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 1872

Charles Henry Clement died in Oakland, Cal., December 2, 1921, following a surgical operation about a year before which failed to restore him to health.

The son of Joshua and Eliza (Harvey) Clement, he was born at Post Mills in Thetford, Vt., February 28, 1848, and fitted at Thetford Academy and New London (N. H.) Institution. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he taught in California Military Academy, Oakland, about six months, next as principal of a grammar school in Mayfield, Cal., two years, and then until 1878 was county superintendent of schools for Santa Clara county. He was principal of Oakland Grammar School two years, and two years superintendent of schools for that city, the latter term ending in January, 1882. During this time he lectured in teachers' institutes, was president of the county board of education, 1874-7, an ex-officio member of the state board of education, 1876-8, and vice-president of the State Teachers' Association, 1880-2.

Meanwhile he studied law, and in October, 1874, was admitted to practice. After discontinuing teaching he practiced law at San Luis Obispo, Stockton, and San Jose, and in 1877 published a work on "The Law of Mechanics' Liens," applicable to the Pacific Coast states. In 1919 he removed to Oakland to make his home with his son. From 1897 to his removal to Oakland he had given much attention to the culture of cherries and prunes.

He affiliated with the Unitarian church, July 12, 1876, he married Belle Wear, who died about seven years ago. There are two surviving children of the marriage. The daughter, Edith, is wife of A. E. Davis, son of George E. Davis '71, and the son, Charles E., a dentist in Oakland.

The deceased was grandfather eight times, and seven of the grandchildren are now living. He had the best record of his class on that score.

John Bailey Mills died in Washington, D. C., where he was making a short visit, January 7, 1922.

The son of John Cavis and Fanny (Kezer) Mills, he was born in Dunbarton, N. H., September 3, 1848, and prepared for college at New London Institution. He was one of the founders at Dartmouth of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

For the first three years after graduation he studied law in Manchester, N. H., supporting himself during his studies by teaching and other work, and serving as assistant clerk of the state House of Representatives in 1873. From 1875 to 1880 he practiced the profession in Manchester.

Finding that his heart was not in the law, he then changed to newspaper work, and the rest of his life was given to the most devoted following of this calling. From 1880 to 1887 he was city editor of the Manchester DailyUnion, and he was then for two years editor of a law journal in New York. For one year he was city editor of , the Jackson (Mich.) Patriot. In 1890 he went to Grand Rapids, Mich., which was his home for the rest of his active life. For three years he was financial editor of the Daily Democrat. In 1893 he took a similar position on the Daily Herald, and remained on that paper for twenty-eight years, being managing editor for nine years, and editorial writer for three years. January 1, 1921, he resigned the last position on account of a growing weakness of the heart, and was put by the management on the retired list with a pension for life. He soon after went to his daughter's home in Narberth, Pa. The burial was in his native town, Dunbarton, N. H.

June 19, 1878, Mr. Mills was married to Emma Louise, daughter of S. B. Hammond of Dunbarton. They had one child, a daughter, who is now Mrs. James W. Follin.

Beautiful tributes were paid to his memory by the newspaper on which he had worked. "Unassuming, quiet, modest, sturdy in his precepts of duty, devoted in his friendships, simple in his manners," was the summary. His farewell words to the editorial staff were unique, and a good text for a sermon: "I have taken every assignment given me, covered it to the best of my ability, and turned the copy in on time."

CLASS OF 1877

Rev. William Lang Sutherland died January 18, 1922, at the home of a daughter in Lyons, lowa, where he was on a visit.

He was born in Bath, N. H., November 5, 1854, the son of John Bachop and Mehitabel Child (Lang) Sutherland. His grandfather, Rev. David Sutherland, born and educated in Scotland, was pastor in Bath from 1804 to 1843, and was an outstanding figure among the clergy of the North Country.

He fitted for college in a somewhat desultory way, mostly at Bradford (Vt.) Academy and Concord (N. H.) High School. Defective preparation interfered with his scholarship, but he overcame the handicap during the latter part of the course, and won a commencement appointment. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

He had intended entering the ministry after due preparation, but circumstances caused him to omit the preparation. Beginning an engagement to teach in the fall after graduation his health, which had been impaired for some time, broke down at once, and he left the school after three days. Until the next spring he remained at home, and then, being advised of the necessity of a change of climate and a different mode of life, he accepted an appointment under the Congregational Home Missionary Society to undertake home missionary work in Minnesota, where he went in June, 1878. Until the fall of 1880 he was in charge of churches at Morristown and Waterville, and was then for several months general missionary in Big Stone and Traverse counties. For a year from April 1, 1881, he was pastor at Fergus Falls. His health again broke down, and for some time he was unable to do any professional work, being in the employ of a furniture manufacturer in Fergus Falls for a year and a half. Being much improved in health, he undertook a pastorate at Medford in December, 1883, which he continued for seven years.

