Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1862
BENJAMIN MCLERAN died in Arizona near Wenden, March 16, 1930, shortly after his ninetieth birthday, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Rhoda Hatch Nohlechek.
He was born in Barnet, Vt., February 5, 1840, his parents being William and Eliza (Gleason) McLeran, and prepared for college at Peacham Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
Soon after graduation he enlisted in Company I, Third Massachusetts Volunteers. He was on detached service in the Signal Corps most of the time until his discharge in 1863. He then entered the service of the Engineer Corps of the Army of the Gulf, and was topographical engineer on the staff of General Canby at the close of the war. In 1866-7 he taught at Shreveport, La., under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, and remained in Louisiana as a civil engineer, making his home in New Orleans. During the period of reconstruction he held positions under the state government.
In 1886 he left New Orleans for San Diego, Cal., to accept a valuable contract, and remained there for many years, being for some time United States deputy mineral engineer. Later he bought a ranch at Dulzura, Cal., and engaged in bee culture. He retired five years ago, and lived in San Diego until a year ago, when he went to Wenden to live with his daughter.
He read much along the line of his profession, and up to the last years of his life his chief comfort was reading worthwhile books and conversing with friends. He loved and revered his Alma Mater, and rejoiced to hear of the successes of his classmates, very few of whom he had seen since graduation.
In 1870 he was married to Martha M. Fitts of Saratoga, N. Y., a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary. She is no longer living, and his only surviving relative is the daughter with whom he made his home.
FREDERIC W. EVELETH.
CLASS OF 1864
DR. NELSON WILBUR died at his home in Fayetteville, N. Y., March 20, 1930. He was stricken with apoplexy on the 17th, and was in a state of coma until the end.
The son of Daniel Carr and Clarissa (Fisher) Wilbur, he was born in Unadilla, N. Y., February 18, 1840, and prepared for college at Owego, N. Y. For four months from June, 1862, he was in military service as a private in Company B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry (the "College Cavaliers"). He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
For two years after graduation he was assistant principal of the high school of St. Joseph, Mo., and then for a year principal of the academy at Windsor, N. Y. In the fall of 1867 he began the study of medicine at the University of Buffalo, where he graduated in February, 1870. He began the practice of his profession at Sidney Center, N. Y., whence he removed to Fayetteville in July, 1874. He was in active practice until two years before his death. In the height of his practice he covered a large territory, and was regarded as one of the best diagnosticians in central New York. He was always interested in the affairs of his community, and served for many years on the board of education. He was a member of the Presby- terian church, of which he had served as elder.
September 6, 1875, Dr. Wilbur was married to Helen M., daughter of Horace and Margaret Smith of Fayetteville, who died April 11, 1927. Two daughters survive their parents: Clara (Mrs. M. J. Creely) of Fayetteville, and Anna (Mrs. C. R. Wilkins) of Lake Placid, N. Y. There are two granddaughters. A sister of Dr. Wilbur also survives him, Mrs. H. W. Mix of Taunggyi, Burma, a retired missionary.
CLASS OF 1876
BENJAMIN HOWABD ROBERTS, son of Rev. Benjamin Titus and Ellen L. (Stow) Roberts, was born Oct. 9, 1853, in Brockport, N. Y. He prepared for college in Oberlin, Ohio. At the end of freshman year he left Dartmouth, and spent a year at Rochester University, but returned in junior year.
From 1877 to 1906 Roberts was principal of the A. M. Chesborough Seminary in North Chili, N. Y., and from 1893 to 1906 was editor of the Earnest Christian. Then for five years he was engaged in social welfare work in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1911 he became pastor of the college church at Berea College, Kentucky, and held the position until 1919. He was one of the founders, in 1920, of the Roberts-Beach School in Catonsville, Md., a suburb of Baltimore. He has also been pastor of the Presbyterian church in Relay, Md. (he resigned in November, 1929). He received the doctorate of divinity from Berea College in 1912.
He married, October 16, 1877, Miss Emma J. Sellew (A.B. Cornell 1877), of Dunkirk, N. Y. Their eldest son died in childhood. Their other four children gained college degrees as follows: Lois Ellen (Mrs. H. M. Hallett, Ben Avon, Pa.), A.B. Mount Holyoke 1904; Ashbel Sellew (head of the history department, State College for Teachers, Kent, Ohio), A.B. Cornell 1910, Ph.D. Harvard 1922; Lucy George (of the Roberts- Beach School), A.B. Mount Holyoke 1908, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 1916; Edwin Douglass (he died in the World War, 1918), A.B. Hobart College 1911.
