Deaths
CLASS OF 1854
Edmund Webster Kittredge was born in Chester, N. H., November 29, 1833, and died June 23, 1916, at his home in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, after a brief illness.
His parents were Dr. Rufus and Sarah (Underhill) Kittredge. His college preparation was obtained at Gilmanton Academy and Boston Latin School.
For the first year after graduation he studied law in the office of Judge Timothy Walker of Cincinnati, and then in 1855-6 at Harvard; Law School. He then returned to Cincinnati and engaged in a practice of his profession which continued until his retirement two years ago. He was for many years a member of the firm of Kittredge, Wilby, and Stewart. He had won for himself a very high place in the bar of his city and state.
For many years Mr. Kittredge was president of the Cincinnati Law School and a director of the C., N. O., and T. P. Railway Co. He was a member of the Queen City Club. In 1894 Dartmouth conferred upon him the merited degree of Doctor of Laws. He never sought or accepted public office.
February 20, 1866, he was married to Virginia Elizabeth, daughter of William Yates Gholson of Cincinnati. She is not living, but six of their eight children survive their parents.
CLASS OF 1857
George Azro Low of Brooklyn, N. Y., died August 3 at the home of his son, Walter Carroll Low, at Lake Morey, Fairlee, Vt.
Mr. Low was born in Bradford, Vt., December 13, 1833, his parents being Asa and Lucinda (Brooks) Low. He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover.
After graduation he was for one year principal of the Washington School in Chicago, and then for four years of Bradford Academy in his native town. For a year and five months in 1862-3 he was employed in the office of the Provost Marshal for the Second District of Minnesota, at St. Paul. He then returned to Bradford and was engaged with his father in the manufacture of paper till 1873. He was then connected with the paper business in New York for the rest of his active life, making his home in Brooklyn.
He was a member of Central Congregational church of Brooklyn, and for many years one of its deacons. A man of strong and beautiful character, he was loved and honored by a large circle of friends and business associates.
October 25, 1859, Mr. Low was married to Marcia Ann, daughter of Rev. Calvin (Dartmouth 1819) and Rhoda (Little) Cutler, who suivives him, with three of their four sons.
Mr. Low's classmates, Judge John C. Hale of Cleveland, Ohio, and Governor Samuel E. Pingree of Hartford, Vt., were in attendance at the funeral at Bradford.
CLASS OF 1859
Rev. Thomas W. Thompson died April 24, 1916, at his home in Worcester, Mass.
The son of William Coombs (Dartmouth 1820) and Martha Higginson (Leverett) Thompson, he was born in Plymouth, N. H., August 31, 1837. His home was in Worcester, Mass., from 1852, and he prepared for college at Worcester High School, with two terms at Phillips Academy, Andover.
In the fall of 1859 he entered Andover Theological Seminary, but left the Seminary February 7, 1862, to travel in Japan and China. In 1865 he returned, and re-entered the Seminary, from which he graduated in 1866.
June 24, 1868, he was ordained to foreign missionary service in Central church, Worcester, and served as a missionary of the American Board at Kalgan, North China, to 1875. Owing to the failure of his health he then returned to America, and lived thereafter in retirement in Worcester. He never married.
CLASS OF 1863
Charles Irving Parker, principal of the Bowen High School of South Chicago, died at his home in Chicago, May 31, of pernicious anemia. He had been in poor health for some time, but was at his school the day of his death.
Mr. Parker was the son of John and Eliza (Goffe) Parker, and was born in Manchester, N. H., March 10, 1838. He fitted for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich. In the summer of 1862 he enlisted for three months with many other Dartmouth men in the Seventh Squadron Rhode Island Cavalry (the "College Cavaliers"). He did not return to college after his term of military service, but in 1903 he was given his diploma and enrolled with the class.
In 1862-3 he taught at Carrollton, Ill., and then was in mercantile business at Virden, Ill., for four years. Returning to the work of education, he was superintendent of schools at Carlinville, Ill., for a time, then at Joliet, Ill., 1869-74, and at Danville, Ill., 1874-6. He was then to 1881 principal of the high school at Hyde Park, Ill., and then successively superintendent there and at South Chicago.
For thirty-one years he had been principal of the Bowen School, which he had developed into one of the most efficient technical high schools of Chicago. His winsome personality, professional ability, and unfailing kindness towards his pupils and associates made "Uncle Charlie" one of the most popular school men of the city. He was especially beloved by the foreign workingmen and their families of South Chicago, among whom his work had lain, and to whom he had proved a friend indeed.
