Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appearin this issue or may appear in a later number.]
ATKINSON, SAMUEL P., '66, Champaign, 111., April 1, 1937. BROWN, ALBERT 0., '78, Manchester, N. H., Mar. 28, 1937. LANE, FRANCIS R., '81, Sheffield, Mass., Mar. 28, 1937. PATTERSON, GEORGE W., '81, Washington, D. C. HILL, JOSIAH F., '84, Waverley, Mass., April 8, 1937. BOYER, FRANCIS 8., '07, Boston, Mass., April 6, 1937. BORLAND, JOHN H., '13. GROGINS, ABRAHAM, n'28, Sept., 1936. FOOTE, ARTHUR, '25h, Boston, Mass., April 8, 1937. FRENCH, DR. JOHN M., '75m, Milford, Mass., Feb. 27, 1937.
ALUMNI NOTES
Necrology
Class of 1866
Samuel Peabody Atkinson died April 1, 1973, at his home in Champaign, 111., after a paralytic stroke received six days before.
The son of Peabody and Marenda (Elliott) Atkinson, he was born in Pataskala, Ohio, November 26, 1843. (This date is on the authority of an extended newspaper notice of his death. The college records make the year 1844.) The first three years of his college course were taken at Marietta College, and he came to Dartmouth at the beginning of senior year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. In 1864 he served for five months as a corporal in the 135 th Ohio Volunteers.
For two years after graduation he taught in a private school at Attica, Ind. He then moved to Illinois and settled on a farm in Condit township, where he remained until 1880, farming and teaching in neighboring schools. In the spring of 1880 he removed to Champaign and entered the monument business. His firm became in 1884 the S. P. Atkinson Monument Company, and still exists under that name, though ten years ago he retired from the active management and was succeeded by his son.
Mr. Atkinson was always active in community affairs, and served for two terms on the school board, being for a time its president. He was a director of the Champaign Building and Loan Association for 45 years and of the Champaign Chamber of Commerce for eight years. He was a member of the Congregational church, the G. A. R., the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and the Masonic order.
In 1870 he was married to Rena Shobe; who died in 1893. August 8, 1894, he was married to Emma Schultz, who survives him. Two sons survive, Joseph E. of Champaign and Donald of Tucson, Ariz. There is also one granddaughter.
For many years Mr. Atkinson had maintained a correspondence with his classmate Henry A. Kendall, a letter from whom came after Mr. Atkinson's death. Mr. Kendall and Dr. James A. Spalding of Portland are the last survivors of the class.
Class of 1878
HON. ALBERT OSCAR BROWN, former governor of New Hampshire, died at his home in Manchester, March 28, 1937, after an illness of only a few days, during most of which he was unconscious.
Brown was born in Northwood, N. H., July 18, 1852, son of Charles O. and Sarah (Langmaid) Brown. He prepared for college at Coe's Northwood Academy, to which institution he has been both loyal and generous. He wrote a few years ago, and read before the Manchester Dartmouth alumni, a most amusing, and yet a very appreciative account of his experience as a student of the Academy, as a candidate for admission to Dartmouth, his admission under the conditions existing in 1874, and touching gently upon certain personalities he contacted along the way. It is to be hoped that this paper has found or will find a place in the Alumni Records. He was early recognized as a man of clear and logical mind, tempered with shrewd common sense, and although of serious mien, not at all lacking in quiet humor. Even then he had a flair for politics, and in the exciting Hayes and Tilden campaign he was one of our leading upholders of the Republican faith, a faith to which he adhered to the last.
