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]
Watson, Alfred E. '83, December 28, 1950 Tracy, Charles A. '97, January 8 Hardy, Lawrence P. '01, January 3 Goddard, Charles W. '02, January 11 Harwood, Charles '02, October 23, 1950 Dudley, Guy E. '07, November 29, 1950 Farrington, Edward C. '08, December 29, 1950 Marion, Gardner S. '08, December 12, 1950 Nute, Stanley P. '08, November 29, 1950 Patterson, Russell B. '11, December 11, 1950 Butler, William P. '12, January 4 Stone, Ried H. '12, January 4 Badenhausen, Adolph H. '13, Dec. 10, 1950 Murray, S. Clifford '17, November 25, 1950 Carrigan, Paul W. '19, December 20, 1950 Stevens, Langley B. '27, November 18, 1950 Beckford, Henry S. '99m, October 28, 1950 Damrosch, Walter J. '33h, December 22, 1950
In Memoriam
1883
ALFRED EDWIN WATSON, third oldest living alumnus and oldest class secretary, died at Dick's House in Hanover on December 28.
He was born in Worcester, Vt., August 6, 1857, the son of Edwin Cheney and Sophia (Johnson) Watson. He prepared for college at Kimball Union and St. Johnsbury Acad- emies and graduated from Dartmouth in 1883 with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was a member of DKE and managing editor of The Dart-mouth.
After graduation he studied law for two years with Samuel E. Pingree '57 and then went into the insurance business founding the firm of Watson and West which he continued during his active life.
It would probably be difficult to find a career which was for so many years devoted to the business, fraternal and civic enterprises of his community as was Mr. Watson's. He was treasurer of the Reservoir Ice Co. and proprietor of the Vt. Gateway Auto Co. and the Vt. Gateway Petroleum Products Co.; director of the Hartford and White River Water Co.; proprietor of a well-stocked farm; president and director of the Hartford Savings Bank and president and treasurer of the White River Savings Bank.
For over half a century Mr. Watson served on the Hartford School Board and was the town moderator for most of this period. He served for many years as town auditor and president of the Hartford Cemetery Association.
Most men would feel they had little time left to serve their state but Mr. Watson was a member of the Vt. Board of Railroad Commissioners for many years and a member of the state coal commission. He served one term in the Vt. State Senate and five terms in the House of the Vt. General Assembly. In 1943 by a special act of the legislature a Wah-hoo-wah was extended to Mr. Watson as dean of the House.
Active in fraternal orders he was a member of F. & A.M.; R.A.M.; 0.E.5.; Shrine and Lions and had been president of the Vt. State Elks Association.
Not content to serve his town and state Alfred Watson served his college with equal zeal. An ardent football fan he rarely missed a game. He had been secretary, treasurer and agent of his class for many years and was the elder statesman in constant attendance at all meetings of class officers.
On July 3, 1883 Mr. Watson was married to Mary Maud Carr who died on October 13, 1949. A son Cedric died in infancy. Their daughter Margery, wife of Dr. Henry M. Larson '10, died on August 12, 1940. He is survived by two grandchildren, Mrs. Ricardo Gori-Montinelli and John Larson.
Funeral services were held in the Hartford Congregational Church on December 31 and burial was in the family lot in the Hartford cemetery.
1895
JOSEPH ALBERT FORD died at his home, Northgate Apts., Scarsdale, N. Y. on December 4-
Joe was born in Chicago, October 13, 1872 the son of James M. and Miriam (Foi) Ford. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Sphinx.
After graduation he was for a time associated with the Crowell Publishing Co. In 1914 he founded Ford & Company, wholesale fruit packers, and served as president until his retirement in 1950.
On June 23, 1904, Joe was married to Julie Moore Cole, who survives him with their three daughters, Mrs. Edward Paullin, Mrs. John Burket and Mrs. William V. Cook. Trail E. Ford '06 was a brother.
