Minneapolis City (part 4 of 80)

In 1870 Dr. Kimball was married to Miss Grace Everett Morrison, daughter of the Hon. Dorilus Morrison, one of the wealthiest men in Minneapolis, and one closety identified with all its histor3', particularh' the earh' jiart, having been its first ma3'or. Mrs. Kimball is a lad3' of great refinement and man3' accomjdishments. She is verv cordial and S3'mpathetic and excei)tionally constant, always apjiearing in the same, even, good humor that makes her loved and admired wherever she is known. She is vei'y liberal in her giving, vet all is done ciuietly and without show; and ])robably no one will ever know how much ])rivatc charity has been dis])ensed bv her gen¬ erous hands. Besides, she is a conspicu- ons figure in public charities, notably the Northwestern Hospital, which she was instrumental in founding, and with whose management and support shehas ever since been connected . Her home life is one of culture, activit\r and comfort, while in social circles she is a general favorite.

As a practitioner. Dr. Kimball stands among the first in Minneapolis, and is peer of the best in any state. Dame Fortvine has blessed him with that happy faculty of jjutting everj^ one at ease who comes into his x^i'^sence, while at the same time commanding their respect. His positive and assuring manner is almost sufficient to cui'e his patient, even though the prescription remain in the jDOcket; and then when the doctor's care¬ ful preparation and wide experience are considered, everyone can understand why he has such an extensive and suc¬ cessful practice. Ever desiring to be well informed from the best known sources. Dr. Kimball visited Eui'ope in 1879-'80, spending eleven months at the best hos¬ pitals in T/Ondon, Heidelberg, Berlin and other European cities. Several times since he has visited Europe, alwa3"S hav¬ ing in mind the object to become more thoroughly acquainted wfith the intificate problems that present themselves in his profession. The real key to Dr. Kim¬ ball's success, however, may be found in the fact that he is progressive. He ac¬ cumulates a vast store of valuable ideas in order that he maj' put them into practice, and in so doing he does not confine himself to an old rut. His wide, practical experience enables him to branch out from "the books," if necessarjq without fear and without danger ; thus he inspires his patients with confi¬ dence, while with unerring judgment he arrives at diagnosis.

No one has been more closely con¬ nected with the medical history of Min¬ neapolis than Dr. Kimball. He has been jDresident of all the principle medical so¬ cieties of the county and state; vicepresident of the American Medical Asso¬ ciation; is now president of the United States Board of Pension Examiners, hav¬ ing been a member of that board since 1869 ; and for eighteen years past has been surgeon for the trunk lines entering Alinneapolis. He joined the Masonic fraternity in 1891, and having risen through the preliminary degrees, is now a member of Zion Commanderj' in Min¬ neapolis. He has a high sense of honor, both professional and otherwise, is desei'vedly popular as a man, and universalty respected and esteemed as a pract¬ itioner. His kind heart and love of jus¬ tice, leads him to aid man^^ in a ciuiet way, even where the public least suspects it, so that he has hosts of friends among all classes.

Calvin Gibson Goodrich. Few men have lived and died in Alinneapolis or elsewhere, leaving behind them more reminiscences of kindly services done to their fellows than the subject of this sketch.

At the time of his death he was a phy¬ sician of large practice and wide experi¬ ence. In the line of his profession he had been brought into close and familiar contact with men and women of all classes in thecommunity ; and those who had been most closely identified with him in his professional and social life would be the first to bear testimony" to his essential worth as a Christian, his skill as a physician and his high charac¬ ter as a citizen.

Edmund Goodrich, his grandfather, was born in England, removing to this country and settling first in Conneeticut during the closing 3'ears of the last eentur^'. Later he moved to Amherst count}', Virginia, whei'e he became a farmer and tobaeco planter. Hei'e he acquired a competence and reared a large famih'. His son, John Bald\vin Goodrieh, the father of Dr. Goodrieh, became an eminent law^'er at 1 'etersburgh, in his native state.

Calvin Gibson Goodrich was born on the 11th day of Ma}', 1820. His father died in the prime of life and the widow removed with her large famih' to a farm near Winchester, in the State of Indiana, when Calvin was only six years old. Young Calvin took his turn at the labors of the farm, while his prudent mother looked to it that his evenings were given to stud}' and his Sabbaths to the strict observance of religious duties. Thus he grew to manhood, self-reliant, strong, intelligent and ambitious. An older brother had been elected eounty surveyor of the eounty of Randolph, and when young Calvin had fairly entered into the dignity of his teens, he was handed over to him for further instruction in the practical application of mathematical principles. Hei'e he remained for many years and became an expert in handling the chain, the ax and the transit - in short, one of the best practical surveyors in the state. Upon his brother's retire¬ ment, he was elected to the office, whieh position he held until he removed to Cin¬ cinnati to enter upon a course of study at the Medical College.

In 1845 hegraduated with honor and entered upon the practiceof his new pro¬ fession at Richmond, Indiana, where he I'emained three years, when he removed to Oxford, Ohio. In this ciuiet and dig¬ nified old college village he remained for twenty years. His skill as a surgeon and talent as a physician gave him the leading practice in that part of the state, and his fine sense of literary excellence made him a great favorite alike with professors and students of the Miami University, the Oxford College and the Western Female Seminary.

While practicing in Richmond, Dr. Goodrich was united in marriage to Miss Alary A. Wall. Three of the childi'en of this union are still living, to-wit: Beatriee, now the wife of Thomas Lowry, Nel¬ lie, now the 'widow of Volney S. Ireys, and C. G. Goodrich, vice president of the Alinneapolis Street Railway Company.

In 18G8 Dr. Goodrich removed with his family to Minneapolis. Here he opened an office and entered actively u])on the praetice of his profession, a few months later associating with him¬ self, Dr. H. H. Kimball. This firm of medical practitioners soon became one of the best known in the city. Dr. Good¬ rich had acquired a eompeteney before removing to the West. Upon his arrival here, he invested lai'gely in real estate, which, increasing in value rapidly, soon made him one of the wealthiest eitizens of the young and flourishing city.

In November, 1872, his faithful eompanion and the mother of his children passed away. She was a lady of strik¬ ing beauty of person, gentle manners and large eharities. Notwithstanding her l)rief life in their new home, Mrs Good¬ rieh left behind her here, a large circle of sincere friends to mourn her loss.

In 1875 Dr. Goodrieh married Airs. Harriet Dodman, of Worcester, Alass., who survives him - a lady of rare charm of person and refinement of manners, whose diseiplined mind and benevolent heart have made her a leader in the liter¬ ary and benevolent circles of the citv.

charitable and generous, he was at once the good citizen and model physician. But he was even more. The aged found in him a pleasant eompanion; the sick room grew elean and sanitary by his very presence ; the young and the weak loved him instinetively, for he was their friend and helper always.

In early life Dr. Goodrich adopted the faith of John Wesley, and at the time of his death was a member of the Cente¬ nary Church in this city. But his faith was of that larger kind that loved the entire raee and believed in a Deitt^ who by the very fact of having created men and women, assured them of His ever present guardianship and a love as last¬ ing as his own eternal being.

His business relations were always pleasant and his aftairs through life un¬ commonly successful. He used some of the faith in this life whieh smaller men are wont to expend entirely on the life to come. He believed in the manifest destiny of the human raee, and especially in the thrift, intelligence and energy of that portion of it whieh he knew the best and was in daily contact with.

He died March 20, 1880, at the age of sixty, and yet it seemed to all who knew him that the grim destroyer for oneehad struck a foul blow, and that Dr. Good- I'ich died too j^oung.

Isaac Daniel Alger, M. D. Dr. Al¬ ger has been engaged in medical practice for twenty-eight years of which eighteen years have been at Minneapolis, making him one of the veterans of the profession in the eity. Theson of a practicing phy¬ sician, with a good medical education, and ten years of experienee in a countr}' practice in his native state, he settled in

Minneapolis in the summer of 1874. Soon after he arrived he purchased a home at the eorner of University and Thirteenth avenue southeast, where he has ever sinee lived. Until 1885 his of¬ fice was on the west side, but sinee that time has been near his residence, and in close proximity to the State University. His praetiee has always been good, and has become quite large, and has always been satisfaetory. While he attends to calls of a miscellaneous character, his es¬ pecial forte is gynecology. He is of the regular school, and has given his almost exclusive attention to the exacting dut¬ ies of his ealling. This has left little time, and he has had no disposition to engage in diverse enterprises, but eontent to build up a fortune and acquire fame by the careful and conseientious attention to his patients. In both these respects he has been successful, enjoying the eonfidence of the eommunity, and the high esteem of those who seek his services. He indulges in no extravagancies, unless the ownership of a greater number and a better strain of horses, than a eity practiee employs, may be so regarded. Of his love for the horse, he makes no seeret, and if he did so, his turn-out would soon make the attempt futile.

Dr. Alger is of medium stature, slight eompact frame, light complexion, and mild and gentle manner. He seems en¬ dowed with the natural qualities which make one weleome in the siek room, and bring a soothing and gentle influenee. Soon after taking up his residence in Minneapolis, Dr. Alger returned to Ver¬ mont, and on the 10th of February, 1875, was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Josephine Whitney, only daughter of Mr. Edmund and Mrs. Esther Whit¬ ney, of Williston, Vermont. On his return his father and mother aceompanied him, and shared his home during the remain¬ der of their lives. The former died in

Dr. Alger's aeademic education was obtained at the Williston Academy. His medical education, commencing at the earliest period of consciousness, in an ac¬ tive practicing doctor's family, was com¬ pleted by a formal course of stud}" with his father, and two years course at Bur¬ lington, and a final term at Harvard College, where he received his degree in 1864. He commenced practice at Stowe, Lamoille County, Yt., remaining there four years, when he returned to his na¬ tive town, and entering into partnership with his father, carried on the work for six years.

