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 1857

Samuel Everett Pingree died June 1 at his home in Hartford, Vt., after a brief illness.

The son of Stephen and Judith (True) Pingree, he was born in Salisbury, N. H., August 2, 1832, and fitted for college at the academies of Mclndoe Falls, Vt., and Andover, N. H. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and was in 1891 elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he began the study of law in the office of Augustus P. Hunton in Bethel, Vt., and was admitted to the bar in 1859. In December of that year he began practice at Hartford, Vt., which remained his home for the rest of his life. In 1860 he was elected town clerk, and continued to .hold that office by annual election until the end of his life, except only for the period of his absence in military service. .

May 8, 1861, he enlisted as a private' in Company F, Third Vermont Volunteers; having been chosen first lieutenant of the company, he was commissioned as such May 24. August 13 of the same year he was promoted to be captain. For conspicuous gallantry at the battle of Lee's Mills, April 16, 1862, he was commissioned as major September 27, 1862. At this battle his right thumb was shot off and he received a flesh wound in the hip. While in the hospital in Philadelphia he was taken with typhoid pneumonia, and the report of his death reached his friends in the North. January 15 1863 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. At the battle of the Wilderness he was slightly wounded, and after that battle commanded the regiment until it was mustered out, July 27, 1864. In the fall of that year he raised a regiment of militia to resist the invasion of the northern frontier and was made its colonel.

Resuming the practice of his profession, he was state's attorney of his county from 1867 to 1869, and in 1868 was a delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated Grant for the presidency. In 1882 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state for the biennial term, and was chosen governor for the same term in 1884. From 1886 to 1894 he was chairman of the state railroad commission. His fidelity to every trust was conspicuous, his ability was recognized, and his integrity in every position was unquestionable.

September IS, 1869, he was married to Lydia M., daughter of Sanford and Mary (Hinman) Steele of Newport, Vt., a sister of his classmate, Benjamin H. Steele, who survives him. They had no children, but an adopted son, William S. Pingree, has been his partner in the practice of law.

In 1867 Colonel Pingree received from Dartmouth the honorary degree of Master of Arts, and he was made a Doctor of Laws by Norwich University in 1898. For some years he had served as secretary of his class, and was regularly present at the annual meeting of secretaries. The last annual meeting of the Secretaries Association was the last public function at which he was present.

John Cushman Hale died June 9, 1922, at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.

The son of Aaron and Mary (Kent) Hale, he was born in Orford, N. H., March 3. 1831. and fitted for college in his native town. Edwin B. Hale '65 is a brother. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

He taught in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1858 to 1861, reading law meanwhile. In October, 1861, he began practice in Elyria, Ohio, and soon attained a prominent place in his profession. In 1864 he was elected prosecuting attorney for his county, and in 1873 was a member of the state Constitutional Convention. In 1877 he became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the state. In 1883 he resigned this position, removed to Cleveland, and rejudge of the Circuit Court of the Eighth District of the state. Since that time he has lived in retirement in Cleveland. He was a prominent member of the Bar Association, and had been its president. December 27, 1859, Judge Hale was married to Caroline A., daughter of Moses Sanborn of Cleveland, who died June IS, 1903. They had no children.

Dartmouth conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Judge Hale in 1897.

CLASS OF 1859

Samuel King Hamilton died of heart disease at his home in Wakefield, Mass., May 17, 1922.

The son of Benjamin Ricker and Sarah (Carle) Hamilton, he was born in Waterboro, Me., July 27, 1837. His early life was spent on his father's farm, and his preparation for college was obtained at Limerick Academy and Saco High School. In 1856 he entered the Chandler Scientific Department, which then had a three, years' course, and was a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi).

After graduation he taught at Wells and Alfred, Me., and studied law in the office of Ira T. Drew of Alfred. In 1862 he was admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with his law instructor. This continued until 1867, when he removed to Biddeford, Me. In 1869 and 1870 he was an alderman of Biddeford, and was a representative to the Maine legislature in 1872. In the last named year he removed to Wakefield, Mass., and opened an office in Boston, where he continued in successful practice to the end of his life.

