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COLES, Abraham, 1813-189 1. in his school. as teacher of Latin and Physicia n a n d L itter ateu r . Cla s s of rnath crnatics. 1835. At eighteen years of age he had rc­ Abraham Coles. 1\£. D" P h. D., LL. solved to study law. and entered the D., wa s one of th e most g ifte d o f the office of Ch id } usticc Joseph c. 1Torn­ bl ower. at Newa rk. New J ersey . H e alum ni of J e ffer son Medical Co llege. seems, however, to ha ve h cl icvcd t ha t l-l is life and work wer e made th e subject he could find a wider field fo r useful- of an excellent mem ori al volume edited by hi s son, J on athan Ackerman Coles, A. 1'1., I'd . D., LL. D., in 18S) 2, fro m whic h is taken th e following ex tracts fr om a biographical sketch by Ezra '"I. Hunt, 1\1. D,.L L. D.:

Dr. Coles, so n uf Dennis a nd Cather­ ine ( Va n Dcurs cn ) Co les" was born Decemb er 20, 1813, at Scotch Plains, Ne w Jcrscy. 1-1 is father was th en liv­ in g o n th e a ncestral farm, which he h ad inherited . its t it le- deed antedating the Rcvolurion. H e was a man of sterling integrity, sound judgment a nd ra re lit­ cra rv taste, I-I e had been for a n um­ b er 'of years (a fte r a n a pprenticeship with Shepard Kollock, of Rcvolutionar v fa mc) . a prinrcr a nd editor in Ncw­ IH1cg. New York, of a n e wspaper, "The Recorder o f th e Times, " a literary a nd financi al success w hich it co nt in ue d to be under another name as late as 1876. Uouud volu mes of th is pa per were pre­ served a nd treasured by hi s son Abra­ h am. in whom h e ea rly cultivated hi s fondness for st ud v and literature, I t was whi le he was in Ne wb urg . 1802, h e met a nd married l\ \ iss V a n Dc urscn. n ess in the practice of medici ne than in t hc daughter o f a promine nt merc hant that of law. for. although assured of o f th a t cit v an d a descendant of An­ success by his fatherly preceptor he nck c j ans 'and Evcra rclus Bogardu s. nevertheless left his office to study for As a youth Dr. Coles m an ifested a the medical profession, dil ig en t -interes t in th e acquisition of Ha viuu attended lectures at th e Co l­ kno wledge. A t th e age of seventee n he 1l'ge of lhysicians and Surgeons. New assisted Rev. 1\1r. n an d. pastor of the York. and at J eff erson College, Phila­ F irst Presbyt erian Church of Plainfield, delphia, he graduated at the latter in JEFFERSON MEDICAL COL LEGE

1835. Returning to his ho me, he made paintings and works of art, but hi s a prof ession o f his Ch ris tian faith, and large library was th e spe cial admiration united with th e Scotch Plains Ch urch, of his many g ues ts . under th e pastorate of th e R ev, J ohn \Vhile retiring from th e more acti ve I{llg ers. In 1836 h e settled for t he duties of a g eneral practice, h e was for practi ce of th e m edical profession in manv years daily at hi s Newa rk office. :\c wark, New Tcrsev. and ' : t1~<;o all owe'd m anv o f th ose w ho In 18~p he 'married Caroline E., a lived near hi s country home "Deer­ beautiful and accomplis hed da ughter h urst," so nam ed from its herd of deer. nf J on athan C. and Maria (Sm ith) to avail the mselves o f hi s advice. In Ac kerman, o f ?\ cw Ilrunswick. l\'ew fact, it ca nnot be sa id t hat h e re lin­ J ersey. She was ve ry good and lovely. quish ed practice at all, or all owed hi s and m uc h beloved. Sh e died in 1847. increa sing literary di stinction and hi s lea vi ng a so n and daughter wh o were business duties to interfere with hi s de­ t he nceforth th e only fond companions votion to hi s ch osen pursuit. H e was o f hi s domestic circle. His great los s emine ntly a ph ysi cian, amid all other and hi s new re sponsibilities seem to em ine nce . H e delighted in his profes­ ha ve st ill more inclined him to devo­ sion. both as a sc ience and as an art. tio n to h is prof essi onal and scholastic H e receiv ed th e degree of Master st udies. In 1848 he went abroad, of Arts from Rutger s College. In s pe nding much of h is time in hospitals, . 1860 he received th e degree of Doc­ and in th e society o f th e most eminent tor of Philos ophy from L ewisburg U ni­ ph ysicians and surgeons of Europe. vcrsi tv, and that of Doct or of Laws H e wa s in Paris during the R ev olution from 'P r ince ton Co lle ge in 1871. o f J line, 1848, w hich gave h im special Dr. Co les h ad reached s uch a vi g­ opportunities for surgical study. In 1854 o ro us old age as st ill to promise many h e aga in vis ited E urope. A fter an ab­ years of lif e. In the ea rly spring se nce of seventeen months, during ( 1891) h e h ad the prevailing influen za , which he made the continen ta l lan­ which left him with a cough, and some g uages a st ud y, h e returned to hi s prac­ mild sym ptoms which puzzled him. as tice in Newark. H e th en devoted him­ t hey have so many others, but which se lf with increa sed kn owledge and seemed to give no occasion for ala rm. earnest ness to prof essional work, and As a ben efit and recreation, h e pro­ for many veal's co nti nue d in the active posed a trip to Californ ia with hi s so n pra cti ce' ot hi s prof ession. and claug htcr and sister-in- la w. Thcv Ju 1862 , under th e direction of an left h orne A p ril rath. The t rip was a em ine nt English landscape gardener, di sappointing one, for althou gh h is h e began the laying out and beautify­ powerful con stitution enab led him to ing of a larg e portion of hi s ancestral go every where , hi s co ugh de fied all farm at Scotc h Plains, N ew J ersey, se­ treatmen t, and by rea son th ereof h e lecting th erefor appropriate statuary grew weaker in stead of s tro nger. and planting s o f th e ch oicest varieties. After a week's stay at th e beautiful In one portion o f this park he located H otel del Monte, Ca lifo rn ia, where h e a reproduction of th e famou s labyrinth receiv ed every posible courtesy a nd at­ at Hamnton Co urt . near London. In tention. heart complication sudde nly an other 'part h e enclosed a larg e pad­ se t in as a se que l to la g rippe. H e was dock for a h erd of deer o f hi s o wn rais­ confined in hi s room but tw o da vs, and ing. I-I e s ubseque nt ly built a hou se of passed away ( l\la y 3, 1891 ) . . . hrick and sto ne. and native wood s. in T h e funeral of Dr. Co les took place harmon v with the grounds. I n this h e at th e P eddie l\l em orial Ch urch, N ew­ resided 'with hi s so'n a nd daughter. and ark, N ew J ersey. May 29th. and was was a most gen ia l and ente rta ining larg ely attended hy hi s m ed ical and h ost. The hou se it self is rep lete with lit erary fri ends and th ose in other OFFICERS AND A LUMNI walks of lif e who had know n him in t ilit v, and ill ustrate th e possibilities of th e va rio us relations he had sustaine d . \'ersification without altering the The appro pr iate ren derin g of fo u r of s ense." hi s hy m ns" added sole m nity to th e oc­ H is t ra nsla t io n o f va rious othe r casio n. and em phasis to th e many trib­ Latin h vmns, as co ntaine d in h is vol­ utes to hi s ea rn est Ch ristia n life. His u m e, "La tin ' H y mns with O rigina l remains w ere interred in \ Villow Grove Translat ions ." w i II ev er b e t he ad mi ra ­ Ce metery, 1'\cw Uruns wi ck, 1\cw Icr- tion o f scho lars." The Eva ngel" and scv, beside t hose of hi s wife. . "The Li gh t of th e \\'orld" g ive t he ~ I' h is notice would be in complete' go,-; pc l story o f ou r Lord in verse, w ith w ithout some full er allusion to hi s lit­ notes fu ll of devoti on a nd learning. nan ' labors. and to th e marked t raits lohn G. \ Vhittier sa vs : "Dr. Coles of I{is cha racter. is ' a born h vmn writer, lie has left Soon after h e settled in ?\ ewark, h e us. as a 1cg;tc)' of in es ti mable worth . became a co ntrib utor to th e " Newark some o f t he s weetest o f Ch rist ia n Dailv A dvcrtiscr." and ea rlv showe d h vnms. ll is 'A ll the Da vs ' a nd h is an interest in ed ucatio n. in t he public ' I~ \ 'e r with Thee' a re imml; rtal songs. sc hools , the A cademy, in a public li­ It is b etter to have written th em than hrary, t he H istorical Society. in t ern ­ t he stateliest ep ics . 0:0 man livin g o r pe rancc movemen ts, and in all objects dead has so rendered th e text a nd th e looking to th e welfare o f ·society . sp irit of t he old a nd wonderful L atin Uarely attending a ny public m eeting s, hvrnns." h e gave expressio n to his views in an . \ Vhile th es e stud ies show hi s pro­ occasio nal address, and in th e co lu m ns Io un d learning in t he Greek a nd L atin of th e da ily journals. lang uag es, it is on ly w he n we look to In poetry an d prose, hi s literary taste t he st udies of hi s la st years. in " A Ne w and learning soon ca me to be recog­ Ren dering of th e H el;rew lsalms into ni zed. a nd h e ha d a local reputa ti on E nglish Ve rse." that we co me to kn o w long before h e was more gen erally of hi s kn o wled g e o f O rien tal lan­ known. guages. of t he vast real ms of sc holar­ It was. pe rhaps, hi s fir st translati on sh ip h e had ex plored. Uu t hi s stately of "Dies [rae" ( 1847) th a t arrested the a nd commanding prose has a lmost a ttention o f lin guists a nd schola rs been obscured by his poetry . t hroughout the world. Tt was a diffi ­ llu t t he cro w n of all was hi s wonder­ cult task to undertak e. as t he re were fu l character. H e did everyth ing wi th severa l ve rs ific a t ions of it hv authors co nscientious precision a nd th orough ­ of classica l .notc and learning. As h e ness: h e was always after th e depth of follo wed it fr o m t ime to t im e' w it h six­ thi ng!O . H o w he would someti mes teen other ve rs io ns, it was seen wha t wo rk o ve r th e wordiug o f a lin e, an d op ule nce o f resource was at hi s co m­ th en over a not e that brought o ut it s manrl. R ev. D r. Philip Scha ff. in hi s full es t mean ing. So. too, he worked recen t work . "Literature a nd Poetry ." in his professi on. Hi s respectful bear­ ref errin g to th ese. sa ys. "A phy sician, in g toward a ll had its se at in a pro­ A brah a m Co les. has made (of the fou nd re veren ce. 1-1 c was revere nt of ;; Di es Irae") seventeen versi ons in all , humanitv b ecause o f hi s inten se rev­ s ho w~ which a ra re fe rtility and ve rsa- erence for Go d a nd all H is wo rks.H e studied Nature a nd the Bible and t he * '·Eycr. J\ly Lord. \Vith T hcc." T unc , Dcth­ inner co nscio us ne ss of th e spirit ual life anv . "All Thc Days." Oriuinal mu sic hy \V. F. w ith the same majestic. adoring in ­ Sherwin. . sig ht. H e was not reli gi ous by an ef­ "Icsu Dulcis Memor ia." T ra ns latio n : tunc. fort. " I ha ve." says D r. O liver \ Vell­ CliiTon!. " Here Arc I'artiugs And Pain ful Farcwcl!s." de ll H ol mes. "alwavs co ns ide re d it a Tunc, S weet By and By. g reat p riv ilege to enjoy the fri endship 'l iHi JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE

0 [. so pure and lofty a spirit; a man York. in 1864. and fr om th e College of wh o se emed to breathe holiness as his Physicians and S urgeons in 1868 . A fter na ti vc atmosphere, and to carry it s in­ Ilucn cc into his daily lif e.' graduation he attended lectures at the H ad he not b een poet, hc would have European universities, and up on his rc­ been painter, or musical composer, be­ turn settled for the practice o f medicine ca use in no ot he r way could his ad or­ and surgery in ~ ew York City . H e bc­ in g en t h us iasm have found syuunct­ carne a member o f the Academ y o f M cd ­ rical ex pression. 'vVhcn hc issued a book it s typographical execution must icinc, th e New York Co unty M edical 0 ­ be co m ple te. I-J c vi sited the great pic­ cicty, and th e Amcricau M edi cal Associ­ t.urc gallcries o f Europe, and at largc ati on. Subsequently he moved to New­ ex pe nse selected the choicest spcci­ ark, N CIY Jcrscy, and became associated m en s o f ancient art to illustrate hi s with his father as partncr. themes. Thes e gavc expression to hi s cha rac ter not less than ' to his taste. H e wa s elected Presid ent of thc U nion \Vhen he wrote hymns it was b ecause County 1\ ledical Socicty, and made a thc in ncr music of his soul had to be permanent delegate to th e S tate M edical se t to m etrical exp re ssio n , H e was a Society. H e ha s written and publish ed g enins, but it was chiefly character and lif c that flowed o ut through his writ­ articles on medical and other scientific ings. H e became familiar with little subjects, and edited edition s of his fath­ ch ild re n easier than with all others , er's works. As a patron o f art and g en­ because in th em h e saw more of nature, eral literature he ha s been a ge ne ro us and more of faith, hope and charity. donor to his native city and state, to th e H e b eli eved in his profession, be­ cause in it h e realized the possibilities ?\ cw Jcrscy Tlistorical Society, an d to of hi gh s cience and applied art for th e Co lumbia, Yale, I Iarvar cl, Princeton. uses of humanity , and so could he co­ Tulane, and many othe r universiti es and worker with th e Great Physician who schools o f learning throu ghout th e Uni­ w en t about doing good. \Ve ch erish ted State. R eciprocating th e courtesy h is m emory because w e ch erish skill, cha rac te r, usefulness, anc! rejoice in shown by th e establishme nt of th e Cecil having such a model. Such liv es do J. Rhod es sch olarships. as an alumnus not die , but liv e as incentives for th ose of Co lumbia U nivers ity. he had cas t at o f a il th e ages. \Ve cannot reach hi s th e Ilarbcdi cnnc foundry, Paris, F rance. fame, but we can imitate his devotion to knowledge, his reverence for life and for O x fo rd and Cambridge U niversities. goodncss, hi s desire for usefulness. hi s England, replica Ii fe size bronze bu st s of hol v faith . hi s humble affection for th e George Washingt on and Benjamin go()d. th c b eautiful, the true. Franklin, mod elled fr om lif e by j ean Antoin e H oudon ; which g ifts, on th eir reception, were cordially acknowledged COLES, Jonathan Ackerman, 1843­ Class of 1868. by th e authorities. From Hope Co llege, J onathan Ackerman Coles, M, D., only H olland, Michigan. he received th e hon­ so n of Abraham and Ca ro line Ackerman orarv degree of LL. D . Co les, was born in N ewark, N ew J ersey, May 6, 1843 . EMMET, Thomas Addis, 1828­ His preparatory education he receiv ed Class of 1845. at hom e and at private schoo ls, and grad­ Dr. Thomas Addis E mmc t wa s bo rn uated fr om Columbia Coll ege, New at th e Univers ity of Virginia, May 29, OFFICERS AND A LUMNI

1828, so n of Dr.J ohn Patten Emmet and inal professors, graduating in 18-1-9-50, 1\ lary Byrd ( T uckcr ) Emmet. His and immediately afterwards pa ssing a father was Professor o f Che mistry and co m pe titive ex am ination, and rccci vmg Materia Xlcdica. Ilis grandfather, an app ointmen t as R esident P hysician Thomas Addis Emmet . was an eminent to th e Emigrant R efug c 1/ospital, la wye r o f New York, and a leader of the Ward's Island, New Y ork Harbor. H c Irish u pr ising in 1798. His mother wa s se rved in that capac ity for two years, a daughter o f J oh n and Eliza J. Tuck er, wh en he wa s appointed a V isiting P hysi­ o f Bermuda, and th e latter wa s a siste r cia n to th e same inst itution , and served until th e spr ing o f 1855 , hcing th e junior by tw enty years of th e next youngest member o f th e medical board. F orming th e acquaintance of D r. J. ~ Ia rion Sims. he beg an to assist him in hi s ope rations at th e ope ning of th e \ Vo­ man's H osp ital, in 1Ilay, 1855. In th e foll owing September he fo rme d an offi­ cial connec tion with that in stitution , on receiving from th e Board o f l\I anagers th e appointment o f Assista n t S urgeon. This position he held until th e rcsigna­ tion o f Dr. Sims, in 18CiI, wh en h e be­ ca me S u rgeon- in-Chief, and wh en th e in­ stitution of th e W oman's H ospi tal Asso­ ciat ion became merg ed into th e organiza­ tion of the charter o f th e W oman's H os­ pital o f the State o f Ncw Y ork, in 1868, he continued to hold th e sa me posit ion fr om th e Board of Governors . U nder Dr. Emmet's supe rv ision a larg e propor­ tion o f the mon ey was subsc ribe d and the first building s o f th e W oman's H ospital o f Profes sor George Tucker, of the Uni­ were con structed under hi s advice, versit v, and he full y organized the medical de­ Dr. Emmet received hi s educ ation at partmcnt. The serv ice rapidly incr eased, a preparatory school ncar the University, and Dr. Emmet had a number of assist­ and in a school at Flushing, L ong I sland, ants, but it bec ame too larg c event ua lly under th e charge o f th e Rev, Francis L. for him to g ivc hi s attention to the nee­ Hawks, with a partial co u rse in th e aca­ css ary details. It was th en decided by demical department o f th e U nivers ity o f th e Board o f Go ve rno rs to place th e H os­ Vi rgin ia. In the autumn of 1845 he en­ pital in chargc of a M edical Board, and tercel the J effcrson Medical College of Dr. Emmet became V isi ting S u rgeon, Philadelphia, under the supervision of and he continued on duty until hi s resig ­ Dr. Robley Dunglison , one of th e on g - nation in 1902, having g ivc n a cont inu- 438 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE ous se rvice of nearly forty-seven years American- Iris h 1-1 istorical Societ v, and to the institution. Dr. Emmet served as published in its transactions. I-Ie issued Consulting Surgeon or Phys ician to the in 1899, in a limited edition, an extensive Roosevelt H ospital,St. Vincent's H os­ work, "The Emmet Family. with Some pital. th e Foundling Asylum, and other lncideut s Relating to Irish I-I istor v, and institutions in the city of New York. a Iliog raph ical Sketch of Pro fessor J ohn H e published in \8 68 an origi nal sur­ Patten Emmel, :' I.D. , etc," octavo, p\,. gical work, ..\ .esico \ .agi nal Fistula," -1-1 I , with over one hundred portraits and which was th e foundation of this form other illnstrat ions. Dr. Enuucts last lit­ of plastic surgery . H is chief profes­ cra rv cont rib ut ion. " Trclancl LJ nder sional work, and one embody ing th e ex­ E nglish Rule , or a Plea for the Plaint iff'," peri ence of a life tim e, was "The Prin­ was issu ed by G. 1'. Putnam 's Sons, ciples and l'ract icc of Gynaecologv," is­ ~e \\' York. 1903. two volumes, octavo, sued in 1879, going through three edi­ pp. 3.B and 351). in which th e political tions in thi s count ry. and tr an slated int o and commercial relations o f Ireland arc Gcrmau and French, of eac h a single edi­ treated in detail for the past three hun­ tion. It has been estima ted th at Dr. d red vears, Emmet contributed to th e medical jou r­ Th e title of Doctor o f Law s was con­ nal s, at home or abroad . ove r se venty ferred upan Dr. Em met by the trustees origina l monographs bear ing chiefly on o f the J efferson l\ Icdical College , 1'hila­ the surgical diseases of women, and his delphia, the governing pow er of th e J ef­ modes of operating and treatment hav e ferson L niversity, Pennsylvania. Dr . ge nerally become th e accepted practice. Emmet is a member of the principal l\lany of these papers were tr an slated M edi cal Societies of New York, and has abroad, and one tr eati se describing an been pr esiden t o f th e New York O hstet­ orig ina l ope rat ion whi ch has proved of rical Society , presid ent of the American incalculable value in lacer ation of the Gynaecological Society, tw ice vice-presi­ cerv ix uteri was translated and printer! dent of the Medical Society of the County in Chinese cha racters for circulation in of ?\ ew York, a permanent member of Japan. the State Med ical Society, and honorary Dr. E mmet is the author of va rious member of th e Stat e Medical Society of essay s and addresses up on subjects con­ Ne w J er sey and Connecticut. H e has nected with A merican history. O n the been an honor ar y membe r of va rious So­ ince ption of the I rish National Federa­ cieties in England, Scotland, Ireland, tion in Irelan d for gaining home rule by Norway. Belgium, Germany and France, constitut ional mean s, he was chosen pr es­ and of nearly every Gynaec ological So­ ident of that organization in America, ciety in the United States. H e was the and during his se rvice of eight years he recipient of the L aetare l\fcclal from the pr oduced a number of paper s and ad­ U niversity of Notre Dame. As a pio­ dr esses on subjects connected with Irish neer. his chief professional work was de­ history. O ne, ,.Irish Emigration During voted to the devel opm ent of the surgery the Seventee nth and E ighteent h Centu­ and treatment of th e diseases of women ries." th e resul t of considerable research. as a distinct branch, and from \86\ his was read January 19. \899, before the practice was dev oted excl usively to g yn- OFFICERS AND A LUMNI aecology as a specialty. In 1903 he re­ "Ameri can Gy naecolog ical an d O bstet­ tir ed from practice, and since that time rical J ournal" for nearly ten yea rs, and ha s dev oted hirnsclf to literary pursuits, by his literary efforts it became accepted ami particu larly to the study of th e Gae­ as an authority. D r. Emmet is a member lic or I ri sh language. H e acquired some of th e A me rica n Gy naecolog ical Society, kn owledge of thi s language during his th e American M edical Association, and service in th e Emigrant Refuge H ospital th e chief M edical Societ ies in the city of after th e great Irish famine in 1849, and ~ ew York. at which tim e but a small portion of th e H e married l\liss J osephine W harton, Jrish peasantry was familiar with any a daughter of J osc ph an d L ucy \Vharton other but their native tong ue. Drex el, February 11 , 1904. D r. Emmet was married in 1854 to Catherine Rebecca, daughter of J ohn and Catherine l\Joffit Duncan, of Montgom­ PORTER, George L oring, 1838­ / ery, Alabama. They have .had six chil­ Cla.ss of 1862 . dren, and celebrated th eir g old en wed­ Geo rge Loring Porter , of ll ridgcport. ding on February t ath, 1~04. Connec ticu t, a dist inguished physician, wh o rendered splend id service to th e gove rn me nt during th e civil wa r, and EMMET, John Duncan, ­ ha s made notable add itions to medical Cla.ss cf 1880. kn owledge throu gh his addresses and Dr. J ohn Duncan Emmet, o f New published paper s, is a native of New York City, eldest son of Dr. Thomas Hampshire, born in Conco rd, \pril 21), Addis E mmet, was educated at Seton 1838, son of Geo rge and Cla rissa (Aycr) Hall, 0:ew J ersey, and afterwards spent Porter ; g randso n of Isaa c Porter. who four yea rs in th e academi cal department was of th e sevent h ge ne ration from]ohn o f th e Inivcrsity of Virginia. H e stud ­ Porter , wh o left E ngland April 25. 1635 . ied Med icin e in th e same institution . and in th e " Ann an d E liza bet h, " and cttlcd receiv ed his degree in 1880. After grad­ in Hingham, 1\ lassachusct ts : also grand­ uating in Medicine in the Colleg e of Phy­ son o f P eter Aycr, who was descended sic ians and Surgeon s of New York, he fr om Simond A ycr, wh o left E ngland I • ~ gained by a competitive examination a also in A pril, 1635 , in th e " I nc rease," position on th e Resident Staff of th e and settled in H averhill. Ma ssachusetts. Roosevelt H ospital. Having served his The ships whi ch bore these em ig ra nt an­ term of eig htee n months, he gained a ces to rs sa iled nearly ( if not actually) on similar positi on in th e W oman's H ospi­ th e same day. tal. At th e ex piration o f his service as Dr. P ort er received his education in l -I ouse Surgeon he becam e an Assistant th e Li tt le Blue Academy, Farmington, Surgeon, and held thi s position for some 1\\ain e ; Pembroke (New Hampshire) years, until th e resignation of hi s father. Ac ade my; New London (New Hamp­ Shortly after, Dr. John Duncan E mmet shire) Academy: and Brown U nive rsity, became a Gynaecologist to St. Vincent's at P rovidenc e, Rh ode Island, from wh ich H ospital, and still hold s th e position. he receiv ed th e degrees of Ba ch elor and H e wa s th e founder and editor o] th e Master of A rts . H e prepa red for hi

• 440 J EFFERSON _MEDICAL COLL EGE profession by reading medi cin e under ing th e sununcr ; wa s present at th e bat­ Dr . J. I'. Dake, o f Pi tt sburg ', I'cunsyl­ tle of Ceda r Xlountain, the engagements vauia, in 18SlJ ; under the preceptorship alon g th e Rappahannock , th e second bat­ of Dr s. I\rinton and Da Cos ta, in I'hi la­ tle of Dull Run, and th e battle of So uth delphia. in 1800-02 ; and attend ing two M ountain. July 17th he wa s commis­ gen eral and three spec ial courses of lec­ sioned Assistant S urgeon, with th e rank tures in th e Jcffc rso n M edi cal Co llege, o f first lieutenant; se rve d in ge ne ral hos­ from whi ch he recei ved the degree o f pital, Braddock 's Barrack s, Frederi ck, Doctor o f M edicine, in March , IS62. Hi s l\l aryland, Septe mbe r 17th to November introduction to pract ice ma rked the be­ rSth , 1802 ; assign ed to Fifth Cavalry, ginning o f an unusu ally brilliant ca ree r. LJ . S . A rmy, at Falmouth, Virginia, and O n April 2lJ. following hi s g raduation, se rved with it in th e A rm y of th e P o­ he passed th e Army M edical Examining tomac until 1\ la y 10, IS(j4, taking part in Iloa n l in I'h iladclphi a, the ran kin g can­ th e battles o f Frederi ck sburg , Beverl y didate, and wa s assig ned to du ty at the Ford. GettyslJl1 rg , ltrandy Statio n, governlJ1ent hospital at Strns hurg; Vir­ T odd's Tavern, Fleming 's Cross Road s, ginia. wh ere he reported to 1\ Ia jar-Gen­ i\lanassas Gap, I( elly's Ford, Middleton, era! llanks on i\la y 10. Hi s subse que nt Uppe r ville, \Villiamspo rt, lloou sboro, conduct wa s high ly commende d by a per ­ where he wa s wounded in the left a rrn ; sonal letter from th e S urgcon-Ccnc ral Funkstown Falling Waters, f\cav er Dam, upon th e rep orts ma de by Ge ne ral Warrenton , As hby's Gap, Front Royal, llanks's Medical Direct or. On May 25th, Culpe per Co urt I·' ousc , and 1\ lorton 's wh en th e U nion fo rces retreated down Ford. A pril 29, 18(j4, by orde r fr om th e th e She nando ah V alley, S urgeon Porte r \ Va r Department, S u rgeon J'orter was volunteer ed to remain with th e sick and reli eved fr om duty and orde red to \ Vash­ wou nd ed . \\'hile thus occ upied, he was ington , but , on account o f int errupted made pri son er by Colonel Ashby, of th e communication, he wa s un abl e to comply, Virginia cavalry, but was a t once as­ and continue d to se rve with his regiment sig ne d , by th e direct command of Ge n­ in th e Wilderness campaig n. After the eral " St on ewall" Jackson , to th e charge fight at T odd's Tavern, he remained with of the hospital, and requested to care for th e wounded at F re de ricksburg for some the Co n fede rate as well as Union days, th en in charge of th e first train of wounded , and thi s wa s probably th e first wounded proceeded to Belle Plain, recognition in th e civil war of th e non­ whence he proceed ed with dispatches to bellig erent status of medi cal officers . Washington, H e was P ost S u rgeon at After th e Co n fede ra tes had been driven th e Washington Arsenal fr om May, IS64, up th e Valley, S urgeon P orter was to May, )867. H e wa s the only commis­ pla ced in charge of th e wounded of both sione d officer present at th e sec reting of armies. H e esta blishe d a hospital fo r th e bod y o f J 01111 Wilkes Booth; had Ill cnkcrs division: June ) zth was or­ medi cal cha rge of th e conspirato rs dered to th e g ene ra l hospital at Winches­ against President Lincoln and his Cabi­ ter, V irginia ; July rst was assign ed to net : was present at th e hanging of fo ur Best's Battery, Li ght Battery F, F ourth of th em, and had charge of those wh o U. S. Artiller y, and se rved with it dur- were banished to th e Dry Tortugas , OFFICERS A ND ALUMNI -141

