Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received during the summer. Full notices may appear in this issue or may appear in a later number.]
Bigelow, George D., '73, Aug. 15, 1938. Adams, Prof. Charles D., '77, May 28, 1938. Blake, George F., '83, July 2, 1938. Jackson, Charles S., '83, Apr. 30, 1938. Lowell, Clesson A., '84, May 30, 1937. Fowler, George W., '86, June 12, 1938. Rice, Frederick N„ '87. Gove, Frank E., '88, Aug. 19, 1938. Duntley, Wilbur S., '92. Cummings, Dr. Alvah C., '96, July 11, 1938. Berry, John E., 'OO, June 2, 1938. French, Ferdinand, '05. Fromm, Dr. Nelson K., '05, June 22, 1938. Barker, Thomas, '06, Mar. 7, 1938. Haley, Henry T., '07, June 8. 1938. Phillips, Sidney E., '08. Daniels, Mitchell D., '09, May 29, 1938. Naylor, Emmett H., '09, July 27, 1938. Rice, Edward C., '15, July 8, 1938. Slattery, John S., '15. Wilder, Dr. Charles M., '15, Nov., 1935. Emery, Bailey Van N., '16, July 20, 1938. Salmonsen, Christian M., 'l6. Perkins, Thurston M., 'l7, Dec. 10, 1935. Echterbecker, Charles F., '18, Aug. 17. Greene, Robert W., '20, Mar. 29, 1935. Sewall, Byron 0., '21, Dec., 1936. Eggerss, Ernest J., '22. Moore, George T., '22, Aug. 31, 1938. Gwinn, William W., '23, July 20, 1937. Bennett, Donald F., '26, July 8, 1938. Cole, Philip C., '28. Swisher, Benjamin F., '28. Bry, Adolf W., '30, Aug. 2, 1938. Hahn, John F., '30. Beach, Harold M., '31, June 20, 1938. Galpin, William G., '32, Oct. 31, 1933. Waldsmith, Maxwell 0., '33, July 15. Miller, Frank M., '36, May 29, 1938. Sayre, William D., Jr., '36, May 24, 1938. Spurlock, John T., '36. Soper, Dr. Caleb, med. '83, May 21, 1938. Tasker, Dr. Frank E., med. '93. Keyes, Henry W., hon. '17, June 19, 1938. Patterson, Shirley G., hon. '24, May 28. Tarbell, Edmund C., hon. '29, Aug. 1, 1938.
Necrology
1873
GEORGE DEXTER BIGELOW died from the infirmities of age in Framingham, Mass., August 15, 1938.
The son of George William and Grace Crosby (Hoyt) Bigelow, he was born in Framingham, September 7, 1851, and prepared for college in the high school of his native town. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated as valedictorian of his class.
After graduation he taught for a short time, and then studied law, first in New York and then at Boston University. Since his admission to the bar he had maintained an office in Boston, and retired from practice only on the first of last January. Much of his professional work was done as conveyancer and as trustee of the Home Savings Bank. He was assistant and later chief conveyancer of the Metropolitan Water Board.
He was a Mason and a member of the Abstract Club and the Boston City Club. For many years he was deacon and clerk of the Framingham Congregational church.
Mr. Bigelow never married, and his nearest surviving relative is a brother Dr. Enos H. Bigelow of Framingham.
In a tribute to his memory, Rev. Dr. William Allen Knight closes with these words: "Having known him well for years, the presentwriter can lay no single laurel leaf on his biermore fitting than this—his was one of thenoblest yet always unheralded characters thaihave lived hereabout in our time."
1877
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARWIN ADAMS died suddenly May 28, 1938, at the summer home of his son Robert in New Milford, Conn.
The son of Rev. Daniel Emerson and Ellen Frances (Kingsbury) Adams, he was born in Keene, N. H„ October 21, 1856. His home when in college was at Wilton, N. H., where his father was pastor of the Congregational church. The father was not a college man, but Rev. Darwin Adams (Dartmouth 1824) was a grandfather, and Dr. Daniel Adams (1797) a great-grandfather, so that he had a good Dartmouth ancestry. He prepared for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. He became a member of Theta Delta Chi. He was one of the first scholars in the class, was on the programs of Junior Exhibition and Commencement, and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
For two years after graduation he was principal of People's Academy, Morrisville, Vt., and then entered Andover Theological Seminary. The call to return to teaching was strong, and after two years at Andover he became teacher of Greek and Physics at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., where he remained three years. In 1884 he became professor of Greek in Drury College, Springfield, Mo., and held that position until 1893. He was on leave of absence for the year 1890-1, when he studied abroad and earned the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Kiel in 1891. In 1893 Dartmouth called him to the chair of Greek, which he held with distinguished ability until his retirement with emeritus rank in 1927. In that year he received from the College the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
In 1885 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry, and while he was never pastor of a church he often preached and was one of the most active members of the Church of Christ in Dartmouth College. He was always fond of the out-of-doors, and was deeply interested in the formation and early development of the Dartmouth Outing Club.
