Deaths
ALUMNI NOTES
Necrology
Class of 1859
Mrs. Anna F. (Abbott) Perkins, widow of Rev. Benjamin F. Perkins of this class, died January 20 at her home in Cambridge, Mass., in her g2d year. Two sons and two daughters survive her. She was a sister of the widow of Rev. Francis E. Clark '73.
Class of 1872Professor Fletcher
Whereas The Thayer Society of Engineers of Dartmouth College has lost its loyal, devoted, and distinguished member, Prof. Robert Fletcher, and
Whereas He gave without stint to the Thayer School and to this Society of his time, thought, and sound judgment, and most generously of his means, and
Whereas As teacher, friend, and associate he was a constant inspiration to all Thayer School men, each of whom feels most keenly the loss of his sympathetic interest and kindly helpfulness, therefore be it
Resolved That we give at this meeting appropriate expression of our grief at the loss of our friend and preceptor, Prof. Robert Fletcher, and of our deep sympathy to his family, and be it further
Resolved That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Society and be published in the Thayer School Annual and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and that copies be transmitted to Professor Fletcher's family and to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.
Class of 1873
OLNEY WINDSOR PHELPS, a most loyal member of the class, has died. He was born in Waitsfield, Vt„ February 11, 1848, the son of Alexander Steel and Laura (Waterman) Phelps. He fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department by three or four rather interrupted terms at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (no.w Sigma Chi).
He taught a school near White River Junction in the winter of 1873-4, and for five months was in Boston, working as a draftsman on iron bridges until November, 1874. Then he taught for a time in Littleton, Mass. Then be began medical studies at Dartmouth Medical School, meanwhile teaching again at Sharon, Vt. He graduated in the fall of 1877 in the class of 1878, and was then until 1882 assistant superintendent of the Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat. He then entered upon general practice at Bellows Falls, Vt., and so continued until his removal to Warren, Mass., in October, 1891. There he remained for the rest of his life, serving as member of the board of heal th and the school committee and being active in the work of the Congregational church, of which he was long a deacon. He died December 2, 1935.
August 21, 1879, Dr. Phelps was married to Mary Draper of Brattleboro, who died February 7, 1907. Their son, Olney Draper Phelps, Dartmouth 1904, is a physician in Worcester, Mass. March 30, 1908, he was married to Florence S. Johnson of Springfield, Mass., who survives him.
Our classmate was indefatigable in his attendance at all our stated reunions, and he and Mrs. Phelps were with us at our sixtieth anniversary reunion in 1933. Few have been as loyal to the old college as he, and wherever he lived he took an active part in the life of the community.
In the recent death of DR. LEONARD JARVIS of Claremont, N. H., the class of 1873 has lost a most loyal member. More than that, he was a rather remarkable man, not merely because he spent his entire life in the beautiful village where he was born, but because both his father and his grandfather were successful physicians all their lives in that same community. Leonard Jarvis was the son of Dr. Samuel Gardner and Sarah (Jarvis) Jarvis, and was born July 29, 1852, in Claremont. He was the grandson of Dr. Leonard Jarvis. He fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, where more than a score of men obtained their preparation for the class of '73. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.
After his graduation he served for three years behind the counter of a drugstore in Claremont, and then went West, and for two years was engaged in mining in Boulder, Colo. Returning East in 1878, he began the study of Medicine at Harvard, taking his final year as house officer of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, and receiving his medical degree in 1882. After a term as house physician at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, he returned to Claremont and began in 1884 a career as general practitioner which ended only with his death. A local paper said of him:
"He was the living symbol of that oldfashioned family doctor whose horse andbuggy, day and night, beat a cadence ofself-denial and even hardships. Yet the appellation 'old-fashioned' applies not totechnique, -which somehow or other in acrowded life he kept abreast of the times,but to the valued wisdom and patience ofexperience, and to the virtues which in hispractice enabled him to look over and beyond his own pecuniary interests. No smallsegment of this community but knew andloved him, none that is not today saddenedby the passing of a true friend."
