Deaths
[ A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in this'issue or may appear in a later number]
Worthen, John A. '76, July 8 Place, Perley O. '93, February 10 Smith, Sherman 'O3 Burnie, Arthur N. 'O6, February 13 Tibbets, Albert P. 'O7, January 31 Bennett, Charles G. 'OB, January 29 Ayer, Benjamin 'O9, January 25 McCurdy, Allan M. 'O9, January 21 Farwell, Roger B. 'lO, February 8 Shrigley, Wilfred R. 'l2, January 21 Burnham, Silas H. 'l5 Ferguson, Walter G. 'l7, February 2 Breckenridge, Harold C. 'si, January 29 *Munro, Uri A. '37, January 22, 1945 * Jones, William V. '39 *Prentice, Merrill A. '4O, October 1944 * Jones, Wallace T. 11l '4l, March 3, 1945 ♦Henderson, John C. '42, January 22, 1944 *Hennessy, Lawrence K. '42, May 21 Mayberry, Frank E. 'Bsm, October 1 Westall, John '92 m, March 15, 1945 Neilson, William A. '37h, February 13 * Died in war service.
In Memoriam
1874
DR. NATHANIEL HARVEY SCOTT, a member of this class in freshman year, died January 25 at his home in Wolfeboro, N. H.
He was born in Dalton, N. H., March 16, 1851, the son of Nathaniel Phillips and Margaret (Harriman) Scott, and prepared for college at Lancaster Academy and at Gorham, Me.
After leaving college he began the study of medicine, and graduated as M.D. at Bowdoin in 1874. He practiced at Sandwich, N. H., and elsewhere until 1880, when he went to Wolfeboro. He maintained a high reputation in his profession until his retirement about 20 years ago, and was active in all matters concerning the welfare of his community.
He was a trustee and member of the staff of Huggins Hospital, a trustee of Brewster Free Academy, a deacon for 40 years of the Congregational church, a past master of the Masonic lodge, and a member of the Odd Fellows and the Grange. In 1911 he represented the town in the legislature.
April 17, 1879, he was married to H. Elizabeth Moulton of Sandwich, N. H., who survives him, with a son, Capt. (Chaplain) Natt H. Scott (Dartmouth 1917), and four daughters, Mrs. J. Newell Stevenson of Quebec, Miss Beatrice Scott of Montclair, N. J., Miss Louisa Scott and Mrs. Clayton M. Wallace of Wolfeboro, and Mrs. Herbert Tinker of Richmond, Va. There are also eleven grandchildren.
1875
JACOB JOSEPH WERTHEIMER died in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 6, after an illness of two years.
The son of Joseph and Jeanette (Barnett) Wertheimer, he was born in Troy, Ohio, June 12, 1852, and prepared for college at the local high school. Benjamin J. Wertheimer '76 was a brother. He left college at the end of sophomore year.
He was in business in St. Louis, Mo., for many years, being engaged in shoe manufacturing from 1883 to 1915, and since associated with his son Joseph in a general agency for the Travelers Insurance Company.
He kept a close interest in Class and College, and for the last few years had acted as secretary of the class. On several occasions in recent years he had been present at Commencement.
April 2, 1879, he was married to Millie Swarts of Cincinnati, who died December 26, 1943. There are five surviving children: Louis, Alfred, Jeanne, Dora (Mrs. Pritz), and Joseph. Another son, Charles, died in 1915.
He was the first to enter Dartmouth from the small town of Troy, Ohio, and from that date until the graduation of W. S. Sullivan in 1889, Dartmouth was never without one or more students from that town, all of whom became members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, so writes one of the number to the MAGAZINE.
1890
CLARENCE ELWOOD MONTGOMERY passed away at Concord, N. H., October 25, 1945, of generalized arteriosclerosis. "Monty," as he was called, was born in Center Strafford, N. H.
He was quite musical and sang in the church choir while in Hanover. He prepared for Dartmouth in the Portsmouth schools and returned to that city after leaving College our junior year, and lived there most of his life. For some years he was in the piano business, later becoming a teacher in penmanship. In 1908 he married Aidye Plumer, who predeceased him.
1899
HARRY ALEXANDER WASON died December 21 in a private hospital in Atlanta, Ga., of which city he was a long-time resident. He had been a semi-invalid for a number of years with a heart condition and kidney involvement, and the end was not entirely unexpected.
