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 1846
Dr. Josiah Whitney Barstow, for many years the oldest living graduate of the College, died from the infirmities of age at his home in Flushing, N. Y., December 17, 1922.
The son of Rev. Dr. Zedekiah Smith and Elizabeth Fay (Blake) Barstow, he was born in Keene, N H., June 21, 1826. William Barstow '42 was a brother. The father was from the beginning of his ministry in 1818 to 1861 pastor of the First Congregational church in Keene, and was a trustee of Dartmouth from 1843 to 1871. The son prepared for college at Keene, and was one of the charter members of the Dartmouth chapter of Alpha Delta Phi and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
For some time after graduation he taught at Shepherdstown, W. Va., and then studied medicine in Hanover, receiving his medical degree with the class of 1852. For two years he served as assistant physician in the New York City and Blackwell's Island Hospitals, and in 1854 became resident physician at Sanford Hall, a private institution for the treatment of the insane at Flushing, Long Island, and remained in charge of this institution for forty years, during the rest of his active life. When he entered the profession he gave promise of becoming a surgeon of unusual skill, but an injury to his right hand made it necessary to abandon that line of work, and he became instead an expert on mental diseases. Since his retirement he had divided his time between his homes in New York city and in Flushing. He was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a member of the New York Medical and Surgical Society.
Dr. Barstow was always an enthusiastic Dartmouth man, and delighted in conversing about the College of his day and the conditions of the present time, keeping himself well informed by a constant reading of the college periodicals.
June 21, 1860, he was married to Flora, daughter of Dr. James Macdonald of Flushing, who survives him. Their oldest child, a son, died in infancy. Three daughters are living.
CLASS OF 1871
Edward Johnson died at his home in Burlington, Vt., December 21, 1922, after a short illness.
The son of James Monroe and Elizabeth R. (Merrill) Johnson, he was born in Pittsfield, N. H., September 13, 1850, and fitted for college at Pittsfield Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. Clarence Johnson '72 was a brother. He left college during senior year, but received his diploma in 1911, and has since been enrolled with the graduate members of the class.
His entire active life was spent in newspaper work. For a year he was editor of the Suncook Valley Times at Pittsfield, and then was night editor of the Burlington Free Press from 1873 to 1885. From the last date to 1895 he was editor of the Republican at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and then returned to Burlington as city editor and part owner of the DailyNews. He retired from active work in 1916.
April 14, 1872, he was married to Evelyn Hortense, daughter of Lowell and Hannah (Lane) Brown of Pittsfield, N. H., who survives him, with three daughters and three sons. Another son and three daughters are not living.
The following is from the Free Press of Burlington: "Mr. Johnson was a forceful editorial writer. He was a master of English, possessing a brilliant style entirely his own, which could sting or praise as occasion demanded. His viewpoint of life was original and interesting, and to it he brought the treasures of Greek, Latin, and English scholarship and philosophy. He was always the student and thinker, and a gentleman of that type known as 'the old school.' Those who knew him the best loved him the most. Those who were with him in the newspaper business will never regret their association with this kindly, scholarly character. Rather will they remember that period in their lives as an opportunity which is apt to come but once in a lifetime."
CLASS OF 1873
William Pinkney Cooper was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., August 27, 1852, being the son of Henry and Eleanor Cooper. His father, a native of Maryland,, was one of the earliest settlers of Fort Wayne and a lawyer of ability. Practically all of the life of William P. Cooper, the son, was passed in the city of his birth. In his early youth he was employed at the telegraph office, at newspaper offices in a subordinate capacity, and then, even before entering college, as city editor of the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette. He fitted for college in the Fort Wayne public schools, three of his teachers being Dartmouth men, Leonard Wilcox '65, William B. T. Smith '66, and Robert G. McNiece '67. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1873 at the beginning of the second term of freshman year, and graduated with the class. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon freshman society, and of Kappa Kappa Kappa. During one of the long winter vacations, he with a few others started a little paper called The Anvil, which proved to be an exceptionally bright and readable publication. Later for a time this was issued as a daily, Cooper continuing to be one of the editors. On Class Day he read the prophecy.
