CLASS OF 1886

John Warren Knapp died at his home in Malone, N. Y., April 11, of Bright's disease. He had been ill for some months, but the end came unexpectedly.

He was born in Malone, June 19, 1863, his parents being Wells and Azuba A. Knapp. He prepared for college at Franklin Academy in Malone.

After graduation he studied medicine at Malone for a short time, and then engaged in civil engineering, being engaged in the construction of the Adirondack Division of the New York Central Railroad for a time. Not long after he went to San Domingo in similar employment, but one of the frequent revolutions in that island caused the suspension of the project before its completion. On his return, he was for two years employed as a draftsman by the Pennsylvania and Lake Erie Railroad at Beaver, Pa., and then going back to San Domingo assisted in the completion of the railroad with which he had before been connected. He then returned to his former position at Beaver, and remained there about ten years. After his return to Malone, he was engaged on construction work on state and county highways. In the summer of 1915 a serious trouble with his eyes compelled the abandonment of work, and this trouble increased until he became nearly blind.

Soon after leaving college Mr. Knapp became a member of the New York National Guard, with which at different times he was connected about thirteen years. He was a member of the Masonic order. Mr. Knapp never married, and is survived by a sister and a brother.

John Warren Knapp was the possessor of an exceedingly charming personality, both as a boy and as a man. He was well known to a large number of Dartmouth men of his time, in College and since, and was universally popular and respected. He was deeply read, a charming conversationalist though exceedingly modest and retiring, and of undoubted loyalty to his Alma Mater and his many friends.

In College, he was member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and a charter member of the Sphinx senior society.