CLASS OF 1864
Dr. George H. M. Rowe has removed his residence to No. 11 Ivy St., Fenway, Boston, Mass.
John Tyler Gibson, after forty years' service as master of the Agassiz School in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston, has retired to his permanent home at Southboro, Mass.
Robert Leland Read died June 9 in Portland. Me., after a brief illness. He was a son of Robert and Jane M. Read, and was born in Manchester, N. H., July 12, 1841. Dr. William Read '39 was a half-brother. He took in College the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi). After graduation he became a civil engineer, and was chief engineer of various railroads in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, living in Cincinnati for many years. On retiring from active work he made his home in Maiden, Mass. He had been a director of the American Society of Civil Engineers and president of the Engineers' Club of Cincinnati, and was a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and the Thayer Society of Engineers of Dartmouth College. He was also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the American Revolution, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, and the Bostonian Society. Mr. Read's wife, who was Miss Abbie H. Eastman, died some years since. They had no children. In his will is a bequest of $1,000 to the College, the income to be used as an annual prize for the best work in descriptive geometry.
Rev. John Woodbury Scribner died at a hospital in Biddeford, Me., June 20, from a heart trouble. He was the son of John and Betsey Dearborn (Page) Scribner, and was born March 7, 1840, at Raymond, N. H. He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. In College he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Immediately after graduation he became president of Hartsville College at Hartsville, Ind., remaining there for nine years. This was an institution of the United Brethren, and he was ordained to the ministry of that denomination in August, 1869. He was then professor of mental and moral philosophy in Lebanon Valley College at Annville, Pa., to 1875 and was also for a year of this time pastor of the college church. In-1875 he returned to New Hampshire, and became October 1 pastor of the Free Baptist church at Lakeport, N. H. After four years he became pastor at New Hampton, N. H., in 1882 at Center Sandwich, N. H., and afterwards at Epsom, Loudon, and Melvin Village. In 1907 he retired to his home at Ocean Park, Me., preaching meanwhile as supply for various churches. While as pastor and preacher Mr. Scribner was faithful and efficient, he was much in demand for religious work of a general nature, and held many positions of honor and responsibility in connection with organized efforts for social and educational betterment. For many years he held official relations to the New Hampton Literary Institution, the New Hampshire Yearly Meeting of Free Baptists, and the New Hampshire Sunday School Association. He .was secretary of the National Educational Association (College Department) at its Boston meeting in 1872. He was three times delegate to the General Conference of Free Baptists, and was in 1898 appointed a delegate to the World's Sunday School Convention held In London. Mr. Scribner was married June 13, 1866, to Mary Ermina Wray of Hartsville, Ind., who survives him, with three daughters. Their only son died in 1911.
Secretary, Dr. John C. Webster, 1121 Hayes Ave., Chicago
