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 1867

GEORGE BYRON LANE was born April 3, 1842, at Epping, N. H., son of Winthrop M. and Frances A. (Morrison) Lane. Charles E. Lane '66 was his brother.

He was educated in the district schools and prepared for Dartmouth at Tilton Seminary, He entered Dartmouth in 1861 and, answering Lincoln's call for volunteers, soon enlisted, first in the 11th New Hampshire Infantry and afterward in the 15th New Hampshire Infantry. At the battle of Port Hudson, he was seriously wounded and was invalided home. When he recovered sufficiently, he re-entered college and was graduated in 1867 from the Scientific Department. He made his own way through Dartmouth by teaching school during the winter terms, this being allowed and credit being given to college attendance. Upon graduation, he followed Horace Greeley's advice: "Go West, young man," and went to Burlington, Wis., where he spent one year as superintendent of schools. From there, in 1868, he went to Van Wert, Ohio, where he built up the small scattered schools into one large and organized system, remaining as superintendent for four years.

The St. Louis school system under William T. Harris was attracting much attention at this time, and Mr. Lane, receiving a call to supervise the public schools, went to St. Louis in the fall of 1872, where he remained for eight years. He went to the Paris Exposition in 1878 to carry the school exhibit for display there, and remained in Europe traveling for six months.

While connected with the St. Louis schools, Mr. Lane took a law course in Washington University, from which he was graduated in 1879. He was called to Omaha, Neb., in 1880, as superintendent of public schools, and for two years devoted himself to building up the system of public education. In 1882 he married Miss Nellie Wood, and the following year installed in Omaha the first electric light and power plant west of the Mississippi River, the United States Electric Company—pioneer plant of the great West. The arc system was its first manifestation.

Congress, in 1885, having authorized the taking of a state census—midway between the years of taking the federal census—and agreeing to pay for the same out of the national treasury if the returns were in the hands of the secretary of the interior within a period of sixty days, the governor of Nebraska appointed Mr. Lane to take this census. Although the population was scattered over a wide and rugged area, he was able to accomplish the feat, and had the satisfaction of placing the returns in the office of the secretary of the interior well within the prescribed time, and Nebraska was the only state whose expenses for taking the census of 1885 were paid for out of the treasury of the United Stares.

In the fall of the same year, he was elected superintendent of public instruction for the state of Nebraska, and re-elected in 1887. During these years, he added many constructive measures to the school system of the state. The annual observance of Arbor Day, planting of shrubs and trees on school grounds and in highways, and programs given in schoolrooms, introduced by him, and still observed in Nebraska, have done much to add to the wealth and beauty of the state.

Failing health and a desire to live on the Pacific Coast led to removal from Lincoln, Neb., to Olympia, Wash., on Puget Sound, in 1890. Here, for ten years, Mr. Lane took an active part in the public affairs of the city, serving in the city council and as mayor. While acting in the latter capacity during the Spanish-American War, he received the cablegram from Admiral Dewey announcing the victory of the battleship Olympia at Manila Bay. A little later, he received from Dewey for the city of Olympia the flag that floated from the forepeak of the battleshipher namesake at the time. Inasmuch as in the Civil War, Dewey on his ship on the Mississippi river and Mr. Lane with the forces of General Banks had been participants in the battle of Port Hudson, just previous to the fall of Vicksburg, it seemed very fitting that he should receive this report of victory.

Mr. Lane organized the Olympia National Bank in 1896, and acted for many years as its vice-president.

The necessity for providing the opportunity for higher educational facilities for his daughters led Mr. Lane to remove to Seattle in 1901. Here, his daughter Frances, born in Omaha in 1883 and graduated from St. Helen's Hall, Portland, Oregon, was married to John G. Peirce in 1902. Another daughter, Jean P., (born in Lincoln, Neb., 1888, and educated at the State University of Washington, Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., and Simmons College in Boston, Mass.) is librarian of the West Seattle High School, but is known as a world traveler, having spent much time in Europe, the Orient, Central America, and the islands of the Pacific. She has recently returned from a journey around the world. Mr. Lane has two granddaughters: Mrs. C. B. Mailer and Miss Frances Peirce, both of Seattle.

While in San Diego, in January, 1926, during his usual annual visit there, Mr. Lane was stricken with paralysis, and suffered from this malady until May 8, 1929, when he died.

CLASS OF 1868

CASSIUS SAMUEL CAMPBELL died May 13, 1929, at his home at Derry Village, N. H.

He was born in Windham, N. H., Novem- ber 19, 1845, the eldest of the four children of Samuel and Lydia (Crowell) Campbell, and fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry. He maintained a high scholastic standing in college, and graduated with third rank. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, representing that fraternity on the Aegis board, and of Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he went to Minnesota, where he was superintendent of schools at Hastings for ten years and principal of the high school of St. Paul for five years. Then returning to New Hampshire he was principal of McCollom Institute at Mont Vernon for four years, and in 1888 he became instructor in mathematics and science at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, so continuing until his resignation and retirement from teaching in 1909.

