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 1866

Henry Wardwell died January 30, 1922, at his home in Salem, Mass.

He was born in Ipswich, Mass., April 28, 1840, the son of Moses and Amy Swasey (Farley) Wardwell. When he was three years old his parents moved to that part of Danvers which is now known as Peabody, and there he prepared for college. During his college course he had a brief army service, enlisting July 16, 1864, in Company C, Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. After seeing active service at Baltimore, Fort McHenry, Monocacy Junction, and Harper's Ferry, he was mustered out November 16, 1864, and returned to college. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.

For three years after graduation he was principal of a grammar school in Dorchester, Mass. He meanwhile studied law, and continued the study in a Boston office in 1869-70, being admitted to the bar in 1870. He practiced in Boston until 1890, retaining his home in Peabody, where he was for several years a member of the school committee, fifteen years counsel for the town, and a member of the House of Representatives in 1879 and 1881.

In 1890 he removed to Salem, keeping his office in Boston. Here he was a member of the Common Council in 1890 and an alderman in 1891. In September, 1896, he was appointed a justice of the Superior Court of the state, but resigned in 1898, being compelled to relinquish the position on account of defective hearing. While on the bench, he achieved a unique record. On ten occasions exceptions were taken to his decisions, and he was ten times sustained by the Supreme Court, never having been overruled. After his resignation he resumed practice in Salem.

October 6, 1870, Mr. Wardwell was married to Sarah Osborne Fitch of Peabody, who survives him, with their two children, Henry F. Wardwell of Chicago and Catherine F. Wardwell.

Mr. Wardwell was salutatorian of his class. His work as a student was always characterized by a scholarly comprehension of the subject in hand, and by an honest, straightforward attitude toward his teachers. His college career was an indication of what his life was to be. He was beloved by his classmates, who had a deep respect for him as a man and a classmate.

CLASS OF 1875

John Andrew Jackson Cutting died December 3, 1921, at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., of erysipelas, after an illness of six days.

The son of Israel and Emmeline Russ (Harvey) Cutting, he was born in Cabot, Vt., April 8, 1855. He was during the first two years of the course a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department, and was connected with the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

For a short time after leaving college he was employed in a clothing store in Montpelier. Vt., and then went to Indianapolis, where he was engaged in the shoe business for five and a half years. Being not in good health for a time, he was retired from business for a year, and then entered newspaper work as circulation and advertising manager of the IndianapolisSentinel, and was with that paper twelve years. He then was Indianapolis representative of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the CommercialGazette for some years, and was later with the Indianapolis Times. From 1907 to 1914 he was a successful dealer and broker in stocks, bonds and grain. Since the last date he had been retired from business.

August 1, 1877, he was married to Ella Frances, daughter of Joseph Maxson and Sarah Jane (Battles) Crandall of Indianapolis, who survives him. They have had no children.

CLASS OF 1876

Charles Wilbur Whitcomb died February 2, 1922, in Knoxville, Tenn., of apoplexy.

He was born in the city of Boston, July 31, 1855, his parents being Benjamin Dodge and Mary (Mclntire) Whitcomb, and fitted at Boston Latin School. The first two years of his college course were taken at Bowdoin, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

The first two years after graduation he spent in European travel, and on his return studied at Boston University Law School, where he graduated in 1880. He began practice at once in Boston. He became prominent in Republican politics, and was a member of the Common Council of the city in 1884 and '5. In 1883-4 he had been secretary of the Republican City Committee, and took an active part in stumping the state in the presidential campaign of 1884. In October, 1886, he was appointed by the governor fire marshal of Boston, and served until December, 1893. In July, 1894, he was appointed state fire marshal, and held that office until it was abolished by the legislature in May, 1902. His record in these offices was one of vigor and efficiency.

He had long had a summer home at Stratham, N. H., and after his retirement from office he made his home there, devoting much attention to the breeding of blooded horses. He also acquired large interests in lumber and mining properties in Tennessee, where he was for a long time vice-president and general manager of the Tennessee Timber, Coal, and Iron Company, and president and treasurer of the Whitcomb Oil and Gas Company.

June 26, 1884, Mr. Whitcomb was married to Marie M. Woodsum of Boston, who survives him, with two sons and a daughter. The sons are Benjamin D. of Louisiana and Charles W. of Harriman, Tenn. The daughter, Mrs. John Allen King of New York.

CLASS OF 1879

Meedy Shields Blish died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Seymour, Ind., February 14, 1922.

