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.']
Talbot, John, '74, Sept. 15, 1025. Gile, Ray T , '77, Jan. 3. Hawes, Frank W., '84, Dec. 2, 1936. McCarthy, Francis, '86, Jan. 1. Eastman, Charles A., '87, Jan. 9. Hill, John H., '87, Jan. 12. Baldwin, S. Prentiss, '92, Dec. 31, 1938. Arundel, Daniel A., '00, Jan. 10. Keyes, Ralph P., '03, Dec. 1, 1938. Firmin, Robert E., '13, Jan. 31, 1935. Sweeting, Charles L., '13, July 5, 1935. Stickney, George H., '14, Jan. 1. Monroe, Donald L., '23, Dec. g, 1938. Wagner, Lloyd H., '23, May 30, 1937. Vofrei, Roy A., '24, Jan. 29, 1937. Willard, Lester H., '24, Dec. 25, 1938. Dunlevy, Edwin, '25, Dec. 17, 1938.
Moorehead, Warren K., hon. '01, Jan. 5. Tufts, James A., hon. '17, Nov. 21, 1938. Miller, Albert M., med. '82, Dec. 1, 1935. Bowler, John W., med. '06, Dec. 27, 1938. Lapin, Vitaly, L., th. '35.
Necrology
1877
RAY TIMOTHY GILE died at his home in Littleton, N. H., January 3, 1939, of pneumonia, after a brief illness.
The son of George and Rozilla (Randall) Gile, he was born in Littleton, May 27, 1852, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the local high school, with a year at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).
For two years after graduation he remained in Hanover, taking the Thayer School course and graduated" from the School in 1879. For a short time he was superintendent of a mine at Grafton, N. H., and then telephone agent at Littleton and Portsmouth, N. H. April 1, 1881, he returned permanently to Littleton, and had since been engaged in general engineering practice, continuing active until his final illness.
Much of his work has been performed in the White Mountain region, and probably no one was better acquainted with the physical features of that region. For ten years he did much work in connection with the establishment of the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. A part of his White Mountain work was the laying out of the state park in Crawford Notch. For a long time he had kept a record of weather data at Littleton, and had a complete account of climatic changes in that region for many years.
October 23, 1879, he was married to Hattie Ellen, daughter of Jeremy and Cynthia (Ward) Titus of North Haverhill, who survives him. They have had no children. They have long been among the most active members of the Methodist church in Littleton, in which Mr. Gile was constantly an officer. Among the most loyal members of his class, Mr. Gile could always be counted on to answer any call from the class or the College.
1885
REV. JAY MUNSELL HULBERT died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., November 2, 1938, after a short illness.
He was born at East Berkshire, Vt., November 27, iB6O, the son of David Wesley and Ann (Paul) Hulbert. In his boyhood the family removed to Minnesota and later to Wisconsin. For his college preparation he returned East, attending Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vt., and St. Johnsbury Academy. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi and in senior year president of the Y.M.C.A.
For two years after graduation he was principal teacher at Perkins Institute for the Blind, South Boston, and then for a year in a similar position at Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind in Philadelphia. In 1888-9 he studied at Union Theological Seminary, and was then for a year at Chadron, Neb., where he organized Chadron Academy and was its principal. He then returned to his theological studies at Chicago Seminary, where he graduated in 1892. For the next two years he was pastor of a Congregational church at Princeton, Minn., and then for a year principal of Putnam Academy at Zanesville, Ohio. In 1895-9 he was pastor at Clinton, lowa, from 1899 to 1905 of Como Avenue church in Minneapolis, and from 1906 to 1911 at Batavia, 111. On account of poor health he then retired from the active ministry, and lived on a farm at Clayton, Wis., till 1926. Since that date he had made his home in St. Paul.
November 29, 1899, he was married to Barbara Connon Anderson of Clinton, lowa, who died in 1920. Three sons survive them: Munsell M. of Monroe, Mich.: Charles C. of Owen, Wis.; and Rev. Richard R. of Port Washington, Wis. A daughter died in infancy.
1892
SAMUEL PRENTISS BALDWIN died of a sudden heart attack on December 31, at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was born in Cleveland, December 26, 1868, the son of Charles Candee Baldwin and Caroline Sophia Prentiss.
After graduation with our class he received an A.M. from Dartmouth in 1894. LL.B. from Western Reserve University in 1895, and a D.Sc. degree from Dartmouth in 1932. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1894, and practiced law in Cleveland until 1902, when overwork compelled him to retire because of ill health.
On February 15, 1898, he was married at Thomasville, Ga., to Lillian Converse Hanna of Cleveland, who survives him.
