Death

ALUMNI NOTES Necrology

Class of 1861

Mrs. Laura (Simonds) Estabrook, widow of George W. Estabrook of this class, died at her home in Brookline, Mass., November 1, in her 94th year.

Class of 1872

WILLIAM WESLEY FRENCH died at Fairmont Hospital, San Leandro, Calif., August 11, 1935.

He was born at Brockton, Mass., January 10, 1849. His father was William Bailey French and his mother Mary Ann (Torrey) French. He prepared for college in his native town and came to Hanover in the fall of 1868, and having changed to Harvard for a few months, returned to Dartmouth and graduated with the class in 1872. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

After graduation he taught school first at Sandwich, Mass., and later at Kingsland, N. J. He then studied law in the office of the late Oren L. Knapp in Boston, and was there admitted to the Suffolk county bar August 13, 1874. He began practice at Gloucester, Mass., and continued there with an interval of about a year at Brockton, until he was appointed special justice of the Gloucester Police Court in 1885, which office he held for ten years, during a large part of this period discharging the full duty of the judge of the court by reason of the age and infirmities of the then incumbent, the late Hon. James Davis.

He was also a member of the Common Council of Gloucester, four years its solicitor, and its mayor in 1888, 1889, 1890, 1899,1901, and 1902, besides being chairman of the Republican city committee for several years and holding various other local offices. He was a member of the Unity, Commonwealth, and Roundabout Clubs of Gloucester, Mayors Club, City Solicitors Club, Essex Club, and other organizations. He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias.

He was married August 1, 1878, to Miss Leila Fenno Shaw of Gloucester. His religious affiliations were with the Unitarian denomination. Later he became judge of the local district court, until he was induced to attack the oil resources of California and manage a company organized to drill deep enough to tap the reservoirs believed to underlay the section controlled by the company. For two years he attended to that business at Gloucester, but found that it occupied so much of his time that he resigned his judgeship in the district court and accepted the complimentary regrets of the governor of Massachusetts, the Hon. Samuel W. McCall (Dartmouth 1874).

Thereupon he removed to Livermore, Calif., and became general manager of the Atlantic Sc Western Oil Co. at that place. For about twenty years he followed enthusiastically his conviction that oil awaited his call. He is said to have expended about $75,000 of his own funds, besides a substantial amount of the contributions of his Eastern friends, in his efforts to make the project a success; but with increasing age and failing health he was unable to realize his convictions and never produced profitable returns. To his credit he neverasked for. charitable aid, although sorely pressed.

He made his last effort by a trip to Oakland, not far distant from his residence, on July 4, 1935, about a month before his demise. There he became confused in his wandering about the city and was noticed by the police, who kindly interested themselves in his behalf. He bravely required them to send him back to Livermore. For unknown reasons they declined to do this, but took him for assistance to the hospital, where he passed away. During the time of his stay there he constantly gave evidence that he was sure to recover and return to Livermore, his residence for about twenty years.

The only surviving relative is said to be his wife, still living at Gloucester, Mass.

Class of 1875

GEORGE ARTHUR BUTLER died in Chicago, 111., July 28, 1935. So far it has not been possible to obtain any particulars, and very little information is available concerning his career.

His father was Dr. Jacob N. Butler, and he was born in Lempster, N. H., May 22,1850. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, and was in college a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. The first two years after graduation he spent in the Thayer School, where he graduated in 1877 with the degree of Civil Engineer.

He began at once to follow his profession in the employ of various railroads, and so continued until his retirement not many years since. He was first at Cincinnati with the Miami Valley road, and then with the Cincinnati Southern. For most of his professional life he worked out of Chicago, largely with the Illinois Central R. R. and the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific.

His only classmate about Chicago writes that he had not seen or heard of him for thirty-five or forty years, and says: "Butlerwas exceedingly modest, very shy, and always kept himself in the background."

Class of 1878

EDWARD STARK BURLEIGH, referred to in the local print as "a pioneer citizen ofTavares" (Florida), died at his home in that place September 19, 1935.

Mr. Burleigh was born at Great Falls, N. H., September 2, 1855, son of Micajah Currier and Mary Frances (Russell) Burleigh.

