Deaths
[A listing of deaths of which word has been receivedwithin the past month. Full notices may appear in this issue or may appear in a later number]
Risley, Charles I. '99, March 18 Pearson, Edward N. 'O6, April 29 Robins, Harrison Jr. 'll, April 3 Whitman, F. Burton 'll, May 8 Home, Ewart G. 'l2, February 15 Werden, Wade '2l, December 22, 1948 Chism, William W. '25, May 5 Johnson, H. Hersey '25, April 9 Holbrook, Raymond W. '27, May 2 Foster, Albert D. '39, officially missing, March 23 Jackson, Charles B. '46, April 14 Crittenden, Samuel 'gBmed, March 27
In Memoriam
At the suggestion of Leslie S. Wiggin 'lO,each In Memoriam notice will henceforth include, if available, the address of the deceased Dartmouth man's widow or chief survivor, for the convenience of friends who maywish to sencTexpressions of sympathy.
1895
JESSE KREKORE MARDEN died at his home in Claremont, Calif., on March 21, from a cerebral thrombosis. He was born March 10, 1872, in Aintab, Turkey, where his parents were missionaries.
Jesse entered Dartmouth from St. Johnsbury Academy and graduated with the Class of 1895. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1898 he received his M.D. from the University of Michigan and later took a postgraduate course in medicine and surgery in Vienna.
A typical extrovert, Jesse Marden was always thinking of other people, particularly those in trouble. He spent his life as a medical missionary. He was first on the staff of Azariah Smith Hospital at Aintab, Turkey. Later he directed and reconstructed a mission hospital at Marsovan, Turkey, whose first occupants were a regiment of Turkish soldiers. He was forcibly ejected from this hospital by Turkish military authorities and at one time a price was offered for his capture.
During the Armenian catastrophe he worked among refugees with a Red Cross unit in Palestine. After the armistice, in 1918, Jesse returned to Marsovan, where the Near East Relief provided new hospital equipment for him. Later he was again deported for alleged over-friendliness to the Greeks. He was then placed, by the Near East Relief, in charge of orphanages in the Russian Caucasus where he cared for 22,000 child refugees from Turkey and assumed charge of the care of 16,000 Greek and Armenian orphans in Athens.
Jesse subsequently served as American Board Supervisor among Greek refugees. Three months after the Germans entered Athens, in 1941, he obtained a permit to leave for Rome, and from there returned to the United States.
On July 15, 1908 Jesse was married to Lucy H. Morley, his sole survivor. Mrs. Marden makes her home at 560 Mayflower Rd., Claremont, Calif.
1899
CHARLES INGRAHAM RISLEY died March 18 at his home in Pleasantville, N. Y., after a protracted illness following a broken leg from a fall.
He entered college as a freshman and continued as a member of the class until 1898, when he left college and went into business. For several years, and up to 1914, he was a salesman for the Washburn Crosby Flour Company of Minneapolis, covering territory in the East. He then engaged in the real estate business until 1934 when he became a salesman for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com- pany, continuing in that work until 1941 when he retired.
Survivors are his wife, Mary E. Risley, of 70 Sunnyside Ave., Pleasantville; a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Rost; four sons, C. Russell, Rodney D., Richard H., and William H.; a brother, Henry H. Risley, and six grandchildren.
The funeral services were at the Beecher Funeral Home at Pleasantville, March si. Rev. Edward Campbell, Minister of the Presbyterian Church, of which Charles was a member, officiated. Burial was at Kensico Cemetery at Valhalla, N. Y.
1905
JOSEPH LYMAN KINGSBURY died March 13 at his home in Denton, Texas after suffering a heart attack several weeks earlier.
Born in Waterbury, Vt., he spent several years of his boyhood in European countries where his father, Frederick Lucas Kingsbury '75, was a medical missionary. After attending high school in Newton, Mass. he entered Dartmouth and received his A.B. degree in 1905 and later took his doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Chicago. Dr. Kingsbury taught in schools in Vermont and Indiana and after receiving his Ph.D. degree he taught in the Lincoln School at New York, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and The Northeast Missouri State Teachers College at Kirksville where he was head of the history department and the museum.
