OBITUARY. 47 
WILLIAM GEORGE STEVENSON, M.D. 
Doctor Stevenson was born in 1848, near Sandusky, 
Ohio, whither his father, a prominent physician of 
Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., had emigrated 
a short time previously. After a brief experience at the 
west, the father returned to Cambridge, where the 
younger Stevenson grew up and received an academic 
education. He studied medicine with his father, and 
became a student in ‘* The College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons of the city of New York,” from which institution he 
graduated in 1865. Afteracourse of practice in Bellevue 
Hospital, New York, he returned to Cambridge, and fol- 
lowed his profession there with brief interruptions, until 
1872, when he removed to Poughkeepsie, where he con- 
tinued to reside until the time of his death. 
Asa physician he has ever occupied a very high posi- 
tion, not only on account of his intelligence and skill, 
but also because of the fertility of his resources, and the 
rare courage combined with gentleness, with which he 
combatted disease. 
He was a zealous worker in literary and scientific fields, 
and the literature of his profession has been greatly en- 
riched by his contributions to various scientific and med}i- 
cal magazines. 
In the best sense, he was a citizen, and found time 
during the exacting duties of an extended practice, to 
devote much attention to public affairs. He served asa 
member of the Poughkeepsie Board of Health for three 
years, as medical examiner of applicants for pensions, 
under President Cleveland, and for the five years pre- 
- ceding his death, as member of the Poughkeepsie Board 
of Education. In him the schools of his adopted city 
have had a most efficient friend, and improved courses of 
study, and great improvement in the sanitary arrange- 
ment of the school buildings of the city, have been the 
