CLASS OF 1879

Seth N. Gage of Ascutneyville, Vt., represents his town in .the present legislature of his state.

An interesting and varied career has closed by the death at North Hartland, Vt., December 25, of Joseph Henry Dunbar. The fatal disease was pericarditis, complicated with acute Bright's disease, and for the last eight days he was unconscious. Mr. Dunbar was the son of Norman William and Susan (Stocker) Dunbar, and he was born in Hartland, March 8, 1858, his ancestors being among the earliest settlers of the town. His college preparation was obtained at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, and for his scholarship was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. He entered at once upon the calling of teacher, for which he had served his apprenticeship during his college course, first teaching at West Lebanon, N. H., and in his native town. From the winter of 1880-1 until June, 1885, he was principal of the academy at Haverhill, N. H., leaving the school to undertake the charge of a newspaper, the Grafton CountySignal, at Haverhill. After a year he resumed teaching in the high school at White River Junction, and was then for two years supervisor of schools for Windsor county. From 1891 to 1898 he taught in succession at West Lebanon, at Norwich, Vt., and at Perkins Academy, South Woodstock, Vt. For a part of this time he was also examiner of teachers for Windsor county. In 1898 he went to Minneapolis, Minn., to take charge of a business college, but after a year was recalled to Hartland by the death of his father. He too charge of the old farm, but was soon again m charge of a business college at Claremont, N. H., where he remained four years. He was married January 1, 1903, to Maude Gertrude, daughter of John L. and Mane (Howe) Spiller of Grantham, N. H., and soon after returned to the farm at North Hartland, where he remained, teaching somewhat at intervals, and acting as town superintendent of schools. Always keenly interested in public affairs, he was an efficient Republican stump speaker in the Harrison campaign of 1888. His political views underwent gradual and marked change, and he finally embraced socialistic opinions, and was repeatedly t e candidate of the latter party for state office and for congress. He was interested in the Patrons of Husbandry, and was instrumental in 1908 in establishing the grange at North Hartland of which he was lecturer at the time of his death. During his earlier days of teaching he published a text-book entitled, "Thirty Lessons on the Latin Verb," and was also the author of "Dunbar's Inductive Arithmetic," which reached a second revise edition in 1903. His wife survives him, with their only child, Norman Webster, aged six.

Secretary, Charles C. Davis, Winchester, N. H.