Deaths

CLASS OF 1845

Everett Boynton, the last survivor of his class, and for a brief period the oldest living graduate of the College, died of the infirmities of age at his home in Swampscott, Mass., November 11.

The son of Eli and Mary (McDonald) Boynton, he was born in Pepperell, Mass., July 12, 1822, and prepared for college at Pepperell Academy.

Soon after graduation he went to Mobile, Ala., and taught in the Barton Academy and in a school for boys established by him. In 1850 he returned to Massachusetts, and taught a short time at Pepperell, and then at Swampscott and Lynn until 1861.

September 4, 1861, Mr. Boynton enlisted as a private in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, and served with his regiment in South Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1863 he was detailed for service tin the Signal Corps. During his last year of service he was incapacitated for active service in the field, and was employed as clerk at the Rendezvous of Distribution until he was honorably discharged, September 25, 1864.

He then resumed teaching at Swampscott, but in 1877 left the profession and opened a periodical store, which still bears his name, though the active management has long since passed to his daughter.

May 5, 1847, Mr. Boynton was married at Mobile, Ala., to Sarah Cleveland, daughter of Enos Cune, who died November 24, 1864. They had seven children, of whom a son and two daughters survive.

CLASS OF 1853

William Charles Thompson was born in Plymouth, N. H., September 25, 1832, and died in Pepperell, Mass., June 7, 1915.

His parents were William Coombs (Dartmouth 1820) and Martha Higginson (Leverett) Thompson. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. He studied law for the first year after graduation with Hon. Dwight Foster of Worcester, Mass., and then for two years in Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1856.

From October, 1856, to June, 1862, he practiced his profession in St. Paul, Mimi. His health failing, he returned to Worcester, Mass., and in the same year he went to New York with the intention of continuing practice in that city. But his health continued to fail, and in March, 1863, he went to Nassau in the Bahamas, where he soon became United States vice-consul, and remained till 1865.

His health was never regained to the extent of allowing him to resume an active life, and he has since passed his days as an invalid and gentleman of leisure, at Worcester and Somerville, Mass., to 1877, and since at Pepperell. Mr. Thompson was never married.

CLASS OF 1854

Dr. Samuel Wood Dana died September 1 at his home in New York city.

He was born at West Lebanon, N.H., September 16, 1827, his parents being Jedediah and Martha (Wood) Dana.' He fitted at Kimball Union Academy.

After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, obtaining his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1858. He began practice immediately in the metropolis, and continued there until his retirement in 1908, with excellent standing and success. He was all his life a close student, and had an intimate acquaintance with the literature of the ancient and modern languages of Europe.

In 1860-4 he was surgeon at the New York Dispensary, and was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, and various other organizations.

June 8, 1865, Dr. Dana was married to Helena, daughter of Asahel Raymond of New York. They had a son and two daughters, who survive their parents.

George Haseltine died September 9 at his home in Hoboken, N.J., of injuries received from a fall the week before.

The son of Richard and Rebecca (Gage) Haseltine, he was born in Bradford, Mass., August 17, 1829. He prepared for college at New Hampshire Conference Seminary, and took his freshman year at Wesleyan University. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

After graduation he studied law, graduating from Albany law School in 1856. In that year he went to England on legal business, and studied patent law there. In 1860-2 he . was editor of the London American, after which he gave his attention to the practice of patent law in London, continuing there until 1876 and winning a world-wide reputation. In 1873 he was a member and one of the organizers of the Vienna Patent Congress, in which he advocated the policy and justice of liberal patent laws. He was largely responsible for the present patent laws of Germany.

Returning to America with impaired health, he was retired from active practice for several years, but in 1882 he resumed his profession in New York, and in 1885 established a firm making a specialty of foreign patent business.

In 1871 Mr. Haseltine was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1872 he was made a Doctor of Laws by Chicago University. He was a member of the New England Society of New York.

Mr. Haseltine was never married.

CLASS OF 1856

Isaac Bridgman, for the last few years secretary of this class, died August 26 at his summer home at McIndoe Falls, Vt., of apoplexy, believed to have been caused by a fall from a fruit tree on which he was at work.

