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ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1865

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN THOMPSON, the last survivor of this class, died July 27, 1935, at the Polyclinic Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, of old age, after a month's illness.

He was born in Keene, N. H., February 25, 1841, the son of Daniel and Sally (Putnam) Thompson. He graduated at Kimball Union Academy in 1861, and entered Dartmouth, but remained only one term on account of ill health.

During the Civil War, he was for a time a chaplain's aide, but his health did not allow him to continue long. In August, 1864, he went to Springfield, Mass., and began a long business career in that city. In 1875 he became bookkeeper for Charles Hall, Inc., and remained with that mercantile concern until 1906. He was then employed in other establishments until his retirement in 1915. In 1927 he went to Cleveland to make his home with a son.

He was for many years keenly interested in history and genealogy, and was coauthor of a Thompson family history, entitled "James Thompson of Holden, Mass., and His Descendants."

September 13, 1865, Mr. Thompson was married to Caroline Irene, daughter of Leonard and Emeline (Mason) Everett of Canton, Mass., who died February 26, 1926. They had four children: Gertrude, who died in 1888; Harriet 8., who died in 1877; Everett Edward of Springfield, on the editorial staff of the Webster New International Dictionary; and Karl Owen, at the head of the English department at the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland.

Class of 1873

News has been recently received of the death of MAURICE TRIMBLE JONES at East Orange, N. J., December 9, 1933, of diabetes.

He was born in Evansville, Ind., September 3, 1853, his parents being James G. and Rosana (Rapelje) Jones. He prepared in the schools of that city for the Chandler Scientific Department. He remained in college only one year, becoming a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

His record since leaving college is incomplete. He practiced law for a short time in Lakeland, Fla., and was in business of various kinds in Springfield, Ohio, and in Chicago. In 1888 he became traffic manager for the U. S. Express Co., with an office in New York City, and held that position until 1913. His home had been in East Orange since 1902.

Mr. Jones married Abby, daughter of George W. and Emily (Baker) Langworthy, a native of Worthington, Ind. She died February 16, 1933. A son and three daughters survive their parents.

Class of 1886

JOHN FRENCH was born in Woodstock, Vt., December 14, 1863, the son of Warren C. and Sarah (Stede) French, and died in his native town September 4, 1935. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and took his A.B. degree with Phi Beta Kappa rank. While in college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and a charter member of the Sphinx senior society.

Now that John has left us, each remaining one of his class and others who were fortunate enough to know him well will cherish more fondly our personal memories of our frank, manly, able, unpretentious, and widely experienced friend. Personally, I regret that because of a membership in a different college fraternity from John's, and also because we were in different divisions of the class for recitation, my own opportunities for intimate personal acquaintance with him while in college were confined to class meetings, dinners, and casual meetings at chapel and about the campus. My most vivid personal recollection of him in college days is that of the universal respect all the members of the class had for John as an outstanding man whose judgment was always sound, and whose influence was always for those things which were permanently best for the class and for the college. His loyal support of all that would help Old Dartmouth was continual throughout his whole life. This fact is emphasized by mention of the two projects which were uppermost in John's mind the last time I saw him. This was last April in New York, when we took luncheon together. During this luncheon he expressed great enthusiasm for an effort to get as nearly as possible a 100% attendance upon the 50th reunion of the class in Hanover next June, and for a like contribution from '86 men to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund in 1936.

After graduation John taught in St. Luke's School at Bustleton, Pa., and in the Hill School at Pottstown, Pa., until the spring of 1891, when he entered upon the study of law, which led to his admission to the bar and membership in the firm of Whitridge, Butler, and Rice in New York City.

On June 1, 1907, Mr. French married Mary Montagu Billings at the Brick Church in New York City. They had three children, John French Jr., Dartmouth '30, Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller, and Elizabeth French. Besides their Woodstock home, Mr. and Mrs. French established a home in Greenwich, Conn.

Mr. French was a trustee of the Northfield School, and until recently of the Woman's Hospital. He was president of the Woodstock Hotel Company, Wood-stock Country Club, and Woodstock Rail-way Company. He was also a director of the Billings Estate Corporation, Cosmoclub Realty Corporation, Johnson & Faulkner, Inc., South American Mines Company, and Turner Estates, Inc.

