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]

Davis, Frank J. '88, March 25 Cook, James A. '91, April 17 Lewis, Walter R. '95 Lockwood, George '98, October 2 Cook, Harry I. '01, April 21 Whiton, Sylvester G. '17, April 21 Brown, Richard '19, April 29 Moody, Raymond '20, April 29 Stark, Rex F. '21, January 30 Tully, George P. '21, January 18 St. Louis, William J., Jr. '31, April 3 Buckbee, Donald M. '34, December 13 *Lyon, Washington D. '40, February 23, 1945 *Hughes, Edward F. '41, July 17, 1943 Roe, Josephine R. 'lla, April 29 * Died in war service..

In Memoriam

1891

JAMES ALBERT COOK died in Waltham, Mass., April 17, 1946, at the home of his son, after a period of several years of ill health. Funeral services were held in Saco, Me., on April go. The Secretary represented the class.

Born in Ellsworth, Me., April 10, 1870, the son of James L. and Maria (Wentworth) Cook, he attended the public schools of Ellsworth and prepared for college under a private instructor. He completed two years at Dartmouth, but in the early part of junior year left college, following an incident that caused a class strike in protest against action taken by the faculty.

In November 1894 he was married, and-a son, James W. Cook, was born in November 1895, who served as radio sergeant in the First World War. After the death of his wife, November 14, 1942, he married again while living in Washington, D. C.

In 1890, Cook began newspaper work, following it until his retirement in 1933 because of ill health. He had held newspaper jobs in seven cities and one town, and had helped to start two dailies and two weeklies. His last position was as manager of the Biddeford (Me.) Daily Journal. In 1932 he was president of the Maine Daily Newspaper Publishers' Association.

His hobby in later years was writing verses, and a small volume entitled "Liberty and Other Poems by Albert LeChef" was published in 1937, and a revised edition in 1940.

1894

GALEN BURCH FISH died at his home in Reading, Vt., March 4, 1946.

He was born in Randolph, Vt., June 24, 1869, the son of Arnold Burch and Amelia Maria (Pearson) Fish. He was with the class during freshman year, and renewed his contact by attending its 50th reunion in June 1944.

In 1893 he graduated from the Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature. In 1900 he was a merchant in Stockbridge, Vt., and continued until 1922, being also postmaster from 1902 to 1917, and representing the town in the legislature of 1921. He transferred his business interests to the village of Gaysville in the same town, and remained there until his retirement and his removal to Reading. He was a Mason and a member of the Universalist church.

October 24, 1900, he was married to Maud Chamberlin of Stockbridge, after whose death occurred his marriage, February 28, 193 a, to Mrs. Verdi Mack Martin, who survives him, with a daughter of the first marriage. Ferda P. Fish '91 is a brother.

1895

WALTER RALEIGH LEWIS died at his home in Trinidad, Colo., April 10, 1946. He had been ill since December, and was for some time a patient at the San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, in February entering the Corwin Hospital in Pueblo, where he underwent an operation on March 1. Returning home March 24, he had been reported as making good progress toward recovery up to the day of his death, when he was fatally stricken with a heart attack.

He was born in Putnam, Conn., August 19, 1872, the son of Walter Raleigh and Alice Maria (Livsey) Lewis. He was a member of Sigma Chi.

From 1896 to 1902 he was an assistant engineer with the Metropolitan Water Works of Boston. He then went to Colorado and took a position with the Denver- Union Water Company. In 1907 he went to Trinidad and became superintendent of water works, having charge of the development of the city's municipal water system, and held this position until 1924. In 1923 he became secretary-treasurer of Campbell-Lewis Mortuary, Inc., and continued as a funeral director for the rest of his life.

He was active in Masonic circles, being a member of L. A. Lodge No. 28, A.F. and A.M., a past grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons of Colorado, as a member of Trinidad Chapter No. 23, a member of Rocky Mountain Council No. 2, R. and S.M., and of Oriental Commandery No. 18, Knights Templar, of which he was serving as treasurer, and had been commandery commander.

He was also a past president of the Rotary Club, a trustee of the' Methodist church, president of the Carnegie Library board since 1938, a member of the Masonic Temple Association, and of the Chamber of Commerce.

August 16, 1897, he was married to Lulu Augusta Morrison, who survives him with two daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Brown of Trinidad and Mrs. Alice East of Las Animas, Colo.

