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.)

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1869

Samuel Adams Kendall died at Pittsfield, N. H., February 2, 1924.

He was born in Dublin, N. H., December 28, 1846, the son of Rev. Henry Adams and Harriet Greenwood (Appleton) Kendall. His father was for a time a member of the class of 1839. Henry A. Kendall '66 is a brother. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1869, being connected with it all its undergraduate years, but did not take his degree. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

He took up his residence in Chichester, N. H., where he lived for more than fifty years, favorably known and universally respected. In earlier life he was employed in railroad business at Concord; he also had hotel experience for a time at Newbury, Vt. Returning to Chichester, he engaged in farming. He married Miss Ada. Sanborn of Chichester. They have had eight children, six of whom are now living. In 1920 he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis, which ended in gradual decline, finally resulting in death.

CLASS OF 1873

Hamilton Mayo was born February 26, 1851, in Westminster, Mass., a small town a few miles southwest of Fitcliburg, and in that section of the old Bay State the larger part of his life was spent. His parents were William and Maria (Goddard) Mayo. His father was a wholesale furniture dealer. After the early preparation in the district school of his town, he went to Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H., where he graduated with honor in the summer of 1869. He was one of the large delegation which entered from Kimball Union Academy with the class of 1873. At Dartmouth he took high rank as a scholar, yet was active too in the social life of the college. He was a member of Delta Kappa, one of the two freshman fraternities of his day, and of Kappa Kappa Kappa, upper class fraternity. Mayo and Dutton roomed together during their entire course, during freshman year at the home of Mr. Powers, during sophomore and junior years at Mr. McCabe's, and in senior year at No. 7 Reed Hall. A humorous incident took place at the beginning of freshman year, when a mild sort of hazing was not infrequent. Mayo was short of stature, which his room-mate Dutton was a very large, muscular man, over six feet tall. The hazing party called to put Mayo through the established program, but, having knocked at the door, found on entering the room not Mayo but Dutton. Rising from his chair to his full proportions, Dutton suavely inquired, "Gentlemen, is there anything I can do for you?'' The visitors beat a hasty retreat. Mayo took a high rank as a scholar, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honor, having as his Commencement part an oration on "The Pecuniary Value of Scholarly Culture." One of the college customs of those days was a pedestrian trip to the White Mountains by a body of juniors at the beginning of the summer vacation. In this trip Mayo was an efficient member. Moreover, he was an excellent baseball player. . He was president of the class during junior year, and was a member of the Theological and Missionary Society, which afterwards was merged in the Y.M.C.A. He won second prize in the Lockwood oratorical contest. He taught district school three terms during his course, two terms in his native town and one terra at Orleans on the Massachusetts coast, in this way and at farming during summer vacations earning $70 during his course.

After leaving college, he began the study of law, graduating from the Albany (N.Y.) Law School in the spring of 1874 as valedictorian of his class. He at once began the practice of his profession at Leominster, Mass., where he remained for the rest of his life. He was widely read in the law, and his advice was repeatedly sought upon intricate legal matters. In 1883 he was appointed trial justice, holding that office for years. He engaged in various business enterprises, in which he was most successful. For years he was president of the Leominster National Bank, resigning the office in 1917, but continuing on the board of directors the rest of his life. He was a member of the corporation, on the board of investment, and a trustee of the Leominster Savings Bank.

In Edward W. Bok's volume of reminis- cences of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, entitled A Man from Maine," is an interesting notice of Hamilton Mayo (page 88) in the latter part of 1879. Mr. Mayo had married Mr. Curtis' sister, Miss Florence Gertrude Curtis, and on their bridal tour they were visiting Mr. Curtis in Philadelphia. Mr. Curtis was making a great success as advertising manager of the Philadelphia Press. He spoke of this success to Mr. Mayo, when the latter said: ' That's all very fine, bu| you are making the largest share for someone else. You ought now to have a paper of your own." On his replying that it takes capital to start a paper of your own, there came to Mr. Curtis from Mr. Mayo the first direct financial offer, and with the check for $2000 which Mr. Mayo sent he established the Tribune and Farmer. This was the beginning of his great career in journalism. But that which was at first only a supplement to the Tribune and Farmer, and which Mr. Curtis called the Ladies' HomeJournal, together with the Saturday EveningPost, the Country Gentleman, and the PublicLedger, was made possible by that first financial offer which Hamilton Mayo made to Cyrus H. K. Curtis.

