List of St. Anthony Hall Members

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Contents 1 Founders of Alpha Chapter of St. Anthony Hall (Columbia College + N.Y.U.), January 17, 1847 2 Some Notable Members 2.1 Diplomacy, National Security 2.2 Business and Industry 2.3 Journalism 2.4 United States Senate and House of Representatives, and State Legislatures, misc. 2.5 Athletics 2.6 Other 19th Century 2.7 Other 20th Century 3 Sources 4 External links

[edit] Founders of Alpha Chapter of St. Anthony Hall (Columbia College + N.Y.U.), January 17, 1847

According to the 20th edition (1991) of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities ISBN 0-9637159-0-9, two founding members are cited:

• Edward Forbes Travis
• Charles Arms Budd (N.Y.U. 1850), medical doctor [1]

According to the 1st edition (1879) of Baird's [2]), there are four founding members cited, with Charles Budd the only name in common.

• Charles Arms Budd
• William Myn Van Wagener (Columbia College)
• John Hone Anthon (Columbia College), leader of the Apollo Hall Democracy, a political group that worked to bring Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall to justice.
• Samuel F. Barger (Columbia College), Lawyer and railroad director and financier associated with the Vanderbilts.[3][4]

The discrepancy appears to arise from editorial decisions by Baird's. Another source provides similar data [[5]]. A complete listing of the chapter membership in its first few years may be found in [[6]]

The book "A Tour Around New York" contains contemporaneous sketches of life and associates a number of Columbia College Students including Barger, Anthon, Col. H.S. Olcott (listed below under "Other 19th C.) and Stewart L. Woodford (listed below in Congress). [7]

[edit] Some Notable Members

[edit] Diplomacy, National Security

• Robert P. De Vecchi, founder International Rescue Committee
• John T. Downey, Judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China for over two decades
• Strobe Talbott, former Deputy Secretary of State, President of the Brookings Institution

[edit] Business and Industry

• Robert Habersham Coleman, the Gilded Age "Coal King", scion of the family that owned the Cornwall Iron Furnace.
• Harry B. Combs, aviation pioneer, oversaw creation of the Air Traffic Control system.
• Juan Terry Trippe, aviation pioneer, founder of Pan Am
• Colonel William K. Lanman, aviator, benefactor
• Frederick William Vanderbilt, philanthropist, Director New York Central Railroad
• Martin W. Clement, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1935 to 1948.
• Henry Becton, namesake of Henry P. Becton Regional High School, son of Becton Dickinson co-founder Maxwell Becton, retired Vice Chairman of the Board, Yale Benefactor (Becton Hall, et al)

[edit] Journalism

• Charles Kuralt (d.1997), award-winning journalist, writer
• George Crile III (d. 2006) journalist most closely associated with his three decades of work at CBS News. Author of 'Charlie Wilson’s War', the basis of an eponymous Tom Hanks/Mike Nichols film currently in pre-production for release by Universal Studios.
• Michael Lewittes, journalist, entertainment industry pundit.
• Jay (James F.) Carney, Time Inc. Washington Bureau Chief.
• Naomi Wolf, writer, political consultant, feminist

[edit] United States Senate and House of Representatives, and State Legislatures, misc.

