CLASS OF 1896

Dr. Henry Cutler Stearns of Haverhill, N. H., was instantly killed in an automobile accident in that town August 23.

He was born in Lovell, Me., August 21, 1866, being the son of Josiah Heald and Sarah Russell (Stearns) Stearns. He was educated in the town schools of Lovell and Fryeburg, and taught twenty terms of school in that vicinity.

After obtaining his degree he studied for a time in the New York Graduate Medical School, and had some hospital experience in Boston. He began practice at Bartlett, N. H., but after a short time removed to Haverhill. In 1906 he sold his practice and removed to Concord, N. H., but, his successor dying soon after, he returned to Haverhill, and continued to practice there until his death.

Dr. Stearns was a Mason and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, master of Haverhill Grange, and a trustee of Haverhill Academy. He had written several short stories for publication, and was the author of several dramas and farces, some of which have been published; he had also delivered two Memorial Day addresses.

September 30, 1897, he was married to Mary Louise, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Swasey) Poor of Haverhill, who survives him, with one son.