OBITUARIES.

Joseph Lewis Stackpole '57.

Joseph Lewis Stackpole, for many years one of Boston's leading lawyers, died on Saturday at his home in Boston at the age of sixty-five. He graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1857 and entering the Law School in 1858, was graduated after a year and a half of study, with the degree of LL.B. He practiced his profession until the summer of 1861, when he was commissioned captain of a company of the twenty-fourth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers.

Major Stackpole served throughout the war and at its close was breveted lieutenant colonel, for meritorious services. He resumed his practice of law in Boston immediately after the war, and was appointed first assistant solicitor for Boston in 1870, holding that office until his resignation in 1876. He long served as counsel for the Mexican Central Railway Company and as trustee for a number of large estates. He was a director of the New England Trust Company, the Stark Mills, Cabot Manufacturing Company, Northern Pacific Railway, and Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad.

Augustus Clifford Tower '77.

Augustus Clifford Tower of New York died last Monday morning at his country home at Lawrence, Long Island. He was born in Cambridge, July 4, 1853, and received his early education in the Boston Latin and English high schools. He was graduated from Harvard with the class of seventy-seven. Immediately following his graduation he went into the banking business in which he remained all his life. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Union, University and Racquet clubs of New York.