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 1855
Joseph Sidney Howe, a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department during a part of the course, died of arterio-sclerosis at his home in Methuen, Mass., March 9, 1923.
The son of Joseph and Caroline (Hamblett) Howe, he was born in Methuen, October 15, 1832. His early education was received at Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass., and at Phillips Andover Academy, and he graduated from the latter in 1852.
After leaving Dartmouth he taught in several places, including Danvers and Gloucester, Mass., and Pelham, N. H. In 1859 he returned to his native town, and at once began to take a prominent part in all local matters. In 1859 he was elected to the school board, and served in this capacity for many years. During the same period he held the office of selectman for several years. In 1870 he was a member of the state senate, and in 1872 of the lower house. In 1887 he was elected town clerk, and continued to hold that office until Methuen became a city, in 1918. For much of this time he also served as moderator, treasurer, tax collector, and town engineer.
For more than twenty years he was a trustee of the Nevins Memorial Library, and was a trustee of the Nevins Home for Aged People and president of the Methuen Historical Society. He was a past master of the local Masonic lodge, and served for several years as district deputy grand master. He was the oldest member of the First Congregational church of Methuen.
April 5, 1859, he was married to Mary Augusta, daughter of John and Mary Augusta (Bartlett) Tenney of Methuen, who died in February, 1905. Their daughter, Elizabeth J. Howe, who has made her home with her father, survives him.
CLASS OF 1860
General Joab Nelson Patterson died at his home in Concord, N. H., July 18, 1923.
He was the son of Joab and Mary (Lovering) Patterson, and was born in Hopkinton, N. H., January 2, 1835, preparing for college at New Hampton Institution. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
After graduation he remained at home at Contoocook until the spring of 1861. He then raised a company of men, and June 4, 1861, was commissioned first lieutenant of Company H, Second New Hampshire Volunteers. He was promoted to captain, May 23, 1862, and while holding that rank was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel, June 21, 1864, and to colonel, January 10, 1865. He participated in all the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac, from Bull Run to the capture of Richmond. For a time he commanded a brigade, and was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers March 13, 1865. He was mustered out December 19, 1865.
In 1866 he represented his native town in the House of Representatives, and in March, 1867, he was appointed United States marshal for New Hampshire, and held that position for nineteen years. In 1866-8 he was commander of the First Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, and brigade commander 1868-71. In 1878 he was colonel of the Third Regiment, New Hampshire National Guard, and became in 1889 brigadier, general in command. For four years from 1889 he was second auditor of .the United States Treasury at Washington. At the opening of the Spanish War he became captain of the First Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and was detailed for service on the staff of General J. P. Sanger. After the war he was for three years superintendent of public buildings at Havana, Cuba. From May, 1908, to January, 1913, he was United States pension agent at Concord. His last public position was in 1913 as agent for the state of New Hampshire for the transportation of the soldiers of the state to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.
General Patterson was a 32d degree Mason, a member of the Wonolancet Club, and an Episcopalian. For the past few years he had served as secretary of his college class, and as such attended the secretaries' meetings at Hanover.
November 12, 1867, he was married to Sarah Cilley, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel and Elizabeth Ann (Cilley) Bouton of Concord, who survives him, with two children, Julia Nelson (Mrs. Edward W. Guyol), and Allan Brown (Dartmouth 1898). One of his seven grand-children, Philip Guyol, is a member of the freshman class at Dartmouth.
CLASS OF 1867
Professor Horace Goodhue died at a sanitarium in Minneapolis, Minn., August 31, 1923, following a stroke of paralysis.
The son of Horace and Clarissa (Braley) Goodhue, he was born at Westminster West, Vt., February 23, 1842. Dr. George Goodhue '76 is a brother. His college preparation was obtained at Leland and Gray Seminary, Townshend, Vt., and at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
Immediately after graduation he was invited to Northfield, Minn., where an institution was being founded which soon became Carleton College. He was principal (and for a time the only teacher) in the preparatory department, which was first organized. When college work was begun, he was made professor of Greek, and continued in that position until his retirement on a Carnegie pension in 1907. During a large part of this time he was also dean. He was held in the highest respect and affection by the student body, his nickname of "Zeus" standing for an Olympian mingling of justice and kindness.
