CLASS OF 1909

News has but recently been received of the death of Benjamin Barstow, which occurred from tuberculosis, June 30, 1913, at the sanitarium in Westfield, Mass.

Barstow was born in Kingston, Mass., May 4, 1886, his parents being Dr. B. Parker and Helen B. (Steele) Barstow, He prepared for college at Kingston and at Heidelberg, Germany. A few days before graduation he was taken ill, and returning home, remained there till fall, when he was taken to the tubercular sanitarium at Rutland, Mass. After remaining there about a year, in September, 1910, he became principal of the high school, in Sutton, Mass. He was highly successful there, but his health again gave way, and he returned to Rutland for treatment, remaining there till the fall of 1912. He then went to the Westfield institution, from which he did not return.