CLASS OF 1890

Dr. Edgar Henry Shepard Douglas died at Utica, N. Y„ October 29, 1910, after an operation for gall stones. He was the son of Andrew and Adelia (Brennan) Douglas, and was born in Saxonville, Mass., February 25, 1867. His home was from early years at Little Falls, N. Y., where he attended the" local academy. After taking his medical degree he served as assistant physician in Boston City Hospital, and then opened practice in Little Falls, where he attained high rank in town and county as a diagnostician of unusual ability. He had been railway surgeon for the New York Central Railroad, mayor of the city for two years, a leader in the Republican organization, a member of all the fraternal organizations of the city, and an orator of no mean ability. He was first married to Jennie Alexander of Fairfield, N. Y., who died; his second wife, who was Helen L. Leach of Castile, N. Y., survives him, as do three sons.