Upon his retirement from the active duties of his professorship he was made a trustee of the college, and at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the college, in 1917, he was given the honorary degree of L.H.D. In 1908 he was elected mayor of Northfield. In 1891 he was president of the Minnesota Educational Association, and in 1896 vice-president of the National Education Association. He had served as moderator of the Minnesota Congregational Conference. For many years, until the failure of his health, he was secretary of his class.
August 11, 1870, he was married to Sarah Arabella Bigelow of Ryegate, Vt., who survives him, with their three children: Clarabel (Mrs. C. Hale Wellman) of Cape Town, South Africa; Ralph B. Goodhue of Northfield; and Mary Katherine (Mrs. Hugh H. Wellman) of Chicago. There are also ten grandchildren. The children are all graduates of Carleton College, and there is a grandchild in each of the present four classes of the college.
CLASS OF 1868
Elmer Small, M.D., died in Belfast, Me., August 13, 1923, of complications following an attack of grippe. Born at Vassalboro, Me., February 16, 1843, he had passed his eightieth year, and he had had such perfect health that after he was seventy-six he was able to write, "for the first time in my life I stayed in bed for a few days."
His parents were Ezekiel and Sarah H. (Mooers) Small. His preparation for college was obtained at several schools, from which lie entered Waterville, now Colby, College, and after spending three years there he transferred to Dartmouth for his senior year and was graduated in 1868. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Entering immediately upon the study of medicine he completed the course of Bowdoin Medical School in 1870. He opened in September, 1870, an office for practice in Manchester, N. H., but in Decernber removed to Melrose, lowa, from which, in January, 1872, he went to Belfast, Me., where he remained in the active practice of his profession until his death.
In 1913 he wrote to Professor Emerson, the class secretary: "I have had no time for anything outside my professional duties, and have not sought any political honors, and have held no office except that of mayor of our city for three terms, and that came unsought." He was devoted to his profession, and according to a notice of his death was "one of the most successful and popular physicians" in that part of Maine.
He was an active member of several benevolent organizations, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of Pythias.
He was twice married, first December 23, 1869, to Caroline Frances, daughter of Reuben and Nancy (Mooers) Cobb of Augusta, Me., who died September 14, 1909; and second, to Mrs. Kittie Smith Williams of Islesboro, Me., who survives him. He had no children.
Rev. James Alexander Dupee Hughes died suddenly of apoplexy September 29, 1923, in Boston, where he was making a visit.
The son of Aaron P. and Charlotte Locke (Sawyer) Hughes, he was born in Nashua, N. H., September 6, 1846, The late Aaron Porter Hughes '70 was a brother. He fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and at Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
After graduation he studied at General Theological Seminary, New York city, was ordained a .deacon of the Protestant Episcopal church in St. Louis, September 4, 1870, and served as a missionary in Missouri and Illinois from 1870 to 1872. From June, 1872, to the fall of 1873 he had temporary charge of St. James' church, Woodstock, Vt. He then went to Philadelphia, completed his studies at the Divinity School there, graduating in 1874, and was assistant minister of St. Andrew's church, where he was ordained priest, and later of Grace church. For a year from December 1, 1877, he was rector of Trinity church, Carbondale, Pa. He then resigned the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in 1879 was received into the ministry of the Southern Presbyterian church. From 1879 to 1882 he served as an evangelist, in 1882 he became assistant pastor at Plattsburg, Mo., and remained in the ministry in the latter state to 1896. For a short time he lived in Haverhill, Mass., and then was on a farm in Missouri to 1901, having returned to membership, but not to the ministry, in the Episcopal church. In March, 1901, he returned to Nashua, N. H., where he has since made his home, except for six years following July, 1911, when he lived in Boston.
In June, 1884, he was married to Emma A. Meininger of Plattsburg, Mo. They had two daughters, one of whom is living in the West.
CLASS OF 1869
Charles Parker Chase died at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, August 10, after an illness of several months.
