Deaths

Alumni Notes

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1880

ARTHUR WESLEY CHASE died in a Chicago hospital of surgical shock, March 24, 1982, and was buried with the members of the family, all of whom have passed on before him, in the family lot in Valley Cemetery, Manchester, N. H. Henry Allen and the Secretary were of the bearers. The service was conducted by Rev. James F. English, son of Rev. William F. English, Dartmouth '82. ,

Thus ended' a career of more than three score and ten years,' quiet, uneventful, but useful and beneficent. He was born into a good home, where he lived through childhood and youth, radiating far more cheer than gloom till he completed his preliminary education for entrance to Dartmouth in 1876.

He did good work in college. He was not an athlete, they did not have them in his day; he was not a poet or a dramatist, rare products in those practical days. But he did what was accounted good work, made good friends, and his cheery disposition, always radiated by his sparkling eyes, won the love of all the boys.

He engaged in engineering for two years after graduation, one year with the United States Engineering Corps. From 1882 to 1888, he engaged in commercial drafting. He then began his teaching career, specializing in mechanical drawing, which he pursued successfully till 1929, when he retired. He was in New York city two years and thirtyeight years in the Crane Technical High School in Chicago.

He was graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1902 and was admitted to the Illinois bar, but never practiced.

He was a Mason, affiliated with the Clevel and Lodge, Oriental Consistory, and the Medinah Temple, all of Chicago. He was also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution in New Hampshire and Illinois. He was never married.

Chase's earliest paternal ancestor was Aquila Chase, who landed in Newburyport, Mass., in 1624. Four of his paternal ancestors took part in the Revolutionary War. With his characteristic modesty he says in Chronicles of Fifty Years Later, 1880-1930, Am not aware that any of my ancestors was prominent in any way," and he would with the same modesty endorse my characterization of his own career as "quiet and uneventful, ' and I should have to insist against his protest that it was "useful and beneficent."

A few blaze the way in the world's progress, but it requires the faithful and intelligent work of many disciples to point the way and Make smooth the paths for the multitude to follow. This was Chase's work.

Chase was born in Manchester, March 13, 1859, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at the high school of that city. His parents were Stephen Prescott and Abby Ann (Burrows) Chase. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

CLASS OF 1885

AKTHTXR THOMPSON CATE died suddenly from an attack of angina pectoris at Ocean Grove, N. J., on August 10, 1931. The fact of his death only recently came to the knowledge of his class.

He was born at Wolfeboro, N. H„ May 31, 1860, and was a son of Moses T. and Mary A. (Morrison) Cate. He prepared for college at Wolfeboro High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1881 with the class of 1885, and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After his graduation he studied dentistry and medicine, receiving the degree of M.D. from Dartmouth Medical College in 1893, but he never practiced either dentistry or medicine.

His home residence for many years was Washington, D. C., but he spent a large part of his time in traveling, which included North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

He was of a very quiet and retiring disposition, and while he corresponded with the class secretary, few of his classmates have met him since their graduation.

His funeral services were held in the Congregational church in Wolfeboro, and interment was in the family lot in the cemetery in that town.

He was survived by a niece, Miss Olivia Cate, and a nephew, Sheridan R. Cate, of Pittsfield, Mass. Edward F. Cate 'B2, who died in 1917, was a brother.

CLASS OF 1893

JAMES HERBERT STEVENS, M.D., house physician at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, since its opening, died there March 24 after a week's illness. He was born at Rochester, N. H., June 11, 1871, and fitted at the high school there for Dartmouth, entering the Chandler Scientific Department with the class of 1893 and remaining a year before going to the New York Medical College to take his degree in medicine. At Hanover he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity; took third prize in the 1890 annual Commencement Week prize speaking; and roomed in Reed Hall with "Doc" Lougee.

From 1895 to 1898 he was with General Gomez and the revolutionary forces in Cuba and surgeon-in-chief of the military base hospital, province of Camaguey; and an erroneous report of his death was widely current among his Dartmouth classmates. He had been visiting surgeon to the Maiden, Mass., Hospital and Phillips Hospital, Boston, and had written and published a number of papers on professional subjects. He leaves a widow, who was Charlotte A. Brinton of Frederickton, N. B.; a daughter, Muriel, who is the wife of Professor Lawrence Irving of Leland Stanford University; a granddaughter, Susan Irving; and a brother Dr. Parker B. Stevens of Alstead, N. H. Doctor Stevens maintained a lively interest in Dartmouth throughout his life and rarely failed to attend the annual alumni dinners in Boston. His funeral was attended by leading hotel men and members of the medical fraternity in that city.

