Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received luithin the past month. Full notices may appearin this issue or may appear in a later number.']
Bailey, Edward G., '79, Oct. 22. Graves, Leonard K., '79, Nov. 12. Thompson, John G., '86, Oct. 31. Mann, William F., '90. Barton, George C., '91, Sept. 21. Pearl, Raymond, '99, Nov. 17. Sanborn, Channing T., '0, Oct. 11. Cone, John H., '07, Aug. 6. Kennedy, Walter G., '07, Oct. 23. Parker, Raymond 8., 'OB, Oct. 19. Goss, John A., '19, Oct. 15. Brandt, John W., '28, July 3. Dewey, Homer 8., '35, Oct. 8.
Necrology
1879
EDWARD GOLDSMITH BAILEY died October 22, after an illness of about two days, at his home in Woodstock, Vt.
He was born in Fitchburg, Mass., December 19, 1857, son of Goldsmith Fox and Sophia (Billings) Bailey. The family removed to Woodstock, where he fitted for college, entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1875. In college he was a popular man among his classmates, a high-ranking student with a Philosophical Oration appointment at graduation, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he spent two years in Europe in study and travel. In the fall of 1880 he "went West," entering the engineering department of the Northern Pacific Railway in Montana. In 1882 he became assistant engineer in location and later in charge of construction of the Mullan tunnel near Helena, Mont. In 1885 he was chief engineer of the James River Valley R. R. in North Dakota. For the next two years he was chief engineer of the Duluth and Manitoba R. R.
In 1888 Bailey was in charge of the Irrigating Canal of the Minnesota and Montana Land and Improvement Co., and in 1889 organized the Yellowstone National Bank at Billings, Mont. In 1893 he was associated with others in bringing out in America and Europe the kinetescope, forerunner of modern moving pictures. For several years following he was in business in New York in foreign trade, real estate, and building.
Since 1906 he has resided in Woodstock, engaged in farming and occupying a beautiful home next to the Woodstock Inn.
April 27, 1912, he married Jane Virginia West in New York, who survives him, and who has usually attended the class reunions with him. Bailey has probably attended the Dartmouth Commencement exercises oftener than any other member of the class except Thayer, who was one of the college trustees for more than twenty years.
The funeral service was held at his late home, October 24. Miss Charlotte Ford, Alumni Register, represented the College, and Secretary Smith the class. A spray of chrysanthemums bound with green ribbon bearing the figures '"79" lay upon the blanket of evergreens which completely covered the casket.
The characterization of Bailey in the Pastor's prayer was so apt that it is quoted here in part:
"For life tall and strong, bareheaded to the winds that blew and the warm sun; for a trained mind; the love of a small college, and the long friendships that saw it grow into a mighty institution proud to record in its windows those who belonged to its finer inspirations:.... for a ready smile and a kindly word, the confessed love of fife, and a restful enjoyment of it;....for the love of his home, and the deep love of the village of his pride; his confident faith in his nation; for his simple faith in people, in the common ways of fife and the simplicity of living; we give thanks to Thee, God of us all."
1880
REV. WILLIAM A. SERVICE, retired Presbyterian minister, who had resided for 14 years at the Galbraith home on Spring Street, passed away June 15 at the St. Johnsbury Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services were held June 18 at the Galbraith home with Rev. George Avery Neeld officiating. Dr. Neeld in his tribute spoke in high terms of the strong convictions and religious faith of the deceased, of his daily practice of Christian principles and his faithful devotion and regular attendance at the North Church. While not acquainted with his work, Dr. Neeld said a man of such fine character could not have failed to have been an inspiration and example to others. The bearers were his three nephews, John, George and William Galbraith, and Hugh Galbraith and Raymond Moore. Burial was beside his brother, Albert, in the Barnet Center Cemetery.
