CLASS OF 1843

Lyman Dewey Stevens died March 26 at his -home in Concord, N. H., of paralysis, after an illness of a few days. Mr. Stevens was born in Piermont, N. H., Sept. 20, 1821, being the son of Caleb and Sally (Dewey) Stevens. He prepared for college at Haverhill Academy, under John Lord '33 and Daniel F. Merrill '36. There now remains but one survivor of his college class, Mr. Edward A. Lawrence, with whom Mr. Stevens had corresponded up to his final illness. For two years after graduation he taught an academy in Stanstead, Que., reading law at the same time with E. C, Johnson of Derby, Vt. He completed his law studies with Hon. Ira Perley '22 in Concord, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in October, 1847. From this time until his death he has continued in practice in that city. In 1863 he was appointed by Governor Gilmore to adjust the suspended war claims of New Hampshire against the United States, and in November of the same year he attended the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg as commissioner from New Hampshire. In 1855 and '56 he was city solicitor; in iB6O, '61, '66 and '67, a member of the state house of representatives; mayor in 1868 and '69; presidential elector in 1872 ; state senator in 1881 ; member of the governor's council in 1881-3. From 1865 to 1906 he was a director in the National State Capital Bank, and for several years its president, and had been president of the Merrimack County Savings Bank since its incorporation in 1870. For twelve years he was a trustee of Kimball Union Academy, and had been trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and president of the board. He was an active member of the South Congregational church, and throughout his life was prominently identified with religious and philanthropical work. Among other positions of this kind, he had been vice president and treasurer of the New Hampshire Missionary Society. Mr. Stevens was married Aug. 21, 1850, to Achsah Pollard, • daughter of Capt. Theodore French of Concord, who died July 2, 1863. They had two children, Miss Margaret F. Stevens, and Henry W. Stevens '75. A second marriage, Jan. 20, 1875, was to Miss Frances Childs Brownell of Acushnet, Mass., who survives him. Their two children are Mrs. Fanny B. Clark of Suncook, N. H., and William L. Stevens '03. An editorial comment in the Concord EveningMonitor deserves quotation at length : "In his profession, in our public affairs, in church work, and as a banker, as well as in the wider association of friendships warmed and brightened by his cheerful personality, Mr. Stevens touched the life and activities of the community most helpfully and at many points, and sustained these relations even under the weight of his years to so recent a day, that his death, despite the span of life which it brings to an end, is as of one removed untimely from a career of great usefulness ; and the loss of his counsel and as. sistance will be keenly felt in many places where it was valued and depended upon. By reason of his long life among us he was a connecting link between the generation of great traditions to which his more active years contributed and the generation of great hopes to which the long and delightful evening of his life looked out; and it is hard to say whether he will be mourned more by those with whom his years and associations were chiefly spent or by those of the younger years who turned to him so often for advice and cheer. In fact, he will be missed by all, for the death of one so true, so frank, and so genial means a personal loss to the entire community to which for so many years he contributed so much of character."