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University of the City of New York. He then served a year as Tutor of Anatomy in the University, when he was promoted to be Demon- strator of Anatomy, a position in which he continued until 1885. He was connected with Bellevue Hospital as House Surgeon in 1873-74; as House Physician in 1874-75; as Assistant Curator and Pathologist from 1875 to 1879, and as assistant to Dr. Alfred L. Loomis in teach- ing diagnosis at the bedsides of patients from 1875 to 1884. In the fall of 1875 he engaged in private practice, making a specialty of diseases of children. In the summer of 1877 he prosecuted studies in the hospitals of London, England. From 1SS1 to 1884 he was Lecturer on Diseases of Children in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York; from 1884 to 1891 was Clinical Professor of the same, and was full Professor from 1891 to May, 1898, when he resigned from the faculty of the Uni- versity of the City of New York to ac- cept the Professorship of the Diseases of Children in the Cornell University Medical School. He has been Visiting Physician to the Demilt Dispensary in the Department of Diseases of Children since 1882, since 18St has been Con- sulting Physician to the same depart- ment of the University Dispensary, and since 1886 has been Consulting Physi- cian to the same department of the out- door service of Bellevue Hospital. He is Visiting Physician to the Willard Parker Hospital, to the Riverside Hos- pital, and to the Columbus Hospital. In 1889-90 he was Professor of Diseases JOSEPH EDCIL WINTERS. of Children in the Post-Graduate Medi- cal School and Hospital. He devoted the summer of 1895 to study in the children's hospitals of Europe, par- ticularly those of France and Germany. His important papers include " Is the Operation of Tracheotomy in Diphtheritic Croup Dangerous? When Should the Operation Be Performed?"; " Diphtheria and Its Management : Are Membraneous Croup and Diphtheria Distinet Dis- eases?"; " The Relative Influence of Maternal and Wet Nursing on Mother and Child," and " Clinical Observations upon the Use of Anti- toxia in Diphtheria, and a Report of a Personal Investigation of This Treatment in the Principal Fever Hospitals of Europe During the Sum- mer of 1895." He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Medical Society of the County of New York. the Clinical Society, the American Pediatric Society, and the Society of the Alumni of Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Winters was born in Minisink, Orange County, N. Y., January 11, 1850. His father, Joseph Winters,
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was a teacher and School Commissioner in Sussex County, New Jer- sey. His great-grandfather, Dr. Winters, fought in the Massachusetts Line throughout the Revolution, and shortly after its close emigrated from Massachusetts to Orange County, New York. The founder of the line, John Winter, emigrated from England in the early colonial period, becoming one of the early settlers of Scarboro, Mass. Dr. Win- ters also descends from Thomas Quick, of Sullivan County, New York, a noted indian fighter.
EMMET, BACHE MCEVERS, prominent as a gynecologist, has been Professor of the Diseases of Women in the New York Post-Grad- uate Medical School and Hospital since 1884, and since 1889 has been full surgeon to the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York. He is also Gynecologist to the Columbia Hospital. He has contributed many valuable papers to gynecological journals and textbooks, and has devised many surgical instruments which have been favorably received by the profession. He has been President of the New York Ob- stetrical Society, is a member of the British Gynecological Society, and is a member of the leading medical societies of New York. He was born in New York City in 1843, and is the grandson of the famous Thomas Addis Emnet, the Irish patriot. On his mother's side he de- seends from Laurens Janszoon Coster, who disputes with Gutenberg the credit for the invention of the printing-press. Dr. Emmet at- tended private schools in New York, Switzerland, and Paris, and in 1863 began the study of medicine in Paris. Returning to New York in 1867, he was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, while, beginning in 1869, he served eighteen months as Interne in connection with the Woman's Hospital, of which his cousin, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, was Surgeon. He has published " The Abuse of Intrauterine Medication," " Retroperitoneal Cysts of the Female Sexual Organs." " A Case of Extrauterine Fetation Successfully Treated by Galvanism," "Laceration of the Cervix Uteri," " Amputation of the Cervix Often Preferable to Attempts at Repair," " Galvanism in Gynecology," " Outlines of Uterine Thera- peutics, Especially Massage and Electricity," " Removal of the Uterus in Disease of the Adnexa : Argument in the Negative," and " Injured Ureters in Abdominal Surgery, their Care, with Report of a Case of Anastomosis and Recovery." (See " Biography of Ephraim MeDow- ell, M. D.," Volume II., pp. 103-6.) Dr. Emmet married Anne Frances, daughter of the late Judge Levinus Monson.
