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

Parkinson, William D. '78, April 10, 1948 Tarbell, Hervey A. '78, March 23, 1948 Richmond, Allen P. '86, March 17, 1948 Hardy, Charles A. '90, March 30, 1948 Hilton, Henry H. '90, April 10, 1948 Michel, James P. '92, March 3, 1948 Smith, Albert '98, March 9, 1948 Harvey, James F. '06, December 16, 1947 Braun, Gustav F. '07, March 12, 1948 Lake, Jesse N. '10 -Munroe, Stanley M. '20, April 1, 1948 Anderson, Troyer S. '22, April 3, 1948 Bryan, Frederick C. '23, April 3, 1948 Straub, Charles M. '46, February 2, 1948 Fish, John E. '96 m, March 30, 1948 Ladd, Samuel T. 'oom, March 27, 1948 Ellis, Arthur H. '07m, March 14, 1948

In Memoriam

1878

HERVEY ADDISON TARBELL, who since February had held the title of the oldest living graduate of Dartmouth, died at the home of his daughter in West Allis, Wis., on March 23.

The son of Addison and Florella (Parker) Tarbell he was born in Cavendish, Vt., November 16, 1853. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy and the four winters during his college course he taught in the schools of Cavendish and nearby towns.

After graduation he taught school for three years in the Middle West and then entered the Medical College of the University of New York from which he graduated in March 1883. For the next seven years he practiced in Plankinton, S. D. In 1890 he moved to Watertown, S. D., where he practiced until his retirement in 1935. With two other physicians Watertown and later served on the staff of Luther Hospital.

For thirty years Dr. Tarbell served as Secretary of the Board of U. S. Pension Examiners and had been County Coroner and President of the local medical society.

On May 24, 1884, Dr. Tarbell was married to Anna Gleason of Mankato, Minn., who died several years ago. He is survived by a son, Dr. Glee Tarbell of Watertown and by two daughters, Miss Helen Tarbell and Mrs. R. W. Davis of West Allis. Present at the thirty-fifth, fiftieth and sixtieth reunions, Dr. Tarbell always maintained his love and loyalty for his class and college.

1883

DEO DATUS BALDWIN died July 19, 1946, at Carthage, S. D. He was born in Sharon, Vt., February 16, 1857, the son of Eleazar Baldwin, a farmer.

The following account of his career is based on thehistory of South Dakota, written by Doane Robertson, the State Historian.

Educated in the public schools of his native town he prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, and entered Dartmouth where he spent two years. Thus equipped with a good and practical education, the young Vermonter turned his face resolutely westward.

His first location was in Union County, South Dakota and his first occupation there was in the capacity of school teacher. For two years he had charge of a class at Jefferson but not intending to make this his life work he then went to Miner County and located at what is now Carthage where he made his permanent home.

He engaged for a time in farming and subsequently in the real estate and insurance business, which he surrendered in 1890 as a result of his election to the County Judgeship in which office he served a term of two years. Thereupon he re-engaged in the real estate and insurance business until 1910 when he was again elected County Judge of Miner County, which also includes the Probate Court business, and with the exception of about five months held this office until his death on July 19, 1946.

Mr. Baldwin's political affiliations were with the Democratic party and he took a lively interest in public affairs of the County, State and Nation. He was brought up in the Episcopal church. His fraternal connections were with the Masons and Odd Fellows, having been a charter member of both lodges.

Mr. Baldwin was married in North Dakota to Miss Josie Dewey who died in 1887 leaving an only son, J. Dewey Baldwin of New York City. His second marriage was to Miss Jennie P. Eaton of Massachusetts by whom were born the following children: Richard, Ruth, Dorothy, Kenneth and Donald.

He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and also of Kappa Sigma Epsilon freshman society.

1885

FRANK LEWIS WHIPPLE died February 15 at the Lynn, Mass., Hospital after a brief illness.

Born in Essex, Mass., March 30, 1859, he prepared for college at Greenwich, R. 1., Academy. After graduating from Dartmouth he did graduate work at M.I.T. and Harvard, and in 1894 graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. In 1895 he received an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and the same degree from Tufts in 1897.

