Deaths
Alumni Notes
NECROLOGY
CLASS OF 1869
CHARLES EDMUND MERRILL died at his home in New York city of cerebral hemorrhage August 12, 1930.
The son of Phinehas and Abigail (Rollins) Merrill, he was born in Stratham, N. H., February 27, 1848, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Phillips Andover Academy. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
After graduation he went to New York city, where he taught for a year and then entered the employ of A. S. Barnes and Company, educational publishers. After a few months he transferred to the similar house of Taintor Brothers. January 1, 1875, he became a partner in the firm, which took the name of Taintor Brothers, Merrill, and Company. Later he, with his brother, Edwin G. Merrill, organized the firm of Charles E. Merrill and Company, which joined to their text-books the publication of the American edition of the Review of Reviews. He also organized the Critic Company, publishers of The Critic and of Charities and the Commons, now The Survey. In 1893 Charles E. Merrill and Company consolidated with the firm of Effingham Maynard and Company, the new firm incorporating as Maynard, Merrill and Company. Mr. Maynard died in 1899, and in 1907 the Merrill interests purchased his stock in the company, and the firm name was changed to Charles E. Merrill Company. Mr. Merrill was active in the affairs of this company until about four years ago.
Mr. Merrill was for many years a member of the board of trustees and treasurer of the Brick Presbyterian church of New York. He was actively interested in the Charity Organization Society of New York from its beginning, and was a vice-president of the society. He was a founder member of the Aldine Club, and a member of the University Club and the Century Association.
October 14, 1874, he was married to Lydia Wyles, daughter of Bartholomew Brown of New York, who died in 1900. In 1905 he was married to Sally Caldwell, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Charlotte (How) Markoe of New York, who survives him, with two sons of the first marriage, Charles E. Merrill, Jr., and Payson McL. Merrill.
CLASS OF 1873
HENRY MARTYN PAUL, who recently died, had an unusually eventful career. He was born June 25, 1851, in Dedham, Mass., and was the son of Ebenezer and Susan Paul. His father was a farmer, and like other farmers' sons the boy early learned to work. He grew up under this early manner of living to become the lank yet husky six-footer whom we loved so well in college days. He spent four years in Dedham High School under Carlos Slafter, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1849. He entered Dartmouth at the beginning of freshm an year, and pursued his course uninterruptedly until his graduation. Many students at that time taught district schools during the winter term, and Paul thus spent his sophomore winter with the school in Waterford, Vt. He was treasurer of the class in sophomore year. During the field practice of sophomore year in surveying, which was compulsory in that day, his scholarship gave him the office of registrar in his division. He was especially brilliant in mathematics, and few of us will forget an incident in trigonometry, under Professor Quimby. Paul had not studied his lesson at all, but was called upon to go to the blackboard and demonstrate a problem which was read to him. He went to the board and worked out the problem according to a plan which occurred to him on the spur of the moment, but which was utterly different from the one in the book. Professor Quimby, at first declaring it wrong, patiently heard him through, and was compelled to acknowledge that he had won his case.
Paul and H. U. King were unusually fine singers, and were often called upon for solos at some concert. During his first two years he was not at all inclined to anything religious but during junior year both he and King astonished the attendants at the weekly class prayer-meeting, which at that time was a well-attended gathering, by not only being present, but rising, one after the other, and declaring their intention to lead a religious life. During a largely attended concert given in March, 1872, Paul sang bass in the trio of "The Heavens Are Telling," of "The Creation." On account of his scholarship he delivered an English oration at what was termed the Junior Exhibition. He was one of the three editors of the Aegis in junior year. He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
After his graduation lie entered the Thayer School, graduating there in May, 1875, with the degree of C.E., in the third class to graduate from the school. During his Thayer School course he was instructor of astronomy and meteorology of the senior class in the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (now the University of New Hampshire). In August, 1875, he was appointed junior assistant astronomer at the Naval Observatory in Washington. This position he held for five years. He was offered the chair of astronomy at Dartmouth College in 1876, but the work at Washington was too attractive to leave. He accompanied Prof. J. R. Eastman (Dartmouth 1862) of the Naval Observatory to Pueblo, Colo., to observe the total eclipse of the sun, July 29, 1878.
