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.]

Richardson, William I. 'BB, Dec. 7 Morrill, Nelson E. B. 'B9, Nov. 17 Folsam, Fred G. '95, Nov. 11 Hubbard, George M. 'O2, Nov. 12 Hankins, William E. '2l, Nov. 25 ♦Pettengill, George 3rd '32, Nov. 24 *Maloy, Joseph H. '4O, Oct. 22 *Munroe, John T. '4l, Nov. 19 *Buck, Orlando J. '42, Sept. 18 *Wells, Robert H. '42, Nov. 29 Hammond, Otis G. 'oBh, Oct. 2

In Memoriam

1889

NELSON EDWIN BAKER MORRILL died November 17 at the home of his son, Scott E. Morrill, 8 Florence St., South Portland, Maine, where he had lived in recent years.

He was born September 4, 1867, in Rochester, N. H., a son of Jedediah and Lucy A. (Tibbetts) Morrill. He prepared for college at the Rochester High School and entered and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 'B9. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and at Class Day, he delivered the Address to the Old Chapel. He had not attended any class reunions, and few classmates had seen or heard from him since graduation.

After leaving college, for nearly two years he was with the Kiesel Fire Brick Company in Rochester, then for a year with the Rochester Loan and Banking Company. He had been a member of the Rochester school board and of the board of assessors. During his residence in Portland, Maine, he had served as treasurer of the Portland Water Company, and as registrar of the Standish Water Company.

On November 12, 1903, he married Mary F. Kelley in Rochester, who died in 1933. Of this union there were two children, Scott Ela and Ruth Eleanor, both born in Portland. Scott married Stella Davis of Kennebunk, Me., and Ruth married John Robert Hanson of Berwick, Me.

For more than fifty years he held membership in Masonic orders in Rochester. He also was a member of Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar.

Surviving him, besides his son, are his daughter Ruth (Mrs. John Robert Hanson) of Pasadena, Calif.; three grandsons, children of his daughter, a sister, Mrs. George E. Greenfield, and a brother, J. A. Morrill, both of Rochester.

SHERMAN, HOBBS died at the Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., on November 25, after several years of poor health.

He was born January 29, 1865, in Pelham, N. H., the son o£ Alpheus G. and Helen (Simpson) Hobbs. He prepared for college at McGaw Institute, Reeds Ferry, N. H. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 'B9, but his father's death in 1887 caused him to leave college in mid-winter of junior year and return to his father's farm in Pelham, upon which he was born, to care for his mother and only sister. He had no brothers.

On April 29, 1899, he married Ildie Prescott of Pelham. They lived upon the family farm until 1916, when, his mother having died in 1908, he sold the farm and bought a house in Pelham Center, where they made their home the rest of his life.

He was long prominent in town affairs. In World War I he was local food administrator and chairman of the Committee on Public Safety. He had been tax collector of Pelham. For many years he was chairman of the board of selectmen. He took a keen and active interest in the Public Library and served long and faithfully as chairman of the board of library trustees. He had represented his town as a member of the New Hampshire Legislature.

Although prevented from completing his college course, he continued an enthusiastic and loyal 'Bger until his death. He was the first to pay his class dues in October last, which was characteristic of him. He attended many of his class reunions and, although ill, he came to the 50th reunion. Increasing infirmities prevented his attendance at the 55th reunion last June, but in a letter he expressed his great regret at not being well enough to be present and sent his greetings and best wishes to his classmates.

His sister, Helen A. Hobbs, married Dr. Fred L. Smalley, Dartmouth 'g4, of Lebanon, N. H„ a brother of Bertrand A. Smalley of Boston, Mass., a member of the same class. She died several years ago, leaving an only child, Faith Smalley, now Mrs. Faith Abbott of Brookfield, Mass.

His wife died August 25, 1940. They had no children. After her death he secured the efficient services of Mrs. William S. Koehler, who took charge of his home and faithfully devoted herself to caring for his comfort and needs up to the time of his death.

The nearest surviving relatives are his sister's daughter, Mrs. Faith Abbott, and several cousins.

Funeral services were held at his late home, and internment was in the family lot in Gibson cemetery, Pelham.

1894

Seven '94 graduates were also graduates of the Thayer School. Of these seven, three have died, FRANK HAMANT TROW, whose death took place December 4, being preceded by Ford and Thurston.

