Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — The Oldest Alive. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest Alive.

Benjamin D. Sllliman become, Yale's oldest living graduate by the death of Charles L. Powell, of Alexandria, Va. Mr. SllHman wag born in 1806 and graduated in the class of 1824. He Is a Yale man not only by graduation, but also by ties of blood; for ell of his uncles, on both sides of the family, and both his grandfathers were graduates of Yale. Mr. SllHman has always follow, ed the affairs of Yale very closely agif for many years he was president atfbe Yale Alumni Association of Long Island.