Dr. Alger was born at Morristown, Vermont, March 16, 1844, but the fam¬ ily removing to Williston, Vt., when he vvas an infant, he was brought up in the latter town.

His father. Dr. Isaac Smith Alger, was a skillful physician, and a learned and religious man. He was a native of Straf¬ ford, Vt., born in 1802, though living through his active life at Stowe and Williston, Yt. His health failing he em¬ barked on a sea voyage, and followed the sea for five years, with the result of recovering his health, though suffering the peril of two shipwrecks. The mother of Dr. I. D. Alger was the widow of Daniel Robinson, whose maiden name was Priscella Churchill Lathrop, born May 22d, 1800, of Stowe, Vt. »

The name of Alger is not a common one. The first to bear it in this country was Andrew Alger, of Scarborough, Mass., a settler of 1651. In 1665 one of the inhabitants of Taunton, Mass., was Thomas Alger. Though the line of con¬ nection has been lost, it is probable that the Algers of Vermont are decendedfrom one of these colonists of Massachusetts. The family seems to ha.ve been of French origin, as the name was borne Iw a dis¬

Dr. Robert Strong McMurdy. Com¬ paratively few men in this world are contended with their lot. Indolent, in¬ competent or vicious persons are, of course, not referred to. but men of ability and prudence - men who have attained to what the world calls success - com¬ paratively few of these men I say are contented with the station in life they have reached. Prompted by inordinate ambitions and urged on byperconal and professional jealousies, most men are too busy to stop in their daily rush for wealth and preferment and enjoy the comforts past successes have already brought them. This condition leads to vast results perhaps, but what a relief, what a pleasure, how refreshing it is to meet a man who has time to enjoy life as he goes along, whose cheerful eountenance throws sunshine into every life about it, and who, though in his declin¬ ing years, is just in the prime of life. And with what added respect we greet this man, too, when his life work has been among the sick and unfortunate; not the place to inspire cheer, save the cheer that comes from having given relief from pain and despondency, according as knowledge and skill will permit. One of these beautiful inspiring characters is Dr. Robert Strong McMurd}', for nine¬ teen years known, respected and loved by Minneapolis.

He was born in Albany,* New York, July 17, 1824. He was the youngest of three brothers, the second having died when forty years old, while the oldest, Isaac McMurdy, is still living in Albany where he has been a goverment em])love in the Albany postoffice for more than fifty consecutive years. His father, Anthony AIcMurd}^, was steamboat cap¬ tain on the Hudson and was accidently killed when the doctor was about a year old. His mother, whose maiden name was Catherine McGourkey, was born in Albany where she lived and died at the age of seventy-three. She was a lady of great kindness and patience, doing all that a careful mother could for the wel¬ fare of her fatherless boys.

The doctor seems to have had, at a very early age, a definite notion as to what his life work would be. When a mere child an inquiiy as to his name would elecit the prompt rephq "Bob Strong, the doctor,'' "the doctor'' por¬ tion being his own addition, and so firm was this early decision that never for a moment did "the doctor'' ever hesitate as to his profession. The great advan¬ tage of such a decision will be more ap¬ parent when we remember that man\' prominent educators consider a college course well spent if, during that course, a definite decision as to life work is reached. Dr. McMurdy received his ed¬ ucation at the Albany Academy, and at a very early age began the studv^of med¬ icine with doctoi'S Wing and Boval. A doctor's apprentice was required to know a great deal in those days that is now not required. Every doctor was his own pharmacist, and the apprentice was expected to put up the prescrip¬ tions. The doctor's love for his chosen profession, his extreme carefulness and thorough reliabilitjMuade him a favorite with his precejDtors, and, although three or four other apprentices were stud3dng there at the same time,3mung McMurdy was alwa\"s expected to attend to pre¬ scriptions, much to the discomforture of himself (at certain times) as well as the other apprentices. He afterwards studied with Dr. James H. Armslw, professor of

Anatomy in the Albany Medical College (now the rnedical department of Union Universitj^) and later he took the full course at that institution, being ready to graduate in ISiS, but could not get his diploma, being only nineteen j'ears of age. He was ver\' mature, however, his ajDpearance indicating a man of full age; and having complied with all the require¬ ments of the law entitling him to prac¬ tice, except being twenty-one j'^ears old, he went to portage county, Ohio, and began the practice of medicine in part¬ nership with Dr. James Cromwell, who had been a fellow student in the office of doctors Wing and Bojal several years before. Although they had studied to¬ gether, Dr. Cromwell was much older than Dr. McMttrd3' ; yet they had formed a strong attachment for each other, and when Dr. Ci'omwell left for the West to begin practice he urged Dr. McMurdy to join him as soon as he should have finished his studies. Ohio in those da3's was "out West,'' and it took a long, tedious journe3" to cover the six hundred miles that intervened. Obtaining the consent of his mother he started for his new field, accompanied b3^ James A. Brown, also a fellow stndent. They took the stage coach to Schenectad3q beating the railroad train, which, it ma3^ be observed, differed somewhat from the trains of to-day. The cars in use were quite similar to the open cars now used in Summer on street railwa3's, the con¬ ductor swinging along the outside on the step at the side, running the full length of the car. The journe3" was com¬ pleted b3" canal, lake, rail and stage, and the firm of McMurdv' & Cromwell con¬ tinued in practice till 1846, at which time the junior partner retuimed to Alban3' Medical College to receive his diploma. Having now complied with all the requirements of law entitling him to practice in the state, he went to Sch-

In 1 847 he married Miss Esther Eliza Leverich,who died leaving one son, Rob¬ ert C., who now lives in Aitkin, Minn. The doctor was married again in 1873, to Miss Mary E. Pease, daughter of Erastus H. Pease, of Albany, N. Y. They have two children, Katherine E. and Erastus Charles, who live with their parents at their pleasant home on Third avenue S.

In 1853 Ur. McMurdy removed to Al¬ bany and began ijractice in his native city. His business there was entirely satisfactory and he continued in the en¬ joyment of a well established and agree¬ able practice for nearly 20 years, and might have continued much longer but for a flying visit to Alinneapolis in 1873. Although it was winter time, the doctor was completeh" captivated b\" the city, and resolved to come back at once and establish himself here in his practice, which he did, being ready for business by March 1, of the same year; and dur¬ ing the whole of the 19 years of his resi¬ dence here, he has never regretted his coming for an hour. In fact the doctor is an enthusiast over the rare beauties and wonderful development of his adopted city; and it is a great pleasui'e to sit down and hear him recount in his pleasant, entertaining way, some of the changes that have taken place since his coming. He lived opposite where the West Hotel now stands for a good while, and that was then considered "pretty far out." Although he has now been practicing for fifty years, he still contin¬ ues in the enjoyment of alargeand luerative practice, much to the delight of his numerous patients. He has never made a specialty of any part of medicine, being thoroughly fitted, capable and experi¬ enced in all ; yet if he exeels in any line it is in obstetrical cases, while he cares least of all for surgery'- Notwithstand¬ ing the fact that Dr. AIcMurdy was wending his way "out west" to Ohio before Dr. Hannibal Hamlin Kimball was named, yet circumstances finally brought them together, and for almost twenty years thev have been "like brothers," having many points in com¬ mon, and each a great admirer of the other. Dr. McMurdv has usuallv pre¬ ferred to practice alone, and for over seven years has occupied his present com¬ modious and pleasant {juarters in the Collom Block.

Personally Dr. McMurdy is a rather modest, kind-hearted, whole-souled man of medium size and graceful bearing, with grey hair and small side whiskers, a pleasant, confiding face, gentle manner and bright, cheerful eyes that give every one such a cordial welcome that it is a pleasure to come into his presence. He is the ver3" embodiment of honor, and his word is as sacred as his life. His credit is unlimited, and he enjoys the confidence and respect of both practi¬ tioners and people. He does not enter much into societ}', but is a favorite wherever he goes. He is fond of studA', but recognizes that in his jirofession ex¬ perience is often in advance of published works. He never writes for medical journals, but is a careful reader of them. He enjox's a stoiy with the best, \'et has withal that cpiiet dignitN^ that bespeaks him a man of culture. Before coming to Alinneapolis he was a member of the Alban}' County Aledical Societ3', and is now a member of the Hennepin Countv Medical Societ\% the Alinnesota State Medical Societ\', and the American Med¬ ical Association. He is also censor of the state society and consulting plu'sician to the .\sburv Methodist Hos])ital.

Harmony, now included within the city limits of Minneapolis. His father, Jas. A. Dunsmoor, came to St. Anthony in 1852 from Farmington, Me., where he had been a man of prominence, representing his district in the legislature and dis¬ charging other offices of trust and honor. Failing health brought him to St. Anth¬ ony, where he took a new lease of life, and spent the next twenty years on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Minne¬ apolis, from which he finally removed with his family to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1873, where he soon after died. He was one of the early settlers of Hennepin County, a man of unusual enterprise and high standing in his town and eounty.

Jas. A. Dunsmoor was married June 4th, 1837, to Almira Mosher, of Temple, Me., who still survives him in Los Ange¬ les, Cal. Of their family of eight children six sons grew up to manhood; Frederick Alanson, the youngest but one of these reeeived his education at the public schools of Richfield and Minneapolis, and later, at the State University. At the age of sixteen he taught sehool for one term; then, following the strong bent of his own inclinations, he began to read med¬ icine in .the office of Drs. Goodrich and Kimball, going later toNew York, where he took the full course of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of the yeai's 1873, '74, '75, taking his degree of M.D. in March, 1875. During these years he also received private instruction in sur¬ gery, from Dr. Frank H. Hamilton; in diseases of the chest, from Drs. Loomis and Flint; in pathology, from Dr. E. G. Janeway, and in chemistry, from Dr. R. Ogden Doremus. After graduation he visited his family, now removed to Cali¬ fornia, where his brothers warmly urged him to locate, making most generous and attractive offers of material aid in purchasing or establishing a practice; but his preference was for Minneapolis, and returning to this eity he entered into a partnership with Dr. H. H. Kimball, which was dissolved in 1877, when Dr. Dunsmoor established himself in the rooms at No. 8 Washington avenue south, which he has oceupied ever since.

