CLASS OF 1862

John A. Staples died June 25, at the Booth-by Hospital, Boston, after a week's illness. He was the son of James H. and Sarah E. (Dudley) Staples, and was born in Lyman, Me., September 5, 1841. He fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at the high school of Biddeford, Me, where his home then was. His college fraternity was the Vitruvian (now Beta Theta Pi). For two years after graduation he was in business at home, then for two years in Buffalo, N. Y, as agent of the Shaw and Clark Sewing Machine Company, and then in Chicago for two years for the same firm. For some time from 1866 he was with the Union Paper Collar Company of New York. From 1870 to 1873 he was city clerk of Biddeford, Me. In 1873 he was appointed cashier m the Boston office of the Eastern Railroad, to which the Boston and Maine succeeded, and remained in the same position in the freight office of the latter road until his death. His home was for a time in Revere, then in Charlestown, and finally in Somerville. When in Charlestown he was prominently connected with the First Universalist church. December 5, 1867, he was married to Josephine Goodwin of Biddeford, who survives him. One .son also survives, another son having died in childhood.

Mr and Mrs. George M. Fellows of Hyde Park Mass., celebrated their golden wedding August 12. In June Mr. Fellows attended the"reunion at the fiftieth anniversary of his class at Dartmouth, and Mrs. Fellows observed the fiftieth of her graduation from the New Hampton Literary Institution.

Secretary, Luther W. Emerson, 206 Broadway, New York