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 1860

Dr. Henry Clay Newell died at his home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 30, 1922, from the infirmities of age.

The son of Dr. Selim and Emmeline (Denison) Newell, he was born in Burke, Vt., October 19, 1835. In his boyhood the family removed to St. Johnsbury, and he fitted for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and poet at Class Day.

For the first year after graduation he was principal of the high school in St. Johnsbury, and he then pursued medical studies with his father and at Dartmouth. In August, 1863, he was drafted into military service and granted a furlough to complete his medical studies. In September he obtained his medical degree as a member of the class of 1864, and October 2, 1863, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Third Vermont Volunteers. He was stationed at Brattleboro as surgeon in charge of the barracks until May, 1864, when he was ordered to join his regiment at Spottsylvania, Va., and was with it in all its engagements until March, 1865, when he was transferred to the hospital at City Point, Vt., where he was on duty until the close of the war.

He was mustered out of service June 7, 1865, and at once began practice at St. Johnsbury, being in partnership with his father up to the first of the next January. During the rest of his active life he was in successful practice at St. Johnsbury, except for the years from 1869 to 1874, when he was in Barnet, Vt. He devoted himself unselfishly to the laborious work of the country physician, winning the confidence and affection of a large clientage. A few years ago he entered upon a well earned retirement. He was fond of out-door life, a genial conversationalist, a facile and brilliant correspondent, and a man who made many friends by his cheery disposition and optimistic views.

In 1876-8 he was surgeon general on the staff of Governor Horace Fairbanks. He was an active member of the G. A. R. He became a member of the North Congregational church during his college days, and has been one of its most loyal workers and faithful attendants, having served for a time as deacon.

May 20, 1866, Dr. Newell was married to Hannah Maria, daughter of Lucius Hazen of Newbury, Vt., who survives him, with three children, Mrs. "Margaret N. Heywood of St. Johnsbury, Selim Newell of Carlisle,. Pa., and Downer H. Newell of Holyoke, Mass. Another daughter died in infancy.

CLASS OF 1870

Irving Webster Drew died of pneumonia at the home of his daughter in Montclair, N. J., April 10, 1922.

The son of Amos W. and Julia Esther (Lovering) Drew, he was born in Colebrook, N. H., January 8, 1845. His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm, where he acquired the reputation of being the best milker in that part of the state, an attainment to which he often referred with pride in his later years. He was a member in college of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

In the September following graduation he began the study of law in Lancaster, N. H., where his home remained for the rest of his life. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1871, and began practice January 1, 1872. During his long term of active practice he was in partnership successively with many other lawyers, several men often -constituting the firm. A large number of these were Dartmouth men.

Irving Drew was a great lawyer. The cases handled by him are almost without parallel in scope, number, and importance in the legal annals of New Hampshire. For many years he acted as counsel for the great railroad corporations of the state, not only in the courts of New Hampshire but in those of other states as well. He was one of the builders of the Upper Coos Railroad and had been its president since 1909; a director of the Lancaster National Bank for many years; president of the Siwooganock Guaranty Savings Bank since 1891 ; major of the Third New Hampshire Regiment of Militia when it was first organized: a trustee of the Lancaster Public Library since its establishment.

In 1883 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1880, 1892, and 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, but being displeased by the endorsement in 1896 of Bryan's free silver idea he left the party, and thereafter acted with the Republicans. In 1902 and 1912 he was a member of the state Constitutional Convention. On the death of United States Senator Gallinger in 1918, Mr. Drew was appointed by the governor to succeed him, and served until the election of Senator Moses some months later. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow.

November 4, 1869, he was married to Caroline Hatch Merrill of Colebrook, who died a few years ago. They had four children: the eldest son died in infancy and the second in young manhood; the third son is Pitt Fessenden Drew '99; and the youngest child is the wife of Edward K. Hall '92.