For several years he had been in failing health, continuing however up to a few days of his death his profession to which his life had been devoted. Taken critically ill the week before he died, he passed away on the morning of January 28, 1936.
June 29, 1893, he was married to Mabel Howard of Providence, R. 1., who survives him, with their son, Samuel Gardner, who lives in Quincy, Mass. A daughter, Carolyn, died in 1904.
Dr. Jarvis was for many years a director of Claremont National Bank, and for 34 years a warden of Union Episcopal church at West Claremont, being named in 1934 senior warden emeritus.
Class of 1882
EDWARD BIRDSALL CONDON died at St. Petersburg, Fla., December 3, 1935, after a long illness, leaving a widow and a son, Edward Condon Jr.
Condon was born May 14, 1861, at Chappaqua, N. Y„ son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Condon. He prepared for college at Wabash College, Indiana, and joined the class of 'B2 at Dartmouth in sophomore year. He at once took an active part in all college activities. His fraternity was Psi Upsilon. He was a fine athlete, playing on Dartmouth's first football team, winning victories in the 220-yard dash, and setting a record in the standing high jump.
He never returned to Hanover after graduation and seemed to have an objection to answering letters of class secretaries, so it was only a rumor now and then that gave an idea of his location and pursuits. Since his death the present secretary has got in touch with his son, who is located in Washington, D. C., and from him has obtained the following facts.
Condon during his earlier years after graduation was in New York City. He went from there into the Klondike and remained there nearly ten years at Dawson in the Yukon Territory. Then in Fairbanks, Alaska, practicing law and mining. From there he went to Northern California in an effort to revive a field which had been worked out in the '50's. There he was married and there his son was born.
For some years he was occupied in various development schemes on the Coast, some successful, some not. During the war he was buying chrome ore leases for the government. Following that time he moved into the oil fields of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and there for some time operated as an independent driller. In 1923 he went to St. Petersburg, Fla., largely because of his son's health. There real estate developments failed for him in 1926, as for so many others. Three years later his health failed. His acceptance of and attitude towards the galling inactivity (paralysis) forced upon him was superb.
I quote from his son's letter: "Schooledin such diverse fields as pedagogy, journalism, the law, the salty schools of far northern mining camps and southern oil towns,a man who had taught leaders of men andlived with roughnecks and boomers, hisoutlook upon life was truly catholic anddemocratic. He was a grand man, a goodfriend, a magnificent teacher. He had themost versatile, the most youthful mind I'veever known."
As Strong once said, Condon "took life,it would seem, at the same stride as he didwhen marshal on '82's Class Day."
Class of 1887
WILDER DWIGHT QUINT, an outstanding member of the class of '87 and a marked man among Dartmouth alumni, died suddenly at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., on January 4, 1936. He is survived by his wife, Alice (Hutchins) Quint, by his brother, Rev. John H. Quint '9l, pastor of the First Congregational church of Chelsea, Mass., and by his' sister, Miss Katherine Quint of Worcester, Mass. (A.M. Dartmouth 1896.)
His ancestry was distinguished, dating back to the beginnings of this country. His father was Rev. Alonzo Hall Quint (Dartmouth 1846), a well known clergyman of his day, trustee of Dartmouth College and chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War.
Dwight was born in Salem, Mass., November 15, 1863. His mother was Rebecca Putnam, a grand-niece of Israel Putnam, doughty fighter of Revolutionary times.
Wilder fitted at Exeter Academy, entered with the class, and soon became a central figure in the social, intellectual, and literary activities of the College. Musically gifted, he was a member of the college band. He became a member of Psi Upsilon, and later one of the founders of Casque and Gauntlet, graduating with high honor and Phi Beta Kappa rank.
