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.']
SPALDING, JAMES A., '66, Feb. 27, 1938. MERRICK, JOSHUA T., '73, Feb. 20, 1938. COHEN, WILLIAM N., '79, Feb. 27, 1938. DAME, DANA P., 'BO, March 13, 1938. CUNNINGHAM, JOHN M., '85, Feb. 18, 1938. HALE, FLOYD 0., '03, March 18, 1938. RUPPEL, HENRY E. K., '03, Feb. 10, 1938. BEATTEY, EARLE J. R., '09, Feb. 24, 1938. SMITH, PHILIP D., '15, Jan. 17, 1938. WHIT, EDWIN S., '15, Feb. 15, 1938. PEPPARD, EUGENE W., '18, Feb. 6, 1938. LITTLE, JOHN L., JR., '23, Feb. 25, 1938. ACER, FRED D., '34.
LEETE, DR. GEORGE E., med. '77, Feb. 22, 1938 WHITTIER, FRANCIS F., med. '84, Oct. 6, 1937 DRURY, REV. SAMUEL S., hon. '17, Feb. 21, 1938.
ALUMNI NOTES
Necrology
Class of 1866
DR. JAMES ALFRED SPALDING died at his home in Portland, Me., February 27, 1938.
The son of Lyman Dyer and Susan Parker (Parrott) Spalding, he was born in Portsmouth, N. H., August 20, 1846. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
For four years after graduation he studied medicine at Harvard, receiving his medical degree in 1870. Soon after, his hearing having become impaired, he decided to give up general practice and went abroad to study the eye and ear. Returning, he practiced his specialty in Portsmouth, 1872-3, and then removed to Portland. From 1881 to 1914 he was ophthalmic and aural surgeon to the Maine General hospital.
He was for many years one of the editors of the Maine Medical Journal, and was active as lecturer, translator, and medical biographer. He published about a hundred original papers on the eye and ear, four orations on medical topics delivered before medical societies, two textbooks on eye diseases translated from the German, about '00 papers translated from the German for Knapp's "Archives of Ophthalmology and Otology," many public health lectures and medical biographies, and many medical cal editorials. He was devoted to music and to foreign languages, becoming proficient in a dozen or more languages.
Despite his deafness, which became nearly total, he was a regular visitor at Commencements at Dartmouth for many years and until the failure of his health, and was keenly interested in everything pertaining to the College.
In J 88a he was married to Sarah Chase, daughter of Leonard Downs Shepley of Portland. They had one son, who died in infancy.
Class of 1873
JOSHUA TUCKER MERRICK died at the Elmhurst Hospital, Holbrook, Mass., on the night of February 20-21, 1938. He had been a patient in the hospital since being struck by an automobile three years ago.
The son of Nathaniel and Jane (Tucker) Merrick, he was born in Chester- field, N. H„ June 18, 1847. Elliott T. Mer- rick '57 was a brother.
Since graduation he had made his home in Holbrook, but for several years taught at various places, among them Philips- burg, Que., West Tisbury, Mass., and Cutchogue, N. Y. From January, 1879, he held business positions in Boston, and was with Hobbs and Warren, legal stationers, for some fifty years until his retirement five years ago.
Mr. Merrick never married, and a nephew and two nieces are his nearest living relatives. He prized highly his connection with the College, and was greatly pleased at being mentioned by a radio commentator last fall as the oldest living graduate, a statement which was of course incorrect.
Class of 1879
WILLIAM NATHAN COHEN, better known to his classmates as "Schlei" and to the public as "Judge Cohen," died at Atlantic City, N. J., Sunday, February 27. He had gone there the preceding Thursday and was stopping at the President Hotel. Saturday, at about 6 P.M., while reading the evening paper he had a stroke, from which he died a few hours later without suffering any pain. Thus passed on one of the best loved, most loyal and distinguished members of the old class of '79.
Born in New York City, May 7, 1857, he was one of the five children of Nathan Cohen, a dry-goods merchant of BavarianJewish descent, and Ernestine (Erdmann) Cohen. The death of his father when William was two years old left the mother to support her little family during their early years.
There follows the story, so familiar in America, of the poor boy rising by his own efforts to wealth and honor. When thirteen years old, young Cohen went to work in the office of a law firm at $8.25 a week. The mother died when he was 17 years old. The brothers gave their share in her property to their sister. Looking forward to an education, he was tutored evenings during the winter of 1873-4 by S. W. Adriance, Dartmouth '73, a student in Union The- ological Seminary. He studied at Kimball Union Academy, 1874-5, and then entered Dartmouth College with three others from the school, Hough, his lifelong intimate friend, Libby, and Upton, all of the class of '79.
