Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1858
Mrs. Divine (Perry) Hudson, widow of Rev. John W. Hudson of this class, died at her home in Peabody, Mass., June 6, 1931, on the day following her ninety-fourth birthday.
CLASS OF 1861
Mrs. Abby Dudley (Tucker) Brown, widow of David H. Brown, died at her home in West Medford, Mass., September 9, 1931, in her eighty-ninth year.
MAJOR EDWABD DANA REDINGTON died at his home in Evanston, Ill., October 9, 1931, of the infirmities of age, having been gradually failing in strength for some time.
The son of Edward Caldwell and Caroline Dana (Stearns) Redington, he was born in Chelsea, Vt., November 12, 1839. In his boyhood the family removed to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and he prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. In college he became a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
In the fall of 1861 and the following spring he taught in St. Johnsbury Academy. On October 4, 1862, he was mustered into military service as sergeant major of the 12th Vermont Volunteers, January 23, 1863, was promoted to be second lieutenant of Company I, and was mustered out at the end of the term of enlistment, July 14, 1863. On February 26, 1864, he was appointed additional paymaster of volunteers with the rank of major, and served until December 1, 1866. He was present at Ford's Theatre in Washington at the time of the assassination of Lincoln. From this latter military service he derived the title by which in later years he was always known.
From the close of his army service until September 1, 1871, lie was cashier and paymaster of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, now a part of the Union Pacific, being most of the time stationed at Kansas City, Kans. He then engaged in the lumber business at Lawrence, Kans., remaining there four years. He then removed to Chicago, and was in the same line of business there until 1887. In 1888 he was appointed Chicago representative of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and retired only five years ago. Soon after coming to Chicago he made his home in Evanston, building the house which was the family home for the rest of his life.
Whole-hearted enthusiasm was a trait of Major Redington's which manifested itself in all the activities of his life. He was a loyal and devoted Dartmouth man, being one of the founders of the Chicago Association, of which he had served as president and whose meetings he regularly attended almost to the jast. He was very proud at having been chosen by the alumni as a trustee of the College, a position which he held from 1895 to 1905. When after the death of the secretary of his college class he was asked by his classmates to take this place, he accepted gladly, and has performed its duties with energy and success, coming East to attend the annual meeting of secretaries until recent years. Only one of his classmates has outlived him. As a member of the G. A. R. he was equally zealous, and always took part in the Memorial Day parade. A member of a Congregational church from boyhood, he was always an active and influential member of the church where he lived. He was the oldest member of the First church of Evanston, served as a deacon from 1890 to 1925, and has been since deacon emeritus. He also held various responsible positions in the state and national organizations of his church.
November 15, 1864, Major Redington was married to Mary Ann, daughter of Ephraim and Mary A. (Chase) Chamberlin of St. Johnsbury, who was a sister of Lt. Col. George E. Chamberlin '60. She died in April, 1880, leaving three children, all of whom now survive their parents: Lizzie S., John C., and Paul G. (both of Dartmouth 1900). May 18, 1882, he was married to Mary Julia, daughter of Ezra and .Julia R. Towne of Topsfield, Mass., who died November 29, 1930. The son of this marriage is Theodore T. Redington '07.
The burial was in St. Johnsbury.
CLASS OF 1870
NEWTON HARMS WILSON was born in Dunbarton, N. H., January 4, 1846, and died in Duluth, Minn., September 27, 1931. He was a member of the class of 1870 till late in senior year, when he left college to study law. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
After his law studies in Manchester, he was admitted to the Hillsborough county bar in 1872, and practiced in Manchester until September, 1889. In July, 1874, he was appointed special justice of the police court, and served also on the school committee of that city. In February, 1890, he located in Duluth, and there remained in active practice until 1924, since which time he has been largely engaged in Masonic matters, being secretary and recorder of the various Masonic bodies in Duluth.
December 25, 1872, Mr. Wilson was married to L. Jennie Page of Manchester, N. H., who died in May, 1915. Their two sons, Herbert N. and Charles T., survive their parents, and there are three grandchildren, Geraldine, Lenore, and James.
