Deaths

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1852

Mrs. Mary Ann (Beede) Bell, widow of Dr. John Bell of this class, who died in 1883, died December 15 in Ithaca, N. Y., at the age of 100 years.

Class of 1871

WILLIAM SWAN DANA, secretary of the class, died of a heart attack at his home in Woodstock, Vt., January 9, 1936, after an illness of two days.

The son of Joseph and Eliza (Garfield) Dana, he was born in Woodstock, January 1, 1851. He prepared for college at Woodstock High School, and graduated as valedictorian of his class. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he taught for one year in the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and was then for three years principal of the high school in his native town. He then studied law in Woodstock and in Clinton, Mass., and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in March, 1878. He began practice at Northampton, Mass., and after one year removed to Turners Falls, where he remained until his removal to Boston in 1901. He was a justice in Franklin County District Court for a long period, and held various town offices at Turners Falls. He practiced in Boston from 1901 to 1916, and during that period served as trial justice in the police court. He returned to his native town in 1916, and was made assistant judge of the Windsor county court January 1, 1922, continuing to hold this office to the end of his life.

Judge Dana had been an active member of the Congregational church for many years, having served as trustee, deacon, and moderator of the corporation. For 25 years he had been secretary of his class, and was one of the most regular attendants at the annual secretaries' meeting.

January 4, 1883, he was married to Sarah Salmon of Newburg, N. Y„ who died June 15, 1935. Four years later he married Mabel Shrum of Halifax, N. S., who survives him. There were no children.

Class of 1872

CHARLES LOOMIS DANA died December 12, "935. as consequence of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered by him while walking with an attendant at Harmon-on-Hudson, N. Y. He was able to reach his home but expired soon.

He was the son of Charles and Charitie Scott (Loomis) Dana, and born in Woodstock, Vt., March 25, 1852. He was prepared for college by a private tutor. He joined the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1875 he received the degree of A.M. During his college course he was a close and conscientious student, personally genial and popular in the class, a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, and deeply interested but not particularly active in physical sports of that day.

In September, 1872, he was selected as private secretary to Hon. Justin S. Morrill, then U. S. senator of Vermont and a personal friend of his father. He continued in that position until the spring of 1875. During the summer of 1875 he was private secretary to Professor Baird of the Smithsonian Institution, acting both in Washington, D. C., and in the summers at Woods Hole, Mass., and in special association with the American Fish Commissioners. At the end of this service he became clerk of U. S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings in Washington.

His medical education began with Dr. Henry Boynton in Woodstock, Vt. In 1873 he became a student in the medical department of the Columbian University, now National Medical College, in Washington, D. C., and in 1876 there received his degree of M.D., having delivered the valedictory of his class. Meanwhile he matriculated in Georgetown Medical College and in the Medical Department of Dartmouth College. In late 1876 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons (N. Y.), where in 1877 he also received a degree of M.D.

He served a year and a half on the resident hospital staff of Bellevue Hospital in the N. Y. Third Medical Division under the tutelage of Dr. Austin Flint Jr. and Dr. Edward G. Janeway, both eminent and outstanding neurologists. Thereafter he commenced the practice of his profession in 46th St., New York City. Later he removed to 53 West 53d St., where he continued his residence and practice until his retirement in 1933.

In 1879 and 1880 he was also assistant editor of Medical Record and engaged in U. S. Marine Hospital, now known as U. S. Public Health Service. In 1880 he was stationed at U. S. Marine Hospital on Ellis Island for several months.

Soon, if not immediately, he chose the special subject of his studies and applied himself definitely and particularly to the study and treatment of nervous disease. Diligently he concentrated on the subject and applied his energy and education, as well as his facility with pen and with speech, to rise to the top of that branch of his profession. Meanwhile he became professor of Physiology in Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, and in 1881 became a member of New York Neurological Society, where in 1884-85 he was vice-president, in 1886 to 1888 president, and in 1894 councilor therein, and in 1907 again president.

