Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1877
GEORGE WILLIAM BARTLETT died suddenly February 10, 1931, at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla. He had suffered from bronchitis for many years, and his strength had been gradually weakening. Last summer he was obliged to spend a month in a hospital in Chicago. On his return to Florida his health seemed to improve, but the improvement was only temporary.
He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., August 20, 1856, the son of James P. and Frances M. (Harris) Bartlett. His father was a banker in that city. He prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the Portsmouth High School. He was well known and greatly liked among the student body of our day, and was a successful competitor in prize speaking contests. He was a member of the Yitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.
Immediately after graduation he embarked upon a career of railroading, which he followed for the greater part of his active life. He was first in the office of the C. B. & Q. R. R. at Council Bluffs, lowa, from which beginning he rapidly rose to responsible positions in connection with various roads, being in several instances general superintendent of the road and in other cases receiver of roads in process of reorganization. About twenty years ago he left railroading and engaged in the manufacture of automobile accessories at Racine, Wis., as president of the Perfex Radiator Company. In 1918 he retired from active connection with this business, and made his home for a time in Racine, and then in Chicago. For some ten years he had spent his winters in Florida, and finally made St. Petersburg his home, building there last year a house at Pinellas Point on the Gulf of Mexico which he called "Clanhaven."
June 24, 1883, lie was married to Juliette, daughter of Benjamin Thomas of Port Jervis, N. Y., who was for many years an officer of the Erie Railroad and afterwards president of the Chicago and Western Indiana road. She survives him, with their four children, Francis H. of New York city, Robert D. of Jackson, Miss., Margaret (Mrs. A. B. Modine) of Racine, Wis., and George W. of Chicago. There are six grandchildren, one of whom, Francis H. Bartlett, Jr., is a member of the freshman class at Dartmouth, the first grandson of a graduate in 1877 to enter the College.
It was one of the pleasantest features of or Semi-Centennial Reunion to have Bartlett with us—the first time he had found it possible to meet with the class since our graduation. We found the happy-spirited lad of our college days to have changed very little, in spite of his active, responsible, and successful business career.
CLASS OF 1879
REV. HARLAN PAGE died on Sunday, February 8, 1931, in the house at 2 Alveston St., Jamaica Plain, Mass., in which he was born, December 5, 1854, and which has been his home for the last seventeen years. He had been in poor health for nearly two years from a heart trouble, but was confined to his room for only about three weeks, and was sitting up and attending to some business the day before his death.
Page was the son of Joseph and Martha L. (Fitch) Page, and received his college preparatory training at Oberlin and Phillips Andover Academies, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1875. He was then as always of somewhat odd appearance and personality, and although he remained in college only through freshman year, he made a distinct impression on his classmates and is well remembered by them. He was especially active in the oldtime campus game of football between "Fraters" and "Socials."
He entered Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1879, graduating in 1882. That same year he became pastor of the Congregational church at Cohasset, Mass., where he was ordained to the Christian ministry, February 6, 1883. After six years at Cohasset and a short period as stated supply at Ashburnham, he began a pastorate at Hard wick, Mass., which lasted for twentythree years, until 1914. "Here he labored faithfully and quite successfully, his preaching being earnest, thoughtful, and evangelical."
Since his retirement from the I lard wick pastorate, he served for a year as supply at Dover, Mass., and as long as he was able, found great pleasure in preaching wherever he could. As a friend says, "He was a quiet, humble, devout man who found many ways of doing good. While not active socially, he was always generous toward those in need. No one ever appealed to him in vain for aid in any worthy cause."
For a long time he was out of touch with his class, but in recent years had contributed to the Alumni Fund. He renewed his acquaintance with the College and the class at the fiftieth anniversary reunion in 1929, which he seemed to enjoy in his own quiet way. His little speech at the reception in the tent was especially felicitous.
Harlan Page was the last survivor of a family of several brothers and sisters. From a brother who died many years ago he inherited a considerable estate. At his death he left a bequest of $3,500 to the church in Hardwick of which he was so long pastor, $3,500 to the Central Congregational church of Jamaica Plain, of which he was a member for fifty years, and $5,000 to the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. He also left about $35,000 in bequests to numerous cousins and friends. His home and its contents he left to a cousin, Mrs. Mary L. Hudson, "who has presided over my home with kindness and courtesy." She and her husband were also made residuary legatees of the estate.
