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]

Wertheimer, Jacob J. '75, January 6 Clark, Samuel '77, December 8 Gulick, Sidney L. '83, December 20 Chase, Charles F. '85, December 28 Conn, Charles F. '87, December 28 Montgomery, Clarence E. '90, October 25 Saltmarsh, Frank N. '93, December 6 Locke, Fred F. '99, December 7 Wason, Harry A. '99, December 21 Tuttle, Donald D. '00, December 21 Abbott, Guy H. '02, December 25 Pattrell, Arthur E. '02, December 17 McKennis, Herbert '04, December 7 Taylor, Rainford G. '05, Balcom, Stanley G. '08, December 26, 1944 Harding, Jesse '08, January 16 Wilson, George F. '08, December 8 Bell, Samuel K. '09, January 13 Roberts, Chester C. '11 Ickes, Sydney F. '12, December 12 Bloom, Paul A. '18 *Sarles, George A. '30, June, 1945 *Sherwood, Walter B. '38, April, 1944 *Murphy, James E. '40, April 4, 1945 *Sandberg, Stanley B. '43, October 25, 1944 *McGowan, Edwin W., Jr. '44, January 16, 1945 *Ritter, Harry W. '45, December 29, 1944 Upton, George W. '88m, November 23 Carney, Sydney H. '89m Ackerly, Theodore B. '93m, April 15, 1942 Abbott, Clifton S. '94m, December 11 Woodward, Charles T. '94m, January 12 Mudgett, John H. '96m, September 24 Wesley, John W. '122m, January 8 Barbour, Thomas '36h, January 8 * Died in war service.

In Memoriam

1877

SAMUEL CLARK died December 8, 1945, at his home in Southville, Mass., after a long period of failing health.

He was born in Hartford, Vt., October 12, 1854, the son of William and Eveline (Porter) Clark, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

In the spring of 1878 he went West, and was engaged as a surveyor for several years, mainly at Deadwood, S. D., and Leadville, Colo. After a brief return East he went back to Colorado, and was engaged in farming near Denver for a time, and then from 1883 to 1891 was a stock raiser at Glendive, Montana. He then came back East, this time permanently, and was a farmer at Quechee, Vt., to 1904, when he removed to Southville, Mass., and followed the same calling as long as health permitted. For twelve years he was a member of the school committee of his town.

October 4, 1904, he was married to Mrs. Inez E. Thompson, who survives him. Newspaper notices mentioned a daughter, Mrs. C. H. Holmes of Southville, and two grandchildren, Cpl. Gilbert Holmes, USMC, and Charlotte Holmes, but these are the daughter and grandchildren of Mrs. Clark by a former marriage.

Sam Clark was never able to meet with the class at a reunion, and our knowledge of his career has been fragmentary, but he was always ready to respond to calls for information, and valued highly his class ties.

1883

Rev. SIDNEY LEWIS GULICK died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leverett Davis, in Boise, Idaho, December so, 1945.

He was born in Ebon, Marshall Islands, April 10, iB6O, the son of Luther Halsey Gulick, a missionary, and Louisa (Leeds) Gulick, eventually taking up his first residence at Oakland, Calif., where he entered the University of California, but subsequently matriculated at Dartmouth College as a sophomore with the class of 1883.

While at Dartmouth he devoted practically all of his active time to literary work and was not conspicuous as a class worker, although he was designated to make the award of the "Junior Honor" of the "Spur" to a fellow classmate, "Ipse calcaribus eget." He was a member of the Delta Kappa Upsilon fraternity, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa hon- ors, being awarded the B.A. degree in 1883 and the A.M. degree in 1886, and the D.D. degree by Dartmouth in 1903. In 1914 both Yale University and Oberlin College awarded him this latter degree.

Dr. Gulick graduated at Union Theological Seminary in 1886, was ordained a Congregational minister in 1886, and was a supply minister at the Willoughby Avenue Mission, Brooklyn, in 1886-1887.

He served in Japan as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1887 to 1913 and strenuously endeavored to improve relations between the United States and Japan. He was professor of theology at Doshisha University, Kyoto, from 1908 to 1913, and lecturer at the Imperial University of Kyoto from 1907 to 1913.

