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

CHARLES WARREN SPALDING died at his home in Blackfoot, Idaho, on October 10, 1929. He was the son of Solomon and Sarah Darling (Edson) Spalding, and was born in Nashville, now Nashua, New Hampshire, on June 11, 1843. He fitted for college in the local schools and entered Dartmouth in 1860 as a member of the sophomore class, completing the course and graduating with the class in July, 1863, as a member of the Scientific Department.

His chosen profession was that of civil engineering and he commenced practice immediately, for two years being engaged as assistant engineer on the surveys of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad in Western Connecticut. In 1865 he entered the employ of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, now the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, serving as civil engineer in the extension of its lines through lowa and Nebraska and later as secretary of its land department at Burlington, lowa.

In 1876 he organized a commercial firm for shipment and distribution of anthracite coal throughout the Northwest and to carry on this business more easily he moved to Chicago in 1882 where he also engaged in banking and investment business.

When the alumni were given representation on the Board of Trustees of the College in 1891 he was elected as their first representative from the West and served with ability during the reconstruction period inaugurated by President Tucker. He served for three years and in 1894 declined reelection that he might devote his attention to the affairs of the Globe Savings Bank which he had organized in 1890 and of which he was president. On his retirement from the Board of Trustees he was awarded the honorary degree of A.M. in recognition of his services.

After thirty-five years' residence in Chicago he removed to Blackfoot, Idaho, in 1917 where he made his home until his death.

He was married September 1, 1864, to Lizzie K. Mitchell of Nashua, New Hampshire, by whom he had one child, a son, Charles Rawson Spalding, born August 7, 1867, who graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1888.

On July 23, 1898, Mr. Spalding married Sarah Louise Ervin of Chicago, who survives him. The only issue of Mr. Spalding's second marriage was a daughter, Louise, born July 21, 1906. She is a graduate of the Art Institute at Chicago.

The Masonic burial service was held for Mr. Spalding on October 14 in Blackfoot where he is buried.

CLASS OF 1871

EUGENE MILTON ROBINSON died at a sanitarium in Waukesha, Wis., September 21, 1929, death resulting from heart complications which followed an attack of the "flu" in the early spring.

Born at Mechanic Falls, Me., July 21, 1849, he fitted for Dartmouth at Fryeburg Academy. Soon after graduation he entered upon his life work as civil engineer, engaging in railroad location and construction in Wisconsin and Michigan during 1871 and 1872. From 1873 to 1879 he was connected with the engineering department of the Boston Water Works at South Framingham, Mass. From 1879 to 1882 he was at Atchison, Kans., engaged in engineering work for several railroads. For forty years he was head draftsman, for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at Chicago, retiring after reaching the age limit.

In May, 1876, he married Miss Alice L. Howe of South Framingham, Mass., who died in June, 1883. Their son, Ralph Eugene, was born in February, 1879, and died in August, 1890. April 18, 1909, he married Mrs. Alice (Smith) Whittlesey, who survives him. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Agnes A. Leach and Mrs. Jennie S. Decker, both of Franklin, N. H.

CLASS OF 1875

GEORGE BOWEN PARKINSON was born in Nashua, N. H., March 5, 1852, son of Rev. Royal (Dartmouth 1842) and Joanna (Griffin) Parkinson. During his boyhood the family home was mainly in New Hampshire and Vermont, but a part of his elementary schooling was in Bangor, Me., where he lived with a relative. He attended Essex (Vt.) and Appleton (New Ipswich, N. H.,) Academies, and being inclined to an active out-of-door life, hesitated about going to college, but his older brother persuaded him, and he finished preparation at Meriden.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Converse and French at Woodstock, Vt., and upon admission to the bar, entered upon practice at Chattanooga, Tenn., and seemed to be making a good start when the yellow fever epidemic reached that city for the only time in its history. When the panicstricken population was escaping to the mountains, he went to the relief committee and offered his services. He was assured that all possible help was needed, but warned that as a Northern man he was an extra-hazardous risk. He however stood by, served as commissary of the committee, distributing stores, providing work for the needy, even visiting the sick as he had opportunity, and seeing the thing through to its finish. But he decided that he would not settle where, as he said, yellow fever was invited. He opened an office in Boston, but was soon called into the firm headed by his two older brothers under the firm name of Parkinson and Parkinson in Cincinnati, counselors in patent causes. In course of time the firm was dissolved, the older brothers removing to Chicago, while he continued by himself until about 1915, when, reverting to his early desire for out-door life, he moved to South Lincoln, Mass., with a plan of "going back to the land."

The experiment proved disappointing, and soon after the war he returned to his profession, forming a connection with the firm of Jonathan Potts of Philadelphia, where he continued until his health forced his retirement a few months ago. He underwent a critical surgical operation two years ago, but made a good recovery. A weakened heart had of late limited his activity very closely, but he seemed to be gaining, and the end came unexpectedly at his home at Narberth, Pa., June 28, 1929.

He was married October 12, 1882, to Miss Mary H. Washburn of Woodstock, daughter of Peter T. Washburn (Dartmouth 1835), a former governor of Vermont, and sister of Mrs. T. W. D. Worthen. Mrs. Parkinson survives him. He had-no children. William D. Parkinson '7B is a surviving brother.

CLASS OF 1877

ADDISON GARDNER COOK died suddenly September 29,1929, at the Austin Sanitarium, Warner, N. H., where he had been for the past two months. In August, 1928, he suffered a severe heart attack, and had been failing in health since that time.

The youngest of three children of Gardner and Martha (Allen) Cook, he was born in Laconia, N. H., October 4, 1854. He fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Tilton Seminary and New Hampton Institution, and was a member of the class during the first two years of the course, leaving at the end of sophomore year. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)

Nearly all the time since he left college his home has been in his native town, where for many years he was engaged in lumber business with his father. He was also interested at various times in the Laconia Gristmill, in the wood and coal business, and in the development of real estate.

