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 1873

Rev. Pitt Dillingham, who died recently, was. the son of Rev. William Addison Pitt and Caroline Price (Townsend) Dillingham. He was born October 16, 1852, in Norridgewock, Me. He joined the class of 1873 at the beginning of the second term of freshman year, taking the classical course. His brother, the late Thomas M. Dillingham, was also a member of the class, taking the scientific course, but leaving early to enter upon the study of medicine. Pitt remained through the four years and graduated with the class. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He was an excellent singer, and was a member of the Handel Society, which led the singing at morning chapel and at the Sunday services in the church. An excellent ball player, he was captain of the class nine, playing second base, and having the same position oh the second college nine and later on the first college nine. During senior year he was one of the librarians of the library of the Social Friends, which in after years was merged with the college library. Pitt was a cordial, friendly soul, with all the old-time courtly manner, the genial friend of every classmate. In Irs college days he was rugged and strong. Though not tall, he was of compact build, and was one of the few who could lift an immense iron dumbbell, then in the college gymnasium, and with one hand bring it to the shoulder and thrust it straight up the full length of the arm, repeating the performance with the left arm. In later life he became very slight of build, but ever retained the same gracious, kindly manner.

After graduation he and Moulton, his roommate, entered Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1876. During his course there, his eyes gave him much trouble, so that for a time he learned his lessons from having them read to him. Notwithstanding this handicap, he pluckily preservered. He was ordained to the ministry October 4, 1876, and the same council of Unitarian churches installed him on that day pastor of the Harvard church, Charlestown, Mass. During his pastorate there he was delegate of the American Unitarian Association to the conference of Unitarian churches held in Liverpool, England, in April, 1882. From Charlestown he became pastor of a Unitarian church in Buffalo, N. Y., but, his health failing, he was obliged to resign his position, and for three years he was forced to abstain from any work. Later he was pastor of Unitarian churches, first at Uxbridge, Mass., and then at Brockton, Mass. He had become especially interested in the social problem from the point of view of the church. A part of the time he made his home at 178 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, and there often in after years he lived. In November, 1894, he left his work in the North to become principal of Calhoun School and Settlement, in Calhoun, Ala. To this work he was devoted heart and soul, pleading its cause in the pulpits of the North, and writing numerous articles for Northern magazines and papers. Among these contributions may be mentioned "Land Tenure Among the Negroes" in the YaleReview, "Settlement Work in the Cotton Belt" in The Outlook, and "Black Belt Settlement Work" in the Southern Workman'. Many other articles appeared.

After fifteen years at Calhoun, he resigned his position there June 1, 1909. He had spent a great deal of time in raising money for the school. But his most lasting memorial is the scores of happy families of Negroes, who owe their independence to the Calhoun Land Company, largely due to Mr. Dillingham's efforts. After leaving Calhoun he engaged in much social work in Boston, in connection with the Associated Charities, and especially with the Robert Gould Shaw Settlement House. His interest in the Negro was much more than official. A friend relates this incident: They were walking together across Boston Common, when suddenly Dillingham excused himself for a minute and walked back. Surprised, his friend watched him as he returned, and saw him accost two Negroes a little distance away. On his return, being asked whether he knew them, he answered, "No, but I saw at a glance that they were from the South, and, as strangers, must be very lonely. Therefore I wanted to say a few friendly words to cheer them." In very many ways, his was a most helpful ministry to the end. On January 8, 1925, he wrote: "I am leaving for California a week from today," and spoke of having suffered severe illness. While visiting in Santa Barbara he died suddenly, April 2, 1926, from a paralytic stroke.

He was a member of the Twentieth Century Club, and of various other social, benevolent, and ecclesiastical bodies.

He was married, December 13, 1876, to Miss Allina M. Livermore, who died March 2, 1881. On June IS, 1888, he married Miss Florence Bell, who survives him. Two children are living, William Pitt and Pauline Bell. The daughter is a graduate of Radcliffe College, and the son of Harvard University.

The funeral services were held May 11 in the Arlington St., Unitarian church, Boston. Rev. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham officiated, speaking words of eulogy of Mr. Dillingham's character and work. The class of '73 sent an ex- quisite spray of lavender and white sweet peas, which were arranged in the baptismal font. C. F. Bradley and S. W. Adriance were present.

CLASS OF 1879

Rev. David Kilburn died at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, April 7, 1926. The cause of his death was heart weakness, induced by pneumonia following influenza.

