CLASS OF 1897

Dr. Henry Edward Goddard died at his home in Brockton, Mass., May 12, 1918, of pneumonia and myocarditis.

The son of Rev. Warren and Mary (Eldridge) Goddard, he was born in Brockton, May 20, 1852. He prepared for college at Brockton High School and spent two years at Cornell and two at Brown, graduating from the latter in 1875. He then .studied at the New Church Theological School in Cambridge, and was for 19 years pastor of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) church in Brockton.

Turning then to medical study, after finishing his course at Dartmouth and a graduate course at Harvard, including a course in obstetrics at the Boston Lying-in Hospital, he entered upon practice in- Brockton. After a few years of general practice he established a small maternity hospital, from which a large one gradually developed, and become a specialist in that branch of medicine, winning unusual success.

In 1879 Dr. Goddard was married to Mary Elizabeth Outcalt, who died in 1886. Their two children survive their parents.