In 1876 he was married to Elizabeth Emma Billings Turner, daughter of the late Surgeon Geo. F.Turner, U. S. A. Mrs. Dunsmoor comes of good pioneer blood. Her father. Surgeon Turner - a lineal de¬ scendant of the famous Puritan, Capt. Miles Standish - was stationed at Ft. Snellingin 1846, when all this region was a vast "happy hunting ground,'' and was the contemporary and beloved friend of such pioneers as Gov. H. H. Sibley, Gen. R.W. Johnson, Franklin Steele, Father Geer, Rev. Dr. Williamson, and others. Seven children have been born to them , of whom but three are now living - Mar¬ jorie Allport, Elizabeth Turner, and one son, Frederick Laton.

The passing years have dealt lightly with the Doetor, though they have rip¬ ened his iDowers and heaped responsibili¬ ties upon him. In surgery he ranks de¬ servedly high. It has been his master passion from boyhood, as was evineed by his disseetion, even in early school¬ boy days, of all the available material in the shape of small animals to be found about his father's farm. As an operator, he is bold, rapid and skillful, with a firm¬ ness and precision of touch which seem intuitive to him. His enthusiastic love for his profession keeps him abreast of every advance, both in the praetice of surgery, and in the invention and im¬ provement of insti'uments and appli¬ ances. Flying visits to the great medi¬ cal centers put him in touch with the leading surgeons of the day, and he is well-known and highly rated outside of the limits of his own field, being sum¬ moned to attend cases in Chicago, New York, Montana, Washington, California,

In actual practice he ranks especially high as a gynecologist, having repeatedly performed most successfully all of the major operations, such as are but rarely attempted outside of our larger cities; perhaps his most remarkable record has been made in abdominal hysterectomies.

As an instructor he is also in demand. His first experience in this line was in connection with the St. Paul Medical School, as professor of genito urinary diseases in 1878, after which he held the chair of surgery in the St. Pavd Medical College and in the medical department of Hamline University, which position he resigned in 1881 to devote himself to the organization of the Minnesota College Hospital as an elaboration of his theoi'y of the importance of giving prominence to clinical over didactic in¬ struction. He purchased Macalester College, formerly the Winslow House, and by untiring effort succeeded in inter¬ esting others in the project, and the Minnesota College Hospital was inaug¬ urated under the management of a Board of Directors consisting of Mr. Thomas Lowry, president; Dr. F. A. Dunsmoor, vice-president and Dean; Dr. Geo. F. French, secretary; Dr. A. W. Abbott, ti'easurer, and Dr. C. H. Hunter.

The history of the Minnesota College Hospital, afterwards the Minnesota Hospital College, will be found in greater detail under its appropriate heading on page 866. It is enough in this connec¬ tion to say that during all these 3'ears, Dr. Dunsmoor was the enthusiastic and devoted organizer, the moving spirit and the main-sta^' of the institution, serving throughout the whole period, both in the College Hospital and the Hospital College, as vice-president and dean of the medical facult}', as professor of surgery, and as surgeon to the dispensary as well as attending surgeon, until the establish¬ ment of the medical department of the State lJniversit\', when he accepted the chair of operative and clinical surger\' in that institution, which he still holds.

But the doctor was born an organ¬ izer, and as such, can onW know rest in action. Befoi'e the building on the cor¬ ner of Ninth avenue south and Sixth street was vacated, bj' the removal of the medical department of the University to the new buildings prepared for it on the campus, he had thrown himself heartily into the work of organizing the Asburv Methodist Hospital, which succeeded it.

In addition to his duties as an in¬ structor and his labors as an organizer. Dr. Dunsmoor has for 3'ears been in ac¬ tive service as surgeon to St. Mar3''sand St. Barnabas' Hospitals, as he is also to several of our more important R. R. lines, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, the Northern Pacific, the Kansas City, the St. Paul & Duhith, the Chicago, Burlington & Northern, etc., as well as for some thirt3' or more milling and insurance companies. In 1879 he served for one 3'ear as countv and city ph3^sician.

The Doctor is a member of the Inter¬ national Medical Congress, the American Medical Association, the National Asso¬ ciation ofR. R. Surgeons, the Minnesota State Medical Association, the Hennepin County Medical Society, and a charter member of the Minnesota Acadenu' of Medicine, and the Society of Phvsicians and Surgeons of Minneapolis, as well as of the Medical Greek Letter Societ3', known as the Nu Sigma Nu.

Dr. Dunsmoor keeps his libraiw well stocked with all the latest works on his specialties, and takes all the leading med¬ ical magazines and papers. Withal, being a man3'-sided man, he finds time to indulge himself in his love for music and art. He is president of one musical society and a memlDer of a number of others, whilst his taste for fine ])aintings, etchings and water-colors, and the lavishness with which he delights to gratify it, are well known to all his friends.

A warm-hearted, coinpanionableinan, he loves to meet with men in every walk and does not restrict his affiliations to the medical profession. He is a Mason, a Druid, a Good Templar, etc., and an active member of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Chui'ch, where he has served for years on the official board. In habits he has always been a total abstainer from the use of lic|uor and tobacco, and in his manner of life thoroughly domes¬ tic, being never happier than when he can gather a congenial group of friends about him in his elegant hospitable home on Tenth street and devote a few half hours to social intercourse and music.

Dr. James H. Dunn. Though not a very old resident of Minneapolis, Dr. James H. Dunn is recognized not only in the city but throughout the state and the Northwest as one of her representa¬ tive and popular medical men. Dr. Dunn was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., May 29, 1853. In 1856 his father I'emoved to Winona county and engaged in farming. There two years later he lost his life by drowning, and the son was given a home in the family of Mr. Jesse Wheeler, a pio¬ neer farmer of that county. On the death of that gentleman in 1868, at the age of fifteen young Dunn was thrown entirely upon his own resources, and de¬ cided to prepare himself for the i^rofession of teaching. Up to this time hehad, like other farmer's sons, attended the district schools regularly during the win¬ ter and occasionally during the summer terms. In 1869 he entered the First State Normal School at Winona, gradu¬ ating with honors in 1872, having dur¬ ing the three and a half years suppoi'ted himself by teaching during his vacations. The two years following were spent as principal of the public schools at Alexan¬ dria and Sauk Centre, Minn., respective¬ ly. While investigating the subject of school hygiene, Mr. Dunn concluded to take a full medical course, the better to prepare him for the profession of teach¬ ing, and in 1875 entered the medical de¬ partment of the Ibiiversity of New York City, graduating in 1878. While at the university his vacations were spent in giving lectures on physiology and hy¬ giene before the Minnesota State Teach¬ er's Institutes in various counties of this state at the request of State Superinten¬ dents Wilson and Burt. While studying medicine he was offered the position of instructor in the natural sciences at the Second Normal School at Mankato, but refused to accept. After graduation the position becoming again vacant was ac¬ cepted and filled by Dr. Dunn until 1880, when the remunerations of teaching not proving satisfactory he decided to resign and change his vocation. He began his Xmactice at Shakoj^ee, in Scott County, where he soon had a large and laborious Xmactice extending over Seott and Car¬ ver counties within a radius of 25 and 30 miles of Shakox^ee. The x^ox^ulation of these counties is largely German, andthe doetor found many ox^pof tunities to fa¬ miliarize himself with the German lan¬ guage during the two and a half years he remained there.

In 1883 Dr. Dunn went to Germany to take a two years' course in x^ostgraduate work. The first 3'ear was spent in Vienna, probably the best clinic for skin diseases in the world. His year at Vienna was devoted to the study of skin diseases and surgery, and the fol¬ lowing 3'ear he went to Heidelberg where he studied pathology exclusively in the laboi'atory of Prof. Arnold. On his return from Europe in the spring of 1885, Dr. Dunn located in Minneapolis where he has since remained, having won the confidence and respect of both laymen and practitioners. Shortly after locating in Minneapolis he was given a professorship in the old College Hospit¬ al, and when the medical department of the University of Minnesota was estab¬ lished, he was elected to the chair of genito-urinaiw diseases, which position he still holds. He is one of the surgeons of St. Mary's Hospital, and president of the medical staff of that institution ; also one of the surgeons to the Asbuiw Meth¬ odist Hospital. He was Minnesota's delegate to the International Medical Congress at Copenhagen in 1884, and president of the Minnesota State Medi¬ cal Society during 1889. He was cit}' ])hysician from 1887 to 1889. It was during his administration that the City Hospital was established, and while he favored the scheme of believing the cit3' physician should attend the sick rather than go about directing who should be attended, j^et he stoutly protested against the use of hazardous and unhealtlw quarters for such a hospital.

When the storm swept so disastrously over St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids districts a few years ago, Minneapolis responded generoushq and Dr. Dunn, by order of Mayor Ames, was put in charge of affairs at Sauk Rapids where he staid for five weeks dispersing the gifts of our citi¬ zens and caring for the sufferers, and when he broke camp to come awa\' he brought the unrecovered injured along and continued to care for them.

In politics Dr. Dunn is a Democrat, though not a strong partisan, believing that policy not party should be consid¬ ered in local affairs. He is a hard stu¬ dent and a contributor to surgical and medical journals. He is one of the best known physicians among the i)rofession in the slate, as is shown Iwthe positions of honor and trust that the3' have given him. He has no liking for politics and is averse to society, preferring rather the privacy of his home and stud3' and the acquaintance of men of his craft. As a bo3' he was ver3" timid and bashful, but a good student; as a man he is modest and unassuming, having a great devo¬ tion to his profession. In practice his tastes are toward surgeiw, where he has been eminenth' successful as well as in general practice.

