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 1863
John Scales died July 6, 1928, at his apartments at the Wentworth Home for the Aged, Dover, N. H., as the result of a shock sustained two weeks before.
He was born in Nottingham, N. H., October 6, 1835, the son of Samuel and Betsey (True) Scales. He was eighth in descent from William Scales, who emigrated from England in 1638 and settled in Rowley, Mass. He fitted for college at New London Institution (now Colby Academy). He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
For twenty years after graduation he was a teacher, being principal of Strafford Academy in 1863-4, of Wolfboro Academy in 1864-5, of Gilmanton Academy in 1865-7, and of Franklin Academy, Dover, 1869-83, all in New Hampshire. He then engaged in newspaper business in Dover, and was editor and joint proprietor of the Daily Republican and DoverEnquirer, a weekly, until 1899.
Since his retirement from active editorial work he has devoted his energies mainly to historical writing. He prepared a history of Dover, covering the colonial period, which was published at the time of the city's tercentenary in 1923. He was a constant writer for the press until his last illness (which was also his first). He had long been the highest living authority on the history and antiquities of Dover.
October 22, 1865, Mr. Scales was married to Ellen A. Tasker of Strafford, N. H., who died some years ago. They had three children. Burton True (Dartmouth 1895), who died in 1922; Mariana, who died at the age of two years; and Robert Leighton (Dartmouth 1901), who died in 19*12. A grandson, Benjamin Reynolds Scales, is a member of the class of 1930 at Dartmouth.
Mr. Scales was a member of the First Congregational church, of various Masonic bodies, and of the Sons of the American Revolution. As recording secretary of his class he prepared a volume of biographical sketches of its members in 1883. In recent years he has assumed the duties of secretary of the class, and in that capacity was present at the Secretaries Meeting in May, his alert and vigorous bearing being the occasion of much comment. With one exception, he was at the time of his death the senior in years of life of the alumni body.
CLASS OF 1867
Judge Walter Henry Sanborn of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals died suddenly at his home in St. Paul, Minn., May 10, 1928.
The son of Henry Frederick and Eunice (Davis) Sanborn, he was born in Epsom, N. H., October 19, 1845. Edward P. Sanborn '76 is a brother. He prepared for college at Pittsfield (N. H.) Academy, and graduated as valedictorian of his college class. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
For three years after graduation he was principal of the high school of Milford, N. H., meanwhile studying law with Hon. Bainbridge Wadleigh, later United States senator. In January, 1871, he began practice in St. Paul, in partnership with his uncle, Gen. John B. Sanborn. He served several terms in the city council of St. Paul prior to his appointment March 17, 1892, as United States circuit judge in the eighth judicial circuit. June 3, 1903, he was promoted to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and has since been presiding judge of that court. In that capacity he has written oyer 1200 decisions and opinions, many of which have become fundamental law. In his personal work Judge Sanborn has included the administration \under receivership or reorganization of the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago Great Western, St. Louis and San Francisco, and Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads. Among the more important cases of whose decisions he was the author were the Trans- Missouri Freight Association case of 1895, the Standard Oil case of 1909, and the Oklahoma gas case, 1911. On account of the Standard Oil case, he was at the time widely hailed as a "trust buster."
When Judge Sanborn reached the age for retirement, he declared that he was "too busy to consider growing old through inactivity." He emphasized his declaration by continuing in active service for more than ten years thereafter, making a total of more than thirtyfive years on the bench of the federal courts, A testimonial volume containing many tributes from associates on the bench was published early in the present year. On the news of his death Secretary of State Kellogg, expressed himself as follows: "Judge Sanborn was a great lawyer and a great judge, and a patriot with the highest ideals of public service and the duties of citizenship. There are few judges who have more impressed themselves upon the bar of the country. His decisions have shown a wealth of learning and a breadth of vision. They have added greatly to the jurisprudence of the nation, and have uniformly reflected honor upon the courts. Never spectacular but always faithful to his duties, his life is an inspiration to the youth of the country."