In July, 1887, he began his newspaper work, and continued it to the time of his death. He was night editor of the Boston Advertiser from 1887 to 1890, night editor of the Boston News from 1890 to 1892, literary and telegraph editor of the Boston Traveler from 189 a to 1902, managing editor of the same 1902't0 1903, editorial writer and dramatic and musical critic on the Boston Journal from 1903 to 1907. From 1909 to the time of his death he was chief editorial writer of the Boston Post. Under the anonymity of the editorial pen he exerted daily through the years a large measure of influence, and recognition came in 1918, when a Certificate of Distinction was awarded by Editor a?id Publisher for an editorial entitled "Our Own Destruction." The contest was nation-wide. He also lectured on journalism at the Tuck School and Boston University.
He was author of "The Story of Dartmouth" and co-author of "Miss Petticoats," "On Satan's Mount,'" "My Lady Laughter," "Letters of a Son to His Self-made Father," "A Self-made Man's Wife," "The Golden Greyhound," and "Myer and Son."
A recital of his accomplishments indicates his high intellectual caliber and his unusual literary ability, but by no means paints a living likeness of the man. He was . conspicuous for his originality and goodfellowship. He was always the life of any gathering, chiefly because of his humor, which was constantly bursting forth in unique ways. "Spoop" was his nickname. Why he was so called, nobody knows. Possibly he invented so many names for others that he had that one left over for himself. For his classmates it was a word of blended affection and joviality. "Wilder" was too formal. One might think of him by his christian name, but when he came face to face with him, he just had to call him "Spoop."
The failings of human nature, such as malice, sycophancy, envy, intolerance, underhandedness, selfishness, and the like formed no part of his character. He was generous, square, broad-minded, and joyous.
Some say there is good in all of us, Spoop's knowledge of human nature was so keen that he could discover whatever good there was and wasted little time looking for anything else. Some spend so much time in criticizing that they have little time left for constructive thought. Not so with Spoop. He preferred raising to razing.
He was small of stature, but far from pompous. He was somewhat original in that respect too. He never preached, he never gossiped. He was always ready to laugh with but never at another. He lived his own life in his open, free way, and was content to have others live as they chose to live. Those who knew him best knew what a noble life his was. Never would they know it from any words of his. Dear old "Spoop" has gone. How his classmates will miss him when they come back for their reunion next year.
HARVEY WIRT COURTLAND SHELTON passed away December 28, 1935, at Paris, Texas, near the plantation where he was born November 16, 1862.
He was the youngest son of Harvey Shelton, a native of Virginia and a brigadiergeneral on the Southern side in the War of '6l. His mother was Ann Bell, a native of Georgia. At the age of fifteen Shelton removed to Tahlequah, Indian Territory, passed through the Male Seminary there, and after another year at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden entered with our class in 1883, withdrawing from college in the fall of junior year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
On leaving college he became an instructor in the Seminary at Tahlequah, and most of his active life he was engaged in educational work either in active teaching or as superintendent in different counties in the state of Oklahoma and in Wister, Webber's Falls, and Poteau. He also served as clerk of courts at Tahlequah four years, and at one time edited a paper at Vinita.
He was active in promoting scientific farming in his section, and during the World War operated for a time a cotton plantation.
As a man he was energetic, outspoken, honest, and altruistic; so high in his ideals that he declined opportunities of material advancement on learning that the methods to be used were unethical.
He was a Democrat in politics, a member of the Episcopal church, and of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.
Early in life he married Mary Ann Elizabeth Duncan of Indian Territory, and of four children two survive, Major Harvey Shelton, U. S. A., of Conway, Ark., and Jesse E. R. Shelton of Somerset, Texas; also a sister, Mrs. Eugenie M. Williams of Paris, Texas.
Class of 1891
WILLARD WEBSTER EGGLESTON was born in Pittsfield, Vt„ March 28, 1863, and died suddenly in Washington, D. C., November 25. 1935.
His interest in botany developed early, as was evidenced by his collection of several hundred wild plants of Vermont while in high school at Rutland. For several years after graduation from Dartmouth he practiced civil engineering. During this period he with other interested people formed the Vermont Botanical Club. In 1900 he was one of a committee of three members of the club to publish a Flora of Vermont.
