CLASS OF 1865

Charles Henry Sargent died November 12, 1912, at Hot Springs, South Dakota. He was born in Reading, Mass., October 22, 1844. His course in College was that of the Chandler Scientific Department, and his fraternity Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi). From July to December, 1864, he served as private in Company E, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, whose service was largely in Maryland. After graduation Mr. Sargent worked about Boston for a time as a surveyor, and then in 1868 joined the engineering corps of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming. He was then for a time with the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in lowa, Nebraska, and Missouri, and then with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in the Lake Superior country. Railroad construction was halted for a time by the panic of 1873, and he returned East and engaged in private practice at Lanesville, Mass. He afterwards went back to the West, and was in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy road, locating for the latter system a good part of the main line between Crete, Neb., and Denver. The town of Sargent was named after him, and he also founded the town of Garrison, which was his home up to about sixteen years ago, when he removed to Lincoln. His last railroad work was for the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific in Oklahoma and Texas. About six years ago he was taken with tuberculosis of the hip and obliged to retire from his profession, in which he was widely known and successful. Two years ago he was taken for treatment to a sanitarium at Hot Springs, and remained there most of the time till his death, which occurred from a disease of the liver. He was an enthusiastic Dartmouth man, and though seldom able to attend the meetings of the Association of the Plains, remembered the meeting when absent by interesting letters, full of loyalty to the old College, the "boys of the sixties," and the Dartmouth of the present. He was one of the best known members of the Grand Army of the Republic in Lincoln, and belonged to several fraternal organizations. In December, 1871, he was married to Mary Olive Andrews of Lanesville, Mass., who survives him, with six children. Two sons and two daughters are graduates of the Nebraska State University.

Secretary, Rev. Henry I. Cushman, 26 Pitman St., Providence, R. I.