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.]

Fennel, Charles H., '76, Apr. 17. Dearborn, Frank A., '82, Aug. 3, 1939. Penniman, Robert R., '94, May 12. Butterfield, Ernest W., '97, Apr. 28. Wing, William H., '00, Mar. 12, 1939 Peck, Martin W., '02, May 7. Hanlon, Arthur E., '03, Apr. 19. Carpenter, Robert F., '06, May 4. Hunter, Robert J., '10, Apr. 21. Perry, Stephen C., '13, June 23, 1939. Harlow, Frank J., '15, July 25, 1939. Richardson, Herbert C., '15, Apr. 29. Noyes, Harry E., '20, Apr. 16. Mason, William F., '28, Sept. 21, 1939 Emerson, John G., '38, May 3.

Kierstead, Perley J., med. '84, Jan. 15. Mowry, Eugene C., med. '87, Apr. 27, 1935.

Necrology

1876

The account of Fennell (till 1926) in Merrill's "Dartmouth '76" slightly modified follows.

"CHARLES H. FENNELL was born 6 Dec., 1865, at Glens Falls, N. Y., the son of Rev. Andrew I. and R. Augusta (Hackley) Fennell. He prepared for college at Glens Falls Academy, and was a member of the Scientific Department at Dartmouth for two years. He became an accountant, and had employment as secretary of the Stone Baking Company, of Toledo, Ohio. His summers in later years were spent with his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Bettridge, in Arlington, Vermont.

"He married, 22 Oct., 1880, Miss Anna Putnam of Glens Falls. They had four children." In the '76 Report for 1933, Fennell's residence was given for the first time as permanently in Arlington, Vt. His first appearance in the class notes was a letter dated November 20, '35, the longest letter in the '76 Report for 1936, and a specially interesting one, in which he mentioned his daughter's acre of garden, where he was more or less employed, but allowed his fad, his special satisfaction, was looking after the roads about the place. In June 1936, he was present, with his daughter, in Hanover for the celebration of the Sixtieth of '76. After the Sixtieth letters were regularly received from him till the summer of 1939. He died, after a brief illness, April 17, 1940.

He is survived by three children, A. J. Fennell, Mrs. W. Taylor, and Mrs. Elizabeth Bettridge, by two grandchildren, Mrs. William Pararteys and Mrs. Schuyler L. Swart (daughters of Mrs. Taylor), and two greatgrandchildren, William Pararteys and Barbara Elizabeth Swart.

1878

JUDGE BRAYTON ALLEN FIELD died suddenly at his home in Watertown, N. Y., April 16, 1940. He was son of Safford E. and Phoebe (Allen) Field, born March 18, 1853, at Hounsfield, N. Y. He prepared for college at Watertown High School, and entered Dartmouth in 1873, continuing with the class of 1877 for two years, then was absent a year owing to ill health, returning to graduate (Phi Beta Kappa) with '7B. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.

For the next year he was principal of Proctor Academy at Andover, N. H„ and the following year principal of a grammar school in Watertown, studying in a law office at the same time; but at the end of the school year was compelled to retire to his father's farm to recuperate. After three years he resumed law study in the same office, was admitted to the bar in 1886, and began practice as partner in the firm of Emerson & Field. From 1902 until the day of his death he was in active practice as head of the firm of Field & Swan, long the oldest practicing lawyer in city and county.

Since the passage of the Federal Farm Loan law, as attorney for the North Country Farm Loan Association, a branch of the Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Judge Field had devoted his attention largely to matters of title and abstract, and had become an authority upon them, and in 1932 presided at a conference at Syracuse of the State Farmers Loan Associations.

He was active and influential in public and church affairs, serving for many years on the Republican County Committee; as director and president of the Bureau of Charities; for seven years on the Board of Health during the constructive period of the City's sanitary system; for 30 years a trustee of St. Lawrence University; for more than 20 years a member, part of the time president, of the Board of Trustees of his church; for two terms president of the State Convention of Universalist Churches.

