CLASS OF 1875

Walter Holbrook Downs died at his home in South Berwick, Me., June 18, 1920.

He was born in South Berwick, March 26, 1853, the son of Frederick G. and Ruth Tebbetts (Roberts) Downs, and fitted at Berwick Academy. He was.a member of Theta Delta Chi. At the end of freshman year he left Dartmouth and went to Wesleyan University, where he graduated in 1875.

He studied law at Columbia Law School graduating in 1877, and then practiced in New York city for two years. In 1879 he returned to his native town, and continued in practice there through life. He was commissioned trial justice in 1887, and was postmaster from 1888 to 1896, and again from 1900 till his death.

He was married October 20, 1904, to Isabella Hurd of North Berwick, who survives him. They had no children.