CLASS OF 1879

Dr. Joshua Francis Lewis died on the night of February 26 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He had been ill with heart trouble and asthma since December and a few days before his death had been removed to the hospital where the end came suddenly. Dr. Lewis was born in Ware, Mass., February 19, 1855, and prepared for the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth at Wilbraham Academy. For five years after graduation he taught at Dennis and Brockton, Mass., and then studied medicine at Harvard, taking his degree in 1887. Soon after his graduation from Harvard he entered the service of the Massachusetts State Board of Lunacy and Charity, and had been for the past thirteen years superintendent of the adult poor. He had formerly lived in Hyde Park, where he served several years on the school committee, and removed to Maiden about eleven years ago, where he also served on the school committee. He leaves a widow and two daughters. Dr. Lewis was an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Maiden University Club and The Boston City Club.

Secretary, Carlos C. Davis, Winchester, N. H.