After graduation he returned to Fort Wayne, and during the summer managed the locals on the Fort Wayne Gazette. In the fall he taught school at Southwick, Mass., and then entered the law school of Columbia University, reporting at the same time for the newspapers. After further law studies in the office of Cook and Nassau, he moved back West in 1876, and his brother having been elected sheriff of Allen County, Indiana, William was appointed a deputy. He remained in Fort Wayne for several years, removing thence to Warsaw, Ind., where he acted as manager of the "Bolton Cure" for intemperance.
The real work of his life then began. In January, 1898, he entered the service of the New York Life Insurance Company, becoming its general agent at Fort Wayne. He was markedly successful in this service, so that in October, 1910, the company published his picture as one of the leaders in the number of paid applications, saying: "Mr. William P. Cooper is one of the mainstays of the Indian-apolis branch, and is a member of the 'Old Guard' of the company." When his son, Brown Cooper, graduated at Dartmouth in 1910, Mr. Cooper induced him to take a contract with the company, and the father and son were thenceforth partners in the business.
Mr. Cooper was greatly interested in philanthropy and education, and for several years was a member of the State Board of Charities, and was a one time president of the school board of the city of Fort Wayne. He was also a member of the Fort Wayne Commercial Club. He was a most enthusiastic member of the class of '73, taking the trip East to attend the class reunions. He had planned to be present at the 50th anniversary next June. Some months ago cancer of the throat developed, and the radium treatment was used. The disease, however, was not cured, and a letter written in pencil on December 17, 1922, says: "This may be the last from me, for I am very weak and the doctors no longer call on me. I had hoped to attend the class reunion. I won't be there." Two days later, December 19, he died. The funeral services were held on the 21st at the home. A special meeting of the Fort Wayne Life Underwriters' Association was called, and suitable resolutions were adopted, a part of which follows: "In his life were blended to an admirable degree the fine qualities of heart and mind that constitute the loftiest type of citizenship. His life was long, active, and conspicuously useful, and it was his good and deserved fortune to possess and enjoy the fullest respect, confidence, and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. In his chosen profession he was a pioneer and leader, and in its practice he never deviated from the fine integrity, the unswerving honesty, and unassuming kindliness that characterized his life, private and public."
Mr. Cooper married August 30, 1887, Ellen M. Brown of Lafayette, Ind., who survives him. Their only child is Brown Cooper, Dartmouth 1910.
CLASS OF 1874
Frank Sherwin Streeter died at his home in Concord, N. H., December 11, 1922. He had been in failing health for a long time with what he knew to be an incurable disease, and he faced death as bravely and calmly as he had met hundreds of minor crises in his eventful career.
The son of Daniel and Julia (Wheeler) Streeter, he was born at East Charleston, Vt., August 5, 1853, and fitted for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. His freshman year was taken at Bates College, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and in 1890 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
For the first year after graduation he was principal of the high school at Ottumwa, lowa, and then studied law in the office of A. P. Carpenter of Bath, N. H., afterwards chief justice of the state, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1877. After six months' practice at Orford, N. H., he removed to Concord, and formed a partnership with John H. Albin '64. This partnership was dissolved in 1879, and he became a partner of William M. Chase '58, under the firm name of Chase and Streeter, which firm continued until the appointment of Mr. Chase to the bench in 1891. In 1892 another partnership was formed, which in 1894 became Streeter, Walker, and Hollis.
In 1887 Mr. Streeter became connected with railroad litigation in New Hampshire on behalf of the Concord and Montreal Railroad, of which he became clerk and one of the general counsel in 1891. When this corporation was amalgamated with the Boston and Maine, he became active counsel for the latter in the state of New Hampshire. He was also counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company in New Hampshire and was engaged in much important general litigation, including the recent complicated Christian Science cases. For many years he had been regarded as the leader of the New Hampshire bar.
