Deaths

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1877

CHARLES EDWARD LESLIE died in a hospital at Fargo, N. D., April 18, 1935, of cerebral hemorrhage, following an operation the day before for removal of the prostate gland.

He was born at Wells River, Vt„ July 3, 1854, the son of Charles Brigham and Harriet Heaton (Skinner) Leslie, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy.

Immediately after graduation he began the study of law in his father's office, and was admitted to the Vermont bar June 7, 1879. The next month he went to Minnesota, and opened an office at Waterville, whence he removed the first of next January to Waseca. Here he was city attorney at two different times, and judge of the municipal court from August, 1885, to May, 1886. He was next in Minneapolis for a time, and then removed to Hillsboro, N. D. In 1901 he removed to Carrington, N. D., and again to Minneapolis in 1907. In 1913 he returned to Vermont, and practiced for two years in St. Johnsbury. Returning West, he was a short time in Minneapolis, and in 1916 he went back to Hillsboro, N. D., where he has since been in successful practice, managing also a farm a few miles from town.

May 1, 1882, he was married to Martha Josephine, daughter of Samuel Stone and Sarah White (Sawin) Comee of Waseca, Minn., who died in April, 1926. Two sons and a daughter of this marriage survive their parents. February 20, 1932. occurred a second marriage in Minneapolis to Mrs. Libbie C. Philip, widow of Dr. W. H. M. Philip of Hope, N. D.

Class of 1885

JOHN BREWSTER HODGDON died at his home in Joplin, Mo., March 16, 1935, as a result of paralytic shocks. He was born in Rochester, N. H., October 22, 1861, the son of George W. and Mary Jane (Hobbs) Hodgdon. He prepared for college at the Rochester High School, entered the Chandler Scientific Department of the College, and was a member of the Vitruvian, now the Beta Theta Pi, fraternity. He served as vice-president of his class and delivered the Ode on Class Day. He was much interested in athletics, being a member of the baseball and football teams.

After graduation he followed his profession as a civil engineer in various places in the Middle West. For many years his home had been in Joplin, where he was highly regarded by all who knew him and where he had served as city engineer and as street commissioner.

He was very loyal to his class and the College—a sincere, earnest, Christian man. He was married to Lula I. Akin on August 24, 1887, who survives him, as do their three children: Otto F., Frank R., and Mrs. Guy Mills, and seven grandchildren.

GILBERT ARTHUR BOURLET died at his home in Claremont, N. H., March 14, 1935. He was born in East Concord, N. H., July 4, 1863, the son of John W. Bourlet and Dorothy T. Batchelder. He prepared for college at the East Concord High School and entered the Chandler Scientific Department of the College. During his course he was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity.

After his graduation he first went into business, then for some years he had the management of large farming interests in New Hampshire and cattle ranching in Kansas, and later he engaged in the cement business with his son Fred, specializing in the manufacture of concrete building blocks.

July 17, 1884, he was married to Ida F. Ward of Concord, N. H. who died twenty years ago. He is survived by his son Fred A., who was a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1911, and a daughter Mildred, both of whom were residing with him at the time of his death.

Class of 1886

REV. LEON OSCAR WILLIAMS, for some years past secretary of the class, died in General Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y., April 2, 1935. He had always enjoyed good health, but was taken with a severe case of bronchitis early in the winter. Complications appearing, his physician ordered him to the hospital on February 28, and he did not return. The disease was called hardening of the arteries of the lungs and heart.

The son of Charles H. and Anna C. (Langley) Williams, he was born in Lee, N. H., July 5, 1861, and prepared for college at Coe's Academy, Northwood, N. H. He was a member of Psi Upsilon, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank:

After graduation he went to Crane Divinity School, connected with Tufts College, to prepare for the Universalist ministry, and graduated there in 1889 with the degrees of B.D. and A.M. He became at once pastor of the church at Claremont, N. H., and remained there three years. From 1892 to 1902 he was pastor of the Ashmont church in Boston, and then at Stoughton, Mass., until 1907. He then went to the First church of Buffalo, N. Y., where he was pastor for twenty years, until his retirement in 1927. Since that time he had preached often and given many lectures in various cities.

