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.)

ALUMNI NOTES

THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK

With vacation came the greatest throng that has so far stormed the doors of the Club. Byputting up cots in sundry corners, 35 men, including the permanent roomers, the normal number of non-residents, and the visiting students, were taken care of with apparent satisfaction. Naturally the dining room felt the increased room business, and all in all the goose hung very high. With that week as a basis, the month's business promises to be the biggest yet, though March broke all records up to that time.

The Club's finances seem to be on a sound footing already, though the amount of business through the summer is a matter of some speculation. It is generally felt however, that the Club will become a haven for those summer bachelors who previously have been marooned while their families were away.

During the spring a new membership campaign, under the direction of Ray De Voe, will attempt, with every promise of success, to raise the total membership well above the thousand mark. The work will be as thoroughly arid completely done as possible, both to secure additional resident and non-resident members. The reaction of the average out-of-town Dartmouth man seeing the Club for the first time seems to be one of some wonder that the Club is as complete in its equipment and functions as it is. Not that he expects to see a couple of rooms tucked away in the corner of a hotel, but he does not apparently realize that the Club has its own building, that the rooms are as many or as complete as they are, that the restaurant not only serves exceptionally good food, but does it at very moderate prices, that he may secure theatre tickets, reserve railroad or steamship transportation, flowers, and half a dozen other services, or finally that here alone is the place where he will meet the very people whom he wishes to see. The other things he could find at a hotel to be sure, but meeting the crowd is something which is a privilege which the Club alone confers. "Ich " Crane of Brattleboro, after running into the man he roomed with for three years and hadn't seen since '98 allowed that one meeting was worth his $10.

Class dinners continue to bring the crowd out in good numbers, proving that only such a meeting place was necessary in order to crystallize class spirit in New York.

The entertainment committee has staged two bridge parties, both of which were attended by good-sized crowds. Allan Perkins and Walter Kennedy took away the first prizes at the March tournament, while Perkins and John Hinman squeezed out of a triple tie to win in the second. With the fall season, monthly jousts will be held. An outdoor party the early part of June will probably wind up the program for the spring, and the football returns will open things up again in the fall. Plans are under way for a more diversified entertainment program during the winter, with well known speakers being brought to the Club, musicals and theatricals to interest all members.

It is probably needless to point out to the alumni that the Club will be open during the summer, that garage facilities are within easy reach, and that New York isn't really such a bad place to visit during the summer, especially when you know where you can locate your friends.

The Club, like the College, has suffered in the loss of three good members, John Merrow, Irving French, and Judge Hough.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

Since it was impossible for anyone to come out from College this year, the Southern California Association was compelled to hold its annual meeting "on its own," on Friday evening, April 22, at the University Club, in Los Angeles, and even without any stellar attraction an attendance of 54 was recorded. Those present included men of various classes from '74 down to '28.

Aiding C. G. Milham '06, retiring president of the Association, in the management of the dinner was a committee composed of Ed Seward '19, Walter B. Gibson '11, E. W. Hiestand '10, Roland Foss '19, and Ray Bennett '13. Ed Martin '09 led in the singing, with T. T. Redington '07 officiating at the piano, in his usual professional manner. The old songs were sung with a gusto that added much to the enjoyment of the occasion.

An address by the retiring president noted the loyalty of the members of the Association during the past year, and commented especially on the loyalty that brought so many together for the annual dinner even though they could have no direct word from the old College. It was, he said, another demonstration of the vitality of that something that is called the Dartmouth spirit. The retiring president also gave a talk on a trip he made recently into Death Valley. In this he pictured as well as words could do so the glory of the frowning snow-covered summits of the high Sierras, viewed from the the eastern side in the Owens River Valley, and the beauty of that strange and mysterious section that has been, in his judgment, misnamed Death Valley. He told his audience that although the Valley was not to be entered into lightly, and without due regard for its many forbidding aspects, at the same time he found it a veritable paradise of gorgeous color, alive with a million hues, and fascinating in the extreme. In particular, he noted that although there were terrifying wastes in the Valley—enormous mounds of shifting sand dunes, great spaces of ghostlike salt and borax beds, large areas where cruel rocks tore the shoes of the hiker—nevertheless there were immediately at hand some of the fairest and most delicate flowers to be found in all nature's wonderland—folooms of a fairy grace, and dozens of varieties.

A talk by Eck Hiestand about the Alumni Fund resulted in a unanimous decision by those present that the Southern California Association would, if possible, go over one hundred per cent in support of the fund this year. The entire list of members of the Association was canvassed at the session, and committees were appointed to interview every member, to the end that the one hundred percent goal may be reached.

When it came time for the annual election of officers, the retiring president requested permission to depart from the usual custom of personally appointing a nominating committee, saying that he believed a more representative organization might be made possible if all the members of the Association felt that they had an actual part in the election. He pointed out that in the last few years membership in the Southern California Association has grown from a mere handful to more than 150, and that the rapid growth of Southern California presages an organization of size within the next few years. James J. Norton 'OB had been thinking along somewhat similar lines, said the retiring president, and had outlined a memo, calling for a new organization that it was hoped would mean leadership in the Association's work by the younger men. Following general discussion, a nominating committee was elected from the floor, consisting of the following: J. J. Norton '08, E. W. Hiestand '10, V. R. Salinger '00, R. M. Cotner '20, and L. I. Rothschild '24. The nominating committee took much time in preparing a slate, and they finally submitted the following: president, David Bradley '03; first vice-president, Roland Foss 'l9; second vice-president, George Adams '09; third vice-president, Ray Bennett '13; secretarytreasurer, R. E. Seward '19; assistant secretaries, Ashton Castle '24, L. I. Rothschild '24; executive committee, C. G. Milham '06, Walter B. Gibson '11, J. J. Norton '08.

