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]
Harlow, George R. '78, August 21 Ryder, Stephen M. '81, August 31 Wild, Levi '83, May 26 Ranlett, Harry W. '87 Banfil, Frank M. '91, June 17 Knapp, Clyde D. '95, February 26 Mitchell, John L. '95, July 5 Forbes, William W. '98, August 31 Redington, John C. '00, July 25 McCaughern, John C. '02, April 9 Groves, Ernest R. '03, August 29 Sayward, Harry M. '03, July 18 Benner, Bancroft '04, September 5 Kelly, Carl H. '05, August 28, 1945 Smith, Howard E. '05 Burns, George T. '09, August 7 Nickerson, Atkins '10, August 9 Hubert, Henry '11, July 5 Mayer, John C. '11, June 16, 1945 Sawyer, Edmund R. '12, August 25 Kirk, Louis H. '13, August 19 Stewart, William H. '17, August 20 Rayner, Balmer J. '18, July 3 Shoup, Oliver H. '18, July 25 Kimball, Donald E. '37, August 9 Anderson, Richard A. '38, August 19 Rutherford, Edwin S. '3B, June 4 *Carver, Samuel M., Jr. '40, April 15, 1945 Higgins, Ralph R. '43, July 27 McCaw, Robert '43, September 17 Taft, Albert A. '95m, August 28 Chase, Daniel R. '05m, May 15 Home, Herman H. '08h, August 16
Died in war service.
In Memoriam
1876
REV. THEODORE CONRAD HUNT died July 8, 1946, at his home in Canoga Park, Calif.
The son of Rev. Nehemiah Asa and Clarissa (Conrad) Hunt, he was born in Marion, Ill., November 14, 1849. He prepared for college at the Preparatory Department of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., and spent his freshman year at Carleton, entering Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
For the first year after graduation he was principal of the high school at Sleepy Eye, Minn., and then entered Chicago Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1880.
Then began a long and honorable career in the Congregational ministry. He was pastor at Prescott, Ariz., 1880-85, serving one year as chaplain of the Arizona legislature; at Riverside, Calif., 1885-96; at Eau Claire, Wis., 1896-97. Then he took two years of study at Chicago University and Chicago Seminary, after which these pastorates followed: Greeley, Colo., 1899-1901; Hastings, Nebr., 1901-04; Riceville, lowa, 1904-08; the Cragin Church in Chicago, 1908-18. He then retired from the active ministry, making his home in Chicago to 1921, then at Riverside, Calif., to 1934, and since that date at Canoga Park.
Dr. Hunt was a member of the original board of trustees of Pomona College from 1888 to 1895. It was largely through his efforts that a vacant land-boom hotel was donated to the newly organized college by the Santa Fe Land and Development Company.
July 20, 1882, he was married to Virginia A. Morrill of Beloit, Wis., who survives him, with three of their four sons.
1883
REV. LEVI WILD died May 26, 1946, at his home in Royalton, Vt.
He was born in Royalton, June 29, 1859, the son of John and Charlotte Elizabeth (Slafter) Wild and the nephew of Daniel G. Wild '57, and prepared for college at Royalton Academy.
He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.
After graduation he prepared for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1886. He had barely entered upon active work in his profession when ill health laid him aside for several years. With the return of health he held several pastorates of Congregational churches in his native state, as follows: Vershire, 1890-1; Ferrisburg, 1891-4; Franklin, 1895-1900; Hartland, 1900-1; Gaysville, 1918-20. During the period between the last two pastorates he was living at the home farm in Royalton, caring for his aged parents, and he returned there at the close of the last pastorate.
November 4, 1891, he was married to Emily E., daughter of David Baker of Glover, Vt., who died December 13, 1944. They have one son, David Baker Wild.
1887
The death of HARRY WYATT RANLETT takes another of the beloved and loyal members of the Class of 1887. He had passed most of his life in business in Spokane, Washington. Not long before his death he asked the surviving members of his family always to continue his customary contribution to the Alumni Fund.
Harry Wyatt Ranlett was born October 24, 1865, Littleton, N. H., the son of Noah W. and Sarah (Wyatt) Ranlett. He attended the local schools and was graduated from Littleton High School in 1883. Four years later he graduated from Dartmouth where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
Following completion of his education "Had," as he was known to his classmates, moved to Spokane and there was later married to Dulcina Mason Frye of Littleton. The family lived there 13 years then returned East and resided in Littleton and then in Rumford, Me. Following the death of his father "Had" and his family went to Canada and then returned to Spokane. During the war "Had" worked daily with the Spokane Air Service Command in civilian civil service status.
Mrs. Ranlett died in November 1941. The couple had two children, Wyatt Frye Ranlett, of Veradale, Wash, and Emily Ranlett of Spokane, with whom "Had" made his home. Besides his children two grandchildren and a brother, Frank H. Ranlett of Littleton survive.
