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OBITUARY. 
OBITUARY. 
M. J. Treacy, M. R. C. V. S., Eighth U. S. Cavalry, died 
of yellow fever in Puerto Principe, Cuba, on July 14. Dr. 
Treacy had been in the English army service in India, and came 
to this country about twenty years ago. He practised for a time 
in the West and also occupied the chair of veterinary medicine 
at the University of Minnesota, but later joined the U. S. army. 
He has been one of the stanchest advocates of veterinary reform 
in the army, and fifteen years ago published a leaflet entitled 
“ The Defects in the U. S. Army Veterinary Service,” which, 
without his name, has been used for many years in Congress as 
a forcible argument for veterinary legislation. He also spent 
considerable amounts of money for the same cause. It is re¬ 
ported that Dr. Treacy had just passed the examination pre¬ 
scribed by the Army Reorganization Bill, and it is a cruel fate 
that has kept him from finally enjoying the fruits of . his 
unceasing labors. He should be remembered by the American 
veterinary profession as one who has enthusiastically and stead¬ 
fastly worked for the betterment of a branch of our profession. 
O. S. 
Isaiah Michener, V. S., died in the early part of June at 
his home in Carversville, Pa., aged about eighty years, sixty of 
which had been devoted to the practice of veterinary medicine. 
Beginning in the early part of the present century, many years 
before the establishment of veterinary schools in this country, 
he did not have the advantage of a college training, but it has 
been said of him that through hard study and close observation 
he had acquired a fund of veterinary knowledge based upon the 
most scientific lines. He was a teacher in the earliest schools 
established on this Continent at Philadelphia, and was a charter 
member of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, 
and labored assiduously for its success, as well as for that of his 
profession in every branch, and to his influence and example 
much is due for its present high position. Besides giving his 
own life to its cause, he contributed two bright sons, the late 
Dr. Charles B. Michener, and Dr. J. Curtis Michener, of Coi- 
inar, Pa., besides another son engaged in the practice of human 
medicine. 
A. E. Conrow, V. M. D., M. D.—At Philadelphia, in June, 
this well-known veterinarian succumbed to the effects of an 
operation for appendicitis, following but eight weeks the death 
of his wife, and leaving six small children. He was born m 
