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 1856

Elijah Atwood Gove died September 5, 1922, at his home in Minneapolis, Minn., of carcinoma of the bladder.

The son of Squiers and Dolly (Atwood) Gove, he was born in Weare, N. H., September 22, 1832, and prepared for college at Washington (N. H.) Academy. The first two years of his college course were taken at Wesleyan University, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was at the time of his death the oldest member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

In the fall of 1856 he was principal of Wilmington (Vt.) Academy, and for the remainder of the school year of a public school in Janesville, Wis. He read law while teaching, and was admitted to the bar in Janesville June 2, 1857. In that year he began practice at Sparta, Wis., and removed in 1858 to Tamah, Wis. In November, 1866, he removed to Farmington, Minn., and served as probate judge of Dakota County from 1866 to 1870. In 1876 he was appointed probate judge of Hennepin County to fill a vacancy, and removed to Minneapolis, continuing in practice there after the expiration of his term as judge. He was then for a time at Marshall, Minn., and from 1881 to 1884 at Canby, Minn., where he was postmaster. In 1885 he removed to Watertown, S. D., Where he resumed the practice of law, was probate judge for eight years, city attorney for four years, and president of the county bar association until he retired from practice and removed to Minneapolis in August, 1919.

Judge Gove was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Elks, and the Masonic lodge and chapter. He was for over 50 years a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal church.

March 8, 1857, Judge Gove was married to Marie Louise, daughter of Ashur and Mary Ann Haynes of Wilmington, Vt., who died September 25, 1916. They had five children, of whom two daughters survive their parents— Mrs. Charles O. Norton of Kearney, Neb., and Mrs. E. St. Claire Snyder of Minneapolis.

CLASS OF 1859

Rev. Luther Tracy Townsend died at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, August 2, 1922. He entered the hospital July 4 for an operation, which was performed a few days later. He seemed to be steadily improving until a few days before his death.

The son of Luther K. and Mary True (Call) Townsend, he was born in Orono, Me., September 27, 1838. His early life was mainly spent in several towns in New Hampshire. While he was a child his father died, and he became a laborer on a railroad, rising to the position of fireman at the age of 16. Becoming ambitious for an education, he made a rapid preparation for college at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton. In 1870 he was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he entered Andover Theological Seminary, and pursued there the three years' course, graduating in 1862. In October of that year he enlisted as private in the Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and October 30 was commissioned adjutant. The regiment served in Louisiana and participated in the siege of Port Hudson, and was mustered out August 20, 1863. Mr. Townsend declined the offer of colonelcy in a colored regiment.

In 1864 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was successively pastor at Watertown, Mass., 1864-6, at Maiden, Mass., 1866-7, at Auburndale, Mass., 1867-8, and of the Bromfield St. church in Boston, 1868-70. When the theological school now a part of Boston University was removed from Concord, N. H., to Boston in 1868, he was appointed professor of Hebrew, Chaldee, and New Testament Greek. In 1870 he was transferred at his own request to the chair of the history of theology, and in 1872 to that of practical theology and sacred rhetoric. In 1893 he retired from teaching, and was made professor emeritus. Since that time he had devoted. himself mainly to literature, and was the author of many books and periodical articles on theological and biblical subjects. Incidentally he often preached, and served as pastor of the Mt. Vernon Place church in Baltimore, 1894-5 , and of the Metropolitan church in Washington, 1896. He was associate editor of the Baltimore Methodist in 1897-8, and taught in Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., 1901-2. Wesleyan conferred the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1866, and Dartmouth that of Doctor of Divinity in 1871.

Dr. Townsend was a member of the Victoria Institute of London, the National Geographic Society, and the American Forestry Association, was a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Council in London in 1881 and to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, and in 1882-5 was dean of the Chautauqua School of Theology.

September 27, 1865, he was married to Laura C., daughter of Dr. David Thompson (D. M. S. 1843) and Sarah T. (White) Huckins of Watertown, Mass., who died July 13, 1917. One daughter survives them, Helen Maude, the wife of Clifford S. Cobb of Brookline, Mass., with whom he had made his home.

By Dr. Townsend's will Dartmouth College becomes one of three residuary legatees on the death of the daughter.

CLASS OF 1861

Rev. George Le Roy Gleason died at his home in Topsfield, Mass., August 4, 1922. He was born February 25, '1835, in Bristol, N. H., being the son of Rev. Salmon and Jerusha (Willard) Gleason. His father was a minister, but was obliged to retire from the ministry on account of ill health while the son was quite young, and the latter was brought up on a farm. The father was a very strong antislavery man, and the son from an early age became imbued with a hatred of slavery, and was a very strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln when he became a candidate for the presidency.

Gleason's preparatory studies were taken at academies in Newbury, Vt., and Topsfield, Mass. His first two years in college were spent at Amherst, and he came to Dartmouth at the beginning of the junior year. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and in 1891 was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he took the regular course of studies at Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in July, 1864.

During the first three years of his ministry he was pastor at Bristol, Vt., preaching for the first year also at Ferrisburg. In October, 1867, he became pastor of the Congregational church in West Rutland, Vt., and continued there until March, 1869. While in Bristol he was also superintendent of schools. In 1869 he became pastor over the united Congregational churches in Manchester, Mass., where he remained as pastor for nearly 13 years. At the close of this pastorate in 1881 he removed to Andover, Mass., and pursued studies as a resident graduate until June, 1882, when he became pastor of the Congregational church in Byfield, Mass. Here he remained until October 1, 1888, when he removed to Haverhill, Mass., becoming pastor of the Riverside Congregational church, a new enterprise in connection with the Fourth church, which was an old but depleted church through deaths and removals. There he remained for 18 years, during which time the infant enterprise became a strong and vigorous church, and he was instrumental in having a new church building erected.