In 1885 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, president of the Constitutional Convention in 1892, a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896, and a member of the Republican National Committee from 1904 to 1908. From 1911 to 1913 he served as a member of the International Joint Commission for the settlement of water boundary questions between the United States and Canada. His last public service was his investigation for the United States government of the affairs of the Atlantic Corporation shipyards at Portsmouth, from which developed his appointment as special representative of the state of New Hampshire, serving, at his request, without salary, to assist in composing the differences beween the Shipping Board and the shipyards company, and to secure the location of some new industry in the vast plant, now idle at Atlantic Heights. This task was uncompleted at his death.
He was a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, of which he was president in 1914-15, of the American Historical Association, and of the American Bar Association. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis. He was a member of the sub-executive committee for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of peace among the English-speaking nations in 1913, and of the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace in 1915. He was chairman of the New Hampshire Belgian Relief Committee in 1915, and a member of the executive committee of the National Security League and president of the New Hampshire Defence League in 1917. From 1919 to 1921 he was chairman of the State Board of Education.
In 1892 Mr. Streeter was chosen alumni trustee of Dartmouth College, and at the close of his second term of five years was elected a life trustee. His work in that capacity has been of inestimable value.
He was a member of the Metropolitan, Cosmos, Chevy Chase, and University Clubs of Washington, the Algonquin and Boston City Clubs of Boston, the Wonolancet and Snow-shoe Clubs of Concord, and the Derryfield Club of Manchester. He was an Odd Fellow, and a member of various Masonic bodies, including the 32d degree. He was an officer of the Unitarian society of Concord.
In 1908 the College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1913 that of Doctor of Laws. By his will the College is to receive $50,000, and there is a personal bequest of $10,000 to President Hopkins.
November 14, 1877, he was married to Lillian, daughter of Chief Justice Alonzo Philetas and Julia Rosanne (Goodall) Carpenter of Bath, N. H., who survives him, with their two children, Julia, now Mrs. Gardner of Baltimore, and Thomas Winthrop, Dartmouth '04.
CLASS OF 1880
Dr. George Byron Teames died of angina pectoris at his home at Round Lake, N. Y., October 19, 1922.
He was born in Thomaston, Conn. June 8, 1859, the son of George W. and Julia A. (Bertrand) Teames, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Thomaston High School. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).
Immediately after graduation he engaged in engineering work for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and remained with that road to October, 1881. He was then for a year assistant engineer on the Southern Pennsylvania Railroad. From October, 1882, to the following April he was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. Returning to engineering work, he next had charge of a party on the West Shore Railroad in New York, and then went to Washington and Idaho, where he engaged in mining engineering and was United States deputy mineral surveyor. He was next for a time in Kansas, where he was elected county surveyor. In October, 1887, he returned to his medical studies in New York, and graduated as M.D. in 1890.
He opened an office in New York city, and was connected with the Fulton Street Dispensary and the Amsterdam Eye and Ear Hospital. In 1898 he removed to Schenectady, N. Y., and in 1915 to Round Lake. At the time of his death he was health officer. He was a member of the Masonic order.
February 16, 1887, Dr. Teames was married to Elma, daughter of Hiram and Rachel (Morrow) Stamback of Garden City, Kan., who survives him, with one daughter, Elma, now Mrs. Charles W. Mcintosh of Schenectady, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1881
In the obituary notice of the late George C. Stoddard in the January MAGAZINE is an instance of misnomer which ought to be corrected. "Thayer Association of Civil Engineers" should read "Thayer Society of Civil Engineers of Dartmouth College," and ''American Association of Civil Engineers" should read "American Society of Civil Engineers."
