Deaths

[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past two months. Full notices mayappear in this issue or may appear in a later number.]

Pinkham, William F., '74, Mar. 3. Sully, Wilberforce, '78, Aug. 19. Delano, Delavan C., '84, Sept. 13. Ross, Albion H., 'B7, Aug. 20. Mann, William H. G., '93, Aug. 30. Adams, Chauncey C., '96, Aug. 25. Morrell, Albert H., '97, Sept. 13. Tozzer, Arthur C., '02, Sept. 9. Musgrove, George E., '03, Aug. 26. Main, Charles R., '06, Aug. 22. Bachelder, Everett E., '09, July 20. McCarthy, Walter H., '13, Aug. 29. *Sym, Harold A., '17, July. Wright, Frank C., '22. *Huerth, Richard J., '36. *Smith, Stephen W., Jr., '36, Aug. Towers, Thomas H., '36, Aug. 6. , Caplan, Nelson H., '38, Aug. 11. *Vroom, William W., '40, Aug. 21. *Webster, Harold D., Jr., '40, Aug. 23. *Mauro, R. Bertram, '41, Aug. 20. Noyes, Rufus K., med. '75, Aug. 31. Gray, Daniel F., med. '89. Eames, William M., med. '97, July 23. Bishop, Edwin W., hon. '05, Jan. 19. Schurman, Jacob G., hon. '09, Aug. 12. Lincoln, Jonathan T., hon. '11, Feb. 10. * Men died in war service.

Necrology

1878

WILBERFORCE SULLY died August 19, 1942, in a New York hospital after a long illness.

He was born at Sheboygan Falls, Wis., September 7, 1856, son of John and Agnes E. (Murchison) Sully, but spent his youth in Dedham, Mass., and came to college from Dedham High School. As a student he ranked high throughout his course; was of Phi Beta Kappa, taught junior winter at Hartford, Vt. (boarded around!), was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, editor of the Aegis, editor of TheDartmouth, and joined with Betty Hills in running a daily for five days while the electoral vote of 1876 was hanging in the balance. Although he roomed alone he was always sociable, and had the habit (maintained to the end) when he walked with you of taking your arm in a confiding manner that is winning even to those who have not themselves the habit.

On graduation he entered the office of his cousin, Alfred Sully, then prominent in railroad and corporation finance in New York, meantime attending Columbia Law School from which he graduated, and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced law, becoming absorbed in financial affairs. The only member of the class to venture into Wall Street, he soon acquired means to educate a younger brother and two younger sisters. In association with Alfred Sully, and sometimes with Austin Corbin, he was engaged in the reorganization and management of several railroads, among them the Philadelphia & Reading, Ohio Southern, Cleveland, Lorain, & Wheeling, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Dayton. Engaging in a large British cattle and land company of Texas, he became agent in America for the British receiver to wind up its affairs in the U. S. As a stockholder in the American Malting Cos. he was instrumental in its reorganization into the American Malt Cos., of which he became chairman of the board and active executive head, trebling its average annual earnings between the seven years ending in 1907 and the following six years, when Prohibition Repeal cast its shadow.

His LATER LIFE

Retiring from active business in 1916, having acquired what seemed a comfortable and safe competence, he settled down to take his ease, keeping in touch with affairs, public and private, that interested him. But the depression made havoc with his securities, and his last days were passed in broken fortunes as well as broken health.

He was married in 1892 to Miss Adelaide Hidden, who died in 1931. Their two sons, Spencer, a veteran of the Rainbow Division, now in the oil business in Los Angeles, and Wilberforce Jr. (both '16), a lawyer in New York, survive him, as does his second wife, Anna Sturges, whom he married in December, 1932.

He was a life member of the New York Athletic Club, and a member of the University and the Lawyers Clubs of New York, a Republican, and an Episcopalian.

1887

REV. ALBION HERBERT ROSS died at the Salem (Mass.) Hospital, August 29, 1942. His home was at 16 Oak St., West Lynn, Mass., and interment was in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn.

He was born May 27, 1862, in Worcester, Mass., the son of Rev. Albion and Irene (Stevens) Ross. He married Elizabeth Ella Nicholson, July 19, 1905, at Lynn, Mass. His Scotch ancestor emigrated to Ipswich, Mass., about 1650. General Warren died in the arms of his great-grandfather at the battle of Bunker Hill.

