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Francis Oliver Dorr '25.

Mr. Francis Oliver Dorr, who has just died in Lansinburg, N. Y., was the last surviving member of the class of '25 of Harvard, as well as being the oldest living graduate of the Boston Latin School. He was born in Boston, in 1805, his father being a well-known merchant of this city. Among his class-mates at college were Frederic H. Hedge, Charles Francis Adams, Seth Ames, Samuel K. Lathrop, John L. Sibley, Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Horatio Alger, and Sears Cook Walker.

After graduation Mr. Dorr taught in a private school at Plymouth, Mass., for two years. He was admitted to the bar in in 1830, and from then was constantly in practise until 1886, in a number of prominent cities in New York State.

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