CLASS OF 1880

David Johnson Foster, representative in Congress from the First District of Vermont, died in Washington, D. C., March 21. He had been ill with the grip for three weeks, when pneumonia developed and speedily proved fatal. Mr. Foster was born in Barnet, Vt., June 27, 1857, the son of Jacob Prentiss and Matilda F. Foster. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was noted in college for his public speaking, and was a repeated prize-winner in that line. After graduation he studied law in Burlington, Vt., and practiced there from his admission to the bar in September, 1882. He soon attained success in his profession,' and was also active in public affairs from the first. In 1885-7 he served on the city school board; from 1886 to 1890 he was state's attorney for his county; in 1892 a member of the state Senate; from 1894 to 1898 commissioner of state taxes; and from 1898 to 1900 chairman of the state board of railroad commissioners. In 1900, after a hard fight, he won the Republican nomination for Congress, and represented his district from March 4, 1901, until his death. He soon acquired a position of influence, and was unceasingly prominent in national affairs. During the last year of the Sixty-first Congress he was chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in 1910 he headed the delegation which represented this country at the celebration of Mexican independence, and last year was chairman of the delegation from the United States to the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. He had not disappointed his early reputation as an orator, and was in large demand as a speaker on political and special occasions. Mr. Foster was married October 4, 1883, to Mabel Maria, daughter of William Abijah and Emily (Herrick) Allen of Chelsea, Vt., where he taugfit during his college course. She survives him with their three daughters. Two sons died in early childhood.

Secretary, Dana M. Dustan, 340 Main St., Worcester, Mass.