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]
Lewis, Aubrey C. '94, Jan. 4 Mann, John L. '94, Dec. 11, 1952 Spencer, Wilbur D. '95, Dec. 9, 1952 Hager, William S. '97, Dec. 12, 1952 Moody, Seth E. '98, Oct. 28, 1952 Hoban, Owen A. '88, Dec. 21, 1952 Wilson, Paul C. '00, Dec. 31, 1952 Goodelle, George G. '01, Dec. 14, 1952 Cutter, Victor M. '03, Dec. 25, 1952 Eastman, Richard T. '03, July 18, 1952 Ketcham, Henry C. '06, Dec. 25, 1952 Ruxton, Douglas D. '08, Dec. 28, 1952 Taylor, Raymond R. '11, Dec. 9, 1952 Wilson, Edward H. '15, Dec. 14, 1952 Miller, Henry L. '16, Dec. 27, 1952 Kozminski, Charles '18, Nov. 28, 1952 Loring, Ralph A. '19, Dec. 31, 1952 Wilder, Francis S. '25, Dec. 20, 1952 Russell, Harold R. '27, Oct. 20, 1952 Rogers, L. Baird, '29, Jan. 4 Taylor, Robert H. '36, Oct. 13, 1952 Pollan, Arthur M. '40, Dec. 14, 1952 Remsen, William C. S. '43, Jan. 9 Foerster, Roland B. '45, Dec. 31, 1952
In Memoriam
1894
Four men of '94 were born in Randolph, Vt. The deaths of three of these Gifford, George Mann and Galen Fish were sometime ago reported in these columns. With the passing of JOHN LAROY MANN in Indianapolis on December 11 the last of the number has gone.
Jimmie Mann, as for some reason he was tailed in the class, was born February 25, 1872, the son of a Randolph merchant. He prepared for college at the Randolph High School. In College he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Tiger Senior Society, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Following college, for three years he operated a clothing store in Randolph. He then went to Thayer School where he graduated in 1898 with the degree of C.E. After a year as assistant engineer at the Albany Filtration Plant, he returned to Thayer School as a teacher, and before he left in 1904 became an associate professor.
With this background for his chosen profession, Jimmie Mann entered upon a long, varied and interesting experience, which took him into six foreign countries and into many parts of this country. In 1944, at the age of 72, he became connected with the Design Department of the Indiana Highway Commission, and remained there until his death.
Jimmie had several hobbies: for example, a beautiful stamp collection with which he won several blue ribbons, also a coin collection. But perhaps his major hobby was Dartmouth College and the Class of '94. Dr. Walter Kelly '97, his physician and his closest friend in Indianapolis, speaks of his being "one of the most loyal and beloved members of the Indiana alumni group." Through his constant letters and his attendance at every possible reunion, scarcely any man among us made a larger contribution to the Class of '94.
He was twice married; first, December 7, 1907, to Laura Waitt. Some years after her death he was married to Edith Mae Manship on February 11, 1918. Mrs. Mann survives him, and he is also survived by five daughters and six grandchildren.
The body was cremated and the ashes sent home to Randolph. No member of the class could be present at the funeral services in Indianapolis, but red roses, his favorite flower, were arranged for by Arthur Stone as the class contribution.
1895
WILBUR DANIEL SPENCER died in a convalescent home in North Berwick, Maine, on December 10. He was born in Berwick, January 24, 1873.
He was admitted to the Maine bar in 1899 and practiced law in Berwick for many years. He served the town of Berwick in many capacities —as superintendent of schools, town clerk, trustee of Evergreen Cemetery and as chairman of the committee for the 200 th anniversary. He represented the town in the Maine legislature 1913-14 and was a member of the State Senate 1921-24. For the period 1923"37 he was insurance commissioner for the State of Maine and during that time made his home in Augusta.
Wilbur was a well-known author and published The Maine Spencers, Berwick Revolutionary Soldiers, Pioneers on Maine Rivers and Maine Immortals.
On July 30, 1902, Wilbur was married to Florence Mae Ford who died in 1936. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Adele Ellis, Mrs. Selva Combs and Mrs. Mabelle Shirley; and one son, Wilbur P. Spencer of Berwick.
