Professor of International Law
Centurion, 1894–1929
Born 22 October 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut
Died 24 April 1929 in New Haven, Connecticut
Buried Grove Street Cemetery
, New Haven, Connecticut
Proposed by Elihu Chauncey and Edward Mitchell
Elected 2 June 1894 at age forty-one
Archivist’s Note: Half-brother of George Woolsey
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Century Memorial
Professor Theodore Salisbury Woolsey held the chair of international law at Yale during the thirty-two years from 1879 to 1911. His high qualities as educator came by right of inheritance; for his father was the eminent scholar, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, president of the University for twenty-five years, and his uncle another Yale president, Timothy Dwight. Professor Woolsey himself contributed notably, both by instruction of his classes and by magazine articles on the subject, to the spreading among our people of sound information and clear reasoning on the problems, greatly obscured when he took his chair at Yale, of our own international relations and responsibilities.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook