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.]
Quimby, William P., '82, Jan. 12. Hudson, Samuel H., '85, Feb. 3, 1942. Wiswall, Fred M., '86, Feb. 4. Flynn, Thomas, '89, Jan. 17. Bailey, William T., '91, Jan. 16. Aubey, Israel, '98, Feb. 9. Hyatt, Edwin A., '99, Feb. 14. Sears, Horace H., '00, Feb. 6. Murray, William H., '02, Jan. 25. Cronin, John W., '04, Jan. 26. Ryder, Charles D., '07, Jan. 5. Armstrong, Ferdinand D., '10, Jan. 17. Hoban, George W., '12, Feb. 2. Chandler, Clyfton, '14, Jan. 16. Harvey, Philip C., '14. Lavin, Edward A., '14. Fowler, John G., '20, Feb. 2. *Gorrie, James D., '31, Jan. 22. Morris, Edward W., '31, Feb. 13. *Blood, Nickerson, '41, Jan. 31. Gates, Ernest A., Med. '95, Jan. 5. Remick, James W., hon. '01, Feb. 10. Zug, George 8., hon. '20, Feb. 10. Taft, Horace D., hon. '35. Died in war service.
In Memoriam
1882
WILLIAM PERRY QUIMBY died at the home of a daughter in Media, Pa., January 12, 1943, from the infirmities of age, his final illness having begun at Christmas.
He was born in New Ipswich, N. H., April 8, 1859, the son of Elihu Thayer (Dartmouth 1851) and Nancy Aldana (Cutler) Quimby. His home was in Hanover from 1864, when his father came to Dartmouth as professor of mathematics. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
The first year after graduation he was connected with the U. S. Coast Survey. He then taught for a time, being at Rubby Academy, Wilmington, Del., in 1883-4 and at North Conway, N. H., in 1884-5. He then studied law for some time, at first in New York City, and finally with Judge David Wills at Gettysburg, Pa. He practiced the profession for some years in Gettysburg, and then removed to Philadelphia, where he was associated with George TBisel, law publisher. A few years since, he retired from active business.
In October 1889 he was married to Jane W-, daughter of David and Catherine Jane Will5 of Gettysburg, who died August 31, 184°- Three daughters survive them: Mrs. Thomas Preston of Philadelphia, Mrs. Alda C. New- comer of Media, and Mrs. Harold Walker of Philadelphia. There are seven grandchildren-
News has only recently been received of the death in San Francisco, Cal., October 3, 1939, of CHARLES FRANCIS GARDNER, who was connected with the class for a part of freshman year.
Very little is known of his history. He was born in Sacramento, Cal., November 13, 1857, and was for many years a lawyer in San Francisco.
1885
SAMUEL HENRY HUDSON died at his home in Boston on February 3, 1943, as the result of an attack of pneumonia, which he suffered last November.
He was born in Nahant, Mass., October 18, iB6O, and was the son of Samuel and Mary (Hawks) Hudson. He prepared for college at the Nahant High School, entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1881 with the class of 1885, and graduated in regular course with the degree of A.8., and later received the degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater.
He earned funds for his college expenses by serving as librarian of the Nahant Public Library during college vacations, and as an assistant in the College Library in his junior and senior years, and by tutoring.
He was a diligent student, popular with his classmates and active in class affairs. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, an editor of the Aegis, and gave the "Chronicles" at the Class Day exercises; in his senior year he was appointed by President Bartlett as chairman of the committee which that year began the construction of the foundation and erection of the Tower in the College Park. He possessed a keen sense of humor, with a gentle satire, which made him a welcome companion and an entertaining speaker.
Having decided upon the legal profession, he entered the Law School of Boston University, and was graduated with the class of 1889 with the degree of LL.B., and that same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and began his practice in Boston, continuing in private practice for the next five years, during which, in 1892, he was admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Court.
