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POLK, WILLIAM MECKLENBURG, was Curator of Bellevue Hospital in 1870; the following year was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, Bellevue Hospital Medical College; in 1875 was Lecturer on Diseases of the Abdominal Organs, Columbia University; from 1876 to 1879 was Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeuties, and Clin- ical Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Medical College; from 1879 until very
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recently was Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, University of the City of New York, and is now Dean and Director of the Medical Department of Cornell University, as well as Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the same. He was gradu- ated from the Virginia Military Institute, under Stonewall Jackson, in 1861 entered the Confederate Army as a private, serving in the artillery for the most part, and soon became Captain. He partici- pated in all the battles and campaigns of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Shiloh, Perryville, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Meridian cam- paign. North Georgia campaign, Hood's Tennessee campaign, and others, and surrendered with the army at Meridian, Miss., in May, 1865. Coming to New York after the war, he was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1869. He was Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital from 1874 to 1882, and since the latter date has been Visiting Gynecologist. Since 1880 he has been Visiting Physician to the Emergency (Lying-in) Hospital. He occupied the same relation to St. Luke's Hospital from 1878 to 1888, and since the latter date has been Consulting Gynecologist. He has been Consulting Physician to Trinity Infirmary since 1878, as he has been to the Northern Dispensary since 1881 and to St. Vincent's Hos- pital since 1890. He has been President of the New York Obstetrical Society, as he has been of the American Gynecological Society, and has been Vice-President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Hc has written chiefly on the surgery of the uterus and its appendages, dealing mainly with problems of abdominal surgery. He has contrib- uted chapters on these subjects to Keating and Coe's " Clinical Gyne- cology " and to the " Cyclopedia of Surgery." He has also contrib- uted one of the standard works on the Civil War in his life of his father, the late Leonidas Polk, who was Lieutenant-General of the Confederate Army, as well as Bishop of Louisiana and the founder of the University of the South. Dr. Polk also descends from the famous Jonathan Edwards. His grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel William Polk, of Raleigh, N. C., and his great-grandfather, Colonel Thomas Polk, of Mecklenburg, N. C., were both Revolutionary sol- diers, the first being Colonel of the Fourth North Carolina Continent- tals, while the second commanded the Fourth Regiment of Cavalry in Sumpter's Brigade, South Carolina Line. Dr. Polk was born in Ashwood, Tenn., August 15, 1844.
PAGE, RICHARD CHANNING MOORE, interrupted his studies at the University of Virginia to enter the Confederate Army, resum- ing them at the close of the war, after a brilliant military carcer. In June. 1867, he was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Virginia. In August of the same year he also entered the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in the following March. He entered
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Bellevue Hospital as House Physician, having won first honors in a competitive examination, and served the regular term. For some time he held the position of District Physician under the New York City Government, but subsequently resigned to accept the position of House Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital. He has been engaged in private practice in New York City since 1871. Since 1886 he has been Professor of Diseases of the Chest and General Medicine in the New York Polyclinic. He was Honorary Vice-President of the Paris Congress for the Study of Tuberculosis. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York State Medical Society, the New York Pathological Society, and other medical associations. He is President of the New York University Medical Alumni Associa- tion, is Surgeon-in-chief of the New York Confederate Veteran Camp, and is a member of the New York Historical Society, the New York Southern Society, and the Virginia Historical Society. Ile has pub- lished a " Chart of Physical Diag- nosis," a " Handbook of Physical Diagnosis," and " The Practice of Medicine " (1892), with pamphlets on " Metastatic Parotitis," " Ty- phoid Fever," "Lead Poisoning," and " Bright's Disease of the Kid- neys." He is likewise the author of the " Genealogy of the Page Fam- ily in Virginia," and a " Sketch of Page's Battery, Jackson's Corps, Lee's Army." Born at Keswick, Albemarle County, Va., January t .. 