As a consequence, early in his practice he impressed his associates, his patients, and the general public with his conspicuous ability in diagnosis, as well as in means and methods of treatment and knowledge of the different phases of all ailments of the nerves.

He prepared a work which embodied in an effective and somewhat original form the. results of his efforts, and named it "Textbook of Nervous Diseases." This work was so popular and met such a demand especially in the profession that after its publication in 1892 it reached the 6th edition in 1904, and later mounted to a 10th edition in 1925.

In 1882 he became a member of American Neurological Association and in 1892 the president thereof, and in 1904 to 1910 was councilor and vice-president thereof.

In 1902 he became professor of nervous diseases, Cornell University Medical College, N. Y„ and continued in that position during the remainder of his active life. In 1885 he was made fellow of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, and in 1914 to 1916 was president thereof. His election as president was so unprecedented that it elicited the high commendation by an outstanding Academician quoted later. .

In a printed notice in a daily publication of large circulation in New York City, the Academy of Medicine through its president and secretary published a notice of which the following is an excerpt:

"The Council of the New York Academyof Medicine desires to record its deep senseof loss in the death of Dr. Charles LoomisDana, a former president of the Academy.During the greater part of his life Dr. Danawas a commanding figure in the affairsof the Academy. It was his vision whichfirst organized the Committee on PublicHealth Relations and his wisdom whichwith such success conducted its activitiesduring the twenty years that he was itschairman. As trustee for several terms hewas wise in counsel, constructive inthought, and resourceful in effort. TheAcademy is greatly his debtor, and theCouncil thus testifies to the regard inwhich he was held."

In the same connection one of the most eminent of New York neurologists published in Science 82, 607-608, December 27, 1935, an appreciation of Dr. Dana from which the following is a brief clipping:

"It is not often that a specialist is so outstanding in his profession as a whole thathe would be singled out as a leader in medicine, but the Academy of Medicine of NewYork .... 'elected Dr. Dana in 1914-15'the first instance in its long history."

In 1905 he was made trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine and continued in that office until 1934; for seventeen years (1911-1988) he was chairman of the Public Health Relations Committee. Meantime from 1886 to 1898 he was professor of nervous and mental diseases in Post-Graduate Medical School.

"Dr. Dana made many valuable scientificcontributions to the progress of neurology.He was an unusually clear thinker and expositor of his ideas and a most excellentteacher. He was indefatigable as a studentin his own field, and an accomplishedscholar in areas outside of medicine, inhistory and literature He was always sincere, sometimes austere, but everevinced a delightful sense of humor."

He will always be remembered . bythat group of physicians with hobbies,known as the Charaka Club, of which hewas one of the founders " In the published volumes of the Charaka Club the following contributions by Dr. Dana will give an idea of his activities outside of his special field of neurology and so fix in the minds of his friends the catholicity of his interests: Vol. I, "The Cult of Aesculapius" and "The Evil Spoken of Physicians"; 11,

"The Medicine of Horace"; III, "When Apollo Strikes the Lyre"; IV, "The Costume of the Ancient Greek Physician"; V, "Military and Civil Surgery Among the Ancient Romans," and "Eminent Physicians: A Statistical Study"; VI, "Ursinus, the Father of Opotherapy" and "Sonnett to Clio (as Muse of Historical Medicine)."

Meantime from 1889 to 1934 he acted as consultant in neurology at the Montefiore Hospital. In 1913 he was made president o£ the Psychiatrical Society and a delegate to the 17th triennial meeting of the International Medical Congress in London, England.

Another instance which showed his many minds is apparent in an article published by him in the North American Review on "Expert Testimony." In addition to his many duties in his chosen specialty he found time to establish a wide reputation as an expert witness in legal controversies in cases of substantial importance. He was not only an expert witness, but an organizer of expert witnesses. He took the lead in bitterly contested cases where estates were involved by attacks on the sanity and competence of testators, and in such cases showed his signal ability not only by his own testimony but, having procured accurate knowledge by his own examinations of the proper persons, he could and did select efficient and sufficient coadjutors to carry the controversies to success against opposing experts of wide reputations. In this way he established a substantial clientage, which he maintained for a long period.