\ Vhil e in th e field. Surgeon Porter and a brevet majority." H e wa s accord­ o ften performed important ope rations ingly commissioned to th ese ranks by the under fire. In referring' to his services Presiden t, March 13. 1865, "for faithful, with the Fifth Reg imen t, U. S. Ca valry. gallant and merito rious service in th e Captain Julius M ason rcportcd : "Dur­ field during th e W ar of the Rebellion." ing thi s time the regiment wa s en gage d Jn 1\1 av, 1867, Surgeon P orter was or­ in many battles, losing heavily in killed dered to report to the department com­ and wounded . A ssistant S urgeon Por­ mander at S1. Paul, 1\ 1inn csota, and was ter's faithfulness to th c sick and wounded assigned to duty at Camp Croo k, Mon­ is g ratef ully remembered by th e officers ta na, where he reported on August 27th. He se rved in th e spring o f th e following yea r with an expedition to the mouth of th e M ussel S hell river. and in April and :\Iay, in addition to his medical duties, did volunteer service as officer of the day, to relieve the line officers , who wer e ove r worked thro ugh th e con stant pres­ ence o f hosti le Indians un der the re stl ess leadership of Sitt ing IInl1. I Ie tendered his resign ation to take effect July i Sth , but was oblige d to defer his return home until the coming o f a medical officer to relieve him. He then cros sed th e conti­ nent on horseback and alone, over th e old Lewi s and Clark trail, returning to th e east by way of the isthmus, and arriving a t Ilridgcport, Co nnecticut, wh er e ha s since been his resid ence. T he activity o f his army career see med to set th e pace for his effort in civil life. H e at once becam e one of the most active men in th e comm unity, not only attend­ ing to th e ca lls of a large and exac ting' and men, and his con spicuous gallantry practice, but bearing a large share of th e during th e battles of U ppe rville, Aldie, burden o f sustaining local institution s. Ccttysburg, Williamsbnrg, Funkstown, H e served as visiting physici an to th e and Brandy Station, where he took th e Hartford R etreat for the Insane; on th e dead and wo unded al most from th e han ds ac tive, an d later on th e consulting staff of the enemy, ent itles him to the g reatest of the Bridgeport H ospital; and o n th e praise and consideration. He was under executive committee of its board of man­ my command during all the above men­ agers: on th e con sultant committee of tioned battles, and for his gallant con ­ the Masonic H ome; as medi cal exam iner duct and faith ful and intelligent services for man)' life insurance companies an d he is j ustly ent itled to a brevet captaincy benefit organizations; and as presid en t ,142 JEFFERSON MEDICAL CO LLEGE , of th e U . S. Pension Examining Boa rd. his prof ession. I n 1882 he publish ed in In 1882-1893 and 1897- I 904 hc wa s pres­ th e "~ cw E ngland Medi cal M onthly' a ident of th e Uriclgcport lloard o f H ealth ; .. Report of a Case of Xanthic O xide Ca l­ in 187 ~ , president o f th c JIridgeport Li ­ culus, " th e only spec ime n eve r recog­ brary ; in 19°1 , president o f th e Bridge­ ni zed in thi s country, ami th e eig hth on port Scien tific and J-I istorical Soc iety ; in record. This spec ime n he divided be­ ~0 3, 1 presid ent o f th e llridg cport O ld tw een th e A rmy Medical Museum at H om e W eek Associatio n. For seven Washington and th e pathologi cal mu­ yea rs he was act ively co nnected with th e seum in th c J effer son Medi cal Co llege. Statc N ational Guard-fo ur yea rs as sur­ H e is al so author of " A N ew Danger in ge on of the F ourth Regiment, and three Surgery,' 1884; "Tubal Pregnancy," yea rs as medical direct r on th e sta ff o f 1883 ; "The Cost o f Si ckness to th e In­ th e Gcn cral commanding , T. L. Watson. dividual and to th e State," presid ent's He found hi s social enjoyme nt in mern­ address, 1889; "The cdica l Practice hcrship with numerou s of th e best clubs xr - the Oquosoc, Island Brook , Meta­ Act in Connec ticut, " address to th e Co n­ 18~ 3 ; hct chonan, and Il ostonnais Fi shing and necti cut legi slature, A pril. " The Game Clubs, th e Seaside . A lgonquin, Recognition of D eath," 1875 ; " T hc O uting and E clectic Cl ubs of Bridge­ \Vavc Theory ; Its A pplicatio n in S ick­ port, th e G rand A rmy of th e R epublic, ness," 1876. H e began the di scu ssion on th c A rmy an d X avy Cl ubs o f Co nnecti­ " Su spended A nimation, " whi ch resulted cut and ?\'ew York, th e 1\1 ilitary O rder in the passage of the coroner's law of o f th e Loyal Legi on; the Xla sonic orde r, Co nnecticut, in 1882. He al so deliver ed in whi ch he ha s attained to th e T hir ty­ a n ad d ress on "Connect icut \ Vork and third degree: and was a helpful auxil ia ry \Vorkrncn ," bef ore th e A me rican I nst i­ member of th e Young l\ Ien's Chr ist ian tute of M ining Engineer s, 1894 ; a Icc­ Association. turc on " T he Tragedy of th e N ation," Dr. P orter ha s been particularly prom­ an account o f th e assassina tion of Li n­ inent in prof essional bodi es . H e is a coln, and th e fat e of th c con spirators ; member of the foll owing named-the "The Water S upply of Cities," an ad ­ Bridgep ort 1\ Icd ica l A ssociation , o f dress at th c laying of th c co rne r-sto ne of which h e wa s presid ent in 1876-77 ; th e SI. Vin cent's H ospital, at Bridgeport, in Fairfield Medical Association, o f which , I ~0 3 ; a "Lecture on Wa shington, " be­ he wa s presid ent in 1883: th e Connecti­ fure th e Daughters of th e A me rican R ev­ cut M edi cal Association, of which he olution, 1898 , and many othe rs. wa s president in 1888-S~; th e A me rican Dr. P orter wa s co ns picuo us ly instru­ Ac ade my of Mccli cinc : and th c Amcr­ mental in procuring th e pa ssag e in the ican Medica l Association. In the latt er legi slature of th e " M cdica l P ractice g re at body he wa s a member of th e judi­ Act," in 1893 , and his address in its sup­ cial council in 1893- 94 , an d he wa s. vice­ port, deli vered before that bod y, received presid ent of th e section on Military Sur­ ma ny wa rm comme ndat ions from fr iends gcr y in th e N inth Tnt crnational M edical o f th c me as ure, and was ref erred to as Co ngress.H c ha s mad e numerou s val­ follow s in th e "New Haven R egi st er ," liable contributions to th e lit erature of A pr il 22, 1893, th e ed itor of which was OFFICERS AND A LUMNI ..J·43 a stranger to him, and th erefore entirely nam e hack to 1-1 enricus de Ferrarijis unbiased : ( A . D. 1066 ). Chief of Horsemen in th e "Two weeks ago there did not seem arlllY of William th e Conqueror, and to "be much hop e for th e bill, because .J am es Lawr cncc, grandson o f S ir Rob­ all th e agitation appeared to be in favor o f th ose opposed. llut, som eho w ert Lawren ce, of As hto n Il a11 . E ngland. o r othe r, th e fri ends of th e bill got and :.ratilda, daughter of .I olin de \Vash­ th eir seco nd w ind, so to speak, and in gton, and siste r of th e pr ogeni tor of th ey rallied with ca pita l effec t at th e Gene ral Geo rge Washingfon. The final h earing Tuesday. The se ns at ion horseshoe on th e shie ld an d cres t of the at that hearnig was created by Dr. I'ortcr, of Bridgep ort, wh ose scho la rly Farrar armorial bearings g iven in E ng- and eloquent address in be half o f th e bil l wa s not only a s urprise to thos e in whose favor h e was speaking, but to th e oppone nts as w ell. 1t was a n ry poli shed effo rt, full of intelligence, and sparkling h ere and there with dra­ matic e ffe cts, that deep en ed the inter­ es t in th e snea ke r. The anti-medical bill people ' we re captivated with hi s charming and unaffected di scourse, and one of th e first to co ng rat ula te him on hi s brilliant and masterful speech wa s th e leadi ng counsel for t ho se op­ po sed to t he bi ll, of this city. Itwas a tribute to on e who displayed such rare powers o f entertaining eve n th ose who radically disagreed with him." Dr. P orter wa s married, in 1862 , to :1vI iss Cathe rine Maria Cha ffee , a daugh­ ter of Edwin 1\ I. Cha ffee . of Providen ce. Rhode Island. th e inventor of th e Chaffee cylinde r for vulcanizing rubber, The children born of thi s marriag e wer e Clara Elizabeth, George, James Denton , Ethel, Lindsay, May, Alice, Aaron, "--J Hugh, Grace, Anna, and Clar'issa. land, together with th e mott o " Ferre va Firma" (" firm as iron " ) , g iven pre­ F A RR AR, John Nutting, 183 9- viously in No rmandy to W alkclmn s de Cl a s s of 1874. Ferrarijis, th e fathe r of th e Chief, has J ohn N utting Farrar,:M.D., D.D.S., been retained in E nglish and American o f New York City, was born April 24 , family hi story to th e present day . 1839, th e fifth child of Samuel and R e­ Dr. J ohn N utting Farra r was the fifth becca ( P arke r) Farrar. The Farrar and youngest child o f Samuel and R e­ family is directly descended in bot h lines becca ( P arke r) Farrar. The moth er fr om noted English and American fami­ wa s a woman of marked character, in­ lies. The Farrar genealogy carries th e heri ted fr om a long line equa lly as dis- JEFFERSON MEDICAL CO L LEGE tingui shed as that of th e Farrars , T he manton ( Ne w Hampshi re) Academy, progenitor of all th e Ame rican lines wa s and Pepp erell (l\ lassachusctts) Acad­ Deacon Thoma s Parker, wh o came fr om cmv , At the age of tw ent y-two, at El­ England at th e age of thirty and settled mira O bservatory, he studied th e high er at Lynn , Ma ssachusetts. The g rand­ mat hcmatics, geo logy, astronomy and fath er of Dr. Farrar, Deacon J ona s P ar­ an alytical chemistry, und er his brother, ker , a descendant of Thomas Parker , was I 'rofcssor Cha rles S. Farrar, A.1\L, whom horn July 16, J766, and married Ruth he also assisted in his ast ronomica l work. Farmer , Decemb er 28, 1788. Among For some time he rema ined with his their children wa s R ebecca, th e mother broth er , \ Villiam P . F arra r, M.D. In of Dr. John T. Farrar. ,8Ci3 he entered th e Pennsy lvania Col­ During the first four years the health lege o f Dental Surgery, at Philad elphia, of Dr . Farrar was poor, but he subse­ gi ving his note for his tui tion fee. Be­ qu entl y developed a fine physiqu e, this for e the term was finished he received a being largely du e to his industrious habits bequ est of $300 fro m the estate of a and outdoo r life. H e labored upon the relative, and a g ift o f $ 100 from an­ farm until he was tw enty-five, except other, enabling him to liquidat e his in­ ;lur ing th e time of going to school. H e debtedn ess for that term and support ma stered eve ry detail of Ne w E ng land him self. Il ctw ccn sess ions he ea rned fan n ing, and acquired an intimate knowl­ about $800, and, pr osccut ing his studies, edge of analytical chemistry whi ch en­ g raduated with honor at th e head of his abled him to determine the proper food class. The following spring he went to for the soils to insure large crops. He Curaco a, W est Indies, whe re he prac­ was given to arboriculturc and flori cul­ ticed in th e families of govern ment of­ ture, and with his own hands beautified ficers, but after about four months rc­ the old home place, whi ch had remained turned home at th e requ est of his mother, in th e family nearly two hundred years. for whom he tend erl y cared in her de­ and of which he subsequently became clining years. This necessitated a ret urn owner by gift of his uncle, who had to farm life, but he practiced his pro­ bought it from his father. H e was of an fessio n as opportunity offered. H e also inventive turn of mind , and one of his first continued his work in analytical chem­ inven tions was an emboss ing-typewrit­ istry, and occupied the position of ju stice ing machine, the first mad e in America, of the peace. and which he constructe d for Professor Dr. Farrar held to the opinion that the Robl ey Dungli son, of th e Jeffer son Mc d­ denti st of the future would need be more ical College, as a gift for th e use of an thoroughl y educated in collatera l institution for th e blind, of which th at branches of medicine than was possi ble eminent man was president. He also in th e th en existent dental schools, and, possessed fine artistic tal ent , whi ch he determined upon takin g a full medical brou ght int o effect ive use in later years course, he entered the Jefferso n Med ical in illustrating his great wor k on "Irregu­ College und er such eminen t teac hers as larities of T eeth and Their Correctio n." Gross, Dungli son , Meigs, Biddle, Ra nd, Beginning hi'S education in th e com­ Da Costa, P ancoast and their compeers, mon schoo ls, he afterward attended Gil- and in 1874, at th e age of thirty-fou r, was OFFICERS AND ALUMNI g raduated with high honors, receiving F arrar's wo rk, which was the first great special commendation for original dis­ work devoted enti rely to irregularities of coveries set forth in his th esis on "Mccli­ th e teet h and the ir correction. Recog­ cine and Surgery." In 1877 he wa s ap­ nized as a masterl y representati ve of his pointed Lecturer on O perative Dentistry prof ession , he received pressin g invita­ in th e P ennsylvania College o f Dent al tion s from all part s o f the civilized world Surgery , and wa s subseq uently appoint ed to lecture befor e professiona l bod ies, but Lecturer in O rt hodo ntia in the Baltimore wi th fe w exceptions he, because of a large College of Dental Surgery . Duri ug this prac tice. preferred to speak th rou gh the peri od he introduced variou s departures medi um of his fac ile pen. During all from accepted meth od s, and whi ch did these years, Dr .F arrar inv ent ed not only not for several veal's meet the full view s .hundred s of instruments for dental pur­ of some ad van ced practitioners, hut arc poses, but also cons tr ucted a large n U111 ­ now uni versally acce pted. Among these her of mec ha nisms for use outside his were his antral tr eatmen t. an d radical professional work. Among these he in­ tr eatment of alveo lar abscess, and tooth vented a water me ter, clas tic ca r wheels, root amputation . Se veral ex trac ts from and origina ted the screw-act ing syring'e his lectures. with figures o f new instru­ for physicians and dentists, als o the or ig'­ ments of his own design. were published inal spray sy ringe. H e obtained pat­ in professional journals. In 1875 he he­ ents upo n several of his dental in vcn­ gan to attract wid er attention th ro ug h tions, but only to prevent ex to rt ion upon his pu blication (accomp anied with his his profession, and to which together own drawin gs) in the ,. Dental Cosmos ." with the lahars of his intellect and hands I he "1\Iissouri Dental Journa l." "The were freely g iven. J\ lthoug h given to Ind epend ent T'ra cti t ioncr," th e " Int crna­ wid e rang e of thou ght in art and tional Dental Jourual," the "Ohio De ntal sciences, he is still in the fu ll tide of his J ournal ," th e "Western Dental j ournal.' professional act ivity, bot h as operator and th e "Brooklyn Medical J ournal:' and autho r. I-Iis latest puh lication (in press) ot hers in the United States. and in the is an astronomical work, "Cycles and "Correspondent lllatt." o f Berlin. Ge r­ llcau tics in Nature." many. In 1888 he published the first vol­ Dr.F arrar is a memb er o f var iou s um e o f his great and orig inal wor k. a prom inent professional bodi es-the "Treati se on th e Irregularities of th e l lrookl yn Dental Soc iety; the Second and T eeth, and Their Correction" ( pp. 758 ). suhscqucut ly mem ber of the F irst Dis­ with nearly tw o thou sand engravings, tr ict Dental Society of New York: the from th e De Vinnc press. Late r Odontological Society of New York; the othe r volumes of thi s set appeared , Ame rican De nta l Association ; the Na­ similarly illu strated . Sin ce this is­ tional De ntal Association ; th e K ings sue , variou s writer s ha ve presented County l\le dical Soc iety ; the New Yo rk smaller works, each of whi ch ac­ County Medical Society ; the Anatomical ceptably ha s a place in denta l lier ature, and Surgical Society of Brooklyn: lion­ hut in non e a rc th e principles governing orarv member of the Pacific Coast Dental th e regulation o f teeth mo re fully mas­ Society: th e Wiscons in Sta te Dental So­ tered or bett er ex plained than in Dr. ciety : the American Aca demy of Dental JEFFERSON MEDICA L CO L LEGE

Scienc e: th e Sanitary Society of New taining a place am ong th e forem ost rep ­ York: the lhilosophica l Societ y o f resentatives of th e fraternity th er e. IIc llrookl vn. and th e Metropolitan l\luseum was Surgeon to \ Vinsport hospital, of o f Art. Ne w York. whi ch he was also one of the fou nders. Dr. Farrar married. Oc tober 2 .) . IS07 . He served as presid ent of th e Lycomin g 1\ 1iss Sarah l\1. Chandler. da ughter o f County Medi cal Societ y. wa s vice-presi­ William and Rachel ( Fritts) Chandler. dent of th e Pcnn svlvani a State Me dical O ne child horn of thi s uni on. a son. Soc iety, and was Surgeon in the State died from acc ide nt in infan cy. Dr. Far­ Xlilitia, ap po inted by Governor Shunk. rar maintains hi s office and city resid ence He filled th e office of Exam ining Surgeon at 127' l lroadway, Ne w York City. Hi s at th e tim e of th e Civil war, bein g ap - country residen ce is at H arrington Park. Itcrg cn county. Ne w J er sey.

LYON, Thomas, 1812-1893. Class (O f 1838. Dr. Thomas Lyon was born in Penns­ villc.T'cnnsvlvania, October '3. t Sr a . and died in W illiamsport, Penn sylvania. J an ­ uary 2 . 1893. I-I e wa s a so n of Edward Grundv and Sarah ( H uckell) Lyon: His paternal g ra nd fathe r. E dward Ly on. was a native of E ngland and came to Americ a in [794. His mother's peopl e were also o f English lineage. , and came to th e United States in th e same vessel in whi ch Edward Lyon crossed th e A tlantic. Dr. T homas Ly on pu rsued his ea rly education in Kirkpatrick schoo l, near I'ittshu rg. P ennsylvania, and began pr e­ paration for th e practice o f medi cin e as a st ude nt in th e office of Dr. J am es Don­ gal, o f ~ I ilt on, Pcnusylvania. H e after­ point ed by Go vernor And rew Cu rtin, and ward matricul at ed in J efferson Medical he not only belonged to th e medi cal so­ College. in whi ch he wa s graduated with cieties mentioned. but wa s also a member th e class o f 1838. In April of th e same of th e Ame rican l\lcdical Association . He year he set tled at Williamsport, P enn­ wa s th e author o f numerou s papers and sylvania, wh ere he practi ced withou t in­ pamphl et s hearing upon his profession terruption until January 2. J 893. on in varied bran ches. and thro ughout his which date his death occurre d. For fifty­ long and active caree r remained a close five years he remained an active repre­ and earnest student o f th e science of sentative of th e medi cal fraternity in that medi cin e. In politi cs he was a Repu b­ city . enjoying a large practice and main- lican . OFFICERS AND ALUMNI

Dr. Lyon was married to l\fiss Eliza­ town, Boston, Ne w York, and Charles­ beth Ryland Pri estl ey. of Northumbcr­ ton , wher e a blockad e was estab lished: land, Pennsylvania, in 1843. Sh e was a th ence to Havan a and Key \ Vest an d off great-granddaughter of Dr. J oseph Mo bile and P ensacola. T he vessel also Priestley. Six children were born of was connected with th e blockade wo rk this marriage, but only four attained at th e mouth of the Mi ssissippi , and par­ adult age, namely : ~Ir s. Frances Priest­ ticipated in th e attacks on Forts Mclcac ley Hayes, Dr. Edward Lyon. Mrs, Sarah and Barrancu s, returning to Boston In I'riestlcv Stearns. and I'd rs. jennie Pri est ­ june, 1862. ley Campbell. Dr. McMn st cr was commissioned as

McMASTER, James, ­ Class of 1855 . Dr. james McMnstcr. who throughout his professional career was connected with the United States Navy. was horn in Pennsylvania and died in Chelsea. Xl assachusctts. July 4. 1873. He was graduated fr om the Jefferson Xl cdical College of Philadelphia in March, 1859. and wa s appointed Assist­ ant Surgeon in the Navy from Penn syl­ vania, on th e 8th of Oc tober, by J am es Buchanan, then President of th e United States. From Novemb er , 1859, until i\[ay. 1860, he was attached to th e Naval Academy at Annapolis, and th en went aboard th e U nited States steamship "Ni­ agara," Captain \\T. \\T. McKean, com­ manding, in June, 1860. He sailed on that vessel fr om New York on the 30th of June, with the Japanese embassy on board for Yedd o, Japan: When out­ Surgeon in the Na vy by Presid ent L in­ ward bound they touched at Puerto coln, October 1 I. 1862, and was attached Grande. St. Paul de Loaudo, west coast to th e Philadelphia Navy Yard in the of Africa, Angier P oint and Batavia, autumn of that yea r, spending the winter Java. H ong IZong, China, Ycddo and of 1862-3 in th e Naval Asy lum. In Yokohama, Japan. O n th e return voya ge June, 1863 . he joined the steamship th ey stopped at H ong Kong,China. "She nandoa h ," whi ch starte d in pursuit where th e Am erican minister, Mr. Ward, of rebel privateers off th e coast. After came on board: touched at Singapor e, and returning 10 Philadelphi a, the "Shenan­ proceeded to Ad en, where Mr. Warcl doah" went to Itcau fort , and afterw ard disembarked. Thence they went to Cape- remain ed there severa l months in the 448 JEFFERSON MEDICAL CO L LEGE blockad e o f New Inlet , North Ca ro lina. sctts, fro m October 30, 187 I . to Febru­ Dr. l rc ~ 1 aster was on th c "She na ndoah ' ary G, 1872 , and was on th e United S tates in th e first attack on F ort F ishe r, Decem­ steams hi p " P owhat tan" fro m Febr uary, her 24, 18G4, and again at th e time of th e 1872. to Junc 20, 1873 . A t thc latter second attack and final re d uction of th e dat e he wa s transferred to the Naval fort on th c r jth, 14th and 15th o f Janu­ H ospital at Che lsea. 1\ Iassachusctts , ary. - 18°5. Immediately aftcrward, he wh ere hc died July 4. 1873 . join ed th c S outh Atlantic squad ro n, and wa s present at th e evac uation o f Charle s­ ton. I-I e was next attached to the iron­ McMASTER, Gilbert Totten, 1873­ Class of 18£8. clad i , iVIiantonomah ;"September G, 1865 , visit ed F ortress M onroe, N orfolk and Dr.Gilhert T ot ten M eMaster, one of Washington , and afterward returning to the prominent of th e yo unger ph ysi cians Ne w Y ork was detached from th e vessel previou s to its departure for Europ e. H e wa s th en attach ed to th e receiving ship " Vermont," in Fchruarv, 18°7; wa s de­ ta ched. :\Iarch 13. 18()(); attached to th c sloo p " Savannah, " in 1\lay. 18(J9 ; visit ed Che rbo urg and IIrcst. France, P orts­ mouth. E ngland, a nd Fauchal, Madeira. after which he returned to Annapoli s. ~ 1a ryland. in Se pte m ber, 18° 9. and re­ ported for duty on th e " \Ihany" in Octo­ her of th at year. As surgeon on th c lat­ ter vessel he visit ed San Domingo, Sa ­ mon a nay and S t. Thomas. and in Janu­ ary. 1870. was detached at N cw York and orde red to care for th e officers of the Na vy and Marine Co rps wh o wer e ill in Ne w York. In this capacity he rendered medi cal assistance to Admiral D. G. Far­ ragut, of the U nite d States Navy, all through his illn es s, and up to thc time of the A dm iral's death at P ortsm outh, N cw Hampsh ire, A ugus t 14, 1870. H c was o f Co nnec ticut, wa s born July 31, 1873. detach ed D ecember 23, 1870, and at­ in New Haven , in whi ch city hc is now tach ed to thc U nite d S ta tes steams hip pract icm g. H e wa s a son of Dr. J ames "Tennessee" fr om January 5 until April and M ary E llisc ( K ip) M dlaster. T he I 2. 187 T. H e wa s a meinh er of th c Mcd­ former, a g radua tc of J cfferson M edical ical E xam ining Board of th c Naval Co llege in arts and medicine, of the class Ac ade my at A nna polis. 1\ Ia ry land, fr om of 1859. was S urgeon in th e nitcd june I until Junc 15. 1871 : was on duty States Navy for fourteen yea rs and died at th e nav y ya rd at Boston. M assachu- at Chelsea, M assachuset ts, J nly 4. 1873. OFFi CERS A ND ALUMN i

His wife, Mary Ellisc Kip, was a daugh­ tails, for which he is eli .tiug uishcd, ami ter of Samuel Kirkpatric Kip of New which ha ve ga ined for him a natural repu­ York. tation as a gy necologi st. From 1879 to 1885 Dr. Gilbert T. Me­ D r. H ow ard was bart! in Cumberland M aster attend ed privat e schools in New con nty,V irg inia, on the i zth of J anuary, Havcn ; entered H opkins Gra mmar ami 1821. He is the son of \ Villiam A.

Collegiate School, 1885 to 1889; in 1891 Howard, also a native of that state ;:(11(1 ente red special course in biology at Yal e. a noted ar chitect, and 1\1iss Rebecca In October, 1893, he entered the M edical E lizabeth Travi s Anderso n. a woman of Department of Yale U nivers ity, wh ere he ma ny Ch ristian virtues and unu sual men- remained for three years, but, preferring a degree fr om an illustrious medi cal schoo l, ente red J effer son Medi cal Col­ lege in P hiladelphia, in October, 1897. and Was graduated with th e first . four years' class in that institution on th e 13th of May, 1898, and on his g raduation re­ ceived honorable menti on in Obstetrics from Dr. E . P . Davis. O n th e 14th and 15th of January, 1899. he took the Con­ necti cut sta te board examinations . H e ha s been in practice since th en. H e IS a memb er of th e Ne w Haven County and Connecticut State Medical Societies and of th e A me rican M edical Assoc iation. H e has contributed to medical and naval journals.

