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Class of 1873
REV. JOHN HENRY BUTLER died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, January 31, 1933, of the infirmities of age.
He was born at Whitesboro, N. Y., October 1, 1849, the son of Rev. John J. and Elizabeth (Everett) Butler, prepared for college at New Hampton (N. H.) Institution, and took his freshman year at Bates College, coming to Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.
After graduation he went to Hillsdale College, Mich., and taught for nine years, being tutor in Latin and Greek from 1873 to 1876, associate professor of Latin for the next year, and then with a full professorship to 1882.
The next three years were spent at Union Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1885. Entering the Congregational ministry, he was pastor at Moriah, N. Y„ in 1885-7, ar,d at Phoenix, N. Y., 1887-90. His health failed, and on his physician's advice he went to the Pacific Coast, and was pastor at Sprague, Wash., in 1890-1. On his father's death in 1891 he returned East, and was pastor at Utica, Mich., in 1891-3, at Somerset, Mich., 1893-1902, and at Salem, Mich., 1902-4. He then returned for a time to teaching, being at Olympia, Wash., in 1904-9, and in Oberlin, Ohio, 1909-13. Then followed another pastorate, at Mancelona, Mich., 1913-16. He then retired from active work, and lived several years at Aurora, Ohio, whence he removed to Cleveland in 1926.
March 3, 1877, Mr. Butler was married to Amanda E„ daughter of Stawghton and Orsey (Baldwin) Bentley of Mantua, Ohio, who survives him, with one son, Clarence C.
Class of 1876
HERBERT JEWETT BARTON, professor of Latin in the University of Illinois (retired), died at his home in Champaign, Ill., September 26, 1933. He was born September 27, 1853, in Newport, N. H., the son of Levi Winter and Elizabeth Frances (Jewett) Barton. His father and a brother, Jesse Morton Barton, were graduated from Dartmouth, the former in 1848, and the latter in 1892.
Barton prepared for college at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. For his sophomore year he was at Wesleyan University. Following graduation he was principal of the Newport High School and the High School at Waukegan, Ill. Of the high school department of the State Normal School at Normal, Ill., he was principal for eight years; at the end of this period he as- sumed duties in the State University as professor of Latin.
Barton was a member of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and served as its president, a member of the Archeological Association and of the American Philological Association. He is the author of "Civil Government in Illinois." Soon after leaving college he married Sara L. Dodge, of Newport, who died a few years ago. They had three children.
Barton was definitely loyal to class and college. He seldom missed a reunion at Hanover. He was not present at the "fiftyfifth" but was looking forward to the "sixtieth." He was a delightful correspondent, especially during later years. His communications were rich in uplift and cheer, and seldom lacked fun and reminiscence.
Class of 1877
Louis GILMAN HOYT died at his home- in Kingston, N. H., October 7, 1933, from the effects of a paralytic stroke suffered two weeks before.
The son of Gilman Bailey and Marianna (Jewell) Hoyt, he was born in Exeter, N. H., February 23, 1856, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was the last survivor of the husky youths who formed our freshman crew, and was a member of the freshman society, Kappa Sigma Epsilon, but left college during the spring of freshman year.
He soon began the study of law in Exeter, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1878. In May of that year he opened an office at Kingston, which remained his home for the rest of his life, except for the year 1889-90, when he was manager of the Boston office of E. H. Rollins & Son, bankers. From 1893 to 1900 he was county solicitor, and in 1900-02 secretary of the Republican State Committee. In 190 a he was appointed judge of probate for Rockingham county, and held the office until he was retired by law on his 70th birthday.
Judge Hoyt was of high standing in his profession, and was the author of these published works: "The Homestead Right," 1899; "The Practice in Proceedings in the Probate Courts of New Hampshire," 1901, with a second edition in 1908; "The Law of Administration in New Hampshire," 1916. He was a member of the Masonic order.
March 30, 1893, he was married to Mary S. Towle of Kingston, who died last May. They had no children.
Judge Hoyt could never be induced to attend a class reunion, but his replies to the Secretary's queries, while brief, were always cordial and humorous.
Class of 1884
WESLEY GOULD CARR died at Barre, Mass., September 4, 1933. He was taken ill while in Augusta, Ga., last winter and after some time in a hospital there came home, improved in health. This improvement lasted only a short time, and he was again for a time in the hospital. He was again able to go home and was so much better that he attended Commencement last June and went on for an automobile tour through the White Mountains. About the first of August a relapse occurred and from this time he grew steadily weaker to the end.
