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+ HERBERT SUMNER PACKARD
H ERBERT SUMNER PACKARD was born June 25, 1871, at West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Lucius Sumner and Helen Elizabeth (Ripley) Packard. He attended public schools until he entered the Normal School at Bridgewater, from which he graduated in 1892. After teaching for brief periods at Alton, New Hampshire, and Walpole, Massachusetts, he entered Har- vard with the Class of 1898, transferring in March, 1897, to our Class. He completed work for the degree in three years and grad- uated magna cum laude. Essentially a scholar in his tastes and habits, he put himself through school and held the Bigelow and the Sewall scholarships, besides winning a Detur. He taught at the Powder Point School, Duxbury, after graduation, going from there to Walpole. At the time of his death at Walpole, on Decem- ber 17, 1907, he was submaster of the Longfellow Grammar School, Boston. He did not marry.
+ CHARLES JACKSON PAINE
C HARLES JACKSON PAINE died August 4, 1926, at Vanceboro, Maine, while on a motor tour. The son of Charles Jackson and Julia (Bryant) Paine, he was born June 17, 1876, at Weston, Massachusetts, and prepared for college at Hopkinson's School. His graduation from Harvard in 1897 was in accordance with the traditions of his family, for since the graduation of his great-great- great-grandfather in 1717, his male forebears in a direct line were Harvard sons. As an undergraduate Paine was one of the greatest athletes of the Class, outstanding particularly for his baseball pitching. After graduation he took up the trusteeship of a num- ber of estates, with offices in the Sears Building, Boston. Later his business interests included also lumber, coal, and copper. He was for a time in the employ of Lee, Higginson & Company and was treasurer of St. Mary's Mineral Land Company and presi- dent of subsidiary companies.
On June 2, 1902, Paine married Edith Maude Johnson, at Na- hant, Massachusetts. He later married Mrs. Winifred La Ford.
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His children are Julia Bryant (Mrs. James Parker), born April 9, 1903; Charles Jackson, 3d, born September 3, 1908; and Roger Lee, born February 14, 1912. His second wife and his children survived him.
CHARLES BAKER PALMER
H ERE is the story that went across at a recent meeting of the Harvard Club of Philadelphia," writes Charles Palmer. "While in college I submitted the following verse in my daily theme course in English:
"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune: Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
But, should a cold wave strike that latitude Therein this tide its ebb and flow doth make,
The fortune seeker then must put on skates And skim the frozen waters to the goal; But skateless, doomed to spend the days and nights In sliding aimlessly upon the ice With none to raise him when he takes a fall, And none to aid in his extremity.
"The instructor's comment was 'ambitious, incoherent,' and opposite one of Shakespeare's lines a letter 'K,' meaning some- thing awkward in that line. I couldn't see why I should be blamed for that, but was happy to know that my lines were above criticism! Rough on poor old Bill!
"In looking back over an active life I am impressed by the kindness that has been shown me. With a large acquaintance, including many who seem to enjoy the anecdotes which I pass along, and who have expressed enjoyment at my readings of James Whitcomb Riley, with an insurance clientele who appre- ciate my efforts in estate building, I am most grateful to have had so many years of happy associations. To a man who said my face
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looked familiar, I replied: 'Well, I've been carrying it around now for seventy-five years.'"
Palmer, the son of John and Amanda Elizabeth (Gray) Palmer, was born June 27, 1871, at Wilmington, Delaware. He prepared at the Wilmington High School.
"As an undergraduate," he writes, "I was on the staff of the Harvard Daily News, and when it went up, I was on the staff of the Crimson. We drank to the toast, 'No news is good news.' I was a member of St. John's ( Episcopal) Society. I closed my col- lege career in 1895 with an attack of typhoid malaria. Before go- ing to the Cambridge Hospital, my last daily theme to the English Department read: 'Yesterday I entertained the Bishop of Dela- ware (Coleman) and interviewed the President of Harvard Uni- versity (Eliot), today I am in bed under Dr. Fitz's orders.'
"During World War II, I was a member of the insurance group which made a great record in pay roll savings campaigns. Mrs. Palmer worked at a booth on bond sales. My son-in-law, C. Gor- don Ferguson, served in the Medical Corps and helped build a hospital in the Pacific jungle under fire. He was cited for his record.
