Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1874
PBOF. CLARENCE WATKINS SCOTT died at his home in Durham, N. H., shortly before midnight of May 8, 1930, after several years of failing health.
He was born in Plymouth, Vt., August 20, 1849, the son of Charles A. and Betsey E. (Watkins) Scott. His college preparation was variously obtained, but principally at Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., and Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. He began teaching rural schools in the winter of 1866, and taught each winter until senior year.
For four years after graduation he was college librarian, and planned and accomplished the combination of the three society libraries with the college library of which the present library ,is the gradual development. In 1876-9 he was also instructor in mathematics in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, then connected with Dartmouth. Meanwhile he had studied law with a legal firm at Ludlow, Vt., and was admitted to the Vermont bar in December, 1879. He never entered upon the practice of the profession, but in 1879-81 was instructor in English in the foregoing institution, and in 1881 was appointed professor of the English language and literature. In 1893 the college (which has since become the University of New Hampshire) was removed to Durham, and Professor Scott went with it, being transferred to the chair of history and political economy in 1894 and to history alone in 1913. For the past few years Dr. Scott (he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University in 1913) has been unable to carry a heavy teaching schedule, but has been devoting much time to writing a history of the University. Three years ago Dr. Scott and his classmate Dr. Pettee, his colleague for many years in the University, were presented with large books of letters by old alumni and instructors showing their" appreciation. The volumes are elaborately bound, and there are more than 300 letters in each.
An editorial notice in the Manchester TJnion says:—"His courses in history and social science always were popular. A thorough teacher, he injected his own personality into the work of his classes. Through his endeavors, personages of days gone by seemed to relive. In his death New Hampshire loses a valued friend, a good citizen, and an able educator."
April 30, 1888, Dr. Scott was married to Harriet Maria, daughter of Cornelius A. Field of Duluth, Minn., formerly of Hanover. She survives him, with their three children: Charles Field, express agent at Durham; Susie Helen, Mrs. B. G. Page of Raymond, N. H.; Alice Hovey, Mrs. Samuel Carlisle of Manchester, N. H. There is also a surviving brother, Judge Charles H. Scott of Plymouth, Vt. The burial was at Ludlow, Vt.
REV. OSEIN GAY .BAKER died at his home in Framingham, Mass., June 17, 1930, of arteriosclerosis.
The son of John and Lucy (Gay) Baker, he was bora in Derry, N. H., December 23, 1847, and prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy in his native town. He entered with the class of 1873, but left during sophomore year, returning to join the class of '74 at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He had taught before entering college, and according to the custom of the time continued to do so winters during his college course.
After graduation he took the three years' course in Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1877. He then entered the Congregational ministry, holding pastorates successively in the following places: Jamaica, Vt., 1878-86; East Fairfield, Vt., 1886-8; West Charleston, Vt., 1888-94; Ferrisburg, Vt., 1895-9; Franklin, Vt., 19003; Wakefield, N. H., 1904-11; Sullivan, N. H., 1911-17. He then retired from the active work of the ministry, and has since made his home in Framingham. His work during all these years was not brilliant, but faithful and valuable.
May 1, 1883, he was married to Alida M., daughter of Harrison G. and Eliza L. Barnes of Walpole, N. H., who died June 23, 1928. They had nine children, of whom the following eight survive their parents: John William Baker, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Mrs. George Johnston, New Haven, Conn.; Paul G. Baker, Kensington, Conn.; Stella K. Baker, Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward E. Baker, Marlboro, N. H.; Mrs. James McGowan, Cheltenham, Pa.; Orrin Gordon Baker, Framingham, Mass.; Jane L. Baker, Danbury, Conn.
The burial was in Edgell Grove Cemetery, Framingham.
CLASS OF 1875
WILLIAM ALLEN HAYES GOODWIN was born at South Berwick, Me., March 30, 1853, the son of Ichabod and Sophia Elizabeth (Hayes) Goodwin, and died at Old Fields, a section on the outskirts of that town, on May 8, 1930. He died in the house built in 1795 by his grandfather, which had been his home most of his life. He was a relative of the New Hampshire Civil War governor, Ichabod Goodwin.
He prepared for college at Berwick Academy, and remained with the class only through freshman year. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
He was engaged in farming most of his life, in which occupation he was eminently successful.
