1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

56o THE SCROLL.too many things to be so much of a recluse as to make agreat student. He was pre-eminently the "mixer" of thecollege and university. He probably had more warm friendsand less enemies than any other man of his time in the university.During his time Illinois . Epsilon was the leadingchapter in school and it brought him much to the front.There was a very large vacuum when he graduated, but hestill resided in the city and kept up his interest in the fraternity.He became a very prominent secret order man in thecity but seemed to always keep his college fraternity first inhis affections. All most sincerely mourned his death.AURELIUS M. MILLER.DR. ANDREW CARR KEMPER, MIAMI, '53.On August 15, 1905, a Phi of the old Miami days died—Dr. Andrew Carr Kemper, '53. He was born July 11, 1832at East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, and was the son of DavidRice and Sarah Hall Kemper and the grandson of Rev. JamesKemper, the founder of the early Presbyterian churches insouthern Ohio. He entered Woodward College in 1840,took a literary course in Miami University and was graduatedfrom Centre College, Kentucky, in 1855.He took three courses in medicine—two in the Ohio MedicalCollege, Cincinnati, and one in the Medical Departmentof the University of Louisville, Ky., and graduated from theRotundo Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.During the civil war he served as assistant adjutant generalon the staff of Major-general Halleck, also with GeneralsBurnside and Hovey. He was a charter member of the Ohiocommandery of the Loyal'Legion, and an active member ofthe Grand Army of the Republic.He established himself in the practice of medicine in Cincinnatiin 1867, and began a long and honorable career, thatonly ended with his death. He was a fellow of the CincinnatiAcademy of Medicine, member of the Ohio State MedicalSociety, of the American Medical Association,of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science, and Fellowof the American Academy of Medicine.In the years 1882 and 1883 he was president of the OhioHumane Society, and for many years was trustee of theDanville Theological Seminary.He was the author of numerous medical brochures, andwas a popular orator on many public occasions. In his lei'