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Class of 1871
DR. OSCAR JAMES GILCHRIST died January 2, 1933, at his home in Rutland, Vt., after a long period of failing health.
The son of James and Eliza (Gibson) Gilchrist, he was born at Mclndoe Falls, Vt., August 8, 1849. He fitted for college at Mclndoe Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1871. Among his classmates he was known as quiet, studious, kindly; somewhat slow in making friends, but once a friend, always a friend. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.
He studied medicine at Dartmouth and at Long Island Hospital, receiving his degree of M.D. from the latter in 1874. He practiced his profession for two years on the Pacific Coast, then for four years at Mclndoe Falls and Peacham, Vt., and in 1880 settled at Rutland, Vt., for his lifework. The Rutland Herald said of him:
"Dr. Gilchrist served a suffering humanity in this town for more tha?i fifty years,often without remuneration or expectationof it. Always courteous, kindly, and generous to a fault, none left his door withoutbeing served to the best of his ability. Certainly his was a completed life of unselfishservice."
He was a member of Rutland County Medical Association, Rutland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Pulaski Lodge of Masons, Wells River.
October 3, 1876, he married Martha E. E. Bradford, whose mother was the first professor of Greek at Mount Holyoke. He is survived by a daughter, Beth Bradford Gilchrist, Mt. Holyoke 1902, and by a sister, Mrs. A. B. Perry of Belmont, Mass.
Class o£ 1872
GEORGE BARSTOW FRENCH died January 21, 1933, at his home, 75 Concord St., Nashua, N. H., after a protracted and progressive illness from arteriosclerosis, which resulted in a brief attack of pneumonia.
He was born in Tuftonboro, N. H, November 27, 1846, the son of James and Eveline Ann (Moulton) French. His father's ancestors constituted an old and prominent New England family and were among the first settlers of the eastern shore of Lake Winnepesaukee, the eldest of whom, Edward French, arrived in this country from England in 1637 and took up his first residence at Salisbury, Mass. His mother's forbears were pioneers of the wilderness. They gave the name to the present Moultonboro, which lies adjacent to Tuftonboro. Both his mother's grandfathers were Revolutionary soliders. His father was a country merchant in Moultonboro. There Barstow, as he was affectionately designated by his classmates and intimate friends, passed his boyhood and youth.
In 1865 he entered the junior class at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, a Methodist school at Tilton, N. H., where his studious habits and close application to his duties placed him in 1868 at the head of his class of fourteen young men and established his leadership not only as student, but also as public speaker and in original composition. In September, 1868, he entered Dartmouth, and was soon rec- ognized for his superiority in the classroom and in his secret societies and in the public gatherings of the class, for his easy and ready diction and the clarity of his views on all pending subjects. In 1870, in order to eke out his finances, he assisted in the census in Sandwich, Moultonboro, and Tuftonboro.
As was usual in those days, he taught school during the three winters, viz., 1869 at Truro, Mass., and in 1870 and 1871 at Fitzwilliam, N. H. During his entire college course he held an outstanding position in his class. Based on his excellence in his regular and routine duties, he was selected at first in declamation and subsequently in original oration to represent his class. A reference to the program of the Junior Exhibition April 13, 1871, discloses his name as the author and orator of a dissertation entitled "Abolition of Standing Armies." Subsequently in that year he took the Lockwood Prize, an outstanding reward, for excellence in composition and oratory. At Commencement of his graduation he was also a prominent speaker of Phi Beta Kappa rank although, like many of his classmates, he never applied for admission to that society. For excellence in college duties, he was appointed and served as one of a delegation to assemble data for a map of the White Mountains under Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, after receiving his degree.
