Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received during the summer. Full notices may appear inthis issue or may appear in a later number.]
Littlefield, George H., '71, Aug. 18. Johnson, Roger S., '74, July 20. Deane, Clifton S., '77, June 6. Wilcox, Charles S., '77, June 6, 1938. Newell, Frank A., '79, Sept. 1. Adams, Myron W., '81, May 26. Holt, Ira W., '81, May 14. Kimball, Ephraim G., '81, July 17. Field, Walter T., '83. Wells, Travis, '83, July 1. Howard, Ernest, '84, July 20. Mooers, Walter, '85, May 14. Bittinger, Joseph F., '86, July 26. Knight, Edward W., '87, Aug. 8. Smith, Willis 0., '91, June 28. Newell, Harry W., '95, May 7. Bailey, Edward P., '97, May 21. Hardy, William S., '97, July 8. McCornack, Walter E., '97, June 30. Drake, Percy G., '99, May 22. Leavitt, Alvin B., '99, June 5. Ladd, Homer C., '01, Aug. 14. Ladd, Carey P., '02, June 25. Mackinnon, Allan P., '02, Aug. 7. McClary, Arthur E., '05, Aug. 19. O'Brien, Michael, '06, June 9. Mulvanity, John J., '07, Aug. 13. Smith, Floyd T., '07, July 12. Kennedy, George F., '09, Aug. 2. Gaylord, James F., '11, June 8. Colburn, Horace A., '12, June 10. Smith, Arthur C., '12, May 30. Gilchrist, Donald B., '13, Aug. 4. Harmon, Paul S., '13, July 31. Claeys, Charles M., '14, July 9. Granger, Fred W., '14, Aug. 22. Bundy, Bruce F., '16, June 23. Cunningham, Edward S., '16, Aug. 1936. Dean, Alexander, '16, July 29. Barrett, Ralph N., '18, May. Lewis, Clayton W„ 'l9, Feb. 20. Wise, Crile N„ '2l, June 17, 1937. Herren, Joe M., '22, July 9. O'Connell, Richard D., '23, June 13. Rummel, Norman E., '24, June 11. Duffy, Edward J., '26, July 28. Clarke, Rodney G. Jr., '30, July 13. James, Kenneth T„ '32, June 26. Hatch, Graham T., '33, Feb. 1. Deuschle, William D., med. '91, Nov. 21, 1928. Allen, Walter A., med. '93, Aug. 23. Welch, Joseph T., med. '93, July 23. Stevens, John F., med. '99, May 30. Bugbee, Dr. Locke H., med. '02, May 24. Rugg, Arthur P., hon. '36, June 12, 1938. Fifer, Rev. Harry N., adv. '09, June 25.
Necrology
1871
DR. GEORGE HENRY LITTLEFIELD died at the City Hospital o£ Boston on Friday, August 18, 1939. He was born at East Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 17, 1848, the son of Rufus Ames and Abigail Russell (Whitman) Littlefield, and prepared for college at Bridgewater Academy. Although his name is borne on the catalogue for all four years of the college course, his studies were interrupted and he became a teacher at Jacksonville, Ill., 1871-75, having previously also taught schools both in New England and in Troy, N. Y. He received the degree of A.B. as of '71 in 1876. He studied medicine at the University of Michigan, and in 1878 received from that University his M.D. He practiced successively in Syracuse, Neb., and Talmage, Neb., until 1899, when he removed to Boston. Here he has since practiced in the Dorchester district, residing in the old colonial house, 361 Neponset Ave., which has served both as home and office.
Dr. Littlefield's initial practice in the West was in itself a severe test. It involved real hardships. But then and always he showed qualities of the true physician; an unquenchable optimism, which often cheers and helps a patient quite as much as medical prescription, and an intense interest in puzzling and inveterate cases called by many incurable, not a few of which he happily diagnosed and successfully treated. While his practice was of a broad and general character, he was yet drawn to give special attention to cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, and arthritis. There is no counting the number of children he helped to bring into the world. At the last the people of Dorchester were inclined to believe he was the oldest practicing physician in New England, if not in the entire country. As we picture to ourselves this genial and brave old gentleman, much past the age of 90, driving his own car through the crowded traffic of Dorchester, unable to resist the call of patients who needed him, involuntarily we say or think: "He was an honor to his profession and a true son of old Dartmouth."
Dr. Littlefield was a keen lover of art, music, and literature. He was especially well versed in astronomy and had several modern telescopes. For the delight of his friends and neighbors, one of these was set up on the lawn when the heavens offered some special attraction. On these subjects he could talk with intelligence, for he had studied and lectured upon them. With him it was a delightful avocation, which had its beginning in his sophomore year, when he roomed at the college observatory with his brother, Nathan W. Littlefield, a senior, valedictorian of the class of '69.
It hardly needs to be said that Dr. Littlefield's life had been well regulated, with scant use of meat and almost none of liquor and tobacco. But old age, as Terence has said, is itself a disease. When this year was well begun he had to give up his practice. In the early summer he was taken to the old farm at East Bridgewater, still in the possession of the family after more than a hundred years, and again stood under the lofty maples which his father had planted, and was refreshed by the sights and sounds and breath of mother earth, as he had been for so many summers. But diet and medicine not availing, he went to the City Hospital for an examination, and there found that the remedy for his troubles was an operation which at his time of life could not be considered. After two weeks there he fell into a gentle sleep from which he did not waken.
On Sept. 17, 1884, Dr. Littlefield was married to Evelyn Susan, daughter of Theodore Franklin and Elizabeth Fisher (Jackson) Wheeler, of Nebraska City, Neb., who survives him, as does a daughter, Agnes Evangeline, now Mrs. Mason Clarke of 8 Ames Road, Brockton, Mass. A son died in infancy, and another daughter is also deceased.
1874
ROGER SHERMAN JOHNSON died July 20, 1939, at his home in Ladysmith, Wis., from the infirmities of age.
The son of Henry and Martha (Wright) Johnson, he was born in Northfield, Mass., June 10, 1851, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at South Hadley Falls. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
After graduation he entered the lumber business at Traer, lowa, with his brother, Charles G. Johnson '71. In 1880 he removed to New London, Wis., and continued the business of manufacturing lumber and wood products. For five years he was mayor of the city, and in 1895 represented his district in the legislature.
In 1900 he removed to Ladysmith and became manager of the Menasha Wooden Ware Company, and held that position for about 30 years, earning a reputation for integrity and tireless energy. In 1905 he became the first mayor of the city of Ladysmith, and for 20 years was a director of the State Bank, being its president for some time.
August 30, 1877, he was married to Carrie L. Foster, who died in 1918. Two daughters survive them, Mrs. George Ashman of Appleton, Wis., and Mrs. R. M. Lea of Ladysmith. There are also two grandsons. His older brother, Charles G. Johnson '71, is still living in Pasadena, Calif.
1877
CLIFTON SLATE DEANE died at his home in Norwell, Mass., June 6, 1939, after a brief illness.
The son of Hiram W. and Melinda W. (Slate) Deane, he was born in Gill, Mass., September 12, 1851, and prepared for college at Powers Institute, Bernardston, Mass. His freshman year was taken with the class of '76, and he entered '77 at the beginning of sophomore year. His mathematical scholarship was of the highest, and he was awarded the Thayer Mathematical Prize at the end of junior year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
at various places for six years. In 1885 he went South, and taught in various schools in Alabama and Georgia until 1893. For a long period he followed the calling of a teacher, beginning with the year following graduation, when he taught mathematics and science in Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. In 1879 he went to lowa, and taught
Returning to Massachusetts, he made his home from 1894 in Norwell, where he engaged in farming with surveying as a side line. In 1907 he joined the engineering staff of the state, and was chiefly employed in harbor improvement at Boston, retiring when the 70-year limit was reached. In 1923 he was elected selectman and assessor of the town of Norwell, and continued in active service until the end of his life, being reelected last March for a three-year term, and rendering the town most acceptable service.
June 11, 1911, he was married to Mrs. Sophia M. Buttrick of Norwell, who was present with him at our 50th anniversary, but died September 3, 1927. Her granddaughter, Miss Louise Whiting, came with him to our 60th. Of the four classmates present at that meeting, but one is left. Though never entering prominently into class or college activities, he had the respect and affection of his classmates. The funeral services were conducted in the manner of the Christian Scientists, with whom he had been connected for many years.