Trow was also one of four men who came from Hudson, Mass., High School. He is the second of these to go, the other being Taylor. Frank Trow was an unusually modest man, but when he was asked to write about himself for the Fifty Year History, he let himself go with a most interesting and revealing letter. He came up what is now conventionally known as the "hard way." Though a graduate of the best engineering school in the country, he took what he could get on graduation, "and all I did for about a year was to hold a rod and chop brush. But I continued with the Metropolitan Water Board for twelve and a half years, working up slowly through the various grades, *and when my boss took a better position .... they promoted me to Division Engineer in charge of Wachusett Dam, and I was responsible for the final estimate of $1,600,000."

In 1908 he went with Winston and Company as chief engineer, and took charge of the Ashokan Dam Project for New York City, which was one of the largest projects in the United States up to that time. "Besides the regular construction work, which required about 40 miles of temporary railroad to handle the materials, we built a camp to house about 3000 people, with waterworks, sewers, electric lights, fire and police departments, a hospital, three additional schools, and a national bank. Besides my regular engineering work with a corps of about twelve engineers, I had to look after the waterworks, was sole school trustee, and a director of the national bank."

After having worked twenty-four years without losing a day, in 1919 Frank decided to give up engineering and have a home of his own; so he bought a 220-acre farm at Red Hook, New York, but a $25,000 fire drove him back to engineering and to Winston and Company. In the spring of 1927 he told his wife he would be away about three days, but was actually gone two years, being principally engaged in building a railroad, for which he had never had any particular preparation. However, he thought of the instruction he had received from Professor Fletcher as to tackling the "impossible," and he built the railroad. It ended in a lawsuit in which he was the principal witness and came up against Honorable James F. Byrnes, who is now the first assistant of President Roosevelt. However, Frank knew engineering better than did Mr. Byrnes, with the result that after it was all over the latter shook hands with him and said, "I could not faze you, could I?"

In 1931 Frank retired from engineering for good and devoted himself to his farm, with apples and turkeys as the main crops. Here he had his difficulties with the depression and government restrictions, but manifested the same imperturbable spirit that, had characterized him in his engineering. In his later days he was handicapped by almost complete deafness, which he had contacted in his Wachusett Dam work. This, however, seemed only to deepen his fellowship with the class. Even though his communication was limited, no one enjoyed the Matt Jones roundups and the reunions more.

Frank was born in Hudson, April 24, 1871, and so was well on in his seventy-fourth year at the time of his death, which took place at the Rhinebeck, N. Y., Hospital, after an illness of about a week. He was married in 1900 to Sadie L. Sawyer of West Boylston, Mass. Mrs. Trow survives with three children, all married: Marion L., Stanley W., and Harold S., with three grandchildren. Stanley is in Washington, D. C., Harold is on the farm with his mother, and Marion lives near-by in Kingston, N. Y.

His funeral was held at West Boylston, Mass., December 6, the Class being represented by Parker and C. C. Merrill.

1895

FRED GORHAM FOLSOM ("F. I." to his classmates) died November 12 in the Veterans' Hospital at Hines, 111., of kidney infection, after four weeks of critical illness.

The son of William Franklin and Lily (Hopkins) Folsom, he was born in Old Town, Me., November 9, 1873. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

In the fall of 1895 he entered the Law School of the University of Colorado at Boulder, after starring in football at Dartmouth, and graduated as LL.B. in 1898. He then began practice at Denver as a partner of the late William Casley. In 1902 he returned to Boulder to practice his profession, and in 1906 became professor of law in the University. He served in that capacity, and was also physical training director and football coach until 1915. His teams won 41 out of 57 intercollegiate games.

June si, 1917, he entered the Army as first lieutenant in the Colorado National Guard, and served in France to February 1919, being promoted to Major and Judge Advocate. He was discharged in May 1919. He then returned to his University work at Boulder, becoming finally emeritus professor.

In 1906 he was married to Mary E. Elwell of Pueblo, Colo. They have had two sons, Fred and Franklin (the latter being a member of the class of 1928 in freshman year), and two daughters, Sarah and Helen.

Cremation services were held at Hines, and later a memorial service at the University.

1911

On November 8 the body of CARROLL RAYMOND WARD was discovered by a maid in his room in the Dartmouth Club of New York. He had taken his life by hanging.

The son of Charles Edwin and Harriet Angeline (Elmer) Ward, he was born in Buckland, Mass., October 8, 1888. He was valedictorian of his class and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he obtained the degree of A.M. from Princeton in 1912, and from Yale that of LL.B. in 1916 and of J.D. in 1920.

He practiced law with eminent success in New York City and in Springfield, Mass., and was for a time instructor in law at Emory University, Georgia. He retired from practice some years since, and lived first at the Yale Club and then at the Dartmouth Club, where he was absorbed in astrology.

