Landmarks of Albany County, New York, Part 21

Author: Parker, Amasa Junius, 1843-1938, ed
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1374


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1875, *Harvey W. Bell, Albany Medical College, 1866, removed to East Albany ; *Mary Du Bois, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1871, Albany ; Harris I. Fellows, Albany Medical College, 1874, died August 29, 1881, aged 44; Hiram T. Herrington, Albany Medical College, 1873, removed to Rensselaer county ; Henry V. Hull, Albany Medical College, 1874, removed to Schenectady, 1880; * Henry E. Merreness, Albany Medical College, 1874, Albany ; John E. Metcalf, Albany Medical College, 1874, removed to Ketchum's Corners, N. Y. ; Franklin A. Munson, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1873, died December 8, 1878, aged 26; Norman L. Snow, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1861, Albany, died December 19, 1885; * T. M. Trego, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1874, Albany; Thomas Wilson, Albany Medical College, 1874, removed to Claverack, 1876; Edward Yates, Jefferson Medical College, 1869, died 1876, aged 29.


1876, R. D. Clark, Long Island Medical College, Albany, died August 11, 1894; William A. Hall, Albany Medical College, 1875, removed to Fulton, Oswego county ; *J. M. Haskell, University of Michigan, Bath-on-the-Hudson; * P. J. Keegan, Uni- versity of New York, Albany; * T. K. Perry, Albany Medical College, 1875, Albany ; *W. L. Purple, Albany Medical College, 1875, Albany; Elbert T. Rulison, Albany Medical College, 1875, removed to Amsterdam; * Seth G. Shanks, Albany Medical College, 1875, Albany; A. H. V. Smyth, Albany Medical College, 1875, removed to Minaville; * Samuel B. Ward, Georgetown Medical College, 1864, Albany; * Harriet A, Woodward, Syracuse University, 1875, Albany.


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1877, "James F. Barker, Albany Medical College, 1877, Albany ; * William N. Hays, Albany Medical College, 1875, Albany.


1878, *Jesse Crounse, Albany Medical College, 1877, Knowersville; * W. O. Still- man, Albany Medical College, 1878, Albany.


1879, *E. A. Bartlett, Albany Medical College, 1879, Albany ; * G. Upton Peltier, Bishop's College, Quebec, 1873, Cohoes; James C. Healey, Albany Medical College, 1877, Albany, died March 30, 1889; A. W. Kilbourne, University of the City of New York, 1874, Albany, died January 14, 1897, aged 47; * Lansing B. Winne, College Physicians und Surgeons, 1878, Albany; Franklin Townsend, jr. College Physi- cians and Surgeons, 1876, Albany, died October 31, 1895; Otto Ritzman, Albany Medical College, 1879, Albany, died August 19, 1889; * John C. Shiland, Albany Medical College, 1878, West Troy; * Uriah B. La Moure, Albany Medical College, 1878, Albany; William J. Lewis, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1878, removed to Hartford, Conn .; * Maurice J. Lewi, Albany Medical College, 1877, Albany, removed to New York city; Thomas B. Van Alstyne, Albany Medical College, 1879, removed to Richmondville, N. Y., 1880; P. B. Collier, Long Island College, Hospital, 1866, Albany; * Edward E. Brown, Albany Medical College, 1879, Al- bany; M. W. Brooks, University of Vermont, 1879, removed to New York city, 1880; *J. E. Hall, Albany Medical College, 1877, Green Island; S. O. Van der Poel, jr., College Physicians and Surgeons, 1876, removed to New York; William Geoghan, Albany Medical College, 1874, removed to New York; * John D. R. McAllister, Albany Medical College, 1879, Albany; Thomas Featherstonhaugh, Albany Medical College, 1877, 1882, removed to New York; Sheldon Voorhees, Albany Medical Col- lege, 1879, removed to Auburn, 1881.


1880, *Daniel C. Case, Albany Medical College, 1870, Slingerlands; * Theodore P. Bailey, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1880, Albany ; A. P. Casler, Albany Medical College, 1880; Frank J. Merrington, Albany Medical College, 1886, died August 14, 1889, aged 38; * Samuel R. Morrow, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1878, Albany; John W. Gould, Albany Medical College, 1880, removed; John J. White, Albany Medical College, 1879, removed to New York; George E. Elmendorf, Albany Medical Col- lege, 1875, died, 1894; M. R. C. Peck, College Physicians and Surgeons, 1876, died March 29, 1890; Thomas D. Worden, Albany Medical College, 1880, removed; Lehman B. Hoit, Albany Medical College, 1880, removed; John Thomas Keay, Albany Medical College, 1870, died January 4, 1881, aged 28; Daniel Fegan, Queen's University, Dublin, Ireland, removed to Ireland.