In 1908 he was a delegate from the American Peace Society to the International Peace Conference in London. He was a 32d degree Mason.

December 24, 1889, he was married to Avis Elvina Petts of Marlow, N. H., who survives him, with a son, John R. (Dartmouth 1919), now a member of the College faculty in the department of history, and a daughter, Marjorie Williams.

EDWIN BRANT FROST of the class of 'B6 died at the Billings Memorial Hospital, Chicago, May 14. He had recently undergone two major operations and death was due, attending physicians say, to peritonitis. The editors of the MAGAZINE wish to record their sorrow in the passing of a distinguished scientist and one of Dartmouth's most noted graduates, and to express to the surviving relatives their sympathy in behalf of all Dartmouth men. Classmates are unable to record their tribute to Dr. Frost in this issue but the editors present herewith a summary of his unusual career:

Eminent in a field of science where visualfaculties seem most essential, Dr. Frostreached the era of his greatest influence inthe years after his sight was gone.

He was a pioneer in the study of astrophysics, and was regarded as one of theworld's leading authorities in that branchof astronomy, which deals with calculationsof diameters, masses, speeds, directions andelements of stars by breaking up their lightwith a spectroscope.

Blindness which overtook him in 1920cast no blight on his high standing amongAmerican astronomers. With remarkablecourage he not only continued his work asdirector of the Yerkes Observatory, maintained by the University of Chicago at LakeGeneva, Wis., but also his writings forscientific publications.

Primarily Dr. Frost was a teacher and anauthority more than a discoverer. Most ofhis career was devoted to lecturing, helpingstudent astronomers, and to writing andediting.

Thousands of star-gazers, professionaland amateur, visited the Wisconsin observatory to listen to Dr. Frost's discussions ofastronomy, and to hear him expound aphilosophy gleaned from nearly half a century of studying the stars.

This philosophy resolved itself into twomain tenets: First, that there is a definiteplan of organization behind the operationsof nature—a mind behind the universe;and, second, that eventually some great discovery will be made which at one strokewill clarify all mysteries of the cosmos andprove the existence of a definite cosmicorder.

Dr. Frost gained recognition as editorof the Astrophysical Journal since 1902, asauthor of bulletins from Yerkes observatory, and as a contributor to the Astronomical Journal, Science, and the Astronomische Nachrichten.

An asteroid, "Frostia," was discovered byand named after him.

Member of a Vermont family which hadproduced educators for several generations,Dr. Frost started teaching astronomy atDartmouth immediately upon his graduation from that college in 1886, at the ageof 20. Later he studied at Princeton, Strassburg and Potsdam.

Honorary doctorates of science were conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1911 andby Cambridge University, England, in 1912.

Because of his leadership in the thennew field of astrophysics, he was called tothe University of Chicago as professor ofthat science in 1898, after serving as professor and observatory director at Dartmouth for 10 years.

In 1905 Dr. Frost succeeded George E.Hale as director at Yerkes observatory.

He was born July 14, 1866, at Brattleboro, Vt., the son of Carlton P. Frost, aDartmouth professor, and Eliza DußoisFrost. In November, 1896, he married MaryE. Hazard of Boston, a Wellesley graduate.They had two sons, Frederick Hazard ofWestbrook, Me., and Benjamin DuBois,and one daughter, Katharine Brant Frost.

His brother Gilman Frost, professor ofClinical Medicine in the Dartmouth Medical School and a member of the class of1886, also survives him.

Class of 1889

GEORGE RALPH EMERSON died at Farmington, N. H., January 7, 1935. The son of Charles and Vienna (Dalby) Emerson, he was born in Farmington, December 25, 1866. He prepared for college in, the local high school, entered with our class but left during the spring of freshman year, on account of illness.

It was several years before his health was fully regained. Then he established himself in his native town as a dealer in grain, hay, flour, and feed. He operated a gristmill also, and for a time sold farm machinery and motor oils. He continued to carry on this varied business until the end of his life.

