Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appearin this issue or may appear in a later number.]
Kimball, Charles W., '71. Herrick, Francis H., '81, Nov. 11. Lane, Thomas C., '82, Apr. 26, 1938. Barton, George C., '9l, Sept. 21. Davidson, Edward S., '92, Sept. 13. Gordon, Charles 8., '93, Sept. 23. Barton, Rufus 8., '94, Sept. 29. Sanborn, Channing T., 'OO, Oct. 11. Swan, Laurence C., '03, Oct. 2. Breen, John, '04, Oct. 9, 1938. Johnson, Frederick R., '3O, Sept. 18. Peckham, William D., med. '96, Sept. 9.
Necrology
1877
REV. FRANKLIN MUNROE CHAPIN died at the home of a son in Manhattan, Kans., August 1, 1940, after a long illness. He was born in Portland, Me., April 19, 1853, the son of Henry Martin and Mehitabel (Knight) Chapin. He came to college from Keene, N. H., where he fitted at the city high school. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After graduation he entered Hartford Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1880. Having been appointed a missionary of the American Board in North China, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry and sailed at once for his field of service. He was first stationed at Kalgan, then at Pang Chuang, then at Linching, and then at Tientsin. At the time of the Boxer uprising in 1900 he and his family were a part of the company besieged from June to August in the British legation in Peking. They then returned to America, but after a year went back to China, and were at Tientsin for five years from November 1901. His health having become impaired, he resigned from missionary service, and established a home in Ann Arbor, Mich. This he left for a time to serve as pastor at Vanderbilt, Mich., 1908-11, at Traverse City, Mich., 1911-13, and at Hersey, Mich., 1914-15. While in Ann Arbor he engaged in real estate business. In January 1938, his health having become very poor, he removed to Manhattan, Kans., to live with 2 son.
June 30, 1880, he was married to Flon Maria, daughter of William A. and Harriet (Marble) Barrett of Keene, N. H. She did August 25, 1939. Five sons survive them, u eldest being William S. (Dartmouth 1903)
Two other sons are graduates of the University of Michigan, Franklin H„ a civil engineer in Ann Arbor, and Ernest K., a member of the faculty of Kansas State College. There are also several grandchildren and at least great-grandchildren.
1881
CHARLES FRANCIS KING died August 1. 1940 in the Glens Falls (N. Y.) Hospital, after 2 brief illness.
He was born in Jordan, Wis., october 4 iB6O, the son o£ Hesden and Minerva (Richards) King. His father died in 1866, and the family returned to their former Warrensburg, N. Y„ where he prepar college at Warrensburg Academy. He was 2 member of Theta Delta Chi.
After graduation he began the study of law at Warrensburg, and after a year oon tinued the study in the office of Judge Stephen
Brown in Glens Falls, also studying stenography, in which he became expert In 1889 he was admitted to the bar, and for sir was a clerk in Judge Brown's office. He combined his two professions for the rest of his life with excellent success.
He had held various village offices, was actively connected with the local Y. M. C. A. since its organization in 1886, had been president of the New YorK State Stenographers Association and the Warren County Bar Association, and was an official member of christ church (Methodist).
Tune 24, 1886, he was married to Eva L. Fish of Glens Falls, who survives him, with a daughter and two grandsons. Samuel T. King 'BO is a brother.
FRANCIS HOBART HERRICK died at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, September 11, 1940, of heart disease, after a brief illness.
The son of Rev. Marcellus Aurelius and Hannah Andrews (Putnam) Herrick, he was born in Woodstock, Vt., November 19, 1858, prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and entered Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
For two years after graduation he taught French and natural science at the Vermont Episcopal Institute in Burlington, and was then for a year master of Holderness School, Plymouth, N. H. He then went to Johns Hopkins University, studying there from 1884 to 1888, and being the last two years assistant in the biological laboratory. He won the degree of Ph.D. in 1888.
He then began his life work, becoming instructor in biology in Western Reserve University, being promoted to the professorship in 1891, and continuing until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1929. He became noted for his research in many lines. His study of lobsters resulted in his first books, "Alpheus, a Study in the Development of Crustacea," 1892, and "The American Lobster," 1895. A later work was "Natural History of the American Lobster," 1911. Another line of study was birds, and he published The Home Life of Wild Birds" in 1901, a second edition appearing in 1905, and a new edition entirely rewritten in 1919. His interest in birds led to the life of Audubon, and Audubon the Naturalist" appeared in two volumes in 1917, and a one-volume edition in 1938, The study of eagles brought "The American Eagle, a Study in Natural and Civil History," in 1934.