Dr. Gulick returned to the United States in 1913 after twenty-six years of service in Japan, and campaigned against California's antiAsian legislation and urged equality of treatment of all nations. An ardent worker in the cause of world peace, he was a vigorous proponent of the entry of the United States into the World Court. He was the author of many books on the Japanese problem.

Dr. Gulick was secretary of the Department of International Justice and Good Will of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America from 1914 to 1934. He was secretary of the American Branch of the World Alliance for the Promotion of International Friendship through the Churches from 1916 to 1919, of the National Committee for Constructive Immigration Legislation from 1919 to 1934, of the National Committee on American-Japanese Relations from 1921 to 1934, and of the Committee on World Friendship among Children from 1936 to 1934.

After his retirement he took up his residence in Honolulu, Hawaii, for about ten years, recently moving to Boise, Idaho.

He leaves surviving him three sons, Dr. Luther H. Gulick of New York and Washington, D. C., Prof. Leeds Gulick of Chicago, and Prof. Sidney L. Gulick Jr. of San Diego, Calif., and two daughters, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. John Barrow of Washington, D. C.

1886

WILLIAM L. QUIMBY was seized with a heart attack en route to his office, and died while being taken to the City Hospital in Boston, December 10, 1945.

Mrs. Quimby wrote the class secretary a brave letter quoted in part: "This blow seems almost more than I can endure, after fifty-six years together. Mr. Quimby kept up his wonderful energy and optimism until the end, going to his office each day."

William L. Quimby was born in Lyndon, Vt., eighty-one years ago, and after preparing at St. Johnsbury (Vt.), Academy, he was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1886, and from Boston University Law School. After practising in Chattanooga, Tenn., a short time, he went to St. Johnsbury, leaving there to open an office in Boston. He had lived in Brookline about forty-five years. Services were held in Boston at noon December 13, and burial in Lyndon, Vt.

From the Fiftieth Year Class Report is a characteristic picture of 1886's "Scribe," while he was sitting as a judge at the bench during a student dramatization of a court trial. In the 1926 Class Report is Quimby's greeting to all his classmates: "I greet all my classmates now alive, and stand at salute for those who are dead."

1887

CHARLES FULLER CONN, died at his home at Wayne, Pa., December 28.

Charlie" was one of the "career" men in a class numbering many. Although the vehicle of his success was of the business world, there was a steady growth during his long life, in what is termed "the Humanities." In his later years he loved the sharing of his material wealth,—and his benevolences were considerable. This writer knows of some of them, but there were many probably known only to himself.

Conn's birthplace was Hillsboro, N. H., where he was bom November 11, 1865. Early in life his father, Dr. Granville Priest Conn, D.M.S. 1856, removed to Concord, where he carried on a successful practice in medicine. He was descended in the fifth generation from John Conn, who emigrated to New England about 1710 and settled at Pepperell, Mass. Conn's mother, Helen M. Sprague, was descended from Ralph Sprague, who came from Upway, County of Dorset, England, in 1629, and established his home at Charlestown, Mass.

Conn was engaged in several railroad and kindred activities, including the presidency of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Power Company and the Meadow Brook Stone Co., until he became president and general manager of the Giant Portland Cement Company of Philadelphia in 1913.

His administration was instrumental in bringing this corporation to a state of great production and profit, when he retired two years ago.

In Dartmouth, Conn was a fine student and much beloved by his classmates. He was president of the class in its freshman year, and was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity. He won prizes in drawing and speaking, and was a member of the editorial staff of the Aegis.

He married Mabel S. Dwight, November 7, 1889, of Concord, N. H. who died July 26, 1938. Dwight Conn, his son, a Dartmouth alumnus of the class of 1914, survives him.

In religion he was an Episcopalian, and in politics, a Republican. Besides his connection with the Giant Portland Cement Company, he was vice president of the Fielder Corporation, and vice president and director of the National Building Units corporation of Philadelphia, president of the Cement Export Company of Philadelphia, and treasurer and trustee of the Cement Institute.

He found much happiness in the recreations of gardening and golf. His clubs were the Dartmouth Club of New York City, the University Club of Philadelphia, the Merion Cricket Club of Haverford, Pa., and The St. David's Golf Club. He was also; a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.

