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

Lord John Butler died of apoplexy at Port Gibson, Miss., October 28, 1921, after a period of ill health of some duration.

He was born in Port Gibson, August 7, 1838, his parents being Rev. Dr. Zebulon and Mary Anne (Murdock) Butler. His father was a graduate of Princeton in 1820 and a prominent Presbyterian, clergyman. He received his preparatory education in a private academy at Port Gibson, and took at Dartmouth the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, being a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi).

After graduation he took up civil engineering, and was an assistant engineer on the New Orleans and Opelousas Railroad at the opening of the Civil War. A Whig in politics, he was opposed to secession, but cast his lot with his native state, and enlisted as private in a cavalry regiment in Confederate service. Later he became engineer and engineer trooper, and was made second lieutenant of engineers after the siege of Port Hudson for attention to duty during the siege. He remained in service to the close of the war. Mr. Butler is probably the last survivor of the Southern students who came to Dartmouth in ante-bellum days and of the Dartmouth men in the Confederate service.

For some years after the war he lived on his plantation, "La Cache," about eight miles from Port Gibson, which was once the home of Harman Blennerhassett, whose name is associated in history with that of Aaron Burr. He was engaged in railroad and other engineering for many years over a great part of the southern states. For twenty years he made his home on his wife's ancestral plantation, "Glendale," one mile from Port Gibson. Since his wife's death he had lived with his daughter, Mrs. Herlitz.

In 1860 Mr. Butler was married to Kate Coburn, daughter of Col. John C. and Sarah (Stuart )Humphreys, who died January 12, 1919. Three daughters survive them: Mrs. Louis A. Tompkins of East Orange, N. J.; Mrs. W. H. Piper of Baton Rouge, La.; and Mrs. W. A. Herlitz of Port Gibson.

His son-in-law writes thus of Mr. Butler: "He was truly a gentleman of the old school, of exceedingly courteous manners and refinement, loved by every one who knew him. His word was his bond. In every respect he was a man."

CLASS OF 1866

James Henry Chapman died in Philadelphia, Pa., November 5, 1921.

The son of George Roswell and Harriet M. (Jones) Chapman, he was born in Woodstock, Vt., January 10, 1846. He prepared for college mainly at the Woodstock High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

In the fall of 1866 he entered the woolen business, going into a mill at Woonsocket, R. I. After a time he removed to Trenton, N. J., and entered the employ of the American Crockery Company, where he remained until 1881 as secretary and traveling salesman. From 1881 to 1885 he studied singing, having a fine tenor voice, holding clerkships in Philadelphia and Chicago meanwhile. Deciding not to enter music as a profession, he entered the western mortgage business in 1885, representing various companies in the East for about five years. Early in 1891 he became a representative of Harvey Fisk and Sons, New York bankers and bond dealers, traveling for them over a large territory. In 1892 he opened an office in Philadelphia as their representative, where he remained until July, 1915, when he was transferred to their New York office, retaining his home in Philadelphia.

He married Isabel, daughter of Dr. E. M. Howard of Camden, N. J., who survives him, with two daughters and a son.

The above outline facts of Mr. Chapman's life are preliminary to the following sketch, prepared by his classmate, Dr. James A. Spalding.

The news of the sudden death from pneumonia of the next to the youngest member of the class of '66 caused many a heartache in their fast thinning ranks, for "Jimmy Chap" was the heart and soul of the 50th and 55th reunions of the class at Hanover and at Manchester.

Two things struck you, about Chapman. The first was, that he was the neatest looking man you would come across day in and day out in any journey or in meeting many men in all classes of life. He was by no means a Beau Brummel, dressed in the latest fashions in clothes of the handsomest patterns and cut, but his clothes were neat; unspotted, they fitted him to perfection; his hair was well brushed; his face clean shaved so far as he wore it shaved; gloves were always with him; his nails were perfect; and his hat and his shoes were immaculate. There was nothing of the dandy about him, but his appearance was the expression of the man, the determination that, whether up in life or down on his luck, he would be presentable to everybody, high or low. His friends loved to be seen walking the streets with such a man. His handwriting, too, was like the man, neat, legible, emblematical.

The other characteristic of his life and conduct was his untiring friendliness. I first met "Chap" in September, 1862, and I saw him many times between then and the end of his life. I visited his home in Woodstock, he visited my parents and their family in Portsmouth, he visited my wife and myself in Portland, and every time that he met us he was the same friendly man in all respects, glad to see us, while his eyes gave utterance to feelings of joy at seeing us again, which perhaps his words did not always communicate profusely. There was no pretence about him; he was genuine through and through.

