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.]
Young, George 8., '90, Apr. 10. Lay cock, Craven, '96, Apr. 4. Brown, Rev. Robert D., '98, Mar. 26. Sibley, Clarence E„ '98, Mar. 23. Jenkins, Frederick W., '00, Apr. 11. Fox, William H., '06, Mar. 27. Doe, Harry F., '07, Feb. 19. Avery, Philip S„ '09, Apr. 13.
Lamson, Dr. Herbert H., med. '88, Mar. Humphrey, Orman 8., med. '94, Feb. 24. Gilman, Louis L., med. '96.
Necrology
1883
SAMUEL WORCESTER ROBERTSON died at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif., January 31, as the result of injuries sustained in a fall several weeks previously.
He was born at Tullahassee, Indian Territory, September 18, iB6O, his parents, Rev. William Schenck and Ann Eliza (Worcester) Robertson, having gone there as missionaries to the Indians. They returned to Vermont during his early boyhood, and he prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he began a long and notable career as a teacher. In the fall of 1883 he was principal of Phillips Academy at Danville, Vt.; for the rest of the school year of Island Pond (Vt.) High School; from 1884 to 1896 of Gilmanton (N. H.) Academy; from 1896 to 1905 of Woodsville (N. H.) High School; from 1905 to 1907 of Rochester (N. H.) High School. When he resigned this position on account of ill health he had been for eight years a member of the State Educational Council, a member of the Board of Teachers' Examiners, and a member of the committee which drew up the first elementary and high school course for the state.
Going to California in 1908 for his health, in 1909 he became a member of the faculty of Santa Barbara High School, where he taught a variety of subjects and served as baseball coach, finally retiring in 1929, having won the respect and affection of his classes. He then served as member of the school board and was for seven years chairman of the Police and Firemen's Pension Commission of the city.
November 26, 1883, he was married to Grace Knight of St. Johnsbury, Vt., who died about two years ago. Their son, Alfred W., a member of Dartmouth 1911 during freshman year,
graduated from Leland Stanford, and is now a lawyer in Santa Barbara and a member of the California General Assembly. There is a trrandson. A sister, Alice Robertson, was formerly a member of Congress from Oklahoma.
He was the first permanent secretary of his class, serving until his removal to California.
To the notice may be added this tribute from Secretary E. W. Butterfield of '97:
"The year after my graduation I was principal of the smallest high school in New Hampshire, and at Woodsville, 25 miles away, was a vigorous educational leader, Principal Robertson. I soon knew that he was the ablest school man in the North Country, a teacher, a community leader, an inspiration for his pupils. In friendly association I learned from him what no Dartmouth professor could teach me. He was active in the county and state professional associations. He was a member of the American Institute of Instruction. He was organizer and first secretary of the Educational Council of New Hampshire.
"Ten years later I was principal o£ the high school in Dover and he of the rival school in Rochester. He asked me to judge a prize speaking contest at his school, and I awarded the prize to the best speaker and not to the popular favorite. I was not thrown out, but Robinson thought it advisable to walk with me to my street car.
"I never saw my friend again, and so I still recall him standing in front of Salinger's store, holding in check the aroused proletariat until my car could round the first curve.
"Robertson went to California, was a high school teacher of noted success, then a member of the city board of education, and for years a vigorous citizen, thoughtful, resourceful, and unafraid. He was a credit to New England; a credit to Dartmouth."
1885
SAMUEL MOREY WILCOX died at his home, 1301 Ave. B, Galveston, Texas, on February 7, 1940 of heart failure, resulting from a brief attack of influenza.
He was born on May 16, 1864, in Exeter, N. H„ the son of Samuel Morey (Dartmouth 1847) and Mary Coolidge (Mann) Wilcox. While a child he moved with his parents to Washington, D. C„ where his early youth was passed and where he attended Gonzaga College.
He entered the Chandler Scientific Departs ment with the class of 1885 and was graduated' with the degree of 8.5.; he was a member of Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi) fraternity, and he served twice as vice-president of his class. Following his graduation he entered the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, graduating with the class of 1887 with the degree of C.E.
During the following year he was engaged in bridge engineering work at Fort Madison, lowa, and at St. Paul, Minn.
In the fall of 1888 he received an appointment in the United States Engineering Office at Galveston, Texas, where he thereafter remained for forty-six years until he retired on June 1, 1934, having reached the age limit; during his long service in that office by successive promotions he rose to the positions of principal assistant and associate engineer.