Mr. Bridgman was born in Hanover, October 2, 1833, his parents being Isaac and Lucy (Chandler) Bridgman. He fitted at Kimball Union Academy. He was a mem- ber of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he entered Newton The- ological Institution, but did not remain through the year, teaching the next spring in St. Johnsbury Academy. He then resumed his theological studies at Andover Seminary, remaining there for a year. In the fall and winter of 1858 he taught in Phillips Academy, Andover, and then on account of impaired health he was obliged to relinquish all mental labor for a year or more.

Regaining his health, he entered upon a long and highly successful career as a teacher, being principal of Munroe Academy, Elbridge, N.Y., 1859-61; instructor in Phillips Academy, Andover, 1861-6; principal of Syracuse (N.Y.) Classical School, 1867-75. After a year's travel abroad, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and after teaching a short time in the Brooks School, he became instructor in the Cleveland Academy, in its classical department for boys. In 1881 he became principal of this school, and remained there till 1887. From 1888 to 1892 he conducted a private school in Northampton, Mass., and then taught in the high school of that city for four years, retaining his home there through life. Dartmouth bestowed upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1886.

Dr. Bridgman was always deeply interested in the affairs of the community, state, and nation, and his influence was felt on behalf of individual and civic righteousness. For many years he was a deacon of Edwards Congregational church, Northampton, and also its clerk and treasurer, and for nearly ten years teacher of a men's Bible class. He was largely interested in establishing the Nonotuck Savings Bank, of which he was vicepresident.

He was married November 10, 1859, to Mary E., daughter of John C. and Margaret A. Gleason of McIndoe Falls, Vt., who died August 12, 1901. Two sons survive them, Walter R., professor in Lake Forest University, and John C., in business in Wilkes Barre, Pa.; also a daughter, Mrs. William S. Stedman of Holyoke, Mass. Two other daughters died in early childhood. A niece lived with Mr. Bridgman in his home in Northampton.

CLASS OF 1858

Jonathan Eastman Pecker died at his apartments in Concord, N.H., August 12, after a long illness.

He was born in Concord, May 28, 1838, and was the son of Jeremiah and Mary Lang (Eastman) Pecker. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the Franklin Hall High School of Concord, and entered at the beginning of middle year.

After graduation he was engaged to some extent in surveying and civil engineering, and also taught somewhat, meanwhile studying law. He left his law studies in 1861 before admission to the bar to become war correspondent for the Boston Journal, doing work also for several other papers. After the Civil War he traveled extensively in journalistic service in Canada, the Southern and Western states, and Mexico. In 1872 he established the New Hampshire News Bureau and branch office of the BostonJournal in Concord, and was its manager till 1896, when through a change of policy of the paper it was abolished. He had reached the highest rank and emoluments on its staff of correspondents.

Since his retirement from active journalism Col. Pecker has been engaged as a stock broker, operating in Concord and Boston, and has been an original stockholder in some of the most successful banking corporations in New Hampshire. He has been also interested in agriculture, and was the owner of a valuable farm at East Concord.

For many years he was actively connected with the New Hampshire National Guard, and served as colonel on the staffs of Governors B. F. Prescott and Natt Head. He was a member of various historical and genealogical societies, and greatly interested in their work. He had been a book collector for more than forty years, and accumulated a library of about 10,000 books and pamphlets, some of rare value.

Col. Pecker was an ' advanced Catholic churchman, and a member of the Church of the Advent of Boston. He never married.

John Elbridge Sinclair died in Worcester, Mass., September 12, of heart disease, after only a day's illness.

He was the son of Harry and Eliza Ann (Robinson) Sinclair, and was born in Brent- wood, N.H., March 28, 1838. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Phillips Academy, Exeter.

