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 1875

JABVIS RICHARDS died of apoplexy December 10, 1928, in Seattle, Wash., where he was visiting with Mrs. Richards.

He was born in Charlestown, N. H., September 14, 1852, the son of Rev. Jonas DeForest (Dartmouth 1836) and Hannah Bartlett (Jarvis) Richards. He fitted for college in the preparatory department of the University of Alabama, where his father was at the time a professor and acting president. His freshman year was taken at the collegiate department of the Lookout Mountain Educational Institutions in Tennessee, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

The first three years after graduation he spent at Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1878. He then entered the Congregational ministry, being pastor at Windsor, Vt., in 1879-81, and then going to South Dakota, where he was for five years a home missionary pastor at Spearfish. The next two years were spent in European study and travel.

Upon his return to America in 1888 he left the ministry, and engaged in cattle raising at Chadron, Neb. In 1900 he became president of the Bijou Ranch Company, and managed the company's large sheep ranch near Simla, Colo. Since December, 1906, his home has been in Denver, Colo., and several years ago he retired from active business, in which he had been very successful. He had a summer home at Ward, Colo. He was a member of the University Club of Denver and the Dartmouth Association of the Great Divide.

May 24, 1900, Mr. Richards was married to Clarice O. Estabrook of Dayton, Ohio, who survives him. They have had no children.

CLASS OF 1876

FRANK HERBERT BROWN died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Claremont, N. H., December 21, 1928. He had been in poor health for several years, and of late closely confined to his house.

He was born in Claremont, February 2, 1854, Ms parents being Oscar Jonas and Lavinia (Porter) Brown. His preparation for the Chandler Scientific Department was obtained mainly at Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mass., and he remained at Dartmouth only one term. He became a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)

After leaving college he studied law, and graduated as LL.B. from Boston University in 1876. For three years he practiced his profession in Concord, N. H., but in 1879 returned to Claremont, and has since been in active and successful practice, having also various business interests.

He was actively interested in civic affairs and in politics, and was town moderator from 1880 to 1890, member of the legislature in 1891 and 1893, and county solicitor from 1899 to 1907 and from 1909 to 1913. He had also served as a member of the Republican state committee, and had an enviable repu- tation throughout the state as a public speaker.

October 9, 1877, Mr. Brown was married to Susan P. Patten of Claremont, who sur- vives him. Their daughter, Mrs. Ruth Por- ter Newell, is a graduate of Smith College in 1900.

The local paper contains the following tribute: "Frank Brown has been rated as one of Claremont's keenest men intellectually. Possessed of a large library, legal, classical, and general, he was an omnivorous reader, a consistent thinker, of quick perception and sane judgments, and mentally stimulating. For many years he had been a liberal supporter of Trinity church." The present secretary of the class has come into the pleasantest relations with Brown, and has highly appreciated his friendliness, faithfulness, and loyalty, and not less his fine abilities.

CLASS OF 1877

On page 174 of the January MAGAZINE in another department was given an account of the career of the late HENRY LYNN MOOEE. That article covered the outline of his life, which does not need further notice here. But to the classmates of "Primus" Moore there is lacking the tribute that we would supply to one whom all remember with affection, who was in college days and since loyal to his class and closely connected with its interests. While it is true, as one of the class has written the Secretary, that none of us foresaw his eminent career in finance, we did expect much from him, and have been gratified at his success and greatly pleased with the service which that success has enabled him to render to the College and to other worthy causes. To the bereaved wife and daughter goes out the sympathy of all the survivors of '77.

CLASS OF 1883

REV. HIKAM QUINTILIAN WABD died December 27, 1928, at Zephyrhills, Fla. Death was caused by an accident, the particulars of which have not been learned.