His clubs included the University Bar Association, Union League, the Lawyers Club, Thayer Society of Engineers, Fort George, Chamber of Commerce of Green-wich, Conn., Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York, Round Hill Club, Inc., of Greenwich, Conn., Vermont Society, Lakota Club, Dartmouth College Club, and Manursing Island Club; and he was also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars.

Of John's loyalty to his native town and state and of the comfort all may take in remembering his life, the Rutland Herald of September 6, 1935, says:

"The death of John French of Wood-stock means the loss to Vermont of one ofits truly distinguished citizens. Like, manyVermonters, he left his home to make aname for himself in New York. But henever forgot Woodstock and his own state.A lesser man might merely have comehome to spend casual and pleasant summers in the town of his birth. Mr. French,however, constantly remembered his obligations to Woodstock and served it faithfully and well. His family and his friendswill find some comfort in considering hiscareer and knowing that his life was long,full, and useful."

Finally, all of us who knew and trusted and admired John French will be glad to hold in loving memory these words of reverent appreciation which were a part of the service in his memory in his own church in Woodstock, September 6,

"We call to remembrance Thy lovingkindness and Thy tender mercies to thisThy servant. For all the goodness that with-held not his portion of the joys of thisearthly life, and for Thy guiding handalong the way of his pilgrimage, we giveThee thanks and praise.

"For his quiet patience; his calm out-look, which was neither afraid nor reckless;for his love of clean, healthful play; hisconcern for beautiful things; his love ofgood friends; his pride in those he loved,his faith in the strength of a family, theconfidence that good training and goodcharacter could become the habit of thegood workman that needs not to beashamed; his respect for orderliness; hissense of humor; his unconscious and kindlyauthority; his love of simple things; his example of going up to Thy house on theSabbath day, as his custom was even to thelast day of his active life; and especiallythat he was enabled to fight a good fight,to endure to the end, and to obtain victory; we give Thee our praise and thanks-giving."

Henry W. Thurston

Class of 1892

CHARLES HENRY RICHARDSON died at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., September 19, 1935.

He was born in Topsham, Vt., September 26, 1862, the son of Robert F. and Rosetta (Dexter) Richardson, and prepared for college at Montpelier Seminary. He entered Dartmouth as a senior, coming from Bates College.

The first year after graduation he was principal of Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vt., and then for two years of Green Mountain Seminary at Waterbury, Vt. He then returned to Dartmouth for graduate study in geology and chemistry, serving as assistant in the geological department during his studies. Upon receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1898, he was appointed instructor in chemistry and mineralogy.

After three years this was changed to mineralogy and geology, and he remained at Dartmouth until 1905. After further study at Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago, he became in 1906 assistant professor of mineralogy and geology in Syracuse University, being promoted to be associate professor of mineralogy in 1907 and full professor in 1909. In 1933 he retired from active service, becoming professor emeritus, and has since been director of the Museum of Natural Science. During the summers he did much field work, being the author of 35 reports of the Vermont Geological Survey, and in 1928 completing a geologic survey of Kentucky which was published in eight volumes, and was constantly consulted in connection with investigations in his field. He received the degree of Doctor of Science from Norwich University in 1933.

Best known for many years as an outstanding figure in the geological field, he came to be known several years ago as an author and philosopher. He has published more than seventy-five poems, mainly dealing with campus life, the green hills of Vermont, and the Blue Ridge mountains. In the prose field he has turned out more than 3,000 pages of fiction and non-fiction and textbooks entitled "Economic Geology" and "Building Stones and Clays."

He was a popular figure off the campus as well as on. He was termed the father of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Syracuse, and the home of the chapter is known as Richardson's Castle.

In June, 1892, he was married to Katherine, daughter of George W. Davis of Corinth, Vt., who survives him, with their daughter, Mrs. L. W. Currier of Washington, D. C., and two grandchildren.

Class of 1899

JAMES I)WIGHT CHILD—"Ted" to a wide circle of college and outside friends—died in Strasbourg, France, September 16, 1935, of cancer. At his own request he was buried in Strasbourg.

Ted Child was born in Bath, N. H., May 12, 1875, and was graduated from New Hampton Literary Institute in 1895.

In the fall of 1899 he went from his usual vacation job in the White Mountains to Nassau, New Providence, Bahama Islands, to engage in hotel work. He gave this up to grow pineapples in the Bahamas. Following this less profitable venture he returned to New York in 1902, and during the next ten years or so was successively steward or manager of the following: the Rossmore Hotel, corner of Broadway and 42d St.; the famous Astor Hotel on lower Broadway, opposite the old post office; the Ashland Hotel, corner of 33d St. and Fourth Ave.; and the Bedford Y. M. C. A. in Brooklyn.

