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
George Henry Twiss was born in Dunbarton N. H., July 22, 1833. His father, Jeremiah Page Twiss, had lived and raised a large family in this pretty hill-top village that commanded what his son George often called "the finest view in New Hampshire," reaching from Kearsarge on the north to Monadnock on the south.
Preparation for college was made at Francestown (N. H.) Academy. He entered Dartmouth in the sophomore class, and was graduated with the class of 1859. While at college Mr. Twiss was a member of Tri-Kappa fraternity, and acted as college librarian, teaching during vacations at Beverly and Harvard, Mass.
August 28, 1860, at Springfield, Ohio, he married Susan Gale Ransom, daughter of Calvin Noyes and Susan (Gale) Ransom. She died in 1868.
At this time Mr. Twiss was beginning his career as a teacher, serving as assistant principal of Rittenhouse Academy in Washington, D. C., until the outbreak of the Civil War caused the abandonment of that school.
In 1861, he became principal of Central High School, Columbus, Ohio, having as his assistant his friend, William J. Tucker, afterwards president of Dartmouth College. Columbus became his chosen and always-loved home, and here he spent thirty-six busy and fruitful years. At this time he studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar, but never practiced.
In 1864 and for fifteen years thereafter, he represented D. Appleton and Company's schoolbook section, traveling in Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia. In 1877 he built the first telephone line in Columbus, and organized the telephone exchange there, acting as manager for five years. In this work he was associated with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. In 1884 he became proprietor of one of the leading bookstores of the city.
Thus for many years Mr. Twiss was identified with educational and progressive movements of every kind. As member of the board of education and of the Tyndall Scientific Association, he was instrumental in bringing to Columbus many of the great scientific, literary, and educational lecturers of the time. By President Hayes he was appointed on a commission to establish a station of the Meteorological Bureau in Ohio's capital city, and later he was elected secretary of the Civil Service Commission.
All good works commanded his interest and support. He was a trustee of the Congregational church, and very active in its Sunday school. He was first president of the Y. M. C. A., and no civic improvement went without his lively and active indorsement.
In 1871 he had married Julia M. B. Minot, daughter of George (Dartmouth 1828) and Selina (Clark) Minot of Concord, N. H., and with her he celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on August 10, 1921, at Evanston, Ill.
Eighty-eight full years, rich in usefulness and honor, thus passed, and when death came, October 20, 1921, he passed as peacefully to rest as though he had fallen asleep. Wonderful health had been his through all the years, and only in the last two months of his life was his strength enfeebled or even his eyesight impaired.
His devotion to Dartmouth was deep and constant; in the last months of his life memories and interest in his Alma Mater and his remaining classmates occupied almost his entire thoughts.
Mr. Twiss is survived by his widow and four children, the latter comprising his son, George R. Twiss, professor of pedagogy in Ohio State University, and his daughters, Mrs. J. G. Albright of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. William G. Smith of Evanston, Ill., and Miss Edith M. Twiss, assistant professor of botany in Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1874
Charles Orvel Huntress died in Springfield, Mo., June 19, 1921, of creeping paralysis, after a long illness.
The son of Orvel and Harriet (Fuller) Huntress, he was born in Auburn, N. H., March 15, 1848. The family home was at Clay Center, Kans., after 1859. He was a student for some time at the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, after which he was in mercantile business at Clay Center for some time and also clerk of the district court. He was then county surveyor of Cloud County until his resignation in 1872 to enter the junior class in the Chandler Scientific Department at Dartmouth. Here he was a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi), second lieutenant of the '74 Cadets, and valedictorian of the Chandler class.
For the first year after graduation he was principal of the high school at Faribault, Minn., then for two years of the Franklin School in Minneapolis, and ,for five years of the Washington School in the latter city. Then he was for some time a civil engineer with the Northern Pacific Railroad, and then for seventeen years assistant city engineer of Minneapolis. After this he was in the engineering department of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in Minneapolis until his resignation in 1910 on account of illhealth. He was then obliged to give up all active work, and made his home with his son in Springfield, Mo.
July 20, 1874, he was married to Emma Josephine Washburn of West Lebanon, N. H., who died March 7, 1897. Their son, Carl W., and two daughters, Innes (Mrs. Shaw) and Mildred (Mrs. Dickerson), survive their parents. There are also five grandchildren.
Herman Lester Home died at his home in Norway, Me., July 9, 1921, after an operation for intestinal trouble.
The son of John L. and Hannah (Wallace) Home, he was born in Wolfeboro, N. H., February 6, 1852. The year of his birth his father removed to Norway, Me., and established a tannery business, which became one of the largest of its kind in the East. He fitted at Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon and captain of the '74 Cadets.
