CLASS OF 1864

Dr. LeRoy Frederick Morse died of arteriosclerosis at his home in Cobden, Ill., July 7, 1917.

He was born in Canterbury, N. H., February 5, 1839, being one of twelve children of Charles Abbott and Eunice (Lake) Morse. He received his preliminary education at Boscawen Academy and the New Hampton Institution.

Obtaining his medical degree in November, 1863, he was commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the United States Navy November 14, 1863, and served on the U. S. S. Proteus" and "Restless" until his discharge, December 7, 1865.

After leaving the navy he took further study at Bellevue Hospital, and in 1868 went into practice at Mattoon, Ill. In 1888 he removed to Cobden, Ill., which was thereafter his home.

He had been mayor of Cobden, was for fifteen years on its school board, had been president of local and county medical associations and master of the Masonic lodge, and was active in Republican politics. He was a great reader, and considered one of the best informed men on all subjects in the community, and was highly respected as a man of strict integrity. He had a record in his practice of never having lost a case of pneumonia and seldom of typhoid fever.

In 1869 Dr. Morse was married to Harriet Frances, daughter of Augustus Lund and Fannie (Dole) Chamberlin of Terre Haute, Ind., and formerly of New Hampshire, who survives him with a daughter. Another daughter and a son are no longer living.