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.)
REUNIONS
Class of 1889
For those of us who were present it was a very enjoyable reunion. We wondered how some of the stay-at-homes could deprive themselves of the pleasure of coming. Twenty-one of us, with five wives and two daughters, were present more or less of the four June days which made up the Commencement season. The first to arrive on Friday were Curtis and his wife from St. Louis on the Mississippi, and Warden and his wife from Great Falls, Montana, several hundred miles to the northwest, but where the Missouri is already a big river. Then came Blair and Wheat from the "City of Investigations." On Saturday those of us who live in New England—most of us—came, and the rest on Sunday. Our two busy members from New York city, Hazen and Sullivan, reached Memorial Field Monday forenoon just in time to see the ball game and to rejoice with the rest in the Green's victory.
We did not plan an elaborate program. It was enough just to be back in Hanover, to chat with each other, visit with our many friends in other classes, try to appreciate the growth of the college, greet those members of the faculty who taught us both in the classroom and out as much as we were able to take in during our happy undergraduate days. Some of us attended the presentation of "Blue Blood" by the Players Saturday evening and the concert by the Musical Clubs Monday evening. We noted with satisfaction the evidences not only of versatility and skill, but also of high standards shown in these performances. We were well represented too at the baccalaureate, the meeting of the Alumni Association, and the formal exercises of graduation, including, of course, the always interesting conferring of honorary degrees. Nor did we forget, the Alumni Luncheon. Others will mention the speeches of the French ambassador and our guests from McGill and Columbia, and I feel, sure that all present will recall the response of the sole representative of the class of '59 and his delightful rendering of the college yell.
Realizing our ignorance of many presentday undergraduate customs, we invited Professor Burleigh of the Tuck School, a member of the class of 1911, who chanced to be born a week after we graduated, to tell us about some of them. Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh joined the twenty-six of us who were in town Sunday night for supper at Hotel Rogers in Lebanon, and after supper Professor Burleigh gave us an informal, but most interesting and. illuminating talk and answered many questions. We do not feel that we know all about student life in 1924, but we do know more than we knew before. It is our impression that the undergraduates of today are a set of normal young men leading sane and healthy lives. We congratulate them on the opportunities and privileges which are theirs,
The big event for all of us was the class dinner served in the Grill Room, College Hall, Monday evening. Twenty were present. Chester Curtis, the retiring president, who resigned after thirty-five years of service, acted as toastmaster, and called on everyone present to speak. Everyone responded, and gave more or less accurate autobiographical narratives.
Three of the four physicians of the class were present at this reunion, also three of the eight lawyers, but there were, no acute cases calling for the professional skill of either group. We all kept in good health, so the doctors could practice only preventive medicine, and there were no arrests, in spite of their being on constant duty the largest police force ever seen in Hanover. The lawyers, however, gave us sound advice on observance of laws as well as on enforcement and enactment. Only one of our three clergymen came. He was in constant demand, and his activities were limited only by his physical strength. Only one of our teachers came—his work is entirely with graduate students— others were too busy with closing exercises in their own schools. Various lines of business activities were represented, and it was cheering to realize the high standards and serious purposes increasingly evident in the business world.
We parted glad to have been able to recall old memories, renew old friendships, and more particularly to strengthen our confidence in the Dartmouth of today. Eighty-Nine believes in the present administration and to it pledges its. loyalty.
David N. Blakely Secretary.
Class of 1894
The class of 1894 held its reunion on the thirtieth anniversary of its graduation, during the Commencement of 1924, with the following members of the class and their families present: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Adams, Miss Adams; Frederick C. Allen, John E. Allen, Harry E.. Amey and son, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Ames, Miss Ames; Alfred Bartlett, John H.. Bartlett, Russell T. Bartlett, Rolla W. Bartlett, Rufus Barton, Miss Barton; Charles W. Berry, Quincy Blakely, George H. Brown, John E. Cassin, Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Claggett, Miss Claggett; John H. Clogston, Mr. and Mrs. Ira G. Colby, Miss Colby; Mr. and Mrs. George E. Duffy and son, William E. Dutton, Miss Dut- ton; Frank Decker Field, Mr. and Mrs. John Pearl Gifford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Griffin,. Eugene J. Grow, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hall,. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Guy Ham, Ashley K. Hardy, Charles E. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Hodgdon, Edgar Hodsdon and son,, Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Hoskins, Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Hurd, Paul R. Jenks, Matt B. Jones, Albert M. Lyon, Miss Lyon, Mr. Stanley Lyon; James W. McGroty, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Mann, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mann, Miss Mann;. Philip S. Marden, Frederick S. Martyn, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald J. Matthews, Charles C. Merrill, Alfred E. Norris, John J. Nutt, Mr. and Mrs. G. Woodbury Parker and Son, Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Penniman, Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Rollins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Rossiter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Ruggles,. Miss Charlotte Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. Gust Barnes Sawyer, two sons and daughter; Mr., and Mrs. Maurice S. Sherman, Miss Janet Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Smalley and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Spooner,, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Stone and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stone and son, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Townsend, two sons,; William J. Wallis, Mr. and Mrs, Benjamin Welton,, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Wilson and daughter.
There were eighty members of the class known to be living and one whose whereabouts, are unknown.
A memorial service to the five men who have died, Bowers, Safford, Mudgett, Bagley and Burroughs, was conducted by Quincy Blakely.
Class dinner took place at the Inn Tuesday evening, with A. E. Norris toastmaster.
At the Commencement luncheon it was very satisfactory to see our classmate M. B. Jones preside with felicity, efficiency, and despatch.
