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 1855
John Russell Kimball died of old age at St. Johnland, a sanitarium at Kings Park, Long Island, July 9, 1921. He had been a patient there since April ,14, 1920.
The son of Edmund and Lydia (Mugford) Kimball, he was born in Marblehead, Mass., July 7, 1831, and fitted at Atkinson (N. H.) Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
He studied law in Boston and in Dubuque, lowa, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and was in practice in Boston until 1871, having his home in Auburndale. Not being pecuniarily successful, he left his family in 1871, going to New York city, and never wards joined them. He followed various pursuits during his subsequent life, among them being journalism, in which he was engaged in St. Paul and Omaha, and finally came back to New, York, which had been his home for some time previous to his entering the sanitarium.
October 23, 1856, he was married to Mary Kimball, daughter of Jacob Hooper of Manchester, Mass. They had two sons and two daughters, the older son dying in infancy.
CLASS OF 1859
The following resolutions were adopted by the Dartmouth Club of Holyoke, Mass., upon the death of Mr.. James H. Newton of this class, an account of whose career was given in the last issue of the MAGAZINE :
Whereas it has pleased Almighty God in His infinite wisdom to call unto Him our honored and well-beloved alumnus, James H. Newton, of the class of '59,. be it
Resolved, that we, the Dartmouth Club of Holyoke, realize the loss sustained by the College and the community in which Mr. Newton lived, and desire to express this loss in a just and proper manner, and be it hereby
Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be sent to the widow, Mrs. James H. Newton, and immediate family, and be it further
Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be published in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
CLASS OF 1870
Ira Anson Abbott died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Haverhill, Mass., October 18, 1921.
The son of Daniel and Deborah (DeWolfe) Abbott, he was born in Barnard, Vt., July 20, 1845, the family early removing to the adjoining town of Pomfret.
August 30, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, Ninth Vermont Volunteers, and served with that regiment until its discharge, June 13, 1865, mainly about Richmond.
He was present with his college class during the entire course, being a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
The first year after graduation he taught in Phillips Academy, Andover, and then studied law in Haverhill, Mass., being admitted to the bar in 1872. He remained in practice there until 1875, being city solicitor in 1872 and 1873. In 1875 he removed to Maiden, having his office in Boston, but returned to Haverhill in 1877. In 1878 he was appointed a special justice of the police court of that city, and held this position until his appointment in 1898 as judge of the Central District Court of Northern Essex. This position he left in 1905 to accept an appointment by President Roosevelt as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the territory of New Mexico. He was re-appointed by President Taft, and retired on the admission of New Mexico as a state in 1912, having won high honor in his administration of the office. He then returned to Haverhill, but did not resume practice.
Judge Abbott had traveled repeatedly and extensively both in this country and abroad. He had been president of the Haverhill Bar Association, the Haverhill Historical Society, and the Haverhill Whittier Club. Some years ago he presented the town of Pomfret, the home of his boyhood, with a public library. Among other public bequests in his will is one of $5000 to Dartmouth, the income to be used for bettering the pay of members of the faculty.
April 30, 1879, he was married to Emma Nichols of Haverhill, who died September 9, 1884. They had two children: a daughter, Constance, who lives in San Francisco, and a son, who died in infancy.
CLASS OF 1876
Rev. Clarence Spalding Sargent died at the home of his daughter in Little Rock, Ark., September 28, 1921, after a considerable period of ill health.
He was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 29, 1855, his parents being Rev. Roger Moses (Dartmouth 1846) and Elizabeth G. (Spalding) Sargent. The father had a succession of pastorates in New England and the Middle West, and the son fitted for college privately, mostly at Princeton, Mass., and Woodburn, Ill. The first three years of his college course were taken at Shurtleff College, Illinois, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of senior year. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
After graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, and took the three years' course, graduating in 1879. For the next two years he was pastor of the Congregational church at Brewer Village, Me., and then from 1881 to 1887 at New Haven, Vt., from 1887 to 1894 at Adams, Mass., from 1894 to 1899 of Central church, St. Louis, Mo., from 1899 to 1902 of St. Mary's Avenue church, Omaha, Neb., and then to 1909 of Plymouth church, Wichita, Kans. In all these fields of labor he was highly successful, and was active in many forms of work outside of his immediate parish, in denominational and other religious enterprises. In 1894 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Whitman College.
The close of his pastorate at Wichita was followed by a change in his church relations, as he now entered the Protestant Episcopal church, and was in due time ordained to the ministry of that church. In 1909 he was given charge of Grace church, Hutchinson, Kans., where he remained until 1914. He then became rector of Trinity church, Marshall, Tex., and retired from this position some three months before his death on account of failing health. In his new church relations he showed the same energy and constructive ability as in his former work, was highly regarded by those associated with him, and held the position of dean of the Northeast Texas Convocation.