The funeral service was held at his late home Tuesday afternoon, February 10, his pastor, Rev. W. A. Lee, and a former pastor, Rev. C. H. Williams, D. D., officiating. Burial was in Forest Hills Cemetery.
CLASS OF 1881
The death has been recently reported to us of NEWTON JACKSON JONES, who for over fifty years had been one of the "lost" members of the class of 1881 and of the College.
He was the son of Andrew J. and Hannah (Coombs) Jones, and was born in Bristol, Me., June 18, 1849. He fitted for college at Buxton, Me., and was with the class of 1881 for part of freshman year. His occupation in earlier life was that of a Methodist minister and school teacher, but on account of ill health he retired and took up farming. He was never married. He died in Bristol, February 2, 1930, of hemorrhage of the stomach.
CLASS OF 1882
LUTHER BARTLETT LITTLE died February 12, 1981, at his home in New York. The Rev. Donald B. Aldrich, D.D., Dartmouth '17, conducted the funeral services. Little had been in poor health for over a year, and had been retired from his office as manager of the publicity division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, after twenty years of active and efficient service.
He was born in Boscawen, N. H., July 7, 1859, of a family long prominent in the state, his parents being George and Louisa (Little) Little; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He specialized in Greek, and continued to read and study it all his life.
Shortly after graduation he took up journalism. He was, first, and for some time, with the Minneapolis Tribune, and then joined the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune. Probably his best work was done as the Albany and Washington correspondent of the New York Times and as secretary of the New York State Republican Committee. He was a leading member of the "Amen Corner" at the old Fifth Avenue Hotel. He married Dorothy Quigley, a charming writer.
Known for his remarkable memory and a keen sense of humor, Little perpetrated a joke on the members of the Society of New Hampshire at the annual dinner in 1908. The speaker of the evening failed to show up, and Little was drafted as a substitute. He made one of the most eloquent speeches an audience had ever heard. After receiving the plaudits of the crowd, who thought they had listened to an impromptu burst of oratory, he said: "Gentlemen, I have just repeated to you, word for word, a speech made by Daniel Webster; our greatest son, at the New Hampshire Institute held in Boston in November, 1849." He was a member of the committee organized by the late Senator William E. Chandler to restore the Daniel Webster house.
Harold Anderson, famous editorial writer of the New York Sun and one of Little's most intimate friends, said: "Luther B. Little is as witty as any man I know; is one of the most charming of all companions; and has a mind so comprehensive in its grasp and so logical in its operation that he can not only write but speak with amazing clarity and forceful correlation of ideas."
In College a member of Psi U; served on the Alumni Council for the first six years after its organization; belonged to the Dartmouth Club of New York; was an ideal class secretary for many years; member of the "Silurians" and many newspaper and political clubs; a good classmate and a good friend to us all; known to be always "on the level." ERNEST H. LINES
CLASS OF 1883
REV. FRANKLIN GATES WEBSTER died February 24, 1931, in the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Syracuse, N. Y., where he had been a patient since January 29.
He was born in Lynn, Mass., May 9, 1860, the son of Frederic W. and Eleanor (Gates) Webster, and prepared for college at Lynn High School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.
After graduation he studied for three years at Hartford Theological Seminary, graduating in 1886. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Cummington, Mass., June 9, 1886, and was pastor in succession of the following churches: Cummington and Plainfield, Mass., 1886-8; Passaic, N. J., 1888-90; American Pork and Pleasant Grove, Utah, 1890-3; Oswego Falls, N. Y., 1893-7; Summer Hill and Groton City, N. Y., 1898-1903; Deßuyter, N. Y., 1903-10; Harford, Pa., 1910-14; West Bloomfield, N. Y., 1914-20; Lysander, N. Y„ 1920-3; Redfield, N. Y„ 1923-9. These churches were all Congregational except those in Utah, which were Presbyterian. Since the close of his last pastorate he has made his home at Jordan, N. Y.
He served for several years as secretary and treasurer of the Central New York Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches. For many years he had been active in placing "fresh air" children of New York city in country homes through the summer months, and in the work of caring for city children who were unable to leave their homes for such vacations.
