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Cook. He -was surgeon to the New York city police department in 1861; lecturer at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, 1863- 71, clinical professor there, 1871-90, and professor emeritus. 1890-1900; superintendent surgeon of the Pacific Mail steamship company, 1869-73, and president of the medical board of the New York police department, 1870-73. He acted as consulting surgeon to several New York hospitals, 1800-90. He made a trip around the world, 1890- 91. and while in Japan gave a course of lectures at the medical university at Tokio. He was elected president of the American Association of andrology and syphilology in 1891: fellow of the American Academy of Medicine; the New York County Medical society; the British associa- tion, and a member of the University club, the Century association and numerous medical socie- ties. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Union college in 1851; that of M.D. by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1804, and that of LL.D. by Columbia in 1893. He is the author of: Lesso7is in Draicing, Studies of Animals and Landscajjes (3 vols.. 18-19-50); Tropicid Journeyings (1856); History of the Panama Railroad and its Connections (1860), and of numerous important medical and surgical works. He also contributed to various foreign and American medical journals, and invented many surgical instruments. He died in New Orleans, La., May 34, 1900.

OTIS, George Alexander, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 13, 1830; son of George Alexander (Harvard, 1831) and Anna (Hickman) Otis; grandson of George Alexander Otis, author of a translation of Botta's " History of the Ameri- can War for Independence "; great-grandson of Dr. Ephraim Otis (Harvard, 1756), and a descend- ant from John Otis, Hingham, Mass., 1636. He at- tended the Boston Latin school and Fairfax in- stitute near Alexandria, Va., and was graduated from th College of New Jersey, A.B., 1849, A.M., 1853; and from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D. in 1851. He was married, Sept. 19, 1850, to Pauline, daughter of the Rev, Alfred L. Baury of Newton, Mass. He studied in hospitals in London and Paris, 1851-53, and on his return to th=! United States settled in Richmond, Va. He A-as associate editor of the Virginia Medical and Snrgical Journal. 1853-54. and in 1854 removed to Springfield, Mass. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he joined the Federal army as surgeon of tiie 37th Massachusetts regiment of volunteers and served throughout the war, receiving brevets as captain, major and lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services. He was ap- pointed c\irator of the U.S. Army Medical Mu- seum, July 33. 1864. and given charge of the sur- gical record department. His health failing in

1877, he was advanced to the rank of major and surgeon in the U.S. army, March 17, 1880, and remained in charge at the Army Medical Museum until his death. He was a member of the Medi- cal Society of Norway; corresponding member of the Surgical Society of Paris; an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical society, a member of the Philosophical Society of "Washing- ton, D.C.. and of the Academy of Natural Scien- ces of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Surgical History of the Rebellion (3 vols. 1881), on which he was engaged at the time of his death, and numerous reports for the Medical Museum. He died at Washington. D.C.,Feb. 33, 1881.

OTIS, Harrison Gray, senator, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 8. 1765; son of Samuel Al- leyne and Elizabeth (Gray) Otis; grandson of Col. James and Mary (Alleyne) Otis, and of Har- rison Gray, a loyalist and receiver-general of Massachusetts before the Revolution, and a de- scendant of John Otis, who emigrated from Hingham, Norfolk county, England, to Hingham, Mass., in June, 1635. He was graduated at Har- vard, A.B., 1783, A.M., 1786; studied law under Judge John Lowell in Boston, and became his law partner in 1786. He was married, May 31, 1790,. to Sarah, daughter of William Foster. He served as captain in the Light infantry, 1787-93, his company escorting Washington on his entrance into Boston in 1789. He was an aide-de-camp to Gen. John Brooks during Shays's rebellion. He delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1788; represented Boston in the state legisla- ture in 1796 and 1803-05, and was speaker. 1803- 05. He was a Federalist representative from Massachusetts in the 5th and 6th congresses, succeeding Fisher Ames, and served, 1797-1801; was U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts, 1801-03; and state senator and president of the senate, 1805-11. He was a delegate to the Federalist convention at Hartford, Conn., in 1814; judge of the court of common pleas of Massachusetts, 1814-18. and U.S. senator as suc- cessor to Joseph B. Varnum, 1817-33, resigning in 1833, when he was succeeded by James Lloyd, who completed the term. He was defeated as the Federal candidate for governor of Massachusetts by William Eustis in 1833, and was mayor of Boston, 1839-33. He delivered a eulogy on Alex- ander Hamilton in 1804 and made an argument in the U.S. senate in 1830 on the admission of Missouri, which were extensively copied and quoted. He was a fellow of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, and was elected an honorary member of the New England Historic Genealogical society, Jan. 6, 1846. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1810-35. a fellow, 1838-35, and received the degree LL.D. from there in 1814. He died in Boston, Mass.. Oct. 38, 1848.