One of five children of Merrill and Lovisa (Perkins) . Kilburn, he was born in Hartford, Vt., September 22, 1850. He was the oldest graduate member of the class, being nearly twenty-five when he entered college. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

He preached through his college course, and in the spring of 1879, before graduation, he was appointed by the Vermont Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church as pastor at Warren, where he remained for one year. From 1880 to 1883 he was pastor at Chelsea. West Hill, in 1883-84 at Stowe, and in 1884—86 at Topsham. Leaving the ministry for a time, he was engaged in book canvassing for the next four years. He then changed his denominational connection, and studied at Andover Theological Seminary for two years, 1890-92, being meanwhile pastor of the Congregational church at Hanover, Mass., from July, 1890, to February, 1891, and then at North Reading, Mass., to 1896. In 1896-97 he was pastor at Pigeon Cove, Mass., and then for a year at North Londonderry, N. H. From 1898 to 1900 he was pastor of. the Church of the People in Pittsburgh, Pa. After that date he was never again in the pastorate, but was much engaged in colportage and other forms of religious work, preaching as opportunity offered. A large part of his time up to his very latest years was devoted to book canvassing. His home was in Pittsburgh until 1906, then in Akron and Alliance, Ohio, to 1911, and in Canton, Ohio, to 1913. He then was in various places in New England, and had been in Hanover since last June.

Mr. Kilburn never married. His only near relative is a sister living in New Brunswick. He was intensely devoted to Dartmouth College, and always attended commencement when possible. His burial in the beautiful Hanover cemetery seems very fitting. The body remained in the tomb until May 7, when his classmate, Rev. Clifford H. Smith, officiated at a committal service, the class secretary also being present.

CLASS OF 1880

Francis Morse Hayward died of pneumonia after a short illness at his home in Kansas City, Mo., March 23, 1926.

The son of John White and Esther (Crafts) Hayward, he was born in Walpole, N. H., February 28, 1856. He began his college preparation in the high school of his native town and completed it at Kimball Union Academy. He maintained a high rank for scholarship in col- lege, winning at the close of junior year the second Lockwood prize for English composition and the first Kimball prize for an original Latin ode. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

The first two years after graduation he studied at Harvard Law School, and in 1882 began the practice of law in Topeka, Kan. April 1, 1887, he removed to Kansas City, where he practiced his profession until his decease. For sixteen years prior to 1922 he served as assistant city counselor, and in 1922 was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for . justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. He was a member of the Kansas City Bar Association and of the Sons of the American Revolution.

June 30, 1884, he was married to Kate Spencer, daughter of Ebenezer F. and Emily (Hastings) Davis of Galesburg, 111., who survives him, with three children: Charles Davis, assistant cashier of the First. National Bank of Kansas City; Margaret; and George Morse, secretary of the Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company.

Mr. Hayward was for almost thirty years a vestryman of St. George's Episcopal church. Rev. Benjamin M. Washburn '07 officiated at the funeral service.

CLASS OF 1882

Rev. Lyman Demerritt Cook died of pneumonia at his home in Albany, N. Y., March 26, 1926.

He was born in Sandwich, N. H., August 7, 1857, his parents being John and Elizabeth L. Cook. They removed to Nashua for better educational advantages for the children, and he prepared for college at the high school of that city. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

For three years following graduation he studied law in Boston in the office of Samuel L. Powers '74. He was admitted to the bar in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and in July, 1885, opened an office in Nashua. In 1891 he left the law for the ministry, joined the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was appointed pastor at Mayfield, N. Y. He was successively pastor of this church and of those at Warrensburg, Hudson Falls, Cambridge, Troy (Trinity church), Greenwich, and Corinth. In 1912 he was appointed to Grace Church, Albany, but in December, 1920, he was obliged to give up his work on account of failing health. He spent four years in Florida, and then made his permanent home in Albany.

In March, 1891, Mr. Cook was married to Effie L., daughter of Riley D. and Elmina J. (Sargent) Cook of Nashua, who survives him, with his mother and two sisters. There have been no children. The burial was in Nashua.

CLASS OF 1904

Dr. Herbert Nathan Thomas Nichols died of blood poisoning at Calumet, Mich., April 5, 1926.

He was born in Barnet, Vt., January 20, 1879, his parents being Rev. Nathan Round and Frances Harriet (Leach) Nichols. His home when in college was in Norwich, Vt., where his father was pastor of the Congregational church. Andrew L. Nichols '08 is a brother.

After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, being for the first year at Dartmouth and then for a year at the University of Michigan. In 1906-08 he was assistant in histology at the University of Michigan, and assistant in anatomy in 1908-10. From 1910 to 1913 he was assistant in anatomy at Tulane University, New Orleans. Meanwhile he had been continuing his medical studies, and obtained his medical degree at Tulane in 1913.