November 10, 1874, he was married to Emily F. Bruce of Milford, N. H., who survives him, with their four children.
Judge Sanborn received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth in 1893.
CLASS OF 1872
Frederick Marquand Trask died March 2, 1928, at his home, 697 Highland Ave., Pasadena, Cal.
He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 17, 1850, the son of Asa Goodell and Hetty Caroline (Marquand) Trask.
His Christian name indicates truly his blood relationship to the distinguished Marquand family, which has an enviable reputation for philanthropic and charitable service to the communities in and about New York city, where the several members of the family led by Frederick Marquand resided for many years.
"Fred," as he was always known to his classmates, entered upon his academic training with most favorable auspices. In 186S his parents obtained the skilled services of Prof. James K. Colby and his wife (the parents of his classmate Prof. J. F. Colby, professor emeritus of Dartmouth,) in guiding his course of studies in the Academy of St. Johnsbury, Vt., which led him to Dartmouth. After a thorough training for three years under the guidance of Prof. J. K. Colby and his successor Henry Clay Ide of the Dartmouth class of '66 (who later became governor of the Philippines and U. S. minister to Spain,) Fred was one of a delegation of seven who entered Dartmouth in 1868 without conditions, became members of the A K E fraternity, and graduated jjti 1872.
In college Fred evinced a positive inclination toward the medical profession, and during the last years of his course was drawn by mutual attraction of future plans into the society of his classmates Silver and Towne, who were also in line for the same honors. Early in 1873 Fred began his study of his chosen profession under the direction of Dr. Alpheus B. Crosby. He took three full courses at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, was there graduated with the degree of M. D„ in June, 1875, and immediately began the practice of his profession in New York city and in Brooklyn. He later removed his practice to Point Pleasant, N. J. After an experience of about six years at these places he removed to Detroit, Mich., where he practiced about four years, and later proceeded to Chicago. When engaged in the active practice of his profession his health failed, and he was, compelled to repair to Denver, Colo., to reenforce it. After two years in Denver he was constrained to return to LaGrange, 111., because his wife was not able to endure the altitude of Colorado. From that time forward his health had not been vigorous. He later took up his residence in and about Chicago, and also lived successively at Wilmette and Evanston, 111. About February, 1920, he suffered an impairment of his eyesight, which subsequently prevented the practice of his profession. In one of his letters he stated that while in Chicago he had another breakdown, and that thereupon he was offered a good position with a pharmaceutical house with less responsibility and more regular hours. He continued in that position until the final collapse of his health by acute kidney trouble, affecting his eyes with albumenuriaretinitis.
In 1922, at the urgent request of his son, who was then a resident of Pasadena, Cal., he removed to that place, and lived near him the remainder of his days. His letters show his deep appreciation of the change of climate to what he termed the "land of sunshine and flowers," and he noted the satisfactory contrast in January, 1922, with the winter weather of the eastern and central states he had previously experienced.
During his professional life he was a member of several medical societies and social clubs in the cities of his residence. He joined the Masonic fraternity at La Grange, 111., in 1899, and became later a 32d degree Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He held the office of C. C., and was sent as a representative to the Grand Lodge.
He was a consistent Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church.
He was married. in New York October IS, 1879, to Mary Hopkins, who survives him. She has been an invalid for more than two years. They have two children who survive them; a daughter, Marjorie, who is unmarried; and a son, Winthrop M. Trask, who is secretary and treasurer of the Equitable Building and Loan Association of Pasadena, Cal. In 1916 Winthrop was married to Edna E. Bates of Evanston, 111. She is justly proud of her descent in the fifth generation from Eleazar Wheelock, founder and president of Dartmouth College (1769-79). Fred also leaves two brothers ; Leland Trask, who resides in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York city, and is connected with the New York Edison Company, and Irving Trask of Tampa Shores, Fla.
