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ALBERT E. FROST 
 
 Secretary from 1872 to his decease, 1917 
 
SUPPLEMENT 
 TO HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 
 EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND 
 SEVENTY-TWO 
 
 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
 MIMXXI 
 
THE ELM TREE PRESS 
 Woodstock Vermont 
 

 PREFACE 
 
 Like other grateful class historians, I would give 
 credit to those whose achievements and exemplary 
 behavior have made half-truths unnecessary, and 
 would also give a trifle of equivocal praise to some 
 shy and super-modest classmates for slowly and re- 
 luctantly supplying the needful information. Yet 
 in reading the Prefaces of the reports of other class- 
 es, I am convinced that this lack of speed in respond- 
 ing but shows the truth of the words, "One touch 
 of nature makes the whole world kin," therefore we 
 will not appropriate all the glory to '72, such as it 
 may be. 
 
 Every one of the Academic Department has fur- 
 nished his report. 
 
 The general plan of this Supplement follows 
 Frost's History. 
 
 I have added a brief report of the Chandler Scien- 
 tific Department, handi-capped by the lateness of 
 applying for data. 
 
 Of the forty Academics now alive, a large propor- 
 tion are more active and in better condition than men 
 of their age. 
 
 A summary of statistics will be found at the close 
 of this report. You, classmates, will never have 
 quite such impressions as have crystalized in my 
 feelings in following your varied lives through these 
 mature years. It came to be a real family affair, 
 and as it grew upon me I thought of that little, ten- 
 der poem, "The Rosary" : — 
 
 "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, 
 "Are as a string of pearls to me ; 
 "I count them over, every one apart, 
 "My rosary." 
 
 683008 
 
VI HISTORY CLASS 1872 
 
 Do you forget the scene when in 1872 Chief Jus- 
 tice Brigham of the Superior Court of Massachu- 
 setts marshalled the "thin line" of his class at their 
 fiftieth reunion at the Chapel and introduced the 
 remnant as "my colts?" 
 
 Correspond for five months with our "colts," then 
 and then alone can you partially understand the 
 tender and mellowing effect. 
 
 The moving picture of fine aspirations, especially 
 good realizations, joys and sorrows, and withal the 
 plain uplift of the strong resolve and high purpose, 
 was not unseen by me. 
 
 When "Fond memory brings the light of other 
 days around me" .... 
 
 "When I remember all the friends so linked to- 
 gether" .... 
 
 I cannot see any reason for the sombre shadows of 
 "Morituri Salutamus." 
 
 Let us pay a grateful tribute to our beloved Sec- 
 retary, Frost, for his painstaking labors through 
 many years, recording in his fine way the activities 
 and standards of achievements of each one of the 
 class, — just as brethren sometimes meet and, stand- 
 ing with bowed heads in silence, recognize the in- 
 expressible depths of tender regard, "The silent 
 homage of thoughts unspoken." 
 Most sincerely, 
 
 GEORGE B. FRENCH, 
 Secretary. 
 
V 
 
ACADEMIC GRADUATES 
 
 AUGUSTINE VINTON BARKER 
 
 Bradenton, Fla. 
 
 The Judge continued to practice law, in company 
 with his son, at Ebensburg, Pa., from 1902 to 1909, 
 when he became persuaded, all things considered, 
 that he was entitled to a cessation of his strenuous 
 life, and might prudently and dutifully devote some 
 time to diversions, such as travel, fishing and golf. 
 My observation of him at short range leads to the 
 casual and kind remark that he desired further to 
 enhance his skill at fishing by intensive tutelage 
 under a teacher of that art who makes a specialty 
 of backward pupils. The teacher will never make 
 out the marks of his pupil, being a kind and consid- 
 erate man. 
 
 Not only has the Judge practiced law successfully 
 in important matters, but he has been identified 
 with banking interests, having been chief promoter 
 of the establishing of the First National Bank in his 
 town in 1895, a bank ranking in success well up to 
 the head among similar banks. He has been the 
 Chairman of the Executive Committee since 1895, 
 Vice-President of the Johnstown Trust Co. since its 
 organization in 1903, and for several years a Dir- 
 ector of the Brandenton Bank and Trust Co. They 
 all know where to turn for wise judgment. He was 
 identified with bituminous coal mining development 
 in his own county, Cambria, and has lived to see the 
 progress of production from nothing to sixteen mil- 
 lion tons annually. 
 
HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 "Gus" has journeyed thrice from Florida in his 
 Cadillac, 1915-16-17, with his son and son's chil- 
 dren, camping en route, and ended each trip in 
 camp with myself and family at Asquam Lake, N. 
 H. Our common exclamation has been, "Why 
 didn't we find out earlier what good times we could 
 have together?" Happy days, sure! Thrice I and 
 some of my family have enjoyed his fine hospitality 
 in Florida, and besides all that, many weeks have 
 been spent by me with the Judge in the camps of 
 Maine, trouting and hunting birds. A more con- 
 genial comrade cannot be found in camp life, with 
 his "Cheer up, Barstow," whether he did or did not 
 make a success in fishing or shooting. No sly "dig" 
 in that at the fortunes of war, since it might reflect 
 on the teacher. 
 
 The winter of 1916-17, he spent touring through 
 Panama Canal, down the West coast of South Amer- 
 ica, on into the middle region of lofty peaks, across 
 land to the East coast, and, after sizing up the cities, 
 returning home by crooked ocean paths to escape 
 German cruisers. From August 1918 to February 
 1919, he toured the North West, visiting Yellow 
 Stone Park, Cal., and the South West gulf states. 
 He claims to have caught by some kind of lure a 
 good many trout, having no reliable recorder. 
 
 A physical infirmity has caused him no end of 
 pain, but he invariably comes through by his won- 
 derful grit, "O'er all the ills of life victorious." Al- 
 though he would avoid the punishment, if protest 
 would be protective, I could not refrain from this 
 extended treatment of one who richly deserves all 
 the flings given him. "Spare the rod and spoil the 
 child." He'll have the last word by reason of his 
 vitality. 
 
 His wife died, January 17, 1915, a most estimable 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
 
 woman, profoundly interested in her church work 
 and many institutional matters. 
 
 He suffered a burden grievous to be borne, in the 
 loss of his only son, Fred D., who was killed, Oct. 
 14, 1918, at the age of 42. Fred offered himself for 
 Red Cross work in France at the front. He sailed, 
 June 17, 1918, for France, and, after arriving, was 
 offered a Captain's commission for an assignment in 
 Paris, but he insisted on being sent to the front, and, 
 according to his choice of service, was commissioned 
 a 1st Lieutenant and assigned to outpost duty in the 
 advance field service. At the urgent request of of- 
 ficers who were witness to his spirit and efficiency, 
 he was ultimately attached to the 328th Inf., 82nd 
 Div., A. E. F., and on account of his exceptionally 
 good work was highly commended in an article 
 published in the Paris Edition of the Red Cross Bul- 
 letin, headed "Barker of Florida, " which was copied 
 by the various editions of the Bulletin in this 
 country. 
 
 His last work was in the St. Mihiel offensive and 
 in the Argonne. Said a Lieutenant from Braden- 
 town, "Everybody thinks the world of him." Said 
 a Chaplain, "During the entire struggle in the Ar- 
 gonne, Lt. Barker displayed his bravery; machine- 
 gun bullets and artillery fire did not prevent him 
 from distributing his sweets and smokes to the brave 
 Americans; he sacrificed his life in line of duty." 
 And a Captain said, "On October 2nd, Fred and I 
 were taking supplies to a dressing station ; the Ger- 
 mans shelled us and I was wounded, our driver was 
 killed and Fred had a very narrow escape." On 
 the Sunday before Fred's death on Monday, he 
 wrote his last words home, having been blown up 
 twice, being very close to the German machine-gun 
 and shell fire for at least twelve hours a day for a 
 
HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 week, "I am well but pretty thin, old and a little 
 tired — I can't feel that I have done much in this, 
 but at least I haven't been a slacker." 
 
 The next day, while with a Chaplain preparing a 
 body for burial, he was killed instantly by shrapnel, 
 and the Chaplain mortally wounded. His end was 
 heroic, and his body lies in the sacred soil of France. 
 He might have listened to the reasoning that there 
 were enough younger men and physically stronger 
 to undertake this perilous service, men without wife 
 or children, but Fred regarded that as the reasoning 
 of a shirker, and there was nothing of that in his 
 keen sense of duty. "Only those are fit to live who 
 do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have 
 shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life." 
 
 Lieut. Barker was cited in General Orders of the 
 Commanding General, "for his display of extraor- 
 dinary heroism and disregard for his personal safe- 
 ty, working unceasingly in aiding "the wounded and 
 burying the dead, as an example of courage and 
 self-sacrifice, in which the Commanding General 
 took particular pride." 
 
 Fred left a wife, two sons and a daughter. His 
 widow lives at Ebensburg, Pa. The older son, 
 Frederick Vinton, graduated from Annapolis Naval 
 Academy in 1919, and is an Ensign, stationed in 
 1920 with the Asiatic Squadron at Vladivostok, but 
 now on the Pacific Coast. The other son, William 
 Griffith, attends Culver Military Academy and ex- 
 pects to graduate in 1921 and enter Dartmouth. 
 The daughter, Barbara, attended Abbot Academy, 
 Mass., one year, and in 1919 changed to a school in 
 Pennsylvania, where she remained through 1919- 
 20 until Christmas vacation when, on a visit to her 
 grandfather and aunt at Brandentown, Fla., she 
 was stricken with tonsilitis and, after some three 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
 
 weeks of agony, passed away in a hospital at Tam- 
 pa, Fla., Jan. 25. Adored by the Judge, the shock 
 to him seemed unsupportable, coming as it did only 
 two weeks after his brother died at Ebensburg, Pa. 
 
 I have met all these grandchildren and been with 
 them in Florida and New Hampshire, many days, 
 and can say that they were fully worthy of all the 
 grandfather's devotion. 
 
 The daughter, Lovell, married Frank S. Gates, 
 Oct. 30, 1907, and they live at Harrington, Del., he 
 being a supervisor in the Maintenance of Way De- 
 partment of the Pa. R. R. Co. The other daughter, 
 Helen, married Harry Land, June 1, 1915. He en- 
 listed, Aug. 1917, in the U. S. A. Aviation service, 
 trained at various places in Texas, was commission- 
 ed a 2nd Lieutenant and sailed for France in May, 
 1918, where he went through intensive training at 
 various places, was then attached to the 185th Aero 
 Squadron as a pursuit pilot until the armistice, and 
 returned to the United States, February, 1919. 
 
HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 ALBERT LEROY BARTLETT 
 Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 It will be seen by Frost's History that our class- 
 mate, following his scholarly tastes and ability, be- 
 took himself after graduation at once to teaching 
 others, and later became Superintendent of Haver- 
 hill schools. On account of the death of the last 
 member of his family, Horace E., Dart. '69, property 
 interests made it necessary for him to devote his 
 time to his business affairs. 
 
 He has always shown, since graduation, special 
 interest in New England history and the early an- 
 nals of his city, and has contributed valuable re- 
 search articles in that line. Aside from language 
 books mentioned by Frost, Silver Burdetts & Co. 
 published in 1903 his work on The Construction of 
 English, and, in 1907, another work on Elements of 
 English Grammar. I received from him in 1916 an 
 Historical Address on Haverhill, given at the exer- 
 cises commemorative of the 275th anniversary of 
 the settlement of the city. Allowing me to be 
 judge, it certainly was a delightful resume, showing 
 thorough research, and expressed in a way to make 
 one dream over the life of those early scenes and 
 days. And bound therein was his picture. My! Is 
 that the effect of a bachelor's life? The only con- 
 solation that those of us of seamed faces can resort 
 to is in gazing, not into the mirror, but upon the 
 bright eyes and ruddy faces of our offspring. In 
 1915 he published Some Memories of Haverhill. 
 His educational books have been published in Span- 
 ish and an English edition is largely used in Canada. 
 
 Albert has also taken a prominent part in muni- 
 cipal affairs. He has been a trustee of the Public 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
 
 Library since 1889 ; Chairman of the Park Board 
 until 1912, when he became a member of the Muni- 
 cipal Council, and as a participant in all public 
 meetings and committees he drifted out of educa- 
 tional activities into city administration. Haverhill 
 adopted the Commission form of government in 
 1908, which greatly interested him, and at the urg- 
 ent desire of his friends he became Commissioner 
 of Public Safety in 1912-13-14, and Mayor in 1915 
 and 1916. Again the citizens strongly expressed 
 their wishes, so that in 1920 he came again into 
 the office of Commissioner of Public Safety. 
 
 His community credits him with the qualities of 
 absolute honesty, frankness, courtesy, freedom 
 from any control, except his judgment of the best 
 interests of the municipality, and, withal, a proper 
 amount of conservatism. During the war he busied 
 himself with the helpful home activities and estab- 
 lished the Public Forum for patriotic stimulus, 
 known after the war as the Haverhill Forum, giving 
 throughout the winter a full course of lectures on 
 themes of the highest interest. He has been chair- 
 man of the Forum Committee since its institution. 
 
 He is well and the years have not cooled his 
 spirits or dampened his courage. Naturally, he 
 bows respectfully to his nominal years, but does not 
 feel their influence in loss of strength or vigor. He 
 has always kept up the old home establishment. 
 When you see him you will know what good habits, 
 well controlled emotions, a clean conscience and a 
 life-long devotion to the better interests of the 
 world about one can assure a man of good health. 
 
8 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 EDWIN JULIUS BARTLETT 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 After he had brought the Department of Chem- 
 istry at Dartmouth to a place in the front rank, and 
 had held it there to 1904, it goes without saying 
 that it would never go backward as long as he occu- 
 pied the chair of instruction in that line. Modern 
 demands for instruction in that science are too im- 
 portant and insistent to be out of sight of an alert 
 and progressive mind, and we all recognize the dis- 
 tinguishing qualities of his mind to be alertness and 
 progressiveness. Here in New Hampshire we 
 know that in politics "Ed" is all that and nothing 
 less. 
 
 He was appointed Associate Professor at Dart- 
 mouth in Chemistry in 1878, and was eligible to 
 Carnegie retirement pension at the age of 65 years, 
 but the reason that he resigned, June 30, 1920, was 
 that the age limit is 70, and that age came in his 
 case in February 1921. He thought he would get 
 a trifle ahead of the necessity, and confesses that, 
 after so many years of close attention, he was get- 
 ting a bit tired too, and no wonder. He always dis- 
 played a deep interest in the athletic life at the col- 
 lege and was one who prompted improvements in 
 the opportunities which have grown so wonderfully. 
 The connection which he has had with the Medical 
 Department at the college can be seen by extending 
 Frost's History over this succeeding period. 
 
 In 1907 he went to England with his wife, and in 
 1913 to Italy and Switzerland, returning by way of 
 England. He was a member of the New Hamp- 
 shire Legislature in 1913 as Representative, and was 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
 
 Chairman of the Committee on Public Health; also 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention which 
 convened in 1917 and completed its work in 1921. 
 
 He received the honorary degree of Doctor of 
 Science from Dartmouth College in 1918. Thus, of 
 our class receiving honorary degrees at Dartmouth, 
 we have Frost, Sc. D. in 1897 ; Colby, L. L. D. in 1901 ; 
 Dana, L. L. D. in 1905; Miller, L. L. D. in 1905; Bat- 
 chellor, Lit. D. in 1910; Bartlett, E. J., D. Sc. in 
 1918; Jones, pro mentus, Ph. D. in 1885. 
 
 Of the children, Harriet Louise, first born, mar- 
 ried Moses B. Perkins, Dec. 28, 1904, and he is 
 head master of the Abbott School, Farmington, Me. 
 They have a son and a daughter. Edwin R., Dart- 
 mouth 1904, second child, married Margaret J. 
 Porter, June 2, 1915, and they have one son and two 
 daughters. He is now "Works Manager" of Hook- 
 er Electro-Chemical Co., of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
 Samuel C, Dartmouth 1907, second son, married 
 Dorothy Hinman, Feb. 15, 1915, and they have two 
 daughters. He is Superintendent of Construction 
 of the Hastings Pavement Co., of N. Y., and resides 
 at West Orange, N. J. John Foster, Dartmouth 
 1911, the third son, was in the employ of Hooker 
 Co., N. F., and is now in the Norton Co., also of 
 Niagara Falls. 
 
 Samuel C. was a Captain in the Engineer Section, 
 O. R. C, commissioned May 5, 1917, and ordered 
 to active sendee Dec. 27, 1917, in command of 
 Truck Co. to 23rd of Aug. He was stationed at St. 
 Nazaire, France, from May 1 to Sept 20, 1918, hav- 
 ing left the United States March 29, 1918. He be- 
 longed to 1st Army Corps to Jan. 15, 1919, through 
 the Argonne-Meuse offensive, and was discharged 
 Aug. 1st, 1919. 
 
 Edwin R. was in charge of a plant manufacturing 
 
10 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 explosives, poison gases and their constituents dur- 
 ing the war. 
 
 The younger son, John Foster Bartlett, was in 
 Foreign Service from July 10, 1917, to March 7, 
 1919, First American Field Service, French Army, 
 June 30, 1917, to Aug. 20; Aisne Front, U. S. Air 
 Service; 1st Lieut. Aug. 21, 1917, to March 24, 1919; 
 Issoudin; Tours; C. O. 469th Aero Squadron, Dec. 
 25, 1918, to date of disbandment, March 12, 1919. 
 
 Our classmate was a member of the Committee on 
 Military Relations at Dartmouth during the period 
 of the Student Training Corps in 1918, and was also 
 professor of Chemical Warfare course there. Thus 
 we see that the father and sons contributed their 
 full quota of patriotic efforts during the World War, 
 and the sons, Samuel C. and John F., were in France 
 in the line of peril wherever duty called, and es- 
 caped injury. The writer need make no further 
 comments on our classmate's record; there it is, it 
 speaks for itself and ought to satisfy his ambition 
 and be a worthy addition to the record of his dis- 
 tinguished forbears. Like "Rusty," "Ed" has seven 
 grandchildren. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 11 
 
 ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR 
 Born 1850-4-24; died 1913-6-15. 
 
 He died of arteriosclerosis, having been confin- 
 ed to his bed several weeks. His wife died in 1910. 
 But little can be added to Frost's record, or need be. 
 "Batch" was awarded by Dartmouth in 1910 the 
 degree of Litt. D., and to that we all exclaimed, 
 "most fittingly bestowed. " 
 
 Gradual loss of sight did not prevent his contin- 
 uation of historical work, such as he had devoted 
 himself to for years, but it hampered him in his law 
 practice, yet he kept on to the end to satisfy clients 
 who would not listen to nay. He had wonderful 
 pluck and cheerfulness, despite his infirmity of 
 sight, a growing infirmity which is usually sufficient 
 to put most men "out of business." 
 
 When he went to Commencement, he always met 
 with a warm reception, and his great fund of stories, 
 told in his sui generis way, with rare powers of 
 imitation, always gathered an enjoying circle about 
 him. There was a magnetism about his words and 
 ways that impressed men of his own age and the 
 younger men. 
 
 It was in the fall of 1905 that he lost his eye-sight, 
 and Fletcher Hale of Dart. 1905, while pursuing the 
 study of law, accepted the opportunity of reading 
 and writing for him while studying, and as Hale 
 says, expected to find a man "broken in spirits, de- 
 jected, ready to give up and sit back and take things 
 as they came, but I found, although his affliction had 
 been upon him but a few months, a man who had 
 already discovered the philosophy of Milton con- 
 tained in the last lines of his 'Ode on His Blindness/ 
 
12 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 'They also serve who stand and wait/ and had made 
 his creed one of active service." 
 
 He found at once his good fellowship and good 
 cheer. Hale says that while in his office there was 
 exhibited the whole life of our classmate, — "It was 
 simply summed up in, fight for the right with in- 
 dustry, faith and loyalty." — "So he lived in spite of 
 the darkness, the physical darkness, which confront- 
 ed him, with his eyes of conscience and heart lifted 
 always towards the sun, — Dear Old -Batch." — "He 
 was one who loved his friends, I think, better than 
 any man I ever knew, and because he loved them he 
 made many and kept them." 
 
 Two sons and a daughter survived the father. 
 
 His son, Stillman, took the degree of B. S. at Dart- 
 mouth in 1905, and following that engaged in min- 
 ing engineering until the w T ar came. He then was 
 commissioned a 1st Lieutenant in the Engineering 
 Corps and was assigned to duty on the Mexican 
 border. After closing his war service, he bought a 
 ranch of 1,040 acres near Healdsburg, Cal., where 
 he is now engaged in lumbering and developing his 
 ranch. He married Lillian Henderson, of Portland, 
 Oregon, in November 1919. 
 
 His son, Fred, enlisted in the 42nd N. Y. Infantry 
 at the beginning of our connection with the war, 
 went "overseas" and came back to act in the in- 
 struction of soldiers at Camp Devens and Camp 
 Upton. He had taken post graduate work at Wor- 
 cester Tech. and at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology, and a two-years' course in law in New York. 
 He has been with the United States Rubber Com- 
 pany, and at present is in the General Laboratory 
 of that company in New York City. 
 
 The daughter, Bertha B., married Richard W. 
 Sulloway of PYanklin, N. H., Oct. 30, 1914, and they 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 13 
 
 have a daughter, Mary Jeanette, Born Feb. 1, 1917. 
 Her husband is a manufacturer of hosiery and a 
 graduate of St. Paul's School and later of Harvard 
 in 1898. 
 
 I expressed my opinion of "Batch" once in words 
 which I have no occasion to change, namely: "Mr. 
 Batchellor has practiced under the strenuous meth- 
 ods and in the exacting environment of the bar of 
 northern New Hampshire, with a constantly increas- 
 ing area of professional activity outside the home 
 circuits. His tastes, habits and aptitude in advo- 
 cacy are entirely subordinated to the main purpose 
 of persuasion and of success as the ultimate result. 
 He represents the successful lawyer of this period 
 in prudence and studied adaption to surrounding 
 facts and conditions. His examination of the his- 
 tory of legal principles and decisions is regarded by 
 the court as especially worthy of respect and con- 
 sideration. His approach to the decisions is with 
 particular regard to the practical aspects of the 
 subject in hand, but without losing sight of the the- 
 oretical and historical point of view. His bent of 
 mind is toward a proper reverence for the legal 
 fathers without making 'a fetich of that which com- 
 mends itself only for its antiquity. He does not get 
 out of step with the unmistakable currents of events 
 or the inevitable adaptation of principles to new and 
 changing conditions in a progressive administration 
 oi law. 
 
 "As a lawyer, considered in comparision with the 
 profession as it is in this period, meeting all the im- 
 portant responsibilities before it, he has an all round 
 superiority and, without hazard to any interest or 
 to any client, he is well able to meet on an even 
 footing the senior talent now employed in New 
 Hampshire in important cases." 
 
14 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 JAMES FRANKLIN BEARD 
 Born 1849-10; died 1906-7-2 
 
 He died of heart failure. The accounts of his 
 life and death all show that he was finely regarded 
 in his community of 70,000, and that he was deeply 
 interested in education, morality and religion. His 
 lines of work continued to be financial as a banker 
 and city Treasurer. "Quiet, undemonstrative, often 
 silent and reserved, but forceful, a man of excellent 
 judgment, cultivated mind, generous and kindly of 
 heart and much beloved by his friends. ,, 
 
 A picture then printed at his death showed very 
 little change in his looks as we knew him. His hair 
 was thick and dark, and his face with few lines of 
 care. I recall with great clearness what a wizard 
 he seemed to me in the solving of the hard knots of 
 problems in Mechanics as I worked with him many 
 an evening. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 15 
 
 FRANK TAYLOR BEEDE 
 Born 1849-9-9; died 1905-11-22 
 
 Our brother died soon after our class History was 
 closed so that but little further need be said. His 
 death was the result of heart weakness, following 
 pneumonia in March, 1904, from which he thought 
 he had well recovered. 
 