At the same time he was able to prepare and deliver addresses at the New York Academy of Medicine in November, 1894, one of which was subsequently published under the title of "Degeneration" in the magazine Forum, and also published a paper entitled "Giantism" in Scribner'sMagazine, as well as a monograph on "Traumatic Neurosis" in Hamilton's LegalMedicine.

Again Dr. Dana prepared a "bibliography of his own writings and publications in medical journals," commencing in 1880 and continuing consecutively to 1928, totaling altogether 253 titles. These are largely published in the Medical Record and other special prints devoted to professional subjects of a highly technical nature. Again in the same bibliography are articles in general journals, such as Science, Playground, and North American Review, four in number. Again in the same bibliography are listed books and separate publications, eighteen in number. Again in the same bibliography are Elm Tree Press publications, fourteen in number. These last are said to be all in the N. Y. A. Library at 42d St. and Fifth Avenue in the city of New York, where in Room 303 they are kept under constant guard, under lock and key, and subject to access by permit only. Among these are items particularly notable; these rare books are:

1. A Book of Satires by Q. Horatius Flaccus. Edited by Dr. Charles Loomis Dana and his brother John Cotton Dana, the celebrated librarian (Dart. '78).

2. The Letters of Horace for Modern Readers. Illustrated. Edited by Charles L. Dana and John Cotton Dana. These are of especial interest in this present year, which is said to be the twothousandth anniversary of the birth of Horace.

3- Copa: The Hostess of the Inn. A Neglected Classic. Edited by Charles L. Dana and John Cotton Dana. All of these are beautiful publications of the Elm Tree Press, but all out of print.

4. An additional publication by the same Press is The Conservation of Youth and Defense of Age, by Arnauldus of Villa Nova, A.D. 1290. Translated by Dr. Jonas Drummond, A.D. 1544, with additions from the Brevarium of Arnauldus. Edited by Charles L. Dana, MDCCCCXII.

In this connection it is interesting to note that on January 10, 1921, Dr. Dana wrote to George Barstow French, then secretary of the class of 1872 (Dartmouth) as follows:

"With my brothers there has been estab-lished a so-called 'Elm, Tree Press' whichdoes fine work at Woodstock, Vt., and hereI have played with the Latin classics. Weput out a 'Horace for Modern Readers'long now out of print and later translationsof some of the Satires and Epistles withvarious historical and archaeological booklets. These include illustrations of Horace'sVilla, the site of which we were the first inmodern times to uncover and photograph.I have compiled and published a smallanthology called 'Fragments from Parnassus' and become a collector and student,and not a writer, of poetry. These have beenmy avocations."

On this timely occasion of the alleged bimillennium of Horace it may be proper to make special note of these facts. It is not surprising that Dartmouth in 1905 bestowed upon Dana the degree of LL.D. and that the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, followed it up in 1927 by granting Dana the same title.

Dr. Dana was a member of the following clubs: University, Century, City, Ardsley, New York, and Charaka.

April 26, 1882, he married Lilian Jay Farlee at New York City, who departed this life in 1894. They had three children: Marjorie (Mrs. William Tait Barlow); Charles Loomis Dana Jr., a member of the U. S. Marine Corps, who died in France in 1918; and Elizabeth Opdyke Dana, who died in 1909.

Also surviving is a granddaughter of Dr. Dana and daughter of Mrs. Marlow, viz: Margaret Elizabeth Barlow, better known as Betty Barlow.

The funeral took place in St. Thomas church, Fifth Ave. and 53d St., New York City, on December 14, at which a large delegation of his brother physicians attended. Interment was at Woodlawn Cemetery.

MARCUS ALANSON GRENVILLE MEADS died January 18, 1935, in the Berkeley (Calif.) Hospital, from injuries received when he was run down by an automobile.

The son of Simeon F. and Ann Maria (Libby) Meads, he was born in South Limington, Me., April 26, 1847. His parents both died when he was very young, leaving three boys to be brought up by their grandfather, Col. Cephas Meads, on his farm. The subject of this notice prepared at Limerick Academy for the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth. In college he was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi).