For two years after graduation he was general agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company for Maine, having his office in Portland. In 1876 he returned to Norway and became partner with his father in the tannery business in the firm of John L. Home and son. In 1885 the firm was succeeded by the Norway Tanning Company, in which Mr. Home was a director and treasurer. In 1893 the plant was destroyed by fire, after which Mr. Home engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors, and blinds, and later in the furniture business.
He was interested in other lines of business and community interest. He was one of the first promoters of the Norway Branch Railroad and the Norway Shoe Company, and president of both, and instrumental in the organization of the Norway Water Company and the Norway Electric Light Company. He was president for some years of the Oxford County Agricultural Society and captain of the Norway Light Infantry. He was a leading member of the Congregational church and a member of its choir for many years, and a leader in several musical organizations.
October 18, 1876, he was married to Fannie Hight, daughter of E. Austin and Martha (Hight) Holmes of Oxford, Me., who survives him. They had no children.
Dr. Charles Elihu Quimby, for many years secretary of this class, died at his home in New York city, November 6, 1921, of general paralysis, after an illness of several years.
The son of Elihu Thayer (Dartmouth 1851) and Nancy Aldana (Cutler) Quimby, he was born in New Ipswich, N. H., June 21, 1853. His father was then principal of Appleton Academy, from which position he came to Hanover in 1864 to be professor of mathematics in the College. He began his preparation for college at Ajppleton Academy, and continued it privately and at Norwich (Vt.) Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. William P. Quimby '82 is a brother.
For the first year after graduation he was principal of the high school at Gardner, Mass. He then began the study of medicine, pursuing it for two years at Hanover, and then at the University of New York, where he received his medical degree in February, 1878.
From March, 1878, to October, 1879, he was interne in Bellevue Hospital. In February, 1880, he opened an office in Somersworth, N. H., whence he removed to New York city in October, 1882. There he remained in successful practice until his final illness. In October, 1884, he became assistant to Dr. A. L. Loomis, and so remained until the death of Dr. Loomis in 1895. In 1885 he was appointed quiz master of medicine in the medical department of the University of New York; in 1886 he was made lecturer, in 1889 assistant professor of the practice of medicine, in 1891 adjunct professor of medicine, and in 1895 clinical professor of medicine. From 1890 to 1895 he was assistant visiting physician to Bellevue Hospital, and after 1895 visiting physician to City Hospital.
He was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York County Medical Society, and the American Climatological Association. He was a contributor on diseases of the heart and lungs to "Buck's Handbook of Universal Sciences" and "American System of Medicine," and the author of many articles in medical journals. In boyhood he became a member of the College church, but in later life he was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. The burial was in Hanover, and the funeral in St. Thomas' church.
September 28, 1881, Dr. Quimby was married to Julia M., daughter of Samuel W. Cobb of Hanover, who survives him, with their two daughters, Aldana Ripley (Mrs. W. Lee White) and Dorothy Marian (Mrs. Gibson Paine).
Dr. Quimby had a keen and logical mind, marked independence of thought, and unfaltering courage of his convictions.
CLASS OF 1882
Dr. Robert Noyes Adams died of heart disease at his home in Portland, Me., May 29, 1921.
He was born at Island Pond, Vt., September 15, 1861, his parents being Dr. Cephas Gardner and Sarah Bates (Cobb) Adams. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After teaching a short time he began the study of medicine at the Portland School for Medical Instruction and at Bowdoin, obtaining his medical degree in 1886. He assisted his father in practice in Portland from 1886 to 1892, and then took a position as clerk in the Portland post-office, which he retained until his death.
June 5, 1908, he was married to Abbie Melanie, daughter of Henry Samuel and Hannah Eliza (Rand) Burnett of South Portland, who survives him. They had no children.
CLASS OF 1900
Dr. Arthur Stevens Kimball died at his home in Battle Creek, Mich., November 6, 1921, after an illness of two weeks. He was stricken with an acute infection of the gall bladder, and under normal circumstances an operation would have been ordered, but his general physical condition was such that this was impracticable. He seemed on the road to recovery when an abdominal abscess developed. Saturday night he was attacked with an acute dilation of the heart, and passed away a few hours before he was to be removed to the hospital for an operation. From the autopsy it seemed certain he never would have survived the operation.
The funeral services were held at the First Congregational church, and were conducted by Rev. George E. Barnes of Flint, Mich., a personal friend of Dr. Kimball's. The pallbearers were physicians of Battle Creek.
Dr. Kimball was born in Cummington, Mass., April 25, 1878, the son of Dr. Arthur Herbert (Dartmouth 1873) and Marion (Baker) Kimball. The family removed to Battle Creek, and Arthur fitted at Battle Creek High School. After graduation he studied medicine at the University of Michigan, and received his medical degree in 1903. He took up practice immediately after graduation, but in 1909 he went to London for six months' graduate work in the Great Ormond Street Hospital for children. In 1914 he took another special course in New York.
