Deaths
MILLIGAN, REV. JOSEPH R., '62, Baltimore, Md., June 1, 1936 CLARK, DEXTER T., '65, Randolph, Mass., Sept. 27, 1936 WEEKS, ALBERT M., '88, Laconia, N. H., Oct. 3, 1936 CHASE, HENRY N., '95, Hyannis, Mass., Oct. 4, 1936 BUNKER, CHARLES C., '03, Far Rockaway, L. 1., N. Y., June 17, 1936 GIBSON, STEWART K., '11, Oct. 10, 1936 WELCH, HOWARD 8., '11, Aug. 31, 1936
Honorary Degree Holders NEWMAN, DR. HENRY P., '94 Honorary, San Diego, Calif., Sept. 21, 1936
ALUMNI NOTES
Necrology
Class o£ 1865
DEXTER THAYER CLARK, the last survivor of this class, died at his home in Randolph, Mass., September 27, 1936, from the fracture of a hip sustained when he was struck by an automobile while crossing the street on September 10.
He was born in Randolph, September 7, 1844, the son of Matthew and Elizabeth Y. (Atkins) Clark, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the Stetson School for Boys. He was a member of The Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).
After graduation he went into his father's business of manufacturing boots and shoes. In 1880, after his father's retirement, he was for a time connected with a gilding and picture business in Boston. He was then engaged in civil engineering for many years at Randolph, making surveys for land transfers and developments, parks, street railways, cemeteries, water works, etc., in that vicinity. He retired about twenty years ago.
He was always interested in sports, had a shell on the river at Hanover in his college days, and used Indian clubs until the time of his fatal accident.
In 1869 Mr. Clark was married to Charlotte Stetson, daughter of Moses and Charlotte (Stetson) Bean of Randolph, who died in 1901. Their daughter, Miss E. Eugenie Clark, survives her parents. A son, Dr. William Dexter Clark, died in 1929.
Class of 1880
CLARENCE PIKE died September 8 at his home in Cliftondale, a suburb of Saugus, Mass., from pneumonia which developed from a shock and the ensuing paralysis. He was born December 17, 1857, in North Waterford, Me., the oldest of eight children born to Rev. Ezra Barker and Elizabeth A. (Mitchell) Pike. His ancestors were English who settled near the Merrimac in Northeastern Massachusetts at Salisbury in the 1630'5. His father was a minister of the evangelistic type, who through impaired health was obliged to give up that calling temporarily, but his health improving, he took up the study of medicine and graduated from the Medical School of Bowdoin College and practiced with great success in Poland, Me. Afterwards he gave up the active practice of medicine to take up again the study of theology at Bangor Theological Seminary, and at the same time continued to practice medicine in connection with his ministerial labors. With the exception of practicing medicine, Clarence followed closely in the footsteps of his father, whom he glorified and revered as a most remarkable man.
After graduation he spent the academic year 1880-1881 in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and then went to Andover Seminary, where he graduated in 1883 and where he remained for a year of advanced work. During his seminary vacations he preached as student supply at Chatham and Wilmot, N. H., and in the fall of 1884 he was ordained as pastor of the Union Evangelical church in Amesbury, Mass. and Salisbury, where he remained until the fall of 1891. While in this pastorate he was married, July 6, 1887, to Caroline E. Thompson of Durham, N. H., by whom he had an only child, a daughter, Florence C., born in the early part of 1890, who was graduated from Wellesley College in 1912 and afterwards taught in various high schools. This daughter subsequently became an invalid through a nervous breakdown, but still survives him.
In the fall of 1891, he moved to Vermont, where he served a double parish, Underhill and Jericho, in churches three miles apart, where he labored for four years. Subsequently he moved to Mansfield, Conn., his longest pastorate, where he remained eleven and one half years and held his first and only public office as a member of the school board.