He was born in Quincy, Mass., March 30, 1877. After graduating with the Class of 1899 he entered business in New York and thirtyfive years ago became connected with the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, long established manufacturers of steel and electric cables, bridge cables, strip steel, etc. This firm built the cables for the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River, completed in 1883,, and the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River at 181 st Street in New York. He went to Atlanta in 1913 and became general manager of the Southeastern District of the company. He was transferred to Chicago in 1930 but kept his home in Atlanta where he continued to live after his retirement about five years ago. He was a member of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church and Piedmont Lodge A.F. and A.M. He is survived by his wife Ida, a son Lloyd, of Atlanta, and two brothers, N. B. Wason of Seattle, Washington, and Alfred Wason of Encino, Calif. Funeral services were held at Spring Hill Chapel, Sunday afternoon, December 23, Rev. Roy Pettway officiating. The members of his Masonic Lodge attended as honor escorts. Among the floral offerings was one from the Class of 1899 which was represented by proxy arranged by Warren Kendall. Interment was in the family burial plot in Quincy.
In College Harry Wason was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. He was unobtrusive but well known to all his classmates, by whom he was much respected. He was soft spoken, with a kind and gentle nature, charitable and considerate in word and deed. He was a loyal alumnus with unflagging interest in his class and its affairs.
1903
SHERMAN SMITH of 801 Riverdale Ave., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, died January 9, 1946, in the Holy Cross Hospital from virus pneumonia.
Born on August 26, 1879 at Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Watson Burchard and Frances Reed (Coan) Smith, he prepared for college at the Omaha High School. In 1903 he graduated from Dartmouth with the degree of B.S. and in 1904 from Thayer School of Civil Engineering.
He began his career in railway constructing immediately after graduation, and in 1906 was with the Grand Trunk Pacific at Portage La Prairie, where he was resident engineer. He served in various parts of Western Canada in the engineering department. When the company was amalgamated with the Canadian National he joined the service of that company, and in 1918 was promoted to assistant superintendent with headquarters at Edson. In 1928 he was transferred to Calgary and served in the same capacity. In 1939 he was appointed superintendent and remained as such until his retirement in August 1944.
On March 6, 1912, he married Elizabeth Newman Jordan, who survives him with two daughters, Mrs. Roger de Winton and Mrs. J. B. Dinning of Calgary.
He was vestryman at Christ Church, Calgary, a member of the Calgary Rotary Club, of the Masonic order, and of the Calgary Board of Trade.
In college, Sherm, as he was familiarly known to his classmates, was a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Alpha Delta Phi and of Theta Nu Epsilon.
1907
DR. ALBERT PERKINS TIBBETS died January 21, 1946, at his home in Chevy Chase, Md„ after a long illness.
The son of William Sewall and Carrie Russell (Perkins) Tibbets, he was born in Somersworth, N. H., November 14, 1884. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
Leaving Dartmouth at the end of junior year, he completed his course at George Washington University, where he graduated as A.B. in 1907 and as M.D. in 1910. He began practice in Washington, D. C., and continued until illness forced him to retire in 1944. From 1910 to 1917 he was clinical instructor in ophthalmology in George Washington University Medical School, and then clinical assistant in laryngology and otology to 1931. In 1917"19 he was a lieutenant commander in the USNRF. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons and various other medical and surgical societies, and a past president of the Washington Medical and Surgical Society.
February 1, 1913, he was married to Katherine Herbert of Washington, who survives him, with two sons, William S. and Richard H.
1908
JESSE HARDING died at his home, Melrose Highlands, Mass., on January 16, 1946. Jesse and his wife had attended the theater in Boston that evening. They left their car at the Melrose Highlands Station about a half mile from their home. When they returned to the station after the theater, Jesse was unable to start his'car, as it was a cold night, so he and his wife walked home. He made no complaint of feeling ill, but shortly after he entered the house, he dropped dead. The funeral was held on January 18 at the Unitarian Church in Melrose Highlands.
Jesse Harding was born on July 9, 1886, in Haverhill, Mass. He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1904 from Haverhill High School. His entire business career was spent in the insurance business. Following his graduation from college, he was associated with his father in the Albert G. Harding Insurance Agency at Haverhill. In 1921 he entered the firm of Simpson, Campbell and Cos. of Boston, and later joined the New Amsterdam Casualty Cos., where at the time of his death, he was superintendent of the Accident and Health Department.
Jesse was a member of the Unitarian Church and Wyoming Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He was married on May 16, 1912, to Dorothy Edgerton Mills. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Helen Anderson of Sudbury, Vt., and Mrs. Faith Jenkins, Melrose Highlands, and one son, Lt. Frederic D. Harding a patient at Cushing Hospital, who recently returned from Italy after service with the Mountain Infantry Ski Patrol, four grandchildren and four sisters.
Jesse was recognized as an authority in the insurance field, in which he was engaged, and he was active in Dartmouth affairs. He will be greatly missed by his business associates, as a member of the class, and by a host of friends.
