Napoleon Falls Austin, b. 01 Dec 1899, Memphis, TN
"NAPOLEON FALLS AUSTIN, "Nick," "Nap," was born December 1, 1899, in Memphis, Tennessee.
"His father, John Alexander Austin, 2d, was born May 30, 1872, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the Class of 1894; and spent most of his life in Memphis, engaged in the cotton factor and cotton seed oil business.He died August 3, 1916, in Waukesha, Wisconsin.His mother was Clara Frances Falls, and lived in Memphis before she was married also.There is one other son, John Alexander Austin, 3d.An uncle, John Will Falls, 2d, graduated in the Class of 1900 S., and he has two Yale cousins: William Howard Stovall, 2d, 1916 S., and Edward Fargarson Falls, 1919 S.
"Nick spent four years at the Memphis University School, and three years at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.He took the Mechanical Engineering Course; went out for track; worked in the Boys' Club, New Haven, in his Freshman year; was a member of the business staff of the 'Yale Record' in 1918-1919 and business manager in 1919-1920; and belongs to The Hill School Club, and to Book and Snake and the Cloister.
"During the summer of 1917 Nap attended The Hill School Military Training Camp, and in the summer of 1918 was a member of the Yale Naval Training Unit at Madison, Connecticut, to which unit, Company 4, he belonged for the college year 1917-1918.He entered service on September 11, 1918, in New Haven, and took an intensive training course in marine engineering in the fall of 1918 under Lieutenant H. L. Seward (professor of mechanical engineering) in preparation for the Naval Engineer Officers' School at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, in December, 1918.He was assigned to inactive duty on December 10, 1918, in New Haven, at that time ranking as Machinist's Mate (1st Class), U. S. Naval Reserve Force.At one time he served on a committee for the second Liberty Loan Drive at Yale.
"He is undecided as to whether he will enter advertising, engineering, finance, or the cotton business.His permanent address is 3 North Bellevue Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee."[photo adjacent]
“History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University,” Volume One, edited by the Class Book Committee, Published for the Class by the Class Secretaries Bureau, 1920,” The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers, pp 38-39.