CHARLES SEWARD WILCOX died of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Hamilton, Ontario, June 6, 1938, but the news of his death did not reach the Secretary until a year later. The son of Aaron and Eliza Jane (Morley) Wilcox, he was born in Painesville, Ohio, March 16, 1856, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the local high school. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi). He left college in January of sophomore year, and for the next year was employed in a business office. In the fall of 1876 he entered Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, and graduated with the class of '79.
In July 1879 he entered the employ of the Ontario Rolling Mill Co. of Hamilton, Ont., and rose to the positions of vice president and treasurer. The company in 1899 was merged into The Hamilton Steel and Iron Co., Ltd., and he became general manager. In 1910 this company was one of five forming The Steel Company of Canada, Ltd., of which he was president until 1916, when he became chairman of the board of directors. He also served on the directorate of other corporations. He was much interested in playgrounds for children, and gave the land for the Wilcox Playground; Wilcox St. in Hamilton was named for him, and he was the donor of the Wilcox Pavilion at the Mountain Sanitarium in Hamilton. He was a communicant of the Anglican church and had served as warden.
July 11, 1907, he was married to Margaretta Muhlenberg, daughter of Charles Henry and Mary Lee (Perkins) Morley of Cleveland, Ohio, who survives him, with their daughter, Jane Morley (now Mrs. Thomas C. Stuart).
1879
FRANK A. NEWELL died at the Home for Aged Men in Boston, September 1. He entered the Home in 1932, and seemed to enjoy his life there, but for the last five years had been in poor health with much suffering at times. An attack of pneumonia proved fatal. The funeral service was held at the Home, Sept. 5, with burial at Shirley, Mass.
Frank was born at Mason, N. H., May 26, 1852. One of the older men of the class, for the last eleven years he had been its oldest living member. He fitted for college at the New Ipswich Academy, and was at Dartmouth two years. With great physical strength, he had a surplus of energy which sometimes found outlet in ways not approved by the faculty, as for instance in connection with the famous Parker auction. In a cane rush he was apt to have a firm grip on the stick. He is also remembered for his part in amateur theatricals.
After leaving college he taught school for a time in Greenville, N. H. Later he was interested in fine horses, which he entered in many races. For several years he was a hotel keeper, and afterwards engaged in business. He was always interested in fishing and hunting, was connected with several sportsman's clubs, and was often in demand as toastmaster at their dinners.
He attended our fifty-year reunion in 1929, and since then has been in frequent com- munication with the class. He attended the Boston alumni banquet several times in re- cent years, including the one last winter. He was a great admirer of President Hopkins. Though in greatly reduced circumstances financially, he has for nine years contributed regularly to the Alumni Fund. __ • i -i r» _ 0. o rr • * T
He married, April 8, 1878, Kittie T. Stevens of New Ipswich, N. H., who died No- vember 24, 1916. They had one son, Harry M. Newell, who lives at Eaton Center, N. H.
1881
MYRON WINSLOW ADAMS died suddenly May 26, 1939, at West Townsend, Mass.
Born at Gilsum, N. H., November 27, 1860, the son of the Rev. Ezra and Alice (Ware) Adams. He received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth in 1881 and his A.M. degree in 1886. In 1884 he graduated from Hartford Theological Seminary, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1895, his D.D. from Dartmouth in 1923, and his LL.D. from Wilberforce University in 1927.
In college he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He was ordained in the Congregational ministry in 1885 and served as pastor in Middle Haddam, Conn., 1884-6 and in Hop- kinton, N. H., 1886-8.
At Atlanta University he was professor of Greek 1889-96, dean from 1896 to 1919, act- ing president from 1919 to 1923, and presi- dent from 1923 until 1929* when he was made president-emeritus.
From 1917 to 1919 he served as president of the Association o£ Colleges tor Negro Youth.
From 1881 to his death he served with distinction as secretary o£ the Dartmouth class of 1881.
He was the author of two books, "History of Atlanta University," published in 1930, and "History of Dartmouth Class of 1881," published in 1931.
After retiring as president of Atlanta University he lived in West Townsend, Mass., and for seven years served as secretary and treasurer of the Middlesex Union Association of Congregational Churches. For three years he served on the Townsend school committee. From 1931 to 1936 he was pastor of the Congregational church in Mason, N. H.
May 29, 1884, he married Nellie B. Davis of Denmark, Me., who died June 27, 1912. November 25, 1914, he married Cora Hardy of Atlanta, Ga.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Miss Margaret Adams, four nephews, and two nieces.
IRA WRIGHT HOLT died May 14, 1939, at Phillips House, Boston, Mass., after an invalidism of several years' duration.
Born in Peterboro, N. H., August 4, 1858, the son of Horace and Fanny Elizabeth (Patterson) Holt, he spent most of his boyhood in Milford, N. H., where he fitted for college. In College he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. Endowed with a splendid physique, he was active in athletics while in Dartmouth, and always took keen interest in baseball, being a pitcher for the college nine. Even during the last years of his life he followed the professional teams over the radio with great interest.
His scholarly tastes led him after graduation to obtain an A.M. degree from Dartmouth and to take up educational work. Following the completion of his course he was successively principal of Coe's Academy, Northwood, N. H., 1881-4, the Henniker (N. H.) High School, 1884-7, and of the high schools in Natick (1887-92) and Arlington, Mass., from 1892. In 1909 he gave up teaching and for several years thereafter was engaged in business as trustee.
December 22, 1883, he married Ida May Sinclair of Northwood, N. H. Mrs. Holt died February 25, 1925. Following her death he made his home in North Easton, Mass., with their two daughters,—Fanny (Mrs. William H. Ames) and Louise. Two sons also survive, —Horace S., now resident in Philadelphia, and Harold W. (Dartmouth '17) of Urbana, Ill.
EPHRAIM GARDNER KIMBALL died July 17,. 1939, at his home, 1527 Park Road N. W.,. Washington, D. C„ after a long illness.
Born in Temple, N. H., August 2, 1858,. the son of William and Nancy Moore (Spalding) Kimball, he prepared for college at: Nashua High School.
In college he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi.
He taught school at Seymour, Conn., in. 1881-2, and in 1882 was appointed a teacher in the seventh grade in the old Franklin School, Washington, D. C., becoming principal of that school in 1883 and serving as principal until he was appointed as a supervising principal of the District of Columbia public schools in 1900, from which position he was retired on account of the age limit in 1929.
In 1888 he was graduated in medicine from the Columbian Medical School at Washington, but never engaged in practice.
For many years he was prominently identified with school and educational organizations.
June 24, 1890, he married Nellie Florence Pumphrey of Washington, who died August 12, 1896. July 6, 1909, he married Ada Caspari Hyam of Washington, who survives him. There are no children.
1885
WALTER MOOERS was born in Oldtown, Me., December 7, 1862, the son of Zaccheus and Caroline S. Mooers.
He entered Bowdoin College in the fall of 1881, and in his sophomore year (March 1883) he transferred to Dartmouth College, graduating with the class of 1885 with the degree of A.B.; he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and during his college course he earned money by surveying lumber on the Penobscot river and by teaching school.
After his graduation, he taught school for three years in Oldtown and Stillwater, Me.; he later served as principal of the high school of Ashland, Mass., for two years, and also as principal for the high school of Lancaster, Mass., for an equal period; in consequence of a temporary trouble with his eyes he gave up teaching in 1892, and for the following year he was in the employ of the well-known educational publishers, Ginn & Company of Boston.
Having decided upon the study of law, he entered the law school of Boston University, graduating in the class of 1896 with the degree of LL.B., and he was admitted to practice in June of that year at the Worcester County bar, and in the fall of 1896 he removed to Boston, where he continued to practice his profession; he also for some time served as principal of the Eliot Evening School in Boston; during recent years he became actively engaged in the general insurance business.
October 29, 1896, he married Maria A. Keyes in Lancaster, Mass., a graduate of Smith College; for many years they resided in Arlington, Mass., where he served as chairman of the school committee for three years; they later removed to Cambridge, Mass., where they were residing at the time of his death.