He is survived by two daughters and three sons. Their mother was Minnie Lord Weeks, to whom Mr. Goodwin was married in 1883, and who died January 9, 1915.
CLASS OF 1877
WILLIAM ADAMS WENTWOBTH DKESSEK died in Los Angeles, Calif., April 21, 1930. He had been in feeble health for a long time, but death, which resulted from coronary embolism, was sudden and unexpected.
He was born in Castine, Me., August 28, 1851, the son of John Wentworth and Mary Moulton (Adams) Dresser, and prepared for college at Castine. He was with the class during freshman year only, completing his course at Amherst, where he graduated in 1877.
For the first year after graduation he taught at Castine, and then spent three years in European study and travel. He was then for a year in business with his father in Castine. In the fall of 1882 he removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he taught and was engaged in various forms of business. In 1891 he returned East, coming to Boston, where for a year he was engaged in various literary work and in 1892 he organized an authors' agency for the revision and disposal of manuscripts. This acquired an unusual prestige, and was one of the most successful ventures of its kind. On account of impaired health he gave up this work in 1909, and after a year in Europe has since made his home in various places, having been in Los Angeles since December, 1918. He never married.
He was a member of various organizations in Los Angeles, among them a Masonic lodge, temple, and commandery, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the University Club.
The funeral service was conducted by the pastor of the First Congregational church, of which he was a member, and the burial was in the Masonic cemetery in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
In spite of his short connection with our class and his longer association with another college, the Secretary has for years found Dresser one of his most regular and interesting correspondents.
CLASS OF 1880
PHILIP WALKER died at the Georgetown Hospital, Washington, D. C., April 18, 1930, after a week's illness.
The son of George (Dartmouth 1842) and Sarah Dwight (Bliss) Walker, he was born in Springfield, Mass., June 29, 1859, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass. He entered with the class of '79 at the beginning of the course, and became a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi). October 8, 1877, he was married to Adelaide F., daughter of Charles Benton of Hanover, and left college during that year. For a year or more he was manager of the telephone exchange of the American District Telegraph Company in Boston. In the fall of 1879 he returned to college and entered the class of 1880 as a senior, graduating with the class in due course.
His account of his subsequent life, written for class purposes in 1926, is so vital that we give it nearly as a whole:
"In the spring of 1880 my father was appointed consul general at Paris, and immediately after graduation I went there with my wife, to take the position of private secretary. We had had one child, a boy, during my year out of college, but he died as a baby
"I stayed in Paris at the consulate for a year, when I was made secretary of the American Commission at the International Exposition of Electricity in that city in 1881. This kept me busy until about January, 1882, when I was engaged to bring a French electrical invention to this country and promote it. It was a dud, and all that I did for some months was to draw my pay, that my employer probably stole, to put it pointedly. He was afterwards mixed up in the Panama Canal scandals, and had to go to England to keep out of a French jail. But it was good money in that I could live on it.
"About the time of his slump I made an engagement with an American engineer who was experimenting with some silk reeling machinery in Lyons. Some machines were being made in Paris, and I was detailed to watch the work and keep everybody anxious to get it finished. In the fall of 1882 I went to the south of France to help install the machinery and run it. My father had an interest, and he and the inventor had a falling out, so I resigned at my father's request and came back to God's country at the end of 1883.
"I forgot to say that the French government gave me the Legion of Honor for my work at the electrical exposition.
"My inclinations were always mechanical, and my father wanted me to take up law. So I came to Washington in 1884 to take the examination for assistant examiner in the Patent Office, with the intention of studying law in one of the night law schools, with a view to patent litigation. And I failed, and the result was so funny that I am going to tell you about it. I got over eighty in physics in which I had taken an advanced course at the Sorbonne, in Paris—and chemistry and technics and such things. If you had asked me whether I was better in geometry or trig., I should have said the former. Remember I had been out of college for four years, and Pranky Sherman's teachings had not stuck. There were four questions in each subject, and I got 12 in G and 96 in T. No one passed, and all ratings were raised 20%, and I got 112 in T. Please don't figure that out. It is about right.
"I went, therefore, into the Agricultural Department to take charge of some experiments in silk culture, of which I knew more than most people in this country, which is not saying much. I was not in the silkworm part of France, but in the northern edge of the reeling, where the first thread is made. I held this place until 1892, and I think I hold the record in government circles, in that I recommended in my annual report that the work be abandoned.
