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 1860

Samuel Quarles Dearborn died March 1, 1923, at his home in Effingham, N. H.

The son of Josiah and Belinda (Quarles) Dearborn, he was born in Effingham, January 26, 1835, and prepared for college at Wolfboro Academy. He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.

After graduation he studied law at Effingham and Dover until October, 1861, when he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Ossipee, N. H. After a year he returned to Effingham. September 20, 1864, he enlisted as private in Company D, 18th New Hampshire Volunteers. His service was mostly at City Point, Va., and in Washington, and he was mustered out with his regiment June 10, 1865. He then returned to his law practice in his native town, and continued there through the rest of his active life.

CLASS OF 1869

Dr. Hiram Eugene McNutt died suddenly May 24 at his home in Aberdeen, S. D.

Dr. McNutt was born in Warrensburg, N. Y., September 21, 1848, the son of Dr. Hiram and Rebecca K. McNutt.

Dr. McNutt fitted for college at Warrensburg Academy and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1865, graduating from there in 1869, and in the medical department of the college two years later. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

He also attended a course of lectures in the Albany Medical College. He practiced for a year with his father at Warrensburg, when he went West to lowa, practicing there for two years, then going to Huron, Ohio,, where he remained three years, and from there went to Milwaukee, Wis., for three years.

When the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad was extended west from Minneapolis, Dr. McNutt went out and settled at its terminal, Aberdeen, S. D., where he practiced for forty-two years. He retired two years ago.

For several years he was secretary of the State Board of Health, the executive medical officer of the state, passing on the licensing of physicians from other states; he also framed many of the state laws in relation to sanitation, contagious diseases, and quack doctors, which gave him much prominence throughout the state and made him quite popular with the regular physicians.

While located at Huron, Ohio, he married Miss Delia L. Snow of Albany, N. Y., daughter of Joseph L. and Fanny Snow. She died last September, and since then he has been in failing health.

He leaves one daughter, Mrs. John L. Tolmie of Huron, S. D., and two grandsons, ten and thirteen years of age, for whom he has made arrangements to attend Dartmouth College when they are old enough ; he also leaves one brother, Randolph McNutt, Dartmouth '71, of Buffalo, N. Y.

Edward Everett Parker died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Nashua, N. H., June 24, 1923, after an illness of nine weeks.

The son of James and Deverd (Corey) Parker, he was born in Brookline, N. H., January 7, 1842, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter, Appleton, and Colby Academies August 20, 1863, during his preparatory studies, he enlisted in the United States Navy as a landsman,; and served in the South Atlantic Squadron until his discharge, October 10, 1864, being rated as ship's yeoman during most of his period of service. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and poet on Class Day.

For the first year after graduation he was principal of Warrensburg (N. Y.) Academy, and then for a time of the high schools of Wareham and Middleboro, Mass. In Aiugust, 1871, he began the study of law in the office of Aaron F. Stevens of Nashua, and being admitted to the bar in 1873 he formed a partnership with his instructor under the firm name of Stevens and Parker, which continued until 1880. He was city solicitor in 1876 and 1877, and in 1879 was appointed judge of probate for Hillsborough County. This position he held until he reached the age limit for retirement in 1912. He was a member of the board of education of Nashua for six years. Since his retirement from office he has spent most of his time at his home in Brookline.

Judge Parker was greatly interested in historical studies, and edited the "History of Nashua," published in 1897, and the "History of Brookline," in 1913.

He was a Mason, a, member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the G. A. R., in which he had been department commander and had held other important offices.

December 20, 1877, Judge Parker was married to Alice Prince, daughter of Dr. Evans Bartlett and Sarah Ann (Adams) Hammond of Nashua, who survives him, with their two daughters, Mrs. Rona Deverd Randlett of Watertown, Mass., and Edna Alice Parker of Nashua.

CLASS OF 1876

Dr. Edward Raymond Campbell, a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department during freshman year, died at his home in Montpelier, Vt., June 12, 1923, after a long illness.

He was born in Westminster, Vt., September 27, 1853, his parents being Dr. Daniel and Julia A. (Hall) Campbell, and fitted at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

After leaving college he began the study of medicine with his father, and continued it at Dartmouth and the University of Vermont, receiving his medical degree from the latter in 1875. He began practice at Turner's Falls, Mass., whence he removed to Bellows Falls, Vt., in 1877. He continued in active and successful practice there until his removal to Montpelier in 1912.

