Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1867
JOHN JOSEPH MCDAVITT, a resident of Pompton Lakes, N. J., for nearly forty years, died in Great Barrington, Mass., of the infirmities of old age, on December 29, 1930.
He was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (White) McDavitt of Alfred, Me., and was born in Boston, Mass., April 4, 1846. He attended the Boston public schools and the Chauncy Hall School, where he was a Franklin scholar. He entered Dartmouth College in 1863, and was graduated with the class of 1867, of which class he was the last surviving graduate. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Following graduation, he went to Georgia in connection with interests in which his father was engaged, and while there taught school and studied medicine. He remained in Georgia for about six years, and upon his return to Boston entered the law office of Benjamin F. Butler, with whom he continued to be associated for many years, participating in the political campaigns of Boston and Massachusetts during the 1 ate seventies and early eighties.
Business interests in northern New Jersey made it necessary for him to move to New York city about 1890. He had large estates, first at Spring Valley, N. Y., and later at Pompton Lakes, N. J., where he maintained homes that enabled him to extend most generous hospitality to his friends. He was scholarly in his interests and widely read. For several years he was closely associated in business with the late Garrett A. Hobart, a vice-president of the United States. He retired from active participation in business about ten years ago.
He married Lydia P. Denpu May 2, 1868. Her death by accident in 1925 was followed in 1927 by the sudden death of his only child, John Francis McDavitt (Dartmouth 1907), whose two children, John and Joan, are living with their mother in Great Barrington, Mass. Clarence G. McDavitt (Dartmouth 1900) is a nephew, and Clarence G. McDavitt, Jr., (Dartmouth 1925) is a grandnephew. CLARENCE G. MCDAVITT
CLASS OF 1868
WALTER SCOTT PARKER died suddenly at his home in Reading, Mass., January 5, 1931.
The son of Henry F. and Luthera (Emerson) Parker, he was born in Reading, July 21, 1846. In his boyhood the family lived for a time in Kansas, and he attended the high school in Lawrence. Returning to Massachusetts, he was for a time in the high school of Reading. July 19, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, and served until the winter of 1865, when he entered the class of '68 in the Chandler Scientific Department. He taught two winters during his course. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
After graduation he entered upon a long and highly successful career as an educator. He was first principal of Dowse Academy, Sherborn, Mass., and then of Medford High School. He was next elected principal of a grammar school in New Bedford, Mass., but after a few weeks resigned to become submaster of the Dwight School in Boston. He remained there from April, 1872, to December, 1884, when he was elected master of the Bennett School of Boston, where he remained four years. In 1888 he was transferred to the mastership of the Everett School of Boston, where he attained a high reputation for his excellent teaching and executive ability. In June, 1894, he was elected a supervisor of the public schools of Boston. In 1906 this office was given the new designation of assistant superintendent, and he held it until his retirement in 1916, at the age of seventy.
During all his Boston school service he made his home in Reading, and had been a member of its school committee since 1873, and chairman of the board for the last 35 years. He has also been a trustee of the public library; was chairman of the building committee in the erection of the new high school building in Reading, completed in 1906; a director of the First National Bank of Reading and its president since 1907; a trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank. He has been active in Masonry, being a Knight Templar, master of Reading Grange, and a member of the Congregational church. For three years, beginning in 1920, he represented Reading in the state legislature.
June 8, 1870, Mr. Parker was married to Martha Isabelle Badger. They have three sons and three daughters: Harold Francis (Dartmouth 1902), Robert Emerson (Dartmouth 1910), Dr. Ralph W., Mrs. George H. Clough, Mrs. Charles D. Kissock, and Mrs. Calvin T. Atwood.
CLASS OF 1881
FBANCIS W. LANE died at his home in Villa Park, 111., December 3, 1930. His health had been failing for some time, but he did not leave his office work until September, when he was given a leave of absence. In November he began to fail rapidly. Mrs. Lane writes that he intended to attend our Fiftieth.
He was the son of Allen Francis and Laura (Tyler) Lane, and was born in Ashburnham, Mass., October 24, 1858. He graduated from Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, being a member of its first graduating class, that of 1877. In 1927 he attended the commencement of that institution as an honored guest at his fiftieth anniversary.
He taught at Yonkers, N. Y., 1881-2, and in Washington, D. C., 1882-3. He was next an examiner in the pension bureau, 1883-7, being located at various times in Washington, St. Paul, Sparta, Wis., and Fargo, N. D. He was then a lawyer and solicitor of patents in St. Paul, 1887-92. Since that time he has been connected with the publications of the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, which publishes the Railway Age and similar periodicals. His work with this company has been very varied, showing his great versatility. He has served as editorial supervisor, manager, voluminous writer on current railway topics, principally mechanical and engineering, engineering correspondent of the London Times. His last type of work interested him very much, the reading of all the thirteen publications of the company with a view to securing greater consistency in the English used by about forty editors.
Lane was married at Boylston, Mass., December 26, 1881, to Miss Gertrude D. Kilbourne of that place. They have had the following children: Harold Francis, the winner of the class cup, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1905 and is now engaged in editorial work in Washington, D. C.; Arthur Angleton, who died at the age of seventeen; Henry Richardson, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1907 and from the Tuck School in 1909, and is now in manufacturing business in Boston; Jessie G., unmarried; Florence, died in infancy; Lena Ysabel, now Mrs. Ellis; Laura Paulina, died in infancy.
He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and other societies. The "W" was his full middle name.
CLASS OF 1882
REV. GEORGE MORGAN WARD, D.D., died at Palm Beach, Fla., on December 28, 1930, after a sickness of only a week. He conducted service and preached at the Royal Poinciana Chapel, of which he had been pastor for thirty years, on Christmas Sunday, December 21, but after the service collapsed with a severe heart attack. The chapel was established by Henry M. Flagler in connection with the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and Mr. Flagler chose Dr. Ward to be its pastor. The long ministry thus rendered was confined to the winter season of each year, leaving Dr. Ward free for other lines of work and to come North for the summers, which he spent at his charming home in Billerica, Mass.