(Dartmouth 187 Biographical Sketches: Samuel Merrill).
Roberts died at his home in Catonsville, March 3, 1930, after a short illness. Brief indeed was the interval between the termination of his duties in the Roberts-Beach School and his death, only a few days. The survivors in his family are his wife, three children, and three grandchildren. Beyond his grieving family he will be mourned by many—classmates, students in several institutions, parishioners, and friends,—for his kindliness, his graces of spirit, his elevation of life, and his splendid courage in meeting the threat of material disaster at a period of life when the buoyancy of youth and the pioneering spirit have often become quiescent. It is often not in order to dwell upon those events and phases of a life which for those having intimate knowledge are the most thrilling and inspiring (and this is true of Roberts), but the knowledge lives on with the few, never to be forgotten. Roberts was definitely loyal to class and college, was present at reunions, and had his full share in the special phases and enthusiasms of the reunion seasons
HENRY H. PIPER.
CLASS OF 1877
JUSTIN HAKVEY SMITH fell dead of heart disease in front of Borough Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y., on the afternoon of March 21, 1930. He had returned that morning from Florida, where he had spent the winter, and had a business appointment with Mr. George A. Plimpton, head of the publishing house of Ginn and Company, who later identified his body, which was not at first recognized.
He was born in Boscawen, N. H., January 13, 1857, the son of Rev. Ambrose (Dartmouth 1845) and Cynthia Maria (Edgerton) Smith. His father died in 1862, and in 1867 the mother established a home for her family in Norwich, Vt., where she had relatives. Here Justin prepared for college, being one of a group of six who entered Dartmouth from the Norwich school in the fall of 1873. From the beginning to the close of his college course he was the leader of his class in scholarship, and was its valedictorian at graduation. An older brother, Lyndon A. Smith, followed him to college three years later and graduated in 1880. Spending most of his time at his home in Norwich, he did not participate largely in extracurricular activities, except such as were connected with his fraternity, Psi Upsilon. He became a member also of Phi Beta Kappa.
Immediately after graduation he assumed a position as private secretary to John D. Philbrick (Dartmouth 1842), superintendent of public instruction for the city of Boston. Mr. Philbrick was appointed in charge of the United States educational exhibit at the Paris Exposition, and Smith went with him as his assistant. When these duties had been completed, he spent some months in European travel, and on his return was engaged in various educational work in and near Boston until the summer of 1879. He then entered Union Theological Seminary, New York city, and remained there two years, but decided not to complete his preparation for the ministry.
From May, 1881, to February, 1883, he was agent for the Middle States of the educational publications of Charles Scribner's Sons. He was then in charge of the New York office of Ginn, Heath, and Company until July, 1884. He then became manager of the home office of Ginn and Company in Boston In 1890 he was admitted to the firm, and placed in charge of the editorial department. His active connection with the business ceased in 1898, and from 1899 to 1907 he filled the chair of modern history at Dartmouth. Before this time he had gone deeply into historical research, and henceforward devoted himself entirely to historical and literary work, involving much foreign residence and travel. From 1896 to 1906 he was a member of the visiting committee on Romance philology of Harvard University.
Some of the results of his research appear in the following books: "The Troubadours at Home," 2 vols., 1899; "Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec," 1903; "A Tale of Two Worlds and Five Centuries," 1903; "Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony— Canada and the American Revolution," 2 vols., 1907; "The Annexation of Texas," 1911; "The War with Mexico," 2 vols., 1919; "Letters of Santa Anna," (edited) 1919; also many pamphlets and magazine articles. "The War with Mexico" received the Pulitzer Prize of $2000 as the best book of the year on American history and the First Loubat Prize of $1000 as the best book in English published during the previous five years on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America.
In 1908 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Norwich University, and in 1920 that of Doctor of Letters from Dartmouth. In 1925 he was the donor of a fund of $40,000 to the College.
The funeral service was held at Trenton, N. J., where a nephew resides, and the burial was at Boscawen, N. H., his native town.
