Obituary

CLASS OF 1874

March 1919
Obituary
CLASS OF 1874
March 1919

Parker Dickson died February 17 at the Scarlet Oaks sanitarium, Cincinnati, Ohio, after an illness of several weeks.

Mr. Dickson was a son of Judge William M. and Annie (Parker) Dickson, and was born in Cincinnati September 12, 1853. He prepared for college in the schools of his native city, and was for three years a member of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. This institution suspended operations in June, 1873, and the ensuing fall he entered the senior class at Dartmouth. At Miami he had become a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation he studied law in Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. From 1877 to 1881 he was assistant United States district attorney for Ohio. In October, 1881, he entered the employ of the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company, when this company beg"an operating the Cincinnati Southern Railway, and has been its law and claim agent ever since.

He was a member of the University Club, and had a wide circle of friends. He was never married, and a sister is the nearest surviving relative.

Willard Norris Armington died at Oshkosh, Wis., September 19, 1918, of chronic myocarditis.

He was born in Waterford, Vt., November 10, 1849, and fitted for college at Barre (Vt.) Academy, under Jacob S. Spaulding '41. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In April of his sophomore year he left college, and the following- fall entered the University of Vermont, where he graduated with the class of 1874.

After graduation he studied law, and was in practice successively at Whitefield, N. H., Lake City, Fla., and Oshkosh, Wis.