Of his work in the College, let the following minutes voted by the faculty soon after his death speak: "The two chief interests of his life were teaching and research. In fact he was an outstanding example of that somewhat rare combination, a stimulating and enthusiastic teacher and a productive scholar. His studies and publications made his name familiar to all classicists, and brought distinction both to him and to the College. Lysias profited by his editing. From the pages of the Loeb edition Aeschines spoke in the words of a New Englander. Demosthenes and his influence were brilliantly treated in the series entitled 'Our Debt to Greece and Rome.' The classical world was soon aware that there lived in Hanover a scholar who spoke on Greek oratory as one having authority, and it waited for his words. No stress of daily academic tasks kept him from his study; no burden of advancing years dulled his enthusiasm. He was largely responsible for the foundation of the Classical Association of New England, and was its first president in 1906-7. Besides the books already mentioned, he wrote articles for The ClassicalWeekly, Classical Philology, The ClassicalJournal, The School Review, and the Nation. Within a month of his death his last article appeared in the position of honor in our most important classical journal—his clarity undimmed, his logic unimpaired. He died in the harness of scholarship."
August 24, 1881, he was married to Julia Amanda Stevens of Wilton. N. H., who died March 2, 1922. They left three children: David E. (Dartmouth 1913), now professor of religion at Mt. Holyoke College; Ellen F., assistant librarian at the Baker Library; Robert E. (Dartmouth 1917), with the New York Reciprocal Underwriters.
1883
CHARLES SF.LVIN JACKSON died at Orlando, Fla., April 30, 1938, of heart disease.
He was born in Danbury, N. H., November 19, 1861, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at Proctor Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi), and represented it on the editorial board of The Dartmouth.
After graduation he embarked upon a highly successful career as an educator. For the first year he was principal of the high school at New Hartford, Conn., then for a year at Holden, Mass., as submaster, and two years at Wakefield, Mass. He next taught at North Middleboro, Mass. In 1891 he became principal of the high school of Lynn, Mass. From this position he was transferred to the superintendency of schools in 1918, and in 1924 he retired from active educational work and made his home at South Weymouth. He met with great success in his work at Lynn, and left it with the esteem and affection of all who were connected with it.
September 3, 1883, he was married to Lillian Alice Fuller of Andover, N. H., who survives him with their only child, Elizabeth, who is a graduate of Wellesley and now professor of history in Agnes Scott College, Decatur. Ga.
1886
GEORGE WINTHROP FOWLER died at Pembroke, N. H., on June 12, 1938. He had been in uncertain health for perhaps a year. Pembroke was his home town; he was born at East Pembroke on November 1, 1864, and at Pembroke Academy he fitted for Dartmouth. The esteem in which he was held, not only by the local community, but by a large acquaintanceship throughout the state was evident from the impressive funeral service on June 15. Scores of official and business associates of Mr. Fowler were present. Among the floral pieces was one from his class, which was represented by Dr. H. O. Smith of Hudson. All business in the village was suspended during the service. The burial was in the Head Cemetery at Hooksett.
"Jim"—for so he was known by his classmates—was an outstanding member of '86 in respect to leadership. In his senior year he was editor of The Dartmouth. He was a Kappa Kappa Kappa. His bent for writing took him to a newspaper at Bismarck, N. D., almost immediately after graduation, but he did not remain long in the West. The lure of his native hills brought him back to New Hampshire, and the lure of newspaper work took him to Nashua as editor and manager of the Gazette of that city. The Gazette was an old-time Democratic paper. In Nashua he overworked. His roommate at Hanover, Ellon S. Hill, who was his associate on the paper, said of him that he "would begin his labors at 8 in the morning and end any time from 11:30 to 1 A.M. next morning." This could not go on indefinitely, and the condition of his health and the death of his father led him to dispose of his interest in the Gazette in the fall of 1895. Soon, however, he was back in the newspaper harness, now with the Manchester Union, of which he was city editor, managing editor, or business manager from 1895 to 1913. In the latter year he became state purchasing agent. From 1913 to 1915 he was a member of the state board of control for public institutions. Later, in 1919, he represented his town in the legislature. "Jim" had an instinct for politics. He was an effective speaker, partly from a sense of humor and more from a resourceful mind, to which his work on the Union testified.
After leaving the office of state purchasing agent his activities centered in the Suncook Valley. Those activities were varied. He founded a bank at Suncook, and was its treasurer at the time of his death. Banking was his major interest, but there were other irons in the fire. He was the executive of the Suncook Valley Railroad. He also conducted a general insurance agency. Inevitably he was a member of the Pembroke school committee, and for many years he was on the governing board of Pembroke Academy. His personality and initiative made him part and parcel of the community, and ever a leader.
He was married on January 18, 1888, to Miss Etta Bartlett of Suncook. Three children were born to them: George Sherburne, Harold Bartlett, and Winthrop John. A second marriage, on August 23, 1905, was to Miss Grace M. Smith, who is the mother of two children, Mary Ann and Charles Smith. The sons and the daughter, as well as Mrs. Fowler, are all living. A family fact of interest is that the oldest son was named George for George W. Ransom and Sherburne for Ellon Sherburne Hill—both classmates of Mr. Fowler and members of the Kappa Kappa Kappa, both no longer living. George Sherburne is of the Dartmouth class of 1914, but he did not graduate. Charles Smith, the youngest son, is of the class of 1937 and is now in his father's bank.