He spent the last twenty-four years at North Texas State College in Denton where he was professor of history and curator of the state historical collection at the college. It was under his direction that this outstanding collection was started in 1925 and grew until it was recognized in 1930 as an official state collection.
Dr. Kingsbury is survived by his wife, the former Mabel Kluss; a son, Frederick L. Kingsbury, two daughters, Mrs. Harold Meyer and Mrs. Wesley Hart and by six grandchildren.
1906
EDWARD NATHAN PEARSON died April 29 at Van Nuys, Calif. He was born in Concord, N. H., on March 21, 1884, the son of Edward N. Pearson 'Bl, one time Secretary of State for N. H.
After graduating from the Concord High School, Edward entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1906 but only remained one year as the lure of the West called him and he went to San Francisco, Calif.
On July 7, 1910 he married Emma Jane Power in Oakland and their only child, Jane, was born there, May 29, 1914. In October, 1924, he went with the First National Bank of Long Beach, Calif., specializing in investments and trusts.
After his retirement from business, Edward went to Belvedere to live near his daughter, Mrs. Hampton Mauvis, and his two grandchildren Hampton Jr. and Edward.
His death occured on April 29, 1949, in his daughter's home at Van Nuys, Calif. Edward's brother John, Dartmouth 1911, lives in Norwich, Vt., and his sister Mrs. Howard A. Morrison lives in Winchester, Mass.
His widow, Mrs. Emma Jane Pearson, survives him, and makes her home at 15035 Sylvan St., Van Nuys.
1911
HARRISON ROBINS JR. died in Baltimore on April 3. He was born in Baltimore April 14, 1888, and graduated from the Boys' Latin School there. He entered college with the class of 1911, leaving in February, 1909. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Harrison spent his business life in wholesale food, originally with the H. L. Piel Company of Baltimore, and later managing his own wholesale food company, Robins & Cos. He retired from his business a year ago and moved to St. Michael's in Talbot County.
He was a vestryman in St. John's Episcopal Church in Mount Washington, which was his home for many years. He was President o£ the Baltimore Butter and Egg Exchange.
He married in 1912 and is survived by his wife, the former Ethel Lippincott Rhoads, whose home is St. Michaels, Md., and a daughter, Mrs. Wesley Clement.
Harrison's son, Lt. Harrison Robins 111, was a bombadier-navigator in the 20th Air Force, and was killed in the first B-29 daylight raid over Japan on August 20, 1944. He was a graduate of City College and received a degree in business management from Johns Hopkins University prior to his enlistment in the Air Corps. Joint funeral services were held for father and son on April 6, in St. John's Church, Mount Washington, the son's body having arrived in this country during his father's final illness, and the ceremonies were delayed because of this.
1912
EWART GLADSTONE HORNE died on February 15, at Cable Memorial Hospital, Ipswich, Mass., after a long illness which became acute early in February while living at the home of his son, County Road, Ipswich, Mass.
"Mike", as he was affectionately known to all his classmates, was born at Lowell, Mass. October 7, 1888, the son of James D. Home 'B4 and Cora Blanche Blood.
Preparing at Andover Academy, he graduated from Dartmouth and the Thayer School of Engineering as a member of the Class of 1912. After engaging in real estate developments in Detroit and Florida he was for many years an engineer with Thompson-Starrett Cos., working chiefly in Montreal, Detroit and Miami. The last few years he conducted an insurance business in Boston. During the war he was located at Louisville, Ky., as a war contract negotiator for the Army Quartermaster Corps.
He was a member of Gamma Delta Chi at Dartmouth, and was a Mason, Shriner and a member of the Elks.
He is survived by a son, Albert J. Home, a staff writer on the Boston Traveler, and a daughter, Phyllis Patricia (Mrs. Woodson W.) Baldwin of Los Angeles.
1921
WADE WERDEN died in New York City on December 22, 1948. He was born in Eutawville, S. C., November 26, 1897, the son of Chester Howell and Sara (Wade) Werden. He prepared for college at Lawrenceville and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
On June 29, 1918 Wade entered the Aviation Branch of the U. S. Signal Corps and served at various fields in this country. He was discharged as a 2nd Lt. on December 21, 1918 and then returned to college, to graduate with the Class of 1921.