He was a member of the school committee in Wakefield from 1876 to 1886, chairman of the board of selectmen for four years, chairman of the board of trustees of Beebe Town Library for many years, town counsel for 20 years, and president of the Water Company of Wakefield for ten years. He was president °f the Middlesex Bar Association from 1898 to 1913, and had been vice-president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1880 and 1896, Democratic candidate for presidential elector in 1892 and for Congress in 1894. He was one of the originators of the Pine Tree State Club of Boston, and served as its treasurer for 11 years and its president two years. In 1893, when Wakefield erected a handsome brick school building, it was named the Hamilton School, in recognition of Mr. Hamilton's services in behalf of the public schools.

February 13, 1867, Mr. Hamilton was married to Annie E., daughter of Joseph B. and Harriet N.Davis of Newfield, Me., who survives him. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1860

Alanson Palmer died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 17, 1922, of the infirmities of age.

He was born in Candia, N. H., May 12, 1835, his parents being Joseph and Nabby (Wilson) Palmer. Albert Palmer '58 and Wilson Palmer '60 were older brothers. He prepared for college at Atkinson (N. H.) and Thet"ford (Vt.) Academies. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

He taught at West Cambridge (now Arlington), Mass., till March, 1865, and then was principal of a grammar school in New York city to 1867. He then went to Boston and entered the insurance business, remaining there but a year. Returning to New York, he was engaged in insurance there to 1873, making his home in Astoria, L. I. From 1871 to 1881 he was superintendent of schools for Long Island City, of which Astoria forms a part. From 1873 until 1905 he was also a teacher in a grammar school in New York.

Mr. Palmer was one of the organizers of the Teachers' Mutual Benefit Association and its financial secretary, corresponding secretary of the Teachers' Life Assurance Association, and a director of the Teachers' Building and Loan Association from 1887 to his death. He was the oldest member of the Lewis Avenue Congregational church, and a former deacon. He was a member and later an honorary member of the Schoolmasters' Club.

November 25, 1863, Mr. Palmer was married to Mary Louisa, daughter of Josiah M. and Mary J. Whitney of Astoria, who survives him. A son and a daughter also survive, two sons having died, one of the latter, Albert Rollins, being a member of the class of 1903. There are also six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren .

CLASS OF 1863

Jeremiah Emery Ayers died at his home in Denver, Colo., May 4, 1922, after an illness of ten days' duration, of uremia.

He was born in Canterbury, N. H., February 2, 1838, his parents being Joseph and Lucy Caroline (Emery) Ayers. Henry C. Ayers '64 and Walter H. Ayers '68 were his brothers. He fitted for college at the New Hampton Institution. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

For two years after graduation he was principal of the Boys' High School at Portsmouth, N. H. He then went to Pittsburgh, Pa., and was principal of the preparatory department of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh) from 1865 to 1869, and professor of Latin in the University from 1869 to 1870. He then opened a school for boys in Pittsburgh, styled the Ayers Latin School, and had charge of that until 1873. Removing then to Denver, he engaged in stock raising until 1876, and then in grain farming. He developed one of the finest farms in Jefferson county, which he named the Windfall for the old home farm in New Hampshire. He and his classmate, Henri R. Foster, laid out the streets of Highlands, and added many attractions to that part of Denver, which still remain as evidence of their energy and foresight.

He was at one time president of the North Denver school board, and was one of the first trustees of Colorado College. He took an active interest in church work, and for nearly 40 years taught various Bible classes. He was one of the first members of Central Presbyterian church and later of the Twenty-third Avenue Presbyterian church, and was finally connected with the Boulevard Congregational church.

July 6, 1869, Mr. Ayres was married to Anna Rea of Pittsburgh, who survives him, with a son and two daughters, also by five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The secretary of his class writes: "The ranks of the class of '63 have again been broken by the death of our beloved classmate, Jeremiah E. Ayers. The hearts of every surviving member of our class will be saddened as this intelligence reaches them. Loved and respected by all who knew him as a man of high purpose and absolute integrity, he has left a memory which will continue to be a benediction in all our lives."

CLASS OF 1872

Charles Henry Sawyer died April 28, 1922, at his home in Kearney, Neb., of Bright's disease, following hardening of the arteries.

The son of Nathaniel and Lucy H. (Wood) Sawyer, he was born at Salisbury, N. H., October 4, 1848. He fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, and was one of the charter members at Dartmouth of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After graduation he decided upon civil engineering as his occupation, and his initial training was upon the White Mountain section of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and later the Portland and Ogdensburg until April, 1873. Next he engaged in the service of the Missouri Pacific until the winter of 1873, when he taught school. For the three following years he was employed by the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe Railroad, and following that period he was with the Wabash Railroad until January, 1881, when he married Miss Eva M. Davidson of Stansbury, Mo. The next six years he was with the Union Pacific Railroad. His chief work was location and construction, first on the Utah Northern and then on other branches of the Union Pacific. This sort of work was very hard and living conditions quite trying, and some of these crude conditions his wife endured with him.

