CLASS OF 1899

A. M. Abbott has recently taken a position with the American Bank Note Company, 78 to 86 Trinity Place, New York Mr. and Mrs. Abbott reside at 9 Myrtle Ave., Plainfield, N. J.

Doctor H. H. Dearborn is practising in Leominster, Mass.

John McQ. French has been made district manager for A. Leschen and Sous Rope Co., with headquarters at Denver, Col.

S. J. Smith, who has been for several years in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railway, has recently been transferred from Minnesota to Idaho, where he is constructing a line of road of about thirty-five miles, terminating at Grangeville.

A. D. Wiggin is principal of the Woodstock, Vt., High School.

George G. Clark has opened a law office at 60 State St., Boston, Mass.

The sympathy of the class is extended to Ralph W. Hawkes in the loss of his wife, Mrs. Georgie Bancroft Hawkes, who died at her home in Millbury, Massachusetts, January 24, 1906, after an illness of about a month. The cause of death was erysipelas in a rare form. A daughter, Mabel Elizabeth, was born December 30, 1905.

The annual Boston round-up of the class of 1899 was held at the New Hampshire Club. March 3, 1906. Twenty-seven members were present and the occasion was a most enjoyable one. Many sympathetic references were made to recent bereavements in the death of Mrs. Hawkes and of Harry Ladd. The spirit of the meeting was sobered by these sad events, but good cheer prevailed in the joy of reunion and in the general outlook of success with which the members are meeting. Those present: Atwood, Barney, Brown, N. P., Clark, Corey, Dearborn, Dickey, Donahue, Drew, Galusha, Hobbs, Hodgkins, Johnston, Kendall, Leavitt, Lynch, Osgood, Parker, Richardson, Rogers, Sleeper, Sturtevant, Varney, Walker, Adams, W. B., Allen, Cogswell.

Harry Ladd died in Eugene, Oregon, February 8, 1906, after a brief illness of typhoid pneumonia. He was born in Epping, New Hampshire, October 23, 1874, the son of Samuel P. and Sarah I. Dodge Ladd. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. In College he was a very popular man, a member of Psi Upsilon and Sphinx, and at the '99 Commencement was marshal of the class. After studying law at Columbia and at Harvard, he entered upon the practice of law at Lewiston, Maine. Later he removed to Oregon, where he was pleasantly located and meeting with good success in his profession. He married December 23, 1903, Josephine A. Thompson, who survives him with one child, a son. The funeral services were held February '16, at Epping, New Hampshire.

Secretary, Elmer W. Barstow, Central Grammar School, New Britain, Conn.