He was married in 1881 to Miss Nettie Elizabeth Thompson of Watertown, who survives him, as do two daughters, Nellie L., who has long driven him to and from his office; and (Irene), Mrs. Verne A. Fogg of Ithaca; and two sons, William T., city councillor and head of a corporation of consulting engineers; and Bray ton W., of Arlington, Va., marine engineer employed in the Navy Department at Washington.

1890

GEORGE BRIGHAM YOUNG died April 10, 1940, at his home in Montpelier, Vt., where he had been confined by illness since the middle of February. The son of John and Augusta A. (Young) Young, he was born in Troy, Vt., April 20, 1867, and prepared for college at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He left college at the end of sophomore year, but received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1920.

Studying law in the office of his father, who was a prominent lawyer, he began practice at Newport, Vt., in 1891, but after a year removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he remained until 1899. Returning then to New- port, he continued in practice there until 1915, attaining a high rank at the bar. In 1916 he came to Montpelier as general counsel of the National Life Insurance Co., and in 1934 became also vice president. He came to be recognized as one of the ablest men in the country on questions connected with life insurance, and was an influential member and for a time president of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel. From 1914 to 1918 he was secretary of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. In 1917 he was president of the Vermont Bar Association. He had other business activities as well as social and fraternal connections, and was a regular attendant at Bethany Congregational church.

In 1894 he was married to Grace M. Spear of Minneapolis, who has deceased. Their two sons survive their parents—John S. (Dartmouth 1917) and Harold K. In 1927 he was married to Mollie M. Beals of St. Albans, Vt„ who survives him.

1897

It was a sad word that came over the telephone to classmates of Ernest W. Butterfield, telling us that our faithful secretary and beloved and honored classmate had died early Sunday, April 28, of pneumonia following operation.

Funeral services were held in the First Congregational church, West Hartford, Conn., April go. The services were conducted bv the Rev. Elden H. Mills, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Robbins W. Barstow (Dartmouth 1911), president of Hartford Theological Seminary, a former pastor of the Butterfield family in Concord, N. H., and a loyal friend of many years' standing. Dr. Barstow paid a brief but highly appreciative tribute to "Butter," speaking of him as the public servant, friend, churchman, and the father in the home. A large company, chiefly educational people, were present; two classmates, Dr. Roy J, Ward of Worcester, with his wife, and Ben Marshall, were present. "Butter" had a lovely family, who survive him, his wife, whom, as Edith May Thompson, he married July 30, 1902, two sons, and two daughters; each of them have found happy and congenial occupations in lines of their choice, and manifest unmistakably many of the qualities of their parents.

ERNEST WARREN BUTTERFIELD was born in Weathersfield, Vt., June 7, 1874. The son of Stephen Warren and Sarah Josephine (Mudgett) Butterfield. His degrees, beside A.B. Dartmouth '97, were LL.D. 1921, New Hampshire University, and Bates 1930 and Ed.l). R. I. State College, 1926. His public career as an educator may be summed up as follows: he was successively principal of the high school in Bethlehem, N. H., Groveland, Mass., Laconia, N. H., and Dover, N. H.; Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of New Hampshire 1916-17; Commissioner of Education for New Hampshire 1917-30; Commissioner of Education for the state of Connecticut 1930 to 1938; superintendent of schools, Bloomfield, Conn., 1938-40.

That interesting and progressive schedule of public service was illuminated and dignified by rare talent for organization and guidance, \by great common sense, generous sympathy for youth and for teachers alike, and spicy, dry, and telling humor.

It was during the year 1917 that Henry C. Morrison '95, State Commissioner of Education in New Hampshire, and Ernest W. Butterfield, his deputy, framed up the laws which have made New Hampshire a model for other states to follow. Before the year was out Morrison left to serve the state of Connecticut, and the burden fell upon his former assistant, now his successor. It was Butterfield who drew up the final draft of the statutes, and steered their passage through the legislature against the determined opposition of those politicians who saw their control over school patronage torn from their hands.