"Since leaving college, I did newspaper work, reporting and editing, until 1903, when I began selling life insurance with the National Life of Vermont. I am still at it. For two terms I was president of the Masonic Club of Delaware. I was president of the Delaware Association of Life Underwriters and am now Delaware representative on the National Committee of the Na- tional Association of Life Underwriters. I have been a member of the Vestry of Calvary Episcopal Church in Gordon Heights, and was secretary of the Harvard Club of Delaware for thirty- one years. I am a member of Temple Lodge A.F. & A.M., and other Masonic bodies including Lulu Temple Mystic Shrine. I belong to the Brandywine Hundred Lions Club, Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, and Whist Club."
Palmer married Clara Edith Whitford, September 7, 1907, at Wilmington, Delaware. She died January 31, 1938. He married Marion Genevra Way Quinby, May 11, 1939. His children: Clara Edith (Mrs. Ferguson), born July 12, 1909; and Charles
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Baker, Jr., born December 5, 1913 (died in 1921). There are two grandchildren, Carole and Beverly Ferguson, aged twelve and eight, respectively.
HONORÉ PALMER
H ONORÉ PALMER, the son of Potter and Bertha Matilda (Hon- oré) Palmer, was born February 7, 1874, at Chicago. He prepared at St. Mark's School. He was in college from 1893 to 1898, and received his A.B. degree in 1899 as of 1898. On August 20, 1903, he married Grace Greenway Brown in London, Eng- land. Their children were: Potter d'Orsay, born November 12, 1905; and Honoré, Jr., born December 18, 1909. Both sons are now deceased. Palmer's brother, the late Potter Palmer, was graduated with the Harvard Class of 1898.
Palmer has served as chairman of the Sarasota County Chap- ter of the American Red Cross and as chairman of the Board of the Palmer National Bank and Trust Company in Sarasota, Florida.
AUGUSTIN HAMILTON PARKER
A UGUSTIN PARKER, the son of Henry Hills and Elizabeth Pick- man (Fay) Parker, was born August 9, 1875, at Lynn, Mass- achusetts. He prepared at St. Mark's School. After four years' study, he received his A.B. degree at our graduation in 1897, and spent the following year at the Bussey Institution.
He married Caroline Miller Dabney, November 2, 1906, at Boston. She died November 13, 1922. His second wife is Gwen- dolen Whistler. His children are: Lewis Dabney, born Decem- ber 14, 1907; and Augustin Hamilton, Jr., born February 16, 1910.
Parker's interest and activity in book collecting started in his earlier years and has continued, though new acquisitions have been much less frequent in recent years. His primary interest has been The Vicar of Wakefield, Goldsmith's famous novel, of which his collection is most complete. It includes several hun-
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dred editions published all over the world and lacks only a few of the known editions in most of the occidental and oriental lan- guages.
During her life Parker's first wife was much interested in the illustrations of Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott and had assembled a small collection of books illustrated by them. Par- ker gave this collection to Harvard with a small endowment as a memorial to her. With the most efficient and capable assistance of the librarian and his assistants in charge of this sort of work, the collection has been enlarged from time to time and is now excellent, if not outstanding.
Parker's son, Augustin, Jr.'s service in World War II consisted primarily of four years' duty at the Boston Navy Yard, during three of which he was assistant design superintendent in charge of hull design for all new construction, repair and conversion work at the Yard. For this duty he received a commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. In May, 1945, he was ordered to the Pacific and the war's end found him at Eniwetok. Later he was at Tokyo Bay as a member of the staff of one of the Service Forces' mobile advance repair units or "floating navy yards."
Parker's elder son, Lewis, worked during the war as one of the senior test pilots for the Lockheed Company. He had a part in the development testing of most of Lockheed's military aircraft, particularly the famous Lightning. In 1944 he left Lockheed and since then has been in Colombia, South America, on an aerial mapping project under contract to Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Incorporated.
Parker retired in 1935 from the brokerage firm of F. L. Dabney & Company (now Townsend, Dabney & Tyson) in which he was a partner. He remained a limited, inactive partner for several years after his retirement. He still maintains a keen interest in the world of government and science, and has continued as a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Harvard College Library.