For a short time after graduation he was engaged as a civil engineer, and directed some of the early surveying for break walls in the Buffalo harbor and at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1875 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the State Normal School at Buffalo, N. Y., and there the main work of his life was done. He retired in June, 1916. He had also been for many years principal of the Central Night School. After his retirement he lived for a few years in Boston, and removed to California in 1929.

While in Buffalo Mr. Meads was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church, and served as elder for almost the entire period. Upon going to California he became a member of the Congregational church in Berkeley, and it was as he left the church building after speaking at the annual meeting of the members of the church that he received his fatal injury.

June 1, 1873, he was married to Christina, daughter of Benjamin Manson of Limington, Me. She is not living, and two children survive their parents, Mrs. Helen Tyrrell of Berkeley and Laurence G. Meads of New York City.

Mr. Meads' loyalty to the College has been evidenced by his regular gifts to the Alumni Fund.

Class of 1886

One more of our 'B6 brotherhood has set out on the Great Adventure. WILLIAM KIRBY FERGUSON died from a second stroke in Washington, D. C., December 13, 1935. The first stroke had fallen only two weeks earlier. All of us have many memories of the harmless, unexpected, good-natured, and clever antics and escapades of Fergy while we were in college. All the class histories of those days and the anniversary reports are full of references to him. It is hardly possible to think of him as inactive. His funeral was held in his adopted home town of Algona, lowa, December 18. The Algona Upper Des Moines newspaper of December 17, prints this story of Ferguson's life, and throws clear light upon his remarkable contributions to the North Central lowa town of Algona, which became his home so soon after he left Dartmouth.

"William K. Ferguson was born at Malone, N. Y., in 1861. He attended the Franklin Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College with the degree of A.B. inISB6. A few days after his graduation hearrived in Algona and took a position asbookkeeper in the First National Bank.From, that time onward he devoted himselfto that bank. In 1892 he was made managerand a few years later was elected to thepresidency. It was his enterprise thatcaused the building of 'The White Bank,'Algona's finest building, now housing theAlgona post office. This building waserected in 1912.

"A Public Spirited Man

"Mr. Ferguson was one of the most active and enterprising men in Algona, andserved on the school board and the citycouncil and was for four years mayor of thecity. He organized the Algona Brick andTile company and served as president ofthat institution, and was one of the mainpromoters of the Sperbeck-Lambert SupplyCompany. These were perhaps the mostimportant manufacturing institutions thatAlgona has had. Mr. Ferguson has been alibrarian in the Congressional Library atWashington, D. C., for the past ten years.Mr. Ferguson was a brother-in-law ofSenator Dickinson and Gardner Cowles,publisher of the Des Moines Register.

"Mr. Ferguson was active in Masoniccircles and was a member of the Knights ofPythias. He was a member of the Congregational church, and -with Mrs. Fergusonwas always to be depended upon in all ofthe good works of that church.

"Married Twice

"Mr. Ferguson was married twice, hisfirst wife being Miss Etta C. Call, adaughter of Ambrose A. Call, one of thefounders of Algona. She died in 1907, leaving one son, Arthur. In 1910, Mr. Fergusonwas again married, his second union beingwith Miss Hortense Smith. To the latterunion three sons were born, Lewis, William, and John. Lewis is in forestry workin North Carolina, William is attendingGeorge Washington University in Washington, D. C., and John is a student at lowaState College, Ames. Arthur, the son of thefirst marriage, is in the insurance department of a bank at Keokuk, lowa."

This oldest son was a Dartmouth man, class of 1913, and Mrs. Ferguson, date of January 3, 1936, writes the Secretary: "Somany of the names of the 'B6 men are likefamily names to us. It saddens me to seethem slip out from our midst. So manymen whom I do not know stop me on thestreet to tell me how much they owe to myhusband's counsel, or to his financial help,or to his ready sympathy when they werein need of it.

