CLASS OF 1892

William Hazleton Puffer died at Pecos, Texas, March 17, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, after an illness of only two days. Mr. Puffer was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 3, 1861, being a son of Rev. John M. and Anna (Hazleton) Puffer. His father was a Methodist minister of the Vermont Conference, and died in 1874. His early years were spent on a farm in support of the family, after which he prepared for college at St Johnsbury Academy, graduating there in 1887. He was then for three years in the class of '91, Chandler Scientific Department, preparing for the Thayer School, in which he took the two years' course. After graduation he was engaged in railroad engineering with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, Mexican Central, and Boston and Maine Railroads successively. From 1899 to 1902 he was superintendent of construction at the Zoological Park in the Bronx, New York city. He then engaged in mining enterprises in Guanajuato, Mexico, and was manager of the La Tula Mining Company from 1906 until January of the present year. Having closed up his business in Mexico, he had been staying a few weeks in Pecos, and was on his way to Carlsbad, N. M., where he intended to reside. He was a man of recognized sterling qualities,—honest, upright, and fearless, humane and generous,—and possessed in an unusual degree the faculty of making friends. He was married in September, 1892, to Helen R., daughter of Samuel R. and Orcelia (Kenney) Davis of Troy, Vt., who survives him, with their three children.