His entire active lite was occupied in teaching. One year at Adrian, Mich.; six years as tutor in Washington University at St. Louis; six years as professor of mathe- matics in the Chandler Scientific Department at Dartmouth; then in 1869 he became pro- fessor of mathematics in Worcester Poly- technic Institute, from which position he re- tired as professor emeritus in 1908. Since have followed years of retirement and valua- ble citizenship in Worcester. He had re- ceived the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Washington University in 1862 and from Dartmouth in 1879, and of Doctor of Philosophy from Dartmouth in 1883.

Professor Sinclair was married December 24, 1864, to Isabelle Aiken, daughter of John W. and Nancy (Aiken) Noyes of Chester, N.H., who died September 10, 1868. A second marriage, November 21, 1870, was to Marietta S., daughter of Joel and Mary C. (Bond) Fletcher of Worcester, Mass., who died in 1913. A son and four daughters survive.

Charles Woodman Hayes, also a graduate of the Chandler Scientific Department, died September 28 at his summer home in Madbury, N. H., near Dover.

Mr. Hayes was born in Madbury, September 11, 1836, his parents being Samuel Davis and Comfort (Chesley) Hayes. His preparation for college was obtained at Lee and Pembroke, N.H.

After graduation he engaged in teaching, and taught in various places until 1866, when the health of his parents required his return to the home farm. He remained there as farmer, grain dealer, and surveyor till 1898, when he removed to Dover.

During all his residence in Madbury he was closely associated with the civil and religious activities of the town, and achieved a reputation for strict integrity and unselfish service.

November 8, 1866, Mr. Hayes was married to Ellen Maria, daughter of William and Maria (Clark) Weeks of Barrington, N.H., who survives him, with three daughters.

CLASS OF 1862

Oliver Lyford Cross died June 13 at the hospital at Franklin, N.H., of kidney disease and other troubles of old age.

He was born in Northfield, N.H., June 11, 1836, his parents being Jeremiah and Sarah (Lyford) Cross. He fitted at New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Franklin Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Pike and Barnard of Franklin, and began practice there in 1865. In 1866, after traveling for some time in the West, he settled in Montgomery City, Mo., where he was city attorney in 1867-70, and mayor in 1870-1. On his father's death he returned to his native town in 1873, and had been since engaged in farming, insurance, and law practice, being also justice of the peace to 1911. He was a member of the Masonic order and a Knight Templar.

Mr. Cross was married November 16, 1866, to Lucy R. Hill of Northfield, who died November 13, 1910. 1 A daughter survives them, two sons having died.

CLASS OF 1865

Dr. John Hildreth McCollom, for some time connected with this class in the Chandler Scientific Department, died suddenly at his home in Boston, Mass., June 14.

Dr. McCollom was born in Pittston, Maine, May 6, 1843, being the son of Rev. James Tomb (Dartmouth 1835) and Elizabeth Phillips (Hildreth) McCollom. He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, his home being then at Bradford, Mass. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

From 1862 to 1865 he was hospital steward to the Thirtieth Massachusetts Volunteers, and at the close of the war entered Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1869. In 1870-1 he was assistant superintendent of the United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass., and in 1871 began practice in Boston. He was city physician of Boston from 1881 to 1895, in the latter year was made resident physician for infectious diseases in the south department of the City Hospital, and was attached to the general staff in 1900. In 1909 he became superintendent of the hospital and remained in that position until his retirement last February.

Dr. McCollom was assistant in bacteriology at Harvard Medical School in 1893-6, instructor in contagious diseases from 1896 to 1903, and assistant professor of the same subject from 1903 to 1908, when he was advanced to the full professorship. Dartmouth bestowed the honorary degree of Master of Science in 1910.

Orman Carlos Palmer, a member of this class during its first three years, died September 10 in Seattle, Wash.

The son of Aaron and Sarah (Thayer) Palmer, he was born in Waitsfield, Vt. The late Edwin F. Palmer '62 was an older brother.

After leaving college Mr. Palmer taught for a time at Guildhall, Vt., and Lancaster, N. H., but early went West. He founded and managed Wyandotte Academy, at Wyandotte (now Kansas City), Kans., and was highly successful as a teacher and educational leader. In 1887 Mr. Palmer removed to Steilacoom, Wash., and engaged in an extensive and successful real estate and lumber business.

