CLASS OF 1885

Dr. Frank Ellsworth Allard died at his home on Summit Avenue, Wellesley, Mass., at 9 o'clock, Sunday evening, February 4. He was one of Boston's best known physicians, and had acquired a large practice. He contracted tuberculosis about a year ago, and gradually failed until his death.

Doctor Allard was a self-made man in the best sense of the word. He worked his way-through college, graduating from the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth in the class of 1885. The next four years he served as principal of the Boston Farm School on Thompson's Island in Boston Harbor, thereby earning the money with which to acquire his medical education. He graduated from the School of Medicine of Boston University in 1892, and since that time practiced his profession in Boston. He was principal of the Maiden Evening School from 1889 to 1907. Since 1889 he was medical examiner for the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was examining surgeon of several casualty companies. He was a member and had served as president of the American Association of Medical Examiners and also of the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society. He was also a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, of the Boston City Club, and the Boston Art Club. At the time of his death he was serving as president of his college class.

He leaves a widow and one daughter, Beatrice, now a post-graduate student at Bryn Mawr College.

Funeral services were held in the chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Wednesday, February 7, at 3 o'clock, p. m. They were attended by a large number of relatives and friends, and the floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The services were conducted by Rev. William W. Sleeper of Wellesley and Rev. Arza H. Armes of Northwood, N. H., the latter being a college classmate of Doctor Allard. The pall-bearers were Henry H. Austin, Edwin A. Bayley, Charles K. Darling, Walter Mooers, E. F. Philbrick, and Wilbur J. Rockwood, all of whom were college classmates of Doctor Allard.

[To the foregoing notice, furnished by the secretary of his class, may be added the following data: Dr. Allard was the son of Horatio P. and Harriet (Foster) Allard, and was born in Wheelock, Vt., May 14, 1861. He prepared for college at Hanover High School, and was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi). His wife, to whom he was married May 15, 1888, was Ann Eliza Booth of Norwich, Vt. Their daughter, Beatrice, is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in 1915.]