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Harlow, Henry Mills (1S21-1S93).

Well known for his long superintend- ency of the Maine Insane Asylum at Augusta, Henry Mills Harlow was born in Westminster, Vermont, April 19, 1821, inheriting from his parents an excellent physical and mental con- stitution. He studied at the Ashley, Massachusetts, Academy and at the Burr Seminary in Vermont, teaching school when very young and studying medicine with Dr. Alfred Hitch- cock of Ashley in 1841. He then took a course of lectures at the Harvard Medical School and graduated at the Berkshire Medical School in 1844. He also took private instruction in ner- vous diseases from Prof. Rust Palmer, a well-known alienist at Woodstock, Vermont, where he also attended lectures.

After graduating he was appointed assistant at the Vermont Insane Asylum. Active in the study of the insane, he contributed papers of great value upon this topic to the meetings of the Maine Medical Association of which he was President in 1861.

He was also active in the Society of Superintendents of the Insane Asylums of America, being often called upon by the law courts to advise concerning the mental condition of alleged crimi- nals and never failing to give satis- faction to the bench, bar and jury.

Few physicians have met with as many misfortunes as Dr. Harlow dur- ing the course of his life. He had, for instance, the misfortune to lose largely the sight of both eyes from iritis so that for a long time he was unable to read, except with the greatest difficulty. He also lost a charming daughter, and had the additional and triple misfor- tune to lose almost in a single day from acute appendicitis, his eldest son Henry William Harlow, a most promising medical graduate.

Dr. Harlow married Louisa Stone Brooks, of Augusta, Maine, October 14, 1S52. Two children survived him, a daughter, who married Dr. Oscar

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Davies of Augusta, Maine, and a son, George Arthur William Harlow, A., B. 1S87, Harvard M. D. 1893.

At the end of thirty-two years of devoted care to the insane, Dr. Harlow resigned and retired to his homestead; attended to some small medical works, gave opinions when sought, and died one day quite suddenly, as he was dictating a letter, on April 5, 1893. J. A. S

Trans. Maine Med. Assoc. Personal Recollections.

Harmon, John B. (1780-1858).

John B. Harmon, of Warren, Ohio, founder of the Harmon family in Ohio, was born in Rupert, Vermont, Octo- ber 19, 1780. He was one of the pio- neer physicians of Trumbull County, coming to Ohio with his parents in 1800. He first studied medicine with Dr. Josiah Blackman of Vermont and subsequently with Dr. Enoch Leavilt of Leaviltsburg and in the War of 1S12 served as army surgeon. A leading surgeon of that section of the state, he performed several major op- erations before the days of general anesthesia, in 1822 removing a can- cerous mass from beneath the liver. About four years before his death, which occurred February 7, 185S, he retired from active practice. On Feb- ruary 6, 1S82, he married Miss Sarah Dana of Pembroke, New York and had six children, John, Julian, Charles, Edward, Sarah and Willie. Of these, Julian became a doctor.

J. N. B.

Historical and Biographical Cyclopedia of the State of Ohio. vol. iv.

Harris, Chapin Aaron (1806-1860).

He was born at Pompey, Onondago County, New York, May 6, 1806, the son of John and Elizabeth Brundage Harris, natives of England. When about seventeen, he moved to Madison, Ohio, and studied under his brother John, who was practising medicine there. After pursuing the course of study