1876*

In the April issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE the names of Frank H. Hardison and Theodre C. Hunt '76 appear in a list of the oldest ten graduates of the College. Quotations from Merrill's Biographical Sketches of 1876, Dartmouth, follow.

After a short time devoted to newspaper work in Fitchburg, Mass., Hardison took the assistant editorship of the Greenfield, Mass., Gazette and Courier, and remained in this position until 1888. He then removed to Somerville, Mass., and assumed the editorship of the Somerville Citizen. While living in Somerville he was twice elected a member of the School Committee.

In 1896 Hardison was appointed State Insurance Examiner, and this was followed by his appointment, in 1897, as Deputy Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts. In 1907 he became State Insurance Commissioner, a position which he held until his retirement by reason of age limitation in 1919.

Hardison was chosen president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in 1912. In 1919 a silver service was presented to him by the National Association in recognition of his work in connection with insurance legislation in Massachusetts and other states. In 1923 he was appointed chairman of the State Commission on Pensions,—a board charged with the task of studying the entire problem of pensions and retirement allowances. Hardison holds the degree of Sc.D., Dartmouth.

After graduation from Dartmouth, Hunt devoted a year to teaching in Michigan, and then entered Union Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, completing the course in 1880. He was pastor of a Congregational church in Prescott, Ariz., from 1880 to 1885, for one year serving as chaplain in the Arizona Legislature. Then for eleven years he filled a pastorate in Riverside, Cal., going thence, for a single year, to Eau Claire, Wis. In 1897 he removed to Chicago and studied sociology in the University.

From 1899 to 1908 he served as pastor successively in Greeley, Colo., Hastings, Neb., and Riceville, lowa. In 1908 he removed to Chicago and assumed the pastorate of a church in the suburb of Cragin, but retired from active service in 1918. In 1921, with health somewhat impaired, he returned to Riverside, Cal. He is now living at Canoga Park, Cal., on land purchased of the Indian proprietors. He has planted this land with a variety of fruit trees.

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