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MOSES HALE DOUGLASS
I WISH I could impart to you all my affection for the soil," writes Douglass, "not for machines or farm help, but personal con- tact with the earth. I am conscious of a closer kinship with the
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80 per cent or so of mankind who cultivate the ground than I am with the more favored occupations."
Douglass, the son of Malcolm and Sarah Elizabeth (Hale) Douglass, was born July 29, 1870, at Windsor, Vermont. He pre- pared at the DeVeaux Military School at Suspension Bridge, New York. Before coming to Harvard he attended Hobart Col- lege, where he received an A.B. in 1892. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was with our Class during senior year and took an A.B. at our graduation. He spent the following year in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
He married Edith Dudley Blydenburgh, August 15, 1907, at New York City. She died January 22, 1932, at Brandon, Ver- mont. They had four children: Francis Malcolm, born May 8, 1908 (deceased); Andrew Ellicott, born June 13, 1909; Edith, born March 19, 1912; and Mary Seabury, born October 13, 1913.
Douglass' son, Francis, an Annapolis graduate, lost his life in the second World War. Andrew served as a staff sergeant and was awarded the Bronze Star.
Douglass worked in a textbook publishing house from 1897 to 1900. Then he served in an editorial capacity for a religious magazine for two years. Since 1914 he has been interested in agriculture and dairying. His hobby is printing and he writes that his press was given to him in 1879, but that he has some new type. With his "life" he enclosed samples of his hobby printing.
+ CARL STEPHEN DOW
C JARL STEPHEN DOW, the son of Stephen Henry and Emma Try- phena (Thompson) Dow, was born August 13, 1874, at Woburn, Massachusetts, where he attended high school. At Har- vard he spent four years in the Lawrence Scientific School, receiv- ing an S.B. in 1897. For the next seven years he wrote scientific and engineering textbooks and superintended instruction in en- gineering in the correspondence department of the Armour Insti- tute of Technology of Chicago. He later became advertising man-
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ager of the B. F. Sturtevant Company, Boston. He next went into an advertising agency, later becoming advertising manager of the Lamson Company, Boston, makers of pneumatic tubes, mail tubes, and conveyors. He then returned to advertising agency work, this time with the Spafford Company, also in Boston.
His publications included a series of eight articles on American engineering in the Chatauqua Magazine. He was editor-in-chief of Practical Mechanical Engineering, a three-volume cyclopedia, and joint author of the Starett Book for Machinists' Apprentices.
Dow died June 9, 1925, at Worcester, Massachusetts, and was survived by his wife, the former Eva Eulalia Strout, whom he married at Boston, on June 12, 1900, and their daughter, Kath- erine, born September 13, 1903.
JOHN WINTHROP DOW
OHN DOW has had a busy life as a teacher, principal, chemist, J trustee, and college professor of chemistry. "Since our last Re- port," he writes, "I have been a teacher in the high school where I prepared for college. At last, at the end of forty-six years, I retired in June, 1945.
"From 1929 to 1935 I was a representative in the New Hamp- shire House of Representatives, and served as chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means. I was a member of the Bi-State Commission to Free Toll Bridges and a member of the New Hampshire Retirement Board, to which I was re-appointed by each succeeding governor. The outstanding events during these years were the culmination of my efforts to have passed laws to create a system for the retirement of New Hampshire teachers and to free toll bridges."
Dow, the son of Robert Kimball and Susan Frances (Piercy ) Dow, was born December 30, 1874, at Claremont, New Hamp- shire. He prepared at Stevens High School in Claremont and at- tended Williams College before entering Harvard. He received his Bachelor's degree cum laude in 1897, and after two years in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded an A.M. in 1899.
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On December 13, 1901, he married Flora Belle Wheeler in Bos- ton. They had three children: Frances Wheeler ( Mrs. McEwen), born October 30, 1906; John Winthrop, Jr., born September 29, 1909 (deceased); and Robert Kimball, 2d, born April 25, 1911. There are four grandchildren.
During the first World War, Dow was a clerk in the local draft board and a chemist in a munitions factory. Mrs. Dow worked for the Red Cross. In World War II, he worked for the draft board and for the Price and Rationing Board. His son, Lieutenant Rob- ert Kimball Dow, 2d, is in the Claims Service, serving in the Philippines.
