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LEWIS, DANIEL. is one of the leading medical practitioners of New York City in the specialty of skin diseases and cancer: He was born in Alfred, Allegany County, N. Y., January 17, 1846. His fam- ily have been prominent in the medical profession in Rhode Island, where they have been established from early colonial times, and five of the members of his immediate family besides himself were educated as physicians. Up to the age of fifteen he attended the Alfred Academy, and throughout the Civil War served in the United States Navy. Resuming his studies, he was graduated from Alfred University in 1869, and, coming to New York, attended lectures in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York and the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, being grad- uated from the last-mentioned in 1871. He practiced medicine in the village of Andover, N. Y .. from 1871 to 1873. and since the latter date continuously in New York City. After a short time he devoted him- self to surgery, and particularly to the treatment of cancer and dis- eases of the skin. He has been identified with the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital from its organization, serving first as Assistant Surgeon, and subsequently in his present position of Visiting Sur- geon. Since 1890 he has been Professor of Special Surgery (cancer- ous diseases) in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. He was President of the Medical Society of the County of New York in 1884 and 1885, having been a member since 1873, for three years a Delegate from that organization to the State Medical Society, and for five years a member of its Board of Censors. In 1889 he was Presi- dent of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He was Presi- dent of the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association for ten years, and is now its Treasurer. He has been President of the New York State Board of Health since May, 1895. having been originally appointed a Commissioner by Governor Morton in 1895. and reappointed by Gov- ernor Black in January, 1898. He is also a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the New York Patholog- ical Society, the New York Dermatological Society, and other or- ganizations. He was for some time editor of the medical directory published under the auspices of the Medical Society of the County of
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New York. For ten years he has been Surgeon of Reno Post. Grand Army of the Republic. New York City, while in 1887 he was elected Medical- Director of the Department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic. He is President of the Alfred University Alumni As- sociation, a position which he has occupied for several terms. For many years he has annually visited Europe, and in 1882 spent some time in special study in the Cancer Hospital of London. He has been Editor of the Medical Review of Reries since January, 1897. He has published " Cancer and its Treatment " (1874), " Marsden's Treat- ment of Cancer " (1878), " Digi- talis in the Treatment of Scarla- tina " (1882), " The Development of Cancer from Non-Malignant Dis- eases " (1883), " The Treatment of Erysipelas " (1885), " The Treat- ment of Ephthelioma with Mild Caustics " : (1887), "The Chian Turpentine Treatment of Cancer " (1888), " A Malignant Tumor in an Umbilical Hernial Sac. with Remarks on the Etiology of Can- cer " (1889), " Hersehair Sutures and Drainage " (1884). "Cancer and its Treatment " ( 1892). " The Use and Place of Caustics in the Treatment of Cancer" (1893). " Notes of a Case of Uterine Can- Ix. .. cer: Remarks on Diagnosis and DANIEL LEWIS, M.D. Treatment " (1893), " Operative Treatment of Cancer of the Rectum " (1897), and " Enemies of Sani- tary Science " (1897). He was married, October 10, 1872, to Achsah D., daughter of L. C. P. Vaughan, of Springfield, Erie County, N. Y.
BRANNAN, JOHN WINTERS, was graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1874 and from the Harvard Medical School in 1878. In 1877 and 1878 he was connected with the Massachusetts General Hospital. while in 1878 and 1879 he continued his studies in hospitals in Vienna. Paris, Strasburg, and London. He practiced medicine one year in Boston and four years in Colorado Springs, while during the last four- teen years he has practiced in New York City. He is President of the Board of Governors of the Hospital for Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Patients, is Medical Director of the Washington Life Insurance Com- pany, is Lecturer on Infectious Diseases in Columbia University. is Consulting Physician to the Hospital for Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Patients, and Attending Physician to the Bellevue, the Willard Parker. and the Riverside hospitals, and to St: Saviour's Sanitarium and House
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of Mercy. He is a member of the University and Harvard clubs, the Aztec Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, the Practitioners' Society, the Neurological Society, the Hat- vard Medical Society, and the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 14, 1853, the son of Benja- min Franklin Brannan and Mary, daughter of Joseph Doddridge, clergyman, and author of "Indian Wars in Western Virginia .aud Ohio." He is a nephew of General John M. Brannan, a West Point graduate, who served in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War was Chief of Artillery under General Thomas. Dr. Brannan's grandfather, John Brannan, was the editor of " Letters of Officers of Army and Navy in the War of 1812." His maternal great-uncle, Philip Doddridge, was a member of Congress from Virginia early in the present century. Philip Doddridge, the maternal ancestor in England in the seventeenth century, was a Non-conformist clergyman, the author of many hymns and of various religious books.