 He was manager and head salesman of the L. T. 
 Jefts Co., an extensive shoe manufacturing concern. 
 His life was one of devotion, not alone to business, 
 but to many civic duties, to Christian work and to 
 supporting the good causes which he loved. He 
 was frank, resolute in advancing the ideas in which 
 he believed, loyal to his college, and a strong man 
 in his community. 
 
 He left a widow and two sons. She is not in the 
 best of health and is spending the winter in Florida. 
 The older son, Everett J., Boston University, 1905, 
 A. B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1906- 
 '07, post-graduate course, became the successor of 
 his father on the road as salesman for the L. T. 
 Jefts Co. until it closed its business in 1913, when he 
 went into the wholesale oil business, managing the 
 Pennsylvania Refiners Ass'n., of which he is presi- 
 dent. During the war he was an investigator in the 
 Bureau of Investigation of the U. S. Department of 
 Justice. He is married and has two sons and a 
 daughter, and resides at Belmont, Mass. 
 
 The other son, Luman J., was educated in several 
 schools, was on the Mexican border in the 71st 
 N. Y. regiment, later in the Navy during the war, 
 assigned to recruiting service in Detroit and other 
 points in Michigan, and is now working for an ad- 
 vertising concern in Detroit. 
 
16 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 ARTHUR WALTER BLAIR 
 Born 1848-5-22; died 1911-1-18 
 
 The Doctor died suddenly, stricken on his way 
 home from a professional visit. He was able to 
 continue in the practice of his profession up to the 
 end of his days. He had a large field of work, and 
 was regarded with great esteem, not only in his pro- 
 fession, but as a citizen taking an active interest in 
 all good community matters. I had the good for- 
 tune to meet him, much to my surprise, on a steamer 
 on his way to Prince Edward Island, in 1906, where 
 he was making a short trip for rest and pleasure. 
 He was the same cheerful fellow, full of the old- 
 time incidents, and he regaled my family and my- 
 self with many entertaining stories. He had devel- 
 oped into a rare raconteur, and we kept the deck 
 that evening to a late hour. 
 
 He left a wife and two sons, Walter, Dart. 1900, 
 Tuck School 1901, for the last fifteen years has 
 been in the employ of Winslow Bros. & Smith, im- 
 porters and tanners of sheep skins. In 1910 he 
 married Helen Tilden of Cohasset and has two chil- 
 dren, Elizabeth and William. Hugh of Dart. 1904, 
 went to New Orleans soon after graduation and was 
 for years manager of the New Orleans branch of 
 the U. S. Lino Co. Several years ago he went into 
 business for himself and is the owner of the Blair 
 Motor Co. Inc., at Plaque Mine, La. In 1909 he 
 married Meta Lachs of New Orleans, who lived only 
 a few years. In 1915 he married Helen Cefahe, 
 also of New Orleans. He has three children. The 
 wife of our classmate lives at 6 Regina Road, Dor- 
 chester, Mass. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 1 7 
 
 WILLIAM RUSSELL BURLEIGH 
 Born 1851-2-13; died 1916 -1-29 
 
 He remained in Chicago until some six years be- 
 fore his death, when it became important to take up 
 his residence in this State to manage property here. 
 He came to Manchester and had his home in Bed- 
 ford. He did not enter upon the practice of his 
 profession here, although he occasionally sat as 
 Referee in cases committed to him by our courts. 
 
 Whenever I met him, I found him full of good 
 cheer, of active mind and interest in public affairs. 
 He was a strong man in his church, and had taken 
 the high degrees in Masonry. His love for Dart- 
 mouth was as deep as of old. Fruit raising on his 
 wife's farm at Bedford was his hobby, and he set out 
 three hundred trees and they are now just beginning 
 to bear, something that he was counting on to glad- 
 den the years as he grew old. Just before his last 
 sickness he had sat as Referee in a case in Carroll 
 County, and came home somewhat weary from 
 the long hours of the last day of the hearing. Fol- 
 lowing that he died quite suddenly. His funeral 
 was attended by many prominent people and a host 
 of friends. 
 
 Besides his wife, he was survived by his son, John 
 R., who graduated from Exeter in 1910, and Dart- 
 mouth in 1914, and decided to train himself to fol- 
 low a business career. He "made good" in the G. 
 P. Crofts Shoe Co., and is in the office of the com- 
 pany in Boston, and in October 1916 married the 
 only child of Mr. G. P. Crofts, Pauline, and they are 
 blessed with one son, George Crofts Burleigh, their 
 home being in Brookline, Mass. Our classmate's 
 
18 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 daughter, Elinor, died in 1909. The son, John R., 
 would have gone "overseas/' but for a natal defect 
 of his eyes which threw him out in the examination 
 for military service. 
 
 FRANK HENRY CARLETON 
 Born 1849-10-8; died 1916-2-1 
 
 He died from the result of what was regarded as 
 a minor surgical operation. 
 
 A Dartmouth man, well acquainted with our 
 classmate's career, says that he was "One of the 
 most successful and useful men of our class; that he 
 did a great deal of the best law business in Minne- 
 apolis and that he had abundant means and a large 
 acquaintance. " He left a wife who died in March, 
 1920, and six children, Edwin J., a mining engineer; 
 Henry S. and George A., successful lawyers in Min- 
 neapolis; Frank P., in the bond business and a grad- 
 uate of Dartmouth in 1919 and of the Tuck School 
 in 1920, and Margaret S., who was a Junior in Wells 
 College, Aurora, N. Y., in 1920. There are three 
 grandchildren. 
 
 A biographical sketch of "Guy in 1901, gives us 
 also a picture of him, eyes clear and searching, bald- 
 ness of head, full mustache, but few lines of age, 
 facial expression persuasive of confidence and abil- 
 ity. His particular lines in his profession were real 
 estate, probate and financial adjustment cases. He 
 devoted leisure time to scientific research and lit- 
 erary pursuits. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 19 
 
 CHARLES ALFRED CARSON 
 8249 22nd Ave, S. W. Seattle, Wash. 
 
 The wide space of years since our class has had 
 any substantial information about classmate Carson 
 has been abridged by a letter from him, the contents 
 of which will prove intensely interesting, and I can 
 do no better than to copy his report for the most 
 part: "I left my ancestral home near Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 Aug. 15, 1872, for St. Louis, Mo., where I served an 
 apprenticeship of over 3 years in typography and 
 local advertising. In September 1875 I was attract- 
 ed by the report of Gen. Custer and Prof. Jenny to 
 the government in relation to finds of placer gold un- 
 earthed by them in the Black Hills, S. W. Dakota, 
 during the summer of 1875. The Black Hills, or 
 Mountains, were at that time a part of The Great 
 Sioux Reservation and covered an immense area, 
 and Pres. Grant, sensing a rush to these gold fields, 
 issued a proclamation to all citizens of the United 
 States and the rest of mankind not to invade, under 
 penalty of arrest, confiscation of outfit, imprison- 
 ment and fine. However, little attempt was made 
 by the government to stop the great rush for the 
 gold diggings, and on June 25, 1876, the subject of 
 this sketch drove his team of four mules with a 
 heavy load of freight up Deadwood Gulch, Black 
 Hills, where the city of Deadwood is now located, 
 being one of 83 similar outfits which left Kansas 
 City. Mo., on the same procession, all arriving in the 
 same Gulch and at the same time, but passed en 
 route by many thousands with lighter conveyances, 
 or on horseback. Discovering in a few hours after 
 
20 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 arrival that the whole country for many miles had 
 been located for both quartz and placer claims by 
 the vanguard of "sooners" and that there was a 
 great opening for express and freighting from the 
 Union Pacific R. R. to Black Hills settlements, and 
 locally between towns, he promptly entered this 
 field of service and built up a good business, conduct- 
 ed with much profit until June 1878, when he sold 
 out and went at once to Fargo, Dakota, where he en- 
 gaged in real estate and loans until 1882, when he 
 disposed of his Red River holdings and located in 
 Montana. While at Fargo he read law and was ad- 
 mitted to practice in August 1879. Both North and 
 South Dakota were one territory then, and at the 
 Republican territorial convention at Fargo, May 19, 
 1880, he was elected an alternate delegate to the 
 National Convention at Chicago, and, the delegate 
 being absent, he voted for James G. Blaine on 36 
 ballots, as instructed at Fargo. 
 
 In Montana from 1882 to 1886 he engaged in 
 mining and stock raising; 1886 to 1890 he was Pro- 
 bate Judge. 
 
 In 1896 he went to Spokane, Wash, and remained 
 in that vicinity until the opening of the Spanish War 
 when he joined the 1st U. S. Wash. Vol. Inf. and 
 served with that Regiment in the Philippine Insur- 
 rection, from April 1898 until mustered out at Presi- 
 dio, San Francisco, Nov. 1, 1899, then being over 44 
 years of age. 
 
 After that he engaged in orchard work in Wash- 
 ington and later followed the same occupation in 
 Oregon and California as a foreman in several ex- 
 tensive orchards. Since 1910 he has been located 
 in Seattle and is now a berry grower and in nursery 
 work in South Seattle, with encouraging prospects. 
 He is in most excellent health and strength and 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 21 
 
 finds the growing of logan-berries very profitable, 
 returns being realized in a few weeks in summer. 
 He saw the Dartmouth football game at Seattle in 
 November 1920 and rooted as did his family for the 
 old college. 
 
 He was first married, Aug. 4, 1880, in Minneapolis 
 to Kate A. Murphy and by her has had five children, 
 all now alive, three daughters and two sons. The 
 daughters are all married and reside in South Cali- 
 fornia, and the sons reside on farms near Pittsburgh, 
 Pa., and are married. All of his children are grad- 
 uates of High School and each has one or more 
 children." 
 
 His first wife died in 1903 and he married Mrs. 
 Hannah Daggett of Sumner, Wash., in 1907, at Ta- 
 coma. The health of his wife is somewhat precar- 
 ious and may prevent his attending our reunion, a 
 thing he says he would surely do but for that. 
 
22 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 CHARLES HENRY CLEMENT 
 Oakland, Cal. 
 
 I wrote "Clem" in September 1920 for inform- 
 ation, and my feelings were troubled on receiving 
 his response, Sept. 30, that he was in St. Mary's Hos- 
 pital, San Francisco, waiting to be operated on. 
 However, the outlook was encouraging on the basis 
 of a good constitution with a history of good habits 
 and a measure of "early piety" unconnected with 
 fasts, genuflections and any other Puritanical ex- 
 cesses. 
 
 His mind recurred to happy days in the "open," 
 with deer, antelope, black, brown and grizzly bears 
 ahead, and sometimes near enough for the rifle, 
 while geese, ducks, quail, rabbits and fish galore, 
 furnished pictures in abundance to occupy his mind 
 while he awaited anaesthesia, and the table without 
 any relishes. 
 
 He has lived for a year with his son, Earle, at 
 Oakland, and from there has been privileged with 
 many successful trips after bass and trouE. He has 
 killed "rafts" of wild-cats, coyotes, and occasionally 
 a mountain lion, in the years gone by, sport prob- 
 ably unknown to any other '72 man. 
 
 His wife died six years ago. Lecturing and polit- 
 ical speeches by him have received due attention in 
 the "open season," and, having in his earlier career 
 been a prominent educator as well as a lawyer and 
 writer, his services have been much in demand along 
 those lines. Since 1897, until within a year, he has 
 been a scientific fruit grower of cherries and prunes, 
 and has done his full share in putting Santa Clara 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 23 
 
 County at the head of the fruit growing sections of 
 the coast. 
 
 His letter to me in December spoke of his sitting 
 up half of the time, walking a little, and expecting 
 to get out in January. 
 
 His daughter, Edith, married A. E. Davis, son of 
 Geo. E. Davis, Dart. '71, and they have had six 
 children, of whom four boys and one girl are now 
 alive. His son, Charles Earle, is a dentist in Oak- 
 land. He enlisted the day war was declared by the 
 United States, became a 1st Lieutenant and went 
 through the war unscathed. Having divorced his 
 first wife, he married again and has two daughters 
 by the second wife, and thus we find that "Clem" 
 has been grandfather eight times, with seven now 
 living. I think the final returns of your recorder 
 will leave him at the head. 
 
 He remembers Dart, and '72 with unabated in- 
 terest and affection, and, if he moves upward in 
 strength and health as now seems assured, he ought 
 to take a fast train for Hanover in 1922, where he 
 will find that the friendships of youth are sweetened 
 and accentuated by the influences of time and re- 
 flection. 
 
24 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 GEORGE CLARKE COFFIN 
 Born 1851-4-15; died 1913-3-5 
 
 He died suddenly of heart disease near his home 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y. It was thought that the imme- 
 diate cause of his death was the shock of witnessing 
 a collision on the street. 
 
 He was one of the organizers of St. Matthew's 
 Protestant Episcopal Church, West 84th Street, New 
 York. For many years he was a vestryman of that 
 church. Unfortunately family differences had 
 caused his separation from his wife and his removal 
 from New York to Brooklyn. He seems to have had 
 a fair standing in his profession, but had contracted 
 rather a blue way of looking at life. 
 
 He was survived by wife and two children. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 25 
 
 JAMES FAIRBANKS COLBY 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 In 1905, Colby was appointed a lecturer on Juris- 
 prudence in the Law School of Boston University, 
 and having been granted an annual leave of absence 
 from the college since 1897 during the months Jan- 
 uary-April, was enabled to accept this appointment. 
 He also has served the Law School as Lecturer on 
 International Law since 1913. 
 
 In 1906, with Barstow French, he joined a small 
 group of Independent Republicans who under the 
 leadership of Winston Churchill began a campaign 
 to overthrow the Boston & Maine Railroad from its 
 position as controller of New Hampshire politics. 
 Albeit the result of the campaign of that year was a 
 defeat of this revolt within the party, such a strong 
 public opinion was aroused against this corporate 
 domination of the State that it was brought by suc- 
 cessive stages to a virtual end in 1914. During the 
 Presidential campaign of 1912 when this group of 
 Independent Republicans divided their support be- 
 tween Roosevelt and Taft, he gave his allegiance to 
 the latter. In 1912, he revised his Manual of the 
 Constitution of New Hampshire, which was repub- 
 lished by the State for the use of the Constitutional 
 Convention in that year, but he declined to accept 
 a nomination as a delegate to that convention. 
 
 In 1914, he was traveling with his sister in Eu- 
 rope, and had just passed from Germany into Swit- 
 zerland when the World War was declared. After 
 the mobilization of the French army was completed, 
 they struggled through France by way of Lyons, 
 
26 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 Paris and Boulogne, amid the difficulties then en- 
 countered by Americans fleeing from the Continent, 
 and reached London safely on August 23rd. De- 
 tained there by the requisitioning of the steamer 
 upon which they had engaged their homeward pass- 
 age, they witnessed England's active preparations 
 for a long war, the drilling of a part of Kitchener's 
 "first hundred thousand" and the reception of the 
 wounded after the Battle of the Marne, until pass- 
 age homeward on the Mauretania allowed them to 
 land in New York on September 23rd. 
 
 At Commencement in 1916, five years before 
 reaching what has become the usual age for retire- 
 ment from a collegiate office, in the hope of conserv- 
 ing his defective eyesight and in the belief that the 
 best interests of the college would be promoted by 
 his giving way to a successor who could give his 
 whole time to its service, he resigned the Parker 
 Professorship of Law and Political Science to which 
 he had been elected upon its establishment in 1885. 
 The Trustees, upon accepting his resignation, passed 
 the following resolution: "Voted: That in accept- 
 ing at his own urgent request the resignation of 
 Doctor James Fairbanks Colby, for thirty-one years 
 Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, 
 the trustees record their high and grateful appre- 
 ciation of Professor Colby's long, faithful and dis- 
 tinguished service as a valued teacher and councilor 
 of the College,' and elected him to be Professor 
 Emeritus in the college. Since 1916 he has contin- 
 ued his services as lecturer in the Law School of 
 Boston University. His permanent residence is 
 Hanover, N. H., but during; the winter months his 
 address is 11 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. 
 
 It has been my privilege to meet Colby occasional- 
 ly and also to receive letters of good cheer. Tuttle* 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 27 
 
 Savage, Mills and myself met him and his sister at 
 the Sesquicentennial in October 1919, and lunched 
 with them and Ed Bartlett and his wife at Bartlett's 
 home, and all of us certainly had a delightful ex- 
 change of retrospects and reflections. The old 
 glories of Dartmouth and the life of '72 glowed as 
 we talked and looked into each other's faces, and 
 Colby, though imperfect vision has long somewhat 
 hampered his activities, shone with a warmth of 
 friendship and personal interest that had even 
 strengthened, if possible, under the ripening influ- 
 ence of years. 
 
 In 1901 Dartmouth conferred the degree of L. L. 
 D. on our classmate. 
 
 WILLIAM HAZEN COTTON 
 Born 1846-2-6; died 1904-8-25 
 
 He was survived by his wife. The former His- 
 tory completes the story of one of our most interest- 
 ing and genial classmates. 
 
28 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 CHARLES LOOMIS DANA 
 53 West 53rd Street, New York City 
 
 I had a letter from Dana, Jan. 10, 1921, and he 
 told me to "fix it up" as I pleased, but his letter was 
 so much better than anything I could "fix up" that 
 here it is: 
 
 "Responding to your kindly urge, I send you here- 
 with the annals of my last fifteen years — and now 
 will the various agencies at Dartmouth, which write 
 to me every year ter-que, quaterque for money 
 kindly take notice! Said agencies address and so- 
 licit me as Mr. 'Chas. Dana/ and probably visualize 
 me as an obscure but opulent citizen of New York 
 who will gain distinction by contributing to a skat- 
 ing-rink, or swimming pool, dramatic club or other 
 form of educational uplift. As a matter of fact I 
 am still a doctor of medicine and have not dropped 
 my middle name. 
 
 In 1904 I was elected President of the New York 
 Academy of Medicine, and I have been a Trustee, 
 and Chairman of its Committee on Public Health 
 since finishing my term of office as president. I 
 have continued my work as Professor of Nervous 
 Diseases in Cornell University Medical College and 
 am still on the job with a couple of Associate Pro- 
 fessors and a staff of assistants. With these I have 
 organized and established a department for nervous 
 diseases in Bellevue, our largest City Hospital for 
 acute diseases. I have just got out the 9th edition 
 of my Textbook of Nervous Diseases first published 
 20 odd years ago. Of course with all this I have 
 done a lot of talking and writing, most of it only 
 of technical interest. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 29 
 
 With my brothers there has been established a so- 
 called "Elm Tree Press" which does fine work at 
 Woodstock, Vt., and here I have played with the 
 Latin Classics. We put out a "Horace for Modern 
 Readers," long now out of print, and later transla- 
 tions of some of the Satires and Epistles, with var- 
 ious historical and archaeological booklets. These 
 include illustrations of Horace's Villa, the site of 
 which we were the first in modern times to uncover 
 and photograph. I have compiled and published a 
 small anthology, called "Fragments from Parnas- 
 sus," and become a collector and student and not a 
 writer of poetry. These have been my avocations. 
 
 I suppose that I must record that Dartmouth gave 
 me an L. L. D. in 1905. 
 
 Since the loss of my wife, I have never married, 
 but lived with my three children. My youngest 
 daughter, Elsie, died ten years ago, and my son, 
 Loomis, who enlisted as private in the Marines, died 
 in France in October, 1918. My remaining daugh- 
 ter, Marjorie, who worked in Belgium at the front 
 and in France, is married and she and her husband 
 and small daughter live with me in New York at the 
 old stand. 
 
 I see Dartmouth every year, but I fear I have out- 
 grown it. I find Jim Colby there, as austerely 
 humorous as ever, and last summer I joyfully grasp- 
 ed the hand of Ed. Bartlett. Tom Worthen never 
 grows old. Here in New York I meet Doc. Silver, a 
 mighty good friend who has made his reputation as 
 a surgeon. Bob Welch has become shy, at least we 
 rarely meet. Chuck Miller I see oftenest and he re- 
 tains his youth and activity, celerity and hilarity of 
 mind, being also now the dean and leading journal- 
 ist and editorial writer of the country. He wears 
 the insignia of honor of three countries. Returning 
 
30 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 to 'Mr. Chas. Dana/ I play golf and still have a 
 handicap of 14 and can play 36 holes a day, but not 
 often. I smoke always and drink when I can, and 
 go to Church on Sunday when in New England 
 where I get the pure gospel. What more need I 
 say, Barstow, 'O saepe mecum tempus in ultima- 
 tum,' except to add for you and all : 
 
 Trecor, integra cum mente; nee turpem senec- 
 tam/ 
 
 'Degere, nee amicis carentem?' 
 
 Get your old pony out and see if you can read Ode 
 1-31. 
 
 Fraternally yours." 
 
 I got the sentiment of the quotation in my own 
 way but I do not propose to lighten the efforts of the 
 Phi Beta Kappa. Dig it out, fellows, and then com- 
 pare with your own sentiments and attitude. This 
 is what Miller says about Dr. Dana : "In addition to 
 his very high standing in his own specialty for nerv- 
 ous diseases, it ought to be said that he has come to 
 a position of prominence in what may be called 
 Public Medicine. The Academy of Medicine has 
 organized a department to consider questions of 
 sanitation and measures to be taken against epidem- 
 ics like the influenza or poliomyelitis. Dana was the 
 organizer and has been at the head since its estab- 
 lishment, and he often writes communications on 
 those subjects for professional journals or the public 
 press. There is no physician in New York more 
 highly respected personally and professionally." 
 
 This is what Dr. Silver writes to me: "I have the 
 warmest regard and admiration for Dana. His 
 classmates outside of the medical profession cannot 
 have any idea of the very high position he occupies 
 in the profession." 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 31 
 
 MIRANDUS RUGG DUSTIN 
 Born 1850-2-6; died 1919-2-. 
 
 Nothing has been gathered about his life since 
 brother Frost's report, which he said was incom- 
 plete. Evidently Dustin did not succeed in making 
 that use of his advantages which was to be expected 
 of a college graduate. He died in Roxbury, Mass., 
 in February, 1919, destitute of the ministrations of 
 relatives and friends. How his later years became 
 so pathetic and destitute of interest to those who 
 were acquainted with him, and why so cheerless, 
 will never be known to us. 
 
32 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 ALFRED RANDALL EVANS 
 Gorham, N. H. 
 
 I received a letter from Evans 1st. and it covers 
 all that is necessary to show that he has been living 
 up to his fine record established before 1904 and 
 described in our last report. The following is a 
 copy of his letter: 
 
 "Gorham, N. H., Jan. 25th, 1921. 
 My dear French : 
 
 Since 1904, when Frost's sketch ended, I have 
 resided in Gorham, and carried on a fire insurance 
 and law business, and am so now engaged, although 
 not as actively as heretofore, still I attend to busi- 
 ness regularly every day. As you know, in the sum- 
 mer of 1919 I had a severe illness, and submitted to 
 a surgical operation at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital 
 in Hanover. I had a good recovery, and am in very 
 good health. 
 
 I have continued, and am now, President of the 
 Gorham Savings Bank. The bank has been grow- 
 ing, and has a most satisfactory period under my 
 administration. In 1912, as in 1902, I was elected 
 by vote of all parties a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention, and also of the present Convention of 
 1918-20-21. This is the only office I have permitted 
 my town's voters to cast their ballots for me in re- 
 cent years. I was appointed Quartermaster Gener- 
 al of the N. H. National Guard, on the staff of Gov. 
 C. M. Floyd, was reappointed by Gov. Quimby and 
 also by Gov. Bass, thus serving for five years, until 
 there was a reorganization of staff officials. 
 