The Galveston District is widespread, and he had direct charge of various river, harbor, jetty, and fortification projects and construction along the Texas coast from Galveston to the Rio Grande river, and in consequence of of his long service and wide acquaintance he came to be familiarly known among his many friends as "Captain Sam"; the thoroughness and foresight which he showed in his lifelong work in the Department is well attested by the fact that very few, if any, changes have been made in the general design of the harbors and channels which he planned.
He was married in Galveston on June 12, 1890, to Miss Virginia M. Shears, who died on May 5, 1929; their children, all of whom survive, are Constance M. (now Mrs. H. L. Rice of Port Arthur, Texas), Arthur, Jared, and Laura C. (now Mrs. F. W. Gundermann), the latter three being residents of Galveston.
Shortly after his retirement he spent about a year in California, and upon his return to Galveston he made his home with his younger daughter, where his death occurred; besides his four children above mentioned he is survived by nine grandchildren.
1890
EDWARD NEWTON SHIRLEY died November 6, 1939, of heart disease, at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was born in Conway, N. H., September 10, 1867, the son of Joshua and Mary Elizabeth (Woodward) Shirley: The first two years of his college course were taken at Bowdoin in the class of 1899. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
For a time after graduation he was engaged in the shoe business, and then taught in the high school of Rutland, Mass. For many years he was connected with a firm in Cincinnati which handled a large amount of airplane material for the Dayton Wright Co. of Dayton, Ohio.
He was twice married. His first wife, Emma Jane Sherk, died August 29, 1910, and the second wife, Jennie Towne, survives him. There were no children of either marriage.
1898
CLARENCE EVERETT SIBLEY, one of the four members of our class who of the Dartmouth Regulars had been a contributor to the Alumni Fund each year since its inception, died at his home in North Brookfield, Mass., on March 23, 1940. Stricken several years ago with a severe shock, he had most courageously carried on his large insurance business despite severe physical handicap.
Notwithstanding his infirmity he was present with the reuning members of the class at Camp Wawona in June 1938, having driven his car from his home. He was also one of those who were at the spring outing held at Plymouth last June. All who were present on „ these occasions were delighted with his presence and filled with admiration at his courage and his happy disposition. Sib was a beloved and loyal member of our class.
Clarence was born in Worcester, Mass., December 10, 1873, the son of Everett Lawton and Emma Ann (Goddard) Sibley. He prepared for college at Orange, Mass., High School and with Oscar Tabor and Henry Crowley entered Dartmouth from that school.
After graduation Clarence became a successful teacher and had schools at Baldwinsville, Leominster, and Needham, Mass., Stonington, Conn., and North Brookfield, Mass. After teaching in the last named place he purchased the general insurance business of Frank A. Smith & Son, which he owned and managed until his death.
July 2, 1901, he was married to Lucia Miranda Goddard of Orange, Mass., who survives him. They had no children. A brother, J. Otis Sibley '97, also survives him.
"His heart and thoughts were always with his class and college," his widow wrote, and his happy, sunny disposition and exemplification of courage will be missed whenever the class shall meet.
On Tuesday, March 26, 1940, while he was on his way to a hospital to visit a patient who was not even one of his parishioners, Rev. ROBERT DAVIS BROWN was stricken with a heart attack and died four hours later.
Bob was born in Richmond, Va., on September 14, 1873, the son of William C. and Elizabeth (Allison) Brown and passed his early life in Washington, D. C. He prepared for college at Washington, D. C., High School, and after receiving his A.B. from Dartmouth with our class, he attended the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., where he received the degree of B.D.
After graduating from the theological school he was a minister in Philadelphia, from 1901 to ,1903. From 1903 to 191s he was rector of St. Philip's church, Columbus, Ohio, and from 1912 to 1924 rector of St. Philip's church, Newark, N. J. In 1924 he became rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, Pittsburgh, Pa., and he remained there until his death.
