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 1868

RAYMOND NOYES died of pneumonia following influenza at Gale Hospital, Haverhill, Mass., March 26, 1929, just twenty-four hours after his wife had succumbed to the same disease.

He was born in Atkinson, N. H., July 18, 1847, the son of William Hildreth and Mary S. (Ayer) Noyes. Most of his boyhood was spent in Haverhill, Mass., where he prepared for college at the fity high school. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

His life since graduation, which has been spent entirely in Haverhill, may be best described by giving his own account of himself, written for the class book published in 1913:

"I left college with no plans, but hungry for work and independence. A job as bookkeeper being offered me in September, 1868, I accepted it eagerly, and have been engaged ever since in some kind of clerical work; from 1868 to 1872 as bookkeeper for a shoe manufacturer and real estate operator; from 1872 to 1876 as clerk in a national bank; from 1877 to 1882 in the employ of the city under the imposing title of secretary of assessors, clerk of overseers of the poor, and collector of taxes; from 1882 to 1888 as bookkeeper in a hat factory; then about a year in a leather firm; and in April, 1889,1 entered the employ of the Haverhill Savings Bank as paying teller. On the death of the treasurer in 1893 I was advanced to that position, and have held, but not eminently filled, it since that time. My only public service has been one term as park commissioner. Unpinched by poverty and unworried by wealth or the wish for wealth, I have lived a frugal, quiet, simple life. Providence has been kind to me and favored me beyond my deserts, but routine work has kept me busy, and I have little of achievement to offer for the class history." To this may be added that he retired from active service in the bank in 1921.

August 25, 1872, Mr. Noyes was married to Laura E. Stockbridge, whose death has been noted above. They had a son and four daughters, all of whom survive their parents.

CLASS of 1876

HEBBERT MARSTON ANDREWS was born September 9, 1851, in Enfield, N. H., the son of Randall and Rhoda Choate (Marston) Andrews. His preparation for college was at Brattleboro High School, Williston Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy. He received the degree of A.B. with the class in 1876..

After graduation from Union Theological Seminary in 1879, Andrews served several churches in New York and New England, and was appointed a Presbyterian missionary to India, in 1890. In 1887 he had married Miss Sara Catherine Hutchinson of Philadelphia. Miss Hutchinson had served five years as a missionary in India and, returning to Philadelphia, had studied medicine. Together Andrews and his wife journeyed to India and continued a varied work there, in its later years mainly educational, till their final return to America in 1913. In 1916 they made their permanent home in Bellingham, Wash. Mrs. Andrews died in August, 1926. Their only child, a daughter, was born in India and died in England, aged fourteen.

It is with unusual emotion that a more personal and appreciative estimate is added to the brief sketch just given, limited somewhat definitely to impressions of the past few years after Andrews had made his home in Bellingham. Correspondence with him ranged through many subjects and was often intimate; the class, the College, politics, religion, reminiscence of missionary days and of travel, the scenery of the west coast of the United States, gardening, local interests and happenings, these and other themes, all, or a portion of them, filling many letters.

His religious convictions were unusually vital, and of a quality to yield comfort, uplift, and refreshment. With him in his religious ardor his wife was perfectly at one, and her worth to him in all their varied experiences was beyond his telling. From the effect of her death, being then in frail health and subject to long periods of extreme feebleness, he did not fully recover. He had, however, even when suffering physically, an elation of spirit grounded in his religious faith, his sense of the wonder and beauty of the world and the worth and joy of living, which kept him from despondency, or even the confines of it, except for the briefest periods.

Few members of the '76 fellowship felt more vitally the class ties. He had his own happy way of referring to classmates—to Barrett ("Rush" as he would put it), Sam Merrill, Abbott, Stimson, and others with whom he happened to be in contact, or whom he specially recalled; and his letters were not only full of loyalties and altogether happy in their material, they were suggestive letters and lingered in the memory.

Why he should have gone so far away from familiar scenes, many have queried. Very likely no classmate will ever know. But it is certain that in his latest days of helplessness he did not lack devoted care and a loving sympathy which was peculiarly dear to him. He died March 16, 1929, at Bellingham, Wash., after a serious illness of two months or more, and a period of impaired health dating back several years. No member of his family was near.

CLASS of 1879

CHARLES DEARBORN BROWN died at his home in Mont Vernon, N. H., September 22, 1928.

He was born in Mont Vernon, December 6, 1850. He was with the class only a part of freshman year, for he was entirely dependent on his own resources, and found the financial burden greater than he could bear. In the fall of 1878 he returned to Hanover, and was for a time a member of the class of 1882, but did not remain long.

Since his college days he has lived continuously in his native town, following the occupation of a farmer. He never married.