November 1, 1890, he read a paper before a Western Reserve University group, entitled "A Plan for a Museum of Natural History in Cleveland," and this plan was followed in the establishment of the cleveland Museum of Natural History, of which he was made a trustee in 1920 and its vice-president in 1928. He was an honored member of many scietific societies.
Kime 24, 1897, he was married to Josepine Herkomer of Bushey Grove, England, who survives him, with their two children, Agnes Elizabeth, the wife of Hans Platenius of the chemistry department of cornell University, and Francis Herkomer, professor of history in Mills college, california. Ther are three grandchildren.
Dr. Herrick was given the honorary degree of Sc.D by the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1897 and by Western Reserve in 1936.
1882
The death of THOMAS CARL LANE, which occurred April 26, 1938, from chronic bronchitis, at Hollis, Me., has only just been reported.
He was born in Portland, Me., July 4, 1858, the son of Marquis de Lafayette and Elizabeth (Chadbourne) Lane, entered the Chandler Scientific Department, but remained only one year. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
No detailed history of his life has been obtained. He appears to have been in the wholesale jewelry business for a time, and later in wholesale candy business. For some time he lived in Kentucky, where he raised trotting horses. His later years were passed at his estate called "Bonny Eagle," at West Buxton, Me. For some years he lived in Waterbury, Conn., where he married, and where his divorced wife now lives. They had three daughters.
1891
GEORGE CARLTON BARTON died at his home at Meriden, N. H., September 21, 1940, after an illness of ten days. Services were held in the Baptist church, of which he was a deacon, and the class was represented by W. E. Stanley and his wife.
Barton was born February 11, 1861, in Grantham, N. H., the son of George B. and Sarah (Frye) Barton. He graduated from Colby Academy in 1885.
After graduation he taught sciences in the high schools of Reading and Woburn, Mass. In 1906 he became a resident of Meriden. For 13 years he was state apiary inspector for New Hampshire. He was a member of the state legislature in 1925 and 1929, and had served his town as clerk and treasurer.
In September, 1897, he was married to Blanche H. Morse, who survives him, with two sons, Elbert S. of Meriden and Kenneth L. of Yonkers, N. Y„ the father of their three grandchildren.
1892
EDWARD SALISBURY DAVIDSON died suddenly at his home in Oak Park, Ill., September 13,1940.
Davidson was born in Newark, Ohio, December 28, 1870, the son of George Mathiot and Cornelia Caroline (Curtis) Davidson. He fitted for college at the Newark High School, and entered Dartmouth (Chandler School) with the class of '92. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. After graduation he became interested in artificial gas properties, mainly around Chicago. In 1919 he established his own business, dealing in gas and fuel oil, wholesale carload lots only, selling mainly to gas companies.
Although Davidson was so situated that he was not thrown in with his classmates to any extent, and was able to return to but one reunion (the 35th), he never lost his interest in the College or his classmates and was always a prompt responder to any class calls.
He was married April 22, 1903, to Clarice E. Law of Centerville, lowa, who survives him with a son, Curtiss L. Davidson, an older son having deceased. George M. Davidson 'BO is a brother.
1893
CHARLES BENJAMIN GORDON died September23, 1940 at his home in Newton Center, Mass.,where he had lived for forty years.
He was born December 8, 1869, in Lyme,N. H., the son of Dr. Charles Oscar (D. M.C. 1868) and Eunice Augusta (Soule) Gordonand prepared for college at Bridgton Academy, North Bridgton, Me. He was a memberof Phi Delta Theta fraternity, CrinologianClub, and Casque and Gauntlet; director ofthe Football Association in 1891, and manager of the varsity football team his senioryear. He was class treasurer his sophomoreyear.
Immediately upon graduation, he associated himself with the Carter & Dinsmore Cos. which afterwards became the Carter's Ink Company. He became treasurer and general manager of the business, and was vice-president and director at the time of his retirement in 1937.