The nominees were elected unanimously. A vote of thanks to the retiring president for his services during the year was moved by Roland Foss, seconded by C. H. Brock '88, and unanimously carried. Among those present in addition to those already listed were the following: E. A. Abbott '99, A. H. Ayres '06, Gerald Barnes '11, Dr. H. G. Brainerd '74, Lawrence Brooks '23, J. B. Comstock 'IS, Webster B. Evans '08, J. R. Fones '01, Z. B. Forbush '20 R. E. Gresley '26, L. O. Gove '25, L. A. Hatch '98, E. D. Hoag '23, L. G. Hyde 'l4, Dr. A. L. Hill '04, Dr. H. D. Howard 'O7, R. M. Kilpatrick '19, Dr. George P. Laton 'O6, E. R. Legg '19, John Lyman '28, G. H. Luten '25, E. D. Martin '09, J. W. McCleery '25, R. B. Merrill 'OB, Howard M. Miles '15, R. W. Morrill '24, F. H. Nettleton '84, Atkins Nickerson '10, W. L. Nutten, Jr., '22, J. Leland Richardson '08, R. W. Redfield 'IS, H. M. Sanborn '02, G. W. Shaw '87, R. S. Shackford '11, H. H. Streight '23, H. J. Trefethen '26, John J. Troy '11, H. F. Whitcomb '11, W. G. Wilson '10, C. H. Woods '76. C. G. MILHAM.

NEW YORK TUCK SCHOOL ALUMNI DINNER

On April 12th, the New York section of the Tuck School Alumni Association held its annual dinner at the Dartmouth Club. The facilities of the club added greatly to the enjoyment of the social hour before the dinner.

This organization is unusual in that it has no officers and no formal membership. Each year a committee of three arranges for the dinner. The function this year was capably handled by A. L. Smith '13, O. F. Taylor '11, and O. H. Hicks '22. A. L. Smith, chairman of the committee, acted as toastmaster. The committee was fortunate in securing as the main speaker Mr. R. J. Comyns, assistant director of sales, Alexander Hamilton Institute. He delivered a spell-binding talk on the general topic : "Salesmen I Have Met."

Dean Gray, who has never missed a meeting of the New York group, touched on new developments in Hanover and presented a little personal philosophy on the business man's life, which came straight home to everyone whether old-timers or recent graduates. Dr. Person, former director of the School and now managing director of the Taylor Society, gave some interesting side lights on his recent conferences with the British Industrial Commission sent to this country. Professor Hastings Lyon, who can always be counted on for a little of the lighter touch, presented his own "Ask Me Another" in the ballad style for which he is now famous. There were forty-four men present:

Guests—Dean William R. Gray, Mr. R. J. Comyns, Prof. H. S. Person, Mr. Hastings Lyon.

Members—Orton H. Hicks, Allan M. Cate, Lowell F. Stoner, William T. Woodhouse, Charles J. Zimmerman, William L. Barnard, Alfred T, Smith, Irving E. Blaine, W. D. Howe, Tracy Higgins, John C. Felli, C. Lawrence Healy, Eric C. Malmquist, Dean A. Thompson, Harold S. Fitz, John A. Goss, Thurmond Brown, Howard W. Megee, A. H. Fitzgerald, L. H. Smith, Serge B. Jurenev, J. E. O'Gara, A. D. MacMillan, Seth A. Emerson, Earl C Daum, Clarence Meleney, L. T. Kugelman, H. R. Hesse, R. W. Morse, A. J. Conley, J. H. Athanassiades, J. R. Merriam, G. H. Chamberlaine, W. C. Glober, T. H. Griffith, G. A. Haas, M. F Johnson, S. D. Kilmarx, G. W. Rand, G. P. Wallick.

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1872

Dr. George Thomas Tuttle died on April 6th at his home in Milton, Mass., after a short illness from pneumonia. He was born in Northwood, N. H., March 18, 1850. His parents were Thomas Tuttle, M.D., a member of the Dartmouth Medical School in 1840 and a grad- uate of the Harvard Medical School in 1842, and Olive Thurber (Garland) Tuttle. He was prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H., and at Northwood Seminary and entered the freshman class of Dartmouth College in the fall of 1868. Despite his extreme modesty, his genial nature, winsome manner and combined simplicity and strength of character early gave him a position of influence among his classmates, and as the years passed he commanded, as seldom an undergraduate does, the respect and confidence of both his classmates and teachers. Taking high rank in scholarship in freshman year and with apparent ease, he maintained it. throughout his ccurse, despite long absences during three successive winters while earning his way by teaching district schools, and upon graduation was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa and appointed to deliver the salutatory address in Latin, an honor then awarded to the scholar ranking second in his class for the entire course. He was an active member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity which then was a distinctively literary and debating society as well as a social club, and of the class orchestra, and though not a member of any athletic team, an amateur player, to the limit of his strength, of baseball. He read widely, especially in English literature and occasionally contributed to The Dartmouth, then a monthly.

