CLASS OF 1863

Isaac Newton Jenks died July 7 at his home, No. 148 West 82d St., New York city, after a brief illness.

The son of Isaac Perkins and Cordelia (Hurlburt) Jenks, he was born in Northfield, Vt., June 17, 1838. In college he was a member of Zeta Psi, a fraternity which then had a chapter at Dartmouth.

In the fall of 1863 he was assistant clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives, a position which he had previously held in the fall of his senior year. In 1864 and '65 he studied law in New York city, but was never Admitted to the bar. In 1866 he became clerk in the banking house of A. W. Morse and Company, where he remained until 1873, after which he opened a broker's office. In 1877 he returned to Vermont, and was engaged in farming on the old homestead for several years. He then resumed the brokerage business in New York, and so continued until his death. He was never married.

Mr. Jenks was a loyal classmate, and always had words of appreciation in memory of any classmate of whose death he was informed.