"I shall be with you all in spirit duringthis fiftieth reunion, and who knows, somay our dear Ferg. Each one of our boysin turn has borne this nickname and eachloves it. I'm hoping they hand it down asfine and clean as they received it. May yourreunion be very perfect."

Class of 1887

FREDERICK CURTIS HEILGE died at his home in Burton, Wash., November 1, 1935.

The son of Charles Curtis (Dartmouth 1862) and Annie (Rand) Heilge, he was born in Hanover, November 20, 1865, passed his boyhood in his native town, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department in the local schools. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi), and graduated with the class.

ENGINEERING ACTIVITY

Soon after graduation he went to Sioux City, la., where he was at first with a livestock commission firm, then with pork and beef packers, and finally in insurance and real estate. In 1891 he went to New York City, and was employed for some years in the ticket office of the New Haven road at Grand Central Station. Next he served on the engineering staff of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. in Washington, D. C., and was for a time with the Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. in Kansas City. For a good many years he had made his home in Burton, Wash., engaged in fruit raising, with a few years' intermission, during which he was engaged in engineering work with a classmate's outfit, the S. E. Junkins Co., at Vancouver, B. C., and Tacoma, Wash.

September 11, 1888, Fred Heilge was married to Laura M. Benton of Hanover, who died July 24, 1901. A second marriage was to Margaret Smith, a native of Sioux City, la., who died September 28, 1922.

Class of 1902

FRANCIS JOHN DUGGAN, for two years a member of the class, died in Worcester, Mass., May 11, 1935.

He was born in Millbury, Mass. (another authority says Worcester), September 9, 1879, and prepared for college at Worcester English High School.

Most of his life was spent in Worcester. After leaving college he became associated with an uncle who conducted the New City Hotel for many years. In 1930 he was reported to the Alumni Records Office as being New England representative for National Art Works, Inc., of Covington, Ky.

Frank was never married, and during his later years lived with his mother, who died only a short time before he did.

Class of 1907

ALFRED LORENZO KIBLING passed away at his late home in West Lebanon, N. H„ December 25, 1935, after being an invalid for the past 15 years.

Mr. Kibling was born in Hartford, Vt., December 19, 1885, son of Curtis A. Kibling and Katie Wiley.

After the death of his parents, he made his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Asahel C. Kibling, in West Lebanon, N. H., where he graduated from the high school in 1903, and then attended Dartmouth College, where he was graduated with honors in the class of 1907.

In 1906 he married Ella Cushman Waterman of Pompanoosuc, Vt. He taught for ten years, five of which were spent as principal of Bradford Academy in Bradford, Vt. He will be well remembered by his many pupils, as he was an instructor who inspired loving interest and effort among the young people.

Fifteen years ago Alfred L. Kibling became an invalid and a great sufferer. During the trying years which followed Mr. Kibling gained the respect and sympathy of his large circle of friends and acquaintances by his attitude and bravery. He had a keen sense of humor and spoke lightly of his own troubles.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella Waterman Kibling, his uncle and wife, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Kibling of West Lebanon, N. H., his aunt, Mrs. Mary K. Browne of White River Junction, and a brother, Philip Curtis Bartlett of St. Joseph, Mo.

Class of 1909

ROBERT HILDEBRAND MONTGOMERY died December is, 1935, at St. Vincent's Hospital, Worcester, Mass., as a result of a serious operation from which he failed to rally.

Bob was born in Boston, December 4, 1885, the son of John Henry and Margaret Elizabeth (Canavan) Montgomery. His early home was in Medford, and he went from Medford High School to Phillips Exeter to complete his college preparation. He was a good athlete in school and college, and became a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He left college at the close of freshman year.

From September, 1906, to the following February he was a member of Boston University Law School. He was then for a short time with Bristol Patent Leather Co. of Boston, and then for more than twenty years with the Goodrich Rubber Co., first with the sales promotion division in Boston and later manager of the Springfield branch. Finally he was president of the Safety Tire Co. of Worcester, holding this position at the time of his death.

June 22, 1914, he was married to Elizabeth Agnes Murphy, who survives him, with their son, Robert H. Jr., and three daughters, Margaret, Gloria, and Dianne.

