CLASS OF 1849

Dr. Washington Lafayette Schenck died at his home in Topeka, Kans., January 4, of pneumonia. He was born in Franklin, Ohio, Feb. 14, 182S, and was a student in Miami University for two or three years. His medical studies were pursued at the Ohio Medical College and at Dartmouth, with postgraduate work at Jefferson Medical College. In January, 1849, he married Julia Bliss of Calais, Vt. From the spring of 1849 he practiced in his native city until the death of his wife in August, 1870, and then at Osage City, Kans., from 1871 to 1889, since which his home had been in Topeka.' In 1873 he was again married to Lizzie Dodds of Montgomery County, Ohio. From Oct. 1, 1861, to Dec. 24, 1862, he served as surgeon of the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteers, being most of the time on hospital duty; he was subsequently surgeon on the board of enrollment of the Third Congressional District of Ohio. Among the many positions of honor and trust which he held are these: vice-president of the American Medical Association, in 1888; president of the Kansas State Medical Society, in 1877, and of the East Kansas District Medical Society, in 1880; professor of hygiene and state medicine in the University of Kansas City, 1888-9; adjunct professor of the practice of medicine and professor of hygiene and preventive and state medicine in Kansas Medical College, of which he- was one of the organizers, 1889; member of school board in Franklin and Osage City; mayor of Franklin; four terms member of the Kansas state board of health; trustee of Antioch College and of the Kansas Medical College; local surgeon for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at Newcastle, Colo., in 1895 and '96, and for the Santa Fe system and the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Osage City from 1872 to 1890.