CLASS OF 1870

Franklin Worcester died May 2 at his home in Hollis, N. H. He was somewhat seriously injured late in the fall, and did not fully recover from the effects of this accident, but it was a heart trouble which finally caused his death.

He was the fourth and youngest son of John Newton and Sarah E. (Holden) Worcester, and was born in Hollis, October 27, 1845. He prepared for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

For the first year after graduation he Studied at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced for a short time in Cambridge, Mass., and Minneapolis, Minn., but in the summer of 1872 he left the profession and entered the furniture, lumber, and cooperage business in partnership with his brothers, dividing his time between Hollis and Cambridge. He was also largely interested in real estate, and was a director of the Indian Head National Bank of Nashua.

Mr. Worcester was superintendent of schools and member of the board of directors in Hollis for thirty years. In 1877 he was a member of the House of Representatives and in 1887 of the Senate. In 1898 he barely failed of the Republican nomination for governor, and in 1912 he received this nomination, but was defeated at the polls by the Democratic candidate, Samuel D. Felker '82. He was never married.

An editorial writer in the ManchesterUnion styles Mr. Worcester "a valuable citizen, a man of public spirit, of worthy aspirations, of high usefulness to his community." His class secretary writes: "No member of the class of '70 commanded by his genuineness and nobility of character more universally the esteem of his classmates."

Charles Joseph Walker died in Columbia, Mo., May 13. News of his death has been received so recently that there has not been time to obtain material for a biographical notice, and this must be postponed to a future issue.