October 1,1878, he was married to Harriet, daughter of Frederick W. Hathaway of Brockton, Mass., who survives him. A daughter died in childhood. Two sons survive, William Hathaway, a rancher in northern California, and Arthur Mayhew, who until recently has been a supervisor of several national forests in Colorado and Wyoming but who returned to Laconia a year ago on account of his father's illness.

CLASS OF 1878

THE death in New York of JOHN COTTON DANA, eminent librarian and museum director of Newark, N. J., closed a career to which tributes have come from an extraordinary variety of sources. Mr. Dana had been in ill health for some years, but was still active, and was starting for his summer home at Woodstock, when he was taken suddenly worse in the Grand Central Station, removed to a hotel, thence to St. Vincent's Hospital, and there hovered between life and death for several weeks, his mind intensely active, dictating to his stenographer at every interval between sleep and coma, until July 21, when the end came.

Mr. Dana was born at Woodstock, Vt., August 19, 1856, son of Charles and Charity S. (Loomis) Dana, seventh generation from Richard Dana, who came to this country in 1640. Reared in a typical New England village whose charm never lost its hold upon him, in a typical puritan home, his father the village merchant, his mother a woman of rare personality, attending the village schools, prepared for college at the village high school, his intellectual life stimulated by the example of a scholarly elder brother (Charles L. '72) and an equally scholarly uncle and cousin (Henry Swan '49, and William Swan '7l), he came to college with tastes and interests well developed. He was tall and slender, with broad but stooping shoulders, keen eyes usually lighted by a quizzical expression that easily became a twinkle. He was somewhat dyspeptic, and not wholly free from the tendency to cynicism which often accompanies that disorder, but he held that tendency in check by a combination of common sense and a droll humor often touched with mischief. He could amuse himself by ridiculing his own pessimism, and the characterization, "a cynical optimist," fitted him as well as it did many years afterward when applied by a prominent Newark lawyer. He ranked high in scholarship, particularly in subjects of a philosophical trend, but was always more interested in general reading than in the curriculum. In the crude sports of the day he participated for the fun of it. Once, indeed, he appears in a group photograph of the class athletes, which was displayed at our Fiftieth. He attained that honor in characteristic fashion. It was generally expected that the running high jump would be won by a man who had proven invincible in previous contests, and Dana thought it would be a joke to take the wind out of his sails. So, with a companion to measure his leaps, he went into the woods to see how well he could do, then appeared unheralded and won the contest. Many years afterward, in much the same whimsical vein, he published a humorous poem of considerable length "just to show" a jesting friend that he could hold his own in such a competition, as indeed he could if lie had chosen. He was somewhat reserved, but a most interesting companion. His outlook on life was that of an interested spectator. He was consistently skeptical, not specializing, as so many student skeptics did then and still do, in religious questions, but questioning all traditions and leaning often to the off side, his sympathies often with the under dog. He displayed in college the same traits which, once in harness, were to carry him to a position of great power. He led then, as ever afterward, the experimental life. He was original and ingenious, interested in every mechanical device. He made the first telephone many of us ever saw and, with one or two others, constructed a Holtz machine, which was then the leading electrical exhibit in any department of natural science. And his inventiveness was not limited to mechanical matters. He was always contriving something original in the way of amusements or adventures. This ingenuity he turned to large account in achieving the reforms which now stand to his credit.

He graduated perhaps the best-read man in the class, and for the next year or two studied law in Woodstock, but said the law "played second fiddle to John Fiske, German, French, the teaching of a little Latin and Greek, and reading—poetic and very miscellaneous. My thinker tries, and my body makes a general kick." For more than ten years he seemed to be drifting. Some of his moves were prompted by concern for his health, which was never rugged, but many of his adventures were a part of his search for a mechanism into which to gear his racing engine. His friends began to fear he would never find himself. They said his health would improve and his intellect would shine if he could only settle down to business. But, like Kipling's Explorer, he heard the call to go and look behind the ranges, and he kept going. In 1880 he joined Classmate Gove, then deputy U. S. land and mineral surveyor in the mining section of Colorado, and for some time was engaged in that line of work, roughing it with rough men and liking them, living in a tent the year around, hiking great distances, and living, as he said, on hog-fat. He visited the cliffdwellings, then scarcely known, and reported on them. Then back to New York to study law and be admitted to the bar there, whereupon he started with Warren French 'BO for Spokane to try sheep raising, but stopping over in Minnesota to visit a classmate, decided to hang out his shingle as a lawyer in the village of Ashby. The editor and publisher of the local weekly being taken ill, Dana ran the paper, editing and printing it, using the experience gained as a boy with an amateur print shop. His printing experience was also to be turned to account in his later career. Indeed every experience seemed ultimately to count.

But he was soon back in Colorado trying his hand at real estate and insurance at Colorado Springs. That did not last long, and he plunged back into the rough country, surveying, drafting, ranching, exploring, lecturing on socialism and the single tax. He made some half-hearted efforts to secure a teaching position. He seriously considered preaching, and did occupy a pulpit on several occasions, but found he did not fit in any of the organized religious bodies. Near the end of his long exile he met and married a lady of charm who did share his views. She was Miss Adine R. Waggener of Austin, Texas, who survives him.

Always he was reading, reading everything, and discussing what he read with kindred spirits, both among the recognized literati and among the line'men, cow boys, section hands, ranchers. So his exceptional and varied talents became known in the region of his activities. In 1889 he was invited to take charge of the library of School District No. X of Denver and to serve as secretary of the board of education. He accepted. So he had found his fulcrum.; Now he would move the world.

