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]

Tootell, Albert B. '99, Feb. 24 Meservey, Arthur B. '06, May 8 Hawkridge, Leslie D. '11, April 21 Chase, Charles A. '14 Miles, Howard M. 'l5, April 25 Murchie, Harris-F. 'l6, April 18 Breed, Melvin F. 'lB, May 1 Anderson, Oscar F. '2O, April 2 Jelly, Donald B. '25, April 12 McFadden, Theodore W. '26, May 1 Hill, D. Bradford Jr. '34, Barrows, Harrry W. '9om, June 8, 1951 Young, George Y. Jr. 'o7m, Dec., 1950

In Memoriam

1893

DR. LESTER WARREN BURBANK Of Cabot, Vt., died on March 11 at the Camp Nursing Home in Barre. He was born on a farm in Walden, Vt., October 1, 1866, the second of six sons of Nathaniel and Huldah (Stone) Burbank.

His preparation for Dartmouth was obtained at Hardwick Academy where he graduated in 1888. He worked on farms and taught school the following year and entered the Chandler Scientific Department with the Class of '93.

He immediately became actively interested in the serious affairs of the class and College, being secretary of the class in 1890; winner of first prize in botany 1890; class treasurer, 1892; member of class track team; and secretary of the class from 1893 to 1903. All during his college years he worked on farms two months during the summer and taught twelve weeks each winter at country schools.

Entering the University of Vermont Medical College, he continued his teaching and working on farms, augmenting his income from these sources by tutoring students at the University, making it possible for him to continue his studies and to graduate from the Medical College in 1896 with an M.D. degree. His outside work seems not to have interfered with his studies, as he stood sixth in a class of about 125 students.

Dr. Burbank immediately opened an office in the town of Cabot, where he remained as a very helpful citizen for the remainder of his life, serving the people for miles around. His activities beyond the practice of medicine, for the benefit of the communities and their people were many. He was Superintendent of Schools for two years during which time he established the high school in Cabot. He was an office holding Mason for over sixty years. Politically he was an independent Republican and as such he served his town in the state legislature where he was chairman of the very important Committee on Education.

In 1936 he became the second '93 man to be honored by being elected to the Presidency of the Vermont State Medical Society. (Dr. Martyn also held this office.) He retired from practice in 1947.

On July 20, 1898, Dr. Burbank and May M. Stevens of Manchester, N. H., were united in marriage and in 1900 they acquired a lovely old colonial home which they occupied together up to the time of his last illness and which Mrs. Burbank still occupies. Their daughter Pauline M. was born July 14, 1902.

Mrs. Burbank, their daughter and her husband, three grandchildren, a great granddaughter and a brother, Joseph Burbank of Los Angeles, Calif., are the closely related survivors.

Services were held at the Cabot United Church, the Rev. Emil Abokar officiating. The church was filled with relatives and friends. Burial was in the family lot in Cabot.

1899

ALBERT BALLARD TOOTELL died February 24 in Minneapolis. He was born in Lawrence, Mass., April 27, 1875. His early years were spent in the vicinity of Lawrence and Methuen, Mass., before entering Dartmouth with the class of 1899.

Shortly after the turn of the century he went to Great Falls, Mont., where he was a science teacher in the high school there. He was married in Great Falls in 1902 to Stella Denham. The following year he was principal of the high school at Lewistown, Mont.

Settlement was sparse in Montana at that time and there was still considerable free land. This intrigued him and in 1904 he filed on a homestead in Cascade County near Great Falls. His wife also filed a claim and between them they had 320 acres.

A. D. ("Bill") Wiggin went to Montana and also taught in the high school at Great Falls. He paid a visit to the Tootells at their ranch in 1910. He writes: "They were comfortably situated in a prairie house of several rooms. They had several farm buildings of good size and considerable farm machinery, some stock and a lot of standing wheat at that time and were doing all they could to make a real home for themselves and their children. I was surprised to see what a library they had which was unusual in a prairie home.

"After my term of years as principal of the Great Falls High School, my wife and I and three children took up a claim of land near Simms, Mont., where there was a high school in which I taught for four years. While I was teaching there the Tootell family left their ranch in Cascade and came to Simms, principally to give their children a chance to go to school. The children were brilliant and I took a lot of pains to have them get ahead."

Tootell continued farming until the end of 1919 when he went back into the teaching profession and taught a second time in the Great Falls High School. In 1922 he moved to central South Dakota and taught school in Junius in that state. He moved to Granite Falls, Minn., in 1941. By attending day and evening classes he completed a course at the Minnesota Chiropractic College in one year. He was allowed credit for one year when he attended Dartmouth Medical School. For several years and up to the time of his death he lived in Minneapolis after many changes in abodes and occupations in Northwest states—school teacher, rancher, grocery chain owner, school superintendent, chiropractor. In a colorful talk, interspersed with much humor, he told of these when he spoke at the class dinner when he attended the '99 50th Reunion. At that dinner there was presented to him a silver cup awarded to the one coming the longest distance.

