CLASS OF 1898

Dr. James Lyman Belknap of Wolfboro, N. H., died December 29 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from complications which followed an operation for appendicitis the week before. Doctor Belknap was born in Dorchester, Mass., Feb. 8, 1875. In his youth his family removed to Andover, and he prepared for college at Phillips Academy. . From May to November, 1898, he served as hospital steward in the Spanish War, being mainly in camp at Chickamauga. He then entered Harvard Medical School, and took his degree in 1902. In 1903 he was appointed a house officer in the Massachusetts General Hospital. After his service there he was assistant surgeon in the United States Navy from 1904 to 1909, and then returned to the Massachusetts General Hospital as assistant resident physician, going thence in 1910 to the Boston Lying-in Hospital. Last June he began private practice at Wolfboro. In April, 1911, he was married to Miss Maude Ausborn Fisher of Arlington, Mass., who survives him. He leaves also his parents, a. brother, and two sisters. The funeral was from Trinity Church, and his classmates Dr. H. W. Good - all, J. W. Bartlett, H. D. Crowley, Richard Marcy, A. D. Jones, and J. R. Spring, served as honorary pallbearers. The burial was at Westboro, Mass.