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ADAMS, JOHN LANSON, prepared for college in the Selleck School at Norwalk, Conn., in 1883 was graduated from Yale Univer- sity, and in 1886 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons (the Medical Department of Colum- bia University). While a medi- cal student he was for six months an Interne of the old Chambers Street Hospital. He held a similar position in the New York Hospital for eighteen months im- mediately after his graduation. Subsequently, for two years, he was a member of the House Staff of the New York Eve and Ear In- firmary. He selected as his spe- cialties diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, and spent the JOHN LANSON ADAMS, M.D. next year in studies in Europe, at Heidelberg, Vienna, Berlin, Paris. and London. Returning to New York City he engaged in practice, con- fining himself to his chosen line of work. He resumed his connection with the Eye and Lar Infirmary, serving one year as Assistant Sur- geon, and, since that time, as Surgeon. In 1892 he organized the Saint Bartholomew Eve, Ear, Nose, and Throat Dispensary, under the aus- `pices of Saint Bartholomew's Church, and has since been its Execu- tive Surgeon. During the last four years he has been Ophthalmologist to the Society of the New York Lying-in Asylum. He has published a number of articles and monographs. He is a member of the Manhat- tan, University. Yale, Lotos, Indian Harbor Yacht. New York Ath- letic, and Knickerbocker Athletic clubs, is a charter member of the New York Otological Society, and is a member of the County Medical
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Society, the American Otological Society, the American Rhinological, Otological, and Laryngological Society, the Medico-Surgical Society, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, the New York Hospital Alumni Association, and the Hospital Graduates' Club. He was born in Westport, Conn., August 9, 1860, and is the son of George Sherwood Adams and Polly Morehouse Coley. He lineally descends from Edward Adams, who emigrated from England to New Haven, Conn., in 1640. He also descends from the notable Burr family of Fairfield County, Connecticut. His ancestors, who were either Revolutionary officers or officers in the colonial wars, include Lieutenant Nathan Adams, Captain Phineas Hanford, Sr., Captain Ebenezer Coley, and Colonel John Burr.
BARKER, FORDYCE, who died in New York City, in 1891, at the age of seventy-four, was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1837, sub- sequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and was graduated from the Medical Department of the same institution in 1841, and from the Paris University in 1844. He afterward received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Columbia College and Edinburgh University. He was Professor of Obstetrics at Bowdoin in 1815 and 1846, while from 1861 to 1868 he was Professor of the same in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. From 1868 to 1882 he was Professor of Clinical Mid- wifery and the Diseases of Women in the last-mentioned institution, while from 1882 until his death he was Emeritus Professor. IIe was Consulting Physician to Bellevue Hospital from 1879 to 1891. In 1856 he was President of the Medical Society of the State of New York. In 1882 he was President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Ile published " Lectures on Uterine Displacements " (1853), "Fibrous Tumor of the Uterus; Excessive Hemorrhage; Removal by Excision " (1857); "Remarks on Puerperal Fever" (1857), " On the Compara- tive Use of Ergot and the Forceps in Labor" (1858), " On the Use of Anesthetics in Midwifery" (1861), " Blood-letting as a Therapeutic Resource in Obstetric Medicine" (1871), "The Puerperal Diseases : Clinical Lectures Delivered at Bellevue Hospital " (1874), and " The Relation of Puerperal Fever to the Infective Diseases and Præmia " (1875).
JANEWAY, EDWARD G., was graduated from Rutgers College in 1860, and from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1864. He was Interne at Bellevue Hospital in 1865, while in 1862 and 1863 he had been Acting Medical Cadet of the United States Hos- pital at Newark, N. J. He was Curator of Bellevue Hospital from 1866 to 1892. and was Visiting Physician from 1872 to 1892. He was Visiting Physician to Charity Hospital from 1868 to 1871, and in 1870 was its chief of staff. From 1870 to 1874 he was Visiting Physician to the Hospital for Epileptics and Paralyties, while, since 1885, he has
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held the same relation to Mount Sinai Hospital. He has been Consult- ing Physician to the Presbyterian Hospital since 1886, and to the French Hospital since 1888. He was Consulting Physician to the New York State Emigrants' Hospital from 1880 to 1889, and to the hospi- tals of the Health Department of New York City from 1881 to 1892. He has been Consulting Pathologist to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled since 1875. In 1871 and 1872 he was Professor of Physiolog- ical and Pathological Anatomy in the University of the City of New York. From 1872 to 1876 he was Professor of Pathological AAnatomy in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in 1876 was Professor of Patho- logical Anatomy and Histology and Diseases of the Nervous System and Clinical Medicine in the same institution, from 1873 to 1876 was Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the same, from 1876 to 1879 was Professor of Practical Anatomy, from 1881 to 1886 was Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System and Clinical Medicine and Associate Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, and from 1886 to 1892 was Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. In 1874 he was Vice-President of the New York Patholog- ical Society. From 1875 to 1881 he was Health Commissioner of New York City. He has published " Pathological Report of Autopsies made in Bellevue Hospital " (1870), " Leucocythæmia " (1876), and " Clin- ical Points in the Diagnosis of Hepatic Affections."
