Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1868
JOHN WARD PAGE died January 4, 1930, at the home of relatives in Essex Junction, Vt., where he had gone on a visit two weeks before.
The son of John Alfred and Martha Mitchell (Ward) Page, he was born in Danville, Vt., April 19, 1847. His home from boyhood was in Montpelier, Vt., in whose schools he prepared for college. He was an editor of The Dartmouth in senior fall, and gave the "Address to the President" on Class Day.
For a year after graduation he was a traveling salesman, and then was for some time in the wholesale and retail grocery business in Montpelier. In 1873 he became clerk in the office of his father, who was state treasurer. After the death of his father in 1891 he was engaged for some years in various business enterprises in the South and West. From 1907 to 1910 he lived on a farm at Jericho, Vt. From the fall of 1910 to March, 1912, he was employed as a nurse in a sanatorium in Burlington, and for many years from the last date he was a nurse at the Vermont State Hospital at Waterbury.
September 21, 1874, he was married to Jennie F. Higgins of Bolton, Vt., who died some years ago. There were no children. Burial was in the family lot in the Montpelier cemetery.
CLASS OF 1869
NATHAN WHITMAN LITTLEFIELD died of heart disease at his home in Pawtucket, R. 1., December 5, 1929, after a brief illness.
He was born in East Bridgewater, Mass., May 21, 1846, the son of Rufus Ames and Abigail Russell (Whitman) Littlefield. He was of the oldest New England stock, tracing his descent from seven Mayflower passengers and also from John Field, companion to Roger Williams. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and made in college a distinguished record in scholarship, being the valedictorian of his class. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he was submaster of the high school of Charlestown, Mass., for one year, then for three years principal of the high school of Newport, R. 1., and for one year superintendent and principal at Westerly, R. I. He then turned to the study of law at Boston University, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1876. From July, 1876, he practiced law in Rhode Island, having an office in Providence from 1877, but making his home in Pawtucket. He became eminent in his profession, being for a long time a member of one of the most prominent law firms in the state, Littlefield and Stiness, and later of Littlefield and Barrows. He devoted himself to civil rather than criminal cases, and was connected with some of the most important cases coming before the Rhode Island courts. From a long time from 1898 he was federal referee in bankruptcy for Rhode Island. In 1900 he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of the state. In 1897-8 he was a member of the Rhode Island Senate. He served on the commission for dividing the state into congressional districts, and also the commission for dividing the state into representative districts and framing laws for carrying the same into effect. For several years he was chairman of the Pawtucket school board. Three years ago he was appointed judge of the Pawtucket Probate Court, which position he held at the time of his death.
He was a member of the American and Rhode Island Bar Associations. Among the positions outside of his profession which he had held are these: member of the Rhode Island Historical Society; trustee of Old Bridgewater Historical Society; governor of Rhode Island Society of Mayflower Descendants; governor-general of Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims; president of Descendants of the Founders of Providence Plantations; vice-president of National AntiSaloon League and president of Rhode Island League; president of board of directors of Rhode Island Congregational Conference. He delivered an oration at the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Bridgewater, Mass., an address on the life of Marcus Morton, chief justice and governor of Massachusetts, and many other lectures and addresses on historical and political subjects. He was a member of the Pawtucket Congregational church, and for many years superintendent of its Sunday school.
August 18, 1873, Mr. Littlefield was married to Arietta V., daughter of Erastus Redman of Ellsworth, Me., who died October 18, 1878. A second marriage, December 1, 1886, was to Mary Wheaton, daughter of Asher Ellis of Pawtucket, who survives him, as do also two sons, Nathan W. Littlefield, Jr., of Sharon, Mass., and Alden L. Littlefield of Pawtucket.
CLASS OF 1871
CAPTAIN JOHN FBANCIS PRATT, retired U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey officer, died at his home, 1320 Boren Ave., Seattle, Wash., December 5, 1929. He had been ill but a short time. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Caroline Pratt Steele, wife of Maj. Theophilus Steele, and their son, Crittenden Pratt Steele, also by a brother, George Pratt, of Kirkland, Neb.
Captain Pratt was born in Pomfret, Vt., June 18, 1848, the son of Joseph Henry and Ann Delana (Hazen) Pratt. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).
