Friday, January 27, 2012

How They Keep the Secrets

What can be learned from studying the list below which sets out the dates of beginning and ending service (we assume, since the columns are undefined) of the entire list of trustees of Yale since 1701? There's no way to know the answer unless we do the work. See research below on these names. Many sources to assist are now available through Google Books, including:





            FOUNDING TRUSTEES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS

1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1701 October 16
1738 January 24
1709 April 1
1703 March 14
1724 May 21
1719 December 30
1714 November 22
1707 March 5
1713 December 3
1732 September 19
1732 May 1
Samuel Andrew
Thomas Buckingham
Israel Chauncy
Samuel Mather
James Noyes
James Pierpont
Abraham Pierson
Noadiah Russel
Joseph Webb
Timothy Woodbridge
Successors to the Founding Trustees 
1701 November 11
1703 March 17
1710 September 6
1714 September 8
1715 September 14
1716 October 17
1720 June 8
1724 May 21
1728 September 11
1730 September 9
1730 September 9
1731 September 8
1732 December 20
1732 September 13
1732 September 13
1732 September 13
1735 September 10
1738 September 17
1740 April 2
1740 September 10
1743 September 13
1745 September 11
1746 April 16
1746 September 3
1748 April 6
1749 September 13
1752 September 20
1755 September 10
1758 September 6
1760 September 10
1761 July 21
1763 June 28
1763 June 28
1769 October 17
1769 September 13
1771 September 11
1772 September 9
1773 April 27
1774 September 14
1774 September 14
1776 October 23
1777 April 1
1777 September 11
1777 September 11
1780 September 13
1787 September 12
1788 March 4
1788 September 10
1790 September 8
1791 September 13
1798 September 12
1801 September 10
1801 September 10
1804 September 13
1807 September 8
1808 September 13
1808 September 13
1809 September 12
1810 September 11
1812 September 8
1813 August 31
1814 September 13
1816 September 10
1817 September 9
1818 September 8
1818 September 8
1820 September 12
1821 September 11
1822 September 10
1823 May 7
1823 September 9
1824 September 8
1825 May 24
1826 September 12
1827 September 11
1829 September 8
1834 August 19
1837 August 15
1839 October 23
1846 August 19
1846 October 20
1846 October 20
1847 August 17
1849 August 14
1849 August 14
1849 August 14
1854 May 10
1861 July 23
1861 July 23
1862 July 29
1864 July 26
1866 July 24
1867 July 16
1867 July 16
1868 July 21
1871 October 11
1872 July 9
1874 June 24
1875 June 29
1875 June 29
1880 October 26
1882 March 14
1882 March 14
1884 October 9
1885 October 29
1885 October 29
1887 June 27
1887 November 1
1888 November 9
1889 June 24
1895 November 12
1896 May 31
1899 June 27
1899 June 27
1902 November 24
1905 June 27
1906 November 19
1910 December 17
1910 February 15
1913 February 17
1916 April 17
1917 February 19
1919 October 20
1920 February 14
1922 January 13
1922 January 14
1925 October 10
1925 October 10
1925 October 10
1930 January 11
1934 December 8
1935 October 12
1936 October 10
1938 February 12
1938 October 8
1940 November 9
1945 July 27
1946 October 18
1947 December 13
1947 January 11
1952 October 10
1953 Jan 10
1955
1959
1959
1961
1961
1962
1962
1964
1964
1967
1968
1971
1971
1971
1973
1974
1975
1975
1977
1977
1979
1981
1982
1984
1986
1987
1987
1987
1988
1989
1989
1990
1991
1994
1994
1995
1996
1997
1999
1999
2000
2000
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2006
2006
2008
2008
1730 September 9
1729 November 10
1728 June 1
1731 February 5
1731 November 19