In April, 1887, he moved to Kansas, and engaged for ten years in newspaper work and banking. There two sons were born to him, Charles N. and Harry E. The older, Charles, graduated from West Point and has followed a military career, rising from the rank of second lieutenant to that of lieutenant colonel. He was assigned in the World War to the duty of chief signal officer in the 26th (Yankee) Division, and saw long service in France. The younger son, Harry, belongs to the class of 1912 of Dartmouth, and has seen service for the Carnegie Institute at Washington, and in that service has traveled widely with most adventurous experiences.

About 1897 the father moved to Kearney, Neb., and took up civil engineering work on the Union Pacific Railroad, continuing that work until 1919, when he concluded to retire on the pension plan of the road.

His recreation in his earlier years of service was botany, but in the later years he paid great attention to bird life, and furnished valuable information to biologists.

A year ago he was fondly counting on celebrating the golden anniversary of his graduation at the same time his son, Harry, would be celebrating his tenth.

His wife survives him, and their son, Charles N., has two daughters. His church affiliations were Orthodox Congregational, and he was active in connection with his church.

CLASS OF 1877

Jacob Frank Gear died in Boston, Mass., April 29, 1921.

He was born in Dover, N. H., November 6, 1854, his parents being Jacob S. and Hannah (Eastman) Gear, and fitted for college at Dover Academy.

He left college sophomore fall, and for several years was occupied in teaching and medical study. Without completing the latter, he became a traveling salesman for a Boston firm selling surgical and dental instruments, and traveled for them over the United States for a good many years. Later he opened an office in Boston for the sale of surgical, electrical, and veterinary supplies, and continued in that business until his death. He never married.

Wilbur Aldrich died suddenly at his home in Jensen, Fla., January 13, 1922.

The son of Cyrus F. Aldrich, he was born in Poland, Me., April 18, 1857, and fitted at Hebron Academy for the Chandler Scientific Department. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

About the middle of junior year he left college, and soon after began the study of law in New York city in the offices of Joseph F. Randolph and Edward Jordan and at Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar, and for about 20 years he was a clerk in the law offices of Randolph and Black. Around 1900 he purchased a farm at Belona, Va., and for some years divided his time between law in New York and farming. Later he removed to Jefferson, Va., and finally in 1915 to Jensen, Fla., and in the two last places his time was wholly given to agriculture. In recent years he had suffered much from poor health.

He was much interested in economic questions, and was the author of two books, "Farming Corporations," published in 1892, and "Money and Credit," in 1903.

August 26, 1884, he was married to Kate, daughter of Peter I. and Margaret (Van Pelt) Doty of New York city, who survives him. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1884

Dr. Augustus Erdman Marden died at Phoenix, Arizona, May 18, 1922, of heart disease, the result of several attacks of influenza.

The son of Rev. Augustus Leander (Dartmouth 1856) and Amelia Deborah (Erdman) Marden, he was born in Piermont, N. H., July 28, 1863. He fitted for college mainly under his father's instruction, with one year at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. William E. Marden '86 is a brother.

The first two years after graduation he taught mathematics and natural science in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He then entered Boston University School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1889. During his medical course he did some private tutoring and taught in the Boston evening schools. From 1889 to 1891 he practiced his profession at Danville, Vt.

He then entered the United States Indian Service as physician, and was stationed at the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. In 1893 he was transferred to the Pima Agency at Sacaton, Arizona, where he remained until 1895. He was then for a year physician for the Harqua Hola Mines Company in Arizona, and from 1896 to 1900 physician at the Fool's Gulch Mines. In 1900 he returned to Sacaton, and remained there as a medical missionary and government physician to the Indians until 1911, when he was appointed physician to the United States Indian Industrial School at Phoenix, a position which he held for the rest of his life.

The superintendent of the Phoenix school said that in 30 years' work among the Indians he had never known a more faithful worker than Dr. Marden. He was also referred to as being the "true medical man's ideal — caring both for the body and soul." He was a member and an elder of the First Presbyterian church of Phoenix.