Few people even now realize the significance of the great movement which revolutionized the American public library, transforming it from a few straggling caches of books for the relief of the stranded explorer into a system of power-houses, pushing their lines out into the community with all the enterprize with which a department store displays its wares or a telephone company extends its services. The influence of this revolution upon American civilization has not yet been recognized as the historian will appraise it. Of this movement John Cotton Dana was a pioneer.* He made the library of the first school district into the Denver Public Library, known far and wide. He opened the shelves, pulled down barriers, cut red tape, opened the first children's room, established systematic co-operation between library and school. He advertised his wares to the public, encouraged every seeker after knowledge of whatever kind to use the library and made all feel at home in it. He multiplied the circulation many fold.

A party of eastern librarians en route for San Francisco to attend a meeting of the American Library Association, disappointed at the absence of some of their leaders, and rather pessimistic as to the prospects for that meeting, stopped over in Denver. They were so impressed with what they saw that they persuaded the authorities to send this young stranger along with them, and he proved to be the life of the meeting. He now had an audience, and he began his unceasing propaganda for better service to the public. He was a master of publicity. He sought it not for himself but to achieve his ends.

Honors for himself he did not seek. He was offered honorary degrees by three colleges, Dartmouth one of them, and declined. Doubtless he might have collected an ample belt of such scalps if he had desired such decorations.

He went from Denver to Springfield, Mass. The Springfield papers devote columns to his career. The Republican says, "In the four years of his service in this city there was an increase of 45 per cent in the number of volumes lent for home use, while there was a decrease of 24 per cent in the proportion of fiction read. He established a children's department, containing more than 8000 volumes, very carefully selected, helpfully classified, and managed by a competent assistant. The estimated circulation from this department for the last year of his service in Springfield was 800,000 volumes. The entire library was rearranged, additional space secured, workrooms established, and a modern system of classification started. The Horace Smith collection of casts was installed and the possibilities of art education opened up with much promise."

This last item is an intimation of the extension of Mr. Dana's library crusade into the museum field, in which he was later to stir the dry bones as violently as he was doing in the library field. In 1902 he assumed charge of the library of Newark, N. J.s which he soon made famous as an institution that served the public. He not only developed the library itself as he had done elsewhere, and established in connection with it the first business men's branch library, but he made his influence felt throughout the city.

A writer in the Boston Transcript says, "The distinctions of this versatile genius are many. He founded the first special library department for children; he organized the first public library picture collection; he started the first extensive pamphlet library; he founded the first library branch devoted especially to business; he was one of the prime movers behind the organization of the Special Libraries Association, and was its

first president; he actively advanced public library information service and information exchanges; he raised the standard of library printing; and he set up a standard of public library co-operation with other civic societies. A writer in a printer's magazine declared that John Cotton Dana had probably done more than any other individual to promote the cause of print appreciation among the general public."

In all the changes he introduced his ingenuity was of great service. He could see how to economize room and at the same time increase its convenience. His influence upon library and museum architecture was widely felt. He knew how to use ridicule, and he turned it upon architects and trustees who insist upon building monuments into which libraries must be thrust as best they can, or erecting for museums temples in secluded parks, approached by long flights of steps. He urged the same accessibility and convenience for museum or library as are demanded for store or theater. Then began his campaign for a new type of museum, which attracted attention abroad as well as in this country.

Applying the same principles to the dissemination of art as to the diffusion of knowledge, he began holding art exhibitions in his library, and gradually acquired a considerable art collection, which ultimately outgrew the library. He arranged exhibits of artistic objects characteristic of one nation or another, one industry or another, or gathered from unexpected sources, bathroom and electric fixtures, products of New Jersey potteries, leather and textile goods, articles from the five and ten, all planned to awaken an interest in beauty of design on the part of producer and purchaser.

Finally one of the great merchants of Newark, impressed with his idea, provided a magnificent endowment for carrying it out, and Mr. Dana had the rare satisfaction of seeing his ideal take form during his lifetime. The Newark Museum will be his most tangible monument, bearing on its walls his profile in relief. But the tributes to him indicate that his real monument is one not made with hands. They come from every quarter.

The Nation, regarded as a radical journal, says, "In the death of John Cotton Dana, 'the First Citizen of Newark,' the United States loses one of the very foremost of its liberal leaders. * * * In theory a philosophical anarchist, he was a free man in thought and action, a constant inspiration to the thousands of men and women who knew him personally and to other hundreds of thousands who knew only his work. He was in the true sense one of the makers of modern America." Forbes, a financial magazine, says, "He was among America's foremost proponents of art in industry. With the eye and intuition of a prophet he foresaw its worth- whileness long before it appealed even to progressive business men. With the zeal of a crusader he labored to arouse industry to the potentialities of infusing into modern products the finest heritage left by the master minds all through the long history of art." Retailing, a journal of commerce, heads its editorial, "A Crusader of Art in Industry." The Art News, after quoting the librarian of Pratt Institute in speaking of him as "a librarian whose contribution to the profession by precept, example, distinguished service, conspicuous leadership, original enterprise, and brilliant achievement deserves the acclaim of his fellows," goes on to say, "Mr. Dana's contributions to the museum field were no less important. He introduced into the museum the same ideal of service which guided him in his library work. No museum director has done more than he to abolish the gloom of the museum and to create an institution which should serve the public and be inviting to it; he was the pioneer of art in industry among American museum directors, and his showing of modern German decorative art in the Newark Museum in 1921 was the first museum exhibit of contemporary design in this country; his interest in contemporary American painting and sculpture had wide influence upon the attitude of museums and collectors; his policy of lending museum exhibits to schools, studios, factories, and individuals has been widely copied." The Christian Science Monitor, heading its editorial, "He Served The Public," says, "He became early in his career a national figure, and in time an international authority on ways of teaching the public how to make use of books for their own cultural development and business advancement. His intense activity and enthusiasm battered down all the objections and limitations that civil authorities too often impose upon library workers. Slowly at first, but with a resistlessly accumulating momentum, Mr. Dana set in motion the idea that industrial and cultural activities are alike inseparable from art." The World says, "Mr. Dana proved in his career and by his accomplished work that a great librarian can be the leading spirit in his community. He was known in all the libraries of the world for his eager, restless, striving mind; his way of remaining forever dissatisfied with present methods; his gift of interesting other men in his work." The Post says, "His influence in humanizing what not so many years ago was the cloistered retreat of the scholar was incalculable. He both inspired and symbolized in his own career the great change which has come over library management in the three decades he was so closely identified with it." The Herald Tribune, under the heading, "Prophet and Pioneer," says, "It is rare that so radical an innovator as John Cotton Dana is recognized as the dean of his profession in his own lifetime. But there was no doubt that Mr. Dana was not only the first citizen of Newark, but America's leading and most exciting librarian. He broke old conventions wholesale, and thousands of librarians from Eastport to San Diego serve their communities with an enthusiasm and success which they owe to his example. * * * John Cotton Dana was a prophet honored in his own lifetime, in his own country." The Times says, "Mr. Dana was a famous librarian, but he was much more than that. Not lightly or inadvisedly was the title, 'The First Citizen of Newark,' conferred upon him long ago. * * * Withal he carried into his labors of every kind—and his versatility was as marked as his ability—a quickening enthusiasm and a genial and just appreciation of all about him who were doing good work, which won him friendship as well as admiration. The library world will not soon look upon his like again."

