List of Skull and Bones members

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Skull and Bones entry from the 1948 Yale Banner. Former President George Herbert Walker Bush is listed fourth down.
Skull and Bones entry from the 1948 Yale Banner. Former President George Herbert Walker Bush is listed fourth down.

Skull and Bones, founded in 1832, published membership lists until 1971, which were kept at the Yale Library. The following partial list of noteworthy Bonesmen is compiled from those lists. The number in parentheses represents their cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year from Yale University.

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[edit] Founders

[edit] List of Notable Members

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Business

  • Pierre Jay (1892), First chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Harry Payne Whitney (1894), Husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; investment banker
  • Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (1896), Heir to the Weyerhaeuser Paper Co.
  • Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1898), Son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II; brother of Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney
  • Frederick Baldwin Adams (1900), Chairman of the West Indies Sugar Corp.
  • Percy Rockefeller (1900), Director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil, and Remington Arms

[edit] Education

  • Henry Coit Kingsley (1834), Yale Treasurer 1862-1887; Daniel Coit Gilman's uncle
  • Timothy Dwight V (1849), Yale acting Treasurer 1887-1889, Yale President 1886-1899
  • Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), Studied at the University of Berlin (1854-1855) under Karl Von Ritter and Friedrich Trendelenderg; attache to the American legation at St. Petersburg; 2nd President of the University of California; 1st President of Johns Hopkins University; President of the Carnegie Institution
  • Andrew Dickson White (1853), Co-founder and first President of Cornell University
  • William H. Welch (1870), dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Arthur T. Hadley (1876), Yale acting Treasurer 1909-1910,; Yale President 1899-1921
  • Charles Seymour (1908), President of Yale 1937-1951
  • Lawrence G. Tithe (1916), Yale Treasurer 1942-1954; Director/Partner Brown Brothers Harriman
  • Charles Stafford Gage (1925), Yale Treasurer 1954-1966; member of Bones family firm Mathiesson Chemical
  • John E. Ecklund (1938), Yale Treasurer 1966-1978; Partner in Bones-dominated New Haven law firm Dana & Wiggin
  • R. Inslee Clark, Jr. (1957), Director of Undergraduate Admissions who helped Yale become coeducational; former Headmaster of Horace Mann School

[edit] Government and Politics

[edit] Publications and Writing


[edit] Science and Engineering

  • John Rockefeller Prentice (1928), Grandson of John D. Rockefeller; pioneer of artificial insemination in farm animals as a means of improving their genetic pool

[edit] The Arts

  • Evarts Tracy (1890), President of Tracy and Swartwout, architectural firm responsible for the cloister garden within the Skull & Bones Tomb. Also constructed Missouri State Capitol, St. Johns Cathedral in Denver. Nephew of Bonesman William Maxwell Evarts.[1]
Main article: Skull and Bones#Architecture
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[edit] Sources

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