MUNDE, PAUL FORTUNATUS, prominent as a gynecologist and consulting obstetrician, was editor of the American Journal of Obstetries from 1874 to 1892, has been Professor of Gynecology at the New York Polyelinie since 1882, Professor of the same in the Dart- mouth Medical College, summer term, since 1882; has been Gyne-
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cologist to Mount Sinai Hospital since 1881, and Consulting Gyne- cologist to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital since 1888, and to the Italian Hospital since 1890. He was President of the New York Obstetrical Society from 1886 to 1888; in 1884 was Vice-President of the Ameri- can Gynecological Society, and in 1887 was Vice-President of the British Gynecological Society. He is a fellow of the New York Acad- emy of Medicine, a member of the Medical Society of the County of New York and of the German Gynecological Society, and is Correspond- ing Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh, as well as of that of Leipsic and that of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Union League and Riding clubs of New York, the South Side Sportsmen's Club. of Long Island, and the Laurentian Club of Canada. Born in Dresden, Saxony, September 7, 1846, he is the son of Charles Munde and Bertha, daughter of Baron von Hornemann, at one time counselor to the King of Saxony. His father, a political refugee, brought him to this country when he was three years of age. He attended the Boston Public Latin School, and took his medical course in the medical departments of Yale and Harvard universities, being graduated from the latter in 1866. He was acting medical cadet in the United States Army dur- ing six months in 1864. Going to Europe in 1866, he was that year volunteer assistant surgeon on the Bavarian side in the war between Prussia and Austria. He was Battalion Surgeon in the Bavarian AAnny, with rank of First Lieutenant, during the Franco-Prussian War. From 1867 to 1870 he was Resident Physician to the Mater- nity at Wurzburg, and Assistant to Scanzoni, the famous German gynecologist. During the next two years he also studied in the hos- pitals of Vienna, Heidelberg, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, and Paris, in 1871 taking the degree of Master of Obstetrics at Vienna. Since 1873 he has been engaged in practice in New York City. His contri- butions to medical literature have been numerous and important. (See list of titles in " Biography of Ephraim MeDowell, M.D.," Volume II., pp. 36-380) Dr Munde married, November 11, 1873, Eleanor Claire Hughes, of New Haven. Conn., and has two children, Bertha and Nata- lie Morris.
BRISTOW, ALGERNON THOMAS, well-known surgeon of the Borough of Brooklyn, was graduated from Yale University in 1876, while the same year he was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, connected with Columbia University. Previously, in 1869, he had been graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was Interne for one year in the Kings County Hospital, while for six years he was in the Out-Patient De- partment of St. Peter's Hospital, Brooklyn. He was Assistant Sur- geon to St. Mary's Hospital from 1892 to 1894, in 1894 became Surgeon to the Kings County Hospital, in 1895 became Surgeon to the Long Island College Hospital, and in 1896 became Surgeon to St. John's
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Hospital. He was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Long Island College Hospital from 1SSS to 1894, and was Demonstrator of Anatomy in the same from 1894 to 1897. At the present time he is Attending Surgeon to the Kings County Hospital, the Long Island College Hospital, and St. John's Hospital, and is Consulting Surgeon to the Manhattan Hospital and Dispensary. He is a member of the Kings County Medical Society, the Brooklyn Surgical Society, the Brooklyn Pathological Society, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Asso- ciation of Brooklyn, and the New York State Medical Society. He is also a member of the Hamilton Club. Dr. Bristow is the son of Isaac Bristow and Charlotte Andrews, and was born in Richmond, England, November 29, 1851.
