CLASS OF 1873

Edwin Hazen Ketcham, whose death occurred in Indianapolis, Ind., December 19, was born in Indianapolis, July 19, 1850. He was the son of John Lewis and Jane (Merrill) Ketcham. Jane Merrill, the mother, was the daughter of Samuel Merrill, formerly state treasurer of Indiana, and agent for the removal of the state capital from Corydon to Indianapolis, in 1825. Edwin Hazen Ketcham, after his early education in the Indianapolis schools, continued (his studies at the Northwestern Christian University, now Butler College, and later at Peacham Academy, Peacham, Vt. Graduating there in, June, 1868, he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1868, as a member of the class of 1872 in the Chandler Scientific Department. Compelled by illness at home to return to Indianapolis, he was for a time a student at the Northwestern Christian University in that city. A severe accident laid him aside so long that he lost a year of study, subsequently returning to Dartmouth as a member of the class of 1873, with which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, which afterwards became the Dartmouth chapter of the Beta Theta Pi. He was very fond of chess, and also played second base on the Scientific Department nine. After his graduation from Dartmouth, he took the course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1875. Returning to Indianapolis, he became a member of the firm of Ketcham and Gibson, architects. As an architect he did some especially noteworthy work in connection with others in the building of the state capital at Indianapolis. His first important work on his own account was the planning and erection of the state institutions for the insane, at Evansville, Logansport, and Richmond, Indiana. Other public buildings of his designing were one at Asbury (now DePauw) University, a court house at Rushville, Indiana, and more. than thirty churches in the Middle West. But his periods of work were interrupted by frequent and prolonged intervals of illness. As a recreation he became a very devoted and careful student of Shakespeare.

He left Indianapolis in 1895, going to Cincinnati, and afterwards to Norwood, Ohio. Over a year ago he returned, utterly broken in health, to Indianapolis. A blow on the foot many years ago caused an injury to the bone, which necessitated several surgical operations, and was succeeded by permanent lameness' and frequent intervals of severe suffering. He died at the home of his twin brother, Frank M. Ketcham, who was a member of Dartmouth '71 in freshman year but graduated from Williams in 1872.

Mr. Ketcham was for many years a member of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Indianapolis.