H OWA RD, William T ravis, 1 821­ Class o f 1844. Probably no one ha s ever held a high er rank as teacher and practitioner in the city of Baltimor e. Maryland, th an Dr. tal vigor. His father died in W arren \ Villiam Travis H oward. Coming in county, No rth Caro lina, in April. 1859, th e ma turity of his experience and pow­ and his mother se ven yea rs later. ers fr om a large ge ne ral country pr ac­ After primary education in class ical tice in No rth Carolina, he at once and schoo ls, young H oward becam e a student eas ily took a leading positi on in the at Hampden-Sidney College. P rince E d­ Maryland pr ofession . Shortly after. wa rd county. Virginia, and also at Ran­ adopting gy neco logy as th e principal field dolph-Macon College, th en located in o f his labor s, he brought to bear upon . M ecklenb urg county, Virginia. After this rapidly advancing department th ose leaving college, he began the study of remarkable powers of application , ob­ medi cin e uncler D r. J ohn Peter Mettauer, servation, analysis and attention to de- an eminent surgeon in thos e parts, whose I JEFFERSON M E DICAL COLLEGE fathe r had come over h om France as of his oppone nt's th esis escape; and in­ surgeon with Lafayette, and had re­ struc tive fr om th e complete analysis mained in Virginia after th e d ose o f the wh ich th ey presen t of the description s by Rcv olution arv war. Young H oward en­ a large number o f ph ysician s of thi s J1]ud­ ter ed Jefferson :\ledical Co llege in the ified form of pn eum oni a. " fall o f 1842. and graduated in 1\larch, 1'\ ftcr th e Ci vil wa r, o wing tu the un­ 1844. Bet we en th e sessions he wa s o ne set tled coudition o f the co untry in the of th e residen t stude nts at th e Baltimor e South, and havin g su ffcred a severe do ­ City a nd County A lmsho use, now Hay mesti c bereavem en t by th e death of his View Asylum, to whi ch Drs. William first wife, he rem oved to Bal timore, I'ow er and Thomas 1-1. Buckler were at ­ M aryland. H e at once impressed his per­ tending physicians. He ha s lately ( ISl03) so na lity up on th ose wh om he met . an d gi ven int er esting reminiscen ces o f his received the appoin tm en t of A dj unct to stude nt days an d teach ers in Philadelphia th e Cha ir of Physiolog y in the Univer­ and Baltimore, in an address as l 'rcsidcnt sity o f M aryland, th en held by Professor of th e l\l edieal & Chirurg ic«! Fa culty of Francis Don ald son . During th e first Maryland. session he was principally engag'ed in After graduation he set tled in \Var ren g iving clinical in struct ion in auscultat ion co unty , North Ca ro lina, ?v1 ay I, 1844. and percu ssion in th e Univers ity I I"s­ wh ere his predecessor had pract iced pit al. A fte r holding thi s position for a tw enty-seven years and th en died in­ year, he notified th e Faculty o f his in­ so lvent, although he neither d ra nk nor tention to resign.Unwilling to lose his gambled. H e wa s th en in poor health se rvices and influen ce, th e value of which in co nseque nce of an attack of th e g r ippe were well recognized , Professor Ceorge which permanently impaired hi s co ns ti­ \ V. :\1ilt enberger, th en occ up ying the tution , leaving a coug h fr om whi ch lie Chai r of O bstetrics. Diseases of Women has' never been en tire ly exempt. \Vhi!e an d Child ren. and also the Deans hip. living in Korth Caro lina. Dr. How ard urged th e di vision of his cha ir and the became invol ved in a discu ssion on th e appoin tm en t of D r. H oward to a new subject o f malarial pn eumonia in th e cha ir to be ca lled th e Professors hip of " N orth Ca rolina M edi cal J ournal" with Gy necologv and the D iseases of Chi l­ Dr. O . F . Manson, lat er a P ro fessor in dre n. Two prominen t Baltimore physi­ th e M edical Co llege of V irginia, at Ri ch­ cian s were ca ndidates fo r this place, but monel. This di scu ssion wa s revi ew ed in Dr. H oward received eve ry vo te. T he the "Ame r ican J ournal of M ed ical date of his election to th e chai r, tile first Sc iences" fo r Octobe r, 1860, by th e abl e di stinct one of its ki nd in any medical and learned Dr. A lfre d Stille. afterward s school in thi s country, was January 26, Professor of th e P ractice of M edi cin e in 1867. T his position he always filled with th e U nive rs ity of Pennsy lvania. Dr. co nsc ientious devotion an c! untiri ng en­ S tille speaks of Dr. H oward's essays as ergy, giving the full number of scheduled bein g " in th e highest degree in teresting lectures eac h session, and teach ing wit h and in structi ve ; inter esting fro m the ad­ th at clearness of lan guage. tha t strong mirable critical spirit which per vad es person ali ty and that array of past ex­ th em , and fr om which non e of the errors pe rie nce so familiar to hi s st udents. He OFFICERS .-J.VD / /J_UM N I was particularly rich in practical sug­ the one hundred and fourth anniversa ry gestions, and many o f these were entirely o f the M edical and Ch irurgical Fa culty original with him. H is labors were re ­ of th e State o f Maryland, on A pril 28, ported and printed by the students, but 1903 , and reprinted fro m th e "Trans­ this work only served as a reminder, for actions " o f that bod y. This pap er, val­ each year he revised it, bringing it up uabl e for its hi st orical matter, and de­ to date. In 1897, after se rving in th e lightful for its r eminiscent allusion s to Faculty of the U nivers ity for thirty years, th e masters in hi s profession who we re he resigned hi s chair, and was imme­ hi s teach ers, co lleagues and di stinguish ed diately made Profess or Emeritus. pupils, bore th e title : "During th e Last Dr. H oward's services to the U n iver­ H alf of th e Last Ce ntu ry, wa s more don e sity of l\f"lryland were great and well for th e Advanccmcnt and Growth 0 f rec ognized. His influence and activity in M edi cin e than was don e in th e Twenty­ its councils bore no small share in the two Hundred and Fiftv Years wh ich prosperity and high standing of the l 'rcccd cd it?" sc hool. ] Iis resignation wa s presented Dr. H oward ha s invented many gy ne ­ in July. and acc epted with great reluct­ co logica l in struments o f a usef ul and an ce. IIis va cant place ha s been filled practical cha rac te r. ]-I is hi valve specu­ hy three of th ose wh o heard hi s lectures lum ha s found mu ch fa vor with th e pro­ in times pa st, and nothing evinces the in­ fession. llc wa s th e first in this country dustry and ene rg y with which he dis­ to use su cce ssfully Tarniers forcep s, in charged · his professional duties better February, 1881 : he simplified th e instru­ than this threefold division o f hi s chair. ment, taught its applicati on , and rendered In attracting students to Baltimore, Dr. it popular in America. lie sho wed th at H oward's influence was al so strikingly it facilitates rot ation o f th e head in occip­ ex hibite d. When he left N orth Ca ro lina ita-pos te r ior presentation s: th at it is not th ere wa s hut one graduate o f th e U ni­ nccessarv to remov e it whe n the head versit y o f ~Iaryland fro m that large reach es th e floor o f th e pel vis. and that so uthern state, but he. at once , attract ed its use is not limited to cases wh ere the eighteen students fr om it and th e same head is at th e brim. number from lower Viriginia, and at a Dr. H oward wa s one o f th e tw o found­ commencement sh ortly before hi s re sig­ ers of th e H ospital for th e W omen of nation there w ere forty-three graduates Maryland : a founder o f th e Baltimore fr om N orth Ca ro lina. Gy ne cological Societ y, a nd its second Dr. ] loward is th e author o f va rious presid ent ; a founder o f th e American lect urcs, rep orts and articles in medi cal Gyn ecologi cal Socictv and its presiden t journals and soc iety transaction s. \\'e in 1885 ; a nd he was president of the may particularly cite hi s abl e reports in Xlecli cal and Ch irurgical Faculty of th e Gyneco log ical Section o f th e M edi cal Xlaryland in ' 902 . H e ha s held the posts and Chirurg ica l Faculty of Maryland, o f Co ns ult ing Physician an d S urgeon to and hi s papers in the "Transactions o f th e J ohns H opkins H ospital ; Co ns ulti ng the American Gynecological Society." Physician to th e H ebrew H ospital; hon ­ One o f his mo st meritoriou s eff orts was orary member of th e M edical Socie ty of his address, as President, delivered on North Carolina; and th e O bs te trical and JEFFERSO.V MEDiCAL COLLEGE

Cynccologica l Society o f \ Vash ington , t ives of th e name wer e plan ters of Vir­ D. C.; corresponding member of the gnlla. T he H usk c fam ily is of .'c o(ch l;ynceological Society of Ilostou, etc. lineage, and was established in );orth ])1': H oward has been married three Ca ro lina in pioneer days. The materna! times ; first, to Xlrs. Lucy ~L ( Davis) grandfather of Dr. W ebb was captured Fitts. of \ 'irginia, a brilliant wit and by Lord Co rn wallis, while se rving as a beauty: seco nd to Miss Annie L. Wad­ surgeon und er th e command o f Go verno r dill, of X orth Ca ro lina, a lady o f various Burke, o f ?\orth Ca ro lina, during th e attainments in bcllcs-lcttrcs, and espe­ Rcvoluti onarv wa r. cially proficient in languages, being able Dr. W ebb began his ed ucation in a pri - to read the B ible fluently in four ton gues ; last. in J nl y. 1893. to M iss Rebecca "1'\ . \ Villiams. a Ba ltimo re l.cllc and beauty, and a member o f one o f tlie best Mary­ land families. Dr. H oward, at the ag e o f eig hty­ three. is still an indefatigable scholar. ]-I c ret ain s unusual mental and physical vigor. with a clear vision and a steady ha nd. ]-I is memory is ph en omen al in its acc uracy, and he holds very decided views upon medical subjects. II is wide experience of me n and events through a long lif e make his companionship a de­ light to all wh o arc privileged to be aSSQ­ ciatcd with him. Dr. H oward's resid ence is at 804 Xladi­ son Avenue, Bahimorc, i\Ia ryland.

WEBB, William, 1825 ­ Class o f 1849. \ Villiam \ Vebb, general pracuu oucr, o f S t. L ouis.Alissouri, was bo rn in Hills­ vate sch ool in Hillsboro. North Carolina, bora, ~orth Caro lina, September 6, 1825, co nducted by a daughter o f ex- Go ve rnor and still co ntinues an active connection Burke, and pursued a cla ssical course in with th e medical prof es sion, although he the sch ool o f William Bingham, at 1-1 ills­ ha s pa ssed th e seventy-eighth mileston e bora. This wa s the first institution of th e on the journey o f life. His parents we re kind established in North .a rolina, Later James and A nnie ( H uske ) Webb. T he he entered the Corwell Presbvtcrian rn­ fami ly was founde d in A me rica by E ng­ stit ute, at Greensbo ro, North Ca rolina, lish ancestors at a ve ry ea rly period in and thus hav ing acquired comprehen siv e the colonization of the new world . and litera ry kn owledge he felt qualified to en­ through variou s generation s rcprcscnta- te r upon sp ecial preparation for pro- OFFICERS A .\"[) ALUJIXI fessioua l duties, and matriculated in the paternal line hi s an cestry IS traced hack .I cfferson 1\ 1cd ica l College, fr om which to S ir Wilfred Haughton. a baron et of he was graduated in 1849 w it h th e de­ th e seventeenth ccnturv. from wh om th e gree o f Doctor o f Medicine. numerous branch es o f th e H aughton fam­ The year foll owing hi s graduation was ily arc descended. O ne o f the most sp ent hy Dr. \ Vehh at hom e with hi s prominent members at the present day is aged father, an d in 1850 he entered upon th e RC\·. Samuel Haughton, P ro fessor th e g en eral practice o f medicin e in 51. o f M edi cin e in Trinity Colleg e, Du blin. L ouis, where h e ha s since resided. A t and an em ine nt sc ientist an d teach er, rc­ th e outbreak o f the Civil war h e we nt to ccutlv lit-cea sed. In th e ma ternal lin e Dr. Ri chmond, V irginia. a nd was appo inted surgeon in the Con federate a rmy wi th the rank of major, heing" in charge o f different hospitals in the south until the surrender o f General Lee , 1-1 is pro­ fessi onal career covers more than half a century, and he is yet active in th e per­ formance o f th e duties that dev olv e upon the members o f th e medi cal fraternity. H e attributes h is long life and excellent health to the fact that he has never in­ dulg ed in the use of intoxica nts or to­ hac co in any form' throughout his entire Iifc. Dr. W ebb was united in marriage. O c­ toh cr 2. 1856. to :-lary Anna Cas tleman, o f L exington . Kentucky. who di ed in 1902. There were five children o f that marriage : David Castleman, Anna Huskc, Mary Cas tleman, Virginia Cas ­ tleman B rcckinridac, now th e wife o f Arth ur \ V. Lam be rt of 51. Lou is, l\ lis­ sonri : and \ Villie, the wife o f Harry L. Davis. o f Ge rmantown, P en nsylvania. Haughton traces hi s lin ea g e irom an English nobleman ( A sh ley) in the reig n HAUGHTON. Richard Elwood. 1827­ o f james T, wh o was attached to the Class of 1861. court, and from h im to colon ists wh o Richard Elwood Haughton, xr. D ., were among th e firs t se ttlers in \ ·irgi n ia . Sc. D .. o f Richmond, Indiana, whose They were wealthy in land and slaves, ca reer as a med ical practition er ami hut heing o f th e sect o f Q uakers th ey teach er has exte nded over a full half ma n umitt ed their bondsm cu , a nd washe d ce ntu ry, was ho rn in Fayette co unty, I n­ the ir hands of th at "SI1111 u f all villainies." diana. December 8, 1827 . Ill' came o f as t hcv characterize d th e institution of an arist ocratic English family. In th e slavc rv. \V illiam Hau ghton , fa the r uf JEFFERSON MEDICA L CO L LEGE

Dr. Haughton, came to th e U nited States first term, and took th e chair of Physi­ at th e age of eightee n. H e was a pro­ ology and P hysiolog ical A natomy in the fess ional teacher in Fayette, U nion and College of Physician s and Surgeon in \ Vaync counties, Jndi ana, and died in Indianapolis, Jndi ana, wh er e he remain ed .I uly, 1878, after fifty -five years of con­ for four years . In 1879 he orig inated stant labor in his profession. H e wa s a th e idea of a new medi cal schoo l whi ch minist er in th e Society of 'F riends, and should tak e a hi gher positi on in medi cin e long a teacher in Earlham College. in Indiana, and in connect ion with Dr. Dr. Haughton wa s educated under his \Y.S . Ha ym ond he gave form to th e fath er's care up to the tim e o f begi nning Central Co llege of Physicians and Sur­ t he st udy of medicine, and thus rece ived ge ons. H is plans were perfect ed in Se p­ a most liberal training, equal to that then tember of th e same year, and th e college att ainahlc in the best collegiate course. wa s opened for th e first regular term on I ll' began teaching as an as sistant to his O cto ber 1St. I 87S'. Fr om that tim e Dr . fath er at th e age of fifteen years, and Haughton ha s been unremitting ill his three years later began tca chinu ind c­ efforts to make th e institution a model pe!:den lly, working in th e int erim on t hc one in eve ry respect . and he has been pucrna l farm, thus helping to pay for ably seconde d by h is colleag ues . T his the land b:' raising corn, hogs an d beef. institution wa s th e first o f its kind in In th e fall o f 184S' he began th e study th e west to require students to pass a o f medi cine with Dr. Z. Casterline. his ge ne ral examination before admission, fnt her' s family physician, and a g raduate and th e numer ou s restriction s and regu­ o f Transylv ani a Unive rs ity . A Iter t wo lations whi ch we re th en put in force year s under thi s instruction , during whi ch hav e proved a safegua rd and benefit to time he also tau ght in th e U nion Countv th e college, wh ose gradua tes are, in eon­ Semina ry, lt e attended th e Cle veland seque nce, proud of th eir alma mater. ~ Icrlical College for tw o terms , and took A s a lecturer Dr. H au ghton is d ear his medical degree in 1853. g radua ting at and concise in his lan guage, a fluent and th e head of his cla ss, being also th e val e­ eas y speake r. and hi s words carry with dictorian. He entere d up on practice in them th e irresistible impression that he Knightstow n, Ind iaua, where he remained knows wh er eof he speaks. H e ha s con­ until Oc tober, 1855, when he removed to tributed to various professional journals, Ri chmond, in the same st at e. where he and his articles have given him an ex­ wa s lab ori ou sly engage d for tw enty yea rs. tended reputation. Amo ng th e jo urnals During thi s tim e, how ever , he attended to whi ch he ha s contributed arc th e N ash­ lectures in J efferson 1\1 edical Co llege, vill e "Journal of Medi cin e and Surgery ." and received hi s degree the re fro m in th e Cincinnati " Lance t and O bserver," Xl arch, 186r. th e Indianap olis " Me dical .I ournal. ' th e In 1873 Dr. Haughton ente red upon "Ame rican Medi cal Journal of Xl cdical hi s caree r as a teach er of medical science . Sc ience ," th e "Transactions of the Indi­ accep tin g th e chair of Descriptiv e an d ana State Xlcdi cal Soc iety," th e " Peni n­ Surgical An at om y in th e Indiana M edi cal sular Medi cal journa l." etc. I Ie ha s College.H e resigned at th e end of th e written on a g reat variety o f subjects, OFFlCl:,:RS A ND A LUJ/XI and his articles on "Diseases of the LADD, Horace, 1826­ Nervo us System " have att racted special Class of 1848. attention. He is a member of the Amer­ Dr. H orace Ladd, of Philadelphia, ican Medical Association, the Indiana Pennsylvania, was born in that city, Se p­ . tate M cdica l Association , the mon ternb er J4 , J8 26, a son o f S amuel and District Medical Association , th e Tri­ Larissa Durwent ( 1\ latlock) Ladd.I n State M edical Association ( now th e Mi s­ his youth he attended a privat e school sissippi Valley Association). the Wayne in Philadelphia, wh ere he came un der Co unty Medical Association, which he the instruction of Mrs. S ha w, 1\1rs. Gill organized, the Marion County Medical and Eleanor A . J on es. H e al so spent Association. and he is an hon orary mcm­ some time under th e in struction of J. L. Reese. of the P hiladelphia Model School, her o f the O hio State Medi cal Associa­ and next matriculated in th e Cen tral tion . H e is a cha rter member of the ]-f igh School of Philadelphia. in whi ch A lumni Association of the J e fferson ~ Ied­ he was graduated with th e degree of ical College, and vice-president of th e Bachelor o f Arts. and subse que ntly that Association in Indiana. He wa s one of. o f :\Iaskr of Arts in IS-tO. H e then en­ the projectors and original stockholders tercel J effersonl\ledi cal Co llege. wh er e of th e Richmond Street Railroad Com­ he complet ed th e course hy g radnation pa ny. In matters of rel igi on he is libe ral, in 1848 . Immediately foll owing he wa s a nti-ritualistic, and in depende nt In made Vaccine Physician for one yea r for th ou gh t an d act ion. tho ugh reare d as a I'h iladclphia, and was als o P hy sician to Qtlaker. In politics he is a Republican . th e I'h iladelphia Dispensary for a SIl 11­ Dr. Haughton has been invited to ilar period. ac cept chairs in several othe r regular Dr. Ladd spe nt th e summe r of 1849 in sch ools. hut sin ce his health fail ed in th e Municipal H ospital on .' ine tee nth 1880 ha s not been eng aged in tea ching. street and Fairmount av enue, in Phila­ hut went so uth in search of health. whi ch, delphia. wh ere he wa s engaged in treat ­ having regained. he returned to Rich­ ing cases of cho lera. small-p o x and ship mond. to his old practice, which he has fever. H e wa s surgeon to th e Lehigh now for ten years steadily and inclustri­ Co al and Navigation Co mpany. and pra c­ ous ly fo llowed to dat e. H e expects to ticed in Carbon county for ten years, retire when he has ro unded out his four­ a fte r which he wa s engaged in gen eral sco re years. H e lives als o in hope of practice for tw enty years in Luzerne an d that immortality which is the promise of Lackawauna counties , II e help ed or­ th e upright Christian. ganize th e first hospital in 1\ Iau ch Chunk Dr. Hanghton has heen twice married . and als o in Scranton . and he served as Hi s first wife. wh o was Mrs. Cathe r ine Surgeon on the sta ff of the Mauch Chunk \ V. l\fecke r, of East Clevela nd . O hio, and Scranton Hospitals. H e helongs to died in 1807, leaving two chi ldren. His the Ca rbon . Luzerne and Lackawanna second wife, who is yet living, was Miss Co unties Medical Societies. !\ Iter an E lizabeth Mathe r, a lineal descen dant abs ence o f thirty years he retu rned to his of Rev, Cotton 'Mather . D . ' D.. and a native city, where he now practices his pupil of Earlham Colleg e. professi on. JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE

In early life Dr. Ladd vot ed for Zach­ H e was reared in Cumberland county. ary Taylor, and ga\'c hi s support to th e and received his education in the ~ Ic­ 'Vhig party until its dissolution, wh en chanicsburg high schoo l. He took up he join ed th e ranks of th e new Republican the study of medicine under Dr. Augustus party. to whi ch he stiJJ adheres. Yanhoff, and lat er under, Dr. Andrew 1\Jjllcr. of Harrisburg. Hc att end ed the Jcffcrson xIedical College .of Phila­ COOVER, Eli H ., 1827- delphia, and was graduatcd therefrom Class of 1850. in ]850. H e first began practice in New Eli H . Coo ver, :;\1. D., was horn in Cumberland, Cumberland county, and L ow er AJJen township. Cumhcrland conti nued there from I Sso to 1869. H c then removed to H arrisbu rg and con ­ tin ned the practice of medici uc and surg ery. In earlier days he combined the practice o f dentistry with that of his pr ofession. and was one of th e oldest physicians in practice in th e city at the tim e of his death. H e wa s one of the founders of th e Cumberland County Medical Society. a member o f the Dauphin County Medical ocicty. and of th e National Medical Association . 1Ie was also one of th e organizers o f the Academ y of Medicine, and one of a committee of five chosen from the County Medical Society to select a suitable place to hold its meetings. H c wa s inst ru ­ mental in securing the present building. and wa s chosen the first president 0 f the Academy, which position he rt-taincd for several te rms. He wa s railroad surgeon of the Nort hern Central Railwav for seventeen years, from B ridgcport to county, Penn sylvania, October I. 1827, Goldsbor o. He served as lnite.l States a son of jacob and A nnie ( I Iouser) Pension Examiner for twelve years: from Coo ver. natives of Cumberland c01111ty. 1S72 to 1883. H e was a stockhold er in ] Ti s father wa s a farmer by occupation. the Harrisburg Bank, Harrisburg Trust and prominent in his regi on-s-an activ e Company, Central Guarantee Trust and memb er o f th e nit cd Tlrcthren Church, Safe Dep osit Company. Chestnut Street and pr ominently identified with every and Broad Street Markets, He had a branch of chu rch work. The parents large real estate int erest in II arrishurjr. reared a family of tw elve children. Dr. Tn politi cs he wa s a R epublican and was Coo ver wa s th e seventh son and ninth formerly an active partisan. llc was child of th e family. not a memb er of an v fraternal so- OFFICERS AND A LUMNI cicty or club. He was a member of the ferson M edica! Co llege. H e receiv ed ex­ F irst Luthe ran Church, of Harrisburg. cellent literary training as a foundati on and a liberal contributor to cha ritable for hi s professional knowledg e. wh ich institutions. wa s gaine d in J eff erson with the class H e wa s married, first, in 1851, to Xliss of 1886. Following his graduat ion, he Annie Hummel, da ught er of David H urn­ entered up on the practice of medi cin e in mel, Esq., of H a rrisburg, wh o died in the capital city of I 'cnusylvania, wh ere 1899. Sh e had two children, namely, he ha s since remained . For ten yea rs David 1-1., of Denver. Colorado, Professor he wa s county physician of Dauphin of Eve Diseases in th e Denver an d Gross county, and he ha s been exa mi ner for Medical Co llege, and Harry Ross, M , D., the Brotherhood of L ocom otive E ngi­ o f Harrisb urg. He was again married , neers, Tlrakcm en and Firemen. He . be­ O ctober I , 18<)0. to ~ I iss Elsie Coover, longs to th e Dauphin Co unty M edical of J ohnstown, P ennsylvania. Society, th e P ennsylv ania Sta te Medi cal Society. and th e Harrisburg Academy of Medicine, joining th e last named up on COOVER, Harry Ross, ­ Class of 1886. its organization, and of whi ch he is also Dr. Harry R oss Coover, o f Harris­ a life member. His political suppo rt IS burg, P ennsylvania, is a representative gIv en to th e R epublican pa rty . of a fam ily of German lineage established in Pe nn sylva nia at an early day. His HERRICK, Everett, 1830­ grandfat her, Jacob Coover, was a cle rgy­ Cl ass of 1854. man wh o dev oted his entire life and in­ Ever ett H errick, Ph ysician , wa s born come to th e progress and upbuilding of in New London, N ew Hampsh ire. J uly th e Ch urch o f God. His son , Eli Houser 20, 1830. a son o f J on athan and Rhoda Coover, was born ncar M echanicsb urg, ( E vere tt) H errick , both parent s bein g Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and natives o f N ew England. Everett H errick wedded A nnie Hummel, wh o was lik e­ wa s christe ne d J on athan E vere tt. bu t in wi se of Ge rman lin eage. The family 1856. by permission o f court in Il oston . was established in Harrisburg at an early he dropped th e first name and ha ; not day, and representatives o f the name used it since . Hi s fat her wa s one of were extensive landowners of that lo­ those gen erally useful men fr equ ently cality. The father o f our subject was found in New England towns. H a vin g als o engaged in merchandising and in the a mathematical head and so me executive saddlery bu siness. force, as chairman o f th e board of se lect­ Dr. Coover, as a st udent in the public men and judge of th e peac e and qu orum, schools of Cumberland county, Pennsyl­ he performed most o f th e public bu sin ess vania. ma st ered the elementary branches of the town. He was an architect and o f learning. and afterward continued his builder, als o a practical surveyo r, and studies in th e public sch ools of H arris­ frequently had hi s chains car ried by burg. He next entered M iss W ood­ students fr om Dartmouth Co llege . ward's Seminary, and was successively Dr. Everett Herrick wa s prepared fo r a stude nt in th e Harrisburg Academy, college at th e Acade my in 1 Tcw Lon don, th e P ennsylvania State Co llege, and Jei- and had passed the examinations for en- 4;> 8 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE trance to Dartmouth wh en his plans member of th e grammar school board. were change d by th e death o f hi s father. H e rem oved to New York in 1859, and i\ fter studying for tw o years under th e began general practice. H e wa s suc­ private instructi on of th e principal of th e cessful fr om th e start, and retained a Acade my, he began th e study of medi ­ larg e family practi ce until hi s retirement cine under Dr. Bick ford. the local doctor. in 1898. Dr. Bi ckford advised his enter ing Dr. During th e Civil war Dr. H errick wa s Gilman Kimball's office at r.o we ll, M as­ surgeon- in-cha rge of th e New E ngland sac h use tts, and he rem ained with him Relie f Association H ospital, assisted by untiI h is g rad uation at Jcffe rson :-Ied ical a large corps of volunteer surgeons and physicians as con sultants. As a member of th e \:ew York Acarlem v o f M edi cine he was fifteen years a trus tee . chairman of th e board eig ht years , and vice-president three years. H e was a member of th e

huiklinch committee in charcc~ o f the erec tion o f th e presen t beauti ful home of th e Academy. For more th an twc nty years he has been Co ns ulting I'hysician to the \:ew York Institution fur th e In­ struction of th e Deaf and Dumb. and has been for se veral vcars O1~e of th e (;0\'­ ernors of the Skin and Cance r H ospital. lie is a member of th e Co unty Soc iety, member and ex-preside nt of the Societv fo r th e Relief o f th e Wi dow s and Or-' phans of Medical M en, member of the \:cw England Society. and member of th e Ccnturv- Club. H e wa s four .years medical director of th e Co ntinental Li fe rnsurance Co mpany. Ill' is a member of th e Madison Square Presbyt eri an Church. I-I is country home is at East Co llege. 1-1 is hospital trauu ng wa s tw o Hampton , Lon g rslanrl, wher e he spends years as Interne at th e public in stitution six months every year. At Ea st H amp­ at South Boston. I-Ie sett led in Boston ton there is a large golf and tennis cluh and remained five Years. H e was a mem ­ with th e finest club hou se on Long ber of th e ?Ifassachusctts M ed ical So­ Islaud, Dr. I-Ier rick ha s been president ciety, S u ffolk Di strict M edi cal Society , of th e club since its organization thirtee n and th e Society for l\ rcdical Improv e­ years ago. lIis New York home is at meut ( private). In his second year in 1 2 6~radi s on avenue. ltost on he was appoin ted a memb er of June 17, 188o, Dr. H errick married th e primary school hoard, and th e yea r Harriet Ford, daughter of J ohn R Ford. he left for N cw York he wa s elected a Their only child died in infancy. OFFICERS A ND A LUilI:VI

