CLASS OF 1898

Ernest Eugene French died April 28 at his home at West Lebanon, N. H., of tuberculosis, after a long illness. He was the son of Horace and Mary E. (Gillette) French, and was born at West Lebanon, May 3, 1878. He prepared for college at the high school of his native village, of which his brother, Samuel P. French '93, was principal. For two years after graduation he served as assistant to his father in the post-office at West Lebanon, studying law under Pingree and Pingree of White River Junction. He was also census enumerator in 1900.' He then went to California, and studied in the law school of the university, being admitted to the bar in that state. Late in 1904 he. returned to West Lebanon and began practice, continuing it as long as health allowed. June 21, 1905, he was married to Florence E. Hilliard of Lebanon, who survives him, with their two sons. He was a member of Franklin Lodge, F. and A. M., of Lebanon. The local paper gives a feeling tribute to the nobility of his nature and the sweetness of his life.

Secretary, Herbert W. Blake, Gardner, Mass.