CLASS OF 1855

Silas Hardy died February 7 at his home in Keene, N. H., after an illness which began about the first of last August. He was born in Nelson. N. H., April 3, 1827, the eighth child of Captain Noah and Jerusha (Kimball) Hardy. In college he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, and was one of the speakers at Commencement. The year after his graduation he was principal of Foxcroft Academy, Maine, and then went to Keene and entered the law office of Hon. Levi Chamberlain as a student. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1858, and immediately began practice in Keene. In March, 1859, he was appointed register of probate for Cheshire county, and held the office five years, when he was appointed judge of probate. This office he retained until July 1, 1874. He was engrossing clerk of the New Hampshire legislature in 1860 and '61, a member of the constitutional convention in 1876, and had been an active Republican since the formation of the party in 1856. For many years he was prominent and successful in the practice of his profession. Mr. Hardy was prominently connected with the Cheshire County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which did a successful business for sixty years from its organization in 1834, and became its president. He was a trustee of the Cheshire Provident Institution, and for nearly thirty years a director and president of the Winchester National Bank. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Lodge of the Temple, A. F. and A. M., and for a time a trustee of the Elliot City Hospital. He had attended every term of court in Cheshire county since his admission to the bar until last October. He was a constant attendant at the Unitarian church, and an active member of the Unitarian Club. December 31, 1863, Judge Hardy was married to Josephine M., daughter of Alonzo and Sophia H. Kingsley of Winchester, N. H., a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary in 1857. Mrs. Hardy died June 19, 1871, leaving an infant son, Ashley Kingsley, who is now professor of German in Dartmouth College.

Secretary, Samuel R. Bond, 412 Fifth St., N. W., Washington, D. C.