He died at the Charlesgate Hospital in Cambridge May 14, 1939, after a few days illness, and his funeral was held on May 16, at the Crematory Chapel, Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. He was loyal to Dartmouth and to his class, of whom the following members were present at this funeral; Frank L. Whipple, Charles W. Floyd, and Edwin A. Bayley. The class sent a floral tribute.
He had no children, and is survived by his wife.
1886
JOSEPH FRANCIS BITTINGER died suddenly on July 26 while he was visiting a daughter, Mrs. Dwight Shepard Jr., in Cleveland, Ohio. He had retired from business in 1923, after which he made his home in Haverhill, N. H., and later in Northfieid, Mass., where, with his garden and the guests who enjoyed his hospitality, he passed the remaining years when not traveling in this country and abroad. Always friendly, he was highly esteemed in Northfieid, where at one time he was a member and chairman of the Board of Education. There the funeral service was held, but in Haverhill he was laid to rest. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Shepard of Cleveland and Mrs. Roy von Hofen of Northampton, Mass., a son, Richard, of Dighton, Mass., a brother, Charles E., of Plymouth, Mass., and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, of Petersham, Mass. His wife, who was Kate A. Teague of Memphis, Tenn., and whom he married in 1888, died several years ago.
Until he retired from business, he led an active life from boyhood on. He was born in St. Albans, Vt., May 5, 1866, the son of Rev. John Quincy (Dartmouth 1857) and Sarah Jones (Wainwright) Bittinger, but his youth was spent in Haverhill, where he fitted for college at Haverhill Academy. During the Haverhill days "Joe" and his older brother (Frederick W., Dartmouth '86) became enamored of printing, and, beginning with a toy outfit and gradually enlarging their facilities, they had a considerable business before they left the academy to go to college. In this attraction to printing they undoubtedly were inspired by their father, who as a young man had for a time followed the "art preservative." Once in the printing field, they continued in it, with no interruption by reason of their college course. In their senior year they concluded the time had come to publish a paper as well as to do general printing. The Grafton County Register made its appearance in Haverhill in that year. The boys in consequence did not graduate with their class. Later, in 1900, they both received degrees—Joseph that of B.L., Frederick that of B.S. Carrying on a growing enterprise in another town of course meant the loss of some college life for both. Joseph was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.
The newspaper prospered, and when the county seat was removed from Haverhill to Woodsville, it too went, becoming the Woodsville Weekly Nexus, and went on prospering. In the meantime for a short period after leaving college Joseph was with the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1898 the two young men bought the printing end of the Old ColonyMemorial of Plymouth, Mass., and presently took over the paper itself. This paper had an enviable reputation, which did not suffer at the hands of the new proprietors. The printing department benefited from the mechanical genius of Frederick and constantly expanded. The partnership of a lifetime of the brothers ended in 1921, when Frederick died. Joseph soon after sold his interest in the business, which members of the Bittinger family continued to conduct.
He was with his classmates at the reunion of 1936. They remember him not only for his frank and generous personality, but for the notable success that he and his brother made in their devotion to the printing and publishing industry.
1887
EDWARD WALLACE KNIGHT was born in Newport, N. H., April 30, 1866, the son of Edward Boardman (Dartmouth 1861) and Hannah Elizabeth (White) Knight. After preparing at Kanawha Military Institute, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1887 and graduated with an A.B. degree. He received an A.M. degree from Dartmouth in 1927.
His family moved to Charleston, W. Va., and he studied as a law clerk in the firm of Knight and Couch, of which his father was senior partner. In 1892 he became a member of the firm of Brown, Jackson, & Knight, and remained a member until his death.
Mr. Knight and his firm did much of the pioneer legal work in the Kanawha section. In the early days, titles to valuable mineral lands were unsettled; the discovery and useful development of these properties through corporations was just commencing. Brown, Jackson, & Knight had much to do with the growth and successful development of this rich area.
In this early practice he traveled by horse and buggy to county seats adjacent to Kanawha County and participated in important litigation. Much of this litigation was for the Virginian Railway in the building of its road through Virginia and West Virginia. He became general counsel for the Virginian and its successor companies in 1902 and held this office until 1928, after which time and until his death he was the railroad's consulting counsel. His extensive and important practice took him into the highest courts of the land. He was an able lawyer.
A sound adviser, Mr. Knight was active as an officer and director of many West Virginia corporations. Among these were the Lewis Land and Coal Company, Knight and Couch Coal Company, Central Trust Company, Kanawha Valley Bank (the largest bank in West Virginia), Greenbrier Valley Bank, and the Virginia Electric, Inc.
He never held (excepting once when a member of the Charleston City Council) public office, and refused time after time the urgings of his friends and those interested in good government, to be a candidate on the Democratic ticket for high office. He was a life long Democrat, although disapproving of the New Deal. He was appointed to the West Virginia Constitutional Commission in 1929 and served as its vice-chairman and was one of its guiding influences. Some of the work of the Commission has been put in to the state constitution.
His advice was sought by and generously given to high state officials. They knew him to be honest, a clear and forward thinker, and the highest type of citizen.
From the time Ed Knight entered college until the date of his death, he was an unusually loyal Dartmouth man. He gave much of his time, thought, and enthusiasm to the advancement of the College. As president of its Alumni Association, 1916-1917, as a member of the Alumni Council, 1916-1922, as president of that Council, 1920-1922, and as a trustee of the College, 1925-1935, he contributed vision and service. Outside of his family, his college held first place in his heart.
Quiet, unassuming, Mr. Knight had a sense of humor which delighted those in contact with him. It made the practice of law either with or against him a pleasure. Equipped with a great memory and a fund of stories, he had a tale appropriate for any occasion. These stories combined history, personal reminiscence, and humor. No one tired listening to him.
During the last ten years Mr. Knight spent much of his time at his farm near Lewisburg and White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, W. Va., a beautiful spot. Here he and his family lived during the summer months and entertained simply but delightfully. A perfect host, he made the person meeting him for the first time, as well as the many old friends he had, feel perfectly at home. He died at Ronceverte, W. Va., a town near his country home, August 8, 1939.
In 1893, Mr. Knight married Mary Catherine Dana, a most gracious lady, the daughter of another pioneer Charleston family. They had three children, all surviving, Edward Dana Knight, Dartmouth 1916, Elizabeth Swift Knight, and Mary Ethel Knight. A grandson, Edward, also survives. Mrs. Knight died in 1935.
Mr. Knight was a Presbyterian, a trustee of the Kanawha Presbyterian church. He was also a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar, and a Shriner. In college he was a Theta Delta Chi. His clubs were the Edgewood Country Club of Charleston, the Dartmouth College Club of N. Y., the Graduate and Outing Clubs of Hanover, and the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club of Quebec. He belonged to the American, West Virginia, and Charleston Bar Associations. His name appears in "Who's Who in America."
With the departure of Mr. Knight, an outstanding gentleman and scholar, the nation loses one of the few remaining combinations of New England wisdom and Southern hospitality. Philosophical, friendly, witty, keen, generous, honest, Ed Knight left much of deep worth with those with whom he had come in contact during his lifetime.
1891
WILLIS ORANGE SMITH died at the Peterborough (N. H.) Hospital June 28, 1939, following a short illness at the home of his daughter. For two years he had been in poor health.
The son of Almon and Emma (Tracy) Smith, he was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., April 2, 1866. While he was an infant, the family removed to Rupert, Vt.. and he grew up there, attending the local schools and going to St. Johnsbury Academy to fit for college. He always had a prominent part in the class activities. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Sphinx.
After graduation he began a long career as a teacher. He was first principal of Winchester (N. H.) High School. In 1898 he took charge of Lancaster (N. H.) Academy, remaining there 18 years. From 1916 to 1934 he was headmaster of Keene (N. H.) High School. Since his retirement he has made his home at Moodus, Conn.
For many years he was a prominent figure in the New Hampshire Educational Council and the New Hampshire Headmasters' Association.
June 21, 1899, he was married to Lily Althaus of New York City, who died March 18, 1928. December 20, 1930, he was married to Mrs. Verne Flanders Pierce of Keene, who survives him, with three children of the first marriage—Paul A. (Dartmouth 1921), professor of mathematics at Columbia University, Mrs. Amalie Willis Goddard of Stonington, Conn., and Mrs. James B. Sweeney of Peterboro, N. H. Another daughter died in childhood. There are also two grandchildren.