He fitted for Dartmouth at Pembroke (N. H.) Academy and joined the class of '87 in its sophomore year, transferring from Amherst College. At Amherst he was a Chi Phi.

He graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1891, and was ordained a Congregational minister at Omaha, Neb., that year, and to the Episcopal priesthood at Boston in 1899.

He served as rector in various churches East and West, and last in the American church at Berlin, Germany, and at St. James Episcopal church, Florence, Italy, 1935-36. In recent years he had occasionally preached in several Lynn churches. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a Knight Templar.

His widow and a son survive him. Albion Jr. graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1929. He is now a member of the editorial staff of the New York Times.

Classmate Ross was kind, calm, and conscientious. The class of 1887 has lost a fine man.

SYDNEY E. JUNKINS.

1893

WILLIAM HASELTINE GAGE MANN was born in the village of Penacook, town of Boscawen, New Hampshire, December 22, 1871, and died at the Margaret Pillsbury hospital in Concord, September 6, 1942, after a long and painful illness.

He was the son of Samuel R., and Polly (Gage) Mann, and the grandson and namesake of "Squire Bill" Gage, crony of the great Daniel Webster. "B. Mann" first attended school at Penacook under such teachers as L. J. Rundlett '81, B. S. Harmon '81, C. T. Murray '82, Robert Frame '82, and George D. Lord '84. It was inevitable that they should inspire the boy to attend their Alma Mater, for which he completed his preparation at the Concord High School, class of 1889. He graduated from the Chandler Scientific Department in the class of 1893. At Hanover he ranked above the average in scholarship and in popularity with his fellows. He was quietly genial and solidly substantial, one upon whom to rely under all circumstances. In college he was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu society, now a chapter of the Sigma Chi national fraternity. He was a prize winner in drawing and a sketch artist of ability, contributing at least one cartoon to the Aegis, the college annual, which attracted much attention.

After graduation, Mr. Mann kept up to date in his profession by membership in regional, national, and collegiate engineering societies. He had the degrees of B.S. and M.S. from Dartmouth and it gave him pleasure when his Alma Mater enabled him to do his bit in the first World War by acting as an instructor to the Dartmouth R.O.T.C. He was also in Hanover for some time as an assistant to Prof. C. A. Holden in preparing evidence for the state of New Hampshire in its Connecticut River boundary line litigation with the State of Vermont.

As an alumnus Mr. Mann was interested, but not exuberant. He attended all his class reunions and dinners and was prompt in his generous subscription to college class funds. Besides attendance at Commencements and at football games he made frequent individual trips to Hanover, where he has many friends among the older townspeople.

His professional employment in youth was with the principal New England railroads, the New York Central, the Berlin Bridge Company, and in states as far away as Florida, where he resided for some time. Returning in early middle age to his native state, he soon became one of the best known men in his profession in central New Hampshire, often appearing in court as an engineering expert in important cases. He served as selectman and auditor of his town, and was a highly esteemed and respected citizen. Mr. Mann was a childless widower and left no immediate relatives, but a great many true and appreciative friends. His marriage was to Marion Laura Marvin, April 30, 1901, and she died in January 1932.

1896

REV. CHAUNCEY CORBIN ADAMS died August 25 at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vt., after a long illness.

The son of Artemas and Harriet Elizabeth (Davis) Adams, he was born in Charlestown, N. H., October 24, 1872, and prepared for college at Bellows Falls, Vt., High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

After graduation he studied law for a short time and then decided to enter the ministry. He spent three years in Chicago Theological Seminary, graduating in 1900. He was pastor of the Congregational church at Port Byron, Ill., for one year, and then returned East and began a long and highly successful career in Vermont. From 1901 to 1907 he was pastor at Hinesburg; from 1907 to 1915, at Essex Junction; then until 1931, at the First Church in Burlington. In 1931 he began a pastorate at Middlebury which continued until his resignation on account of failing health in 1938. During this period he was also professor of the English Bible in Middlebury College. Dartmouth conferred the degree of D.D. in 1923.

After the close of his Middlebury pastorate he made his home in Burlington.

October 24, 1900, he was married to Donna Grace Anderson of Franklin, Vt., who died in 1937. Two daughters and a son survive their parents.