Fred's last illness was brief. In his infirm condition a cold prostrated him and after a week overcame him.
His classmates will always recall his sunny and amiable nature in his academic and college years. In a letter to Colby '72 written in 1922, he was pleased to refer to that period of his life as "delectable" and those times as "happy days."
He fought a long and heroic fight to regain his previous health but at last was overcome. He seemed at the very end to be
"Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
GEO. H. FLETCHER.
CLASS OF 1873
Charles Frank Eddy was born at Bloomsbury, N. J., June 22, 1850. He was the son of Charles Benjamin Eddy, a well-known criminal lawyer, and Sarah (Rollins) Eddy. The family removed to Bellows Falls, Vt., when he was quite young, and he prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., being one of a large delegation which joined the class of 1873 from that school in the fall of 1869. Taking the classical course, he remained with the class only during freshman year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
He studied law in the office of his father and at Albany, N. Y., was admitted to the bar in 1872, and then began practice at Poultney, Vt. [n 1877 he returned to Bellows Falls, and continued in practice there until 1891, when he removed to Maiden, Mass., where he lived the remainder of his life, practicing law for many years, and having also for a part of the time an office in Boston, at 110 Tremotit St.
He was a very active member of the I. O. O. F. in Vermont, and when he moved from that state he was deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge. He was also worthy master of St. John's Lodge, F. and A. M., in Massachusetts. He wrote much on the work of the fraternal orders, several articles appearing in The Landmark, a monthly journal of Freemasonry. He had not been well for more than five years, the illness resulting from a nervous breakdown. He died in Maiden, April 10, 1928. He had been a communicant of the Episcopal church for many years, and after prayers in Maiden, the burial service was held at the family lot in Wallingford, Vt.
Mr. Eddy was married June 13, 1872, to Helen Sarah Townsend of Wallingford, a classmate of his at Kimball Union Academy. After her death he was married to Ada M. Royleigh, who survives him, with two sons, Charles S. of New York and Arthur F. of Maiden, and a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Miller of Chicago.
Henry Duncan Woodbridge was born October 7, 1849, in Newark, Ohio, where he passed his whole life. Francis Howell Woodbridge, his father, had moved from Connecticut some fifteen or twenty years before this, and for thirty-five years was one of the leading dry goods merchants of Newark. Henry's mother, Esther St. Clair, came from Cincinnati. The son was educated in the public schools of Newark, and later at Granville, Ohio. A part of the time attempted by private study to obtain his preparation. "This proved,'" he says, "a very unsatisfactory preparation." Nevertheless, he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1869, and continued without interruption until his graduation with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.
After graduation, he returned to his native city, where the remainder of his life was passed. He entered the office of the Newark Rolling Mill, but soon accepted a clerkship in a bookstore, in which, in 1878, he purchased an interest, as a member of the firm of Weiant and Woodbridge, the firm a year later becoming Woodbridge and Baker, booksellers, stationers, general school supplies. In March, 1882, he sold out his interest and became an optician. In this he was associated, beginning in 1890, with one of the leading oculists in that part of Ohio. But more and more he became interested in general business, and entered the service of the Franklin National Bank of Newark, of which for a long time he was one of the directors. He was also secretary and treasurer of the Newton Coal and Mining Company, whose principal office was in Dennison, Ohio.
In charitable enterprises he was actively engaged, and the work of the city hospital received much attention from him. He united with the Second Presbyterian church of Newark, in January, 1869, and was a trustee for many years. He had suffered for a long time from heart trouble, and for several weeks before his death had been confined to his bed. He died May 14, 1928. Funeral services were held in the Second Presbyterian church on Wednesday, May 16, and burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
He married January 13, 1877, Miss Sylvia Wing of Newark, who survives him. Two children are living, Emma Wing, now Mrs. J. Howard Jones of Newark, and Clair Woodbridge of Phoenix, Ariz., where the father spent the winter months each year.