1897
EDWARD PERCY BAILEY:—Last summer I called on Mr. and Mrs. Bailey at their white home on Main St., Hinsdale, between the Stearns Mills and the Stearns homes. Mrs. Bailey was Mary Isabel Stearns of Hinsdale, and Ed was reared in this same village.
Ed was not in good health last summer but we had a long reminiscent talk. We recalled that there came into this town to be its high school principal, Charles P. Hall, after the war between the states. Col. Hall was father of Ed K. Hall and was an inspiration to the boys of Hinsdale. In particular this was shown by the fact that from this school there went to Dartmouth five members of our class, Ben Adams, Bailey, Cass, E. P. Conway, and Richards.
I recall that at Dartmouth Bailey was a member of Phi Delta Theta, a prize-winning student in physical sciences, a man respected by his classmates and esteemed by his professors. He remained at Dartmouth for postgraduate work in geology, and then heard the clarion call of Theodore Roosevelt for an adventure in patriotism. At the close of the Spanish-American war Bailey, with an honorable discharge, was for a time engaged in forest conservation in Nebraska and Virginia, and afterward was teacher in the Wakefield, Mass., High School. As we talked, Bailey then sketched the story of his great adventure. He had served happily as teacher, specialist, department head, and submaster in the Brockton High School, while class after class, thousands of people, passed by on the way to college, industry, or home life.
Bailey retired in 1937 with the profound respect of associates and of generations of children. He had lived well within his means, and he had his Massachusetts teacher's pension and his soldier's pension.
Bailey talked much of a third adventure, an unhurried development of his interests, his scientific collection, his garden, his home decoration, his village concerns, his extensive reading, and his poetical writing.
Bailey had trouble with his eyes and heart and was evidently in failing health through- out the year. He died May si, 1939- He had no children and was 64 years of age. Mrs. Bailey survives him. The funeral service was conducted by my brother, Rev. Ray E. But- terfield, of the church where Ed and Mary joined when high school pupils. The class was represented.
This was a life of dignity and of full serv- ice.
EDGAR DAVID CASS:—I think I saw Cass first at a Y.M.C.A. meeting in Bartlett Hall, for Cass was always there, and I went regularly during the first term of my freshman year. Everyone early knew Cass. When we entered he was the oldest member of the class, the shortest, and one of the smallest. His eyes were weak and his hair scanty. We took him to our hearts at once and made him class secretary. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and he won prizes in the biological sciences.
Richmond is a hill town on the Massachusetts border of New Hampshire. On Cass Hill, now deserted, lived from colonial days the persistent Casses. Edgar had no children, and at the time of his death no near blood relatives. When the last house burned on Cass Hill and Edgar sold his last farm and wood lot the family name passed from the town records. He had a small share in the distribution of the wealth of Hetty Green, a remote relative.
From his youth Edgar was eager for an education. He was graduated from the Hinsdale High School and from the Plymouth Normal School. He taught in country schools with success, and he entered Dartmouth for four more years of study.
At graduation he was named principal of a grammar school in Dover, and was promoted after a few years. He then became principal of one of the largest grammar schools in Manchester, and so continued until retirement. His pupils were cosmopolitan and their teacher a New England puritan, but no one noted that races and culture were different. "Professor" Cass was guide, counselor, father confessor for children and for parents whose children alone spoke English. A father of muscular might and broken tongue said with conviction and entire confidence, "He is a good little man." Cass worked hard and he had his reward.
He had a consuming interest in public schools. He was clear in expression and absolutely fearless. He was a deacon in a church with seven millionaire members. He read widely. He loved birds and trees and his garden and his friends. He lived economically and in good comfort.
He was married to Winifred Livesy, and some twenty-four years later, a widower, to Mary E. Danforth. After seven years Mary died, and in 1933 Cass was married to Ruth Hunter of Palmyra, N. Y., a teacher in the New York School for the Blind. For ten years increasingly blind and enfeebled, Cass has lived in retirement in his Manchester home and has had tender care. He died at his home in Manchester, June 12, 1939.
WILLIAM SEYMOUR HARDY:—At Oak Bluffs on Marthas Vineyard William S. Hardy died July 8, 1939. The burial was at his ancestral village, Groveland, Mass., and the services were attended by classmates Mc Fee and Ela.
Hardy had college preparation at Mt. Hermon School. At college his special interests were musical, and he was pianist for the college Glee Club. He left at the end of the sophomore year to continue his education at the New England Conservatory of Music.
He made his home in Brookline, but he had a music hall at Oak Bluffs. For many years he conducted his own orchestra, and he contributed a number of compositions for voice, piano, and orchestra. Fie was very successful in his business.
Hardy was in failing health for about two years, and he is survived by his wife, four children, and several grandchildren. Mrs. Hardy was Corinne Benoit of Worcester.
WALTER EDWIN MCCORNACK:—After a brief illness Walter E. McCornack died at his Chicago home on June 30, 1939. He was a great athlete, leader and director of athletes; a distinguished lawyer with recognition as a specialist in railroad transportation rates; a devoted father, a firm friend, and one of Dartmouth's most loyal graduates. His funeral was attended by his classmates Gibson and Taylor.
He came East for the Commencement of last June and revisited several of his classmates, sons of classmates, and college associates. The college took satisfaction in making this an occasion for a merited and happily expressed tribute.
There remain Mrs. McCornack, Richard, a Dartmouth junior, and Emily, a sophomore in a college near her home.
At college Mac was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and of Casque and Gauntlet. His degree in law was from Northwestern University.
We shall recall Mac as the great captain of our generation. Football, baseball, athletics, it mattered little, for Mac was quick of eye and motion, sure in his judgment, sympathetic in his leadership and drivingly insistent. Moreover, he asked nothing that he did not do first.
A classmate has best summarized McCornack's service in these words; "Fine Mac-courageous, friendly, strong character, lovable, generous when it counted most, and a heart that was so big it took in everybody. There probably was no one in 1897 who had such a glowing personality, whose acts became legends and who had the courage of a crusader in everything he undertook."
1901
HOMER CHANDLER LADD, a member of this class freshman year, and one of Barre, Vt.'s, best known and most respected merchants, passed away the evening of August 15, 1939. He had suffered from heart trouble for the past two years, but had been as active as ever and about his duties each day.
Homer Ladd was born at Sharon, Vt., February 20, 1874, the son of Chandler and Caroline (Day) Ladd. As a youth he attended Randolph High School and St. Johnsbury Academy. Coming to Barre in 1897 with his father and brother he took employment in the store his brother had purchased. He entered Dartmouth, but soon left to return to the F. D. Ladd Company. After some years he purchased stock in this company, which carried on an active grocery, meat, and bakery business. Since the death of his brother he has been president of the above concern, and also treasurer of the Barre Wholesale Grocery Company, of which his son Leslie C. Ladd (Dartmouth '24) is president and manager. Among his associates he was respected as a level-headed business man of exceptionally fine judgment. He always maintained a great deal of interest in the affairs of the community, had served Barre as alderman in 1907-9, was one of the promoters of the Barre-Montpelier Airport, a past president of the Vermont Grocers Association, a director of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Montpelier & Wells River and the Barre & Chelsea Railroads, a director of the Barre City Hospital, and president of the board of trustees of the Universalist church. Ladd was active in fraternal orders, including the Knights of Pythias and all the Masonic bodies.
His marriage to Margaret F. Clark, who survives him, took place in Barre on October 20, 1900, and five children survive this union, among them Leslie C. Ladd '24 and Gordon H. Ladd '33.
Homer Ladd was always a loyal supporter of Dartmouth and 1901, being an annual contributor to the Alumni Fund.
1902
CLARENCE MILTON HAZEN died July 18, 1939, at the Newton (Mass.) Hospital, from injuries received when struck by an automobile three days before, while crossing a street in Newton.
Hazen had been a resident of Newton for about twenty years. He was born in Greensboro, Vt., February 15, 1876, the son of Oscar and Mary (Niles) Hazen. He came to Dartmouth from West Lebanon, where he had taught school for a time before entering college.