1881, "George S. Munson, Albany Medical College, 1880, Albany; John F. Lock- wood, Albany Medical College, 1881, removed to Wisconsin; S. Edward Ullman, Albany Medical College, 1880, Albany; * T. W. Nellis, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany; * W. J. Nellis, Albany Medical College, 1879, Albany; * F. L. Classen, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany; * Howard Miller, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany; * Howard S. Paine, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany; * Lauren- tine Rouchel, Buffalo Medical College, Albany; Thomas G. Hyland, Bellevue Med1- cal College, removed; Carroll H. Phillips, Albany Medical College, Watervliet, died February 14, 1883; C. W. Green, Albany Medical College, removed; Charles F. Huddleston, Albany Medical Collegs, removed.


1882, *W. B. Sabin, Albany Medical College, 1882, West Troy; * Samuel Peters, Vermont Academy of Medicine, 1816, West Troy; Frank S. Peters, Albany Medical


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College, 1874, died 1883; * Henry Hun, Harvard Medical School, 1879, Albany ; *George E. Lyon, Albany Medical College, 1882, West Troy ; * W. H. Fowler, Jeffer- son Medical College, 1879, Albany; David Fleischman, Albany Medical College, 1881, died January 30, 1892.


1883, *William L. Schutter, Albany Medical College, 1883, Albany: * Frank H. Fisk, Albany Medical College, 1883, Albany; * Charles K. Crawford, Albany Medi- cal College, 1881, Albany; * J. W. Riley, Albany Medical College, 1882, Albany ; Walter W. Schofield, Albany Medical College, 1882, removed to Massachusetts; * C. M. Culver, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany; J. W. Mann, Albany Medical College, 1882, died 1884.


1884, *J. H. Mitchell, Albany Medical College, 1882, Cohoes; * R. J. Brown, Albany Medical College, 1882, Albany ; * T. F. C. Van Allen, Albany Medical College, 1882, Albany; * Joseph D. Craig, Albany Medical College, 1884, Albany; Edgar C. Hal- lenbeck, Bellevue Medical College, 1881, Bethlehem, died 1894; G. S. Knickerbocker, College Physicians and Surgeons, removed; C. C. Schuyler, Albany Medical College Troy (non-resident); removed to Plattsburg.


1885, *Selwin A. Russell, Albany Medical College, 1877, Albany; * Frederick D. Morrill, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany, died January, 1897; * John H. Skill1- corn Albany Medical College, 1883, Albany; L. E. Blair, Albany Medical College, 1881, Albany; M. J. Dwyer, Albany Medical College, 1883, Albany ; D. W. Houston, McGill College, Montreal, 1881, Troy, N. Y .; J. W. Ross, McGill College, Montreal, 1881, Cohoes, N. Y.


1886, John V. Hennessey, Albany Medical College, 1884, Albany; W. C. Marselius, Albany Medical College, 1884, Albany, died December 24, 1893; John L. Cooper, University of Pennsylvania, 1877, Albany; Martin McHarg, Albany Medical College, 1885, Albany ; F. R. Greene, Albany Medical College, 1884, Albany ; J. W. Shattuck, Atlanta, Ga., 1859; Edwin Haines, Albany Medical College, 1867, S. Westerlo, died March 19, 1896, aged 52; L. E. Kenney, Albany Medical College, 1881, Waterford, N. Y .; J. H. E. Sand, University City New York, 1886, Brooklyn; G. W. Holding, Albany Medical College, 1884, Watervliet, N. Y .; Orson Britton, no answer to in- quiry regarding graduation.


1887, Robert Babcock, Albany Medical College, 1884, Albany; Albert Marsh, Al- bany Medical College, 1885, Boston; J. V. Sheppey, Jefferson Medical College, 1885, Albany ; J. B. Southworth, Burlington State University, 1882, Albany.


1888, Thomas H. Willard, Albany Medical College, 1887, New York; Elmer E. Larkin, Albany Medical College, 1885, Plattsburgh ; Charles H. Moore, Albany Med- ical College, 1887, Albany ; Willis G. Macdonald, Albany Medical College, 1887, Albany ; Arthur D. Capron, Albany Medical College, 1886, Albany; Terrence L. Carroll, Albany Medical College, 1885, Albany; Rensselaer J. Smith, University New York City, 1894, Albany; George R. De Silva, University New York City, 1881, Preston Hollow.


