CLASS OF 1888

In the MAGAZINE for February a brief mention was made of the death of Dr. Frank Justin Barker. Further information has since been received, and a fuller account of his life follows:

The son of Thaddeus Lyscom and Otilla Grover (McAllister) Barker, he was born in Fitchburg, Mass., September 15, 1860. His early education was obtained in the schools of his native city.

After graduation he began practice in Portsmouth, R. I., where he remained until 1891, and was then in Acton, Mass., to 1909. He then took three years' rest, during which time was included a course in rectal surgery at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. In 1912 he resumed practice in Concord, Mass., where he remained until his death.

Overwork during the influenza epidemic brought on angina pectoris, and he went away for a two weeks' rest, but died in Carthage, N. Y., December 14.

He had served on the Board of Health in Acton and Concord, and was physician for the Massachusetts Reformatory and for the Middlesex School. He was a member of the New England Pediatric Society.

In 1890 Dr. Barker was married to Ida Lauretta, daughter of George William and Isabella Wells (Ullock) Pelton of Eastport, Me., who survives him. They had no children,