Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury, , Connecticut 1852 1929 Male Educator Jurist Publicist jurist, educator, and publicist, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey [q. v. ], then president of Yale College, and Elizabeth Martha (Salisbury) Woolsey.
As a youth he was frail; perhaps it was this that caused him during his student days to live in the relative seclusion of his father's home rather than in the college dormitory, and it may have confirmed his disposition, so noticeable throughout life, to keep himself in the background, though his ability and personality peculiarly fitted him to occupy positions of prominence.
Upon graduation in 1872, he immediately entered the Yale Law School, where he studied without interruption, save for the grand tour of Europe during the years 1873-75, until he received the degree of LL. B.
Career
He entered Yale College at the age of fifteen.
He served as acting dean of the Yale Law School from 1901 to 1903.
Woolsey's views now stand, almost without exception, justified by the events of the intervening forty years.
In 1921 he was elected an associate of the Institut de Droit International at Paris.
He became much interested in old silver and the iron work of colonial American smiths, and wrote charmingly of his collections (see Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1896).
[Who's Who in America, 1928-29; C. C. Hyde, in Am.
Jour.
Internat.
Record Grads.
Yale Univ. , 1928-29; Grads.
Yale Law School (1911); N. G. Osborn, Men of Mark in Connecticut, vol.
II (1906), pp. 279-80; Am.
Law School Rev. , Mar. 1930; obituary in N. Y. Times, Apr. 25, 1929. ]
Religion
He was early associated with the activities of the American Society of International Law, made contributions to the pages of its Journal, and for many years served upon its editorial board.
Connections
This position he occupied until his retirement in 1911, save for a four-year period (1886 - 90) of residence in California in the hope of bettering his wife's health.
In 1912 he published in the Yale Review (Jan. , Apr. , July) the first two chapters of a life of his father, written with a vivid charm that fills the reader with regret that the biography was never completed.
Father:
J.
He prepared for publication J. N. Pomeroy's Lectures on International Law in Time of Peace (1886), published a much enlarged edition of his father's famous Introduction to the Study of International Law (6th ed., 1891), and prepared a series of articles relating to international law for Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia (8 vols., 1893 - 97).
married:
Annie
He was married on Dec. 22, 1877, to Annie Gardner Salisbury of Boston, by whom he had two sons.