 Have been, since its organization, president of the 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 33 
 
 Berlin-Gorham Bar Association, and have served as 
 president of the Coos County Bar Association. I 
 retired on March 21, 1919 from the position of 
 Judge of Probate for Coos Co., on account of the age 
 limitation in our state constitution, having served 
 over twenty-four years. My term was an agreeable 
 one to me, and apparently acceptable to the citizens 
 of my county. Expressions of regret at my close of 
 office were universal. 
 
 I have been twice married. My first wife died on 
 May 10, 1908, and I married again an December 14, 
 1911, Mrs. Marion J. Aldrich of Colebrook. We 
 reside on Main Street in Gorham. 
 
 I trust the above may assist you in completing 
 your labor of love for our class, and that many of 
 us may be permitted to join together in Hanover for 
 our 50th Anniversary next Summer." 
 
 I may add that Alfred is a member of the N. H. 
 Historical Society. A complimentary luncheon was 
 given him by members of the bar at Lancaster, fol- 
 lowing his retirement as Judge of Probate. This 
 was said at the time : "His countless friends recog- 
 nize that he is still possessed of the spirit of youth 
 and abundantly able to carry on the work of his of- 
 fice. Judge Evans has conducted the probate work 
 in a manner which may never be duplicated and his 
 friendships among the lawyers have increased with 
 the years." 
 
34 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 WILLIAM WEBSTER EVANS 
 Born 1849-11-16; died 1912-3-17 
 
 William died quite suddenly of heart trouble. 
 Latterly he had been of the firm of Willard & 
 Evans, and had been highly successful and was 
 widely known. He was a charter member of the 
 Illinois Club of Chicago and in out-door life was an 
 expert hunter and fisherman. Unfortunately, hav- 
 ing access to none of the published articles at the 
 time of his decease, giving a resume of his mature 
 life, my report is necessarily thus brief. However, 
 Frost's report is our recourse. 
 
 He was survived by a wife and four daughters. 
 The wife has not had that perfect health which is 
 desirable, but her health has improved considerably 
 so that she is keeping young in spirits, is active and 
 living in Greenwood Inn, Evanston, 111. 
 
 The eldest daughter, Marion, graduate of Smith 
 College, married Edward Stanwood, Jr., June 15, 
 1907, a graduate of Bowdoin, occupation shipping, 
 and they reside at Wellesley Hills, Mass. They 
 have three children, Edward 3rd. 1908, Evans, 1911, 
 and daughter, Shirley, 1914, and the mother thinks 
 the boys will both go to Dartmouth. Of Marion I can 
 speak from personal knowledge. She is the em- 
 bodiment of her father's energy, a real "live wire," 
 making efficient "Drives" in whatever she under- 
 takes, whether home-making, golf, Smith College 
 millions, or any other noble community aifair. 
 
 Alice, next in age, graduate of Smith, also of 
 Wellesley College in the Department of Physical 
 Hygiene, is Assistant Professor, head of Department 
 of Physical Education for women in Pomona Col- 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 35 
 
 lege, California. She was in the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the U. S. Army as a Reconstruction Aide in 
 Physical Therapy in the Walter Reed General Mil- 
 itary Hospital at Washington, D. C, from August 
 4 to September 8, 1918, when she was mobilized for 
 foreign service September 24 of that year and soon 
 went overseas to France and was stationed at Ri- 
 mancourt in the Vosges foothills in October, under 
 appointment in France as Head Reconstruction 
 Aide. Later she was transferred to the Headquar- 
 ters for Reconstruction Aides, connected with Base 
 Hospital 34 in Nantez, where she served from No- 
 vember 10, 1918 to May 16, 1919, when her U. S. A. 
 unit was sent home, but she joined the Smith Col- 
 lege Relief Unit in the Somme, having charge of the 
 children's work until September 6, when she came 
 home. 
 
 Edith, next in age, married E. Prebble Harris, 
 who is in the iron construction business. They re- 
 side at Forest River, a suburb of Chicago. She 
 spent two years at Smith College. 
 
 Ruth, the fourth daughter, is to finish, December 
 24th, a three years' nurses' training course at St. 
 Luke's Hospital, Chicago. 
 
 Surely, this family, in its noble commitment to the 
 tender humanities, honors the parents and speaks 
 of something inbred. 
 
36 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 LEWIS GRIEVE FARMER 
 15 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Down to the time of Frost's record, Farmer had 
 sustained quasi-judicial relations to the Bankruptcy- 
 Court as Referee, and to other Courts as Auditor, 
 Referee and Master in Chancery. In 1907 he was 
 obliged to step aside from his hard work for a while 
 and give serious attention to his physical condition 
 which he had assumed was invulnerable against 
 severe application. In very truth, nervous prostra- 
 tion, not uncommon to imperfect constitutions, had 
 cracked the superior vigor of our athlete. In ad- 
 dition to his quasi-judicial burdens, he was Secre- 
 tary of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount 
 Vernon, with a fine office and a liberal salary, and 
 had a good list of permanent clients. Too much 
 strain will pull a draft horse off his feet, and that 
 big knot of nerves at the head of the spine has all 
 the vulnerability of the heel of Achilles. 
 
 But in January 1912, he had recovered sufficient- 
 ly to resume practice of law. The judges were very 
 considerate when they found "Richard was himself 
 again," so that, with Master's and Auditor's cases, 
 receiverships, trusteeships in bankruptcy, and the 
 examination of titles for the Land Court, he has 
 kept up with the procession. In March 1917, his 
 good friend, Sam McCall, appointed him one of the 
 Public Administrators for Suffolk County, bringing 
 to him responsible duties for which he is fit and 
 which he enjoys. 
 
 His health is very good, and he is not yet ready to 
 drop his golf clubs. His wife is well, and devoted 
 like grand-daddy to the seven grandchildren, of 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 37 
 
 whom Allen B., Dart. 1903, is the father of one, 
 Marian W., the mother of three, and Malcom, Shef- 
 field 1904, the father of three. Both Allen B. and 
 Malcom are very successful business men and 
 Marian did great work during the war as one of 
 Hoover's assistants and as superintendent of a thou- 
 sand-woman operatives in an air-plane factory. 
 During the late election she stumped Pennsylvania 
 for Harding. "Rusty" has the old-time confidence 
 in a Democratic Captain for the Ship of State, al- 
 though he has survived many mortal voyages with 
 commanders whom he did not choose. 
 
 I suppose there is scarcely a person in the class 
 who knows the origin of the tenacious name of 
 "Rusty." It was attributed to the famous serenade 
 in our Freshman year on the return of the French 
 language professor from his wedding trip, in which 
 affair our classmate was more easily recognized 
 than other Freshmen by reason of a jack o' lantern 
 of pumpkin variety carried on his head in the pro- 
 cession, for which awful offense it was hastily guess- 
 ed that he was "rusticated" to pass a time in exile 
 with some country parson in hard study. 
 
 The fact was, the only penalty imposed was to 
 remain out of recitations the balance of the term 
 with "Bill" Evans of our class as tutor, and the 
 name was "wished" on him by "Bill" as a bit of his 
 abounding humor, perhaps suggested by the Latin 
 word "rusticus" as the equivalent of Farmer. It 
 may be wicked at this late date to invade the sacred 
 realms of tradition, still our classmate should not be 
 associated with Romulus and Remus and immortal- 
 ized with the tradition of nurture in the skim-milk 
 study of a parson, ignoring the trying task of Evans, 
 hanging onto the straining leash of this thorough- 
 bred courser. 
 
38 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 It is a great event to meet "Rusty," feel his gen- 
 erous soul in the warmth of his salutations, as I have 
 had the privilege far too infrequently, and to see 
 that years and close application have not changed 
 a most frank and loyal nature. I always, on leav- 
 ing him, soliloquize, "Sure, it seems just like the old- 
 time bursting exuberance of strong life and lasting 
 friendship." 
 
 ARTHUR GREEN FITZ 
 Born 1848-8-10; died 1902-3-13 
 
 Nothing need be added to the former History. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 39 
 
 GEORGE HARLEY FLETCHER 
 165 Broadway, New York City 
 
 Since the History of Frost, Fletcher has continued 
 substantially in the same lines of everyday life. 
 His wife still remains active mistress of her house- 
 hold; his boys have prospered. Both Henry and 
 Robert fell into currents in the Preparatory School 
 of Brooklyn which led them to Yale, where they had 
 honorable careers and graduated respectively in 
 1898 and 1901. They both subsequently attended 
 Harvard Law School and took their degrees in due 
 course in 1901 and 1904. 
 
 Henry broke the record in that school as the first 
 non-Harvard man to become Treasurer as well as 
 one of the editors of the Harvard Law Review. 
 After proper clerkship with prominent law firms 
 outside the family, they commenced their practice 
 of law in New York City, and in due course Henry 
 became the head of the firm of Fletcher, Sillcocks 
 & Leahy, composed entirely of his Yale Classmates 
 and roommates, which firm later Robert joined. 
 They continued the practice of their profession with 
 honor and success under that name until the consol- 
 idation of their firm with others as noted later. 
 
 The professional life of their father has been a 
 course of slow but consistent growth. The firm of 
 Fletcher, McCutcheon & Brown had arisen from an 
 office association in which the three partners were 
 originally office mates and in which one of them was 
 also the son of a long time office associate who 
 had reached the age of retirement. This firm con- 
 tinued until 1915 when Mr. McCutcheon (Yale 70) 
 was taken out of the firm by death; the survivors 
 continued under the same firm name until April, 
 
40 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 1920, when Fletcher, McCutcheon & Brown, Fletch- 
 er, Sillcocks & Leahy, Blair & Rudd and Blair & 
 Twyeffort, all of whom had been long and closely 
 allied by office association and general business con- 
 nection, were consolidated in the present firm of 
 Fletcher, Brown, Sillcocks & Twyeffort, under 
 which name they are now associated at No. 165 
 Broadway, New York City, and at Fifth Avenue, 
 corner 44th Street, New York City. 
 
 Apart from strictly professional work, Fletcher's 
 life has been varied by several foreign tours com- 
 mencing in 1889 when he established his sons in the 
 Gymnasia, Hannover, Germany, and by annual 
 trips to different parts of the United States includ- 
 ing the Yellowstone National Park and Alaska. 
 These, with alternate weeks during the summer at 
 Spring Lake Beach, New Jersey, with incidental 
 gardening and motoring, have furnished rest and 
 recreation. Also he is, and has been for more than 
 ten years, the President of the Spring Lake Casino 
 which is a bathing and tennis club, and besides is a 
 member of the Riding and Driving Club of Brook- 
 lyn. 
 
 His son Henry was married to May Sinclair Sloan 
 on June 7th, 1909. She died November 26th, 
 1910. His present wife was Ethel Thompson to 
 whom he was married on June 3rd, 1913. They 
 have no children. Robert is still unmarried. 
 
 In addition to his law practice, his son Henry is 
 also Chairman of the Board of the Swan & Finch 
 Company which has its business office at No. 522 
 Fifth Avenue, New York City, in the same building 
 with one of the offices of the law firm. 
 
 Mrs. Fletcher, as well as her husband, her two 
 sons and her son's wife, were active in service of 
 various kinds during the World War either in Red 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 41 
 
 Cross work, inspection of War Boards or in Appeal 
 service in connection with the Draft Enforcement 
 Board in the city and country between which they 
 divided their time. 
 
 Their political and religious affiliations and be- 
 liefs continue as outlined in our former History. His 
 son Henry is Treasurer of the Citizens' Union, which 
 remains active in its guard over the local affairs of 
 New York City, and is a sharp critic and opponent 
 of Tammany Hall. He is also a deacon in the Fifth 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York. His 
 summer residence is at Field Point Park, Green- 
 wich, Conn; his winter residence at No. 270 Park 
 Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Fletcher has attended two reunions, on the twen- 
 ty-fifth and fortieth anniversaries of graduation, 
 and is making his plans to be present at the fiftieth. 
 He reports his health to be excellent, which he at- 
 tributes largely to regular exercise which consists 
 in part of a daily morning walk from house to office, 
 a distance of nearly four miles. 
 
 ALBRA FOGG 
 Born 1849-8-10; died 1913-8-8 
 
 I learn from the Register of Probate of Carroll 
 County that our classmate was considered one of 
 the best citizens of the community where he lived. 
 On account of defective eyes he was hampered in 
 choosing an occupation, and spent the last years of 
 his life in teaching schools in Ossipee and adjoin- 
 ing towns. He was given the degree of A. M. by 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 I do not learn that he ever married. 
 
42 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 WILLIAM PLUMER FOWLER 
 Born 1850-10-3; died 1918-7-3 
 
 Although he had had valvular heart trouble for 
 a long time, he had been attending to business and 
 was at his office in Boston the day before his death. 
 
 Quoting from an article by Frances M. Abbott in 
 the Granite Monthly, "Mr. Fowler was much more 
 than a successful lawyer. A man of fine literary 
 taste, conversant with the best literature of the 
 world, a judicious philanthropist, devoting years of 
 his life to unpaid services in connection with the 
 city's important charities; a man of domestic qual- 
 ities, whose immediate relatives had most occasion 
 to know his sterling worth,— withal a religious man 
 who reverently followed the deeds of the Master as 
 well as the observances of the church, he preferred 
 the higher things of life and contributed to the 
 world's sum of good." 
 
 Our class History covers the many important in- 
 terests in which he was long engaged and to which 
 he devoted unstinted time and labor. Quite close 
 to the time of his death he acted as corporation 
 counsel for Boston to bridge over a gap, for which 
 he received the warmest thanks of Mayor Peters. 
 By Governor Foss he was appointed Chairman of 
 the Boston License Board, an important commission 
 controlling every liquor license in Boston. His ap- 
 pointment was unpopular among the machine poli- 
 ticians of each party, because it meant emphatically 
 that the Chairman would not be part or parcel of 
 either machine, or under the influence of the liquor 
 dealers. 
 
 Soon after his death, as a permanent memorial in 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 43 
 
 honor of his devotion to the poor of his city and the 
 prevention of poverty, friends started a fund for the 
 Industrial Aid Society to be known as the William 
 P. Fowler Fund. The Society had existed for 
 seventy years, and of it he had been president since 
 1900. It was said by the founders of the Fund, 
 "The lesson of such a life should not pass unheed- 
 ed."*** "In this way his influence will still give aid 
 and comfort to that large class of unfortunates that 
 he helped when living." The original name of the 
 Society was suggestive of its purpose, "Prevention 
 of Pauperism." 
 
 For many years he was a parishioner of Edward 
 Everett Hale, a close friend, and from him he ac- 
 quired many of his ideals, broad religious views and 
 wide interest in human affairs. In memoriam, said 
 the Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches, 
 "As a wise counsellor, a faithful and efficient stew- 
 ard of its funds and as a constructor and preserver 
 of its buildings, he rendered services of inestimable 
 value. A man of irreproachable character, just and 
 honorable in all his dealings." 
 
 Besides his widow, he was survived by two sons, 
 William P. and Philip, and a daughter, Katharine. 
 William P. is a Senior at Dartmouth and after grad- 
 uating will take a year at Harvard in the Law 
 School, and then determine whether he will be a 
 lawyer, guided by what he discovers to be his prob- 
 able fitness and taste. Philip is fitting himself for 
 college at the Country Day School in Newton and 
 when fitted expects to go to Dartmouth. Katharine 
 is taking her last year at Windsor School in Boston, 
 and next autumn intends to go to Bryn Mawr Col- 
 lege. Everything in the education of the children 
 is proceeding according to the plans of the father. 
 
44 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 JOSEPH ALLEN FREEMAN 
 Born 1841-11-14; died 1906-9-15 
 
 He died suddenly by reason of heart failure. He 
 was then pastor of Deep River Congregational 
 Church, Connecticut, having been there only since 
 April, 1906. It was said of him, "As a preacher, 
 able and impressive, of sweet and evangelical spirit, 
 — in the best sense a gospel preacher, ever seeking 
 to win souls to Christ. In pastoral work he was es- 
 pecially apt, appealing to all classes with a tender- 
 ness and sympathy that made him a true shepherd. " 
 
 He was survived by a wife, a son, George H., a 
 lawyer of Waterbury, Conn., of excellent standing, 
 and a daughter living with her mother at home. 
 
 I had a unique experience with "Joe" in 1871. It 
 was characteristic of his frank nature. We were 
 competing with eager interest for a prize in speak- 
 ing, and he proposed that we go to the woods and 
 hear each other speak and criticise. We did so, 
 and one can never forget such a revelation of qual- 
 ities of heart in another. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 45 
 
 ASA MILTON FRENCH 
 Corpus Christi, Texas 
 
 "French 1st." knew the object of study whereby 
 he attained such high rank in Mathematics, and he 
 has made remarkably good use of that training ever 
 since. When Frost gave him the degree, C. E. pro 
 meritus, Asa was Chief Engineer of the St. L. B. & 
 M. Ry. in Texas, and he kept right on as such until 
 August 1903, having finished the location of the 
 line from the Nueces River on the north to Browns- 
 ville on the Rio Grande. This was all new line 
 work on a road chartered in 1903, requiring a C. E. 
 of experience and tried capacity. 
 
 Besides that kind of work, he turned his attention 
 to land surveying, principally connected with Court 
 surveys and the arbitration of lines. He entered 
 the law firm of McCampbells & Stayton in April, 
 1907, chiefly to take charge of abstract work in 
 Nueces County. Mr. Stayton dying in September, 
 Asa took over the abstract work until 1914, when 
 he sold out. In 1907 he was of the firm of French 
 & Haberer, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, in 
 which firm he remained until 1916, cutting up about 
 250,000 acres of large cattle ranches into quarter- 
 sections, for farming. 
 
 Since then he has done as much of similar work 
 as he cared to do. It is plain that he has done a 
 large amount of work of importance and respons- 
 ibility. Since the organization of the First State 
 Bank of Corpus Christi in 1907, more than a two- 
 million dollar bank, he has been a director. 
 
 He is in good health, and thought he had retired 
 from active professional service in 1918, but war 
 conditions and severe storms in 1919, affecting 
 
46 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 farming returns, induced him to get into the harness 
 again. He had had two farms to look after all 
 along, and Texas weather freaks make farming a 
 little precarious. 
 
 In war time Asa was one of the 'Tour Minute' 7 
 speakers who stirred people of means to action, 
 took a hand in all the bond selling and war charity 
 "Drives," took his share of the various bond 
 issues as assigned by the Committee, and was a 
 member of the Legal Advisory Board of his County, 
 being one of only two who could speak Spanish to 
 the resident Mexicans, subject to the draft ques- 
 tionnaire. Six years service as School Trustee of 
 the Corpus Christi Indian School District is to his 
 credit. 
 
 His wife and children are all well and his daugh- 
 ter, Anna Maude, lives with her parents and is un- 
 married. Mrs. French took a lively interest in the 
 last election. The older son, Francis, did his best 
 in war time to get into the navy and later the army, 
 but a slight physical trouble disqualified him so he 
 continued to work where he had been, in a ship yard. 
 The other son, Herbert, waited until he graduated 
 from the High School in 1918, and then tried for the 
 navy but was found too light for his height, so he 
 tried for the aviation and passed all the tests but 
 was too late to get into service. He is now in the 
 Kansas State A. & M. College, studying mechanical 
 engineering. 
 
 The Republican party still has attractions for 
 Asa, but he is not going to exalt the party to the 
 skies unless it qualifies by mighty deeds rather than 
 by the glory of mighty land-slides. He was at our 
 reunion in 1912, and nothing less than a Texas cy- 
 clone or something unlooked for will keep him and 
 his enterprising wife from being at Hanover in 1922. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 47 
 
 GEORGE BARSTOW FRENCH 
 
 Nashua, N. H. 
 
 None of his classmates are near enough to him to 
 have much knowledge of his law practice or be- 
 havior, therefore this report should be accepted 
 with grains of salt. He has plodded along the 
 lines indicated in our former History, with no such 
 indications of senile lesion as it would be kind to 
 notice. Some ten years ago he slackened his pace 
 by gradually shunting jury trials, and thereby has 
 found more time and comfort in administering 
 various trusts, of which he has had enough to keep 
 him from rusting out, along with equity matters and 
 office practice. 
 
 He has had no good reason to complain of what 
 has come to his business lot but is contented. In 
 most cases before the courts he found listening 
 minds with fair approval of his discussions of law. 
 In politics he has been a Republican. In 1912 he 
 became President of a Non-Partisan Civic League in 
 his city, organized to secure a new and up-to-date 
 charter, participated in its preparation, the securing 
 of its enactment and its adoption by the voters. It 
 is unique among other city charters of this state. 
 He was appointed Chairman of the Legal Advisory 
 Board for his district, to aid in the draft, and served 
 several months, 1917-1918. His clients and the 
 community seem to continue to regard him with con- 
 fidence and favor. During the war he co-operated 
 in all the "drives" as earnestly as his nature and 
 ability allowed. 
 
 In the out-door life, he has indulged "ad libitum" 
 since 1904. Fishing for salmon in Newfoundland 
 ten seasons from 1906, his opinion of the sport is, 
 
48 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 "nothing so royal." Tracking deer on the snows of 
 Maine and New Hampshire for 25 years, his dreams 
 have been haunted by forty "departed spirits." Not 
 a few whirring ducks and partridges disturb the ser- 
 enity of his conscience, and he has lured into the 
 frying-pan thousands of trout and black bass. 
 These diversions, in his opinion, have served to pro- 
 long his life, and make his working days more effi- 
 cient and useful. 
 
 Mrs. French is alive and in fairly good health. 
 Their older son, Robert A., Dart. 1905, A. B., Har- 
 vard Univ., 1908, L. B., practiced law along side of 
 his father until May 1918, when, failing to pass the 
 severe physical examination for the Tank Corps in 
 which he sought to enlist, he was operated on for 
 his defect, hernia, and, not to be denied doing his 
 bit in army service, offered himself again, was com- 
 missioned a Captain in the U. S. A., July 29, 1918, 
 and assigned to the Military Intelligence Dept. of 
 the General Staff at Washington, D. C, where he 
 died in the service, Dec. 17, 1918, of the influenza 
 then prevailing. He was highly spoken of by his 
 superior officers as capable, diligent, dutiful and 
 valuable in his line of work. In Nashua he was rat- 
 ed as a good lawyer, affable, kindly considerate of 
 everybody and without an enemy. In 1912 he was 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention; in 1913- 
 15-17, three successive terms, he was a member of 
 the Legislature; 1911-12, member of City Council; 
 1916 to decease, Alderman of his Ward; and Aug. 
 31, 1917, appointed special justice of the Police 
 Court of Nashua, which office he held until he died. 
 
 The other son, George M., Dart. 1911, A. B., Bos- 
 ton Univ. 1914, L. L. B., "cum laude," opened an 
 office in Springfield, Mass., in 1914 and practiced 
 law there until June 1917, when he enlisted in the 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 49 
 
 Massachusetts National Guard as a private, and his 
 company became a part of the 104th U. S. Infantry. 
 In early October, the 104th Regiment, a part of Gen. 
 Edwards' 26th (Y. D.) Division, sailed for France. 
 After three months' intensive training, the division 
 was sent up to the front of the Chemin des Dames 
 to get experience in the trenches along side of the 
 French Army Corps. 
 