Mr. Palmer was a man of strong character and winning personality, and was very effective in religious work.

In early life Mr. Palmer was married to Mary Carpenter of Cabot,. Vt., who died, leaving two children. A second wife, to whom he was married in Kansas, survives him. One daughter also survives.

CLASS OF 1870

George Stephen Edgell died in his apartments at the Hotel Touraine, New York, October 8, after a year's illness.

He was the son of Stephen Madison and Louise (Chamberlin) Edgell, and was born in St. Louis, Mo., July 2, 1847, fitting for college in the public schools of' that city. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

Immediately after graduation Mr. Edgell went into business with his father in St. Louis as a member of the firm of S. M. Edgell and Company, produce and commission merchants. After three years he left this business to organize the St. Louis Bolt and Iron Company, of which he was the treasurer, as also of its successor, the Tudor Iron and Steel Company, until in 1887 he became its vice-president. In 1887 he removed to New York, and became vice-president (and later president) of the Elmira, Cortland, and Northern Railroad Company, and treasurer of the Long Island Railroad Company. January 1, 1890, he entered the Corbin Banking Company, of which his father-in-law was the head. He was also president of the Manhattan Beach Company, which built large hotels at that seaside resort and an officer in the Blue Mountain Forest Association, the Marginal Railroad Company, the Marine Railroad, and the Mercantile Finance Company. In 1907 he retired from active business, and had since passed much of his time at his country home at Newport, N.H.

April 30, 1879, Mr. Edgell was married to Isabella, daughter of Austin Corbin of Brooklyn, N. Y., who survives him. They have had three sons, who are all living.

CLASS OF 1871

Edwin Campbell Martin, born February 10, 1850, at Hamilton, Ohio, died July 23, 1915, of apoplexy, at Watchung, N.J. The following sketch is contributed to the MAGAZINE by his classmate, Asa W. Waters.

"Our learned, cultured, and esteemed classmate, the late Edwin Campbell Martin, was a native of Hamilton, in Butler county, in the Southwest of Ohio, an early settlement in the history of that state in the rich valley of the Miami river, which empties into the Ohio river at North Bend, about twentyfive miles distant. His parents were prominent and well-to-do citizens of Hamilton, and he was given a public school education, including four years in the Hamilton High School, thus fitting him to enter Miami University, an old (for the West) and prominent college at Oxford, about fifteen miles from Hamilton. Miami University, it will be well remembered, counts among its alumni such distinguished men as ex-President Benjamin Harrison and ex-Ambassador Whitehall Reid. In 1867 he was enrolled in the freshman class of this university and became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; here he spent his freshman and sophomore years. In the fall of 1869, his good standing at Miami made a transfer easy from the class of 1871 there to the class of 1871 at Dartmouth. There were four other transfers at the same opening of the junior year from other colleges in the West; it was near the beginning of the large movement of students which has since come to Dartmouth from the West. He was, while an undergraduate at Dartmouth and ever afterward to the end of his life, an enthusiastic student of the best in English literature. The writer ranks the members of the Dartmouth class of 1871 in undergraduate days in the following order, for their eager, day and night, devotion to the best works in English: first, Charles Francis Richardson; second, Edward Johnson; third, Edwin Campbell Martin. The last, in undergraduate days, was particularly in love with the plays of William Shakespeare, and often in College gave his interpretation of two or three of their leading characters, by himself acting the part, at the solicitation of his classmates.

"After receiving his degree, he returned to Ohio, and in the fall of 1871 entered the Law School of Cincinnati College, and in 1873 graduated therefrom and was admitted to practise at the Ohio bar. But his love was for literature, and he soon became connected on its editorial staff with a weekly paper then published in Cincinnati, and besides was a generous contributor to various papers and magazines, being greatly interested in the public questions at issue at the time. In 1880 he purchased the Telegram, of Richmond, Ind., a city then of 12,000 souls, near the Ohio line, about forty miles from Hamilton and sixty from Cincinnati. This he successfully conducted as a daily paper, and continued its owner and editor for ten years or more. Richmond is a college town, the seat of Earlham College, controlled by the Society of Friends, and here he .married Miss Martha J. Evans, who held a degree of Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College, a woman of rare intelligence, a student in the true sense, an efficient helpmate of her husband, in full sympathy with his literary work, and herself pursuing at the same time her own fond study of astronomy. Mrs. Martha Evans Martin is wellknown as an author, particularly of 'The Friendly Stars' and 'The Ways of the Planets', and DePauw University, in recognition of her scholarly achievements, has conferred upon her the degree of Master of Arts.

