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boon companion. His manly bearing, his lucid teaching and his kindness of heart never failed to impress for good the thousands of students who listened to his teachings. Thus he lived and thus he died, July 9, 1903, aged eighty-five years.
Dr. Abraham Reeves Jackson, the son of Washington and De- borah Lee Jackson, was born in the city of Philadelphia June 17,
DR. ABRAHAM
1827; concluded his classical course in his native
R. JACKSON. city, entered upon the study of medicine and gradu-
ated from the medical department of Pennsylvania College in 1848. For twenty-two years he practiced medicine in Stroudsburgh, Pennsylvania. During the Civil war he was assistant medical director of the United States Army of Virginia. In 1871 he accompanied an expedition from New York to Palestine as ship surgeon. In his "Innocents Abroad," Mark Twain makes pleasant mention of the doctor, who wa's his boon companion. He came to reside in Chicago in 1850, and immediately set about the founding of a women's hospital, of which he became surgeon in chief in 1872. At that date he became lecturer upon gynecology in Rush Medical College and continued that relation until professional labors com- pelled him to resign. He will be longest remembered in connection with the founding of the Chicago College of Physicians and Sur- geons, of which he was president, having as his associate founders, Drs. D. A. K. Steel, S. A. McWilliams, Leonard St. John and Charles Warrington Earle. Dr. Jackson achieved to such prominence in gynecological practice as to make large drafts upon his time and strength and yet found time for much literary work. He was for several years the editor of the Chicago Medical Register. He was also associate editor of the Independent Practitioner of New York City, and also editor of the Western Medical Reporter, published in Chicago. Aside from his gynecological studies and practice, he gave much time to medical jurisprudence, and was coming to be regarded as an authority in that department. During the performance of a gyne- cological operation he had the sad misfortune of becoming infected, and gradually developed arterial atheroma, ending in apoplexy. He died suddenly at his home November 15, 1892, aged sixty-five years. He had achieved prominence in his profession and his death was recognized as a serious loss.
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Dr. David Shepard Smith was a native of New Jersey, born in Camden in 1816. He was of Welsh extraction and was possessed DR. DAVID S. of the intensity of conviction, the unfailing purpose SMITH. to win and of high moral tone of character so char- acteristic of that people. Having the advantage of a thorough preliminary education, he entered upon his medical stund- ies at the early age of seventeen. IIe applied himself earnestly to the attainment of his profession, attended three full courses of lec- tures at Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1836, when he became a resident of Chicago. For several years he had been studying the tenets of Hahnemann, and in 1843 announced himself as a practitioner of homeopathy. His partner, Dr. Adams, became his associate in the same practice, and Dr. Aaron Pittman, who had moved hither from Jordan, New York, completed the nu- cleus from which homeopathic practice and homeopathic institutions were to be developed in Chicago. Dr. Smith has been styled the "father of homeopathy" in Chicago and in the northwest. It was through his instrumentality that a charter was obtained and the Hahnemann College of Chicago was founded. For many years he was its treasurer and most active promoter. The honorary degree of doctor of medicine was conferred upon him in 1856 by the Homeo -. pathic College of Cleveland. He was made secretary of the Ameri- can Institute of Homeopathy, and in 1858 became its president and still later served as its treasurer. Dr. Smith was a man of fine phiy- sique and manly bearing, affable alike to rich and poor, serving each and all regardless of station with the faithfulness due to his profes- sion. By reason of impaired health he was obliged to relinquish ac- tive practice for a while and repaired to the village of Waukegan. Illinois, that he might secure the needed respite. Ile returned to the city with health somewhat improved, but again his failing health demanded another vacation and in 1866 he, with his family, visited England and the continent. While closely allied to his profession through life and was president of Hahnemann College until his death, he was at the same time an able financier. He died April 28. 1891. aged seventy-five years. Of four children born to Dr. and Mrs. Smith, but two survive; the one, the wife of Major Whiteside of the United States Army, the other the wife of J. L. Ely, a resident of New York City.
