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.]
TUCK, EDWARD, '62, Apr. 30, 1938. Cox, ALBERT G., '77, Apr. 22, 1938. BALCH, ERNEST 8., 'B3, Apr. 28, 1938. ROGERS, DR. JESSE B„ 'B7, Apr. 21, 1938. WILLEY, AZIAH C„ 'B7, May 16, 1938. MCCARTHY, CHARLES T., 'BB, Apr. 25, 1938. WHITCOMB, WALTER R„ 'BB, Mar. 15, 1938. SAWYER, AUGUSTUS 8., '94, May 16, 1938. LARNED, RICHARD M„ 'O2, Apr. 27, 1938. LASKEY, DR. EDWARD P., 'O4, Apr. 23, 1938. THOMPSON, RALPH J., 'O6, May 8, 1938. DOUGLAS, JOHN T., 'lO, Apr. 28, 1938. BICKNELL, HARRY M„ 'll, Feb. 16, 1938. YOUNG, CLARENCE L., 'll, Apr. 20, 1938. JOHNSON, ARTHUR E., 'l3. WHITTIER, RUSSELL H., '2l. BARNETT, HAROLD L., '23, May 5, 1938. MACLEAN, PAUL D., '2B, May, 1938. SALISBURY, HENRY W., '3O, May 17, 1938. BROWN, ROBERT 0., '36.
PETTIGREW, DR. GEORGE A., med. 'B3. PORTER, GEORGE E., med. '92, Apr. 11, 1938. MCGUIRE, DR. AUGUSTINE C., med. '94, Jan. 27, 1938.
ALUMNI NOTES
Necrology
Class of 1877
ALBERT GLENMORE COX was so badly burned when his clothing caught fire from an oil stove in his apartment at White River Junction on April 16 that he died in Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, April 21.
He was born in Woodstock, Vt., December 4, 1851, the son of George Washington and Melissa Martha (Cox) Cox, and came to Dartmouth with Cudworth and Lord from Green Mountain Perkins Academy at South Woodstock. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
After graduation he continued the teaching which he had begun in college, and was successively with some intermissions at Plymouth Union, Cavendish, Fairfax, and Essex, Vt., until 1894. While not teaching he was engaged in insurance business and in the study of law, and in 1894 he opened a law office at White River Junction, which was his home for the rest of his life. He did not meet with eminent success in his professional career, and for the latter part of his active life was engaged mainly in mechanical pursuits.
December 5, 1881, he was married to Viola S. Maxham, who died January 15, 1903. They had one daughter, Florence Louise, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 1914, and is now teaching in Kent Place School, Summit, N. J.
Cox had the respect and affection of his classmates, and their sympathy in the hardships and disappointments which he had met in life.
Class of 1885
REV. LUCIEN CARPENTER KIMBALL, pastor emeritus of the Congregational church of Hopkinton, N. H., died at his home April 8, 1938, following a stroke of paralysis on April 3.
He was born at Webster (then West Boscawen), N. H., June 5, 1858, the son of Charles Carroll and Martha (Carpenter) Kimball. He prepared for college at Austin Academy, Strafford, N. H., and New Hampton Institution.
August 31, 1886, he married Edna Pike Stanyan. He is survived by his widow, two sons, and two grandchildren.
Kimball entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1883 and graduated in 1887, being absent one year while he preached at Wentworth, N. H. He was ordained a Congregational minister at Canterbury, N- H., in June, 1887, and was pastor of the church there from 1886 to 1889. For the next three years he was employed by the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society as a financial evangelist. From 189s to 1896 he was pastor at Middlefield, Mass., and then for two years financial agent of the state Congregational paper of New Hampshire. Next he was pastor at Dummerston, Vt., for two years, Swanzey, N. H., from 1901 to 1904, and at Chichester, N. H., from 1904 to 1908. His last pastorate was at Hopkinton, N. H., where he labored 19 years, retiring in 1927 as pastor emeritus. For the remainder of his life he lived at Hopkinton, where he had purchased a home.
