YCI 11: Joseph Battell Memorial (Battell Chapel)

In memoriam Josephi Battell qui die XVII Apr. A.D. MDCCCVI
natus mortuus est VIII Jul. A.D. MDCCCLXXIV
Eum et reverenter coluisse deum et alienis utilitatibus
penitus studuisse semper sit documento hæc aedes
sacra
Neque minus in memoria est tenenda dilecta illius soror
Irene Larned Guilielmi Augusti Larned uxor quae
vitam suam suavissimis quasi morum harmoniis et
fide plenam ad exitum perduxit die V Maii A.D. MDCCCLXXVII
annos nata LXV

In memory of Joseph Battell, who was born on the 17th day of April 
in the year of our Lord 1806, and who died on the 8th day of July in
the year of our Lord 1874.
May this holy chapel always serve as proof that he both worshipped God reverently
and dedicated himself deeply to the common good.
And no less must his dear sister Irene Larned be held in memory, wife of William Augustus Larned,
who conducted her life as if full of faith and sweetest harmonies of character, until its end
on the 5th day of May in the year of our Lord 1877; she lived for 65 years.

Battell Chapel, 400 College Street

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NHI 1: Midnight Mary (Evergreen Cemetery)

The people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away.
At high noon, just from, and about to renew
her daily work, in her full strength of
body and mind,
Mary E. Hart,
having fallen prostrate,
remained unconscious, until she died at midnight.
October 15, 1872.
Born December 16, 1824.

Evergreen Cemetery, 769 Ella T Grasso Blvd, New Haven, CT
Evergreen Avenue, Plot 50, Grave 4

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YCI 9: Tribute to Miriam A. Osborn (Osborn Memorial Laboratories)

Osborn Memorial Laboratories
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Memoriae Miriam Adelinae Osborn consecraverunt + A·D
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socii Universitatis
Yalensis una cum
curatoribus rerum
ab ea legatarum
quae ante diem
xvii kal Maias A·D
mdcccxI nata pridie
Idus Martias +
A·D mdcccxci decessit +

The associates of Yale University in company with the overseers of the things 
bequeathed by her consecrated Osborn Memorial Laboratories in the years of Our Lord 
1912-1913 to the memory of Miriam Adeline Osborn who was born April 15th in the year 
of Our Lord 1840 (and) died March 14th in the year of Our Lord 1891.

Osborn Memorial Laboratories, 165 Prospect Street