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Dr. Reuben Ludlam was the son of Dr. J. W. Ludlam, a promi- nent practitioner of medicine in Camden, New Jersey, who removed
to Evanston, Illinois, where he died in 1868. Dr.
DR. REUBEN Reuben Ludlam was born in Camden, October 7,
LUDLAM. 1831. Under his father's tutelage he early became proficient in medical studies while yet pursuing his literary career. At the age of twenty-one he received his medical diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. He soon located in Chicago and became one of the leading practitioners in the city of the homeopathic school. When the Hahnemann Medical School of Chicago was organized he was a member of its first faculty, and accepted the chair of physiology and pathology. He taught in that department for four years. He was then transferred to the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. This was the department which he had most preferred and in which he achieved a national reputation, as a bold, yet conser- vative and successful operator in uterine surgery. Like his associate, Dr. Small, Dr. Ludlam was eminent in the homeopathic profession as a medical writer. His first essay in the journalistic line was the issue in connection with Dr. D. S. Smith, of a monthly periodical in 1853, entitled the Chicago Homeopath, which they jointly conducted for three years, when its publication was suspended. For a number of years Dr. Ludlam was connected as an editorial writer with the American Journal of Homeopathy, published in New York. His chief journalistic labors were in connection with the publication of the United States Medical and Surgical Journal, with which he was con- nected editorially for nine years. He was also the author of several works which were well received; the one entitled "Clinical and Didac- tic Lectures on the Diseases of Women" earned for him an inter- national reputation. It became a text-book with teachers and students in the homeopathic school of this country and a translation served a like purpose in France. Dr. Ludlam was popular as a lecturer and an instructor. An attempt was made to induce him to accept the corresponding chair in the New York Homeopathic College. While he appreciated the compliment, and thought well of New York, he thought better of Chicago and declined the invitation. He was ap- pointed president, successively, of nearly all the prominent homeo- pathic organizations of this country, both local and national. He was the homeopathic representative on the Illinois State Board of
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Health; a member of the Relief and Aid Society, and served in connection with the Chicago Fire Relief. Dr. Ludlam was first inarried to Miss Anna Porter of Greenwood, New Jersey, who died three years later. His second wife was Miss Anna G. Perrin. One son bearing the father's name was their only surviving child. Dr. Ludlam completed the years of a well rounded life and died at his home in Chicago, April 29, 1899, aged sixty-seven years and six months.
Dr. Small was born March 4. 18II, in Wales, Lincoln county, Maine. After pursuing a thorough academic course he became
DR. ALVIN E. principal of one of the public schools in Bath.
Having entered upon a medical education he pur-
SMALL. sued his studies under the tutelage of the distin- guished Dr. Greene of Saco, Maine. He then went to Philadelphia and completed his course at the University of Pennsylvania. After engaging in medical practice in the country for two years he settled in Philadelphia and became a practitioner of homeopathy, in which he became eminently successful. When the Homeopathic College of Philadelphia was organized he was one of its most active promoters and was assigned to the chair of physiology and pathology. Four years later he was appointed professor of institutes and practice of medicine. In 1856, he changed his residence to Chicago. The pop- ularity of his writings had so preceded him that he entered immedi- ately upon an extensive and lucrative practice. As he had been one of the founders of the Homeopathic College in Philadelphia, so here in 1859 he was active in the organization of the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, and was made dean of the faculty and accepted the chair of theory and practice of medicine. The courses of lectures were continued till the end of his life and were received with the utmost satisfaction by the successive classes that turned to him for instruction. He was a voluminous writer. His manual of homeo pathic practice passed through many editions and was translated into several foreign languages, and as widely used as a text-book by teachers and pupils both at home and abroad. Dr. Small gave much time to the investigation of scientific subjects, and his writings upon these were varied and numerous. He was a member of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the Chicago Historical Society, etc. He was hon- ored with the presidency of the Illinois Homeopathic Association and
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was one of the presidents of the American Institute of Homeopathy. As a successful teacher and practitioner, to the end of his life he was one of the most eminent members of the Homeopathic profession. He died sitting in his chair, of cerebral hemorrhage, December 31, 1886, aged seventy-five years and nine months.