While he never attended our reunions he showed always a responsive interest in his classmates. Last September he called on Harry Frost at his summer home in Gilmanton, N. H., and in October he wrote "am living comfortably and enjoy fair health."

The class letters of 1909 show that he was married, but, unfortunately, neither the date nor other details were given. Mrs. Emerson survives. There were no children.

Class of 1896

REV. WILLIAM FRANCIS WHITCOMB died April 5, 1935; at the Claremont General Hospital, where he underwent an operation a few days before, following a long period of ill health.

Mr. Whitcomb was born in Claremont October 16, 1873, the son of George F. and Elizabeth A. (Holden) Whitcomb. He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Stevens High School in the class of 1892. After graduating at Dartmouth, he attended the Hartford Theological Seminary at Hartford, Conn. Ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church, he held pastorates at Dublin and Surry, N. H., and Westminster, Vt. Following the death of his father he returned to Claremont about 25 years ago and took up his residence on the ancestral farm, which he has continued to operate since. He has also supplied the pulpits of the Congregational churches at Croydon and Cornish, continuing his service in the latter up to within a week of his final illness.

He was married October 22, 1899, to Minnette E. Washburn, who survives him, together with a son, Vernon F. Whitcomb, and a daughter, Mrs. Vera M. Bailey, of Claremont. Four grandchildren, William F. 2d, Barbara, and Elizabeth Whitcomb, and Arthur Bailey, and a sister, Mrs. P. C. Kinney, all of Claremont, also survive.

Mr. Whitcomb served his town and county in varied offices of trust. He was a member of the Claremont school board from 1918 to 1921, and was representative to the New Hampshire legislature in 1937, 1929, and 1931. He was a member of the state Senate from the Bth District in 1933. While a member of the Sullivan County delegation he served as chairman, and was chairman also of the special committee entrusted with the erection of the new County Home at Unity. Other offices held by Mr. Whitcomb include secretary, treasurer, and moderator of the Sullivan County Association of Congregational Churches, director and treasurer of the Sullivan County Farmers' Exchange, and member of the town finance committee.

Funeral services were held the following Sunday afternoon in the Congregational church. There were a large number of past and present state officials in attendance, also a large number of former parishioners of the deceased. Judge Henry S. Richardson represented the class and was also honorary pallbearer.

Whitcomb was a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity while in college. He was active in Y. M. C. A. work and was an officer during his four years of the Claremont Club, which was composed of the graduates of Stevens High School.

We knew him during our college course as most retiring and studious, and although not active in class affairs, he was most responsive to those matters which affected the class, and his loyalty was never questioned. Since graduation he has tried to make it a point to attend our reunions, and when there, we were always impressed with his fervent words of prayer and benediction.

Class of 1898

DR. HARRY WINFRED GOODALL, whose death at his home, 1 Raleigh St., Boston, on April 17, 1935, was caused by cerebral arteriosclerosis, was born in Wells, Me., December 16, 1876, the son of George B. and Isabel M. (Norton). He was graduated from Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me., in 1894. At Dartmouth he was awarded the Grimes prize for the greatest improvement in his class during his course. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

In the biology courses at Dartmouth he first began to show the brilliancy which continued during his course in Harvard Medical School and during his entire practice. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1902 with the degree of M.D. summa cum laude and was marshal of his class.

While a student in the medical school, Dr. Goodall made a record which has never been equaled in Harvard Medical School, for he was graduated after having attained an unbroken record of A in every course with a single exception. In one course he was given B deliberately as the result of a faculty meeting held to discuss whether he was a superman or whether the system of marking was wrong. It was decided that the system of marking was wrong, and he was, therefore, marked down to B in that one course so that he would not have a perfect record of an A in every course.