On the year of his graduation he entered the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In October, 1879, while on duty on the Pacific Coast, he married Caroline C. Crittenden of San Francisco, and later they established their home in Seattle. As an officer of high scientific attainments he was long associated with the late Professor Davidson on the great transcontinental scheme of triangulation and the early surveys of the West Coast. In this work his outstanding ability and resourcefulness marked him as a leader in pioneer work of the Coast Survey. As a young man he was assistant astronomer in the Transit of Mercury expedition to the summit station in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1878, and in the Transit of Venus expedition to Cerro Roblero, N. M., in 1882. In connection with his duties in the Coast and Geodetic Survey he served in various capacities in both the shore and ship work of that service, and as chief of party he was in command of the steamer "Yukon" in Puget Sound and the Strait of San Juan de Fuca from 1884 to 1890. He was designated as engineer to the U. S. Navy Yard Commission of 1889, and in that capacity it was his thorough and comprehensive work that brought out the advantages of locating the present naval base at Bremerton. In 1891 he was designated as chief astronomer for the International Alaska Boundary Commission, and was made American representative in the British expedition of 1893. In 1898, at the beginning of the Alaska gold rush, he was designated as chief of one of the largest surveying parties ever sent to the Alaska coast for the purpose of finding navigable waters into the mouth of the Yukon river and of developing the then unexplored coastal waters of Bering Sea and Golofnin Bay. Due to his perseverance and capacity for handling such large projects, the government at the close of the surveying season was able to make navigational charts of that region, some of the original work standing today as the best authority on the subject.
Captain Pratt contributed much to the development of the Northwest. At his instigation an office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey was established in Seattle. He was placed in charge as inspector for the entire Northwest District including Alaska from 1900 to 1905, when he was again assigned to field duty in connection with the earth movements caused by the great California earthquake of 1906-7. From 1908 to 1911 he was senior officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey engaged in surveying operations in the Philippine and Hawaiian Islands, commanding the steamers "Pathfinder" and "Patterson." In 1912 he was again assigned to inspection duty in the Northwest, and remained in charge of the Seattle office until his retirement from active service in 1920
Captain Pratt was a member of the Washington Academy of Science, the National Geographic Society, the Thayer Society of Engineers, the International Association of Navigation Congresses, and of the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C.
CLASS OF 1874
SAMUEL LELAND POWEBS, whose sudden death at his home in Newton, Massachusetts, on November 30, came as a shock to his community and to the great Dartmouth fellowship everywhere, was, as has been the case of so many other men of mark, a product of the farm. And, in spite of his urban polish, he was always racy of the soil. It was that quality, in part, at least, that gave him his great charm. In the course of a legal argument or as an after-dinner speaker, bucolic reference would rise to the surface, naturally and quite in a matter-of-course way, that lent "atmosphere" to his remarks. Yet Cornish, that beautiful New Hampshire town where he was born, was not wholly countrified, even on the 26th of October, 1848, when he first appeared on the scene. It was, and is, a lovely place, diversified by hill and dale, woods and dells and brawling streams that flowed from forest glens into peaceful meadows. Over against the west rose the charming cone of Ascutney, and its graceful bulk must have been a familiar sight to young Samuel's eyes. They say that men who are reared in sight of a lonely mountain, a monadnock, somehow acquire something of its detached solitariness. Nothing could be more untrue of "Sam" Powers. His nature was gregarious. Like Abou ben Adhem, he loved his fellow men. All his life he was companionable.
Cornish was a town of sturdy farmers of good stock, of sterling New England characteristics that could on occasion, and did, produce men above the average. Within its borders were born Philander Chase, whom the English called the "great American bishop," the founder of two colleges in the middle west; Nathan Smith, eminent physician, who established the Dartmouth Medical College, and who taught so many branches of medical lore that Oliver Wendell Holmes said of him that he did not occupy a chair but a settee; Salmon P. Chase, the great Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, and Haldaman S. Putnam, a direct descendant of "Old Put" of revolutionary fame, and himself a brilliant soldier who was killed while leading a charge at Fort Wagner, acting as brigadier-general commanding the second brigade.