"Something new turned up at once, as I was appointed to get ready and install the Agricultural Department, and incidentally the Agricultural College and Experiment Station exhibit at Chicago. That is, I saw to making the cases and installing them. I resigned that job in September, 1893, and came back toWashington and had my name painted on the door as a lawyer, for I had studied and been admitted to the bar in 1887.
"Then came the struggle to make a living for my wife and baby girl, who had been born in Paris on March 27, 1881. I have never been a money maker, and was glad to be selected as Washington attorney for one of the large surety companies a kind of trouble clerk, straightening out losses connected with the Federal government. I got to be a one-client lawyer. They paid me fairly and fed me a good deal of outside business, and I did well for some years. Then they went out of business overnight, cutting off my regular retainer and leaving me some little work to close up, on which I had received most of my fees. For a year it was hard sledding, and I was glad to accept a position in the office of the Solicitor of the Navy in January, 1918, and am still there, although that office has been consolidated with that of the Judge Advocate of the Navy.
"My wife died two days after our declaration of war, and when I got back from her funeral in Hanover, I offered to go overseas and do what a man of fifty-eight who spoke French could do, and got a mimeographed thanks for my patriotic offer, and nothing else. So that's that. I think, however, that I did my bit in Washington, being too old to be charged with slacking.
"I have no specialty in my present work, unless it be to keep naval officers from ignoring the law and doing what they wish, writing opinions so I feel quite judicial, settling claims, and doing semi-legal administrative work. The pay is not extravagant, but I have no expense, and, if you add the expense outside with a modest office, I am probably better off than I would be in active practice. Any way I was too old to make a fresh start when the war work was over. That is wrong; it is not over, from a legal point of view, and will not be for some years.
"I have had no tendency to take up political work, but you may certainly rate me as a Republican. We have no vote here, and I have not voted since my vote for Blaine in 1884 at Hanover failed to elect him. My people were Unitarians, but I am not a church member. When younger I was somewhat of a joiner—though not excessively so -—, but I have dropped out of everything except the Sons of the American Revolution. I did a lot of work in that years ago, but now only go around to meetings occasionally to greet old friends.
"I am living all alone in a comfortable apartment here, with an agreement that I shall live with my daughter when it becomes time to retire. She married well, but is now a widow, with two girls and a boy. I have given the girls away in marriage, and have served them notice that four generations must attend the Fiftieth. The boy is nineteen and just through school. He will not go to college.
"I have a boy of thirty-five, who is doing several times better than his daddy financially, and has a nice home just over the line in Maryland, with his wife and two girls, Phyllis, 13, and Betty, 8. They and their friends are my playmates, and I suppose there are a dozen of them that call me grandpa."
CLASS OF 1887
The passing of WILLIAM HENRY DARTT removes from the class a man in whom center many memories of college days and of later class gatherings. He entered college as one of a large delegation of St. Johnsbury men, including in addition to himself Milliken, Willard, Emerson, Kinney, Blakey, and Bingham. Physically the largest and most powerful man in the class, and endowed with those qualities of mind and heart which endeared him to his associates, he at once became prominent, socially and on the campus.
A classmate thus writes of him: "I knew B. Dartt as intimately as any in the class except Bingham. He was in our '83 St. Johnsbury; open, frank, companionable; endowed with the gifts of comradeship which those who knew him quickly realized. Such a generous and lovable nature could never have an enemy. I've just gotten out the old hickory cane, and there is the big 'B' that he put on it in the spring of '87, forty-three years ago. That stick will last many centuries and with it the big 'B,' long after you and I are dust. I've just put his senior photograph on my desk; how lifelike it is. Though we have been separated by many miles for many years, yet always in the background, easily reached and always felt, has been the nearness of his companionship. And he cannot be very far away now, nearer likely than we are wont to think. I never can think of 'B' as far away. . . . Well, he has done his work, left his influence, and gone oh his way, and I, for one, shall be forever grateful that I knew him. His memory will abide; dear old 'B'. "
He affiliated with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and with the Sphinx senior society. During his junior year he served as business manager of the Aegis.
He had not been well the last year or two, and was deeply affected by the death of classmate Cunningham, a very intimate friend and close companion.
The class was represented at the funeral by A. E. Hadlock, Esq.