Of Mr. Campbell as a teacher a former pupil writes in a personal letter to the Alumni Editor: "I had the good fortune to be a pupil of Professor Campbell at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, where he taught mathematics and physics for a long period. He was a good teacher and a good citizen, and set us all a fine example of a fine Christian man in every sense of the word."

He was active in the affairs of the village and the town, was a charter member of the Derry Water Works Company and its superintendent for several years, and a charter member of the Chester and Derry Electric Street Railway Company and its president for many years.

Wherever he lived, he was actively connected with the Congregational church, and was for a long time superintendent of the Sunday school of Central church, Derry.

August 30, 1869, Mr. Campbell was married to Lydia L. Ashley of Northampton, Mass., who died in 1915. Their four children survive their parents: George A., research engineer of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, living in Montclair, N. J.; Arthur F. (Dartmouth 1895), a teacher in Boston; Francena L., of Boston; and Percy F., now of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1916 he was married to Alice M. Watts of Reading, Mass., who survives him.

At the funeral service held at Central Congregational church the pastor was assisted by Rev. Jesse G. Mac Murphy, who was Mr. Campbell's schoolmate at Pinkerton Academy and classmate at Dartmouth, who gave personal reminiscences of the deceased.

CLASS OF 1871

ALBERT WILLIAM BACHELEK died June 20, 1929, at Melrose, Mass., after a short illness, although his health had been failing for more than two years.

Son of Dr. Otis R. and Catherine (Palmer) Bacheler, he was bora at Balasore, India, July 17, 1844. His parents were missionaries sent out by the American Board. Before preparing for college at New Hampton (N. H.) Institution, he had had an honorable war record. Enlisting as a private August 12, 1862, in the 12th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, he was mustered out in 1865 as first lieutenant in command of Company A of that regiment. He was actively engaged with his regiment in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, Swift Creek, Relay House, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, Cemetery Hill, Bermuda Hundred, and the capture of Richmond. He was captured by the enemy November 17, 1864, and escaped from Libby Prison within one month. That escape from "Libby" was a thrilling story of pluck, daring, and perseverance. With others he dug his way to liberty, and, in the face of almost incredible obstacles, succeeded in reaching the Union lines, where he rejoined his regiment, and served bravely to the end of the war.

After graduating from Dartmouth in July, 1871, he entered at once upon his chosen life work as a teacher. He held the position of principal in the high schools of Athol, Mass., 1871-2; Danvers, Mass., 1872-4; Manchester, N. H., 1874-84; and Gloucester, Mass., for thirty years, from 1884 to 1914. In a Gloucester newspaper was the following tribute to the man and his work:"Albert W. Bacheler set a high standard of efficiency and fitness. He was an executive of marked ability, inspiring the school to splendid effort and large results, and he taught classes also with the same vigor and enthusiasm with which he directed and managed the school. It was Mr. Bacheler who established the military department of the high school, which met with instantaneous success and has continued so up to the present day. Under his leadership the school went forward with rapid strides in numbers and influence. Its graduates have stood foremost in the higher institutions of learning. He laid solid foundations, and the glowing memories of what he was and what he did will live forever. Beginning in 1895 and continuing until 1914, there were six consecutive appointments to West Point from the ranks of Gloucester High School graduates, a record not equaled by any other high school. Mr. Bacheler in appearance was a quiet, unassuming type of man, but he ruled with force and vigor, and in matters of discipline he was master in every sense of the word. During his residence here he took an active interest in civic problems, and was one of the foremost members of the committee which worked out the present amended charter of Gloucester, adopted in 1909. Although he has been away from Gloucester nearly fifteen years, he has not been and never will be forgotten by the hundreds of boys and girls who were his pupils, nor by the citizens whose respect he commanded during his long connection with the Gloucester High School."

After his retirement from the public schools in 1914 under the pension law, he became associated for several years with the DeMerritte School in Boston, and later had classes in his own home, and, born teacher that he was, such was his love of teaching and devotion to his work that he continued as teacher and adviser until within a few weeks of his death. His contribution to educational literature is a "Library Method of Teaching United States History in Secondary Schools." During his long life he was a loyal and devoted member of the Congregational church.

April 2, 1874, he married Miss Abbie A. R. Hayes of New Hampton, N. H.; they had one beloved daughter, Gertrude Hayes, born July 26, 1876, died January 5, 1889, and he lies by her side in the quiet village cemetery at New Hampton.

He is survived by his wife and a sister, Mary.

CLASS OF 1873

EDWARD STACY BURROUGHS is dead. He was born in Alstead, N. H., September 13, 1846. He fitted for college partly at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and partly under Rev. F. B. Knowlton. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1869, he took the classical course. A large, strong man, he participated with joy in the occasional contests with the class of 1872. Unwilling at his age to remain the four years in college, he entered Dartmouth Medical College during freshman year, and graduated therefrom in 1876. He took also a course in surgery at Harvard Medical School.

