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NAME MOORE 812 MOORE 1847, Lucy R., daughter of Samuel Prescott, of Montreal, Canada, and died in Rochester, New York, March 4, 1902. His writings included : "Treatment of the Clavicle when Fractured or Dislocated," 1870; "A Luxation of the Ulna not Hitherto De- scribed, with a Plan of Reduction, etc.," 1872; "Gangrene and Gangrenous Diseases," 1882; and with C. W. Pennock, "Reports of Experi- ments on the Action of the Heart," 1839. Charles G. Stockton. Jour. Asso., Mil. Surgs. U. S., Carlisle, 1904, vol. XV. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1902, vol. cxlvi. Buffalo Med. Jour., 1901-2, n. s., vol. xli. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1902, vol. xxxviii. Trans. Med. Soc. N. Y., Albany, 1903. W. S. Ely. Moore, James Edward (1852-1918) James Edward Moore, eminent surgeon of the Northwest, was born March 2, 1852, in Clarksville, Pennsylvania, and died November 2, 1918, at his home in Minneapolis of per- nicious anemia. He was the son of the Rev. George W. and Margaret Ziegler Moore. As a boy he attended the public schools of Pennsylvania; going later to 'the Poland Union Seminary at Poland, Ohio ; from there to the University of Michigan. He received his medical degree from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1873. The year after his graduation he practised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returning to New York for work in the hospitals. In 1876 he established himself in Emlenton, Pennsylvania ; where for six years he performed the strenuous work of a country practitioner, making most of his calls on horseback and dispensing from his saddle- bags. In 1882 he migrated to Minneapolis, Minne- sota, where he practised until 1885, when he went to Europe for study in London and Berlin. Returning to the same city in 1887 he announced that he would confine his prac- tice exclusively to surgery. He was the first specialist in surgery to so announce himself west of New York. When the Medical School of the Univer- sity of Minnesota was organized he became identified with the faculty of the institution, holding in succession the positions of pro- fessor of orthopedic surgery, professor of clinical surgery, professor of surgery, and in 1908 he was made chief of the department of surgery, and held this position until his death. Dr. Moore was a born teacher, having the rare gift of imparting knowledge, presenting his theme in such a simple, terse, logical man- ner as to carry conviction and to clinch the facts in the memories of his auditors; his earnest enthusiasm won the respect and ad- miration of his associates and students ; gifted with native eloquence, a quiet dignity, and a logical mind, his address carried convic- tion ; he was forceful, yet temperate and restrained in his utterances and actions. Throughout the years, successive genera- tions of students sat at the feet of this mas- ter teacher of surgery, — students who now all over the land mourn the loss of professor, comrade and friend. He was a virile, con- vincing writer, having presented over two hundred papers on surgical subjects. He was the author of sections in various American systems of surgery, and in 1898 published "Moore's Orthopedic Surgery." His writings and discussions won him recognition at home and abroad and he became identified early with the representative surgical societies, affiliating with the American Surgical Asso- ciation — vice-president in 1905 ; the Western Surgical Association — president in 1902; chair- man of the Surgical Section of the American Medical Association in 1903; member of the Southern Surgical Association, the Judicial Council of tlje A. M. A.; fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the board of Governors ; member of the Societe Internationale de Chirurgie, and of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine. In 1887 he married Louise C. Irving, who survived him, with his daughter, Mrs. F. H. Forssell. I Dr. Moore was as much a victim of the Great War as though he had gone "over the top" and paid the supreme sacrifice "over there." His high sense of duty unquestion- ably shortened his life. When in 1918 the Great War drained the Medical School of many of its teachers, it threw an added bur- den upon those who were left, — a burden which was doubly difficult to bear when laid upon the shoulders of a man delicate and along in years. Uncomplainingly he did the work of his "boys" over-seas, doing his bit and that of the absent ones. The strain, anxiety and overwork but hastened a break- down made inevitable by his insidious disease. To the many who were permitted to know Dr. Moore well and to the few who were privileged to be his intimates, the charm of his personality, his simple manly creed, his love of justice and fair play, his intolerance of incompetence and sham, his charity for human weakness and frailty, his keen appraisement of character, his fearless cham-