CLASS OF 1874

Rev. Myron Parsons Dickey died at Kennebunk, Me,, August 30, after an operation for appendicitis. He was born in Derry, N. H., February 19. 1852, his parents being David Woodburn and Sarah (Campbell) Dickey. He prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

He had taught during his college course, and upon graduation continued in this profession at Three Rivers, Mass. In the spring of 1875 he became the first principal of the Emerson Free High School, Hampstead, N. H., and remained there till the summer of 1879. He then took charge for a year of the high school at Newmarket, N. H.

Having decided to study for the ministry, he then, entered Yale Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1883. For ten years he was pastor of the Congregational church at Ludlow Center, Mass., and then from 1893 to 1908 at Milton, N. H., becoming pastor of the church at Kennebunk in 1908.

August 3, 1876, Mr. Dickey was married to Louise R. Shumway of Three Rivers, Mass., who died in 1908. He has since married Nellie Wentworth of Milton, N. H., who survives him. There are two sons and a daughter, the elder son being Maurice W. '99, and the daughter the wife of Arthur Thad Smith '96.

A writer in The Congregationalist says: "Mr. Dickey won a large place in the esteem and love of the church and the community. He was a man of fine discrimination, broad sympathies, and rare judgment. He was a helpful preacher and a faithful pastor. In the larger work of" the church his aid and co-operation could always be depended upon. He was a friend to all men, and considered that no interest centering in the welfare of humanity was foreign to his ministry."