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JOHN W. DANIEL,M. D., M. R. C. S.,Eng., Physician andSurgeon, St. John, N.B.,wasborn January 27th, 1845.He is the son of Rev. HenryDaniel, a retired clergymanof the Methodist Church,and his mother was a cousinof the novelist CharlotteBronte. Dr. Daniel receivedhis education at New KingswoodSchool, Bath, England,taking the scholarship,granted for the highest averagein all branches. He passedthe Junior Extra Academicalexamination of theUniversity of Cambridge,and commenced professionaleducation at New York,at Bellevne Hospital Med-where he wasical College,a private pupil of the lateM:KN 229Prof. Austin Flint, in diseasesof the heart andlungs, and graduated fromthat institution in March,1865. He then entered theU.S. Army, as acting assistantsurgeon, remainingover a year was in ; chargeof the Officers' Hospital at Mobile, be surgeon of the same corps. HeAlabama, and afterwards surgeon in is vice-president of St. George's Society,charge of Post Hospital at Shreveport, a member and past president of the St.Louisiana ; resigned this position in John County Medical Society, and past1866, and returned to England, and attachedhimself to the London Hospital, ical until July, 1867, at which Society. For five years, he hastime he passed been an elected member of the councilpresident of the New Brunswick Med-the examinations of the Royal College of Physicians and surgeons of Newof Surgeons of England, and was admitteda Member. He is now its president, andBrunswick,has practiced was for many years a member of the St.his profession in St. John, since 1871, John Lodge A.F. & A.M. In politics,and was appointed one of the visiting he is a Conservative, and in religion,staff of the St. John General Hospital, an adherent of the Methodist Church.in 1886. In 1875, he was commissioned He was married, October i5th, 1890, toassistant surgeon of the N. B. B. G. A.,and in August, 1876, was Jessie Porteous, daughter of the latepromoted to Mr. John Ennis, of St. John, N.B.