CLASS OF 1862

Dr. Isaac Newton Danforth died at his home in the city of Chicago May 5, of heart disease complicated by, asthma. He was born in Barnard, Vt., December 5, 1835. After graduation he became interne in the Hartford (Conn.) Retreat for the Insane, and then engaged in general practice in Greenfield, Mass. In the winter of 1865-6 he studied in Philadelphia, and in the fall of 1866 removed to Chicago. In 1868 he became instructor in chemistry in Rush Medical College, and in 1870 lecturer on pathology in the same institution, becoming two years later president of the body known as the "spring faculty'1 and later the "general faculty." In 1883 he resigned to accept the chair of pathology in Chicago ' Medical College. In 1887 'he was transferred to the chair of clinical medicine, which he filled- until 1895, when ill health induced by overwork and nervous exhaustion, following the illness and death of his wife, compelled his retirement. He was also connected with St. Luke's, Wesley, and Mary Thompson Hospitals, and the Woman's Medical College. In 1881 he received the honorarydegree of A.M. from Dartmouth College. In 1869 he was married to Elizabeth Skelton, whose son and daughter survive their parents. In 1909 Dr. Danforth founded a missionary hospital in China in her honor. In 1898 his second marriage occurred, to Mary McPherson Barnes, who survives him. Dr. Danforth was eminent as a practitioner as well as an instructor. The Chicago Tribune gives this editorial tribute: "His whole life was one of unremitting usefulness. His record as physician and as man was flawless. Chicago has lost an old and highly prized public servant. The only comforting thought is, that it had him for nearly half a century."