In college he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. At graduation he received the Grimes prize for "the most satisfactory progress during his college course, taking into account his preparation for the course when he entered." At Commencement he had a speaking appointment in a "forensic disputation" with George W. Long as the other disputant. He was also one of the sixteen members of the class admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. Following the common Dartmouth custom of the period, he taught school each winter and worked summers in the law office where he had been an office boy.
After graduation he returned to New York in the employ of the same law firm as before, and at the same time attended the Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1881 with honors. While so doing he added to his earnings by writing dramatic criticisms for newspapers. At the completion of his law course he became managing clerk in the law office, and in 1883 was admitted to partnership.
Cohen specialized in the trial of cases before juries, being the first attorney in the city to act as trial counsel for other lawyers and law firms. In an autobiographical sketch written in 1924, he said: "Upto ten years ago my professional life wasvery •active. Until the beginning of thecentury I was in court almost every dayfor nine months of the year, trying jurycases I never tried any case, nomatter how grave or serious, that 1 did notsee some fun in or get it out Iwould not for a moment be a lawyer if Ihad to confi?ie myself to office practice. Itis the mental acrobatics of the courtroomthat makes it exciting." He continued his trial work until he was past seventy and had part in many important cases.
But his activities were not confined to that work. In 1897, Governor Black appointed him to the New York Supreme Court to fill out an unexpired term. The next year he received the Republican nomination for justice of the First Judicial District, but was defeated in the election. In 1899 and 1900, he served as counsel for Governor Theodore Roosevelt, and was closely associated with him in preparing the special franchise tax laws enacted at that time. When Roosevelt became president, he called Cohen to Washington to aid in drafting the treaty under which the United States was made receiver of customs for San Domingo. In 1904 he was a member of the National Republican Nominating Convention.
He acted many times as a Supreme Court referee. He was for a time vice president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and was chairman of a committee on Courts of Superior Jurisdiction. He sought untiringly to elevate the standards of the judiciary.
During the World War he was chairman of the Draft Board of New York, and later chairman of the Ocean Advisory Committee of the United States Shipping Board, which sat as a court to determine the compensation to be granted to owners of vessels requisitioned by the government.
But it is as a most loyal and generous son of old Dartmouth that we have loved him and mourn his loss. Being asked once, when he left Dartmouth, his reply was "Never!" He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from the College in 1899. He always was present at the five-year reunions of his class, and was elected its president after the death of T. W. Proctor in 1931, holding the office until his death.
His financial aid to the College was.frequent and large. He was a generous supporter of such projects as the construction of Webster Hall and the reconstruction of Dartmouth Hall. He contributed several thousand dollars toward the Memorial Field, was a member of the committee having it in charge, and after the death of Hon. F. S. Streeter, its chairman. At its dedication he formally presented the Field to the College.
He was next to the largest contributor toward the furnishing of "Hough's Room" in the Baker Memorial Library, and the largest contributor to the "Fifty Year Class of 1879 Fund" of $15,000, to be used at the discretion of the President. In the college year 1923-4, he put $5,000 in President Hopkins' hands, designated as the "Class of 1879 Fund for Music, Drama, and Belles Lettres," a gift which has been repeated every year since with one exception, but which never appeared under his name. President Hopkins has said of it, "I think it would be difficult to find a record of any gift of its dimensions which hasever been more advantageous to the College."
He was one of the three men who year after year have made the class contribution to the Alumni Fund so absurdly out of proportion to the quota assigned them. The College treasurer estimates that since 1915 his gifts to the College have aggregated over $100,000. He has always responded generously to class appeals, whether for ordinary expenses, assistance of needy classmates, flowers for the sick or deceased, and other purposes. His last letter to the class secretary written in January contained a check for class expenses. In response to a reference to the approaching sixtieth anniversary, he wrote, "Tell mewhat should be done by me toward our '79Sixtieth Reunion and I will do whateveryou order."
Dr. Hopkins has expressed the feeling of us all when he wrote, "No comment which I could make in regard to Judge Cohen's death would either be expressive enough or adequate enough to define my own feelings about it and my own sense of loss in it
"He had those rare attributes which established natural relationships with men of any age with whom he had any common interest. I have seen him sit in kindly companionship with recent graduates of the college, accepting them and being accepted by them as naturally as though all were of the same age, and I have seen and heard from such contemporaries as Judge Hough and Mr. Thayer of the affection and respect they had for him.