1893

Rev. FRANK NEHEMIAH SALTMARSH died December 6, 1945, at the Alexander Eastman Hospital, Derry, N. H., after a short illness.

Born at Bow, N. H., March 4, 1870, the son o£ Gilman and Harriet E. (Robertson) Saltmarsh, he prepared for college under Amos Hadley (Dartmouth 1844) at Concord, N. H. and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1893. He was greatly respected by his classmates not alone for his scholastic achievements but for his sterling Christian character. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank. In 1896 he received the Master of Arts degree.

For a year he was employed in the law office of his brother, George A. Saltmarsh '84, in Boston, and then entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of B.D.

In April 1898 he became pastor of the Congregational churches of West Hartford and North Pomfret, Vt., where he remained until November 1903, when he became pastor at Alton, N. H., where he served until January 1, 1908, and then took over the church at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H. Here he remained until 1913, when he removed to Derry Village, N. H., to assist in the care of Mrs. Saltmarsh's aged parents, and remained there until his death.

October 12, 1898, he married Mamie E. Knott, who survives him.

From the beginning of his residence at Derry Village he became actively interested in Pinkerton Academy, and was for many years a trustee of that institution and latterly its business manager. He was also a trustee of the permanent funds of the Central Congregational society and chairman of its finance committee. He listed himself as a Republican.

Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon, December 9, at the Central Congregational church, and burial was in the family lot in Alexander Cemetery, Bow, N. H.

1899

FRED FORD LOCKE of Kittery, Maine, died December 7, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland.

Born in Kittery, he was the last surviving son of William and Jennie Ford Locke. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Portsmouth, N. H., High School where his classmates were Corey, Drake, Hawkes, Hobbs and Sewall. With them he entered Dartmouth and graduated with them in 1899. From his mother he inherited a talent for music and studied the church organ, piano and violin. The family were devout Methodists and Fred studied at the Boston University School of Theology for a year and then began his teaching career at Kittery and Vinalhaven, Maine, and later taught at Dennis, Mass. Because of hereditary deafness he gave up teaching and returned to his native Kittery where he was employed at the U. S. Navy Yard for many years as a carpenter. His father was an expert carpenter and taught Fred the trade. He had retired, but during World War II returned to the Navy Yard where he worked until a serious surgical operation forced him to retire. The last two years of his life were a constant struggle against illness and he had to leave the old homestead at Kittery and enter the Maine General Hospital in Portland where he was finally released from long suffering. He was a loyal member of his College class and was held in high esteem by his classmates and b) his fellow townsmen, church and fraternal order associates in Naval lodge, No. 184 A.F. and A.M. of Kittery. He was a bachelor and the last survivor of one of the old Kittery families. Guy Corey and Robert Rowe represented the class of 1899 at the funeral services which were held at the Buckminster Chapel in Portsmouth, December 10. Burial was at Orchard Grove Cemetery in Kittery. In a will which was filed in the York County Probate Court at Alfred, Maine, Fred Locke left the sum of $500 to the Second Methodist Church at Kittery and 1250 to the Boston University School of Theology.

Following a bequest of all his furniture and furnishings in his home to the Portsmouth, N. H., branch, of the Salvation Army, and setting aside money for perpetual care of the cemetery lot in Orchard Grove Cemetery, he directed that all the rest of his property and estate go to Dartmouth College. The value of the estate is not revealed.

1900

DONALD DICKEY TUTTLE died at his home in Concord, N. H., on December 21, 1945. For two or three years he had been troubled by a heart ailment, but he kept at his work until shortly before his death.

Don was born at Milford, N. H., on May 29, 1879, the son of Charles B. and Cornelia (Chase) Tuttle. His preparatory work was done at the Milford High School, and in 1896 Ije entered Dartmouth in the class of 1900 with his brother, Leonard W. An older brother, Morton C., was also in college at the time as a member of the class of 1897. Don was active and popular as an undergraduate, a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, of the class football and baseball teams, and of the editorial board of the Literary Monthly.

Upon graduation he entered the employ of the McLane Manufacturing Company at Milford, makers of post office equipment, holding successively the positions of sales manager, general manager, and vice-president. In 1925 he became director of the State Publicity Bureau, moving to Concord. This organization was eventually merged into the State Development and Planning Commission, of which he was Publicity Director to the time of his death.

