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.]
Prescott, William W. '77, January si, 1944. Carter, Frank E, '79. Hardy, William P. '87, Porter, Frank M. 'BB, December, 1943. Hanson, Murray '90. Perley, Roscoe D. '91, January 22, 1944. Stoughton, William G. '92, January 31, 1944. Colson, George R. '05. Sinclair, George C. '10. Picken, Marshall W. '14. Anderson, Arnold E. '17, January 12, 1944. Everts, Roscoe S. '25, October 31, 1943. *Holdom, Robert J. '38, July 14, 1943. *Brick, William M. '45, July 28, 1943. Colby, Frank E, M'87, January 10, 1944. Milliken, Clarence W. M'95, November 15, 1943- Dixon, Frank H. Hon. '08, January 27, 1944. * Died in war service.
In Memoriam
1873
REV. SAMUEL WINCHESTER ADRIANCE died in Concord, Mass., December 19, 1943, after a long illness. .
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., January 9, • 853, the son of William and Mary Elizabeth (Harrington) Adriance. During the Civil War the family returned to their former home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and he prepared for college there at Riverview Military Academy. He was the youngest member of his college class, sang in the Glee Club, and was a member of Psi Upsilon.
The first year after graduation, he was employed in the Scribners publishing house in New York, but changed his plans for life and in 1874 entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he remained two years, then transferred to Princeton Seminary, where he graduated in 1877.
He was pastor of the Lloyd Presbyterian church at Highland, N. V.. 1877-80, of the Congregational church at Woodfords, Me., 1880-84, and of the Highland Congregational church of Lowell, Mass., 1884-91. In the Woodfords church he was closely associated with his classmate, Rev. Francis E. Clark, in founding the Christian Endeavor Society, and he was the first secretary of the United Society, serving from 1885 to 1890, and was the compiler of its hymnbook, "Hymns of Christian Endeavor." His health became undermined by his double work of the pastorate and the Society, and he did not again undertake a pastorate, though often preaching for various churches until recent years. In 1892 he made a home in Winchester, Mass., and was a familiar and honored figure in that community until he had to retire to a hospital.
On graduation he was appointed secretary of his class, and so served for 60 years, being long a regular attendant at the annual Secretaries' Meeting at Hanover.
In his years of retirement he had many interests. He was an enthusiastic stamp collector, and a lifelong student of Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. He was a Dickens enthusiast, and read aloud to his wife the familiar volumes many times. Trips to the Azores, Spain, and the Holy Land provided themes for many addresses. In outdoor seasons he was an enthusiastic gardener. For many years he sang in the church choir, and on several occasions conducted musical and religious services for the inmates of the Concord Reformatory.
October 16, 1877, he was married to Lizzie P., daughter of Rev. William C. Whitcomb of Concord, Mass., who died November 12, 1930. Their son William, now deceased, graduated from Dartmouth in 1902, and Robert in 1906. He is survived by his son Robert and his daughter Margaret, Mrs. Frederic B. Withington. There are seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Private funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. Howard J. Chidley (Dartmouth 'O6), and the burial was in Concord.
1877
REV. WILLIAM WARREN PRESCOTT died January 21 at the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium, after a short illness following a period of failing health.
The son of Rev. James Lewis and Harriet M. (Tripp) Prescott, he was born in Alton, N. H., September 2, 1855. His home when in college was at North Berwick, Me., and his college preparation was at Berwick Academy and Penacook (N. H.) Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.
For two years after graduation he was principal of Northfield (Vt.) High School, and then for a year of Montpelier Union School. He was then associated with a brother as editor and proprietor of the Biddeford (Me.) Union and Journal until April 1, 1883, and then took charge of the Watchman and Journal at Montpelier, Vt., where he remained until July, 1885.
He then began his lifework for the Seventh Day Adventist church, in which he had been reared. From 1885 to 1894 he was president of Battle Creek College, Mich. In 1888 he was elected educational secretary of the denomination, and in 1889 was ordained to the ministry. As secretary he was instrumental in organizing Union College at Lincoln, Neb., and added its presidency to his other tasks in 1891-3. In the same period he organized Walla Walla College, Wash., and was its first president. In 1895-6 he made a trip around the world in his work as secretary, and from 1897 to 1901 was in charge of the denominational work in Great Britain. In 1901 he was chosen field secretary for the denomination, and returned to America. From 1902 to 1909 he was editor of the Revieic and Herald. In 1903-5 he was vice president of the General Conference. In 1906-7 he a second official trip around the world. From 1909 to 1916 he was editor of the Protestant Magazine. In 1916 he made an official visit to South America, and in 1917-19 was in the Far East. In 1921-3 he was in Australia and New Zealand, and served for a year as president of the Australasian College. In 1924-32 he was again president of Union College, Neb., and then for a time Bible instructor at Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich. In his last years his activity has been largely in writing for his church papers and other similar work. It will be seen that this is the account of a very active and devoted life. His home since 1903 has been in Washington, which became the headquarters of his church.
