CLASS OF 1870

Although Charles Edwin Hall was a native of Hanover and passed nearly all his life in the state of New Hampshire, his death has come to the notice of the MAGAZINE more than a year after the event. The son of Lewis and Fidelia (Spencer) Hall, the subject of this notice was born in Hanover, December 11, 1847, and died in Greenville, N. H., November 7, 1909, of apoplexy. He studied medicine at Dartmouth and at the University of New York, and obtained his degree from the latter in 1873. He began practice at Turner's Falls, Mass., but very soon removed to Greenville, N. H., where in 1874 he established a drug store in connection with his practice. After some years he gave up practice and gave his whole time to the drug business, in which he was highly successful. In 1889 he was a member of the lower branch of the state legislature, and in 1891 of the senate. In the house he was chairman of the Committee on Normal Schools, and in the senate of the Committee on Education. From 1887 to 1891 he was town treasurer, and again continuously from 1897 until his death. For many years he had been a trustee of the local savings bank, and at his death was its vice-president. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows. May 25, 1875, he was married to Ellen Amelia Barnard of Westminster, Vt., a daughter of Rev. Pliny F. Barnard '43. She survives him, but without children.

Secretary, John H. Hardy, Arlington, Mass.