Dr. Ward was born in Lowell, Mass., May 23, 1859, the son of Dr. Sullivan and Mary (Morgan) Ward. After his boyhood schooling, he entered the class of 1881 at Harvard University, transferring two years later to Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the class of '82, took his A.M. in 1885, and received the degree of D.D. in 1900.
Following graduation from Dartmouth he had a year of special study at Johns Hopkins University. In 1885 he was graduated from the Law School of Boston University with the degree of LL.B. Though admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he did little if any practicing of law, his interest turning in other lines. On July 9, 1885, he was made treasurer of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, which office he held for a year, becoming also general secretary of that society in November, 1885. In the latter capacity he traveled widely over the country, winning acquaintance and esteem among the churches and with the young people through his gifts as a speaker and his devotion to the work. He retired from this post in July, 1889. From 1890 to 1893 he was engaged in business in his home city, Lowell, Deciding at length to make the Christian ministry his lifework, Ward entered the Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1896, and was then ordained as a minister in the Congregational church.
Called to the presidency of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., in 1895, he served that institution effectively and devotedly till 1902, when he resigned to become president of Wells College in Aurortv N. Y., where he remained for nine years. In 1916, upon urgent appeal to return to the aid of Rollins College, Dr. Ward assumed again its presidency, which he held till 1920. During the last decade his main work has been in the fulfillment of his pastorate at the Poinciana Chapel, which occupied him for the winter months.
He had gone down to Florida in November, planning to close his long service at the chapel, and the day fixed for his withdrawal was the very day upon which he died.
Funeral services were held at the Florida chapel where he had so long ministered, and at the Eliot-Union church in his home city of Lowell on the afternoon of January 2, when a great company of friends representing his many interests gathered to do him honor. Dr. Ward is survived by his wife and sister.
A man of quiet and retiring tastes, inclined to be shy of putting himself forward. Dr. Ward, by the force of his character, marked abilities, and winning personality was drawn into a life of wide relations and of very varied and eminent service.
CLASS OF 1884
JOSIAH HATCH QUINCY died at his home on Stratford Road, Boston, Mass., on December 29, 1930. For twenty years he had not been in rugged health. Until about a year ago he was able to attend to his business, though with the handicap of gradually failing strength. He died of chronic nephritis, associated with cardiac asthma. He was confined to his room for only a month. Funeral services were held in the Emmanuel church (Episcopal) of West Roxbury, and the burial was at Lancaster, Mass.
Quincy was born March 8, 1860, at Rumney, N. H., the son of Samuel Hatch and Sarah A. (Webster) Quincy. He was of the eighth generation in direct descent from Edmund Quincy, who founded the family in America. He was great-great-grandson of Samuel Quincy, one time loyalist solicitor general of the province of Massachusetts Bay.
He attended the public schools of his native town. His college preparatory work was done in New Hampton, N. H., and Phillips Exeter Academies. He entered Dartmouth in 1880 with the class of 1884, taking the Latin-Scientific course, graduating with the degree of B.L. and with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He was a speaker on the Commencement program. He belonged to the Kappa Sigma Epsilon freshman society and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
On leaving college, Quincy began the study of law in the office of John W. Corcoran and Herbert Parker at Clinton, Mass. In October, 1885, he entered the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated cum laude in 1887. He was chosen by the class as one of two members to have a place on the Commencement program. He then formed a law partnership with John Herbert, Dartmouth '71, with offices at 19 Milk St., Boston. On the dissolution of this partnership Quincy retained the offices, and there most of his professional work was done.
During his college course Quincy was a good student, ranking high in the class. He was popular with his fellows, holding several class offices during his course.
He was married to Miss Irene Margaret Brown on October 11, 1899. One son died in infancy. His wife survives him. Soon after going to Boston he became a member of the Emmanuel Episcopal church of West Roxbury. For two years he was president of the Men's Club of that church, while Phillips Brooks was its rector. He served as a director of the Y M.C.A. of Boston for sixteen years, and in like capacity with the Wells Memorial Association and the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was a member of the Twentieth Century Club and the Boston City Club, and for two years was president of the West Roxbury Citizens Association. He served many years as junior and then senior warden of his church. He was twice unsuccessful candidate for the Massachusetts legislature.
Quincy has been present at most of our class reunions, though ill health has kept him away from later meetings. Contacts with him on these occasions served to increase the admiration and respect which his classmates always had for him. He was a genial, cultured gentleman in all his relations with his fellow men, and was much beloved by everyone. On one occasion Quincy wrote of himself and his work as follows:—"The years have not brought me anything remarkable to chronicle for the interest of the class, and yet in conformity to the theory that the happiest men and the happiest nations are they who have no annals, I have had very happy, busy years." He carried this attitude of content with his work and living into all the contacts of life, together with a graceful and dignified calmness that revealed and inspired a deep and abiding faith. These, with a happy personality and an unselfish character, taken in connection with his legal, social, and religious associations, enabled him to make a substantial, effective, and permanent contribution to the general wellbeing.
His remaining classmates delight to remember him as a man and a fellow, and are proud of his record of usefulness. We loved and respected him through all the years of close association, and we shall cherish his memory to the end. E. D. EMERSON, J. P. HILL, J. P. HOUSTON
A communication to the Boston Transcript pays him this tribute: "Mr. Quincy was for two terms president of the Men's Club of Trinity church, under Phillips Brooks, who remained the inspiration of a life of service in spite of years of invalidism. The courage and patience with which he faced his limitations endeared him to a host of friends. He was a valued trustee and director of many philanthropic and charitable organizations, as well as a loyal and useful son of the church to which he was devoted."
CLASS OF 1886
HENRY HALL HANSON died on December 19 last, at the Knickerbocker Hospital, New York city, from pneumonia following an operation for appendicitis. He has been out of health for some over a year.
