CLASS OF 1863

Doctor John C. Webster, Secretary of the class of 1864, prepared the following and read it before the Therapeutic Club of Chicago:

Addison Howard Foster, son of Benjamin Tenney and Abigail Howard Foster, was born at Wilton, N. H., on Nov. 13, 1838.

He fitted for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H., and entered Dartmouth College in 1859, graduating in 1863. He studied medicine with Doctors Buck and How at Manchester, N. H., attended lectures at Dartmouth Medical School in the fall of 1864, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in March, 1866.

He began the practice of his profession at Lawrence, Mass., continuing there until his removal to Chicago in March, 1868. He remained here engaged in the active practice of his profession until stricken by cerebral hemorrhage, from the effects of which he died, on March 3, 1906, after a lingering illness.

He held the chair of surgical anatomy in the Woman's Medical College from 1870 to 1875, was consulting physician to the Woman's Hospital for many years, was medical examiner for the New England Mutual Life Insurance company, was a member of American Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association, Chicago Medical Society, Therapeutic Club, Chicago Pathological Society, and Chicago Gynecological Society, serving a term as president in each of the two latter societies.

He was married to Miss Susan M. Houghton of New Ipswich, N. H., on Sept. 18, 1866. The widow survives him, together with three sons—Fred Houghton, Winslow Howard and Charles Stedman. His only daughter, Louise Houghton, died Dec. 22, 1871.

The loss of Doctor Foster seems almost irreparable to those who have known and been associated with him for so many years. Always of a genial, sunny disposition, he greatly endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact, whether in his capacity of physician or in his social relations among his friends and professional associates. * * *

* * He was a hard worker in his profession, and a physician who knew his profession. He was a most devoted husband and father in his home. He led a useful life: he had friends who loved him, and acquaintances who admired him. He was.a polite, social, cultivated, well equipped man, a good companion, an honest, industrious and useful citizen, a promoter of morality, philanthropy and charity.

Let us all profit by his life lesson.

Secretary, M. C. Lamprey, Concord, N. H.