CLASS of 1888

JOHN HARSHA JOHNSON died of apoplexy at his home in Dana, Mass., April 1, 1929, after a week's illness.

He was born in Dana, December 9, 1864, the son of Nathaniel L. and Margaret (Harsha) Johnson. He prepared for college at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

In October, 1887, he left college, and began the study of law in the Law School of Boston University, where he graduated in 1889. For the next ten years he practiced his profession in Worcester, Mass. He then returned to his native town, and joined his father in the manufacture of palm leaf products, continuing in this business until recent years. He also continued to practice law, having an office in his residence.

For the last fifteen years he had been a member of the board of selectmen of Dana, and chairman of the board as well as assessor for fourteen. A Democrat in politics, he had been the unsuccessful candidate of his party for representative to the state legislature.

November 19, 1889, Mr. Johnson was married to Flora P., daughter of William and Ellen Jane (Holyoke) Barnes of Norwich, Conn., who survives him, with a daughter, Marion Johnson of Worcester. They had also three sons, two of whom died in infancy and one at the age of eighteen.

A local paper renders this tribute: "The death of Mr. Johnson, than whom none was more intimately acquainted with town affairs or more devoted to town interests, has created an irreparable loss. His broad sympathy and unfailing helpfulness will make the loss keenly felt."

CLASS of 1890

ELMER DAVID SHERBURNE, of 276 Upham St., Melrose, Mass., died on March 10 at a Jamaica Plain hospital after two years' severe illness.

He was born in Concord, N. H., November 5, 1868, the son of Alden Prescott and Henrietta (Hoitt) Sherburne, prepared for college in the Concord schools, and led his class in the high school there, from which he was graduated in 1886. He was the valedictorian at its graduation, and entered Dartmouth the following fall, where again he was the leader of his class and the valedictorian at its commencement exercises. In college he distinguished himself for his musical as well as for his scholastic ability, giving much time to organizing and training a student orchestra, which he conducted with marked ability.

In the fall of 1890 he went to Washington, D. C., where he taught Latin in the Central High School and studied law in the Columbian University Law School, from which he received in 1895 the degree of LL.B. He also received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth the same year, and the following year the degree of LL.M. from the National University Law School.

After six years in Washington he went to Boston, and there practiced law until 1914, when he was appointed an examiner in the federal Department of Justice, a position in which he rendered signal service in solving complicated and long-standing problems in accounting practice. He was repeatedly commended to the Attorney General for his valuable and efficient assistance in bringing the work of the District Court clerks' offices into conformity with the purposes of the Department.

But his health was gradually failing. Only his great determination and courage enabled him to keep at active work until 1927. His illness then became so serious that it wholly incapacitated him and forced his retirement,

From 1898 until his death he resided at Melrose, Mass., where he organized and for many years conducted the Melrose Orchestral Association of Melrose Highlands.

On June 22, 1893, he married Alice Catherine Noerr of Washington, D. C., the daughter of Martin Luther and Frances Lepha (Shedd) Noerr.

He is survived by her, by a son, Eric Noerr Sherburne of Melrose, and by three daughters, Dorothy P. Sherburne of Melrose, Mrs. Ralph Keeling of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Henry T. Hard of Montclair, N. J.

His funeral was held March 13 at the Unitarian church of Melrose.

CLASS of 1896

News has come to the Alumni Records Office of the death by accidental electrocution at Lewiston, Minn., May 12, 1928, of Dr. ARTHUR BERTRAM MOULTON.

Dr. Moulton was born in Durham, N. H., March 19, 1875, the son of Dr. John F. and Martha (Parsons) Moulton. His home when in college was Limington, Me., and he obtained his college preparation at Limington Academy. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

For a long time he has been out of touch with his classmates and the secretary of his class, and it has not been possible to obtain an accurate account of his history since graduation. He seems at first to have been employed as a nurse at the State Hospital at Tewksbury, Mass., and then to have studied medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia and at Baltimore Medical College. Presumably he obtained his medical degree from one of these institutions. For a time he was assistant physician at the Hospital for the Insane at Northampton, Mass., and for a time medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Harrisburg, Pa. Later he appears to have been in private practice at Manchester, N. H., Limington, Me., and Lewiston, Minn. Apparently he was married, for it is reported from Lewiston that his family have removed since his death to Pontiac, Mich.

CLASS of 1904

FRANCIS JOSEPH COLLINS died at his home, 49 Meredith St., Springfield, Mass., on March 27, after an illness of but a couple of days. "Joe" was born in Scotland, July 17, 1880, but his boyhood home was in Worcester, Mass. He was the son of the late Michael and Ellen Collins, and received his preliminary education in the schools of Worcester, and entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year.