After graduation he worked for a year in White River Junction, and thereafter taught for a year in New Orleans, La., University, was principal of Shelburne, Vt., High School in 1904-1906, and of Bristol, Vt., High School during the next year. Later he went to Boston as a salesman, and was conducting a butter and egg business in Newton at the time he met his death. Hazen was married in 1904 to Marie Barnes of Hanover, who survives him. They had two children, Mrs. Dorothy Reed, born July 5, 1908, and Lloyd Earle Hazen, born June 1, 1905, both of whom live in Newton. Hazen was buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Watertown, Mass.
CAREY PRENTIS LADD died in the Faulkner Hospital, Boston, on June 25. The son of Rev. Alden and Mary E. (Prentis) Ladd, he was born in Berlin, Vt., December 10, 1879, and entered college from Greenfield, Mass., High School. After graduation he taught in Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vt., in the Bulkley School, New London, Conn., for six years from 1905, and in the Sudbury, Mass., High School, of which he was principal, from 1911 to 1914, since which time he taught history in the English High School in Boston. In 1904-5 he studied at Harvard, where he took his Master's degree in 1905.
He was married in 1905 to Alfaretta E. Smithson. She and two daughters, Virginia and Carolyn Ladd, survive him. Rev. Percy C. Ladd '05 is a brother.
ALLAN PARMALEE MACKINNON died at his home in Winchester, Mass., August 8. While his health had not been good for a year, he had kept at work until the last few days before his death. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1905, Mackinnon entered the law department of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Boston, where he was advanced to the position of general solicitor in 1925 and in 1930 to the head of the law department as general counsel, a position which he continued to hold until his death. He was also a director of other companies affiliated with the Boston and Maine system.
Mackinnon was born in Brockville, Ontario, February 28, 1880, son of Tristram A. Mackinnon, who was later vice president of the Concord and Montreal Railroad and of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He came to Dartmouth from Boston. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the Dartmouth Glee Club, and the College Church choir.
Funeral services were held in the Church of the Epiphany, in Winchester. His wife, who was Amy S. Higgins, two sons, Tristram A. (Dartmouth 1931) of Cambridge and Allan P. Jr. of Albany, N. Y., and two grandchildren survive him.
1905
The death of ARTHUR EUGENE MCCLARY on August 19 at his home in Malone, N. Y., followed an illness which during the past six months developed so seriously that medical aid was unavailing and hope of recovery had to be given up. His passing on brings to every member of the class a feeling of a personal loss and the sad realization that one of our truest and most popular classmates and friends is no longer with us.
He was born May 23, 1881, at Malone, the son of the late Martin E. (Dartmouth 1876) and Patience (Ford) McClary. After graduating from the local schools and Franklin Academy he entered college with the class in the fall of 1901. After graduation he studied law in his father's office of McClary & Allen, and upon admission to the bar became a member of the firm in 1908. Through conscientious work and painstaking interest in his clients and cases he rapidly rose to a preeminence in his profession, and not only was one of the ablest lawyers but also one of the most respected.
In church, civic, and welfare matters his services were constantly requested; he was always willing to serve and did so extensively and well. For many years he served on the Board of Education, the Hospital Board, as trustee and deacon of the Congregational church, as counsel for the town of Malone, as bank director, as finance campaign chairman of the Boy Scouts, in connection with Chamber of Commerce and Franklin County Bar Association matters, and many other social and civil organizations. In all these labors he carried through his duties successfully and in full and complete detail.
Fraternally he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and the Masonic bodies. During the World War he was a sergeant in Company K of the New York militia and assisted the sale of Liberty Bonds as a four-minute speaker, and in promoting Red Cross campaigns. He served on the local exemption board during the war.
From 1930 to 1935 he was secretary of the class, and made an exceptional record in this respect. In 1935 he was tendered the nomination for president of the Secretaries Association, which unfortunately he was unable to accept on account of his many other duties.
He married Marie Pickett of Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 24, 1909, who survives him together with three children, Nelson A. (Dartmouth 1934), William P., and Louise P., and a sister, Mrs. Willard D. Woodbury of Allston, Mass.
Funeral services were held Monday, August 21, in the presence of a large gathering of friends, with interment in Morningside Cemetery, Malone.
The following quotation from an editorial in the Malone Evening Telegram expresses what we all believe and sincerely subscribe to:—"lntegrity was his most notable attribute. He was determined to be right and fair in every matter concerning others, even when it meant a personal sacrifice. His pledged word was better than a gold bond. He stood staunchly for what he believed to be right and he had great tenacity of purpose. Simplicity was another characteristic, marking the sincerity and genuineness of his nobility and goodness. Abhorring any form of ostentation, he enjoyed best a quiet home life among his devoted family and in the genial circle of his life-long friends."
1906
MICHAEL STEPHEN O'BRIEN died at his home in Lawrence, Mass., June 9, 1939, after a long illness.
The son of Timothy and Mary (Kelleher) O'Brien, he was born in Lawrence, February 17, 1883, and prepared for college at the local high school. At Dartmouth he was one of the outstanding men of the class, having been captain of the baseball team and winner of three Rollins prizes, two Class of 1866 prizes, the Smith extemporaneous debate prize, and the Barge medal. He served as class president for three years during his undergraduate days and was the class orator at Commencement. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet.
After graduation he entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1909. While in Cambridge he played baseball with the Rochester team of the International League, and later with Lowell in the Eastern League. He later coached the Browne and Nichols preparatory school team.
For nearly 30 years he practiced law in Lawrence, and at different times had been associated with the city government and helped to frame the present city charter.
July 27, 1911, he married Helen M. Sawyer of Lawrence, who survives him, with a daughter, Helen, and two sons, Smith '34 and Fredric S. '35. The sons are both attorneys, and have conducted their father's law practice while he was in failing health. Four brothers and four sisters also survive him.
1907
DAVID EDWARD WIGHT died April 19, 1939, at Daytona Beach, Fla., while on a vacation, of coronary thrombosis.
The son of Andrew Munn and Katherine (Maynard) Wight, he was born in Springfield, Mass., December 17, 1882, and prepared for college at Ogdensburg (N. Y.) Free Academy. He was with the class about half, the course.
After leaving college he entered business, and was connected successively with the following concerns: International Harvester Co., at Ogdensburg, N. Y.; Maynard Coal Co., at Springfield, Mass.; Chicago & Northwestern R. R„ in Chicago; Hanchett Bond Co., in Chicago; Salt Springs National Bank, at Syracuse, N. Y.; and finally at the home office of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co. in Springfield.
He was a member of the National Guard in New York and Illinois for a number of years.
He never married. Ralph M. Wight '09 is a brother.
FLOYD TANGIER SMITH of Mastick, L. I., an explorer and big game hunter, died on July 12. He is survived by his wife and a sister. He was born in Yokohama, Japan, April 5, 1882, prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, and remained with the class for the first two years, then transferring to Bowdoin, where he graduated in 1908. He was a member of Kappa Sigma.
Following his graduation he was employed by the International Banking Corporation and was sent by them to the Far East. Apparently his life activities were influenced significantly by this event, for he seems to have spent most of his active life exploring in China, and the neighboring countries of Siam, Indo-China, Siberia, and Tibet. From 1930 to 1932 he was the leader of the Marshall Field Zoological Expedition in Southeastern Asia. In 1937 he returned to Western China and succeeded in bringing out alive several specimens of the Giant Panda.
JOHN JOSEPH MULVANITY died in Boston, August 13, 1939, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after an illness of two months. He was born in Nashua, N. H., June 17, 1882, the son of Thomas and Margaret Mulvanity, and came to Dartmouth after graduating from the Nashua High School.
He stayed on at Dartmouth in the Medical School through 1908, taking his degree at Tufts in 1913. After an internship at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston, he returned to practice in Nashua, where he was city physician in 1915 and 1916 and represented a majority of the manufacturing companies in Nashua. He practiced a few years in Salem, Ipswich, and Leominster, Mass., after which he returned to Nashua, where he practiced during the last fifteen years. He was a member of the hospital staffs, specializing in lower intestinal surgery. He leaves two daughters, Barbara C. and Jacqueline J., and a son, F. Creighton, who is a student at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
John always kept up an active interest in Dartmouth affairs and met his classmates and friends at alumni dinners in Nashua and Boston, and was often at Hanover and at the football games. His friendly face will be missed by us all.
1909
GEORGE FRANCIS (Knuck) KENNEDY died at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, August 2, 1939. The burial was from his home at 361 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, Mass.
