CLASS OF 1873

Carl Ephraim Knight died .Tail. 21, 1909, at Milford, N. H., of heart disease, after a long illness. He was horn in New Hampton, N. H., May 6, 1851, and was the son of Ephraiin and Augusta E. (Crowe) Knight. His father was teacher of mathematics in the New London Literary and Scientific Institution. He was fitted for college at New London under Rev. A. W. Sawyer, D.D., '47, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1869 as a member of the class of 1873, continuing his studies without interruption until his graduation in the summer of 1873. During his freshman winter he taught school at Hillsborough, N. H., and during the winter of junior year at' Reed's Ferry, N. H. His only sister died during his sophomore year, and his only brother studied at Brown University. He was one of the early members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After leaving college he engaged in teaching for five years, at South Chatham, Mass., and elsewhere. He then entered the law office of John Y. Mugridge at Concord, N. H. He was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1881. Soon after this he began the practice of law in Milford, N. H., where at first he was associated with the late Clinton B. Averill. For a time he served on the school board of Milford, but in 1884 defined a re-election. He was a prominent member of the Masonic order, and had held the office of high priest of King Solomon's chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He interested himself also in many business enterprises, and had been a director in the Milford Savings Bank, of which he was also at one time the vice-president and a member of the board of investment, and at a later time its president. He was a director of the public library and of the board of trade. He held a like position in the Milford Building and Loan Association, of which he was also secretary and treasurer, and he was a director of the Milford Granite Company. In November, 1903, he was elected a delegate to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention. He married, June 15, 1893, Miss Sarah K. Gillis, who survives him. They had no children.

Secretary, Rev. S .W. Adriance, Winchester, Mass.