Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month: Full notices may appearin this issue or may appear in a later number.]
Clark, L. Curran, '76, May 8. Dutton, Charles S., '8O, May 17. Davis, Charles M., '82, June 15. Emerson, Edwards D., '84, May 20. Thorne, John T., '97, Aug. 28, 1940. Anderson, J. Albert, '98, May 17. Callison, Albert E., '06, Dec. 8, 1940. Bell, James S., '09. Studley, Barrett, '16, Mar. 3. Sherburne, Lester A., '22, May 13. Zeller, Warren S., '23, June 11. Toland, John M., '30, May 24. Frederickson, Charles R. Jr., '35, May 22. Mulock, Hulbert H., '41, June 22.
Burnett, Frank H., med. '9O, June 21. Bliss, George S., hon. 'O4, May 3.
Necrology
1876
LOT CURRAN CLARK died May 8, 1941, at his home in San Francisco, Calif.
He was born in Detroit, Mich., March 28, 1854, the son of Joseph Brooks and Sarah (Fenton) Clark. He began his preparation for college at Phillips Andover Academy and completed it at Norwich, Vt., while a member of the household of Prof.. Edwin D. Sanborn, whom his mother had married.
He received the degree of LL.B. at Columbia in 1878, and began practice in Detroit, holding for a time a position in the office of the attorney general of Michigan. In 1881 he went to San Francisco, and took a position in a publishing house, becoming a partner three years later, but retiring from the firm in 1891. He bought a ranch in the vicinity of Redwood, Calif., and while devoting himself to its management began dealing in real estate. For several years following 1896 he was engaged in a chemical glassware business in San Francisco. After 1902 he gave his attention wholly to real estate.
May 10, 1887, he was married to Clara Taylor of San Francisco, who died September 27, 1933. Mrs. Clark was a cultivated and gifted woman, social and richly resourceful in friendliness and kindness. They had no children.
After reaching San Francisco in 1881 it does not appear that Clark ever traveled beyond the limits of California. He became peculiarly loyal to San Francisco; his letters were not infrequently filled with appreciation of her worth and delight in her beauty. His letters were also reminiscent of his years in Hanover; he was loyal to class and college. His last letter contained a check for the Alumni Fund.
1880
CHARLES SUMNER DUTTON died May 17 at the home of a daughter in Peacham, Vt. The son of John and Harriet A. (Lord) Dutton, he was born in Norwich, Vt., December 9, 1857, prepared at home for the Chandler Scientific Department, and with his brother George entered Dartmouth with the class.
After graduation he remained on the paternal farm, and after his father's death in 1887 carried on the farm on his own account until 1913, when he removed to West Glover; he finally made his home with a daughter in Peacham. He was a member of the Congregational church in Norwich, where the funeral service was held.
October 22, 1884, he was married to Ella Frances Lyman of Norwich, who died July 24, 1929. They had four children, of whom two survive their parents: Alice Lyman, now Mrs. Frank P. Eldridge of West Glover; and Mary Roxana, now Mrs. Venan H. Bean of Peacham.
1881
JOHN WILLIAM MANSON died at his home in Pittsfield, Me., May 6, 1941.
The son of John C. and Mary Ann (Lancey) Manson, he was born in Pittsfield, March 22, 1862, and prepared for college at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield. He left Dartmouth before the close of freshman year, and completed his course at Bowdoin in 1881.
After graduation he studied law, graduating from Boston University Law School in 1884, began practice at once in his native town, and so continued until his death. He was also interested in manufacturers, and was for many years president of the Pittsfield National Bank. He was an active Republican, and was a member of the state legislature in 1903 and 1904. He had been a director of the Maine Bar Association and president of the Somerset County Association. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College. His fraternal connections were with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Masons.
June 6, 1885, he was married to Lelia E. Lanpher of Stockton, Me., who is no longer living. They had no children.
The death of GEORGE FRANK BROOKS, which has just been reported, occurred December 28, 1940.
He was born in Boston, May 10, 1859, the son of James B. and Eliza A. (Cushman) Brooks, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department at the Boston English High School. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).
After graduation he went to Missoula, Mont., which has since been his home for most of the time From 1881 to 1886 he was successively division engineer on the Northern Pacific R.R., chief draftsman in the road's land office at Helena, and engineer in charge of construction of a branch line. In 1886-7 he was on a ranch in Bitter Root valley. From 1887 to 1890 he was engineer in the operating department of the railroad. Since that time he has been in real estate, loan, and insurance business in Missoula.
