William M. Barnum

William Milo Barnum seldom came to the Century; he divided his evenings between his family and his Yale associations and Yale friends, and they were numerous. Yale was his first love; then shooting, fishing and golf. He owned a stretch of salmon fishery on the Restigouche, and was himself a highly expert trout and salmon fisherman. He was fond of reading, and his own humor was subtle and delightful. His friends describe him as a perfect presiding officer, but he confined display of that rare gift mostly to Yale gatherings. He had a nimble and ready pen, but this, too, he restricted to correspondence with his intimates. A distinguished lawyer in the old Simpson, Thacher & Barnum firm (all of them Centurions), he might also by inheritance have had a leaning towards politics, for his father was the well known Senator Barnum from Connecticut of the Hayes-Tilden period. But politics never attracted our Centurion.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1927 Century Association Yearbook