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.]

George, H. Child, '77, Jan. 13. Gage, Seth N., '79, JarL 22. Gates, Owen H., '83, Jan. 19. Bowles, George H., '84, Jan. 19. Shirley, Edward N., '90, Nov. 6, 1939. Lane, Walter A., '95, Jan. 21. Pratt, David D., '02, Jan. 29. Graves, Everett J„ '15, Feb. 5. Hough, Woodbury, '15, Jan. 15. Wiese, Floyd M., '30, Oct. 23, 1939. Flanders, Dr. Charles F., med. '81, Feb. 4 Farrand, Dr. Livingston, hon. '25, Nov. 8, 1939.

Necrology

1877

GEORGE HENRY CHILD died January 13, 1940, of cancer, after a lingering illness, at the home of a niece in Roanoke, Va.

The son of Jonathan and Emily E. (Roberts) Child, he was born in Springfield, Ohio, August 3, 1854. The family home after 1868 was in Harpers Ferry, W. Va. The father was a native of Thetford, Vt., and the son completed at Thetford Academy the preparation for college which was begun at the preparatory department of Western Maryland College. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

The first year after graduation was spent on the farm of an uncle at East Thetford, and then from the fall of 1878 to January 1885 he was employed in a wholesale dry goods concern in Cleveland, Ohio. A short time later he was recalled to Harpers Ferry by his father's illness, became manager of his general store, and after his death succeeded to the business. He had become actively connected with Republican party management in his state, and in September 1914 was appointed to a clerical position in one of the state departments at Charleston, where he remained until 1936. He then returned to Harpers Ferry, but in June 1939 increasing feebleness of health caused his removal to his niece's home in Roanoke.

September 25, 1905, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Boardman (Fuller) Crocker of Ellenville, N, Y., who died May 15, 1922. They had no children.

Not more than one or two of the class ever saw Child after graduation, but he was ever ready to respond to calls from the Secretary. His niece says that he was an enthusiastic Dartmouth man, following the football games closely by radio and newspaper, though never able to attend a game. We are pleased that she can say of him, "He was the most patient, uncomplaining person I have ever known," and to report that others characterized him as "a grand gentleman and a splendid sport as concerns the hard knocks that this world gives us."

1879

SETH NEWTON GAGE died January 22 at Ascutney, Vt. He had left his home to attend a bank directors' meeting at Windsor, but be. fore he was out of the village his car was seen to slip into the snow at the side of the road and stall. A neighbor, going to it at once, found the Judge dead inside. He had appeared to be in perfect health, and ten days before had written, "I am very well and as comfortable as one could wish to be."

Seth was born at Bristol, N. H., April 2, 1857, son of Newton and Olivia (Arnold) Gage. A year later the family moved to West Towns hend, Vt„ where his grandfather, Rev. Seth S. Arnold, was pastor of the Congregational church. In 1863 Mr. Gage bought a farm in Ascutney, where they lived for the next ten years, and Seth attended the district school. He remembered distinctly various incidents of the Civil War, especially the news of Lincoln's assassination.

After a year at Kimball Union Academy, he entered the Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1873 with the class of '77, rooming in Dartmouth Hall with his brother, E. L. Gage '73, a Thayer School student. In December he came down with a very severe attack of typhoid fever, from which his recovery was too slow to permit rejoining his class. The next winter he taught school in Pelham, N. H, and in 1875 reentered college with the class of '79. For the first two years he roomed in the old Webster house, occupying the room that Daniel Webster occupied during his college course. The last two years he roomed with his classmates Eaton, Morrill, and Thompson in the Currier house. Gage was one of the large men of the class, popular among his mates and of high rank in scholarship Later he wrote, "During those four years, I farmed some of the most valuable associations of my life". Like many other Dartmouth men, he beys career by teaching school, two terms N. H. In 1880, he wept west, at Amherst, for the Cincinnati and Southern R.R. for about a year. He then secured a position as instrument man in construction work on the new Mexican National R.R., going down from San Antonio, Texas, 180 miles by stage. Within a few months he became assistant chief engineer with 1400 men under him.

On the completion of that work, he returned to Texas and was associated with his brothers in the cattle business on a large scale for several years. In 1886 he married Cora Celia Henderson of Cambridge, Mass., and in 1891 returned with her to Cambridge, where he engaged in the insurance business until 1907. They then returned to Ascutney, to the beautiful place in the village, which his father had bought in 1873, and which has been Seth's home ever since, and where Mrs. Gage died in 1936, just a month after they celebrated their golden wedding. Gage represented the town of Weathersfield in the Vermont legislature for the two terms beginning in 1910 and 191 a. He was for five years an assistant judge of the Windsor County Court. In 1923, Governor Redfield Proctor appointed him a member of the State Highway Board, on which he served for two years.

