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.]

Miller, Edward S. '93, Feb. 13 Field, Frank D. '94, Feb. 10 Abbott, Arthur J. '99, Feb. 18 Parker, David W. '99, Feb. 25 Barton, Clarence LeR. '05, Feb. 16 Andrews, Walter R. '07, Feb. 2 Emerson, Seth A. '11, Feb. 13 Wilder, Ralph S. '11, Feb. 11 Stone, Charles S. '13, Feb. 23 Mabie, Edward C. '15, Feb. 19 Hayward, Lawrence H. '16, Feb. 17 Collins, Harold S. '24, Feb. 16 Jones, Wendell C. '25, Feb. 17 Meckiin, John M., A.M. '20, Mar. 10

1887

HENRY OTIS CUSHMAN, born in Lisbon, N. H., August 25, 1865, died in Boston on February 5. Funeral services were held in the chapel of the Forest Hills Cemetery. The chapel was nearly filled to capacity and the floral tributes showed deep appreciation of his many friends and relatives.

When he was 14, his father moved the family to Vermont where he attended St. Johnsbury Academy for four years and then entered Dartmouth. He joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society and in his senior year was one of the founders of Casque and Gauntlet Society.

"Cush" had a fine ancestry which helped him in his future progress in life, as recorded in our fifty-year anniversary book ... "My father, George F. Cushman, was a descendant in the 7th generation from Robert Cushman, one of the staunch Pilgrims who organized the Mayflower-Speedwell expedition to New England shores. My mother, Luella (Parker) Cushman was of English-Scotch descent, whose earliest ancestor came to New England early in the 17th Century."

After graduation from Dartmouth, he spent two years in the law office of Ide and Stafford in St. Johnsbury. In the fall of 1889 he entered the Law School of Boston University, graduated in June 1890, and that fall was admitted to the Bar in the Supreme Court of Vermont along with his good friend, Fred Howland. "Cush" was married in June, 1891 to Isabel Poland Rankin. He had no children of his own, he reports in our fifty-year anniversary book, "but three stepchildren who have brought much happiness to my life." Mrs. Cushman died in 1927.

Cush began his general law practice at 53 State Street, Boston, at which location he retained his office for sixty years. Starting with a general law practice, his work grew principally into corporation law and probate work. A highlight of his law practice was the liquidation of one of the banks closed by the Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts during 1920-1925:

"Miss Ellen Cushman, Cush's sister, served as homemaker and companion for the past twenty years at their home, 90 Moraine St., Jamaica Plain, Mass. She assisted in his business affairs and especially for the past five to ten years while his eyesight gradually failed.

Besides his sister he is also survived by a step-son Walter P. Rankin '00. Charles P. Cushman '89 was a brother.

1893

EDWARD SHERMAN MILLER died on his goth birthday on February 13, at his home in Woodsville, N. H.

Born in Ryegate, Vt., February 13, 1866, the son of Edward and Eliza (Gates) Miller, he graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1889. After spending one year at Monmouth College in Illinois, and one year at Harvard, he transferred to Dartmouth where he graduated in 1893.

After teaching for three years m South Royalton, Vt., Ed began the study of dentistry, first at the University of Colorado and then at the University of Maryland where he received his D.D.S. in 1900. He immediately began his dental practice in Woodsville. Several years ago he was elected to honorary membership in the New Hampshire Dental Society.

Dr. Miller was the first president of the Blue Mountain Outing Club and a long time member of both the Ammonoosuc Valley Fish and Game Club and the Community Bird Club. Keenly interested in genealogy, he was admitted to membership in the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution in 1905. He was for many years a trustee of the Woodsville Free Public Library.

On June 26, 1901, Dr. Miller was married to Edith B. Gibson, who died in 1947. He is survived by two sons, Col. Edward G. Miller of Rochester, N. Y., and E. Sumner Miller of Demarest, N. J.