October 1, 1900, he was married to Miss Alice S. Brown of Boston, who survives him with two daughters, Helen Hamlin of Needham, wife of Allan M. Cate, Dartmouth '2O, graduate of Smith College, class of 1924; and Elizabeth Alice, wife of J. M. Van Law of Larchmont, N. Y., Connecticut College for Women, class of 1928. His grandchildren are Niles and Patricia Cate and Cynthia and Judith Van Law.
In politics he was a liberal Republican; was deacon of the First Congregational Church of Newton; member of the Brae Burn Country Club, the University Club of Boston, the Boston City Club, and the Villagers' Club of Newton Center. He served on the Newton Board of Aldermen in 1912-13 and was a trustee of the Newton Hospital.
Charles had been in rather poor health for some time, having found it necessary to relax and take a leave of absence from business as far back as 1933. He, however, came back and was active until 1937, when he officially retired but continued his interest in many social and civic matters. He was appointed by President Cox early in 1938 acting secretary of '93, but just before the class's forty-fifth reunion he suffered a shock while at Bridgton Academy, in whose affairs he was greatly interested. He was unable to attend the reunion, and from then until the end he was under his physician's care at his home in Newton Center.
Charles Gordon was a deservedly popular man wherever he went. In college and in after life he was noted for his friendly and generous attitude to all with whom he came in contact. Righteousness and justice were inherent in him, and many unostentatious deeds of charity are credited to him. Dartmouth College and the class of '93 lose a very loyal alumnus, and his many friends and associates will miss his cheerful and vigorous personality.
1894
The class has sustained another loss in the death of RUFUS BROWN BARTON, which took place at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover on September 15, 1940.
He was born in Croydon, N. H., January 30, 1868 his father being Alanson C. Barton, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
Mr. Barton has spent most of his life in the field of education, having been principal of Windsor High School at two different periods, 1894-1901 and 1906-16. He also served as head of high schools at Hillsboro, N. H., and Cherryfield, Me., and was instructor of mathematics and chemistry at the Torrington, Conn., High School for a term of years.
Mr. Barton had served the state and his town as assistant judge of Windsor county court from 1934 to 1939, and last year represented the town of Windsor in the Vermont legislature. He had also served as instructor at the Vermont State Prison schools, and as instructor in the Cone Automatic Machine Company for the past several years.
Mr. Barton was a member of the various Masonic bodies of Windsor, having served as Master of Vermont Lodge No. 18.
Judge Barton was beloved by every student who ever attended Windsor High School under his principalship for his ability as a teacher and his understanding of the youth of the day. He will be greatly missed in the community for his integrity, and was considered an authority in many lines of endeavor in the community.
June 26, 1895, he was married to Vinnie C. Davis of Meriden, N. H. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Grace Hollenbach of Coconut Grove, Fla., and Miss Gertrude Barton of Windsor; and by one son, Harold R. Barton of Windsor. There are also two grandchildren, Richard and Charlotte Hollenbach.
There were present at the funeral service classmates of Mr. Barton's Ira G. Colby, Henry N. Hurd, Arthur W. Stone, Dr. F. P. Clagget, and William J. Wallis.
1899
WILLIS BRADLEE HODGKINS died at Santa Barbara, Cal. August 27, 1940 from pneumonia after an operation for a recurrent kidney ailment.
He was born October 15, 1874 at Somerville, Mass., son of William H. and Susan A. (Hayward) Hodgkins.
Prepared for college at Worcester Academy. Was much interested in athletics, being on the varsity baseball team and manager of the varsity football team for 1898. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he entered the wool manufacturing business, starting at the bottom and finally becoming assistant manager of the Ballardvale Mills at Ballardvale, Mass.
He moved to Arizona in 1919 with his family, and for a short time was proprietor of the Washington Hotel at Phoenix. For a few years he was employed as a traveling salesman, and later dealt in real estate in Southern California, of which he was a consistent booster. For the last few years he was retired from active business on account of his failing health and traveled widely in his specially equipped automobile.
Willis will always be remembered by his classmates for his extraordinary ability to get music from any kind of a piano. He was always willing to perform, and his presence at any '99 gathering was a guarantee of a good musical setting. Present at the 40th Reunion after many years absence, he contributed much to its success, his beating of Peddie's drum being one of the things we shall always remember.