The Powers family in the 40's was firmly rooted in Cornish. Its forbears were men of substance, numbering at least three men who fought at Bunker Hill. It was not poor, neither was it wealthy. And thus it came to be generally understood that the benefits of a higher education were to be conferred upon Samuel's elder brother, Erastus, who was duly sent to Dartmouth and who was one of the most brilliant scholars the old institution had ever turned out. There is a tradition that Rufus Choate's marks exceeded those of Erastus, but that is a tradition only.
"Sam," according to the family councils, was eventually to have the farm instead of a college degree. He would doubtless have made a good farmer, for everything he did was well done. But fate, in the pleasing form of an invitation to the Dartmouth Commencement of 1865 to see his brother take his sheepskin, interfered with that plan of primogeniture. The sight of the seniors in long black coats, light trousers and tall silk hats, and the strains of martial music by a New York band, proved more potent than any promise of rural proprietorship in the mind of the 17-year-old boy and he thereupon decided to go to Dartmouth. The family, like the Dutchman's wife, who was reconciled because she had to be, offered no objections and Samuel began attending Kimball Union Academy at Meriden only a few miles from his home—to which in after life he presented a fine playing field—to get his "fit." He amplified that by about a year at Exeter, and then, on the advice of some Dartmouth freshmen he had known at Meriden, he decided to storm the classic gates, although well aware that his "fit" was very much of a misfit. His friends informed him that there was at that time a great rivalry between Dartmouth and Amherst to see which would have the larger entering class, and that that fact would probably get him in. In his entertaining book, "Portraits of a Half Century," he has written an amusing account of his admission to Dartmouth by President Smith. He "flunked" his examinations dismally, but he always believed that he was let into Dartmouth by the urbane President because he made one as against the numbers of Amherst.
Powers felt the call of the law after his graduation, and equally did "Sam" McCall, a classmate of the band of 1874. They decided, upon being admitted to the bar, that they would be partners. After a brief period of uncertainty as to where they should locate, they took the legal bull by the horns and fixed upon Boston, and, although their financial resources were not exactly ample, they chose an office in the best building in town at that time, the Equitable. This was in 1876. The youthful partners had no friends and few acquaintances. Their law library consisted of a copy of the revised statutes and the Boston directory. They determined to double their practice, if possible, by establishing a night office at Roxbury Crossing. So "late each afternoon," writes one of the "Sams," "we moved our library from the down-town office to the Roxbury Crossing office, and in the moaning we moved it back to the down-town office." At the end of a year they decided to close the partnership and divide the library. Powers took the directory and McCall the statutes, and they parted, good friends for life.
It is a far cry from those days of few clients and little cash to the distinguished place "Sam" Powers won at the bar. There is no need to sound every note of it on the way. Of his eminence as a lawyer it is hardly necessary to speak. He had the legal mind, but it was not of the dry-as-dust order. It was grounded upon the solid rock of fact and precedent. Embellishments of a law case he permitted himself—he could scarcely help it, being temperamentally what he was—yet he was never so entangled in his own verbosity that he lost sight of the prime points of every suit in which he was engaged. His ' 'gentlemen of the jury" was worth many a travel to many a musty court room to hear; it was a polite education in the consummate art of addressing twelve good men and true. He had the happy faculty of persuading them that his side was the right side; but that was because his abiding faith that he was right shone all through him. It is almost a certainty that "Sam" Powers never took a case in which he thoroughly disbelieved.
With all his good humor and bonhommie in court, he could and did fight for his clients and fight hard. He was a matchless exemplar of the phrase "Suaviter in modo; fortiter in re," which being interpreted—if Dartmouth men will pardon the impertinence—may be taken to mean: Suave in manner, but mighty strong in the case. His counsel was as valuable as his court pleading—some thought more so. He would sit in his chair, his gaze fixed on the rugged features of Lemuel Shaw, the great chief justice of Massachusetts, which were softened by the light haze of cigar smoke, and there would map out a case; would find all its pros and cons; would, with a brief order to a subordinate, indicate the statute or the report he wanted—and it fitted always. It was not for nothing that he was for so many years the chief adviser of the telephone company.