One can truly say of George W. Fowler that he was an ideal citizen—high-minded and practical in public service, helpful and sympathetic in his everyday relations with all sorts and conditions of men. Just what quality always marked his life may be understood from this extract from a letter of a few years ago to his class secretary: "As a sort of corollary to country banking I have done much probate and justice work, not from choice or rich monetary reward, but because it is hard for me to say 'No' where others think I may do them an intimate favor, as I look upon settling estates, writing wills, deeds, and other confidential papers or agreements. In fact, to be of real use to your neighbors in a community like this is more satisfaction at our time of life than financial reward." That was "Jim"!
1887
AZIAH CHANDLER WILLEY was born at Wakefield, N. H., April 3, 1863, son of Aziah Chandler and Martha (Dearborn) Willey, and died at Portsmouth, N. H., May 18, 1938. The ancestry is from an early English settler in Dover about 1630. He fitted for college at Berwick Academy, Me., and graduated with the class, degree of A.B. He was a charter member of N. H. Alpha of Phi Delta Theta.
His first venture in business was in a recorder's office in Memphis, Tenn., but owing to the unfavorable climate he returned to Boston and entered the wholesale grocery business. In 1891 he became connected with Silas Pierce and Co., and remained with that firm and their successors for forty-two years, retiring in 1932. About 1907 he removed to Portsmouth, N. H., and became manager of the firm's branch store. In civic life he served as president and treasurer of the Warwick club of Portsmouth and was a member of the Boston Duplicate Whist Club, in which game he was an expert. He was also active in the Unitarian church and took a keen interest in politics, being identified with the Democratic party. Willey was a man of sound business judgment and usually correct in his political predictions.
October 28, 1890, he married Edith E. Sanborn, who with one daughter, Edna, survives him. An only son, Roger, died in youth.
1894
AUGUSTUS BARNES SAWYER died May 16, 1938, at his home in Franklin, N. H., after a long illness resulting from an impairment of the heart. For many years he had been the city editor of the Franklin Journal-Transcript, which is one of the better known newspapers of central New Hampshire. The infirmity of the heart had been upon him for nearly three years, but with indomitable pluck he stuck to his work and did not finally relinquish his chair until a few months ago upon the imperative instructions of his physician. After that while he was confined a great deal to his home, his long service and uncommonly retentive memory coupled with his sound judgment and unfailing common sense made him a frequent and valued consultant, in which capacity he gave service until a few weeks of his death.
Gust, as he was known familiarly to the men of his class and period in Dartmouth, was born in Franklin, November 24, 1870, the oldest son of George W. and Louise (Barnes) Sawyer. He attended the public schools of Franklin, graduating from the high school in 1888. From thence he went to Tilton Seminary, now known as Tilton School, and entered Dartmouth in 1890. Like many undergraduates of our time he "went out teaching" winter terms in rural schools, but the urge of the printing press persisted. Shortly after graduation he started as a "cub reporter" on the Worcester Spy, and was in the employment of that paper and that of the Worcester Evening Post. He continued in their service until 1902, when he left Massachusetts to return to his home town of Franklin. This was upon the invitation of the publisher of the Journal-Transcript after the merger of the Franklin Transcript and the Merrimack Journal. Gust was to serve in the position of local editor, where he was to continue thirty-six years, with the exception of a short leave of absence in 1918. During this interval he was associated with his younger brother, the late Hon. Enos K. Sawyer, in the United States Employment Service, of which he was appointed federal director for New Hampshire and Vermont. During his newspaper years he was much of the time a correspondent of the Boston Globe and the Associated Press. He served his community as a probation officer from 1913 to 1922, notwithstanding a change in the political complexion of the state, when changes are often made for no other reason.
A lover of nature and of his kind, the soul of affability, tact, and comradeship, it seemed in the natural course of things that Gust should take on many fraternal affiliations. He was a member of Meriden Lodge, No. 60, A.F. & A.M., lonic Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Merrimack Lodge No. 28, 1.0.0.F., Franklin Lodge, No. 1230, 8.P.0.E., and the Independent Order of Foresters. He was a charter and honorary member of the Franklin Rotary Club, the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, and other welfare organizations. He attended the Baptist church.
He is survived by his widow, Mary E. Sawyer: two sons, George W., who is foreman of the Consolidated Water and Paper Company of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., and Parker E. of Franklin, who conducts the business founded by his grandfather in 1870, and a daughter, Ruth L. of Franklin, who is with the American Red Cross. Three grandchildren survive.
Seven representatives, Ames, Claggett, Ham, Hurd, C. C. Merrill, Rossiter, and Mrs. Rossiter, attended the funeral services in behalf of the class. The impressive rites were conducted by Rev. John F. W. Howell, the pastor, assisted by our own "C.C.," who spoke with the chaste and tender felicity and fraternal feeling that we have known so long.
The keen realization that life is closing in has been forced upon us within the last few years. It was the writer's privilege to be one of his roommates junior and senior years. He was endowed with alert and keen intelligence. a loyal comrade, helpful, serviceable and efficient, generous and considerate in all the relations of life. The contemplation of his works and days brings to minds Barrie's characterization of another as one of the strong nails that hold communities together, and to Carlyle's likening of the work of a good man to an underground vein of water secretly making the ground green.
1896
DR. ALVAH COCHRAN CUMMINGS died suddenly July 11, 1938, while on a vacation at Grand Lake Stream, Princeton, Me.