From 1885 to 1897 he was a pension examining surgeon, and in 1904 a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. For many years he was prominent in Democratic political circles throughout the state.

Dr. Campbell was a member of the Vermont Medical Society and its president in 1888, and of the Connecticut River Valley Medical Association, of which he was treasurer from 1879 to 1904. He was a member of the State Tuberculosis Commission in 1904-6.

May 10, 1876, he was married to Inez E. Morse of Westminster, Vt., who died some years ago. They had two sons, Henry, who died at the age of 12 years, and Daniel R., now of New York city. He was again married, April 5, 1917, to Carrie E., daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Carrie E. (Harrington) Deavitt of Montpelier, who survives him.

CLASS OF 1877

John Jacob Hopper died of bronchial pneumonia at his home in New York city May 16, 1923, after a short illness.

He was born in that city November 9, 1853, his parents, Abram Isaac and Mary T. (Tone) Hopper, being members of old families of the city. He prepared for college in the public schools of New York, and was for nearly a year a student in the City College. His course in Dartmouth was that of the Chandler Scientific Department, and his fraternity, the Vitruvian (now Beta Theta Pi).

In the fall of 1877 he began teaching in the public schools of New York, and continued in that work until 1884, retiring as vice-principal. In that year he returned to Hanover as a student in the Thayer School, from which he graduated in the spring of 1885. For the next year he was assistant engineer in the Department of Parks of his native city, and then entered business as a contractor, retiring from active work a few years since.

Mr. Hopper was highly successful in professional and business ways. Among the impoftant undertakings in which he was engaged may be mentioned a large part of the heavy mason work in the buildings of Columbia University, the building of much of the elevated structure of the New York Central Railroad in the city, and especially that portion of the Lenox Avenue subway line from West 103d Street under a corner of Central Park and out Lenox Avenue to 125 th Street. He was awarded the contract for this work in 1900 and finished it four years later. This difficult work was done without an accident to any of the workmen, a unique record in New York subway construction. He was a director in the Colonial Bank of New York for nearly thirty years, and in the Greenwich Bank for nearly six years.

He took an active part in politics as an independent Democrat, but was never a partisan. In 1910 he was a candidate of the Independence League for governor of the state. In 1913 he was elected on a fusion ticket register of New York county, and served for four years from January 1, 1914, filling this office with distinction and introducing much improved and simplified methods of keeping the county records. He was an active advocate of many measures of progressive legislation. One of the reforms in which he was keenly interested was the enactment of the Torrens system of land registration, and only a few weeks before his death he appeared before a legislative committee to urge the passage of a bill making that system effective. He was a personal friend of Henry George, and an active member of the Single Tax Association. He was one of the pioneer advocates of the direct primary, and worked for it many years before its adoption.

A lifetime resident of that part of the city known as Harlem, he was greatly interested in its history, and had recently written for publication many articles on the subject. He was one of the charter members of the Harlem Board of Commerce, and an untiring worker for everything of advantage to Harlem. Among the many organizations with which he was actively connected was the Thayer Society of Engineers, and he gave generously of his means and his time to the support of the Society and of the Thayer School.

April 9, 1890, Mr. Hopper was married to Charlotte A., daughter of Charles C. and Mary A. (Read) Martin of Brooklyn, N. Y., who survives him, with two daughters, Mrs. Ruth B. Hauck of Hartford, Conn., and Mrs. Dorothy Ancarrow of Richmond, Va.

His classmates will, mourn the loss of Hopper as one of the men most regular and loyal in attendance on its reunions and most liberal in the support of its enterprises.

Rev. John Ladd Sewall died June 12, 1923, at his home in Seabreeze, Fla., afer a long illness.

