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 1859
Isaac Wallingford Hobbs died at Pembroke, N. H., June 18, 1920, of hardening of the arteries.
He was born in Effingham, N. H., June 29, 1837, the son of Isaac and Susan (Roberts) Hobbs. He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter and Andover Academies, and was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
For two years after graduation he taught at Hampton Falls, N. H., meanwhile reading law. August 2, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, and at the organization of the company was chosen first lieutenant. The regiment saw service in South Carolina and Florida, and later around Petersburg and in the battle of Cold Harbor. December 1, 1863, he was promoted to be captain of Company A. He was severely wounded near Petersburg, July 18, 1864. In August, 1864, being the only captain on duty, he was placed in command of the regiment, and so remained until the regiment was mustered out at the expiration of its term of service, November 7, 1864. In January, 1865, he was commissioned captain of Company H, Eighth United States Veteran Volunteers, and was on duty for several months around Washington, being mustered out in April, 1866.
In January, 1866, he was appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department, and remained in Washington in that position until his resignation in 1875 on account of ill health. In August of that year he removed to Pembroke, and followed the calling of a farmer for the rest of his life. He was the last survivor of the 28 captains who served with the Fourth New Hampshire. He was of a studious mind, and during the last 10 years of his life he devoted much time to the study of the Spanish language, becoming able to speak it.
October 3, 186S, Captain Hobbs was married to Ellen R. Evans of Concord, N. H., who died April 24, 1892. They had four children, of whom three survive, a daughter and two sons.
CLASS OF 1860
Moses Ryland Chase died December 16, 1917, at his home in Haverhill, Mass.
The son of Aaron and Phebe (Gile) Chase, he was born in Haverhill, January 28, 1839, and fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
The first year after graduation he taught at Matagorda, Texas, and then, returning North, taught in succession at Amesbury, Mass., Railway, N. J., Westboro, Mass., Provincetown, Mass, Abington, Mass., Holbrook, Mass., and then for a year in Boston. In 1871-4 he was principal of the high school of Biddeford, Me., and then left teaching to engage in the sale of text-books. He was general agent for Brewer and Tileston from 1874 to 1876, and then became general agent for Taintor Brothers, Merrill and Company, a position which he held for many years, having his office in Boston and his home in Haverhill.
April 2, 1864, Mr. Chase was married to Love Swain, daughter of Martin Ellis of Sandwich, Mass. They had two sons.
George Byron Brooks died January 1, 1916, at his home in East Saginaw, Mich.
The son of Dr. Lyman (D.M.S. 1826) and Mary G. (Graham) Brooks, he was born in Acworth, N. H., July 16, 1835, and fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
He taught at Northfield, Vt., from the fall of 1860 to March, 1861, was then superintendent of schools at Gloucester, Mass., to July, 1862, and in a similar position for the next two years at Beloit, Wis. He then studied law in an office at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for two years from September, 1864, being also for some time at Albany Law School. In November, 1886, he began practice at East Saginaw, Mich., and so continued during his active life, being in partnership with his classmate, Charles H. Camp, until the latter's death in 1908. From 1872 to 1878 he was judge of the Recorder's Court of the city.
In October, 1868, Mr. Brooks was married to Abby D. Mansfield of Gloucester, Mass., who died in July, 1870, at the birth of a son.
CLASS OF 1865
Samuel Francis Murry, for a short time a member of this class', died at his home in Manchester, N. H., March 26, 1921, of apoplexy.
The son of Samuel Murry, he was born in Auburn, N. H., September 6, 1841. His mother having died in 1848, and his father in 1856, he was thrown on his own resources, and worked his way to college preparation at Phillips Andoyer Academy.
November 5, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Second United States Sharpshooters, and became sergeant November 26. He served with his regiment to the close of the war, taking part in the battles, among others, of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He was promoted to be second lieutenant February 25, 1863, to date from July 13, 1862; first lieutenant, August 3, 1863; captain, September 10, 1863; and brevet major, March 13, 1865.
He engaged in the drug business in Manchester in 1866, and so continued for eight years. November 26, 1874, he entered the service of the Boston & Maine Railroad as passenger conductor, and remained in that occupation until January, 1911, when he retired to live in Manchester. During his railroad work he lived at Concord, Mass., Lowell, Mass., and Wilton, N. H., as his "run" as conductor was changed, living the longest time at Wilton, from which he served a term as senator in the state legislature.
He married Irene M. Stevens, who died January 18, 1917. They had no children.
CLASS OF 1872
Everett Totman died at his home in Needham, Mass., April 18, 1921, after an illness of three days.
He was born in Fairfield, Maine, September 5, 1850, the son of Nahum and Susan F. (Bryant) Totman. He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Bowdoin in 1868, from which college he came to Dartmouth in March, 1871. He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
After graduation he went into the hardware business in his native town, but soon went to Duluth, Minn., where he was in business with a brother. Later he removed to Waltham, Mass., where he was in the hardware, stove, and furnace business until 1908. He had lived for some 10 years in Needham, where he had served as town accountant since the creation of the office in 1913. He was highly regarded in Needham, and was prominent in Masonic circles.
