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 1862

William Henry Furniss, a member of this class for one year in the Chandler Scientinc Department, committed suicide by shooting in the office of a son, Dr. H. W. Furniss, in Hartford, Conn., November 27, 1920.

Mr. Furniss, who was of the Negro race, came to college from Williamsburg, N. Y. He was seventy-eight years old at the time of his death. His history for some year:; after leaving college has not been ascertained. In the days of reconstruction he served for a time as assistant secretary of state of Mississippi, and later taught in Alcorn College, Mississippi, and Lincoln Institute, Missouri, and in the public schools of Indianapolis, Ind. .In 1882 he was appointed to a clerkship in the Indianapolis postoffice, and served until he was retired on a pension in July, 1920. He had been suffering from acute melancholia for some time before his death.

One son is mentioned above. Another is Dr. Sumner A. Furniss of Indianapolis.

CLASS OF 1863

William Pittson Goodelle of Syracuse N. ., died June 13, 1918.

The son of Aaron B. and Eleanor A. (Prevost) Goodelle, he was born in Tully, N. Y., May 25, 1838, and fitted for college at Cazenovia Seminary, entering the sophomore class at Dartmouth in March, 1861. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

In the fall and winter following graduation he was principal of Moravia (N. Y.) Academy, and then studied law for a year in Syracuse. In 1865-7 he was principal of Onondaga Valley Academy, and then resumed his law studies, being admitted to the bar in 1868. He began practice at once in Syracuse, and won eminent success at the bar. At his death he was senior member of the firm of Goodelle, Nottingham Brothers, and Andrews.

He was district attorney of Onondaga county from 1871 to 1874. In 1873 he became general criminal attorney and counsel of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, and retained that position for many years. In 1894 he was delegate at large to the state constitutional convention, and was chairman of the committee on suffrage and second member of the committee on legal powers in that body. In 1894 he was appointed by the Court of Appeals a member of the state board of law examiners, and was afterwards president of the board. For thirteen years he was president of the Onondaga County Bar Association.

September 8, 1869, Mr. Goodelle was married to Marion H. Averill of Fairmount, N. Y., who survives him, with one daughter.

CLASS or 1867

Charles Montgomery Reed died at his home in Boston, December 4, 1920, of cancer of the liver, after a short illness.

He was born in Brookline, Mass., March 11, 1846, his parents being Charles and Sophia Wilkins (Clark) Reed, and fitted at Bridgewater (Mass.) Academy. He entered Dartmouth in January, 1866, from Norwich University, and became a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

For the first year after graduation he lived on a farm in Bridgewater, Mass., and then studied law in the office of a Bridgewater firm. In September, 1870, he entered the office of Benjamin R. Curtis in Boston, studied there a year, then practiced a year on his own account in the same office, and in January, 1873, went into partnership with Walter Curtis, a union which was severed by the latter's death, when Mr. Reed continued in practice alone. For several years past he had done considerable editorial work, including the preparation of a revised edition of Parsons' "Laws of Business", which came out last summer.

July 3, 1878, he was married to Maria A. Carlisle of Boston, who survives him, with four children and five grandchildren.

Colonel Daniel Crosby Pearson died August 25, 1920, at the Charlesgate Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., after an unsuccessful operation for cancer.

He was born in Cambridge, the son of John and Charlotte (Oakes) Pearson. His early life was spent in Lowell, Mass., where he prepared for college. He left Dartmouth at the end of sophomore year and entered West Point, where he graduated in 1870. When in Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation at West Point he was assigned to the Second United States Cavalry, in which and the Seventh Cavalry he served nearly forty years. Most of this time he spent in the western and extreme southern frontiers, and later in Cuba and the Philippines. His health being impaired by tropical service, he asked to be placed on the retired list. During this latter period it was his habit to spend his winters in Washington or Boston, and his summers on his farm in New Hampshire.

Colonel Pearson was a fluent talker and a great reader, and he took much pleasure in argument. He was also quite a philosopher, and held decided opinions on religion, politics, and economy. One found him regularly at church on Sundays and a constant attendant upon lectures, wherever he might be. His was a facile pen, and, as he was a constant student of good English and original in thought, he was a rare correspondent.

He was one of the kindliest of men. This characteristic was conspicuously shown in his love of children and his regard for the welfare of the men under his command. He had a great love for horses, and his ideas regarding their treatment were notably humane. He was thoroughly clean-minded, courtly in appearance and manner, and his unique personality will be long and affectionately remembered by a host of friends. His widow, Anna E. Pearson, survives him.

CLASS OF 1870

Sanford Henry Steele died December 19, 1920, at Pinehurst, N. C., of pneumonia, after a few days' illness.

