CLASS OF 1855

Ira N. Barnes, M.D., died August 13, 1913, at his home in Decatur, Ill, leaving surviving him a widow and a son, Lynn M. Barnes, M. D., a graduate of Harvard, now residing and practicing his profession in Decatur. Dr. Ira N. Barnes was born in Claremont, N. H., December 19, 1829, and belonged to a good, typical New England family. Upon his graduation at Dartmouth he taught school for two or three years, in 1858 attended medical lectures at Dartmouth, and in 1860 entered Jefiferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1862; he at once located and began practice in Decatur, continuing the same, except as interrupted by his service in the Army, until he received the final call from labor to repose. In 1863 he was commissioned surgeon of the 116th Illinois Volunteers, which was attached to Sherman's famous 15th . Army Corps, and served with it in various battles around Vicksburg, Jackson, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta. In February, 1864, he was made surgeon in chief of the 2nd Division, 15th Corps, and served with it faithfully during its famous march to the sea, and thence through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington, D. C., where it took part in the "grand review"; and he was mustered out of service in June, 1865, by reason of the close of the war. By his serene, but sympathetic, disposition, his long and skillful practice in many households, he won and held the love and esteem of the community in which so large a part of his useful, active life was spent.

Secretary, Samuel P. Bond, 412 Fifth St., N. W., Washington, D. C.