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]
Wolehen, Harry D. '83, Sept. 30 Hardy, George F. '88, Oct. 2 Smith, Daniel L. '91, Aug. 28 Miller, Frank W. '93, Sept. 27 Schwarm, Henry '97, Sept. 9 Hatch, Leslie A. '98, Aug. 2 Hill, Lawrence R. '02, June Eberly, Horace D. '10, May 30 Clark, Herbert W. '11, Oct. 1 Putnam, Henry W., Jr. '29, June 19 Schabacker, John W. '29, Sept. 20 Riley, James W. '32 Lippe, Charles F. '34, Aug. 25 Watts, S. Gordon '34, Aug. 23 Tuttle, Karl R. 'BBm, Mar. 28 Jackson, Albon L. '22m, April 21, 1941 Hardy, Arthur W. '89th, Feb. 9, 1944 Hetzel, Ralph D. "18h, Oct. 3 Beatty, Sir Edward W. '38h, Mar. 23, 1943
In Memoriam
1882
CHARLES ROY PARTRIDGE died August 9, in Baldwin, N. Y. He was born in Elmira, N. Y., October 1, 1849, the son of Henry Morton and Mary Parmelee (Hart) Partridge. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon.
During all his active business life "Pat" was engaged in lumber business in, and around, New York City.
April 14, 1885, he was married to Cornelia M. Hallock of Binghamton, N. Y., who died in March 1936. There were two sons, Wallace and Henry, and a daughter, Dorothy.
Although it was always difficult to extract information from "Pat" for the class records, he was always loyal to the class and to the College.
1883
Although he had failed to keep in direct touch with the class secretary, it has been learned through the Richmond Times Dispatch that HARRY D. WOIEBEN died late last month at the home of his son, Wilbur T., in Gulfport, Miss.
Harry D. Woleben was born in Marengo, Ill., January 16, 1862. He matriculated in the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in the junior year of the Class of 1883, but did not finish his course. Of a studious disposition, he was not identified with any of the extra-curricular activities of the college.
June 12, 1889, he married Miss Anna Dean and made his home at Chicago Heights for forty years.
Following the death of his wife in 1928 he lived until recently with his daughter, Mrs. William A. Willis at 817 Tuckahoe Boulevard, Richmond, Va., subsequently taking up his home with his son, Wilbur, at Gulfport, Miss.
During his residence in Richmond he took an active interest in the Presbyterian Church and was an active member of the Richmond Alumni Club of Dartmouth College, ever maintaining a loyal spirit in his intended alma mater.
He leaves surviving him two sons, Wilbur T., Dartmouth '18, of Gulfport, Miss.; Dean W. of Fort Worth, Texas; Mrs. Willis, his daughter; nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
1890
In the passing of VICTOR SAFFORD on June 20, at his home in Jamaica Plain, there was lost a man of not only national but of international repute. From the day that he left Dartmouth in 1890, most of his life had been spent in the service of his fellow man. In college he was respected for his ability, popular for his fine disposition and his joy in making friendships. Socially he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and of Sphinx; in scholarship he was a Phi Beta Kappa.
Leaving college he led for a time the 'dual life of being employed by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and at Bowdoin College, from which he received the M.D. degree in 1893.
Then came work in high positions in highgrade hospitals. The Government took notice of him, and he was made a surgeon in the Immigration Service at New York, and then promoted to the U. S. Public Health Service. He soon became a leading figure in this branch of government work, and served on investigation and advisory committees. He assisted in revising the outworn immigration laws. His report on ship life-saving equipment, if adopted promptly, would have saved much of the casualty in the sinking of the "Titanic." He acquired a knowledge of languages that enabled him to converse with any alien no matter from what country or section of it he came. He took active part in sanitation and relief work in many parts of the country.
Leaving government service in 1919 he became Deputy Health Commissioner of Boston, the non-political and executive official of that city department. In this post he remained until retirement age in 1937. He was a frequent contributor to medical and similar journalsever alert to discuss new methods and the improvement of the old. He was a member of the national and many local medical societies, and served on their leading committees. He was regarded everywhere as high authority on immigration and sanitation, and his advice was eagerly sought and faithfully followed.
