CLASS OF 1860

Dr. John Peaslee Brown, for twenty-eight years superintendent of the state lunatic hospital at Taunton, Mass., died Sept. 19 in Springfield, Mass., at the home of his daughter, with whom he had made his home for the past two years. Doctor Brown was born in Raymond, N. H., Oct. 12, 1833, and prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. After graduation he taught for three years at Bayou Sara, La., and at Weymouth and Danvers, Mass. He pursued medical studies at the same time, completing them at Harvard Medical School, where he took his degree in 1865. He then became assistant physician at the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, at Concord, and there remained until March 1, 1878, when he was appointed to his position at Taunton. Ill health compelled his resignation in November, 1906. Doctor Brown was highly successful in the management of the institution, and gave to .the work not only high professional skill but sympathy and tenderness of heart which resulted in the comfort and the amelioration of the suffering of those in his care. During his administration the hospital more than doubled in size, and was always in the forefront of such institutions in the country. He was the first to institute colony care for his patients, a system after-wards followed by many institutions. Doctor Brown was married March 16, 1865, to Caroline A., daughter of Daniel Stevens of Mt. Vernon, N. H., whose death in August, 1906, was a great . blow to her husband. Their only child is the wife of Dr. Frederick S. Ward '92 of Springfield.

Secretary, Rev. Arthur Little, 6 Melville Ave., Dorchester, Mass.