CLASS OF 1872
FRANCIS WAYLAND ROBEBTS died from arteriosclerosis at his home in Seattle, Wash., September 13, 1931.
The son of Hiram R. and Ruth (Ham) Roberts, he was born in Rollinsford, N. H., December 16, 1851, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me. He remained with the class for the first two years only, and was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
After leaving college he was in mercantile business in Dover, N. H., until March, 1875, when he removed to Postville, lowa. Here he and his two brothers had a general store, a feed and grain business, and a bank. From 1889 to 1910 he was cashier and manager of the Postville State Bank. In 1910 he re- moved to Seattle, where he resided for the rest of his life.
From early manhood he was a member of the Congregational church, being for many years treasurer of the church in Postville and teacher of a class of young people, and later a deacon of Prospect church, Seattle.
December 25, 1871, he was married to Abbie Morton of Salmon Falls, N. H., who died June 27, 1920. Three children survive their parents: Lillian Estelle of Seattle; Fred Morton, an attorney of Seattle; Helen Waldron, the wife of Clayton Arthur Shinstrom of Redmond, Wash.
CLASS OF 1876
JUDAH MACK HOLT was born in Woodstock, Vt., Nov. 28, 1851, the son of Nathan L. and Rebecca Maria (Mack) Holt; most of his childhood was spent in Quechee, Vt., and his preparation for college was obtained at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He began the study of law with an elder brother, Hermon Holt, Dartmouth 1870, in Claremont, N. H., but removed to Marshalltown, lowa, where he completed his legal study and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He was a member of Marshall county bar for fifty-two years, and gave all his legal service as a resident of Marshalltown. He had four partnerships, the first, which continued for many years, with W. E. Snelling; others were with J. L. Carney and B. Q. Tankersley, and finally a very satisfactory association for twelve years, and till the end of his life, with O. H. Allbee. Although his health began to fail a number of years ago, he did not give up active practice till the beginning of the present year. His final illness was brief.
Holt was married to Miss Lydia King at South Royalton, Vt., Nov. 19, 1879. There were no children from this union. Survivors of his death, which occurred September 5, 1931, are Mrs. Holt, a brother, Hermon Holt, of Claremont, N. H., and a nephew, Hermon Holt, Jr., (Dartmouth 1897) of Boston, also an attorney.
Holt was a member of the Congregational church in Marshalltown; of the Marshall County Bar Association and the Commercial Law League of America. At different times he had profitable avocations. He entered college in 1872 and was graduated in the class of '76 with the degree of A.B. During his whole life he was at a distance from others of his class, and his college contacts otherwise were few, but his loyalty and interest continued, and he was present in Hanover at least once for a later class reunion. He was a regular contributor to the class report, and in his letters, usually brief, it was not difficult to find those qualities which made for lasting friendship.
Mary Gale Hibbard, daughter of Lucian Gale of Laconia, N. H., and widow of Charles B. Hibbard, died at her home in Laconia, September 18, 1931. Graduating from the Laconia high school in 1878, she entered Swarthmore College, receiving the degree of A.B. in 1882, and the A.M. degree in 1891. She was a graduate student at Bryn Mawr in 1888-1890. For several years she was a teacher, first at West Bridgewater, Mass., then in private schools (a teacher of Latin) at Germantown, Penn., and Bryn Mawr. Her marriage with Charles B. Hibbard was in 1897, and from that time her residence was in Laconia.
Mrs. Hibbard was definitely interested in local historical matters and made valuable contributions in that direction. Her love of the beautiful in nature was pronounced. She was one of the most loyal members of the groups present in Hanover for the Seventysix reunions, she was in Hanover last June, and she will be greatly missed in this relation. Those who had the privilege of quiet talks with her will not forget the experience.
CLASS OF 1880
CHARLES HENRY STROUT died at Hagerstown, Md., September 18, 19S1, after a brief illness with pneumonia. His health had not been good for five years, though he had continued his work, but at a much restricted pace. Thus ended an active, useful, and honorable career of over fifty years since his graduation from college with the class of '80. Through this entire period he was engaged in school work, and achieved distinction as an educator in Pennsylvania, where he did his work, and beyond the limits of the state.