Since coming back to Vermont, Judge Gage has almost always been present in Hanover at Commencement, and has been at all the '79 class reunions, except the one this last summer, when he was kept at home by a severe cold.

The funeral service was held at his late home in Ascutney. Among the flowers at the service was a wreath with a green ribbon and the figures " '79." The burial was in the Windsor cemetery.

One daughter survives the Judge, Mrs. Gladys Gage Rogers, who lives just across the road from the Gage residence at "Robin Hood's Barn," where each summer she and her friend, Miss Leah Thomas, carry on a fine work for children crippled by spastic palsy.

SETH N. GAGE graduated, established himself in business, married, reared his family, made his money and came back to his home town for the comforts of old age. He bought the great white house facing the square at Ascutney village. An old mansion house with gardens, and great rooms, fireplaces and a dance hall. He was justice of the peace and of county courts, he was moderator of town meetings and representative in the legislature. He was advisor for the town and counselor for its citizens. He knew many and all were his friends. Younger Dartmouth men had the habit of dropping in as they went south or north. Then one day last month he started for Windsor, but his car had hardly left his driveway before it turned to the side of the road and stopped. Neighbors hurried over and found Seth N. Gage dead at the steering wheel. "Even Colonel Gage could not have planned it better," said Charles D. Thrasher at the funeral.

E. W. B. '97.

1881

GARDNER PICKARD BALCH passed away suddenly, December 26, 1939 at the home of his son Malcolm in Hingham, Mass.

Born at Groveland, Mass., July 7, 1856, the son of Thomas Hutchinson and Sophia B. (Tenney) Balch, he prepared for college at the Newburyport Putnam Free School.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1881, where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi.

He was a member of the West Roxbury Congregational church, the Unitarian Club of West Roxbury, the Dartmouth Alumni Club, and the Boston Schoolmasters Association.

His scholarly tastes led him to take up educational work, and his first position was in 1877, before graduation, when he taught in the West Newbury, Mass., schools. In college he specialized in school management and supervision, and the fall after graduation began to teach in the New bury port High School.

He was subsequently master in the Saxonville School, Framingham, Mass., from 1883 to 1888; supervisor and master of high school in Swampscott, Mass., from 1888 to 1898; submaster in the Eliot School, Boston, from 1898 to 1900; sub-master in the Robert Gould Shaw School, Boston, from 1900 to 1913, when he was appointed master of the Robert G. Shaw district, embracing five schools.

He retired in 1926 after forty-five consecutive years of teaching, twenty-six of which were in the same school.

August 28, 1886 he married Sophia George Williams of West Newbury, Mass. Mrs. Balch died April 14, 1936. He is survived by his son, a grandson, and three granddaughters.

1883

REV. OWEN HAMILTON GATES died at the Newton, Mass., Hospital, January 18, 1940. He was born in Tinmouth, Vt., October 18, 1862, the son of Rev. Matthew Arnold and Dency Louise (Ward) Gates, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he went abroad and studied for a time at the University of Leipzig, and then returned to Dartmouth, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1887. He then studied at Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1889. The next two years he was a fellow of the Seminary at the University of Berlin. On his return to America in 1891 he was ordained a Congregational minister, but never served as pastor of a church. In 1891-2 he was instructor in Hebrew at Union Seminary and from 1898 to 1899 professor of Old Testament language and literature in Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1901 he became instructor in Hebrew at Andover Seminary, and presently added also the duties of librarian of Andover and Harvard Seminaries. When Andover and Newton Seminaries combined he retained his position of librarian, removing from Cambridge to Newton, and finally retiring in 1937.

In 1891 he was married to Henrietta Middlekauffi, then organist and teacher of piano at Wellesley College. She died in 1931. Their two sons survive them, Gaylord M. Gates of New York and Harold E. Gates of Chicago, both graduates of Harvard.

The deceased was of a studious, retiringdisposition, and took no part in extracurricular activities of his class or of the College. He attended no reunions of the class after graduation and hardly ever communicated with it.

1884

DR. GEORGE HALL BOWLES died January 19, 1940, at his home on Highland St. in Plymouth, N. H.

Born in Lakeport, N. H., the son of Charles Henry and Mary Ann (Batchelder) Bowles, May 22, iB6O, he prepared for college at New Hampton Literary Institute. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and was a member of the first football team organized at Dartmouth. On Class Day he delivered the address to the President.

