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NAME MONTGOMERY 811 MOORE tions, perhaps, of mine. For their grand- father, Philip, a man of roving propensities, descended from William Monroe who escaped from the Battle of Worcester and emigrating to America, settled in Surry, New Hampshire, where he kept the village inn. There is a legend that his first wife was Mary Parker, and if so, then she was an aunt of mine some generations back. This seems more than prob- able when we recall the fact that her grand- son, Nahum Parker, had the same name as my grandfather twice removed, once living in Kittery, Maine. The coincidence of "Nahum Parker" is odd, at all events, meaningless though it may be from a genealogical point of view. However the relationship may be, the first Philip had a son Dr. Philip Monroe, of whom he was so fond that when old Philip died they had inscribed upon his tombstone after his days of birth and death "Father of Dr. Philip Monroe." James A. Spalding. Montgomery, Frank Hugh (1862-1908) Frank Hugh Montgomery was born at Fair Haven, Minnesota, January 6, 1862, and went as a boy to the St. Cloud (Minnesota) High School and the University of Minnesota. He graduated M. D. from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1888, and went after- wards to the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the hospitals of London, Paris and Vienna. At the time of his death he was the asso- ciate professor of dermatology in the Rush Medical College, Chicago ; dermatologist to the Presbyterian, St. Elizabeth, and Si. Anthony de Padua Hospitals of Chicago. He was elected a member of the American Dermatological Association in 1897, and was one of the founders of the Chicago Derma- tological Society. Dr. Montgomery was a collaborator with Dr. J. Nevins Hyde (q. v.) in writing a "Prac- tical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin" (189S). He made frequent contributions to medical journals on dermatology, perhaps the most important being those on blastomycosis, al- though all of his writings demonstrated that he was a master in this difficult and intricate specialty, for his knowledge was broad and all of his scientific discussions and articles bear the imprint of scholarly labor and a thorough acquaintance with dermatological literature. His death, which occurred at White Lake, Michigan, on July 14, 1908, was very tragic. He was drowned while trying to save a com- panion who had been thrown with him into the water by the capsizing of a sail boat. J. McF. WiNFIELD. Moore, Edward Mott (1814-1902) Edward Mott Moore was born at Rahway, New Jersey, July 1, 1814, son of Lindley Mur- ray and Abigail Mott Moore, descendants of Samuel and Mary Isley Moore, who removed from Newbury, Massachusetts, to New Jersey in 1666. His father was a promi- nent member of the Society of Friends. The son studied medicine in New York and Phila- delphia and graduated M. D. at the Univer- sity of Pfunsylvania in 1838. He served as resident physician at Blockley Hospital, and also at the Frankford Lunatic Asylum until he removed to Rochester in 1840, where he began practice. In 1842 he was called to the chair of surgery in the medical school of Woodstock, Vermont, and lectured there for eleven years. He held the same chair at Berkshire Medical Institution, Massachusetts, 18S3-S4, at Starling Medical College, Colum- bus, Ohio, 18S4-SS and at the Bufifalo Medical College, 1858-83. Dr. Moore was distinguished for research and experiments on the heart's action, undertaken in Philadelphia about 1838, with Dr. Pollock, continuing the experi- ments begun by Dr. Hope, and investigated the following year by a committee of the London Medical Society. With W. W. Reid (q. V.) he worked out the mechanism of re- duction of dislocation of the hip joint. In his articles on medical and surgical topics he sug- gested many original methods of treatment. In one of these he controverted the assevera- tions of the physiologists as to the rationale of the production of the vowel sounds. He was the author of monographs on fractures and dis- locations of the clavicle ; on fractures of the radius, accompanied with dislocation of the ulna ; on fractures, during adolescence, at the upper end of the humerus ; and a treatise on transfusion of the blood based on original investigations. Among his appointments, he was president of the New York State Med- ical Society, one of the founders of the Amer- ican Surgical Association, succeeding Dr. Gross as its president in 1888. In 1889-90 he helped frame the constitution and was presi- dent of the State Board of Health of New York. For nearly fifty years he was at the head of St. Mary's Hospital staff. Dr. Moore married at Windsor, Vermont, November 11,