Deaths

CLASS OF 1865

Charles Augustus Sayward, a member of this class during freshman year, was born in Ipswich, Mass., June 28, 1837, and died in his native town March 16, 1915, of pneumonia.

Mr. Sayward's college preparation was obtained at New London, N. H. After leaving college he studied law at the Albany Law School and elsewhere, was admitted to the bar in 1864, and had since been in practice in Ipswich.

He held local office in Ipswich for many years as selectman, assessor, and member of the school committee. In 1872 he was a member of the lower house of the legislature, and of the senate in 1883. In October, 1888, he was appointed justice of the police court, and served in that capacity until chosen judge of the Third District Court of Essex County, which was established April 20, 1906. He assumed his official duties the following July 1, and had presided at nearly all the sittings until his final illness. For thirty-six years he had been moderator of the town meetings.

Judge Sayward was an active member of the First Congregational church, and for many years its organist. He was one of the founders of the Ipswich Historical Society He was an exceptionally well-read lawyer, and successful in practice.

Judge Sayward was twice married, his second wife, Henrietta (Wilkins), having died January 13, 1913. He leaves one son, Harry M. Sayward, a lawyer of Ipswich.

CLASS OF 1870

Professor Frank Asbury Sherman, who has been connected with the faculty of the College since 1871, died at his home in Hanover on the morning of February 26, after an illness of several months.

Professor Sherman was born in Knox, Me., October 4, 1841, his parents being Harvey Hatch and Eliza (Doty) Sherman. He was preparing for college at East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, when the Civil War broke out, and July 28, 1862 he enlisted in the Twentieth Maine Regiment. He was soon transferred to the Fourth Regiment, then serving in the Peninsular campaign. He was wounded in his first battle, at Fredericksburg, and was in hospital and convalescent camp nearly a year. Having returned to his regiment, he was again wounded at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, this. wound resulting in the amputation of his left arm. He was finally discharged March 7, 1865.

The next year he entered the Chandler Scientific Department, teaching several terms during his course, and maintaining a high standing, especially in mathematics. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

For the first year after graduation he was instructor in mathematics in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and then returned to Hanover as associate professor of mathematics in the Chandler School. In 1872 he was promoted to the full professorship, and in 1893, upon the complete merging of the Chandler School with the College, he became professor of mathematics on the Chandler foundation. He retired from active teaching in 1911.

January 18, 1872, Professor Sherman was married to Lucy Rosette Hurlbutt of Hanover Center, who survives him with three children, Maurice S. '94, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Union, Gertrude E., teacher of French in Abbott Academy, Andover Mass., and Margaret L., wife of Francis J. Neef, instructor in German at Dartmouth.

Elsewhere in the MAGAZINE may be found an appreciation of Professor Sherman and his services to the College.

CLASS OF 1871

Albert Augustus Osgood died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Parsons, Kansas, on the evening of March 4.

Mr. Osgood was born in Auburn, N. H., February 9, 1844, and prepared for college at the New- London Institute, now Colby Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation he studied law at Springfield, Ill., in the office of James C. Conkling, and was admitted to the bar there in 1874. He practiced in Springfield to 1878, and then removed to Parsons, Kans., where he continued in active practice till his death.

In politics, he was an active worker in the Republican party, served one term as county attorney, and was the unsuccessful candidate for state senator in 1902. For many years he had been local counsel for the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company and a number of local corporations.

For many years he was president of the Parsons Home and Hospital, and gave much time to this and other charitable enterprises. He was one of the organizers of the First Presbyterian church, and for twenty-five years an elder of the church and a teacher in its Sunday school. He was also one of the organizers of the local Y. M. C. A., its president for a time, and later a director.

June IS, 1881, Mr. Osgood was married to Jessie A. Pierson of Springfield. Ill., who survives him, with three daughters.

CLASS OF 1876

Dr. Waldron Burritt Vanderpoel died March 9 at his home in Summit, N. J., of paralysis of the brain. He was a son of Jacob and Catherine Ann (Waldron) Vanderpoel, and was born in the city of New York August 16, 1854. George B. Vanderpoel '68 is a brother.