November 24, 1887, he was married to Annie, daughter of Lemuel and Elizabeth Jones of Wellesley Hills, Mass., who survives him, with their three sons, Lemuel J. of Paterson, N. J., Archibald E. of Rochester, and Dr. Franklin R. of Syracuse. There are six grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1888
FRED STILLMAN BERBY died at St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., February 2, 1931, after an illness of seven months.
He was born in Farmington, N. H., July 13, 1865, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the high school of that town. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
At the time of his death Berry was highway engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, with headquarters at St. Paul, having served in that capacity since April 1, 1919. After graduation he taught for a time, and then entered upon his lifework of engineering, being connected with the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad engineering staff and with the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he served as a member of the valuation and extension staff. He had charge, too, at one time, of reconstruction work of the Pennsylvania line in Maryland and Virginia. His engineering work on a new cut-off line built by the D. L. & W. R. R. in 1910, "one of the heaviest pieces of railroad construction work ever attempted in the United States, outside of terminal work," brought him prominently before the engineering world. During the World War he was engaged as field engineer in the construction of a large shellloading plant, later operated by the DuPont Company. Since 1919 his work in the establishment and development of Federal Aid highways in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin has been in every way distinctive.
Berry was a member of the Masonic lodge of Farmington, N. H., and the Masonic Club of St. Paul, of the St. Paul Engineers Society, and of the Thayer Society of Engineers.
He leaves a widow. The burial was at Farmington.
Berry was a most loyal Dartmouth man, in every way possible a help to his class and his college.
FRED LEWIS PATTEE
CLASS OF 1892
DR. PHILIP SHERIDAN IDE died of acute neuritis at the Framingham Union Hospital, Framingham, Mass., February 22, 1931.
He was born in Barnet, Vt., November 11, 1868, his parents being Horace Knight and Margaret (Hidden) Ide. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta. He spent two years with his Dartmouth class, and was then a year in Amherst. In 1893 he began the study of medicine at Dartmouth, and continued until his graduation as M.D. with the class of 1897.
After short periods of practice at Danbury and Newport, N. H., he removed to Wayland, Mass., in 1898, and was in active practice there for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Massachusetts state militia at the beginning of the World War, and upon our entrance into the war he was stationed at Fort Banks with the 7th Coast Artillery, being sent later to Camp Devens. Two months before the armistice he was discharged on account of dependents.
April 28, 1902, Dr. Ide was married to Minnie P., daughter of Malcolm and Mary (Munn) McDonald of Wayland, who survives him, with their four children, Nicolas Philip, Patience Mary, Malco'm Lyon, and Donald Knight. There are three grandchildren, Margaret, Sally, and Philip Ide.
CLASS OF 1902
RALPH HOWARD CARLETON died at Rochester, Minn., February 17, 1931. He had been troubled with ulcers for some time, and had successfully gone through an operation in December at Rochester, going home in the early part of January. Bronchial trouble developed and he went back to Rochester, but because of his low vitality he could not fight it and death resulted. The news of the death of "Stubby" was unexpected and a great shock. Less than a month previously the Secretary had received from him a very cheerful letter in which he said that, having fully recovered from his fourth operation, he was going out to the Southwest to take a rest.
Hefwas born in Haverhill, Mass., June 28, 1880, the son of Francis Baxter Cross and Lucy Cabel (James) Carleton, and prepared for college at Haverhill High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
After graduating from the Tuck School in 1903, he went to Chicago and entered the service of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway. He had worked his way up to the important position of assistant general auditor, which he held at the time of his death.
December 21, 1911, he married Isabella Frances, daughter of Frank H. and Elizabeth (McDonnell) Tepe of Chicago, who survives him, with one daughter, Frances Isabella.
CLASS OF 1905
ALEXIS DESIRE PELLETIEK died suddenly at his home, $777 Oxford Ave., Montreal, P. Q., on January 28, 19S1. He is survived by his wife, Annie Holiday, and their three children, Fraser H., William C., and Lee Alison; also a brother, Charles.
