CLASS OF 1865
Wendell Phillips Hood was born in Danvers, Mass., February 25, 1839, and died in Melrose, Mass., May 8, 1919.
His parents were John and Rebecca (Stanley) Hood. He fitted for college at Danvers High School and at Phillips Academy, Andover, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1860 in the class of 1864. In the following March he transferred his connection to Brown University, and remained there until his enlistment in the spring of 1862, as private in Company A, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. This was a three months regiment, and he served with it in Virginia during its period of service. In November, 1862, he enlisted for nine months in Company F, 48th Massachusetts Volunteers, and was with General Banks' expedition up the Red River in Louisiana. He served for a time as hospital steward, and suffered from malarial fever and sunstroke, never fully recovering from the effects. In the fall of 1863 he returned to Dartmouth, entering the class of 1865, with which he graduated.
Deciding to make teaching his lifework, he became usher in the Dwight School in Boston in the fall of" 1865. In the hope of bettering his health he removed to Minnesota in September, 1866, and became superintendent of schools at Red Wing, and then at Rochester and Winona. He then established the Red Wing Collegiate Institute, and was its principal six years. In 1878 he returned East, and was engaged with the publishing house of A. J. Johnson and Company until April, 1881, when he resumed teaching at Watertown, Mass. He was for several years principal of the high school at Nahant, Mass. Failing health compelled him to give up teaching, and he removed to Melrose and engaged in farming.
In 1889 it became necessary to place him in the Danvers Hospital for the Insane, and he was afterwards a patient in institutions in Westboro and Worcester. Since November, 1916, he has been cared for, at first at home and then in a neighboring family. He suffered at the last from acute attacks of heart disease.
Mr. Hood was a man of scholarly tastes and high aspirations, kind-hearted, generous to the poor and unfortunate, gentle in manner, and loyal to his friends. He was a member from early life of the Baptist church, and always actively connected with it. He was also a member of the G. A. R.
March 27, 1866, he was married to Maria Phelps, daughter of William R. Putnam of Danvers, who survives him, with a son and a daughter, a second son having died in infancy.
Orlendo Wales Dimick died at his home in Watertown, Mass., May 27, 1919. He had been in ill health for a year or more, and underwent a serious surgical operation a few days before his death.
He was born in Braintree, Mass., September 3, 1839, his parents being Daniel Baker and Diadema (Wales) Dimick. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
At the end of his freshman year he enlisted in the 11th New Hampshire Volunteers, and was commissioned first lieutenant of Company H, September 4, 1862. He was captured in front of Petersburg, Va., in June, 1864, and while a prisoner was commissioned captain of Company F, July 22, 1864. He escaped from prison November 4, was recaptured the 6th, again escaped the 7th, and reached the Union lines at Knoxville, Tenn., December S. After a leave of absence he rejoined his regiment, then in front of Petersburg, March 6, 1865, and was mustered out June 4, 1865. In 1891 he was voted his degree and enrolled with his class.
In 1866-8 he taught in colored schools in Georgia, the first year at Macon and the second at Savannah. In 1868-9 he taught at Newton, Mass., and in East Boston from 1869 to 1881. In the last year he became master of the Wells School in Boston, and remained there for twenty-nine years, retiring in 1910. He served with distinguished ability, and to the great satisfaction of all interested in the school.
He was throughout his life a devoted and influential member of the Congregational church, and was actively connected with the G. A. R., and the Loyal Legion. It was very fitting that his burial in Mount Auburn "should have been on Memorial Day.
Mr. Dimick was married in Lyme, N. H., February 16, 1865, to Mary Churchill, who died May 20, 1870. He was a second time married in East Boston, July 14, 1875, to Lizzie M„ daughter of Daniel A. and Martha A. Gregory, who survives him, with one daughter, Esther.