We parted with the conviction that our reunions mount in worth and interest as time goes on.
Henry N. Hurd Editor.
The Alumni Editor cannot forbear to add to the foregoing a paragraph from Philip S. Marden's account, written in the manner of Samuel Pepys and appearing in the pamphlet report of the reunion.
"At 9 of the clock to the Hanover Inn, where a banquet was spread, very fine, the best that ever I ate in Hanover at such times as these; and we did sit down at numerous small tables to the total number of some 54, including several non-grads providentially with us. And Nunc Norris, prudently intrenched behind a mask of chicken-wire, did preside over us with some ribaldry, asking many men to arise and speak, which they uniformly did until the night had waxed toward the; third cock crow and I was full weary. Having now and then lapsed into ignoble slumber, my memory faileth me if I recall them all; but I do dimly remember a most elaborate oration by Harry Amey., who gave impressionistic and mysterious sketches of his friends; some orotund remarks by John Henry Bartlett; much detailed information about the college from Professor "Dutch" Hardy; and a speech bristling with the sesquipedalian terminology by Henry Hurd, the sage of Claremont, wherein he said that following the other ponderous speakers he 'felt like a canoe wallowing in the wake of the Leviathan.' But he was not so. And much was said also by Herbert Wilson and Maurice Sherman, and by John Laroy Mann, who be, for some odd reason, called Jimmie. But at the close the Reverend Merrill, thinking we be somewhat morose and oppressed by the sense of years, did make an heartening address, with some poetry in it, which did reconcile me to the idea that I am growing old—but not so darned old that I cannot enjoy the 35th, 40th, 45th, and 50th reunions if I live so long."
Class of 1904
There were 57 members of the class, 36 wives and 25 children, a total of 118, present, representing the class of 1904. Because of the unique method of planning the reunion, all voted it the best that we have ever had.
Dave Austin, who is the owner and manager of the splendid hotel at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, invited the classmates to a pre-reunion at his hotel, and a large number of the class accepted. Wednesday and Thursday previous to the reunion was spent at Dave's hotel, where golf and sports were greatly enjoyed, and where many of the classmates and their wives had a chance to get well acquainted with each other again before going to Hanover.
Another splendid incident of the reunion was a luncheon given by Mrs. Frank S. Streeter at her home in Concord, and a number of the classmates availed themselves of her splendid hospitality.
On Sunday of the reunion, a box luncheon was held at the Vale of Tempe, where most of the members of the class with their families were present, and this was one of the very pleasant features of the reunion in Hanover. It was a distinct departure from the usual custom of going out of town, and it made it possible for all of the members to be present, with the least amount of effort.
At the close of the reunion, an invitation which had previously been given by "Tinker" Gale to spend a couple of days at his hotel at Jackson, N. H., was accepted by many of the classmates, and so a post-reunion was held at his hotel, where the class was given a royal time.
One of the surprises of the reunion was to have Harry Morse and his son with us from California. Harry met with a serious accident during the reunion period, but has since recovered.
H. B. Johnson Secretary.
Class of 1923
Numerically speaking, 1924 was without exception the best year for the class of 1923 to hold its first feunion. Gregariously speaking, the reunion was not an unequivocal success. But still the occasion was not without its ecstatic moments, and I noticed many ruddy cheeks and flashing eyes among the representatives of our particular group.
In deference to those who returned for our "felicitous first," allow me to devote a few lines to them.
Leroy Brown dropped in to pick up Harry Hillman, and then proceed to what are commonly called the Olympic Games.
His two playmates, those primitive peregrinators, Wink Wilkinson and Len Marshall, with their coats of tan from Tangiers, and their coats of indigo from India (quite ridiculous, isn't it?), found with Leroy no inconsiderable reunion in themselves. Len left early and posted out to Toledo, where he will build and launch great ships on Lake Erie; Lake Erie is the smallest of the five Great Lakes; Superior, you recall being the largest (college after College).
Francis Xavier Heep came back for a protracted stay, and may return back home again to Indiana, where he teaches some schoolboys and girls.
Yes, sir, Joe Pollard was there. He came out from Omaha, got a job with the Cummings Construction Company, and will do something scholastic in the fall.
Cocky Lewis, Tony Tonis, Ed Roe, Bill Whipple, Ray Billings, Luce Ruder, Penn Whitcomb, Justy Slate, Emy Emerson, Buddy Morgan, and Rubins were there to greet us when we arrived, and in fact these boys has been there for quite some time in what I will benevolently term the furtherance of their education.
And not all of us returned empty-handed. Ike Coulter, Johnny Paisley, and Ralph Duffy left Grafton County each with a shiny new diploma, and if this information taxes the credulity of anybody, I have a snapshot taken at the killing to prove the assertion.
Field Paul Morgan brought his fiddle up from Claremont, and more than a couple of wellmade girls and buoyant youths danced to its strains. He sells polishes or some such commodity to eke out his income.
Mister Gutterman motored up from Brookline. He swaps bids with somebody in Boston, imports, tans; when anything else is done to a piece of leather he'll do it.
The alleged class Croesus, Mitchell May, also came via automobile. He left his insurance business flat while all New York trembled.
George Vanderbift was on location. He looked hale and hearty, and attributes it to the rugged farmer's life he is leading. Vandy still keeps away from remunerative employment.
Among the telephone boys were our own Chess Bixby and another, our Ed Furey.
Mr. Temple, Mr. Strong and Dr. Roberts, whom I will report as present, are working or studying, I am sure. Since I cannot recall their pursuits, I will not perjure myself as usual.
