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 1872

EDWARD DEAN MERRILL died from uremic poisoning at Ludlow, Vt., February 20, 1929.

The son of George Alfred and Caroline A. (Deavitt) Merrill, lie was born in Bath, N. H., October 13, 1851. His father became a man of prominence in business and political affairs in Vermont, and was superintendent of the Rutland and New London Northern Railroads. The son prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Rutland (Vt.) High School, and was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi.)

After graduation he was engaged in business for a time, and then read law at Rutland and was admitted to the bar in March, 1882. He practiced for a short time at Rutland and at St. Paul, Minn. Since 1896 he has lived in Vermont, most of the time in Rutland, and has passed a quiet life, engaged in farming and other pursuits.

Mr. Merrill never married. He is survived by three brothers, John F. of Chicago, Samuel W. of Boston, and James A. of Rutland.

CLASS OF 1876

Thomas Flint died in Concord, N. H., February 14, 1929. The following outline of his life is taken from Samuel Merrill's Biographical Sketches:

"Thomas Flint was born 7th September, 1854, in Lyndon, Vt„ the son of Lyman Thomas and Hannah Wilmarth (Willard) Flint. His boyhood was passed in Concord, N. H., and he prepared for college at the Concord High School.

"From 1876 to 1884 Flint was classical master at Ury House School, Philadelphia, the last four years being headmaster. He was then for one year principal of the Stow, Mass., High School, and for two years principal of the Latin School at Atchison, Kans. After an extended visit to Europe he took a position as teacher of classics in the Brooklyn, N. Y., High School in 1889, at the invitation of Harry F. Towle. From this position he was retired at his own request in 1917. His chief diversion for many years has been the study of Carlyle's French Revolution, and its many literary and historical references and allusions . . . His father graduated at Dartmouth in 1842, and his brother, William Willard Flint, graduated in 1871."

Flint was one of the most definite personalities in the '76 group, one of those most deeply impressed in the memories of college days, and he was one who had not a little to do with giving to other men an added personal and outstanding quality. No one, perhaps, gave or fixed so many nicknames as he, and certainly none used them with such jocularity and zest.

He was one of the most highly gifted men in the class, especially in his appreciative and accurate apprehension of languages and literature. It seems regrettable that his extensive notes on Carlyle's French Revolution should not have been preserved in printed form.

In considering him as a teacher of the classics, the thought arises what a pleasure it would have been to be present in his classes and hear him expatiate on some doubtful point of the text, some vague allusion, some compelling music in the rhythm, or the sustained grandeur and beauty of some famous passage.

He had an effectiveness in speaking all his own, in part grounded in his keen ppreciations in the realm of beauty and especially of euphonious and adequate expression. The music of things in its deeper significances was one of his lifelong joys.

Hint was an interesting correspondent, and the pleasure given by his communications was enhanced by the charmingly unique quality of his chirography.

The following paragraphs are taken from a notice which appeared in the Concord DailyMonitor, date of February 15.

"His valuable library of over a thousand volumes was given to the Brooklyn Public Library, of which his Dartmouth classmate, Dr. Frank P. Hill, is chief librarian. This gift was recognized as of the greatest value to the library, since it consisted almost wholly of works pertaining to Thomas Carlyle and filled many gaps existing before that time in the library's Carlyliana.

"Mr. Flint was always a successful teacher, full of his subjects, accurate and interesting. He will be remembered by a large number of the graduates of the Boys' High School of Brooklyn, many of whom have been prominent in different walks of life.

"Mr. Flint was never married. The surviving members of his family are a brother, William W. Flint of this city, and a sister, Miss Helen C. Flint of South Hadley, Mass." He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

CLASS OF 1877

William Henry Moore died of acute Bright's disease at the city hospital in Portsmouth, N. H., February 26, 1929.

He was born in Portsmouth, March 12, 1857, his father being Frederick W. Moore, and graduated from the city high school in 1873. His stay in college was very short, as he did not complete the first term of freshman year.

From 1875 to 1882 he was at sea, a part of the time in the navy, and a part on merchant vessels. He was then engaged in newspaper work in Portsmouth for a good many years, during which period he served as city clerk in 1896, 1897, 1898, and 1900. In more recent years he served as bookkeeper for several concerns in the city, but had not of late been regularly employed.

January 5, 1887, he was married to Arabel 8., daughter of James W. Bowles of Portsmouth, who died January 17,1914. They had no children.

CLASS OF 1878

Rev. Josiah Alonzo Wood died January 22, 1929, in Centralia, Va„ where he had made his home in recent years.

Mr. Wood was born in Morristown, Vt., November 6, 1852, son of Leonard and Angeline G. (Ripley) Wood. He claimed direct descent from three of the most conspicuous Mayflower passengers. He entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year by transfer from the University of Vermont. During his course he taught winter schools at Milton, Vt., and Boothbay, Me.