BODECKER, CARL F. W., has practiced dentistry in New York City since 1871, and is a leader in his profession. He was Chairman of the Dental Clinic in the International Medical Congress at Wash- ington, D. C., in 1887. and he presided over the clinic of the Inter- national Dental Congress at Chicago during the World's Fair. He has occupied the chair of Dental Histology and Embryology in the New York College of Dentistry and the University of Buffalo, and has published " The Anatomy and Pathology of the Teeth," an authorita- tive work, as well as many papers and pamphlets. He is a member of the New Jersey State Dental Society, the New Jersey Central Den- tal Society, the California State Odontological Society, the American Dental Society of Europe, Der Central Verein Deutscher Zahnärzte and the Svenska Tandlakave Sallskapt. The son of Henry Bodecker and Doris Lohmann, he was born in Celle, Hanover, attended the public schools and studied dentistry in Germany; from 1866 to 1869 practiced his profession in London, and coming to this city in the latter year, was graduated in 1871 from the New York College of Dentistry, being awarded the first prize by the faculty. He married, in 1874, Wilhelmina Himbeck, granddaughter of Count Von Himbeck, and has two sons. Dr. Henry W. C. Bodecker and Charles F. Bodecker.
GUERNSEY, EGBERT, at the head of the homeopathic medical practitioners in New York City, was born in Litchfield, Conn., July S.
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1823. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, and spent two years in the Scientific Department of Yale College. He then traveled in Europe, while in 1846 he was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of New York. He was one of the founders of the Williamsburg Daily Times, now the Brooklyn Daily Times, in 1847, and became its editor. He also compiled several textbooks on history. In 1849 he was appointed City Physician of Williamsburg. About this time he adopted the system of homeopathy. He removed to Fishkill, N. Y., in 1819, returning to New York City in 1851. He has held the chairs of Materia Medica and of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Homeopathic College. He has been President of the County Medical Society, as he has been of the State Medical Society. He has been President of the Board of Charity Hospital. The Western Dis- pensary was founded by him in 1868. He was also the founder of the New York Medical Times. He has published " Domestic Medicine" and " Gentleman's Handbook of Homeopathy," together with many articles. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him by the Regents of the State University.
ATWOOD, JOSEPH FREEMAN, President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Kings County, until his death in 1898, was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, September 20, 1845; in 1862 was grad- uated as valedictorian from Pennington Seminary in that State; en- gaged in teaching; entered the New York wholesale drug house of S. R. Van Duzer & Company, and in 1870 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, winning the Second Faculty Prize for graduating thesis. After some months of hospital and dispen- sary work, he began practice in Brooklyn, during the next seven years being the associate of the late Dr. Henry F. Aten. He became Attend- ing Physician to the Brooklyn Nursery and Infants' Hospital soon after its establishment, subsequently becoming its Physician-in-Chief. He was Visiting Physician to the Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital, and has been Secretary of its Medical Staff. He was also Secretary of the Board of Control of its Training School for Nurses, as well as Lecturer on Obstetrics in this school. For twelve years he was a member of the Brooklyn Board of United States Examining Surgeons for Pensions, and during his service examined ten thousand men. He was Sur- geon of the Fourteenth Regiment, National Guard, State of New York, with rank of Major, for five years, when he resigned, holding the same rank on the supernumerary list. He was a member of the New York State Medical Society and of the Brooklyn Medical Club. He was an active member of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church of Brook- lyn, was one of its trustees, and for eight years was Superintendent of its Sunday-school. He married Miss Viola C. Du Bois, of Brook- lyn, January 12, 1876. His father, Rev. Joseph Atwood, and his
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uncle, Rev. Anthony Atwood, were both prominent clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother, Louisa Cranmer, was a lineal descendant of the famous Archbishop Cranmer of England.