In politics he was a Republican, and a vigorous apostle of conservatism. In religion he was an Episcopalian and a vestryman of St. John's Church in his Boston community. He married in 1899, in Brooklyn, Mary Ann Westaway who survives him. She was the daughter of a British shipbuilder and shipowner, of an old Devonshire family which for generations has contributed officers to the Navy of Great Britain. His home was in residential Jamaica Plain in Boston, with a summer home on Cape Cod, and, of late, a Florida winter retreat at Clearwater.
Such is a sketch, a very brief one, of the Victor Safford who was born in Kittery, Maine, Dec. 13, 18617. He was one hundred per cent forthright, firm in his convictions, adamant in his principles, absolutely loyal to his friends, who were a multitude, a genuine member of Class A in American citizenship.
J.B.R.
1891
DANIEL LEON SMITH passed away on August 28 in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and was buried in Holyrood Cemetery, Brookline.
The son of Wilbur Fisk and Nettie (Sargent) Smith, he was born in Enfield, N. H., September 13, 1870. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy and Tilton Academy. In college Smith stood high in his class and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Casque and Gauntlet. He attended Harvard Law School from which he received his LL.B. in 1894.
For four years he was in New York City with the law firm of Evarts, Choate and Beaman, during which time he was admitted to the New York Bar. In 1898 he returned to Massachusetts, living for several years in Winchester. After the death of his first wife, he moved to Boston where he was married to Veronica H. Murphy. For twenty years they resided in Needham and since that period he and Mrs. Smith had made their home in Bos- ton. He had been in general practice of law in Boston since 1898.
His first wife was Virginia S. Yates, the mother of his two children, Sister Louise Claudia, St. Patrick's Convent, Dorchester, Mass., and Louise Smith, Providence, R. I.
1893
HARRY BINGHAM METCALF died on August 30, 1947, at Carrie F. Wright Hospital, Newport, N. H., of a cerebral hemorrhage. Born January 25, 1871, at Concord, N. H., the son of Henry Harrison and Mary Jane (Jackson) Metcalf, he graduated from the Concord High School and entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth with the class of 1893.
He was a student of excellent standing, especially interested in literary work, being editor of the Aegis and managing editor of The Dartmouth. By inheritance he was a staunch Democrat and as such, was president of "The Dartmouth Cleveland Club." He took prizes in drawing, botany, oratory and political economy; he was active on the campus being class vice president, class historian, vice president of the Football Association, and president of the Press Club. At commencement he delivered the oration, "Present Tendencies in American Journalism."
His fraternities were Phi Zeta Mu (now Sigma Chi) and Sphinx Senior Society. He was graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree and later the College conferred on him a Master of Science degree.
Immediately after graduation, he went into newspaper work which he followed for 52 years, retiring in 1945. He was with the Nashua Gazette, the Manchester Union, Boston Record, Concord Monitor, ConcordPatriot, Worcester Telegram, and in 1905 he joined the Boston American, becoming managing editor. In 1922 and 1923 he owned and edited the Wellesley Townsman, selling it to Roger W. Babson in 1923. At about this time, poems which he had written were published in book form under the title Stray Notes ofSong.
In 1925 he resigned from the Boston American, having purchased the two local papers at Newport, N. H., and combining them into the Argus-Champion which he owned and published very successfully until 1945, at which time he sold out and retired from all business activities. Politically a Democrat, nevertheless he operated the Argus-Champion as an independent news organ, freely open for expression on any political issue. He was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the second district in 1934 and polled the largest Democratic vote ever given in this strong Republican district.
He was President of the New Hampshire Publishers Association, Newport Rotary Club, and Newport Board of Trade; member of the Newport Zoning Commission; Lion's Club; White Mountain Tramway Commission and the Newport Finance Committee. His religious affiliations were with the Congregational Church at Newport.