 From Feb. 19, 1918 until July 17 his regiment 
 participated in various encounters and battles with- 
 out much rest until the Aisne-Marne offensive, dur- 
 ing which Sgt. French was gassed and in September 
 sent to Base Hospital No. 6 at Bordeaux. His 
 recovery being slow, he was sent back to the U. S. 
 Nov. 5, 1918, and in Feb. 1919 was discharged from 
 the Army at U. S. Gen. Hospital No. 9 at Lakewood, 
 N. J., in fair physical condition. In May 1919 he 
 became a partner with his father at Nashua. Sept. 
 18, 1920, he married Miss Margaret Whittemore, of 
 Middletown, Ohio. 
 
 The elder daughter, Ruth H., Smith Col. 1902, 
 B. A., Columbia Univ. 1910, B. S., taught in New 
 York one year, was abroad 1912-1913; was the first 
 woman to serve as a member of the Nashua Board 
 of Education, 1913-19; from Feb. 1918 to May 1919 
 in the War Dept. Intelligence Bureau; is now Ex- 
 ecutive Sec. of Voluntary Service, Metropolitan 
 Chapter of American Red Cross at Boston, Mass. 
 
 The other daughter, Helen B., graduated from 
 Nashua High School, 1902, attended Abbott Acad- 
 emy, Andover, Mass., a year, Smith College a year, 
 when it was deemed best for her to rest a while 
 from study and give good health the right-of-way. 
 Good health resulted, enabling her to be active and 
 all the time occupied in many home and community 
 matters which thoroughly interest her. 
 
50 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 WILLIAM WESLEY FRENCH 
 Livermore, Calif. 
 
 "French 3rd" steadily and successfully practiced 
 law in Gloucester, Mass., until some four years ago, 
 and was Judge of the local District Court. He was 
 then induced to cease "boring for water" before 
 juries, attack the oil resources of California and 
 manage a company organized to drill deep enough 
 to tap the fountains of the earth. For two years 
 he attended to that business, and then found that it 
 would take more time than was expected to release 
 the pent-up flood, therefore he resigned his judge- 
 ship in the District Court, the same being accepted 
 regretfully with complimentary allusions by Gov. 
 Sam McCall. 
 
 Then our classmate settled down with smiling de- 
 termination to see the oil out, if the drilling process 
 reached to the sulphurous regions. He is General 
 Manager of the Atlantic & Western Oil Co., located 
 in its operations at Livermore, California. A news 
 item furnished me shows the identical formation to 
 discover which settees and chairs used used to be 
 turned upside down by excited '72 men in Culver 
 Hall. After drilling down 3,000 feet, it was found 
 that only the well remembered sandstone measures 
 of the Tertiary era and Cretaceous period obstruct- 
 ed auriferous oil from boiling into countless eagles. 
 
 Six months was at first considered ample time for 
 a Manager, who had always succeeded in one brief 
 hour in drilling any jury into submission, to finish 
 the Cal. job, but "Tertium" confesses that Prof. 
 Hitchcock's instruction in Geology did not reach to 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 51 
 
 the oil region, still he knows that the hidden emo- 
 tions below the sandstone crust cannot much longer 
 be suppressed. New England capital will get there 
 seasonably, when he expects to come East where 
 his wife is waiting, and no doubt in 1922 the 
 widow's cruse of oil will be on tap at Hanover. 
 
 He is in such good health that he thinks he could 
 play a respectable game of base ball, so that, if 
 Miller will hitch up his always troublesome waist- 
 band and encourage Farmer, Dana, Welch, Ed 
 Bartlett, Fletcher, Williams and Tom Galbraith to 
 join him, we would have a constellation to eclipse 
 any class that ever met at its fiftieth anniversary. 
 It is something worthy of mention, to be in such 
 good form and enterprise as to become a veritable 
 "Forty-Niner" at his age, and it would be spectac- 
 ular beyond all precedent to see such an aggrega- 
 tion running the bases. 
 
52 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 ALBERT ELLIS FROST 
 Born 1851-8-9; died 1917-5-11 
 
 In apparent health, retiring at night after a slight 
 indisposition in the afternoon, he fell into a peaceful 
 sleep from which he never awoke in this earthly- 
 home. 
 
 "Registrar of the University of Pittsburg for 30 
 years, oldest member of the faculty in continuous 
 service, dearly loved by the alumni and undergrad- 
 uates, an officer of numerous local Scientific asso- 
 ciations, always a citizen pursuing high ideals in the 
 discharge of his political duties, Professor of Phys- 
 ical Sciences, — nothing could compare with his 
 record for friendly service, of self effacement, of 
 entire faithfulness to the duties of the day," was 
 said of him in the official Student and Alumni Jour- 
 nal of the University. 
 
 What a record of honor to Dartmouth and our 
 class! What better token of devotion to us than 
 the History of '72 which he produced in 1904, after 
 numberless days of sacrifice! We expected him to 
 contribute yet more to our credit, and even after 
 many of us older men had been laid to rest. Had 
 we anticipated the event, we doubtless would have 
 been far more expressive of our high appreciation 
 of his inimitable services. 
 
 Besides his wife, he was survived by three chil- 
 dren. One son, Ellis M., is a physician, also a dir- 
 ector of the Department of Student Health in the 
 University of Pittsburgh and an instructor in the 
 Medical School of the same. He was graduated 
 from the Pennsylvania Medical School in 1908, mar- 
 ried to Alice Beel in .1913, and they have one daugh- 
 ter and two sons. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 53 
 
 The second son, Albert D., graduated from the 
 School of Economics of the University of Pittsburgh, 
 and later from the Medical School of the same, and 
 is serving a two-year internship at Bellevue Hospital 
 New York City. 
 
 The daughter, Helen, graduated from College, 
 was a Y. W. C. A. Branch Secretary four years, then 
 married in June 1920, J. Howard Dice, Librarian of 
 the Pittsburgh University. 
 
 Mrs. Frost in a letter to me expresses the idea 
 that her late husband would have had this full con- 
 nection of the children with the University to his 
 heart, and we are quite of the same opinion. She 
 is in very good health so far as she knows. 
 
54 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 GEORGE THOMAS GALBRAITH 
 Hopewell Junction, N. Y. 
 
 In 1904 our classmate was preaching at Pleasant 
 Valley, N. Y., where he remained until 1905, when 
 on account of the permanent physical weakness of 
 his wife he found it impossible to remain longer in 
 charge of a parish and continue preaching. He 
 then resorted to farming places on shares for 10 
 years in several localities and finally bought a farm 
 of 135 acres where he now lives, managing it as a 
 dairy farm. But he has never found farming re- 
 munerative and is getting discouraged because of 
 that and his impaired physical condition. In April 
 1918 he wrote me that he was sadly crippled on his 
 right side and in his back by supposed sciatica or 
 injury to his spine, and February 1921, he wrote 
 that his condition had grown worse so that he could 
 work only sitting, walk but a short distance with ex- 
 cruciating pain, deaf in one ear and eye-sight dim, 
 and probably never able to do any more work. 
 
 His wife died in November 1917, and that made 
 him very lonely, for she was his help-meet and 
 main-stay in all his work, brave, prudent and cul- 
 tured, sister of Rev. Robert J. Service, D. D., Dart. 
 1877, and Rev. William A. Service, Dart. 1880. 
 
 Tom's older son, John S., has been with him on 
 the farm and has "stuck" by on the job, although 
 not physically equal to such hard work. Herbert 
 Leslie, the younger son, was in the 16th Cavalry on 
 the Mexican border and since that service has re-en- 
 listed twice, in several Cavalry regiments and been 
 1st Sergeant in the Coast Artillery, stationed at 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 55 
 
 Fort Fisher, and was a mounted Orderly with Gen. 
 Pershing in the Philippines, and although he tried 
 his best to get assigned to service "Over-seas," was 
 doomed to disappointment. 
 
 The older daughter, Ethel May, in 1901 married 
 Don C. Styles and they have four daughters and live 
 at St. Johnsbury. He went "Over-seas'' in Y. M. C. 
 A. work, A. E. F., looking after soldiers in England 
 and France who required diversion and rescue at- 
 tention. 
 
 The younger daughter, Edith J., is unmarried like 
 the two sons, is an expert accountant in the Mer- 
 chants National Bank, St. Johnsbury, Vt. "Tom" 
 writes that he has a warm side for the "Boys" of '72, 
 but on account of his physical infirmities can hardly 
 expect to greet the living men at the reunion in 
 1922, although it grieves him sorely. His condition 
 is surely pathetic and commands our tender sym- 
 pathy. His letter of Feb. 8, seemed rather blue in 
 one aspect, but still was brightened with silver 
 threads of Christian philosophy, and faith that 
 "over there" we would have a glad reunion of those 
 now missing here and those that before many years 
 will also be missed. 
 
56 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY GALBRAITH 
 Santa Cruz, Calif. 
 
 After experimenting quite a number of years in 
 teaching and studying law, the tall spruce of the 
 Passumpsic heard a clear admonition that seden- 
 tary, house-plant life was not likely to be invigor- 
 ating enough, but that he should set its roots in 
 good, big, mother earth, spread out and reach up- 
 ward with long limbs where there was plenty of 
 fresh ozone and sunlight. 
 
 The ranch in Blackburn Gulch in the foot-hills of 
 the Santa Cruz Mountains has continued to main- 
 tain the healthy color of the dark top, while grapes 
 and orchard fruit have loaded the long limbs which 
 used to be the terror of cane-rushes. The vigor as- 
 sured by ranch life has made "Hen" able in the dis- 
 charge of such public duties as have fallen to his lot 
 along the years. Thus it was in 1904 and thus it 
 has been ever since. His natural "make-up" lured 
 him out of doors where he could "tickle" the earth 
 and make it laugh with fruitfulness, and besides, he 
 had a weakness for brook trout, in and out of water. 
 I had a fine chance to discover his natural leanings 
 when, after our graduation, we fed at Prof. Hitch- 
 cock^ pilot-bread trencher, along with Fletcher and 
 others, setting up signal cloths on the lesser peaks 
 near the Crawford Notch, and also, a vacation from 
 teaching in 1873, when we scoured the Saco River 
 and its tributaries for brook trout. 
 
 As the years crept away he reduced his ranch 
 acreage by a sale, but retained enough to give him 
 the out-door life and exercise, and for some time he 
 has been putting the balance into shape to be ready 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 57 
 
 for an advantageous market, only toiling as much 
 as is agreeable and healthful. His boarding place 
 is only six miles out of town, so that he can circulate 
 back and forth between his ranch and Santa Cruz, 
 where he and his wife have their home, and as he 
 writes, feeling "young and sprightly," he looks for- 
 ward to no particular change of activity, and his 
 "heart untraveled fondly turns" to our golden re- 
 union in 1922. He is still a Republican in politics, 
 and I had the privilege of reading a clipping from a 
 Santa Cruz paper containing some long-arm punch- 
 es and upper-cuts of his at Senator Phelan, and Gov. 
 Cox, who now abides in Ohio, evidencing the un- 
 abated force of thought and delivery of "Hen." 
 
 May we all survive to see the tall spruce of Pas- 
 sumpsic at Hanover in 1922, and shake his long 
 limbs. 
 
 Vermont lent him to the better climate of the 
 Pacific Coast for securing long life, but now the 
 longing "which draws at each remove a lengthened 
 chain" must be given its proper function for a visit, 
 and after that we will regretfully say, "Joshua, your 
 grapes and other fruit are very enticing and sure 
 proof of a Promised Land, but it is too late for us to 
 pull up and leave the Wilderness where we have be- 
 come inured to poor manna and quail." 
 
58 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 FRED HARVEY GOULD 
 Born 1849-12-18; died 1909-7-3 
 
 Fred died of complications, after three weeks of 
 sickness, following an earlier attack of acute pneu- 
 monia. 
 
 Said a life-long associate and brother attorney: 
 "A salient feature of his character was honesty. 
 There was about him a gracious atmosphere of 
 good-will toward everybody. As a practicing law- 
 yer for more than thirty years his integrity was 
 never impugned." 
 
 Personally I had especial knowledge of Fred. He 
 was not only a good lawyer, but a fine sportsman, 
 lover of the out-door life, fond of pointer dogs, an 
 expert fly fisherman and a warm friend to meet. 
 His tastes were similar to those of Jarvis of our 
 class. They were crack shots, even when at col- 
 lege, and many were the days afield when game 
 had to fly very quick and crooked to escape their 
 guns. I suppose Fred knew where every covey of 
 partridges hatched around Bradford and Warner, 
 and, if there was a place in Sunapee Lake where 
 brook trout and salmon lurked, he knew that place. 
 
 His wife survived him, and resides at Bradford, 
 N. H. His only child, a daughter, very dear to her 
 parents, died in infancy. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 59 
 
 WILLIAM EDGAR HOGAN 
 
 We find our classmate's face in the picture of 
 those of our class, taken at the reunion in 1912, and 
 we recall the appearance of good health at that 
 time. 
 
 He writes that his chief activity in these later 
 years has been a long hard struggle with an illness 
 that threatened to transfer him to the obituary 
 column, but that he has won out and is now in act- 
 ive practice. While he was making this fight for 
 life, his wife died. They were not blessed with 
 children. 
 
 He is the senior member of the County Bar, and 
 has a number of good fights left to draw upon for 
 emergency calls. 
 
 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HOLMAN 
 Born 1849-11-27; died 1893-5-24 
 
 The report in Frost's History is complete. 
 
60 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 FRANCIS DORR HUTCHINS 
 Born 1850-1-11; died 1905-8-5 
 
 He died of a stroke of apoplexy, lingering two 
 weeks after it came. He kept at his post of duty in 
 banking to the end. Dying so soon after the record 
 of his activities in 1904, there is nothing essentially 
 different to report. His wife survived him, and a 
 son and daughter. 
 
 His son, Harry, Dartmouth 1900, A. B., married 
 Emilie T. Hilliard, May, 1902, who died in March 
 1907, leaving a son, Frank H., born May 1, 1903. 
 Harry married Elizabeth R. Moore in March 1916, 
 who died in June, 1916. He was in the Y. M. C. A. 
 work in England and France from July 1918 to June 
 1919, and is now in Chicago. His son, Frank H., is 
 a Freshman in the College of Commerce, University 
 of Illinois. 
 
 Margaret, Smith 1906, entered the Library School 
 of the University of Illinois in 1906, in 1908 received 
 the degree, B. L. S., and is now one of the Reference 
 Librarians in that University, and unmarried. 
 
 Mrs. Hutchins lives at 805 So. Busey Avenue, Ur- 
 bana, 111. She writes of nothing to the contrary, so 
 we conclude that she is in good health. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 61 
 
 WILLIAM JARVIS 
 Born 1849-9-15; died 1910-4-16 
 
 He died of an apoplectic shock after he had ap- 
 parently gone to sleep. 
 
 From 1897 until sometime later than 1904 he was 
 U. S. Consul at Milan, Italy, and on the expiration of 
 his term of office he returned to his home at Clare- 
 mont, N. H., and retired from active pursuit of his 
 profession as a dentist. 
 
 He was beloved at home for his genial ways, busi- 
 ness principles and the good word he had for every 
 one. He kept up an active interest in the lines of 
 sportmanship in which he had always had an ardent 
 interest, and we know him when in college as a 
 crack wing shot. He was a great collector of rare 
 antiques. 
 
 In the Sportsmen's Review giving an account of 
 his death, I find his picture, showing the same fine 
 face, dark hair and long curled-up mustache, bright 
 eyes, alert and erect, fastidious dress and promise of 
 long years. He was credited in that article with 
 being a great lover of the pointer and setter breeds 
 of dogs, as he had been since 1868, and with his 
 many bright and genial qualities of mind and heart. 
 
 He was survived by his wife. 
 
62 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 CHARLES ADAMS JEWELL 
 22 Wyoming St., Grove Hall Station, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Serving as Assistant Deputy Naval Officer in Bos- 
 ton from 1886 to June 1890, he then made a change 
 and opened a law office in Boston where he has con- 
 tinued to practice his profession ever since with the 
 respect of the bar and the confidence of a good 
 clientage. His general health is quite good, but for 
 a few years his hearing has become somewhat de- 
 fective, and in 1916 he retired from general prac- 
 tice, though continuing some Probate Court practice 
 and the care and trusteeship of some estates. 
 
 His son and only child, George C. Jewell, born in 
 1881, graduated from the Boston Mechanic Arts 
 High School in 1900, and then took up the business 
 of Mechanical Draughtsman in which business he 
 has ever since been engaged in Boston. He mar- 
 ried Theresa A. Smith of Boston, June 21, 1905, and 
 later built a house and established his home at Mel- 
 rose Highlands, Mass., where they continue to re- 
 side. They have no children. 
 
 Our classmate's home where he has resided since 
 1890 is in the Elm Hill District of Boston Highland. 
 His memories of Dartmouth and the class of '72 are 
 sweet, and though he is the oldest living member of 
 the class, he is not expecting to miss greeting with 
 old-time fervor those of us whom a kind Providence 
 shall assemble at Hanover in 1922. 
 
 CLARENCE JOHNSON 
 Born 1851-12-4; died 1916-3-8 
 
 We can add nothing to what was reported in 
 1904, except that he continued along the same lines 
 of work as then pursued. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 63 
 
 STEPHEN ALFRED JONES 
 Born 1848-3-21; died 1915-12-10 
 
 He died quite suddenly of acute angina pectoris 
 at San Jose, Cal., with no previous ill health warn- 
 ing him of this trouble. He left a wife and two 
 sons. He pursued the same lines of educational 
 work well set forth in our class History of 1904. 
 His service to education was of a high order, and he 
 honored his college and our class as few of the col- 
 lege have done along his lines. 
 
 His son, Herbert, was educated at Stanford Uni- 
 versity, and is an attorney at San Jose, with a large 
 clientage, and for three successive terms has been 
 chosen State Senator. He has one child, Barbara, 
 born Dec. 17, 1919. The other son, Augustine, a 
 Congregational minister at San Jose, was also edu- 
 cated at Stanford, took a course at Chicago Theol- 
 ogical Seminary, spent a year in study at Edin- 
 borough and London, traveled widely in Europe and 
 Asia, and besides his work as a minister is in good 
 demand as a lecturer on his travels. 
 
 I have a picture of our classmate which appeared 
 in print at the time of his death, and it would be 
 recognized at once by any of the class. There is 
 the same alert, penetrating look, the full mustache, 
 with added whiskers, and no perceptible change in 
 the color of his hair. He was as erect and appar- 
 ently stalwart as ever. I could but realize that 
 "Death loves a shining mark." 
 
 He was given the degree of A. M. and Ph. D. pro 
 meritus by Dartmouth. 
 
64 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 ADSON DEAN KEYES 
 Born 1842-10-22; died 1904-2-21 
 
 His death in 1904 suggests why we have nothing 
 to report save what had been very fully recorded in 
 our History. His death was then mentioned. 
 
 ANSON L. KEYES 
 Born 1843-2-6; died 1919-5-6 
 
 He had lived at Faribault, Minn, for nearly forty- 
 one years, and continued to practice law there to the 
 end of his life. 
 
 I quote from one who knew him most intimately 
 and long, "Few men drop out from any community 
 leaving a more marked vacancy than does Mr. 
 Keyes. Modest and retiring, it was only those who 
 knew him most intimately that fully appreciated his 
 worth." 
 
 He was President of the Rice County Bar Asso- 
 ciation at the time of his death. A wife and mar- 
 ried daughter, Mrs. Edgar F. Strong, survived him. 
 Mr. Strong is a teacher by profession, and is now 
 Superintendent of Schools in Oconomowoc, Wis. 
 Mrs. Keyes is in good health. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 65 
 
 ALBERT EMERSON LAKE 
 
 Murdock, Neb. 
 
 In 1904, Albert was cultivating one of the finest 
 and best improved farms in Cass County, Nebraska. 
 A letter from him in August 1920 shows his pleasant 
 memories of the fellows of '72. "Not being strong 
 on the Ego/' he says, he was reluctant to put into 
 words the results attained in his activities. From 
 his standpoint, he would label his achievements fail- 
 ures rather than successes, but from information 
 filtering through Solon Towne, I am satisfied that 
 Albert's ideals and modesty have much to do with 
 his standpoint. 
 
 In 1918 I learned that he had four fine farms of a 
 thousand acres, and presumably had been obliged, 
 of course much against his inclination, to "lay by 
 him in store" enough to occupy considerable of his 
 time on income tax returns. He actually attributes 
 his financial progress to "pure luck and dense stu- 
 pidity." Like Gen. Grant's brand of whiskey, once 
 suggested by Lincoln, if the old story is true, as the 
 proper brand for the Potomac Generals, we think 
 Albert ought to bottle up and send to each one of 
 his class some of that brand of "pure luck and dense 
 stupidity." 
 
 Oh! Albert, your productive activity along most 
 commendable lines is worthy of the best records of 
 your class, and though falling short of your object- 
 ive, as you write, it is within the objective of wise 
 and diligent farmers. We are happy in your ex- 
 pressed contentment, and that it is far better than 
 a million acres, which naturally would be an insup- 
 
66 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 erable obstacle to that fine feeling. I venture to as- 
 sert that your well known ethical ideals have kept 
 your thrift within the bounds of true happiness, and 
 as Frost was told by Solon Towne your life in 1904 
 was mainly devoted to the proper development of 
 your children, so it has been ever since then. 
 It is one of the blessed handicaps, call it that if you 
 please, of a college training, that such training es- 
 tablishes in men scales of value in life that approach 
 nearer to the true than that of men trained narrowly 
 in measures of the market. 
 
 Lake's children are all married. Gertrude mar- 
 ried a minister, and they live at Lincoln, Neb. 
 Guy, Grace and Fred are all on farms and doing 
 well. Albert is in good physical condition in the 
 upper story, but thinks he would not mark over 
 fifty per cent in the lower. I am sure he does not 
 need to follow the plow in his kind of farming, and 
 be affected by emotional storms caused by recalci- 
 trant mules. He suggests that he would be most 
 happy to shake our hands, and that hints to me that 
 he will not fail to give himself the opportunity in 
 1922. We surely would enjoy once again the conta- 
 gion of his inspiring laughter. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 67 
 
 NATHANIEL WILLIAM LEONARD 
 Fayette, Mo. 
 
 In 1904, he had been engaged in breeding pure- 
 blooded Hereford cattle since 1885, when he had 
 quit mercantile and banking pursuits. He is a 
 farmer. His wife is all that could be desired, un- 
 mistakably a very well mated and happy couple. 
 His health is fine, some gray hairs, but not bald; he 
 has a cheerful burden of property, securing him 
 from worry as to the years to follow, and is only six- 
 ty years "young," notwithstanding our record cred- 
 its him with nine years more. 
 
 Living the past nineteen years on his ancestral es- 
 tate in a very spacious home built in 1835, his mind 
 fed by plenty of well chosen books, cheered by 
 musical instruments galore, herds of live stock with- 
 in his broad acres, and with a hobby of many col- 
 onies of bees storing honey, why wonder that the 
 nine surplus years made no appreciable impression. 
 His farming is by proxy through his partner. 
 
 A New York lawyer, brother-in-law, visits him, 
 and pronounces Nat's life "idyllic." Nat wonders 
 at times how his four years at Hanover counts, skep- 
 tical as to its economic usefulness. Such "idyllic" 
 life carries us back to Horace's Ode to Maecenas, 
 the charm of life on the Sabine Farm. He hopes to 
 meet us "before he dies," and that means a longing 
 look towards our reunion in 1922, when he can talk 
 about the honey-bee, the sweets of Hymettus and 
 the pure-blooded Herefords. 
 
68 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY LEONARD 
 Marshall, Mo. 
 