JOHN NICHOLAS COGHLAN, M.D., for $5 years a leading physician of Portland, Oregon, who died there on March 8, entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College with the class of 1893 and was initiated into the Beta Theta Pi fraternity; but soon decided that he wished to be a medical man, like others of his family, instead of an engineer, and transferred to the University of Vermont, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1892. He wrote a long letter for the 1928 report of his Dartmouth class, and sent on a photograph which showed a handsome and happy, white-haired gentleman.

Doctor Coghlan was born in Jamestown, Ireland, February 2, 1866, one of 16 children, of whom 12 were living at that writing in 1928. He emigrated in 1888 to Holyoke, Mass., where a brother resided. After receiving his medical degree he was house surgeon at eye and ear infirmaries in Boston and New York and studied abroad at London, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, and Vienna. He located in Portland in 1897, was very successful in his practice there, and was prominent in club life. The Portland Oregonian says that he was known nationally for his achievements in his specialty, eye, ear, nose, and throat. He married, January 15, 1913, Helen Guerin of Columbus, Ohio. Their children are Eileen and John N. Jr. He was a member of the faculty of the medical school of the University of Oregon, member of the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, etc. His death came after an illness of ten days with typhoid pneumonia.

CLASS OF 1898

It is with sincere regret that the Secretary records the passing of ELLIOTT LTJFKIN PERKINS at the Veterans' Hospital in Sawtelle, Calif., on Saturday, March 12, 1932. He had been in the hospital for a number of weeks and had been steadily improving in general health.

The specific ailment was reported to be an ulcer of the stomach. On Tuesday, March 8, "Blackie" wrote me as follows: Dear Pate:

I am to be operated on tomorrow morning by Harry's friend, Col. Mattison, so won't be able to write you for a couple of weeks more.

I am feeling fine without an ache or pain and haven't a fear in the world. Best wishes, PERK

Veterans' Hospital Sawtelle, Calif.

On Saturday, March 12, his wife wrote as follows:

Dear Mr. Patey: "Blackie" passed away at 6:30 this morning. He was operated on Wednesday morning, but it was much too severe. One of his last requests was that you should be let known. I know that your letters were a great comfort to him.

Very sincerely,

SHIRLEY BALDWIN PERKINS

Thus another chapter in the '9B book of life is closed. Elliott was one of the younger members of the class, for he was born January 27, 1877, and so was in his twentysecond year when he graduated.

The Secretary had the rare privilege on April 8 of calling on our classmate's mother at her home in Danvers, Mass., in the same house where Elliott was born and in which he grew to young manhood. Mrs. Perkins is in her eightieth year, but one would never suspect it. The years have dealt very kindly with her, and her step is quick and elastic and her mind clear and most interesting. One can readily see where our classmate got his rare charm and pleasing personality.

Elliott was the second of four boys. The other three are still living, two in Danvers and one in Worcester, Mass. The father passed awa,y in 1928. Elliott attended the grade schools in Danvers, and then entered the high school, where he became a leader in athletics and in the social life of the school. He was captain of the Corps of Cadets in the high school. This undoubtedly accounts for the very fine posture our classmate always had. He became very fond of the principal, Mr. E. J. Powers, of the class of 1888 at Dartmouth. This friendship was reciprocated on the part of the principal, and it was through Mr. Powers' influence that Elliott went to Dartmouth. His brother, Oscar Perkins, also attended Dartmouth for a time in the class of 1902.

Elliott Perkins was a natural athlete and participated in both baseball and football at Dartmouth, though he did not put in the time necessary to make a position on the varsity teams.

In the spring of '9B he was one of those who went to the Spanish-American War. This service at that time enabled him to have the best of care in his last illness in the Veterans' Hospital at Sawtelle, Calif. He came out of the service, as did so many others, with a bad case of malaria. He studied and completed the course at Boston University School of Law in two years, commuting to his home in Danvers while pursuing his legal studies. He then entered the office of a lawyer named Mr. Fox in New York city. Mr. Fox was connected with the English consulate in New York and was an old schoolmate of Elliott's mother. He later formed a law firm with two other young men which lasted for some years," and he then entered the law firm of Perkins and Train. The Perkins in this firm was Charles A. Perkins of the class of 1890 at Dartmouth and a first cousin of our classmate F. W. Perkins.