Mr. Parker was married May 29, 1862, to Frances Emma, daughter of Dudley and Marcia Emma Avery of Carrollton, Ill., who survives him. Of their eight children, two daughters are living.
The only official positions held by Mr. Parker were in the line of his educational work. He was a director and life member of the National Educational Association, had been president of the Illinois State Teachers' Association, and a member of the State Board of Education by appointment of Governor Altgeld.
CLASS OF 1870
Charles Joseph Walker died of paralysis at his home in Columbia, Mo., May 13, 1916.
He was born June 30, 1846, at Wentzville, St. Charles Co., Mo., his parents being Warren and Mary Baker (May) Walker, both natives of North Carolina.
He prepared for college at the Rockingham School near Wentzville, and entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year from Pritchett College, Glasgow, Mo. He became a member of Phi Beta Kappa at graduation.
For three years after graduation he taught Latin and Greek in Pritchett Institute, Glasgow. He had been studying law meanwhile, and in March, 1874, was admitted to the bar and began practice at Wentzville. In July, 1900, he removed to Columbia, and continued in active and successful practice until a first stroke of paralysis, which befell him in March, 1914.
He was always a Democrat in politics, and served two terms, from 1897 to 1905, in the state senate.
December 29, 1880, Mr. Walker was married to Harriett Ficklin, daughter of Benjamin Rice and Harriett Blakemore (Johnson) Shore of Trenton, Ill., her parents being both natives of Virginia. Mrs. Walker died August 25, 1901.
Of their children, one died in childhood, and five are living, all graduates of the University of Missouri: Mary Shore (Mrs. Albert W. Hull), Charles Joseph, Benjamin Shore, Thomas Lee, and Robert Montgomery. Charles Joseph and Thomas Lee succeed their father in legal practice in Columbia.
Addison Lyman Day died of nephritis at his home in St. Louis, Mo., June 25, 1916.
He was the son of Addison and Margaret (Smith) Day, and was born in Springfield, Mass., April 29, 1849. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
He had held business positions in St. Louis for much of the time since graduation, and had been for over twenty-five years in the employ of the Hoyt Metal Company, for whom he was at his decease a department manager. A card issued by the Company says that "by his lovable disposition and kindly manner he had endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact."
Mr. Day was a member of King's Highway Presbyterian church, of various Masonic bodies, including the Ancient Scottish Rite, of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society and the Missouri Historical Society, of the St. Louis Orchestra Club, the St. Louis Art League, the Missouri Athletic Association, and the Sons of the American Revolution. He was very fond of music and an effective performer on several instruments.
He was three times married. March 12, 1872, he was married in Des Moines, lowa, to Carrie Emma, daughter of Gardner Walker and Marcia Ann (Clark) Dewey of Hanover, N. H., who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 6, 1886. Four children of this marriage survive. September 14, 1886, he married Emma Gardner Cunningham of New York city, who died June 7, 1898, at Arlington, N. J. The third marriage, on April 29, 1915, was to Katherine Ann Miller of St. Louis, who survives him.
CLASS OF 1875
Dr. Wyllis Gilbert Eaton died suddenly of angina pectoris at his home in Lowell, Mass., June 26, 1916.
The son of Wyllis Gilbert and Diana (Nelson) Eaton, he was born in Lawrence, Mass., February 23, 1854. He came to Lowell with his parents when four years old, and prepared for college in the high school of that city. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he entered upon medical study at Harvard, and took his degree there in 1879. He began practice at once in Lowell, and had continued there ever since, with the exception of a year in 1880-1, when he was in charge of a sanatorium in Arlington, Mass. He was very successful in practice, and was much beloved by his patients, in whom he took a deep personal interest. He had been city physician, member of the board of health, and president of the Middlesex North District Medical Society. He had been for many years to the time of his death on the staff of the Lowell Hospital. He was a member of a Congregational church, of the Royal Arcanum, of the Vesper Country Club, and of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
October 22, 1884, Dr. Eaton was married to Jennie C. Boardman of Lowell, who died January 18, 1892. A second marriage, August 31, 1899, was to Agnes Peabody of Chicago, who survives him. There were no children of either marriage.
CLASS OF 1883
Irving Fish was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 4, 1861, and died in New York city, March 20, 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
His parents were James Dean and Mary Esther (Blodgett) Fisk. He prepared for college at the high school of Mystic, Conn.
For the first year after graduation he was employed in the Marine National Bank of New York, and was then treasurer of the Havana Gaslight Company and of the Guanajuato Concentrating and Reducing Company, passing the year 1885-6 in Guanajuato, Mexico. Since 1887 he had been engaged in real estate and insurance business in New York.
