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]

Holton, Harry I. '04 Newton, Shaw '12, January 11 Gilliland, John M. '23, September 4

In Memoriam

1899

HENRY JOHN BERGER died December 25 at the residence of his brother at Beacon, N. Y. Henry was born in Webster, Mass., April 16, 1874 the son of Frederick H. C. and Louise E. (Redemann) Berger and attended the Webster schools before entering Dartmouth in the fall of 1895. Following graduation, he worked for a short time on the staff of the Webster Times and then went to Boston where he worked for the American Architect, then to New York where he worked on the editorial staff of the Textile World. Later he joined the staff of the New York Commercial, then a daily newspaper. In 1902 he became editor of the American Stationer. He left that connection for a time to be editor of Geyer's Stationer, another trade journal in the same field. Later he returned to be editor of the American Stationer which was one of the publications of the organization with which he was connected during the rest of his business life. In 1916 he assumed the editorship of Paper Trade Journal and of Lockwood's Directory of the Paper andAllied Trades which he held continuously for 29 years.

He retired August 1, 1945 and was appointed Editor Emeritus. He then made his home with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Berger at Beacon. Surviving are his brother, Joseph; two nieces, Mrs. William Healy and Mrs. Leonard Dutram of Webster; a nephew, Joseph W. Berger Jr., of Akron, Ohio, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Augusta Berger of Webster.

Burial was in Calvary Cemetery at Webster, December 28, following a mass of requiem in St. Louis Church.

Henry devoted all his time and energy to his profession with little aptitude for or attention to outside interests. He did, however, maintain constant interest in his college class and was a frequent attendant at its reunions. The following is from the leading editorial of PaperTrade Journal of January 2:

"Henry J. Berger returned to his old home in Webster, Mass., on Friday of last week to enter into his last rest. For his final journey he was accompanied only by members of his family, and farewells were said by members of that closely knit circle of friends which he had drawn around him as a group apart from the wider field in which he had been active and prominent for so many years. His passing had followed in the early hours of Christmas morning upon a seizure of faintness which had come upon him on the day before at his home in Beacon, New York.

"It was typical of Henry Berger, and of the school that he represented, that his passing should be mourned by separate groups. The group of friends which he had drawn about him over years of association, knew him as a man of warm sympathy, of a kindly generous disposition, a judge of human nature whose rules were based on the Ten Commandments. He had never married; his family attachments were directed to his brother and the brother's home and family. He was accustomed to seek relief from the city's crowds and the pressure of his work, from the hotel in which he lived for nearly two decades, by frequent visits to his brother's home in Beacon, and when he laid aside his duties he sought the peaceful quiet of the Hudson Valley in that town. The restful life there had appeared to benefit him, and only a few weeks before his passing he had visited New York and his old office, greatly improved in his health to all outward signs.

"In his work he was steadfast, completely loyal to his job and to the industry which that job represented..... During those years he was to see developments of the greatest magnitude in pulp and paper. As a trained observer and interpreter he was to sit close to the scene where new processes were developing, where new kinds and qualities of paper were to be turned out for the service of mankind, and where new uses were to be served by the product of the forests. When he retired he still bore the conviction that still greater things lie ahead for the men in the pulp and paper industries."

1900

EDGAR RANDAL CATE died at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. on December 16, 1946, at the age of 68 years. He had been in his usual good health up to the day before his death, when he was stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage.

Ted was born in Haverhill, Mass., on June 4, 1878, the son of George F. and Abbie J-Cate, the father being a provision dealer in that city. After graduation from the Haverhill High School he entered Dartmouth in 1896, with the Class of 1900. As an undergraduate he was one of the editors of the Aegis, and a member of the Dramatic Club. His fraternity affiliation was with Theta Delta Chi, and he won the Spalding Mechanical Drawing prize. His senior year was occupied by the work of the Thayer School, but he did not return to that institution for post-graduate training.

Immediately upon graduation he took up the work of the engineer, in which he was busy and successful. For a time he headed his own construction firm in Pittsburgh. Later he was manager of the Pittsburgh office of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., and then, successively, engineer for the George T. Ladd Co. and Vice-President of the McAleenan Company. In 1929 he entered the employ of the Rust Engineering Company of Pittsburgh, with which he remained to the time of his death. He was in charge of the Power Plant Department of that company, with the title of Project Manager, and his work had to do with the design and construction of steam generating and electric power generating stations erected by this company all over the country; an enterprise at all times considerable, and during the war years subject to the pressure of extreme demand. His natural ability, joined to his many years of experience, had made of him one of the leading experts in this field.