In 1906, realizing that a younger man should take up the active pastorate, he resigned and was elected pastor emeritus. Since that time he devoted his energies to his farm in Topsfield, and to writing for different newspapers, for which he had a distinct gift. For many years previous to his death he had been a contributor to Christian. Work, both in its news columns and in its editorial columns,

His health was somewhat broken when he left the ministry and purchased his farm in Topsfield, but after a few months his health became completely restored, and he became a practical farmer in earnest and made a specialty of the raising of hay, and earned an enviable reputation in . the production of large crops. He was a tireless worker along lines that would make New England farming a profitable calling.

He was a trustee of Dummer Academy from 1883 to 1887, and was twice a delegate to the Triennial Council of the Congregational Churches. He took a great interest in the local church at Topsfield after his removal there, and was ever ready to promote its influence and increase its helpfulness.

His wife, Charlotte Augusta (Perkins), to whom he was married October 4, 1864, died May 4, 1922, three months before his death. They had lived together fifty-eight years, and until Mrs. Gleason's death there had never been a break in the family circle.

Mr. and Mrs. Gleason are survived by the following children: Chauncey (Dartmouth 1888), Alice, Charlotte L., Annie P., George (Harvard 1897), and LeRoy W.

CLASS OF 1867

John Henry Patterson died suddenly of heart disease in a train at Kirkwood, N. J., May 7, 1922, when on his way to Atlantic City.

He was born on a farm near Dayton, Ohio, December 13, 1844, his parents being Jefferson and Julia (Johnston) Patterson. Frank J. Patterson '73 was a brother. He prepared himself for college by evening study while working on his father's farm and in his saw and grist mill. The first three years of his college course were taken at Miami University, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of senior year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. In 1864 he served in the 131st Ohio Volunteers, a hundred-day regiment which served on guard duty.

His whole life since graduation has been spent in business enterprises in Dayton, and no one has contributed more than he to the great industrial development and growth of the city. He was at first a coal dealer, but in 1882 he invented the first cash register and began to manufacture his invention. Ten years later he introduced industrial welfare work, and became known as "the best employer in America". Later he put in force a profit-sharing plan, established schools and conventions for his salesmen, and made the National Cash Register Company one of the most interesting and educational institutions in the industrial world. He made the invention, perfection, and introduction of cash registers his life work, and saw it grow into the largest business of its kind in the world and one that is known throughout the world. In 1901 France made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in token of his interest in his. employees.

In 1912 an indictment was returned against him for alleged violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, followed by conviction and sentence to one year in jail and fines. The case was appealed, and the judgment reversed and a compromise decree entered. While the case was in progress, prominent persons wired President Wilson and asked him to pardon Mr. Patterson and his associates from the sentence imposed, but when Mr. Patterson learned of this he sent the President a telegram saying that he would not accept a pardon, and that all he wanted was "simple justice".

He was the outstanding heroic figure during the Dayton flood in 1913, and organized the Citizens' Relief Association, being commended by the United States War Department for his work. He raised $2,000,000 to prevent another flood. He deeded 294 acres of land to Dayton for a recreation park. He was one of the first to propose the commission form of city government, known as the "Dayton Plan".

In the World War he placed his factory at the disposal of the government, but refused to accept contracts on a "cost plus" basis, saying that it was not right to work on a basis where the more he spent the more he made.

Mr. Patterson married Katherine Beck of Brookline, Mass., who died some years since. They had several children.

Our classmate Edgerly passed away at his home in Fitchburg, Mass., August 13, 1922. He had been ill, seriously at times, for the last two years, but his condition was not considered critical until a few days before his death.

Joseph Gardner Edgerly was born in Barnstead, N. H., October 12, 1838, a son of Samuel Johnson and Eliza (Bickford) Edgerly. At the age of six his family moved to Manchester, where as bobbin boy, working eleven hours a day in the Amoskeag mills, he was to be found for a time, until, desirous of greater opportunities for gaining the rudiments of an education, he went upon a farm in Dunbarton and gained the farmer boy's advantages of the traditional "red school house." In the winter of 1857-8 at New Boston, N. H., he began his life work as a teacher, in a characteristic district school. Later he taught in a partially graded school in Manchester. Resigning here in the second year of the war, 1862, and failing to be accepted as a volunteer, he entered the army postal service and was assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe. Failing health soon compelled him to leave this, and returning to Manchester, after a short period of rest and recovery, he again took up teaching, serving for a term as submaster of the Lyman School in East Boston.

Coming to Dartmouth in our sophomore year, Edgerly took a leading position in our class, his genial nature, all-round capacity, and mature years giving him a natural precedence in many ways. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa society, and one of the editors of the Aegis in the days when it was almost the sole publication of the undergraduates. He was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. On graduation he was the day following elected superintendent of schools in Manchester, and labored here eight years, doing much to bring the school system to a high state of efficiency. His reputation called him to Fitchburg, Mass., in 1875, where he served the city for thirty-nine years, for much of the latter time ranking as dean of the Massachusetts superintendents of schools. He retired from active school work August 1, 1914, and has since made his home in the city.

The public esteem in which "Joe" was held was shown by the universal mourning at the announcement of his death, and the hanging of flags at half mast. It was said: "Possibly no man here ever gained a wider circle of acquaintance than Mr. Edgerly. Everywhere, men and women, many of them now gray with years who were schoolchildren when the former superintendent was in his prime, were recounting stories and anecdotes of the man who had been their friend in childhood." His last visit to the schools, November 30, 1915, the 58th anniversary of his career as a teacher, was celebrated in a way long to be remembered. He was taken by auto to every school in the city, where an ovation awaited him, and later the teachers presented him with a bound volume, containing sentiments of love and respect.