July 8, 1880, he was married to Sarah Frances, daughter of Jacob P. Sanders of Penacook, N. H., who died June 10, 1910. Their only son, Lewis William, graduated from M.I.T. in 1915, enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, and was killed in action in 1918. A second marriage, November 27, 1911, was to Daisy Orndorff, who survives him.
1883
Word has recently been received by the Secretary that another of the few remaining survivors of 1883 has passed to the Great Beyond in the person of ROSCOE ALGERNON HUTCHINSON, on January 9 last.
He was born August 23, 1857, the son of John and Susan (Noyes) Hutchinson, in South Abington, Mass. He fitted for college in the high school in his native town and matriculated at Dartmouth College with the class of 1883, with which he graduated in regular course.
While in college he was of a retiring, studious disposition, taking little interest or part in extra-curricular activities. He was a member of Pi Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
After graduating from college he taught school in various towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts but finally retired about three years ago, having no public duties thereafter, but took great enjoyment in his Victory Gardens, as he stated in his letters to me.
Mr. Hutchinson married Miss Ada Howe of Thompsonville, Conn., December 23, 1894, and they celebrated their forty-ninth wedding anniversary, last December. His death was the result of a general breakdown. He had hardening of the arteries and two heart attacks, and finally was the victim of bronchial pneumonia.
Besides his widow he left surviving him two daughters, Mrs. Elise Peterson, with whom he made his home at 240 Pond St., Avon, Mass., and Mrs. Florence Phelan, of West Bridgewater, Mass., and several grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in the Avon Baptist church, and burial was had in the Avon cemetery.
1885
DR. FRANK EDGAR COLBY died at his home in Bow, N. H., on January 10, 1944 from cardiac and respiratory paralysis due to exhaustion.
He was the son of Willoughby and Elenora A. (Crosby) Colby, and was born in Bow, July 26, 1862. He was of Colonial ancestry, being descended from Anthony Colby, who came from England and settled in Amesbury, Mass., in 1630.
He prepared for college in the Concord, N. H., High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1881. The following year he transferred to the Medical Department of the College, and was graduated with the class of 1887 with the degree of M.D. After taking a course in Bellevue Hospital, New York, he practiced medicine for a few years in Epson, Concord, and Auburn, N. H.
Having always been much interested in agricultural pursuits, he soon retired from the active practice of his profession, and thereafter devoted his time to farming, particularly fruit raising, and for many years took a deep interest in the civic affairs of the town, where he spent substantially all of his long life.
During his years of public service he held at one time or another most of the town offices, including eighteen years as a member of the board of selectmen.
He was of a rather retiring and unassuming nature, a lover of outdoor life, and took great enjoyment in hunting and fishing; his ideals of life, as he expressed them in later years to intimate friends, were to live at peace with his neighbors and his own conscience, to be charitable in thought and action and, as far as he was able, to help others; his life exemplified these ideals.
He married Caroline Dubia on June 26, 1387, and the Golden Anniversary of their wedding was appropriately celebrated at a joyful gathering, including their own large family and many friends, at their home in Bow.
He held membership in the New Hampshire Medical Society and in the New Hampshire Horticultural Society, and always maintained his interest in his classes at Dartmouth.
He is survived by his widow, their daughter, Mrs. Anna C. Foote, their five sons, Frank E. Jr., Halstead N., Willoughby A. (Dartmouth 1918), Robert L., and Solon B.; he is also survived by twenty-four grandchildren and by eight great-grandchildren, four of the latter being at present in war service with the Marines and the Navy.
His funeral was held on January 12 at his home, and his five sons and one grandson served as bearers; among the floral tributes was one from his classmates of '85.
Since writing the above, word has come of the death of Dr. Colby's widow on February 8.
1886
NED C. WARDWELL died January 9, 1944, in a Hartford (Conn.) hospital, following a heart attack during Christmas week, although his recovery seemed assured.
He was born in Greenfield, Mass., January 13, 1863, the son of Granville and Ellen M. (Jewett) Wardwell, and so lacked a few days of being 81 years old, though he seemed much younger, due no doubt to his light-hearted, almost whimsical mannerisms and his lively, agile step.
He prepared for college at Winchester, N. H., High School and Cushing Academy, was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi, and was noted for his class and college loyalty. He never missed a class reunion or a Dartmouth Club meeting unless unavoidably prevented, and always contributed to the various college funds.
