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NAME STILES 1105 STILES and Woodbury, New York, in the last year becoming librarian of the Long Island His- torical Society, of which he was a founder and director. In 1868-1870 he served in the Brooklyn office of the Metropolitan Board of Health and in 1870-73 he was a health inspec- tor of the Board of Health of the City of New York. In 1873 he was appointed medical super- intendent of the state homeopathic asylum for the insane in Middletown, New York, and under his direction the first two buildings were erected and its service was organized. In 1877 he removed to Dundee, Scotland, to take charge of the homeopathic dispensary there, remaining until 1881, when he returned to New York, practising until 1888 and then opening a private establishment for the care of mental and nervous diseases at Hill View, New York. From 1882 to 1885 he was pro- fessor of mental and nervous diseases in the New York Woman's Medical College and Hospital; in 1872 he was an organizer of the Public Health Association of New York City; a founder and officer of the society for pro- moting the welfare of the insane in New York; a lecturer on hygiene in the New York Homeopathic Medical College ; an organizer of the American Anthropological Society in 1869, and one of the seven founders of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, serving as its president from 1869 to 1873. Williams conferred the honorary degree of A. M. on him in 1876. .Among his writings may be mentioned : "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Con- necticut," New York, 1859; "Genealogy of the Massachusetts Family of Stiles," 1863 ; "The Wallabout Prison-Ship Series," 1865, 2 vols. ; "History of the City of Brooklyn, New York," 1867-70, 3 vols. He edited the "Illustratecf History of the County of Kings and City of Brooklyn," 1884, 2 vols. Dr. Stiles died in 1909. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., New York, 1888. Williams College General Catalogue, 1795-1910. Stiles, Richard Cresson (1830-1873) Richard Cresson Stiles was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and was edu- cated at Yale College, where he graduated in 1851. He studied medicine with Dr. Turner, at the Kings County Hospital, Flatbush, Long Island, and took his M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1854. During the next two years he continued his medical studies in Europe, chiefly in Paris. While abroad he married an American lady whom he met in Leghorn, a daughter of Dr. Thomas Wells, of New Haven, Connecticut. On his return to this country, he was appointed professor of physiology in the University of Vermont, at Burlington. He had made assiduous preparation for such a position by a long course of physiological study and investiga- tion during his residence in Paris, and entered upon his course of instruction with a great promise, which was abundantly fulfilled. In 1858 he accepted the chair of physiology in the Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In these positions his Hfe was eminently to his taste. He was a student, and his time was constantly devoted to study and instruction. His microscope and his labora- tory had a large part of his heart. i In 1859 he settled in Pittsfield, and in 1860 estab- lished, in conjunction with Dr. W. H. Thayer, the Berkshire Medical Journal, a monthly pub- lication, which was issued for one year. The presence of wat made it an unfavorable time for a new literary enterprise, and it was discontinued at the close of the first volume. In 1862 he was impelled by patriotism to enter the LTnited States service. His desire for service in the field was gratified early in 1863 by his being transferred to the Army of the Potomac as surgeon-in-chief of Caldwell's Division of Hancock's Corps. He left the service in 1864 and, going to Brooklyn, re- ceived the appointment of resident physician at King's County Hospital. Dr. Stiles re- signed his office after about a year's service, and went to Brooklyn to practise medicine; he was, however, made one of the Consult- ing Board of the hospital, and retained that position during life. His lectures at Burlington were continued, with the interruption of his two years' serv- ice in the army, until 1865. In Brooklyn he took an active part in the operations of the County Medical Society and was twice elected president. It was on his suggestion that the Pathological Section was formed in 1870, and until his sickness he was a constant attendant upon its semi-monthly meetings. He had a succession of private classes in histology dur- ing his residence in Brooklyn, which were attended by young physicians who were drawn to him by his high reputation in the Society. He was a ready writer, but the papers which he left were produced in the later period of his life. They include sev- eral monographs on physiological and patho- logical subjects, a memoir of Haller, which was the oration of the County of Kings, and valuable contributions to the annual re- ports of the Metropolitan Board of Health, especially those for 1868 and 1869. That for