Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in thisissue or may appear in a later number.]
Hale, James W., 'Bi, Jan. 18. Goss, Arthur V., 'B2, Jan. 24. Rice, Emerson, 'B7, Jan. 22. Hurd, Henry N., '94, Jan. 27. Palmer, George S., '94. Folsom, Percy N., '95, Jan. ,17. Bennett, Walter S., 'O4, Jan. 10. Halleck, Harry G., 'O5, Jan. 15. Cobb, Arthur T., 'l2, Jan. 23. Ferguson, John S., 'l7, Jan. 1. Spaulding, Richard 8., 'l7, Jan. 20.
Necrology
1881
JAMES WHITE HALE died January 18, 1943, at his home in Newburyport, Mass. He was born in Newburyport, June 12, 1858, his parents being Benjamin and Lucy (Balch) Hale. The family was prominent in the life of the town for many years. He prepared at Atkinson (N. H.) Academy, and was a member of the C.S.D. portion of the class. His fraternity was Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi.)
After graduation he studied for a time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then at Comer's Commercial School in Boston, graduating at the latter in 1883. He devoted much time for many years to mechanical inventions, particularly on plumbing and sanitary subjects, and patented some of these. In later years he spent much time in studies of psychology and psychiatry, largely at the state hospital at Danvers. A newspaper notice styles him "a cultured gentleman of the old school," which well describes him. His summers were commonly spent at Lake Winnipesaukee. He was a' member of Belleville Congregational church in Newburyport.
November 19, 1892, Mr. Hale was married to Charlotte Elizabeth Mace of Georgetown, Mass., who died February 12, 1916. They had no children, and the nearest surviving relatives are cousins.
1882
DR. ARTHUR VINCENT GOSS died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Tunbridge, Vt., January 24, 1942.
The son of Dr. Story Norman (D.M.C. 1857) and Ann Eliza (Vincent) Goss, he was born in Georgia, Vt., April 2, 1859. The family early removed to Chelsea, Vt., where he prepared for college. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
The first year after graduation he taught in McCollom Institute, Mont Vernon, N. H., and then pursued medical studies at the University of Vermont, where he graduated as M.D. in 1886. After some further study in New York, he engaged in practice for a short time in Washington and Randolph, Vt. He then decided to enter institutional work, and in 1889 was appointed assistant physician at Butler Hospital, Providence, R. I. In iBg2 he became a member of the staff of Taunton (Mass.) State Hospital. On the resignation of the superintendent, Dr. John P. Brown (Dartmouth i860) in 1906, he was appointed to succeed him, and held that position until his resignation on account of impaired health in 1922. He had won a high reputation as a psychiatrist and executive. After a year's residence in Williamstown, Mass., his health had become sufficiently restored for him to accept an invitation to join the stafE of the Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat, where he remained until 1932. For the next two years he lived on a farm in Petersburg, N. Y., and since that time in feeble health had made his home successively in South Royal ton, Chelsea, and Tunbridge, Vt.
He was a member of various medical and psychiatric societies, and was a 33d degree Mason and a communicant of the Episcopal church.
August 3, 1897, he was married to Dr. Ida Lucinda Brimmer, who died May 15, 1940. They had no children, but adopted a son and a daughter, who survive them. Two brothers survive Dr. Goss, one being Walter S., a nongraduate member o£ Dartmouth 1894, and a sister, the wife of Dr. John E. Fish (D.M.S. 1896).
1883
HENRY BOYNTON JOHNSON died at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York January 7, 1942. He had gone to the hospital for rest and care in November.
He was born in Woodstock, Vt., January 14, 1862, the son o£ Henry C. Johnson, a banker. He prepared for college at the local high school.
He was of a literary turn of mind, of quiet demeanor, studious, and popular with his classmates, but did not take an active part or have much interest in extracurricular activities. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and its representative on the Aegis board. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.
