Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Edward L. Keyes
Physician/Dermatologist
Centurion, 1889–1924
Fessenden Nott Otis and Eastman Johnson
Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
New York (Manhattan), New York
Age forty-six
Hawthorne, New York
Archivist’s Notes
Father of Edward L. Keyes
Century Memorial
Edward Lawrence Keyes was one of the Century’s few surviving soldiers of the Civil War, in which he served on the staff of his father, a general of the Army of the Potomac, in the campaigns of 1863. He had gone directly from college to the army, and began the study of medicine only when the war was over. In the specialty to which he applied his study Dr. Keyes immediately took the highest rank in the profession. His course of lectures on dermatology was the first ever delivered on that subject in the United States; he revolutionized the medical use of mercury, and his published lectures and writings are standard works in his branch of medicine.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1925 Century Association Yearbook