Powers, like Yorick of happy memory in Elsinore, was "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" who "was wont to set the table in a roar." Yet he was no professional humorist, no court jester with cap and bells. His wit bubbled up like some refreshing spring in his beloved Cornish, over-flowing its confines and bringing a cool delight to his fellows. That was its characteristiccoolness. There are men who seem to be prepared for any event with a quip that is hot from the mint of their minds, too ready-made for the occasion. "Sam" Powers' humor was of the sort that appeared to have been mellowed for a long time for just the right moment. Yet it was as spontaneous as a stroke of lightning. He was rightly called the wittiest man at the Boston bar. For yqar after year he was the toastmaster at public dinners to an unbelievable number; he once reckoned that he had served as master of ceremonies, or as chief speaker, at 800 banquets. And he ate all of them, for his digestion was as perfect as were his mental processes.
In politics "Sam" Powers might have gone far, had he chosen. After holding various offices in Newton, he was sent by his district to Congress in 1900. He immediately became one of the most popular members of the lower house, and he got good committee appointments. He worked hard and produced results. But the thing of which he was, probably, proudest was the forming of the famous Tantalus Club, an organization of the new members of the Republican party in the House. It was so named because everything they wanted was just out of their reach. That club held dinners rivaling those of the famous Gridiron Club of the capital. It lasted four years, which was precisely Congressman Powers' term of office. In 1905 he retired voluntarily from the House. His reason was cogent: "I retire from Congress to make a determined attack on the consolidated wealth of Massachusetts," he said, "and I hope to win a goodly portion of it for myself before I end my days. Frankly, I can't afford to remain." So he returned to his lucrative practice of the law. But he found time, off and on, to serve on the Massachusetts Board of Education (1915-1919); on the United States War Advisory Board (1917-1918); and was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1917 and 1919. He was a state trustee for the control of the Boston Elevated road from 1918 until his death.
A loyal friend and devoted servant of Dartmouth College "Sam" Powers showed himself to be all his life. He radiated the Dartmouth spirit-—yes, that is an entity, although some youthful collegians sniff at it—wherever he chanced to be. He felt Dartmouth; he was Dartmouth. How many young men experienced that force and sought the "groves of the Academy," as old President Lord put it, by reason of his, perhaps unconscious, influence will, of course, never be known; but they were many. He was a trustee of the college from 1905 to 1915; and did his duty faithfully and well.
At various functions of the College, in and out of Hanover, gastronomic and otherwise, his figure and voice were familiar. No one who was a part of that great occasion will forget the grace with which he presided at the ceremonies incident to the laying of the corner-stone of the new Dartmouth Hall by Lord Dartmouth on the 26th day of October, 1904.
He was always interested in the great athletic events in which the College took part, and it is remarkable that the last hours of his life were concerned with the football contest between Dartmouth and the Navy. He had heard the story of the game over the radio at the house of a friend. The game was ended, and he had returned home, apparently in the best of health. Shortly afterward he was seized with a cerebral hemorrhage and saying, "I think you had better call the doctor," died almost instantly.
Thus passed a rare spirit, a true lover of his kind and a loyal son of Dartmouth. He leaves a widow and one son, Leland, himself of the Dartmouth fellowship of 1910.
WILDER DWIGHT QUINT.
CLASS OF 1877
DB. REUBEN MELVILLE CRAMER died in Boston of pneumonia December 3, 1929. He had been suffering for a long time from an obscure tropical disease called sprue, which he apparently acquired in Porto Rico in 1917, and under treatment had been a resident at several sanitariums, notably the one at Clifton Springs, N. Y. A short time before his death he had gone to Boston to be under care of specialists, but was stricken with pneumonia and died in a short time.
The son of John N. P. and Eliza A. (Anderson) Cramer, he was born in Galveston, Tex., November 6, 1855. Thomas E. Cramer '73 is a brother. His home from 1860 was in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and he prepared for college at Riverview Military Academy and Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
The first year after graduation he was principal of Hearne (Texas) Academy. He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating from the latter in 1881. Until December, 1882, he was house surgeon at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, and from that date until his retirement in the summer of 1926, he was in private practice in that city. He was successful in his profession, and in later years gave special attention to psychology and psychiatry.
