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Cavalry, aud in October, 1881, was appointed Aid-de-Oamp on the staif of General Nelson A. Miles, commanding the Department of the Columbia, and is at present stationed at Fort Vancouver on that duty. He has re- ceived numberless honorary distinctions since his return from the North, and is at present corresponding member of many European and American Sci- entific especially geographical— societies, and has by special request de- livered lectures in many of the principal cities of the East. The Lieutenant is a very ordinary looking person, being of about regulation height, heavy built, with full ruddy face, indicative of good health and a hearty, robust constitution, smooth face, with the exception of a short mustache, a keen eye, its elfect enforced by the use of glasses, prominent nose and an intel- lectual forehead. His disposition is genial and his character among men unsullied. He was married September 6, 1882, to Miss Ada J. Brackett.

S. E. JOSEPHI, M. D., A resident of East Portland and a gentleman well and favorably known by reason of his long continued connection with the Oregon Hospital for the Insane, was born in New York City, December 3, 1849, where he received his early education, entering the Free Academy, now known as the New York College, in 1863. Possessing a desire to establish himself in some new country and avail himself of the advantages to be derived from growing up with it, in 1866 came west and stopped for a short time in San Francisco, and the year following pressed on towards Oregon and at once entered in the employ of Dr. J. C. Hawthorne as book-keeper at the Hospital for the Insane at East Portland, and at the same time studied medicine in the in- stitution and prepared himself for entering medical college. In 1869 he re- turned to New York with the intention of so doing, but adverse circum- stances jjrevailed and he again returned to Oregon and entered the employ of Stephens & Loryea, bankers, and renewed his connection with the asy- lum. By judicious management and strict economy he succeeded in saving sufficient from his earnings to support his family while absent and pay his expenses through college. He at once resumed the study of medicine and finally graduated at the Medical Department of the University of California in 1877. In November of that year he was appointed Assistant Physician to the Oregon Hospital for the Insane, under the Superintendency of the late Dr. J. C. Hawthorne, and upon his death was appointed Superintendent of that institution, which position he still occupies. In 1879 he was elected to the Cbair of Psychological Medicine in the medical department of the Wil- lamette University at Portland, and in 1880 to the Chair of Anatomy in the same college. He is also a member of the Oregon Medical Society and of the American Association of Medical Superintendents. He is an honored member of the Orient Lodge No. 17, 1. O. O.F., which he has represented in the Grand Lodge of Oregon several terms. He was married in 1871 to Mias Hannah M. Stone, of Portland, and they have four children living. Dr. Joseph! is what we call a good-looking man. He is of about ordinary height, of graceful form and figure, jet black hair and whiskers, with a mild brown eye, pleasant voice and suave manner, a good talker, intell