Ted was married in Wolfeboro, N. H. April 5, 1904 to Ada Jeannette Lord, who survives him. Six children were born to the couple, of whom four lived to mature years as follows: Francis Lord of Atlanta, Georgia; Dorothea, wife of Andrew Rankin (Walter's son) of Dedham, Mass.; Mrs. William G. Beal and Miss Jean Cate of Pittsburgh.

1901

JUDGE DANIEL PEARSON TRUDE, died July 24, 1946, at the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Ill., after a two weeks illness, following a heart attack.

Dan Trude was born in Chicago, July 20, 1877, the son of Alfred S. Trude, a leading Chicago attorney for many years, and Algenia Pearson Trude. He was educated in the Chicago public schools, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1897 with the Class of 1901. He studied law at the University of Chicago, and at Northwestern University School of Law from which he was graduated in 1904.

He was first elected Judge of the Municipal Court in 1918, and in 1929 was elected to the Circuit Court, and was reelected until his retirement about two years ago. During the past few months he was engaged in private practice of law in the firm of Trude and Kahane.

Dan gained early fame for aiding in the drafting of the law for punishing panders and the keepers of brothels. Later he worked with Judge Olson for a measure to segregate mental defectives on a farm coleny. As a director of the Legal Aid Society he wrote the anti-loan shark law which reduced the interest rate very considerably. Throughout his career he fought against excessive profiteering and oppression of minority groups. The respect in which he was held by the electorate was attested by his continued election to the bench in spite of his active work as a leader of social reforms.

Dan came to Hanover with a group of boys from Chicago, which in those days was considered a large delegation, and he soon found his place in the college activities. He only stayed with us one year but in that short time absorbed sufficient of the Dartmouth Spirit, so that he continued his interest in the class and the college. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and the sophomore society Theta Nu Epsilon. Dan will always be remembered by his classmates in deep affection and high esteem.

June 22, 1904, Dan married Daisy V. Wilson of Chicago, who survives him with two daughters.

1903

JOHN PAUL WENTWORTH of 7545 Oxford Drive, St. Louis, Mo. died suddenly in his office on November 4, 1946 of angina pectoris.

John was born of a colonial family at Sandwich, N. H. on March 30, 1881, the son of Paul and Ellen Tilton (Dunklee) Wentworth. His only brother was Joseph Wentworth (Dartmouth 1900) who died April 7, 1944.

He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy entering Dartmouth in 1899. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. Theta Nu Epsilon sophomore society and Sphinx senior society. During freshman and sophomore years he captained and quarterbacked the class football teams.

On February 15, 1908 he married Susan B. Buswell, who died July 11, 1922. December 9, 1925 he married Susan Kinealy by whom he had a daughter, Ellen T. Wentworth, on September 13, 1926.

Immediately after graduation in 1903 John went to Chicago to begin his business career with the Library Bureau. In 1904 he was moved to Detroit. In 1911 he was with a mail order house in Kansas City Mo., and in 1913 became sales-manager of the Buckeye Stove & Range Co. of St. Louis. In the meantime he studied law at the Brenton School of Law, St. Louis, graduating with the highest honor of the class. Promotions followed and in 1923 he became secretary and general manager of the same concern. In 1928 he was made president and treasurer of the Beacon Factories, Inc. in St. Louis. In 1938 he entered the real estate firm of Robert B. Rodgers, Inc. of whith he was secretary and treasurer and has been engaged in this line ever since.

John was a man of wide interests serving as a vestryman and a member of the Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Church, one of the founders of the Richmond Heights Public Library in St. Louis County and chairman of its board of directors, a Mason and Rotarian. He was interested in flowers, dogs and livestock. His kennels won many blue ribbons while his gardenias and orchids were well known in horticultural circles.

Funeral services were held at the Church of St. Michael and St. George and burial was in Valhalla Cemetery in St. Louis County.

