CLASS OF 1877

Rev. John S. Ladd is now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Patterson, N. Y.

Dr. Charles Bartlett Hammond died very suddenly April 8 at his home in Nashua, N. H. Death was the result of kidney disease, to which he had been subject for a long time. Dr. Hammond, the sixth child and eldest son of Dr. Evan Bartlett and Sarah Ann (Adams) Hammond, was born in Nashua, March 20, 1853. His preparation for college was obtained at the public schools of that city and at the Nashua Literary Institution. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank. Upon graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, and graduated therefrom in 1880. His father was one of the best-known physicians and surgeons in southern New Hampshire, and the son began practice at once with him and soon succeeded to his office and clientage. He soon attained a position in the first rank of his profession, both in medicine and surgery, and no practitioner of the region was more frequently called in consultation. Led partly by serious and increasing deafness, for the past ten or fifteen years he had devoted himself especially to diseases of the eye, in which branch of his profession he won a wide reputation. Of a genial and lovable disposition, democratic in his ways, and ever ready at the cost of any inconvenience to himself to assist a sufferer, Doctor Hammond was dearly loved by all who came in contact with him. He was a leading member of the Nashua, Hillsboro County, and New Hampshire Medical Societies, and of the New Hampshire Surgical Club, and held membership in the American Medical Association. Last year he was the New Hampshire representative to the ophthalmoscopic section of the American Medical Association at its annual meeting at Atlantic City, N. J. He was secretary of the local board of pension examiners from 1889 to 1893, and had served as city and county physician. For many years he was a member of the city board of education, in which capacity he brought about many needed improvements in the public school system. He was actively connected with the Masonic order, being a member of Rising Sun Lodge, and also of chapter, commandery, and consistory. October 16, 1883, he was married to Mary Louisa, daughter of Dr. William A. and Sarah M. Tracy of Nashua, who survives him. Doctor and Mrs. Hammond had been much afflicted in the loss of three of their four children, only one, Karl R. '09, surviving his father.

Secretary, John M. Comstock, Chelsea, Vt.