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]
Spalding, Charles R. '88, April 17 Forbush, Harry O. '96, April 26 Woodward, Walter C. '99, May 3 Boyle, Charles J. '01, April 22 Peirce, J. Winslow '05, May 9 Royce, Clayton E. '08, February 12 Lloyd, Sumner H. 'to, November 28 Banton, William W. '16, May 14 Aldrich, Laurence W. '19, April 22 Potter, John W. '19, May 17 Spaulding, Frederick N. '19, April 9 Booker, George L. '21 Pollard, Roy G. '21, May 5 Blake, Henry W. '31, December 21, 1939 Patch, William T. '87m, February 7 Ferguson, John D. '90m, April 23 Gorham, George H. '95m, March 12 Belisle, Joseph R. '96 m, June 2, 1945 Brown, Lester R. '97 m, November 1, 1945 Carsley, Sidney R. '99 m, April 19 Black, Jame S. '01m, April 21 Hills, Charles E. '01m Wright, Arthur D. '28h, May 10 Baldwin, Edward R. '37b, May 6
In Memoriam
1876
RICHARD ARTHUR EDWARDS, who was a member of the Class of 1876 for one year, died in Peru, Ind., on February 17.
He was born November 9, 1851, in Bridgewater, Mass., the son of Richard and Betsy (Samson) Edwards. Although he transferred to Princeton, where he graduated with the Class of 1876, he always maintained his interest in his Dartmouth class.
From 1878 to 1881 Edwards was professor of English at Knox College. He then became associated with the First National Bank of Peru, Ind., and served as its president from 1910 to the time of his retirement.
January 1, 1880 he married Alice Shirk of Peru, who died in 1931. There were five children, four of whom survive.
1879
JAMES HENRY TEBBETTS died in Hollister, Calif., on October 17, 1946. He had been ill since the spring of 1944 when he suffered a general breakdown.
Tebbetts remained with the class two years and then transferred to the Medical School where he received his M.D. in 1881. He prac- tised in Chicago until 1884, when he removed to Hollister.
In 1880 he married Annie Bibby of Hanover, who died in 1900. In 1902 he married May L. Hardin, who survives, with one son.
1888
CHARLES RAWSON SPALDING died in Maiden, Mass., April 17, after a short illness. He never fully recovered from the shock of a fall in February, which caused a shoulder dislocation. He was born in Nashua, N. H., August 7, 1867, the son of Charles W. Spalding, Dartmouth '63 and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Spalding. The family was an old and honored one and his father was a Trustee of Dartmouth.
When a small child his parents moved to Burlington, lowa, where he lived for several years, later moving to Chicago. Here he grew up, attended the schools and prepared for college at Morgan Park Military Academy. He entered Dartmouth with the Class in 1884, in the Chandler Scientific Dept. He was recognized as an excellent student and was honored as Assistant Class Historian sophomore year, Treasurer of the Foptball Asociation junior year, and Class President senior winter.
After graduation he went into the coal business in Chicago, as Treasurer of the Mitchell, Spalding Coal Co. and followed the coal business nearly all his life. The firm later became the Spalding, Jackson Coal Co., of which he was President.
Spalding married Harriet Hall of Maiden, Mass., November 1, 1889. Their children are Edward C. Spalding of Denver, Colo., who was a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1915, and Elizabeth, wife of Edwin L. Burnham of Melrose, Mass. His wife died in 1923, and in 1925 he married Mrs. Emma Jackson, who died in 1940.
After giving up business in Chicago he lived at Jackson Beach, Fla. for six years, coming to live with his daughter in Melrose in 1941. He is survived by his two children and four grandchildren.
1889
JAMES CHESTER FLAGG died at the Mercy Hospital, San Diego, Calif., March 30, 1947. He entered the hospital for observation February 28. On March 4 a surgical operation disclosed a malignant condition from which death resulted.
A brief funeral service—very simple, as he wanted it to be—was held the afternoon of April 1. The body was cremated. Later his ashes are to be placed in the family burial lot in North Chelmsford, Mass., the town in which he was born.
He was the son of Timothy and Sophia Emily (Ripley) Flagg of North Chelmsford, and August 17, 1867 was the date of his birth. At the age of ten he went to live in Hanover, N. H., in the home of Prof. Charles F. Emerson, whose wife, the former Caroline Flagg, was his sister. He prepared for college in Hanover under private tutors—Jay M. Hulbert '85 and William P. Kelly 'B6. He entered and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of '89. He was a member of the'-Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and the Sphinx Society. For the Class Day Exercises in senior year he wrote the Chronicles.