He was born in West Newbury, Mass., May 6, 1845, his parents being Samuel Sewall and Eunice Noyes (Colby) Chase. The late Thomas Noyes Chase '62 was a brother. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1870-2 he was tutor in Greek at Dartmouth. He then went to Olivet College in Michigan as professor of mathematics, and was transferred two years later to the Latin chair. In 1878 he resigned this position and came back to Hanover as cashier of the Dartmouth National Bank and Dartmouth Savings Bank, of which his father-in-law was president. In 1892 he became president of the national bank, and continued in that position for the rest of his life. He was called upon for temporary work in teaching in the College, being instructor in Greek in 1880-1 and in political economy in the Chandler Scientific Department in 1883-92. In 1890 he became treasurer of the College, and so continued until 1916. For many years he served his college class as secretary.
July 30, 1874, he was married to Fanny, daughter of Newton Sherman and Mary (Bridgman) Huntington of Hanover, who survives him. They have had no children.
From an article in the Hanover Gazette under the familiar initials "E. J. B." the following is taken:
"Modest and retiring, he was contented to serve worthy purposes without demanding the credit for himself. With interests which at times might seem conflicting, he maintained an unusual system of mental compartments so that he could consider each without relation, or without injustice, to the others. He never hurried. Dealing largely, as he did, in affairs not his own, he sometimes repeated a maxim upon which he always acted, 'A steward should never be generous with other people's money.' And the contrast between his own liberality and the keenness with which he acted as agent of trusts was sometimes surprising. The bank as it is today, highly and modernly organized in prudence, accuracy, and courtesy, is a monument to his business wisdom. As treasurer of the College he took a broader view than merely that of accountant and custodian of funds. President Tucker has written, 'Too much credit cannot be given to the sagacity and tact of Mr. Chase in securing local advantages of great value to the College, particularly of the Hitchcock tract.' And his memory should remain fresh and noble from the fine gifts of himself to the community of which he has so long been a part. For eighteen years he was a quiet, highly efficient, and much beloved superintendent of the Sunday school; and upon this he looked back as his most satisfying work, hard and self-sacrificing as it was. He was an active, and, one might say, indispensable trustee of the hospital from 1896. From the foundation of the Howe Library he exercised constant, almost daily, supervision of its affairs; and its financial and administrative prosperity has been largely due to his wise and progressive ideas. In the course of his business he was made the executor of numerous estates, by will and by the choice of the probate court, and these he managed with the best of judgment and with almost a lawyer's technical skill; and — little known because he has not published it — he has given his ability freely to small estates which could not bear a reasonable charge for services, although they were as exacting of time as much larger interests. Fidelity to trust and constant helpfulness were characteristics of his public and private life. He leaves large places vacant."
CLASS OF 1871
Joseph Mee died of apoplexy after a long illness at the home of a sister in San Rafael, Cal., May 7, 1922.
The son of James and Mary (Clinton) Mee, he was born in Ireland, July 13, 1849. The family came to America while he was a child, and settled in California. He attended the Lincoln School in San Francisco, and afterwards the high and Latin schools of that city, from which he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1867 with three classmates, Davis, Ham, and Worth. In those days this involved a long, tedious, and possibly dangerous trip overland or a more tedious passage via the Isthmus or Cape Horn. "Joe" will be recalled by his classmates as a quick-witted, genial comrade and faithful undergraduate. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he studied law in his father's office in San Francisco, was admitted to the bar in 1873, and practiced in that city through his active life, except from 1898 to 1901, when he was in Chicago. In 1880 he was a court commissioner. He never married.
Frank Edgar Thompson died at his home in Newport, R. 1., almost instantly as he arose from his bed on the morning of July 31, 1923. He was born in Somersworth, N. H., March 31, 1849, his parents being Emulus and Mercy (Webber) Thompson, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
His life-work was that of a teacher. For the first two years after graduation he taught in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He then became sub-master in Rogers High School, Newport, R. 1., and was promoted to be headmaster in 1890. About a week before his death there was a celebration of his completion of fifty years of service in this school. The school committee had elected him headmaster emeritus, with the same salary which he had been receiving.
