Class Notes

CLASS OF 1876

May 1912 Wm. H. Gardiner
Class Notes
CLASS OF 1876
May 1912 Wm. H. Gardiner

James Wentworth Moulton was born in Berwick, Me., February 3, 1854, and died in Lowell, Mass., February 7, 1912. His parents were Emery B. and Hannah (Wentworth) Moulton. He prepared at Berwick Academy for the Chandler Scientific Department, and was in college a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi. For a short time after graduation he studied law, but soon turned to mercantile pursuits as a clerk, and so continued for many years. Since early in 1904 he had been incapacitated for work by Bright's disease, and had been paralyzed for over seven years and bedridden for over five. He was married December 21, 1880, to Effie, daughter of John and ' Ruth Kidder, who has been his faithful nurse during years of suffering and survives him with their two daughters.

Lorenzo Livermore Stimpson was born at Barton Landing (now Orleans), Vt., February 17, 1850, and died of pneumonia in Columbus Hospital, Chicago, March 24, 1912. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, and was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. While in college he taught school winters, and earned his way through his course by his own efforts. After graduation he studied law in Boston and was in practice there till January, 1892, when he removed to Chicago. In the latter city he worked as a machinist and an electrician in the employ of various firms, spending much time in the study, of new devices, some of which he patented. At the time of his death he was perfecting a device to be applied to a typewriter. Mr. Stimpson never married. The burial was at Orleans, Vt., his native place.

Secretary, Wm. H. Gardiner, 634 East 72d St., Chicago