Deaths

CLASS OF 1857

Roswell Morse Shurtleff, a non-graduate member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department, fell dead on the evening of January 6 while entering a drug store in New York city. The cause of his sudden death was heart disease.

Mr. Shurtleff was the son of Asahel Dewey and Eliza (Morse) Shurtleff, and was born in Rindge, N. H., June 14, 1838. After leaving College he went into an architect's office in Manchester, and in 1858-9 he was a lithographer in Buffalo. He then went to Boston and specialized in drawing on wood, attending evening classes at the Lowell Institute. In 1860 he went to New York, becoming an illustrator and attending classes at the School of Design.

In April, 1861, he enlisted in the 99th New York Volunteers, and was soon promoted to be lieutenant and adjutant. On July 19 he was wounded and captured, and is said to have been the first Union officer so taken prisoner. After eight months in Southern hospitals and prisons, he was released on parole.

Upon his return to New York, he resumed his work as an illustrator. About 1870 he began to paint in oils, taking at first animal subjects and later landscapes and portraits. He worked also in water-colors. His favorite painting ground was the Adirondacks, and his forest paintings show an intimate knowledge of nature. His paintings are to he found in many of the largest art galleries of the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was elected to the National Academy in 1890, and among tfe other organizations with which he was connected are the Society for the Preservation of the Adirondacks, the Sons of the Revolution, the American Water Color Society and the Lotos and' Salmagundi Clubs. Ht uas also a director of the New York Aquarium. In 1882 the College conferred on him the honorary degree of Bachelor of Science.

In 1867 Mr. Shurtleff was married to Clara Carrier Halliday of Hartford, Conn., who survives him. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1866

Eugene Peck Kingsley died at Boise, Idaho, May S, 1914. He was born at Tarlton, Ohio, May 23, 1845, his parents being Isaac Chauncey and Prudence (Peck) Kingsley. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation he studied medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1868 from the Charity Hospital Medical College, and began practice in Cleveland. Soon after his marriage, which took place in 1871, he moved to Fredericksburg, Va., and was engaged in farming there for a number of years. The last years of his life were spent in Idaho.

He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Frank Gannon, who lives in Urbana, Ohio.

CLASS OF 1874

William Henry Pratt died suddenly of angina pectoris at his home in Kenilworth. Ill., Sept. 5, 1914. He was born at West Hartford, Vt., Oct. 23, 1852, his parents being Joseph H., and Ann D. (Hazen) Pratt. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

For a time after graduation he taught at Dayton, Ohio. Soon, however, he left teaching for engineering, and in 1880 and 1881 was assistant engineer on the Toledo, Cincinnati, and .St. Louis Railway. In 1882 he became principal assistant engineer of the Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line Railway, which is now the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville. In 1883 he returned to the Toledo, Cincinnati, and St. Louis as chief engineer of construction. In 1884 he entered the service of the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio, and held the position of assistant superintendent until 1887. In that year he became engaged with the Edge Moor Bridge Company, as engineer of construction of their new plant, which was then under construction. In 1889 he became shop superintendent for the Mt. Vernon Bridge Company of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In 1890 he was made manager of this company, which position he held till 1895, when he engaged in private business as a contracting engineer. In 1898 he became manager of the Universal Construction Company of Chicago. This company was later merged with the North Works of the Illinois Steel Company, of which he became general superintendent. At the time of his death he was also president of the Illinois Steel Warehouse Company.

Mr. Pratt was a member of the Western Society of Engineers, the Union League and University Clubs of Chicago, the Chicago Engineers' Club, the Indian Hill Club of Winnetka, the Mercantile Club of St. Louis, and the Minnesota and University Clubs of St. Paul. He was also a 32d degree Mason.

We quote from an obituary notice: "Mr. Pratt was a man of strong character, equipped with the ability of making lastingfriends, both in connection with his business dealings and in his private life. He was a man of an even and kind disposition, slow in forming his opinions, but after they were formed they proved to be right and stood the test of time. With a definite purpose in view, he worked untiringly for its accomplishment. He gave strength to the community in which he lived and worked, through his well-balanced mind and quieting influence."

For years he had been accustomed to spend much time at his childhood's home at West Hartford, Vt, where he had purchased 600 acres of land and built and equipped "Beulah Farm," a model dairy plant.

Mr. Pratt was married October 8, .1890, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph C. and Ella (Curtis) Devon of Mt. Vernon, Ohio,, who survives him, with two daughters and a son. A daughter died in infancy.

CLASS OF 1875

The death of Frederick Henry Crafts, which occurred February 27, 1913, at his home in Rochester, N. Y., of pneumonia, has only just been reported.

Mr. Crafts was the son of Rev. Frederick Augustus and Maria Louisa Crafts, and was born in Minot, Me., Sept. 12, 1848. He was a member of the class of 1871 at Wesleyan University, leaving near the beginning of the senior year. In 1873 he entered the junior class at Dartmouth, and continued through the remainder of the course. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

He taught for a year after graduation, and studied for two years at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. He then had a long and successful career as engineer of railway and bridge construction for the New York and West Shore, Topeka and Santa Fe, St. Paul and Kansas City, Wisconsin Central, Baltimore and Ohio, Lehigh Valley, and other railroads, as well as doing much engineering work upon the Erie Canal improvements, and for the United States government on surveys for a ship canal across the state of New York. Also he had done much successful road building for the New York and West Shore, Topeka came a successful manufacturer of finishing tools for artificial stone walks, cement work, etc.

Mr. Crafts was always a quiet and reserved man, a student and a lover of books, though his profession had made him for most of his life an out-door man.

He was married November 24, 1881, to Blanche Elizabeth Bowers of Oriskany, N. Y. They have had three daughters.

CLASS OF 1881

Elwood Davis Kimball died October 27, 1914, at his home in Wichita, Kansas. The son of John G. and Betsey (Spalding) Kimball, he was born in Nashua, N. H., September 29, 1859. In College he was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

In the fall of 1881 he taught in Hauge Seminary, Red Wing, Minn., and then from January, 1882, to July, 1884, in Rayen School, Youngstown, Ohio. In January, 1885, he went to Wichita, where he has since remained, engaged in loan and investment business, winning business success and the esteem. of the community.

September 12, 1888, Mr. Kimball was married to Luella Adelia Johnson of Burton, Ohio. They have had no children.

CLASS OF 1892

Ralph Wedgwood Gould was born in Haverhill, Mass., July 18, 1869, and died in Amesbury, Mass., December 25, 1914. His parents were Charles T. and' Mary (Wedgwood) Gould.

For twenty years he had been in insurance business in Haverhill, as representative of the Massachusetts State Mutual Insurance Company. In 1902 he was married to Eva Horton of Haverhill, who survives him, with three sons and a daughter.

The qualities that endeared Gould to his classmates continued with him throughout his life. He was warm-hearted, sincere, ever ready to give of his best to the service of his friends and his community. He was an ardent Dartmouth man, and a regular attendant at college and class reunions so far as his health permitted.