CLASS OF 1882
ARTHUK BOARDMAN GUSHING, a non- graduate member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department, died on February 8, 1930, at the Battles Home in Lowell, Masswhere he had been living for several years. His death was due to a severe mental breakdown which occurred about two years ago. Prior to that interruption he had been a teacher, having taught for many years in various towns throughout New England. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
He was born in Lowell, on April 8, 1858, so that he was in his seventy-second year at the time of his death.
WILLIAM E. STRONG.
CLASS OF 1886
RICHARD CRAWFORD CAMPBELL was born in Wheeling, W. Va., January 5, 1865. His father was Archibald W. Campbell, publisher of the Wheeling Intelligencer, a journalist of distinction, and a prominent figure in state and national politics of his day. His granduncle was Alexander Campbell, chief founder of the Disciples of Christ.
"Dick" had a talent for friendship, and during his life at Dartmouth formed many close ties with his associates, which endured through the years that followed. Of an alert and inquiring mind, though in no sense an arduous student, he maintained a high record for scholarship, attaining Phi Beta Kappa rank. In 1889 he was given the degree of Master of Arts by the College.
After graduation Dick returned to his home in Wheeling, where his interest in public affairs brought him into relations with the leaders of Republican politics. He was for a time secretary of the West Virginia Republican Congressional Committee. He spent two years in the mill of the Woodward Iron Company, Birmingham, Ala., and then for a brief period was secretary to the president of the National Lead Company, New York. Tiring of office work, he left the latter position and entered government service.
From 1889 to 1893 he was secretary of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, one of his last duties in this position being the installation of the Internal Revenue Bureau's exhibit in the U. S. Government Building at the World's Pair in Chicago. In 1894, Dick joined the first surveying party, under the auspices of the U. S. Reclamation Service, to explore the Imperial Valley in California. On one of his trips west on government business he met Miss Margaret Montjoy Patterson, daughter of former Senator Thomas M. Patterson. He returned to Denver, became engaged to Miss Patterson, and they were married on September 4, 1895.
Almost at once he became manager of the Rocky Mountain News, then owned and edited by Mr. Patterson. Here his newspaper inheritance, strengthened by strong personal inclination and talent, found opportunity for expression. Within a few years he became general manager of the News Company. A later purchase of the Times independently, and a still later combination of the Times with the News produced the News-Times Company.
In 1913 the News-Times was disposed of to other interests, and Dick's interest in the newspaper work with which he had been so successfully associated since boyhood was terminated. In Dick's words, it was the "demnition grind" for years, but he enjoyed it just the same. His health was by this time pretty well undermined; he was of a nervous temperament, and the years of responsibility with two papers, and an editorial policy somewhat against his ideas had proved a heavy burden.
Meanwhile his extensive interests had grown to such an extent that he finally established the Campbell Investment Company, which he administered during his last years.
Dick was happy in his home life* and with Mrs. Campbell watched with loving care the growth and development of their three children: Thomas Patterson Campbell, born July 27, 1896; graduated from Dartmouth, 1918. He has recently been an instructor in the Colorado State School of Mines. He is married, and has two sons, both, he says, "headed in the way they should go." Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., born October 27, 1900. Richard, Junior, entered Dartmouth in 1917, after a four years course in Phillips Exeter, where he had made a fine record for scholarship. At the beginning of his sophomore year he intended to enroll in the military training unit, but on October 1, when the enrollment took place, he was in hospital, and there died on October 5, from influenza followed by pneumonia. Katherine P. Campbell (now Mrs. Stuart Salisbury Smith), born May 13, 1905, residing in Denver.
The death of young Richard, a boy of fine character and great promise, was a grievous blow to his parents, his brother and sister, and their many friends. As a memorial to him, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell established by gift two endowment funds of $20,000 each, one to Phillips Exeter Academy, to be known as the Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., Scholarship, and one to Dartmouth College, as perpetual endowment of a fellowship in English, to be named for Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., of the class of 1921.
Dick's interest in and affection for Dartmouth was shown in many ways. He was a member of the Alumni Council, 1913-1919, and was instrumental in directing many Colorado boys to Dartmouth. His contributions to the Alumni Fund were constant and generous, and we may well believe that he felt a thrill of joy in being able to bequeath to the College the large sum of $100,000.
Always interested in public affairs and in outdoor sports, Dick was one of the moving spirits of the Grand Lake Yacht Club, in which he held the rank of commodore. He was also a member of the University Club, the Denver Club, and the Denver Country Club. As chairman of the Chamber of Commerce civic and legislative bureau, he did much valuable work for Denver business. He was a vestryman of the Church of the Ascension.