We have only recently learned of the death of HOLLIS WALTER STEWART, on September 24, 1942, in New York City.

Hollis was born in Cossayuna, N. Y., March 4, 1881. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Dartmouth with our class in 1899. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and a fellow well liked because of his quiet and genial personality.

At the end of freshman year Hollis left college and entered the employ of a department store in Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1923 he was connected with the Fowler-Curtis Co., shirt manufacturers in the same community. He married Margaret Heller.

1905

DR. JOSEPH HENRY MERRILL died at his home in Raynham, Mass. on November 21st. He was born in Danvers, Mass. November 12, 1881, the son of Joseph and Mary (Sawyer) Merrill. He was graduated from Danvers High School and entered Dartmouth in 1901 receiving the B.S. degree in 1905. In college he was on his class track team and was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

For several years after leaving college, ill health compelled him to seek work in the open and he was engaged in gypsy moth extermination work until 1909. This work showed Joe what his chosen field would be. From 1909 to 1912 he did graduate work at Mass. State College and was Deputy Nursery Inspector. He returned to Mass. State College in the summer of 1914 and received his Ph.D. degree in Entomology. From 1912 to 1925 he was Associate Professor of Apiculture at Kansas State College; 1917 to 1925, State Apiarist for Kansas; 1919 to 1925, Asst. State Entomologist. From 1912 to 1925 he was Entomologist in charge of beekeeping investigations, also fruit insect and termite investigations, at the Kansas State Experiment Station. He published over one hundred articles of a scientific nature in his field, and was a recognized authority on beekeeping and insect control. Due to ill health Joe was compelled to retire from active work in 1925 but he continued to write numerous articles. He was a Fellow of A. A. A. A.; Fellow Apis Club (London); Life member of the American Honey Producers' League; Life member of the Eastern Mass. Beekeepers' Association; and a member of Phi Kappa Phi.

On September 21, 1921 he married Lillie Briggs of Beverly, Mass. who, together with their two children, Joseph Briggs Merrill and Frances Somerville Merrill, survives him.

1907

WILL GUY COLBY died in the Franklin, N. H. Hospital, September 28th, after a short illness.

Dan was born in Franklin, June 24, 1884, the son of Harry Ellsworth and Luvia Emily (Keniston) Colby. After graduating from Dartmouth he received an A.M. degree from Middlebury in 1911. Adopting the educational profession, he served as teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut, retiring in 1937. Since 1937 he had been operating a farm in Franklin.

February 23, 1907, he married Ervilla E. Noyes of Franklin, who died several years ago. He is survived by a son, Victor N. Colby, Dartmouth '29 and two daughters, Mrs. Alvin Lachepella and Mrs. John Woodward, and by his parents.

1908

GEORGE WILLIAM ELWELL died on Friday, December 13 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He had been in the hospital for some time during the Fall, had returned home where he had a relapse and his death occurred shortly after returning to the hospital again. The funeral was held at Winchester on December 16 and was attended by several men in his class. He was buried in Exeter, N. H.

George was born on July 4, 1886 at Newton Junction, N. H., the son of Rufus Newell and Etta Clifton (Ordway) Elwell. He came to college from Exeter Academy and roomed freshman year in Thornton. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.

After graduating from Dartmouth Dutch attended Harvard Law School where he received his degree in 1910. Following his admission to the Bar, he was associated for some time with the law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart of Boston. He then became associated with the Boston office of Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery and that association continued for twenty-five years. He served in World War I.

Dutch was married on January 1, 1927 to Genevieve M. Laughery of Lancaster, N. H. He lived in Winchester about nineteen years and had moved to Marblehead a few months before he died. During the years Dutch lived in Winchester, he was active in the affairs of the town until his illness prevented this participation. He had a genuine enthusiasm and loyalty for Exeter, for Dartmouth, and for his class. Always interested in fishing, he endeavored to return to his home county in New Hampshire whenever possible as soon as the trout season opened.

He is survived by his widow, a son, George M., a daughter, Ann and a brother, Clinton Elwell II of Exeter, N. H. He will be greatly missed by his many friends and acquaintances.

1913

ALFRED KOHN FOREMAN died December 14, 1946, at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago after a brief illness.