He was vice-president of the class at graduation, and president at the 50th anniversary and thereafter. He was a good student, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa rank. After graduation he taught for three years in Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., resigning to enter upon the study of law, first in the office of Burnham 8c McAllister at Manchester, then at Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. cumlaude. He entered upon practice in the office in which he began his studies, in partnership with H. E. Burnham '65, who afterwards became United States senator; and after Burnham's retirement, became head of a firm of five active partners. He soon became recognized as one of the leaders of the New Hampshire bar. He argued the case of the American Express Company before the State Railroad Commission in 1908, when state action was threatened to depress express rates. In 1910 and 1911 he was special counsel for the state in railroad tax litigation then pending in Supreme Court, and in the latter year was made chairman of the newly created State Tax Commission, continuing to hold that position until in 1920 he was elected Governor, serving the single two-year term to which New Hampshire traditions then limited her governors. He presided over the Constitutional Conventions of 1918, 1921, and 1923, and in 1924 was delegate at large to the Republican National Convention. Mr. Brown's professional interests gradually shifted from the practice of law to that of banking. He honored both professions. Becoming a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank in 1894, his interest in and attention to the affairs of the bank gradually increased, and in 1912 he retired from active practice of law and devoted his first attention to the bank, "endeavoring," as he said, "to investsafely and profitably the savings of upwards of twenty-six thousand depositors." He was president of the bank until his resignation shortly before his death, when he was made chairman of the board. He was a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and the Bankers' Association, served on the executive committee of the United States Council of State Banking Associations, was a member also of the United States and New England Tax Officials' Associations, and a 32d degree Mason. In 1908 he was honored with an A.M. by Dartmouth and in 1922 an LL.D. by New Hampshire University. His college fraternity was Psi Upsilon.
In a letter to the class secretary he once wrote, "There are some things in which afellow ought not to be remiss, and prominent among them according to my philosophy are his duties to his college and hisclass." Pursuant to that philosophy, he kept closely in touch with his classmates, often serving as the source of information about those who did not respond for themselves; and he served the College as trustee for twenty years. When he retired from that service the trustees expressed their regret in a very cordial communication, from which the following excerpt is taken: "Through two administrations the respectand affection for him have steadily increased among members of the board, andthe value of his service has become entwined with the policy of the College to anextent impossible to calculate." Mr. Brown responded in an equally cordial letter, of which the following is typical: "I regret tosever my con?iection with this board withall it has meant to me of duty and ofprivilege But I long ago decided toretire upon the completion of twentyyears, I will not say of service, but of time.So my resignation was framed to take effectat the expiration of that period. I felt thatit must be presented in advance, for I knewthat if it were delayed until I came againinto this incomparable village and againsat down with old and valued associates totransact the business of the College, myjudgment would be affected and my purpose endangered." It was characteristic of the man thus to finish strong and to relinquish a task when it was finished. It was so at the end.
The funeral was held at the Hanover St. Congregational church, which Mr. Brown attended. The large church was filled with a body more than usually masculine in its complexion, owing to the presence of many representatives of his associates in state, city, legal, banking, and college circles. President Hopkins arrived by rapid transit after a meeting in New York the previous evening. Treasurer Edgerton arrived with him. Parkhurst and Parkinson represented the class of 1878.
The service was conducted jointly by the present and former pastors of the church. The latter paid a high tribute to Brown's large and loyal service to his state, his city, his two professions, his college, and to every good cause, and stressed his sound judgment, his fidelity, his fairmindedness, his thoroughness, and his public spirit. A male quartet rendered impressively two selections, first, of stanzas from Whittier's "The Eternal Goodness," and second, "Abide with Me."
Mrs. Brown, who was Miss Susie E. Clarke, of Ayer, Mass. died in 1923 without issue. Charles Brown McLaughlin ('l4), a nephew who has lived with Mr. Brown for some years, was quarantined with scarlet fever in the contagious hospital at the time of the funeral. A sister also survives.
Class of 1881
FRANCIS RANSOM LANE died at his home in Sheffield, Mass., on the morning of Easter Sunday, March the twenty-eighth. He had been ill for about a year and a half.
He was born in Manchester, N. H., December 23, 1858, the son of John Godfrey and Ann Caroline (Anderson) Lane. He fitted for college at the high school in Manchester, and was with us the whole four years. He was a good student, being a Commencement speaker and making Phi Beta Kappa. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.