2, 1841, he is the grandson of Ma- DR. RICHARD CHANNING MOORE PAGE. jor Carter Page, of the Revolution- ary Army, who was a cousin of Governor Page, of Virginia. He also descends from Hon. John Page, a wealthy merchant of England, of gentle blood, who settled in Vir- ginia in the first half of the seventeenth century, and became a mem- ber of the Royal Colonial Council; as likewise from the latter's grand- son, Hon. Mann Page, who, after Lord Fairfax, was the largest land- owner in Virginia, while his mansion, " Rosewell," was the most elegant and costly residence in the Thirteen Colonies. Dr. Page's mother was a daughter of Francis Walker, of Castle Hill, Va., and the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, the first white man to settle in Kentucky. Colonel John Walker, Aid-de-camp to Wash- ington, was her uncle. Having graduated from the University of Virginia in mathematics and Latin, and won honors in Greek, Dr. Page left the institution to enlist, July 14, 1861. as a private in Pen-
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dleton's Rockbridge Battery, attached to General Stonewall Jack- son's Brigade. He was present at the first battle of Bull Run. By the spring of 1862 he had risen to the rank of Brevet Captain of Artillery. Page's Battery was actively engaged at Fredericksburg, occupied the front in the skirmish line at Chancellorsville, and again was at the front at Gettysburg, in the last-mentioned battle losing thirty-two officers and men within an hour, Captain Page being himself dan- gerously wounded. He was commissioned Major of Artillery, and . from October, 1864, until the close of the war was detailed on the staff of General John C. Breckinridge as Chief of Artillery for the Department of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee.
BECK, CARL, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine in New York City since 1882, was born in Neckargemuend, Germany, April 4, 1856; was educated at the Heidelberg Gymnasium, and the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Jena, having among his teach- ers Simon, Langenbeck, and Virchow; and, after five years in these universities, was graduated from Jena in 1878. He served his military term in the celebrated Garde Corps at Berlin. Before coming to New York he was assistant to Dr. Hassfurther, a surgeon of repute at Eibenstock, and to Dr. Lehmann at Dresden. He wrote the first text- book on aseptic surgery published in the United States, and was the first in this city to make surgical representations with the Roentgen rays. He is Professor of Surgery at the New York School of Clinical Medicine, is President of the Medical Board of St. Mark's Hospital, is President of the Medical Board of the Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum, and is Surgeon to St. Mark's Hospital and to the German Poliklinik .. He is a member of the leading medical societies, the German Club, the Arion Society, and the German Charity Society. He is the son of Wilhelm Beck and Sophia, daughter of Carl Hoeller, and is grandson of Wilhelm Beck, descending from a long line of Lutheran clergymen. His great-grandfather, A. Blinzig, enjoyed wide literary repute, and was Councilor of the Theological Consistory in Germany.
BLEYTHING, GEORGE DACRE, who has long been engaged in the successful practice of medicine in this city, was born in Morris County, New Jersey, October 18, 1842, was educated at Trenton by a private tutor, and was graduated from the New York College of Physi- cians and Surgeons. He is a member of the Church Club and other organizations. He married Maria Howard, daughter of Rev. S. G. Bullfinch, of Boston, and Maria, daughter of Samuel Howard, of Savannah, Ga. Dr. Bleything is the son of the late Edmund Langstreth Bleything and Mary Ward Tuttle, the latter of a family of Morris County, New Jersey, active in the Revolution; is the grand- son of Joseph Duckworth Bleything and Mary, daughter of Captain
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John Hughes, of the British Navy, and is great-grandson of William Bleything, a landed gentleman of ancient lineage of Wrexham, Coun- ty Denbigh, Wales. His grandfather, Joseph D. Bleything, became proprietor of extensive paper mills at Manchester, England, but established still larger mills in this country, at Whippany, Morris County, N. J., Paterson, N. J., and West Chester, N. Y. The first ma- chine-made paper manufactured in the United States was the product of the Whippany mill.