Mr. Hanson was born March 13, 1865, at Dover, N. H„ son of Nathaniel Ela and Martha Abigail (Locke) Hanson. He was a direct descendant of Thomas Hanson, who, born during the year 1587 at Yorkshire, England, sailed from the Port of London, landing at Kittery, province of Maine, in the year 1636, later settling at Dover, N. H.
Mr. Hanson received his early education in the Dover public schools, graduating from the high school in 1882. In college, "Harry," as he was popularly known, took Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and of the Sphinx senior society, of which he was one of the founders.
The first year after his graduation he was elected principal of an academy at Warren, Pa., in which position he served until 1888, when he resigned to enter the transportation department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Two years later he left this service to accept an appointment with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington. In 1893 he was sent to Guatemala, C. A., by the late Colis P. Huntington as a member of the executive staff of the Guatemala Central Railroad, which was owned by Mr. Huntington. He remained with this company about eleven years. In 1895 he accepted the management of the Mexico City branch of the International Banking Corporation, now a subsidiary of the National City Bank of New York city. In the fall of 1912 he resigned this position to become auditor of the International Railways of Central America, with headquarters at 17 Battery Place, New York. This company, formed by Mr. Minor C, Keith, was organized for the purpose of extending and developing the railroads of Guatemala and Salvador. In 1913 he became comptroller of the above company, and shortly thereafter a director. In 1923 he was made vice-president, in addition to the other offices he held. The responsibilities which Mr. Hanson carried in these positions may be better appreciated when we consider that the railway system, in the growth and management of which he had so large a part, now operates over eight hundred miles of trackage in Guatemala and Salvador. At his decease he was also vice-president and director of Minor C. Keith, Inc., treasurer of the International Products Corporation, and a director of the Forrocarril del Pacifico de Nicaragua and of R. W. Hibbard, Inc.
In August, 1917, he was given a commission as captain in the Quartermasters Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and continued as a reserve officer until 1922. He performed some special work for the department, but saw no active service in the war.
On January 27, 1897, he married Senorita Carmen Matheuy Salazar. From this marriage he had two children, Henry Nathaniel Hanson, born in 1898, died 1899, and Richard Locke Hanson, born in 1899. Richard graduated from Columbia University with the class of 1922, receiving the degree of 8.A., and, like his father, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Besides his widow and son, Mr. Hanson leaves surviving him a sister, Mrs. J. E. Vickery, and a brother, Stacey L. Hanson, both of Dover.
In hjs outside activities, he was a charter member of the Pan-American Society of Washington, D. C., member of the American Geographical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars of New Hampshire, and of the St. Nicholas, Whitehall, and Dartmouth Clubs, New York.
Mr. Hanson was a man of good presence and of high ideals, somewhat reserved by nature but deeply devoted to whatever he undertook. His success in life evidenced his dependability, and his capacity in the handling of large affairs.
HARRY HAYNES BURNHAM died suddenly at Biddeford, Me., on Sunday, December 21, 1930. His death was due to a heart attack, which came without warning. He was with Mrs. Burnham in the library at their home in the early evening, and started to answer a ring of the doorbell when he fell forward, and expired before the family physician could arrive. He had suffered a serious illness about a year before, but was thought to be making steady progress towards complete recovery, and, in fact, had expressed himself during the day as feeling better than for a long time. He had attended church in the morning, and later in the day had taken a walk on which he met and talked with friends who remarked upon his apparently improved condition. It is believed, however, that he had overtaxed his strength in making prepa- rations for the closing of the school Friday for the Christmas recess, and had brought on a recurrence of his heart trouble.
Mr. Burnham was born at Saco, Me., November 22, 1862, the son of John H. and Elizabeth (Haynes) Burnham. During his infancy his parents moved to Biddeford where he has since retained his residence except for nine years when following his profession elsewhere. He fitted for college in the high school of that city, from which he was graduated in 1882. The degree of A.B. received on his graduation from Dartmouth in 1886 was supplemented by an A.M. in 1890. In college he took high rank and was an influential and popular member of his class, being affectionately known as "Shorty." He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and a charter member of the Sphinx senior society, of which he was a founder.
On leaving college, pursuant to an early inclination to devote his life to educational pursuits, and as a preliminary to his life's work, he first accepted a position as teacher of a rural school in his home city. He was, however, soon advanced to the position of assistant to the submaster of the high school, from which he was in turn promoted to the principalship in 1887. In this capacity he served continuously for twenty-three years, or until 1910, when he became principal of the Sanford (Me.) High School, which position he held for seven years. He served in a like capacity in the Kennebunk (Me.) High School from 1917 to 1919, when he was induced to resume the principalship of the Biddeford High School, which position he held until his decease. Each move was an advancement in his profession. He left an enviable reputation at each town which profited by his rare services. Upon his retirement from the Sanford school a complimentary banquet was tendered him by the alumni of that institution, at which resolutions of appreciation were adopted, acknowledging his splendid service in placing their alma mater in the certified list on an equality with the best schools in the state. His parting thought expressed in accepting tokens of their affection disclosed the secret of his success as an educator, namely, that "one's work was to be so done as to bring joy to others as well as to the worker." He was in love with his work and inspired a like attitude in students toward their studies.
Upon his return to Biddeford he brought with him the fruits of an enlarged experience and threw his whole heart and soul into his profession, introducing new methods of instruction and ideas tending to the advancement of the school and its standard. He was the prime mover in securing additions to the school facilities which resulted in giving the city one of the finest and most complete high school buildings and equipment in the state. He was a firm believer in the athletic side of education. To him Biddeford owes much of its high standard in clean, helpful sport. It was through his inspiration and encouragement that the present athletic field came into being, which affords the students a playground second to none and a gymnasium seating eleven hundred people, the best possessed by any school of its character in the state. These new structures stand as a monument to Mr. Burnham.