From 1880 to 1883 he was professor of astronomy in the Japanese Imperial University at Tokyo. From 1883 to 1899 he was astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, being appointed to the rank of professor of mathematics in 1897. In 1899 he was transferred to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and was largely occupied with furnishing power and dock-pumping plants for navy yards. In 1905 he was detached from this work and appointed to the chair of mathematics in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He remained here until 1912, and was retired from the Navy with the rank of captain in 1913. Since then he has maintained his home in Washington, at The Ontario. He spent his summers on the coast of Maine, where he built a beautiful cottage at South Bristol. Several years ago he was badly injured in an automobile collision, and was quite helpless for a long time. He died at his home in Washington, D. C., on the afternoon of March 15,1931.
He married, August 27, 1878, Augusta Anna Gray, daughter of Rev. Edgar H. Gray, who was chaplain of the United States Senate during the administration of President Lincoln. Their son, Carroll Paul, a graduate of the class of 1903, Dartmouth, and of the Thayer School in 1904, is living in Marquette, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Oliver H. Howe, lives in Cohasset, Mass. Isaac F. Paxil, Dartmouth 1878, who died in 1912, was his brother.
Funeral services were held for Captain Paul at his home on March 18. He was buried among the eminent ones of the nation in beautiful Arlington National Cemetery.
Paul was one of the most loyal, friendly, and popular men of the class. While he had his close friendships, he liked every one and had no favorites. It is needless to say that every one liked him. In the brief period when Dartmouth engaged in rowing, she sent in the summer of 1873 a crew to the intercollegiate regatta at New London. All of the men were six feet and more in stature, and the Dartmouth contestants were called in all the papers "The Giant Crew." Of the large number of shells taking part, Dartmouth was adjudged fourth at the end, Wesleyan being awarded the third place. Paul always insisted that Dartmouth was third, passing Wesleyan in the last few minutes of the race. He was with us at our fifty-year reunion in 1923, and helped us carry off the prize attendance cup.
STEPHEN JOSIAH HASTINGS died at his home in Waterford, Vt., March 20, 1931.
He was born in Waterford February 10, 1850, the son of Warren Hastings. He spent his early years on his father's farm, and after his studies in the public schools and later at Peacham Academy he went to St. Johnsbury Academy, where he obtained his preparation for college. He was in college only one year, and was one of the early members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, then just established at Dartmouth.
After leaving college, he engaged in farming in Waterford for many years. He served his town in public life in various positions, being selectman of the town and representing it in the legislature of 1882. In that year he was appointed by the governor to be one of Vermont's representatives at the Farmers' Congress in New York, and held that position for several years. In 1894-8 he was assistant judge of Caledonia county court.
He was a successful breeder of Jersey cattle, and was a member of Passumpsic Valley Grange, as well as being an Odd Fellow and a Knight Templar.
In 1881 he was married to Althea C. Carpenter of Waterford, who survives him, with two sons, Harold Hastings of Washington, D. C., and Frank B. Hastings of Waterford, and one daughter, Mrs. Dora McFarland of St. Johnsbury.
CLASS OF 1889
REV. OZORA STEARNS DAVIS died on a train near Topeka, Kans., while on his way home from Los Angeles, Sunday evening, March 15, 1931.
He was born in Wheelock, Vt., July SO, 1866, the son of Alexander W. and Caroline M. (Burroughs) Davis. During his boyhood the family lived in White River Junction, and from the time he was eight years old he planned definitely to go to Dartmouth. After leaving the grade schools, he spent three years at St. Johnsbury Academy, entered college in the fall of 1885, and graduated with our "class. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.
For two years, 1889-91, he was principal of the high school at White River Junction. Then for three years he was in the Hartford Theological Seminary. The summer of 1893 he spent, with a classmate, at Mansfield House University Settlement in East London, studying the social and philanthropic work of the great city. On graduating from the Seminary in 1894, he was awarded the Welles Fellowship, which gave him two years ip Europe. He studied at the Universities of Berlin, Jena, and Leipzig, and received the degree of Ph.D. at the last in June, 1896. (In later years honorary degrees were conferred, D.D. by lowa [now Grinnell] College in 1906, Dartmouth in 1909, and Chicago Theological Seminary in 1930; LL.D. by Colorado College in 1919, and Washburn College in 1921.)
He became pastor of the Congregational church in Springfield, Vt., in September, 1896. His second pastorate, beginning February 1, 1900, was in the Central Congregational church, Newtonville, Mass., and his third was in the South Congregational church New Britain, Conn., where he began his work in September, 1904. Early in 1909 he was called to become president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and this position he held for twenty years, when impaired health made it necessary for him to seek relief from administrative duties. On October 1, 1929, he became president emeritus. He did not give up all work, however, but continued as professor of practical theology and preached frequently and wrote much.