The same year he went West, and began practice in Marshalltown, lowa. He wrote from there some years later: "I have lived a very strenuous life—always busy. I have the honor of being the first surgeon who ever practiced abdominal surgery in lowa. I have devoted my time to surgical work and have operated thousands of times in the Center West. I have made quite a fortune by good investments. When I came here, land was worth $5 per acre. Now it is worth $200 per acre." Leaving there, he settled in Shreveport, La., where he owned a plantation of 1300 acres in the Red River Valley, a beautiful place all planted to cotton. Later he returned to lowa, and at Albion, Marshall county, remained for many years in the practice of his profession. Following the death of his wife in 1925, he made his home for some time near Albion with his son, Mr. S. J. Burroughs. He died May 21, 1929, at St. Joseph's Sanatorium, Dubuque, lowa, where he had been a patient for three years. Death was due to senile debility.

He was married December 10, 1876, to Miss Helen Margaret Patton of Albion. Dr. Burroughs was widely known throughout Central lowa as a most skillful surgeon, and had an extensive practice. He was a member of the American Medical Association. He is survived by his son, and a by daughter, Mrs. Charles F. Cron, formerly Miss Agnes Burroughs, of lowa Falls. Funeral services were held at Albion, May 22.

CLASS OF 1874

WILLIAM WEEKS MORRILL departed this life at Troy, N. Y., on the 20th day of June, 1929. On May 24, 1929, he left his office and went to the Samaritan Hospital, Troy, for an operation which was not believed to be serious. Later developments necessitated two other operations, after the last of which pneumonia developed, which was the immediate cause of his death.

In 1876 Mr. Morrill married Nina M. L. Lewis, the daughter of Colonel William E. Lewis of Norwich, Vt. They had no children. Mrs. Morrill after an illness of seventeen months' duration died on January 28, 1929. The burden and care of his wife during her long sickness had reduced perceptibly his physical strength and powers of resistance.

Mr. Morrill was born in Gilmanton, N. H., August 31, 1851. He was the son of Josiah R. and Filinda (Weeks) Morrill. He could trace his English and New England ancestry back to an unusual extent. He was of the eighth degree of descent from Abraham Morrill, who came from England about 1632 and settled in either Maine or New Hampshire; and of the seventh degree from Leonard Weeks, who came from Suffolk county, England, as early as 1655.

He prepared for college at the New Hampton (N. H.) Literary Institution, entered Dartmouth College in 1870, and was graduated in 1874. After teaching elsewhere he came to Troy in 1877, having accepted a position as instructor in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which he retained until 1882. Meantime he had entered upon and completed a law clerkship, and was admitted to the New York state bar in September, 1880, since which time he has been in continuous practice of his profession in Troy.

Admitted to the bar, his ability, integrity, and judicial mind were quickly recognized, and his services were much sought as referee, in which capacity he acted in much important litigation. During the early part of his nearly half century of practice in Troy he had no specialty; during the last twenty years of his life he had devoted himself almost entirely to Surrogate's Court estate practice.

During the earlier years of his practice, he published two text books, "Competency and Privilege of Witnesses," and "City Negligence," and later supervised the preparation of a series of law reports known as "American Electrical Cases."

He never lost his loyal interest in his Alma Mater. He was a very regular attendant at her Commencements, and in his class re- unions was always active in getting back as large a number of his classmates as possible. He followed closely the growth and development of Dartmouth, whether the same was in the field of learning or on the athletic field. Was ever ready and proud to discuss with his collegiate and university neighbors the success of the Green, whether in wrestling, baseball, football, or other sports. His body grew old. His mind was ever young and was filled with the spirit of an enthusiastic undergraduate of and for the success of his dear old college. To his college he leaves a legacy, the income of which is to be credited to his class quota toward the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation, so long as the same is maintained.

His interest in local welfare work is shown by a resolution adopted by the trustees of the Church Home of the City of Troy, on June 27, 1929, wherein it is recited that, "he has served the Home as a member of the board of trustees for more than a generation, and has filled the office of its president for the past nineteen years, with rare ability, keen and alert in his devotion to the interests of the Home." That he had "won the esteem and affection of all the members of the board and the deep gratitude of the members of the household of gentlewomen. To have served with him in the care and comfort of those committed to our oversight has indeed been a high privilege. All honor and praise to his memory, and all devout appreciation to the noble work here wrought by his heart and hand. And to follow the steadfastness of this true servant of the Christ will be our portion and privilege, as we carry on the hallowed tasks of our stewardship."

The Troy Observer in an editorial in its edition of June 23, 1929, in speaking of Mr. Morrill said: "He never failed to give his whole-hearted support to any worthwhile civic movement. ... In his death the Rensselaer county bar has lost an outstanding member, one who greatly enhanced the prestige of that body."

Mr. Morrill was a member of St. Barnabas' Church in Troy, and was a trustee of that church for forty years.

The Troy Times in an editorial June 20 says: "Mr. Morrill was a substantial citizen who never sought public preferment or favor, but contributed much to the more permanent foundations of the community in which he lived and labored so long."

Mr. Morrill was a man, well informed in his country's history, and well abreast of the national events of the day, and of those policies which were of importance and of benefit to the country as a whole.

