Hospital, Fayetteville, . C. ; formerly president of the Cum¬ Marriages berland County Medical Society; and for several years city superintendent of health; died in St. Luke's Hospital, Jan¬ William R. Bagley, M.D., Duluth, to Miss Marian Miller, uary 2, from nephritis, aged 45. of Chicago, January 1. Joseph Franklin Perry, M.D. Harvard Medical School, 1873; Edwin L. Wood, M.D., Dansville, . Y., to Miss Edith Farn- a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; a veteran of ham, of Buffalo, December 30. the Civil War; editor and owner of the Boston Journal of later medical director of an insurance Harvey to Miss Lela both of Health; company; George Buck, M.D., Kinsall, founder and to the Blue Hills December of, physician-in-chief San¬ Greensburg, Kan., 15. atorium, Ashmont, Mass.; died in the Boston City Hospital, David Heine Levy. M.D., to Miss Dorothea G. Leopold, both December 31, 03. of New York December 28. aged City, George Edward Woodbury, M.D. Dartmouth Medical School, Rudolph A. Michelson, M.D., to Miss Annie Michelson, Hanover, N. H., 1860; a member of^the Massachusetts Medical both of Baltimore, December 26. Society; surgeon of the Second District of Columbia volunteer Noah W. Clark, M.D., Rossville, Ind., to Miss Rosettie C. infantry during the Civil War; a trustee of the Nevins Cline, of Flora, Ind., December 25. Memorial Library; secretary of the Methuen Historical Walter R. George, M.D., to Mrs. Mary Irene Schandorf, Society; died at his home in Methuen, December 26, from both of Indianapolis, December 25. heart disease, aged 71. Ernest Paul Murdock. Jr., M.D., Chicago, to Miss Edythe George Francis Thomson. M.D. New York University, New Wood, of N. Y., December 27. York City, 1855; surgeon of the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Albany, Volunteer and later of the New York Miles B. to Dar- Infantry, Twenty-sixth U. Lieser, M.D., Vancouver. C, Blanche Volunteer a member of the Massachusetts Medical December Cavalry; eow, M.D., of St. Louis, 29. Society and assistant medical examiner of Hampshire county; Burton Bohannon, M.D., St. Louis, to Miss Elma Estelle died at his home in Belchertown, December 23, from heart Hallett, of Sac City, Iowa, December 22. disease, aged 77. Elmer E. Eifert, M.D., to Miss Irene Black, both of Hills- James Henry Stauffer, M.D. Baltimore Medical College, boro, Ind., at Danville, 111., December 26. 1904; a member of the American Medical Association; for¬ Henry B. O'Brien, M.D., Pascoe, Wash., to Miss Lillian merly assistant physician in the obstetrical department of Neuquist, of Stillwater, Miim., December 28. the Maryland General Hospital, and later in charge of the Gustavus J. McIntosh, M.D., Devil's Lake, N¡ D., to Miss department of surgery in the dispensary of that institution; Mabel Colson, of December 29. died in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, January 3, from Minneapolis, leukemia, 32. Clarence S. Ordway, M.D., Toledo, Ohio, to Miss Marion aged Frances Sweet, of Green Wis., December 25. Don Morrison Waggoner, M.D. Rush Medical College, 1881 ; Bay, Bellevue Medical 1882; of the Charles W. to E. Hospital College, president pen¬ Burgess, M.D., Bethany, Mo., Frances sion board of Lewistown, Til. ; one of the most Rutledge, M.D., of St. Mo., December 30. prominent Joseph, practitioners of Fulton county, who with his wife was making Frederick William Tretbar, M.D., Hudson, Kan., to Miss a tour of the world; died on board the steamer Cleveland, Elsa Louise Wendt, of Fairfield, Iowa, December 29. January 1, near Kobe, Japan, from cancer of the tongue, Charles Rex Kennedy, M.D., to Miss Annabel Daggett, aged 48. both of Omaha, at Plattsmouth, Neb., December 25. Henry Rust Parker, M.D. Dartmouth Medical School, Han¬ Horace Faulkner Hoskins, M.D., Weyers Cave, Va., to over, . H., 1866; a member of the New Hampshire Medical Miss Maria Temple Bird, at Baltimore, December 28. Society; for two terms mayor of Dover; formerly president William H. Curtiss, M.D., Frankfort, Ind., to Miss Mabel of the Dover Medical Society and Strafford District Medical Hale, of Long Beach, Cal., at Sedalia, Mo., December 19. Association; and president of the county pension board; died at his home in Dover, December 