CLASS OF 1859

Allen Palmer Weld died January 6 at his home in River Falls, Wis., of heart disease.

The son of Allen Hayden and Harriet (Wood) Weld, he was born at North Yar-mouth, Maine, May 13, 1839. His father was a member of the class of 1834 during a part of its course, but graduated from Yale in the same class. The son was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he went to River Falls, where his father had purchased a farm, and for a time he helped on the farm and taught in the academy of the town. Later he studied law in an office at Hudson, Wis., and completed his studies at Albany Law School, where he graduated in 1867. After practicing a year in Rome, N. Y., he returned to River Falls and opened an office there.

He continued the practice of law in River Falls until 1882, when he went to St. Paul, Minn., to act as agent for a wealthy capitalist. After remaining there some years, he returned to River Falls and resumed practice. In 1895 he was appointed county judge of Pierce County, and continued in that position until October, 1915. Much of this time he was city clerk of River Falls. For many years he was an influential member and officer in the Congregational church.

November 30, 1871, Judge Weld was married to Alice, daughter of Lyman and Lucinda Powell of River Falls, who survives him, with their two children, Laura H., who has been teaching in the State Normal School at Platteville, Wis., and Lyman P., manager of an abstract office in Boulder, Colo.

Judge Weld was one of twelve to attend the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation at Hanover, and seldom missed the annual reunion of the Dartmouth Alumni of the Northwest.

We quote from a local paper: "To his friends he was an object of admiration because of the splendor of his intellectual endowments. These intellectual powers found employment in the acquisition of knowledge. Judge Weld was a great consumer of facts. He devoured books. His mind ranged through all the departments of truth, scientific, literary, philosophical, legal, historical, and theological. He could converse with interest upon any theme from the archaeology of the Orient to the latest invention of modern science, or from the abstruse metaphysics of the schoolmen to the most recent fad in philosophy, and all with the most bewildering ease. Had the circumstances of his life been different, he might have lighted the lamp of a great legal reputation and been conspicuous in the Northwest as an advocate at the bar. Had he cherished political ambitions and pursued them, he might have obcouncils. But on the contrary he was content to serve, and was consumed by the joy of the work in hand. He gave his time, his talent, his life to the service of others, and found in the people of these few counties the field of his life's work, and that too with the paltriest of compensation or none at all, save the gratitude of those he helped and the inward consciousness of a deed well done."