Personally he was modest and unassuming, carried no flag (except the Green), earned his way by sheer ability, won the confidence of a substantial clientele, the respect of all who knew him, and among his brother attorneys, his word required no confirmatory stipulation.

His agreeable manners and ways endeared him much to his professional associates, by whom he will be missed, as much as by any others. A firm believer in Christianity, he has gone to the "Golden City," to meet his lifelong partner, and "join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again."

CLASS OF 1878

REV. CHARLES HENRY PETTIBONE, D.D., died May 4, 1929, at a hospital at Port Pierce, Fla., after an operation for appendicitis. The absence of acute pain had been deceptive as to his condition, and the disease had advanced too far before a physician was called. His death comes as a shock to his friends, the more because he had retained to the last in exceptional degree the buoyancy characteristic of him in youth.

Charles Henry Pettibone was born in Berlin, Wis., September 18, 1855, but the family returned in 1857 to its former residence in New Marlborough, Mass., and that was his home until he established his own. He prepared for college at South Berkshire Institute, and entered Dartmouth in 1874.

Always in cheerful humor and something of a wag, he was on good terms with everybody, regardless of class lines, which for some students in those times were boundaries to be fortified. Although short of stature, he was very muscular and very agile, and always gave a good account of himself in the crude athletics of the time. He was a redoubtable baseball player, and continued to the end his interest in the game, writing to the then class secretary after he had become a widely known pastor of a city church that he was as much of a fan as ever, but dared not attend Saturday games lest he should not have voice enough left for his pulpit duties next day.

He taught winter schools three seasons during his college course, two at Tyringham and one at Hamilton, Mass. He afterward supplied the pulpit at the latter place for a year during his seminary course, which seems to suggest that the impression he made as student teacher had not been to his discredit in that community. At the end of his college course he gave law as his intended occupation, as did about fifty per cent of his classmates. After graduation he taught for a year in a high school at Appleton, Wis., where he met the lady who later became his wife. Changing his plans, he decided to enter Hartford Theological Seminary, from which institution he graduated in 1882. After returning to Appleton in June of that year to claim his bride, who was Miss Emma H. Morey, he entered immediately upon a pastorate of seven years at Poquonock, Conn., going thence to Southbridge, Mass., then to Highlands, Colo., whence about 1893 he was called to the Boulevard church of Denver, all Congregational churches. The latter church he served for twenty-two years, during which a new edifice was erected and the membership largely increased.

Influenced by concern for his wife's health, he resigned in 1915, and moved to Vero, Fla., where he purchased land and built a house, intending to retire from the ministry and devote himself to fruit growing; but he was soon called to the pastorate of the Congregational church at West Palm Beach. After seven years in the service of that church he again resigned and returned to Vero and his fruit growing plan. But along with this toil of his hands he soon found himself again in harness as pastor of the Community church of the town, a position for which his freedom from sectarian prejudice and his frank and friendly personality especially fitted him. Under his leadership the church is said to have become a real community center, and he continued in its service to the end, preparing a baccalaureate sermon for the local high school for the last Sabbath of his life, and fully expecting to deliver it up to the preceding Friday evening. So he finished strong.

It was said at the funeral that he had scarcely missed a Sunday in the pulpit during the fifty years of his ministry, and he seems never to have been without a pastorate. In 1920 he received from Rollins College the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Never sanctimonious, always tolerant of the faiths of others, simple and cheerful and frank in manner, Dr. Pettibone was able to mingle on even terms with business and professional men, and was everywhere highly regarded by people outside his own parish. He was a member of the Masonic order, a Rotarian, at West Palm Beach and at Vero, and past president of both clubs. Everywhere he was identified with the civic interests of the locality of which he was a citizen. During the World War he was chairman of the Exemption Board of West Palm Beach. Quoting from an editorial in the Vero Beach Press-Journal, "As citizen, minister, and friend he built an estimable place in the hearts of the people. Always cheerful, always frank, honest, and upright, his life was an example that made it easier for others to live obedient to their best instincts. Regardless of what might be the personal views of people on religious subjects, those who came in contact with Dr. Pettibone respected his views and admired his high ideals."

His classmates are grateful that Dr. and Mrs. Pettibone were present at the reunion on the fiftieth anniversary last June, to the enjoyment of which both contributed a full share. He was selected by the class to represent it at the alumni luncheon, which he did with a happy and impressive speech. With four of his classmates, comprising the entire living delegation of Psi U, he visited the chapterhouse of that fraternity. In the exchange of experiences and confidences, some humorous, some somber, which took place in the long evening after the class luncheon, he outlined in a simple, matter of fact way, seriously but with no excess of solemnity, the motives which led him to choose the ministry as his field of usefulness and the satisfactions that had come to him in it, concluding with the quiet assertion that if he were to live his life over again he would certainly make the same choice.

Mrs. Pettibone, their son, now a lawyer in West Palm Beach, and their daughter, now Mrs. Robinson of the same city, were all at his side at the end, and his three grandchildren close at hand.

