CLASS OF 1865

Henry Guy Ely died at the Brightlook Hospital,' St. Johnsbury, Vt., August 7, following an operation for appendicitis a week before.

The son of George Warner and Mary Stearns (Redington) Ely, he was born in Littleton, N. H., January 2, 1842. In 1848 his parents removed to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and he fitted for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. He remained in college only during freshman year, enlisting August 28, 1862, as private in Company K, Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers. This regiment was mustered in to service October 22, 1862, and after nine months of service was mustered out August 5, 1863.

Mr. Ely did not return to college, but was employed for a time in the Passumpsic Savings Bank at St. Johnsbury. Then he was for a few years cashier of the First National Bank of Northfield, Vt. He then returned to St. Johnsbury to enter the office of his father's hoe and fork factory. Upon the death of his father in 1876 he became a member of the firm, and on the incorporation of the Ely Hoe and Fork Company in 1880 he became its treasurer. He later became president, and was such when in 1902 the corporation was merged in the American Fork and Hoe Company. Since that date he had been a director in that company and manager of its St. Johnsbury branch. He was also a trustee of the Passumpsic Savings Bank.

Mr. Ely was an active member of the South Congregational church, and had been for many years one of its deacons. He was always an influential and public spirited citizen, and highly regarded in the community.

October 31, 1867, he was married to Adelaide E., daughter of Dr. Selim and Emeline (Denison) Newell of St. Johnsbury, who survives him, with four daughters and four grandchildren.