After graduation he taught successively for brief terms at Milan and DeKalb City, 111., and Bristol, Vt. He then entered Union Seminary, graduating from that institution in 1884, and soon after assumed the pastorate of the Congregational church at Durand, Wis. Later he went for a year of advanced study to Andover Seminary, and afterwards filled pastorates at Baraboo, Wis., and Sauk City, Minn. But throughout his teaching and ministerial experience, intervals of ill health had driven him back to farming, and in 1900, driven by the same misfortune, he retired ("stepped down," as he was wont to express it) from the ministry and took up his abode in Brooklyn, entering upon the real estate business in New York in partnership with his classmate, Charles E. Cloud. The firm was dissolved in 1913, after which Mr. Wood continued in the same business in Brooklyn until 1922, when he bought a small farm in Centralia, Va., and settled there. He was influenced to take this step largely by the hope that farm life in that mild clime might be beneficial to his son, whose health had been badly shattered during service at the front throughout American participation in the World War. Anxiety and sorrow in this connection are said to have hastened the disease which resulted in Mr. Wood's death.

He was married in 1887 to Miss Martha C. Orlady of Durand, Wis., where he began his ministerial career. Mrs. Wood survives him, as do their two children, the son above referred to and a daughter, now the wife of a Harvard instructor.

Mrs. Wood testifies that he was always keenly interested in Dartmouth, and especially in the men of his own class. In the last week of his life, after a long and painful illness, he was pursued by a fear of losing his belongings, and of two treasures he kept under his pillow one was the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, the other the latest bulletin of Union Seminary.

Classmates will recall other proofs of the interest thus pathetically indicated. In reporting to the secretary of the class from time to time in earlier years he was wont to make quaint and humorous references to any of us he had met or heard from. Thus he gave us a glimpse of Dexter in 1885 (and glimpses of Dexter were rare throughout his career), of Harlow in 1886, of Stickney and Templeton, and again of Dexter, in 1893. A letter written from Brooklyn in response to Edson's solicitation for the Alumni Fund is a good example of his way of expressing himself, and is perhaps not out of place here: "Yours received, and I enclose a small check. While in some respects things are easier, it is a time of debt paying and also considerable support to my soldier son.

"So you have shaken off the dust of the old city! I felt more comfortable to feel you were over in the board rooms. How you must miss Tammany and Hylan and Grace Strahan! Though I suppose you can now sleep with both eyes shut. Well, I expect before winter to be gone where it's warmer, as my son requires it, and I do, too.

"I came here twenty-two years ago, as a disabled minister, and have fought it out in business so long. Sorry on many accounts to leave, but it seems necessary. I like the old city in many ways, and enjoy, if I have any time, her museums, lectures, etc., and then so many close friends are here—choice old stock. Well, I hope you'll enjoy the well-earned 'retirement,' only don't tire yourself out in it. I intend to work only very moderately on a small farm—mainly to feed us two, visit or entertain our two grandchildren, and start off my son in some non-taxing way, if there is one. Isn't that enough?"

At his request his body was cremated and his ashes are to be scattered in the Wood plot in the cemetery of his native town.

Dr. Arthur Eugene Ewing, eminent oculist and ophthalmic surgeon of St. Louis, died January 26, 1029. Dr. Ewing was born in Cartersville, Ga., April 26, 1855, but spent most of his early life in Gadsden, Ala., and was fondly referred to among his intimates in College days as "Alabam." His father was a prohibitionist and an abolitionist, and life in Alabama during and after the Civil War could hardly have been one of extreme serenity. Ewing came to Hanover from that sunny clime, and from a state of society that contrasted as sharply with what he found in Hanover as did the winter climate. And as men from the South were not as common in the college then as now, he looked to the others as strange as they did to him. But his frank and artless ways soon won him the warm friendship of classmates who came to know him.

Ice was a new feature to him, and lie must begin at the beginning to learn to skate, which he did with all the simplicity and freedom from self-consciousness of a child. He was one of the few to spend the winter vacation of freshman year in Hanover. The vacation was longer then than now, to favor the students who taught winter schools. A patch of ice on the river was kept clear of snow by some kind of co-operative enterprise which manifested itself in the person of H. M. Paul of '73, then in Thayer School. He used two horses, and a scraper which he handled much as others would a snow shovel. Ewing and his companions made the most of the uncovered ice. His random lurches and falls occasioned no little merriment, in which he joined as heartily as the onlookers, and thereby won favor, often expert assistance, denied to other novices who showed annoyance when they found themselves objects of amusement. And he learned to skate.

This characteristic of accepting with good humor and without feeling humiliated whatever defeats might befall, while pursuing persistently the learning process, he never lost. He was learning with child-like eagerness to the very last, and few men achieve greater success or derive more happiness in their lifework than he.