Dow is the author of "Taxes and Taxation in New Hampshire," "Recollections of a Boy," and of many monographs on philately. He is a past master of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, of the New York Rite Masons, a generalissimo in the Knights Templar, an honorary member of the Grand Bodies of Connecticut and Vermont, a member of the Order of the High Priesthood, and a Veteran Free Mason.
WILLIAM EDMUND DOWTY
A' FTER graduation from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge in 1902," writes Dowty, "I spent about four years as curate of Emmanuel Church in Boston. Then for seventeen years I was rector of St. Paul's Church in Malden, Massachusetts. John Neal was vestryman there, a fine help and a good comrade.
"For the next three years I served as dean of All Saints Cathe- dral (now the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist), in Spokane, Washington. I got to know and love the country out there, espe- cially the fishing and the glorious mountains. I made a number of trips to the Coast and Southern California, partly because of the work, and partly to visit friends.
"I came back east again in 1924, to a new, big church in Central Falls, Rhode Island. It was easy to raise money the first few years, and then the depression came. And, believe me, Central Falls and other similar mill towns knew what the depression was. Then the war came, and the consequent additional strain gave me a nerv-
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ous breakdown. It wasn't too bad, but bad enough. I resigned after eighteen years at Central Falls. For eight weeks I tried to rest and it was the hardest work I have ever done in my life. Dur- ing the summer of 1942, previous to the breakdown, I had pinch- hitted for the Bishop of Nevada in the hope that I could ward off the breakdown. It was no go.
"After I had resigned and after the rest period, I went out to California for a few weeks' missionary work. Then I went north to the Skagit River Dam Reservation in Washington, about one hundred and twenty miles northeast of Seattle, for a visit with my eldest daughter. It is magnificent country, with wonderful fishing and hunting. An opportunity to work on a farm presented itself and I accepted, though city bred and hardly knowing what a farm is. But the need was great. Fifty thousand Mexicans had been im- ported for farm work all along the coast, even to the Straits of Juan de Fuca. So I felt that I must do my bit. After the farm work was over, the canneries began hollering. So I took the graveyard shift, midnight to 8 A.M., in one of them for another seven or eight weeks. Then I became an assistant janitor in a grade school. I thus got acquainted with the superciliousness of some of the fe- male teachers towards the levis-clad working man.
"Then came the 'cry from Macedonia' from down there in south- east Texas. 'For a few months, Bill, if you can possibly make it,' wrote a former brother minister of Spokane, then living in Texas. He said, 'So many of the fellows are in the armed forces that we are very much undermanned here.'
"I have been in Texas ever since, three years, as rector of one tiny parish and priest in charge of another. My father's folks were Southerners, hence coming here was like coming home for me. I may stick it out until the Reaper uses his scythe on me, though I hope that the call may not come until after our Fiftieth next June."
Dowty was born July 21, 1873, at Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of William Edmund and Mary Ann ( Whitehead) Dowty. He prepared at the B. M. C. Durfee High School in Fall River, and received his A.B. magna cum laude after four years with our Class. He received honorable mention in Greek and philosophy. He was a member of St. Paul's Society ( Episcopal) while at Harvard.
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He married Nellie Lambert, August 5, 1903, at Fall River. She died January 20, 1921. His children are: Dorothea, born July 23, 1905; Paul Lambert, born September 21, 1908; Joye Shelley Rich- mond, born April 28, 1913; and Sara Grant, born November 29, 1914. There are seven grandchildren.
CHARLES DAVIS DREW
A FTER leaving college, I spent three years in railway surveying and construction work in Mexico and Cuba," writes Drew. "Then for six months I went as an assistant on a seven-hundred- mile horseback reconnaissance trip for railways in Luzon, Philip- pine Islands. I spent two years running lines and grades and inspecting on the first and most troublesome of the rapid-transit tunnels under the East River. My marriage was followed by eight years' work in Argentina and Peru for J. G. White & Company, Limited, of London.
"From 1914 to 1917 I was a resident engineer on another rapid- transit tunnel under the East River, with an interlude of military service on the Rio Grande in the summer of 1916. For the next two years I was a captain and major with the 11th Engineers (railway troops). I was overseas from July, 1917, to April, 1919.