1889
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELLIS died June 17, 1946, in Evanston, 111., where he had resided more than twenty-five years. He was born in Peoria, 111., June 19, 1865, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Esther (Woodworth) Ellis. He prepared" for college at Peoria (Ill.) High School, entered and graduated (A.8.) from Dartmouth with the class of 1889, and there received the honor of membership in Phi Beta Kappa. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi. While in college he was outstanding as a long distance runner. In the Spring Meet of his sophomore year he won the two-mile race over Eastman '87, the colorful Sioux Indian and former popular winner of that race.
Thereafter, throughout his college career, whether at the local Hanover Meet or at the Intercollegiate Athletic Meets in Worcester, Mass., in all of which he participated, he won over all his opponents in the two-mile run. Occasionally he took part in the one-mile run. Here, also, he was always the winner. In foot- ball he played tackle on the 'B7 team, left guard on the 'BB team, and right half on the 'B9 championship eleven. In the latter year he received a gold medal, offered by a New York alumnus through Captain Clarence Howland '84 (captain of the eleven in '80, '81 and '83, known as the father of football at Dartmouth) for "steadiest training and greatest number of points scored."
Following graduation he became an instructor in the Peoria High School where, for six years, he alternated in teaching physics, chemistry, mathematics and botany. Later he was associated with Alex. T. Bagley & Co., Platers and Enamelers, Chicago, Ill., and here for many years he was engaged in the electroplating business, residing during that time in Niles Center, Ill. In 1919 he became treasurer and a substantial stockholder of Kennicott Bros. Co., 1317 West Randolph St., Chicago, wholesale florists, and took up his residence at 2337 Park Place, Evanston, Ill., where he lived at time of death. He thereafter was actively engaged in the wholesale flower commission business of that firm until interrupted by illness a tew weeks before he died of a rare malady resulting in disintegration of bone structure.
On February 2, 1909, he married in Chicago Miss Zula P. Tull, who survives him. Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Fred G. Reed (Elizabeth Ellis), of Arlington, Va., and Miss Margaret T. Ellis of Evanston, Ill., and two sisters, Miss Louise W. Ellis of Concord, N. H., and Miss Elizabeth T. Ellis of Tacoma, Wash.
His interest in the best of literature, drama and art was sincere and alive. He spent his leisure time painting in oil, and did some quite remarkable work. He was asked to exhibit some of his paintings at the annual shows held in Evanston for amateurs, but his modesty would not permit acceptance of these invitations. He possessed an unusual individuality—abundantly shown in the few letters he wrote for his Class Reports.
1894
FRED PORTER CLAGGETT died as the result of a "almost head-on collision" with another car near North Woodstock, N. H., July 4. He was born in Newport, N. H., January 18, 1869, the son of Rufus Porter and Frances (Carr) Claggett, and except when he was getting his education lived there his entire life. His father, was the sheriff of Sullivan County, of which Newport is the county seat
Fred Claggett fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. He made the class baseball team his freshman year at college, playing first base. He did distinguished work in track, for a time holding the college record for the quarter mile run. Philip S. Marden in 1944 spoke of his prowess as a runner as befitting "a lithe and agile body which looks just as lithe and agile now as it did then." His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta, and his senior society, Casque and Gauntlet. He took what was then called the Latin Scientific Course.
He obtained his medical education at the Dartmouth Medical College and had an internship at the Boston City Hospital. He practiced his profession in Newport for almost 50 years "with an industry, skill and readiness for response to any call, that has endeared him to a thriving and populous neighborhood"— (quoting Mr. Marden again). As an editorial in a local paper says: "Not only Newport, but Sullivan County and its adjacent borders will mourn the sudden passing of Dr. F. P. Claggett yesterday afternoon." He was closely connected with the Carrie F. Wright Hospital, and during the governorship of John Henry Bartlett he was on the State Medical Advisory Board. He was also for fifteen years medical referefe for Sullivan County. Engrossed in his profession though he was, he was a member of Knights Templar, the Shriners, and the Congregational Church, in which he served as a deacon.
For a long period he had been viee-president of the Class of '94. He had an almost perfect attendance at reunions and at roundups. Being near to Hanover, one was sure to find him at a football game or a baseball game. His letters for the class reports revealed the intense interest he had in class and college.
He was married August 24, 1898, to Gertrude M. Tubbs, who was fatally and suddenly stricken in the Hanover Inn three years ago. She was active in community and in class affairs, and they had an unusually happy time together. Three children resulted from this marriage: Rogers H., superintendent of the Sunapee Mills; Louise (now Mrs. John Gaines of Buffalo, New York); and Barbara (now Mrs. Mark Heath of Newport). He is also survived by six grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in the Congregational church at Newport and were largely attended by people from the entire countryside, to so many of whom Dr. Claggett had ministered during the years. The Class of '94 was represented by Colby, Lyon, Fred Smalley, Welton, and Stone and by Mrs. Rossiter and Mrs. Huld. Don Colby had procured a beautiful basket of white delphiniums and white carnations, in behalf of the Class. He was also an honorary pall bearer.