CLASS OF 1874
Issac Freeman Hall, who was connected with this class during a part of freshman year, died at his home in North Adams, Mass., May 27, 1928, after a short illness.
He was born in Dennis, Mass., April 23, 1847, the son of Frederick and Sally Hall. At the age of 17 he entered Bridgewater Normal School, and after completing his course there he taught for some time near his home. He then entered Phillips Andover Academy, where he prepared for college. A breakdown from overwork compelled him to leave college, and after his recovery he was for a time principal of the Washington School in Quincy, Mass. He then served as school superintendent successively for Dedham, Leominster, Natick, Belmont, and Arlington, in the same state, and acquired a high reputation as an educator. In 1895 he was appointed superintendent at North Adams, and he remained in that position for 25 years. For a time after retiring from this position he maintained a private school in the same city. For several years he had been chiefly engaged in the preparation of a book entitled "In School from Three to Eighty." This book, which has recently been published, is not only an autobiography, but a history of the public schools of Massachusetts during the period of his life.
Mr. Hall was a member of St. John's Episcopal church, where for many years he taught a Sunday school class, of the Berkshire Club, the Schoolmasters' Club, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
June 13, 1872, he was married to Amelia Gertrude, daughter of Peter Bicknell and Mary Baxter (Chubbuck) Mead of Quincy, Mass., who died November 30, 1919. Five children survive their parents : Mrs. Roland G. Kent of Philadelphia, Mrs. Shelley W. Potter and Miss Ruth Hall of North Adams, Miss Katherine M. Hall of Chicago, and Fred S. Hall of Swampscott, Mass.
In 1904 Mr. Hall received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth.
CLASS OF 1882
Dr. Charles W. McClearn, who had practised medicine for thirty-five years in Maiden, Mass., died at his home on Sunday evening, June 17th, in his seventieth year. Death followed a stroke together with complications. He retired from practice two years ago when he was stricken with blindness but was able to be about more or less and had been for a walk about ten days before his death.
Dr. McClearn was born in Northfield, Vt., September 14, 1859, the son of Dr. Matthew and Ruth Ripley McClearn. His father was a well-known physician in Vermont and later practised for many years in Boston. McClearn was educated at the schools of his native place and was graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1882. In his senior year he was one of the editors of The Dartmouth. For a few months after graduation he was in Colorado as agent for a firm of mining brokers. He took his medical degree at the University of Vermont. His first practice was in Williamstown, Vt., and he removed to Maiden thirty-seven years ago. He was married. He was elected to the Maiden Board of Health in 1899 and the following year was elected chairman and served in all twelve years. He was a member of the Mt. Vernon Lodge of Masons, Melrose Council Royal and Select Masters, Tabernacle chapter of the Royal Arch and Beauseant commandery Knights Templar. In college he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon He had a substantial practice and was highly esteemed as a physician and citizen. He was a great lover of horses and was the last of the physicians in his neighborhood to give up the horse far the auto. For many years he had a summer home at New London, New Hampshire. His wife and a daughter, Miss Louise McClearn, survive him.
CLASS OF 1885
Chester Howard Larimer died at his home in Lochmere, N. H., on Tuesday, May 29, 1928. He was born on March 9, 1863, in Owensville, Ind., and was the son of William Young and Delight Kilton (Bucklin) Larimer.
He prepared for college in the high school of Manchester, N. H., and entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth in the fall of 1881. He was a member of the Vitruvian, now Beta Theta Pi, fraternity. He was interested in college athletics, and played as catcher and shortstop on his class nine, and in his senior year he was a substitute on the college football team.
Following his graduation he was, for three years, with the Boston and Maine Railroad and after a short employment with the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company he returned to the Boston and Maine. By various promotions he occupied the positions of instructor in air brake car service, road foreman of engines of the Fitchburg Division, and air brake inspector of the Motive Department of that railroad.
