CLASS OF 1876

Daniel Edgar Cluff died suddenly of heart disease March 22 at his place of business in Boston.

He was born in Haverhill, Mass., October 13, 1854, his parents being Daniel B. and Lucy A. (Webster) Cluff, and prepared for college at Haverhill High School. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

For ten years after graduation he was engaged in shoe manufacturing with his father in Haverhill, and was then for some years a salesman in the wholesale leather business in Boston, removing from Haverhill to Hyde Park about 1888. About 1902 he entered the store of Houghton and Dutton Company in Boston, and was in charge of their men s shoe department at his decease.

He was much interested in Masonry, and had held high official positions in lodge, council, chapter, and commandery.

Mr. Cluff was married in Haverhill, January 21, 1885, to Josie Mary, daughter of John and Maria Fuller. She died February 5, 1912. A daughter died when six months old. Two sons survive, Howard F. of Boston, and Laurence W. of New York, the latter a graduate of Middlebury College in 1914.