1897
WILLIAM SYLVESTER HAGER, a member of the class during freshman year, died on December 12 in Cambridge, Mass. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
After leaving college he became connected with the Eastman Kodak Cos. and remained with them for fifteen years as a buyer in the picture department. Following this he was employed by the Paladini Cos. of Somerville as a salesman of frames and mirrors.
In 1909 Hager was married to Grace L. Robbins who survives him. She is hospitalized and in very poor health. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Doris Polk of 117 Chestnut St., Waltham, Mass., and Miss Marian Hager, who is connected with the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile.
1898
SETH ENOCH MOODY died at his home in Lamont, Idaho, from a heart attack on October 28. Seth was born in Agency, lowa, on July 17, 1875. He was graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1895 and from Dartmouth in 1898. After graduating from Dartmouth he went to Yale for graduate work and there received a Master of Arts degree in 1904 and a Ph.D. in 1906.
He was instructor of mathematics and physics 1902-03 at Mackenzie College, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He then returned to Yale as assistant instructor of chemistry, 1905-06. The following year, he was instructor in analytical chemistry, University of Wisconsin, and assistant city chemist, St. Louis, Mo., from 1907 to 1920. Seth then moved to Lamont, Idaho, and entered the business of breeding silver foxes, which he continued until 1932. His theses for his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees were made into six articles which were published in the American Journal of Science. He also had published several scientific articles on fox breeding.
Seth was married to Una Gertrude Ruth at Des Moines, lowa, on July 5, 1919. She survives him. Little has been known of Seth since he never attended a reunion. The last contact which was made with him was a number of years ago when Phil Patey, who was wintering in the West, called on him.
1899
OWEN ALBERT HOBAN, former District Attorney of Worcester County, Mass., and distinguished legal practitioner for 46 years in Gardner, died December 21 in the Henry Heywood Hospital of that city.
Owen Hoban was born in Winchendon, Mass., May 13, 1875. After attending the public schools there, he matriculated at Holy Cross. After two years there he transferred to Dartmouth, becoming a member of the Class of 1899 at the beginning of junior year. He studied law at Boston University Law School, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1906 and opened a law office in Gardner two years later.
He became a leader in the local and civic life of the city, giving his services generously to many civic causes. He was a member of the Gardner School Board for 12 years and the Town Council, 1913-15. As a school committeeman he gained a reputation with Massachusetts educators and did much to put the schools of Gardner among the foremost in the state. He was instrumental in many progressive policies in the educational system and inaugurated the first night school for adult alien education in Massachusetts.
No civic undertaking for the improvement of the economic, social and cultural life of Gardner put forward in the last 30 years was without his support. He served as Special Justice of the Gardner District Court, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gardner State Hospital, and was prominently identified with the Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital and the Gardner Public Library.
He was a director of the State Mutual Life Assurance Cos., and of the First National Bank of Gardner, serving as vice president of the latter. He was a trustee of the Gardner Co-operative Bank, the Gardner Savings Bank and the Murdock Fund of Winchendon. He was a member of the Worcester County Bar, the Massachusetts and American Bar Associations, Gardner Council, Knights of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Sigma Chi, and the Dartmouth clubs of Boston and Worcester. In politics he was a Republican.
He will probably be remembered best as a brilliant district attorney who served Worcester County as its chief law enforcement officer for 12 years, elected and reelected for three full 4-year terms. Frequently mentioned as a candidate for governor, he frowned on gubernatorial honors.
A handsome, robust figure but never a spectacular prosecutor of the type which seeks public acclaim, he was always commanding and eloquent in court, hard hitting but fair minded, modest, sincere and humane. He was equally at home on the civil and criminal side of the court and his practice often brought him to the probate and insolvency courts on intricate matters of trust estates.
He was married in November 1906 to Mary Elizabeth Vaughn who survives him. They made their home at 7 Park Ave., Gardner. Funeral services were held December 24 in the Sacred Heart Church in Gardner. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery.
Among the honorary pall bearers were the Mayor of Gardner, the District Attorney and the Assistant District Attorney of Worcester County and many prominent in public life of the city, county and state. A large delegation from the Worcester County Bar Association was present. Representatives were also present from all city banks, the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Oak Hill Country Club of Fitchburg, Dartmouth Club of Worcester and other fraternal and social organizations.