"In 1893, Martin bought an interest in the S. S. McClure Company and moved to New York city, and was one of the active editors of McClure's Magazine for the first seven years of its existence. He then sold his interest to give his entire time to literary and research work. Since then he has published a number of stories and critical essays, and in 1913 Harper and Brothers issued his book, 'Our Own Weather,' which he modestly described on the title page as 'A simple account of its various forms, its wide travels, and its notable effects.' He was a member of the Authors', McDowell, and Dartmouth Clubs of New York city. He owned an estate for summer use at Watchung, a suburban village of Plainfield, in New Jersey. The following truthful memorial tribute by a friend appeared in the New York EveningPost of August 16:

" 'No one, I think, could have met Mr. Martin without receiving a definite impression of his rare dignity and charm; on closer acquaintance this impression was deepened, and there was gradually revealed a wonderfully rich nature, in which various essential qualities were combined in almost perfect balance and poise: absolute dependableness in . all thinking and in all dealing, a lively sense of justice; a cultivated taste; critical judgment mellowed—and sharpened, too—by a genial, often whimsical, humor, that played on every subject dealt with; a sweetly tolerant temper yoked with a splendid capacity for moral indignation'."

"We know God will welcome and bless you, dear 'Ed', yet it tugs hard upon our heart strings to have you leave us."

The above tribute may be supplemented by a few biographical data contributed by Mrs. Martin. Mr. Martin's parents were John L. and Sarah A. (Potter) Martin. His college preparation was obtained at the high school of Dayton, Ohio. He practiced law but a year, and then became editor of the Grange Bulletin. The Richmond Telegram was at first a weekly, the daily being started in 1884. In 1891 he sold the Telegram and removed to New York. A book partly finished at his death will be soon published. The date of his marriage was April, 1883, and Mrs. Martin's parents were Dr. John and Margaret E. (Briggs) Evans of Terre Haute, Ind. There were no children.

CLASS OF 1872

George Conant Brockway, a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department during freshman and sophomore years, died July 17 at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, after a mastoid operation.

Mr. Brockway was the son of John and Ann (Gile) Brockway, and was born in Pomfret, Vt., September 1, 1849. After leaving college he took up the work of a farmer, and had lived at West Hartford, Vt., since 1882. He was widely known as an active and progressive farmer and a man of broad sympathies and public spirit. He had held various town offices with marked ability, and represented the town in the legislature of 1888.

In November, 1881, Mr. Brockway was married to Emma Blake Stone of Hartford, who survives him, with five children.

CLASS OF 1879

George Wellington Wright was found dead on September 3 in a room of the building containing his office in Denver, Colo., his death being ascribed to dilatation of the heart.

He was born in Concord, N.H., October 6, 1857, his parents being John Henry and Mary Jane (Bean) Wright, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Deparement in the schools of that city. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

A few months after graduation he went to Ottumwa, lowa, and was invoice clerk in a packing house until February, 1881. His resignation was caused by ill health, and he was at his home in Concord for the next six months. Symptoms of tuberculosis developing, he then went to Colorado, where the rest of his life was spent, mostly in Denver. For a time he worked as a civil engineer, but soon went into the brokerage business, being bookkeeper and bond expert for Rollins and Young for many years, and was then for over ten years with a real estate firm, Wolfe, Webb, and Chittenden, being engaged on surveys and real estate maps. For ten or twelve years he had been employed as bookkeeper for the Rohrer Bank Company. During this period his eyesight and general health failed, and he had become much depressed in spirits.

