CLASS OF 1885

George Clifton Kimball died at his summer home in Wolfboro, N. H., on Sunday, June 16, last; his funeral services were held in the Congregational church at Wolfboro on Wednesday, June 19, and his remains were interred in Farmington, N. H.

Mr. Kimball's health began to fail last winter, and his case was diagnosed as progressive pernicious enemia. He insisted upon being informed as to his real condition, and met the situation with the same splendid courage and resolution which were always his leading characteristics.

During the spring and summer months he remained quite closely at his home at 147 Salis-bury Road, Brookline, Mass., where many of his friends called to see him, all of whom he received with such cheerful courage that they forgot in a large measure the real seriousness of his condition, and during most of this time he was able to continue the general direction of his business as managing partner of the Byron E. Bailey Company at 31 Winter St., Boston.

With the coming of the warm weather came also his strong longing to go to his summer home at Wolfboro, where he had spent his summer seasons for many years, and about the middle of May he made the trip of one hundred twenty-five miles by auto, so that the last month of his life was spent among the scenes that he had known and loved so long.

He was born on March 28, 1863, in Farmington, N. H., and was the only son of Jere-miah and Naomi Kimball. He prepared for college at the Farmington High School, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1881. He sustained a high rank as a scholar throughout his courses, and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After his graduation he engaged in educational work, teaching very successfully in the Carleton School at Brad-ford, Mass., for three years; then at Phil-lips Andover Academy, Andover, Mass., for one year, and then as head of the academical department of the Brewster Free Academy at Wolfboro, N. H., for eleven years.

For some time he had been inclined towards an active business life, and in 1900 he accepted a position with D. C. Heath and Company, publishers of school books, and for the following five years he successfully managed the home office of that company in Boston. In February, 1906, he entered the firm of Byron E. Bailey and Company, of Boston, which specialized in clothing for children. Three months later, in consequence of the death of Mr. Bailey, who was his brother-in-law, the management of the large retail business of the company devolved upon Mr. Kimball, and during the remainder of his life he devoted himself unreservedly to the development of the company. It was in this business that he achieved perhaps his greatest success, for by the system which he organized he developed the business until it became one of the largest and most successful in its specialty in the country.

On August 28, 1889, he married Mara Jeanette Kimball, who survives him. Their only son, John Clifton Kimball, was born January 23, 1892, in Haverhill, Mass.; he entered Dartmouth as a member of the class of 1915, completing his course in the Thayer School, where he graduated in the class of 1916, and immediately began business in the Byron E. Bailey Company, where he is now taking his father's place in the management of the firm.

Mr. Kimball was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Athletic Club, the Boston City Club, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, and the Kings-wood Club of Wolfboro, N. H.

His frankness, ability, and independence made him very highly esteemed by all who knew him, both in business and socially.