We can all remember Alexis as a big, husky, good-natured Canadian, who was evidently struggling for a higher education against greater odds than most of us had to face. His French Canadian accent was many times the cause for merriment, but never was offense intended or taken. He had a sense of humor as good as the next man's, as is evidenced by this excerpt from a letter written to Lafayette Chamberlin in 1917:
"I am now married to a McGill girl and I have two big sons. I have a good practice, and I am getting on an average three square meals a day. Should you come to Montreal, I would be pleased to see you either at my house or at my office. Although my wife is English, we are fond of pea soup, and we compel all visitors to eat it whether they like it or not."
After graduating at Dartmouth, Alexis studied law at McGill, where he was awarded the degrees M.A. and B.C.L. Later he was made a K. C. (King's Councillor), he was a past master of Denechaux Lodge, P. & A. M., and a Companion of the Royal Arcanum. The following letter written by Rev. E. H. Brandt, director of L'lnstitut Evangelique de la Pointe-aux-Trembles, gives an intimate view of the life of our classmate. It is evident from an unquoted paragraph that the writer was the theological student who started Alexis on the road for an education.
"Alexis D. Pelletier was born below Quebec in the town of Cacouna in the year 1875. Early he lost his father and his mother and was brought up by his uncle. A theological student of the Presbyterian College met him during the summer and entered into a serious conversation on many subjects. Pelletier was eighteen and his education was very limited. Deeply interested and touched by the remarks of the student, Alexis decided to leave his place and go to school. He traveled from below the St. Lawrence to Montreal to meet his friend, who brought him to the Pointe-aux-Trembles schools. There he stayed five years, during which he prepared his mathiculation.
"He was a Roman Catholic when he reached that school, but when he left he had abandoned the church of his fathers and he had joined the French Protestant Evangelical church of Pointe-aux-Trembles.
"Prom Pointe-aux-Trembles he went to the Franco-American College of Springfield and to Dartmouth College, where he graduated in arts. He came back to Canada and entered McGill University, and after a few years was Master in Arts and Bachelor in Law.
"He opened an office in Montreal, and soon Pelletier was noted among the successful lawyers, and the provincial government of Quebec appointed him King's Councillor.
"Pelletier was a self-made man. During sixteen years he studied, prepared himself for his country. He had no money, no friends to pay his college. He worked as a carpenter, as a farmer, as a sailor to meet his expenses. During holidays we found him with his axe in the woods. In spite of these difficulties Pelletier was cheerful, happy. He never grumbled, he never worried. He trusted Providence which had helped him so much. Wherever he went, he brought with him of joy and gladness. When Pelletier made a speech he carried his audience in high spheres, and while he was speaking, his hearers were forgetting their earthly troubles. Great vocation, great mission, well fulfilled. Pelletier is no more. He is greatly missed."
Unfortunately, Alec's plan to attend the reunion last June was upset. The above letter must make all of us regret that we did not have the opportunity to renew our friendship with such a man.
The Dartmouth Quebec Association sent, through its secretary, the following tribute to the MAGAZINE:
"We of the Dartmouth group in Montreal have lost one of the rarest of men in the sudden death yesterday morning of Alec D. Pelletier 'O5.
"He belonged to that finest type of our graduates, the man who made his life by his own great spirit and will, combined with a fine mind and his most lovable personality.
"He was a mixture of Scotch loyalist and Canadian French, whose ancestors fought with both Montcalm and Wolfe. As a boy he had no schooling, and in his teens went into the woods as a lumber-jack. A chopping contest took him from the Quebec bush to Holyoke, Mass., where he conceived the wild dream of an education. He fitted himself, earning his way, went to Springfield College, and finally to Dartmouth, where he also worked his entire way through to graduation with '05.
"McGill trained him for the bar, and he built up not only an outstanding practice, but also a respect so strong among all parties that he was selected to represent the French province of Quebec in the movement to build an entente cordiale with English Ontario. He was a celebrated speaker, a political power in Montreal, and in his rural community of Rawdon, Quebec, a seigneur, the great landowner, magistrate, and advisor to his people.
"He has been keenly interested in our Dartmouth project, and was to have been chairman of our February meeting."