CLASS OF 1882
Dr. John Franklin Thompson, widely known physician and surgeon, died at his home in Portland, Maine, December 27, after a week's illness with pneumonia. He had been in his usual health until one week prior to his death, when he was taken with a chill, and within an hour the disease had developed so that he became delirious. All possible medical aid was brought to the sick room, but his illness ended fatally almost exactly one week from its beginning. His funeral took place from the State Street Congregational church on Saturday, December 30. Dr. Thompson's death called forth widespread expressions of grief, not only from members of his profession and his intimate acquaintances, but throughout the state, and in many places in New England where he was known as one of the foremost men of his profession and where he was frequently called in consultation and for surgical operation and diagnosis.
Dr. Thompson was born in Eastport, Maine, October 14, 1859, the son of John and Sarah (Wood) Thompson, his father being for many years in command of boats of the International Steamship Company. The family moved to Portland when he was a young boy, and he attended the public schools of that city, being graduated from Portland High School in 1877. Entering Dartmouth College, he was graduated with the class of 'B2 with the degree of A.B. During his college course he took Phi Beta rank in scholarship.
Soon after graduation Dr. Thompson entered the Maine Medical School at Brunswick, and was graduated in 1886, at once beginning the practice of medicine in Portland. He made a specialty of surgery. For two years he served as city physician, and in 1892 he was appointed one of the professors at the medical school at Brunswick, and the following year, surgeon at the Maine General Hospital in Portland, continuing in that position for twenty-five years. Upon his- retirement as a member of the active staff he continued as consulting surgeon. He was affiliated with many civic and medical organizations, not only local but national in their scope, among them the American Academy of Medicine, the American Society of Gynecology, the American Medical Association, the Cumberland County Medical Society, Maine Historical Society, the Cumberland Club, the Economic Club, and the Farmers' Club. He was many times honored by election to various offices in these several medical associations. Perhaps no surgeon in Maine, or indeed New England, was held in greater respect by the entire medical profession, not only for his ability and judgment in diagnosis and operation, but for his sterling integrity and a certain human quality that endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. In recognition of his ability as a surgeon he was elected to membership in the New England Surgical Society, made up of the leading surgeons of those states. For some years he had been active in his membership, and at its annual meeting in Burlington, Vt., in the summer of 1922, he was honored by being chosen its president.
The Maine General Hospital, on the official staff of which he served for twenty-five years, was his one great interest. He came to know the needs of such an institution in Portland. He was able to bring to fulfillment many plans for enlarging and extending its work. During the last year of his life, through his friends and the generosity of those whom he interested, the hospital was able to add much new equipment, including a splendid general laboratory, so that the hospital was accepted as Class A by the committee of standardization of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Thompson was much interested in farming. He owned extensive tracts in Falmouth, where he had a country home. Here scientific experiments in various agricultural lines were conducted, and it was his proud boast at reunion last June that one thing which entitled him to a "place in history" was that on his farm had been raised a cow which held the record as a milk producer.
Dr. Thompson had a genial disposition, a quaint humor, and a ready wit. He was a good mixer. He was prominent in many of the college activities as a student. He was a member of the freshman society Delta Kappa and of Alpha Delta Phi. He was one year historian of his class. The same characteristics remained with him through life. He was not only a physician but the personal friend and genial companion in the sick room. He had a sympathy with all his patients that led them to tell him their troubles, and he was always ready to help them carry them. He was always enthusiastic in his loyalty to Dartmouth College. On receipt of the preliminary letter referring to the Alumni Fund he left directions in his office that a check should be sent at the beginning of the campaign for 1923. This check was handed to his class agent on the day of his funeral. During his last days, while the disease was burning him up, he was much of the time delirious. Much of this time his mind was on the College. He was speaking of Dartmouth and the men who had been there in his time, talking with them of the growth and the future of the institution. For several years he had been president of the Dartmouth Club of Portland. He married Miss Mary Brant Little, a daughter of Rev. Arthur Little (Dartmouth '60) in 1894, the marriage being performed in Boston by President Tucker. Mrs. Thompson and two daugh- ters survive, as do a brother, Frederick W. Thompson, and a sister, Miss Mary Thompson, both of Portland. One daughter is the wife of Harold I. Fuller, Dartmouth '12.