During his college course he was a familiar figure on the streets of Hanover because of his Star bicycle, the high-wheeler with the little wheel in front, which he always rode. He continued to be an ardent wheelman, but gave up as soon as the auto appeared. His Ford is said to have been one of the first in Hartford, Conn.
For a year soon after graduation he was a traveling salesman, and then for a year secretary of the Fox and Whitmore Cos. of Hartford. In 1890 he became manager of Nims, Whitney & Cos., sash, door, and blind manufacturers, and continued with them until the company dissolved, in 1918. In 1912 he entered the real estate field as secretary and treasurer of the West Hartford Realty Cos., and developed one of the most beautiful sections in the Hartford suburbs, the Buena Vista estates at West Hartford. There he built a home commanding one of the finest views in the state.
June 13, 1888, he married Kate M. Abbott of Winchester, N. H., who was his companion until her death fifty years later. They had no children. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Jennie L. Hutchins of Glenncliff, N. H.
1887
The class of '87 suffers its fourth bereavement within a short period in the death at Tujunga, Cal., December 22, 1943, of Rev. WILLIAM PRESCOTT HARDY.
He came to Dartmouth from Amherst in our junior year. His exceptional Christian qualities are well remembered by all his surviving classmates. He possessed a beautifully placid nature, winning an affectionate regard from all his associates, both in college and during his long life as a clergyman. The profession of divinity was always recognized as his natural destiny.
Hardy was a New Hampshire boy, born at Nelson, January 10, 1862, the son of George G. and Mary (Stevens) Hardy. He was descended from Pineas Hardy, one of the earliest settlers of Hollis, N. H. His health was never of the best, but in spite of this handicap, thrown on his own resources at the age of sixteen, he made his own way educationally and professionally to an important place in Christian work.
He felt the call to the ministry at the age of nineteen, and prepared for college at Deerfield and Cushing Academies. His credo was Congregational. He entered Hartford Theological Seminary in 1887, but was obliged to retire after a year because of ill health. He went to San Bernardino, Cal., where he organized the Bethany Congregational church. He entered Pacific Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1893. He was ordained at San Rafael in 1893, and was pastor there until 1897. He accepted a call to the Vernon church of Los Angeles in 1897, and remained there until 1902. He then moved to Glendale, and served churches at Eagle Rock, and La Canada for a year, then at Sherman to 1907. He was then pastor at Redondo Beach to 1918, going thence to the Berean church of Los Angeles, where he remained until 1937, when his health obliged him to resign and he was made pastor emeritus.
During his latest years he has lived at Tujunga, a health resort near Los Angeles, where he was under constant medical care. He still had work to do, and at the time of his death was an important official of the Bolivian Mission.
July 18, 1888, he was married to Lillie J. Adams o£ Marlboro, N. H. Who died Nov. 21, 1925. On Jan. 20, 1928, he was married to Mrs. Mary Electra Sexauer, who survives him. There were three children by the first marriage, Paul Osgood, Faith (now Mrs. McLain), and Graham Adams, now deceased.
1891
ROSCOE DAMON PERLEY died in Melrose, Mass., January 22, following a heart attack.
He was born August 11, 1864, in South Byfield, Mass., the son of David T. and Abbie S. (Kemp) Perley, and prepared for college at South Byfield High School and Governor Dummer Academy. He was a member of 1891 for only a few months of freshman year. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
In 1,896 he graduated from Harvard Medical School, and after an interneship in various Massachusetts hospitals he began his lifetime practice in Melrose. For the past 40 years he, had been medical examiner for the Third Middlesex District, which includes Melrose, Wakefield, Stoneham, Reading, and Wilmington.
He is survived by his wife, Charlotte Bronte Matthews Perley, a daughter, Charlotte C. Perley, and a son, Roscoe Laurence Perley, all of Melrose.
1906
FRANK HERMAN EASTMAN, vice president and general manager of Gannett, Eastman & Fleming, died in the Harrisburg, Pa., Hospital on January 7 after an illness of three months.
Frank was born March 28th, 1882, on a 150-acre farm at Ft. Ann, near Glens Falls, N. Y., a farm that has been in the hands of five generations of the Eastman family. His parents were Elmer and Lydia (Gilmore) Eastman.
At Dartmouth he played football, and coached football one year at Randolph-Macon in Virginia. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Then he went into engineering work as assistant superintendent for the contractor on a Hudson River tube, built for the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, Brooklyn. Later he was engaged on hydroelectric work and on a big bridge job in Tennessee. He was superintendent of a job in the coal regions in 1920 on which Gannett, Seelye, and Fleming were engineers, and Eastman made such an impression on the Harrisburg engineers that in 1921 they elected him to the corporation, and put him in charge of construction.