He afterwards held pastorates at Ashland, Mass., Milton, N. H., and Royalston, Mass., at which last town he lived for about ten years and where in the fall of 1918 his wife died.
Five years later, in 1923, he married an old schoolmate of his high school days at Boothbay Harbor, Mrs. Hattie Holton Hallowell, a widow, and so renewed his youth and resumed housekeeping. In October of 1925, he again moved to Coventry, Vt., which was his last pastorate and where he was living at the time of his contribution to our "Class Chronicles—fifty years afterwards," from which this record is taken. Always a devout Christian with an abiding faith in Christ and the Bible, he devoted the best years of his life to parish and pulpit evangelistic work and to his interpretation of faith in Jesus Christ, as the central fact in history. His writings and publications were confined mostly to local papers, and he was not the author of any religious books.
In the class he stood second in scholarship rank and at Commencement was awarded the salutatory. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa.
He attended some of our class reunions and always maintained deep interest in the College and his classmates, who will long remember him for his genial ways, his good nature, and solid character, and as a fine type of Christian gentleman.
His sister, the wife of the Rev. E. S. Sanborn of East Kingston, N. H., very kindly furnishes additional information about his later years.
He left his last pastorate in Coventry, Vt., in 1930, and made his home in Cliftondale (town of Saugus), Mass. He continued in good health until his last illnessenjoyed his reading and writing and sharing in the activities of the local church. His second wife, died June 17, after a very short illness. She had a cerebral hemorrhage. After her death his wife's niece, Miss Grace B. Holton, remained with him in the home. Last July 3, he set out to go to Boston, but while still in Cliftondale he suffered what seemed at the time to be a slight shock, and was taken home in a dazed condition. He was not paralyzed, but during the following weeks until his death he was in care of a nurse and confined to his bed. His mind continued to be so confused that while he recognized his family and friends, he seldom attempted to speak more than to answer a question by yes or no.
On the night of September 6, he had a second shock, his right side became paralyzed, pneumonia developed, and at one P. M., September 8, he died. A sister and niece were with him in his last hours. All his four brothers had been able to see him during his illness.
Survivors are an invalid daughter, Miss Florence C. Pike, two sisters, and four brothers. Funeral services were held in the Congregational church in Cliftondale, Sunday, September 13, conducted by his pastor, Rev. Chas. B. McDuffee. Burial was in Brentwood, N. H.
Class of 1881
DR. BYRON CHARLES LEAVITT died at his home in Duxbury, Mass., August 18. He had been very ill for months; in fact he had had several critical illnesses within the past few years. Memory recalls that even in college he was so ill near the close of his course that his diploma was delayed a few months until he could make up certain lost work.
He was born in Waterboro, Me., September 24, 1858, being the son of Benjamin and Ethelinda (Deering) Leavitt. He fitted for college at the high school in Saco, which was at that time his home. After graduation he spent part of his time in a drug store in Boston, and studied medicine in Harvard Medical School and in Europe, obtaining his medical diploma from Harvard in 1887. From 1888 to 1905 he was a physician in Denver, Colo., also serving as railway surgeon and on the medical staff of Denver University. Since the high altitude of Denver did not agree with the health of Mrs. Leavitt, he moved in 1905 to Duxbury, Mass., where he had since resided, engaging somewhat in medical practice, but .leading in the main a rather retired life.
He was married September 17, 1891, to Miss Alice Silsby Appleton of Marblehead, Mass., who survives him. He had no children.
Class of 1889
GEORGE BYRON KINGSBURY died suddenly of heart disease at his home in West Hartford, Conn., May 21, 1936.