POORE, CHARLES TALBOT, a leading specialist in the surgical diseases of children, prepared for college at Dr. Dudley's School, Northampton, Mass., entered Williams College in 1857, attending until the beginning of his senior year, studied medicine with Dr. Henry B. Sands, of New York City, at the same time attending the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1866 was graduated from this institution. In August, 1865, he entered the surgi- cal division of the New York Hospi- tal, where he remained for two years. He has since been engaged in private practice in this city. Since 1872 he has been Attending Surgeon to St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children, and during the past four years has been Consulting Sur- geon to the Hospital for the Rup- tured and Crippled. He has fre- quently contributed to the medical journals, notably on the subject of diseases of the joints. He has also published " Osteotomy and Osteo- CHARLES TALBOT POORF. clasis for Deformities of the Lower Extremities " (Appleton. 1886), and contributed the article on " Osteology " in the " Reference Handbook of Medical Sciences " (William Wood & Company, ISST ), and the article on " Diseases of the Major Articulations" in the " Encyclopedia of Diseases of Children " (Lippincott, 1890). He is a member of the Medical Society of the County of New York. the . Union League and Century clubs, the New England Society, and the St. Nicholas Society. He married, in 1893, Helen, daughter of the late Charles E. Talbot, of New York City. He was himself born in New York City, October 14, 1839, the son of David Poore and Ann Taylor Talbot. His grandfather, Dr. Joshua Poore, was a leading medical practitioner of Stratford, Conn. The founder of the paternal line settled in Newbury, Mass., in the first half of the seventeenth cen-
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tury. A number of his descendants became prominent in Boston and Newburyport. Dr. Poore's mother was the daughter of George W. Talbot, a well-known New York merchant, engaged in the China trade. Her grandfather was the famous Commodore Silas Talbot, of the United States Navy, during the Revolution. He also superin- tended the building of the frigate Constitution and long commanded the vessel.
BUTLER, GEORGE HENRY, has successfully practiced medicine and surgery in New York City for more than thirty years, and throughout the Civil War was a Past Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy. He was born in Berwick, Me., May 31, 1841, attended the High School of Great Falls, N. H .; Bowdoin College, the University of Pennsylvania and the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege. He has traveled much abroad, and is a member of the Union League Club, the Sons of the Revolution, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the New England Society, together with various medical societies. He married, in 1872, Henrietta Louisa Lawrence, seventh in descent from Thomas Lawrence, of Long Island. Her grandfather, Hon. Samuel Lawrence, was a member of the Assembly, of Congress, and a Presidential Elector. Her great-grandfather, Hon. Jonathan Lawrence, was a prominent merchant of this city, Major in the Revolution, member of the Provincial Congress, and State Senator. Dr. Butler is sixth in descent from Thomas Butler, who was settled in Kittery, Me., prior to 1695, and was of the English house of Ormonde. His great-grandfather, Moses Butler, was an officer in the Revolution.
SHRADY, GEORGE FREDERICK, has been the editor of the Medical Record from 1866, when it was founded, to the present time. A native of New York City, he was educated in the public schools and the College of the City of New York; in 1858 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons ( Columbia Univer- sity ), and the same year was awarded the Intercollegiate Wood Prize for proficiency in anatomy in Bellevue Hospital. In 1869, Yale Uni- versity conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He was Resident Surgeon in the New York Hospital in 1857 and 1858, and has . sustained official relations to many of the hospitals of the city since. He is one of the managers of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane; is Surgeon to St. Francis's Hospital; is Consulting Surgeon to the New York Cancer Hospital: is Consulting Surgeon to the Home for Incurables; is Consulting Physician-in-Chief to the Hospitals of the Health Department of New York, and is Consulting Surgeon to Vassar Hospital, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He is a well-known writer and authority on subjects connected with general surgery, and has a large private practice. During the Civil War he served as an army surgeon.
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He is the best-known medical editor in America. As Surgical Pathol- ogist he assisted Dr. Bliss in the care of President Garfield after the assassination by Guiteau, and reported the results of the autopsy in this case. He also attended General Grant in the latter's last illness. He was in consultation with Sir Morell Mackenzie in connection with the case of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany. He is a member of the Metropolitan Club. He was born January 14, 1837. His father, John Shrady, was also a native of New York City. The latter was a soldier in the War of 1812, while Dr. Shrady's grandfather, likewise a native of New York, served in the Revolution.