So he passed on, happy in his calling, happy in his family, held in high honor by his neighbors. To his contemporaries who are becoming accustomed to tidings that one and another of their number have joined the majority, the twinge of sorrow is mingled with a touch of congratulation to the one who steps off out of the abundance of a life crowned with success, laying down his burden without leaving unbearable burdens upon the shoulders of others.

CLASS OF 1882

EDWARD CHILD LUQUES died on June 3, 1929, at his home in Portland, Me., after a long illness.

Luques entered what was then the Chandler Scientific Department in sophomore year, having fitted at Kent's Hill Seminary and the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and left at the close of junior year. He was born July 31, 1858, at Biddeford, Me., his parents being Samuel White and Hannah Maria (Child) Luques. For many years he was in the coal and lumber business, and later was in real estate. He had been a member of the Common Council in Biddeford and of the Aldermen in Saco. For several years he was suffering from lung and heart trouble and for the last few winters had been at San Antonio, Texas. He was a member of many Masonic orders and the Odd Fellows, and was an Elk. March 8, 1883, he was married to Dora Boynton of Biddeford, who survives him, with a son, Edward W., and a daughter, Margaret. He was a brother of Herbert L. Luques, who graduated in the academic department in the class of '82. While in college Ed Luques had considerable reputation as a long distance runner.

MOTT AIA'AH CUMMINGS, M.D., died in Winchester, Mass., June 23, 1929.

Dr. Cummings was bom in Claremont, N. H., February 18, 1862, and fitted for college at the high school there. He was the son of Dr. Alvah R. Cummings (D.M.S. 1853), a well-known physician in Claremont, and Mary C. (Davis) Cummings.

Immediately on graduation he went to Plymouth, N. H., and taught in a private school, remaining there one year. Following this, he became principal of one of the grammar schools in Pawtucket, R. 1., where he taught successfully for the next year. In the summer and fall of 1884 he attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical School, and then for the rest of the year taught at Rye and Rindge, N. H. In the fall of 1885 he entered Harvard Medical School, from which he took his degree in 1887.

His professional life was spent almost entirely in Winchester, Mass., where he had a successful practice. Never in robust health, for many years he was almost incapacitated, on one occasion being compelled to give up practice for four years. In 1889 he was married to Lenore G. Purington of Topsham, Me., who survives him. He was a member of Massachusetts Medical Society and a Mason.

He had an alert mind, and in college took high rank in the class, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. There was no more loyal Dartmouth man in all particulars than he. From what must have been his sick bed about June 10 he wrote to the secretary of the class, "I have sent to Hanover a check for the Alumni Fund. I wish it might be larger, but I am doing what I can. It is hard to be 'laid on the shelf,' as I feel that I am."

CLASS OF 1887

FRANK BENJAMIN MUNN was born at Stockbridge, Mass., November 16, 1860, and passed away at New Hartford, Conn., April 5, 1929, after a long and painful illness.

He was the son of James B. and Eliza Boughton Munn, and was descended from Capt. Israel Munn.

He received his elementary education in his native town, and entered the College with the class in 1883, graduating with the degree of B.S. He had a hard struggle to defray the expenses of a college education, but the strong, aggressive personality and dominant will which marked his later career stood him in good stead.

On graduation he settled at New Hartford, Conn., taught the local high school for three years, studied law with Wellington B. Smith, and was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1892 and entered into partnership with Mr. Smith, a connection which lasted until the latter's death.

On December 15, 1892, he was married to Miss Marie Widner, who with two sisters and two foster-children survives him.

Here in New Hartford and in the neighboring town of West Winsted he lived out his life, a public-spirited citizen, active in all good works, and serving on the local school committee from 1907 until his death. He was long a member of the Republican state central committee and a familiar figure at state conventions. For many years he was judge of probate, for sixteen years referee in bankruptcy, and never had a decision as referee reversed during that period.

He was also active in social and fraternal circles, member of the Litchfield County Bar Association, the County University Club, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Woodmen of the World, Winsted Club, president of the New Hartford Community Club, past master of Amos Beecher Lodge, F. and A. M., past patron of Mayflower Chapter, O. E. S., and member of the Masonic chapter and council.

Frank Munn was a very successful trial lawyer, an aggressive but fair fighter, and in his last illness, although in great pain, directed at his bedside the disposition of many of the ninety active cases which he had in charge.

He left a host of friends. Above the common run of men he had the power of gaining and holding the strong affection of his associates. Men loved him, and although the funeral was private hundreds came to look upon the face of their friend, including lawyers and judges from all over the state.

The following tribute is taken from the Torrington (Conn.) Evening Register: "With the death of Mr. Munn there passes one of the most active and picturesque figures in the Litchfield county bar. He was a lawyer of exceptional ability, an eloquent speaker, and an indomitable fighter, and his talents were in demand throughout the county. His services were constantly in demand, and at almost every session of the Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas he was listed as counsel, for the accused in a majority of cases."

He was the only member of the class to settle permanently in Connecticut, and for many years the class saw but little of him. He attended the last two reunions, however, and thoroughly enjoyed the renewal of old ties and associations.