Frank planned or supervised some of the biggest construction jobs in the East, and his work took him all over the United States and into South America.
More recently his activity has been on war work. He directed the engineering work of the Indiantown Gap Military reservation, also Camp Reynolds near Erie, the Washington airfield, and a housing project in Virginia.
At the time of his death he was directly connected with eight water companies.
Frank was made a Mason by Lodge No. 238, of Tamaqua, and belonged to Harrisburg Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, Zembo Temple of the Shrine, Shrine Luncheon Club, Engineers Society, and Harrisburg Country Club. The Eastmans had a summer place on Lake George, and annually spent the month of August there.
He was twice married: first, November 11, 1912, to Clara Belle Schleuss of Cumberland, Md.; second, July 11, 1922, to Barbara May Kleckner of Fine, N. Y. He leaves also a daughter, Mrs. Philip S. Blakesly. Whitney Eastman 1910 and Ben Eastman 1916 are brothers.
1909
RUSSELL OWEN ALVORD died at his home, 152 Williams Ave., Winsted, Conn., November 3, 1943. Russ had been confined to his bed for about two years with heart trouble.
He was born December 28, 1885 at Winsted, Conn., the son of S. T. Alvord. He prepared for college at the Bordentown Military Institute at Bordentown, N. J. At college he was a member of the Orpheus Club, Glee Club, and the Choir. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.
After graduation he studied for two years in Munich, Germany, and later for three years at Columbia. He taught school in Englewood and Cranford, N. J., and since 1917 in his home town of Winsted, Conn, until he was incapacitated by his heart trouble. Russ always continued his interest in music and later added gardening to his interests. He took a great interest in the development of the boys and young men he taught. Many of them through later years looked to him for advice and guidance through their early professional and business years and will feel an acute personal loss in his passing.
Russ never married. He is survived by an unmarried sister and another sister, Mrs. William C. Burwell, both of whom live in Winsted.
1910
JOHN WILLIAM FRENCH HOBBS died at the Woodrow Wilson Military Hospital in Virginia on January 10 from an embolism and pleurisy following an operation for prostatic trouble.
He was born May 27, 1887, at North Hampton, N. H., the son of Joseph O. and Annie (French) Hobbs. After graduating from Philips Exeter, he came to Dartmouth to graduate in the class of 1910, then entered Boston University Law School, where he was president of the senior class.
Although he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1914 and opened an office in Somerville, most of his activities were in the real estate field, where as president and general manager of the Hobbs Real Estate Investments he controlled the Hobbs Building in Davis Square and the Somerville Theatre, his brother, Leon 'l4, being associated with him. He was also active in Somerville banking.
A veteran of the First World War, Johnny was in the Army Reserves until February, 1942, when he was called back into active service with rank of Captain in the Quartermaster General's office in Washington, where he worked on contracts after having taken his basic at Camp Lee. He was later promoted to Major. He actually got a thrill out of his active service again, and corresponded with the Class Secretary about his physical fitness, the toughness of the basic training, etc. and had a couple of Reunions in Washington with Bunny Armstrong.
Johnny belonged to Rotary and practically every body of Masonry, was active in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, of whom 85 attended his funeral in a body—as did Somerville Rotary Club. The services were held in the West Somerville Congregational Church on January 15.
Wartime space does not permit writing all that can be said about Johnny Hobbs. He led a very active and full life, was successful in business, was civic, and social-minded, always giving more than he took. Hale, wellmet, short of stature, and carrying an infectious smile, he made hosts of friends easily wherever he went.
He was a loyal Dartmouth man, and was looking forward to the day when at the age of about 71 he would see his young son, Jackie (born in 1936) graduate at Hanover. On June 20, 1922, he married Erminie M. Burnett of Somerville, who survives with Jackie.
1914
MARSHALL WOOLLEY PICKEN died January 29, 1944, at his home in Bellport, Long Island, after a short illness.
Marshall was born in New York City March 10, 1891, and prepared for college at Townsend Harris Hall. In college he was a member of the college choir and was active in dramatics. He took the Thayer School course in senior year.
After graduation Marshall as an engineer was associated with the Public Service mission of New York and later with the engineering firm of Westinghouse, Church, and Kerr. For the past twenty years he has been a member of the bond department of Paine, Webber & Cos.
He is survived by his wife, Mildred Cully; a daughter Audrey (Mrs. Willard French); a son, Marshall Jr.; and a granddaughter, Ann French. Marshall Jr. is a naval ensign on duty in the Pacific area, while Capt. French is a surgeon with troops in Africa. Two brothers also survive, William H. Jr. 'l9 and John.
