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Among the fossils so named for Dr. Yandell, are the following: Platycrinus Yandelli, named and described by Owen and Shumard; Actinoc- rinus Yandelli, by Dr. B. F. Shumard; Chonetes Yandellana, by Professor James Hall ; Amplexus Yandelli, by Edwards and Haime; Trachonema Yandellana, by Professor James Hall; and Phillipsastrea Yandelli, by Dr. C. Romenger, the great palæontologist of Michigan.
In the field of medical biography Dr. Yandell wrote voluminously and with discrimination. His last sustained work was done upon his Med- ical Annals of Kentucky. This will yet doubt- less be completed and published. His last literary work of any kind was a paper entitled, The Diseases and Hygiene of Old Age, in which he warned the aged against the very exposure and imprudence which caused his own death. Of this he asked to see the proofs upon his death bed, but when they came he was beyond reading them.
To the world Dr. Yandell seemed grave, thoughtful-even cold. He was a man of af- fairs as well as a student. He was ever ready, with the courage of deep conviction, to support what he believed to be the truth in any contro-
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versy, and he did not escape the reputation of being somewhat overbearing. Yet he was not cold, not overbearing, not unsympathetic. To those in need or trouble he was never deaf, and in few men do we find the deep love of home, the self-sacrificing affection and indulgence toward kindred and the yearning and devoted fondness for children which marked him. His later days were passed in an allegiance divided between his manuscripts and the somewhat ty- rannical rule of little grandchildren, who clam- bered over him and clustered about him alike in his hours of work and leisure. When he died, the scientific circle, of which he was the central figure, deplored the loss of an intellectual mentor ; his family and immediate friends mourned an irreparable personal bereavement.
WILLIAM B. CALDWELL, M. D.
William B. Caldwell, son of William and Ann Trabue Caldwell, was born at Columbia, Adaır county, Kentucky, on the third day of April, 1818. A sketch of his parents is embodied in the biography of George A. Caldwell at another place in this volume. His literary education was obtained in the schools of his native county, and at its completion he began the reading of medi- cine at Columbia under a preceptor. Entering the medical department of Transylvania Uni- versity, at Lexington, Kentucky, he attended the sessions of that institution until the spring of 1841, when he was regularly graduated. Not content, however, with such preparation, and determined to perfect himself in the theory and practice of his profession, he supplemented the lectures of Transylvania with others, first at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and later in the medical department of the University of Louisville.
Immediately upon obtaining his diploma at Lexington, Dr. Caldwell opened an office for the practice of his profession at Columbia, and there he remained actively employed until January, 1846, save when necessarily absent in attendance upon the post graduate lectures referred to. At the latter date he removed to Louisville and estab- lished himself professionally, rapidly acquiring a large and very lucrative practice.
During the twenty-four years which followed
he confined himself exclusively to his practice with the earnest and conscientious perseverance which is one of his cardinal characteristics, and, from year to year, his connection and labors in- creased until over-devotion to his arduous duties resulted in the shattering of his health, and he was compelled, in 1870, reluctantly to retire from practice.
In 1869 the nomination for membership in the State Legislature came to Dr. Caldwell quite unsought, and the election which followed was a dubious benefit to a person already broken in health, but being so elected he assumed and performed the duties of his place with the devo- tion and vigor that have marked him in every endeavor of his life. He was soon recognized as a working member, and a man not only of un- questioned honesty, but of such judgment and discrimination that he won at the outset an in- fluence and consideration such as usually comes only as the reward of years of laborious legislative service. Though so long devoted to a profes- sion, he was and is a clear-headed man of busi- ness, and during his two years at Frankfort be- came marked and noted as an authority upon matters pertaining to the development of the State, especially in its transportation interests.
Since Dr. Caldwell retired from the Legis. lature, declining a re-election, he has devoted himself, to the limit of his strength, to the in- vestment, care, and oversight of his large estate. He has, of necessity, been from time to time associated with important business enterprises. In 1868 he succeeded the Hon. James Guthrie as a Director of the Louisville & Nashville Rail- road Co., and served until the year 1881, when he resigned.
Beginning in 1869 Dr. Caldwell was for sev- eral years a director of the Jeffersonville, Madi- son & Indianapolis railroad. He is now presi- dent of the Louisville Cement Co., and a director of the Birmingham Iron Co., which he organized, and is a heavy stockholder in each.
In 1837 Dr. Caldwell united with the Baptist church at Columbia, Kentucky, and has since been an active religious worker. Soon after coming to Louisville he was largely instrumental in uniting the First and Second Baptist churches to form the Walnut Street church, the mother of the Baptist congregations of the city. He con- tributed to the erection of its edifice and to the
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establishment of the many churches which have been its offshoots. The Baptist Orphans' Home, as well, owes much to his liberality and to his counsel and advice as a director. He has for years been, and is now, a deacon of the Walnut Street church.