In 1885 Dr. Dunn was married to Miss Agnes Macdonald, daughter of Hon. John L. Macdonald, of St. Paul. As a practitioner he is one of the most prominent, having a large and lucrative practice and the respect and confidence of his fellow practitioners. In the pro¬ fessor's chair he is quite at home, and is a special favorite with the students. The doctor is credited with being very "level headed,'' and the sa3dng is current among both facult3' and students that when Dr. Dunn has an3'thing to sa3^ it is worth hearing.

Dr. Edwin Phillips was born Octo¬ ber 19, 1833, in Tinmouth, Rutland Count3', Vermont. He remained in his native town, working on a farm sum¬ mers and teaching winters, until he was twent3"-two years of age. At this time he went to Oberlin, Ohio, and entered the preparator3' department of Oberlin College, where he remained three years. He then went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and entered the medical department of the Michigan Universit3', graduating in medicine in the class of 18()1.

He then returned to his native state, and in the following September, (1801) when the Sixth Vermont Volunteers was organized, he enlisted in that regiment as a private.

assistant surgeon of the Fourth Vermont volunteers. October 28, 1863, he was promoted to surgeon of the Sixth Ver¬ mont volunteers, and held that position until the regiment was mustered out of the service in July, 1865.

The following Fall Dr. Phillips went to New York City and entered the col¬ lege of Ph\'-sicians and Surgeons, gradu¬ ating in the class of 1866. He then lo¬ cated in Fort Edward, New York. He practiced there for three years, and in 1869 removed to Minneapolis where he has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession, enjoying a large patronage. His kindness ot heart and benevolence are well known, and he has devoted much time to hospital service and among the poor without hope or expectation of pecuniary com¬ pensation.

Dr. Phillips has been in no sense a politician, but is a man of wide reading and keeps himself well posted on the leading political questions and issues of the day. From his early education and associations, his sympathies and affini¬ ties were with the Republican party, or perhaps more properly speaking with the Abolition party, the radical element of the Republican party, and which he supported so long as it remained a dis¬ tinct organization. In 1872, in common with many others entertaining the same political views, he supported Greeley for the presidency . Since then he has thrown himself heart and soul into the Prohibi¬ tion party and movement, and has been one of its most steadfast and staunchest supporters for many years.

Those who know Dr. Phillips ai'e cer¬ tain that his iDolitical views and action are never surveyed by motives of either personal or party^ policy, but are in¬ spired and governed solely by the con¬ viction that the ends at which he aims, if reached, will result in the greatest good for the greatest number. However much one may differ from him on these questions, it is impossible not to admire his sincerity and the ability and earnest¬ ness with which he sustains his posi¬ tions. He has the courage of his convic¬ tions, and be they popular or otherwise he manfully- stands by them. In these daj^s when pai'ty trimmers and time and man-service are so numerous, it is re¬ freshing to find a man based firmly on what he believes to be right principles, and let consequences take care of them¬ selves.

Charles Henry Hunter, M. D. The life of a physician and surgeon, accom¬ plished though it may be in general learn¬ ing, complete in all scientific attainmen ts and skillful in practice, in proportion as it is confined within the lines of profes¬ sional labor, presents few points to arrest the attention of the general reader, or to employ- the pen of the biographer. The lawyer exerts his most brilliant powers before the public in cases which attract public attention ; the clergyman appears weekly before a listening and apprecia¬ tive congregation, where he enforces duty and illustrates truth with the em¬ bellishment of learning and eloquence ; the politician in the senate house or on the platform, sways his auditors by dis¬ cussion of high themes of statesmanship; while the faithful and conscientious ph3^sician, though endowed with learn¬ ing which woidd instruct, and graces of speech and manner which might enthral a popidar assembly, passes from house to house, and amid the gloom and hush of the chamber of sickness, in pidvac^- and seclusion, applies the I'esidts ofstiuUand the momentous decisions of judg¬ ment to the relief of pain, and the rally-- ing of the disordered functions of human life. If he ventures beyond the pale of professional life he oftener becomes known to the public through the pen than by personal contact with men. The bent of his thoughts leads him to scientific investigation, though some¬ times he gives loose rein to fancj^ and imagination, giving the world tales like " Elsie Venner," dialogue flashing with humor and pathos like the " Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," or from the heights of Parnassus throws to the winds verses flashing with scintillations of wit and wisdom like the '' One Horse Sha}'."

A professional career of ten years has brought to the front of the medical facrdtv in Minneapolis a young man, en¬ dowed with all accomplishments which liberal learning and scientific training can bestow, with an enthusiasm for pro¬ fessional work, and an undivided atten¬ tion to its laborious detail, which leaves no time to gather laurels in other fields.

Dr. Charles H. Hunter was born at Clinton, Kennebec Count\", Maine, I'ebruary 6th, 1853. His father. Geo. H. Hunter, was a merchant. He passed through the studies preparatory to en¬ tering college at the Maine Central Insti¬ tute at Pittsfield, and entered the fresh¬ man class of Bowdoin College in 1870. Passing through the course offouryears study he graduated in coui'se in 1874. In college he affiliated with the Delta Kappa lipsilon fraternity. After graduation he was for two years principal of the Lim¬ erick Academy. He now took up pi'ofessional study, at first in the Portland School of Medical Instruction, then in the Medical School of Maine, and finally in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, from which institution he graduated and received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1878.

On the ninth of February, in the same 3'car, Dr. Hunter was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Orr Stone, daughter of Colonel Alfred J. Stone, of Brunswick, Maine. On her mother's side Mrs.

Hunter is descended from John Orr, of ScotchTrish ancestiw, who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1726, set¬ tling in Bedford, N. H. His son, John Orr, was a lieutenant under Gen. Stark, of Revolutionary fame, and in the battle of Bennington, Vermont, he was wounded so serioush" as to be crippled for life. He was fornian^w'ears a representative and senator in the New Hampshire legisla¬ ture, also State counsellor, and served for twenty' 3-ears as justice of the peace. One of his daughters married Samuel Chandler, from whom descended the Honorable Zackaidah Chandler, the dis¬ tinguished senator from Alichigan. One of Lieut. Orr's sons, the Honorable Ben¬ jamin Orr, grandfather of Mrs. Hxmter, was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and b3' profession a law3'er. ''He was one of the most brilliant and successfid advocates in the State." Uponhisdeath, Chief Justice Mellen, in addressing the grand jur3-, said ''he had longstood confessedl3' at the head of the profession in our State; he had distinguished him¬ self b3^ the power of his intellect, the commanding energ3- of his reasoning, the uncompromising firmness of his prin¬ ciples, and the dignitv and loft3- sense of honor, truth and justice which he uniformh- displa3-ed in his professional career and in the walks of jmivate life."

The wife of the Hon. Benjamin Orr was Miss Elizabeth Tappan, who was of the fourth generation in descent from Rev. John Robinson, the Ltwden pilgrim and venerated ])astor of PD-mouth church before its migration.

Mrs. Hunter is an accom|3lishcd ladv, justh' ])roud of her honorable and heroic ancestrv, and in Minneapolis lends to the home of her husband the charm which an educated mind, an attractive person, and a refined and gentle manner, confer.

for practice, but remained only a 3^ear. He felt that a higher medical training could be obtained in the old world, and taking his wife, went abroad, studying in the most celebrated surgical and med¬ ical schools of England and the conti¬ nent, and devoting intervals of leisure to travel. Three years were spent in this pleasing and profitable stud}^ and travel, during which he heard lectures at the Universities of Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Lon¬ don and Strassburg, and attended the clinies where surgical science was demon¬ strated by the most eminent surgeons of the world.

On his return to America Dr. Hunter settled in Minneapolis. This was in 1882. He opened an office, to which his splendid preparation and winning man¬ ner, soon brought an abundance of pat¬ ronage. His practice has been a general one, both in medicine and surgery, and has become so engrossing as to leave him little time for the social and athletic life in which he delights.

Dr. Hunter was connected with the teaching force of the Minneapolis Hos¬ pital College, of which he was one of the founders, and upon its identifieation with the State University, became professor of the theory and practice of medieine in the College of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Minnesota. He is con¬ sulting surgeon of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital of Hudson, Wis., and on the active staff of St. Anthony Hospi¬ tal of Minneapolis, as well as consulting surgeon of the Northwestern and Asbuii^ Hospitals.

With him originated the idea of found¬ ing the Academy of Medicine, a soeiet3' composed of a limited number of physi¬ cians from the twin cities, and the most suecessful organization of its kind in the Northwest. He is also a member of the Hennepin County Medical Society, and.

The pleasant home of Dr. and Mrs. Hunter is at the corner of Second avenue and Ninth street south. Their famih^ consists of two children, a son,DeKoven, and a daughter, Margaret. Dr. Hunter's interest in his alma mater led to the assembling at his residence in Februaiy, 1884, of the local alumni, who formed a Western Alumni Association of Bowdoin College. He has also affiliation with the Alasonic fratei'nity, and at one time was a member and director of the Long- Meadow Gun Chdj. He is an enthu¬ siastic sportsman, and when he is able to steal a day or two from professional engagements delights to follow his dogs through field and forest, gaining sport and I'ecreation in the air untainted with the odor of drugs, and free from the ex¬ halations of the hospital ward. But these holida3'S are few, for the urgenc3" of the lectureroom and thehospital soon reclaim his time and thought to the stem pursuits of professional life.

Dr. James E. Moore. It is an un¬ common thing for a young man to have definiteh' in mind the exact line of work in which he wishes to devote his life, and having it, push on toward that end re¬ gardless of manv obstaeles that seem to thrust themselves in the way. When we find a man who has done this thing and has reached his goal, we instinctivelvfeel an interest in him, and wish to kno^v something of his life. Such a man is Dr. James E. Moore, of Minneapolis. He was born in Clarksville, Mercer Count3^ Pa., March 2, 1852. His father. Rev. Geo. W. Moore, was a Methodist min¬ ister of sterling qualities and a member of the Erie conference for thirt3' 3"ears. Although he never attended school but nine months in his life. Rev. Geo. W.