He began to teach at sixteen, when fitting for college in Wolfeboro Academy, New Hampshire, where he assisted the principal by teaching the younger classes, and when he was seventeen years old he taught two district schools in the same town.
After graduation, he studied law for six months, but the urge for school work persisted, and he accepted a position in a private school in Fox Chase, Pa. In a short time he became headmaster and owned the school, moved it to Bustleton, Pa., and named it St. Luke's School.
In 1892 Will Smith became associated with Strout in the ownership and management of the school. This association continued till 1926, when Smith retired on account of ill health.
In the next ten years from 1892, the school grew apace, and in 1902 a beautiful estate of thirty acres was purchased in Wayne, Pa. Suitable buildings to meet the requirements of the growing needs of the school were erected. The school prospered and established an enviable reputation, and Strout was recognized as a leading educator in that section of the country in the next twentyfive years. In 1927, Strout's health became impaired, the school was sold, and Strout retired from active life.
At the invitation of his friend of many years, Adrian Onderdonk of St. James School, Maryland, Strout went to St. James, joined the faculty as counselor and advisor, performing whatever duties he chose at the school, traveling when and where he pleased. He spent his winters in Florida, his summers in New England and the Northwest. This delightful relationship continued until his decease.
At Dartmouth, Strout was an excellent all-round scholar, excelling in mathematics. He often inveigled Professor Quimby into a discussion of some abstruse mathematical problem and easily whiled the recitation period away, incidentally saving for the other members of the division, who knew nothing about the discussion and very little about the subject of the recitation, from a number of flunks. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
Strout was born in Fryeburg, Me., December XI, 1857, the son of Bennett Pike and Jacynthia Abigail (Woodruff) Strout. He never married. His scholastic attainments and educational acquisitions were notable, and many a young man received an inspiration from him which meant the difference between a life of worthy achievement and success and one of indifference or failure. But the charm of his personality surpassed all these qualities. He was always a perfect gentleman, plus unlimited good will and friendliness, all apart from conventionalities. This charming personality sprang spontaneously from his soul.
CLASS OF 1883
DR. JOHN FRANKLIN CROWELL died August 6, 1931, at his home in East Orange, N. J., after an illness of more than six months, involving a complication of ailments, chief of which in the last days was a weakness of the heart.
He was born in York, Pa., November 1, 1857, the son of Daniel and Sarah Ann Craul. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1878, but remained only a short time. A year later he returned, and continued through freshman year. His longer connection was thus with the class of 1883, rather than that of 1882, with which he is listed in the General Catalogue. He became a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. At the end of freshman year he transferred to Yale, where he graduated in 1883. About the time of leaving Dartmouth he changed the spelling of his name from Craul to Crowell.
The first year after graduation he was principal of Schuylkill Seminary at Fredericksburg, Pa. In 1884-6 he studied at Yale Divinity School, and was also during the latter year Larned scholar in philosophy and social science at Yale. He then returned to Schuylkill Seminary for a year. In 1887 he became president of Trinity College at Durham, N. C., and remained in this position until 1894. While there he interested James B. Duke in the institution, who in his will left the college $40,000,000. It has since become Duke University, and is one of the most highly endowed colleges in the country. In 1895-7 Mr. Crowell was professor of economics and sociology in Smith College. He then became associated with the Treasury Department at Washington, serving as expert agent of the United States Industrial Commission and expert on internal commerce of the Bureau of Statistics. For a time he was educational director of international correspondence at George Washington University. His next position was with the Wall StreetJournal of New York, where he was a member of the editorial staff and for nine years wrote many editorials and special articles on economic subjects. During this time he lectured frequently at educational institutions in New York city and was for two years executive officer of the Chamber of Commerce of that city. The latter part of his life was mainly devoted to lecturing and writing, but during this period he held at different times various important positions, such as economist and financial statistician in the Internal Revenue Office in Washington, director of the World Market Institute in New York city, and director of research in government war contracts for the Carnegie Endowment.
