CLASS OF 1878

Frank Wadleigh Gove died September 29 at his home in Peoria, Ill., after a brief illness. He was born in Boston, Mass., January 2, 1854. In 1857 his parents moved to Illinois and established themselves in Rutland. Afterwards they purchased a farm at Farina, Ill., where Mr. Gove spent his boyhood. He graduated from the high school department of the Normal University, and entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. At the end of his college course he was appointed professor of mathematics in the University of Colorado at Boulder. After one year's service, he entered the engineering department of the state, and was engaged in opening up the great Ute Reservation. After finishing this, he engaged in real estate business in Denver. For a time he was president of a bank at Needles, Cal., and then engaged in business in San Francisco. He developed Estes Park in Colorado. Coming back to Peoria, Ill., he accepted a position on the Peoria Star, but was mainly interested in opening up the alluvial lands on the Mississippi in southeastern Missouri. While investigating the swamp lands of northeastern Arkansas, he contracted the swamp fever of that section which is so fatal to whites, and, returning home, died after a few days' illness. His remains were cremated in Chicago. In 1882 he married Ida L. Cook of Normal, Ill., who survives him. Mr. Gove was a loyal Dartmouth man. He was present at the alumni dinner in Chicago in 1909, and reported to his class secretary in that year with expressions of sustained interest in all his classmates, closing with the statement that the years intervening since graduation had passed pleasantly with him.

Edwin W. Sanborn, whose literary gifts have always been a delight to his friends, has just privately printed a booklet entitled "Imitations," containing imitations of the styles of masters of English, from Shakespeare to Kipling, on the general topic of the discovery of the North Pole.

Secretary, William D. Parkinson, Waltham, Mass.