Moore b\^ dint of energy and strength of eharaeter, pushed on to a prominent sta¬ tion in middle life where he took an aetive and nsefnl part in all philanthropic cpiestions, until a few years ago when he retired from the pulpit and is now living in Minneapolis. The doctor's mother comes from the old German family of Zeiglers. She was born in Pennsylvania and her people, like all the rest of the doctor's relation, save his father, were Pennst'lvaniafarmers. Her father, Jacob Zeigler, was one of the famous " Grey¬ beards " of Iowa.

Dr. Moore had good opportunities for eai'ly education, attending the public school nine months each year till he was fifteen 3'ears old. He then w'ent to Poland, Ohio, where he remained three years. The following year was spent in teaching and stud3dng medicine, assisted b\' medical friends. The next \'ear, 1871-2, he studied in the medical de¬ partment at Ann Arbor. During vaca¬ tions Dr. Moore was always engaged in some sort of industry - in the rolling mill, on the farm, at the furnace, selling books and sewing machines, or in some wa\' keeping bust' ; not that he had to, for his parents were indulgent and able to help him, but the\' believed it best for the bo3" to be kept bus3". His second course in medicine was taken at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York Cit3', from which institution he gradu¬ ated in 1873, at 21 3'ears of age. The one thing ujipermost in Dr. Aloore's mind during all his course of stud3', had been the desire to become an efficient and skillful surgeon; so his first field for prac¬ tical operations was chosen with view of finding some work in that line. Upon graduation he went to Ft. \Va3'nc, Ind., where he remained two and a half 3'ears, establishing a living ])raeticc, though the result as a whole was discouraging. His practice had been chiefly among rail¬ road emplo3'es, and the panic of 1875 coming on, they were unable to pa3' their bills. This, therefore, seemed to be a good opportnnit3'forfurtherstud3',so the doc¬ tor went to New York Cit3', wherd he spent seven busy months studying in the colleges and hospitals. This was really the most valuable studv .le had taken, and was, in fact, the entrance upon a higher jiractice, the beginning, as it wei'e, of the realization of the hope he had cherished so long. While at Ft. Wa3me, Dr. Moore was married, in 1874, to Aliss Bessie Applegate, of Pittsburgh, Penn. They had been schoolmates at Poland Seniinar3', and afterward Miss Applegate attended the Conservatoiw of Music at Oberlin, where she was widely known among amateurs as the possessor of an exceptionally sweet and strong sojmano voice.

When Dr. Moore left New York to re¬ turn to Ft. Wayne, he stopped to visit his father at Emlenton, Pa. The ])anic had not been felt in the oil regions, and the doctor thought a location in his na¬ tive state might be an iinjirovement over the one he had made; so when an offer of partnership was made Iw Dr. B. 1'. Ham¬ ilton, a nephew of the late FTank Hast¬ ings Hamilton, and himself the most re¬ nowned practitioner in that section, it was gladh' accepted. This region was partieularh' favorable to surgeiw, and the new firm soon bnilt up a flourishing and profitable business, which remained undiminished during the partnershij) of three 3'ears duration, and diiring the fol¬ lowing three and a half 3'ears that the doctor practiced alone he had his full share of the business. Dr. Moore is an enthusiast in his profession, however, and never for a moment thought of stop¬ ping short of whatever possibilities might be in store for him; sohefaithfullv continued his studies, rei)eatcdl3' going to the hospitals in New York and Phila- delphia, fitting himself for this special work in larger and more agreeable fields. While living at Emlenton, Airs. Aloore died, in Januai'y, 1882.

When Dr. Alooi'e came to Alinneapolis in August, 1882, he knew only one man in the city and he was a stranger here. The doctor opened an office on Nicollet avenue, where he remained just a week, at the end of which time he was offered a partnership by Dr. Ames, which he ac¬ cepted. Dr. Ames was at that time prominent in politics and had a large practice, chiefly in surgery, and being en¬ gaged in his congressional campaign, he could not attend to his practice ; thus a good opportunity was offered to Dr. Aloore which he used to good advant¬ age; and although the two doctors differ as widelj" in their personal tastes and habits as is possible for two men in the same profession, still, during the four years that their partnership continued, their relations with each other were entireW amicable and satisfactor^^ In 1886 Dr. Aloore went to Europe, study¬ ing in some of the best hospitals on the continent and in London. In Berlin he was a close attendant upon Dr. Von Bergman's clinic. While in London he studied at the Ro3ml Orthoepaedic Hos¬ pital, and was shown special favors by Sir Richard Barwell, at Charing Cross Hospital. Besides this stud}^ abroad. Dr. Aloore has made yearly visits to the hospitals in New York and Philadelphia, taking special instruction from the great masters in surgery, and particularh" in Orthoepaedic surger}" at the New Y''ork Orthoepaedic Hospital. Soon after his return from Europe he discontinued his general practice, and since the Fall of 1888 he has confined himself exclusiveh'- to surgerj', being the first practitioner in the northwest to confine himself to that specialty. His success in this line has been very gratifying indeed. He has performed, successfully, almost ever^'^ operation known to surgery', save those of ear and eye. The sa3''ing goes at the Northwestern Hospital that "Aloore's patients never die," and it seems some¬ times almost literally true, for he has never lost but one patient at that insti¬ tution as the result of an operation. The doctor has probably done as much as an3" other man to make Alinneapolis the medical center of this portion of the countr3'. His patients coming from all over the state and from the whole north¬ west, from Illinois to Alontana ; yet he is never too bus3'- to attend to his little poverty stricken cripples. One example will serve to illustrate how much dearer the doctor loves humankind and his pro¬ fession, than he does the money obtained by his practice. A penniless bo3" with a twisted and helpless leg came hobbling to him on crutches. Dr. Aloore cured him, kept him two years in his own house, had him taught to paint signs, and to-day, the boy with no thought of crutch, walks the street and earns his living at his trade. One or two of his class are always receiving the kind at¬ tention and care of Dr. Aloore. The doc¬ tor's kind heart makes him a liberal giver, and the amount he disioenses in charity no one can tell. He is never known to refuse when asked, and no solicitor fails to see him, yet all is done in a c[uiet way, far from show. In exam¬ ining the afflicted, too, and especially children, he handles them more kindly than surgeons generall3' do, yet there is no flinching or hesitation when he comes to the operation. It is this same kindl3^ spirit that makes the doctor so fond of the domestic animals, fine horses and the canine being especial favorites.

Dr. Aloore is excessively fond of his profession, and what time he is not prac¬ ticing, he is either thinking or reading about it. His evenings are thus all taken up in study at his home, and no time is left for society. He is a constant corre¬ spondent of medical journals, both East and West, and never had an article re¬ jected. His wife takes great interest in his work, is a keen critic, and, although in ver}' jjoor health, she aids him greatly in his literar}'^ work.

In 1885, Dr. Moore was elected pro¬ fessor of Orthoepcedic Surgery' in the old College Hospital. He held the same po¬ sition in the St. Paul Medical College during its school career, and now holds a like position in the medical department in the Universit}' of Alinnesota, He per¬ forms operations everj^ week before the class at St. Barnabas Hospital, being surgeon for that institution. He is also consulting surgeon for the Northwestern Hospital, and Orthoepaedic surgeon for St. Mar\^'s and the Asbur}^ Alethodist Hospitals. He takes great interest in his work at the Northwestern, and has helped that institution in many wa3's. He is an active member in the Hennepin Count\' Medical Societ}', in the Minne¬ sota Acadenn' of Science, in the Alinnesota State Medical SocieH^ havingtwice been its vice-president. He is also a member of the American Orthoepaedic Association, and of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons. He has manv acquaintances among the plu'sicians and surgeons in New York, and through his articles on orthoepaedies, etc., is prett\' well known abroad. He is held in high esteem b\' practitioners, and becomes greath' endeared to all his patients. His practice is becoming more lucrative, and he is now in the enjo^'- ment of his long wished for desire - de¬ voting all his time to surgeiw, with no anxiet}' as to the material result.

As a man. Dr. Moore is kind and con¬ siderate, modest and unassuming ; rather below the medium size, and dark-com¬ plexioned. Although a strict moralist and a "teetotaler," he is not a regular church goer. He is far from being a "club man ; " his aspirations in that line stopping with Master Alason. He has no taste forpolitics,butvotesthe Repub¬ lican ticket.

In 1884 he was married to Aliss Clara Collins, of Pittsburgh, a cousin to his first wife, and a woman endowed with all the noble gifts common to her sex. She died the following j^earat the famiW residence on Park avenue, in this city, leaving a little girl, who is still living, and is the doctor's onH child. In 1887, Dr. Moore was married, for the third time, to Miss Louise Irving, also a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. Airs. Aloore is a very pleasant and attractive lad3q and almost as enthusiastic over the doctor's profession as he is himself. Their home life, at the West Hotel, is quiet and un¬ eventful, the doctor always spending his evenings at home with his books and journals.

Floyd S. Muckey, AI. I)., though a young man in 3'ears, is one of the oldest inhabitants of the state, and a pioneerin more than the usual acceptation of that term, being a pioneer as a speciedist in his branch of medicine and in birth.

He was born at Owatona, Steele Co., Alinn., Februar3' 5, 1858, and is, there¬ fore, the same age of the state, which was admitted to the Union in that year. At the time of the Indian massacre in 1862, he was not old enough to appre¬ ciate the gravit3' of the situation, but can remember the consternation which startled the communit3' into ])reparations for flight. While he attended the disti'ict schools in his earliest 3'ears, the aborigines still had possession of a large part of the state, and hunted and fished and scalped the enemies in time Indian fashion, in the trackless regions of North¬ ern Alinnesota.

