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 1873

Rev. Stephen Henry Robinson died October 4, 1922, at the New Hampshire State Hospital, Concord, of softening of the brain. He had been in failing health for a little over a year, and was taken to the hospital a week before his death.

He was born in Providence, R. I., August 16, 1845, and was the son of Stephen Henry and Martha (Lyon) Robinson. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1867, and a year later entered Dartmouth in the class of 1872. 11l health compelled him soon to leave college, but after a time he returned as a member of the class of 1873. Again he was obliged to leave for the same reason, and did not rejoin the class.

With a partial restoration to health, he entered Yale Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1874. Entering the Congregational ministry, he held pastorates at the following places: South Woodbury, Vt., 1876-7; Waitsfield, Vt., 1877-84; Sterling, Mass., 1885-6; Greenfield, Mass., 1887-90; Atlanta, Ga., 1890-4; Ludlow, Vt., 1895-7; Greenfield, N. H., 1897-1902; Gilmanton, N. H., 1902-5; Dunbarton, N. H., 1905-10; Franconia, N. H., 191115. He then removed to Goffstown, N. H., and made his home there for the rest of his life, occasionally serving neighboring churches as temporary supply.

He was married February 9, 1887, to Clara A. Dartt of Waitsfield, Vt., who survives him. They had no children.

In college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

CLASS OF 1880

Dr. Frank Fremont Smith died at his summer home at Bar Harbor, Me., September 29, 1922. He had been for some time a victim of melancholia, and his death was suicidal.

The son of Aaron W. Smith, he was born September 13, 1857, and prepared for college at Manchester (N. H.) High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he studied medicine for two years at the University of Michigan and for one year at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter in 1883. He soon after located in practice at St. Augustine, Fla., becoming the physician to several large hotels and to the state institution for the instruction of the deaf and blind. He was also a member of the state board of medical examiners. He soon began to spend his summers at Bar Harbor, and had there also a large practice among the hotels and in the summer colony. Later he removed to Washington, D. C., where he was associate professor of pediatrics in George Washington University. His final winter residence was in Boston, while his summers were invariably spent at Bar Harbor. He was highly successful in his profession, and prominent socially.

June 5, 1890, Dr. Smith was married to Dorothea M. Grossman, who survives him, with their three children, Dr. Maurice Smith, Frank Fremont Smith, Jr., and Mrs. Edward Preble Motley.

CLASS OF 1882

William Clark Whiting died at Plymouth, Mass., September 30, 1922, of apoplexy. He was stricken with the disease on the 22d while driving his automobile, and narrowly escaped immediate death when the machine rushed down a steep hill, came to a stop near the top of another hill, and finally backed into a brick building.

He was born in Springfield, Vt., May 26, 1857, his father being Samuel Whiting, and fitted at Springfield High School. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

He taught in his home town for the first year after graduation, then for two years in Holden, Mass., and then for a time in Webster, Mass. He was then successively principal of high schools at Chicopee, Mass., Melrose, Mass., and Plymouth, Mass. Several years ago he left teaching, and became curator of Pilgrim Hall, the museum of Pilgrim relics at Plymouth.

He leaves a wife, who has been for some time an invalid.

Rev. Fredefic Harrison Knight, for the last fifteen years superintendent of the New England Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, died on Sunday, October 15, at his home, 17 Green St., Brookline, Mass. Dr. Knight had been ill for several weeks, and on the day before his death submitted to a serious operation, from which he did not rally. The news of his death came as a shock to those of his classmates and many other Dartmouth men who saw him at the reunion of 'B2 last June. Apparently he was then in the most robust health.

He was born in Saco, Me., the son of Edward T. and Sarah C. (Boothby) Knight, October 22, 1859. He fitted at Saco High School, and on entering college at once took high rank in scholarship, ranking fourth or fifth in the class for the entire four years. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

On graduation he studied at Boston University School of Theology, graduating in 1885. At the beginning of his theological studies he undertook active work in the Methodist ministry, being in charge of the church at Putney, Vt., 1882-4, and at Wollaston, Mass., 1884-7. He was then pastor at Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1887-91, and at Springfield, Mass., 1891-4. During the last two years of his Springfield pastorate he was doing graduate work in Boston University, and the year 1894-5 he spent in study at the University of Berlin, in Germany. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Boston University in 1895 as a result of this graduate work. From 1895 to 1900 he was pastor of a church in Salem, Mass., and for the next two years in South Boston. From 1902 to 1907 he was president of New Orleans University, leaving this position to become superintendent of the Home for Little Wanderers in Roxbury on August 1, 1907.