He was the author of the following published works: "True Function of the American College"; "Taxation in the American Colonies"; "The Logical Process of Social Development"; "The Iron and Steel Trade of the United States"; "The Shipbuilding and Shipping Policy of the United States"; "Internal Commerce of the United States."
In 1898 he obtained the degree of Ph.D. at Columbia, and was the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of North Carolina and Duke University.
In 1891 Dr. Crowell was married to Carrie H. Pascoe of Philadelphia, who survives him, with two brothers and a sister. There were no children.
CLASS OF 1887
GEORGE ELLSWORTH JOHNSON was born in Springfield, Vt., June 21, 1862, son of Peter Rawson Taft and Adaline (Albee) Johnson. He prepared for college at the local high school, and after graduation from it he spent two years in the wilds of Wisconsin, most of it in teaching, matriculating at Dartmouth in 1883. He early became prominent in athletics, serving as varsity catcher for three years. In his senior year he won the college championship in boxing. In fraternity life he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He graduated with the class, attaining Phi Beta Kappa rank.
The next year was spent at Colebrook, N. H., as principal of Colebrook Academy. He was then called to his home town as principal of the local high school, where he met with flattering success, but was resolved to seek a further education.
He had early felt drawn toward teaching as a lifework, but a deep religious experience drew him to Hartford Theological Seminary in 1892. After somewhat more than a year's attendance he was attracted by the writing of G. Stanley Hall to enter Clark University, Worcester, Mass., the first year as a scholar and the second year as a fellow, devoting himself to research work in the study of play in its relation to education. At the end of the first year he published a thesis on "Education by Plays and Games," which was widely noted and commented upon in educational circles. This was later expanded into a book of the same title, and has had a uniform sale since publication. His second year at Clark was devoted to a study of defective children.
On completing his work at Worcester he became superintendent of schools at Andover, Mass., remaining there for six years. He continued his line of special study by conducting a "play school" for boys in the evening, and also organized the "Andover Play School," which functioned during the summer.
Following the Andover experience came a period of work in a private school, and later a return to administrative work, which landed him as superintendent of schools at Hyde Park, Mass., 1905-7. He then removed to Pittsburgh, Pa., as superintendent of "The Playground Association" of that city, remaining six years. Pittsburgh gained a national reputation for the character of the work done there. In the School of Education founded at the University of Pittsburgh he was made professor of play.
In 1913 he resigned at Pittsburgh to organize courses in play and recreation at the New York School of Philanthropy, a graduate school for social workers. He came to Harvard in the fall of 1915 to become connected with the Division of Education, which in 1920 was merged into the Graduate School of Education and in which he was associate professor until his death, August 26, 1931. Here was the happiest part of his professional work. He was a pioneer in his special line, and had become an authority on that phase of pedagogy. His teaching, writing, and lecturing have exerted a marked influence in the development of the playground idea in our community life.
In private life Professor Johnson was a delightful companion, modest in demeanor, gentle of manner, but possessed of marked courage, both physical and moral, and with strong convictions.
To his classmates he was always "Ginger Jim," the loyal friend, the figure around which clustered many memories of hardfought contests and inspiring victories on the campus.
July 14, 1897, he married Alice Williams (Wellesley 1893) of Peacham, Vt., where later they purchased a farm as a summer home. From this union resulted four children, Stephen Williams, Rachel Dennison, Lucy Botsford, and Katherine Albee Johnson.
Funeral services and interment were at Peacham.
CLASS OF 1899
WILLIAM THOMPSON ATWOOD, born at Hampden Corner (now Hampden Highlands) Me., December 20, 1876; son of Elijah Harvey and Maria Louise (Thompson) Atwood; lineal descendant on his father's side of Stephen Atwood of Plymouth Colony; on his mother's side, of Rev. William Thompson, Oxford graduate, who settled at Braintree, Mass., in 1637.
Graduated from East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, Me., in 1895, with honor marks and prize for Latin scholarship; entered Dartmouth September, 1895; member of Phi Kappa Psi; graduated 1899 with the degree of A.8.; Phi Beta Kappa.
