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Club. His family has always been identi- fied with the Presbyterian church and the Democratic party, and he holds to these tra- ditions.

Dr. William Elliott Dold, a well known physician of New York, was born at Har- risonburg, Virginia, July 25, 1856. He is the son of Samuel Miller Dold, M. D., who was born at Lexington, Virginia, July 25, 1830, and died in 1870, his wife being Sue, daughter of Peter and Mary (Gibbons) Heneberger. born at Harrisonburg, Vir- ginia. The grandfather of Dr. William Elliott Dold was Samuel Miller Dold Sr., who married Elizabeth MacEaddin. of Rockbridge county, Virginia. One of Dr. Dold's grandmothers on his paternal side was a Brent. The father of Dr. Dold was himself a physician and surgeon, and served as surgeon in the Confederate army, havmg graduated with the degree of M. D. from JelTerson College, Philadelphia. He was at one time mayor of Harrisonburg, Virginia. A brother of Dr. Samuel Miller Dold, Calvin Morgan Dold, was mayor of Lexington, Virginia, and a member of the Rockbridge Artillery in the civil war. Another brother, uncle of Dr. William Elliott Dold, was clerk of the faculty of the Washington and Lee University for many years. A near kins- man was Colonel Sim Gibbons, the youth- ful and "almost idolized" colonel of the Tenth Virginia Infantry, who was killed at the battle of McDowell.

Dr. ^^■illiam Elliott Dold received his early education at private schools of Har- risonburg and Lexington, Virginia. Dur- ing 1872- 1875 he was at the Washington and Lee University; during 1878 and 1879 at the University of Virginia; and during 1880 at the University of New York, in that year receiving his degree of M. D. He took post-graduate courses at Vienna, Austria, and also studied with Dr. William Welch, now of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Alfred L. Loomis. Dr. Joseph Winters and others. He took charge of the "River Crest Sanatorium" at Astoria, Long Island, in 1901, as medical superintendejit, and still holds that position.

Dr. Dold was for a time at the Infant's Hospital on Randall's Island, New York, and was assistant M. D. at the Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island. He was for a short time assistant physician at the

Northern Wisconsin State Hospital, and was in the psychopathic branch of the New York Hospital from 1882 to 1885. He went to Europe for study from 1885 to 1887, and was senior physician at Bloomingdale Hospital for a period of twelve years. He received a medal from the University of New York for reporting surgical work in the university, and also received a medal from the Washington Literary Society of Washington and Lee University.

Dr. Dold has written and read from tmie to time papers on his specialty, "Nervous and Mental Diseases." He is a member of University of Virginia Medical Society of New York, the Southern Society of New York, "The Virginians" of New York, the Patria Club, and several other societies of a like kind. He is a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association, New York; the Medical Society, New York; the County Medical Society ; the Academy of Medicine, New York; the Society of Medical Juris- prudence. New York; the Neurological So- ciety of Brooklyn ; the New York Neuro- logical Society ; the Associated Physicians of Long Island ; the Medical Society of Greater New York, and the American Medico-Psychological Society ; the Medical Societv of the Greater City of New Yoik. He also belongs to the Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution, the Society of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain, etc. In politics he is a Democrat, and in re- ligion belongs to the Episcopal church.

He married, April 27, 1887. Willy, born near the University of Virginia, at the home- stead called "Rugby Hall," in November. [865. daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Lewis (Minor) Brown. There have been two children of the marriage: Douglas
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7, 1888, educated at private schools, Teach- ers College. William and ]\Iary College, and now a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York ; and William El- liott Jr., New York, October 5, 1881;, edu- cated" at private schools. William and Mary College, now a student at the Art Students League, New York, co-editor of the "Flat Hat" at college, and with brother art editor of the "Colonial Echo," William and Mary College.

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