The son of Rev. William 'and Caroline Harod (Titcomb) Sewall, he was born in Lunenburg, Vt., February 27, 1856. In 1865 his father assumed a pastorate at Norwich, Vt., and he prepared for college at the Norwich Classical and English Boarding School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

The first two years after graduation he was principal of the preparatory department of Olivet College, Olivet, Mich. He then took the three years' course in Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1882. From 1882 to 1885 he was pastor of the Congregational church at Westminster, Vt., and from 1885 to 1888 at Milton, Vt. In November, 1888, he became pastor of the Church of the Pilgrimage at Plymouth, Mass., which position he left in January, 1891, to become editor of the Golden Rule, the organ of the Christian Endeavor Society, in Boston. After a year's service in this capacity he went to St. Louis, Mo., to take charge of a new church enterprise, which was soon organized as the Central Congregational church. In September, 1893, he left St. Louis to become pastor of the Clyde church in Kansas City, Mo. From this city he went in the fall of 1896 to North Brookfield, Mass., to assume a pastorate which continued to November, 1901. For the next three years he was pastor at St. , Albans, Vt., and from 1904 to 1907 at Randolph, Mass. For some months in 1907-8 he was field secretary of the New England Sabbath Protective League, and then became secretary of the Worcester (Mass.) Board of Trade. From that date until the early part of 1911 he was executive secretary of the "Boston 1915" movement, an organization for civic betterment. Then followed a short business experience in Worcester, and in July, 1911 he became pastor of Lake View church in Worcester. During this pastorate he was active in promoting a Congregational summer conference at the Isles of Shoals. A serious breakdown of health caused his resignation, and in search of a more favorable climate he went to Florida and in 1917 become pastor at Lake Helen in that state. After five years his health was no longer sufficient for this work and he made his home at Seabreeze.

For many years he had written much for publication, always with marked ability. He was a versatile man, tireless in his work, and possessed of qualities that greatly endeared him to his classmates and a large circle of friends. He was an attendant at all class reunions for many years, and his presence added much to such gatherings.

October 31, 1883, he was married to Katharine Mussey, daughter of Shattuck and Catherine S. (Mussey) Hartwell of Littleton, Mass., who survives him. They have had five children: Mary 8., now Mrs. H. S. Whitbeck of Manasquan, N. J.; Katharine M., now Mrs. Roswell M. A'ustin of St. Albans, Vt.; Carol

Heman Allen Halstead died June 19, 1923, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.

He was born in Deckertown, N. J., February 21, 1853, the son of John and Lydia Ann (Allen) Halstead, and prepared for college at a private school at Mendham, N. J. He left college on account of illness before the close of the first term of freshman year. The following fall he returned and entered the class of '78, but left in a few weeks. The rest of the year he taught at Mendham, N. J., and then studied law in New York city. In 1879-81 he was principal of the public schools in then studied law in New York city. In 1879-81 he was principal of the public schools in gan the practice of law in Deckertown, removing in 1884 to Hamburg, N. J.

After a few years he left the profession, and after teaching for a short time at Orange, N. J., he went to Andover, Mass., where he was principal of a grammar school in 1889-90, and for the next four years superintendent of schools. In 1894 he removed to Norwood, Mass., where his home remained for the rest of his life. From 1894 to 1900 he was superintendent of schools for that town. In 1900 he was appointed to a clerkship in the Boston Custom House, in 1904 was promoted to be examiner, and later to be appraiser of postal customs. The last position he held until his death.

He was active in the local interests of Norwood, and had been president of its board of trade and vice-president of the union of boards in the state. He was a leading member of the First Congregational church, and its senior deacon.

December 26, 1883, Mr. Halstead was married to Frances, daughter of John B. and Augusta (Gardner) Thompson of Deckertown, who died February 20, 1905. Their three sons survive their parents—Ernest A., of Concord, N. H., Tracy L., of New York city, and Frank K., of Norwood. A daughter died in infancy. A second marriage, November 22, 1911, was to Henrietta, daughter of Charles N. and Henrietta A. (Bayley) White of Boston, who survives him.

CLASS OF 1879

Charles Damon Lamb died May 11, 1923, at his home in St. Louis, Mo., after an illness of three years. The fatal disease was an enlargement of the liver, probably a cirrhosis.

He was born in Hartland, Vt., December 7, 1854, his parents being John I. and Lucy (Damon) Lamb. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the high school of Windsor, Vt., and in college maintained a high rank for scholarship. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi.)

The first year after graduation he studied in the Thayer School. In 1880 he entered government service as assistant engineer in the Engineer Corps, and remained for forty years in that service, having his headquarters at St. Louis. His work largely was connected with the improvement of the channel of the Mississippi river between the mouths of the Missouri and Ohio, and for thirty years he was superintendent of the engineer depot at St. Louis, the base of supplies and repairs for this section of the work. He was very efficient in his work, and highly regarded by all connected with it.