After serving for 13 years as Commissioner for New Hampshire "Butter" was called to a similar position in Connecticut, his classmate and deputy, Jim Pringle, succeeding him in New Hampshire. His accomplishments there are too recent and too well known to be rehearsed. In his controversy with the State Board over the four teachers' colleges, which he protested were pouring out too many teachers, and three of which he wished to convert into junior colleges, he was beaten. Local Chambers of Commerce and state politicians were too strong for him, but both Hartford papers and many impartial observers at the time of his death commented on the fact that time had amply proved the correctness of his judgment.

It was as a speaker and lecturer on educational subjects that he achieved his greatest fame. His lecture on "Life Bright and School Dull" before the National Education Association was, as one listener remarked, "the high water mark of such speeches for a decade." It brought him great acclaim, as did "The New Fifty Per Cent," given at the Minneapolis meeting of 1933. From Maine to California he was called to repeat them. He was elected president of their Association by his brother state commissioners. "A World of Machines and People," given at Atlantic City in 1938, was up to its predecessors in keenness of wit and wisdom. There is no man in America whose educational speeches have had more influence in shaping the curriculum, the methods, and the general philosophy of the American public school.

He was unique, and his class may well be proud of his rich and varied life. He had recently completed a detailed map of his old home town of Weathersfield, Vt., drawn to scale and with the sites of the homes of the old settlers carefully marked, the result of much motoring and more trudging over the hilly terrain of his native town, accompanied often by members of his family, who shared his enthusiasm and love for the Vermont home. Of this map he had photostatic copies made, which are already in demand by those interested in the state of Vermont, and by college and public libraries.

It was in the capacity as secretary of the class of 1897 that "Butter" served us in recent years with a glad faithfulness and good humor, and in this service he grew upon us and we upon him. He published from time to time class histories and reports that brought each up to date with every other. One of his most recent compilations, is a series of sketches of the outstanding teachers in Dartmouth College in our undergraduate days, full of generous warmth and discriminating comment and enlivened by flashes of his unusual wit. The class has no one comparable with him, we . believe, that can fill his place. The College has had in him a most worthy son. Public education stands forever in his debt for his constructive suggestions and approved practices, and for his inspiration on the platform. His family have very precious memories of a valiant, kindly and exemplary spirit. To them the class extends assurances of their deep sympathy in their loss, and of warm affection for him as classmate and friend.

1900

FREDERICK WARREN JENKINS died at his home in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., on April 12, 1940, after an illness lasting through many years.

Fred was born in Bradford, Mass., on January 22, 1878, the son of Benjamin A. and Sarah (Poor) Jenkins. He prepared for college at the high school in his native town a"d entered Dartmouth with the class of 1900. He was an excellent student, receiving the Jesup botany and the Grimes general improvement prizes, and was an assistant in the college library during most of his course.

After graduation, he remained in Hanover for five years as reference librarian. In 1905 he became director of the library department of Charles Scribner's Sons, a position which he exchanged in 1911 for that of librarian for the Russell Sage Foundation. Here he was responsible for assembling one of the most complete sociological libraries in existence. Somewhat later he added to this task that of director of publications of the Foundation, and was responsible for a series of social bibliographies issued under its auspices, as well as being co-author of a Social Worker's Guide to Serial Publications. At various times he was lecturer on library history and economics in Columbia and other library schools and was a member and officer of numerous societies devoted both the library and sociological interests.

In 1918 he was a member of a committee which had charge of the installation of libraries in military camps, devoting himself personally to the work at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. When this task was accomplished, he served for a time as editor of statistical news for the War Industries Board.

At the height of his fruitful activities, in 1927, Fred was seized by an illness which, with the complications which followed, incapacitated him for further work. Since that time he has been an invalid, although, at the end, his death was sudden and unexpected. He was married October 22, 1907, at Medford, Mass., to Mabel Laut Chamberlain, who survives him. They had no children.

The funeral at Mt. Vernon, N. Y. was attended by Tong, L. W. Tuttle, J. C. Redington, Phillips, and Newton of the class.