Mrs. Campbell's health had been precarious in recent years, and she died of surgical shock following an operation in June, 1929. Dick's health failed rapidly, and he died February 13, 1930, of double pneumonia. Besides his two children and three grandchildren, Dick is survived by only one near relative, a sister, Mrs. Jessie Campbell Hill, Bethany, W. Va.
KARL H. GOODWIN.
ARTHUR HORACE CHASE died at Glendale, Cal., on February 24, 1930, after an illness of nearly two years. He was born at Concord, N. H., February 16, 1864, the son of William M. and Ellen S. (Abbott) Chase. The father was a son of Dartmouth (1858) and a trustee of the College from 1890 until his decease.
Arthur received his primary education in the public schools of Concord, completing his high school course in 1882.
The degree of A.B. bestowed by the College at his graduation in 1886 was supplemented by an A.M. in 1892. Arthur made Phi Beta Kappa rank in college, was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and was one of the founders of the Sphinx senior society.
Immediately after graduation he entered the office of Chase and Streeter, attorneys at-law, of Concord, where he pursued the study of law for three years, and completed his legal education by a year's resident study at Boston University Law School. He was admitted to practice at the New Hampshire bar in 1890. In March, 1891, his father, the senior member of the firm of Chase and Streeter, accepted an appointment as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Arthur then became a member of the reorganized firm of Streeter, Walker, and Chase, and in this association practiced his profession until January 1, 1895. On that date he retired from active practice to accept an appointment as state librarian.
Here he entered upon his life's work, in a calling to which he was peculiarly adapted, and at a time favorable for initiation and advancement in the coming profession of the librarian. In that year the state had completed, at a cost of nearly three hundred thousand dollars, the new granite structure on State St. to house the State Library and the Supreme Court. The library then consisted primarily of legal publications and was essentially a reference library. The occupation of new quarters and enlarged appropriations for the purchase of books called for the exercise of talents for arrangement and indexing which Arthur possessed in an exceptional degree. He had not particularly cared for the controversial side of law prac- tice, and saw in the handling of a large reference and law library a work of great appeal. His legal training, his penchant for books, and his liking for systematic and methodical order well qualified him for the work, upon which he entered with zest. Assuming the duties of the office at a time when an entirely new system had to be inaugurated, he found an opportunity for the play of his genius for classification and indexing to meet the needs of a specialized clientele. During the twenty-eight years of his administration, the library grew from thirty-two thousand volumes to one hundred and seventy thousand.
Coincident with this work he found other calls upon his time along professional lines. As librarian he was, ex-officio, a member of the New Hampshire Public Library Commission, and from 1912 to 1916 he was the editor of the Bulletin of the New Hampshire Public Libraries, published quarterly by the board, and co-editor thereof for 1917 and 1918. He served the state bar association as its secretary for many years. In 1914 he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court, which position he held until his resignation therefrom on January 22, 1925. During his term as librarian, in association with his father he compiled and published in 1901 the statute laws of New Hampshire then in force, and also published a compilation supplementary thereto in 1913. Much painstaking work and care were involved in editing these works, which became handbooks in all the law offices in the state. In 1905-6 he acted in an advisory capacity to the commissioners appointed by the legislature of Vermont to revise the public laws of that state, and prepared the index to that work. When Arthur voluntarily retired from the position of state librarian on July 10, 1923, it was to accept an appointment as secretary of the Commission to Revise the Public Laws of New Hampshire, and for the larger part of two years he devoted himself to the exacting work of supplementing the citations therein and in preparing copy for the printer and supervising the publication of the Commission's report to the legislature.
Following his graduation, Arthur served for ten years in the New Hampshire National Guard. During a part of this period he held the office of judge advocate, and retired from the service with the rank of major. During the World War, he offered his services to the American Library Association to assist in the work of establishment of soldiers' libraries, but before he had received an appointment he was asked to serve in New Hampshire as clerk of the draft board, in which position he worked earnestly and untiringly during the entire existence of the board.
