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 1860

Charles Edmund Parker died March 31, 1924, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. Shaw Webb, in Burlington, Vt. He had made his home with her for the past three years.

The son of William Tarbell and Henrietta (Miller) Parker, he was born in Vergennes, Vt., February 21, 1839, and fitted for college at a private school in Vergennes. He was for two years a member of the class of 1859 in Norwich University, entering Dartmouth in the spring of sophomore year. He was a member of Theta Chi at Norwich and of Zeta Psi at Dartmouth.

He studied law in Vergennes from graduation to December, 1861. January 1, 1862, he was commissioned first lieutenant and adjutant in the Seventh Vermont Volunteers, and was promoted captain of Company E in the same regiment December 9, 1862. The service of this regiment was in the Department of the Gulf, where he took part in several engagements. On account of ill health he resigned October 22, 1863.

Soon after he entered upon a business career in Vergennes, being engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors, and blinds until 1878. In 1879 he organized the Vergennes Electric Light and Power Company and was its president for twenty-five years, during which time he was president of the Vermont Electrical Association for two years.

In 1885 he was mayor of the city, a member of its school board in .1894-6, and its representative in the legislature in 1894. He was an active member of the Episcopal church, serving as vestryman for many years of St. Paul's church in Vergennes, and being a member of the standing committee of the diocese and a trustee of the Vermont Episcopal Institute. He was also a member of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic.

August 9, 1866, Captain Parker was married to Agnes Warren Ripley of Rutland, Vt., who died some years ago. Their only child is Grace Agnes, now Mrs. J. Shaw Webb.

CLASS OF 1868

Benjamin Mead Hill died March 24, 1924, at his home in Needham, Mass.

The son of Jonah and Persis (Ballard) Hill, he was born in Chatham, N. H., January 3, 1844, and prepared for college at Fryeburg Academy, Maine. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.

For a long period after graduation he followed the profession of teaching, being principal of the high school at Hopkinton, Mass., 1868-70; of Williams Academy and High School, Stockbridge, Mass., 1870-83; of the Raye'n High School, Youngstown, Ohio, 1883-91; and of the high school at Stoughton, Mass., 1891-3. Since that time he has been associated with his wife in editing and publishing of the Boston Cooking School Magazine.

Mr. Hill was a member of the Unitarian Church of Needham. He was never interested in fraternal orders or clubs, and never held public office.

Juiy 1, 1873, he was married to Janet N , daughter of Alexander and Nancy (Lewis) McKenzie of Westfield, Mass., , who survives him, with two sons, Robert B. and Harold M. (Dartmouth 1911), both of whom have been associated with their parents in their publishing enterprise. Another child, a daughter, died early.

Henry Salter Clark died in Boston, Mass., January 26, 1924.

He was born in Manchester, N. H., August 4, 1847, the son of Daniel (Dartmouth 1834) and Ann Walker (Salter) Clark. His father was United States senator from New Hampshire and later judge of the United States District Court for the state. He prepared for college at Manchester High School and Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Isaac W. Smith '46 of . Manchester, was admitted to the bar, and practiced for a number of years in that city. For many years his whereabouts were unknown to his classmates, until in 1913 it was discovered that he had then been in Boston for about ten years, employed in the office of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. This position he seems to have held until not long before his death.

Mr. Clark was twice married, his second wife having died about two years ago. There were two sons of the first marriage, one of whom survives his parents.

CLASS OF 1870

John Adams Bellows died in New Bedford, Mass., February 13, 1924. Death resulted from pneumonia after a short illness. His home for a number of years past had been in Walpole, N. H., where his father was born and earlier ancestors on the Bellows side had lived.

He was born in Littleton, N. H., May 27, 1848, the son of Henry Adams Bellows, longtime chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. His college preparatory courses were taken for the most part in the Concord (N. H.) schools, and from Concord he entered college, and graduated in 1870.