"Dartmouth men have great reason for thankfulness in the accomplishments of his life and in his affiliations with the College. For Dartmouth institutionally and for many of us personally, life is richer for having had his friendship."
Judge Cohen was the last survivor of his family, his only sister, the Baronessa Sis Colucci of Rome, whom he was in the habit of visiting a few weeks each summer, having died in 1936. He leaves a nephew, Arthur J. Cohen '03 of New York and a grand-nephew, Arthur J. Cohen Jr. '37.
The funeral service, which was private, was held at the Fresh Pond Crematory on Long Island, at which Dr. John Elliott delivered the address. The class of '79 was represented by Henry B. Closson, Esq., of New York.
CLIFFORD,Ft. SMITH '79.
MRS. ETHEL (POWERS) HOUGH, widow of Judge Charles M. Hough, died in Princeton, N. J., March 7, after an illness of three months from a stroke which had left her without any hope of recovery. Mrs. Hough was always most loyal to the College and to the class of '79, several members of which counted her as a personal friend.
Since her husband's death she had made an annual contribution to the Alumni Fund in .his memory, and had given the College 11,000, the income to be applied yearly to the Alumni Fund. She had also given a Fund of $1,000, the income to be used for the up-keep of "Hough's Room" in the Baker Memorial Library.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs. E. Baldwin Smith, wife of a professor in Princeton University, and a son, Prof. John N. Hough '27, of the Ohio State University at Columbus. The funeral service was held March 9, with burial beside her husband in the Friends' Burial Ground at Mt. Holly, N. J.
Class of 1885
JOHN MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM died at the home of his sisters, the Misses Margaret and Annie Cunningham, 1480 Elm St., Manchester, N. H., on February 18. His death occurred suddenly from heart failure.
He was born in Potsdam, N. Y., May 8, 1865, the son of James and Elizabeth (Crowley) Cunningham. When a small boy he moved to Hanover with his parents and prepared for college at Hanover High School. He did not complete his college course, leaving during his junior year to engage in railroad work with the Central Vermont R. R.
During his college course he was a member of the Vitruvian, now the Beta Theta phi fraternity. He was active in athletics, serving as football captain of his class and member of his class nine and winning the baseball throwing contest and the light weight boxing contest in the fall meeting of the College Athletic Association of our junior year.
His home for many years was at Newport, Vt., where he was in the employ of the Canadian Pacific and the Boston & Maine railroads. At the time of his retirement several years ago, he was superintendent of the Northern Division of the latter railroad.
In May, 1893, he was married to Miss Nettie Fogg of Newport, Vt., who died June 6, 1935. They had no children. His wife had been for some years a correspondent for several Vermont papers, the Boston Globe and the Associated Press, and after her death he continued for some time as correspondent in her place.
A little over a year ago, on account of a serious heart trouble, he went to live with his sisters at Manchester, where he died.
Both he and his wife were loyal supporters of our class, and by their attendance added much to our class reunions.
His funeral services were held in Manchester and his burial was in the family lot at Newport, Vt.
His only survivors are his two sisters above mentioned and another sister, Miss Mary Cunningham of Hanover, N. H.
Class of 1903
EUGENE BAXTER SPRAGUE died of pneumonia at his home in Hartford, Vt., February 6, 1938.
The son of Israel G. and Elizabeth (Matthews) Sprague, he was born in Hartford, March 11, 1880, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was with the class only through freshman year.
From 1901 to 1916 he was in Alaska as representative of the Alaska Commercial Cos. and other trading companies. He then returned to the family farm in Hartford, and remained there for the rest of his" life. He was also manager of West Hartford Creamery.
February 1, 1931, he was married to Mrs. Ruth Dickie Degel of Bridgeport, Conn., who survives him.
Class of 1903
HENRY ERICH KASEMERE RUPPEL of 66 Willow St., Wollaston, Mass., died of cancer on February 10, 1938.
Born June 20, 1881, son of Henry and Emma C. (Adickes) Ruppel of Brooklyn, N. Y., Henry prepared for college at the Brooklyn Boys' High School, from which he graduated with high honors. Entering Dartmouth College he became a Rufus Choate scholar in his freshman year and graduated in 1903 a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Remaining at Dartmouth, he was given an A. M. degree in 1904 in chemistry, and in 1906 received his B. S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Entering the employ of the Gillette Safety Razor Company as head chemist and metallurgist, he remained with that organiza- tion for twenty-five years, during which period the product of the company became world-renowned.