August 15, 1901 he married Helen Osgood Ruggles, who survives him. Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. John M. Williams, Phoenix, Ariz.; three sons, Edward R., Worcester, Mass.; William H„ Phoenix, Ariz.; Richard 8., Oracle, Ariz.; and a sister, Mrs. Warren C. Kendall, Washington, D. C.
Funeral September 3 at Somerville, Mass. Classmates present were Barney, Donahue, Dearborn, Hobbs, Huckins, Irving, Kendall, Lynch, Sleeper, and Wiggin. Patey '9B and Hill '32 were also present.
1901
JAMES EDWARD MCCARTEN was born in Lancaster, N. H., October 24, 1879, and died at the Lebanon Hospital, June 24, 1940, of coronary thrombosis.
He was educated in the public schools of Lancaster and attended Lancaster Academy. Jim was always an athlete; he was on the freshman class track team, and made the varsity baseball team in the spring of 1898, and played on the team for four years, at second and third base. Those in college in those days will well recall him as a brilliant ball player, one always willing to take all chances, even though an error might spoil his record as a fielder. He brought enthusiasm to the game and to his fellow players, and added pep when it was needed. He led the Tricollegiate Baseball League with a 100% fielding record. In later years he played golf and maintained his skill in that game. Jim was one of the most popular men in the class, his native wit, good comradeship, and modest personality made him loved by everyone. One classmate says of him, "We shall all miss Jim McCarten's sunny smile, genial comradeship, and enduring friendship. He was a strong runner on the bases of life, and his passing leaves a big gap in the ranks." He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Theta Nu Epsilon sophomore society, and Sphinx.
After graduation he entered the banking business, and was located in Wells River, Vt., for several years.
In 1913 he moved to Newport, Vt, t0 be come associated with the National Bank Newport. His rise here was rapid, and he soon became president of this bank, and for two years served the city as its mayor. His friends in that city attested to his ability and worth as a leading citizen. After a period of ill health, he became an administrative of the HOLC with offices in New York butwith long periods in executive work in cincinnati, Cleveland, Boston, and Washington Coming to New York gave him an opportune of enjoying the society of his classmates, and this was a joy to him as well as to them He was a regular attendant at all class round-ups and reunions, and a loyal contributor to the Alumni Fund.
He was united in marriage with Roxanna daughter of the late Governor Chester B Jordan, of Lancaster, September 22, 1910, who survives him, as do a brother and a sister.
Jim McCarten will be missed, but he leave; an heritage of loyalty and friendship that shall endure as long as the class endures.
1908
ALDEN T. SPEARE, Dartmouth 'OB, died September 9 at the New England Baptist hospital in Boston. He had been in poor health the past summer, and went to the hospital for a minor operation from which he was expected to recover quickly.
Since 1934 "Lindy" Speare had made his home in Bradford, Mass., and was executive manager of the Speare department store it nearby Haverhill. He was a director of the Haverhill Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the retail trade division.
He was born in Corinth, Vt., the son ol the late Elisha J. and Amanda Blake Spearc. July 25, 1885. He was educated in the public schools of Prescott and Lynn. He was graduated from Dartmouth college in 1908 and received his doctor of philosophy degree fros Harvard University in 1910.
After his graduation from Harvard he went to Hawaii, where for four years he was associated with the Hawaiian Sugar Plantation association. Returning to the United Stale he worked for three years as a pathologist in the U. S. department of etymology at Washington, D. C.
In 1924 he went to Nashua, N. H, and became associated with his brother in the management of the Speare Dry Goods ca These associations continued until 1934, when he went to Haverhill to manage the newly acquired store of the Speare system. He was a member of the Ancient
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Nashua, N. H-, when he also was a member of the Lions dub and the First Congregational church. In Haverhill he was a member of the Pentucket club.
He leaves a wife, Mattie K. Speare; a son Alden K. Speare; two sisters, Mrs. E. M. Stockwell, Montpelier, Vt., and Miss Inez O. Speare, Lynn: and a brother, Sceva SpOeare
Nashua, N. H. Funeral services were conducted at the FiN Congregational Church in Haverhill by Rev Benjamin F. Marshall and Rev. William English of Norwood, a classmate. Civic, fraternal and business associates attended in large numbers. Burial Was in Pine Grove cemeten in Lynn.