Heine Barrett came early and stayed late. His ardent investigation of law at Columbia has not impaired his social effectiveness. He still dresses in as swanky, if more sombre style, and the wrists whose future may turn destinies have left none of their former cunning in guiding the mashie.
Doug Manson, who tried to drive down an elevator shaft last winter, and was like to kill himself, was looking wonderfully well after this unusual feat.
Max Hubert would have had a wonderful time, except that he spent a great deal of it looking for a ride home. He still sells bonds.
I have always felt that some recognition should be given by the class to Chick Bundy as the first among us to reach that state so generally characterized by the hair tonic manufacturers as partial baldness. While we are not prepared, Chick, to honor you with anything more substantial than words, we wish to recognize the shining example you have set so many of us, and which so many of us are eagerly following. Chick was there, hair and all.
Phil Keigher dropped down from Montreal, where he works for Merk and Company. He likes the city, and says he wishes you all were there.
Red Ludington left the telephone company and came right up to Hanover.
George Gilliland had charge of the rooms during Commencement. He put everyone that came up to bed, and while in the case of a majority of the visitors, he might have done it earlier, Joe Ostermoor himself would have had to hump to turn in a better performance.
In all there were about forty of us back. If the Metropolitan Museum catered to '99ers alone, it would have to be padlocked. These youths have a picture gallery all their own that would knock your ears off. We're going to launch a campaign pretty soon for nothing else. We've got a small start. If you can help, let 'em come. I'll take your pictures and I'll use them. All kinds and any kind relating to life before, during, or after your higher education.
Louis Lewinsohn Secretary.
NECROLOGY
Class of 1857
Rev. William Burnet Wright died August 2, 1924, of apoplexy, at his home in Buffalo, N. Y.
The son of Nathaniel (Dartmouth 1811) and Caroline Augusta Rachel (Thew) Wright, he was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 15, 1838, and fitted for college privately in that city. Nathaniel Wright '55 was a brother. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.
From the fall of 1857 to the spring of 1858 he was a clerk in the freight department of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad at Cincinnati. In the fall of 1858 he began a course of study at Andover Theological Seminary, which he pursued until January, 1860. In June, 1860, he went to Europe, and spent two years there, one in study at the Universities of Berlin and Halle and the other in travel. On his return he became pastor of the South Congregational church of Chicago. In October, 1867, he removed to Boston, and was there pastor of the Berkeley St. church until 1887. In January, 1888, he became pastor of the First church in New Britain, Conn., and remained there until 1890. In March, 1891, he became pastor of the Lafayette Presbyterian church in Buffalo, and remained in active service until 1902. He has lived in Buffalo in retirement since that time. The importance of these positions gives evidence of his ability and the high esteem in which he has been held. Dartmouth conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him in 1888.
Dr. Wright lectured much on literature, history, and biography. He wrote much for publication, including volumes with these titles: "The World to Come"Ancient Cities from the Dalwn to the Daylight"Master and Men"The Cities of Paul"The Heart of the Master." He was an honorary member of the Buffalo and University Clubs.
January 1, 1863, he was married to Lucretia, daughter of Osgood (Dartmouth 1828) and Lucretia (Bly) Johnson, who died March 13, 1886. Three children survive their parents: William Burnet Wright, a lawyer in Buffalo; Dr. Thew Wright, a Buffalo physician; Miss Lila Burnet Wright. Another daughter died early.
Class of 1866
Harrison Hume, who was for two years connected with this class in the Chandler Scientific Department, and who received the honorary degree of M.S. from the College in 1888, died at the Phillips House, Boston, June 21, 1924.
He was born in Calais, Me., September 12, 1840. His parents were John and Lucy (Brooks) Hume, and he was a descendant of David Hume, the Scotch historian.
In October, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh Maine Volunteers, and was mustered into United States service as sergeant major. May 11, 1862, he was promoted to be second lieutenant of Company I, and May 31 first lieutenant and adjutant. The latter promotion was due to his gallant conduct at the battle of Fair Oaks. About the first of October, 1862, he resigned on account of disability, and shortly after entered college. In 1863 he was drafted as one of the quota of his native town, but was rejected for disability.
After leaving college he entered the Law School of the University of Michigan, from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1867. For some years he followed the profession of laiw, and was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1870,- deputy collector of the port of Cherryfield in 1871-5, and colonel on the staff of Governor Nelson Dingley '55 in 1875.
But the educational field, for which he had a marked aptitude and longing, drew him away. For a number of years in his early life he had been a supervisor of schools in his native state. In 1877 he accepted the position of superintendent of schools in Lawrence, Mass., and remained there two years. He was then appointed general manager for New England of the school book publishing house of Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company. In 1891, when this firm was merged in the American Book Company, he retained the same position, and continued with them for two years. He then returned to Maine, and was a -member of its state senate in 1895. In 1898 he engaged in the surety bond business, and remained in that business until 1910. Since that time he has been practically retired, except for an interest in the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore.
Mr. Hume was a man of great public spirit, intensely American, whole-souled. He was loyal to his friends, and he had a host of them, and they were fond of him. He was generous, and gave liberally of his means.. His great interest, perhaps the greatest in his declining years, was the establishing of a library in connection with the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Dartmouth, which was the one with 'which "he was connected when in college, then known as the Vitruvian. It is said to be the largest fraternity library in the country.
Mr. Hume was never married. The burial was at Robbinston, Me., where he had a summer home.