From the time of his graduation until 190 a he was continuously in Washington, D. C. The first year he was principal of the Franklin School: then for five years submaster and head of the English department in the High School; then for nine years principal of the Central High School; then director of high schools for six years. He also studied medicine during this period, receiving his M.D. from Columbia University in 1885. Leaving Washington in 1906, he served for one year as director of the Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. He was then principal of the Worcester (Mass.) State Normal School, 1907-12. Then headmaster of the Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brooklyn, 1912-18. In 1918 he went overseas with the Y. M. C. A. group of educators, and also became associated with the educational work of the army, then later a field director in the Red Cross. From 1925 to 1927 he was financial secretary of the Bowling Green Neighborhood Association of New York City. In 1927 he became the librarian of the New York Life Insurance Company, a special library adapted to the purposes of the company. Since 1931 he has been in rather precarious health and not regularly employed. He spent the winter of 1932-33 in Europe, principally in Nice, France.
Lane was the author of several school texts; "Books and Reading"; "Outlines of English Literature"; "Outlines of American Literature." In 1907 he received the honorary A.M. from Lafayette College.
He was married in Washington June 23, 1891, to Miss Elinor Macartney of that city, a specialist in higher mathematics and a writter of both short stories and novels. She died, without children, in February of 1909. Lane later married Miss Kathleen Langton, June is, 1915, and had two daughters: Kathleen Anderson, born July 20, 1916; and Frances Ransom, born May 27, 1921. Of these daughters he always wrote with pride in his correspondence.
His name has been included in "Who's Who in America" for several years. See especially the edition of 1920-21.
Class of 1883
IRWEN LEVISTON died at his home, 3300 Kensington Ave., Richmond, Va., February 14, 1937. Funeral services were held at his old home in Enfield, N. H., February 17, with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Nellie Currier Leviston, and daughter, Mrs. W. G. Stapelkamp of "Paxton Hall," Clayville, Va., also two granddaughters.
He had been a partial invalid since July, 1928, though able to go about somewhat until two weeks prior to his death.
Born at Bradford, N. H., March 30, 1858. Parents were William and Orianna Rhoda (Spalding) Leviston. The family moved to Enfield in 1868.
Attended Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., graduating in 1877.
Graduated from Dartmouth in 1882. While there he served as instructor in physics under Prof. Emerson, and during his last year was assistant librarian under Prof. Pollens. In 1887 he received an A.M. degree from Dartmouth. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he traveled for a year through the Northern and Western states.
September 2, 1885, married Nellie R. Currier of Enfield, N. H. Three children were born to them: Nellie Elsie, died Nov. 25, 1886, aged 5 months; Alice May, born Oct. 10, 1887; Robert, died Oct. 18, 1921, aged 31 years (Dartmouth '13). Celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Sept. 2. 1935.
BEGAN TEACHING IN 1885
Started his career as teacher in 1885 at Council Bluffs, lowa. In 1886 went to Omaha, Neb., High School as teacher of physics and mathematics and assistant principal for ten years, followed by principalship of that school for four years. While in Omaha he was a member of the Microscopic Society (president 1890-9), of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, organizer of the department of science of the National Education Association, and was secretary of this department for the year 1897. He also organized the Dartmouth Alumni Association of the Plains, and was its first president for two years.
In 1900 he went to St. Paul, Minn., as superintendent of schools. While here he was a most active member of the Alumni Association of the Northwest. He was also a member of the Commercial Club.
In 1908 he went to Aurora, N. Y., as professor of physics in Wells College, of which George Ward 'B2 was president.
In 1913 he gave up teaching, and retired to his farm, "Paxton Hall," Clayville, Va. In 1933 he went to Richmond, where he lived until his death. While in Richmond he was an active member, as his health permitted, in the Dartmouth Club of Virginia, and was the second oldest member in the state.
Leviston was a loyal member of '82, and was always ready to do his full part in all class matters. The following incident is characteristic of the man. Shortly after leaving home in 1932 to attend his 50-year class reunion, he was in an automobile accident and was badly cut and bruised. After receiving medical treatment, instead of returning home he continued his journey, and arrived in Hanover with his head swathed in bandages and court-plaster. He remarked that a little accident like that couldn't keep him from seeing "the boys."