For a brief period after graduation he was a student at law, work which he later relinquished for the medical profession. Following his graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1893, he practiced medicine in Boston for a period of nearly twenty years. On June 23, 1893, he married Miss Carolyn Blount, of Fort Collins, Colo.

After taking up his residence in Plymouth, N. H., in 1911, he was elected a director of the Pemigewasset National Bank, and became its president in 1928. At about the same time, he was elected a trustee of the Plymouth Guaranty Savings Bank, and was its president in 1920. In this he followed in the footsteps of his father, who was a director and vice president of both institutions.

Due to poor health in recent years, however. Dr. Bowles was forced to resign his positions as president of both banks.

George Bowles was one of Plymouth's prominent citizens, and early affiliated himself with its community life. He was an attendant of the Congregational church, honorary member of the Rotary Club, and for a long time member of the Plymouth Lodge of Masons, and on March .2, 1939, he received from the Olive Branch Lodge No. 16, A. F. and A. M., the Veteran's Medal, as a testimonial of his fifty years as a Mason.

His survivors include his widow, two sons, Dr. Charles H. Bowles of Plymouth and Dr. George E. Bowles of Boston, and one granddaughter, Mary Ann Bowles.

Among those attending the funeral services were Judge Joseph S. Matthews of Concord, Walter E. Burleigh of Franklin, and William J. Starr of Manchester, his classmates.

Dr. Bowles was more than an executive of banks. He was a loving member of a fine family, a good neighbor, a loyal friend, a public spirited citizen. He was generous in time, services, and financial support of church, charity, and public enterprises. His kindnesses reached a host of individuals,—the sick, the aged, the shut-ins, and the needy.

1887

CHARLES DUNCKLEE MILLIKEN was born at Littleton, N. H., October 12, 1863. His father was Rev. Charles Edward Milliken '57 and his mother was Sarah Woodbury (Duncklee) Milliken. He was one of the large delegation ■which St. Johnsbury Academy sent into the class of 1887. In college he affiliated with AKE fraternity and was a member of Sphinx. He was musically inclined and possessed an exceptionally fine voice.

After two years in the West he entered Hartford Theological Seminary, and later transferred to Yale Divinity School, graduat- ing in 1892. With the exception of a pastorate in Canaan, Conn., his later life was passed in the West and in Hawaiian Islands. In the last named his ministerial work was combined with teaching for twelve years. Other pastorates were at Sonoma, Supertino. and Piedmont, Calif. He was at Piedmont ten years, and a beautiful church there is a monument to his pastorate. He retired in 1926. In 1935 he suffered a paralytic stroke, after which he became partly incapacitated. His condition became gradually worse, and he died in Piedmont December 29, 1939. He did not marry and is survived by a half-brother, Edward R. Milliken of Pasadena, Calif.

Judge Bingham's tribute: "He was a fine singer, a forceful and convincing speaker, a wonderfully delightful letter writer, and above all a dear, lovable soul—every inch a gentleman."

1895

DR. WALTER APPLETON LANE, for many years a prominent physician in Milton, Mass., and in Boston, died suddenly at his home in Milton January si, following an illness of nearly a year.

He was born in St. Louis, Mo., October 22, 1873, the son of Charles Edwin (Dartmouth 1866) and Caroline Elizabeth (Lewis) Lane, and prepared for college at Hyde Park High School, Chicago, 111. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Sphinx, and Phi Beta Kappa.

He received his medical degree cum laude from Harvard in 1899, having served as an interne at Boston City Hospital in 1898-9. He had practiced in Milton since 1900. During his medical course he served as an assistant in chemistry. From 1906 to 1924 he was school physician at Milton. He was a member of the staff of the New England Deaconess Hospital and of the Faulkner Hospital; director and consultant of Sharon Sanatorium; member of the American Medical Association; served the Massachusetts Medical Society as vice president in 1932 and 1933, as chairman of the Committee of Public Relations from 1932 to 1937, and as Massachusetts delegate to the A.M.A. in 1937. He was president of the Norfolk District Medical Society in 1930 and 1931, and a member of the New England Pediatric Society, the Dorchester Medical Club, and the Boston Clinical Club.

In 1915 he became captain in the First Harvard Unit of the British Medical Corps in France, and later was major in the U. S. Medical Corps, and was commanding officer at Base Hospital No. 7, Joue-les-Tours, in 1918 and 1919. He had served as commander of the Milton Post of the American Legion.