In addition to his parochial duties he was a member of the board of trustees of the Bishop Tuttle School of Social Work at Raleigh, N. C. He was a member of the Social Service Committee of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, a member of the board of the Federation of Social Agencies, a member of the Council of the Community Fund. From 1933 to 1936 he was president of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, and he then declined a reelection because of failing health. Bob was the first colored president in the history of the local League. During his term as president the Urban League began to sponsor with the Trinity Cathedral and the Community Forum an annual interracial, interdenominational series of meetings. He was chairman of the Reviewing Board of the Allegheny County Board of Public Assistance at a time when decisions by the Board whould serve as precedents for later decisions. He was a member of a committee from the Conference of Social Agencies to study the needs of the unemployed, Soho district. In addition to his numerous other activities for the past ten years Bob had been special chaplain at the U. S. Veterans Hospital at Aspinwall.
January 1, 1907, he was married to Jennie A. Lee of Columbus, Ohio, who survives him, with a daughter Ruth, who received an A.B. from Wellesley in 1928 and an A.M. from Columbia in 1931.
It was a deep regret to Bob that he had been unable to attend a class reunion until the last two. At these no member of the class was more heartily welcomed than was Bob.
We echo the sentiment of the closing words of an editorial of the monthly magazine of the Pittsburg Urban League following Bob's death, "In his sudden passing on Tuesday, March 26, the League lost one of its most valued friends—and the whole community lost one of its best loved citizens. But Pittsburgh is a better city because he passed this way."
1900
As a result of a heart attack Professor EMBERT HIRAM SPRAGUE died suddenly in Bangor, Maine, on March 9. He was riding in his car with Mrs. Sprague when he became unconscious. The car, then out of control, collided with a truck, fortunately without injury to Mrs. Sprague. Her husband was taken to a nearby store, but never recovered consciousness.
Embert was born in Haverhill, Mass., on December 20, 1875. A graduate of the high school of his native place, he entered Dartmouth in 1896, together with his classmates, Barrows and Cate. In college he was a member of the track team, winning his letter in the hurdles, and also played in the college orchestra. His fraternity affiliations were with Theta Delta Chi and the Casque and Gauntlet senior society. He attended the Thayer School in his senior year.
Upon graduation he entered upon various engineering activities. In 1903, with his classmate, C. A. Rich, he went to South Africa, where for six years he was employed in railroad construction work and as surveyor and assayer in gold and diamond mines. Returning to the United States in 1909, he was employed as engineer with steel construction companies until 1915, when he was appointed Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of Maine, a little later being promoted to a full professorship and becoming head of the department. In 1934 he was transferred to the position of Professor of Sanitary Engineering.
Professor Sprague was a leading member of the faculty of the University and had much to do with the development of the institution along engineering lines. President Hauck speaks of his services to the University thus: "Hundreds of Maine-trained engineers have felt the influence of his high professional standards and of his warm personality. They and his colleagues on the faculty, while gratefully remembering his significant educational services, will mourn the loss of a sincere and genial friend."
He was a member of various engineering societies and, in addition, treasurer of the Universalist church and of the Orono Chamber of Commerce, and had been in charge of the Penobscot river control at Old Town. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity, while his hobbies included motor boating, fishing, and a study of finger printing.
Professor Sprague was married in 1919 to Addie Brown Stockwell, who survives him. They had no children. The funeral was held in St. John's Universalist church at Orono on March 12, and burial was in Riverside cemetery in that town.
1906
WILLIAM HENRY FOX died March 27, 1940, at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
He was born in Clinton, Mass., August 20, 1883, the son of James Thomas and Winifred (O'Toole) Fox. He took the Thayer School course in his senior year and received his C.E. degree in 1907.
In 1907 he was assistant engineer for the International Paper Co.; from 1908 to 1912 draftsman and designer for the Commissioners of Sewerage, Louisville, Ky.; assistant engineer for the city of Louisville, 1912-14; engineer for Townsend & Fleming, landscape architects, from 1914; with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 1919-20; sales engineer, Providence, R. I., 1920-21; with the tire division of the U. S. Rubber Co. in Cincinnati, 1921-7; branch manager for the same company at Knoxville, Tenn., 1927-9; technician for the Sanborn Co., manufacturers of diagnostic instruments, Cambridge, Mass., 1929-32; manager for the Crosse & Blackwell Co., Boston, 1932-6. In 1936 he returned to the Sanborn Co., as designing engineer and later as credit manager. This position he held at the time of his death.
May ii, 1916, he was married to Mary Elizabeth O'Bryan of Louisville, Ky., who died June 10, 1921. A second wife, whose Christian name is Katherine, survives him, as also a sister, Mrs. A. A. Atkinson.
