CLASS OF 1871
Charles Ebenezer Hill died in Temple, N. H., on Friday, April 6, 1917, where he was born February 7., 1848.
Hill left college before graduation to become assistant professor of English and history in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., where he remained until 1875. He then resigned to take up the practice of law, and in that year was admitted to the bar of Baltimore, Maryland. There he was married to Kate W. Clayton, whose death preceded his by exactly ten years.
The funeral and interment were in Baltimore on Easter Sunday.
He leaves three sons: John Philip, a lawyer in Baltimore, and formerly United States attorney; Eben Clayton, a physician in Poughkeeepsie, N. Y.; and Joseph Bancroft, a civil engineer in Baltimore, Md.
When he had barely reached sixty years of age he developed a tubercular trouble, which banished him from his friends and his profession and from Baltimore, and he returned to his native hills of Temple.
There are nearly ten years he lived a quiet life amid his books and his fruit trees, with gradually failing strength.
His degree of A. B. was conferred upon him out of course, but he never attended any of the class reunions.
In a letter written only a few weeks before his death to a classmate, he closes with the brave message:
"I am cheerfully waiting for the last event, somewhat curious to know what is beyond, not anxious."
Samuel Taylor Page died at the Elliot Hospital, Manchester, N. H., April 16, following an operation for appendicitis. He had been in failing health for sometime, and was passing the winter in Manchester with his wife at the home of her sister.
The son of David and Margaret (Taylor) Page, he was born in Haverhill February 14, 1849, and prepared for college at Haverhill Academy and Kimball Union Academy.
For a year after graduation he read law in his father's office at Haverhill, and then for two years with Cross and Burnham. of Manchester, N. H. From 1871 to 1874 he was also private secretary to the governor of New Hampshire.
In 1874 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced in his native town until 1888. Meanwhile he was register of probate for Grafton county in 1874-6 and in 1878-85, superintendent of schools for Haverhill from 1875 to 1887, and member of the lower house of the state legislature in 1877 and 1887.
For a long time he had had business interests in Manchester, and removed there in 1888. In 1903 he returned permanently to Haverhill. He was a member of Franklin St. Congregational church of Manchester, and of the Patrons of Husbandry.
October 5, 1872, Mr. Page was married to Frances Maria Eaton of Manchester, who survives him. They have a daughter and a son, the latter being Donald T. Page '01. His sister is the wife of his classmate, Hon. Alvin Burleigh of Plymouth, N. H.
Page was an enthusiastic member of the class, making it a point to be present at all reunions, which derived no little pleasure from his mellow wit and characteristic style of story-telling. Probably every member of his class still retains Page's poem on the Class of '71, written soon after the reunion in 1906, entitled "Our Ideals—Dartmouth Men."