CLASS OF 1873

The class secretary has learned of the death of John Edward Tucker, who was a member of the class in the Chandler Scientific Department for the greater part of sophomore year, but has not been able to ascertain the date or place of the event.

Mr. Tucker came to college from Portsmouth, N. H., and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)

After leaving college he followed the profession of civil engineering for some time in the Middle West, and then was for many years connected with the operating department of various railroads in different parts of the country. About 1900 he entered the office of the American Beet Sugar Company in New York city, and became treasurer of that corporation, in which position he remained until incapacitated by illness several years ago. For some time he had been entirely helpless.

In 1885 he was married to Mary W. Seymour of Ogdensburg, N. Y., who died in 1901. In October, 1903, he was married to Mary Lee Strickland of Bangor, Me., who survives him. There were no children.

Charles Henry Follett died June 30, 1921, at "us home in Newark, Ohio, of a complication of diseases.

He was born in Newark, January 30, 1851, Judge Charles Follett being his father. He Prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the high school of his native city, and was a member of the class through the course. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi), and was in senior year librarian of the Philotechnic Society.

After graduation he took up the profession of civil engineering, and was an assistant engineer in the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chicago Division, and surveyed and laid out the roadbed of the Sandusky Division of the same road. He was also one of the engineers who designed the Newark high school building and superintended its erection.

He soon gave up engineering and studied law in his father's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1878, and continued in practice until his death. He soon entered into public life, and served the city and state in various offices, being city clerk, city auditor, member of the board of education, and deputy probate judge. He was prominently connected with the Masonic order.

October 18, 1877, he was married to Sarah L. Fulton, who survives him. Three children are living, Edgar L. Follett and Mrs. Wayne Anderson of Newark, and Mrs. Max Vance of Pittsburgh, Pa.

CLASS OF 1882

Solomon Barnes Merrill died. June 22, 1921, in East San Diego, Cal. He was born in Stratford, N. H., February 19, 1858, and prepared for college at Tilton Seminary. He left his class at the end of junior year to enter the Thayer School, from which he graduated in 1883. In 1907 he was given his degree of A.B., and enrolled as a graduate member of the class.

After his graduation from the Thayer School he was employed for a time on the water system of Washington, D. C., and was then employed on the rivers and harbors of Southern Alabama. After a short stay in Kansas, in April, 1905, he became secretary and treas- urer of the Boulder Iron Works at Boulder, Colo., and was for a long time in Boulder, being largely engaged as a mining engineer. In December, 1917, by the advice of his phy- sician he removed to San Diego, Cal., seeking a lower altitude. During his residence there he was untiring in his efforts to advance civic improvements, working hard to Obtain the sanitary sewage system, now being installed. He was an active member and an elder of the First Presbyterian church of East San Diego. His wife, Mrs. Louise B. Merrill, survives him.

Arthur Frederick Rice of New York city died in California April 17, 1922. For more than a year he had been in ill health, having suffered a stroke January 2, 1921. He partially recovered, and had gone to California, where his son, Rawson Rice, is living, his physician believing that the climate there would be beneficial. The body was brought to New York city, and the funeral service was on April 26.

Rice was born in Springfield. Vt., February 3, 1856. After graduation he entered at once on a business career with the coal department of the Erie Railroad. After two or three years service with that company he engaged in the retail coal business in New York city, and for several years had an important place with the large coal firm of Meeker and Company. About fifteen years ago he helped to organize the Campbell Art Company, being first its treasurer and secretary, and for the last few years president of that organization, with factories in Elizabeth. N. J., and administrative offices in New York city.

Because of his thorough knowledge of the coal business he was appointed, after retiring from it, to a coal commission in New York city—a position which had as its chief feature the adjustment of questions arising in the retail coal trade of New York city. He served in this position for all the remaining years of his life, and thus came into intimate personal and business relations with a great body of business men. He broadened the scope of the commissioner's duties, and was from time to time called on to assist in the adjustment of differences between employer and employee.