Although trained for the ministry and for medicine, Dr. Whipple devoted his entire life to teaching. He taught for some time in Pennsylvania, first at Juniata College and then at the State Normal School. Going then to New Britain, Conn., he was the organizer and principal of the first junior high school on record. The balance of his teaching career was spent in Lynn, Mass., where he first taught at Tracy School and then served as principal of Eastern Junior High School until his retirement. He was in charge of evening and summer schools in Lynn for many years.

Following his retirement Dr. Whipple served two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature where he was characterized as one of the ablest legislators ever to represent Essex County. In 1929 Dr. Whipple was elected Dean of Middlesex Medical School and in 1937 he was elected vice-president and member of the board of trustees of Middlesex University.

Dr. Whipple had served his class as president and vice-president and was faithful in attending reunions. He never married and is survived by three sisters. Four of his nephews attended Dartmouth.

1886

DR. ALLEN PIERCE RICHMOND died at his home in Hingham, Mass., March 17, 1948, at the age of 87. Until the last month of his life he had enjoyed comfortable health, his family, and especially his Dartmouth associations and memories. Services were held in Hingham, and burial followed the services in the First Parish Church, Dover, N. H., at which four of his classmates, Burley, Howard, Kelly and Newton, were named as honorary bearers.

"Pete," as he was known extensively and affectionately by Dartmouth men, was a charter member of the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Delta Theta, a Mason, and a Congregationalist, and served as deacon of the old First Church in Dover for many years. He was one of those doctors who bring hope and cheer, as well as medication, to their patients. His love of people enabled him to enter and enjoy the college campus life more than most men, and furnished a great store of interesting reminiscences which he has set down for the enjoyment of his descendants. The memorabilia in his scrap book constitute probably the most complete record extant of his four years in Dartmouth.

He was born January 10, 1861, in South Berwick, Me., and prepared for college at Berwick Academy. After graduation from Dartmouth he entered the Portland School for Medical Instruction and Bowdoin Medical College, and in 1889 received his M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. He immediately began a general practice of 42 years in Dover, N. H., serving on the staff of several hospitals and institutions and retiring in 1931.

In that year he and Mrs. Richmond, formerly Miss Marcia Young of Lewiston, Me., moved to Hingham to live with their daughter Eleanor. Mrs. Richmond lived but two years thereafter.

She and the children were thoroughly imbued with the Dartmouth spirit. Eleanor, Mt. Holyoke '17, and Louise (Mrs. Walter Huse) , New Hampshire '19, usually came with Pete to the reunions, while Allen P. Jr., Dartmouth '14, remained to teach in the Thayer School for ten years after graduation. Pete was a fond grandparent and great grandparent also. Some of his best pictures are those taken with one or more of the little ones.

1890

The class lost the last of the six members who were Ministers of the Gospel, with the death of HENRY NELSON PRINGLE on January 9, at the Waltham, Mass., Hospital.

Henry was born in Ryegate, Vt., October 21, 1864, the son of Alexander Bullions and Julia Ann (Laughlin) Pringle. He prepared for college at Thetford Academy. One of the strong men of the class, Henry was interested in athletics. Before coming to college he had travelled in Europe and in 1887 he accompanied Prof. Hitchcock and Prof. Jenks of Brown on an expedition to the Florida Everglades to collect natural history specimens. In 1890 Henry presented his collection of 500 eggs and nests of New England birds to Dartmouth.

In 1893 Henry graduated from Andover Theological Seminary and during the next eleven years held pastorates in Anoka, Minn., and Eastport, Me. During the next eleven years he served as secretary of the Christian Civic League of Maine. In 1912 he became Law Enforcement Director of the International Reform Federation of Washington, D. C., which position he held until his retirement in 1936.

A fearless crusader, he directed investigations into commercialized vice in 150 cities and towns and secured over 3000 convictions. An avid philatelist, he had a collection of 31,000 stamps. He also had one of the finest collections of clay concretion in the country.

On November 21, 1894 Henry was married to Emma Jane Prescott of St. Johnsbury, who died in 1936. He is survived by three sons, Edward of Boston and Alexander and William of Washington. James N. Pringle '97 was a brother.

Henry was regarded as one of the ablest men in his class and at our 25 th reunion was voted the member who had done the most good in the world.

1892

JAMES PHILIP MICHEL died at his home in Joplin, Mo., on March 3. The news was received from his daughter Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gunby of Los Angeles.