 He was engaged in the agricultural implement 
 business at Miami, I. T. in 1904. He was born on a 
 farm and is an exception among college-bred men, 
 in that he has never turned his back on that import- 
 ant industry, thank the Lord. He was successful in 
 his business at Miami, but sold out there and went 
 back to Missouri to get the benefit of better school 
 advantages for his son, and to recover from the in- 
 jurious effects of drinking Oklahoma water. On 
 account of the severity of the winters in Missouri, 
 his son became affected with bronchial troubles, and 
 so the family "pulled up stakes" and went to Alamo 
 Gordo, N. M., where he bought a ranch of 160 acres 
 and remained there in a delightful climate three 
 years, and where the son found a good school, to 
 which he rode six miles, and by riding, hunting al- 
 most all kinds of wild game from mountain lions to 
 turkeys, made himself over into a robust boy. 
 
 In order to complete the education of the son, 
 they came to Kansas City in 1912, but the climate 
 again affected the son, so mother and son went to 
 El Paso, Texas, for two months, after which at the 
 age of 18 the son went to California and hustled for 
 himself and "made good." 
 
 William lived to see some of the Populistic ideas, 
 which he advocated with zeal, taken up by both of 
 the greater parties and nourished as their own off- 
 spring, so he says. He has been a strong advocate 
 of the League of Nations, and is not happy at the 
 result of the November election. His heart is warm 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 69 
 
 with recollections of the boys of '72 and he fondly 
 hopes that his life and health will be spared to meet 
 those that are alive and present at the reunion in 
 1922, though he is sad when he thinks of the miss- 
 ing. 
 
 His wife is a graduate of one of the best western 
 colleges. 
 
 "Not depending for happiness on the accumul- 
 ation of property, we try to throw a little sunshine 
 into the lives of others as we go along, and in this we 
 find contentment, ,, are his wise and beautiful words. 
 Are there any more illuminating words as to the 
 quality of his soul than those? I cannot add any, 
 and we want once more to shake hands with men 
 of his stripe. 
 
70 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 HENRY EUCLID LEWIS 
 67 Dana St., Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Although educated to practice law, and following 
 that profession for a number of years, his life since 
 1881 has been mainly devoted to the real estate busi- 
 ness and its adjuncts, as will be seen by referring to 
 our class history. In 1904 he was rounding out his 
 23rd year in Lincoln, Neb., having been connected 
 with various banking institutions besides his other 
 business. There he remained until 1908. He had 
 organized a company in Nebraska, taking over some 
 1,400 acres of Platte Valley land for a ranch, seeded 
 with alfalfa, for raising hogs and other live-stock, 
 and he gave his attention to running it. The panic 
 of 1907 was especially disastrous to that business, 
 consequently it was deemed best to liquidate it. 
 After that was completed, he came East to engage 
 in the sale of Western bonds and securities, but 
 found that the East had taken a turn against such 
 far-off investments; therefore he took hold of the 
 real estate business in Stoneham, Mass., until 1919 
 in the fall, when he concluded to retire and locate in 
 Cambridge, Mass., where he now resides. 
 
 He is in good health, and so is his wife. They 
 have one son and two daughters. The son, Harold 
 G., has been connected with the Westinghouse Co. 
 for about fifteen years and manages the Boston of- 
 fice, having been educated latterly in Electrical En- 
 gineering at Columbia University. The oldest 
 daughter, Edith L., Smith College, 1902, has given 
 attention to literary work, living in New York city, 
 and for several years was on the editorial staff of 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 71 
 
 McClure's Monthly, though not at the present time. 
 She has recently returned from a European trip. 
 
 The two younger daughters, Ruth P. and Helen 
 H., attended the Sargent School for Physical Train- 
 ing at Cambridge, and Ruth is teaching in the Phys- 
 ical Training Dept. of the Brooklyn Heights Acad- 
 emy, New York. Helen was married to H. P. Mor- 
 gan in June, 1920, and they live in New York. 
 
 Our classmate has always had a lively interest in 
 Dartmouth, and in 1900 was President of the Alum- 
 ni Association of the Plains. He will resort to no 
 big telescope to sweep the sky to locate Polaris in 
 1922, for he can steer with his eyes shut by the mag- 
 net of memories dear, his family having lived in daily 
 sight of Ascutney, and every boy reared near that 
 peak had to climb it very early in life to get the dir- 
 ection of Hanover well in mind. 
 
72 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 EDWARD DORAN MASON 
 33 Chatham St., Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 We find that he has been, since 1904, giving his 
 whole time to a Mission Work in Boston under the 
 auspices of the American Sunday School Union, 
 New England office at No. 8 Beacon St., Boston. 
 
 His daughter married Alton L. Miller, Dec. 23, 
 1911. Her husband is a graduate of Harvard, 
 1911, , and has been an instructor in Mathematics 
 at Harvard and Michigan University for periods 
 covering six years. Harvard in 1916 gave him the 
 degree Ph. D. In 1918 he concluded to discontinue 
 teaching and go into business with his father in Bos- 
 ton, manufacturing confectionery. 
 
 "Ed" has two granddaughters, Ruth Pearl, born 
 Dec. 17, 1917, and Mary G., born Aug. 17, 1919, and 
 is thoroughly obsessed with them. He is as busy in 
 determining whether either looks like him as when 
 he worked down into the hard-pan of Greek and 
 Latin roots. Of course, he will be shrinkingly care- 
 ful in wishing any of his features on either of them, 
 until he reads what your Secretary reports as to his 
 retained beauty. Without any subtle ambiguity, I 
 will aver that I have gazed enjoyably on his face 
 twice within two years, and, though he seemed quite 
 precipitous in breaking away from my Ancient- 
 Mariner scrutiny, he looks just as well as he used to. 
 
 He writes, that in order to retain his chief virtue, 
 a good appetite, he is observing good habits. We 
 know his difficulties, and will exercise charity as we 
 crave the same, knowing that the habits he observes 
 are not any too marked in others. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 73 
 
 GEORGE ALFRED MERRILL 
 183 Fisher Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 When our first class report came out in 1878, the 
 "Elder" was in a large lumber business at Falls City, 
 Neb., and a short time before 1904, he was in the of- 
 fice of the Inter-Ocean at Chicago. Truly, he does 
 have an almost perennial longing for new territory, 
 like Sawyer of our class who in 1904 had camped- 
 out in fifteen states and territories and several more 
 not listed. One would almost suspect them to be of 
 the itching ambition of the Kaiser. But the "Elder" 
 confesses to this wander-lust so frankly that the 
 staid moss-backs, easily satisfied with the nearer 
 heath, will overlook this marked peculiarity, if he 
 will show a penitent disposition in 1922, leave Seat- 
 tle alone and the "sequoia gigantea" of that coast for 
 a brief season, bring the points of his calipers a little 
 closer so as to take the measure of little trees with 
 inspiring associations, and at Hanover allow the 
 Old-Pine memories to whisper quieting thoughts to 
 his restless soul. 
 
 He was in Florida in 1904, five years later in Seat- 
 tle, thence to Chicago, and thence back to Seattle. 
 He has been in the employ of the government, 
 ranched a little, and at times engaged in the lumber 
 business extensively. He holds up the fingers of 
 both hands and counts off Florida, New Hampshire, 
 Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and 
 Colorado as a few of the tributaries to his stream of 
 varied experiences, but modestly disclaims the 
 thought that to a heavy extent moss has clogged his 
 revolutions. As long as the Income Tax exists we 
 
74 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 do not look for much information as to the ingather- 
 ed-moss of our classmates. 
 
 He had his measure of sorrow in the loss of two 
 children, but has three alive, Arthur C, Grace E., 
 and Harry W. Arthur lives at Tacoma, Wash., and 
 is Office Manager of the Tacoma Grocery Co. He 
 married Emma Blodgett and is a veteran of three 
 wars, the Cuban, Phillipine, and the World War. 
 In the last he was a Lieutenant in the 63rd Coast 
 Artillery and saw active service in France. 
 
 The daughter, Grace, married Daniel L. Hood, 
 who has been Manager of the Parks, Davis Co. of 
 Detroit for many years. 
 
 Harry W., second son, graduate of Tilton Semi- 
 nary, N. H., is an Electrician and employed by the 
 City of Seattle. He married Lena Moore. 
 
 The health of our classmate is superb, and he is 
 highly privileged in being able to trot three grand- 
 children on his knees when he is not striding from 
 Detroit to Seattle or Tacoma. His letter expresses 
 most pleasant memories of all the "boys," and he 
 has no fault to find in being saluted in the good old 
 familiar way as "Elder." His hand writing is a key 
 to his nerves, and indicates fine presevation and the 
 great kindness of the years. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 75 
 
 CHARLES RANSOM MILLER 
 
 The Times Building, New York City 
 
 The coincidence of the birth of three great Amer- 
 ican journalists and editorial writers, Greeley, 
 Dana and Miller, in the little state of New Hamp- 
 shire seems very remarkable. If it were in good 
 taste to undertake to compare and estimate the re- 
 spective influences of these men in moulding public 
 sentiment on great national questions in great emer- 
 gencies, we are poorly equipped to make any such 
 attempt. Classmate Dana furnished in 1904 the 
 article which relates to Miller in our report that 
 year, and it is so able, comprehensive and critically 
 just that nothing need be added to it. Dr. Dana 
 was thoroughly familiar with current opinions in 
 New York and the country about the quality and 
 strength of the work of the editor concerning whom 
 we all delight to learn. 
 
 Dartmouth recognized Miller's eminence as a 
 journalist in 1905 in conferring the degree of L. LD., 
 and Columbia in 1915 in conferring the degree of 
 Litt. D. In 1918 he was made a Chevalier of the 
 Legion of Honor (France), in 1919, Chevalier of the 
 Order of Leopold of Belgium, and in 1919 a Com- 
 mander of the Royal Order of George the First of 
 Greece. These decorations came in recognition of 
 services done to the cause of the Allies by the pen, 
 not on the tented field. If one happens to have a 
 copy of an article in The Times of Dec. 15, 1914, he 
 will have a clue to the many editorials of Miller dur- 
 ing war-time which account for these decorations, 
 articles similar in tone and spirit to the one cited. 
 
76 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 This article was then, and since has been the cause 
 of a good deal of talk in the world. It was cabled 
 to London entire and by various governments cabled 
 to many capitals, appearing in newspapers all over 
 the world. It has been said that no editorial article 
 in any newspaper ever reached so wide an audience. 
 That it was prophetic is now self-evident. It was 
 an interpretation of the hand-writing on the Kai- 
 ser's wall of bayonets, like that of Daniel to Bel- 
 shazza, "God hath numbered thy kingdom and fin- 
 ished it." I cannot refrain from a limited quota- 
 tion, reading as from a seer: 
 
 "For the German People, Peace with Freedom." 
 "Germany is doomed to sure defeat. Bankrupt 
 in statesmanship, overmatched in arms, under the 
 moral condemnation of the civilized world, be- 
 friended only by the Austrians and Turks, two back- 
 ward-looking and dying nations, desperately bat- 
 tling against the hosts of three great Powers to 
 which help and reinforcement from States now neu- 
 tral will certainly come should the decision be long 
 deferred, she pours out the blood of her heroic sub- 
 jects and wastes her diminishing substance in a 
 hopeless struggle that postpones but cannot alter 
 
 the fatal decree." "With her dominating all 
 
 Europe, peace and security would vanish from the 
 earth. A few months ago the world only dimly 
 comprehended Germany, now it knows her tho- 
 roughly." "For their own peace and safety 
 
 the nations must demolish that towering structure 
 of militarism in the center of Europe that has be- 
 come the world's danger-spot, its greatest menace." 
 The article goes on to try and convince the Germans 
 that they were fated to lose and to become wrecked 
 for the future, and it abounded in warnings to the 
 Germans in this country, and in Miller's letter to me 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 77 
 
 he remarks, "Unfortunately the Germans did not 
 take my advice." 
 
 I have an account of a celebration, July 7, 1915, 
 of his two-score years connection with The Times, 
 at a luncheon given by the staff of editors. It can 
 be seen what a large affair the Editor in Chief, Mill- 
 er, presided over, there being 108 of the editorial 
 staff present on that occasion. And they represent- 
 ed only one tenth of those engaged in a great many 
 ways in getting out daily an edition of about 325,- 
 000 copies. 
 
 Mr. Ochs, publisher and President of the Com- 
 pany, estimated Millers written product at 1,000 
 Vols, of 10,000 words each. Pretty serious brain 
 work, considering its quality and vigor! I quote 
 from Mr. Ochs' remarks on that occasion: 
 
 "What he (Miller) has written has stamped our 
 work with character and permitted us to exercise 
 power and influence among intelligent, thoughtful 
 people throughout the world; distinguished our 
 opinions as of the highest order of honesty, sound 
 reasoning, of the best literary style and of the lofti- 
 est patriotism. And never was his work better, 
 more virile, or more noteworthy than to-day, when 
 he is generally accorded the most eminent, most 
 powerful, and most respected editorial writer in the 
 United States." "Mr. Miller's kind and gener- 
 ous nature, his broad sympathies and lofty ideals, 
 his scholarly attainments, facile pen, and withal his 
 courtly graces have been a joy and an inspiration." 
 Mr. Van Anda, of the editorial staff, following 
 amusing allusions by him to our classmate's versatil- 
 ity in humble lines other than editorial, said: "We 
 had him as the valiant champion of all worthy caus- 
 es and as the uncompromising foe of all unworthy, 
 and we congratulate him that he has lived to see 
 
78 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 many of the worthy causes triumph, if not all the 
 
 unworthy defeated." "We rejoice that these 
 
 troubled times, supremely testing those who follow 
 his profession, have found him at the meridian of his 
 powers, meeting great occasions with might, even 
 with majesty." 
 
 Mr. Edward Cary, longer connected with the edit- 
 orial work on The Times than Miller, from his bed 
 of illness sent these words: "Mr. Miller could easily 
 have won distinction in the law, while in the higher 
 walks of diplomacy his keen intellect, his firm grasp 
 of essentials in discussing complex matters, his skill 
 in dialectics, his faculty for mastering his subject 
 would have given him high rank." 'Tor two- 
 score years he has instructed, guided, inspired, ad- 
 monished, and, when occasion required, chastised 
 this community, and with every passing year, as they 
 have known him better, their faith and pride in him 
 have grown." 
 
 Miller's remarks in accepting a fine memento, 
 presented by the staff, show how agreeable to him 
 had been his task through so many years: "In the 
 daily tasks of a newspaper man there is no monot- 
 ony. He deals always with subjects that are either 
 fresh in themselves or present aspects that are every 
 day new and interesting. In particular the work of 
 an editorial writer is of such nature that he finds in 
 it a sustaining sense of interest, because he has to 
 deal so largely with public affairs, with the life and 
 activities of the community, the State and the 
 Nation." 
 
 In an article on British and American Newspapers 
 in the November, 1919, Atlantic, written by the War 
 correspondent of The Times, Chas. H. Grasty, 
 speaking of the two editors, Mr. Ochs and Mr. Mill- 
 er, he gave his opinion of Mr. Miller in these words : 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 79 
 
 "Mr. Miller is a man of great learning, he is a true 
 scholar and philosopher, as well as a man who 
 knows the world on the practical side. If he had 
 chosen, he could have ministered to the intellectual 
 elite, but this would have vastly limited the useful- 
 ness and developement of the paper." 
 
 From Miller's letter to me I quote something per- 
 sonal : "At seventy-two I am still at work as hard as 
 ever and find undiminished enjoyment in what I 
 do." He is one of the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer 
 School of Journalism at Columbia, Vice Pres. and 
 Director the New York Times Co., also Vice Pres. 
 and Director of the Tide Water Paper Co., which 
 they own, and a second largest stockholder in The 
 Times. He takes some interest in foreign lan- 
 guages, reads with pleasure the works of authors in 
 German, Italian, Russian and French, speaking the 
 latter language, German not so well, and makes 
 some conversational use of Russian without impair- 
 ment of his vocal organs. 
 
 I realize that I may "jar" his modesty in using 
 freely all the reliable information I have been for- 
 tunate in getting, but he should discipline those who 
 talk about him and check publicity of facts and 
 opinions before they become common property. 
 
 For some fifteen years he has celebrated his 
 birthday, January 17, by a dinner with his old 
 friends at the Metropolitan Club, a distinguished 
 company of males and females making merry with 
 speeches and felicitations. This year there were 
 twenty-five guests and Dr. Dana enlivened the oc- 
 casion with a lot of stories told in his sui generis 
 way. 
 
 Mrs. Miller passed away in December, 1906. 
 Miss Madge D., the daughter, and Hoyt, the son, 
 keep up the home with the father at 635 Park Ave- 
 
80 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 nue. The son, Harvard 1904, has devoted himself 
 to chemistry, notably to research work in chemistry 
 of color. Four years ago he took out some very 
 comprehensive patents covering a process of color- 
 photography which makes possible the photograph- 
 ing of objects in their natural colors. This process 
 has been used to some extent in films for moving 
 pictures, and is undergoing further developement. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 81 
 
 JOHN BAILEY MILLS 
 Narberth, Pa. 
 
 It was a sweet morsel for "Bailey" when he met 
 several of the class in the early morning of October 
 20, 1919, and congratulated them on being two days 
 later than himself to attend the Sesqui-Centennial, 
 but we knew he had the extra driving motive of at- 
 tending the 50th anniversary of the Greek letter so- 
 ciety of which he was a charter member. On the 
 Saturday before, he found that our class was the 
 oldest one represented in the Grand Parade, and he 
 alone of '72 fell into line behind the Chief Marshal 
 and led the alumni. "Bailey" was the only one of 
 eleven living charter members of his Greek letter 
 society who was present. It "did him proud." His 
 loyalty easily brought him from Grand Rapids, illus- 
 trating the warm hearted and steadfast fellow that 
 he is. 
 
 He was Managing Editor on the Daily Herald of 
 his city nine years, and editorial writer three years, 
 and, as he remarks to me, in twenty-eight years of 
 service on that paper, he progressed from "Dog 
 Watch" to the latter duties. In August 1920, he 
 was obliged to give up his work and devote attention 
 to weakness of his heart which then gave him ser- 
 ious concern. Owing to this condition he resigned 
 his work on The Herald, Jan.l, 1921, and, instead 
 of accepting his resignation, he was put on the re- 
 tired list with a liberal pension for life. He has 
 been resting at his daughter's home at Narberth, Pa. 
 since some time in the early fall, and wrote me on 
 Jan. 21, that he was under the doctor's care and 
 
82 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 would be for some time, but was told by him that 
 he was going to allow John to travel pretty soon. 
 
 This is the pithy sermon that he quietly preached 
 after he laid his pen down: "I have never made 
 much stir in the world. I have lived a quiet sort of 
 life, but I have taken every assignment given me, 
 covered it to the best of my ability, and turned the 
 copy in on time." 
 
 A grandson was born to John, Oct. 20, 1919, and 
 those of us who were at the 1912 reunion will recall 
 the mother, whom we at once voted to call the 
 "Daughter of the Class," because she honored and 
 delighted us by sitting-in with us in a picture, and 
 by her beauty rescued us from critical observation 
 of our changes in beauty. She graduated from the 
 University of Michigan in the Literary Department 
 in 1914, at the age of 19, and had the double com- 
 pliment of being the youngest girl graduate up to 
 that time, and the vote of her class that she was the 
 handsomest of the class. 
 
 John is writing up the earlier history of his native 
 town, not covered by a former history. He express- 
 es fond hopes of being with the class at its reunion 
 in 1922, and if he comes with the exuberant spirit 
 which he manifested at the Sesqui-Centennial, no- 
 thing will be quite so inspiring. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 83 
 
 ALVA HERMAN MORRILL 
 
 Newton, N. H. 
 
 Our class History, so far as it concerned the life 
 of Brother Morrill, ended with 1902 when he was 
 Field Secretary of the New York Eastern Christian 
 Conference, his residence, Albany, N. Y. After a 
 year of this service he accepted a similar position 
 under the auspices of the New England Christian 
 Convention, and served in that capacity nearly two 
 years, when he resigned and accepted a call to the 
 Christian Church at Laconia, N. H., in which posi- 
 tion he continued six years, resigning to accept the 
 call of the Christian Church at Franklin, N. H. 
 where he served four years and then accepted a call 
 to the Christian Church at Woodstock, Vt. 
 
 While pastor at Laconia he was elected President 
 of the New Hampshire Sunday School Association, 
 and again was elected to that position while pastor 
 at Franklin. During the last seven months of his 
 four-year pastorate at Woodstock he was invited to 
 preach for the Congregational Church there, their 
 pastor having been appointed a Chaplain in the U. 
 S. Army, and he thus served the two congregations 
 in united services. He terminated his pastorate at 
 Woodstock by resignation, April 30, 1919, and im- 
 mediately accepted a call to the pastorate of the 
 Newton, N. H., Christian Church, entering upon his 
 service there in May of that year. 
 
 While pastor at Laconia he was chosen President 
 of the Christian Camp Meeting Association which 
 hold annual summer meetings at Craigsville, Barn- 
 stable, Mass., on the south shore of Cape Cod, and 
 he has held that position ever since. While in 
 
84 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 Franklin he enjoyed the privilege of performing the 
 marriage ceremony uniting his youngest daughter, 
 Pamelia, with Mr. DeWitt C. Allen, a school super- 
 visor of Connecticut. 
 
 Dr. Morrill is now President of the Missionary 
 and Education Societies of his denomination in New 
 England, and of the New England Convention. Al- 
 though the eighteen years which have passed since 
 1902 have witnessed no remarkable experiences in 
 his ministerial and other work, they have been at- 
 tended with the usual results of continuous and 
 faithful labor, "giving abundant reason," as he says, 
 "for devout gratitude to a merciful Heavenly 
 Father." 
 
 He and his very helpful wife are in the enjoyment 
 of usual good health, and are comfortably and cozi- 
 ly settled in the parsonage alongside the church 
 building at Newton, in a small rural community, 
 "still permitted to serve in the Master's vineyard." 
 
 His eldest daughter, Ethel, was educated at Star- 
 key Seminary. Her oldest daughter, Olivia, is in 
 her senior year at McPherson College, Kan.; her 
 second daughter, Elizabeth is in her senior year at 
 Northfield Seminary, and her son, Howard, died 
 when about two years of age. 
 
 His second daughter, Minerva, married Ira Zer 
 Allen, 1898, and they have a son, Dwight, who is in 
 the high school, a daughter, Pamelia, in the high 
 school, and a son, Alva. Mr. Allen has been Super- 
 intendent of Schools and is now in school work at 
 Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Alva's son, Herman, is a railway postal clerk and 
 lives in Portland, Me. The fourth child, Dwight F., 
 took a business education and is a salesman. The 
 fifth child, Pamelia, has three children, David R., 
 John C. and Mary P., and she has a business educa- 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 85 
 
 tion. Thus we see, Mr. and Mrs. Morrill are the 
 happy grandparents of eight living children and of 
 another who died. 
 
 FREDERICK WESSON NEWCOMB 
 Born 1843-12-3; died 1911-5-11 
 
 Poor health kept him from following out his cher- 
 ished hopes of being a minister of the gospel. His 
 experiences to the end of life continued to be very- 
 much the same as those reported by Frost. All his 
 efforts were limited and hampered by reason of 
 physical weakness. 
 
86 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 JOSEPH PAUL OTIS 
 Born 1844-12-19; died 1920-6-19 
 
 He had been in failing health for a number of 
 years, although he was confined to his bed only a 
 few weeks before his death. On account of his 
 feeble health he had not practiced his profession of 
 law very much during his last years. 
 
 He had been elected County Attorney several 
 times, and in 1907 was chosen Judge of Probate for 
 the term of four years. He had been intrusted with 
 several offices of trust. This was said of him in 
 print at the time of his death : "Judge Otis was one 
 of the men of Clay County who played a large part 
 in the affairs of the County and whose life is closely 
 interwoven with the political and legal life of the 
 County over a period of years. He had no enemies." 
 