This was a position involving many types of responsibility, calling for endless correspondence, for continual travel through the state, for complete knowledge of its resources and possibilities, and for tact, good judgment, and good taste. In all these qualities Don excelled. The feature of his work most in the public eye was the pocket-sized monthly publication, The Troubadour, which, under his editorial supervision, acquired a unique position, not among publications of its class, for it had no rivals approaching it in excellence, but as an organ in which, without bombast or excessive eulogy, the spirit of New Hampshire was mirrored with uncanny fidelity. In all parts of the country the monthly appearance of the Troubadour was regarded with anticipation and pleasure.

In connection with his work, for many years Don has been secretary of the New Hampshire Division of the New England Council and a member of the State Building Commission of the Eastern States Exposition. At one time he was vice-president of the New Hampshire Manufacturers Association, and also president of the Concord Dartmouth Alumni Association. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

In 1912 Don was married at Nashua, N. H., to Miss Helen Ward, who survives him. They had two children: Nancy, who died in infancy; and Morton C. (Dartmouth, 1943), corporal in the Air Transport Command, who was released from the service and arrived home the evening before his father's death. He is also survived by his brother and classmate, Leonard W. and by an older brother, Morton C.

His funeral, held in the South Congregational church at Concord on December 23, was widely attended by state officials and other friends throughout the state. The class was represented by Butterfield and Doll off (who acted as bearers) and Dunlap and Woodman. Interment was at Milford, where Prescott and Wallace were among the bearers.

1904

HERBERT MCKENNIS, son of J. Herbert and Johanna McKennis, was born in Albany, New York, May 7, 1881. He died at the New York Hospital, December 7, 1945, in his sixty-fifth year. A Requiem Mass for him was celebrated Monday, December 10, in the Church of Immaculate Heart of Mary in Scarsdale.

Herbert McKennis came to Dartmouth from Albany, New York, High School in September 1900. He devoted himself in undergraduate years to an intelligent preparation for his chosen profession, and during that period was Class of 1886 Prize Speaker; Rpllins Prize Speaker; Brown Debater '03, '04; President Debating Union; Rufus Choate '03; and a Commencement speaker in 1904. For a year thereafter he was an instructor in English at Dartmouth. He then entered Columbia Law School where he received his law degree in 1908 after admission to the bar in 1907. First associated with the firm of Elkus, Gieason & Proskauer, then with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and the late Senator James A. O'Gorman; he was since 1933 with George F. Handel at 165 Broadway.

Herbert was a member of the New York County Lawyers Association! and was a member of the committee on unlawful practice of the law.

Residents of Scarsdale, New York, since 1918, the McKennis home is at 103 Walworth Ave. In Scarsdale and Westchester County, "Mac" devoted himself thoroughly and effectively for more than a quarter of a century to civic affairs beneficial to the community.

Indicative of the time devoted to this work are these services: Planning Board Member 1923-24 and again in 1940-41; Village Board '933-35; Justice of the Peace and acting Police Justice, 1936-39; Village Counsel, 1941-42. He was a nine-year member of the Town Club, serving it as vice president and president, and this year (1945) chairman of its County Government Committee. He was for a number of years a trustee of the Village. In Westchester County he actively championed Home Rule for the towns of the County; he served on committees that drafted proposed new charters for the county; was an organizer of taxpayer groups and during recent years has been an ardent advocate of a centralized library for the County.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Anderson McKennis; two sons, Dr. Herbert McKennis Jr. of Richmond, Va.; Gregory McKennis of Syracuse, N. Y.; and three grandchildren, Quentin, Claudia, and Jeffrey, children of Herbert Jr.

Mac's friends will have enduring memories of his stalwart figure; his genial companionship, his rugged sincerity, and his loyalty to Dartmouth College.

1908

GEORGE FREDERICK WILSON, a member of this Class for two years, died suddenly on December 8, at his place of business in Newton, Mass. Death was due to coronary thrombosis, and there had been no previous attacks.

Born in Dudley, England, on October 23, 1880, he was the son of Gawn and Rebecca (Woodall) Wilson. He came to this country when he was seven years old. Not having the privilege of finishing high school, he prepared for Dartmouth at night school.

