The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

lie was a delegate fioiii the Tioy rrcsbylety to tlie Oliio Stale General Assembly, whith
met at Ciiieiiinati. For three years he was Coinniissioiier from the Troy Presbytery to
Auburn Theological Seminary.
. He was an occasional contributor to the New York Obscrtcr, Central Prc$bylerian,
Troy Times and other papers, writing both prose and verse, but was more fond of
rhyming in letters to friends than in public print. Cliild: (i) Frederick Newton.s b.
in Brooklyn, N. Y., 23 Dec, 1855. In 1858 his parents removed to Troy, N. Y.,
where he lived until his graduation from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with
degree of Civil Engineer, in 1879. During the college year of 1879 80, he filled the
Chair of Mathematics in Lake Forest (III.) University, under the presidency of the Rev.
Dr. D. S. Gregory. From August to December, 1880, he was assistant foreign corres-
pondent in the banking house of Drexel, Morgan & Co , New York, which place he
resigned to become connected with the John C. Green School of Science, of Princeton
College, to build up a new department, that of Graphics. The work being successful,
a new chair was created in June, 1883, he receiving the appointment to the Professor-
ship of Descriptive Geometry, Stereotomy and Technical Drawing. During the same
year he became a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers. He married 22 May, 1884, Mary Hewes Bruere, of
Princeton, N. J., dau. of Joseph H. Bruere, President of the Trenton Banking Co.
46. iii. Elizabeth A.', b. in 1818. Res. (1870) near Fairfield, La.; single.
47- iv. Lavinia M.