Rice's father was a book publisher in Philadelphia for many years, and Rice inherited from him not only a considerable library but a fine literary taste. He was a great reader. He kept a scrapbook in which for years he had copied selections that appealed to him as being sound wisdom or examples of good literary taste. He wrote himself many short sketches, and his talent in this direction he put to business use, contributing skillfully devised booklets which business houses were glad to purchase and distribute. He was a student of Shakespeare, and he wrote clever parodies on his plays. Rice was also an out-of-doors man. It was one of his standing jokes that he used to tell in after life that he spent so much time in senior fall hunting grey squirrels in Norwich and the adjoining towns that when at the end of the tenth week Dr. Brown called on him to recite and he arose, Dr. Brown looked at him in surprise and said: "Are you a member of this class?" There may have been some foundation for this story.

Rice had fished and hunted in many parts of the United States and Canada. He had explored the Rocky Mountains and had shot moose in Labrador. He was one of the early members and subsequently the secretary of the Camp Fire Club of this city, one of the qualifications for membership being the fact of having hunted ''big game." In college he played on the primitive football team of his time, and took a keen interest in all out-of-doors sports all his life.

At his funeral service, attended by a large delegation of the Camp Fire Club, in recognition of his out-of-doors life the officiating clergyman read Dr. Van Dyke's poem, "The God of the Open Air." A widow, a son, and a daughter survive him.

CLASS OF 1884

The death of Frank Middleton Douglass, which occurred August 4, 1920, has never been reported in the MAGAZINE.

The son of Benjamin and Julia A. (Hayes) Douglass, he was born in New York city, December 18, 1860. The family home was removed to Easton, Pa., in 1869, to Orange, N. J., in 1873, and to Chicago in 1876. He fitted for college at Montrose Military Academy and at Barnes High School of Chicago. His freshman year was taken at Lake Forest University. On coming to Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year, he at first entered the Chandler Scientific Department, but after a few months transferred to the Latin-Scientific course. He was a member of the football and baseball squads, and prominent in college activities. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

Immediately after graduation he took a trip to Australia in a sailing vessel, being eighteen months in the round trip. On his return he entered the service of the R. G. Dun Mercantile Agency, of which his father was the founder, at their Chicago office, and was promoted regularly until he became assistant manager. In 1895 he was transferred to St. Paul, and made general manager for the northwestern department. In 1903 he was made manager of the Cleveland office, and in 1912 went to Philadelphia as general manager of the offices in that section. He had his home in Media, Pa.

May 16, 1892, he was married to Jean Loughborough of Little Rock, Ark., who died in October, 1904. August 20, 1913, he was married to Leonie, daughter of Simon Delbert of Philadelphia, who survives him.

Professor Arthur Whipple Jenks died of pneumonia April, 1922, at the home of his brother, Paul R. Jenks '94, in Flushing, N. Y.

The son of George Edmund and Eliza Jane (Grover) Jenks, he was born in Concord, N. H., August 9, 1863. In 1880 he graduated from Concord High School at the head of his class, and after a year's study under a private tutor entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth in 1881. He took high rank in scholarship, winning the second Thayer mathematical prize, taking final honors in Greek, having an oration at Commencement, and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

For the first two years after graduation he was an instructor in St. Luke's School, Philadelphia, and for the following three years in the preparatory department of Racine College, Racine, Wis.

In the fall of 1889 he entered General' Theological Seminary, New York city, and graduated in 1892. June 30, "1892, he received deacons orders in the Protestant Episcopal church at the hands of Bishop Niles of New Hampshire, and took charge of the church at Woods N. H. In 1893 he was ordained priest, and continued in the same charge.

In 1895 he became professor of church history in the theological school known as Nashotah House, at Nashotah, Wis., remaining there until 1901. From 1901 to 1910 he held the c lair of divinity and church history in Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, and since the last date had been professor of church history in General Theological Seminary, New York.

