Deaths

Alumni Notes

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1879

CHARLES ANDREW EDGERTON died at his home in Northfield, Vt., on Thursday, October 9, 1930, following an attack of pneumonia the day before. He had not been in good health for several years, but had not been confined to his house. Indeed he had shortly before returned home from a visit to relatives in Massachusetts.

He was born in Northfield, November 23, 1856, the son of Charles Andrew and Harriet (Newcomb) Edgerton. He was a life-long resident of Northfield, where his father in his time was one of the leading merchants. He was prepared for college at the Northfield High School, and in 1875 he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1879. 11l health compelled him to leave college in 1878, but in 1904 he was granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts as of the class of 1879.

After leaving college he entered the employ of the Northfield National Bank as cashier. For fifty-three years and until his death he was connected with that institution. He became vice-president in 1915, and president in 1917.

He was married at Northfield March 16, 1882, to Miss Flora Smith Brown. There are four surviving children: Halsey C. Edgerton, Dartmouth 1906, now treasurer of the College; Malcolm J. Edgerton, Dartmouth 1906, in business in New York city; Mrs. Margaret Timmerman, Wellesley College 1909, now of St. Louis; and Alson B. Edgerton, Dartmouth 1917, at present cashier of the Northfield National Bank.

Edgerton engaged in many activities in his native town for the benefit of his fellowcitizens. He was prominent and useful in connection with the water system, the telephone and electric power utilities. He held at different times numerous town and village offices most acceptably. He was active in the affairs of the Methodist church. For more than twenty years he was a trustee of Montpelier Seminary, and for many years was a member of its investment board.

In the World War he was chairman of Liberty Loan committees. During his later years he suffered from a serious impairment of his vision, but his interest in the life about him never flagged.

He was possessed of a strong understanding. He had much practical talent. He was gentle in manner, but firni in principle. He lived a useful and honorable life.

THOMAS W. PROCTOB

HENBY MELVILLE died on Tuesday, the 21st day of October, 1950, at a hospital in Keene, N. H., to which he had been taken from his home town of Nelson, N. H., the Sunday before. He had gone the previous Saturday to Hanover to attend the football game. He had contracted a cold, which, with heart weakness, the result of a long illness last winter, was swiftly fatal. He was buried from the meeting house in Nelson that was filled with neighbors and friends, among them President and Mrs. Hopkins, his classmates Bailey (and Mrs. Bailey), Smith First, and Thayer. He was laid in the family lot in the burying ground on the hill beside father, mother, brother, and sister. This lot he had been beautifying during the last summer.

Melville was born in Nelson August 25, 1858, in the dwelling erected there by his great-grandfather, a soldier in the Revolution, who had migrated thence from Massachusetts. He was the son of Josiah Henry and Nancy (Nesmith) Melville. He prepared for college at home, supplemented by a few months' instruction (in company with his classmate Kittredge) from a minister in Keene, and entered Dartmouth in September, 1875. His fraternity was Kappa Kappa Kappa. He was an excellent student, stood well in his class, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Two winters during his college course were spent in teaching, one in his native town and one in Proctor Academy.

After graduation he taught the high school at Winchendon, Mass., for two years. Then he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws cum laude. He was admitted to the bar in New York city in the summer of 1885, and entered the office of Roscoe Conkling, where he remained until the latter's death in 1888. After this time he carried on his practice, usually independently. He was successful in the quiet, competent, and thorough Melville way.

He enlisted in the New York National Guard, and became inspector of small arms on the staff of the Eighth Regiment, becoming later captain of a company in that organization. He and his company were in the United States service for six months at the time of the Spanish War and stationed at Chickamauga. In the World War he was legal adviser for a draft board in New York city.

He was one of the organizers and trustees of the Manhattan Congregational church on Broadway near 76th Street.

In 1902 the governor of New York appointed Melville a member of the State Board of Managers of Reformatories, and for many years he was president of this board.

He was a member of many associations and clubs, social and military, as well as professional.