He was born June 13, 1892, in Chicago, the son of Edwin G. and Rose N. Foreman. He prepared for Dartmouth at the University High School and in college was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

Upon leaving college in 1912 he became assistant cashier of the Foreman Brothers Banking Company in Chicago. He later was made vice president of the Foreman National Bank. In 1932 he became associated with W. A. Alexander & Co., an insurance firm, and at the time of his death was the vice president. Al was long active in Chicago civic and charitable activities and was a member of the Tavern, Standard, Lake Shore Country and Chicago Fishing Clubs.

Al will be missed at all Dartmouth gatherings in Chicago. He had never been back to reunions, although he had frequently planned to attend. Chicago loses a useful citizen and all of us a friend.

June 3, 1917, Al married Helen Rosenberg of Chicago, who survives him with their three children, Doris K. and Mrs. Jean Foreman Karger and Alfred K.. Jr. Two brothers Harold E. and Edwin G. Jr. and his mother also survive.

1915

RICHARD ESSELSTYN ("Zip") COON died suddenly on December 5 at his home in Pough- keepsie, N. Y. of a heart attack. Returning home from a business trip to New York City, "Zip" was seized as he was getting out of his car in the garage. Death was instantaneous. He had complained of a persistent pain in his chest for two weeks, but did not attach any particular significance to it, as he had not been ill otherwise.

"Zip" was born in New Hamburg, N. Y. on May 29, 1893, the son of Richard Esselstyn and Francelia (Lobdell) Coon. He attended New Hamburg school of which his father was principal and moved to Poughkeepsie in 1903 when his father became principal of the Poughkeepsie Central Grammar School. He was graduated from the local high school in 1910 and cum laude from Dartmouth in 1915. While at Dartmouth he served on the "Dartmouth" Board, being business manager in his senior year. He also was a member of the College Band and College Orchestra. His fraternity was Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Upon leaving college he became a reporter on The Evening Enterprise and The EagleNews of Poughkeepsie until May 1917, when he enlisted in the Army. He served until February 1919 when he was discharged as a first lieutenant and re-entered newspaper work as managing editor of The Eagle News. In May 1922, he established The Peekskill EveningStar, which he sold in 1924.

Next he became managing editor and later executive editor of The Poughkeepsie EveningStar. After the sale of the local papers to Speidel Newspapers, Inc., he became business manager.

He had studied law before and after entering the Army and was admitted to the bar in June 1920, but never practised.

In 1939 he organized the Poughkeepsie Broadcasting Corp. along with other associates. He built station WK.IP which began broadcasting June 1940. In 1944 he sold the station. When Speidel Newspapers, Inc. consolidated Poughkeepsie newspapers, he was appointed radio research director for the chain.

"Zip" was first chairman of the Poughkeepsie Zoning Board, served on the Board of Education and was president of the University Club of Poughkeepsie. He was a member of the Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, the Amrita Club, Lafayette Post, American Legion, and the Dutchess County Bar Association. Last year he was selected by Basil O'Connor '12, National Chairman of the American Red Cross, one of twenty-seven persons to study the structure of the organization of the American Red Cross. He also served as Secretary of the State Publishers Association.

He leaves a widow, the former Katharine Bristol Esselstyn, whom he married in 1918; three children, Mrs. Benjamin R. Cole of Newton Highlands, Mass., Richard Boardman Coon, a senior at Princeton, and Robert Livingston Coon, a senior at Exeter Academy; his mother and sister.

"Zip" was a man of diversified talents, a highly respected and honored member of the community in which he spent most of his life. People from all walks of life paid tribute to his memory through the columns of the local newspapers. The Class of 1915 has lost a loyal member, and shares with the bereaved family in their mutual sorrow.

1929

WILLIAM URNER WILEY died October 30, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the victim of a rare blood stream infection to which he succumbed after ten weeks illness despite numerous blood transfusions given by friends and business associates in an effort to save his life.

Bill Wiley, who was 39 years old, became national advertising manager of The Concinnati Enquirer in 1940, seven years after he became associated with the newspaper. After leaving Dartmouth in 1929, he worked for several Cincinnati concerns, and served as Branch Manager of Robert Gaylord, Inc., from 1931 to 1933.