He was somewhat of an enigma to his brother alumni, preferring to be by himself, even remaining at his quarters for days studying and writing on astrology. For many years he had no contacts with the Class, but in the last two pr three years had shown up at a few class and alumni gatherings.

He was never married, and his surviving relatives are three sisters.

1921

ALFRED WALSH BARNES LAFFEY died August 14, 1944, in Henrotin Hospital, Chicago, of acute meningitis and streptococcic infection of the blood resulting in a cerebral hemorrhage. A 1 had not had a vacation in more than ten years, and it is believed that fatigue was an important factor in his untimely death. Services were held at Chicago Heights on August 17, and, in accordance with Al's oft-expressed wish, the remains following cremation were taken to Hanover and scattered "to the four winds" from Bartlett Tower.

Al Laffey was born November 4, iBgg, in Newark, N. J., the son of John William and Harriet Josephine (Dunkerley) Laffey. He prepared for college at high school in Paterson and at Stevens Prep in Hoboken. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and, although AI received the B.S. degree in 1922, he was loyal to the class with which he entered and always remained, by choice, a member of '2l.

Following graduation, he was for about six years with General Outdoor Advertising Cos. and C. W. Wrigley Outdoor Advertising. Then followed several years in advertising work with McGraw Hill Publishing Cos. and Manufacturing Confectioner Publishing Cos. From 1933 to 1942, A 1 was with the NationalProvisioner, in 1939 going to Chicago as vice president and general manager of the company. In 194 a he became assistant publisher of Chemical Equipment Preview and FoodEquipment Preview, published by Putman Publishing Cos. of Chicago.

A 1 was married November 27, 1929, in Winnetka, 111., to Ruth M. Pouk. They had two children, Janet and Robert. He was married again on January 18, 1941, at Cleveland, to Lucile A. Filkins, who is the mother of his son, John William, not quite three years old. Lucile writes that A 1 had often spoken of Billy's being in the class of '63 at Dartmouth, and that "I shall carry on for A 1 and if it is to be, he shall be in the class of '63." A 1 LafEey was selected by Ned Price as one of three assistants for the 1944 campaign of the Alumni Fund and did invaluable work for Dartmouth and for '2l. He was an unusually loyal and energetic member of the Class and he will be sorely missed.

HORACE MARTIN WORTHAM died September 14, 1944, at his summer home in Long Lake, Wis., where he had gone the latter part of August to recuperate following an operation. He had been in ill health for some time and the indications were that the gunshot wound which ended his life and been self-inflicted.

"Wat" Wortham was born March 21, 1898, in Tuscola, 111., the son of Horace L. and Nell G. (Martin) Wortham. Preparing at Bellefonte (Pa.) Academy and also at Lake Forest Academy, Wat entered college from Rockford, 111., which had been his home since childhood.

He left Hanover at Christmas time freshman year to enter the department store business in Rockford with his father. In 1932, four years following H. L. Wortham's death, Horace retired from that business and became associated with the Shell Oil Cos. At the time of his death, he was secretary of the Anderson Brass Shops in Rockford.

Horace was married December 26, 1917, to Annette Hogland, who survives him, together with two daughters, Mrs. Jane Wortham Cox of Rockford, and Susan, an undergraduate at Beloit College, and two grandchildren, Judy and Jerry Cox.

1923

RALPH DUNCAN PALMER died October 13 at his home in New York City, of a heart attack, after a long illness.

The son of Joseph Asa and Lettie Alice (Prier) Palmer, he was born in Akron, Ohio, August 2, 1901. He was a member of the class only through junior year, having been previously a student at the University of Akron. He was in the Players' Orchestra and the College Orchestra.

After leaving college he went into journalism, being first as reporter for the Washington Post, then dramatic critic and city editor for the same paper, then managing editor of the Washington Daily News. He then went to New York and was amusement editor of the World-Telegram, and in 1938 joined the United Press, where he was for a time sports editor of the Radio News Division.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Osta Palmer. Clarence A. Palmer 'l6 and John H. Palmer '32 are his brothers.

1927

Material has only just now been received for an obituary notice of DR. WILLIAM MCSPADDEN COPENHAVER JR., who died May 23, 1943.

He was born in Bristol, Va., January 14, igo6, the son o£ Dr. William McSpadden and Emma (Turner) Copenhaver, and prepared for college at the high school of Helena, Mont., where the family home then was. He was a member of Theta Chi.

He left Dartmouth at the close of sophomore year, and later finished his course at the University of Minnesota, where he graduated as A.B. in 1929. He then studied medicine at the same institution, and received the degree of M.D. in 1932.