Owen Hoban was an ardently loyal member of '99 which he served for five years with distinction as class secretary. He regularly attended class functions, the annual '99 Roundups and the yearly class gatherings at Swampscott, usually accompanied by his devoted wife, whom he and '99 folks affectionately called "Minnie." His love of the College was manifested often, and most eloquently on the occasion when he was a speaker at a Dartmouth Night celebration in Hanover. He will always be remembered as well as missed by the Class of '99.
FRANK MILLER SURREY died on November 30 as he was driving his car north between Weare and GofEstown, N. H. On a straight, level road with nothing else on the highway, his car swerved abruptly to the left, struck a tree and he was killed instantly. Some form of blackout, a heart seizure possibly, caused the accident. He was born in Rochester, Mass., November 2, 1876, the son of David S. and Susan L. (Sparrow) Surrey.
Frank graduated from Dartmouth in 1899 cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with special honors in physics and philosophy. That year he began to teach science in the high school at Great Falls, Mont. After two years there he went to Pueblo, Colo., where he taught physics, chemistry and physical geography Then he was professor of chemistry and physics at Temple University for two years, after which he taught physics at the high school in Madison, Wis., for two years. He also taught for two years at De Witt Clinton High School in New York City. From 1911 to 1941 he was a teacher at the Morris High School in the same city. There he had heavy administrative responsibilities.
He received an earned degree of A.M. in science from Dartmouth in 1902 and also spent two years in graduate work in philosophy at Harvard, two years at Columbia University and three summers at the University of Chicago. After retirement from his New York position in 1941, he studied physical therapy at New York University and Columbia University for three years.
He married Nancy Miller of Clinton, Ill., June 6, 1904. She was then studying for her doctorate in Chicago while Frank was majoring in science. Their only child, a daughter, died in infancy. Their summer vacations were largely spent in travel. They spent five years salvaging a run-down cotton plantation in Georgia, and turned it into a high-grade dairy faran.
Frank was a member of the Middleboro, Mass., Historical Society and of the New York State Psychological Association. He had a live interest in all sides of education and life, and was one of the most faithful attendants at the annual Boston '99 Round-ups.
Frank's wife died in 1941. At the time of his death he had been living with his sister, Dr. Sarah S. Raymond and her husband in Middleboro, Mass. Another sister, Mrs. Mary Beaton of Brockton, also survives.
Funeral services were at the Egger Funeral Home in Middleboro and were conducted by the Rev. George V. Shepherd of the Central Congregational Church. Representing the class were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Beal, George Clark, Dr. and Mrs. David W. Parker and Sam Smith. There was a floral tribute from '99 consisting of a large basket of striking chrysanthemums.
1903
RICHARD TAFT EASTMAN died on July 18 in Groveton, N. H. He had suffered a heart attack the previous week while on a fishing trip in Canada.
He was born in Littleton, N. H., January a, 1881, and was with the class during freshman year. For many years he was manager of Camp Idlewild, a fishing camp at Pittsburg, N. H„ and was later in the lumber business in Groveton. He is survived by his wife.
1909
FRED DIGHTON LATON died very suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Chelmsford Center, Mass., on October 18.
Fred was born in Nashua, N. H., November 9, 1886, the son of Frank Dighton and Effie (Wood) Laton. He entered Dartmouth from Nashua High School and was a member of Chi Phi fraternity.
After graduation, he became interested in accounting and was associated with various public accounting firms until 1929 when he became deputy collector for the Internal Revenue Department in the State of New Hampshire. In 1933, he started his own auditing and accounting business and conducted it until his death.
On December 24, 1921, Fred was married to Natalie Wilson who survives, as does a son, and to them the class expresses its deep sympathy in our mutual loss.
1910
DR. HAROLD EUGENE WINCHESTER died on November 29 at his home, 235 Scotland Ave., Dunedin, Fla., following a short illness. Hap Hinman represented the class at the funeral. "Winch" was born in Bismarck, N. D., October 3, 1888, son of Walter and Ella (Kimball) Winchester. He entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1910, having prepared at the Bismarck, N. D„ High School. He received his M.D. from Harvard in 1914 and after internship in Boston returned to North Dakota where he practiced until 1924.