Failing health then caused Ted to spend some time in the sanitarium of his classmate Pete Lane at Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia. A further period of recuperation followed at the home of another classmate, Harry Wason, in Atlanta, Ga. With health recovered he associated himself in business with still another classmate, John Ash, in Chattanooga, Tenn., later accompanying John when the latter removed his business to Corvallis, Oregon.

On the declaration of war by the United States, he enlisted with the railroad engineers, and served as sergeant throughout the war in France with Company F, 18th Regiment, Engineers Reserve Corps of the A. E. F.

After the war Ted entered the U. S. Consular Service at Bordeaux, later becoming vice-consul at Strasbourg, which position he occupied at the time of his death.

He was married, October 27, 1902, in New York, to Jean Elizabeth McLeod. There were two children, Margaret McLeod, born July 9, 1904 (who died May 13, 1912), and Jean Elizabeth, born August 11, 1909. There also survive a brother and sister, the latter of whom, Miss Sue W. Child, lives at Trinity Court, Boston.

No one of the hundreds who knew Ted intimately at college, or enjoyed his generous hospitality in his various hotel positions, or shared his cheery comradeship in the engineers' corps in France, or saw him in his later genial, busy years in the consular service but feels in his going the loss of a loyal and altogether understanding friend.

Class of 1902

BERTRAM PROCTOR PERLEY, for two years a member of the class of 1902, died on September 9, 1935, at his home in Danvers, Mass., after a long illness.

Bert Perley was born in Danvers, July 29, 1879, the son of Charles N. and Ella (Woodbury) Perley. He left college at the end of his sophomore year to enter the grocery business with his father. This business, the Charles N. Perley Company, was founded in 1790 by Allen Procter Perley, a great-great-grandfather, and has been owned continuously by the family of the founder.

ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY

In addition to his business connection, Bert was president of the Danvers Home for the Aged, a trustee of the Hunt Memorial Hospital, a trustee of the Danvers Savings Bank, and a director of the Danvers lodge of Odd Fellows. In college he was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Alva King Perley; a stepson, Melvin King; two brothers, Charles N. and Rollin H. Perley; and one sister, Mrs. Oscar H. Perkins, all of Danvers.

Class of 1905

The decease of JOSEPH AMBROSE WALLACE occurred at Fall River, Mass., September 13, 1935, due to coronary thrombosis, after an illness of only three days.

He was born in Medway, Mass., October 14, 1881, the son of the late Richard and Mary Wallace, was educated in the grammar and high schools of that town, and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1905 after which he completed graduate work at Harvard in 1909, with postgraduate courses at the University of Chicago in 1911, and again at Dartmouth in 1917. In 1905 he was appointed instructor of English in Amherst High School. In 1907 he went to Crosby High School in Waterbury, Conn., afterward teaching in Worcester Academy for two years. In 1913 he was appointed head of the English department in the Technical High School of Fall River, and four years later was made vice-principal. One year later when the Technical and Durfee High School were merged, Wallace was appointed vice-principal and head of the English department, position which he retained until his decease. In addition to his above duties, he served as principal of the evening school for several years, and was instructor in the public speaking classes in the state university extension courses. Since 1921 he was a member of the group of readers in English of the College Entrance Examination Board.

In 1931 Wallace received the appointment of financial commissioner of Fall River from Governor Ely of Massachusetts. To devote the necessary time to this work, he applied for and was granted by the school committee a leave of absence from his regular teaching duties, which leave was renewed twice thereafter. Immediately upon assuming this position, he delved deeply into the affairs of the city and became a keen student of municipal finances, striving to set up an economical basis upon which the city could be operated without affecting the income of municipal employees.

These problems demanded much of his time and attention, and he devoted many hours at home to the same. The results he attained brought to him statewide recognition and commendation. Honored in his profession of education, he had served as president of the Fall River Teachers' Association, the Fall River High School Teachers' Association, and the Bristol County Teachers' Association. He was a member of the National Education Association and past president of the Fall River Composite Club and the Fall River Alliance Club.

He was married August 25, 1914, in North Brookfield, Mass., to Margaret Doyle, who survives him, together with three children,—John D., fifteen; Richard W., nine; and Margaret 8., seven.