Some men get along well with their friends who are outside of their lines of business, but are distant enough to their competitors. But in all my long acquaintance with "Chap," he treated his business competitors as if they were selling just as solid investments for savings or for speculation as he himself. I think that he was a bit too honest in his business, for few men would have labored for years for any firm without making use of some tip from Wall Street and emerging with a fortune. Such good luck, however, never smiled on our comrade and classmate even to his last venture in life.

Graduating from Dartmouth, he went into wool, but then, instead of becoming, as ve expected, an agent for a mill with a handsome salary for life, he disappointed our expectations by becoming a captain in crockery, a? one might say. But he left even that, and went into mortgages and bonds.

What was the secret of his apparent unsteadiness? It was the possession of a lovely tenor voice. He listened to the enchantments of the charmer, the operatic and concert stage, and for a while gave up everything and sang in public. Voice indeed he had, and one of beauty, but the impresario who could advertise it to the public, Caruso-like, for the upbuilding of our classmate's fortune, was lacking, and never appeared at all.

After these various changes of business and adventures in music land, Chapman went into bonds. He probably sold all over this nation a greater proportion of his offerings than any other man in the business, and simply because his attractive personality and his knowledge of human nature enabled, him to be more successful than the ordinary bond-seller.

If we believe that music is the highest expression of human happiness, then our comrade of Dartmouth was the happiest of us all, and radiated around him that sentiment, due largely to his love for melody and to his dwelling all his life amidst the harmpnies of the spheres.

Chapman had for a resting place from his labors a delightful summer cottage near Woodstock, and there he was at his best, brimming over with cheer and hospitality.

A more grateful man for favors to his family and to himself I never met. You could not do him the smallest favor but that he thanked you heartily for it, and magnified it into something out of the common run. I shall never forget the very kind letter of thanks which he sent me for being kind to his wife and to him in the matter of motor rides around Hanover and Woodstock at our 50th reunion.

When his time had come, he said good-bye to his family and his friends, thought of his classmates, and departed, regretting that although he had done his very best, he had apparently failed to provide in great abundance with the goods of this life for those dependent upon him. It is hard to let so good a man and so kind a friend depart forever without saying these few kind words, to recall him for a moment or two to his classmates and to those who knew him on his friendly road through the world.

CLASS OF 1867

William Alexander Ketcham died suddenly at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., December 27, 1921, of acute indigestion.

The son of John Lewis and Jane (Merrill) Ketcham, he was born in Indianapolis, January 2, 1846. His father was a leading member of the bar of that city. Preparing at Halle and Stuttgart, Germany, he entered Wabash College in 1861. In February, 1864, while a member of the junior class in that college, he enlisted as private in the 13th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. In November following he was promoted to be second lieutenant of Company E, and served as such until January, 1865, when he was placed in command of Company C, remaining with that company until April or May, when he was commissioned captain of Company I. This company he commanded until mustered out in September, 1865. He saw active service at Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Fort Fisher.

In October, 1865, he entered the junior class at Dartmouth, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation he began the study of law in his father's office, and practiced in his native city from his admission to the bar in 1869. He had long been known as one of the strongest trial lawyers in the state, and had been concerned in many important litigations.

In 1884-6 he was county attorney, and in 1894 was elected attorney general of the state on the Republican ticket, being reelected in 1896. Wabash College conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1895, and Dartmouth in 1917.

He had been president of the Indiana and Indianapolis Bar Associations. He was a devoted member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was commander of the Department of Indiana in 1907-9, from 1915 to 1920 national judge advocate general, and for one year from September, 1920, national commander. Plain speaking was one of Captain Ketcham's strong characteristics, and some addresses on patriotic topics during his term of office caused wide comment. He was a member of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Indianapolis.

June 25, 1873, Mr. Ketcham was married to Flora, daughter of Judge David McDonald of Indianapolis, who survives him, with six daughters and a son. Another daughter, the eldest, died in infancy.

CLASS OF 1869

Dr. Frederic William Jones died at his home in New Ipswich, N. H., July 1, 1921.

The son of Dr. Frederick (D.M.S. 1859) and Caroline (Gibson) Jones, he was born in New Ipswich, January 9, 1848, and fitted for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

Dr. Jones spent one year at Harvard Medical School; was an interne at the Boston Lunatic Hospital and House of Correction; taught in Appleton Academy six years; and graduated from the Medical Department of the University of New York in 1881. He then began the practice of medicine in his native town, where he continued for forty years. It is worthy of note that his maternal grandfather, Dr. Stillman Gibson, practiced in New Ipswich for over fifty years, and his father, Dr. Frederick Jones, for over fifty years, making a service of one family of over one hundred forty years. And the subject of this article was a physician of the "Old School."