After graduation he studied law, graduating from Albany Law School in 1887. In 1888 he was admitted to the bar of the state of New York, and immediately became associated in practice with his college classmate William W. Niles in New York City under the firm name of Niles and Johnson, and so continued until his death. He was an able and brilliant lawyer, with a keen and penetrating intelligence and boundless energy. He had great success in his professional work, and was constantly engaged in litigation of major importance. Early in his practice he engaged in real estate business, and was interested in a high class development for residential purposes on Long Island, but his law practice increased so largely and became so exacting that he was obliged to give up this branch of work.
He was extremely modest of his own achieve- ments and great qualifications. His home was at 419 East 57th St., and he left surviving his widow. Mrs. Augusta E. Johnson.
1887
EMERSON RICE Of West Southport, Maine, died suddenly January 22, at the home of his son, Roger C. Rice, in Saugus, Mass.
He was born at Bath, Maine, December 3, 1862, the son of Otis Packard and Sarah A. G. (Emerson) Rice. He attended the Maiden (Mass.) High School and entered Dartmouth College in the class of 1887. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and Phi Beta Kappa. In his senior year he received the Political Economy prize, and upon graduation he became a science teacher in the Hyde Park (Mass.) High School from which position he retired in 1925.
He married Mabel Kenniston, of Boothbay, Maine, December 25, 1889. They had one son, Roger C. Rice, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1914. A grandson, Emery K. Rice, is a senior at Dartmouth, and a brother, Winfield, is class of 1903.
Emerson Rice was a Yankee. He didn't lean on anybody. He had high ideals and he lived by and up to those ideals. He was reluctant to proclaim them in words but they were manifest to all in his life and deeds. He had convictions, too, which were arrived at by thought, study and experience. They were his own. When he expressed them orally he did not repeat what he had read or heard. He was not a trimmer. He was popular among his fellows but he never sought popularity by conformity.
In politics he was a Democrat, the quality of Democrat which he described in recent years as "old deal." In religion he was a Unitarian. To have been a Democrat and a Unitarian at Dartmouth in the eighties suggests to the writer that independence was an outstanding quality of his character. Some of the less worthy qualities attributed to Yankees were not a part of his make-up.
For over forty years he was. the Secretary of the Class of '87 and never shirked the work connected with that office.
1890
CLINTON MURRAY CHENEY passed away January 6, after an illness of almost six years.
He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 25, 1867, and fitted for college at St. Johnsbury, Academy. He was quite musical and played the clarinet in the college band. He was a genial and happy boy and a general favorite.
After graduation he went West and was in the real estate business in Spokane, and later in the banking business in Moscow, Idaho. He soon returned to Spokane and opened a furniture store. In 1901 he sold his business and went to Chicago to go into the wholesale furniture business. In 1927 he discontinued this connection and became associated with the Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling, W. Va., and later with the Investors Syndicate of Minneapolis, having his office in Chicago.
He married Jennie Merriam of North Stratford, N. H., in 1893. They have lived for many years in Hinsdale, 111.
Clint had one son, Joseph, Dartmouth '16, and three grandchildren.
He was very brave and patient through all his illness, and will be greatly missed by his family and by his many friends.
1894
HENRY NORRIS HURD died in his home at Claremont, N. H., January 28, 1943, ending a brave battle against several years of failing health.
He was born in Manchester, N. H., March 6, 1871, the only son of Irving A. and Caroline (Norris) Hurd. His maternal grandfather was Moses Norris, United States Senator from New Hampshire in the iBgo's. His mother died when Henry was only two years old, and his father removed to Claremont, where Henry spent his boyhood as well as his later years. He fitted for college at Stevens High in Claremont with the class of 1890, leaving school before graduation but receiving his diploma in 1913. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1890, he was graduated with the class of 1894, being awarded the Grimes Prize for general improvement during his course. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
Following two years of reading law with Thomas F. Johnson at Colebrook and a year at Harvard Law School, he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1897, and entered the law office of Attorney General Eastmen at Exeter. Two years later he opened his own office at Manchester. In 1914, in order to be near his aging father, he returned to Claremont. Here until 1924 he was in partnership with the late Judge William E. Kinney. Thereafter, until his retirement last April, he practiced alone.