He was a member of the Wonalancet, Passaconaway, and Outing Clubs of Concord. In politics he was a Republican, and in church affiliations a Congregationalist. He held high Masonic rank, being made a Mason in Concord in 1912. He took all the degrees in the order up to the 32d, and was a member of the local Scottish Rite bodies, the New Hampshire Consistory of Nashua, a past master of Eureka Lodge, a past patron of Epiphany Chapter, O. E. S., and a past potentate of Becktash Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., all of Concord. After his retirement from his state positions he transferred his membership to Summit Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Canaan, N. H., where he maintained his legal residence, retaining his membership therein until his decease.
He was married at Boston, September 17, 1888, to Alice May Fisk of that city, by whom there were two children, Marjorie Fisk and Robert Martin. Marjorie, Vassar 1914, married Henry W. Merrill, and now lives in Newtonville, Mass. Children: Henry W., Jr., and Nathaniel Chase. Robert, Dartmouth 1917 and M. I. T. 1922, married Dorothy Meston, and now lives in Ashland, Mass. Children: Robert M., Jr., and Leonard Meston. Mrs. Arthur Chase died at Concord on April 26, 1924.
In January, 1916, Arthur met with an accident which resulted in the loss of an eye. He bore his affliction, however, without complaint or material interruption of his professional duties. In December, 1924, he submitted to a major surgical operation, following which he remained for a time with his daughter at Newtonville, Mass., later removing to Hotel Sheraton on Bay State Road in Boston.
On June 17, 1925, he was married at Newtonville, Mass., to Miss Alice Marion Pray, formerly of Woodsville, N. H„ who had succeeded him as state librarian in July, 1923, and who for a period of twelve years during his librarianship had been his secretary and later assistant librarian. After their marriage, while making their headquarters in Boston, they spent the major part of their time in travel, including eighteen months of journeying around the world, and several winters in California and Hawaii.
His wife and children carried out his last expressed wishes for only the simplest of services and a prayer at the grave. A brief service was held at Glendale, Cal., on February 27, followed by cremation. On March 10 at 11:30 a.m. prayers were said by the chaplain of Blazing Star Lodge, A. P. & A. M., at the grave, and his ashes were interred in the family lot in Blossom Hill Cemetery at Concord, N. H.
LESLIE P. SNOW.
CLASS OF 1892
ALLEN CURTIS CUMMINGS died March 18, 1930, at the Winchester Wirt Hospital at West Haven, Conn., after an illness of nearly a year.
He was born at North Thetford, Vt., November 22, 1868, the son of Harlan P. and Alpha M. (Baxter) Cummings. He attended Thetford Academy, graduating in 1888, and graduated with honors from Dartmouth, being a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He had completed thirty-five years in the teaching profession in 1929, when he resigned the principalship of the South Hadley (Mass.) High School because of ill health. His long and successful teaching experience was as follows: principal Littleton (Mass.) High School, 1892-5; Ayer (Mass.) High School, 1895-8; instructor in St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, 1898-1901; returned as principal to Ayer (Mass.) High School, 1901-4; principal of Orange (Mass.) High School, 1904-12; of Claremont (N. H.) High School, 1912-18; and of South Hadley (Mass.) High School, 1919-February, 1929.
During his principalship of the South Hadley High School he had seen the enrollment grow from 164 to 524; he had seen the faculty increase from four teachers to ten; and during these years he had not only seen, but had taken a major part in, a more important growth—the improvement of intellectual standards.
Mr. Cummings brought to his profession an unusual degree of ability. He was a man whose devotion to learning was only surpassed by his ability to impart a similar devotion to the students under his care. His qualifications as a teacher were superior.
He preferred the work of the principal to departmental teaching, and enjoyed the administrative work that belongs to the head of a school. However, he specialized in mathematics, civics, and history, and was never so happy as when before his class.
His interest in the welfare of his pupils was unbounded, and he took unusual interest in planning with them for their future in college or in active life after graduation from school.
His burial was in the family lot at North Thetford, Vt.
CLASS OF 1893
ALFBBD LEVI SABEN died at his summer home at Winchester, N. H., on March 16, 1930. He had been ill for a year and a half.
The son of Levi and Mary (Tolman) Saben, he was born in Winchester on December 14, 1869. After attending the local grades, he prepared for Dartmouth at the Winchester High School. He sang in the choirs of the college church and chapel, and on Class Day gave the address to the Old Pine.