Dr. Cramer never married. By his will Dartmouth is ultimately to receive a bequest of $185,000 for the establishment of a fellowship, this bequest to become effective upon the death of a group of relatives sharing in a life interest.
DR. OSCAR JOSEPH PFEIFFER died suddenly from acute dilatation of the heart in his office in the Majestic Building, Denver, Colo., De- cember 81,1929. His heart trouble followed an attack of bronchitis caused by exposure to a cold snow storm.
He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 8, 1858, his parents, Joseph S. and Genowefa (Karche) Pfeiffer, being natives of Bohemia, of German stock. He fitted for college at the high school of his native city. He took a prominent part in the athletics of his time, being captain of his class baseball team and rowing on the varsity crew in senior year. Later, while a medical student at Harvard, he was for one season a member of the Harvard crew. He took an excellent rank in scholarship, and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. His fraternity was Tri-Kappa.
For the first three years after graduation he was principal of the graded school at Lancaster, N. H. He then entered Harvard Medical School, from which he obtained his degree in 1884, having meanwhile, from October, 1882, to August, 1884, been connected with the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he finished as house surgeon. He began practice in Boston, but left in November for Denver, where he had received an appointment as chief surgeon and medical director of the Union Pacific Railway. This position he held until 1891, when he entered upon private practice in Denver, in which he made a brilliant record, especially in surgery. He has not been so active in his profession for some few years, owing to infirmities of health. From 1884 to 1900 he was professor of clinical surgery in the University of Denver, and was all along visiting surgeon to various hospitals. For three consecutive terms of six years each (1890 to 1908) he was elected by popular vote a regent of the State University, and while in that position took an important part in bringing about the erection of a stadium at Boulder, the seat of the University.
November 8, 1884, Dr. Pfeiffer was married to Annie Hale, daughter of Samuel Gilman and Mary Ann (Seavey) Folsom of Portsmouth, who died February 22, 1922, after a long period of invalidism. They had two daughters, both graduates of Wellesley, the elder, Genevieve, being now Mrs. Frank M. Taylor of Denver and having six children, the younger, Mary, Mrs. Dale Healy of Claremont, Cal.
"P-fy," as he was affectionately called, was one of the most popular members of the class, and it has been a great disappointment that not since 1907 has he found himself able to leave his work in Denver to participate in our reunions.
CLASS OF 1887
CHARLES LINCOLN CARPENTER was born at Amherst, Mass., June 17, 1867, son of Rev. Charles C. and Feronia (Rice) Carpenter.
On both sides of the family there was a background of sturdy New England stock, identified with the civil, religious, and martial life of the colonies from their beginning. The first of the name in this country was William Carpenter, an English Puritan, who settled in Weymouth in 1638. On the maternal side he was descended from Deacon Edmund Rice, an early settler (1638) of Worcester, and on the same side he was allied to the Knowlton and Pomeroy families.
Some of his early years were passed on his grandfather's farm, where he acquired a taste for the open and a love for country life.
He entered Dartmouth in 1883 and was graduated in 1887 with the degree of 8.5., one of the youngest members of the class. Two years later he received the degree of C.E. from the Thayer School, and at once entered upon professional work as leveler for the proposed Nicaragua Canal, in employ of the Nicaragua Canal Company. Here he spent two years, and the intervening time up to 1911 he was engaged in engineering work as follows: From 1891 to 1898 he served the Boston Board of Survey as assistant engineer. The two following years were passed in Alaska in prospecting work. In 1900-1901 he was engaged in locating the Boston and Worcester Railroad. From 1901 to 1902 he was assistant engineer in locating and constructing the Cuba R. R The two following years found him back in Boston, engaged with the U.S. Engineering Corps in dredging Boston harbor.
Another turn of the wheel brought him back to the torrid zone, where for two years (1904-1906) he was assistant engineer on surveys for the Panama Canal. Followed two years as-resident engineer in direct charge of Gatun locks and dam and Porto Bello quarry. The following year he superintended the reconstruction of the Cuba Eastern R. R. Then came two years as chief engineer and general manager of the Guantanamo and Western R. R. (Cuba).