ELLIOT, GEORGE THOMSON, formerly Professor of Dermatology in the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, and now Professor of Dermatology in the University of Cornell Medical College, is a distin- guished practitioner in his chosen department of medicine. As a boy he received instruction at home for ten years, attended St. John's School, Sing Sing, N. Y., and in 1877 was graduated from Yale Uni- versity. He was graduated in medicine from the University of Louis- iana, having spent two years in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans. He studied medicine in Paris and Vienna from 1SS1 to 1884, and since the latter year has been engaged in practice in New York City. He was for ten years connected with the Demilt Dispensary, and for fif- teen years with the Skin and Cancer Hospital. He is Consulting Dermatologist to St. Luke's Hospital, as he is also to the Columbia Hospital. He has been a frequent contributor on subjects connected with his profession to medical journals and textbooks. He is a mem- ber of the Yale Club, the Dermatological Association, the American Academy of Medicine, the New York County Medical Society, the New York Dermatological Society, the New York Society of Derma- tology and Syphilography, the Pathological Society, the Medico-Chir- urgical Society, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Society, and the Hospital Graduates Club. He was married, in 1892, to Miss Eva M. Briggs. of Bath, Me. He was himself born in New Orleans, La., December 20, 1855, and is the son of Andrew Foster Elliot, banker and Brazilian Consul at New Orleans, and Marie Antoinette Odile de Buys. His paternal grandfather, after whom he was named, was a merchant of New York City, and a descendant of one of the settlers at New Lon- don, Conn., in 1665. Ilis maternal grandfather, Pierre de Buys, was a veteran of the War of 1812, and of French descent, his first American ancestor being an emigré of 1793.
MOORE, WILLIAM OLIVER, well-known New York specialist in ophthalmology and otology, was born in Newtown, N. Y., December 3, 1851, the son of Cornelius Luyster Moore and Mary Ann Syers, his
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father's family coming from England and his mother's from the north of Ireland. He attended the Newtown Academy, the Gram- mar School on Twenty-seventh Street, New York, and the College of the City of New York; in 1869, at eighteen years of age, began the study of medicine with Dr. Gouverneur M. Smith and Dr. Joseph W. Howe, and in 1872 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was for two years Interne at. the Charity Hospital. In 1873 he became Surgeon-in-chief to the small- pox and typhoid fever hospitals on Blackwell's Island. From 1873 to 1ST7 he was Interne at the New York Eve and Ear Infirmary, and from 1877 to 1887 was Assistant Surgeon to that institution. He was Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Vermont from 1883 to 1889; from 1887 to 1892 filled the same chair in the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, and since 1882 has held the same professor- ship in the New York Post-Gradu- ate Medical School and Hospital, of which he was one of the organizers and charter members. Since 1SS5 he has been Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon of the Orphan Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City. He was Treasurer of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital from its foundation in 1882 to 1888. He is a permanent member of the Medi- cal Society of the State of New York, and a member of the Medical WILLIAM OLIVER MOORE, M.D. Society of the County of New York, the New York Academy of Medi- cine, the New York Ophthalmological Society, the American Oph- thalmological Society, the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Asso- ciation, the Society of the Alumni of Charity Hospital, the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, the Society of Medical Jurispru- dence, and the Republican Club. He is a frequent contributor to medical journals, and with his treatise on " The Physiological and Therapeutic Effects of Salicylic Acid and Its Compounds," in 1878. took the Joseph Mather Smith Essay Prize of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has also published " The Physio- logical and Therapeutic Effects of the Coca Leaf and Its Alkaloid " (1888), " Gonty and Rheumatic Affections of the Eye " (1893), " The After Treatment of Cataract " (1893), and " Exophthalmic Goitre " (1893). From 1888 to 1892 he was Editor of the Post-Graduate. He
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contributed the article on " Herpes Zoster " to " Wood's Handbook of the Medical Sciences " (1890), and edited " Diabetic Affections of the Eye " (1894), and " Diseases of the Eye Occurring in Affections of the Spinal Cord " ( 1895). He married, in 1877, Katherine Under- hill, of New York City, and has a son-William Underhill Moore, now a student at Columbia University.
