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]
Quint, John H. '91, February 28 Hewes, Laurence I. '98, March a Yeaton, Edward S. '00, February 9 Reid, George.S. '05, March 1 Libby, Arthur F. '06, March 10 Ross, Carl W. '08, February 8 Locke, Richard B. '09, February 18 Devine, Charles W. '10, December 12, 1947 Cheney, Alfred M. '17, February 21 Carpenter, Robert K. '25, January 12 Harten, Robert M. '25, December 19, 1949 Ritchie, George D. '27, March Linden, Osmo O. '39, February 22 Remmer, Robert J. '44, February 23
In Memoriam
1894
HENRY JEFFERSON HOWLAND was born at Westport, Mass., July 31, 1869 and died at Franconia, N. H., February 3, 1950. His death followed a shock which he sustained on Friday, January 13.
He prepared for college at Dow Academy, Franconia, but was able to complete only his freshman year at Dartmouth. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
Henry Howland had a varied life which he summed up interestingly in a letter which he wrote to the Class Secretary some years before his death:
As a farmer I have produced food for my family and for the public. As a grocer and provision dealer I have been a medium of transfer of food to the public. As a hotel worker, together with my wife, have further advanced, by preparing and cooking, such food on its way to the table of the eater; in all of which we have found a direct way, both to the heart of those who eat to live and, by the excellence of the food we served, to the heart of those who live to eat
I have nearly always got a good return from my farm labor, as my fruit and vegetable products, if not always in great quantity, were mostly of excellent quality. At Howland Farm, my wife and I entertained many hundred paying guests, mostly from Eastern Massachusetts, very many of whom came year after year and became dear and lasting friends.
Henry was an almost perfect illustration of the value both to the man himself and to the Class of a continuing relationship on the part of a non-graduate. From his standpoint it can be best expressed in his own words:
From Dartmouth and the Class of '94 I have received out of all proportion to what I have given—the riches of a delightful companionship and an introduction to a wealth of further reading and study, and a great pride in the Halls and spirit of the College.
From the standpoint of the Class, Henry always added to the joy of our meetings. Readers of this column will remember that from time to time words of courage and cheer have been quoted from Henry's letters. Several years ago the Secretary visited him after he had suffered a thrombosis. The doctor had directed him to lie flat on his back for eight weeks. This Henry did with the result he was soon able to resume much of his former activity.
Henry was first married to Ida Stearns and it was she who helped at Howland Farm and elsewhere. She died in 1938 and in 1946 he married Mrs. Minnie Edson Parker, whom he had known in Dow Academy days and who survives him. They made their home in Franconia, and it was said that "Henry Howland liked Franconia and Franconia liked him."
1900
Word has been received of the death on February 8, at Seattle, Wash., of EDWARD SAWYER YEATON, a member of the class for nearly two years.
Ned was born in Gonic, N. H., on October 31, 1878. His father was Nahum Yeaton, a brick manufacturer and his mother Helen Sawyer. He was graduated from the Rochester High School in 1896 and entered Dartmouth that fall in the class of 1900. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Leaving college in 1898 he made his way to Seattle, where he has resided for over 50 years, without, so far as the secretary can learn, ever visiting the East again during that period. At first he acted as an agent for steamship lines, and served in the import and export business and in marine insurance. For the last 27 years, however, he has conducted his own insurance business in Seattle, representing, among other companies, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. He was a member of the Seattle Athletic Club and a Mason.
He was married to Ruth De Rell Thompkins of Seattle in 1906 and is survived by her, by his son Stuart Edward, a graduate of the University of Washington in the class of 1934, now a resident of Pennington, N. J., and by three grandchildren.
Very few of us have seen Ned since he left Hanover in 1898. He was always responsive, however, to letters from the secretary and a regular contributor to the Alumni Fund.
1905
Fighting a long and courageous battle against ill health, with never a complaint, STILLMAN BATCHELLOR came to the end of the road on January 22nd at his ranch up a beautiful winding road in the California hills, ten miles out of Healdsburg.
Coming to Dartmouth from Littleton, N. H., he already had Dartmouth blood in his veins, for his father was Albert Stillman Batchellor, '72 who in 1910 was honored with a Litt.D. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1905, Stillman went to M.I.T. for courses in mining engineering. With this background he devoted a number of years to a life of adventure in Mexico, California, and Cuba.
He spent nine years in Mexico, locating copper, silver, and iron deposits, appraising raining properties, mapping, and doing scout engineering. It was a rough lite. In the last few of his years in Mexico he was playing hide and seek with outlaws. On one occasion his escape was by canoeing 7 days on the Pacific. While in Mexico he suffered very severe attacks of malaria which permanently impaired his health.
