PRIVATE FUNERAL FOR BICKFORD HELD TODAY

Private funeral services will be held today for Robert S. Bickford '85, prominent alumnus who died Monday in his home at the age of 72.

Born at Danville, Kentucky on June 9, 1862, he attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he received his degree in 1885. During his college career he was a member of the Athenaeum and of the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, in which he has always maintained an active interest.

After a year in the Law School he went into business and teaching, until 1892, when he went to Montana for three years. He spent some time as private secretary to the Governor of that state, and as secretary to the board of land commissioners there, returning to Boston in 1895 to spend the rest of his life there. He spent his later years as eastern representative of the A. B. C. Transit Refrigeration Company, retiring only within the last few months.