1735 September 10
1740 September 10
1746 September 3
1739 October 31
1732 January 23
1763 April 22
1749 September 13
1752 April 15
1743 September 13
1746 April 16
1745 September 11
1761 June 14
1760 September 6
1745 May 9
1772 September 9
1747 November 12
1761 June 1
1752 September 20
1770 November 20
1774 September 14
1769 September 13
1773 December 6
1758 August 6
1777 September 11
1772 July 20
1776 October 12
1777 September 11
1769 October 17
1788 April 4
1801 September 10
1780 September 13
1787 December 12
1786 November 8
1776 December 31
1800 December 9
1797 November 21
1790 September 8
1791 June 18
1804 September 13
1808 September 13
1810 September 11
1816 February 16
1808 September 13
1817 September 9
1807 September 8
1812 August 18
1812 September 8
1820 September 12
1809 September 12
1823 May 7
1826 September 12
1814 July 22
1823 September 9
1827 September 11
1824 December 17
1818 September 8
1821 September 11
1818 September 8
1822 July 25
1846 June 11
1829 May 9
1846 October 20
1861 July 23
1824 April 21
1839 September 23
1862 July 29
1849 July 19
1849 June 13
1860 September 7
1849 January 27
1834 April 25
1837 August 15
1847 August 17
1846 October 20
1853 August 29
1867 June 5
1867 July 16
1875 March 31
1888 March 29
1864 July 26
1874 April 17
1868 March 22
1875 April 30
1866 July 24
1872 March 9
1881 December 24
1882 March 14
1887 June 12
1885 July 9
1870 October 20
1885 October 29
1880 August 31
1913 January 20
1899 June 27
1884 October 9
1910 November 21
1887 October 13
1889 February 18
1916 August 18
1900 March 16
1916 March 16
1905 June 28
1899 June 27
1898 April 5
1895 October 26
1919 October 20
1906 June 25
1921 June 22
1929 October 12
1924 June 18
1922 January 14
1910 January 7
1925 June 17
1925 June 17
1938 June 22
1920 January 10
1934 June 20
1940 October 12
1935 June 19
1936 May 1
1945 June 22
1952 June 9
1947 January 11
1937 December 30
1946 June 24
1959 June 8
1947 June 16
1961 June 12
1964 October 10
1960 June 13
1962 June 11
1959 June 8
1962 June 11
1955 June 13
1952 December 21
1968 June 10
1967 June 12
1973
1964
1977
1980
1970
1974
1987
1971
1990
1970
1974
1977
1982
1983
1975
1978
1987
1990
1989
1989
1988
1987
1994
1987
1993
1999
1999
1999
1997
1994
2002
2000
1995
2006
2001
2004
2003
2008
2011
2005
2012
2008
2013
2014
2005
2011
2012
2012
2012
2014
2014
Samuel Russel [from unrelated Mass. family]
Moses Noyes
Thomas Ruggles
John Davenport
Thomas Buckingham
Stephen Buckingham
Eliphalet Adams
Samuel Whitman
Elisha Williams
Joseph Moss
Jared Eliot
Ebenezer Williams
Samuel Whittelsey
Samuel Woodbridge
Samuel Cooke
Jonathan Marsh
Joseph Noyes
Anthony Stoddard
Thomas Clap
Benjamin Lord
Daniel Wadsworth
William Russell
Nathaniel Chauncey
Thomas Ruggles
Elnathan Whitman
Solomon Williams
Noah Hobart
Ashbel Woodbridge
Moses Dickinson
James Lockwood
Edward Eells
George Beckwith
Jonathan Merrick
Warham Williams
Eliphalet Williams
Richard Salter
John Trumbull
Stephen Johnson
Noah Welles
Nathanael Taylor
Elizur Goodrich
Moses Mather
Samuel Lockwood
Timothy Pitkin
Enoch Huntington
Josiah Whitney
David Ely
Nathan Williams
Hezekiah Ripley
Levi Hart
James Dana
Noah Benedict
John Marsh
Nathan Strong
Andrew Lee
Joseph Strong
Achilles Mansfield
Benoni Upson
Amos Bassett
John Elliott
Peter Starr
Elijah Parsons
Isaac Lewis
William Brintnall Ripley
Daniel Smith
Andrew Eliot
Calvin Chapin
David Smith
Moses Cook Welch
Matthew Noyes
Noah Porter
Daniel Dow
Aaron Dutton
Abel McEwen
Diodate Brockway
Luther Hart
Laurens Perseus Hickok
Samuel Rogers Andrew
Leonard Bacon