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+ CHARLES BRUNEL PARKER
C HARLES BRUNEL PARKER died February 8, 1926, at Morsemere, New Jersey. The son of Charles Hanabal and Abbie Brunel (Rockwood) Parker, he was born January 4, 1871, at Chelsea, Massachusetts, and attended the Cambridge High School. He was at Harvard only during 1893-94. He then entered the field of civil engineering in Cambridge, New York, and Weehawken, New Jersey. He became assistant superintendent of the Hacken- sack Water Company in 1906. He was survived by his wife, the former Bertha Louise McKinnon, whom he married at Cambridge on June 20, 1899, and a son, Edward Brunel, born June 10, 1900.
+ WILLIAM BELMONT PARKER
W ILLIAM BELMONT PARKER, writer, editor, and literary adviser, died October 6, 1934, at Boston. The son of Joseph Josiah and Elizabeth (Sadler) Parker, he was born at Hansbury, Eng- land, September 19, 1871, and was brought to this country while still a child. His father became pastor of the Congregational Church of Norfolk, Nebraska. Although Parker had few advan- tages, through determination he went to Phillips Academy, An- dover. He put himself through school, earning high scholastic honors, and entered Harvard with our Class. There the same will to succeed won him a place on the Harvard Monthly board and the debating team, a Phi Beta Kappa membership, and an A.B. magna cum laude. After graduation his fine literary tastes led him to an association with Houghton Mifflin Company, an asso- ciate editorship on the Atlantic Monthly, and positions with the Century Company, the Macmillan Company, Baker & Taylor Com- pany, and the Henry Holt Company. He was later agent and rep- resentative of the Hispanic Society of America in South America. He was at one time a member of the Harvard faculty and was a member of the Columbia faculty from 1905 to 1908. He was suc- cessively editor of the Associated Sunday Magazines, literary edi- tor of World's Work, editor and literary adviser to the Baker & Taylor Company, and a member of the staff of S. Pearson & Com-
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pany. He was a prolific writer, his works including eight volumes of biographies of eminent South Americans and biographies of Edward Rowland Sill and Senator Justin S. Morrill. He edited Lowell's Anti-Slavery Papers and some sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney and contributed to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and several periodicals. He had a life-long interest in the church and was at one time business editor of The Church- man. At the time of his death, he was secretary of resources of the Harvard Dental School.
Parker was a true lover of his fellow-men, holding closely to the ideals of his beloved church. He was a good mixer, and his highly trained memory enabled him to call by name every mem- ber of our Class and of the entire school at Andover.
On May 29, 1906, he married Helen Louise Newton at Calais, Maine. Their four children were Newton Belmont, born Febru- ary 26, 1907; Barrett, born October 12, 1909; William James, born June 26, 1912; and Elizabeth Lee, born July 3, 1914.
+ WARREN PARTRIDGE
W ARREN PARTRIDGE, who died October 30, 1934, at West Or- ange, New Jersey, was the son of William Henry and Pru- dence Farlow (Palmer) Partridge. He was born January 10, 1875, at Boston, and prepared for college at the Newton, Massa- chusetts, High School. His work since graduation had been the operating and engineering of public utility properties. He was associated with public utilities in Newark, New Jersey, Spring- field, Illinois, and Clearfield and Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in such capacities as inspector, superintendent, and engineer. Dur- ing the years immediately preceding his death, he was vice-presi- dent of the Utility Management Corporation of New York, a sub- sidiary of the Associated Gas and Electric Company. He was a member of several technical societies, before which he had pre- sented papers, and was a director of various utility companies.
On September 5, 1901, at Rochester, New York, he married Marie Martha Hoppe, who died in 1924. He was survived by his second wife, the former Marion Cook, whom he married in 1928,
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and two children, Warren, Jr., born September 29, 1904, and Audrey Hoppe, born September 21, 1912.
+ SAMUEL SCOVILLE PASCHAL
AMUEL SCOVILLE PASCHAL was born March 16, 1875, at Wash- S ington, D. C., the son of George Washington and Mary Lois (Scoville) Paschal. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and was in the Lawrence Scientific School from 1893 to 1896. On May 12, 1897, he married Mary Lois Sherman, at Washington and after a trip through Europe, he studied law at Columbian University, now George Washington University, taking an LL.B. in 1899. He and his wife then settled in Honolulu, where he was admitted to the Hawaiian Bar. He practised there for two years. His health then failing, he returned to the United States. He settled in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and died there on January 17, 1917. His children were Guy Sherman, born August 14, 1901, and Mary Lois, born November 7, 1904. Another daughter, Bar- bara, was born August 8, 1900, and died two months later.