The landing of American soldiers in Vera Cruz led most Americans to flee Mexico for good. So Batch took similar work for a California company at Dedrick, exploring iron ore prospects. In 1917 he was doing consulting work not only for mining enterprises but for coffee plantations in the interior of Cuba.
World War I found Batch a Ist lieutenant in the U. s. Army Engineers Corps. With the war over he married a fine nurse of English extraction in St. Paul's Church in San Francisco, Lillian G. Henderson. In 1919 with a partner, Batch bought the 1000 acre El Venado Ranch about 60 miles north of San Francisco where he spent the rest of his life. In 1920 he owned it wholly. Meanwhile he built on it a log cabin with all modern conveniences, and cleared 5 acres of land. He began raising imperial prunes, wine grapes, and apples. A few cattle and pigs were on hand to absorb any leisure time. Upon getting a post office located on his ranch, he became postmaster too. There on the ranch Mrs. Batchellor continues to live.
On their ranch the Batchellors grew large imperial prunes and built a large mail order business. Stillman's tailing health in the last three years compelled giving this up and selling his crop on the trees. It was a twoman business of which Stillman and Lillian had made a success. It could not spare them, however, for the '05 reunions which Stillman was most reluctant to miss. But now his ashes will be nearer the college for they will be buried by his wish, in his native town of Littleton.
The Batchellors experienced hard times for long periods. Yet "never a discouraging word" was heard from him in his letters to class officers for he was "at home on the range."
Their only child, Eloise, now Mrs. Martin Hoffman, lives in Geyserville, Calif., where classmate Billman once taught school. Mrs. Batchellor was a most devoted wife through Stillman's long illness. They were ideally happy.
1908
CARL WILBUR ROSS, a prominent business man of Calais, Maine, for the past thirty years, died on February 8, in a St. Stephen, N. B., hospital after a brief illness.
He was born in St. Stephen, December 19,1883, the son of Henry B. and Lelia M. (Bridges) Ross, but had lived in Calais since a small boy and was educated in that city. While in College he sang bass in the College choir and glee club. He prepared for the Ihayer School of Civil Engineering and took the first year course but did not return for his second year, receiving an A.B. degree from the College in 1908.
After graduation he entered the employ of the Portland, Oregon, Bureau of Waterworks, starting as draftsman and being promoted to Chief Draftsman, 1910, Head Draftsman, 1914, and Principal Assistant Engineer, 1918. In 1919, he returned to Calais to become a member of Ross Brothers, retail jewellers, and at the time of his death was owner and manager.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Alfred Devin of Waterbury, Conn.; two sons, Hubert W., an officer of the regular army stationed in Germany, and Norman F., an electrical engineer with the Central Maine Power Company at Lewiston; three sisters, Mrs. Clifford D. Grimes of Homer, Mich., Miss Ruth Ross of New Haven, Conn., and Mrs. Harold H. Murchie of Calais, and a brother, Arthur H. Ross '21 of Washington. With nine grandchildren at last reports, he had been a serious contender in the class "grandfather derby".
Funeral services were held at the home of his sister, Mrs. Harold Murchie, and interment was in the Calais cemetery.
1917
WALTER THOMSON WILSON died February 6 at the home of his brother, Garnett A. Wilson, 27 Wilson Rd., North Andover, Mass.
Walter was born in Lawrence, Mass., October 22, 1892, the son of James and Alison (Thomson) Wilson. He prepared for college at Lawrence High School and Phillips Exeter Academy.
In June 1917, Walter enlisted in the Army Ordnance and served for 28 months with a commission of Ist Lt. Following his discharge from service he was for ten years head of the mathematics department at New York Military Academy. At the same time he was president of the Wilson Travel Bureau specializing in trips to the West Indies.
For the next few years Walter lived at the family home in Lawrence where he was active in politics and community affairs. For the past 13 years he had been Master in Mathematics at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.
Walter never married. Besides his brother he is survived by a niece, Joan Wilson, and a nephew, Walter A. Wilson.
1923
ERNEST CLEMENT SMITH was a victim of coronary thrombosis September 27, 1949, at his home 468 Hillview Ave., Sarasota, Fla.
Ernest was the son of William Elliott and Nora (Quirin) Smith, of Manchester, N. H., and was born May 26, 1901. He attended the Ash Street and Straw Street schools, and was graduated from Manchester High School in 1919.
After graduation from Dartmouth with the Class of 1923, where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, he was for a short time connected with the Hartford Insurance Company, and then moved to Florida in 1925, to become associated with his father in the Smith Candy Company. In 1938 he formed his own insurance agency.
Ernest was a member of the Episcopal Church, the Kiwanis Club, and the Sarasota Yacht Club.
He is survived by his wife, Charlotte Swain Smith, whom he married in 1929, his father, his sisters Mrs. Alfred P. Angers of Sarasota and Miss Esther Smith of Lakeland, Florida, and a son and stepson. The stepson, Peter W. Strader, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and his son Ernest Frederick Smith is a sophomore at the University of Florida.