He next transferred his activities to the island of Porto Rico, first as superintendent of the Ponce and Guayama R. R. In 1911 he was appointed vice-president and general manager of Central Aguirre Sugar Company, and since 1920 he had held the same positions with the Central Machete Company. Porto Rico claimed him thenceforth, and he made an enduring impression on its industrial and civil life; yet his decision to undertake this work depended almost on the toss of a coin. Under his management an efficient and loyal organization was built up, the acreage of the company largely increased, the sugar cane tonnage per acre doubled, the sugar content of the cane increased twofold, with resulting profits to the company of millions of dollars.
In addition to absolute justice and fairness in dealing with all manner of men were the loyalty and respect of the thousands of the company's employees. With increase in his own material prosperity came larger opportunities for doing good, for his own ideal of success in life was not the accumulation of money, but service to his fellow-men.
A classmate relates this incident. It had been his custom for several years to give a present at Christmas to every child on his plantation. The number of these presents had so increased and the cost had become so considerable that the directors of the corporation decided that it should be a corporate expense. When, however, they suggested that to Carpenter, he told them that he had inaugurated the custom and considered it his personal privilege, and would thank them not to make any appropriation for the purpose.
At Dartmouth he was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity and of Casque and Gauntlet, and in later life of St. Matthew's Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Andover, Mass., which for many years was his home town. He also held membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Railway Engineering Association.
Comments from the press: (Porto RicoProgress): "The island has suffered a great loss in the death of C. L. Carpenter, who had during the last 15 years made of Central Aguirre an outstanding institution. Through him Aguirre probably had developed more good will for itself than any other sugar property on the island. This was not an easy task. Yet Mr. Carpenter, who was his own taskmaster, won the confidence not only of those about him, but of the hundreds of thousands on the company's estates. He was recognized as being just."
Extract from letter of employees of various companies over which Carpenter presided:
"Mr. Carpenter was an able executive of rare genius, and, what is still more rare, with exalted ideas of probity and business honor. From the wealthiest business man, or colono, to the lowliest laborer, he could always be depended on for a proper interest in the problem at hand and a decision based on absolute justice and equity for all concerned. His humanity was constantly shown in the care taken by the company of all its employees in housing, medical aid, and attention to themselves and families, in providing work outside of the crop season, in care for the needy, and an open purse for all at such times. Never was an old employee known to go away emptyhanded."
As a very loyal member of a loyal class, prominent in its affairs and deeply rooted in the affections of its members, the memory of Charlie Carpenter will be treasured by the survivors to the last man.
The end came suddenly September 28,1929, in the wild country which he loved and in the full enjoyment of a canoe trip among the lakes of Quebec Province, Canada. It was the writer's privilege to share his life in those last weeks, to measure and appraise those traits of personality and character which developed the immature youth of college days into the man successful in the larger sense. There were reminiscences around the campfire of pioneering days when he worked up to his waist in mud and water among the swamps of Nicaragua, later passing two winters in Alaska and penetrating five hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, sleeping in a tent, and again when he carried a pack on his back of 125 pounds twenty miles on the Rocky mountains.
He married Charlotte Florence Sullivan of Boston, Mass., December 15, 1892, who survives him with three sons, James Sullivan, Thomas Rice, and Charles Carroll Carpenter. There are also six grandchildren, an aged mother at Andover, and two sisters.
The burial services were at Andover, and interment in the family lot.
CLASS OF 1889
EDWARD STANFORD CHASE died at Phippsburg, Me., August 15, 1929.
He was born in Baltimore, Md., October 10, 1867, the son of H. H. and Rebecca (Newell) Chase. His preparatory school was Baltimore City College. He entered with our class, but left near the close of sophomore year.
He was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Jersey City for many years and lived in Rahway, N. J. He was married in May, 1890, to Miss Annie Adams of Baltimore, and during the next eighteen years seven children were born. Our report ten years ago showed that the oldest son had graduated from Rutgers in 1913 and the second son was then in Rutgers. The two older daughters had graduated from the State Normal School in Trenton.
For several years Mr. Chase has been one of our "lost" members, and we have no recent information about him or his family except the bare fact of his death as stated above.
CLASS OF 1906
RAY PERCY MCGBATH was born in Stratford, N. H., May 25, 1883, and died of a heart attack in San Francisco, August 25, 1929. The end came suddenly on a Sunday afternoon, as he was sitting in his home, quietly reading.