A considerable portion of his energies were devoted to public service. While in Manchester he served two terms in the state legislature. In Claremont he was solicitor of Sullivan County for six years, a member of the board of Water Commissioners for three years, served on the town finance committee from 1938 to 1940, was at one time a member of the school board and also a trustee of the Fisher Free Library. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
Henry was long a member of Trinity Episcopal parish, which he served as clerk for many years. A goodly company of friends and fellow townsmen gathered on January 30 to do him honor. Rev. Robert H. Dunn read the service. Interment was in Mountain View Cemetery. F. C. Allen, F. P. Claggett, I. G. Colby, and B. A. Smalley represented the class of 1894. Also present were Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Claggett, Mrs. R. R. Penniman, Mrs. C. T. Rossiter, and Mrs. A. B. Sawyer.
Henry's only survivor is his widow, who was Zoa Mildred Plummer of Monmouth, Maine. They were married in 1902. His life was undoubtedly prolonged by the quality of her devotion.
Henry Hurd, through years now past half a century, was a well-loved member of Dartmouth 1894. Always sunny even in this trying period of the past few years, wherever he was there was good cheer. He loved his college and his class. As late as October 1940, he made what he and everybody else knew was a perilous trip to Boston to attend a class dinner; and that he could not repeat the trip last October was a great cross.
Among his classmates Henry was known as "The Sage," a title given half in earnest, half in jest. Both ways he lived up to it in college and since. He had an impish flair for resonant phrases, and delighted to pontificate in polysyllables with great seriousness betrayed only by the twinkle in his eye. His sonorous Senior Oration in Old Chapel remains a treasured class tradition to this day. He it was who in later days styled 1894 a "cohesive academic unit," which it certainly was, and is.
Henry is gone. There is no one who can quite take his place.
B. A. S.
1895
PERCY NICHOLAS FOLSOM died at his home in Manchester, N. H., January 17, 1942, after an illness of several months.
He was born in Manchester, July 2, 1872, the son of Nehemiah Taylor and Philinda Parsons (Parker) Folsom, and prepared for college at Manchester High School. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He left college at the end of sophomore year.
He spent his active life as a teacher. He taught first at Gilford, N. H., and from 1898 to 1908 in the schools of Manchester. From 1908 to 1915 he was head of the mathematical department of McKinley High School, Honolulu, T. H. He then studied for two years at Teachers College, New York City, and graduated in 1917 with the degree of B.S. He then taught mathematics for a time in the State College for Teachers at Albany, N. Y., and was finally connected with the Boston schools, retiring about 1924.
He was greatly interested in music, and on several occasions had played the flute with local band and orchestral groups. He was a member of the Calumet Club of Manchester.
In 1913 he was married to Mabel E. Putney of Nashua, N. H., who survives him.
1900
PAUL GOODWIN REDINGTON died at Staunton, Va., on January is, 1942.
Paul was born in Chicago, 111., on January 25, 1878, the son of Major Edward D. and Mary Ann (Chamberlain) Redington. His father was a graduate of the College in the class of 1861 and for ten years a trustee. Paul attended Bradford (Vt.) Academy and the Evanston (111.) High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1896 with the class of 1900. As an undergraduate he was soon recognized as a leader in a variety of activities. He was one of the group which first organized Palaeopitus, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and of the Sphinx senior society, a member of the Junior Prom committee, and of the committee in charge of the senior ball.
After a brief business experience he entered the Yale Forestry School and received the degree of Master of Forestry in 1904. Immediately he became connected with the United States Forest Service, with which he remained, save for a brief interlude as city manager of Alberquerque, N. M., until 1927. Most of his activities were centered in the Southwest and in California, first as forest inspector, then as supervisor and finally as chief of the California district, where he was in charge of 18 national forests. In 1926 he was recalled to headquarters in Washington as assistant chief, in charge of public relations. For three years he was president of the Society of American Foresters, a member of the President's Timber Conservation Board in 1930, a life member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and in 1913-15 a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.