The son of George J. and Ellen T. Kennedy, he was born in Somerville, Mass., November 27, 1887, but moved to Boston when he was a boy, where he attended the Roxbury Latin School. There he was captain of the football team and a member of the baseball and track squads. He was captain of the Dartmouth football team in 1908 and an All-American end the same year.
After his graduation from Dartmouth he entered the automobile business with a Boston firm and later joined a Rockland company. After several years, he became associated with the business department of Collier's magazine, published by the Crowell Publishing Company, of which his father was vice president and treasurer.
He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Sphinx.
During the World War he was a machinist's mate in the Navy.
He leaves his father and two sisters, the Misses Clare and May M. Kennedy, with whom he made his home.
1911
JAMES FREDERICK GAYLORD died at his home in Springfield, Mass., suddenly of a shock on June 8. Jim had been ill for several years, suffering from trifacial neuralgia, more popularly known as "tic douloureux," described as the most painful affliction from which one may suffer. In addition he had developed a bad varicose ulcer in his leg, and was confined to his bed a large part of the time because of high blood pressure. In spite of all this he had maintained his interests in the church and fraternal orders, in which he had been so active up to the very day of his death.
The son of Lewis M. and Elizabeth Smith (Forward) Gaylord, Jim was born in South Hadley, Mass., November 27, 1889, where he attended school, later graduating from Holyoke High School. After completing his college course with the class he attended the Dartmouth Medical School, receiving his degree in 1914. He then returned to Springfield, served as interne at the Hampden Hospital for one and one-half years, and then established practice on State St., where he maintained his office until shortly before his death. During the war he served as a first lieutenant in the medical corps of the United States Army, stationed at Fort Slocum, N. Y„ and at Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
He was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa, a medical fraternity, and Gamma Alpha, an honorary scientific fraternity. He was admitted to the Odd Fellows in 1922, filling all the offices of his local lodge, and eventually becoming grand master of the grand lodge of Massachusetts in 1934. He was a constant attendant at the Park Congregational church, Springfield, where he had served as chairman of the standing committee of the church, vice president of the parents' and teachers' group, and treasurer of the Sunday school. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Hampden County Medical Society.
December 15, 1917 he was married to Miss Helen Southworth Jones of Suffield, Conn., who survives him, together with two sons, Francis Arthur and James F. Jr., and one daughter, Mary.
1912
HORACE ALVIN COLBURN, "Lieut" to the class of 1912, died at Rutland, Vt., June 10, 1939, of a streptococcic infection of the throat, complicated with a heart ailment. He had been under medical treatment for the infection since February, was taken to the hospital on June 6, and died suddenly.
"Lieut" was the son of Horace Eaton and Emily (Johnson) Colburn of Rutland, born June 16, 1889. He prepared at Rutland High School. He did honors work at Dartmouth, and after graduation, entered the employ of the Patch Manufacturing Company at Rutland and served as purchasing agent and foreign interpreter for nineteen years. He left to become city purchasing agent, and then in 1936, city treasurer, which office he held to his death. He was a member of the board of aldermen, 1927-1934; director of the Killington National Bank and vice president at his death; member of the Congregational church, Knights of Pythias, and a Mason.
February 25, 1913, he married Florence Marguerite Root of Rutland, who survives him, with a daughter, Charlotte Root, born November 11, 1914. A son, Horace A. Jr., died in infancy in 1918.
"Lieut's" funeral was very largely attended by city officials, bank officers, and his many friends. Gray Knapp was one of the bearers. The Rutland Herald in its editorial column expressed the loss of the community: "It may well be said that the city has lost a faithful and conscientious custodian of its funds, the community has lost an excellent citizen, and his family and friends a husband, father, and friendly counselor who will be greatly missed."
The class of 1912 will also miss the quiet, friendly comradeship of this stalwart son of Dartmouth, who has made so good in the public service of his community.
1913
PAUL STANLEY HARMON died July 31, 1939 in Portland, Me., after an illness of several weeks.
He was born in Portland, September 25, 1889, the son of Hannah (Lenerton) and William W. Harmon, and attended the Deering High School. He entered the University of Maine with the class of 1913, but transferred to Dartmouth his sophomore year and was on the varsity cross-country team, the varsity track team, and the 4-mile relay. He was one of the half-dozen greatest milers in the United States at the time. He was a member of Sigma Chi.
After graduation he was auditor for the Aetna Life Insurance Co. until 1916, then surety bond underwriter with the Aetna Accident and Liability Co. in Hartford until 1917. He coached the Trinity College track team in 1915 and 1916. He became associated with Simmons-Hammond Co. in Portland, Me., in 1917 and remained there in various capacities, except during the war, until his death. He was vice president and assistant general manager and assistant treasurer until he became managing director, and remained in that position when the company merged with the General Ice Cream Corp.
He enlisted on December 20, 1917, in the Navy, and served at Pelham Bay Training Station, at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and on the U.S.S. New Mexico. He was commissioned an ensign on September 1, 1918, and was discharged in December of that year.
Paul married Dorothy Hammond on October 18, 1916, and they have two children, Jean, born April 28, 1919, and Philip Mason, born October 6, 1921.
He was prominent in civic and athletic circles. He served as secretary of the Maine State Golf Association and was vice president three years, and adopted the handicaping system now in effect. He was vice president of the N. E. Golf Association for 10 years, and was elected president in 1937 and re-elected last fall.
He was a past president of the Portland Kiwanis Club and of the N. E. Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers. He was a member of the Portland Council for Industrial Progress and of many clubs.
In the Portland Express, Austin Goodwin wrote in part:
"Paul S. Harmon, whose untimely death yesterday deprived the community of a busy and useful citizen, ran the race of life with the same courage and judgment that he displayed when1 running on the cinder path during his school and collegiate days. He battled to win right up to the worsted, but he battled cleanly, and none could deny his sportsmanship even when hardest pressed by his rivals."
Always an enthusiastic worker for the class and the College, he will be tremendously missed.
DONALD BEAN GILCHRIST died very unexpectedly in Meredith, N. H., August 4, 1939.
He was born in Franklin, N. H., January 11, 1892, the son of Mattie (Bean) and H. W. Gilchrist. He graduated from the Franklin High School and from Dartmouth College with the class of 1913, and in 1915 received the degree of B.L.S. from the New York State Library School.
He married Ella Mae Trowbridge in Des Moines, lowa, June 26, 1918, and their son David Trowbridge Gilchrist was born June 30,1925
After being department librarian in the University of Minnesota library from 1915 to 1916, he entered the U. S. Army, and was on border duty from November until March 1917. He was commissioned Ist lieutenant U. S. F. A., and then served in France as captain in the 339th Field Artillery. For two years he was librarian of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris.
He accepted an appointment to the University of Rochester in 1919.
Don was the author of many articles in various journals, and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Association of Research Libraries, and for several years has been the compiler of the list of doctoral dissertations published by that organization, Mr. Gilchrist was a member of the American Library Association, to the Council of which he was elected this year, a fellow of the American Library Institute, a trustee of the Reynolds Library, Rochester, and a member of the Association of University Professors, the New York State Library Association, and Chi Phi fraternity. He served as chairman of the American Library Association committee to publish a new edition of the Union List of Serials, and as chairman of the Joint Committee to Investigate Problems of Indexing and Abstracting Services.
He also was sponsor and executive director of the NYA project for indexing Rochester newspapers, librarian and member of the publications committee, Rochester Academy of Science, and member of the American Library Association's committee on annuities and pensions.
He was the newly elected president of the City Club of Rochester, and would have taken up his active duties in that capacity during the fall.
Don Gilchrist was a strong man in the alumni ranks and will be greatly missed.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle editorally said in part:
"The tragedy of the cutting off of a man of his usefulness at a time when he had come to the full vigor of his powers, when his personality and capacity had made him of key importance not only in the University's new era but in the civic and intellectual life of Rochester, is immense. Yet for all his comparatively brief life, Mr. Gilchrist, in his twenty years here, had made a major and lasting contribution to the University and to the city. Liberal, sound, and balanced in his judgments; a natural dignity that needed no assertion; a friend and accepted adviser of students and all young people; aid and respected colleague of all the University's faculties, he was a man's man in every relationship.