He prepared for college in the Lisbon, N. H., high school, and was a member of the class for three years, withdrawing at the end of the junior year because of financial reasons. He soon obtained employment with the Sullivan Machine Company of Claremont, and remained connected with that firm through- out his life. At first he was stationed at various places in New England and for a brief period in Chicago, but in May, 1914, he was appointed Pacific Coast manager of the company with headquarters at San Francisco, and there he made his home for the last fifteen years. He married about ten years ago and was the father of two children, who survive him. Mrs. McGrath died of pernicious anemia in May, 1928. Soon after her death, her sister, Miss Josephine Peck, went west from New York state to care for the McGrath children; since Ray's death she has returned to her home in the East, bringing the children with her.
Ray was a genial but rather retiring fellow in college. The friends he made in those days he kept throughout life, but always rather sensitive to the fact that he was "only a three years man," he never returned to reunions and seldom replied to class communications. Whatever information his class secretaries have been able to obtain about him always came indirectly. He enjoyed life fully in these later years, with his business activities, his golfing interests, and his pleasant home. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
CLASS OF 1907
CLARENCE GEORGE FILIAU died at the hospital in Hanover, N. H., on December 30, 1929, after an illness of a few weeks.
He was born in Hanover on April 17, 1887, the son of George and Jennie (Barnes) Filiau. After attending the public schools he graduated from college in 1907. He was one of the youngest members of the class. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.
During the war Clarence was stationed at Fort Taylor and Fort Sill with the rank of lieutenant. For a long time he worked in the Dartmouth National Bank, attaining the position of assistant cashier. He was highly regarded by his associates in the bank arid his fellow townsmen. He seemed to have a bright future before him. He was also popular with all his classmates who came in contact with him through his college course and since then.
The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Allan W. Clark.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Miriam Barwood, with whom he lived. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and the Encampment, the Graduate Club, and the American Legion
CLASS OF 1909
LAWRENCE P. DUFFY, one of the cheeriest souls to brighten the lives of countless friends, died December 6, after a long sickness, at his home, 40 Orkney Road, Brighton, Mass. Larry was prevented from entering college with the rest of us in the fall of 1905, by an attack of typhoid fever, but joined us at the beginning of the second semester. Larry did not return the following fall. His great record as a football player at English High had made us believe him to be one of our best athletes. But, important as this was to our freshman minds, it is a real tribute to Larry's personality and his ability to make friends quickly that the class in general regretted his failure to return with little thought or mention of his ability as a football player, but with every thought of the absence of a friend, whose geniality and forceful character were outstanding.
For a short time after Larry left college he was on the staff of the Boston Herald, after which he entered the shoe business, and became one of the best liked men in the trade. Larry maintained his interest in athletics, and was a close friend of most of the major figures in athletics in New England. Larry not only saw the bright side of life, but was so endowed that he could reproduce it for others. His fame as a raconteur was national.
He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Josephine Rogers of Marlboro; a sister, Mrs. John H. Sullivan, and a brother, Francis Duffy, a Boston lawyer. Funeral services were held in St. Mary's Chapel, Boston College.
Larry and Hal Pratt went to English High together and were to room together in Hanover. Among the various letters received about Larry, one came from Hal, which is typical, perhaps, of the way Larry was remembered by most of us: "You may remember some of our escapades on the top floor of Wheeler when Larry ran off nightly foot races with Hiestand, a senior, as the outstanding starter, and an occasional bucket of water sometimes made the going a bit slippery. In later years I never met Larry that he didn't bring up those memories of the few months that he spent in college. He was a great, big, likable boy who never changed or seemed to have any cares. His passing will be regretted by his hundreds of friends."
CLASS OF 1911
CLAIRE ALFRED PELTON DUFFIE died in Oakland, Cal., on December 1, 1929, at the age of 39 years. He had attended the Stanford-University of California football game, where apparently he contracted a severe cold, and was removed from his home to the hospital, where he grew rapidly worse, dying from pneumonia within a week from the inception of the cold.
