Deaths

[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appear in this issue or may appear in a later number.]

STEWARD, DARIUS, '75, October 25, 1937. BUSBY, JARED L., '04. MARTIN, PARIS, '05, October 25, 1936. SLATER, WILLIAM 8., '14, Nov. 13, 1937. MCCORD, ROBERT H., JR., '25, April 8, 1937. DALLET, JOSEPH, JR., '27.

PERKINS, THOMAS N., hon. '30, Oct. 7, 1937.

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1873

Mrs. Isabelle (Wilson) Pettee, widow of Rev. James H. Pettee, died August 26, 1937, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Horace J. Pettee, in Decatur, Ill. She was born in Westfield, Mass., November 8, 1853, and soon after her marriage sailed with her husband to Japan to engage in missionary work. They spent forty years in that country, returning to America in 1918. One who was there associated with the Pettees says of her: "Mrs. Pettee becamewell known and honored not only as thewise, efficient wife of a progressive missionary, but also as a remarkable mother to herown daughters, to the children of the Mission, and to the young missionary recruitsfresh from. America and 'lost' in strangeand trying circumstances."

Class of 1875

DARIUS STEWARD died at his home in Port Huron, Mich., October 25, 1937. The son of Thomas and Maria (Evarts) Steward, he was born in Clarendon, Vt., March 14, 1847, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. With one exception the oldest man in the class, he was highly regarded and had a fine record in scholarship, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

For the first year after graduation he taught at Rutland, Vt., and then went West, continuing to follow the calling of teacher. He was first principal of a grammar school in St. Paul, Minn. Then he was either principal or superintendent at Mankato and Rochester, Minn., Fargo, N. D., and Stillwater, Minn. In 1908 he became teacher of history in the normal school at St. Cloud, Minn., from which position he retired in 1926. His home in recent years had been at Port Huron.

Mr. Steward was a Mason and a Knight Templar and a member of the Congregational church.

In August, 1884, he was married to Ella J. Milnor, who died in November 1891. There were three children of this marriage, of whom the only survivor is Thomas E., director of the news service at the University of Minnesota. In December, 1898, he was married to Mary A. Mellett, who survives him, with a daughter, Dorothy, now Mrs. Durant Barclay of Marble, Minn.

Class of 1889

FRED EVERETT SMITH died at Dutton, Mont., October 3, 1937. He was born at Tunbridge, Vt., January 24, 1861, the son of Richard and Frances J. (Hall) Smith. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, entered and graduated (A. B.) with our class.

He graduated (LL. B.) from the Albany Law School in 1891, was admitted to the New York bar the same year, and practiced in Albany until 1896, when for family and health reasons he reluctantly changed to school work, or returned, for he had taught both before entering college and during his course. For several years he was superintendent of schools in Fargo, N. D., and for several more years he filled a similar position in Wahpeton, N. D. In 1910 he became the second president of the North Dakota State School of Science, which is at Wahpeton. In 1919 he moved to Pierre, and for eleven years served South Dakota in the department of public instruction, first as supervisor of high schools and vocational education and later as deputy superintendent. When impaired health compelled him to withdraw he went to Dutton, Mont., and this was his home until the end of his life.

He was twice married, first to Miss Kate Ticknor at Lebanon, N. H., in 1894. Mrs. Smith died in 1918. The second marriage was in 1920 to Mrs. Hattie T. Rice, at Wahpeton, who survives with their only child, a son, 15 years old, who, incidentally, is the youngest of '89's children.

Aside from his educational work he was much interested in civic and fraternal activities. A member of the Dartmouth faculty who met him in Pierre wrote, "Heseems to be enjoying life and doing a goodpiece of work." While he was at the State School of Science one of his undergraduates spoke of him as "always the students'friend." An '89 man who visited him in Dutton wrote that he found him "in poorhealth but full of the Dartmouth spirit." Although he did not return East, even for a visit after moving to the Dakotas, he maintained the ideals and standards of his native New England and prized his heritage.