William Alexander, son of Ann J. (McCalmont) and John Service, was born Nov. l, 1857, in Cork, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father, Rev. Service, was engaged in missionary work in the south and west of Ireland until 1858 when he brought his family to New York. Ten years later he began his pastorate at the United Presbyterian Church at Barnet Center and it was there his eight children were reared to manhood and womanhood. William Service graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1876 and from Dartmouth College in 1880. While in College he was elected to the Editorial Staff of THE DARTMOUTH but declined to serve. He took in his Senior year the first prize in the Lockwood Prize Speaking for that year.
Wishing to enter the ministry, he continued his education graduating from the Auburn Theological Seminary in New York in 1886. During his many years of preaching the Gospel he served as pastor of the Presbyterian Churches at Union Springs, N. Y., Howell, Mich., Garrett, Ind., the Dutch Reform Church, Hopewell Junction, N. Y., and the Presbyterian Church at Keyport, N. J. He retired in 1926 and has since made his home with nieces and nephews in St. Johnsbury. He never married. His only immediate relatives are Marion and Helen Service and Willis Service of Detroit, Ethel Galbraith Stiles of Red Springs, N. J., Edith Galbraith of Philadelphia, John Galbraith of New York, Les- lie Galbraith, of the United States Army, Jennie Galbraith Moore, George, John and Miss Elizabeth Galbraith of St. Johnsbury, and William Galbraith of Lancaster, N. H.
1883
JOHN WILLIAM ROGERS died at his home in Tyler, Texas, suddenly, June 27 last.
He was born October 1, 1861, the son of Charles Rogers, a lawyer, at Sanbornton Bridge, now Tilton, N. H. He fitted for college where he was born and graduated with the class of: 1883.
After graduating from college he went to Texas, where he spent the remainder of his life. He taught school for a few years at San Antonio, after which he tried ranching, becoming a regular cowboy. As this occupation did not meet his aims in life, he entered the office of the Downis Lumber Company at San Antonio. Later the Brazelton Lumber Company took over the business of said company, and removed the business to Tyler, and Rogers remained in the employ of this company up to the time of his death, which was quite sudden.
He had been in good health, played golf regularly, drove his automobile, and was otherwise active in pleasurable pursuits. He had intended to retire June 30, 1940, to live a life of leisure for his remaining years.
He married Emily Dukes of San Antonio, June 20, 1893. She died in 1917, and he never remarried.
He left surviving him, besides other relatives, two daughters,—Judith, the wife of Capt. R. L. Allen, U. S. A., who has one daughter and Lois, now Mrs. R. W. Hamilton, residing at Midland, Texas, who has three children.
Funeral services were held at the Episcopal church in Tyler and interment was in San Antonio, June 30.
1885
ARTHUR WENDELL WHITCOMB died at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla., on September 26 last. He had been in failing health for several years, having been afflicted with heart trouble.
He was born in Winchendon, Mass., November 10, 1859, and was the son of Asa P. and Susan K. (Hall) Whitcomb. He prepared for college at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., entered Dartmouth with the class of '85, and was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He left college in his junior year to engage in business with the then well-known Butterick Pattern Co., and continued with that company until 1902, traveling widely in is interests and serving as its European manager, with headquarters in London from 1892 to 1899, and later as its Chicago manager.
In 1902 he organized the Peerless Pattern Co., which he conducted for several years until he disposed of his interests in it. Thereafter for several years, he was associated with the Home Pattern Co., later he formed a partnership, under the firm name of Whitcomb & Boyce, which acquired the patent and carried on the manufacturing of adjustable window shades for schools, hospitals, and public buildings under the trade name of "Sim-pull Shade Regulator," with headquarters in Chicago, 111. After carrying on this manufacturing enterprise successfully for some years, he finally made an advantageous disposal of his interests on a royalty basis and retired from active business.
