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 1859

George Henry Strong, son of David and Electa (Patch) Strong, was born in Northampton, Mass., March 4, 1839, and died in Oakland, Cal., June 1, 1925. He was of good old New England stock, being a direct descendant of Elder John Strong, who came to Massachusetts from England in 1630.

Mr. Strong attended the public schools of Northampton, and graduated from the high school with a love for natural science, chemistry, and history. Through the urging of his mother, he entered Dartmouth College.

After his graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he was confronted with the problem of how to make a living. He finally decided to go to California, and took passage on one of the Vanderbilt steamers for Panama. He reached San Francisco in April, 1860, without incident worthy of note.

On arrival in San Francisco he stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Gray and their son Henry, who had been his classmate in college. He soon accepted a position as teacher in a small school at Mission San Jose, and later took a similar position in the public school at Monterey. During his stay in this town he lived in the old custom house, which is still standing.

From Monterey he returned to San Francisco, and became professor in Union College, where he gave instruction in chemistry and natural science. This led to his making drawings for the patent department of the Mining andScientific Press, where he became associated with Messrs. Dewey and Ewer. Feeling that this was to become his future business, he determined to return home and fit himself for this new vocation.

He started to return by the Nicaragua route, but owing to a mishap to one of the steamers he was forced to go to Panama. During his wait here he contracted the Panama fever. This, however, was cured by his old family physician on his return home in July, 1865.

Feeling the need of further instruction in the patent business he went to New York and entered the office of the Scientific American, and then completed his studies in the Patent Office at Washington.

He returned to San Francisco in March, 1866, and founded the firm of Dewey, Strong, and Company, which is still functioning under the name of Dewey, Strong, Townsend, and Loftus. Mr. Strong was active in this firm, almost to the time of his death.

On August 8, 1869, he married Lila Frances, daughter of Elisha Baker Townsend, and they had two daughters, Georgie Mabel and Lilian Florence. The former is now Mrs. Charles Parker Hubbard, and Lilian is the wife of Rear-Admiral Edward Hale Campbell, judge advocate general of the United States Navy.

The only three grandchildren were two daughters and one son of Admiral and Mrs. Campbell. One of these daughters died in infancy, and Georgiana Abigail died at Panama in 1917, leaving Edward Hale Campbell the only surviving grandchild.

Mr. Strong was a fine type. of an American man. He was a good citizen and a good father to his children, and he left behind a host of loyal friends.

William Niles died February 3, 1926, at his home in La Porte, Ind.

The son of John Barron and Mary (Polk) Niles, he was born in La Porte, September 27, 1835. His father was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1830, and his grandfather, William Niles, in 1796. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Niles, a graduate of Princeton, was a trustee of Dartmouth from 1793 to 1820. He was prepared for college in private schools, and took the first part of his college course at Urbana University, Ohio. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he took up the study of law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. For a number of years he practiced in partnership with his father, but gradually business interests became predominant, and in his later years he devoted his whole attention to business affairs.

For many years he was one of the most active business men in his section, having many interests and pursuing them with notable success. He was one of the organizers of the Niles and Scott wheel factory, for many years manufacturers of wheels for vehicles. This business was established in 1870 under the name of the La Porte Wheel Company, afterwards taking the former name. He owned many farms in northern Indiana, and was much interested in the breeding of cattle and horses. For more than forty years he was a director of the First National Bank of La Porte, and for 37 years, until his retirement, December 1, 1924, president of the bank. Only a month before his death he retired from the board of directors of this bank and of the Bank of the State of Indiana. He was interested in many other enterprises, and is said to have left an estate of nearly a million dollars.

Mr. Niles was a lifelong Republican in politics, having cast his first presidential vote for Fremont in 18S6 and having been in 1860 a delegate to the national convention which nominated Lincoln for the presidency. He had been since his youth a member of the New Church (Swedenborgian), and was a trustee of that church in La Porte. Newspaper notices mention his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, which seems to imply a Civil War service of which we have no record.

Early in life he was married to Charlotte White of New York, who died soon after their marriage. December 16, 1885, he was married to Judith King Anderson of Scipio, Ind., who died December 13, 1902. They had two daughters, Mary N. and Sarah Isabelle, the former being now Mrs. Harry Baum of Chicago. March 7, 1905, he was married to Mrs. Charlotte Butterworth Loomis of Cincinnati, O., the daughter of Isaac and Ellen (Douglas) Butterworth, who survives him.