From 1927 to 1935 Paul was chief of the Biological Survey (now the Fish and Wildlife Service). In this position his activities in the preservation of wild life were highly fruitful. During his term he was successful in persuading Congress to pass the Migratory Birds Conservation Act, leading to the installation of numerous bird refuges, he was responsible for the introduction of musk oxen into Alaska, an experiment which has proven successful, and he was influential in the preservation of many varieties of wild life, especially the Kodiak bear. Incidentally a cub of this species, captured by him and presented to the Washington Zoo, mated with a male polar bear, with the production of hybrid cubs, previously unknown to science. The monstrous Kodiak bear skin, the principal ornament of the 1900 Outing Club House at Hanover, was presented by Paul.
Upon his departure from the Biological Survey in 1935, he returned to the Forest Service, taking charge of the Shoshone National Forest. 11l health compelled his retirement in 1938. Since that time his condition, both physical and mental, has slowly deteriorated.
His funeral was held in the Presbyterian church at Falls Church, Va., his home town, on January 15. At his own wish he was cremated and his ashes deposited on the top of Shuteye Peak in the 'Sierra National Forest, under a plain stone marked with the line from Stevenson's requiem, "Here he lies where he longed to be."
In 1910 he was married to Miss1 Ermina Elizabeth Weaver, o£ Denver, Colo., who survives him, as do their three children, Lieut. Edward D., of the United States Navy, Mrs. G. Northrop Church of Falls Church, and Paul G. Jr., and two grandchildren. Also surviving are his twin brother and classmate, John C., and a half-brother, Theodore T., Dartmouth 'O7. A sister, Elizabeth, survived him but five days.
1905
HARRY GERALD HALLECK died January 15 in Terre Haute, Ind., of cardiac asthma, while en route to the South for his health.
He was born in Gold Hill, Nev., July 21, 1882, and prepared for college at West Division High School, Chicago. He left Dartmouth after two years, and studied for some time at Cornell.
During the first World War he served as first lieutenant in the 17th Engineers and later as captain in the Tank Corps of the 306 th Brigade, and saw service overseas.
After leaving Cornell he was for a time with the Universal Portland Cement Company, then was general superintendent of the Western Foundation Company, and then with Lockwood, Green and Company of Chicago. At the time of his death he was construction adviser on the U. S. Housing Authority Project in Hammond, Ind. He resided at 735 Cleveland St., Gary, Ind.
1912
WILLIAM COURTNEY TIMBRELL died in New Britain, Conn., November 15, 1941, after a lingering illness.
He was born in New Britain, August 5, 1890, the son of Thomas W. and Elizabeth A. Timbrell, prepared for college at New Britain High School, and graduated with the class with the degree of B.S.
For a short time after graduation he was connected with the Phoenix Insurance Company, then taught for a time at Rockville, Conn., and was then for a short time with the New Britain Record. He then took a position with the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, which he held for 25 years, until his death.
February 19, 1916, be was married to Martha Louise Papenforth of New Britain, who survives him, with their two sons, Charles Bainbridge of Hartford and William Courtney Jr., who is in an anti-aircraft unit of the Artillery.
He was a member of the South Congregational church of New Britain and the Dartmouth Club of New Britain.
"Tim" loved Dartmouth College, and was one of those fine, quiet members of the class who will be much missed by the family he loved and the classmates who knew him well.
ARTHUR THAYER COBB died in Exeter, N. H., January 22, 1942, after an illness which confined him to his bed for two and a half years. He was helpless and suffered continually, but was always cheerful and uncomplaining. He was an inspiration to those who came to see him—they came to cheer him, but went away cheered by him.
He was born in Milan, N. H., November 7, 1890, the son of Dr. Joseph J. and Meda (Thayer) Cobb. His father was head surgeon of Berlin Hospital and president of the New England Medical Society. "Ty" prepared for college at Berlin (N. H.) High School, and graduated from Dartmouth with the degree of A.B. In college he was a founder and charter member of the Outing Club, and held the college ski championship for three years. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
After a time as buyer for Wm. Filene's Sons in Boston and the American Felt Company of Franklin, Mass., "Ty" came to the Exeter Brass Works in 1914, where he afterwards remained. He has been treasurer and general manager since 1935. He was one of the best known and best liked men of the town, supervisor of the checklist, treasurer of the Country Club, and director of the Exeter Cooperative Bank.