April 18, 1894, Dr. Marden was married to Kate B. Green of Fredonia, Kans., who died February 1, 1900. He was again married, January 6, 1903, to Ella R. Gracey of Newville, Pa., who survives him, with two daughters.

CLASS or 1890

William Tabor Abbott died in the Emergency Hospital at Washington, D. C., May 29, .1922, after ten days' illness following an operation for acute appendicitis.

He was stricken suddenly on Thursday, May 18, as he was about to leave the Treasury Building to take a train for his home in Chicago. He was taken to the hospital and operated upon immediately, and for a time hopes were; entertained for his recovery, but despite all that could be done by eminent surgeons from Johns Hopkins University and the Public Health Service, who were called in consultation, he suffered a relapse on Saturday the 27th, from which he never rallied.

He was born February 16, 1868, at Wells River, Vt., the son or Orrin S. and Ella (Tabor) Abbott. He prepared for college in the public schools of Wells River and at St. Johnsbury Academy.

During his college course he taught at the Franklin Academy in the winter of 1887-88, and at the high school, Manchester, N. H., in the winter of 1888-89. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.

Upon leaving college he became instructor in mathematics and history in the Manchester N. H., High School, and occupied that po- sition fom September, 1890, until June, 1892 in the meantime devoting his leisure to reading law in the office of Judge Cross '41. He also during the summers of 1890-91 and '92 was head clerk at the Sunset Hill House, Lisbon, N. H.

In the fall of 1892 he went to Peoria, Ill., and entered the law office of Stevens and Horton. He was admitted to practice in the courts of Illinois in March, 1893, and on January 1, 1895, became a member of the firm of Stevens, Horton, and Abbott.

In October, 1899, he left Peoria and went to Porto Rico, where he spent several months, returning for a time to Peoria, and then removing to Chicago, where in 1904 he became a member of the law firm of Ritsher, Montgomery, Hart, and Abbott of 181 La Salle St.

June 28, 1905, he married Elsie Parsons Bourland, Smith '98, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. T. Bourland of Peoria.

April 1, 1910, he retired from the practice of the law, and became vice-president of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, the position which he held at the time of his death.

Through all these years Abbott found time for various outside affairs. He was a member of many clubs, enjoyed out-of-door sports, and was identified with many benevolences. He was a lover of flowers. He was loyal to his friends and generous to a fault. As a public speaker he had charm, wit, and force. He was an enthusiastic Republican, and during the McKinley campaign devoted much time to the cause as an effective speaker.

His interest in Dartmouth men and Dartmouth affairs was unfailing. He has served on the Council, has been president of the local and national associations, and has spoken and presided on various occasions at Hanover. At local alumni meetings his coming was hailed with delight, and his enthusiasm was contagious and affected the entire atmosphere.

"He the life and soul of us all

Whose voice was as blithe as a bugle call.

During the war he participated extensively in the Liberty Bond campaigns, and in Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and United War work. He also was secretary for three years of the Chicago Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.

Shortly after Gen. Charles G. Dawes became director of the budget, Mr. Abbott was appointed assistant director, and held that position until a few months prior to his death.

He was a member of the Chicago and of the Illinois State Bar Associations, and of the University, Union League, Bankers, Evanston Country, and Skokie Golf Clubs. He was a director of the Rufus R. Dawes Hotel Association. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.

Of late years he had made his home in Evanston. His funeral at Evanston was at- tended by many Dartmouth men, among whom were Redington '61 and Burnap '94, who served as an honorary pallbearer, and Hilton '90, who served as an active pallbearer. Ozora S. Davis, his roommate for three years and a brother in Theta Delta Chi, gave an impressive talk in his rarely wonderful way, which was an uplift and a comfort to all who heard him.

Alas, the pity of it that such a man should be taken in the fullness of his powers, who had so much to live for, so much to give to the world, and. whose death means so much loss not only to his inner circle but also to the many whom he touched less intimately and to his business world!

Besides his widow, who was with him at his death, he is survived by his mother, by two brothers, Guy H. Abbott (Dartmouth 1902) and Harold Abbott, and by two sisters, Mrs. Ethel A. Harriman and Mrs. Ellen A. Philbert.