Mr. and Mrs. Tootell had three children, a daughter Dorothy, now Mrs. George Johnson of Kelso, Wash.; and two sons, Thomas of Post Falls, Idaho, and Robert, director of Extension Service at Montana State College.

Mrs. Tootell died in November 1921. Six years later Tootell married Mrs. Alice Potter who survives and is living at 611 E. 27th St., Minneapolis.

On February 11 he became seriously ill with a severe attack of gall stones which weakened his heart and caused his death. He was laid to rest February 28 at Great Falls.

1910

JAMES PERCIVAL NOURSE died April 4 in Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Funeral services were held in St. Luke's Episcopal Church April 7. Nort Cushman, Wayland Wood and Hal Sprague represented the class.

Jim was born in Oakham, Mass., October 5, 1888, son of Charles Howe Nourse and Elsie Louise Sargeant. When Jim entered college his family lived in Rutland, Vt., but he prepared at Worcester Academy.

Following graduation, Jim went to Chicago with Western Electric Co. at the Hawthorne plant and worked under Ernest Martin Hopkins. After six months he was transferred to Philadelphia. In 1914 he went with R. J. Crogie Co. as purchasing agent. He remained with that concern until enlisting in the army in August 1917. He went to R.O.T.C. at Fort Oglethorpe, was commissioned and sent to the Air Service School. He was stationed at ous fields in this country and in June 1918 went overseas, stationed at Air Service Headquarters in Paris until April 1919. He then spent six months with the American Relief Association under Herbert Hoover. On his return to the States he went into business in Worcester. He spent two years in the Ford auto business and from 1922-37 was with Bowker Hamblin Tire Co. In 1937 he became sales representative in New England for United States Rubber Co. and was with this company at the time of his death.

Jim was a prominent Mason, a past master of Morning Star Lodge; past commander, Knights Templar; a member, Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters, Worcester County Royal Arch chapter; Worcester County Shrine club and Aleppo Temple. He was a past commander of General Charles Devens Post, American Legion and had served as secretary of Worcester Rotary Club and as a Boy Scout committeeman. He was a member of Worcester Commercial Travellers and Worcester Council, United Commercial Travellers.

On June 8, 1918 Jim was married to Mae Bartley who died in April 1942. On February 15, 1947 he married Elizabeth Barrie Simon. Survivors are his widow, three sons, James 8., of Glens Falls, N. Y.; Bartley B., of Danielson, Conn., and Kenneth A., of Worcester, and five grandchildren.

1911

LESLIE DEAN HAWKRIDGE died suddenly of a heart attack on the morning of April 21 at his home in the Hotel Commander, Cambridge, Mass. He had suffered several coronary thromboses within the past few years but, with careful living, had been enjoying good health up to the very time of his death.

Les was born in Maiden, Mass., July 18, 1891, son of Ella M. and Edwin Hawkridge. Following graduation from Maiden High School, he entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1911 and graduated magna cum laude.

He then took a year at Harvard Graduate School to study metallurgy preparatory to entering his father's business, with which he was associated all his life, becoming president of Hawkridge Brothers Co. in 1936. In college he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity—for many years he was an alumni trustee of the Dartmouth Chapter. From 1926-1941 he was a member of the executive committee and treasurer of the class.

He held directorships in the American Locker Co., Boston; the Vulcan Tool Mfg. Co., Quincy; the H. D. Evans Steel Co., Boston; the Cone Automatic Machine Co., Windsor, Vt.; Shawlock, Inc. and the Alcoma Association, Lake Wales, Fla. He was a past trustee of the American Society for Metals. He also belonged to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Iron and Steel Institute (British) and the University Club, Boston. He was chairman of the Metallurgical Division of the Boston Community Fund and also the Newton Welfare Society for many years.

During World War I, he was in the Air Service, engaged in aircraft production. He became widely known as an authority on steel making and metallurgy and held high rank in this position within the steel industry. In recent years, due to his holdings in the orange groves in Florida, he had become an expert on citrus raising and the groves in which he was interested are among the most highly developed in Florida.

On July 12, 1916 he married Linda McLain of Minneapolis who survives him, together with three sons—Edwin '42, who is continuing the Hawkridge relationship in the Hawkridge Brothers Co.; Allen C. '46, who is in Paris; Robert M. of Newington, N. H.; and two grandchildren, Leslie III and Nancy. Funeral services were held in the Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill on April 25. Josh Clark, Ken Clark, Doc Bond and Les Gibson were ushers and many other classmates were in attendance.