While in this office he was selected by a Professor Hill to represent some interests he had in Los Angeles, Calif. After a time he returned to the office of Perkins and Train. He then returned to California, and for the last four years had been a practicing lawyer in Hollywood.

He was twice married, and from these marriages there were six children. The oldest son, Jackson, is now twenty-four. The children were all mentioned in a recent number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in the '9B column.

During the past few years Elliott has written and heard from his mother three times a week. "Blackie" Perkins was one of the most popular and lovable men in the class of '9B. He will be greatly missed. He had an intense love for Dartmouth and for '9B. He was distinguished looking, attractive, friendly, of rare charm, and of a kind and generous nature.

He greatly enjoyed the letters from his classmates in his last illness.

CLASS OF 1901

Few greater shocks have come to members of the class of 1901 than the news on Sunday, February 28, of the death of BENJAMINBBINTON GBEER by his own hand. Only a little time before he had spent a week-end in Hanover, apparently with interest keener than ever in regard to the College, and eager for the latest information in regard to all of his friends. Then as always he showed those characteristics which have always been typical of him, of keenest loyalty to and solicitude for those things with which he identified himself, and the happy attribute of enjoying vicariously and to the full in his own person the successes and good fortunes of his friends. Conversely, there was no man in the class who felt more deeply in regard to any adversity or misfortune which befell a friend; while in a particular niche of friendship he held all classmates and all college mates, even those with whom he was not on terms of any particular intimacy.

Meanwhile, to particular degree, he, in common parlance, "burned his own smoke." Thrown upon his own resources, as he had been from earliest life, he formed his judgments carefully, and upon the basis of these made his decisions promptly and irrevocably. If a conclusion upon which he had based action proved to have some fallacy in it, he was the first to see it and the first to acknowledge it; but there was never any attempt in self-defense of his actions, and there never was any appeal for sympathy when successful achievements to which he had looked forward were not realized to the full. In many ways Ben's aptitudes were for the accomplishments of a pioneer. For a great portion of his life he had been engaged in projects which took him away from the haunts of his familiar friends and threw him into new environments where new problems and new experiences succeeded one another with kaleidoscopic change. The only questioning that we ever heard of Ben's judgment, among those who had to do with him most intimately in administrative ways, was whether a nature such as his and abilities such as his were ever likely to function at maximum value in an environment and in an atmosphere such as are characteristic of the work he undertook and the manner of life he had to accept when he went to New York. He was by nature an operating railroad man, schooled in the great open places of the West, a lover of the out-ofdoors, and possessed of the zest for accomplishment that comes through the personal management of men and the co-ordinating and directing of their efforts so that in tasks of great magnitude harmony can be brought out of chaos as a skilled conductor evokes it from a great orchestra.

There was no quality of misrepresentation in Ben, and there was never anything evasive about him. He would not wish avoidance of the facts of his death more than of his life. No one who knew him intimately would believe for a moment that his action was one of weakness or one of impulse. In discussion of the premises which led to his conclusion of what was desirable in the matter, it is easy to imagine him smiling and slightly shrugging his shoulders, and commenting on the reason for his projected action, "That's the way it seems to me." Given his acceptance of the logic of an act, and there are few men who would commit themselves as irrevocably to following the logic through.

Ben's life, starting with early hardship and struggle, had been a pretty constant advance and a record of one success after another. Influences over which he had no control entered in to interrupt that advance, and for sheer lack of resources for the industrial world to utilize a man of his genius and experience and force,—for lack, indeed, of positions in which these could be utilized in any large capitalization of their value,-Ben found himself for the first time in his life without immediate demand for his services. His was not a nature that accepted disgruntlement. He did not, even among his friends, quarrel with the system which had for the time being thrown him aside. Rather he accepted these circumstances as facts which it was up to him to face and upon which to build his philosophy of future action. The long months of idleness, however, took their toll and worked their insidious effect upon one who had never been inactive in his life. The unavailability of certain major positions for which his consideration had been asked became to him a problem as to whether there was in him some weakness which he had not recognized or some inadequacy which he had not met. There was no bitterness and no quarrel with things as they were, but simply the conviction on his part that regardless of circumstances he ought to be capable of extricating himself from the dilemma of temporary idleness in which he found himself. Finally, and perhaps most definitely of all factors which entered into the situation, he learned of the evidences of early stages of an illness likely to be permanently fastened upon him.