Minneapolis was then no more 'than a village, with all its potentialities still hidden in the unknown future. Dr. Muekey's parents eame to Minnesota in 1854, from Wiseonsin. His father was originally from New York, and his mother from Vermont. As already hint¬ ed, Dr. Muekey's education was begun in the district .school of his native place. He early showed that quick perception of the true relation of things, that ready absorbtion of knowledge, which have been characteristic throughout his life. When old enough to think for himself, the doctor resolved to devote himself to the pursuit of knowledge, and at an early age determined upon a medical career. There were alluring prospects for money making in those days, but he followed out his original intentions with¬ out looking to the right or to the left, and with gratifying result.

From the common schools the doctor went to the normal schools at Winona and Whitewater, Wisconsin. When he had graduated from these institutions, he taught one term in a district school and four terms in the graded schools at Owatona and Faribault. He then took a course in the State Universit3^ of Min¬ nesota, after which he attended the Mc¬ Gill Medical College of Montreal, from which he was graduated in 1883, after a full course of four years, standing well towards the head of his class.

The next spring Doctor Muckey took special medical courses in Philadelphia and New York, spending a year in this manner. He came to Minneapolis in July, 1885, and has practiced here since that time.

in Minneapolis, and has been very suc¬ cessful in that branch of practice. He was recently elected an honorary mem¬ ber of the (U. S.) Hay-Fever Association, which embraces many of the leading physicians in the country. Dr. Muckey has frequently contributed scientific es¬ says to the manual published b^- that organization, which have attracted much attention among the medical fraternity. The doctor has been twice married. The first time in 1882, while still a student at McGill College, Montreal, to Miss Azelie Bastien, of that city, after a short but happy wedded life she died in 1884. His second marriage took place in Min¬ neapolis on November 1, 1886. His wife's maiden name was Miss Annette L. Bruce, of this city. He has no chil¬ dren. Dr. Muckey is a lover of music and has a thorough knowledge of that art. He is a member of the Westminster church choir. During the summer he lives at Maggiore Heights on the upper end of Lake Minnetonka, where he has a beautiful cottage and a fine stock farm, attending to this is his recreation. Hi" is very fond of stock and poultry, of which he keeps the finest breeds, and is never so happy as when looking after his blue-blooded pets, after his days' dut¬ ies as a physician are over.

Dr. Max P. Vander Horck is the sixth child of Capt. John Vander Horck, who has been identified with the affairs of Minnesota since pioneer days. The family is of German-Dutch origin. Dr. Vander Horck was born in St. Paul Aug. 5, 1862. When he was four years old his parents moved to Minneapolis, and since that time this city has been his home. He attended the public schools, and the University of Minnesotathrough the junior year. Instead of entering the senior class he went east, in the fall of 1882, and began the study of medicine at tlie College of Pli ysieians and Surgeons in New York City. After a year in New York Dr. Vancler Horek went to I'hiladel])hia, where he entered the Jefferson Medical College and completed his course, graduating with honors in March, 1885. He won the "Practice of Medicine" prize and was admitted as interne to the Blockley Hospital, and later to the Jefferson Medical College Hospital. The extensive hospital ser¬ vice gave him great advantages in the study of dermatology, which he had chosen as his speciality, but he deter¬ mined to be more thoroughly equipped before commencing practice. According¬ ly, in January, 1886, he went to Europe and spent nearly thi'ee years in special study of skin diseases. He matriculated for one year at the University of Berlin, was afterwards for fifteen months at Vienna and six months at Prague, Bohe¬ mia. His work was principally in the large hospitals at these places and with such famous instructors as Lassar and Lewin of Berlin; Kaposi, Neuman, Hans ' Von Hebra, Rhiel, Ehrmann and Lustgarten atVienna, and Janowski and Prof. Pick of Prague. During his sojourn in Europe Dr.Vander Horek travelled quite extensively through Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy, but was pre¬ vented from carryingout plans for furth¬ er travel by an appointment in the fall of 1888 to the professorship of derma¬ tology in the medical department of the University of Minnesota. He at once re¬ turned to Minneapolis to prepare for the duties of the position. P'or the first year after his return Dr. Vander Horek was associated with Dr.F. A. Dunsmoor, but in September, 1889, o])ened an office in the Syndicate block, and has since con¬ fined himself to the practice of his speci¬ alty in which he has been exceedingly successfid. In addition to the requii'cments of a very large practice and the professorship at the medical college. Dr. Vander Horck's duties include those of consulting dermatologist at Asbury Methodist Hospital and St. Barnabas Hospital. He also has charge of the treatment of skin diseases at the Univer¬ sity free dispensary.

l^pon commencing practice here Dr. Vander Horek identified himself with all efforts for the advancement of his pro¬ fession, and threw the enthusiasm which had already brought him distinction as a student into the work of the physicians of the cit}" and state. He is a member of the Hennepin County Medical Society, the State Medical Society of Minnesota, the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, the American Aledical Association, and member of advisory council of the Pan- American Aledical Congress for the sec¬ tion of Dermatology. In addition, he maintains his membership in two college fraternities and the Masonic order, being a member of Minneapolis Lodge 19 A.F. & A. M.

In 1890 Dr. Vander Horek married Aliss Emma Curtiss Robb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Robb of Minnea¬ polis. The}' have one child. Personally Dr. Vander Horek is of agreeable pre¬ sence, and of enthusiastic and earnest temperament. He is an ardent and pa¬ tient student, and keejis abreast of the best thinkers in his profession. It is his intention to visit Europe again in the near future for the purpose of pursuing more extensiveh' certain studies in con¬ nection with his specialt}'.

Dk. Edward B. Zikk. Among the successful 3'oung professional and busi¬ ness men of IMinneapolis, lidward B. Zier occupies a prominent place. During the decade in which he has been a citizen of the northwestern metropolis, he has achieved a reputation and position in society such as few men are able to

Doctor Zier was born on the 19th clay of May, 1857, in New Albany, Floyd Countj^ Indiana. His father, M. Zier, was an iron manufacturer and steam¬ boat builder at that place for nearly forty years.

Edward, while at home, obtained a good high school education, and sjjent, besides, much time in his father's iron works. He served an apprenticeship as a machinist and mechanical engineer, becoming proficient in the calling, but failing to find the occupation congenial turned his eyes tothemedical profession. In 1873 he began the study of medicine in the medical department of the Univer¬ sity of Louisville, Ky., where he gi'aduated with distinction in 1877. After leaving his alma mater, Dr. Zier went abroad, pursuing his medical studies for four years in the largest hospitals of Europe, most of the time in thehospitals and clinics of Vienna - the medical center of the world. Here his ability received recognition from some of the ablest of the great medical men in the Austrian caj)ital. In addition to his vork in Vienna, Doctor Zier pursued his studies in the hospitals of London and other cities, supplementing what he had learned in theory with actual practice.

Doctor Zier came to Minneapolis in February, 1881, where he at once en¬ gaged in general practice of his profes¬ sion for the first five years. During the last six or seven years, however, he has devoted himself exclusively to diseases of the throat and lungs - the first who made a specialty of that branch of medi¬ cine in Minneapolis. He has built up a large and lucrative practice, and his achievements, both as a professional and business man, are notable. He visits the eastern hospitals j^early, thus keeping in touch with the latest development and discoveries in the medical world.

On October 24th, 1884, Dr. E. B. Zier was married to Miss Minnie M. Harri¬ son, daughter of the late Hon. T. A. Harrison, the organizer and president of the Security bank. They have two child¬ ren, a son and a daughter, six and four years old, respectively.

In 1888 be began the erection of the large ''Zier row," on the corner of Fourth avenue south and Ninth street. The building was built under his own personal supervision, and the block is conceded by all competent judges to comprise the finest, block of city houses in this country. There are very few east¬ ern houses anywhere equal to or better than the ''Zier row."

The doctor has always been a staunch Republican, and although he has never held a public office, there are few politi¬ cians who know what is taking place behind the scenes better than he does. He takes a quiet but active i^art in political matters, for which he has both inclination and ability.

Dr. Levi Butler. The year 1855 brought considerable emigration to Minnesota. Among the enterprising young men who settled in Minneapolis that year was Dr. Levi Butler. He was a native of the State of Indiana, where he had been well brought up. He had secured a good academic and medical education, married and had spent ten 3^ears in the practice of his profession, and brought with him, besides profes¬ sional skill, a moderate fortune, a robust constitution and an unusually fine and engaging presence. At the time of his ari'ival he was thirtj^-six years old. He at once engaged in the practice of surgery and medicine, and soon took a leading and honorable position among the prac¬ titioners. He entered with zeal into soir<F'.

cial and public life, occupying a position of importance in the little community. His efforts ^Yere especially enlisted in the moral welfare of the place, fostering edu¬ cation, temperance and charities. The first call for volunteers to suppress the rebellion in the spring of 1861, reached him immersed in professional labor, but he gave it a prompt and read3' response. Recruiting a compan3^of volunteers from the countr3' towns, he joined the recruits at Fort Snelling, and was mustered into the Third Regiment of Minnesota In¬ fantry. At the organization of the regi¬ ment he was appointed surgeon and left the state for a Southern campaign. The regiment was surrendered atMurfresboro and returned to engage in the suppres¬ sion of the Indian outbreak. The olficers weresoon paroled, and rejoining the regi¬ ment saw much hard service in the cam¬ paign through Kentucky and Louisiana. After a little less than two years of service. Dr. Butler resigned and returned home. The following 3'ear he was ap¬ pointed b3^ Governor Miller to visit the Southern camps and hospitals with a view of impi'oving their sanitar3' condi¬ tion and relieving the sufferings of the siek among the Minnesota volunteers. At the return of peace he did not resume medical practice, but engaged in lumber¬ ing and real estate operations. The firms of Butler & Walker and Butler, Mills & Morris were formed, and afterwards that of L. Butler & Co. His operations became very extensive, engaging in all departments of the lumber business, from the stump to the lumber 3'ard. For many 3'ears the firm of L. Butler & Co. was reckoned among the most energetic and enterprising of the trade.