"His death is a vital loss to the University and to the city; yet his work was so well and thoroughly done that he needs no other monument."
1914
CHARLES MALI CLAEYS died suddenly at his farm near Willimantic, Conn., on Sunday, July 9.
He was born March 25, 1891, at 109 East 88th St., New York City, the son of August and Alice Marie (Obrechts) Claeys, natives of Belgium.
He graduated from East Orange, N. J., High School and from Dartmouth with the class of 1914. Almost immediately after graduation he entered the service of the Texas Company and had served with Texaco continuously ever since, except for a period of service with the American Expeditionary Forces in the World War.
Three years ago he received the decoration of Legion of Honor from the Republic of France.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jessie Glendinning Claeys; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Miller Cater of London; a brother, August Mortimer Claeys, and a foster-father, J. W. Danforth.
Charlie had been making plans for a return to Europe the end of July with the idea of arranging his European trips so that he would be back to participate in Dartmouth activities during the football season. His sudden death not only depleted our numbers but deprives us of the fellowship of one whose interest in class activities had grown keenly as the years went by.
At the funeral, at the request of Mrs. Claeys, Larmon, Tuck, Hopkins, Remson, and Leech, together with James Killeen '15, acted as pallbearers. Pritchard, Conners, Burleigh, Peppard, Emerson, and Smedley were also present at the interment, which took place in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.
1916
ALEXANDER DEAN died at Cohasset, Mass., after a long illness on July 29, 1939. Funeral services were held at the First Church in Boston, at which the class was represented.
The son of Joseph Flanders and Maria Fisher (Alexander) Dean, he was born in Newburyport, Mass., May 6, 1893.
After graduation and further study at Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" at Harvard, Alex started his professional theatrical career, which was interrupted by the war, in which he served as a lieutenant in the Air Service. Alex wrote several books on the theatre, during his teaching career that found him at the University of Montana and Northwestern University before he became assistant associate professor of play production at Yale in 1927 and associate professor in 1933.
Alex made his home in New Haven during the winter and at Cohasset in the summer, where he managed the South Shore Players for six seasons. During recent years he had directed the Cape Cod Playhouse at Dennis, Berkshire Players at Stockbridge, Mass., the North Shore Theatre Guild of Chicago, and several plays on Broadway. Who will forget "Russet Mantle," that was a flop until Alex's directing genius turned it into the season's hit? Alex contributed enormously to the theatre, as producer, director, author, and teacher of dramatics and play production. He was at home in the classroom or on Broadway.
Alex's best memorial is the present day theatre which he helped to shape, and the hundreds of students whom he taught, and who will carry on his ideals, his drive for a well-done job.
In 1928 he married Virginia Dixon of Missonla, Mont., who survives him.
BRUCE FORD BUNDY died suddenly on June 23, 1939, at Honolulu, of heart failure, while on vacation with his wife. He was buried at San Gabriel Cemetery, Pasadena, Calif.
The son of Harlow E. and Julia (Ford) Bundy, he was born in Binghamton, N. Y„ January 27, 1893. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
He was with the class for three years, and he left his mark in the songs we still sing, that he wrote for the Carnival and Prom shows, beginning his freshman year. For a short time he attended New York University. Bruce enlisted in October 1917, at Fort Meyer, Va„ and was sent overseas in November. He was transferred to the Tank Corps, was promoted to a sergeant, and commissioned a second lieutenant October 22, 1918.
After the Armistice he produced shows and provided entertainment for the A. E. F.. directing and writing the music for the Tank Corps Minstrel Show and the Tank Corps Follies.
After his discharge in 1919 he returned to his family in Pasadena, and became interested in film production. Later he turned to advertising and was publisher of several Pacific Coast trade journals.
Bruce married Anne Barton Smith in November 1931. Bruce was well known on the Riviera, lived and studied music in Paris and composed many works, definitely modern in feeling. Besides his widow, Bruce is survived by two sisters—Mrs. Alfred S. Carpenter of Medford, Oregon, and Mrs. John M. Scott, 1200 Rancho Road, Arcadia, Calif.
1918
RALPH NEYLON BARRETT died in New York City May 16, 1939. He was killed by a subway train late at night. When returning home from his office, he fell asleep in the train, and leaving it suddenly slipped on the plat form.
The son of H. E. and Anna (Metcalf) Barrett, he was born in Asheville, N. C., June 29, 1896, but spent most of his early life in Walpole, N. H. Early in 1917 he left college and went to France to join the French Ambulance Service. When the United States entered the war he was transferred to the American Ambulance Service and remained through the war.
On his return home he took a short course at Harvard and then entered the advertising field. He was first with the Lycoming Rubber Co., then with Sherman & Sheppard, the Fleischman Co., and McKee & Albright, and since 1931 had been account executive with Paris & Peart.
He was greatly interested in the culinary art, which had become in late years a subordinate vocation. He had written extensively on diets, menus, and recipes, and collaborated in the preparation of several cook books. A book of his on "Canapes Made Easy" was to be published this fall. He leaves a widow.
1919
CLAYTON WILLIAM LEWIS died at St. John's Hospital, Lowell, Mass., February 20, 1939 after a short illness.
The son of George R. and Ada (Goodwin) Lewis, he was born in Lebanon, N. H., June 14, 1897, and prepared for college at Lebanon High School. Illness compelled him to leave college early in freshman year, and he later entered the University of New Hampshire, but illness again cut short his studies.
During the war with restored health he served in the Naval Aviation Service until his discharge in 1919. He was then employed as accountant for a time in the office of A. M. Peisch at Hanover, and then returned to Lebanon, where for several years he was connected with the Smith Auto Sales Co. About two years before his death he organized the Lewis Motor Co., and managed this for the rest of his life.
August 28, 1922, he was married to Helen Trott of Cohasset, Mass., who survives him, with a son, John.
1921
CRILE NICELY WISE died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Akron, Ohio, on June 17, 1937. Crile was with the class in Hanover for only junior year, and very little information as to his subsequent activities is available as this is written.
He was born December 23, 1899, in Medina, Ohio, the son of William Denison and Mildred (Nicely) Wise, and prepared for college at Central High School, Akron. From October 1, 1918, to December 15, 1918, he attended the University of Akron, Ohio, where he was enrolled as a member of the Students' Army Training Corps.
In 1928 he was reported president of the Wise Home Building Co. in Akron. At the time of his death, he was vice president of the Davis Candy Co. Crile is survived by his wife and two children—a boy and a girl.
1923
RICHARD DANIEL O'CONNELL died June 12, 1939, at the Brooklyn, N. Y., Hospital, where he had been a patient since April. He was first taken ill in February while studying tor his Doctor's degree at the University of Berlin in Germany.
The son of the late Dr. Thomas S. and Nellie M. (Flynn) O'Connell, Dick was born in East Hartford, Conn., December 20, 1903, which made him the youngest member of our class. He entered Dartmouth from East Hartford High School, where he had received many scholastic honors. After two years of Dartmouth he transferred to Yale, where he obtained his A.B. in 1923. He was with the Travelers for two years before entering Yale Law School. He received his law degree in 1926 and was immediately appointed to the Yale Law School faculty to investigate the procedure in the courts of Connecticut and nearby states. Dick opened his own law office in Hartford in 1930, and besides carrying on his practice, served in various capacities as an official of the East Hartford Town Court, serving as judge 1933-5 and 1937-8 as prosecutor 1935-7. He was also state director of the National Emergency Council 1937-9. He resigned the judgeship June 1, 1938, to go to Germany to continue his study of the German poet Goethe, on whom he was considered one of the country's authorities.
He married June 23, 1937, Mildred Mary, daughter of Edward J. Brereton of West Hartford, who survives him. He also leaves a sister.
1926
EDWARD JOSEPH DUFFY died as a result of accidental drowning near Baileys Island in Casco Bay, Maine, July 28, 1939. He was born in Washington, D. C., August 28, 1902, the son of Charles J. and Lula (Rout) Duffy, and received his preparatory education at Central High School, Washington.
At Dartmouth he was a member of the varsity football team and of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After graduation he was employed by the Washington Times. In 1927 he went with the Washington bureau of the Associated Press, covering the embassies. He became executive news editor of the bureau in 1930 and A.P. political writer in 1936.
In 1937 he became associated with the United States News and assumed charge of the course in journalism at George Washington University.