Michel was born in Dubuque, la., January 17, 1870, and fitted for Dartmouth at the Dubuque High School. He entered with the Class of 1892 in the Chandler Department but remained with us only a year. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

We lost track of him for some years but finally found him established in the life insurance business in Joplin. He had previously been engaged in the grain business in Kansas City. At the time of our fiftieth reunion he reported himself as retired and completely crippled with arthritis.

1894

MAJOR ELMER SETH TENNEY, who died at Tacoma January 24 last, had seen much more of this world than most. In the course of his career in the Medical Corps, United States Army, which included practically all his active years, he saw service in the Caribbean, six times or more crossed the Pacific, and State-side ranged from Boston's harbor forts to San Francisco's Presidio. Much of his later service was on the West Coast and in the Far East. He was with the Army relief expedition at the time of the gTeat earthquake in Japan, and had two routine tours of duty in the Philippines including the Aguinaldo insurrection.

Elmer was born September 4, 1870 on a small farm out on the Etna road in the outskirts of Hanover. Fitting at Lebanon High, he came up to Hanover Plain, one of the considerable delegation to join 1894 from that school. Seeking no particular distinction in classroom or on playing field, his four undergraduate years found him the average student. His fraternity was Kappa Kappa Kappa.

Graduated, he entered the Medical College, transferred to Jefferson Medical in Philadelpphia for his second year and returned to take his M.D. from Dartmouth in 1897.

Came the Spanish war and the Army called. He was with Miles in Puerto Rico. Post-war assignments permitted him to pursue his specialties—pathology, bacteriology and public health—evidenced by degrees from Harvard, M.I.T., and California.

When the first World War loomed he was assigned with others to indoctrinate in Army ways civilian doctors called to the colors. Thereby hangs a tale. In one of those classes two '94 doctors faced each other, one as tutor, one as tutored, much to the secret amusement of both.

In another way Dr. Tenney fathered many chuckles. An old-fashioned Democrat of the Cleveland kidney, he was bound by the Armytabu against open part in politics; but privately his salty characterizations of that party's later antics were a great comfort to classmates less eloquent but of like mind.

Too old for service in the second World War—he was retired as Major on September 3°, 1934—Dr. Tenney rounded out his active years, 1935-1942, in public health work at Berkeley, Calif.

So much of his life was spent in far places that seldom could he be present at gatherings, but never did College or Class fail of his affection. Perhaps for those reasons he took enormous satisfaction in '94's Fiftieth in 1944, renewing, in person, comradeships kept alive by a considerable correspondence over the years. In letters since he has always spoken of his hopes for 1949. It was not to be.

In gradually failing health for a number of years, a light stroke complicated by a heart condition brought the end of a useful life.

Dr. Tenney married, August 28, 1899, Grace Mary Innes, who survives. To them were born two sons and a daughter. The sons are in public service, one in the State Department, the other in the Army. The daughter is the wife of an Army colonel. There are several grandchildren.

B. A. S. '94

1898

ALBERT SMITH died on March 9, at Evanston, ILL., soon after his 75th birthday. He had suffered from a serious heart ailment during the later years of his life, but recognizing his limitations he had through skillful planning found it possible to remain active in his profession until nearly the end.

Albert was born in Tuscola, ILL., on March 3, 1873. He prepared for college at Greenville Academy in Ohio and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1898, taking the courses leading to the B.S. degree. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he, with several others of the Class, volunteered for active service and received his training at Chickamauga Field.

This interrupted temporarily his plan to continue his studies at the Thayer School, and during the next two years he was, employed by the Western Electric Company in Chicago. A group of four classmates of '98 consisting of Albert, Fred Bennis, Walter Sumner and "Pete" Adams lived together at this time on West Monroe Street and continued their college associations. The diversity of their professional careers in later years is an interesting illustration of the unpredictable character of human affairs.

A short time later Albert returned to Hanover to the Thayer School and received his degree in Civil Engineering in 1903. He then began his long connection with Purdue University where he remained from 1905 to 1921, being Professor of Structural Engineering from 1910 to 1921. He published a valuable text book entitled Stresses in Structures in 1911 and numerous articles in engineering periodicals in later years.