1909
BENJAMIN (Ben) AYER died suddenly at his home, 257 Tremont St., South Braintree, Mass ' on January 25, 1946-
He was born November 17, 1885, in Oakland, Maine, the son o£ John and Annabel Ayer. He was graduated from Belmont High School in 1905 and from Dartmouth with the class of 1909. He then continued at the Thayer School, from which he was graduated in 1910 with aC.E. degree. At college he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Shortly after graduation from college he became associated with the Monatiquot Rubber Company of South Braintree, Mass. He later climbed the ladder to become superintendent and general manager of the company, and still later was made manager of the Stedman Products Company, manufacturers of rubber flooring. Because of his ill health he was finally forced to resign this position. Upon recovery he became associated with the Street and Water Department of the town of Braintree, and remained there until his death.
While at college Ben was very well liked by those who met him. He was of a retiring disposition and, unfortunately, we were never able to get him to return to any of our many reunions to continue his associations.
Ben is survived by his wife Helen Averill Ayer, two daughters, Annabel and Nancy, and two brothers, John, M.I.T. 1905, and Paul P., Dartmouth 1911.
SAMUEL KENT BELL died at the Exeter, N. H., Hospital Sunday, January 13, after a long period of failing health. He was the Son of John James and Cora (Kent) Bell, and was born in Exeter on March 1, 1888.
He was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1905 and from Dartmouth in the class of 1909, and received his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1912, at the same time Freddie Carroll and Joe Worthen were graduated. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in the same year, and became a member of the law firm of Eastman, Scammon, and Gardner in Exeter. Since 1920 he had been engaged in trust work and in ownership and management in Exeter and Manchester. He was a director of the Merchants National Bank in Manchester, also trust officer from 1936 to 1946, director of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, president and director of the Pemigewasset Valley Railroad Company.
His great-grandfather, John Bell, was governor of New Hampshire in 1829 and his grandfather, Samuel Dana Bell, was justice of the Superior Court. In 1915 to 1917 Sam served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and was police commissioner in Exeter from 1912 to 1919.
At college he was a member of the Kappa Delta Phi and of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternities.
On October 17, 1912 Sam married Gertrude Alvina True of Exeter, who survives him.
Sam Bell was one of those people who, it might be said are bora with a silver spoon, and yet he made his own way in life and very successfully. The keynote to his character was entire selflessness, an overpowering eagerness to live for others. Sam was always considerate of everyone no matter how lowly his walk of life, and always had a good word for everyone. One of his hobbies was the Exeter Country Club and the town of Exeter. He served for many years on the executive committee of the club, and during the troublesome periods of the two World Wars he was a bulwark of strength for them. He was general chairman of the committee in charge of the tercentenary of the founding of the town of Exeter, and at this he was at his best. The esteem in which he was held could be noted in the long list of notables who attended his funeral.
ALLAN MORRILL MCCURDY died suddenly in Wentworth, N. H., on January ai, 1946- He was stricken with pneumonia some time ago and was obliged to take a year's leave of absence from his duties, and apparently did not entirely recover.
Allan was born in Andover, Mass., on September 1, 1886, the son of Matthew Scobey (Dartmouth 1873) and Lydia Endora (Morrill) McCurdy. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy and was graduated with the class of 1909 from Dartmouth.
On graduating from college he taught in the U. S. Indian Service at Ignachio, Colorado, and at Owghee, Nevada, his wife being associated with him in this work. He served in World War I, and later was superintendent of schools in Milan, Oxford, and Plymouth and as headmaster of Bath High School and Lancaster Academy. At the time of his death he was supervisor of teacher training at Plymouth Teachers' College. He was a trustee of the Webster Memorial Library and treasurer of the Wentworth Red Cross.
October 21, 1916, he was married to Elsie Gorham Smith of Worcester, Mass., who survives him. He is also survived by a brother, Robert McCurdy of Concord, N. H., and a niece, Mrs. Lydia McCurdy Wiley of Auburn, N. Y.
1912
WILFRED ROLFE SHRIGLEY died on January 21 at the Salem Hospital, Salem, Mass., following a month's illness from a heart ailment.
He was born in Valparaiso, Chile, April 16, 1888, the son of Winfield Scott and Enriquetta Emma (Rolfe) Shrigley. He was brought to this country to live as a young boy and prepared for college at Volkmann School, Boston, entering Dartmouth with the Class of 1912- He left college at the end of his freshman year to start his career in the shoe manufacturing business, in which he spent his entire active life. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
He was married to Constance Prince Jackson of Boston, Mass., on November 7, 1916, who, with three children, Mrs. Howard Wheeler Jr., Mrs. H. Spencer Potter, and Lt. Wilfred R. Shrigley Jr. of the Army Air Corps, survives him. A fourth child, Arthur Jackson Shrigley, died in 1928.
