Deaths

CLASS OF 1842

Amos White Hovey, the elder of the two last survivors of this class, which is the oldest having a living representative, died January 24 at his home at Bristol Springs, N. Y. (Naples post-office.)

Mr. Hovey was born July 4, 1818, and so was in his ninety-seventh year. The place of birth has hitherto been given as Thetford. Vt., whence he came to College, but his widow affirms that her husband and his brother Alvah were born in Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y. His parents were Alfred and Abigail (Howard) Hovey, and two of his brothers were also graduates of Dartmouth —Alvah '44 and Charles Edward '52. He prepared for college at Thetford Academy.

After graduation he taught for a short time at Lyme, N. H., and for three years at Brandon, Vt., after which he emigrated to the West. After varied experiences, which included surveying in Minnesota, and teaching at Galena," Ill., he settled in Darlington, Wis., where he was a farmer and surveyor for many years. He also studied law and was admitted to the bar while in Darlington, and was in hardware business there. In 1877 he removed to Bristol Springs, N. Y„ and was there engaged in mercantile ness,' and in 1897 was appointed postmaster. This position he held until in 1911 the office was abolished, and its territory divided among the R. F. D. routes.

Mr. Hovey was married June 28, 1847, to Josephine Mary, daughter of James Scofield of Brandon, Vt., who died in 1861. He was again married in Darlington, Wis., January 13, 1870, to Henrietta Brown, daughter of Isaac and Lydia Submit (Green) Trembley. who survives him. There were two sons of the first wife and one daughter of the second, but none of these are now living.

Of modest and retiring disposition, Mr. Hovey never sought or held political office. He was justice of the peace for thirty years in Wisconsin and New York, and held other local positions of trust. He had been since early life a member of the Baptist church,

CLASS OF 1861

Amos Byron Jones, son of Solomon Edwin and Harriet Louisa (Smith) Jones, was born in Washington, N. H., January 28, 1838, and died at Charleston, West Virginia, May 4, 1914

On the 6th of August, 1861, he was commissioned captain of Company E, First Regiment of U. S. Sharpshooters, commonly known as "Berdan's Sharpshooters." The company was at once filled up and ordered to Washington. On the 3rd of December following, Capt. Jones was commissioned major of the Second Regiment of U. S. Sharpshooters. In May, 1862, he was appointed colonel and aide-de-camp of volunteers. Mustered out of service in 1865.

He was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in March, 1864, to Emma R. Smith, daughter of Col. B. H. Smith of Charleston, W. Va., and had one daughter, Lana N., born in January, 1865. At the close of the war Jones settled in Charleston, W. Va., and in 1866-67 was engaged in manufacturing salt at Mason City, in the same state, on the Ohio river. In 1868-69 was manager of an establishment in Wilmington, N. C., for making paper of cane fiber. Was for a time, in late sixties or early seventies, superintendent of public schools in Charleston.

The above sketch was prepared by George A. Harden, for the class history of 1872. In the correspondence with Jones concerning the semi-centennial reunion of the class, he wrote the present secretary from Havana, Cuba, February 19, 1910, as, follows: "I have traveled from Maine to Mexico and from Alaska to Cuba, living some years in West Virginia, three years in Louisiana and Texas, helping to build a railroad, ten years in Duluth, much of the time in the coal business, and nine years in Seattle, with occasional trips to Alaska." At the date of this letter Jones was building a home in Vevado, a suburb of Havana, where he expected to pass his remaining years.

Jones moved to Cuba by reason of the marriage of his daughter mentioned above to a prominent physician, Dr. Laine of Havana. This daughter was the mother of two daughters, the elder by her former husband, Mr. Dixon, and in his letters, Jones wrote in a very happy vein, and seemed justly proud of his family.

The secretary had several letters about this time from Jones, and the last letter received from him dated September 20, 1911, mentioned the death of his daughter on that date. Soon after her death, Col. Jones removed to Charleston, W. Va., the former home of his wife, where he remained continuously until his death, after a prolonged illness, during which he exhibited the highest degree of courage and patience. In a letter received from a nephew of Mrs. Jones, the latter says: "We who were with him during his long last illness were surprised at his patience through unusual pain and suffering, caused by a fall. He maintained his cheerfulness of spirit to the last."

CLASS OF 1866

For a long time Henry Smith Phetteplace has been missing, and no trace of him could be found. Information, has recently been received of his death, which occurred many years since, and the following belated sketch of his life is presented.