LANGSTAFF, JOHN ELIOTT, has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Brooklyn since December, 1884, and is physician to St. John's Hospital, a member of the Kings County Medical Society, and of the Brooklyn Gynecological Society, a director of the Brooklyn branch of the Co-operative Building Bank, and a member of the Church and Barnard clubs. He was born, August 10, 1856, in Lang- staff, Ontario, Canada, the son of John Langstaff and Elizabeth Brett. He descends from Dr. Henry Langstaff, who emigrated from Scotland to New Jersey in 1697; from Robert Brett. High Sheriff of Notting- hamshire, England, and from Sir George Augustus Eliott. Lord Heathfield, the defender of Gibraltar. In the Langstaff family there have been physicians for five generations, and Dr. Langstaff has two uncles and two brothers who are physicians. He himself attended district school up to the age of twelve, during the next four years attended Richmond Hill Grammar School, and between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three attended Toronto University and the To- ronto General Hospital. He studied and practiced for five years with his uncle, Dr. James Langstaff, for one year with another uncle. Dr. Lewis Langstaff, and for a year with Dr. John Reid. He spent six months in study and hospital work in Edinburgh in 1882, and then eight months in London. He married, November 19, 1884, S. Josephine Meredith, of New Brunswick, and has two sons-JJohn Brett and Bridgewater Meredith Langstaff.
SMITH, ABRAM ALEXANDER, attended the Collegiate Institute at Newton, N. J .; in 1878 was graduated from Lafayette College, and in 1871 was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Princeton College in 1889, and that of Doctor of Laws from Lafayette College in 1893. He was Lecturer on Therapeuties and Materia Medica at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1876 to 1879, and was Professor of the same in this institution from 1879 to 1892. From 1892 to 1898 he was Pro- fessor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and now holds this chair in the new insti-
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tution created by the consolidation of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and the Medical Department of the New York University. He was Attending Physician in cases of heart and lung diseases to the Demilt Dispensary from 1873 to 1879, and was Assistant Physician and Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital from 1874 to 1879. He has been Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital since 1882, Consulting Physi- cian to Gouverneur Hospital since 18SS, and Consulting Physician to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled since 1890. He is a member of the Grolier, Princeton, and Zeta Psi clubs, the American Climato- logical Society, the American Association of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, the New York Clinical Society, and the New York Practitioners' Society. He was born in Wantage, Sussex County, N. J., March 25, 1847, and is the son of James Alexander Smith and Mary Ann, daughter of Isaac Corbin. He descends from Johann Schmidt, who emigrated from Holland to New Jersey about 1640. Dr. Smith was for eighteen years associated in private practice with the late Dr. Fordyce Barker.
WYLIE, WALKER GILL, well-known specialist in gynecology and abdominal surgery, was graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1867, came to New York City in 1808, and in 1871 was graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The position of Interne of Bellevue Hospital, awarded on competitive examina- tion during his course of study, he continued to hold for some months after graduation. He resigned in 1872 to accept a similar position in the Woman's Hospital. also secured by competitive examination. After holding this position for eighteen months he went abroad and made a special study of hospital management and nursing in hos- pitals. After his return he attracted attention by a paper on " Train- ing Schools for Nurses," presented at the Cooper Institute. He took a leading part in establishing the Bellevue Hospital Training School in 1873, and has personally examined every one of its graduates since. To his efforts is largely due the present system of training schools for nurses in the United States. He also investigated hospital construc- tion and sanitation, becoming an expert on the subject of sanitary engineering. His " Hospitals, Their History, Organization, and Con- struction " (1876), still a leading authority, took the Boylston essay prize of Harvard University. He has been engaged in general prac- tice since 1873, and in 1877 became associated with Dr. J. Marion Sims. He has been an original contributor to the development of . abdominal surgery. He has been Visiting Gynecologist to Bellevue Hospital since 1882. Since 1885 he has conducted a private hospital for patients suffering from abdominal complaints. He is Consulting Surgeon to the Seney Hospital of Brooklyn. His notable publications include " The Influence of Imperfect Development," " Peritonitis, Lo- cal and General," and " Salpingitis." He is a member of the Interna-
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tional American and British Gynecological Societies, the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society, the New York County Medical Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Pathological Society, the New York Obstetrical So- ciety, the Northwestern Society, the New York Medical and Surgical Society, and the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association. He is a mem- ber of the Reform, Riding, Manhattan, and Democratic clubs, and the Southern Society. He married, in 1877, Fanny H., daughter of Edward A. Dawson, a St. Louis merchant, and has two daughters and two sons. Mrs. Wylie is of old Puri- tan ancestry, and was a relative of the late Oliver Wendell Holmes. Dr. Wylie was himself born in Chester County, South Carolina. September 2, 1848. His paternal ancestors, of Scotch-Irish descent. were long established in South Carolina. His father, Dr. Alexan- der Pierson Wylie, was eminent as physician and surgeon. Ilis grandfather, Hon. Peter Kelsey Wylie, was for forty years Probate Judge of Chester County, South Carolina. His great-great-grand- father was a Protestant religious teacher, while two of his sons were patriot soldiers in the Revolution. WALKER GILL WYLIE, M.D. Through his mother, Juliette Agnes, daughter of Robert Walker Gill, merchant, of Lancaster County, South Carolina, Dr. Wylie is of English descent. A brother, Dr. Robert Hawthorne Wylie, is asso- ciated with him in practice in New York City.