January 26, 1881, he was married to Julia S., daughter of Charles H. and Frances J. (Densmore) Clark of Hanover, N. H., who died July 4, 1911. In January, 1914, he was married to Carrie B. Clark, a sister of the former wife, who died February 8, 1923. His children are as follows: John Clark, who was killed in a railroad accident; Harvey Densmore, an oculist in St. Louis; David, a physician of St. Louis; Dorothy Damon, assistant bacteriologist in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; Ruth Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Ross Chase of St. Louis. There are also four grandchildren.

CLASS OF 1881

Edward Lincoln Kimball died suddenly of heart disease in his office in the Boston Custom House, May 6, 1923.

The son of Gilman and Lavinia (Bunton) Kimball, he was born in Manchester, N. H., February 27, 1860, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the high school of that city. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

In October following graduation he entered the employ of the Manchester Mills in Manchester, and remained there until January, 1888. He was then in real estate and insurance business in Manchester until August, 1890, when he was appointed assistant deputy naval officer at the port of Boston, and removed his home to Maiden, Mass. Political changes led to his retirement in 1894, and for the next year he was in the laundry business in Boston. From 1895 to 1899 he was in the rubber goods and belting business in Manchester. In 1899 he returned to the Custom House as deputy naval officer, his position being finally designated as assistant comptroller of customs.

In a letter to the family from James O. Lyford, former naval officer, is the following: "In our long years of service . together it was with the greatest difficulty that I could persuade him to take a vacation, such was his loyalty to the service in that branch of the government to which he belonged. In efficiency and devotion he was unexcelled. In knowledge of customs law and customs decisions he stood at the head in the Boston Custom House."

While in Manchester he was active in public affairs, being president of the Common Council in 1887 and '8, member of the board of education, and representative in the legislature of 1897. He was a 32d degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, and prominent in many social societies.

December 21, 1881, Mr. Kimball was married to Marcia Mabel, daughter of Fernando and Josephine (Griffin) Parker of Litchfield, N. H., who survives him. They have four sons and one daughter: Donald Gilman (Dartmouth 1904), with the Standard Oil Company at Kingston, Mass.; Nancy Bunton (Vassar 1906), the wife of W. L. White, an architect of Boston and Maiden; Edward Lincoln, financial secretary of E. C. Burt Shoe Company of Lynn, living in Maiden; Parker Stuart, manager of Schrafft's store in Boston, living in Maiden; Philip Griffin (Dartmouth 1922), assistant manager Trunk Line telephone office in Cincinnati, Ohio. There are also two grandchildren.

The funeral service at Maiden was conducted by Rev. George H. Hubbard 'BO, a lifelong friend.

CLASS OF 1882

William Henry Upton died at his home in Medway, Mass., Dtecember 8, 1922, of progressive muscular atrophy, after a year's illness.

He was born in Derry, N. H., April 25, 1861, the son of George Edwin and Sarah J. (Gilchrist) Upton, and fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he taught for some time, being principal of Watson Academy at Epping, N. H., 1883-5 and assistant in a boys' school in Canandaigua, N. Y., 1885-6, and also teaching at Derry, N. H., and Huntington, Mass. He then took a course in optics and graduated from the Horological School in Waltham, Mass., after which he opened a jewelry store in Medway, Mass. In April, 1897, he was elected trustee and treasurer of the Medway Savings Bank, and remained in that position until broken down by ill health. During the war he devoted a great deal of time and energy to the sale of Liberty Bonds and other war work, and a nervous breakdown followed which ended in fatal disease. His health gradually failing, he finally gave up work at the end of 1921.

He was one of the leading public-spirited men in Medway, and many improvements, among them a modern water supply, were due largely to his efforts. Under his management his bank had remarkable prosperity, its business increasing many fold during that time.

October 21, 1903, he was married to Minnie Estelle, daughter of Ezra Gilbert and M. Louise (Hickes) Bemis, who survives him. There were no children.

Henry Horatio Parker died March 23, 1923, in Albany, N. Y., after an illness of nearly two years.

He was born in Concord, N. H., February 26, 1860, his parents being Rev. Henry Elijah and Mary Elizabeth (Brackett) Parker. His father, a Dartmouth graduate of 1841, removed to Hanover in 1866 as professor of Latin in the .College. Henry fitted at Phillips Akidover Academy.