Immediately after graduation he began his career of nearly thirty years as a teacher. He served first as Principal of the High School in Richford, Vt. Then—in the following orderhe was Master in the Holderness (N. H.) School for Boys; Principal of the North Andover (Mass.) High School; Assistant Master of Milton (Mass.) Academy; Principal of Milford (N. H.) High School; Instructor in Central High School of St. Louis, Mo.; Bursar of Hackley School, Tarrytown, N. Y.; and Headmaster of Danforth School, Framingham, Mass., where he finished teaching in June, 1918.
He then went to Groton, Mass., where he lived for several years. Later he moved to Marblehead, Mass. where he bought and renovated an old farm house. Long ago it had been the home of Judge Curwin, who, in 1682, condemned witches in Salem. He continued to occupy the property (which he owned at time of his death, using it in recent years as a summer home) until the autumn of 1942, when, on October 28 of that year, he married in San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Carrie Hayden Johnson, and took up residence in that city.
Flagg attended several Class Reunions, including the 50th in 1939. His letters appear in all Class Reports. He was Class Secretary from 1893 until 1914. For several years he was a non-resident member of the University Club of Boston. He was a regular attendant at the monthly meetings and dinners of the Dartmouth group in San Diego, and when nominations for the Dartmouth Alumni Council closed on March 10 he was one of two nominees awaiting ballot election to fill vacancy in the Seventh Alumni Council District.
He is survived by his wife, and two nieces, Miss Martha Flagg Emerson of Hanover, N. H., and her sister, Mrs. Edmund E. Day, of Ithaca, N. Y., daughters of the late Prof, and Mrs. Charles F. Emerson.
1893
DR. HERBERT SEDGWICK MARTYN died March 14, 1947 at the Proctor, Vt., Hospital, after an operation for an intestinal obstruction. He had been ailing for several months.
Dr. Martyn was born September 21, 1871 at New Hartford, Conn., son of the Rev. and Mrs. Sanford S. Martyn. He prepared for college at the Windsor, Vt., High School, his father being the pastor of the Windsor Congregational Church at that time.
He entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1889 with the class of '93. Extremely popular with his classmates and the students generally, he was known as "King" of the Monitors. He was Class Historian in 1892, and presentist of Spade, junior honors.
Upon graduation he became principal of the Royalton, Vt., Academy, which position he held for two years before beginning his medical studies at Yale and Baltimore Medical College, graduating from the latter in 1898. During the summer of 1898 he travelled and studied in Europe.
Dr. Martyn practiced medicine in Bridgewater, Vt., in 1899, and in 1900 transferred to Cuttingsville in the town of Shrewsbury, Vt. He served the people of Cuttingsville and near-by communities up to within two weeks of his death. He was an untiring and faithful physician and friend to all within a radius of ten miles and more. The great esteem with which the people held him was evidenced by their insistence in placing him in public office fice and private trusts. No man of '93 has been more successful in his career than this country doctor. It is told that he served six generations of one family during his forty-seven years of practicing at Cuttingsville.
He was a Congregationalist and a Republican; held chairs in the masonic orders; held various offices in the Grange; member of National and State Medical Societies in which he held important offices. In 1931 he was representative to the Vermont Legislature. He was a past president of the Rutland Medical Society; member of the Wallingford Rotary Club and other societies.
On June so, 1906 Dr. Martyn married Mary A. Parker of Rutland, who passed away in January, 1945. Their son, Stephen P. Martyn, Dartmouth 1930, was born July 21, 1907.
On June 1, 1946, he married Mrs. Margaret L. Pierce of West Barnet, Vt., who survives. In addition he leaves his son, Stephen and grandson of Springfield, Vt.; a brother, Frederick S. Martyn, Dartmouth '94, of Rockville Center, L. 1., and two sisters, Mrs. Grace Crowe of Connecticut and Mrs. Elwyn Kathan of Buffalo, N. Y.
The funeral services were held at 2 P.M. March 17th, in the United Church, Cuttingsville, with the Rev. A. Johnson Cambridge officiating. The committal services were in the Northam Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Vt.
The honorary pall bearers were twelve prominent physicians of Vermont and the active pall bearers were fellow citizens from Cuttingsville and surrounding towns. Floral tributes were many and beautiful. The church was filled to over-flowing, and many grieving relatives, friends and neighbors attended the services at the cemetery.