Mr. Mayo served Leominster in the legislature in 1904-5, was town auditor, chairman of the school board, trustee of the public library; and when Leominster became a city he was elected to the city council and later became its president. He was the first president of the Leominster Home for Old Ladies. Other offices held by him testify not only to the high regard in which he was held, but also to his ability and to his public spirit. He was an active member of the Unitarian church, a leading member of the national organization of Unitarian laymen, for almost fifty years a member of Leominster Lodge, I.O.O.F., the Leominster Historical Society, and the Monoosnock Country Club. "His whole life," says the local paper, "was of marked usefulness to his fellowmen and to town and city."

He died Saturday night, January 26, 1924, just before midnight, after an illness of two weeks, from a complicated heart trouble, believed to have been induced by overwork.

He married, November 20, 1878, Miss Florence G. Curtis, who died early in 1888. October 30, 1889, he married Miss Laura S. Merriam. Surviving him are Mrs. Mayo and two children, Winthrop Merriam, Dartmouth 1914, and Esther Wilder, Smith 1916.

Mr. Mayo owned a beautiful estate of 25 acres, where he made his summer home. The funeral services were held January 29 at his home, 30 Grove Ave., Leominster, his pastor, Rev. Arthur B. Whitney, officiating, assisted by Rev. E. A. Horton, chaplain of the Massachusetts Senate, and formerly pastor at Leominster.

CLASS OF 1875

Fred Wilson Blanchard died at his home in Winter Haven, Fla., October 21, 1923, of a complication of diseases, after an illness of six months.

The son of Samuel and Caroline (Pollard) Blanchard, he was born in Lempster, N. H., January 22, 1849, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.) On account of a severe illness, he was obliged to leave college in sophomore year.

On medical advice that an out-door life was necessary for his health, he engaged in farming, purchasing a home in Weathersfield, Vt., on the southeast slope of Ascutney Mountain, where he remained for some forty-five years, breeding high grade cattle and poultry and engaging in general farming. He served his town in many of its offices, such as school superintendent, selectman, auditor, tax collector, and others. In the fall of 1920 he sold his farm and removed to Florida, whose climate he found beneficial to his health. Here he became much interested in the culture of citrus fruits.

February 22, 1874, Mr. Blanchard was married to Emma 8., daughter of Allen and Elvira (Preston) Murray of Weathersfield, who survives him. They had two daughters, Carrie Edna, wife of Charles E. Carr '98, now deceased, and Nellie Preston.

CLASS or 1878

Andrew Wheatley Edson died February 1, 1924, at his home in Shrewsbury, Mass., after a long struggle with a relentless and in the early stages painful malady of the spinal cord. With characteristic determination he employed every known weapon to resist the progress of the disease, and kept resolutely at work even after he was physically helpless.

The son of Jerah and Mary (Wheatley) Edson, he was born in Montello, Wis., December 26, 1851. Marshall O. Edson '91 is a brother. The family removed to Brookfield, Vt., in 1863. After graduating from Randolph Normal School and teaching somewhat, he completed his preparation for college at Montpelier Seminary. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

After graduation he continued the work in education, in which he had served his apprenticeship before and during his college days, and in which his career was one of great usefulness and high distinction. In 1878-9 he was principal of Randolph Graded School, and then for five years of Randolph Normal School. In 1884-5 he was superintendent of schools at Attleboro, Mass., and then for over two years at Jersey City, N. J. In December, 1887, he resigned this position to become agent of the Massachusetts Board of Education, where he remained for ten years, making his home in Worcester. He then began a connetion of twenty-four years with the public schools of New York city, where he was successively assistant, district, and associate superintendent, and where his work closed only when, he reached the age limit of seventy, and retired from active service on the first of February, 1922. The first of April of that year he removed to Shrewsbury, Mass., where he has since made his home. In his work in New York he became especially interested in the organization and conduct of classes for exceptional children, those gifted or retarded, those mentally or physically handicapped and the delinquent.