The College and Class have lost a loyal and stalwart alumnus and classmate. Always interested in the College and a generous contributor in its efforts, he will be greatly missed by all. His moral integrity, straightforwardness and enthusiastic support of any measure in which he was interested will serve as a continuing inspiration to all who knew him.

1914

WILLIAM HAROLD BARNES died April 9 at Mercy Hospital, Rockville Center, L. i., after a long illness. He lived at 19 Chestnut St., Garden City and interment was at Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, L. I.

Bill Barnes was born January 23, 1892 at Brainard, N. Y., the son of William D. and Katherine A. (Hart) Barnes. He prepared for Dartmouth at New York Military Academy and attended Dartmouth for two years.

He served as an ensign on engineering work in the Navy during World War I and in World War II was a civilian engineer with the Navy in Washington and the Caribbean. He was a director of the Colonial Continental Corp. of Brooklyn and was active in Brooklyn real estate for more than thirty years.

The class takes this opportunity to extend its sincere regrets to his wife Mary McKinny Barnes his three sons, Robert M., Theodore A., and William H. Barnes, Jr., and his daughter Mrs. Ann Foxen. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Annette Barnes, and a brother, arthur H. Barnes.

ERNEST CLARENCE SWAIN died on July 5, 1951 at Lake Worth, Fla., following an extended illness. He was born in Wilmington Mass son of Lawrence C. and Mina (Lumber) Swain, and prepared for Dartmouth at Worcester Academy. He was a member Sigma Chi and played varsity football.

"Bus" has not been too good a corresponant over the years and we have little information regarding him. The last was several years ago when he was secretary-treasurer of the Swain Development Co.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gretchen N. Swain, and a daughter, Mrs Mahlon D. Hall who live at 25 No. D St. in Lake Worth, and by another daughter, Mrs. Dwight L. Ross of 211 Pinewood Ave., Birmingham, Ala He is also survived by six grandchildren.

The class takes this opportunity to extend its sympathy to his family in this, our mutual loss.

1917

PAUL WEBSTER TRIER died at his home, 1200 Lake Shore Dr., Chicago on April 2. He had been ill several months.

Baldy was born in Fletcher City, lowa, April 21, 1894. In college he was a member of D.K.E. and C & G and made his letter in football. During World War I he served in the Navy as an Ensign from April 1917 to February 1919.

Immediately after his discharge Baldy became associated with Arnold Brothers, Inc., meat packers, and at the time of his death was president and general manager of the company.

On February 14, 1920 he was married to Emily Arnold, who survives him with their daughter Josephine and son Adolph P. Trier '45.

1918

MELVIN FARNSWORTH BREED died on May 1 in Murphy Army Hospital, Waltham, Mass after a long illness. Mel was born in Dover, Mass., July 23. 1895.

In July 1917 he enlisted in the Army ordnance and served overseas from August 1918 to February 1919. He held a reserve commission in the Signal Corps and was called up tor service in World War II. He was serving as a Major in Australia when he was taken ill ana flown back to the States for an operation.

Mel's entire business career was spent with New England Telephone Co., where he was in the traffic department. In 1925 he received the degree of LL.B. from Suffolk Law School.

In 1924 Mel was married to Florence Lamson who died in 1936. They had one son, Stanley C Breed. In 1938 Mel was married to Louise Putnam Knott who survives at their home, 4 Middlebury Rd„ Lexington, Mass.

Mel's many friends in the class and in the College extend their deepest heartfelt sympathy to his family. Solid, dependable, Mel was well liked by all whose privilege it was to know him.

1920

OSCAR FREDERICK ANDERSON, well remembered and highly respected member of the Class of 1920, died at the Bristol (Conn.) Hospital on April 2, following a short illness. A resident of nearby Forestville at the time of his death, he had been born in that same quiet town Tune 19, 1896, and had lived there, except for a few brief intervals, all the 55 years of his life.

Andy was the son of Oscar and Jennie (Anderson) Anderson. Early schooling in Forestville and at Bristol High School led him first to Phillips Andover Academy and then to Dartmouth. At Hanover he joined Psi Upsilon fraternity. He served as an ensign in the Navy from May 1918 to February 1919, but returned to graduate with his class.

Through most of his business career Andy was connected in one way or another with the automobile industry. First he learned and eneaged in the retail end of the business, selling cars and accessories. Later, beginning in the late twenties, he served for a considerable period of time as assistant secretary of the Automobile Club of Hartford. After World War II he was connected with the New Departure Division of General Motors Corp. in Bristol; then most recently, he had been employed as a cost accountant for the firm of S. G. Brewer and Co. of Hartford.