June 4, 1885, he was married to Fannie J. Cate of Missoula. They have had no children
DR. CHARLES GIPSON DEWEY died at his home in Dorchester, Mass., April 19, 1941. The son of Amos and Sarah C. (Lord) Dewey, he was born in Hanover, June 5, 1860 and prepared for college at Norwich, Vt. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
After graduation he taught for a year at Irasburg, Vt., and then for a year at Fremont, N. C. He then studied medicine at Dartmouth, receiving his M.D. degree in 1886. He was then assistant physician at several Massachusetts hospitals for the insane, being at Northampton State Hospital, 1888-7, at Taunton State Hospital, 1887-8, at Boston State Hospital, 1888-93, at McLean Hospital, 1893-5, and assistant superintendent of Boston City Hospital, 1895-9. He then began general practice in the Dorchester district of Boston, where he has since continued, devoting most attenion to mental diseases, in which he acquired a high standing.
March 21, 1899, he was married to Alice Lora Manson of Boston, who survives him, with a son, Robert M. (Dartmouth '22), and two daughters.
1884
EDWARDS DUDLEY EMERSON died May 20, 1941, at his home in Buffalo, N. Y. Funeral services were held at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church, and were attended by people from every walk of life in the city. He was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Born in Haverhill, N. H., May 30, 1862, the son of Rev. John Dolbeer Emerson (Dartmouth 1853) and Sarah Jane Dudley, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy prior to his entrance to Dartmouth in 1880.
Shortly after graduating in 1884 with honors, he joined his uncle, Major Joseph P. Dudley, at Buffalo, N. Y„ who was then the manager of the Star Oil Works, which later was absorbed by the Standard Oil Company, and for 50 years our classmate was general manager of that company for the Western New York District. His public activities during those busy years along educational lines and as lay church leader marked him as a man of distinction, ability, and righteousness, and earned for him the singular devotion, honor, and trust of all classes in the city of Buffalo.
A lifelong Republican, Mr. Emerson was the second chairman of the Buffalo Board of Education, serving from June 1917 to July 1922. During his period of service, a vast school building program was undertaken, including the construction o£ the Bennett High School.
He was one of the city's most active lay church leaders, serving as president of the Buffalo Council of Churches for 11 years, and when retiring in 1934 he was named honorary president.
He was formerly vice-president of the Council of Churches of New York state, member of the State Synodical Council of the Presbyterian church, honorary vice-president of the American Sunday School Union, and a trustee of the Buffalo-Niagara Presbytery.
He was active in the Laymen's Missionary Movement, Memorial Center and Urban League, the National Urban League, and the Young Men's Christian Association, being affiliated with the Y.M.C.A. for 57 years.
Education was his hobby. In 1908 he became a trustee of Buffalo Seminary, and served for almost 20 years. He was treasurer most of that time. He was a life member of both the Albright Art Gallery and the Buffalo Public Library, and an active member of the Buffalo Historical Society, the American Historical Society, and the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.
He was temperate in speech and conservative in action, but when the occasion required it, he faltered not to speak out boldly and act quickly. He was far-seeing, wise, and just in his dealings between man and man, and thousands of men in his adopted city, and especially the men of Dartmouth '84, his class, and men of adjoining classes who knew him, will render him their tribute of praise and homage for the credit he has been to his College.
In his home he lived in the pure atmosphere of love, devotion, and sympathy; in the world in that of deserved friendship, respect, and admiration. He has left to us, his associates, the sacred memory of a noble life.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Louise Underhill Emerson, to whom he was married June 30, 1892; three daughters, Eleanor Emerson of Harrisburg, Pa., and Marjorie and Mary Louise Emerson of Buffalo; and three sisters, Miss Winifred Emerson and Mrs. Arthur Sargeant of Haverhill, Mass., and Mrs. Frank M. Clark, of Providence, R. I.
1885
WILLIAM ANDREWS DICKEY, non-graduate, died suddenly of a heart attack on December 2, 1939 at his home, 1424 Seventh Ave. West, Seattle, Wash. He was born on October 8, 1862, in Manchester, N. H., the son of Hilas and Hannah J. (Andrews) Dickey.
He prepared for college in the Manchester, (N. H.) High School, entering Dartmouth with the class of 1885; he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and served as secretary and treasurer of his class. He was very much interested in baseball, being one of the earliest players to develop the pitching of a curved ball, and he served as pitcher on the college baseball team during his freshman year.
At the end of his sophomore year, on account of his health, he transferred to Princeton University, this change substantially restored his health, and he graduated with the class of '85 Princeton. During his junior year at Princeton he was a pitcher on the college baseball team, and won the chess championship of the college in both his junior and senior years.
Shortly after his graduation he went to Seattle in 1886, where for the next ten years he was actively engaged in various lines of business, including real estate, wholesale and retail grocery, and banking.
