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the rank of passed assistant surgeon, May 8, I860. He resigned from the navy, June 1, 1865, and in August sailed for Germany spending some time in medical study, mostly in Vienna. Returning to Boston in February, 1866, he began practice in Dorchester, but removed to Hingham, Mass., June 26, 1866. He was married in April, 1867, to Elizabeth Townsend, daughter of Calvin W. Clark of Boston. His wife died in 1877, leaving four children. In 1881 he was married to Anna C, daughter of William H. Richardson of Dorches- ter. In 1868 he received a prize from the Massa- chusetts medical association for an essay on the " Part taken by Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases. " In May, 1869, he received from the New York academy of medicine the O'Reilly prize of S600 for an essay on the " Sympathetic Nervous System."' He removed to Roxbury, Mass., and in 1870 was appointed assistant professor of materia medica in Harvard, becoming full pro- fessor in 1875. In 1884 he was appointed Jackson professor of clinical medicine. He removed to Boston in 1882, and in 1886 having resigned his chair at Harvard and his position at the Boston city hospital, he removed to Washington, D.C. He was visiting physician to the Garfield memo- rial hospital. In 1891 he returned to Boston and was the resident physician of the Adams nervine asylum at Jamaica Plain vmtil September, 1897. He was elected a member of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences; of the Philosophical society of Washington; of several medical so- cieties in Boston ; of the American medical asso- ciation; of the Massachusetts medical society, before which he gave the Shattuck lecture in 1895; of the American neurological association, of the committee of revision and publication of the 1890 edition of the United States Fharmaco- prein ; a companion of the Loyal Legion, and was one of the founders of the Association of Anaeri- can physicians. He is the author of A Therapeu- tic Handbook of the United States Pharmacopceia (1883) ; Therapeutics and Materia Medica (1887) ; and numerous contributions to medical journals.

EDGAR, William C, editor, was born in La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 21, 1856; son of Joseph C. and Lucy (Dorey) Edgar. He was educated in the schools of St. Louis, Mo. , and in 1882 lie connected himself with The Xorthirestern Miller, a flour milling journal in Minneapolis, Minn., becoming its editor and manager in 1886, In 1891 he organ- ized and superintended a relief supply for the famine-stricken peasants of Russia, and prevailed upon the millers of America to send a shipload of flour to Libau, the delivery and distribution of which he personally superintended. In recogni- tion of this service he received a gold flagon from the Emperor of Russia. He was president of the Minneapolis club in 1899.

EDGERTON, Alonzo Jay, jurist, was born near Rome, N.Y., Jmie 7, 1827. His first ances- tor in America settled at Norwich, Conn., about 1642. Two of his ancestors served in the Revolu- tionary war. He was graduated from AVesleyan xmiversity in 1850 and engaged in teaching for a short time. He was admitted to the bar and re- moved to Minnesota, where he was a member of the state legislature, 1858-59, and again 1877-78, and a presidential elector in 1876. He reciaiited Company B, 10th Minnesota infantiy, serving as its captain throughout the Indian campaign in Dakota, 1862-63, and in February, 1864, he was commissioned colonel and commanded the 67th U.S. colored infantry in Louisiana.^ His regi- ment was consolidated with the 65th colored in 1865, and he was brevetted brigadier-general and commanded the district of Baton Rouge, 1865-67. He was mustered out of the volunteer service in February, 1867. He was railroad commissioner of Minnesota, 1871-74, and in March, 1881, was appointed by Governor Hubbard U.S. senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wil- liam Windom, who had been made secretary of the treasiuy in President Garfield's cabinet. In December, 1881, he Avas appointed chief justice of the territory of Dakota. He was president of the South Dakota constitutional conventions of 1885 and 1889, and when the state was admitted to the union he was appointed U.S. district judge for South Dakota. He was for two years a regent of the University of South Dakota. He received the degree of LL.D. from Weslej-an university in 1891, and also from the University of South Dakota. He was married, Oct. 8, 1850, to Sarah Curtis of New Britain, Conn. He died at Sioux Falls, S.D., Aug. 10, 1896.

EDGERTON, Joseph Ketchum, representa- tive, was born in Chazee, Vt., Feb. 16, 1818. He removed to Plattsburg, N.Y., where he attended school. He went to New York city in 1835 where he took a clerkship in a law office and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1839. He removed to Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1844, and formed a law partner- ship with Gov. Samuel Bigger. He became pres- ident of the then almost insolvent Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, and secured its jirosperity by combining it with three other lines, under the corporate name of the Pittsburg, Fort Waj-ne & Cliicago railway, of which he was elected A'ice- president. He was a Democratic representative from Indiana in the 38th congi-ess, 1863-65. He was president of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad company, 1866-71, and in the latter year organized the Fort Wayne steel plow works, of which he ultunately became sole owner. He was a trustee of Fort Wayne medical college, and president of the board in 1879, He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 25, 1898.