In the iall of 1871 the sterling quali¬ ties and popular manners of Dr. Butler were recognized 1)3' his election to I'cprcsent the Twent3' Sixth Distinct, compris¬ ing a part of the city of Minneajiolis, in the State Senate. Three times in suceession he was elected to the same position, taking his seat in the session of 1872, and continuing through those of 1873- 4-5-6-7. At the first session he was ap¬ pointed upon the important railroad committee of the senate, and afterwards became its chairman. His services in the legislature were highly useful and greatly appreeiated by the people of Minneapo¬ lis. He was possessed of sound judg¬ ment, much suavit3' of manner, and had the abilit3' to express his views in debate with clearness and cogeney, so that measures entrusted to his care were safel3' carried. It was a period of stir¬ ring interest in Alinneapolis, whose growth in business and popidation be¬ gan to realize somewhat of the fond hope of its founders.

Dr. Butler did not long servive his legislative term. The complications of an extensive business, with the burden of public duties, impaired his former ro¬ bust health, and he passed awa3' in the sjiring of 1878. He had built and occu¬ pied a fine residence on Second avenue south, at the eorner of Eighth street.

His memor3' and patidotie militaiw service were honored 1)3' one of the local posts of the Grand Arnn'of theRe])ublic, assuming his name. Among the citizens of Alinneapolis his death was deplored as a public calamit3'. He was gi'eath' beloved as a physician and a man, and highh' valued as an enterprising man of business, and a most faithful representa¬ tive.

Nathan B. Hitl. Doetors Hill and Findle3' of whom Dr. Hill was the senior member eomposed a firm engaged in the practice of medicine, from the time of their arrival in Alinneapolis in 1861, un¬ til the dissolution of the partnership 63' the lamented death of Dr. Hill about fifteen years ago. The3' were the lead¬ ing medical ])ractitioners of that j)eriod.

Both were natives of North Carolina, thoroughly edueated, of inatui'e age, and had long been engaged in praetiee in their native state, when, being of the Ouaker faith, they fell under the displeasure of their neighbors from suspieions of sumpathy with the Union eause, and were eonipelled to flee. With mueh diflieulty and not a little danger, they passed the elosely drawn eordon of military lines, and after a short stop in Indiana, eame to Minneapolis and settled.

Dr. Hill was a skilful and sympathetic physician of fine physical presense and bearing. He was a philanthropic, and manifested uncommon business prudence and sagasity. The family residence, a beautiful brick mansion, was on Third Avenue, and one of the first residences erected in the vicinity of Franklin Avenue. Two sons, Samuel Hill and Dr. Richard S. Hill, are among the leading citizens of Minneapolis, who with Miss Anna Hill survive and perpetuate the name and memory of one of Minneapolis most be¬ loved and respected citizen.

Dr. John D. Anderson was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1855. His medical education was received at Trinity Medi¬ cal School, of the Toronto Universit3^ and in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he graduated in medicine in 1879. He was admitted to membership in the British Medical Association at London. He has been a resident and practitioner in Min¬ neapolis since 1883.

Dr. Frederick R. Baldwin is a native of Minneapolis, born Nov. 6, 1860. He is the only son of Rufus J. and Caroline L. Baldwin, and has on both sides an unbroken line of descent from colonists in Connecticut prior to 1640. His edu¬ cation was in the public schools of his native city. After a three 3'ears course in medicine in the University of Michigan he sj)ent a year of reading with Dr. H. H. Kimball, and graduated at Bellevue

Medical College, New York, in 1887. After a post graduate course in medi¬ cine and surgery in Vienna, Austria, and a supplemental year at Bellevue, he op¬ ened an office in Minneapolis, where, with a thoi'ough equipment in professional knowledge, and a thoughtful and judic¬ ious temperament, he is building up a respectable practice.

Dr. William Winthrop Betts is among the younger medical practitioners of the city. He is a native of Chatham, Colum¬ bia County, New York, born May 16th, 1859. He graduated at Albany Medical College with the class of 1883, and took a post graduate course at the same insti¬ tution a few years later. He located in Minneapolis in September, 1889. He is a member of the state and county medi¬ cal societies, of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, as well as of the medical so¬ ciety of his native county in New York.

John W. Bell, M. D., was born March 18th, 1854, in the State of Ohio. After receiving a preliminary education at the public schools, he attended the Ohio Med¬ ical College of Cincinnati, graduating from there in the class of 1876. He came to Minneapolis in 1881. He was one of the faculty in the Minnesota Hospital College, and now very acceptably fills the chair of Clinical Medicine and Physi¬ cal Diagnosis in the medical department of the Minnesota State University. He is a member of the Minnesota State Medical Society, Minnesota Academy of Medicine, and the Hennepin County Med - ical Society.

William J. Byrnes, M. D., the son of the well-known pioneer of this citr', - William Byrnes - was born January 5th, 1859, in Minneapolis. After receiving a public school education, he took a college course at St. John's College, Prairie-du

He graduated from the medical depart¬ ment of the University of Alichigan in 1882, after which he persued his medical studies in Germany. He then located in his native city, where he has been very successful, being elected county physician of Hennepin count}', 1887-1888, also coronor of Hennepin county 1891-1892.

Dr. Byrnes is a member of the Minne¬ sota State Medical Societ\',and the Hen¬ nepin County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1889.

William Asbury Hall, M. D., was born in Aui'elius, New York, June 17th, 1853. He received his education at Auburn, N. Y., receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Alban}' Medical College, Albany, N. Y., December 23d, 1875. He located in Oswego, N. Y., where he was very successful, being elected coronor of Oswego county 1880-188 1, and also United States pension examining surgeon of Oswego in 1885.

Dr. Hall has been an active worker in medical science since his arrival in Minne¬ apolis in 1887. He was appointed Pro¬ fessor of Aledical Jurisprudence in the Minnesota Hospital Aledical College, attending surgeon to St. Alary's Hospi¬ tal, attending surgeon to St. Baniabas' Hospital, and surgeon to the Chicago & Great Western Railway. Heis a member of the following societies : New York State Medical Association ; American Aledical Association ; Oswego County Aledical Society, N. Ah, of which he was president in 1885; Minnesota State Medical Society ; Hennepin County Med¬ ical Society, and now president of the same and the New A'ork Aledico-Legal Society.

Dr. Elijah S. Kelly, the present efficient Health Commissioner of the City of Minneapolis, is a native of the Province of Quebec, Canada, born June 24th,

1846. He has been a resident of Alinneapolis since his twentieth year. His lit¬ erary education was received at the State University of Alinnesota, and his professional training at Rush Aledical College of Chicago, where he graduated in 1878. Dr. Kelly has held the offices of Hennepin county physician, police sur¬ geon, and health commissioner. He is initiate of Cataract Lodge, No. 2, A. F. and A. AI., and of Darius Commandery Knight's Templar.

Dr. Thomas L. Laliberti has been a I'esident and practitioner of medicine in Alinneapolis since 1881. He is a native of Quebec, Canada East, born May 8th, 1852. His education was received at the Loval University of his native city, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Aledicine in 1874 and of Doctor of Aledicine in 1876. He is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, of the Alinnesota State Aledical Society, and of the Hennejiin County Medical Society.

Dr. Hugh Nelson, a physician and sur¬ geon of the regular school, is a native of Albemarlecounty , Abrginia, born October 7th, 1842. His great-great-grandfather was a soldier in the Continental army, a member of the Continental Congress, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was also Governor of A'irginia. His grandfather was Judge of the Cii'cuit Court, Senator in Con¬ gress, and Alinistcr to Sjiain. His father was a large land owner in Albemarle county, Yirginia.

Dr. Nelson was educated at Hampden Sidney College, A'irginia. At nineteen years of age he joined the Second Yir¬ ginia Cavalry, under I'itz Hugh Lee, and served in that army until the close of the war, ])articipatingin most of the stirringevents of the A'ii'ginia campaign. .After the war he removed to Baltimore, Alaryland, where he took three full courses in

Willard Byther Pineo was born in Columbia Falls, Maine, April 22d,1858. He was educated at Kent's Hill Semi¬ nary, Readfield, Maine. He came to Minneapolis, September 15th, 1882, and entered the Minnesota Hospital Medical College, from which he received his degree of medicine in 1885. Dr. Pineo is a mem¬ ber of the Society of Physicians and Surgeons of Minneapolis, the Hennepin County Medical Society, and State Med¬ ical Societ}".

List Op' Physici.Vns And Surgeons

Adolphus Fitz Elltot, the second son of Dr. J. S. Elliot, was born at Corinna, Alaine, September 2d, 1836. He grew to manhood amidst the rugged scener3" of Penobscot count3', familiar¬ ized with practical things b3' the varied industries of his father's mill and mer¬ chandizing, and knit into a vigorous frame 1)3' aetive pursuits. He received a good education in the common school, supplemented 1)3' an academic course at the village academ3'. When his father, with his oldest brother, W3'man, left for the West to find a new home, and com¬ menced the erection of his house in Alinneapolis, Adolphus remained behind in charge of the mills and business at Corinna.

In September of 1855 he eame to Alinneapolis ahead of the famihL and joined W3'man upon his claim near Alonticcllo, where the3' secured the first harvest. After securing the crop, he returned to Alinneapolis, and obtaining a school in the Sheple3' district, at the corner of the present Lake street and Eighth avenue, he taught four months during the follow¬ ing winter. This was one of the earliest schools on the west side of the river.