The best of good fellows, he will be greatly missed by all of us who survive.
Class of 1891
ROBINSON LINCOLN DORING was born in Perry, Me., April 24, 1864, the son of John and Lydia (Lincoln) Doring. He prepared for college at Kents Hill (Me.) Seminary and Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered the class in the Latin Scientific course, but changed later to the Chandler Scientific. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Casque and Gauntlet.
After graduation he served as transit fflan on railroad surveys in Readsboro, Vt., and for the city of Boston. From 1892 to 1896 he was in charge of paper mill construction at Holyoke, Mass., Piercefield, N. Y., and Berlin, N. H. For the next ourteen years he conducted his own construction business. From 1910 to 1914 he served the J. G. White Cos. as superintendent of construction, and from 1914 to 1917 he acted in the same capacity for the New England Power Cos.
Superintending shipyard construction at Newington, N. H„ and the construction of the largest and most modern shell-loading plant in the United States at Amatol, N. J., occupied him from 1917 to 1919. In 1920 he was at Ketchikan, Alaska, building a plant for the Hidden Inlet Canning Cos., of which he was third owner. In 1921 he returned to the Power Construction Cos. in charge of the building and repair of dams in Northern New York, and continued in this until his retirement in 1930.
INJURIES FORCED RETIREMENT
Injuries to his leg and knee caused by accidents on the work, while not crippling him, made the active life to which he was accustomed difficult and caused him to retire to his home and orange groves in Bowling Green, Fla., where he died May 20, 1936.
His classmates will remember his happy personality and his powerful physique, and they will see him in the football line with those other sturdy men of '9l, Little, John Walker, and Stanley, and at the anchor end of the rope in the old-time rope-pulls.
A great tribute to his character was the loyalty of the men under his control on construction. Many followed him from job to job to be with the "whistling boss." He whistled when all went well, but his wrath it disobedience or inefficiency was fully made known by his booming voice. His courage was well shown by an incident on construction. A striking mob, armed with guns, knives, and clubs, threatened to set fire to the works. Doring seized the ringleader, and, holding an axe over him, threatened to kill him if one suspicious move was made. The mob believed him, and awaited the arrival of the sheriff and an armed posse.
March 26, 1902, he married Venetia E. Glendenning of New Brunswick, who, with their children, Walter G., Verma Elizabeth, and John Sherman, survive him.
—ARTHUR W. FRENCH.
Class of 1898
For eight years a semi-invalid, but courageously carrying on with his life work to the very day of his death, EDWIN DURWARD BUELL died December 30, 1936, at his home in Glencoe, 111.
Buell left Dartmouth at the end of junior year. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and had been elected to Casque and Gauntlet. Born in Huntsville, Ala., November 13, 1877, and reflecting his Southern ancestry, he prepared for college at Englewood High School in Chicago. In college he was active in athletics, playing baseball and football and participating in track events.
Married April 29, 1902, to Cornelia V. Ball, his widow survives him. There are two daughters: Virginia, wife of James Dudley Pope, Dartmouth 1923, who attended Bradford College and University of Chicago; and Mary Louise, wife of William Grant Todd, who received a magna cum laude degree from Smith in 1930. There are three grandchildren, Louise Ann Pope, September, 1926; Virginia Pope, May, 1928; and Shirley Buell Todd, May, 1936.
Buell received a B.L. degree from Lake Forest University in 1905, and was also a graduate of Chicago Kent School of Law. He belonged to Phi Delta Phi law fraternity.
After spending three years with a manufacturing company, he was from 1900 to 1906 clerk to United States Judges Kohlsart, K. M. Landis, and S. H. Bethea successively. For a short time he was manager of the receivership department of the Royal Trust Company, Chicago, and during the remaining years of his life was in business for himself as receiver and trustee in United States courts, with an office at 105 West Monroe St., Chicago.
"Molly" Buell will be remembered by classmates and contemporaries for his deep voice, Southern drawl, fine physique, and because of his service as a member of the varsity track team, substitute in the varsity football team, member of 1898 class baseball team, and assistant manager of the baseball team. He had a unique personality and was a man of strong convictions. Buell had never attended any of the 1898 class reunions, but had from time to time enjoyed informal luncheon meetings with Chicago and visiting classmates.