1894

FRANK DECKER FIELD died on February 10 while en route home from Corpus Christi, Texas, where he had been spending his winter vacation as usual. Memorial and funeral services were held February 13 at Lincoln, Nebr., where he had made his home with his daughter Lillian at 3255 W. Pershing Road, and on the following day, February 14, at Omaha, which had been his home for many years before moving to Lincoln. He was born May 27, 1872 at Macon, Mo., but spent most of his youthful years in Omaha, and came to Dartmouth after preparing in the schools of that city.

"Decker," as he was universally called, had his family roots in New England and chose Dartmouth largely because of a "love for the old New England background" as he said in his letter to the Class Report at our 50th Reunion. He had also had several Dartmouth teachers, including those of a military school founded by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, himself a Dartmouth man. Decker was universally beloved by us all, being a man with that priceless gift, a genius for friendship, as well as a lively sense of humor and a hearty enthusiasm which made him a leading spirit in all that he did. In college he was a good student, taking final honors in English. He likewise took part in baseball activities and in the student dramatics of the day. He was a member of Psi U. fraternity and the senior society of C. & G., being one of the committee which negotiated the purchase of its brick house on the corner. He was Business Manager of The Dartmouth in his senior year.

On leaving college he spent three years in the hectic time of the gold-mining excitement in Cripple Creek. Thence he gravitated back to Omaha, where he founded and became president of. the Omaha Hardwood Lumber Co., in which capacity he spent most of his active business years. On retiring from the lumber business, he became associated with the J. C. Ridnour Co., and later the DieterichField Co., in Lincoln. He took a prominent part in many civic activities, including the Community Chest, the Y.M.C.A., the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary.

In 1899 he married Mary Lillian Turner at Kansas City, Mo., who died several years ago. They had two daughters, Jean (now Mrs. Samuel Faires) and Lillian F. (now Mrs. Neil B. Dieterich). These daughters survive him, as do three grandchildren, Frank Field Faires, and Mary L. and Neil Blaine Dieterich.

Decker had been in frail health for several years, but with characteristic courage remained active to the end. He allowed nothing to keep him from the class reunions and came to our 60th attended by both his daughters, their children and one son-in-law — an imposing total of eight. Not only that, but at the annual "Matt Jones Round-up" that same autumn, held at the home of Arthur Stone, he came all the way from Nebraska alone. Wintering at Corpus Christi involved a great risk, but he went there as usual, and did not survive the journey home. Needless to say, he will be sadly missed by his community and by the sixteen surviving members of his class. One is irresistibly reminded of those lines by Kipling, so appropriate to Decker:

E'en as he trod that day to God,So walked he from his birth,In simpleness, and gentleness, and honorand clean mirth.

P. S. M.

1902

WILLIAM CLARK HALL passed away at the Alexander-Eastman Hospital in Derry, N. H., on January 29. He had suffered a severe heart attack and was taken to the hospital by ambulanee. .

Bill was born December 17, 1879, in Hall's Village, Chester. He was the son of Clark B. and Frances (Sawyer) Hall. After the destruction of the Chester home by fire, the family moved to Manchester where Bill graduated from the high school.

For some years Bill followed the teaching profession. In those years he taught mathematics and science in Milton Mills, N. H., on Cape Cod and at Staten Island, N. Y. Bill and his wife, on their return to Chester, operated a farm known as the Old Poor Farm where they established a most interesting home. After fire destroyed their home they lived on the Haverhill Road.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary McKendry Hall; a sister, Mrs. E. N. Curtis of San Diego, Calif., and a niece.

Services were held in the Peabody Funeral Home, Derry, and were conducted by the Rev. Stanley Dahlman, pastor of the Chester Congregational Church.

Our hearts are filled with sympathy lor Mrs. Hall. We have not seen much of Bill in recent years but many of us are stirred by happy memories at the mention of his name.