He majored as a disciplinarian, and secured obedience by eliciting the co-operation of the student body. He impressed upon the pupils his own belief that recognition of superior authority is an indispensable quality of good citizenship. Having under his charge a school made up of divers races and classes, he sought to impress upon them that an essential purpose of the institution was to make of them American citizens, tolerant toward one another and respectful of the rights of others. Possessed of a marvelous sympathy for the boys and girls, and a dry humor which removed resentment and enlisted support, he encouraged them to win honors alike in scholarship and sports. Knowing that he would play fair in enforcing the scholastic regulations, they willingly conformed to his requirements. He was always just and impartial, and in their minds stood for the square deal.
The following appraisal by a close observer of his work well portrays his professional character and accomplishments. "An inspiring teacher, a wonderful disciplinarian, a delightful companion, a sympathetic friend of his pupils, a man of broad vision and wide sympathy, he won the love and respect of his students to a remarkable degree. Ever placing the ideal of scholarship above all else, he yet shared the boys' love for play and enthusiastically supported clean, regulated sport. He exacted obedience, because he believed that obedience to law was a prime requisite; he demanded recognition of authority. But his impartial administration of justice and brilliant wit won for him loyalty and affection. He continually preached the gospel of work and his pet phrase was 'That is your job.' Many boys and girls owe their higher education to his encouragement and inspiration." In confirmation of this estimate of his professional abilities we have the words of the commissioner of education of his state: "Mr. Burnham was one of the finest schoolmen of our state. His useful service will be long remembered. He was a wonderful school executive. If he had a superior in that line, I do not know where to find him."
Mr. Burnham's tastes were scholarly; he had acquired a remarkable collection of Shakespeareana and of early drama, and had seen all the best Shakespearean actors from the time of Edwin Booth. For the last ten years, he had given prizes in the public speaking contests of his school, in order to encourage efforts in this art, and had lent his support to the national oratorical contests.
In social life Mr. Burnham was a Mason, Rotarian, and Congregationalist. He was married to Lillian M. Tudbury of Peabody, Mass., on January 15, 1904. There was born to them one child, who died in infancy. Mrs. Burnham is a woman of rare literary talents, and was a true helpmate in her husband's professional work.
Mr. Burnham was no less interested in the civic advancement of his adopted city than in its educational system, and gave support in all matters looking to its betterment, and, in his quiet way, to its charitable undertakings. In his conduct in both professional and civic life he was modest and unassuming, and little realized the large place he had come to fill in the community. The words of his pastor voiced the sentiment of the assembled populace of the city who gathered from every calling at his burial, when he said: "You, who are gathered in this great congregation here today to pay your last public tribute of respect, honor, and love to Harry Haynes Burnham, have known him as a man, as a teacher, as an upright fellow-citizen, a Christian gentleman, and a friend. Honored and respected by everyone, he was loved by all who worked with him and knew him. Those who knew him best loved him most. He was a man of unsullied character, unswerving integrity, and utmost devotion to duty, and gave himself to his great task without reserve unto the end. Quiet and unassuming, yet forward-looking and progressive in the field of education, he ever sought and stedfastly worked for the best for his school and community. He believed in proper discipline as essential to the development of character and self-control, yet he was a dependable friend to every boy and girl alike. In school, in church and community, he was ever a staunch friend to youth and a consistent builder of the better city of the future. Those who have gone forth from this city, who, during his thirty-five years as a teacher in Biddeford, and as principal of the high school, have come under the influence of his example, his teaching, and his guidance, are living memorials to his honor and his achievement. He is not dead; he lives. He has truly joined that 1 choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end in self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues.'"
He loved Dartmouth with a love that passeth knowledge; he followed with interest all its expanding life; he kept a picture of President Hopkins OH his desk at school, and one of the new library on his desk at home. He was looking eagerly forward to the Forty-fifth at Hanover, but he was deprived of fulfilling that cherished plan to see the new Dartmouth.
To the foregoing tribute of the class secretary the Alumni Editor adds the following words of a member of the Dartmouth faculty who was a former pupil of Mr. Burnham:
"Harry Burnham was a true schoolmaster. That meant that he could never rest or be satisfied. He lived for his school. And to the term 'his school' he gave the widest interpretation. His interest in his students did not end at the schoolhouse door or cease as the graduation valedictory was pronounced. Always he must be looking beyond the daily performance of duties to the individual welfare of his students. Their development in life was his eager concern. Heavy administrative burdens, heavy teaching programs, he dealt with with success. He was ambitious for his school to lead in all legitimate activities, and he gave unsparingly of his strength to foster those activities. But his greatest influence was extended not through the formal contacts of the classroom or the solemn ones of the principal's office, but through informal contacts—chance meetings on the street or in the schoolhouse corridors when a few friendly and discerning words frequently gave the recipient a new sense of value and of self-respect. In this way, by giving of his vital self, he built himself to a peculiar degree into the life of his community and exerted a unique influence upon hundreds of its members. Kipling's words, written of other schoolmasters, might well be applied to this one: 'For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and deep continueth, Greater than their knowing!' "
CLASS OF 1889
FRANK PATTEN DABTT died in Skowhegan, Maine, March 23, 1930. The son of Justus and Abby P. (Knight) Dartt, he was born in Weathersfield, Vt., August 22, 1865.
He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, entered and graduated with our class. For a few years he was in hotel work but for many years we have been forced to number him among the "lost" and now we know only the facts of his death mentioned above.
His only brother was William H. Dartt '87, who died January 31, 1930.
CLASS OF 1892
Belated news has come of the death at his home in New Rochelle, N. Y., on November 7, 1930, of CHABLES ALBERT MANSON.
Manson was born in Lyons, Wis., June 9, 1869, but his parents soon removed to Suncook, N H., and he fitted for Dartmouth at the Manchester High School. During his college course he ranked well in his studies, played on his class baseball team, and was an editor of the Aegis. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
On graduation he entered the Medical College of New York University, and later settled in practice in New York city. He was for a time connected with the Manhattan Ear and Eye Hospital.
Dr. Manson identified himself with the life of New Rochelle during the latter part of his life. He served on the board of health, and belonged to the medical society and various social organizations.