December 25, 1883, Mr. Wright was married in Denver to Addie E. Bucklin of Ottumwa, lowa, who died February 1, 1886. A second marriage, July 29, 1891, was to Harriet Seward, daughter of Theodore F. and Frances (McQuigg) Brown of Chicago, who survives him. There were no children of either marriage.

CLASS OF 1880

Moses Waller Wadhams, who died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., January 10, 1915, of oedema of the lungs, was born in Plymouth, Pa., August 2, 1858, his parents being Elijah Catlin and Esther Taylor (French) Wadhams. Samuel F. Wadhams '75 is a brother.

He fitted for college at a private preparatory school in Wilkes-Barre, where his home had been from childhood. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

After graduation he studied law in Wilkes Barre, was admitted to the bar in 1885, and practiced the profession until his retirement a few years since. He was active in social and business life, fond of study, and devoted to literature. He was a director of the First National Bank from 1892 to 1914, a member of the Wyoming Historical and Genealogical Society, of the Westmoreland Club, and of the Country Club. Since 1906 he. had been a communicant of Central Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Wadhams was never married.

CLASS OF 1893

Charles Richard McKenzie of Albany, N. Y., was born at Burke, N.Y., January 23, 1868, and died suddenly of apoplexy at a hotel in Prescott, Ontario, August 13, 1915. When stricken, he was on his way to visit relatives in Toronto.

He fitted for college at Franklin Academy, Malone, N. Y., where he was valedictorian of the' class of 1888. At Dartmouth he took the Latin Scientific course, receiving the degree of 8.L., with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He won honorable mention in mathematics in 1891, and in physics, chemistry, and astronomy in 1892, and took special honors in mathematics in his senior year. He was on the Commencement Day program with an English oration on the poet Whittier. A member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Casque and Gauntlet senior society, class president in his sophomore year, "Mac" was one of the most earnest, sincere, popular, and respected men in '93.

After graduation he was for three years principal of the high school at Mooers Junction, N.Y., before entering upon his life work, the preparation of the long series of mathematical textbooks which bear the name of the late Professor W. J. Milne, but which are in very large part the product of McKenzie's brain and toil. The last of the books, this fall published, gives him belated credit for his work.

December 30, 1907, he married Miss Zora F. Hiscox of Troy, N. Y., who, with one son, Alexander, survives him. The late A. A. McKenzie, of the class of 1891, was his brother.

CLASS OF 1896

Gains Burnep Frost died at the Hale Hospital, Haverhill, Mass., October 19. He had been in failing health for a year, but the immediate cause of his death, Bright s disease, was revealed only a few weeks before the end. He is survived by his wife and three sons, James, now fitted for Dartmouth, Robert, and Daniel, and an infant daughter, Lucy, now but a few months old.

Mr. Frost was superintendent of schools in Georgetown, Mass., a leading citizen, deacon in the Congregational church, superintendent of its Sunday school, and prominent in the social and educational life of the community. He had developed a thoroughly efficient system of public schools, and was held in high regard by Massachusetts educators. His funeral was largely attended by pupils and teachers, parents, and citizens, as well as by his college mates and associates in school work.

Mr. Frost was born in Brattleboro, Vt., August 8, 1869, and fitted for college in the high school of that town. His parents were James B. and Lucy (Burnap) Frost. In college he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and interested in athletics and dramatics. He was successively principal of the high schools in Wallingford, Vt., Haverhill, N.H., Topsfield, Wollaston, and Mansfield, Mass., and for nine years has been superintendent of the Georgetown district. He was a close student, and did graduate work both at Harvard and Hyannis. A man of untiring energy, forceful and selfreliant, he surmounted obstacles that many men never meet, and quietly did his full work as a man among men.

CLASS OF 1907

Joseph Boardman, a non-graduate member of this class, committed suicide by cutting his throat in a lodging house in New York city, September 2. He had done newspaper work in the city for several years, and had been an occasional contributor of verse to magazines. He had apparently become depressed from failure in his attempts to get his work published. Richard M. Boardman '97 is a brother.