1902
Charles Harwood died on October 23, at Harrison, N. Y. He was born May 14, 1880 at Brooklyn, N. Y., and prepared for college at the Brooklyn Hill School.
He remained at Dartmouth from 1898 to 1900 and then transferred to Hamilton College where he graduated in 1902 and later received an M.A. and in 1941 an honorary LL.D. from Hamilton. He attended New York Law School and received an LL.B. in 1904.
From 1904 to 1937, he practiced law in New York and in 1936 was Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General. In 1937, he was judge in the U. S. District Court in the Canal Zone and in 1938 became Governor of the Virgin Islands.
He married Alma H. Hendricks in 1915 and has one son, Charles.
AVERY E. LAMBERT died on November 16, at his home, 1416 E. College St., lowa City, lowa.
Born in Waldoboro, Maine, October 31, 1873, Avery attended local schools in Waldoboro, and then prepared for college at Tabor Academy. He then attended Bangor Theological Seminary, graduating in 1896. He entered Dartmouth as a senior member of the class of 1902 graduating with the degree of B.S. He remained in Dartmouth as a fellow in Biology and received his degree of Ph.D. in 1906.
While in Hanover, he was pastor at Center Lebanon and Thetford, Vt., and assistant pastor at the College Church. After leaving Hanover, he was for six years instructor in Biology at Framingham State Normal School, then Assistant in Zoology and later Burr Professor of Natural History at Middlebury College. Following this he was Professor of Histology and Embryology at the University of Vermont and University of Alabama. In 1925, he went to the State University of lowa as Professor of Histology and Microscopic Anatomy where he remained until he retired.
Lambert is survived by his widow, Irene Adams Lambert, two sons, Arthur A. Lambert of lowa City and Dr. G. H. Lambert of Los Angeles, Calif., a daughter, Mary Lambert Rutz of Albuquerque, N. M., and two grandchildren."
1907
GUY- EARLE DUDLEY died in Washington, D. C., on November 29. Born in Harrison, Maine, his family moved to Waterford, Maine, where most of Guy's life was spent. He prepared for college at Bridgton Academy, North Bridgton, Maine.
Several years after graduation from Dartmouth, he went to Southern California, remaining there about ten years. He then returned to Waterford and for twenty years operated a summer hotel which he owned. Retiring about 1940, he went to St. Petersburg, Florida, each winter, returning to Waterford each summer.
Guy never married, his sister, Mrs. Freeman Douglas, of Augusta, Georgia, being the only surviving member of his immediate family.
Burial was at Waterford on December 2, and services were attended by his sister, Mrs. Douglas, and his intimate friend and college roommate, Bob Lyon.
1908
With the passing away of GARDNER SPARHAWK MARION, on December 12 in Boston at the age of 66, the class of 1908 has lost one third of its listed members.
Gardner was born on December 14, 1884 at Brighton, Mass., and prepared for Dartmouth at the De Merritte School. Since 1912 he had been associated with the lumber firm of Pope and Cottle of Chelsea, Mass., which was founded by his father-in-law, the late Benjamin Pope and became its head in 1928. At his death he was President and Treasurer.
He was also Treasurer of the H. B. Church Trucking Company, Boston, and founder and past President of the Pre-Built Housing Company, Revere.
He was noted as a yachtsman and had been Captain of the 4th Division of the Coast Guard Reservists and was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and Eastern Yacht Club. His college fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret W. (Pope) of Crescent Road, Concord, Mass.; a daughter Elizabeth, anesthetist in the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y.; a son, B. Pope Marion, and a sister Mrs. C. Pratt Harrington of Barnstable. Both children were in service in the last war, Pope with the Army Air Corps and Elizabeth a nurse at the Naval Hospital at Long Beach, Calif.
STANLEY PEARL NUTE, a retired insurance man, passed away suddenly from a heart attack at the Frisbie Hospital in Farmington, N. H. on November 28.