Principal Newmarket (N. H.) High School, 1899-1902. Taught in Boston English High Night School and attended Boston University Law School, 1902-4. Graduated Boston University Law School 1904; president of his class; wrote prize thesis, "Rights of owners of realty when the whole face of nature in the locality where the given realty is situated has been changed by natural or artificial forces."
Admitted to the Massachusetts bar August 5, 1904, and to practice in the United States courts November 14, 1905. In the practice of law associated with Wm. B. Sullivan, Boston, 1904-5, and with G. G. Clark, 1905-31. Instructor in political science at Dartmouth, 1906-7.
President of the Dartmouth Association of Phi Kappa Psi, 1906-14, and member of the building committee.
Married Helena Matilda Hocking of Melrose, Mass., December 14, 1910. Daughter, Martha Helen, born March 5, 1912.
Trustee of Melrose Public Library, 191214; member Melrose school committee, 191723. Private, Company K, 7th Regiment, Plattsburg Camp, July 12 to August 8, 1915. In the fall of 1918, after a course at Springfield College, where he received the degree of Physical Director, he sailed for France, where he was physical instructor attached to Y.M. C.A. hut at St. Nazaire until Ms return to the United States in July, 1919. He resumed the practice of law, in which he was actively engaged, with the exception, in the last few years, of periods of ill health, up to the day of his death, May 21, 1931.
Scion of the Pilgrim and the Puritan, William Atwood had the virtues of each and the faults of neither. Valiant in faith, rugged disciple of Duty, uncomprising follower of Principle, he was a man of whom the severest of his distant forbears might well be proud. But he read and followed other texts than those which they repeated and lived. In him was the sweetness of tolerance, an intelligent love of neighbor which made him recognize all men as neighbors. Thus the stern virtues which were his by inheritance were not a source of irritation to those he met. They were the cause of sincere admiration, and stirred those of us with lesser gifts and powers to real, though unsuccessful emulation.
He was far more than merely the modern embodiment of virtues which he had in common with generations of his family three centuries before his generation. From his collegiate ancestry seems to have come the concept of the duty of service to the society of the generation in which he lived, something different in kind and quality from anything the individualistic Atwoods and Thompsons of the 17th century knew. He heard with us the inspirational philosophy of Dr. Tucker, and hearing, he lived it. Hence, however pressing the demands of professional affairs, he was always ready to dedicate substantially of his time and strength to voluntary, valuable service to the world in which he lived. Duty never spoke to him in cryptic words; its message to him was always plain; he never debated with himself as to what the call meant. It never meant anything but prompt and wholehearted response.
As with all men of his rare type, his professional career was one of constantly increasing value to the community. He was a real lawyer—a student of the law, a wise counselor, and an aggressive champion of the rights of his clients. But he was more than that. Whoever employed him received not only the services of a real lawyer but, as well, courage and conscience, if in these attributes the client was lacking.
When the time comes for a man to leave the world, his value while there and his loss when gone is best measured by the effect his departure has upon the individuals with whom he has had personal contacts. Upon all such the passing of Bill Atwood has left a mark which will always remain; there is a distinct void in their lives which will never be filled. The men of his class were blessed for a generation of years with the boon of close association with him. We have all at one time or another been the beneficiaries of his kindliness, his sympathy, his wise counsel, his interest in the little happenings in our lives, those rare, intangible, invaluable things which come from the friendship of a kindhearted, great-souled man. The twenty-one men of the class who attended his funeral had the feeling as they left the beautiful Melrose cemetery that they were leaving there much of that Ninety-Nine of theirs which his devotion, wisdom, and love had helped create. They knew themselves unworthy to think of him as a typical Ninety-Nine man; to them and to all of the class he was and will continue to be the ideal Ninety-Nine man.
CLASS OF 1906
WILDER PERCIVAL MONTGOMERY died at his home, ISI6 Riggs St., N. W., Washington, D. C., on August 22, after a two weeks' illness from a kidney trouble. He had previously been in his usual good health, and his death came as a shock to his many friends.