While we were never able to induce Bob to join our class parties with any regularity, due to his adsorption in his business and his family, those of us who were fortunate enough to know him well had a very deep regard for his character and ability.

Class of 1919

WALTER BARTHOLOMEW SULLIVAN died in Fall River, Mass., October 28, 1935, of tuberculosis.

The son of Patrick Bartholomew and Mary .Anne Sullivan, he was born in Fall River, October 26, 1896, and prepared for college at the B. M. C. Durfee High School of that city. For a time in 1914 he was a member of Rhode Island State College, and he was connected with his Dartmouth class only in freshman year.

May 29, 1917, he enlisted for military service, and served overseas as private, first class, at Base Hospital No. 7.

After his return from France he was on the staff of the Fall River Herald and in real estate business until he was talcen ill. He was a member of the Elks.

June 24, 1929, he was married to Gertrude Angela Walker of Tiverton, R. 1., who survives him. They had no children.

Class of 1922

MARIO DE MESQUITA was killed in an automobile accident in Boston on December 11. The Boston Transcript account of the tragedy is as folows:

"Mario de Mesquita, a Brazilian, livingat 179 Ocean St., Lynn, was killed by atruck late• this afternon as he was alightingfrom his car on the McClellan Highwaynear the Suffolk Downs race track, EastBoston.

"Immediately after he was struck, deMesquita was taken to the East Boston Relief Hospital, but physicians said he wasdead on arrival.

"De Mesquita, a Brazilian coffee merchant, had come to this country twomonths ago with his wife, the formerLouise Grover of Lynn, whom he marriedJune 7, 1924. The couple lived here withher parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Grover."Surviving, besides his wife, is onedaughter, Maria, eight years old."

"Skeets," one of the best liked members of the class, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 16, 1897, son of Manoel Miguel Martins and Jeronyma de Mesquita. His father was a plantation owner. He came to Dartmouth from Dean Academy. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and Dragon. After leaving Dartmouth, he was associated with A. C. Lawrence Leather Co. of Boston and Hoague Sprague Corporation of Lynn. When the fatal accident occurred, "Skeets" was on his way to make final arrangements for his appointment as a representative of the Brazilian government in New York, a position in which he was greatly interested.

The Boston group arranged for a wreath to be sent in the name of the class, and a delegation consisting of Cedric Porter, Bill Bullen, Nick Carter, and Dawson Berry attended the funeral in Lynn on December 13.

WILFRED KENNEDY BLAKE died suddenly in New York on January 9, 1936. The cause of death was a streptococcus infection, which attacked him only twenty-four hours before the end. The funeral was held on Sunday, January 12.

The deceased was born February 22,1900, at Spartanburg, S. C., the son of Thomas Clifton and Minnie (Harris) Blake. He attended New York Military Academy, and while there became the friend of Killie Kilmarx, who persuaded him to come to Dartmouth. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Wif was something of a pitcher, and in his sophomore year was on the baseball squad. After college he was associated for some time with the Corticelli Silk Co. in New York, and later formed a partnership in an allied line. At the time of his death he was living with Mrs. Blake in Knickerbocker Village, New York City.

Class of 1932

ROBERT BURLEIGH HUCKINS died suddenly on November 10, 1935, in Melrose, Mass. About a year ago he had undergone an appendectomy, and while his recovery from this was somewhat slow he seemed during the last few months to be in good health. A week before his death he complained of a pain in his side, and on Friday, the Bth of November, this had become so severe that he came home early from work. The doctor discovered adhesions; decided an operation, though dangerous at this time, would be Bob's only chance. He died while they were preparing to operate.

Joe Pipe, Joe Byram, and Mel MacLean were pallbearers at the funeral. Bob is buried in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose.

He was born July 10, 1909, in Maiden, and attended the Melrose High School and Phillips Exeter Academy before going to Dartmouth. At college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and his freshman track team. To his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Huckins (Dartmouth 1899), who lost their other son, Joe (of the class of 1931), a few years ago also with tragic suddenness, the class extends its deep sympathy.