The son of Sanford and Mary (Hinman) Steele, he was born in Stanstead, Que., November 26, 1847. Benjamin H. Steele '57 was a brother. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

For a year after graduation he was in Washington, D.C., as, clerk of a congressional committee, also studying law at Columbian Law School, where he graduated as LL. B. in 1871. He then read law for a year with his brother, B. H. Steele, at Hartland, Vt. In the spring of 1872 he was admitted to the bar in New York city, and for the next year was clerk in a New York office. In 1873 he opened an office, and practiced alone for ten years. From 1883 to 1889 he was a member of the firm of Briessen, Steele, and Krauth, and later of Steele and Otis.

After 1899 his professional work was mainly limited to services for the General Chemical Company, a corporation which he was instrumental in forming. He served that company as general counsel, chairman of executive committee, vice-president, and president, retiring from the last office in 1916, but remaining as director and general counsel. He was also a trustee of the Title Guarantee Trust Company, and a director and general counsel of the Phoenix National Bank.

Since 1918 Mr. Steele had been a trustee of Dartmouth College, and of his service in that capacity and his munificent gift to the College in his will mention is elsewhere made.

He had made his home in Brooklyn for many years, having also a summer home at Southbury, Conn., and of late passing the winters at Pinehurst. He held exceptionally high standards of business and professional conduct, and was a man of rare personal charm.

June 21, 1876, Mr. Steele was married to Carrie L. Hinman of Brooklyn, who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Dudley D. Roberts. A son died in childhood. A surviving sister is the wife of ex-Governor Samuel E. Pingree of Vermont, of the class of '57.

CLASS OF 1892

Joseph Merrill Norton died at his home, 16 Ellsworth St., Cambridge, Mass., December 25, 1920, of hardening of the arteries. He had put up a brave fight against the disease, and was at his place in school almost to the last.

He was born at Middletown Springs, Vt., January 29, 1864, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In 1900 he received the degree of A. M. from Harvard.

After graduation he taught first at Springfield, N. Y., then at the Friends' School in Providence, R. I., and since 1899 had been teacher of history and mathematics in the Rindge Technical School, Cambridge. He married in 1901 Edith Callender, who survives him.

Norton's life was one of devoted service to the school in which he taught, and to the Prospect Congregational church, of which he was a deacon. He was naturally modest and retiring, but to those who came to him he proved a wise counselor and a true friend. His loss will be deeply felt in the school and church, and by his class.

CLASS OF 1899

Peter Henry Lane, M. D.; April 19, 1875; July 7, 1920.

Peter Henry Lane was educated in the public schools of his native city, Boston, graduating from the Boys' Public Latin SchoolHe began his Dartmouth College course with the class of '97, but graduated, Litt. 8., with '99. Four years next at the Harvard Medical School were followed by graduation from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in 1904.

In 1903 he had founded the Kenwood Sanitarium at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, which he later enlarged, and where he became distinguished for his successful treatment of mental and nervous diseases. In this work he was ably assisted by his wife (Anne G. Sheiman of Lexington, Ky., whom he married in 1905), who was herself highly trained in the medical profession, and who since her husband's death is continuing the enterprise. Yet in spite of the unstinted time and effort given to this work, Pete was in 1907 interne at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital; was instructor first, and later lecturer, in physical diagnosis and 'symptomatology at the Medico-Chirurgical College; had held the cha"ir of neurology at St. Mary's Hospital for years; and constantly carried on considerable outside practice and consultation work in his own specialty. Incidentally he was a member of the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity, of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and of the Philadelphia Neurological and Psychiatric Society.

But this professional zeal and success never made Pete Lane a narrow man. He was broad-minded, whole-souled. His birthday fell exactly a century from the Battle of Lexington. Whether this had anything to do with his deep spirit in patriotism we may not know, but sure it is that he was patriotic to the core. In May, 1898, he was one of the nineteen Dartmouth students who enlisted for the Spanish war in Company E, New Hampshire National Guard, presently becoming a member of Company E, First New Hampshire Volunteers, Col. R. H. Rolfe '84 in command. Twenty years later, .in the World War, he again offered his services to his country, but to his great disappointment he was rejected because of physical unfitness due to a severe illness and operation in 1917.

His loyalty to Alma Mater was equally strong, and time and time again classmates and friends would come upon him at the great football games ,in Princeton, Philadelphia, New York, or even Boston. As Mrs. Lane says of him, "Of all his schools and colleges Pete loved Dartmouth best."

Yet his true manhood showed most m his personal loyalties. Classmates who visited him during college days at his home in Nahant, Mass., spoke of the loving consideration of his treatment of his mother and sisters. Though his own married life was blessed with no children, the mutual devotion of his wife and himself was an inspiration to all who visited his home. They helped each other to realize their highest possibilities both for themselves and for others. And with his friends his unselfishness knew no bounds. Time, money, counsel, and companionship were theirs to the utmost.