For two years after graduation he was in the employ of the Shickle, Harrison, and Howard Company, being the first year at their iron mines at Salem, Mo., and then at their works in St. Louis. From November, 1884, to the following July he was a commercial traveler for the Compton Lithograph Company of St. Louis. He then studied law for a year at Albany Law School, where he graduated in May, 1886. For the next year he was in the law office of George H. Stevens of Albany, and then practiced successively at Broadalbin, N. Y., Gloversville, N. Y., Chicago, and then again at Gloversville. For about ten years he was connected with the legal department of the Farmers' Deposit Savings Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1920 an acute illness left him in shattered health, and he was forced to retire from active business. At that time he went to Essex County, New York, where his son, an engineer in charge of road construction for the state of New York, had his home. A widow and one son survive him.

CLASS OF 1884

Louis Bell, secretary of this class, died June 14, 1923, at his home in West Newton, Mass., after an illness of some duration.

He was born in Chester, N. H., December 5, 1864, the son of Louis and Mary Anne Persis (Bouton) Bell. His father, a brigadier general of volunteers, was killed in action in 1865. His paternal grandfather was Samuel Bell, Dartmouth 1793, who was judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, governor of the state, and United States senator. He fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy. His fraternity was Psi Upsilon. He was three years on the editorial board of The Dartmouth, and an editor of the Aegis. On graduation he received final honors in physics, in which subject he had done brilliant work.

Immediately after graduation he entered Johns Hopkins University for graduate instruction in physics. At the end of the year he was appointed to a fellowship, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1888. In that year he was appointed professor of applied electricity in Purdue University, Indiana, and organized the electrical course there. After a year he resigned this position, and went to Chicago to become a member of the firm of Bliss and Bell, consulting engineers. In the spring of 1890 he went to New York to become editor of the Electrical World. He held this position two years, during which time he wrote his first book, "The Electric Railway." He then became chief engineer of the power transmission department of the General Electric Company. In 1894 he was stationed in Chicago, and put in the first transmission plants in that territory. In the summer of 1895 he left the company and established himself in Boston as a consulting engineer, and continued in this line for the rest of his life, giving his attention especially to electric power transmission and electric lighting. In 1896 he published a book on "Power Transmission for Electric Railways, and in 1897 "Electric Power Transmission." These books and others of later date are recognized as' classics in their field. He was a constant contributor to periodicals on technical and scientific subjects, and all his writings are clear and forceful, with a fine literary style. He was everywhere known as a leading authority in his specialty. From 1895 to 1905 he was lecturer on power transmission at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The degree of Doctor of Science was conferred by Dartmouth at the late Commencement, shortly after his death.

He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Illuminating Engineering Society (a past president), the National Electric Light Association, the American Association for the Conservation of Vision, the International Illumination Commission, the Illuminating Engineering Society of London (a vice-president), and many other professional organizations. He was also a member of the University, Economic, and Mathematical and Physical Clubs.

December 3, 1893, Dr. Bell was married to Sarah G. Hemenway of Somerville, Mass., who survives him. Their son is Louis Hemenway Bell, Dartmouth 1916.

CLASS OF 1887

David Merrill Hildreth died in Washington, D. C., June 2, 1923.

He was born in Haverhill, N. H., January 15, 1862.

Immediately after graduation he engaged in engineering on the New Hampshire Boundary Line Survey, and continued in this work until January 1, 1888. He was then draftsman for the Putnam Machine Company, Fitchburg, Mass., until July 1, and then resumed his former work until the last of October. He then obtained by means of a civil service examination an appointment as topographical draftsman on the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and was connected with government work in Washington for the rest of his life. In March, 1912, he was transferred to the Post Office Department as chief topographer, it becoming his duty to prepare and superintend all the maps used in the service of that department. For political reasons he was demoted during the Wilson administration, but was restored to his forrfler rank in the fall of 1922.

In the earlier part of his life in Washington he pursued law studies, graduating as LL.B. from National University Law School in 1895 and as LL.M. from Columbian (now George Washington) University in 1896. He was a charter member of the University Club of Washington, a Mason, and a member of Beta Theta Pi. He was the author of "Historical Notes Relating to the Conflicting Names of Mt. Kearsarge and Mt. Pequawket."

January 1, 1889, Mr. Hildreth was married to . Cleora Helena, daughter of Varanus and Louise (Thompson) DeCoster of Buckfield, Me., who survives him, with their daughter, Mrs. Ruth C. Heider, and a granddaughter.