He represented his town in the Legislature; was a member of the school committee; supervisor of the check list; chairman of the lecture committee; trustee of the public library; chairman of the Liberty Loans committee; and for twenty years trustee or president of the Mason Village Savings Bank. He was constant in his attendance upon the services of his church, and devoted to its interests. Such a life is a benediction to any community.

He is survived by his wife, who was Mabel N. Whitney of Wadena, Minn., and by his sister, Mrs. Frances Jones Burton of New Ipswich.

CLASS OF 1870

A notice of Judge Abbott's death appeared in the December number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The following resolutions were adopted by the Haverhill Dartmouth Club:

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His .infinite wisdom to call unto Him our honored and' well-beloved fellow alumnus, Judge Ira A. Abbott, of the class of 1870; be it

Resolved, That we, the Dartmouth Club of Haverhill, record our realization of the loss sustained by the college and the community in which Judge Abbott lived, and our deep gratitude for his services as president of our club; and be it hereby

Resolved, That an expression of sympathy be extended to his daughter, Miss Constance L. Abbott, together with a copy of this resolution; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of "this resolution be spread upon the records of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

CLASS OF 1871

James Brackett Mason died at St. Helena, Cal., September 14, 1920, of arteriosclerosis, after an illness of nine months.

He was born in Lancaster, N. H., July 13, 1839, son of John and Matilda (Wilson) Mason. He enlisted August 22, 1862, in Company A, 14th New Hampshire Volunteers, and was discharged February 2, 1864, to receive a commission as first lieutenant in Company A, 31st United States Colored Infantry. July 30, 1864, he was severely wounded at the explosion of the mine in front of Petersburg, losing his right arm, and was mustered out December 12, 1864. He then completed his preparation for college at Kimball Union Academy, and was a member of the class throughout the course, being a member of Alpha Delta Phi

He intended to enter the ministry, and studied for the first year after graduaion at Yale Divinity School. Poor health compelled the relinquishment of his plans, and he taught for a time at Akron, Ohio, and Severance, Kansas. Then returning to the East, he lived for many years at East Westmoreland, N. H., and at South Lancaster, Mass., engaged to some extent in farming and mercantile business. His last years were spent in California.

March 31, 1874, he was married to Lydia, daughter of Samuel and Maggie (Arnold) Long of Akron, Ohio, who survives him. They have three children: Paul Clinton, in business in Glendale, Cal.; Ruth Gertrude (Mrs. Konigmacher), missionary in Rhodesia, Africa; and Pearl (Mrs. Hall), teacher at San Fernando, Cal.

CLASS OF 1875

Quincy Alden Myers died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., December 29, 1921, of acute dilation of the heart, after a week's illness.

The son of Isaac Nefif and Rosanna (Justice) Myers, he was born in Logansport, Ind., Septemper 1, 1853, and prepared for college at Logansport Presbyterian Academy. The first two years of his college course were taken in some institution in his native state, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

For the first year after graduation he studied law in a Logansport office, and the next year at Albany Law School, from which he graduated in 1877. He began practice at once in Logansport, being in partnership with M. Winfield until 1882, and then with John P. Nelson until 1906.

He was deputy city attorney of Logansport from 1877 to 1885, then city attorney for two years, then nominally deputy but in fact chief attorney for four years. For two terms he was county attorney, in 1900 presidential elector, and for thirteen years one of the city school trustees. In 1888 he was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of his city. In 1908 he was Republican candidate for judge of the Supreme Court of the state, and was elected, serving a term of six years from January 4, 1909. After his retirement from the bench he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. His service on the bench was one of marked credit to himself, and his decisions on questions of public importance won wide and favorable comment.

His judicial service required him to reside in Indianapolis, the capital of the state, and he remained there after his term of office expired, but retained his legal residence for the purpose of voting in Logansport.

Judge Myers was a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana, and American Bar Associations, the Association of Indiana Pioneers, the Century Club, the State Historical Society, and the Columbia, Marion and Woodstock Clubs. He had been vice-president and president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. He was a 32d degree Mason and an Elk. He was director or trustee of various charitable institutions, a member of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal church of Logansport, and for many years one of its trustees.

March 3, 1886, he was married to Jessie D. Cornelius of Indianapolis, who survives him. They had two daughters: Melissa J., now the wife of Dr. Joel Whitaker of Indianapolis, and Marie R., who died in 1910.

