CLASS OF 1863

Henry Moore Baker died May 30 at the George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D. C., after an illness of two weeks. He was born in Bow, N. H., January 11, 1841, being the son of Aaron Whittemore and Nancy (Dustin) Baker, and fitted for college at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Tilton. In College he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He was a second cousin of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, and executor of her will. Before, her death he was president of the trustees of her estate and figured prominently in litigation over it. After graduation he read law for a year, and then was appointed to a clerkship in the War Department at Washington; in 1865 he was transferred to the Treasury Department, and held the position to 1874. Law studies were meanwhile continued, and he graduated from the law school of Columbian (now George Washington) University in 1866. In 1864 he served as private in the Treasury Guards. For many years he was in the successful practice of his profession in Washington, retaining his legal residence in his native town, and having much to do with political affairs in New Hampshire. In 1886 he was judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Hale. In 1891 General Baker was a member of the state Senate, represented the Second District in Congress from 1893 to 1897, and in 1905 and 1907 was a member of the state House of Representatives. Last spring he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, but did not live to take his seat in that body. Since 1904 he had been president of the trustees of Pembroke Academy. From 1898 to 1902 he was president of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth, and from 1906 to 1909 a trustee of Howard University in Washington. This institution conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1911. He was a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, president of the New Hampshire Sons of the American Revolution in 1902 and 1908, and governor of the Society of Colonial Wars of New Hampshire in 1908. In Masonry he was a member of the Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine. General Baker never married.

Rev. Joseph Franklin Joy died at his home in New Durham, N. H., June 14, after many years of ill health. Mr. Joy was the son of Samuel and Waty (Pettigrew) Joy, and was born in New Durham, May 15, 1838. His preparation for college was at the New Hampton Institution. After graduation he taught for a short time, then was for some months with the Army of the Potomac with the Sanitary Commission, and then studied medicine for a year at Bowdoin. He then decided to enter the Free Baptist ministry, and in 1866 was ordained pastor of the church in his native town. For ten years from 1871 he was pastor of the church in the adjoining town of Farmington. He had some repute as a revivalist, was the hero of a theological debate with a famous Adventist preacher, and was the author of some pamphlets on religious subjects. In 1883 he removed to South Dakota and engaged in farming, but about 1892 returned to New Hampshire in broken health. Mr. Joy was married May 14, 1868, to Addie F. Berry of New Durham, who died several years since. They had four children, of whom the two oldest (both daughters) survive their parents.

Secretary, M. C. Lamprey, Concord, N. H.