July 27, 1912, he was married to Hazel B. Greene of Brookline, Mass. and they have one son, Robert Wendall, born 1914, who became associated with his father in the Exeter Brass Works, and takes his place.
"Ty" was a very popular member of the class of 1912, and will be much missed.
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RICHARD BROCK SPAULDING died suddenly in Granville, N. Y., January 20,1942. He was driving from Granville to his home in Rutland, Vt., when he was seized with an acute heart attack. Passers-by noted the stopped car, and a physician was summoned, who pronounced Dick's death to have been instantaneous.
He was born in Rutland, March 22, 1894, the son of William H. and Bertha (Brock) Spaulding, and prepared for college at Rutland High School and Dummer Academy. He left college at the end of sophomore year. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
December 19, 1917, he enlisted in Battery A, 66th Artillery, and served with the A. E. F. for the remainder of the war. On his return from France he became associated with W. C. Landon and Company, automobile division, and upon the death of his father in 1924 he succeeded him as vice president of the company. He managed the automobile division until 1937, when he opened his own agency, which he had operated since that time.
CITY ALDERMAN
He had served one term as alderman for the city of Rutland, and a month before his death had been appointed by the Governor chairman of the Tire Rationing Board for his district. He was president of the Evergreen Cemetery Association; member of the board of governors of the Chamber of Commerce; director of the Rutland County National Bank; a member of the Rutland Congregational Church, the American Legion, the Center Lodge of Masons, the Elks, and past chancellor commander of Vermont lodge, Knights of Pythias.
September 18, 1919, he was married to Louise Moore of Woodstock, N. 8., who survives him with two daughters, Lucy Ann and Mary Louise.
1921
ROBERT WAKEFIELD MCKELVEY died suddenly the morning of December 30, 1941, in his home at Whitefield, N. H., following a heart attack. Bob was born at Miles Pond (in Concord), Vt., January 14, 1899, the son of Robert Alexander and Addie (Wakefield) McKelvey, but since early youth had resided in Whitefield. He prepared for college at the local schools and at St. Luke's School, Wayne, Pa. He was with us in Hanover freshman and junior years, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
"Mac" was associated with his father in the management of the Whitefield bobbin mill until it suspended business about 1930, at which time he formed a partnership with J. E. McGraw of Lancaster, to carry on sawmill operations at Guildhall, Vt. Well known in North Country lumbering circles, Bob was a Mason, a Rotarian, and a member of the New England Lumbermen's Association.
He is survived by his widow, the former Isabelle Wilder of Whitefield; two sons, Robert W. Jr., aged 10, and Richard Alexander, 9; his mother, and a sister, Mrs. Adelaide Shores of Cambridge, Mass. Unfortunately, few of us in '21 had had the privilege of seeing anything of Bob in recent years. Jim Dodge was in Whitefield about a year ago, and reports that at that time Bob apparently was in excellent health and certainly in excellent spirits. Another classmate who has know Mac for many years describes him as "a grand gent with a swell sense of humor."
1923
HOWARD BUSH TETER died at his home in Dayton, Ohio, December 30, 1941.
He was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, April 12, 1901, the son of Dr. Charles K. and Etta May (Bush) Teter, and prepared for college at the University School in Cleveland. He stayed in Hanover only two years, transferring to Ohio State University, where he received his B. S. in 1924.
Howie was with the White Motor Company of Cleveland in 1924-8, and since has been a sales engineer with Walter Kiddee and Com- pany of New York, manufacturers of safety and fire prevention equipment. Widely known as an expert in the fire prevention field, for the past several years his work had been largely concentrated on government defense projects at the Wright experimental aviation field in Dayton.
In spite of his comparatively short residence in Hanover and of having graduated from Ohio State, Howie maintained a keen and "oyal interest in Dartmouth and 1933.
