CLASS OF 1864

Dr. Andrew Mitchell Peables died of pneumonia at his home in Auburn, Maine, May 24, 1916.

The son of James Wesley and Margaret (Larrabee) Peables, he was born in Auburn, September 7, 1836.

In January, 1864, Dr. Peables was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Thirtieth United States Colored Troops, was promoted to be surgeon March 5, 1865, and resigned June 16, 1865. He was for a time brigade surgeon on the staff of General Delavan Bates.

The rest of his long life was spent in the practice of his profession in Auburn, and he was actively at work until a month before his death.

September 19, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth Hooper Haskell, who survives him, with three daughters.