"Monty," as we always called him, was born in Columbia, S. C., May 26, 1884, the son of Winfield Scott (Dartmouth '78) and Emma Rosa (Wilder) Montgomery, but lived nearly all of his life in Washington. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy.
Modest almost to shyness, he led a studious, retired life in college, but everyone knew and respected him for his keen intellect and gentlemanly manners. He took the pre-medical course in order the better to fit himself for his lifework in the teaching of biology.
After graduation lie taught for a short time in the Baltimore Public Schools, then went to the Dunbar High School in Washington, where he served most ably as instructor in biology for twenty-five years. He gave himself heart and soul to his work, believing keenly in education as the greatest hope for the betterment of his race. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Board of Admissions of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia for Divisions 10 to 13.
During and after the World War he served as a consultant on the rehabilitation of the wounded, under the direction of Dr. Baldwin, at Walter Reed General Hospital, and he gave a similar service at the Base Hospital, Fort McHenry, Baltimore.
Last June Monty came back to our twentyfifth reunion and saw his classmates for the first time since graduation. His older son was being graduated with honors, and as Monty assured us again and again, it was the proudest moment of his life. Those of the class who attended the '06 dinner will long remember the sincere emotion of his brief speech on that occasion. After his return home, he wrote his class secretary feelingly of the joy he had experienced in meeting old friends once more, and of the "many, lingering memories" he had taken away. We shall all miss him at the next reunion.
He was married at Washington, July 22, 1908, to Ethel Mineola Pearson of Columbia, S. C., who survives him, with their three children: Rosa Pearson, who is a teacher in Washington; Wilder Percival, Jr. (Dartmouth '31), now a second-year student in the Dartmouth Medical School; and James Henry, aged eight.
ROBERT GABFIELD WRIGHT died early Sunday morning, October 4, at his home, 15 Alexander St., N. W., Atlanta, Ga., after a brief illness. Funeral services were held in Spring Hill Chapel on October 5, and his body was interred in Crestlawn Cemetery in Atlanta.
He was born in Brockton, Mass., March 2, 1882, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Wright, but lived during most of his boyhood life in Wollaston. He prepared for college at the Quincy (Mass.) High School, from which he was graduated with honors in 1902.
In college he was called "Beals," and his bluff, enthusiastic manner soon made him known to everyone. Full of energy, he entered vigorously into all the activities of the college. He played on his class football team in his sophomore year and was a member of the varsity squad in his junior and senior years. He also served the class as secretary during the first semester of senior year.
After graduation he spent a year and a half as an engineer in the United States Reclamation Service. Then for two years he was employed by Butler Bros, in the construction of the Detroit River tunnel. In 1911 he went into the automotive sales business, in which he continued until his retirement about a year ago. From 1913 he was for four years sales manager for Motormart, Youngstown, Ohio, and for three years truck manager for Joy Bros. Motor Company in St. Paul and Minneapolis. In 1920 he became president of Packard lowa Motor Company, Des Moines, la. He removed to Atlanta in November, 1925, where he was for a time wholesale manager for Atlanta Packard Motors, Inc., and later with the Martin Cadillac Company.
Beals came back to Hanover for the tenth reunion in 1916 and with his old-time enthusiasm led the class in songs they had not heard since undergraduate days. Occasionally for a few years after that a classmate ran across him and found him little changed, but shortly after he went to Atlanta he lost touch with the college and the class, and did not reply to any communications sent him.
In 1907 he married Winifred Adelaide Backus of Wollaston, from whom he was divorced in 1923. He remarried in 1926, to Miss Feme Hoyt of Atlanta, who is his only survivor.
CLASS OF 1911
HAROLD THE AD WELL FARNSWORTH died suddenly at his home in Boston on September 15, 1931. He left his office at five o'clock in what seemed to be perfect health. After supper he was taken with violent pains around his heart, and died almost immediately.
The funeral services were held at the Hartwell Chapel at Arlington on September 18, his body being taken to Milford, N. H., for burial. Chub Snow, Art Jackson, Bud Schell, Les Gibson, Dave Heald, Bendy Griswold, Al Wheeler, Don Pollard, and Ed Chamberlain represented the class at the services.