1898

GEORGE LOCKWOOD died at the home of his son, Dr. Arthur Lockwood, in Riverside, Calif., on October 2, 1945. He had been ill since October 1944, when an operation for tumor developed the fact that he was suffering £roin a 4th grade cancer. He was buried in Olivewood Cemetery, Riverside.

George was born in Bradford, England, August 11, 1874, the son of James and Ann (Helroyd) Lockwood, and came to this country at the age of nine years. He prepared for college at Bradford (Mass.) High School. He graduated from Dartmouth with Phi Beta Kappa honors.

When first out of college he taught school in New England, and in 1902 he went to Porto Rico, where he taught for three years and was prominent in starting the educational system there. In 1907 he returned to the United States and was appointed an Immigration Inspector and stationed at Naco, Arizona, where he continued until his retirement August 31, 1944-

While probably few if any members of our class have contacted George since he located in Arizona, he was always a loyal member of the Class. Only a month before his death he had renewed his subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

December 24, 1898, he was married to Laura Dell Russell of Wilder, Vt., who died from a heart attack just one month after his death. They left a son, Dr. Arthur Lockwood, and three daughters, Mrs. W. C. Fenderson of Douglas, Arizona, and Mrs. E. H. Mook and Miss Charlotte Lockwood of Nogales, Arizona. There are six grandchildren.

Mr. Lockwood was a trustee of the Baptist church of Naco, and a member of the National Federation of Federal Employees.

1899

NELSON PIERCE BROWN, acting chief justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and long one of the state's outstanding legal authorities, died April 9 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. While he was at the Court House in Pemberton Square, Boston, to preside at a session o£ the Criminal Court, he complained of not feeling well and was taken in an ambulance to the hospital where he died at 12:55 P.M. Death was due to coronary thrombosis.

The oldest judge in years of service on the Superior Court Bench, he was acting in place of Chief Justice John P. Higgins who is in Japan for the war criminal trials there.

Judge Brown was born in Cambridge, Mass., May 13, 1878, the son of George A., Dartmouth 1877, and Flora Eugenia (Pierce) Brown. His father was a practising lawyer in Bellows Falls, Vt. In 1889, when Nelson was eleven years old, the family moved to Everett, Mass. His home there, bought at the time of his marriage, was at 186 Linden Street. He also had a home at Hanover where he and his family lived during the summer months when the court was in recess. He graduated from the Everett High School in 1895 and was selected as the Class Orator. He entered Dartmouth in September of that year with the class of 1899. At Dart- mouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Casque and Gauntlet. He was the winner in the annual Kappa Kappa Kappa Prize Speaking Contest four consecutive years, winner in the Rollins and the Smith and Rol- lins prize speaking contests and president of the Dartmouth Debating Union. He was a member of the Glee Club, the Rollins Chapel and College Church Choirs and a member of the Dartmouth Tennis Association, of which he was Secretary and Treasurer. After gradu- ating from Dartmouth he entered Harvard Law School but left to accept a position on the teaching staff of Dartmouth as an instructor in public speaking in the English Department. He remained there a year when he returned to Harvard Law where he received his LL.B. degree in 1904. He then joined his father's law firm in Boston and was elected city solicitor of Everett in 1908. In 1912 he was appointed an assistant district attorney of Middlesex County and in 1915 assistant attorney general of the state. February 27, 1918, Governor Samuel W. McCall appointed him to the superior court judgeship. Only 39, he then was the youngest member of that bench.

In addition to his court duties he was a former president of the Everett Board of Trade, Vice President of the State Board, bank director, Director of the Mystic Valley Waterworks Association, a member of the Elks, Masons and City Club.

June 11, 1903 he was married to Margaret Tucker, daughter of President William J. Tucker. She survives him as do four children —Nelson P., Jr., Assistant to the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds at Hanover; Stanton, member of the staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who flew from South America to attend the funeral; Mrs. Royal I. Blanchard of Worcester, Mass., and Mrs. Carl M. Wentworth of Radburn, N. J.; also a brother James B. Brown, Dartmouth 1907, an attorney in Boston, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Godfrey of Orlando, Florida.