While in college Joe covered the affairs of Dartmouth for the Worcester Telegram and after his graduation for a few months allied himself with that newspaper, but early in 1905 he joined the staff of the Springfield Republican, with which paper he had been associated for the last twenty-five years as sports editor. His greatest single story was that written in connection with one of the games of the World Series in 1925, when Washington and Pittsburgh were fighting it out for the World Series. For this story, Joe was presented a handsome gold watch by the National Baseball Writers Association, which judged the story the best one written during the series by a sport editor. Joe, however, won the plaudits of the readers of the sports column generally as much by his continued good writing as by any particular story. His varied comment in "Deep Stuff," a Daily News column through which there has filtered a sizable quantity of his choice dry humor, was a unique feature of his newspaper work. He won the tribute recently from a major league scout, who characterized Joe as"as fine a baseball writer as I know."

His interest in junior sports, particularly for the youth of this section of the country, was perhaps one of the finest things which Joe did. He had interested himself in junior amateur teams not only of baseball but basketball, and by his comment and encouragement to the youth of this section had a great following among the youngsters. The Daily News of Springfield carried a very fine editorial on Joe's passing. He is survived by his widow, Helen Sullivan Collins, whom he married in June, 1915, and by two children, Muriel and Frank, and by a sister, Mrs. George H. Hilbert of Worcester, and a brother, James J. Collins of Boston.

CLASS of 1906

NINIAN LIVINGSTON WOLF died in Denver, Colo., August 23, 1928. His death was instantaneous, the result of a fall from a fifthstory window of a downtown business block.

He was born in Alexis, 111., December 25, 1882, the son of Jacob Lefever and Lucy (Edwards) Wolf. He prepared for college at the Denver High School, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1902, but withdrew near the end of sophomore year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Wolf had engaged in various business enterprises. For a few years after leaving college he acted as city manager at Denver for the American Bonding Company of Baltimore, Md., then for some five years was in the hotel business in Salt Lake City, Utah. About 1913 he removed to Los Angeles, where he was connected for a time with the Hendree Rubber Company, later turning to the oil business and acting as salesman for the Union Oil Company of California.

During the World War he was a second lieutenant in the Air Service. He enlisted November 29, 1917, and was discharged January 2, 1919, having been stationed successively at Ohio State University, Gerstner Field at Lake Charles, La., Mather Field at Sacramento, CaL, and Kelly Field at San Antonio, Texas.

After his discharge from the army, Wolf returned to the oil business in Los Angeles, but early in 1920 removed again to Denver to care for his invalid father. He never married; his surviving relatives include his aged father and a brother, George Wolf of Kansas City.

CLASS of 1920

Word has just been received of the death on June 30, 1926, of WILLIAM BOYS BANKS, for a short time a member of the class during freshman year. His death was the result of accidental drowning while canoeing on the Willamette River at Portland, Oregon.

Banks was born in Portland, Oregon, on December 30, 1896, the son of James H. Banks and Helen Lillian Boys. He left college to enlist in the navy, and served until the close of the war. He later returned to Portland, where he entered the automobile business. At the time of his death he was acting in the capacity of sales manager for his concern.

Banks was a member of Beta Theta Pi, and had taken an active interest in the Washington State Society, Sons of the American Revolution. He was unmarried.

CLASS of 1921

CHARLES ROBERT (Buck) FREEMAN, one of '2l's most prominent members during his undergraduate days and president of the class during junior and senior years, died very suddenly at the Chelsea Memorial Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., on Monday, March 11. He was found unconscious on the street, and died very shortly after being taken to the hospital. An investigation by the medical examiner showed that his death had been caused by hardening of the heart muscles.

"Buck" was born in Chelsea, June 4, 1899, and prepared for Dartmouth at the Chelsea High School. "Buck" had the gift of winning friends, and that, coupled with a wealth of natural ability, brought him to the front early in his career at Hanover and kept him there throughout his four years in college. In addition to being president of the class for two years, he was manager of the football team in the fall of 1920 and president of Palaeopitus during his senior year. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of Casque and Gauntlet.

After graduating from Dartmouth "Buck" was for a time connected with a footwear manufacturing firm in Harvard, Mass., but of late he had been a druggist in Chelsea, where his father, Charles W. Freeman, has long had a drug firm. "Buck" married Miss Marjorie Cone of Brookline, Mass., in Springfield, Mass., December 2, 1920. In addition to his widow and his father, "Buck" leaves two daughters, Marjorie, aged six, and Ann, aged two.

"Buck's" funeral was held at St. Luke's Episcopal church in Chelsea, and his many friends filled the church to overflowing. The class was represented at the service by Joe Shaw, Frank Ross, Tom Norcross, Chick Stiles, and Tom Cleveland.