Ted was born at Milford, N. H., September 6, 1889, the son of Fred Winslow (Dartmouth 1877) and Emlie May (Herschler) Farnsworth. He came to college from Milford High School, entering with our class but remaining only two years, following which he spent a year in the Medical School.
For a short time after leaving Hanover he was associated with his father in the Underwriters Salvage Company of New York, and then became connected with our classmate, Chub Snow, in the W. A. Snow Iron Works, Inc., of Boston. At the time of his death he was sales manager and a member of the firm.
In the summer of 1917, after our entrance into the World War, he joined the Aviation Corps, taking his ground school work at Princeton in the fall of 1917, and later seeing service in various aviation fields in Texas. At the time of the armistice he was instructing in aerial machine gunnery. He remained in Texas until late in 1918, and received his discharge January 6, 1919.
In college lie was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and later became a member of the Masonic fraternity and belonged to the Boston City Club.
He was married November 13, 1926, to Evelyn Mary, daughter of Edward Herman Faller of Hartford, Conn., who survives him, as do also his mother, a brother (Winston H. Farnsworth '24), and two sisters.
Although Ted could not spend the four allotted years with us in Hanover, we all came to know him extremely well because of his smiling and sunny disposition, and he will be missed by all in the future at our gatherings, which he so frequently attended in the past.
CLASS OF 1914
JAMES CALVIN BLYTHE was accidentally drowned on July 29, 1931, while swimming at Revere Beach, Mass.
He was born in Aurora, Ill., on December 11, 1890, the son of James Clinton and Laura Anne (Randolph) Blythe. He prepared for Dartmouth at the East Aurora High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1910.
While in college Jim was intensely interested in all college activities. He was a member of the freshman football team and manager of the varsity tennis team. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Sphinx.
After graduation Jim attended Harvard Law School and received his law degree in 1917, entering immediately into the practice of law in Boston. Later he became interested in investment banking, taking employment with the National City Company. Later he assumed the management of the Boston office of the Detroit Company.
Jim was married on December 28, 1916, to Bessie Everett Jones. Two children were born, James Calvin Blythe, Jr., and Frances Everett Blythe.
The sympathy of the class goes out to the widow and two little children who survive him.
CLASS OF 1928
LOREN WBIGHT TAYLOR died suddenly at his home at Waban, Mass., October 5, 1931.
He was born in Kansas City, Kans., November 9, 1904, the son of Henry Wheeler and Grace (Shafer) Taylor. He prepared for college at the high school of Brookline, Mass. He was a member of Theta Chi and Delta Sigma Rho.
Since graduation he had been engaged in financial publishing business in Boston in connection with the National Shawmut Corporation.
The funeral service was held at St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal church of Brookline. He had not married, and is survived by his mother.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1885
DR. CHARLES JOHN PEIRCE died in Los Angeles, Calif., September 21, 1931, of arteriosclerosis, after a long illness.
He was born in Nashua, N. H., September 21, 1859. His early education was obtained in the public schools of his native city and at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass. He entered Dartmouth Medical School in 1882, and was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1885. Prior to his graduation, he took a special course at the medical school of New York University, where he studied under Prof. Janeway, then a noted authority on physical diagnosis, supplemented by practical work at Bellevue Hospital in that city.
Immediately after graduation, he began practice at Harrisville, N. H., where he remained for two years. In the fall of 1887 he removed to Shirley, Mass., where he was a successful practitioner until August, 1926, when he retired on account of impaired health, and went to Los Angeles to make his home with a niece. In his over 40 years of country practice he was remarkably successful, and was loved and honored by his fellow citizens.
Dr. Peirce was for many years a member of the board of health and the board of overseers of the poor of Shirley. He was a prominent Odd Fellow, was a past president of the Fitchburg, Mass., Medical Society, and was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. His wife died in 1904, and there were no children. Following cremation, the ashes were interred in the family burial plot in Nashua.
Thayer School
CLASS OF 1877
JOHN WHITCHER RECORD died at the home of his brother in Nashua, N. H., August 25, 1931, of arteriosclerosis.