1903

GEORGE EBERT MUSGROVE of Pittsfield, Mass., died at his home on August 26, 1942, after a short illness.

Born in Bristol, N. H., September 26, 1876, son of Charles M. and Sarah (Fogg) Musgrove, he attended the public schools of Pittsfield and graduated from the Pittsfield High School.

George left college in 1902 because of illness, and later entered the employ of the Westinghouse Electric Cos. as draftsman. In 1906 he entered the General Electric Cos. employ in the same capacity and after a continuous service of 34 years retired in 1940. He was a member of the Methodist church, the Masons, the Dartmouth Club of Berkshire County (of which he was president in 1923), and the Quarter Century Club of the GE.

In college George was a member of the chapel and church choirs, the Glee Club, and the Dartmouth Choral Society. His love of music was a source of great pleasure to him throughout his life, and, coupled with his love for gardening, made his home a rendezvous for friends in Pittsfield.

He is survived by four sisters and several nephews and nieces. He never married.

Burial was in the Pittsfield Cemetery on August 29, 1942.

1906

CHARLES REED MAIN died August 22, 1942, at his home, 31 Prospect St., Winchester, Mass.

Born in Lawrence, Mass., February 10, 1885, the son of Charles Thomas and Elizabeth (Appleton) Main, he entered Dartmouth College with the class of 1906, but obtained the degree with the class of 1907, having taken his senior year in the Thayer School. He was a member of Chi Phi. He then took postgraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received a degree in 1909.

Charlie was the son of one of the nation's leading industrial engineers, so it was natural for him to follow in his father's footsteps.

He started his engineering career in Montana with his father, and then went to California with Stone & Webster. While in the "land of sunshine" he met and married Rose Frost of Santa Barbara, February 19, 1913.

Soon after he returned to Boston to become associated with his father, first serving as treasurer and later as president.

For years Charlie ran the class dinner, held annually the night before the Harvard game, and was one of the most loyal members of the class. He and Rose were also faithful attendants at our reunions.

Charlie was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School, secretary of the class of 1909, president of the Winchester Home for the Aged People, president Of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Masons, The Engineers Club of Boston, the Winchester Country Club, and the Downtown Club of Boston.

Besides his widow he leaves his father, two sons, Charles T. 2d of Charleston, S. C., and Samuel F. of New York; a sister, Miss Alice A. Main, and a brother, Theodore, of Holyoke. The sons are both of Dartmouth '38.

1909

REV. EVERETT EDWARD BACHELDER died at his home, 32 Old Post Road, North Attleboro, Mass., on July 20, 1942. "Bach" had been ill for several months, and had consulted many specialists in an endeavor to find the cause of his illness.

He was born in Pittsfield, N. H., on May 6, 1886, the son of Edward Everett and Clara Augusta (Marsten) Bachelder. He attended the Pittsfield High School. After graduation from college he entered Yale Divinity School, where he graduated in 1912. He received his master's degree in sacred theology from Boston University in 1937.

He was ordained a minister in October, 1912, at the Greenwich, Conn., Congregational church. He served pastorates in Greenwich, the Wood Memorial Congregational church of Provo, Utah; the North Congregational church in Newton, and for the past five years was pastor of the First Congregational church of North Attleboro.

At college he played sophomore football and was a member of the varsity football squad. He was for 24 years a member of John Cutler Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Abington.

He was married in New Haven, Conn., June 6, 1912, to Margaret Towle, who survives him, with three sons, Everett E. Jr. of Nevada, Mo., Lt. Horace L. of Gainsville, Ga., and Francis S. Bachelder (Dartmouth '39) of the Yale Di- vinity School, who has been acting pastor of his father's church during his illness.

ALLAN JENCKES COOKE died at his home, 135 Congress St., Milford, Mass., on May 30, 1942. Allan had been in poor health for the last three years because of asthma, and for the past two weeks had not been able to be at his work.

He was born December 6, 1884, at Medway, Mass., the son of George Phelps and Marianna (Jenckes) Cooke. He attended the Milford High School and entered Dartmouth College with the class of 1909, but was obliged to leave college at the end of his freshman year.

