Deaths

(This is a listing of deaths of which word hasbeen received since the last issue. Full notices,which are usually written by the class secretaries,may appear in this issue or a later one.)

CLASS OF 1861

Rev. Henry Pitt Page died suddenly of appoplexy at his home in East Hartford, Conn., February 11.

He was born in Gilmanton, N. H„ February 12, 1839, being the son of Dr. John Cummings and Mary Ann (Eastman) Page. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School in 1826, was for many years a practicing physician and for twelve years a Congregational minister. He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.

Soon after graduation he became a city missionary under direction of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. C. This position he gave up to enter the army, enlisting as a private in Company K, 14th New Hampshire Volunteers, August 22, 1862. He was later promoted to sergeant, and May 27, 1864, was commissioned second lieutenant of Company I. In 1864 he was sent on special duty to Davenport, lowa, where he remained till the spring of 1865, when, on May 15, he was discharged from the service for disability.

In the fall of 1865 he entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1868. September 10, 1868, he was ordained at his home church in Center Harbor, N. H., as a foreign missionary, and served under the American Board in European Turkey for eight years. The Turco-Russian war interrupted missionary labor, and he returned to this country. By the fortunes of that .war he lost all his household furniture and a valuable library.

In 1877-9 he was pastor of the Congregational church at Harvard, Neb., and was then for some time in business at Nebraska City, Neb. He then had two pastorates in Kansas, at Westmoreland, 1883-5, and at Gaylord, 1886-9. He then returned to New Hampshire, and was pastor at Canterbury, 1889-91, and at Newington, 1892-4. After living some years in Nebraska, he was engaged in home missionary work among the Highlanders in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee in 1903-4, and then was engaged in business at Tampa, Fla., to 1908. After a final pastorate at Cortez, Fla., he made his home at East Hartford, Conn., to be near his only surviving son.

In September, 1868, Mr. Page was married to Mary A., daughter of David L. Hodgkins, who died November 24, 1919. Four children were born to them, three sons and a daughter, of whom only the second, a son, Harry E. Page of East Hartford, survives his parents.

CLASS OF 1871

John Francis Stark died March 4 at Memorial Hospital, Nashua, N. H., of heart disease following an attack of influenza.

He was born in Nashua, April 14, 1851, be ing the son of General George and Mary Grace (Bowers) Stark, and a descendant of General John Stark of Revolutionary fame. He fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Nashua High School. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

After graduation he engaged in civil engineering, and took part in railway survey and construction work in the West and in New England until 1880. He then returned to Nashua and joined his father in banking, in which he was successfully engaged for the remainder of his life. He was also interested in the Boston and Lowell Railroad, of which his father was president, and was president of the Pennichuck Water Works and treasurer of the New Hampshire Improvement Company. He had large real estate interests, and was perhaps the largest real estate owner in Nashua and one of the wealthiest men of the city.

During the war, Mr. Stark was president of the Nashua chapter of the Red Cross, and devoted much time and money to war activities For more than forty years he was a member of the prudential committee of the Unitarian society. He was actively interested in the Fortnightly Club.

November 6, 1873, he was married to Eva L. Barr of Nashua, who died July 9, 1875. They had one son, Frank, who survives them. In 1877 he was married to the sister of his first wife, Carrie E. Barr, who is still living.

CLASS OF 1890

Richard Knickerbocker Tyler died February 17 at his home in Washington, D. C., from a tumor in the stomach, with which he had been afflicted for over a year.

He was born in Washington November 21, 1868, his parents being Richard Woolsey and Eleanor (Leavy) Tyler. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the Rittenhouse Academy in Washington. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)

After leaving college he returned to his home in Washington, and spent the rest of his life in that city, entering the real estate and insurance office of Tyler and Rutherford, and eventually becoming its president, a position he occupied at the time of his death. He also took up the study of the law, and was graduated from the Columbian Law School and admitted to the bar in the spring of 1895. He never, however, engaged in the active practice of his profession.

April 4, 1908, he married in Washington Louise McCulloch Rollins, daughter of Edward Ashton Rollins of the class of 1851, the donor of Rollins Chapel.

From the time we entered th'e war, he performed a considerable amount of patriotic service, most of it of a confidential nature for the various governmental departments, in a quiet way and without desire for recognition.

His funeral was held on February 20. Among his pallbearers was his college classmate, Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire. The United States flag was placed on his casket by the Loyal Legion, of which, through descent, he was a member. His body was interred in the Rock Creek Cemetery. He left surviving him his widow, his mother, and his two sisters.

His will contains provisions by which threequarters of his entire residuary estate will pass to Dartmouth College upon the death of his widow, without restrictions as to the use to which the income of the same shall be put.

In discussing his will shortly before his death, he said to one of his intimate friends that he had made this provision because Dartmouth had been like a tie of blood to him, and that he wished to help in making it possible for other men to have the privilege of the same relationship, a relationship that had meant so much to him both as an undergraduate and as an alumnus.