In 1872 he was chosen as principal of Milford, N. H., High School, and held that post for two years. During his second year there, liaving been influenced by early impressions derived by him from an uncle whose professional life was ended by death, he decided on his future course and commenced the study of law in the office of Wadleigh and Wallace in Milford, and later continued in the same office until the summer of 1875, when he entered the office in Boston of Nathan Morse, a former partner of A. A. Ranney (Dart. 1844), and also attended lectures at Boston University. He was admitted to practice in Suffolk county, Mass., May 24, 1876, and in September, 1876, was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in Hillsborough county, and subsequently became an attorney, proctor, solicitor, and counselor in the federal courts. He opened an office at Nashua, and continued there until his retirement from his profession in 1926 and thereafter until his death.
In his practice he attained conspicuous success. He was placed by his confreres among the ablest at the New Hampshire bar. He was gifted in that he had definite methods in his mental operations, he was ready to take infinite pains in the preparation of the facts and the law of each and all his cases, and when so prepared he was firm in his convictions and carried his points with directness and vigor. At the forum and in the trial of jury causes his earnest and confident presentation of his proofs carried conviction, and no judge or juror ever doubted that he believed his cause was just. In argument, he attempted no oratorical display, but was quietly persuasive, logical, and effective. In this way he achieved his eminence in a large general practice which continued until 1911, when he was able to drop the rough and tumble of jury trials and devote himself more fully to rewards of his intense labors prior to that time, by administering various trusts, which with equity causes and office practice gave him more ease and control over his time. This he continued until 1926, when he was able to retire from daily service and turn over his desk to his able son, George M. French (Dart. 1911), who still maintains the family prestige at the same address.
In addition to these professional duties he found time to accomplish what in most cases would have been for others a lifetime of service. Among other items are to be noted his activity for eleven years as president of the Nashua Trust Company; president of the Bar Association of New Hampshire in 1901, including the delivery of the presidential address on February 4, 1901, at the celebration of John Marshall's Day at Manchester, N. H., reported in full in the Annual Records 1901 of the Association at page 275; directorship for many years in the Pennichuck Water Works, an outstanding utility in Nashua which guards the health of the citizens and protects their property against fire; service on the Nashua Board of Education for a long term of years; guidance of proceedings in securing the adoption of the celebrated non-partisan charter for the city of Nashua, a document of outstanding importance among the city charters of the state of New Hampshire, which was the child of a Non-Partisan Civic League of which he was president and which he organized to secure its preparation, enactment, and adoption by the voters; chairmanship of the Legal Advisory Board for his district under the Selective Service Act of 1918 to aid in the draft for soldiers of the World War; co-operation in all the "drives" of the war with force and earnestness as well as loyalty; also member of the Constitutional Convention of the state in 1889. To his great credit three other items of importance by way of recognition of his merits should be noted, viz., (1) in 1889 Governor Goodale appointed him one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the state of New Hampshire; (2) in 1893 Governor John B. Smith invited him to accept an appointment by him to the bench of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire; and (3) in 1898 Governor George A. Ramsdell requested him to accept the appointment by him as chief justice of the same court. All these three high honors he felt constrained to decline, because he was convinced that he could better serve his state, his community, and his family by continuing the practice of the law and attending to more humble but important duties. In politics he was a Republican.
During a large part of this active period of his life until after he had retired he found time to serve with great self-denial and conspicuous success, but without compensation, as secretary of his class from 1917 to 1932, when on account of ill health he was compelled reluctantly to resign. During that period he was able to issue a volume which he modestly named "Supplement to History of the Class of Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Two," although in size and importance it bears the marks of a volume. In recent years from 1928 to 1932 he had the clerical assistance of an assistant secretary, but he was officially the secretary and bore all reasonable share in the performance of the duties by way of advice and in supply of information. As further proof of his loyalty to Dartmouth, it will be noted that both his male children received their degrees from his Alma Mater; Robert A. in 1905 and George M. in 1911. He was also and always a liberal contributor to the Tucker Alumni Fund, and always ready to assist the College in any way within his power.
His early religious attachment was with the Methodist Episcopal church o£ Moultonboro, in the membership of which he was affiliated in 1860, and which he retained until he joined the First Congregational church of Nashua, where he served in numerous offices. He was a member of the DKE society, Pi Chapter, of Dartmouth, and of the Rising Sun Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Nashua Country Club.
For recreation the out-of-doors always attracted him. In his vacation periods he naturally turned to the pursuit and development of the tastes of his youth. His fishing rods and his guns were his companions. His choice of locations for their use reached from New Hampshire to Maine and Newfoundland. Evidence of his skill surrounded him in his refined and spacious home. Modest pictures of salmon, trout, bass, and other catches of large size showed his prowess with the rod in New Hampshire and Newfoundland, and photographs of antlered deer proved his skill in the chase at his hunting lodge in northern Maine. It was a source of satisfaction to him that among his trophies of the chase was a white, or albino, deer such as none of his friends or associates had ever seen alive. In his last years, for milder amusement, he chose the study of wild flowers and plants, where his Latin was put to use anew. In his last letters he wrote of celastrus scandens (bitter-sweet) and lycopodium complanatum (ground pine) and lycopodium clavatum (stag moss) as among his favorite finds and collections.
An editorial, entitled by his name in a Nashua publication, summarized his life by stating among other complimentary facts, that "he achieved foremost rankamong the legal fraternity of New Hampshire not only through the brilliancy ofhis intellect, his personal integrity andstrength of character, but by his steadfast,courageous, and we may say spiritual, adherence to the highest ideals of the practiceof the legal profession." "Our civic affairsare better, our institutional activities arebroader, the church of which he was apillar is stronger, because of his well-filled and active life."
On December 24, 1879, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah French Burnham, daughter of a prominent Milford hardware merchant and banker. Four children were born of the union, three of whom survive. They are George M. French (Dart. 1911 A.8., Boston University 1914 LL.B. cum laude) who succeeds his father in his practice at Nashua; a daughter Ruth H. (Smith College 1902 8.A., Columbia University 1910 8.5., president of Smith College Alumnae Association 1929-1932); another daughter, Helen 8., graduated from Nashua High School, attended Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., and Smith College There are also two grandchildren, a son and a daughter of George M. French and Margaret Whittemore French, his wife, formerly of Middletown, Ohio.
Another son Robert A. (Dart. 1905 A.8., Harvard University Law School 1908), lawyer in Nashua until commissioned captain of Bureau of Military Intelligence, War Department, Washington; three terms in New Hampshire House of Representatives; associate justice Nashua Police Court. He died in service at Washington, D. C., December 17, 1918.
On Tuesday, January 24, 1933, a service in memory of George B. French at 1:30 o'clock P.M. was held at his beautiful home, 75 Concord St., Nashua, N. H., at which Rev. Earl F. Nauss, pastor of the First Congregational church, officiated, and at which were present a liberal delegation from his Dartmouth class of '72, and the Nashua, County, and New Hampshire Bar Associations and numerous social and fraternal organizations were represented; city officials and prominent local business men and famous professional men from other parts of the state attended. Among the honorary pall bearers were Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert J. Peaslee of Manchester (Dart. A.M. 1898); Frank N. Parsons of Franklin (Dart. A.B. 1874, LL.D.); Superior Court Chief Justice William H. Sawyer of Concord; Justice John Scammon of Exeter; Justice Oscar L. Young of Laconia; Justice Henri A. Burque of Nashua; Mayor William F. Sullivan; Probate Judge George A. Wagner of Manchester; J. J. Doyle, Esq., and John R. Spring of Nashua; Dr. Frank Kittredge; Dr. Frank A. Dearborn; Dr. Henry Mann Silver and George H. Fletcher of New York, N. Y.; and Hon. Albert L. Bartlett of Haverhill, Mass., the last three being classmates of Dart. '72, and Elliott A. Carter of Nashua.
Beautiful floral pieces surrounded the casket. Prominent among them were those of Boston University and a green pillow bearing a large white "D" and the figures "1872" from the Dartmouth Class of '72. The Nashua Bar Association attended in a body and also delegations from the New Hampshire Bar Association and local graduates of Boston University and Rising Sun Lodge A.F. & A.M.
Interment was in the family plot in Edgewood Cemetery.
Class of 1873
NATHANIEL WATSON LADD was found dead in his office in Pemberton Square, Boston, which had been his home for many years, October 25, 1932. He had been last seen October 15, and that may be considered as the probable date of his death.
The son of Dr. Daniel Watson and Lucy Ann (Dustin) Ladd, he was born in Derry, N. H., January 7, 1848, and prepared for college at Pemberton Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.
For the first year after graduation he was Southern representative of Ginn Brothers (now Ginn and Company), text-book publishers, with his headquarters at Louisville, Ky. He then came to Boston and resumed the study of law, which he had previously begun, was graduated from Boston University with the degree of LL.B. in 1875, was admitted to the bar the same year, and began practice in 1876 in Pemberton Square, then filled with law offices, and had his office and his bachelor apartment there for the rest of his life.
In his younger days he was interested in Republican politics, and was a member of the Common Council in 1886 and 1887, and of the state House of Representatives in 1890 and 1891.
He was a devoted bicycle rider, having taken journeys on his wheel which would total to thousands of miles, and pedaled his way about the city until the last. He was also a skillful manager of the canoe, and made many long canoe trips until well advanced in years.
Mr. Ladd was a member of the Boston Athletic Association, of which he was one year president, of the Bostonian Society, the Boston Art Club, and the American Bar Association.
His nearest surviving relatives are nephews and nieces. He outlived his two younger brothers in the classes of 1877 and 1878.
Class of 1877
DR. WILLIAM FRANKLIN TEMPLE died in a hospital in Boston, February 2, 1933, his health having been gradually failing for several years.
He was born in the Dorchester district of Boston, December 16, 1854, his parents being William Franklin and Millia H. (French) Temple, and prepared for college at Dorchester High School. Of average scholarship and no athletic interests, he was a fine singer and possessed of social traits that made him one of the best known and best liked men in the class. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Glee Club.
After graduation he studied medicine at Harvard, finishing his course in 1880, but not receiving his degree until 1881, having served the intervening year in Boston City Hospital. He completed his internship there January 1, 1882, and then spent several months in European travel. On his return, he opened an office in Boston in September, 1882, and continued in practice there during the rest of his active life, becoming one of the best known and most successful general practitioners in the city.
He was a member of the usual professional societies, and had served on the staff of various hospitals and dispensaries. At one time he was an unsuccessful candidate for membership of the city school board, which was his only incursion into political life.
He was one of the most loyal of all our group to the class and its activities, and missed but two of all our reunions from the third to the fiftieth anniversary. No one more than "Billy" Temple was the life of these occasions.
September 30, 1886, he was married to Mary Alice, daughter of John Ferrin of Boston, who died September 23, 1918. Three sons survive them, all educated at Harvard: Dr. William F. Jr., who was associated with his father in practice and succeeds him; Samuel, living in Boston; and Richard, in Hollywood, Calif.
WILLIAM MORRILL LEAVITT died at his home in Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., September 5, 1932, of an intestinal stop- page, after an illness of ten days. The news has only just come to the Secretary.
He was born in Lebanon, N. H., April 25. 1853, the son of William Z. and Fannie (Merrill) Leavitt, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department under private instruction at home. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).
After leaving college he did newspaper work in connection with the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle and the New HampshireNews until the spring of 1876. He then went to Providence, R. I., and except for some extended periods of illness was connected in various capacities with the Providence Journal until January, 1890, when he received an appointment in the Government Printing Office in Washington. Beginning as compositor, he was soon promoted to proofreader, and about 1900 to assistant foreman, which position he held until his retirement in 1924. Since that time he has been agreeably employed in the care of a large garden and various community interests, some of which were connected with the activities of a Pres by terian church, of which he was an officer. He was also a member of the Masonic order. Until his final illness he enjoyed good health in recent years, and last summer took an automobile trip with his wife to New Hampshire. For many years he has been one of the Secretary's regular, if not frequent, correspondents, and has shown a real interest in his one time classmates.
September 15, 1879, he was married to Ella L., daughter of Thomas M. Himes of Natick, Mass., who died November 26, 1882. A second marriage, October 1, 1895, was to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Jose- phus and Anna (Fenton) Renner of Sharpsburg, Md., who survives him. There were no children of either marriage.
Class of 1890
IRA FRAZIER LIBBY, a member of the class in 1886-87, died at his home, 30 Chilton Road, West Roxbury, Mass., January 31, 1933. Although a non-graduate, Libby always kept his interest in Dartmouth and was a regular attendant at the annual dinner of the alumni association in Boston.
He was the son of George H. and Nancy (Emery) Libby, and was born in West Buxton, Me.. Oct. 18. 1867. He fitted for college at Limington Academy. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After leaving college he went into business, and for twenty years he traveled through New England, representing North Fisk Co., later the John H. North Co., wholesale hatters.
He was a charter member of both the Commercial Travelers' Eastern Accident Association and the Commercial Travelers' Boston Benefit Association; was elected a director of both associations in 1906, and became secretary-treasurer in March, 1910. Since July, 1925, he had served as secretary- treasurer of the International Federation of Commercial Travelers' Insurance Organizations, which has a membership of approximately 900,000. He was widely known in insurance circles. He was also a member of the Boston City club.
He leaves a widow, Annie Spencer Libbv; two daughters, Sarah and Anna G. Libby; a son, George E. Libby of Newton, Mass.; a sister, Eliza S. Libby of West Buxton, Me.; and a brother, Richard J. Libby of Augusta, Me.
Funeral services were held at the home February second.
Class of 1898
It is with genuine sorrow that the Secretary reports that ALLAN BOUTON PATTERSON, affectionately called by his classmates "Pat," died January 24, 1933, in St. Helena Sanitarium, St. Helena, Calif., following an operation.
Patterson came from a distinguished ancestry and was born in Concord, N. H., January 82, 1875. His father, Joab Nelson Patterson, was one of the able generals in the Civil War and a very prominent Dartmouth man. "Pat" received his A. B. from Dartmouth in 1898. He was one of the volunteers for service in the Spanish-American War and later entered the Yale School of Forestry. For some time he was assistant on boundary work in California. After graduating from the School of Forestry in 1904 he was assigned to land examination for private owners in the East and in Florida as technical assistant in the Forest Service. In 1907 he resigned to practice private forestry with the late A. K. Chittenden. He was reinstated in 1908, and became chief of the Federal Forestry Co-operation in the Forester's office, and was transferred to California in 1910, as supervisor of the Sequoia, where he remained until his health compelled him to ask for a year's furlough in March, 1916. He resigned a year later, and has devoted himself entirely to the care of his prune ranch since then near the town of Napa, Calif.
Last summer he was lookout on Banner Mountain on the Tahoe, where he served faithfully and well until late fall, when he was taken seriously ill while on duty with the sickness that resulted fatally.
He was unmarried. He was one of the most lovable men in the class, always cheerful, always loyal, always a welcome addition to any group of Dartmouth men He will be greatly missed.
Class of 1903
AZRO KARL SKINNER died in the Burbank Hospital, Fitchburg, Mass., on January 28, 1933, after an automobile accident on the Lunenburg Center highway in Massa- chusetts the day before. He was driving to Haverhill to officiate at a wedding, when for some unknown reason his car left the road and collided with a tree. Karl suffered a fractured skull and several broken bones, and although everything possible was done immediately for him, he passed away without regaining consciousness. The funeral was held on Tuesday, January 31, at Lakeville, Conn., where only two months ago he buried his wife after a long illness. He leaves a daughter, Charlotte, just ten years old, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth S. Redington and Mrs. Adolph W. Pressler, both of Keene, N. H.