CLASS OF 1889

ERNEST ANDREW BLODGETT died at his home, St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 14, 1929, after a long illness. He was born in Randolph, Vt., January 81, 1866, the son of Pearl Davis and Laura Ann (Freeman) Blodgett. His parents moved to St. Johnsbury in Mr. Blodgett's infancy, and this was his home for nearly all his life.

He fitted for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, and, with seventeen others from that institution, entered Dartmouth in September, 1885. He left college at the end of freshman year and entered his father's general insurance office, where he continued for ten or twelve years with brief periods spent in Manchester, N. H., and Findlay, Ohio. About 30 years ago he entered government service, and filled various positions in the local post office until' failing health compelled him to give up all work.

He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. He was much interested in outdoor activities, particularly baseball. He was a member of the class nine and a director of the college baseball association. Later, at his home, he was a very active member of the volunteer fire department of the town.

Mr. Blodgett married, December 24, 1891, Miss Inez Harrington of St. Johnsbury, who survives him.

CLASS OF 1890

WILLIAM ODLIN died at his home in Andover, Mass., on May 11, 1929, after a long illness.

He was born in Laconia, N. H., April 5, 1865, the son of Joseph E. and Christiana (Farrar) Odlin. He prepared for college at Punehard Free School and Phillips Andover Academy, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1886. While at Andover he was active in athletics, and was captain of the football team in 1884 and 1885. He also played one year on the baseball team.

On coming to Dartmouth he at once started his football activities, and captained the team during his entire course. While in college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Casque and Gauntlet. During the winters of his sophomore and junior years he taught school at Patten Hill, Goffstown, N. H., and at Lisbon, N. H.

Upon graduation lie was for a few months connected with a grain and commission house on the New York Produce Exchange, and then, in the fall of 1890, entered the Harvard Law School. The following year he studied at the Boston University Law School and in July, 1892, he was admitted to the Suffolk county bar, maintaining an office in Boston up to the time of his death, but continuing to reside in Andover. In 1898 he served one term in the Massachusetts legislature as representative from the Andover, North Andover, and Middleton district. In 1926 he was elected president of the Andover Country Club, resigning this office only three days before his death. Odlin was a member of St. Matthew's Lodge, A. F. and A. M., serving as treasurer for one year, and as historian in 1922, at the time of the hun- dredth anniversary of the lodge.

Odlin is survived by his widow, formerly Dora Clarke, and by a daughter, Mrs. Har- old Abbott, both of Andover.

The class was represented at the funeral by Hardy, McDuffee, John F. McDonald, Mann, Ruggles, and Woods.

Odlin's connection with football at Dartmouth was unique. It is outlined in the following personal tribute by his classmate McDuffee, who kept in close touch with him until his death: "The death of William Odlin at his home in Andover, Mass., on May 11 deserves, and no doubt will receive, more than passing notice, in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. How much of Dartmouth's presentday athletic glory is due to this 'father of football' it is, of course, difficult to estimate. But it is entirely within the bounds of truth to say that he was one of the greatest builders of this strenuous and absorbing sport in the entire country.

"Others are far better qualified than am I to tell of this from a technical standpoint; but his remarkable record in the game, in its more obvious details, will bear repeating for the benefit of this generation of Dartmouth men and of football lovers everywhere.

"He came to Dartmouth already an expert in football, having played at Andover. He at once organized a football team in Dartmouth, and for the entire four years of his course was captain of the eleven. In those days, too, there was no such thing as paid coaches, and all the training of the men and the strategy of the battle was under the direction of Bill Odlin. He played a large part in the development of football, in the matter of the calling of signals by numbers, which became universal, and in other ways.

"I well remember one formation which Odlin originated and put into use with marvelous effect. The entire team formed a wedge, with the quarterback carrying the ball in the center of the wedge. Big Jim Fassett was the apex of the wedge when it was first tried, and if memory serves, the quarterback who carried the ball, right behind Jim, was Bob Lakeman. In that line-up were such powerful men as Squash Little, Folsom, Canty, Bill Segur, and Abbott. They put the ball into play somewhere near Dartmouth's own goal-line on the old campus. Bob Lakeman took the ball and the wedge started. It simply walked down the field, bowling over the opposing team as it marched, until it had crossed the line for a touchdown on the first play after the kick-off.

"In later years, of course, Loren F. Deland perfected the flying wedge at Harvard, until it had to be abolished because of its dangers. But this old Dartmouth formation may very likely have been the first time that a wedge had been thought of as a football play.

"After his college course, Odlin was coach at Phillips Andover Academy and turned out some splendid teams. Among those who learned football from him and afterwards be came national figures in the sport were Frank Hinkey, Yale's famous end, and Robinson, for so many years the successful coach at Brown.

