University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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A . .w AQAMVnw-W'LV .4 3.5.?! r: - , -rr-?Mm Amwamh r a ' AM. -Q . J Magsss WaEtee Ree$s Surgeon in the Army of the United States of America, and a Graduate of the University of Virginia. N giving a description of the life and work of the late Major Reed, the editors have quoted below extracts from the speeches of his comrades and friends, adding to these brief passages from the Congressional Record. All the speeches referred to were made at a memorial meeting held in honor of Major Reed by the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, December 31, 1902. :ki:i:$:!k Historical Remarks by MEDICAL DIRECTOR R. A. MARMION, U. S. N avy. Mr. President and Members of the Medical Society of the District of Colum- bia: Walter Reed was born in Gloucester County, Virginia, on the thirteenth of September, 1851, and was the son of Rev. Lemuel Sutton Reed, who was for forty years or more an eminent Methodist minister. In his personal appearance Walter was highly favored even in his youth, and to this there were added a gentleness of disposition and a graciousness of manner which won for him the admiration of all who were brought in contact with himaqualities which we know were characteristic of him ever after. Intellectually he was, as a boy, precocious and devoted to study, so that at the age of fifteen he had acquired a knowledge of Latin and Greek rarely found in one so young. History, literature, and philoso- Owing, how- , was maintaining two other sons at the same school, it became evident to Walter that he would not be able to C out his original plan of completing the AC the following year he began the study of nine months he was awarded the d was not yet eighteen years of age. vice of friends who had, in advan His only reply to such advisers arry ademic course; so, at the beginning of of medicine, and at the end of one session egree of Doctor of Medicine, although he This feat he accomplished in spite of the ad- Ce, sought to dissuade him from undertaking it. was that ti he did, not fear the result? In 5 ,.. .-..W- at t V