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to Birmingham, Alabama. It was he, with Dr. M. H. Jordan, who fought the terrible epidemic of cholera at this place in 1873, he being the last one to have the disease.

He was a charter member of the Jeffer- son Comity Medical Society, served on the Board of Censors, and was counsellor of the State Medical Association.

In his medical carrer he became noted as a surgeon, and, at a time when such a procedure was practically unknown, he successfully set a broken neck, following this he had another successful case of the same. He also did the first successful triple amputation in the United States, and also the second.

The name of his first wife was Imogene Fielder, by whom he had one child, and in 1866 he married Susan Oliver Dillard and had nine, six boys and three girls. Four of the boys studied medicine, but the two oldest died.

Di. Luckie died at Birmingham, December 11, 1908, age seventy-five.

L. F. L.

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Love joy, James Wiliam Hamilton (1824- 1901). James \\'illiam Hamilton Lovejoy was born December 15, 1824, in Washington, District of Columbia. His father, John Naylor Lovejoy, Jr., was of Georgetown; his mother was Ann Beddo, of Mont- gomery County, Maryland. He went as a lad to private schools in Washington, and graduated A. B., 1844, A. M., 1847, Columliian College, District of Columbia. After teaching school a few years he studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. After graduation, he returned to Washington and engaged in general practice. He was appointed professor of chemistry in the Georgetown Vol. II-S

Medical School, 1851, and became pro- fessor of materia medica in 1880; in 1883, professor of theory and practice of medicine; he resigned in 1898 and was appointed emeritus professor. For five years he was dean and ten years president of the medical faculty.

He was active in the management of many charitable institutions, being one of the founders of the Garfield Hospital, and serving as a consultant until death. In 1881 he was elected director and consult- ing physician to the Childien's Hospital. In 1893, when the training school was established in connection with the hospital, he was chairman of the lecture faculty, lecturing here and in the Garfield School for Nurses for several years.

He was a member of the medical Society for forty-seven years, its presi- dent in 1876, and corresponding secretary in 1868, also president of the District Medical Association for three years, 1870 to 1872.

On November 24, 1858, he married Maria Lansing, daughter of William A. Green, Brooklyn, New York. She died in 1866, and he, suddenly, March 18, 1901. ^ D. S. L.

Minutes of Medical Society, D. C, March 20 and April 3, 1901; "Who's Who in America," 1901-2.

Lovell, Joseph (1788-1836).

Joseph Lowell, surgeon-general of the Army, graduated from Harvard in 1807 and studied medicine under Dr. Ingalls, of Boston, entering military ser\dce as surgeon of the 9th Infantry in May, 1812, getting the charge of the general hospital at Burhngton, Vermont, where in August, 1814, he became hospital surgeon. Upon the formal organization of the army medical department he was in 1818 appointed surgeon-general. He then organized the department and re- vised and reissued the regulations for its government and in 1821 still further im- proved and elaborated the organization, giving it the form which it retained up to 1861. In 1834 he instituted the system of examinations for admission to the