He was married to Annabel Holland in Des Moines, lowa, December 21, 1891. Their home for many years was at Evanston, Ill., and during recent years they spent their winters at St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Whitcomb died in St. Petersburg in 1938. They had no children, and he is survived by a niece, Evelyn A. Boggs of Vashon, Wash.
1886
On the last day of October, JOHN GILBERT THOMPSON passed on. November 8 I received a letter vividly descriptive of Thompson as a man and of his attitude toward life. From this letter by the assistant editor of his prophetic business monthly, Looking Ahead, I quote:
"Having known and worked with Mr. Thompson for more than twenty years, I was greatly impressed, not only with his mental keenness that belongs to genius and that was almost dazzling in its brilliance,but also with his childlike sweetness and gentleness. He could be very humble. Let no one forget, either, that he could be very humorous. Hundreds will remember him for his sparkling wit alone.
"It has been very hard for me to see him passing—slipping away from this life, which he loved because he found such joy in work and in service to others. He was perfectly willing to leave it, because he realized his work was done."
"I am carrying on his Looking Ahead." I. B. SCOTT.
Newton sent flowers from '86 for Thompson's funeral which was held in Fitchburg, Mass., November 4. Dr. Henry O. Smith, who was present for '86, says that the service was as perfect as any such service could be. One of Thompson's sisters was present, and four of his five living sons, who served as bearers. Members of the Fitchburg State Teachers' College faculty were present in a body, and the Simonds Saw & Steel Company, which he served as assistant to the president from 1920 to 1936, also sent representatives. The minister, Rev. Lionel Whiston, conducted the service and read three of Thompson's poems "To a Child," "The Days of My Years," and "Life More Abundantly." The place of his burial was beside his wife in Hancock, N. H., where she lived before their marriage.
He was born in New Bedford, Mass., June 23, 1862. Father, Thomas Thompson; mother, Margaret Fitzgerald Thompson. He graduated from the Waukegan, Ill., High School at the age of 16, then taught school three years before entering Dartmouth in 1882. He also taught a part of each year while in college to help pay his way. On December 27 he married Helen Susan Titus of Hancock, N. H., who with him attended our 50th year reunion. She died in December of that year. They had eight sons, three of whom have died. Of the five living, two served during the World War in the Marines and two in the Army. Three of these sons are now teachers. There are nine grandchildren. Thompson's teaching positions after graduation from college were in Sandwich, Mass., Winchester, N. H., Southboro, Mass., Leominster, Mass., and finally the Fitchburg, Mass., Teachers' College, where he was principal for 25 years, from 1895 to 1920. Then he became assistant to the treasurer of Simonds' Saw & Steel Company, where he began with Alvin T. Simons to publish a paper of financial analysis, Looking Ahead, in which he continued to publish, as long as he lived, his prophesies for business, based on his analyses of business cycles. See the December 16 to 21, 1937, issue, for his article "All is Rhythm and Vibration, then why not try to find this in business?"
Of his other writings Thompson told us at our 50th year reunion that he had written two sets of school readers, two volumes of World War stories, "A Quarter Century of Years and Poems," "The American Way to Prosperity," and many articles.
Thompson's religious affiliation was Congregational. His spiritual nature progressively developed against the background of his personal, family, educational, and industrial experiences. It was revealed to all the men and women of 'B6 who were present at the class dinner of our reunion. Based on his poem, "Life and Education," which his secretary and assistant now says "was his favorite poem and best expressed him," Thompson thus spoke to us; he said that his progressive ideals of life had been joy, love, work, growth in life, and now while he was sure that life is for all of these he must add a stanza: "Life is for service, and to service I turned For we love best, not those who do the most for us But those for whom we do the most; This the truth Christ taught and for which the philosophers sought."
"But why finish it? The sweetest symphony is the unfinished. Man never finishes anything, neither does God. To me life has been and still is, 'A thing of beauty, a joy forever' its loveliness increases. It can never pass into nothingness."