Class of 1868
Within the last two years the class of 1868 "has suffered a mortality unusual, even considering the fact that it celebrated in 1923 the fifty-fifth anniversary of its graduation. Of the eighteen living members at the time of that reunion (two having died fwithin the previous seven months) six have since died.
The last death was that of Gilman Loea Parker, who died in the hospital at Winchester, Mass., August 29, 1924, nine days after his seventy-seventh birthday. For some time his health had not been good, but he continued at work until about a month before his death, and in June last he attended with quiet but evident enjoyment the Commencement at Hanover.
In college Mr. Parker was an excellent and trustworthy student, and his name should be enrolled among the athletic worthies of Dartmouth as the effective shortstop on the first college baseball team at Dartmouth.
Mr. Parker was born and lived his life in Reading, Mass., doing business in Boston after his graduation from college, as a tea and coffee merchant. He was a man of quiet but decided manner, of kindly spirit, not given to contention but definite in his beliefs. He was not a seeker for distinction, but 'was ready to do the thing that he thought needful or helpful. Thus he was for twenty-five years a member of the Reading school board and its secretary for that period, for ten years the director of the choir of the church of which he was a member, and for a longer time a teacher in its Sunday school.
He was successful in business, organizing, after many years of dealing under his own name, the Parker Coffee Company, of which he was the principal owner and manager. His success in business and his interest in the welfare of the community is shown by the bequest in his will of $150,000 for a hospital, in Reading.
Mr. Parker had the gift of personal friendship, never effusive, never pretentious, but exhibiting in quiet and effective ways the sincerity of his interest. His human interest found a real expression in keeping employees on the pay roll after they were unable to work. A strong testimony to his working qualities was the remark of a man who had been with him for forty-six years, that he never knew him to act or speak in an unkind way. Mr. Parker was never married, the preparations for his appointed wedding being broken by the untimely death of his bride to be. Under the shadow of that sorrow his life was passed.
Class of 1873
Oliver Johnson Butterfield was born in Westmoreland, N. H., August 5, 1847, being the son of Col. Charles -and Lucy Smith (White) Butterfield. He studied at the district school and afterwards at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1869, he took the Chandler Scientific course, remaining in college, however, only one or two terms, the college year at that time having three terms. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.
He engaged in railway construction in Vermont for several years. Going West with his brother, he helped lay out the town of Ashland, Wis. His brother having been taken sick, he accompanied him to his New England home. Later he engaged in the lumber business in his native toiwn. In 1882 he moved to Chesterfield, N. H., built a dam and mill, and continued there in the lumber business for nine years. He moved to Walpole, N. H., in 1891, but conducted a lumber and grain business at Westminster, Vt., for 16 years, the latter place being just across the Connecticut river from Walpole. At the end of this period he sold out and retired from business, although at intervals he continued in some form of work until his death. In 1879 he represented the town of Westmoreland in the legislature. He was a member of the Congregational church of his home town, and held the office of deacon for several years. He died November 25, 1917, of cancer of the stomach.
He married February IS, 1881, Miss Ida L. Nims of Westmoreland, who survives her husband. Two children are living, Joseph T. Butterfield, an electrical engineer of 463 West St., New York city, and Bernice, who married Mr. Olin D. Gay, and resides in Cavendish, Vt.
Class of 1874
William Morrill died very suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Exeter, N. H., August 6, 1924.
The only son of William and Dorothy (Gordon) Morrill, he was born in Brentwood, N. H., September 15, 1847, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department in the schools of his native town and at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi.)
For a brief period after graduation he traveled widely through the Southwest on business trips, and then assumed the management of the homestead farm in his native town. Later for several years he was in the employ of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company as a surveyor of lumber, and for two years of this period his home was in Manchester. In 1892 he was elected register of deeds, and removed to Exeter, where he had since made his home. He held this office for fourteen years, and was regarded as an ideal official. Possessed of ample means, since his retirement he has led a life of leisure. He was a director of Exeter Co-operative Bank from 1902 to 1907, and again since 1920.
A Republican in politics, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1876, was town treasurer in 1880-2, and a representative in the legislature in 1891.
He was for many years a member of the Exeter Sportsman's Club, but of no secret or fraternal order. He was a man of sterling worth, of marked individuality, and of qualities which endeared him to all acquaintances.
May 14, 1878, Mr. Morrill was married to Ella J. Brown of Fremont, N. H., who survives him, with their daughter, Mary E. Morrill.
At the funeral service on August 9, the class was represented by two members,. William W. Morrill of Troy, N. Y., who was spending the summer at Ogunquit, Me., and Prof. Charles H. Pettee of the University of New Hampshire.
Class of 1878
Frank Proctor died at his home in Franklin, N. H., July 7, 1924. He was born in Derry, September IS, 1856, son of Alexis and Emma (Gage) Proctor. The family moved to Franklin in his early childhood and his home had been there ever since. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a Phi Beta scholar. After graduation he began the study of law, but in November, 1879, he was chosen cashier of the newly organized Franklin National Bank, which position he retained for forty-five years, devoting himself indefatigably and with increasing efficiency to the profession into which he was thus initiated, and seeing the bank grow under his hand to be one of the leading institutions of the state. The local paper says that customers were as sure of finding him at their service as they were of finding the bank door open, and adds "Whatever he did was thoroughly done. There was nothing superficial about Frank Proctor."
In 1915 he succeeded his father as treasurer of the Franklin Savings Bank, rendering for that bank a similar devoted service. He was in attendance at a meeting of its directors only a few days before his death, going over with them and explaining in detail the affairs of the bank.