DEW, JAMES HARVIE, physician, of New York, was born Octo- ber 18, 1843, in Newtown, King and Queen County, Va. His father, Benjamin Franklin Dew, was grad- uated from William and Mary Col- lege, taking the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law. He was an extensive landowner, one of his estates being Malvern Hill, where the battle of that name was fought in 1862. Dr. Dew's grand- father, Thomas Dew, a captain in the War of 1812, was a descendant of Hon. Thomas Dew, a Speaker of the House of Burgesses in the old colonial days of Virginia. The doctor's mother was Mary Susan, danghter of Colonel Reuben M. Gar- nett, also of King and Queen Coun- ty. Dr. Dew is a nephew of the late Thomas R. Dew, President of the JAMES HARVIE DEW, M.D. old William and Mary College, and a brother of Judge John G. Dew, of Virginia. The doctor was educated at Professor Gessner Harri- son's Preparatory School and at the University of Virginia. In 1861, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in " Lee's Partisan Rangers," com- manded by Robert E. Lee's son, afterward Major-General Lee. This troop was soon merged into the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, and here he served until the close of the contest, under "Jeb" Stuart and his successors. This experience enabled the doctor to contribute to the
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Century Magasine for 1892 an account of the conditions, circumstances, and peculiarities which led to the development and characteristic fea- tures of the " Yankee and Rebel Yells." He commenced the study of medicine in January, 1866, his preceptors being Dr. William D. Quesenbery, of Virginia, and Dr. Joseph W. Howe, of New York. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in June, 1867, served as House Physician and Surgeon to the Charity Hospital, New York, from April, 1868, to October, 1869, and commenced the practice of his profession in 1870. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene in the New York Evening High School in 1872, and continued his lectures till 1881. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Medical Society of the County of New York, the Alumni Association of the Charity Hospital, the County Medical Association, and the New York Southern Society. He prepared a paper, " Establishing a New Method of Artificial Respira- tion in Asphyxia Neonatorum," called " Dew's Method," which was read before the New York Academy of Medicine in February, 1893. He was married, in 1885, to Miss Bessie Martin, only daughter of Dr. Edmund H. Martin, late of Memphis, Tenn., now of Louisville, Ky. They have but one child-Caroline Welborn Dew.
DANA, CHARLES LOOMIS, was graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege in 1872, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts; in 1876 was graduated from the National Medical College, at Washing- ton, and in 1877 was graduated from the New York College of Physi- cians and Surgeons (the Medical Department of Columbia Univer- sity). In 1878 he was an Interne of Bellevue Hospital. He was Vis- iting Neurologist to the New York Infant Asylum from 1885 to 1888. and the Northeastern Dispensary from 1882 to 1887, while since 1889 he has sustained the same relation to the Montefiore Home. Since 1885 he has been Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital. From 1880 to 1883 he was Professor of Comparative Physiology in the Columbia School of Comparative Pathology, from 1882 to 1887 was Professor . of Physiology in the Woman's Medical College of the New York In- firmary, and since 1884 has been Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. He has also been Professor of the same in Dartmouth College since 1889. From 1886 to 1888 he was President of the New York Neurological Society. .He has published " On the Benignity of Syphilis " (1881), " Concus- sion of the Spine and Hysteria " (1881), " Medical Expert Testimony " (1885), "Clinical Studies of Neuralgias " (1887), " The Cortical Lo- calization of the Cutaneous Sensations" (1888), "Cranial Topogra- phy " (1889), and " The Anesthesias of ITysteria " (1890). He was born in Woodstock, Vt .. March 25, 1852, and is the son of Charles Dana, Jr., and Charity, daughter of Judge Jonathan Loomis. On the
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paternal side he descends from Richard Dana, who settled in Cam- bridge, Mass., in 1640. On the maternal side he descends from Joseph Loomis, who settled in Connecticut in 1638.