December 19, 1875, Mr. Totman was married to Ella V., daughter of James W. and Roena (Peabody) Brown of Skowhegan, Me., who died July 28, 1882. In 1905 he was married to Lillian F. Hatch of Concord, Mass., who survives him. There are no children.
CLASS OF 1877
Arthur Prescott French died at the Leonard Morse Hospital, Natick, Mass., March 3, 1921, of cancer of the liver, complicated with disease of the kidneys. He had been taken there five days before, from his home in Wellesley.
He was born in Richmond, N. H., March 5, 1854, the son of Dr. Samuel Prescott and Nancy H. M. (Barden) French. His father was a Dartmouth graduate of 1841. His early life was spent in Richmond and Winchester, N. H., and Warwick, Mass., and he prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Gilmanton (N. H.) Academy, New Salem, (Mass.) Academy, and Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
For the first few years after graduation he taught successively at Hinsdale, Hancock, Ashuelot, and Marlow, N. H., and in May, 1884, he began the practice of civil engineering at Keene, N. H. Thence he went to Rochester, N. Y., where he engaged in the same line of work. In 1890 a severe illness caused a long vacation from active work, but in 1893 he resumed his profession at Newton Lower Falls, Mass. In 1900 he removed to Wellesley, where he remained in practice until his death.
Mr. French never married. Reticent and otherwise peculiar in college, he retained the same traits through life. For many years his reports to his class were very few and brief, but in recent years the Secretary has been the recipient of longer letters expressing his interest in the class and the College. He was known and respected in Wellesley as a competent engineer and an honorable gentleman.
CLASS OF 1880
William Lemmex Pierce died in Englewood, N. J., in September, 1919, of hardening of the arteries, complicated with pneumonia.
He was born in Oakland, Cal., June 18, 1860, his parents being Jason Brown and Harriet E. (Lemmex) Pierce. His father was for two years a member of the Dartmouth class of 1843, and his grandfather, David Pierce, was of the class of 1811. He fitted for college at the high school of Windsor, Vt., where his home then was, and was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
He remained in Hanover the first year after graduation as principal of the high school He was then for two or three years principal of Sewickley Private Academy, at Sewickley, Pa., and meanwhile studied law. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Pittsburgh, Pa., specializing from the first in patent law. In 1902 he removed to Englewood, N. J., and practiced in New York city, keeping also an office in Pittsburgh. Some eight years before his death he retired from practice. He was much interested in Englewood Hospital, being successively vice-president and president of its board.
June 2, 1887, Mr. Pierce was married to Flora McKnight of Allegheny, Pa., who survives him, with a daughter and three sons. The daughter, a graduate of Vassar, is now a professor in that college. The sons were all educated at Princeton, and two of them served in the A. E. F. in the tank service.
Fred Elmer Cluff died of apoplexy in Haverhill, Mass., June 8, 1920.
The son of Daniel Brooks and Lucy Ann (Webster) Cluff, he was born in Haverhill, October 24, 1856. Daniel E. Cluff '76 was a brother. He prepared for college at Haverhill High School. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon.
For the first year after graduation he was principal of Candia (N. H.) High School, and then for a year was instructor in Fairfax Hall, Winchester, Va., and then for a time principal of Kingston (N. H.) Academy. He was much devoted to music when in college and during the years of general teaching, and he soon decided to give his whole time to the practice and teaching of this art. In 1887 he graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, making a specialty of organ and piano playing and harmony. From 1887 to 1890 he was professor of music in Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa.; in 1890-1 at Campbell University, Horton, Kansas; for some years from 1891 in Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J.; from 1903 to 1908 in Adrian College, Michigan; and later in St. Marks School, Southborough, Mass. In 1906 the degree of Doctor of Music was conferred on him by Adrian College.
Dr. Cluff was a man of upright character and of high standing in his profession. For several years before his death he had been in declining health. He never married.
CLASS OF 1883
Joseph Greeley Gardner died of hardening of the arteries at Kirksville, Mo., May 16, 1920.
The son of Christopher Columbus and Susan (Bartlett) Gardner, he was born at New London, N. H., March 11, 1860. He appears to have entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year from some other college.
For two years after graduation he was teacher of natural sciences in Burlington College, Burlington, lowa, meanwhile studying law. This study he continued during the year 1885-6 at the law school of the State University, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1886. For two years he practiced his profession in Omaha, Neb., and then was connected for a time with a loan and trust company in Kansas City, Mo., and then was in real estate business in Sioux Falls, lowa. In 1891 he went to Des Moines, lowa, and was at first auditor of the lowa Deposit and Loan Company, and later auditor for many years of the Royal Union Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was finally vice-president of the Union Fire Insurance Company, which position he resigned on account of failing health about two years before his death, going to live with a brother in Kirksville.