On graduation he entered upon the study of law in his home town, and was admitted to the bar of his state, teaching school meantime. But deciding to turn to medicine, he entered St. Louis Medical College, and graduated therefrom in 1883. Even before graduation he became assistant to Dr. John Green, then the leading oculist of that section, and continued in that connection until 1886, when he went for two years to the University of Kiel, Germany, to study diseases of the eye and its surgery. Since that time he has practiced his profession continuously in St. Louis, first in association with Drs. Green and Post during their lifetime, and later with younger associates whom he attached to himself. He served as clinical lecturer on ophthalmology at Washington University from 1895 to 1902, and as head of that department from 1902 to 1921, when he became professor emeritus. The University recently honored him with the degree of Doctor of Science. He wrote frequently for professional publications. In response to a request from the class secretary for mention of published articles some years ago, he sent a partial list of thirty-five titles, all highly technical, some of which had been translated into foreign languages. At the time of his death he was at work upon an article upon glaucoma. He also invented a considerable number of surgical instruments for delicate operations upon the eye.

He was a member of the American Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association, American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology, American College of Surgeons, American Ophthalmological Society, and of many local and regional professional societies; also of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the local University and Country clubs.

Dr. Ewing was present last Commencement at the fifty-year reunion of his class, accompanied by his charming wife, of whom he afterward wrote, "Josephine enjoys the Dartmouth trip more and more every day. We had a great reunion. It will always be a source of pleasure." Mrs. Ewing was Josephine Willard of Chattanooga. They were married in 1891. She survives him, with their two daughters, Margaret Frances and Charlotte Eugina, the former recently returned from abroad, both graduates of Washington University. He had recently bought a new home and looked forward to much enjoyment of it. He also maintained a summer home in Casco Bay, where the family spent a few weeks each summer.

His family and his profession were his life. In congratulating a friend upon the possession of grandchildren, he wrote, "So far this has been denied me, as neither of my daughters has married. However, I am very happy, for no one ever had a more delightful family." His joy in his profession, and incidentally his loyalty to his associates as well as his own modesty, are shown in the following quotation from a recent letter. "I am sending you the elevation for our prospective new eye hospital in connection with Washington University. It is the direct outgrowth of the work of my former associates, Drs. Green and Post, and a colleague, Dr. Wm. A. Schomaker. It has been my dream for this section of the country since I first entered ophthalmology, and if I am spared another two years I will see the dream realized. Also another dream is coming true with regard to St. Luke's Hospital, with which I have been connected about 35 years. A good soul has turned over to us about a million and a half for a research department and general expansion. This means the best possible facilities for fine medical work in the future in this institution. It is a great pleasure to have these things coming to institutions in which one has labored the better part of his lifetime."

Friends are prone to regret that such a man might not have been spared to enjoy the full fruition of his hopes. But who that is thoughtful will not congratulate rather than mourn one of our number who steps out while in the full joy of anticipation. The pity is to linger until anticipation is lost.

Both these men were members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and Wood of Phi Beta Kappa.

CLASS OF 1913

FREEMAN CONANT DOE died February 27, 1929, in New York city at the age of thirtynine. Death was due to heart failure brought on by two attacks of influenza during the past winter.

The son of Charles C. and Ruth (Conant) Doe, he was born in Boston, Mass., on January 5, 1890, and prepared for college at the Lexington high school. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and graduated with the class.

Immediately after graduating he entered the real estate business with the firm of W. H. Ballard and Cos., of which he later became vice-president. Subsequently he resigned his position to become a partner in the firm of Webb and Doe.

At the outbreak of the War he attended the military stores course at the Tuck School in Hanover, and went to the destroyer plant at Squantum, Mass., after enlisting as chief yeoman at the Charlestown Navy Yard on October 20, 1917. He served until January 23, 1919.

In 1926 he sold his home in Lexington, Mass, and went to White Plains, N. Y, continuing in the real estate business with the firm of Thoens and Flaunbacher, where remained until his death.

He married on November 9, 1915, Miss Kuth Wilder of Chicago, who survives him with their two children.

The class extends to "Buck's" family deepest sympathy and shares with them the loss of a real friend and comrade.

CLASS OF 1924

William Moss Morgan, Jr., died suddenly March 6, 1929, at his home at 292 Otis St., West Newton, Mass.

He was born in Brookline, Mass., November 17, 1900, his parents being William Moss and M. Josephine (Black) Morgan. His father is a lawyer with his office in Boston. He prepared for college at Brookline High School, the family having lived in Brookline until their removal to West Newton four years ago.

After graduation he was with the Dennison Manufacturing Company for a time, and since with Sears, Roebuck, and Company. He was a member of the Second Congregational church in West Newton and of the University Club. He is survived by his parents and by a sister, Miss Ruth Morgan.

Medical School

CLASS OF 1885

DB. HORACE JOHN SOULB died January 21, 1929, at his home in Winthrop, Mass.

He was born in Bucksport, Me., September 23, 1859, but his home had been in Winthrop since he was three years old. His medical studies were pursued at Bowdoin and Dartmouth, and he had practiced in Winthrop since soon after his graduation. He was a member of various Masonic bodies and of the Odd Fellows.

He married Margaret L. Cobb, who survives him, with a son and a daughter.