In 1894 he was appointed an assistant city solicitor of the city of Boston, and during the ensuing twelve years he continued in that office and as first assistant corporation counsel of the city until he resigned in 1906 to return to private practice, and shortly thereafter he and Philip Nichols, another well-known Boston lawyer, were associated in practice under the style of Hudson & Nichols for about ten years. Subsequently Mr. Hudson continued in practice alone up to the time of his death.
The experience which he had gained and the ability which he had shown in public office led to his appointment by Governor Curtis Guild in 1906 as a member of the then new Licensing Board of the City of Boston, on which board he served for the following eight years—for the last two years as chairman.
In 1909 and 1910 he was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Boston Public Library as a member of its Examining Committee, and served as chairman of its subcommittee on Administration and Finance; in recognition of his wide experience and intimate knowledge of municipal affairs he was urged to become a candidate for the office of mayor of Boston, but he declined, preferring to continue in his private professional practice rather than to become actively involved in municipal politics.
He was always a loyal supporter of his college and his class, serving as a member of the Finance Committee of the Tucker Alumni Fund and as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston, and was deeply interested in the Dartmouth Educational Association of Boston, the object of which was the financing of deserving Dartmouth students.
One of his most important and enduring services for his class and his college was his inspiring and efficient leadership, beginning in 1900, in organizing and promoting the permanent "Class Fund of '85," which resulted in the turning over to the College by his class at Commencement in 1915, on the thirtieth anniversary of its graduation, the aggregate amount in cash of $10,000 without any restrictions, which was several times larger than any other class had, up to that time, presented to the College.
He held membership in various professional and social organizations, including the Bar Association of the City of Boston, the Dartmouth Alumni Association, the University, the City, the Curtis, and the Abstract Clubs.
He had traveled widely, both at home and abroad, having taken two extended European trips and one to Alaska.
On February 2, 1916, he was married to Emilie W. Potter of Newton, Mass., and their residence has continued to be in Boston, with a summer home in Hingham, Mass.
His funeral services, held on February 5, were private with burial in the Newton Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
He is survived by his widow and by a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Hudson Hawley of Bristol, Conn., widow of the late Arthur D. Hawley, the latter being a classmate of his at Dartmouth; he is also survived by a nephew, Hudson Roswell Hawley, now engaged in newspaper work with the Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
1889
THOMAS FLYNN died January 17, 1943, at the home of his daughter in Boston, Mass.
He was born in Machias, Maine, December 23, 1859, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (O'Connovan) Flynn. He attended the country schools of Maine and entered Dartmouth with the class of '89 C.S.D., but left college junior year. Later he entered the Thayer School, but did not graduate. He married November 27, 1889, in Concord, N. H., Annie Gurley.
In his younger days after leaving the Thayer School his chief interest was in the civil engineering profession, where he could apply his excellent knowledge of mathematics, but in later years failing eyesight prevented him from devoting his time exclusively to his profession. At different periods of his life he worked as a stonecutter, a surveyor, a map and atlas maker, a teacher. This took him to many parts of the United States in the East, to the South as far as Kentucky, to Newfoundland in the North. He worked on one of the first electric street car lines in Manchester, N. H.
The parents of Thomas Flynn were born in Ireland. When very young they came to America with his grandmother to escape the famine and political upheavals in Ireland in the early 1840's. They settled in Maine, married upon becoming of age, and brought up their children in New England. When death came, they were buried in Penacook, N. H. From this background Thomas Flynn naturally took keen interest in Irish history and politics. He also made a thorough study of American history and politics, and became especially interested in the labor movement and all problems affecting the workingman. This led to his taking a deep interest in the United Labor Party, headed by Henry George, candidate of that party for mayor of New York in 1886, and again in 1897. He was an ardent follower of William Jennings Bryan, and also took great interest in the career of Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate for president in the first four presidential elections of the 20th century.