Judge Myers was recognized as one of the leading members of the bar of the state, and was highly regarded as a courteous gentleman and a citizen of a high type.

CLASS OF 1878

Charles Emerson Cloud died suddenly at his home in Tyringham, Mass., November 24, 1921. The disease was pronounced to be encephalitis, a mysterious and incurable malady of the brain.

He was born in Norwich, Vt., August 10, 1852, his parents being Rufus and Elvira (Blake) Cloud. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Royalton (Vt.) Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

For the first year after graduation he was principal of the graded school at Acton, Mass., and then successively for short periods taught in-schools at New Paltz, N. Y., in New' York city, and at Burlington, N. J. In 1881 he engaged in private tutoring in New York city, and continued it with excellent success until 1888. He then embarked in the real estate business in Brooklyn, N. Y., being for the first year in partnership with his classmate, F. G. J. Ladd, and from 1899 to 1910 with his classmate, J. A. Wood. He was of cheerful temperament, and expressed himself as not caring for great wealth, but as quite content with the very comfortable competence he had acquired. He maintained an estate of several hundred acres at Tyringham, where he spent his summers, and to which he looked forward to retiring, and did retire a few months before his death, as his permanent home.

He was an active member of the Herkimer Street Methodist Episcopal church, and served for many years as its treasurer and Sunday school superintendent.

September 9, 1887, Mr. Cloud was married to Nellie M. Conant of Acton, Mass., who survives him. They had five children, two of whom died while very young. The eldest of the others, Charles 8., graduated from Columbia University as a chemical engineer, and died last April as a result of inhaling nitric acid fumes while about his daily duty as superintendent of a nitric acid plant taken over by the government for military purposes during the war. William graduated from the New York University, and is now living in Peoria, Ill. The daughter, Elvira, graduated from a business college and entered the government service, quitting the-same last summer to be of more comfort to her father and mother on the farm.

Cloud was loyal to college and to class, always one of those from whom a response to any communication was forthcoming.

CLASS OF 1880

Rev. William Franklin Furman died in Hanover, December 1, 1921, of heart disease, after a long illness.

He was born in Albany, N. Y., June 13, 1857, his parents being Robert and Lydia (Koon)' Furman, and fitted at Albany High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1894 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

After graduation he began preparation for the ministry at Auburn Theological Seminary, and completed his course at Hartford Seminary, where he graduated in 1883. The next year he preached for the Congregational church at Petaluma, Cal., and then took a year of graduate study in Harvard Divinity School. He then held in succession the pastorate of three Congregational churches: at Stockton, Cal., 1885-7; at Montevideo, Minn., 1887-90; and at Churchville, N. Y., 1890-2. A change of views then led him into the Unitarian ministry, and he was pastor of churches of that name at Providence, R. 1., and Wilton, N. H. An affection of the throat compelled his retirement from the active ministry, and for fifteen years he taught in the high school of Westfield, N. Y., until failure of health forbade further work. In July last he came to Hanover to make his home with his daughter.

October 14, 1885, Mr. Furman was married to Elizabeth S., daughter of Dr. Azro A. and Clarissa (Dickson) Nichols of Westfield, N. Y., who survives him, with their two children, Walter Ferguson of New York city and' Eleanor Campbell, wife of Joseph L. Richards '12.

The Westfield Republican pays this tribute to Mr. Furman: "Quiet, modest, gentle in bearing" a sympathetic friend, a wise adviser, he was a man who carried his Christian spirit into all the acts of life. With his pupils, appreciative of their efforts, patient with their shortcoming's, too generous in the giving of himself, his true humility, his unfailing courtesy, his penetrating common sense made him both loved and revered."

CLASS OF 1886

Frederick William Bittinger died at the Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, Mass., December 19, 1921, following an operation for gallstones the previous day.

The son of Rev. Josiah Quincy (Dartmouth 1857) and Sarah Jones (Wainwright) Bittinger, he was born in Yarmouth, Me., April 28, 1864. Most of his early life was spent at Haverhill, N. H., where he fitted at Haverhill Academy for the Chandler Scientific Department. His brother, Joseph F., was a classmate. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

Upon graduation he entered upon the publishing, and printing business in partnership with his brother, being at Haverhill until 1888, then at Woodsville until 1898. In the latter year they purchased the Old Colony Memorial plant at Plymouth, Mass., and incorporating the Memorial Press, of which Frederick became secretary and treasurer, they built up one of the largest printing establishments in that part of Massachusetts.