Word has been received of the death in Los Angeles, Cal., on March 12, 1939 of WILLIAM HOLDEN WING. Born in Glens Falls, N. Y„ on August 19, 1875, he was a member of the class of 1900 for a little over one term in freshman year. Upon leaving college he had no further association with the class. In the Alumni Catalogue he is described as vicepresident, retired, of the Keenan Lime Company of Los Angeles, but no further information is available at this time concerning his career, except his marriage, August 24, 1933, to Mary Kathleen Boyland of Evanston, Ill.

1902

DR. MARTIN WILLIAM PECK of Boston was found dead in a Boston hotel in the evening of May 7, as the result of a pistol shot in his right temple. He had registered at the hotel a short time before under a fictitious name and address.

He was born in Montpelier, Vt„ December 14, 1880, the son of Roswell Keith and Ada Nancy (Pettengill) Peck, and entered the class at the beginning of junior year, coming from Norwich University. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.

After graduation he attended the S. S. Still College of Osteopathy in Des Moines, lowa, and the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy, taking the degree of D.O. at each institution in 1904 and 1908 respectively, and practiced as an osteopathic physician in Lynn, Mass., for a time. He later studied at Harvard Medical School, and received the degree of M.D. in 1915. From May 1917 to March 1918 he served in the Medical Corps, U.S.A., with the rank of first lieutenant. In 1918-20 he was assistant physician at the Sheppard-Pratt Hospital at Towson, Md., and in 1920-21 resident physician at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. After that time he specialized in psychiatry, being chief of the outpatient department of the Psychopathic Hospital in 1923-7, and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard in 1923-37. He was also assistant psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and had published several books and articles. In 1933-7 was president of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society.

He was married June 7, 1913, to Wilda Claire Strong. A second marriage, October 14, 1930, was to Abigail Schwab of Cincinnati, who survives him, as well as a daughter of the first marriage.

1903

ARTHUR EDWARD HANLON died suddenly at his home, 17 School St., Danvers, Mass., on April 19, 1940, of an attack of angina pectoris.

Born July 21, 1879, in Danvers, Mass., son of Jeremiah and Marion (Ferguson) Hanlon, he attended school in Danvers, Amesbury, and Salem, Mass. During his course in Salem High School he was an outstanding athlete in both baseball and football.

In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, Theta Nu Epsilon, Turtle, and Casque and Gauntlet. He was captain of the freshman and sophomore baseball teams, a member of the freshman football team, of the varsity squad and in '02 a varsity player. He served on the junior prom committee, and in '03 was chairman of the class executive committee.

Starting his business career with the Western Electric Company in New York, in 1905 he became salesman with the Pettingell Andrews Company of Boston, dealers in electrical supplies. In 1928 the organization became the General Electric Supply Corporation, and "Meat" continued his services with that company until his death. His pronounced success as a salesman was due to his rare personality and thorough knowledge of his products. His integrity, loyalty, kindliness, and faithfulness won and held friends by the hundreds. The outpouring of business men from all over New England, the large representation of his classmates, and the local attendance at the funeral services were mute testimony to the qualities of a worthwhile Dartmouth man as defined by Dr. Tucker in our college days.

He is survived by his wife Susan Littlefield, to whom he was married August 18, 1909, and their daughter, Mrs. Richard V. Ellery, nee Marion Littlefield Hanlon, o£ Marblehead, Mass.

Classmates attending the funeral service were: Preston Howard, Perley Whelden, Ned Kenerson, Harry Watson, O. W. Smith, Charles Luce, Dr. Otis P. Mudge, Dr. Hamlin P. Bennett, Harold V. Palmer, Rev. Charles Hall, Charles B. Edwards, Ernest L. Brown, and Dr. Edward K. Burbeck.

Among the bearers were Oscar Perkins '03, Clifford Perry '06, Edward H. Kenerson and Edward K. Burbeck '03.

1906

ROBERT FRANKLIN CARPENTER died May 4 of pneumonia at his home, 2500 Norfolk Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Born in Cleveland, October 16, 1883, he was the son of the late Appellate Judge Alfred George Carpenter, who died in 1918, and Alice Martha (Boyd) Carpenter. He entered Dartmouth from Cleveland and was a member of Delta Upsilon.

