CLASS OF 1898

Fred Dana Sawin died December 8, 1917, at his home in Allston, Mass., of pneumonia. He was the son of George Washington and Ruth Huntington (Nutter) Sawin, and was born in Farmington, N. H., October 8, 1876. His boyhood home was in Watertown, Mass., and he fitted for college at Watertown High School. In 1894 he entered Harvard, and remained in the college one year, taking the year 1895-6 in Harvard Law School. In the fall of 1896 he entered the junior class at Dartmouth.

Upon graduation he returned to Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1900. He at once went into practice in Boston, and continued there through the rest of his life. He made his home in West Newton, removing in 1913 to Allston.

He was a Mason, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Allston Neighborhood Club, the Metropolitan Driving Club, and the Allston-Brighton Republican Club.

In 1899 Mr. Sawin was married to Nina 8., daughter of George B. and Mary Elizabeth Underwood, who survives him. They have four children: George W., twelve years of age; Fred Dana, ten; Ruth E., nine; Samuel R., six. Mrs. Sawin writes: "The boys have their college tuitions, ready in the bank. Dartmouth, of course."