Class of 1903

JAMES FRANCIS SMITH, familiarly known as Jake, died at his home in Poultney, Vt., on October 10, 1937, of acute ascending paralysis, after an illness of two weeks. Born on July 15, 1881, at Hartford, Vt., the son of Francis E. and Eliza (Currier) Smith, James attended the public schools of Hartford. In 1903 he graduated from Dartmouth with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He pursued his studies at Duke University and later in life, in 1925, was given the degree of Master of Education by Columbia University.

On June 22, 1909, he married Cornelia Mattocks of Lyndon, Vt., the daughter of Samuel S. and Mary Elizabeth (Skinner) Mattocks, and from that union two children were born, James Mattocks Smith, now deceased, and Justin Harvey Smith, named for his great-uncle, professor of modern history at Dartmouth in 1900.

Starting his career as a teacher in 1903 at Lyndon, Vt., as principal of Lyndon Academy, James successively taught in St. Johnsbury and Orleans, Vt., Keene, N. H., Attleboro, Mass., Bellows Falls, Vt., Durham, N. C., Bakersfield, Vt., as principal of Brigham Academy, and Poultney, Vt.

His change of residence to Durham, N. C., came about because of the illness of his son James and continued for three years, when he returned to his native state and became superintendent of the Essex County schools. In 1917 and 1918 he was with the French troops in and about Rheims as a member of the Foyer des Soldats. At one time he was president of the Vermont Teachers' Association.

Besides his widow he left a son Justin of Poultney, Vt., and two brothers, Dr. Houghton Smith of Trenton, N. J. and Prof. Arthur W. Smith of the University of Michigan.

Funeral services were held October is at Poultney at the Methodist church, largely attended by state education officials, boards of education of various towns in which he had taught, pupils, teachers, and friends of the communities. Burial took place at Orleans on October 13.

Class of 1904

A belated notice has been received of the death of WILLIAM HENRY MAHONEY at Los Angeles, Calif., June 22, 1936, of a heart attack.

He was born in Peabody, Mass., May 21, 1882, the son of Matthew Relihan and Gertrude (Doherty) Mahoney. He was a member of Sigma Chi.

For three years after graduation he studied at Harvard Law School, graduating with the degree of LL. B. in 1907. He practiced his profession in his native town for some time, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1917. No information has been obtained about his later life in the West.

He had not married. A sister, Mrs. Gertrude Zerbe, lives at 14 East 28th St., New York City.

Class of 1905

Another belated death notice is that of PARIS MARTIN, who died October 25, 1936.

The son of Frank Taylor and Susan Ann (Chawning) Martin, he was born in Blackburn, Mo., June 6, 1881, and was a member of the class only during freshman year.

He graduated from Cornell College of Law in 1907, and practiced his profession for many years in Boise, Idaho. During the World War he was counsel in his state for the U. S. Food Administration.

February 14, 1909, he was married to Winifred Townsend of Boise, who survives him, with three children, Paris, William, and Winifred.

Class of 1911

WILLARD PHELPS EARNGEY died at San Marcos, Texas, October 28, 1937, following a heart attack. While engaged in the Indian service at Ignacio, Colo., in 1935, he suffered a heart attack that seriously impaired his health, so that it was necessary for him to be confined at the Veterans' Bay Pines Hospital at St. Petersburg, Fla., for a year and a half. Again last August he was confined to the hospital in Biloxi, Miss.

Bill was born in Aurora, Ill., on March 19, 1889, and was graduated from Rockford High School in the class of 1907. He attended Dartmouth one year, then transferring to Northwestern University, where he finished his college course before taking his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. He served his interneship in Chicago, and began the practice of medicine there in 1915. In 1917 he enlisted in the Army and was appointed as a captain in a medical unit of the 36th Division. He served overseas for a year with a Texas company, and at the time of his death was a major in the Army Reserves.

