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IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCE 
DR. WILBERT EUGENE HARRIMAN. 
In 1896 Dr. Harriman became a fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science of 
which he has been a faithful member, though he never presented any papers, 
nor was it liis privilege to attend many of the meetings because of his profes- 
sional work. However, he was deeply interested in scientific subjects, especi- 
ally those connected in any way with the progress of medical science. He was 
born in Cherokee, Iowa, on December 4, 1871, and died in Hampton, Iowa, 
March 17, 1909. On his father’s side he came from a long line of New England 
ancestry, and on his mother’s side of Scotch and German ancestry. He gradu- 
ate(I from the Hampton High School in June, 1890, entering Iowa State College 
July, 1890, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. in November, 
1893. He finished one year’s work in the medical department of the University 
of Iowa, where he won a prize in a competitive examination in histology. He 
studied medicine in the office of Dr. W. A. Rohlf, of Hampton, during the long 
winter vacations. He passed the medical examination of the State Board ana 
located in Gilbert, Story county. In 1894 he entered Jefferson Medical College, 
graduating in 1895. He also pursued work in the medical department of the 
University of Pennsylvania and later in the Post-graduate Medical College in 
Chicago. 
He was elected college physician and professor of histology, pathology and 
physiology, locating in Ames in 1895. To the great regret of the entire college 
community, he resigned his position as college physician on September 1, 1907, 
because of ill health, the board reluctantly accepting his resignation. 
He was a member of the State Medical Association and Fellow in the Amer- 
ican Academy of Medicine, and the Iowa Academy of Science. Papers pre- 
pared with care and skill were presented to some of the meetings of the Medi- 
cal Associations. He was esteemed and reported by his fellow practitioners 
as a worthy and able professional man. 
Dr. Harriman was a splendid type of citizen and the community irrespective 
of creed or party felt the loss to an unusual degree. In the class room he 
was concise, and no student ever left the room without feeling that some diffi- 
cult point had been made clear by his elucidation. The writer has many times 
heard words of praise spoken of his work as a lecturer and an expounder of 
the intricate problems of physiology and medicine. Dr. Harriman will, how- 
ever, be best known for service to the community and the college in particular 
as a physician and surgeon. During the epidemic of typhoid fever in 1900 he 
showed his unusual ability to cope with existing conditions and to place sani- 
tary conditions on a better basis. He worked night and day and earned the 
everlasting gratitude of a large body of students and the> faculty. It was my 
pleasure to have been associated with him in tracing the cause of this typhoid 
epidemic. He spared neither time nor effort to correct the conditions and 