On October 9, 1911, he married Alice Caldwell Crosby of Newton, Mass., who survives him with a daughter, Margaret Caldwell Wilson, a son, Robert Russell Wilson, formerly attached to the American Field Service for a period of thirteen months, now serving in the Navy, two brothers, and two sisters.

He and his brother, J. Arthur Wilson, carried on their father's grocery business for over thirty-five years.

He was an active member of Grace Episcopal Church, where as a boy he was a member of the choir and was soloist.

He was a highly respected citizen of New ton, and active in community affairs.

Private funeral services were held at the Grace Episcopal Church, Newton, and, burial followed cremation at Forest Hills Cemetery.

1912

SYDNEY FRANK ICKES died at his home at Alhambra, Calif., on December 12, 1945, the son of Frank Eugene and Florence (Jones) Ickes. He was born at Deadwood, South Dakota, on April 19, 1889, received his preparatory education at Deadwood High School, and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1912.

After ranching in Oregon and serving in World War I, he operated a date ranch at LaQuinta, near Indio, Calif., which he disposed of in the early thirties. In 1935 he joined the Los Angeles, Calif., County Staff, as a Coordinator in the Department of Charities. In 1936 he became Deputy Superintendent of Charities, and remained in that capacity until his death. After the war began and up to the time he died he served as acting executive assistant to the County Superintendent of Charities and Director of County Institutions of Los Angeles County.

On January 22, 1922, he was married to Marguerite Alita Vaiden, who died in 1943. In January 1945 he remarried, and is survived by his widow, Arnoldine, and a two-months-old son, Sydney Tracy.

1914

ARTHUR THOMPSON passed away at noon, October 30, 1945, at his home on Staten Island, following a heart attack.

Mr. Thompson had been a life-long resident of Staten Island. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Thompson.

Following early schooling at Bordentown, N. J., Military Academy, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1914, but left during the year to enter the lumber business with his grandfather, James Thompson, and his brother George.

Arthur was vestryman at the St. Johns Episcopal Church, served on the board of directors of the Children's Aid Society and Goodhue Playground, as well as on the board of the Richmond County Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Mr. Thompson was often mentioned as a potential candidate for political office, and in 1936 was a Democratic Elector for the nth Congressional District, voting on December 14, 1936, for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John N. Garner.

Although at Dartmouth only a short time he was one of the College's most loyal sons' Perhaps a classmate's comment would best characterize him: "He was one of the finest Dartmouth men I have ever known."

In addition to his brother, he is survived bv his widow, Mrs. Edna Spindler Thompson- a daughter, Mrs. Jeannette Starr; and two soks, Cpl. Arthur Jr., with the Army in the Philippines, and Peter, a student at the Taft School, and one granddaughter.

The sympathy of the class goes to his family in our mutual loss.

1936

MAJOR EDWARD HARVEY EDWARDS was killed April 24, 1945, in St. Germain en Laye, France, when a tire of the jeep in which he was riding blew out, causing it to overturn, and killing all the occupants.

He was born November 30, 1913, in Springfield, Ill., the son of Harvey C. Edwards (deceased) and Mary Wing Edwards. He withdrew from Dartmouth in 1933, to work as co-owner of the Edwards Cleaning Co. In March 1941 he enlisted as a private in the Army Air Force, and was promoted to major in April 1945, having been overseas for two years. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in connection with military operations. Major Edwards was unmarried.

1938

Lt. WALTER BEACH SHERWOOD was shot down while flying over Halbersted, Germany, April 11, 1944.

He was born in Hartford, Conn., December 6, 1915, his parents being Wilbur S. and Louise (Richards) Sherwood. He was with the class the first two years of the course.

After leaving college he was employed in the banking department of the Hartford Trust Company until his enlistment.

He entered the Army Air Corps as aviation cadet at Hartford April 20, 1942. He was overseas with the 8th Air Force from December 20, 1943, and was first pilot of a B-24 (Liberator), had completed nine missions, and had received the Army Air Medal.

He married Svea Stenwall at Fort Worth, Texas, August 22, 1942. She joined the Waves and served with the Hospital Corps.

DONALD DICKEY TUTTLE '00