CLASS OF 1857

Lloyd Wells Hixon, M.D., died at Nashotah, Wis., Dec. 26, 1907. Doctor Hixon was born at Somersworth, N. H., Jan. 18. 1829. His home while in College was in Lowell, Mass., where he obtained his preparation. For the first three years after graduation he taught in the Lowell High School, and then studied medicine, receiving his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1862. He immediately entered the government service as medical cadet, and so continued until his commission as assistant surgeon of the 13th Massa chusetts Volunteers, March 3, 1863. served with this regiment as its only medical officer until the expiration of its service in August 1864, being present at many of the battles of the Army of the Potomac. At Gettysburg he was taken prisoner, but left behind on the retreat of the Confederate army. At Petersburg, he narrowly escaped death by the explosion of a shell, which caused a deafness which forced him, after some fifteen months' hospital service, to abandon his profession. In September, 1866, he opened a private school for boys in Lowell, which was afterwards removed to Newburyport, Mass. In 1876 increasing deafness caused him to close his school, and he made use of the buildings for boarders for three or four years. After a short resumption of the school, he finally gave it up in 1882, his deafness having become total. In 1893 he became librarian of Nashotah House, a theological school of the Protestant Episcopal church, and so continued until about a year before his death. He was never married. A letter received by Rev. W. B. Wright of this class from Mrs. Anne Webb Leeds of Nashotah reads as follows:

"I am writing to tell that the dear Doctor passed quietly away at 10 a. m., Dec. 26. You know what Thackeray said of Colonel Newcome's death: 'And 10, he, whose heart was as. that of a little child, had answered to his name and stood in the presence of the Master.' He caught cold going out to church Sunday last, and he has failed rapidly this winter. He told me lie had heard from most of his old friends of war days and college days. He said this was the happiest Christmas he had ever had. To the last his mind was clear. My brother, Bishop Webb, loved him as a son, and he and I were with him all Christmas afternoon. He was dressed and in a chair. He had very little pain. but was unable to swallow. He was the old-time Christian gentleman.-loyal to God and loyal to his friends and country. My brother took the body to lay it beside Mrs. Hixon, the dotor's tor's mother, near Lowell."

Secretary, Dr. John H. Glark, Amherst, N. H.