He had been treasurer of the Franklin and Tilton Railroad since 1892, town and city treasurer since 1896, and was for many years a member of the Park Commission, writing its annual reports, which, unlike most municipal reports, are said to have been eagerly read, not only because of the facts they presented but because of the literary style in which they were set forth. Thus his career was unusual for these modern days in that he followed it through in the community in which he was reared, pursuing the even but urgent tenor of his way, flourishing like the tree planted by the rivers of water, striking his roots deeper and deeper into the home soil, growing in the confidence and esteem of his neighbors, a prophet not without honor in his own country.
But while thus devoted to his business and looking strictly after the financial interests entrusted to him, he sought for his own life riches of a less material sort. No member of the class displayed, however many of them may have possessed, such a fondness for and familiarity with literature or such wealth and aptness of literary and classical allusion. He was a great reader and a most interesting and original correspondent, with a whimsical humor, a keen but kindly wit, and a memory for personalities and historical details that were a delight to all who knew him. He took an especial interest in natural history and in local history. He was an authority on the history of the early Indian inhabitants of the vicinity, and had an unique collection of Indian relics, said to be in some respects one of the best in existence.
Mr. Proctor was a member and for many years a trustee of the Unitarian church. He was not married, and was not a member of any of the secret fraternal orders unless his college fraternity (KKK) be so accounted. He leaves a sister and a brother, both residents of Franklin. The class was. represented at the funeral by ex-Governor Brown. Wise and just and friendly, Frank Proctor was of a type all too rare of the successful, substantial, cultured, public-spirited Christian business man.
Class of 1879
Dr. Stephen Young died September 28, 1924, at the Rochester Hospital, Rochester, N. H.
He was born in Strafford, N. H., October 22,. 1854, the son of George and Mary Ann (Young) Mason. From early boyhood he lived in the family of his grandfather, Stephen Young, whose name he was given by legal process. His college preparation was obtained at several schools, the last of which was Berwick (Me.) Academy. In his freshman year, the only one which he took with the class, he took an active part in track athletics. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
The first three years after leaving the class he studied at Dartmouth Medical School, where his course was much interrupted by ill health. His medical course was completed at Long Island College Hospital, where he graduated in 1881.
He began the practice of his profession at East Rochester, N. H., where he remained seventeen years. He was then at Dover, N. H., for thirteen years, for ten of which he was city physician. In 1911 he removed to Rochester. For many years he has been a suffered from rheumatroid arthritis, from which he finally became crippled.
He was consulting physician of the Rochester Hospital, and a member of the Congregational church, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and the Royal Arcanum.
Dr. Young was four times married. March 1, 1882, he was married to Fannie S. Stoddard of Andover, Vt., who died September 28, 1885, leaving one daughter, who is no"w Mrs. F. Leon Johnson of Chester, Vt. May 16, 1888, he was married to Lucy R. Karl of Rockland, Me., who died January 2, 1897. Of her two sons one survives, Edward W. Young of Cleveland, Ohio. February 2, 1898, he was married to Lilla Maude Cutts of Gardiner, Me., who died November 11, 1900. Her son is Stephen B. Young of Willimantic, Conn. February 23, 1906, he was married to Blanche H. Adams of Vancouver, Wash., who survives him, with one son, Alfred Adams.
Class of 1880
William Egbert Badger died September 8, 1924, at his summer home at Salisbury Beach, Mass., after an illness of several weeks.
The son of Benjamin Evans (Dartmouth 1854) and Rachel Owen (Eastman) Badger, he was born in Concord, N. H., July 3, 1858, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department in the high school of that city. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi.)
In the fall following graduation he entered the office of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company of Lowell, Mass., as a draftsman, and remained there until the following March. He was then appointed a rodman with the United States Corps of Engineers, and became assistant engineer June 6, being stationed at St. Louis, Mo. In the winter following he resigned this position, and on April 24, 1882, he entered the employ of the Proprietors of Locks and Canals in Lowell in the engineering department, and remained there until his decease, winning a high reputation for efficiency and executive ability in water power development and other engineering fields, and having been for a long time in charge of the real estate matters of the corporation. In 1920 he entered the Northeastern Law School in Boston, and attended evening classes there until the following spring.
In 1896 and 1899 Mr. Badger was a member of the Lowell Common Council, and was an alderman in 1900, 1901, and 1902. He was chairman of the board in the last year, and on the death of the mayor in May, 1902, became acting mayor, filling out the remainder of the term, and officially receiving President Roosevelt on his visit to Lowell. He was a member of the Masonic order, of the Elks, and of the Eastern Star.
November 24, 1885, he 'was married to Jennie, daughter of George W. and Isabella (Bridges) Tinker, who died several years since. They leave two children, Ralph Eastman Badger (Dartmouth 1913), professor of economics in Brown University, and Helen, now Mrs. Dewey S. Darling of Lowell.
Class of 1882
The death of Joseph Nickerson Drew, which occurred at Clearwater, Fla., June 9, 1923, of cancer, has been only recently reported.
