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 ROWE. HOWELL, 525 Exeter, N. H., and entered Dartmouth College, pursuing the full course, from which he was graduated A. B. in 1864, receiving his A. M. in 1867. He studied medicine with Dr. John S. Butler, Hartford, Conn., and in the Har- vard medical school. From the latter he received his degree of M. D. in 1S68. He served as superintendent of the Massachusetts Institution for Feeble- minded Children, in 1867, '68 and '69. In 1870 he was appointed assistant superin- tendent of the Boston Lunatic Hospital. He was elected superintendent and resi- dent physician of the Boston City Hospital in 1879, which position he still holds. Dr. Rowe has closely followed the medi- cal profession and hospital work, refusing all outside allurements of business or politi- cal preferment. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, American Public Healih Association, New England GEORGE H. M. ROWE. Psychological Society, Boston Medico- Psychological Society, Boston Society for Medical Improvement, etc. Dr. Rowe has seen longer service as medical superintendent in a general hos- pital than any (with one exception) in the United States. He has always taken great interest in, and has occasionally written on, matters relating to hospital construction and management, and upon sanitary and hygienic subjects. He has done much to develop and advance the cause of schools for the training of nurses. His management has had much to do with the present development of the Boston City Hospital, until it now stands fore- most among American general hospitals, and is held in high repute in Great Britain and on the Continent. Dr. Rowe was never married. ROWELL, FRANK, son of David and Belinda (Hadlock) Rowell, was born in Weare, Hillsborough county, N. H., Feb- ruary 2, 1832. Both families were late settlers in Weare, coming from Kingston. The Rowells were original settlers at Salisbury and the Hadlocks at Gloucester. His early life was that of any boy in the country, with its daily lessons of obedience and duty. His education was received in the district school. He entered upon business through the branch of ornamental painting, from which, in 1855, he passed to that of photography. Herein Mr. Rowell has achieved marked distinction. The efforts of artists have been largely directed towards successfully fixing the delicate gradation of tones of light. Following the early discovery that the most luminous rays are least active chemically, artists have encountered num- erous difficulties so novel, that to overcome them required continual exercise of skill, care, and patient observation. In the honors gained in this development of the art, whereby the vanishing daguerreotype and the fading sun prints of a generation ago have been succeeded by the perma- nent and lasting carbon prints of to-day, Mr. Rowell has earned a full share, recog- nized and accorded by his fellow-artists. The gold medal of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association and that of the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876, awarded the firm in which for the last twenty-seven years he has been a member, give the stamp of authority to this reputation. In all, the firm have been the recipients of seven medals. In 187 1 the practical mind of Mr. Row- ell conceived the idea of teaching boys from thirteen to sixteen years of age the art of wood-carving, through utilization of the passion for whittling, born in every Yankee boy. For such a school, in con- nection with Rev. George L. Chaney, he procured the use of the chapel of the Hollis Street church in the city of Boston, and organized the first " whittling school."