He prepared for college at Pennsylvania Military Academy and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., entering Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. After graduation he began the study of medicine, obtaining his medical degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1879. He at once entered upon a practice in the city which soon became large and successful. He retired in 1912, partly from considerations of health and partly to take time for literarywork. For many years he was attending physician to Demilt Dispensary and visiting physician to Randall's Island Hospital. In June 1901, he received the degree of

Bachelor of Laws from the New York Law School, having studied there for three years in connection with his medical practice, and was admitted to the bar. He had no intention of practicing this profession, but took a deep interest in the legal aspects of medicine.

June 29, 1905, Dr. Vanderpoel was married to Anna Marie Brennan of New Rochelle, N. Y., who survives him, with their only child, a daughter.

For some time Dr. Vanderpoel had been in the communion of the Roman Catholic church.

CLASS OF 1878

Fred Jotham Hutchinson died March 9 at the home of his mother,. Mrs. J. P. Hutchinson, in Laconia, N. H. He had been there for about six months, recuperating from a long illness, but his death was due to a brief attack of pneumonia.

He was born at Lakeport, N. H., November 27, 1853, and was prepared in that village for the Chandler Scientific Department. After graduation he read law with his father at Lakeport, and subsequently in Boston, where he graduated from the Law School of Boston University in 1882. He had since Practiced in Boston, but his career was greatly hindered by a succession of severe attacks of rheumatic fever. From 1892 to 1913 his home was in Hyde Park, and then for a short time in Cambridge.

In July, 1898, he was appointed associate justice of the Northern Norfolk District Court, and held the office until his death, though on account of ill health he had not presided at any sessions since the summer of 1913. He was a member of the school committee in Hyde Park for nearly fifteen years,' closing this service when the town was annexed to Boston.

In 1882 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and was captain of the Sixth Company and commissary sergeant. He was also a lieutenant in the Boston Light Infantry, and judge advocate on the staff of that organization. He was a member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias.

June 28, 1884, Mr. Hutchinson was married to Eliza Gertrude, daughter of Dr. William Denison of Newport, N. S. She survives her husband, with their only child, a daughter.

CLASS OF 1882

Charles Frederick Mathewson, trustee of the College since 1894, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in New York city March 24.

He was born in Barton, Vt., May 3, 1860, his parents being Azro Buck and Amelia (Sias) Mathewson. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, being there valedictorian of his class, as he was of his college class in 1882. His college record was exceptionally brilliant; in addition to distinguished service on the baseball and football teams, he won prizes in Latin, Greek, mathematics and oratory.

After graduation he taught for three years in the Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute of Brooklyn, studying also the last two years at Columbia Law School, where he graduated in May, 1885. In June he was admitted to the bar. He began practice at once in New York city, and was successful from the first. He was finally a member of the firm of Krauthoff, Harmon, and Mathewson, of which his classmate Harmon was the second member. He became soon counsel for various large corporations and was later a director in many such, being esteemed a high authority on all phases of corporation law. As chief counsel for the Consolidated Gas Company in the prolonged legal battle growing out of the passage of the bill known as the "eighty-cent gas law"; he ably conducted that famous case through the lower courts, before the master for the United States Circuit Court, before the Circuit Court itself, and finally before the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Mathewson was a member of the New York Law Institute, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He had been repeatedly re-elected alumni trustee of Dartmouth, and was among the most active and efficient members of the board. In 1895-7 he was president of the Dartmouth Association of New York, had also been president of the Vermont Society of New York, and was a member of the New England Society of New York. Among the city clubs with which he was connected are the University Club, the Dartmouth Club, the Down Town Association, the Automobile Club of America, the St. Andrew's Golf Club, and the Apawamis Club. He had been a member and president of the Council of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

In 1908 Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts, and in 1912 Middlebury College made him a Doctor of Laws.

