CLASS OF 1872

Nathan Merriam, who was a member of this class during the first term of freshman year, died at his home in Omaha, Neb.. April 28, 1918.

He was born in Merrimack. N. H., November 24, 1849, being a son of Dr. Marshall and Sarah (Shook) Merriam, and a brother of Dr. Ephraim C. Meriam (D. M. S. 1864), John Merriam '77. and Joseph F. Merriam '81.

Mr. Merriam went early to Omaha, and was a grain dealer there for most of his life, being also prominently connected with banking and other enterprises in that city. He was a member of the Omaha Club and of the Presbvterian church.

October 16, 1875. he was married to Allie T. Gale, who survives him, with two daughters,

William Plumer Fowler died at his summer home at Little Boar's Head, Rye Beach, N. H., July 3, 1918, of valvular heart trouble, following prolonged ill health.

He was born October 3, 1850, in Concord, N. H., the son of Asa (Dartmouth 1833) and Mary Cilley (Knox) Fowler. He fitted at Concord High School. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation Mr. Fowler went to Bos-ton, which ever after remained his home, and studied law there in the office of Sumner Albee and at Boston University Law School. January 30, 1875, he was admitted to the bar, and had been since in practice, being till 1883 in partnership with a brother, George R. Fowler.

In 1888, he was appointed a member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor for the City of Boston, and retained that position till his death, having been chairman since 1890. From 1900 to 1911 he was institutions register for the city, and "declined to accept the salary of $3000 which belongs to the office. In 1913 he was appointed chairman of the Licensing Board, and served one term. For a few months at the beginning of the present year he served as acting corporation counsel. Since 1890 he had been president of the Industrial Aid Society for the Prevention of Pauperism; he was also treasurer of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches and of the Unitarian Home Missionary Society of Boston, manager of the Boston Asylum and Farm School, and director of the Associated Charities of Boston. In other interests, he has been president of the Manchester Mills, director of the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad, and vice-president of Warren Brothers Company. He had been president of the Hale Club and the Shakespeare Club of Boston and chairman of the South Congregational (Unitarian) Society, and was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Channing Club, the Unitarian Club, and the Bostonian Society. With a sister, in 1888 he presented to the city of Concord a public library building costing $25,000, as a memorial of their parents.

October 14, 1899, Mr. Fowler was married to Susan Farnham Smith of North Andover, Mass., who survives him, with two sons.