"From 1920 to 1922 I worked on rapid-transit tunnels under the East River. For the following three years I worked on the Bay- Ridge-Staten Island railway tunnel, which was never completed. For five years I worked on various tunnels for the Board of Trans- portation, City of New York.
'I retired in 1930 and until 1933 I lived in England, France, and Switzerland in an effort to regain my health. From 1934 to 1937 I was a supervising engineer for the Federal Public Works Ad- ministration on the Lincoln and Queens Midtown Tunnels for vehicular traffic.
"I continued with the P.W.A. for another four years, and then put in a very hectic six months in the second half of 1941 as re- gional director for the Defense Public Works office of the Federal Works Administration, covering the state of New York. As a pre- liminary to administering the Lanham Act, which appropriated
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funds to assist municipalities that were finding their existing fa- cilities (schools, hospitals, water supply, roads, housing, and the like ) swamped by the sudden impact of huge new war industries or Army camps, it was necessary to hold hearings throughout the state. I met many mayors, city managers, politicians, hospital trustees, and school authorities. I found the New York State edu- cation, sanitation, and health authorities most competent and helpful. I became more than ever convinced that, at least in the enlightened Northeast, the local and state authorities know better what is good for themselves than Washington can ever know. A wise administration in Washington should, and usually does, con- fine itself to the rôle of final arbiter as to whether and how much to allocate funds among different localities and different states, leaving the details to be worked out by local authorities with a minimum of interference, subject, of course, to the usual financial controls.
"In April, 1942, desiring to get more directly into war work, I transferred to the Defense Plant Corporation (subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation), and, with both sons over- seas, my wife and I sweated out the war until their return to the United States in 1944. Six days per week, eight hours per day, is a strain as one nears the age of three score and ten, but it was far better than to be idle enough to indulge in useless worry. I was not sorry to receive my notice of retirement last August, manda- tory on the completion of fifteen years of service with the federal government.
"My wife's generation sweated out two wars, first with a hus- band or brothers overseas and then with sons overseas. People a few years younger or older were spared the more personal impacts of both wars. My wife, however, is a person of courage and took it, outwardly at least, in her stride, both in 1918 and in 1943- 1944.
"Have I pride in my achievements? In the early days it was highly satisfying to disappear into the jungle with my own field party and emerge months later with drawings, having staked out a railway on the ground in accordance with Wellington's Economic Theory of Railway Location. Later it was the East
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River Tunnels, driven under compressed air by the shield method in soft ground, that gave me a sense of achievement.
"Watching my sons grow up and develop, marry most happily, and doubtless in due time produce grandchildren has been and will be a durable satisfaction. I have not yet had time to evolve a technique for being happy though retired, but am confident that it can be done. Renewing many old friendships neglected during the exhausting and gasless war years will help.
"I wish I could speak with conviction on my philosophy of life. I am highly receptive and hope for light and leading from reading other men's fiftieth anniversary reports."
Drew, the son of Edward Bangs Drew, '63, and Anna Abby Davis, was born September 13, 1875, at Foochow, China. He prepared at the Public Latin School in Boston. After four years with our Class, he received his A.B. cum laude. In 1899 he was awarded an S.B. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He notes the following reminiscences from his undergraduate days:
"Finding myself by making the 'Mott Haven Team' (mile walk) in freshman and sophomore years. Getting cussed out by Jim Lathrop.
"Running up North Avenue for my daily work-out, or, in the fall, following the paper trail through the North Cambridge clay pits.
"Two work-outs with the class football team, being pitted at tackle on the scrubs against dear old Inky Bowditch, 150 pounds vs. 180 pounds. He would froth at the mouth and charge me off my feet unless I lay down under him.
"The five-mile, cross-country race in the fall of '94, when my betters, Sherb Merrill, Evan Hollister, and Billy Vincent failed to show up, thereby enabling me to squeeze into second place be- hind Julian Collidge, whom I trailed by two hundred yards down the interminable length of Brattle Street.
"Inspiring bull sessions at the congenial club table at Memorial.
"Scurrying home on a cold night with Billy Garrison or Bob Jenks from teaching at the Prospect Union.
"Hot dogs and chocolate in a snowstorm at midnight at the lunch wagon in the Square.
