NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1856
Edwin Hubbard Taylor died April 15, 1921, at his home in Peterboro, N. H., of paralysis. The son of Lewis and Lois (Webster) Taylor, he was born in Hinsdale. N. H., October 25, 1833. A brother, William M. Taylor, who died early, was of the class of 1852. He fitted at Kimball Union Academy, and was a member of Psi Upsilon.
After graduation he went to Mississippi, and taught at Jackson and Pelahatchee from January, 1857, to June, 1860. From 1860 to 1864 he taught at Bonneville, Mo., and then at Oroville, Cal., to February, 1866. He then was engaged in farming in Missouri and Kansas to 1871. Resuming teaching in Kansas, he taught at Labette, Parsons, Montana, and Sherman in that state to 1881, and then was principal of the high school at Peterboro, N. H., for one year. In 1882 he formed a business partnership in Peterboro in the grocery and grain business, which continued for thirty-five years.
Mr. Taylor seved as a member of the school board in Peterboro for twenty-one years, then declining a re-election on account of advancing years. He was a useful and highly esteemed citizen of the town.
He was three times married. April 23, 1863, he was married to Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas and Catharine McCarty of Booneville, Mo., who died September 18, 1864, leaving an infant son, who died shortly after. September 24, 1876, he was married to Mary Payne of Tennessee, who died March 9, 1880. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy. The third marriage was to Lucy Emigene Evleth of Peterboro, August 7, 1881. She survives her husband.
CLASS OF 1864
Dr. Charles Caldwell died at his home in Mansfield, Ohio, February 26, 1921, of cancer of the liver, after a short illness.
He was born in Byfield, Mass., July 30, 1841, his parents being David Story and Abigail (Newman) Caldwell; David A. Caldwell '60 was a brother. He prepared for college at Dummer Academy and Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. While a member of college, he enlisted in June, 1862, in the Seventh Squadron Rhode Island Cavalry (the "College Cavaliers"), and served as a corporal. After the four months' service of this unit, he returned to college.
From August to November, 1864, he studied at Dartmouth Medical College, and then was appointed surgeon's steward in the navy, and served on the gunboat Honduras to the close of the war. He then resumed medical studies at Manchester, N. H., and at Dartmouth, and in November, 1866, entered Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in July, 1867.
From August, 1867, to March, 1868, he practised in Exeter, N. H., and then went to Chicago, where he remained a year. He was then for a year in Peru, Ill and then from the spring of 1870 to August, 1871, at Chetopa, Kansas. From the last date to May, 1872, he was physician to the men employed on the construction of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, at Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory. He remained in practice in the Territory and in Northwestern Texas until October, 1876. From the spring of 1877 to July, 1880, he was in the lead regions, at Joplin, Mo., and Galena, Kans. In September, 1880, he opened an office in Chicago, and practiced there about thirty-five years, until his removal to Mansfield.
Dr. Caldwell was a member from its organization of the Tenth Presbyterian church of Chicago, and active in its affairs. Later he was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Mansfield.
January 1, 1871, he was married to Mary D. Smith of Peru, Ill.,who died March 25 of the same year. December 1, 1874, he was married to Amanda C. Painter of Mansfield, Ohio, who survives him, without children.
William Richardson died suddenly of heart disease at Bayonne, N. J., April 13, 1921. He had just gone over on the ferry from his home on Staten Island to call upon his classmate, Dr. John L. Hildreth, who was visiting in Bayonne, and collapsed immediately on leaving the boat.
The son of William Burpee and Rebecca (Bass) Richardson, he was born in Sterling, Mass., December 19, 183.8, and fitted at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
The fall and winter after graduation he spent in the work of the Christian Commission with the Army of the Potomac. In the spring and summer of 1865 he was principal of the academy at Westbrook, Conn., and then was for a year superintendent of schools at Muncie, Ind. From 1866 to 1873 he was superintendent at Piqua, Ohio; from 1873 to 1877 he was president of Ohio Wesleyan Female College at Delaware; then for several years superintendent at Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1881 he went to Cleveland, Ohio, as assistant superintendent, and remained there several years. He next was superintendent at Sedalia, Mo., and then instructor in English in the State Normal School at Kirksville, Mo. This was his last permanent position. In 1904 he took an extended trip to Europe, Palestine, and Egypt, after which he lectured occasionally and filled temporary positions in the schools of Cleveland, where he made his home with his older son. This son died on Wachusett mountain in Massachusetts in May, 1915, and his body was not found for six months. After his death Dr. Richardson made his home with his younger son at West New Brighton, N. Y., on Staten Island. Both sons were osteopathic physicians.