1896
HARRY ORESTES FORBUSH died in Dorchester, Mass., on April 27. He was born July 10, 1872 in Springfield, Vt., the son of Rufus Orestes and Elisa (Spencer) Forbush.
He graduated from Cushing Academy in 1892 and entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1896. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
At the end of junior year Harry left college and was for three years Superintendent of Schools in Dennis, Mass., after which for two years he served in the same capacity in Winchester. Giving up his educational work he then entered the accounting department of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and remained with that organization until his retirement in 1937.
He was for many years a member of the Board of Trustees of the Second Congregational Church in Dorchester and was Chairman of the Board at the time of his death.
December 25, 1896, Harry was married to Dorothy Bowker of Hancock, N. H. who survives him with their daughter, Mrs. Edward B. Caiger of Concord, Mass. He was a brother of William B. Forbush 'BB.
1905
IRVING WASHINGTON BEDELL died suddenly of pulmonary thrombosis at his home, 120 Cabrini Boulevard, New York City on March 6.
He was born in Somersworth, N. H. February 22, 1882. He attended the city schools, graduating from the High School in 1901. He entered Dartmouth and received his B.S. degree in 1905. In college Pete, as he was called by all his friends, was a popular and well liked member of his class. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
After graduation Pete returned to his native city where he learned the business of finishing textiles at the Great Falls Bleachery and Dye Works and as the years passed he became an expert in this field. From 1924 to 1931 he was manager of the Dedham Finishing Co. of Dedham, Mass. and from 1931 to 1938 he was connected with the Farwell Bleachery of Lawrence, Mass.
In 1938 Pete moved his family to New York where he was the New York Agent of Mt. Hope Finishing Co. Here he took part in the affairs of his community serving as president of the P.T.A. of the Dexter School and a president of the Rotary Club.
In 1916 he married Margaret Moore of Somersworth, N. H., who survives him together with a daughter Nancy, Wellesley 1939, who served as a WAC in New Guinea during the war, and a son David who was in the army. Pete also leaves a daughter-in-law, widow of his older son Robert, and a grandson, Robert I. Bedell Jr.
1907
News of the death of FRED EMERSON FOSTER at his home in Manhasset, Long Island, on April 16 will be received by the Class with great and genuine sorrow. From the minute of our matriculation as. freshmen in September 1903, Ted became one o£ the outstanding and popular members of our class. A leading athlete at Concord High School, he made the freshman football team, played for two years on the varsity squad and was a regular member of the varsity track team. He was a member of the Deke and Sphinx Societies.
Social and athletic honors fell naturally to him and he carried himself so that none envied, but all delighted, in his success. He entered the leather business after graduation and in this field he spent his business life, first with Page Belting Company at Concord and Chattanooga; with Schoelkopf Company in St. Louis in 1909 and 1910; he went to Chicago in 1911 with Richard Young & Sons and in 1918 was transferred to their home office in New York. He became President of the company in 1933 and continued until his retirement early this year.
In September 1910 he married Helen Woodworth of Concord, cousin of our classmate, Charles. Their daughter, Lois, married James B. Moore Jr., Dartmouth 1932, and they have two boys, James B. III, and Stephen. Their son, Teddy, graduated from Colgate in 1939, served in the Air Corps and in 1945 married Ann Wilkins of Galveston, Texas. In addition he is survived by two brothers, William A. '95 of Concord and Nathaniel L. '96 of Montclair, N. J.
Ted cherished his Dartmouth friends and always gave generously to the Alumni Fund. He and I had roomed together the entire four years of College and whenever I met with classmates they have aways asked tor news of Ted. In the lengthening line of those in the Class who have died before their time, he will be missed and always remembered with warm affection.
JOHN R. MCLANE '07
1913
ELBRIDGE HERBERT KINGSBURY died on April 4, 1947 at the St. Clair Hospital in New York. He had been operated on for ulcers last December and recuperated in Florida. The first of April complications made hospitalization urgent and he died in a coma two days after being taken so ill.
Elbridge was born in Keene, N. H. on October 10, 1890, the son of Ada H. (Fairbanks) and Elbridge Kingsbury. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Keene High School.
After graduation he was employed as a civil engineer by the city of Maiden, Mass., as inspector and transit man. He next became an Assistant Engineer with the government nitrate and sulphuric acid plants in New York City. In 1919 he went with the Tidewater Oil Co. but left to become associated in April 1920 with Ford, Bacon and Davis Inc., Engineers, at 39 Broadway, New York, and was with them continuously until his death.