The class of '79 would say, despite Melville's great usefulness in other fields, that the crowning effort of his life was as secretary of the class. He became secretary by the election of his classmates after the death of Davis, which occurred in 1920. This election came at a time in Melville's life when professional activities were less exacting than formerly, and his interest in the college and the class led him to perform what he regarded as his duty to his classmates with the same untiring thoroughness that was characteristic of him. Constant correspondence with every one ever connected with the class he carried on year after year. If there was a former member of the class who for any reason had been lost sight of, Melville was tireless until the facts had been ascertained. The class was fascinated by his rather quaint New England humor, and grateful indeed for his interest and industry. The class to the last man looked upon him with growing respect, admiration, and affection. His death leaves a place in the rapidly thinning ranks of '79 that can never be filled.

THOMAS W. PROCTOR

CLASS OF 1883

. DR. CHARLES WESTON OAKES died suddenly of angina pectoris at his home in South Berwick, Me., May 31, 1929. He had been failing in health for some time.

He was born in South Berwick, March 11, 1860, the son of Abner and Susan Marcia (Bennett) Oakes, and prepared for college at Berwick Academy. He played as halfback on the first football team Dartmouth ever had, and was also prominent in track athletics. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation lie entered Bowdoin Medical College, but contracted typhoid fever, and was obliged to leave after one semester. Later he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, where he graduated in 1887. He then served two years at Randall's Island Hospital as house physician. During this time his hearing gradually failed, and within five years he became very deaf.

After leaving Randall's Island he settled in practice in Williamsbridge, N. Y., which was then a section of Westchester county but was later annexed by the city of New York. He practiced his profession in that community from 1889 until 1926, doing general practice entirely, and left many friends upon his retirement, which was due to poor health. He then returned to South Berwick, Me., and gave up medical work altogether.

October 1, 1903, Dr. Oakes was married to Marcella M., daughter of Judge Denis R. and Anna (Ashwin) Sheil, who survives him with two children, Dr. Abner Oakes (Dartmouth 1926) and Marcia M. Oakes.

CLASS OF 1890

The death of HENBY WILBUR HUBD occurred at St. George's, Bermuda, October 9, 1930. Hurd was born at Grantham, N. H., April 3, 1867. He graduated at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Dartmouth with the class of '90 in the fall of 1886. He left college for good early in 1888. He was the son of Dr. Willard Otis and Randella (Howard) Hurd.

After leaving college he entered the teaching profession, and for many years lived in Whitefield, N. H., where he was superintendent of schools in the Whitefield district. He was also a justice of the peace. About ten years ago he went to Bermuda, to take charge of the St. George's grammar school, and during his administration of the institution proved himself to be an efficient teacher who quickly won the esteem of the citizens of St. George's, among whom he was exceedingly popular.

He was twice married, his first wife being Katherine Emogene Libbey of Whitefield, whom he married July 12, 1893. His second wife was Miss Alice Jane Gurr of St. George's, Bermuda. The latter survives him, together with two children by his first wife and a sister.

The funeral was held at his late home, with Rev. Arthur T. Tucker officiating. The esteem of the community for the deceased was manifested by the large attendance and the great number of floral offerings.

CLASS OF 1900

DR. JAMBS JOSEPH BUCKLEY died at his home in Dover, N. H., on Wednesday morning, November 5. Early in the fall he went to the Phillips House in Boston, suffering from a very bad case of sepsis. After six weeks' treatment he returned to Dover, expecting to come back to Boston later for final treatment. For a few weeks he was very much better, then he took a turn for the worse and never recovered.

Dr. Buckley was born in Dover, February 19, 1877.

He was with us only one year, as he entered the Medical School and graduated with his M.D. degree in 1900.

For about eighteen years he practised in Milton, N. H. He then moved to Dover, where the last twelve years of his life were spent. He represented Milton in the state legislature of 1915, and saw service in the Medical Corps, U. S. A., with the rank of first lieutenant in 1918.

In August, 1903, he married Eula Hussey of Manchester, N. H.