Marshall's passing will be keenly felt by his host of friends. Always loyal and cooperative in class affairs and possessed of a cheerful nature and an outstanding sense of humor, he will be missed. As Bilk Hands, to whom the class is indebted for this notice and who represented the class at the funeral, writes: "Every one must recall Marshall Picken with a sense of pleasant memory. He was' a most lovable person."
1917
JOSEPH THOMAS DAVIES died November 12, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pa., five days after an emergency operation.
Joe was born in Connellsville, Pa., July 17, 1891, the son of Abraham Lincoln and Clara (Frank) Davies. He attended the Knoxville, Pa., public schools, and was a graduate of the Knoxville High School. Entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1913, Joe stayed only two years, and then transferred to the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Although with us only a comparatively short time, he made a definite place for himself in the class, and maintained the friendships through the years that followed. His wife writes that "he had a great love for Dartmouth and talked much about it."
Joe enlisted October 3, 1917, as a private in the Infantry but later transferred to Field Artillery, serving for some time with Battery E of the 147 th Battalion. He went overseas on March 26, 1918, and participated in the Chateau-Thierry and Meuse-Argonne offensives. From March 1 to July 1, 1919, he attended the University of Montpellier, and was discharged July 29 of that year.
For a number of years after his army service, Joe was with the American Manufacturing Cos. Pittsburgh, makers of wooden specialties. About 1937 he changed to the Equitable Gas Cos., Pittsburgh, where he remained until his death.
January 19, 1920, he was married to Mary Green of Pittsburgh, who survives him. with their two sons, Ensign Joseph Thomas Jr., USNR, and James Frederick, AS USNR. To them the class extends its sincere sympathy.
ARNOLD ETI-lELBALD ANDERSON died January 12 at his home in West Medford, Mass., after a long illness. The funeral at the First Parish Church in Medford was attended by Phil Evans, Jimmie Jones, Sunny Sanborn, and Mott Brown. Burial was in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose.
Andy was born in Tacoma, Wash., August 31, 1895, the son of Percy Clarence and Jennie (Tollefson) Anderson. His parents moved to Newport, Vt., when he was two years old, and it was there that he attended school, graduating from Newport High School in 1913. At Dartmouth he planned his efforts toward business and Tuck School, which he attended senior year. He was a member of Cosmos Club.
Andy enlisted while he was a senior, in May 1917, and was made a sergeant first class in the Signal Corps, U. S. A. His service was in this country until July 1918, and in France thereafter, taking him into action in the Toul sector in preparation for the November drive which the Armistice forestalled. He attended the University of Montpellier, France, from March until June 1919, and received his discharge at Camp Devens, July 31, 1919.
Andy worked for a short time with Paine, Webber & Company, Boston, and the American Rubber Company, Cambridge, before going with Lever Bros, in 1920. There he remained actively on duty, in later years as office manager of the Edible Sales Department, until forced by ill health to give up in February 1943. He was master of the Samuel Crocker Lawrence Lodge of Masons in Medford in 1942 and thereafter a member of the Past Masters Association of Boston. A member of the Unitarian Church of Medford, he was active in the Laymen's League of thfe church.
On June 26, 1922, in Melrose, he married Evelyn M. Merrill, who survives him, as do his mother, and a sister, Mrs. Leland H. Merrill of Melrose. We wish to express to them our deep sympathy in their loss which we also share. A son, Arnold E. Jr., born March 21, 1923, died April 26, 1926.
Dartmouth and 1917 were major pleasures in Andy's life. He was always present when the class met, and his enjoyment of the meetings was reflected in the others whom he met. Quiet and unassuming, his sincerity was felt by all who knew him. 1917 loses one of its most loyal members in his passing.
1926
LOCK DEAN MORTON died the 23d o£ last May in the Veterans Hospital, Wadsworth, Kansas. Word of his death was slow in arriving, and an unsuccessful quest for additional information caused further delay. The only advice the hospital authorities could give was that Lock, as a veteran of World War I, had been hospitalized for four years before his death.
Born in Westville, Oklahoma, on October 22, 1902, Lock Dean was the son of George and Cherokee (Rogers) Morton. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Bacone Indian College. He was a member of Sigma Nu, and with us in Hanover only for freshman year. Thereafter he taught and served as athletic director at a number of schools in Oklahoma, including Picher High School, Miami High, and Riverside Boarding School.
Lock married Mary Jane Harris of Tahlequah, Okla., but we cannot ascertain who of his family survives him.
