Class Notes

CLASS OF 1867

October 1919
Class Notes
CLASS OF 1867
October 1919

Dr. Hiram Tenney Hardy died May 7 at the home of his son in Kaneville, Ill.

He was born in Groton, N. H., March 12, 1838. June 24, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventh Squadron Rhode Island Cavalry, known as the "College Cavaliers", and served through the term of enlistment, three months. October 28, 1863, he enlisted in the Third Vermont Battery, which formed a part of the Ninth Army Corps and was mustered out June 15, 1865.

He had lived in Kaneville for forty-eight years, and had practiced his profession there until the last three years. He leaves a son and a daughter.

HONORARY

Asa Bird Gardiner, who received the degree of Master of Arts in 1864, died of apoplexy May 28 at his home in Suffern, N. Y. He was born in New York city September 30, 1839, and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1859. A soldier of the Civil War, professor of law at the United States Military Academy in 1874-8, judge advocate general U. S. A. in 1871-3 and again in 1878-87, an officer in the regular army until his retirement with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1888, then a lawyer in New York city, and district attorney of New York county from January, 1898, to December, 1900, he was for many years a conspicuous figure in public life.

In 1894 Charles Theodore Gallagher, who died at his home in Boston of heart disease, September 28, also received in 1894 the degree of Master of Arts. He was born in Boston, May 21, 1851, graduated from the Law School of Boston University in 1875, and was thereafter in active legal and political life in his native city, being closely identified with many of its civic, educational, business, and fraternal interests. He also had a Civil War record, having served as drummer boy in his boyhood. He was a warm friend of the College, and his only son, Morrill A. Gallagher, is a member of the class of 1907.