Funeral services were held at the Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston, on the afternoon of April 12. Rev. James Perkins, assistant rector, officiated. Rev. Boynton Merrill, Congregational Minister of Columbus, Ohio, former Rector of the Old South Church, and a personal friend of Judge Brown spoke under of his friend's career. Among the large number of attendants who filled the church were judges of the Supreme Judicial and Superior Courts, prominent city and state officials, including Gov. Tobin, Lt. Gov. Bradford, Secretary of State Cook, ex-Governors Channing Cox and Joseph B. Ely. Members of the class of 1899 attending were A. J. and Mrs. Abbott, Barney, Chase, Clark, Dearborn, Donahue, Hoban, Huckins, Irving, Parker, Payne, Silver, Smith, Surrey, Watson and Wiggin.

Among the honorary bearers were Charles H. Donahue and Louis S. Cox, retired Supreme Court Justices, seven Supreme Court Justices and all justices of the Superior Court. All superior court sessions throughout the state were suspended for the day and legislative business at the State House was halted during the period of the funeral services. The flag on the Pemberton Square Court House was hung at half staff from April 9 through April is.

Burial, with services at the grave, was in Hanover beneath the pines in the beautiful old cemetery where many immortals of Dartmouth are buried. Nelson would have had it this way because he not only loved Dartmouth but the countryside as well.

Such is an objective relation of the passing of, and some of the events in, the life of Nelson Brown, a great judge, an ever loyal lover of Dartmouth College, held in high respect and deep affection by his classmates who in their meetings and their annals will pay fitting tribute to his memory.

During his 28 years as a superior judge, Nelson Brown was acknowledged as an expert in criminal law. He sat in maiiy murder trials, the best known of which was the Millen-Faber case in 1934. While at times he was obliged to impose the death penalty, he was known to be a fair, just and fearless judge who had the respect of defendants, counsel and the prosecuting officer.

In one case in 1920, two years after he had been elevated to the superior bench, he stopped the electrocution of a young man convicted of murder on the eve the sentence was to be carried out when he was presented with evidence the jury had been unduly influenced.

He was threatened with death several times for sentencing a notorious murderer to die in 1935, yet just before the accused slayer was to go to the chair he wrote of Judge Brown, "He was the squarest man in the courtroom."

He had many distinguished tributes paid to his career by legal contemporaries, among them: Chief Justice of the State Supreme Judicial Court, Fred T. Field: "He had a very attractive personality. He was a trial judge of outstanding ability, with a fine record of public service. He will be greatly missed in the judicial system."

Supreme Court Justice John V. Spalding: "He was one of the greatest trial judges that we have produced in Massachusetts in many years, and his loss on the court will be greatly felt by the bench and bar of the Commonwealth."

Supreme Court Justice Raymond S. Wilkins: "He was a man of great human understanding and a judge who presided with the greatest impartiality, with impressive dignity and with sound legal wisdom."

Newspaper editorial comments were no less laudatory. The following, an editorial published in the Boston Herald of April 10, is an example:

Because the late Nelson Pierce Brown sat on more murder cases than any other Massachusetts judge of his period, many people imagined him to be stern and aloof. Quite the contrary. He was probably one of the most intensely human and gregarious men to don a judge s robes.... . Although outwardly austere and never forgetful of the dignity of the bench, he was ever alert in criminal cases to see that the defendant received every right that was his due. His reputation for fair play was such that no lawyer ever sought to evade his sitting. He rarely, if ever, attempted to "make" law but in the interpretation of existing law he was informed, careful and wise. .... Massachusetts has lost not only a good judge, but a virile, greathearted citizen.

JOSEPH W. GANNON

HARLEY RICHARD WILLARD died at his home in Orono, Maine, March 26, following a long period o£ failing health. Death was due to cerebral hemorrhage induced by arteriosclerosis. Mrs. Willard reported that he suffered no pain during his illness of two years.

"Tony," as he was affectionately called by his classmates, was born at Sutton, Vt., March 13, 1875, the son of John Eastman and Sarah (Weare) Willard.

Following his graduation he was an assistant in the Physics Department at Dartmouth during 1900-02, and received the degree of A.M. there in the latter year. In 1904 he began teaching as an instructor in mathematics and astronomy at the University of Maine, becoming an assistant professor in 1907. Later he was granted two leaves of absence, once to attend Yale University, where he was a University Fellow 1909-1911, then an instructor there in mathematics, and later to serve as chief statistician in the Wheat Division of the U. S. Food Administration during World War I. From Yale he received the degree of A.M. in 1910 and the degree of Ph.D. in 1912.