FISKE, WILLIAM M. L., homeopathic physician, of Brooklyn, was born in New York City, May 10, 1841. He descends from Symond Fiske, lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk County, England, A.D. 1399 to 1422. Phineas Fiske, in the seventh generation from this Symond, settled in Salem, Mass., in 1642, and removed to Wenham, Mass., in 1644. He was a Representative in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1653. Dr. Fiske's father, Almond D. Fiske, was a manufacturer and inventor. He died in 1850. The family removed to Chazy, Clinton County, N. Y., when Dr. Fiske was ten years of age. The latter attended academies at Bakersville, Vi., and Champlain. N. Y., subsequently becoming a student in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He also served eight months as one of the physicians of Blackwell's Island Charity Hospital. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, of the Forty-seventh New York Regiment. He acted as Steward in the Convalescent Hospital at Fort McHenry, subsequently becom- ing Acting Assistant Post Surgeon, in charge of the Post Hospital. Returning, he was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1863, while in 1861 he was graduated from the New York Homeo- pathic Medical College. After a few months of private practice, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, and served until the close of the war. He then practiced two years in Aurora, Ill., and five years in Rochester, N. Y. Returning to Brooklyn. he became the partner of Dr. Wright, until the latter's death in 1874. He became Assistant to the Chair of Surgery in the Brooklyn Homeo- pathic Dispensary. Upon the organization of the Cumberland Street Hospital he became one of its surgeons, while, in 1882, he was elected Medical Director and President of Staff. He was one of the founders of the Brooklyn E. D. Homeopathic Dispensary, and was its President during a long period. He is now Consulting Surgeon and Physician. He was one of the organizers of and lecturers in the Brooklyn Maternity and Training School for Nurses, is Consulting Surgeon to the Woman's Memorial Hospital, is ex-President of the Kings County Homeopathic Society, was President of the New York State Homeopathie Society in 1892. is senior member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. and is a member of the American Gynecological Society. He holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the State Board of Regents. He was connected with the Smithsonian Institute, estab- lishing the first weather bureau in Florida previous to the organiza- tion of the present weather bureau service. He is author of a number of monographs on surgery published in the transactions of the State and County Medical Societies. He is a member of the Brooklyn Union
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League, West Hampton Country. Lake Champlain Yacht, and Han- over clubs, and for years has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Ross Street Presbyterian Church, of Brooklyn.
BOYLE, CHARLES CUMBERLAND, attended the New York pub- lic schools, and for two years the College of the City of New York, and in 1877 was graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical Col- lege. From 1876 to 1878 he was Interne or Member of the House Staff of the Homeopathic Hospital on Ward's Island. In 1880 he was grad- uated as surgeon of the eyes and ears from the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, and was appointed one of its assistant surgeons. He is now one of the governing surgeons of this hospital, and a professor in the College of the New York Ophthalmic Hospital. He is Eye and Ear Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital of Blackwell's Island and to the Halineman Hospital of New York City. He is Secretary and Treas- urer of the Metropolitan Hospital Polyclinic of Blackwell's Island, and is a member of the New York County Homeopathic Society, the New York State Homeopathic Society, the Academy of Pathological Science, and the Clinical Club. He has published " Therapeutics of the Eye." He was born in New York City, February 19, 1854, the son of John Churchill Boyle and Anna Augusta Cook. His grandfather, George Boyle, a British officer, came to this country at the time of the Revolution. The latter's wife, Martha Holmes, was a member of an old Massachusetts family. On the maternal side he descends from Joseph Brower, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam during the early colonial period.