In recent years he spent his summers in Gaylordsville, Conn., and his winters, except last winter, with his daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Felton, at her home, 55 Forest Hills St., Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. A year ago he spent the winter with his daughter, Anna Katherine Flynn, in New York City. While there he often laughed and said to her that he always had "a roving commission." He was ever fond of telling stories of the interesting people he had seen and heard speak.
The death of his only son, Thomas, in 1936, affected him very much, and his condition due to the infirmities of age was aggravated, resulting in a shock, by the death of his daughter, Mrs. Bina Bobba, who died in Albany, Cal., December 10, 1948, leaving three children.
Thomas Flynn is survived by three daughters: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of New York City, a labor leader (A.B. Hunter College); Anna Katherine Flynn of New York City, school teacher, (A.M. Columbia University); Mrs. Evelyn Felton of Jamaica Plain, a former student at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Seven grandchildren also survive.
Thomas Flynn never attended a reunion of Dartmouth '89, but in late life he showed much interest in his associations with the class.
Letters written in his characteristic style appear in the 1938 and 1940 Class Reports. In his last communication he wrote; "David Blakely was one of the noblest men I have ever known—kindness personified—how shall we get one to take his place?"
1891
WILLIAM THOMAS BAILEY died January 16 at the Phillips House, Massachusetts General Hospital, where he had gone for an operation.
He was born in Nashua, N. H., November 19, 1869, the son of William Wallace (Dartmouth 1854) and Mary Webster (Greeley) Bailey and prepared for college at Nashua High School. For our "Book of Remembrance" he wrote: "I received a degree at the end of four years by the grace of the faculty. My interests while in college were mostly extracurricular. Never knew what it was to study with an object in view until I entered the medical school." He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Casque and Gauntlet.
Following college he spent three years in a Nashua bank, and then entered Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1900. The next year he studied at Vienna University, Austria. After serving as house surgeon at Boston City Hospital for two years, he began practice in Boston, and for the past 20 years had specialized in anaesthesia. Until 1916 he was medical director for the Boston Edison Company.
For many years he was first lieutenant and surgeon with the First; Corps Cadets. He had been president of the Boston Anaesthesia Medical Society.
He never married. Funeral services were held at the Waterman Chapel in Boston, and his ashes are to be placed in the lot behind the Unitarian church in Nashua.
1898
ISRAEL AUBEY died in Framingham, Mass., February 8 after a six months' illness from hardening of the arteries.
He was born in Newport, Vt., December 28, 1875, the son of Israel and Elvira Aubey, and prepared for college at Manchester (N. H.) High School. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
From 1898 to 1900 he was a civil engineer and inspector of construction of elevated structure for the Boston Elevated Railway and in a similar position with the New York Transit Commission. Since 1900 he has been with the Metropolitan (Mass.) Water Commission as assistant engineer and superintendent of Water Division, Sudbury Section, Metropolitan District Commission. He was a Republican and a Baptist.
September 3, 1904, he was married to Jennie J. Rines of Framingham. They have one son, Millard H., bom March 23, 1910, now an officer in the U. S. Navy and on duty somewhere in the Pacific.
"Jim" Aubey was one of the quiet men in the class, always loyal to Dartmouth and to '9B. Of late years Mr. and Mrs. Aubey lived on the beautiful and extensive grounds and in the comfortable home assigned to the superintendent of the Water Division. They generously shared this ideal place for a reunion with '98, much to our happiness 'and satisfaction.
The funeral was in Framingham on February 12. We shall all miss our kindly and genial host. He leaves his faithful wife, son Millard and his wife Natalie, and their son Millard H. Jr., born 1932.
1902
WILLIAM HENRY MURRAY, Professor of Modern Languages at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, died at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover on January 25, following a sudden heart attack on Main Street as he was walking to an early-morning class. Taken to the hospital, he rested comfortably for a few hours and then quickly passed away about noon.
