CLASS OF 1871

Henry Davis Wyatt died of pneumonia at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn., June 4, 1917. He was born in Campton, N. H., September 24, 1836. September IS, 1862, he enlisted in Company 8,. Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers; was commissioned as first lieutenant November 3, 1862; was wounded at Port Hudson; and was mustered out of service in August, 1863. He then studied medicine, attending lectures at Harvard in 1864-5. He re-entered military service as assistant surgeon of the First U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery May 8, 1865, and was mustered out March 31, 1866. He then completed his medical degree in the fall of 1866 with the class of 1867. Determining to add a full college course to his professional equipment, he studied at Kimball Union Academy for the rest of the school year, and entered the freshman class at Dartmouth in the fall of 1867. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he devoted himself to the work of teaching: one year at North Scituate, R. I.; three months in Nahant, Mass.; and the rest of his life—since December, 1872 in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he was principal and superintendent of city schools, and president of Chattanooga Academy.

August 10, 1875, he was married to Alice J. Polsey of Rhode Island,. whose death preceded his by a few months.

A long obituary notice in the ChattanoogaDaily Times speaks of Mr. Wyatt as "father of the public school system in Chattanooga, principal of the first public school established here, which was in 1872, and identified with the system all the time since that date."

The sketch of Judge Albert R. Savage of this class in the November MAGAZINE contains errors in the last paragraph, which should be corrected. His first wife died August 24, 1912, and September 2, 1914, he married Frances A. Cooke of Weston, Mass., who survives him. His three children have all been dead some years.