DELATOUR, HENRY BEECKMAN, well-known physician of Brooklyn, received his education in the New York public schools, Co- lumbia College, and the New York College of Physicians and Sur- geons. Shortly after being graduated from the latter, he became first House Surgeon to the Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn. In October. 1888, he was made Assistant Attending Surgeon, being associated with Dr. George R. Fowler. In 1892 he became Attending Surgeon to the Norwegian Hospital. He resigned his position at the Metho- dist Hospital in June, 1896, in order to become Attending Surgeon at the Long Island College Hospital and at St. John's Hospital. From 1892 to 1896 he was President of the Red Cross Society, while in 1897 and 1898 he was President of the Brooklyn Surgical Society. In 1892 he was delegate from the Kings County Medical Society to the State
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Medical Society. He is a member of the Kings County Medical So- ciety, the Brooklyn Surgical Society, the Brooklyn Pathological Society, and the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, as he is also of the Montauk, Crescent Athletic, and Brooklyn clubs. He married, October 10, 1895. Jeannie Marie Peck, of Brooklyn. Born in New York City, March 27, 1866, Dr. Delatour is the son of Albert Jousseaume Delatour, manufacturer of soda water, and Josephine, daughter of J. M. J. Labatut, who was a well-known New York merchant and im- porter of hard woods. His paternal grandparents came direct from France, while his mother's family was long established in this country.
EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, prominent physician, of this city. is also the owner of one of the notable private libraries of the United States, valued at $200,000, and without a rival in its collection of original manuscripts of the Revolutionary and early constitutional periods. He is the grandson of the first Thomas Addis Emmet, of this city. the latter's second son. Dr. John Patten Emmet, being his father. This gentleman was born in Dublin in 1797, and died in New York City in 1842. He studied three years at West Point, studied medicine four years under Dr. William J. McNevin, was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, practiced at Charleston, S. C., from 1822 to 1824, and was long Professor of Chem- 'stry and Natural History at the University of Virginia. He was also a sculptor of merit. Dr: Thomas Addis Emmet was born in Virginia, May 29, 1828. studied with his father, was graduated from the Jeffer- son Medical College of Philadelphia in 1850. and has since practiced in this city. His long connection with the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York has given him a unique pre-eminence in respect to the number of gynecological cases treated by him or treated under his
observation. His " Principles and Practice of Gynecology" is a standard in England. France, and Germany. as well as the United States. He has also published the " Treatment and Removal of Fi- broids." and other works. He was Assistant Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital from 1855 to 1862. Surgeon-in-Chief from 1862 to 1872, and has been since Visiting Surgeon and Member of the Board of Surgeons. In 1897 he received the Laetare Medal. annually be- stowed upon the most distinguished Catholic in America. He is a member of the Catholic Club, and various medical societies of this country and Europe. He married Kate Duncan, and has two daugh- ters and three sons-Dr. J. Duncan. Thomas Addis, Jr .. and Robert Emmet.
WINTERS. JOSEPH EDCIL, was graduated from Hiram Pierce's School, Smithboro, N. Y .; began the study of medicine with Dr. George P. Cady, of Tioga County, New York; in 1869 came to New York City, and in 1872 was graduated from the Medical Department of the
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