During the two years following his graduation 1872-74, he served with success as principal of Pinkerton Academy at Derry, and then finding himself possessed of sufficient means to allow it, he began the study of his profession, a choice doubtless due in part to his father's influence and example, that of medicine. He began its study in 1874 at the Harvard Medical School where he followed the regular course of three years as then established, but his graduation was delayed till 1878 when he had completed a supplemental service as house officer for eighteen months in the Boston City Hospital. Shortly after graduation from the Medical School he was recalled to this hospital to serve as assistant superintendent and admitting physician where he remained until he resigned to take a position as second assistant on the medical staff of the McLean Hospital, April 15, 1879. A year later he was made first assistant and held this position for twenty-four years until, upon the resignation of the medical superintendent of the hospital, the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Edward Cowles, (D.C. 1859), Dr. Tuttle was promoted to be his successor and assumed that office, January 1, 1904. The superior qualifications of Dr. Tuttle for the headship of the hospital, his sympathetic .nature, gentle and refined manner, quick and penetrating mind, his thorough professional training, long experience in the hospital and visits to similar institutions in Europe, all united to produce their natural results during the next fifteen years. During these years, the period of his administration, he introduced numerous improvements in the methods of treating the insane, the medical staff was increased, extensive additions were made to the grounds and plant of the hospital as well as to its resources and income with corresponding increase in the number of its patients. Aided by his able and faithful assistants who worked in harmony with him and were inspired by his example, Dr. Tuttle not only maintained the prestige previously won for the hospital by his eminent predecessors in office, Drs. Rufus Wyman, Luther V. Bell and Edward Cowles, but also added to its great usefulness and wide reputation. His high standing as an expert in mental diseases led the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at different times to seek his services, and in 1908 the governor appointed him chairman of a commission to revise and codify the laws of the state relating to insane persons. During the Great War he also served as chairman of an Auxiliary Defense Committee. Although his official duties in the hospital made severe drafts upon a constitution never strong, Dr. Tuttle occasionally gave expert advice and testimony in medico-legal cases, some of which were of considerable importance. His moral fiber and the true value of his testimony as an expert is revealed in his statement in answer to a question by one of his classmates about his connection with the Mary Baker Eddy case: "I had nothing to do with that case except to return a retaining fee which I have never accepted in any case and to decline to serve because I could not have a free hand in her examination."

In 1915, when approaching his 65th birthday, the time prescribed by the by-laws of the hospital for the retirement of its medical superintendent, Dr. Tuttle was informed by the trustees that they could not then spare his services and he was persuaded, despite his failing health, to hold his office till the end of the emergency created by the Great War. Upon resigning as medical superintendent April 15, 1919, after forty years spent in the service of the hospital, the trustees placed upon their records an expression of their high appreciation of him as a man, his devotion through a whole generation to the hospital and its patients, and the ability and skill which had marked his administration. They also granted him a liberal pension for life and this soon was fallowed by an unusual honor, his election to be a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital which board also controlled the McLean Hospital.

After his retirement from professional activity Dr. Tuttle passed three years in Boston, and Augusta, Georgia, where he underwent a severe surgical operation, and the remainder of his life in Milton, Massachusetts. More and more limited by physical weakness, he found large solace in wide reading, converse with friends and in his favorite recreations, music and art.

Two days after his death a simple funeral service was held at the Mt. Auburn Chapel, and his ashes were interred in that ancient burying ground.

Always devout in spirit, Dr. Tuttle while medical superintendent of McLean Hospital habitually attended the religious service in the Episcopal form provided for its patients in the chapel, and at all times showed by his walk and conversation that he was a member of God's vast but unorganized and unfamed church whose creed finds expression in daily service to one's fellow men.

Dr. Tuttle married on May 14, 1914, Miss Celeste Allbright of Dorchester, Mass., whose character, varied accomplishments and artistic taste united to make her a true- helpmeet during the remainder of his laborious life at the hos- pital and his watchful ministrant after his retirement. Her residence remains at 110 Highland Street, Milton, Massachusetts.

Lists of the writings of Dr. Tuttle, most of which were published in medical periodicals from time to time, and also of the professional and learned societies to which he belonged were published in the class reports of '72 for 1914 and 1922-3.

His loyalty to the college which was constant and strong was shown not only by his joyful attendance at class and alumni reunions and athletic contests whenever possible between Dartmouth and Harvard, but also by his regular and liberal contributions to the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund, and his active support of all plans of the College for the advancement of its standards and to aid in training men who would prove capable and worthy to be leaders of a great democracy. The limits set for this sketch do not allow an adequate portrayal of the noble spirit, and the fine qualities of mind and character which marked the whole career of Dr. Tuttle and so largely contributed to make him not only a modest and gentle but also a skilful and eminent psychiatrist. The brief record of his life here given shows that his name is entitled to a high place in the memorials of the alumni. His classmates who unite in paying this tribute to his memory cannot forbear to add that they prized his friendship, and admired, honored and loved him. J. F. C.

The death of Henry Euclid Lewis, which occurred in Fresno, Cal.. June 14, 1926, from apoplexy, has only recently been reported.

He was born in Claremont, N. H., February 1, 1848, the son of George Gilbert and Adeline (Labaree) Lewis. Four brothers were also graduates of Dartmouth, Eugene Lewis '64, Francis W. Lewis '66, Arthur G. Lewis '69, and Homer P. Lewis '74. Of these only the last is now living. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

For two years after graduation he taught in a preparatory school at Morristown, N. J., and then was for two years principal of the high school at Springfield, Vt. He then studied law with his brother, Eugene Lewis, in Moline, Ill., and became his partner. In 1881 he removed to Lincoln, Neb., and established himself in the law and in loan business, entering in 1885 into a partnership with his brother Francis W. Lewis Which continued to 1889. In 1886 he had become vice-president and one of three managing directors of the Union Savings Bank of Lincoln at its organization. In 1889 he became president of the Lincoln Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Company. In 1892 he sold a controlling interest in the latter bank, and on the organization of the Merchants Trust Company became its secretary, treasurer, and western manager. In 1894 he was appointed receiver of the First National and Buffalo National Banks of Kearney, Neb., and spent most of his time there for the next four years. The panic of 1893 had proved disastrous to the Merchants Trust Company, as to many enterprises in this section. Later he became interested in a land and irrigation project in Central Nebraska. From 1892 to 1895 he was a member of the school board of Lincoln.