He leaves a widow and three sons and two daughters. Present at the 35th anniversary reunion of last June with his family complete, and enjoying every moment as was apparent to every one, his sudden demise is a great shock to his classmates.

The following is from a tribute by his brother in their newspaper: "He was a man of highest principles in business and in private life, kind and considerate to those in his employ. Always ready to make allowances for others, with never an evil or unkind word or thought toward his fellow-man. Of home-loving nature, he was intensely bound up in his family, and found his greatest pleasure in sharing with them their joys and various interests."

CLASS OF 1893

George Oliver Byron Hawley dropped dead November 28, 1921, while engaged in his duties as drafting inspector for the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Mass The cause of his death was dilation of the heart.

The son of Charles H. and Eunice (Puifer) Hawley, he was born in Hartford, Conn., June 24, 1869. He fitted at the high school of Westerly, R. 1., where his home then was. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa; editor of the Aegis; member of the college band and orchestra; secretary of the Dartmouth Scientific Club; member of the Crinologian (English) Club; Class Day poet.

For a time after graduation he taught at Mystic, Conn., and elsewhere, and later made professional use of his musical ability. In 1907 he settled in Pittsfield as a draftsman for the Triumph Voting Machine, soon transferring to the General Electric Company.

He was one of he leading promoters of the Pittsfield Symphony Orchestra, in which he played the viola, and also played in the Kilowatt Orchestra. He attended St. Stephen's (Episcopal) church.

July 16, 1910, Mr Hawley was married to Lillian R., daughter of William H. and Martha Streeter, who survives him, with two children : Martha E., aged ten, and Charles H., six. His mother is living in Westerly, and also a sister.

CLASS OF 1895

Ernest Linwood Griffin died suddenly of apoplexy at his summer home at Rye Beach, N. H., August 13, 1921.

The son of George W. and Adelaide (Burgess) Griffin, he was born in Franklin, N. H., June 20, 1870. His college preparation was obtained at the Franklin High School and at Dean Academy. He was an active baseball player before and during his college days, and was a member of the varsity nine. He was a member of Sigma Chi and of the Sphinx.

After leaving college he became associated with his father at Franklin in the manufacture of hack saws, and so continued until his death.

October 7, 1896, he was married to Ellen Vaughan, daughter of Alexander M. and Ellen N. (Vaughan) Stewart, who survives him, with their daughter Ellen.

Mr. Griffin was a Mason, a member of Council, Commandery, and Consistory. He was a golf enthusiast, belonging to clubs of Rye and Concord, and the Mojalaki Country Club of Franklin. He was generous and public spirited, gave liberally to every worthy cause, and during the war was especially active in Red Cross and war garden work.

The secretary of his class says: "His generous, friendly and lovable disposition, which endeared him to all the men who made his acquaintance in college, did not desert him in recent years, when he had suffered almost constantly from severe illness. He always made a special effort to be back at Hanover at occasions of importance and class reunions. He often made these trips at the risk of further injuring his health. His loss is very severely felt by his classmates and by many others of the alumni who knew him."

CLASS OF 1915

Paul Edmund Dailey died of typhoid pneumonia in the Chanteh Hospital, Chanteh, China, October 11, 1921.

The son of T. Edmund and Rose (Carroll) Dailey, he was born in Washington, D. C., August 19, 1894, and fitted at Washington High School. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Dragon senior society.

In June, 1915, he was one of many recent graduates of various colleges to enter upon a course. of instruction for a few months with the Standard Oil Company of New York, and one of a small number selected for appointment in the following September. He was sent to China, where in the course of a year he acquired a working knowledge of the Chinese language sufficient to pass examination and to enter upon active duties. He was promoted to the charge of a post, and received several subsequent advancements.

September 9, 1920, he was married to Elizabeth Florence, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Warwick Winston of California and Tientsin, China. Their wedding trip was around the world, from Shanghai byway of Asiatic and European waters, stopping at many places of interest before entering the Mediterranean, and in cities on the Continent and in Great Britain. Thence they went to New York and Washington, and paid visits in Missouri, Texas, and California before sailing from Vancouver for China, March 10, 1921.

Dailey was to have assumed charge of a large territory January 1, 1922, preliminary to which he had started on a tour of inspection, much of the travel being by water. He was stricken with fever in Chanteh, September 24, and died the day before his wife arrived. The burial was at Tientsin.

In a letter of condolence to the parents from the Standard Oil Company was the following: "I want you to know of the high regard in which this company held your son, who was everything a young man should be, and we had looked forward to his development into a position which would carry him far in the future direction of the company's business."