From 1924 he had made his home in Florida, practicing in the Clearwater area. In one of his reports to the class in earlier years, Winch referred to himself as a "Country Doc" and it was as a family physician that he made an enviable reputation. His genuine interest in his community is indicated by the offices and memberships he held. In Bismarck lie served as Master of Linton Lodge, F. & M., and was superintendent of Emmons County Board of Health. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. In Florida he had served as City Health Officer of Dunedin; president, Pinellas County Medical society; director, Chamber of Commerce; Commodore, Dunedin Boat club; member of the Rotary Club; Tampa Consistory, Scottish Rite; Dunedin Lodge, F. & A. M., and Florida and American Medical Associations. He was a former chief of staff of the Morton F. Plant Hospital in Clearwater.
A measure of the deep regret at Harold Winchester's passing is indicated by this quotation from the following letter to the Clearwater paper as a tribute to "modesty seldom found in a man of his achievements."
"To us he was more than just a doctor. In many ways he typified that fast-disappearing institution, the beloved family physician of the horse-and-buggy days. Loyal alike to his Hippocratic code and the welfare of his patients, he gave unsparingly of his strength and skill to the sick and the troubled in all walks of life who reposed complete confidence in his ministrations, and regarded him with an affection unusual in doctor-patient relationship. A man of deep religious feeling and civic consciousness, he gave to his church and his city the same sincere effort with which he practiced his profession. Dr. Winchester's loss is a blow to the community at large, to its families and to their individual members. We are, and shall remain, much the poorer for his passing. Well may it be said, 'We shall not look upon his like again.' "
Survivors are his widow, Margaret Howell Winchester, whom he married in Morris Plains, N. J., July 5, 1917; his son Dr. WalterH. Winchester '41 of Dunedin, and two sisters, Mrs. N. O. Ramstad and Mrs. F. L. Conklin, both of Bismarck, N. D.
1915
Dr. EDWARD HARLAN WILSON of 181 Stanbery Ave., Columbus. Ohio, internationally famous orthopedist, died on December 14 after being stricken with a heart attack while attending a Christmas party at Children's Hospital. Head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, and director of such surgery at Children's, University and Mt. Carmel hospitals, Dr. Wilson collapsed as he was preparing to leave the hospital. Officiating at services held at First Congregational Church with the Rev. Robert W. Fray was his classmate Boynton Merrill.
Harlan was born in Columbus, May 31, 1891. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Theta and Dragon. He received his M.D. from Harvard in 1920.
After serving his interneship at two Boston hospitals he entered private practice in Columbus in 1924 and soon became recognized as an outstanding surgeon in his field. Along with his private practice he became active in the educational field. In 1942 he became resident director of the American Hospital in Oxford, Great Britain, being one of 50 doctors, nurses and technicians recruited and sent abroad by the New York headquarters of the hospital, which is maintained, by private contributions.
Harlan held memberships in many professional organizations. He was a member of the Robert Jones Club, an exclusive physicians' club of England; an honorable fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, England; fellow of the American College of Surgeons; member of the American Academy, Orthopedic Surgeons in 1936; Buckeye Orthopedic Association; Clinic Orthopedic Society; American Medical Association, and other professional groups. He was also a member of Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity, a Mason, Shriner, and Scottish Rite and the Rocky Fork Hunt and Country Club. He had served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Ohio for several years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Hewitt Wilson; a son, Dr. Edward Harlan Wilson Jr. 45, with the American Army in Germany; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Klie Jr. and Mrs. Mark Embleton; and a brother. Dr. Philip D. Wilson, chief of the New York Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled.
1916
WILLIAM PAUL COSTELLO was one of our 1916 members who, when met by a classmate, was always the same quietly amiable and courteous gentleman who went very unobtrusively about Hanover during our undergraduate days. Since his untimely death September 6. 1952, several persons have written the secretary with a word of praise for Bill, and expressions of sorrow at his loss. It was his lot to suffer from poor health for a number of years, and in a recent conversation with a classmate he predicted that he had but a short time to live. But for his health Bill would have carved out a brilliant career for himself, because there was no question of his qualities of intellect and his ability to express himself through the written word.
Bill Costello was born in Genesee, N. Y., October 31, 1890, and attended schools in Rochester before entering Dartmouth. As an undergraduate he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sphinx Senior Society and Round Robin. After graduation he engaged in newspaper work, mostly as a dramatic editor, and he was also engaged in play writing, an art in which he would sooner or later have become known, if his health had not failed. He also served in World War I. The papers for which he worked were the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the Rochester Journal-American.