JAMES ALBERT MUNROE Of 50 Dudley Road, Newton Centre, Mass., died at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston after a brief illness on February 4. Bert was 76 years old. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Larra K. and Mary (Kendall) Monroe. In his youth the family moved to Boston, where Bert attended Boston Latin School

In 1908 he went to work for the E. T. Wright Shoe Company. He served the company for nearly fifty years in the capacity of credit manager, sales manager, assistant treasurer and finally as president.

Our classmate was a former director of the National Shoe Manufacturers Association, a member of the New England Shoe and Leather Association and the Boston Boot and Shoe Club.

Bert is survived by his. wife, May (Wright) Munroe, two nephews, and three nieces. The funeral was held on February 7 from the First Congregational Church in Rockland and interment was in the High Street Cemetery in Hingham.

Our hearts go out in sympathy to the sur- vivors.

1906

MALCOLM JAMES EDGERTON and his wife Edna were killed in a plane crash in the Capaya Mountains in a remote section of Venezuela on January 28. They were traveling in a private plane with an experienced American pilot and were on their way from eastern Venezuela to Caracas when the accident occurred.

Malcolm, known to Ms classmates affectionately as "Mike," was born in Northfield, Vt., January 18, 1886, the son of Charles Andrew Edgerton '79 and Flora Smith Brown. He was brother to Halsey C. Edgerton, also '06, and Alson B. Edgerton '17. After attending both Middlebury College and Norwich University for a year each, he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of his junior year. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Upon graduation he taught school for a brief period, then entered upon a business career in which he became eminently successful. He was associated with Callaway, Fish and Company of New York, dealer's in investment securities, until 1922, when he became one of the founders and partners of the brokerage firm of Green, Ellis and Anderson. Malcolm was the senior partner of this firm at the time of his death.

He was married to Edna Anna Fischer of New York City on June 7, 1917, and together they lived a most useful and happy life. For the last 25 years they had resided at Wallack Point, Stamford, Conn., giving generously of their energies, time, and means to a great variety of philanthropic and civic activities. Malcolm was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church and a director of Family and Children's Services of Stamford, a member of the University Club of New York, the Pilgrims, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, the Mayflower Descendants, Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club, Woodway Country Club, and other societies. He was a director of the Stamford Trust Company and a trustee of Berkeley Divinity School of New Haven.

Edna was equally interested in good works. She served three terms as a representative in the Connecticut State Legislature, from 1943 to 1947, and was chairman of the Education Committee for all three terms. She was three times president of the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, and active in many other organizations.

The Edgertons were extensive and enthusiastic travelers. They had visited Europe several times, had been in Africa, and had flown up and down the east and west coasts of South America. The spirit of adventure was ever theirs, and perhaps we should not regret too deeply the manner of their passing. They took the great adventure, as they had the lesser ones, together.

A memorial service was held in St. John's Church in Stamford on February 3. Besides Malcolm's two brothers already mentioned, they leave a son, Malcolm J. Edgerton Jr., Yale '43, and a daughter, Janet F. (Mrs. Jonathan Lanman), and four grandchildren. A third child, Edna H., died in the American Hospital in Paris, of polio, in 1951.

1907

WALTER RAYMOND ANDREWS, familiarly known to his contemporaries as "Swipes," passed away from a heart attack while dressing for the day on February 2, in Scotland, Conn.

Except for a slight heart affliction experienced some years ago, he had enjoyed good health up to the moment of his death.

Born in Newton, Mass., on June 11, 1884, he prepared for Dartmouth at Newton (Mass.) High School. He was a member of Psi U and Sphinx, and managed the Musical Clubs in his senior year. Two brothers preceded him at Dartmouth: John G. '01, and Herbert M. '04. They survive him.

Walter was associated with Merrimac Chemical Co. for many years, until it was absorbed by the Monsanto Chemical Co. Thereafter he engaged in various activities, including service with the Foreign Economic Administration, Chemical Section, in Washington, D. C., during World War II. After the Washington experience he lived and worked in New York until he retired in 1953, and moved to Scotland, Conn.

He is survived by his wife Helen; his daughter Joan, now Mrs. Antonio Mattel of New York; and by his two older brothers.