CLASS OF 1889

John Russell Perkins died at his home in Danbury, Conn., May 14, 1923, after a short illness.

Mr. Perkins was born in Wells, Maine, April 4, 1868, the son of the late Samuel H. and Sarah (Allen) Perkins. He fitted for college at Berwick Academy. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. During two winters of his college course he taught in his native state, and following graduation he became principal of the Mechanic Falls (Maine) High School. He continued as a teacher during the rest of his life, except for a year of study of chemistry at Tufts College in 1891-1892, and for a short time spent at the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1893-1894. He was instructor at The Gunnery, Washington, Conn., 1892-3, then in the high school at New Britain 1896-1900, and in 1900 became principal of the high school in Danbury. Here he remained for four years, and then was chosen as the first principal of the newly established State Normal Training School in Danbury, and in this position he continued up to the time of his death.

On September 14, 1893, Mr. Perkins married Miss Mary Whittlesey Brown of Washington, Conn. There are two children, Margaret, who graduated at Radcliffe in 1919, taught in Colorado, and is now a student in the University of Chicago in the Law Department, and John R., Jr., M. I." T; '20, now a lieutenant of field artillery in the regular army. Mrs. Perkins died of influenza and pneumonia, January IS, 1919. On June 22, 1920, Mr. Perkins married Miss Martha L. Cowan of Waterbury, Conn., who survives him. Thomas A. Perkins '90, a lawyer of San Francisco, is a brother.

This brief paragraph is taken from a tribute from the faculty of the Normal Training School: "In his profession Mr. Perkins stood conspicuously for what was sane and sensible. His ideals were high and his purposes unmoved by transient fancies, yet he never lost sight of the practical means available for their accomplishment, and his intuitive sense of how to meet a problem amounted at times to genius."

Byway of recreation Perkins was very fond of the out-of-doors, as a good sportsman, and especially liked hunting. Long distance automobiling also appealed to him. In the summer of 1919 with his son and daughter he drove to California and back, and last summer, with Mrs. Perkins, visited Montana and Yellowstone Park.

CLASS OF 1893

Daniel Webster, a meinber of the class of 1893 during its freshman year, died at Nolan, Koyukuk precinct, Alaska, May 31, 1922. He had been a miner in that section of Alaska since 1904, and was secretary of Igloo No. 8, Pioneers of Alaska, precinct commissioner, postmaster, etc. The executor of his will writing to the secretary of the class says: "There is no church within 300 miles, but Mr. Webster could always be depended upon to officiate as a minister of the gospel when occasion demanded it. It was said after he was gone that no man would be more missed in the community." Mr. Webster was born in Wilton, Me., Feb. 25, 1862.

CLASS OF 1899

Thomas Cogswell—or "Tom" or "Coggy," as he was best known—was born at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H., November 23, 1875, and died at the Heaton Hospital, Montpelier, Vt., June 2, 1923, of tuberculosis of the kidneys, developing as the result of an operation for gallstones in February. The funeral was held in the old First Church at Gilmanton, followed by services at the family lot in charge of the Odd Fellows' lodge of which he was a member.

His father, Thomas Cogswell the 5th, was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1863, his course being interrupted by two years of Civil War service, in which he rose to be captain in the 15th New Hampshire Volunteers. Later he became a notable lawyer, and was besides at different times state representative, senator, and member of the governor's council. Two other children survive, Mrs. Anna Moore Edgerly of Laconia, N. H., and Mr. Clarence N. Cogswell of Wakefield, Mass. The three children grew up on the Cogswell Hill Farm, from which one gets an unexcelled view of the famous lake and mountain region of the state, and which had been until four years ago for nearly two hundred years in the family.

Tom's bent from the first was literary and artistic. As a boy he was continually reading and writing, and later he became a frequent contributor both of prose and verse to the Granite Monthly, winning on one occasion the special commendation of Governor Tuttle. His early education was in the local academy. Entering Dartmouth with the class of '99, he was compelled to leave after one year because of his eyes.

His father's aversion to a stage career and Tom's own interest in literature led first to a venture in the publishing field with Herbert Small, and later to the position of head clerk in the Publicity Bureau, Boston. But after the elder Cogswell's death in 1904, Tom definitely entered the theatrical profession, becoming, as he often humorously called himself, '99's one "actor feller."