Of Abbott's contribution to General Dawes' task, the latter has written as follows :

"The work done by William T. Abbott as assistant director of the Budget for tile six months which was the organizing period of the Budget System of the United States in my judgment will ever be remembered in the fiscal history of our country. The director of the Budget, on his appointment in June, 1921, was faced with the necessity of creating an organization which would be equal to the immense task, not only of revising the estimates of expenditure, but of preparing the first budget of the United States covering them, in time to present it to Congress on the first Monday of December, only about five months later. The work of devising the form and the method of preparation, not only of the budget but of the alternative budget, devolved upon Mr. Abbott. It required his constant collaboration with the chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the Senate and House, with cabinet officers, with bureau chiefs, and with members of both houses of Congress. To succeed required not only the broadest perspective, but a most laborious research into details, so complicated that only a great mind could have mastered them without losing sight of the fundamental principles, upon the recognition of which the success of the instrument depended.

"In the terrible heat of the Washington summer, at his task night and day, Mr. Abbott and his companions completed their work. So much was to be done that the preliminary portions of the budget were on the press long before its complete preparation, and it was not until the afternoon of the last day available that the forms of the budget in the Government Printing Office were closed. But at the opening of Congress the finished volumes were ready, and in a form that was accepted as satisfactory by Congress and by the public.

"The institution of the budget system, together with the system of executive co-ordinating control over 43 independent departments and establishments of government, which have hitherto operated with an entire absence of central supervision, has demonstrated in the first year of its existence its effectiveness beyound the expectations which had been held even by its friends. Besides the preparation of the budget, there was involved in this work the creation by executive order of the co-ordinating agencies for the supervision of the routine business of government. In the preparation of these executive orders, the closest study of law was made necessary by the immense mass of provisions in the statutes affecting the routine business of the government. In this work also Mr. Abbott's legal experience, coupled with his broad business experience, was invaluable. He will always be remembered in the history of the Treasury and the business departments of the government as one of the prime factors in a revolutionary and what we hope to be a lasting reform in governmental business methods."

CLASS OF 1900

Dr. Frederick James Barrett died at the San Reno Hotel in New York city on April 21, 1922. Fred had"- been in poor health for the past five years. He suffered very severely from an infected antrim, so that at one time an operation was necessary. In February of this year he went to Asheville, N. C., but his depleted condition prevented his gaining benefit, and he suffered a serious attack of acute indigestion. He lost .strength rapidly after his return, and although he had every possible care, was unable to recuperate.

Frederick James Barrett was born in Rutland, Vt., November 25, 1880, the son of James Crocker and Mary A. (Whitney) Barrett. His was a Dartmouth ancestry. His grandfather was John Barrett of the class of '38; his father was a member of the class of '74. Three uncles were Dartmouth men: R. P. Barrett of the class of '76; J. A. Barrett of the class of '79; S. A. Barrett of the class of '83. His cousin, A. Barrett, graduated with the class of 1910.

Fred entered Dartmouth from the Rutland High School. He left college in June, 1898, and entered the employ of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the district superintendent's department, remaining there until 1901. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, and was graduated in 1905. Then followed the building of a very successful practice in New York city. He was on the staff of the Presbyterian hospital.

He married Louise Marion Avery on August 26, 1908. William Hurd was born October 22, 1909.

For five years Fred was a member of the 23d Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York. When the call came for service in the Great War, he immediately enlisted. In September, 1917, he was assigned to duty at the base hospital at Camp Hancock as chief of the medical service, with the rank of .major. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was stationed at Camp Hancock from September, 1917, until April, 1919, and then became connected with the Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C., from April to August, 1919, occupying the position of chief of the Section of Internal Medicine. He was discharged on August 1, 1919.

The charm of Fred Barrett's personality was remarkable. Deliberate in carriage and in speech, he preserved beneath a calm exterior the fighting spirit of his Vermont ancestry. His were a clear brain, a keen eye, the poise of an aristocrat, and the kindly spirit of a man of the people. These possessions won for him immediate success in the practice of his profession in the largest city in the country, and made him an able executive in the days when the country needed his service.

When the day's work was over, he would sit down with a friend or classmate and talk of old times and old associations. His friendship was staunch and his sympathies broad. As he was in college days, so he continued to be in later life, for his loyalty never changed, although his life was active and beset with many cares.

He remembered the class at their last roundup, and during the struggle for health he wrote, only a few months "before his death, a letter of kindly regard for those he was soon to leave behind.

His was an ancestry of brains, of breeding, and of quiet power. When any crisis came he met it with courage and with certitude of success. May it be the privilege of his son to carry on the prestige of the Barrett family, maintained from generation to generation and enhanced by his father:—an honor to the New England state from which it sprang and to the college in which it was nurtured.