He was prepared for college at Great Falls High School and Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Yale in 1873, but because of the ill health which pursued his early years was obliged to leave college in February, 1875, and after a year of recuperation entered Dartmouth in February, 1876. He was a welcome recruit to the class of 1878, and soon responded to the nickname, "Gute" (originally "Guter," derived from a ludicrous slip in German recitation, but used ever after by his classmates as a term of endearment), and was treasurer of the class in senior year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, and was one of five of that delegation to visit the fraternity house at the time of the class reunion of 1928.

In August following graduation began what seemed a losing fight with pulmonary disease. Repeated hemorrhages of the lungs, beginning at home, pursued him to Minnesota, where he began hopefully the study of law, thence to Colorado, and after a brief visit at home, much enfeebled, to the Adirondacks, again to South Carolina, and finally to Florida, where the disease abated and he decided to settle. In 1882 he ventured North to claim his bride, who was Miss Annie Austin Burleigh of South Berwick, Me. They began housekeeping in a log cabin on a large orange grove which he had purchased near Orlando.

After three years, feeling his health well established, he sold the grove to good advantage and moved to Tavares, where he has since made his home. With a partner he opened a machine shop, but after two years turned to other pursuits. He became a director in the Tavares, Apopka, and Gulf R. R. and in the Tropical (R. R.) Construction Co., and treasurer of the latter, which positions he held for many years. About the same time he, with a partner, bought the abstract of title books of Lake and Sumter counties and organized the Lake Abstract Cos., of which he became treasurer and ultimately president. This constituted his principal occupation until his retirement about 1919, at which time he was still president of the company, president also of the Tavares Ice Co., vice-president of three banks of the vicinity, and vice-president of Tavares Development Co. At the time of his death he had been for 30 years a trustee of Rollins College, deacon of the Congregational church since 1889, superintendent of its Sunday school for 26 years of that time, for some years secretary of the South Florida Association of Congregational churches, had served for some years as a director of Lake Co. Country Club, and for eight years as postmaster.

It was an active, public-spirited, and highly useful career, and a double triumph for one whose early battle with disease must have drawn heavily on his vitality.

Mr. Burleigh was a loyal Dartmouth man. Five of his classmates were guests at his marriage. When he came North summers in later years he took pains to look up classmates. He was present at the fifty- and fifty-five-year class reunions. About the time of the latter and thereafter he was afflicted with a peculiar defect of vision which blinded him to everything at his right, although he could see well anything at his left or directly in front.

He is survived by Mrs. Burleigh, who was with him at the fifty-year reunion, and whose grief may well be mingled with a sense of victory in having brought him so happily through fifty-three years of married life after that almost unparalleled series of pulmonary hemorrhages, which must have cast its shadow over their honeymoon.

Their five children are all living, Miss Elizabeth D.with her mother at Tavares, Mrs. Arthur P. Vaughn at Avon Park, Fla., Mrs. Geo. H. Fernald Jr. at West Newton, Mass. (who brought her father to reunion in 1933, after he had given up trying to come), and two sons, E. Irving, of Tavares, and Austin H., of Jacksonville.

Class of 1879

GEORGE HERBERT ROCKWOOD died at his home, 1288 Pickford St., La Jolla, Calif., October 30, 1935. He had been in failing health for several years, and critically ill for a number of weeks. The funeral service was held at his home October 31, and the body was cremated at San Diego. The ashes will be interred later at Framingham, Mass.

Rockwood was born at Swanzey, N. H., July 23, 1854, the son of Samuel F. and Malinda F. (Stone) Rockwood. He once wrote: "My father's home was rich in children and high ideals, but very scantily supplied with this ivorld's goods." He prepared for college at Powers Institute, Bernardston, Mass. He was a member of the Delta Kappa freshman fraternity, and of Tri-Kappa. At graduation he received an "English Oration" appointment and election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1882 he received from Dartmouth his A.M. degree. Like the majority of Dartmouth students in those days, he taught school winters and worked on the farm summers to pay his way, graduating with a debt of $700, which he paid off soon after with interest at 7%.