After his discharge from the Army late in 1918 he resumed his medical practice in Chicago. He also served as commander of Walter R. Craig post, American Legion, and as county physician, before he was appointed to become head of the Regional Bureau of the Veterans Administration. In 1931 he joined the Veterans Bureau Hospital at Outwood, Ky. A year and a half later he entered the Indian service, Department of Interior, and was sent to Ignacio, Colo. In 1936 he became field manager for the Easton-Manning Company, developers of oil leases, at San Marcos, Texas, in which position he was engaged at the time of his death.

He is survived by his widow, the former Elizabeth G. Gardner; a son, Willard Jr., a student at Duke University; two daughters, Shirley E. and Jane Ann. Funeral services were held at the Court St. Methodist Episcopal church in Chicago on November 2, and burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery, where services were conducted by the Masonic order and military rites were in charge of Walter R. Craig post, American Legion.

Class of 1914

WILLIAM BAINTON SLATER passed away at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, on Saturday, November 13, after an illness of several months.

Bill was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Slater, and prepared for Dartmouth at Andover. For the past several years he had been in charge of the Providence office of Jackson and Curtis, investment bankers, and early this year he had been admitted as a general partner in the firm, continuing as head of the Providence office.

In addition to his many undergraduate and class honors Bill was President of the Rhode Island Dartmouth Alumni Association and a member of the Alumni Council. He was also President of the University Glee Club.

Besides his wife, Marguerite (Murray) Slater, he is survived by five children, Patricia, Carolyn, Virginia, Murray and William B. Slater Jr.

The funeral will be held Tuesday, November 16 at St. Martin's Church, Providence, of which an account will appear in the January issue.

Class of 1922

Announcement of the accidental death of JAMES ANTHONY AUSTIN on August 8 will come as a severe blow to members of the class of 1922. This second tragedy in the Austin family occurred near Westhampton, L. 1., when the car in which Jimmy was driving struck a telephone pole and he was instantly killed. Members of the family feel that he must have dozed at the wheel for an instant.

Jimmy's wife, the former Dorothy Morgan, whom classmates will remember from college days, was killed nearly two years ago in a fall from an apartment house window. At that time the Austins and their two delightful children were living near Boston, but Jimmy later moved to New York. The children, Jean aged 12, and James Anthony Jr. (Tony) aged 9, survive him. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

Jimmy Austin was born in New York City October as, 1900, the son of James and Josephine A. (Dugan) Austin. He prepared for college at Xavier High School and was at Fordham University in 1917-18. He was then in the U. S. Military Academy at West Point from November, 1918) to April, 1919, and came to Dartmouth in the fall of 1919.

He entered the textile business almost immediately after graduation, first working for the Eastern Processing Co. in New York and then for the Home Bleach and Dye Works in Pawtucket, R. I. In 1931 he became New England editor of the TextileWorld, and later editor of the same in New York, being in that position at the time of his death.

He married Dorothy W. Morgan on May 3, 1924.

Class of 1925

ROBERT HAMPDEN MCCORD died in Upland, Calif., April 7, 1937.

He was born in New York City, October 29, 1904, the son of Robert Hampden and Portia (Abell) McCord, and prepared for college at Country Day School and Westport High School, Kansas City, Mo., and first entered the University of Virginia, transferring to Dartmouth in February] 1923. He remained at Dartmouth only through the remainder of the college year. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

After leaving college he was for a time with the Inland Marine Insurance Co. in New York City, but later went to California for his health and engaged in citrus growing.

February 9, 1927, he was married to Roberta Trimble, who survives him, with a daughter, born in 1932.

Class of 1937

JOSEPH DALLET JR. was killed in action at Saragossa, Spain, probably in October, while serving as political commander of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of Canadian-United States anti-fascist volunteers. It is reported that at the Saragossa front Dallet was responsible for leading his men in the face of the greatest danger, and fell in the forefront of battle.

The son of Joseph and Hilda (Stern) Dallet, he was born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 18, 1907, and prepared for college at Lawrence, N. Y„ High School. He left college in February, 1935.

For some time he was employed by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in New York City. In 1929 he became a member of the Communist party, and since had been largely employed as a labor agitator and organizer of unemployed men.

