CLASS OF 1877

Philip Carpenter died at his home in Yonkers, N. Y., July 24. Death came in his sleep without warning and with no previous illness. His physician pronounced the cause to be acute dilatation of the heart.

The son of Alonzo Philetas and Julia R. (Goodall) Carpenter, he was born in Bath, N. H., March 9, 1856. His father was an eminent lawyer, and at his death chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. He fitted for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Recognized during his college course as a man of large ability, he did not disappoint his classmates' expectations in his later life.

Studying law in his father's office, he was admitted to the bar in September, 1880, and began practice in partnership with his father. The latter was appointed to the bench a year later, and in the spring of 1882 he removed to Lancaster and became a member of the firm of Drew, Jordan, and Carpenter. In September, 1885, he removed to New York city, and practiced there without interruption till his death. He made a specialty of corporation law, and had acquired a large and lucrative practice.

In 1885 he served as judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Currier of New Hampshire with the rank of brigadier general, and from 1897 to 1901 was first assistant district attorney of New York county.

He was a member of the Union League Club, the Bar Association of the City of New York, the State Bar Association, the New England Society, the National Art Club, and the Colonial Club.

Mr. Carpenter was married September 3, 1880, to Fanny Hallock, daughter of Rev. Thomas Henderson and Eliza (Hallock) Rouse of Makawao, Hawaii, who survives him. They had no children. Mrs. Carpenter is herself a practicing lawyer, and is prominently connected with many organizations, being a former president of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs.