Deaths
ALUMNI NOTES
Necrology
Class of 1882
The following tribute to the late Rev. Dr. William E. Strong, written by his colleague, Rev. Dr. James L. Barton, and published in the Congregationalist of March 22, is a fitting supplement to the notice given in the Necrology of the April MAGAZINE:
William E. Strong was a friendly man, who quickly won and firmly held his placein the esteem, and even the affection, of awide circle of associates. In his three pastorates prior to his coming to the AmericanBoard there were many who continued toregard him as a personal friend as long ashe lived. His cordial manner invited friendship and confidence, and his sympathy withthose in trouble made him the counselor ofmany and the special friend of all whoknew him best.
Dr. Strong's sense of humor and keen witamounted almost to a sixth sense. He sawthe ridiculous side of things ahead of theordinary run of mortals. It would have beengood business for a newspaper paragrapherto follow him about and sit with him inconferences simply to take down his racyremarks and quick responses which so readily sprang forth from his tongue in theordinary course of routine matters inchurch and missionary gatherings or in theregular meetings of the Cabinet and Prudential Committee of the American Board.These came as spontaneously as breathing,and without effort or premeditation.
He was a writer of exceptional ability inhappiness and versatility of expression. Inhis seminary days at Hartford he was recognized as the most brilliant writer in hisclass. It was not unusual to hear a classmate remark: "I cannot afford to skip theexercises today, for Strong is to have apaper." His class in Dartmouth gave himwilling place as a man of exceptional facility with his pen. He was for many yearssecretary of his class and the author of thesemi-centennial record of the class of 1882.
It was natural that when the AmericanBoard was looking for someone to preparethe centennial history of its operations athome and abroad it should turn to theson of Elnathan Strong, for 20 years itseditor so widely recognized by those closest to him as a brilliant writer in his ownright as the one to do the job. With reluctance he undertook the task, and in 1910appeared "The Story of the American Board," a volume of over 500 pages whichfor twenty years or more has held its placeas authoritative, accurate, and a model forcondensation and facility of expression.
What may be a surprise to many is thatDr. Strong was no mean poet, a fact so wellknown to his associates in the Board rooms.His poetic efforts were usually put forth tocommemorate some special event like thedeparture of a colleague, the annual gettogether lunch at Christmas, or some otheroutstanding event. The singing of carols atChristmas time, followed, by a special service in the Board rooms and a lunch inwhich all the occupants of the seventh floorparticipated, became in recent years theoccasion for a poetic production from Dr.Strong, even after he was not physicallyable to participate. The last stanza of hiscontribution for 1931 reads:
So let's cheer up and crack a smile;We can't be gloomy all the while;If the Board is hard beset,It isn't going to pieces yet.Nor we ourselves, who still can functionAt one more Christmas Carol luncheon.
In 1930, after receiving a book of remembrance from friends in India, he said:
Thank you one and all, my hearties,For this tribute of goodwill.Truly, whatso'er your part isYou have helped my cup to fill.
After his first severe heart attack, whenhis physician ordered him "to lie flat on hisback" for an indefinite period, he sent in apoem entitled, "Flat on Your Back." Thefirst stanza is:
When you're flat on your backThere's something you lack,Though you may not know just what tocall it.
Big things fade away;Little things have their day;And it's work to keep up with your toilet.
Perhaps Dr. Strong's best known andmost widely quoted "quip" was after anextended absence from the office, when hesurprised his associates on his return byannouncing:
From every stormy wind that blows,From every swelling tide of woes,There is a calm, a sure retreat.'Tis found at 14 Beacon Street.
Class of 1886
A true son of New Hampshire in background as in residence, few are the men of the present generation who have received greater honor or rendered more unselfish and unremitting service to a native State than Judge Snow, who died of angina pectoris at his home in Rochester on March 16, 1934.
LESLIE PERKINS SNOW was born at Snowvine—Eaton—N. H., October 10, 1862. The family was lineally descended from Nicholas Snow, who landed at Plymouth in 1623 and married Constance Hopkins, who had come in the Mayflower three years before. After the close of the Revolution the Snows appeared in New Hampshire, where they have remained to the present time.
Leslie's father, Edwin Snow, was a prominent business man and political leader in Carroll county for nearly half a century. He married Marion Helen Perkins, a woman of strong character and high ideals. The son imbibed the atmosphere of the home, shared the purposes of the parents, and took kindly to the ways of a New England and village. He was a man long before he reached his majority he taught school when he was but sixteen years old.
His early education was limited to the meager stipend of a country school. For a short time he attended Bridgton Academy at North Bridgton, Me. Finally he reached Fryeburg Academy, an institution of much reputation as once having been presided over by Daniel Webster. May we not wonder if it were not the prestige of Webster that turned the thoughts of the young man toward a college course, and when the decision was made directed his steps toward Dartmouth and even more than that determined the bent of his mind and the choice of a profession? At any rate Leslie played the part.
During the five years following graduation in 1886, he did many things. He presided over town meetings at home and was elected representative to the state legislature for two years. He studied law at the Columbian University in Washington, meanwhile serving the government as pension examiner both in the West and at the Capital. In 1888 he married Susan Currier of Haverhill, N. H.—the sons who survive him being born in 1889 and in 1890. More mature than the average college man, Leslie rapidly found his place as a responsible citizen with a sense of reality and an outlook on life that promised to carry him far as a factor to be reckoned with in whatever he undertook to do.
In 1891 he became a partner in the law firm of Worcester, Gafney, and Snow at Rochester, where under different styles he remained for thirty years, becoming one of the most skillful lawyers of the state and often appearing before the Supreme Court at Washington. He was chosen director and chief counsel for the Boston and Maine Railroad, as well as president of the New Hampshire Bar Association. As early as 1917 he declined an appointment to the Superior Court, but four years later we find him on the bench of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. His was the longest term in the history of the state, and notable for several decisions of national importance which have clarified the relations between capital and labor. He retired from the bench in 1932, having reached the age limit prescribed by law, since which he has been one of the busiest men in New Hampshire, both as an advocate in partnership with his son Conrad, and as the guiding hand in a number of institutions with which he was intimately concerned. He had no time for a vacation.
Judge Snow was a man of many interests beside those of his profession. He was an expert in financial matters. He early became a director of the Rochester National Bank and later its president. He fulfilled similar functions for the Rochester Trust Company and became president of the New Hampshire Banking Association. He also served as president of the Prudential Fire Insurance Company. No doubt it was his fidelity to responsibilities like these that during the last year overtaxed his strength and hastened the end, which should have been postponed for ten years at least.
There were few enterprizes for the welfare or honor of his city in which he did not have a part. Charity, education, culture, social leadership, religion—all looked to Judge Snow for encouragement. He was supporter and president of the Gafney Home for the Aged, member of the Rochester school board, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, patron of the arts and sciences, and a traveler of wide range. He was member and first president of the Kiwanis, a Mason of high degree, as well as an Odd Fellow and Elk, and an influential member of the Congregational church. His interest in things of the past was broad and profound. At the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of New Hampshire Judge Snow was selected for the oration.
During these years he was a member of the Convention called every decade for the revision of the constitution of the state and took a leading part. He was elected to serve his district in the State Senate, of which he was chosen president, a position which was equivalent to that of lieutenant governor elsewhere. During the World War he was active as chairman of the committee of safety in Rochester, as chairman of the Liberty Loan drives, and as a speaker for the cause. Few men offer more phases of distinguished citizenship than he; few men of Dartmouth have a fuller record of service for God and man, for individual helpfulness and social fidelity, for sympathetic understanding and intelligent efficiency, than this son of the Granite State, Leslie Perkins Snow.
The first wife died early, leaving the Judge with two sons. The older—Conrad E. was graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1912; a Phi Beta Kappa in rank. He received the Rhodes Scholarship, graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1915. He studied law at Harvard and joined his father in the practice of law at Rochester in 1917. The other son, Leslie Whitmore, of the same class at Dartmouth, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1914. He became a second lieutenant in the Engineering Corps of the United States Army and major of ordnance two years later. He is now vice-president of the Chase Securities Company of New York. Both sons saw military service in the World War—both are married and have children. In 1895 Judge Snow married Norma Cutter Currier, a sister of the first wife, who has been a true mother to his children and a strong support to her husband during the long years of a busy and exacting career. Theirs has been the ideal home for themselves as for the host of friends they have made.
Judge Snow had a gift for service. Able in many directions, he was eagerly ready to help his fellows. His training made him the equal of the best of his contemporaries. He was at home not only in his profession but in the multitudinous life of his generation. He was completely socialized. His ethical outlook gave him standing where men, equally able but less conscientious, fell down. With him duty was a large word, but with it went a loyalty that never faltered, an industry that was never satisfied, a good will that was never exhausted. He ignored nobody, slighted nothing, yet kept his honor unsullied. Anywhere, everywhere, he could be trusted—by foe as by friend, by poor as by rich, by the humble as well as by the lofty and proud. A man of many talents, of happy temperament and hopeful attitude toward his kind, character was his greatest asset. Noteworthy as was his popularity, it was never at the expense of principle; more frequently it was the result of it. In 1928 he made a gift to the College Library of a bronze replica of Cyrus Dallin's statue entitled "An Appeal to the Great Spirit." It was a gift of Snow himself. He was one of the best-loved men of his class, never too busy to serve the unfortunate however unworthy, never so absorbed in his own affairs as to forget the ties that bind college men together. As secretary of his class, no one could think of him otherwise than as a constant and personal friend.
The funeral, which was held on March 19, was a notable occasion. Among the honorary bearers were those who had been or were governors of the state, members of the Supreme Court, and representatives of larger as well as of local institutions. Delegations from fraternal organizations, from the county bar association, and from the New Hampshire bankers were in attendance. Several of his classmates added to the impressive throng; while thousands who had known him in the various walks of life assembled not so much to do him honor as to voice a personal sorrow. Shops were closed during the obsequies; and the emblems of grief everywhere displayed, marked the hour as one long to be remembered in the state that gave him birth, as well as in the city where he had lived so nobly and so well. L. O. W.
Class of 1904
JOHN CROSBY VOSE died at his home in Ashburnham, Mass., June 28, 1933, from pneumonia and the effects of a nervous breakdown.
The son of James Edward and Elizabeth (Stickney) Vose, he was born in Ashburnham, June 5, 1881. His father, a recipient of the honorary degree of A.M. in 1881, was at the time principal of Cushing Academy. He prepared for college at Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain, N. Y. His stay at Dartmouth was not long, most of his college course being taken at Colgate University, where, however, he did not graduate. At Colgate he played on three varsity football teams, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After leaving college he entered business with a fireproofing company, and later became associated with Moffatt Yard Cos., publishers. In 1909 he entered the employ of A. L. Burt Cos., publishers, of New York, with whom he continued for the rest of his life, becoming their senior salesman and New England sales manager. Since 1923 his residence has been in Ashburnham, where he built a summer home, "Rippledge," on Lake Naukeag.
He was a member of several Masonic bodies, including the Shrine. He was highly esteemed by the "trade," by the house which employed him, and by his neighbors and fellow townsmen.
In 1904 Mr. Vose was married to Mary Josephine, daughter of Alvah Benton and Mary Elizabeth (Simmons) Piatt of Albany, N. Y„ who survives him. They had no children.
Class of 1907
FREDERIC EDWARDS, known to his classmates as "Shorty," died at his home in Longmeadow, Mass., March 14, 1934, of heart disease, after an illness of several weeks.
He was born at Hyde, near Manchester, England, January 1, 1882, the son of Alfred and Jane (Sidwav) Edwards, and prepared for college at New Bedford (Mass.) High School. At various times since graduation he had taken courses at Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Columbia University, the New York School of Social Work, and the Public Health Institute of Simmons College.
The following account of his life since graduation is largely taken from an article in the Springfield Union.
For two years (1907-9) he was assistantprincipal of Turners Falls (Mass.) HighSchool, and then for two years instructor inhistory and director of athletics in Spaulding High School, Barre, Vt. The year 191112 he spent in European travel, and on hisreturn look a position in Montpelier (Vt.)High School, where he was later principalJune 29, 1918, he enlisted in the AmericanY. M. C. A., and was sent abroad as regionaldirector for Italy, having charge of allwork with the Italian army. He was giventhe rank of major in the Italian army, andreceived the Italian Croce di Guerra andCroce di Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia.
On his return in the summer of 1919 hebecame educational secretary of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League in Boston,and for three years served as educational,field, and at time acting secretary of theState League. On May 15, 1922, he becameexecutive secretary of the Hampden CountyTuberculosis and Public Health Association, and the association greatly prosperedunder his administration, which continuedfor the rest of his life. One of his greatservices to the county was the building upof Camp Keepwell, a summer health camp.Health organizations, school nurses, andothers cooperated in helping him to makethis one of the best health camps in theentire country. For some ten years he hasbeen executive secretary of the ExchangeClub of Springfield,,and through his effortsmembers of the club gave a day each yearto painting the buildings at Camp Keep well. In 1928 he was appointed a memberof the advisory committee of the NationalChild Education Service.
He had long been an active member ofNorth Congregational church in Springfield, where he had been president of themen's club and a member of the parish andmusic committees and sang in the choir. Hewas connected with a number of fraternalassociations, including the Masons, wherehe had gone as far as the Mystic Shrine, theEastern Star, and the Knights of Pythias.He was a member of the American Association of Social Workers and the AmericanEducation Association, and of the University Club of Springfield.
July 30, 1913, he was married to Ethel Sugden of Sanford, Me., who survives him. Their only child, a son, died in infancy. His mother is also living, and two sisters.
The funeral service was held in the North church of Springfield, and the burial was at Montpelier, Vt.
Class of 1912
FRANCIS PAUL KENNEDY died at his home in Melrose, Mass., February 17, 1934.
The son of John Edward and Annie E. (Hoye) Kennedy, he was born in Dover, N. H., July 15, 1890. He spent two years at the University of New Hampshire and then transferred to Dartmouth, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. A beloved and honored true friend of all those who knew him, his nature was quiet and unassuming, stoical and loyal. His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta.
After graduation he was for some time in the shoe manufacturing business in Dover. From 1918 to 1926 he was in the drug and real estate business in Dover, being treasurer of the Dover Drug Cos. In 1926 he entered the West Paint and Varnish Cos. of Everett, Mass., where he was associated with a brother and was assistant treasurer.
In 1916 he was married to Matilda Miller of Dover, who died in 1925. A son, John Edward, now fifteen years of age, survives his parents.
Buster's last visit to Hanover was to attend our Twentieth Reunion in 1932. He has always been active in all class and college affairs.
About a year ago he was stricken with a severe cancer, and had been practically bed-ridden during this period.
Funeral services were held from his home in Melrose on February 19, with a high mass of requiem at St. Peter's church. Several members of the class attended.
Class of 1915
JOHN YOUNG MACINTOSH died March 9, 1934, at the Anna Jaques Hospital, Newburyport, Mass., of cancer, after protracted and intense suffering.
He was born in Newburyport, June 22, 1892, the son of Hiram P. and Ruth Mary (Brown) Macintosh, and prepared for college at Newburyport High School. He was a member of Sigma Nu. He was with the class only through freshman year, leaving to enter business.
He entered the employ of Brown & Adams, wool brokers, of Boston, and later became a traveling salesman for Kenneth Hutchins Cos. in the same business, and was with the company when the United States entered the World War. At the time he was a member of the Newburyport Common Council.
May 15, 1917, he enlisted in the Coast Guard, U. S. N., and was assigned to the U. S. C. G. cutter Ossipee, sailing for European waters August 16 and serving on convoy duty in the war zone. He was promoted to coxswain December 1, 1918, and was discharged February 19, 1919, having served overseas 21 months.
On his discharge he returned to the Kenneth Hutchins Cos. Several years later he became associated with the Ryder & Brown Cos. of Boston, and was employed by that firm at the time of his death, traveling mostly in Maine and New Hampshire. He was very successful as a salesman, and was held in high esteem by his employers and his customers.
He was a member of St. John's Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of King Cyrus Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Newburyport Post, American Legion, the Sons of the American Revolution, and of Central Congregational church, being president of the men's club of that church at the time of his death.
September 27, 1919, he was married to Margaret Cushing, daughter of Abram E. Goodwin, who survives him, living at 263 High St., Newburyport. They have one son, Gardner Brown, now 13 years old.
Class of 1917
The class lost another staunch and active member in the death of JOSEPH CHARLES MYER on April 5, 1934, following a month's illness at the Columbia Medical Center.
Born in Newark, N. J., May 15, 1893, he prepared for Dartmouth at the Central High School, where he made himself famous as the leading schoolboy miler of the Metropolitan area. In college he continued successfully in track, first as captain of the freshman cross-country team, and later as a leading member of the varsity cross-country team. During the last two college years, his interest changed to the musical field, and he became an enthusiastic member of the Glee Club and choir. At this time he also opened the Campus Restaurant, which was then a big venture and new departure in Hanover eating places.
In 1918 he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry, and when he was mustered out, a year later, entered business in New York, also teaching accounting at Pace Institute. He received his certified public accounting certificate in New Jersey in 1925 and in New York a few years later.
In May, 1927, with Dr. Philip A. Brennan and Dr. George W. Matheson, Dr. Myer organized the School of Commerce at St. John's University, and was appointed dean. That autumn the enrollment was 125; in February this year it was more than 1,800. In April, .1928, Dr. Myer founded The St. John's Analyst, official publication of the school. He received an honorary degree of LL.D. from St. John's in 1931.
Dr. Myer lectured frequently on accounting, and possessed a large library on the subject, dating back to the first textbook in the field, written by Paccioli in 1494. He was a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants, the New Jersey and New York State Societies of Accountants, the National Association of Cost Accountants, and the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting. He was also a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, the Dartmouth College Club of New York, the Brooklyn Rotary Club, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the Accountants Club, the Newark Elks Lodge, the Knights of Columbus, and the Suburban Golf Club. In 1932-'33 he was president of the Commercial Education Teachers Association. He was author of several standard texts on accounting.
The funeral services were held from the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, South Orange, N. J., Monday morning, April 9. The class was represented by Edgar Earle, Frank Lagay, Eugene Towler, and Donald Brooks.
He is survived by his wife, the former Eleanor Schilling.
Class of 1918
FREDERICK CHICAGO PORTER died in an airplane accident at Los Angeles, Calif., March 10, 1933.
He was born in Chicago, December 14, 1895, the son of Washington and Frances Pauline (Lee) Porter, and prepared for college at University High School, Chicago. He was in Dartmouth only through freshman year, becoming a member of Delta Tau Delta.
In 1916-17 he studied at Leland Stanford University, and was later in real estate business in Chicago and at Santa Monica, Calif. May 26, 1917, he was married to Ida Gertrude Hollister, who graduated from Stanford in 1917. She is now living at 2202 Mesa Drive, Santa Monica. There are two children, Frederick C. Jr. and Washington H.
Class of 1923
LAWRENCE WILCOX FOGG was drowned April 8, 1934, in Long Island Sound, at Madison, Conn. A group of six couples had gone down from West Hartford for the day on a picnic, and after lunch Larry and one of the other boys went out in a small boat fishing, and while anchored about a hundred yards from shore in some manner their boat capsized. He was unable to swim, and the other chap, after helping him get hold of the boat, tried to make the shore, but never reached it, and before the others could get out to Larry he had gone down.
He was born in Hartford, Conn., November 16, 1900, the son of Elmer Harris and Mary E. (Wilcox) Fogg, and prepared for college at Hartford High School. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He took the Tuck School course, and graduated as M.C.S. in 1924.
He had since been in business positions in Hartford, being first assistant manager with Newton, Robertson & Cos., retail food merchants, and then with Thomson, Fenn & Cos., investment brokers. For several years he has been doing statistical work for Stevenson, Gregory & Cos., and at the time of his death was their bond trader.
In 1928 he was married to Caroline Doane of Jacksonville, Ill., who was a Smith College girl, and they had one child, Barbara, who will be four in May. Besides them he leaves his father and mother and a sister, Mrs. Charles K. Oaks.
Faculty
EDWARD LUCAS WHITE, author of distinction, died suddenly at his home in Baltimore, Md„ March 30, 1934. His name should be noted here on account of his connection with the faculty in the department of Latin in 1891-2.
He was born in Bergen, N. J., May 18, 1866, the son of Thomas Hurley and Kate Butler (Lucas) White. Preparing for college at the University School for Boys in Baltimore, he graduated as A.B. from Johns Hopkins in 1888, and remained there for some time for graduate study. After his brief connection with Dartmouth he taught the classics in various preparatory schools in Baltimore until 1930. Meanwhile he acquired high literary standing through his work in poetry and prose fiction. In addition to his contributions to periodicals, he published the following volumes: Narrative Lyrics, 1908; El Supremo, 1916; The Unwilling Vestal, 1918; The Song of the Sirens and Other Stories, 1919; Andivius Hedulio, 1921; Helen, 1925; Lulcundoo and Other Stories, 1927; Why Rome Fell, 1927.
November 28, 1900, he was married to Agnes Gerry of Catonsville, Md., who died March 30, 1927. They had no children.
For further comment concerning Mr. White, see the class news of 1895 in this number of the MAGAZINE.
Medical School
Class of 1902
DR. ERNEST LINWOOD HILL died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Framingham, Mass., April 1, 1934.
