CLASS OF 1875

Charles O. Foss, engineer of the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, writes in regard to the late General Frank S. Streeter '74, as follows:

"I shall always remember the first time I saw Frank Streeter. He was seated on the organ bench playing the organ in the chapel at old Dartmouth in September, 1871, and I as a young bushman from one of the rocky farms of the interior of New Hampshire had never seen a pipe organ, much less heard one, and I thought this the grandest music I had ever listened to, for up to that time the most ambitious instrument I had ever heard in our little country church was known as a melodeon.

"I was brought into intimate professional relations with him in the early part of his career, and enjoyed a measure of his friendship as well as some measure of his confidence professionally. He was a man of outstanding ability and remarkable accomplishments.

"I did not come much in contact with him till after he came to Concord and began the practice of law there. From 1880 to the end of 1883 we were closely associated in the most important case of its kind that had ever been tried in the U. S. District Court for that district, involving the title to a very large tract of timber land in the White Mountain district. I spent some months in the woods making the surveys necessary in connection with the case while he was preparing the legal claims. This case came to trial in November, and though I had come to the Provinces before the time of trial I had made arrangements to go back to attend and give evidence, as I did. The case was tried before Judge Lowell of the U. S. District Court, as the plaintiffs were resident outside the state.

"When the case opened there were present and attached to the case, either as solicitors or counsel, twenty of the leading lawyers of the state, ten on each side. I do not remember them 'all,' but at the head of the counsel was Gen. Gilman Marston for the plaintiff and Hon. Harry Bingham for the defense. The case was mostly handled by Streeter for the plaintiff and Aldrich for the defense.

"Even in those days it did not need a prophet to foretell the fact that if he lived another forty years he would be one of the biggest among the big men of his age.

"May his ashes rest in peace, and may future generations rise and bless his name."

Secretary, Henry W. Stevens, Concord, N. H.