CLASS OF 1856

Arthur Alwyn Putnam, for two years a member of this class, died at Uxbridge, Mass., October 21. He had resigned in April after thirty-eight years' service as justice of the second district court of Southern Worcester. Judge Putnam was born in Danvers, Mass., November 18, 1829, and prepared for college at Thetford Academy and West Randolph Academy, in Vermont. After leaving college he studied law in New York and at Harvard Law School, and practiced the profession in Danvers, Blackstone, and Uxbridge, Mass. In 1857 and 1860 he represented the town of Danvers in the state house of representatives; served on the school'committee in the three above-mentioned towns; was ten years trustee of Uxbridge Savings Bank, and six years chairman of the parish committee of the Unitarian society in Uxbridge. In 1901 he was the Democratic candidate for attorney general of the state. In 1861 he raised a company for military service, and was chosen captain. This company was mustered in as Company I, Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, but soon became Company K, Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Soon after, Captain Putnam resigned. In the fall of 1863 he again entered the army as first lieutenant of the same company, and served along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. He was later in command of Company E, and was mustered out in SeptemDer, 1865. He has done a good deal of literary work, and is the author of a history of the town of Blackstone and several pamphlets. In 1887 Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Judge Putnam was married November 25, 1868, to Helen Irving, daughter of Artemas Staples of Blackstone, Mass., who survives him, with a son and a daughter.

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