Having had some experience in it before entering college, he had already decided to make school teaching his life work. Probably in his thirty-five years as a school master he had more young people under his supervision than any other member of the class. During the first ten years after graduation he was successively principal of high schools at East Jaffrey, N. H., Medway, Mass., Portsmouth, N. H., North Brookfield and Marlboro, Mass. He then went to Chicago as teacher of Latin and Greek in the West Division High School, at that time the largest high school in the country. After six years there, he became principal of the Marquette Elementary School, and four years later principal of the high school in Austin, one of the newer suburbs of the city.

Here he did his real life work, seeing the school grow from an enrollment of 300 to one of 3,900 in the day school, 3,000 in the evening school, and 700 in the summer school, with sessions on the relay system from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. After 25 years, at the age of 70, he was retired with a substantial pension. He built a home in Oak Park, where he lived for twenty years. There he was an active member of the large and influential Congregational church, for a number of years superintendent of its very large Sunday school.

Rockwood married, July 1, 1886, Fannie B. Hoyt, Wellesley 'B5, a grandniece of Prof. Alpheus Crosby, Dartmouth 1827. They had one son, George Herbert Jr. '24, who has a position with the Bell Telephone laboratories in New York. There are two grandchildren, Charles Edward and Nancy Hoyt.

After his retirement the Rockwoods remained in Oak Park until 1930. After a few months in Orange, N. J., with their son, they went to La Jolla, Calif., and found the living conditions so congenial that they decided to remain permanently. In 1931 they spent several weeks in Hawaii.

Rockwood was always in college, as well as later, a quiet, studious, serious-minded man. Not taking a leading part in the college activities of the period, he still entered heartily into the spirit of the life. That he enjoyed the companionship of those who did not take things quite as seriously as he did, was evidenced by the fact that he roomed junior year with "Dan" Rollins and senior year with Ketchum. He has always been a most loyal and enthusiastic alumnus, ready to help in whatever would promote the interests of the college.

Class of 1881

The mystery of CHARLES SEDAM WELLS has at last been explained. A news item dated at New Westminster, British Columbia, states that he died there November 1 of this year, and gives some facts concerning his life. The class secretary heard from him last in 1897. The Dartmouth general catalogue of 1911 has the item, "Reported deadin 1907." The Secretary, not satisfied with this, continued his investigations, and finally located him as having been at the Lick Observatory some brief period between 1908 and 1911, serving as secretary during the absence of the actual secretary. Further persistent inquiries have been vain.

Wells was born at Albany, N. Y., April 23, 1859, the son of Austin H. Wells. He fitted for college at the high school in Albany, was with us the four years, and was an assistant at the Dudley Observatory at Albany for two years. While here he gained fame, both popular and scientific, by the discovery of a comet March 14, 1882, at about four o'clock in the morning. Money reward and medal and the naming of the comet "Wells Comet" followed. He was an expert stenographer and as such obtained employment from 1883 in Portland, Oregon, part of the time also in Seattle, Wash., most of the time being with the Oregon Improvement Company. He went to Nanaimo, B. C., in 1903 to enter the employ of the Western Fuel Company, with which company he remained associated, according to the newspaper item, until 1928. Evidently he had continued his astronomical studies, for it was within this period that he was located for a time at the Lick Observatory, as noted above. He had, at least until 1897, never married.

Wells was an excellent student, who might have ranked even higher then he did—seventh as graded by Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

Class of 1894

DR. EUGENE JULIUS GROW died at Lebanon, N. H., September 5, 1935. He had not been well for five or six years, having high blood pressure and Bright's disease, but the final illness of more than a year's duration was diagnosed as thrombosis.

He was born in Lebanon, October 12, 1873. After graduation he entered the Medical School, where he graduated as M.D. in the class of 1897. He then pursued further studies at Cornell, preparing himself to specialize in diseases of the eye, nose, and throat. He received an appointment to the U. S. Navy, June 8, 1898, and continued in that service until the final failure of his health.

