Benjamin Harmon Dudley
Born: 31 Jan 1885 in Constable, New York
Died: 20 Aug 1963 in Rochester, New York
His first picture taken in 1885. His mother wrote on the back that it was taken
when he was 8 months, 10 days old, so it must have been taken on Sept. 10, 1885.
Sister Gertrude Melissa Dudley (2 yrs old) and B.H. Dudley (5 yrs) in 1890.
Gertrude (age 6) and Benjamin (age 9) in 1894.
Henry H. Stickney and Benjamin H. Dudley with their cornets in Constable, NY
around 1899.
B.H. Dudley (left) with Henry H. Stickny in Constable around 1901. B.H. D. is
holding an 1897 Winchester 12 ga. pump shotgun.
(It appears that they gave up music for guns.)
This small, poor quality photo was taken in about 1901.
High school senior photos (Franklin Academy, Malone, NY) taken in 1905.
Taken in 1908 during his junior year at Darthmouth College.
This "penny post card" was sent to Ben at the beginning of his senior
year at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH on September 30, 1904 by his Aunt Hett
(Henrietta Harmon Humphry.
The brick building is the store that his father, who was also the Post Master,
ran in Constable, NY.
Ben Dudley and Mary Ellen Bird in 1919, and Ben with Mary Ellen Bird Dudley
in 1928.
(They were married in 1920)
With wife, Marry Ellen Bird Dudley, and holding his son, Harvey Harmon Dudley.
In 1935 and again at his 40th Dartmouth class reunion in 1949.
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B.H.D. and Mary Ellen Bird Dudley and their new 1955 Buick at Woodstock, Vermont.