Dr. Duke was also a member of the American Medical Association, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and the Tristate Medical Association. He assisted in organizing the Western Maryland Hospital Training School for Nurses and was one of the lecturers. He was an elder and the Sunday school superintendent in the Presbyterian Church.
He was noted for his kindness. He was also active in the Young Men's Christian Association and was chairman of the boys' work committee. His father is a prominent Confederate veteran. His funeral took place Thursday afternoon, April 15, from the First Presbyterian Church. At the present time Dr. Duke's aged mother is very ill.
Dr. Duke leaves a widow, formerly Miss Gardner; his parents, one brother, Mr. Harry K. Duke, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Campbell, all of Cumberland.
Dr. Edward Pontney Irons, an alumnus of the University of Maryland, and one of the oldest physicians in the city, died Sunday, April 4, 1909, at the home of his sister, Mrs. William P. Lowry, 1023 Harlem avenue. He was 84 years old.
He was born in this city, a son of Dr. James and Rebecca Irons, who were of English and French-Irish ancestry, and descendants of the earlier settlers of the state. He entered business and was variously employed in a number of the Southern States. In 1863 he returned to this city and entered the University of Maryland.
After graduation in 1865, when the Civil War was nearing its end, he acted as assistant surgeon in the Officers' Hospital at Annapolis. A year later he went to Alabama, but remained only a short time. He returned and opened a practice here, which he maintained.
He retired from active work about seven years ago. At that time he was subordinate medical examiner for the Royal Arcanum, of which he was a member. He was also a member of the Masons, the Baltimore Medical Society and the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.
In 1857 he married Miss Anna Rebecca Sewell, a daughter of Thomas H. Sewell, a Baltimore manufacturer. A daughter, Mrs. James W. Ramsey, is the only survivor.