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. ]
Mclntire, Harry H., '79, Dec. 2. Balch, Gardner P., '81, Dec. 26. Castle, Charles A., '81, Dec. 12. Barrett, Samuel A., '83, Nov. 22. Wheeler, Edward F., '83, Nov. 7. Mieliken, Charles D., '87, Dec. 29. Doty, Vernon A., '92, Jan. 1. Smith, Arthur T., '96, Jan. 1. Currier, Charles N., '99, Dec. 25. Stripp, Fred S., 'O8. McDuffee, Franklin, '21, Jan. 8. Bielschowsky, Alfred, hon. '37, Jan. 6.
Necrology
1876
FRANCIS PUTNAM THAYER, the son of Alfred S. and Julia (Putnam) Thayer, died at his home in North Charlestown, N. H., November 29, 1939. He was born November 19, 1854, in Exeter, N. H. His preparation for college was in Middleborough, Mass., and Topsham, Me. After finishing his college course he taught for five years, and was a newspaper reporter for the same period; then for nine years he kept books in a railroad office in Boston. For twelve years he managed an estate in Reading, Mass., teaching a portion of the time. He was now past middle life,'and abandoning what had been his leading interests of teaching and clerical work, he chose the Christian ministry, and to that end took a course of study at Boston University. He had pastorates in Methodist Churches in Marlow, N. H., North Charlestown, N. H„ North Salem, N. H„ and Piermont, N. H.
In the spring of 1929, having received severe injuries from a fall, and being in his seventy-fifth year, he resigned from his pastorate in the church at Piermont and retired from the ministry. He was not many months in deciding to establish a home in North Charlestown, N. H., where he had had a pastorate of four years and where members of his family were residing. In his new home for a time he continued active physically and mentally, but attacks of rheumatism, from which he had previously suffered, gradually grew more serious and forced him to the use of a cane when he left the house. Now and again he sent a letter to the Boston Herald, he reviewed his college classics, read John Fiske, and cherished active political sympathies. But his rheumatism grew more and more severe and uniting with neuralgic pain gave him little rest. Yet he never faltered in his loyalties; he contributed a letter each year to the class report and, though severely crippled, was present at the Sixtieth Reunion.
In one of his many interesting letters he mentioned that the influence, more than any other, which led him to enter Dartmouth was the fact that distinguished members of his mother's family had been graduated from the College in the early part of the nineteenth century.
He married, October 16, 1884, Miss Harriet J. Hobbs of Chelsea, Mass., who survives him. Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Caroline Thayer Bailey, two sons, Charles Putnam Thayer and Ernest Francis Thayer, and a granddaughter, Jane Perry Thayer.
1879
HARRY HIBBARD MCINTIRE died at his home in Sacramento, Calif., December 2, 1939. He had been in declining health for some time, but collapsed suddenly while preparing to retire, November 27, and never regained consciousness.
He was born April 24, 1855, at Littleton, N. H., son of Warren and Persis C. McIntire. He prepared for college at the New Hampton Institute, N. H., and St. Johnsbury Academy, Vt., and took the four years' course at Dartmouth with the class of '79. He is remembered as a wide-awake, popular member of., the class, belonging to Delta Kappa freshman society and tri-Kappa fraternity. He was class president in the spring term of freshman year and one of the college prize speakers junion and senior years.
'After graduation he taught school for three years, first as principal of the high school at Lyndon, Vt., then at Littleton, N. H., and Lake City, Minn. At Lyndon he found his wife, Carrie E. Cahoon, whom he married November 30, 1880.
From 1883 onward he engaged in business enterprises, real estate, mining, brokerage, etc.: since 1908 in California. Located in the Far West, he had not had many contacts with the class, and had never attended a class reunion. In recent years his eyesight had been failing, one eye being entirely blind from cataract and the other much dimmed.
He is survived by his wife, by a son, Donald C. '06, and a daughter, Persis C., Abbott Academy 'O8, the wife of Stephen W. Downey of Sacramento, and three grandchildren.
1881
CHARLES ARTHUR CASTLE died December is, 1939, at the home of a daughter in Winchester, Mass., after a long illness.