In 1903 he entered the employ of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company as its mechanical expert for New England, holding that position until 1923, when he was appointed one of its consulting mechanical experts, which position he continued to hold until his death.
Some six years ago he purchased a home at Lochmere, N. H., where he and his wife have since spent their summers, residing in or near Boston during the winters.
He was always very loyal to his class and his college, and had made plans to attend the coming Commencement. He was a Blue Lodge Mason, a member of the Thayer Society of Engineers, the New England Railroad Club, and the National Air Brake Association, and an honorary member of the Fraternity of Locomotive Engineers, and had served as secretary of the Eastern Air Brake Club.
On August 7, 1893, he was married to Miss Cora Louise Carver at Northampton, who survives him. They had no children.
He had been in failing health for the past six months, and died suddenly from an acute heart attack. His funeral services occurred at his late home on Friday, June 1, and he was buried in Laconia, N. H.
CLASS OF 1886
Orson Leroy Manchester died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Normal, 111., June 4, 1928.
He was born at Gage's Lake, Lake county, 111., February 19, 1864, his parents being John P. and Sylvia (Demmon) Manchester. He attended the public schools of Waukegan, and graduated from the high school in 1881. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
He had taught for a year before entering college and for one term during each year of his college course, and this vocation he followed without intermission through life. A part of the first year after graduation he taught at Billerica, Mass., and the rest of the year at Sing Sing, New York. In 1887 he went to Joliet, 111., as principal of the high school. In January, 1891, he resigned this position to become principal of the high school connected with the State Normal University at Normal. In 1895 this school was discontinued, and he remained at the University as professor of economics and foreign languages. In 1911 he assumed the duties of dean.
July 7, 1891, he was married to Kittie Buck of Joliet, 111., who died April 11, 1892, leaving a daughter who died in infancy. December 25, 1895, he was married to Flora Thompson of Warrensburg, 111., who survives him, with four daughters: Miriam, who teaches at the University of Illinois; Mrs. Margaret Krichbaum of Cleveland, Ohio; Charlotte, a teacher in the Pekin, 111., high school; and Mrs. Gertrude Hall of Galveston, Tex.
In 1906 the degree of LL. D. was conferred by Illinois Wesleyan University.
A local paper contains the following appreciation from the pen of President Felmley of Normal University.
"Mr. Manchester was a life-long diligent student. While principal of the high school he spent_ several hours a day in the study of comparative philology, and acquired a mastery of the subject attained by few men. In 1895 he took up the subject of economics in the same fashion. He became an authority on state taxation, and prepared for the State Teachers' Association a pamphlet on taxation that was widely circulated. He was an active member of the State Teachers' Association and for several years was a member of the executive committee and of the board of directors. He was president of the Association in 1925. For 36 years he was a member of the College Alumni Club. In his teaching he was exacting and thorough and at the same time inspiring. He demanded clear thinking and an understanding of the reasons of things rather than the mere mastery of textbook assignments. The large number of his students who have continued their studies in economics and sociology is a convincing proof of his power as an instructor. Mr. Manchester was fond of field sports. In middle life he excelled in tennis. Of late years he could be found any summer day on the golf links of the Maplewood Country Club."
Word has only recently been received of the death of Edward James Hatch, which occurred at his home in Concord, N. H., August 29 1887.
He was born in Littleton, N. H., July 2 1862, and took in college the course of the Chandler Scientific Department.
For about twenty-eight years until his retirement in 1924 he was treasurer of Holt Brothers Manufacturing Company in Concord, and since that time had lived on his farm outside the city. Further information has not been obtained up to the time of g'oing to press.
