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sorts of Indian weapons and ornaments. He was educated at 

 private schools in Philadelphia, and at the school of the late Henry 

 D. Gregory he made the acquaintance of the late Charles H. 

 Baker and both being interested in animal life they became 

 fast friends and together prepared many specimens of birds' 

 skeletons and skulls, and collected minerals, etc. Through 

 DeHaven, Baker later became a Correspondent of the Club, and 

 their friendship was unbroken until the death of Mr. Baker a 

 few months before DeHaven passed away. He belonged a little 

 later to a club that went camping during the holidays in Hunting- 

 ton County in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and here he met 

 the artist, Arthur B. Frost, who became a life-long friend and 

 spent many days with him on the 'Widgeon' in the waters about 

 Atlantic City. 



At one time DeHaven prepared to enter the naval school at 

 Newport but owing to the effects of an attack of typhoid fever he 

 failed in the physical examination, although he passed in all the 

 others. He then studied mechanics in the machine shops, specializ- 

 ing on stationary and marine engines and studying also at the 

 Franklin Institute where he met William H. Thome, with whom 

 he later formed a partnership and with whom he exhibited an 

 immense lathe of their construction at the Centennial Exposition. 

 The depression in the iron business a year or two later forced 

 them as well as many others out of business and DeHaven entered 

 Rhiele Bros.' shops as a draughtsman, going from there to the 

 shops of William Sellers where he held important positions until 

 he took charge of what developed into the Overbrook Steam 

 Heating Co., where he continued until his retirement a few years 

 before his death, which occurred on March 2, 1924, after a year 

 or more of ill health. 



As years passed on and the labor attendant on the care and 

 manipulation of the boat began to tell, while the surroundings 

 at the shore were not what they used to be, he sold the ' Widgeon ' 

 and became an ardent devotee of the game of Golf. His interest 

 in sport however, was still maintained and every autumn he re- 

 paired to the Virginia and North Carolina coasts where duck 

 shooting was more attractive than on the Atlantic City waters. 

 Some of these trips were to Skidmore's at Cape Charles, made 



