. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . REAR ADMIRAL JAMES RUFUS STATES NAVY ( 307 of Aledical Examining Board, New York, 1888-91 ;received the honorar^^ degree of Ph. D., Union Col-lege, 1891 ; LL. D., 1895. Promoted ^Medical In-spector, September 22, 1891 ; 1891-3, flagship Chi-cago, N. A. Station ; dut}^ at Montevideo, Uruguay,and La Guayra, Venezuela. Received the decora-tion of the Busto del Libertador, for servicesrendered the wounded of both parties at ]\Iacutoduring the revolution in \enezuela. Promoted toSurgeon General United Stat


. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . REAR ADMIRAL JAMES RUFUS STATES NAVY ( 307 of Aledical Examining Board, New York, 1888-91 ;received the honorar^^ degree of Ph. D., Union Col-lege, 1891 ; LL. D., 1895. Promoted ^Medical In-spector, September 22, 1891 ; 1891-3, flagship Chi-cago, N. A. Station ; dut}^ at Montevideo, Uruguay,and La Guayra, Venezuela. Received the decora-tion of the Busto del Libertador, for servicesrendered the wounded of both parties at ]\Iacutoduring the revolution in \enezuela. Promoted toSurgeon General United States Navy, with the rankof Commodore, and Chief of Bureau of Medicine andSurgery, Navy Department, ^vlay 10, 1893-7. Pro-moted to Medical Director, Januar}^, 1897; GeneralInspector of Hospitals, October, 1897 ; delegate In-ternational Congress of Hygiene and Demograph}^,Madrid, Spain, 1S98. Retired September 24, 1899,with rank of Rear Admifal. 3o8 Medical Inspector AARON S. OBERLY. United States A^avy. Was born in Peiins\lvania, April 7, 1837. ^Ppointed an Assistant Surgeon from Connecticut,Jul} I, 1861, and commissioned Juh 30,


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