1895
JOHN LOUIS MITCHELL, 73 years old, late of Eliot, Maine, died at the Hospital, in Portsmouth, N. H., on July 5, 1946.
After ten days' illness at his summer home in Maine, Mr. Mitchell became a patient in Portsmouth Hospital where he was treated with sulfa and penicillin drugs for chronic heart trouble. He responded well to this treatment temporarily; but suddenly collapsed and passed away.
Mr. Mitchell was born in Hooksett, N. H„ Feb. 1, 1873, and was buried in the family lot in Hooksett adjoining the farmhouse where he was born. He was the son of Abram and Angeline (Eastman) Mitchell, a graduate of Pembroke Academy and of the class of 1895 Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
Burial services were at Buckminster Chapel in Portsmouth, Rev. Sheafe Walker, rector of Christ Church officiating.
For nearly fifty years Mr. Mitchell was a law associate of Hon. John Henry Bartlett, former Governor of New Hampshire. He was formerly City Solicitor of Portsmouth and was counsel for the Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Co., of which he was a director; he was also a director of the New Hampshire S.P.C.C. and S.P.C.A.
Mr. Mitchell is survived by his widow, Alma Nathalie (Kirsch) Mitchell whom he married Dec. 19, 1908; a son, John S. Mitchell of Portsmouth, a talented Church organist; and a brother, Dr. William H. Mitchell, 1893m of Loudon; and a granddaughter, Jean Alma Mitchell of Portsmouth.
1897
REV. BENJAMIN TINKHAM MARSHALL, died in Haverhill, Mass., on June 30, 1946, after a long illness.
Born in Boston August 12, 1872, son of Andrew and Emily (Hentz) Marshall, he was educated at Roxbury Latin School, St. Johnsbury Academy, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, and Union Theological Seminary. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Casque and Gauntlet, won letters in football, baseball, and track, sang in the choir and was excellent in public speaking. In 1900 he married Laura Alice Hatch, of Strafford, Vt. From Dartmouth he received an honorary M.A., and in 1932, the D.D.
His early pastorates after ordination were in the Presbyterian church of Scarborough, N. Y., 1900-1906, and the First Presbyterian church, New Rochelle, N. Y., 1906-1912.
From 1912 to 1917 he was Phillips Professor of Biblical History and Literature at Dartmouth College, where his activities as college chaplain and adviser of the Dartmouth Christian Association, and also his continuing interest in sports, brought him into close contact with a generation of Dartmouth students. In 1917-1918 he kept open house for Dartmouth men in the services stationed in the New London area.
In 1917 he went as its second president to Connecticut College for Women, New London, Conn., which was then but two years old. For eleven years he devoted himself to developing the new college in curriculum, faculty and physical plant. Under him the enrollment more than doubled, and five new buildings were erected. In daily chapel talks, and many other occasions he contributed to the life of the college a quality of personal leadership and human warmth rare among administrators.
After leaving Connecticut College he returned to the active ministry. From 1929 to 1934 he was pastor of Piedmont Congregational church, Worcester, Mass., where he worked unceasingly for the merger of several parishes. After that merger was effected, he gave distinguished service as interim minister to Congregational churches in New England and the Middle West—Newton Center, Mass. (First Church), Minneapolis (Plymouth), Duluth (Pilgrim), Portland, Maine (State Street), Springfield, Mass. (Faith), Gloucester (Trinity). He also often preached in the little Congregational church of Strafford, Vt., his summer home.
Since 1939 he has been pastor of the First Congregational church, Haverhill, Mass., until his retirement for reasons of health in December 1945. He worked for cooperation among the religious denominations and faiths, and for raising the standards of the Christian ministry. In Haverhill he contributed to organizing a local School of Religious Education and served as its dean, inviting a rabbi to teach Old Testament history. He served as moderator of the Essex North Association of Congregational ministers. A man of capacious heart and mind, of a sure faith, in his lifetime he helped hundreds of people through sickness and trouble and death.
He is survived by his widow, and by three of his four children, Andrew Marshall 2d, (Dartmouth '22), Bethlehem, Pa., Mary H. Marshall, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, currently a Guggenheim Fellow, and B. T. Marshall Jr., (Dartmouth '32), Winchester, Mass.; by five grandchildren; by a brother, Andrew Marshall, (Dartmouth 1901) of Boston, and two sisters, Miss Florence E. Marshall, Boston, and Mrs. Ralph Hazen, Concord, N. H.
The funeral was held on July 2, in the First Congregational church, Haverhill, conducted by Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, president emeritus of Union Theological Seminary, an old friend and classmate of Dr. Marshall's. Internment was in Strafford, Vt., July 13.