He was born at Jericho, Vt., May 29, 1863, the son of Joseph Byron and Elizabeth J. (Eastman) Kingsbury. He prepared for college at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass., entered and graduated (A.8.) with our class. He also received the degree of A.M. in 1892 For 44 years he was a teacher, until June 1933, when he retired because of an age limit rule. After graduation he taught two years in New Jersey, four years in Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., seven years in the Brockton (Mass.) High School, and then, for 31 years, was chairman of the commercial department of the Hartford High School George gave freely of time and strength to assisting in the work of boys' clubs and other interests of active youngsters of school age. He was fond of travel, and during summer vacations made numerous trips to the Canadian Northwest and to the Rockies and the Pacific Coast in our own country A teacher's schedules do not permit attending class reunions, but in other ways he kept in touch with his classmates At Brockton, Mass., July go, 1896, he married Miss Edith H. Leonard, who died December 25, 1926. A second marriage was at Hartford, July 23, 1930, to Miss Laura E. Glazier, a graduate of Smith College, who had taught in the Hartford High School for many years and who survives him. .... A younger brother, Albert, was also in our class. He has retired from business, and lives in Wollaston, Mass:, his home for many years.
Class of 1890
REV. GEORGE SHERMAN MILLS died August 17, 1936, at the Warren County Hospital at Rockland, Me., where he had been taken after an operation performed at Belfast, Me., where he had long maintained a summer home.
He was born in Copake, N. Y., February 24, 1868, the son of Rev. George Addison and Sarah W. (Sherman) Mills. He prepared for college at the Albany (N. Y.) Boys' Academy and Schuylerville (N. Y.) High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet, editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth LiteraryMonthly, and a Commencement speaker. He had a distinguished record for scholarship, taking prizes in Greek, English composition, and oratory, and becoming a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1890-3 he was at the head of the English department at Colgate Academy, Hamilton, N. Y., and studied at Hamilton Theological Seminary in the last year. He then took two years at Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1895. For the following nine years he was pastor of the First Congregational church of Belfast, Me., and then from 1904 to 1925 of the Second church of Bennington, Vt. He was then for six years pastor of the Wellington Ave. church in Chicago. He then retired from the active ministry, but was employed most of the time in supplying the pulpits of temporarily vacant churches, making his permanent residence at Bennington, Vt. In 1925 Dartmouth conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
For six months in 1917-18 he served as educational secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago, and was actively interested in the Red Cross, the selling of Liberty Bonds, and other movements in support of the government.
September 5, 1895, he was married to Katherine Gage Vose of Calais, Me., who survives him, with their son, Charles S. Mills (Dartmouth 1919).
We quote this appreciation from the Bennington Banner: "All enterprises looking to the good of the community not onlyreceived his endorsement but his activeparticipation. He was the possessor of exceptional mental and physical vitalitywhich made him. an outstanding figure inevery undertaking in which he became engaged. The charm of his personality wasinfectious, radiating not only a sympathetic interest but a highly developedsense of humor, characteristics that appeared to expand as he went down theyears."
Class of 1891
CHARLES SHERMAN LITTLE died suddenly at Letchworth Village, Thiells, New York, June 6, 1936.
He was born in Webster, N. H., February 12, 1869, the son of Sherman and Mary Ann (Austin) Little. He attended the public schools of Webster, also the Franconia, N. H., Academy, from which he came direct to Dartmouth, where he took the degree of B.S. in 1891. After his graduation he was a civil engineer for two years, and then returned to Dartmouth Medical School, from which he received a medical degree in 1896. In 1933 he received the degree of Doctor of Science from the College. He served at the Tewksbury General Hospital, the Taunton State Hospital, and the McLean Hospital, which is a part of the Massachusetts General. He at no time was a general practitioner of medicine, but was engaged in institutional work. From McLean he went to Laconia, N. H., where he was superintendent of the New Hampshire School for Feeble-Minded. From New Hampshire he went to Letchworth Village as superintendent in charge of establishing a school for feeble-minded children, and remained there for twenty-five years until his death. His work at Letchworth Village was the crowning work of his life.