He returned to his native city upon graduation and after a busy business career founded the Sanymetal Products Co., predecessor of the present Sanymetal Products Co., Inc. As president of the company, he led the way in developing many of the processes now commonly used in steel pre-fabricated partition manufacture.

The old Sanymetal Products Co. discontinued business in 1933, and shortly afterward Mr. Carpenter formed the Carpenter Metal Products Co. to manufacture metal basketware and similar products, and was its president and treasurer.

Mr. Carpenter was a Mason and belonged to the University Club, the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Canterbury Club. He was a member of Fairmount Presbyterian church.

Surviving Mr. Carpenter are his wife, Ellen W. (Bixby), to whom he was married February 8, 1911, a son, Robert F. Jr., and two sisters, Mrs. Carrie C. McCrea, wife of James B. McCrea, president of the Ohio Provision Cos., and Mrs. Ruth Body, wife of Louis F. Body, sales manager of the Dill Manufacturing Co.

Ivan Greenwood and a large number of Cleveland Dartmouth men were present at the funeral service.

1909

Phil Avery's death at his apartment in Brookline, April 13, 1940, came as a grave shock to his classmates and countless friends. His funeral though private was attended for the class by Carroll, Leighton, Locke, Ross, Burns, Brett, Newton, and Holmes.

PHILIP STEARNS AVERY was born in Nashua, N. H., April 12, 1887, the son of Charles H. and Ida L. (Hussey) Avery. He prepared for college at Nashua High School and, after graduating from Dartmouth with us, took an architectural course at M. I. T. He was in active practice as an architect in Boston from then on until his decease.

He was married April 30, 1913, to Mabel Locke, of West Medford, Mass., where they lived until they moved to Wellesley Hills. For the last five years they lived in an apartment on Freeman Street, Brookline. His wife, Mabel, and his daughter, Joan, survive him.

In college, Phil was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Dragon, and made his class numerals and varsity letter at basketball.

As an architect, Phil was recognized as one of the most skillful, versatile, and creative of his profession. He venerated the Colonial tradition in architecture, but possessed a gift for designing houses that suited the people for whom they were planned. He spent weeks getting to know his clients, so that their home literally grew around their needs and desires. His gift for friendship and his sincere interest in people enabled him to design homes and not just houses.

Yet Phil's house plans won many awards and honors in architectural circles and through such national publications as HouseBeautiful. Club houses, of which the Wellesley Country Club is an example, apartment buildings, factories, and office buildings, the Laconia High School, all stand as monuments to his gifts. At the time he died he had nearly completed a large undertaking for Larry Treadway at Springfield, Vt.

As a friend there were few to equal Phil; his enthusiasm for his friends' achievements, his loyalty, spontaneous warmth, and deep affection are unforgettable. Countless kindnesses quietly rendered to less fortunate classmates come to light now that he has passed away.

His door always swung wide in eager hospitality. His friendly grin and gay spirit endeared him not only to his class but to all who knew him.

Many a man, slightly down on his luck, went away from a class gathering or a chance meeting on the street feeling better for having had Phil's affectionate greeting. As president of the class he was an energetic and efficient administrator.

Our future meetings will not be the same without him. Wherever '09 men gather, glasses will be raised in tribute to Phil. We'll miss him more than we can say.

1910

ROBERT JAMES HUNTER passed away suddenly at his home in Norwell, Mass., on April 81. Burial was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery on April 93.

Bob, the son of Giles and Anna Wilkes Hunter, was born in Hawarden, lowa, April 1, 1887. He came to Dartmouth from Rockford, Illinois, where he attended high school. Although with us only one year, Bob joined Phi Gamma Delta, made some good friends but never participated much in class or college affairs.

Upon leaving college he was with his father in the Hunter Hardware Co., of Rockford, until 1911 when he became associated with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co., at Seattle, Washington. In 1916 he was transferred to Stone & Webster's home office as statistician, and remained with them until his death.

He was a director of Fall River Electric Light Co., and Southern Ice Co. On June 29, 1916 he was married in Seattle, to Emma McFadden who survives him.