September 22, 1887, Dr. Knight was married to Marion Butterfield of Wakefield, Mass., who survives him, with two sons, Frederic B. Knight, professor of psychology at lowa State University, and Howard R. Knight, of the Ohio Institute for Public Efficiency at Columbus. Dr. Howard W. Knight of Portland, Me., D.M.S. '99, is a brother.

CLASS OF 1895

Newton Dexter Clarke was ,born June 1, 1873, at Acworth, N. H., the son of Myron D. and Emma (Thompson) Clarke. He attended the schools of his native town, and fitted for college at the Bellows Falls (Vt) High School. He entered college ,with the class of 1895, and, although he largely worked his way through college and taught winters, he was graduated with the class with high honors. While in college he won the Thayer mathematical prize, and in his senior year with his roommates Chase '95 and Maben '97 founded Delta Alpha. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and at graduation was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

In 1898, after teaching at Bellows Falls and Ludlow, Vt., he became principal of the Mendon (Mass.) High School. Two years later he was principal of the high school at Peterboro, N. H., for one year. After a most successful year at Peterboro, he was elected principal of the high school at Plymouth, N. H. He remained in Plymouth six years, and left to become a teacher of mathematics in the Boston High School of Commerce in September, 1907. In October, 1910, he was made head of the department of mathematics in the same school, holding this position at the time of his death.

He died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage October 17, 1922, at the home of his friend, Mr. Walter F. Downey,. headmaster of the English High School, where he had gone with other friends to pass- the evening. He had been in his usual good health up to the minute of his death.

August.9, 1901, Mr. Clarke married Miss Grace Isabel Prouty of Putney, Vt., who survives with their six children: Malcolm, Dexter, Dartmouth '22, varsity end and honor man, now a teacher in Santa Barbara, Cal.; Beatrice Adeline, a sophomore at Barnard, winner of the Pulitzer prize scholarship in 1921 ; Katherine Isabel; Lois; Constance Mary; and Donald Prouty. Mr. Clarke had also for some time been caring in his family for two orphan children of a sister.

His funeral was held October 19 at the Faneuil Congregational church in Brookline, of which he was a deacon. The burial took place at Putney, Vt., the following day.

Mr. Clarke was a man of high intellectual attainments and of the highest character. He was largely self-made. Unselfish devotion to his family and his work was his guiding principle. During the World War, when Massachusetts mobilized her schoolboys to tend the crops of the state, he volunteered to take charge of the camp at Hatfield, Mass. By common consent this was the model camp of the state, and it was the only one which existed for more than one season. In school, in addition to his work on mathematics he interested himself in the athletic activities of the boys, and gave much of his spare time to organizing and directing musical activities. For many years he had drilled the school orchestra and band, both large organizations of no mean merit. His work in mathematics was enviable, but his success in instrumental school music was even more so. The present librarian of the Symphony Orchestra was playing in his orchestra fourteen years ago, and dates his interest in orchestral music from that time. This is an extreme case; but who can measure the influence of this labor of love, which began early in his teaching career?

CLASS OF 1898

Dr. Henry Putnam Merrill, a member of this class during a part of the course, died in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, Sept. IS, 1922, of pneumonia, after a short illness.

The son of Henry Putnam and MaryElizabeth (Hodges) Merrill, he was born in Portland, Me., May 14, 1875, and prepared for college at Portland High School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. Dr. Walter E. Merrill '98 D. M. S., George Frye Merrill '00, and Arthur H. Merrill '02 are brothers.

After leaving college he studied medicine, graduating from Cornell in 1900. He began practice in Portland, and continued there until the entry of the United States into the World War, when he enlisted in the navy. He was commissioned a lieutenant, was first stationed at Portland in charge of the examination of recruits, and later at Bar Harbor and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was a member of the Cumberland, Maine, and American Medical Societies, and was highly regarded in his profession.

In 1913 Dr. Merrill was maried to Abbie, daughter of William Livermore and Naomi (Farmer) Sargent of Boothbay Harbor, Me., who survives him. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1907

Clarence Henry Stern died at his home at 790 Riverside Drive, New York city, September 18, 1922.

