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OBITUARY. 



Edward Francis Hodges. 1851-1916. 



It is with great regret we record the death of Dr. Hodges, which 

 took place at his summer home in Vermont, on July 11. He 

 was born at Boston, Mass., on August 1, 1851, and his early life 

 was spent principally at Lincoln, Mass., a small town some sixteen 

 miles from Boston, In 1867 he entered Harvard, and graduated 

 in Arts and Letters in 1871. He studied medicine at Georgetown 

 University, where, in 1874, he won his first M.D. After a year 

 spent in Europe and travelling in Egypt and Syria he returned to 

 Boston and entered Harvard Medical School, where he graduated 

 M.D. in 1877. During his Harvard career he came under the 

 influence of such men as Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis 

 Agassiz, Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard, and Emerson and 

 Lowell. 



In 1880 Dr. Hodges settled in Indianapolis, where he taught 

 various branches of medicine in tlie Colleges for more than thirty 

 years. He taught Physiology in the Indiana Dental College, and 

 was the first Professor of Pathology in the Indiana Medical School, 

 in 1884, where he was the Professor of Obstetrics for over twenty- 

 five years. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1885. 



In addition to his achievements in medicine and surgery, 

 Dr. Hodges was an expert rifle-shot; a connoisseur in the collection 

 and classification of gems ; an authority on Indian lore and relics ; 

 a sailor, to the extent that he could tie the requisite sixty-five 

 knots vsdth ease ; an accomplished classical scholar ; a traveller of 

 broad experience and understanding, and a student of literature. 

 Dr. Hodges was a man of great personal charm. His keen love 

 and appreciation of the beauties of nature had been with him all 

 his life, and probably dated from his boyhood acquaintance with 

 Thoreau. 



A. W. Sheppard. 



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