29, from pneumonia, aged 73. Frank M. Warford, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, 1856; assistant surgeon of the Third Iowa and Fourth Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War; Deaths also an attorney; for three terms president of the Hamilton County, Ind., Medical Association; died at his home in Cicero, William Sterling Huselton, M.D. Georgetown University, December 17, from uremia, aged 78. Washington, D. C, 1865; a member of the American Medical Horatio Walker, M.D. McGill University, Montreal, 1902; Association; for three years assistant surgeon in the army a member of the Medical Society of the State of California; during the Civil War; one of the organizers and a charter formerly of Duluth. Minn.; a member of the faculty of the member of the staff of the Allegheny General Hospital, and later University of Southern California, Los Angeles; died in the consulting surgeon to that institution; chief surgeon to the Pasadena Hospital. December 30, two weeks after an opera¬ Pittsburg and Western Railroad, and division surgeon of the tion for tuberculosis of the kidney. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; for many years a, member of N. M.D. Medical of the local for several and later John Parr, College Ohio, Cincinnati, pension board; years treasurer, a member of the Indiana State Medical Association: a of the Medical at 1866; president Allegheny County Society; veteran of the Civil War : for three years a of the various times an officer of the of Pitts- clergyman municipal government Methodist Episcopal church ; vice-president of the State Bank burg; died at his home in that city, January 1, aged 69. of Sheridan; died at his home in Lebanon, December 24, from James Anthony Burroughs, M.D. Louisville Medical College, disease of the liver, aged 72. 1882; a member of the American Medical Association; presi¬ Luther I. McLin, M.D. Detroit Homeopathic Medical College, dent of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; first of St. Mich., that office of the Buncombe 1873; mayor Joseph, holding formerly president County (N. C. ) Medical for four for a member of the coun¬ member terms; many years city Society; and president and honorary of the Tri-State cil, board of works, and board of education; died at the Medical of and the a public Society Virginia Carolinas; prominent home of his son in Twin Falls, Idaho, December 14, from heart member of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association and disease, 62. American Public Health a member of the local aged Association; Clarke Vanderbilt Nash¬ board of health and of the State Board of Health; and one of Eugene Goodloe, M.D. University, of a member of the Medical Asso¬ the most noted specialists on tuberculosis of the United ville, 1897; Demopolis. Ala.; States; died at his home in Asheville, December 29, from ciation of the State of Alabama; and Tri-State Medical nephritis, aged 52. Society of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee; local surgeon of the Southern Railway; died in an infirmary in Selma, Ala., Herbert Charles Wilson, M.D. Trinity Medical College, December 25. 1882; first of the territorial of Toronto, speaker legislature York Alberta; a practitioner of Edmonton since 1882; a member of George Alvin Weida, M.D. New University, New York a member of the American the Northwest Council, and delegate to the Ottawa govern¬ City, 1888; of Frederick. Pa.; ment from that body in 1885; formerly mayor of Edmonton, Medical Association ; twice a member of the Pennsylvania and in 1907, president of the Alberta Medical Association; legislature; died suddenly in a snow drift from heart disease, died at his home, December 23, aged 50. while making a professional call, December 30, aged 43. John Henry Marsh, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, 1889; Wallace Erie Edgerton, M.D. State University of Iowa, Iowa a member of the American Medical Association ; surgeon to City, 1880; a member of the American Medical Association; one of the of South a member St. Luke's Hospital; and founder of the Marsh-Highsmith. pioneer practitioners Dakota;