Professor Jenks had long been a leader in his church, and had a wide reputation as a preacher, a conductor of retreats, and a writer. Besides many articles in magazines and periodicals, he was the author of "Beatitudes of the Psalter," "Moments of Rich Blessing," and "Books Suggested for a Theological Library," and at the time of his death" was engaged in writing a "History of the General Theological Seminary" and a "Life of the Rev. Dr. De Koven." He was to have represented his diocese as a deputy in the General Convention of his church to be held in Portland in September next. In 1911 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Dr. Jenks greatly delighted in mountain climbing and spent his summers in the White Mountains. He had traveled widely in Europe, and being a skilled musician, had gratified an ambition to play on every cathedral organ in England. He was unmarried.

CLASS OF 1900 HOMER E. KEYES '00

Rutherford Thurman Lamar Lewis died at his home in Everett, Mass., April 7, 1922, of heart disease. He was born in Boothbay, Me., August 29, 1878. He graduated from Everett High School in 1896, and entered Dartmouth the following fall. He graduated with the degree of B. L., and entered the coal business with his father in Everett. September 21, 1904, he married Carrie Fisk Grant, who survives him with one boy, Philip Grant, who was born February 12, 1908.

Thurm Lewis carried on his father's business until about five years before his death, when he was connected with the Gile Marine Engine Company.

Such is the bare outline of Thurm Lewis' career. As he was in college during his entire course, so he was throughout the whole period of his life. He was a member of Sigma Chi and the Dragon senior society. All honors came to him as a natural consequence of his character, his keen and generous interest in his classmates, and his attitude of not seeking anything for his own personal advantage. Everything he did was well done, and he was one of those men you could always depend upon. That is the way he played football on the class team, and that was the way he did everything in after life.

If he had an enemy, no one ever knew it, and it would be an obvious reflection on the person himself whoever bore him ill favor. His character was straightforward and unselfish. In college days he lived in Sanborn Hall, and all who lived at that time in that dormitory knew and loved Thurm Lewis, whether they were members of the class of 19001 or not.

When he left college he carried his devotion to the institution and to the class with him. It was a part of his'life. Whenever 1900 had a round-up or reunion, you could safely say before the call went out that Thurm Lewis would be there. When the class collected money for the men who were in France, it was Thurm Lewis who took charge of it, sent them the things which they would value most, and rendered account of his stewardship to the last penny.

The tragedy of it all was that his response to the last call of the class taxed his energies unduly. When he walked up the stairs to the dining hall of the Boston Yacht Club, where the class dinner was held, his heart showed the strain. He did not complain, but quietly took his place among us, and greeted each and every classmate with his cheery smile. He steadily lost strength from that time, and slipped quietly away a few weeks later.

Thurm Lewis came of seafaring stock. He knew every inch of the ground around Boothbay Harbor, and all the old captains and sailors, were his intimate friends. He inherited their sterling qualities, and became the embodiment of that spirit which we prize most highly in the class.

He was planning to attend our round-up in June, and it is needless to say no gathering will be complete without him. He meant much to all of us, but we know that the College and the class meant much to him and to his boy, who will soon be ready to enter. Sturdy, loyal, unselfish, a true son of Dartmouth, one of 1900's best. His memory will endure although he has left us.

Howard Murray Tibbetts, registrar of Dartmouth College and one of the best known men of 1900, died at his home in Hanover, Wednesday morning, April 12. For some months he had been suffering from acute Bright's disease, which, early in the college year, had attacked him with such virulence that life was despaired of. Mainly by strength of will, he overcame this first attack and struggled Southward, in the hope that the mild climate of Florida might prove of benefit. But it was not to be. Hope gave way to discouragement; and there came an overwhelming longing for his home. Again his determined spirit supported his suffering body during the tedious journey back to the northland. He did reach home,—the home of his own creation, into whose trim perfection of lawn and shrubbery and garden had gone so much of his personal thought and personal labor. And there, within two weeks of his return, he was visited by death.