He was born in Marshfield, Mass., October 21, 1858, the son of William Bradbury and Mary (Johnson) Drew, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department in the public schools of Lynn, Mass. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
Immediately after graduation he entered the office of an engineer in Boston and remained there until October. He then went to Buffalo to be employed on the survey for a trunk sewer, later was appointed assistant engineer on the same project, and remained there until 1886. He remained for some time in Buffalo as a member of a contracting firm, and then went to Boston as manager of the Carson Trench Machine Company. After several years in this position he was for some time sewer engineer for the city of Hartford, Conn. He then became vice-president and general manager of the Columbia Lumber and Development Company of Boston, making his home in Maiden, Mass., and in that capacity traveled extensively in this country, Canada, and England. In 1909, on account of the health of a son, he removed with his family to Florida, and became president of the South Florida Engineering Company of Sarasota. During the war he made a survey for the government of Camp Bennings, Ga., and served three months as assistant professor of surveying and engineering in the S. A. T. C. at the University of Florida. In 1919 he had charge of city contracts at Tallahassee for the State Board of Control'. At the time of his death he was city engineer at Clearwater.
Mr. Drew was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Florida Society of Civil Engineers, and the St. Petersburg Society of Civil Engineers, also of the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.
November 27, 1883, he was married to Lucille Winchester, daughter of Matthew B. and Eliza W. Cochran of Lynn, Mass., who survives him, with their four children: Holton W. of New York city; Roger A. of Tampa, Fla.; Helen, the wife of J. Wilson Germond of Wellsville, N. Y.; Dorothy, the wife of Rev. Kerrison Jumper of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Class of 1884
Josiah Willard Flint died at his home in Concord, N. H., February 12, 1924, of arterio-sclerosis.
The son of Lyman Thomas (Dartmouth 1842) and Hannah Wilmarth (Willard) Flint, he was born in Concord, September 16, 1861, and prepared for college at Concord High School. William Willard Flint '71 and Thomas Flint '76 are brothers. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
Leaving college in the middle of sophomore year, he remained at home in Concord for the next three years. He then went to Boston in the employ of D. Lothrop and Company. Two years later he took a position with the B. F. Good-rich Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. In January, 1890, he returned to Concord to become cashier and bookkeeper for the American Express Company, and held that position to the time of his death.
January 3, 1893, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of James M. and Elizabeth R. (Merrill) Johnson of Pittsfield, N. H., who died March 3, 1896. May 11, 1912, he was married to Jessie Mabel, daughter of Charles T. B. and Eleanor (Norris) Knowlton of Concord, who survives him. There are no children.
Josiah Flint was highly regarded by his business associates and a large circle of friends. Retiring in disposition, he did not engage in public affairs, but his qualities of heart and mind were most plainly manifest in his home life and among his intimate friends. Genial, kind-hearted, with a keen sense of humor, honorable and trustworthy in all business relations —these words are fairly descriptive of the man.
Class of 1897
Raymond Earl Maben died suddenly of apoplexy at his home at 174 Monroe St., Brooklyn, N. Y., July 24, 1924.
He was born in Brooklyn, in the house in which he died, July 7, 1875, his parents being Wilber Buel and Marie Adelaide (Remond) Maben. His father was a well-known attorney in Brooklyn, but the family home was changed to Kingston, N. Y., in the son's boyhood, and he came to college from that place. His preparation was obtained at Brooklyn High School. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Sphinx.
After graduation he studied law and entered upon practice, and for the last eighteen years he had been associated with the law firm of Roe, Lilly, and Kramer, whose office is at 50 Pine St., New York. He was never married.
The burial was at Kingston, N. Y., where a brother, Dr. Buel W. Maben, resides. Another brother, Alfred Maben, lives in Brooklyn.
Class of 1899
John Leonard Sanborn died in New Haven, Conn., July 29, 1924, as the result of an operation for tumor of the brain.
He was born in Hyde Park, Mass., October 12, 1875, his father being the late John W. Sanborn. He graduated from Hyde Park High School in the class of 1894. All through high school he had had the intention of going to Dartmouth, and it was through his efforts that other Hyde Park men came to Hanover. Barney '99, Ford '99, the Sears brothers '00, and D. B. Rich '00 were all turned toward Dartmouth by Sanborn's interest.
In senior year he had taken the course of the Thayer School, and continued in the school for the year following graduation. He then went to work for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad in the vicinity of Fall River. He was later connected with the cities of Putnam and Willimantic, Conn., on city and state road work, and then superintendent for contractors who were engaged in heavy railroad construction. From 1910 to 1914 he was one of the engineers in charge of the Catskill aqueduct in connection with the New York city water supply. In 1914 he went back to the New Haven road as supervisor of construction on the Pawtucket, R. 1., division, and from 1916 until the time of his death was superintendent of construction at the classification yard at Cedar Hill.
August 2, 1907, he was married to Louise Marsh Case, who survives him, with two daughters, Anna Gertrude and Mary Elizabeth, aged sixteen and fourteen. His mother and two brothers and three sisters are also living. The funeral service was at his mother's home in Hyde Park,' Mass., and the burial in Fairview Cemetery, Hyde Park.
"Jack" Sanborn was a particularly loyal Dartmouth man. He was very popular with his classmates, especially so with the engineering group. He was a member of Phi Dtelta Theta and Casque and Gauntlet.
Class of 1901
Clayton Holt Fowler was born January 26, 1880, at Epsom, N. H., the son of Horace Fowler, and died at Indian Head, Md., February 26, 1924, of cardiac disease.
Following his graduation from Pembroke Academy, he entered Dartmouth, and was a member of this class for the four years. He studied in Hanover following graduation, and received his A.M. degree in 1903. For about a year he was with the State Board of Health at Concord, N. H. In 1904 he was appointed assistant chemist, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Md. He continued in this service until his death, all of this time at Indian Head, except the years 1905 to 1909, when he served in a similar position at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, R. I.
