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

Samuel Robert Bond, the secretary and last survivor of this class, died of old age at his home in Washington, D.C., December 6, 1922.

The son of Abraham Hilton and Hannah (Horsefield) Bond, he was born in Ipswich, Mass., November 22, 1832, and fitted for college at Ipswich Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he went to Paris, Tenn., where he was principal of an academy for one year and the next year professor in Odd Fellows' Female College. He read law meanwhile and was admitted to the bar. In 1857 he began practice at St. Paul, Minn., remaining until June, 1862, and serving one year as corporation attorney. In 1862 he enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment, and crossed the plains as officer of an expedition sent by the Secretary of War to conduct and protect from Indians a party of emigrants to the gold fields of Idaho. The party discovered gold in what is now Montana, where most of them re- mained, while the officers proceeded to Fort Walla Walla, then to San Francisco, and, via the Isthmus of Panama, to New York, ar- riving in January, 1863. He then went to Washington, and as journalist of the expedition made a report to the Secretary of War, which was published as an executive document. He also wrote a book, which was published in New York, on "The Gold Fields of Idaho and the Best Route to Them''. Remaining in Washington, he held a clerkship in the Treasury Department for two years from February, 1863. He then entered upon the practice of law in that city, and was actively and successfully engaged in it until his retirement a few years since, except two years, 1868 and 1869, when he was water registrar of the city.

Mr. Bond was an active and enthusiastic Mason, and many years chairman of the board of trustees of All Souls' church. He had also been president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Washington. He had made three trips to Europe with his wife, and traveled in most of its countries.

November 7, 1864, he was married to Mary Adeline, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer (D.M.S. 1822) and Elizabeth Smith (Cheever) Hunt of Danversport, Mass., who died in December, 1920. They had no children.

In 1872-3 he served as a member of the District of Columbia legislature. He was a member of the American Bar Association, the Cosmos Club, and the National Geographic Society, and one of the most prominent members of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia.

CLASS OF 1856

Rev. Edward Elisha Herrick died of pneumonia at his home in Milton, Vt„ March 17 1923.

The son of Elisha and Samantha (Martin) Herrick, he was born in Randolph, Vt, December 4, 1835, and prepared for college at Randolph Academy. He entered Dartmouth at the beginning of the summer term of freshman year, the college year being then divided into four terms. At the end of sophomore year he left Dartmouth, and completed his college course at the University of Vermont. In 1879 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

In 1856-8 he was principal of Bradford (Vt.) Academy, and in 1858-9 of Randolph Academy. He then entered Andover Theological Seminary, which he left before graduation in the spring of 1862 to become principal of Lincoln (Mass.) High School.

September 3, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, 15th Vermont Volunteers, and was commissioned second lieutenant September 11. January 9, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant of Company G in the same regiment. The regiment was mustered out August 5, 1863, having served mainly in the defenses of Washington and in the first day of the Gettysburg battle.

In August, 1863, he became pastor of the Congregational church of Rochester, Vt., where he remained until January, 1866. He was then for three years pastor at Colchester, Vt., and then for one year at Wilmington, Vt. In May, 1870, he began a pastorate at Chelsea, Vt., which continued until May, 1889, and was followed by one at Milton, Vt., which closed in May, 1911. The length of these last pastorates testifies to the excellence of his work. He was a strong preacher and a faithful and sympathetic pastor, and possessed many traits which greatly endeared him to the people. He had a pronounced poetic gift, which he often exercised. Several occasional poems of considerable length are in print, and many shorter poems have appeared in newspaper columns.

In 1864 Mr. Herrick was married to Emma Matilda, daughter of Dr. Asahel (D.M.S. 1839) and Angeline (Ainsworth) Kendrick, who died May 18, 1910. They had three children Mrs. Ella K. Johnson of Randolph, Vt.; Mrs. Anna M. Flint, who died in 1922; and Edward E. of Milton.

CLASS OF 1871

Dr. Sidney Worth was born in Nantucket, Mass., May 14, 1846, and died May 20, 1922, at San Francisco, Cal., where he had practiced medicine for forty-eight years.

He was the son of George F. and Mary (Elkins) Worth, and was a descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilly of the Mayflower.

