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 1861
George William Estabrook died at his home at 78 Monmouth St., Brookline, Mass., March 10, 1927.
He was born March 31, 1840, in Montgomery, Ala., the son of Joseph E. and Mary A. (Porter) Estabrook. His boyhood and young manhood were spent in Concord, N. H., from which city he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1857, and graduated with his class in 1861. In college he was a diligent student, and was recognized as having a fine and discriminating literary taste in his choice of the books he ought to read. While not a devotee of the conservative type of athletics popular in those days, he was never happier than when, in vacation, he could follow his avocation among the trout streams of New England.
He graduated with high honors, and in 1862 commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. Ira Perley in Concord, and, with the exception of nine months' service in the Union army during the Civil War, he continued in the study or practice of. that profession during his active life, only retiring about five years before his death. His specialty was the real estate branch, in which he was recognized as an authority.
He enlisted in the 45th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in the fall of 1862, serving till his muster out in July, 1863. He was admitted to practice in 1865, and resided in Boston or Brookline all his subsequent life. July 26, 1876, he was married to Laura S. Perkins, the widow of his classmate and roommate, Frank W. Perkins. His widow and three children survive him.
He was an early, if not a charter, member of the Boston Association of Dartmouth Alumni, and loyal to his college and his class.
His death leaves only three members of his class living, Col. George A. Bruce, of Brookline, Mass., Galen B. Seaman of Daytona, Fla., and the Secretary.
CLASS OF 1869
Dr. Albert Franklin Blaisdell died March 17, 1927, at the Corey Hill Hospital, Brookline, Mass.
He was born in South Hampton, N. H„ August 31, 1847, the son of John Harper and Lydia (Tuxbury) Blaisdell. His home when in college was in Haverhill, Mass. Dr. George W. Blaisdell '78 is a brother.
After graduation he taught for some years, being principal of the high schools of Provincetown and Chatham, Mass., and studied medicine at Harvard, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1879. From 1879 to 1893 he was in practice in Providence, R I. His home since 1893 has been in Winchester, Mass.
While in Providence he lectured much on educational and medical subjects, and began a long series of textbooks, upon which he has been engaged in later years and for which he surrendered his medical practice. His first book was devoted to English and American literature, and was published in 1879, but has been continuously in print ever since. From 1884 to 1893 he wrote a series of five physiologies to be used in various grades in school. This series was very successful, and has been several times revised. The original book of the series, "Our Bodies and How We Live," published in 1884, is still on sale in a revised edition. More recently he wrote numerous story books of American and English history for supplementary reading in the schools. Including revisions, some fifty distinct textbooks bear his name. He completed reading the proof of his last book only a few weeks before his final illness.
He took an active part in town affairs, serving on a committee for additional school accommodations in 1899 and on the school committee from 1901 to 1907, and on the appropriations committee in 1909 and 1910. His hobbies were reading, genealogy, rose raising, and gardening, and he had the largest private library in Winchester.
He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Manuscript Club of Boston, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, the First Congregational church of Winchester, and the Masonic order.
December 17, 1879, he was married to Mary Atwood Emery of Chatham, Mass., who died in 1919. They have one son, Dr. J. Harper Blaisdell '07, of Winchester.
The funeral services, which were held at Dr. Blaisdell's late residence, were conducted by his pastor, Rev. Howard J. Chidley '06, and were of a very simple character. Lewis Parkhurst '78 was one of the honorary pallbearers. The flags upon the common and the town buildings were at half-staff from the time of his death until the close of the funeral service.
CLASS OF 1871
Walter Matthew Parker died at his home in Manchester, N. H., March 25, 1927, of pneumonia.
He was born in Manchester, July 18, 1850, the son of Nathan and Charlotte M. (Riddle) Parker, and fitted for college in the public schools of Manchester and under private tutors. He took a high rank in scholarship, being a speaker at Junior Exhibition and Commencement and graduating with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He also was awarded the Grimes prize for general improvement. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After graduation he entered the Manchester National Bank as a clerk, and remained connected with the bank through life, having been its president since 1894. He had many other business affiliations, including the treasurership of the Manchester Savings Bank, service as director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Nashua Manufacturing Company, the Methuen (Mass.) Manufacturing Company, the Meade Morrison Company, the Public Service Company of New Hampshire, the Manchester Street Railway Company, the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad, the Suncook Valley Railroad, the Concord and Montreal Railroad, and the Contoocook Mills. He was vice-presient, director, and a member of the executive committee of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, president of the Manchester Safety Deposit and Trust Company, the Manchester Company, and the New Boston Railroad, and director and treasurer of the Manchester Gas Company. He was the largest individual taxpayer of Manchester.
Mr. Parker was a Mason of the 32d degree and a Shriner. He was a member of the Derry Field Club and the Manchester Country Club, and treasurer of the Manchester Rotary Club. In the city government he. was a member of the parks and playgrounds commission, and a trustee of the city library and the Currier Art Gallery fund. For years he was treasurer of the University of New Hampshire. His only political office was membership in the legislature of 1883.
July 29, 1896, he was married to Christina Holmes of Cape Breton, N. S., who survives him, with their daughter Charlotte, now Mrs, Norman F. Milne of Bethlehem, Pa.
John Herbert died March 27, 1927, of pneumonia, at his home in Winchester, Mass.
He was born in Wentworth, N. H., Novemer 2, 1849, the son of Samuel and L. Maria (Darling) Herbert. When he was twelve years old his parents removed to Boston, and he graduated from the English High School in 1867. In January, 1868, he entered the sophomore class of the Chandler Scientific Department, where he remained until the end of junior year. He then studied Latin and Greek for a year under a private tutor, and entered the academic class of '7l at the beginning of senior year, becoming a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He was an editor of The Dartmouth and captain of the college baseball nine, and also took a high rank in scholarship, graduating as a Phi Beta Kappa.
