Dr. Howard E. Mitchell, class of 1882, of Ellerslie, Md., died at the Western Maryland Hospital, Cumberland, Md., April 6, 1909, 48 hours after having been struck by a train, aged fifty-four.
Recently at Cavite, Philippine Islands, Mrs. Mary Gibbs Morris, wife of Dr. Lewis Morris, class of 1890, surgeon United States Navy, was gathered unto her father. Her husband was born in Baltimore, and is the son of the late Capt. C. Manigault Morris, commander of the Florida, Confederate States Navy.
Dr. William Hungerford Burr, class of 1884, a member of the American Medical Association, for four years surgeon in charge of the Santa Fe System Hospital and surgeon to the Clark Coal Company, Gallup, New Mexico, died in the Santa Fe Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 1909, from pneumonia, aged forty-nine.
Dr. Edgar T. Duke, one of the most prominent physicians of Allegany county, died April 3 at his home, on Bedford street, Cumberland, the result of an attack of pneumonia. He was 43 years old, a son of Major and Mrs. J. E. Duke, and was a native of Charlestown, W. Va., coming to Cumberland with his parents when a young man. He studied pharmacy with the late Dr. John F. Zacharias, and later read medicine under the late Dr. G. Ellis Porter at Lonaconing, graduating at the University of Maryland in the class of 1891.
Dr. Duke was in love with his profession, and was for a number of years secretary of the Allegany County Medical Association. He was prominent before the association for his special papers, and was also prominent on the church lecture platform. Hardly a church in Cumberland but that has had Dr. Duke's services.
He was a member of Chosen Friends' Lodge, No. 34, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which body he was secretary for some years, and also a past presiding officer, and was connected with other fraternal organizations.