CLASS OF 1870

John Henry Hardy died of pneumonia at his home in Arlington, Mass., October 10, after a few days' illness.

He was born in Hollis, N. H., February 2, 1847, the son of John and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, and fitted for college at Mt. Vernon and New Ipswich, N. H., September 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, when only fifteen years of age. The regiment served in Louisiana and participated in the siege of Port Hudson. He was mustered out with the regiment August 13, 1863. In 1866 he entered Dartmouth, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he studied law at Har-vard Law School and in a Boston office, and was admitted to the bar in 1872. In 1872-4 he was in partnership with George W. Morse in Boston, and in 1884-5 with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas W. Proctor (Dartmouth '79). His home was in Arlington, and in 1882-5 he was trial justice for Middlesex County. In May, 1885, he was appointed justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, and held that position until his promotion in September, 1896, to the Superior Court. He remained in the latter position until his decease. In 1884 he was a representative in the legislature.

Judge Hardy was married August 30, 1871, to Anna Jane Conant of Littleton, Mass., who died April 1, 1912. They had three children: Harry 8., died in infancy; John Henry survives his parents; Horace D. (Dartmouth '99) died in 1910. A second marriage, June 16, 1912, was to Ada McNab of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.