1913

STEPHEN CARROLL PERRY JR. died suddenly of heart disease on June 23, 1939, while on a vacation to Jacksonville, Florida, where he resided for ten years.

Steve Perry was born on March 10, 1890, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Perry of Portland, Me. He attended Yarmouth Academy and entered Dartmouth at the beginning of the second semester, freshman year. He left college at the end of his sophomore year and attended Tufts and then Bowdoin Colleges.

He studied law at Harvard Law School and in the office of his father, who died twentyfive years ago while holding the office of U. S. District Attorney. In 1918 Steve moved to Jacksonville, Fla., where he was employed by the National Lead Company and then in the real estate business. He returned to Portland in 1928 and served as Maine agent for the Curtis Publishing Company and as an accountant for the Fidelity Trust Company. He joined the Press Herald editorial staff in 1931.

Stephen Perry was a member of Theta Delta Chi, the Masons, Kora Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Portland Lodge of Elks, and the Portland Newspaper Guild.

Besides his widow and mother, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. James B. Murphy; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Raymond Bells; and a granddaughter, all of Portland.

1915

Word has been received from Bertha Harlow Anderson of Trenton, N. J. of the death on July 25, 1939 of her brother, FRANK J. HARLOW, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1915.: No further information is available at this time.

On April 29th, 1940 HERBERT C. RICHARDSON died very suddenly at his home in Pasadena, Calif. Surviving him are his wife, Alice, and two children, a son and a daughter.

CARLTON DUNBAR FLETCHER, the son of William and Hattie Dunbar Fletcher, was born in Hingham, Mass., Mar. 12, 1893 and died in Bellerose, N.; Y. on Oct. 8, 1939. Carleton came to Dartmouth from Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn. At Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. During the war he served overseas with the 200-201st Aero Squadrons. On Jan. 31, 1920 he married Elizabeth Thayer Giegendanner of Houston, Texas. In business he was connected with the Knickerbocker Mail Order House and then with Davis Quick Dryers and Finishers, finally retiring a few years ago to attend to his own personal affairs. He was a member of the Beaumont Overseas Club, Port Jervis Country Club, Bellerose Civic Association, and the Dartmouth Club of N. Y. Surviving him are his widow, and two daughters, Anne Louise, a freshman at Hollins College, Virginia, and Margaret Ann, a freshman at Friends Academy, Locust Valley, N. Y.

1920

HARRY EDWIN NOYES was killed on April 16, 1940, when an airplane in which he was riding crashed in the woods near Higganum, Conn., and burst into flames. Harry had chartered the plane, and he and two friends were bound from Boston to Harry's winter home in Miami, Fla. One of the friends was also killed. The other, together with the pilot, was seriously injured.

Harry was born in Lowell, Mass., May 28, 1898, the son of Harry K. and Katherine Hope (Pike) Noyes, and prepared for college at Pomfret School, Conn. He left Dartmouth in his sophomore year and joined the U. S. Naval Air Service. While in college Harry was very interested in athletics, winning his numerals as a pitcher on the freshman baseball team. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

Harry, one of the most prominent automobile dealers in New England, was president of the Noyes Buick Sales Company of Boston and also president of the General Heat and Appliance Company. He was an outstanding yachtsman, and had planned to sail his yacht, Tioga, from Florida to Marblehead. He was a member of several Atlantic coast yacht clubs.

Harry married Ruth Pike of Concord, N. H., February 14, 1919 and leaves his widow and four children, Harry, 19; Edward, 17; Hope, 14 and Bradley, 12.

Harry was a very ardent Dartmouth supporter and his contributions to the Alumni Fund and class activities were always substantial. He will be sorely missed at our 20th reunion this month.

1928

WILLIAM FREDERICK MASON died suddenly in Taunton, Mass., some months since.

He was born in Taunton, November 11, 1905, the son of Maurice and Sarah C. (Sproat) Mason, and prepared for college at the high school of that city. He remained in college only until March 1925.

He was in several lines of business until three years ago, when he and his wife went into the florist business in Taunton.