Henry's brilliant intellect and profound knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy opened the door to membership in several scientific societies; among them the American Chemical Society, the American Electro-Chemical Society, the American Society for Testing Materials, the International Society for Testing Materials, and the British Institute of Metals.
In 1906, November 28, he married Lillian E. Roberts, and they made their home in Wollaston, Mass.
In the afternoon of February 12, a beautiful, simple memorial service was held in the Russell Funeral Home in Wollaston, where friends in large number gathered to pay their last respects to "Hy". From there friends and relatives accompanied the remains to Forest Hills Cemetery, where commitment services were held. The pallbearers were Edward H. Kenerson, Arthur E. Hanlon, and Edward K. Burbeck of the class of 1903, and Edward K. Robinson of the class of 1904, representing the fraternity of Sigma Chi.
Besides his widow he leaves an aged mother, Mrs. Emma A. Ruppel, now living in Glenwood Landing, Long Island, N. Y.
Class of 1904
JARED LESTER BUSBY died in Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Mass., September 27, 1937, from injuries received in an automobile accident two days before.
He was born in Monterey, Mass., April 30, 1883, the son of Jared D. and Elizabeth P. (Snyder) Busby, and prepared for college at the high school of Warren, Mass., where he was then living. He left college at the end of sophomore year and was then for one year in Brown University.
He was connected with the Springfield Union for some time, and then became a farmer in Northboro, Mass., where he remained for the rest of his life. He served for several years on the board of selectmen of that town.
He married Charlotte L. Guilbert, who survives him, with a son, Guilbert, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Charlotte.
Class of 1906
VAN DUSEN FISHBACK died at his home in Brookings, S. D., October 31, 1937, after a lingering illness.
He was born in Brookings, February 7, 1885, the son of Horace and Cornelia Fishback. He entered the class at the beginning of senior year, having graduated in 1905 from South Dakota College with the degree of B. S.
After graduation he entered his father's bank, the First National of Brookings, where he remained until the bank was sold in 19.17. He then went into real estate, loan, and insurance business with his father. In 1925 he returned to banking as cashier of the Security National Bank, and later became its president.
He was actively connected with the Commercial Club and the Rotary. Club of Brookings and with the Presbyterian church. In 1918 he was in a training camp preparing for military service when the armistice was signed.
July 26, 1911, he was married to Helen Eaton of Rochester, Minn., who survives him. They had no children.
Class of 1909
EARLE JACOB RICHARD BEATTEY died suddenly at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., February 24, 1938.
He was born November 2, 1884, in Springfield, Mass., the son of Charles C. and Ellen M. (Bates) Beattey, and was a member of the class for the first two years. In 1907-8 he attended the University of Illinois, and in the fall of 1908 the University of Wisconsin.
He then entered the employ of the American Optical Company in Southbridge, Mass., and then was for a time with Stevens & Cos. of Providence, R. I. In 1911 he organized his own firm, the Universal Optical Corporation, in Providence, and became treasurer and president of the company. Up to his semi-retirement a few years, ago he was actively engaged with his associates in building up the size and prestige of the business through the wide distribution of its products and the introduction of specialties manufactured under the many patents obtained in his name. Many young men were trained and encouraged under his guidance to attain positions of responsibility in the company, as well as in the optical field generally. During the World War he was engaged for the government in the fabrication and development of timing devices for hand grenades, and his work won high commendation from the War Department. Among other outside interests, he was at the time of his death president of the Glasco Finishing Company of Glasco, Conn.
His interest in business and in metallurgical problems was matched only by his enthusiasm as a fisherman. During the seasons Dick was for years a familiar figure on the salmon streams of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Dick was a quietly genial fellow with a genuine sense of humor, not always ascribed to men of outstanding mental ability. Sincerely interested in his class and the College, he was a conscientious worker and a liberal contributor of time and money. In his passing his friends and associates have lost a wise counselor and a good sportsman.
May 11, 1931, he was married to Sarah Thornton of Providence, who survives him. They had no children.
Class of 1915
PHILIP DURANT SMITH died very suddenly on January 17, 1938, of a heart attack suffered at the home of friends in New York City, and funeral services were held on January 20 in the Church of our Saviour, Pierrepont St., Brooklyn. Although he had not been in good health for several years, Phil had been able to attend to his manufacturing business up until the time of his death. His home was at 401 Grand Ave., Brooklyn.