Fowler was apparently in good health, and on the evening of February 25 he worked until after midnight over a radio receiving set which he was installing for a friend. He was awakened about 4:30 with an attack of indigestion, which, while painful, did not seem alarming. He appeared better, but suddenly became unconscious. A doctor was called, but upon his arrival at 5:30 he had passed away, never regaining consciousness.
Mr. G. W. Paterson of Indian Head, who was Fowler's immediate superior officer, says: "Mr. Fowler occupied a position of responsibility in the powder factory, and was regarded as one of our most dependable men. His place will be difficult if not impossible to fill, on account of his special knowledge of the problems we have to meet. As a man and a citizen he was representative of our best element, and possessed those fine qualities of manliness and reliability which endeared him to a host of friends. I, personally, knew him for over twenty years, and never knew him to do a mean act either by word or deed. No eulogy of his personal character could be too broad."
Surely such a record is one to be proud of, and we of the class of 1901 can feel with satisfaction that here was one of us, who went out and met the problem of life and fought the good fight. We all remember him as a quiet likeable sort of fellow, always with a smile and a cheery greeting. He was not able to be present at our later gatherings, but in his replies to class communications always expressed his great desire and hope of making the next event.
Fowler was a 32d degree Mason and a member of the Shrine, was a member of the board of directors of the Eastern Shore Trust Company of Maryland, and also secretary of the Euclid Masonic Club of Indian Head.
The body was brought to New Hampshire, and the funeral held at the home of his wife's parents at Short Falls.
He is survived by his wife, Hazel Wells Fowler, and a daughter, Patricia, also by his mother and sister.
Locke Mclndoe Perkins died in St. Paul, Minn., July 2, 1924, following an abdominal operation.
He was born in Windsor, Vt., November 20, 1879, the oldest of six children of Marsh Olin and Clara Alice (Mclndoe) Perkins. Herbert M. Perkins '13 is a brother. He fitted at Windsor High School.
He took the Thayer School course in his senior year, and graduated from the School in 1903, having taken an intermediate year in professional work. His rise in the engineering profession was rapid, and to all of his work he brought enthusiasm, thoroughness, and effectiveness. Immediately after graduation he went to the Northern Pacific Railway Company, where he held positions of increasing responsibility to the time of his death. From April, 1903, to April, 1905, he was rodman, instrumentman, and resident engineer on the construction of new terminals at Seattle, Wash.; from April to June, 1905, resident engineer on construction of Denhoff branch; from June, 1905, to November, 1906, assistant engineer, maintenance of way, Lake Superior Division, in general charge of maintenance and construction work; from November, 1906, to March, 1907, assistant engineer in charge of construction of double track line changes, Garrison to Missoula, Mont.; March to April, 1907, assistant engineer on the location of the White Pine line change; from April, 1907, to April, 1909, division engineer for lines east of Mandan, general maintenance and construction; from April, 1909, to June, 1911, engineer maintenance of way, lines east of Paradise, in charge of maintenance and construction, including yard and terminal work, with jurisdiction over 3600 miles of railroad; from June, 1911, to August, 1918, engineer, maintenance of way, lines west of Paradise, in charge of maintenance and construction, including several terminals; from August, 1918, corporate engineer. On March 1, 1920, he was appointed assistant to the chief engineer, and on January 1. 1921, executive assistant to President Donnelly, which position he held at the time of his death.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Thayer Society of Engineers, the American Railway Engineering Association, the St. Paul Athletic Club, and the Town and Country Club.
February 11, 1908, Mr. Perkins was married to Ruth Roberts of Devil's Lake, N. D., who survives him, with four children, Locke, Donald, Marsh, and Ruth.
Class of 1905
John Hoffman Dunlap died in the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, July 29, 1924, from injuries received in a railroad accident (a rear-end collision) at Buda, 111., June 30. The seventh vertebra was fractured and the spinal cord was badly lacerated. He made a brave and cheerful fight for life, but without success.
He was born in Harrisville, N. H., September 9, 1882, his parents being Rev. George Harlan (Dartmouth 1873) and Mary Catherine (Eolger) Dunlap. Roger Allen Dunlap '00 is a brother. He prepared for college at the Concord (N. H.) High School. He was a member of Sigma Nu and Phi Beta Kappa.
For the first year after graduation he was in the employ of the United States Reclamation Service at the Truckee-Carson project in Nevada. He then entered the Thayer School for the two years' course, and graduated in 1908. In the summer of that year he served as instructor in the Thayer School, and then accepted an appointment at the State University of lowa, at lowa City, as instructor in descriptive geometry and drawing. He soon became instructor in civil engineering, and then associate professor of hydraulics and sanitary engineering. In 1919 he was promoted to a full professorship in the same branches. In the summer of 1914 he was with the extension division of the University, and from 1916 did consulting work in the civil and sanitary fields. For some years he was secretary of the lowa Engineering Society, and was made president of the society in 1920. His conspicuously efficient work with this society led to his election, June 21, 1922, as secretary of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of which body he had been elected an associate member April 17, 1917, and a member June 6, 1921. This position he held with great credit to himself and to the society until his untimely death. In this capacity he became known and recognized among the leaders of the engineering profession as a man of vision and outstanding personal qualities, not only in the United States, but in Canada and abroad.
While at the State University he not only attained large success as a teacher, but also rendered conspicuous services to the community. He was president of the local Social Service League; a member of the executive committee of the Boy Scout Council; and an active supporter of the Congregational church, conducting a large boys' class in the Sunday school.