In 1908 he came East and made his home in Stoneham, Mass., practically retiring from active business, except as he was engaged somewhat in real estate with an office in Stone- ham. In 1913 he removed to Cambridge, Mass., and in 1923 to Fresno, Cal., where he made his home with a married daughter.

September 3. 1879, he was married to Lillie. daughter of Daniel and Sarah Gould of Davenport, lowa, who survives him. Of their six children four are now living, one son and three daughters.

CLASS OF 1875

John Micajah Burleigh died February 11, 1927, at his home in South Berwick, Me., after a short illness.

The son of John Holmes and Matilda (Buffum) Burleigh, he was born in Somersworth, N. H„ September 24, 1854. When he was very young his parents removed to South Berwick, and he prepared for college at Berwick Academy. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1871 with his brother, Charles 'H. Burleigh, but remained only a short time. He afterwards attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated there in 1874, after which he entered Bowdoin College in the class of 1878. After two years he transferred to Williams, where he graduated in 1878.

He studied law for a time at Harvard, and practiced two years in Lafayette, Ind. He was then engaged in cattle raising in Montana for four years. In 1885 he returned to South Berwick, and in 1889 became connected with the Burleigh Blanket Mills, an enterprise founded by his father, and remained in an executive capacity with this concern until his retirement about a year ago. He was a prominent and well known Mason, and was at the time of his death engaged in writing a history of St. John's Lodge.

January 14, 1880, he was married to Lucy A., daughter of Jonathan G. Dickerson of Belfast, Me., who [survives him, with two daughters and a son.

CLASS OF 1879

Charles Merrill Hough, senior judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and for twenty-one years a member of the federal bench, died of angina pectoris at his residence, No. 152 East 35th St., New York city, in the early morning of Friday, April 22, 1927.

The Judge was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 18, 1858, the son of Alfred Lacey and Mary (Merrill) Hough. His father's line were Quakers, descended from Thomas Hough, who came from Macclesfield, England, to Pennsylvania, about 1685, and later located and flourished for several generations in central NewJersey. Alfred Hough was perhaps the first non-conformist. He enlisted as a private soldier at the outbreak of the Civil War, rose to the rank of colonel and, at its close, accepted a commission in the regular army, continuing a service which he had found very attractive and finally retiring as a brigadier general. Mary Merrill's line went back to Nathaniel Merrill, who came to Salem, Mass., in 1632 and later settled in Newburyport, founding a prolific, stalwart, and entecprising family, spreading, before Revolutionary days, to many parts of New England. Physically, the Judge had more of the characteristics of the Merrills than of the Houghs.

When he was three years old the war broke out, and then for four long years his father was continuously in the field, much of the time engaged in the hardest kind of service, through which he passed with great credit. Then, after 1865, came service on the frontier, and young Charles was brought up at one post after another, with poor and irregular school advantages, associating largely with the enlisted men, and learning, as did Kipling later, that single men in barracks have few of the qualities of plaster saints, till, at the age of twelve, he arrived at Camp Douglas not far from Salt Lake City, where he remained four years, and for the first time had the advantages of competent instruction. There, every day, with other youngsters, he rode nine miles in an army wagon to attend "St. Mark's," a '"mission" established by the Episcopal church in the midst of Mormonism. Then he came East, attended for a year Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H„ and, in 1875, entered Dartmouth with the class of '79.

During freshman year he roomed with his Meriden classmate William N. Cohen, at what was then the outskirts of the village known as "Stump Lane," hi what became No. 35 Main St. The three succeeding years he had for a roommate Henry B. Closson, first at "Lyme Hotel" on College St. opposite the Medical School, then in the southwest corner room on the top floor of Dartmouth, and, finally, senior year, at the top of the stairs on the third floor of Reed.

His fraternities were Social Friends, Delta Kappa, and Alpha Delta Phi.

Large, full of vigor, walking with something of a swagger as if he owned the town, and with not all the wildness of the West removed by the year at Meriden, he seemed to his classmates, from the farms and prim New England villages, very much a man of the world, and attracted attention at once. Furthermore, he had managed, somehow or other, to have read many books, and had some knowledge and definite opinions on many subjects outside the ordinary ken. Early in the course he became a campus oracle. He had a particularly keen appreciation of false propor- tions and inconsistencies in the relations of men and things, which lies at the base of most humor, and this, with readiness of speech made his conversation most entertaining. His popularity and influence grew continually. Fortyfive years after graduation his classmate Harry B. Thayer was asked what, in undergraduate days, outside of attention to the curriculum, had been his most pleasant occupation. His reply was, "sitting on the campus fence hearing Mega expound." "Mega," be it understood, was Hough.

He had a trained mind even then, one that was the servant of his will. He could think straight, was willing to follow through, and did not need to learn things more than once. The result was that he readily attained a high scholarship rank in his class—but did not seem to care for the very . top. While he would not be described as a hard or a brilliant student —perhaps not even a particularly diligent one —he was exceedingly practical, and did not allow anything of advantage that the curriculum offered to get away from him—nor anything outside the curriculum either. Nothing human was uninteresting to him. His family being so far away, he had nowhere to go during the short vacations, and so remained about ten months a year in Hanover, using his spare time browsing about the library, an omnivorous reader of books. From the start ahead of the rest of the class, he thus continuously more and more outstripped them in the acquisition of general information. He took prizes in Latin verse, in English essay, and in declamation.

