CLASS OF 1886

Walter Marshall Morgan died in New York city, April 22. He was seized with an apoplectic stroke while entering the subway in the morning, and was taken to a hospital, where he died in the afternoon without recovering consciousness. Activity in the sale of Liberty Bonds had been carried to the point of excessive physical strain.

He was born in Manchester, N. H., December 31, 1863, his parents being Thomas and Celinda A. (Nelson) Morgan. He prepared for college in Manchester High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and a baseball player, being a member of the class team.

In the winter of 1886-7 he taught a high school in Princeton, Mass., and then for a time studied medicine in Manchester. In 1887-8 he was principal of an academy at Mclndoe Falls, Vt., and also superintendent of schools for the town.

He then entered the insurance business, with which he was connected for the rest of his life. In the fall of 1888 he was in Waltham, Mass., as agent of the New York Life Insurance Company, and then opened in Manchester an agency for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance of Milwaukee. About twenty years ago he removed to New York, and has there been connected with the Equitable Company.

Mr. Morgan never held any public office, but was in 1895 the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hillsboro County. He was secretary of the Granite State Club, once the leading Democratic organization of New Hampshire, and also of the Democratic club of Ward 2.

In 1890 he was married to Mabel Holton of Mclndoe Falls, Vt., who survives him, with five children.