Dr. Little married twice. His first wife was Miss Tertia Wilton of Hamilton, Ontario, who died in 1913. They had two children—Sherman Little of the class of 1929, who is a graduate of the Yale Medical School and a staff member at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and Barbara Little, who survive him. He married again in 1919 Miss Daphne Perkins of Moores Corner, Mass., who also survives him.
A well-deserved tribute to Dr. Little appears in the October number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Class of 1902
ARTHUR PEARL TUTTLE, for two years a member of the class, was suddenly stricken with heart trouble at his summer home in Alton, N. H., and was taken to the hospital at Wolfeboro, where he died July 12, 1936.
Arthur was born in Athens, Me., February 24, 1879, the son of James H. and Amanda (Grant) Tuttle. The family moved to Lawrence, Mass., when he was a small boy, and he kept his home there for some years, until he moved to Andover. In college Arthur was a member o£ Kappa Kappa Kappa.
On leaving college he entered the employ of Murray Brothers Company of Lawrence, wholesale grocers, and remained with that concern, becoming its president some four years ago. He was one of the organizers of the Fairlawn Stores organization, a group of independent grocers in the Lawrence-Haverhill region. In addition he was a trustee of the Lawrence Savings Bank; a member of the Lawrence Rotary Club, where he held a 100% attendance record during his entire membership; a past-president of the Merrimack Valley Wholesale Grocers' Association; and a member of other commercial organizations.
Arthur is survived by his wife, Myra (Warburton), and one son, Murray W., now treasurer of Murray Bros. Co.
Class of 1903
CHARLES CLINTON BUNKER of Far Rockaway, N. Y., died suddenly while attending a meeting of a committee of the Queens County Bar Association in the Queens County court house at Long Island City on June 17, 1936. Coronary thrombosis was the cause of death.
Born in Mercer, Me., February 19, 1879, the son of John and Emeline (Cutts) Bunker, graduated from the Gloucester High School, Charles entered Dartmouth College with our class and graduated in 1903. In 1906 he graduated from the Yale Law. School, and after admission to the bar practiced for several years with a number of large New York firms. Twenty-five years ago he settled in Far Rockaway, N. Y., associating himself with Willard S. Pettit, and established a splendid reputation as a trial lawyer. Later he branched out for himself, devoting most of his time to real estate law. It was as a trial lawyer, however, that Charles was happiest, as he frequently remarked to his office force.
At college he was a member of his sopho- more class football team, interested in all class and college affairs, but never a fellow to push himself forward, loyal to his friends and the College. In later years he always made a point of attending all football games played by Dartmouth in the metropolitan area.
In the community life of Far Rockaway, Charles was an active citizen, a member of the Episcopal church, of several fraternal orders, and past president of the Exchange Club. Professionally he was markedly successful, and was loved and respected by all who came in contact with him.
July 27, 1909, he was married to Mercie Ellen Wadsworth, who died January g, 1920. June 30, 1921, he was married to Lydia Anne, daughter of Benjamin Yarrington and Anna M. (Nelson) Peck, who survives him. Of the first union John Wadsworth was born April 30, 1915, and of the second Charles Clinton Jr., April 17, 1923.
Class of 1910
John Cassidy had a bad heart attack on the train, July 8, en route from New York to his home in St. Albans on Long Island, and after being very low for the intervening days passed away on the evening of July 11.
JOHN ANTHONY CASSIDY was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 2, 1887, the son of James A. and Annie (Reilly) Cassidy. Educated in the public schools of Brooklyn and later by a private tutor, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1910, being on the honor list with a rank between 85 to 90 in his senior year. Receiving his B.S. Degree in 1910, he graduated from the Thayer School in 1911, after which he was with the Public Service Commission and Electric Bond & Share Co. in an engineering capacity. In 1920 he entered the advertising department of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., and in 1921 was sales promotion manager with the New York Commercial. Attending a special course in life insurance at New York University, he became a life insurance salesman in 1922, and in 1923 became affiliated with Johnston & Collins, general agents of the Travelers Insurance Co., where he remained until his death.