CLASS OF 1879

FBANK DENNIS STANLEY died July 27, 1929, at the home of a daughter in Waycross, Ga.

The son of Dennis and Flavilla L. (Aldrich) Stanley, he was born in Sherbrooke, Que., March 24, 1854. In his early boyhood the family removed to Lancaster, N. H., and he fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department in the public schools of that town, by private study, and at Lancaster Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)

From May, 1879 (before graduation), to December, he was at Longueuil, Que., as assistant engineer on railroad construction. In January, 1880, he went to Frankfort, Mich., where he was engaged for a time on a railroad survey and then in lumbering. He was twice elected county surveyor of Benzie county, declining a third election, and surveyed and built two short lines of railroad, the Arcadia and Aubecies and the Maistee and Luther. In 1887 he removed to Evanston, 111., and in December, 1889, to Spokane, Wash. Here he followed a general engineering practice, and was for over ten years United States deputy mineral surveyor for Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska, gradually giving most of his time to mineral work. In October, 1903, he removed to Baker, Oregon, and was engaged in lumber business to 1909. In 1917 he bought a farm at Hermiston, Oregon, but farm life proved too arduous, and he sold out and removed to Portland, Oregon, in September, 1922. His later years have seen much ill health, and he moved to Florida two or three years ago, and made his home at Jacksonville, whence he was taken shortly before his decease to his daughter's home.

Mr. Stanley was three times married. October 2, 1880, he was married to Mary F. Carleton of Lunenburg, Vt., who died August 26, 1886. They had three children. September 6, 1887, he was married to Carrie E. Adams of Greenville, 111., who died September 23,1901. By this marriage there were five children. In 1909 he was married to Anna L. Swett of Cedar Rapids, lowa, who, it is thought, survives him. He leaves four sons and four daughters, and sundry grandchildren.

The class "Annals," published in 1924, contain the following: "Stanley's business and natural inclination have always caused him to lead a very active and strenuous life in the open and on the frontier, and wherever he has roamed he has been highly regarded by all with whom he came in contact."

CLASS OF 1881

CHARLES WILLOUGHBY HEALEY died June 30, 1929, at the home of a relative in Hampton, N. H., where he had been ill for over two years.

He was born in Stratham, N. H., December 29, 1860, and was a member of the class in the Chandler Scientific Department through the course.

He entered upon his life work as civil engineer immediately after graduation. His various positions, so far as they appear in the reports of his class, are as follows: With the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba R. R. in North Dakota, 1881-2; with the Green Cove Springs and Melrose R. R. in Florida, 1882-5; with the Jacksonville, Tampa, and Key West R. R. in Florida, 1885-9; with the Louisville and Nashville R. R., 1889-92; with the Lancaster and Baltimore R. R., 1892-5; with the Atlantic and Danville R. R. in Virginia, 1895-9; with the street department of Havana, Cuba, December, 1899, to July, 1900; with the International Boundary Commission on the boundary line between Mexico and the United States, 1900-02; intermittently with the St. Louis and San Francisco R. R., 1902-11; with a power company in Keokuk, lowa, 1911-13; on various work in New England, 1913-16. Since the last date he does not seem to have been in active employment. He never married.

CHARLES SUMNEK WAKD died at the hospital in Flushing, N. Y., July 28,1929, following an operation for gall stones on the 25th.

He was born in Danville, Vt., November 3, 1858, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he entered the furniture business with his father in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and continued there until February, 1883, when he became general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Lexington, Ky. He remained there for a year and a half, and then took a similar position at New Britain, Conn., where he remained until 1890. He was then secretary at Grand Bapids, Mich., 1890-7, and at Minneapolis, Minn., 1897-8, and then field secretary for the Northwest with headquarters at Minneapolis, 1898-1901. Having shown marked ability in the financial side of the work, he was appointed in 1901 one of the secretaries of the International Committee, having specially in charge the raising of building and maintenance funds. His office was in Chicago until 1910, and then in New York city. During the World War, while still connected with the Y. M. C. A., he engaged actively in many other war enterprises, and is credited with having raised approximately a half-billion dollars at this period for the Y. M. C. A., the Bed Cross, and other organizations. He was director-general of the first Red Cross campaign and a member of the United States Food Administration Board under Mr. Hoover. In 1919 he retired from the Y. M. C. A. and became the head of a firm of specialists in financial organization for philanthopic purposes, whose most recent name was Ward, Wells, and Dreshman. In this field he has perhaps been the leading figure, and more than any other man can be called the originator of intensive drives in the raising of funds for benevolent purposes. May 16, 1928, he was disabled by an automobile accident which kept him from his office nearly a year.