Edgerly was married April 10, 1877, to Mary Jane Graves, a sister of Hon. Samuel Graves, former mayor of Fitchburg. She died several years ago. One daughter was born to them, Louisa Graves Edgerly, born June 19, 1879, and died Feb. 12, 1901. He leaves a nephew, Ferdinand B. Edgerly, Manchester, N. H., and a niece, Mrs. Mabel E. Pynchon, Springfield, Mass. Burial was in the Forest Hill cemetery, Fitchburg.

CLASS OF 1872

CHARLES RANSOM MILLER

Some Reminiscences and a Record of His Career

by DR. CHARLES L. DANA '72

I have been asked to write something about the life and career of the late Charles R. Miller. I am not competent to give a just estimate of his abilities and achievements as a professional man. That has in fact to some extent already been done. The editorial in the New York Times which appeared on the day after his death was an eloquent, just and informed appreciation of what C. R. Miller did and what he was.

I shall only give here a plain record of his career, and add some reminiscences which in an informal way will, I hope, tell something of the man and of his characteristics and interests.

Charles Ransom Miller was born and fitted for College in towns not far from my own village of Woodstock. Our early local associations had something in common, therefore, and I used to meet him in later years visiting his old haunts. I drove with him to his old Green Mountain Academy at South Woodstock, and I gave him his first lesson in golf on the links of the Woodstock Country Club. He played a good game, but perhaps never got over the effects of that lesson.

In College "Chuck" Miller, as we called him then, did not have a brilliant scholastic career. The lines of work offered there aroused no interest in him. He was a good speaker in debate and clever in his various compositions, with an unusual vocabulary (for he was fond of books) but he did not apply himself to the curriculum. The Class of '72 was divided more or less into two groups, the "seeds" and the "beats," the "seeds" representing the reactionaries, or the Rights, and the "beats" the Radicals, or the Lefts. Miller was some of the time at least on the extreme Left. There were no animosities between these groups; in fact the Rights I think rather admired the Lefts and perhaps wished they could be just as wicked. In the senior year I was elected librarian of the Socials, and Miller was my first assistant; so that in this way we were thrown together. We became permanently college friends, though I never got behind the scenes with Gus Barker and Captain Cotton's Cadets, where it was supposed self-exspression reached its most hilarious limits. Miller was a popular man and recognized as an unusual one, but no one predicted in those days a great future. It seems, however, that as soon as he left college and got into the work he liked, he became interested in the very studies which he had been indifferent to before. He learned to use French and speak it perfectly. He took up his Greek and Latin and became really familiar with those languages. He took an especial interest in Greek and had a work on the history of Greece under way when he was called from the Springfield Republican to the New York Times.

He broke into New York, as a good many other successful Manhattans have done, by way of Brooklyn. Our association became renewed. He was interested in organizing and promoting the N. Y. Dartmouth Alumni Association, and at one of its earliest banquets he presided and introduced such brilliant speakers as Dr. John Ordronaux, Mr. John Fford, then editor of the Times, and our College humorist, Ed. Sanborn, son of our Professor of Literature.

Miller soon became a member and active as an officer in the Century Club, and all his life this was the center of his extradomestic social life. He showed the evidence of his misspent youth by his skill as a billiard player, being one of the champions of the club.

He had always an especial and dominating interest in his College friends and college days. But in New York he acquired naturally many new friends, and his loyalty and affection for them were unfailing. Friendship was to him a sacred tie. His earlier sporting interests were in hunting and fishing, but about 1900 he became a left-handed golfer and for a. good many years this was his main recreation. He had an accurate eye and went about as far as "Southpaws" usually do who start the game late. His heart, however, and his best skill were with the rod and gun.

Miller's greatest pleasure however was always in his home and his family. No one ever brought more to or received more from this phase of life. But he wanted his friends to see it and share it; and perhaps this led to the organization of the "'Miller Birthday Dinners," which continued till the year of his death and were among the most interesting of social experiences. The guests were all friends of his family and himself. Everyone was called on to speak; everyone was heckled a bit; there were stories, and jokes and poems; neither was Bacchus absent though temperately crowned. George Fred Williams, whom we once crowned King of Albania, was the special orator but there were others—, as one of the dining poets said: "Who

Every year would praise their host but first appease their hunger,

While every year he cannily grew livelier and younger".

"C. R." as he was called in post-graduate days, was an admirable after-dinner speaker, always serene, ready with some apt tale or jest, and not without his moralities. Also he loved desipere in loco.

Having known C. R. for over fifty years, I can say that my affection for him and admiration grew with these years—and especially in the later times. For Miller seemed to me to be steadily a growing man, acquiring more in scholarship and more in political, historical, and linguistic attainments, as the years went by. One never grows old as long as the mind remains receptive, and Miller's mind was continually adding to itself. And he never grew old. Notwithstanding his attainments, he held himself modestly, while with all his more serious talents, he had also a fine sense of humor and a fund of amusing stories.

He was a man of strong opinions; but there was never any bitterness or rancor with them. I never heard him speak harshly or attack a person with any violence. He had no wrath in his nature, but he had stern indignation and strong conviction. His sense of the responsibilities, and ethics of his profession was very keen. One could never conceive of his adopting any policy or initiating any course of conduct that was not inspired by high and honest motives.

C. R. was an extremely hard and conscientious worker, but he loved his sport also and would make short expeditions into the country every year to satisfy his primal arboreal instincts.

Let me say a word about his professional activities: Laying aside his political trend, Miller had that amount and kind of learning, knowledge, judgment, humor, and sound sense that made his paper appeal to well-balanced and educated minds. His policies and opinions did not appeal to the radical or obsessive and also his paper was rarely found in the kitchen —I am sorry.