Class of 1883

DR. REGINALD BARCLAY LEACH died at the home of a daughter in Detroit, Mich., August 21, 1937, of pernicious anemia, after an illness of four years.

He was born in Dayton, Ohio, April 4, j 86.1, the son of Samuel B. and Eliza (Geldert) Leach. The family removed to New Albany, Ind., and he graduated from the high school of that city in 1879. He then came to Dartmouth, where he took his entire medical course.

After graduation he went to New York City to take further study at the New York Polyclinic, and at the Polyclinic became assistant to Dr. Louis Elsberg and Dr. Paul F. Munde, both members of the Dartmouth medical faculty, and of Dr. John A. Wyeth, dean of the Polyclinic. He was appointed to the surgical staff of Mt. Sinai Hospital, and was also connected with the eye and ear department of Bellevue Hospital. In September, 1885, he began private practice at Paris, Texas, and continued there throughout his active years, except for the time between 1897 and 1907, when he was in St. Paul, Minn. While in St. Paul he developed a prophylactic treatment for yellow fever, called "arsenization," which was largely and successfully employed, especially in the city of New Orleans, where it was estimated that 165,000 persons were treated during an epidemic of the disease, none of those taking the treatment dying.

In Paris, Dr. Leach was physician to the Children's Protective Home and an instructor in the training school for nurses at St. Joseph's Hospital. He was a member of the Presbyterian church of Paris.

February 24, 1887, he was married to Lou Lee, daughter of Roger Jones and Kathryn Sheridan (Davidson) Jones of New Albany, who died August 12, 1924. Three daughters survive their parents, Mrs. John A. Cook of Cotulla, Texas, and Mrs. Margaret L. Shaddix and Mrs. W. F. Glass •of Detroit, Mich.

Class of 1886

DR. GEORGE EVERSON died from a heart attack at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 6, 1937. He had been in poor health for two years.

The son of George and Isabella (Ostrander) Everson, he was born in New York City, December 24, 1857. His parents' home was in Brooklyn, but his birth occurred while they were attending a Christmas eve party in Manhattan! He traced his family descent to some of the oldest Dutch settlers of the region. His early education was obtained in the public schools of the city.

He began practice as an assistant" to Dr. A. W. Shepherd, a distinguished Brooklyn physician, but soon went into individual practice, which he continued with notable success until his retirement, twelve years before his death. He became one of the first surgeons of the city, being especially noted for his skill in appendectomy and having performed more than 2,000 such •operations.

For many years Dr. Everson was on the staffs of St. Mary's Hospital in Jamaica, Misericordia Hospital in Manhattan, and Bushwick, the Old Williamsburg, and St. Catherine's Hospitals in Brooklyn. In 1906 and 1907 he was a member of the board of aldermen of Brooklyn.

His wife, who was Ida L. T., daughter of Paul William Ledoux, survives him. There were no children.

THOMAS NELSON PERKINS, who received the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1930, died October 7, 1937, at his home at Westwood, Mass.

The son of Edward C. and Jane S. (Watson) Perkins, he was born in Milton, Mass., in 1870, and graduated from Harvard in 1891. Studying at Harvard Law School, he graduated in 1894, and in that year began in Boston the practice of his profession, in which he was brilliantly successful. His financial abilities brought him into the directorate of many corporations, and in many cases he was a member of the executive committee. Among these were the Boston & Maine R. R., Stone & Webster, Inc., the New England Tel. & Tel. Co., the Southern Pacific R. R., the Old Colony Trust Co., and the First National Bank of Boston. He was also a fellow of Harvard College.

The World War brought him into many non-military positions. He was chief counsel to the War Industries Board; member of the American Commission to the InterAllied War Conference in Paris; assistant to the Secretary of War and assistant director of munitions; United States citizen member of Reparations Commission in Paris, 1924-6; member of the Committee of Experts, 1929; president of Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretation at The Hague, 1926-30.

June 6, 1900, Mr. Perkins was married to Louise C. Adams of Lincoln, Mass., who survives him. There are no children.

Medical School

Honorary