He was born in Concord, N. H., December 3, 1873, the son of Milan D. and Sarah Ann Cummings, and came to college from Concord High School.
After graduation he studied medicine at Harvard, obtaining his medical degree in 1901. He spent two years in Boston City Hospital, and after a trip to Mexico, located in Newton, Mass., in 1903. For over 30 years he was a general practitioner in Newton, and held many positions, such as school physician and for the last few years city physician, examining physician to the local exemption board, on the hospital staff, in baby clinic work, and in community tubercular work. He was a member of the Masons and the Elks, the Rotary Club, and other civic organizations.
January 10, 1906, Dr. Cummings was married to Jeannette Harris of Waverly, Mass., who survives him, with a daughter, Ann, a recent graduate of William and Mary College and now a teacher in a private school in Weston, Mass.
The class was represented at the funeral by Guy C. Richards, Selden L. Staples, and Carl H. Richardson. The class sent a suitable floral tribute for the occasion.
1900
JOHN EDWARD BERRY died at his summer home at Fortune's Rock, near Biddeford, Me., on June 2, 1938, at the age of sixty years.
Berry was born in Biddeford on February 23, 1878, the son of John Berry, a druggist at Saco. He attended Thornton Academy and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1896 with the class of 1900. In college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After graduation he was connected with the Central Vermont and other transportation companies in the freight business. Later he became treasurer of the Beacon Woolen Company, the business of which was the buying and selling of wool, and made his headquarters and home at Enfield, Conn. He continued in this occupation until 1935, when he was forced by severe illness to retire from active work. From that time he remained in Enfield during the winter, but spent his summers by the sea, at Fortunes Rock near his birthplace.
He was married in 1907 at Pawtucket, R. 1., to Anna Madeline Driscoll, who survives him, as does their son, John Edward, now an officer in the Isthmian Steamship Line.
Yeb had not been much in touch with the class in recent years, and few of us had come in contact with him. In response to the interim report, however, the Secretary in April received a letter from him expressing his interest in the class and his hope to attend the reunion in 1940.
1905
NELSON KAUFMAN FROMM died June 22, at his home in Albany, N. Y., after an illness of nearly two years with coronary thrombosis.
He was born in Albany, December 9, 1881, the son of the late Nathan and Elizabeth (Lehrberg) Fromm, receiving his early education in the public schools of that city, graduating from Albany High School in 1901, and from Dartmouth four years later. He also attended Albany Medical College, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1908.
He served his internship at Albany and St. Peter's Hospital, and later continued his studies in Europe, after which he returned to Albany to practice and to serve in various capacities as instructor at the Medical College, from 1909 to 1929. In that year he became assistant in neurology and served for four years. In 1933 he became clinical professor in neurology and in 1937 was made assistant professor. He was also a member of the staff of the Albany Hospital.
During the World War he served with the U. S. Medical Corps as captain. He was a member of many medical, social and fraternal organizations.
His passing on brought to a close a career of brilliant success and progress in his chosen profession. The class has lost an active and co-operative member, and the College also, for he was always loyal and enthusiastic, and his presence from our group will be sincerely and universally missed.
He is survived from his widow, Rosalie W. Fromm, and his daughters, Elsbeth F. and Jane P.
The funeral services were held on Friday, June 24, and the large attendance attested to the honor and esteem in which he was held. Interment was in Beth Emeth Cemetery, Albany.
1906
TOM BARKER died on the morning of March 7, 1938, at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, New York City, after an operation for hernia. The hernia condition was not considered serious, but complications developed, causing a paralysis of the stomach.
He was born in Baraboo, Wis., September 26, 1884, but came to college from Chicago. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
After graduation he was with the Western Electric Company in Chicago until his enlistment in military service. He was with a machine gun company, being promoted to first lieutenant, and saw active service in the Argonne-Meuse sector. He was discharged July 1, 1919, and returned to the Western Electric Company. October 13, 1931, he joined the United Parcel Service Company, and served this company as mechanical engineer and executive for the rest of his life. His work was in California for some years, and finally in New York. He held responsible positions and was highly regarded. In the summer of 1937 he was married to Therese Pollet, and they established their home in Flushing, where the funeral service was held.
RALPH JOSEPH THOMPSON died in Boston May 7, 1938, of heart disease, after a short illness. He had not been entirely well since a severe illness in 1929, but by a courageous fight he had brought himself back into fairly good health, and was working with energy to make up the ground lost during his long illness.
The son of Joseph B. and Helen Marie (Oliver) Thompson, he was born in Providence, R.I., June 28, 1885. He was a member of Chi Phi.
Since graduation he had held several business positions, mostly in Boston but for a time in California. He was for a time advertising manager for a company manufacturing supplies for bakers and confectioners, and then was New England representative for the advertising firm of N. W. Ayer & Son. Later he was with Winslow Cabot Co., manufacturers of thermometers.
December 28, 1921, he was married to Katherine C. Russell, but this union was later ended by divorce. There was one son.
He will be sadly missed by the Boston group, of which he was always a very loyal member. The following members of the class were present at the funeral: Max Hartmann, Charles R. Main, Walter Powers, Arthur W. Chapin, Randall B. Cooke, and Carl T. Wal ton and his wife.