Carr was born in Concord, N. H., November 28, iB6O, the son of Clark Hopkins and Caroline Amelia (Gould) Carr. Soon after the family moved to Keene, where he received his preparatory education. He entered Dartmouth in 1880, taking the Chandler Scientific course. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
After graduation he went to Washing- ton, D. C., where he taught in the public schools for two years. He was then em- ployed by the Union Pacific R. R. in their offices at Denver as a draughtsman. In 1886 he was appointed fourth assistant examiner in the Patent Office in Washington. Here he began the study of law, and received the degree of LL.B. from Columbia University in 1888 and of LL.M. in 1889. The same year he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Promotion through the different grades till he was principal examiner in the Patent Office came to him in the next few years. In 1894. he resigned his position in the Patent Office to become patent attorney for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at Pittsburgh, Pa., which connection he held till his retirement on account of age limit two years ago.
Carr served for two terms on the Alumni Council and was class agent for the Alumni Fund. He was president of the board of trustees of the First Unitarian church of Pittsburgh and also of the Pittsburgh Patent Law Association. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State, Allegheny County, and American Bar Associations, the American Patent Law Association, the Pittsburgh Patent Law Association, the University Club of Pittsburgh, the Bartmouth Club of New York, the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C., the Oakmont Country Club, the Worcester Country Club, and the Automobile Club of Pittsburgh. He was president of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania.
Carr was married on January 22, 1890, to Miss Esther M. Williams, daughter of Col. William A. Williams of Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Carr died in 1930. Their two sons are Dartmouth graduates, Houghton in 1917, Wesley Gould Jr. in 1920. The sons and four grandchildren survive him.
Carr was one of the big men of '84. He was always loyal to class and college. He attended more reunions of his class than any man of the class save only Professor Lord. He was a tower of strength in his class and made a fine record.
CHARLES ORION THURSTON died at his home in Canterbury, N. H., September 12, 1933. He was born in Barre, Vt., February 23, 1557, son of Wilson and Frances (Kinney) Thurston. Like more than one third of his class, he was a farmer's son. The white house and red barns made an imposing homestead. He attended the local district school and Barre Academy, from which he was graduated in 1880. Jacob S. Spaulding, Dartmouth '41, was its principal, and Thurston said he came to Dartmouth because "Uncle Jake did." He taught a winter term of school in Haverhill, N. H., during his junior year. He won Commencement honors, and was as he said "a silent partner in Commencement." He won Phi Beta Kappa election, and was one of the first men to receive final honors at graduation. The subject was chemistry. He was a fine student and had a keen sense of humor and a droll way of saying things that made him a favorite among his fellows. His "That doeth my soul good, yea, even like unto a medicine," never failed to amuse the table as he took an unexpected trick at whist. He was among the first to take up the then new game of tennis, and with his alter ego, Tower, won the doubles championship in 1883. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Thurston was principal of the Colebrook, N. H., Academy for one year, and for a like period was principal of the Brookfield, Mass., and the Newport, N. H., High Schools. Then for two years he was teacher of sciences at Marston's University School for Boys in Baltimore, Md. In 1889 he became the head of the science department of Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa. Here he remained for twenty years. He was faculty adviser for football, coach of the tennis teams, and the peacemaker in any troubles arising between the faculty and the student body. His knowledge of moths, beetles, birds, and beasts so impressed the townspeople that they credited him with, as he said, "knowing everything from what the weather was going to be to the best way to kill potato bugs." While here Thurston was a member of the Baltimore Botanical Club, secretary of the Wyoming Valley Academy of Science, and chairman of the executive committee of the Wyoming Valley Camera Club. He was an excellent amateur photographer. Some of his pictures were hung in the Fourth American Salon at Pittsburgh, Pa. He received a diploma of merit for pictures exhibited at Milan, Italy. His pictures were also exhibited by the Royal Photographical Society of Great Britain. In collaboration with Prof. Dudley of Leland Stanford University, he published a volume on "The Flora of Wyoming Valley." In 1909 he traveled over the state of Pennsylvania with H. A. Surface, economic zoologist of the state, teaching the fruit growers how to manage their orchards so as to grow the best fruit. He was often in demand as a speaker before literary, ministerial, and scientific societies, as well as at teachers' institutes and banquets. On leaving the seminary the annual published by the students in 1909 was dedicated to "Charles O. Thurston, the teacher, the friend, the man, as an appreciation of twenty years' devotion to the interests of our 'Alma Mater'."
Thurston went to the Kinney Manufacturing Co. of Boston, and was soon made district sales manager with offices in Chicago. In this connection he read a paper before the Ohio State Society of Mechanical, Steam, and Electrical Engineers at Cincinnati, Ohio, his subject "Rotary Pumps." In 1917 he retired from business, was idle a year, and in 1918 established a commercial egg plant producing non-fertile eggs in wholesale quantities. In 1924 he was elected a member of the school board, which office he held till his death. He was Old Home Week orator for Canterbury in 1925. For years he has audited the town books. Verily, Thurston was "a mono' pairts," and proved it by his accomplishments in many different enterprises.
Thurston was married on March 13, 1890, in Newport, N. H., to Miss Bertha Anna Brown. They had no children. Mrs. Thurston survives him. Henry W. Thurston '86 is a brother.