His fitness for pioneer and administrative work having become widely recognized, he was invited to become general missionary for Minnesota of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, and began this work January 1, 1891. In October, 1893, he was transferred to Kansas City, Mo., to become superintendent of the work of the society in Kansas and Missouri. This position he held until November 1, 1901, when he resigned to take a pastorate at Great Bend, Kans., remaining there eight years. He then returned to itinerant work as general missionary of the lowa Congregational Home Missionary Society for Western lowa. This position he left October 1, 1911, to become superintendent for Northern Minnesota of the work of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society. After January 1, 1913, he covered the same territory also for the Home Missionary Society. After the death in June, 1915, of Rev. R. P. Herrick '80, superintendent for the Sunday School Society in Minnesota, he was appointed to succeed him, having had substantial charge of the work during Dr. Herrick's illness of several months. January 1, 1916, another change occurred, and he became superintendent for Southern Minnesota of the Minnesota Congregational Conference. Feeling that his physical strength was no longer equal to the strenuous life which he had been leading, he decided to return to the pastorate, and became January 1, 1917, pastor of the church at Medford, Minn., where he had already been for seven years in his earlier life. This service was ended only by his death.

Through a large section of the Middle West for a long period of years few men have been so widely respected and loved as William Sutherland. A good preacher, an ideal pastor, a strong executive, he had such lovable personal traits as fall to few to possess.

October 19, 1880, Mr. Sutherland was married at Morristown, Minn., to Hollie, daughter of Joseph and Pamelia (Pickett) Hopkins of Gouverneur, N. Y., who survives him. They have two daughters : Mary Alice (Colorado College 1907), the wife of Frederick B. Zutavern of Great Bend, Kans.; Anna Waters (Grinnell College 1913), the wife of Rev. Walter M. Swann of Lyons, lowa.

CLASS OF 1887

Herbert Stacy Eaton died December 15, 1921, in the Hahnemann Hospital, San Francisco, Cal. His skull was fractured in an accident at Nevada City, Cal., about a month before, when he fell from a trestle and struck his head on a timber while engaged in road construction for the state of California. He was operated upon at the hospital, but without avail.

Mr. Eaton was born in East Salisbury, Mass., December 4, 1866, and took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, being a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

After graduation he took the two years' course in the Thayer School, graduating in 1889. For some months he was engaged in government work in and around the District of Columbia. In the following winter he went to California and became assistant to the city engineer of Fresno. He remained on the Pacific Coast for the rest of his life, but the details of his life have not been entirely given. He was for a time in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad; assistant engineer for the San Diego Land and Town Company at National City; deputy county surveyor at Fresno; assistant engineer in charge of construction on the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway; again at National City; for two years until January, 1920, engineer for the Dodge Land Company in Butte county, and since February, 1920, connected with the California Highway Commission.

He married Zetta Thomas, who died in 1911. There are two children, Ralph T., of Fresno, Cal., and Helen M.. now Mrs. A. Milne, of Hakalau, Hawaii.

CLASS OF 1895

Burton True Scales died at his home in the city of Philadelphia January 31, 1922, from complications following facial erysipelas, after an illness of two weeks.

The son of John (Dartmouth 1863) and Ellen (Tasker) Scales, he was born in Dover, N. H., August 10, 1873, and fitted at Dover High School. The late Robert Leighton Scales '01 was a brother. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet, and managing editor of The Dartmouth.

For the first two years after graduation he was assistant editor of the Dover Daily Republican, of which his father was editor and publisher. He then decided to make the teaching of music his lifework, and for two years, 1897-9, he was supervisor of music in the public schools of Dover and Newmarket. In August, 1898, he began the teaching of music in the summer course of Plymouth Normal School, which he continued for ten summers. In September, 1899, he became director of music and aid to the headmaster in the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, and remained in that position fifteen years. For six summers, beginning in 1908, he was a member of the. staff of the New York University Summer School of Music. In September, 1914, he was appointed director of vocal music at Girard College, which position he held for the rest of his life. In 1909 he was chosen coach of the Glee Club of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Mask and Wig Club in the same institution, and continued to do this work. Beginning in 1914, he had been an instructor in music in the Cornell University Summer School.

Mr. Scales was a member of the Musical Arts Club and of the Music Teachers' Association, and secretary of the Eastern Music Supervisors' Association. He was actively associated with the movement for making music a part of the public school education of every child. His position among the foremost music educators in this country was recognized by Dartmouth' in bestowing upon him in 1920 the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

He was a member of St. Paul's Presbyterian church, and of the Masonic order.

September 5, 1900, he was married to Kate Hubbard Reynolds of Dover, who survives him, with their two children, Catherine and Benjamin Reynolds.