October 20, 1903 Dr. Kimball was married in Richmond, Va., to Miss Minnie Osterbind, who had been a student with him at Ann Arbor. He leaves five children: Virginia and Eleanor, twins, now fourteen years of age, Mary O. and Arthur, also twins, now nine years of age, and Josephine Clark, now five. Dr. Kimball's mother is also living.
The class has seen little of Arthur Kimball since graduation. Of his undergraduate, life with us in Hanover a very clear recollection remains, for he knew every one, and took a prominent part in class affairs. He was a good student, and at the same time took a keen interest in all the affairs of the class and the college. He had a keen wit and a warm heart. He had a distinct personality, so that our recollection of him is just as clear as when we graduated twenty-one years ago. He was our first class secretary, and performed his duties well. Located as he was so far from other Dartmouth men, he gave up the secretaryship at our third reunion, but his contribution during the first three years did much to keep the class together during those days when it is so easy to drift apart.
Of his career in Battle Creek, the evidence is overwhelming that the community has lost one of its most faithful citizens. The comment of the newspapers is that his whole professional life was one of self-sacrifice and continual thoughtfulness for the other fellow. He gave freely of his services to the unfortunate and poor, and his friends believe that in so doing he assumed a burden that contributed largely to break down his health. He organized the first Red Cross chapter in Battle Creek, and put the anti-tuberculosis movement on its feet. When he died he was president of the Calhoun County Tuberculosis Society. While health officer he established a proper detention hospital
for contagious diseases, and his work was so successful that a hospital was named for him. Kimball Hospital now serves as a monument of his efforts to keep the community safe from contagion.
His one regret during the war was that physical drawbacks prevented his qualifying as a surgeon in this conflict. His letters to the class secretary bespoke this regret more than once.
Another 1900 physician has passed to the Great Beyond—a man who disregarding self gave his life to his community. He has followed in the footsteps of Hatch, Dutton, Dearborn, Hildreth, and Weston. Once again we pay our tribute to a brother who carried the Dartmouth spirit of service to a community in the Middle West and earned for himself the undying gratitude of his fellowmen. He could do no more, and so in the prime of life he has passed on, achieving in his forty years of active work what few could accomplish in a full span.
CLASS OF 1916
Appleton Train Miles died November 20, 1921, at a hospital in Hartford, Conn. The cause of his death was a facial infection caused by a boil.
He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., June 12, 1894, the son of Col. Charles Appleton and Fanny Glover (Train) Miles. His father was at one time headmaster of Brattleboro High School, and later founder of Burnside Military Academy in Brattleboro. The son fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, and was elected manager of the Dramatic Club in his senior year.
September 23, 1916, he enlisted in the Ambulance Corps of the French Army, and when the United States entered the war he was transferred to the American service and commissioned as first lieutenant. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre with palm and star, was cited by French General Headquarters,' and on March 16, 1919, was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He received his discharge in April, 1919.
After his discharge he was associated successively with the New Departure Company as mechanical engineer, and with the General Motors Corporation of New York as assistant manager of the foreign credit department. Since May, 1921, he had been sales manager for the Hartford Home Company.
October 11, 1919, he was married to Lillian Staniels, daughter of Dr. Shailer Emery and Mary L. (Upton) Lawton of Brattleboro, who survives him, with their son, Appleton Train, Jr., born June 27, 1921. Miles' mother also survives him.
He was a member of the Unitarian society, a Masonic lodge, and the Brattleboro Country Club in Brattleboro, and of the University Club in Hartford.
The burial was in Brattleboro. A local paper thus characterizes him: "He was a very entertaining and companionable young man, whose friendships were of the enduring kind. He entered into various activities with enthusiasm, yet never lost his sense of dignity, and at all times he was a gentleman."
HONORARY
Frank Dunklee Currier, upon whom was conferred the degree of Master of Arts in 1901, died November 25, 1921, at his home in Canaan, N. H.
The son of Horace S. and Emma C. (Plastridge) Currier, he was born in Canaan, Oct. 30, 1853, studied at Kimball Union Academy and Dr. Hixon's school in Lowell, Mass., read law, and was in practice at Canaan from 1875. In 1879 he was a member of the State House of Representatives; secretary of the Republican State Committee from 1882 to 1890; clerk of the New Hampshire Senate from 1883 to 1887; delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1884; member and president of the State Senate in 1887; naval officer of the port of Boston, 1890 to 1894; speaker of the State House of Representatives in 1899; representative to the national House from the Second District of New Hampshire (which contains Hanover) from 1901 to 1913.
May 31, 1890, he was married to Adelaide H. Sargent of Grafton, N. H., who survives him.
