Perkins '64 Oldest Graduate

We regret to announce the death on October 11 of Samuel H. Jackman, secretary of the class of '60, and for several years the oldest living graduate of the college. Mr. Jackman was a native of Enfield, New Hampshire having been born July 20, 1831, but traveled to California among its early settlers. While crossing Utah on his adventurous overland journey in 1861 he was wounded in a skirmish with the Indians. He was a teacher by profession and maintained his interest in educational matters and particularly in Dartmouth College throughout his life. By his death the honor of becoming Dartmouth's oldest living graduate falls on James Warren Perkins '64.

Mr. Perkins is a native of Hampton, New Hampshire, having been born on October 27, 1835. His college course was interrupted by the Civil War in which he served three separate enlistments, first as a member of the Seventh Rhode Island Cavalry in which he saw three months' service in Virginia, then as Sergeant-Major of the Seventeenth New Hampshire Volunteers. After being mustered out of this unit he returned to college where he graduated and immediately after enlisted in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Volunteers where he served until mustered out at the end of 1864. Following the Civil War he was in government service for a time at Norfolk, Virginia, but soon left to become a teacher in the public school system and served as principal of the Washington Grammar School in Kansas City, Missouri. After a few years of teaching, he entered business as a real estate broker and continued in this work until his retirement. He is now a resident of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Although Mr. Perkins thus becomes the senior alumnus in point of years there are, nevertheless, several graduates still surviving who are members of earlier classes than '64. The '50's are still represented by Joseph W. Grosvenor '59 and Roger S. Greene '59. The academic class of 1860 lost its last surviving member in Mr. Jackman, but Dr. B. C. Brett graduated from the Medical School in 1860 and is also senior to Mr. Perkins by two years, having been born on August 23, 1833. The class of 1861 has three representatives in George A. Bruce, Major E. D. Redington and Galen B. Seaman, while the class of 1862 has four survivors: Frederick W. Eveleth, Benjamin McLeran, Joseph A. Milligan and Edward Tuck. Four members of the class of 1863 are still living, namely, Barton F. Blake, Zeeb Gilman, Maitland C. Lamprey and Charles W. Spalding. Aside from Mr. Perkins, the class of '64 has five survivors: Charles A. Bunker, William T. Gage, Cyrus Richardson, Bartlett H. Weston and Nelson Wilbur.

MR. JACKMAN