1890

Edward Staniels Holmes writes as follows: "LaGrange, 1-17-50. Dear Bacon: It is with much regret that I am writing this, but I am walking with a cane and that with difficulty, physically incapacitated. These are some of my troubles; anyways it is impossible for me to be with you. Remember me to all, tell them I hope the good Lord is kinder to them. I won't bother you more with my ailments. Heavy."

From N. Y. Herald Tribune, 1/24/50. Mrs. Blanche Brown Dearborn, widow of Dr.George Van Ness Dearborn, died at the Montcalm Nursing Home, Montclair, N. J., on Jan. 22, 1950. She lived at 83 Cedar St., Maplewood, N. J. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Seabury B. Hough, with whom she lived. The funeral was in Milburn, N. J. on Jan. 24.

Walter W. Rowe secured for the secretary the present addresses of the children of ElmerD. Sherburne, the valedictorian of '90. Grace Sherburne Keeling, 108 2nd St., Libertyville, 111. Avis Sherburne Downing, Lexington Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Eric Sherburne, Star Route 76428, Box 150, Phelan, Calif. Miss Dorothy P. Sherburne, 11 Ashcroft Rd., Melrose, Mass., holds a responsible executive position with Jordan Marsh Co., Boston, Mass.

Ralph S. Bartlett, Sec. of '89, delivered an historical address at the exercises held in Eliot, Me., Aug. 29, '36, in commemoration of the 300 th anniversary of the founding of York County in the Province of Maine. The address entailed an immense amount of research and is replete with historical data of interest to all residents of Me., N. H. and Mass. In it there is one anecdote of especial interest to every alumnus of Dartmouth. Daniel Webster was practising law in Portsmouth when Rev. Samuel Chandler, an alumnus of Harvard, was officiating as Congregational minister in that part of Kittery now known as Eliot. His fame as a pulpit orator induced Webster to visit Kittery to hear him preach. Webster said of him, "If I could have the eloquence of speech and the voice of Parson Chandler, I should consider it the greatest boon that could be conferred upon me." He must have had the Parson in mind in his address on Bunker Hill on the occasion of the completion of the Monument, when he addressed 50,000 persons and everyone heard him. It may well have been that Parson Chandler was the one influence needed to make Webster the most eloquent orator of all time.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 160 Main St., Madison, Me.