The son of Cassius A. and Mary Louise (Smith) Castle, he was born in Burlington, Vt„ May 22, 1858, and prepared for college at the city high school. He took his freshman year at the University of Vermont, entering Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
For the first year after graduation he was a clerk with Charles Scribner & Sons in New York City. He then taught in Irving Institute in that city for two years, also studying law. After another year's study in Boston, he began practice in Keeseville, N. Y., in 1885. After a year he removed to New Decatur, Ala., where he practiced his profession and engaged in real estate business until 1891. He then went to Boston, where he continued practice for the rest of his active life, living in Melrose, where also he had an office. For 37 years from 1900 he served as public administrator for Middlesex county.
He was a member of the Dartmouth Club of Boston and of Trinity Episcopal church, Melrose.
May 29, 1889, he was married to Jane C. Plummer of Toledo, 0., who survives him, with two daughters, Elizabeth (Mrs. W. Blanchard Ford) of Winchester, Mass., and Mildred, also of Winchester. There are also two grandchildren.
1882
DAVID BYRON LOCKE died December 6, 1939, at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston after a week's illness.
He was born October 4, 1857, at Corinth, Vt„ the son of John B. and Caroline (Taplin) Locke, and was the last of nine children. He prepared for college at Bradford Academy and Barre Academy.
His college fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. He delivered the prophecies on Class Day.
After graduation from college he studied law under Ex-Governor Farnham, at the same time entering the educational profession, to which he devoted his entire life. He served as principal of the academy and as supervisor in the Mclndoe Falls, Vt., district for five years, when he left for an appointment as principal of the Bradford Academy. This position he held for six years.
In 1893 he moved to Winchendon, Mass. Here he served for 13 years as superintendent of schools of Winchendon, Lunenburg, and Ashburnham. In 1906 he became superintendent of schools in the city of Rutland, Vt., serving for nearly 16 years. His levelheaded, conservative financial principles won him the name of the city treasury "watchdog."
In Rutland he established courses in domestic science and art, manual training, and the first "opportunity and ungraded" courses for backward pupils in the state, thus winning recognition in "Who's Who"; also organized state summer school sessions in the city for the professional improvement of teachers.
In 1921 he returned to his old homestead in Corinth for a summer of retreat, where he became an energetic farmer, at the same time serving for six years as school superintendent in the Orange East District.
After retiring from school work he served in 1931 as representative from Corinth in the Vermont legislature.
He was chairman of the State Teachers Retirement Board and was instigator of the state law establishing teachers' pensions, never missing but one meeting of the Board in 25 years.
The financial stability and permanency of the Teacher's Retirement plan was his greatest concern. At the time of his death he was a member of the Teacher's Retirement Association Legislative Committee, which had been called for its first meeting December 9, the day of his funeral.
For the past several years he was vice-president of the Locke Reunion, held annuallyat Rye Beach, N. H., said to be the oldest family reunion association in the United States. Locke had traveled extensively in Europe, England, the Holy Land, Mexico and most of the states of the union.
In 1882 he married Nellie Viola Winch who died in 1903. Of this union there were five children-William Maynard, Dartmouth '07, who died in March 1911; Nellie Elizabeth; Vernon David; Dr. Allen Winch, Dartmouth '17; Ruth Taplin Harrington.
In 1911 he married Winnie Lawrence Churchill of Rutland and New York City who died in November, 1939. Of this marriage there was no issue. Locke was a member of the Congregational churches of Winchendon, Mass., and Rutland, Vt., an Odd Fellow and a Mason. His hobby in late years was farming, and he wrote many articles for the Vermont papers under the title of "A Corinth Farmer."
He had a genial and sunny disposition and had a host of friends.
1883
REV. SAMUEL ALLEN BARRETT died at his home in Detroit, Mich., November 22, 1939, after a long illness.
The son of Judge James (Dartmouth 1838) and Maria Lord (Woodworth) Barrett, he was born in Woodstock, Vt., April 22, 1861. He was the youngest of four brothers who were Dartmouth graduates, James C. 1874, Rush P. 1876, John A. 1879, Samuel A. 1883. He prepared for college at Woodstock High School. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he entered Hartford Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1887. He was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1888, and held the following pastorates: Castleton, Vt., 1888-90; East Hartford, Conn., 1890-99; Gilbertville, Mass., 1900-02; Florence, Mass., 1902-11; Ware, Mass., 1912-14 (assistant pastor). He then removed to Detroit, Mich., and from that time to 1932 he was employed by the Detroit Board of Education. In 1932 he was retired, having reached the retirement age.
