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ILLIAM CLINE BORDEN, surgeon, United States army, is a son of Daniel J. and Mary Cline Borden, of Watertown, New York, where he was born May 19, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of Watertown, at Adams collegiate institute (at Adams, New York) and later at the Columbian university, Washington, District of Columbia. He was graduated from the medical department of the latter institution in 1883, and in the same year he received an appointment as assistant surgeon in the United States army, with the rank of first lieutenant. In 1888 he was advanced to the grade of captain; and in 1898, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, he was promoted major and given duty as brigade surgeon of United States volunteers, in command of the army general hospital at Key West, Florida. At the close of hostilities, he succeeded, as commandant, to the army general hospital at Washington, District of Columbia, receiving in 1901 the rank of major and surgeon, United States army; and he has since retained that assignment.

In addition to his military duties Major Borden has been prominently identified with medical education in the District of Columbia, and with surgical science in general. He is connected with the Army medical school, as professor of military surgery; with the Washington post-graduate school, as professor of surgery; and with the medical department of Georgetown university, as professor of surgical pathology and military surgery. In 1898, he published a careful and illuminating report on the "Use of the Roentgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain." He has contributed a number of research articles and studies to various medical journals, chief of which are the following: In 1893, to the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," "Vital Statistics of an Apache Community"; in 1894, to the "New York Medical Journal," "The Fat Cell: Its Origin, Development and Histological Position"; in 1900, to the " Medical Record," "Operative Treatment of Varicose Veins"; and in the same year to the