Theophilus Smith
Joel Hawes
Jeremiah Day
Joseph Eldridge
George Jeffrey Tillotson
George Albion Calhoun
Edwin Randolph Gilbert
Joel Hervey Linsley
Davis Smith Brainerd
John Putnam Gulliver
Elisha Cowles Jones
Leonard Bacon
Hiram Phelps Arms
Samuel George Willard
Myron Newton Morris
George Richards
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Oliver Ellsworth Daggett
Joseph Hopkins Twichell
Joseph Willes Backus
Amos Sheffield Chesebrough
Charles Ray Palmer
Nathaniel Judson Burton
Lavalette Perrin
Joseph Anderson
Burdett Hart
James Wesley Cooper
Theodore Thornton Munger
George Leon Walker
George Bushnell
Edward Alfred Smith
Edwin Pond Parker
Augustus Field Beard
Newman Smyth
Newell Meeker Calhoun
Charles Edward Jefferson
Payson Merrill
William Rogers Richards
Clarence Hill Kelsey
Charles Hopkins Clark
Howell Cheney
Harry Goodyear Day
William Adams Brown
Fred Towsley Murphy
Samuel Herbert Fisher
George Grant Mason
Henry Sloane Coffin
Arthur Howe Bradford
Edward Belden Greene
Francis Parsons
Thomas Walter Swan
Henry Knox Sherrill
James Lee Loomis
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
George Van Santvoord
Morris Hadley
Morgan Phelps Noyes
Charles Denston Dickey
Irving Sands Olds
Lewis Hill Weed
Gardiner Mumford Day
Juan Terry Trippe
John Hay Whitney
Reverend Amos Niven Wilder
Joseph Irwin Miller
William Putnam Bundy
Edwin Foster Blair
Caryl Parker Haskins
Joseph Richardson Dilworth
Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.
Reverend Paul Moore, Jr.
Harold Howe, II
William McChesney Martin, Jr
Hanna Holborn Gray
William Sperry Beinecke
Lance Malcolm Liebman
William Henry Donaldson
Cyrus Roberts Vance
John Beckwith Madden
Maxine Frank Singer
Joseph Hill Williams
Barbara Scott Preiskel
Harold Woodsum, Jr.
Cyrus Roberts Vance
Sid Richardson Bass
James Gerald Hirsch
Vernon Reece Loucks, Jr.
Jose Alberto Cabranes
Henry Brewer Schacht
Richard James Franke
David Lyle Boren
Frederick Phineas Rose
Kurt Lidell Schmoke
Diana Dwyer Brooks
Robert Wood Lynn
Susan M. Crown
Jaime Serra
Right Reverend Victoria Matthews
John Ennis Pepper, Jr.
Charles Daniel Ellis
Barrington Daniel Parker, Jr.
Holcombe Tucker Green, Jr.
George Leonard Baker, Jr.
Gerhard Casper
Edward Perry Bass
Indra Nooyi
Linda Anne Mason
Roland Whitney Betts
Fareed R. Zakaria
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes
Donna Lee Dubinsky
Paul L. Joskow
Douglas A. Warner III
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When you take each name and study the individual, what you learn is that each new appointee is always personally connected to those who went before. Try it for yourself.

Moses Noyes--Rev. Moses graduated from Harvard in 1659; a fellow of Yale in 1706. They had five children; Moses, John, Ruth, Sarah, and Naomi. Rev. Moses was the first minister of Lyme, serving for 63 years from 1666-1729....Ruth Noyes (daughter of Reverend Moses Noyes and Ruth Pickett) was born January 06, 1679/80 in Lyme, Connecticut, and died WFT Est. 1694-1774. She married James Wadsworth on WFT Est. 1694-1727....Sarah Noyes (daughter of Reverend Moses Noyes and Ruth Pickett) was born 1683, and died 1756. She married Timothy Mather on WFT Est. 1697-1729.

Thomas Ruggles--

And so on. What this endeavor will prove is the old maxim, and pardon its ungrammatical nature:

"It's not what you know but who you know."

Or, perhaps it is, rather, whom you know who has sworn to keep what they know a secret?

1 comment:

Linda Minor said...

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