1889, N. L. Eastman, Albany Medical College, 1886, Albany ; A. J. Blessing, Al- bany Medical College, 1886, Albany; George G. Lempe, Albany Medical College, 1888, Albany; Howard Van Rensselaer, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, 1884, Albany.


1890, A. F. Powell, Albany Medical College, 1889, Coeymans; G. Emory Lochner, Albany Medical College, 1889, Albany; George T. Moston, Albany Medical College,


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1890, Albany; H. C. Abrams, Albany Medical College, 1882, Newtonville; James E. Smith, Albany Medical College, 1889, Albany; A. McNaughton, Albany Medical College, 1886, West Troy; Thomas Helms, Albany Medical College, 1890, McKown- ville; Robert F. MacFarlane, Albany Medical College, 1888, Long Island city.


1891, G. A. Williams, Albany Medical College, 1891, Albany; J. E. Brennan, Albany Medical College, 1889, Albany; J. H. Timmers, Albany Medical College, 1891, Albany; Arthur G. Root, Albany Medical College, 1890, Albany; J. D. Mont- marquet, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1889, Cohoes; William H. Happel, Albany Medical College, 1890, Albany.


1892, W. L. Allen, Albany Medical College, 1881, Greenbush; J. B. Washburne, Albany Medical College, 1882, Delmar; L, Le Brun, Albany Medical College, 1891, Albany; E. V. Colbert, Albany Medical College, 1890, Albany; Leo H. Neuman, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany; John C. Brown, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany; Robert A. Heenan, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany; William G. Lewi, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany; Walter H. Conley, Albany Medical College, 1891, Buffalo, N. Y.


1893, James W. Wiltsie, Albany Medical College, 1891, Albany; W. T. Goewey, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany; Charles E. Davis, Albany Medical Col- lege, 1891, Albany; Andrew MacFarlane, Albany Medical College, 1887, Albany ; J. W. Droogan, Albany Medical College, 1891, Westchester ; C. C. Mccullough, Albany Medical College, 1889, Albany; Thomas A. Ryan, Albany Medical College, 1893, Albany ; John S. Guinan, Albany Medical College, 1893, Whitehall.


1894, W. F. Robinson, Albany Medical College, 1884, Albany ; W. B. Rossman, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany ; F. M. Joslin, Albany Medical College, 1893, Albany; William J. Kernan, Albany Medical College, 1891, Albany ; M. D. Steven- son, Albany Medical College, 1889, Albany ; Le Rose Rancour, Albany Medical Col- lege, 1892, Albany.


1895, C. F. Theisen, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany ; E. J. Bedell, Albany Medical College, 1893, Becker's Corners; J. B. Sweet, jr., Albany Medical College, 1893, Albany ; W. S. Hale, Albany Medical College, 1894, Albany ; James M. Moore, Albany Medical College, 1894, Albany ; S. Le Fevre, Albany Medical College, 1891, Richmondville; W. H. George, Albany Medical College, 1894, Albany; L. Van Auken, Albany Medical College, 1892, West Troy; E. N. K. Mears, Albany Medical College, 1895, Albany.


1896, T. W. Jenkins, Albany Medical College, 1893, Albany ; Ralph Sheldon, Al- bany Medical College, 1894, Albany; H. S. Pearse, Albany Medical College, 1892, Albany; Arthur Sautter, Albany ,Medical College, 1893, Albany; R. S. Tedford, Albany Medical College, 1893, Albany; M. S. Leavy, Medical Department Univer- sity of Wooster, Cleveland, Ohio, 1888, Albany.


