CLASS OF 1878

Dr. Thomas Amory DeBlois died February 27 at his home in the city of Boston. He was born in Columbus, Ga., January 27, 1848, his parents being John Amory and Emilie J. De Blois.

In 1868 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, was commissioned ensign in the navy in 1869, master in 1870, and lieutenant in 1873. While on leave from active service he engaged in the study of medicine, and graduated as M.D. at Dartmouth in the fall of 1877 and at the University of New York in 1878. In 1880 he resigned from the navy. In the preceding year he began practice in Boston, and there remained. He was long prominent as a practitioner, and particularly as a specialist in diseases of the nose and throat.

During all his years of active practice, Dr. DeBlois was connected with the Boston Dispensary in its department of diseases of the throat. For twenty-nine years he served in the Boston City Hospital's out-patient department for diseases of the nose and throat, until his retirement on account of age. For some time he was clinical instructor in laryngology in Harvard Medical School.

He took an active part in the organization of the Massachusetts Naval Militia, the first organization of the kind in the United States. He was a charter member of the Boston Athletic Association, and was a member of the Newport Reading Club, the Naval Order of the United States, and the American Laryngological Association, having been in 1900 a vice-president of the last. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church.

October 4, 1871, Dr. DeBlois was married to Louise D. Anderson of New York, who died in 1910. They have two children, Elizabeth Amory DeBlois of Boston and Louis Amory DeBlois of Wilmington, Del.