PRYOR, WILLIAM RICE, attended Dabney's Preparatory School at Princeton, N. J .; in 1875 and 1876 attended Washington and Lee University; was at Princeton College in 1876 and 1877, and in 1881 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Sur- geons (Columbia University). He was House Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital in 1881 and 1882. The following year he became assistant to the Chair of Surgery in the New York Polyclinic. In 1886 he be- came assistant to the Chair of Gynecology in the New York Polyclinic; in 1894 became Adjunct-Professor to the same, and since 1896 has been Professor of Gynecology. He was Surgeon of the Twenty-sec- ond Regiment, National Guard of the State of New York, from 1SSS to 1892, and in 1895 and 1896 was United States Pension Examiner. He has been Visiting Gynecologist to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, was Visiting Surgeon to the City Hospital from 1895 to 1898, and since the latter date has been Consulting Surgeon. Born in Richmond, Va., October 31, 1858, Dr. Pryor is the son of Judge Roger A. Pryor and Sara A., daughter of Samuel Blair Rice. He descends from the Isham, Bennett, Cary, Randolph, Bland, Yates, Bacon, Porthress, Blair, and Rice, or Rhys, families of Virginia, all of them being branch- es of old armiger families of England. He traces descent from the Ap Rhys, kings of South Wales, and from the father of Lord Francis Bacon.
FOWLER, EDWARD PAYSON, engaged in the practice of medi- cine in New York City for more than forty years, was born in Cohoc- ton, Steuben County, N. Y., November 30, 1834; received an academic education; in 1855 was graduated from the New York Medical Col- lege, taking the first prize, and became the partner in practice in New York City of Dr. John F. Gray and Dr. A. Gerald Hull. He has been a frequent contributor to periodical medical literature, is the author of several medical works, and has translated several from the French and German. He has served on the staff of Ward's Is- land Hospital for many years, as also on that of the Hahnemann Hos- pital. Ile is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a member of the Medical Society of the County of New York, the New York Neurological Society, and other medical organizations. He is also a member of the Union League Club. The honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him by the Board of Regents of New York State, which body also appointed him Examiner in
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Anatomy in the first Board of New York State Examiners for confer- ring medical degrees. Dr. Fowler was one of the organizers of the New York County Homeopathic Society. He opposed the prejudice among physicians against homeopathy. But when in 1878 the adher- ents of allopathy gave up their discrimination against the new school, and the latter became the ones who insisted upon discrimination, his sympathies were reversed. He is the son of Judge Horace Fowler, of Stockbridge, Mass., and the grandson of Major Eliphalet Fowler, a Revolutionary officer. He descends from William Fowler, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1630, from Lincoln, England, where his family had been seated since the twelfth century.
WILCOX, REYNOLD WEBB, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and Therapeutic Edi- tor of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, is the son of Colonel Vincent Weiss Wilcox, of this city, President of the E. & H. T. Anthony Company, and was born in Connecticut, March 29, 1856. He was graduated from Yale in 1878, in Medicine from Harvard Univer- sity in 1881, and having served as House Physician in several Boston hospitals, visited the hospitals of Vienna, Edinburgh. Heidelberg, and Paris. Returning he was appointed House Surgeon to the Wo- man's Hospital of this city; in 1884 became Clinical Assistant in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School; in 1886 became Instructor, and in 1889 was appointed to the chair he now occupies. He is also Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital, Lecturer at the Post-Grad- ,uate Training School, and Attending Physician to Demilt Dispen- sary. He edited Dr. Hale White's " Materia Medica and Thera- peutics." and has written nearly a hundred papers, some of which have contributed to popularize apomorphine, naphthaline, hydrastis. cocillana, and cactus. He is Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, and a member of the New York Academy, the Clinical So- ciety, Harvard Medical Society, and Lenox Medical Society. He has been a member of the Committee on Organization of Tammany Hall. and is a member of the Harvard and Manhattan clubs. the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, that of the War of 1812. is a Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and a member of the Sons of Veterans. being Surgeon-General of the latter.