He traveled extensively in this and foreign countries in the interest of his firm. He was a valued employee, "one of the staunchest and most loyal Ford, Bacon & Davis men in the organization" writes vice president Harold V. Coes of the company.
"Skeet," as he was affectionately known, never was prominent in Hanover ip class activities but he was a man of sterling ;haracter, and as an alumnus always interested in the class and its work.
Funeral services were held in the Fletcher funeral home in Keene, with Rev. A. Norman Jones, pastor of the First Congregational Church officiating. Brig Knight attended the services representing the class.
1915
LEE WALTER ROSENEELD died at his home in Chicago, Ill., May 30, 1917.
He was born May 29, 1894 in Chicago, Ill. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1915 from the University High School, but only remained
one year. He is survived by one sister, Miss Grace Ro senfeld, of Chicago.
1917
WILLIAM THOMAS PONDER died February 27 of a heart ailment in his hotel room in Amarillo, Texas. Born in Llano, Texas, on March 16, 1892, he attended Mangum, Okla., High School and Baylor Preparatory School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, active in campus and athletic affairs, track and football particularly, and was well known and liked by all of his classmates.
There has been no direct word from Bill in recent years, the news of his death having been reported in a long obituary, complete with his picture, published in the New York Times. The only definite word of his activities since World War I is to the effect that he has been engaged in commercial aviation enterprises, his home having been reported principally in Fort Worth, but also, for periods, in San Antonio, and Elk City, Okla., where he was said to have the Chevrolet agency.
In the absence of more recent details, he has been best known to all of us during these years for his record as an ace in World War I. He enlisted June 14, 1917, in the French Aviation Service (Lafayette Escadrille), and from that date until the Armistice remained active as a pursuit pilot. With the French he served with Escadrilles Spad No. 67 and No. J 53- With the American service he acted as ferry pilot for the American Acceptance Park at Orly Field, near Paris, for a short time, and then was transferred to the 103 rd Pursuit Squadron in which he served until the Armistice. Promoted to 2nd Lt., when he transferred from the French to the American service, he subsequently became Ist Lt., and, on May 14, 1919, Captain.
Bill had a number of narrow escapes which were reported in the papers of that day. His leadership and daring are attested by his many awards. As Sunny Sanborn related in our Tenth Reunion history, "Bill was an official ace. He had seven official victories to his credit. He received the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Lafayette Flying Corps Medal, and the War Medal of the Aero Club of America. In addition we have unearthed a citation which would indicate that Bill had received the coveted United States Medal of Honor. However, it has been impossible to verify this award as such, and it is barely possible that although recommended tor the Medal of Honor he received the Distinguished Service Cross instead."
Married on June 5, 1919, in Paris, Bill had two children, Collette, now Mrs. Harry Childers of San Angelo, Texas, and Jeanine Marguerite. To them and to his widow, now living at 3913 Birchman St., Fort Worth, Texas, we extend our sincere sympathy.
In the years since 1917, Bill has been frequently mentioned by his classmates, and it has always been a source of real regret that he did not keep in touch with the Class.
1923
JOHN MORRIS GILLILAND died in Derby, Conn., September 4, 1946. John was born in Stamford, Conn., July 5, 1900, the son of John Alban and Nettie (Laycock) Gilliland. He prepared for college at the Crosby High School in Waterbury.
After graduating with his class John returned to Thayer School where he received his C.E. degree in 1924. From that time until 1928 he was associated with the Turner Construction Co. of New York. Since 1929 he had been connected with the American Brass Co. in Ansonia, Conn.
In September, 1927, John married Irene M. Cooke in New York City, who survives him with their three daughters Jean, Anne and Susan. They are now living in Huntington Park, Calif.
WALTER DUNCAN MACBAIN died in Chatham, N. J., August 28, 1946. Walter was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 12, 1900, the son of Walter and Margaret (Duncan) MacBain. He prepared for college at Blair Academy and was with our class only freshman year.
Most of Walter's business career was spent in the insurance brokerage business in New York City, but he lived for several years on the West Coast. He is survived by his wife and one daughter.
1934
JOHN LEONARD "JACK" MAHAN died on February 24th, in Newton, Mass., a victim of overwork. Jack had always been energetic and ambitious and at the time he was in the midst of organizing a new company to manufacture vending machines. He had left the Vendo Company of Kansas City several months earlier and was giving all of his time to the new venture.
Jack was one of the best-liked men in his class. He had a great capacity for making friends. His good nature and high spirits ingratiated him with everyone he met. You could call Jack a "born salesman" but that is doing him an injustice. He was much more than that. He just naturally liked people and they just naturally liked him back.