• Robert Adams Jr. Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1893-1906
• Joseph Wright Alsop Republican Connecticut State Representative 1907-1909, State senate 1909-1913 [[8]]
• Charles F. Bachman Republican West Virgina State Delegate 1957-1960 [[9]]
• Joseph W. Bailey Democratic Representative from Texas 1891-1901, House minority leader 1897-1899, United States Senate 1901-1913
• Risden Bennett Democratic Representative from North Carolina 1883-1887
• Thomas Clendinen Catchings Democratic Reprsentative from Mississippi 1885-1900
• Joseph S. Clark United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1957-1969
• Ernest Cluett United States Representative from New York 1937-1943
• Thomas C. Coffin Democratic Representative from Idaho 1933-1934
• Lawrence Coughlin Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1969-1991
• Charles Schuveldt Dewey [10] Republican Representative from Illinois 1941-1942, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s, he was responsible for the redesign and downsizing of U.S. paper currency.[[11]] He was the father of Yale Berzelius Secret Society member A. Peter Dewey, the first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945.
• Charles James Faulkner Democratic United States Senator from West Virginia 1887-1899
• Hamilton Fish II Republican Representative from New York 1909-1911
• Albert Taylor Goodwyn Populist Party Representative from Alabama 1895-1896
• John A. Lile Democratic Delegate, West Virginia House of Delegates 1953-1958 [[12]]
• Charles Henry Martin Democratic Representative from Oregon 1931-1935. Governor of Oregon 1935-1939
• John Murry Mitchell Republican Representative from New York 1896-1899
• Hernando Money Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1875-1885
• Edward de Veaux Morrell Republican Reprsentative 1899-1906.
• Truman Newberry Republican United States Senator from Michigan 1919-1922, Secretary of the Navy 1908-1909
• James Breck Perkins Representative from New York 1901-1910, historian
• William S. Reyburn Republican Representative from Pennsylvania 1911-1913
• Andrew W. Roraback Republican Connecticut State Senate 2000-present, Connecticut General Assembly 1994-2000
• Willard Saulsbury, Jr. Democratic United States Senator from Delaware 1913-1919, Senate President pro tempore 1915-1919
• Walter Sillers Democratic member, Mississippi State House of Representatives 1916-44; Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1944 [[13]]
• Daniel French Slaughter, Jr. Republican Representative from Virginia 1985-1991
• James Slayden Democratic Representative from Texas 1897-1918
• Gerry Studds Democratic Representative from Massachusetts 1973-1996
• William V. Sullivan Democratic Representative from Mississippi 1897-May 31 1898. Resigned May 31 1898 until elected to the U.S. Senate to fill vacancy, served until 1901
• John Tunney Democratic Representative from California 1965-1970. United States Senator 1970-1976. He was the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the film The Candidate.
• Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright III Representative from New York 1923-1931
• Malcolm Wallop Republican United States Senator from Wyoming 1977-1995
• Richard Smith Whaley Democratic Representative from South Carolina 1913-1921
• Stewart L. Woodford Lieutenant Governor of New York 1867-1868. Republican Representative from New York 1873-1874

[edit] Athletics

• William Carr, 1932 Olympic Gold Medalist in Track and Field for the USA
• Britton Chance, 1952 Olympic Gold medalist in Yachting for the USA, bio-chemist and bio-physicist [14]
• Wendell Mottley, 1964 Olympic Silver Medalist 400m, Bronze Medalist 4x400m relay (and later, a government minister) for Trinidad and Tobago.
• Anne Warner, 1976 First Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (Bronze, rowing) [15][16]
• Mary O'Connor, 1980 Summer Olympics Yale member of Olympic Rowing Eight. Team did not compete due to U.S. boycott.

[edit] Other 19th Century

• Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, first prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism.[[17]]
• J. Cleaveland Cady 19th Century American Architect, designer of the American Museum of Natural History on New York's Upper West Side, the now demolished Metropolitan Opera House, and his own St. A's Trinity College 'Epsilon' Chapter's house (1878), a commission of fellow chapter alumni member Robert Habersham Coleman (listed above). Further chapter house data under architecture section of St. Anthony Hall.
• William Gibbs McNeil Whistler, entered Columbia 1853 but did not graduate, also attended Trinity College Hartford. Settled in London ca. 1868, Member of the College of Surgeons of England and Royal College of Physicians. His brother, James McNeil Whistler painted several portraits of him including Portrait of Dr William McNeill Whistler; Portrait of Dr Whistler, No. 2; Portrait studies of the artist, his brother Dr Whistler, and others.[[18]][19]
• Stuyvesant Fish Morris, physician, nephew of Hamilton Fish.[[20]]

[edit] Other 20th Century

• George H. Booth II, third-generation proprieter of Tupelo Hardware, which sold Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys, his first guitar.
• Worth David, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale 1972-1992 [21]
• Charles Edison Democratic Governor of New Jersey 1941-1944, son of the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison. [[22]]
• Amy Solomon, first undergraduate woman to register at Yale College in 1969.[23]
• Heinrich Von Staden, historian at the the Institute for Advanced Study and former Yale Morse College Master
• Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1999-2007

[edit] Sources

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress [24]
• Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities 1879 edition [25] and 1991 edition ISBN 0-9637159-0-9
• Political Graveyard Internet source for American political biography.
• Undergraduate Record: Columbia College. A Book of Statistical Information By William S. Sloan (published 1881), contains Columbia fraternity rosters for 1850-1884 classes.

[edit] External links

• National Page

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