For a number of years Thurston wrote an occasional poem for the ChristianScience Monitor. He wrote also interpretations of birds, the weather, forests, human nature, etc. Of late years that paper often referred to him as the "Sage of Canterbury." Thurston was a lover of nature and felt that he was a part of the universe in which he found himself. Once on coming from his home under a covering of morning glories in full bloom, he said to his brother, "Henry, do you know there's something in me that vibrates in harmony with that." He was buried in the family burying ground at Barre, Vt. He was of a deeply religious nature, and his simple poetic soul reveled in the beauties and wonders of the visible universe. Death to him was merely a setting free that he might explore the far distances.
Class of 1885
JUDGE GEORGE HERBERT WHITCOMB died in a hospital in Denver, Colo., on August 29, '933> following a stroke of paralysis which he suffered at his summer camp in Buffalo, Colo., on August 16.
He was born on May 2, 1858, in Stock- bridge, Vt., and was the son of Harvey and Isabelle (Moore) Whitcomb. He prepared for college at Tilton Seminary in Tilton, N. H., and graduated from Dartmouth in 1885 with a degree of A.B. During his college course he twice served as president of his class, an unusual honor, was managing: editor of The Dartmouth, and was an assistant librarian of the college library. He also acted as a newspaper correspondent of various metropolitan newspapers. He was. a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and of Phi Beta Kappa, and twice won the Wead Political Economy prize for the best essay on the "Advocacy of Protection." He was. selected as one of the speakers of his class at Commencement.
Having decided upon the law as his profession, he entered Boston University Law School in the fall of 1885, where in twoyears he completed the regular three years' course and was graduated in 1887 with the degree of LL.B. cum laude. He was admitted to practice at the Suffolk (Massachusetts) bar in July of that year, but hedecided to go West, and in September of that year he located in Topeka, Kansas,, which, thereafter, was his home, and where he established a large and successful practice.
In 1911 the Second Division of the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, was established, and the governor selected Mr. Whitcomb as the first judge of the newly created division, and on that bench he served continuously until his death,—a period of over twenty-two years. According to the laws of Kansas the judges are elected by popular vote for terms of four years, and it is a remarkable tribute to the high quality of his service upon the bench that in only one of his campaigns for re-election did he have an opponent, and in that instance the result was overwhelmingly in Judge Whitcomb's favor. His last re-election occurred in 1933. A committee of lawyers was appointed to select a list of Democratic candidates for judges, and although Judge Whitcomb was always a strong Republican, the committee instead of selecting a Democratic candidate against him, gave him its hearty endorsement and recommended that no other candidate be selected to oppose him. Such an unanimous recognition of the ability and impartiality of Judge Whitcomb, coming after a continuous service upon the bench for more than a score of years, is almost unprecedented. As an indication of the soundness of his decisions, he had the unique distinction that during the last four years in about fifty cases in which appeals from his decisions were taken the Supreme Court of the state did not reverse a single one.
He was recognized not only as a great judge but also as a public-spirited citizen. Soon after settling in Topeka he became a member of the Presbyterian church, and was one of its most active supporters, having served continuously as a member of its board of trustees since 1896; when in 1903 Washburn College of Topeka established a law school, he became a member of the faculty as a lecturer on "Sales of Personal Property," a position which he thereafter continued to hold during his life.
He was a member of the American, state, and local bar associations, and for more than twenty-five years he had been a member of the Topeka Chamber of Commerce; he was also a member of numerous local social clubs, and for years had been an ardent devotee of golf.
In his domestic life he was particularly happy. In 1888 he married Miss Jessie E. Wright, who was a graduate of the University of Vermont, and also a classmate with him at Boston University Law School. She was a woman of remarkable strength of character and intellectual endowments,—a wife, helpmate, and mother in the highest and truest sense. For some years after their marriage they practiced law together under the firm name of Whitcomb and Whitcomb. She also took a leading part in the religious, social, and intellectual life of the community, and was a well-known writer, author, and speaker. She passed away about three years ago. They had six children, all of whom were educated at Washburn College, and all survive both of their parents. The oldest son, Philip, was a Rhodes scholar from Kansas and graduated from Oxford University, England, in 1914; he now resides in London and is well known as a lecturer; their second son, Richard, has a very responsible position with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company with headquarters at Springfield, Mass.; their third son, Robert, resides in Warren, Arizona; their fourth son, George, resides in Los Angeles; their fifth son, William, resides in Seattle, Wash., and their only daughter, Isabel (Mrs. Harry L. McNeill), resides in Denver. Judge Whitcomb is also survived by ten grandchildren.