In 1885 Mr. Richardson received on examination the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Wooster, Ohio. During the greater part of his life he was connected with the Methodist church, but during his later years he was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church and served as lay preacher.
August 14, 1866, Mr. Richardson was married to Mary Ellen McLaughlin of St. Mary's, Ohio, who died in October, 1911. Their two sons are mentioned above.
CLASS OF 1866
Henry Clay Ide died June 13, 1921, at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., after a weeks illness.
The son of Jacob and Lodoska (Knight) Ide, he was born in Barnet, Vt., September 18, 1844, and fitted at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa and was valedictorian of the class at graduation.
The first two years after graduation he was plincipal of St. Johnsbury Academy, and for the following year principal of the Cotting High School in Arlington, Mass. In the fall of 1869 he began the study of law in St. Johnsbury with Jonathan Ross '51 and Benjamin H. Steele '57, and in 1871 was admitted to the bar and began practice. From 1873 to 1884 he was a member of the firm of Belden and Ide, from 1884 to 1890 of Ide and Stafford, and from 1890 to 1892 of Ide and Quimby. He enjoyed a large and general practice, and stood in the front rank of his profession in Northern New England. In 1876-8 he was state's attorney of Caledonia county, state senator in 1882 and 1884, president of the Republican State Convention in 1884, and delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1888.
In 1891 he was appointed by President Harrison as the United States member of the International Samoan Commission, and was made its chairman. In November, 1891, he resigned this position on account of illness in his family, and returned to his Vermont home. He received a personal letter of thanks from President Harrison, expressions of regret from the King of Samoa, and a letter of congratulation for his success in a difficult field from Robert Louis Stevenson, then residing in the Islands, and his warm personal friend. In 1893 he was made chief justice of Samoa. In 1897 he resigned, having performed the duties of that office with a discretion and probity that won for him respect and fame both at home and abroad. Returning home through the Orient and Europe, he made a careful study of the people, laws, and institutions of the Eastern countries. In March, 1900, he was appointed by President McKinley a member of the Philippine Commission, created for the establishment of civil government in the Islands, and was made secretary of finance and justice, charged with the duty of organizing a department of justice and supervising the finances. In 1905 he was made vice-governor; in 1905 he became acting governor general, and in 1906 governor general. His resignation of this position in October, 1906, was the occasion of many tributes to his great service. During this period he was the author of more than three hundred laws of the Islands, including the "Code of Civil Procedure," "Internal Revenue Law," "Land Registration Law," "Reorganization of the Currency," and "Organization of the Courts.'
Soon after his return from the Philippines he was appointed one of the receivers of the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York, which had deposits to the amount of sixty million dollars. Under his administration and that of his co-receivers this great financial institution within less than a year was able to reopen its doors and continue its business.
In 1909 he was appointed by President Taft envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain, and remained in that office until his resignation in August, 1913.
During his residence in St. Johnsbury he was actively interested in its banks and its manufacturing and railroad enterprises, surrendering his positions with these corporations on entering upon his diplomatic career. He retained his connection with St. Johnsbury Academy through all the years, and was president of its board of trustees at the time of his death. While active in the legal profession, he was often called on to participate in political campaigns, and was a forceful and eloquent speaker.
In 1900 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth, and the same degree from Tufts in 1903. He was a member of the Army and Navy, the University, and the Columbia Clubs of Manila, the Metropolitan of Washington, and the Sphinx of St. Johnsbury. He was a frequent contributor to the North American Review, the Independent, and numerous law journals.
October 26, 1871, Mr. Ide was married to Mary M. Melcher of Stoughton, Mass., who died April 13, 1892. They had four children: Adelaide M., who died in 1898, soon after her graduation from the University of Chicago; Harry J., who died in childhood; Annie H., the wife of W. Bourke Cockran of New York; Marjorie M., the wife of Shane Leslie of London. There are also two grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1873
Seymour Coman died at Coleman Lake, Wis., May 29, 1921.