He returned to the University of Maine in September, 1919, and later became head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, from which he retired as professor emeritus in June 1944. He was co-author with Professor N. R. Bryan of the University of two textbooks on mathematics. Dr. Willard was elected to the honorary societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Pi. His social fraternity was Chi Phi.

He was engaged in many civic activities throughout his community, and was chairman of the Orono Board of Selectmen for eleven years. He was a member and past master of Mechanics Lodge, F. and A. M. of Orono, and a 32d degree Mason; also a member of all the Scottish Rite bodies of Bangor and of the Consistory in Portland.

On August .16, 1911, he was married in Medford, Mass., to Margaret Cook of Bangor, who survives him, as do a daughter, Mildred Willard of Orono, and two sons, Paul F. of Millinocket and Richard J. of Orono; four grandchildren; and two brothers, Ira Q. of Keene, N. H., and Wilbur J. of Bakersfield, Cal.

The funeral services, which were private, were held on March 28, and he was laid to rest in his family plot in Riverside Cemetery in Orono, directly across the Stillwater River from the Campus where he spent practically all his teaching life, doing the work he loved best to do.

The following tribute was by Arthur A. Hauck, President of the University of Maine:

"During his service at the University of Maine, Dr. Willard won the admiration and confidence of his colleagues for his attainments in his chosen field of mathematics, and their affection and high regard for his helpfulness and friendliness. Few men have served the University as long and faithfully, and his services will be long remembered."

1906

DEARBORN BAILEY died following a short illness January 12, 1946. Dearborn was married comparatively late in life, in 1932, to Rena Crissy. He was very much attached to her and to their home in Waltham, Mass., where he had lived alone since her untimely death the previous June, and her loss is believed to have contributed to his own last illness.

He was born in Boston, March 10, 1883, the son of Robert M., a noted architect, and Ella R. Bailey. His father died some years ago, but his mother survives him, with two brothers, Robert M. Bailey Jr., and Frederick W. Bailey, both residents of Dedham, where Dearborn lived for 50 years.

_ Dearborn received his preparatory education at Hopkinson School, on Beacon Hill, Boston. Hopkinson was a preparatory school for Harvard, and the school management was considerably upset when he announced that he was going to break the school's tradition and attend what was then considered the upstart little institution in the New Hampshire hills. But Dearborn even then had become a loyal Dartmouth man, and was not to be changed in his purpose. He was one of the very first of seven students at the school who eventually chose Dartmouth.

Following college Dearborn entered the automobile business, with which he was identified until the beginning of the recent war, when he went with the Cummings Engineer ing Company of Boston.

At Dartmouth he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Dragon. He took no part in college athletics, but his genial personality, his ready smile, and his loyalty to those he liked won him a wide circle of devoted friends which has lasted ever since.

Two sisters survive him, Mrs. George R. Sparrell of Clinton, Mass., and Mrs. Frank B. Carter of Weston, Mass.

1907

EUGENE CHILDS BROOKS died April a, 1946, at his home in Concord, N. H. The son .of Eugene D. and Sarah (Childs) Brooks, he was born in Cambridge, Mass., March 11, 1887. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and Sphinx.

After graduation he went to Colorado, and graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1909. He was engaged in mining engineering in that state and in California and Washington to 1915. Then returning East, he was engineer for the Eastern Talc Co. and superintendent of the Southwestern Graphite Co., both of Rochester, Vt., for some years, and then for a time was connected with the J. T. Slack Corporation of Springfield, Vt. He was then assistant engineer and shop superintendent for the Boston & Maine R. R. in Boston, then in Keene, N. H., and finally in Concord from 1940 until his retirement a few months before his death.

July 25, 1917, he was married to Dorothy B: Campbell, who survives him, with a son, Eugene C. Brooks Jr., USN, and two daughters, Mrs. Eva Thompson of Easthampton, Mass., and Mrs. Virginia Hutton of Melrose, Mass., also one grandson, and a sister and a brother.

1909

ARTHUR SIDNEY (BEDELIA) BEDELL died suddenly, as a result of a heart attack, at his home, 378 Wellington Road, Delmar, New York, on March 30, 1946.

