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

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1870

Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot died February 27, 1928, of apoplexy, at the home of his daughter in Tuckahoe, N. Y., after an illness of several months.

The son of Dr. John A. and Alice (Daly) Talbot, he was born in Fayette, Mo., October 9, 1848. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

For the first three years after graduation he studied at General Theological Seminary, New York city, and graduated there in 1873. In July of that year be became rector of St. James' church at Macon, Mo. In 1875 he joined to this work the management of St. James' Military Academy, which he founded at Macon. In this double task he displayed such ability as a church executive that in 1887 he was elected missionary bishop of Wyoming and Idaho, and was consecrated to this office at Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, May 27, 1887. Within six years after his coming to this frontier region he had supervised the building of thirty-eight churches, and before he surrendered the field to his successor he had built St. Matthew's Cathedral at Laramie, Wyo., a school for boys at Laramie and one for girls at Boise, Idaho, the Shoshone Indian school, and a hospital at Wallace, Idaho.

In November, 1897, he was elected as head of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and assumed his new duties February 2, 1898, with his home at South Bethlehem, Pa. In 1905 this large diocese was divided into two, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, and he retained the diocese of Bethlehem, whose bishop "he remained until his decease. From 1923 to 1925 he was presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in America. He was widely known as a sane, broad-minded, and eloquent preacher and as an administrator of unusual gifts.

He was the author of four books: "My People of the Plains;" "A Bishop Among His Flock"Tim, an Autobiography of a Dog and "A Bishop's Message." In 1887 he received the degree of D. D. from both Dartmouth and General Theological Seminary, and in 1924 the same degree from Oxford University. The University of Missouri conferred upon him the degree of LL. D.

November 5, 1873, he was married to Dora Harvey of Roanoke, Mo. Their only child, .Annie, is Mrs. Francis Donaldson of Tuckahoe, N. Y.

The New York Times of February 29 contained the following tribute:

"Bishop Talbot will be remembered as a great missionary bishop at a time when the Rocky Mountain region was looked upon almost as a foreign field. For eleven years he made his circuit by horseback and stage, as did Peter Cartwright in the Middle West at an earlier period. But he did not make his appeal by yielding anything of his own dignity or descending to vulgarity. He was the bishop even to Billy Bartlett, the confessed disciple of Robert Ingersoll, who yet helped in conducting the service; to the men of the Idaho mining camp who begged him to stay and be their preacher; and to the drunken companion who, after rounding up the men from the saloon to hear him preach, gave encouragement to him as he touched upon the sins of gambling and cardplaying, to which the auditor himself was not addicted, by shouting in language that had no blasphemy in it, 'Give 'em hell, bishop.'

"The story of those experiences in 'My People of the Plains' is one that preserves not only a picture of the rough externals of the life of those pioneer days in the Far. Northwest, but also a revelation of human souls when not hidden by conventions. It should be kept in our libraries. His later book, 'A Bishop Among His Flock,' though it discusses the social and ecclesiastical problems of a later period in the language of more highly cultured life, suggests that one wastes sympathy on a missionary of such adventurous spirit as Bishop Talbot's, who shares in the experiences of the mining camp or the ranch. For all his vestments and symbols of office, he was brother to the men of the frontier. His monument should be out where his people of the plains lived, and he should find rest where, as was said of another bishop, 'he never rested.' "

CLASS OF 1877

William Jacob Davis died at his home in Glens Falls, N. Y., February 26, 1928, after an illness of a year's duration. He was born in Royalton, Vt, May 9, 1855, his parents being James and Charlotte (Stanley) Davis, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the State Normal School, Randolph Center, Vt. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

He left college on account of ill health in January of sophomore year, and remained on the home farm until 1882. Then followed a few years' work as draftsman and machinist. In June, 1887, he went to Glens Falls as local manager for the Union Telephone Company. A reorganization as the Hudson River Telephone Company occurred after some years, and he became district plant superintendent. In 1909 this company, which had become the Central New York Telephone Company, by another reorganization became a part of the New York Telephone Company, and Mr. Davis became right of way agent, which position he held until last October, when he retired because of failing health.

October 17, 1877, he was married to Maria Pearson, daughter of David and Clarissa (Tarbell) Cowdery of Royalton, Vt., who survives him. They have two daughters, Katherine, who is a teacher, and Margaret, who is Mrs. Guy W. Chase of Charlotte, N. C.