November 2, 1887, he was married to Mary Moody of Yarmouth, N. S., who survived him, but died December 31, 1939. They had three children: Arnold L. (Dartmouth 1910), now a certified public accountant in Detroit; James H. (Dartmouth 1913, non-graduate), now secretary-treasurer of the Commercial Milling Co. of Detroit; and Aileen M., who died in 1926.
Mr. Barrett was keenly interested in the affairs of his college, and greatly regretted not being able to attend the 50th reunion of his class. About five years ago he had an acute diabetic attack, and had since been in a serious condition of health.
REV. EDWARD FRANCIS WHEELER of Knife Lake, Minn., died at the Eitel Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was rushed in the afternoon of November 6 last for an emergency operation for ulcers of the stomach, early the following morning.
He was born at Grafton, Vt., January 20, 1862, the son of Rev. Melancthon G. and Frances C. (Parkinson) Wheeler. He spent most of his boyhood at Woburn, Mass., where he fitted for college at the Woburn High School.
He matriculated at Dartmouth College with the class of 1883, where he remained two years. His brother John having been called to the faculty of Bowdoin College and offering him an opportunity to live with him, he transferred to that college, where he graduated. Following his college course, he graduated from the Hartford (Conn.) Theological School and was soon thereafter ordained to the Congregational ministry.
He served pastorates at North Wilbraham, Mass., St. Louis, Mo., Austin,'Minn., Newell, lowa, New Ulm, Minn., where he remained eighteen years, and finally at Princeton, Minn., for eight years, after which he retired.
After his retirement he made his home at Knife Lake, where he built a dwelling on wild land that he had bought a long time before and later cleared, doing much of the work in both cases himself.
Mr. Wheeler married Anna Goar at Monte-video, Minn,, July 11, 1891. Their first child died in infancy. A daughter and son were born to them at St. Louis, Mo. The son, Joseph, is manager of the National City Bank of New York at its branch in Caracas, Venezuela, South America. The daughter, Elizabeth, Mrs. M. J. Shelstad, resides at DeWitt, lowa, where her parents spent last winter with her and her husband.
Mr. Wheeler was a respected member of Princeton Lodge No. 92, A. F. and A. M., which put on record a highly appreciative resolution at the time of his death.
1892
VERNON AUGUSTUS DOTY died in Montpelier, Vt., January first, 1940. He had had a serious heart condition for some years, and had been confined to his home since an attack in September.
Doty was born in Bradford, Vt., May 7, 1870, the son of Charles and Martha (Mann) Doty; fitted for college at the Bradford High School and entered Dartmouth with the class of '92. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and the Casque and Gauntlet society, and was a high ranking student throughout his course, making Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation Doty taught in Hanover and assisted in the Library (as he had in undergraduate days) until he returned to Bradford, where he was variously employed, incidentally serving on the school board and as trustee of the Woods Public Library.
The Western Union Telegraph Company called him to Montpelier in 1903 to serve as manager of their office in that city and as the company's representative for the state in matters pertaining to their corporation. In 1909 he entered the auditing department of the National Life Insurance Company, and at his death was chief auditor of agency accounts.
June 30, 1898, he married Florence B. Patterson, who died April 19, 1938. A daughter, Margaret, was the devoted companion of her mother and father in recent years.
Rare is the man who has no obvious imperfections. "Dote" was one of these. His life is his best eulogy.
He was responsive, unselfish, and kind, keen in his perception of the frailties of others but never an unkind critic. He was always good company. In a true sense he was one of the salt of the earth, who enriched the life of his home, his classmates, and his fellow workers.
Loyalty to class and college was one of his most marked characteristics. He kept posted on the activities of every one of his classmates, even those who were in college a short time, for to him once a Dartmouth man always a Dartmouth man.
His health was frail and his life was doubtless shortened by his devoted care of Mrs. Doty during her long illness.
We, his classmates, will always cherish his memory, for in full measure he deserves the tribute, "write me as one who loved his fellow men."
1896
ARTHUR THAD SMITH passed away suddenly in Boston on New Year's Day.
Thad was born in Silver City, Idaho, on May 1, 1875, the son of Dr. Arthur Noel and Hattie (McCann) Smith. The original family migration to the West had been made by Samuel Thaddeus Nickerson Smith, after whom Thad was named, and he was most successful in the early silver mining in that region. Thad's father followed him to practice medicine and became the doctor of Silver City and was married there. When Thad was a young boy his father changed his residence to Dover, N. H„ where Thad was graduated from its schools and whence he came to college.