Ernest had not been ill, and the heart attack struck without warning, shortly after the family's return from their summer cabin at Highlands, N. C.
Ernest was very proud of his Dartmouth background, and the Class and the College will miss him.
1924
It is with deep regret that we report the death of our classmate, FRANK JAMES MICKEY who passed away in the City Hospital, Fostoria, Ohio, on January 10. The son of Don O. and Louise Mickey, Frank was born in Cleveland on July 4, 1902. The family soon moved to Fostoria, where Frank graduated from the Fostoria High School with the Class of 1919. After a year at Phillips Exeter he entered Dartmouth, and was a member of Zeta Psi.
Leaving college in June, 1923, Frank worked with the Guardian Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland until 1932, when he left to form a partnership, Harbough and Mickey, engaged in advertising and publicity in his home town of Fostoria.
During World War 11, Frank enlisted in the Army, and received his basic training at Fort Rosecrans, Calif. He served in Kodiak, Alaska, with the 3rd Battalion, 250th Coast Artillery, Anti-aircraft. Serving throughout the war, Frank was honorably discharged from service on May 3, 1944, at Fort Hayes, Ohio.
Returning home, Frank again took up his business career in Fostoria, where he lived with his parents at 331 South Main Street.
1925
Word has been received that ROBERT KINGSLEY CARPENTER died on January 12 in San Francisco. Bob had checked in at a hotel on the 9th and when it was discovered that he hadn't left his room, entrance was forced. He was found lying on the floor, having died of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Bob was always in the investment business after graduation, but located away from New England. He had been on the West Coast for the past four years. In college, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Kappa Phi Kappa. Bob came to Dartmouth from Brandon, Vt., where he graduated from high school.
Even though he was far from New England, his heart was always wrapped up in Dartmouth and one of his main ambitions was to have Robert, Jr., now fourteen, go to Hanover, too. Robert is living with his mother, Mrs. Edith Jensen Carpenter at 5726 Third Place, N.W., Washington, D. C. Among his survivors is a brother, Newell, in Atlanta, Georgia.
We have received the following notice from the Newark (N. J.) Star-Ledger under date of December 21, 1949: "ROBERT M. HARTEN, 46, of Long Hill Rd., Millington, will be buried in Gouverneur (N. Y.) Cemetery following services at 4 P.M. today at 124 First Ave., Roselle. A former resident of Roselle, he died Monday.
"Born in Watertown, N. Y„ Mr. Harten lived in Roselle 26 years and moved to Millington six years ago. He was a graduate of Roselle schools and Dartmouth. He was a salesman at L. Bamberger & Co., Newark.
"He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Butz Harten; a son, Ronald M.; two daughters, Judith Ann and Roberta Joan Harten, and a brother, Hugh M. Harten of Tarrytown, N. Y."
Since graduation, Mark had always been engaged in the book business and held that position at L. Bamberger's when he died. Mark lived in Topliff freshman year and was a member of A.T.O. We will all miss seeing him at our 25th next June.
1936
DAVID WOOD died on February 6, two days after a freak fall while ice-skating. Born in Chicago, Ill., August 20, 1914, Dave was raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., and entered Dartmouth from Central High School.
While in Hanover, Dave was a member of Theta Chi, and Green Key. He was a member of the Players, on the staff of The Dartmouth, and was Intramural manager. Dave took his senior year in Tuck School.
Upon graduation, he became associated with his father in the furniture supply business. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Park Congregational Church in Grand Rapids and was serving on the advisory board of East Grand Rapids School.
The sincerest sympathies of the class go to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Wood; his wife, the former Elizabeth T. Stimson; two sons, Barry and Douglas, and a daughter, Betsy.
Their home is at 1030 San Jose Drive, Grand Rapids.
1939
OSMO OSCAR LINDEN, 34, of Naugatuck, Conn., died February 22nd at the Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington, Vt., from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Danby, on February 17.
"Swede" was a native of Franklin. N. H. and prepared for Dartmouth at Franklin High School and New Hampton School for Boys. During his undergraduate days he played three years of varsity baseball as pitcher and second baseman. He was a member of Dragon and Sigma Chi fraternity.
At the time of his death he was employed by the footwear division of U. S. Rubber Co. in Naugatuck, Conn. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Martha Linden of Franklin, N. H.; his wife Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Linden (daughter of Harry A. Wells '10) and two children, Harry aged nine, and Marta aged seven. Funeral services were held in Franklin, N. H. and burial was in Pine Knolls Cemetery in Hanover.
His sudden death came as a tremendous shock to those who knew him, and the deepest sympathies of the class are extended to his wife and family, who are temporarily making their home at 3 Parkway, Hanover.
ERNEST CLEMENT SMITH '23