In addition to his regular work as outlined above, he lectured and taught each summer in institutes and summer schools in many states of the Union, including ten summers at Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute and ten at Columbia University and Teachers College.

In 1916 Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy, the first time this degree. had been conferred by the College. Dr. Edson was actively engaged in church work through his whole career, and while in New York was a deacon of the Broadway Tabernacle Congregational church.

August 20, 1878, Mr. Edson was married to Cynthia F. Paine of Brookfield, Vt., who survives him, with their four children: Pearl Paine, Dartmouth 1902; Helen Wheatley, now Mrs. Witham of Yonkers, N. Y.; Edith Louise, now Mrs. Bigelow of Shrewsbury, Mass.; and Carroll Andrew, Dartmouth 1914.

The burial was at Brookfield, where Mr. Edson has maintained a summer home for many years.

CLASS OF 1880

Frank Morton died December 2, 1923, at Kenwood, near Sonoma, Cal., of cerebral hemorrhage. He was in his usual health until the afternoon of the day before his death, when he became unconscious, and remained so until his death.

He was born in Andover, Mass., August 3, 1857, his parents being Rufus Stewart and Susan Maria (Curtis) Morton, and fitted at Andover High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.

His entire active life since graduation has been devoted to education. In 1880-1 he was principal of Warrensburg (N.Y.) Academy, and in 1881-2 of Hollis (N.H.) High School. In 1882 he went to California, and remained in that state for the rest of his life. In 1882- 3 he was principal of Hollister College, and in 1884-5 of the schools in San Juan. For most of the next year he was engaged in the preparation of the "California State Arithmetic" under direction of the state board of education, the state having adopted the policy of furnishing its own text-books for the elementary schools. This book went into use in all the schools of the state and was perhaps the most successful of all in the state series. In 1886 he became a teacher in the Boys' High School of San Francisco, and in 1888 was made its principal. In the reorganization of high schools a few years later, this became the Lowell High School, and he continued in the principalship until his retiremeint in 1920. He then removed to Kenwood, where he carried on a chicken ranch. Mr. Morton was eminently successful in his profession, and was recognized as one of the foremost teachers in San Francisco.

August 3, 1881, he was married to Isabel, daughter of Hiram and Isabel (Wright) Wilson of Ticonderoga, N. Y. After her death, he was married, August 17, 1915, to Agnes, daughter of William J. and Mary Jane Wright of San Francisco, who survives him. There were five children of the first marriage: Mary Isabel; Joseph Putnam, who died in childhood; Stuart Curtis; Frank Willard; and Robert Hiram.

Mr. Morton was a member of the Masonic order. The body was cremated, and the remains buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery near San Francisco, beside those of his first wife.

CLASS OF 1881

Edward Nathan Pearson died of apoplexy at his home in Concord, N. H., January 26, 1924, after an illness of several months.

The son of John Couch and Elizabeth S. (Colby) Pearson, he was born in Webster, N. H., . September 7, 1859, and prepared for college at Warner High School and Penacook Academy. Harlan C. Pearson '93 is a brother. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

For six months after graduation he was on the staff of the Concord Monitor as a reporter, and then taught in the public schools of Washington, D. C., until the next July. In 1882 he returned to Concord and became connected with the Independent Statesman and Daily Monitor, and remained with these papers until 1898, being successively city editor, associate editor, and managing editor. During the last six years he was also' business manager of the Republican Press Association, which published the papers. From 1893 to 1899 he was public printer for the state. When the Rumford Printing Company was formed, in 1898, he became its business manager, and so continued until in March, 1899, he was elected secretary of state of New Hampshire. This office, which then included the registration and regulation of motor vehicles, he held by successive re-elections until his resignation to return to business life in May, 1915. At the legislative session of 1913 he was the candidate of the Republican caucus for United States senator, and was supported during a balloting of two months until by a coalition of Democrats and Progressives Henry F. Hollis was elected on the 42d ballot. Much of the detail and responsibility connected with the remodeling of the state house in 1910 was placed upon his shoulders by Governor Quinby and his Council.