His career in college was one of scholarly attainment and he was graduated with high honors. He delivered the salutatory address at Commencement and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He became a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Casque and Gauntlet. He served on the Aegis board and there exhibited considerable artistic ability, as his drawings constituted an attractive feature of the 1896 book.
After graduation he was headmaster of the Nute High School at Milton, N. H„ for five years. It may be recalled that while so engaged he employed his scientific talents to the solution of the problem of whether gold could be profitably extracted from sea water and exploded the then current bubble of such commercial exploitation and promotion.
He was graduated from Harvard Law School and admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1904, and thereafter practiced law with distinction in all state and federal courts including the Supreme Court of the United States, with his offices in Boston to the time of his death. His professional associations included the Dartmouth Bartletts and Jennings 1900.
On November 15, 1906, he married Ora S. Dickey, whom he knew in school-teaching days. This happy union of more than thirty-three years has been blessed by two fine children who have become very popular with our class, a son, Arthur Thad Jr., Dartmouth 1931, and his lather's associate in law practice, and a daughter, Jeanette, Vassar 1929. employed in the Rockefeller restoration of Williamsburg.
This representative family has attended many of our five-year reunions and contributed much to the enjoyment of those occasions. Thad made a forward-looking and timely speech at the class dinner of the Fortieth Reunion and would have had his usual enjoyable time at our Forty-fifth.
Thad possessed a very brilliant mind and intellectual ability and capacity to succeed in varied undertakings, however ambitious or far-reaching they might be. He had equipped himself educationally to develop his many natural talents to the utmost, and he possessed rare energy to carry through in action. He was a member of whom our class and his college have had every reason to be greatly proud, and we rejoice in the fullness and success of his life.
1899
CHARLES NEWTON CURRIER died from cancer of the stomach at the home of his sister at Newton Highlands, Mass., on December 24, 1939, after an illness of several weeks.
He was born July 2, 1877, at West Newbury, Mass., son of Charles W. and Abbie M. (Short) Currier. He prepared for college at Amesbury High School. On account of an injury he received during junior year he was unable to complete his course.
He engaged in the paint and oil business and several branches of automobile manufacturing, being employed for many years by Gray & Davis. He served as clerk of the board of selectmen of Amesbury for several years. Always interested in fraternal activities, he was a member of Sigma Chi and many Masonic organizations, the Knights Templars participating in the funeral services.
He never married, and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Philip L. Brown, one nephew, and several cousins.
He will be remembered for his cheerfulness, his never-failing consideration for others, and his unassuming friendliness.
His classmates Corey, Hawkes, Rowe, and Wiggin attended the funeral services.
1908
ARTHUR ALLEN EBERLY died December 23 in St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, where he had been taken earlier the same day following a sudden stroke of paralysis at his home in Rye, N. Y. Funeral services were held December 26 in the Hospital's chapel at 113th St. and Amsterdam Ave.
Eberly was born August 18, 1886, in Hiawatha, Kansas. He attended high school in Hiawatha and entered Dartmouth College in 1904, graduating in 1908 with the Bachelor of Science degree. He was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity and during his senior year was an assistant in the chemistry department.
After graduation, in 1909, he was an assistant instructor in chemistry at Purdue University for one year. Ambitious and energetic, he had no taste for an academic life. He went to Oklahoma, and at Tulsa and Nowata he engaged in the oil business, which claimed his interest for the rest of his life and led him all over the western hemisphere in an unusually adventurous career.
For about five years he worked for independent oil firms as a chemist and also engaged in brokerage of oil leases independently. Then, in 1916, he joined the staff of the Carter Oil company in Tulsa, leasing oil properties in El Dorado and Wichita, Kansas.
In 1918 he joined the army, serving in France in the Medical Corps until 1919, when he returned to the Carter Oil Company. His employers sent him to Colombia, South America, to analyse for them the possibilities of oil properties there and report on the advisability of buying rights and leases.
While in Bogota he was stricken with a fever, became delirious, spent many weeks in hospital, contracted pneumonia, and four months later was taken to the coast and placed aboard a steamer for New York. Both his legs and his right arm were completely paralysed and his strong physique reduced to skeleton proportions. The exact nature of his malady was never diagnosed, and while he appeared to be completely recovered for considerable periods, he suffered recurrences of .the illness in milder forms as long as he lived.