SPEER, Alexander Morrow, 1830­ large tra ct of lan d and engaged in farm ­ Class of 1853. ing. His son. Paul ;\I OITO\\' . th e grand­ Dr. Al exander Morrow Speer. wh o father of D r. S pee r, became a lawye r and has made Pittsburg the place of his resi­ banker o f Greensburg, P ennsylvania. dence duri ng a long and ac tive profes­ In his early boyh ood days, Dr. S pee r sional career as a physician and surgeon, pursu ed his educ ation in priva te schools was born in that city October 28, 1830. in Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, and his col­ In 1739 his paternal great-grandfather, legiate ed uca tion was acq ui red in th e James Speer. came to America fro m W estern U niversity o f Pe nnsy lva nia. bu t Scotland or the north o f Ireland and on account of ill health he was oblige d sellled on a farm where the viIlag e of Cashtown. near Gcttysburp; now stands. His grandfather, Rev. William Speer. was born ncar (;ettysburg. Pennsvlvania, and became a Presbyterian clergyman. lIe had three brothers who served as pa­ triotic soldiers in the war of the revolu­ tion. one o f the m holding the ra nk of captain. The only sister of W illiam Speer was the moth er of Presid ent James Iluchauan. whil e th e sister of hi s wife. Sarah Ramsay, married Archibald 1rwin, and was th e grandmother of Preside nt Tlcnjarni n Harrison. Dr. j ames Ramsay Speer. th e father o f Dr. A. ;\1. Speer, settled in Pittsburg. Penn­ sylvania, in 1825. for th e practice of medicin e. having g raduated fr om the M edi cal Department of th e Un ivc rsitv o f Pennsylvania with th e class of 1R24. I-I e had also previously g raduated fr om \ Vash ing ton College, Pennsylvania. For ma ny years he dev oted 'h is en ergies to the work of th e physician, and was th e first to discontinue his studies th er e wh en in man in th e U nited States, with th e pos­ th e senior year. H e took up th e study of sible exception of one or tw o, to give th e medicine in July, 1849, in th e office of g reater part of his time to th e treatment Drs. Speer and Morgan , o f Pittsburg, o f the diseases of the eye. He ma rried and in the fall of 1850 he matriculated in Hetty M orrow, who was of Scotch­ Jcfferson Medi cal College, in which he Irish lineage, being descended fr om completed a fu ll course and was g radu­ Thomas 1\ Iorro w, wh o emig rated to th e at ed in th e sp ring of 1853, Imm ediately United States from th e north of I relanrl following his g raduation, Dr. Speer ab out 1739. settling ncar Chambersburg, opened an office in Pitt sburg for the P en nsylvania . T her e he purchased a ge neral practi ce of med icin e and surgery, 460 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COL LEGE and for a half a century has been a well 1865. wh en he resigned , with the ran k kn own and honored member a f th e pro­ o f Br evet Li eutenant- .oloncl, U nited fess ion in that city. States Volunteer s. O n th e r st o f March , In J 854 Dr. Speer was elected one of I 851l, Dr. Speer went abroad, remaining th e su rgeons to th e W est Penn Hospital, in Paris, F rance, and London , England, and in Februa ry, 1857, was appointed until July, 1867 . During that time he by President P ierce to the position of attended th e ophtha lm ic clinics o f Drs. Surgeon and Superintendent o f the Bowman, C ritc hc t t, Hutchinson. in Lon­ U n ited States Marine H ospital at Pitts­ don. and o f Drs. Desmarrcs, W ecker, burg. filling that pos ition until \ pril 20, Lichrcich and Galezow skv, and othe rs , d Sil l, wh en he resigned in orde r to enter in Paris. Upon his return to his nat ive th e army, th e count ry havin g in that land Dr. Speer resumed th e pract ice of month become involved in civi l wa r. O n medicine and surgery. dcv ot ing himsel f the 25t h of Apri l, 1861, ·he was appointed entire ly to diseases o f th e eye and ea r. Surgeon of the Twelfth Pennsylvania in Pittsburg. in July. 18°7. and was I n fa ut ry Regiment and se rv ed with it un til A ugust 5, 1861. In September, appointed O phthalm ic and Aural Surgcou to Mercy H ospital o f that city. li e wa s J8o I . he becam e S urgeon 'of the Sevcnt h Pennsyl vania Ca valry R eg im ent, with also offered the Cha ir o f U phthalmo logy wh ich he continued until .I unc I , 181l3, in the Medical Co llege of Western Penn ­ when he resigned to acc ept th e position sylvania H ospital, hut declined to serve of Assistant Surgeon of In ited States on acc ount of ill health. lie belon gs to \ .oluutecrs, and on th e 13th o f .I un c, the Allegheny Co unty Xl cdical Society 18° 3. was made fu ll S urgeon U n ited and to the American ;\Iedical Associati on. S ta tes Volunteers . In M arch he be­ and he is the author of an article entitle d came :\fcdical Director of the Sec­ "Embol ism of Arteria Ccnt ra lis Rct inrc." ond nrig'lde. Second Division. of publish ed in th e " Ameri can .I ournal of th e Ca valry Co rps o f th e Army o f M edical Scien ces" in 1869. th e Cumhc rland : in A pril, 18°3. was Dr. Speer wa s married . in 1872. to made Med ical Director of th e Second Ellen Caroline l lisscll, and to them D ivision of th e Cavalry Corps o f the we re born tw o sons. J ohn llisscll A rmy of the Cumberla nd; in M ay, 1863, a nd Alexande r :\1. Speer, .I r., both now was appointed :M cdical D irector of the g raduates o f Yale Uuivcrsity. T he Ca valry Co rps of th e Army of the Cum­ family hom e is at ?\ o. 4900 Cente r ave­ bcrland ; and fr om the 1st o f August, nu e. Shadyside. Pittsburg , Pennsylv ania. 1863. until March, 1865, was Surgeon- H is eld est brother, th e R ev . William in-Charge of the Un ited States Army Speer, D. D ., died February, l~ 0-l. while Ge ne ra l Hospitals, th ree in nu mber, at his brothers. Cha rles E. Speer, I'resi dent Co ving ton, Kentuck y. O n th e i st of of the F irst \'ational llank, Pittsburg. Marc h of the latt er year he was ap ­ Major James I'. Speer . late Presiden t pointed Surgeon-in-Charge of the U nite d of Freehold l lank, Pittsburg. and J ohn S ta tes Army Eye and Ear H ospital at Lantzinger Speer , of Sh ocnbergcr. Speer Cincinnati. O hio. and continued to fill & Co" with one siste r . Sa rah R. Speer. that position until the 16th o f O ctober, st iII surv i"e. OFT-l eF,RS A ND ALUMNI 461

KERR, Boyle, 1830­ in 1854. In 1883 the Western University Class of 18 5 4. of I'cunsylvania conferred upon him the Dr. IIoylc Kerr was burn Nove mbe r degree of Master of A rts. F ollowing 21). 1830, in Alleghe ny City, 1'cnusyl­ his grad uation, Dr. Kerr located in :\ 1­ vania, whe re he is now engaged in the lcg hcny City, Pennsylvania, and has de­ gc ncral practice of medicine and sur gery. voted his entire lif e to the practice of ]-I is g rand fat he r, Sa muel Kerr, was a medicine and surgery. He is still an residen t farmer of Alleg heny county, earnest student of his pr ofession, and Penn sylvani a, while his fat her, Samuel th rough fi fty years has kept abrea st of Plununcr Ke rr, was an educator, teac h- the pr og ress of the tim es, so that he now follows most modern met hods in ad ­

miuistc rinab to th e needs of su fferinab humani ty. Dr. Kerr was ma rri ed to O tilia Cristcna Freund. who was horn in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and they hav e two sons and a daughter: Howard I\oy1c, Clyde Chester. and Xlaric Emily Kerr.

MAIER, Frederick Hurst, 187 1­ Cl a ss of 1894. Dr . Frederick 1--1 urst :\Iai cr, Assist­ ant Demonstrator in Gyn ecology in the Jefferson Medical College, was born in Philadelphia, June I. 1871, his parent s being William and !{ose ( I-furst) Mai er. fn bot h th e paternal and maternal line he is of Germa n lineage, his fat her com­ ing to Ame rica fro m Had en. Germany, in 1847. Locatin g in Philadelphia. he th ere engaged in merchan dising. Dr. Maier was a public-sc hool student 1I1g m private schoo ls in Alleg heny in his native city until he completed the county. IIc married Emily \Voods. high school course. 1fc was then und er Dr, Kerr was a student in the publ ic pr ivat e instruction for tw o years, and schools of his native city . and in Du­ he ent ered upon the study of medicine Q uesne College, at Pittsburg, winning under the direction of Dr. E . E . Mon t­ the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon g rad­ gomery, at the M edico-Chirurgical Col­ uati on fr om the latter institution in 1848. leg e of Philadelphia, P ennsylvania. H e He studied medicine for three years under was graduated with the degree of Doctor th e direction of Dr. George McCook, of Medicine in 1891, and th en studied and th en entered the Jefferson Meclical abroad for tw o and a half years, doing College, fr om which he was graduated post-graduate work in Berlin, Munich -!(;2 JE FFERSO.V M EDICAL COL LEGE and Vi enna. after which he returned to stctrical Society o f Philadelphia and th e th e U n ited States in 1892, and immedi ­ Xlcdico-Lcgal Society . I-I e ha s written ately matriculat ed in J efferson M edi ca l variou s monographs on hi s spec ia lty. and College, in wh ich he was g raduated with has invented se ve ra l useful instruments th e class of 18 S1-J. . He th en estab lishe d whi ch arc now widely used by th e pro­ his office in Philadelphia, wh ere he ha s fessi on. since remained in active pract ice. hi s Dr. Xl ai cr gives his political support duties bein g of an im po rtant cha racter. to th e Republican party. H e was mar­ H e was Residen t Assistant in the Uni­ ried O ctobe r 10, 1900, to Cla ra Hill. of vcrsit v Frauen Klinic in -:'f unich. Ge l" - Philadelphia, ]'cnnsylvauia.

KRUSEN, Wilmer, 1869­ Class of 1893. \Vilmcr I( ru scn , -:'1. D., wa s bo rn in Bucks county. Pennsylvania. l\Iay 18. 18(jSl. a son o f .Iul111 and Elizabeth A. ( Sag cr) Kruscu . IIc is o f H oll and­ Dutch descent, and his father wa s a farmer o f Buck s count v. He was educated in th e public sch ools o f his native co unty. and read medi cin e for a year with Dr. Charles U. Smith. of ;(cwto n , Pennsylvania . bef ore entering .Ie ffe rson M edical Col1cge . fr om whi ch he wa s graduated in 1893. with th e de­ gree of Doctor o f Xlcd icine . For a year following he wa s R esident lh vsic iau in th e j efferson H ospital. H e th en opcne-l a practice in Philadel phia. hi s specialty being gynecology, and since 18S1-J. he ha s been Instructor in Gynccology at J effer­ so n Co l1 ege.H e is Assistant Gyuccol­ many. an d is now assista nt to P ro fessor ogist in th e j efferson Hospital, in the E . E. M outgomerv in th e Gynecological St. j oseph H ospital and th e Samaritan O ut- Door Patient Department of J ef­ Hospital. I-I e is Chief o f th e (; yn eco­ ferson H ospital. H e is lik ewise Assistant logical Di sp en sary o f St. J oseph's ]-Ios­ Gynecolog ist to S t. J oseph's H ospital at pital, and a fellow o f th e Col1ege of P hilade lph ia. H e is also Ch ief of th e Phys icians . ] Ic is a member o f the O u t- Door Disp en sary at St. J oseph's American M edical Association , of the H ospital. H e belon g s to th e A mer ican Philadelphia Co u nty Medical Society, M edi cal Association, th e Philadelphia th e Philadelphia M edical C lub, th e Phil­ Co unty M edical Society, th e P ennsyl­ adelphia O bs te trica l Society , th e N orth­ vania tate M ed ical Society, th e OlJ- west ern M edical Society, and th e Phila- OFFICERS A ND .'1L UMAI delphia Patho logical Society. He is a delphia, and have been prominently co llaborator on "American Medicine,' identified with its professional and co m­ and has written many articles in the lin e mercial int erest s, of his specialty. In politics he is a Re­ J oseph S . ?\ efT was pr epared for co l­ publican. leg e at private schoo ls in Philad elphia. In 1 8~ 5 . he ma r ried Elizabeth W . Gi l­ Il l' then ent ered th e U uivers it v of Penn­ be rt. and his th ree childre n a rc Edward sylvania, wh ere he receiv ed th e degree M. , Francis H . and Carolyn :\. o f Ihchelor o f Arts in 1873, and that of Ma ster o f A rts in 1877. a nd immedi ­ NEFF, Joseph Seal, - ately after his g raduation fr om that in- Medical Director Jefferson Medical Col­ lege Hospital. Class of 1875, Dr. J oseph S . Neff, now retired from active medical practice, but since 1894 serving in the capacity of Medica l Di­ rector to J e fferson Medi cal Co llege Hos ­ pit al. traces his ancestry to Rudolph Neff', a native of Switzerland. who settled in Frankford ( no w 1'hiladelphia, Penn­ sylvania) in 1756. and engaged in mer ­ cantile pursuits, havin g com e to this count ry in orde r to escape fro m th e re­ ligi ou s persecutions in his native laud. He was devoted to his religion , and founded the first Presbyterian Church in Frankford. Pennsylva nia. At the out­ break of the R evolution ary wa r he was appointed a captain of \ Vashingtou's Flying Ca mp. served during th e entire period of the struggle. and after his hon orable d ischa rge resumed his mer­ cantilc Ii fc. J ohn R. N cff, 'g ra nd father of Dr. joseph S. 1 Jeff, a grandson of the emigrant ancestor, wa s cngagcd as a stitution he matriculated at the J efferson shipping merchant in the city of Phila­ ;\ Iedi cal Co llegc. from whi ch he was delphia, served as a colonel in the war graduated with th e degree of Doct or of of 18 12, was a devoted P resbyter ian, and Medicine in 1875 . After serving as in ­ a counsel in the church. Charles Neff, terne at th e O rtho pedic H ospital and father of Dr. J oseph S. Neff. was an P ennsylvania H ospital of Philadelphia, he eminent and Icading physician of Phila­ went abroad in orde r to suppleme nt th e delphia, and an alumnus of J cffcrson kn owledge he had already acquired, and Medica l Co llcge; he marr ied l\fary L. for one year dev ot ed his attention to th e S ea!. T he N cff family have, since th eir work ill th e H ospital A llgemcincs Krank­ a rrival in this country, resided in Phila- enhaus ill Vienna. H e returned to P hila- JEFFERSON MEDiC-,lL COL LEGE delphia in 1878, and for tweivc consecu­ Plrila cl clph ia, wa s born in Cha mbers ­ tive years was engaged in a general prac­ burg. Pennsylvania, September I I, tice of his chosen calling. In 187~ he 18° 9, a so n of James a nd Xl ary Emma was appointed a member of the Auxiliary ((;re,\') Kennedy, th e former of Scotch Faculty, in 1881 was elected by the t rus­ lineage and the latter o f E ng lis h de­ tees Attending 'phys icia n to the Hospital, see n t. and in 1882 became Attending Physician Dr. K ennedy pursued his early ed u­ to the Philadelphia H ospital. In !889 cation in th e public an d normal impaired health caused his resignation schools of Kansa s, and of Chicago, Il­ from practice and all hospital appoint­ lin ois, and subsequently attended the ments . an d one yea r later he beca me iden­ University of Illinois. I-Ie prepared tified wit h the firm of L. C. Vauuxcm & for th e practice o f medicine as a st u­ Co.. which connection continued until dent in jefferson Xl cdical Co llege, 18~2 , when he retired from active busi­ completing his course with th e class ness pursuits. In 1894 he was elected of 1899. and for a year th er ea fter he 'by the trustees as Medical Di rector to the was located in Harrisburjr, Pennsyl ­ Jefferson H ospital. vania. l ie has since pr acticed in I'hil­ For many years Dr. \"cff served in the a delphia, and now ha s cha rge of a de­ capacity of Xlcdical Director for the New partment of th e Philadelphia Disp en­ York Life Insurance Company, and in sa ry . which institution is am ong the the early eig ht ies was the incumbent of oldest of the kind in th e State, I-f e is the offi ce of coroner's physician. H e is Consult ing P hysician of Price's ( lb­ a ' member of th e P hiladelphia County st ctrical Di spen sary, and is First .\ s­ Medical Society, the Patholog ical Society sistant to Dr. J oseph Price. J-I e had of Philadelphia, th e American IIIedical cha rge of th e Gyne co logica l Dep art­ As sociation. and the Pennsylva nia State ment of th e H ermantown I)isp en sary, Xlcdical Society. Socially he is a mem­ hut on acco unt of the pressure of othe r ber of the L'nion Leagu e Club, of which profe ssi onal duties had to abandon his he was secretary for two years, and also lab ors in that connecti on in Janua ry , vice-president: the :\feri on Cricket Club, 190-1-. H e belon gs to th e Co unty Xl cd­ the Philadelph ia Cricket Club, the Phil­ ical Society of Philadelphia. IIc ma in­ ad elphia Country Club, the Rivcrtou tains hi s offi ce at No. 1409 Spruce Gun Club, and th e Sons of th e stree t. Revolution. His politi cal affiliati ons arc with th e Republican party, and he is HARRISON, James Nelson, 1857­ active and prominent in committee work. ClaSB of 1883. Dr. ?\Z eff has been ma rried twice; on Dr. J a mes Nelson Harrison , a phy­ June 12, 1879, to Harriet Loui se Lud­ sicia n and surgeon of Sa lt Lak e City, low ; and on June 2, 1894, to Mrs. Charles Utah, wa s born in A lleghe ny co unty, Gibb ons , Jr. Pennsylvania, September 2 1, 1857,I 's KENNEDY, James William, 1869­ pa rents being Samuel and Cathe rine ClaSB of 1899. (Slat er) Harrison, the former of Dr. James William Kennedy, en­ Sc otch and English anel the latter of gaged in the practice of medicine in German descent. OFFI CERS A ND ALUMN I

Dr. Harrison pursued his early edu­ maternal side his an cestor s were Sco tch, cation in the public schools of Sharps­ and am ong them wer e some who fought burg, I' cnnsylvania, was afterward a at Culloden in 1746, and who, to esca pe student in 'the classical academy at the executioner, ned to America, settling th at place, and co mpleted a co urse in in Virginia. Jefferson ?\ Iedical College In 1883, Dr. I-Ianunond attended pri vate when th e degree of Doctor of flicdi­ schools in Augusta. Geo rg ia, from 1880 cine wa s conferred upon him. He en­ to 1882, and -in Xl adi son, Georgi a, from tered upon hi s profe ssi onal career at 1882 to 1885. From 1885 to 1889 he Gra nd Island, :\cbraska, and thence came to Salt Lake City, whe re he has si nce contin ue d in t he ge ne ra l practice of medicine. l Ie has. however, fur­ th er pre pare d for his chosen calling­ by "st udy in t he Polyclinic of New York in 1891. lie th en went abroad, spendi ng- nin e mon ths in Vienna, Aus­ tria, w here h e be nefited by instructio n from some of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons of the old world. H e was also a student in Lon ­ dou , E ng la nd. in 1892, and returned to Ameri ca well equipped by cornprchcn­ sivc knowledge for the arduous duties o f hi s pr ofession. He is a member of the Masonic fratern ity. and a R epub­ lican in politics.

HAMMOND, Francis Clinch, 1875­ Class of 1895. Francis Clinch H amm ond, ?I'L D., of I'h iladelphia, wit h offices at I419 Tioga street. is a native of Georg-ia. born in was a student in the Kcnd crtou Gram­ Augusta, March 7. 1875. son of Thomas mar Sch ool. Philadelphia. 111 1889 he and ?dary Ann ( Harries) Hammond. entered th e Boys' .cntral High Sc hool His fath er was a native of York, Eng­ o f P hiladelphia. which he left in his ju ­ land, and 'his mother was from Walcs ; nior year to pr epare for his pr ofession . they cam e to Am erica abou t the same While a st ud ent in th e J efferson Medical time ( 187 1), and were married in Trin­ College . during the summe r of 1894, he ity Church. New York. His pat ernal an­ took th e course in the Philadelphia cestor s left Ireland in 1798, on account Lying-In Charity Hospital. H e re­ of the I rish revolution . and took up their ceived his dipl oma as Doctor of Me dicine residence in England. On his father's fr om th e J effer son Medical College on JEFPERSON M EDICAL COLL EGE

:\I ay 15. ISs/5. whe n he was aw arded th e rh ea ," and "The Surgi cal Treatment of gold medal fo r th e best th esis on a sub­ Abortion ." ject per tain ing to obste t rics , his pa pe r Dr. Hammond is a member of a 11l1111­ coruai u inu a report of a se ries of obstet­ her of the most prominent prof ession al ric caSl'S wh ic h he had at tended. \Vhile hodies-the Phi ladelphia County :-Ied ­ in culkge he was a memb er o f th e \V , \ V. ical Society: th e P en nsyl vania S tat e K een Surgical Socid ,\'. an d one uf t lu: Xl cdica l Society. to whi ch he was a dele­ founders ( I .lS/.")) and 1he vice -p residen t gate in ' 901: th e ~ orthw e s t ert1 l\!l'dical of the \\', S. l-orb cs .\ uatomi ca l League. Society: the O bste trica l Society of Phil ­ Engaging in th e practi ce of his pro­ ad elphia. o f which he ha s heen sec retary fession imm edi at ely after hi s graduati on, since 1S/ 0 2 : the North llranch of th e Dr. I-I am mo nd al so stepped in to active Philad elphia Co unty i\ledica! Socil'ly. of work in connec tio n w ith various prom­ which he was clerk in l S/o2-3 . and is now incnt institu tion s. I-I e was Resident I'h y­ cha irman of th e com mittee for scientific sician at S t. J oseph's l lospital . I ictober busincss : the Philadelphia Xl cdical Club: I, ISS/5 . to I rcio bcr 1--1-. ISf ): . vssistaut and th e A lum ni Association of th e Jd ­ in the O ut- Patient Department To r Dis ­ fcrson Xlcdical Co llege. o f wh ich he was ea ses of \Vom en in the J effer son :-Iedi ca l re cord ing secretary from l\lay '4. ' S/ Ol. Co llege Hospital. October IS. 18t;(;, to to i\lay 2(j. ' 9° 4, I-I e wa s formerly a ;\ovemher II . I S/03 : Instructor in Gvuc­ member o f th e Medi co-Legal Soci et y of cologv, j cffcrson Xlcclica l Co llege. Octo­ I'hilaclclphia. her I . IS97, to ~ ovcmhcr 1 I , 1l) 03: and Dr. Hanuuond wa s married. ~ ()\'l' m ­ fro m ~o\'e m he r 12, [s/03 . to th e present her 25. IS9s/. to Xliss Xla ric Loui se St CIl' ­ time. Dem on strator of Gyneco lonv in th e art. o f I'hi ladelphia. I'hiladclphia ';\ 1cdical Co llege, and Chief of the O ut- Pat ient D epartment for Di s­ eases of \\.ome n in th e Sarna ritan Il os­ JONES. William S., 1857- pita l. H e is also \ 'i sitiug ' Physi cian to Class o f 1878. th e Odd Fellows'H orne of Pennsyl ­ Dr. \\'illiam S. J on es. a specialist in vania. the 110me for O rphans of O dd laryngology, wa s horn January 10. [S57. F ellow s, and th e R ebekah H om e for at Elmer. Xcw Jersey. and is a represen t­ Wives of O dd F ellow s. and is sec re ta ry ative of a fam ily whic h in its lineal an d of th e medi cal sta ff of eac h of th ese in­ collateral branches is di stinctively Amcr­ st itut ions . S ince 19 0 I he ha s hceu one tcau . Hi s parents were Iliram \ '. and of the collaborators uf "Gyuccologv and Sarah 1'. ( Seran ) Jones. O bstctrics.' for Amer ican i\ led icine. I-Iaving ma stered th e element ary Am01ig his articles contributed to med ­ branches of English learning. Dr. J on es ical journals. the following have re ceiv ed entere d the hi gh sch ool o f his native th e most attention: ,.Anesthesia and town, Later he took up the study of A nesthe tics, with a Pica for th e Xlorc medi cin e with Dr. J . S. Whitaker as his Ge ne ra l Employment of Chloroform precept or. and in 1870 he entered the Ethy l Bromi de": " The T rue \ 'aluc of .I effe rsou i\ Icdica l Co llege as a st udent. L ocal T reatment in Gy ncc ic Practi ce": remaining there until th e comple tio n of " The M edical Treatment of Dysm cn or- th e regular course in IS78. He then OFFICERS ../XD A LUJI.V I ·W 7 practi ced for ab out a vcar in ?dillville. commissioner s of th e ?\ew ,erscv Sa na­ t\cw J ersey. and since 1884 ha s resid ed torium for tubercu lou s disease. His in Camden. F rom 1896 to 19°4 he was political allegi an ce is given to the Re­ Clinical Professor of Laryngology in th e publican part y, and he is an active J cffcrso n ~ Icdica l College . H e served work er in th e local organization, serv ing as Ch ief o f th e Cli nic until 1896. ;111 d has as pres ide nt of th e Camden R epu blic been Instructor in th e Throat De part­ Club. ment for tw enty years. He has advanced O n the 13th of December . 1882, he far tow ar d perfect ion in th e lin e of hi s ma rried Ida J. Ford. spec ialty . as demon strat ed by the sue- BRICK, J. Coles , 1861­ Cl ass of 1894. Dr. J. Coles Brick. located at 204j Walnut street . Philadelphia. in th e prac­ tice of medi cin e and surgery. and also Chid of th e Rectal Department of Jef­ ferson Hospital, was horn at Crosswicks. ~ ew J ersey. October 10. 1801 . his par­ ents hein g \ Villiam F. and Anna (Coles ) Urick. In both the pa ternal and mater­ na l lines he is o f ~ ew J ersey Q uaker stoc k, and his father' s ances tors came to Am eri ca with th e Fenwick colony in the sevent eenth century. Dr. Bric k receiv ed his early ed uca­ tional training in his fat he r's home,' and afte rwa rd became a pupil in th e public schoo ls of Wilmington. Delaware. where he continued his stud ies un til he had completed th e high school course by graduation with th e class of 1878. He th en ente red H av erford College in 1881. but left that insti tu tion at th e end of th e ccssful results which have att ended his soph omore year to ente r bu sin ess life. in pract icc. He was the inveut or 0 f th e whi ch he had an ex perience o f ten yea rs nasal cure tte and splints . lie was pr esi­ prior to becoming a rep resen tative of the dent of th e Camde n County and Camden medi cal pr ofession . In 18<) I he matricu­ Cit vX lcdical Soc iety. a member of the lated in J efferson i\ Icdical College. and judicial council of the American :' Iedica l was graduated on th e complet ion of a Associat ion. and is a permanen t del egate th rce years' term in 1894. He has had to the New J ersey State Medical Society. seve ral hospital appointments. having H e ha s served iii Camden in city posi­ served for a partial term as Resident tion s. acting as a memb er of th e council. . Physician at the Pe nnsylvania Hospital and is county physician. and one of the of Philadelphia, for a partial te rm as JEFFERS O.V M E DICAL CO LL EGE