CLASS OF 1890
Dr. Leon Edward White died at his home, 112 Wolcott Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass., on May 18, 1928. He was born at Barton, Vt„ July 30, 1867. He was the son of Orra Austin White, farmer and lumber dealer, and Emily Bertha (King) White. He attended Barton Academy 1883-86, St. Johnsbury Academy 1886-87, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1886-1888, and entered the junior class at Dartmouth in September, 1888. During the year after his graduation he attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. In May, 1891, he entered the Dartmouth Medical School, also acting as assistant in the college chemical laboratory. In the winter of 1892 he worked at lumbering in northern Maine. In March, 1892, he entered the medical department of the University of Vermont, leaving in July, 1892, to attend the lecture course at the Dartmouth Medical School, from which he received his degree, and where he stood at the head of his class. Immediately thereafter he began practice in Boston.
He married, Ist, November 24, 1892, at Barton, Vt., Cora E. Murkland, (born at Lowell, November 9, 1869), daughter of George and Sarah Murkland of Barton, by whom he had two children (Dr.) Leon Edward White, Jr., (Dartmouth 1918), born at Roxbury, Mass, April 2, 1895, and (Dr.) Priscilla White, born March 17, 1900, both of whom survive him.
He married, 2d, November 12, 1903, at Boston, Mass., George Maude Hackett, daughter of George and Nancy Yeston (Libby) Hackett of Wakefield, Mass., who also survives him.
His death occurred suddenly. He had been at his classmates Wood's at Wellesley early in the forenoon, getting some shrubbery for his new place in Brookline, and at that time felt perfectly well.
He returned home between 10 and 11, and soon after he called his family and asked them to send for a doctor. He died only about an hour thereafter.
Death was appparently due to a thrombosis of the main artery of the heart. He had shown indications of some degenerative changes in the arteries for two or three years, but no symptoms that the condition had reached a dangerous stage.
He was consulting aurist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, fellow of the American Medical Association and of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American Laryngological Association, the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society,, the American Otological Society, and the New England Otological and Laryngological Society.
He made many important contributions to medical literature. Everything he wrote was prepared with great care. In recent years he achieved much distinction through his work in clearing up the cause of optic atrophy and other degenerative conditions of the optic nerve which have played such an important part in serious impairment of vision. He did much to demonstrate that such conditions were due to a direct extension of an infective process to the optic nerve from diseased sinuses of the bones of the skull near which the optic nerve passes, and was probably the leader in showing how the source of the bone infection can be located and in working out operative technique to relieve it, and thereby bring about at least an arrest of the impairment of eyesight. He was the man whom physicians from all over the country wished to consult in cases of failing eyesight from some obscure cause, and he was recognized by the medical profession here and abroad as one of the most prominent men in his specialty in this country. His death is a great loss to the profession.
CLASS OF 1900
Judge Sidney Francis Stevens died at his home in Somersworth, N. H., on Thursday, afternoon, May 17, 1928. Almost a year ago he attended the outdoor round-up of the class at Marion, Mass., and there was little indication of anything but rugged good health. He enjoyed more than any one else the sail on the school boat, and took his turn at the wheel with the skipper for the greater part of the day.
Later in the year he was attacked by very acute pains, and was moved to the Phillips House- in Boston, where he underwent a serious operation which did not bring with it any relief. During his convalescence the Boston members of the class called on him daily until almost all had seen him. He was cheery, appreciative, and wonderfully courageous, although he must have known that his chance of recovery was very slight. During all this time Mrs. Stevens was with him and gave him the tenderest of care.
He was later able to move to Somersworth; it was a great joy to be back home again with Mrs. Stevens and his daughter. He contracted diphtheria, which checked somewhat his opportunity to gain strength, but it was only a question of time in any event. Freeman Corson, Dr. Foster, Dr. Buckley, and John Mathes visited him, and reported the same courageous and cheery attitude.
Sidney Stevens was one of those men who make a class what it is. His kindness, his interest in others, and his beautiful traits of character and mind endeared him to every one. As he was in college, so he continued through life. He came to Hanover from Somersworth High School, and his whole career in college was marked by consistent and steady effort which insured success in whatever he undertook. He was not ostentatious; he was not ambitious for honors which did not come as a natural result of a continuous and steady effort.