"Besides using his brains for the development of winning teams and the improvement of the game, Bill Odlin was personally a marvelous individual player. I remember sitting with him only a few years ago at a game between Dartmouth and Brown in Boston. Some player had kicked a seemingly difficult goal from the field. It was greeted with acclaim. Bill turned to me and in a low voice remarked: 'What would this crowd think of a goal from the field at a distance of 65 yards? I have a record of having kicked one.' Although I knew from his stating it that it must be the truth, it seemed to me almost beyond belief. But it is confirmed by a contribution from E. K. Hall in the standard history of American football by 'Big Bill' Edwards. Says Hall: 'He was a remarkable kicker—certainly one of the best, if not the best. In the fall of 1889 Odlin was captain of the team and playing fullback. Harvard and Yale played at Springfield, and on the the morning of the Harvard-Yale game Dartmouth and Williams played on the same field. It was in the game of 1889 that he made his most remarkable kick, in which the wind was a very important element. In the second half, Odlin was standing practically on his own ten-yard line. The ball was passed back to him to be kicked and he punted. The kick itself was a remarkable kick and perfect in every way, but when the wind caught it, it became a wonder and it went along like a balloon. The wind was really blowing a gale, and the ball landed away beyond the Williams quarterback and the first bounce carried it several yards beyond their goal line. Of course any such kick as this would have been absolutely impossible except for the extreme velocity and pressure of the wind, but it was easily the longest kick I ever saw. Three times during Odlin's football playing he kicked goals from the 65-yard line, and while at Andover he kicked a place kick from a mark in the exact center of the field, scoring a goal.'

"In late years I used to talk about the game with this past master. Devoted as he had been to it and enthusiastic as to its future in his young days (he even prophesied professional football), he deplored greatly some of the features of modern football. The game today, in his opinion, was one of professional coaches. The players were merely used as pawns for the purpose. Whereas, he declared, the real benefit to be derived from such a sport was in having to use one's own initiative on the field, to do the planning, as well as the executing. That was what the men did in his day. He had been a professional coach himself, too.

"As I said, others are better qualified than I am to discuss such subjects. But I at least know something of the qualities of mind and heart which Bill Odlin possessed, such qualities as the most ardent devotees of football claim it develops in the players. He was one of the most forceful personalities I ever knew, positive in his opinions, quick in action, magnificent in figure and physique, and of keen mentality. Nobody ever had any doubt as to where he stood. There was nothing of the evasive about him. And Bill Odlin was a friend upon whom one could count to the limit, through thick and thin, prosperity or adversity, true blue, devoted, unselfish. How many such can any of us count among our whole acquaintance?"

For years one of Odlin's devoted friends at Andover was Alfred E. Stearns, headmaster of Phillips Academy. The following contribution of his to the Andover Townsman feelingly depicts that lovable side of Odlin's nature which so endeared him to his intimates that in their memories of him the sterling qualities of Odlin the friend will overshadow even their recollections of Odlin, the "father" of Dartmouth football.

"To his Andover friends who were privileged to know him intimately William Odlin requires no eulogy. To them the memory of what he was in himself and what he did for others is and will be sufficient. And yet it is always true in this world of manifold interests which claim so much of thought and time that we frequently miss something of the strength and true perspective of an individual, just as we do of a picture, because of our nearness to the object itself. Especially is this true in the case of an individual who shrinks from the glare of publicity, and who prefers, modestly and humbly, to do his work and serve his generation as the natural and eminently worth-while thing.

"In the death of William Odlin, Andover has lost one of its best citizens and some of us a rare and tested friend. His good deeds will follow him in the hearts of those he touched, and those whose lives were quickened by his friendly interest and strengthened by his unselfish devotion to their needs. Few there are who know the extent to which that everhelping hand was so generously extended to the many who looked to him for wise counsel and wholesome advice; for William Odlin was the last to advertise or even acknowledge his good deeds. Scores, if not hundreds, whom he has unselfishly helped, will treasure through their lives, however, the extent to which his generous interest in their personal problems lifted them over the rough places in life's roadway. Broadly democratic in his own outlook on humanity, Odlin played no favorites. The 'cup of water' was offered as gladly and as promptly to the poor as to the rich, while 'visits to the sick' needed only the knowledge of distress to call them forth. Strong and virile himself, he was as tender as a woman in his ministration to those who suffered. His buoyant nature, his contagious humor, and the sincerity of his friendliness have eased the load for many a burdened shoulder.

"Because of his natural modesty William Odlin, or 'Billy,' as the affection of his friends prompted them to call him, was not the one to force his friendship. But those who once were fortunate to taste that friendship needed no further encouragement; for it was a rare and priceless friendship that he offered. In it they sensed at once a depth and genuineness all too rare in the world today. From it they instinctively gained new strength and courage for themselves. For here they found one who played life's game, as he had played his football in his youth, hard but clean and with a zest that was always contagious and stimulating. A devoted husband and father, a good citizen, and a loyal and helpful friend,—such was William Odlin. Andover and the world will be poorer for his taking away."

CLASS OF 1915

WILLIAM MYLES TAYLOR died February 23, 1929, at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, from an illness which dated from his return from France in August, 1919.

Unable because of family responsibilities to complete his education at Dartmouth, Bill, after two years at Hanover, transferred to Northwestern University, and graduated there. Nevertheless Dartmouth has always been his Alma Mater, and he evidenced his constant interest in the class and college by regular contributions to the Fund, and by the fact that his expressed ambition was that his sons should attend Dartmouth in due time. At the Northwestern game last fall Bill was there, renewing old Dartmouth friendships, and it is to be regretted that we shall not be privileged to greet this loyal friend and classmate at future Dartmouth gatherings.