In 1896 he became interested in copper mining in Alaska, both as a prospector and a developer, and during the following thirty years he spent almost every summer in that territory, traveling widely and becoming a recognized authority on the copper mining industry as well as the contour and character of that great section of the country, where he had many thrilling experiences; his efforts resulted in much financial value in developing the mining industry of the territory.
He gave the name of Mt. McKinley to the highest mountain in the territory and through his knowledge of mathematics he estimated the height of that peak at 20,000 feet, which was within 300 feet of its actual height as later determined.
He wrote quite extensively regarding the territory and in consequence his name appears in the Encyclopedia Britannica, the American and International Encyclopedias.
He was married to Maud Ward of Seattle on January 8, 1890; he was survived by his widow and a son, Frank H. Dickey, two daughters, Dorothy Dickey and Mrs. Hester Garvey (wife of Edmund Garvey), two sisters, Mrs. John A. Whalley and Mabel Dickey, and a granddaughter, Jean Garvey, all of Seattle.
1897
RALPH PARKER FOLSOM died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 12, 1941. He was, since 1931, superintendent of Hudson River State Hospital, and had been in the state hospital service for thirty years. From 1910 to 1912 he was assistant physician in the neurological department of the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York. For four years he was assistant professor of psychiatry, Post Graduate School of Medicine, Columbia University. He was the author of many publications in his field of psychiatry and mental diseases, in which field he won distinction and respect.
He taught for two years after graduation, and then for four years was a pharmacist. Studying medicine at Columbia, he received his medical degree in 1908.
He is survived by his wife Alice Townsend Folsom, to whom he was married September 8, 1910, three daughters, Angela and Alice Folsom and Mrs. Hannah R. Hamlin, and three sons, Ralph P. Jr. (Dartmouth '39), William A., and Richard S.
"Parson" was born in Old Town, Maine, September 3, 1876. He was one of the youngest men in our class. He with Pat Conway, "P. I." Morrison, and "P. I." Folsom, all from Old Town, and all achievers of success, were diverted to Dartmouth by Crawford '76, a teacher who exercised great influence over his pupils, and who was much respected and beloved by them. I say Parson was "diverted" to Dartmouth, because in those days it was a long road from Old Town to Hanover, fraught with the need of making connections and changing cars at Portland, Newmarket Junction, Concord, and White River Junction, the hours of arrival at either end being often at inconvenient times in the night; and the boys from Old Town did not have very much money to spend on long trips. It was a difficult matter to go home on vacations. At one time in his college course the loss of $90 was a serious ob- stacle to his continuing, but Parson then and throughout life overcame difficulties, and, in addition to usefulness, service, and eminence in his profession, he has brought up and educated one of the largest families in our class, and four times as many as the average college graduate. Four of the children, and I infer five, have had college educations. The sixth has not come along yet.
Parson was, as his record shows, a man of great character. One could not see him even casually without being impressed with the look which study, thought, experience, balanced judgment, and dependability give to a man.
JOHN TULLY THORNE died at home in New York City, August 28, 1940, of heart disease.
.The son of Weston Thome, he was born in New York City, November 19, 1874.
After studying at Columbia, he taught in the city schools for forty years, being finally head of the English department of Paulding Junior High School in the Bronx.
He married Ella Marie Bane, who survives him, with five of their seven children.
1898
JOHN ALBERT ANDERSON died May 17, 1941, at his home, 650 Fifth St., Baton Rouge, La., of a heart attack, after an illness which had extended over the past ten years.
Born in Independence, Kan., May 12, 1875, the son of J. M. and Belle (Watts) Anderson, he prepared for college at Wentworth Academy, Lexington, Va., where he was cadet major and where after graduation he taught mathematics and was commandant. In college he was a member of Sigma Chi and Dragon and graduated with the degree of B. S. He then took the Thayer School course, graduating in 1901.
He was engaged in engineering for several years, and in 1912 became proprietor of a "bookstore in Baton Rouge, continuing in that business until 1924. He then went to New York City, where he was connected for a time with Baker and Taylor, publishers, and later with an architectural firm. For reasons of health he retired from active business in 1931 and returned to Baton Rouge. He was a Mason and Knight Templar, and a member of the First Presbyterian church of that city.
August 30, 1904, he was married to Ethel Gaulden of Gloster, Miss., who survives him with two sons. Dr. John S. of New Orleans and Bert W. of Baton Rouge.
Anderson was recognized by his '98 classmates as a man of sterling character, and was very much liked. Mrs. Anderson has written the Secretary that Albert was greatly cheered by the letters sent to him.in his illness, saying that they were so many bright spots in his life.