JAMES N. PRINGLE of the Class of '97 died July 23, 1946, at his home, 44 Merrimack Street, Concord, N. H., after a long illness. Mr. Pringle was born in Ryegate, Vt. on Dec. 2, 1874, the son of Alexander Bullions and Julia Ann (Laughlin) Pringle. He was graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1894 and from Dartmouth College in 1897. The University of New Hampshire conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on him in 1931, a year after he became commissioner.
Dr. Pringle had a long history in the field of education as principal of the Hillsborough High School in New Hampshire, Principal of the Sharon, Mass. High School for 10 years, then District Superintendent in the Jaffrey Area and then Superintendent of Schools in Portsmouth, N. H. He became Deputy State Commissioner of Education for the State of New Hampshire in 1918 and in 1930 was appointed State Commissioner, a position he held until his retirement in January, 1946.
In college he was an athlete—a long distance runner. He was one of those men who could run himself out. He never seemed to tire. He always finished the job in hand through life as he did in his athletic career as a distance runner.
He was a trustee of Austin-Cate Academy in Strafford, and of the Commission of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts. He was a member of St. John's lodge of Masons, Portsmouth, and of the South Congregational church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lillian Chapman Pringle; one son, Nelson G., of Hollywood, Calif.: two grandsons; a brother, Henry N., 'go of Washington, D. C., and several nieces and nephews.
1900
ARTHUR MARTIN died in Springfield (Ohio) Hospital on July 4, 1946, after an illness of long duration. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, on February 27, 1879, a son of W. A. Martin, a publisher, but most of his life was spent in Springfield, where his secondary education was secured in the local high school. He received his degree from Dartmouth in 1900. In subsequent years he did various types of work in Springfield but was unemployed for consid-erable periods. In recent times his contacts with the class have been few.
He is survived by his widow, the former Pauline Amaral, of Hanover, to whom he was married in 1902. A son, Theodore, died at the age of twelve. A brother, William A., is a graduate of the College in the class of 1907.
JOHN CHASE REDINGTON died very suddenly at his home in Franklin, N. H., on July 25, 1946, at the age of 68 years. His funeral, held in the Pressey and Hale Funeral Home in that city on July 28, was conducted by the Rev. Percy E. Johnson of St. Jude's Church. Of the class Butterfield, Dolloff, Dunlap, Jenkins, McDavitt, Prescott, Rankin, Wilson, Wallace were in attendance, as well as Mrs. Woodman and Mrs. Sanborn.
John was born in Chicago on Jan. 25, 1878, the son of Edward D. and Mary (Chamberlin) Redington. His father, a graduate of the College in the class of 1861, was Trustee from 1895 to 1905. John passed much of his youth in Bradford, Vt., and attended school in that place, but was graduated from the Evanston (Ill.) High School in 1896. With his brother Paul (an identical twin) he entered Dartmouth in the class of 1900. During their undergraduate years the two Redingtons were leaders in class and college activities. John was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities, of the Sphinx Senior Society, and was one of the organizing group of Palaeopitus. He was on the class baseball team, a member of the Dartmouth and Aegis Boards and of the Junior Prom Committee.
After graduation, he entered upon a business career which became highly varied in its character, including advertising, production management, pulp and paper research and lithography. In recent years, perhaps influenced by the highly effective career of his late brother Paul in forestry and the preservation of wild life, he took up work in that field, being first associated with the American Forestry Association. Since Jan. 1 of this year he has been Field Secretary of the New England Forestry Foundation, a position which brought him back to New Hampshire, with headquarters at Franklin. He embraced with zeal and devotion the crusade for the restoration and preservation of the New England forests.
His military record was outstanding. For a time a member of the First Corps of Cadets at Boston, he served in the Mexican disturbances as Sergeant in the Illinois Field Artillery. At the beginning of World War I he became successively Second, First Lieutenant and Captain of the 149th Field Artillery (Rainbow Division), eventually to be in command of his battalion. He saw much active service, one of the guns of his battery firing 14,500 rounds against the Germans; said to be a record in American artillery forces in the war. On Mar. 27, 1919, he was cited by Gen. Pershing for distinguished and exceptional gallantry. Before the entry of the United States into World War 11, he attracted much attention to the organization of a volunteer training corps at Wilton, Conn., (his home at the time), for the purpose of giving young men pre-induction training. It was used as a model for similar organizations throughout the country.
John is survived by his wife Lynda (Boak) Redington, to whom he was married in 1921; by a son (by a previous marriage), John S., D.C. 1928, of Twin Falls, Idaho; by a grandson; and by a brother, Theodore T., D.C., 1907, of Manchester, Vt.
1902
JOHN CASEY MCCAUGHERN, who was a member of 1902 for some two years, died suddenly and unexpectedly in California on April 9, 1946, so Win. Carroll Hill learned when he went to call upon him at his place of business as manager of the insurance department of the California Packing Corp. in San Francisco. Former associates were warm in their praises of McCaughern and produced a clipping from the sports column of Bill Leiser in the San Francisco Chronicle which had the following to say of our former classmate:
"Stanford's first winning track and field captain died Tuesday just a few days before he was to have watched the Indians of Palo Alto enter their first competition on the cinder path since 1942.