He was born in Fitchburg, Mass., December 26, 1853, the son of Shepherd Torrey and Sophronia (Whitcher) Record. He prepared for the Thayer School at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H., not taking any college courses.
For four years after graduation he did various professional work, and in 1881-2 was instructor in civil engineering in the Thayer School. He was then for several years employed by the government on the improvement of navigation of the Mississippi river. The principal work of his life was done in Buffalo, N. Y., where he was for a time in the employ of the city as engineer in charge of reconstruction of sewerage system and water works, and then employed by the state on the widening of the Erie Canal. He was finally engineer for the Buffalo Dredging Company, engaged in dredging, the construction of canals, breakwaters, docks, etc. In 1912 he retired from active work on account of poor health, and about 1915 removed from Buffalo to Chicago. In 1926 he removed to Nashua, and had since made his home with his brother in that city.
In 1902 he was married to Stella Gavitt of Buffalo, who died in 1914. They had no children. His surviving brother is Louis DeW. Record of Nashua. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo.
Honorary
REV. LUCIUS HARRISON THAYER, who received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1909, died of heart disease at his summer home in Dublin, N. H., September 20, 1931.
He was born in Westfield, Mass., November 28, 1857, the son of Lucius Fowler and Martha Ann (Harrison) Thayer, prepared for college at the local high school, and graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied at Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1888 and remaining for a year of graduate study, and in 1889-90 held a Dwight Fellowship at Yale. In 1890 he became pastor of the Congrega- tional church of Portsmouth, N. H., and held that position until his retirement in 1928 with the title of pastor emeritus. He was for many years prominent in the religious, social, and civic life of the city, and was also prominent in the wider activities of his denomination, having been president of the New-Hampshire Congregational Conference and a member of the prudential committee and vice-president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
June 29, 1892, he was married to Helen Chadwick Rand of Westfield, Mass., who survives him, with a daughter and two sons.
DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the last Commencement of the College. He died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage on October 5, 1931, at his home in Englewood, N. J.
He was born in Huntington, W. Va., January 11, 1873, his parents being James E. and Clara (Johnson) Morrow. He prepared for college at Allegheny, Pa., graduated from Amherst in 1895, and as LL.B. from Columbia in 1899. After practicing law in New York city for several years, in 1914 he turned to finance, and became a partner in J. P. Morgan and Company. His record not only for business acumen but of tactful understanding of the human side of commercial transactions led President Coolidge, his college classmate, to appoint Mr. Morrow in 1925 as chairman of a board to settle a knotty dispute over the matter of airplane defence. His success in this undertaking was followed in 1927 by his resignation from the banking firm to accept an appointment as ambassador to Mexico. His remarkable success in this extremely difficult task made him a national figure of the first rank. He retired from the diplomatic service in September, 1930, and after a spirited canvass was elected in November United States senator from New Jersey. In 1928 he was one of the American delegates to the sixth Pan-American Congress, held in Havana, and in 1930 was by appointment of President Hoover a member of the American delegation to the Five-Power Naval Conference in London, and to him the successful outcome of the latter was largely due.
Mrs. Morrow survives her husband. Their daughter is the wife of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
In 1898 the College conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon the sculptor, DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH. After an illness of several months, he died at his summer home in Stockbridge, Mass., October 7, 1931
The son of Henry Flagg and Anne (Richardson) French, he was born in Exeter, N. H., April 20, 1850. With but limited general education and little professional training, he early embarked on his lifework as a sculptor, his first statue being "The Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., which was unveiled at the centennial celebration of the Concord fight on April 19, 1875. For many years he had a studio in New York city, and produced many works of distinguished merit, the greatest being perhaps the seated statue of Lincoln which is placed in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
Among the many honors conferred on Mr. French were his appointment as Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France in 1910 and his election in 1920 as one of nineteen foreign associate members of the Fine Arts Class of the French Academy. He was made an Academician of Merit of the Royal Academy of St. Luke at Rome, and with one exception the only American so honored.
He is survived by his wife, who was Anne French, a cousin.