Though interested in all kinds of athletics then existing, owing to myopia he took part only in football, but maintained, all the rest of his life, that he played that, in the style then prevailing, every pleasant day for the whole four years. This must have been nearly true. No man of his day can fail to recall seeing his berserker rushes suddenly halted by the necessity, and often the difficulty, of recovering his glasses. When the new game came in, he prided himself that he put into play the first oval leather-covered ball ever seen on the campus.

After the custom of the day, he twice helped out his exchequer by teaching school, junior winter in Norwich, Vt., and senior winter in the village of Hanover.

Never having attended an ungraded district school, in fact never having ever seen one, unhampered by convention and precedent, he proceeded according to the light of nature and probably had at Norwich something in the educational line different from anything that ever existed anywhere else. He liked it, the children were equally pleased, and their progress, was phenomenal.

Garfield once remarked, "A pine bench with Mark Hopkins at one end of it and me at the other is a good enough college for me." Substituting Hough for "Hopkins" the sentiment would have had unanimous approval.

Many years after he thus wrote of his teaching experience:

"In Norwich I had twenty-four pupils and twenty-seven different recitations, and was younger than several of my pupils. I boarded and lodged with the village carpenter, young, with a new wife and newer baby. This was a great experience. I really had pie for breakfast, held the baby of evenings while Mrs. Sargeant cleared and cleaned after supper. They were simple, kindly people, and my only guests when a year later I graduated. The Hanover school was a much more elaborate affair, organized into four grades under the mastership of my classmate 'Gus' Wheatley, who had taught school before coming to college. I had the grade next the top, and to this day greatly enjoy seeing some of my pupils, especially the present village undertaker."

In due course he graduated in '79 with Phi Beta Kappa rank, was a Commencement speaker and Class Day orator.

Still having no definite plan of life,.debarred by his poor eyesight from the career of a soldier which he most cared for, he accepted, as did most of his class, the only kind of employment immediately available, and, for a year was submaster of a private school for boys at Holderness, N. H.

Then an opportunity to enter a law office in Philadelphia opened, and, without much enthusiasm, he accepted it arid his life work began.

In the spring of '83 he was admitted to the bar, and became a clerk in the office of Biddle and Ward, which soon after opened a branch office in New York, and, in '94, he was admitted to the partnership.

His special branch of the work was "admiralty," and, till 1900, he was engaged in the Admiralty Court almost every court day. The business grew, the firm represented many important clients, among them the Pennsylvania Railroad, and finally it became necessary for him to confine himself largely to the office, directing the work of others. He applied himself too diligently and his health suffered.

In 1901 a vacancy occurred in the office of the United States District Court, and the Admiralty bar asked to be allowed to support him for the appointment. He refused—but later, in June, 1906, when another vacancy occurred, being still more urgently requested, he allowed his name to be sent forward, and received an appointment by President Roosevelt.

A factional fight was in progress in the Republican party at the time, and opposition developed to every one who was proposed for the vacant place. However, Attorney General Moody, who made an investigation at the behest of President Roosevelt, reported in favor of Hough's appointment, writing to the President in part:—

"You told me that you wished to select for this position the very best man available and urged me to take the utmost pains to ascertain and report to you the name of that man, giving consideration only to the character and capaci- ty of the candidate, the interest of the people and the bar. I was informed that it was the belief that Hough would be a remarkably good appointment and in a marked degree was the best candidate."

Some of the leading members of the bar, recalling the President's own exploit in Cuba, had addressed to him a "round robin," an inter- esting historical document which sometime, doubtless, will be published.

The estimate of Attorney General Moody was borne out in 1916, when President Wilson a Democrat, notwithstanding that Judge Hough was a Republican, appointed him to fill a vacancy in the Circuit Court of Appeals created by the resignation of the late Judge E. Henry Lecombe. Several times during his career on the bench Judge Hough was seriously considered for appointment to the United States Supreme Court.

Judge Hough was president of the Maritime Law Association, and never gave up his interest in the admiralty branch of jurisprudence. In 1922 he and Norman V. Beecher, admiralty counsel for the United States Shipping Board, were the representatives of this country at the International Conference on Maritime Law held in Brussels. Both recommended changes in the law affecting shipping in all parts of the world.

Many cases of great importance came before him, and not a few of his decisions became landmarks in jurisprudence. For example, he tried the first serious indictment in New York under the anti-trust law against the American Tobacco Company and some of its subsidiaries; also Charles W. Morse for violation of the national banking laws; and the corporation publishing the Nczu York World for libel on President Roosevelt, William N. Cromwell, and others in respect of the revolution that created Panama.

His essay on jurisprudence in the case of "The Satarnus" was a great contribution to admiralty law, and his decisions in Queen Ins.Co. v. Globe Co. and in Miller v. Insurance Co. attracted great attention and guided the whole subject of war risk insurance during the World War.

In patents, in the case of Leeds v. Victor, he wrote the leading opinion on the subject of contibutory infringement. In general jurisdiction, his opinion in Associated Press v. International News had a wide general effect, and in constitutional law one of the most important cases he ever had was that of MarcusBrown Holding Co., relating to the housing bills of the state of New York.

The character of his professional work was thus summed up in interviews published in the New York Times, the morning after his death. Judge Charles E. Hughes said:

"The death of Judge Hough is a most serious loss to the community. His career illustrates in a striking way the self-sacrificing devotion of service on the bench, a sacrifice and a service too little appreciated by our people.