There was no man who had had the privileges of association with him along the way on any basis of friendship, any more than there was anyone who had been touched by evidences of his affectionate regard, who did not feel a pang of grief and a sense of loss at the news of Ben's death. A personality of rare attractiveness, a friendship of rare charm, and a loyalty of great genuineness have been lost from out the Dartmouth circle of his friends.

In brief summary, Ben was born in Chicago, August 6, 1877. After preliminary work at Armour Institute, he entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1897. That academic year marked the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and Ben quit college, joined the First New Hampshire Regiment, and promptly embarked for the military front, where he was a participant in the actual fighting. After the close of the war and his discharge from the army he re-entered College, and, among other activities, became a member of the football team, where he played tackle. Fraternally Ben was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the old sophomore society, Theta Nu Epsilon. Financial stringency, however, forced his leaving college, in 1899. After a few months with the Pullman Company, he entered the service of the Great Northern Railway, at St. Paul. Nine years later he went with the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy; and within the brief period of a couple of years more he was made superintendent of the St. Louis terminals. From then on his progress was steadily upward from one post of responsibility to another, always, however, under training for a major executive position. When the government took over the railroads during the war he was made federal manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, of which road he became vice-president when the company was returned to private ownership. In 1925 he resigned this position to become president of the New York Air Brake Company, which position he held until he resigned from it last fall. Dartmouth, in June, 1921, in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments and of his fine service in his chosen field, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

He is survived by his widow, the former Augusta Jameson, of Indianapolis, whom he married in 1910, also by two brothers and three sisters.

LEE CLARK CURTISS died at St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, March 5, 1932, from a self-inflicted bullet wound, ill health being the only apparent reason for this act.

Curtiss was a nationally known contractor, and for a number of years had been located m Cleveland. He was a co-organizer of the Craig-Curtiss Company and the Curtiss-Babcock Company, general contractors. He represented the owners in the building of the new Guardian Building, and supervised the construction of the Cleveland Discount Building, Epworth Euclid Church, and the Park, Grenada, and Loew's Akron Theatres.

Lee Curtiss entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1897 with 1901, and was a member of that class freshman year. He lived at Mrs. Read's, 48 College St., and was a roommate of Ernest Eddy's. Ernest says of him, "I liked him very much; he was of good character and disposition. Somewhat troubled with hearing, he was very sensitive in regard to this affliction, held very much to himself, and did not make friends easily."

Mortie Crowell used to see him in Cleveland frequently, and probably knew him better than any one else in the class, and his passing is a personal loss to Mort, as an intimate friendship had grown up between the two. This was brought about by their mutual love for Dartmouth, and the dim and distant contacts of their earlier days in Hanover.

Curtiss was born February 8, 1879, in New York city, the son of George B. Curtiss, a merchant in that city. He prepared for college at Barnard School.

The funeral was held from his late home, 2865 Southington Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio, Tuesday, March 8, and the interment was at Crown Hill Cemetery. He is survived by his widow and four daughters.

CLASS OF 1902

HARRY ARTHUR DAVIS, who was a member of the class of 1902 through two years of its course, died at his home in Newton, Mass., Tuesday, March 22, 1932, following a short illness of double pneumonia. He was a native of Lee, N. H., where he was born December 9, 1879, his parents being William Henry and Minerva (Stackpole) Davis. He went into traffic work immediately after leaving college and was connected with the traffic departments of the Boston and Maine railroad and the New York Central lines.

As a result of his knowledge gained of traffic operation Mr. Davis became connected with the Boston Wool Trade Association as its traffic manager. In this capacity he had charge of the transportation problems of the wool trade, extending practically all over the country. He was an expert and authority on wool tariffs, railroad freight rates, and federal regulations in the wool trade. In his unique position with the Boston Wool Trade Association Mr. Davis had at various times saved the great wool market in Boston thousands upon thousands of dollars through his activities and keen knowledge of conditions, regulations, and tariffs. He often appeared in Washington when legislative measures affecting the wool trade were being considered. Known to every leading wool man in the great Boston wool center, Mr. Davis was universally respected and highly regarded and his services considered almost invaluable.