He obtained a leave of absence from the paper in November, 1942, to enter the Navy as the first Cincinnatian to receive a Navy commission through the Cincinnati Advisory Committee on Naval Procurement. As a Naval officer, he served as director of the Navy V-5 program at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. After that assignment, he saw action with a . torpedo squadron in the Pacific. He served also as a naval educational officer at Guam and in the Philippines.

Bill returned to his duties at the Enquirer in July, 1945, following his discharge from the Navy as a Lieutenant, Senior Grade. Appointed a trustee of the Anti-Tuberculosis League in 1941, he was also a member of the Cincinnati Country Club and the Cuvier Press Club. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Lola McDermott Wiley; their two children, Lola Ann and Lorene Arnold Wiley; a son by a former marriage, Peter; his mother Mrs. W. F. Wiley; two brothers, Andrew F. Wiley, business manager of The Enquirer, and Donald A. Wiley, business manager of the Toledo Times, and a sister, Mrs. Campbell Dinsmore, Cincinnati.

Bill left College during senior year to enter business. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta and majored in English. A loyal member of the class both as an undergraduate and as an alumnus he was well-liked and highly respected by a host of friends and acquaintances in whose memories he will remain one of those boys and men whose living has enriched the lives of his fellows.

ALVIN FREDERICK BAAL JR. died suddenly on November 2, 1946, in Dubuque, lowa. He was born October 24, 1906, in Dubuque, the son of Alvin Frederick and Anna (Ziegler) Baal. He was married May 2, 1934 to Helen (Shi'tz) Baal who survives him, with one son, Alvin F. Baal, 3rd. His parents also survive him, and two brothers, Burton and Lewis.

Al graduated from Dartmouth in 1929, and was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. The following seven years he served in a sales capacity with the Carr, Adams and Collier Co., makers of sash, doors and millwork, in Wis- consin. He was then promoted to the position of wholesale salesman in the East for this same firm, which position he held until the time of his illness.

He was a young man respected and admired by all who had the opportunity to know him. Never forward in his actions, he was invariably on hand when help was needed; intensely devoted and loyal to his friends; always ready for a few moments of fun and relaxation when the occasion arose, and yet ever aware that right living involved serious aspects as well. He was ready and willing to assume his responsibilities at all times, and there was an air of stalwart dependability about him which was sensed by all with whom he came in contact. The College—the class—and those of us who knew him intimately, have lost a fine friend.

1937

LT. JOHN NORMAN ANDERSON JR., USNR, previously listed as missing in action, has been officially declared dead by the Navy Department on January 18, 1946. He was Captain of the tennis team for the Class of 1937. He was born Dec. 12, 1914 in Jersey City, N. J. the son of John Norman and Gertrude Rosewitha (Kudlich) Anderson. His preparation for college was at Stevens Academy, Hoboken. During school his fraternity affiliation was with the Sigma Nu. After graduation Norm went to work for the Manufacturers Trust Co. in New York City. In March 1941, he enlisted in the Navy Air Corps going on active duty as an aviation cadet in July 1941. After being commissioned Ensign in March 1942 he was promoted to Lieutenent in 1943. During 1942 he did submarine patrol work over the Atlantic while training with a scouting squadron. 1943 found him on the Pacific coast at San Diego with a bombing squadron, one of only two squadrons to initiate use of rocket bombs on dive bombers. From April 1944, he was based on Bougainville and on May 17, 1944 he was shot down over Rabaul. His squadron was attacking an enemy position and he was leading his division. On recovering from the dive a plane was seen burning on the water, which proved to be Anderson's. Rescue planes immediately went to the scene but no sign of life could be seen. No one had seen the plane get hit or fall into the water. As there was a chance that Anderson and his gunner might have parachuted to land and been captured, he was listed as "missing in action" until Jan. 18, 1946. Letters from his associates said he was respected by his fellow officers and enlisted men for his fairness and competence. He received an air medal with citation for individual achievement; the purple heart; the American Defense Service Medal; the Victory Medal; the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal with one bronze star. He is survived by Joan Beavers whom he married June 3, 1942, and his son, John Norman Anderson, 3rd was born Feb. 12, 1944, whom we hope will be a Hopkins Scholar at Dartmouth in the 1960's.

J. H. D.

LT. JOHN NORMAN ANDERSON JR. '37, USNR