OBITUARIES.

CHARLES L. IVES, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

BY WM. B. DEFOREST, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

Charles L. Ives, the only child of the late Dr. Nathan B. Ives of New Haven, was born June, 1831, and died March 20, 1879, aged 47 years. His preparatory course for College was at the Hopkins Grammar School, from which he graduated at the age of seventeen, at once entering Yale, from which he graduated in 1852, at twenty-one. He received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1854, and after two years spent in study in New York, commenced practice in New Haven, being associated with his father. Upon the death of Prof. Worthington Hooker, in 1867, he was appointed Prof. of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Institution of Yale College, a position which he held until 1873, when he resigned to accept the Professorship of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System in the post-graduate course of the University Medical College of New York. From 1867 to 1872 he was one of the Medical Visitors to the Retreat for the Insane, and contributed handsomely towards the completion of "Ives' Amusement Hall," named after his father, through whose generosity it was erected. After leaving Yale he spent a year and a half in Europe, but finding his health would not allow his resuming active work, he resigned his appointment in New York. He returned to America in 1874, but from ill health did not resume active professional work. He died from cancer of the rectum the immediate cause of death secondary hemorrhage, a few days after a surgical operation for its removal.

Dr. Ives was married in 1860, but left no children. He early in life professed his belief in the Christian religion, and was an earnest and active Christian during his life. In the words of a life-long friend, "He possessed a rare purity of character, great singleness and earnestness of purpose, with a fearless devotion to the advocacy of all that seemed to him to be good and true and noble."

EDWIN A. PARK, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

BY WM. B. DEFOREST, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

Edwin A. Park was born at Preston, January 27, 1817. He graduated at the Medical Institution of Yale College in 1846. New Haven was his first and only field of practice, and here he spent a professional life of thirty-two years, gaining the esteem of all that knew him. He died January 17, 1879, having been obliged for short periods to give up practice from ill health, for several months before his last illness. He leaves a wife and four children.

A resolution, adopted by the New Haven Medical Association at the time of his death, very generally express the sentiments of his associates in these terms, viz. :

Resolved, That the late Edwin A. Park, M.D., by his long and untiring fidelity to his professional duties, both to his patients and to his medical brethren, laid a lasting foundation for the respect in which he was held while in life, and for the affection which bound him so warmly to the homes and the hearts of those to whom he ministered, and that he has left us, in these things, an ensample how we should walk.

WILLIAM M. WHITE, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

BY WILLIAM B. DEFOREST, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

Dr. W. M. White was born in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1823, and died of apoplexy February 21, 1879, aged 67.

He received his medical degree from Berkshire Medical College in 1843, and commenced practice at Centerville, but soon removed to Fair Haven, a district of New Haven, where he resided during the remainder of his life. He was very active in military organizations during the war, and was sent in 1863 as a special agent from the Executive department to visit the sick and wounded Connecticut volunteers, in the U. S. Military Hospitals, chiefly in Washington, receiving appointment as Surgeon of Volunteers from Gov. Buckingham, October, 1863. After the commencement of the Union Pacific Railroad, Dr. White was appointed by President Lincoln one of the three Commissioners to examine the work on

behalf of the government, a position which he held to the completion of the road, to the entire satisfaction of the government. His death was sudden, although he had been subject to congestive attacks for some time previous. He leaves two children, a son and daughter.

STEPHEN CHALKER BARTLETT, M.D., WATERBURY.

BY W. R. BARTLETT, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

The subject of this sketch, Stephen Chalker Bartlett, M.D., was born in North Guilford, April 19, 1839; he died on the morning of February 3, 1879, and would have been forty years of age had he lived until the following April. He was the eldest son of Stephen R. and Susan (Chalker) Bartlett. His boyhood was passed at the family home; he received an excellent education, and his medical studies were carried on at the Yale Medical School, where he graduated in January, 1866. Previous to graduation he served in the U. S. Military Hospitals at West Philadelphia and Chester, Pa., and as medical cadet at the Knight Hospital in this city, also as assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy in 1864-5, being assigned to duty as surgeon of the gunboat Lenapee of the North Atlantic squadron, and after the capture of Fort Fisher took part in the expedition up the Cape Fear river, which resulted in the capture of Wilmington. During his stay at that place he was in charge of a temporary hospital of U. S. soldiers and sailors. After graduation he entered upon a successful medical practice at Naugatuck, where he remained six years. Here he married Julia B., daughter of A. J. Pickett. In 1872, in order to facilitate the demands of his professional work, he removed to the adjoining city of Waterbury, and there conducted a large and valuable practice. Having been engaged in a fatiguing and protracted obstetrical case on the night of January 24th, he continued about his business during the following day, as usual, taking a drive of some five miles to visit a patient on the afternoon of that day. Returning, he was taken ill with the premonitory symptoms of pneumonia, which soon assumed a positive form, and in spite of active treatment it continued to increase in severity, passing from the lower lobe of the left lung upwards. Pleurisy supervened on the evening of the third day of his illness to a marked degree, involvement of the lower portion of the right lung followed next,