When the United States entered the First World War he joined the Engineer Corps and served as Lieutenant Colonel, 215 th Engineers, U.S.A., 1917-1919. In 1921 Albert opened an engineering office in Chicago. This developed later into the firm of Smith and Brown with which he was associated during the remainder of his life. The firm acted as designing and consulting engineers on numerous projects in Chicago and elsewhere, having to deal particularly with some of the interesting structural problems of the huge office building of the Chicago Tribune.

In college he was a member of K.K.K., Sphinx, Triangle, and Scabbord and Blade, and his later professional societies included the American Society of Civil Engineers, Western Society of Engineers, and the American Concrete Institute. He was also a member of the honorary society, Sigma Xi.

While at Purdue Albert met his future wife, Mabel Post Coulter, daughter of Professor Coulter of the University faculty. They were married in June, 1907. They had a devoted life together for forty years and took an active part in the cultural and charitable activities of the suburban town of Winnetka where they made their home. Soon after the close of the First World War, with characteristic sympathy and generosity they adopted two Belgian orphan children, a boy and a girl, who have since grown to maturity, and have provided their parents with the varied pleasures which several grandchildren can impart in life.

Everyone who knew Albert in college or in later years recognized his charm and originality and the friendliness which was so basic in his character. He maintained a deep interest in his college and in all those who have been associated with it. As one who continued a close friendship with him until the end the writer feels a sense of heavy personal loss, but also grateful recognition of the many years during which the ties formed in college had remained unweakened.

The warmest sympathy of the Class goes out to Mabel Smith and her family.

W. S. A,

WILLIAM ALBERT KIMBALL died at Plymouth, N. H., on March 11, following a brief illness. He was born in Plymouth on July 14, 1876. After graduating from Plymouth High School and St. Johnsbury Academy he entered Dartmouth and received a B.S. degree in 1898. In college he was a member of Sigma Chi and Dragon and played on the class football and baseball teams.

After graduation he was with the American Express Company in Cambridge, Mass., and then with the Armstrong News Company in Boston. He then engaged in the real estate business in Springfield, Mass., for about a year. In 1900 he returned to Plymouth and entered the insurance business with Charles J. Ayer and became secretary and vice president of the Ayer Insurance Company. In 1921 he went into the insurance business for himself and continued thus until his death.

Kim was appointed assistant judge of the Municipal Court when it was established and became justice of this court in 1918 and served in this capacity for 25 years. He had always been active in town affairs, serving as town clerk, town treasurer, and as water commissioner for 22 years. He had served as town moderator for 27 years and this year's meeting was the first one he had missed in that time. He had also been a representative in the state legislature. At the time of his death he was serving as a deputy sheriff of Grafton County.

His survivors include his wife, Mrs. Alice Ann Kimball, and two sisters, Mrs. Edith Wadleigh of Somerville, Mass., and Miss Addie Kimball of Plymouth. Although Kimmie had not been a frequent visitor at class reunions he had his plans made to be present at the Golden Fiftieth in June and his absence will be sorely felt by the class. The sympathy of the class goes to Mrs. Kimball.

1907

GUSTAVE F. BRAUN died suddenly on March 12 in Everett, Massachusetts, in which city he had made his home for over fifty years. He leaves his wife, Nellie M. Braun.

Gus was born in Germany, came to Everett at the age of eight, and prepared for college at Everett High School.

After leaving college, he became a newspaper photographer. Later he established a photograph, stationery and gift shop in Everett, which he conducted successfully until his recent retirement.

He also became active in civic affairs, serving on the School Committee and as Chairman of the School Board.

Funeral services were attended by the mayor and other city officials, and by Bill Smart, representing the Class of '07.

1922

TROYER STEELE ANDERSON died on April 3, 1948, at Swarthmore, Pa. In the fall of 1947 Troyer visited the Mayo Clinic and found that he had an inoperable cancer of the lung, and had only six months to live. With great courage he returned to his teaching at Hunter College until weakness forced him to stop about six weeks before his merciful release.