And so, for the members of his family, for all of our '86 brothers and sisters, and for all others who knew him well, so long as we are conscious in this or in any other world, Thompson can never die.
HENRY W. THURSTON.
1890
WILLIAM FRANKLIN MANN died October 21, 1940, at his home in Somerville, Mass.
He was born in Winchester, Mass., February 5, 1869, the son of Henry W. and Margaret Mann, and prepared for college at Winchester and at McCollom Institute, Mt. Vernon, N. H. He took the course of the Chandler School, leaving college during senior year. He was a member of Sigma Chi.
After leaving college he engaged in structural steel engineering, and continued until 1906, when ill health compelled a change of work. He then was in the motorcycle business, but in 1916 returned to his former line of work, which he continued until his retirement in 1937. During his engineering career he was associated with the Boston Bridge Works and with the Boston Transit Commission, and was for twelve years in the inspection department of the city of Somerville.
December 2, 1892, he was married to Aglae S. Pinkerton, who died April 10, 1898. A second marriage, October g, 1920, was to Winnie V. Mac Donald, who survives him. There were two sons by the first marriage, both of whom have died.
1900
CHANNING TEWKSBURY SANBORN died very suddenly at Tilton, N. H., on October 11, 1940.
Chan was born at Concord, N. H. on Feb. 12, 1875, the son of Alfred L. and Elizabeth (Shalles) Sanborn. He was graduated from the Concord High School in 1893 and was then employed in the Concord post office for three years. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1896, he soon took high scholastic rank in his class, receiving honorable mention in German and graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta.
Upon graduation he entered the teaching profession, serving as principal of the Wolfeboro (N. H.) Grammar School until 1905. In that year he became superintendent of the Wakefield Union, afterwards serving in the same position at Pittsfield. In 1915 he became superintendent of the district centering around Tilton, where he served with high distinction to the time of his death, his efforts in his last year of service being crowned by the erection of a new high school building in that community. He was the oldest superintendent in years of service in the state and certainly one of the most respected. He was also active in community affairs, having served as secretary and president of the Rotary Club and as deacon in the Congregational church.
September 19, 1905, he was married to Charlotte M. Osgood, who survives him, as do two daughters—Miss Miriam L. Sanborn, a librarian at Stamford, Conn., and Mrs. Wayne F. Comer, of Stratford, Conn.
The funeral, held in the Congregational church at Tilton on October 13, was largely attended by schoolmen from all parts of the state. The class was represented by Woodman and D. D. Tuttle.
1903
DR. LAURENCE CLARKE SWAN died at the Beverly (Mass.) Hospital on October 2, 1940, of coronary thrombosis.
He was born in Stoughton, Mass., June 26, 1881, the son of Walter R. and Mary (Belcher) Swan. Graduating from the Stoughton High School, he entered Dartmouth College and received his degree in 1903. In 1907 he graduated from the Harvard Medical School. In September 1909 he began his medical practice in Beverly, Mass., where he early joined the staff of the Beverly Hospital and at the time of his death was assistant visiting surgeon. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Earl T. Wardell American Legion Post.
At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted in the Medical Corps as lieutenant and served overseas in evacuation hospitals 49 and 27 and as train surgeon Ist Sanitary Train of the Ist division as Captain, Medical Corps.
He married Mary L. Tower of National City, Calif., from which union a daughter, Mary, was born Nov. 1, 1915, and a son, Walter Robert, March 21, 1917 (Dart. 1939).
Funeral services were held at the Unitarian church, Beverly, on Oct. 5, attended by hundreds of Beverly citizens and medical confreres in testimony of the high regard and esteem in which "Lauri" was held. His wife and two children survive him. Burial was at Stoughton, Mass.
1907
WALTER GARDNER KENNEDY, born in Boston, Mass., June 21, 1884, the son of William Taylor and Ann (Boutell) Kennedy died in that city October 22, 1940. The immediate cause of death was a fractured skull and injury to the brain resulting from a fall. Services were in Somerville, Mass., on October 25, and were attended by many friends and classmates.