1922
LESTER AMES SHERBURNE died suddenly May 13 at his home in New York City. He was born in Tyngsboro, Mass., December 24, 1900, the son of Warren Alvah and Francene Louisa (Davis) Sherburne. He became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
For two years after graduation he taught in Guilford (Conn.) High School, and then for three years held a clerkship in New York City while he studied music and fitted himself for teaching it. His work was mainly in the Bay Ridge High School. He had had a long period of ill health, during which he had kept up his work with great difficulty, and his death, though sudden, was not unexpected.
He had not married. Raymond W. Sherburne 'O8 and Maxwell G. Sherburne '17 are his brothers.
1924
ALFRED JOHN DAGOSTINO died May 7 at the Union Hospital in Lynn, Mass.
He was born in Boston, May 20, 1900, the son of John and Angelena (Crovella) Dagostino, and prepared for college at the Boston English High School and Phillips Exeter Academy. At Dartmouth he was captain of his freshman baseball team and a star left fielder for three years on the varsity. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
He was associated with a Lynn construction company for several years, and for the past few years had been foreman of the West Lynn branch of the General Electric Company.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma J. Dagostino, three daughters, Theresa, Claire, and Pauline, and his mother and two sisters.
1925
DR. STANLEY EARLE COPELAND died in Worcester, Mass., May 13.
He was born in Worcester, February 13, 1902, the son of George Ellsworth and Edith Reed (Sherman) Copeland. He was a member of Gamma Delta Epsilon.
After graduation he studied medicine at Harvard, where he graduated as M.D. in 1928. For two years he was an intern in Worcester City Hospital and then for two years in the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital. Since that time he had practiced in his native city, and was connected with the City Hospital and Hahnemann Hospital as an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist.
November 28, 1936, he was married to Harriet Estelle Wentworth of Oxford, Mass., who survives him, with a daughter, Patricia.
1930
JOHN MARTIN TOLAND died at his home, 50 Orchard St., Jamaica Plain, Mass., May 24, 1941. The announcement of his death in the Boston Herald stated that it occurred after a short illness.
One of the youngest members of the class, John was born June 12, 1910, in Roxbury, Mass., the son of Cornelius Henry and Margaret (Doherty) Toland. He was graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1926 and entered Dartmouth in the fall of that year. He majored in the classics, was a member of The Arts, Phi Beta Kappa, and a Senior Fellow.
After graduating from Dartmouth he was awarded a fellowship and studied two years at the Universite de Paris and the Sorbonne, receiving the Master of Arts degree there in 1933. He then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and in 1935 re. ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The following year he studied at Yale under a Sterling Fellowship in Celtic. From then until the time of his death John was first an instructor and later assistant professor of classics at Loyola University in Chicago.
His translation of the "De Musica" of Boethius was due to be published this spring, and he had recently been appointed contributary editor in charge of classics for the 1942 revision of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica."
John is survived by his mother, three sisters, and a brother.
1935
CHARLES RICHARD FREDERICKSON was fatally injured May 22 in an automobile accident a few miles west of Newark, Ohio.
The son of Charles Richard and Elizabeth (Brent) Frederickson, he was born in Coshocton, Ohio, June 11, 1912.
He was at Dartmouth only through freshman year, transferring to Denison University, where he graduated as A.B. in 1935.
He was assistant secretary and treasurer of the American Art Works in Coshocton.
1936
JOHN WESLEY NIESZ SCHULZ JR. died at Fort Knox, Ky., March 21, 1941, as the result of an automobile accident.
The son of Gen. John W. N. and Ettie Louise (Brunhaus) Schulz, he was born at Manila, P. I., February 22, 1913, and prepared for college at Oak Park, I11., High School. He was a member of Zeta Psi. He took his junior year at the University of North Carolina, but returned to Dartmouth for his senior year.
The first year after graduation he attended Harvard Law School, and was then for a year a reporter on the Capitol Daily at Washington, D. C. He was then for a year government representative at the Hydraulic Press Brick Co. During his college course he had become a second lieutenant of cavalry in the Reserve Corps, and November 18, 1939, he was commissioned second lieutenant of cavalry in the Regular Army, and was on duty as such at the time of his death.
Medical School
1893
DR. JAMES IVES EDGERTON died May 8, 1941, at a hospital in New York City.
He was born in Aiken, S. C., November 15, 1870, the son of Rev. Everett C. and Laura (Carter) Edgerton.
After graduation he took further studies at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and graduated there as M.D. in 1894. For many years he was engaged in the practice of gynecology in New York City, and at his death was emeritus adjunct professor of that branch of the profession in the New York Polyclinic Medical College. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
His wife, Mrs. Lillian B. Edgerton, survives him.