Several years ago he had quite a serious sickness, but he seemed to have made a complete recovery and had resumed his full share of work upon the bench. In May of this year he made his last trip to New England, the occasion being to attend and take part in a complimentary dinner held in Boston, given by the leading citizens in honor of his son Richard, for his services to the community in connection with the drives for the Boston welfare work for the past two years. During this trip Judge Whitcomb called upon many of his New England friends and visited his birthplace in Vermont, and he appeared to be in excellent health. He returned to his court work, which he continued until he left for his regular annual vacation at his Colorado camp, driving his car himself from Topeka.
He was always very loyal to his college and his class, and whenever possible he attended the class reunions, the last one being in 1930, when he was elected president of the class for the ensuing five-year period, and he was very much interested in the preparations which are being made for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the graduation of his class in 1935.
His funeral was held in his home church and was very largely attended, and his interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka.
In his passing his class has lost one of its ablest and most beloved members, and the college a loyal alumnus, the record of whose life is a very honorable asset to his Alma Mater. Always calm and judicial in manner and speech, he nevertheless had a strong sense of humor and a great human interest, making him ever a welcome friend and companion. He leaves a record of faithful service and high accomplishment, which will be a proud memory and inspiration, not only to his children, but to the wide circle of his associates and friends who knew and appreciated his worth.
Class of 1887
SIDNEY ARTHUR was born August 26, 1863, at Covington, Ky., only son of Judge William E. and Etha (Southgate) Arthur, and apart from the four years with us at Hanover he was destined to pass his allotted span in the home town, where his family had been socially and professionally prominent for nearly a century.
His pre-college education was received in the public schools of Covington and the Chickering Institute of Cincinnati. Entering a class composed of over 90 per cent New England Yankees, himself a typical Southerner of the higher type, cultured, socially gifted, yet thoroughly democratic, he became one of us, and learned to love the College and New England—an affection undimmed through the years. He will be remembered by surviving classmates for many lovable qualities and as a man strongly moved by sentiment.
He was graduated in 1887 with the degree of 8.L., and three years later from Cincinnati Law' School as LL.B. He engaged in the practice of law with his father, and later under the firm name of Simrall and Arthur. About 1920 he abandoned law for journalism, being connected for many years with the former Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. In 1904 he erected the Arthur Apartments at Covington, the building containing 36 apartments, in one of which he resided until his death September xi, 1933, after a brief illness.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon; in later years affiliated with Golden Rule Lodge, F. & A. M., also with the Covington Chapter and Kenton Council.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. M. Ellen Morallee Arthur, whom he married in 1920, and by his adopted son, Raymond Morallee Arthur.
Class of 1895
DR. WALTER LAMSON KELSO died at his home in Hillsboro, N. H., September 13, 1933.
He was born in New Boston, N. H., February 17, 1872, his parents being Henry and Harriett Frances (Lamson) Kelso. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, and later when in medical school of Alpha Kappa Kappa.
From January, 1896, to April, 1899, he served as a nurse in Boston City Hospital, and then did private nursing with headquarters in Boston until January, 1902 a. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of Vermont, and remained there until his graduation as M.D. in 1905. In August of that year he began practice at Hillsboro, and remained there for the rest of his life, meeting with excellent success.
He was a member of Masonic lodge and chapter, and a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie M. Kelso, and by a daughter, Velna M. Kelso, who is a teacher in the high school of Groveton, N. H.
Class of 1903
PAUL ROBERT MCKEE, a member of our class in freshman year, died of heart disease on December 4, 1932, at his home in Oconomowoc, Wis.
He was born on November 4, 1878, at Greenbush, Albany County, N. Y., of the union of Katherine E. and Thomas C. McKee.
He graduated from the Albany High School in 1899, attended Dartmouth College in the year 1899-1900, and then, transferring to the law'school of the University of Wisconsin, attained his degree in June, 1903.
On June 16, 1904, he married Florence Lansing of Albany, N. Y., from which union Richard L. was born, March 13, 1907; Katherine A., October 27, 1908; Lansing, August 21, 1912.
Paul had one of those fine, genial personalities which made friends on contact. He spent but a year with us, having chosen to secure a degree in law as soon as possible. The University of Wisconsin granted that degree in 1903, and in 1904-1907 he was engaged in newspaper publication as business manager of the Whitewater Register. In 1907 he established the Farmer's State Bank of Sullivan, Wis. In 1911 he practised law and acquired banking interests at Oconomowoc, Wis. In 1918 he became general attorney for the Carnation Milk Products Company of Oconomowoc, and later moved to Chicago, where the general offices were located. In 1928 he was elected vice-president and secretary of the concern, doing an international business in some seventy countries in the packing and sale of evaporated milk and the manufacture and sale of cereal products on the West Coast under the name of the Albers Brothers Milling Company.
Of the children, Richard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin; Katherine, also a graduate from the same institution, married Osborne Hand in June, 1931, and Lansing is still an undergraduate.
Mrs. McKee in correspondence says, "Paul always had pleasant memories of his period at Dartmouth and wished that he had finished there. He had a full and very successful life, varied in its interests, as he wanted it to be."