July 9, 1901, he was married to Mary Hoadly Chase of Hanover, daughter of Frederic Chase (Dartmouth 1860). She died several years ago, and December 6, 1924, he was married to Mildred, daughter of C. Crawford Hollidge of Milton, who survives him. He leaves also a daughter Barbara, and a son, Walter A. Jr.

1902

DR. DAVID DAMON PRATT of New Bedford, Mass., died suddenly on the evening of January 29 of a heart attack while visiting friends in that city.

He was born in Spring Prairie, Wis., December 28, 1880, the son of Clifford A. and Ida E. (Thompson) Pratt, and entered Dartmouth from the North Easton (Mass.) High School. While in college he was interested in athletics, being a member of class and varsity track teams as a discus and hammer thrower. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

After graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1906. He then went to New Bedford and served as an interne in St..Luke's Hospital, after which he commenced the practice of medicine in New Bedford. He shortly began to specialize in surgery, and came to be known as one of the leading surgeons in his home city. He had served as president of the New Bedford Medical Society, and was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

January 1, 1913, he was married to Maijorie Bailey of Rome, N. Y., who survives him with two children, Jean (Mrs. Kenneth Ogden) of Rochester, N. Y„ and George, who is a student at Phillips Exeter Academy.

1903

HENRY GATES SAFFORD died Jan. 2, 1939 at his home, 505 Lovett Blvd., Houston, Texas, of an obscure vascular condition affecting the heart and the brain. Funeral services were held at the home, Jan. 3rd, and burial services at the Glenwood Cemetery, conducted by Bishop Clinton S. Quin.

Born April 26, 1882, in Queechee, Vt., son of Henry and Harriet (Brown) Saffo Henry married in 1914 Winifred Ballous San Antonio, Texas, from which union th was born a son, Henry Gates Safford Jr. and" a daughter, Winifred Ballous Safford.

After graduation from the White River Junction High School Henry entered Dan mouth College in 1899. In college he was member of Sigma Chi fraternity and of th' Dramatic Club.

At the close of his college days Henry went to Texas and entered the employ of th Southern Pacific R. R. Two years later he became bookkeeper in a cotton office am! through successive advances learned the cotton business from the bottom to the top In 1922 he became partner in the cotton firm of McCaa & Safford, Houston.

In 1930 he was chosen sales manager of the American Cotton Co-operative Asso. with headquarters in New Orleans. In 1936 he returned to Houston resuming the cotton business under his own name.

In 1937 Henry suffered the first evidence of his final illness and since then the best of medical skill has availed no relief, and seemingly only an outstanding courage and determination has carried him to the lons end.

As a nationally known leader in the cotton industry he has held many association offices of responsibility. He was president of the Texas Cotton Association in 1926; president of the American Cotton Association in 1928: Vice president and sales manager of the American Cotton Co-operative Association in 1932. He was a member and director of the Houston and New Orleans cotton exchanges. He was a member of Christ's Church (Episcopal) in Houston, and of many clubs.

Surviving him are his widow, a son, Henry Gates Safford Jr. (Dart. 1940) and a daughter, Winifred Ballous Safford, (Bryn Mawr '37). all of Houston.

1908

FRED STRIPP, whose death was reported last month in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, was an intensely loyal Dartmouth man whose affection for and interest in the College was retained in spite of distance and years.

Fred was older than most of his class. That, and his comparative brief time as an undergraduate, limited his acquaintance with his classmates. Many knew him slightly, some not at all, a few knew him well. Even with this handicap he developed and retained an affection for Dartmouth and the men of his class that can be matched by few and exceeded by none.

He was born in Toronto, Ontario, June 16. 1880. At the age of 18 he entered Kalamazoo College where he was enrolled from 1898 to 1900. Then he supported himself for four years and tried to acquire funds to continue his education. In 1904 he entered Dartmouth and was enrolled in the Class of 1908. Though he remained in Hanover not more than one year, he always thereafter considered himself a member of the class, never failed to respond to any appeal of the class or the college, maintained correspondence with classmates, proved himself a Dartmouth man in the best sense of the word.

The records show that for about seven years after leaving college he played professional ball After that he engaged in the insurer business as an independent agent and ker in Watsonville, California. He was active in business until ill health forced his recrement in January, 1937.

" Fred was married, and his fondest hope was that his sons might attend Dartmouth. His ,long illness, with no hope of eventual recoverv. made it impossible for him to send his sons to the New Hampshire college, but he cherished the hope until his death. For several vears at least he saw no classmate, probably no Dartmouth man. But frequent letters passed between him and classmates in the east, all filled with courage and with no complaint. The first knowledge his classmates had of his serious condition was when he could no longer write and his wife continued his letters so he might have occasional word from the men whose friendship he valued so highly.

