Yale University
Yale was the alma mater of many Lake Forest residents, among them the Reverends Dr. James G.K. McClure (Class of 1870) and Dr. Clifford Webster Barnes (Class of 1888). Both were trustees of Lake Forest University/College, and McClure served as Lake Forest's President (pro tem) in 1892-93 and in 1897-1901.
Yale Class of 1870
Class agent for many years George Douglas Miller (1847- ) compiled a scrapbook on the class and its activites and members: folio size of 82 pp., and with many publications and photographs pasted and stuck in, including several items relating to J.G.K. McClure at Yale and as an alumnus. The most notable McClure item is the early baseball photograph carte de visite (or card) of the 1867 Yale baseball team that defeated Harvard (p. 6). This famous team role (thrid base) helped McClure secure his post as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in 1881, which he held until 1905.
Other members of the class of 1870 included George Bird ("Birdy") Grinnell (p. 6; his newspaper article on "Indian Education: the Work of a New Industrial School," New York, 1890s, no source listed), also Yale Ph.D. 1880, who was a naturalist, conservationist and ethnologist of the Plains Native American cultures, and Edward O. Wolcott (p. 75), U.S. Senator from Colorado (Republican, 1889-1901). Wolcott also graduated from Harvard's Law School in 1875 and then moved to Colorado, where he served as general counsel to the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
George Douglas Miller, the scrapbook's compiler (Bones), was an officer in several eastern coal and paper companies, was active in reform efforts and traveled extensively (from the Biographical Record of the Class of Seventy, Yale University, 1870-1904 ed. Lewis Wilder Hicks "from data largely gathered by" George Douglas Miller (Boston: Beacon Press, 1904?), pp. 143-44. Miller was in India at the time of publication. Later he began work on what became Weir Hall, modeled on an Oxford quadrangle, on land he owned, and is remembered on a plaque there (see The Campus Guide: Yale University by Patrick Pinnell [1999], p. 43).
The scrapbook was acquired ca. 1990 from bookseller Thomas G.Boss, Boston.
See also Barnes' papers for photographs of his Yale class and reunions.