LINCOLN, RUFUS PRATT, physician, of New York, was born in Belchertown, Mass., April 27, 1840, and is descended from Thomas Lincoln, one of the original settlers of Hingham, Mass. He was gradu- ated from Amherst College in 1862. Enlisting in July of that year in the Thirty- seventh Massachusetts. he served with distinction throughout the Civil War, rising rapidly through the successive grades of Second Lieutenant, Captain, Ma- jor, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel of his regi- ment. During the last year of the war he served as Assistant Inspector-Gen- cral, First Division, Sixth Corps. Returning from the war, he spent one year in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1868 was graduated from the Harvard Medical School. During the suc- ceeding eighteen months he was one of the House Surgeons in the Massachu- RUFUS PRATT LINCOLN, setts General Hospital. Beginning practice in New
York in 1869, he rapidly became a recognized specialist in the treat- ment of diseases of the throat and air passages. In 1881 he was a delegate from the New York Academy of Medicine and the Ameri- can Laryngological Association to the International Medical Con- gress in London. In 1887 and 1888 he was President of the Ameri- can Laryngological Association, in 1891 he was President of the Harvard Medical Society of New York, and in 1897 was Vice-President of the American Academy of Medicine. He has published many arti- cles connected with his special studies, such as " Laryngeal Phthisis." " Selected Cases of Disease in the Nasal and Post-Nasal Regions Treated with the Galvano-Cautery." " Naso-Pharyngeal Polypi, with illustration of Cases "; " On the Results of Treatment of Naso-Pharyn-
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geal Fibromata, with demonstration of successful cases, together with a table of seventy-four operations by different surgeons "; " A Case of Melano-Sarcoma of the Nose, Cured by Galvano-Cauterization "; " The Surgical Uses of Electricity in the Upper-Air Passages," " Re- current Naso-Pharyngeal Tumor caused by Electrolysis. Exhibition of Patient "; " Report of the Evulsion of a Laryngeal Tumor which had returned twenty-two years after its removal by Laryngotomy."; " Pyoktanin, Its Uses"; " The Exanthemata in the Upper-Air Pas- sages "; " Turbinotomy : Method of Operating," and " Oro-Pharyngeal Mycosis." He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New York County Medical So- ciety, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Pathological So- ciety, New York Neurological Society, American Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine, American Laryngological Associa- tion, American Climatological Association, Harvard Medical Alumni Association, Harvard Medical Society, of New York. He married. August 24, 1869, Caroline Carpenter, daughter of the late Wellington Tyler, of Pittsfield, Mass. They have had three children-Carrie Anna, Rufus Tyler, and Helen, of whom only the latter is living.
BREWER, GEORGE EMERSON, was graduated from Hamilton College and from the Harvard Medical College, and since 1886 has been engaged in the practice of medicine in New York City. Devoting himself to general practice at first, he subsequently confined himself to the practice of surgery. He is Attending Surgeon to the City Hos- pital and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the New York Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons ( the Medical Department of Colum- bia University). He is a member of the Century. University, and Larchmont Yacht clubs, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He married, in 1892, Effie Leighton Brown, of Chester, Pa., and has a son- Leighton Brewer. Dr. Brewer himself was born in Westfield, N. Y., July 28, 1861, and is the son of Francis B. Brewer and Susan Rood. His father, a physician, subsequently engaged in banking and manu- facturing. He was a member of the New York Legislature and of Congress.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM CANNON, was educated in the Illinois Agricultural College, Genova College, and the Missouri Medical Col- lege. He practiced medicine for two years in Mansfield. Ohio, and, since 1882, has practiced in New York City, where he is connected with a private dispensary. He is a member of the New York County Medi- cal Society, the New York County Medical Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine. While in Ohio he belonged to the North West District Medical Society. He was Medical Examiner in the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Examining and Visiting Phy- sician in the R. P. B. C. A. He is a member of the Washington Lit-
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erary Club, the United Presbyterian Church, and of Copestown, No. 641, Free and Accepted Masons. He married Mary Aiken, of Logan County, Ohio, and has two children-Roscoe Emdon and Edna M. Kennedy. Born in Elkton, Washington County, III., September 2, 1856, Dr. Kennedy is the son of William Kennedy and Eleanor M., daughter of Dr. Andrew Todd, of South Carolina. His father was a wealthy farmer. His two brothers were soldiers in the Civil War, one of them being General John C. Kennedy, of Denver, Colo. His mother's ancestors came from Scotland, while his father's ancestors were seated in the North of Ireland, some of them having fought at the siege of Derry.
