Perley Bugbee '90 Dies

Perley R. Bugbee '90, president of the Dartmouth National Bank and for 38 years treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association, died at his home in Hanover on October 8 following a heart attack one month earlier. He was 69 years old.

Mr. Bugbee was prominent in state and community affairs, as well as in the life of the College, serving in the New Hampshire State Legislature and representing the State at a number of national conventions. Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1890, he was employed by the Dartmouth Savings Bank, for which he acted as treasurer from 1894 until the time of his death. In 1894 he was elected cashier of the Dartmouth National Bank, serving in that capacity until he was made president in 1923.

Mr. Bugbee was first elected treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association in 1897, and for 38 successive years filled that post. Prominent in the New Hampshire Bankers Association, which he served as president in 1917, he was appointed to the New Hampshire Investment Board last April by Governor Bridges. In state politics, he was a member of the New Hampshire State Legislature in 1912, delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1930, and an alternate delegate-at-large from New Hampshire to the National Republican Conventions at Cleveland in 1924 and Kansas City in 1928.

Mr. Bugbee was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and was a trustee of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Irene Bugbee, and a daughter, Elizabeth McMillan. Funeral services were held in Hanover on October to.