From 1913 to 1916 he was superintendent of the government Eskimo hospital at Kotzebue, Alaska. He then entered upon private practice at Rives Junction, Mich., where he remained three years, removing to Cement City, Mich., where he also remained three years. From 1922 to 1925 he was on the medical staff of the Mohawk Mining Company, at Mohawk, Mich., and in 1925 went to Calumet to join the medical staff of the Calumet-Hecla mines at the Ahmeek-Kearsarge branch.

July 5, 1913, he was married to Louise C. McConnel of Jackson, Mich., who survives him, with their two sons, Herbert Burdick, now ten years old, and Nathan Lanckford, eight. His father, brother, and two sisters also survive him.

Dr. Nichols was a man of fine professional attainments, high character, and strong personality.

CLASS OF 1906

John Knox Marshall died at his home in White Plains, N. Y., November 7, 1925. of pneumonia, after an illness of but a few days. He was born in Brookline, Mass., October 22, 1884, and prepared for college in his native town. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon. After graduation he went to New York city, first in the wholesale grain business, then as a bond salesman, and remained there for the rest of his life. For several years past he had been one of the New York representatives of the American Bond and Mortgage Company, and was very successful in selling their bonds. October 24, 1914, he was married to Pauline Hayes of New York, who survives him. His classmate, Elon G. Pratt, writes of him as follows:

"At the smoker at the Harvard Club on the afternoon of the Dartmouth-Harvard football game last fall, Jack and I sat together. This was only a few weeks before his passing. It was the first real long talk that I had had with him for a long while. He recounted the number of things that he had in life to be happy over: a wonderful home life; a wife who was a pal; abundant health; an income from his bond customers that was sufficient to meet his demands a life insurance, although he mentioned at the time he wished it were more. I don't know when I talked to a classmate who seemed to be so happy about life in general. Some years ago he had had some stomach ailment, but this had all cleared up, and he was unusually well in body and mind. We talked of the old days and of the coming reunion, and had I picked out a man at the smoker who was due for a long life, it would have been poor Jack. Our days together in Hanover were a happy memory to him. His character and friendship, his manhood and love for Dartmouth are a memory to me."

CLASS OF 1907

Edward Swan Dana died in a hospital in Newark, N. J., on April 8, 1926. He was born in Brookline, Mass., November 22, 1883, and entered college in the. fall of 1903. He played in the Mandolin Club and was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

Dana left college at the close of the freshman year, and very little has been known about him since then. His address since 1906 has been Cienfuegos, Cuba.

CLASS OF 1915

William Francis Magruder died very suddenly Monday morning, March 22, 1926, in Washington, D. C.

Entering with the class in 1911, Bill Magruder made a very favorable record during his four years at Hanover. Following his graduation in 1915 he completed the medical course at Howard University in 1917, and served his interneship at Freedman's Hospital. He has been a practising physician since 1918, and was appointed an assistant professor of physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology at Howard University in 1922.

He married Miss Ray Attains of Washington, D. C., in June, 1922, who survives him, as does his son, William Francis Magruder, Jr., born in November, 1923.

A quiet, unassuming student; a devoted husband and father; an efficient physician and teacher. He was a loyal member of the Catholic church.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

CLASS OF 1881

Dr. Charles Edward Jenkins died at his home in Lynn, Mass., April 22, 1926. He was taken ill the first of last October, and toward the close of that month was operated on for hernia at the Massachusetts General Hospital, returning to his. home in January. The final cause of his death was heart disease.

The son of Thomas and Nancy (Smith) Jenkins, he was born in Chatham, N. H„ July 25 1855, and received his academic education at Pittsfield Academy.

He studied medicine with Dr. John Wheeler '50 of Barnstead, N. H., and attended one course of lectures at the University of Vermont and one at Dartmouth. After his graduation in November, 1880, he served as an interne for two years in Bellevue Hospital, New York. In 1882 he began practice in Lynn, and remained there through life. He was one of the founders of Union Hospital, and one of the leading surgeons on its staff.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Lynn Fraternity of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1891 and 1892 he was a member of the city council of Lynn.

January 4, 1885, Dr. Jenkins was married to Mary F„ daughter of Rev. Isaiah Mills and Ellen Elizabeth Beddell of Lynn, who died November 18, 1880. Their daughter, Mrs. Alice Lillian Putney of Lynn, survives her parents.