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Pennsylvania User on 06/20/2015 of the local pension examining board of Salem; died at his San Francisco; died in that city, August 14, from lobar pneu¬ home, August 11, from cirrhosis of the liver, aged 56. monia, aged 29. George Sintzel, M.D. Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, Edmund Strachan Pendleton, M.D. Jefferson Medical Col¬ 1878; for thirteen years president of the village council of lege, 1854; a member of the Medical Society of Virginia; and Niles Center, 111.; and formerly a member of the staff of St." a Confederate veteran; died at his home in Iron Gate, Va., Francis Hospital, Evanston, and Cook County Hospital; died December 27. at his home January 2, from pneumonia, aged 53. Charles Quick, M.D. Grand Rapids (Mich.) Medical College, William Wallace Wickham, M.D. Washington University, 1906; a member of the Michigan State Medical Society; died St. Louis, 1856; a surgeon in the Federal service during the at his home in Grand Rapids, December 26, from nephritis, Civil War; for many years a practitioner of South Bend, Ind.; aged 50. died at the home of his daughter in Crawfordsville, Ind., James Thomas Kerrigan, M.D. University of Vermont, Bur¬ December 21. from senile debility, aged 89. lington, 1899; formerly of Waltham, Boston; died at his old Frank Hosford Watson, M.D. Johns Hopkins Medical School, home in Hudson, Mass., December 9, from abscess of the brain, Baltimore, 1903; lecturer and instructor in clinical medicine aged 35. in Tulane University, New Orleans, and visiting physician to Benjamin F. Mills, M.D. Willoughby (Ohio) University. Charity Hospital; died in a sanitarium in Stevens Point, Wis., 1846; a pioneer practitioner of Rock County, Wis.; died at his December 15, aged 31. home in Baraboo, December 19, from senile debility, aged 88. William Luther Nolen, M.D. New York University, New Jesse L. Stilwell, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, York City, 1891; a member of the Medical Society of Vir¬ Baltimore, 1905; of Freehold, N. J.; died at the home of his Nolan ginia; formerly of Chattanooga, Tenu.; founder of the uncle, near that place, December 17. from diabetes, aged 37. died at his home in from Hospital; Salem, Va., January 1, Richard A. (license, 111., years of practice, 1877); heart disease, 44. Pinkley aged for forty years a practitioner of Illinois; died at his home in Frank Colverd Bruce, M.D. University of Vermont, Burling¬ Bushneil, December 16, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 70. a Medical ton, 1885; member of the Massachusetts Society; William Wilson M.D. Eclectic Medical Institute, for several chairman of the board Barber, years Easthampton. Mass., a member of the school board of Cummins- of education: died November from Cincinnati. 1893; in Northampton, Mass., 7, died at his home December 20, 39. 49. ville, Cincinnati; aged paresis, aged Walter M.D. Rush Medical 1882; C. Ross. Indiana Eclectic Medical Crooks Bowers, College. John College, Indianapolis, a member of the American Medical Association; died at his 1897, of an eclectic 1880; (license, Ind., years practice); home in Decatur. 111.. December 31, from pneumonia, aged 52. of Muncie, Ind.; was run over a train practitioner by freight Gustavus M. of Iowa, and instantly killed, while making a professional call, Decem¬ Cowger (license, years practice, ber 17, 65. 1886) ; a veteran of the Civil War; died at his home in aged Iowa, 12, from aged 72. Gaston Pucbot, M.D. National Medical College, City of Mex¬ Agency, July angina pectoris, ico, 1901; (license, Texas, 1909); 'of Matamoras. Mex.; died Charles Eugene Meader, M.D. Harvard Medical School, 1879; a Massachusetts Medical died at his in that place. December 1, from a gunshot wound of the heart, member of the Society; self-inflicted, it is believed with suicidal intent, aged 34. home in Lynn. December 27, from anemia, aged 57. James Forman Pineo, M.D. Bellevue Hospital Medical Col¬ John Allen Gunn, M.D. Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, lege. 1877; formerly of West Chester, N. S., and Bennington 1868; a Confederate veteran; died at his home in Hopkinsville, and Meriden, N. H.; died at his old home in Lower Wolfville, Ky., December 19, from arteriosclerosis, aged 69. N. S., December 20, from lung disease, aged 65. Daniel I. Avery (license, Mo., 1883) ; for many years a of his James Yates, M.D. Detroit Medical College, 1874; a member practitioner of Lebanon. Mo.; died at the home brother of the American Medical Association; health officer of Erin in Whitehall, 111., January 1, from tuberculosis. township, Maeomb county, Mich.; died at his home in Rose- Charles N. Lake, M.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1895; ville, December 27, from heart disease, aged 69. a member of the American Medical Association; died at his Abram Mullinix, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, home in Detroit. December 26, from pneumonia. Keokuk, 1874; vice-president of the bank of Willow Springs, Mo.; while making a professional call, died suddenly Decem¬ ber 28, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 72. Henry K. Main, M.D. University of Nashville, 1872; of Medical Economics Dalton, Ga.; formerly of Atlanta; a Confederate veteran; died at the home of a friend in Atlanta, December 27, from cere¬ bral hemorrhage, aged 65. THIS DEPARTMENT EMBODIES THE SUBJECTS OF ORGANI¬ William N. Heath (license, Ind.) ; for more than forty ZATION, POSTGRADUATE WORK, CONTRACT PRACTICE, years a practitioner of Indiana; at one time auditor of Mad¬ INSURANCE FEES, LEGISLATION, ETC. ison county; died at the home of his daughter in Kokomo, December 30. from nephritis, aged 65. William Chester Beaman, M.D. Queens University. Kingston, Industrial Insurance in Germany Ont.. 1886; a member of the Ottawa (Ont.) City Council and Mr. Thomas H. Norton, United States Consul at Chemnitz, board of health for four died at his home in years; suddenly has submitted a on insurance Ottawa. 31. from duodenal ulcer, 53. Germany, report compulsory December aged the classes in which is M.D. of Ann among working Germany especially Joseph James Moore, University Michigan, on account of his comments on the effect of this Arbor. 1876; a member, of the State Medical interesting Michigan on that while Society; died at his home in Farmington, December 28, from system the medical profession. He states com¬ cerebral hemorrhage, aged 75. pulsory insurance against sickness and accident as well as raise the level of com¬ Charles P. Geudtner, M.D. Rush Medical College, 1896; a insurance for old age has done much to member of the Illinois State Medical Society; a specialist on fort for working men and their families, yet it has had a diseases of the eye; died at his home in Chicago, January 5, decided effect on the medical profession which is attracting from pneumonia, aged 44. considerable attention in Germany at present. The compul¬ Patrick Freebern Gavin, M.D. Harvard Medical School. 1870; sory insurance system has enabled working men to face the Kings and Queens College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dublin. uncertainties of employment and the liability to poverty in Treland, 1871: died at his home in South Boston, December 22, old age, has freed them from much of the anxiety and actual 64. from pneumonia, aged suffering which is a part of the lot of the laboring classes in P. Solomon Cote, M.D. Laval University, 1902; of Montreal; other countries, but it has also deprived a large share of the for six months a member of the editorial staff of Le Canada; population of the right to select their medical advisers at will. a on nervous died at his home, December specialist diseases; are the officials of the insurance 52. Physicians engaged by 22, aged on fixed which are far below the M.D. of Cincin¬ organizations terms, usually Joseph Gilbert Gray, Medical College Ohio, minimum rate fixed law for medical services and which who was about to an office in by nati, 1909; open Springfield, "The old-time rela¬ 111.; died at St. Johns Hospital in that city, December 31, are specifically provided for by contract. from erysipelas, aged 23. tions between physicians and patients," says Mr. Norton, "are Walter Alfred Smith, M.D. Cooper Medical College. San rapidly giving way to a purely business connection in which Francisco, 1907; resident physician at St. Francis Hospital, the personal equation is of constantly diminishing importance."

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