Dr. George E. Shipman was born in New York City in 1820. His earlier studies were pursued in Middlebury College, Vermont. Later he entered the University of New York, from which he graduated in 1837. He decided to make
DR. GEORGE E. SHIPMAN. his home in the west, and first settled in Peoria, Illinois. In 1845, he was married to Miss Fannie E. Boardman of Connecticut, and in 1846 they came to reside in Chicago. He soon became one of the leading Homeopathic practitioners, and during his life one of its most able representatives. He took an active part in the organization of the Western Homeopathic Association. He was especially conspicuous in the organization of Hahnemann College in 1855 and in its faculty occupied the chair of materia medica and therapeutics. In connection with college and professional labors the one thing for which he will long and gratefully be best remembered was his development of the Foundlings' Home, to the maintenance of which he not only devoted his time unstinted, but very largely the means for its support. It is safe to say that but for him the Found- lings' Home would not have been, nor that beneficent work accom- plished lasting through many years. Although thus occupied with the Foundlings' Home, college duties and a large medical practice, Dr. Shipman was a prolific writer. For four years, commencing in 1848, he published the Northwestern Homeopathic Journal, the pioneer. of the homeopathic journals in the northwest. In 1865, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the United States Medical and Surgical Journal, under the auspices of the Western Institute of Homeopathy, and was for years a valuable translator of foreign literature.
Dr. Ross was a native of Ohio, born in Clark county, January 7, 1828. He received a thorough academic education, attended two
DR. JOSEPH P. full courses of lectures in Starling Medical College, Ross. and a third course in Ohio Medical College, from which he graduated in 1853. During that vear he came to Chicago and formed a partnership with Dr.
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Lucius P. Cheency. He soon became atending physician at the Protestant Orphan Asylum, and also one of the attending phy- sicians at the State Reform School, then located in Chicago. He was married in 1856 to the daughter of the late Tuthill King, one of the prominent and wealthy pioneers of Chicago. His home was one in which elegance and comfort were combined, and where hos- pitality and good cheer, so manifest in himself and his wife, found full expression. As a business man and an organizer. Dr. Ross was especially conspicuous. He was largely responsible for the incep- tion and development of the hospital on Eighteenth and Arnold streets, which later developed into the City Hospital. As a member of the county board of supervisors he was influential in securing for it its present location, and in shaping its development. The lo- cation and rebuilding of Rush College in immediate proximity with the City Hospital was likewise mainly secured through his influence. He was also one of the prime movers in the forming of the Presby- terian Hospital ; also in close relation with the college, thus affording abundant facilities for clinical instruction. He was prominent in his profession. He held the chair of clinical medicine and chest diseases in Rush Medical College for twenty-one years, and only by reason of ill health relinquished that position in 1889. He held an official position in the Presbyterian church of which he was an influential member. He was esteemed alike for his benevolence and personal worth. He attained a high standard of citizenship and was an able and worthy representative of his profession. After two years of lingering sickness, he was released from suffering January 15, 1890.
The parents of Dr. Lyman were of New England antecedents, and went as missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, where he was born at Hilo, Hawaii, November 26, 1835. He was a
DR. HENRY M. LYMAN. graduate of Williams College in 1858, and was val- edictorian of his class. He attended a course of lectures in Harvard University and a year later, entered the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, from which he grad- uated in 1861, being here honored as the class valedictorian. He entered Bellevue Hospital as house surgeon for a year, and in 1862 was appointed surgeon in the United States Army, and was detailed for service in the United States Hospital at Nashville. His health became impaired and he was obliged to resign from military service.