On November 17, 1896, he married Miss Grace E. Tinker, of White River Junction, who survives him, together with their three children, Elizabeth Caroline, Alexander Henry, and Wilfred Grenfell. Elizabeth has received both a bachelor's and a master's degree from Chicago University, and is a psychiatric social worker in two child guidance centers in Chicago. Alexander is also a graduate of Chicago University and is in his last year in the Rush Medical College. Wilfred is a junior in the University.
As a boy he was active and alert, in school and out. He sold papers, he was a Western Union messenger boy, and, before he was 16, was a self-taught telegrapher. While in preparatory school, he was called on frequently to substitute in the local telegraph office. He spent nearly all of one of his summer vacations in a Western Union office in Boston' during a prolonged strike of operators. Again, in college, he often assisted in the office and formed a close friendship with the man in charge which proved mutually helpful in various ways. His scholastic record was always good, and he found time for much that was extracurricular. His undergraduate literary work both in prose and verse attracted attention. During junior year, he and his classmate, William D. Baker, published "Dartmouth Lyrics, a Collection of Poems from the Undergraduate Publications of Dartmouth College." This was a pioneer effort to preserve the best that had been written by Dartmouth students up to the year 1888. Professor Charles F. Richardson stood back of these editors with his cordial approval and a promise of financial aid, if needed. (Fortunately, it was not needed.)
The seven years following college, two of teaching and five of professional study, must be passed over with mention of only one item. His graduation thesis at Leipzig was later extended, and published in 1903 under the title "John Robinson, the Pilgrim Pastor."
Three happy and successful pastorates filled thirteen years. Then came the transfer to Chicago and the beginning of a task which, because of its magnitude and complexity, offered an opportunity which he accepted as a challenge for the best that he had to give. As we review the accomplishments of the past twenty-two years we marvel that he was able to do so much—and always so cheerfully and enthusiastically.
Chicago Theological Seminary, founded in 1855, is organically connected with the Congregational Conferences of sixteen states in the Mississippi Valley. The new president found certain problems demanding prompt solution. Three members of the faculty died or became incapacitated during his first year. Because of changes in the character of the section of the city where the Seminary had been for over fifty years a new location was imperative, if the institution was to develop and fulfill its mission. A great deal of hard work and much careful planning resulted in the transfer of the Seminary in 1914 to the south side of the city, near Chicago University, with which close affiliation was secured without sacrifice of independence. New buildings and an enlarged endowment fund called for unremitting toil and faith. "Ten years of patient work followed, during which we gathered strength and secured funds slowly" —this is his own description. It was during this period that the Great War came. Half the students entered the service of their country,—with the hearty approval of their president. The next important step can be told by quoting three sentences from a letter dated March, 1927. "The last two years have witnessed a very happy change in my own personal work. In the summer of 1925, Victor F. Lawson of the Chicago Daily News died and left to the Seminary a bequest which enables us to carry on the enlarged program for which we have been planning and dreaming for so many years. Our buildings are going up rapidly and we shall have a beautiful and useful plant for our work."
The Lawson bequest amounted to more than three and one-half million dollars, and it was felt by many friends of both Mr. Lawson and Dr. Davis that this additional unexpected bequest (Mr. Lawson had made a substantial gift to the endowment fund a few years earlier) was the confirmation of Mr. Lawson's confidence in the permanency of the Seminary, as a direct result of his association with and belief in Ozora, the president.
In May, 1927, Dr. Davis was elected moderator of the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States for a term of two years. This is the highest honor the denomination can give to any man. It involves also large responsibility and an enormous amount of hard work. While admitting the hard work Ozora added, "It brought splendid compensations." One was "the privilege of being with the more than twelve hundred British 'Pilgrims,' who came to Boston and Plymouth in June, 1928, and were gloriously welcomed and honored on their journey from Boston to New York by way of Plymouth." Another "came when Mrs. Davis and I spent three months in travel on the Pacific coast and to Hawaii in the service of the churches in the last three months of 1928."