CLASS OF 1910
FRANCIS LEONARD DONOVAN died suddenly Sunday, February 8, 1931. He was found dead in his room at Hotel Hampton, Albany, N. Y., by employees of the hotel, who had been advised by the Troy Record, of which he was night city editor, that because of his failure to be at his desk Sunday evening, there was reason to believe that something had happened to him. The funeral was held in St. Peter's church, Troy, Thursday morning, February 12, and was attended by three members of the class of 1910—Burton C. Miller, H. P. Hinman, and Russell D. Meredith.
"Piper" Donovan was one of the prominent figures in the newspaper fraternity in Troy. Starting with the Troy Times as reporter, just after graduation in the summer of 1910, he had served steadily in his chosen field. In 1916, he became a member of the reportorial staff of the Troy Evening Record, and in 1921 was promoted to the city editorship of the Morning Record, where his all-round ability, his loyalty, and his unusual fund of information had won the admiration and appreciation of those in the newspaper circle.
At Troy Academy, where "Piper" Donovan prepared for Dartmouth, he was salutatorian of his class, and that same enthusiasm for and attention to his classroom work earned for him a standing in one of the honors groups at Dartmouth. While in college he was a member of the Dramatic Club for two years, and a member of the cast of the musical comedy, "If I Were Dean."
He was a great reader, and, aside from the building up of his fund of information useful in his work, he thought a great deal about his reading and developed a philosophy of life quite different from that so generally accepted. He kept himself closely encircled by his immediate associates in his work, but as others from outside that circle came in contact with him, they were always impressed by his friendly nature and his readiness to serve in the many ways he could.
"Piper" Donovan's passing stunned his friends and co-workers, and has left a deep feeling of personal loss.
A sister, Mary Donovan, is the only survivor.
CLASS OF 1917
In the Necrology of the March MAGAZINE was a brief notice of the death of LEON GEORGE BANTON. Some further data have been received, which are given here in order to complete Dr. Banton's record.
He was born in Bangor, Me., December 14, 1894, the son of George Walter and Abigail S. Banton, and prepared for college in the public schools of that city.
He remained in Hanover to take a second year in the Medical School, and then went to the College of Physicians and Surgeons connected with Columbia University, where he received his medical degree in 1920. While at Columbia he served in the U. S. N. R. F. from October 30, 1918, to December 18, 1918, on board the S. S. Granite State.
After his medical graduation he served a year as interne at the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor, and then went into practice at Island Falls. He specialized in pediatrics and surgery.
June 8, 1920, he was married to Lyda Mae, daughter of Allen J. and Mary M. Moore, who survives him, with their two children, George Walter, born March 22, 1921, and Gail Elizabeth, born March 7, 1925.
His death resulted from accidental poisoning from the use of ethyl chloride as an anaesthetic for the extraction of teeth.
CLASS OF 1921
HOWARD HOLTOX NO YES, better known to the friends of his Dartmouth days as plain "Hank Noyes," died of pneumonia February 11, 19S1, at Niagara Falls, N. Y., where he had been transferred a few days before as a sales representative of Oneida Community, Ltd., makers of Community Plate.
Hank was born at Kenwood, N. Y., January 9, 1899, the son of Holton V. and Josephine (Kingsley) Noyes. He prepared for Dartmouth at Phillips Andover. In college he took part in numerous theatrical productions, and won his letter as a member of the soccer team. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Since his graduation with an A.B. degree, Hank had spent virtually all of his time in the employ of the Oneida firm, with which he became connected on August 14, 1922. His work had been mainly connected with the sales organization of that company, but for a time he was secretary to the vice-president of the firm. Shortly before his death he was moved from Oneida, N. Y., to Niagara Falls, and had been at his new post but a couple of days when he became ill of influenza. This shortly developed into pneumonia, which finally brought down his resistance to the point where his heart was unable to stand the strain. Hank's father was ill at his home in Kenwood at the time, and his mother was rushing to Hank's bedside when he died. Hank carried his love of dramatics beyond the Hanover campus, and he took part in many entertainments in and around his home. He was also a musician of ability. His best known dramatic work was a characterization of a country "rube," and his highly successful portrayal of that character at the New York dinner of Dartmouth alumni at the Hotel Astor in 1923 will long be remembered by those present. It was one of the high lights of that dinner.