FORBES, HENRY HALL, was educated in the New York grammar schools, the College of the City of New York, and the New York Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons (the Medical Department of Colum- bia College). He was graduated from the latter institution in 1890, taking the Harsen Prize, No. 1. He was House Surgeon to the Pres- byterian Hospital for two years, and for one year was House Surgeon to the New York Foundling Asylum. He is Surgeon to the Demilt Dispensary, Physician to the New York Maternity Hospital, Attend- ing Surgeon to the New York Hospital, and Assistant Surgeon to the Trinity Hospital and the French Hospital. He is a member of the New York County Medical Society, the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, the Alumni of the Presbyterian Hospital, the Hospital Graduates' Club, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Sons of Veterans. He was Assistant Surgeon in the Naval Militia of the State of New York, and was Past Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy during the recent war with Spain. Born in New Bedford, Mass., March 20, 1868, he is the son of Frank Herbert Forbes and Maria H. J. Cox. The paternal ancestors came from Scotland. His great-great- uncle was Court Physician. His father served in the United States Navy as Master's Mate during the Civil War. His great-great-grand- father, James ITall, of Milford, Conn., was a Revolutionary soldier, died in a British prison-ship at New York in 1780, and was buried in the churchyard of Trinity, on lower Broadway, New York City.
CARTER, DE LANCY, physician, of New York City, was born in Brooklyn, October 18, 1855, and is the son of W. Frank Carter and Mary A., daughter of Luke Clark. He descends from the Carters, of Virginia, who intermarried with the Breckinridge, Carroll. and Lee families of that State and Maryland. His grandmother was Mary A., daughter of John A. Ellis, who emigrated from New Hampshire to the Western Reserve, Ohio, and became one of the founders of Ober- lin College. The father of John A. Ellis, Colonel John Ellis, com- manded the First New Hampshire Volunteers during the Revolution.
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The Ellis line has been traced back to Thomas Howard, Duke of Nor- folk. One of the sons of Dr. Carter's maternal grandfather, Luke Clark, was the celebrated General Clark of the Crimean War. The father of Luke Clark served in the French Army during the French Revolution, while the doctor's great-great-grandfather, in this line, was a captain in the English Army, was stationed at Drogheda, Province of Ulster, Ireland, and married the only child of Sir Phelim O'Neil, the last scion of the eldest branch of the O'Neils of Ulster. Dr. Carter was educated in the New York public schools, the College of the City of New York, was graduated as a civil engineer from the University of the City of New York in 1878, and in 1881 was graduated from the Medical Department of Columbia University. Between 1881 and 1883 he was House Physician at the Workhouse and Alinshouse, a branch of Charity Hospital. In 1SS4 and 1885 he was connected with the Board of Health of New York City. He was Visiting Physi- cian of the Northeastern Dispen- sary from 1884 to 1893, and Visit- ing Physician to St. Luke's Home for Indigent Females from 1884 to 1897. He was President of the Medical Board of the latter institu- tion from 1894 to 1896. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Medical Society of the County of New York, the New York Pathological Society, the New York County Medical Asso- ciation, the Medical and Surgical Society, the Lenox Medical and Surgical Society, and the Physi- cians' Mutual Aid Association. He is a member of the Delta Up- DE LANCY CARTER. silon Society, the Alumni of the University of the City of New York, the Alummi, Class of 1878, Univer- sity of the City of New York, and the Alumni of Columbia University, Medical Department. He is Past Master- Workman of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 1886; is a Past District Deputy Grand Master, 1887, and is a past member of the Grand Finance Committee, 1888. He is a Past Regent. Royal Areanum, 1889. He is also a promi- nent Mason. He is Past Master of Alma Lodge, No. 728, 1894; is Past High Priest of Amity Chapter, No. 160, 1893; is a member of Union Council, Royal and Select Masters; is Surgeon of Palestine Command- ery, Knights Templars; is a member of the Lodge of Perfection, Rose Croix, the Council of Princes of Jerusalem Consistory, thirty-second degree Mason, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, Mecca Temple.