The following resume is taken from the Springfield (Vt.) Reporter:
"William Dartt was the son of Justus Dartt and Abbie Knight Dartt, who were long residents of Springfield. He was born in Weathersfield on September 12, 1860, and passed from this life in New York city Janu- ary 81, 1930. He attended Springfield High School when it was in the old Seminary build- ing, St. Johnsbury Academy, and Dart- mouth College. After his graduation from Dartmouth he was engaged for a time in surveying and railroading in Pennsylvania, working for Eaton N. Frisbie, who was build- ing a branch of the Lehigh Valley road; then started in the coal business in New York city, being associated at first with his lifelong friend, Luther White, and later continuing the business for himself. In 1915 he joined Charles W. Haaren in the Haaren Dartt Coal Company. This association with Mr. Haaren cemented a bond of partnership and friendship which continued after they merged into the Stokes Coal Company, of which firm he was a member at the time of his death. William Dartt married Fanny Doug- las Cooke of Guilford, Conn. She died in 1906.
"Mr. Dartt combined the best qualifica- tions of a business man, a man of integrity and sound judgment, conservative in the best sense, yet open-minded towards new ideas and new methods. Unassuming and unselfish, the number of those whom he helped in one way or another will never be known. Per- haps his outstanding characteristic was a genius for friendship, and so he gathered around him a host of friends who mourn his going.
"Funeral services were held in the Lu- theran church of Holy Trinity in New York city at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. Burial was in the family lot in Summer Hill Cemetery, Springfield, at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Accompanying his body to Springfield were his sister, Miss Mary A. Dartt of Utica, N. Y., his cousin, Mrs. Josephine Frisbie Howard of New York city, and his business associates, Charles W. Haaren, Edwin Haa- ren, and John Rhinefrank, all of New York city."
EMEBSON KICE, Secretary.
CLASS OF 1900
HOHACE FKEEMAN MOULTON died very suddenly at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York city on June 9. He had been ill and unable to work for quite a long time, but few realized that his condition was so critical. The cause was an acute infection of the throat.
Horace Moulton was born in New York city on July 6, 1879. His father was a re- tired farmer, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- lege in the class of 1863. Horace's brother, Sherman, graduated in '9B, so there was a very close connection between the Moulton family and the College.
After graduation from the Randolph, Vt., High School, Horace entered Dartmouth. He was very conscientious in his studies, and, while not a brilliant student, he always tried to do his best. He roomed in Sanborn House for nearly four years. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, T. N. E., and Sphinx senior society.
Horace was a friend of every one in the class and certainly he had no enemies. His kindness, his thoughtfulness for others, and great personal charm made him universally loved. While he took no active part in ath- letics, he played on his fraternity baseball team. He was on the Mandolin Club for four years and took great interest in the musical side of the College.
After graduation he was connected for a short time with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, then with the Electric Floor Surfacer Company, and finally became con- nected with the traffic department of the New York Telephone Company. Here he did successful work for many years.
On June 3, 19X6, he married Elizabeth S. Mabel. When he died he was possessed of a home at Port Washington, Long Island. Horace became a regular home body, visit- ing his home in Randolph perhaps once a year. He was fond of his house and garden, and took little interest in the social life of the city.
His death, coming only a few days before the thirtieth reunion of the class, naturally added a note of sadness. No one could forget "Dago" Moulton, as he was very generally known. His sweetness and his charm en- deared him to every one. He was a lover of the Vermont hills and of Hanover. We some- times wish that he might have spent his life among these surroundings rather than in the less friendly atmosphere of a big city. Horace Moulton is numbered among the very be- loved ones of the class, whose going makes the world seem more lonely thereby.
N. W. EMEKSON, Secretary.
CLASS OF 1919
MALCOLM BLAKE JOHNSON died at his home, 2362 Roxboro Road, Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, 1930, after an illness of five days. He contracted a cold and a throat irritation while attending the funeral of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, which developed into an infection which caused his death.
The son of Melvin B. and Mary E. (Laun- don) Johnson, he was born in Cleveland, December 11, 1897. He prepared for college at University School, Cleveland, and at Ashe- ville, N. C. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Leaving Dartmouth at the close of sopho- more year, he then spent a year in the en- gineering school at Cornell. After leaving Cornell he enlisted for military service as a private in the 298 th Aero Squadron, and went into training at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. He had been promoted to cor- poral before the close of the war.