May 25, 1882, Mr. Ward was married to Bessie E. Randall of Danville, Vt., who died August 25, 1928. Three daughters survive their parents.

CLASS OF 1885

ELAM LEWIS CLARKE died at his home, 703 North Sheridan Road, Waukegan, 111., on May 14, 1929, following a sudden attack of pneumonia.

He was born in Waukegan, 111., on October 7, 1861, the son of Isaac Lewis (Dartmouth '4B) and Lemira Meade (Dean) Clarke. His father was the principal of the old Waukegan Academy, and when the Civil War broke out he helped to organize the 96th Illinois Regiment, served as lieutenant colonel, and was killed at the battle of Chiekamauga.

After his father's death Elam removed with his mother to Grafton, Vt., where his youth was spent.

He prepared for college at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt., and entered Dartmouth in the class of 'B5. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, president of his class, and editor of the Aegis. At the end of his sophomore year he transferred his college course to Brown University, where he graduated in the class of 'B5.

After his graduation he returned to Waukegan and studied law in the office of his uncle, Judge Francis E. Clarke (Dartmouth '51.)

He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and began the practice of his profession in Chicago, where he remained until 1896, when he returned to Waukegan to become a partner with his uncle, Judge Clarke. This partnership continued until the death of the latter in 1899. Since that time Mr. Clarke continued in active practice until his death.

His friendly spirit, legal ability, sound common sense, and great interest in public affairs won for him the high esteem of all who knew him, and he was frequently called to fill positions of responsibility and prominence.

Among his many civic activities he served as president of the board of education of Waukegan township high school; president of the board of education of Waukegan city schools; president of the Waukegan Public Library; president of the Waukegan Chamber of Commerce; and a director of the First National Bank of Waukegan.

Perhaps his outstanding work as a lawyer, which stamped him as one of the leading attorneys of Illinois, was his service as a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois, 1920-1922, where lie served as chairman of the important Committee of Phraseology, which involved a great deal of painstaking care and responsibility.

He also served as a member of the Illinois State Bar Association on the Committee for Uniform Laws.

On June 24, 1903, he married Georgia S. Douglas.

He is survived by his wife, one son, Lewis Douglas Clarke (Dartmouth '29), and a daughter, Sylvia Clarke.

Both Mr. Clarke and his wife were very much interested in the cultivation of flowers, and he had served as president of the Glen Flora County Club.

Elam Clarke was a fine type of an able, public-spirited, and useful citizen, who has left a lasting impression not only upon the citizens of the community among whom he had dwelt so long, but upon the membership of the two colleges, to both of which he was always a loyal friend and supporter.

An intimate associate of his in his practice of law pays this remarkable tribute to him,"I never heard him speak a disrespectful word against any man."

CLASS OF 1886

WILLIAM MOORE HATCH or "Will," as his many friends called him, was born at Strafford, Vt., on the 28th day of April, 1864, and died suddenly of angina pectoris on August 23, 1929, after a short address in connection with the dedication of the Morrill Memorial Library in his native town. As he had lived so he died.

He was the son of Henry Chandler and Mary Ann (Moore) Hatch, and a younger brother of H. Lee Hatch of Dartmouth 'B4. One of the most significant features of his early years was the influence of Senator Justin S. Morrill, who was a near neighbor and friend. No doubt it was this contact which was largely responsible for the young man's educational aspirations early Washington career.

"Will" Hatch was fitted for college in the schools of Strafford and at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. Here he was the pioneer for a number of Strafford lads' who followed him to K. U. A. and subsequently to Dartmouth College. In later life he became a trustee of the institution and an important factor in the shaping of its policies and in its control. He was more than a name on the front page of the catalogue. His was a personality to be reckoned with in the plans and purposes of the school.

He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1886. Here he manifested a genius for fellowship. He was a good mixer, wholesome and without pretense, a steadfast friend to everybody, and instinctively sought as a leader in class affairs. His interest was less in scholarship than it was in the good of those around him. He had a taste for public service. The example of the senator at home was not lost on the student. He was class president, and after graduation class secretary for more than twenty-five years. He was an influential member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and a founder of the Sphinx whom subsequent members delighted to call "Father" Hatch.

The man was loyal to the core. Loyalty was the air he breathed. It appeared in every relation of his life. Loyalty to home and friends, loyalty to town and state and country, loyalty to classmates and to college, loyalty to business associates and to idealsall these were aspects of a devoted life. The fidelity and even the sacrifice with which he stood by men not always worthy of his confidence, the earnestness of his efforts to redeem men from the results of their own weakness, constitute a chapter in his life known only to those who knew him best. In early life he became a member of the Congregational church at home. But his Christianity was anything but puritanic or denominational. The proof of his faith was in what he did for others.

His interest in his college never waned. And his was not the fruitless concern of the dreamer, but the practical care that shoulders burdens for the common welfare. He was not only secretary for his class, but also its representative on the Alumni Council and its agent in the collection of the Alumni Fund. He kept in touch with college policies, and was always ready and equipped to meet situations with hope and enthusiasm. He knew the men who were responsible for college purposes and ideals. If Dartmouth holds an enviable reputation for the fidelity of her alumni, it is to such men as "Will" Hatch that we must look for its source. He not only saw the new Dartmouth grow out of the old, but he was a part of the transformation. His was the Dartmouth spirit that begat the Dartmouth spirit in everything he touched.

