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Three children survived Duffield - Divie Bethune, 2d, born March 12, 1909; Marshall Dixon, born September 5, 1910; and Harriet Frances, born September 14, 1912.
+ WALTER LINFRED DUNBAR
W ALTER LINFRED DUNBAR was born March 2, 1873, at Bridge- port, Connecticut, the son of Walter Scott and Rachel Irene (Dunbar) Dunbar. He was at Harvard only during 1893-94, re-
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turning then to Bridgeport, where he was employed as special accountant by several firms. After spending about a year in the South, he returned to Bridgeport in 1905 and entered the employ of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, where he remained until his retirement in 1916. Because of ill health he went south and also spent a brief time on the West Coast. His health con- tinued to fail, and he returned to his home in Stratford, Connecti- cut, where he died November 1, 1917. He left a large collection of data and writings which were the results of his ornithological studies. He had made a special study of the life history of birds of southern Connecticut. He was survived by his wife, the former Omega Hardin Foster, whom he married on September 23, 1896, at Bridgeport, and three children - Harold Montague, born Janu- ary 11, 1898; Helen Irene, born August 9, 1900; and Walter Bev- erley, born February 25, 1908.
JOHN WILLIAM DUNLOP
I STARTED my business career as a real estate and mortgage bro- ker," writes Dunlop. "My first partnership was with our class- mate, Edgar N. Wrightington, and styled as Wrightington, Dunlop & Company. We dissolved after a few amicable years and I con- tinued in the same business by myself. In 1911 I became associated with another classmate, Stephen W. Sleeper, under the firm name of Sleeper & Dunlop, with offices at 31 Milk Street, Boston. My partner, Steve, is no longer active in business, and to carry on we admitted to partnership in July of this year Amos J. Carver, who has been associated with us for over twenty-five years.
"My daughter, Lydia, born July 29, 1900, was married Novem- ber 2, 1929, to Robert Parker Adams of the Class of 1923 at Brown University. They had three children, Elizabeth, born July 25, 1930; Robert Parker, Jr., born December 4, 1933; and Lydia, born December 31, 1940.
"My son, John, Jr., born January 22, 1907, married Doris Lent, June 6, 1933. Three children were born to them: Jean, April 7, 1934; John William, 3d, May 4, 1935; and Richard, April 15, 1939. He was a member of the Harvard Class of 1928. During World
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War II, he served with the 405th Armored Field Artillery with the Eighth Army. He saw service in the Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe.
"My son was honorably discharged from the Army, November 14, 1945, and, to my great sorrow, died January 15, 1946."
Dunlop, the son of John and Margaret Preston (Campbell) Dunlop, was born April 23, 1874, at Cambridge. He prepared at Miss K. V. Smith's School in Cambridge. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. at our graduation. As an under- graduate he played varsity football for four years.
"He married Alice Lillian Hall, October 25, 1899, at Mal- den, Massachusetts. She died July 11, 1932, at Marblehead, Massa- chusetts.
Dunlop is a member of the Harvard Club of Boston and of the Harvard Varsity Club.
EUGENE DUPONT
'N the fifty years that have passed so rapidly since my gradua- tion," writes duPont, "I have occupied myself with numerous activities, of which the most important consists of membership on the Board of Directors of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company and the Equitable Trust Company. My interest in big-game hunt- ing, the quest of ducks and quail and other upland game has taken me from the Yukon Territory to British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba to Newfoundland, and, on three occasions, to the Moors of Scotland. In addition, I have hunted successfully in a dozen or more states of this country. Although big-game shooting is no longer a pastime for me, I still enjoy the beauty of good quail dogs on a point and the thrill of seeing flocks of elusive wild ducks sweep over my decoys.
"Agriculture in a rather large way is another absorbing activity which is more than sufficient to take care of my spare time. On the unprofitable parts of my lands and on steep hillsides I have planted thousands of red pine trees for the benefit of my children and grandchildren. The trees are all healthy, some of them are thirty-five feet high and two feet in diameter. I specialize in feed-
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ing and fattening steers for the market with my own hybrid corn, while pigs and the usual farm crops complete the run of the farm program.
"Perhaps, more than anything else, the active outdoor life I have led has enabled me to carry on despite the years. My rule from experience is: Keep serene, be busy at doing something, and al- ways have something to do."
