Again are called upon to record the demise of another prominent citizen of Council Bluffs, this time, the well known physician whose name heads this necessarily brief notice and who died at the residence of Mr. E. Rosecranz, on Bancroft Street at 6:30 last evening. Dr. Malcom's death had been anticipated by those best informed for several days and the tenacity with which he clung to life, conscious to the last, was truly wonderful.

The subject of this mention was born in Maine, and at the time of his death was sixty seven years of age. He removed to Jackson County, Iowa, in 1848 and commenced studying medicine with Dr. M.H. Clark of Andrew, Jackson County, the same year. Dr. Clark, like Dr. Malcolm, afterwards removed to this city and died in the spring of 1855. After finishing his studies with Dr. Clark, Mr. Malcolm went to Chicago and attended a full course of medical lectures, after which he returned to Andrew, and practiced two or three years in Jackson and Jones Counties. He then went to Boston and connected himself in practice with Dr. D.C. Smith, a prominent physician and writer on medical subjects. In 1851 he returned to Jackson County where he remained until 1854, when he removed to Council Bluffs, and shortly thereafter entered into partnership with Dr. P.J. McMahon.

Some years afterwards Dr. Malcolm practiced in Omaha and Florence, in 1859 returned to this ctiy and again associating himself in medicine with his former partner. Until within the past three years Dr. Malcolm was one of the most prominent physicians on the Slope. About this time he became a victim to the bronchial affection of the throat, and partially retired from business, only visiting his oldest and best known patients.

Dr. Malcolm was married in Boston in 1851, his wife dying during childbirth within one year. After this calamity he went to Maine and brought his mother and two sisters with him to Jackson County, Iowa, and made his home with Gov. A. Briggs, who came with the Doctor to Council Bluffs in May 1854, and he having decided to locate in this city, Mr. Briggs returned to Andrew and brought the Doctor's mother and two sisters here. The Doctor's mother died in 1856, one sister -- Henrietta-- a few years thereafter, and his remaining sister, Deborah, December 15, 1874. A nephew of the Doctor's has been in this city for several years.

Since 1869 Dr. Malcom has made his home to a greater extent with his friend Mr. E. Rosecrans, who, with his wife, have used every endeavor to make the last few years of the Doctors life as pleasant as lay in their power. His disease was typhoid fever and although the best medical skill of the city was summoned, including Dr. Macrae, the ailment would not down at their bidding.

On Sunday afternoon, all that was mortal of Dr. A.B. Malcolm was consigned to his last resting place. At the appointed hour of eleven an immense concourse of people assembled at the residence of the deceased to pay their last tribute of respect to the honored dead. The street was blocked up with conveyances of all descriptions, carriages and buggies and farmer's wagons from the country, were closely densely packed together, waiting for the moving of the mournful cortege. The house was crowded with friends, and the service impressively rendered by the Rev. Dinsmore, who, in the enforced absence of Rev. T.H. Cleland, officiated in his stead; the words spoken by the minister and the singing of the choir, accompanied by the harmonium, rendered the service and occasion peculiarly solemn. The coffin stood in the center of the room, and when the service was over, a dense throng took the opportunity thus given the remains.

The deceased appeared as natural as ever, retained his calm, placid look, and enshrined as he was, in a magnificent coffin, tastefully and beautifully ornamented with flowers, it was difficult to think that he who not many days ago walked our streets was lying there dead. Six pallbearers, consisting of Col. Swan, R. R. Kirkpatrick, W.L. Biggs, Royal Amy, Thornton, Tyson and Haines, old settlers and intimate friends of the deceased, carried the remains to the hearse. The carriages took their stations in line, first being the usual mourning coaches, then the private carriages of the physicians, composing the Council Bluffs Medical Society, and after them an immense variety of other conveyances, forming a procession which, for length, has rarely been witnessed in Council Bluffs.