PARTRIDGE, EDWARD. LASSELL, a leading medical practi- tioner in New York City, especially prominent in the department of obstetrics, was graduated from the New York College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in 1875, since which time be has been engaged in private practice. He has held the positions of Adjunct Professor in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Visiting Physician to the New York Hospital, to the Nursery and Child's Hos-
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pital, to the New York Maternity Hospital, and to the Sloan Mater- nity Hospital. At present he is Consulting Physician to the New York Hospital and to the New York Infant Asylum. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the New York State Medical Society, the Practitioners' Society, and the New York Medical and Surgical Society, as well as of the University and Century clubs and the Society of Colonial Wars. He is the author of a standard " Manual of Obstetrics," besides numerous contributions to current medical literature, and is the American author of " Verrier's Manual," devoted to the science of obstetrics. He married, Sep- tember 18, 1884, Gertrude Ed- wards, daughter of the late Pro- fessor Theodore W. Dwight, the famous founder of the Columbia College Law School, and has one child-Theodore Dwight Part- ridge. Dr. Partridge was himself born in Newton, Mass., September 27. 1853, the son of Hon. Joseph Lyman Partridge and Zibiah N. Willson, and a descendant of Will- iam Partrigg, who emigrated from Berwick-on-the-Tweed to Hartford, Conu., in 1640. The families of Dudley, Strong, Dwight, Lyman, and Huntington were among the intermarrying stocks in Dr. Part- ridge's line. His father, now a resi- dent of Brooklyn, was graduated EDWARD LASSELL PARTRIDGE. from Williams College in 1828, and for many years was Collector of Internal Revenue at Lawrence, Mass. The well-known Colonel John N. Partridge, of Brooklyn, is a brother of Dr. Partridge.
BURRALL, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, prominent New York phy- sician, attended Williams Academy, Stockbridge, Mass .; in 1850 was graduated from Williams College, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts; spent three years in travel and study of modern languages in Madeira, Messina, and the continent of Europe; in 1853 began the study of medicine with Dr. Freeman JJ. Bumstead, of New York City; for one year was a student in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, and after two years in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, was graduated from the latter in 1857. While a student he had served six months as Interne in the New York Hospital, and after taking his degree he was House Surgeon for one year in Bellevue Hospital. Since 1858
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he has been engaged in active practice in New York City. He was Surgeon to the Northern Dispensary from 1858 to 1872; was Attend- ing Physician to the Charity Hospital from 1866 to 1868; from 1875 to 1885 was Attending Physician to the Presbyterian Hospital; from 1871 to 1881 was Attending Physician to the New York Infant Asy- lum; in 1862 served in Virginia on the Federal hospital ship, St. Mark, and at the present time is Consulting Physician both to the Presby- terian Hospital and the Home for Aged, Respectable, Indigent Fe- males. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a permanent member of the American Medical Association, and a member of the New York County Medical Society, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, and the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of the New York State Charities Aid Association, a Deacon of the University Place Presby- terian Church, and a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He was the first to suggest the use of nitrite of amyl as an antidote to chloroform (see New York Medical Garette, June 11, 1870). He has published " Burrall on Asiatic Cholera " (New York, 1866), "Nitrite of Amyl as an Antidote to Chloroform " (1891), " The Use of Dry Cups in Diagnosis and Therapeutics " (1889), " A Case of Drowning with Resuscitation " (1891), " Coincidence of Cer- tain Nervous Symptoms with Excess of Nitrate of Urea in the Urine " (1870), " Some of the Uses of the Hands and Knees Position " ( 1874), "Entire Excision of the Os Calcis " (1870), "Concerning Medical Ethics " (1883), " Some of the Uses of the Oleum Hyperici," " Are We Likely to Have Any More Epidemics of Asiatic Cholera in New York City? " (1895)," The Treatment of Bright's Disease " (1887), "Dissolv- ing Views, Medico-idyllic " (1895), and " The Treatment of Alcohol- ism by Suggestion " (1897). He married, April 19, 1859, Mary, daugh- ter of James Lee, of New York City, and has a son --- Frederick Augus- tus Burrall, Jr. Dr. Burrall was himself born in Machias, Me., Decem- ber 13, 1830, the son of Frederick Augustus Burrall and Mary Jones Bowles. He descends from William Burrall, who immigrated to Amer- ica from London, England, in 1715. His great-grandfather, Colonel Charles Burrall, was an officer in the Revolution. On his mother's side he descends from Lieutenant Ralph Hart Bowles, also an officer of the Revolution, and as well from the famous John Eliot, who came to America in 1631, and became " Apostle to the Indians."