Upon his graduation from the medical school he was appointed an interne at the Massachusetts General Hospital and he served a year there as house officer on the West Medical Side. His period of service here was shortened oij.e-third due to the fact that after six months' service as "pup" he was jumped over the junior service and made a senior. When his service here was nearing its end he consulted with the dean of Harvard Medical School in an endeavor to be permitted to have the full eighteen months' service as house officer. This could not be done, but he was informed by the dean that the time for receiving applications for interneship at the Boston Lying-in Hospital would be .extended for 24 hours. He filed his application and was appointed. One day, near the end of this service and when he was making a visit at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he was asked to come back there as an assistant resident physician. He was there 1903-04, and then resigned to enter practice. After spending the summer in Germany he began pracdee, specializing in internal medicine, in Boston in 1904. He studied at the University of Tubingen, Germany, in 1908.

Once in practice his greatness as a physician began to manifest itself and with the rapid growth and success of his practice his fame as a diagnostician grew and spread, so that in a very few years his work was almost exclusively given up to consultation, and he practically saw patients at his office only and then by appointment. He confined his work exclusively to internal medicine and without doubt became the greatest diagnostician in this part of the country and one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of his generation if not of all time. He also became a recognized authority on diet. In the years preceding the depression his practice had grown to . such proportions that in those years he was reported to have the largest income from his practice of any physician in Boston. He suffered very severe losses from investments in both securities and real estate following the debacle of 1929. His patients were from all classes, and no person was ever refused treatment by him because of lack of means with which to pay.

He was instructor in chemistry at Harvard Medical School 1904-08, and instructor in medicine 1908-17. In 1913 he gave a course of lectures on digestive diseases at Dartmouth Medical School.

He had been physician to Boston Dispensary, 1904-17; visiting physician, New England Baptist Hospital, 1904-26; associate in medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1912-17. At the time of his death he was associate, medical staff, Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital; New England Deaconess Hospital; physician in chief, Chelsea Memorial Hospital; consulting physician, Burbank Hospital, Fitchburg, Symmes Hospital, Arlington, Study Hospital, Attleboro, Framingham Hospital; physician in charge to Home for Aged Couples, Roxbury.

In addition to his work as a practicing and consulting physician he prepared and had published in The American MedicalJournal, Boston Medical and SurgicalJournal, and Archives of Internal Medicine very many medical papers and monographs, dealing in the main with matters relating to the stomach. He was one of the pioneers in work on the medical side of thoracic stomach. This ailment is akin to the "upside-down stomach," which may come as a consequence of thoracic stomach. As a result of the observation and diagnosis of a number of such cases his article, "Thoracic Stomach: A Report of Five Cases," was published in Archives of Internal Medicine in April, 1934. In this article he demonstrated that by proper diagnosis the ailment could be definitely determined to be such, and therefore a medical and not a surgical case, and not gall-stones, appendicitis, ulcers, or other ailments, with accompanying and useless operations.

In 1917 he was asked to accept a commission in the Medical Corps, U. S. A. He accepted on the condition that he be permitted to organize his own medical unit and not be required to serve in this country, but sent direct to France when his services were needed. He was commissioned major, November 20, 1917, and was designated chief of medical service, Base Hospital 51. Because of the prevalence of the flu in the southern camps in March, 1918, he was asked to go there and endeavor to stem the epidemic at one of them. He served at Camp Greene, N. C., from March 6 to May 4, 1918, after which he joined his medical unit at Camp Wheeler, Ga. On August 6, 1918, he sailed from New York for overseas duty in France, and on August 9 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Arriving in France, he was made commanding officer of the Gas Hospital, Justice Hospital Group, of which Base Hospital 51 was one of the units, at Toul. He remained as such until October 11, 1918, when he returned to his medical unit, and was there until November 20, 1918. For his services at the Gas Hospital he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal "For Exceptionally Meritorious and Distinguished Service in the Performance of Duties of Great Responsibility as Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. A. in Command of the Gas Hospital of the Justice Hospital Group in the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War." On November 20, 1918, he became acting commanding officer of Justice Hospital Group. He completed his overseas duty in this latter command and returned to the U. S. in February, 1919, and was discharged March 2, 1919.

Dr. Goodall was a fellow of American College of Physicians, member of Massachusetts Medical Society, member of council of Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Society. He was treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston from 1916 to 1919 inclusive and president in 1930. He had been president of the class of '98, Dartmouth, since 1928.