Mr. Bellows' tastes and talents were distinctly literary, and his vocations were those of a journalist, preacher, and teacher. He was on the editorial staff of the Liberal Christian of New York, of which his uncle was editor-in-chief, from 1872 to 1876. He then studied for the ministry, and from 1878 to 1885 was pastor of Unitarian churches in Montclair, N. J., Waterville, Me., and Portland. In the latter year serious throat trouble made it advisable to give up preaching, and in 1889 he turned to teaching. He had married in 1878 Miss Isabel Francis of Tarrytown, N. Y., and from. 1889 to 1906 Mr. and Mrs. Bellows were jointly engaged in conducting a private school for girls, first in Portland, then in Boston. In 1906 they changed the school into a "Home for School Girls," which they maintained in Boston until 1910, and from 1910 until a few years since in Brookline.

Some ten years ago a nervous trouble made it necessary to give up regular active work, though it did not amount to a complete breakdown. He was able to join with his classmates in their reunions of 1910 and 1920, though obliged to forego the meeting in 1915; and no member of the class enjoyed the meetings more thoroughly or more intensely than he. Nor did any member contribute more than he to the general enjoyment. His unique contribution was in the form of verses appropriate to the occasion. But in wit and humor, in brilliancy of conversation, in the genuine good-fellowship so clearly manifested, we, his classmates, nearly all of whom had scarcely met bim since college days, felt that a personality was revealed to us that we had not quite recognized before, a very charming personality.

Mr. Bellows' poetical ability was clearly disclosed in college days. Prof. C. F. Richardson, a college contemporary, once said to me that in his opinion the best poem written by a Dartmouth undergraduate up to that date, about 1908, was a certain poem by John Bellows. The verses prepared for our reunions, already referred to, and a deeply appreciative poem on his classmate and very dear friend Francis Brown, and another on his classmate Steele, show a high degree of poetic imagination, warmth of feeling, and high literary art. They show, too, a depth of thought that lifts them much above the common sort of "occasional" poems.

Mr. Bellows during the years of enforced leisure from professional labors had been writing in a reminiscent vein and I am hoping to find that he has left something to be published which his friends and the general public will be interested to read.

The Bellozvs Falls Times of February 21, speaking editorially, says of Mr. Bellows that he was loved by a wide circle of friends in Walpole; that he had made a unique place in the hearts of all who knew him: that his quiet, unobtrusive influence for good, and a knowledge and appreciation of the best and most beautiful things of life were such that his passing leaves a place that cannot be filled.

He leaves a wife and one son. The latter, Henry Adams Bellows, has won an honorable place for himself as author and literary critic. He is on the editorial staff of the Northwestern Miller of Minneapolis.

The death of Bellows leaves only ten survivors of the class of '7o—one-sixth of its original members.

L. S. HASTINGS

CLASS OF 1873

Henry Daniel Lawrence died at his home in Sherbrooke, Que., March 13, 1924. He had been in failing health for some time, and for a week or so confined to the house, but death came finally without warning.

He was born in Windsor, Vt., January 26, 1851, the son of L. W. and Elizabeth Lawrence, and fitted for college at the local high school. He was a member of Psi Upsjlon.

He taught at Sherbrooke for two years following graduation, leaving there in the fall of 1875 on account of serious trouble with his eyes. For some time he remained at home unable to undertake any work, until in February, 1876, he was appointed to a position in the Bureau of Education at Washington, D. C. During the spring he was transferred to Philadelphia, and remained there during most of the time of the Centennial Exposition, having charge of the exhibit of the Bureau. In the fall of 1876 he returned to Sherbrooke, and was principal of Sherbrooke Academy for three years. In April, 1879, he was appointed United States commercial agent for the consular district of Sherbrooke. In June, the office was raised to the rank of consul, and he held the position for four years.

Meanwhile he had been studj-ing law in the office of Edward T. Brooks '5O and at the law school of Bishop's College, and received the degree of LL.B. from the latter in 1883. He then began the practice of the profession, which he followed with excellent success for the rest of his life, being long the senior member of the firm of Lawrence, Morris, and Mclver.

He was a director of Walter Blue and Company, Sherbrooke Machinery Company, and Canadian Ingersoll Rand Company, and was solicitor for the last company and for the Merchants Bank of Canada. He was a trustee of the Universitjr of Bishop's College. King's Hall. Compton, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., Sherbrooke Library and Art Union, and Elmwood Cemetery Company, aljo honorary life governor of Sherbrooke Hospital, director of the Eastern Townships Agricultural Association, and a member of the Advisory board of the St. John Ambulance Association, and had been treasurer and batonnier of the St. Francis Bar. Always interested in educational affairs, he was for twenty-six years a member of the Board of Protestant School Commissioners, and for twenty-one years its chairman. He was a member of St. George's Club, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Sherbrooke Curling Club, and St. Francis Golf Club.

