CLASS OF 1858

Joshua William Beede, M.D., died at his home in Auburn, Me., on Friday, March 21, 1913. Born of Huguenot and Quaker stock at Poplin, now Fremont, N. H., in 1832, and graduating at Phillips Exeter Academy, he was for a while a member of the class of 1857, but joined that of 1858 in junior year. Teaching for three years after graduation, he then studied medicine in New York, taking his degree at Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Establishing himself in his profession at Auburn, Me., in 1864, that town, now a city, became his home for the remainder of his life, his active practice ceasing but recently. He married Miss Abbie Maria Reed of Nashua, N. H., not now living, and their only child, a daughter, now Mrs. William P. Breneman, brought him two grand- children. A high authority wrote: "Professionally, Dr. Beede's standing is among the best. None of the great changes that have occurred in medicine during the past forty years have found him unprepared. He is regarded as an expert in the diagnosis of many diseases." Dr. Beede received from Colby College the honorary A.M. He was for many years a trustee of that institution, and also of Hebron Academy. He was one of the founders of the Androscoggin County Medical Association, being for some time its president, was long a member of the city school board and a trustee of the city library, was for twenty years secretary of the Auburn Home for Aged Women and a trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank, and was one of the foremost and most active laymen of the Baptist denomination in the state. He always came with warm hand and heart to the meetings of his Dartmouth class.

Secretary, Rev. Samuel C. Beane, Grafton, Mass.