Tibbetts was not originally of the class of 1900. Born in Tiverton, Nova Scotia, December 28, 1876, the son of William and Miriam (Outhouse) Tibbetts, he came with his parents to Calais, Me., in 1881, graduated from the Calais High School, and entered Dartmouth with the class of '99. At the close of the first term of his sophomore year, however, he left college for a time. On his return, a year later, he was enrolled with our class, and came soon to be recognized not only as one of its ablest but as one of its- most highly esteemed members. Directly after graduation he became associated with the College administration, and was in 1902 appointed registrar. July 31, 1907, he married Grace Ellen Stone of Hanover.

Scholastically, Tibbetts was a leader. He won Phi Beta Kappa and the Pray modern language prize. But he was more than a student; during undergraduate days, he worked hard to make his way, and yet he found time to keep a place constantly in the baseball reserves. In later years he took up golf, and became one of Hanover's best players. More than that, he understood the science of the game and the strategy of golf courses. This knowledge made him absolutely invaluable in planning the renovation of the old links, and its extension along the County Road.

Year after year he had the Hanover links in charge and worked for its improvement. Backed by the generosity of H. H. Hilton, who supplied the basic funds, Tibbetts was in process of making the Hanover course one of the best in New England.

It was the orderly, exact, and yet ingeniously constructive mind of Howard Tibbetts as registrar that kept the College scholastic records abreast of the almost chaotically rapid growth of Dartmouth. The systems for keeping infinitely. complicated class schedules, for maintaining track of student accomplishment and dereliction, for checking absences, were all of his devising, and were,, in the main, operated under his supervision. In addition, he was clerk of the faculty, and made indexed records of the weighty and sometimes involved deliberations of that body. And there were innumerable statistical by-products of his regular duties, which he had an extraordinary way of tabulating on his account. Soon or late they were, invariably, called into use.

It is safe to say that no college work of organized recording has ever been done better than it was done by Tibbetts. His figures were never seriously called into question by anybody. There never was an hour's delay or a moment's confusion in the application of his class schedules. And because the work of his office went with such perfect exactitude, with such absence of hitch and clatter, the mastery that lay back of it was not always understood or appreciated.

Tibbetts was not only able, but he was honest and hard working. He hated shams and he hated laziness. He had small patience with muddle-headedness. He had an unerring faculty for detecting undergraduate makeshifts and. cajoleries. Those who offered such things found him quick and severe. But no man of the College staff had more patience or more, generosity to offer in behalf of genuine worth or actual misfortune.

Tibbetts literally gave his life to Dartmouth. His work, his friendships, his love, all his richest associations were of and from the College. The service that he rendered to the institution was not spectacular; it was too vital for that, too deeply a part of its innermost workings. But without him many of the processes whose smooth functioning has brought credit to the College would never have been set in motion; or they would have moved less well. And the failure or the halting might have Proved at least seriously inconvenient.

Dear old Tib, those of us who knew him best loved him best. One of the many men of 1900 called to serve the College, he was one of the strongest links that bound the class the closer to Dartmouth. If the tie is not really weakened by his taking, we are yet aware that it has lost something of its virtue. We grieve for that; and we grieve for the brave, sturdy soul that has gone out from among us; for his great ability and his simple modesty, his independence and his deep devotion, his love for field and wood and stream, and the loyal fellowship with men that made him so essential a part of the Glass of 1900.

CLASS OF 1906

James Albert Blatherwick of Westfield, N. Y., died March 18, 1922, at a sanitarium in Monrovia, Cal., of tuberculosis. He had been there under treatment for the past eight months.