CLASS OF 1902
Frank Kivel, a non-graduate member of this class, died of tuberculosis in Tucson, Arizona, December 23, 1922.
The son of John and Eva G. (Ennis) Kivel, he was born in Dover,. N. H., September 29, 1880. His father, a Dartmouth graduate of 1876, is now chief justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. Maurice Kivel '09 is a brother.
After leaving college he studied law for a time, but early was taken with the disease which finally proved fatal. In 1905 he went to Denver in search of health, and it was ten years before he recovered his health sufficiently to engage in regular employment. He then entered the publicity department of the Denver Gas and Electric Light Company, and continued with that company, having been manager of the department since February, 1917. In 1916 he was president of the Great Divide Alumni Association. He was married, and his wife survives him.
CLASS OF 1909
"Zach" Taylor died at Pawtucket, R. I., October 11, 1922. The Secretary can certainly do no better than quote in full a recent letter of Mrs. Taylor about him:
"Franklin Barrett Taylor was born May 11, 1873, in Central Falls, R. I. His parents were Frederick and Permelia Taylor, native Nantucketers. They removed to Nantucket when Mr. Taylor was quite young, so his early days were spent in that island town, and his early education received in its public schools.
"When he was but twelve years old his father died. A few years later he left his island home, determined to secure an education. By his own pluck and perseverance he worked his way through high school, then entered Pot dam Normal School, Potsdam, N. Y., and was graduated from it. In the fall of 1904 he entered Dartmouth College. He remained in college two years, then taught one year and came back to finish his work, graduating in 1909. He was not a brilliant student, but succeeded through persistency. In June, 1922, he secured his master's degree from Brown University.
"He taught at Willimantic, Conn., for a time after graduation, and then was principal of the Jonas Perkins School, East Braintree, Mass, for several years. Following this he came to Pawtucket, where he was supervising principal of one of the large grammar schools. After this he took up graduate work at Brown University. At the time of his death he was superintendent of schools of Block Island, R. I.
"On September 23, 1922, he was taken suddenly very ill with angina pectoris. Previous to this he had been in the best of health. He lived until October 11, the end coming without warning. He is survived by a widow, like himself a teacher, but leaves no- children. [She was Alice Remick of Tamworth, N. H., and they were married June 27, 1906.]
"He has always been actively engaged in boys' work, working in the Y.M.C.A., boys' department, and also in the Boy Scout movement. Last spring he was chairman of a campaign committee to finance the Boy Scout work in this city (Pawtucket). The campaign went over the top, and the work was given a new impetus.
"He was of a very genial nature, and easily made friends. He had that ready Nantucket wit that made him the life of any society he was in. He was a Mason and a Shriner. He was a member of the Methodist church here, and an active worker in it.
"He is buried in Nantucket, Mass."
HONORARY
In 1878 the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Rev. Charles Edward Harrington, who had just assumed the pastorate of the South Congregational church of Concord, N. H. On November 18, 1922, he died of heart disease at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Born in Concord, October 5, 1846, without college training he had served as principal of high schools at Littleton and Farmington, N, H., from 1868 to 1872. He then spent two years at Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1874. The rest of his active life was spent in pastorates of Congregational churches, as follows: Lancaster, N. H., 1874-8; South church, Concord, N. H, 1878 82; Dubuque, lowa, 1882-5; First church, Keene, N. H, 1885-93; Waltham, Mass., 1894-1905; Holliston, Mass., 1907-12; St. Petersburg, Fla., 1913-18. After his retirement from active work he continued to make his home at St. Petersburg. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Grinnell College in 1889.
Dr. Harrington was held in great affection by those who came into contact with him in his work, and led a useful and influential life. He leaves a widow, a son; and a daughter.