1914

DR. EUGENE CLIFFORD WILLIAMS was born in Savannah, Ga., December 19, 1891, the son of Edward H. and Mary (Cox) Williams, and was a member of his Dartmouth class for the first two years of the course. After leaving college he studied dentistry at Columbia University, where he graduated as D.D.S. in 1917. He became a member of the Dental Reserve Corps, U. S. A., in 1917, and practiced his profession at Jamaica, N. Y., until smitten by a disease which proved incurable and of which he finally died about 1936. No further particulars have been obtained.

1915

WOODBURY HOUGH died at his home in Dover, N. H.. January 15, 1940, from a heart attack.

He was born in Dover November 10, 1891, the son of Harry and Carrie Bell (Morrill) Hough. His father was a non-graduate member of the Dartmouth class of 1875, and Philip Hough '09 and Morrill Hough '12, both deceased, were brothers. He prepared for college at the Dover schools and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.

For some time after graduation he was a salesman for the International Time Recording Cos. Then came a term of military service as first lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps. From 1920 to 1930 he was a member of the firm of Watkins & Hough, and then to 1938 proprietor of the Home Heating and Equipment Cos. in New Haven, Conn. Since that time he had been manager of the Kennebec Wharf and Coal Cos., of Portland, Me., a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coal Cos. of Boston, retaining his residence in Dover.

December 24, 1920, he was married to Lucia H. Cartland of Dover, who survives him, with a daughter, Mary Cartland.

1917

DR. CORTLAND MYERS JR. died at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif., November 27,1939. He was born in Syracuse, N. Y., February-'15. 1892, the son of Cortland and Estelle (Williams) Myers. Most of his academic course was taken with the class of 1915, and he was a medical student most of the time he was connected with the class with which he took his degree. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Dragon, and Alpha Kappa Kappa.

He served with the Medical Corps, U. S. A., in 1917-18 and was in the American Ambulance Service in France in 1918. He finished his medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating in 1919. He soon after began practice in Los Angeles, where he attained high rank in his profession, especially as a diagnostician.

January 26, 1923, he was married to Anne Esther Hughes, who survives him, with their two sons, Cortland 111 and Richard.

1930

FLOYD MORTIMER WIESE died on October 23, last. Information concerning his death, which was caused by aplostic anemia, has just been received during the last month through H. Kelvin Krist '29.

Mort was born January 14, 1908 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. His parents were Charles Mortimer and Margaret Debuchy Wiese.

He attended the Battin High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey, from 1919 to 1923. From 1923-1926 he attended the Bell Telephone Laboratories T. A. School in New York. He spent only his freshman year, 1926-27, at Dartmouth.

He attended Columbia from 1927-29 and subsequently received the degree of E.E. from New York University in 1933 through evening work in the engineering school. He had returned to his pre-college telephone interests in 1929 by joining the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., where he became a toll circuit designing engineer. His marriage to Eleanor V. Kuzsma took place June 16, 1935 (during our reunion) in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

His interest in class affairs was shown in many ways, including his faithful replies to all inquiries directed to him, and in his death the class has lost a loyal member. To Mort's wife in her bereavement go our profound sympathies.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

1881

DR. CHARLES FREMONT FLANDERS died February 4 at his winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla., of pneumonia.

He was bom in Wilmot, N. H., November 16, 1856, his parents being James and Mary (Dalton) Flanders. His father died before he was thirteen and he became the sole support of his mother, but he managed to obtain an academic education at Andover Academy and Franklin High School.

He studied medicine with Dr. W. W. Sleeper of Manchester, N. H., attending lectures at Dartmouth. Upon graduation he began practice in Manchester, where he continued with notable success throughout his active life.

January 1, 1881, he was married to Bertha S. Batchelder of Andover, Ivl. H., who died December 26, 1899. March 3, 1902, he was marlied to Lillian C. Turner of Cowansville, Que., who survives him. Three sons survive, Dalton of West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Robert (Dartmouth 1914) of Manchester, and David J. of Manchester. There are also eigt grandchildren.

Among the bearers at the funeral were Dr, David W. Parker '99 and Dr. Benjamin E. Sanborn '08.

1913

The Journal of the American Medical Association notes the death of DR. LOUIS JOHN FERENCZI at Bayonne, N. J., July 18, 1939, of carotid aneurysm and cerebral atrophy.

All attempts to secure further information about Dr. Ferenczi's history have resulted in failure, and we can only say that he was born in Bayonne August 16, 1890, and took his entire medical course of four years at Dartmouth.

SETH NEWTON GAGE '79