CLASS OF 1888

Elwyn Goodall Hovey died at his home in Upper Montclair, N. J., July 8, after an illness of over two months. The burial was at East Hardwick, Vt., where the deceased was born July 23, 1867. His father, J. Wadsworth Hovey, is still living there, and Otis E. Hovey '85 is an older brother. Immediately after graduation he entered the employ of the Western Electric Company, as electrical engineer, at their Chicago office, and was connected with the company until his death. In 1897 he was sent to Japan to supervise the construction of several large telephone exchanges, and upon his return, in the following April, he was transferred to the New York office. During his long connection with the com- pany he had devoted a large part of his time to the development, improvement, and construction of telephone central stations, and had become probably the best authority in this country on the construction of central station apparatus. In private life he was strongly domestic, and closely devoted to his home. He was a member of St. James' Protestant Episcopal church of Upper Montclair. Mr. Hovey was married, June 12, 1895, to Miss Bessie A. Shepard of Chicago, who survives him, with three sons.

Secretary, Rev. Wm. Byron Forbush, 171 Taylor Ave., Detroit, Mich.