CLASS OF 1869

Edwin Ruthven Hill Hodgman was born at Mason, N. H., Oct. 17, 1847, and died at Bozeman, Mont., August 24, 1909, of cancer of the pancreas. His parents were Rev. Edwin Ruthven Hodgman (Dartmouth '43) and Martha Hill. He prepared for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H., under E. T. Quimby '51. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. For the first year after graduation he was principal of an academy at Williston, Vt. In 1870 he entered land in Pottawatomie county, Kansas, where he taught in 1870-1. In 1871-2 he taught in the public schools of Kansas City, Mo., and from 1872 to 1881 he was with the firm of Smith and Keating, dealers in agricultural instruments, in that city. In 1881-3 he was engaged in the cooperage business at Sandusky, Ohio, and Port Huron, Mich. In 1883 he purchased a ranch in Gallatin county, Montana, where he lived until his decease. He served as clerk of the school board for nearly twenty-six years, and was secretary and trustee of the Farmers' Canal Company, and secretary of the Bozeman Creek Telephone Company. He was always a student with a retentive mind, and was known as one of the best educated men in the valley. For many years he had taught a Bible class in the Presbyterian Sunday school, and for the last year was its superintendent. He was married, Nov. 25, 1882, to Helen N., daughter of John and Lucy A. Kinsman of South Hadley Falls, Mass.. who survives him, without children.

Secretary, Charles P. Chase, Hanover, N. H