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 1854

Leander Monroe Nute, the last survivor of this class, who for some years has held the distinction of oldest living graduate of the College, died February 9, 1925, at his home in Portland, Me., of cerebral hemorrhage, after a few weeks' illness.

He was born in Milton, N. H., April 16, 1831, the son of David and Lavina (Cook) Nute, and was one of the four members of the first class graduating from the Chandler Scientific Department.

He engaged in civil engineering for a time immediately following graduating, being in 1854 employed on the Saratoga and Sackett's Harbor Railroad, and then in construction work in lowa from 1855 to 1861, with headquarters at Cedar Rapids and Lisbon. He often told how his return East was expedited by a cyclone which swept Lisbon practically off the prairie and was so terrifying to the survivors that a number of them, especially those with families, gave up the unequal combat with the elements.

On his return East, he engaged in shoe manufacturing in partnership with a brother at Somersworth, N. H., with a second factory at Berwick, Me. This business was successfully conducted until his retirement about twenty-five years ago.

In 1898 he became interested in the manufacture of violins as a special agent to purchase selected wood for a Boston maker of these instruments. He soon tried his own hand at making a violin, and after he gave up the manufacture of shoes he devoted his time to the repair and manufacture of violins. In the spring of 1903 he removed to Portland, and until a short time before his death was actively engaged in that occupation, in which he acquired an enviable reputation. He averaged to make a dozen instruments a year, and had turned out in all about three hundred.

In 1858 Mr. Nute was married to Delia, daughter of David and Sophia (Jones) Furbush of Farmington, N. H., who died August 18, 1904. Four children survive their parents: William M. Nute of Boston; Fannie E. (Mrs. William N. Kimball) of Woonsocket, R. I.; Mrs. Charles A. Robinson of Portland; Mrs. Harry A. Buffum of Rockland, Me. Another daughter is not living.

Mr. Nute was a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1875.

CLASS or 1865

Rev, David Dana Marsh died at his home in West Hartford, Conn., February 12, 1925. He had been in poor health for two years, but death was caused by a two weeks' illness from heart and kidney trouble.

He was born in Orford, N. H., April 14, 1842, the son of Rev. Joseph (Dartmouth 1824) and Lucy (Dana) Marsh. On his mother's side he was a great-great-grandson of General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame. He fitted for; college at Kimball Union Academy. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Upon graduation he studied for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1868. His active ministerial life was comprised in three pastorates: of the Peabody Memorial Congregational church at Georgetown, Mass., 1868-1888; at Unionville, Conn., 1888-99; of the Wethersfield Avenue church in Hartford, Conn., 1900-4. The quality of his work is evinced by his long stay in the first two fields. After the conclusion of the last -pastorate he made his home in West Hartford, where he has since lived in retirement.

For more than forty years he was interested in bee keeping, and until last year he had been for some years president of the Connecticut Bee Keepers' Association.

August 11, 1868, Mr. Marsh was married to Annie W., daughter of John W. and Susan (Tapley) Cass of Danvers, Mass., who survives him, with three daughters, Mrs. Caroline M. Tucker of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Susan M. Willson of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Miss Lucy Dana Marsh of West Hartford.

Class of 1866

George Washington Wing died at his home in Montpelier, Vt., February 25, 1925, from the infirmities of age, having been gradually failing since last November.

The son of Joseph Addison and Samantha Elizabeth (Webster) Wing, he was born in Plainfield, Vt., October 22, 1843. His home was in Montpelier from 1858, and he fitted for college there at Washington County Grammar School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.

For the first two years after graduation he studied law in his father's office, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and was in active and successful practice from 1871 to 1904. From 1866 to 1870 he was assistant state librarian, and from 1867 to 1873 deputy secretary of state, being also during a part of the latter period a clerk in the office of the state treasurer.