Harry married (1) on December 30, 1899, Katharine A. Sheehan, who died May 13, 1919; and (2) on May 5, 1920, Mrs. Ethel Ehrman who survives, together with a daughter Mary Katharine, now Mrs. Paul Martineau of Durham, N. H., and two grandchildren. Also surviving is his sister, Prucia, Mrs. Harlan C. Pearson of Concord, N. H., widow of another of '93's immortals.
1894
CARL SETH HOSKINS died July 5 at Dick's House in Hanover, whither he had gone for a check-up after a year of failing health. In his death the class loses one of its strongest and most outstanding personalities.
Carl was born at Lyman, N. H., September 23, 1871, and was the son of Seth F. and Martha (Stevens) Hoskins. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy and entered Dartmouth in 1890 to graduate with the class of 1894.
Like his father, who had founded the famous Sunset Hill House on Sugar Hill in 1879, Carl conducted that well-known hostelry in the White Mountain area until he sold the property in 1928 and retired from the hotel business to engage in numerous industrial, civic and financial activities in Lisbon, N. H., and Franconia. He owned the historic 150-year-old iron mine and smelter in the latter town (long disused), was president of the Lisbon Manufacturing Company, vice president of the Lisbon Savings Bank and Trust Co., and had represented the district in the state legislature (1909).
In 1904 he married Grace Philbrick Washburn of Melrose, Mass., and made his home in Lisbon, traveling extensively in the winter. They had no children.
Funeral services were conducted July 6 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover, by Rev. Leslie P. Hodder, the class being represented by Burnap, Cassin and Stone. After cremation, burial was at Lisbon.
P.S.M.
When JAMES A. TOWNSEND died in Berkeley, Calif., June 24, an unusually full and rewarding life in the world was brought to an end.
"Jim" Townsend, as we called him, enjoyed his work. He described himself as a "salesman." For 41 years he sold magazine advertising. First, as the Chicago and later the Pacific Coast representative of the Butterick Publishing Company, and then from 1937 on developed his own business as "Publishers' Representative." He came to be known as "Dean of Pacific Coast advertising men."
He enjoyed this work largely because of the friends he made. He once wrote of "a host of business friends who are scattered all the way from New England to the Pacific Coast and from Canada to New Mexico. These business friends make my work so pleasant and enjoyable that I have never given any thought to the question of retiring."
Sometimes it is said that Dartmouth men "never leave college." Jim Townsend pre-eminently belonged to this group. He declared in 1944 that he had seen "every possible college football game, track meet, and basketball game since graduation." He was president of the Chicago Alumni Association and later of the alumni organization in San Francisco. He represented the Pacific Coast on the Alumni Council. He warmed the cockles of his class secretary's heart by the promptness and adequacy of his appreciation. His home, first in Evanston and then in Berkeley, was a mecca for all '94 men who went that way.
He had a singularly happy home life. He liked to speak of how, by the "flick of a coin," he was led to start his business career in Springfield, Ohio, where he met his future wife, Cora Simpson. They had four sons, all but one of whom, together with Mrs. Townsend, survive. Two are Dartmouth graduates.
He was born at Newbury, Vt., Jan. 1, 1873, but ere long the family moved to Lebanon, N. H., and he was one of the ten men who entered the class from Lebanon High School. In college he played end on the varsity football team and was a member of the track team. He won appointment as Commencement Speaker and made Phi Beta Kappa. His fraternity was Tri Kap.
Perhaps he enjoyed his work too much, for in spite of critical illnesses and repeated warnings he kept hard at work, and, as his wife writes, his heart "just wore out and stopped."
C.C.M.
1897
HENRY SCHWARM died at.his home in Rochester, N. Y., on September 9, following several years of ill health.
Henry was born in Waukegan, Ill., May 27, 1871. He prepared for college in the Waukegan schools and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1894. When the depression came he was forced to leave college and returned later to graduate with our class. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Always popular with his classmates, Henry was doubly so on the days when examinations were drawing near. He spoke German fluently and seemed better able to tutor his friends in the language than many of their instructors.