At the time of his death he was vice-president of L. B. Evans Son Cos., slipper manufacturers of Wakefield, Mass., the oldest concern of its kind in the United States. He was formerly associated with French, Shriner, & Urner Cos. of Boston; J. L. Walker Cos. of Lynn, Mass.; and Merrill-Porter Cos. of Lynn, Mass.
As "Shrig" he was widely known in the shoe manufacturing industry and by his countless friends he was held in great respect and affection. Funeral services were held at Grace Episcopal church at Salem, of which he was a member.
1930
Lt. Col. GEORGE ARTHUR SARLES, veteran Marine Corps pilot, previously reported missing in action after failing to return from a lowlevel bombing and strafing mission over central Mindanao last July, has now been definitely reported killed. No trace of him has ever been found.
George was born in Mt. Kisco, N. Y., July 16, 1908, the son of John L. and Edith (Pardee) Sarles, and entered Dartmouth from Mt. Kisco High School. While in college George was a member of the Barbary Coast Orchestra, the Band, the Instrumental Club, and the Symphony Orchestra. He majored in English.
After graduation from college George enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve for flight training, and was commissioned a second lieutenant May 15, 1931. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1935, and to captain in 1937- From 1932 to 1937 he was secretary and sales manager of Rawlings Motor Cos., Mt. Kisco, and was with Sardik Dry Food Products Cos. from March 1937 to January 1938. He also did some commercial flying, and in 1940 joined TWA and piloted the Kansas City-New York-Chicago run. He left TWA in November 1940, on military leave, and was commissioned a captain in the regular Marine Corps in January, 1941.
Promoted to major the following May, he went overseas in August 1942 and became operations officer of the bomber command at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. His Legion of Merit citation, received at that time, stated, "Major Sarles, in control of all Army, Navy, and Marine Corps units, planned and directed innumerable vital missions which resulted in great destruction of enemy bases, personnel, and material." During his first Pacific tour, George also served at New Caledonia, Samoa, Wallis, and Funafuti.
George was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 6, 1943, and assumed command of a B-25 bomber squadron at Cherry Point, N. C., in October. He took his squadron overseas the following September. His men proudly called themselves "Sarles' Raiders," and they participated in the neutralization of Rabaul and Kavieng, then went on to Mindanao and supported the invasion of Borneo. In his last nine months overseas, George himself flew 37 combat missions.
He was married September 9, 1935 to Harriet Graham, who is now living at 623 North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif., with their three children, Dale, Allen, and Sandra.
1945
First Lt. HARRY WILBUR RITTER, whose plane was shot down over Udine, Italy, on December 29, 1944, has been declared dead by the war department.
Harry, who was a navigator aboard a B-24, graduated from Laguna Beach (Ohio) High School, and attended Dartmouth for a year and a half before enlisting in the Air Corps.
Lt. Ritter leaves two aunts, and his wife, who lives in Fontana, Calif.
Medical School
1885
DR. FRANK EUGENE MAYBERRY died suddenly while sitting in his chair at his home in Rockland, Mass., October 1, 1945. The cause of his death was diabetes with heart complications.
He was born in Windham, Me., June 20, 186O, the son of Nelson and Elizabeth (Bodge) Mayberry. On his mother's side he was a descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower company.
He attended the public schools of Westbrook, Me., and graduated at Westbrook Seminary. At his graduation from the Medical School he was awarded the first prize for the best examination. Later he studied in the schools and hospitals of Europe, and took graduate courses in New York and Chicago.
He was a pioneer specialist in X-ray work and practiced for many years in Pittsfield Mass., until his retirement in 1929.
November 26, 1885, he was married to Helen K. Hall o£ Westbrook, Me., who survives him with two daughters, Mrs. P. T. Bodge of Boston and Mrs. W. F. Temple Jr. of East Pembroke, Mass.
1894
Dr. CLIFTON SMITH ABBOTT died December 11, 1945, at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, after an operation for a skull injury received in a fall.
The son of Dr. Alfred Wells (D.M.S. 1868) and Julia (Clay) Abbott, he was born in Sanbornton, N. H., January 17, 1871, and graduated from Laconia High School.
After graduation and some graduate work at Harvard Medical School he began practice in 1895 in association with his father at Laconia, N. H., and continued it alone after the latter's death in 1921, becoming one of the most widely known physicians and surgeons of the state.
He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a former president of the New Hampshire Medical and Surgical Societies. For twenty years he had been secretary and treasurer of the Belknap County Medical Society.
He married Harriet Cooper, who died in 1944. There were no children, and the only near relative surviving is a sister, Mrs. Blanche A. Ordway of Laconia.
NOW DECLARED DEAD Lt. Col. George A. Sarles '3O was formerly listed as missing in action in the Philippines. He was commanding officer of a Marine bomber squadron, and won the Legion of Merit on Guadalcanal.
HARRY WILBUR RITTER '45