Resident Ph vsician o f the I'olyclinic HEWSON, Addinell, Sr., 1828-1889. H ospital o f Philadelphia, and for a full Class of 1850. term in th e same capac ity at th e Phila­ Dr. Acklinell H ew son , wh o in th e mid­ delphia H ospital. He wa s Demonstrator dle of the nineteenth century ranked o f Vis ceral Anat omy at J eff erson M ed­ among th e lead ing physicians o f l'hila­ ical Co llege for three years, an d subse­ delphia. and wh ose th ou ght and investi­ qu ently Chief o f the R ectal Department gation contributed to th e advancem en t o f o f J efferson Ho spital. 1-1 c became as­ th e profession, was born in Philadelphia, sista nt surgeon ' to th e ~ ati onal Guard of ~ ovcrn bc r 22, 1828. 1-1 is father, Profes­ I'cuusvlvania, and wa s assig ne d to duty so r Thomas T. H ewson. wa presid en t with th e Second Regiment. H e is the o f the Co lleg e o f Physicians fr om A p ril. 1835. until February, 1348. the date of hi s death. H e came o f a Iamilv that through successive g en erations ha s been prod uctive o f men o f th ought, who have made th eir mark upon th e me d ica l sci­ ence of th e times. The father di ed wh en nearly seventy-five years o f ag e. but wa s still at that time in th e zenith o f hi s fame and activity in all th e duties o f hi s pro­ fessi on. H is wi fc, however. had pa ssed awav m January, 1837, wh en their son Adclincll wa s but eig ht years o f age. Addincll Hewson, in hi s ea rly hoy­ hood days, was a student in th e gram­ mar school o f th e Unive rs it v o f P enn­ sylvania. then th e most Hourishiug school in Philadelphia, where he came under th e instruction of the Rev, Samuel \V vlic Cra wfo rd . D. D.. a man most dist in­ g uished for his rigid views o f di scipline and hon or, truth and manliness, and wh o was also a th orough scholar and pa ins ­ inventor o f a pil e clamp and has written taking teacher. Dr. H ew son th ere lai d a number o f articles which have appeared the foundation for thorough men tal de­ in different medical journals o f th e coun­ vel opmcnt and growth. H e a fterward trv, became a stude nt in th e Unive rs ity of His socia l relation s are with the Alpha Pennsylvania. where he remained until Kappa Kappa fratern ity, and with th e th e time of hi s g rad uation from th e De­ U nd ine Barge Club of P hilade lphia. partment o f Arts in th e class o f 1848. Where national issues arc involved he Immediately afterward he entered upon gives hi s political all egiance to th e R c­ the study of medicine in the office o f Pro­ publican party. and is indep endent in hi s fessor J oseph Pancoa st, and h is collegi­ local politica l connecti ons. at e training naturally wa s receiv ed in OFFICERS AND A LUM.vI .t li!1

Jcff crson Medical Col1 cgc, where he won Cl.urch in 1853. and S urgeon in 1854, the degree of Doctor of r.1cclicinc in se rving th er e most acceptably un til 1855. 1850. H is graduating thesis was up on wh en he resign ed . I-I c succeeded Dr . th e subject of th e prostate gland.A mhi­ J. H . LL :.rcClellan at thc summer school t iou s for further advancem ent in his on College A venue, in 1855. rcmainina chosen calling , he soon afterward went to several years in that position. Hc was Europ e as surgeon on a sailing vessel, elected S urgeon 10 \\ 'ills Hospital for and in th e old count r v became a stude nt Diseases of the Eye . in 1855. continuing under Sir Wil1iam Wikle, at St. Mark's 10 occ upy that post until 18°4. . Hc sue­ Hospital, in 185 I. als o attending lectures cccr led Dr. Ellers lie \ \'al lace as Physi­ at th e Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. The cian to th e H ouse of Refuge. IIc was relation betwee n Sir W illiam and him­ also elected S urgeon to the I'cnnsvlvan ia self was very pleasant, and he subse­ H ospital in 1Rli I. remai ning on its sta IT qu ently edited , at the requ est of th c au ­ un ti l IRn. During the Civil war he th or. th e work of th e former on "Aural was engaged as Co ntract ~11 rgenn on Surgery." published by Lindsay & Illa ck­ dUIy a t Che rn' ~ t reel 11ospital. I ll' was iston, of Philadelphia. Go ing to Lon­ aim Surg eon of the SI. (;eorge's Soci ety don. Dr. H ewson presented letter s of in­ fr om 1858 until his decease. troduction to S ir William Lawrenc e. He becam e a Fellow of this college. wh o offere d to take th e young man in also a member of th e I'hila.lclphia partnership if he would live in London. Co unty M edical Societ y. o f th e Academy and who gavc to him an old eng raving o f Natural Sc iences in 1853 . o f the Path ­ in which is the lik en ess of William H ew­ olog ica l Society in 1857. of the American son. a member of the family. as one of a Medical Associat ion in 1855. and of thc group of stude nts around Joh n Hunter. Internation al:'Icd ical Association in Dr. H ew son's preference for his na­ 1887 . \ \'hen. at the request of the laic tiv e country as a pla ce of residenc e Prof essor S . D. Cross. the Philadelphia caused him to decline I he offer of part­ Acade my o f S urgery was organized in nership. and in 1851 he returned to Phil­ his office. A pri l 2 1. I 87l). Dr. Hewson adelphia and became one o f th e re sid en t acted as cha irma n of its first mee ting. physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital. H e took fr equ ent part in th e debates and Following the close of his services there. proceedings in all th ese bod ies. and con­ in September, 1852. he engage d in th e tributecl largely t he result s of his ob­ active practice of his prof essi on , and rc­ se rvations. H e also lectured in 1855 and maincd as one o f th c most iufluential and seve ra l successive years in I he summer leading representatives in Philadelphia school of j effer son Xledical College. on up to th e time o f his death. H is caree r Surgery. as successor of Dr. J. 11. n. was an extre mely bu sy one, for his pri­ i\lcClellan. with W allace. W est, llridgcs, vate practice not only made heavy dc­ F. C . Smith. and Kea ting as colleagues, mands up on his time and energies. but In 1872 he again went ab ro ad for a year various hospital appointments and col­ to recuperate his sha tte red health. and 10 legc positions also cla imed his attention. refresh himself by cont act with the lead­ 1-1c wa s elected Assistant Surgeon 10 th e ing- medi cal men of th ought on the ot her H ospital of the Prot estant Episcopal side of th e Atlant ic. Among others he 470 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COL LEGE

recalled afterwards with pleasure his o f the Ey eball. with Sinking of the Ca­ meeting with Sir Henry Thompson , and runcle and Se milunar Folds. Follow ing wa s summon ed to M ent on e to treat Dr. th e O rdina ry O pe ration for Strah is­ 1-1. R. Storer, of :\ewport, Rhode Island. mus'": "On Localized Galvanism as a Dr. H ewson was continually advanc­ Remedy for Ph ot ophobia o f S trumo us ing. and wa s quick to not e. appreciate Ophthalmia": " On th e lnflu cncc o f the and utilize improvements made by others \ Veather O ver th e Results of "urgical in methods of treatment or in the admin­ O perations and on th e Value o f the lla ­ istration of remedial agencies . H e ea rly rometer as a Guide in th e Cho ice o f th e took up the administration o f electr icity time for and th e Prognosis in Such O p­ in th e for ms of primary and seconda ry crations'": "Eart h as a T opical Applica­ current. and with good results. as in the tion in S urgery": " O n the Treatment o f em ploy me nt of H ack ley's chai n for g ra n­ F ibroids of th e Uterus hy Xlean s of Dry ular conjunctivitis in 18 54. H e per­ Earth" : "Report o f a Case o f Ce r vica l formed amputation of the thigh at the Lymphadenoma Treated by th e A pp lica­ Pennsylvania Hospita l in 18° 5. using tor­ tion o f Earth": " F'lcx ihlc Gclatinc as a sion instead of ligatures. and invented a Substitute for A dhesive Pl ast er" : " Some torsion forceps. He. took up the earth Results of E xcessiv e Conservatism in treatment for wounds. contusions . chronic Treatment of Disease in L arge J oin ts": and acute inflammations. tumors. and for and " On Polarity. Ball Det ect ed hy It surg ical dressings generally, in 1807 or and E xtract ed Twenty-five Years Ago." 1808 . Previously he had follow ed Dr. Dr. H ew son wa s married. :\ovcmher Goddard and others in th e employment 22. 1854. to Xliss Rach el r-Iacomb W eth ­ of Donna Maria gauze and collodi on . erill. a daughter of Dr. \Villiam W eth er ­ He was a pioneer in dry dressings. and ill. o f Philadelphia and Fatland. :\Ion t­ constantly advocated them . in season and gom ery co unty. Pennsylvania. I fer out of season. 1-1 e communicated the re­ mother wa s a daughter of Major Ma­ sults of his obser vations freely to all the comb. of th e U nited States Army. T hey societies of whic h he was a member. as became th e parents of three so ns and an inspection of their proceedings will three daughter s. Dr. H ew son was for sho w. In 185 3 he edited, as already ma ny yea rs a regular attendant and COt11­ sta te d. at Sir \ Villi am W ikle's request, municant of St. Mark's P rotestant Epis­ the Am er ica n edition of " Wikle o n Aura! copal Church. H e di ed September 1 I , Surgery." a nd. in 1855. r-fackcnzic's 1889. at the age of sixty-one years. "Treatise on Diseases of the Eye." In bot h these departments of surgery he wa s very successful. In 1866 he added MOREHOUSE, George Read, 1829­ th e employment of suphurettcd hydrogen Class of 1850. gas to his earth treatment for tumors Dr. George Read Xlorc ho use . wh o has and inflammation s. He als o gave to his pursu ed th e profession of medi cin e with profession many valuable articles up on distinguish ed success in Philad elphia suhj ects on which his practice and study 'since 1850. wa s born at Xlount I lolly. had largely made him an authority. Xcw J er sey . Xlarch 2 5 . 1829. J Ie is a These included: " On th e Prominence great-grandson of Andrew Xlorchousc , OFF f CJ.:. RS A l\ 'U A LUM.\ ' ! .tTl wh o ca me to America fro m th e north of In 1851 the Co llege 0 f :\cw lcrscy England , and se rved as a colonel in th e ca n fcrrcd up on Dr. 1\ [arehouse the de ­ R evolutionary war. His fa ther. th e Rev. g ree of Mast er of A rts. and in 1892 that Georg e Youngs Moreh ou se, D . D., was of Doctor of P hi losophy. so that his capa­ for forty-six years rector of St. An­ hili ties ha ve receiv ed public re~og n itio n. drew's Prot estant Episcopa l Churc h at H e wa s given th e deg ree o f Doctor o f Mount H olly, 0:ew J er sey, ant! his Medicine hy the Uuivc rsit v of Pe nnsyl­ mother, Mrs. Martha ( R ead) More­ va nia in 1875. preparatory to an election hou se, wa s a dau ghter o f j oseph R ead , to he held for th e professors hip for phys­ attorney for th e crown for th e province iology in th at institution. .\ s. however. of 0:ew j er sey at th e heginning' of th e R cvolution arv war. A Iter completing a careful prcliminarv ed uca tion. Dr. Moreh ou se ente re d th e College of ?\l'W j ersey, at Princeton. in 184G. and wa s so well qualified intellect­ ually that he wa s admitted to the junior class.H e wa s graduat ed in 1848 wit h high hon ors, heing one of the orators o f his cla ss on comme nceme nt da v, Whilc pursuing his collegiate work he becam e a member o f th e \Vhig Society. and was chosen its speaker on th e occasion of th e cente nnia l cele brat ion of th e College of Ne w j ersey. Becoming interested in a work on physiology during hi s college course . he determined to study fo r th e medi cal profession. and enter ing the medi cal schoo l of th e nivcr sitv of I'ennsylvania continue d his studies for a sho rt time, but finding that in st itution just th en in a low state of efficiency he left the school at th e end of th e term an d matriculated in J effer son M eclical Col­ th e trustees made a rul e rcq urruu; in ­ lege. which the n presented much better creased time g ive n to the duties ' 11' th is oppo rtunities. H er e he wa s made ch ief prof es sorship. Dr. 1\ Iorchouse witlul rcw clinica l cler k, and as Such enjoyed ex ce l­ fr om th e co ntest as inco m pat ihlc wit h lent adv antages fo r practi cal work. the attenti on which was due his large Gra duating in 1850. he ente re d upon th e pri vate pra cti ce. E.ar ly in his career he practi ce of hi s profession in P hilad elphia. had gaine d a select circle of pat ien ts. and almost fr om th e com mencem ent of wh ose patronage he still retain s. and he h is profession al ca ree r has occupied a has ser ved as phy sician for ma n,: di st in­ positi on of di stincti on as a represen ta ti ve g uis l11'd peopl e hoth at hom e and abroad . of th e medi cal fr at ernity in thi s city . \ Vith naturally keen per cep tions , logica[ 472 JEFFERSO N MEDICA L COLLEGE ins ti ncts and marked orig inality, ge nial A me rican Philosophical Soc iety. and and cons ide rate in bearing. strong and one o f its Councillors : th e Academy of effective in action. he is abundantly capa­ );atural Sc iences of Philadelphia. and is ble of battling with disea se, while hi s ear­ a fellow of th e Co llege of Physicians, the nest love for th e practi ce phase of hi s Ameri can Academy of Medi cin e. and be­ pro fess ion ha s led him to decline many long s to many othe r local and general more publicly recognized positions of soc ieties. 1-1 e was one of th e earliest hon or and trust. members o f th e U nion League. and as a For many years Dr. Moreh ou se wa s citizen ha s always held an influ en tial po­ one of th e physician s on th e staff of St. siti on, being wid ely respected and es­ J oseph 's H ospital, and is now Cons ulting teem ed. while in his profession he is one I 'h ysi ciau to that hospital , and als o to of its most honored representatives. th e O rtho paedic H ospital. As a writer Late in lif e Dr. Morehouse married he ha s made many imp ortant contribu­ ?II ary Ogden, a daughter of Da vid C. tion s to medical and scientific literature. Og den, of W oodbury. i'\e w J er sey. In th e latter field is hi s work entitled "Research es on th e Anato my and Physi­ ology of R espiration in Chelona.' pro­ McEWEN, J oseph W ilso n, 1833­ du ced by him in collaboration with Dr. Cla.s s o f 1859. S. \Veir Mitchell, and published by th e J oseph Wilson Xlcf.wcu. :\1. D.. of Smithsonia n In stitution. It is a most Philadelphia. was born in Indiana county. valuable piece of orig inal scientific work. Pennsylvania. ~I ay 22. 1833. a son of F rom 1862 to 18°5 Dr. :\Ioreho usc and J ohn ~( cEwen and ~Iargare t (Coch­ n-. }.( itch ell, and afte rward Dr. \V. \ V. rane ) McEwcu. The paternal ancestry Keen , were selected to tak e medic al d irec­ is Scotch. and th e family has been traced tion of th e special hospitals for nervou s by William Mcliwcn, member of pa rlia­ dis ea ses at Philadelphia. organized dur­ ment from a di strict of Clasgow. to the ing th e peri od of th e Civil war. The rc­ beginnings o f Scottish history. The snits o f their st udi es were int ended for Ewen -Camcron s and th e Ewen -Xlonrocs use in the military hospitals throughout were the heads of tw o clan s. an d from th e cou ntry, but also proved o f g re at them the name originated. va lue to th e profession at large, fr om the J oseph Wilson Mc Ew en received his very wide opportunity afforded them for earliest instruction under a privat e tutor th e study of nerve injuries. Am ong the at hom e, and lat er he attended E klcr's re sults of th ei I' studies were published Ridge Academy in Indiana county. the papers treating up on such subje cts as Glade Run Acade my. and Franklin Col­ ,.Reflex P aralysis, Guns hot \ Vounds and leg e, at N ew A thens . O hio . I Ic read O the r Injuries of N erves" ; all " T he An­ medicine with his bro the r, Christopher tagoni sm of Atro pia and Morphia ," and McEwen, ?lI.D. , at P lt1I llbv ille. Indiana ma ny othe rs . In addition , he ha s from county . for abo ut four yea rs, when he tim e to time issu ed othe r valuable reports entered J effer son college, from which he of orig inal medical investi gations on epi ­ received the degree of Doctor of Med­ lepsy and othe r diseases. icin e in 1859. H e st udied abroad for a Dr. Morehou se is a member of the little marc th an a year, wh en he returned OPFle ERS AND ALUMV[ and opened a medical practice in Phila­ early members of the family. is on rec ord delphia, where he has since been located. as heing a member of the l'cunsylvauia He visited Europe a second time, making lin e during the Rev olutiouarv war. ~ Ii­ a complet e tour o f th e world, chae l Dorrncycr organized a company In 1900 he publish ed , throu gh F. A. and was appointed capta in of th e same . Davis & Co mpany, of Phi lad clph ia, :"Z cw .vnother member served in th e war o f York. and Chicago. an essay on " Crea­ 1812, and othe rs wer e active participants tion. Compre he nding th e n eg inning . in th e M exi can and Spanish -American wars. They were pion eers in th e ea rly colonial days, settling in this country in the year 1749. The earliest set tlers were j ac oh Dormcycr and his father. natives o f Ccrrnany, \\"110 probably located in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Geo rg e B. Dunmire wa s subject to his parents until he attained his tw ent y-first veal'. He wa s educate d in public and private schools , H e taught fr om 18:;8 to IS62. and on August 10. IS62, left th e sch oolroom to join as private th e u nion army, serving in and surviving the hat­ tIcs of South Mountain, Antietam and Chauccllorsvillc, and received tlattering commendation s fr om his colonel for coo l­ ness. H e was hon orably di scharged on ?day 13. ISo3, He recruited and organ­ ized Company F. Forty-sixth Reg'imenl, Pennsylvania :'1 ilitia. was appointed first lieutenant .r nn e 2~ , ISO}, and wa s dis­ charged August IS, IS')3, after th e Ge t­ tysburg campaign. I lc entered jetTcrson Course, and End o f Time." ln politics ?dedical Coll ege the same year, graduat­ he is a Republican, in early times having ing on March 10. ISO:;. at which time he been a \ \ 'hig. was appointed contract surgeon and sent to Chambe rs burg P ost Army H ospital. DUNMIRE, George Benson, 1837­ wh er e he remained until th e close of th e Class of 1865. war of th e rebellion. wh en, after an ex­ Dr. George n. Dunmire. of I'hiladel­ amination and appointment as assistant phia, Pennsylvania. wa s horn in O live r surgeon in JIancock 's Co rps , which he township. Miftlin county, P ennsylvania, resigned, h e accepted th e position as Dis­ j\la~' 2, IS:)7, at the hom e of his parents, trict Physician to th e Philadelphia Dis­ Gahricl and Ann ( A ults) Dunmire, of pensary in June, lSo5. twice receiving Cenllan and Sc otch ex tract ion , resp ect­ the "Hon orarinm." during whi ch S IX ively, Ni cholas Dunmire, one o f th e years' ser vice he pa ssed th rough th e chcl- JEFFERSON M EDICAL COL L E GE era epide m ic of 18(j(j. with a fifty per publishing th e sa me in va riou s pe riodi­ ce nt. of recov eries. A t this time hi s cals. sufficient to be regarded by his strug-g-I es with meager ret urns nev er fri ends worthy o f th e degree o f Master usurped conscience to di sh on est means. o f A rts . co n fer re d upon him by Dickin­ until finally. b v suc cess and eco no my. he so n Co llege. Ca rlisle, P ennsylvania. .I unc was enabled, in 1871'. to purch a se for 28. 1888. H e is now preparing a Ge nco­ $7.000 hi s fir st office, which house he logical Biography o f th e Dormcycrs or a lso used for a horn e, at 133 1\orth Sev­ Dunmires . E arly a fte r hi s a rrival in enth st reet. I'hiladclphia. Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. in th e year 18(j3. by letter, taking. in th e family. ltrillhart bv name, he became a member o f th e M ethodi st who befriended him while stril' ing for a Episcopal L'nion Church. F ourth street, medi cal ed ucation. bel ow Arch st rcct, wa s elected t ru st cc 1)1'. Dunmire was elect ed a member o f o f the same on January 17. 1873. an r! the Philadelphia County l\ Icd icnl So­ president o f th e board on Janua ry 17. cictv, July I Y. 1871. and vice- p reside nt 1884. Iyhich positiou wa s held un til the of th e same in 1878. li e is al so a mcm­ sal e o f the church and rebuilding on Dia­ her o f tl:c Xl cdi ca l Societ y of th e Stat e mond st ree t . abov e Twentieth street . and o f Pcn nsvlvania , and was elected it s in 1888 he resigned from th e 1\oard . hut trea surer in 18yo. whi ch position was not fI'Om mcmhcrsh ip, held un til ' 902. IIe is also a member of O n March 10. 1880. Dr. Dunmir e was th e . vmcr ican Xlcrlical Association, and married to ?II iss Lizzie Cald we ll. of Xl an- . represen ted the same at th e ~in th Int er­ hattan. Kansas. H e th en purch ased and nation al Xlcd ical Co ngress. hel d 111 moved to III (j A rc h street, I'hilaclclphia. W adlington. D. C . in 1887. I le is a where he co ntinued to practice -his pro­ member of th e O hs tc trical and Patholog­ fession. and in th is house he was bereft ical Societies. also th e Xled ica l Club of o f hi s wi fe. She. of precious me mory. Philad elphia. H e assist ed in th e organ­ with her babe. were interred beside her ization o f th e A id Association of th e parents at N cwton -Hamilto», I'cnnsyl­ Philadelphia County Medi cal Society, varna. O n April 27. 1885. he marriecl wa s for six teen years (fro m 1882 to Miss ~Iary M elick, a daughter of ReI'. 18 ~8) its treasurer. and at th e present J. :\ . i\1c1ick, of Harrisburg. Pcnnsyl­ time (IY04 ) is one o f its directors. H e varna. He di sp osed of his homest ead on has for years been one o f th e managers Arch street to th e Reading Railroad fo r of th e hoard o f ed ucatio n o f th e Philadel­ it s terminal. and in 1891, with h is wi fe. ph ia Co n fcrcn cc Educational Socict v. visited England and made a trip on the al so an active member o f th e Chu rch o f Contine nt. U po n hi s return he pur­ the Covena nt. which he helped to build. chased , rem od eled and moved to 1(j 18 and is now one of its trust ees. and a Spruce street. where he now resides. On member o f th e Ge rmau Society o f Penn­ July '3. 1901. h e fell heir by wi ll o f h is sy lva nia. H e is a co r po ra to r o f the father. at assessed value by purchase, of Pol yclinic H ospital and othe r charitable t he old Dunmire hom estead. a plan tation in stitu tion s. H e is th e autho r o f numer­ o f ove r one hundred acres. which has ous original a rticles. as well as having; been in th e name for five generations. made in vesti gation s on medical subjects, The same is his sum me r residence. It OFFICERS -u:» ALUM.Yf

IS locat ed in O liver township. Mi fflin fro m that stock th at Dr. McLean is de­ co unty . Pennsylvania. I-I e has one ch ild sce nded. T hrough h is mother he com es by hi s second ma rriage. Ethel :\ Iay Dun­ o f the famous Douglass family, so re­ mire. born September O. 1895. nowned in Sc ottish hi st orv. Dr. :\ IcLca u attended the di strict scho ol at S ummit H ill. Ca rbo n county, McLEAN, Hugh Douglass, 1837­ P cu nsvl vania. during hi s boyhood. and Class of 1857. afterward pursu ed a co u rse o f study at H ugh Douglass Xlc Lcan, :\LD.. o f Lafayette Co llege. receiving th e degree P hiladelp hia, was horn at Co leraine, o f Xlastcr o f .\ rts in 1855. He th en en­ terce l jeffcrson ;\ red ica1 College. fr om wh ich he was g raduated in 1857. with the degree o f Doct or o f Xlccliciuc. In the fall o f th e same year he beg an a med ­ ical p ractice in Philadelphia. whi ch ha s co nt in ued to the . present t irnc , being in­ terrupted only hy the years of th e Civil war. \ Vith the beginning o f host ilities. Dr. Xlcl. can was appointed .\ssistant Surgeon o f th e O ne Hundred and S ix th R eg iment . I'cnnsvlvania Volunteers. Sec­ ond Army Co rps , with which he rc­ mained until 18o.j.. wh en an attack o f typhoid fever caused him to return to Philadelphia; and. th e war soon end ing. he resumed his private practice. to whi ch he has since devoted h is w hole time. I-Ie is a member o f th e Philadelphia Co u nty Xlcdical Soci ety. H e is al so a member o f the Xlasoni c orde r. affili ated wit h Orient L odge, and is a companion in the l\ lilitary O rde r o f the L oyal Le­ Derry county. Ir eland, July 10. 1837. a gi on. He has always been interested in son of Daniel and :\Iargaret ( Dong las s) the affairs o f the Presbyterian Chu rc h. Xlc l. ean. The XlcLean clan o f High­ In politics he is a R epublican. land. Scotla nd . origi na ted in th e island D r. :\ Ic Lcau married 1\ Iiss 1\lay Simp­ of M ull, one o f th e H ebrides. in th e early so n. of Ph iladelphia , 1\ lay 15. r87G. She m iddle ages. T he clan was renowned for died October 15. 1899. The couple had its fig hting qualities. and was conspicu­ no children. ous during the crusades. and was finally di sru pted through losses in those wa rs FISHER, John Fidelle, 1839- and throu gh devot ion to the ca use of the Class of 1372. Stua rts. Indi vid ua l members of the clan Dr. J ohn Fidclle Fisher. o f Philadel­ settled in the north o f Ireland. and it is phia. descended fr om Ge rman. E nglish 4iG JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE and F re nc h ancestry . is a so n of Ch ris­ At the time o f the civil wa r, Dr. Fisher ti an and Marg aret (Freas) Fi sher. a nd became a private in the O ne J Iundrcd was horn in Springfield township. Xlou t­ and E ig tuccnth Corn-Exchange Volun­ gome ry co u nty . I'c nnsvlva nia,. .\ugust 6 . tcers of Penn sylvania, se rving from A u­ 1839. g ust 18. 1802, and had a varied and Hi s boyh ood days were spent u pon the event ful m ilitary experience. 1n hi s po­ hom e farm. His ea rly ed ucatio n wa s ac­ liti cal views he is a R cpu hlican . hut takes quired in th e co m mon scho ols. and later no active part in politics as an office he became a st ude nt in th e L ewisburg' seeker. O n th e I ~th of June, I g 7 ~. he ( no w ltuckncll ) U n ivers ity. at Lewis- married 1\ 1iss J ennie .\1. S ho tt.