Class of 1905
JOSEPH TAYLOR GILMAN died at the Newton Hospital, September 15, 1933, after a short illness.
He was born in Exeter, N. H., October 4, 1883, the son of Col. Edward Harrison (Dartmouth 1876) and Jennie L. (Crosby) Gilman. He attended the public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1905. At Exeter he made a reputation as a baseball and football player, and at Dartmouth he became one of the greatest guards who ever wore the green, and was selected as an allAmerican guard. He was a member of the Dartmouth team which dedicated the Harvard Stadium with an 11 to 0 victory over the Crimson in 1903. Thereafter his interest in Dartmouth activities never ceased.
He coached football at Dartmouth in 1905 and 1907, and later, as chairman of the athletic committee he directed the rearrangement of Dartmouth schedules and coaching policies which placed the College in a high place among the colleges of the country. It has been said that he, more than any other man, was responsible for the resumption of football between Harvard and Dartmouth.
After playing minor league baseball immediately after his graduation, he started in business as a salesman for E. H. Rollins & Sons, Boston bankers. Later he became store manager at Filene's, then vice-president of C. F. Hovey Company, and then president and treasurer of Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton Corporation. While with Filene's in 1917, he was "loaned" to the Aberthaw Construction Company to handle the labor problems on the project of building a new torpedo boat destroyer plant for the government at Squantum. He had charge of the employment of some 7000 workers, and their housing, feeding, accident and accident prevention, fire and fire prevention, protection, amusement and welfare. The project involved the expenditure of about $9,000,000.
In March, 1931, he became president of the board of directors of the Boston Garden, and immediately thereafter came a change in the administration of the affairs of that large center of sports and other activities. In announcing Joe's election the board of directors of the Garden made this announcement: "Since January 1,more than 400,000 people have attendedevents in the Garden, including boxing,hockey, wrestling, dog shows, amateur boxing—a remarkable result in view of presentbusiness conditions. We are confident thatMr. Gilman will bring to his new office theability to develop interest in Garden eventscomparable with the results that he obtained at Dartmouth College, and in hisrelations with several of Boston's bestknown business institutions."
Meanwhile Joe had been general traffic representative of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and in April, 1932, he was promoted to the post of general representative in charge of the industrial and agricultural development bureaus of the Boston & Maine, and his work in this new undertaking thereafter was the direction of the activities of the railroad in furthering its cooperation with chambers of commerce, boards of trade, and other civic bodies in an effort to locate new industries in New England and to build up the markets of the rural sections.
Joe was a trustee of Tabor Academy, a member of the Exchange Club, the Algonquin Club, and the Brae Burn Country Club, and also of the Athletic Council of Dartmouth.
He is survived by his wife, who was Bessie M. Stetson, daughter of the late George F. and Mrs. Alice A. Stetson of Dorchester; two daughters, Dorothy, 22, and Jane, 18, and one sister, Mrs. J. M. White of Beverly Farms. The family residence is at 243 Otis St., West Newton, Mass.
Funeral services were held on September 18 in the Unitarian church at West Newton. Lafayette R. Chamberlin and Walter Huston Lillard of the class of 1905, and Ernest Gile, Clarence G. McDavitt, Myron E. Witham, Edward S. French, Clarence Newton, Dr. John P. Bowler, Victor M. Cutter, and Natt W. Emerson served as ushers. Many Dartmouth men were present, including the following members of our class: William E. Chamberlain, James C. Donnelly, William P. Clough, Robert H. Harding, George C. Agry, Clifford W. Pierce, and George N. Proctor. There were also present many members of the Boston & Maine organization and of the Boston Garden staff.
Dartmouth men everywhere, and especially the members of the class of 1905, are deeply sensible of the great loss which they have sustained. As one 1905 man says:
"Joe was one of the outstanding men inour class, and was loved by everybody herein Boston. The sports writers and all thecrowd who have to do with football andother athletic games will miss him a greatdeal. I hadn't seen much of him this lastyear or two, but for the few years prior tothat time I used to see him quite frequently, and we lunched together at theExchange Club quite often. He never losthis sense of humor, and Clarence McDavitttold me that the day before he died, whenthey were having a consultation of severaldoctors, he joked about their gatheringaround, trying to find something seriousthe matter with him." Another says: "Thecasket was open during the services, and atthe end we passed to say good-bye. I shallalways remember Joe by his smile if by noother thing; it was the same even in death.It was a sad half hour for many; Dartmouthand 1905 have lost a great and goodfriend."