CLASS OF 1902

Dr. John Christopher O'Connor died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Manchester, N. H., January 6, 1922.

The son of James Francis and Helena (Millar) O'Connor, he was born in Mallow, Ireland, December 21, 1878. His home when in college was in Bradford, Mass., where his parents now live. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Sphinx.

After graduation he pursued medical studies at Bowdoin, receiving his medical degree in 1905. After hospital training in Salem and Boston, he practised for a short time in Salem, and in 1907 came to Manchester, where he acquired a large practice and a wide reputation, especially in general surgery.

When the United States entered the war Dr. O'Connor entered the Medical Reserve Corps as lieutenant. He was first stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison and then at Camp Devens. Eventually he went overseas with the 26th Division, returning a major after being in charge of large hospital activities in France.

He had many activities, resulting in a large acquaintance, and his attractive personal qualities won him a host of friends. He had been police surgeon and city physician, had been identified with a health survey of the city, and at the time of his death was a member of the board of trustees of the State Industrial School. He was 011 the staff of the Elliott and Balch Hospitals, and a member of the Hillsboro County and State Medical Societies, the New Hampshire Surgical Club, the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the Veteran Surgeons' Association. He had been a director of the Children's Aid Society from its inception, and a member of the Intervale Country Club, Sweeney Post of the American Legion, and the Knights of Columbus. He was a devout Catholic, and an attendant at the Cathedral.

But he was best known to Dartmouth men for his athletic connections and achievements. He was captain of the football team and a member of the baseball team in his preparatory school, Haverhill High. At Dartmouth he played end on the varsity football team four years, and was its captain in senior year, and also played first base on the varsity baseball team. The first season after graduation he coached football at Virginia Military Institute, and the football team at Bowdoin while a medical student there. In 1905 and 'O6 he coached at Phillips Andover Academy, and was coach at Dartmouth in 1907 and 1908. For some years afterwards, until he entered military service, he was a member of the Athletic Council.

November 17, 1908, he was married to Helen Jackson Raymond of Salem, Mass., who survives him, with two sons, Marshall, aged 11, and Raymond, five.

HONORARY

In 1881 Dartmouth conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon James Milnor Coit, master and instructor in physics and chemistry in St. Paul's School, Concord. Dr. Coit died January 5, 1922, in Munich, Bavaria.

The son of Joseph Howland and Harriet Jane (Hard) Coit, he was born in Harrisburg, Pa., January 31, 1845, prepared for college at St. Paul's School, and graduated from Hobart College in 1865.

For a time he was engaged in business in the West, but in 1877 he came to St. Paul's, where for nearly thirty years he was prominent as master, head of the infirmary, and sharer with his brothers in the duties of administration. In 1906 he and Mrs. Coit went to Germany, and established at Munich a school where many American boys have been educated. They remained there during the war, and devoted their time and strength to the relief of the helpless and destitute, especially children.

Mrs. Coit, who was Eliza Josephine Wheeler of Cleveland, Ohio, died in Munich nearly two years ago, since which time Dr. Coit has been in feeble health, spending much of his time in Switzerland and the Austrian Tyrol. They had no children.

Dr. Coit was the author of "Elements of Chemical Arithmetic," "Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis," "Treatise of the X-Rays and Their Relation to Medical and Surgical Sciences," and a work on "Liquid Air." He received the degree of Doctor of Science from Hobart College in 1905.

Judge Reuben Eugene Walker, upon whom the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred in 1916, died January 1, 1922, at his home in Concord, N. H.

The son of Abiel and Mary (Powers) Walker, he was born in Lowell, Mass., February 15, 1851. He graduated from Brown University in 1875.

Studying law, he practised at Concord from his admission to the bar in 1878. In 1889-91 he was county solicitor, member of the State House of Representatives in 1895 and of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, and became April 1, 1901, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the state. His long and distinguished service on the bench ended by statute limitation on his seventieth birthday.

At the time of his death Judge Walker was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association and vice-president of the New Hampshire branch of the American Bar Association. He was the author with Robert A. Ray '77 of "New Hampshire Citations." His Alma Mater also conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1921.

June 18, 1875, he was married to Mary E. Brown of Providence, R. I.

By virtue of the degree of Doctor of Laws, conferred in 1901, Dartmouth shares with many other institutions in Europe and America the honor of enrolling in her graduate list James, Viscount Bryce, who died at Sidmouth, England, January 22, at the age of eighty-four, after a brief illness.

Lord Bryce has been well styled the greatest modern interpreter of democracy. No foreigner, perhaps no American, understood America so well or interpreted it so fairly. During his term of service as British ambassador at Washington he deepened the regard which his "American Commonwealth" had already widely inspired in this country, and we shall like to remember that almost his last public service was his participation in the Institute of Politics held last summer at Williams College.