Professor Murray had been a member of the Dartmouth faculty ever since his graduation from the College in 1902. Starting as an assistant in modern languages, he was appointed instructor at the Tuck School in 1905, and successively became assistant professor in 1916 and full professor in 1918. He served as acting dean of Tuck School in 1931, and during 1918-19 he assumed the duties of secretary of the School. In the early years of his teaching career he traveled to France, Germany, and Puerto Rico to study modern languages at first hand, and in 1913 he attended the University of Dijon in France. Dartmouth in 1919 awarded him the Master's degree.
Professor Murray took an active part in the community life of Hanover and for 30 years served as Democratic supervisor of the checklist. He also was moderator of the school district and a trustee of the Howe Library. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language Association of America, Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and Dragon society. He also was a 32d degree Mason.
Professor Murray was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, on January 6, 1878, the son of Archibald and Margaret (Bryant) Murray. In 1888 his family moved to Lancaster, Mass., where he had his early schooling and where later, in 1906, he was married to Miss Helen C. Farnsworth, who survives him. He also is survived by a son Donald A. Murray '33, a language instructor at Beloit College, who is now serving with the Army Air Corps, and by a daughter, Mrs. Walter V. Brown of Lancaster, Mass.
Funeral services were held on January 28 at the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, with the Rev. Chester B. Fisk officiating. Three of Professor Murray's classmates and colleagues on the Dartmouth faculty—Professors Arthur H. Chivers, Leland Griggs, and E. Bradlee Watson—served as honorary bearers. The body was placed in a vault in Hanover, and burial will be in Lancaster, Mass., in the spring.
1903
GEORGE LEON PEIRCE of 35 Chester Rd., Belmont, Mass., died suddenly of a heart attack while making a business call in Haverhill, Mass., on July 23, 1942.
He was born in Wakefield, Mass., January 16, 1881, son of Dr. George H. and Eva (McCurdy) Peirce. He attended the Wakefield and Somerville public schools before entering Dartmouth and was with the class only during freshman year.
In May, 1903 he was married to Ruth Leighton, and they had one child, George Leighton Peirce (Dart. '26), born April 9, 1904. For the past 25 years George was a sales- man for the Rutland Fire Clay Company. Burial was in the Forest Hills Cemetery.
He leaves his widow, who still resides in Belmont, and his son, George L. '26, who is a Boston optician. The late Carroll F. Pierce '13 was a brother.
1904
JOHN WALTER CRONIN, died suddenly January 26 at his home in Watertown, Mass.
He was born in Weymouth, Mass., April 4, 1882, the son of Thomas J. and Mary A. (Fitzsimmons) Cronin, attended Weymouth public schools and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1904 and from Harvard Law School in 1907.
He became a trial lawyer for the Boston Elevated Railway in 1907, and in 1912 was employed as attorney by the Massachusetts Employees Insurance Association (later the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company). He was appointed general attorney for the company in 1917 and in 1922 was elected vice president and general counsel. He had been general counsel of the United Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 1929, and also a director of F. H. Birch Company.
Mr. Cronin was a member of the Boston, Massachusetts, and American Bar associations and Massachusetts representative to the house of delegates of the American Bar Association. In 1940 and 1941, he was chairman of the insurance law section of the American Bar Association and ex-officio member of its house of delegates. Also, he was a member of the American Judicature Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Oakley County Club, and the board of governors of the University Club of Boston.
He leaves his widow, the former Emma E. McKenna of Providence, whom he married in 1915; three daughters, Elizabeth, Carol, and Jean Cronin; and two sisters, Mrs. William W. Neagle of Winchester and Miss Anna Loretta Cronin of Newton.
Funeral services with a solemn high mass of requiem were held at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Belmont, Mass. Burial was at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, South Weymouth, Mass.
Jack's devotion and love for his fine family; his enthusiastic good fellowship; keen memory in reminiscence; and his genial and sincere friendship will leave with his college contemporaries enriched memories of a rare personality and a character broader and greater than might be indicated by the positive influence and success he achieved as an executive in the insurance world.
1907
CHARLES DANIEL RYDER, a member of this class during freshman year, died January 5 in Los Angeles, Cal.