He was a member of the Newtowne Club of Newton and leaves a widow, who was Lillian Harding of Boston, and four children. His funeral was held at Mount Auburn Thursday, March 24, and was largely attended by the men with whom he had been associated in business, nearly half a hundred floral pieces attesting the high esteem in which he was held.

(As one member of the class who had kept in almost constant touch with Harry Davis since we left college, riding home with him on the B. &. A. trains night after night during many years past, exchanging our experiences and problems, I wish that I might adequately give the class an idea of what a supremely fine type of manhood Harry Davis typified. He always had a happy, optimistic disposition. This he had in college. He never pushed himself forward, he never asked favors, but he was always ready with a cheery word and ever ready to do a kind deed. He was wholesome, honest, hard working, sincere, and thorough. I know from having observed his work and by acquaintance with the men whom he served in the wool trade, that no man could be more highly respected and regarded, or one's qualities and ability command greater appreciation than was accorded Harry Davis'. He was the heart of the wool trade in Boston. One of his last acts was to contribute a two-page review of the conditions in the wool trade of the country to the Commercial Bulletin of Boston, which was a masterly and exhaustive article. It was a magnificent close to a career of some dozen years given to this industry. A great big fellow, apparently with many years of health and happiness before him, bound up in his wife and splendid family, in which he took great pride, it was a terrible shock to all to be taken away after a few days of illness. Although still with a deep regard for Dartmouth, Harry had never been back to Hano ver since he left the college. Hardly a week before his death, however, we had talked of the coming reunion, and he had expressed the hope and thought that he would at that time try to make the gathering and renew the acquaintances he had had through the years at Hanover. The reunion will be the loser by his death, and the class has lost one who brought honor and distinction to Dartmouth and 1902.—W. C. HILL.)

CLASS OF 1905

ARTHUR JOHN ELA died at the Bremerton Naval Hospital in Bremerton, Wash., on March 21, 1932, after several months' illness with nephritis. About Thanksgiving time last year he became seriously ill, and entered the Bremerton hospital early in January. His condition gradually grew worse, so that his death was not unexpected.

Arthur was born in Norwich, Vt., on November 9, 1883, the son of Albert B. and Amy (Coit) Ela. When he was a small boy, his parents moved to Lebanon, N. H., and Arthur attended school there and graduated from the Lebanon High School. He entered Dartmouth and graduated with our class. Soon after graduation he entered the employ of the United States as an engineer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. After two years he obtained a leave of absence and returned to Hanover to finish his work in the Thayer School, in which he had taken the first year's work while a senior. He received his C.E. degree in 1908. For several years he continued in the Coast and Geodetic Survey work, spending his summers in the field in Alaska, and his winters in Washington, transferring the results of his field work to the U. S. Coast Pilot Volumes. He attained the rank of lieutenant commander in that branch of governmental service. During the World War, Arthur was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Navy, and he held that rank in the Naval Reserve. After the war he returned to Ketchikan, Alaska, where he had lived for part of the timp while engaged in the Coast Survey work, and became superintendent of construction for the Citizens Light, Power, and Water Company of Ketchikan, a position which he held for many years. During this period he wrote to Parkinson, under date of May 24, 1922, among other things, "Our company is doing considerable new work in the way of additions and enlargements to the present plant, including 6000 feet of rock tunnel and extensive dams for additional water storage and new power house facilities and machinery. We have no fears for the industrial future of this section. We do, however, have some misgivings as to the political future. Alaska is now making a desperate effort to have a large part of the federal government's administrative agencies transferred from Washington to the capital of the territory, because in the past long range control has proven very slow and very oppressive to those undertaking any form of development. Alaska is the fellow that needs a friend as no frontier of the United States has ever needed one before. Extend my best wishes to those members of the class whom you happen to meet, and keep for yourself my kindest personal regards." During that period of his career, Arthur also engaged in private engineering practice in that vicinity. At one time he took part in surveys in southeastern Alaska for the Zellerbach and Cameron interests, which sought to establish pulp and paper mills in Alaska. He also was editor-in-chief of the data compiled by the army engineers on one of the most important Northwest projects, and was engaged on that work as late as last year. In Ketchikan he was an active member of the American Legion, was a past master in the Ketchikan lodge of Masons, and it is believed that he was a member of the Lodge of Elks. On May 15, 1912, Arthur was married to Mary Bowlby, who was at one time president of the Alaska department of the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Ela, together with their two sons, Albert Byron, and Arthur J. Jr., survive, their residence being at No. 910 East Boston, Seattle, Wash. Arthur's father, aged 87, also survives, still residing in Lebanon, N. H.