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During the year 1863 he was married to Miss Sarah Clark, of Rox- bury, Massachusetts, and in the autumn of that year they came to reside in Chicago. For ten years he was a member of the medical staff of Cook County Hospital. In 1871, he was appointed to the chair of chemistry in Rush College, and held that position for five years, when he became professor of mental and nervous diseases, which chair he held until the death of Professor Allen in 1890, when as his successor, Dr. Lyman was called to fill the chair of principles and practice of medicine thus made vacant. He became dean of the faculty in 1899, and held that position until failing health obliged him to relinquish all college work. In connection with his labors in Rush College, he also held the like chair in the Women's Medical College for eight years. From the time of its organization until the failure of his health, he was the senior member of the medical staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. He was a ready and lucid writer. The wide extent of his reading and acquaintance with historical and scientific subjects was phenomenal. His memory was most remark- able, enabling him, as it did, to recall and speak accurately at all times concerning historical and scientific questions. He was a genial gen- tleman, a delightful companion, a broad-minded, generous-hearted man, an honor to his profession and the city which was his home. He issued a small volume upon "Anesthesia and Anesthetics," and another on "Diseases of Sleep," but his final work on "Theory and Practice of Medicine" was his crowning contribution to medical lit- erature. He was an invalid for several years, spending much of his time in California in search of health. He died in Chicago.
Dr. Ingalls was a native of Connecticut, born May 26, 1823. He was of English lineage, his ancestors having settled in New England only eight years after the landing of the May-
DR. EPHRAIM INGALLS.
flower. The original settlement was at Lynn, Massachusetts. At the age of fourteen, young Ingalls came to Illinois. Here, in addition to his previous studies, he pursued his literary course at Princeton and at Illinois College. In 1845, at the age of twenty-one, he entered Rush Medical College as a medical student and graduated in 1847. He settled in Lee county, Illinois, and for ten years knew all the varied experiences of a country doctor. In 1858, he came to reside in Chicago, and was soon established in a lucrative practice. At that time Dr. Brainard
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was editing the Chicago Medical Journal, and Dr. Ingalls became as- sociate editor. A year later he was made professor of materia medica and medical jurisprudence in Rush Medical College. Ile held this position for twenty-one years, and it is said of him that not in all that time did he, save in a single instance, fail to meet his classes promptly on time, in that instance, to have left his patient would have been criminal. He gave liberally for the building of the present college, the former one having been swept away by the fire of 1871. Another instance of his generosity was the contribution of $10,000 to the Chicago Medical College in token of his appreciation of its first establishing graded courses of instruction in medical schools. He was the apostle of medical ethics. In the State Medical Society he was not only honored with its presidency, but more than almost any other he was successful in harmonizing the various sectional in- terests in the state. Few members exerted more beneficial influence in the meetings of the State Medical Society. He was a member of the American Medical Society. His popularity at home is at- tested by the fact that at three different times he was elected presi- dent of the Chicago Medical Society. He was possessed of fine lit- erary taste and enjoyed the perusal of the classic literature of all time. Though not actively engaged in teaching in his later life, he maintained close relations with the college and was an emeritus of Rush College at his death.
Dr. Smith was a native of New Hampshire. He was born Jan- uary 24, 1828. As a youth he received training in Philips' Academy. Ile entered Harvard University as a medical student DR. CHARLES G. in 1848, but owing to the Webster-Parkman trag- SMITH. edy, which occurred that winter, he transferred his relations to the University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1851. For the next two years he was connected with almshouse in South Boston. He came to settle in Chicago in 1853, where he built up a very desirable and lucrative practice. In the cholera sea- son of 1854 he stood manfully at his post of a terror-stricken people. He told the writer that in a single night there were eleven deaths in a public house where he was in attendance. Again in 1866 he had a similar experience, yet by no means so severe. He was one of the six physicians first detailed to care for the Confederate soldiers at Camp Douglas. In 1868, he spent a year abroad visiting nearly all
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the principal medical schools and hospitals in England, France and Germany. Later he was an associate with Dr. Byford in the de- velopment of the Hospital for Women and Children, in which he served as consultant physician. He held the same position in the Presbyterian Hospital. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Hospital for Incurables. Dr. Smith was a man of un- usual ability and fine literary culture. He drew around him a class of men of unusual culture, by whom his attainments were best ap- preciated. He was president of the Harvard Club of Chicago, presi- dent of the Chicago Literary Club, and president of the Club of Medical Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1873, he was married to the youngest daughter of the Hon. Erastus Gaylord, of Cleveland, Ohio, a woman of rare culture and of social prominence. Dr. Smith's literary tastes led him to the creation of a library of rare excellence, one of his peculiar specialties being the accumulation of three volumes of quaint epitaphs. He died in 1894 at the age of sixty-six years, his widow alone surviving him.
