lawyer, of New York City and Lenox, Mass. They had two children: Dorothy, born in New York City, May 15, 1892. William Ellery Sedgwick, born in East Hampton, L. I., August 4, 1895. James writes: "Immediately after graduation I spent two years in Europe attending lectures at Jena and at the University of Berlin, coquetting with the arts and sciences and traveling in the intervals. I had Robbins, '74, for a companion in Jena, and Farnam, '74, in Berlin--need it be said to my great enjoyment and satisfaction? Returning to America in the fall of 1896, I entered the Yale Law School and passed two delightful years in New Haven, graduating with the degree of LL.B. in the Class of '78. I thereupon began the practice of law in Baltimore, Md., my home and native city, in the office of Mr. Luther M. Reynolds, an old and well-known lawyer there. "After a year or more of strenuous endeavor I suffered a serious breakdown in health and passed through an acute illness which put me out of commission for some time and reduced me to a state of amazing humility. My recovery was in defiance of the physicians, who got even with me by prescribing for me for the future an existence devoid of excitement and strenuous effort--a warning which I have apparently heeded. In pursuance of my convalescence I made a voyage in a sailing ship to South America in the summer of 1880. "I...