At the time of his fatal accident, he was on his way home from the annual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers at Pasadena, Cal. The executive committee of the society, in a resolution adopted by them, "express their sense of the great loss which the Society and the engineering profession of the United States have suffered by the death of our secretary, who, by his labors in our behalf; by his faithfulness, efficiency, and courtesy; by his advocacy of the highest ideals for the advancement of the profession; and by the example he set us as a Christian citizen, has made a lasting impression in our hearts."
June 29, 1910, Mr. Dunlap was married to Fanny Maria Gates of Franklin, Vt., a sister of his classmate, the late Don S. Gates, who survives him, with three sons, George Spaulding, born October IS, 1917; Richard Folger, born September 10. 1919; and Clark Gates, born February 14, 1921.
The burial was at Franklin, Vt., the service being conducted by Rev. William F. English, Jr. 'OB, a close personal friend of both families. The Chicago Alumni Association sent a delegation to the train when the family left Chicago for the funeral service, and did all within its power to show a personal and friendly interest.
In addition to the societies mentioned above, Mr. Dunlap was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, the New England Waterworks Association, the American Waterworks Association, the American Public Health Association, the New Jersey Sewage Works Association, Gamma Alpha, Sigma Chi, and the Masonic order. His home since leaving lowa City was at Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Class of 1914
Albert Ernst Munkelt died in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 20, 1924, from septicaemia which developed from tonsilitis.
The son of Julius Albert and Charlotte Edith (Brown) Munkelt, he was born in London, England, September 29, 1891. When he was two years old the family came to this country and made their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., and he prepared for college in the public schools of that city.
He took the course of the Thayer School in his senior year, and remained for another year, graduating as C.E. in 1915. For a short time he worked as a draftsman with Post and McCord of New York, and then from July, 1915, to March, 1916, he was engaged with the Public Service Commission in the construction of the East River tubes in connection with the dual system for New York city, and was then with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, and Company on the construction of the East River tunnels and on the construction of the Savage Arms plant at Utica, N. Y. In April, 1917, he joined the staff of the Stanley Works at New Britain, Conn., and was successively assistant to the superintendent of power, maintenance, and plant development, assistant superintendent on construction and transportation, assistant plant engineer, and manager of construction and . maintenance departments. Since 1922 he had been with Jones and Laughlin, South Side Works, Pittsburgh, in their practice department, engaged on problems of plant development and operation. His work was characterized throughout by careful attention to detail, studious thought to the future, and loyalty to those with whom he was associated. While with the Stanley Works, he was one of the leaders in the New Britain Dartmouth Club.
June 2, 1917, he was married to Helen Gleason of Brooklyn, who survives him, with three children, Albert Gleason, Robert Ernest, and Helen Margaret.
Class of 1922
The following tribute to Thorndike Hilton,, whose death was noted in the August MAGAZINE, was written by Professor Charles D. Adams.
My relations with Thorndike Hilton during his college course were peculiarly pleasant. He came to me as a member of a small group who were to read Homer, men who had taken a condensed course in elementary Greek, and who presumably would be able to make only slow progress. There were some unusually brilliant men of our own in the class; Hilton came as a stranger, very modest, quiet, attentive. I soon found that he was easily the ablest man in the group, remarkably well prepared for one who had studied Greek only a year, and able to do much more than I had. thought possible. I found myself more and' more depending on his appreciation for my own interest in the course—he was so responsive, so quick to see the beauty or the grandeur of what we were reading, so careful in the finer points of an exquisite language. His mind worked quickly, he had real insight into poetic form and meaning, and he was ambitious to move forward. I soon found myself feeling a real affection for the young lad, and rejoiced when I found that he could* come to me in confidence in some difficulty in his life with us. Our relation became that of comrades rather than of teacher and taught, and it was a great pleasure to me that Hilton went on with work in other courses of mine. We always had good times together, and I felt sure that he had a brilliant future. Hefound it hard to . work in harness; prescribed courses and routine lessons did not appeal to him; he had the larger powers of real genius, and demanded its freedbm. Yet he did the routine work of the College so well as to graduate with honor, and in a briefer time than most men require.
There was a fineness of feeling and a delicacy of mind in the lad that always made me feel that I was in the presence of a rare soul,, one who would make good in some large way, his own way and in his own time. It is most sad that some excess of emotion or somestorm of feeling suddenly overclouded the fine reason, and took him from our sight. He has left a beautiful memory with those at Dartmouth who knew him well.
THAYER SCHOOL
Class of 1882
The death of Sidney Bates Cady, which occurred July 13, 1923, at Bloomfield, N. J., lias only recently been reported.
He was born in West Windsor, Vt., February 8, 1854, his parents being James Brittain and Jane Mary (Adams) Cady. He fitted for college at Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., and graduated as A.B. from Middlebury College in 1880. At Middlebury he served as secretary, vice-president, and president of his -class, and was permanent secretary for many years after graduation. He was particularly notable for his massive physique, being familiarly known as Ajax.
After graduating from the Thayer School he served as assistant engineer under the War Department in the improvement of the Mississippi River at St. Louis for two years. For the next three years he was engaged on various engineering projects, and then from 1887 to 1890 on the Croton Aqueduct leading into New York city. In 1890 he removed to Bloomfield, N. J., and entered upon private practice, being appointed town engineer. In 1896 he became assistant topographical engineer for New York city, and held that position for the rest of his life, conducting all his work with great accuracy and thoroughness. He was for many years a members of the Society of Municipal Engineers of the City of New York.
December 10, 1884, he was married to Jennie N. Fisher of Grafton, Vt., who survives him, with three sons.