Memorial services were held at the Congregational chuch in Canaan, Conn., and at the North Congregational church of Haverhill, Mass., where he formerly held pastorates, on Sunday, February 5.
Azro Karl Skinner was born in Keene, N. H., August 19, 1879, son of Azro and Sophia (Wellman) Skinner. He graduated from the Keene High School in 1899 and from Dartmouth College in 1903. While in his course he was an enthusiastic worker for the Y.M.C.A., and at the time of his death was president of the Alumni Committee of the Dartmouth Christian Association.
In 1903-4 and in 1906-9 he was graduate secretary to the D.C.A., and was secretary to the president of the College in 1910-12. He resigned this position to take charge of the Civic Association at Norwood, Mass., again moving on to New York city to accept a business opening with the Eastern Utilities Company in New York. Later while studying for the ministry he did a large amount of social service work.
On May 15, 1917, he married Martha Norton of Lakeville, Conn., from which union a daughter, Faith, was born, January 6, 1918 ( died at birth), and a daughter, Charlotte Norton, September 28, 1921.
In September, 1922, he resigned his pastorate in the Congregational church of Canaan, Conn., where he had been since 1919, to become pastor of the North Congregational church at Haverhill, Mass. There he held a successful pastorate of ten years. During this period he was deeply interested in the welfare of the city of Haverhill, serving upon a citizens' committee to help solve the difficulties of shoe workers and employers, and belonging to several organizations for the advancement of the city's interest. He was also a member of the Essex North Ministers' Association, the Pilgrim Club, a ministers' organization in Boston, and a member of the committee on social and moral welfare of the state conference. Toward the close of the tenth year of his pastorate he felt compelled to resign, the better to give himself to the care of his wife, who was losing ground in her battle with disease. He accordingly accepted the pulpit at Lakeville, Conn., the home of Mrs. Skinner.
The memory of Karl of our college days is that of a frank, honest, straight-thinking classmate, always radiating good cheer and helpfulness, doing his best at all times whether in the halls of the D.C.A., on the track, in the Glee Club, at class work, or in the college festivities. His influence was large and always uplifting. No derogatory opinions ever passed his lips. He had faith in and hope for his fellow man. In a letter received from Karl on January 13, 1933, he wrote in part as follows: "Friendships which can and do standacross the years are one of the great buttresses of morale. It is a mighty challengeto me these days to be worthy the confidence of my friends. I am blessed withwonderful memories and with high hopes,and so I mean to carry life along."
Class of 1911
ANDREW BRUCE ("ARBY") PROUDFIT died an Barley, Idaho, on January 4, 1933, thus ending his long fight with tuberculosis.
Arby was born August 3, 1888, at Edinboro, Pa. He attended the public schools in that city and entered Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, with the class of 1910. After two years at that institution, he transferred to Dartmouth in the fall of 1908, entering with an advanced standing the class of 1911. At Oberlin Arby had been a promising basketball player, but due to injuries to his kness was forced to forego any participation in this sport while he was in Hanover.
He was a member of the DKE fraternity, but his other extracurricular activities appeared to be confined to developing a philosophy that was always amusing to listeners. He was one of that type of men who add atmosphere and flavor to a group through the processes of conversation. Eager and positive in argument, usually choosing the unpopular side of the debate, Arby was frequently the center of a "bull session" which passed alternately from heated and fervent statement to outbursts of laughter. Such a man, while his circle of acquaintances was limited, made many friends from such acquaintances and won the real affection of a number of men.