During his college years he showed the promise of a rare scientific mind, as an undergraduate contributing to the ScientificAmerican an article on the Muir Glazier. After his retirement from the practice of law he devoted his time to science, chiefly ornithology.
During the long period of his struggle for health, he began a study of the house wren at his summer home at Gates Mills, and originated a method of bird-banding that was adopted by the U. S. Biological Survey. By this method he brought about new knowledge of the migrating, mating, and habits of bird life. He organized the Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory and gathered about him a group of scientific workers, whom he delighted to teach and to whom he imparted his enthusiasm for research work. He was interested not only in scientific studies but their practical application to community life. He brought about changes in the Ohio state laws for the protection of bird life, and also organized work at Thomasville, Ga., for the protection of the quail.
To his laboratory came visitors from all parts of this country and from abroad.
In Cleveland, he was interested in work for the improvement of student health.
He was chairman of the board of the Williamson Company of Cleveland; and chairman of the research board in biology at Western Reserve. He was a trustee of the Museum of Natural History at Cleveland, of which he was one of the founders.
He wrote many monographs for scientific publications and was the author of several books.
He was a member of the American Societies of Naturalists, of Zoologists, and of the British and Australian Ornithologists Unions. At Dartmouth he was a member of the D K E fraternity, of the Sphinx society, and of Phi Beta Kappa.
In college, Sam was friendly, modest, and unassuming, always helpful and interested in the lives of others. He preserved these qualities throughout life.
We of '92 will remember him not only as a loyal member of the class and devoted to Dartmouth, but also as one of the few who by unusual ability and patient work has been able to add significantly to the sum of human knowledge.
CHARLES LORD WEEKS was stricken while driving through Medford, Mass., on January 4, and died shortly after at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford. Funeral services were held on Friday, January 6, and the burial was in Saugus.
Weeks was born in Kennebunk, Me., March 21, 1868, the son of Dr. Walter Weeks, and prepared for Dartmouth at the Chelsea (Mass.) High School. He entered the Chandler School and received his degree with the class in '98. He was a football player and prominent in the social life of the class. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).
After graduation he entered business, and was connected with a number of firms, generally in the vicinity of Boston. At the time of his death his affiliation was with the Home Owners' Loan Bank of Boston. His home was at 41 Lake Circle, Saugus.
He is survived by his wife, Mary E. (Ashley) Weeks, and a brother, Walter S. Weeks, a professor at the University of California.
1899
ARTHUR HAYWARD BROWN died in San Francisco, Calif., September 21, 1938. News of his passing did not come to hand until Warren C. Kendall called at his last address in San Francisco late in November. He had been in poor health for a long time and in the hospital since July 31, with a broken hip sustained from a fall in the street.
Arthur H. Brown was born in Amesbury, Mass., June 24, 1877, the son of W. C. and Pauline (Hayward) Brown, where he fitted for Dartmouth. He entered college with the class of 1899 in foil of '895 and graduated in 1899 with the degree of B.L. During his junior and senior years he roomed on the upper floor of Reed Hall, where he was one of a jolly company that made that dormitory significant in our day. Arthur had a side line as the local correspondent for Boston papers and ran Musgrove a close second as a news gatherer.
After graduation he worked a few months as a reporter in Amesbury, then settled in Boston as a salesman for the Cutter Tower Co., selling Franklin typewriters, and with that company traveled extensively. Later he was the manager of its Chicago office. In 1906 he made his first connection with the automobile business, when he became the Boston manager of the Warner Instrument Co., manufacturers of the first automobile meters. From that time on he devoted his whole life to the distribution end of the automobile business. He joined the Studebaker organization on January 1, 1911, first in Philadelphia and later promoted to the head of the Indianapolis sales organization. Soon afterward he moved to Spokane, Wash., at which place and later at Portland, Oregon, he was the wholesale manager for Studebaker sales in the northwest territory, which comprised the whole of Washington and Oregon and parts of Idaho and Montana, and Alaska. His rise was rapid, and in a short time he became one of the outstanding automobile men in the northwest territory.
11l health halted his business career, and he was forced to leave the north country and finally settled in California. He was identified with the automobile industry to the end.
He married Lillian V. Gebbard March 4, 1910, in New York City. His widow and a son, Arthur M. Brown, both of San Francisco, survive him. Burial was at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.
Arthur H. Brown was a born salesman. He had all the push, imagination, and flare which go to make up the technique of these modern distributors of the goods of civilization. His outstanding qualities were a capacity for friendship, generosity, and a loving devotion to family and friends. He leaves behind him a record of a well-spent life which will be long remembered.