From 1883 to 1888 he was secretary of the class, and prepared the annual reports.
September 12, 1894, Mr. Fish was married to Ida, daughter of Jacob and Agnes (Irving) Kauffelt of York, Pa., who survives him. They have had no children.
CLASS OF 1885
Dr. William Christopher Bouton died March 1 at his home in Waukegan, Ill., after a long illness. In 1910 he was taken with anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Out of this, progressive muscular atrophy gradually developed. In August, 1914, he was obliged to give up his office, and since that time he has met the inevitable end with never-failing courage and cheerfulness.
He was born in Hyde Park, Ill., February 4, 1865, the son of Samuel Fletcher and Mary Anna Bouton. His college preparation was obtained at Hyde Park High School. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
Teaching for a part of the first year after graduation, he entered Chicago Medical College in the fall of 1886 and graduated therefrom in March, 1889. He then served as interne for eighteen months in Cook County Hospital, and then spent a year in European hospital study. From 1892 to 1896 he practiced in Chicago. After a year spent in recruiting his health, he opened on office .in Waukegan, which remained his home. He was a practitioner of great industry and excellent success, held in high regard and affection by his fellow-physicians and by the community. In 1893-6 he was clinical instructor in neurology in' the Medical School of Northwestern University; in 1893-4, professor of histology in the Dental School of the same institution; medical inspector for the Chicago Board of Health, 1896; president of the Lake County Medical Society, 1904-6; later secretary of the same society and of the Lake County Tuberculosis Institute, and vice-president of the Waukegan Clinical Society. He is the author of many articles read before medical societies or published in medical periodicals.
Dr. Bouton was a man of vital religious experience and deeply interested in religious work, as the following official positions may indicate: deacon in University Congregational church of Chicago ? elder in First Presbyterian church of Waukegan; director of Y. M. C. A., Waukegan; president of Men's Christian Union, Waukegan; president of Waukegan Township Sunday-school; Association.
October 13, 1892, he was married to Cora H. Riedle of Chicago, who survives him, with a son and daughter.
CLASS OF 1887
Henry Eugene Chamberlain died at Wood Lake, Nebraska, August 14, 1916, from injuries received from a pair of horses which trampled upon him.
He was born at Union, N.H., October 31 1864 the youngest son of George W. and Emily (Walsham) Chamberlain. When quite young, the family moved to Berwick Me where he then entered Berwick Academy' graduating in June, 1883. He took his first year of college work under the principal, and entered Dartmouth in the sophomore year of the class of 1887.
The first year out of college he taught in Penacook N. H. Later he engaged in adverting vertising busmess in Denver, Colo., and in 1889 engaged in stock raising at North Platte, Nebraska. After several changes of location, in 1897 he purchased a ranch at Brownlee; Neb., and settled there with his family.
He married, April 21, 1891, Annie H. Wentworth of Milton, N. H„ who, with two children, Louise and lona Beryl, survives
CLASS OF 1896
Dr. Nathan Jenks died May 29, 1916 at Harper Hospital, Detroit, Mich. He had been in poor health for four or five years and an operation performed three weeks before his death failed to prolong his life.
He was born in Detroit, June 3, 1872 his parents being Dr. Edward W. and Sarah (Joy) Jenks. After graduation he began the study of medicine in New York, and obtained his medical degree from Cornell University in 1899. After a year's service in Bellevue Hospital he opened an office in Detroit at first devoting himself to general practice and later turning to obstetrics. He had acquired a high position as a specialist in this branch of his profession.
He filled the chair of obstetrics in the Detroit College of Medicine and was president of the medical board of the Women's Hospital. He held membership in the Detroit Academy of Medicine, the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and was a fellow of the American College of Surgery.
He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, the Sons of Colonial Wars, the Detroit Club, the University Club, the Indian Village Club and the Detroit Boat Club, and was a Mason and an Elk.
October 8, 1902, Dr. Jenks was married to Elizabeth Caroline Cady of Detroit, who survives him, with one daughter.
CLASS OF 1900
Charles Augustine Rich died at his home in Peoria, Illinois, May 4, 1916, after an illness of little more than a week. The cause was blood poisoning.
Rich was one of the most able, loyal, and highly regarded men of 1900, and his death is a matter of keen sorrow to all his classmates.