With this early start it was natural that Henry should make teaching his life work. After serving for eight years as Superintendent of Schools in Hamilton, Mont., he went to Rochester, N. Y., in 1918 to teach English and Public Speaking in West High .School. He continued in this capacity until forced by ill health to retire in 1938. Because of the deep personal interest he took in his students he won a high place in their affections.
In 1905 Henry was married to Emma Brown, who survives him.
1898
WILLIAM EVERETT HOYT died at Salem, Mass., on July 1, 1947. For more than a year he had gone through a great deal of suffering from a rather rare disease called pemphigus. It is said that medical science knows neither the cause nor the cure for this disease.
Though Ev was with the class for only two years he was ever a most loyal classmate and his presence at our class reunions was just one evidence of this and his contributions to the Alumni Fund were testimonials of his love for the College.
After leaving college he engaged in the clothing and furnishing business and operated stores in Salem, Mass., until his retirement several years ago. He had been very active in military affairs in his younger days and had served in all grades in the Second Corps of Cadets from private to captain. He had also been very much interested in Masonic matters and had been a member of all Masonic bodies through the 32nd degree. In college he was on the freshman baseball team and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Everett was born in Lynn, Mass., August 29, 1873, and prepared for college at the Lynn Classical High School. He is survived by his widow, the former Mabel Bixby; by a daughter, Alice D. (Wood); and by two sons, Joseph B. and William E. Jr. '37.
1900
FRANK WILLIAM CHAPMAN died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Costa Mesa, Cal., on July 31, 1947, after an illness of three years. He was born at Franklin, N. H., on August 23, 1877, the son of Frank H. Chapman. Doing his preparatory work at the Franklin High School and at Peekskill Military Academy, he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1900. He was a member of the class football and baseball teams and of the varsity football squad. His fraternity was Sigma Chi. In the spring of 1898 he left college to enlist in the military forces during the Spanish War, becoming a corporal in Company H, First New Hampshire Volunteers. He did not return to college at the conclusion of the war.
In subsequent years he led a somewhat roving life. For a time he seems to have reentered the army, serving for a period in the Philippines. He was also a farmer in Florida, Mississippi, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In 1919 he removed to California where he remained for the rest of his life, engaged in orange raising, ranching and in later years in the management. of an establishment for the sale of drinks in Costa Mesa. He was married (1) in Boston in 1903 to Mildred Solaris, who died in 1910, and (2) in 1911 in Cambridge, Mass., to Mrs. Ethel Dixon Carpenter, who, with four children, survives him.
The following, taken from the local paper, shows the esteem in which Frank was held in the Costa Mesa community. "To our way of thinking Costa Mesa has never had a more colorful character than Frank Chapman. Some ten years ago we came to Costa Mesa and one of the first persons we met was Frank Chapman. At that time he was operating the only drink establishment in Costa Mesa. You could get beer, wine, or most any kind of soft drink. Frank didn't drink anything stronger than soda pop and his lectures on the evils of drinking hard liquor were masterpieces. In the few years he was able to work behind the bar we believe that he delivered more of these lectures than any evangelist in the entire world, and he meant every word. There was just one Frank Chapman, a real squareshooter, who did a lot of good for the boys of Costa Mesa and whose warm heart and kindly philosophy will not be forgotten by his host of friends."
1901
HERBERT WASHBURN HOVEY, vice president of the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company for the past ten years, died suddenly in his office, 10 Post Office Square, Boston, on April 25.
He was born in Waterford, Vt., January 27, 1879, and after graduating from St. Johnsbury Academy entered Dartmouth with the class in the fall of 1897.
During his college course, Hovey worked in the bank, and soon acquired the nickname of "Banker" by which he was familiarly known by all his classmates. "Banker" was very quiet, unassuming, a little reserved perhaps, but still of a very genial disposition. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he studied at Boston University Law School and received the degrees of LL.B. and J.B. in 1903. He then began the practice of his profession in St. Johnsbury, but in 1911 went to Montpelier to join the law department of the American Fidelity Company. A year later he was transferred to the New York office. In 1914 he became associated with the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company in Boston, and continued with this company until his death. His legal training and his banking experience made him a valuable member of the organization with which he was so long connected.