He was assistant postmaster at Milford, Mass., for the past twenty years and had been connected with the office there for thirty-seven years.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Evelyn Cooke, his mother, and three sisters, Miss Guenn Cooke, Mrs. Janet Connors, and Mrs. Mildred Woodbury of Roslindale.

1913

WALTER HENRY MCCARTHY died on August 29, 1942, in the Springfield Hospital following a heart attack on Memorial Day. He was born December 20, 1889, in Springfield, Mass., the son of Mary (Sullivan) and James F. McCarthy.

He received his early education in the West Springfield schools and went to Holy Cross. At the beginning of the junior year he transferred to Dartmouth, and graduated with the class of 1913, and then from Harvard Law School in 1916.

Walter attended the first Plattsburg R.O.T.C. after enlisting May 14, 1917, and transferred to the Aviation Signal Corps. He saw a great deal of action in France, and was made a first lieutenant in June 1918.

After the war he entered a law partnership, Doherty, Jones & McCarthy, which became McCarthy & Doherty in 1922. He was actively interested in civic affairs in West Springfield, and served as chairman of the finance committee for ten years, as well as the school committee. Later he became attorney for the West Springfield Trust Cos. and was a vice president and member of the board of directors, following in the footsteps of his father, the late James F. McCarthy.

When he moved to Longmeadow three years ago he gave up his West Springfield town affiliations, but remained with the Trust Cos. He was a member of the American Legion, the Longmeadow Men's Club, the Springfield Lodge of Elks, and Rotary Club of Springfield.

He leaves his widow, Katherine, a son, a daughter, and three sisters.

1917

MAJOR HAROLD ANDREW SYM died suddenly of a heart attack at the Indiantown Gap Military Post near Lebanon, Pa., on July 16. He was on active military duty at the time. His wife, Beatrice Davis, and their ten-year-old son Robert had arrived only a half hour previously for a visit.

Harold was bom in Manchester, N. H., December 12, 1895, the son of Andrew M. and Lydia E. (Le May) Sym, and received his early education in the Manchester schools, graduating from Manchester High School in 1913. He was with us in Dartmouth only two years, leaving during the early part of the World War to enlist. He married Beatrice Helen Davis in Atlanta, Ga., May 23, 1918.

Following his military service he returned to Manchester, where he became a clerk and later distributor in the mailing division of the Manchester post office, serving there until called to active duty on April 14, 1942. Having stayed in the U. S. Army Reserve Corps since his earlier military experience, Harold was commissioned a Major, Field Artillery, on May 27, 1939. It was with this rank that he was called to active service in April. Before being transferred to his Pennsylvania post he had been stationed at Fort Adams, R. I., and at Fort Devens, Mass.

Active in civic affairs, Harold was a member of Washington Lodge No. 61, A. F. and A. M., a charter member of National Sojourners, Manchester Chapter No. 147, and a member of the American Legion and the Reserve Officers' Association. He attended the First Congregational church. His oldest son, Kenneth E., died June 17, 1931 at the age of eleven years.

He is survived by his widow and son, Robert, and by his father and mother. Interment was in Manchester.

1922

EVAN ALBRO ("Woody") WOODWARD died at Harrisburg, Pa., July 8, from a drowning accident. Woody was serving as captain in the Army Air Intelligence at the time of his death, on leave from his position as assistant to the president of Building Products, Ltd., of Montreal, Canada. The funeral was held at the Church of Christ at Hanover, and burial was in Pine Knoll Cemetery.

Woody was born in Natick, Mass., November 30, 1896, the son of John A. and Nellie M. (Jones) Woodward.

Following his graduation he taught English at Bates College for two years and then returned to Dartmouth as instructor in English. In 1929 he resigned to enter business in Montreal.

August 23, 1917, he enlisted for military service, and served until September 3, 1919, having been sixteen months in France, and becoming captain of infantry. From 1919 to 1928 he was a major in the Army Infantry Reserve. June 26, 1942, he was commissioned captain in the Air Corps.

He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Ledyard Canoe Club, and the Glee Club, and from 1925 to 1928 comptroller of the Dartmouth Outing Club.

September 1, 1923, he was married to Beatrice Louise Weeks of Marlboro, Mass., who survives him with a son. Daniel, and two daughters, Nancy and Deborah. His father and a brother and sister also survive him.

REV. FRANK CLYDE WRIGHT died suddenly while trout fishing in Londonderry, Vt., August 13, 1942.