In addition to his parents, Hank leaves his widow and a son, five years old. A sister, Mrs. Harrison Wood, and a brother, Alfred Noyes, who is now an undergraduate at Dartmouth and a pole vaulter on the track team, also survive him.
His friendly, genial nature had won him a host of friends with the Oneida firm and in his home community, just as it did in his Hanover days, and his passing brought wide expression of sorrow.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1877
DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NEAL died at his home in Ellenville, N. Y., February 23, 1931, after an illness of ten days from grippe, complicated with heart weakness.
He was born in Lisbon, Me., February 25, 1853, the son of Albert C. and Octavia T. (Whitney) Neal. He graduated from the high school at Lisbon Falls in 1871. Two years later he began his medical studies at Bowdoin, finishing them at Dartmouth.
He began practice at Lincolnville, Me., and remained there four years. The next six years he was at Belgrade, Me., and then spent some time in advanced study in New York city. In the fall of 1888 he went to Ellenville, where he soon entered upon a large and successful practice which continued until his last illness. He had been village health officer since 1918. He helped to establish the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Ellenville and was on the staff of Benedictine Hospital, Kingston.
Dr. Neal was active in Masonry, being a member of lodge, chapter, commandery, and temple. He was also a member of the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Elks.
October 12, 1881, he was married to Anna H. Marson of Pittston, Me., who died in 1927. June 12, 1929, he was married to Grace Barrington, who survives him.
CLASS OF 1901
DR. EARLE EMERSON BESSEY died at his brother's home in Waterville, Me., February 16, 1931, of stone in the kidney, complicated with arteriosclerosis.
He was born in Sidney, Me., January 19, 1871, the son of Alden Edward and Helen (Morton) Bessey. He attended Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, Me.
After taking his medical degree he was assistant for a time in Dr. Channing's sanitarium in Brookline, Mass., where he became interested in mental and nervous diseases. He then served for six years on the staff of the Danvers State Hospital. He then removed to Boston, and became owner and superintendent of a private medical and surgical hospital, called the Bessey Hospital, on Beacon St. In 1911 he bought a large estate at Waban, Mass., and opened a private sanitarium for nervous and mild mental cases, called "Knollwood." This was continued by him until his death, and is still in operation.
Dr. Bessey was fond of travel, and made two trips around the Mediterranean in 1925 and 1927, also several trips to Bermuda and Porto Rico. He played golf, and was a member of Brae Burn Country Club of West Newton.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and the Newton Medical Club. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
July 9, 1908, he was married to Constance, daughter of Herbert B. and Henriette (Viaux) Cushing of Boston, who survives him, with two sons, Edward Cushing and Paul Morton.
Thayer School
CLASS OF 1894
HENRY ALLEN SYMONDS died very suddenly of heart failure at Waban, Mass., February 17, 1931, while engaged in a business conference.
He was born in Hancock, N. H., September 23,1871, his parents being William Franklin and Abbie M. (Washburn) Symonds. After graduating from the high school of his native town he was for three years a member of the class of 1891 in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at Hanover, which is now the University of New Hampshire at Durham. After a year's engineering study at Tufts College he entered the senior class in the Thayer School in 1893, and graduated the following spring.
Entering the engineering profession, he was in the employ of the state of Massachusetts to January, 1895. He was then for two years with E. Worthington and three years with Percy M. Blake, and was then a member of the firm of Booth and Company, contractors, until 1905. For the next two years he was superintendent of water works for the town of Athol, Mass., and for nearly two years from February 1, 1908, a member of the firm of Blake and Symonds. He was then with the Hanscom Construction Company until 1916, since which time he has been in private practice as a consulting hydraulic engineer, specializing in water supplies, with his office in Boston. From 1917 to 1922 he was editor of the New England Water Works Journal. He designed and built many town and city water systems, mostly in New England, and made special studies of water supply problems on Cape Cod.
June 3, 1896, he was married to Eliza P., daughter of William Henry and Fiorina Frances (Aldrich) Tuttle of Cambridge, Mass. who survives him, with their four children, Allen Minot of Grafton, Mass., Marion Estella, a graduate of the University of Vermont in 1926, now of Waban, Edmund Aidrich, a senior at Dartmouth, and Robert Tuttle, a student at the Newton High School.
The burial was at Hancock, N. H.