1907
The sudden death of HENRY THOMAS HALEY at Yarmouth, Me., on June 8, 1938, is sad news for the Secretary to record. Harry's death was the result of a serious automobile accident which occurred on January 12, resulting in severe physical injuries and mental and nervous disorders.
Harry was, as his classmates and friends all knew, a very loyal Dartmouth man. His outstanding characteristics, friendliness, generosity, and kindliness, endeared him to all.
He was born in Roslindale, Mass., September 3, 1884. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Dragon.
After graduation he entered the cotton goods business, with which he was identified throughout his business life. At the time of his death he was president and owner of the Royal River Mills, Inc., of Yarmouth, where he had lived for about twenty-five years, and was also a director of the First National Bank of Portland.
Harry was married October 4, 1914, to Alice Louise Fanning, who survives him with three sons, Roger, Philip and Frederick. Roger entered Dartmouth in 1937.
1909
We did not learn until June of the decease of MITCHELL T. (Mike) DANIELS on May 29, 1938.
He was born in Danville, Ill., December so, 1884, the son of John Allen and Marcia Willard (Hobart) Daniels, and fitted at Lake Forest Academy. He was an Alpha Delt in college, but left his second year to go to Yale for a year, and then left Yale for the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1910. He was in the retail furniture business in Danville as the owner of the Daniels Furniture Company, with which he was connected from 1910 on.
September 20, 1911, he was married to Janet C. Johns, who survives him. They had no children.
Mike was popular with his classmates and fraternity brothers during his brief stay with us, and we regret his loss.
EMMETT HAY NAYLOR was drowned while taking a dip in his swimming pool on his estate, Greenbriar, at Cummington, Mass., on July 27, 1938. He had been in poor health for some time, and apparently the exertion was too much for him. He had gone in by himself about an hour before dinner, and was not missed until too late to resuscitate him.
He was born in St. Paul, Minn., September 13, 1885, the son of William A. and Genevieve (Hay) Naylor. He was one of the leading lights of the class. He was editor-inchief of 1909's Aegis, a member of the boards of The Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Magazine, of the Glee Club, the college choir, the Orpheus Club, and the Founders, an usher at Commencement, and a member of Psi U.
After finishing at Dartmouth he went to the New York Law School, and received his degree of LL.B. in 1911. He was secretary of the Springfield Board of Trade from 1912 to 1914 and in 1913 president of the New England Commercial Executives, from 1914 secretary-treasurer of the Writing, Cover, and Tissue Paper Manufacturers Association, president of the American Trade Association Executives in 1921, major in the Officers Reserve Corps, U. S. A., from 1924, and up to the time of his retirement some time ago had been for years counsel for the fine paper industry in New York City.
He leaves a wife and three children. Emmett had a fine career and was one of our most able members. He leaves a large gap in our ranks which cannot be closed.
1914
DANIEL GILBERT passed away at the AlbanyHospital, Albany, N. Y„ July 23, 1938. The funeral was held at Saratoga Springs July 26.
Dan was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ September 12, 1890, and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1914, remaining two years. Since leaving college he had spent his life at Saratoga Springs, and for some years prior to his death he had been connected with the Adirondack Trust Company there.
In 1917 he married Miriam Kelly, who, with two children, Mary Louise and Helen A., survives him.
For several years Dan has suffered poor health, and was stricken about the middle of May. His condition became rapidly worse, and after a lingering illness involving several operations, he passed away.
Dan was very well thought of in his home community and had taken an active part in many civic enterprises. His loss is keenly felt by a host of friends. 1916
BAILEY VAN NESS EMERY, secretary-treasurer of the Dixie Oil and Gas Company, died in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hospital on July 18, after a two weeks' illness. Four years ago, Bailey suffered a heart attack, that took its toil in the fifteen months that he was ill. He just didn't have the strength to resist this last attack.
Bailey was born in Portsmouth, N. H., March 27, 1895, the son of John Walter and Mary E. (Vaughan) Emery, graduated from Portsmouth High, and from Dartmouth with the class of 1916. In college, Bailey was business manager of the Aegis, and because of his genius was called upon by the Dartmouth Board, senior year, to take over the business managership of the paper. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
Bailey left Harvard Law School and went to France with a Harvard ambulance unit. He later joined the French army, and was commissioned a lieutenant. In 1920, he went to Oklahoma, and was one of the most colorful figures in the oil fraternity. He was a member and a former treasurer of the University Club in Tulsa, the Dartmouth Alumni Club, and the Indian Hills Country Club.
Bailey is survived by a widow, Mrs. Ruth Emery, two daughters, Sally and Mary, his mother, Mrs. John W. Emery of Portsmouth, N. H., and a sister, Mrs. Edgar C. Blanchard of Rye, N. H.
I could fill a volume with stories of Bailey's courage, of his steadfast character, of his loyalty, of his friendships. Dartmouth and the class of 1916 have lost a loyal son and brother. Ralph Sawyer 1917 has written a beautiful tribute to Bailey, a copy of which I will be glad to send any who wishes one.
CHRISTIAN MAURICE SALMONSEN died in the Portland, Me., Hospital, June 4, after an illness dating from July, 1936.
Chris was born in Phisted, Denmark, November 13, 1892, the son of Martin Salmonsen, and came to this country with his parents at the age of seven. He graduated from Unionville, Conn., High School, and from Dartmouth in 1916. Chris was the catcher on the varsity baseball team for two years, and was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and the Dragon Senior Society.