The family came to California in 1852. He graduated from the San Francisco Latin High School in 1867, and entered Dartmouth College that fall with his schoolmates Davis, Mee, and Ham. The trip East took nearly a month, and it meant no return home until after graduation. He studied in the Pacific Medical College, and graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1874.

His entire professional career was spent in San Francisco, where his name has always been linked with everything homeopathic. In 1876 he took an active part in consolidating two rival societies into the State Homeopathic Medical Society, of which he was president in 1885-6, and for many years until his death was one of its five directors. He was a founder of the Homeopathic Medical College of San Francisco, afterwards the Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific, holding professorships there for years. He was a commissioner of the San Francisco Department of Health for a few years about the time of the fire.

He was greatly interested in civic and scientific matters, and was a regular attendant of the Unitarian Club (non-sectarian), and afterwards of the Commonwealth Club. A founder of the Dartmouth Club of the Pacific in 1881, he was one of its most regular members. From his college days he was a communicant and for years a prominent officer of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

December 20, 1876, he married Miss Lillian E. Brotherton of San Francisco, who died in 1910. In 1913, he married Miss Maud Brown of San Francisco, who survives him.

He was back at Dartmouth at the fortieth re-union in 1911, and at the fiftieth in 1921, and often expressed his appreciation of the ability these gave him to visualize the new Dartmouth, so much greater than in his day.

His whole life was one of activity and close application to his profession, but he had a genial side to his nature and a keen sense of humor, which endeared him to his friends and patients.

Dr. Robert Monroe Funkhouser, of St. Louis, died on March 13, 1923, of heart trouble.

He continued in active practice until the first of the present year, when his illness confined him to the house until the last week of his life, when he was taken to the hospital.

His family was of Swiss descent, but came to this country in 1698. Five members of the family were soldiers in the Revolutionary War.

Dr. Funkhouser became interested in literature early in life and completed a course in modern languages in the University of Virginia, from which institution he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

After his graduation from Dartmouth he studied law in Columbia Law School and received his degree in 1873. Then he studied medicine in New York University and received a degree in medicine the following year.

He began practice in St. Louis and soon became a professor of anatomy in Beaumont Hospital Medical College, remaining in that position until 1891.

He served as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, and also of the Missouri Medical Society.

In 1920 a volume of his poems was published; and he wrote an ode to be sung at the banquet of the class of '71, at his fiftieth anniversary.

He enlisted in the medical corps during the World War, and was made a captain, but he did not go to France.

September 10, 1891, he was married to Alice Gooding Cantrell, who died in 1918; since her death he has resided with his son, Dr. Selmes Paul Funkhouser, in St. Louis.

CLASS OP 1873

Clinton Buswell Evans was born at Fryeburg, Me., August 3, 1848. He was the son of John and Mary (Adams) Evans, and could trace his lineage back to Plymouth Rock. His father was a mechanic. His preparation for college was obtained at Fryeburg Academy, and he entered Dartmouth on September 3, 1869, taking the regular classical course, and graduating with the class in 1873, with Phi Beta Kappa rank. In his senior year he was one of the editors of The Dartmouth. On the graduation program, quite appropriately to his chosen profession, he gave an address on "The Power of the Periodical Press". During his college course he contributed to the. Springf eldRepublican, furnishing that paper with news from Dartmouth College and other correspondence. He belonged to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Immediately after graduation he entered the office of the Springfield Republican, first in the local room for two years as city reporter, and, having been appointed night editor, he held that position for eight years. He soon developed great ability as a financial writer. After ten years with the Republican, he accepted the invitation of the Chicago Tribune to become financial editor of that paper. He acquired marked ability in the power of economic analysis, which constituted him more and more an authority on questions of business and finance.

Resigning his position with the Tribune, in October, 1888, he founded The Economist, a weekly journal devoted to financial, realty, and business affairs, which attracted great attention and became widely popular and influ- ential. Each week under the heading, "The Business Situation", were printed articles written by Mr. Evans. These were widely read, not only in the West, but in New York city as well. In May, 1914, he disposed of his entire interest in the Economist, but continued to do work on the paper until February 3 of the present year. While thus busy with his own paper, he wrote articles for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, of which he was the daily Chicago correspondent. These articles, syndicated by the Ledger, appeared daily in many widely influential papers of the United States, Canada, and England. In politics he was a rather conservative Republican, not altogether with his party on the tariff question.