He had an interneship for a year at Roger Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., and was then for three years doing special work on eye, ear, nose, and throat at New York Post-Graduate Hospital. He began practice in his specialty at Helena, Mont., in September 1937. In November 1941 he received severe injuries to the spinal cord in an automobile accident, and was confined to a hospital until his death.

In April 1937 he was married to Elizabeth Lemman of Anaconda, Mont., who survives him, with their daughter Linda, born in September 1939.

193232

LT. GEORGE PETTENGILL was killed in action on U.S.S. Liscombc Bay in the Gilbert Islands on November 24, 1943. He was rated as missing for a long time, and the report of his death has been now released.

He was born in Seattle, Wash., November 2, 1909, the son of Capt. George and Leila (Price) Pettengill. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

After graduation he was with the Central Hanover Bank, New York City, then with Philip Morris & Cos., and finally with Pepsi-Cola Cos.

In March 1942 he entered the Navy. February g, 1937, he was married to Anne Dieffenbach of Newark, N. J., who survives him. William Van H. Pettengill '37 is a brother.

1933

MAJOR WILLIAM CLARK SCHMIDT was killed in an airplane crash in the Asiatic theater of war on September 23. At the time of his death he was serving as a combat intelligence officer in the Army Air Force.

Major Schmidt was born in Webster Groves, Mo., on July 8, 1910, the son of William O. L. and Edith (Niedringhaus) Schmidt. He attended Webster Groves High School. He was active in athletic and extracurricular activities in high school and at Dartmouth, where he played on the freshman basketball team. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

He left Dartmouth after his junior year to enter Washington University Law School in St. Louis, graduating in 1935. He then became associated with the St. Louis law firm of Cobbs, Logan, Roos, & Armstrong, and as an outstanding young member of the St. Louis bar rose to be a junior partner in the firm.

In March 1942, he was married to Margaret Cornwell. Three weeks after his marriage he entered the Army Air Force as Second Lieutenant. Within a year he was promoted to Captain; and served as Adjutant at Bear Field in Fort Wayne, Ind. He then went to intelligence school, and was subsequently an instructor at two army air bases. He was assigned to Bowman Field when the first combat cargo group was formed, as Intelligence Officer of that group, and he went overseas in August of this year.

Major Schmidt is survived by his wife, a seven-months-o!d daughter, Ruth Cornwell Schmidt, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. L. Schmidt, of Webster Groves, and his sister, Mrs. F. J. Cornwell.

The secretary of the St. Louis Dartmouth Alumni Association writes of Major Schmidt as follows: "Although Clark did not complete his years at Dartmouth, he was one of the most loyal alumni in the city. He held various offices in the local alumni association, including the presidency, and he was active in interesting boys from this vicinity in the College. Clark was one of the best loved members of th,e St. Louis group as well as of his college class. He was a quietly capable person, who was universally liked and who in every capacity always gave his best to his work and his friends. His tragic death brings a great loss to the class of 1933 and the alumni of the College.

CAPTAIN GEORGE RAYMOND METZGER JR. lost his life in France on September 21, 1944. He was serving with the Army Engineers at the time of his death.

Captain Metzger was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on July 3, 1911. He was the son of George R. and Louis (Knepper) Metzger. Prior to coming to Dartmouth he attended the Buffalo State Normal School of Practice. At Dartmouth he was a member of Chi Phi. Among other extra-curricular activities he was active in the following: Green Book, Round Table, Dartmouth Outing Club, Deutsche Verein. Green Key, and The Dartmouth Players. He entered Thayer School in his senior year, and received his C.E. degree in 1935.

His broad interests in the fields of engineering, architecture, city planning and design led him in the years following his graduation from Thayer School into various fields of work, and association with many firms and organizations. He did graduate work in architecture at Princeton and Harvard. For several years he was closely associated with the work of the Buffalo Planning Association. He also worked for the U. S. Engineer Office, Bethlehem Steel Cos., and served a number of other organizations as a consultant in design and planning.

Early in 1942 he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Engineers. For almost two years he served in this country, forming and training engineer detachments. In February 1944 he went overseas, and was stationed in England until this past summer, when he went over to the Continent. No information has been, received as to the circumstances in which he lost his life.

Captain Metzger was not married. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. George R. Metzger, and a brother, John K. Metzger '34.

1935

LT. JOHN HANSON MULLEN was killed in action in Normandy on July 24, 1944.

The son of John B. W. and Stella Taylor (Yeatts) Mullen, he was born in Reading, Pa., September 25, 1913. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

After graduation he was campaign director for Ward, Wells, & Dreshman, and later probation officer for the Berks County Juvenile Court.

