After graduating, he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he followed mercantile
pursuits until May, 1869, when he went to Concord, New Hampshire, and became
connected with the People newspaper, which was conducted by his warm personal friend
Charles C. Pearson, of the class of 63. He continued in the office of the People until the
Spring of 1871, when he left to take charge of the job printing office of E. C. Eastman &
Co. He had learned the printer's trade in the office of the American at Concord, New
Hampshire, when he was sixteen years of age, and followed the trade for several years
before entering college. While pursuing his college course, he relied in part upon his
trade to furnish the means of support. He was also a fine musician, being a teacher of
music and organist at Manchester, New Hampshire, and other places, and at the time of
his death was organist at St. John's Episcopal Church, at Concord, New Hampshire. He
was taken with a rheumatic fever about the middle of August,
1871, which had
apparently had its run, and he was thought to be doing well. On August 26, typhoid
symptoms manifested themselves so strongly that a medical consultation was held, but no
fatal result was immediately feared. Through that day, however, and the following night,
he sank from hemorrhage and exhaustion rapidly and surely, until death ensued at 7:45
on the morning of August 27, 1871. He was a man of fine abilities and genial nature, and
his death was a sad blow to hosts of friends.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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