DuPont, the son of Eugene duPont and Amelia Elizabeth duPont, was born July 7, 1873, at Wilmington, Delaware. He pre- pared at the Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, and after four years with our Class, received his A.B. in 1897. His brother, the late Alexis Irenee duPont, was a member of the Harvard Class of 1892.
On January 25, 1913, duPont married Ethel Pyle at Wilmington. Their children are: Eugene, 3d, born March 4, 1914; Ethel (Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.), born January 30, 1916; Nichols Ridgely, born June 8, 1917; and Aimee (Mrs. Wickers), born January 1, 1920. DuPont writes that he has six granddaughters by two sons and five grandsons by two daughters.
"I am a member of the Harvard Clubs of New York, Philadel- phia, and Delaware," he writes, "seven country clubs near Wil- mington and down South, at which I have never won a trophy; the Wilmington Club; six sportsman's clubs pertaining to game con- servation and outdoor sports; and several societies of a historical and fine arts nature."
FRANCIS BIRD DUTTON
D UTTON was born April 16, 1875, at Northboro, Massachusetts, the son of Horace Dutton, Yale '62, and Frances Newell Bird. He prepared at the Newton High School in Newton, Massachu- setts. After receiving his A.B. with our Class, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received an S.B. in 1900. He married Nancy Hiester, June 3, 1903, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Since leaving college he has been an engineer. He has worked in the iron and steel business on construction, operation and main-
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tenance of blast furnaces, treatment of low-grade ores, and exam- ination and reports on properties in this country and in Cuba. He spent a year in Brazil while he was preparing an industrial report.
"In recent years," he writes, "I have become interested as trus- tee and president and, as active manager during the war years, in a voluntary hospital. The work included enlargement and re- organization to meet the very much increased war-time needs of the community adjacent to a large Army training and induction center."
"My life has been happy, busy, and sufficiently eventful, but not distinguished."
+ HOWARD DWIGHT
H OWARD DWIGHT was born May 14, 1876, at Beverly, Massachu- setts, the son of Daniel Appleton and Mary Silsbee (Peele) Dwight, and attended St. Paul's School. He entered college with our Class, but left in March, 1894. When he re-entered in 1895 he was registered with the Class of 1899. He died August 4, 1896. Had he lived longer, he might well have become a well-known figure in American literary life, for he showed great promise in his writing, which was endowed with moral courage, devotion to truth, and gentle humor.
ROBERT FRED DYER
R OBERT FRED DYER was with our Class for our freshman year only, which he spent in the Lawrence Scientific School. He en- tered the shoe business in Portland, Maine, and as a salesman travelled extensively in our southern states, in South America, the West Indies, and Spain.
After the death of his wife, formerly Edith Langdon Palmer, whom he married June 14, 1899, at Portland, he removed to Sears- port, Maine, with his daughter, Doris Palmer, and engaged in the advertising business.
During World War I, he followed his natural bent for the sea and entered the Merchant Marine, commanding a barge for the
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Reading Coal Company of Philadelphia. Subsequently he became proprietor of a general store in Searsport. In 1927 he married Miss Harriet Roulston.
Dyer is described as a man whose avocation was the wooing of nature in her various forms. When opportunity offered he fol- lowed the sea with his father, Captain Frederick Dyer. He was an enthusiastic fisherman, and in later years, when his health was failing, studied ornithology and was known for his familiarity with bird lore. A straightforward simple man, he had the happy fac- ulty of enjoying the natural and simple things which make for the serene life.
Dyer was born at Lincolnville, Maine, August 8, 1873, the son of Frederick Solon and Emma Amelia (Drinkwater ) Dyer. He died December 6, 1944, at Searsport, Maine. He was survived by his wife and by his daughter, Mrs. Frederick Humphries of Bath, Maine.
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OLIN MARTIN EAKINS
HERE is only hearsay evidence that I was born," reports Eakins, "but I believe it implicitly. Since then I have lived and still am living a full life - tritely clichéesque, perhaps - but what of it? A lack of originality is no penal offense. Originality put Cellini in gaol. Nothing ever did that to me. I am still free - and breathing."