While at Middlefield for two years he published a newspaper, and for six years he conducted a sanitarium for nervous patients at Hopkinton. "Vocation or avocation," he said, "I have tried to keep tothe right atid to follow the gleam. I haveenjoyed my profession, and should chooseit again." Mrs. Kimball writes: "As far asI know, his faith in God and his desire tobe a Christian never wavered."
In 1920 Kimball and his wife gave to the N. H. State Conference of Congregational Churches the sum of $lB,OOO, to be known as the Kimball-Stanyan Fund in memory of their parents, with annuity provision for the donors during their lifetime, but afterwards the income to be used, two-thirds for work among the rural churches of New Hampshire and onethird for the work of the Ministers' and Widows' Fund.
A useful life is ended, but the good deeds of that life will continue to bless others.
Class of 1887
JESSE BELMONT ROGERS was born December go, 1865, in Byfield, Mass., the son of Abiel and Susan Ann Rogers, of early American stock of English origin. He fitted at Putnam Free School, Newburyport, Mass., and entered with the class, taking the Chandler course. He affiliated with Phi Zeta Mu (later Sigma Chi), and was a charter member of Casque and Gauntlet. Later in life he became a Mason, and was connected with I. O. O. F., K. P., and B. P. O. E. In politics he was a Republican, and was identified with, the Congregational denomination.
CAREER AS OBSTETRICIAN
The first five years out of college were spent in engineering work as a draftsman for a Western railroad. He then entered Hahnemann Medical College, and on graduation in 1895 he began to practice medicine in Michigan Gity, Ind., and so continued for 42 years, with the enviable reputation of never having refused to respond to a call. During that time he ushered into the world 5000 children. He practiced independently until 1921, when with others he organized, the Michigan City Clinic and Hospital, and served as president. He held membership in .the national, state, and county medical associations, and served as president of the last-named.
In civic life he served as trustee of the Y. M. C. A., was director of the Michigan City Trust and Savings Bank for many years, was president of the Rotary Club, and prominent in the Boy Scout movement.
"John," as he was affectionately known to his classmates, was a man of sterling character, of earnest Christian life, and of great service to his community. His death occurred on April 21, 1938.
November 14, 1893, he married Marion S. Woods of La Crosse, Wis., who survives him. There were two children who died in youth, the boy under most distressing circumstances.
Class of 1888
DR. RICHARD BAXTER RAND, "Dick" as we knew him, died on April 18, at Parkersburg, W. Va.
Mrs. Rand had been visiting her daughter in Parkersburg for a month. Dick had come down for a short visit and to drive her home. He had a bad heart attack a few days after his arrival, and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he remained for five anxious weeks. He passed away on the forty-fourth anniversary of his wedding.
Dick was born in Hanover, March 16, 1867, the son of George W. and Miriam (Brown) Rand. He fitted for college in the Hanover High School, and entered our class in September, 1884. In college he was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi. Senior year he represented the class in the prize speaking contest, and on Class Day he delivered the Old Chapel Oration.
For one year after graduation he was in the hotel business in Pasadena, returning the following year to study medicine at Hanover. He graduated at the Medical School in the class of 1893 in November, 1892.
For 46 years he was in the general practice of medicine in North Abington, Mass., one of Massachusetts' live shoe towns, where he became one of the bestknown physicians in southeastern Massachusetts—in truth, the "old family doctor," just now coming to his own. Dick was counselor 4s well as physician to two generations of his townspeople. He loved his town and its people and had made such sacrifices for them as only the "old family doctor" knows of.
In 1894 Dick married Sarah J. Holbrook of South Weymouth, Mass., who survives him, with two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Turner of Parkersburg, W. Va., and Mrs. Pauline Stanley of North Abington.
The funeral services were held in the North Abington Congregational church, where friends who had known and admired him from the days of his early struggles gathered to show their love and respect for the trusted doctor.
We shall miss him at our 50th, where even the old Campus will suggest his sterling qualities. One can say with the pastor who conducted the service, "To haveknown him was to love him," a sentiment to which 'BB will cordially subscribe.