The early records of this society were carefully collected by the late Dr. Sylvester D. Willard and published in one volume covering the proceedings from the date of its organization, March 18, 1806, to June 10, 1851. The growth of the society and its energetic work in promot- ing the interests of the medical profession prompted the appointment of a committee to continue the work inaugurated by Dr. Willard. At



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a meeting held June 14, 1870, Dr. James S. Bailey, Dr. Charles H. Porter, and Dr. T. D. Crothers were named to supervise the publica- tion of the proceedings of the society from June 10, 1851, to June 14, 1870. These volumes embrace the records from 1806 to 1870; they also contain biographies of nearly two hundred members and many portraits, and aside from placing on record the transactions of the so- siety, help to complete the medical history of Albany city and county, and trace the professional career of those identified with the work of the society. The transactions since 1880 have been published in the Albany Medical Annals, a monthly journal, managed by an editorial committee under the auspices of the society. Many interesting papers on medical topics and matters of interest to the profession have been published in this journal. Since 1891 this journal is published as the " Albany Medical Annals representing the Alumni Association of the Albany Medical College." From 1891 to 1892 this journal was edited by Dr. Willis G. Macdonald. From 1892 to 1897 by Dr. Howard Van Rensselaer. The present editors are Dr. Andrew MacFarlane and Dr. J. Montgomery Mosher.


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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION.


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Year.


President.


Vice-President.


Secretary.


Treasurer.


Hunloke Woodruff


Wm. McClelland


Charles D. Townsend_


John G. Knauff. 66


Peter Wendell.


Wm. McClelland Jonathan Eights


Charles D. Townsend. Isaac Hyde


J. L. Van Deusen. T. Romeyn Beck .


Erastus Williams


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John Stearns


John Stearns James Low


Peter Wendell


Joel A. Wing.


James Low Jonathan Eights C. C. Yates William Bay- 66


William Bay


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Barent P. Staats. Peter Van O'Linda. John W. Hinckley. 66


Joel A. Wing-


Peter Williams


66


Peter Van O'Linda James P. Boyd


Luke Wellington


Elisha S. Burton_


Carroll Humpfrey.


Barent P. Staats


B. B. Fredenburgh


Herman Wendell


Jarvis Barney.


Peter B. Noxon _ Alva W. Rockwell. L. G. Warren Peter McNaughton


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Abraham Groesbeck


John W. Bay James P. Boyd


Jonathan Eights


Peter Van Buren


John F. Townsend. Henry Greene. Henry Van O'Linda.


1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840


Platt Williams_


Charles D. Townsend Barent P. Staats.


Roger Viets. Edward A. Leonard. Isaac Hempstead.


Charles D. Townsend


Alden March


Guy Spalding .


William Humphrey


Jonathan Eights.


Ycar.


President.


Vice-President.


Secretary.


Treasurer.


Peter Van Buren.


John S. Van Alstyne. ...


Henry Greene


Henry Van O'Linda.


E. B. ()'Callighan.


Thomas Hun


Henry Van O'Linda Mason F. Cogswell.


Mason F. Cogswell.


R. H. Thompson


J. V. P. Quackenbush .... Benjamin A. Sheldon


C. C. Waller. -


J. B. Rossman.


James H. Armsby


Wm. F. Carter -


J. V. P. Quackenbush


U. G. Bigelow


Sylvester D. Willard.


C. C. Waller.


Uriah G. Bigelow


Samuel H. Freeman


Samuel H. Freeman


Sylvester D. Willard. 66


Sylvester D. Willard. William F. Carter S. O. Vanderpoel.


S. O. Vanderpoel S. O. Vanderpoel Leonard G. Warren


Howard Townsend


Peter McNaughton


Peter P. Staats Levi Moore.


James E. Pomfret R. H. Sabin. James L. Babcock William H. Craig. William H. Bailey


Joseph Lewi Albert Van Derveer


John Swinburne James S. Bailey Henry March. Joseph N. Northrop Charles A. Robertson


Joseph Lewi_ Levi Moore .. Frank G. Mosher R. H. Sabin


James L. Babcock James W. Moore. C. D. Mosher Andrew Wilson Amos Fowler A. Shiland H. W. Steenberg C. E. Witbeck_ J. D. Featherstonhaugh William H. Murray Louis Boudrias 1


John M. Bigelow Frederic C. Curtis


Joseph H. Blatner Lewis Balch B. U. Steenberg Eugene Van Slyke


D). H. Cook. A. T. Van Vranken. H. E. Mereness.


1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877


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Levi Moore Oscar H. Young. 66


J. R. Boulware


Martin L. Mead


Geo. T. Stevens Chas. H. Porter


Andrew Wilson.


D. V. ()'Leary.


Wm. H. Murray. W. H. T. Reynolds.


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Levi Moore


William H. Bailey.


66 Wm. H. Bailey. Geo. H. Newcomb.


Henry March.


H. R. Haskins. F. L. R. Chapin. Thos. Beckett.


James McNaughton_


John Swinburne


Jonathan Case. John Campbell


1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883


Frederic C. Curtis


John M. Bigelow


A. Shiland


William Hailes.