Upon being graduated in February of 1911, Arby entered the employ of the Niagara Life Insurance Company at Buffalo, N. Y. Subsequently he succeeded George Morris as secretary and clerk to the president of the Sherwin-Williams Paint Company of Cleveland, Ohio. After spending some years in Cleveland Arby's health compelled him to seek a milder climate. He went in 1916 to Vero, Fla., and there engaged in the fruit-growing industry. While a resident of Vero, he married Miss Marie Mac Donald of Toledo, Ohio, in 1919. Their daughter, Dorothy, was born to them at Toledo on the 20th day of September, 1920.
An incipient tuberculosis compelled Arby's removal to a more arid climate. As a consequence he moved to Burley, Idaho, in 1926, and there took up the raising of sheep. Real progress in his fight with tuberculosis was made until March of 1931. At that time a severe blizzard struck his sheep in the lambing season and scattered them rather badly. His effort to save the sheep and collect them necessitated an exposure to the elements which resulted in a cold and a setting-up of the active stage of his disease. He was taken to the State Hospital at Boise, Idaho, and after what appeared satisfactory progress was "invalided" therefrom in the spring of 1932. His progress on the home treatment was not adequate, however, and he died on the 4th of January, 1933. Surviving him are his widow and his daughter, Dorothy, now aged twelve years.
While none of the members of the class have seen Arby for some time, a number have kept contact with him. These contacts were believed to be of immense value to him in the last year of so of his life, as they kept him from being isolated in poor health and the depressed economic condition of the community in which he was a resident. He will always be remembered by the men who knew him at all well as a delightful companion and as one who gave "color" to every-day existence.
Class of 1912
HOWARD HOLLON CROWELL died in Burbank Hospital, Fitchburg, Mass., January 5, 1933. During the latter part of last year, "Holly," as he was known to us, suffered a serious nervous breakdown and was ordered by his doctors to leave his home at 30 Winnetaska Road, Waban, Mass., for a long rest.
He was born December 13, 1890, at Swampscott, Mass., his parents being Howard Horton and Harriet Belle (South- worth) Crowell. He graduated in 1908 from the Fitchburg High School, and entered Dartmouth that same year. His career in college was one of colorful activity. He was interested in athletic sports, playing on the class football team and being captain of the Gun Club shooting team. In addition he was business manager of Jack-O-Lantern during his senior year. His fraternity was Chi Phi.
After graduation "Holly" went immediately into the banking business. July 1, 1913, he was married to Haidee C. Shirreffs of Fitchburg. At the beginning of the World War he enlisted in the Air Service, serving with distinction and rising to a captaincy. He acted as maintenance officer at Kelley Field, Texas. In 1921 he formed the investment brokerage firm of H. Hollon Crowell, with offices at 50 Congress St., Boston. During the past five or six years his name has figured prominently in the social and financial affairs of Boston. He was particularly well known as a horseman, owning a fine string of jumpers which were frequently show winners under the direction of Danny Shea. The best of his string he sold two years ago. His stable competed in both the Boston and New York Horse Shows, and he was an active worker on the committee in charge of the annual horse-lovers' dinner in Boston. Previously he was a dog fancier, and acted as judge at the 1931 Eastern Dog Club show. His interest in Dartmouth and 1912 affairs was a true and loyal one, and his home and office were an open invitation. The news of his passing is a deep shock. He had no children, and is survived by his mother and his widow.
Class of 1919
AMOS PEASE ROWELL died in the Presbyterian Hospital, New York city, December 24, 1932, of Hodgkin's disease, after an illness of nine weeks.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., March 5, 1896, his parents being Warren C. and Lillie M. (Pease) Rowell, and prepared for college at the high school of White Plains, N. Y., where his home then was. He was a member of the freshman cross country team, and was on the varsity squad. At the close of junior year he enlisted in the Signal Corps, and was in training for six months, after which he returned to college. In senior year he took the Tuck School course. His fraternity was Sigma Phi Epsilon.
After graduation he was with the H. W. Wilson Company, a publishing house, for about two years, and then entered the employ of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in accounting work. He spent some time successively in Scranton, Albany, and Cleveland, and then in New York city. In December, 1929, he was transferred to the Paterson, N. J., office, where he was doing cost accounting at the time of his fatal illness.