Chris enlisted in the Navy in 1917, was commissioned an ensign, and served on submarine chasers during the war. After his discharge from the service in 1919, he played with the Springfield team of the Eastern League. Later he joined the Oxford Paper Company, at Rumford, Me., and rose to assistant manager. In January, 1935, to his retirement due to ill health in July, 1936, he was assistant mill manager of the International Paper Company.
In 1926, Chris married Yvette C. Gonya of Rumtord, Me., who, with a daughter Maryse C., survives him.
Requiem high mass was sung at the Sacred Heart Church at Yarmouth, Me., on June 6, and interment was at Farmington, Conn. Dartmouth and 1916 have suffered an irreparable loss in the death of Chris Salmonsen. Our heartfelt sympathies are extended to Mrs. Salmonsen and her daughter who will continue to reside at the family homestead, Town Landing Road, Falmouth Foreside, Me.
1918
CHARLES FREDERICK ECHTERBECKER, who in June officiated at the Reunion Memorial Service for his departed classmates, himself became one of their number on August 17, when he was struck and fatally injured by an automobile at Holderness, N. H.
Charlie, born January 25, 1879, in New York City, son of William H. and Katherine P. (Henrickson) Echterbecker, was the oldest member of the class. Prior to attending Dartmouth he had graduated from the Bangor Theological Seminary in the class of 1907, where he was an honor student and Commencement speaker. He was assistant pastor of a church at Hyde Park, Mass., for one year and then became pastor of the Congregational church in Windsor, Vt., where he served until 1913.
From 1913 to 1918 he was pastor at Quechee, Vt., and during this period attended Dartmouth, where he received honors in English and graduated as a Rufus Choate scholar. He remained in Hanover as instructor of psychology for one year, and from 1919 to 1921 attended Columbia, holding the Chamberlain Fellowship from Dartmouth.
After completing his work at Columbia he became head of the Department of Education and Psychology at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., where he remained until 1928. A year at Duke University was followed by his acceptance of a professorship of education at Worcester State Teachers College, where he continued until his death.
Charlie married Lillian F. Deacon on March 24, 1909, and had one daughter, Grace Viola, now Mrs. Milton Immermann.
He had been a member of the Windsor Lodge No. xB, Free and Accepted Masons, the National Education Association, Phi Delta Kappa, and the American Association of University Professors.
1921
BYRON OWENS SEWALL died December 28, 1936, in California. He lies buried in the Soldiers' Home Cemetery at West Los Angeles (Sawtelle), where his grave forever will be kept green by the government. His life is an additional example of the havoc that war can do.
Byron Sewall was born October 9, 1897, at Biwabik, Minn., the son of Dr. Ralph Justin and Florence (Wright) Sewall. He prepared for college at the Blake School in Minneapolis and entered Dartmouth from San Diego, Calif. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. During Christmas vacation of freshman year, "By" was ordered to report for service in the Medical Corps, in which he had enlisted on June 15, 1917. Inducted in January, he served overseas from June 18, 1918, to July 5, 1919. In France he developed pulmonary tuberculosis, which eventually brought about his death. Discharged with the rank of sergeant, first class, Byron returned to college in September, 1919. His serviceincurred illness combined with overwork, however, to bring on mental complications which forced him to withdraw in January, 1921.
Excepting for a comparatively brief period somewhat later, when he re-enlisted and served with the Coast Artillery at Scofield Barracks, Honolulu, Byron for the rest of his life was under constant medical care. He spent some years in Nevada, where his health for a time improved markedly.
By Sewall possessed a quiet but delightful personality. He was blessed with a welldeveloped sense of humor, which added greatly to his charm. So far as can be learned, none of his classmates saw him again after he left college because of ill health; we can only picture him as the boy we knew too briefly, a career of obvious promise blighted by the World War.
RUSSELL HURD WHITTIER died September 10, 1937, in Springfield, Mass., after an illness of several months. The son of Frank Will and Frances E. (Russell) Whittier, he was born in Lewiston, Me., October 5, 1899. "Whit" entered Dartmouth from Central High School, Springfield, Mass., and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. A broad-jumper of ability, he made his numerals in track freshman year and his varsity letter in the same sport. He also played on the soccer team during junior year. He was treasurer of the class sophomore year.
Whit studied at Alliance Franchise, Paris, the summer following graduation from Dartmouth, and at the University of Paris, 1921-22. Upon returning to this country he was employed for a while by Charles H. Mills & Cos., New York City, as money and mortgage broker. In 1928 he became associated with the A. C. Lawrence Leather Cos. in New York as a salesman, and later moved to New England and became engaged in the sales end of the shoe and rubber goods business.
Whit was an excellent student, particularly in languages, and always turned out a workmanlike and complete job on anything he undertook. He had a keen sense of humor, which he reserved for his intimates. Fishing and golf were his athletic hobbies in the years subsequent to college life.
He is survived by his parents.
1926
DONALD FRENCH BENNETT died at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, July 8, 1938, after a long illness.
He was born in Dorchester, Mass., June 20, 1904, the son of Frank Ernest and Lydia (Lynch) Bennett, and prepared for college at the Dorchester High School. He was a member of the freshman track team and of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
After graduating from Dartmouth, he represented the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. in Boston, and Denver, until the failure of his health.