On June 17, 1913, John married Alice G. McGrath of Dorchester, Mass., and to them were born seven children, Mary Edna, John A. Jr., James J., Thomas W., Charles E., and twin girls, Rosemary and Patricia, the latter two being three years old.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Dartmouth Club of New York, and the Life Underwriters Association.
John was always a quiet, hard-working man who took life seriously. However, he had the capacity for making friends and obtaining the deep respect of all who knew him. He never grumbled but accepted his lot in life and plugged right through to the end. He leaves many friends in our midst—and his passing was very sad, leaving a large family to carry on.
Class of 1912
ARTHUR KENNEY LOWELL died at the Chelsea (Mass.) Naval Hospital, July 2, 1936. He had been in ill health for several years with heart and kidney trouble.
He was born in Somerville, Mass., June 12, 1888, the son of Henry C. and Mary Alice Lowell.
After graduating with the degree of B.S. he was for some years in the insurance business with the Mutual Benefit and Eastern Casualty Co. in Boston and Reading, Mass. In 1917-18 he served as second lieutenant in the Air Service, and went overseas with the 122d Aero Squadron, participating in the Meuse-Argonne battles. After his discharge he was in the sales department of Dodge Bros, for some time, stationed in Detroit. In 1922 he suffered a serious accident, and was confined to a hospital for several months. Later he was with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Grand Rapids, and then with the same company in Boston.
August 14, 1919, he was married to Bessie E. Brigham, who survives him, with two daughters.
Class of 1950
SPENCER JEROME BLAKE died suddenly of pneumonia July 5, 1936.
He was born in Cranford, N. J., August 28, 1897, his parents being Robert Wallace and Alice Eliza (Brown) Blake, and prepared for college at Blair Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He left college in December, 1918, having been a popular member of the class.
After leaving college he was in the paper business, at first with Sill Paper Co. of New York City, later with Champion Coated Paper Co. and W. C. Hamilton & Sons, and finally with R. G. Benedict as representative for paper mills. In the spring of 1934 he was obliged to give up work and go West for his health. After a time he returned to New York and became a special agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
August 18, 1926, he was married to Mary E. Elliott of Freehold, N. J., who survives him.
JAMES RICHARD MILNE died in Boston September 14, 1936, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he had been a patient for a week and seemed to be on the road to recovery.
The son of John and Mary Ann Frame (Scott) Milne, he was born in Boston, March 6, 1898, and prepared for college at the Boston English High School.
In May, 1917, he left college to enlist in the Dartmouth Unit in the Ambulance Service. He was wounded in action, received the Croix de Guerre from the French government, and was released from the service in October, 1917. He then returned to college, and remained until December, 1918.
For sixteen years he was a special feature writer with the Boston Sunday Post, and during that time he covered many important and difficult assignments and made a name for himself as one of the best feature men in Boston journalism. He was also the author of several short stories and a one-act play.
Military honors were accorded Dick at the funeral service at the First Parish church in Needham, and the French Republic was represented by an of the French consulate in Boston. Al Cate represented the class.
August 7, 1922, he was married to Vaneva May Peace of New Orleans, La., who survives him, with three children, James R. Jr., John David, and Mary Lisbeth. His parents also survive, now living in Wellesley.
Class of 1925
HOWARD CAMPBELL KERR died of pneu monia at a hospital in New York City. March 9, 1936.
He was born in White Plains, N. Y., July 24, 1905, the son of Howard Campbell and Mary (Potter) Kerr, and prepared for college at DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City. He took high rank in scholarship, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he spent a year on a cow ranch in Arizona. He then entered the employ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at the home office in New York. He continued successfully in that work until he resigned in 1931 to study music in Europe. He remained in Europe in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy until January, 1935, when he returned to New York and took up the work of public accounting.
Kerr did not marry, and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Jarvis Kerr Mead, now in Paris.