CHARLES THOMAS MCCARTHY, known to many generations of Dartmouth men as just "Charlie," passed away on April 25 at the Waterbury (Conn.) Hospital. The news came as a shock to the writer, as it has to many other Dartmouth men. But how rarely it is that the passing of an "old grad" arouses such broad sympathy and keen regrets that we, even his classmates, did not keep in closer touch with him during the years. He was a power for good in the state where he had lived and worked for nearly a half-century.
He was in his office, as usual on Monday morning, apparently in good health. In the early afternoon he was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage, taken to the hospital, and died a few hours later.
Charlie, you remember, never married, and only his sister Katherine survives him. Her home is in Providence. Up to a few days before his passing he was writing letters for the Secretary about the Reunion, to which he was looking forward with the keenest interest. The last letter which the writer received from him showed the same old loyalty to the class and the College that had so dominated his life. His was a life of genuine modesty, which impelled him to keep himself in the background, yet somehow through his character he was able to impress his quality of "love for his fellow man," his superb judgment in all matters involving human relations, the fruits of which he freely offered to all those with whom he came in contact, workmen in the shop or bosses in the office, irrespective of position. It was only the human need that appealed to him. That high purpose to help his fellow man was always present. One cannot but be amazed in looking over the daily papers of Naugatuck and surrounding towns to see to what extent this truly modest man had impressed himself on those whose path either crossed or ran parallel to his.
Charlie was born in Hanover, December 31, 1867, and was, the writer believes, the youngest of our class. Most of us will remember how mature he seemed. He knew the ropes. Brought up almost within sight and sound of the Campus, he was for the time our most kind and helpful instructor. He had graduated from the local high school at the age of 14 two years before, and must delay two years before he could be accepted by the College. But this time was not wasted, as he took the place of Will Newton 'B6 in the local bookstore, did a little reading, earned a little money, and then joined us in September, 1884. And how he could play ball! The Campus was better known to him than his own back yard. He went Vitruvian, became a regular college man, made friends, was liked by every man of 'BB, and I might say 'B7 as well. And so he continued through a long and useful life. As he had no children of his own, he early set to work adopting likely boys, inspired a desire for a college education and a belief that Dartmouth was the place. As his own business fortune improved, an increasing number were helped. It has been said that he helped more boys through college than any other man of our generation, and that his interest did not abate until they were started in their lifework. But Charlie never talked of these things. What little the writer knows has come from those who have been helped, a few hints from college officials, and from a few very intimate friends. The letters received by the writer during the past week stress character as the outstanding reason for his success.
Funeral services were held at Naugatuck on Thursday morning, April 28, and burial was at Hanover in late afternoon of the same day. Walter Norton of igio writes that more than 2000 people attended the funeral. In an earlier letter he wrote that the local Rotary Club has set up a rotating scholarship fund under Charlie's name. He suggests that the class of 'BB should be proud of Charlie's contribution to the good name of Dartmouth. And we are.
Class of 1902
RICHARD MONTGOMERY LARNED died in Auburn (N. Y.) City Hospital on April 27, 1938, of pneumonia, which developed while he was recovering from a mastoid operation. Larned was born in Newtonville, Mass., on December 29, 1879, 'he son of Richard Montgomery Larned, and entered the class of 1902 after graduation from Newton High School. While in college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and took an interest in various college activities, serving as athletic editor on the Dartmouth board, also on his class athletic team, the Press Club, and as a member of the Tennis Association.
After graduation he served a short time as a reporter on the Boston Transcript, and later in 1903 on the Plainfield, N. J., Daily Press, from which he transferred a year later to the Newark (N. J.) Advertiserand Star, where he remained until 1908. From Newark he went to New York, where he took a position in the editorial department of Musical America, a trade paper, where he remained until 1917, when he resigned to enlist in the 69th Regiment. He was engaged in the World War on every western front—excepting the British sector—in which the American troops were engaged. While his regiment was at the front he never lost a day away from the regiment, fighting in the Champagne sector, at Chateau-Thierry and St. Mihiel and in the Argonne. For a part of this time he shared pup tents with Joyce Kilmer, the poet, who was killed in action.