He is survived by a brother, Carl E.; a niece, Mrs. Elizabeth Carlin; and two nephews, Clarence V. and William Costello.
HENRY LAFAYETTE MILLER died in Cornell University Hospital, Ithaca, N. Y., on December 27.
Jim was born in Manchester, N. H., January 17, 1894, son of William F. and Jennie (Strobridge) Miller. He attended Manchester High School and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1912, but transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with the degree of B.S. in 1917. He was awarded the same degree from Harvard.
During World War I he was a captain in the Coast Artillery. From 1920 to 1926 he was vice-president of Alexander Grant & Son, roofing contractors, and for twelve years following was in the investment banking business. During World War II he was associated with the Springfield Ordnance District and the Springfield Armory. At the time of his death he was an administrative official of the Boston Ordnance District.
Jim was married in 1918 to Doris Shattuck of Springfield, Mass., who died in 1930. He is survived by two sons, Dr. Brewster Miller, Westfield, N. J., and Wesson C. Miller, Bloomfield, Conn., and by a sister, Mrs. Ruth Cheney, Dover, N. H. He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
1920
RALPH LOCKE EDDY, known to his many friends as Ran, died suddenly on December 3 in Boston, where he had been located for the greater part of his business career. He would have been 55 years old on December 15.
Ran was born in Worcester, Mass., the son of Minnie (Jones) and Harrison Prescott Eddy. Like so many others in 1920, he spent only one year at Dartmouth. He came to Hanover after graduation from Abbott School, where he had been active in all sports; and over the years, according to his wife's record for our 25th Report, he "did a lot of riding, swimming, wrestling, boxing, baseball, football, hockey, cruising and sailboat racing." Ran's marriage to Grace Post took place in Hartford, Conn., in 1920, and she survives him with their two children, Randolph P. '42 and Grace, now Mrs. Charles Willis.
During World War II Ran saw very active service as a lieutenant-commander in the Navy, with engagements on an L.S.T. in the Aleutians, at Makin and Tarawa. Previously he had been in business in Hartford and in Brookline, Mass. After he returned from the war he started his own investment business in Boston. Later he joined the firm of Alfred Hopkins Engineering Associates, which was occupied with the construction of U.S. bases in Greenland.
Funeral services were held December 5 at the family home, 62 Beacon St., Boston.
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ARTHUR MEANS POLLAN was killed on December 14 when the Cessna plane in which he and a companion were returning from a fishing trip crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Guatemala shortly after take-off. They were en route to Tiquisate, Guatemala, where Art was employed by the United Fruit Cos.
Arthur, the son of Rebecca Means and Arthur A. Pollan of Newton, Mass., executive vice-president of the United Fruit Cos., was born in Belton, Tex., August 16, 1918, and went to Newton as a small boy. He attended Newton High School and Tabor Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1940.
While an undergraduate, Pop, as he was known by many of his classmates, was active in the Spanish club and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Dragon.
In 1941 he married Virginia Smith of Wellesley Hills, and from 1943 to 1945 he served in the Navy on various ships in the Pacific as gunnery officer. Following college, and since his discharge from the Navy as a lieutenant, Art was engaged in plantation management for the United Fruit Cos. Six months ago, he was made assistant manager of the company's banana plantations on the west coast of Guatemala.
His parents, his wife, and his ten-year-old son, Arthur Jr., were on their way by ship to join him for a Christmas reunion when Art's death occurred.
1944
JOSEPH MCMASTERS LARIMER JR. died on September 19 at the Chicago Municipal Contagious Diseases Hospital.
Joe was born in Evanston, 111., August 15, 1923, the son of Joseph M. Larimer '16 and Coralie Nicholson. He prepared for college at Evanston Township High School. In college he was on the debating team and on TheDartmouth board.
Joe entered Dartmouth with our class but left to enter the Army Air Corps in March 1943. He served overseas eleven months and received his discharge in February 1946. He returned to college and received his degree in June 1947.
At the time of his death Joe was bookkeeper for the Dealers Transport Cos. in Chicago and was living at 6014 Harper Ave. He is survived by his wife Helen and by his parents.
OWEN ALBERT HOBAN '99
EDWARD HARLAN WILSON 'l5
