CLASS OF 1846

Died, in Southport, N. C., Aug. 8, Dr. Walter Gilman Curtis, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Doctor Curtis was born in Hopkinton, N. H., May to, 1826. His father was Col. Nathaniel Curtis, prominent in New Hampshire politics during the late Governor Isaac Hill's administration, and a member of the governor's staff. He was a lineal descendant of William Curtis, who emigrated to the Massachusetts colony in 1632. Young Curtis entered Dartmouth with the freshman class of 1842, but left college before graduation, receiving his degree of A.B. some years later, by special vote of the Dartmouth trustees.

His medical degree was taken at Harvard in 1846, and the following year he settled in practice at Southport, N. C., where for sixty-two years, he continued his work, acquiring much prominence as a physician, also serving as county magistrate, and in the service of the United States government. In 1852, Doctor Curtis was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army, and at the close of the Civil War, he' was placed by the United States Army Board, in charge of the medical quarantine office of Cape Fear river, holding this position until the restoration of civil government to the state of, North Carolina. In 1868, he was appointed quarantine physician by the state government of North Carolina, which office he held under many changes of administration, for- twenty-nine years. In addition to his professional work as quarantine officer,, his private practice was large, and he also served his state and county, as clerk of superior court, magistrate, etc., holding many important public offices.

Doctor Curtis's domestic life was a rare and fortunate one. His wife, who survives him, was Miss Margaret Coit of New London, Conn.; he also left three sons, all worthy of such parentage; one being a professor in a Southern college, another an editor, and the third a bank auditor in the city of Wilmington.

Doctor Curtis was a devoted member of St. Philip's parish in Southport, holding the office of senior warden for more than forty years. His life throughout was one of great activity and usefulness, and though his latest years were clouded by loss of sight and almost complete invalidism, he retained to the last his interest in passing events and in the genial society of his friends. His death was widely mourned, and was made the occasion of many worthy tributes to his memory, which appeared in the columns of the state and county press. His funeral was attended at St. Philip's church, Southport, on Aug. 10, by a host of citizens and friends, together with many public officials of county 'and state, the superior court also adjourning in his honor on the day of the funeral service. The interment took place on the following day at Oak Dale cemetery, in the city of Wilmington.

N. B. — The death of Doctor Curtis leaves three survivors of the class of 1846 — now remaining in the 63d year since their graduation: viz., Rev. Dr. J. W. Wellman, Maiden-Mass., aged 88; Capt. Geo. A.Gordon, Secre' tary New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Somerville, Mass., aged 83; and Dr. J. W. Barstow, New York City, aged 83.

The class of '46, long known in Dartmouth circles as " The Small Class," — numbered at graduation only twenty-eight members ! Ecce tempora mutantur !

Secretary, Dr. J. W. Barstow, I Gramercy Park, New York