"Banker" Hovey will be missed by a host of friends. Solid and substantial, he had all those fine qualities so typical of native Vermonters. He was a regular attendant at all class reunions and a liberal contributor to the Alumni Fund. He belonged to the Dartmouth Club of Boston and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He leaves a wife and daughter. His son died while a student at Phillips Andover Academy.
1902
JOHN WESTON CANNELL died of a heart attack on May 26, 1947, while staying with relatives on a farm in Weston, Mass.
Jack was born in Everett, Mass., on July 22, 1879. He was one of the old "Everett Gang" in college which numbered such men as Nelson Brown, "Wife" Jennings, Charlie DollofE and Horace Kidger. Jack was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. His nephew, Jackson Cannell '19, was coach of the Dartmouth football squad for several years.
Jack won the coveted right to wear the "D" at the Brown-Dartmouth meet, May 1900. Under Jack's enthusiastic leadership the class of 1902 won the interclass track championship for four successive years, an outstanding record rarely if ever equalled.
Jack was twice married. His first wife was Grace Bacon of Everett; and his second, in 1929, was Josephine Bentley of Kokomo, Ind. Two children were born of this marriage, Nancy Jane and Jacqueline Bentley.
For the greater part of his life after leaving college Jack was engaged in the book business in the cities of Cleveland and Boston.
To those who recall Jack Cannell of the old campus days we see him alert, vigorous, enthusiastic. And in those all too rare intervals when we met him in after life at his place of business, in his home, or at class or college reunions, he was still the same old Jack, alive to all news of his college and classmates.
1908
LAWRENCE WAKEMAN GRISWOLD, managing editor of the Batavia Daily News and vice president of Griswold and McWain, Inc., its publishers, passed away at the Tuscon, Arizona, Medical Center on September 3. A lifetime resident.of Batavia, N. Y., Larry suffered a stroke ten years ago and had been living in Tuscon since 1941. This spring he was taken ill with pneumonia and from that time on his condition gradually weakened when he suffered another stroke.
Born in Batavia, October 26, 1883, Larry was the only son of the late Gerrit Smith and Emma (Wakeman) Griswold. He spent virtually his entire life in Batavia. After graduation from Batavia High School in 1903, he worked as a cub reporter on the BataviaNews. He entered college in the fall of 1904. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi and Casque and Gauntlet and played in the Mandolin Club.
Following his graduation, he was with the Bell Telephone Co. in Pittsburgh, and later was associated in New York with Printer'sInk. He was a veteran of World War I. Returning to Batavia, he again joined the staff of the News, first in the business department and subsequently transferring to the editorial division. He became managing editor in 1925 and actively occupied that position until ill health intervened.
Upon his father's death, Larry succeeded him as a director of the Genesee County Savings and Loan Association. He was a charter member of the Stafford Country Club.
Larry was married October 29, 1912, to the former Harriet Cheney of Mystic, Conn., who survives him together with a son, David, a daughter, Mrs. William 1.. Randall of Framingham Center, Mass., arid three sisters, Mrs. John R. Osborne, Mrs. Malcolm Jones and Mrs. Theodore T. Hobson.
A largely attended memorial service was held September 12 at St. James Church, Batavia. Following cremation, the remains were returned to Batavia for interment in Grand View Cemetery.
1909
FRED COPELAND BATCHELLOR died at the Beekman-Downtown Hospital in New York on August 24, 1947.
Batch was born June 21, 1887, in Littleton, N. H. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Littleton High School and entered with the class of 1909. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. During the first World War he served as a Sergeant with the 307th Infantry.
He started with the U. S. Rubber Co. in their patent department and at night took post-graduate work in the New York Law School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. On his return from the war he became a salesman of chemicals to the rubber industry, and many a rubber chemists' convention was enlivened by his French-Canadian dialect stories. In the recent war he went to sea on an oil tanker, and the word went around New York that his ship had been sunk with all hands lost. Later, he explained that what had actually happened was that the ship next to his in the convoy was penetrated by a torpedo which did not explode and which produced no casualties.