Jim Buckley was a very useful man in his community. He was quiet, dependable and conscientious in everything he did. Although he was with the class only one year, he attended almost all our reunions and took a real interest in all our activities. He represents that type of country physician which the last ten years have missed. At one time it was felt that the country medical schools did not serve the proper purpose and should be discontinued. It was not many years before a reaction set in, and a great effort has been made to encourage these schools that they may produce just the kind of men that Jim Buckley was, men who will go into the small towns, work hard day and night and care for the needs of the community. The larger medical schools may develop special ists who may do a splendid research job in their particular line. Meanwhile the rural community must be taken care of, and this requires men of good judgment, willingness to work, and good character. Jim Buckley answered all these requirements, and when he later moved to Dover, it was after he had put in many, many years of practice in a small community. Dover and Strafford county in particular will miss him. The class of 1900 will look in vain for that quiet, lovable chap who was a friend of every one and an enemy to none.

N. W. EMEKSON,

Secretary

CLASS OF 1906

ALPHONSO REMBY TARR died suddenly at his home in Lynn, Mass., on October 20, from an attack of heart trouble. About four years ago he suffered a similar attack, but at that time responded to treatment, and had been in reasonably good health until the beginning of October of this year, when his old difficulty recurred. He was confined to his home, but his condition appeared to be progressing favorably until the morning of his death.

Tarr was born in Gloucester, Mass., May 5, 1884, the son of Alphonso and Carrie Elizabeth (Remby) Tarr, and prepared for college in the Gloucester High School. In college he was a quiet, retiring sort of youth, conscientious in his work and loyal in his friendships. Shunning every kind of publicity, he was not intimately known outside his immediate circle, and since graduation had lost touch with all but a few of his classmates. This is the more surprising in view of the fact that he had risen to be a man of prominence and popularity in the city where he had made his home.

Directly after leaving college, lie organized and ran the Plymouth Business School in Newburyport, Mass., from which place he went to Concord, N. H., as commercial and business teacher in the Concord High School. In 1912 he moved to Lynn, and for the rest of his life was a teacher in the business department of the Lynn English High School. Beloved by his pupils and honored by his colleagues, he was in every way a most successful teacher. In addition to his regular work of instruction, he organized the English High School Bank, which has become one of the most successful scholastic banks in the country and has served as the model for other school banks. For several years past, Tarr had taught during the summer months at the Burdett Business College in Boston. For ten years he guided ably the efforts of a troop of Boy Scouts, being forced to give up this work at the time of his first illness. He was a member of Golden Fleece Lodge of Masons and of the lonic Club of Swampscott, and at the time of his death was treasurer of the Lynn Unitarian church.

He married at Gloucester, October 28, 1910, Leila Smith, who survives him, with their three daughters, Virginia, Eloise, and Dorothea Tarr. A fourth daughter, Muriel, died at the age of two and half years in 1917. Funeral services were held at the Unitarian church in Lynn on October 23.

CLASS OF 1910

NATHAN NEWBERRY PRENTISS was instantly killed on August 1, 1930, when the airplane he was piloting at a high altitude went into a flat spin and crashed into the base of Mt. Overlook, Woodstock, N. Y. He was flying cross country from LeRoy, N. Y., to visit friends in Woodstock, and had just circled twice over the Lewis Hollow region when his plane went into a slow flat, spin from which he never recovered. Observers of his fall report that he spun thirty or forty times before disappearing into thetrees at the base of the mountain. The fact that he delayed cutting his ignition switches, until a few seconds before he crashed indicates that he retained consciousness to the last and was making every effort to bring hisplane out of the fatal spin.

The son of Samuel Lincoln and Sarah (Newberry) Prentiss, he was born in Holyoke, Mass., January 8, 1887. The last part of his college preparation was obtained at Easthampton, Mass. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta. He left Dartmouth at the end of freshman year, transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He remained at M. I. T. a year and a half, leaving to enter his father's business. For a long time he was treasurer and manager of the S. L. Prentiss Company of Boston, representatives of the Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company. After the United States entered the World War, he enlisted in the Air Service, and received his observer's training at Fort Sill, Okla. In 1928 the family's business was sold, and he turned to aviation as a profession, having been keenly interested in it since his war experience. Within a short time he had secured his license as a transport pilot, and in 1929 was appointed manager of the municipal airport at Camden, S. C.