He was born December 9, 1885 in Farmington, the son of Eugene P. Nute, former U.S. District Marshal, and Nellie (Parker) Nute. He attended Farmington High School until 1903, then transferred to Nute High School, Milton, N. H. from which he graduated in 1904.
After graduation from Dartmouth in 1908 he entered insurance work in Hartford, Conn., and from there went to Detroit, Mich. Eventually he became a partner in an insurance agency from which he retired three years ago because of ill health and a desire to return to New Hampshire. He lived on North Main Street in Farmington and had a summer home at Keewaydin on Lake Winnipesaukee.
He was a student and historian of his home town of Farmington and had accumulated a wealth of information concerning it. He was one of the founders and most helpful member of the Farmington-New Durham Historical Society. He was also a philatelist and a genealogist.
In Detroit in 1911 he married Maude Drew of Farmington, who survives him together with a brother, Harry A. Nute and a sister Molly Nute.
Burial was in the Farmington cemetery.
1912
WILLIAM PAUL BUTLER, for the past 19 years administrator of the San Jose (California) Community Service Hospital, died January 4, in the hospital he had served so faithfully, from a coronary occlusion.
He was born in Worcester, Mass., on September 10, 1887, the son of John r. and Katherine D. Butler. After preparation at Worcester Classical High School, he spent three years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and then transferred to Dartmouth where he received his degree in 1913. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Until 1927 he held accounting and executive positions in Buffalo, Worcester, and Rochester, Pa., then moving to Oakland, Calif., where he established his own business. From 1930 to 1932 he was superintendent of Alameda Sanitarium, Alameda, Calif., then becoming administrator and secretary of San Jose Hospital, a position he held until his death.
He was an outstanding authority on hospital administration and was the author of numerous writings in that field. He was the president-elect of the Association of Western Hospitals, had been vice-president and was a director of the American Hospital Association, and past president of the Association of California Hospitals. He was a founder and past president of the Central Coast Hospital Conference. . ,
Despite his numerous activities in hospital organizations, he found time to be active in community affairs. He had taken part in the Red Cross and its Blood Bank Program, the County Tuberculosis Association and the Community Chest. More than a year ago he was named to the Board of Directors of the Hospital Service of California, better known as the Blue Cross, and had been a leader in popularizing prepaid illness and hospital plans. He was a member of the San Jose Advisory Board of Health and a director of the Visiting Nurses Association.
He is survived by his widow, Teresa Kerns Butler, whom he married at Worcester, Mass., on June 17, 1914; two daughters, Mrs T. G. Cullen of Orinda, Calif., and Betty Butler who lived with her parents; a son, David, University of California dental student, and four grandchildren.
Funeral services were private and friends were requested, instead of giving flowers, to contribute a memorial gift to his hospital in aid of the million-dollar addition program, which he was conducting at the time of his death.
RIED HERRICK STONE, executive secretary of the Oregon State Retirement Board, died unexpectedly at his home on Glenmorrie Drive, Oswego, Ore., on January 4. He had remained at home from his Portland office the day before because he had not felt well but there was no indication of serious illness.
He was born at Dunbarton, N. H., September 8, 1888 and received his B.S. degree from Dartmouth with the Class of 1912, followed by a degree of C.E. from the Thayer School of Engineering.
He spent most of his business career in the life insurance business and for a number of years was superintendent of the National Life Insurance Company branch at Portland, Ore. For eight years he was Clackamas County Auditor, resigning that post last September upon his appointment to the Oregon State Retirement Board.
He was active in a number of community affairs and served in several capacities, including the presidency of the Clackamas County Fair Board.
He is survived by his wife, Mabel Ellinwood Stone, whom he married on April 16, 1916; a son, Lt. Comdr. Ried W. Stone, who was en route back to his station at Atlantic City, after spending the holidays with his parents, and by two brothers and three grandchildren.