After graduating with the degree of A.B. he entered teaching, as five generations of his family had done before him. The first position was that of principal of the Rutland (Mass.) High School. Then he occupied a similar post in Warner, N. H. In 1899 he received a Master of Arts degree from Cornell, and then became principal of the Manchester (Mass.) High School. He worked for the best interests of the community for seventeen years. Later he was in charge of the school at Littleton, Mass., and was still on a leave of absence from this institution.
In 1897 Mr. Saben married Miss Emilie Melissa Pickett, a teacher in the Winchester school. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, (A.B. Mount Holyoke 1924, A.M. Columbia 19S0), who teaches in Gardner, Mass.
A very loyal Dartmouth man, Mr. Saben's greatest joy was to prepare boys for his Alma Mater. He attended the games and banquets whenever possible.
Another of his great interests was the Congregational church. He was a deacon in the Winchester society, an office which has been held by a Saben for 82 years. He also sang in the choir, was superintendent of the Sunday school, and was president of the Congregational Club.
Scores of pupils all over New England have learned from Mr. Saben the vistas opened by a study of Latin. But perhaps more important, they learned the value of careful work, a hatred of sham, and an absolutely clear vision of truth. Mr. Saben had a keen sense of humor, an absolute integrity of character, and all the attributes of a Christian gentleman.
CLASS OF 1894
GEORGE ELWOOD MANN died suddenly March 5, 1930, at the Phillips House, Boston, where he had gone for treatment for a heart trouble of long standing.
He was born in Randolph, Vt., May 10, 1872, and attended the local schools and graduated from the high school.
After graduating with his class, he was for two years principal of the graded school of Quechee, Vt. In August, 1896, he entered the employment of the A. G. Dewey Company, woolen manufacturers of Quechee. In 1901 he was admitted to the firm and the directorate of the company, and in 1906 became its secretary. Three years ago, on the death of the the treasurer, the duties of the latter position became his also. Outside of the company other business connections were as a director of the Woodstock Inn, the Woodstock Electric Company, and the Woodstock National Bank. He was a member of the Masons and the Elks, and a charter member of the Hartford Rotary Club, which he served as president of 1926 and '27. He was also a member of the Woodstock Country Club, the University Club of Boston, the Lakota Club, and the Lake Mitchell and Lake Mansfield Trout Clubs. He had served the town of Hartford as auditor and school director.
June 1, 1898, he was married to Annie Metcalf Dewey, who survives him with their four children: William Dewey, Dartmouth 1922, trade commissioner with the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Cairo, Egypt; Elizabeth Dewey, head nurse at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston; Richard Dewey, Dartmouth 1926, of the National Shawmut Bank in Boston; and Thomas Dewey, a member of the present freshman class at Dartmouth.
"Billie" Mann, as he was called by his classmates, who ascribed that nickname in undergraduate days, was the eleventh of the class to lay down the burden. From freshman fall to graduation, and ever since, he was genuinely popular in the best sense of that often misused term. His popularity sprang from his intrinsic worth, accompanied by a manner of geniality and charm. Robust, forceful, and masculine, with a mind of crystal clearness and a heart of gold, he brought to every situation a big, homespun common sense, thought in fundamentals, and sifted, as if by instinct, the important from the unessential. No reunion was complete without him. How keenly he was missed at the 1929 reunion, everyone there well recalls. He spent that period in the hospital at Hanover, and, although in touch, could not participate. He was so buoyant, dynamic, hearty, wholesome, and lovable, that success could not turn his head. Assured position brought no false pride, no arrogance, no distant and icy reserve. The jovial, rollicking good fellowship never failed.
Eight of the class attended the services at the home: Ames, with Mrs. Ames; Cassin; Claggett, with Mrs. Claggett; Ham; Hurd; C. C. Merrill; Rossiter; A. W. Stone, with Mrs. Stone.
The White River Junction Landmark contained the following affectionate encomium: "The grim Reaper has removed another of our respected and loved fellow citizens. George E. Mann of Quechee has been called to join the invisible host. George, as he was affectionately called by his multitude of friends, has been for years one of the leaders in our town. He always associated himself with those things which meant for the greatest good of the greatest number. He was possessed of a marked degree of those qualities which endeared him to all who knew him. To sit in a group with him of an evening was a rare treat, for he had an inimitable way of recounting interesting incidents and a delightful humor and wit. To have known him was to make life richer. Our sympathy goes out to his family in their irreparable loss."
HENRY N. HURD.