—F. S. POPE.
Class of 1907
FRANCIS BURLEIGH BOYER died April 6, 1937, at the Palmer Memorial Hospital, Boston, after a brief illness.
He was born in Reading, Pa., December 12, 1885, the son of Edmund T. and Charlotte R. (Burleigh) Boyer, and prepared for college at Cayuga Lake Academy and Somersworth (N. H.) High School. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
After graduation he learned the textile business with the Great Falls Manufacturing Cos. of Somersworth, N. H., and the Arnold Print Works of North Adams, Mass. Later he was in charge of the textile oils department of C. B. Company of Lowell, Mass. At the time of his death he was associated with the Seydel Chemical Cos. of Jersey City, N. J.
He resided at 255 Foster St., Lowell, Mass. He was a member of All Souls church of Lowell, the North Adams Masonic lodge and chapter, and the Lowell Rotary Club.
June 15, 1915, he was married to Jane Arnold Bond of North Adams, who survives him, with a son, Burleigh Bond, and a daughter, Jane Arnold, also a brother, William E. Boyer of Needham, Mass.
Class of 1915
HARRY SALMON BICKFORD died in St. Jerome's Hospital, Batavia, N. Y., March 5, 1937, of pneumonia, after three days' illness.
He was born in Rochester, N. Y., July 28, 1892, the son of Edward Clarence and Emma (Warboy) Bickford, and prepared for college at Montclair (N. J.) Academy. In college he played basketball, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Sphinx. Ralph D. Bickford 'lB is a brother. After graduation he was employed by the American Exporting Company and the Guaranty Trust Cos. in New York, until May, 1917, when he enlisted in the Coast. Artillery. In September he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the 31st Regiment at Camp Eustis, Va. He served there and at Fort Monroe until his discharge, Dec. 16, 1918.
He was then at Bridgeton, N. J., as representative of the Niagara Sprayer Company of Middleport, N. Y. In 1925 he moved to Palm Beach, Fla., and was on the staff of the Palm Beach Guaranty Cos. In 1927 he entered the employ of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and was for two years at New Orleans and Monroe, La. In 1929-30 he was with the Universal Credit Corporation in Milwaukee, Wis. He then established an insurance agency in Rochester, N. Y., where he remained until his removal to Batavia in 1935 as manager of the Genesee Finance Company.
He was a member of the Stafford Country Club and the winner of its men's golf championship in 1936. He was also a member of the Batavia Club and the American Legion.
April 9, 1921, he was married to Esther Van Luster of Grand Rapids, Mich., who survives him. They had no children. His parents and a brother and a sister also survive.
Class of 1916
DR. FRANCIS VAN VECHTEN WETHEY died March 5, 1937, at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover.
He was born in Butte, Mont., July 10, 1893, the son of Arthur H. and Katherine Mason (Brown) Wethey. He had distinguished Dartmouth connections, being a great-grandson of Francis Brown 1805, grandson of Samuel Gilman Brown 1831, nephew of Francis Brown 1870, Edward Savage 1860, and Robert Gilman Brown 1886. His own nephew, Sanborn C. Brown 1935, is now an assistant in the physics department of the College. Athur H. Wethey Jr. 1914 is a brother.
He prepared for college at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. He obtained his degree with the class of 1917, but preferred to be listed with 1916, the class with which the greater part of his course was taken. In his senior year he was enrolled in the Medical School.
He was a member of the American Field Service from June 2 to Oct. 1, 1917, and then with the U. S. Army Ambulance Service to March 14, 1919. He then returned to the Medical School, and completed the two years' course in 1919-20. His medical degree was received at the University of Vermont in 1924, and he began practice at Enfield, N. H., where he remained.
July n, 1921, he was married in Lebanon, N. H., to Emma Marie Clough, who survives him.
Class of 1928
RICHARD CHARLES DOLD died in Wichita, Kans., December 5, 1936.
