292 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

From January, 1910, to June, 1912, Briggs was employed by 
the American Tube & Stamping Company of Bridgeport, Conn. 
He then went to Vermont for three months on account of ill- 
health, at the end of which time he became inspector for the New 
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, his present 
position. 
He is a member of the Stratford Congregational Church and 
is also a member of the University Club of Bridgeport, Conn., 
and the Cupheag and Housatonic Yacht clubs of Stratford, Conn. 
Sydney F. Brown 
83 Prospect Street, Reading, Mass. 
Sydney Freeman Brown was born February 4, 1888, in Reading, Mass., 
the son of Charles Freeman Brown, formerly member of the Massa- 
chusetts House of Representatives and Senate and chairman of the 
District Republican Committee, and Elizabeth Anna (Harrison) Brown. 
On his father’s side he is of English and Scotch, and on his mother’s 
of English and Dutch ancestry. He has a sister, Gertrude C. (Brown) 
Pahlow, and a brother, Arthur H. Brown, B.S. Masenshuncing Institute 
of Technology ’99. 
He was prepared at the public schools in Reading, Mass,, and at 
Phillips Andover and in 1910 received the degree of Ph.B. from Yale, 
where he was a member of Chi Phi and of the Andover and Corin- 
thian Yacht clubs. He also rowed on the 1911 Sophomore Crew and 
in his Senior year was a member of the Sheff Student Council and of 
the Class Book Historian Committee. 
He is unmarried. 
Brown writes: ‘Worked in a printing house from the summer 
of 1910 to the spring of 1911 and from this time until the fall of 
1912 with Little, Brown & Company, book publishers. Am now 
with the Oxford County Orcharding Company of South Paris, 
Maine, as treasurer and general manager. We have an apple 
orchard of about one thousand trees, of which five hundred are 
in bearing, and in addition have over a hundred acres of orchard 
land and great possibilities. Expect to be in the apple business 
until demented or otherwise incapacitated.” 
Concerning politics he writes: ‘Am a member of the Republi- 
can party in general, but will vote the Democratic national ticket 
this year.”” He is a member of the Meadow Brook Golf Club. 