He was born January 29, 1887 in Brooklyn, N. Y„ the son of Sidney G. and Annie L. (Jewett) Bedell. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Boys' High School in Brooklyn.

After graduation he worked as assistant in the Registrar's office, and then went to Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, where he received the degree of B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1921. He studied sanitary engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

He began his professional career as a member of the faculty of Robert College, where he was registrar and instructor in science and engineering from 1910 to 1916, and assistant professor of civil engineering from 1919-1921. In 1917 he joined the staff of the Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, as assistant bacterid ologist, and a year later resigned to become sanitary expert for the American Red Cross Commission to Greece during 1918-1913 On his return to this country in 1922 he served for a brief period with the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and for three years was sanitary engineer in the state of Utah. In 1925 he resumed his association with the New York State Department of Health as sanitary engineer in the Division of Sanitation. Since 1937 he had been chief of the Bureau of Sewage and Waste Disposal.

Mr. Bedell was a charter member of the New York State Sewage Works Association and was its secretary-treasurer continuously from the time of its organization is 1929. He was vice-president of the Federation of Sewage Works Association in 1940-1941 and president in 1941-1942. He was a member and chairman of the Federation's general policy committee and a member of its committee on honorary membership. He was an affiliate of the American Public Health Association and of the national honor society, Phi Beta Kappa.

December 25, 1909, he was married to Elsie Bradshaw, who survives him, with two daughters, Mrs. Stanley Hummel and Mrs. James McGraw of Albany, N. Y„ and a host of friends in Dartmouth, together with many associates in the State Department of Health.

1922

GARDNER SEWELL (RED) HALL died in his sleep at the Waterbury Inn, Waterbury, Vt., on April 10, 1946. A member of the law firm of Cooper, Hall, Grimes, and Cooper of Rochester, N. H., and for the past fifteen years judge of the Rochester Municipal Court, Red had left a few days before on a short vacation trip, spending a day in Hanover just before his death.

Red was born in Marlboro, N. H„ on October 2, 1900, the son of Benjamin and Adeline M. Hall. He attended Marlboro schools and entered Dartmouth from Keene High School. Always interested in sports, he was active in football and track in high school and was on the Dartmouth squad.

Following his four years at Dartmouth, he received the degree of LL.B. from Boston University Law School in 1926, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar the same year.

A member of Gamma Sigma at Dartmouth, he was a member of Phi Delta Phi, the "Woolsack Society, and on the board of editors of the Law View at B.U.

Red came to Rochester in 1936 and became a member of the firm of Cooper and Hall. In 1930 he was appointed as judge of the Rochester Municipal Court, at that time the youngest jurist in the state, which position he held to his death.

He was a member of the Rochester Post, American Legion, which he served for many years as Americanization Officer, a member of 40 & 8, director of the First National Bank, a member of Masonic fraternities and Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar. He was a member of the New Hampshire and Strafford County Bar Associations, and for many tears he had been a member and director o£ the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, serving as president in 1937.

September 3, 1933 he was married to Gladys Margaret Black of Saco, Maine, who survives f,;m, with two daughters, Hannah 10 and Nancy 4, and two sons, Benjamin 8 and Daniel J and his parents in Marlboro.

3 Funeral services were held April 13 at the Advent Christian Church conducted by the Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar.

1925

On January 17, 1946, our loyal classmate, ANDREW NELSON ANDERSON, known to hundreds of our undergraduates in his day as "Pinky," passed away at Miami Beach from Bright's disease and a heart condition. Pinky had not been well for years.

He was born on July 8, 1902, in St. Louis and came to Dartmouth from Ossining, N. Y., High School. In College he belonged to the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and was interested in non-athletic activities.

After graduation Pinky taught school for two years before joining Stewart & Cos. in Baltimore. At the time of his death he was advertising manager and sales promotion director for this Company, which is part of the Associated Dry Goods group.

He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in civic work such as bond drives, ration boards, etc. His ability and personality were standouts in the trade.

In June 1933, Pinky married Mary Parks Price who survives with a lovely blonde daughter, Ann Price Anderson, aged 11. They have moved to Miami Beach where Mrs. Anderson will conduct a real estate business.

Our class has lost a real friend and extends its sympathy to the family.

KEN HILL

GEORGE lOCKWOOD '98

NELSON PIERCE BROWN '99