After graduation, Walter entered the investment business with Paine, Webber, & Company, and after many years with that firm in Boston, New York, and Chicago, he established the firm of Kennedy, Williams, and Company in Boston. His firm did not withstand the shocks of the financial depression of the late twenties, and since that period, Walter represented several investment firms, most recently being connected with Chas. B. Reed & Company of Boston.
He leaves a daughter, Lallie Lee Kennedy, now the wife of Commander Geoffrey Lyttleton Lowis, a British naval officer now engaged in the British Naval Service.
REV. JOHN HENRY CONE died at his home in Wichita, Kans., August 6, 1940.
He was born in Dudley, England, March 6, 1867, the son of James William and Mary Ann (Jones) Cone. His early education was received in English schools, and he came to America in August 1896.
In the fall of 1896 he entered Bangor Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1899. Entering the Congregational ministry, he was pastor at Vassalboro, Me., in 1899-1900, at Westfield, Vt., in 1900-1901, at Derby, Vt., 1902-5, and at West Hartford, Vt., 1905-8. While in the last pastorate he entered the senior class at Dartmouth, and graduated with the class.
In 1908 he went West, and was pastor at Green River, Wyo., 1908-12, at Council Grove, Kans., 1912-17, at Clay Center, Kans., 1917-18, at Little River, Kans., 1918-21, at Smith Center, Kans., 1921-7, at Centralia, Kans., 1927-9, at Stockton, Kans., 1929-31, at Onaga, Kans., 1931-5. He then retired from active service, and made his home at Wichita.
July 30, 1917, he was married to Minnie A. Baer, who died December 9, 1929. May 25, 1938, he was married to the widow of his brother, Rev. James W. Cone, and she survives
im, having now removed to Indianapolis, Ind. 1908
DR. RAYMOND BREWER PARKER died October 19 at his home, 148 Winthrop Street, Winthrop, Mass., after a short illness. He was 54 years of age and for more than 25 years had been a practicing physician, most of the time in Winthrop.
Ray was born in Somerville, Mass., December 3, 1885, the son of Henry Clark and Henrietta C. Parker, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1904. He received his B.S. degree at Dartmouth in 1908 and graduated at Harvard Medical School in 1912. He was an intern at Boston City Hospital and at Boston Lying-in Hospital. Later he was house physician at the latter institution and taught obstetrics at Harvard Medical School for several years before entering private practice in Winthrop.
He was married to Miss Helen Stark of Wakefield who survives him together with a daughter Frances, a son Henry, his mother, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Bean of Reading.
Dr. Parker served in the World War in the Medical Corps and for 18 months was in France where he attained the rank of major. For many years he was school physician in Winthrop, chairman of the board of health, and in many other ways was active in community life there. He was a member of Winthrop Lodge A.F. and A.M., Winthrop Royal Arch Chapter, Winthrop Post A.L., Cottage Park Yacht Club, the Massachusetts Medical Society, Winthrop Rotary Club, and other organizations.
Funeral services were conducted October 22 at St. John's Episcopal church in Winthrop, followed by burial in the Winthrop cemetery. Dr. Parker's Dartmouth class was represented at the services by Joseph J. Donahue and Elisha Winslow, and a lovely floral piece expressed the sorrow of his classmates in the loss of a good friend and loyal alumnus.
1920
RICHARD LEARNED BARTLETT died in Natick, Mass., August 29, 1940.
He was born Dec. 20, 1896, in Lowell, Mass., the son of Rev. Dr. William Alfred ('82) and Esther Adelaide (Pitkin) Bartlett.
Dick prepared for Dartmouth at Lewiston (Me.) High School, and was in college 1916- 17. He subsequently worked for the Hartford Machine Screw Co. and the Vapofier Corp., Boston. From 1924 to 1934 he followed a musical career, and was a well known stage and radio singer.
