1880
Secretary, 10 Post Office Square, Boston
Edwin M. Nesmith was a member of our class for about two years and died very suddenly of heart failure, February 8 last, just as he was about to board a Florida-bound train at the South Station for a vacation in the South, where he had spent most of his winters since his retirement from business.
Although born in Merrimack, N. H., he lived for many years in the adjoining town of Reeds Ferry, N. H., and entered Dartmouth from that town in the class of 1879 and dropped back into our class during our freshman year.
Classmates will no doubt recall "Ned" Nesmith, or "Nibs," as he was better known to those who knew him intimately. Being of a business turn of mind, he left college at the end of his junior year, and was for a time engaged in the mercantile business in the Middle West, in which he was very successful, but he subsequently returned East, and settled first in Winthrop, where he lived for many years, but finally located in Melrose, Mass.
His widow and one son, Mark T. Nesmith, meteorologist at the U. S. Weather Bureau, Federal Building, Boston, and several grandchildren survive him.
He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Further details of his career are set forth in the Necrology published in the March Issue of this MAGAZINE and notes also of the class secretary of '79.
We have received a most welcome letter from Dr. Sam King, not the only recent one, for Sam as class agent is hot-footed after contributions to the Alumni Fund, to which we all are glad to subscribe to the best of our ability.
Last year considering our small number, Dr. Sam carried on a most effective campaign with most excellent results, surpassing all previous collections with 108% of our objective, and he hopes this year to do even better, so as loyal classmates we must help him out and if you have not already done so—send in your gift at once.
Dr. Sam writes he is in good health and active, attends all meetings of the class agents and alumni, also the alumni of St. Luke's Hospital of New York, where he was an intern. Also the commencements of Columbia University, where he graduated as M. D. in 1883; and is still a member of the Committee of Blind and Crippled of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities and attends all its meetings.
He still continues to practice his profession by looking after some of his old patients with chronic ailments, but spends most of his time looking after his garden.
Dr. Sam is a contract bridge and chess enthusiast and at present is very busy at his favorite recreations, and is now playing seven games of chess by correspondence.
Comes a prompt reply from Davison: "Davie" is always on the job. He writes he has just returned from a winter auto tour through the South and East. His health continues to be good and his favorite recreation is roaming over the country, driving his automobile to interesting places. This year with Mrs. Davison he left home January 10 and drove by way of Evansville, Ind., Nashville, Tenn., and Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala., to Gainesville, Fla., where he stayed for ten days, during which time he saw much of our old classmate, Professor N. B. Sanborn of the University of Florida at Gainesville. With him he enjoyed a drive of one hundred and fifty miles to his orange grove, which he found very interesting.
From Gainesville, they drove to St. Petersburg, where they stayed three weeks. In this city are many Dartmouth graduates, and he was able to enjoy with them their annual reunion.
From St. Petersburg, his trail led across the state to Miami and thence down the High Seas Highway to Key West. This highway he found very novel and interesting, much of it being located on bridges connecting small islands—one bridge being seven miles long and part of it sixty feet above the water.
From Key West to Jacksonville for a short stay, and thence turning their faces toward home, they spent some time among the mountains in North Carolina. Surely a wonderful trip, which he greatly enjoyed.
Although it may seem a bit early-KEEP IN MIND, CLASSMATES, that next year comes our Sixtieth (12th) Reunion and lay your plans accordingly. May we all be present.