One of the most interesting, effective and one might say dramatic of journalistic incidents was Miller's experience with a Committee of the U. S. Senate appointed to investigate "the press" and find out among other things who ran The Times and why it opposed the Ship Purchase bill. This was in March, 1915; Miller was summoned to Washington and asked a great many pointed questions about the Times and the influences that controlled it; there being persistent stories that it was controlled in London. After showing very clearly that the Times was controlled only by its "principles", Miller made the following statement to the group of apparently rather disappointed statesmen:

"I can see no ethical, moral or legal right that you have to put many of the questions you put to me today. Inquisitorial proceedings of this kind would have a very marked tendency, if continued and adopted as a policy, to reduce the press of the United States to the level of the press in some of the Central European countries, the press that has been known as the reptile press, that crawls on its belly every day to the Foreign Office or the Government officials and Ministers to know what it may say or shall say—to receive its orders. Such questions tend to repress freedom of utterance and put newspapers under a sort of duress."

The Committee dropped C. R.

Miller never wrote a book, and he himself stated that editorials are not, and should not be literature. He did however make some addresses. In June, 1917, at Princeton there was held a conference on Classical Studies, and to this Miller made a contribution of which a writer in the Boston Transcript says:

"Miller's essential bigness as an editor, a writer, and a thinker, is revealed in a magnificent passage, worthy to be embalmed among our newspaper classics.

Mr. Miller said :

A man of my calling, comfortably assiduous and having length of years, puts into print the equivalent of a hundred octavo volumes of 350 pages each. Who in the realm of pure literature writes so much? It is not literature, it would miss the mark if it were; but its object is best attained if it have the form and quality of literature. To the multitude it is the abiding and most familiar example in the use of language in other than spoken form. It is quite unnecessary to argue that a stream from which so many take their fill should be kept pure at the source. Standards may be kept inviolate by the pen of genius writing for the cloistered few; current speech takes its form very much from the daily newspaper.

'It is responsibility not lightly borne by men of conscientious habit. Through what discipline comes fitness to bear it worthily? I am void of all fear of contradiction when I say that a newspaper man, and particularly an editorial writer, who has missed making the acquaintance of the gods and mortal-speaking men for whom our heritage of civilization has descended, must fail to do full justice to his talents, however great they may be. Greece and Rome are our motherlands. Without an understanding of the ancient world there can be no sound understanding of the modern world and its affairs.'"

The writer adds :

"How much of learning, how much of reading, how much of meditation, must have gone to the education of such a man who wrote these words!"

C. R. Miller retained all his powers until the last year of his life. He attained what Horace asked for in his prayer to Apollo:

Grant me I pray, Son of Latona, to enjoy my possessions, health, a sound mind and an honorable old age, nec carentem cithara— which would mean "not lacking my editorial page."

In his last sickness Miller was the most patient, courageous, uncomplaining and lovable of men.

As I survey his career and recall his beginnings, his struggles, his final success, and his serenity in achievement, I do not know of any Dartmouth graduate whose life and character are so instructive and inspiring, nor one to whom the old Horatian adage could be better applied.

Integer vitae, scelerisque purus.

I don't believe he would have made for himself such a career if he had not gone to Dartmouth.

Mr. Charles Ransom Miller was born in Hanover, N. H. Jan. 17, 1849. He was fitted for College at the Green Mountain Perkins Academy, South Woodstock, Vt., and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1872. He then became attached to the Springfield Republican and after 3 years became its city editor. He came to New York and joined the staff of the New York Times on July 7, 1875, as assistant telegraph editor; later he was put in charge of the weekly edition. He began at this time to make contributions to the editorial page, his work dealing largely with European problems and politics. In this work he showed so much familiarity and judgment, that in 1881 he was made a regular member of the editorial staff, under Mr. John Fford. In 1884 Mr. Fford resigned and Mr. Miller at the age of 34 was made editor-in-chief, a position which he held until his death.

Miller's career so far as it had any dramatic incidents was identified with that of TheTimes. This was originally a Republican paper, but it had Mugwump tendencies and in 1884 it bolted the Republican party and came out for Cleveland as against Blaine. Cleveland was elected and during the following twelve years Miller was closely associated with the President and his policies.

The Times belonged to Mr. George Jones. After Mr. Jones died his heirs were inclined to sell the paper or allow it to be absorbed in another journal. In this juncture Miller showed his courage and resourcefulness. He organized a syndicate which in 1893 bought the property. The next three years were troublous times, but the paper maintained its high level, and finally in 1896 it was bought by Mr. Adolph Ochs, who not only retained Miller as editor-in-chief, but became his loyal and steadfast friend.

During these later years Miller reached the highest goal of journalistic achievement and was recognized as the leading editorial writer

in the country.

An editorial written by him during the Democratic National Convention in 1912 was held by Mr. Wilson himself to be largely responsible for his nomination. In 1914 when the world-war broke out, Miller's familiarity with European conditions led to the production of editorials of unusual importance. Most famous of these was the editorial of Dec. IS, 1914, headed, "For the German People. Peace with Freedom."

After the war Miller continued to direct the policies of the Times, and contributed to its columns up to January, 1922, when he was taken with the serious heart illness which eventually was the cause of his death.

Miller was married Oct. 10, 1876, to Miss Frances Daniels of Plainfield, N. H., who died in 1906. He leaves a son, Hoyt Miller, and a daughter, Madge Miller. He was a member of the Century, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, and Theta Delta Chi Clubs.

For his services during and after the War he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, of the Belgian Order of Leopold, and Knight Commander of Greek Order of King George I.

He died July 18, 1922.

The following poem appeared anonymously in the New York Times. The editor has added it to Dr. Dana's article as indicating the feeling of Mr. Miller's fellowworkers in his loss:

IN MEMORY OF CHARLES RANSOM MILLER

("He is mourned at the mill, he is mourned at the mess.")—From a Greek Poet of the Seventh Century B.C.

He is mourned at the mill, he is mourned at the mess,

The greatest of millers, whose mill was the press;

The grist it is grinding makes bitter our bread For the grist is the news that our Miller is dead.

