CLASS OF 1891
DENNIS MILLIKEN BANGS, the only son of General Issac Sparrow and Hadassah J. (Milliken) Bangs, was born 13 June, 1868, at Watervile, Maine. He was prepared for college at the Coburn Classical Institute and spent his freshman year at Colby, entering Bowdoin as a sophomore in 1888. In college he was manager of the football team, a member of the basketball nine and prominent in the Zeta Psi Fraternity, in the national orginization of which he subsequently held several offices. After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, but abandoned a professional career to be with his parent of Waterville, where he assisted his father in the real estate and insurance business. After the latter's death he continued this business until ill health led him to spend a portion of each year in the South. He died quite wuddenly of disease of the heart at his home in Waterville 20 July, 1909. He was unmarried.
Mr. Bangs succeeded his father as a member of the MaineCommandery of the Loyal Legion. He was also the first commander of the first camp of the Sons of Veterans to be organized in New England. Genial, affable and generous, he was always popular in the circles in which he moved. His interest inthe Alma Mater was shown by gifts at different times to the library and the art collection.
Above article from:
OBITUARY REDORD
OF THE
GRADUATES OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE
AND THE
MEDICIAL SCHOOL OF MAINE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
1 JUNE 1910
[No. 1. Series 1910-1919.]
DENNIS MILLIKEN BANGS, the only son of General Issac Sparrow and Hadassah J. (Milliken) Bangs, was born 13 June, 1868, at Watervile, Maine. He was prepared for college at the Coburn Classical Institute and spent his freshman year at Colby, entering Bowdoin as a sophomore in 1888. In college he was manager of the football team, a member of the basketball nine and prominent in the Zeta Psi Fraternity, in the national orginization of which he subsequently held several offices. After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, but abandoned a professional career to be with his parent of Waterville, where he assisted his father in the real estate and insurance business. After the latter's death he continued this business until ill health led him to spend a portion of each year in the South. He died quite wuddenly of disease of the heart at his home in Waterville 20 July, 1909. He was unmarried.
Mr. Bangs succeeded his father as a member of the MaineCommandery of the Loyal Legion. He was also the first commander of the first camp of the Sons of Veterans to be organized in New England. Genial, affable and generous, he was always popular in the circles in which he moved. His interest inthe Alma Mater was shown by gifts at different times to the library and the art collection.
Above article from:
OBITUARY REDORD
OF THE
GRADUATES OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE
AND THE
MEDICIAL SCHOOL OF MAINE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
1 JUNE 1910
[No. 1. Series 1910-1919.]
CLASS OF 1891
DENNIS MILLIKEN BANGS, the only son of General Issac Sparrow and Hadassah J. (Milliken) Bangs, was born 13 June, 1868, at Watervile, Maine. He was prepared for college at the Coburn Classical Institute and spent his freshman year at Colby, entering Bowdoin as a sophomore in 1888. In college he was manager of the football team, a member of the basketball nine and prominent in the Zeta Psi Fraternity, in the national orginization of which he subsequently held several offices. After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, but abandoned a professional career to be with his parent of Waterville, where he assisted his father in the real estate and insurance business. After the latter's death he continued this business until ill health led him to spend a portion of each year in the South. He died quite wuddenly of disease of the heart at his home in Waterville 20 July, 1909. He was unmarried.
Mr. Bangs succeeded his father as a member of the MaineCommandery of the Loyal Legion. He was also the first commander of the first camp of the Sons of Veterans to be organized in New England. Genial, affable and generous, he was always popular in the circles in which he moved. His interest inthe Alma Mater was shown by gifts at different times to the library and the art collection.
Above article from:
OBITUARY REDORD
OF THE
GRADUATES OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE
AND THE
MEDICIAL SCHOOL OF MAINE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
1 JUNE 1910
[No. 1. Series 1910-1919.]
DENNIS MILLIKEN BANGS, the only son of General Issac Sparrow and Hadassah J. (Milliken) Bangs, was born 13 June, 1868, at Watervile, Maine. He was prepared for college at the Coburn Classical Institute and spent his freshman year at Colby, entering Bowdoin as a sophomore in 1888. In college he was manager of the football team, a member of the basketball nine and prominent in the Zeta Psi Fraternity, in the national orginization of which he subsequently held several offices. After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, but abandoned a professional career to be with his parent of Waterville, where he assisted his father in the real estate and insurance business. After the latter's death he continued this business until ill health led him to spend a portion of each year in the South. He died quite wuddenly of disease of the heart at his home in Waterville 20 July, 1909. He was unmarried.
Mr. Bangs succeeded his father as a member of the MaineCommandery of the Loyal Legion. He was also the first commander of the first camp of the Sons of Veterans to be organized in New England. Genial, affable and generous, he was always popular in the circles in which he moved. His interest inthe Alma Mater was shown by gifts at different times to the library and the art collection.
Above article from:
OBITUARY REDORD
OF THE
GRADUATES OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE
AND THE
MEDICIAL SCHOOL OF MAINE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
1 JUNE 1910
[No. 1. Series 1910-1919.]
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