In his earlier years he was assigned to various ships and stations; from 1913 to 1917 he was instructor in the Naval Medical School; during the World War was with the naval forces in Europe; then in command of the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, N. H.; then inspector of Medical Department activities on the East Coast; then assistant to the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. His last duty prior to his retirement on the first of last May for physical disability was the command of the Naval Medical Supply Depot in Brooklyn, N. Y. His naval rank was that of captain. He would have been advanced to admiral last spring but for his ill health.

The following appreciation is from the Army and Navy Journal:

"Captain Grow was conspicuously successful as a teacher and investigator as wellas a practitioner—he, probably more thananyone else, having been instrumental inestablishing standards of vision in the Navy.His service was outstanding not only in respect to professional work, but equally inadministration and finance. His ability toapprehend a situation in all its aspects andthe judgment displayed in making decisionscommended the admiration and respect ofall with whom he came in contact, whilehis personal qualities earned for him a regard such as is given to but few."

He was presented with the Navy Cross "for distinguished service in the line of his profession as medical aide to commander of mine force, in connection with the construction of the North Sea Mine Barrage."

Dr. Grow was married October 30, 1912, to Anna Cunningham Kimball, who survives him, with their two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Virginia.

Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery with military honors. Classmates Bartlett and Wallis were present at the service.

Class of 1895

Natt M. Emery, distinguished member of the class of 1895, died suddenly at his home in Bethlehem, Pa., October 30, 1935.

The following obituary was published in a Bethlehem journal:

"Natt Morrill Emery, M.A., Litt. D., vicepresident and comptroller of Lehigh University, died suddenly Wednesday eveningfrom a heart attack suffered at his home,41 East Market St.

"News of his passing away came as agenuine shock to his many friends and associates, as he had been in apparent goodhealth and at noon had attended the weeklymeeting of the Bethlehem Rotary Club, ofwhich he was a, member.

"Deceased had been suffering for sometime from angina pectoris, but was able tocontinue his duties. A meeting of a committee to revise the rules and regulations ofthe university had been called for the afternoon and he was unable to attend, so he invited them to his home with the meetingscheduled for 7 o'clock last evening.

"Feeling ill at the time, he asked to be 'excused and retired to his bedroom withthe committee continuing the meeting. Mrs.Emery went to the room at 9 o'clock andfound him dead.

"Dr. Emery was born April 16, 1873, atSuncook, N. H., a son of the late Natt B.and Abbie H. (Sargent) Emery. The familydates back to 1630. He married Bertha E.Snyder in Bethlehem June 23, 1904, andleaves to mourn his passing two children,Lawyer Natt M. Emery Jr. and Miss MarthaEmery. He had been connected with Lehighin various capacities since September, 1896.At that time he was assistant instructor inEnglish. A year later found him instructor,and two years later he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts from Lehigh University. He then assumed the office of registrar, which he held until 1912.

"He was assistant to the president in1907-10, vice-president 1910-23, and vicepresident and comptroller since 1923.

"Dr. Emery was instructor at the TiltonSchool, Tilton, N. H., prior to coming toLehigh. His first connection with institutions of higher learning was at DartmouthCollege, where he achieved the honor ofmembership in the Phi Beta Kappa society.At Dartmouth he took honors in Latin,mathematics, and chemistry, and at thegraduation exercises of his class deliveredthe salutatory address in Latin. During thenext year he was instructor at the TiltonSchool.

"At Ursinus College in 1916 he wasawarded an honorary degree of Doctor ofLetters. From January, 1921, to September,1922, he was executive in charge of the university, when he was relieved by Dr. CharlesR. Richards, who just recently was succeeded by Dr. C. C. Williams.

"Dr. Emery was active in the communityin various ways. He was a trustee of thequondam Bethlehem Preparatory Schooland served as a member of the Bethlehemborough school board. He was also a trusteeof St. Luke's Hospital, director of theChamber of Commerce, vestryman andwarden of Trinity Episcopal church. Hewas a member of Phi Gamma Delta socialfraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, Bethlehem Rotary Club, and Saucon Valley Country Club.

