CLASS OF 1896

Dr. George Elliott Chamberlain died of septicemia at a hospital in Cambridge, Mass., December 15, 1919.

He was born in Bradford, Vt., February 12, 1869, his parents being Remembrance Wright and Helen (Corliss) Chamberlain. His parents removed to Newbury, Vt., in his boyhood, and he attended Newbury Seminary.

After graduation he was for one year interne at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, and was then connected with Brooklyn Hospital and Lawrence General Hospital. For a short time he was engaged in private practice in Lawrence, Mass. During the Spanish War he was acting assistant surgeon U. S. A., being on duty at Jacksonville, Fla., and in Cuba, and in 1900 in the Philippines. Returning to civil life, he opened an office in Boston, and was assistant in the orthopedic department of the Children's Hospital, where he originated a number of devices still in use there. In 1905 he went again to the Philippines in the interest of a mining company. On his return he joined the regular army, and was in 1908-9 stationed at Fort Walla Walla, and Fort Stevens, Oregon. He was then placed on the inactive list, and in poor health returned to his father's farm at South New- bury, Vt., and interested himself in farming and the breeding of pure bred stock. During the late war he was made a captain, and was stationed for a short time at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., receiving an honorable discharge from the army, September 7, 1917.

October 22, 1912, Dr. Chamberlain was married to Edith Louisa, daughter of Ezra Allen and Julia E. (Dexter) Stevens, who survives him, with three children.