CLASS OF 1875

William Bradbury Tebbetts on the morning of February 11 dropped dead at Trinidad, Colo., as the result of an acute attack of angina pectoris, while walking in the street. He was en route from his home in Denver to Wootten, where he was engaged in important legal business.

Mr. Tebbetts was born in Lake Providence, La., March 10, 1855, his parents being Dr. Hiram Bradbury and Laura S. Tebbetts. His father was a New Hampshire physician who went South and became a wealthy planter.

At the close of the Civil War he came North, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Concord (N. H.) High School. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

He studied law at Boston University, graduating as Bachelor of Laws in 1877. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1878, and practiced for a short time at Haverhill, N. H. In 1879 he removed to Colorado, being at first at Leadville, but presently at Denver, where he had since been in active and successful practice. In the late 80's he became a member of the firm of Morris, Tebbetts, and Stowell, later of Stimson, Tebbetts, and Munroe (the senior partner being E. C. Stimson '76), and finally of Tebbetts and Munroe.

As president of the Denver library board, of which he was a member from 1902 to 1907, he was instrumental in securing the gift of $200,000 from the Carnegie fund, the maim library being built during his term of office. From 1897 to 1904 he served as alderman, being president of the board the last three years. Since 1905 he had been attorney for the school board, and had always been active in public affairs.

He was a member of the University Club and of the Denver Country Club, being actively interested in athletics, especially golf and baseball.

November 1, 1881, Mr. Tebbetts was married to Adelaide, daughter of Calvin Camp of New York city. Two children were born to them, both of whom died early.

Harry Hough died January 19 at the Polyclinic Hospital in New York city. About two years ago he suffered a nervous breakdown, following which heart trouble developed. In December he left his home in Dover, N. H., to be treated in a hospital in Boston, whence he went early in January to the New York hospital where his sudden death occurred.

He was the son of Ralph and Sarah Jane (Delany) Hough, and was born in Dover, February 7, 1854. He fitted for college at Dover High School. In college he became a member of Alpha Delta Phi, but left during sophomore year and took a position in the Cocheco National Bank of Dover. He was assistant cashier of this bank for twenty-seven years and treasurer of the Cocheco Savings Bank for twenty-five years. For the past thirteen years he had been a stock broker in Boston, keeping his residence in Dover. He was a member of the city school board from 1882 to 1885, and was several years treasurer of Strafford county. He was also treasurer for many years of the Union Electric Railway.

Mr. Hough was an Odd Fellow and a Knight Templar, and a vestryman and warden of St. Thomas' Episcopal church. December 10, 1885, he was married to Carrie B. Morrill of Dover, who died in March, 1916. Their three sons are graduates of Dartmouth, —Philip in 1909, Morrill in 1912, and Wood-bury in 1915.

Rev. Frank Elihu Adams died February 15 at his home in Felchville, Vt., after a brief illness of pneumonia.

The son of. George Whitefield and Louisa (Tandy) Adams, he was born in Haverhill, Mass., November 29, 1847. He fitted for college at Haverhill High School and at New Hampton Literary Institution. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After leaving college in sophomore year he went to Hill, N. H., and lived there till 1889, engaged mainly in farming and teaching. In March, 1890, he went to Port Dover, Ont., to become pastor of the Universalist church there, and was ordained to the ministry in the following June. From December, 1891, to the spring of 1898 he was pastor of the churches at Nicholson and Hopbottom, Pa. In 1898-9 he studied in the theological school of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., and graduated there in 1899. He was then pastor at Rochester, Vt., until September, 1906, meanwhile receiving in 1903 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Northern Illinois College. He was then for some years pastor at Huntingville, Que., and then at Plainfield, Vt., and finally at Felchville since January. 1916.

In 1877 Mr. Adams was married to Mary L. Parker of Hill, N. H., who died in August, 1889. A second marriage in July, 1893, was to Mrs. Elizabeth M. Knotts of Whitesville, N. Y., who has also died. There were four children by the first marriage. The oldest, a son, was killed in the Philippines in 1899 when a member of the Second Oregon Vouluteers. The others, a daughter and two sons, survive their parents.