CLASS OF 1865

Henry L. Oak died at Seigler Springs, California, May 20, 1905. He was born in Garland, Me., May 13, 1844. He was prepared for college in the schools of Garland and Exeter, Me., went to Bowdoin College for three years, then entered the senior class at Dartmouth College and was graduated in 1865. He taught school and did editorial work after graduation, and in 1869 he became librarian of the Bancroft Library, San Francisco. During his eighteen years as librarian he was the author of ten of the thirty-nine volumes of Bancroft's "Native Races and History of the Pacific Coast.” When Mr. Oak left the Bancroft Library in 1887, his health was impaired and he went to Seigler Springs, where he spent most of his time till his death. He spent much time and money in compiling the Oak Genealogy, which in manuscript consists of four bound volumes, besides autographs and photographs. He gave these volumes to the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, believing that they would be published. By his will, he gave Dartmouth College the ten volumes of his history.

Reverend Alphonso Everett White, Ph. D., died at his residence in Methuen, Mass., March 15, after an illness of a year. Doctor White was born in Framingham, Mass., in November, 1842. Fitting for college at Phillips Exeter, he was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1865. For twelve years after his graduation Doctor White taught in the High schools of Chicopee, Marlboro, and Lexington, Mass. He then entered the ministry of the Universalist church and preached two years in Attleboro, Mass. In 1878 he became pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Lawrence. During five years of this pastorate he was chaplain of the Sixth Regiment M. V. M., and for several years member of the committee of fellowship of the Massachusetts Universalist convention. In 1886 he was called to the First Universalist Church of Cambridge. Resigning this charge in 1892 he continued to reside in Cambridge, becoming interested in the schools of that city, where he served, until his removal to Methuen in 1897, on its board of education, with special charge of the evening schools. For the ensuing six years Doctor White was superintendent of the Methuen schools. The degree of A.M. was conferred upon Mr. White by Dartmouth and Tufts Colleges. Later he received a Ph.D. from Taylor University of Indiana, as a result of study pursued in history and philosophy. In 1869 Doctor White married Miss Fannie E. White of Chicopee, who survives him. The children are Fannie E., Alfred E. and Charles F., the second a student in Dean Academy. A brother, Reverend Charles J. White, D.D., resides in Woonsocket, R. I.

Secretary, Henry I. Cushman, 26 Pitman St., Providence, R. I.