A paper in his pocket requested that he be buried with the simplest possible ceremony at the spot where he fell. In compliance with this wish, he was buried at Woodstock, N. Y. He had not married, and is survived by his parents and a sister, all of whom live at Brookfield, Mass.

He was a member of the University Club of Boston, and of the Sandy Burr and Cohasset Country Clubs.

CLASS OF 1925

KENDALL HODGDON died in Tucson, Ariz., May 27, 1930.

He was the son of Rev. Dr. Frank Wilbert (Dartmouth 1894) and Edith Mabelle (Chick) Hodgdon, and was born in Orange, N. J., May 20, 1901. He prepared for college at the Maiden, Mass., High School. In college he was a member of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and the Alpha Delta Sigma society. He was on the freshman cross-country team, and was business manager of the Bema.

After graduation he secured a position in the editorial department of the Boston Transcript, but almost immediately tuberculosis developed, and he had since been making an ineffectual struggle against the progress of the disease.

Medical School

CLASS OF 1877

DR. CHARLES HENRY HARRIMAN died at his home in Whitinsville, Mass., February 12, 1980.

He was born in Goffstown, N. H., NovemIber 16, 1852, the son of Warren H. and Sarah (Whipple) Harriman. His preliminary education was obtained in the schools of his native town and at Pembroke Academy. His entire medical training was obtained at Dartmouth, where he attended three courses of lectures.

After graduation he began practice at Hopkinton, N. H., but after three years removed to Whitinsville, where he continued in active practice until his death.

He served on the school committee of the town for more" than thirty years, and was school physician for more than forty years. He was a steadfast Democrat, but his popularity is shown by the fact that he was twice elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in a strong Republican district.

He was a member of the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias.

October 18, 1877, Dr. Harriman was married to Servilla M., daughter of Thomas J. and Mary (Hough) Jones of Goffstown, N. H., who survives him, with one son, Willis Harri man, a professor in Acadia College, Sackville, N. S.

These facts have been furnished by a patient of the Doctor's, who further says of him:—"He was a member of the old school of physicians, and on numberless occasions was known to have spent half the night in an endeavor to reach the sick bed of a patient in the outlying districts with the then transportation—the horse and buggy. No obituary that you can publish can quite picture Dr. Harriman, as one had to know how he was beloved by every school child and to know of his acts of generosity and charity to realize just how great he was."

CLASS OF 1900

DR. JOHN LINCOLN CAMPBELL died at his home in Warren, Vt., November 2, 1930. He had been in failing health for three years, but was confined to his bed less than two weeks.

The son of John W. and Philanda (Hubbard) Campbell, he was born in Rochester, Vt., April 4, 1861. He was in business in Massachusetts in early life and entered late upon his medical studies. He studied at Dartmouth in 1897-8, but finished his medical course at the University of Vermont, where he graduated as M.D. in 1900.

After graduation he practiced for a short time in Pittsfield, Vt., and was then in Okla homa for twelve years. Returning to his native state, he had been in practice in Warren for sixteen years.

He married Nellie Kingsley of Northampton, Mass., who survives him, with one son, Wallace K. Campbell of Watertown, Mass.

Honorary

JOSEPH HOWLAND COIT, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1886, died at his home in Newport, R. 1., October 26, 1930. He had been ill about two and a half years, but the end came suddenly.

He was born in Concord, N. H., October 30, 1865. His father, the late Rev. Henry Augustus Coit, was the founder of St. Paul's School, where the son taught for many years. Later he was in business in New York city until his retirement on account of failing health.

During the World War he entered the quartermaster service, in which he attained the rank of major. For a time he was on duty on the S. S. Finland, but later was attached to the Busch Terminal in New York. He was greatly interested in the American Defense Society, and at one time served as chairman of its board of trustees.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Adeline Balch Coit, but no children.