LEAMAN. Henry. 1839­ Class of 1864. Dr. Henry L eam an . a general practi ­ t ion cr. 0 i Ph iladclphia, I'cnnsvlvania. was horn in ' L ancaster county . I'cnnsyl­ va n ia , July 3rcl. 1 83 ~. a so n of Henry anrl .\nanda Cathe rine ( S laymaker) Leaman. th e former named ha ving bee n horn in L ancaster counry in 1 7 1) ~. an d resid ing all his life on the old homcste:ul : and the latter wa s also a na tive of the same co u nty. haviug heed ;i dau .~h t e r of one oi the carlv se tt lers of th at sec ti on of the sta te . T he L eam an family settled in Lancast er co unt y. Pcnnsylvanin. over a ce ntu ry ago. and it s nu-mbers hav e been cx tc ns ivc landowners and success­ ful agricu ltu r ists eve r since. Ch ristian Leam an. g rand father o f Dr. Hen ry Lea­ man. wa s horn in Lanca st er co unt y. and hi s bu siness ca reer wa s devot ed to the burg, P ennsylvania . H e afterward at­ tilling and cultivation o f th e soi l. tended J efferson Co llege, in whi ch he The educ ationa l advantages enjoyed won hi s Doct or o f Xlcd iciue degree in hv. Dr. ll cnr.v L eaman were obtained at I R72. and since that time he has been th e di strict sc hools adjacent to his home. actively engaged in pract ice. the de mands and at Franklin-Xfarsha ll College. Lan­ made upon hi s profession al sk ill leavi ng caster. Pcnnsvlvania, fro m whi ch he was little leisure time . and he is well known graduated in 1 85 ~. receiving th e degree as one of th e most ac tive and capable of.\Iaster of .\ rts. 1retaught school for members of the medical fraternity of one year in Paradise Academy. laradisc. Philadelphia. IIe is located at :\0. 1100 Lancaster county. Pc nnsvlvania. Jn S pring C arden street. 1861 he began a course of medical read- OPPleERS AND A LUMNI ing with hi s uncle. Dr. J ohn Leaman. o f arion he al so served for tw o months as Lancaster. In the fall o f th e following ..\cting Assista nt S urgeon of th e Un ite d year he entered j efferson 'Med ical Col­ States Army in th e Gen eral H ospital a t lege. and in 1864 graduated from that C ettyslmrg. P ennsyl vania . In 1866 he institution with the degree o f Doctor of became r\ ssistant Dcm on st rat or at JL~ f­ M edicine, During part o f th e years 1864 ferson H ospital under Dr. Pancoast, an d and 1865 he se r ved as Acting A ssistant at th e sa me time was Quiz Ma ster, and Surgeon in the Department o f th e South. held this appointment until 1874. when at the General Hospitals in Beaufort and he became Prosect or of A nato mv under Hi!ton Head, South Ca ro lina . a nd in Pr ofessor Pancoa st. This position he held until 1886, when h e retired in orde r to dev ot e his entire time and atten tio n to privat e practice. which had wonder­ iully increa sed l.oth in volume a nd im­ portarce. Dr. Leaman is th e a ut ho r o f va riuus InOlHJgTaphs on his profession. which have heen publish ed in th e leading" med ­ ica! journals of th e day. and he was th e dev isor of a dynnm om ct cr fo r mea suring" th e force o f u terine pain o f a w rnunn in labor . in Decemb er. 18~ I. I Ic is co n­ ne ct ed with th e A me rican Xl cdi cal . vsso­ ciation, th e I'hiladclphia Co un ty :'II cdi cal Society, having be en its sec ret a ry and re­ porter: th e Pennsylvania State :'I Icdical Societ y. and a Fellow o f the College o i Physicians. H e is a finn adherent o f th e principles and mea sures advocat ed hy th e Republican party. Dr. L eaman married. t\ ng'nst 27. 188-!- . ?dary Wardlaw :'IleCalltlm. o f German­ town, Pennsylvania. O f th e children June, 1805, ·es tahlishe d an office for the horn of this union. one child su r vives, practice of his profession in th e city of Mary \Yardlaw L eaman. horn A pril 23, ' ['hiladcIphia . which he still continue s. 1888. During th e years 1862 and 1863 he was interne. acting as cadet, in th e Chr istian McCLURE, William Wallace, 1842­ Street H ospital. this being th e fir st vol­ Class of 1864. untccr hospital during th e Civil war, af­ Dr. William \Y . 1'-leClure. Seni or S ur­ terward becoming a h ospital for g eon and President o f th e S urgical StafT wounded nerves under th e compet ent o f th e Wills Ey e H ospital, Philad elphia, supervision of Dr. l\1itchell, Dr. 1\[ore'­ Pennsylvania. al so a n ot ed and em ine nt house and Dr. K een . Before hi s g radu- spec ialist in di sea ses of th e eye, was horn JEFFERSON M EDICAL CO L LEGE

in l 'hiladclphia, l'cnnsylvania, cptern­ ca me to thi s cou nt ry . occupying land her 3. 18,p. a so n of J ohn and Anna around the site of the old Swedes' ( i\lc l\lullin) ~lcC1ure. Ilis paternal an ­ Church. Philad elph ia. cest ors were natives o f Scotl and, th eir Dr. XlcCl u rc was a student at private birthplace being th e town o f P erthshire, schools in lhilad clph ia, th e Attleboro from wh ence th e grandfather o f Dr. :\ Ic­ ( Pe nnsy lva nia) Academy . and th e Rh it­ Clure emig rated to th e north of rroland, tcnh ouse . vcarlcm v of Philadelph ia. afte r wh ere he set tled. llc wa s a direct de ­ whi ch he read medi cin e for tw o yea rs sce ndant o f th e first Arctic ex plore r that with Dr . J ohn \V . Lod g e. a graduate of was sent out hy the British government. Jeffer son ]\'1cdical Co llege . and a leading phy sici an o f th e city of Philadelphia. In 1802 h e ente red J eff erson :'I ledical Co l­ lege. pursu ed th e regular course of in­ struct ion th er e. and wa s g raduated from th at institution in th e class of 1R0-l. l'rior to his grad u:ltion he wa s appointed Assist ant Su rgeon in th e ll cstonvillc .\ rmy Hospita l under Dr. l). 1-1 ayes Agnew. which pos ition he retai ned for three vears. an d he also served as interne at th e Ph iladelphi a ( I:loc1dey) Hospital. remaining at the latter named iusl itut iou for one and a hali yea rs , \\'h ile serving in thi s ca pac ity he wa s associated with Drs. Pancoa st . Gros s. Da Costa and Stille. After his leaving lllockl cy Hos­ pital. he wa s elect ed Resident Surg eon to the \\'ills Eye Hospital. l ie was ;lp­ pointed on th e regular sta ll as St(n.~· e () n to th e Hospital at the resignation of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, ha s se r ved on th e sta ll ever since. and is now th e senior Surgeon and present "resi dent o f [he surgical An un cle of 1)1', i\IcClure's father served sta ff. I ll' wa s one of the orig inal organ­ as fleet surgeon under Admiral ~ els()n izers of the I'rcsbvteri an Hospital, or­ in th e British na vy. and was knighted for g anizing th e Ey e Department. and heing distinguish ed ser vices . The maternal an ­ elected first surgeon to that departm ent. ces to rs of Dr. :\lcClure were natives of Dr. ~1cC1ure est ablished an office for the Scotland and S wede n. The xrd rullin practi ce of medi cin e in th e city of I'h ila­ family came fr om the north of rreland, delphia abo ut four years after g radua­ hut originally fr om Scotland. The Li­ tion. a nd became a noted spec ialist in the denmev..er farnil v came to th e Delaware diseases of the eye . ha vin g purs ued a riv er fr om Sweden. and establishe d a spec ia l course of stud y alon g th at line in sett leme nt the re before William P enn L ondon . Paris and Vienna. For ma nv OFFiCERS A .\·D .-JL UM .Yf 4"j!1 years he wa s as sociated with Drs. Agnew Buck s and Lehigh cou nties. lcnusyl­ and K een in delivering lect ures at the varna. There is in wh at is now Xlilforrl Philadelphia School of An at omy. and for towns hip. Lehigh county. a tract of one about fifteen years was engaged in dcl iv ­ hundred acres of land given by the emi­ eri ng cou rses o f lectures at th e \\"i lls Eye grant ancestors. :\1ichacl and Joseph 1,])­ H ospital. I Ie is th e inventor uf :'Ic­ erha rd . in perp etuity. to the German Re­ Clu rcs iri s scissors . used ex tens ively in formed Church . now called T r inity Rc­ the ope ra tion o f cata ract and ot he r dis­ formed Church. Generation a fter gen­ eases of the eye. H e a lso inv ented a eration of the family has lived on the needl e hold er. a scoop to r rem oving the original property where Adam Eberhard, crys ta lline lens. a fixe d ophthalmo scope for sho wing stude nts the int eri or o f th e eye. and also a proj ecting micro scop e wh ich" can sho w on a sc ree n th e variou s layers of th e human retina. Dr . i\Ic Clure married . J anuary 27, I X7$. Bessie Roe R obert son . and they are the pa re nts o f one child . Sorden :'k­ Clurc, a practici ng ph ysician of I'h ila dcl­ phia, I'c nnsvlvania .

EBERHARD, John Oliver, 1851- Cl ass of 1873. D r. J ohn O live r Eberha rd . of lhila­ de lphia. was born in Bucks county. Penn­ sylvania . J\lay 28. 185 I. a son o f George and Ka th erine ( S he re r) Eberhard. In th e pa ternal line he is of Ge rman descent. Several re presentatives o f th e na me. on account of religi ou s a nd po litical pc rse­ cut ion. ca me to .:\ merica bet ween th e years 1727 and 1750. Am ong the num­ her were Pet er, 1\1 ichacl and J oseph Eh­ erhard. three brothers. o f Cc rmanv. who g randfathe r of ])1'. Eberhard. lived. saikd on th e .. Friendship." whi ch George Eberhard, the fat her. was also dropped an chor in the ha rbo r of Phila­ born on th e old ho mestead. a nd followed delphia. on th e 16th o f O cto ber. 1727. agricultura l pursu its. as did his ances­ T he lin eal ancesto rs of Dr.E be rha rd tors, ha vc conti n uo us ly resided in eastern D r. Eber hard attended the district and Pennsylvania fro m the time tha t Michael private schools of l lucks county. Penn­ and J oseph E berhard purchased land sylvania. in ca rlv yo uth. an d was after­ fr om J ohn and \ Villiam l' el111 in that pa rt ward a st udent in Freelan d's Seminary. of the state. Manv of th e name have now •rsinus College. 1n :' Iontgolllery been large landowners and farmers in county, Pennsylvania. In early life he -l 'u JEFF ERSON MEDIC.>lL COLLEGE

became connected with th e drug busi­ Louisville, and early became connected ness, and wa s graduated from th e l.'hila­ wi th journalistic interests. and was delphia Co llege o f Pharmacy in 187 1 fou nder and ma nager of the "Louisville with th e degree o f Graduat ed Pharma­ Dai ly :\ rg lls." 1-1 c wedded Rebecca cist. Immediately afterward, howev er, II11ck lclx.rrv. he entere d Je ffe rson ~ Icdi cal Coll eg e, in Dr. Long. as a student in the public which he was graduated with th e class schools uf Louisville, continued his o f 18/3, He then began th e practice o f stu dies until he was grad ua ted on the medicine in Philadelphia, wh ere he ha s the complet ion of the high sc hool course since remain ed. Immediately following with th e class of 18/3. H e then took up hi s g raduation, he wa s appoint ed O ut­ th e study of medi cin e under Dr. \ Vill­ do or Ph vsican to th e No rthern Di sp cn ­ iam F . \ Vork, of j cffc rsonv illc, In d ian a. s ;~ry, and continued in that office for a year, during which time hi s theoretical kn owledge wa s greatly broaden ed throuuh practical ex pe r ience . H e has been a sch ool direct or for tw o years, as a member o f the I'hiladclphia pu blic school hoard. a nd his political su pport is given to th e Republican party. Dr. Eberhard wa s ma rriccl. :\o vcmhcr 22. 1877, to ~ Iiss Susan ltog cr. of Phila­ delphia. wh o di ed April 10. 18\)1. leav­ ing two children. 1'~\'a~lary and J ohn Oliver. Dr. Eberhard married Kather­ inc Krauss, o f Ei scn strucht, Gcrmauv. in );ovemher, 18\)5. and th ey haw one child. Edna "atherine Eberhard.

LONG, William Hillswell, r85 2­ Class of 1892. Dr. W illiarn Tlillswcll Long, a rep re­ sentative of the medical fraternity o f wh o directed his reading uiitil he ente red ]'hiladclphia, P ennsylvania. wa s horn in Jefferson M ed ical Co llege. I lc was Louisville. Kentucky. Decem ber ! 5. there grad ua ted in 1892, and in th e 1852. His paternal g rand fathe r emigra­ spring of th at yea r opene d an office fo r ted fr om Paris, France. to L ouisville. practice in I'hiladclphia, whe re he has K entucky. bein g a politi cal ex ile. He since remained. I-I e edited " Life Study." became connec te d w ith mercantile int c- . a treatise on the treatment of catarrh, csts in th e latter city. conducting a chi na­ and in his practice has gained g reat sue­ ware sto re up to th e tim e of hi s demise. cc s, h is labors being att en ded by the He wa s drowned while cro ssing th e O hio most desirable res ults. river on th e icc. \ Villiam Hillsw cll D r. Long has been actively interested Lon g, father o f Dr. Long, was born in in theatrical events, and in 1891-2 he managed th e Empire Theat er, o f Phila­ in Chamhershurg. I)cnnsyh'ania. and he­ delphia, Pennsylvania. A bout 18~8 he came a country merchant of that town. opened th e Masoni c Temple Theat er at H e wedded :'I iss :'Iary ::'1. Greenawalt. Camde n, ?\ew J ersey. He hold s mcrn­ whose father was a German trader. Sh e bcrship in th e Episcopal church, doing was horn in Chamlx rshnrjr. and through much for th e advancem ent o f th e cause, hi s ma ternal anccstor« came th e strain and sociallv he is connec ted with th e of Ge rma n blood which is found in the Masoni c fraternity, in which he ha s at­ vein s of Dr. Shoemaker. His ancestors tai ned the Thirtv-, sccond decr,.., ee of th e wer e of marked ind ust ry and enterprise. Sc ottish R ite in Philadelphia, H e also faithful in citizenship . :1I1 d wit h st rict: rc- belongs to th e Elks, at Camden, New J ersey, and to the Pen rose Club, of I'hi lad clp hia. His political allegiance is given to the Rcpublicau party. Il l' was marriccl. October 2 0. 1883. to i\liss Elizabeth Willacy, o f J effer son­ ville. Indiana, and th ey have one child, who bear s th e name o f hi s g randfathe r and father.\ Villiam 1-( illsw cll Long, an d who is th e junior member o f the mu sical puhlishing finn of Gilmo re-Lo ng . Phil­ adelphia.

SHOEMAKER, John Veitch, 1852- Class of 1874. Dr. J ohn Veitch Sh oemaker, who has gained an int ernati onal reputation not only hy reason of hi s skill and ability in the private practice o f his profe ssion. bu t als o becau se of his application of his knowledge to th e needs o f municipalities and the military interests of the country , was born at Chambersburg. I'cnnsylva­ -nia , March 18. 1852, Anthony Sh oe­ ligi ou s tendencies con nected with the maker, hi s paternal grandfather, carn e to 'Meth odist and lrcsb vtcrian churches, America from Prussia during' th e colo­ R epresen tat ives of th e family were sol­ nial da ys. He married a Xliss :'fe:'fi­ dier s of the patriot armv in the war of chael, wh o wa s born ncar Edinburgh, th e Revolution. Scotland, and it is from his maternal D r. Sh oemaker spent his boyh ood grandmother that Dr. Sh oemaker inh er ­ days in hi s parents' home. and acquired its th e tou ch o f excellent shre wd ness hi s ca rlv ed ucation in th e Methodi st which pred ominat es th e characte r of the schoo l of Dickinson College, at Carlisle, countrymen of Bruce and \ Valla ce. His Pennsylvania, His preparatory course father, Lewi s A. Sh oemaker , was horn being completed. he then pursued the reg- 482 JEFFERSON MEDICAL CO L LEGE

ula r co llege co urse and, follo wing' hi s and \'cn erca I Disea ses III th e 1\1 edico­ graduation , wa s se nt to lhiladclphiu, Ch irl1l'g ical Co llege. o f I'hil adclph ia. where he ente re d up on the study o f med ­ This chair he still oc cupies. and since icine in j c ffc rson l\l ed ical Co llege. As I:::;g~ ha s als o filled a seco nd chai r, that a hoy, in th e co un try. he ev ince d an in­ o f Mat eria ?lledi ca , I'ha rmaco logy. T he r­ terest in study th at has been one of th e ap eutics, and Clinical Medicin e. Labor­ most pot ent eleme nts in hi s success in ing zeal ou sly and untiringl y for th e ad ­ th e lat er act ivities o f a bu sy 'public and vancem ent o f th e M edi co-Chirurg ica l p ro fessional ca reer. \ Vhcn he wa s g rad­ H ospital, he wa s hon ored by election to uated from Di ckinson Co llege in 1872, its board o f trust ees, ami subse quently he won th e degree of Bachelor of A r ts, became trea surer ami finall y p resident and two years later th e Doct or o f l\fcdi­ o f that bod y. and for some years has cin e deg ree was ca nferred up on him by been one o f th e physicians to th e M edi co­

..lcff crson M edi cal Co llesre,~ The facultv. Chirurgical H ospital. o f th e institution , appreciating hi s wo rt h, Dr. S hoemake r ha s been closely as so­ immediately tendered him a position of ciate d with so me of the leading medical Demonstrat or of Anatomy, and in 1876 journals of A me rica. In 1879 in con­ he was ch osen L ecturer in A na to my. an d juncti on with othe r noted ph ysicians he and a lso on Di sea ses o f th e Skin, in th e founded th e " Medical Bulletin," whic h Philad elphia Sc hool of Anatomy. Two after th e first year he conducted alone, years later, however, he resigned that and ed ite d it with suc h m arked ahilitv as position , and in 1880 also resigned hi s to win th e unsoli cit ed approval of the position as D em on strat or at J eff erson di stinguish ed Professor Samue l D. Med ical Co llege, in orde r to give his un­ Gross. In 1887 he began the publicat ion divided att en tion to othe r work. While o f a weekly medi cal journal in Philadel­ ac ting in both of these capacit ies he had phia kn own as th e " Medica l R egist er." also lectured to la rge classes o f stude nts , which at a later date wa s merged with and g aine d g re at popularity as Q uiz­ th e " Medical Times," forming the pu b­ mast er in materia med ica in th e J eff erson lication now known throu gh out th e world Q uiz Association, which he had been act­ as th e " Medical Times and R egi ster. " ive in organizing in 1874. Dr. S hoemaker is the author of many With a view to rem ed yin g in so me valuable text-book s and paper s, among hi ghly efficient degree the dearth, th en them "1\ Practi cal Treati se on D iseases ex isting. o f in structi on conce rn ing cutan­ o f th e Skin," now in its fo urth ed ition. eo us di sea ses, in 187 5, Dr. Shoema ke r H e also has publish ed "Charts on Skin establishe d a di sp en sary for the tr eat­ Di sea ses," " Poisons and Their A nti­ ment of th ose so afflict ed. This in stitu­ dot es," and a handsome roy al octavo vol­ tion was suc h a success that in 188 0 hos­ ume of four hundred and twenty-five pi tal accommodations had to he provi ded pag es on " Heredity, H ealth and Personal to meet its r equirem ents. Jn 1883 Dr. Beauty," and an es pec ial work on "Oint­ S hoemaker wa s made Lect u re r on Skin ment and O lcates."H e is a valued con­ Di sea ses in J efferson 1\ 1cd ical Co llege, tributor to "Woocls P ractice of Mcdi­ but resigned that position three ye ars cine," and in 1891 publish ed an imposi ng lat er to accept th e Professorshi p of Skin volume entitled "1\ Treatise 0 11 Mate ria OFFIC[l, RS A ND ALUMNI

Medica, Pharmacology, and Thera­ Sh oemaker. Just after the outbreak of peutics," followed in two years by a sec­ hostilities with Spain, he organized a ond edition, entitled "Materia Medica sta ff of physicians, surgeo ns and nurses, and Therapeutics, with Especial Refer­ and at a public meeting of physician s ence to Clinical Applicati on of Drugs." and citiz ens in the arena o f th e Medico­ This volume is now in its fifth edition. Chirurg ical H ospital, April 2 2, 1898, he Dr.S hoemaker is a memb er of the offered th e hospital and all its facilities leading medical societies, county. state to Pennsylvania and the United States and national, and has been successively government. Ab out the middle of Au g­ secretary, vice-president , and presid ent, ust of that year, General]. P. S. Gobin of the American Medical Editors' Asso­ appealed to him to send a train for the ciati on. IIc also is an honorary mem­ sick soldiers at Camp Alger. He at once ber of th e Minnesota State Medical So­ raised the necessary money, and pre­ ciety, and a F ellow of th e American sented to the state of Pennsylvania, on Acad emy of Medicine. In 1884 he repre­ August 24, th e first well equipped senteel the Ame rican 1\l edical Associa­ hospital train. which Genera l Thomas J. tion before th e t:ritish lIL edical As socia­ Stewart conducted to th e camp. 1\ lore tion at 1lclfast, Ireland , and read a pap er than one hundred sick soldiers wer e on "The O leates," and bd or e the Inter­ brought quickly te th e Medico-Chirurgi­ nati onal Medical Cong ress at Cope n­ cal H ospital by General St ewart, and, hagen, Denmark, a pap er on "The Treat­ during Au gu st and Sept ember , Dr. Shoe­ ment of Diseases of the Skin by :\0\.c1 maker fitted out and manned with the Mean s and Meth od s." At this tim e he co-operation of his fellow-trustees one was elected a member of th e British Mcd­ hospital train after an other, hringin g to ical Association, and a fellow of the Lon­ the Medico-Chirurgical H ospital from don 1\ Lcdical Soc iety. lIe served as sec­ the fever stricken camps upwards of five retary of the committee of the Am eri can hundred sick and wounded soldiers. Medical Association having in charge Gen erals Gobin and St ewart, through his arrangement s for th e N inth Interna­ active co-operation, were thus enabl ed to tional Medical Cong ress, in Washing­ institute the first well-arranged and well­ ton, in 1887, and was a vice-president of equipped hospital train, which saved th e th e section o f dermatology and syphilog­ lives of man y soldiers at the front and raphy of thi s congress. H e was a mcm­ in th e various camps. Governo r William her, likewi se, of th e T enth International A. Ston e, of P enn sylvania, recognizing ?I!e dical Congress, at 1lcrlin, in 1890; th e good work of Dr. Sh oemaker in he­ of th e l 'an-American Medical Congress, half of the soldiers, appointed him Sur­ \Va shin gton, in th e year 1893; and a geon-G eneral of th e l\'ati onal Guard of delegate to and member of th e El eventh P enn sylvania, on th e 30th of January. International Medical Cong ress at 1899. F ollowing the appointment he be­ Rome, in 1894. cam e very active in assistin g in th e work T here is no memb er of th e medical of the Guard, co-operating in many ways profession who ha s done more effective with General Stewart in perfecting th e work in recent years in conn ection with medical department. During the meet­ the army hospital service than has Dr. ing of the Society of the Military Sur- JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE

geons o f the C nit cd States in :\e\\' Yor k, unfortu nate poo r and msane fou nd a on th e i st and zd days o f June. I ~OO , frien d. who was indeed a friend in need, he delivered an address on "The S ick an d whose act ive and progrcssiv« mind Soldiers in I'hiladelphia During the bla zed the way io r their advantageou s Spanish-American War." treatmen t for all time to come." Dr. Shoemaker has als o re nde red Upon com pleting his thi rtieth year of equally valuable se rvice to 1'hilarlclphia practi ce. Dr. S hoe maker was te ndered a in connection with the improvement o f banquet. g ive n in his honor hy th e major its health commission s. A bo ut I ~o t he faculty of the Xlcdi co-Chiruruicul Co l­ wa s appointed hy Samuel II. Ashbridg«, lege. The g re at part which he had taken then mayor of Philadclphia, to the posi­ in the uphuiklinu of th e college an d 11OS­ tion of president of the Department o f pital wa s co rclially recugnized by his col­ Charities and Co r rection of I'hi lath-lphin , leagues. L' pun thi s occasion he was pre­ and Gov erucr Ston e also named him as sc ntcrl with a hc.uniful shiel(! bearing till' on e of the I 'crmsylvania couuuissiou crs insignia o f th e inst itut iou. mount ed npo n to th e ['aris ex position, llis work in th e bla ck oak. and inscribed with the names former position , how ever, wa s eno ug h to of th ose wh o had united in this notable com mend him to posterity as one of th e test imo nial to th e ability a nd energy o f foremost citizens of hi s town. The Dr. S hoemaker. cha nges h e wrought in th e departments were revolurion ary. H e ea rly recognized th e need in I'hiladclphia, as in eve ry APPLE, Ammon Andrew, 1853­ metrop olitan city, o f a g re at gener:l1 hos­ Class of 1890. pital sepa rate from th e city in san e asylum Dr. Ammon A ndrew . vp p l«. a gen­ ami th e city alms hou se. wh ere cou ld he eral m edical pra ct it io ner of I'hila .lc l­ provided ample space and facilities for ph ia , w as bo rn in H ellertown. :\orth­ the treatment of th e sick poor. Tuber ­ arnpto n county. I'cnusylvauia, Fc h ru­ culosis, among the indigent. he realized ary 2 1. 1853, hi s parents b eing \ Villiam to be a great municipal problem. and it and Levin a (Sh imer) A pple. I'au l wa s his study to place within the reach A pple, the g reat-g ra nd father, wa s a of the lowly th e advantages of treatment, native of H o lla nd, who o n co m ing to heretofore only available to persons in America settled in Bu cks county. I 'cnn­ casv circumstances. 1-1 is lab ors were of sy lva nia. H e was a farmer and land­ the most practical and effective charact er o w ne r, and fr o m that time to th e pres­ and th e ben efit th er eof will lon g be felt en t rc prcscnta ti vcs of t he name ha ve by Philadelphia. In thi s connecti on one b een identified w ith the tillin g of the of th e Philadelphia papers said: " Pe nn­ soil in eastern P cnnsvlvania. sylvania has furnished many men wh o Dr. Appl e was a student in t he dis­ have given freely of their ab ilit y and t r ict schools o f ?\ortham pton co unty. th eir time to th e advancem ent o f science P enns vl vania, a nd in the h igh sc hool at and th e cause o f humanity. but 0 11 th e ll cthlch cm.Penn syl vania. H e en­ . scroll o f prof essi onal hon or so att ain ed gaged in tea ch ing in t he dist rict sc hool 110 name shines more brilliantly th an th at in Bu ck s coun ty fo r o ne y ear. a nd then of Jolin V eitch S hoemake r. In him th e bec a m e co n nected wi th th e drug tra de.

