CLASS OF 1876

Dr. Albert Wellington Smith died at his home in Milford, N. H., July 21, 1917, after a year's illness.

Dr. Smith was born in W'altham, Mass., May 20, 1853, has parents being George and Mary Ann (Dickinson) Smith. His home from 1865 was at Milford, N. H., where he graduated from the high school in 1872.

After obtaining his medical degree he studied for a year in New York, and in 1877 returned to Milford and began a practice which he has successfully carried on for forty years.

He always was actively interested in local affairs, and was for many years a member of the school board, for ten years beginning in 1881 moderator of town meeting, and in 1889 representative in the legislature.

He was much interested in the Masonic order, and had been master of the local lodge and high priest of King Solomon Chapter. He was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church.

October 25, 1888, Dr. Smith was married to Laura B. Whitten of Somersworth, N. H., who died in 1902. They had no children, and Dr. Smith had no near kindred and had lived alone since his wife's death.