December 8, 1886, Mr. Mathewson was married to Jeanie Campbell, daughter of Gen. Samuel Anderson of Portland, Me. Their only child is Samuel Anderson Mathewson '10.

CLASS OF 1886

"Frank Olds Loveland, a charter member of The University Club of Cincinnati, died at his home on Cleinview Avenue, Walnut Hills, on the first day of February, 1915. His fellow club members, desiring to express their own sense of bereavement and to extend their sympathy to this family, have, through their Board of Governors, caused this minute to be made.

"Mr. Loveland was born at Norwich, Vt. December 12, 1861. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1886 with honors and came to Cincinnati, where he began the study of law in the office of Parkinson and Parkinson and in the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in 1888. He practiced law in this city until 1894, when he was appointed clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which office he continued to hold until his death. He was a contributor to magazines and a legal author of prominence, his his principal works being 'Forms of Federal Procedure,' and an exhaustive work on bankruptcy which ran through four editions, and a work on 'Federal Appellate Jurisdiction.'

"Mr, Loveland was married in 1894 to Miss Blanche Richardson of Glendale, who, with two daughters and one son, survives him.

"He was an enthusiastic, loyal, and active member of the University Club, and generally popular. Although for many years a great sufferer, he was always cheerful, a good story-teller, and took an active part in any gathering in which he chanced to be. His engaging personality, his ability and high principle endeared him to his business associates and friends, and he was one of whom we can truthfully say that with his death the entire Club membership have suffered a personal loss, which is, however, lessened in a slight degree by a memory which will remain with us of a charming and delightful companion."

The following words are from Mr. W. H. Anderson, a publisher of Cincinnati: "Some one has said, 'The measure of human living is not in years, but in use. We measure our standard of living not by what we have gathered unto ourselves; but what we have given out to others.' It is not easy to speak of the personal characteristics of a departed friend, such as Mr. Loveland was to me. These speak in his public record—the work he accomplished and the friends he made in his official capacity as clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The books he has written will remain as monuments to his activity, for he was always thorough and painstaking, with high ideals in his efforts to analyze the problems in law of which he wrote. He was deeply sensitive, and modest almost to a fault as to his own service and value, yet no man was more appreciative of the 'merited praise that came to him from time to time. Steadfast to his ideals in his work, warm in his affections, a happy companion, a loving husband and father—such will be the memory of my companionship with Frank Loveland through twenty years of almost daily fellowship."

Judge H. C. Hollister of the United States District Court writes: "I had known him well for many years, during the last few of which my association with him was intimate, and I and the little company of friends he met nearly every day at luncheon had become very fond of him. We admired him for his wide information, his cheerfulness, and his wit; but above all, he won the respect of all who knew him by the courage with which for so many years he overcame- the depression to which most men affected as he was would have given way long ago. He did this by the strength of his mind and character."

This is the testimony of Mr. Edward W. Strong of the Cincinnati bar: "Mr. Loveland was devoted to his family, and had a number of warm friends. I think that we all of us felt an admiration for the way in which he bore the burden of the incurable disease with which he had been afflicted for a number of years. He bore it with uniform cheerfulness, and had always something bright and cheery to say, although it must have been at times hard for him to say it. But his keen sense of humor and the enjoyment which he felt in the company of his friends undoubtedly were of assistance to him in this respect. His loss will be greatly felt, not only by his friends, but also by the court which he served so well as clerk for many years, and by the members of the bar generally."

To the foregoing the secretary of his class adds: "A recent trip to Cincinnati has enabled me to secure the above appreciative testimonials of Loveland's worth. His death came as a great shock to his many friends. Universally respected and beloved, the tribute of one of the judges in the present Court of Appeals is perhaps representative of all: 'He helped every one with whom he came in contact.' Popular with his classmates at all times, their undergraduate estimate of him has only been enhanced, and while his early decease is a source of profound sorrow, the example of his life and attainments will remain a rich heritage to all. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Mrs. Loveland and her family."