DR. GEORGE RADCLIFFE DUNCAN died of tuberculosis at the Glen Lake (Minn.) Sanitorium April 6, 1936.
The son of Charles Henry and Jean Katherine (Grant) Duncan, he was born in St. Paul, Minn., September 18, 1903, and prepared for college at the Mechanic Arts High School of St. Paul. He left college at the end of sophomore year.
After leaving Dartmouth he entered the Medical School of the University of Minnesota, where he graduated in 1927. He served as intern for a year at the San Francisco (Calif.) City and County Hospital. In 1929 he became a member of the staff of Glen Lake Tuberculosis Sanitorium, and continued there until his death. He carried on much research work, and was known in medical circles for his experimental work with heat therapy in tuberculosis. June 7, 1930, Dr. Duncan was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Gould and Eddie (Featherston) Hill of St. Paul, who survives him, with their daughter, Elizabeth Jean.
William E. Smalley
WILLIAM E. SMALLEY died September 20, at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. He had been in failing health for some years, with serious complications during recent weeks. He was 59 years of age, born in Hanover, October 25, 1878, a life-long resident of the town. His father was Frank E. Smalley, his mother Minnie Pelton, of another old Hanover family.
Mr. Smalley was the husband of Mary ("Ma") Smalley, proprietor of the famous Smalley Eating Club on College Street.
Medical School
Class of 1889
DR. DUDLEY LEAVITT STOKES died at his home in Rochester, N. H., June 26, 1936, of heart disease, after a brief illness.
He was born in Freedom, N. H., July 26, 1866, the son of Stephen A. and Esther (Mills) Stokes. His academic education was obtained at New Hampton Institute. While in the Medical School he was one of the founders of the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity.
After graduation he began practice at Goffstown, N. H., whence he removed in 1891 to Rochester, which was the seat of his extensive and successful practice for the rest of his life.
He had attained to high degrees in Masonry, and was a valued member of the Methodist church.
October 26, 1889, Dr. Stokes was married to Sarah Frances, daughter of Abram and Eliza J. (Burleigh) Tyler of Freedom, who survives him. Their surviving children (two others died in infancy) are Dr. Leroy T. Stokes (D.M.S. 1913) and Dr. Samuel H. Stokes of Haverhill, Mass., and Elizabeth Stokes, a teacher in Haverhill High School.
Class of 1896
GEORGE HUFF died at Champaign, Ill., October 1, 1936, after an illness of five days.
He was born at Champaign, June 11, 1872, the son of George Alexander and Mary Marie (Martin) Huff, and graduated as B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1892. He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth in 1893 and 1894, but did not complete his medical education. When at Dartmouth he played on the baseball and football teams, the rules then permitting medical students to play.
His career has been entirely in the field of athletics. When at the University of Illinois he played baseball and football, and he returned there in 1895 as assistant athletic director and coach, becoming in 1901 director. He handled baseball for twenty-four years, his teams winning a remarkable record. In 1907 he left Illinois to manage the Boston American League baseball club, but returned after a year. In 1932 the University established a School of Physical Education, and Mr. Huff became its director, and also of a summer school for athletic coaches and of a four-year course in athletic coaching. He was a pioneer in the development of Western Conference athletics, and had been second to none in influence during all its history.
December 8, 1897, Mr. Huff was married to Katherine Louise Naughton of Champaign, who survives him, with two daughters and a son.
Class of 1901
DR. JOHN EDMUND BRYANT died of angina pectoris at his home in Haverhill, Mass., September 18, 1936.
He was born in Browningtonj Vt., May 24, 1876, the son of Gilman B. and Margaret L. Bryant. In 1895 he graduated from Barton Academy, and for the next two years taught in the schools of Irasburg, Barton, and Brownington. His entire medical training was taken at Dartmouth, with intermissions in which he served as intern at the New York Lying-in Hospital and the Boston City Hospital. From July, 1901, to September, 1902, he was an intern at the Hale Hospital, Haverhill, and then began private practice in that city. For many years he was on the staff of the Hale Hospital and later of the Gale Hospital. In 1930 he served as president of the Essex North District Medical Society.