1930
FREDERICK REMINGTON JOHNSON was killed on September 18, when his automobile plunged over an embankment on the Danbury-Kent road, near New Milford, Conn., and crashed into a tree. State police found his body pinned in the wreckage five hours after a farmer had reported hearing the crash.
Fred was born June 3, 1908, in Milwaukee, Wis., the son of William Burdett and Edith M. (Remington) Johnson. He attended Milwaukee Country Day School, The Principia, Culver Military Academy, and Lewis Institute. He entered college in 1926, and on February 11, 1928, during Carnival, was married in Hanover to Lydia C. Davies. Leaving Dartmouth at that time, he later entered Columbia, from which he was graduated with an A.B. degree in 1930.
From November 1930 to June 1933, Fred was a member of the New York Curb Exchange. He then went to Columbia, College of Physicians and Surgeons, receiving an M.D. degree in 1936. During 1936-38 he was on the house staff of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and was in private practise in Topeka, Kansas, 1938-39. Since July 1939 he was a volunteer assistant in the Department of Pathology, Columbia, College of P. & S., residing at 234 East Fifty-second Street, New York.
Besides his widow, he is survived by two children, Lydia C., aged eleven, and Avery R., aged eight.
1935
Joseph Patrick O'Gonnell died at Lawrence, Mass., September 1, 1940, having been in ill health since an operation a year ago. He was born in Lawrence on April 26, 1912, the son of Patrick and Delia (O'Flaherty) 0 Connell, and prepared for college at Lawrence High School.
At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, majored in French, and was outstanding as a member of the freshman and varsity golf teams, having reached the finals m the freshman tournament during the fall wotir first year, and winning his "D" in his year of varsity competition.
Prior to his illness he was employed by the onaancet Cotton Company in Nashua, N. H., where he made his home.
1898
DR. ALEXANDER ANGUS BEATON died at Flat River, P.E.I., August 21, 1940.
He was born at Flat River, April 7, 1872, the son of Angus and Christina (Ross) Beaton. He attended Flat River Grammar School, and at the age of 17 came to Massachusetts, where he was employed for some time at Tewksbury Hospital. His entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth.
For a short time he practiced in Webster and Salisbury, N. H., and in 1899 removed to Franklin, N. H., where he continued in successful practice until his retirement the first of last April. He had been accustomed to visit his old home on Prince Edward Island each summer, and wen I there this year on July 13.
He had served as physician at the Merrimack County Farm and at the New Hampshire Orphans' Home and on the staff of Franklin Hospital. He had also been mayor of Franklin. He was never married.
1911
DR. WALTER ALONZO BARTLETT died at Glencliff Sanitorium, Warren, N. H., August 12, 1940, of tuberculosis, after a period of failing health.
Ihe son of Noah A. and Lula A. (Eastman) Bartlett, he was born in Manchester, N. H., September 20, 1889, and received his early education in the public schools of that city.
After graduation he was an intern at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, was for a time on the staff of the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord, and pursued special studies in New York before locating in practice in Manchester in 1912. He became widely known as a surgeon, served on the staff of Sacred Heart Hospital and of the Hillsboro County General Hospital, and was surgeon in chief with the Amoskeag Manufacturing Cos. from 1912 to 1928. From 1931 to 1939 he was a member of the city board of education. and had been president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Manchester. August 22, 1914, he was married to Hazel M., daughter of Thomas E. and Mary (Pate) McAfee, who survives him, with a daughter and three sons, one of the latter being Arnold W., Dartmouth 1941.
Former Resident
HELENE BORCMAN HUSBAND, widow of the late Prof. Richard Wellington Husband, died in San Diego, Calif, on June 4. Mrs. Husband was well known to Dartmouth men, having lived in Hanover from 1901 to 1926, and had always taken an active part in community life.
Mrs. Husband graduated from Vassar, and received an A.M. degree from Stanford and a Master s degree in Social Work from Simmons.
From 1917 to 1922 she was director of Red Cross work in the state of N. H. and later did considerable medical social work in government hospitals in New England and on the Pacific Coast. She is survived by her son, Richard W. Husband '26, and a grandson, Richard W. III.
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