He was born in Newark, Ohio, May 21, 1852, his home when college being at Hanover, Ohio. His parents were Levi Parsons and Martha (Seymour) Coman. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.) He left Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year, but in 1908, at the request of his classmates, his degree was conferred upon him, and he was enrolled as a graduate member of the class.
He studied law at the University of Michigan, graduating there as LL.B. in 1876, and began the practice of law in Chicago in the office of Goudy, Chandler, and Skinner. In the fall of 1876 he went to Colorado as financial agent for Chicago interests. Later he went to Western Texas, and engaged in business there, remaining eight years. Returning to Chicago in 1891, he established the commercial paper house of Seymour Coman and Company, later Coman, Lundquist and Company. As the years went by, his attention was turned more and more from the pursuit of law to financial matters, in which he became very successful.
He was fond of travel, and took numerous trips both in this country and abroad, his last trip including an interesting boat ride on the Nile. He was always an enthusiastic Dartmouth man, and during recent years was sure to be with his class at the stated reunions. He was a companion by inheritance of the Order of the Loyal Legion, and a member of the Chicago Golf Club, the University Club, and the Union League Club of Chicago. For many years he made his home at the Union League Club.
He was never married. His sister, Miss Catherine Coman, an instructor in Wellesley College, died in 1915, and at her death he prepared and had printed a memorial sketch.
CLASS OF 1875
Charles Azro Prouty died July 8, 1921, at his home in Newport, Vt, after an illness of several months, which was determined by an autopsy to be chronic peritonitis.
The son of John Azro and Hannah B. (Lamb) Prouty, he was born in Newport, October 9, 1853. His college preparation was obtained at the high schools of Newport and Upton, Mass., with one term at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. He ranked first in his class in scholarship throughout the course, and took nearly all the prizes to which he was eligible.
The first year after graduation he was assistant in the observatory at Allegheny, Pa. He then taught for one term in Newport, and read law there, being admitted to the bar in 1879. Opening an office, he left the profession in a short time, and from 1879 to 1882 was principal of Newport High School. In July, 1882, he resumed practice in Newport, and soon ranked among the first lawyers of the state. Becoming general counsel for the Rutland Railroad and attorney for the Centra! Vermont, he became thoroughly familiar with railroad law in all its aspects, and thus laid the foundation for his great success in the positions which he later held under the federal government.
From 1882 to 1886 he was state's attorney of his county, in 1888 a member of the legislature, and from 1888 to 1896 reporter of decisions for the Supreme Court of the state. In 1896 he was delegate to the National Republican Convention. In December, 1896, he was appointed by President Cleveland a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and soon became a leader in all the work of the Commission. In February, 1914, he left the Commission to become its director of valuation of railways, and in 1918 he was appointed director of the division of public service and accounting of the railroad administration, which position he held at the time of his death. In 1914 he was the unsuccessful Progressive candidate for the United States Senate from his state. In 1915 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
His honorable and laborious national positions did not make him forgetful of local interests. He was president of the Orleans Trust Company, owner of the Newport Electric Light Company, and president of the Bradford Electric Light Company. He was also chairman of the trustees of the Goodrich Memorial Library.
March 26, 1879, Mr. Prouty was married to Abbie Davis of Lyndonville, Vt., who survives him, with their two sons, one of them being John A. '13.
He had been president of his class since graduation, and always showed great loyalty to the class and the College. As he was an honor to his class in college, so he honored it through life by his devotion to a career of arduous work and professional service for the good of his neighbors and his country. He never shirked any opportunity or flinched from any responsibility which presented itself to him as right.
GLASS OF 1882
Rev. Arthur Willis Stanford, a member of this class during freshman year, died of cerebral thrombosis at Auburndale, Mass., July 8, 1921.
He was born in Lowell, Mass., January 10, 1859, and fitted at Lowell High School. After one year at Dartmouth, he transferred to Amherst, where he graduaed in 1882. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and at Amherst of Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he studied at Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1885. In May, 1886, he was appointed a missionary of the American Board to Japan, and began work in that country in the following November. Except for a few years, when invalided home, he has labored with marked efficiency in the work of the mission. He was widely read in Buddhism and in all Japanese matters, and had given much time to his favorite avocation of botany.
