CLASS OF 1869

Charles Marsh Clay, for thirty years head-master of the Roxbury High School, died March 11 at his home in The Warren, Roxbury District, Boston, after an illness of about a month, during the first half of which time he was able to be present at his school a part of each day.

Mr. Clay was the son of Lorenzo and Abbie (Bourne) Clay, and was born in Gardiner, Me., October 7, 1847, fitting for college in the public schools of Gardiner and at Bridgton Academy. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

For some time after graduation he was engaged in civil engineering, chiefly in connection with the European and North American Railroad, which ran north from Bangor, Me., into Canada. After a few years he turned to teaching, and taught in West Medway, Medway, Hopkinton, North Brookfield, and Arlington, Mass., before entering upon his final work in Roxbury.

Mr. Clay was a member of the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, the Headmasters' Association of Boston, and the National Educational Association; also of a Masonic lodge in Roxbury. He never married, and lived with a brother, Benjamin B. Clay.