CLASS OF 1885

Dr. Almon H. Keach died at St. Francis' Hospital, Hartford, Conn., July 3, 1921, from hardening of the arteries at the heart.

The son of Oren Hull and Matilda (Briggs) Keach, he was born at Parishville, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., June 4, 1849. In his boy- hood the family removed to Brushton, Franklin County. He attended Lawrenceville Academy, and in 1871 graduated from Ogdensburg Business College. He was in the grocery business at Cook's Corner, N.Y., about four years, and was then in business in Oregon, California, and Texas.

July 9, 1876, he was married to Amelia Sophia, daughter of Hubbard Glidden and Lucy (Holmes) Kelsey of Bangor, N. Y. She died in Newport, Tex., May 19, 1882, leaving two children, the elder of whom, Lulu Amelia, is now Mrs. Charles L. Finch of Potsdam, N. Y. The other child, a boy, died soon after his mother, and the father returned North with his daughter.

He then began the study of medicine at the University of Vermont, completing it at Dartmouth. After graduation he went to North Dakota, where he practiced his profession, kept a drug store, and taught in an Indian boarding school. His health failing, he returned East and remained until 1893. He then went to Nebraska, took up land, and taught school. Much of his time was spent in travel, although he had been a cripple since childhood, and was compelled to go on crutches. He had been in every state of the Union and over a large part of Canada. A second wife was Mary McBride of Canada, who died in 1914.

In March, 1917, he came to his daughter's home in Potsdam, N. Y., in failing health. In the summer of 1920 the wanderlust again seized him, and he went to Hartford, Conn., where in broken health he was looked after by the Travelers' Aid Society. For many years his whereabouts have been unknown to the College authorities, and he was identified shortly before his deafh by a Dartmouth man in Hartford.

Captain Andrew Reginald Wentworth, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, died of apoplexy at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., April 13, 1921.

The son of Andrew Pepperell and Sarah (Jones) Wentworth, he was born in Kittery, Me., October 19, 1859. He attended the grammar and high schools'of Kittery, and later the New Hampton (N. H.) Institution.

He studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Mark F. Wentworth, and at the medical schools of Bowdoin and Dartmouth, obtaining his medical degree in November, 1884. April 22, 1885, he entered the Medical Corps of the U. S. Navy as an assistant surgeon, and three years later was promoted to the grade of passed assistant surgeon. In due time he was promoted successively to the grades of surgeon, medical inspector, and medical director, reaching the last grade December 29, 1912. While serving in this grade with the rank of captain, he suffered a stroke of apoplexy about March 31, 1918. At this time he was in command of the U. S. Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Wash. He was retired from active service February 7, 1919, by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, and retired to the home of his boyhood days, Kittery, Me.

During Captain Wentworth's naval career of nearly thirty years he served on many warships and was on duty at numerous shore stations. Among the latter were New York city, Norfolk, Va., Bremerton, Wash., Mare Island, Cal., Annapolis, Md., and Portsmouth, N. H. He was medical officer of the U. S. S. Atlanta when it made a cruise around the world with the famous White Squadron. At the time of the Spanish-American war he was surgeon on the U. S. S. Marblehead, on which ship he saw active service. He was also medical officer of the U. S. S. Louisiana during the world cruise of the Atlantic Fleet in President Roosevelt's administration.

November 27, 1884, Dr. Wentworth was married to Adelaide E., daughter of John A. and Anstice (Wortman) Birdsall of Brooklyn, N. Y., who survives him, with the younger of their two daughters.

Captain Wentworth was well liked by all, a skilled physician and full of sympathy for the physically distressed. He was a credit to the Medical Corps of the U. S. Navy, and an honor to the country in whose service his professional life was spent.