For thirty-three years he had been a member of the state board of education. A Mason for more than fifty years, he had been master of his lodge and an officer in the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island. For several years he was a member of the board of management of the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. In 1920 the Rhode Island State College conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Education.
November 27, 1873, he was married to Ellen Jane Hall of Dover, N. H., who survives him, with their three children: Lieutenant Colonel Edgar H. Thompson of the U. S. Field Artillery; Lawrence Thompson; and Helen W. Thompson, registrar of Rogers High School.
The following resolution was passed by the board of aldermen of Newport: "Whereas, Frank Edgar Thompson in his capacity as educator brought to the discharge of the duties of his position an intellect and strength of character which of necessity caused him to be regarded as one of the foremost educators in the East and made for our high school a reputation unsurpassed by any high school in New England; and
"Whereas, by his untiring effort for the welfare of our sons and daughters, his wealth of character, dignity, kindliness, and grace, he has endeared himself in a particular manner in the hearts of the citizens of Newport as a whole:
"Be it resolved, that in the death of Frank Edgar Thompson the city of Newport has lost a distinguished and eminent educator, one whose private life was marked by gentleness and brotherly sympathy, whose lifelong endeavor was to make for the intellectual and moral welfare of our youth, the successful accomplishment of such endeavor being attested to by the thousands whom he came in contact with and who now mourn his loss."
CLASS OF 1876
Herbert Daniel Ryder died of uremic poisoning at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, July 18, 1923. He went to the hospital late in June for an operation, which was begun but not finished, nephritis setting in and continuing.
The son of Daniel Anderson and Elizabeth Ann (Brigham) Ryder, he was born in Acworth, N. H., November 12, 1850. He prepared for college at the preparatory department of Oberlin College and at New London Institution (now Colby Academy). He taught before entering college and each year during his course. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.
For three years following graduation he was principal of the high school at Springfield, Vt. The next year (1879-80) he studied law at Manchester, N. H., in the office of Henry E. Burnham '65, afterwards United States senator, was admitted to the Vermont bar in May, 1880, and practiced in Springfield for a year from the following September. He then resumed teaching, and was principal of the high school at Bellows Falls, Vt., 1881-7. For reasons of health, he resigned this position, and was connected with the business of Derby and Ball (Mr. Ball being his father-in-law), manufacturers of scythe snaths, at Bellows Falls, from 1887. In 1890 he resumed the practice of law at Bellows Falls, retaining his business connection and being manager of the business since 1906.
From December 1, 1897, to December 1, 1904, he was deputy collector of internal revenue; state's attorney for his county, 1904-6; prseidential elector, 1908; member of the lower house of the state legislature, 1912; member of the state board of education from February, 1913, until his resignation a year later. For twenty-five years he was chairman of the school board of Bellows Falls, and for sixteen years county examiner of teachers. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He was enthusiastically interested in everything pertaining to his class and the College, and was at the time of his death president of the class.
November 30, 1881, he was married to Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of Franklin Phineas and Elizabeth (Meacham) Ball of Springfield (later of Bellows Falls), who died May 12, 1922. They had seven children: Jessie Elizabeth; Margaret Sarah, wife of Edward H. Kenerson '03, who died in 1909; Helen Winifred (Mrs. Ralph D. Gilbert) ; Charlotte, now the wife of E. H. Kenerson '03; Katherine; Daniel Franklin, Dartmouth 1921; Mary Scott.
Mr. Ryder is thus characterized in the Bellows Falls Times: "A strong man, one who loved his town and state, and was keenly interested in the affairs of his fellow men, has gone to his reward. For more than forty years as educator, lawyer, business man, and citizen he was closely identified with community interests. He came to Bellows Falls as principal of the high school, and to the last retained a deep interest in the schools of the town. He was interested in government, and set his fellow townsmen a good example by almost always attending town and village meetings and participating in the proceedings. He was fearless in the expression of opinion, and was always a strong factor in shaping public policy."
CLASS OF 1880
Don Seavey Bridgman died at his home in Hanover August 4, 1923, of carcinoma of the throat.
He was born in Hanover, April 4, 1856, his parents being John L. and Hortensia A. (Wood) Bridgman. Fitting for college at Norwich, Vt., he entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth, but left after one term.