In 1899 he married Grace Dann, and she and two sons, Douglas C and Charles A. Manson, Jr., survive him, and all live in New Rochelle.
Although Dr. Manson had not been able to attend class reunions and dinners, he showed his love and loyalty for Dartmouth by sending his elder son there, who graduated in 1925.
CLASS OF 1894
CHARLES ELLSWORTH HARRIS died at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, on December 23, 1930, after a four-day illness. His is the twelfth death among the eighty-six graduates of the class of 1894.
Harris was born January 23, 1870, on the family farmstead in the Etna district of Hanover, son of Henry and- Lois (Leavitt) Harris. He attended district school and fitted for college at Lebanon High. Here he was graduated with the class of 1890—a class which in the fall of that year sent nine men to Dartmouth, seven of whom were graduated in 1894, and seven of whom are living.
In college, Harris was an average student in his interests, his work, and his play. He shared in the inter-class athletics of the time as catcher for the class nine and guard on the class eleven. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
Graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Letters, for the greater part of his life he was an able and well-liked teacher in the Boston public schools. His major posts were on the staff of the Dudley School in Roxbury (1895-1901); as principal of the Wells Evening School in the North End of Boston (1895-1917); and as submaster of the Samuel Adams School in East Boston (1909-1930).
At the latter school, for more than twentyone years, he taught elementary mathematics, history, and science. In science subjects particularly his work was outstanding both in the classroom and in the field. In recent years he had declined an offer to teach in the higher grades, preferring to work with the smaller children of the district—most of them of foreign lineage, and many of them the sons and daughters of earlier pupils.
The high regard in which Harris was held, not only by his immediate associates on the teaching staff, but by the plain people of the community he served, is voiced by the East Boston Argus-Advocate, which speaks of him as"one of our most public-spirited citizens, a kindly gentleman, a genial friend."
It is true; therefore, however regretfully, it is right to say here that—because of the modesty of the man and the fact that a teacher's career runs somewhat aloof from the bustling activities of other men—few of his college associates seem to have assessed Harris's life-work at full value. One has only to talk with .the people of East Boston to learn who knew him best.
In recent years, Harris had not been in robust health. Due to the exacting nature of his work and to his retiring disposition, he was a follower rather than a leader in '94's post-graduate activities, though always loyal and with a smile and a handclasp for all. At the most recent class "round-up" on the eve of the Harvard-Dartmouth football game last October, there was no hint that he was not in his usual state of moderate health.
While instructing his classes on Friday, December 19, he became too ill to continue. He was removed to his lodgings and later to the hospital. Double pneumonia developed swiftly, and on the third day following he died.
Occurring as it did on the eve of the holidays, Harris's death did not become known to any classmate for several days. It is an added sorrow, especially to the Boston contingent of '94, that through no fault or oversight on the past of anyone no member of the class was present at Forest Hills, where his body was cremated and his ashes sent to Fort Myers, Fla., for interment.
Harris leaves a son, Wilbur E., born of his first marriage. There are two grandchildren. The second Mrs. Harris, who was Clara Haines, survives with a daughter, Marjorie, still in her teens. The family has been established for some years at Fort Myers, Fla., where Harris was wont to join it in vacation time and where he had hoped to pass his twilight years. There are living also a brother and a sister—Vincent Harris, who carries on the old farm at Etna, and Mabel (Harris) Coswise, who lives in Florida.
B. A. SMALLEY
CLASS OF 1896
GUY ASHTON ANDEEWS died December 8, 1930, at his home in Sebring, Fla., of pneumonia, after a long illness. He was born at Newton Center, Mass., July 18, 1872, the son of Elisha Benjamin and Ellen A. (Allen) Andrews. His father was a distinguished educator, being president of Denison University and Brown University and chancellor of the University of Nebraska and also filling professorships in other institutions. The son had traveled extensively in Europe before entering college; in fact, he learned his grammar and multiplication table in foreign countries. He graduated from Worcester Academy and was two years in Brown University, entering Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He immediately fell into the ways of the college and into the hearts of the class. His extensive general knowledge acquired through travel and the atmosphere of an educator's home enabled him to be a leader in the classroom and among his fellows. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Theta Nu Epsilon.
After graduation he studied law, graduating as LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1900. He practiced the profession at Lincoln, Neb., and in Oklahoma and Wyoming, and then in Tampa, Fla. Ten years ago he removed to Sebring, and there continued in practice until his death. A notice in the local paper says: "He was known as having a very brilliant mind, and his passing will be a great loss to the profession."
His widow, Mrs. Frances A. Andrews, survives him, also his aged mother. The burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Congregational church.
Although Andrews always kept in touch with the secretary of the class, he never came back to the College, and saw but very few of his classmates. However, he always expressed a keen interest in every one of them, as well as in the College, and fully expected and had planned to attend our 35th reunion next June.
CLASS OF 1897
RICHARD MATHER BOARDMAN died December 13, 1930, at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York city, after an illness of a month's duration.
He was born in Craftsbury, Vt., May 12, 1876. His father, Rev. Joseph Boardman, was at that time pastor of the Congregational church in that town and afterwards for many years at Barnet, Vt., which was the son's home while in college. He fitted at Kimball Union Academy. His fraternity was Theta Delta Chi.
Studying law after graduation, he practiced in Jersey City, N. J., and in New York city until his final illness.
He joined the Y. M. C. A. service May 17, 1918, and was stationed in Paris from June 20 to July 27, and then at Saloniki from August 12 to October 2. For his services he was brevetted in the Order of the Redeemer by the king of Greece. He was a member of the Town Hall Club; and had been active for years in the work of the Whittier House.
June 2, 1906, he was married to Dorcas Floyd Leece, who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Charles B. Hester, and two sons, Richard M. Boardman, Jr., and Donnell W. Boardman.
CLASS OF 1900
CLIFTON THOMPSON MILLER died on December 21, 1930, as the result of an acute heart attack. An unfavorable kidney condition complicated his case considerably. There was a brief illness of only a week.