He is survived by his wife Adrienne Mann Duffy, to whom he was married June 25, 1929, and a son Michael, 7 years of age.
1931
RODNEY GOSS CLARKE JR. died from carbon monoxide poisoning at his home in Concord, Mass., August 13, 1939.
The son of Rodney Goss and Frances Clarke, he was born in Greenwood, Miss., December 15, 1908. His home when in college was at Weston, Mass. He first entered with the class of 1930, but his longer connection was with '31. He did not remain to finish his course, but was well liked by the members of the class.
After leaving college he was for a time with the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Boston and for a year was with the Naval Air Service in Pensacola, Fla.
He had not married, and is survived by his parents, two brothers, and four sisters.
1932
KENNETH T. JAMES died June 26 in New Bedford, Mass. While with his parents on a leave of absence from his work he entered a hospital to be treated for a severe sinus condition. He responded to treatment and was soon to be discharged when complications set in and resulted in his death.
Ken was born in New Bedford July 30, 1907, and, after completing the intermediate school course of that city, entered Worcester Academy. He was graduated from the Academy in 1928 and entered Dartmouth that fall. As an undergraduate he was elected to membership in the Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Chi Sigma fraternities.
After graduating from Dartmouth Ken took further work in his major and a year later received his A.M. degree in chemistry from Columbia University. Since that time he had been taking various extension courses in both chemistry and chemical engineering at Columbia and intended to eventually obtain a Ph.D. degree.
In the summer of 1933 he was married in Wyandotte, Michigan, to Helen E. Ensign of Toledo, Ohio. There was one son, William Ensign James, Born in 1934.
From 1933-37 Ken was employed as a chemist and color analyst by the General Dyestuff Corporation of New York City. From 1937 until his death he was in chemical work with E. R. Squibb & Co. of Brooklyn.
He is survived by his wife, son and both parents.
1933
GRAHAM THOMPSON HATCH died at Ithaca; N. Y., February 1, 1939.
The son of William M. and Claire B. (Thompson) Hatch, he was born in Toronto, Ont., August 9, 1913. His home when in college was at Grosse Pointe, Mich., and he had fitted at the Detroit University School. He remained with the class during freshman year, rooming with Irving Jonas in Hitchcock.
He later attended the University of Chicago, where he graduated as B.S. in 1935. At the time of his death he was instructor in physics at Cornell University.
1893
DR. WALTER ALGENO ALLEN died August 23, 1939, in Benson Hospital, Haverhill, Mass. He was born in Boston, Mass., January 10, 1869, the son o£ George and Sarah A. (Collins) Allen. His academic education was at Phillips Exeter. While at Dartmouth he was a member of the football and baseball teams, medical students being then eligible.
After graduation he practiced in Boston for two years, and in 1895 removed to East Hampstead, N. H., whence he went to Hampstead in 1910, and practiced there until his last illness.
He had been a selectman and member of the school board in Hampstead, and was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1899 and 1901 and of the Senate in 1905.
In 1895 he married Grace A. Roberts of Haverhill, Mass., who survives him. They had no children.
1895
HARRY WARD NEWELL died at the Mitchell Hospital at Epping, N. H., May 7, 1939, of vascular nephritis, interment was at Derry, N. H. For some years prior to his death, Dr. Newell had suffered from ill health and was nearly blind.
He was born in Goffstown, N. H„ July 18, 1873, but spent his boyhood in Derry, N. H. He graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry in 1891 and from Dartmouth College in the class of He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. He received his medical degree from Baltimore Medical College in 1899. After a years' internship, he practiced his profession in Stratford, N. H., for several years, in Derry, N. H., nearly five years, North Woodstock, N. H., about a year, and thereafter in various towns in Canada.
Sometime in 1931 he returned to Derry, and has been unable to practice his profession since that time on account of the unfortunate condition of his eyes. He was finally admitted to the Masonic Home in Manchester, N. H., where he lived a few years. The last days of his life were spent in the County Home at Brentwood, N. H.
He married Mary Grot of Candia, N. H., from whom he was later divorced. Two children survive him.
Dr. Newell attended his 40th reunion at Hanover but at that time was in poor health.
1899
DR. PERCY GREENOUGH DRAKE died at his home in West Hartford, Conn., May 22, 1939, after an illness of about a year, having been totally paralyzed for the last few weeks.
He was born at Rye, N. H., the youngest son of Charles A. and Helen (Weeks) Drake, and prepared for college at Portsmouth, N. H., High School. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1899 and from Harvard Medical School in 1904. Practiced in Andover, Mass. and in Rye, N. H., for several years. He was commissioned in the Medical Corps of the Army in 1908. After serving at several stations in the United States he was sent to the Philippines in 1909, where he remained about two years, his official duties taking him to the most remote parts of the Islands. In 1912 he was stationed at Fort McKinley, Portland, Maine.
He was then medical inspector for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, traveling in Oklahoma, and for the Germania Life Insurance Cos. in New York, and became assistant medical director of the Travellers Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn, in 1920. He was a member of several medical societies and Theta Delta Chi.
Percy was genial in nature, modest almost to a fault, making friends everywhere, his judgment was sound and his professional ability above the ordinary.
In 1914 he was married to Rita Taylor of Baltimore, Md., who survives him. He had no children.
His classmates Clark, Greenwood, and Hawkes attended the funeral services at West Hartford, Conn., May 24. Burial was at Baltimore, Md., May 25.
DR. ALVIN BENTON LEAVITT died suddenly of a heart attack in his office in New York City on June 5, 1939.
"Ike," as he was affectionately known to his classmates, was born February 8, 1875 at Holbrook, Province of Quebec, Canada. When he was six years old his family moved to Tilton, N. H., where he attended the public schools and Tilton Seminary until he entered college in September, 1895.
To meet the expenses of his education he sold books, stereoptican machines, and views during summer vacations and at Dartmouth conducted a laundry agency and was a partner of the Cooperative Store.
After graduation he worked in Boston as a collector for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company from January, 1900 to March, 1904. At the same time he conducted a lodging house at 120 West Concord St. for homeless classmates and other Dartmouth men of that era.
In September, 1904 he entered the Harvard Dental School, from which he was graduated in June, 1907. In that month he moved to New York City and became associated with Dr. Howe, a dentist. In 1909 he began private practice, in which he continued up to the time of his death. During the eight years he lived in Boston he was a member of the Odd Fellows and the National Guard. In New York, he was a member of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard (Company D, Headquarters Company, and Old Guard) from 1913 to 1939. He served with this regiment on the Mexican border from June to September, 1916. He qualified as an expert marksman with rifle and pistol throughout his service and represented New York state at several of the National Rifle contests, winning many medals.
During a period of many years he spent a week in New Brunswick, hunting deer or moose. For several years he had been an enthusiastic stamp collector.
November 1, 1899, Dr. Leavitt married Laura Urquhart of Henniker, N. H., from whom he was divorced May 11, 1930. She survives, as does his second wife, Elizabeth Weber of Rockland, Me., to whom he was married October 1, 1938.
His children, all of whom survive, are: Ronald Bouton Leavitt, the '99 "Class Baby," born August 8, 1900; Allison Bruce Leavitt, born October 17, 1909; and Norma Muriel Leavitt, born July 27, 1911, who is a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri.
Ike" Leavitt was ever enthusiastic about his college and his class, always present at class reunions and at Dartmouth affairs in New York.
His classmates Abbott, Berger, Gannon, and Whittier attended his funeral services in New York on the evening of June 6. The burial was at Tilton, N. H., June 7.
1902
DR. LOCKE HARWOOD BUGBEE died at his home in Putney, Vt., May 24, 1939, of coronary thrombosis.
He was born in Pomfret, Vt., January 11, 1874, the son of Justin and Abbie M. Bugbee. His academic education was obtained at Perkins Academy, South Woodstock, Vt. After graduation he practiced for three years at Meriden, N. H., and then two years
at Quechee, Vt., removing to Putney in 1907, where for the rest of his life he performed successfully the duties of a country general practitioner. To this farming was added, and he had constant civic activities, having served as selectman for 17 years at the time of his death.
October 10, 1906, he was married to Maude Gertrude, daughter of Kimball and (Hall) Wright, who survives him, with a son, Richard Harwood.
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