In 1882 he was a member of the lower house of the state legislature. From 1884 to 1888 he was postmaster of Montpelier. From 1890 to 1895 he was a member of the village trustees, and the last three years president of that body. In 1895: he was the first mayor of the newly-incorporated city. Since 1895 he has been president of the trustees of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, and from 1893 to 1906 was a trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane. In 1902 he became state librarian, and held that position until his death.

He was a Mason of the 33d degree, and had been grand master of the Grand Lodge, grand high priest of the Grand Chapter, grand commander of the Grand Commandery, and grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star. His religious affiliation was with the Unitarians, and for many years he served' as moderator of the Church of the Messiah. In 1905 he became a charter member of The Club, a literary organization of twenty-six men and for many years had served as its president.

Mr. Wing was three times married. December 1, 1869, he was married to Sarah E., daughter of Dr. Orlando P. and Millie (Hendee) Forbush of Montpelier, who died in April 1871. Their daughter, Sarah F., now lives in Greensboro, N. C. The second marriage was to Ida I., daughter of Stephen F. and Caroline P. (Stone) Jones of Montpelier, who' died in February, 1903. November 29, 1904, he was married to Angeline West, daughter of Lemuel and Cinderella (Kilburn) Nickerson of Provincetown, Mass., who survives him.

A local paper thus characterizes him: "Mr. Wing was an old-fashioned gentleman and a philosopher, living each day as he found it, looking on life in a kindly spirit, speaking well of all men or not at all, and admired by all men who knew him."

Ahd the secretary of his class: "It is to be said that Wing was one of the ablest men in all respects in the class. He fulfilled to a high degree in public life the promise he gave in college. He did a man's work, as a master."

Class of 1875

Lucian Sandford Tilton died June 6, 1924, at his home, 2901 16th St., Washington, D. C.

The only son of Rev. John Wadleigh and Bernice Esther (Sandford) Tilton, he was born in Milford, N. Y., August 22, 1852, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy.

For a year after graduation he taught in North Conway, N. H., and at the same time pursued private studies in preparation for the ministry of the Episcopal church. Trouble with his eyes compelled him to abandon the idea of the ministry, and he then taught for short periods at Tuftonboro, N. H., and Albany, N. Y. He then engaged in farming for a time at Tuftonboro, and in the latter part of 1881 was a private tutor at Lake George, N. Y. From 1884 to. 1889 he conducted the Tilton Grammar School for Boys at Williamsport, Pa., going thence to become principal of Frederick College in Maryland, which position he continued to hold until a change in the organization of the college. In 1897 he removed to Washington, which has since been his home. He was at first manager of the Fisk Teachers' Agency, and for the last twenty years of his life was associated with the Emerson Institute, a preparatory school for boys.

He was an active member of the local association of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Dartmouth and Exeter Alumni Associations.

Mr. Tilton was married in October, 1882, to Mary Hussey of Albion, Me. They had one son, Lucian W., who died in 1906. After her death, he was married in December, 1886, to Emily Fletcher MacMillan of Williamsport, Pa., who survives him, with two children, Fletcher Sandford (for some time in Dartmouth 1913) and Emily Wadleigh. Another son died in childhood.

Class of 1883

Charles Alvin Braley died at his home in Kansas City, Mo., January 20, 1925, of angina pectoris, after One day's illness.

The son of George and Ellen (Lyon) Braley, he was born in River Falls, Wis., October 17, 1858. From eleven years of age his home was in Northfield, Vt., and he prepared for college in the high school of that town. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and represented that fraternity on the Aegis board in his junior year. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

During the fall after graduation he taught in the Northfield schools, and then began the study of law there in the office of Frank Plumley. In the fall of 1885 he went to the Law School of the University of Michigan, but in a few months changed to Boston University, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1886. In the fall of that year he went to Kansas City, which remained his home for the rest of his life. In 1887 he became associated with the law firm of Dodson, Douglass, and Trimble, and in 1892 formed a partnership with J. McD. Trimble which continued for seventeen or eighteen years. This firm acquired a large corporation practice, and were attorneys for various railroad enterprises centering about Kansas City.

