CLASS OF 1880

Hon. David J. Foster, representative in Congress from the first district of Vermont, who is now serving his fifth term, has been promoted to the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to fill a vacancy caused by death. This is recognized as one of the most desirable, posts in the house, and has been associated in. times past with some of the most brilliant names in the history of Congress.

Mart Alph Beal died of chronic diabetes in Springfield, Vt., March 12. He was born in Southport, Maine, August 15, 1855, and was the son of Martin and Mary (McConn) Beal. His father was a merchant. He attended school at Southport and Boothbay, and later at Westbrook Seminary, from which he entered the Chandler Scientific Department at Dartmouth. For the first year after graduation he taught mathematics and English in Mission College, Grande Ligne, Que., and then studied for a few months in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was then for a year and a half in the employ of the N. K. Fairbank Company of Chicago as chemist, and then from July, 1883, superintendent of the Bean and Perry Manufacturing Company, manufacturing chemists, at Rockford, Ill., also being secretary and manager of the Forest City Electric Light and Power Company. In 1888 he became manager of the Rockford Edison Company, which in the twenty years of his connection with it grew from a small to a large and successful house. In 1908 Mr. Beal retired from active work on account of poor health, and became proprietor of Pond Hill Farm in Springfield, one of the largest in the state. He had acquired a large property from his successful business in Illinois. He was married, August 27, 1885, to Laura L. Starr of Rockford, who survives him, with two children, a daughter and a son.

Secretary, Dana M. Dustan, 340 Main St., Worcester, Mass.