CLASS OF 1918

LYNN FRANKLIN SEILER died at his home in Long Beach, Calif., on March 13, 1932, after an illness of a few weeks. He is survived by both his parents and a younger brother Eugene, also a student at Dartmouth. He was not married.

Lynn was born October 1, 1895, in Jamestown, N. D., where he attended public and high schools prior to entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1914. His parents were Oscar Joseph and Rachel Louise (Bigelow) Seiler. After three years at Dartmouth he entered the army in the summer of 1917 after taking the quartermaster corps course at college. He was then stationed in Chicago and Hammond, Ind., with the quartermaster service until January, 1919. Lynn was released from the army in time to commence his first year's work at the Harvard Law School with the class of 1921. Previously he had obtained his A.B. degree from Dartmouth with the class of 1918.

After graduating from the Harvard Law School in 1921 with the degree of LL.B., Lynn Seiler returned to Jamestown, N. D., where he practiced for about a year. He then moved to California and established himself in the practice of law at Long Beach, where he became an active member of the California Bar Association. Upon Lynn's urging, his father, likewise a lawyer, later also moved to Long Beach, and the two formed the law partnership of Seiler and Seiler with offices in the Heartwell Building, where they enjoyed a responsible and dignified practice to the time of Lynn's death.

Lynn's three years at Dartmouth were marked by his unusual abilities as a student, which won for him the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was not a member of any fraternity, but took a very active part in the Outing Club. As a lawyer, Lynn was enthusiastic with his work and found time to write several articles for bar association journals and law reviews which attracted wide acclaim for their thoroughness and scholarly qualities.

In the passing of Lynn Seiler the class of 1918 has lost a most worthy member, and Dartmouth College has lost a loyal son. Those who knew Lynn intimately had come to honor and respect him, and appreciate his talents and excellent character. Had he lived, his worth and sterling qualities would have taken him far.

CLASS OF 1923

HOWARD ROCKEFELLER JR. died in Los Angeles, Calif., of leukemia, May 21, 1931. News of his death was not received in Hanover until recently.

The son of Howard and Pearl (Royce) Rockefeller, he was born in Butte, Montana, February 12, 1901, and prepared for college at Butte High School. He was a member of Zeta Psi.

After graduation he studied law at Stanford University, and graduated in 1926. In June of that year he began practice in Los Angeles with the firm of Chandler, Wright, and Ward. January 1, 1928, he entered practice for himself, and at the time of his death was a member of the firm of Gilbert, Lyen and Rockefeller.

July 1, 1928, he was married to Frances Mary, daughter of John E. and Luella Parker, who survives him. They have had no children.

Medical School

CLASS OF 1888

DR. ALFRED STANFORD SAWYER died January 14, 1932, at the Maine General Hospital, Portland, Me., where he had been a patient for about six months.

Dr. Sawyer was born in Standish, Me., August 13, 1844, and so was well along in middle age before he undertook the study of medicine. No information has been obtained about his early life, and very little about his professional career. He appears to have practiced for some time at Scarboro, Me., but retired from active work a good many years ago, and for a long time lived in retirement in South Portland, Me.

His death preceded his own. They have a son, Ralph Sawyer, who lives in Portland.

CLASS OF 1901

DR. WILSON EUGENE HUNT, who was connected with this class for two years, 1898-1900, died in his sleep at his home in Maiden, Mass., during the night of March 30.

Dr. Hunt was born in Rockland, Mass., December 13, 1875, the son of Frederick and Arabella Hunt. He attended the Kezer School at Canterbury, N. H., and Temple Union Academy at Meredith, N. H. After leaving Dartmouth he continued his medical studies for two years at Harvard, where he received his degree in 1902.

After his graduation he became a member of the staff of Maiden Hospital, and continued in practice in that city throughout his life, becoming prominent and successful in his profession. During the World War he served overseas for eight months as a captain in the Medical Corps. He was a member of various medical societies and Masonic organizations, of several clubs, and of the American Legion.

He married Carrie Rogers Shaw of Charlottetown, P. E. 1., who survives him. They had no children.