He remained at home until 1880, and then went to Watertown, N. Y., where for over four years he was in the employ of a mercantile firm. Coming back to the old homestead in Hanover, he was engaged in farming until 1904. He then sold the farm and removed to the village, entering into real estate business. The "Bridgman Block'' is a lasting memorial. For nine years he was a member of the school board, and was selectman continuously from 1889 to his death. For some years he had been a director of the Dartmouth National Bank. He was a 32d degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, and prominently connected with the Patrons of Husbandry. At the time of his death he was president of the Association of New Hampshire Assessors.
October 30, 1882, Mr. Bridgman was married to Jennie May, daughter of Ira B. and Emily D. (Waterman) Burton of Norwich, Vt., who survives him. There are no children.
CLASS OF 1883
William Rawson Conant died February 25, 1923, at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, of nephritis, after an illness of three months.
The son of Horace Hamilton and Susan (Stimson) Conant, he was born in Orford, N. H., August 16, 1856, and fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
For several years after graduation he was engaged in teaching: as teacher of mathematics and natural science at Kimball Union Academy, 1883-4; principal of the preparatory department of the University of New Mexico at Santa Fe, 1884-5; in a preparatory school at Cumberland, Md., 1885-6, and at Norfolk, Conn., 1886-7.
In 1887 he Became assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Providence, R. 1., and was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in that city, at Dover, N. H., and at Worcester, Mass., until 1899. In 1899 he returned to Orford, N. H., on account of the failing health of his father, and continued the latter's carriage and harness business, adding also the line of fire insurance. November 24, 1908, he was appointed postmaster, and held that office until his death.
He was a justice of the peace, had been master of the local Masonic lodge, deacon of the Congregational church since 1913, and secretary of the Grafton-Orange Association of Congregational Churches. He wrote the history of Orford for the sesqui-centennial celebration in 1915.
November 6, 1901, Mr. Conant was married to Anna Louise, daughter of Joseph Nelson and Sarah Boardman (Walker) Cowles of Norfolk, Conn., who survives him. Their son, Louis Cowles Conant, is a member of the class of 1925 at Dartmouth.
CLASS OF 1887
Harry True Lord died in Manchester, N. H., September 1, 1923. He was stricken in his office and removed to a hospital, where he died almost immediately.
He was born in Manchester, May 7, 1863, the son of Harrison Dearborn and Juliette (True) Lord, and fitted at Manchester High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and the Sphinx.
For the first few years after graduation he was variously employed, and was for a time manager of a hotel at Norwich, Vt. In March, 1891, he began the study of law in a Manchester office, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1894. Beginning practice at Manchester in the fall of that year, he continued it through life, becoming one of the best known attorneys in New Hampshire. He was prominent in Republican politics, being from 1899 to 1902 president of the City Council, in 1895, 1907, and 1921 a member of the state House of Representatives, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1902, member and president of the Senate in 1909, and member of the Governor's Council in 1911. During the World War he was a member of the Draft Board. He had been president of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution and an officer of the national society. He was actively connected with Masonry, being a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and a member of the Calumet Club.
September 29, 1897, Mr. Lord was married to Flora Isabel Cooper of Manchester. After her death was a second marriage, October 16, 1912, to Florence Morton Stanley of Lancaster, N. H., who survives him. A daughter of the first marriage, Elizabeth, is connected with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
CLASS OF 1899
Harold Bruce Kirk was born in Chicago, September 20, 1876, and died in the same city, June 26, 1923, -at Dr. Lewis W. Bremerman's Urological Hospital, 1919 Prairie Ave. The immediate and unexpected cause of death was a blood clot near the heart, but the original cause was chronic nephritis, for which he had been treated during many years, and which even in late June had seemed to be yielding to expert care. He leaves his mother, brother, and widow—nee Mary Hogan of Bradford, Pa., whom he married February 3, 1901. His father, who died ten years ago, was Alfred Kirk, at one time assistant superintendent of schools in Harold's home city. Both father and son are now buried in the Mt. Greenwood Cemetery.