He was prominently connected with the Anglican church, and for a long time warden of St. Peter's church of Sherbrooke.

October 15, 1879, Mr. Lawrence was married to Ellen Brooks, daughter of Judge John Sewall (Dartmouth 1842) and Eleanor Hall (Brooks) Sanborn of Montreal, who died some years since. Three children survive: Mrs. Channell G. Hepburn of Ottawa. Ont.: Mrs. W. L. Cassels of Ottawa: and Harry S. Lawrence of Sherbrooke.

CLASS OF 1875

Rev. Frederick Lucas Kingsbury died at his daughter's home in Berkeley, Cal.. March 18, 1924, of heart failure, without having learned of his wife's death, which had occurred the day before.

The son of Joseph and Eliza Sophia (Whitcomb) Kingsbury, he was born in Jericho. Yt., March 10, 1850. He prepared for college at Norwich, Yt., where his home was while in college. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he remained at home until the death of his father in April. 1876. and then began the study of medicine, which he continued at Dartmouth and the L niversity of Vermont, receiving his medical degree from the latter in 1878. From August of that year until the. fall of 1880 he practiced his profession at Waterbury, t. Having been appointed to medical missionary service by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he took further studies in Boston, and sailed in March, 1881, with his family for Samokov, Bulgaria. While there he engaged in a variety of work, medical, industrial. educational, and literary. By the advice of the mission and of the board, while temporarily in this country he was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Norwich, June 3, 1887. In 1898 he came home for a furlough, expecting to remain but a year, but a severe attack of rheumatism compelled his retirement from foreign missionary service. For some years afterwards he had charge of the static electric department in the sanitarium at Clifton Springs, X. Y., where he remained until the fall of 1905, when he went to Oberlin, Ohio. He was strongly advised to undertake preaching, although he had no special preparation for this work, and for five months during the absence of the pastor he supplied the pulpit of the Hyde Park church of St. Louis, Mo. He then preached at Pomeroy, Wash., for six months, and in November, 1906. became pastor of the church at Ventura, Cal., where he remained until January, 1910. when ill health compelled the surrender of his work. For most of the time since his retirement he has made his home in Los Angeles until his removal some three years ago to his daughter's home in Berkeley. During the great fire which destroyed a large part of the city last fall, this home was destroyed with all its contents, and both Dr. and Mrs. Kingsbury narrowly escaped death. For some years he had been helpless from rheumatism.

February 27, 1878, he was married to Luella Laughton Olds of Norwich, Vt. Their two children are Joseph Lyman, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1905. and Margaret Lucy, Mt. Holyoke 1907.

CLASS OF 1876 '

Chief Justice John Kivel of the Superior Court of New Hampshire died at Newport, X. H., April 1, 1924. While holding court at Xewport he was taken with influenza, which developed into lobar pneumonia.

He was born in Dover. X. H., which remained liis home through life, April 29, 1855, the son of Patrick and Catherine Kivel. and fitted for college at the city high school, with some private instruction. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, and an editor of the Aegis.

Immediately after graduation he entered the law office of G. Frank Hobbs '62, in Dover, and pursued his law studies there until his admission to the bar in August, 1879. During this period and for some time after he was also principal of the city evening school. From the first he won notable success in his practice, and soon had his time fully occupied in the trial of important cases. He entered actively into political life as a Democrat. In 1883 he served as alderman of the city. From 1887 to 1893 he was solicitor of Strafford county. In December, 1896, he was appointed a member of the State Board of Charities, and in April, 1903, a member of the State License Commission. The last office he held until 1913. On May 26, 1913, he was appointed an associate justice of the Superior Court of the state, and promoted to be chief justice October 4, 1917.

Judge Kivel was a member of the Roman Catholic church, and active in many of the enterprises of his church. He was a member of the order of Elks. Several years ago he was one of two men who made a journey to Ireland to distribute $50,000 to the poor of Dublin, in accordance with the will of a Dover woman.

October 12, 1879, he was married to Eva G. Ennis of Dover, who died January 18, 1919. They had five children: Frank '(Dartmouth 1902), who died December 23, 1922; Maurice (Dartmouth 1909); Alice Gafney; Katherine, who died in infancy; Laurence, who died January 9, 1919.

