CLASS OF 1859

Dr. Edward Cowles died July 25 at his home in Plymouth, Mass. He attended the reunion of his class at Hanover at Commence- ment, and was taken ill while there.

He was born in Ryegate, Vt., July 20, 1837, his parents being George and Mary (Bradlee) Cowles. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he pursued the study of medicine at Dartmouth, obtaining his degree in the fall of 1862, with the class of 1863. He then studied several months at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating there also in 1863. For a short time he filled an appointment as assistant physician in the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Conn.

June 13, 1863, Dr. Cowles was commissioned assistant surgeon United States Army, and was for some months in charge of a hospital which he had organized at Harrisburg, Pa., after the battle of Gettsburg. He then served with the Army of the Potomac to the close of the war, being at the last surgeon-in-chief of General Macy's brigade. March 13, 1865, he was brevetted captain for meritorious service. He remained in the army until March 1, 1872, serving in various capacities, and retiring with the full rank of captain.

From 1872 to 1879 he was resident physician and superintendent of the Boston City Hospital, and then became medical superintendent of the McLean Hospital for the treatment of the insane, holding that position until 1903. He attained high rank as an alienist, and was lecturer on mental diseases at Dartmouth in 1885-6 and professor of the same subject from 1886 to 1913, when he became professor emeritus. He was also instructor in mental diseases at Harvard from 1889 to 1914, and lecturer on psychiatry at Clark University from 1904 to 1914, being trustee of the last institution from 1890 to 1908. Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1890.

Dr. Cowles was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and member of the American Psychological Association, the American Neurological Association, the American Medico-Psychological Association (and at one time its president), the American Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the National Geographic Society, as well as foreign medical societies. He was a member of the Loyal Legion and the St. Botolph Club. He was the author of monographs on hospital construction, mental diseases, neurasthenia, the training of nurses, and kindred subjects.

Dr. Cowles was married December 25, 1865, to Harriet M., daughter of Albert and Sophronia E. (Jones) Wainwright of Hanover, who died some years since. They had no children.