The son of Warren L. and Rose Emily (Marden) Wright, he was born in Londonderry, May 13, 1881. He studied for the ministry at Bangor Theological Seminary, graduating there in 1920. He then entered the junior class at Dartmouth.

He held pastorates of Congregational churches as follows: Roxbury, Vt., 1920-3; Hinsdale, N. H., 1923-7; Barnet, Vt., 1927-33; Bakersfield, Vt., 1933-6; and Milton, Vt., from 1936 to his sudden death.

March 15, 1905, he was married to Ethel Gertrude Warner of Londonderry, who survives him, with a daughter.

1923

PARKER SPRAGUE GOSS died suddenly at the home of his parents in Melrose, Mass., August 18, 1942.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis C. Goss of Melrose, he was born December 22, 1898, attended the Melrose public schools and graduated from high school in 1917' From there he went to Phillips Andover Academy. He was a veteran of the last war, was discharged from the U. S. Navy in 1919, and immediately entered Dartmouth.

Poke stayed in Dartmouth with us only through junior year when he left to enter business. After training in the factory of the President Suspender Company in Shirley, Mass., he became associated with the sales division of the George Frost Company of Boston, worked in various capacities, and for the past several years held the position of national sales manager with headquarters in New York City, where he lived at the Dartmouth Club.

I am confident that Poke was one of those Irish Flanigan had in mind when he said, "Four years' residence in Hanover means nothing to us. Any man who has ever trudged up the hill from the Norwich station or eaten a plate of beans in the Commons is just as much a Dartmouth man and '23 eras the top graduate of the class." Extremely popular, interested and active in Dartmouth and class affairs, a '23 "regular" in every respect, Poke will be sorely missed by all of us.

He is survived by his parents, two sisters, Misses Gertrude and Barbara Goss, two daughters, Betty Jane 18 and Sally Ann 15, and one son, Sherman 12.

1936

THOMAS HERTZLER TOWERS passed away on August 6 at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, of complications resulting from an operation last June. Tom, son of Justice Thomas J. and Grace (Hertzler) Towers, was born September 16, 1914 and raised in Richmond Hill, N. Y. From Richmond Hill High School he came to Dartmouth, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, the Canoe Club, and The Players.

After graduating from Dartmouth, Tom worked for the Irving Trust Company and in the legal department of the Guaranty Trust Company—all the while studying law at night at the Brooklyn Law School. He received his degree in 1939. Before opening his own law practice, he was associated with the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company.

Besides his parents, he is survived by his wife, Jane Barber Towers, whom he married on June 29, 1937; two sons, Thomas B. and John Roy Towers; a brother, Henry Towers; and a sister, Miss Elizabeth Towers.

LIEUTENANT STEPHEN WILLIAM SMITH JR. has been reported by the Navy Department as missing in the performance of his duty following the sinking of the destroyer Ingraham after a collision in the Atlantic.

The son of Stephen William and Grace (Kilbourn) Smith, Steve was born on March 10, 1915, at East Walpole, Mass., and attended school there.

At Dartmouth he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and the Interfraternity Council, and an officer of Zeta Alpha Phi, honorary scientific fraternity.

After graduating from Tufts Medical School in 1940, Steve interned at the Charles V. Chapin Hospital in Providence, R. I., and the Worcester, Mass., Memorial Hospital. He received his commission in the U. S. Naval Reserve Medical Corps in December 1941, and was called to active duty last June.

Besides his parents, Steve is survived by his wife, the former Ina Seaver, to whom he was married December 6, 1941, and a sister, Mrs. J. Wildred Hindley of Saylesville, R. I.

1938

DR. NELSON HOWARD CAPLAN died suddenly in Washington, D. C., August 11, 1942. He was an interne at the Gallagher Memorial Hospital in that city.

He was born in Roxbury, Mass., August 21, 1917, the son of Abraham S. and Rose (Pearlstein) Caplan.

He was a member of Phi Delta Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa and Le Cercle Fran^ais. After graduation he studied at Tufts Medical School, where he graduated in 1942, receiving then his hospital appointment.

He married Sonia Salter of Brookline, Mass., who survives him, as do also his parents and two brothers, Leonard and Melvin, the latter being a non-graduate member of the class of '35