1911

SETH AUSTIN EMERSON died suddenly at his home, 35 Fifield St., Nashua, N. H., on February 12, following a heart attack the previous day. Seth was born in Nashua, June 30, 1889. Following graduation from Nashua High School he entered Dartmouth and graduated with the Class of 1911, followed by a year in the Amos Tuck School from which he obtained bis M.C.S. degree in 1912.

Seth spent his life until retirement with the National City Bank of New York, advancing to Assistant Vice President after 37 years of service. He has been living in retirement in Nashua for the last six years.

He was a communicant of the Church of the Good Shepherd, a vestryman of the Church and actively interested in all its activities. He participated actively in the Red Cross Blood Donor program during his recent years in Nashua and was a member of the Rising Sun Lodge F and AM.

He is survived by his wife Grace, to whom he was married in 1920.

During his undergraduate days, Seth made a good scholastic record despite his having to work to put himself through college. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He could always be counted upon to attend reunions and carry his share of the class' responsibility to the College.

WILLIAM FREDERICK HART was stricken with a fatal cerebral hemorrhage on February 9 while resting on vacation at Pinehurst, N. C. Bill was born in Charlestown, Mass., February 16, 1889. A graduate of Everett High School he became an active member of the Class of 1911 at Dartmouth. While in college he was a participant i1, basketball, being captain of his class team one year and a member of the varsity squad. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

Bill was with the National Express Co. in Boston for three years, following which he became associated with the Crown Cork & Seal Co. in Boston where he remained until 1917. At that time he was transferred to the Crown Cork & Seal Co., Ltd. in Canada. He became district sales manager in Montreal, then was moved to Toronto, where for many years he was president of the Canadian company.

In spite of his business confining him to Canada, he made many trips to the States, both representing his company and vacationing at different spots here. He and Louise were regular guests with other classmates at Whitefield. He never lost his great enthusiasm and love for Dartmouth and arranged to be present at reunions and other similar occasions.

In 1917 he was married to Louise Minton, who survives him.

Funeral services were held at the Eastman Funeral Home, Beacon Street, Boston, followed by a Requiem Mass in St. Cecilia's Church, and interment was in Forest Hills Cemetery.

A friend of Bill's has written to Louise, "Your husband was a friend to all who knew him. Kindly, thoughtful and with an unselfish interest in all those with whom he came in contact. Just to have the pleasure of meeting him and seeing his friendly smile made a person feel better. He has left his good influence with many."

RALPH SPRAGUE WILDER passed away on February 11, in his sleep while resting in his chair. Although Ralph Wilder, known to his classmates as Brownie, had been ill for some time, his death was unexpected.

Brownie was born in East Weymouth, Mass., October 4, 1888. He graduated from Weymouth High School and died at his home in North Weymouth. At. the College he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

After graduation he was with Sears, Roebuck for a year and then with the Charles Williams Stores. In 1919 he joined the firm of Tomas y Cia, exporters in Boston. He spent seven years, from 1924 to 1931 as a representative in Mexico City, living both in Mexico City and Laredo, Texas. After returning to the States, he established his own import and export business in Boston known as Ralph S. Wilder and Sons Co., in which he remained active up to the time of his death.

Brownie was a member of Orphan's Hope Lodge and Pentalpha Royal Arch Chapter. He was active in the Third Universalist Church in North Weymouth where he served on the board of management and for many years sang in the choir.

Brownie's last meeting with the Class was at the 40th Reunion when he and Viola were both present in Hanover. His heart condition kept him from returning last year.

Besides his wife Viola, to whom he was married in 1915, he leaves three sons and a daughter.

1915

EDWARD CHARLES MABIE, 63, head of the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts at the State University of lowa, died of a heart attack at his home in lowa City on February 9.