He united with the First Congregational church of Fryeburg, Me., in 1865. In Chicago, he was an adherent of the Presbyterian denomination.

He married, June 3, 1886, Miss Emma Rose Townsend of Cheltenham, England, a daughter of the late Captain Townsend of the British army, who survives him with their two children, Mrs. Marion Evans Vaughan of Delaware and Clinton B. Evans, Jr.

Mr. Evans died March 21, 1923, of pneumonia, after an illness of three weeks, at his home, 1543 East 60th St., Chicago.

CLASS OF 1874

' Captain Otto Andreae Nesmith, United States Army, retired, died at his home at 300 West 49th St., New York city, February 23, 1923.

He was born on Staten Island, N.Y., March 7, 1852, the son of Thomas L. Nesmith, a wholesale merchant of New York city, and Maria Antoinette (Gale). In 1853 his parents removed to San Antonio, Texas, and in 1862 to Mexico. He prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N.H. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation he went to San Francisco, and entered the office of the general auditor of the Central Pacific Railroad, giving some time also to the study of law. In 1881 he returned East, and continued his law studies in the office of Hon. Daniel Barnard of Franklin, N.H., also taking a course at Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1884. He practiced his profession for a short time in Chicago and Minneapolis, and in 1888 went again to California. He soon went to Washington, D. C., to accept an appointment as chief clerk in the Signal Bureau of the War Department. May 20, 1898, he was commissioned captain in the United States Volunteer Signal Corps, and assigned to duty as assistant to the chief signal officer of the army. During the Spanish-American War he served as chief signal officer in Cuba. February 2, 1901. he was commissioned captain in the regular army, and served four years at Fort Omaha in Alaska. In 1909 he was retired for physical disability, but was recalled for active serv- ice during the World War.

March 11, 1885, Captain Nesmith was mar- ried to Blanche Wheaton, daughter of Daniel W. Vaughan of Providence, R.I., who died March 31, 1919. They have one daughter, Ottola, who is an actress of prominence.

Rev. Newton Irving Jones died of pneumonia at his home in Groton, Mass., March 7, 1923.

The son of Tracy H. and Mary (Chandler) Jones, he was born in Enfield, N.H., June 28, 1849, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He left college at the close of sophomore year.

Soon after leaving college he decided to enter at Once upon the work of the Congregational ministry, and preached at Lyndeboro, N.H., in 1874-5. He then went to Centerville, Mass., where he was ordained to the ministry July IS, 1875, and where he remained until 1877. In 1877-8 he was pastor at Mount Pleasant, lowa. He then took the full course at Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1882. In 1881-3 he was pastor of the Taylor church in New Haven, Conn. Other pastorates followed, as follows: North Leominster, Mass., 1885-7; Rockland, Mass., 1887-9; South Hadley, Mass., 1890-7; Dudley, Mass., 1898-1900; Thompson, Conn.. 1900-08. For the year 1908-9 he was principal of Blanche Kellogg Institute at Santurce, Porto Rico. After his return from that island he lived for two years at South Hadley, Mass., and was then pastor at Orleans, Mass., in 1911-16, and at West Tisbury, Mass., in 1918-20. From his last pastorate at Worthington, Mass., beginning in 1920, he retired in August, 1922, and made his home at Groton, in order to be near his son.

Large in frame, broad-minded, warm-hearted, deeply devoted to the calling he served so faithfully nearly half a century, Mr. Jones held an honorable place in the long line of consecrated New England ministers, and his teachings and example affected many lives for good.

February 2, 1893, he was married to Harriet Frances, daughter of George and Hannah (Ferguson) Cressey, of Newburyport, Mass., who died September 15, 1916. Their only son, Chandler T. Jones, a graduate of Amherst, is now an instructor in Lawrence Academy, Groton.

CLASS OF 1896

Nelson Perley Coffin died suddenly in his room at the Hotel Commodore, New York city, March 6, 1923.

The son of Henry P. and Mary Jane (Claggett) Coffin, he was born at Newport, N.H., June 10, 1873. He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity in college.