Upon his retirement from public office, Mr. Pearson became cashier of the First National Bank of Concord, and had since been connected with that institution. He was chosen its president in 1920, and held that position until his resignation on account of ill health a few months since. At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of directors' of the bank.

During the period of his business activity he was president of the Northern Bankers' Association; director of the United Life and Accident Insurance Company, First Investment Company, Concord Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Concord Investment Company, Peterboro and Hillsboro Railroad, New Hampshire Bible Society; treasurer of the New Hampshire Co-operative Marketing Association and Margaret Pillsbury Hospital; trustee of Kimball Union Academy, New Hampshire Orphans' Home, and Centennial Home for the Aged.

When the New Hampshire Old Home Week Association was formed, Mr. Pearson was the first chairman of its executive committee, and did much to assist the founder of the festival, Governor Frank W. Rollins, in spreading the idea. During the World War, he was a member of the New Hampshire Committee of One Hundred on the Public Safety, and was active in Liberty Loan and other drives, being state and local treasurer of several of them. He was a member of the city board of health which introduced modern sanitation, and served several terms on the board of education. He was a member of the Wonolancet Club and an attendant at the South Congregational church.

December 6, 1882, he was married to Addie Maria Sargent of Lebanon, N. H., who survives him. Their children were: Edward Nathan, Jr., one year in Dartmouth 1906, now of San Francisco, Cal.; Robert Houghton, Dartmouth 1907, who died in 1911; John Walter, Dartmouth 1911; Mildred, Mt. Holyoke 1913, now Mrs. Howard A. Morrison.

CLASS OF 1886

Ellon Sherburne Hill died in Derry, N. H., April 12, 1923, of diabetes, after a year's illness.

He was bom in Northfield, N. H., December 14, 1861, his father being Henry W. Hill.

For some time after graduation he was secretary and director of the Hill'and Johnson Manufacturing Company, paper manufacturers, with offices at Augusta, Ga., and mill at Bath, S. C. For the year 1893-4 he was in charge of the electrical department of the plant of the Narragansett Electric Company at Providence, R. I. From May, 1894, to October, 1895, he was connected with the Nashua (N.H.) Gazette, and then for some time with the Nashua Telegraph. For some years before his final illness he had been in the box products business in Boston and New York.

September 12, 1893, he was married to Frances Leon Stafford of Augusta, Ga., who survives him, with a son and a daughter.

CLASS OF 1893

Frederick Daniel Runnells died at his home in Nashua, N. H., January 31, 1924.

The son of Daniel Frederick and Sarah E. (Farley) Runnells, he was born in Nashua, December 21, 1870, and fitted at Nashua High School. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Sphinx, served on the editorial board of The Dartmouth, and helped to form the first college press club.

For two years after graduation he was in the clothing business with his father in Nashua. He then began the study of law, first in Chicago and then at Boston University, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1898. In 1899 he was admitted to, the New Hampshire bar, and opened an office in Nashua. He was a member of the board of police commissioners from 1904 to 1907, an associate justice of the municipal court from 1907 to 1913, and a member of the constitutional conventions of 1902 and 1912. In his law practice he specialized in bankruptcy practice, and more recently in the federal tax statutes. At the time of his death he had been for some time an agent of the United States Internal Revenue service, attached to the Portsmouth office. He was a member of the Elks and the Nashua Country Club, and attended the Pilgrim Congregational church.

June 12, 1918, he was married to Jennie E. Rogers of Newbury, Mass., who survives him. They had no children.

