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DALTON

DALTON, Edward Barry, physiciau, was born in Li>wt'li, .Mass., 8fpt. 21. 18i54; son of

Dr. John Call and (Spaulding) Dalton. He

was graduated from Harvard in 1855 and received the degree of M.D. from the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city, in 1858. He was house physician at Bellevue hospital, 1858-59; resident jihysician at St. Luke's hospital. 1859-61; served for four months in 1861 as surgeon on the U.S.S. (Quaker City, and in November, 1861, was commissioned regimental surgeon to the 36th N.Y. volunteers. He was medical inspector for the 6th corps with the rank of surgeon. Earlj- in 186:} he was married to Sarah Horton, daugliter of AVarren Colburn, thematliematician. In March, 1863. lie was made acting medical director on the stall of (Jeneral Dix. In May, 1864, he estab- lished at Fredericksburg the first hospital depot, collecting and placing under shelter over seven thousand wounded in two days. These were augmented by the wounded from the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, and Dr. Dalton was made chief medical officer. He remained in charge of the field hospital, army of the Potomac, until March 25, 1865, when he was appointed medical director of the 9th corps. In April he was made chief medical officer at the depot hospital in Alexandria, Va. On April 24, 1865, he tendered his resignation and on Aug. 15, 1865, lie was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel of volmiteers for faithful and meritorious ser- vices. He resumed the practice of medicine in New York city. He was sanitary superintendent of the board of health, New York city, 1866-69. After his resignation in 1869 he returned to general practice and was clinical assistant to the professor of practical medicine and lecturer on <li.seases of the nervous system in the College of physicians and surgeons. Early in 1870 he established himself in Boston, Mass., and was appjinted visiting physician to the Massachusetts general hospital, and instructor in theory and practice in the ^lassachasetts medical college. His published writings include: The Disorder Knoirn as Bronzed Skin (1860); and The Jletroptdi- inn Board of Ilenlth (1868). He died in Santa Barbara. Cal.. May 13. 1872.

DALTON, John Call, phj-sician. was born in Boston, Mass., May 31. 1795. He was prepared for college by Dr. Lutlier Stearns at ]Medford academy and was grafluated at Harvard in arts in 1841 and in medicine in 1818, liaving also attende<l a regular course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. He succeeded to the practice of Dr. Rufus Wyman of Chelms- ford. Mass.. who had been elected superintendent of the McLean asylum in 1818. He was married in 1822 to a daughter of Deacon Noah Spaulding of Chebnsford, who died in 1S46. In 1831 he

removed to Lowell, where he practised medicine until 1859. In 1851 he was married to tiie daugliter of the Hon. John PhiUips of Andover, and in 1859 they removed to Boston. He was a member of the state medical commi.ssion for the examination of surgeons, was senior physician of the new city hospital, and an active laborer in the Sanitary commission during the civil war. His four sons were at one time in the United States military, civil and medical service. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 9, 1864.

DALTON, John Call, pliysiologist, was born in Cliehiisiord, Mass., Feb. 2, 1825; son of Dr.

John Call and (Spaulding) Dalton. He was

graduated from Harvard in arts in 1844 and in medicine in 1847. He was professor of physi- ology in the medical departni'^nt of the University of Buffalo, N.Y., 1851-.j4, and there first illustra- ted physiology by experiments on animals. He removed to Vermont and occupied a similar chair in the medical college at Woodstock, 1854- 56. His next professorships were at the Long Island college hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1859-61, and at the College of phy.sicians and surgeons. New York city, 1855-83. He was president of the college, 1884-89. His military service in- cluded thirty days at the front as surgeon of the 7tli regiment N.Y. S.M., after which he served as surgeon in the medical corps of the volunteer army with the rank of brigadier-general, until March, 1864, when he resigned. He was elected a member of the National academy of science in 1864, and he served as member, fellow or corre- spondent in various medical societies of America and Europe. He received from Columbia the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1887 and a like honor from the College of New Jersey in 1886. Besides numerous contributions to medical periodicals he is the author of: A Treatise on Hitman Physiology (1859, 6th ed., 1882); A Treatise on Bhysiology and lIlK/iene for Schools, Families and Colleges (1868); G((len and Paracelsus (1873); Eyperimentation on Animals (1875); The Erperimentol Method of Medi- cine (1882); Doctrines of the Circulation (1884); Tojiof/raphical Anatomy of the Brain (1885); and History of the College of Physicians and Sxirgeons (1888). He died in New York city, Feb. 12. 1889.

DALTON, Samuel, merchant, was born in Salem, JIass., June 25, 1840; son of Col. Joseph A. and Mary (Fairfield) Dalton; and grandson of Joseph H. Dalton. He was graduated from Salem high school in 1856 and entered his father's leather store. He was afterward employed by other firms until 1861, when he enlisted in the 14th Massachu-setts volunteers. After three years of service he was mustered out as 1st lieu- tenant and entered business under the firm name of Nichols & Dalton. He again joined the Salem cadets of whic-h he had been a member