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��THE GRANITE MONTHLY.

��Recipients of honorary degrees from Dartmouth :

Hon. Noah H. Swayne, Late Associate

Justice U. S. Supreme Court. lion. Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from

N. II. Hon. E. II. Rollins. U. S. Senator from

N. H. Hon. .Justin S. Morrill, U. S. Senator

from Vermont. Hon. Henry F. French, Ass't Secretary

of the Treasury. Hon. William E. Chandler. Secretary of

the Navy. Gen. William T. Sherman, General U. S.

Army. Hon. Amasa Norcross. M. C. from Mass. Hon. Ossian Ray. M. C. from N. H. J. G. Parkinson (now of Cincinnati, O.),

Patent Solicitor. J. R. Dodge, Statistician Agricultural

Department.

Ten away from the city are usually invited to attend.

There are one hundred and nine different persons who are entitled to come to the meetings of the Alumni Association, of whom eighty-seven are members, ten are alumni residing near Washington, eleven are recipients of honorary degrees from Dartmouth, and one is an honorary member. There are classes of thirty- eight different years represented by the members, of which the class of x 6i has the largest number, while the class of 1814 heads the list.

There are sixty-six graduates in the city. Of this number thirty are natives of New Hampshire, twelve each of Massachusetts and Vermont, three of Maine, two of Mississippi, one each of Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Province of Quebec, India, and Scotland.

The following items concern the sixty-six graduates in this city, bio- graphical sketches of whom have been prepared by the writer, and sixty-five of which appeared in the Bostoti Journal, Feb. 8, 1883.

In preparing for college five attend- ed Kimball Union Academy at Meri- den, N. H. ; four each the academies at Andover, Mass., and Exeter, N. H. ; three each the academies at Pembroke, N. H., Thetford, Vt., and Townsend, Vt. ; two each at the academies at

��Dover, N. H., Gilmanton, N. H., New London, N. H., Sanbornton, N. H., Tilton, N. H., Norwich, Vt., Washing- ton, D. C. ; one each at the academies at Waterville, Me., Ashburnham, Mass., Byfield, Mass., Easthampton, Mass., Groton, Mass., Leicester, Mass., Bath, N. H.,Boscawen, N. H., Concord, N. H., Derry, N. H., Hampton, N. H., Hanover, N. H., Haverhill, N. H., Hop- kinton, N. H., Laconia, N. H., New London, N. H., Wakefield, N. H., Can- ton, N. Y., Lima, N. Y., Erie, Penn., Barre, Vt., Bradford, Vt., Brandon, Vt., Danville, Vt., Derby, Vt., Ludlow, Vt., Newbury, Vt. ; one each at the high schools at Chicago, 111., Lawrence, Mass., Lowell, Mass.,Claremont, N. H., Manchester, N. H., Nashua, N. H., Portsmouth, N. H., Columbia Gram- mar School, New York City. These represent forty-eight different fitting schools, and eight different states and territories.

Forty-four taught while in college ; thirty-three taught after leaving col- lege ; and eight are teaching now. Thirty-four have taught in New Hamp- shire, twenty-two in Massachusetts, six- teen in Vermont, thirteen in Washing- ton, four each in New York, Tennessee, and Virginia, three each in Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, and Maine, two in Ohio, one each in Indian Territory, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, and Wisconsin.

Thirty-eight are married now, one having been married thrice ; twenty-two are not married ; five are widowers, and of one it is unknown whether he is married or not. It is not known whether five have children or not ; thirty-three have not any children, while twenty-eight have seventy-four children in all.

Thirteen formerly were clerks in the various Departments, of whom seven were in the Treasury ; two each in the Pension Office and War Department, and one each in the Land Office and Attorney-General's Office ; twenty- seven are now clerks in the Depart- ments, distributed as follows : Treas- ury, eight ; Pension Office, five ; Sig-

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