Larned returned unscathed after the armistice, and joined the sports staff of the New York Times as tennis editor, where he remained until 1923, when he left to take a similar position with the New York Herald, with which he stayed for a year, after which he went to Syracuse, N. Y., and joined the staff of the Post-Standard, continuing with that paper as sports editor until his retirement last fall. For many years he had written a column, "Through the Sports Periscope."
After leaving Syracuse, he went to make his home in Auburn, N. Y„ where he was living at the time of his death. He leaves a widow, Maude Weed Larned, and a sister, Louise Larned. Burial was in Newtonville, Mass.
Class of 1904
DR. EDWARD PHILIP LASKEY died at his home in Haverhill, Mass., April 23, 1938, after a short illness.
He was born in Dover, N. H., July 13, 1882, the son of Lewis B. and Ellen (Rogers) Laskey. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
The first year after graduation he was submaster in Maynard (Mass.) High School, and then entered Harvard Medical School, where he received his medical degree in 1909. During his last two years he served as one of the student assistants in surgery to Dr. Maurice Richardson. In July, 1909, he was appointed house surgeon at Boston City Hospital, and held this position for sixteen months. He then entered private practice in Haverhill, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He was assistant surgeon at the Hale Hospital, later in the surgical service at the Gen. Stephen Henry Gale Hospital, and at the time of his death was a member of the consulting staff of the Haverhill Municipal Hospital. He was the oldest active school physician in years of service. He was one of the earliest pioneers in the use of radium in his part of the state.
He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Massachusetts Medical Society, and had been vice president and chairman of the board of censors of the Essex North District Society. He was a former president of the Pentucket Association of Physicians, and a member of the Haverhill Medical Club.
October 26, 1916, Dr. Laskey was married to Charlotte Belden Tice of Boston, who survives him, with two children, Edward Philip Jr., a student at Dartmouth, and Jean.
In his death, the city has lost an alert and faithful servant and his family a devoted husband and father.
Class of 1911
HARRY MONROE BICKNELL died of a heart attack at his home, 611 Keystone Ave., River Forest, 111., February 16. A year ago in April he had a severe heart attack and was in bed for two months, but seemed to have fully recovered his health after a few months of recuperation. On the night before his death he played a game of chess with his wife and died during the night.
Harry was born in Malone, New York, °n June 4, 1885, and came to Dartmouth from Franklin Academy. In college he was prominent and highly respected and handled well his various responsibilities. He was manager of the varsity hockey team, a member of Palaeopitus, Alpha Delta Phi, and Sphinx. On June 13, 1916, he married Dorothy T. Webb of Chicago, who died in 1921, leaving a daughter, Mary Ann, born in 1918, who is now a sophomore at Smith College. June 20, 1923 he was married to Lora Woodworth of Chattanooga, Tenn., who survives him.
Harry had a long career in the investment business after his first position with the Western Electric Company, by whom he was employed for a short period following his graduation from college. He was with A. B. Leach and Cos. for ten years and a member of the firm of Whiting and Cos. for eleven years. Following the failure of the latter company in 1931 he became interested in a European business venture, which was cut short by the death of the capitalist with whom he was associated. Following this he was associated with Breckinridge and Cos., investment counsel. He was a member of the City Club of Chicago, the Bond Men's Club of Chicago, and an active member of the Oak Park Country Club, of which he was Secretary during 1932 and 1933. For a number of years he had been a director of Madison Square State Bank. While a member of Whiting and Cos. he went to Greece in connection with a financial program for the Greek government.
As a classmate has written, "Harry wasone of the sweetest characters who everlived, thoroughly solid, substantial, loyal,and even-tempered." The family has received letters from many friends attesting to his manly life and his virtues as a father, husband, and good citizen. His classmates universally join in these tributes to Harry's memory.
CLARENCE LIN WOOD YOUNG died at his home in Rochester, N. H., April 20, 1938, after an illness of several months. Services were held at the First Congregational church, with military commitment later at the Elmwood Cemetery, Methuen, Mass., in which a firing squad and buglers from Headquarters Battery C, io2d Field Artillery, assisted. The attendance of delegates from Masonic orders, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and of many friends and business associates, testified to the esteem and affection of a community in which he had lived but four short years.