Clif Miller, as we always called him, was born in South Hadley Falls, Mass. He prepared for Dartmouth at the South Hadley Falls High School, graduating with a degree of B.S. after four years of academic work.
Most of the time Clif roomed in Reed Hall, and was a member of what was known at that time as the Keed Hall Gang. His work in college was very creditable, as he had an acute and resourceful mind. He left college at the end of the first semester of senior year, but returned in 1901 and completed the work necessary for a degree. He was a member of the Aegis board, but outside of that took little or no active part in undergraduate affairs. He was one of those chaps who had to make every penny count in order to complete his education.
Upon leaving college, he went to Chicago, where he was engaged in advertising work. He represented Farm and Fireside, being associated with Joe Ford, who for many years represented the Woman's Home Companion in the Western territory. He left Chicago, after a long experience in advertisi ng, to represent the Hearst newspapers in New York city. He then joined the N. W. Ayer advertising agency, and became head of their Boston office. Under his administration of that office the increase in the New England accounts attracted such attention that he was brought into the home office and promoted to sales manager. In the fall of 1912 he resigned to become advertising manager of an important company in New England, In 1923. he returned to Philadelphia as vice-president of the J. H. Cross Company, and five years later assumed a more important position with the firm of Fox and Mackenzie with two of his old business associates, with which firm he was connected at the time of his death.
He was married on June 10, 1911, to Miriam Josephine Goodloe, the marriage taking place in Milwaukee, Wis. There is one son, Brace Goodloe, born on March 12, 1918, now in school at East Aurora, N. Y.
Clif's business record was a very creditable one. He was a solicitor of unusual ability. By years of persistent study of mass psychology he developed a keen analytical mind that gave him a most valuable appreciation of the consumer's viewpoint. His peculiar value in the advertising field lay in his ability to analyze more quickly than his clients and to pass sound judgment on problems with full confidence in his conclusions. Clif's grasp of merchandising was recognized by many, and in consequence his counsel was frequently sought.
Clif Miller was not a man who cultivated wide friendships. He was very intimate with a small group of people, to whom he was wholly devoted and who truly appreciated him. There was an intensity about his business life which prevented his extending his interests to include many matters outside of his particular profession. He was a real character in advertising, because his personality was a little different from the ordinary run.
The class of 1900 did not see a great deal of Clif. He attended the twenty-fifth reunion and every one had a chance to visit with him, an opportunity which had not occurred before since graduation. He was extremely loyal and fond of the class and the College. The roots of his affection went down much deeper than the ordinary person would suppose. This is indicated by the fact that the last check which he drew was made out to Clarence McDavitt as trustee of the 1900 class fund, and was an extremely generous contribution. He retained his membership in the Union League Club of Chicago until the end, and held an important position in the City Club of Philadelphia.
Clif Miller was a product of Dartmouth at the time when the resources of the students were very much less than they are today. It was quite a struggle for Clif to secure an education. It was a battle for him to make his mark in business, but he never gave up and always fought to the finish, and he died in the harness. He certainly made a great deal of his education and his career showed what persistence, courage, and hard work could accomplish. We shall mourn him as we do the hosts of other 1900 men who have passed along.
NATT W. EMERSON, Secretary
CLASS OF 1913
RANDOLPH RIEDELL died suddenly in his apartment in Boston on October 27, 1930, of an acute dilation of the heart. He was born in Manchester, N. H., on November 11, 1890, son of John H. and Addie L. (James) Riedell. He attended the Manchester High School and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1913. In college, he was in the cast of "The Pea Green Earl," and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Dragon society.
Upon graduation with the class, he returned to Manchester, N. H., to work for the McElwain Company, and then to the Walton Shoe Company of Chelsea, Mass. He resigned in 1916 to attend Harvard Law School for about two years, and September 26, 1918, he married Miss Louise C. Watt of Somerville, Mass., who lived several years. He was then associated with the U. S. Rubber Company at Naugatuck, Conn. From Connecticut he returned to Boston, and while working for the Converse Rubber Company lived in Winchester, Mass. In 1926, he married Miss Manila Davis of Flatwoods, W. Va., who survives him. Mrs. Riedell studied aviation at Boston, and after training qualified for a pilot's license, and was selling airplanes for the Curtiss Wright Company in Boston. At the time of his death, Buttsey had been associated with A. B. Leach and Company for about two years.
He was intensely interested in all things Dartmouth, and was found at all gatherings in Boston. When the Dartmouth Club of Boston had rooms at the Bellevue he was a frequent visitor.
Funeral services were held in Waterman's Chapel in Boston, and the large attendance and the great number of floral offerings bore witness to his many friends.
JOSEPH STANLEY GIBSON died suddenly of heart trouble on October 26, 1930, at his home. 644 Longridge Road, Oakland, Cal. He was born at Beaver Dam, Wis., September 20, 1891, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gibson. His father was a manufacturer. He prepared for Dartmouth at Lawrenceville School, but left college during his freshman year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
At the time of his death Gibson was the Pacific Coast manager of Grinnell and Company, with whom he had been associated in several different cities since his war service. He used to attend the Dartmouth gatherings in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is survived by his wife and one child.
On January 2 in the U. S. Naval Hospital at Chelsea ended the long and brave fight "Tim" Joyce had made for life. He died at six in the morning sitting in his chair, for he had feared for weeks that to lie down would mean that he would have to remain in bed. He had been suffering for over two years from a cancer, and on Friday the end came peacefully. Mrs. Joyce had been staying in Boston to be near him, and Lt. Rollo Hutchinson '13, in charge of X-ray, and Miss Elizabeth Riedell, Buttsey's sister, in charge of Red Cross, at the hospital had been able to make everything as comfortable for him as possible.
Two years ago, Tim's disease, after some years of occasional trouble, was correctly diagnosed and he went to the Naval Hospital at Chelsea, Mass. He was on the dangerous list and could see friends and visitors at any time. Several of the class were able to see him before he returned home to Bar Harbor just before Thanksgiving 1929 to die, as it was thought. He returned to the Naval Hospital this last fall and his sufferings, especially during the mornings, were torturous.