In 1894 Mr. Gardner was married to Callie K, Smith of Des Moines, who died in 1896.' In 1899 he was married to Matilda Given of Des Moines, who died March 30, 1919. There are no children.
CLASS OF 1892
Loren Eugene Pattridge died at Brightlook Hospital, St. Johnsbury, Vt., September 15, 1920.
He was born in Peacham, Vt., February 12, 1867, his parents being Francis Warren and Mary (Graham) Pattridge. He fitted at Peacham Academy, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
For two years following graduation he taught in Hinesburg, Vt. He then went to Buffalo, N. Y., studied law in the office of Norton Brothers, was admitted to the bar in July, 1896, and continued with Norton Brothers as their managing clerk to February, 1898. He then entered upon practice as a member of the firm of Pattridge and Whorf. Shortly after-wards his health became impaired, and he returned to his native town, settling down to outdoor work on the farm where he was born. Here he devoted his time mainly to farming, doing some law practice, and being active in community matters. He became especially interested in horticulture and the making of maple sugar, and for several years was secretary and director of a large co-operative creamery. He also took up surveying, and became expert in the running of old boundary lines. He held various town offices, and in 1914 was the unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive party for the legislature. Tuberculous conditions, which first became manifest during his residence in Buffalo,, developed in his right arm and shoulder, and he underwent two operations, from the second of which he did not rally.
August 30, 1894, he was married to Eugenia G. Degree of Hinesburg, Vt., who died July 31, 1897. A daughter born April 16 of that year died soon.
CLASS OF 1906
Joseph John White died of double pneumonia at the Boston City Hospital January 21, 1921.
He was born in East Weymouth, Mass., November 2, 1883, attended the public schools there, and was for nearly two .years a member of his Dartmouth class. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
During the World War he was connected with the American Red Cross, attached to the sanitary train of one of the divisions in the St. Mihiel drive. Here he was gassed, and sent to the hospital'behind the lines. It was said by his physicians that this experience had so weakened his lungs that he was unable to throw off the pneumonia which proved fatal.
After his return, he was associated with the Sterling Tire Company of Boston, and in 1920 became New England manager for Moody's Investors' Service of New York at its Boston office.
Joe White, although unable to graduate with his class, always maintained an affection and loyalty for his classmates and for the College. He had planned to meet with the class in June, at which time he will be sorely missed by the entire class body.
He was unmarried. His mother still lives in East Weymouth.
CLASS OF 1912
Carleton Morhous Hammond died at Muskegon, Mich., December 11, 1920, of sarcoma.
The son of Frank E. and Jessie (Morhous) Hammond, he was born in Muskegon, January 4, 1889. He entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year, and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
After graduation he spent five years with the Hammond Company at Eureka, Cal. He then enlisted in the navy, took special training at Annapolis, and was commissioned ensign. He was assigned to the Leviathan, and remained on her until his resignation and honorable discharge in September, 1919. He had been advanced in rank to lieutenant, junior grade. He then engaged in business with a manufacturing company in Muskegon.
October 14, 1918, he was married to Gertrude M. Sullivan of Muskegon, who survives him, without children.
CLASS OF 1915
James Donald MacFarland died of influenza at Cooper Hospital, Camden, N. J., September 16, 1918.
He was born in Fall River, Mass., August 22, 1892, the son of John and Catherine (MacKay) MacFarland. He fitted at Durfee High School, Fall River.
He taught after graduation, and at the time of his fatal illness had just become principal of the high school at Cape May, N. J.
CLASS OF 1916
Andrew Woods Bingham, Jr., died at his home in Littleton, N. H., May 6, 1921, of sarcoma, after a long illness.
The son of Andrew Woods and Corinda (Cunningham) Bingham, he was born in Littleton, June 19, 1893, and graduated from Littleton High School in 1911. After a year at Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Dartmouth. While in high school he was prominent in athletics, being a member of the baseball and football teams and making his letter in basketball. At Dartmouth he was on the cross country squad, and won snowshoe races during the winter carnivals. He was elected assistant business manager of The Dartmouth, and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He left college, however, at the end of sophomore year.
After leaving college he studied law, and attended Boston University Law School in the winters of 1915 and 1916. Upon our entrance into the war he entered the military service, and became a second lieutenant in the Motor Transport Corps, being stationed at Camp Cody, New Mexico, and Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. January 21, 1919, he received his discharge on account of ill health. Resuming his law studies, he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in June, 1919, and later in the year opened an office in Littleton. He was able to work only a short time, and early in 1920 he went to Southern Pines, N. C. He returned home in the spring, and spent the summer at Partridge Lake. In August he went to the Faulkner-Memorial Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass., but returned to Littleton in January.
The local paper speaks of his popularity, his ambition, and his cheerful and brave fight against the fatal disease. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church. His parents survive him, also one brother.