"Jack Casey McCaughern was his name, and at 69 he had never ceased to be active in the interest of Stanford sports, though what he did, he did so quietly that many a Stanford man never knew of him.
"He came out from Dartmouth, where he had played football a year or two, to enter Stanford, where he graduated in 1904. He ran the 100 and 220, and was elected captain, and a sports captain in those days, though a student, wielded almost all the authority and assumed all the responsibility of the professional coach.
"The complicated bleacher stunts of Stanford, California and Southern California students are still new to the Midwest and East Coast. The pictures, the animals that race up and down the inner stadium walls, the rapid switching from one word slogan to another through use of colored caps and cards never fail to amaze a visitor from other parts of the country or world.
"Inventor of the colorful bleacher stunts was our old friend Jack Casey McCaughern. His plan produced a big block "S" in the Stanford rooting section in 1904, and the London Strand was so impressed it ran pictures in its Christmas edition."
John Casey McCaughern was born December 15, 1876, at Hinsdale, N. H. the son of Robert and Mary (Casey) McCaughern. He married Carolyn Sanborn in 1905 and had one son, Robert E.
1903
HENRY MORTON SAYWARD died suddenly at his home in Ipswich, Mass., on July 18, 1946.
Harry was born in Ipswich March 11, 1878, the son of Judge Charles Augustus and Augusta (Rust) Sayward. He married Marie Brooks of Woodstock, Vt.
He graduated from Manning High School in 1894 and from Dartmouth College in 1903, and attended Harvard Law School for one year. He entered the practice of law in Ipswich and in 1913 was engaged in the automobile business in Ipswich and remained in it for many years.
He is survived by a son, Charles Warren Sayward '39 and a grandson, Charles Warren Sayward Jr.
Funeral services were held on July 19, 1946 and interment was in Highland Cemetery, Ipswich, Mass.
1905
CARL HALL KELLY, 63, died August 28, 1945, in Salem, Oregon, following an illness of several months. He had been taken to the hospital about two weeks before but had been undergoing medical treatment some time for cancerous growth. Funeral services were held in the Mill City Presbyterian Church the following Friday afternoon with Pastor Helleman of Portland officiating. Surviving, besides the widow, Blanche Atchison Kelly, are three children: two sons, Russell of Mill City and Pfc. Carl Jr., of the Army Air Corps stationed at Las Vegas, Nevada; one daughter, Rosamond Thorn of Mill City, and four grandchildren; one brother, Harold R. of New Orleans, and one sister, Rosamond Tarr, of Haverhill, Mass., and his mother, Mrs. Sara J. Kelly, also of Haverhill.
1908
ROBERT BILLINGS RUGG, president of the National Rockland Bank of Boston since 1930, died on May 29 in his home at Newtonville, Mass.
Born in Boston, September 27, 1886, son of Frederic Waldo and Luella (Billings) Rugg, Bob attended the Roxbury Latin School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1904, graduating in 1908. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and was also a member of the musical clubs.
He began his career as a security salesman in 1908. After that he was successively manager of the bond department of the National Shaumut Bank in Boston and treasurer of the Shawmut Corporation there. In 1925-29, Bob was vice-president of the National Rockland Bank, and in 1929-32 was executive vice-president.
He was a trustee of the Institution for Savings in Roxbury and its vicinity, the Forest Hills Cemetery Corporation, and the Joseph Warren Cooperative Bank, a director of the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, a member of the corporation of Northeastern University and a trustee of Boston University. He was a member of the Exchange and Algonquin Clubs in Boston and the Bankers Club in New York.
He was married to Margaret J. Hurley in 1922. A son, Frederic W. Rugg 2d, was born to them...
FREDERICK ALLEN COOPER, head of the Evanston real estate firm bearing his name, died suddenly on Wednesday, May 22, at his home, 823 Lake Ave., Wilmette, Ill. He had been at his office that morning, and the week before his death he had been on a fishing trip to Wisconsin.
Fred was born at Kankakee, Ill., October 12, 1885, entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1904 and graduated in 1908. He was manager of the varsity baseball team in his senior year, and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and of the Sphinx senior society.
He studied law at Northwestern Law School at Chicago for one year, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi. He entered the employ of the Union Carbide Co. of Chicago in 1909. In 1916, he organized his own real estate firm, Frederick A. Cooper and Co., of which he was the head for eight years, operating on the north shore. Since 1932, his office was in Evanston.
He was a member of the Evanston North Shore Real Estate Board, Chicago Board of Underwriters, and the University and Evanston Clubs.
Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Stella Lane of Evanston, Mrs. Lucille Walter of Oak Park, and the Misses Olive and Edith Cooper of Wilmette.
