CLASS OF 1872

Susan McLeod Galbraith, wife of William Henry Galbraith, died at Santa Cruz, Cal., March 15, 1925. Their marriage took place at Santa Cruz, May 28, 1879. She had come to that city some forty-seven years before her decease, a beautiful woman of rare culture and refinement, who entered zealously into the church, civic, and social life of the community. She was especially interested as a teacher in the Congregational church Sunday school for many years, and during the World War was a most energetic worker in the Red Cross society. She was greatly beloved by many in Santa Cruz, and also in the mountain section.

Sedentary life as a teacher did not agree with- her husband's physical constitution, accordingly after 1889 he gave up teaching and his plans to enter into the practice of law, for which he had been studying several years, and bought a ranch at Blackburn Gulch in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains, where he entered upon the running of an orchard and vineyard, which he still owns.

Their home was at Kilfassett, a beautiful resort about six miles out of Santa Cruz towards the mountains. Its nearness to the city enabled her to spend much of her time in the city community. The change to out-of-door life proved thoroughly congenial and beneficial to her husband, so much so that in 1904 he wrote to the Class Secretary that he "never felt younger since arriving at man's estate." A similar report from him came in 1920 for the benefit of the class history.

This couple never had the supreme blessing of offspring.

Secretary, 86 Main St., Nashua, N. H.