 He left an adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred 
 Mailen, and had been divorced from his second 
 wife. "He loved Vermont, and to his dying day de- 
 lighted to talk about his old school, old classmates, 
 and what all were doing and had accomplished." 
 He was a member of the Methodist church, and his 
 body was taken to Vermont and buried beside that 
 of his first wife. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 87 
 
 HENRY DUTTON PIERCE 
 210 Madison Ave., New York City- 
 Pierce rounded out forty-one years of continuous 
 service for the Vermont Marble Co., the last twenty- 
 eight years as Manager of the Chicago Branch, and 
 retired, Jan. 1, 1917, under a rule of the Company 
 that Managers, and in fact all employees, should 
 drop out at the age of seventy, but an exception was 
 made in his case by the President, if he would re- 
 main, which he concluded not to do. 
 
 From "The Monument News" I glean the follow- 
 ing words : "While Mr. Pierce is 70 years old, he has 
 the energy and activity of a man of 40, and is not 
 retiring because he is superannuated, as he has al- 
 ready served beyond the age limit at which most 
 men retire." "Since taking charge of the Chi- 
 cago Branch he has been a resident of Oak Park and 
 has been a leader in civic and public affairs in that 
 suburb. He was president of the town of Cicero, 
 including Oak Park (population 28,000)* for two 
 terms; has been president of the Board of Education 
 for five years; president of the Dartmouth Alumni 
 Association of Chicago; trustee of the Scoville In- 
 stitute of Oak Park and president of the Children's 
 Home for many years. He was an elector-at-large 
 for McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900, and a delegate 
 to the memorable convention of 1904 that nominat- 
 ed Chas. S. Deneen for Governor." The Vermont 
 Marble Co. is one of the greatest marble companies 
 in the world. There was a picture of the "General" 
 in this article, but the expression of his face was so 
 keen and searching that I took the man who sat for 
 it to be a judge about to fine me for contempt of 
 
88 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 court, or one reproving counsel for indulging in triv- 
 ial matters. Some years ago he appeared before 
 me in my office in-cog and tried to faze me with a 
 similar expression, but he could not long conceal the 
 well known twinkle of his eyes. He was chosen 
 President of the College Alumni Association in 
 1903. At one time he was President of the Helen E. 
 Starrett School for Young Ladies. When in the 
 Board of Education of Cicero he organized the Oak 
 Park Cadets and help secure equipment and a drill 
 master. In local political matters he was, as usual, 
 interested, and as a delegate attended many town, 
 County and State conventions. Some of his friends 
 secured from the Gov, a commission as Colonel, but 
 having served as a private in the Civil War he had 
 no relish for merely honorary military titles, the 
 acme of ambition in Kentucky. 
 
 His daughter, Helen E., after attending the public 
 schools in Oak Park, went to a private school for 
 young ladies two years, then went abroad for a year, 
 studying Art in Paris for some months, later grad- 
 uated from the Chicago Institute of Design, and still 
 later attended Newcomb College, NewOrleans, La., 
 for three seasons, taking courses in the designing 
 department. She is now interested in the church 
 work connected with St. Mary the Virgin church in 
 New York City. She is unmarried. 
 
 His son, Henry K. Pierce, Dart. 1904, attended 
 New York Library School, Albany, 1905; was a 
 member of the Marthens Marble Co., of Chicago, 
 marble finishers and decorators, 1906 to 1910; em- 
 ployed by the Vermont Marble Co., Chicago Branch, 
 as draughtsman, designer and estimator, 1910 to 
 1916; member of Oak Park library Board 6 years; 
 entered the General Theological School, (Episco- 
 pal) New York City, 1916; graduated 1919; in 1920 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 89 
 
 given a Fellowship for 1920, and became an Ordain- 
 ed Priest the same year. He is now on the Clergy 
 Staff of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City, and 
 taking a special course in Philosophy at Columbia 
 University, and is unmarried. 
 
 Our classmate is Treasurer of the Churchmen's 
 Alliance and on its Executive Committee. In 1917 
 he and his wife made a trip to New Orleans, where 
 their daughter was, and he was incidentally delight- 
 ed with the city because in the Civil War his regi- 
 ment was located there. Since 1917 he and his 
 wife have broken up the years by living in New 
 York City in the cold seasons, and at Gloucester, 
 Mass. and Whitefield, N. H. in the summer. At 
 Whitefield they practice setting up two small, very 
 complete temporary cottages, and need no "care- 
 takers" in the cold season any more than the birds 
 of their nests. 
 
 Last October, some weeks after returning to New 
 York, he was suddenly and surprisingly reminded 
 that his heart and arteries were not just as they 
 used to be, so that he is now looking well to high 
 blood-pressure and obliged to take care not to exert 
 himself seriously. 
 
 Henry has kept me supplied with information 
 since becoming Secretary and has reminded me of 
 some amusing episodes in which we shared when 
 Seniors at college. It will be a happy day when we 
 sit down at our reunion and indulge in suggestions 
 of the days-gone-by. 
 
 CHARLES WILLIAM SANBORN 
 Born 1849-12-19; died 1886-1-17 
 
 Frost completed the record as to him. 
 
90 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 JAMES FRANCIS SAVAGE 
 Born 1849-2-24; died 1920-7-2 
 
 Savage continued to be Clerk of the Lowell Police 
 Court until he was seventy years of age, Feb. 1919, 
 when he retired, rounding out thirty-four years of 
 service. The members of the Lowell Bar tendered 
 him a beautiful testimonial of affection and regard 
 at that time. Words of great appreciation of his 
 constant kindness, courtesy, and considerate treat- 
 ment, and the universal respect of the members of 
 the bar and its affection, came to gladden the heart 
 of our classmate. He resumed such work as a law- 
 yer as one might render at his age with impaired 
 vitality. Thus he worked along in a quiet way to 
 the end. His last months were spent mainly in 
 Probate Court lines, of which he had been able to 
 keep in touch, even while the Clerk of Court. 
 
 No one could meet "Jim" constantly without be- 
 ing elevated by his fine qualities of mind and heart. 
 His affection for old-time friends shone in his warm 
 greetings, while his wit and humor always brought 
 happy smiles. Had he followed the practice of his 
 profession he would have succeeded in such lines as 
 demand implicit confidence in integrity, especially, 
 for such confidence he was establishing when he be- 
 came Clerk of Court, but he was not adapted by 
 nature to the aggressive "fighting-fields" of practice, 
 and lack of taste for those fields probably led to his 
 acceptance of the clerical work which he followed 
 so long. 
 
 His wife and daughter, Miriam, survived him. 
 Miriam graduated from Wellesley College in 1911, 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 91 
 
 then took a year at the same institution in Art, next, 
 a year of study at Cincinnati Art Academy and Art 
 Museum, then a year in charge of the Art Depart- 
 ment at Wilson College, Pa., teaching art from 1914 
 to 1917, Assistant to the Director of the Rhode 
 Island School of Design and Art, resigning in 1917 
 on account of the ill health of her parents. Since 
 coming to her home she has assisted the Clerk of the 
 Police Court of Lowell. 
 
92 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 CHARLES HENRY SAWYER 
 Kearney, Neb. 
 
 He was born in the Granite State and has been 
 back twice, at least, since going west, once on his 
 wedding trip in 1881, and again in 1912 at our re- 
 union. In 1904 Solon Towne vouched for him as a 
 civil engineer in the employ of the Union Pacific, 
 with no signs of wear and tear, hardly a sprinkle of 
 gray hair, and reserve energies such as would ex- 
 haust most of the class on a forced march. This ap- 
 peared justified by his appearance in 1912 at Han- 
 over. In his letter to me he makes no mention of 
 physical infirmities or any abatement of his natural 
 forces, and my opinion is that he still indulges in his 
 favorite pastimes, chess and botany, to furnish food 
 for his reserve energy. He continued to keep the 
 alignment and surveys of the Union Pacific perfect 
 in his field until 1919, when he concluded to retire 
 on the pension plan of the railroad, he being on the 
 upper side of seventy. He writes that he is "taking 
 life pretty easy," which means a good big change in 
 his case. (Surely he depends on our credulity.) 
 
 He has two sons, Charles N. and Harry E. The 
 older, Charles, has followed the military career for 
 which he was educated at West Point. Following 
 his graduation in 1912, he was assigned to various 
 points, rank 2nd Lieutenant, until 1916, when, with 
 the rank of Major, he was assigned to a battalion of 
 the Signal Corps and in the summer of 1918, in ad- 
 vance of the battalion, went to France and was as- 
 signed to the 26th, Yankee, Division as chief signal 
 officer, an important position in a division which saw 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 93 
 
 very hard service, and when that division came back 
 to the United States, he became base signal officer at 
 St. Nazaire and returned in July, 1919, as Lieut. 
 Col. ; taking the privilege of a post-graduate course 
 in electricity at New Haven, he was then assigned 
 as instructor in the Signal Corps School at Camp 
 Vail, N. J., where he now is. 
 
 Harry E., Dart. 1912, A. B., went to the service of 
 the Carnegie Institute at Washington, D. C, in the 
 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, and in that 
 service has traveled very widely throughout Africa 
 and in the Far East, with most trying and adventur- 
 ous experiences, worthy of a long book. He is now 
 with his parents, and clearly, in energy, endurance 
 and taste for scientific work, he is a "chip of the old 
 block. " Since his tenth reunion coincides with his 
 father's fiftieth, there can be no uncertainty about 
 where they will both be found in 1922. 
 
 Mrs. Sawyer is very well, and we conjecture, with 
 reason, that she is busy in keeping her husband, 
 since his retirement from his work out of doors, bot- 
 anizing, lest he whittle up all the funiture in satis- 
 fying his pent-up vim. The son, Charles, has a wife 
 and two daughters. 
 
94 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 HENRY MANN SILVER 
 276 Madison Avenue, New York City 
 
 I received a letter from Dr. Silver as to his life 
 since 1904 as a surgeon, so fitly and connectedly 
 framed that to transpose it into the third person, as I 
 have done in many cases, would tend to obscure and 
 mar the fine personal quality inhering in the first 
 person, therefore I shall use his own words. We 
 never hear about him except as in the front rank of 
 surgery in New York City, and it makes all of us 
 glad and proud to learn most intimately of his work 
 and standing, therefore I quote: 
 
 "Frost's class history published in 1904 left me 
 'going at full speed ahead' with my active hospital 
 and surgical consultation practice, varied only by 
 the interest in rare surgical cases and the presidency 
 of hospital boards and smaller medical societies 
 with which I was connected. In 1913 I was honor- 
 ed with the presidency of the Society of the Alumni 
 of Bellevue Hospital, a Society composed of former 
 internes of the hospital, many of whom had become 
 distinguished in the profession. At my suggestion 
 the Society varied the programs by holding clinical 
 meetings in the Amphitheater of the hospital. At 
 these meetings cases of rare interest were brought 
 before the Society and demonstrated by the profess- 
 or in charge of the case. One case in particular, 
 demonstrated as anthrax, interested me very much 
 as I had never seen a case before. 
 
 Since leaying Hanover it has been the dream of 
 my life to do something for the schools which did so 
 much to prepare me for my life work. It was not 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 95 
 
 until 1913 that my bank account was sufficiently 
 large to make a start in carrying out the idea. 
 Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., being the 
 first school I attended after leaving home, was sel- 
 ected for the first gift, which was a fully equipped 
 gymnasium, together with a projection apparatus 
 for moving pictures. Head Master Tracy in the 
 first number (Nov. 1914) of the Bulletin of Kimball 
 Union Academy states, 'that not for many years has 
 there come a gift to the school more timely. Dr. 
 Silver in providing the building and its entire equip- 
 ment is performing a great and definite service to 
 the Academy, for which generations of students will 
 have reason to thank him/ 
 
 In 1914 I was elected a Fellow of the American 
 College of Surgeons, an organization composed of 
 most of the ablest and best known surgeons of North 
 America and soon to include those of South Ameri- 
 ca. With increasing power and influence it will 
 soon revolutionize the practice of surgery by stan- 
 dardizing the hospitals and the clinical practice of 
 surgery. The College aims to bring to every pa- 
 tient, however humble, the highest service known to 
 the profession. 
 
 Early in Oct. 1915, I received a telephone mes- 
 sage from a lady living out of town requesting me to 
 make arrangements for a room in a hospital as her 
 husband was suffering from a disease which puz- 
 zled their local physician and he wished to come to 
 New York and place himself in my care. On ex- 
 amining the patient after he reached the hospital, I 
 immediately made a diagnosis of anthrax from the 
 close resemblance of this case to one seen in Belle- 
 vue Hospital some time before. The hospital au- 
 thorities, fearing a spread of the disease, requested 
 me to transfer the patient at once to Bellevue Hos- 
 
96 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 pital. Here he was placed in the isolation ward. 
 In spite of the use of the Eichorn anthrax serum, 
 sent from Washington by special messenger, the 
 patient after five days of suffering died, no source 
 of infection having been found. This patient was 
 our classmate, George F. Stackpole. 
 
 A letter received from the Trustees of Bellevue 
 and Allied Hospital, early in 1916, suddenly ter- 
 minated my active hospital work, extending over a 
 period of nearly thirty years. The retirement was 
 caused by a rule, recently adopted in the depart- 
 ment, retiring a surgeon from active service at the 
 age of sixty. The letter also informed me that the 
 Trustees had appointed me Consulting Surgeon to 
 Gouverneur Hospital. Only those who have been 
 on the active staff of a large hospital can appreciate 
 the honor of such an appointment. 
 
 I have written no books on Medicine or Surgery 
 and have read and published very few papers on 
 surgical subjects. If I had followed the advice of 
 our classmate, Dr. Dana, who repeatedly in the 
 early days of our practice urged me to write and 
 write, giving the results of my experience in surgery 
 to the profession, I might have been more widely 
 known as a surgeon. It is with feelings of pleasure 
 and pride that I look back over the forty-five years 
 of my professional life. With pleasure — because 
 during the time the wonderful development of 
 modern medicine and surgery has taken place. 
 With the aid of visits to the great clinics of Mayo, 
 Murphy and Crile I have been able to watch these 
 developments and use them in my own private and 
 hospital practice. 
 
 With pride — because, in a small way, I helped to 
 develop the first training school for nurses in 
 America. Without doubt the training of nurses to 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 97 
 
 care for the sick has been the greatest boon that has 
 ever fallen to suffering humanity. The first train- 
 ing school for nurses was established in Bellevue 
 Hospital while I was a member of the house staff. 
 For nearly two years I lectured on surgery to the 
 nurses, and it was a nurse trained in my surgical 
 ward who established the training school for nurses 
 in the New York and Massachusetts General Hos- 
 pitals. From this small beginning I have watched 
 the movement spread until now nearly every hospi- 
 tal of fifty beds has its training school for nurses. 
 
 I am a member of the usual National, State and 
 County Medical Societies. My vacation month, 
 August, is divided between South Harpswell, Me., 
 and Camp Occum, Lake Morey, Fairlee, Vt. It is 
 purely a month of rest." 
 
98 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 ALBERT GRAY SOMERS 
 Aberdeen, South Dakota 
 
 Somers was residing at Summit, S. D. in 1904, 
 and, beginning Sept. 12, 1920 with letters to him 
 there, my fifth letter of Feb. 8 was the only one 
 which reached him, finding him at Aberdeen where 
 he had moved in 1906. I had about given him over 
 to "hardness of heart," but it seems that he had not 
 suffered from human plagues as I had assumed. 
 This once more establishes my fisherman's rule, 
 "Keep casting your flies and sooner or later the fish 
 will rise. ,, 
 
 Our classmate was in the lower house of the South 
 Dakota legislature, covering a period of six years, 
 1897-1903, serving the first term on the floor of the 
 house; the second and third in the Speaker's chair, 
 in which position our History left him in 1904. 
 
 At Summit he served as police and civil justice 
 part of the time, and carried on a general collection 
 business, fire and hail insurance and conveyancing. 
 In the fall of 1911 he came to Vermont to adminis- 
 ter on the estates of his mother and brother, and 
 since then has not engaged actively in business. 
 
 Aberdeen is quite a large city about sixty miles 
 west of Summit. "Jack" is cordially interested in 
 the class of '72, and we would all have been very 
 much grieved not to have heard from him to be as- 
 sured of the old-time fraternal feelings. 
 
 He has never married, on account of which he has 
 the sympathy of all but a meagre few of the class 
 who of course have attracted many unwinning at- 
 tentions. It would be entertaining if these coy fel- 
 lows would indulge us in an account of their ro- 
 mances, but in the case of Somers he probably has 
 the reserve of his Scotch ancestry. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 99 
 
 HENRY LEVI SLACK 
 Born 1847-8-30; died 1905-3-25 
 
 He died at Bethel, Conn, of a general breaking 
 down of his vital organs. Quoting from our class- 
 mate, J. A. Freeman, "Our classmate was one of the 
 ablest ministers in the State of Connecticut, and one 
 of the finest specimens of manhood I have ever 
 seen." He was survived by a wife and four chil- 
 dren, of whom our History speaks with fullness 
 down to its date. 
 
 Elvira, after graduating from Wellesley, 1902, 
 was C. A. Secretary, North Western University, 
 down to 1904; from 1904 to '07, Y. W. C. A. Sect., 
 Wellesley; 1907, received A. M. in Lit. Wellesley; 
 1908 to '16, teacher of Literature at Adelphi Acad- 
 emy, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 1916 to '20, Y. W. C. A. Stu- 
 dent Sect, for Middle West, Denver, Col. She has 
 resigned and at present is in N. Y. taking lectures at 
 Union and Columbia. She has written "The Man 
 of Galilee, " a little book for Bible study, also com- 
 piled a book for girls, "A Canticle of the year." 
 
 John P., non-graduate at Dart. 1906; 1906 to '17, 
 newspaper work and advertising in New York and 
 Philadelphia. He enlisted in 1918 in the navy and 
 is Chief Steward on the S. S. Provincetown. He 
 married Alma Ralph, of Philadelphia, in 1914, and 
 is now on his 28th trip across to France. 
 
 Helen L., graduated at Wellesley in 1909; 1910, 
 Teacher in Bethel High, Conn.; 1911, entered 
 School of Fine Arts, N. Y.; 1914 to '17, Teacher of 
 Art at Packer Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 1917 to 
 '19, Reconstruction Aide, Pyscopathy, in Camps Dix 
 
100 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 and Carlisle; 1919, Dec. 15, married Lieutenant in 
 the Canadian Army, Alfred A. Wickenden, a Co- 
 lumbia graduate in Civil Engineering; living at 
 Three Rivers, Can. 
 
 Grace F., graduated at Wellesley, 1912, Phi Beta 
 Kappa; 1912 to '14, Teacher in Walnut Lane School, 
 Germantown, Pa.; Oct. 2, 1914, married Robert Lin- 
 coln McNeil, a Pharmaceutical Chemist of Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., and graduate of Penn. University. They 
 have two boys, home 5039 Schuyler St. Phil. Pa. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 101 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS STACKPOLE 
 Born 1843-11-29; died 1915-10 
 
 He died from the poisonous effects of anthrax, 
 his aged heart being unable to throw it off. In his 
 fight for life he exhibited the old time pluck. We 
 all remember him as no "chicken hearted man," no 
 "quitter" until the bell rung and closed the race. 
 The papers of the day in New York and elsewhere 
 gave full account of his fight for life in a case which 
 was rare and interesting to the medical fraternity. 
 Please refer to my report about Dr. Silver. When 
 he was told that there was no hope, and was asked 
 if he desired the services of a clergyman, he was 
 "Stack." "Clergyman?" he queried, "For over fifty 
 years I have been a Christian and a God fearing 
 man. If I am not prepared after all that, a clergy- 
 man will do me no good." 
 
 He occupied a unique place in his town, River- 
 head, L. I., N. Y. Quoting from published reports 
 at the time, "He was as much of an institution there 
 as Riverhead itself, and now that he is gone it will 
 seem as if some integral part of the town had be- 
 come separated from the rest. There were several 
 ex-judges in Riverhead, but whenever any one 
 spoke of the 'judge/ it was commonly known that 
 it had reference to only one man, and that, George 
 Stackpole." 
 
 He was popularly supposed to have contracted 
 this exceptional disease while leaning against an old 
 hitching post, telling stories to his admiring cronies, 
 but that source of infection cannot be substantiated. 
 When the tide of life was at its ebb, he swung into 
 
102 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 the majestic lines of Thanatopsis and continued 
 through the entire poem without a pause or fault. 
 He was an exemplification in actual life of the lov- 
 able character in fiction of David Harum. As erect 
 as a ramrod, he was a striking man physically, a 
 "dependable man," — "you always knew where to 
 find him," they said. 
 
 Quoting, "It is hard to mention any society or or- 
 ganization in which he had not taken a leading and 
 prominent part." So many fine things were said to 
 his credit that it is hard to make a selection. He 
 was a strong man, lovable, entertaining, influential 
 in the right direction in all local interests, a man 
 who left a gap which no one will ever fill in that 
 community. 
 
 His wife survived him and his daughter and son. 
 The widow lives at the home, Riverhead. Syrena, 
 the daughter, graduated from Bradford Academy 
 in 1905, from Wellesley College in 1909, A. B., and 
 Law School of N. Y. University in 1919, degree, J. 
 D. In November 1919 she was admitted to the bar 
 of New York State and at present is connected with 
 the firm of Hawkins, Delafield and Longfellow, 20 
 Exchange Place, New York. 
 
 The son, Philip W., graduated from Dart. 1916, 
 then taught Mathematics about a year, then from 
 May 7th, 1917, to December 23, 1919, was in war 
 service in France. He is now engaged in the in- 
 vestment banking business in New York City, 56 
 William St., and is unmarried. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 103 
 
 RALPH TALBOT 
 Born 1850-8-17; died 1911-6-28 
 
 The notice of the death of Ralph, sent out to us 
 by our Secretary, Feb. 22, 1912, speaks of creeping 
 paralysis as attacking him March 4, 1911, and that 
 it was the price of overwork. Neither of my letters 
 addressed to Denver reached Mrs. Talbot until in 
 January and her prompt response did not relate to 
 the events of the closing years of our classmate. 
 However, we may assume with certainty that he 
 continued his activities along the same lines of high 
 endeavor and worthy achievement described in our 
 History of 1904, and that he retained the honor and 
 esteem in his city which had been justly his for 
 many years. 
 
 Those of use who were present at our '97 reunion 
 will recall vividly the sparkling life and enthusiasm 
 of his every word and act. To have the opportun- 
 ity of greeting him then was to inhale the atmos- 
 phere of Colorado altitudes and to thrill with cur- 
 rents of energy which do not short-circuit as lively 
 this side of the back-bone of the Continent. Ralph 
 by nature was very intense, and this marked tem- 
 perament, having been allowed free course in his 
 work, probably burned too rapidly his great store 
 of vitality. Had he been spared to attend our gold- 
 en reunion, his distinctive personality would have 
 added a sparkling vivacity to the occasion. 
 
 None of his family are now living in Denver. His 
 widow, Frances Hardin Talbot, lives at 1335 South 
 35th Avenue, Omaha, Neb. Their daughter, Alice, 
 married R. F. McElvenny, now Manager of the Gar- 
 field Smelter, Utah, and Refinery, Omaha. They 
 
104 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 have three children, Robert, Jr., Ralph W. and 
 Frances H. 
 
 The four sons of our classmate were all in the 
 World War, an exhibition of militant, patriotic spir- 
 it that would have satisfied even the intense soul of 
 their father. 
 
 Ralph, Jr., graduate of West Point, was a Colonel 
 of Cavalry, and personnel officer at Washington, D. 
 C, and is now stationed in Coblenz, Germany. He 
 married Marguerite Morgan, daughter of Col. G. W. 
 Morgan, retired, and they have a son, Ralph, 3rd, 
 and daughter, Peggy Lu. 
 