"For a number of years Dr. Emery wasdirector of the summer school at Lehigh.He was a valuable asset at the institution,and his interest continued to the end. Anexample of this came in 1904, when the Technical World Magazine published anessay of Mr. Emery's under the heading ofGreat Technical Schools. Mr. Emery gave ahistory of the institution, its origin, of AsaPacker, of the advancement and the attainments of its graduates, then numbering lessthan fifteen hundred. He described thecampus, the buildings, and the facilities ofthe university for engineering students. Thewidespread circulation of this publication,whose standing was high in engineeringcircles, helped greatly to make Lehighknown in the engineering world."

Class of 1897

GEORGE HENRY TOWLE of Newmarket, N. H., after a brief illness, died at the Exeter Hospital on October 29, 1935.

Joe Towle entered Dartmouth in the class of 1897 and might have stayed with the class to the day of graduation except for the fact that he wanted to get directly to his job. This same characteristic of direct action, of brushing away preliminaries in order to get at the root of the matter, continually appeared in his professional and business activities. Joe went from the Dartmouth classroom into the medical school- rooms at Bowdoin and then to the University of Vermont. With his M.D. he did not search for some small field of select practice but went where a doctor was most needed. Newmarket is a mill village where French-Canadian is spoken by the elite, and an English patois by the others. After a time the mill and Joe owned the town, the mill in patronage and Joe in political direction. Around the village are country towns where good farmers live frugally on ancestral acres. Joe's medical service varied from chilblains to delirium tremens, and when necessary he prescribed for colts, kittens, and summer visitors.

Dr. Towle was also a member of the Grange, bank director, officer of the Chamber of Commerce, moderator for 20 years, chairman of the school board, and if he had collected 80% of that which was on his books, he would have been a millionaire.

With undisguised satisfaction, the writer has seen him in action. Unconventional, not over given to polite language, somewhat addicted to tobacco, yes, that was Joe. But you should have seen him clean up the job and make ready for the next.

In college Joe was a Deke and a hard and fast football and baseball player. His father was a doctor too, in Deerfield, N. H., fifty-five years in the same town. Joe always had a good hunting dog, and he recently became the owner of a two-hundred-acre farm. He had a wide practice in Newmarket and surrounding towns, and his funeral at the Community church in Newmarket was very largely attended. His survivors are the widow, who was Kate Varney, one brother in Manchester, and a sister in Deerfield.

At the funeral service, his classmates William E. Ela of Portland, Me., Maurice F. Brown of Winchester, Mass., and Joseph O. Simpson of Exeter acted as bearers.

Towle never forgot either his class or his college. He took time for travels, for reunions with college mates. Death and babies were the only things that kept him

from a reunion or a Dartmouth game. He had no children, but when half of us who are uplifters are dead, grateful mothers will still be telling their children stories of the strength and wisdom of old "Doc" Towle.

Class of 1900

Gus HADLEY died at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston on Sunday, November 3, following an emergency operation for tumor on the brain. He was born in Marion, Mass., on February 26, 1878. His father, Peleg Hadley, was a merchant in that town. Gus graduated from Tabor Academy, and came to college as a roommate of Harry Sampson. They roomed together their entire four years. Gus was a student far above the average in attainment, and his scholastic career was an extremely creditable one. He enjoyed to the full the social life of the college. We can all remember him senior year with his bubbling smile and closecropped head. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Sphinx. He was a most popular chap and one who always had a laugh and a joke on his lips.

After college he spent some time in Barnard, Vt., and was postmaster there from 1903 to 1907. Then he went back to Marion where he busied himself in many local activities. His title at one time was a mosquito exterminator, but most of his business life was spent in charge of the post office. He had just received another appointment a few weeks before his death. He was a trustee for many years of Tabor Academy, of the Marion Congregational church, and Marion Lower Village Improvement Fund. He acted as trustee of the Marion Library Association and for a number of years was a member of the school committee.

Mrs. Bertha Hadley survives him together with a daughter, Mary, and a son, Charles Peleg Hadley. Charles is now in Germany studying as a Tabor Academy exchange student.