He was born on Staten Island, N. Y., May 26, 1890, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Duffie. He entered Dartmouth College with the class of 1911, after attending Betts Academy. During his college course he was a member of his class track and football teams, and later made his track letter as a member of the varsity relay team. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
After graduating from college he was engaged with his father on the New York stock exchange. On March 14, 1914, he married Katherine Chichester, a resident of Los Angeles, and "Cap" went to California to establish his home. During the world war he was a captain in the Anti-Aircraft Division. Following his war service he returned to San Francisco, and became associated with the Steel Pipe and Tank Co., holding the offices of general manager and secretary-treasurer. He had recently organized and become president of the Steel Pole and Tube Company, of San Francisco, manufacturers of electric light and telephone poles. "Cap" not only was extremely successful in his business but was interested in public affairs of the city of Berkeley, was a member of the Civil Service Committee and of the Commercial and Rotary Clubs. He was also a member of the Berkeley Lodge No. 263, F. and A.M., and of the Piedmont Post, American Legion.
In 1925 he bought a country place in St. Helena, Napa county, where lie was near Ray Taylor. His family has resided there since, except that last summer the home was destroyed by fire, and the new residence had just been completed and they were about to move in when "Cap" was taken ill.
Claire is survived by his widow and four children: Jacqueline, Claire, William A., and Katherine C., and in addition to his parents, two brothers and a sister.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1880
DK. JOHN WOODBURY STIMSON died at Templeton, Mass., July 3, 1929.
He was born in Kittery, Me., October 1, 1855, his parents being Charles William and Harriett Ware (Junkins) Stimson. Edward C. Stimson '76 is an older brother. His preliminary education was obtained at the high school of Portsmouth, N. H., where was his home in boyhood. He attended medical lectures at the University of Vermont before coming to Dartmouth.
After graduation he began practice in Lunenburg, Mass., where he remained a few years. After a short period in Marlboro, Mass., he settled in Fitchburg, where the rest of his professional life was spent. His work covered a wide area, and he was held in high esteem for his skill and success.
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.
Outside of his family and professional life, his interests were chiefly centered in his love for the out-of-doors and matters of historical interest, to both of which he gave much attention.
February 22, 1882, Dr. Stimson was married to Caroline Walton Cunningham of Lunenburg, Mass., whom he survived but a few months. Two daughters, Harriett Cunningham Stimson and Martha Cunningham Stimson, survive their parents; a son, Charles Cunningham Stimson, died several years ago.
CLASS OF 1881
DR. FRANK CLARK GRANGER died Decem- ber 22, 1929, at the home of his son in New Rochelle, N. Y.
He was born in Randolph, Yt., April 8, 1849, the son of Noah and Caroline (Clark) Granger. In 1867 he graduated at the Vermont State Normal School at Randolph Center, and until 1876 taught in Vermont, New Jersey, and California, and at Belmont, Nev. He then studied medicine, and received the degree of M.D. at the University of Vermont in 1877. In January, 1878, he began practice at Randolph, Mass., whence he came to Dartmouth in the fall of 1880 and graduated anew. He continued his practice at Randolph through the whole of his professional life, doing with success the varied work of a country physician and surgeon.
August 13, 1873, he was married to Alice M. Butler of Essex, Vt., who died about three years ago. Their elder son, Dr. Frank Butler Granger, died about a year ago; their younger son is Lucius Dwight Granger.
CLASS OF 1888
WILL CLIFTON HILDRETH, who attended medical lectures at Dartmouth in 1885, 1886, and 1887, and so may be considered a nongraduate member of the class of 1888, died December 15, 1929, at his home at York Beach, Me.
He was born at Suncook, N. H., January 19, 1866, being the son of Clifton B. Hildreth. His preparatory education was obtained at Pembroke Academy.
He did complete his medical studies or engage in practice. His home was at York Beach from about this time, and he was postmaster there from 1897 to 1913, and again from 1917 to 1926. He was appointed trial justice in 1903, and served for the rest of his life. He was also moderator and assessor in the York Beach corporation, of which he was one of the founders.
He was prominently connected with Republican politics in his county, and was a member of the Masonic order and of Union Congregational church of York.
He leaves a widow, two daughters, and a son.
SAMUEL L. POWERS '74