 Charles H., second son of our classmate, a lawyer 
 by profession, was Captain of Infantry in the Colo- 
 rado Guards. After his service in the war he did 
 not resume his professional practice. He married 
 Hazel Smith, of Denver, and they live in California 
 and have two children, Chas. H., Jr., and Jane. 
 
 Robert Emmet, third son, married Mary Heaney 
 before going to France. He, by profession a phys- 
 ician, was a major in the Medical Dept. of the Colo- 
 rado Guards, and they have one child, Robert E., Jr., 
 and live at Dragon, Utah. At present he is prac- 
 ticing medicine, being in the employ of the Uinatah 
 Railroad of Colorado and Rainbow Mine. 
 
 Laurence D., youngest son, is 1st Lieutenant in the 
 U. S. Regular Army, and is now stationed at Fort 
 Ringgold, Tex. He was married in Nov. 1920. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 105 
 
 EVERETT TOTMAN 
 
 Needham, Massachusetts 
 
 In 1908 Totman sold out his hardware, stove and 
 furnace business at Waltham, Mass., in which he 
 had been engaged a number of years, and in Dec. 
 moved to Concord, Mass. 
 
 He married Lillian F. Hatch of Concord, Nov. 30, 
 1905 and they have no children. 
 
 In June 1911, he moved to his present residence, 
 and in March 1914 was appointed Town Accountant 
 for the term of three years, and since that term has 
 been reappointed twice. Needham is a suburban 
 town, 13 miles from Boston, population 7,000. 
 
 He is in good health and expects to attend our re- 
 union in 1922. Politically, he voted on the winning 
 side in November. He is enjoying the entire confi- 
 dence of the town in which he resides. He would 
 not say so, but there is no doubt about it. 
 
 He came to us from Bowdoin College in 1871, 
 and, although he drank in our influences only a lit- 
 tle more than a year, he improved that period better 
 than Ponce de Leon did his voyage of discovery, for 
 he found the "Fountain of Youth, " insuring a long 
 lease of life, fine ethical standards, and, withal, 
 prosperity, of which he is too modest to write. 
 
 Everett Totman died April 18, 1921, at his home in Needham, Mass., 
 after a short illness. He left a widow, Mrs. Lillian Totman, a teacher 
 in the public schools. 
 
106 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 SOLON RODNEY TOWNE 
 Hilaire Cottage, St. D. R. 2, Omaha, Neb. 
 
 Dr. Towne began practice as a physician at Oma- 
 ha in 1888, after practicing twelve years at Enfield, 
 Mass. Recourse should be had to our 1904 History 
 for information as to his fields of professional activ- 
 ity, his relations as an expert to certain lines, as well 
 as his various services for the advancement of public 
 health in Nebraska, protecting against and stamp- 
 ing out contagious diseases, efficient sanitary re- 
 forms in the schools and the adoption of better quar- 
 antine methods. 
 
 He has been President of the Nebraska Tubercu- 
 losis Association for many years, and as Chairman 
 of the Executive Committee has been continuously 
 active, traveling widely in Nebraska to assist the lo- 
 cal authorities under the auspices of the State Board 
 of Health. They took part in the inauguration of 
 a Children's Health Crusade, meeting teachers at 
 Institutes to interest them and secure them as work- 
 ers, and made a success of it. He was largely in- 
 strumental in getting laws passed to secure vital 
 statistics, and thereby put his state on the map in 
 that respect. From 1900 to 1918 he occupied the 
 chair upon Public Health in the Nebraska Univer- 
 sity, and is now such, emeritus. 
 
 Our former history shows his eminent social serv- 
 ice in Omaha, and his earnest devotion to the pro- 
 motion of every local reform, his love of nature stud- 
 ies of bird-life, wood-lore and plant-life at first 
 hand, in the ravines among the bluffs of the near-by 
 Missouri River. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 107 
 
 He had in 1904 begun his third year as physician 
 to the Nebraska School for the Deaf. That work 
 and other important matters of Public Health took 
 him away from his private practice as a physician 
 so long that when those duties no longer required 
 his whole time he concluded that it would not be 
 wise to undertake to resume and build up his prac- 
 tice, but to find duty in the ways of public service, 
 not on account of remunerative returns, but because 
 of great importance to his city and the state. For 
 fifteen years the Public Health side of medicine, in 
 the main, has closely occupied his mind. 
 
 He is President of the local Audubon Society, es- 
 tablished twenty years, and its work is extensive and 
 in a large sense effective. Through the co-opera- 
 tion of teachers, ten thousand junior members were 
 enlisted and pledged not to injure birds or their 
 nests. Eight hundred acres along the bluffs of the 
 river-ravines are controlled as a sort of park and 
 sanctuary for bird-life where Boy Scout, Camp-Fire 
 Girls, Y. W. C. A. and other organizations pitch 
 their tents for recreation, and people from the city 
 come and rusticate between business hours. Solon 
 has joined enthusiastically in promoting this enter- 
 prise for health, civic influence, and to make the 
 workers and the children happy. 
 
 His home, "Hilaire Cottage, " is just a little out of 
 town, and there he has brought under fine cultiv- 
 ation his daughters five acres, raising through his 
 own elbow-grease all sorts of garden products, and, 
 incidentally, about the place he can observe some 
 sixty varieties of birds and their migrations. With 
 things so suited to his taste and ardent love of 
 nature study, with beauty, bird-songs and sights, 
 and, withal, an opportunity for economic applica- 
 tion in Nebraska of the results of what he learns, 
 
108 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 surely he leads an idyllic life, consecrated happily, 
 not to mere personal pleasure, although incident- 
 ally enjoyable, but to noble and worthy ends. An 
 absorbing sense of duty to others shines in all the 
 years since we knew him. We cannot name any 
 distinctive college degrees which would honor 
 him, but we can think of college degrees which 
 would be honored, if conferred on him. 
 
 His health has remained excellent. His wife met 
 with a bad accident in 1916 that has made walking 
 impossible most of the time since, even with a cane, 
 but she has a wealth of cheerfulness and a busy 
 mind. The daughter, Mary, born in 1876, was a 
 Kindergartner for some time, but now she is the 
 "Martha" of the home, and though not physically 
 strong, she can cook and keep house for Dad and 
 Ma in a way that keeps them happy. She, too, is a 
 lover of nature-studies. 
 
 The other daughter, Jessie M., born 1874, taught 
 English and Latin in the Omaha High School, begin- 
 ning about 1897, and now she is Dean of over a 
 thousand girls in that school, with an exceptionally 
 high salary. 
 
 The son, Robert S., born 1878, married, has two 
 daughters. Since 1915 he has waged a brave fight 
 against tuberculosis, and, improved, is able to serve 
 as Express Claim Agent, for Colorado, working in 
 an open veranda. 
 
 The youngest child, Alice C, born 1884, Neb. Uni- 
 versity, in 1904 taking a Physical Director course, 
 married Fred M. Deweese, also Neb. University and 
 later Columbia Law School, and now they are locat- 
 ed on a farm 100 miles south of Omaha on the Kan- 
 sas line at "Hilaire Farm." They have three chil- 
 dren, and both are leaders in many community in- 
 terests, counting effectively in all the war "Drives." 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 109 
 
 Mrs. Deweese wrote "Produce and Preserve," a cir- 
 cular which received notable attention through Ne- 
 braska in 1918, and she was state leader on the 
 "Women's Council of Defense" for food production 
 in war time, and is favorably mentioned by promin- 
 ent suffragists for Regent of Nebraska University. 
 Alice is a woman of varied capacity, and can "do 
 things." 
 
110 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 FREDERICK MARQUAND TRASK 
 845 Judson Ave., Evanston, 111. 
 
 After practicing as a physician in Chicago some 
 twenty-five years, he accepted the position of trav- 
 eling salesman for a Pharmaceutical House of im- 
 portance, moving to Wilmette, 111. in 1910, and later 
 in 1918 to his present home, keeping up his last oc- 
 cupation until the war began. Since Feb. 1920, ill- 
 ness has resulted in temporary blindness, but his 
 general health has been improving. In October his 
 wife made replies to my enquiries as to his activities 
 since our last report in 1904, and Feb. 11, I got the 
 latest news, his wife saying that his eyesight is very 
 slowly improving but that he is not yet able to read, 
 and that his general condition is stronger. 
 
 As we can see, Fred's illness has been a very un- 
 fortunate one and has put him out of the working 
 force. He and his family have our profound sym- 
 pathy and fond hopes for his restoration to sight 
 and comfort. I have expressed to him and his wife 
 what I know to be the feelings of all his classmates, 
 and they have appreciated our interest and kindest 
 wishes. 
 
 They have a son and daughter. The son, Win- 
 throp M., born in 1884, was married to Edna E. 
 Bates of Evanston in 1916, and they have two chil- 
 dren. The daughter of Fred and wife, Marjorie M., 
 has never married, and lives at home with her par- 
 ents. Mrs. Trask is a direct descendant of Presi- 
 dent Eleazor Wheelock, fifth remove, and is justly 
 proud of her ancestry. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE HI 
 
 GEORGE THOMAS TUTTLE 
 110 Highland St., Milton, Mass. 
 
 Dr. Tuttle's work and his high standing were so 
 fully and justly set forth by Dr. Edward Cowles, 
 Supt. of McLean Hospital, in our History, that no- 
 thing need be added by the writer, not even to say, 
 what is perfectly clear to all of us, that his standard 
 of service never moved other than upward under in- 
 creased responsibilities. I joined him and Savage 
 in attending Dartmouth Sesqui-Centennial in Oct. 
 1919, and we had a very enjoyable time. He was 
 well and full of the old Dartmouth spirit. 
 
 On the retirement of Dr. Cowles, he became Med- 
 ical Superintendent of McLean Hospital, Jan. 1, 
 1904, which position he held till April 15,1919. 
 Under a rule of the Trustees he could have retired at 
 the age of sixty-four, but the rule was suspended 
 and he resigned five years later, having then com- 
 pleted a continuous service of assistant physician 
 and superintendent of forty years. During the fif- 
 teen-year period of his superintendency, four new 
 houses were built, extensive alterations were made 
 in three others, and the annual income of the hos- 
 pital nearly doubled. 
 
 He was President of the Middlesex South Dist. 
 Medical Society (six hundred members) for two 
 years, 1917 and 1918, and during the war was chair- 
 man of an Auxiliary Medical Defense Committee. 
 Aside from medical work at the hospital, he 
 gave expert advice and testimony in a large number 
 of medico-legal cases, some of little, others of con- 
 siderable importance. 
 
112 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 In 1908 he was appointed by the Governor, Chair- 
 man of a Commission to revise and codify the laws 
 of Massachusetts relating to insane persons, express- 
 ing in a very definite way the views of the Governor 
 as to the scope of the ability and judgment of the 
 Doctor in the field to which he had devoted his life. 
 
 He had not written much for publication, but we 
 may mention "Hydrotherapeutics," in American 
 Journal of Insanity, "The Male Nurse," Ibid, "Re- 
 port of Committee on Training School for Nurses," 
 Ibid, "History of McLean Hospital," "The Institu- 
 tional Care of the Insane in the United States and 
 Canada." 
 
 He married Miss Celeste Albright of Dor- 
 Dorchester, Mass., May 14, 1914, and his third 
 foreign trip immediately followed. The opening of 
 the World War found him and wife in Antwerp, 
 whence they went to England with some difficulty, 
 annoying at the time but of pleasant memory now, 
 he remarks. 
 
 Since leaving the hospital he has been made a 
 Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 
 which includes the McLean Hospital, and has lived 
 in apartments at the Charlesgate Hotel in Boston, 
 having practically retired from the practice of med- 
 icine. An attack of influenza in the winter of 1919- 
 20 left as a sequel a chest trouble said not to be 
 tuberculosis, which obliged him to go South in the 
 spring, and because of it he is wintering in Augusta, 
 Georgia. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 113 
 
 FREDERICK HENRY WALES 
 Imperial, Cal. 
 
 Our History traces the labors of our classmate 
 down to April 1903, when he was on a government 
 homestead which he had taken up at Imperial. A 
 long standing bronchial trouble made it necessary to 
 give up preaching and try the effect of living out- 
 doors and engaging in farming. Imperial is now a 
 large and thriving town in southern California, 
 southwest of "Salton Sea." Fred has been a pio- 
 neer at Riverside and also Fresno, the "Raisin City," 
 towns further north, and when in 1901 he came to 
 Imperial it was a bleak looking stretch of land, long 
 looked upon as no better than a desert. From the 
 town now a paved highway leads south-west over 
 the mountains, as also does a railroad to San Diego. 
 In that valley section half a million acres are under 
 cultivation through the application of irrigation, 
 and they ship annually $70,000,000 worth of prod- 
 uce. 
 
 His "help-meet," selected in 1884, proved a sore 
 disappointment in the life of a clergyman, and in 
 1891 she quit hampering his life. Of his four chil- 
 dren, Eugene died at 19 and Claribel at 24 years of 
 age, the latter leaving a daughter, Lois, and son, 
 Paul. The younger daughter, Ruth, married a man 
 who proved unworthy and from whom she obtained 
 a divorce. She had one child by him, William, now 
 alive. She married later, Lieut. Harry Backstein 
 of the U. S. Marines, now a Superintendent for the 
 Standard Oil Co. at Fresno. The second son of 
 Wales, Fred, married Irene Christine in 1915, and 
 
114 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 they have no children. He is with his father on the 
 ranch of 280 acres. 
 
 The father writes that they are "fighting it out," 
 with fifty acres of cotton, forty of alfalfa, about the 
 same of Miloz maize, and ten of castor-oil beans. 
 Our classmate preached some twenty-five years in 
 California, wrestling most of the years with bronchi- 
 tis, and reluctantly had to yield to the situation and 
 resort to this out-door-life, farming. It was no 
 small undertaking, after the career of a minister, to 
 take up a homestead and begin farming at his age, 
 with inexperience, but he exhibited rare courage in 
 adverse circumstances, and by persistence has sur- 
 mounted the obstacles of the seeming desert and 
 made his 280 acres, near the "Salton Sea," blossom 
 with fruit more useful than the rose. Once in his 
 life he lost his home and contents by fire. 
 
 In a letter to me he remarks that, "Time has dealt 
 lightly in many respects, making him feel scarcely 
 older than fifty, but contented to remain home even- 
 ings." He came East in 1912 to attend our reunion 
 and also the Centennial of Kimball Union Academy, 
 but missed ours by going first to Meriden, assuming 
 that they did not occur at the same time. He hopes, 
 if alive, to gather with the class at its next reunion 
 in 1922. 
 
 But for Jewell he would be the Patriarch of the 
 class, with Somers and Galbraith 1st. close com- 
 rades. We all recall a man of rather slim physique, 
 not apparently of the most enduring vigor, so that, 
 considering his throat trouble, a serious handicap in 
 preaching, the 19-year-old volunteer of the Civil 
 War, of the 42nd Mass. Regt., has shown wonderful 
 vitality and made good use of his opportunities, 
 never laying down his arms or showing the "White 
 Feather" whatever might betide. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 115 
 
 ARTHUR NORMAN WARD 
 Arlington Heights, Mass. 
 
 Our record in 1904 sets forth that "Norman" was 
 at Somerville, Mass., where he had resided since 
 1898, without a charge as minister. He writes that 
 he enjoyed a visit from Wales last summer. Ward 
 took a Civil Service examination in 1904 and not 
 long after entered Uncle Sam's employ in the Cus- 
 tom House, Boston. He expected to be retired last 
 August at the age of seventy years, but because of 
 good health and ability to perform his duties he has 
 been reinstated for two years and hopes to hold out 
 a while longer. 
 
 His wife is still living, and both his children are at 
 home with the parents. Arthur H. was educated 
 at the Essex High School and Rindge Manual Train- 
 ing School of Cambridge, Mass., and is a practical 
 machinist. Having been in the automobile business, 
 in 1917 he enlisted in the Motor Transport Corps, 
 but to his disappointment was sent to Waco, Tex., 
 where he stayed twenty months and never had the 
 chance to go "overseas." 
 
 The daughter, Katherine, graduated at Somerville 
 High School and Radcliffe College, class of 1907, 
 and is engaged in secretarial work in Boston. 
 
 Norman wants to keep alive old friendships and 
 memories, so he purposes to be at our reunion in 
 1922, if alive. 
 
116 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 CHESTER HORTON WEAD 
 Born 1851-2-17; died 1907-8-23 
 
 Many years before his death a fall was followed 
 by such serious consequences that for a time he was 
 unable to attend to business, but about the year 1900 
 he removed to Aurora, Mo., and engaged in mining 
 and prospecting. There was a mild recurrence of 
 old-time troubles during the four years preceding 
 his death, which, under the aggravating heat pre- 
 vailing in late summer in 1907, resulted in his sud- 
 den death. 
 
 The foregoing is the report given by Frost in his 
 notice of the death of our brother. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 11 7 
 
 ROBERT WILLIAM WELCH 
 
 Editorial Rooms, The Times Office, New York, N. Y. 
 
 "Bob" was London correspondent of the New 
 York Times when our record left off in June 1904. 
 He stayed in London until 1907 and then came back 
 to work in the office of The Times, doing, as he says, 
 rather unimportant things. Please don't assume 
 from his super-modest way of putting "things" that 
 he was reading little waste scraps of the "ex- 
 changes." He seems to think, because all the re- 
 sults of his good judgment go into the minds of read- 
 ers of the daily news, rather than into the great 
 treasures of libraries, that it is of small consequence 
 in the world. 
 
 He writes me that he is now reading the Times 
 American exchanges. One is likely, not his class- 
 mates however, to infer that he is simply a living 
 store house of news and that nothing escapes the 
 sentry at the closed doors. "Bob," you are cute, 
 but you can't delude us. He's done his full share of 
 the "world's work," and it is inevitably unseen in its 
 effect. We cannot justly call a work ephemeral be- 
 cause we are unable to follow out its effect. Some 
 men think that they have done a big thing when they 
 have written books, and we know, so far as effects 
 are concerned, they have but wasted the reader's 
 time beyond forgiveness, that is, a large per cent of 
 them have. 
 
 His daughter, Catharine G., married James Fran- 
 cis Dwyer, in January 1920, a literary man, and she 
 is now traveling in Europe.. Before her marriage 
 she was a literary agent, remarkably successful, and 
 
118 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 the business which she established is still flourishing, 
 she having sold it to two of her employees. 
 
 Welch assures me of the soundness of my political 
 views, from which you can infer that he has not va- 
 cillated since of old. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 119 
 
 GEORGE ARTHUR WILLEY 
 Santa Cruz, Cal. 
 
 Our History placed him in the year of 1897 in the 
 drug business in Boston, with a wife, a graduate of 
 Vassar College, and a daughter, Margaret A., and 
 son, James H. Since then another son has been 
 born, Arthur Roby. 
 
 George quit the drug business and varied his oc- 
 cupation, teaching and using his musical talent in 
 playing church organs and otherwise, until 1915, 
 when, at the urgent desire of his older son, who was 
 connected with naval matters, he went to Santa 
 Cruz to give attention to the Armory there and other 
 government property. He continued in that work 
 until 1917, when he entered the employ of a 
 real estate and lumber company there, looking after 
 tenements, finding time to preside at the church 
 organ and to play the piano with profit, and withal, 
 he became a producer of eggs in quantity, a new 
 mine of gold in California which has opened up 
 more recently. His well known musical taste was 
 likely to call forth from me the conclusion that it 
 had saved him from the "accursed thirst for gold," 
 but his letters leaked out his golden-egg obsession, 
 so I am not so sure about his safety. 
 
 I am fully justified in stating that he is in a happy 
 frame of mind, but whether that will be affected by 
 the egg-market remains to be proved. To be a Dea- 
 con in the Congregational Church, and a teacher of 
 a Bible class, such as he is, suggests qualities of 
 heart that may be the subject of green envy on the 
 part of many of our class. A snap-shot picture of 
 
120 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 him shows a full beard and a mustache, hair thick 
 and dark, natty attire, healthy fullness of face, and 
 his letters evince a contented survey of life. Any of 
 the "boys" who are disposed to open a contest with 
 him as to cheerfulness and good looks can try the 
 precarious venture, and we will settle it at our re- 
 union. 
 
 His daughter, Margaret A., graduate of Boston 
 University, also school of Osteopathy, practicing 
 several years, married a minister, Rev. A. F. Travis, 
 in 1911, a Y. M. C. A. worker, who was subsequent- 
 ly drowned, leaving one son, and she now lives about 
 two hundred miles south of Santa Cruz where she 
 engages in gardening with success. 
 
 The son, James H., Lieut. Naval Reserves, in April 
 1917 took his men down the coast and through the 
 Panama Canal ; next was First Navigation Officer on 
 the Dakota, cruising on the South American Coast to 
 discover any German Naval station; next he was in 
 command of the Vega, with a crew of West Point 
 Students ; next Third Officer on the Leviathan, bring- 
 ing home troops, and now in the Merchant Marine, 
 running between San Francisco and China. He 
 married Jessie P. Parker in 1906. 
 
 The other son, Arthur Roby, is private secretary 
 of the American Gas Company of New York City, 
 with many clerks under him ,and was married to 
 Emily Washburn in 1920. 
 
 Our classmate's wife is alive and well, and, be- 
 sides being busy looking after him, has found time to 
 travel with her brother almost all over the world. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 121 
 
 GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS 
 15 State St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Williams on the 1st day of April, 1918, (note the 
 date) was one of the first to hail me as the new Sec- 
 retary, (appointed by three pedagogues) saying 
 that everybody would be glad of the action; the 
 truth then, but I have come to the opinion, after 
 four months of work testing these expressions, that 
 they sprang from a subjective feeling of relief, 
 rather than a wise estimate of the enjoyments of the 
 object of the congratulations. They were wise old 
 fellows. However, we "live and learn," even after 
 three score years and ten. There have been great 
 compensations in the work in the pleasures of early 
 and frank contact with so many men of warm and 
 appreciative hearts, the joys of first information as 
 to a host of interesting annals. 
 
 Williams and Colby were seriously interested in 
 September 1918, in an attempt to start a movement 
 to bring about the appointment of Miller as Ambas- 
 sador to the court of St. James, but he poured cold 
 water on their aspirations, so they dropped the mat- 
 ter. It shows the strong links of friendship and the 
 "esprit de corps" of the men of '72. 
 
 I have a letter of Jan. 29, 1921, from which I copy 
 as our common property, namely: 
 
 "My dear Barstow : 
 
 My history since 1904 is not much. 
 
 In 1911 I crowned my professional work with an 
 argument as counsel for the State of Oregon and sev- 
 
122 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 eral other states before the Supreme Court of the 
 United States in defense of the Initiative and Refer- 
 endum provisions of the Oregon constitution; The 
 Court sustained their constitutionality. 
 
 In 1912 I was one of the Managers and campaign- 
 ers for Champ Clark as Democratic Presidential can- 
 didate. Picking the loser ended my leading place 
 in politics. 
 
 In 1913 my sixty-one years' search for the second 
 best woman in the world was rewarded, and I mar- 
 ried her June 14th; her name was Frances Ames 
 Hopkins. 
 
 In October of the same year, I was appointed by 
 President Wilson Minister Plenipotentiary of the 
 United States to Greece and Montenegro. 
 
 From Athens in June 1914, I visited Albania to 
 investigate a massacre of Albanians by Greek sol- 
 diers and to report upon the conditions there. I 
 was so disgusted with the wrongs practiced by the 
 Great Powers upon the Albanians that (in accord- 
 ance with my additional title as Envoy-extraordin- 
 ary) I made a public protest which, of course, I fol- 
 lowed up with my resignation as Minister. I think 
 it the most decent thing I have done. 
 