A local paper pays a fine tribute to Mr. Davis' "sympathetic understanding of human limitations and how to deal with them; his humorously diplomatic manipulation of troublesome affairs; his plain, blunt honesty; his lack of all pretension; his chivalrous thoughtfulness and kindness in the intimate and also more general circles of his acquaintanceship."

Mr. Davis was an Odd Fellow and actively connected with the Church of the Messiah (Episcopal), at whose house of worship the funeral services were held.

CLASS OF 1878

Alvah Stryker Newcomb died in Kingston, N. Y., February 12, 1928, after a long illness. Mr. Newcomb was born in Prattsville, N. Y., December 8, 1851, son of Sylvester H. and Margaret E. (Stryker) Newcomb. He was a descendant of Francis Newcomb, who came from England in 1635 and settled in Quincy, Mass., and traced his English ancestry back several hundred years. In preparing for college he spent a year at Kingston Academy and two years in the scientific department of Union College, coming to Dartmouth after a further interval of a year or two. He was one of the oldest members of the class, but never made any one aware of his seniority, and the fact now comes as a surprise to his classmates. Always dignified and slightly reserved, he was modest and simple in manner and welcomed companionship with the youngest. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation he studied law at Poughkeepsie, and upon admission to the bar in 1879 entered upon practice in Kingston as a member of the firm of Fowler and Newcomb, but with- drew in 1881 to assist his father in the paper manufacturing business at Stone Ridge. He continued the business for a time after his father's death, but in 1887 he returned to Kingston and resumed the practice of law, assuming also the clerkship of the surrogate court for Ulster county. Two years later he resigned the clerkship to devote himself to his law business, for several years as a member of the firm of Brinnier and Newcomb, then of the firm of Newcomb and Metzger. Inclined less to the trial of jury cases than to office practice and the argument of questions of law in the higher courts, he gained a reputation as one of the leading lawyers of the county, painstaking and thorough. In 1900 he was appointed deputy state reporter of the New York Court of Appeals, in which office he continued until the time of his final illness. Upon accepting this position, being free to devote a part of his time to private practice, he moved to Albany and opened an office in his own name, and resided there until the end. In 1902-3 he was lecturer upon international law at Albany Law School. .

Mr. Newcomb was always interested in politics, and was a life-long Republican, active in the political affairs of Ulster county. His one breach of party regularity was in the presidential campaign of 1904, when he gained the almost unique distinction of a Parker Republican, taking an active and responsible part in the campaign in support of Judge Parker, for whom he had a high regard and a warm admiration, and who reposed great confidence in Mr. Newcomb's ability and tact.

In religion Mr. Newcomb was a loyal and active Episcopalian. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias.

He was married in 1891 to Miss Elsie H. Conklin of Kingston, who survives him, as do their two children, Margaret, now the wife of Frederick A. Alden (1913), and Robert M. (for a time in 1919), now in business in New York city.

CLASS OF 1879

Dr. Horace Kendall Foster died at his home in Peabody, Mass., February 20, 1928. Thus, full of years and honors, passed one whose life, as regards real service to humanity, has, probably, been equaled by but comparatively few of the graduates of Dartmouth.

He was born in North Andover, Mass., December 5, 1854, son of John Plummer and Sarah Ann (Peabody) Foster, and prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. He came to Hanover in 1875 and, four years later, graduated A. B. with the class of 1879.

Dartmouth had appealed to him through the influence of two of his teachers, Lemuel S. Hastings '70, principal of the North Andover High School, and Prof. C. F. P. Bancroft '60, principal of Phillips Academy.

Large, strong, handsome, he was a marked figure on the campus and prominent in rowing and football, which, however, never interfered with his being a hard and conscientious student. He also sang in the college choir. His fraternities were Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsilon. He was president of the latter.

In 1882 he received from Dartmouth the additional degrees of A. M. and M. D., and left for post-graduate study at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, on the completion of which he located in Peabody, Mass., and there he remained the rest of his life, a physician and surgeon, continuously engaged in an extraordinarily active general practice, as he sometimes expressed it, "days, nights, Sundays and holidays." Only a man of superb physique and health could have stood up under it, but he never faltered till the end.