Joe's interest in Dartmouth is evidenced by the provision in his will under which the trustees of Dartmouth College are given the opportunity to acquire at a nominal price his original letters, documents, papers and autograph letters dealing with Dartmouth history, early New England history or the Revolutionary War, including Belknap's History of New Hampshire inlaid with original letters and autographs, Harvey's Reminiscences of Daniel Webster, the autograph letters of Daniel Webster, and the office chair owned by Daniel Webster and used by him in Portsmouth, N. H. On the same basis the New Hampshire Historical Society may obtain two pairs of dress pistols, two pairs of spurs, and a pair of holsters, a pair of bridle reins knitted for George Washington and members of his staff by ladies of Philadelphia, which articles were the property of Joe's greatgreat-uncle, Nicholas Gilman, who was paymaster general on the staff of Gen. Washington, and a flint-lock musket and. powder horn carried by another greatgreat-uncle, Capt. John Gilman, in the Revolutionary War.
The tribute adopted by the Athletic Council at its meeting September 26, 1925, when the members found themselves "without the magnetic leadership of Mr. Joseph P. Gilman," who had been a member since 1919 and its president since 1922, is perhaps as expressive of the esteem in which Dartmouth men held Joe as could be written. Quoting a part:
"Within the period of Joe's administration the athletic plant has been greatly improved, the finances have been placed on asound basis, our schedules have been madefar superior to those of former years, thepersonnel of our coaching staff in allbranches is unequaled anywhere, all ofour intercollegiate relationships have beengreatly strengthened, and the goodwill to wards Dartmouth and Dartmouth athletics,both in the minds of our alumni and thegeneral public, has so greatly increased thatwe find ourselves today in a secure positionof intercollegiate leadership throughout thecountry.
"While all of the members of the Council throughout the term of Joe's servicehave devoted a great deal of time and laborto all the affairs of the Council, no one hasgiven so freely in time, thought, and effortas he who retires today, and in view of thefact that oftentimes he has placed the interests of this body before the demands ofan exacting business, we feel that in someway we must express the sincere thanks ofthe entire College and of this individualbody.
'Due to his aim always to fnaintain theathletic development of the College in itsproper relationship to the intellectual de-velopment, we know that this expressionwill find instant and unanimous supportfrom all Dartmouth men.
"The members of this body will notonly miss his leadership but his fellowship,and in order that we may continue to en-joy both as long as possible, we hereby con-stitute you, Joe, a member emeritus of theCouncil, and invite you to attend any andall of the Council sessions, and we hopefurther that you may sit with us often inthe future.
"We hope that the years will bring toyou and yours abundant health, success,and happiness."
Class of 1909
HOWARD GAGE MOODY died at his home in Derry, N. H., July 18, 1933, of chronic nephritis, after an illness of about three months.
He was bora in Derry, July 30, 1886, his parents being Volney Hubbard and Nancy Jane (Gage) Moody, and prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry. He was a member of Kappa Sigma.
Since graduation he has been in business in his native town, having been for about four years in the shoe business with his father, then manager of the Moody-Wiggin grocery and meat market, and since 1925 in the dry goods business with his mother in the V. H. Moody Company.
He was prominent in the business and social life of the town, being vice-president and director of the Derry Co-operative Bank, director of the First National Bank, trustee of the Derry Savings Bank, director of the Rockingham County Y. M. C. A., and past president of the Derry Athletic Association and the Derry Chamber of Commerce. He was a Republican in politics, was a member of the board of supervisors of check lists in Derry, and represented the town in the legislature of 1931. He was a 32d degree Mason and a member of St. Mark's Lodge.
June 28, 1911, he was married to Helen Louise, daughter of John and Maud (Smith) Melvin, who survives him, with their three sons, Robert Melvin, formerly of Dartmouth '35, now in Boston University, John Gage, Dartmouth '37, and Howard Gage, student at Pinkerton Academy. Phil Avery, Bob Holmes, Herb Hawes, Dick Lord, and Art Swenson attended the funeral.
"Mood," as he was known by his classmates and friends, was a very loyal class and college man, and was always to be seen at reunions, football games, and Dartmouth parties. He always enjoyed the best of health until a few months before his death, and his passing will undoubtedly be a distinct shock to those who knew him.
Class of 1912
Mention was made in the Class Notes of the October MAGAZINE of the murder of HENRY FREDERICK SANBORN. His body was found on Long Island on July 30, but he was last seen on the 17th of that month, which was probably the date of his death.
The son of Judge Walter Henry and Emily F. (Bruce) Sanborn, he was born in St. Paul, Minn., November 11, 1888. His father was a member of the Dartmouth class of 1867, and his grandfather, Henry F. Sanborn, whose name he bore, was a non-graduate member of the class of 1843. Edward P. Sanborn '76 is an uncle, and Bruce W. Sanborn '04 a brother.
Henry Sanborn was a member of the class only until December, 1909. Very soon after leaving college he entered railroad work in the employ of the Great Northern system, and had been with them in positions of increasing responsibility practically all the time since. He was stationed successively at St. Paul, Seattle, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. For some time he had been in New York City as general eastern agent.