He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He made friends easily with those who recognized his depth of heart and his kindliness of character. Perhaps we did not at that time realize how much was behind that kindly smile and that rather slow and almost naive method of speech, but later life brought to Sid the recognition which he deserved.
After graduating from Boston University Law School, he was married in 1905 to Nancy Roy of Quincy, Mass., who survives him with one daughter, Nancy. They spent their life in Somersworth, where Sid was a tower of strength to his family and to the whole community. He served on the school board for three years, was a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1907, and city solicitor for many years. He later was appointed judge, and adorned that position until the day of his death.
In early years he did not meet frequently with the class, but in later years he attended reunions and round-ups regularly and drew more closely the ties of class to his own personal life and individuality.
Sidney Stevens was the kind of man who gives amazing strength to any college class or community. To speak too enthusiastically of what he was and what he did would be to offend his entire philosophy of life. Whatever he undertook he carried through quietly and effectively, and in the doing of anything he brought a love and kindliness which is rare in this world of bustle and forgetfulness. He was a real pillar of strength, and such men constitute the very backbone of any organization which is honored by their membership. As a judge, he no doubt mingled absolute justice with humanity to an unusual degree.
It is quite difficult, in closing, to describe the sweetness, the naturalness, and the charm of such a man. Those of us who saw him during his last days will never forget the questions he asked about every one, the little queries which he made to' recall the events of days that are gone by, and the clasp of the hand that he gave us to show his appreciation and joy because we came to see him. Those of us who went can truly say that we took away much more than we brought.
In the churchyards of old New Hampshire lie a few men like Sid Stevens. Their memory will always live because of their unselfish life and their wonderful interest in their fellow men. Sid Stevens suffers no more, and whatever judgment may be passed in the life to come, it will be hard to find in him anything to censure or blame, for he lived his life with great honor to himself and with the love of all those whose rare pleasure it was to know him intimately.
CLASS OF 1902
George Hobbs Beaudry died in Denver, Col., June 26, 1928, after an illness of only twentyfour hours.
He was born in Marlboro, Mass., April 26, 1881, and prepared for college at the local high school. He was a member of the Alpha Alpha Omega fraternity, which later became Chi Phi.
For the first year after graduation he taught in the Kingsley School at Essex Falls, N. J., and then for a year in Los Angeles (Cal.) Military Academy. The rest of his life he was engaged in insurance business, being first in the actuary department of the Conservative Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles and the Pacific Mutual Life. From 1907 to 1909 he was secretary of the Bankers' Underwriters at Oakland, Cal., and from 1909 to 1916 actuary with the West Coast Life at San Francisco. From 1916 to 1920 he held a similar position with the Continental Life in Salt Lake City, and since 1920 had been secretary and actuary of the Capitol Life Insurance Company of Denver.
August 8, 1903, he was married to Avery Chase Smith of Newburyport, Mass., who survives him, with their daughter, Carolyn Chapman. There were also two sons, but the letter bringing the news of Mr. Beaudry's death does not mention them, so it is to be inferred they are not living.
CLASS OF 1905
Clark How Edwards died April 29, 1927, at the good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, Cal., of pulmonary tuberculosis. He was at Dartmouth only during his freshman 1901-1902, and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. After leaving he lived for a number of years in St. Paul, Minn., and was in the real estate business. During the war he was assistant district inspector of leather in the Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, with headquarters at St. Paul. Later he removed to Los Angeles on account of his health, and was engaged in business there.
In the fall of 1925 he came East to visit his mother, who was still living in Haverhill, Mass., and he attended the class supper in Boston the night before the Harvard game. At that time he seemed much encouraged about his health.
He was born in Haverhill, Mass., September 19, 1884, the son of William Johnston and Helen Wheeler (How) Edwards, and prepared \for college at the Haverhill High School. On June 7, 1910, he married Hal Emily Black at St. Paul, and she survives him, together with two children, both born at St. Paul, Jackson on March 2, 1912, and Clark How Jr., on May 16, 1915. Charles B. Edwards of the class of 1903, who lives at Haverhill, is a brother.