Shortly before sailing tor Japan he v.as married to Jennie Pearson of Lowell, who survives him.
He was taken ill when en route for the Amherst centennial, was cared for at Northampton by his Amherst class, and later removed to the Missionary Home at Auburndale.
CLASS OF 1885
Frank Otis Chellis died March 3, 1921, at his home in Newport, N. H., after a protracted illness.
The son of Otis H. and Betsey Morrill (Sargent) Chellis, he was born at Meriden, N. H., August 7, 1858. In his boyhood his parents removed to Newport, which was his tome for the rest of his life. His preparation for college was begun at the local high school, and concluded at Kimball Union Academy, from which he graduated in 1880. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, poet at Class Day, captain of his class baseball team, a member of the varsity nine for four years, and of the football eleven for two years.
After graduation he studied law with A. S. Wait of Newport, was admitted to the bar in 1889, and practiced in Mr. Wait's office for a short time. A sudden vacancy occurring in the principalship of the high school, he took the school to finish the term, and was so successful that he remained in the position for nine years. Then, in 1898, he resumed practice, which he continued with excellent success for the remainder of his life.
He was prominent in local politics as a Democrat, and was county solicitor in 1906-08 and in 1913-15. During the war he was chairman of the county draft and exemption board. He had also been a member of the school board, a trustee of the Carrie Fr. Wright Hospital, and since 1904 a trustee of the Sugar River Savings Bank. He was secretary of the Unitarian Society of Newport, and a Mason and Knight Templar.
December 6, 1892, he was married to Emma Gertrude Wilmarth of Somerville, Mass., who survives him. There are two children, Bernice L., a nurse in New1 York city, and Robert W. of Boston.
CLASS OF 1897
Dr. Francis Philip Conway died in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 12, 1921, of heart disease.
He was born in Northfield, Mass., June 24, 1874, and was a member of this class for two years. After leaving college, he studied medicine, and obtained his degree of M.D. from the University of Vermont in 1899. He served as interne in the Children's Hospital, Baldwinsville, Mass., and in Danvers Asylum, and then was engaged in private practice in Newport, R. I., for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Newport Medical Society and the Rhode Island State Medical Society.
In 1900 he was married to Fannie P. Dennis of Providence, R. I., who survives him.
CLASS OF 1900
Henry Lunt died at his home in Lewiston, Idaho, on March 26, 1921. During the previous year he had a very severe attack of the grip and never completely recovered.
Henry Lunt was born in Biddeford, Me., July 6, 1878." He was very active in the class during the time he was in college. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
After doing newspaper work for a short time, he then became connected with the Treasury Department in New York city. Because of ill health, he was advised to seek a drier climate. From 1910 to 1912 he was connected with the San Carlos Agency of the United States Indian Service in Arizona, but finding this climate a little harsh he moved to Northern Idaho, and became connected with the Fort Lapwai station of the Indian Service.
November 1, 1916, he married May Elizabeth Metzler and took up his residence in Lewiston. From 1917 to 1919 he was connected with the First National Bank of Lewiston, and from 1919 to his death he was connected with the State Bank of Clarkston, Washingington.
He identified himself with all the local interests of the two neighboring places. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Blue Lodge, Masonic fraternity, and vestryman and secretary and treasurer of the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) of Lewiston.
His fellow associates say this of his business career: "He was a man of exceptional ability, both as a business man and socially. He was a wonderful business getter, possessing that rare quality of being able to approach strangers and win their confidence and esteem. He was an excellent letter writer, being a master of English and quick to apprehend the proper word. The people of both Lewiston and Clarkston loved and esteemed him."
While Henry Lunt saw few of his classmates after he left Dartmouth, he kept in constant touch with the class. His letters were enthusiastic and frequent. He made plans to attend the 20th Reunion, but business cares prevented at the last moment.
Henry Lunt's name is associated with the escapades of 1900's Freshman year. No one will forget his prowess when '99 sought to extinguish our bonfire on the campus by turning on the college hose.