He was married to Beatrice Howard Ward on April 30, 1931.
His wife and a son, Donald Ward, aged 3, survive him.
1931
HAROLD MORRISON BEACH died at New London, Conn., June 20, 1938.
Harold was born in New London, August 4, 1906, and attended Bulkley School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho and an English major.
After college he returned to New London where despite his leg paralysis and a fall in 1933 which broke both legs, he secured a civil service position in the local National Reemployment Office.
Whenever possible he took an active part in alumni gatherings in Connecticut. His classmates will remember him by his unquenchable cheerfulness, both in and out of college, a cheerfulness made all the more remarkable in view of his great physical handicaps.
In December, 1937, he was discovered to have tuberculosis. From that time to his death he was confined to a sanatorium in Norwich, Conn., whence still came a flow of cheerful, witty letters.
He is survived by his wife Arsilia, to whom he was married Sept. 5, 1935.
1933
MAXWELL OSCAR WALDSMITH died in ST Louis, Missouri, on July 15, by his own hand
Pete Grace, who had been with him a short time before he took his life, writes of Max as follows: There is no doubt in theworld that he was out of his mind and hadbeen for several days due to an accumulationof worries and mental ills. He was given aCatholic burial, having joined that Churchabout four months previously.
Max was born in Dayton, Ohio, on July 21. 1910. He was the son of William Oscar Waldsmith and Ruth Mikesell Waldsmith.
He prepared for college at the University City High School in St. Louis.
While at Hanover he was in Phi Kappa Psi and Casque and Gauntlet. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Arts, the Art Board of Jacko. the freshman and varsity track squads. He was vice president of our class in sophomore year.
News of Max's passing is particularly startling to those who were in Hanover in June because he was present at Reunion and seemed to be in excellent health and fine spirits. Readers of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will recall the whimsical cut which Max prepared to use in booming reunion.
Max was one of the finer men in the class. It is indeed tragic that orientation to his surroundings was not possible for a man of such great potential value to his community.
FACULTY
PROF. SHIRLEY G. PATTERSON, a member of the Department of Romance Languages at Dartmouth since 1915, died suddenly of a heart attack on May 28. He was 53 years old and had been in failing health for the past two years. After suffering a coronary thrombosis in May, 1936, he spent the winter and second semester of 1936-37 in Florida, but conducted classes as usual until his relapse during the Easter recess last year.
Professor Patterson joined the Dartmouth faculty as instructor in 1915. He became assistant professor in 1916 and a full professor in 1924, receiving the honorary Master's degree from the College in the latter year. He graduated from Amherst College in 1906 and took his graduate studies at Cornell University, getting his A.M. degree in 1909 and his Ph.D. in 1911. From 1906 to 1908 he taught modern languages at the Barnard School for Boys, and in 1908-09 he was a teaching fellow in French and Italian at Cornell. During the academic year 1910-11 he was instructor in Romance languages at the University of Chicago, and for the next four years he was associate professor, then professor and head of the department of Romance languages at the University of Idaho. While at Idaho he was also special lecturer in Evidence at the University Law School from 1912 to 1914, and in 1917 he received his LL.B. degree from the Hamilton College of Law, Chicago. For nine summers from 1916 on he taught French and Spanish at the summer sessions of Columbia University.
Professor Patterson was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, and of many learned societies in this country and in France and Italy. He was invited to lecture on Franco-American Intellectual Relations in various French universities in 1924 and at the Sorbonne in 1930. He was the author of Projet de Paix Perpetuelle at Etat de Guerre (1920) and of Intermediate French Composition (1924). In Norwich, Vt., where he. resided, Professor Patterson held the post of Grand Juror.
Professor Patterson was born in New York City on July 24, 1884. He is survived by his wife, the former Olive May Bode of New York City, whom he married in 1922, and by a son, Roger Francis, aged 14.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
1883
DR. GEORGE ATWOOD PETTIGREW died of heart disease in Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, S. D., April 13, 1938.
He was born in Ludlow, Vt., April 6, 1858, the son of Josiah Walker and Susan Ann (Atwood) Pettigrew, and received his academic education at Black River Academy, Ludlow, and Colgate Academy, New London, N. H.
Upon graduation he went to Flandreau, then in Dakota territory, and began practice. He soon joined the Dakota National Guard, and was surgeon for two regiments. Later, in 1893-6, he was surgeon general of South Dakota. In 1891 he became president of the newly organized Flandreau State Bank, and held this position for 12 years. An enthusiastic believer in Masonry, he was made grand secretary of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of South Dakota in 1889, and in 1893 grand secretary of the Grand Lodge. In 1903 he became grand secretary of all the Masonic bodies in the state, and gave up medical practice to devote his whole time to this work, removing to Sioux Falls. This position he resigned two years before his death on account of failing health and was made secretary emeritus. He had many other civic activities, among which may be mentioned the presidency of the Sioux Falls Board of Education. From 1925 until his death he was federal probation officer for the state.
October 19, 1887, Dr. Pettigrew was married to Eudora Zulette Stearns of Reading, Vt., who died in August, 1936. Two daughters survive their parents, and there are two grandchildren.