For a time he studied law at Western Re- serve University, but did not enter upon practice. He was interested in several busi- ness enterprises, but was not particularly active in any. He devoted most of his spare time to golf, and was rated among the best of the players around Cleveland. His par- ents have a home in Pinehurst, N. C., where he usually passed his winters, but spent the past winter in Pasadena, Calif., whence he had but recently returned with his mother at the time of his fatal illness. He was a member of the Shaker Heights Country Club, the City Club of Cleveland, and "The Tin Whistle" at Pinehurst.
A published notice says:—"A charm of personality and youthful dignity contributed to his lovely character which endeared him to all. Naturally of a cheery disposition, a devoted, loving father and husband, Mal- colm Johnson possessed the happy faculty of making friends quickly and keeping them."
In December, 1919, he was married to Virginia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Rogers of Cleveland, who survives him, with their two sons, Malcolm 8., aged seven, and Edward Laundon, three. His mother also survives him, and two brothers, David L. (Dartmouth 1910) and Arthur E. (1913).
CLASS OF 1920
Word has just been received of the death of GEORGE PRENTISS WALSH which occurred over eighteen months ago in Bronxville, N. Y. George was the son of George and Helen (Heines) Walsh, and was born in Brooklyn on February 12, 1898. After at- tending the public schools he prepared for college at the Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brooklyn.
He was associated first with the New York Telephone Company, later transferring to the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, for whom he became supervisor of publicity. He always took a keen interest in public affairs and was at one time president of the Junior Board of Trade of New York city. In college he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was also a member of the Babylon (L. I.) Yacht Club, Southward Ho, Newark Athletic Club, and the Dart- mouth Club of New York.
Death came on January 1, 1929, as a result of heart disease.
CLASS OF 1927
BRONSON LEE LANGWORTHY died at his home in Minneapolis, Minn., May 81, 1930. He was found dead by his mother and wife. He had apparently been in good health, and his death was as unexpected as it was un- timely.
He was born in Courtenay, N. D., August 4, 1904, his parents being Olin Lee and Maude (Bronson) Langworthy. He entered college from Minneapolis, having prepared at the Blake School in that city. The year following graduation he spent in the Tuck School, where he graduated in 1928. His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta, and he was a member of the swimming team for four years. Since his graduation from the Tuck School he had been connected with the statistical research department of Lane, Piper, and Jaffray, investment bankers in Minneapolis.
CLASS OF 1928
BERNARD ALEXANDER LEVINE died in New York city March 25, 1930, after an eight weeks' illness.
The son of Abraham and Gussie (Katz) Levine, he was born in Holyoke, Mass., June 11, 1906, and prepared for college at the high school of that city. In college he was a mem- of Kappa Phi Kappa and the Round Table, and was circulation manager of the "Dartmouth Pictorial." In his senior year he won the Jones prize in history.
Since graduation he had been connected with Sutro Brothers, investment bankers, of New York. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Louis of New York and Alex of Philadelphia.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1864
DH. CHARLES AUGUSTINE MCQUESTEN died at his home in San Francisco, Calif., April 30, 1930, of angina pectoris, the end coming suddenly when he was about to leave his home to make a professional call.
He was born in Bangor, Me., November 19, 1841, the son of Daniel Patten and Mary Ann (Bradley) McQuesten. He had begun the study of medicine when the Civil War opened, and enlisted as hospital steward in the 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry July 15, 1861. He was severely wounded by a bursting shell at the battle of Antietam, September 16, 1862, and was discharged for disability December 7, 1862. While convalescent he resumed his medical studies, and attended medical lectures at Dartmouth in the fall of 1863, graduating in November with the class of 1864. He soon re-entered the army as acting assistant surgeon. At the close of the war he served as surgeon in Indian campaigns in New Mexico and Arizona.
In 1868 he left for Mexico City, Mexico, to enter private practice. Soon after crossing the border he was conscripted into the Mexican army as a surgeon. As several rebellions were in progress along the west coast, it was about a year before he actually arrived in Mexico City, where in 1869 he was licensed and began practice. His three years of practice at this time met with large pecuniary profit, as he was physician to the families of the president, vice-president, and other high officials, as well as other prominent families. In 1872 he went to Europe, and spent two years there in further professional studies. He then returned to Mexico, and remained there two years. In 1876 he removed to San Francisco, where he remained for the rest of his life, returning frequently to Mexico on professional calls, and receiving in San Francisco many of his former patients for treatment. His land holdings in Mexico and Lower California totaled over a million acres of agricultural and mining lands.