From college he went to Washington, D. C., where he remained for fifteen years in the employ of the government, first as a clerk in the Patent Office and later as connected with the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he was also Chinese inspector for the port of Boston. While in Washington he studied law at Columbian (now George Washington) University, was admitted to the bar, but did not engage in practice for any length of time, using the experience rather as equipment for the work he expected to do. In 1903 he became connected with the publishing house of Silver, Burdett, and Company, where he remained for the last half of his active life, retiring about two years ago. In this connection of twenty-five years he became secretary and vice-president of the company, in whose interest he made three trips around the world besides many to the Orient. In 1900 he moved to Lexington, Mass., and eight years later to Arlington, which was his abode for the rest of his life.

The genial nature of the man, with a freshness of spirit that never outgrew the boy, steadied by his business experience and practical turn of mind, marked him for community service and membership in clubs and organizations wherever he went. In Arlington he became a member of the school board. In Boston he joined the City Club and the University Club, and was active in Rotary. He was a member of the Japanese Society, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a 32d-degree Mason; and all this without sacrificing the deeper intimacies of personal ties and friendships. With his classmates in and around Boston he was a center of affection.

Nothing in his life was more touching than his fidelity to the old home in Vermont. There he rarely failed to spend some part of each year—with his people so long as they remained, and in a home of his own when they had passed away. AH through the years he kept in touch with the home folks. His last day on earth was largely spent in meeting and greeting his old friends and neighbors. In 1906 he had represented them in the state legislature. For two years, 1908-10, he had served on the governor's staff. It was fitting that the end should come as it did, in the place where he was born, on an occasion which in so many ways reflected the influences which had shaped his career and which he had so well embodied, and after he had spoken words which expressed a fitting farewell to all that had been nearest and dearest to a true man and a useful life.

February 16, 1891, William Moore Hatch was married to Mary P. Sampson of Washington, D. C. Besides his widow, he is survived by two daughters, Louise (Mrs. Clift E. Richards) and Eleanor (Mrs. John Kennedy McCormick), three grandchildren, Eleanor, John Kennedy, Jr., and Mary, four nieces, and one nephew.

He sleeps in the town where he was born, and many are the mourners who go about the streets both of the little town among the Vermont hills as well as of the great cities where he has played so worthy a part in the affairs of men. L. O. WILLIAMS

CLASS OF 1889

GEORGE RAT CHAMBERLAIN died in Ithaca, N. Y., July 15, 1929, after an illness of more than two years.

He was born in East Corinth, Vt., October 10, 1865, the son of James H. and Adeline E. (Smart) Chamberlain. He prepared for college in the academies at Bradford and St. Johnsbury, Vt. At the end of freshman year he transferred to Cornell to take the course in engineering. His work was interrupted by his mother's death, but returning, he graduated (M.E.) in 1891, and entered the Westinghouse factory at Pittsburgh. A long illness necessitated a change and—to quote his own words—he "began the serious study of art." From 1892 until 1895 he was at the Art Students League in New York, of which he became a "member" in 1895, was elected to the board of control the following year, and was its trustee in the Fine Art Society for 1897-8. Until 1902 he did "black and white" illustrating, mostly of technical books. He was much employed by Dean Lj H. Bailey as illustrator of his monumental volumes. He also made a few cartoons of a political nature. In 1902 he returned to Cornell as instructor in industrial drawing and art in Sibley College. In 1906 he was transferred to the College of Architecture, as instructor, and later professor, of freehand drawing and there he remained. His vacations were devoted to painting.

Oil January 24, 1903, Chamberlain married Miss Grace N. Caldwell, who survives him. There were no children. Mrs. Chamberlain is the daughter of the late George Chapman Caldwell, who was the head of the department of chemistry and one of the original group of professors selected by Andrew D. White when the University was started in 1868.

CLASS OF 1892

ON August 20, 1929, MARSHALL PUTNAM THOMPSON died in Brookline, Mass., where he had resided for the past twenty years. He had been in poor health for some years, and for the last two years he had been confined to his room and his wheel chair.

Thompson was born in Lawrence, Mass., January 24, 1869, the son of William Luther (Dartmouth 1858) and Katherine Putnam (Marshall) Thompson, and fitted for Dartmouth in the-schools of that city. During his college course, he specialized in the English branches, and was a frequent contributor to the Dartmouth Literary Monthly. He was class poet for the commencement exercises.

After graduation, Thompson went abroad, and took the course of Romanes Lectures at Oxford. On his return to this country, he entered the Harvard Law School, was graduated in 1897, and established a law office in State St., Boston, where he practiced his profession as long as his health permitted. He never lost his interest in literary matters, published many short stories, lectured on history, and was a contributor to the NorthAmerican Review. As an avocation, Thompson devoted much time to genealogical study. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of 1812, Loyal Legion, Society of the Colonial Wars, and other patriotic and genealogical societies. During the war, he was state chairman of the Minute Man Committee of the Sons of the Revolution, a committee which distributed outfits to the value of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

June 19, 1907, Thompson was married to Clara Collins Southworth, of Springfield, Massachusetts, who survives him.

Thompson was always interested in Dartmouth doings and in Dartmouth men. In the earlier days of the Tuck School, he delivered a two-weeks lecture course in two succeeding years. He was a consistent attendant at Dartmouth meetings as long as his health permitted, and was a contributor to her needs as long as he lived.

CLASS OF 1894

THE decease of Berton Howard makes the tenth death in the class of 1894. To Mr. Elgin A. Jones of the class of 1874, the writer is indebted for the following facts:

"BEKTON CLARENCE HOWABD, a native and lifelong resident of Marlow, died suddenly while at work at the Methodist church in that town Saturday, September 28. He had been working there Friday, and it is probable that he died that afternoon, but was not missed until sometime Saturday. He was the son of George H. and Martha (Watts) Howard, and was born in Marlow February 26, 1871. His parents and sister, Eva Howard Washburn, are all dead. He was educated in the Marlow schools, and graduated at Dartmouth with the class of 1894. He was an apt student, and possessed a retentive memory, and as he was a great reader he became well informed in almost every subject, especially in political history. Being somewhat peculiar in many ways he had never married. He was prominent locally in the Grange and quite active in town, taking much interest in its library. Relatives surviving him are uncles and aunts."