He was born in Medina, Ohio, June 15. 1885, the son of Rev. Charles Jackson and Sarah H. (Tenney) Ryder. He prepared for college at Stamford (Conn.) High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, and was an outstanding athlete. He never lost his love for Dartmouth, and maintained close association with many of his classmates.
By profession Ryder was a civil engineer. During his early professional life he served as city engineer of Stamford, Conn., and participated in the construction of the Hudson Tunnel and the building of the Hotel Taft in New Haven, Conn. Later he was in charge of the construction of a reservoir and pipe line in Canyon City, Colo., a work cited in the Engineering Record as an outstanding accomplishment. Also he originated a formula for log pile barriers included in all engineering handbooks. He pioneered in the field of household electrical refrigerators, and during his later years was identified with efforts to increase gasoline octane rating.
He married Mary Elizabeth Saunders, who survives him, with a son, Charles D. Jr., Dartmouth 1931.
1912
GEORGE WILLIAM HOBAN, head football coach at Lehigh University and widely known in Eastern intercollegiate circles as a football official, died on February 2, 1943, at Bethlehem, Pa., after a heart attack suffered while driving his automobile. Burial was at Claremont, N. H., following funeral services at the Parker Memorial Church on the Lehigh campus.
He was born at Claremont, N. H., on September 27, 1888. After graduating from Stevens High School in 1908 he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1912, transferring in his junior year to Lehigh University, where he received his A.B. Degree in 1915. While at Hanover, with his brother "Bud" Hoban, George was prominent in athletics, playing on the football team for three years. He was a member of Lehigh's famous football "wrecking crew," which in 1914 scored eight victories against one defeat, winning from Yale by a score of 20 to 3.
Upon his graduation from Lehigh University he entered the sporting goods business at Baltimore, Md., and had a highly successful coaching career at St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. For a number of years he officiated at intercollegiate football games throughout the East.
Last spring he became the third Lehigh alumnus to become the head football coach at Lehigh University, succeeding Glen W. Harmison when the latter resigned to accept a commission in the United States Naval Reserve.
He is survived by his widow, Mildred M. Hoban, a son, William M., who is serving with the Army Air Force, a daughter, Jean Elinor, his brother and classmate Bud Hoban, and a sister.
1914
CLYFTON CHANDLER died January 16 at Wyman House, Cambridge, Mass., after a two weeks' illness of double pneumonia. Cliff had suffered a previous attack early last fall, and apparently the strain was too great when a recurrence set upon him.
He was born in Plymouth, Mass., March 1, the son of William Churchill and Helen Louise (Collingwood) Chandler, and prepared for college at Plymouth High School. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, which later he served as a graduate representative.
After a graduate year in the Tuck School, Cliff began his active career in Boston', representing the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of New Jersey. During the first World War he was a lieutenant of Army Ordnance. For the past eight years he had been an executive of the Gulf Oil Company, with assignments in several eastern cities.
September 14, 1922, he was married to Marguerite Josephine Hardy of Huntington, Mass., who with three children, Clyfton Jr., 19, Marguerite, 8, and Carolyn, 3, survives him. The funeral services were held in Bigelow Chapel, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. Interment was at Plymouth, Mass.
Class secretary, active in class and Alumni Fund affairs, Cliff Chandler acquired and held a host of friends, who will mourn the loss of so typical a Dartmouth graduate. To his family the class expresses its keen regret at their loss and ours.
PHILIP CRANSTON HARVEY died December 21, 1942, in New York City, following an illness of two years.
He was born in Des Moines, lowa, August 3, 1892, the son of Leon Addison and Lulu (Cranston) Harvey.
From 1916 he was in the employ of the Texas Company, and was in Japan for the company in 1920-23. Ill health compelled his retirement in November 1940. In 1917-18 he was a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U. S. Navy. Since his retirement he had lived in Hillsdale, N. Y.