SHIRLEY ADELBERT JOYCE was born on December 4, 1888, in Bar Harbor, Maine, son of C. A. and Myra D. (Miller) Joyce. His father was a sea captain. He prepared for college at the Bar Harbor High School and entered the University of Maine, but transferred to Dartmouth at the end of the first semester, and remained there until the end of his sophomore year. He was a weight man and discus thrower on the freshman track team and during the sophomore year on the varsity track squad. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Oil leaving college, he worked for the United States Rubber Company, and about 1916 went with the Library Bureau of 316 Broadway, New York city. After his service in the Navy during the World War he returned to the Library Bureau, and about 1921 became associated with the Winchester Simmons Cos., representing them throughout many western states. He met Anna L. Brown in Denver, Colorado, in 1921, and they were married in Tacoma, Washington, in January 1922. He is survived by his wife, his mother; and a sister living in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Funeral arrangements were made by the Veterans Bureau and his body taken to Washington for burial in the National Cemetery at Arlington. The class was represented by Warde Wilkins in Boston, who saw the flag-draped box placed in the mail car, and by "Buck" Freeman at the committal service, conducted by Capt. Sydney Evans, the chief chaplain of the Navy. "Chippy" Semmes was able to help with the arrangements in Washington. The burial was naval with firing squad and a bugler, who blew taps. The pall bearers were navy men.
CLASS OF 1916
LEO YEARWOOD GRANGER, M.D., died at his home, 28 Richmond St., Newark, N. J., December 13, 1930, of empyema following pneumonia.
He was born in Guthrie, Okla., September 28, 1894, the son of Dr. William Richard Randolph and Mary T. Granger. He was one of six sons, three besides himself being graduates of Dartmouth in 1915, 1918, and 1923, and another finishing at the University of Pennsylvania after one year at Dartmouth in the class of 1920.
Since receiving his medical degree at Columbia in 1918, he has practiced in Newark,
N. J. He leaves a wife and a son, Leo Y., Jr.
CLASS OF 1918
WALTER DENCY MINIGAN died at Manchester, N. H., on December 20,1930, after a lingering illness. His death is directly attributable to internal injuries sustained in an automobile accident on June 13 last from which he never recovered. For the past five months he was a hospital patient in a long but unavailing struggle to regain his health, during which time he submitted to several operations and a number of blood transfusions in the final attempt to save his life.
The son of Joseph and Rebecca (Dency) Minigan, he was born in Manchester on February 8, 1894. His schooling was in that city, at the Rimmon school and later at the Central High, from which he graduated in 1913. Following one year at Norwich University, Minigan transferred to Dartmouth and graduated with our class.
He enlisted December 28, 1917, in the Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A., was called to active service in Philadelphia, October 18, 1918, and was discharged December 11, 1918.
After attending the Dartmouth Medical School he took a two-year course in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, and then devoted one year to work in a Philadelphia hospital. In 1921 he opened an office for medical practice in his native city, where he firmly established himself. At the time of his death he was also pathologist of the Sacred Heart Hospital and a member of the medical staff of the Hillsborough General Hospital, both in Manchester.
A few years ago Dr. Minigan was a can- didate for the office of city physician. He held membership in the Manchester Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society, and was a member of the local post of the American Legion. Besides his two parents he is survived by one sister.
CLASS OF 1921
DK. RAYMOND RANSOM WELLS died at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in New York city, of the staff of which he had been a member for more than a year, on December 5, 1930. His death came after an illness of several months.
Rans went to St. Louis last summer during his vacation to Lave an operation performed on his palate, and he never regained his strength after this operation. He returned to New Yort and his duties at the hospital, but during August he was forced to give up his work and take to his bed. His trouble was diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis, and later it was found that in addition to the pulmonary disease, he was suffering from a streptococcus blood stream infection. Both ailments contributed to his death, but the latter was held by the doctors to be the primary cause.
Rans was born at Middlesex, Vt., on February 26, 1896, the son of Lorenzo Ransom and Annette (MacDermid) Wells. He prepared for Dartmouth at Montpelier (Vt.) Seminary. In college he was active in the work of the Outing Club and also of the Christian Association, being a member of the cabinet of the latter organization during his sophomore, junior, and senior years. He was a member of Cabin and Trail and also a member of the Rifle Team, of which he served as manager for two years.
After being graduated from college, Rans attended the Dartmouth Medical School for two years. He then spent a year at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and was graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1926.
In September of that year the National Board Bulletin, which is published by the National Board of Medical Examiners, contained a report of the men taking the June examination in Part 11, which listed Ransom as standing second among 222 candidates taking the examination, with a standing only a point and a fraction behind the leading man out of a possible 225 points.
After receiving his medical degree, Rans was for a time on the staff of the Illinois Central Hospital at Paducah, Ky. He later became connected with a hospital at St. Anthony, Newfoundland, where he did some fine work. After leaving that hospital and before taking his position in New York, he was connected briefly with a Bay State institution.
Arthur S. Wells '06, a brother, is his sole survivor.
From the time he matriculated until his death Rans displayed unswerving and inspirational loyalty both to Dartmouth and 1921. In fact loyalty is synonymous with his name—loyalty and courage.
CLASS OF 1922
RICHARD CAMPBELL DENNETT died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., September 15, 1930.
He was born in Hartland, Vt., March 25, 1900, the son of Rev. Arthur Clark and Elizabeth (Campbell) Dennett. At the time he entered college the family home was in Madison, N. J., and he prepared at Madison High School.
He left college on account of his health in March, 1921, and had spent much of his time since at Saranac in an ineffectual struggle to regain health.
He was married November 15, 1922, to Josephine A. Aylward of Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., who survives him, and is now living at 167 North Parkway, East Orange, N. J. A sister also survives him, Mrs. A. L. Holmquist of East Orange. The burial was in the family burial ground at Manasquan, N. J.