His wife, Jessie Reid Taylor, and four children, John Reid, William Myles, Jr., Charles Alfred, 2d, and Marilyn Louise, survive him.

CLASS OF 1918

ELLIS GORDON died at his residence at 200 West 90th St., New York city, December 15, 1928, after a brief illness said to be caused by a malignant disease of the stomach and respiratory organs.

The son of Louis Gordon, he was born in Boston, Mass., October 9, 1898, and prepared for college at Boston English High School. At the close of freshman year he transferred to Harvard, where he graduated in the class of 1918.

After completing his course at Harvard he studied law, graduated from Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar. He was subsequently connected with the torts division of the office of the corporation counsel of New York city as assistant corporation counsel, and held that position at the time of his sudden death.

Medical School

CLASS OF 1880

DE. SOLOMON FOOT HASKINS died at his home at Cotuit, Mass., October 4, 1928, leaving a widow.

Dr. Haskins was born at North Prescott, Mass., September 8, 1858, and came from Orange, Mass., to Dartmouth, where his entire course of medical studies was taken. After graduation he practiced for some time at Orange, but for many years had been at Cotuit.

DR. JOHN WOODBUHY STIMSON of Lunenburg, Mass., died in Templeton, Mass., July 2, 1929.

He was born in Kittery, Me., October 1, 1855, the son of Charles William and Harriett Ware (Junkins) Stimson, and received his preliminary education at Portsmouth (N. H.) High School. He attended courses of medical lectures at the University of Vermont and at Dartmouth.

After graduation he settled in practice at Lunenburg, Mass., whence after a few years he removed to Fitchburg, where he continued in successful practice until his retirement not long since.

He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Worcester North District Medical Society, and the Fitchburg Society for Medical Improvement.

February 22, 1882, he was married to Caroline Walton Cunningham of Lunenburg, who died a few months ago. Two daughters, Harriett C. and Martha C. Stimson, survive their parents.

CLASS OF 1895

DR. JARVIS BELCHER, WOODS committed suicide by shooting at his summer home at Winterport, Me., on the afternoon of June 5, 1929. He had recently returned from a Baltimore hospital where he had been operated on without the expected relief from a disease which was considered incurable, and had been deeply despondent, though attending to his practice.

He was born in Unity, Me., March 29, 1867, the son of Alden L. and N. Caroline (Belcher) Woods, and attended Somerset Academy at Athens, Me., and the State Normal School at Castine. His medical education was received at Bowdoin and Dartmouth.

After graduation he began practice at Castine, Me., but in 1896 removed to Robbinston, where he was postmaster from 1898 to 1905. In 1905 he removed to Bangor, where he had been in active practice ever since, having become a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. In 1920 and 1921 he was mayor of Bangor, and a state senator in 1927.

Dr. Woods was a 32d degree Mason, a member of the Masonic and Country Clubs, and was active in the organization of All Souls Congregational church.

In June, 1905, he was married to Alice Morrison of Farmington, Me., who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Edmund Dillon of Columbus, Ohio.

HONORARY

In 1885 the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon REV. LEWIS VAN ETTEN PBICE, who was then pastor of the Broadway Congregational church of Somerville, Mass. Mr. Price died June 6, 1929, at his home in Belmont, Mass.

He was born in Danby, N. Y., January 30, 1843. He served in the ministry of three de- nominations, being first with the Methodists at Dewitt and Camillus, N. Y. He was than pastor of Congregational churches as follows: Woodstock, 111., 1872-5; Ticonderoga, N. Y., 1875-6; Adams, Mass., 1876-83; E St. church, South Boston, Mass., 1883-4; Broadway church, Somerville, Mass., 1884-8; First church, Brockton, Mass., 1888-96. He was then for some years pastor of the Union Square Presbyterian church in Somerville, Mass., for several years, and was afterwards engaged in literary and business pursuits. In 1898 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rutherford College, North Carolina.

His wife, who was Mary P. Crowe, died several years since. A daughter and two sons survive, and also three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

SIB A. MAURICE LOW, who was a recipient of the degree of Master of Arts in 1910, died June 17, 1929, at Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C.

He was born in the city of London in 1860, the son of Maximilian Low, and was educated at Kings College and in Austria.

Coming to America, lie became Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, from which position during the Spanish-American war he went to Cuba as a correspondent. After the war he resumed his work at Washington, and later was for a time Washington correspondent for the London Daily Chronicle. He was finally chief correspondent in Washington for the London Morning Post, which position he held at the time of his death.

In 1900 he investigated phases of labor legislation in England for the United States Department of Labor, and later investigated for the Department English trade unions and industries. Services rendered to the British government gave him his knighthood. He was a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, a member of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, and of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece.

His published books include the following: "The Supreme Surrender"; "Protection in the "United States"; "American Life in Town and Country"; "A Short History of Labor Legislation in Great Britain"; "The American People, a Study of National Psychology"; "Woodrow Wilson, an Interpretation."