About 1903 Mr. Braley became interested in oil, and in 1906 organized the Chanute Refining Company, of which he was president, building their refinery at Chanute, Kans. Out of the earnings of this company was built the Gushing refinery, with 7500 barrel capacity and a pipe line to the Cushing field. This was built in 1914. In 1916 the Chanute company became a part of the Sinclair organization, and Mr. Braley became vice-president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation and of the Sinclair Refining Company. These positions he held until the time of his death. He was long recognized as a power in Kansas City financial circles, and was connected as officer OP director with many of the larger business enterprises of the city, including the Commerce Trust Company and the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company. He was a member of the Blue Hills Club, the Kansas City Club, the Mission Hills Country Club, and the Mid Day Club of Kansas City, and the Bankers Club of New York.

June 1, 1892, he was married to* Pauline Everett Willing of La Crosse, Wis. They had one son, Everett L. Braley, now of Chicago. After her death he "was married in 1901 to Bertha Willing of LaCrosse, who survives him, with their daughter, Dorothy L. Braley.

Class of 1885

Dr. Leonard Francis Hatch died June 7, 1924, at his home in Vineland, N. J. He had been in failing, health for some time.

He was born in Manchester, Mass., October 3, 1863, the son of Leonard Bradford and Mary (Roberts) Hatch. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

He left college at the end of sophomore year to study medicine. After completing his medical studies, he practiced in Plymouth, Mich., for five years, and then in Lynn, Mass., for thirteen years. While in Lynn he held the chair of surgery for a time in the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons, and established the Moosehead Lake Sanitarium at Greenville Junction, Me. In 1906 he was taken sick and was laid aside for a year. In consequence of his disability the sanitarium, which had now become his sole interest, failed, and he lost all his property. He then went to New Jersey, where he regained, his health, and after a time established the Newcomb Hospital at Vineland. He was superintendent of this hospital at the time of his death.

January 3, 1885, he was married to Emma Cook of Ann Arbor, Mich., who died in 1891. April 27, 1892, he was married to Emma Coleman of Plymouth, Mich., who survives him, with a son (Leonard Coleman, a nongraduate of '16)., and a daughter.. Another son died in infancy.

Dr. and Mrs. Hatch attended the 35th reunion in 1920, and their presence added much to the enjoyment of the occasion.

Class of 1911

Roy Benjamin Barnhardt died at Phoenix, Arizona, November 19, 1924, at the age of thirty-seven years and two months. In 1923, Roy was afflicted by an arthritic condition which was' caused by an infection resulting from influenza. He spent several months in a Cleveland hospital and in April, 1924, went to the Mayo hospital in Rochester where he was considerably benefited by some months treatment. In October he went to Phoenix where he died after an operation following an intestinal obstruction.

Funeral services were held in Christ Church, Lima, Ohio, his home town, and burial was in Bethel Cemetery near Dayton.

He leaves his father, mother, three brothers, and two sisters, besides his.wife, Mrs. Lula Fisher Barnhardt, and four sons, ranging in age from five to twelve years old.

Roy was married to Miss Lula Fisher of Dayton, June 28, 1910, in Hanover at the close of his junior year. He continued in College and graduated with his class in 1911.

While in college, Roy, though older than the rest of us, was well known and much respected by all members of his class. While here he served as pastor of the Etna, N. H., Baptist church and even after leaving college continued his interest in church work. He was superintendent of Christ Episcopal Church School in Lima and as lay reader and candidate for holy orders assisted the rector of this same church. After going to Phoenix he accepted the rectorship of St. Mark's Episcopal Church of Mesa, Arizona, which position he was filling at the time of his death.

Roy was engaged by several firms but for several years prior to his illness was a salesman for Richards, Parish & Lamson, a bond house, in Lima. He was an independent in politics and a member of the Lima Club, Elks, Masons, Lima Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce, and Delta Sigma Rho.