He was born in Albany, N. Y., July 26, 1887, the son of Isaac and Caroline Stern, and fitted at Albany High School.

For several years after graduation he was sporting editor of the Times-Union of Albany. In 1912 he removed to New York city and engaged in the dress manufacturing business, being finally president of the firm of C. H. Stern and Company at 35 West 31st St.

His widow, Mrs. Gladys Stern, and a daughter, Jane Carol, survive him, also his mother.

CLASS OF 1908

Frank William Anderson died of pernicious anemia at the home of his parents, 25 Ashfield St., Roslindale, Mass., September 29, 1922.

The son of Carl Theodore and Albertina J. Anderson, he was born in East Boston, Mass., February 12, 1885, and fitted (with his brother, Arthur T. Anderson) at East Boston High School. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.

After graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, but contracted tuberculosis and was obliged to leave during his senior year, going to the Canadian Northwest to regain his health. Later he went to Colorado, and studied for a time at the University of Colorado. After a time he was able to return East, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1918. He was on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital from June, 1918, to December, 1919, and while there made a specialty of X-ray work. From January, 1920, to the following December he was on the staff of Harper Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Yielding to the urgent solicitation of the Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minn., in January, 1921, he joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic as associate roentgenologist in the section of radium and X-ray therapy, and remained there until shortly before his death.

He was a member of the Harvard and University clubs of Minnesota, of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.

The class secretary says: "So it seems that Frank, although handicapped for ten years with tuberculosis, was able to win recognition from perhaps the foremost surgeons in the United States, and it makes us feel all the sadder at his going when we realize that he fought so hard to live, and accomplished so much with the awful handicap he had to carry."

Earl Alfred Mower died in Seattle, Wash., October 8, 1922, of pneumonia, after an illness of six days.

He was born in New Haven, Coiin., June 11, 1886. His parents were George A and Lucy . (Phalon) Mower. His home in boyhood was at Windsor, Vt., where he fitted at the local high school. He was a member of Sigma Chi.

After graduation he entered the employ of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and remained with that company and its subsidiaries for the rest of his life. He was first in Pittsburgh, Pa., whence he was transferred to Spokane, Wash., with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. In August, 1916, he was transferred to Tacoma, and the next March to Portland, Oregon, going back to Tacoma a few months later. April 1, 1918, he entered military service. For a month he was attached to the 320 th Field Signal Battalion of the Bth Division at Camp Fremont, Cal., and was then at Camp Lewis, Wash., until his discharge, January 20, 1919. He had attained the rank of sergeant. At the time of his death he was division traffic manager of the Pacific Company for the state of Washington and the part of Canada adjoining that state.

December 25, 1918, he was married to Isabel Carpenter of Seattle, who survives him. There are no children. A father and sister also survive him.

CLASS OF 1920

Stephen Pittis Ryder, a member of the class during the early part of the course, was fatally injured at his manufacturing plant at Niagara Falls, N. Y., October 4, 1922. He was supervising the unloading of some lathes. One end of one had been jacked up about four inches from the floor of the car to permit the placing of rollers beneath the i skids. Ryder picked up a roller and stepped between two lathes to place it in position. Just as he was about to place the roller, the lathe toppled sidewise, pinning him against the ways of another machine. The left side of his chest received the full weight of the machine, his ribs being broken and his lung punctured. He lost consciousness . immediately, and passed away at the hospital a half hour later.

He was born in Washington, D. C., October 17, 1897. He attended the public schools of that city, and later those of Cadiz, Ohio. His preparation was obtained at Ridley College, St. Catherines, Ont.

Ryder was one of the first volunteers for service in the American Ambulance Corps with the French army at the opening of the war, and served with it until the arrival of our own army, receiving a divisional citation for bravery f;rom the French government. When the American Ambulance Corps was disbanded he returned to this country, but in less than sixty days he had volunteered for service in the British Royal Air Force. He served several months as a cadet in Canada, and completed his training at Lincoln, England, where he was commissioned October 26, 1918, as second lieutenant.

Returning home in the latter part of the winter of 1918-19, he entered the employ of the Chisholm-Scott Company of Niagara Falls, working as an assistant to his father. He was very popular among his associates in the canning plant and his friends in the city.