"Judge Hough had a rare judicial ability. His clarity of thought and vigor of expression, combined with ability to go with amazing directness to the heart of each problem and a compelling sense of justice, made him admired and respected by all who witnessed his extraordinary competency in administration. Among all the able judges who have served in this federal district, he stood in the foremost rank."

United States District Attorney Charles H Tuttle added:

"Judge Hough was one of the country's greatest judges. His judicial opinions covering a score of years not only have become a distinguished part of our American jurisprudence, but have profoundly affected the development of the commercial and social life of our people. He was a great judicial statesman. With his passing the bench loses one of its ablest minds and the nation one of its leaders."

Others by the score have been quoted in even stronger terms. A leading member of the bar thus expresses what many others would endorse:

"I have known every district judge in the Second Circuit and every circuit judge in that Circuit for the past thirty-three years. I have also known every Supreme Court judge in the First and Second Departments of the state of New York for like time. I have appeared before and tried and argued cases before all of them, and there has not been one of them who had the courage of Charles M. Hough. He was every inch a man, and had a wonderful capacity for understanding his fellow man."

It has been mentioned that a physical infirmity led him to choose the law. In like manner a physical infirmity led him to leave active practice and consent to the pecuniary sacrifice which going on the bench entailed. He left the active bar because his physicians told him he would die if he continued under its strain and stress.

For the entire twenty-one years that he was on the bench he constantly suffered from duodenal trouble, which from time to time caused hemorrhages that brought him to the very gates of death. Twice at Rochester* Minn., he underwent major surgical operations. A sword of Damocles hung over his head all the time and then, on top of this, for the last two years, came a heart trouble causing acute suffering, and finally resulting in his death. Everything about his life was restricted—and hampered. Much of the time only a man of iron will could have worked at all. Yet he worked prodigiously, bravely, calmly—only a few of his intimates knowing of his troubles. They could see him refined, ennobled, and spiritually exalted by his suffering and self-denial.

From 1892 to 1899 Judge Hough served in the Naval Militia of New York, Fourth Division, part of the "time 'as boatswain's mate. He was a member of the militia crew of the monitor Nahant in the Spanish-American War. For two years he was a member of a local school board in New York city, and he also served as chairman of the Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes.

In 1908 he received from Dartmouth the degree of LL.D. He had also been honored by other institutions. Williams gave him an LL.D. in 1922, and Yale in 1923; the University of Pennsylvania a J.U. D. in 1924. He had given regular courses of lectures' on legal subjects at the University of Pennsylvania, at Cornell, and at Harvard, and occasional addresses elsewhere. He also had written extensively for publications put forth by Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern.

In 1925, under the auspices of a committee of the bar, he published "Reports of Cases in the Colonial Vice-Admiralty and the State Admiralty from 1715 to 1788."

November 21, 1903, at St. Stephen's church. New York city, he married Miss Ethel Powers, who survives him, with their two children Helen Anastasia, born January 8, 1905, in New York city, Bryn Mawr '25, and John Newbold, born November 10, 1906, in New York city, Dartmouth '27, who has recently been awarded the William Jewett Tucker Fellowship.

He had a great capacity for making and retaining friends. His classmates loved him, and many of them were proud to acknowledge the great influence of his strong and sterling character over their lives.

In turn Judge Hough loved his class and his college—loved both continuously from the beginning to the end. He spent his summers in Hanover. He knew all about the college affairs, and was seldom too busy to talk of and with Dartmouth men. He seemed to remember everything that happened in his undergraduate days. In all the time he lived in New York he never missed an alumni dinner till the one in January, 1927, for which he had purchased two tickets just before acute disease finally struck him down.

For seven weeks of his life he lay helpless in bed and was not allowed to see any visitors. Then when his physician told him that his case was hopeless and the end could not be long delayed, he made a final request that his local classmates be allowed to come in that he might bid them goodbye. The last day of his life he talked of some of them.

In the ordinary course of events the death of a public man, so widely known, of so high a position, so generally respected and beloved, would have been followed by a great public funeral. His was not, owing to his special and earnest request—which was that, in the conventional sense of the word, there be no funeral at all.

This was no idea suddenly conceived. He had a natural dislike for pomp and circumstance, for form and ceremony and particularly for post-mortem display. It may have been, partly, an inheritance from that long line of Quaker ancestors.

Saturday, April 23, about 5 p.m., some twenty people, all but three of whom were relatives, took final leave of him in the little Hough bury- ing ground near Mount Holly, N. J.

It was reached by a ride of perhaps twenty miles by auto, from Trenton. It was not in a village or even a hamlet—just a wooded hillock rising in the midst of a wide stretch of level farming land—showing the first green of spring—most of which was owned by his forbears. Until four or five years ago he himself was the proprietor of that in the immediate vicinity.

On the hillside lay a walled field of perhaps half an acre, thickly studded with little white markers. There was not a single monumenthardly a headstone more than eighteen inches high. Nine generations of Houghs were represented.

At the gate was a little stone building, the Friends' meeting house, built in 1775, with the bare walls and unpainted wooden benches remaning, apparently, just as at the beginning. There was no human adornment anywhere; not a tree or shrub or flower set out by the hand of man; yet Nature had made it all wonderfully beautiful.

His grave was at the foot of a great tree the largest one. The place was flooded by the declining sun in a cloudless sky. There was not a sound except a few birds calling. Everything suggested "peace, perfect peace."

A young clergyman read the Episcopal commitment service. "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." In conclusion, those who could control their voices recited, in unison, the Lord's prayer.