October 14, 1924, he was married to Mildred J. Jones of Cleveland, who survives him, with their son, William Charles, his parents, a brother, Robert C. Teter, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett. Dr. Teter, his father, is a well known oral surgeon and dentist in Dayton.
1926
At hockey practice he was the first man on the ice and the last to leave. He was a hard worker, always cheerful, always friendly.
On the fifth of last January Ted Herz died in the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, after a long illness, which he had faced with patience and fortitude.
ROBERT THEODORE HERZ was born in New York City on October 21, 1904, the son of Alexander and Malvina (Deutsch) Herz. He prepared for college at the New Rochelle High School, where he first found his love for skating and hockey.
On June 2, 1930, Ted and Corinne Elizabeth Casey were married in New York City. Robert Theodore Jr. was born in March of 1931. Their home for years was in New Rochelle, N. Y., and thereafter at 91 Colonial Avenue, Larchmonth, N. Y.
Since graduation Ted was active in the family business, Alexander Herz Cos., Inc., New York City, manufacturers of various paper products. In addition to his wife and son, his mother, Mrs. Alexander Herz, and two brothers, Adrian (Dartmouth '23) and Edwin Herz, survive.
1941
LESTER BARCLAY GORDON JR. died September 24, 1941, on the way to Orange (N. J.) Memorial Hospital after his car struck a tree at a curve near South Orange.
He was born in Chicago September 9, 1919, the son of Lester Barclay and Myrtle (Tilton) Gordon, and prepared for college at Deerfield Shields High School and Lake Forest Academy. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and the Glee Club.
EDWARD ARTHUR THOMPSON JR. was killed during the summer in an automobile accident.
The son of Edward Arthur and Sarah (Meeks) Thompson, he was born in New York City September 2a, 1918, and prepared for college at All Hallows, New York City, and Newman School, Lakewood, N. J. He left Dartmouth after sophomore year, and later entered Georgetown University, where he would this year have been a senior.
FRED TABER HOWLAND, aviation cadet, was instantly killed January 9 when his plane crashed in an attempted emergency landing . near Green Cove Springs, Fla. He had been in training at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station since July 7.
The son of Fred Taber and Esther (Walker) Howland, he was born in Medford, Mass., November 18, 1914. He prepared for college at Medford High School and was for a time in Boston University.
Fred's association with the Navy was not a new one. He had previously served in the
Coast Artillery, and again as a Naval Reserve midshipman. He turned to the Naval Air Corps after graduation, and took his preliminary training at Squantum as a member of the Dartmouth "Indian Unit." In two months he would have received his commission.
Besides his mother, he leaves a brother, George D. Howland, and a sister, Mrs. Willard M. Davis, both of Belmont, Mass. His mother lives in Arlington, Mass.
Medical School
1878
DR. WILLIAM WALLACE ALDRICH died June 24, 1941, presumably at Wevertown, N. Y., where he had lived for many years. It has not been possible to obtain any further informa- tion as to his career, except that he was born at Thurman, N. Y., August 22, 1853.
1888
DR. JULIUS PURCELL HAYNES died of uremia at his home in Toledo, Ohio, November 17, 1941.
He was born in Holly Springs, Miss., March 21, 1866, the son of Joseph and Julia (Purcell) Haynes, and was of the Negro race.
He was for two years a student at Wilberforce College in Ohio, from which he came to Dartmouth and took the entire medical course of four years, being demonstrator of anatomy in his senior year.
After intern service at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, he practiced for a year in Brooklyn and then in 1890 opened an office in Toledo, 0., where he was in successful practice for over fifty years. He was a member of the auxiliary staff of St. Vincent's and Flower Hospitals of Toledo and served as city physician for eight years. In 1933 he was selected to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of the president of Toledo University.
He was a communicant and for several years treasurer of All Saints Episcopal church, and was connected with the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias.
August 29, 1928, he was married to Julia May, daughter of Josiah and Sadie (Ackley) Cannon, who survives him. There are no children.
PAUL G. REDINGTON '00