He was a Mason, being a member of Roome Lodge in New York city. When in the city in 1927-9 he was active in the North Presbyterian church, being a trustee and secretary of the board of trustees. May 16, 1927, he was married to Helen F., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Pattenden of New York city, who survives him, with their daughter Nancy Jane, aged four. Mrs. Rowell is living at 414 West 120 th St., New York.
Medical School
Class of 1883
DR. CHARLES COLBY LARRABEE died of apoplexy at his home in Prospect Harbor, Me., December 27, 1932.
He was born in Carroll, Me., December 12, 1846, the son of John A. and Hannah (Martin) Larrabee. He attended the public schools of his native town, graduated from Lee (Me.) Academy, and after further study at Bangor Commercial College was engaged in business for a number of years.
Deciding to undertake the study of medicine, he began his course at Bowdoin and finished at Dartmouth, obtaining his degree in November, 1882, in the class of 1883. For a short time he practiced at Kingman, Me., but in 1884 removed to Prospect Harbor, where he remained in active and successful general practice until a few months before his death. He was keenly interested in all public and community matters, especially in those which concerned the schools, of which he was for some years superintendent. An appreciative notice in the local paper ends thus: "His name was synonymous with all thatstood for friendship, for high citizenship,and for unselffishness."
He was twice married. His first wife was Annie C. Marble of Shirley, Me., who died many years ago. Two sons of this marriage survive: Dr. Leo L. Larrabee of Lee, Me., and Dr. Fay F. Larrabee of Washburn, Me. September x, 1909, he was married to Maria, daughter of George and Letilla (Fernald) Bunker of Franklin, Me., who survives him.
Class of 1885
DR. JOSEPH PIERRE ST. GERMAIN died of coronary thrombosis at his home in New Bedford, Mass., November 17, 1932, after an illness of five weeks.
He was born in Sherbrooke, Que., April 19, 1863, the son of Pierre Domino and Vitalie (L'Eveque) St. Germain. His preparatory education was obtained at the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Sherbrooke, and the greater part of his medical course was taken at McGill University.
After his graduation he practiced for a short time in Keene, N. H., and Manchester, N. H., removing to New Bedford in 1889, and continuing there in successful practice for the remainder of his life. He served for many years as medical inspector for the city schools and also for the Board of Health.
He was a member of the Sanitary Reserve Corps of Massachusetts, the New Bedford and Massachusetts Medical Societies, the Wamsutta Club, the Dartmouth Club, and the New Bedford Yacht Club. He was a communicant of St. James' Catholic church.
November 29, 1917, he was married to Alice J., daughter of George Taber and Hannah Marie (Macoulla) Macomber, who survives him. They had no children. Two brothers and five sisters of Dr. St. Germain also survive him.
Class of 1891
DR. SAMUEL PERLEY STRICKLAND died at the Waltham (Mass.) Hospital, January 15, 1933. after an illness of five weeks.
He was born in Livermore, Me., November 3, 1865, the son of Augustus Henry and Augusta (Perley) Strickland. His medical studies were begun at Bowdoin, and finished at Dartmouth, where he obtained his degree in the fall of 1890 in the class of 1891.
After practicing his profession in Washington, Me., for eight years, he removed in 1898 to Waltham, Mass., where he engaged in general practice until his final illness, a septic infection whch began on December 12, 1932. He was a member of the staffs of the Waltham Hospital and the Newton Hospital, and was a 32d degree Mason.
March 7, 1894, he was married to Rhoda Russell Chase, by whom he has one surviving son, Samuel Perley Jr., and on April 8, 1916, to Bessie Lee, daughter of Albert Wright and Alice (Wallace) Sherlock, who survives him, with their two sons, Lee and Philo Weston Strickland.
George Barstow French