Park Stickney and Everett Marsh attended the funeral services at Memorial Park Chapel.
1910
JOHN (JACK) CLOUGH died at the Veterans Hospital, Murfreesboro, Tenn., on June 10, 1946. Jack had been ill for several years, and had been in the Veterans Hospital for four years prior to his death.
He was bora on October 7, 1886, in Memphis, Tenn., the son of John Clough, Memphis attorney for many years. Both his parents died while he was quite young. He was brought up by his sister, Mrs. J. Q. Eaton. He received his education at Phillips Andover Academy and attended Dartmouth with the class of 1909, but received his degree in 1910. He served as Captain in the Infantry during World War I.
At college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was most popular among his friends as he had a wonderful disposition which not only showed itself through college but also later in business and social circles. He was a member of the Memphis Country Club and the University Club in that city.
He was associated at one time in the insurance business, and in more recent years was a real estate dealer in Memphis.
Jack was married twice, and his present wife is Queen Martin, who survives him, of 1773 Glen wood, Memphis, Tenn. He also has three sons, Stewart, Cameron and Martin Clough; a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Orr Jr., and his sister, Mrs. J. Q. Eaton, all of Memphis, Tenn.
1911
HENRY HUBERT died in Mt. Vernon, New York, on July 5, 1946, following a brief illness. Although Henry's health had been failing for over a year he continued going to his office until ten days prior to his decease. Since 1938 he had been associated with the Law Department of the city of Mt. Vernon as title reader and examiner with the Tax Foreclosure Bureau. Prior to this time he had engaged in private practice but also was a title reader and examiner for the Westchester County Park Commission during which time he handled hundreds of foreclosure cases.
Henry was born in New York City, April 18, 1888, the son of William and Emma (Harbeck) Hubert. His family moved to Mt. Vernon when he was only a few years old where he attended the Waterman School. Henry remained with our class at Dartmouth only one year, then transferring to New York University from which he received his A.B. degree in 1911 and his LL.B. in 1913. He was an active member of the First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon.
Besides his widow, who was Elizabeth D. Mertz, whom he married December 17, 1938, two brothers and a sister survive. Interment was in the Lutheran cemetery, Flushing, New York.
Although a graduate of another university Henry was very interested in and loyal to Dartmouth, maintaining his interest to the very last.
1913
HERBERT WARREN JONES died on June 18, 1946, in Fairfield, Conn., after a illness of a year and a half.
He was born on March 9, 1891 in Charlestown, Mass., son of Elizabeth (Edwards) and James G. Jones. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Boston High School of Commerce, and at college was given the Powers Medal for Physical Improvement.
From 1913 to 1922 he was employed with Stone and Webster in Boston as a cost accountant. He married Ethel Gertrude Stuart of ambridge on June 9, 1915, and three children were born, Donald Stuart on August 16, 1916, Barbara Eleanor on March 2, 1922, and Robert Lewis on May 12, 1927.
He was secretary and treasurer of McClellan & Junkerfeld, Inc., engineers and constructors, in New York from 1922 to 1929. Herb was with A. L. Hartridge Co., Inc., New York, from 1929 until he joined the Bridgeport Brass Co. in 1933. He served until his death, when he was vice-president and director in charge of finance and was a member of the executive committee.
Services were held at Trinity Episcopal church in Southport. Burial was private.
He is survived by his wife, Ethel Stuart Jones, two sons Donald Stuart and Robert Louis, a daughter, Barbara Eleanor, a grandson, Donald Stuart Jones, Jr., and his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll Jonesl Robert is S 2-C, U. S. N. R.
Herb was very proud of the part his company played in the war, especially at the time of the winning of the 4th Army-Navy E on August si, 1945. He will be greatly missed at times when the class gather and the roll is called.
RONALD MILLAR died suddenly early on May 26, 1946 in Chicago, Ill.
He was born on August 29, 1890, at Chadron, Nebraska, the son of Margaret Richards and Stocks Millar. He prepared for Dartmouth at Georgetown Preparatory School in Washington, D. C. At college he was a brilliant student and was interested in theatricals, being in the cast of "Summer Bachelors." He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Cercle Francais.
He joined the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colo., in 1913 as a reporter, and later went to the Chicago Evening American, where he was employed until 1919. He married Lucile Magorian in 1914 in Denver, Colo. In 1919 he became associated with F. E. Compton & Co. staff, and, except for an interlude as managing and executive editor of Liberty Magazine from 1925 to 1988, was with Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, being managing editor at the time of his death.
Ron had numerous hobbies as andidotes for the nervous strain of his work and responsibility—photography, metal working, and wood working, with his home workshop splendidly equipped with machines, microscopy, and his small island in the Canadian wilderness, where he took his family and various friends for vacations. Mrs. Millar says his greatest pleasure was to go there in midwinter for peace and rest and at the time of his death he was planning his summer sojourn there.