The son of Frank and Susan (Piper) Hill, he was born in Athol, Mass., May 7, 1878, and attended the school of that town and Concord (N. H.) High School. His entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth.
After serving for six months in Boston City Hospital, he established a practice in Millis, Mass., whence he removed to Framingham in 1919. He had been a member of the Framingham Union Hospital staff for ten years, and during his professional life made an especial study of surgery, visiting and studying at various clinics, including that of the Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minn. He rendered valuable service to the community during the influenza epidemic of 1918. During the World War he was in the United States Medical Corps with the rank of lieutenant, being under orders for overseas duty when the armistice was signed. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Masons, and the Elks.
In 1903 he was married to Eva Morse of Townsend, Mass., who survives him, with a son, Norman, and a daughter, Alice. Another son is not living.
A local paper says: "Rich in personality,his life characterized by an unswervingloyalty to the wide friendships that heformed, ever devoted to the professionwhich he dedicated to the good of humanity, Dr. Hill's death creates a void whichwill extend into many a family in Framingham, Millis, and other neighboring towns."
Thayer School
Class of 1886
FRANK. LYON WHEATON died at Buffalo, N. Y., February 21, 1934. The cause of death was acute dilation of the heart following years of ill health and general decline.
He was born at Camillus, N. Y., October 25, 1861, the son of Victory and Lavantia (Lyon) Wheaton. He fitted for college at Elbridge Preparatory School, not far from his home, and entered Syracuse University in 1883 as a student of civil engineering.
The next year he entered the Thayer School, where he was graduated in 1886. Though little in touch with his classmates in other departments of the College and never returning to Hanover in after years, he retained a warm place in his heart for the institution and its instructors, especially for Professor Fletcher, with whom he never lost contact. In our last conversation with him he was especially solicitous for the fate of the School in these days of advancing technical competence and fierce competition.
On graduation he found employment with the Rock Island Railway, devoting himself to the problems of roadbed construction, in which he became so expert that in 1890 he entered the service of the Lackawanna Railroad Company, where he remained for thirty years in different capacities, but mainly in the field of construction lans and projects. As engineerin-chief, few men of his generation were responsible for more or greater railway developments than he. He was assistant engineer on the track elevation work at Harrison, N. J., in the construction of the new Bergen Hill tunnel, and in the building of the Kingsland Locomotive Shops.
On the new Hopatcong and Slateford cut-off line in New Jersey, now a part of the Lackawanna system, Wheaton was engineer of construction. This included the Delaware River viaduct, 1450 feet long and 80 feet high; the Paulins Kill viaduct, 1100 feet in length and 117 feet in height; and also the Pequest fill, 80 feet high and involving more than six million cubic yards of material. This cut-off was twenty-eight miles in length.
He also carried to completion the Clarks Summit to Hallstead cut-off, involving a new line thirty-nine miles long. Here the Martins Creek viaduct was 1600 feet long and 175 feet above bed rock. The Tunkhannock viaduct was the largest concrete structure of the kind ever built. With eleven concrete arches nearly 200 feet high, it extends 2375 feet in length and is almost 300 feet above rock. In 1916 he was appointed division engineer of the Lackawanna Company in charge of all construction work, with headquarters divided between Binghamton and finally Buffalo, where he remained the rest of his life.
October 15, 1891, Wheaton married Addie S. Wheeler of Amber, N. Y. Mrs. Wheaton died January 8, 1926. Two daughters survive—Hazel, who married Harlan Corson and resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Ida, who marriend Robert E. Albertson and now lives in Buffalo. It was with her that the father has lived since the death of his wife, and with her that the end came. A member of the Presbyterian church, he was faithful to the last, and it was under the auspices of his beloved faith that the obsequies were conducted.
Frank Wheaton was a quiet, clean, upright, reliable man of great ability in his chosen field. His profession was his life, and to it he devoted all he had to give. He never sought distinction apart from his work as an engineer. He held no offices, belonged to no clubs, was known in the halls of none of the secret orders. He was a Republican in politics but never a politician. He had broad views of public policy, and during the long years of depression maintained a courageous and hopeful attitude, but he was never an agitator. Much as he was written about, he rarely contributed to engineering periodicals himself, and rarely talked about the subject except when challenged to it by his friends. In recognition of his long and brilliant career, in 1930 the management of the Lackawanna Company presented him with a certificate of service and an ample pension for the rest of his life. Many were his friends, and his faults as few as even the best of us have a right to expect. L. O. WILLIAMS.