1913
ADOLPH HORRMANN BADENHAUSEN died of a heart ailment on December 10, at Doctors Hospital in New York after a long illness. Adolph was bora in Stapleton, N. Y. on April 17, 1891 and attended Staten Island Academy from which he graduated to enter Dartmouth with the Class of 1913.
He left college at the end of his freshman year and for a time was salesman for a silk and linen concern.
He was with the National Guard on the Mexican Border; was called out on July 15, 1917 to go to Bay Ridge, L. I. where he remained until October 9, 1917 in the Cavalry. He transferred to a Machine Gun Battalion while at Spartanburg, S. C. where he remained until May 1, 1918. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. on July 20, 1917 and made Ist Lt. on Aug. 4, 1917. He served overseas assigned to the British Army. He was discharged at Camp Upton in April, 1919.
Adolph had been Deputy County Clerk of Richmond County for the last 30 years. He was a Democratic county committeeman and a member of the Richmond County Democratic Club, the Elks and the American Legion, and a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Minnie H. Badenhausen, a sister, Mrs. Minnie B. Hinrich and three brothers, Carl W. Badenhausen, president of the Ballantine Brewing Company, Otto A., treasurer of the firm and Walter E.
1919
It is sad to record the passing of another 19er. Word was received through a Navy news release of the passing of Commander Paul William Carrigan, Medical Corps, U.S.N, on December 20 at Charleston, S. C.
Paul was senior Medical Officer at the Naval Shipyard and died after a short illness at the Naval Hospital.
After graduation from Hanover, he attended the Medical School at Tufts College. He was a pediatrician practising in Boston and Lowell.
He entered the Navy in 1942 and among his duty stations were Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the U. S. Naval Air Station, Coco Solo, Canal Zone; the Naval Ammunition Depot at Red Bank, N. J., and the Naval Receiving Station at Boston, Mass.
Paul was unmarried and is survived by his sisters, Nellie H. and Gertrude I. Carrigan of 10 Newton Sreet, Ayer, Mass. The class extends to them our most sincere sympathy.
1921
CARLTON VINCENT SULLIVAN died at his home, Byram Lake Rd., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. on November 15 after a long illness. He was fifty years old and had been associated with the Mount Kisco business office of the New York Telephone Company in that area for 16 years and with the telephone company for 25 years.
Carlton was with our class through junior year, graduating from St. Lawrence University in 1925. He was born in Potsdam, N. Y. and prepared for college at the Pleasantville, N. Y. high school. Besides his wife, Mrs. Edith Salinger Sullivan, and parents, he is survived by a son, Edgar R. Sullivan, two brothers and a sister.
Carlton Sullivan was intensely interested in Boys Club work and the prevention of juvenile delinquency. He was a member of the Recreation Commission of White Plains, President of the Mount Kisco Boys Club, President of the Associated School Board of Northern Westchester and a Trustee of School District No. 11 of New Castle and Bedford. His contribution to the community in which he lived is beyond measuring.
Carlton always retained his interest in Dartmouth and the class and frequently joined in gatherings in the New York area. His death has taken from us a loyal classmate, good friend and useful citizen.
1924
Word has recently been received of the death of DONALD LUTHER CRAWFORD, who passed away in a Boston hospital on May 18, 1950 after a short illness. He was born on October 31, 1902 in Springfield, Mass., the son of Fred Luther and Maud (Coote) Crawford.
Don entered Dartmouth after graduating from Newton High School in Newton, Mass. While in college, he was a member of Sigma Chi.
After graduation, Don went with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, but a few years later he entered the textile business. Unfortunately, Don did not maintain close contact with the class, and little is known about his more recent activities.
Don is survived by his wife, Ena D. Crawford, and a daughter Jane, who reside at 24 Crosshill Road, Newton Center, Mass. To them the Class of 1924 extends their sincere sympathy.
ALFRED EDWIN WATSON '83
