William Scollay Whitwell ex-'29 died in Hancock, N. H., last Tuesday at the advanced age of ninety-one years. He was educated in the Boston schools, and, after a course in the Lawrence Scientific School, received a practical working training in railway machine shops at Dover, N. H. He then went south, and, after some railroad work in Georgia, surveyed the line from Talahassee, Fla., to the east coast during the Seminole war. He was later called to Boston and given charge of building the Cochituate water works. His later years were passed in travel through Egypt with Ralph Waldo Emerson and he finally settled in Boston. A month before his death Mr. Whitwell visited Quebee and Cape Breton, and returned a short time ago to Hancock, where he died.
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