Howard was an intensely loyal classmate. We all realized keenly his handicaps, and it was a great pleasure to see him at our reunions. He seemed especially to enjoy our thirty-fifth anniversary reunion in June. Even more than the reunions, he delighted in attending the dinners which Matt Jones so kindly provides for us in October of each year. In last report he says: "I was at Matt's round-up, and it was one of the nights that make life worth living." Charles Merrill gives the following incident of our last reunion in its conversational form: Merrill: "How are you feeling these days?" Howard: "Pretty well, though I cannot walk as far as I used to. However, I did walk over to Walpole to the Grange the other night and back." Merrill: "How far is that?" Howard: "About nine miles each way." Not bad for a man nearly sixty.

In spite ef all his adversity, Howard was an optimist at heart. His happy and buoyant spirit rose above the "blows of circumstance." In the undergraduate years, he bore the additional burden of self-support. In the later days, when what we call success and distinction were denied, he took the citizen's part in the affairs of his home town. In these local activities, his wide and discriminating reading served the community well. It may be safe to say that few, if any, members of the class, were wider or more systematic general readers. Although it was life's great compensation, it was, nevertheless, his greatest infirmity that he was a man of books instead of a man of affairs among men. It kept him from forcing his way forward. Sincere, brave, tender, and true, his intrinsic worth was recognized by his classmates, who cherish his memory, not unmindful of the deprivations that would have depressed and overwhelmed a weaker spirit. HENEY N. HURD

CLASS OF 1900

WILLIAM HENRY COOK was found dead in his automobile by a resident of Waterville, Me., on the evening of August one. The lights were on and the motor was running. For several years he had been suffering from a weak heart. Evidently he was overcome by a sudden attack and stopped his car, hoping to recover.

The funeral was held in the Congregational church at Waterville, and the body taken to South Norwalk, Conn., for burial.

If we remember correctly, Bill had a brother who died from the same trouble.

Bill leaves a wife, who was a resident of South Norwalk.

It is not an easy thing to pay in cold type a fitting tribute to Bill Cook. One has to erase the years and remember him in undergraduate days. His was the spirit of eternal youth. Friends he had in great abundance and no enemies. Bill came to Dartmouth from the Chelsea High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and the Sphinx senior society. For four years he played on the varsity baseball team and was also on the class football squad. Short, stout, and smiling, we can still see him coming across the campus from Reed Hall. By steady and persistent work he became a star pitcher, especially during his junior and senior years. We always felt that this was due to good headwork and nerves that were finely balanced, rather than to what is known as the wizardy of the sport.

Bill was a good scholar of the steady-going variety. Life was a game to him throughout its whole extent. He never got excited, and, while he may have worried at times, his career in the hotel business was one of continued success, and we believe and hope, with a minimum of worry. His first hotel connection was with the old Fifth Avenue Hotel; then came his long association with the Prince George, where we all saw him and where he had a very large group of friends. Then he became associated with Nat Barrows, and for the last eighteen years he ran the Elmwood Hotel, of which he was part owner, with great success. He spent his leisure moments in playing golf, a game in which he was unusually proficient, until a weak heart prevented its continuance.

There was no question of Bill's loyalty to the class and his interest in the College and in his classmates. He was not inclined to take a very active part in alumni or class affairs, but we could always count on his constant cooperation.

We are inclined to believe that his change of residence from New York to Waterville added many years to his life. Nat Barrows will miss him, for they have been constant companions for many and many a year. There was always a hearty welcome for any of us who could go to Waterville, and the Secretary remembers more than one delightful visit with the Cook family.

Every one will miss Billy Cook, but for Mm there is now no more anxiety and pain. And so our ranks grow thinner and thinner with the departure of so many men. It is going to leave a void which, of course, can never be filled. Bill Cook will be among those to whom we will pay our tribute at our thirtieth reunion with more than the usual degree of sadness and regret.

CLASS OF 1910

JOHN HENRY FIELD, JR., died very suddenly September 15, 1929, at Nashua, N. H., where he had gone for a week-end visit with his father. Many of his old friends saw him playing golf at the Nashua Country Club on Saturday afternoon, September 14, his usual cheery self. After the game he mentioned the fact that his throat was a bit sore, and during the evening it became much worse, developing into a septic sore throat. In spite of the best medical attention, the disease gained such headway that it was impossible to save him.

Jack was only forty years old, having been born in Nashua, N. H., July 28, 1889, a son of John Henry and Catherine (Sullivan) Field. He was prepared for Dartmouth in the Nashua public schools, and entered college in the fall of 1906, being preceded there by his older brother Thomas S. 'O7 (Medical 1910). Another link in the chain of his Dartmouth fellowship was forged by the marriage of his older sister, Mary, and Ralph E. Sexton 1904. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and Dragon.

On leaving college he went to Chicago, where he started to learn the packing business from the bottom with Swift and Company. There his ability was soon evident, and promotion was rapid, but Jack seemed always to have the love of New England and home in his heart, so when an opportunity to get back East presented itself, he seized the chance, and his home city welcomed him back in the sales department of the North East Metal Culvert Company, where he remained until the outbreak of the war.

At the first call to the colors he applied for admission to the Plattsburg Training Camp, from which he was commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry. Assigned to duty with the 78th Division, he was soon overseas, and saw active service during the duration of the war. His service record was brilliant, though he never cared to have it mentioned. He was cited for gallantry in action at Belleau Wood, and later decorated with the D.S.C.