He was the son of the late Judge Albert Stillman Batchellor '72, state historian for New Hampshire. His brother, Stillman '05, who survives him, lives on the Elvinado Ranch near Healdsburg, Calif. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs. R. W. Sulloway of Franklin, N. H. Batch never married.
JAMES COXETER DAVIS, 4016 Dayton Avenue, Seattle, Wash., died August 17, 1947, after an illness of several months. Jim had recently retired as Assistant Superintendent in charge of transportation for the Transit System of Seattle.
He was born in Northfield, Vt., on December 17, 1885, the son of Carlos C. Davis '79 and Grace Coxeter. He entered with the class of 1909 and remained with us through 1905 and 1906.
Jim started to work with Stone and Webster in Seattle in 1909. In 1919 the City took over the railway and he was made Assistant Superintendent and held this position for thirtyeight years. He was a past eminent commander and a life member of Seattle Commandery No. 2, Knights Templar, and was a member of the Nile Temple Patrol, the Transportation Club, the Dartmouth Alumni Association, Chi Phi Fraternity, the local chapter of which he assisted in organizing at the University of Washington, and the Northwest Seniors' Golf Association.
Masonic funeral services were held for Jim in the Corinthian Room of the Masonic Temple and committal services were held in Acacia Mausoleum.
June 25, 1912, Jim was married to Elizabeth Van Cleve who survives him with their two daughters, two sisters, a brother and three granddaughters.
1910
HORACE DAVID EBERLY died in Hiawatha, Kansas, on May 30, 1947. He was born February 5, 1888, in Hiawatha, the son o£ Cyrus M. and Minnie (Allen) Eberly. Graduating from Hiawatha High School, he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1910, remaining from September 1906 to February 1907.
Eb spent his entire business life in the employment of the United.Drug Company, working as a salesman from 1910 to 1912; office assistant sales manager, Boston, 1912-1914; Chicago branch manager, 1914-1920; general manager, St. Louis plant, from 1920 until his retirement in 1944.
He married Mildred Hull, May 18, 1909, at Hiawatha, Kansas.
Although at Dartmouth only a short time, he retained a considerable interest in the College. He was a brother of Arthur A. Eberly '08.
SUMNER HURST LLOYD died November 28, 1946, at Colorado Springs, Colo., after an illness that lasted two years.
He was bora in Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 3, 1887, the son of Henry Russell and Emma (Hurst). Graduating from University High School in Milwaukee, he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1910, remaining a short time before transferring to the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1910.
In the real estate business in Chicago for a few years, he moved to Colorado Springs where he was associated with Motor Finance Trust.
He was married twice, his first wife being Katherine E. Jones. On May 19, 1931, he married Berthe DeWarrenne Armit, who survives with their son, Sumner H. Jr. who was born July 13, 1934-
JAMES WARREN INGALLS died suddenly at Middlebury, Vt., on July 22. He was born in Lynn, Mass., Feb. 24, 1887, the son of James F. and Emma (Gunn) Ingalls. He graduated from Lynn English High School in 1906, Dartmouth in 1910, and Thayer School in 1911. He also took graduate work at the University of Michigan and summer schools at Purdue, Stevens Institute and Union College.
Jim's broad experience included employment in the Engineers' Office at Barre, Vt.; U. S. Geological Survey in Idaho; J. P. Snow, Boston; Ponce & Guayama R. R., Puerto Rico; Maine Central R. R.; nine years as Professor of Civil Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston; two years as president of a manufacturing business in Lynn; four years as District Manager of N. E. Mutual Life Insurance Co. at Glens Falls, N. Y.
In 1939 he went to Norwich University where he served as Associate Director of Industrial Research and Secretary of Woods Products Conferences. In 1943 he became chairman of the Geography Division and from 1945 to his death was Professor of Geography and head of the Department. During the war he taught Geography to the Army students.
Jim was co-author of Elements of Surveying—and wrote many papers and articles on the subject.