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H e was graduated in th e Philadelphia and for four y ears was a surgeon in the School o f Pharmacy in 1873. and the U n ited States A r my . leaying with th e foll owing y ear es ta b lishe d his pres ent rank o f cap ta in. and is now a practi ­ business in co nnect io n with James Van ti oner of Philadclphia . Cla re nce El ­ Buskirk. at Second and Dauphin wood g rad ua ted in 1904 at J eff erson street s. in Philadelphia. In 1888 he .\I edical Co llege. entered J eff erson ~I cdical Co lle ge. complet ed th e regular course with th e IRWIN, James Alexander, 1852­ c la ss o f 18 <) 0. and immediately after­ Cla ss of 1891. ward h e en te re d upon th e practice of Dr. james Alexand er Irwin. o f Phi ladelphia. was bo rn in county An­ trim. Ir el a nd. o n t he t i th of March , 18:;2. hi s pa rcn ts bei ng Francis

medicine. in which he still co nt inu es . in Phi larlclphia. In th e y ear o f his graduation he wa s elected th e class president. Dr ..vpplc is a Royal A rch Stringer and Sarah J. ( .\Ia tt he ws) 11'­ Xl ason. li e is a staunch Democrat in WI u. politics. I-Ie was a public-sch ool stude nt in Il l' was married January 9. 1870. to liclf'as t. Ir eland. before co m ing to th e Etta .\Iahala Tayler. of Ph ilad clphia, U nit cd States. Cross ing th e Atlantic P cunsylva nia, and they have two chil­ in 1880. he se tt led in Philadelphia . dren. \ V. E dson and Cl a re nce Elwood. where h e at once entered upon a husi­ The former is a graduate of J efferson n ess career as a manufacturer. .\ t­ Medical Co lle ge wi th th e cla ss of 1898, tractcd by professi onal lif e, howev er , 486 JEFFERSON iVIED/CA L COLLEGE he matriculated in J eff erson M edical D r. A nt ill, a t th e usu al age, became Co lle ge in 1888, and was g rad uated a public-sch ool student "in German­ wi th th e class of 1891, at which time town. Pen ns ylvania, a nd in 18° 9 put he won the Doctor of M cclicine degree. aside his text books to enter upon th e H e then ope ne d in the practice of medi­ drug business. Tn 1873 he won th e cine at 2019 So uth B road street, P hila­ degree of Graduated Pharmacist upon de lp hia , where he has since ma de hi s completing a course in the I 'hiladelphia home. In 1892 he was appointed on Sc hool of Pharmacy. He afterward de- the gyne co logica l sta ff of J eff erson H ospital, where h e se rve d for six con­ sccuti ve years, and for one year h e was a m ember o f the sta ff of the Medi cal D epartment of J eff erson H ospital , a nd for o ne year of the children 's dep art­ men t o f the same hospital. H e holds membership relations wi th th e Arner­ ican Xlcdica l Associatio n. th e Philadel­ ph ia County M edi cal Society and the P ennsyl vania State Medi cal Society. H e is a R oyal A rc h Mason , and a past ma ster of hi s lodge. Ife exe rc ises hi s right o f franchi se in suppo rt of th e men and mea sures of th e R epublican party. O n th e 24th o f May. 1899, he wa s marrrcd to F ra nces M. ? lcCaha n. a dau g hter of J ohn Me.Cahan, of P h ila­ de lp hi a.

ANTILL, Joseph Vincent, 1853­ Class of 1889. vo ted severa l years to that pro fession. Dr. J oseph Vincent A ntill, ph ysi­ and in 1879 starte d in bu si ness at h i: cian and surg eon, of Philadelphia, w as presen t locat ion in Philadelphia. I I born in Ge rmantown, P ennsylvania, 1887 he entered j cffcrson Xlcdical Col May 8. 1853. hi s paren ts bein g J oseph leg e, in wh ich he was graduated il and R osanna ( Haney) Antill. On the 1889 with the degree of Doctor o f l\[e(j, fa ther 's side he is of English descent, cine. Since that time he has practicer J oseph A nti ll havi ng been born in Lei­ co ntinuously in Philadelphia, where h­ cestcrshire, E ngland, when ce in 1835 has long been known as a worthy reI' he came to A merica, settling in Ge r­ rescntativc of business a nd profcssiona mantown, Penns ylvania, as a hosi ery interests. I-I e belongs to the Roar manufacturer. H e was a so ldier in th e D ri vers ' Associat ion of Ph ilad elphi a Seminol e war, se rving through out the and is a R ep ubl ican in his political ca mpaig n ag ainst th e Indians. views. OFFICERS AND ALUMNI

Dr. Antill was married Septem be r t ion. His g ra nd father. Ge ne ral J ona­ 15,1881, to Mi ss Isabella S. Gunn, who than Poole , w as major-genera l of t he died in February, 1884, and he has one militia of X cw H am psh ir e. T he Pooles son , George Francis Autill. are related by marriag e to ('rescott and llanc ro f't, t he hi storian s, D r. \ Va lt er A ugust us Fo rd receiv ed FORD, Walter Augustus, 1854­ hi s ea rly educ ation in t he public sc hools Class of 1882. o f Portland. Maine, g ra duating from Walter Augustus F ord, :\1. D., of th e high sc hooI in 1871. H e spe nt two Philadelphia, was bo rn at Po rtland. years as a s tu de nt at Bowdoin College, Main c. Mav 24. 1854. son of Augustus H. and Eliza Rix (Poole) Fan\. He is desc ended on his fat her's side from 1\ 1ilcs Standish and from .I ohn Alden and his wife. Priscilla Xl ull ens .\ Vili­ lam Ford. t he earlies t ancestor in America. came from England to Ply­ m U11,11 in 1030. and later moved to :\! a rsh field . where th e family was co n­ tinued by h is two sons . Benjamin Ford. grandfather of Dr. \\'alter A . Ford. moved to Xlaine in 1830. The family had its r epresentatives in th e Rcv olution ar v war. and Dr. Ford's Iat lu -r and two brothers served in th e Civil war. The father was a lieutenant. a nd one o f the brothers was a ca ptain o f th e famou s First Maine Ca valry Regiment. In the maternal line he traces his ancestry back to Baron llulk­ clcy, son of Robert. Lo rd of llu lkclcy Ma nor, Ch esh ire. E ngla nd. one of th e o ld ba rons of t he ti m e o f h:ing J ohn. who died in 1218, at \Vool ve. T h e leaving th ere to go abroad, wh ere he first American ancestor was John spent th e first t wo y ears in acad emic Pool e, who settled at Reading, Massa­ studies. During th e t h ree years fol­ ch usetts, from Reading, England, in lowing hc was engaged in m edi cal st ud­ 1°31. H e was a selectman and justice ies at the u niversities of Ilrcslau and o f th e peace, and his son J onathan was Goct t ingcn. R eturning to America, he ca ptain of t he R eading co mpany in entered J efferson Medica l Co llege. and Ki !lg Philip's war. Dr. Ford's great­ was g raduated with t he degree of Doc­ great-gran(lfather, Co lo ne l J ohn Hale, tor of Medicine in IRR2. and at once be­ and hi s g re at-g randfat he r , Dr. J ona­ gall th e practice of medicine in P h ila­ than Pool e. w ere both surgeon s in th e delphia. From the first hc has g i\'e n . Continental army during th e Revolu - h is en ti re time to Mechano-the rapy, 488 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE

He is a member of the j\ m erica n :-Ied­ the Jefferson Xlcclica l College was ical Association, the Jefferson ~I cdical g raduated with t he Doctor of Medicine .olleg c Alumni Association , t he Phila­ degree in t he class of 1880. He h as delphia County Xlcd ical Society, and a sinee practiced in Chicago, Ill inois. Companion of the First Class, by in­ 1880 to 189-1- . a nd s ince then in Phila­ h eritance of the Loyal L egion, and in delphia. w it h o ffice at ;\0. 2360 Xorth politics h e is a Republican, H e is un­ T wentieth street. In pol iti cs h e is a married. Republican. H e was ma rried, February 14, 188-1-. DeWIT T, John H enry, 1855­ to Joseph ine Cameron. of Philadelphia. Cla ss of 1880. Dr. John Henry De\Vitt. o f Phila­ BARTON, Isaac, 1855­ delphia, was born in Pontiac, Illinois. Class of 1877. Dr. Isaac Ba rt on. a rcprcscu ra t ivc member of th e m edical profession in I'h iladcl phia, Pennsyl vania . was horn in t hat city on J un e 15. 18S5( a son of Isaac and Elizaheth Lc Fcvrc ( Rath­ vo n) lla rt on, an d a descen dant of a Scotch and Frenc h H ngnen ot parent ­ age. On the paternal side. his ances­ tors. after much strife arising from re­ lig:iolls opp ression. were forced to flee fro m Scotlau d to find a t emporarv refuge in the north of Ireland. and from there his g randfather emigrated to t h is co u nt ry, a nd locat ed in Lnn­ caster co u nty,Pcnnsy lva nia. wh ere t he fa rm and ent ire estate wh ich he gath­ c reel together still remain in the family to-day, \ \Then t he rel ig'ious d ist urb­ a nces existe d in France. hi s a ncestors upon the maternal side were forced to flee with whatever t hey could hastily gather toget he r; th ey ca me to th is co untry and a lso loca ted in Lancaster August 9. 1855. a S Oil of Simeon and co unty. w here many of t he ir descend­ .\Iary Ann ( Ro be rts) Dc vvitt. l ie is ants can be found to t his day. of English, German and Tro lla nd lin­ Isaac Ba r to n acqu ired a t horough eage, but his parents a nd his gra nd­ ed ucatio n in t he public sc hools of Phila­ parents w ere natives o f the U nited delphia. t he Friends' Central H igh Statcs, School. Eastborn Academy. a nd under He attended the common sc hools at the private prcceptorship of A ndrew E. \ Vest Pittston, Pennsylvania, a nd In ]{og erson. H e th en matric ulated at OFFICERS AXD A LUM.Y I 4 ' !I the j cffc rson Xlcd ica l Colleg e, a nd :\ose in t he M cdico-Chi rnrgical Co l­ w hile pursuing hi s co u rse t her e ser ve d leg e o f P hi ladelp hia, r emaining six in the ca pacity of second assis ta nt t o y ears, after which he was appo inted ll. ll o wa rd R and. Professor o f Chern­ I'h ysiciau o f Throat, N ose a nd E a r is try in that in s titu t ion. and im m cdi­ Disea ses in the Con ve nt o f the Good a tcl y a fte r hi s g raduatio n , in 1877. h e Sh ep herd, l 'Ii iladclph ia , a nd at St. b cgnn t h e pra cti ce of hi s chosen pro­ j osep h 's A cademy. Ch est n ut H ill. fessio n in t he city of h is birth. A fter Since hi s r esignation fr om these ap­ engag ing in a general practice for o ne pointmcn t s. h e has dev oted hi m s elf en­ year. h e devoted h is entire t ime and tirel y to hi s private practice. H e is a m ember o f t he l' hiln d clphia Cou nt y ?l ledical Socie ty. li e is a musician o f rare a hility and attain m cnt, serves as o rganis t and choir-master of St. M a t­ thew's Lutheran C h u r ch o f I'hila­ d elphia. and is an active and prorni­ ncnt member o f t h e Manuscript :\Iu si ­ ca l Club, Dr. Barton married . janua ry IR J88o. Amanda Simpson C la rk. o f Phila­ delphia . Pennsylvania.

WARNER, Ellwood Beatty . 1859­ Cl ass of 1882. Dr. Ellwoud u. \\'arner. o f Phila­ d elphia. l'c -n nsyl vn nia , is a uat iv c o f that city. horn S eptem ber 10. IRS!). a son o f l ~dward ' I '~ dmnnd s and .\' 11 n E liz a beth ( neatty) \\'arner. l lis pa­ t ernal a ncesto rs e m igra ted from \\'al es in l(jRS. a nd h is m a ternal an ces tors w ere o f English or ig in. w ith the ex­ ce ptio n o f his g randmo th er. wh o was attention to diseases of t he thro at, a native o f Ireland, nose and ca r. and since then has made 11is preparatory cd uc a t ion w as ac­ a specia lty o f t hat branch o f t he pro­ quired in th e p ublic schools o f ] 'hila­ fession. In 1R77 . th e y ear o f hi s g rad­ d elphia, and the Ce n t ra l ll igh Sch ool uati on, Dr. I\arto11 accepted th e po~ i ­ o f the sa me cit y, fr om which h e was ti un of Chief of Clinic on Disea s cs of gra duated in j unc. 1R70. with the de­ the Throa t, ?\ose a nd Ear in j efferson gree of Master o f A r ts . H is co llegia te ] lospital under Dr. j. Soli s-Coh en. re­ co urse wa s pursued in J efferson 1\ 1eel­ maining for 11,'c y ears. li e then a c­ ical College, and h e was g ra d uated cc p t.cd a n a p point m en t as Cl inical 1'1'0­ from t hat in stitution in March . 1882. icssor o f Diseases of the T h roat a nd w it h the degree of Doctor of Mecl- 4f10 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COL LEGE

IClJ1e. F or three years prior to hi s in th e P olyclinic H ospital of Phila­ graduation he served in the retail drug delphia, was born A pril 2 1, 1859, in business, but im mediately after obta in­ Marietta, Lancaster co unty . Pcunsyl­ ing his medical degree he began the vania, The family is of Ge rman origin, practice of medicine in his native city, and J ohn Xl illcr, a native of Cc rma ny , w hich has continued to the present settled in Lancaster county at a n early time ( 1904) , hi s offic e being located at day. H e foll ow ed merchandising th ere. 1414 South Ninth street. From 1885 and his descendants have since heen to 1893. a pe r iod of eig ht years, he residents of that locality. 1-1 is so n, served in the ca pacity of sc hool e! i- Samuel Ga rber M iller, fat her of Dr.

rect or for th e Second \ Vanl of Ph ila­ .\ 1iller. was a soldier of the Civil war, de lp hia . ser ving as captain with th e Pcuusyl­ On March 10, 18Rfi, Dr. Warner was va nia troop s, and aiding in defense' married to Georgie Elma Walton. Two of th e U nion throughout th e peri od chi ldren were horn to th em, both of of hostilities. H e married Sarah Rig­ whom died in infancy: L oui s Il. , and ler, wh o wa s of Scot ch lin ea ge. her Ethel A. "Varner. parents co ming to th e U nite d Sta tes from Scotl a nd . They set tled in Lan ­ MILLER, Aaron Gabel, 1859­ caste r county. wh ere .\1 r. Rigler fol­ Class of 1894. lowed merchandising. Dr. Aaron Gabel Miller. Instructor D r. Mill er hegan his ed ucation in in Di seases o f the Throat and Nose th e puhlic schools of Marict ta , T'cnu- OFFICERS AND ALUMNI 491 sylvania, whe re h e completed t he hi gh co unty, Lllinois, August 26, 1840, his school co urse, and was graduated w it h parents being Curtis and Sarah (Mc­ t he class of 1879- H is ea rly business Intyre) Cadwell. His paternal grand­ experience co nnected hi m w it h t he father, Abijah Cadwell, was a native drug trade. and he was graduated o f Scotland, and, crossing t he Atlantic from the Philadelp h ia Co llege of to America, took up h is abode in Ver­ P harmacy in 1882, w ith t he degree of mont, w here h e fo llowed the occupa­ Graduate of P har macy. T he follo w ing tio n of fa rming. Curtis Cadwell also year he purc hased a d rug store in became a fa r me r, and removed from Philadelphia, a nd co nducted it co n­ New E ngla nd to J1Iinoi s, where t he ti nuously un til 1898. ] n t he m eantime, ho we" er,' he h ad prep ared for th e prac­ tice of m edi cine in th e j cffc rson jvlcd­ ical Co llege. a nd co mp leter! t he regu­ lar co urse in 1894. H e was a member of the first class to be examined b y' t he state hoard. w hich examin ation h e succcssfully passed, an .d at once en­ tered upon acti"e · practice. In 1882 he was appointe I first assistant apoth­ ecary of the ' P h iladelph ia Hospi ta l. and served for one year. In 1894 h e was appointed to the position of As­ sistant in the T h roat and ~o:-;e de­ partmcut of the Polyclinic H ospital oi l'h ila <1 elph ia and in 1900 receiv ed the appointment of I ns tructor of the T hroat a nd l\osC' Department in the sa me hos pi tal. In 1895. 18,/ i and 1897 he was th e Firs t Assista nt in th e Th ro a t and Nose D epartment o f H ow­ a rd H ospital. T-Ti :-; po litica l allegiance is g i"en to th e R cpiihlican party. Dr. Miller was m arried , September birth o f hi s son Warre n J. occurred. II , 1885. to Xla ry Thompson Scott, o f D r. Cadwell is a lso of Scotch lineage. I'hi ladclph ia . and t hey have one child. a nd the fam ily was establis hed in 7\ latilda Scott Mi llcr. wh o was born Kentucky at a very early epoch in the in January, 1887. development of the state. Dr. Cadwell was a student in the CADWELL, Warren ]., 1840­ district sc hools of Adams county, 111i ­ Class of 1863. nois . :111<1 in Quincy Seminary of Quincy, Dr. Warren ]. Cadwell. a ge ne ral Illinois. He next entered Mc Kcndrcc practitioner and surgeon of Ka nsas College, at Lebanon, Illinois, but in City. :\1issouri, was born JJI \ da ms the year cf his graduation he left that 4!J2 JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE institution in order to respond to his dccl :\ancy Patterson. a daughter of country's call for aid. enlisting as a Robert Patterson, who was a native of private in the Federal army in 1801. Ireland. and on coming to the United Following his military experience, States located in Pcnnsvlvania. A Dr. Cadwell became a student in Jef­ great-great-uncle of Dr. Burchfield in ferson Medical College of Philadelphia. the maternal line was a n officer of the from w hich he was g raduated with the Rev olutionary war. and through the degree of Doctor offl lcdicinc in 1863. period of hos til it ies that won t he inde­ ]-1 c was t he n appoi ntcd Assistant p en den ce of t he nation served under S urgeon of t he Ninety-seventh R egi ­ Ccne rai \ Vashin gto n, m en t O hio Volunteer Infa ntry. After th e close of th e war h e resu med prepar­ a t ion for t he activc pract ice of h is p ro­ fessio n. a nd was g raduated in Belle­ vue ~ !edical College with the class of I Rai. H e at once hega n practice in Adams county. Illinois. and in 1868 he removed to Kausas Ci ty . :\1issouri, where he has since been eugaged in husiness. Dr. Cadwell is a member of t he Kansas City .\iedical Society. and the Jackson County (:\1 issouri) Med­ ical Society. I lis political support is gi"en to the Republican party. Dr. Cadwell was married. October 30. IR(i(). to ~ I iss Isab el Frances Cal­ vin. who died in 1902. lea" ing one child, Victor, who is now s urgeon for t he Iro n i\!ountain Ra ilroad.

BURCHFIELD, John P atterson, 184°• Cla3s of 1865. Dr. J ohn ! 'at tcrson Burchfi eld. fo r al most forly years a medical prac­ Dr. llurch ficl d began h is education titioner of Pittsburg. Pen nsylvania , in th e publie sc hools of East Li bert y . W;lS bern in A llegheny county. I'cnn­ Pennsy lvania. a nd continued it in the sy lvu nia. Novcuihcr 29 . IR.+o. llis East Liberty Academy. Following his father. William Nelson llurchficld, rep­ graduation in that institution h e ma­ resented an old colonial family of triculated in the Jefferson Medical Col­ Ejlg-lisl.l descent that was probably cs ­ lege. where he was graduated in Ii~oS . tablishcd vin Pcnnsylvania upon the His collegiate training. ho wever , was a rrival of the first representatives of interrupted hy his services in the Fell­ th e name in America. .\ fter reaching cral army. for in ISo3 he offered his manhood. \\'illial1l :\. llurchficlcl wed- aid to the country. and through that OPPleERS / lND ALUMNI and the s ucceed in g y ear was an . vs­ ,'a111a . On leaving the last named in­ sis ta u t Surgeon. Foll owing the co m­ stit ution he cutcrc.l upon h is business pletion o f hi s coll egiate cours e h e career . clerking fo r two years in Cata­ up eneel an o ffice in Pittshurg' in ,80S, wi ssa . Pc nn syl vauia, and s ubsequently and st ill remains in this city . fur t wo yea rs at Ileac h Haven , P enn­ H e bel ongs to the Alleghen y County sy lvania, but hi s patriotic interest in ~[ edical Society, a nd his stud y of the hi s co untry prompted him to put aside political issues and questions o f the day business a nd personaI considerations, has led h im t o be a s up po rter o f the and in :\ ug ust. 1862. he en listed in Republican party. Company 1-1 , O ne Hu ndred a nd Th ir ty-

WILLITS, I saiah W., 1843- Cl a s s of 1875 , Dr. Isai ah \ V. \\' illits has spe nt h is entire life iu P ennsylvania , excepti ng two y ea rs . when he practiced in 1\0­ a nok e, Virginia. li e is no w engaged in pract ice in l lloomsburg. 11c was burn in Cata w issa, :\lay 22, 1843. and is o f E nglish and Irish descent. H is paren ts w er e Geor'ge Hughes and J ane (Cla rk) \\·i llits. In ea r ly life t he father foll owed tanning, and afterward en­ gaged in contracting, building a part of the Pcuusylvania canal. Subse­ quently h e b ecame a co a l opera tor in S ch uy lkill co un ty, P ennsylvania. a nd co nt inued in that business about five y ea rs. a fte r which he moved to a fa r m o n the banks o f the Susquehanna ri ver, direct ly opposite the town o f Ca t a­ wi ssa, and lived there until 1867, wh en he sold the farm and moved in to to wn, where h e resided until hi s death, in second R egi m ent of Pcnn syi vania Vol­ 188r. un t eers , o rganized at Catawissa. I Ic The foll owing fiv e years h e spen t ser ved for nine months, t h ree mouths in th e public and subscr ipt io n schools as o rderly se rgeant and s ix months as of Ca ta w issa, P ennsy lvania. Dr. \ Vil­ first lieutenant, a nd participated in t he lits was for two y ears a st ude nt in a 'batt les of South Mouutaiu.A ntietam. select school a t B loomsb u rg , Pennsyl­ F reder icksb urg. a nd Cha nccllo rsvi llc . vania, while fo r one vca r h e atten ded H e was seriously wounded at F red­ 'Green wood :-; emina::' at :\lilh'ille, ericksburg on the left k nee by a p iece P ennsylvania, and o ne year at \\Tyom­ of she ll, a nd remained in t he hospita l 1I1g S em ina ry at King st on. Pcnns yl- for about t wo months, after which h e JEFFERSON M E DI CAL COLLEGE returned to his command. Subsc­ syncl cr, daugh ter uf t lu: lat c Geo rge qu cntly he raised what became Com­ Scott, of Cat a w iss a. P cnnsyl vauia . pany E o f t hc Thirtieth R egiment o f l.'cnnsy lvania Volunteers (o ne-year men ) , and was made it s capta in, but PAINTER, William P ., 1842- aitcr two months he returned h orne, Class of 1875. t he regiment's time o f serv ice having Dr. \ Villial11 I'i crcc P a inter. of Dar­ ex pircd, hi s co m pa ny wa s mustered out by, D el aware co unty. Pennsy lva n ia , with th e regimen t. ha s p urs ued a varied professional F oll owing hi s military ex pe rience, ca reer, and passed one year of his life. Dr. \Villits read m edicine with Dr. in th e ar111Y , as a m ember o f th e gov­ ernme nt m edical corps . J ohn K. R obins, o f Cata wiss a, wh o direct ed hi s st udies for three years, and in th e sessions of 1864-5 and o f I ~ 5-(j he a t tended lec tures at Jeffer­ SQII j\ Icdical Colleg e. 1·!c then bcgan practice in Cata wissa, P ennsylvania, a1\d in the fa ll of 1874 he returned to Jeffc rson, and was g ra duate d in the foll owing s pring. H e remained a practition er in hi s native town until 1883, wh en he rem ov ed to R oanoke, V irginia, where he practiced t wo years, and in 1885 he w ent to Bloomsburg. P ennsyl vania, where th e duties of a general practice ha vc since occupied hi s time and attention. Hc ha s ser ved as president of th e Co lu mbia Co unty M edical Society, of which h e is still a member, and he is examiner for th e Bankers' Lifc Insurance Com pany of New Y ork, the TC W England Lifc In­ s u ra nee Co mpany, and the Equitable Lifc I us ura ncc Co mpany of N cw Y ork. ]-f is so cial rela ti on s connect him with J-I c is a native of the sa me county in th e Grand Army of the Republic, and which he now resides, bo rn at Con­ th e Masonic fraternity, and his political cord, Feb rua ry 3. 1842. His parents beli ef is that o f the R epublican party. were of E nglish descent, and were D r. Willits was married , in March, D a rwin and Sarah (Bri nton) Painter. 1866, to M iss Lillie R. R eifsnyder, a H e received an excelle nt ed ucation in daughter of Mrs. Harriet Reifsnyder, the schools of Vi es t Ches ter, P ennsyl­ of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, who died vania, and Wilmington , Delaware, in 1877. He was again married in which are numbered a mong the b est April, 1879, to Mrs. Kate Paxton Reif- in their respective states. H e then OFFICERS AND ALUMNI 495 ente re d J eff er s on~l edi cal College, were J oseph H enry and E liza be th II. Iroru which he wa s graduated with (Underwood) North, also of Maine. th e degree o f l Jo cto r' o f Xl cclic iuc in D r. North wa s a stude nt in th e pub­ 1~75. at th e mature age of t h irty-t hrcc lic sc hools of his native city, and t hus ye a rs. He was engaged in private acquired his lit er a ry ed uc ation. In practi ce, and as physician at Glen ?II ills 1866 he matriculated in J effer son Xlcd- until 1876, wh en he rem ov ed to San "ical College of Philadelphia, and won F ra nc isco, Ca lifor nia, remaining th er e hi s degree of Docto r of ;\l edi cin e upon until 1878, a nd th en w en t to Yuma, graduation with t he class of 1869. H e A rizo na, made co ntract and post at once gavc his atte ntion to th c ge n- surgton in t he U nite d Statcs army at Yuma, and wa s engage d in such duty for a pe riod of one ye ar. D ur­ ing th is time it was his fortune to co m­ ba t a se vere sma llpo x epide mic, and he acquitted himself so successfully as to rec eiv e th e warm commendation of his supe rior officers for his ability and thc conscientious devotion with which he ministe red to th e suffere rs from th e dreadful disease. In 1879 Dr. Painter located in Darby, Penn­ sylva nia, wh er e he has since been en­ gaged, and w he re he has bu ilt up a large practice, including very many of t he oldest and most prominent fam­ ilies in th e village and vicinage. H e is a member of th e D elaware County M edical Society, an d of th e A me rica n Medical Association. In politics he is a R epublican. Dr. Painter was married, April 28 , 1886, t o~1 iss Margaret 1\1 icldle. Sh e di ed January 5. Il) OO, leaving one child, cra l prac tice of medicine in Pet ers­ Ri sl ey ),1, P ainte r, born J anuary 26, town, \ Vest V irginia, and subscquc utly 1887· rem ov ed to \ Vest \ Vater vilie, now Oak­ land, Maine, where h e remained in NORTH, Joseph Henry, 1843- practice for abo ut ten years. O n the Class of 1869. ex piration of that pe riod he settled in D r. J oseph H enry North, P hys ician Camden county, Ne w J er sey, an d t wo and Surg eon , of Pl easantvill e, New years later w ent to Pl easantville, New Jersey , was born in Waterville, Ken­ J ersey, where he is now engagcd in neb ec county, Maine, Octob er 9, 1843, general practice. He received hospital and is of E nglish lin eage. His parents experience in th e clinical department ·l !J G JEFFERSON M EDICA L CO LLEGE

u f 1'cnnsylvania H ospital and Bl ock­ t he P repa ra to ry Department of Penn­ ley H ospital. syl vanin Cu ilege. at Gcttysb urg. l u Dr. North is a member of the :\ew 1800 h e en te red upon the regular co l­ Jersey State 1\ 1cdical Society, and is leg e coursc : in 1803 he won t he Hass­ Resident Physician to the Atlantic ler gold medal for proficiency in t he Cou n ty Insane Asylum. He is al so L a t in language a nd lit era ture, and h e ] 'h y si cia u to t he Atla ntic Co u n ty Alms was g radua te d, a t th e head of hi s cla ss, House. ] n p ublic affairs h e ha s been in 1804. quite prominent and influential in hi s At the time o f the Civil war. and be­ locality .In 1891 h e was elected mayor fore commencing his professiona l of P leasantville, s erving for two y ears, . and giving to the city a busin es-likc and progres,;i"e administration. Fra­ ternally he is connected with U nio n I.lJ