Though offered political honors, he refused them or anything that would be distraction from his life work, but into all the different phases of that he entered with all his heart and soul and strength. He was an active member of the American Medical Association; Massachusetts Medical Society (for several years councilor) ; Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society; Essex South District Medical Society (president) ; Society of Examining Physicians; Peabody Medical Club (president) ; medical examiner for Essex County since 1895; from its founding till just before his death, president of the board of trustees of the J. B. Thomas Hospital; president of the board of trustees of the Peabody Institute (the gift of George Peabody) ; and for several years city physician.

He however managed to find time to serve for several years on the school board; was for a long time a trustee and vice-president of the Warren Savings Bank of Peabody; and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce; the Peabody Historical Society; Jordan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; the Knights Templar; the prudential committee of the South Congregational church; and various other local societies, fraternities and clubs.

December 19, 1889, he married in Peabody, Mass., Florence K. Halman (who died in 1913) by whom he had three children, all of whom survived him, viz: Kendall P., born January 10, 1891, Dartmouth 1912 and Mass. Institute of Technology; Chandler H., born April 4, 1893, A. B. and C. P. A., Dartmouth and Tuck School 1915; and Rachel, Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., 1916.

In his last class report the Doctor wrote: "I am glad my sons went into the army, and thankful that they came back home safely and that they are prosperous and happy in good homes with sons of their own who may go to Dartmouth."

On the occasion of the forty-fifth anniversary of his graduation the Doctor was asked by the class secretary, what, if free to choose, he would prefer to and his answer was "continue to do just what I have always done, rightup to the finish."

He had his wish. For the last two years of his life he was not well. He came to know that the trouble was cancer of the stomach, but he did not tell his family till about a month before the end. Even after that, he carried on for two weeks longer, and ministered to the numerous patients who flocked to his office. Finally, forced to his bed, lying there, he dictated to his daughter, who wrote and signed for him, a beautiful letter to the class secretary conveying his regards to his classmates, and then, with, with shaking hand, he signed two checks, one for the Alumni Fund and one for a room the class of '79 are fitting up in the newlibrary. After which, refusing any anodyne to ease his pain, with dignified serenity, he calmly waited for what he knew was inevitable.

The following extracts from the local press will show what his death meant to his neighbors : Said the Salem News: "One of the best known and highly esteemed men of the city. Dr. Foster had endeared himself to all with whom he was associated. He lived a long life of usefulness, during which he not only attained eminence as a physician but became a vital part in the life and public welfare of the city."

The Peabody Enterprise: "Another of Peabody's citizens has passed on. Dr. Horace K. Foster, the dean of the physicians of this muncipality, a man looked up to, whose professional and private, life was beyond reproach—the city has just reason to consider his death a distinct loss to the community. His two-score years of service to the sick, his years as medical director of this district, kept him in touch with all classes, and wherever or whenever called he gave his best to the suffering. Dr. Foster was a man of few words and sincerity was his keynote. He was called on to fill offices of trust, and in everything he merited the well done, good and faithful servant. He had been in failing health for two years or more, yet he carried on as best he could. Of a retiring disposition, publicity did not appeal to him. As the years roll by his memory will linger, and will be placed along with others gone before who have served to promote the best interests of our community."

And the Peabody Times summed it up as follows: "All Peabody mourns the loss of Dr. Horace K. Foster, whose death this week removed a splendid type of citizen from our ranks. Dr. Foster was not only highly respected for his medical knowledge and his devotion to his chosen career, in which he was painstaking and skilful, but for his high standard of all-around citizenship and his manly qualities. He possessed all the attributes which went to make up a physician in whom the public had confidence, and his loyalty and faithfulness to his patients was a by-word. He served the local hospital earnestly and well, and gave generously of his time and energy toward the advancement of his profession and the general welfare of the people of Peabody, his chosen city. Dr. Foster made a lasting mark on the pages of the history of Peabody, one which it will take a long time to erase in the memory of those who knew him."

The funeral services, with a large number of people in attendance, were at 2 P.M., February 22, 1928, in the South Congregational church, of which for many years he had been a devoted member. Rev. John Reid, the pastor, took for his text the words of St. Paul "The beloved physician." His remarks were simple, fitting, touching. The closing utterance over his casket was these singularly appropriate lines : "A whiter soul, a fairer mind, A life with purer course and aim, A gentler eye, a voice more kind, We may not look on earth to. find. The love that lingers o'er his name Is more than fame."

The interment was at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Peabody.