April 19, 1910, he was married to Florence Wheaton of St. Paul. A son, Walter H., was born of this marriage, which was terminated by divorce in 1913. A second marriage, August 2, 1916, to Mary Irene Waterous of St. Paul, had also met with a similar fate.
Class of 1914
RICHARD HYDE CUTLER died July 23, 1933, at Heaton Hospital, Montpelier, Vt., where he had been critically ill for two months. Six days before his death he had submitted to a second operation, from which he had rallied, and it was hoped that he would pull through, but the odds against him were too great.
He was born in Montpelier, January 10, 1892, the son of Harry Morton and Helen (Hyde) Cutler, and prepared for college at the high school of his native city. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He obtained his degree with the class of 1915, but preferred to be considered a member of the class of 1914, with whom he was associated for most of his course.
With the exception of a period in 1918, when he was in naval aviation, being chief quartermaster at Cambridge, Mass., and later at Washington, D. C., he was associated with the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, of which his father at the time of his death was vicepresident. He was first in the Baltimore agency of the company, and since July 1, 1919, had been general agent at Springfield, Mass. For four years he had led the agents of the company in the amount of business done.
A tribute published by the Company reads as follows: "Dick was a hard worker, with a friendly, genial manner and a tremendous zest for living. He was an ardent fisherman, an excellent golfer and bridge player, and as truly hospitable as was his father. He was keen, ambitious, and wellinformed."
In Springfield he was a member of the Longmeadow Country Club, the Exchange Club, and the Unitarian church.
May 17, 1916, he was married to Beatrice Walker of Montpelier, whose mother is the wife of Clarence E. Moulton '89. Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by one daughter, Beatrice Moulton Cutler, and by a brother and a sister.
Class of 1918
News has been only recently received of the death of JACOB WIMER JORDAN JR., which occurred in a hospital at Glendale, Calif., November 19, 1932.
He was born at Ottumwa, lowa, May n, 1897, and prepared for college at Ottumwa High School. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
For a short time after graduation he was a salesman for a wholesale grocery firm in Minneapolis, and then, on July 20, 1918, he enlisted in the Coast Artillery, serving at Fort Harvard, Md., and Fort Monroe, Va., until his discharge, December 6, 1918. He then returned to Minneapolis, and was in business there until 1926, when he engaged in the dry goods business in Pasadena, Calif. Later he became a partner in a department store in Glendale, and so continued until his illness.
Class of 1922
The death of EUGENE OSCAR SEILER, which occurred November 14, 1932, has never been reported in the Necrology.
He was the son of Oscar Joseph and Rachel Louise (Bigelow) Seiler, and was born in Jamestown, N. D., March 11, 1899. He was with the class during the first two years of the course, and was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He was a brother of Lynn F. Seiler, 1918, who died a few months before him.
After leaving college he went into insurance business at Jamestown, being finally secretary and manager of the Seiler Company, insurance and real estate.
June 21, 1922, he was married to Myrtle M. Biss, who survives him, with their daughter, Rae Catherine.
Class of 1924
WILLIAM JAMES FINDLATER died at his home in Mansfield, Mass., May 16, 1933, after an illness of three months.
He was born in Sharon, Mass., August 1, 1902, the son of James and Lizzie (Ingram) Findlater. The family removed early to Mansfield, where he prepared for college at the local high school. In college he was a member of The Players and the College Orchestra.
After graduation he was for a time in the employ of the New England Tel. & Tel. Co. at Mansfield and also in his father's business of contracting and building, but had been for some years connected with R. H. Macy & Co. of New York, where he was finally head of the personnel division of their Long Island warehouse and had charge of the training of over 1000 employees. He was held in high esteem by his employers.
August i, 1928, he was married to Jean Gertrude McDiarmid of Mansfield, who survives him. They had no' children. Other surviving relatives are his mother and sister.
Medical School
Class of 1881
DR. CHARLES HARDY BAILEY was killed in a railroad accident July 12, 1933.
He was born at West Swanzey, N. H., September 21, 1856, his parents being Clark and Caroline (Davis) Bailey. He attended the schools of Swanzey and Winchester, and was a member of the class of 1879 at what was then the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at Hanover and is now the University of New Hampshire at Durham.
After his medical graduation he established himself in general practice at Gardner, Mass., and remained there until his decease, having retired in 1931 from active practice. He was a successful family physician of the old type, and was active in the affairs of the community, serving on the board of health and school committee for many years, and on the staff of Henry Haywood Memorial Hospital from its foundation until failing health forced him to retire.
August 14, 1884, he was married to Clara E., daughter of Sidney M. and Ann Elizabeth (French) Morse of Winchester, N. H.. who survives him, with their three children, Louise (Smith 1910) of Trinity College Library, Hartford, Conn., Katherine (Smith 1912), the wife of Dr. H. D. Dozier, formerly professor of economics at Dartmouth, now an economist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Charles Roger (Dartmouth 1921), now of Duluth, Minn.