He was born in Seymour, December 14, 1855, the son of John H. and Sarah Ewing (Shields) Blish. His maternal grandfather, Capt. Meedy W. Shields, was the founder of the city of Seymour. He fitted at Seymour High School and at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., and was a very popular member of his Dartmouth class for something over two years. In 1919 the trustees voted him his diploma and enrollment with the graduate members of the class. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After leaving college he entered at once upon a business career, and soon became connected with the Blish Milling Company of Seymour, of which he had been for many years president. He was interested in various other business enterprises, among them the Seymour Water Company, of which he was a director at the time of his death.

He was a generous but unassuming contributor to many charitable and benevolent enterprises. Among his benefactions was the erection and endowment of a building for the Farmers' Club of Seymour. He was a member of the Christian Science church.

May 20, 1897, Mr. Blish was married to Belle, daughter of Lyman and Mary (Dickinson) Everingham of Chicago, who survives him. They have two sons, John Lyman, a student at Yale, and Meedy Shields.

The following is quoted from a tribute to Mr. Blish in the Northwestem Miller: "Quiet and unostentatious in his benevolences, which contributed to every good work in his community, a very helpful and useful citizen, considerate of the welfare of his employees, and, as a miller, not only successful but kindly and well disposed in association with his competitors, among whom he was greatly liked and highly respected, he was born, lived, and died in the pleasant little city which his grandfather founded, and he found therein ample opportunity for the exercise of the fine attributes of heart' and mind with which he was so generously endowed."

CLASS OF 1909

Henry William Stucklen died of consumption at Mt. Vernon, N. H., February 9, 1922. He was unmarried, but is survived by three brothers, Ferdinand M., Arthur F., and Carl L. Stucklen.

Born in Dorchester, -Mass., June 17, 1886, of parents of German descent who had been educated in Germany, Henry also, while a small boy, spent several years in that country. He was graduated from the Roxbury High School in the class of 1905, from Dartmouth in 1909, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and the Dragon.

Those in college with him will not need to refresh their memory of his undergraduate days. A student of consistently high scholarship, an athlete of distinction, and a fine-grained cultured gentleman, he took a leading part in the life of class and college. And always, for the simplicity and unescapable charm of his nature, Heinie was loved as few were loved.

Following his special interest in science at Dartmouth with three years at Technology, he became an analytical chemist of marked abilities. His preference for a career in business caused him to reject a proffered position in the research department at Technology, and he took charge of the reclaiming department of the Hood Rubber Company. By his improvements in machinery and operation, he doubled the percentage of reclaimed rubber within a year, raising the amount of reclamation to almost ninety-five per cent.

Then, however, his good health began to forsake him, and he resigned his position in 1913 to go abroad with his brother Carl, Dartmouth '11. Returning but little improved in health, he first learned the nature of his illness, an illness which doubtless had been aggravated by the conditions necessarily surrounding his work since leaving Technology. For two years he lived at Saranac, then moved to Mt. Vernon, N. H., where he bought from the estate of his parents their former summer home. There for a while he taught boys in the Stearns School, but was soon forced to discontinue. During almost the whole of the last four years of his life he was bedridden.

During the years of his good health, and even after it began to leave him, Heinie's success as a golfer repeatedly brought him into public notice. While at Roxbury High School he was interscholastic golf champion. At Dartmouth he played on the golf team for three years, and was also a champion. At Woodland in 1909 he got a 70, which stood as a record there for two years. In 1910 he won the Massachusetts state championship. In 1911 and 1912 he was in the semi-finals of the Massachusetts amateur championship, losing in 1911 to John G. Anderson, 3 and 2. Perhaps the most brilliant feat of his golfing career was his winning of the president's cup tournament at Ekwanok Country Club, Manchester, Vt., in 1912. Not only did he triumph there over a field which included some of the front-ranls amateurs of the country, but he won the 36-hole finals, 3 and 1, over the great Walter J. Travis. Even in France, after Heinie's health had begun to fail, he played in the French amateur championship at La Boulie, where he was beaten 4 and 2 by a former winner of the British amateur championship.

Throughout his short life he read and thought with a restless eagerness and analytical keenness which were characteristically his. It was not so much his apparent delight in quiet and intelligent discussion, as his consistent openmindedness, which was distinctive. In his sports as in his discussion and his college work, he strove eagerly and unceasingly to excel. And his joy was in the striving.