Born in Brooklyn, February 19, 1894, the son of George William and Olive (Durant) Smith, Phil prepared for Dartmouth at Polytechnic Institute. In college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and the track team, and was vice president of the Outing Club. Following graduation he went with Lee, Higginson & Cos. as a bond salesman, but soon afterward he went to France with one of the Dartmouth ambulance units connected with the American Hospital in Paris. Upon the entry of United States into the war he returned here to enter the aviation service, being with the Signal Officers Reserve Corps at Langley Field, Va., later retiring with the rank of captain. For his services Capt. Smith was decorated by France with the Legion of Honor medal. Little has been known about Phil these past several years, undoubtedly his poor health having prevented him from keeping in contact with his classmates. He left the stock brokerage business about 1935, and had since been in chemical manufacturing at Edgewater, N. J.
On August 23, 1917, he was married to Helen Ward of Brooklyn, N. Y., who survives him, with four sons, Ward, Duryea, Gordon, and Robert. His parents and a sister, Mrs. Paul Ayres Rockwell, also survive.
EDWIN SAMUEL WHIT, died on February 15, 1938, at his home in Larchmont, N. Y., after suffering a heart attack. Funeral services were held at 3:30 P.M. on February 17 from the George T. Davis Memorial Home in New Rochelle, N. Y., with the Reverend Robt. M. Russell, pastor of the Larchmont Avenue church, officiating. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, W. Va. Those of the class present at the funeral were Fred Child (an honorary pallbearer), Kel Rose, Charlie Griffith, Ralph Brown, Ray Perry, and Wy Fuller.
Ed was born in Wheeling, W. Va., January 15, 1893, and after graduation from Dartmouth he completed his law course at Harvard University. During the war he was a member of the Naval Reserve. Late years he has been associated with the law firm of Carpenter & Whit of 70 Pine St., New York. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Becker Whit, and one brother, Lawrence, of New York City.
No finer tribute can be paid Ed than to quote Fred Child: "In addition to Ed'spronounced success as a lawyer, those closeto him experienced from Ed an unusuallyfine friendship, and I personally knowthat he proved to be a man of broad charities, especially to many unfortunate individuals who needed real help. He couldnot do enough for people he liked, and allwas done without pretense. His mainhobby was thoroughbred dogs, and he wasa most enthusiastic supporter of the bullterrier breed, although he had not yet attained a kennel. He was vice president ofthe Knickerbocker Bull Terrier Club anda member of the Bull Terrier Club ofAmerica. He was a loyal class member,and in recent weeks had been workingwith Kel Rose toward building up a betterclass organization in New York."
Class of 1917
HUGO AUGUST FRIEDRICHS JR. died at Hillsdale, Mich., October 24, 1937. Freddie was with the Texas Cos. for some time after the war, and later was president of Zinc Products, Inc., of New York City. He moved to Muncie, Ind. in 1933 as credit manager of Ball Bros. Cos., and was later made sales promotion manager. He sent word from Muncie last spring that he intended to return to Hanover for our Twentieth Reunion, but later withdrew his application, due to ill health.
The son of Hugo and Augusta (Wancke) Friedrichs, Freddie was born in Jersey City, N. J., March 29, 1893. He was married to Doris Lucina Mauck at Hillsdale on August 27, 1921. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, William Mauck, aged 13, and two daughters, Ruth Marion, aged 10, and Elisabeth Helen, aged 7.
Freddie enlisted on September 29, 1917, with rank of private in the 302d Supply Train; was promoted to sergeant, Ist class, and to sergeant major; served in A. E. F. from May 2, 1918, to May 6, 1919; saw action in Lorraine sector and Meuse-Argonne offensive; was honorably discharged May 19.
Hugo was a member of the Muncie Club and Delaware Country Club of Muncie the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and the Dartmouth Club of New York City When he attended class dinners at the latter, before going to Muncie, he looked very much the same as when he was in college. He always enjoyed class meetings, was an enthusiastic booster for the class and Dartmouth College.
Class of 1918
EUGENE WIGHT PEPPARD died at the Holyoke (Mass.) City Hospital, Februarv 6, 1938, of heart disease, after a three weeks' illness.
The son of William M. and Alice (Tufts) Peppard, he was born in Plymouth, N. H., February 26, 1893, and prepared for college at Plymouth High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He left college to enter military service, serving in the Ordnance Corps with the rank of sergeant.