In 1847 Dr. Caldwell married Miss Ann Au- gusta, daughter of the Hon. James Guthrie, a woman of the highest intelligence, deep piety, and whose charity and kindness of heart led her to administer her large estate most liberally, for the amelioration of human want and the ad- vancement of her fellows in knowledge, morality, and Christianity. Mrs. Caldwell's distinguishing characteristic was a self-forgetful interest in the welfare of others, and her death, which occurred on the 8th day of January, 1872, was a com- mon loss to the community, as it was an unut- terable bereavement to her husband, family, and friends.
ERASMUS D. FOREE, M. D.
The subject of the following sketch was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, July 25, 1817. His father, a physician, after giving his son the advantages of the best schools in a remarkably cultivated and refined community, had him enter Hanover College, Indiana, from which institu- tion he graduated with honors.
Soon after, he began the study of medicine, and graduated at the University of Louisville in 1839. He then repaired to Philadelphia, where he spent a season in the hospitals of that city. He added to this a year in Great Britain, and on the continent of Europe, in professional work. On his return to America he begun the practice of medicine in Newcastle, Henry county, Ken- tucky.
Soon after this he married Flora V., daughter of the Hon. Edward Jackson, of West Vir- ginia, son of General George B. Jackson, of the Revolutionary war. Mr. Jackson was the dou- ble cousin of General Stonewall Jackson, and rep- resented a large and intelligent constituency in the National House of Representatives. The union resulted in five children, four of whom, three sons and one daughter, survive the father. One of the sons, a naval officer, lost his life at sea, while executing an act of conspicuous gal- lantry. His mournful taking off is recorded on
a beautiful cenotaph, erected to his memory at Annapolis, by his brother officers.
In 1850 Dr. Foree was elected to the Chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Ken- tucky School of Medicine, an institution that had been founded in Louisville. He filled the position with credit to himself, but finding that the duties of the place interfered with his prac- tice, he lectured but a single session.
About this time he moved to Anchorage, where he acquired a large business. In 1863 he set- tled in Louisville, and at once assumed a lead- ing place in a city noted both for the number and strength of its medical men. In 1874, when the Central University of Kentucky, located at Richmond, established its Medical Department at Louisville under the title of the Hospital Medical College, Dr. Foree was made President of the faculty, and appointed to the Chair of Diseases of Women, places which he filled at the time of his death. Dr. Foree died suddenly of angina pectoris on Sunday morning, February 26, 1882, aged sixty-five years. At a meeting of the physicians of Louisville, held to take action on his death, the following remarks made by Dr. D. W. Yandell, an intimate friend of Dr. Foree's, were unanimously adopted, as expressive of the sense of the profession in presence of its great loss:
Ordinarily the task of speaking in public of a dear friend whom death has newly taken is one of exceeding difficulty, for those who did not know him are apt to regard the praise given as excessive, while those who knew and saw the in- dividual in ways and with eyes other than your own may think you unappreciative. The first of these difficulties at least can not arise in the present instance, for the public knew him whom we are gathered here to speak of as it knew no other physician; for no one in this community crossed so many thresholds, was admitted into the privacy of so many families, or had so large a personal following as Dr. Foree.
Brethren, do you not realize that the foremost man in our guild, the first citizen of Louisville, passed away when Dr. Foree died ? Whatever capacity any one of us who is left may have, there is not one of us who was so useful or did so much good as he. Hence none of us, when we follow him "from sunshine to the sunless land," shall be so much missed, shall leave so large a void. No funeral cortege which ever pur- sued its solemn march through these streets represented a more widespread, a more general, or a more poignant grief than that which will go to the grave with his remains.
He was truly the beloved physician. As such the public knew and revered him, and as such it mourns him. But to us, who knew him, if not better, I may be permitted to say, knew him in other and even more intimate ways-who fought side by side with him in the unequal contest in which we are all engaged-the loss can not be expressed. Who shall wear the armor which fell from his great shoulders, or wield that
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Excalibar with which he smote disease and staid the advance of death?
Dr. Foree was pre-eminently the counsellor of the profes- sion. His wisdom was sought alike by old and young.
"He spake no slander, no, nor listened to it,"
for there had grown up in him that infinite tolerance born alone of deep insight and comprehensive view; and while with every year he grew more thoughtful and more tender, long ago his sympathies had freshened and quickened into a supreme principle of action, which governed, as it also irradi- ated all his life.
But it was in his intercourse with the sick that Dr. Foree exhibited his best and highest qualities. He was prompt. He was punctual. He was patient. He was experienced. He was skilled. He was learned. He was wise. He wore the serious cheerfulness of Sophocles, who, it is said, having mastered the problem of human life, knew its gravity, and was therefore serious, but who, knowing that he compre- hended it, was therefore cheerful. He literally carried his patients in his head and nourished them in his heart. He gave them not only his first and best, but he gave them his every thought. He never forgot them, nor wearied of listen- ing to their complaints, nor relaxed in his efforts to assuage their pains or drive away their diseases. He fufilled all the requirements of the law. He cured-where cure was possible -quickly, safely, pleasantly, and where death was inevitable he gave a sympathy that was so genuine, so tender, and so sweet that it fell as a balm on the hearts of the stricken sur- vivors.
Dr. Foree was not a portrait; he was representative of the physician. He has gone
From wars of sense To peace eternal, where the silence lives.
