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general of militia, aiul a member of the navy board. He declined the offices of lieutenant-gov- ernor of Massachusetts and judge of the state su- preme court. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Plymouth. Mass.. Nov. 27. 180S.

WARREN, John Collins, surgeon and author, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1778; son of John and Abigail (Collins) Warren ; grandson of Joseph and Mary (Stevens) Warren, and of John and Mary (Avery) Collins. His father was the foremost surgeon in New England for forty years; served in the Continental army during the Revo- lution : was professor of anatomy and surgery in the Harvard Medical school, and first presi- dent of the Massachusetts Medical society, 1804- 15. John Collins Warren was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1797, A.M., 1800; studied medi- cine and chemistry in London, Paris and Edin- burgh, and in 1802 established himself in practice in Boston. Mass., receiving the degree of M.D. from Harvard, 1819, and also from St. Andrews, Scotland. He was married, Nov. 17, 1803, to Susan Powell, daughter of Jonathan and Susan (Powell) Mason of Boston, Mass. He was joint editor of the Monthly Anthology in 1803 ; took an active part in establishing the Boston Athenaeum ; was adjunct professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard. 180G-15 ; Hersey professor, 1815-47, and professor emeritus, 1847-56. He was prominent in founding hospitals ; was senior surgeon at the Massachusetts General hospital, 1820-56, and was the first to operate publicly upon a patient under anesthesia. Oct. 16, 1846, Dr. Morton administer- ing the ether. He was also one of the first to operate with success for strangulated hernia, and for aneurism. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; president of the Society of Natural History ; a member of the American Philosophical society ; of the Agricul- tural Society of Massachusetts, and of various foreign medical and archaeological societies. He is the author of : Description of an Egyptian Mummy (1821) ; Some Account of the Medical School in Boston, and of the Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital (1824) ; Description of the Siamese Twins (1829) ; Description of a Skeleton of the Mastodon Gigantens of North America (1852) ; Grnealngy of Wat-ren, with Some Historical Sketches (1854), and The Great Tree on Boston Common (1855), besides many surgical works. He died in Boston, Mass.. May 4, 1856.

WARREN, John Collins, surgeon, was born in Boston, Mass., May 4. 1S42 ; son of Jonathan Mason and Annie (Crowninshield) Warren ; grandson of John Collins Warren (q.v.) and of Benjamin Williams and Mary (Boardman) Crowninshield of Salem. Mass. He attended the Boston Latin and Dixwell's schools ; was gradu-

ated from Harvard, A.B., 1863, M.D., 1866; at- tended the Imperial hospital, Vienna ; studied in Berlin, Paris, and London, and in 1869 established himself in practice in Boston. He was married. May 27. 1873, to Amy, daughter of Gardner Huw- land and Cora (Lyman) Shaw of Boston. He was instructor in surgery at Harvard, 1871-82 ; assistant professor of surgery, 1882-87. associate professor, 1887-93, and professor, 1893, and was appointed surgeon in the Massachusetts General hospital in 1876. He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1900. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Jefferson college in 1895. He edited the Boston Medical and Sur- gical Jorirnal, 1873-81, and the International Text-Book of Surgery by American and British Authors (2 vols., 1900), and is the author of Sur- g ica I Path ology ( 1895 ).

WARREN, Joseph, patriot, was born in Rox- bury, Mass., June 11, 1741, son of Joseph and Mary (Stevens) AVarren ; grandson of Joseph Warren, of Roxbury, 1720, and of Dr. Samuel Stevens, a prominent physician of Roxbury, and a descendant of Peter Warren, mariner, the im- migrant. He was graduated from Harvard in 1759 ; was master of the Roxbury grammar- school ; studied medicine under Dr. James Lloyd and began practice in Boston in 1764. He was married, Sept. 6, 1764, to Elizabeth Hooton. He was an intimate friend of Samuel Adams and took a prominent part in the movement that led to the Revolutionary war. He published sev- eral articles on the Stamp Act and on the Towns- hend acts in the Boston Gazette ; was one of the committee appointed in June, 1768, to wait on Governor Francis Bernard and protest against the impressment of seamen and the enforcement of the revenue laws, and was a member of the committees of safety and of correspondence. He delivered the anniversary oration on the "Boston Massacre" in March, 1772, and drew up and read the " Suffolk Resolves "' Sept. 9, 1774, that placed Massachusetts in an attitude of re- bellion. In October, 1774, he was appointed chairman of the committee of safety and on March 5, 1775, delivered an oration on "The Baleful Influence of Standing Armies in Time of Peace," at the Old South church before a vast concourse. On April 18, 1775, he despatched William Dawes and Paul Revere to Lexington and Concord to warn the patriots of the country- side of the arrival of the British troops. He was elected president of the provincial congress held at Watertown, Maj' 31, 1775; was appointed major-general of the Massachusetts troops, but served as a volunteer in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he was wounded in the head bv a