CLASS OF 1871

Dr. George Edgar Lothrop died at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, August 3, 1922, of cancer, from which he had been a sufferer for more than a year.

The son of Freeman and Olive Ann Lothrop, he was born in Providence, R. I., November 17, 1850. His parents died early in his life, and from boyhood he had to make his own way. Succeeding in this, he was able to study medicine at Harvard in 1868-9, and later to attend lectures at Dartmouth.

He practiced his profession until 1875, when he left it to enter upon his life career in theatrical management. In that year he opened the Boylston Museum, which is on the site of the present Gaiety Theater in Boston. His success was pronounced from the first. Some years later he secured the Windsor Theater, which he afterwards reconstructed into the Grand Museum. At one time he controlled a chain of playhouses extending from Portland to New Orleans, and organized several stock companies which played on his circuit for several years. For a long time he had been manager of the Howard Athenaeum and owner of the Bowdoin Square Theater and the Grand Opera House.

Dr. Lothrop was a member of the Elks, the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the Boston City Club. He was a patriotic American citizen, whose purse strings were ever open and whose kind and loving disposition won him thousands of friends. His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Lothrop, and their son, George E. Lothrop, Jr., survive him.