In the quoted line set opposite his picture in our Aegis, frivolous enough in its original intention, t here has been a singular pathos both for him and for all of us who knew him and claimed him as our own: "That which one wishes does not always come to pass." But for him the wish, and particularly the eager struggle to obtain it, was its own reward. As another brilliant sportsman, Ray Gorton, than whom he had no closer friend, has said of him, "He seemed better pleased while fighting than when he had won." Than that, the class can ask for him no finer and no truer epitaph.

CLASS OF 1913

Robert Leviston died at Clayville, Va., October 18, 1921. He was the son of Irwen (Dartmouth 1882) and Nellie (Currier) Leviston of Enfield, N. H., and was born April 5, 1890, at Omaha, Nebraska.

He was educated in the grammar schools of Omaha, and graduated from the high school at St. Paul, Minn., where his father then held the position of superintendent of schools. He later attended Dartmouth College for two years, leaving to assist his father in the care of a country estate recently purchased in Clayville, Va., where he has since made his home.

He was married August 17, 1915, to Miss Ada Clements of Clayville, Va. About four years ago he contracted a heavy cold, which later developed into pneumonia and pleurisy and finally compelled him to refrain from the least exertion. In the hope that a change of climate might benefit him, he spent the past summer with his wife and little daughter, Kathryn, at the Wells Cottage, on Mascoma Lake, living entirely out of doors. No man ever fought more valiantly or resolutely to regain his health than did he, and as the long weeks came and went he trusted and waited for the time when he might return to his former strength and vigorous health. ' In September it seemed best to return home to Virginia, and a few weeks later in spite of all that could be done the unequal struggle was ended.

His daughter Kathryn was born May 23, 1920.

CLASS OF 1915

Scott Montgomery was fatally injured in the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D. C., on the evening of January 28, and died the next morning at the Walter Reed Hospital. In the MAGAZINE for March in another department may be found an account of his heroism at the time of the accident.

He was born in Manchester, N. H., August 20, 1892, his parents being Albert and Susan (Russell) Montgomery, and fitted at Manchester High School.

Shortly after graduation he entered the employ of the Amoskeag Corporation in Manchester in the capacity of assistant chemist, and there remained until his enlistment in the army in December, 1917. He enlisted in the Medical Corps, and was soon detailed to the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Beginning as a private, he became by successive promotions first duty sergeant. In December, 1919, he obtained his discharge and took a position in the Department of Agriculture in Washington. After a few days he was granted a transfer to the Fourth District United States Public Health Service, where he reported for duty December 24, 1919. By degrees he rose to the position of chief of the Account Section in the War Risk Office of the Veterans' Bureau, and was to have become February 1 deputy disbursing officer.

The funeral service was held in the Universalist church in Manchester, under the auspices of Henry J. Sweeney Post, American Legion, and the burial at Contoocook, N. H.

CLASS OF 1920

Percival Maxon Allen died at his home in Petersburg, N. Y., February 4, 1922.

The son of Victor Maxon and Blanche Rebekah (Percy) Allen, he was born in Albany, N. Y., July 24, 1895. His father, now deceased, was a graduate of Columbia in 1892, and his mother, of Smith in 1892. He prepared for college at Peekskill Military Academy, and entered Dartmouth in 1915, in the class of 1919. After the completion of his freshman year he was absent from college for a year, and joined the class of 1920 at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

After graduation he obtained a position with the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Mass., in the office of the production department. He was in the office about a year when his health gave out, and in August, 1921, he returned to his home in Petersburg. His case had been reported to the State Health Department as tuberculosis, but it was not pulmonary, only the glands being involved. He had had valvular heart trouble since 1912, and was rejected by the army examining board because of it. A severe attack of stomach trouble ending in a hemorrhage was the immediate cause of death.

July 11, 1921, he was married to Fannie Powers of Petersburg, who survives him, with his grandmother, his mother, and two sisters.

The secretary of his class says: "Of a quiet nature, he had nevertheless a. wide circle of acquaintances among the class and the college of his time, his willingness to perform services for the college in various ways adding continually to the list."

HONORARY

The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred in 1899 upon George Harris, who ted then just been elected president of Amherst College. Dr. Harris died March 1, 1922, at his home in New York city.

Born at East Machias, Me., April 1, 1844, he graduated from Amherst in 1866 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1869. Two pastorates of Congregational churches, at Auburn, Me., 1869-72, and at Providence, R. I., 1872-83, were followed by the professorship of Christian theology at Andover, from which position he was called to Amherst. His presidency at Amherst lasted for thirteen years, which was a period of great progress for the college, and since 1912 he has lived in honored retirement.