He was the son of Augustine Washington and Agnes Maria (Hazelton) Rich,and was born in Swampscott, Mass., November 2, 1878. Here the first ten years of his life was spent. The next two years were spent in Middleton, whence the family moved to Danvers, where Rich spent his school days preparing at the Danvers High School for Dartmouth, which he entered in the fall of 1896.
His college record was excellent. One of the most popular men in his class, a good student, quiet yet purposeful in demeanor, he was clearly marked for success. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. During senior year he pursued courses in the Thayer School which gave him the foundation for his subsequent career as an engineer. He did not complete the Thayer course, however, but left college upon "receiving his bachelor's degree in 1900.
Rich s first employment was a two months' position with the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, Vt. Following that he was for a time building inspector for the Tower and Wallace Company of New York. In January, 1901, he went to Lowell to superintend construction in behalf of the Riter Conley Manufacturing Co., of Pittsburgh. Upon completion of this work he entered the home office of the company at Pittsburgh, where he remained until the close of 1902.
From January, 1903, to April, 1905, Rich, in company with his classmate, E. H' Sprague, was in South Africa, where both enjoyed an eventful career. They were located mainly at Johannesburg, where Rich was employed in railroad construction and in work for the local water works.
Returning to America, Rich went to Vincennes, Ind., to superintend the remodeling of an electric plant.
From this time; on his work tended more and more to expert direction in electrical construction. In February, 1906, he became assistant superintendent for the construction of a power dam across the Tiribi River in Costa Rica. In the fall of the same year he returned to the United States to superintend the construction, of an electric light plant in Dayton, Ohio.
This work accomplished, he returned to Danvers to remain for nearly a year, November, 1907, to October, 1908, when he accepted a position in Vincennes, Ind., with the Vincennes Pipe and Casting Company.
In 1909 he went to Peoria, Ill., to superintend underground construction work for the Peoria Gas and Electric Company. After its completion he accepted permanent employment with the Gas Company, remaining until 1913. Having gained an excellent reputation as an electrical engineer, he then entered into an engineering and contracting 'business with C. A. Hoppin of that city. This business increased in volume very rapidly, and at the time of his death the future prospects of the firm were unusually bright.
Not only was Rich's business of a substantial and efficient character, but his public life in Peoria was unusually useful. He was an active member of the Congregational church, and was superintendent, at the time of his death, of a large chapel Sunday school.
February 21, 1906, he was married to Ruby May, daughter of Charles Lyman and Euretta Sophia (Fowle) Rundle, who survives him, with one child, Charles Elmore, who was born December 4, 1906.
This is but a short story of a career of unusual activity and great promise. No one in 1900 will ever forget "Smut" Rich, as he was popularly known. The last time many of the members of the class saw him was at the Tenth Reunion, which he and Mrs. Rich attended. The committee in charge of the Fifteenth Reunion received a letter from him saying that the formation of the new firm made it impossible for him to leave Peoria. He was with us in spirit.
Charles Rich represented the best of Dartmouth spirit and of Dartmouth character. In him the class of 1900 loses one of its most loyal men, of whose record it is most proud.
CLASS OF 1912
T. Palmer Miller was accidentally shot and killed on July 15, 1916, at the home of his fiancee in Austin, Ill. . Miller was visiting at the home of I. V. Edgerton, and was shot by a detective sergeant, who had been summoned to the house as the result of the discovery of a burglar on the premises. The 'members of the family were watching the house to prevent the escape of the burglar, and Miller was stationed on the back porch. In the dark he mistook the plain-clothes man for the criminal, and grappled with him. The mistake was mutual, and Miller was fatally shot in the encounter. Miller was manager of a branch of the Consumers' Company of Chicago, and was living with his mother, at SO North Latrobe Ave. The class of 1912 sent flowers to the funeral.
THE MAGAZINE has also received information of the death of the following Dartmouth men, more extended notices of whom are necessarily reserved for later issues.
COLLEGE
1854, Charles Caverno; 1858, Lucien H Adams; 1870, Francis Brown; 1874, Edwin G. Eastman; 1875, Frank P. McGregor; 1876, William R. Patterson; 1877, Albert Wallace; 1879, Levi L. Conant; 1880, Frank E. Shedd; 1888, Walter B. Flanders, nongraduate; 1900, Ephraim F. Aldrich, nongraduate.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
1862, Andrew M. Purinton; 1880, Nathaniel H. Merriam; 1882, Edward F. Eldridge; 1884, Edgar A. Clark, Louis E. Niles; 1889, Dorran B. Coxe, George B. Wilson.
HONORARY
1878, Edward P. Tenney; 1895, Oliver E, Branch.