1938

JOHN GLINES EMERSON died suddenly in Beverly, Mass., May 3, 1940, from an attack of appendicitis. The blow is a sudden one to all of us who have seen him active so recently.

He was born in Beverly, September 2, 1918, his parents being Guy Libby and Helen (Glines) Emerson. He entered Dartmouth from Beverly High, and was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He was manager of the freshman swimming team'. Majoring in political science, he graduated with cum laude honors. Upon his graduation he entered Harvard Business School, and would have graduated this June.

"The oak grows silently in the forest a thousand years; only in the thousandth year, when the woodman arrives with his axe, is there heard an echoing through the solitudes; and the oak announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls." Carlyle.

1888

DR. HERBERT HUNTINGTON LAMSON died at his hotae in Plymouth, N. H., March 30, 1940, after an illness of a year and a half.

He was born in West Windsor, Vt., February 6, 1861, his parents being Albert and Jane (Huntington) Lamson, both of whom died in his infancy. He spent his boyhood with his grandparents in Windsor, prepared for college at Windsor High School, and was for two years in Brown University. His entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth.

He did not actively engage in the practice of medicine, but his interest in natural science led him into other work. From 1889 to 1903 he was botanist and bacteriologist at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture (now University of New Hampshire), and from 1903 until his resignation on account of ill health in 1938 instructor in natural sciences in Plymouth Normal School (now Teachers College). At Plymouth he was perhaps the best loved member of the faculty, was noted as an afterdinner speaker, and was faculty adviser for student government for 25 years.

June 6, 1896,.Dr. Lamson was married to Geffa K„ daughter of Elias S. and Laura C. Leavitt of Hanover, who survives him. They had no children.

1894

DR. ORMAN BROWN HUMPHREY died at his winter home at Coral Gables, Fla., February 24, 1940, of coronary thrombosis.

The son of Samuel Fletcher and Cellissa (Brown) Humphrey, he was born in Bangor, Me., May 28, 1867. He prepared for college at Crosby's Boys' School and at Bangor High School, and was for three years a student at Bowdoin College in the class of 1890, where he became a member of Psi Upsilon. He had taken there an engineering course, but on leaving took up the study of medicine, being at Harvard in 1890-2 and finally at Dartmouth.

He practiced medicine only a short time, but returned to engineering, and engaged in business in Bangor as a consulting and designing engineer. He was also associated in business with the Salem and F. S. Payne Elevator Companies. He early became interested in art photography, and became widely noted for his portraits, which were exhibited in this country and abroad, and obtained medals and other honors. A musician from his youth, he played the bass clarinet in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. In 1892 he was married to Mina Tobin of Chicago, Ill., who died in 1894. December 5, 1901, he was married to Maude, daughter of Henry and Abbie Hilton of Biddeford, Me., who survives him, with two sons, Julian and Hilton.

1896

Dr. Louis LINCOLN GILMAN died April 12, 1940, at the Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N. H., after an operation for strangulated hernia.

He was born at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H., September 1, 1868, the son of Andrew J. and Martha (Lougee) Gilman. The family removed to Rochester, where he graduated from the local high school. His entire medical education was received at Dartmouth.

For two years after graduation he was an intern at Boston City Hospital, and then enlisted in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, becoming assistant surgeon. He served first in Cuba, then in Puerto Rico, and finally in the Philippines, where he was personal physician to Gen. Funston, commander of the U. S. expeditionary force. In 1900 he resigned from the service, and opened private practice in Rochester, where he became a highly successful general practitioner. He was chairman of the executive board of the medical staff of Frisbie Memorial Hospital.

An enthusiastic horseman, he was recently reelected president of the New Hampshire State Fair Association, and since 1929 had been president of the Rochester Fair Association. He was also president of the Rochester Realty Company. He was a 32d degree Mason and a Shriner, and a past exalted ruler of the local lodge of Elks.

September 2, 1924, Dr. Oilman was married to Elizabeth E., daughter of John A. and Fanny J. Hart, who survives him. There are no children.

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