CLASS OF 1872

William Edgar Hogan, son of William and Mehitable M. Hogan, born in Bangor, Me., August 1, 1849, died at his home, 45 Bedford St., Bath, Me., of heart trouble, May 9, 1925. His sister, Viola G. Hogan, same address, survived him.

His preparation for college was in Bath High School, from which' he graduated in 1867, following which he spent two years, 1868-1870, at Phillips Academy, Andover. He entered Tufts College as a sophomore in 1870, and in September, 1871, was admitted to Dartmouth as a senior in the class of 1872, graduating the following June.

After graduating, he taught school for three years in Bath with success, meanwhile reading law with Judge Gilbert until admitted to the bar in 1876 at Bath, from which time he practiced his profession to the end of his life, although for many years he had been far from well.

He served four years as register of deeds of his county, and was postmaster of Bath for two full terms, first term beginning in 1882, the second in 1889. In politics he was always an active Republican. In college he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

He married, March 5, 1890, Miss Estella Kellett, of Bath, who died July 7, 1899.

Mr. Hogan was present in 1912 at the celebration of the fortieth year from graduation, and appeared then to be in fairly good health and spirits.

He was a man who took good rank among the able lawyers of Maine. He was stricken with a serious illness at the age of 41 years, from which he never fully regained his vitality, and which interfered very much with the scope of his career, which was very ambitious.

He was the dean of the attorneys in his county when he passed away.

Edward Doran Mason, son of Edward D. and Betsey (Ide) Mason, born at Passumpsic, Vt., December 26, 1846, died of pneumonia at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alton L. Miller, 25 Clinton Road, Brookline, Mass., February 6. 1926.

He is survived by his wife and daughter, two granddaughters, Ruth P. and Mary E. Miller, and a sister, Mrs. Susie Harvey, of St. Johnsbury, Vt.

He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, and, entering Dartmouth College in the fall of 1868, graduated with the highest honors in scholarship of his class, and accordingly at Commencement delivered the valedictory addresses. with the usual oration.

Of the fraternities, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

In order to supply himself after graduating with the means of educating himself for the ministry, he taught a year as assistant in Ayers' Latin School, Pittsburgh, Pa., succeeding Dr. Francis Brown '70; also was teacher of Latin in a high school in Cincinnati, 0., 1873-5, and in 1875-6 principal of the high school of Dover, N. H.

Following out his convictions of duty, that he ought to preach the gospel rather than permanently to apply his attainments as a student, and their inevitable increase in breadth, to teaching, in the fall of 1876 he entered Newton Theological Institution, Mass., graduated in 1880, and August 19, 1880, was ordained to the ministry at his old home, Passumpsic, Vt., in the Baptist church.

He then went to Shaw University in Raleigh, N. C., as teacher in the department of theology, where he taught one year. There he met Miss Josephine Willmarth of Utica, N. Y., one of the first missionaries under the Woman's Baptist Home Missionary Society to take up work in North Carolina among the colored people.

Upon his marriage to Miss Willmarth, September 14, 1881, he entered upon the pastorate of the Baptist church at West Pawlet, Vt., remaining there two years; next pastor at Montpelier, Vt., for five years; following that, pastor of several churches in Massachusetts, namely, Cottage City, First Baptist church, Georgetown, and Winter Hill church, Somerville.

In March, 1901, he and his wife reverted to their original impulse, and thereafter devoted both their lives for almost twenty-five years to missionary service among the Chinese in Boston, under the auspices of the American Sunday School Union, having its New England office at 8 Beacon St.

Besides his attention to teaching the Chinese in the Chinese Mission School of New England at 16 Oxford St. twice on Sundays, and on evenings through the week, he taught many advanced Chinese pupils, and they frequently came to his house for assistance in education.

Some of the converts resulting from this long service are in Christian churches in Boston and other places, and some have gone back to China to persuade their countrymen to accept the Christian faith.

As an expression of the esteem of the Chinese people among whom he and his wife labored, an abundance of wreaths and sprays of flowers were sent by them to the funeral, and a group of those people were present.

Edward D. Mason was too modest a man, and too deeply concerned in being a worker for others, to wish to guide his life by the high lights of fame or public glory. No such lures fascinated him. Both he and his wife consecrated their maturest years to lifting the life of the "lowly" to the plane of higher prospects and the Christian faith.