As was said of him in an editorial of the Rochester Courier, entitled " 'Cy' Young,"
"Probably no man had ever come to thiscity who had made so many friends in soshort a time, and that better than anythingelse illustrates the friendliness, the goodfellowship, the square dealing, and thecommunity awareness that made 'Cy'Young a great poiver for good in this city."
As was said of him by a classmate,
"His many acquaintances will always remember him for his abundance of goodnature and optimistic attitude. Whether inadversity or prosperity, he was alwayssunny, cheerful, and enjoyed close contactwith his fellowmen."
"Cy," as he was known to all, was born August 22, 1888, at Lawrence, Mass., the son of Clarence E. and Mabel A. (Burnham) Young. Graduating from Methuen High School in 1906, he entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1907, but withdrew at the end of his freshman year to go to work with the Essex Company of Lawrence as a draftsman. On June 2, 1909, he married Edith L. Mellen, to whom was born one son, Robert (Dartmouth 1934), December 20, 1912. With the outbreak of the World War, "Cy" enlisted, and saw foreign service from Sept. 23, 1917 to April 10, 1919, with the rank of regimental sergeant major, Headquarters Company. Among his papers are a few striking freehand sketches of buildings and scenes connected with the offenses at Seichprey, Xuray, Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel Salient, and Verdun, in all of which he participated, reminders to his friends of sacrifices there made.
Since his return from the service, he had been engaged principally as a salesman, having last represented the Park & Pollard Companies before he came to Rochester in August, 1934, as resident manager of the Strafford-York Gas Company.
On February 8, 1936, he married Marion E. Park of San Pedro, Calif., who, with him, resided in Rochester. He is survived by his widow, father and mother, son, two grandchildren, a brother, and a sister.
Class of 1913
ARTHUR ERNEST JOHNSON'S death on March 14, 1938, after a short illness, came as a complete surprise and shock to his friends.
Art Johnson was born on January 15, 1890, the son of the late M. B. and Mary (Laundon) Johnson, in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from University School and Shaw High School and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1913, but left at the end of his freshman year and became associated with the White Motor Company in Cleveland.
Art married Priscilla G. Phelan of Lynn, Mass., on June 1, 1916. Art enlisted on July 1, 1917, in Washington, D. C., as Ist Lieut. Ordnance, Engineering Division, Motor Transport Corps. He returned to Cleveland after being discharged in 1919 and founded the Japan Co., a japanning and enameling concern, and remained its president until his death.
He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Priscilla, Jacqueline, and Mary Laundon and a brother, David L. 1910, an attorney in Cleveland.
Art was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Mayfield and Kirtland Clubs.
Class of 1923
HAROLD LINCOLN BARNETT died May 6 in the Deaconess Hospital, Boston.
He was born in Boston, May 28, 1902, the son of William L. and Margaret (Curley) Barnett, and prepared for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton.
He had made his home for some years in Worcester, and was salesman for the General Fibre Box Cos. of Springfield. He was a member of the Worcester Tennis Club and an enthusiastic player of contract bridge, being last year runner-up for the New England championship. He was Worcester champion in 1933 and 1935.
He married Mae E. Dolan, who survives him, with their two daughters, Jean and Joan. His parents are now living in Springfield, and there are three surviving brothers. The funeral services and burial were in Springfield.
Class of 1926
RALPH D'ENTREMONT HOLMAN, the son of Ralph Howard and Beatrice E. (d'Entremont) Holman, was born July 9, 1904, in Maiden, Mass. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy. He left the class during sophomore year, but returned in 1925 and took his sophomore year with the class of '29. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
After leaving Dartmouth, he became associated with his father in the Boston office of the State Mutual Life Assurance Cos. of Worcester. He left the insurance field after a year or two and entered the chemical industry, becoming affiliated with two or three different corporations engaged in the manufacture and sale of lacquers, varnishes, and industrial alcohol. For about a year he lived in Chicago, being connected with the office of the Van Schaack Cos. in that city, and later served as New England salesman for this company. Since the fall of 1936 he had been associated with the Baltimore office of the American Can Cos. His death occurred on April 10, 1938, as the result of an accident, in Baltimore.