The son of Henry Mason and Harriet (Smith) Phetteplace, he was born in Providence, R. 1., August 16, 1841. He entered the class of '64 in Yale College, but left on account of ill health about the middle of the first term of junior year. Two years later he entered Dartmouth. Here he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation he studied law in Chicago, where he was admitted to the bar May 4, 1868. Later, owing to ill health, he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and then to Willmar in that state, where he engaged in wheat growing and stock raising, and served for a time as judge of probate. In 1888 he returned to Rhode Island, and died at Gloucester, R. I., of heart disease, July 7, 1891.

He was married September 18, 1867, to Sarah Angell Steere, who survived him. They had no children. Mrs. Phetteplace is said to be still living in Harmony, R. I.

CLASS OF 1876

Edward Addison Greeley died of tuberculosis at the home of a sister in Jamestown, N. Y., June 29, 1914.

He was born in Haverhill, N. H., June 19, 1855, the son of Rev. Edward Hanford and Louisa Maria (Ware) Greeley. His father was a Dartmouth graduate of 1844, and William B. Greeley '81, and Arthur P. Greeley '83 are his brothers. He prepared for college at Stevens High School, Claremont, N. H., and privately with his father. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

After graduation he taught for a time and studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1880. For some years he did not enter into active practice, but engaged in financial business in Boston and New York. In 1889 he took up practice in New York, specializing in patent law. Several years since he was forced by ill health to retire from practice.

Dr. Andrew Sprague Oliver, a member of the class during freshman year, died November 8, 1914, of apoplexy, at San Jose, Cal.

Dr. Oliver was a native of Bangor, Me. After leaving College he taught for several years at Stow, Maynard, and Peabody, Mass., and then studied medicine, graduating from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1881. The rest of his life he was a successful practitioner of the homeopathic school, being at Milford, Mass., 1881-5, at Springfield, Mass, 1885-91, at Spokane, Wash., 1891-1901, and thereafter at San Jose.

January 5, 1882, he was married to Grace W. Bibber of Eastport, Me., who survives him, without children.

James Finney McElroy of Albany, N. Y., died February 10 in Laconia, N. H., while on a business trip, of ptomaine poisoning, after an illness of a few days.

He was born in Greenfield, Ohio, November 25, 1852, and prepared for college at Bloomingburg (Ohio) Academy. He was connected with the class of '76 throughout the course, and was a member of Psi Upsilon.

Immediately after graduation, Mr. McElroy became principal teacher in the Indiana Institution for the Blind, at Indianapolis. Here he displayed executive ability of so high order that in 1880 he was called to the superintendency of the Michigan School for the Blind, at Lansing. He met with pronounced success from the start. The inventive side of electrical engineering soon claimed much of his attention, and in 1887 he resigned his position at Lansing to organize the McElroy Heating and Lighting Company of Detroit, for the manufacture and sale of car heating appliances invented by him. In the next year this became the McElroy Car Heating Company of Albany, which in 1889 was consolidated with the Sewall Company, becoming the Consolidated Car Heating Company. Of this company, Mr. McElroy was at first mechanical superintendent, and later consulting engineer. This is now one of the leading industrial enterprises of Albany, and controls many inventions patented by Mr. McElroy.

The deceased had given much service to the public interests of the city. In 1901 he was appointed school commissioner of the city, and during his term accomplished much for the betterment of the schools. In 1906-8 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce. He had been a member of committees appointed to investigate the electric light rates of Albany and to investigate the condition of the water supply of the city. He was at one time president of the University Club and was a director of the Albany Orphan Asylum. He was also a director of the Albany Historical and Art Society, a trustee of the Albany Exchange Savings Bank, and a director of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Albany. He had been a member for many years of the First Presbyterian church, and was one of its trustees.

July 9, 1879, Mr. McElroy was married to Susie, daughter of John Hale of Newbury. Vt., who survives him. They have had three children: John Hale '03; Edith, wife of William H. Gardiner '06; Alice, wife of John H. Kingsbury 'O6, who died two years since in Bardezag, Turkey.

Resolutions passed by the Dartmouth alumni Association of Albany in memory of Mr McElroy are given in another column.

CLASS OF 1913

William George Arndt died January 19, 1915 at the home of his parents, 176 Park St Mansfield, Mass. He was born at Etna, N. J., January 2, 1890, the son of William T. and Marie Arndt. He left Dartmouth at the close of his sophomore year, and had since been living with his parents.