Dr. Thompson was a woman of such rare and notable achieve- ments as to require more than a passing look. Coming upon the stage when a proper place in the medical profession had
DR. MARY H. THOMPSON. not been achieved for women, the manner in which she modestly, gracefully and yet heroically met and overcame every obstacle in her way to success has commanded the admiration of all who knew her. Her birth occurred at Ft. Ann, New York, in 1829. She was educated at Ft. Edwards' Collegiate Institute, and then engaged in teaching, and the bent of her mind toward her future vocation is clearly indicated by the fact that she established courses of study in physiology and anatomy in her cur- riculum of study, a new departure in ladies' schools in those days. She commenced her medical studies in the New England Female Medical College, Boston, and later graduated from the New York Female Medical College, and during the course of her studies was a diligent attendant of the clinics given at the Bellevue hospital. She graduated from the Chicago Medical College in 1870, and the writer had the honor of signing her diploma. Dr. Thompson was specially in- strumental in establishing the Chicago Hospital for Women and Chil- dren, bringing to her aid such eminent physicians as Dr. William H. Byford, Dr. Godfrey Dyas, and others, out of which sprang the
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Women's Medical College, each of which became conspicuous in our medical history. She, with her associates, also carly developed a training school for nurses, thus leading to the creation of a new in- dustry and service, bringing joy and comfort to many a home. Dr. Thompson was also a skillful surgeon and performed many major operations with commendable success. In the Women's College she was an able teacher, and her commanding dignity, allied with her unassuming modesty, did much to command respect for the school. She died suddenly from cerebral hemorrhage, May 21, 1895, aged seventy-six years. Since her decease, as a tribute to her memory, the hospital will hereafter be known as the Mary Thompson Hospital for Women and Children.
Dr. Charles Warrington Earle was a native of Vermont, born at Westford, April 2, 1845. With his parents he came to reside in
DR. CHARLES Lake county in 1854. He was a farmer boy and
had a farmer boy's advantages, displaying a typical
IV. EARLE. physical form, trained to vigorous service. At the age of sixteen years, when Fort Sumter was fired upon, he joined Company I, Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. On ac- count of an injury he was mustered out. Upon his recovering he en- tered the service the second time. This time he joined the Ninety- sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Before he was eighteen years old he was made second lieutenant. In the terrible encounter at Chick- amauga he stood almost alone as commander of his company, bearing the colors of his regiment, his comrades having fallen on every side of him in the battle. The story of his capture, his lot in Libby prison. his escape through the tunnel, his six days' wandering before he reached the Union line, and his promotion for gallant services, form a wonderful chapter in his life history which cannot be repeated here. At the close of the war he was a student in Beloit College for three years, when he entered the Chicago Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1870. He was active in the organization of the Women's Medical College, and upon the death of Dr. Byford, be- came its president. He was one of the founders of the Chicago Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and at the time of his death held the offices of both dean and treasurer of that institution. In its faculty he held the chair of obstetrics. He also occupied the chair of opera- tive obstetrics in the Post-graduate Medical School. He was a mem-
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ber of the American Medical Association, ex-president of Illinois State Medical Society and at the time of his death was president of the Chicago Medical Society. He was a charter member of the Chi- cago Gynecological Society, the Pathological Society, the Practi- tioners' Club and the Medico-Legal Society. He was also a member of the British Medical Association. For eighteen years he was physi- cian-in-chief of the Washingtonian Home, where he made special studies of inebriety. He was an honored member of the Union Park. Congregational church. Fraternally, he belonged to the Royal League. He was married to Miss Fanny L. Bundy, of Beloit, Wis- consin, in 1871. To them two children were born, Carrie and Wil- liam Byford. His was an ideal home. At intervals he had visited all the prominent medical centers of the old world. As a medical writer he was also prominent. While yet in the prime of life, which had promise of many years of usefulness, he died suddenly in 1893, aged forty-eight years.
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