At Dartmouth he distinguished himself as a trumpeter with the Barbary Coast and as a hurdler with the track team. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Like a great many of his classmates, Jack had a tough struggle when he left school. But, after working for Canada Dry he began to click in a big way with the Vendo Company and was on his way to becoming a vending machine tycoon when the pace caught up with him.
Jack had been married Jess than three years when he died. Margaret, his widow, has returned to Chicago to be with her family Jack's mother, Mrs. Margaret L. Mahan, his brothers William and Edward and his sister Margaret, survive him.
ROBERT MANN
ARNOLD HERBERT GOLDING died of coronary thrombosis at his home in New York City on April 6th. His sudden passing, at thirty-three came as a shock not only to his classmates who remembered him as possessed of almost limitless energy and vitality, but also to New York financial and business leaders to whom he was rapidly becoming known as an outstanding new figure.
Discharged from the Army in December, 1945 with the rank of Major (after 6i months' service in the Quartermaster and Engineer Corps), he was then named a director of the Sterling National Bank and Trust Company of New York. A few months later, Arnie and a syndicate he had organized purchased the Essex House; and, later in 1946, the Hotel Chatham. At his death, Arnie was President and Managing Director of both institutions.
Born in New York on October 20, 1913, the son of Samuel H. and Sue (Feldman) Golding, Arnie prepared for Dartmouth at the Columbia Grammar School. In college, he was a member of the Freshman Track Team, The Round Table and Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
After graduation from Dartmouth, Arnie studied law at Columbia, receiving his degree in 1939. He abandoned legal practice the next year, however, to accept a commission as second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Later transferred to the Engineers, he directed the construction of the Grand Central Palace and Governor's Island induction centers. Busy as he was with these activities, he still found time to supervise Service Shows at the Island and other morale work.
On October 15, 1942, Arnie was married to Bernice Levinson, who survives him with their one child, Jan Marie.
1945
GEORGE DODSON FIX, Corporal in the 26th Infantry Division of Commandos, was killed in action somewhere in Europe on November 20, 1944.
George was born August 25, 1923, in Spokane, Wash., the son of John Penn and Lois (Dodson) Fix. He prepared for college at Lakewood School in Seattle and Webb School in Claremont, Calif., where he participated in debating, football, track, and glee club.
He was at Dartmouth until October 1942 when he entered the Army as a Private in the Infantry, at Fort Lewis. George is survived by his parents.
Medical School
1897
DR. PHILIP HARTSON GREELEY died in Concord, N. H., December 2, 1946 of arteriosclerosis.
He was born in Swanville, Maine, July 17, ,8-0, the son of Henry Philip and Eliza (Cunningham) Greeley. After graduating from the Dartmouth Medical School he studied further it the New York Postgraduate Medical School, lnd began his practise in Farmington, N. H. He soon removed to Portsmouth where he practised continuously until his retirement in 1940.
In August IS9B Dr. Greeley was married to Nina Vose of Waterville, Maine, who survives him with their two sons, Henry of Concord, and Dr. Arthur V. Greeley of New York City.
1900
DR. ROBERT CHILD PAINE died in Putnam, Conn., November 7, 1946. He was born in East Woodstock, Conn., December 12, 1873. Immediately after graduating from the Dartmouth Medical School Dr. Paine joined the staff of the Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, Conn., and had been president of the institution since 1930. He was past president of the Windham County Medical Society and was formerly a counsellor of the Connecticut State Medical Society.
1901
DR. JAMES STANISLAUS BLACK died in Nashua, N. H., April si, 1947. Dr. Black was one of the oldest active physicians in Nashua, and his sudden death, caused from an injury suffered in an automobile accident, came as a great shock to the city.
Dr. Black was born in Pembroke, Maine, December 21, 1875, the son of Neal and Ann (Lamond) Black. He graduated from the Nashua High Schoof and took his premedical studies at the University of New Hampshire.
Long an active member of the Nashua Medical Association, Dr. Black was a past president of the Hillsborough County Medical Association and a member of the American College of Surgeons, in which he served as a member of the credentials committee. He was long interested in civic affairs and had served as an alderman-at-large.
September 6, 1909, Dr. Black was married to Susan G. Sexton of Nashua, who survives him with their daughter Marion Elizabeth. Dr. Dennis L. Black '07, was his brother.
A lottery conducted by President John Wheelock in 1800 raised $3,672 for the hardpressed college.
