CLASS OF 1880

Lockwood, Greene and Company, architects and engineers for industrial plants, of 60 Federal St., Boston, of which company Frank E. Shedd is vice-president, announce the establishment of a Canadian office in the McGill Building, Montreal.

George Otis Mitchell died in San Francisco, Cal., June 25, of kidney disease. He was born in Bath, Me., February 20, 1859. In College he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He was especially proficient in scientific studies, and was received into Phi Beta Kappa at graduation. For the first year after graduation be studied in Dartmouth Medical School, being also instructor in microscopy in that school and assistant in the department of physics in the College. He then went to Raleigh, N. C., and was for some years teacher of mathematics and natural science in Peace Institute. The rest of his life was spent in San Francisco, where he taught first in the Boys' and then in the Girls' High School, -acquiring a wide reputation as an instructor and as a microscopist. He had been corresponding secretary and president of the San Francisco Microscopical' Society, treasurer of the San Francisco Bacteriological Society, member of the California Academy of Sciences and of the Camera Club, and fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of Great Britain. In 1891 he married a sister of his classmate, Thomas Flint.

John Henry Niles died of paralysis at his home in Anoka, Minn., July 28, after an illness of three, years. He was the son of John Henry and Maria (Mos'her) Niles, and was born in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y„ Nov. 22, 1857. His father died when he was four years old and his mother moved to Albany, where he prepared for college in the city high school. His fraternity was Kappa Kappa Kappa. After graduation he studied law in Albany and at the State University of lowa, graduating from the law department of the latter in 1882. He practiced for a year in Minneapolis, in partnership with his classmate, H. W. Young, and then removed to Anoka, where he continued in practice until the failure of his health. He had held many positions of trust and honor in his adopted city, having been president of the school board, secretary of the library board, and municipal judge. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Episcopal church. Nov. 22, 1887, Mr. Niles was married to Zale, daughter of Herman L. and Anna M. Sweeney) Ticknor, of Anoka, who died Feb. 20, 1902. They had one child, Natalie Niles, now the wife of Arthur Smith, of Anoka.

Edwin D. Field became, August 1, president and treasurer of the Field-Frey Company, of Duluth, Minn., which succeeds to the business of the E. D. Field Company, in loans, insurance, and real estate, at 203 Exchange Building.

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