and he succumbed to the severity of the disease, after eight days of sickness.

Of a positive nature as a practitioner, Dr. Bartlett was clear and comprehensive in the diagnosis of disease, having the ability to grasp the salient points of a case with accuracy and precision, and he possessed to a large degree the happy faculty of adapting remedies to the exigencies which would arise in its course. He was conservative in his views, but held a proper estimate of the effect of remedial agents in the treatment of disease, while the importance of the great principles of hygiene were duly appreciated. Among his important surgical cases should be mentioned one of skin grafting upon an extensive scale, the patient being a young woman whose scalp was torn off by machinery. To its restoration he devoted much time and patience, and was rewarded after nine months by a complete cure, the case being an eminently successful one, and was probably the first attempt to carry on skin grafting on so large a scale in this country. The case was reported in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, in 1872, and also in the proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society, in 1874, to which reference is made. In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Connecticut Medical Society, and 1878 was appointed by the State as a post-surgeon to examine candidates for exemption from military duty in New Haven county.

Dr. Bartlett had a positive and practical belief in the doctrines of the Christian religion, and carried them into effect in a consistent and well ordered life, and during his last sickness was sustained by a sure and certain hope of a blessed life to come. In private life he enjoyed the rare esteem of his fellow men as an upright, valued citizen, and his death was universally mourned. Thus he died in the vigor of a full manhood, in the service of humanity, in that special field of labor reckoned so peculiarly its own. His wife and one child survive him.

THOMAS D. DOUGHERTY, M.D., WATERBURY.

BY JOHN I. NEVILLE, WATERBURY.

Thomas D. Dougherty was born in Ireland, in 1829, and died in Waterbury, of apoplexy, November 22, 1878, aged 49.

His father settled in Ohio when he was about three years old, and dying soon after left wife and son in limited circumstances.

He, however, graduated at Mount St. Mary's, Emmettsburg, Md., at the age of 19, and for two years after was professor of the Greek and English languages at that College. He graduated at the New York Medical College in 1853, taking the first prize for his thesis, which was in Latin; he practiced a short time in New Haven, and then settled permanently in Waterbury, where he acquired an extensive practice. He was a good student, keeping fully abreast with the progress of the day. He was registrar of births, marriages, and deaths for many years, a member of the Board of Education, and trustee of the Bronson Library. He was of unflinching integrity and unfailing devotion to his religious convictions. He leaves a wife and six children.

NEWTON BUSHNELL HALL, M.D., BRANFORD.

BY WM. B. DEFOREST, M.D., NEW HAVEN.

Dr. Newton B. Hall was born March 14, 1828, at Canaan, Pa. He was the only son of Amaziah Hall, who removed to Branford when the subject of this sketch was five years old. His education, before entering upon a professional course of study, was received at the "Branford Academy." At a suitable age he became a student of medicine in the office of the late Dr. H. V. C. Holcomb, his friend and neighbor. After the prescribed course of study and attendance on medical lectures, he graduated in the class of 1863, at the Medical Department of Yale College. The early friendship of his instructor and the wishes of his friends led him to practice his profession in Branford, where he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the community.

For three or four years his health had been much impaired by a complication of rheumatism and malarial fever. This had narrowed the limits of his practice, but he was able still to retain much of his home work, and was thus engaged until a week before his death, of the cause before named, on the 21st of July, 1878.

In 1857 Dr. Hall united with the Masonic Fraternity, and was a member of the "Masons' Mutual Benefit Association." He was in the communion of the Congregational church for the past twelve years. The wife of his youth and one child, a daughter, survive him. The impress of a life spent in useful labor, with an untarnished name, lives in the lives and memories of the community.