Eakins, the son of William Eakins ( Drew Theological Seminary ) and Eliza (Forbes) Eakins, was born April 4, 1874, at Warren, New Hampshire. After spending two years with our Class as a special student, he entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Columbia, where he received an M.D. in 1899. He writes that his occupation since 1897 has been "student and physician."
Eakins married Beatrice Fleming, May 2, 1914, at Newark, New Jersey. From 1899 to 1901 he was assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, and for the next eight years served as chief medical officer of the New York Life Insurance Company, South Asiatic Division, in Calcutta. From 1904 to 1909 he was vice- and deputy
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consul general of the United States in Calcutta. From 1909 to 1944 he was medical director of the Reliance Life Insurance Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and served as its vice-president from 1926 to 1944, as vice-president and secretary from 1935 to 1944, and a director since 1925. He retired in 1944. He is a member of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America, Allegheny County Medical Society, and American Medical Asso- ciation. His clubs are the Bengal Club of Calcutta, University Club and Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh.
+ AMASA MASON EATON
A MASA MASON EATON was born September 24, 1874, at Provi- dence and died there October 2, 1903. He was the son of Amasa Mason and Alice Maude Mary (Dunnell) Eaton, and at- tended the Providence High School and Mr. Garland's Home School in Concord, Massachusetts. At college he completed the four-year course in three years and returned in 1897 to receive his degree. As an undergraduate he was prominent in track events and also became interested in military matters. He joined the Harvard Rifles and Battery A, First Regiment Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in which he was commissioned a second lieutenant. After his return to Providence in 1896, he received a commission in Company A, First Light Regiment, in Rhode Island.
When the Spanish-American War broke out, he went to the recruiting office the day it opened and enlisted as a private. He received a commission and was stationed at various camps in the United States. As a civilian again, he went into the cut-glass busi- ness in Fairhaven and Boston. He travelled in Canada, Japan, and China, and in 1900 went to the Philippines, where he engaged in lumbering and freighting. In 1902 he was elected president of the Board of Trade of Iloilo, Panay. He returned home in July, 1903. He never married.
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+ FRED VICTOR EDGELL
F RED VICTOR EDGELL was born at Chester, Vermont, January 21, 1870, the son of Dexter Aaron and Annette Almira (Howe) Edgell. He came to Harvard from the Bellows Falls (Vermont) High School, and received an S.B. degree in 1898. He died on April 18, 1925, Waltham, Massachusetts.
As he stated in 1922 that he wished to be socially affiliated with the Class of 1898, no obituary notice is given here.
EDWARD RANDALL ELDER
M Y life has been that of the average man," states Elder. "There have been no brilliant successes and no poverty, no jail ex- periences and no family troubles.
"I had sufficient income when I needed it to do what I wanted for four children without privation and also to have what I wanted in sports, cars, and the like for myself.
"The second World War put the finishing touches to my busi- ness, but I have been able to get along since by working for others, with smaller income and smaller expenses.
"I consider that I have been a fortunate man, and while I do not think that my college education was a prime asset for the business I was in, I feel that life has been immensely more interesting because of it."
Elder, the son of Randall Johnson and Frances ( Roberts ) Elder, was born April 5, 1873, at Boston. He prepared for college at the East Boston High School and Boston English High School. He was with our Class four years and received an A.B. degree at our graduation. As an undergraduate he rowed on the Class Crew in our junior year. Since graduation he has been engaged in the trucking business.
He married Florence Mabel Turner, June 14, 1899, at Brooklyn, New York. She died July 11, 1941, at Rutherford, New Jersey. Their children are: Gertrude ( Mrs. Douglas ), born March 24, 1900; Stuart Roberts, born March 27, 1902; Alan Walton, born May 28, 1910; and Betty (Mrs. Vivian), born February 11, 1917. There
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are three grandchildren, who are, according to their grandfather, "good average children, no defectives and no geniuses."
Elder was a trustee of the Rutherford School Board for four years. He is a member of the Men's Club of his local Presbyterian Church.