He was born in Wichita, September 12, 1906, the son of Frederick William and Lena Mary (Cox) Dold, and prepared for college at the high school of that city. Frederick L. Dold 1925 is a brother.
He was a member of college only the first semester of freshman year, becoming a member of Phi Gamma Delta. No information about his subsequent history has been received.
The news has been received of the death last September of ABRAHAM ROBERT GROGINS.
He was born February 8, 1907, at South Norwalk, Conn., the son of David and Annie (Weinstein) Groginsky, and prepared for college at Norwalk and Stamford High Schools. He was a member of the class during freshman year, and after a year's absence took his sophomore year with the class of 1929.
After leaving college he became manager and secretary of the South Norwalk Plumbing Supply Cos., Inc., and was later manager and secretary of Greenwich Supply, Inc., of Greenwich, Conn.
May 10, 1930, he was married to Adelaide Lubelsky of South Salem, N. Y., who survives him, with a son, Jack Lawrence.
Medical School
Class of 1877
DR. JOHN MARSHALL FRENCH died at his home in Milford, Mass., February 27, 1937, after a few days' illness with grippe.
The son of Mark and Mary (Lyon) French, he was born in Cambridge, Vt., January 1, 1850. He was educated at the normal schools of Johnson, Vt., Plymouth, N. H., and Lebanon, Ohio, and taught much of the time between 1868 and the completion of his medical studies. He studied medicine with Dr. Robert L. Flagg of Jeffersonville, Vt., and in 1875 took a course of lectures at Dartmouth. He did not complete his course here, but obtained his medical degree from the University of Vermont in 1877.
In 1878 he began practice at Campton, N. H., removing to Simsbury, Conn., in 1880 and to Milford in iBBg. There he continued in active practice until his retirement two years ago. He was greatly interested in the treatment of inebriety, and for a number of years conducted a sanitarium for the treatment of alcohol and drug habitues. He published many articles on professional and other topics, and was for several years associate editor of the Vermont Medical Monthly and of the Journal of Therapeutics and Dietetics, and at one time department editor of Albright's Office Practitioner. In 1916 his book, "Elements of Active-Principle Therapeutics," was published.
He was a member of many medical societies and various fraternal orders, and was a deacon of the Congregational church in Milford.
Campton, N. H. They had no children, and his nearest surviving relative is a nephew.
The issue of the Milford Daily News containing an obituary notice of Dr French gave also a poem written in his memory by Almorin O. Caswell '93. December i, 1880, Dr. French was married to Mary Josephine Morrison of
Honorary
In 1896 the College conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon REV. BURTON WELLESLEY LOCKHART, pastor of the Franklin St. Congregational church of Manchester, N. H. Dr. Lockhart died at his home in Manchester, February is 1937.
The son of Nathan Albert and Elizabeth Ann (Bezanson) Lockhart, he was born at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, January 24, 1856, and graduated from Acadia College in 1878. He soon after came to New England, and graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1882. From 1882 to 1888 he was pastor of the Baptist church at Suffield, Conn. He then changed his connection to the Congregational denomination, and was pastor of the Third church of Chicopee, Mass., to 1893. He then went to the Manchester church, where he remained until his retirement in 1921, having had a notable and widely influential pastorate.
December 24, 1883, he was married to Frances Mary Upson of Westfield, Mass., who died in 1928. They had no children.
In 1925 the degree of Doctor of Music was conferred upon ARTHUR FOOTE of Boston. Dr. Foote died at the Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital, April 8, 1937, after a short illness.
He was born in Salem, Mass., March 5, 1853, the son of Caleb and Mary Wilder (White) Foote. He graduated from Harvard in 1874, and after a year of graduate study received the degree of A.M. in 1875. He pursued musical studies with Prof. John K. Paine and B. J. Lang, and entered upon a lifelong career as organist and teacher of the pianoforte. He was organist at the First Unitarian church in Boston from 1878 to 1910, and composed and published many musical compositions.
July 7, 1880, he was married to Kate G. Knowlton of Boston.