The last service of the moderator was extraordinarily dramatic. Some would call it tragic, others triumphant. It was the address given at the biennial meeting of the Council at Detroit, May 28, 1929, entitled "LifeGiving Convictions," a subject chosen by the executive committee. While looking forward to the preparation of his address he was called on, only a few weeks before it was to be given, to meet one of the severest tests of character that can come to any man. An emergency operation revealed malignant disease, and the most favorable prognosis that could be given was that the remainder of his life must be estimated in months rather than years. During convalescence he wrote his address, which, when delivered, made a profound impression upon the large audience which heard it, and, when published, brought letters to him from all parts of the world. He personally wrote more than a thousand replies to these letters during the summer months immediately following, which were spent at his island home, Lake Sunapee, N. H.
During all the years in Chicago Dr. Davis was much sought as a preacher and particularly for special occasions in college communities. He was always a popular speaker at student summer conferences. He wrote freely. One book has been mentioned. Twelve others were published between 1913 and 1929. He contributed frequently to the religious press, notably to the Advance, the Congregationalist, and Zion's Herald. Numerous poems and hymns have had wide circulation, as well as sermons and addresses. One important work he left in manuscript form, a life of Victor Lawson. He had planned to make revisions and additions.
His college classmates have followed Ozora's career with deepest interest. They recall his presence at the quarter-centennial and the thirtieth-year reunions. On the latter occasion he Was president of the Alumni Association and preached the baccalaureate sermon. At the sesqui-centennial of the founding of the College, October, 1919, he was preacher at the Sunday morning service.
One of his classmates, who is also a member of the board of directors of the Seminary, paid him this tribute in June, 1929. "Only those who have had the pleasure of seeing Ozora in Ms setting, first in the old Seminary on the west side of Chicago, and now in the environment at the University of Chicago with the new, adequate, and beautiful seminary buildings, a strong faculty, a full quota of alert graduate students, an adequate endowment fund, complete scholastic affiliation with the University, yet with complete financial independence—can fully appreciate the far-seeing policy inaugurated by him twenty years ago, the splendid co-operation which he secured from his board of directors, and the tremendous import of the work of the Seminary throughout the Middle West, the nation, and the world; for its students have attained splendid accomplishments in all of these fields.
"Outwardly, the Seminary buildings stand as a noble monument to Ozora's life-work and achievement of which any man might be proud, and by which any college may consider itself honored through the record of one of its graduates. But the true significance of his life-work is registered in the hearts and minds of thousands upon thousands who have felt the power of his personality through his books, his preaching, his companionable class room instruction, and through the intimacy of personal contacts."
Two other tributes, written since his death, by those especially qualified to judge his character and his work, are quoted in part: The first is from an editorial in the Congregationalist of March 26: "Dr. Davis had a unique distinction among the outstanding leaders of our fellowship in this generation; he was among them all probably the most widely and deeply beloved. He knew more men and more men knew him, with a larger measure of intimacy, than was the case with any other man of equal eminence among us. He had a genius for brotherliness, and the circumstances of his life gave him unusual opportunity for its manifestation and expression. His early life as telegrapher, his pastorates, his moderatorship, and his travels throughout the West and Mid-West in the difficult and exacting earlier years of his presidency of Chicago Theological Seminary, brought a human personality of rich quality into a world of human contacts, which he exploited as much out of natural disposition and interest as out of Christian zeal and enthusiasm. In Dr. Davis the power of Christian grace conspicuously glorified all that he was by nature.
"He combined in his personality wellbalanced abilities and powers which were reflected in the variety of his achievements. He was an outstanding pastor; his postgraduate studies and his scholarly attainments fitted him for the academic distinction that determined his major work; he was an author of notable books; and he was a journalist with a real craftsman's gift for popular expression. In this last character, in addition to his frequent contributions to the Congregationalist, Dr. Davis, with Mrs. Davis, for a number of years conducted a weekly page in our contemporary, Zion's Herald,—a notable journalistic achievement and an important link between the Congregational fellowship and that great Methodist communion out of which Dr. Davis originally came into the Congregational way."
The other is from his successor in office, President Palmer: "Dr. Davis had a wonderfully picturesque and dynamic personality. Something of his Welsh ancestry always shone through his more immediate New England origin and Middle-Western experience. It was not only his shaggy hair—prematurely gray and giving an effect of venerability quite out of keeping with his years— but it was a certain ardor and personal enthusiasm which drew friends to him and a mystic quality of faith beyond the forms of faith which ever kindled anew the flames of devotion on the altars of all his hearers' hearts.