Troyer was bora in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 28, 1900, the son of Frank Maloy and Mary (Steele) Anderson. He prepared for Dartmouth at Worcester Academy in Massachusetts. While in college he earned his letter as a high hurdler, was a member of the debating team, and made Phi Beta Kappa. He was also a very respectable tennis player. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1922, he did graduate work in history at Harvard, and from 1923 to 1926 he was a Rhodes Scholar from New Hampshire at Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in 1925 and a Ph.D. in 1929. When he died he was Professor of History and Chairman of the Department at Hunter College. From 1926 to 1928 he was instructor in history at Brown University, from 1928 to 1942 instructor, assistant professor and associate professor of history at Swarthmore College, and from 1942 to 1945 Professor of History at the University of lowa.

From 1944 to 1946 he was on war leave as member of the Historical Branch, G-2, War Department, General Staff, and in 1946 he was a special consultant in the Office of the Secretary of War. He was a member of the American Historical Association, the American Military Institute, and served on the board of editors of The Journal of ModernHistory.

In 1926 he married Mary F. Gerould, daughter of Dartmouth Professor John H. Gerould '90, and had two children, Kenneth F., a member of the Class of 1950 at Dartmouth, and Nancy Steele, a senior in Swarth-more High School.

Besides his wife and children he leaves his father, Professor Emeritus of History at Dartmouth, and a brother, Dr. Gaylord West Anderson '22, of the University of Minnesota.

Troyer was the author in 1936 of TheCommand of the Howe Brothers During theAmerican Revolution, which discussed why a formidable British military force was unable to subdue the American revolution. The academic world has lost one of its most brilliant historians, and the class has lost one of its most loyal members.

In accord with Troyer's wishes there was no conventional funeral service but a memorial service was held on Sunday, April 11, at 4 P.M. in the Quaker Meeting House on the Swarthmore College campus.

1923

DONALD ROBINSON MOORE died February 2, at his home, 841 Oakwood Avenue, Wilmette, 111., after a painful illness of several months due to cancer.

Don was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on June 18, 1902, and lived in Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh, during his grade-school and high-school days. He was a good student and an able athlete, playing football and captaining his basketball team during senior year in high school.

At Dartmouth, Don also excelled in basketball, playing center and forward on the varsity team. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet, and Palaeopitus. He received his B.S. degree in 1923 and his M.C.S. from Tuck School in 1924.

Don was with the Pressed Steel Car Company and the Sumner Sollitt Construction Company for some years after graduation. Later, he entered government service as Director of Work Programs in Western Pennsylvania.

In 1942 he entered World War II and served with distinction in the South Pacific as Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineers. Don was in charge of a specialized unit—a rather remarkable achievement for a man whose basic education was not in engineering and who was not a graduate of West Point. He saw extremely active service. His unit was attacked by suicide planes while it was unloading for one of the Philippine campaigns and he had 124 men killed during the unloading process. It was this experience that resulted in his dedicating himself to service in the Veterans' Administration after the war. At the time of his death he was in charge of Hospital Unit Expansion programs in his district. At his own expense, he called on the families of all the men who met death with his unit. These men had lived in thirty-seven States of the Union, and it took most of a year for him to perform this service.

Don was one of the most admired, respected and beloved men of his Class, serving as its first President after graduation. Sumner Sollitt, one of his most intimate friends, expresses simply and feelingly the sentiments of all who knew Don when he wrote: "Those of us who were close to Don came to love him more and more as the years went by. He was a man of very high principles who retained those principles all through his lite."

Surviving are his wife, Marie; a daughter, Janet, a student at the University of Illinois; two sons, Donald and Douglas; and his mother, Mrs. Lydia Moore of Pittsburgh. His funeral took place on February 5, at the First Presbyterian Church in Wilmette, with the following members of his Class present; Sumner Sollitt, Truman Metzel, Joseph Pick, Victor Short, Harold Conley and Ward Hilton.

1943

CHARLES GREENLEAF BENNETT JR. was killed in an automobile accident in Ann Arbor, Mich., November 22, 1947. He was born March 21, 1922 in Detroit, the son of Charles G. and Ruth (Schaper) Bennett. His father was a member of the class of 1908.

He prepared for college at the University of Detroit High School and while at Dartmouth was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity and participated in the Civilian Pilot Training Program. He majored in business administration at Tuck School and following his graduation worked as a salesman.

Surviving are his mother and a sister, Marian, both of Detroit. Funeral services and interment were in Detroit.

HERVEY ADDISON TARBELL '78

WILLIAM ALBERT KIMBALL '98

TROYER STEELE ANDERSON '22