CLASS OP 1863

William H. Preston and family left St. Johnsbury, Vt., October 16, for Exeter, Cal., where they expect to make their home with a son.

Henri Rensselaer Foster, a member of this class during a part of the course, died in Denver, Colo., Oct. 17, 1908, He was born in Albany, Me., May 2, 1837, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. With very many of his classmates, he offered his services as a volunteer in the Civil War, but was rejected on aocount of his health. He went South, however, as an agent of the Freedmen's Relief Association, and was stationed at Vicksburg. He was married June 1, 1864, to Miss Lydia Ellen Emery of Lewiston, Me., who had been engaged with him in the work among the freedmen. For seven years from July ], 1866, he was superintendent of the Missouri Institution for the Education of the Blind, finally resigning on account of ill health. At the advice of his physician he went to Denver in 1873, and soon after engaged in real estate business. He was a heavy sufferer from the panic of 1893, and the business reverses added to his ill health, until in 1904 he was stricken with locomotor ataxia, and obliged to retire from active business. For three years he had not been down stairs, and for most of the time he had been confined to his bed. In 1884 he was appointed a trustee of the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, and served six years as president of the board. He was one of the founders of the school system of North Denver, and was always actively interested in every movement for the progress of the city. He leaves a wife, who has been an invalid for twelve years, and two sons

Secretary, M. C. Lamprey, Concord, N. H.