In San Francisco he soon entered the United States Public Health Service, and remained in that work for many years. He was in charge of the Marine Hospital in that city for some years, was a member of the city board of health for many years, pension examiner from 1890 to 1928, etc. When the Spanish-American War began, he again entered the Army Medical Service for the duration of the war. He was health officer at Manila for many months, and on his return made one voyage to Alaska with troops.
February 29, 1896, Dr. McQuesten was married to Laura Scott, daughter of James O. and Mary Ann (McAllister) Rountree of San Francisco, who survived him, with their son, Charles Robin McQuesten, Mus. D., of Honolulu, a well-known musical director.
After cremation, Dr. McQuesten's ashes were buried in the National Cemetery, Presidio, San Francisco.
CLASS OF 1873
DB. WILLIAM EBENEZER BTJLLARD died of heart disease after a brief illness at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 27, 1930. He was in Saratoga in attendance upon the state convention of health officers.
He was born in Fitchburg, Mass., January 23, 1852, the son of Rev. Ebenezer Waters and Harriet Newell (Dickinson) Bullard. He attended two courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth, his home then being at Hampstead, N. H., where his father was pastor of the Congregational church.
After graduation he took further study at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and graduated there also in 1874. For many years he practiced his profession in the city of New York, but removed to Larchmont, N. Y., about thirty-five years ago, where he was active in practice until the end of his life. For many years he passed the winter in Florida, where he was physician for the Hotel Royal Poinciana at Palm Beach. About fourteen years ago he was appointed health officer for the town of Mamaroneck, of which Larchmont is a part, and held that position until last January, when the office was abolished by law, and he was then appointed deputy health commissioner of Westchester county. He was the organizer and formerly senior surgeon of the Ambulance Corps of the Larchmont Fire Department, and a member of the Larchmont Yacht Club and its fleet surgeon.
He was a member of the Westchester County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He was on the staff of the New Rochelle Hospital.
Dr. Bullard was a widower, his wife, Mrs. Fannie D. Bullard, having died nine years ago. They had no children. The funeral service was held at St. John's Episcopal church of Larchmont, of which Dr. Bullard was senior warden.
CLASS OF 1897
DR. HERMAN SHERWOOD SPEAR died at his home at North Anson, Me., May 22, 1930, after an illness of two years, eight months of which were spent in bed.
He was born in New Portland, Me., March 1, 1869, the son of Jeremy Wyman and Martha (Clark) Spear. He received his early education in the public schools, Auburn Academy, and Farmington Normal School, and taught for a time in the "Little Blue School" in Farmington.
After graduation he was for a year at the Massachusetts General Hospital and for a year at the Massachusetts State Hospital. In 1898 he began general practice in his native town, whence he removed to North Anson in 1919. He was highly esteemed as a citizen and a medical adviser.
His first wife was Emily C. Atwood, who died in 1899. In 1903 he married Evelyn Conant of Strong, Me., who survives him, with a daughter of the first marriage and a son and daughter of the second marriage.
Honorary
BOYD BRADSHAW JONES, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1899, died June 5, 1930, at his home in Haverhill, Mass.
He was the son of Jeremiah Pingree (Dartmouth 1842) and Elizabeth Spofford (Nelson) Jones, and was born in Georgetown, Mass., October 13, 1856.
He graduated from New London Institution in 1874, and at once began the study of law at Boston University, where he graduated as LL.B. in 1876. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice with his father in Haverhill. In 1891 he was city solicitor. In 1894 he was appointed by Governor Greenhalge a member of the state Ballot Law Commission, and served three years. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley United States district attorney for Massachusetts, and served one term of four years, declining a re-appointment. In 1898 he was the successful prosecutor in the second trial of the famous Bram murder case. After retirement from office he resumed private practice, opening an office in Boston, where he was active up to the time of his last illness.
January 8, 1880, Mr. Jones was married to Charlotte N. Nelson of Georgetown, Mass., who survives him, with two sons, Philip N. (Dartmouth 1903), of his father's law firm, and J. Howard of Springfield, Mass., and two daughters, Eleanor P. and Ruth L. Jones of Haverhill.