ONE OF THE MEN IN THE MILL.

New York, July 18, 1922.

Rev. Alva Herman Morrill died at his home in Newton, N. H., September 8, 1922. His death, which was from heart disease, was very sudden.

The son of Rev. William S. and Minerva True (Dickerson) Morrill, he was born in Grafton, N. H., June 7, 1848, and prepared for college at Andover Christian Institute and Wolfboro Christian Institute. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.

Immediately after graduation he entered the ministry of the Christian denomination, and was ordained pastor of the church at Rye, N. H., July 3, 1872. After a pastorate of three years he became principal of Proctor Academy at Andover, N. H., remaining there until March, 1878, and preaching meanwhile in neighboring pulpits. He then became pastor of the First Christian church in Marion, Ind., but left that position in May, having accepted an invitation to the chair of New Testament Greek in Christian Biblical Institute, Stanfordville, N. Y. There he remained for 13 years, being also pastor of the village church. In May, 1891, he became principal of Starkey Seminary at Eddytown, N. Y., and remained there three years. From June, 1894, to September, 1896, he was pastor of the Old South church in Haverhill, Mass. For the next few months he was engaged in evangelistic work, and in April, 1897, became pastor of the Broad St. church in Providence, R. I. In November, 1898, he left Providence to become pastor of the Middle St. church in New Bedford, Mass., where he remained until June, 1902. He then became field secretary of the New York Eastern Christian Conference, with residence at Albany. In August, 1903, he became field secretary for New England, with residence at New Bedford. In June, 1905, he returned to the pastorate, going to Laconia, N. H., where he remained for six years. In May, 1911, he became pastor at Franklin, N. H., in May, 1915, at Woodstock, Vt., and in May, 1919, at Newton, N. H., which pastorate he held at the time of his death.

Dr. Morrill (his degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by Elon College, North Carolina, in 1892) was always prominent in the general work of his denomination. For eight annual terms he was president of the New York Eastern Christian Conference; from March, 1889, to October, 1894, treasurer of the New York State Christian Association; for ten years from October, 1881, treasurer of the Christian Biblical Institute; in 1891 chairman of a committee to compile a new hymn book, and a member of the committee which revised this book in 1909; from 1886 for about twenty years a trustee of the Christian Publishing Association, and secretary of the Association four years from 1894; president of the Christian Camp Meeting Association for several years until his death. For the term of four years from 1894 he was president of the American Christian Convention, the highest office in the gift of his denomination. He was a constant contributor to the religious press, and for some time managing editor of The Christian Messenger, at New Bedford, Mass. In 1881 he was invited to the presidency of Union Christian College, in Indiana, and in 1882 to that of Antioch College, in Ohio, but declined in each case.

December 3, 1872, he; was married to Elizabeth Lake, daughter of John Wesley and Pamelia W. (Philbrook) Hubbard of Wells, Me., who survives him. Their five children are all living: Mrs. Ethel Hubbard Dickens; Mrs. Minerva True Allen; Herman Vincent Morrill, in the Railway Mail Service; Dwight Floron Morrill, in business in Philadelphia; Mrs. Pamelia Elizabeth Allen. There are also eight grandchildren.

An extended notice in The Herald of GospelLiberty thus characterizes Dr. Morrill: "He was a logical and eloquent preacher, a man of genial,, social bearing among the people, a devoted husband and father, a faithful friend, of a kind and sympathetic nature."

CLASS OF 1875

Rev. William Carr died September 12, 1922, at the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, after a surgical operation.

He was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, January 15, 1845, his parents being Hugh and Mary (Lannagan) Carr. His home when in college was at Glover, Vt., and he fitted at Glover Liberal Institute and Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, and remained there three years, graduating in 1878. In February, 1879, he became pastor of the Congregational church in Irasburg, Vt., where he remained four years. From March, 1883, to July, 1885, he was pastor at Sheldon, Vt., and then until November, 1889, of the Second church in Brookfield, Vt. From 1889 to 1893 he was with the Second church of West Medway, Mass., and then to 1896 at Sheffield, Mass. From 1896 to December, 1907, he was pastor at Taftville, Conn., and since the last date at Poquonock, Conn., in all these places winning high regard as a faithful, efficient, and fine-spirited Christian minister.

September 16, 1880, he was married to Susan E., daughter of Levi S. and Irene (Hodgkins) Thompson, who . survives him. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1877

Edward Spurrier Franklin died at his home in Newark, Ohio, July 23, 1921. The cause of his death was diabetes, from which he had suffered for many years.

The son of John H. and Elizabeth S. (Heeley) Franklin, he was born in Newark, May 3, 1853. He fitted at Newark High School for the Chandler Scientific Department, which he entered with his brother, the late John H. Franklin. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

In December, 1875, he left college, and was for a time a farmer at Newark. In 1880-2 he was in the queensware business in partnership with his brother. After some other brief business connections he became in 1884 secretary of the Edward H. Everett Company, glass manufacturers, the company later becoming a part of the American Bottle Company. He remained with this company until his retirement, January 1, 1920.

He was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a member of various Masonic bodies.

October 4, 1876, Mr. Franklin was married to Florence 0., daughter of George M. and Sarah A. (Little) Grasser of Newark, who survives him, with a daughter and a son.

Rev. John Andrew Rowell died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Modesto, Cal., August 9, 1922.

He was born in Chichester, N. H., October 16, 1850, his parents being Asa Tilton and Abigail Smith (Moulton) Rowell. He prepared for college at Pittsfield Academy and at Penacook Normal Academy, and entered college in the fall of 1872, with the class of 1876. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. At the end of sophomore year he left college, and taught for a year. Returning to college, he took his junior , year with the class of '77, and at the close of that year again left college, and was for the next two years engaged in farming and teaching in his native town. In 1887 he was given his diploma and enrolled as a graduate member of the latter class.

