CLASS OF 1871

James Roberts Beede was born in Dover, N. H., September 26, 1843. He was the second son of John and Eliza (Roberts) Beede, and a younger brother of Samuel Folsom Beede '68. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. After graduation he taught at Prairie du Sac, Wis., Monticello, Minn., and Augusta, Wis.; and was high school principal at Farmington, Minn. (1879-82), Howard Lake, Minn. (1882-5), and Montevideo, Minn. (1885-9). He later taught at Rockford, Minn., and later lived on a farm at West Epping, N. H. Soon after attending the fortieth anniversary of his class at Hanover, he seemed to be failing in health from a malignant disease of the stomach. In November, 1911, he went to his sister's home, at North Berwick, Me., where he died February 11, 1913. Mr. Beede was never married.

Secretary, Prof. Charles F. Richardson, Sugar Hill, N. H.