"Particularly has this been true these closing months of his career. His National Council address at Detroit focused the attention of the religious world upon him, and the pulpit of the United Church of Hyde Park here in Chicago these last few months gave him a wonderful opportunity to sum up his life's convictions in a series of sermons whose glowing faith and radiance have given that church a new and lasting vision of what real religion means when incarnated in a great and courageous personality. Teacher, preacher, friend, comrade of the mystic way—we shall all miss him, but we shall carry on more steadfastly because we knew him. "
CLASS OF 1891
JOHN THOMAS SULLIVAN, M.D., died at the Boston City Hospital of pneumonia on February 6, 1931. He had not been in good health for several months previous to the attack of pneumonia.
He was born May 24, 1868, in Nashua, N. H., the son of Thomas and Catherine Sullivan. He prepared for college in the schools of Nashua. For a short time he attended Georgetown University, but came to Hanover as a member of the class of '91, remaining only a few months. Later he studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, but returned to Dartmouth in the summer of 1892, and obtained his medical degree with the class of 1893. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
His active life as a physician was spent in Boston, where he had a private practice both before and after his work as assistant physician at the Deer Island Hospital, the last few years practicing in Roxbury.
Dr. Sullivan never married, and is survived by three sisters, Miss Jennie Sullivan of Boston, Mrs. A. E. Cote of Nashua, N. H., and Mrs. Thomas Keegan of Cambridge, Mass.
The funeral was held from the home of his sister in Nashua on February 9, followed by mass at St. Patrick's church, with the interment in the family lot in the cemetery in Hudson, N. H.
CLASS OF 1894
The time has come when the class ranks are being more rapidly decimated. GEORGE HENRY BROWN died in his home town of Lebanon March 6, 1931, following a long illness.
He was born in Woodstock, Vt., July 15, 1872, the son of HenryiH. and Helen M. (Thompson) Brown, and prepared for college at the high school of that town. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and the Sphinx.
The first two years after graduation he studied in Germany and France, and then began his long career as teacher of modern languages. He taught at Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain, N. Y., 1896-7; at Central High School, Springfield, Mass., 1897-1900; at Cascadilla School, Ithaca, N. Y., 1900-6, obtaining the degree of Arts at Cornell in 1906; at Haverford School, Haverford, Pa., 1906-10; again at Cascadilla School, 1910-12. In 1912 he joined the Cornell faculty as acting assistant professor of Romance languages, after a year becoming instructor. In 1916 he went to Hobart College as assistant professor, and after two years was promoted to the grade of professor. In 1922 he became professor of modern languages in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and remained there until the failure of his health compelled his retirement in 1930.
Loyal to the Dartmouth tradition and with unfailing fealty to the class, George was in attendance at the reunions and the autumn round-ups at Matt Jones' home when it was possible. No classmate had a greater share of natural delicacy. With him, nothing of the finer flavors of life was lost. He was always and everywhere the man of high culture. Deeply religious, he was utterly free from pietistic cant. Being of the academic type of mind, he naturally sought educational work. His life was spent in teaching in schools of secondary and collegiate grade, where he achieved notable success in modern languages. The tributes of former associates indicate that he had that desirable combination in a teacher, the ability to instruct and the power to influence. Without any liking for what is commonly called practical politics, he took a citizen's part in the government in the quiet ways of the trained scholar.
He was an extensive traveler in Europe, having crossed the Atlantic more than twenty times. He lived, loitered, and labored in England, France, and Germany. The outbreak of the World War found him in Paris. One of the last American tourists to leave the Continent, he entered the service with America's declaration of war, and became director of French at Camp Humphries in Virginia.
Funeral services were held at the home of his sister in Lebanon. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the class were represented. F. C. Allen, Barton, Cassin, Colby, Ham, Hardy, Hurd, F. L. Smalley, and A. W. Stone were present. Of the eighty-six who were graduated thirty-seven years ago, thirteen have died.
Of his work at Worcester, President Earle voiced the following appreciation. "While not a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Professor Brown was as keenly interested in its welfare and as loyal as any alumnus. The president and faculty will greatly miss him as a fellow worker in whose passing they feel a deep sense of loss. The affectionate regard which the students had for him was a tribute to his ability as a teacher and evidenced by their interest in his courses."
He was never married, and is survived by his sister, Mrs. Annie L. Whipple, and two nieces.
CLASS OF 1903
CHARLES EDWARD JOHNSON, designing engineer of the bureau of sewers, department of public affairs of the city of Newark, N. J., died suddenly of heart disease at his office in City Hall on March 23, 1931.