Jacob S. Mosher.


John U. Haynes D. C. Case


Norman L. Snow


Herman Bendell.


J. L. Archambeault


1884 1885 1886 1887


J. D. Featherstonhaugh __ B. U. Steenberg


Lorenzo Hale ..


S. R. Morrow J. H. Mitchell


T. F. C. Van Allen


1888


Daniel H. Cook ..


D. W. Houston


W. O. Stillman W. G. MacDonald


1889


U. B. La Moure


D. Fleischman


1890


Maurice J. Lewi


Jos. D. Craig


Robt. Babcock


1891


Henry Hun 66


T. F. C. Van Allen


G. E. Lochner 66


1892


1893


D. V. O'Leary. O. D. Ball.


Robert Babcock


1895


A. T. Van Vranken


James F. Barker L. B. Winne


A. McFarland Chas. H. Moore


H. E. Mereness. G. L. Ullman.


M. J. Lewi. Theo. P. Bailey.


U. B. La Moure. S. A. Russell. J. V. Hennessy.


W. H. Happel.


1896


J. D. Craig.


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A. T. Van Vranken B. U. Steenberg


T. Kirk Perry Lorenzo Hale


T. Featherstonhaugh M. T. Lewi E. A. Bartlett John Ben Stonehouse W. J. Nellis


T. Kirk Perry O. D. Ball.


D. Fleischman


Franklin Townsend


Howard Van Rensselaer_


J. W. Droogan


1894


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ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE.


The Albany Medical College was founded by the late Drs. Alden March and James H. Armsby. In 1821 Dr. March opened a school for the study of anatomy at Albany, and in 1825 was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology in the Vermont Academy of Medicine at Castleton. Dr. March first agitated the establishment of a medical college and hospital at Albany in 1830. He was ably assisted by Dr. Armsby, who came to Albany the same year and was associated with Dr. March as a teacher in a private medical school known as the Drs. March and Armsby " Practical School of Anatomy and Surgery." Dr. Armsby devoted much of his time to the founding of the Albany Med- ical College. His efforts in this diretion are worthy of record and con- tributed largely to awaken a general interest in behalf of the proposed college.


On the 14th of April, 1838, a meeting of citizens was called to take into consideration the organization of a medical school. This meeting was attended by many prominent citizens of Albany and the following resolution was adopted :


Resolved, " That this meeting deem it expedient to establish a medical college in this city, and to endeavor hereafter to obtain an act of incorporation from the legislature."


This meeting enlisted many active and energetic friends for the pro- posed institution. The Common Council granted the use of the un- occupied Lancaster school building for a term of five year for college purposes, and at a second meeting of citizens, held May, 1838, articles of association were agreed upon and the following named gentlemen were appointed to constitute the first Board of Trustees.


Daniel D. Barnard, Samuel Stevens, John Taylor, Ira Harris, Robert H. Pruyn, Friend Humphrey, Bradford R. Wood, James Goold, George Dexter, Thomas McElroy, William Seymour, John O. Cole, John I. Wendell, Conrad A. Ten Eyck, John Davis, Israel Williams, Charles D. Gould, John Trotter, Arnold Nelson, John Groesbeck, Oliver Steele and Philip S. Van Rensselaer.


In May, 1838, the following persons were named by the trustees to compose the first faculty of this college: Alden March, professor of surgery; James H. Arsmby, professor of anatomy and physiology; Amos Dean, professor of medical jurisprudence; Ebenezer Emmons, professor of chemistry and pharmacy; Henry Greene, professor of


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obstetrics; David M. McLachlan, professor of materia medica; David M. Reese, professor of the theory and practice of medicine.


The establishment of the college, the remodeling of the building, the arrangements of the valuable anatomical and pathological collections of Drs. March, Armsby and McNaughton, consisting of rare and valu- able specimens, collected during the experience of many years of pro- fessional labor and gathered by repeated visits to Europe, necessitated, during the first two years, an expenditure of over $10,000, all of which was contributed by the citizens of Albany.


The first course of lectures in the college commenced on the 3d of January, 1839, to a class of fifty-seven students. The first annual commencement was held on the 24th of April, 1839, and the degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on thirteen young gentlemen.


After the act of incorporation was obtained the trustees confirmed the election of the faculty and named the following physicians as the first board of curators: Peter Wendell, Platt Williams, Barent P. Staats, Thomas C. Brinsmade and Samuel White.


