1889

In a small album for autographs given me before I had reached my teens, which I recently ran across carefully put away, was the autograph of S.F. Strout, dated March 29, 1878, who at that time was the minister of the Methodist Church in Eliot, Me., in which town I was born and lived until I entered Dartmouth College. He and his wife occasionally had supper at our home in Eliot, which I distinctly remember. A few years later I attended Number Three District School in Eliot taught by George M. Strout, son of S.F. Strout, who at that time was a student at Boston University in the Class of 1879. He married Susan Lang of Lee, N.H., and for many years was a teacher in the school in Brooklyn, N.Y., which sent many of its students to Dartmouth College. Their children are Alan Lang Strout, Dartmouth Class of 1918, Professor of English, in the Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas, and Richard L. Strout, who entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1915 and, after spending two years there transferred to Harvard, where he graduated in the Class of 1919. He now is Staff Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, D.C. His mother, two or three years older than I am, is among the oldest, if not the oldest living graduate of Smith College. She now lives in Onset, Mass., where I occasionally spend a weekend visit with her. She is a remarkable woman, keeps abreast of the times, and is as interested in life as ever.

The signature of S.F. Strout has been placed in possession of his grandson, Richard L. Strout, for permanent preservation.

Secretary, Treasurer and BequestChairman, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.