"Chuck," as he was known to his classmates, was born on May 6, 1880, in North Andover, Mass., the son of Thomas and Catherine (McNiff) Johnson, and attended the schools of that town, graduating from the Johnson High School in 1899, and from Dartmouth College in 1903 with the degree of B.S. Quiet of demeanor, serious of purpose, a good student, "Chuck" made one of the loyal members of our class. Loved by his intimates for those qualities which made him in his later years so successful in his chosen field of endeavor, he was chosen a charter member of Delta Nu chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.
On June 23, 1909, "Chuck" married Mary Margaret Daley of West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., who survives him with five children, Mary, who recently graduated from the Maxwell Training School for Teachers, Thomas, a page in the New York Stock Exchange, Charles J., William, and Walter, the latter three in the high school of West New Brighton.
"Chuck" was a member of the Engineers' Society of Staten Island, the New England Water Works Association, the Knights of Columbus, and the Holy Name Society.
Funeral services were held in the Sacred Heart church and interment at St. Peter's cemetery of West New Brighton. His home address was 163 Davis Ave., West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.
From July, 1903 to September, 1905, Johnson was assistant to the division engineers of the B. & O. R. R. in charge of drafting and field work.
From 1905 to 1907 he was engaged in construction work on the Chicago and North West R. R. in Wisconsin and South Dakota, and became inspector of bridge building in the later months.
In 1907, draughtsman in New York city with the Millbrooke Company.
July, 1907 to November, 1916, superintendent of public works in North Andover, Mass., taking care of water and sewer departments.
From 1916 to '17 with New York, New Haven, and Hartford R. R. on special construction work at Pawtucket and Providence, R. I.
In 1917 with town of Brookline, Mass., as inspector of sewer and highway construction.
In 1917 with Samuel L. Greeley, consulting engineer, of Chicago, on hospital sewer construction at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.
A member of the Army Engineer Corps during the war. From 1917 to 1918 with B. & O. R. R., New York Division.
From 1918 to 1919 with Downey Shipbuilding Corp., Staten Island, N. Y., as construction engineer.
From 1919 to 1920 with United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corp., in charge of inspectors of lumber.
In 1920 with Perin and Marshall, consulting engineers of New York city, as designer on steam power house work.
From 1920 to 1926 with Holland Tunnel, assistant engineer, designing department.
In 1924 with George L. Watson, consulting engineer, New York city, in charge of design of sewage disposal plant for city of Trenton, N. J. This work is now built and in operation, and cost $1,500,000.
From 1926 to 1928 with Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., as engineer in construction department.
From 1929 to 1931 with city of Newark, N. J., as designing engineer, bureau of sewers, department of public affairs.
CLASS OF 1905
WALTER EARLE HAWLEY was born in Brandon, Vt., December 28, 1884, and was educated in the public schools of Norwich, Vt., where his home then was, later attending Exeter. He entered Dartmouth with 1905 and graduated in due course. For a year he worked in Johnstown, N. Y., then went to Philadelphia for a year or two more. About 1908 he went to New York and entered the employment of Post and McCord, construction engineers, of 101 Park Ave., with whom he had a continuous connection up to the time of his death.
For the past two years he had been in failing health, due to a complication of troubles. He died Sunday, April 5, 1931, following an operation in the Ruptured and Crippled Hospital in New York. Hawley was married in 1908 to Florence A. Sherrick of New York, who survives him. He also leaves a married sister, Mrs. Anna Searles of California, and one son, Robert W., 8 years old. Funeral services were held in New York at the Campbell Funeral Church, Broadway at 66th St., at 8 P. M., Tuesday, April 7. Burial at Norwich the following day at noon.
The last time I saw Hawley was a year ago last summer when he and his family spent a. few days at the Norwich Inn. He laughingly told me that he had come up to enter his son (then about 6 years old) in the proper freshman class, in order to make sure he would be a Dartmouth man.
Hawley was a good husband and father, loyal to Dartmouth and its interests, and will be sadly missed in the circles in which he moved. C. C. H.
Medical School
CLASS OF 1870
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON ALLEN died at his home in White River Junction, Vt., December 28, 1930.
He was the son of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Mary Jane (Lyman) Allen, and was born in Woodstock, Vt., April 30, 1846. His home from early childhood was at White River Junction, and there nearly all his long life was spent, except for the years 1871-9, when he served in the United States Army with the rank of assistant surgeon.
His wife died a few months before him, and a daughter survives them.