Personal humility was the beatitude which he exemplified, and, in associating twenty-five years with people the color of whose skin afforded no passport to the friendly welcome and society of white people, it never could cause a soul so firmly yoked as his was to what seemed in. the line of duty among the "lowly" to lament not having devoted those years to the attainment of more advanced scholarship, and, as a teacher, multiplying the roll of scholars.

His daughter, Mary Evangeline, married Alton L. Miller, Ph.D., December 23, 1911, a Harvard graduate of that year, an instructor in mathematics at that college and also at Michigan University for periods covering six years.

CLASS OF 1873

James Henry Willoughby was born in Boston, Mass., October 27, 1848. He was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Willoughby. His father was a carpenter, and the son was obliged to help in meeting the expense of his education. Even before entering college he taught school in Bedford. After his earlier years in the public schools, he completed his preparation for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H., under Earl W. Westgate '60. Entering college in the fall of 1869, he continued his course without interruption, and graduated with his class in 1873, taking the degree of A. B. He wrote years afterward: "I started for college with $1000, and borrowed $400 more". By working during the summer vacations and teaching district school during the winter, as was then the privilege at Dartmouth, he earned a goodly sum. During the winters of freshman and sophomore years he taught school in Akron, Ohio, and during junior and senior winters in Townsend, Mass. During college days, he was treasurer of the United Fraternity, one of the two public societies of that time in the classical department, and was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon freshman fraternity and of Alpha Delta Phi upper class fraternity. Now and then he played baseball, and played first base on the class nine during junior year.

In the fall after graduation he began his lifework as a teacher, continuing in that profession for many years. He was principal of the high school in Middleboro, Mass., from fall of 1873 until 1886. While there he interested himself in politics, and was chairman of the Republican town committee. He was then for two years principal of the high school at Dover, N. H. He then retired from the profession of teaching, and entered business, in which he continued the rest of his life. Living in Nashua, N. H., he was agent for the Western Insurance Company of Toronto, Ont., for a time, and then accepted a position with the New Hampshire Traction Company, with office in Haverhill, Mass. Becoming special agent for the plant department of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, he remained with that corporation until his death. The last part of his life he held the position of claim agent of the company, living at Fall River, Mass., then in Winchester, Mass., and for the remaining period in Brookline, Mass., where, at No. 3 Summit Ave., he died February 10, 1926. The funeral services were held February 13 at the house; and the burial was in the family lot in Forefathers Cemetery, Chelmsford Center, Mass.

He married, June 30, 1874, Miss Jennie L. Howard, daughter of Dr. Levi Howard i.D. M. S. 1846), for almost forty years physician in Chelmsford. Mrs. Willoughby died four years ago. Seven children were born to them, of whom five survive. Miss Maud Howard Willoughby, the first child born after graduation, received the silver cup presented by the class. Besides Miss Maud, there are living three daughters, Ruth H., who married Harry Elmore of Los Angeles, Cal., Alice M. (Mrs. Paul Blaisdell), and Florence L. (Mrs. James W. Johnston). Mr. Willoughby was a loyal Dartmouth man and an enthusiastic classmate, attending every class reunion since college days.

CLASS OF 1874

Edwin Corydon Crawford died January 28, 1926, of cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in Evanston, Ill.

He was born near Fostoria, Ohio, April 10, 1845, the son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Schrader) Crawford. His father early moved to a farm near Fort Wayne, Ind. Leaving the farm at twenty-one, Mr. Crawford by alternately teaching, working, and going to school was able to prepare himself for college at Fort Wayne High School. He continued to teach during his college course, where he held good rank as a scholar, was a speaker at Commencement, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was active in the affairs of his fraternity, Kappa Kappa Kappa.

Upon graduation he became principal of the high school at Waukegan, Ill., where he remained four years, teaching as well as being principal. In 1878 he resigned to enter upon the study of law in the office of Judge Francis E. Clarke of the class of 1851. Upon his admission to the bar in October, 1879, he began practice in Chicago, where he remained actively engaged in the practice of his profession to the end of his life. For many years he was professionally associated with the late William R, Burleigh of the class of 1872.

He was a member of the Presbyterian church and active in its work in Waukegan, and later in Chicago. In 1894 he removed to Evanston, where he had since resided. Here, too, he was prominent in the work of the Second Presbyterian church and a strong supporter of civic improvement.