In 1878 he entered Bangor Theological Seminary in the middle class, and graduated in 1880. He then entered the Congregational ministry, and had a succession of pastorates, as follows: South Weare, N. H., 1880-2; Francestown, N. H., 1882-6; Brainerd, Minn., 1886-9; Hamilton, Minn., 1889-92; Emerald Grove, Wis., 1892-3; Fulton, Wis., 1893-5; Pine River, Wis., 1895-7; Mondovi, Wis., 1897-1900. He then retired from the active work of the ministry, and lived on a farm at Mondovi from 1900 to 1912. He then removed to Hinsdale, Mass., and in 1917 to California.

July 5, 1875, Mr. Rowell was married to Alma Narcissa, daughter of Albert and Joanna R. Holmes of Hopkinton, N. H., who died March 14, 1889. They had six children, of whom four are now living. September 28, 1890, was a second marriage, to Clara Hale of Hamilton, Minn., who survives him, with two children of this marriage.

Mr. Rowell was a Christian gentleman of tender conscience and fine tastes. He was liberal and progressive in his thinking, a strong preacher, and a faithful and sympathetic pastor.

CLASS OF 1881

Lewis Roger Wentworth died at his home in Somerville, Mass., September 14, 1922, of heart disease and attendant complications, after an illness of several months.

He was born in Bridgewater, Mass., April 26, 1855, his parents being Lewis and Cordelia E. (Leach) Wentworth. His preparation for college was obtained at the public schools of Bridgewater and under private tutors, his preparation in Greek being made solely by his own efforts, with no instruction. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Lowell F. Wentworth '84 D.M.S. is a brother.

After graduation he was principal of the high school at Mansfield, Mass., for five months, and then of the high school at Fairhaven, Mass., until June, 1884. He studied law at the same time, and began practice in Somerville in August, 1884. In 1889 and 1890 he was a member of the Common Council of the city, and had been judge of its Police Court since January, 1902. The esteem in which he was held in the city is evidenced by the fact that the flags on the public buildings were at half staff during the funeral service.

Judge Wentworth was a director in the Somerville National Bank and the Somerville Trust Company, a Mason and Knight Templar, and an Odd Fellow.

He was married January 11, 1888, to Mary M. Wade of New York city, who died July 14, 1918. They had no children.

Among other public bequests in Judge Wentworth's will is one of $1,000 to Dartmouth College.

Professor William Archibald Dunning, who was for a part of freshman year a member of this class, died at his home in New York city August 25, 1922, of heart disease, after a long illness.

He was a native of Plainfield, N. J., the son of John H. and Catherine D. (Trelease) Dunning, and sixty-four years of age. After leaving Dartmouth he entered Columbia University, where he graduated in 1881. For two years after graduation he taught in Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, meanwhile pursuing studies at Columbia, where he received the degree of A.M. in 1883. The next two years were entirely given to graduate studies at Columbia, and were followed by the degree of Ph.D. in 1885. Since 1886 he had taught at Columbia, and been professor of history and political philosophy since 1904. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Columbia in 1904, and that of Doctor of Letters from Dartmouth in 1916.

Professor Dunning was vice-president of the American Historical Association. For nine years he was managing editor of the PoliticalScience Quarterly, and was a voluminous contributor to this and other periodicals. He is also the author of the following books: "Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction", 1898; "Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-77", 1907; "History of Political Theories", 3 volumes, 1902, 1907, and 1920; "Life of Carl Schurz", in collaboration with Frederic Bancroft, 1908; "Relations of the British Empire and the United States", 1914.

April 18, 1888, he was married to Charlotte E. Loomis, who died June 13, 1917. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1882

John Dudley Pope died August 4, 1922, at the Alexian Brothers' Hospital near Chicago. He had been in poor health for more than a year, and early last winter underwent a serious operation at the hospital of the Mayo Brothers in Rochester, Minn. He never fully recovered, although during the spring he seemed to be, gaining strength and at that time anticipated a complete recovery.

He was born on the farm of his father, John Pope, in Newport township, Lake County, Ill., December 28, 1856. He entered his Dartmouth class at the beginning of senior year, coming from Lake Forest University. He was a member of. Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he studied law at the University of Chicago. In 1886 he removed to Friend, Neb., where he developed an extensive law practice and became prominent in the public affairs of his state. He was elected state senator from his district in 1888, and served continuously until 1897. Shortly after this date he removed to Waukegan, Ill., where he made his home to the time of his death. He became a member of the law firm of Cooke, Pope, and Pope, with offices in Waukegan and Chicago. He was rated one of the ablest lawyers in northern Illinois, and was one of two or three acknowledged leaders of the Lake County bar. Mrs. Pope and two sons, one of them a member of the senior class at Dartmouth, survive.

CLASS OF 1886

Ernest Jasper Edmands died at his home in Cliftondale, Mass., August 22, 1922, of anemia. He gave up work July 5, and was two weeks in a hospital before returning to his home.

The son of Thomas Scott and Harriet (Merrill) Edmands, he was born in Chelmsford, Mass., March 24, 1861. Thomas M. Edmands '83 was a brother. He fitted at Billerica High School, and took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department. He was a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi.)

After graduation he was first engaged in civil engineering, being for nine months on construction work for the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska and Wyoming, and then with the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad until Christmas of 1887. He then was principal of grammar schools at Framingham and Provincetown, Mass. In 1891 he was made superintendent of schools for the towns of Templeton, Royalston, Hubbardston, and Phillipston, living at Baldwinville. Three years later he became superintendent of the Sandwich-Bourne district. In 1897 he left this position and established the Edmands Educators' Exchange of Boston, of which he was manager until his death. In this capacity he became widely and favorably known to the teaching profession of New England, and he is mourned by a wide circle of friends.

