Ther Km. June 27, 1924 Wea 



THE BOSTON HERALD 



TUESDAY, DEC. 9, 1924 



FORMER PRESIDENT 



OF MIDDLEBURY DEAD 



Dr. Ezra Brainerd Succumbs After 

 Short Illness with Pneumonia 

 [Special l>l«pn(«li to The Heraldl 



MIDDLEBttRY. Vt., Dee. 8— Dr. Ezra 

 Brainerd. ex-p.vsident ,,f Middlebury 

 College, died at bis home tonight at 7 

 o'clock after a short illness with pneu- 

 monia. He wus horn Dec. 17. 1SH. In 

 .St. Albans, VI., where he prepared for 

 college. 



He was graduated from Middlebury 

 College in 1S64, then serving as tutor 

 for two years in 1S6S. Ho was success- 

 ively professor of rhetoric and English 

 literature and physios and applied 

 mathematics in Middlebury College un- 

 til 1SSB, when he became president of 

 the Institution and served until 190S, 

 when he retired and had since been ;) 



trustee of the cpljege. 



He was the author of numerous arti- 

 cles on botanical and geological sub- 

 jects and was a high authority along 

 these lines. He was twice married. In 

 1S68 he wedded Miss Frances V. Ttock- 

 well, by whom are the following sons 

 and daughters surviving: Mrs. Carol 

 C. Plahn of Berkeley. Cal.; Mrs. 

 Charles A. Adams of Middlebury; Sirs. 

 Dudley Batrd of California: Ezra 

 Brainerd of Muskogee, Okla., and Miss 

 Alice Brainerd of Berkeley, Cal. 



In JS!>7 he married Miss Mary Wright, 

 who diecLtn 1921. From this marring. - 

 are two children, the Misses Dorothy 

 and {Catherine Brainerd, living in Mid- I 

 dlrhury. He was a member of the Chi 

 P.«i frotemity and Phi Beta Kappa. 