The list of other Masonic degrees and official positions took a large space in the obituary notice in the local paper.
1892
DR. GEORGE ELMER PORTER died of heart disease at his home at Warehouse Point, Conn., April 11, 1938.
He was born in Hartford, Vt., June 8, 1867, the son of William B. and Clara (Whitney) Porter. He prepared for the New Hampshire College of Agriculture (now University of New Hampshire) in the schools of Hartford and graduated therefrom in 1888. His medical course was taken entirely at Dartmouth.
After graduation he practiced for some time at Chatham, Mass., removing in 1895 to Warehouse Point, where he remained for the rest of his life. He entered the Medical Corps in 1918 with the rank of first lieutenant, and served at several camps in this country.
September 18, 1888, he was married to Mary Jane, daughter of Nahum Gross and Hannah Delight (James) Turner, who survives him, with a daughter and a son, an older daughter having died in 1935.
1893
DR. CARL PETER FALLEN died at his home in Norfolk, Conn., March 30, 1938, after several of failing health.
The son of Peter Olson and Stina Cajsa Olson (Moberg) Fallen, he was born at Fallet, Orebro Lan, Sweden, December 21, 1861, and graduated at the University of Upsala in 1884. In 1888 or 1889 he came to this country with the idea of introducing the Swedish method of manual training into the public schools, giving it the Swedish name of "sloid." After successful work in this line he came to Dartmouth for a medical education.
After serving an internship in Bellevue and French Hospitals, New York, he began practice in New York City, and was for a time director of the gymnasium of Columbia University. In 1895 he became medical director of the Zander Institute, and held that position until 1920. The last years of his practice were devoted to the handling of accident cases for insurance companies and for the New York and Brooklyn Rapid Transit under the workmen's compensation law. In 1931 he removed to Connecticut. November 27, 1909, he was married to Emma Isabelle Jones, who survives him.
1894
DR. AUGUSTINE CHARLES MCGUIRE died at his home in Pelham, N. Y., January 27, 1938, of myocarditis.
The son of Joseph and Catharine (Rorke) McGuire, he was born in New York City, February 4, 1871, and received his academic education at De La Salle Institute. Most of his professional training was taken at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he came to Dartmouth only for his last course of lectures.
After graduation he was connected for some time with the Knickerbocker and French Hospitals in New York City, and then entered upon a private practice in Pelham which continued for 29 years. From 1915 to 1929 he was health officer, and as such was in charge of the health programs in the public schools and during the influenza epidemic at the close of the World War in charge of the semi-quarantine regulations. At the time of his death he was on the staff of Mt. Vernon and New Rochelle Hospitals.
June 21, 1899, Dr. McGuire was married to Emma, daughter of Adam and Matilda (Spohr) Keller, who died October 19, 1925. Two sons and a daughter survive them.
1896
DR. RUSSELL WILKINS died in a hospital at Manchester, N. H., June 22, 1938.
He was born in Amesbury, Mass., April 23, 1873, the son of Rev. Elijah Russell and Harriett N. (Davis) Wilkins. The family long resided in Concord, N. H., where he graduated from the local high school in 1891. While in college he was active as a baseball player, playing second base on the varsity nine.
After some hospital experience he began practice in Concord in 1897. In the SpanishAmerican war he served as surgeon of the First New Hampshire Volunteers, being with the regiment at Chickamauga. In 1913 he became a member of the staff of Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital. In 1916 he served with his regiment on the Mexican border. In the World War as surgeon and lieutenant colonel he was overseas for 18 months with the 26th (Yankee) Division. On his return he resumed practice in Concord, but in August, 1921, he was placed in charge of the Veterans Administration Bureau in Manchester as chief medical officer, and occupied that position until his death.
May 30, 1903, he was married to Grace M Thurber of Penacook, N. H., who survives him, with two children, Daniel T. of Manchester, Mrs. Dorothy H. Evans of Bow, N. H.
1897
DR. JOHN MICHAEL CROWLEY died at his home in Franklin, Mass., March 31, 1938. He had been in poor health since a serious illness three years ago.
The son of Michael and Ellen (Kelly) Crowley, he was born in Hanover, February 11, 1877, and graduated from Hanover High.
After hospital work at Boston City Hospital, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital, he began private practice in Franklin in 1899, and was highly successful in his profession. He was member of the board of health for many years, and was official physician for Dean Academy in Franklin.
In November, 1900, Dr. Crowley was married to Catherine C. Casey of Boston, who survived him, but died July 10 following. They leave three children, Dr. Walter F. (Dartmouth 1929) of Franklin, Dr. Joseph B. of Pawtucket, R. I„ and Mrs. Helen Mahedy of Fairhaven, Mass.
1905
DR. ERNEST COLPITIS STEEVES died at his home in Essex, Mass., April 10, 1937, of a spinal trouble, after a long illness.
The son of Michael Q. and Frances (Mullin) Steeves, he was born in Hillsboro, N. H., July 25, 1868.
He took his entire medical course at Dartmouth, and after practicing in Beverly, Mass., for a short time removed to Essex, where he was in successful practice for 30 years.
Dr. Steeves was prominent in Masonry. He served for many years on the board of health of his town and as school physician, and for the last year before his death was a member of the school board.
His wife died five years before him. A son survives, E. E. Steeves of Cliftondale, Mass.