Judge Kivel is remembered by his contemporaries in college, both his classmates and others, with a genuine affection. He had in an unusual degree the gift of friendship, which contributed largely to his professional and political success. On the bench he was industrious and painstaking, and conspicuously fair-minded. In his personal relations he displayed a nature singularly truthful, just, and pure. He was devoted to his family, and the loss of his wife and children (his wife and youngest son died both in an influenza epidemic) was a great blow, which, however, he bore with striking faith and resignation.

CLASS OF 1897

Dr. Karl Taylor Richards died at Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, New York City, January 19, 1924, of tuberculosis, after an illness of four months.

The son of Emerson Judson and Ida E. (Taylor) Richards, he was bor-n in Hinsdale, N. H., June 23, 1876, and fitted for college at the high school of his native town. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

He studied in Dartmouth Medical School for three years after graduation, obtaining his medical degree in 1900. He practiced his profession first in Leominster, Mass., removing thence to Maynard, Mass. In 1912 he went to Detroit, Mich., making his headquarters there while he traveled for the Maltine Company of New York. While in Detroit he had a very severe illness, being confined to his bed for thirty-three weeks. This illness resulted in a lameness, so that he was afterwards obliged to use' a cane. Three years ago he was appointed director of medical records and the clerical force in Manhattan State Hospital, on Ward's Island, New York City, and held this position until his final illness.

February 22, 1901, Dr. Richards was married to Annie Frances, daughter of John Goggin of Manchester, N. H., who survives 'him, and is now living in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. They have two children, Paul G., a student at Columbia University, and Virginia T., in the employ of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York. The burial was at Hinsdale, N. H,, where Dr. Richards' father still lives, and a half-sister.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

CLASS OF 1879

Dr. Frederick Eugene Aldrich died March 10, 1924, at his home in Chestertown, N. Y., from, the effects of a stroke of paralysis received a few weeks before.

He was born in Thurman, N. Y., March 25, 1848, his parents being David and Mary (Clark) Aldrich. His preliminaryeeductionation was obtained at Warrensburg Academy and Ford Edward Institute. He came to Dartmouth for four successive lecture terms. After graduation he settled in prac- tice in Chestertown, and there remained through life. He served several times as coroner, and was health officer several years until his death. He was a member of the Presb3rterian church of Chestertown.

July 31, 1879, Dr. Aldrich was married to Charlotte, daughter, of George and Naomi Braley of Chestertown, who 'survives him. They have two children, Mrs. L. G. Robin- son of West Chazv, N. Y., and Mrs. C. A. Hovey of Glenns Falls, N. Y.

HONORARY

Ebenezer Jolls Ormsbee, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1884, died at his home in Brandon, Vt.. April 3, 1924.

The son of John Mason and Polly (Willson) Ormsbee, he was born in Shoreham, Vt., June 8, 1834. He attended academies at Brandon and South Woodstock, taught for a time, and in 1857' began the study of law in an office in Brandon. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, but at once entered military service as a second lieutenant in the First Vermont Volunteers, later becoming a captain in the Twelfth Vermont. After he was mustered out in 1863 he resumed law practice in Brandon, which continued through his active life.

From 1868 to 1872 he was assistant collector of internal revenue for the district of Vermont. From 1870 to 1874 he was state's attorney of Rutland county, a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1872 and of the senate in 1878, lieutenant governor from 1884 to 1886, and governor from 1886 to 1888. In 1891 he was appointed by President Harrison one of three commissioners to treat with the Piute Indians, and in the same year United States land commissioner at Samoa, to act with other commissioners appointed by Great Britain and Germany to adjust claims of foreigners to lands in Samoa. This service occupied two years.

He was at his death president of the Brandon National Bank, and had held many other local positions of trust. For many years he had been senior warden of St. Thomas' Episcopal church at Brandon. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the G. A. R.

August 27, 1862, Mr. Ormsbee was married to Jennie L., daughter of Ebenezer N. Briggs of Brandon. After her death was a second marriage, September 26, 1867, to Mrs. Frances (Wadhams) Davenport, daughter of William L. Wadhams of Westport, N. Y., who died April 18, 1916. An adopted daughter survives.