STORRS, RICHARD SALTER, was born in Braintree, Mass., in 1821; in 1839 was graduated from Amherst College, studied law with Rufus Choate for some time, and in 1841 entered the Andover Theo- logical Seminary. He interrupted his studies to serve as tutor at Will- iston Academy, being graduated from Andover in 1845. In that year he was also ordained as pastor of the Congregational Church, of Brookline, Mass. In November, 1846, he was installed as pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, of Brooklyn, and he has continued to serve in this capacity to the present time. He was one of the founders of the Long Island Historical Society, was a director from its organiza- tion, was long Chairman of its Executive Committee, and has served many years as President of the Society. He is a trustee of the Brook- lyn Eye and Ear Hospital, and is an officer of other institutions. He has been President of the American Board of Commissioners for For- eign Missions, and has been prominent otherwise in various depart- ments of church work. In 1881, on the completion of his thirty-fifth year as pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, his congregation gave him a present of $35,000. He received the degree of Doctor of Divin-
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ity from Union College in 1853, and from Harvard in 1859, and that of Doctor of Laws from Princeton in 1874. In 1855 he delivered six lectures on " The Constitution of the Human Soul," two in 1878 on " Russia and France, and Their Long Duel "; eight in 1879 on " St. Bernard, His Times and His Work," and ten in 1880 on " The Divine Origin of Christianity, Indicated by its Historical Effects." He de- livered orations on Lincoln, June 1, 1865, and at the unveiling of the Lincoln Statue in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in 1869. In 1883 he de- livered an address on the occasion of the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. His published addresses also include " The Obligation of Man to Obey the Civil Law, Its Ground and Extent " (1850) ; " The True Success of Human Life " (1852), " The Relations of Commerce to Literature " (1854), " Colleges as a Power in Civil- ization " (1855), " Character in the Preacher " (1856), " The Puritan Scheme of National Growth " (1857), "The Law of Growth in the Kingdom of God " (1858), " Things Which Are Not-the Instruments of Advancing God's Kingdom " (1861), " The Preaching of Christ in Cities " (1864), " The Aim of Christianity for Those Who Accept It " (1867), " The Incarnation and the System which Stands Upon It " (1869), " The Attractions of Romanism for Educated Protestants " (1873), " The Early American Spirit, and the Genesis of It " (1875) ; " The Declaration of Independence, and the Effect of It" (1876) ; " The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters and Life" (1880), and "John Wickliffe, and the First English Bible" (1880). Dr. Storrs is the son of Rev. Richard S. Storrs, for more than fifty years pastor of the Congregational Church of Braintree, Mass; is the grand- son of Rev. Richard P. Storrs, for nearly forty years pastor of the Con- gregational Church of Long Meadow. Mass., and is the great-grandson of Rev. John Storrs, born at Mansfield, Conn., who, for many years, was pastor of the Congregational Church at Southold, L. I.
DUFFIE, CORNELIUS ROOSEVELT, founder and first Rector of St. Thomas's Church, was born in 1789 and died in 1827. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1809, studied law with a cousin, Chancellor Samuel Jones, engaged in business for some time, and from 1817 to 1823 was a vestryman of Trinity Church; began the study of theology in 1821; was ordained a deacon in 1823, and in 1824 was ordained a priest, and founded St. Thomas's Church. He married Helena, daughter of James Bleecker, a New York merchant, and his wife, daughter of Theophylact Bache, and had a son, the present Dr. Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie. He was the son of John Duffie, who was in business in this city in partnership with his broth- er-in-law, Cornelius C. Roosevelt, and was a trustee of the Gold Street Baptist Church, and was the grandson of Major Duncan Duffie, of the Revolution, who came to New York City in 1741, having been born in Edinburgh in 1733, the son of John Duffie and Catherine
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Carmichael. Through his mother ancestral strains descended to Dr. Duffie from the American founders of the Roosevelt, Bogart, Herring, Cozine, Van Lent, and other families.
DUFFIE, CORNELIUS ROOSEVELT, Rector Emeritus of the Church of the Epiphany, and founder, in 1848, and first Rector of the Church of St. John the Baptist, which was subsequently con- solidated with the Church of the Epiphany, was the son of the late Dr. Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie, founder and first Rector of St. Thomas's Church, and his wife, Helena, daughter of James Bleecker, and granddaughter of Theophylact Bache. He was born in this city in 1821, was graduated from Columbia College in 1841, and from the General Theological Seminary in 1845. From 1816 to 1848 he was connected with Trinity parish, and in 1849 was ordained a priest. IIe was appointed Chaplain of Columbia College in 1857, and is now Chaplain Emeritus. He has been a trustee of the General Theological Seminary since 1865. Ile holds the degree of D.D. "Through the Bleeckers, Barclays, and Gordons, Dr. Duffie can trace his descent to six generations of the Earls of Sutherland, and over twenty genera- tions of kings of England, Scotland, and France, a queen of Castile and an empress of Germany." He married, first, Sarah Brush, daugh- ter of Joel Clark and Mary Brush; and, second, Lillian A., daughter of John Pelton, and has a daughter, Mrs. Edward Hamilton Cahill, and two sons, Cornelius Roosevelt, Jr., and Archibald Bleecker Duffie. The latter is engaged in the real estate business in this city.