He is survived by his widow, Marie, and a daughter, Virginia. Funeral services and burial were in Hammond, Ohio.
EDWARD ALBERT LAVIN died in Hartford, Conn., December 26 (or 27), 1942. He was born in Boston, Mass., August 20, 1888, and prepared for college at Boston College Preparatory School.
He had been connected with the Eastern Advertising Company in Boston, but no other information has been obtained.
1921
WILLIAM HENRY CLARK JR. died the evening of Dec. 18, 1942, of a heart attack suffered in the Park Lane Hotel, New York, where he had gone to attend a .party given by friends. He was born Jan. 28, 1900, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of William Henry and Ida Constance (Montgomery) Clark.
Preparing for college at Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, Bill Clark was with us in Hanover for freshman year. He was a member of Kappa Sigma, and also of the Dramatic Association orchestra. Later he attended Columbia, and studied at the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance of New York University.
Starting his business career as a salesman for Merrill Cox & Cos., New York, Bill in 1931 became identified with the banking firm of Spencer Trask & Cos. in the capacity of manager of the institutional department. Ten years later he accepted a similar position with Young & Ottley, Inc., also of New York, and in the summer of 1933 was made vice president and treasurer of C. W. Young & Co., Inc. On Aug. 15, 1935, Bill became associated with the New York Stock Exchange firm of Reynolds & Co. and at the time of his death he was a general partner of the firm and manager of their bank division.
On June 25, 1921, Bill was married in New York to Lillian May Hicks. They had one son, William H. Clark 3d. More recently the family had been living in Scarsdale, where Bill was a member of the Scarsdale Golf Club. Bill Clark was a man who had a great capacity for making friends. His loss is one which will be deeply felt by the class of 1921, as well as by his friends and business associates.
1938
The shock we get in hearing that one of our classmates has met death is not diminished by the fact we ordinarily expect to hear of some at a time like this, and premature death always seems to make our scalp creep, regardless of the circumstances. Leon Canfield gave his life for his country last month. Our indebtedness to the spirit of men like Bill cannot be measured, and the words of an obituary rarely hit upon the poignancy of the regret we actually do feel. The feelings of all of us are deep in this notice, however.
LEON WILLIAM CANFIELD was born in New York City on November 9, 1915, the son of Dr. Leon Hardy and Luella Martha (Kenyon) Canfield. He graduated from the high school in Leonia, N. J., before coming to Dartmouth. At college he was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club, the Ledyard Canoe Club, and Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
Upon graduation from Dartmouth, he took up a position with the New York Telephone Company, but in 1939 he went to work in the technical division of Bendix Aviation Corporation, where he remained until the time of his enlistment in the Naval Air Corps in 1940. Later he was transferred to the Navy. April 8, 1942 he married Ann Grover of Providence, R. 1., who survives him, as do his parents and a sister, Mrs. Howard Yeager, of May wood, N. J.
He was killed in action in the Solomons at his battle station on his ship on November 15.
1941
LT. NICKERSON BLOOD was killed in an airplane crash at the Waco, Tex., Army Flying Field on January 31. The accident occurred about a mile from the field when Nick and an enlisted man were bringing their plane in for a landing after a routine flight.
The son of Robert M. (Dartmouth 1906) and Olive (Nickerson) Blood, now of Manchester, N. H., he was born in Newton, Mass., Oct. 5, 1917. A graduate of Manchester Central High School, Nick came to Dartmouth from the Severn School, near Baltimore, Md. At college, he was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity and majored in English.
He entered the Army Air Force shortly after graduation, and received his wings at Kelly Field in March 1942. After being commissioned, he served as an instructor of basic students at Goodfellow Field, Tex., and then at Waco. In January, he was promoted to a first lieutenant.
In addition to his parents, he leaves a brother, Lt. Rogers Blood of the United States Marines (Dartmouth '44) and a sister, Lt. Elizabeth M. Blood, USNR, of the WAVES.
