CLASS OF 1881

William Moore died of anemia in Bismarck, N. D., January 9, 1914. He had not been well for two or three years, but had so improved during his summer vacation that he was at his post as usual in the fall, being at his desk in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction .as late as within a week of his death.

Mr. Moore was born in Banbridge, Ireland, February 17, 1855, coming to New York City in 1868. He graduated at Kimball Union Academy in 1876 and entered Dartmouth in the class of 1880. Leaving during his freshman year, he returned the next year and graduated in 1881. He was a man of varied gifts, succeeding well as lawyer, editor, and teacher. He was a lawyer in St. Paul, Minn., 1888-89; lawyer and editor in Watertown, S. D., 1889-92; city editor of the Bismarck Daily Tribune, 1908-10. As educator he was principal of the high school in Chatfield, Minn., 1881-82; superintendent of city schools in Lake City, Minn,, 1882-88; in Spring Valley, Minn., 1892-94; and in Bismarck, 1895-1908. Since January 5, 1911, he had been assistant in the field work in the state department of public instruction. Mr. Moore was married October 8, 1891, to Miss Belle A. Hulett of Lake City, Minn., and had two daughters: Hortense, born at Spring Valley, September 2, 1893, a member of the class of 1915 at the North Dakota State University; and Dorothy, born in Bismarck, March 9, 1900.

He had those qualities of kindness and affability which made him universally loved and appreciated. Not only his immediate associates in work, but the community generally, joined in deepest sympathy for the bereaved family.