A local paper gives this tribute: " 'Fred' Runnells, as he was known and liked to be known by those with whom he had grown to manhood in this community, in which he had done his full share in things making for community good during years of development and changes, will ever be remembered as one of the sweetest, kindest, most lovable personalities we have ever known. Fred Runnells never did a mean or unbecoming deed. He never missed a chance to help He never imposed on another's rights. He was ever ready to speak the word or do the thing needed in behalf of those to whom misfortune had come. He loved his friends and his city. He loved his home and his books. He loved oldtime Nashua and the newer Nashua."

CLASS OF 1908

Curtis Edward Huebener died of cerebral hemorrhage at Barra Mansa, Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro, May 19, 1923.

He was born in Dorchester, Mass., De- cember 16, 1884, and prepared for college at Dorchester High School.

The first year after graduation he remained in Hanover as a member of the Tuck School, from which he graduated in 1909. For nearly two years he was( in the employ of the United Fruit Company at Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. He then returned to this country, and was for nearly two years with the Welsbach Company of New England. In the spring of 1913 he went to Brazil, where the rest of his life was spent. For a time he was American vice-consul at Rio de Janeiro, was then in charge of a poultry farm, and in 1916 became manager of a thousand acre farm at Barra Mansa. He was never married.

CLASS OF 1909

Lieutenant Commander Elmer Keyes Niles, who was a member of this class during freshman year, died of angina pectoris on board the U.S.S. Sapelo, near Key West, Fla., January 1, 1924.

The son of James Franklin and Mary Olive (Keyes) Niles, he was born in Farmington, Me., August 7, 1887, and fitted for college at Farmington High School. Receiving an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, he entered that institution in 1906 and graduated in 1910. While there he was prominent in track and football.

He served in the navy since his graduation, and had risen to the rank of lieutenant commander. He had been connected with the U.S.S. Georgia and Maumee, was superintendent of communication for the Atlantic section, and was finally on the Sapelo.

In August, 1916, he was married to Marjorie, daughter of Richard Martin of West Roxbury, Mass., who survives him, with one child, Richard Martin, born July 12, 1917. His mother is also living,, a brother, Major Ellery W. Niles, U.S.A., and a sister, Lena M. Niles, dean of women at Bates College.

Simpson W. Horner, Jr., died very suddenly in Atlantic City on February 1. He was connected for some years with the Electric Storage Battery Co. During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps at Washington. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Evelyn Coons Horner, living at 6923 Boyer St., Germantown, Pa.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

Class of 1879

Dr. George Lewis Perry died of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Athol, Mass., January 13, 1924.

He was born in Woodstock, Vt., April 6, 1849, the son of Thomas J. and Mary (Atherton) Perry.

After graduation he practiced his profession in Baldwinville, Mass., to 1884, then in Providence, R. 1., to 1888, in Williamsburg, Mass., to 1892, and then in Athol and Petersham, Mass., for the rest of his life. At the time of his death he was the senior practicing physician of Athol and vicinity, and well known through that part of the state.

He was for many years either chairman or secretary of the board of health, and was a member of the American Medical Association, of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Masonic order.

April 9, 1881, he was married to Emma J. Chase of Marlboro, Mass!, who survives him, with one son, Dr. Charles E. Perry of Hartford, Conn. Another son died in infancy.

Class of 1882

Dr. Edward Marwick Plummer died at his home in Charlestown, Mass., January 3, 1924, of bronchial pneumonia.

He was born in Raymond, Me., September 25, 1856.

After graduation he began practice in Portland, Me., but removed to Charlestown in May, 1887, and had since resided there. He specialized in diseases* of the ear, and had since 1903 been professor of otology in Tufts Medical School. For about thirty years he was consulting surgeon on the staff of the Eye and Ear Infirmary on Charles St., Boston, and head of the aural department of the Carney Hospital in South Boston, and had also been connected with the Rufus Frost Hospital in Chelsea. For many years he was on the staff of the Deer Island Hospital, and for a short time was lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

He held membership in the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the New England Otological and Laryngological Society, the Boston Medical Library, the American Otological Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the Charlestown Medical Society. He also belonged to the Society of Colonial Warsy the Sons' of the American Revolution, and the Appalachian Mountain Club.

A wife and two children survive.