CLASS OF 1907

Morrill Allen Gallagher died suddenly from heart failure early February 24, at a hotel in Portland, Maine, where he made his home.

Morrill Gallagher, affectionately known as "Gig", spent the week-end of February 22 in Boston with his mother, who is at the Hotel Vendome. He left Boston to return to Portland late Monday afternoon, February 23, and at the time appeared to be in his usual good health. He had been in the ship chandlery business since his return from war service.

He was born in South Boston, June 7, 1883, his parents being Charles Theodore and Nellie W. (Allen) Gallagher. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1906, and was most closely identified with this class, though graduating with the class of 1907. After graduation he attended Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1911. Upon leaving the law school he entered the legal profession, and had offices with his father in Boston.

He received his lieutenant's commission at the second Plattsburg camp, and sailed for France with the 304th Infantry in July, 1918. While in France he was promoted to the rank of captain. Upon his return he was assigned to Camp Dix and to Camp Merritt. At the time of his sailing for France he was president of the Dartmouth Club, and was also a member of several other clubs and, societies.

He is survived by his mother and two sisters, Mrs. Riva Morrison of Cambridge, and Miss Emily Gallagher, a junior at Vassar. He was unmarried.

The funeral was held February 26 at the chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery. The officiating minister was Rev. Miles Hanson of the First Church in Roxbury, and the instrumental music was played by Dr. Archibald T. Davison of Harvard University.

Acting as pallbearers were Philip B. Paul '06, Nathan Hall and George B. McNamara, both of whom went overseas with Gallagher, Samuel Hale '07, Ralph E. Crowley '08, Joseph T. Smith '06, Walter Powers '06, and William W. Gallagher of Braintree, a cousin.

The class of 1906 and Dartmouth College have suffered a tremendous loss in the death of "Gig" Gallagher. No man more loyal to his class and to the college could be found anywhere. He was always willing to serve his Alma Mater, and often returned to Hanover for college functions. The success of the tenth reunion of the class of 1906 was due in large measure to the work of the executive committee, which consisted of Ike Paul, Walter Powers, and Gig Gallagher. These men met every week in Boston, making plans for the successful reunion. Gig's last visit in Hanover was at the Sesqui-centennial, when, although his father had but recently died, he came back for Dartmouth Night to serve as alumni marshal.

CLASS OF 1909

Ralph Lauris Theller died March 15 at the Union Hospital, New Bedford, Mass., of cerebro-spinal meningitis. He was taken to the hospital the day before suffering from an abscess of the ear following an attack of influenza a few weeks earlier.

The son of Carl Rudolph and Hanna (Hansen) Theller, he was born in Horten, Norway, August 10, 1884, and came to America with his parents in September, 1890. He graduated from Cambridge (Mass.) English High School in 1901. He then studied law at the Y. M. C. A. Evening Law School of Boston, graduating as LL.B. with the class of 1905. The following autumn he entered Dartmouth, and remained through the course, being a member of Casque and Gauntlet senior society.

After graduation he became teacher of English in the Hotchkiss School, at Lakeville, Conn., and remained there four years. During this time he took a short law course at Columbia University and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. For one year, 1913-14, he was Evans assistant professor of oratory at Dartmouth.

In January, 1915, he began the practice of law in New Bedford, where he had since remained. He was attorney for the labor forces of the city, and appeared in their behalf the week before his death. He was formerly a member of the American Economic Association, and for the last eight years had been a member of the American Political Science Association. In 1917 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts. He was a member of the New Bedford Bar Association and the Country Club. He had not married.

CLASS OF 1912

The death of Claude Moulton Goodrich, which occurred November 30, 1918, at the Franklin County Hospital, Greenfield, Mass., of pneumonia, following an attack of influenza, has never been noted in the MAGAZINE.

He was the son of Henry F. and Julia (Moulton) Goodrich, and was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 6, 1889, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. In 1907 he entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and remained there two years, entering the sophomore class at Dartmouth in the fall of 1909. During his senior, year he took the Thayer School course.

After graduation he entered the employ of E. and T. Fairbanks Company of St. Johnsbury, manufacturers of the Fairbanks scales, as draftsman and designer. In January, 1914, he was transferred to Fairbanks, Morse and Company, at St. Paul, Minn., as salesman, and remained with them for the rest of his life. He was especially interested in scale design, and had received two patents for improvements in the dial weighing machine, which are said to have given great promise, as being original and practical.

December 28, 1915, he was married to Jean, daughter of Charles A. and Elizabeth (Johnston) Stanley of St. Johnsbury. A daughter, Jean Elizabeth, was born to. them in St. Paul, December 4, 1916, and another daughter, Claudia, was born after Claude's death, February 10, 1919. Mrs. Goodrich and the children are now living in St. Johnsbury.

Claude Goodrich will always be remembered by his classmates for his remarkable musical ability, and especially for his never-failing willingness to contribute to the pleasure of others with his music. To his more intimate friends, however, he will be remembered even more as a dependable source of sound advice and judgment, or of a peculiar and appealing humor, as the occasion might require.