In 1920 he became connected with the Parker-Young Corp., paper manufacturers of Boston, and remained with them for the rest of his life. At first he worked in the woods and in the company's mills at Lincoln, N. H. In 1925 he went to Boston as a salesman, and finally was promoted to be sales manager.
In 1917 he was married to Gladys M. Ramsdell, who survives him, with a daughter, Eugenia, and two sons, Elliott and William Raymond. John T. Peppard '14 is a brother.
At the funeral at Winchester, Mass., where he made his home, the class was represented by Edwin Ferguson, Edward Emerson, and Harvey Hood.
Peppard was a likable chap, with many friends who will mourn his passing.
Class of 1923
STANLEY JOSHUA HALL died at Highland Park, Ill., January 15, 1938.
He was born in Lincoln, Neb., June 16, 1900, the son of Henry Joshua and Lyda Alice (Brew) Hall. He took his freshman year at the University of Nebraska, coming to Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Dragon.
After graduation he was first a cashier with the Lincoln, Neb., Trust Cos., and then with the Continental and Commercial National Bank in Chicago, and with the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Cos. in Chicago; next he was with the Automatic Canteen Cos. of Chicago; then in insurance business in his native city; and finally with Marshall Field in Chicago.
In June, 1927, he was married to Lucille Cutter of Wilmette, Ill., who survives him, with a son, Stanley Joshua.
Medical School
Class of 1877
DR. GEORGE EDWARD LEETE died at his home in Concord, N. H., February 22, 1938, of apoplexy, after an illness of a few weeks.
The son of George H. and Sarah Frances (Chase) Leete, he was born in Claremont, N. H., March 29, 1851.
After graduation he began practice in Canaan, N. H., where he remained until 1894. There he served on the board of health and the school board. He then removed to Concord, and has been there in active practice during the whole period. In 1934 he received from the New Hampshire Medical Association a gold medal in token of more than 50 years of medical practice.
Dr. Leete was widely known for his marked medical skill, being a keen diagnostician and possessing rare professional judgment. He was a member of the American Medical Association as well as the state society, and an honorary life member of the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Association. He was connected with Masonic lodge and council.
February 14, 1878, Dr. Leete was married to Katherine Elizabeth, daughter of Sylvester S. and Joanna (Keefe) Sawyer of Claremont, who survives him. They had two sons, George Paul (Dartmouth 1908), who died in 1933, and Edward Don, who is a physician in Boston.
Class of 1884
DR. FRANCIS FREMONT WHITTIER died at his home in Brookline, Mass., October 6, 1937, of chronic inflammation of the kidneys.
The son of Henry Dearborn and Sarah Bartlett (Connor) Whittier, he was born in Vienna, Me., November 6, 1852. Preparing for college at Coburn Classical Institute, he entered Colby College, and graduated in 1881 with the degree of A. B.
He was principal of Farmington, Me., High School in 1881-2, and of Derby, Vt., Academy in 1882-3. Meanwhile he had been studying medicine, and obtained his medical degree at Dartmouth with the class of 1884 in November, 1883. He continued teaching at New Salem, Mass., in 1884-6, and in October, 1886, founded the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, becoming its first medical superintendent. Later he specialized on the eye, and had an office in Boston, and was actively engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate.
August a, 1881, he was married to Katie Emma, daughter of Hiram Bowdoin and Sylvia Anne (Dudley) Stewart of Bangor, Me., who survives him, with one son, Carl Stewart, now of Marblehead, Mass. A daughter died early.
Class of 1896
DR. FRANK ORSON MOSHER died in San Bernadino, Calif., December is, 1937, of pulmonary hemorrhage and arteriosclerosis, after an illness of two years.
He was born in Fulton, N. Y., September 14, 1867, the son of David Orson and Frances Lucy (Start) Mosher. In his boyhood the family removed to Boston, where he attended the public schools. His entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth.
After graduation he served an internet ship in the Boston City Hospital, and then practiced for a time at Attleboro, Mass. Later he was for a time superintendent of the Contagious Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1904 he removed to California, and began practice in Los Angeles.
In early life he contracted a marriage which was dissolved by divorce in 1925. October 23, 1926, he was married to Dorothy Mae Rusk of Santa Ana, Calif., who survives him, with two sons, Harold Aldis and Frank Orson.
IN JUNE OF '36 Dr. Spalding *66 (right) pictured withAlbert A. Abbott 'yi.
DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE Judge W. N. Cohen 'jc/ was one of Col-lege's most noted jurists and most devotedand loyal sons.