 Later I wrote a pamphlet on Albania, a copy of 
 which I send you. I have since acted as counsel for 
 the Albanians in the United States, and followed 
 closely the developments in that country, which in- 
 clude her admission by unanimous vote to the 
 League of Nations. You will perceive, therefore, 
 that I no longer "cry in the wilderness." 
 
 At present as counsel for the counties of Massa- 
 chusetts, I am preparing a defense of county institu- 
 tions against State attack in the Legislature, led by 
 the Governor. 
 
 I am in perfect health; have had sciatica and 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 123 
 
 phlebitis, but no physician has yet cast any suspicion 
 on my vitals. 
 
 From my advantages, I have contributed my fair 
 share to the service of my country and people with- 
 out deducting anything for what some regard as 
 success. 
 
 At eighty-five, I expect to moderate my activities. 
 My principal Club is the St. Botolph, Boston, my res- 
 idence 1070 Beacon St., Brookline. 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Geo. Fred Williams. ,, 
 
 The "Vox clamantis in deserto" may not have 
 cried with effect, perhaps lost in the Babel of voices 
 which have come from European conditions in the 
 years since, but his pamphlet, "Shkypetars," the 
 real name of the people of Albania, exhibits the 
 dominance of his sense of justice over any supposed 
 limitations of Ministerial functions. His scorn of 
 the pitiless usages of diplomacy, commanding 
 smothered silence when confronted with cruel op- 
 pressions, and his decision, when he returned to 
 Athens from Albania in 1914, to resign as Minister 
 that he might in this country, as he had done at 
 Athens, denounce the inhumanity and injustice that 
 he had seen and "tear the mask from European dip- 
 lomacy and expose its face, smeared with the 
 blood of patriots and leering in lust for the liberty 
 of a brave race," does greater credit to his character 
 than the mere reputation of much longer service as 
 our Minister to Greece. 
 
 The appeal of the pamphlet to Americans closes 
 with these words: "There can be no nobler effort of 
 man than for the freedom of a nation. To succor 
 individuals is commendable charity; to enfranchise 
 
124 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 a people is to expand a deed of today into the infin- 
 ite good and make it immortal. " 
 
 That was a very fit closing to the opening words: 
 "In the dark chambers of European diplomacy 
 Albania has been tortured for centuries. Even now, 
 hollow-eyed with pain and hunger, it stretches forth 
 gaunt hands for justice and liberty; yet in vain. 
 But the wages of sin is death and a just Providence 
 may speak in the fact that Europe's present carnage 
 springs straight from the loins of her Albanian poli- 
 tics." 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 125 
 
 JAMES TRASK WOODBURY 
 Francestown, N. H. 
 
 Since being called away from teaching in 1876 to 
 conduct the affairs of his father's farm in the town 
 where he was born, our classmate has followed 
 farming diligently, making use of his education so 
 far as it was helpful in farming and useful in the 
 community in the various ways common to a New 
 Hampshire town. He is a thoroughly reliable citi- 
 zen, dependable and responsive to every civic duty. 
 
 His wife is fulfilling the duties of a competent and 
 excellent consort. Their daughter, Mary E., grad- 
 uated from the Plymouth Normal School in 1905 
 and taught school until her marriage in 1909 to 
 Arthur J. Miller, a farmer honored in the town. 
 They have a son and two daughters. 
 
 The son of our classmate, James L., attended the 
 N. H. State College at Durham for two years. In 
 October 1908 he married Mary A. Miller, graduate 
 of Plymouth Normal School, and they lived with his 
 father upon the farm until the death of James L. in 
 October 1918. His widow is now teaching in 
 Bloomfield, N. J., where their son, Charles H., is at 
 school. 
 
 Our classmate is in good health, though a little 
 lame, is Chairman of the Ex. Committee of the Uni- 
 tarian Church, Overseer of the Poor for his town, 
 and in politics a Republican. His son-in-law has 
 been with him on the farm since the son, James L., 
 died, and is a reliable helper. 
 
 We all know the quiet tastes and shyness of 
 "Jim," but he ought to anticipate the glad reception 
 
126 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 which men who touched elbows for four years and 
 then parted for fifty years will give an estimable com- 
 rade. He will see how the mellowing light of long 
 observation and experience crystalizes into high ap- 
 preciation of those whose lot has been cast in the 
 stony fields of toil where to double the blades of 
 grass is no small achievement, and to "tickle" the 
 soil and make it laugh and pour out grain and fruit 
 is more than a joke. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 127 
 
 THOMAS WILSON DORR WORTHEN 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
 Worthen resigned as Professor of Mathematics at 
 Dartmouth and was placed on the "Emeritus" list at 
 the end of the year 1910-11, and was appointed by 
 the Gov. on the Public Service Commission of New 
 Hampshire, June, 1911. This Commission was es- 
 tablished in 1911 to take the place of the Railroad 
 Commission, with greatly enlarged jurisdiction and 
 functions. Under its supervision are Public Utilities 
 of every kind, telegraph, telephone, gas and electric 
 light, heat and power, public water supplies, rail- 
 roads and street railways, etc. The Commission 
 consists of three persons appointed by the Governor 
 and he was one of the original appointees and has 
 since then been appointed twice, the later terms be- 
 ing six years. 
 
 It is an unwritten law of practice that there 
 should be one member of the minority political party 
 on the board, and he has filled the Democratic posi- 
 tion. The duties of the board and its comprehens- 
 ive work seemed at the start to call for at least one 
 member possessing in an eminent degree a special 
 training and experience of a scientific and mathe- 
 matical character. Questions of fact, involving the 
 use of those qualifications, come before the board, 
 also intricate questions of law, and while two law- 
 yers of recognized superior ability have usually been 
 on the board, nevertheless, every member needs to 
 be of keen reasoning powers in order to be able to 
 understand with the aid of the others all such ques- 
 tions of law as arise. Their field of law is quite 
 
128 HISTORY ACADEMIC CLASS 1872 
 
 special, and authorities in other jurisdictions upon 
 similar questions have to be consulted, critically ex- 
 amined, and applied so far as found satisfactory. 
 
 Worthen has proven to be a valuable associate on 
 questions involving science and mathematics as ap- 
 plied to facts, and a helpful member on questions of 
 law. It goes without saying that his sterling char- 
 acter can always be depended on for strict impar- 
 tiality. The Commission is a court of far from in- 
 ferior jurisdiction in any popular sense. Its orders 
 and decisions are published in many volumes, ap- 
 peals are rather infrequent, and its rulings on law 
 and findings of facts are rarely set aside or seriously 
 modified by the Supreme Court of Appeals. Its 
 biennial recommendations to the Legislature have 
 always been received with respectful consideration 
 and quite generally followed. 
 
 It can be thus seen that this, his later work, has 
 been one of honor to him and our class. Our His- 
 tory in 1904 placed "Tom" on the right pedestal and 
 his superstructure of quasi-judicial service fits well 
 on the top of his educational work, being in a way 
 somewhat germane to it. 
 
 His daughter, Louise Wilcox Worthen, by his first 
 wife, Smith 1901, B. S., taught four years in the 
 University of New York, worked as a Chemist in 
 Worcester, Mass. nine years, did post graduate 
 work at Cornell for two years, taking courses in 
 Dietetics, Sanitation, Domestic and Social Science, 
 and since then has been and is now working along 
 these lines in Worcester, Mass. 
 
 His first son by his present wife, Thacher W., 1907 
 Dart. A. B. and A. M. and M. D. in 1911, spent three 
 and a half years in New York Hospitals and a half 
 year in German Hospitals where he was caught at 
 the beginning of the war and for five months had to 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 129 
 
 perform surgical operations, etc. He began prac- 
 tice as a physician, 1915, at Hartford, Conn., where 
 he continues to practice. He married Mary Paine, 
 May 6, 1915, and they have three children, Eliza- 
 beth S., Mary and Frederick P. Thacher W. volun- 
 teered in the war and was commissioned Lieut, in 
 the Medical Corps a short time before the armistice 
 was signed. 
 
 Worthen's second son, Joseph W., 1909, Dart. A. 
 B., B. C. L. Oxford 1913, Rhodes Scholar, one year 
 in Harvard Law School, 1909-10, practiced law in 
 Boston, 1913-14, Concord, N. H., 1914-19, is a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Holmes and Worthen, and has 
 been practicing law in Boston since 1919. He mar- 
 ried Dorothy Bullard, Aug. 7, 1915, and they have 
 two children, Mary and Thomas. He tried to get 
 into the war at Plattsburg and other places, but 
 failed on account of defects in eye-sight. While in 
 New Hampshire he was prominent in various state 
 activities. 
 
CHANDLER SCHOOL GRADUATES 
 
 FRANK HENRY CHAMBERLIN 
 Hudson, Mass. 
 
 Mr. Chamberlain was born, Jan. 26, 1850, at Hud- 
 son, Mass. Following his graduation in the Chand- 
 ler Department of the College, from 1877 to 1885 he 
 carried on the sale of clothing at Elgin, 111.; from 
 1886 to 1894, he engaged in the manufacture of 
 shoes at Hudson, Mass.; in 1895-'96 and '97 was 
 salesman of shoes in Boston, in 1898 and '99 manu- 
 facturing shoes at Newport, N. H., and beginning in 
 1901 has since then been Paymaster and Freight 
 Traffic Manager for the Apsley Rubber Co., and re- 
 sided in Hudson, Mass. 
 
 He married Sarah L. Hall of Upton, Mass. in 1877, 
 and they have one child, Mary Louise Chamberlain. 
 She is a graduate of Vassar College and won the 
 Borden scholarship for one year's study in Europe; 
 later worked for the "Consumers League," for sever- 
 al years was on "The Survey," and now lives in 
 New York City. 
 
 Chamberlain has been Secretary of the Hudson 
 Board of Trade since its foundation in 1887. 
 
 He was present at our reunion in 1912 and evinced 
 unabated interest in the College and his class. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 131 
 
 AUGUSTUS FREEMAN ELDER 
 Died, 1874 
 
 He is recorded in the College Catalogue as an 
 Engineer. 
 
 WILLIAM E. HIGGINS 
 Born, Aug. 1, 1849; died, Feb. 1899 
 
 He was of the Chandler Department, B. S. and an 
 L. L. B. of the University of Michigan, 1879. He 
 died at Yazoo City, Miss. 
 
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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 133 
 
 lives at home with her parents and works in Boston. 
 
 The only son, Laurence Grenville, born 1892, 
 graduate of Cornell, 1914, took the military training 
 there, was Colonel of the regiment, member of 
 "Scabbard and Blade," and the year after his grad- 
 uation elected Lieut. Col. of "The National Society 
 of Scabbard and Blade." He married Gertrude Hay 
 of Salem, Mass. in 1916, and they have two children, 
 Jeannette A. and Donald E. 
 
 Laurence G. trained at Plattsburg, was commis- 
 sioned a Captain in the 310th Infantry, a New York 
 regiment, sailed "Over-seas" May 1918 and returned 
 in June 1919. He was in the U. S. Army, 78th Div., 
 and took part in three "major operations;" (1) St. 
 Mihiel Drive; (2) Limey Sector; (3) Argonne Drive, 
 on account of which three he was authorized to wear 
 three stars on his service bars. Besides this he was 
 in the Reserves with British, back of Arras. He 
 was severely wounded. Nov, 1. 1918. in the Argonne 
 Drive which was just east of Grand Pre. by a ball 
 through his body three inches from the spinal 
 column. 
 
 Before joining the Army he had the advertising 
 for Seribner's Magazine in the New England States. 
 and is now with the Blackmail Agency, New York 
 City. 
 
134 HISTORY CHANDLER DEPT. CLASS 1872 
 
 ANDREW LOUIS MacMILLAN 
 Hanover, Mass. 
 
 After graduating in the Chandler Department, B. 
 S., he taught school for several years. He was As- 
 sistant Principal, instructing in Science, for one year 
 in the Fort Plain Institute at Fort Plain, N. Y., one 
 year Principal of the Rensselaerville Academy, N. 
 Y. He graduated from the Albany Medical Col- 
 lege, N. Y., in 1879 and practiced medicine in Bar- 
 nard, Vt. from 1879 to 1887 when he moved to 
 Hanover, Mass. where he has practiced his profes- 
 sion ever since. 
 
 He married Clara A. Wood of Barnard in 1880 
 and they have one son, A. L. MacMillan Jr., born at 
 Barnard in 1882, graduate of Dartmouth in 1905, A. 
 B., Harvard Medical School in 1909, and he lives at 
 Concord, N. H. where he practices his profession of 
 Physician. He married Ray Hancock in 1918 and 
 they have one daughter, born Nov. 12, 1920. 
 
 Our classmate remarks in his letter to me that, 
 "No high honors have come" to him, but I notice that 
 he was Superintendent of schools in Barnard, Vt. for 
 seven years and that he has been Chairman of the 
 Board of Health in Hanover, Mass. for twenty-five 
 years, indicating the respect and confidence of those 
 communities, and withal, his usefulness. 
 
 His practice as a physician is general, he is in good 
 health and expresses the hope of being with those of 
 us who are spared to attend our reunion in 1922. 
 
 We remember well his presence at our reunion in 
 1912, and that he exhibited a warm feeling towards 
 his classmates and the college. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 135 
 
 EDWARD DEAN MERRILL 
 Rutland, Vt. 
 
 He graduated in 1872 from the Chandler Dept. 
 of the college, B. S., and is recorded in the Catalogue 
 of 1911 as engaged in business. 
 
 Of several letters written to Mr. Merrill I received 
 a reply to but one. He wrote Mar. 17, 1921, that he 
 was something of a gardner and doing other farm- 
 ing in a small way. He has not kept up his interest 
 in college men or college affairs for reasons not 
 stated by him. 
 
 GYLES MERRILL 
 Born Nov. 23, 1849; died, Aug. 3, 1880. 
 
 He married Mary Burnham of Haverhill, Mass., 
 and so far as ascertained they had no children. He 
 engaged in the wholesale Drug business at Haver- 
 hill, Mass. 
 
 GRANVILLE ARTHUR MILLER 
 
 He was of the Chandler Dept. of the college, B. S., 
 was an Engineer at Orange Belt, Fla., also Nassau, 
 Bahama Is., but nothing has been learned about his 
 career since, or whether he is yet alive. 
 
136 HISTORY CHANDLER DEPT. CLASS 1872 
 
 ROBERT GORDON PIKE 
 Born, July 28, 1851; died, Jan. 9, 1917. 
 
 A graduate of the Chandler Department of Dart- 
 mouth College in 1872, B. S., given the honorary de- 
 gree of A. M. by the college in 1908, Mr. Pike en- 
 gaged in engineering and taught school until 1878, 
 when he began to study law with Chief Justice 
 Charles Doe, a great privilege, for C. J. Doe was one 
 of the greatest judges of this state. Pike was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1881, and at once began practice 
 at Dover, N. H. 
 
 In 1887 he became city solicitor of that city, serv- 
 ing until 1889, was appointed Judge of Probate of 
 Strafford County in 1883, served until he resigned in 
 1896, when he accepted the position of associate 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the State and so 
 served until the court was abolished in 1901, when 
 two new courts were established in its place, and he 
 then became an associate justice of the Superior 
 Court, serving as such until November 1913, when 
 he was appointed Chief Justice of that Court to fill 
 a vacancy caused by death, and served as such until 
 his death. 
 
 The Chief Justice's standing in the courts was al- 
 ways high and he was always held by the bar and 
 everybody who knew his fine qualities of mind and 
 heart in the greatest esteem. It was truly said by 
 one who wrote a Memoriam that "he presided over 
 the sessions of court with dignity, firmness, patience, 
 courtesy and impartiality. " In this Memoriam pub- 
 lished in the Proceedings of the New Hampshire 
 Bar Association in 1917, it was said, among other 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 137 
 
 meritorious things: "While a member of the Su- 
 preme Court from 1896 to 1901, he did his share of 
 the law work of that Court. His opinions were 
 clear, concise, and logical, which gave him high 
 rank as a law writer, and will perpetuate his reputa- 
 tion as a keen and painstaking member of the 
 Court." I knew him as a very friendly and sincere 
 man. 
 
 He was actively connected with educational mat- 
 ters and a Visitor of the Chandler Foundation of 
 Dartmouth from 1902. 
 
 These lines from Whittier were found in his scrap 
 book and quoted in the Memoir: 
 
 "Search thine own heart, What paineth thee 
 
 "In others, in thyself may be; 
 
 "All dust is frail, all flesh is weak; 
 
 "Be thou the true man thou dost seek." 
 
 He and his sister had their home together and he 
 never married. 
 
138 HISTORY CHANDLER DEPT. CLASS 1872 
 
 SAMUEL QUINCY ROBINSON 
 Born, Jan. 29, 1853; died, Nov. 6, 1899 
 
 He was of the Chandler Dept. of the college, B. 
 S., and Harvard Medical School of 1876. 
 
 Was House Officer in the Massachusetts General 
 Hospital for some two years, several years in the 
 Navy, and was in charge of the Marine Hospital in 
 Chelsea for a time, then went into the Army as As- 
 sistant Surgeon, served in the Spanish War and died 
 from disease contracted in Cuba. His rank in the 
 Army was that of Major at the time of his death. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 139 
 
 LESLIE C. WEAD 
 Born, Feb. 17, 1851, died, March 18, 1918 
 
 In '72 he received the degree, B. S., in the Chand- 
 ler Department of Dartmouth, and that of L. L. B. in 
 the Albany Law School in 1874. He was twin 
 brother of Chester Horton Wead of the Academic 
 Dept. He began to practice law at Malone, N. Y. } 
 but upon the death of his father took up the family 
 interest in the manufacture of paper there, and 
 aside from that was successively Vice-President and 
 President of the National Bank of Malone and also 
 Chairman of the School Committee. 
 
 In 1877 he married Kate Whitcomb of Boston. 
 In 1886 he retired from manufacturing and took up 
 the practice of law in Malone until 1890, when he 
 moved to Boston and became a member of the real 
 estate firm of Whitcomb, Wead & Co. In 1910 the 
 firm dissolved and he continued as real estate ex- 
 pert and trustee. On first coming to Boston he 
 made his home in Brookline, serving at various times 
 as Moderator of town meetings, Trustee of the Pub- 
 lic Library, member of the Republican town commit- 
 tee and delegate to the Republican National Con- 
 vention in 1904. 
 
 He visited England as member of a committee to 
 consult about the extension of the right of public 
 domain, under appointment of Gov. Bates. In later 
 years he resided in Boston and had a summer home 
 at Marblehead. 
 
 Beside a widow, he left two sons, Frederick W. 
 Wead of Boston and Harold K. Wead of West New- 
 ton, also two grandchildren. 
 
140 HISTORY CLASS 1872 
 
 SONS OF '72 IN WAR SERVICE 
 
 *Fred D. Barker, Lieut. American Red Cross, Field 
 
 Service, Front in France; 
 Samuel C. Bartlett, Capt. U. S. Army Engineers, 
 
 "Over-seas;" 
 Edwin R. Bartlett, in charge of plant manufacturing 
 
 explosives, gas, etc.; 
 John F. Bartlett, Lieut. U. S. Army, Field Service 
 
 and Aero Squadron, "Over-seas;" 
 Stillman Batchellor, Lieut. Engineers, U. S. Army, 
 
 Mexican border; 
 Fred C. Batchellor, private U. S. Army Infantry; 
 Luman J. Beede, private U. S. Marines, Recruiting 
 
 service in U. S. ; 
 Charles E. Clement, Lieut. U. S. Army Infantry, 
 
 "Over-seas;" 
 * Charles Loomis Dana, Jr., private U. S. Marines, 
 
 "Over-seas;" 
 George M. French, Sergt, U. S. Army Inft. 26th 
 
 (Y. D.) Division, "Over-seas;" 
 *Robert A. French, Capt. U. S. Army, assigned In- 
 telligence Bureau, War Dept. ; 
 Herbert L. Galbraith, Sergt. Coast Artillery, also 
 
 Cavalry, U. S. Army; 
 Harry Hutchins, Y. M. C. A. work in England and 
 
 France, 1918-1919; 
 Laurence G. Meads, Capt. U. S. Army, 310th Inft., 
 
 78th Div. "Over-seas;" 
 Arthur C. Merrill, Lieut. U. S. Army, 63rd Coast 
 
 Artillery, "Over-seas;" 
 Charles N. Sawyer, Lieut. Col. U. S. Army Inft., 
 
 Signal Corps, "Over-seas;" 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 141 
 
 John P. Slack, Chief Steward, Navy, S. S. Province- 
 town, "Over-seas ;" 
 
 Philip W. Stackpole, private, U. S. Army Infantry, 
 "Over-seas;" 
 
 Charles H. Talbot, Capt. U. S. Army Infantry, 
 "Over-seas ;" 
 
 Ralph Talbot, Jr., Col. U. S. Army, Cavalry, Reg- 
 ulars, "Over-seas;" 
 
 Robert E. Talbot, Major U. S. Army, Medical Corps, 
 "Over-seas;" 
 
 Laurence D. Talbot, Lieut. U. S. Army, Regulars; 
 
 Arthur H. Ward, private U. S. Army Motor Corps; 
 
 James E. Willey, Lieut. Naval Reserves, Transport 
 Service, "Over-seas;" 
 
 Thacher W. Worthen, Lieut. U. S. Army, Medical 
 Corps. 
 
142 HISTORY CLASS 1872 
 
 DAUGHTERS OF '72 IN WAR SERVICE 
 
 Marjorie Dana, Services in Belgium and France; 
 Alice Evans, Medical Dept. Reconstruction Aide in 
 
 France ; 
 Marian Farmer, in charge of 1,000 operatives in Air 
 
 Plane Factory; 
 Ruth H. French, Intelligence Bureau, War Dept., 
 
 over one year; 
 Helen L. Slack, Reconstruction Aide, Psychopathy, 
 
 Camps Dix and Carlisle. 
 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 143 
 
 STATISTICS 
 
 On account of incomplete data as to the Chandler 
 Department, I omit any summary as to it. These 
 facts relate to the Academic Department. Number 
 who at graduation and afterwards received degrees 
 of A. B., 73. Now living 41. Deceased, 32. Mar- 
 ried, 66. Children born, 152. Grandchildren, 75. 
 Largest number of grandchildren of any one, 8, 
 Clement father. 
 
 Taking those who followed mainly certain occu- 
 pations, I find as follows: Lawyers, 33, of whom 19 
 have died. Clergymen, 9, of whom 4 have died. 
 Physicians, 7, of whom 2 have died. Teachers, 7, of 
 whom 3 have died. Journalists, 4, of whom 1 has 
 died. Business, 7, of whom 3 have died. Farmers, 
 4, of whom none have died. Civil Engineers, 2, both 
 alive. 
 
 Greatest age of any who have died, 76 years, 3 
 months; greatest age of any one alive, 76 years, 3 
 mos., Feb. 10, 1921; youngest of the living,, 68 
 years, 5 mos., Feb. 19, 1921. 
 
 Average age of the deceased, 65 years, 3 mos; 
 average age of the living, approximately 72 years; 
 average age of both living and dead, approximately, 
 68 years; age of youngest dying, 36 years; next 
 youngest, 43 years, 6 mos. 
 
 Honorary degrees conferred since graduation, L. 
 L. D. ? 3; D. Sc, 2; Lit. D., 1; Ph. D., 1. 
 
 Ministers to foreign countries, 1 ; Consuls, 1 ; 
 Judges of higher courts, 1 ; Probate Judges, 3 ; Dis- 
 trict or Police courts, 2. Of the Chandler Dept. 
 one, Pike, became Chief Justice of a higher court. 
 

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