On Tune 27, 1928, Andy was married in Hartford to Mabel Bjorklund, who survives him. Their son Paul, born in November 1931, is now a student at Bates College. Funeral services were held on April 5 in Bristol and burial took place in Forestville Cemetery.

1925

DONALD BABSON JELLY died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Boulder City, Nevada, on April 12. Don was born in Salem, Mass., on March 25, 1903. He prepared for Dartmouth at Loomis School, where he played football, was manager of the hockey team and a member of the athletic council.

In his freshman year, Don roomed at 108 Toplilf and before leaving college at the end of sophomore year, he joined Kappa Kappa Kappa. He finished his education at Babson Institute in Wellesley, Mass., founded by his cousin, Roger W. Babson, nationally known financial expert.

Don spent 25 years with Parker Bros, in Salem, famous makers of children's games, and worked up to the important position of factory manager, general manager and operating vice-president before he moved to Nevada for his health in 1948. In 1929 he married Elizabeth Ingraham of Salem and had two children, Cynthia and Donald Jr. Don was prominent in civic and business affairs. He was a trustee of the Salem Five Cent Savings Bank, founded by his grandfather, and treasurer of the Salem Tuberculosis Association for some years.

After his mother's death and his divorce, Don married his second wife, Martha, and retired from active business. It was then that he took up residence in Nevada, making himself useful in civic affairs and enjoying the great outdoors he so dearly loved.

Funeral services were held on April 17 at the First Unitarian Church in Salem, and burial was in the same city.

1931

CHARLES MONTAGUE SUMNER died of a coronary attack at his home in West Sullivan, Maine, on February 14.

Born in Penacook, N. H., July 30, 1909, he prepared for college at Penacook High School. After receiving his certificate from Dartmouth Medical School in 1932 Charlie went to McGill where he graduated with M.D..C.M. in 1935.

He began practice in West Sullivan and served it and the surrounding towns continuously, except for three years spent as a captain in the Army Air Corps with service in the European theatre. He was a member of the Hancock County Medical Association.

At the time of his death Charlie was chairman of the Superintending School Committee. It was largely through his influence and untiring efforts that in 1950 a secondary community school district, known as the Flanders Bay Community School District, was formed among the towns of Sullivan, Gouldsboro, Sorrento and Winter Harbor. Since his death the name of the school, now nearly completed, has been changed to the Sumner Memorial High School.

On October 4, 1936 Charlie was married to Enid S. Averill who survives him with their four children, Charles M. Jr., Suzanne, Robert and Deborah. He is also survived by a brother, George C. Sumner, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Dustin and Miss Dorothy Sumner.

1935

FORREST ABBOTT BUNKER died on March 9 in Toronto, Canada. He had been ill for several years and hospitalized for the last two. Forrest attended Dartmouth for one year and then transferred to the University of Toronto. He later became a salesman for building materials and most recently was general manager of the Aladdin Homes Co., Ltd. of Canada.

In 1938 he was married to Aleen Cooper and they had two sons, Charles and Bruce. Aleen writes, "The class of 1935 had been sending the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to Forrest, a very kind gesture as he had been hospitalized for over two years. For a person so situated the past is very precious and the magazine was usually a topic of conversation." The family home is at 130 Cheltenham Ave., Toronto.

BARTOW PETERS ANDERSON died at his home 2008 N. Morson St., Saginaw, Mich., on December 28, 1951. He had been in poor health for some time before his death.

Bart was born in Saginaw on January 20, 1913 and went to school there through high school. After two years at Phillips Exeter Academy he entered Dartmouth where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and was active in the Dartmouth Players.

After graduation he worked for two years with Brown Harriman & Co. in New York and then returned to Saginaw with the Second National Bank & Trust Co., where he worked until his death. During the war Bart served in the Army with an anti-aircraft unit in the Aleutians.

Bart was married to Marie Rigg in Angola, Ind., in May 1937 and they had a daughter Carol, born in 1938. Bart's brother, Charles P. Anderson, is a member of the Class of 1945.

CHESTER WILSON EDWARDS died suddenly on November 13, 1951 at his home, 183 Sumner St., Stoughton, Mass.

Eddy was born in Lynn, Mass., March 27, 1910 and prepared for college at Bridgton (Me.) Academy. He spent freshman year with the class.

For some years he was a salesman with the New England Coke Co. Later he was with Calvert Distillers and with the Kinsey Distilling Co. At the time of his death he was with Johnson Buick Co. in Brockton.

In 1936 Eddy was married to Ellen Slieehan who survives him with their children, Robert W., Anna and Richard M.

LESLIE DEAN HAWKRIDGE '11