He was married October 14, 1931, in Annapolis, Md., to Aurine Boyden, who survives him, with a daughter, Mary. He is also survived by his mother and by a sister, Mrs. Robert A. Jones.
Class of 1928
PAUL DAVIDSON MACLEAN was found unconscious in a Chicago street near his hotel rooms at 7 A.M. on May 2, and died that afternoon in the Woodlawn Hospital without regaining consciousness. Apparently he was the victim of a robber's attack. He was a member of the press relations department of the University of Chicago. University authorities said he cashed a two weeks' salary check Saturday and was believed to have had the money with him when he was attacked. His skull was fractured by a severe blow and he was badly bruised. Police later found two men who saw three negroes scuffling with Paul, but have not located the assailants.
His brother, Norman Maclean '24, an English instructor at the University of Chicago, took his body home to Missoula, Montana, where their parents live.
Paul was born in Clarinda, lowa, November 4, igo6, the son of Rev. John Norman and Clara (Davidson) Maclean. He entered Dartmouth from the Missoula County High School. In College he was on the staff of the Jack O'Lantern, The Dartmouth, and The Tower, and was a member of Sphinx, Pleiade, the Arts, and Beta Theta Pi. He majored in English, and from graduation until he went to Chicago a year ago, he was a reporter for the Helena Independent. He was unmarried.
Class of 1929
LUMAN GORDON MOORE JR. died in Kinsman, Ohio, June 30, 1936, after four months' illness with a streptococcus heart infection.
Dinty, as he was known by his classmates, was born at Kinsman, Ohio, May 27, 1908, of Luman Gordon and Anna (Kernen) Moore. He attended the Kinsman schools and graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1925. He was an active member of the class until May, 1927, during which time he won his numerals as a member of the freshman tennis team and became a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He then spent one year at Spencerian Business College in Cleveland. He was successively employed by Grasselli Chemical Cos. of Cleveland, the Ford Motor Cos. (Cleveland Branch), and from June, 1933, to his death, by Butler, Wick, & Cos. of Youngstown, Ohio. His progress with Butler, Wick, & Cos. was marked, he having attained the position of statistician in October, 1935. He was a member of the Round Table Club, an organizer of the Youngstown Bridge Club, and wrote bridge articles for the Youngstown Telegram. Blessed with wide acquaintance and rich in friendships, he seemed destined for a useful and happy career. An editorial in the Youngstown Vindicator shortly after his death bespoke the loss felt by his community.
He was married in November, 1930, to Dorothy Smith of Bryan, Ohio, who survives him. Also surviving are his parents and a sister.
Class of 1884
The death of DR. JOSEPH HENRY AKERS, which occurred at the Sturdy Memorial Hospital, in Attleboro, Mass., April 4, 1937, has only recently been reported.
The son of Joseph Washington and Lucy (Tufts) Akers, he was born in Granby, Mass., November 11, 1856, and obtained his early education in the public schools and from private instruction.
After graduation he took a postgraduate course in New York, and began practice at Fiskdale, Mass. In 1885 he removed to Providence, R. 1., which was the scene of an extensive practice until his retirement in 1935. From 1888 to 1890 he was on the medical staff of the Rhode Island Hospital, and in 1890 became house physician to the Providence Lying-in Hospital. From 1892 to 1903 he was visiting physician to the hospital, and after that date consulting physician for the rest of his life.
A typical general practitioner, he had an especial interest in minor surgery and particularly in obstetrics, in which he excelled. As an avocation he was devoted to music, and through his busiest years continued his study of the violin. He was a member of the Round Top Congregational church of Providence.
September 23, 1885, Dr. Akers was married to Annie Louise, daughter of Edwin and Helen (Garder) Sholes, who died January 17, 1930. One son survives them, Erie Chester Akers of Newtonville, Mass.
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