+ ADOLPH OSCAR ELIASON
A DOLPH OSCAR ELIASON died on April 27, 1944, at St. Paul, Min- nesota. Born at Montevideo, Minnesota, May 26, 1873, he was the son of Gustav and Sophia (Lund) Eliason. He came to Harvard from the University of Minnesota where he received the degree of Litt.B. in 1896. After spending senior year with our Class he took his A.B. and then studied for a year in the Graduate School, which earned for him a Master of Arts degree. Three years later he took a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
Eliason entered the banking business with the Bank of Monte- video in his native city and was also associated with the Minnesota Land and Lumber Company. He was a special lecturer on bank- ing at the University of Minnesota during this period and wrote a number of monographs on banking.
The latter part of his life was spent in St. Paul, where he was state agent for Minnesota of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was a business man of academic tastes who evi- dently felt that his Harvard associations were somewhat remote from his later interest.
On December 30, 1902, Eliason married Margaret Gould Comp- ton at Minneapolis, and a daughter, Louise Compton, was born June 28, 1905.
HENRY ENDICOTT
I HAVE spent so little time outside of Boston," writes Endicott, "that I suppose, like the late George Apley, I may fairly be considered as very provincial. In these days of rapid changes it is perhaps rather unusual that I am still living in the same house which my father bought when the first Back Bay houses were built over sixty years ago.
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"As a child I was at school in Switzerland for a year and then attended Mr. Hopkinson's School in Boston for seven years. After graduation from the Law School, I entered the office of Gaston, Snow & Saltonstall, later becoming a partner. I remained with that firm and its successors until I retired from active practice in 1945. I still have a desk at the office and go down town occasion- ally to look after a few odds and ends of business. My practice has consisted almost entirely of office work, with some travelling in connection with corporation matters in earlier years. I have also done some work as a trustee and as a director in a few business corporations.
"For recreation I have played a little tennis and golf and, as I am fond of the ocean, I have taken a dozen or more trips to the West Indies and an occasional trip to Europe. I have also had an interest in ornithology and am a member of the Nuttall Club, though I am far from being an expert.
"For several years my health has not been too good, especially after several attacks of pneumonia, including a rather bad one in 1945. I have not been able to get about much and now amuse myself largely with reading and with a little walking and driving. I have certainly reached Shakespeare's Sixth Age of Man and am perhaps nearer the Seventh than I realize."
Endicott, the son of Henry and Mary Hubbard (Howe) Endi- cott, was born April 6, 1875, at Beverly, Massachusetts. He was graduated with our Class and received his LL.B. cum laude in 1900. As an undergraduate he was manager of the Varsity Base- ball Club and editor of the Harvard Crimson.
He married Katherine Sears, October 15, 1907, at Boston. Their children are: Ellen (Mrs. Stanton Forbes), born August 9, 1908; and William, born November 17, 1909. There are three grand- children. William is a member of the Harvard Class of 1933. Dur- ing World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces and worked at Wright Field in connection with the development and improve- ment of parachutes. In World War I, Endicott himself worked with the draft board.
He has two Harvard brothers: Thorndike Howe Endicott '99, and the late Laurence Endicott, '01.
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WILLIAM PETER ENGELMAN
T HE Secretary has been unable to get in touch with Engelman since mail addressed to him at 108 Livingston Street, Forest Hills, Long Island, New York, was returned by the Post Office in 1937. Previous Reports recount the successful engineering career upon which he embarked after leaving college. He was succes- sively with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, the National Tube Com- pany, and the Jones & Laughlin Steel Works. In 1902 he entered the employ of the United Coke and Gas Company in New York City. His next move was to the engineering office of the American Coke and Gas Construction Company in Camden, New Jersey. In 1908 he was with the C. W. Hunt Company as an engineer on coal handling machinery. The following year he transferred to the Didier March Company, American representatives of the Anhalt- ische Maschinenbau Gesellschaft of Berlin and associate German firms in the capacity of assistant chief engineer in the design and construction of the By Product Coke Oven Plant. During World War I, he was engaged in the design and construction of dye plants, mainly in a consulting capacity, and was consulting engi- neer with the Ordnance Department. In 1920 he became general manager of the General Insulating and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis. He wrote for technical periodicals and was a mem- ber of A.F. & A.M.
Engelman was the son of Joseph Peter and Catharine (Shaffer) Engelman and was born March 2, 1872, at Cherryville, Pennsyl- vania. He attended the Preparatory School for Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School from 1893 to 1895. He married Lillie Mora Geiss- ler on September 9, 1896, at Ashley, Pennsylvania. Their two children were: Catherine Geissler, born July 12, 1902, and Ruth Shaffer, born January 15, 1905. He has recorded one granddaugh- ter, Ruth Jean Tigner.