For nearly twenty years he played steadily in stock companies, in vaudeville, in original plays, and in special productions. The Agnes Dardis Repertoire Company, the Nellie Kennedy, John Cosgrove, Kalick, Stoddart, Gem, Matthias, J. Sharpley, Sadie Belgarde, Pearl, Gladys Klark stock companies, and The Players (of Barre, Vt.) had for varying lengths of time the benefit of his services. Though each "man in his time plays many parts," but few can look back like Tom upon different roles to the number of more than two hundred fifty. But it was as a member of the Nellie Gill Players of Plainfield, Vt., with whom he played regularly during the nine past summer seasons, that he won his most lasting affectionate remembrance in local circles.

Among his more notable successes was his work with Will M. Cressy, "the greatest Yankee character actor New Hampshire ever produced," in the "Village Lawyer," and in "Uncle Tim's Birthday," written particularly for him by Mr. Cressy, and played by him with great effectiveness for over a year. His work only two years ago in "The Cinderella Man" as Jerry Primrose, originally played by Tom's double, Frank Bacon of "Lightnin'" fame, was the climax of his career, and took him through New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as. into Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

Coggy's predominant traits were fidelity, kindliness, and modesty. In his work as a character actor and in his duties as stage manager he was thorough to the slightest detail. Those most closely associated with him saw in him always the true artist, loyal to his ideals, patient and persevering in his "hope in time to be on the Big Time." Yet more than his fine mind and professional zeal his associates remember his genuine friendliness. As Nellie Gill writes of him: "All those who knew him loved him, and there was never a person more sincerely missed than he."

Tom never married. As he said once, "My family is a great deal like my knowledge of algebra—none. But if I ever find the right one, a snug little home away from the glamour of the stage will be my ambition." He was singularly attached to his college class, despite his limited time in Hanover. None of those present at the annual March round-up three years ago will ever forget the quiet yet gripping way in which he told of the hardships and the fascinations of stage life. When he returned for a single day to the Twentieth Reunion at Hanover, some of the men met him at the three o'clock Sunday morning train. "As I heard you fellows sing the old Dartmouth songs on the way up the hill," he wrote afterwards, "tears stood close to the surface, that you boys should have come down at that hour just to get me."

Tom Cogswell may be now "behind the scenes" for a time, but essentially he is still among us. He is a striking example of the spiritual asset it is to an institution to recognize 'as her son any man who has ever crossed her threshold, however short his stay, but who in his heart has accepted her as his alma mater, and served her with filial devotion.

CLASS OF 1903

Victor Morton Place was killed in a logging accident at Brookings, Oregon, June 16. While in the employ of the California and Oregon Lumber Company he fell from a freight car which was being moved by hand, and the car ran over him, killing him instantly.

He was born in New Salem, Mass., Novem- ber 26, 1876, and entered Dartmouth in 1896 with the class of 1900, his home then being in Winchester, Mass. He left during sophomore year, and later returned to college, entering the class of 1903 as a sophomore. He was one of the greatest athletes of his time, being a star football player and prominent in the hammer-throw and shot-put. His fraternity was Kappa Kappa Kappa.

In the seasons of 1903, '4, and '5 he coached the football team of Ohio Wesleyan University. His success here led to his engagement as coach of the football team of the University of Washington, where he was given a position on the faculty, and was physical instructor from 1906 to 1908. In 1908 he was football coach at Notre Dame University.

Meanwhile he had been studying law, attending Harvard Law School in 1903-4 and 1905-6, and in 1907 he began practice in Seattle, Wash. He was actively identified with the Seattle Athletic Club, playing on its football team and taking part in its track meets. He was always in demand as an official at interscholastic and intercollegiate track meets and football games. In 1916 he left Seattle, and was for some, years in Alabama, until his recent return to the Pacific Northwest and his entering a logging camp.

He was -twice married, and leaves a daughter. The funeral, in charge of his second wife, was at Crescent City, Oregon, and the interment at the same place.

The news of his death was telegraphed by A. S. Abernethy '70, president and acting secretary of the Alumni Association of the State of Washington, and reached his class as they had gathered for their twentieth anniversary. To all of them the news of his sudden taking off came' as a shock, for it seemed impossible to believe that the big, smiling picture of health and strength had passed out of their world into the shadow land lying just beyond our ken.

