Class of 1871

Hon. Jonathan Smith, better known to the initiated as "Jock," after faithfully serving his day and generation as a lawyer in active practice, and for forty-two years as judge of the Second District Court in Eastern Worcester, is now enjoying well earned leisure in his pleasant home at Clinton, Mass.

Relaxation from the strain of professional work he has sought and found not in travel or golf but in historical studies and research. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New Hampshire Historical Society, the Peterborough Historical Society, and the Clinton Historical Society, of which he was president for twenty years. To these societies he has contributed many papers which are preserved in their records."

He has written and published these five books: "History of Old Trinity Lodge at Lancaster, Mass., from 1778 to 1833"Peterborough, N. H., in the American Revolution;" "The Home of the Smith Family;" "A New Hampshire Farm and its Owner;" and "The Reunion of the Smith Family." He also refers casually to a "stack of manuscripts a foot deep," orations, addresses, and papers prepared for various occasions and organizations. Certainly "the little busy bee" "has nothing on Jock."

Of our twenty survivors, six, Conner, Davis, Flanders, Ham, Johnson, and Pratt, live on the Pacific Coast, a delectable land conducive to longevity and activity. From Eagle Rock, Cal., Conner writes that he has enough work on hand and in sight to keep him busy fifty years and that he confidently expects to finish it, which at 77 is a fairly courageous outlook.

Six weeks ago Flanders reported that he was doing about nine hours of manual labor daily, but was planning as a "resting spell" a two months' trip, purposing to sail from San Francisco December 3 for Havana via Panama Canal, thence to Florida, the only state he has never been in, and home by the Southern Pacific, stopping at points of interest here and there.

Secretary,