* JAMES HORACE PATTEN
AMES HORACE PATTEN died April 25, 1940, at Washington, J D. C. The son of Henry Harrison and Gertrude (Pratt) Patten, he was born December 23, 1872, at Spring Hill, Kansas, and attended Paola and Olathe High School and Wentworth Mili- tary Academy. He took his A.B. degree with the Class, after only one year at Harvard, having received an A.B. degree from the University of Kansas the previous year. He received an A.M. de- gree at Harvard in 1899. From 1900 to 1902 he was an instructor of economics at Harvard and during the following year was an Austin Teaching Fellow. He received an appointment to a pro- fessorship at the University of New Brunswick but resigned after a few months to enter Harvard Law School, where he received an LL.B. in 1905. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar that same year and the South Carolina Bar in 1909.
From 1909 to 1916 he was general counsel for the Farmers'
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Educational Co-operative Society; from 1914 to 1918, assistant secretary, and from 1918 to 1920, secretary of the Farmers' Na- tional Congress. He was also for many years secretary of the Immigration Restriction League, and was associated with the American Vigilance Association and the Elberton & Eastern Rail- road. He was national vice-president of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.
He was survived by his wife, the former Olive Y. Latimer, whom he married on October 12, 1909, at Belton, South Carolina.
LUTHER GORDON PAUL
I WAS an instructor in surgery in the Tufts Medical School for twenty years," reports Paul, "and in Harvard Medical School for five years. I was retired in 1945."
Paul, the son of Luther and Ellen (Briggs) Paul, was born July 29, 1871, at Newton Center, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Newton High School. After a year at the Lawrence Scientific School, he entered the Harvard Medical School, where he re- ceived an M.D. in 1899.
He married Agnes Symonds Merchant, October 18, 1904, at West Newton, Massachusetts. Their children are: Elizabeth, born July 8, 1910; and Ellen, born October 8, 1916. There is one grandchild.
During World War II, Paul examined draftees for induction in the armed services. He is a member of the Harvard Club of Boston.
ARTHUR WILLIAM PERCIVAL
I SPENT the first year after graduation with the Engineering De- partment of the American Bell Telephone Company in Bos- ton," reports Percival. "I was living at that time in Cambridge and later in Somerville. Early in 1899 I resigned to become a member of the engineering and contracting firm of Busch Broth- ers, Buffalo, New York. Both George M. and Charles V. Busch are Harvard men. During the next years we engaged in our line
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of work on various municipal water and sewage systems. We also built and equipped an electric railroad and served as engineers for several towns. One year was spent in Clinton, Massachusetts, where we had contracts with the Metropolitan Water and Sewage Board for work in connection with the construction of the Wachu- sett Reservoir.
"In January, 1901, George Busch withdrew from the firm and Charles and I re-organized as Busch & Percival.
"Since much of our work was out-of-doors and in New York and Massachusetts, the winters necessarily had to become our vacation time. During the winter of 1912, I took a trip to the West Indian Islands, and the following winter to Southern Cali- fornia. In those places the delightful climate and easy living brought me to the decision that I was through with snow and zero weather. So, in 1913 I sold my interests in the firm and came to California, bought a thirty-acre ranch and decided to plant it to oranges. After a year of preparatory work, I realized that or- ange growing was a long-waiting and expensive business with all outgo and no returns for several years. So I came to the conclu- sion that I was not cut out for another Harvard orange man.
"I sold the ranch and for a year enjoyed life in the pretty little town of Exeter, which lies along the foothills of the Sierra Nev- adas and not far from Yosemite, Grant, and Sequoia National Parks.
"My next position was with the Agricultural Credit Corpora- tion and I devoted my time to a study of farming and making a report on the irrigation systems of the great interior valleys of California. When the war came along in 1917, the corporation suspended operations.
"Next, I accepted a position with the American Insurance Company of Newark (fire), where I was in charge of its business in the San Joaquin Valley. This work also took me out and about and I enjoyed it immensely. At the end of 1940 I retired to devote myself to the many things that I had always wanted to do, keep- ing myself physically well and trying to beat the three score and ten. I have made my home in Fresno for the past twenty-six years. All of my children and their children live hard by, so Mrs.
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Percival and I are not at all lonesome. We have enjoyed most of our years and have no complaints with life. I have not succeeded in getting into the headlines of the news and have not been much troubled by the fact."