Dick had a wonderful Dartmouth heritage, his grandfather being Samuel C. Bartlett, 1836, President of the College from 1877 to 1892. In addition to his father he had two Dartmouth uncles, one being Edwin J., the well known chemistry professor, who ended his teaching career in 1920.
December 18, 1936, Dick married Marguerite B. Taylor of Plaistow, N. H., who survives him.
1921
JOHN CAMERON WOODWARD died on July 15, 1940, at Gilroy, Calif., as the result of an automobile accident. He was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco on the afternoon of July 13, when another automobile traveling in the opposite direction cut out of line to pass a truck and hit John's car head-on.
John was born Sept. 21, 1899, at Minneapolis, the son of Austin M. and Minnie (Hoyt) Woodward. Preparing for college at the Blake School of Minneapolis, he was with us in Hanover only a few months. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. John left college to enlist at Montreal in the Royal Air Force, in which he became an instructor. Soon after the armistice was signed, he married Catherine Hogan of Minneapolis. They had one son, John C. Jr., who survives, as does Mrs. Woodward, from whom he had been divorced. He is also survived by an elder brother, Ray, and by a sister. Mrs. Henry E. Atwood, wife of Henry E. Atwood '13 of Minneapolis.
For the past 20 years, John had been in business in California and had made his residence at Beverly Hills. Rarely did he come East, and, as a result, few men in the class had seen him in recent years. His son was graduated this June with high honors from the Beverly Hills High School.
1927
WILLIAM HOWE STEARNS died July 23, 1940, after an illness of about six months.
The son of Bertha and George H. Stearns, he was born in Worcester, Mass., June 19, 1904. He prepared for Dartmouth at North High School in that city. Bill took the Tuck School Course in his senior year, and after graduation worked for several years for the International Business Machine Company, both in the field and later at their plant in Binghamton, N. Y.
He later worked for short periods with Proctor and Gamble, and then with the Boston Traveler in its circulation department.
For the past five years Bill and his family had been living in Parkersburg, W. Va., where he worked for a pump manufacturing concern.
He was married, and leaves his wife, Emeline, and two children, Malcolm, age nine, and Nancy Ellen, age six.
In his death the class has lost a true and loyal member.
1928
News has been received o£ the death of JOHN WILLIAM BRANDT on July 3, 1940, after collapsing from a heart attack in a St. Louis restaurant.
He was born in Chicago, April la, 1905, the son of George Washington and Sophie Marie (Diehl) Brandt. He left college in February 1925, having become a member of Alpha Tau Omega.
He had held several business positions; first, with the Chase National Bank; then as salesman for the Texas Company; as salesman for the General Outdoor Advertising Co.; then as traffic manager for the Terre Haute Brewing Co.; finally as agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Co.
October 27, 1932, he was married to Mildred Wills of Harrison, N. Y., who survives him.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
1890
DR. JOHN CAMDEN COCHRAN died at his home in St. Marys, Pa., July 18, 1940, after a prolonged illness.
The son of Joseph and Eliza Ann Cochran, he was born at Punxsutawney, Pa., August 14, 1856, and received his early education in the schools of that region. His medical studies were preceded by teaching and mercantile business. He came to Dartmouth after some study in the medical school of the University of Vermont, and after graduation attended Jefferson Medical College, where he also received the degree of M.D. in 1890.
After further study at the New York Postgraduate Medical School, he opened practice at Big Run, Pa., where he remained until 191 x, being while there a member of the school board, county coroner, and one of the founders of the Big Run Tribune, a weekly newspaper. In 1911 he removed to St. Marys, where for 22 years he operated a pharmacy and engaged in general medical practice. He was chief of the medical staff of the Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital. About seven years ago he retired.
July 20, 1904, he was married to Ruth Derr of Lancaster, Pa., who survives him, with two sons and a daughter.