A native of LaCrosse, Wise., Ed received his Bachelor's degree in 1915 and his Master's degree in English and Speech in 1916 at Dartmouth His first teaching position Was also at Dartmouth as an instructor in public speaking, for the year 1915-16. From 1917 to 1918, he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Illinois Wcsleyan, and from 1918 to 1920 was assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He became an associate professor at Iowa State in 1923 and professor and head of the department in 1925.

He was married on June 15, 1916, in Derry, N. H., to Grace Francis Chase. Their daughter Priscilla Ann was born September i, 1926.

Professor Mabie also served as an assistant to the New Hampshire state tax commissioner from 1915 until 1917. He was director of general studies in the College of Liberal Arts at lowa State in 1947 and a regional director of the Federal theater project in 1935 and 1936.

He was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, forensic fraternity; Acacia, social fraternity; and was a 32nd degree Mason. He was also a member of the Congregational church.

Professor Mabie was recognized as one of the foremost contributors 10 the community theater movement in the United States and a leader in educational theatrical work. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts at Illinois Wesleyan College in 1952.

Besides his wife, he is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Steward, of Bradenton, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Phillip Falk, of Madison, Wise.; and a brother, Roland Mabie, of Milwaukee.

DAN FRANK WAUGH, 61, retired banker who wrote two books on translations of early Japanese poetry, died at Old Saybrook, Conn., on February 7.

A graduate of Dartmouth in 1915, he was employed by the National City Bank of New York from 1916 until his retirement in 1954. He served as manager of several of the bank's branches in Japan.

Dan was born in Stillwater, Okla., the son of Frank Albert and Mary Alice (Vail) Waugh. He spent many years in the Far East with the International Banking Corp., first in the Philippines and later in Japan. He continued with National City Bank, after it took over International Banking Corp., and was made assistant cashier in New York in 1934.

He was married on May 4, 1937, in Amherst, Mass., to Muriel Lucy Coningham, who was then Mrs. Amos Belden Jr.

His father, the late Frank A. Waugh, headed the division of horticulture at the University of Massachusetts for many years.

Besides his wife, he is survived by three stepchildren, three brothers and two sisters.

1916

LAWRENCE HERBERT HAYWARD, 62, of Red Coach Lane, Rye Beach, N. H., died suddenly on the morning of February 17 in Lynn, Mass., from a coronary thrombosis.

Larry's activity had been slowed down over the last few years by a heart condition and complications, but in spite of the physical handicaps he continued active in his business and social life.

Born in Scituate, Mass., September 18, 1893, he received his education in the public schools of Scituate. He matriculated at Worcester Polytechnic and after one year transferred to Dartmouth in the Class of 1916, graduating in June 1916. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Enlisting shortly after the declaration of war in 1917, he was later commissioned and served two years of active duty in the U. S. Field Artillery, attaining the rank of captain.

After World War I he was an associate in office building and building management in Orange, Conn., and later operated an automobile accessory business. From 1935 he was active in the field of engineering, serving as chief engineer for the Department of Conservation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and during World War II served as a civil engineer with the Yards and Docks Department of the Navy at Portsmouth, N. H., where he played an active and important part in the accelerated submarine construction program.

In his later years he entered the heating field, and at the time of his death was president and general manager of the George E. Warren Heating Corporation of Lynn. He was a member of Satuit Lodge of Masons.

He leaves his wife, Aletha (Cann) Hayward; a daughter, Jane of Philadelphia, Pa.; two sons, William L. and Ward A. Hayward; his mother, Mrs. Charles Litchfield, and a sister, Mrs. Malcolm Wilder, both of Scituate.

Services were held at the Lee and Moody Funeral Home in Beverly, Mass., on February 20, with interment in the family lot at North Beverly.

The Class of 1916 sent flowers and was represented by a large delegation, including Gran Fuller, Dick Parkburst, Ralph George, Bill Mott. Dick Ellis, Rod Soule, Joe Newmark, and Cliff Bean as honorary bearers, Sam and Lucille Cutler, Ken and May Tucker, Frank and Helene Bobst, Ruth Fuller, and Violet Ellis.