CLASS OF 1898
HERBERT WILLARD BLAKE died in the Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital, Gardner, Mass., of bronchial pneumonia, on Thursday, April 3, 1930.
He was born in Orford, N. H., a son of Manfred and Rosanna (Bean) Blake, November 18, 1876, and lived in and near Orford during his boyhood. He graduated from Bradford Academy. After his graduation from Dartmouth he worked upon the Boston and Maine Railroad, and later as United States customs officer, at Island Pond, Vt. He studied law in the office of Porter H. Dale, now United States senator from Vermont. He was probate judge in Island Pond, 1906-1911; he then moved to Gardner, and became the associate of his classmate, Joseph P. Carney, in the firm of Carney and Blake. In later years he practiced alone.
He was claim supervisor in Massachusetts of the New Hampshire Mutual Liability Insurance Company, with offices in Boston. He was a member of the Gardner and Worcester Bar Associations, past grand of William Ellison Lodge, I. 0. 0. P., a member of Gardner Encampment, Hope Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Gardner Kiwanis, Jessamine chapter, 0. E. S., the Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America. He was interested in Monadnock Council, Boy Scouts of America. He was on the building committee of the Chestnut Street Methodist Episcopal church.
He is survived by his wife, Gertrude N. Blake, a son, Nelson, now a senior at Dartmouth, a daughter, Priscilla of Gardner, and a sister, Mrs. Helen M. King of Island Pond, Yt.
The funeral was held on Saturday, April 5, at Gardner, and the interment took place in Crystal Lake Cemetery.
One of his classmates thus said of him: "Herbert W. ('Blush') Blake in his life was typical of Dartmouth. He came from the farm, he knew the urge of necessity; he fought his way through college over obstacles that would have discouraged a weaker spirit. Between his terms he worked as a brakeman on a railroad, and even after graduation continued until he could earn sufficient to pursue his law studies. While U. S. customs collector, he was admitted to the bar, and practiced law until his death.
"The class of '9B is his lasting debtor. He was its first class secretary and served in that capacity for twenty-one years. His classmates were busy with their own affairs, homebuilding, career-making, and had little time and less money to support him in his work. Despite this he was able to have printed and sent to his classmates complete reports; the only contact which his classmates had, before the coming of the class agent. He was eminently loyal, extremely modest, quizzically humorous, and deeply human. His struggles had made him sympathetic with the struggles of other men. He set great store on the imponderable things of life, as witness the many societies to which he gave so much of his time and ability.
"No death in many years has brought so great a sense of loss to his remaining classmates"
classmates." E. P. SEELMAN.
(To the foregoing may be added the following from a letter from his classmate Joseph P. Carney.)
"Herb Blake's death has been a great shock to all of us. No one expected it up to the last moment. Last Wednesday night everyone thought he had gained strength and was starting to come back pretty fast. It certainly was a shock to his family and everyone in this community when we heard Thursday morning that he had passed away.
"Quite a number of his classmates attended the funeral on Saturday. Some of them came on from as far as New York city. Herb had some fine qualities, and the respect that was shown to him at his funeral indicated that the community and his friends throughout New England truly appreciated him. This is the first death we have had in our class for several years and it certainly had a very depressing effect upon all of us."
CLASS OF 1926
WILLIAM WILSON COPPOCK died at his home in Council Bluffs, lowa, February 13, 1930, as the result of heart trouble, after an illness at the time of a few days, though he had been confined to his home the summer before for a month or so as the result of an attack at that time.
He was born in Council Bluffs, July 12, 1905, his parents being William (now deceased) and Elizabeth (Wilson) Coppock, and prepared for college at the high school of his native city. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
Shortly after graduation he became associated with an uncle in the Eagle Laundry Company of Council Bluffs, and held the position of vice-president and treasurer at the time of his death.
April 11, 1928, he was married to Margaret Turley of St. Louis, and she and a six-monthsold daughter, Joan, survive him, as well as his mother and a brother, John, formerly of Dartmouth '3O, now of Springfield, Mass.
JOHN G. ALLEN '20.
CLASS OF 1929
RICHABD REALF BRAGGINS was killed in an airplane accident at Cleveland, Ohio, March 14, 1930. He was a flying instructor at the Herrick Airport, Euclid, Ohio, and at the time of the accident was at the controls of the airplane, which went into a nosedive out of which he was unable to right it, and crashed into a tree. Another person riding in the plane was killed at the same time.