CLASS OF 1894

Intelligence has been received of the death in New Orleans, La., February 9 of William Hayden Ford, the ninth member of the class of 1894 to die. Billy was born December 17, 1873, and had lately passed his fifty-fourth birthday. Death came suddenly from heart disease, of which he had suffered severe attacks. The interment was at Woodstock, Vt., his birthplace, February 13. The class, whose sympathy goes out to his widow and daughter, was represented by J. E. Cassin, G. E. Mann, and C. C. Merrill. He leaves a widow, and a daughter Virginia, who resides in California.

Billy was on hand at class round-ups and reunions whenever he was within hailing distance and conditions permitted. He planned to make conditions conform, and it was no fault of his if he did not arrive. We could safely count on seeing him the night before the Harvard game to enjoy with us—as he did so deeply—the. annual forgatherings which the great consideration of another classmate has made possible for many years.

As an undergraduate he did not strive for scholastic or athletic distinction, although he acquitted himself with credit in the class room. Genial, companionable, and unassuming, with much capacity for friendship, his presence brought the warmth and glow of good fellowship. His comradeship will be keenly missed. The class of 1894 are all past fifty. The "eternal rifle pits" are just ahead. Ate our ranks are to be depleted more and more rapidly, each loss seems more tragic; but the great unity of sentiment and spirit which has given class cohesion and cemented us grows in worth and interest with the years.

CLASS OF 1898

Charles Leon Snow died of heart disease at his home in New York city January 6, 1928.

The son of Charles E. and Olivia (Stuart) Snow, he was born in Portland, Me., June 7, 1875, and prepared for college in the high school of his native city. He was a member of the class during the first two years only. His fraternity was Psi Upsilon.

During the Spanish-American war he served in the United States Navy, and later entered the New York office of the Western Electric Company. He remained with this company until 1913, and when he resigned occupied the position of assistant treasurer. He then went with the Interstate News Company as general auditor in charge of the Minneapolis division, and remained with that organization until 1916, leaving to become associated with the Air Reduction Company in New York. He became treasurer of that company on May 16, 1920, and was active in that capacity until his retirement in July, 1927, because of ill health.

August 31, 1904, he was married to Ethel Blanche, daughter of Nelson and Amanda Morton of Portland, Me., who survives him, with their son, Charles, who is fourteen years old. The burial was in Portland.

Mr. Snow was a member of the Rye Country Club and of Equality Lodge, F. and A. M.

CLASS OF 1903

Nathaniel Wood Hill, a member of this class in freshman year, died at his home in Chatham, N. J., December 28, 1927, of cancer of the chest.

He was born in Lowell, Mass., April 4, 1881, his parents being Frank Pierce (Dartmouth 1876) and Annie Maria (Wood) Hill.

His varied life since leaving college was summed up by himself in March, 1927, as follows: 'The Strife of a Rover Ripened in Many Climes and under Varied Masters—college (1899) ; selling advertising; college; reporter; construction timekeeper; placer miner; cowboy; college; newspaper owner and manager; real estate salesman; Canadian farmer; tunnel miner; sawyer; tunnel inspector (1906) ; architect's inspector; construction superintendent; construction engineer (1912); salesman— explosives, airplanes, Balsa wood (1916) ; foreign sales manager; U. S. Navy (1917); research (1919) ; graph, chart, and map originator; sales promotion manager; advertising supervisor; automobile map maker; automobile road pathfinder; automobile club organizer; research (1927)

He was married March 4, 1906, in New York city, to Helen Gertrude, daughter of Amos and Catherine (Lewis) Allen, who survives him, with their two children, Catherine Lewis, twenty-one years old, and Herbert Allen, twenty.

CLASS OF 1927

Robert Woodrow Barkelew died of accidental electrocution February 16, 1928.

It was with great regret that the members of the class of 1927 learned of the death of one of our finest classmates, Bob Barkelew. On February 9, Bob went to work for the Southern California Edison Company. On the 15th of February while working in the field he was carrying a board which was evidently damp from lying on the ground, and accidently one end of it came in contact with a high tension cable causing sixty thousand volts to pass through his body. He was completely paralyzed, and was rushed to the hospital, where he died on the morning of the 16th.

While in college Bob was a member of the Green Key, Delta Omicron Gamma, and Palaeopitus, and was vice-president of the Union Club. Bob also ran on the cross country team, and was very much interested in the Outing Club.

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