CLASS OF 1881

William Henry Angleton died at the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord, December 3, 1926, of bronchial pneumonia. He had been in ill health for many years, which had finally come to affect his mind. In the absence of relatives who might act, the town authorities of Marlow arranged for him to have a guardian, who was to be formally appointed on what proved to be the day of his death. He was taken to the hospital the latter part of November, his mind being then much demented, his condition apparently being due to cerebral arteriosclerosis.

Angleton was born in Marlow, N. H., January 14, 1857, the son of Patrick Angleton. He was of pure Irish extraction, and as far as he knew the last of his race. A newspaper statement at the time of his death read: "Complete obliteration not only of a family but of its very name is believed to have followed the death of William H. Angleton. He spent years of search both in America and Ireland in a fruitless effort to find another person bearing his name, even though unrelated by blood."

He fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, and served with ability and success, as an educator for about twenty years. After a brief period of legal study in Fitchburg he became principal of the high school at Seymour, Conn., being also superintendent of public schools. After his service there, 1882- 1890, he was superintendent of schools in Ansonia, tonn., 1890-1896; and then headmaster of the Hyde Park, Mass., High School 1896-1900. He seems after that to have done some private teaching in Boston, but to have held no other public position. For over twenty years his health was very precarious, and his life at times despaired of. These later years were all spent in the Angleton homestead in Marlow, until his removal to Concord a few days before his death.

Tributes of affection from intimate friends speak of the large number of pupils who hold his memory in high esteem and to whom he imparted a desire for better education and bet- ter living. Elgin A. Jones, Dartmouth '74 and a life-long friend, had charge of funeral arrangements in keeping with the Angleton of thirty years ago; arranging- for a fine spray of chrysanthemums, and a galax leaf wreath as from the class of '81. While a sunny day, eleven inches .of snow, and a thermometer well down towards zero bring to our mind the old days in New Hampshire. At last, to Angleton, has come rest.

CLASS OF 1883

Rev. John Barstow died at his home in Wethersfield, Conn., April 25, 1927, of angina pectoris, after a short illness.

The son of Rev. Ezekiel Hale (Dartmouth 1839) and Eunice Goodenough (Clark) Barstow, he was born at Newton Center, Mass., February 16, 1857, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

The first year after graduation he studied at Hartford Theological Seminary, and then traveled abroad for a year. In 1885-6 he was again at Hartford, and in 1886-7 at Andover Seminary, where he graduated in 1887.

For the rest of his life he was actively engaged in the work of the Congregational ministry, holding pastorates as follows: Groton, Mass., 1887-9: Glastonbury, Conn., 1889-94; Mystic church, Medford, Mass., 1894-1900; Ontario, Cal., 1900-1 (going to the Coast for the benefit of his health, which for a time was seriously affected) ; Manchester, Vt., 1902-6; Lee, Mass., 1906-13; Wethersfield Avenue church, Hartford, Conn., 1913-14, until its merger with the South church; Norfolk, Conn., 1914-20; Windsor Aivenue church, Hartford, Conn., for the rest of his life, having begun to supply the pulpit in September, 1920, and being called to the pastorate in January, 1921.

July 5, 1887, Mr. Barstow was married to Mary Willes Wolcott of Wethersfield, Conn., who survives him, with a son, Rev. Robbins Wolcott Barstow (Dartmouth 1913) of Madi- son, Wis., and three daughters, Mrs. Arthur E. Patterson of New Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Charles H. Buck of Rocky Hill, Conn., and Mrs. Edward W. Y. Dunn of Needham, Mass.

From the words of Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, pastor of the Center church in Hart- ford, spoken at the funeral service, the fol- lowing is taken: "He worthily bore the name John. He was the beloved disciple of our fel- lowship in the Christian ministry. From the. days of his student life at Dartmouth and in Hartford, through the full years of his active ministry in Massachusetts and Connecticut, he was known to the hearts of his brethren as the 'beloved John' in his work among them and with them. In youth and early manhood he led among his fellows by the devotion of his noble spirit and the diligence of his loyalty to the tasks of our profession. In these later years of his return to the fellowship of the ministers of Connecticut and Hartford his pres- ence has been an inspiration, his counsel has always been wise in guidance, his prayers have not failed to lift us to a realization of the divine love, for we have felt the love eloquent and tender in the clasp of his hand, in the tone of his voice, in the light of his eyes. As a preacher you who have been fortunate enough and wise enough to seek and to find the ripened fruits of his long experience in speaking the message of the gospel do gladly bear witness with all those whom he has served during the years of his ministry to the fidelity with which he searched the scriptures, the humility and grace with which he brought his beaten oil into the sanctuary, the tenderness and strength with which he ministered the word of life. His mind was quick to discern the newer and larger meanings of our common faith. His heart was loyal to its central truths, and his life was the eloquent witness to every word that he spoke ... It- was given him to serve in different churches through his long life in the ministry. He never went to a parish to which he did not carry a blessing. He never left a parish in which there does not abide to this day the sweet fragrance of his holy life and the high inspirations of his noble ideals. As a friend and counselor, both in personal relationships and in the organized work of the gospel through the churches, his words and deeds, true and loyal, revealed the rare union of homely common sense and a high spiritual idealism ... As a citizen he was a loyal patriot in every fiber of his heart. He loved his parish, his town or his city, his state and his country; and his love of his own country burned with a purer flame because he had been taught and inspired by the gospel to love mankind in all its manifold nations and races

. . . He spoke out bravely against injustice and iniquity in business and in government, against oppression and corruption in society, against lewdness and intemperance in the lives of youth and men and women, and the stern words he spoke were the more stern because those who heard them knew that he who spoke spoke them always with a great love in his heart."