June 8, 1882, he married Josephine M. Wheeler of Waukegan, Ill., who survives him. They had one son, Edwin C. Crawford of the class of 1913.

Mr. Crawford was a charter member of the Chicago Alumni Association, formed in 1876. He had been active in its affairs since that time, serving in various offices. His enthusiasm, a quality with which he was richly endowed, always was roused in any affair affecting the welfare or interests of Dartmouth College.

CLASS OF 1902

Henry Nichols SanBorn died of cerebral hemorrhage in the Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, Conn., February 22, 1926. He was stricken suddenly the evening before at the University Club, and did not recover consciousness.

He was born in Quincy, Mass., March S, 1879, the son of Eben P. and Cora Frances (Nichols) Sanborn. His college course was begun at Harvard, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

For the first year after graduation he did graduate work at Yale, where he took the Master's degree in 1903. For the next two years he was instructor in English at Dartmouth. After spending several months in Europe and studying for a year, 1906-7, in the graduate school at Harvard, he taught English at Phillips Andover Academy for four years. He then took the course of the New York State Library School, and entered library work. For one year he was in Chicago as librarian of the University Club, and was then for four years secretary of the Public Library Commission of Indiana. In 1918 he became librarian of the Bridgeport Public Library, holding that position until his death. He was unmarried, and leaves no relatives except a cousin.

The Bridgeport Post in its issue of February 23 and the Bridgeport Evening Star on the same date pay tribute to his memory, the latter paper publishing also an editorial. At the time of his death Henry Sanborn was superintending the construction of a new central library. The editorial concludes: "Nobody could have foretold that the builder would not live to see the completion of his edifice, but the work will go on, and will be a monument to him of Bridgeport's grateful memory."

Sanborn's body has been placed in the receiving vault of the cemetery at Hanover. It will be buried later in (he family lot where lie his mother and grandmother. In view of Sanborn's devotion to Dartmouth, this disposition of his body is altogether fitting.

CLASS OF 1905

Horatio M. Reed died January 5, 1926, at the Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York city. He was never married, and his only surviving relatives are two sisters, Mrs. Lillian R. Seip of New York city, and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Winsor of White Plains, N. Y. The following obituary was written by Stanley Besse, his classmate.

Tom had been instrumental in raising money for the building of the Fifth Avenue Hospital, which is the very latest and best hospital in New York city, but I hardly believe that he knew that he would spend so much of the last three years of his life there, and through it all he was uncomplaining, cheerful, and happy.

Tommy was only with us a short time in college, but he endeared himself to all who knew him there. He came to Hanover with Lester Studwell, with whom he had "prepped" at Stamford, Conn., and their room in Richardson Hall was always a friendly port of call.

After leaving college "Tommy" associated himself with an insurance brokerage office here in New York, and continued in this business until his death.

His name was Horatio Munroe Reed, but to us all he was either "Tommy" or "T. Willie" and as near as I can find out the "Tommy" was drawn from the fact of a family kinship with Thomas Brackett Reed, speaker of the House for many years and the original Czar in that position.

During the war "Tommy" served as captain with the Red Cross and was attached to the 27th Division, which was attached to the English army in Flanders and Belgium; he served overseas fully a year, and was up near the real fighting all the time, being quite severely gassed at one time.

"Tommy" always had two real hobbies, one Dartmouth College and the class of '05, the other his fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi.

We always could count on Tom for all Dartmouth functions of any kind; he was there personally and always contributed his bit financially. Commencement won't seem the same without him, as he was always there, and ever last year, although far from well, he and Dutch Rock '04 and I went up together, and coming back Tom said, "Tub, I don't think I will ever see another Commencement, but I am glad I came to this one, and I have had a darn good time."

For his fraternity he always had a great interest, and lived here in the Alpha Delta Phi Club in New York for a great many years. For many years he was a member of the board of governors of this club, and for the last few years served as treasurer. He was also a member of the executive council of the national organization of the fraternity, and was one of the most active members in the work of building the new house in Hanover, and he surely felt a great pride at its completion.

His funeral was as he would have wished it— a gathering of many of his friends, many Dartmouth men, many of his fraternity; of our class, Knibbs, Merriam, Studwell, and Besse; beautiful flowers, a plain service, and a quartet of men's voices, their selection being the finest I have ever heard.

