Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (S&B 1872)
United States Legal Scholar. General Society of Colonial Wars. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa. Psi Usilon. Phi Beta Kappa. Yale Corporation.
Son of the 10th President of Yale, Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
Honorary MA Yale 1887; LL.D. Brown 1903,
Member Huguenot Society, Order of Colonial Wars (lieutenant governor 1895-1900, deputy governor 1900-02, and governor 1902-05 of Connecticut Society and member of committee on historical documents 1894-1900), Century Association, American Society of International Law, New Haven Chamber of Commerce, and Church of Christ in Yale University.[4]
1921 - Elected associate member Institut de Drott International at Paris.[4]
1914 to 1928 - Permanent member and president of the New Haven Board of Park Commissioners.[4]
1913 - Director of New Haven Colony Historical Society, member of its publications committee 1914 and of its building committee 1925-27.[4]
1900 - Incorporator of Yale Field Corporation; served on’executive committee of Bicentennial celebration.[4]
**1899 - Elected director of New Haven Bank 1899, and upon its consolidation with City Bank elected director of present New Haven Bank, N.B A., and continued as such until death, member New Haven Board of Common Council 1880-81, and represented it on New Haven Board of Park Commissioners (East Rock Park Commission).[4]
1897 to 1899 - President of Graduates Club of New Haven; Co-founder and contributed to Yale Review, North American, Forum, Outlook,and Scribners; editor of Woolsey’s Introduction to the Study of International Law (6th edition, revised and enlarged, 1906,1908) and of Pomeroy’s International Law (1886).[4]
1895 to 1914 - with Henry B Sargent, ‘71 S , and Walter Camp (S&B 1880), founded the Yale Financial Union to affiliate athletic activities.
1893 to 1903 - wrote series of articles on international law for Johnson’s Encyclopedia (new edition), author… The Right of Search and its Limitation in Time of Peace (1896), Suez and Panama Parallel (1903), America s Foreign Policy (1895), and Daniel Cady Eaton (1896);
1886 to 1890 - had traveled abroad extensively and lived in California , although continuing his connection with the Law School.[4]
1877 to 1878 - Instructor in public law at Yale, professor of international law 1878 to 1911, and professor emeritus since then acting dean of the Law School 1901-03.[4]
22 Dec 1877 - Married, in Boston, Mass., Annie Gardner, daughter of Stephen Salisbury (B A Harvard 1817,LL.D. 1875) and Elizabeth Parker (Clark) Salisbury Children: Theodore Salisbury, Jr., ‘01 and ‘03 F , and Heathcote Muirson, ‘07. Mrs. Woolsey died March 14, 1892. D
1875 to 1876 (LLB 1876) - continued his law studies at Yale and received the Civil Law Prize for his dissertation on Roman law.[4]
1873 to 1875 - traveled abroad , and studied Roman law at University of Leipsic during the last year.[4]
1872 to 1873 - Studied in Yale School of Law.[4]
1872 - Graduated Yale Law School, Skull and Bones Patriarch.
Died 24 Apr 1929, from pneumonia. Age 77
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 48 / on the page 47
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