New-York tribune., 1908-03-09

Amelie E. Foster Roosa. He all sides Of
Colonial descent both Dutch and French. as well
English. All of his great -grandfathers. Roosa.
Duryea. Heard and Foster. We're officers in the Con-
having been a lieutenant in the New York line.
His early education received at the district
school of his native village, and at the academies
of Monticello. n. V, and Honesdae, Penn In 1856
he entered Yale but he obliged to leave col
lege. account of i'll health. in few months His
studies were continued under private tutor until
the fall of the following year when he entered the
medical department of New York University. He
also took special in the laboratory of Pro-
fessor John w. Draper.
In 1860 he received the degree of l. D. from the
university, and by a competitive examination be-
assistant to the house surgeon at the New
York Hospital In April of the following year DR..
Roosa volunteered under the call of President Lin
coin for Is coo men. ordered the Regi-
ment. n. G. S n. Y, assistant surgeon DR.. Roosa
served through the three months term of enlist
ment of this regiment, and. returning TO New York,
completed his service in the New York Hospital
house surgeon. He then spent year in Europe In
study of the ophthalnic clinics in Berlin and
Vienna. In June of 1853 he volunteered with
the 18th Regiment. n. G. S. n. Y. was sent TO
Pennsylvania. only a short time before the battle
of Gettysburg.
On the completion of his term of service in the
army he engaged in private practice in this city,
chiefly in ophthamology and otolosy- From 1864 o
1882 he professor of diseases of the eye
at the Medical School of New York University and
from 1873 1880 he held similar place at the Uni
versity of Vermont. In 1879 he was made presf
dent of the New York State Medical Society," and
in 1876 of the International biological Society. He
was also president of the American biological So
cety, and honorary vice-president of the OphthaI-
moogical Society, meeting in Edinburgh in 1891
He president of the New York Academy of
Medicine in 1893 and 1894 one of the found
ers and surgeons of the Manhattan Eye and Ear
Hospital
DR.. Roosa is said to have been the first to con-
Celve the idea of organizing a medical school for
post graduate work. With several other physicians
he founded the New York Post Graduate Medical
School and Hospital. in 1883. The Institution will
celebrate this spring its twenty fifth anniversary
In addition to number OF works of his own on
the eye and the ear. DR.. Roosa was frequent con-
tributor to medical journals and translated several
medical works by Germans He always took
keen interest in public affairs. and was one OF the
leaders at Albany twenty years ago in favor of the
change in the code making all those who had
passed the State Regents medical examfna tfons
equal before the law, whether hom9opaths, osteo-
paths otherwise
Two honorary degrees were conferred upon him.
the degrees of NJ. A. by Yale and of Ii. D by the
University of Vermont. He twice married his
first wife having been the daughter of Stephen NJ
Blake. of this city. who died in 1873 His second
wife, who Mrs Sarah Z. Howe. the daughter
of Eder Y. Haughwout. survives him. The funeral
will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the
Marble Collegiate Church. The burial will be at
Woodlawn.