In the spring he aSvsisted W3'man in hew¬ ing out the timber and erecting a large farm barn upon his father's homestead, and finished the season 1)3' driving team on the St. Paul road in haidingmerchandise from the head of navigation. In the winter of 1857 he entered the law office of "Elder" Levi M. Stewart, who, about that time, had removed to Minne¬ apolis from the same vieinity in Maine where the Elliots had resided. The study of law was pursued with diligence, intermixed with some minor praetice for four years, although he was admitted to the bar in 1859. Before engaging in practiee, the stirring events of 1861 had aroused the country and incited the pat¬ riotic young men to take up arms in its defense. Young Elliot laid aside his books and deferred professional engage¬ ments at the call of patriotic duty. He enlisted as a private, and was mustered into the service December 1st, 1861, in Company A. of the Third Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. Col. Henry A. Lester, who had been a captain in the First Regiment, eommanded the regiment, while Wm. W. Webster was captain of Company A. The regiment was sent to the South, with orders for active service, and was surprised by the mounted guerillas, under Gen. Forest, and surrendered. Promotion had raised pri¬ vate Elliot through the grades of OrderH Sargeant and Seeond Lieutenant to that of First Lieutenant. He was direeted by his commanding officer to take the vote of the company on the question of surrender, and report the result, which was that they were about equally di¬ vided, no vote being taken. His own opinion was not sought nor given. Having no v^ote he could not have any say in the matter. After the regi¬ ment had been paroled and released from eoiffinement, without trial, and upon a report which had never been made public, then or since, an arbitrary order from the war department dismissed from the service Col. Lester and certain other commissioned officers, among whom was Lieut. Elliot. He was, nat¬ urally, no less surprised than ehagrined. He demanded, through Col. Aldrich, then the member of congress from this distriet,fora hearing and trial, but received only the poor consolation of a rephq that though injustice may have been done, the government was too busy with the proseeution of the war to listen to private grievances. When the many cases are recalled in which the ai'bitrary decision of the Secretary of War, or of commanders in the field, have been re¬ versed by better information, upon im¬ partial trial, no imputation of dishonor ean rest upon an officer who has l)een denied an opportunit\? for vindieation.

In the beginning of the year 1863, in¬ stead of taking up the praetiee of law Mr. Elliot determined to give his atten¬ tion to medieine. What influenee pro¬ duced this change in his plans is not ap¬ parent. Perhaps a sense of injusticehad disgusted him with the administration of justice, or more probably a natural inclination for the healing art which had already turned his father from a suecessful career, to a not less brilliant prac¬ tice of medieine, wrought the ehange. Possibh' the sight of sickness and suffer¬ ing among his comrades in the ai'my im¬ pressed him with the benefieent influence of the medical profession. He now ap¬ plied himself to the study of books which he found in his father's librar}^ who practiced the botanic or sanative system of medicine, and his observations upon the effect of natural remedies as sanative agents, as administei'ed b3" him. He en¬ tered the Physio Medical Institute at Cincinnati, where, after two courses of lectures, he graduated in 1866. Dr. Elliot now applied himself to the prae¬ tice of medieine, to whieh he brought an acquaintance with praetical affairs, a thorough training in theliterature of the law and medicine, and a mind and judg¬ ment thoroughhMiatural. His success was immediate and signal. After some 3^ears Dr. Elliot took a special course at the Bellevue Medical College Ne'w York, in surgery and anatomy, and graduated with the regular degree of Doctor of Medicine. Resuming his practice he gave especial attention to the effect of reme¬ dies, limiting his trials to no school of practice. His observations and careful anal3^sis led him to be classed with the eclectic sytem, a result not unusual with those practitioners possessing original and constructive powers, with whom the administration of remedies is not a mei'e routine drawn from technical books.

The wear of an absorbing profession, with the cares of business engagements in which he had entered, so impaired his health that about 1885 he dropped the active practice of his profession, though he continued activel}^ emplo3'ed in other directions.

Dr. Elliot has been twice married, first to Miss Sarah Jane Sheldon, a na¬ tive of Webster, Mass., who was at the time of her marriage a teacher at Winona. She died in 1888. Their only son died at the age of four years in 1878. His present wife was Miss Mary Hol¬ brook, of Boston.

Dr. Elliot has been largel3' engaged in assisting his father in the care of his valuable real estate, and has also been employed b3' others in like business. He was also at one time largeh' interested in the lumber business.

Not the least important contribution made by Dr. Elliot to the genet'al inter¬ ests, was in the organization and pro¬ motion of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences. Earh' in the year 1873 he joined with ten other gentlemen of scientific attainments and tastes in ob¬ taining a charter and putting the acad¬ emy in operation. Its object as declared in the constitution is "to observe and investigatenatural phenomena ; to make collections of specimens illustrating the various departments of science; to name.

classify and preserve the same; also to discuss such questions as shall come within the province of the academy." To the success of the institution Dr. Elliot devoted much time and labor and incurred no little pecuniary responsi¬ bility.

He was one of the trustees and for some 3'ears curator of the museum. For eight years in succession he was its pres¬ ident. He also made contributions to the literature of the academ3q but his chief solicitude was to awaken the dor¬ mant interest of the communit3' in scientific studies and keep the organic machiner3" in motion. Through the per¬ sistent labors of himself and a few likeminded colleagues, the academy has now almost attained its majorit3^and has en¬ tered into ])ermanent and elegant quar¬ ters in the cit3" librar3" building.

That his earnest and untiring efforts were recognized by the academy the fol¬ lowing resolutions, published in the Pro¬ ceedings of the Academy, volume iii, bulletin 3, page 297, under date of Jan¬ uary 1 6, 1890, will clearly show :

Whereas, Dr. A. F. Elliot lias now retired from the Presidency of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Science and from membership in this Board ;

Resolved, That the Board of Trustees recog¬ nize in this retirement the loss of a tireless worker; one, who, at all times and under all circumstances, was loyal to the interests of the Academy and eager to advance its work in the community, and one whose enthusiasm in this work commanded the respect of all ;

Resolved, That we e.xtend our thanks, as a Board, to Dr. Elliot for his efficient labors as President during' the past eight years, and that we wish him a speedy and perfect recovery to many years more of work in advancing the inter¬ ests of this Academ\' ;

For the last two 3'ears Dr. Elliot has resided at Santa Monica, Cal., where he assisted his father in building a fine resi¬ dence, which he has occupied since his father's death.

Dr. Eugene Adelbert Hutchins. Is a medical practitioner of thirty years' experience, half of which has been passed in Minneapolis, where, by undivided at¬ tention to his professional duties, fidelity and skill, he has built up a private prac¬ tice which equals his most sanguine ex¬ pectations, and has secured him a posi¬ tion among the city's most respected citizens.

Dr. Hutchins was born in the town of North Hei'O, Grand Isle County, Vt., on the 14th day of November, 1838. His father, Levi Hutchins, was a descendant of one of three brothers, who, coming from England were among the early set¬ tlers of New England. On his mother's side he is of Irish descent, his mother, Caroline Fitzgerald, being a daughter of Lieutenant Fitzgerald, an officer in the British army during the Revolution, from whom she inherited a talent for poetry, and was, during her life, a con¬ tributor to several periodicals. Her two brothers were prominent lawyers - one settled in New Haven, Conn., and the other in Washington, D. C.

The doctor's father was a successful farmer for those days, and gave his son all the advantages the town afforded, but did not feel able to indulge him in his ambitious ideas for a better educa¬ tion, and not thinking he would accept, offered to let him leave the farm and work for himself. Accepting his father's offer he started out at the age of sixteen on his own resources, with a determina¬ tion to win his way and fit himself to be worthy of a better position in life. He had to practice economy and self-denial which the students of to-day studying professions know little about. Before seventeen years of age he taught a country school, receiving the meagre sum of ten dollars a month and board, boarding around among the families of the pupils which was customary in those days. Intervals, between teaching and work, was spent at the academies at Swanton and Fairfax, Vt., and Ft. Ed¬ ward Institute, N. Y., and having gained a fair education commenced the study of medicine in 1859 with Dr. J. F. Stevens, of Plattsburgh. The next year he entered the medical department of the University of Vermont at Burlington, and considered himself fortunate in be¬ ing able to secure private instructions from Prof. Styles, and to be taken into the confidence and tutelage of Dr. Thayer, one of the leading physicians of New England, later the well-known surgeon of the Northern Pacific during its con¬ struction through Minnesota and Da¬ kota.

This course of study was followed by a fall and winter of teaching, and a sec¬ ond course at Burlington, while the third was taken at the Berkshire Medi¬ cal College at Pittsfield, Mass., which, with a term of practice and private course of lectures during the summer with Dr. Childs, enabled him to take his degree of medicine in the fall of 1862.

After three months' teaching during the winter he settled at North Lawrence, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and com¬ menced the practice of his profession.

The following year he married Miss Myra Arthur, .of Keesville, N. Y., who died a little more than two years after their marriage, leaving one son, whose death occurred ten months later. In 1868 he was again married to Miss Jane Elizabeth Thickins,of Brasher, N. Y., who has been the mother of four children, of which only one, Gabrielle Eugenia, wife of Reuben Warner, Jr., of St. Paul, sur¬ vives.

of 1878, he opened an office at 38 Wash¬ ington avenvie south, and as his busi¬ ness increased he made several changes, until he finalU' settled in his pleasant and commodious office in the Syndicate block, where he enjo^^s a large practice, especially in the branch of g\mcology to which he devotes special attention.

His success is due largely to his care¬ ful investigation of every case, not try¬ ing to remember what he had prescidbed for other cases, but what each individual case required. He found a careful diag¬ nosis always suggested the proper remedy. He only deals with facts, and is never carried away with theories only as they can be substantiated hy facts. And by his close attention and observation of every case by itself, he is enabled to treat tliem with but few remedies which is gladly appreciated by the patient. He never thinks it belittles him to tell a patient he does not know the cause of their illness, or hesitate to advise them to put themselves in the hands of some other physician. That branch of his practice which afforded him the greatest satisfaction from the first, was chronic cases. His first case of this kind illustrates his principle of practice. He was called to see a lady who had been confined to her bed over a year, but because he would not prescribe without a thorough examination was refused care of the patient. Three days later he was called again, and I'emained their family physician fifteen years. This is related to show the stand he took ; he would not sacrifice his principles for the dollars, though in great need of them at that time.