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In Mi>;mokiam. 



Dr. Andrew Jackson Howe was born in Paxton, Mass., 

 April 14, 1826, l)ein(;;^ of the fourth generation of his family, 

 whose birth place was here. His great-great-grandfather 

 came to Paxton from Marlboro in 1743, and thence he traced 

 his ancestry to the baronial family in England. 



After attending the public school, he fitted for college at 

 Leicester Academy, and entered Harvard University in 1.S49, 

 graduating in the class of 1.S53. 



He studied medicine in the Worcester Medical College, and 

 at the Jefferson Medical Institute, Philadelphia, and attended 

 lectures and visited the hospitals of New York City. The 

 first practice of his profession was in Lowell, where he took 

 care of Dr. Burnham's surgical practice six months while the 

 latter was in the State Senate. Dr. Howe then opened an 

 office in Worcester, and was in.stalled into the Chair of 

 Anatomy in his alma mater, leaving it to take a similar posi- 

 tion in the Cincinnati College of Medicine, which held its 

 se.ssions in the Mercantile Library Building. 



This determined his removal to Cincinnati. He was mar- 

 ried in 1858 to Georgiana Lakin, who .still survives him. In 

 1863 he was called to the Chair of Anatomy in the Eclectic 

 Medical Institute, and from this, in 1871, was transferred to the 

 Chair of Surgery, which he occupied at the time of his death. 

 He was the author of the following works, namel}- "The 

 Art and Practice of Surgery," "A Treati.se of Fractures and 

 Dislocations," and "Operative Gynaecology." He was a stated 

 contributor and assistant editor of the Eclectic Medical Journal, 

 and wrote a number of papers for other magazines. Dr. 

 Howe secured many valuable .specimens for the collection of 

 this Society. Among them were some skeletons of the 

 curious mammals of New Zealand, which he obtained through 

 his correspondence with that distant island. He was an 

 indefatigable and tireless worker, widely known as a skillful 

 surgeon with a large practice, 3'et he always had a keen 

 interest in zoological studies. A man of such strong physique 

 to go so soon, taken before his work was done. To him the 

 beautiful lines of Bryant's " Hymn to Death" fitly apply: 