Class of 1897
DR. ALLEN JESSE BYAM died at his home in Des Moines, lowa, May 18, 1930, of cerebral hemorrhage. His death has only recently been reported.
He was born at Port Hope, Ont., Novem- ber 13, 1869, the son of George W. and Sarah Byam, and received his early educa- tion in the schools of Port Hope. When he came to Dartmouth his home was at South Hartford, N. Y.
After his graduation he first practised his profession at West Rupert, Vt., but early removed to Des Moines, where he was successful in a modest, unassuming way for many years.
March 16, 1893, he was married to L. Annette, daughter of H. C. Maynard of South Hartford, who survives him, with their only son, Bert A. Byam.
Thayer School
Class of 1875
JONATHAN PARKER SNOW died September 4, 1933, at his home in West Somerville, Mass., after a very short illness.
He was born in Concord, N. H., November 19, 1848, son of Jonathan and Lydia Ann (Parker) Snow. Paternal ancestors were seafaring men of Cape Cod, Mass.; maternal ancestors, English immigrants in the early settlement of Massachusetts Bay. Educated at a private academy in Contoocook, N. H. Graduated from the Thayer School of Civil Engineering with the degree of Civil Engineer in 1875. In 1880, in Boston, married Mrs. Marietta H. Eaton of Wilmot, N. H. (deceased). Married again,wife deceased not many years ago. Various engineering work, 1875-1877; instructor in the Thayer School, 1877-78; overseer of the same, 1900-1924, inclusive. Bridge engineer with the Boston and Maine R. R. 1888-1909, and chief engineer of the same, 1909-1911. Consulting engineer, with office at 18 Tremont St., Boston, since 1911. Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1885 (director, 1911-1913); of American Railway Engineering Association; American Institute of Consulting Engineers; American Society for Testing Materials; Boston Society of Civil Engineers; and the Thayer Society of Engineers. Clubs:—New England Railway, Engineers, and New Hampshire (Somerville). Home, West Somerville, Mass. Republican, Universalis!.
The preceding statement is a composite abstract from "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in Civil Engineering." What follows is from records in the Thayer School office and from personal contacts of the writer through many years.
When Mr. Snow came to Dartmouth in 1873, the Thayer School of Civil Engineering had not become a department of the College. Its few early students were more mature than in later years. Mr. Snow was then 26 years old. After graduation in 1875, and two years of junior service with the Boston Bridge Works, etc., he came back to the School as instructor. In the lack of available textbooks at that time he prepared useful notes on carpentry, explosives, quarry work, etc. Following further service with the Boston Bridge Works, and service as division engineer of the Manchester and Keene Railway, N. H., he was associated with J. W. Ellis, civil engineer, at Woonsocket, R. I. Those were the days of controversy as to replacing wooden bridges by wrought iron bridges (steel for bridges not then adopted) and combinations of wood and iron in bridge construction. These men, as bridge engineers for the (then) Boston and Providence R. R., advocated conserving wooden bridges as long as they could be made assuredly safe. This experience of Mr. Snow, and his numerous writings relating to construction and maintenance of railways and bridges, led to his selection as bridge engineer of the Boston and Maine R. R., a service which continued 21 years, and, in consequence, his larger service as chief engineer.
Mr. Snow, in habit of mind and action, was not forward or communicative. He was a man who did his own thinking, and to good purpose. This is evident in noting the subject on which he wrote discussions for the American Society of Civil Engineers. Some of the titles are:—Life of Iron Railroad Bridges; Railway Bridge-Designing; Thin Floors for Bridges; Tests of Bridge Members; Wheel Concentrations on Bridges; Movable Bridges; Erection of Arch Bridges; Tests and Manufacture of Steel; Wind Bracing in High Buildings; Forests and Reservoirs, and Steam Flow, etc. For the American Railway and Engineering Association he also wrote discussions and served on committees; During the last two years, in collaboration with the writer, he did the major part of the work in preparing the paper on "A History of the Development of Wooden Bridges,"—written from the engineers' viewpoint. Twenty-four engineers contributed to this treatise valuable information and discussions, increasing by 19 the total of 47 illustrations,thus completing an important chapter for the history of the profession. Whatever of intrinsic merit and authoritative value this publication on a neglected subject may possess are derived from the wide knowledge and experience of Mr. Snow.
The impression which Mr. Snow's personality made on his associates is happily expressed by one of his colleagues, who writes as follows:—"We toere all very fondof Mr. Snow and had great respect for hisability as an engineer and his character asa man. I feel that as a member of the boardof overseers, his sound judgment, commonsense, and practical attitude toward all oftheir problems made him one of the mostvaluable counsellors we have had on thisboard in my recollection."
Mr. Snow was the very ideal of integrity and dependability, a friend, tried and true, through a lifetime of acquaintance.
Robert Fletcher
J. P. Snow