Dr. Sargent was a member of the Masonic order, being a Shriner and a Knight Templar; he had also been chaplain of the Elks' lodge at Wichita. He had been a delegate to various national meetings of the denominations with which he was connected.
January 18, 1882, he was married to Mary Prescott Zelie of Bangor, Me., who survives him, having been an invalid for many years. They had two daughters and three sons. The older, daughter died as a result of over-exertion in Red Cross work abroad, and the other children survive.
CLASS OF 1886
John Prentice Tucker died at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, September 10, 1921, of hardening of the arteries. The final illness was brief, though he had been in poor health for some time.
The son of Josiah Prentice and Hannah Ralston (Whipper) Tucker, he was born in Concord, N. H., July 17, 1864. His parents removed to Boston, and he fitted for college in ROxbury Latin School.
The first year after graduation he studied law in his father's office, and was in Boston University Law School in the fall of 1887. From December, 1887, to February, 1889, he was on the staff of the Boston Advertiser. He then engaged in the wholesale coal business in Boston, and was for a long time so occupied. He then returned to journalism, and for some time conducted the "Seen and Heard" column of the Boston Record, and frequently prepared special articles for the Sunday Herald. For some years he has been "The Whirling Hub" editor for the Boston Traveler. On the day of his death at the top of his special column in the Traveler was the following notice: "It is with keen sorrow that The Traveler announces the passing of John P. Tucker, whose writings over the signature of 'J. P. T.' have for several years been familiar to readers of this column. Mr. Tucker was pre-eminently a man who loved people. He saw and appreciated the homely traits and incidents that reveal fine points of human character. He delighted in saying the appreciative word that made some one happier. His loss will be felt by the many who knew him personally and by the wider circle of his readers."
October 22, 1889, Mr. Tucker was married to Annie H. Fitts of Haverhill, Mass. They had two daughters, one of whom, Emily, is now living. Mr. Tucker made his home formerly in Winchester, but of late had been living at the Technology Chambers in Boston.
CLASS OF 1909
Franklin Hamilton Gilbert died suddenly in New Haven, Conn., August 25, 1921.
He was born in Plymouth, Mass., June 1, 1886, his parents being Walter L. and Josephine I. (Peckham) Gilbert. His college preparation was obtained at the Knapp school, Duxbury, Mass., at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Plymouth High School. He took his freshman year at Cornell, and then came to Dartmouth, remaining but one year.
After leaving college in 1907 he went to the Pacific Coast, and was there for the next four years. In the fall of 1911 he went to Chicago, engaging in the wholesale egg business. Three or four years later he came back East, and entered the employ of the New Haven railroad, and lived successively in New York, New London, and New Haven. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. Gilbert was never married, and a sister and an aunt are the nearest living relatives.
CLASS OF 1914
Richard Carlton Joslin died July 19, 1921, at Morgantown, W. Va., where he was teaching in a summer school. The cause of his death was nervous exhaustion from overwork.
Joslin entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year from Tufts College. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
The first year after graduation he spent at Harvard in graduate work in the Romance languages, winning his master's degree in 1915. He then became instructor in French and Spanish in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in 1919 was promoted to an assistant professorship, and in 1921 to a professorship. During the war, being unable to pass the physical test, he entered government employ in Pittsburgh, and taught French for a time at Camp Devens.
September 4, 1920, he was married to Margaret Nichols Ford of Chicago.
The funeral services were held at the home of his parents in Keene, N. H., the bearers being college classmates and associates from Worcester Tech.
An editorial in the Tech News pays this tribute to Professor Joslin: "Of pleasant personality, an earnest and enthusiastic teacher, of broad human interests, he had made for himself a distinct place in Institute life. He possessed to a marked degree the business instinct, and he applied business-like methods in his work. He was devoted to his teaching, but he was interested also in every phase of Institute activity. He served faithfully on the faculty committee on the certification of preparatory schools, and his pleasant personality and enthusiasm were assets in bringing the Institute before prospective students. He served as faculty representative on the Tech Council. He worked indefatigably for the success of the Tech Show. He was always ready, even eager, to assist in the social activities of faculty and students. And the individual student found him a wise and kindly counselor and a loyal friend."
Oliver Andrew Wylde died August 29, 1921, at the home of his parents, 979 Essex St., Lawrence, Mass.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wylde, he was born in Lawrence, August 24, 1891, and fitted at Lawrence High School. He was a member of Sigma Chi and of the Dragon senior society.
After graduation he entered the accounting department of the Southwestern Bell Telephone System in St. Louis, remaining there until June, 1918, when he entered military service. During the war he was stationed at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., returning after the armistice to his home in Lawrence. At the time of his death he was associated with the firm of Cherington & Company, public accountants, in Boston.