On July 14, 1925, he was married to Mrs. Emma Claflin Pierce of Boston, who died suddenly July 23, 1932.

In the light of developments it is now certain that the first symptoms of his fatal ailment appeared about five years ago. The first manifestation of consequence was shown about a month after the death of his wife, when he was driving out to make a professional call on Pitt Drew, who was stricken with the same disease which had been the cause of Mrs. Goodall's death. At this time the result was a severe automobile accident but with only a minor injury to the doctor. This was attributed to nerves. Another attack occurred about a year later, and no cause could be found to which could be attributed the recurrence. The great diagnostician, who had been so successful in the many cases of others, could not diagnose his own case. On September 14, 1934, he had the most severe attack, and the trouble was then thought to be due to a diseased condition of the prostate and an operation for this was had with a complete recovery, and the convalesence was so favorable that he was to resume his practice on February 11. On the preceding Friday he went to his office and saw ten or twelve patients, and on that night he was again stricken with what proved to be the fatal attack. Following this attack he had a cranial operation which disclosed that the cause was cerebral arterioselerosis and progressive. Nothing could be done to retard or remedy the trouble, and he died on the evening of April .17. The funeral was held on April 20, and he was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Milford, Mass.

Class of 1901

Walter Fletcher, familiarly known to the class in freshman and sophomore years as "Flee," passed away in a doctor's office in Manchester, N. H., one afternoon early in April, after a sudden illness. He had attended to his regular business all day preceding the attack.

CHARLES WALTER FLETCHER was born in Rindge, N. H., September 19, 1879, the son of Henry W. Fletcher. He attended Murdock High School at Winchendon, Mass., and graduated in 1897. He then entered Dartmouth with Carpenter and Whitcomb, who had been classmates at high school, and they all lived in Wentworth Hall. Fletcher did not return to college after sophomore year, but entered business in Rindge, where he kept a general store.

Turning to state politics, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives and served the term of 1911-1912. In 1917 he sought membership in the upper branch of the legislature and was elected state senator from the 11th District. The following year he was honored with the appointment of major on Governor Bartlett's staff.

Although Fletcher maintained his legal residence in Rindge, where he had been town moderator for the past thirty years, and was just recently reelected, he had resided in Manchester for about nine years, representing several bond and banking houses. For the past three years he had been connected with Burr, Gannett, & Company of Boston, as their representative in southern New Hampshire. He had the reputation of being an outstanding authority on New Hampshire municipal bonds. One of his business associates writes:

"I will say that I have come in contactwith few men in our business who couldoffer more constructive sales ability, and bythat I mean, who were more able to properly take care of customers' interests at atime when most salesmen were apparentlyvery careless in this respect."

Truly a very fine pen picture of an unusually capable and responsible citizen.

Fletcher was a member of the East Jaffery Lodge of Masons, and the Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar, of Keene.

He is survived by his widow, Adelaide Hoyt Fletcher, a daughter, Phyllis, and a son Henry W., also a brother and sister.

Class of 1905

JOHN BOLAND WHITTIER died February 4, 1935, after an illness of about four months, caused by a brain tumor.

Whittier was bom in Lincoln, Me., May 27, 1881, the son of Albert T. and Lizzie B. Whittier.

After his graduation from Dartmouth in 1905, he went to New York to work for the Scott Paper Company.

In November, 1907, he married Ethel M. Foster of Portland, Me., which place had been his former residence.

He later went to Pittsburgh for the Scott Paper Company, and then to take charge of their Chicago office, and was with that company for quite a few years. He was then with the Paper Sales Company of Chicago, and later in business for himself, the Dalton, Whittier, True Company of Chicago—kitchen equipment.

About eleven years ago he went to work for the Leonard Refrigerator Company in Chicago, and later, about five years ago, came to New York as their representative in the East.

He had been in the best of health all his life, until he became ill last October. Over a period of four months, he went from perfect health to almost entire helplessness. The cause of this was not determined until after his death, when it was found to be a brain tumor.