Returning from France, he started with Halsey, Stuart, and Company as a bond salesman, in which capacity his success was marked. Within a short time he was made assistant manager of the Boston office of that house, which position he filled to the time of his death.

In 1921 he married Anne Lane of Ashmont, Mass., who survives him, with their three children, John H., 3d, William, and Anne Catherine.

We of 1910 will long remember Jack for his cheery smile and his sincere friendliness. The circle of his friendships has widened through the years, but we will always feel that—next to his family—Dartmouth and the class had first place in his affections. Thus feeling him one of us, we extend to his wife and entire family circle the affectionate sympathy of all "Tenners."

CLASS OF 1913

FREDERICK MICHAEL GANNON died at Colorado Springs, Colo., on July 19, 1929, following a surgical operation.

Fred was born in Concord, N. H., December 29, 1889, attended the public schools there, and graduated from the Concord High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, business manager of The Dartmouth, president of the Press Club, secretary of the Inter-Fraternity Council, winner in the non-varsity doubles in tennis his junior year, and a member of the Webster Club.

After graduating with the class of 1913, he joined the business staff of the Crowell Publishing Company, publishers of the AmericanMagazine, Woman's Home Companion, and Collier's Weekly. Later he was an advertising representative of McCall's Magazine.

During the World War, he went overseas as first lieutenant of B Battery, 304 th Field Artillery, of the 77th Division. He returned in command of the battery in May, 1919, and was commissioned a major in the Officers Reserve Corps.

Since 1920 he had been advertising manager of the Cannon Mills, manufacturers of cotton textiles with offices in New York. In 1926 his health began to fail, and on the advice of his physician he went West to seek improvement. Since that time he had resided in Arizona and Colorado.

Surviving him are the widow, MariaElise, nee Johnson; his mother, Sarah M. Gannon of Concord, N. H., four brothers, Joseph W., Dartmouth '99, of New York; George F. of Beverly, Mass., Henry of Concord, N. H., and Paul of South Orange, N. J., and three sisters, Mrs. Mary G. Hill of Concord, N. H., Miss Helen L. of Brookline, and Mrs. Arthur Byers of West Newton, Mass.

In his will he left a trust fund to provide a life income for his widow, a similar trust fund for his mother, and bequests to other relatives.

CLASS OF 1922

JOHN THEODOBE DALTON died on June 19, 1929, at Saranae Lake, N. Y., where he had been living for several years in the interest of his health.

He was born December 27, 1899, at Vancouver, Wash., the son of Dr. Ernest C. and Mrs. Barbara (Serlinger) Dalton. He entered the class of 1922 at the beginning of sophomore year after a freshman year at lowa State University, and he remained at Dartmouth until the end of junior year.

After leaving college Jack engaged in various business occupations, but in 1926 he was forced to give up business because of his health. The rest of his life was spent in a losing battle to regain his strength. During this time he was interested in music, and one of his compositions, "Land of Dreams," was to have been given at the Dartmouth Club of New York last winter.

CLASS OF 1924

A SHORT notice of the untimely death of WENDELL HOSLET at Montevideo, Uruguay, appeared in the June issue the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The class take this opportunity to express their deep regret at his passing, and to thank his sister, Mrs. W. Meisner of Springfield, for this more complete account.

One year ago he left Harrisburg for Buenos Aires as head of the valuation department of Gannett, Seelye, and Fleming, in the interests of that company's large holdings in South America. Upon returning from an estimating trip to Brazil, he and the four other men accompanying him arrived at Montevideo early on the morning of March 26. That afternoon they decided to take a swim at a nearby beach in the few hours' interval before their boat left for Buenos Aires. Wendell, followed by the others, ran down the beach and was the first to dive in. He was not missed as the others rushed by. When they came to the surface, they discovered that he was conscious, though unable to move his legs.

At the hospital he was found to have broken his neck, and paralyzed his body to within a few inches of his heart. Attending physicians in consultation first decided to operate, then quickly foresaw there was no hope of saving his life. He died early in the morning of March 27.

The S. S. Southern Cross brought his body to the United States April 23. Funeral services were held April 27 at Byron's Funeral Home, Springfield, Mass.

He was graduated with a B. S. degree, and the following year received a C. E. from Thayer School. He was a member of Gamma Alpha.

Medical School

CLASS OF 1891

DR. ARTHUR JOHN PITMAN died suddenly of angina pectoris at his home in Manchester, N. H., July 14, 1929.

He was born in Alexandria, N. H., July 4, 1868, the son of George T. and Aurilla M. (Brock) Pitman. The family moved to Barnstead, N. H., when he was about nine years old, and he acquired his early education in the common schools of Barnstead, the high school at Pittsfield, and the Austin-Cate Academy of Strafford, N. H.

After obtaining his medical degree he did graduate work at Harvard, and fulfilled hospital appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the State Hospital at Tewksbury, Mass. In 1892 he began private practice at Auburn, N. H., but removed the next year to Candia, N. H., where he was actively and successfully engaged in general country practice. In 1903 he spent some time in graduate work in Boston and New York. In 1914 he removed to Manchester, where he remained in the active practice of medicine and surgery until his decease. He was assistant surgeon at Beacon Hill Hospital from 1917 to 1926, and at Notre Dame Hospital from 1926 until his death.

He was a member of the county and state medical societies and of the American Medical Association, and was president of the Manchester Medical Association in 1927-8. He was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows organizations of Candia and of the First Congregational church of Manchester. In his student days he became connected with the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity.

April 24, 1892, Dr. Pitman was married to Ida M., daughter of Milo W. and Mary E. (Pendergast) Bunker of Barnstead, N. H., who survives him. They had one child, who died in infancy.

JOHN COTTON DANA