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"Three years of browsing among the elementary 'general sur- vey' courses and under the great teachers of those days, trying to make up my mind, and finally knuckling down to engineering in senior year.
"Assemblies at the Woodland Park Hotel and catching the last 'electric' to Cambridge with a dozen other Harvard men.
"Week-end snowshoe trips to Barrett Mountain with Roland Dixon, Sinclair Kennedy, and Henry Hubbard.
"Evening calls from John the Orangeman ('To Hell with Yale').
"Girls (and chaperones ) at Vespers, with tea at 24 Holworthy.
"Reviewing notes for final exams in a canoe at Riverside.
"Class-Day spread in Lower Dane with Dixon, Jenks, and Ken- nedy, when we paid off all accumulated social debts.
"I wonder whether the graduates of the 'dirty twenties' or the 'thrifty thirties' can look back upon such fond memories. I doubt whether today's young people really have as good a time as we had, in spite of their much greater mileage.
"I am inclined to believe that, with all its faults, many correct- ible, our old, free-elective system was better suited to the needs of young men who can afford a general education than the system of compulsory 'majoring' in vogue today. Those who know what they want to do will 'major' anyway. But what percentage of youths of nineteen are prepared by April of freshman year to find themselves for the next three years? I have seen some bad mis- takes made, involving, in one case, an extra year in college due to a man's shifting to another field of concentration. A man does pretty well to make up his mind by senior year."
Drew married Helen Bogart Lane, March 17, 1906, at Flushing, New York. Their sons are: Edward Allen, born June 14, 1916; and William Sinclair, born January 25, 1920. Drew's brother, Lionel Edward Drew, is a member of the Harvard Class of 1911.
In World War II, Edward Allen Drew, '37, received his pilot's wings and second lieutenancy in July, 1942. He flew a Boston A-20 (solo, but with a group of A-20's) to Africa in January, 1943, via Ascension Island. He flew fifty-four combat missions in Mitchells (B-25) from bases in North Africa and Corsica. He was discharged as a captain, having received a Distinguished Flying Cross.
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"William Sinclair Drew," writes his father, "was a 4-F, so he volunteered with the American Field Service. He drove an am- bulance in the Libyan Desert during 1942-1943, from Alamein to Tripoli (New Zealand Division, Eighth British Army). In 1943- 1944, he drove an ambulance in the area around Imphal, Assam, being with the British Corps that was for several weeks surrounded by the Japanese invasion from Burma in the spring and early summer of 1944."
At the end of the first World War, Drew was awarded the British Military Cross, and received a citation for his services in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He is a fellow of the Harvard Travel- lers' Club, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers and Appalachian Mountain Club.
GEORGE PETERS DRURY
F ROM graduation to 1928," writes Drury, "I was a resident of
Waltham, Massachusetts, and about 1900 I joined the First Parish Church (Unitarian) there. On June 16, 1920, I married Evelyn Phillips, daughter of Louis Agassiz Phillips, supervisor of public records of Massachusetts. Our son, Orcutt Phillips, was born December 26, 1921. We moved from Waltham to Belmont, Massachusetts, in 1928, retaining a summer residence in Waltham until 1940. Two years later we moved from Belmont to Cam- bridge.
"I received the degree of LL.B. at Harvard Law School in 1900 and was admitted to the Bar the same year. In 1901 I was ap- pointed an assistant clerk of the Superior Court, on the civil side, for Suffolk County, which includes Boston. In 1909 I resigned and returned to the practice of law, in which I have engaged con- tinuously ever since.
"From March, 1903, to March, 1907, I was a member of Com- pany A, First Corps Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
"In Waltham I became, about 1901, a member of the Republican City Committee. This led to my election in 1911 to the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives for 1912. I was re-elected an- nually for five years, serving as house chairman of the Committee
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on Taxation my last two years, and in 1915 on the Recess Com- mission which prepared and recommended to the General Court the Massachusetts Income Tax Law of 1916.
"In 1916 I was appointed secretary of the Commissioners to Consolidate the Massachusetts statutes, serving until they made their report in 1920. Following this, I assisted a committee of the Legislature in completing and publishing the General Laws of Massachusetts of 1921. My service in the State Guard also in- cluded the influenza epidemic and the police strike.