He was born in Danville, Vt., March 15, 1857. He maintained a high standard of scholarship in college, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

The first year after graduation he was principal of McCollom Institute, Mt. Vernon, N. H. He then studied three years in Chicago Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1887. Entering the Congregational ministry, he was pastor at Pecatonica, 111., 1887-9, and at Royalton, Vt., 1889-92. Assuming a pastorate at Canaan, N. Y., in June, 1892, he was obliged by ill health to leave it after three months, and was then for three years principal of Glenwood Collegiate Institute at Matawan, N. J. He then went South for his health, and raised oranges and lemons in Texas and Louisiana, and taught for a time in Lake Charles College, in the latter state. Returning North in 1900, he was pastor at Bakersfield, Vt., in 1900-3, at Hardwick, Vt., for a few months in the latter year, and at Orford, N. H., in 1904-9. From January to October of 1910 he was pastor at Brookfield, Vt., and then to July, 1911, at St. Johnsbury Center, Vt. He then permanently left the active ministry, and from 1911 to 1915 lived on a farm at Concord, Vt. Going then to Florida, he had been in the citrus fruit and nursery business at Zephyrhills during recent years.

June 20, 1888, Mr. Ward was married to Fannie B. Turner of Bethlehem, N. H., who survives him, with their two sons, Robert Turner, whose home is in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and Henry Hall, who lives in Ohio.

CLASS OF 1904

HENRY ELLIOT WOODWAKD of New Bedford, Mass., died at St. Luke's Hospital, December 14, after an operation for appendicitis.

Henry was forty-seven years old, and actively engaged in his law practice up to within three days of his entry in the hospital. He came to New Bedford in 1907 immediately after passing the state bar examinations. He was born in Somerville, November 17, 1881, the son of the late Henry A. C. Woodward and Mary E. (Hathaway) Woodward, both of New England stock. The greater part of his youth was spent in Lexington, where he attended school, and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1904 with a brilliant record, and graduated later in 1907 from Harvard Law School.

In November, 1913, Mr. Woodward married Miss Helen L. Culver in Taunton, Mass. Three children survive him, Henry 13, Allen Hathaway 12, and Mary 10.

One of Henry's hobbies was a farm, where in late years he had lived with his family at North Rochester, about ten miles out of New Bedford. He was a member of various fraternal organizations, among them Pythagorean Masonic Lodge of Marion.

Henry was the first city solicitor appointed under an act of legislature permitting the mayor of a city to appoint a city solicitor without the necessity of confirmation by either branch of the city government. Aside from a very large criminal practice, he also had a very extensive probate court practice, and probably appeared in probate court in his county as often as any lawyer. An interesting sidelight to Henry's success is the fact that recent law school graduates practicing in New Bedford frequently came to him for advice and counsel. Henry often recalled to them that his first year's receipts were less than $150, and his second year was but little better, and he managed to keep on the right side of the ledger by contributing short stories to magazines.

People in all walks of life were profoundly shocked and saddened when the news of Henry's death became known, and many tributes from the bench and bar and also from city officials have been received as to his esteem and worth in the community.

HONORARY

In the fall of 1877 there came to Dartmouth to do graduate work in mathematics a man havingsome admixtureof negro blood. He remained for two years, and won the high respect of the student body for his evident sincerity of character and his determination to make the most of his opportunity for study. At that time no degrees were awarded at Dartmouth for graduate work, but at the conclusion of his studies, in 1879, he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

This man, JAMES DALLAS BURRUS, died December 5, 1928, at his home in Nashville, Tenn.

He was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., October 14, 1846, and graduated as A. B. from Fisk University, Nashville, in 1875. He is said to have been the first negro graduate of a liberal arts college south of the Mason and Dixon line and the first negro to receive a Master of Arts degree from an accredited college in America. He was in the first class to graduate from Fisk, and was the first negro teacher at that institution. After teaching for some time he entered business, and was for many years a druggist in Nashville. With rigorous economy he saved his money, avowing that in doing so he was working for Fisk University, and carried out this purpose by leaving in his will his entire property to the University to be used in endowment and for the erection of a Burrus Memorial Hall.