MAJOR REDINGTON WRITES OF EARLY GRADUATES

A letter from Major E. D. Redington, secretary of the class of '61, gives interesting information about former Dartmouth graduates in his native town, Chelsea, Vermont, and indicates how the memory of our older graduates still touches the early days of the College. Major Redington writes: "I was much interested in the last Dartmouth Magazine which gives a list of the few graduates of Dartmouth College still living who were born prior to 1840. I knew all of them. In my native town of Chelsea, Vermont, which I left when I" was ten years old for St. Johnsbury, there were three lawyers living who were alumni of Dartmouth, viz: Thomas Jones, 1799, John W. Smith, 1817, Jason Steele, 1812. I have seen Luther Jewett, 1795, Moses Chase, 1797 (the latter the great-grandfather of my sons), both Jewett and Chase born in 1772. Roswell Shurtleff, born in 1773, Aaron Loveland, born in 1780, and I have seen and in many cases known alumni from those who graduated in 1817 to the present time."