CLASS OF 1869

Henry Leavitt Smith died at Williamstown, Mass., of apoplexy, on September 7.

He was born in New York city February 19, 1848, the son of Rev. Asa Dodge Smith, who was then pastor of a Presbyterian church and later the seventh president of Dartmouth. He was the last survivor of the children of President Smith.

He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and was there the classmate of Littlefield, Sanford, and Chase Second of Dartmouth '69. He belonged to the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He belonged to the college choir, and, like his sister, Miss Sarah L. Smith, affectionately known as "Sally Prex," had a fine voice, which is remembered by the many to whom it brought pleasure and consolation.

After graduation he entered the book-publishing firm of Charles Scribner and Company as clerk, and rose in rank until he became manager of the foreign department. When the firm was incorporated under the name of Charles Scribner's Sons, he was one of the incorporators and became treasurer of the corporation. He retired from active business six years before his death, but did not give up his time to leisure. Rather he devoted himself to civic and church duties. He was president of the New York Bible Society, elder and clerk of the session of the Brick Presbyterian church, and for ten years president of the men's association of that church.

The pastor, Dr. Merrill, says of him in the Brick Church Record: "No one perhaps but the minister knows what it means to have in church men who are always in their places, and are always genuinely interested in anything vitally concerning the church. Most of all he will be missed for his sterling friendliness, his resolute and cheerful optimism, his splendid loyalty. By nature sensitive, quick, positive, aggressive, he was by grace kind, just, self-restrained, and loving."

On June 1, 1871, Mr. Smith was married to Jane 1., daughter of Professor Daniel J. Noyes of Dartmouth, who survives him. They had no children. He was buried in the family lot of Professor Noyes in the Hanover cemetery.