He entered the Army February 17, 1941, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and served twenty months on the Aleutian Islands in the Cavalry; was then promoted to First Lieutenant and sent overseas. He was serving with the 119 th Infantry, and had been in France but nine days.

April 22, 1944, he was married to Barbara Brumbach of Reading, Pa., who survives him.

1940

LT. JOSEPH HENRY MALOY was killed in action on Leyte on October 22, 1944.

He was born on Staten Island, N. Y., August 24, 1918, the son of Joseph Henry and Helen (McWilliams) Maloy. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.

After graduation he entered Columbia Law School. He entered the Army in July 1941, was commissioned Second Lieutenant at Fort Benning, and was sent to the South Pacific in March 1943.

His mother survives him, and two sisters.

1941

LT. EUGENE MORGAN VALENTINE was killed in action in Germany on September 19, 1944.

He was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., March 27, 1919, the son of Linden Morgan and Isabel (Boyden) Valentine. He was in college a member of the swimming team, the Glee Club, and the Dramatic Club.

After graduation he became a junior partner in his father's textile firm, L. Morgan Valentine & Cos., New York City.

He entered the Army in April 1942, and became Second Lieutenant, and went overseas last April.

His parents and a sister survive him.

1942

SGT. ROBERT HUNTER WELLS was killed in a plane crash near Nottingham, N. H., November 29.

The son of Harry Artemas (Dartmouth 1910) and Madeliene (Lucky) Wells, he was born in Hanover, December 30, 1920, and prepared for college at Hanover High School. In college he was a member of the ski squad.

He entered the Air Service in September 194 a, and was at the time of his death a top turret gunner.

September 30, 1944, he was married to Myra Barwood of Hanover, who survives him, with his mother, a sister, and a brother, Capt. Edward P. Wells '39.

1943

RICHARD VICTOR MIEHER died on Moemfor Island in the South Pacific on October 17, 1944, of injuries received in action. He was born in Tulsa, Okla., January 26, 1982, the son of Victor C. and Sarah Edith (Lowry) Mieher. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

He entered the Army January 13, 1943.

1944

T/SGT. GEORGE EDWARD BARTON was killed in action over England on October 15, 1944.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Barton of West Orange, N. J., he was born in East Orange, July 3, 1921 and graduated from East Orange High School in 1940. At Dartmouth he was a member of Gamma Delta Chi. He left Dartmouth in the spring of 1942 and attended the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics before he entered the service.

In June 1944, shortly before going overseas, George was married to Anne Williams of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Lake George, N. Y. He was a radio-gunner on a Flying Fortress, and had completed 25 missions and been awarded the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters.

1946

CHARLES WESTON MONCRIEF JR. was killed in action in southern France on August 20.

The son of Charles Weston and Helen Margaret (George) Moncrief, he was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 27, 1935, and prepared for college at Sewanhaka High School.

He left college in May 1943 to enter the Army, was private first class in the infantry, and had been stationed in Africa, Italy, and France.

1947

ALLAN COGSWELL NORRIS was killed in a plane crash near Pensacola, Fla., November 1, 1944.

He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Rolf Clarke Norris (Dartmouth 1911) of Methuen, Mass., and came to college from the New Hampton School, where he was active in football, baseball, and track.

Enlisting in the Navy Air Corps, he had nearly finished his training.

1899

DR. ELBERT ALONZO LANDMAN died October 18 at the Benson Hospital, Haverhill, Mass., of Parkinson's disease.

The son of John and Martha (Aiken) Landman, he was born in Londonderry, Vt., November 24, 1867, and attended Leland and Cray Seminary at Townshend, Vt.

After further study at Johns Hopkins University and an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital he began practice at Plaistow, N. H., where he remained through life. He was actively interested in all that concerned the interests of his town, serving as chairman of the local board of health, founder o£ the Plaistow Light and Power Cos., president and director of the Plaistow Cooperative Bank, director of the Plaistow Construction Cos., and trustee of the Plaistow Cemetery Association, and a member of the local Masonic Lodge.

In 1899 he was married to Pearl, daughter of George W. and Clara (Temple) Barnard, who survives him, with a son, now in military service, and two daughters, also four grandchildren.

LT. JOSEPH H. MALOY '40 was killed in action at Leyte, Philippines, Oct. 22.

KILLED IN HIS HOME STATE, Sgt. Robert H. Wells '42 of a Hanover skiing family died in a bomber crash in Nottingham, N. H.

PFC. CHARLES W. MONCRIEF JR. '46 was killed in action in France on August 20.

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