He was a Life Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, also belonging to the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, Internationale Permanente des Congre de la Route and Thayer Society of Engineers. He was a past president of Rotary and belonged to the Methodist Church and various branches of the Masons including the Commandery.
On Sept. 5, 1916 he was married to Velma Melcher of Barre, Vt., who survives with their two children, Florence, and James W. Jr., who is a graduate student and part-time instructor at New York University.
1911
HERBERT WINTHROP CLARK died in Ludington, Mich., October 1, of a heart attack. His body was sent to Brooklyn, Mass., where funeral services were held on October 6, 1947.
Herb was born in Boston, July 29, 1889, the son of Charles F. and Louise (Lans) Clark. He graduated from Dorchester High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1907, to remain three years.
Leaving college, he went to New York to become associated with a firm of commission agents. He spent his entire life operating in the produce markets, being employed for fifteen years in New York before he branched out as an independent produce operator. He made his home in Florida, where he bought vegetables and citrus fruits in the winter, moving into Georgia to buy the peach crop in the spring, and then going to Michigan in the fall to deal in apples and peaches. He was nationally known as a buyer and produce broker, operating principally in the commission markets in Chicago, Miami, Louisville, Boston and New York. His permanent home was at Pompano, Fla., where he was building a new house.
On June 10, 1916, he was married to Alice Louise Ament, who survives him together with five sons and two daughters.
Word has been received of the death of ROBERT HENRY SAXTON at the Veterans Hospital, St. Cloud, Minn., on July 11, 1947. His death followed a long illness resulting from injury received in the first World War.
With the outbreak of war in April, 1917, Bob immediately Joined the U. S. Army in the Ist Officers' Training Camp. He was in the Army over two years with the rank of First Lieutenant in the infantry. He was head coach at Camp Dodge, where he produced what was considered the outstanding Army football team in the country. While in the service he had several major operations and never completely recovered his health. In 1937 he entered the Veterans Hospital where he remained to his death.
Bob was born in Minneapolis, July 11, 1886, the son of Romaine F. and Emma (White) Saxton. He graduated from Central High School, Minneapolis, where he was a star in football, baseball and track. He entered college with the class of 1911, remaining here one year where he continued his stardom in these same three sports. After leaving Dartmouth, he coached football at St. Thomas Academy in St. Paul, turning out two of their greatest teams. After the war he returned to St. Thomas for the 1919 football season. He was assistant to "Doc" Spears at the University of Minnesota in 1925. During all these years, Bob was associated with the U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company in the Minneapolis office.
He was married April 5, 1910, to Audrey Homan, who survives him together with two children, a daughter Audrey, and a son Robert. His son, Romaine, was killed in an accident in 1931.
Bob was buried at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, and among the pallbearers were Paul W. Loudon '14 and Eddie Lynch '23.
1914
JAMES CHAMBERLIN TAFT died on July 24 at the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterboro, N. H. "Bill" as he was known to all Dartmouth men, was born in Greenville, N. H., February 15, 1891, the son of Herbert and Ida (Chamberlin) Taft. In college he was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
Bill spent the four years after graduation with the Hamilton Manufacturing Co. in Lowell. In 1918 he became president and treasurer of the Greenville Electric Co. and the Municipal Court Judge of Greenville. He was well known in civic, fraternal and business circles in southern New Hampshire. He was president of the Board of Trustees of the hospital in which he died. He was one of the founders of the Monadnock Region Association and had been president of its Board of Directors for many years. A 32nd degree Mason and a member of Aleppo Temple, he was also a member of the University Club and the Algonquin Club of Boston.
A familiar figure about the campus, at The Inn, and at most Dartmouth gatherings in Boston, Bill will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary McKaig of Pittsburgh, and two sons, Pfc. Alexander M. Taft, now stationed in Pennsylvania, and Robert Taft, a student at Vermont Academy. To them the class extends its deep and sincere sympathy at this time of mutual loss.