Eberly remained in New York less than a year, then on the road to recovery but still walking with a cane he returned to South America as head of his company's staff in Argentina. There he acquired properties for them, carried on drilling operations, became enthusiastic about the country, its people, its resources.
In New York Art had become engaged to Miss Marion M. Stevens. She traveled to Buenos Aires where they were married, first by Argentine civil ceremony and later in an Anglican cathedral. Mrs. Eberly accompanied her husband everywhere. Their three children they called the Pan-American Union. The oldest was born in Argentina, the second in Venezuela, the youngest in Cuba.
After three years in the Argentine Eberly moved to Venezuela, where he acquired leases 3nd began wildcat drillings. His interests took him to every part of the wild country, brought him into association with all kinds of people. It was so fascinating, so adventurous, that he never took a formal vacation, never returned to the States. But he never lost contact with his Dartmouth class or Dartmouth interests.
Three years in Cuba followed the Venezuelan experiences, and then Eb asked to be transferred back to the United States so his children could be educated here. In 1930 he was sent to Tulsa, where a streptococcus infection brought 011 a recurrence of the paralysis. He was rushed to the New York hospital, where small hope for his recovery was offered. Again he regained his health, but retired to the sidelines as far as the more strenuous side of an oilman's life is concerned.
From 1932 to 1935 he lived in Scarsdale, N. Y. He developed several business interests of his own, renewed intimate friendships with Blanchard, Symmes, and other classmates in and about New York.
In 1935 Eberly moved with his family to Wichita, Kansas, and was associated with J. H. Tatlock in an independent oil business, and as a broker of oil leases. Again the streptococcus infection nearly finished him, but without the paralysis. When he recovered he appeared to be better than at any time since the original attack in 1920.
In the spring of '39 Eb and his family moved back to New York. His ventures in independent oil properties had proved costly, and he planned to devote his time to development of diatomaceous clay properties, in which he had long been interested. Part of the summer of '39 he spent at Lake Fairlee in Vermont, renewing his contacts with nearby Hanover and Dartmouth. He took up a temporary residence in Rye, N. Y., until he could get his business affairs developed, and he had strong hopes for the future.
The Saturday before Christmas he spent with his family in the usual preparations for the holiday. In the afternoon he was suddenly stricken with the paralysis. A few hours later he died.
Besides his widow and three children Eb leaves a brother, Horace D. Eberly, who also attended Dartmouth, and a sister, Mrs. Ross Groshong of Griswold, lowa.
1911
ALBERT HARRISON SHURTLEFF died suddenly at his home on December 14. Although Bert had been ill, suffering from a nervous breakdown for the past two or three years, he seemed to be recovering, and his death came very unexpectedly from a sudden lung hemorrhage. He and Mrs. Shurtleff had been enjoying the broadcasts of the football games during the past fall, and Bert was looking forward to attending them in person next year.
The son of Lewis F. and Edna Shurtleff, Bert was born in Fairhaven, Mass., November 5, 1889. He attended school there, graduating from the Fairhaven High School, from which he entered Dartmouth.
At the end of his sophomore year he left college to enter the New Bedford Textile School, where he studied textile engineering. He began his textile career as a worker in the local cotton mills, later being employed in mills in Akron, Ohio, Beacon Falls, Conn., and New York. He became sales manager for the Beaver & Traynor Mills of New York later returning to New Bedford to organise the Interstate Trucking Company engaged in trucking of cotton goods and cotton yam He left the presidency of this company to form and become president of the Tire Fabric Corporation in Salmon Falls, N. H in 1929. He remained as president of this company for over eight years, when he retired and returned to his old home in New Bedford.
Besides his wife, Edna, he leaves two sisters. Bill Henderson represented the class at the funeral in New Bedford. Although Bert was with us only two years, he was one of the most loyal men in the class and always generous in both class and college affairs.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
1893
DR. EDWARD GARDNER DEWOLF died at the State Insane Hospital in Worcester, Mass., September 29, 1939, of bronchopneumonia.
He was born in Charlestown, Mass., July 28, 1869, the son of Lewis E. and Louisa C. (Graves) DeWolf, and received his early education at the Charlestown schools and Boston Latin School. He began his medical training at Harvard and concluded it at Dartmouth.
After graduation he began the general practice of his profession in Boston and later removed to Maiden. A few years ago he retired from active practice. He never married, and a brother and sister are the nearest surviving relatives.