For the next few years Wade served as a copy writer for various advertising firms in Chicago and Dayton, Ohio and in 193,2 became connected with J. Walter Thompson Cos. in New York. He continued in the advertising field, either in New York or Chicago. During the war he was on the staff of Yank in London. As he moved about so much Wade did not keep in touch with the class. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bettina Werden of 58 East 56th St., New York City.
I925
HIRAM HERSEY JOI-INSON died in South Attleboro, Mass. on April 9 from a coronary occlusion.
Hi entered Dartmouth from Moses Brown School and roomed at 24 Wheeler his freshman year. In .college Hi was on the Aegis and Bema boards junior year, and circulation manager of the latter in senior year. He belonged to Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity.
For many years Hi was General Superintendent of the Colonial Laundries, Inc. of Providence, R. 1., heading up their three plants in Providence and Pawtucket. He contributed much to the technical side of the laundry industry. He was a member of the Pawtucket Rotary Club, Providence Chamber of Commerce and the First Baptist Church.
His many friends will remember Hi as a jovial person, always willing to do his share and more too, being a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund.
He was 45 years old, unmarried, and is survived by two aunts, an uncle and five cousins including Norman E. McCullock 'l7 of Barrington, R. I.
1929
HENRY BLOCK died of a coronary thrombosis at his home, 807 Washington Avenue, Albany, N. Y., on March 24. Funeral services were held at Tebult Memorial Chapel, Sunday, March 27. He had had an attack on February 19 and had been under the care of his physician for several weeks, but was believed to be making satisfactory progress. The end came suddenly and unexpectedly.
In a sense Heine, as we all knew him, was a war victim. He had closed a successful business, The Madison Florist Shop, in Albany, to enlist as a private in the United States Army and served with the artillery. The strain of field maneuvers in this country brought about a heart condition which resulted in his receiving an honorable discharge. He was proud of his rating as a Private First Class, and it was a great disappointment to him when he was unable to go overseas with his outfit.
Henry was born in Albany in 1908 and attended Albany Academy before entering Dartmouth. At college and in his home town he was loved for the laughter he brought to his many friends. His ability to make people laugh came from a sense of humor, which sprang from a philosophic depth enjoyed by few men.
After his discharge from the army and until the time of his death he was employed by the New York State Unemployment Division in Albany. He was a member of Pi Lambda Phi.
He leaves his wife, Ruth Sherman Bloch, a daughter, Margery, age 21,4, a son, Robert Harris, age 7 weeks, and his mother, Mrs. Simon E. Bloch. R. M.R.
Word has been received of the death of JOHN WILLIAM MERRITT on January 26.
John was born in Emerson, lowa on February 12, 1907, the son of Dr. Edwin Atkins and Dessa (Rathbone) Merritt. He prepared for college at Devitt Preparatory School in Washington.
As he was with the class only one semester John never kept in touch with the class nor with the college, so nothing is known of his career. He made his home at 9312 Kensington Rd., Chevy Chase, Md.
1946
CHARLES BURNHAM JACKSON of 10 Crestmont Rd., Montclair, N. J. was fatally injured in an automobile collision in Washington, Ind. on April 14.
Charlie was born in Rye, N. Y. in 1923. He attended Rye and Montclair public schools, Montclair Academy, Eaglebrook School and was graduated from Vermont Academy before he entered Dartmouth in 1942. Upon completing his freshman year Charlie joined the Navy and served in the Mediterranean with a PT Squadron.
Following his honorable discharge in 1945 Charlie did public relations work for the National Board of Fire Underwriters in New York. Two years later he undertook special journalism studies at the University of Indiana. Upon completing this work he became public relations director for the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association in Indianapolis, a position he held until the time of his death.
Charlie was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and the New York Athletic Club.
Less than 11 months ago Charlie's younger brother Ralph was also killed as a result of a traffic accident.
Charlie is survived by his father, Harold P. Jackson 'lO who is President of the Bankers indemnity Insurance Company of Newark, N. J. and chairman of the National Committee for Traffic Safety. Other survivors are Miss Katherine Jackson of New York, a sister; his mother, Mrs. Grace Burnham Jackson of New York and his stepmother of the Crestmont Road address.