1918
We regret to report the loss of one of our classmates, BLANCHARD E. RALPH, a resident of Glendale, Calif., for 27 years, and am employee of the City's Department of Water and Power for 21 years. His death occurred on July 31. As an employee of the city, he was for many years in charge of the Municipal Weather Bureau. In addition to that, he was Past Master of Meredith Masonic Lodge.
Surving are his widow, the former Anna Holt; a son, Blanchard E. Jr.; 2 sisters, Pearl Hoyt of Vermont and Gladys Larkin of Maine; and a brother, Lindsay Ralph.
All '18ers are sorry indeed to hear of Blanchard's passing and extend our deepest heartfelt sympathy to the family.
1929
JOHN WILLIAM SCHABACKER died in Rockville Center, N. Y., on September 20, following an operation complicated by pneumonia. The funeral and burial were at Erie, Pa., September 23.
John was born January 13, 1908, in Erie, where he grew up and attended Central and Gridley High Schools. At Dartmouth he was a member of Delta Upsilon and majored in English.
After graduation he was employed for a time in the Signal Department of the Neiv York Central Railroad, followed by a short period as a securities salesman. In 1933 he entered the employ of Colgate Palmolive Peet Company, with which company he remained for the rest of his life, steadily earning promotions, the most recent of which was to the Office of District Sales Supervisor in Pittsburgh.
In John's passing the Class of 1929 has lost a good and loyal friend. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Ann Maclvor, and two children, John and Barbara.
1931
Very belated notice has been received of the death of HENRY WALTER BLAKE on December 21. 1939.
Henry was born in Stoughton, Mass., August 28, 1910, the son of Ralph and Helen (Britton) Blake. He graduated from Stoughton High School and was a member of the Class of 1931 at Dartmouth for one semester. Due to his short stay he never maintained any contact with the College or with the class.
He is survived by his widow.
1933
An undated newspaper clipping brought us word of the death last June of WILLIAM BAYLIES LOCHMILLER, of Kansas City, Mo. The cause of Bill's death was a heart ailment from which he had suffered for a number of years.
Born March 14, 1911 at Independence, Kansas, he was the son of Cary O. and Caroline (Baylies) Lochmiller. Bill was a descendant, on his mother's side, of Eleazar Wheelock. He was a graduate of Independence High School.
In college, Bill was an economics major and entered business after graduation. At the time of his death he was office manager for the Lock Joint Pipe Company of Kansas City, the firm with which he had been associated since 1942.
He is survived by his wife, the former Irene Townsell, of Caney, whom he married on April 18, 1941; a daughter, Catherine; his mother, Mrs. Caroline Lochmiller; and a brother, Henry, of Independence, Kansas.
1939
WOODROW WILSON RBSSELL was killed August 27 when his automobile collided with a truck in Solon, Ohio, as he was returning from a round of golf.
Russell was born March 14, 1917, in Mallecoff, Texas. He prepared for college at Mentor (Ohio) High School, and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1939 in September of 1935. withdrawing in March, 1937. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He became a sales representative for Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in Cleveland, and was with them when he went into the service.
He enlisted as a private in the Army Air Corps, June 13, 1942. He was promoted to Technical Sergeant and served as an administrative clerk with the 35th T.C.S., 64th T.C.G., in England, North Africa. Italy and France.
Russell was honorably discharged from the service Sept. 17, 1945, and returned to the Socony-Vacuum Company, operating as a salesman with Western Reserve Distributors.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and son Robert, 13 months old.
1897
DR. CHARLES SAMUEL JOSEPHS died at his summer home in Copake, N. Y., on August 5.
He was born in New York City, July 19, 1874. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1892 and from Dartmouth Medical School in 1897. Beginning his practice in New York City Dr. Josephs became a hernia specialist and associate professor, on the staff of Postgraduate Hospital. For twenty years he served as a member of the New York City Department of Health.
He was a member of True Craftsmen Lodge, F. and A.M.; Hudson Lodge of Elks, and Liberty Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ida Currey Josephs; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Holland; and a son, Charles C. Josephs.
HENRY SCHWARM '97
LAWRENCE WAKEMAN GRISWOLD '08
Medical School