To give in detail the history of the Albany Medical College, its bril- liant growth and promising future, would write many pages and not do justice to those who have loyally labored in advancing its standard as an institution for the study of medicine. From 1839 to 1896 the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine has been conferred on twenty-one hundred and fifty-two students, and during this period no efforts have been spared to fully equip the school for the practical and thorough study of medicine. The college building is well appointed in its lecture rooms, laboratories, dissecting rooms and museum. The chemical laboratory was rebuilt in 1884 and a two-story building erected, fitted with every requisite for the illustration of the lectures, and the practical study of. chemistry. "Alumni Hall," constituting the south wing of the build- ing, is set apart for meetings, recitations, examinations and other college exercises. The Bender Hygienic Laboratory, equipped for the instruc- tion and scientific research in pathology, bacteriology and the allied med- ical studies, was dedicated October 27, 1896, and is connected with the college. This laboratory is the gift of Mr. Matthew W. Bender of Albany, who defrayed the entire cost of its erection, amounting to more than $20,000. The cost of fitting up and furnishing this laboratory was paid by the college faculty. The class rooms and amphitheatre are furn- ished with the most modern apparatus for special work, and as a labora- tory of hygiene the building is perfect in all its appointments,


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Since 1873 the Albany Medical College is the medical deparment of Union University. The University includes the Albany Medical Col- lege, the College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School and the Dudley Observatory, all located at Albany, and Union College and the School of Civil Engineering, located at Schenectady.


The Albany Medical College has been foremost in advocating a high standard of medical education. Few medical schools in this country are so thoroughly in sympathy with every movement to perfect the pro- visions of the laws governing the study of medicine. It was one of the first to enforce a three years' graded course of study with evidence of preliminary education by entrance examination. It may justly be said that this institution has made progress all along the line. It is well equipped in every department to meet the legal requirements of a higher standard. Its curriculum embraces lectures, recitations, clinical teaching and extensive laboratory work. The Albany Hospital, St. Peter's Hospital, Child's and County Hospitals, the Eye and Ear Infirm- aries, and dispensaries connected with these institutions, are all made available for the pursuit of clinical study. The management of the school and its administrative affairs are so conducted that there can be no doubt of its high standing as a school for the study of medicine.


The following is a historical list of the faculty from 1839 to 1897 :


EBENEZER EMMONS, M. D., Chemistry and Natural History from 1838 to 1839; Ma- teria Medica and Natural History, 1840 to 1843; Obstetrics and Natural History, 1843 to 1853; Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Natural History, 1853 to 1854.


JAMES H. ARMSBY, M. D., Anatomy and Physiology, 1838 to 1839; Anatomy, 1840 to 1869; Principles and Practice of Surgery, 1870 to 1875; died 1875.


DAVID M. REESE, M. D., Theory and Practice of Medicine, 1839 to 1840.


ALDEN MARCH, M. D., Surgery, 1838 to 1869; died 1869.


HENRY GREENE, M. D., Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, 1838 to 1839.


DAVID M. MCLACHLAN, M. D., Materia Medica and Pharmacy, 1838 to 1839; Ma- teria Medica and Therapeutics, 1839 to 1840; Diseases of Women and Children, 1840 to 1842.


AMOS DEAN, EsQ., Medical Jurisprudence, 1839 to 1859; Emeritus Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, 1867 to 1868; died 1868.


THOMAS HUN, M. D., Institutes of Medicine, 1839 to 1853; Institutes of Medicine, 1853 to 1855; Institutes of Medicine, 1855 to 1859; Emeritus Professor of the Insti- tutes of Medicine, 1876 to 1896; died 1896.


GUNNING S. BEDFORD, M. D., Obstetrics, 1839 to 1840.


JAMES McNAUGHTON, M. D., Theory and Practice of Medicine, 1840 to 1874; died 1874.


LEWIS C. BECK, M. D., Chemistry and Therapeutics, 1840 to 1841; Chemistry and Pharmacy, 1841 to 1853; died 1853.


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J. M. BIGELOW, M. D.


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T. ROMEYN BECK, M. D., Materia Medica, 1842 to 1853; Emeritus Professor of Materia Medica, 1853 to 1856; died 1856.


HOWARD TOWNSEND, M. D., Obstetrics, 1853 to 1855; Materia Medica, 1855 to 1859; Materia Medica and Physiology, 1859 to 1867; died 1867.




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