Braggins was born in Cleveland, November 11, 1907, the son of Richard and Liza (McDaniel) Braggins, and prepared for college at Cleveland Heights High School. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He left college in junior year to go into aviation, and took his training at Kelly Field, Texas.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1893
DR. ARTHUR FRANK AMADON died at the home of a son in Troy, N. Y., March 29, 1930.
He was born in Pownal, Vt., September 10, 1858, the son of Perry Frank and Eliza (Mason) Amadon. He graduated from Williams College in 1881, and for some years after graduation was engaged in teaching. He taught mathematics in Monson (Mass.) Academy in 1882-4, was principal of Pepperell (Mass.) High School in 1884-6, and of Putnam (Conn.) High School in 1886-7, and professor of mathematics in Drury College, Springfield, Mo., in 1887-90.
In 1893 he began practice in Boston, and continued there until his recent retirement, devoting himself from the first to diseases of the eye. He was on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital as ophthalmic surgeon for twenty years, and on the staff of the Boston Eye and Ear Infirmary for ten years. He lived for many years in Melrose, and was on the staff of the Melrose Hospital and from 1897 to 1902 secretary of the School board.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Ophthalmic Society, the Wyoming lodge of Masons, and the Coeur de Lion Commandery.
November 25, 1886, he was married to Mary E. Whitcombe of Boston, who survives him, with two sons, Arthur F. of Troy, N, Y., and Frank W. of Winthrop, Mass. A daughter died early.
Honorary
ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY (A.M. 1873) died at his home at Woodstock, Conn., March 13, 1930.
The son of Alpheus and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy, he was born in Andover, Mass., August 13, 1847, prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, entered Amherst College in 1864, and a year later received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1869. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Third Artillery, June, 1869, serving until November 12, 1870. From 1871 to 1873 he was professor of civil engineering, applied mathematics, and military drill in lowa (now Grinnell) College. He was then appointed professor of civil engineering in the Chandler School at Dartmouth, receiving a year's leave of absence for further study in Paris, and beginning his active duties in 1874. In 1878 he was transferred to the chair of mathematics in the College, and held this position until his resignation in 1893 to enter upon literary work. He was editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1893-5. In 1897 he entered the diplomatic service as minister resident and consul general to Persia and remained in that country two years. From 1899 to 1901 he was envoy to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, from 1901 to 1903 to Switzerland, and from 1903 to 1905 to Spain. He then resigned and returned to America to continue his literary work.
His books began to appear when he was at Dartmouth, and the last was published in 1923. Higher mathematics alternate with fiction and biography in the following list of titles: "Elements of Quaternions"; "Imaginary Quantities"; "But Yet a Woman"; "New Methods of Topographical Surveying"; "The Wind of Destiny"; "Passe Rose"; "Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy Neesima"; "Songs of Two"; "Elements of Calculus"; "Elements of Analytical Geometry"; "His Daughter First"; "Aurelie"; "Diane and Her Friends"; "Helen"; "Number 13, Rue du Bon Diable"; "Things Remembered."
March 9, 1898, Professor Hardy was married in Athens, Greece, to Grace Aspinwall, daughter of Henry C. Bowen of Brooklyn, N. Y. They had one son.
ALBERT HENRY WASHBURN (A.M. 1919, LL.D. 1924), who died of erysipelas in a hospital in Vienna, Austria, April 2, 1930, was a more recent member of the Dartmouth faculty.
He was born in 1866 in Middleborough, Mass., the son of Edward and Anne Elizabeth (White) Washburn. He graduated from Cornell University in 1889 with the degree of Ph.B. In 1890-3 he was United States consul at Magdeburg, Germany. On his return he studied law at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University, graduating as LL.B. from the latter in 1895. He practiced the profession in his native town, being assistant district attorney for the district of Massachusetts from 1897 to 1901, and then removing his office to New York city. His connection with Dartmouth began with his appointment as lecturer on international law in 1918-9. In 1919 he became professor of political science and international law, and his name has been since retained on the list of the faculty, though for several years on leave of absence. In 1922 he was appointed envoy to Austria, and served until 1929, having just gone back to Vienna to close up some details for his successor. He was about to receive an appointment as envoy to Japan.
in 1906 he married Florence B. Lincoln of Springfield, Mass., who survives him.
