CLASS OF 1873

Word has been received of the death of Alfred Wellington Emery. He was born in Eliot, Maine, June 26, 1848, and was the son of George W. and Sarah Emery. His father, as one of the "forty-niners," went to California in the days of the gold craze, but died there. The mother with her two little boys went back to the old home on the farm, and bravely kept her little flock together. There they lived until the boys were old enough to go out into the world. Alfred attended the district schools during the winter months, and worked for wages during the summers. His final preparation for college was obtained in two years at the old New England academy. He entered Dartmouth College in 1868 as a member of the class of 1872, C. S. D. Obliged to leave college for a time, he returned later, graduating in 1873. He was a member of the Vitruvian, now the Beta Theta Pi, fraternity. During senior year he was president of the scientific section of the class, the classical and scientific departments being at the time separate. After his graduation, he spent the summer of 1873 as bookkeeper at the Appledore House, Isles of Shoals, and during the fall and winter following he taught school in his home town, Eliot, Me. He soon entered the employ of the Boston and Albany Railroad, in the engineering department, and did engineering work in connection with the filling up of fifty acres of the South Boston Flats. Going to Evansville, Indiana, he became January 1, 1875 bookkeeper for William Heilman, at the City Foundry, Mr. Heilman being the father of his college classmate, George P. Heilman. He remained there until the death of Mr. William Heilman in 1890. He then; accepted the position of secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Cotton Manufacturing Company, an office held by him for many years. He served as a member of the board of trustees of the city schools, and of the trustees of the Evansville Orphans' Home. He likewise took an active part in the work of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, and was one of its trustees. In 1912 he moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., where he engaged in business, and was president of the Davis Electric Company, manufacturing the Davis Electric Medical Battery. Failing health at length compelled him to give up business, and he moved to Indianapolis, Ind., where he died at his home, 3416 Salem street, on the afternoon of April 12, 1917. He had been greatly interested in the work of the Masonic fraternity. In November, 1887;, he was knighted in LaValette Commandery No. IS, Knights Templar. He was elected grand master of Masons in Indiana in 1905.

Mr. Emery was on earnest son of Dartmouth. In 1913, although at that time far from well, with rare courage he took the long journey to Hanover, to be present at the fortieth year reunion of his class. He married, October 17, 1875, Miss Emma M. Goodwin, who with one daughter, Grace Alfreda, a teacher in the Manual Training High School of Indianapolis, survives him. A son, Carroll Fletcher, who was for a time a member of the class of 1901, Dartmouth, died February 5, 1898. Funeral services in charge of the Masonic lodge were held at Mr. Emery's late home on Friday evening, April 13, 1917, and on the following day in the Trinity Methodist church at Evansville, Ind., in the charge of the Masons of that city.