For many years he was trustee of the public library of the town of Saugus, in which his home village of Cliftondale is situated. He also held many offices in the Congregational church of Cliftondale, such as Sunday school superintendent, president of the men's club, member of the board of trustees, and deacon.

August 22, 1892, he was married to Mabelle Clay, daughter of Charles W. and Ida (Clay) Knight, who survives him, with two daughters, Mary J. and Elizabeth M. A son, Phillips Brooks, is not living.

CLASS OF 1887

James Clifford Simpson died suddenly of heart disease at his home in New York city, June 11, 1922.

He was born in Greenland, N. H., May 27, 1865, the son of Nathaniel Haines and Ann Rosamond (Pickering) Simpson, and fitted for college at Greenland Academy. He was one of the brilliant men of the class, and was prominent in the life of the class and the college. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he' was principal for one year of Woodstock (Conn.) Academy, and then for four years of Bellows Falls (Vt.) High School. In 1892 he became superintendent of schools at Portsmouth, N. H. There he became a leader in the educational affairs of the state, and as a trustee of the State Normal School at Plymouth was largely instrumental in making this school an institution of national significance.

In March, 1898, he resigned the superintendency to enter the Boston office of D. C. Heath and Company, text-book publishers. In 1902 he became New England manager for the company, and in 1910 was elected director and vice-president. In April, 1913, he took charge of the New York office. He had been for a long time one of the best known and most highly esteemed men in the educational publishing business. He was a member of the University Club of Boston and of the Masonic order.

January 1, 1901, Mr. Simpson was married to Lena Allen, daughter of Capt. Josiah A. and Almenia H. B. (Stimson) Stover, who survives him. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1888

Israel Hoffman Reynolds. died at his home in the city of Chicago, March 2, 1922, of angina pectoris, after only a few hours' illness.

He was born at Porter's Siding, Pa., February 2, 1864, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Shippensburg Normal School. He was a member of Phi Zeta Mu {now Sigma Chi.)

For a few months after graduation he was employed in an architect's office in New York city, and from January to May, 1889, in government employ at Pittsburgh, Pa., as a clerk in the office of the superintendent of construction of some public buildings. Soon after he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Steel Company of Steelton, and remained with them for three years. In August, 1892. he removed to Chicago, and was for a year a salesman for Frazer and Chalmers, and from 1893 to 1896 with Pease and Company. From 1896 for some time he was cashier of the Technical Club of Chicago, and then for several years with the Interstate Iron and Steel Company. In 1913 he became an inspector of material for the Cincinnati Car Company, and finally, in 1917, he entered the employ of Robert Hunt and Company, consulting engineers, with whom he remained until his death.

November 26, 1889, he was married to Fannie May Gemmill of Porter's Siding, who survives him. They have had four children, of whom two are living.

When in college Mr. Reynolds was awarded the "mirror", among the junior honors, a recognition of his being the handsomest man in his class. He was also a favorite because of his gentle, kindly disposition. During recent years he had been outside the knowledge of his classmates.

CLASS OF 1892

Charles Hall Gould died at his home in Washington, D. C., September 21, and was buried in Bridgton, Me., on the 23d.

He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., July 11, 1868, and fitted for Dartmouth at Bridgton (Me.) Academy. During his college course he held many offices in the class, and was football manager senior year. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and of the Casque and Gauntlet and Phi Beta Kappa societies.

After graduation he was an instructor in Latin at Dartmouth for a year, and then studied law at the New York Law School. In 1898 he became manager of "The Balsams", a summer resort at Dixville Notch, N. H., and made it one of the most famous hotels of the White Mountain region.

In 1918 Gould became assistant chief of the Division of Loans and Currency in the Treasury Department at Washington, where he first had important duties in connection with the Liberty Loan Issues, and later with the Treasury Savings Certificates.

Gould was quiet, modest, and unassuming, yet he stood squarely for what was clean, honorable, and of good repute. He had a wonderful capacity for friendship, and drew men to him naturally. His going removes a most loyal Dartmouth alumnus and a devoted and beloved member of our class circle.

CLASS OF 1911

Henry Willis Brown died very suddenly at the Newton Hospital, Newton, Mass., on September 7, following an operation for appendicitis, which was performed three days before and from which he was apparently recovering when complications set in very suddenly from which the doctors were unable to give him any relief.

He was born in Boston, Mass., August 9, 1889, the son of the late Samuel Willis and Emma (Rothe) Brown. His family moved to Brookline when he was seven. There he received his early education. He prepared for college at Mitchell Military School at Billerica, and then at Manor School at Stamford, Conn. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1907, and was graduated with the class of 1911.

Following his graduation he spent several months traveling in European countries. In January, 1912, he entered the employ of Field and Cowles at 85 Water St., Boston, New England managers of the Royal Indemnity Company, with whom he was connected at the time of his death, having for the past two or three years been manager of the plate glass and burglary department of that office.

Shortly after the entry of this country into the war he enlisted, remaining in service until January, 1919, when he received his discharge with the rank of ordnance sergeant.

On April 10, 1920, he married Miss Grace E. Moulton of Brookline, and they established their residence at 335 Wolcott St., Auburndale, where they have since lived. Besides his wife, he is survived by his mother, who resides in Brookline.

He was of an old New England family, a direct descendant of four of the members of the famous Minute Men. He belonged to the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution, and to Beth Horon Lodge of Masons at Brookline, Mass.

His loyalty to Dartmouth was unquestioned, and he had been very much interested in the activities of the College. His loss will be severely felt by his many friends among the Boston alumni, with whom he was closely in touch. Quiet and unassuming, his sound judgment and dependability were qualities which had endeared him to many. His classmates mourn his loss. He was ever faithful and always ready to do his part.