CLASS OF 1924
RALPH EDWABD LONSDALE, a member of the class for a large part of the course, died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., August 19, 1930.
He was bom in New York city, June 17, 1903, the son of Edward Francis and Emma Augusta (Johnston) Lonsdale, and prepared for college at New Rochelle (N. Y.) High School. Stanley J. Lonsdale of the same class is his brother. He was a member of Zeta Psi.
After leaving college he became a salesman for a business house in New Rochelle, and was a member of Company G, 107 th Infantry, New York State National Guard.
CLASS OF 1928
EDWARD JOHN HUGHES, JR., died October 15, 1930, at the Homeopathic Hospital, East Orange, N. J., after an operation for appendicitis.
The son of Edward John and Anna T. (Moormann) Hughes, he was born in Bloomfield, N. J., October 5, 1906, and graduated successively from the Sacred Heart Parochial School and the Bloomfield High School. In college he was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
He was associated in business with his father until the latter's death on January 20 last. He then succeeded him as president of the Ballwood Company of New York and was also associated with the Ballwood division of the Midwest Piping and Supply Company of New York.
His mother and two sisters survive him. The funeral service was held at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield, and the burial was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1891
DB. CHARLES ALLEN LAMSON died of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New London, N. H., December 29, 1930.
He was born in Cambridge, Mass., November 25, 1865, the son of Rufus W. and Cyrene (Eaton) Lamson. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Cambridge and at Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H. He began the study of medicine at the University of Vermont and completed it at Dartmouth.
Following his graduation he was an interne in the Boston Emergency Hospital, and in 1892 began practice at Wilmot Flat, N. H. In 1894 he removed to New London, which was his home for the rest of his life. In his nearly forty years of country practice he has been remarkably successful in meeting the emergencies and overcoming the difficulties which such practice involves.
In 1917 he enlisted in the Medical Corps, U. S. A. During the winter following, while living in tents at Hempstead, L. I., he contracted a severe cold, which developed into pneumonia. "While in the hospital his orders came for transport duty, and he was greatly disappointed at being unable to fulfill the assignment. Later, when sufficiently recovered, he was assigned to duty as camp surgeon at Camp Merritt, N. J. In January, 1919, he began the work of accompanying returned soldiers to their home camps, and made many trips until his discharge in October, 1919, with the rank of major. He resumed his practice in New London, and though in failing health continued at work until the last week of his life.
In November, 1889, lie was married to Mary A., daughter of Seth and Susan (Stearns) Goodhue of Wilmot, N. H., who survives him, with three children, Donald C. of Bristol, N. H., Seth A., a junior in the University of New Hampshire, and Mrs. George Stibitz of Bloomfield, N. J. There are also three grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1894
DR. FEED ELMEK BBYAR died in Brighton, Mass., October 25, 1930, of myocarditis, endocarditis, and arteriosclerosis. He had gone to Brighton three weeks before for a visit and to receive medical treatment.
He was born in Laconia, N. H., January 9, 1871, the son of James and Flora (Simons) Bryar, and received his early education in the schools of that town.
After graduation he began practice at North Sandwich, N. H., but after three weeks received an appointment on the medical staff of the Massachusetts State Hospital at Taunton, where he remained for a year, leaving on account of poor health. He then returned to Sandwich, where he carried on a country practice and for a time conducted a small sanitorium. In 1918 he took a position at the New Hampshire State Hospital at Concord, where he had charge of the Walker Building, remaining until his death.
Dr. Bryar was a member of the county and state medical societies and of the New England Psychiatrists' Association. He was. an ardent sportsman, belonging to the Merrimack Sportsmen's Association, the Isaak Walton League, and the Dustin Country Club. He was a Mason.
In 1896 he was married to Maud Stanley Quimby of Sandwich, who died in 1913. In 1914 he was married to Florence Mooney, a graduate nurse of Laconia Hospital, who survives him, with an adopted daughter, Mrs. Mary Bryar Stacy.
CLASS OF 1895
DR. GEORGE HENRY PARKER died very suddenly at his home in Hanover, N. H., January 2, 1931. He had been in poor health for several months, but his illness was known to but few of his friends.
He was born in Wells River, Vt., September 26, 1873, the son of Enoch George and Matilda P. (Cook) Parker. His father was for many years owner and manager of the Parker House at Woodsville, N. H. He attended the local schools, and later graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy.
Shortly after graduation he began practice in Concord, N. H., where he remained for five years. On account of his father's poor health he then removed to Wells River to be near him, and remained there in practice until the death of his mother in 1915. He then removed to Hanover, where he has since practiced. During the World War he was a captain in the Medical Corps, and was stationed on Long Island. He was interested in camps for boys and girls, had been a director of Camp Mascoma at Enfield, and last summer established a camp for girls at Keene, N. H.
He was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa, the Graduate Club, and the George Ryder Post, American Legion.
July 14, 1900, Dr. Parker was married to Caroline Alden Storrs of Hanover, who survives him. She is a sister of Adna D. Storrs '99 and Harry C. Storrs '07.
CLASS OF 1897
DR. JOHN JAMES CARBOLL died at his home in Naugatuck, Conn., December 17, 1930, of urinary sepsis.
He was born in Torrington, Conn., March 2, 1859, the son of Patrick and Ellen (O'Malley) Carroll. He received his early education in the public schools of Winsted, Conn., and took his professional training at the University of New York and at Dartmouth.
After graduation he began practice at Naugatuck, and continued there through life, having a large and successful practice. He served for ten years on the school board, and was warden of the borough in 1918-19, refusing to accept a second term, though urged to do so. He was examining physician of St. Francis' School.
June 19, 1901, he was married to Margaret E., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bossidy of Lee, Mass., who survives him. They had no children. Three brothers survive him, Rev. Richard Carroll of Westport, Conn., who sang the requiem mass at his funeral service, Dr. Isaiah Carroll of Stamf ord, Conn., and Joseph Carroll of Winsted, Conn., also two sisters.