Tom will be missed by many friends. He was happy, square, always thoughtful of others, enjoying the good things in life and always wanting others to enjoy with him; very lovable and very kind was "Tommy", a fine comrade and fine friend.

His thoughts of Dartmouth and his fraternity will carry on, as he has willed $5,000 to provide a scholarship at Dartmouth for needy members of his fraternity. You know "Clothes Pins" Richardson once gave to some men that degree of "L. D.", Lover of Dartmouth, and if ever anyone deserved this it was our own classmate H. M., to us always "T. Willie' or Tommy Reed.

CLASS OF 1912

Dana Weeman Jones, "Dinnie" Jones, beloved of 1912 and of many hundreds of Dartmouth men of other classes, died February IS, 1926, at the Charlesgate Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., following two operations. He had been ill only a few weeks, and was under the care of eminent surgeons. He was operated on for ulcers of the stomach, and other complications ensued which necessitated a second operation and proved fatal.

Dinnie was the son of Alfred Hathaway and Elizabeth (Waldron) Jones of 163 Maple St., Maiden, Mass., was born May 22, 18S9, and prepared for Dartmouth at Maiden High School. Hazen Jones 'lO is a brother. At Dartmouth he was one of the best known members of the class of 1912, where his cheery, good-natured, friendly, and affectionate disposition made him one of the best beloved men of his time. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet. He played in the Mandolin Club all four years. He was president of the Sophomore Debating Union, member of the Webster Club, and played on his class basket-ball team for his first two years, and on the varsity team for the last two years.

On graduation he went to New York city, where he was in the advertising business. In the war he served in the aviation corps from December 27, 1917 to August 1918, when he transferred to the Engineer Corps. After the war he came to Boston, and was for a time associated with the W. H. Schrafft and Sons Corporation, and then with the Commonwealth Press of Worcester, Mass., where he was intending to remove shortly. He was a member of the Boston Advertising Club, the Maiden College Club and the Shakespeare Club of Maiden, and was secretary of the Arlington Men's Community Club, and the Men's Club of the Arlington Universalist church.

Surviving him are his widow, Visa Blanche (Wheeler) Jones, whom he married in Peoria, Ill., June 14, 1919, and their little daughter Virginia, born February 6, 1921. They had made their home since Dinnie's marriage at 1 Newman Way, Arlington, Mass. The funeral was held from his mother's home, the Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham officiating. There was a very large attendance from various organizations with which Dinnie had been connected.

Dinnie was well known wherever Dartmouth men congregated, and Dartmouth functions will miss his clean-limbed figure, fresh complexion, his sunny, welcoming smile and cheerful greeting, his warm friendship, and his enthusiastic loyalty for all things Dartmouth. Because of the extent of their own loss, the hearts of his classmates go out the more to the widow and mother whose loss must be so much greater.

To the foregoing notice, written by one classmate, may be added the following details furnished by another: "On leaving college, Dinnie worked for a while in Lowell in the real estate business. In 1914 he became associated with his father's old concern, Walker Stetson Company, a wholesale dry goods house. After a few years there, he went to New York with Good Housekeeping, soliciting advertising. When war was declared, he entered the aviation ground school at Cornell, and after successfully passing was disqualified at the flying field in the South. He was then transferred to the Engineers stationed at Camp Humphreys, Va. It was while there that he met his future wife. On his discharge, he returned to Boston to work for Schrafft. After a year in the factory he decided to enter a field more to his liking, printing and advertising, with the Earnshaw Press as sales manager. After two years there he became connected with the Lincoln and Smith Press of Boston, shortly after organizing his own company. In January of this year, the Commonwealth Press of Worcester offered him an executive position, which he accepted. He had been on this job only three weeks when he was taken with the sickness from which he never recovered."

CLASS OF 1914

Josiah Perry Parsons died at his home in Perryville, Webster, Mass., February 18, 1926.

He was born in Franklin, N. H., May 13, 1891, but his home from childhood was in Webster, where he fitted for college at the local high school. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and in athletics was a candidate for track.

About the time of his graduation, his father, Edson S. Parsons, died, and Perry succeeded him as manager of the Josiah Perry Estate Woolen Mill. This position he was holding at the time of his death. He was treasurer of the 1914 Tenth Reunion.

He was not married, and his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Parsons, and four sisters survive him.

The funeral was held from his late home on Sunday, February 21. The class was represented by Chandler, Gregg, Barnes, and Remsen.

In the 1914 class news are further notes about him.