Funeral services were held Monday, September 16, at the Church of the Holy Name, Fall River, and were attended by a large assemblage representative of state and city officials, religious orders, educators, business and professional men.

Class of 1906

Louis WEBSTER RUSSELL died very suddenly at his summer home in Salisbury Heights, N. H., on Sunday, May 19. He had been mowing a lawn and went into the house, saying to his wife that he did not feel well, and died in a few minutes. Since he had previously been to all appearances in excellent health, his untimely- passing came as a great shock to his family and large circle of friends.

Louis was born in Plymouth, N. H., March 22, 1885, the son of Frank Webster and Louisa (Hall) Russell. He prepared* for college at the Plymouth High School. He took the A.B. course at Dartmouth, spending his senior year in the Tuck School. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of the Sphinx senior society.

For three years after graduation he was in New York. City with the Western Electric Company and the Packard Motor Car Company of New York; the next eight years were spent in Port Arthur, Ontario, where he was engaged in the timber and pulpwood business. During the war he was for two years in the Procurement Division of the Ordnance Dept. in Washington. Then for seven years he was in the Trust Dept. of the Union Trust Company in Cleveland, and for a year and a half in the investment business in Springfield, Mass. In the fall of 1927 he came to Concord, N. H., as the representative of Brown Brothers Harriman Company, and later of Tifft Brothers, in the investment business. He was a member of Olive Branch lodge, A.F. and A.M. in Plymouth, and of the South Congregational church in Concord.

Funeral services were held in the South church in Concord on May 22, with burial in Trinity churchyard, Plymouth. The class of 1906 sent a spray of lilies as a token of its affection for Louis, and three of the bearers were members of the class: Lyman Frazier, Robert Blood, and Henry McFarland. Harvey Whittemore, Herbert Rainie, and William Bell were also in attendance. His immediate survivors are his widow, Williamina (Burt) Russell, to whom he was married in Washington in 1914; two brothers, Col. George Moore Russell, Cavalry, U. S. Army, who has been stationed in Washington, and Walter Hall Russell of Port Arthur, Ontario, Can.; and two nieces.

Louis Russell will be greatly missed from the Dartmouth fellowship. Of sterling character, he had the faculty of making friends easily, and bound them to him in sincerest affection. His home life was ideal, as all who have had the rare privilege of visiting him and Mrs. Russell in Concord or at their charming summer residence in Salisbury can testify. In business he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his clients and employers, and in church and civic life he was always a worker for those things that are of permanent value. He loved Dartmouth College and the class of 1906, and his class loved him.

JOHN ALVAH LEGRO, a member of the class of 1906 for one year, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage at his home, in Huguenot Park, Staten Island, N. Y., on Monday, August 19, 1935. He was born in Somersworth, N. H., October 17, 1884, the son of Charles M. and Helen Legro, and prepared for college at the Somersworth High School. Although he did not return to college after his freshman year, he was well known to most of his classmates and is pleasantly remembered.

For some years after leaving college, he was employed in Somersworth and in New York City. About 1913 he removed to Bath, Me., to enter the employ of the oldest clothing firm in that city, Thompson Brothers. He rose rapidly from one position to another until he became president and treasurer of the firm. In May, 1929, he became the first manager of the Oakhurst Dairy in Bath, but two years later removed to New York City to engage again in the clothing business.

He was one of the organizers of the Bath Chamber of Commerce when that bureau was formed, was president of the Colonial Club of Bath in 1924, and represented Ward 3 of the city in the board of aldermen during a non-partisan administration in 1922. He was a member of Huguenot Lodge No. 381, A. F. & A. M., and of Staten Island Chapter No. 196, R. A. M., both of Tottenville, N. Y.

He was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 20, 1912, to Miss Mabel F. Sprague, who survives him, with their two sons, John Alvah Jr. and Richard Fred, all of Staten Island. Other survivors include his mother and brother, Fred Legro, of Somersworth, N. H.

Class of 1908

KENNETH EVERETT KIMBALL died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage at Jackson, Miss., May 25, 1935.

The son of William Everett and Genevieve (Clapp) Kimball, he was born in Ashland, N. H., October 1, 1878. He saw military service in the Spanish-American War, after which, he prepared for college at New Hampton Literary Institute. He left college at the end of junior year.