Surviving are his widow, two sons, Gordon F. and Allen L., and a daughter, Jean E., all of 6 Wendt Ave., Larchmont, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. Carroll S. Chaplin of Portland, Me.

Class of 1910

ROYAL W. HYDE died March 16, 1935, at his home at Phillips Beach, Swampscott, Mass.

"Heinie," as he was called by all his host of friends from all walks of life, was bom September 25, 1889, at Gardner, Mass., and came to college from Milford, N. H., where he had spent his boyhood. In College he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. He prepared at Cushing Academy and played on the freshman and sophomore football teams.

His entire business career was spent as a stock and bond broker, at one period in association with leading financial houses, but most of the time he acted in his individual capacity.

On November 6, 1915, he married Norma M. Anderson and is survived by his widow and three children: Hope, a freshman at §mith; Alister, at Choate School, and Norma, in High School.

Heinie showed at the beginning of his college days those outstanding human traits that made him loved by all. He was always friendly, eager, enthusiastic and full of mischief and humor; but his wit was never barbed nor used to cause embarrassment or discomfort to others, and frequently he was the butt of his own humor or the victim of his mischief. Life never ran on an even keel for Heinie, nor would he have so wished it. Although he had his share of adversity, great and small, he always met misfortune with a smile and never lost his sunny disposition. He worked hard, played hard and loved life, and a constant bubbling over of his good spirits brought sunshine to all he met. For those who were privileged to know Heinie well, his death will long be felt as a deep personal sorrow.

—LELAND POWERS.

ROYAL WILKINS HYDE was found dead on the pavement in the rear of his home at 16 Ocean Ave., Lynn, Mass., March 17, '935- Death was caused by a fall from a window, and was probably suicidal.

He was born in Gardner, Mass., September 25, 1889, but his home when in college was at Milford, N. H. He fitted at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass. He was a member of Chi Phi, and in freshman and sophomore years played on the class football teams.

He had been until recently employed by an investment broker in Boston. He was married, and his widow and a son and two daughters survive him.

Medical School

Class of 1882

DR. FREDERICK EBEN CUMMINGS died at his home in Concord, N. H., April 4, of a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was born in Littleton, N. H., September 4, 1858, the son of Dr. Ebenezer and Amelia J. (Woodbury) Cummings. The family removed to Concord, where he attended the public schools and a private school, and then began professional study in the office of Dr. George Cook (D.M.S. 1869).

After attending three courses of lectures at Dartmouth he obtained his degree in November, 1881. Then followed a short hospital experience at Bellevue, after which he began at Pittsfield, N. H„ what became an unusually successful country practice. In 1909 he retired from active practice and returned to Concord.

May 14, 1884, Dr. Cummings was married to Nellie M. Mack of Pittsfield, N. H., who died August 25, 1893. They had one son, William Mack, who was killed in an accident at Salina, Kans., December 22, 1929. A second marriage, June 27, 1896, was to Mary H. Woodbury of Newport, N. H., who survives him.

DR. FRANCIS EMERSON JOHNSON died at his home in Erving, Mass., May 1, 1935, of paralysis agitans and a cerebral embolism, after an illness of several months.

He was born in Unity, N. H., March 6, 1857, his parents being Ezra G. and Melissa (Quimby) Johnson. The family removed to Claremont, N. H., where he graduated from the high school. He studied for his profession in the office of Dr. O. B. Way (D.M.S. 1866) of Claremont, attending two courses of lectures at Dartmouth and one at the University of Vermont.

After his graduation he practiced for a time at Gilsum, N. H., and then at Cooleyville and New Salem, Mass. In 1892 he removed to Erving, where he has been in diligent and successful practice until his final illness. He was a vital part of the civic, religious, and social life of the community. For 21 years he served as town treasurer, and was a Mason and an Odd Fellow.

June 8, 1886, Dr. Johnson was married to Christina H., daughter of Robert and Margaret (Hunter) Cuthbert of Gilsum, who survives him, with one son, Cuthbert Johnson.