Class of 1897

Archie Mills is still in business at Seattle, and is living with his younger son, Hayden C., at 8046 17th Avenue Northeast. His older son, Archibald R., is engaged in the practice of law in Los Angeles, a city in southern California.

Warren W. Hart has interests which go beyond his State St. law office in Boston. He is an out-of-door man with an active membership in both the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Canadian Alpine Club. Between the severity of mountain peaks and the roar of metropolitan traffic comes the serenity of a pastoral interest. Hart has an apple orchard in Pembroke, N. H. Gravensteins, Mclntoshes, Bellflowers, Northern Spies, and Roxbury Russets form a perfect series from August to May, and apple blossoms and growing fruit attract Hart to his pleasant Pembroke hillside frequently during the summer months.

George P. Parker is now serving his fourth year as selectman in the town of Pepperell, Mass. He is shipping clerk for the Pepperell Card and Paper Mills. Mrs. Parker died last summer. She was Estelle J. Clark of Littleton, Mass., and, at the time of her marriage, was a school teacher. Mrs. Parker has been in poor health for a number of years. There were no children.

Anson W. Brown, after a summer spent as usual at his home in Leominster, Mass., has returned to his year's work in Cooperstown, N. Y. Brown is a teacher in private schools, and has an excellent reputation for scholarly attainments and for success as an instructor.

Hamilton Gibson and family have just returned from holidays spent on the beach at Passagrille, St. Petersburg, Fla.

The Secretary recently was able to see work done by an collateral ancestor who graduated from Dartmouth more than a century ago. Sherman Hall, 1829, Andover Theological Seminary 1831, with his young wife, went as the first missionary to the Ojibwa Indians of northern Wisconsin. They made their home at La Pointe on the Apostle Islands, and the daughter Har- riet was the first pure white child of American ancestry to be born in the Lake Superior country west of the Sault Saint Marie. Hall in 1832, with his college and seminary classmate W. T. Boutwell, largely with his own hands, built the Mission House at La Pointe and, two years later, built a church edifice. Both buildings are still standing in an excellent state of preservation. The centenary of the mission house was celebrated last summer. In this building the first Protestant church in northern Wisconsin was organized, and in it Hall made the Ojibwa tongue a written language. He prepared a grammar, hymn book, and translation of the New Testament. The white pine timbers of these buildings show the scoring of axes wielded a century ago by two young Dartmouth graduates. *

Secretary, State Capitol, Hartford, Conn.