Percival, the son of Charles Sullivan and Arminda Jane (Fair- banks ) Percival, was born January 25, 1873, at Millbury, Massa- chusetts. He prepared at Worcester Academy. He spent his four years in college at the Lawrence Scientific School, receiving an S.B. in 1897. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Har- vard Engineering Society, Worcester Academy Club, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
He married Fannie Whitney Shepard, June 20, 1900, at Somer- ville, Massachusetts. Their children are: Robert Shepard, born November 6, 1903; Elinor Fairbanks (Mrs. Hall), born January 4, 1906; and Wellington Evarts, born January 8, 1910. There are seven grandchildren, one in Fresno State College and the others in public school.
Percival is vice-president of the Citrus National Bank of Exeter. He is a member of Masonic bodies and several social clubs. He is the author of a report on the "Irrigation Systems of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys."
DRAKE THORNDYKE PERRY
IFTY years since V-'97!" states Perry. "It's difficult to realize F the lapse of time or that I am now in my seventy-third year of grace, as I have no gray hairs, unfortunately few others, and pursue my daily dozen each morning at 6:30 with the same 'vim and vigor' that prevailed before the war ( First World ).
"My blessings have been many: excellent health, a happy mar- ried life, two fine boys, and four splendid grandchildren. My sons went their separate ways after graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy, Allen to Yale and Dean to Harvard, but both are now associated with me in business. Allen participated in World War II through our company which played an important rôle in the development and production of the Atomic Bomb. Dean en- listed as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force in May, 1942,
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and retired a lieutenant colonel in December, 1945, after having served in England, France, and Germany.
"My first wife, Katharine Lee Holtenhouse, whom I married June 20, 1903, at Lockport, New York, died February 27, 1941, at Cleveland, Ohio. On March 17, 1943, I married Mrs. Lillian Giles Taylor at Cleveland. Her husband had died about the same time as my first wife. Another happy married life for both of us.
"My business record has little 'news' value, no 'man bites dog' stuff. Barring two years of law practice in Buffalo, New York, and a short interregnum between jobs, my business career of nearly fifty years has been limited to two companies, the Barrett Company, a division of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, where I became district manager, and the Harshaw Chemical Company of Cleveland, of which I am secretary and treasurer. For technical training I can only cite Chemistry A of our fresh- man year, that brief but famous lecture course of dear old Pro- fessor Josiah Cooke. Fortunately for all concerned, my field of activity has been administrative and financial. I am a director and member of the Executive Committee of the Harshaw Com- pany and a director in the following companies: Diamond- Harshaw Company, Lake Chemical Company, New York Ohio Chemical Corporation, Nyotex Chemicals, Incorporated, and the Cleveland Quarries Company. I am a trustee of the Society for Savings in Cleveland.
"On the religious side, I have been a regular member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church here for over sixty years, serving as a member of the Vestry since 1916, and for the past several years as senior warden. I have also participated in many of the civic and charitable activities of the city.
"I am unable to list any hobbies, but, with my wife, must con- fess to a weakness for contract bridge. I am also an enthusiast for college sports and for an occasional nineteenth hole at golf. A family argument usually prevails at the time of the football and crew contests between Harvard and Yale, and a semi-annual wager with an Eli graduate who was a former classmate in prep- school days, established nearly fifty years ago, still continues.
"I was born an optimist. I have also been a great admirer of
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Cicero's philosophy of life as expressed in his Orations, 'On Friendship' and 'On Old Age.' They have contributed much in retarding for me the effect of advancing years and in maintain- ing a happy attitude of mind in this rapidly changing world of ours.'
Perry was born October 19, 1874, at Cleveland, the son of Allen Thomas Perry and Lydia Kimball Potter, Normal School, Fram- ingham, Massachusetts. He prepared for college at the Univer- sity School in Cleveland. As an undergraduate he was a member of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity and, Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was with our Class four years and was graduated magna cum laude. He received his LL.B. with distinction in 1900.
His sons, Allen Thorndyke, and Albert Dean, '31, M.B.A. '33, were born October 23, 1906, and November 29, 1909, respec- tively. Perry's brother, the late Ray Potter Perry, was graduated from Harvard College in 1900.
Perry is a member of the Harvard Clubs of New York and Cleveland, Union Club and Mid-Day Club of Cleveland, and the Miscowaubik Club of Calumet, Michigan.
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