He was born in Chicago, Ill., February 20, 1883, his parents being Norman and Mary (Stewart) Blatherwick. After his father's death, which occurred when he was twelve years of age, the family removed to Denver, Colo. He fitted at East Denver High School, and arrived in Hanover in the fall of 1902 with a capital of two dollars and a half on. which to start his college course. But "Tubby" Blatherwick, as he was known to thousands of followers of Dartmouth athletics, had plenty of grit and soon found work at the Pillsbury Lunch Club. He immediately won a place on the freshman baseball team. He was a member of the sophomore football team and the football squads of 1902, 1903, and 1904, earning the position of halfback on the varsity football team of 1905, and was a member of the varsity baseball team of 1906. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and the Sphinx senior society.

After graduation he entered the School of Mines at Golden, Colo., intending to take up mining for his occupation. After spending two years here, circumstances led him to accept a position in the United States Forestry Service, and was engaged in this work for three years in Colorado and Arizona. He then removed his home to Westfield, N. Y., and engaged in fruit raising. On April 10, 1912, he was married to Frances Amy, daughter of Dr. Edgar and Estelle (Wood) Rood of Westfield, whose acquaintance he had made in Arizona.

March 18, 1918, he entered the Y.M.C.A. as director of athletics among the soldiers of the A.E.F. in France, where he remained for a year, his work for the last three months consisting in driving a car to the front in the Champagne district. Much of the work performed by the Y.M.C.A. men was of such a character as to expose them to hardships and dangers equal to those of the soldiers themselves. His strength and good will prompted him to accept exhausting labors, and, as it afterwards proved, too much exposure. He was not well when he returned, and it is believed that his fatal disease dates back to his service in France.

Shortly after his return he took an appointment with the New York Central Railroad as land appraiser. This position he held for some two years, until his health began to fail to such an extent that he was obliged to cease work altogether.

He is survived by his widow and two children. The body was brought to Westfield, N.Y., for burial.

An incident in Mr. Blatherwick's career that showed the stamina of which he was made and endeared him to his classmates was his participation as freshman representative in the "cane rush" of 1902, holding the cane for over an hour against a heavier opponent until the contest was declared a tie. The class has lost one of its most lovable and best loved members, and the College a loyal son.

CLASS OF 1909

George Monroe York died of tuberculosis on April 4, 1922, at Asheville, N. C., where he had gone in October, 1921, in the hope of regaining his health. The funeral services at the Broadway-Winter Hill Congregational church, Somerville, Mass., were attended by a large gathering of his friends, including many of his classmates. The burial was at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

George was born in Somerville, October 21, 1887, the son of James M. and the late Nellie E. York, and graduated from the Forster School and Somerville High School. After graduating from Dartmouth, where he was one of the most highly respected men' of his generation, he attended Harvard Law School for one year, and then became actively associated with his father in the York and Whitney Company, fruit and produce dealers, at 1 North Market St., Boston. At the time of his death he was assistant treasurer of the corporation. He was also a director in the De Soto Fruit Company, and was formerly vice-president of the National League of Commission Merchants and president of the Boston branch of that organization; he was also a vice-president of the Liberty Trust Company and a member of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange.

While in college he was active in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and later was for three years president of the entire Eastern Division of that fraternity. Largely through his instrumentality the Delta Tau Delta clubhouse was established at 44 Fairfield St., Boston. He was for some years the very efficient and active treasurer of the class of 1909.

Until recently he was a member of the standing committee and of the executive committee of the Broadway-Winter Hill Congregational church, and otherwise active in its affairs. He was also a member of King Solomon Lodge of Masons. A man of the greatest ability and of the highest character, unassuming in manner, he was recognized in church and business circles as faithful to all his obligations and responsibilities, and unsparing of himself in his many forms of service.

He leaves a wife, Marion Swasey York, and four small children, two boys and two girls; also his father, two sisters, Mrs. William Preble Jones and Miss Eunice L. York, and two brothers, J. William York and John BUrlingame York.

George's death follows closely that of his younger brother, Lieutenant Walter R. York '17, who died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., in January, 1921, to whom George was devoted.