CLASS OF 1886

Elmer Fay Howard died suddenly of heart disease at the railroad station in Greenfield, Mass., April 16, 1927, while he was awaiting the arrival of his son, Dr. Philip Howard of Boston.

The son of John and Ellen Howard, he was born in Hartford, Vt., June 5, 1861. He took in college the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

After graduation he was principal successively of the high schools of Wallingford and Brandon, Vt., and then superintendent of schools at Charlemont, Mass. In 1901 he became superintendent at Northfield, Mass., and held that position until 1921. For the next three years he was teacher of mathematics in Mount Hermon School, East Northfield, Mass. In 1924 he purchased the Northfield Press, and continued in charge of this paper until his death.

He was a Mason, and had been master of the lodge in Northfield and for two years district deputy of the 14th District. He was a member of the Congregational church, and superintendent of its Sunday school until his resignation three weeks before his death on account of failing health. He had also held other offices in the church.

August 21, 1889, he was married to Annie E. Newton of Wallingford, Vt., who survives him, with five of their six children: Ellen J. (Mrs. Frank Fleming), of Wilton, Conn.; Elmer Newton, of Bartlett, N. H.; Dr. Philip, of Boston; Elizabeth A., of Asheville, N. C.; John A., of Northfield. There are also three grandchildren. Granville K. Howard of Bartlett, N. H., is a brother and classmate.

CLASS OF 1889

Everett Baldwin Chase died suddenly of heart disease at Lyndonville, Vt., on New Year's Day, 1927.

He was born at Lyndon, December 26, 1865, the son of Charles Monroe (Dartmouth 1853) and Elizabeth (Wells) , Chase. He graduated from Lyndon Academy and from St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, and entered Dartmouth in September, 1885, but left college at the end of freshman year, and for about six years was in a bank in Silver City, N. M. On returning to Vermont, he entered the Merchants National Bank, St. Johnsbury, and was there twelve years. In 1909, because of trouble with his eyes, he gave up work in the bank and moved to Barnet, Vt., where he remained until last September. For nearly all the time he lived there he served the town as clerk and treasurer. He also conducted a coal business for several years, and later purchased an old established insurance business, which he retained up to last summer.

For the past few years his health had been somewhat impaired, and, that he might have time for rest and recuperation, he left Barnet and moved back to his native town and purchased a home in Lyndonville. He planned to push the sales of a depositors' cash register which he had gotten out several years ago, but his health did not permit this, although he was not incapacitated.

"E. B.," as we liked to call him, was a genial man, one who made friends easily and retained them ever after. He had always a keen sense of humor. In one of his class letters he referred to the anomalous condition of serving 3-ear after year as a town official in a strongly Republican community although he himself was a life-long Democrat.

November 24, 1904, at Lyndon, he was married to Sarah Stevens Bigelow, who survives him. There were no children.

CLASS OF 1897

John William Merrow died at his home, 820 Riverside Drive, New York city, April 11, 1927, of cancer of the liver, after an illness of six weeks.

He was born in New Hampton, N. H., August 15, 1874, the son of Moses Hanson and Ella Rebecca Adams (Proctor) Merrow, and prepared for college at New Hampton Institution. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

After graduation he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and continued his studies in England, France, and Italy. He became associated with the Boston firm of architects, Wheelwright and Haven. While with them he assisted in the construction of the out-patient building of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Cambridge Bridge across the Charles. In 1909 he became connected with the Proctor Theatrical Enterprises of New York, and since that time has supervised the building of numerous theatres in and out of the city, in addition to keepingall the houses owned by the Proctor circuit up to modern requirements and standards.

Mr. Merrow was a member of the New York Athletic Club, the Dartmouth and Technology Clubs of New York, and the Union Lodge of Masons of Bristol, N. H. He was an active member of the North Presbyterian church, and for many years had taught a Sunday school class of boys. A newspaper notice says : "Those who knew him well were acquainted with the sincere and deeply religious nature of this gentle character."

He was never married, and is survived by his mother and one brother.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

CLASS OF 1865

Dr. Edward Joseph Donnell died from the infirmities of age at his home in Hollywood, Cal., April 6, 1927.

He was born in Lyndeboro, N. H., May 11, 1835, his parents being James and Nancy A. (Stafford) O'Donnell. (In later years the subject of this sketch preferred to write his name "Donnell.") At the age of nineteen he began teaching school in Mason, N. H., and continued to teach for several years, being also superintendent of schools for the town. He then began the study of medicine, and attended a course of lectures at Bowdoin in 1861. His professional study was interrupted by the Civil War, and he enlisted October 10, 1862, in Company C, 16th New Hampshire Volunteer Infan- try. November 4 he was appointed second lieutenant. The regiment served in Louisiana, and Lieutenant O'Donnell was one of those who volunteered as a "forlorn hope" to storm Port Hudson. He was mustered out with the regiment August 20, 1863, and resumed his medical studies. After obtaining his degree in the fall of 1864, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 13th Maryland Infantry, and served in that capacity to the close of the war.

He practiced eight years in Athol and Townsend, Mass., and then three years in Richmond, N. H. In 1876 he removed to Kansas, settling first in Glasco, and then moving to Stockton, where he practiced for sixteen years, later going to Auburn, a suburb of Topeka. In 1910 he retired from practice and removed to Los Angeles, Cal. In 1884 he was elected to the Kansas Senate for a term of four years.

November 20, 1864, he was married to Ellen F., daughter of Charles and Lucy A. (Flagg) Prescott of Mason, N. H., who died November 7, 1922. Two sons and a daughter survive their parents.