There was a fine naturalness about Pete that showed the splendid balance of the man. From his boyhood when in Nahant he played pranks on his man-chum, Tom Roland, the noted flower-grower, to the days when as a skilled botanist he made trips to Barnegat, the West Indies, and other places with congenial spirits of the Florists' Club of I Philadelphia, he loved to be in the great out-doors. He had his own farm at Gwynedd, Pa., with seven acres or more under cultivation, and fruit, poultry, pigs, and sheep in abundance. A favorite recreation near at hand was golfing on the grounds of the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, while each fall found him going to the deep woods of Maine or Canada for pheasant and deer, and each winter saw him fishing on the west coast of Florida. "Moosehead Pete" was the genial title by which his close friends of these later 'years knew him.

Earnest, simple, genuine, retiring, yet with a fund of wit and pleasantry on occasion; loyal, human, four-square, — a twentieth century gentleman, a servant of mankind. We shall miss him.

CLASS OF 1901

Theodore Mason Josselyn, a member of this class for about two years, died of pneumonia December 26, 1920, at the home of his father, L. H. Josselyn, in Newton, Mass., at the age of forty-two years.

"Ted" Josselyn, as he was known to all his friends, was born in Manchester, N. H., and obtained his education in the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1897. For a number of years after leaving college, he was located in Manchester, being interested in the furniture business with his father. Some four years ago he became manager of the Osgood Furniture Company of Boston, in which his father was heavily interested. For the past year or so he had been manager of the Josselyn Furniture Company at 2147 Washington St., Boston.

Mr. Josselyn was a member of the Calumet Club of Manchester, of the Elks, and of the Masonic fraternity. While in college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. Although of a quiet and reserved demeanor, he was very well known and generally liked.

He is survived by his father, two sisters, Mrs. Charles N. Young and Mrs. Frank Lamson, and a brother, Howard.

The funeral services were held at the Ursula Chapel at Pine Grove cemetery, Manchester, N. H., on December 28, and the interment was in the family lot.

CLASS OF 1903

Dr. Willis Parker Craig was accidentally killed near his home in Walpole, N. H., December 28, by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of his stepson, twelve years old.

He was born in Lempster, N. H., September 9, 1876, the son of Rockwell Franklin and Elizabeth (Buswell) Craig. The first two years of his college preparation were obtained at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., and the last two at Vermont Academy, Saxton's River, Vt. He entered college with the class of 1902, and was with that class the greater part of the course. He was prominent in athletics—football, baseball, and basketball. All his life he was a great lover of the out-ofdoors, and in his undergraduate days there was probably no more ardent hunter in the whole college. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

After graduation he remained for three years in Hanover in the study of medicine, and obtained his medical degree in 1906. After six months' hospital experience in Boston he settled in Walpole, where he continued in prac- tice until his death. When the United States entered the war, he became a member of the Medical Corps with the rank of captain, and was stationed at Penniman, Va., where he established a regimental hospital, during the: influenza epidemic. He received his discharge after the armistice, then being stationed at Fort Hancock, N. J.

During his years of, practice at Walpole ht endeared himself in every way to the com- munity. He was a skillful diagnostician, de- voted and tireless in his care of the sick and unfortunate, generously giving his services wherever they were needed, unselfish and un- sparing of himself. For some years he had been interested in the automobile business, and the same genial qualities for which he was known in college contributed to making him a particularly successful salesman. He was a 32d degree Mason, and a mcnvier of the American Legion.

January 30, 1915, Dr. Craig was married to Mrs. Reba Thompson of Portland, Me., daughter of Tobias Lord Eastman of Frye- burg, Me., and adopted daughter of Tobias and Emma E. Lord of Portland, who sur- vives him, with their two children, William Parker and Dorothy Lord, and a stepson, Mar- iner Thompson. His mother and a sister also survive him.

CLASS OF 1916

Walter Raymond York died of tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, N. Y., January 6, 1921.

He was born in Somerville, Mass., January 13, 1894, where his, father, James M. York, now lives. He fitted at Somerville High School. In February, 1916, he left college to enlist in the French Ambulance Corps, and was attached to the Twenty-first Division of the French Army in the Norton-Harjes Corps. He drove an (ambulance for three months on the Verdun front during the big German drive, and for three months was on duty in the Champagne district. Returning to the United States he enlisted in the American Flying Corps on May 1, 1917, and was for a time in a training camp. .Obtaining his discharge, he went to France, and June 18, 1917, he enlisted in the Lafayette Escadrille, which was attached to the First Regiment of the Foreign Legion, and was near the front at all times. On November 19, 1918, whjen the French army entered Metz, Lieutenant York was chosen by General Petain to fly over the reconquered territory. During his flying career he made a thousand flights. He had a record of one hundred flights totaling 122 hours within the German lines, and was decorated for bringing down an enemy machine. He was made corporal December 2, 1917, sergeant, January 15, 1918, and lieutenant, October 11, 1918. In January, 1919, he returned to the United States.

In April, 1919, he was married to Helen Ireland of Somerville, who survives him. He went into lumber business at Lincoln, N. H., but had been under treatment in the Adirondacks since last September.