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FEENY, JOHN L., physician, was born at Stapleton, S. I., May 29, 1845, the son of the late Dr. Joseph Feeny. His father was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, while he himself received his early educa- tion from his father. He studied medicine under Dr. T. C. Moffatt, at the Seaman's Retreat Hospital, now known as the Marine Hospital, and in 1866 was graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of the City of New York. From 1866 to 1870 he was House Physician of the Seamen's Retreat Hospital, and since the latter date has been engaged in the practice of medicine on Staten Island. He was Police Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police in 1870 and 1871, and has held the same position in connection with the Richmond County Police. He was Supervisor for the town of Middletown from 1893 to 1898. . Since August 10, 1898, he has been Assistant Sanitary Super- intendent of the Borough of Richmond, New York City. He has been Chairman of the Democratic General Committee of Richmond County during the past six years, and is a member of the Democratic Club of Manhattan Borough. He has four children living. The eldest, now the wife of C. P. Norcross, was graduated from Wellesley College. The second, Marguerite, was graduated from the Staten Island Acad- emy, while the two younger children, Elsa and John L. Feeny, Jr., are now students at the Academy. Dr. Feeny's father, a Greek and Latin scholar, was graduated from the old Crosby Street Medical College, New York City, and, at the time of his death, was City Physician of Jersey City.
WOOD, JOHN WALTER, was graduated, in 1873, as valedictorian from Grammar School No. 35, New York City; in 1878 was graduated from the College of the City of New York, and in 1881 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also took special courses at Bellevue Hospital and the New York Hospital. He began practice at Madison, N. J., in 1881, but since 1883 has prac- ticed at Port Richmond, S. 1. He is Visiting Surgeon to the S. R. Smith Infirmary, and a member of the Richmond County Medical So- ciety, the New York State Medical Society, and the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association. He has been Health Officer of the town of North- field, Health Officer of the village of Port Richmond, Coroner of Rich- mond County from 1889 to 1891, and Coroner's Physician of the same from 1886 to 18SS, and from 1892 to 1897. He is now Assistant Registrar of Records for the Borough of Richmond. He is Examining Physician of the Foresters. the Red Men. the A. L. of H., and the A. O. U. W. He is Past Master of Richmond Lodge, No. 66. Free and Accepted Masons; is Past High Priest of Tyrian Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 219, and is Past District Deputy of the Twenty-seventh Masonic District. He married, in 1881, Matie S., daughter of Pro- fessor J. S. Sprague, of West New Brighton, and has three children- Agnes S., Walter Dongan, and Leroy Colye Wood. Born in Mariners'
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Harbor, S. I., April 23, 1856, he is himself the son of Walter Dongan Wood and Catherine S., daughter of David Van Name.
BILLINGS, JOHN HASKELL, son of John Haskell Billings and Julia A. Hubbell, was born in Bridgeport, Conn., August 20, 1856; at- tended the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn .; commenced study for his profession at the Yale Medical School, and continued at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of New York City, from which he was graduated in 1878. He went abroad for a year of post- graduate work in the Vienna Hos- pital, devoting himself to the spe- cialty of throat diseases, to which he has confined himself in his prac- tice in this city continuously since. He was officially connected with the Metropolitan Throat Hospital for three years, and with the throat department of the Vander- bilt Clinic for two years. For one year he also performed duties in the line of his specialty for the Board of Health of New York City. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, and a member of the JOHN HASKELL BILLINGS, M.D. County Medical Society and of Kane Lodge, F. and A. M. He married, in 1880, Louise, daughter of Parker P. Clark, of Morristown, N. J., and has a daughter and a son- ITaskell Clark Billings.
BARTLETT, HOMER L., attended the Jericho (Vt. ) Academy, the Bakersfield Academical Institute, and was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was for a year and a half in the Kings County Hospital, and has since been Consulting Physician to the same. In 1856 he succeeded to the practice of Dr. Du Bois and Dr. Crane, of Utrecht, L. I., then recently deceased, and subsequently re- moved to Flatbush, L. I., where he has since remained. He has been Physician to the Kings County Penitentiary for twelve years, for the same period was Health Officer of Flatbush, for three years was Presi- dent of the Police Board of Flatbush, for three years was School Com- missioner, and for forty years has been a trustee of the Erasmus Hall Academy. He originated the Midwood Club and was its first Presi- dent. He was born in Vermont, October 17, 1830, and is the son of Elias Bartlett and Eliza Wheelock. He descends from Dr. Elisha Bartlett; the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, and from
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