MElSENHELDER, Edmund W., 1843- Class o f 18£8. Ur. Edmund \\'.:'1 ciscn hcld cr was born in Dover. York county. Pcnnsyl­ vani a , Feb ruary 22. 1843. and is no w cngagetl in t he p racti ce of m edicine and s u rg ery in the city o f York. His parents were Samuel Xl ciscn hcld cr a nd studies, he entered t he army as a de­ J os ephin e S . ( L ew is) Mciscnheldcr. fender o f th e L' ni un ca use. 1n June, Th e father was also a p hysician. and 18(;3. h e e nlis ted in Com pany .\, a graduate o f J efferson Medical Col­ Twcn t v-s ix th Reg im en t Pennsylva nia lege. Edmund \\T. Xlciscnhclder is o n Volun t eer :'1iliti a. in response to th e t he paternal s ide of Ge rman , a nd o n call of Cove r nor C u rt in for troops to th e maternal side of mixed Welsh and d ef end the state aga inst th e approach Scotch-Irish extraction. o f th e Confederate forces, In 1864 Tn early boyhood he was a pupil in he en listed in the L'n itcd S tates sen-icc t he p ub lic schools of t he state, and as a m ember of Com pa ny D , Two subsequently continued hi s studies in H un drcd and T enth R egiment of OFf-/CERS AND A LUMNI -t!17

1'cuusylvania Volunteers, and went to second is a g radnate of johus-I lop ­ the front as a private. H e was ap ­ kins 1\ I cd ica l Sc hoo l, am! IS now a: pointed qua rter mas te r se rgeant and in Lakeside H ospital, Cleveland, Ohio; F ebruary. 1865, was co mm iss ioned as the third is at Harvard Unive rsity, and second lieutenant of th e co mpany in t he fourth is at school in No rthampton, wh ich he had enlisted, se rving wi th .\ Iassachus ett s. that rank until th e close of th e war. He participated in th e battles of Hatch­ HASSLER, William Andrew, 1842­ er's Run, \\Thite Oak Road, Fi\-e Forks, Class of 18 6 6. an d Appo mattox, be ing present at the D r. , Villia m A. H assl er, of Allen­ surre nde r of Ge ne ral Lee. H e is a town, P ennsylvania, a so n of I saa c an d member o f Ge n. Se dgwick Post, No. A'1I1a (Kcrls) Hassler, was born in 37. G. A . R. Le high co unty, Pennsylvania, Septcm­ A fter th e close of th e Civil war he her 30, 1842. The Hassler family has entered up on th e preparation for hi s long been resident in Pennsy lva nia, the . rofessional work in hi s fathe r's of­ g ra nd father of \ Villiam A. Hassler, Ja­ fice, E ast Derlin, Ad ams co unty, Penn­ cob H assler, havin g been born in F ried­ sylvania. His subseque nt medi cal train­ ensburg, Berks county, and th e va rious ing was recei ved at J effer son Medical mem bers of the family have been pr os­ College, whe re he was g raduated in th e perous farmers and accu mulated a con­ cla ss of. 1868. For ab out three ye ars side rable am ount of property. the reafter he practi ced medi cin e with \V illiam A. Hassler attended the dis­ his ia thcr, a nd the n removed to York, tr ict sc hools of L ehi gh co unty, and th e l'cnnsylvania, wher e he ha s ever since Q uake rto wn sc hool, w hich was then be en - engaged in active prof essional kn own by th e name of Du cks Co unty work.H e belon gs to th e York Co unty Classical Insti tu te. After completing ;·ft (lical Society, Pennsylvania State th e co urse in the latter nam ed ins titute Medical Society, American Academy he spe nt t wo months in th e study of of Medicine and Ame rica! Medical As ­ medicine in th e office of E . F . Steckel, sociation. Politically, th ou gh tho r­ of L ehi gh co unty, and t he n enter ed oughly ind ep endent, he is a R epub­ Jc ff'c rson M edi cal Co llege, se rv ing as lica n. assistan t to D r. D. D. R ich ardson in Dr. E dmund \ V. Xlciscnhc ldcr was t he Northe rn Dispensary, and his ma rri ccl , on th e 2211< 1 of D ecemb er, graduation with th e degree of Doctor 11\70, to :\li ss :'liaria E. n aughman, a o f Medi cine occ urre d in th e year 18GG. da ughte r o f Jacob ]L a nd Lydia III th e spring of 1888 he began th e (. wartz) Uaugh man, rcpreseuta tivc s ac t ive pra cti ce of his profession in of old York county families. Dr. E . Bellevue, O hio, but on account of im­ \ V. M eiscnhcldcr and hi s wif e have pair ed h eal th he was ob liged to re­ Iour childre n : Rob er t L ewis, E dmund turn cast after six mo nths' resi dence \\Ccbs tc r, Sa mue l 11augh man, and Mary in that town; h e located in Alle ntown, E liza be th. The first-named is a min­ P ennsyl van ia, and is now en joying a ister of th e Luther an church, stationed large patronage. In po litics Dr. H ass­ at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; the lcr adh er es to th e ca ndidates and m cas- -l!lS JEFPERSON MEDiCA L CQLLECE urcs ad vucn t cd h v the Republican I'attison to the Q ua ra ntine Station at party. T inicum Island. a nd fro m 188-+ un til Dr. llass ler was united in marriage, his resignatiun in 1~8 7 he was th e 1\larch 6, 1 ~ (, 8 . to H arriet Kline, o i Uuarant inc lhysiciau a t tfle Ln za rct.to. Emau s, Lehigh co unty, Pcnnsyl vauia. Il l' ha s co ntribute d numer ou s articles Thei r child rcn a re : :\Ia rga ret , who be­ u f value to th e medi cal jou rnals, ma ny ca me the wilc of 1-1 . A. Sch an t z, uf of wh ich ha ve been publish ed, a ni a lso R ea ding , Pcunsyl va nia : an d .I. W illis rea d at th e meeting of th e Sanitary H assl er, 1\ 1. D ., of P hi ladelphia, leuu­ Co n ve ntion at I'hiladclphia, th e pri uci­ sylvania. pal one ha yin g been on "Tile l mporta-

W ILSON, Francis Shunk, 1844­ Cl a s s of 1870. D r. F ra nc is S.\ Vilson , ac tively en­ gaged in th e practice uf hi s pr of ession since hi s g radua tion, Xlarc h 12 , 1870, and now a resident o f J enkintown, P ennsyl vania, is a native of th e city of P hilade lph ia, bo rn January 19. IS-H. }-I is paren ts, representa tiv es of Scotc h­ Irish a ncestry, arc Char les a nd .\ Ia ry ( Dickman) '\\f ilso n. ] lc obta ine d a thorough an d pra cti cal educat ion at th e public schools and th e T ennen t Boarding School. Bucks county, Penns ylvania, an d \\' est j ersey Acade my, B ridgeto n, ~e w J er sey . H e was p re pared to enter the Soph omore class at Yal e, but he th ereupon accept ed a positi on as schoo l teacher and did not ente r col­ lcge for two ye a rs. H e pursued hi s medi cal studies at J effer son 1\1 erlica l Co llege, g raduating w ith th e degree lion of Foreign R

SILLIMAN, James Enoch, 1844­ Class of 1874. Dr. J a mes E noch . ill iman, a ge ne ral medi cal prncti ti on cr at E ric, Pennsyl­ va nia, was born in Nort heast, Pensyl­ va uia , J un e 10, 1844. H is fathe r, John Silliman, was of Irish lineage.J a mes Si lliman, the grandfat he r, ca me fro m the north of Jroland, and settled in Northeast, Pennsylvania, erecting there the first brick hou se in Erie county, which is still standing. The g rand­ father engaged in farming th er e, and th e same pursuit wa s foll ow ed by J ohn Silliman. The latter married Min er va Chapman. .\ s a public school pupil in North­ from th e dut ies of a private practice. cast. lcnnsylva nia, D r. 'S illiman began is se rv ing as insurance examiner for his cc lucatiou , w hich was co ntinue d in th e foll owing co mpa nies: th e Equitabl e A llegheny Co llege. in which he wo n Li fe, t he Mu tu al , the U nited States the degree of Bachelor of A rts in 187 1, Life, the :\Ianhattan. the Provident while in 1874 hi s alma mater co nferred Reserve, the Berks hire, Connecticut: upon hi m th e degree of Master of Arts. Mutual, the Provide nt Mu tu al , the H e began th e stud y of medi cin e under l\futual Li fe, the H om e, th e \'Vash ­ D r. J. L. Stewart , of Eric, Pennsyl­ ington L ife, and the U nio n Ce ntral vania, who di rected his reading for a companies. He is a member of the rear, and then entered Jeffer on Mcdi- Erie County Medical ociety, the ;>00 JEFFERSON M E DICA L COLL E GE

] 'c uns y lva nia State l\l cdica l Society. ical Sc hool of Quakertown, in the th e A me rican :\Iedical Association and sa me co unty. H e ta ught district sc hool th e l'll ilita ry Surgeons' Medi cal Asso­ d uring' the w inte r months for several ciation. H e is entitled to membership ye a rs . I n 1865 he engaged in th e in th e la st named because o f hi s con­ drug business, con tinuing it until he nection with the military se rv ice of hi s entered J eff erson Co llege, from wh ich country. IIc was a membe r of t he first he received th e degree o f Doctor of Il oard of State Examine rs of l 'cunsyl ­ Xlcdicinc in 1868. H e commenced his vauia ; and was U nited States P en sion presen t medica l practice in P hila­ E xa miner for seven years prior to P res­ delphia in the sp ring of th e same year. ident Cle ve land 's administration. A t For three ye ars, fro m 1875 to 1878, th e tim e of th e Civil war he became a member of Co mpa ny E, O ne Hundred and Second P ennsyl vania R egi men t of V olunteers, and went to the front as a private. For nineteen y ears he be­ longed to th e N atio na l Gua rd o f Penn­ sy lvania, was Assistan t Surgeon o f th e Sev enteenth Regiment, and up on the reorganization of th e N at iona l Gua rd o f Pennsyl vania became Assista nt Surgeon of the Sixteenth R egi men t. H e was also B rigade Surgeo n of the Sec­ ond Ilrigadc, on the staff o f Ge ne ral J. A. \ Viley. His political suppo rt is given to th e R epublican party. In 1878 he married H arriet M e­ hofr cy.

V AN BUSKIRK, James, 1844- Class of 18€8. James Van Buskirk, M. D. , o f Phila­ delphia, w as born in Buck s county, Pennsylva nia, July I I , 1844, the so n of Jacob and Li vy ( Apple) V an Bus­ kirk. The earliest A me rican ancestor he wa s a member of the Sc hool Board on th e fath er's side was Jacob V an of Philadelphia an d for one year was I:u skirk, w ho came to Hack en sa ck , it s secre tary . H e is a Republican, an d Ne w Jersey, fr om H olland, before th e has attained hi gh rank in th e Ma sonic Revolutionary war. fraternity, having attained to the com­ D r. V a n Buskirk recei ved hi s ea rliest mandcry degree, a nd being a member instruction in the d istrict sc hools of of the A nc ient A rabic O rder of the Stcinsb urg, Tluck s co u nty, and after­ Mysti c Sh rine . H e is a mem ber of the wa rd atten ded the No rma l and Class- Co lu m bia Club, and w a s one of the OFFICERS A ND ALUM NI 501 founders and a ch arter m emb er of th e Xlouo nga hc la City, Pennsylvania, in Medical Club of Philadelphia, and still 1860. Four years lat er he matriculated holds a place on th e board of governors in th e Jcffc rson }, Icdical Co llege of o f that body. Philadelphia, and was gradua te d with In Februa ry, 1884, Dr. Van Buskirk th e class of 1870. The in ter vals of married L eon ore Hillegas, of Phila­ t ihic not :-.,e ivcn to the rcc~ ular co llcsrcb delphia. ] I c ha s no children. co urse w er e devoted to specia l studies in va rious m edi cal sc hools and hospitals. Since obta ini ng hi s degree CHESSROWN, Archibald de Volney, he ha s been engaged in active ge ne ra l 1844- Class of 1870. practi ce in Pi ttsburg. Dr. Arch ibald de Voln ey Chessro w n, engaged in the general practice of med­ icine an d surgery, in P ittsburg, P erin­ sylva nia, was horn on a farm in \Vash­ ington co unty, that state, August 13, 18'-14, a so n of John and M ary A nn ( Yo ung) Chcssrown, H is paternal g ra ndpa re nts were Pet er and E lizabe th Chcssro wn, who were of Franco­ l'rusxia n a ncestry, an d th e lat ter was a representative of th e fa mily of de Volnc ys . They se ttled on a farm in Lancaster county, Pennsyl vania, so me ! imc pr ior to th e Revolu tionary war, an d early in th e ninet eenth ce ntury rem ov ed to \ Vashing to n co unty, sa me state, wh ere t hcv attained th e advanced age of ninet y-four and eig ht y-eig ht years, respec ti vely. The maternal grandparents of Dr. Chcssro w u wer e Squire James Young and hi s wife !\fary, wh o we re of Scotch- I rish stock. ] loth families ren der ed valuable se rvice in th e colonial cause in th e war Dr. Chessro w n is a member and at for indep endence. Squire James Young one time wa s pr esident of th e So uth was also a representative of th e agri­ Side Xlcd ica l Club, and belon gs to the cultural in terests of Pcnnsvlvania. an d .vll cgh cny Co unty, t he Pcunsylvau ia J ohn Ch cssro w n , fath er of Dr.Chess­ State. th e A merica n M edi cal and th e ro wn , foll owed th e sa me pursu its. 1\ I issi ssi ppi Valley 1\Icdica l Associa ­ A fte r attaining the degree of Ba ch ­ t ions. and has hel d offices in th e co unty elor of A rt s. Dr. Chcssro w n ente re d and state societies. H e is a lso a me m­ upon th e study of medicine under th e ber of th e Pi tt sburg O bs te t rical So­ direction o f Dr. Willi;Jlll I r. King, of ciety, of th e N at ional Prison Co ng ress, 502 JEFFERSON M EDICAL COLLEGE and of the Pittsburg Cha mber of Co m ­ left for affiliation wi th social or fra­ merce. Dr. Chcssro w n has been Staff ternal orde rs . H is political suppo rt is Physician to I'assavant H ospital since g iven to t he R epublican party. 1871, and is M edi cal Examiner for t he Dr, Chessro w n was married, June 1"1 utual Ben efit, th e Aetna, th e Penn­ 14, 1870, to M iss Sara h Jane P hillips, sylvania Mutual, the \ Vashinglon a nd a da ughter of J o hn P h illips, a member th e Secu rity Trust lif e in surance co m­ of the fir m of Oliver Itrothcrs & Phil­ panies, and is Physi cian to th e A lle­ lip s, proprietors of t he iron and steel g heny county prison. works at Pittsb urg. Dr. Chcssrown Being o fficially a ssociated with 11l1­ and hi s wife h ave had t h ree chi lclrc n : cro us execution s at th e prison, and re­ J ohn Phillips, a m ember of t hc P hi llips alizing their demoralizing and debas­ l\lill and l\line Supply Co mpa ny; O lin? ing cffec ts- th at, in st ead of tcrroriz­ ,Aline, now th e w ife of \ Vilb ur Lee in g and intimidating the depraved and Jack , cas h ier of the Bank of l' ill slH1 rg ; v iciously inc liucd they furnish an in­ and F lo re nce Edna. t he wife of lortcr cc ntive to reckl essness an d sa\'agery Sawyer Kicr, of the First Xational a nd e ve n to the co m m issio n o f cri me­ . Ba nk of P ittsburg. All arc members and actuated by purely compassion ate of t he Shadyside Presbyterian church motives, Dr. Chcssrow n ad vanced t he a nd t hc family h orn e is at :\0. 5443 prop osition through the mediumof the Fi fth aven ue, in the lead ing resi­ A lleg heny Co unt y M edical Society, dential di strict o f th e cast end o f the after investigations and cx pe rim cnta­ city. t ion s up on dogs and cats, that asphyxi­ ation by carbon di oxid would not o nly HALL, C. Lester, 1845­ be more humane and scie n tific an d less Class of 1867. apt to sho ck the morals of the n eurotic Dr. C. Lester Hall, a leading Phy­ and w eak, but also serve the purpose sicia n and Surgeon of Kansas City, and maintain th e dignity of the law. Xlissou ri, was born Marc h TO, 1845, H e and hi s ass ociates in this m ovem ent at A rrow R ock, Saline county. l\lis­ dem onstrated beyond a doubt that car­ souri. H c is of E nglis h and Scotch bonic acid or carbon di oxid will p ro­ an cestry, a nd hi s families in both duce somatic death in from five to eight parental lin es elate ba ck to early col­ minutes without disturbing natural onia l days. sleep or leaving any manifestations of Hi s father was D r. Matthew \ \T.nsu. pain or suffe ring. F avo ra ble consider­ son of t he R ev. Nathan If. Halt, a ati on has been accorded the propos ed native of Ken tu cky , a Presbyterian m easure by t he press and th e medi cal m inister of commanding ability. who fraternity abroad as w ell as in this preach ed in Lexington, Kentucky, for co untry, and Dr. Chessrow n and othe rs abou t a qua rter o f a ce nt ury, was in w elI kn own in the professi on hope to cha rge of a church in . t. Lo uis, 1\ 1is­ introduce this m ethod of capital pun­ so uri, at a later da y, a nd di ed in Co­ ishment in the interest o f humanity. lumbia, 1\1 issouri, at th e age o f seventy­ Devoting hi s entire time to th e duties six years . 1\ la tt he w \ V. H all was born o f h is practice h e has little oppo rt unity In Kent uc ky, and beca me a physician OFFICERS AND A LUJiNI of great ability. He p racticed 11l father he had alre a dy made cons ide r­ Sale m, ] llin oi s, fro m 1837 to 1845, and able progress in medical st udi es, and in the latter vcar remo ved to Arrow af ter pursuing a lit erary co urse at Rock, 7\ Iissouri, where he practiced lloouvillc he attended lectures in th e for twelve years, and afterward took St. Louis Med ical Co llege during th e up his residence upon a farm near session o f 18°4-° 5. and after two years Marshall. Dm ing the Civi l war he entered the Jefferson Medi cal College. served as a surgeon in the Confederate Philadelphia, from which institution he army, and he was elected to th e legis­ was graduated in 1807. H e was asso­ lature before that cont1ict and again ciate d in practice with hi s fathe r for afterwards. He was a man o f strong character. In religi on he wa s a Pres­ hy t cria n, and an eld er in his church for many years. ]-1is wife was Agnes J . L ester, horn in Virginia, a daughter of Il rvan Lester. a man of most ex ­ cmp la ry life. and whose hc ucvolcucc is attested by the freedom whic h h e canIcrrcd upon his sian's. Dr. Mat­ thew \ V. and Ag nes J. (L est er) ].[all were th e parents of eleven children. among whom were three ph ysician s: Dr. C. Lester Hall, of Kansas City . 7\ lissouri; Dr. J ohn R. 11all. of Mar­ shall. Xliss ouri ; and Dr. Thomas I\. lIa ll. residing ncar th e la st named place. C. L ester Hall. eldest so n o f Dr. Matthew \ V. Hall. recei ved his seco nd name out o f regard fe-r hi s mother's b rother, Dr. Thomas T\. L ester, an emi­ nen t p ract ition er and author.H e was reared upon the parental farm, and at­ tended the ne ighborhood schools. At six ye ars . an d in 1873 esta blishe d him ­ th e age of sixt een, in 1861, he enlis te d se lf in Marshall, Mi ssouri, wh ere he in the Confederate army led by General cared for a larg e and remunerative Sterl ing P rice, but after the battle and practice for a period o f seve ntee n years. captm e of Lexington, M issouri, was Seeking a broader field for his O W l . di scharged for physical disability. H e dcv clopmcn t, in 1890. he located in rejoined th e army later in the same Kansa s City. Xlissouri. whe re he has year. was captured hy th e F ederals at achiev ed co ns picuo us s uccess and ?I Iil forr l. :-1issouri, and after bein g held recogniti on as a leader in various de­ prisoner for th re e months returned partments o f g en eral practi ce. wifli a home. Through ass ociation with his sp ecial talent fo r treating th e diseases JEFFERSON MEDICAL CO LLEGE of wo me n. H e ha s se rve d as Presiden t MUSSER, ]. Henry, 1845- of t he Faculty of th e M edic o- Chi­ Class of 1866. rurgical Co llege of Kansa s City, an d D r. J . Henry Xlusser, a ge ne ra l prac titio ne r, of Lampet er , Lanca st er as Professor of Gy ne cology and Ab­ co unty, Pennsylva nia. since the year dom inal. urgcry in th at institution. H e of his graduation, 1860, is a native of is a member of th e A me rican :' Te dical the to w n in w h ich he no w resides, the Associatio n, of which h e wa s electe d date of hi s birth bein g January 5, 1845. Vice President at th e New O rl ea ns 1-1 is parents. Da niel and E liza beth meeting in Ma y, 1903, th e \ Vestern (Herr) M usser, we re na tives of Cum- Surgica l an d Gy necological Associa­ ti on , the Xlissouri State Medical So­ cicty, of which he has been president, the J ack son Co unty ( Xlissouri) ~re d ­ ical Society, a nd the K an sa s City Acade my of M edicine, of which he has been president. O uts ide hi s wide pro­ fessional atta inme nts, D r. H all is fa­ m iliarly co nversant w ith gen eral lit era­ ture, and he has made numerous valu­ able co ntributio ns to that of th e pro­ fess ion . D r. Hall was married, June 16, 1869. to i\li ss Katherine Sapping to n, a daughter of H an. E. D. and P en elop e (B reathitt) Sap pington, wh ose ma­ ternal g ra ndfathe r was a for me r gov­ ernor of K entucky. O f this marriage were horn five children, of whom one died in infan cy. Those livin g arc: Dr. Darwin \ Valton Hall, a graduate of th e U nive rs ity M edical Co llege of Kansa s City, and post-graduate of th e Polyclin ic Sc hool of New York, a berl an d and L an ca ster co un ties, Penn­ rh inologist and laryn gologi st, practi c­ sy lva nia, respecti vely , a nd both t raced ing in associa tion with hi s father, ami th eir ancestry to an hon orable German a member of th e facult y of th e M edico­ o rig in. Chirurgica l Co llege of Kan sa s City; D r. M usser acquired an excellent I'c nc lopc, w ife of Leon S mith . a bu si­ E nglish education in pr ivatc sc hools ness ma n of th e sa me city; C. Lest er , of Lancast er co unty . H e th en ente re d a young man wh o has recently co m­ J effer son 1\ 1cdical Co llege in orde r to pl eted hi s educ atio n and is now in the prepare himself io r a profess ional ca­ mercantile hu sin css : and Katheri ne ?Ifay reer, and af ter pu rsu ing the regular Hall. course in that in stituti on wa s g raduated OFFICERS A ND A LUMNI with th e degree of Doct or of i\le dicinc of P unxsutaw ney, a nd he ad ded to his in 1866. He spe nt an in tcrneship o f kn owl edge gained in the sc hool room several months in the ?'orthe rn D is­ throu gh th e practi cal expe rience one pensary, after which he es tablishe d an receiv es in a printing office, for on pu t­ officc in hi s native town for th c acti ve ting aside his text-book s he se cure d a practice of medicine air el surgery, and posi ti on in a printing es tablishme nt in has achiev ed prominen ce and suc cess Indiana, P ennsyl vania. wher e he re­ al ong the lin e of hi s chosen calling. mained for two years . O n th e cx pira­ He has always been a close and earnest tion of th at period, the Civ il war was student, and much of th e success which inaugurated, a nd l\ 1r. Torre nce enlisted ha s attended his effo rts in the' diag­ nosis and treatment of all forms o f dis­ casc and th c ameliorating of su ffc ring is du e to this fact . H e keeps in tou ch with th c advanced t ho ught of th e day on medical subje cts by membe rs hip in th e foll owing named socict ies : The American M edical, State M edical, Lan ­ caste r City and Co unty Mcdica l, and the Co llege of Physicians and Surgeons of Co lumbia. H e se r ved one ye ar as Presi dent of th e Lancaster City an d Co unty M edi cal Society. H e is a R e­ publican jn politics. D r. J'vI us ser married L cida i\. l\Ius­ sc lman , of L an cast er county, Penn­ sylvania, and their children arc: Edith. wifc of Jay Ba chman, and mother of two so ns-H a rry, an d J ohn Ilach­ man; and \Vil1iam. wh o married Bertha C. E sh elman, and th eir chil­ drc n arc John and R ob ert Musser .

TORRENCE, James Monroe, 1845­ in Octobe r, ISOI, as a member o f Com­ Class of 1873. pany K. O ne 1Iundrcd and F ifth' Reg­ Dr. James M on ro c T orrence, gcn­ im ent T'cnnsvl va nia Volunteers. T he eral practition er of medi cine and sur­ rcgiment join ed th e A rmy of the Po­ ge ry , in Indiana, P ennsylvania, was tomac at Alex and ria, V irginia, an d bo rn December G, 1845. in the to wn of under Ccu cral l\lc Clellan pa rti cipated Puuxsutawn cy, Jcfferson co unty . in th e Penin sular campa ig n. Dr. T or ­ Pcunsylvania, a so n of Jamcs an d ren ee took part in the ba ttle of Seven ~la 'rtha (C a uklwc ll) T orren ce, . Pin es, or F air Oaks, a nd in ma ny other At th c usual age he began hi s cduca­ cngagcmc nts o f th at campaig n, re turn­ tiou as a stude nt in th e public sc hools ing the n to ll arrison's Landing. \ Vith