In 1904 he abandoned engineering and entered the New York Botanical Garden as a research scholar. He became recognized as an authority on a section of the Rose family, being invited to contribute the article on the difficult genus Crategus, or Thorn Apple, to the last edition of Gray's Manual of Botany.
About this time he entered the U. S. government service, working for the most part in the Bureau of Plant Industry. He collected and studied plants poisonous to stock in nearly every state in the country. Many plants of his collection are found in our larger herbaria. A few years ago he donated his personal herbarium containing some 10,000 plants to Dartmouth College. In his later years he investigated the geographical distribution of our wild medicinal plants. In recognition of this work he was elected a member of the Committee on Pharmaceutical Botany in the National Research Council.
He was a member of many botanical societies, among which are the Fern Society, Torrey Botanical Club, Vermont Botanical Club (vice-president in 1912-14), New England Botanical Club.
Eggleston and his wife were members of the Appalachian Mountain Club and of the Congregational church in Washington. Their home life was singularly attractive and happy. Mrs. Eggleston's work as botanical assistant in the Department of Agriculture doubtless helped her to sympathize with his interests.
Burial was at Foxboro, Mass., the former home of his wife.
Many of the facts in this sketch have been contributed by his friends Prof. L. R. Jones of the University of Wisconsin, Mr. W. W. Stockberger of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Prof. A. H. Chivers of Dartmouth College.
As his classmate and friend for many years, I record my sense of personal loss at the passing of a good friend and a Christian gentleman. H. E. SARGENT '91.
Class of 1905
HUBERT RANDALL DUNN died December 23, 1935, at the home of his brother, Charles W. Dunn '07, in South Norwalk, Conn.
He was born in Truro, N. S., December 10, 1882, the son of Rev. Simeon Bellingham and Emma (Bemister) Dunn. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy and was in college until into senior year. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He had been a semi-invalid since leaving college, and the doctors were unable to make a definite diagnosis of his illness. His brother writes that apparently there was an internal infection of some sort. This infection gradually weakened him and led to his death. The interment was in the Greenfield Cemetery at Hampstead, L. I.
Hubert never married. He was engaged in the legal profession in connection with his brother Charles, with offices at 608 Fifth Ave., New York, at the time of his death. Despite his poor health he was greatly interested in out-door activities and sports, and several years ago was president of the Saranac Club at Saranac Lake, N. Y.
He is survived by his brother Charles, another brother, Morley K. Dunn '03, having died some years ago.
Class of 1906
Lieutenant Colonel HAROLD CARTER WINSHIP, professor of modern languages at the Citadel, Charleston, S. C., passed away in that city on January a3, 1936. Death was due to a heart and kidney complication with which he was stricken on January 3. Since he had always enjoyed good health until within recent months, his sudden death came as a distinct shock.
"Windy," as he was known to his classmates, was born in Reading, Mass., on June a, 1885, the son of Frank A. and Mary L. (Carter) Winship. He was graduated from the Reading High School in 1903, entered Dartmouth the following autumn, and was graduated with the class of 1906. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
Following graduation, Harold began his teaching career in a grade school at Mashpee, Mass., with a student body composed largely of Bravas and Indians. In 1907 he accepted a position at a private church school in Baltimore, Md. With the exception of a year devoted to study for a master's degree, which he received from Harvard in, 1910, he remained with this school, which moved in 191 a from Baltimore to Ilchester, Md., to be known as the Donaldson School, until 1918. During the latter year he taught at St. Paul's in Garden City, L. 1., and at Porter Military Academy in Charleston, S. C.
In 1919 he joined the faculty of the Citadel at Charleston, a military college often referred to as "the West Point of the South." Here he was identified with the department of modern languages, in which he became a full professor in 1923. At the time of his death he served as head of the department with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
STUDENT OF ART AND HISTORY
Throughout his life Winship was a keen student of art, history, and the European languages. His summers, usually spent at his home in Reading, were chiefly devoted to study, supplemented by numerous courses at the Berlitz School and occasional trips to Europe. In addition to the languages he taught, he possessed a reading knowledge of Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Roumanian. Reserved by nature, he was a brilliant conversationalist and possessed a fund of knowledge so deep that it often seemed limitless. For the past two summers he had been pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University.
