CLASS OF 1892

Dr. James Scribner Brown died at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Manchester, N. H., February 23, of pneumonia, after an illness of only a few days. Doctor Brown was born in Chester, N. H., Nov. 30, 1871, his parents being Dr. James Francis and Abbie (Scribner) Brown. His father, who was a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School in 1865, died last July. The family removed to Manchester in 1884, and the subject of this sketch prepared for college at the city high school. In college he was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and an editor of the Aegis and the Dartmouth. The first year after graduation he was principal of the high school at Wilton, N. H. He then entered upon the study of medicine, taking one year at Dartmouth and two at the University of Pennsylvania, and receiving his medical degree from the latter in June, 1896. After one year spent as house surgeon in the Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburg, Pa., he returned to Manchester and began a practice which ended only with his death. After two years he became a member of the surgical staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital. He had been president of the Manchester Medical Society, and was a member of the county and state societies, and of the American Medical Association. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Patrons of Husbandry. Doctor Brown had become one of the leading surgeons of the city and the state. He was accurate in his diagnosis, rapid and extremely skillful in his work, gentle in all his ministrations, and unusually finely poised in his medical knowledge. He had operated in over two hundred cases of appendicitis, and was highly successful. He performed the first successful Caesarean operation in Manchester, if not in the state. Outside of his profession, he was unusually well read in general literature, and was finely gifted as a conversationalist. His popularity with his own profession, with his patients, and in social circles was noteworthy. Doctor Brown had not married, and a sister is his nearest surviving relative.

Secretary, Frank I. Weston, New Faneuil Hall Market, Boston