1903
RALPH PREBLE KEYES of 6 Adams St., Somerville, Mass., died suddenly in Boston on December 1, 1938. Acute coronary thrombosis was the cause.
Ralph, always called by his classmates Billy, was born in Somerville December 16, 1879, the son of Charles A. Keyes of Charlestown, Mass., and Harriett I. Preble of Boston. He attended the Somerville public schools, graduating from the high school and entering Dartmouth College with our class. After graduating in 1903 he entered the employ of the Commonwealth Trust Co., which was later merged with the Atlantic Bank and in turn merged with the First National Bank, becoming assistant manager of the Summer St. Branch Bank.
On November 26, 1912, Ralph married June L. Eaton, who was later divorced; through the remainder of his life he lived with his sister, Bertha Eveleth Keyes, who, with two brothers, survives him.
In college Billy roomed with Carl Worthen, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and was genuinely liked by all his classmates. After college days he rendered much service to the class organization and proved himself a loyal Dartmouth man.
The funeral services were held at his home in Somerville and were attended by Perley Whelden, Orville W. Smith, Edward H. Kenerson, and Arthur E. Hanlon of the class.
1914
GEORGE HORTON STICKNEY passed away January 1, 1939, after an illness of some months. He had felt poorly all summer and underwent an operation on October 1. The operation was entirely successful, but due to the nature of his illness he gradually failed from that time on.
George was born in Beverly, Mass., May 19, 1892, the son of George Augustus and Harriet Ware (Cole) Stickney, and was a member of the class of 1914 at Dartmouth, where he was also a member of the Phi Delta Gamma fraternity and the Dragon. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1916 with the degree of Mechanical Engineer and also took courses at Harvard. Since 1917 he has been continuously in the employ of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, having been superintendent of the foundry for over eighteen years. Most recently he has been in the engineering dept.
In April 1918 he was married to Pauline C. Klink of Beverly, who, with two daughters, Nancy Lee and Joan, survive him. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Harriet W. Stickney, one sister, Mrs. Esther S. Alley, and a brother, Dr. Robert C. Stickney, 17.
His brother writes that George's interest in Dartmouth remained keen to the end, and the football broadcasts this past fall were a great treat.
George was very popular among his business associates, who, with his wide circle of Dartmouth friends, will deeply regret his passing.
1923
DONALD LANGDON MONROE died at the Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn., December 9, 1938. The rupturing of an abscess brought on by a piece of meat lodging deep in his throat was the cause of his death.
The son of John W. and Mary Frances (Langdon) Monroe, he was born in Hartford February 26, 1909, and prepared for college at West Hartford High School.
He was at the time of his death senior underwriter in the burglary department of the Travelers Indemnity Co.
He leaves his wife of only a few months, Celestia Denniston Monroe, and his parents, who live in West Hartford.
1924
LESTER HIRAM WILLARD died of erysipelas December 25, 1938, at the Henrietta D. Good-all Memorial Hospital in Sanford, Me.
He was born in Kennebunk, Me., November 17, 1902, the son of Hiram and Christine Marion (Pitts) Willard, and prepared for college at Sanford High School.
Graduating from Harvard Law School in 1927, he practiced his profession at Sanford and had attained a high position in the county bar. He was for a time register of probate for the county, and was later until his death judge and recorder of Sanford Municipal Court.
He was an outstanding golf player and an enthusiastic skier. He belonged to the Sanford Lodge of Elks; the Preble Lodge of Masons; the Sanford Town Club; the Bauneg Beg Ski Club; and the Laymen's League of the Unitarian church.
June 15, 1935, he was married to Mildred Wells, who survives him, with a daughter, Constance, aged two. His parents also survive him, and a brother and two sisters.
1925
EDWIN DUNLEVY died on December 17, 1938. The cause of death was tuberculosis.
He was born June 27, 1904., in Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., the son of David Alexander and Harriet (Harmon) Dunlevy, and prepared for college at Evander Childs High School, New York City, where he twice won his baseball letter. He entered Dartmouth in September 1921 and graduated with the class in 1925. He was on the baseball squad in both his sophomore and junior years, and was a member of Zeta Psi, Sphinx, and Green Key.
The class record shows him as being with the Fidelity Trust Company of New York in the late twenties and as assistant treasurer of the Marine Midland Trust Company of New York in 1932. He was a loyal, regular, and substantial contributor to the Alumni Fund. He was unmarried. The news of his passing was received two days after the notes section had been sent in and further details are unavailable at this writing. The sympathy of the class, shocked at his untimely death, goes out to his surviving relatives.