He is survived by his wife and three children—Ronald Lewis, Elizabeth Marie, and Muriel Monica.
Services were held in St. Ignatius church and burial was in All Saints Cemetery, Chicago.
1914
On June 17, sudden death claimed another classmate when RALPH DAVID NOE passed away at his home in Huntington, Pa., after only an hour's illness.
A public accountant and auditor, Ralph was widely known as a tax expert and cost consultant, in which field he was employed by many individuals and large firms.
Ralph was a devout active member of St. John's Episcopal Church, where he served as treasurer and vestryman. He was active in the founding of the Huntingdon Country Club, and the Boy Scout movement in the town, as well as all civic movements. In college he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
A son of David and Elizabeth (McCune) Noe, he was born in Harrison, N. J., on February 16, 1892. Married on July 15, 1914 to Miss Elsie Popham, of Harrison, the family moved to Huntingdon in 1921. He is survived by his wife.
H. WINN BUSWELL passed away May n, at his home in Baltimore, Maryland. He came home from work May 10th, suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage and quickly passed into a coma from which he did not recover before his death the following morning.
Throughout college, Winn, to those of us who knew him best, was a sincere, hard working, loveable individual. Never too well known about the campus, he spent most of his spare time working, as his was a constant struggle to gain an education. Following graduation, he was employed for some time in Hanover, where his older son was born. During most of his married life Buswell was employed with a construction company in Baltimore, but during the war he became affiliated with the Bethlehem Fairfield Company, by whom he was employed at the time of his death.
He is survived by his widow, the former Minna Berger whom he married in lgsi, and three children. Winn Jr., 23, was in the Medical Detachment of the 335th Inf., 84th Div., with considerable combat experience. He is probably, at this writing, attending Washington & Jefferson. Ralph, a graduate of Polytechnic Institute, is still in the Navy. Nancy Jean is 14, and in High School.
1915
EDGAR ATHERTON CURTIS, one of the great Green football players of days gone by, died suddenly at his home in Portland, Maine, on June 15, 1946.
Ed was born August 17, 1890, in Portland. He attended Portland High School, Phillips-Exeter and Hebron Academies, and entered college with us in the fall of 1911.
He had a colorful career in college, and early made the 1915 freshman football team, and thereafter was first string back on the varsity for three years. He was easily the leading punter of the East during his varsity career, and in the fall of 1914 was one of the all-1915 backfield, consisting of Ghee, Whitney, Murdock and Curtis.
Ed was the first president of the Class of 1915 in our freshman year,was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Sphinx.
In World War I, he served as an officer overseas, with the 56th Pioneer Infantry, which was orginally the first Maine Heavy Artillery, and called the Milliken Regiment.
He was the son of the late former Governor and Mrs. Oakley C. Curtis of Maine, and during his father's term as governor he served as major on the governor's staff.
At the time of his death he was president of the Thomas P. Beals Furniture Company of Portland, and a director of the Casco Bank & Trust Company of Portland.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Beatrice P. Curtis; two sons, Edgar A. Curtis Jr., and Oakley C. Curtis; and two sisters, Mrs. John Garretson of Hingham, Mass., and Mrs. Philip James of Portland.
Private funeral services were held on June 17, at Portland, and burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.
1918
BALMER JENNESS RAYNER died suddenly on July 3, 1946. With much sorrow, we report the death of our genial and much beloved Bob. The following letter from his mother tells us of the parting of one more '18er, whose memory will live with us always:
"I am addressing you at this time to announce the death of my son, Balmer Jenness Rayner of the class of 1918. He was stricken while driving home from business July 3rd and lived only long enough to arrive at a hospital In his usual seeming perfect health, he had replied 'Never felt better in my life' when a friend slapped him on the back just as he entered his car, before starting for home. He leaves a widow, the former Mattie F. Parker, whom he married in 1922, and four children, two sons and two daughters.
"Balmer was born in Wilmington, Delaware on Dec. 25, 1896, the son of Robert Balmer and Aurora (Trull) Rayner. He was a Phi Delta Theta fraternity man—a violinist in the college orchestra. Balmer left college early in his junior year and enlisted in World War I. His sunny disposition, and general interest in people in all walks of life made him one of a large circle of friends, in business, club and church. He was for ten years a vestryman, of St. Andrew's Episcopal church in this city."
OLIVER HAROLD SHOUP JR. died July 25, 1946 at Wichita, Kansas. Many of the class regret indeed that over recent years, few of us had had the pleasure of renewing our acquaintance with Duke Shoup. A letter from his brother, Merrill Shoup '21, tells the sad news:
"It is with sorrow that I inform you of the death of my brother, Oliver Harold Shoup Jr., known to his classmates as "Duke," in Wichita, Kansas, July 25, 1946. He had been ill approximately two years.