Gifts to the Class of 1916 Memorial Fund in Larry's name were recorded from several members of the class

H. C. B.

1917

STANLEY VERNON LANE died at his home, Flower Farm, Rockford, Ill., on January 14, following a heart attack.

Stanley, the son of Agnes (Patterson) and Theron H. Lane, entered Dartmouth from Somerville (Mass.) High School but remained only one year. On October 16, 1916, he married Jeannette Richardson at Somerville. For the past fifteen.years he has been an agent for the Rockford Life Insurance Co.

Surviving are his widow; a son Theron, of Rockford; a daughter Mrs. Virginia Fields, of Saratoga, Calif.; and six grandchildren.

1918

GEORGE JOHN SIEMSEN died at the Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Conn., on December 16, 1955

He was born in Davenport, lowa, April 11, 1893, the son of William H. and Laura (Brauch) Siemsen. He came to college from Davenport and was with the class for freshman year only. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

George was a commercial artist, associated first with Howard-Wesson Co. of Worcester, Mass. In 1927 he became connected with The Graphic Arts Co. in Hartford, Conn., and continued with them until his death.

1930

ELLSWORTH ARMSTRONG died on January 11 at his home in Bethlehem, Conn., a.s the result of carbon monoxide fumes.

Ellie was born in New Haven, Conn., on April 18, 1908, and attended Loomis Institute and Milford School. At Dartmouth Ellie made an outstanding record: as an athlete. He was one of the East's finest linemen and was captain of the football team in senior year. He also played hockey and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Palaeopitus, Green Key and Sphinx.

After leaving Dartmouth, Ellie was connected with the Southern New England Telephone Co., Hincks Bros. & Co., F. H. McGraw Co., and for some years was manager of the Rockefeller Center Garage. He had become connected with the brokerage firm of Hincks Bros, in Waterbury shortly before his death.

Ellie was married on June 23, 1928, to Margaret Wheatley who survives him with their daughters, Patricia (Mrs. John S. Burbank) and Joan (Mrs. William M. Posey). He is also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Armstrong of New Haven.

A Dartmouth man of another class wrote of Ellie: "He was a fine man in every sense of the word, devoted to his wife and family, cheerful even under adversity, always thoughtful of others. As is so often the case with men of superior strength, he was by nature very kind and gentle."

EUGENE NESTOR SCADRON was killed instantly when his car skidded on a curve west of Southampton, L. I., on January 19. The other occupant of the car was also killed.

Gene was born in New York City November 13, 1907, the son of Dr. Samuel J. and Bertha (Hilleson) Scadron. He prepared for college at Townsend Harris Hall School and Columbia Grammar School.

After graduating from Dartmouth with the class, Gene attended Yale for one year and received his M.D. from Duke University in 1934. He engaged in private practice in New York City and was associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University Medical School.

Gene enlisted in the Array Medical Corps in 1942 and served in this country, France and Germany until April 11, 1946, when he was discharged as a Major.

On June 6, 1947, Gene was married to Margot de Vaulchier. His son Stuart was born in 1949 and Joshua in 1951. This marriage was terminated by divorce. Harvey M. Scadron '46 was a brother.

He had written various articles on his particular specialty and was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, Pi Lambda Phi, the Dartmouth Club of New York, American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

1938

WILLIAM MINER BUSHNELL JR., who was a member of the Class for one semester only, died in Los Angeles on August 29, 1955.

Bill was born in Los Angeles on July 24, 1915, the son of William Miner and Edith (Corison) Bushnell. He prepared for college at Principia in St. Louis but was living in New Rochelle, N. Y., when he entered college. He was on the freshman football squad.

After leaving college, Bill returned to Los Angeles where for a time he was a real estate salesman. Later he became a supervisor for the Plastic Die and Tool Corp.

Bill is survived by his wife Aileen M. Bushnell, of 11382 Thurston Circle, Los Angeles.

MALCOLM JAMES EDGERTON '06