December 30, 1915, he was married to Florence Mae, daughter of George W. and Hattie A. Teeple of Pinckney, Mich., who survives him, with their two daughters, Elizabeth Hodges and Dorothy Estes.
Honorary
REV. JAMES LEVI BARTON, upon whom the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred in 1920, died at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston July 21, 1936, after an operation.
He was born in Charlotte, Vt., September 23, 1855, the son of Jacob Varney and Hannah (Knowles) Barton, prepared for college at Beeman Academy, New Haven, Vt., and graduated from Middlebury College in 1881 and from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1885. He then went to Harpoot, Turkey, as a missionary of the American Board, and served in that capacity until 1892. In 1893 he was appointed president of Euphrates College at Harpoot, but in 1894 was recalled to America to become foreign secretary of the American Board. In 1915 he was made chairman of the Near East Relief, and remained as such during the life of that organization, being vice-chairman of its successor, the Near East Foundation. He was the leading authority in this country 011 all matters connected with this charity. He held many other honorary degrees besides the one from Dartmouth, and was a trustee of Middlebury College, Hartford Theological Seminary, and the American colleges in the Near East.
He was married June 3, 1885, to Flora Estelle Holmes of West Winfield, N. Y., who survives him. with two children.
ROBERT JAMES PEASLEE, who received the degree of Master of Arts in 1898 and of Doctor of Laws in 1926, died at Phillips House, Boston, August 22, 1936, after an illness of several weeks.
The son of Robert and Persis Boardman (Dodge) Peaslee, he was born at Weare, N. H., September 23, 1864. He attended Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, Mass., and Arms Academy at Shelburne Falls, Mass., graduating from the latter.
In 1886 he graduated from the Law School of Boston University, and began practice at once at Manchester, N. H. In 1898 he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the state. After three years he resigned to become associate justice of the Superior Court. Six years later he returned to the Supreme Court, of which he became chief justice in 1924. In 1934, having reached his 70th birthday, he retired. In 1888-91 he was instructor in law in the Chandler School, and after 1911 was lecturer on domestic relations in Boston University Law School.
September 12, 1893, Judge Peaslee was married to Nellie Dorcas Kimball of Manchester, who died in 1915. In 1917 he was married to Sarah Congdon Hazard of Manchester, who survives him. There were no children.
DR. HENRY PARKER NEWMAN, who received the degree of Master of Arts in 1894, died at his home in San Diego, Calif., September 21, 1936, after a short illness.
The son of James Madison and Abby (Everett) Newman, he was born in Washington, N. H., December 2, 1853. After an academic training at New London Institution (later called Colby Academy), he came to Dartmouth for medical lectures in 1875. Later he went to Detroit Medical College, where he graduated as M.D. in 1878. He then studied abroad for two years, at Bonn, Leipsic, and Strasburg. Returning to America, he began practice in Chicago in 1880, and soon attained high standing in his specialty of gynecology. In 1881 he helped organize the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, which afterwards became the medical department of the University of Illinois. For many years he taught gynecology and obstetrics in this institution and also in the Chicago Polyclinic, and was president of the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago. In 1910 he removed to San Diego, where he was president of the county medical society and was instrumental in organizing the tuberculosis association. When in Chicago he was founder and president of the MarionSims Hospital. He was one of the founders of the International Congress of Gynecologists and Obstetricians and of the American College of Surgeons, and was for ten years treasurer of the American Medical Association.
In 1882 he was married to Fanny Louise Hedges of Chicago, who survives him, with two children, Mrs. Hubert A. Shaw of Pasadena, Calif., and Dr. Willard H. Newman of San Diego.