1907
HARRY FREEMAN DOE died at Morrisville, Vt., February 19, suddenly from internal hemorrhage from a gastric ulcer.
He was bora at South Newbury, Vt., May 14, 1884, the son of Edson and Esther (Howland) Doe, and prepared for college at Bradford Academy. He was at Norwich University in 1901-3, and entered the junior class at Dartmouth in the fall of 1905, remaining only through the fall.
He studied music in Boston, and most of his life since has been devoted to its practice. He held high rank as a solo cornetist, and had been instructor and leader of many bands and orchestras, visiting in a musical capacity every state in the Union. Recently he had been instructor in music in various high schools in Vermont, and at the time of his death was in Morrisville for that purpose.
October 28, 1913, he was married to Mabel E., daughter of John H. Stillwell of Bradford, Vt„ who survives him. They had no children.
1915
EVERETT JOSEPH GRAVES died suddenly at his home in Brentwood, N. H., February 5, 1940.
He was born in Haverhill, Mass., December 25, 1892, the son of Eugene Everett and Louise Mary (Pollard) Graves, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a member of Sigma Chi, the Sphinx, and Paleopitus.
He entered military service when the United States engaged in the World War, serving in , the Ordnance Corps in France, and reaching the rank of major.
He had been connected with various lines of business since graduation, being for some time with the New York firm of Nathaniel Fisher & Co., and since 1935 executive secretary of the New Hampshire Truck Owners' Association. He was a selectman of the town of Brentwood, and a member of the American Legion, the Grange, and the Congregational church.
July 10, 1925, he was married to Margery W. Healey, who survives him, with a son and a daughter.
He was given a military funeral, and at his wife's desire the following Dartmouth men served as bearers: Jack Nelson '13, Elmer Robinson '14, Paul Sargeant '15, Dale Barker '15, Ev Lamson '15, and Gran Fuller '16. I.eRoy Parchert '15 was also present.
A classmate writes: "When it comes my time to go, I hope that my friends will be able to say of me, as they did of Ev, 'He was a good husband, a kind and understanding father, a true friend, a gracious host, and a real man.' "
1921
PAUL MUNDE LADIN died March 8, 1940, at Hollywood, Calif.
He was born in New York City, June 3, 1898, the son of Dr. Louis Julius and Evelyn S. (Adler) Ladin. After taking a year at Columbia, Paul entered Dartmouth with 1921 at the beginning of freshman year. He withdrew in June 1918, however, and returned to Columbia, from which he received the A.B. degree in 1921.
For some years Paul was in the lace importing business in New York and lived at West Long Branch, N. J., later being engaged in newspaper photography.
On January 14, 1926, he was married, in New York, to Helen Beck, daughter of Martin Beck, theatrical producer. Two sons were born to them, Martin Beck Ladin, May 1, 1929, and Paul Ladin, September 30, 1932.
In 1936 the Ladins went to California and Paul entered animal photography on a professional basis. Through his love of and knowledge of dogs, he became the foremost photographer of such animals in the West, and was beginning to achieve national recognition at the time of his death. He had a studio at North Hollywood and also acted as photographer for Tailwaggers Magazine. As a hobby, Paul and Helen bred Boxer dogs and showed them with great success.
No account of Paul's life would be complete without reference to his activities as a polo player. For several years he played on the highest-rated indoor polo team in the country, and enjoyed personal ratings of six goals, indoors, and two goals, outdoors.
1908
DR. GEORGE ALANSON CRITTENDON died at the Springfield (Mass.) Hospital December 5, 1939, of cerebral hemorrhage, following a long illness of arteriosclerosis and chronic nephritis.
The son of Theodore and Ruth (Soule) Crittendon, he was born in Otis, Mass., March 20, 1880, and graduated from Worcester Academy in 1904. His medical course of foul' years was taken at Dartmouth.
For the first year after graduation he was an intern at Springfield Hospital, and then began practice at Huntington, Mass., where he served on the school committee and the board of health. In 1919 he removed to Springfield, and continued practice there'until the failure of his health in 1936, specializing in arterio-cardio-renal diseases.
In 1913 he was married to May Pierrepont, who survives him, with two daughters, Lorraine, a student at Yale School of Music, and Marlyn, a gifted violinist.
MEDICAL SCHOOL