Harold was active in the affairs of the Episcopal church, had been a vestryman of St. Luke's church in Charleston, and for several years served as a lay preacher. Because of his location he was not in close touch with Dartmouth activities, but he always maintained a deep interest in the College, as his regular contributions to the Alumni Fund and his responses to all class letters attested. His classmates will long rem'ember him for his charm, his good nature, and his solid character.
Funeral services were held in Charleston on January 24., and the final services at Reading on January 27. Harold never married and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Barbara Dill, and a brother, Arthur G. Winship, Dartmouth 1911, both of Reading. A nephew, Paul M. Winship, is a member of the class of 1939 at Dartmouth.
Class of 1918
PAUL CARL HOWLEY died January 23, j 936, at his father's home in Rutland, Vt. He was born in Rutland, January 29, 1894, the son of Timothy E. and Julia (Monahan) Howley, He prepared for college at Rutland High School. May 16, 1918, just before his graduation, he enlisted in military service, served overseas from September 15, 1918, to July 5, 1919, and was dischargd July 22, 1919.
After his discharge he studied at Bentley's School of Accounting in Boston, graduating in 1922 as a certified public accountant. For nine years he was a member of the Massachusetts state bank examiners, and then became treasurer of the Lowell Trust Company. This position he held until the bank failed in 1933. At the time of his death he was auditor in the regional office of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in Boston. During his other work he had studied law, graduating from Suffolk Law School in 1929, but did not open an office for practice.
He never married, and is survived by his father, his brother, Edward N. Howley, and two sisters, Mabelle A. Howley and Mrs. A. F. Bishop.
Class of 1919
FREDERICK PARSON IVES died suddenly January 16, 1936, at his home in Cohasset, Mass.
The son of Charles Taylor and Mary Elizabeth (Parson) Ives, he was born in Montclair, N. J., September 23, 1897, and prepared for college at Peekskill Military Academy.
He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Casque and Gauntlet. He served in the A. F. S. in France and Serbia from April to November, 1917, and in the Signal Corps with rank of second lieutenant from February, 1918, to February, 1919.
He was connected with the Chicago office of the People's Home Journal, for a time, and then did advertising work with the Crowell Publishing Cos., being transferred to the Boston office of the company about six years ago.
January 22, 1922, he was married to Adele Kohl Hall of Evanston, 111., who survives him, as does also his father. There were no children.
Class of 1927
The news has only recently been received of the death of FRANK DOUGLAS WHITE JR., which occurred at the House of Mercy Hospital, Pittsfield, Mass., August 30, 1935, after an illness of five days.
He was born in Pittsfield, August 25, 1905, the son of Frank Douglas and Helen (Davison) White, and prepared for college at Pittsfield High School. After graduation he remained in the Tuck School for a year, and graduated there in 1928.
For the past three years he had been associated with the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. He had not married, and his father is the only near surviving relative.
Class of 1934
JACK RISBERG died on February 6. He apparently had not been feeling well for about a year. Just about a year ago he suffered a bad spell of Bright's Disease which was quite threatening at the time, but it passed away with a little care. Even back at school he fell ill at intervals. Last year, when the disease threatened him, it reached his eyes and it looked for a while as if he was going temporarily blind. However, he received a two months' leave of ab- sence from work at the Sherwin-Williams Cos. and when he returned to New York it looked as if rest had done a good job for him.
Toward the end of this January, 1936, Bright's Disease began to come on Jack again, and after about a week's illness he passed away.
At Hanover he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, and was varsity gym manager. He worked for a while for the General Chemical Co., then secured a position with the Sherwin-Williams Co. in the sales department, where he was at the time of his death. Jack is survived by his aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Rogers, 118 East 6th St., Michigan City, Indiana, who have been his family for a good many years.