At Andover, Coffin was prominent in musical affairs, being leader of the Glee Club, and immediately upon his entry in College he was selected as a member of the Glee Club and also sang in chapel and church choirs. He did not return sophomore year, but took up musical work at Newport and Keene, and soon became the leader of the First Congregational church choir at the latter place, and conducted it over a period of twenty years. In the meantime he became the conductor of many choral organizations in the New England states, at times having over one thousand voices in his chorus. Later on he had the unique distinction of leading the oldest festival organization in the world, the Worcester County Musical Festival, and of recent years he attained the honor of leader of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York city, reputed to be the oldest and finest male chorus in the world. Just prior to his death, Coffin had accepted a contract to conduct the Woman's College Glee Club of New York, which, it is said, has every chance of becoming the greatest woman's chorus in America.

From the beginning of his duties with the Mendelssohn Glee Club, he was designated as a genius by the musical critics, and they were not only surprised, but amazed at his ability. One of the distinguished musical visitors from New York at the funeral said of Mr. Coffin, "He was the greatest choral conductor the country has ever known. No one can compare with him or take his place. He had completely changed the standard of chorus singing in America." Another said, "Nelson Coffin did not need New York; it was New York that needed Nelson Coffin."

Funeral services were conducted at Keene on the Friday following his death, and probably said city has never seen such an outpouring of its citizens at a funeral, there being over one thousand people in attendance. Memorial services were held at Christ Episcopal church in Fitchburg, and other places, where Coffin had been in charge of a choral work. At the Keene services there were over three hundred men and women who sang, being in charge of Judge Chester B. Jordan, and this ceremony was one long to be remembered by those who were present.

Floral tributes were sent by many musical societies with which Coffin had been connected and also from various fraternal orders to which he belonged, as well as from neighbors and friends.

Mr. Coffin married Josephine N. Rounsevel at Newport June 19, 1905, who survives him, together with three children, Miriam, Catherine, and Nelson Perley, Jr.

CLASS OF 1899

Charles Oscar Miller, Jr., was born in Stamford, Conn., July 10, 1877. He died in the Stamford Hospital after a brief illness, March 14, 1923, of intestinal complications resulting from appendicitis. He is survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth White Miller, whom he married in 1905; by two children, Mary Louise, eleven years, and Edward White, six years; by his mother, Mrs. Hannie M. Hendrie Miller; and by a sister, Miss Sarah Miller.

The funeral services, in charge of Rev. W.P. Soper, were held March 17 at the Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Miller was for a long time treasurer, and of which he has been for many years a trustee, as well as one of its most zealous, though unassuming, workers. Among the many persons present were delegations from the First Stamford National Bank, the Fidelity Title and Trust Company, the Suburban Club, and the Rotary Club, in all of which organizations he had been either a leading member or a director. There were in attendance also six Dartmouth '99 classmates, including representatives of his college fraternities, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet; and the employees of the C. O. Miller Company in a body.

This latter company, one of the largest and oldest retail establishments of the city, had been founded by C.O. Miller, Sr., and since the latter's death some years ago has been under the presidency of his son, who by faithful service successively as clerk, secretary, department manager, general manager, and treasurer had shown himself possessed of signal executive capacity. At the time of his death he was well in the midst of plans for the extensive enlargement of the business. His ability as an executive, however, was no more conspicuous than his unfailing courtesy in every relationship, both business and social; and the spirit of considerate kindness with which he cared for the personal interests of all his manyemployees won for him their cordial respect and affection.

Carl Miller was a singularly fine type of the Christian gentleman in business. Besides his training at King's School, Stamford, and his four years in the scientific course at Dartmouth, he had at various times the opportunity of travel in Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and Japan. And in a peculiarly genuine but quite unpretentious way he carried over the broadening refinements of education and travel into the petty drudgery and the grinding competition of business. Yet his well-balanced temperament is shown by his enthusiasm for a normal business man's recreations, such as golfing and automobiling, and by his generous cooperation in every kind of work for civic betterment.

Eight years ago he and his wife suffered a tragic loss in the deaths, within nine days of each other, of their two oldest children. But together they rose above this tragedy, and reached out to fresh interests and new opportunities of service. As Carl once wrote in a letter to a friend: "Philosophizing on life does not get one very far; but doing the next thing, to the best of our ability, will carry us far on the way to realize the best this world can give."

One of his last expressed wishes was for the welfare of Dartmouth. And just before he was to take the ether for his final operation his wife urged him to think of the pleasantest thing he could. "Well", he replied, "that's '99." Thus loyal was he, in the closing hours of life, to his part in the old class comradeship and to his love for Dartmouth College.