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DAVID FALES
W HILE I never expected nor intended to be a teacher," writes Fales, "I find that during forty-four of my fifty years out of college I have been doing just that. Eleven years out of thirteen I was a minister and instructor in Bible in Knox College. Even in the Army I eventually landed as an instructor in machine guns at Châtillon-sur Seine. Along with the teaching in sociology and Biblical literature, however, has always gone what I did plan - continued activity in welfare and civic work.
"Though these activities have been of simple and local dimen- sions, occasionally reaching, at the most, statewide scope, I have never been conscious of isolation or high-tower detachment from the world's stream of life.
"Quite the contrary, the world, ancient and modern, always seemed to be stopping in or passing through. Certainly it never went by at a distance. On the other hand, Bible studies brought alive the ancient civilizations of the Near East, Palestine, Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria. Going much further back, archaeological diggings for several summers in the Pyrenees caves revived prim- itive man - Magdalenian and Azilian. On the other hand, during twenty-odd European trips, I lived with and learned to appreciate the live peoples of Western Europe, especially in Norway and France. Meanwhile, I had become intimately associated at home with the human affairs of three American communities, not to speak of the continual stream, in and out, of undergraduate life.
"All of these, the oldest and the newest, have seemed to be parts of the same panorama, with, of course, my own acre always in the foreground. In any case, the recurring problems were as old as history and the values universal.
"There have been two interruptions. The first World War brought the unbelievable realization that evil ambitions and vi- cious ideas were still able to endanger the whole world. And it was a real satisfaction, though a detestable necessity, to be able to drop everything and run to help put out the fire.
"With the second interruption greater wisdom lessened the shock, but at the same time came the frustration of being too old
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to be wanted. For this frustration the puttering at Civilian De- fense and air spotting was ineffectual relief, so the last five years have not been very happy ones for me."
Fales, the son of David Fales, Brown University '65, and Mary Engs Lawton, was born May 29, 1876, at Chicago. He attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, before coming to Harvard. He was with our Class three years, receiving his A.B. at our graduation. He took his A.M. at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1899, and a B.D. at the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1902. His brother, Elisha Noel Fales, was graduated with the Harvard Class of 1908.
During his first year out of college, Fales did miscellaneous newspaper work and teaching. He was for thirteen years a Con- gregational minister at Galesburg, Illinois. For two years he was a professor at Colorado College. In the first World War he enlisted in July, 1917. After three months at Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, he was commissioned first lieu- tenant of Infantry and sent to France. He was mustered out in September, 1919. Upon his return to civilian status, he became a professor at Rutgers University, where he remained for twenty- seven years. He was retired a year ago.
During World War II, he was state chairman of the Social Welfare Committee under the Office of Civilian Defense.
While in Galesburg, Fales was president of the Public Library Board and Associated Charities, and chairman of the Law and Order League, Community Chest, and of the Central West Asso- ciation of Congregational Churches. While in New Jersey, he was director and president of the New Jersey State Welfare Council, state chairman of the Social Welfare Committee under the Office of Civilian Defense, and a board member on various local and other welfare and civic agencies in New Brunswick and elsewhere. He is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, Rutgers Chapter, a member of several learned societies in the United States, and of the Société Prehistorique Française de Paris.
His clubs include the University Club of Chicago, Harvard Club of New York, Rotary Club of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Den Norske Turistforening, a Norwegian hiking club.
Fales is unmarried.
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JOHN HENRY FEDELER
I HAVE no academic degrees," reports Fedeler, "except those ac- quired from the university of hard knocks and fruitful experi- ence. My first wife, Cornelia Augusta Dingley, whom I married in 1905, died ten years ago and more. I married Josephine Perrin several years later. My children by my first marriage are: John Henry, Jr., born November 12, 1906; Edouard Theodor, born May 13, 1909; and Viviani Jofrette, born in April, 1917. John, sometime a student at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, is now building superintendent of the New York Public Library in New York City. Edouard now rates as chief engineer in the United States Merchant Marine. My daughter Viviani is married and has two sons. I have three grandchildren and eight step- children.
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