CLASS OF 1913

Raymond B. Fletcher of the class of 1913 died Friday afternoon, June 8, 1923, at Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, from injuries suffered late Thursday when thrown from a carriage to which he was endeavoring to break a pet saddle horse. He suffered a fractured skull and died without regaining consciousness. He had just completed arrangements to attend his tenth reunion.

Raymond Bassett Fletcher was born in Worcester, April 16, 1890, son of former Mayor Edward F. Fletcher and Helen (Bassett) Fletcher. He attended the Freeland Street Grammar School and was graduated from South High School in 1909.

After leaving Dartmouth, he studied law at Boston University Law School, receiving his degree cum laude in 1915. Since admission to the bar he had practiced law in Worcester. In 1917 he formed a law partnership with Howard W. Cowee, Dartmouth 1908, with whom he was associated up to the time of his death.

He was appointed United States commissioner in 1922; was counsel for the First National Bank of Warren, and was prominent in legal circles throughout Worcester County.

He is survived by his father, former Mayor Edward F. Fletcher, by his wife, who was formerly Miss Annie Harlow, by a daughter, Jean, of his first marriage and by a son, Edward H. Fletcher, now about six months old'.

"Spike," as he was affectionately called by his Dartmouth associates, was a man of exceptional ability and of unusual promise. He had already achieved marked success in his profession and had an exceedingly bright future before him. The president of the Worcester County Bar Association of which "Spike" was a member, speaks of him in words that best express the esteem in which he was held:

"Raymond B. Fletcher's untimely death is a great shock to his fellow members of the bar. He was a young man of extraordinary attainments. His natural dignity and pleasing and courteous manner toward all with whom he came in contact made friends for him everywhere. He had already achieved marked success in his profession, and his future was assured. He enjoyed the confidence of the courts and of his associates in the practice of his profession."

It was a bitter shock to his classmates and Dartmouth friends to learn of his sudden death, for he was universally respected and admired for his ability and industry and universally liked for his lovable disposition, sterling character, and "He-Man" qualities.

Dartmouth loses a loyal son and the class of 1913 a staunch and a well-loved brother classmate.

CLASS OF 1920

Pao-Tien Hsieh died from accidental drowning while bathing in the Magothy River near Baltimore on May 6, 1923. Mr. Hsieh, with twelve other members of the Chinese student colony in Baltimore, was visiting the country home of Jessie Lee Bennett of Arnold, Md. The visit was planned as a picnic for the Chinese students of Baltimore as the first of a series of events in which the group was to participate. Following dinner a swim was proposed, and with others in the party Mr. Hsieh went to the river. Although his companions remained near the shore, he swam out in deep water, but his friends, knowing that he was a good swimmer were not worried about him. Then someone noticed that he was not swimming in the place where he had been before. Realizing that some accident might have happened, his friends began searching for him. His brother, Dr. Pao-Chao Hsieh, who is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins, dived into the water a number of times in an effort to locate him, but his efforts were unsuccessful. His body was recovered two hours later.

Mr. Hsieh was twenty-eight years old at the time of his death. He came to America from Tsing-Hua College in Peking in 1918, and in the fall of that year entered the junior class at Dartmouth. He attained the highest honors in his scholastic work, and was very well liked, especially by those who were fortunate enough to know him well. He was a member of the track team, and delivered one of the Commencement speeches, an honor which but few foreign students have had.

For a year after graduation he remained at Dartmouth as a graduate student in political science, and then did graduate work at Columbia. He went to Washington as a general attache to the Chinese Legation at the time of the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments in 1921, and was still acting as such attache at the time of his death.

CLASS OF 1922

Gordon Dresser Plumb died June 16, 1923, at St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind. He had been ill for five weeks, at first with influenza, which brought on a return of an old heart affection. He was thought to be recovering until a few hours before the end.

He was born in Streator, Ill., February 20, 1901, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Walter Plumb, now living at 206 West Wilson Street in that city. He prepared for college at Streator High School. He was a very popular member of his college class, being a talented musician, playing the saxophone and banjo and being a member of the college band and orchestra. He was also active in golf, tennis, and other sports. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and the Sphinx.

In the September following graduation he took a position as fire insurance inspector with the Indiana Inspection Bureau, had made an excellent record in his work, and was regarded as a man of much promise.

He leaves two brothers, the elder being Samuel W. Plumb, Jr., '21.