CLASS OF 1872

Dr. Arthur Walter Blair died suddenly Jan. 18, of heart disease, at Duxbury, Mass., where he had gone on professional business. The son of Walter and Elizabeth (Farnum) Blair, he was born in Plymouth, N. H., May 22, 1848. His college preparation was obtained at Newbury Seminary, Vermont. His college fraternity was Psi Upsilon. For the first year after graduation he taught the high school of Middleboro, Mass. In the fall of 1873 he began preparation for the ministry at Hartford Theological Seminary, but was obliged by the failure of his health to desist in January, 1875. Spending some months in recruiting his health and being advised by his physicians to alter his plans for a life work, he resumed teaching the following fall, and was principal of the graded school at Northfield, Vt., in 1875-7, and at Montpelier, Vt., in 1877-9. He then took up the study of medicine at the University of Vermont, graduating in 1881. He practiced the profession at Orford, N. H., for five years, being there superintendent of schools for one year and president of the White Mountain Medical Society one year. He removed in 1886 to Dorchester, Mass., where he practiced until his death, meeting with excellent success, and winning, in an unusual degree, the regard and affection of his patients. He was surgeon general of the Commercial Travelers' Eastern Accident Association, and a member of the Massachusetts, Norfolk District, and New Hampshire Medical Societies. Dr. Blair was always interested in public affairs, and took an active part in the political life of his section of the city of Boston, but never held office. He was one of the founders of the Colonial Club of Dorchester, and a member of its board of directors for several years. He was an active member of the Second Congregational church of Dorchester, and had been superintendent of its Sunday school. July 25, 1877, he was married to Ellen E., daughter of Charles and Rosan (Hoskins) Chamberlin of St. Johnsbury, Vt., who survives him with two sons, Walter '00 and Hugh '04.

Secretary, Prof. Albert E. Frost, Winthrop St., Pittsburg, Pa.