CLASS OF 1872

Robert Gordon Pike, chief justice of the superior court of New Hampshire, died January 9 at his home in Dover. He had been in failing health for some time, and for a fortnight had been regarded in a serious condition.

The son of Amos W. and Elizabeth (Chadbourne) Pike, he was born in Rollinsford, N. H., July 28, 1851. He took in college the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi). He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1908.

After graduation he was engaged in civil engineering most of the time until January, 1875 and then was principal of a grammar school at South Berwick, Me., for three years. He then studied law with Chief-Justice Charles Doe '49, of Salmon Falls, and Judge Jeremiah Smith of Dover, and was admitted to the bar in 1881. He began practice in Dover, where he was city solicitor in 1887-9. From 1893 to 1896 he was judge of probate for Strafford county, and from 1896 to 1901 associate justice of the supreme court of the state. When the courts were reorganized, in 1901, he! became associate justice of the superior court, and had been its chief justice since November 1, 1913.

Judge Pike had been president of the state bar association, and at its annual meeting last June delivered an address of great interest on his personal recollections of Judge Doe with whom he had been a student. He was a Mason and a member of the Bellamy Club of Dover, and a trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank. He was formerly a trustee of Berwick Academy, and since 1903 had served the College as visitor on the Chandler Foundation.

Judge Pike was never married, and made his heme in Dover with an unmarried sister.