COE, HENRY CLARK, a leading New York specialist in gynecol- ogy and obstetrics, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 21, 1836; attended the public schools of that city; in 1878 was graduated from Yale, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts; studied three years in the Medical Department of Harvard University, and, coming to New York, was in 1882 graduated from the New York Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. He served a year and a half in the
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Woman's Hospital, and then spent a year in hospital study in Vienna and other European cities, in 1884 receiving degrees from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of London. Since engaging in practice in New York City, in the fall of 1884, he has devoted him- self exclusively to gynecology and obstetrics. He has been connected with the Woman's Hospital as Pathologist and Assistant Surgeon; with the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary as Gynecologist; with the New York Infant Asylum as Attending Physician, and with the New York Cancer Hospital as Assistant Surgeon. At the present time he is Gynecologist to the New York Cancer Hospital, Consulting Gyne- cologist to the Manhattan Hospital, Consulting Obstetrical Surgeon to the Maternity Hospital and Foundling Hospital, and Assistant Gynecologist to Bellevue Hospital. He was for ten years connected with the New York Polyclinic as Lecturer on Gynecology and Pro- fessor of Gynecology, and is now Professor of Gynecology in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He is Editor of Clinical Gynecology, and has frequently contributed editorials to the leading medical journals, as well as special articles. He is the author of monographs in " Wood's Reference Handbook," " The American System of Gyne- cology," and " The American System of Surgery." He is a member of the Medical Society of the County of New York, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Clinical Society, the Obstetrical Society, the Harvard Medical Society, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Associa- tion, the New York State Medical Society, and the American Gyne- cological Society. He is also a member of the Military Order of For- eign Wars, the Society of Founders and Patriots of America, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of the War of 1812, the Yale and the Harvard clubs, and the Madison Avenue Reformed Church. He was married, September 7, 1882, to Sara Liv- ingston Worden, of Brooklyn, a cousin of Admiral Worden, of the United States Navy, and has three sons-Fordyce Baker Coe, Henry Clark Coe, Jr., and Arthur Paul Coe. Dr. Coe himself descends on both sides from old and well-known Rhode Island families. His father, the late Erastus Pease Coe, for twenty years a sea captain, subsequently engaged successfully in business in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided from 1848 until his death in 1874. Dr. Coe's grand- father, Adam Coe, served with distinction in the War of 1812, having command of Fort Adams, in Newport Harbor. His maternal grand- father, Rev. Arthur Ross, was a Baptist clergyman of Newport, R. L., and distinguished as an abolitionist. His maternal great-grandfather, Nathaniel Cook, served in the American Navy under Captain John Paul Jones during the Revolution. Dr. Coe also descends from Rob- ert Coe, who emigrated to New England from Staffordshire, England, in 1634, and from the famous John Alden, of the Mayflower.
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