Gus was one of the earliest members of the class to marry—the date being September 1, 1902. Mrs. Hadley died in September, 191 a, and Gus married again on October 26, 1917-

His YOUTHFUL SPIRIT

There is the career of one of the most charming members of the class—a man who retained his youthful spirit throughout his entire life. He had a glorious time at our reunion in June, and there was no suspicion that his health was not of the best. He always had a good word for everyone and was kindly, thoughtful, thoroughly devoted to the College and to the class, and especially to Tabor Academy, whose growth and prosperity gave him great pride. We shall miss Gus Hadley at our reunions in the future because of his live, vivid personality and his ability to carry us back to undergraduate days because of the fact that he refused to grow old, at least, in so far as temperament was concerned.

S. C. Lewis, Gus Hadley, Harry Sampson, and Harry Davis were our members from the Cape at a time when few men came to Dartmouth from that locality.

Class of 1902

Louis MAURICE KIMBALL died on November 2, 1935, after a long illness. Louis had been under expert care for some time, yet even to some of his close friends he seemed to consider the matter not a serious one.

Louis was born in North Haverhill, N. H., June 21, 1876, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Kimball. He entered Dartmouth from St. Johnsbury Academy, and throughout his college course continuallyadded to his long list of friends because of his quiet, unassuming and charming personality. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and gave freely of his time to the Glee Club, and to church and chapel choirs.

AfLer graduation he taught for one year, and then, in partnership with his brother Roy, took over the general store in North Haverhill which his father had operated for forty years. His services to his community were extensive, and included a long period as town clerk, and as director of the Woodsville National Bank. He had been president of the North Haverhill library, trustee of Haverhill Academy, trustee of the Grafton County Home, director of the Cottage Hospital, and president of the Woodsville-White River Rotary Club.

He was a member of Grafton Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Haverhill; St. Jerard Commandery, Knights Templar, of Littleton; Bektash Temple, .Mystic Shrine, of Concord; North Haverhill Episcopal church, and Woodsville Episcopal church. He was a representative to the state legislature during the 1911 term.

He is survived by a brother, Roy E. Kimball, and a sister, Mrs. Frank N. Keyser, both of North Haverhill.

Class of 1920

THOMAS FRANCIS SULLIVAN died at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Brighton, Mass., August 25, 1935, after a gall stone and appendicitis operation.

He was born in Pepperell, Mass., October 6, 1897 (another authority gives the year as 1896), the son of Patrick F. and Mary (O'Brien) Sullivan, and prepared for college at Pepperell High School and Lawrence Academy. In prep school he was an all-round athlete, playing on football, baseball, and basketball teams. He was a member of the class only during its first semester.

Very little information has been obtained about his history since leaving college. He removed with his family to Groton, Mass., in 1923, and later went to Chicago, where he was associated with a brokerage firm until the financial crash, when he returned to Groton. He was unmarried. His mother and two brothers survive him.

CHARLES JUDSON HAMBLETT, upon whom the degree of Master of Arts was conferred in 1900, died suddenly at his home in Nashua, N. H., October 18, 1935.

He was born in Nashua, January 31, 1862, the son of Judson Adoniram and Mary Jane (Perkins) Hamblett. He graduated from the high school of Milford, where the family were then living, and later, in 1883, from Francestown Academy. In 1887-9 he studied law at Boston University, graduating as LL.B. in 1889. Being admitted to the bar in that year, he began practice in Nashua in October, 1889, and remained there through the remainder of his life, obtaining a high rank among the practitioners of the state.

In 1887 he was assistant clerk of the New Hampshire Senate, and clerk in 1889. He was city solicitor in 1891-4, and in 1894 was elected president of the Common Council of the city. In 1898 he was appointed by President McKinley United States district attorney for New Hampshire, and held this office until 1907. He was appointed by Governor Floyd judge advocate general of the state in 1907, and served for four years. In 1902 and 1912is he was a member of the constitutional convention of the state, and in 1908 of a conservation congress called by President Roosevelt to meet at the White House.

Mr. Hamblett was twice married: first, October 4, 1894, to Georgie Ellen Stevens; second, December 23, 1914, to Mrs. Belle F. (Small) Fletcher, who survives him. He leaves also a son, a daughter, and five grandchildren.

Honorary