Harold Kirk graduated from the Hyde Park High School of Chicago under Principal C. W. French, a Dartmouth man of '79, and was prominent in school athletics. Although "Squaw" — as he was popularity called — left college after one year, he had made a name for himself as a member of the '99 baseball team. His performance during the game with Vermont Academy at Saxton's River is still remembered. In four successive times at bat he had cracked out a single, a double, a three-bagger, and a home run. When the spectators cheered his fifth journey to the plate, he doffed his cap, made ready, and then three times vigorously — fanned the air!
His business activity after leaving college was always through the Middle West — lowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, with headquarters usually at Chicago. He worked first for Rand, McNally, and Company. Later he engaged in the cigar business, from this changing to the secretary's office of Swift and Company. Next he traveled for some years for the Bankers' Life Association of Des Moines, lowa. But his real success came as field representative of the Universal Portland Cement Company, a subsidiary company of the United States Steel Corporation. From August 27, 1913, until shortly before his death he traveled, mostly among the building material dealers of Indiana.
Of his work, Mr. E. J. Dowdall of the Portland Cement Company writes as follows: "It is safe to say that no man in a similar position had so great and so genuine circle of friends among the trade as he. His sound judgment and general business ability inspired the confidence, respect, and admiration of all who knew him. In the office he was equally popular, if not more so, — and while he was not affiliated with any specific lodge or club he did practice in fullest measure a broad fraternalism of good fellowship towards all with whom he came in contact."
Though "Squaw" was a great reader, he found his greatest enjoyment in life in fishing, hunting, and camping expeditions along the shores of the many beautiful lakes in northern Wisconsin. Every fall Mrs. Kirk and he spent from two weeks to a month in this way, usually making the round trip in their own car.
Nothing more distinguished Harold Kirk than his power to take life as he found it, and to derive a simple, whole-hearted enjoyment from normal circumstances.
CLASS OF 1906
Raymond Collins Wood died at the Gale Hospital, Haverhill, Mass., February 14, 1923, of valvular disease of the heart, which had incapacitated him from active work for three years before his death.
The son of Henry W. and Ella J. (Moore) Wood, he was born in Haverhill, November 2, 1882. He was a member of Chi Phi. For his senior year he took the work of the Thayer School, but did not return for a second year.
After graduation he entered the employ of the Turner Construction Company of Boston as draftsman, and was later a draftsman with the Murphy Varnish Company of Newark, N. J., and then estimator with Benjamin Fox, Inc., Simpson Brothers! Corporation, and J. M. and C. J. Buckley Company, all of Boston. His work was interrupted by a nervous breakdown, which caused him to spend much time in hospitals and sanitariums before he was taken with the disease which finally proved fatal.
CLASS OF 1915
John Hillman Woolverton, a member of this class through freshman year and later for a time of 1916, died in June, 1923, at White Haven, Pa.
His family home was in Trenton, N. J., and a newspaper of that city contains the following:
"Mr. Woolverton was the only son of Anna C. Woolverton and the late Edwin Van Cleve Woolverton and the grandson of the late Dr. John Woolverton, who was at one time mayor of Trenton and for many years its leading physician. The deceased was a graduate of Blair Academy and a student at Dartmouth College. After leaving college he started business in New England. At the outbreak of the World War he entered the ambulance service of the French army, where he served with distinction until the armistice. He then settled in New York, where he lived until two months ago, when his health forced him to remove from that place. Mr. Woolverton was possessed of both musical and intellectual ability. His genial disposition will cause him to be mourned by a host of friends."
He was a member of Sigma Chi.
CLASS OF 1919
Richard Westervelt Hutphinson died August 14, 1923, in the Polyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 1, 1896, his parents being George Hunt (Dartmouth 1881) and Ida Lincoln (Westervelt) Hutchinson. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. His brother Henry was formerly in the class of 1924.
He served two years in the A. E. F. as second lieutenant in the 349th Field Artillery, and after his discharge returned to college and completed his course in 1919-20. At the time of his death he was engaged in research work in chemistry in Philadelphia.
The burial was in Pittsburgh, and six members of his class served as pall-bearers.