In October, 1912, he entered the U. S. Forest Service as forest guard, and was successively forest ranger, district forest ranger, forest inspector, and supervisor of Ozark National Forest, Arkansas. He had worjced in the White Mountain National Forest and various national forests of the South, and retired from government employment in December, 1923. For the year 1924 he was executive secretary of the Arkansas Forestry, Fish, and Game Association, and in January, 1925, entered the North Carolina Forest Service, serving as district forester until January, 1928. He then entered the Mississippi Forest Service as district forester, with headquarters at Wiggins, Miss. June 1, 1934, he was transferred to Jackson as chief of forest fire control, and was holding this position at the time of his death.

INTERESTED IN FORESTRY

He was a member of the Society of American Foresters and the American Forestry Association, in turn secretary-treasurer and president of Wiggins Rotary Club, and a member of the Baptist church and teacher of its men's Bible class at both Wiggins and Jackson.

September 23, 1908, he was married to Ina May, daughter of Edwin Smith and Hannah (Fifield) Edgerly of New Hampton, N. H„ who died March 7, 1912. They had one daughter, Marjorie, now Mrs. Thurman P. Partin of Chapel Hill, N. C. A second marriage, September 7, 1920, was to Mary Adaline, daughter of Henry S. and Hannah Maria Wheeler of Derry, N. H., who survives him, with a daughter, Mary Eleanor.

Class of 1924

EDWARD NIXON DONALDSON died September 5, 1935, at the North Country Community Hospital, Glen Cove, Long Island following an emergency abdominal operation.

: Ed was born in Richmond, Va., September 21, 1902, the son of Mary E. Nixon and Edward Justus Donaldson. He prepared at Sea Cliff High School, and in Hanover served on the Green Book business board. He was a member of Cosmos Club, now Alpha Tau Omega.

REAL ESTATE CAREER

Real estate occupied his entire business life. Following a year in Florida, he joined Cartstens, Linnekin, & Wilson in New York, and then entered business for himself in Glen Cove. For three years he was city clerk of Glen Cove, and long active in Republican affairs. He married Elizabeth Hampton of Tracy City, Tenn., in 1930, sister of Bill Fawcett's wife. Bill writes that Ed in a particularly quiet way provided widely for many poorer families, and that his business popularity spread to every contact he made. His genial personality proved inspirational to his many associates. He is survived by his wife, a son, Edward Hampton, aged 2 1/2, his mother and father, and two brothers, Stanley and Allyn, all of Glen Cove.

Class of 1930

FREDERICK BLAISDELL HOLDEN died May 3,1935, of lobar pneumonia at the Medical Arts Hospital, New York. Services were held for Fred in New York the night following his death, with Dr. Spencer of the Community church officiating. The home funeral services were held the following Saturday, May 25, at the home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Holden, in Haverhill, Mass., with Rev. Clark T. Brownell of the First Baptist church officiating. Ad Rugg '30 was among the pall bearers.

Fred was born in Haverhill, October 12, 1908, and graduated from the Haverhill High School in 1926. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He had a position with the First of Boston Investment Company in New York from graduation until the time of his death. Fred's illness was very short and his death very sudden. The sympathy of the class goes to his parents and his sister, whose sorrow we share, and whose loss is ours likewise.

Medical School

Class of 1897

DR. FRANK WALTON LARRABEE died at his home in the Allston district of Boston, August 9, 1935, of cerebral hemorrhage, after an illness of three years.

The son of Winfield Scott and Elmira (Smith) Larrabee, he was born in Macon, Mo., March 19, 1870. When he was six years old his family removed to Auburn, Me., and he graduated from Edward Little High School there in 1887. He then entered Bates College, from which he graduated in 1891.

His entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth. After his graduation in November, 1896, he served for some time in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital as house physician. His first private practice was at Block Island, R. 1., where in 1907 he was awarded a medal by the Life-Saving Corps for his heroism in the rescue of passengers after a steamer accident. He was next at Warren, Me., whence he removed to Boston in 1914, and practiced in that city until his final illness.

He was a Mason, being a member of lodge, chapter, and commandery, and an Odd Fellow. He married Ila G. Smith of Claremont, N. H., who survives him, as do also a brother and a sister.

Tuck School

Class of 1928

The notice of Ivan Chernikofi in the Necrology of the October MAGAZINE was accidentally classified under Medical School, instead of as above.