CLASS OF 1870

Frederick Danforth, son of Judge Charles and Julia S. (Dinsmore) Danforth, was born February 8, 1848. He died at his summer home, Squirrel Island, Maine, June 6, 1913. He was one of the nine graduates with the degree of B.S. in 1870, three of whom have died within a year. In College he was a member of the local fraternity of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi). After graduation he returned to his home in Gardiner, Maine, and began his life work as a civil engineer. He began at the bottom as an assistant, but rapidly worked his way to the top as a locating and construction engineer of railroad work in his native state. He was employed either in location or construction or both, on the following roads: the European and North American Railway (now a part of the Maine Central R. R.) ; the Portland and Ogdensburg R. R. (now the mountain division of the Maine Central) ; the Shore Line R. R. from Bangor to Mt. Desert Ferry (now also a part of the Maine Central lines) ; the Franklin and Megantic R. R.; the Northern Maine R. R.; the Togus branch of the Maine Central; the Rumford Falls and Portland R. R.; and the Mechanics Falls branch of the Maine Central near Auburn. In 1894 he was appointed engineer member of the State Railroad Commission, and reappointed in 1897. His long and successful experience as a railway engineer eminently qualified him for his work on the commission. He was a member of the Gardiner city government for several years, and mayor for two years. For a long time he was trustee of the Gardiner Water District, and at the time of his death he was a director of the Gardiner National Bank. Mr. Danforth was married in 1880 to Miss Caroline Stevens, who with four children survives him. He was a man of quiet tastes and sound judgment, arid everywhere respected for his character and ability. His two sons are engineers, and one of them, Richard Stevens, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1908 and of the. Thayer School in 1909.

Secretary, Prof. Lemuel S. Hastings, Hanover, N. H.