His lovable character, his enthusiasm, and his broad sympathy made him universally beloved. The men of his class knew him only in the recollection of college days, but this recollection is most keen and vivid, and we can almost picture him before us as he was in the fall of '96. Those lovable characteristics made friends for him in every locality, and his death was keenly felt in the two cities where he had worked so faithfully during the last few years of his life.
So has passed on a 1900 man, who did not graduate, but whose interest in the College and class remained constant for over twenty years. He carried Dartmouth's name and reputation to the Far West, and the class and College have lost a loyal son.
CLASS OF 1913
Dr. Lawrence Chesley Chisholm died April 2, 1921, in Boston, of general septicemia, contracted in the practice of his profession.
The son of Wallace Alfred and Edith (Chesley) Chisholm, he was born in Salem, Mass., April 21, 1891, and fitted at Salem High School.
He pursued the study of medicine after graduation, for two years at Harvard, and then two years at Tufts Medical School, from which he graduated in 1917.
April 7, 1917, he entered the U. S. Naval Reserve as assistant surgeon, and was stationed first at the Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Mass., and then at the recruiting station in Boston. In April, 1918, he was transferred 10 the LT. S. Naval Rendezvous, Brooklyn, N. Y., and in July to Indian Head, Md., as assistant surgeon to the Tenth Regiment of Marines. In September, 1918, he was detailed to Quantico, Va., with the Eleventh Marines, rating as lieutenant, and in October sailed for Fiance with that regiment with the rank of captain . He was stationed at the hospital at Gievres, France. In August, 1919, he returned to the United States, and was stationed at the Naval Hospital at Chelsea. May 1, 1920, he retired from the navy, and entered private practice in Boston. He was very successful, having acquired an excellent practice in the short time he was privileged to serve.
August 21, 1919, Dr. Chisholm was married to Olive Rae, daughter of Luther G. and Mary Anna Conrad of Winchester, Va., who survives him. A daughter, Eleanor Conrad, was born June 26, 1920, and died April 17, 1921, fifteen days after her father.
The funeral, held in Grace church; Salem, was attended by the Masonic lodge of which Dr. Chisholm was a member, and the body was escorted to the grave by a detail of the American Legion. Six blue-jackets flanked the flag-covered hearse, and three volleys were fired and taps sounded.
CLASS OF 1918
Lieutenant Wendell E. Goodrich of the United States Aviation Corps was instantly killed June 10, 1921, at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida, when the plane which he was piloting crashed to the ground from a hieght of 1000 feet. He was flying alone when his engine stalled and was not high enough in the air to abe able to maneuver the plane so as to volplane to a landing.
Wendell E. Goodrich was born at Norwich, Vt., November 24, 1895, and was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Goodrich. He received his preparation for college at the Hanover, N. H. High School, and entered New Hampshire State College in 1914. In September, 1916, he transferred to Dartmouth, where, during the days of military drill preceding the actual declaration of war, he became interested in the work of the Signal Service Corps. This interest led him to enlist May 12, 1917, in the Signal Service Corps of the United States Army.
Lieutenant Goodrich was first a member of Co. B, 301st Field Signal Battalion, at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., where he served for six months before transferring to the Aviation School at Ithaca, N. Y. From Ithaca he went to the United States Signal Corps Radio School at Columbia University and was afterward stationed at Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Barron Field, Fort Worth, Texas, and Rockwell Field, San Diego, California. His promotion in the service was rapid, the commission of a second lieutenant being granted him in July, 1918, but four months after his enrollment as a cadet in the Aviation School. Recently he had been attached to the signal service section of the Aviation Corps at Carlstrom Field, where he was serving at the time of his death.
Wendell Goodrich was possessed of a pleasant and genial personality which won him many friends during the short time he was at Dartmouth. A seriousness of purpose which characterized all of his work made him respected and admired. There was never a class or college jollification during his year in Hanover that he did not enter with whole-souled zest and enthusiasm, and there never was a bit of gloom in those sullen days before the class departed that his happy optimism did not pierce. To those who knew him well the news of his death was a distinct shock and to the entire class , will bring a pang of sorrow. Wendell Goodrich was a good Dartmouth man and a good member of the class of 1918.