"From 1922 to 1942 I was principally engaged in the practice of law. One of the matters in which I was counsel consisted of a petition to the Legislature and subsequent procedures which even- tually led to the improvement of the Charles River Basin and its greatly increased use for recreation. For six years, beginning in 1934, I was City Solicitor of Waltham, and as such was instru- mental in persuading the Metropolitan District Commission to purchase for a small amount in behalf of the State the dam in the Charles River at Waltham, and then to put an end to changes in the water level which for many years were a health menace. This was a thing I first sought to accomplish in 1912, my first year in the Legislature, but the price of the dam was at that time prohibi- tive. On numerous occasions I have temporarily assisted counsel for the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.
"In April, 1942, I was appointed by Governor Saltonstall a Com- missioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, serving until my term expired and my successor was appointed in February, 1945. I was then appointed by Attorney General Barnes as Assistant Attorney General in charge of public-utilities litigation and some other matters. This work has been interesting. I was given charge for Massachusetts of litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the rights of the State in sub- merged and reclaimed lands and of proposed legislation in Con- gress concerning the same subject. Affected were the underlying titles to a large part of the City of Boston and the rights of the State in its extensive fisheries. Also, I have been in several courts concerning the re-organization of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and now have charge of litigation, involving
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claims of millions on both sides between Massachusetts and the Boston Elevated Railway Company. While waiting to be sworn at the Supreme Court as a member of its Bar, I had the privilege of listening to the Court's opinion and dissenting opinions in the case of Yamashita, a Japanese general convicted and sentenced to death for permitting cruel murders of prisoners and civilians.
"For recreation I used to play a lot of tennis, a little golf, and do some fishing. Now I read a lot and attempt to play contract bridge.
"In reply to the Secretary's instructions to state the accomplish- ment of which I am most proud, it will be the Boston Elevated case if we are successful. Second place will then go to my success at last with the Metropolitan District Commission to have them buy the dam at Waltham and make permanent the water level. This is a 'durable satisfaction,' but my greatest and most durable satisfaction is my family."
Drury, the son of William Henry Drury, Yale '65, and Mary Alice Peters, was born August 13, 1876, at Charlestown, Massa- chusetts. He prepared at the Waltham High School. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. cum laude. As an under- graduate he was a member of the Cercle Français from 1894 until graduation, and was graduated with honorable mention in French.
During the first World War, Drury served on the Legal Advisory Board in Waltham, was chairman of the Four Minute Men in Waltham, a member of the Harvard R.O.T.C., and First Motor Corps of the Massachusetts State Guard. In World War II, Mrs. Drury was a lieutenant, A.W.V.S., attached to the Army Air Forces, and later with the American Red Cross. Their son, Orcutt, served with the First Army in the 104th Infantry Division in Eu- rope, where he was wounded. He entered Harvard with the Class of 1945, and since his college course was interrupted by the war, he returned in February, 1946.
Drury is a member of the Veteran Association, First Corps Cadets, National, State, and County Bar Associations, Masons and Odd Fellows, and was a member of the Exchange Club until its dissolution.
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+ MORSE STEWART DUFFIELD
M ORSE STEWART DUFFIELD died January 13, 1925, at Santa Mon- ica, California. The son of Henry Martin and Frances (Pitts) Duffield, he was born September 28, 1875, at Detroit, where he prepared for college at the high school and under a private tutor. While he was an undergraduate he was judged by Professor James to have one of the finest student minds with which he had ever come in contact. He took an A.B. cum laude in 1897 and intended to continue his studies in philosophy. To obtain the necessary funds, he went to the Klondike in the summer of 1897. Altogether he spent eight years there, learning much about mining and engineering but making no strike, and never realizing his youthful ambition. Later he found a large body of valuable phos- phate in Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho.
Legal difficulties in connection with the property took him fi- nally, through an unbroken line of victories, to the Supreme Court in Washington. His counsellor advised him to study law because of his evident legal talents, but his real interests were elsewhere. For about ten years he made Salt Lake City his headquarters. During this period he married Alice Gertrude Greer on April 27, 1908. In 1915 he moved to Santa Monica as a good center from which to reach western mining sections. During the first World War he worked in a shipyard, where he was in charge of a gang of men placing boilers and machinery in ships being built for government use. After the Armistice he returned to Santa Monica, and in the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report he gave his occupa- tions as mining and ranching.
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