Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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HON. C B. WEBSTER. Pomord Filuifnioi . c, f it HE Concord Alumni Association is the residuary legatee of the old Merrimack County Alumni Association which had a flourishing organization on paper for some years, but which passed into utter oblivion with the removal of its secre- tary from the City. Through the efforts of Dr. George Cook the Association was revived in 1891 and reorganized with Hon. Sylvester Dana, '39, as President, and Dr. Cook as Secretary. Since its reorganization the Association has had a vigorous growth and now numbers about a hundred members, who are maintaining the prestige of Dartmouth College in the Capital of New Hampshire. The oflicers of the present year are: President, Dr. Claudius B. Webster, '36, Vice-President, Hou. Williani M. Chase, '58, Secretary, George H. Moses, 'gog Treasurer, Louis C. Merrill, ,745 Executive Committee, Dr. George Cook, '69, L. J. Rundlett, '81, Edward N. Pearson, '81, and the President and Secretary. 20

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O lvlgmclyestizar fllllmltyl flssoeleiftiotao if. Milo HIS Association includes graduates of Dartmouth living at Manchester and Q.. vicinity, and at its organization in 1881, had one hundred and twenty-five ineinbers. The present number greatly exceeds these hgures. Moody Currier, '34, LL.D., 1895, was its first president. Mr. Currier began the practice of law in Manchester, but very soon engaged in the banking business, in which he has been eminently successful. He was Governor of the State in 1885-'87, and has' held other public ofiices. Daniel Clark, '34, LL.D., 1866, was second president. He practiced law in Manchester from 1839 to 1857g was United States Senator from New Hampshire for ten years, and United States District judge from 1866 until his death in 1891. David Cross, '41, LL.D., 1891, began practice of law in Manchester in 1844, and has been actively engaged in his profession for the past lifty-one years. He has JUDGE DAVID CROSS. held several oflicial positions, but law has occupied his time and satisfied his ambition. The oflicers of the Association at the present time are: President, David Cross, '41, Vice-Presidents, L. D. Stevens, 43, Lucien B. Clough, '50, deceased, and Rev. Cyrus Richardson, D.D., '64, Treasurer, Walter M. Parker, '61, Secretary, Arthur H. Hale, '86, Executive Committee: I. W. Fellows, '58, E. M. Topliff, 52, T 1 , ' 7 homas D. Luce, 75, Louis I. Rundlett, 81. - 19

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naiimarir, figgroraiaffinn of Qarftral and 'Wastfarn UDGE JOHN HOPKINS was born March 19, 1840, in Leonard Stanley, Glouces- tershire, England. Vtforked in woolen factory and machine shop before fitting for College at Phililps CAndoverj Academy. Entered the class of 1862 in the Scientific Department at the Spring term of the class in 1859, and graduated with the degree of B.S. with the class. XVas admitted to the bar in March, 1864, at Worcester, Mass., and began practice ill Millbury. W'as appointed a Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, April 1, 1891, and is now upon the bench. Is one of the visitors of the Chandler Scientific Department and President of the Alumni Association of Central and Western' Massachusetts. The iirst Dartmouth lunch in W'orcester was arranged by a few of the Alumni, Nov. 21, 1891. At this meeting twenty-six graduates were present. A committee was appointed to draft a constitution for a permanent organization. This committee con- , sisted of A. W. Edson, '78, H. L. Parker, '56, Webster Thayer, '80, R. F. Andrews, '58, HON- JOHN HOPMNS' and G. S. Blakely, '86. After two or three preliminary lunches, the first annual meeting was called at Worcester, February 26, 1892. The first board of officers consisted of '56, President, Judge John Hopkins, '62, Vice-President, A. VV. Edson, '78, Secretary, B. F. Robinson, '77, Treasurer, C. E. Stevens, '35, Judge E. B. Maynard, '67, Judge C. C. Conant, '57, A. G. Lewis, '69, and L. L. Conant, '79, as Executive Committee. t A The annual banquets are held alternately at Worcester and Springfield, usually in the month of March. The present Board of Officers is: President, Judge John Hopkins, '62, Vice-Presidents, Judge C. C. Conant, '57, J. G. Edigerly, '67g Secretary, A. W. Edson, '78, Treasurer, G. S. Blakely, '88, Executive Committee, H. C. Bliss, '68, W. H. Small, '78, F. P. Goulding, '63, H. L. Parker, Jr., '85, Webster Thayer, '8o. Lieut. Gov. Wm. H. Haile, 2I