CLASS OF 1919
Herbert Matthias Glaser died at his home in Rochester, N. Y., July 10, 1926, but his death has been only recently reported.
He was born in Rochester, June 26, 1895, and prepared for college at Mohegan Lake (N. Y.) School. He was a member of the class only from the opening of the college year to the following February.
In 1917 he began work with Gordon and Madden, architects. In 1918 he went overseas with a photographic unit in the army. In 1919 he joined the statistical department of Eastman Kodak Company, wish which he was connected at the time of his death. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Florence T. Glaser, who resides at 140 Beresford Road, Rochester.
CLASS OF 1927
Milton Joseph O'Connor died June 2, 1928, at his home in Great Notch, N. J.
He was born in Great Notch, N. J., December 15, 1904, being the only son of James P. and Mina (Stewart) O'Connor, who both survive him. He fitted for college at Montclair High School.
While at college Ocie held the position of business manager of the Jack'o, and was recognized as having great ability which augured a bright future.
After graduation he worked for a time as methods' accountant for the New York Telephone Company. This position he resigned to accept a position with J. P. Morgan and Company in the office of Salomon Brothers and Huntzler in New York. This seemed like a fine connection, and Ocie was very cheerful about the future.
Ocie was not in good health at the time he graduated, due to injuries he had sustained in an accident. However, his health had improved greatly until along in the early spring he contracted influenza, which developed into double pneumonia, and although he passed the crisis and was gaining nicely, in his weakened condition his heart could not stand the strain and he died of heart failure.
Carl Elias Strouse died June 25, 1928, in New York city.
While in college Carl was editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth, a member of Palaeopitus, Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet, and Phi Kappa Psi. He was greatly respected by his classmates for his ability and his personality, which had brought him many honors.
After leaving college he went to work for L. F. Rothschild and Company in New York, where he enjoyed his work immensely and was making fine progress. In October of 1927 Carl married Miss Helen Niessen of Rydal, Pa., and since that time they had been living in Brooklyn.
On Monday, June 18, Carl was operated on for appendicitis, and at first seemed to be recovering nicely. On the following Sunday it was discovered that poisoning had set in, and it was necessary to operate again. This operation was not successful, and Carl died on Monday, June 25. The funeral was held at the home of his family in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 27.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1898
Dr. Charles Henry Quinn died May 23, 1928, at his home in West Concord, N. H., of chronic disease of the heart and kidneys.
He was born in Hillsboro, N. H., January 25, 1873, the son of Charles Henry and Helen (Symonds) Quinn, and graduated from the high school of that town.
Upon his graduation he began practice in Concord, and continued there through life. During the World War he served with the rank of captain in the Medical Corps, being stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. He was a member of the staff of Margaret Pillsbury Hospital, Concord, for twelve years, and for a like period house physician at the Odd Fellows Home. He was a member of the State and Center District Medical Societies.
June 9, 1898, Dr. Quinn was married to Ada Frances, daughter of George R. and Nellie S. Parmenter of West Concord, who survives him. They had no children.
CLASS OF 1905
Dr. Ayres Philip Merrill died in Pittsfield, Mass., May 2, 1928, of intestinal obstruction. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Mary (Brodie) Merrill, and was born in Pittsfield, August 7, 1876.
Practicing in his native city from his graduation, he soon began to specialize in X-ray work, and since 1908 had been staff roentgeno logist of the House of Mercy Hospital, and read various papers on the subject before medical society meetings. For many years until his death he served as secretary of the Berkshire District Medical Society, was a vicepresident of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1924-5 and a member of its council, and was a member of the American Medical Association.
He was a member of the Rotary and Park Clubs of Pittsfield, and of the Masonic order. He was never married.
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