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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 67813, member: 59"]As I am sure you have found, the George Adee in the picture is George Augustus Adee, Yale class of 1867, Lawyer and Banker, for whom the Adee Memorial Boathouse at Yale was built in 1911. He died in 1908.</p><p><br /></p><p>This article about the "new" boathouse gives information about the 1911 version. Seems that Adee the elder was "a keen oarsman" on the crew team during his time at Yale. Guess who else was a crew member when at Yale? Julian Wheeler Curtiss (note the spelling with 2 s's) Class of 1879.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.andrewcusack.com/2006/old-yale-boathouse-faces-wrecking-ball/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.andrewcusack.com/2006/old-yale-boathouse-faces-wrecking-ball/" rel="nofollow">http://www.andrewcusack.com/2006/old-yale-boathouse-faces-wrecking-ball/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm getting more convinced at "boating" may be the connection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 67813, member: 59"]As I am sure you have found, the George Adee in the picture is George Augustus Adee, Yale class of 1867, Lawyer and Banker, for whom the Adee Memorial Boathouse at Yale was built in 1911. He died in 1908. This article about the "new" boathouse gives information about the 1911 version. Seems that Adee the elder was "a keen oarsman" on the crew team during his time at Yale. Guess who else was a crew member when at Yale? Julian Wheeler Curtiss (note the spelling with 2 s's) Class of 1879. [URL]http://www.andrewcusack.com/2006/old-yale-boathouse-faces-wrecking-ball/[/URL] I'm getting more convinced at "boating" may be the connection.[/QUOTE]
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