BEECHER, HENRY WARD (see steel engraving in Volume II. of this work, facing page 242), a son of the celebrated Rev. Lyman Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 8, 1887. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1834, and studied theology at Lane Theological Seminary, of which his father was then President. For a short time in 1837 he was on the editorial staff of a journal published at Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1837 to 1839 he was pastor of a small Presbyterian church at Lawrenceburg, Ind., while, at the same time, he did some farming. He was pastor of a church at Indianapolis, Ind., from 1839 to 1847, and during this period also edited an agricultural journal, his contributions to which were subsequently published under the title of " Fruit, Flow- ers, and Farming." Being in New York City in behalf of the Ameri- can Home Missionary Society in 1847, he was invited to preach for the newly organized Plymouth Church of Brooklyn, and accepted a call as its pastor. This connection continued until his death. He was editor of the New York Independent from 1861 to 1863, and subse- quently published his contributions under the title of " Star Papers." From 1870 to 1880 he was editor of the Christian Union. He has also
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published " Lectures to Young Men," "Life Thoughts," " Yale Lec- tures on Preaching," " Industry and Idleness," "Sermons on Liberty and War," " Eyes and Ears," " Norwood " (a novel), and . Plymouth Hymns and Tunes." He made several visits to Europe, preaching and lecturing in England. He made frequent lecturing tours in America. Although he had previously been a Republican, he advo- cated the election of President Cleveland in 1SS4. When scandalized by the charges of Theodore Tilton, Beecher's innocence was maintained by the members of his congregation. He was acquitted in the suits brought against him by Tilton for alienation of the affections of the wife of the latter.
HALL, JOHN, Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for many years prior to his death in 1898, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in County Armagh, Ireland, July 31, 1829. He entered Belfast College when thirteen years of age, and, during his course, won many prizes. This was also true of the theological course which followed. He was licensed to preach at the age of twenty, and was selected as the students' mis- sionary to western Ireland. Three years later he was installed as pas- tor of the First Presbyterian Church of Armagh. In 1858 he accepted a call to the Church of Mary's Abbey, now Rutland Square, Dublin. He also became Editor-in-Chief of the Evangelical Witness. He , advocated popular education, and by the Queen was JOIIN HALL. made Commissioner of Education for Ireland. In 1867 the Presby- terian General Assembly of Ireland sent him as a delegate io the Pres- byterian churches of the United States. Upon his return to Ireland he received a call to become Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New York City, which he accepted. He began to labor here November 3, 1867. In 1874-75 a new church edifice was erected. In 1881 he succeeded the late Dr. Howard Crosby as Chancellor of the University of the City of New York, holding this position until his resignation in 1891. Hle was Lyman Beecher Lecturer in the Yale Theological School from 1875 until his death. He received the degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws.
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GALLAUDET, THOMAS, is a son of Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gal- laudet, a Yale graduate and Congregational clergyman, who founded and incorporated, in 1816, the Connecticut Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, the first institution of the kind in the United States, has like- wise won an international reputation through his lifelong efforts in behalf of the same class of unfortunates. From 1843 to 1858 he was an instructor in the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Having been ordained in the Episcopal Church, in 1852 he founded and became rector of St. Ann's Church of this city, a feature of which has always been its services for deaf mutes. He has been Rector Emeritus since 1892. He has been pastor of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd since 1869, and was Chaplain of its midnight missions for three years. He has been General Manager of the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes since its incorporation in 1872. In 1885 he founded the Gallaudet Home for Deaf Mutes on a farm in Dutchess County overlooking the Hudson. He has several times visited Europe in the interest of the cause to which himself and his family have addicted themselves. Dr. Edward Miner Gallaudet, founder, in 1864, of the Gallaudet College for the Deaf at Washing- ton, and its President for more than forty years since, is his brother. A graduate from Trinity College, in 1862 Mr. Gallaudet received its degree of D.D. He married, in 1845, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. B. W. Budd, and has five daughters and a son, Dr. Benjamin Gallaudet, Demonstrator of Anatomy in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. The first American ancestor, Pierre Elisee Gallaudet, a French Huguenot physician, came to New Rochelle, Westchester County, as early as 1711. IIe was born near Rochelle, France, the son of Joshua Gallaudet and Margaret, daughter of Rev. Elisha Prioleau, Minister of Niort.
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