"Harold was a member of the Dartmouth College Class of 1918. Early in 1917 he left College to go to France where he drove an ambulance for the American Ambulance Service. In connection with this task, he was given several decorations by the French Government. After the entry of the United States in the war, he transferred to the U. S. Army where he served with distinction. Upon his discharge from service, he did not return to Dartmouth, but received a degree with his class.
"He made his home in Colorado Springs for a number of years after his return from service, and while residing in Colorado Springs was identified with various business and civic activities. In 1939 he moved to Wichita and at the time of his death was engaged in the oil business.
"He is survived by a wife, Virginia, a son. Jack, and two brothers, Verner R. Shoup: Dartmouth 1922, and Merrill E. Shoup, Dartmouth 1921."
1922
MEAD STEWART of Charleston, W. Va., died recently.
He was born June 5, 1899, the son of Isaac Newton and Agnes (Hurley) Stewart of Buffalo, N. Y., and his preparation for Dartmouth was at the Lafayette High School, Buffalo.
Mead was with us from 1918 to 1920, and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
Our last record of Mead indicates that he was connected with the Motor Car Supply Company of Charleston, W. Va.
It is to be regretted that no further information is available to us concerning his family and business career.
1939
THEODORE SPRACUE BOURN JR. was killed in an automobile accident, May 27, 1946, in his home town, Hudson, N. H. Representative groups of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars attended his funeral three days later. Taps were sounded at the funeral, and a firing squad from nearby Grenier Field gave a final salute in deference to Ted's war record as an Army Air Force Captain.
Ted was born ill Templeton, Mass., August 29, 1917, the son of Theodore Sprague and Mary (Doolittle) Bourn. A graduate of Milford High School, class of 1935, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1939, and remained for two years, before transfering to the University of New Hampshire for his final two years.
Prior to the war, Ted was employed by Pratt & Whitney. He entered the Army March 27, 1941. and served 13 months in the field artillery. He also served as a pilot instructor of B-29's at Grand Isle, Neb. for 16 months, before being released from the Air Force, December 1, 1945.
He worked at the Abbott Machine Shop in Wilton, and was taking an aviation instructor's course at the Nashua Municipal Airport previous to his death.
1943
DR. RALPH RITTER HIGGINS of Fall River, Mass., was killed in an automobile accident, near Franklin, Virginia, on July 27. He was an intern at the Raiford Hospital in Franklin and died at that hospital from head injuries suffered when two autos collided in an accident.
Ralph was born June 5, 1921, Pawtucket, R. I., the son of Alfred and Lillie (Ritter) Higgins. He prepared for college at Durfee High School in Fall River. He was commissioned a Lieutenant (jg) in the Naval Reserve following his graduation from the Boston University School of Medicine last March.
He leaves his father and two brothers, Maj. Walter A. Higgins now stationed in Kobe, Japan, and Kenneth R. Higgins, formerly a Captain in the Army.
A memorial fund to be used in the fight against cancer has been established in memory of Dr. Higgins who was vitally interested in the research and control of that disease.
1946
WILLIAM L. ALDRICH died on June 7, 1946 in the Baker Memorial Hospital, Boston, Mass., where he was transferred from the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis after being stricken 24 hours earlier with a cerebral hemorrhage.
Bill was discharged from the Army in February and was to have returned to Dartmouth in the fall. He left in 1942 during his freshman year to enlist and served in the ETO during the war with the Thirteenth Airborne Division. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Pomfret School in Connecticut.
The deepest sympathies of the class go to the survivors—his parents, Bishop and Mrs. Donald B. Aldrich (bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan) and a sister Mrs. John Verdery of Danbury, Conn.
HENRY M. KENT has now been reported killed as of June 20, 1945, after previously being reported missing on a raid over Luzon in the Pacific. Sgt. Kent was a nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber and had served in the Air Corps since leaving college in February, 1943. Trained as a ground crewman, he volunteered for air training in early 1945 and was made a member of the famed Jolly Rogers group based in the Philippines; he previously served in New Guinea as chief of an armored unit.
The survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Kent of Buffalo and a sister. To them go our sincerest condolences.
JOHN B. MURPHY, who has been missing for over a year, has now been listed as dead by the War Dept. Jack was serving with the 383rd Infantry in the Pacific and was reported missing after the Okinawa campaign. He left school in 1943 during his freshman year and after receiving basic training spent some time in ASTP at Kalamazoo College. From there he went to Camp White, Oregon and then on to Camps San Luis Obispo and Callan in California before going overseas. In addition to Okinawa, he served in the Leyte Campaign.
Before coming to Dartmouth, Jack graduated from Holten High School in Danvers, Mass., where he was president of his senior class and an all-around athlete.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Murphy of Danvers, survive him and to them our heartfelt sympathy is extended.
AN INFORMAL PICTURE of Benjamin Franklin Ellis '89 was taken five years ago while he was with his family on a camping trip in Michigan.
BENJAMIN TINKHAM MARSHALL '97