Medical School
Class of 1897
DR. SAMUEL DRYDEN SNOW died suddenly of heart disease at his home in North Conway, N. H., September 19, 1935.
Dr. Snow was born in New Haven, Conn., February 13, 1873, the son of Samuel and Cornelia Ann (Walker) Snow. The family later moved to Washington, D. C., and he attended the high school of that city.
After his medical graduation he served for several years in hospitals in Massachusetts, and in 1903 went to North Conway as resident physician in a tubercular sanitarium which was then maintained there. He also established a private practice, and on the closing of the sanitarium remained there in successful practice until his death. He was from 1930 until his death medical referee for Carroll county.
In 1917-18 he served in the Medical Reserve Corps with the rank of captain, being stationed at Fort Greenleaf, Ga., and remained in the reserves for the rest of his life, finally attaining the rank of major.
In 1908 he was married to Louise, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wells) Berry of East Angus, Que., who died December 13, 1934. Their only son, Dryden M. Snow, Dartmouth '32, survives them and is now employed as educational adviser in the 151 st Cos. CCC, at Glen, N. H. Two surviving brothers of Dr. Snow are Everard W. Snow '98 and Hubert M. Snow '01.
DR. MAURICE ALBERT STARK died of heart disease in Newington, Conn., December 29, 1935.
He was born in Manchester, N. H., July 30, 1874, the son of Frederick Gideon and Anna Betsy (Hutchinson) Stark. He was a great-great-grandson of General John Stark of Revolutionary fame. He graduated from Manchester High School.
His entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth. After serving hospital appointments, he began private practice at Goffstown, N. H., where he remained until 1922, with an intermission in 1917-19, when he served in the Medical Reserve Corps as first lieutenant, being stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C.
In 1922 he entered the Public Health Service, and was stationed first at Fox Hills, Staten Island. In 1923 he was transferred to the New York office of the Veterans' Bureau. In the fall of 1923 he was sent to Saranac Lake, and was head of the office there for about five years. In 1929 he was transferred to the Veterans' Hospital at Sunmount, N. Y., and in 1931 to the Veterans' Hospital at Newington, Conn., where he remained. From the time he entered the Public Health Service he specialized in tuberculosis and lung diseases.
June 14, 1900, Dr. Stark was married to Welthea Lewis, daughter of John Edward and Rebecca (Chandler) Ford of Marshfield, Mass., who survives him, with their two daughters, Ruth Ford and Welthea (Mrs. Malcolm T. Hill).
Honorary
FRANK HERBERT SIMONDS, distinguished journalist and author, upon whom the de- gree of Doctor of Letters was conferred in 1918, died in Washington, D. C., January 23. 1936.
The son of William Henry and Jennie E. (Garty) Simonds, he was born in Concord, Mass., April 5, 1878, and graduated from Harvard in 1900.
In 1901 he began his long association with the New York press as reporter for the Tribune, and in 1903 was at the Washington bureau of this paper, and in 1904-5 its Washington correspondent. In 1906-8 he was Albany correspondent for the EveningPost, and from 1908 to 1913 editorial writer on the Sun. He was editor of the EveningSun in 1913-14, and from March, 1915, to December, 1918, associate editor of the Tribune. From 1914 to 1933 he was a contributing editor of the Review of Reviews. Since 1918 he had contributed regularly to a syndicate of fifty American and foreign newspapers, and articles, largely on foreign and international questions, were constantly appearing from his pen in the highest type of magazines. His published volumes include the following: "They Shall Not Pass—Verdun," 1916; "How Europe Made Peace Without America," 1927; "Can Europe Keep the Peace," 1931; "They Won the War," 1931; "Can America Stay at Home," 1932; "ABC of the War Debts," 1933; and a history of the World War in five volumes.
In 1919 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France, and received similar honors from other European governments.
December 25, 1902, he was married to Mary France Gledhill, who survives him, with two children, Katherine (Mrs. Lovell Thompson), and James G.