The news of the death of Arthur Joshua Knight came as a very distinct shock to his large community of friends in Rockford, Ill. He died from peritonitis Sunday morning, September 17, at the Rockford Hospital, after an illness of six days. Not even his family realized its gravity until Saturday night, when he suffered a relapse. After a consultation Saturday morning of local physicians and Chicago specialists, his condition was diagnosed as toxic colitis developing paralysis of the bowels. An emergency operation was performed, but the ulcer had burst the intestinal wall, and his death followed early Sunday morning.

Art was born in Rockford, Ill., November 28, 1889, where he received his early education and was graduated from the Rockford High School in 1906. After a postgraduate course of one year, he entered Dartmouth, where he was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1911. While in college he was very active as an undergraduate, being the first secretary of his class and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

Following his graduation he became associated with Butler Brothers in Chicago for a year, then entered the Chicago Kent College of Law, from which he graduated in 1915. He then studied with, and later became an associate of, the legal firm of Hoyne, O'Connor, and Erwin.

In 1916 he went to the Mexican border as a member of Battery D of the First Field Artillery of Chicago. He entered the Second Officers Training Camp at Ft. Sheridan in 1917, where he was commissioned first lieutenant at the close of the course in November. On December 24, 1917, he sailed for France, where he attended the French Artillery School at Saumur for three months. Following two weeks of observation at the French front he was assigned to the 119th Field Artillery of the 32d (Red Arrow) Division, serving as liaison officer in the Toul and Alsace sectors and in the Marne-Aisne and Oise-Aisne offensives. Also during part of this time he was in command of the liaison work between his regiment and the infantry of the Division, which it was supporting. He was then promoted to a captaincy, and served as an instructor in the French Artillery School at Saumur, which he had first attended. After the armistice, he was an instructor in a number of camps in France, and after nineteen months of service overseas, which gave him three gold chevrons, he was discharged from service at Camp Grant, August 2, 1919. In the summer of 1918, during the heavy fighting along the American front, a rumor of his death was received, which proved, however, to be a false rumor.

On his discharge from service, Art took up the practice of law in Rockford, and became associated with his father, B. A. Knight, and his brother, William D. Knight '08, city attorney. He became a charter member of the Walter R. Craig Post of the American Legion, and during the past year served on the executive committee of that organization. He started the Craig Post News, its weekly paper, and served as its business manager from the first.

Art was a member of the University Club, serving as its secretary. As a, member of the Methodist Episcopal church, he participated actively in its work and in its Sunday school. He served one year as president of the Men's Brotherhood of the church. He was also a member of the Rockford Elks and the Winnebago County Bar Association.

In addition to his parents and brother, William D. Knight 'OB, he is survived by three sisters.

An instance of Art's interest for the welfare of his parents was made apparent on Saturday night just before his operation, when he reached for the telephone beside his bed and called his mother, who was ill at the time, telling her that he was all right and for her not to worry about him but look out for herself.

The expressions of sorrow and many manifestations of Arthur's character make very evident the great esteem in which he was held by his friends and the feeling of a real loss to the community by his death. In editorials from the Rockford papers it was said that he measured up to the highest standards of Christian citizenship in every relation of life, and he was one of the morally and physically courageous who could look the world in the face without fear and without reproach. His alert and analytic mind had been broadened by culture and contact with many phases of human life and his knowledge of the law was deep and comprehensive. His ideals of his profession and its responsibilities were high, and he had already reached a standing where his opinions were heard with respect. He was a safe counselor, careful and painstaking and thorough in his work. Added to that, he had such a kindly spirit one could never think of him as having spoken ill of any other. His death is a great loss to the bar. Life had much in store for him, and he was cut down when his hardest struggles were over and a most promising professional career was just opening.

At the funeral services hundreds of his townsmen paid their last respects. The county court adjourned at noon, and the county and circuit clerk's offices were closed during the afternoon on account of the funeral. The Bugle and Drum Corps members of the Walter R. Craig Post of the American Legion attended the services in uniform; also the members of the Winnebago County Bar Association at- tended in a body. Among those who bore the body to its final resting place were Willard P. Earngay of the class of 1911.

In their loss his classmates join in the thought expressed by his pastor at his funeral when he said that he had that rare gift of simple modesty and unfeigned friendliness that made everybody comfortable with him. Back of the evenness of his character lay something more. His life was free from restlessness. He gave no sign of egoistic ambition. He was poised, happy, and satisfied, because he was true on every side of his life. No selfish designs inspired him, but his first aim was to fulfil every obligation because of his pride in the causes he served and the satisfaction he felt in his faithfulness. This characterized him at college, at home, as a citizen, and as a soldier.

CLASS OF 1912

Arthur Dow Newman, major of cavalry, U.S.A., was killed on July 1, 1922, while playing in a government polo tournament as a member of the Army team. As a result of a collision with another rider, Major Newman's spine was broken, death following the same evening.

Major Newman was born in Fryeburg, Me., August 30, 1889, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Newman. He graduated from Fryeburg Academy with honors, and entered Dartmouth in 1908, while awaiting an appointment to West Point. He received the appointment in 1910 and entered the Military Academy, where he was graduated in 1914. The Howitzer of that year says of him: "As president of the Y. M. C. A. he has put the organization on a firm footing. 'lt is common knowledge that he has done wonders to promote good fellowship and a Christian spirit in the Corps. No one has done more practical good at the Academy than he."

After leaving West Point, he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, taking part in the warfare on the Mexican border. After being stationed at various other army posts, he was called to Washington during the World War, advanced to the grade of major, and stationed with the Purchase, Storage, and Traffic Division.

August 15, 1917, he married at Springfield, Ill., Adelaide, daughter of Brigadier General and Mrs. Edward Lewis. His wife and two sons, Edward Lewis and Frank McCoy Newman, survive him. The burial was in Arlington Cemetery.

Major Newman's death comes as a great shock to those of 1912 who knew and respected him. While he was at Dartmouth for a comparatively short time, many of the class knew him and will mourn his loss.