Mrs. Barnhardt and her four fine sons still continue their residence at 326 South Jameson Avenue, Lima.

Immediately following our Tenth Reunion, Roy wrote a long letter telling his regret at not being present, and promising attendance at our Fifteenth. He always was an interested member of the class and his death has brought sadness to all of us.

Class of 1916

In the MAGAZINE for March was brief mention of the passing of Robert Hyde Anderton. We are now able to give fuller details of his life history.

The son of James and Annie (Farrow) Anderton, he was born in Pawtucket, R. I., March 16, 1895, and prepared for college at Pawtucket High School. He was a member of the Canoe Club, and participated to some extent in track athletics. In senior year he took the course of the Thayer School, and remained for the second year, graduating from the School in 1917.

After his graduation from the Thayer School he went to Hibbing, Minn., and entered the employ of the Winston-Deer Company in the mining of iron ore. Later in the year he returned home, and enlisted in the 66th Regiment, Coast Artillery. The regiment sailed for France in July, 1918, and later he was enrolled in the officers' training school at Saumur. His class had nearly finished the course when the armistice was signed. He then rejoined his regiment, and arrived with it in America in March, 1919.

A short time after his return he was appointed an assistant examiner in the United States Patent Office at Washington. While thus employed he studied law at George Washington University, was graduated in 1922, and admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in October, 1922. He resigned from the Patent Office early in 1923 on account of ill health, and spent nearly a year in an attempt to recover his health by rest. He was appointed to a position as technical patent expert in the Air Service, U. S. Army, in April, 1924, and held this position until his death. He died on Sunday, January 11, 1925, at Garfield Hospital, Washington, the primary cause of his death being Bright's disease. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Class of 1920

William Wallace Scoville, or "'Bill", as he was commonly known to us at school, died at Hartford, Conn., Sunday night, February 8, after a three weeks' illness, which was thought to have been intestinal grippe, but later developed into a disease of the nervous system which was the immediate cause of his death.

He will be remembered by a great number in our class, even though he was only in Dartmouth during the fall of 1916 and the spring of 1917. He left to serve with the 101st Machine Gun Battalion, and served over two years overseas. Upon his return, he went to Sheffield Scientific School, and graduated in the class of 1922. He married Miss Mary Adelaide Bragaw of Hartford, Conn., in June 1922.

Their honeymoon was spent in Europe. Soon after their return, Bill made business connections in Worcester, where they lived up to about a year ago, at which time they moved to Hartford. During this last year, he was working with his father in the construction and real estate business. A daughter, Emma King Scoville, was bora in May, 1924.

Bill played on the 1920 freshman hockey team, and was out for the yearling track team. He was a loyal Dartmouth man, as witnessed by his yearly contributions to the Alumni Fund and ready response to anything Dartmouth, even though he was a Yale graduate. Dartmouth College, the class of 1920, and Chi Phi fraternity have lost a) loyal and true son. His loss will be keenly felt.

HONORARY

Everett Pepperell Wheeler, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1861 and whose name stands at the head of the list of honorary graduates in the Register of Living Alumni published in 1920, died of pneumonia at his home in New York city February 9, 1925.

The son of David Everett (Dartmouth 1827)' and Elizabeth (Jarvis) Wheeler, he was born in New York city March 10, 1840, and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1856 and from Harvard Law School in 1859.

A successful legal practitioner for many years, a founder and former president of the New York Bar Association, he was perhaps best known as a leader in political and civil service reform for half a century. The chief fields of his activity were municipal politics, civil service, and general and industrial education, but there was hardly an important public movement of his day in which he did not appear as a strong and resolute advocate of one side or the other. The reform and reduction of the tariff was a prominent feature of his long activity, and he was a zealous opponent of woman suffrage until its final triumph. His last public appearances were to oppose the ratification by the legislature of his state of the child labor amendment and to champion America's membership in the League of Nations.