For three years after graduation he was principal of Ap.pleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H. Meanwhile he studied law with his father, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1875. Almost at once he decided to leave the law for the ministry, and studied at Andover Theological Seminary one year, 1875-6, in the class of 1878. In the fall of 1876 he became pastor of the Congregational church in Stoughton, Mass., and remained there two years. A throat trouble compelled his abandonment of the ministry, and he next spent a year in travel in Europe and the Near East. In 1880 .he began the practice of law in Boston, and followed it successfully for the rest of his life. His home was in Somerville until four years ago, when he removed to Winchester.
Mr. Herbert has devoted much time to public service, and has been deeply interested in social and political reform movements. Among the organizations of which he has been president are the Mystic Valley Club, the Boston Congregational Club, the Congregational Church Union of Somerville, the Somerville Municipal League, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Scientific Temperance Association. He was a director of the Merchants' Co-operative of Boston, and a member of the Boston, Massachusetts, and American Bar Associations. He was one of the founders of the Winter Hill Congregational Church of Somerville. For a time he was a visitor of Tufts College.
The following is from an editorial in the Somerville Journal: "To describe or even to list the activities of such a man as the late John Herbert is a difficult task. For forty years, prior to his recent removal to Winchester, he was one of the most versatile and useful citizens of Somerville, interested and active in all good causes, both locally and in the world at large. Born in the country and brought up amidst rural and city surroundings, a college athlete, law student, teacher, clergyman, and finally for the last half of his long and busy life a lawyer of distinction, his regular activities were notable, but the number of outside interests to which he gave of his time and attention was amazing."
August 1, 1872, he was married to Alice C. Guy, now deceased.. A second marriage, June 24, 1895, was to Blanche E. Roscoe, who survives him. Two sons also survive, Carl Guy of Waltham, Mass., and John (Dartmouth 1921) of West Somerville.
CLASS OF 1874
Thomas Wilson Montgomery died February 25, 1927, at the home of his sister, Miss Emma E. Montgomery, in Philadelphia, Pa. He went to Philadelphia in November to attend the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, and was taken ill while there. His death was due to a complication of ailments.
He was born in Newark, Ohio, June 19, 1849, the son of Charles Wesley and Ellinda (Claypoole) Montgomery. He had two brothers in the class of '75, Levi C. and the late Charles A. Montgomery. He obtained his college prepration at the preparatory department of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and at a school in Pittsburgh, Pa. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, leaving at the close of junior year. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
After leaving college he was engaged in farming for a time in Madison township, Ohio, but for the past twenty-five years had lived in Newark, where he was engaged in real estate transactions and also interested in farming. He was a member of the First Methodist church. In June, 1880, he was married to Mary Knosman of Newark, who died in June, 1923. There were no children. Surviving are two brothers and two sisters: Levi C. Montgomery of Madison township, Newark, Ohio, Felix S. Montgomery of Newark, Mrs. Charles O'Bannon of Newark, and Miss Emma E. Montgomery of Philadelphia. The burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark.
CLASS OF 1913
Howard Seely Teall died suddenly March 11, 1927, in a hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio. The cause of death was given as cardiac dilation complicated by acute indigestion. He was unaware of the heart weakness, had never had a serious illness before, and was apparently in the best of health when he left his home in Rochester, N. Y., two or three days before his death.
He was born in Rochester, February 13, 1889, his parents being Seely Bartlett and Mary Bruce (Maynard) Teall. Maynard Teall '10 is a brother. He prepared for college at Sodus (N. Y.) High School, Colgate Academy, Hamlton, N. Y., and Phillips Andover Academy. He took his freshman year at Colgate University, and then transferred to Dartmouth. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
On leaving college he began business life with the Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago, manufacturers of railroad car wheels, but a year later joined his father under the firm name of S. B. Teall and Sons Company, Inc., dry goods merchants at Sodus, N. Y. He and his father sold that business in 1920, since which time he had been sales manager of the W. N. Clark Company, canners, of Rochester. It was his custom to make two or three trips a year through the considerable territory in which his company distributed its products, and it was while making such a trip that his death occurred.
He was a member of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, the Dartmouth Club of Rochester, and the Masonic order. He was widely known among people in his own and related industries.
In September, 1915, he was married to Mary, daughter of Judge Lockwood R. and Jennie R. (West) Doty of Geneseo, N. Y., who survives him with with their two children, Mary Jane, aged ten, and George Canfield, aged seven. His mother and brother also survive him. His father died some years ago.
CLASS OF 1923
Philip Edwin Kimball died of typhoid fever in the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Syracuse, N. Y., March 7, 1927.
He was born in Bradford, Mass., July 4, 1901, the son of Herbert W. and Alice J. (Benson) Kimball. His college preparation was obtained at Haverhill High School and Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
Shortly after graduation he entered the office of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers, in Boston, and was with them for a year and a half. In January, 1925, he became instructor of English in Syracuse University. During the summer of 1926 and into the fall he worked for an advertising company in Syracuse, but was urged to come back to college work and decided to do so, planning to make this the work of his life. He was the first editor of "Green Leaf," the freshman publication of Syracuse, and was popular with the student body.
At the funeral service, which was held at his parents' home in Bradford, among the bearers were his classmates Charles H. Jones, Lyman C. Harding, Brooks Palmer, and Samuel P. Home.