He now stands in the light of that awful sublimity whose radiance was so often disclosed to him through the crevices of death. And no purer than he, or none with a record of more battles won, or more good done in the days allotted him or with the opportunities given him, ever stood there.
PROFESSOR DUDLEY SHARPE REY- NOLDS, M. D.,
son of Rev. Thomas and Mary Nichols Reynolds, born at Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 31, 1842. Possessing a delicate physical organiza- tion, and being an only son, his early training was carefully guarded. He was educated in various private schools, by private tutors, and at Irving college. Being endowed with strong lit- erary tastes, he studied both law and medicine, his fancy for science predominating. He at- tended the lectures for two terms at the Univer- sity of Nashville, and entered actively into prac- tice, finally graduating in the medical depart- ment of the University of Louisville at the session of 1867-68. In January, 1869, he joined the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a medical society which at that time held weekly meetings
in Louisville. He rarely missed one of its meet- ings, almost invariably contributing something of interest to the original reports of cases and to the discussions. In May of that year he was elected chief surgeon to the Western Charitable Dispen- sary. Here he established a magnificent surgical clinic, and soon gained an enviable reputation as a teacher.
In September, 1869, he, in connection with the late Dr. Lunsford P. Yandell, secured the co-operation of about thirty of the most promi- nent practitioners in the city and organized and established the Louisville Academy of Medicine, which for a time took the place of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was afterwards, in 1875, incorporated.
In April, 1871, he became a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, at Covington, and has missed but one of its annual meetings since that time. In 1872 he was commissioned by the Kentucky State Medical Society as a delegate to the American Medical Association, which met in Philadelphia the first Tuesday in May. He was, on the 18th of June, 1872, elected an honorary member of the Muskingum County Medical Society of Ohio; of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Little Rock, Ar- kansas, in August, 1874; of the McDowell Dis- trict Medical Society, of Kentucky; and of the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Association; and of the Beech Fork District Medical Associa- tion, of Kentucky. In 1877 he became a mem- ber of the Tri-State Medical Society, of Ken -. tucky, Indiana, and Illinois. He represented the Kentucky State Medical Society at the Inter- national Medical Congress, at Philadelphia, Sep- tember, 1876, and, at Amsterdam, in September, 1879. He was appointed, by the American Medical Association, at Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1881, foreign delegate and representative of that body in the International Medical Con- gress, of London, England, and in the British Medical Association, at Ryde, Isle of Wight, August, 1881.
In 1874, when Central University established its medical department at Louisville. he was elected to the chair of ophthalmology and otology, a position which he has continued to fill acceptably to the present time. On rec- ommendation of the Governor of Kentucky (J. B. McCreary), President Hayes appointed
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him an honorary commissioner from the United States for Kentucky, at the International Indus- trial Exposition (of 1878), at Paris, France. In 1872, 1878, and 1881, he visited the principal hospitals of the world, in this country and in Europe.
In 1869 he began writing for the medical press, contributing articles to the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, the American Practitioner, the Philadelphia Medical Times, the New York Medical Record, the Louisville Medical News, and other leading magazines. In the spring of 1879 he established the Medical Herald, a monthly octavo of sixty-four pages, which made its first appearance on the Ist day of May. As a literary and scientific production the Medical Herald at once took the first rank, and is now one of the most influential and powerful medical monthlies in the country. It has a wide-spread popularity all over the world, circulating as it does amongst all the civilized nations. At the permanent organization of the American Medical College Association at Chicago in 1877, Dr. Reynolds represented the Hospital College of Medicine, and he has continued to represent the institution in that body every year since, and has contributed largely to the interests of the annual meetings. Being one of the active supporters of the organization, he has had much to do with shaping its policy. He represented the Hospital College of Medicine in the Conven- tion of American Medical Teachers at Atlanta, Georgia, in May, 1879. He was elected presi- dent of the section of ophthalmology, otology, and laryngology of the American Association in New York City, June, 1880. At a meet- ing of the Association of American Medical Editors held in New York, on the 3d of June, 1880, he was elected permanent secretary.
In December, 1878, when the Polytechnic So- ciety of Kentucky was about to surrender its property into the hands of a receiver of the Louisville Chancery Court, he managed to reor- ganize the society and aided Colonel Bennett H. Young in effecting arrangements which resulted in a compromise with the creditors of the society and the election of an executive council, which has since so successfully managed the affairs of the Polytechnic Socity as to open and maintain for the public use a large library, and to establish a free course of popular science lectures, which,
taken altogether, has contributed very largely to the culture of Louisville. Dr. Reynolds has been a member of the Library Committee ever since the reorganization of the Polytechnic So- ciety, and has had more than any other one man to do with the arrangement and classification of the books and periodicals. He is still a member of the Executive Council.
The Trustees of the Louisville Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary made him its chief surgeon, a position he still holds.
In January, 1879, he organized the Academy of Medicine and Surgery in the Polytechnic So- ciety of Kentucky, and was its first President.
During the years 1874 to 1878 Dr. Reynolds was a member of the Louisville City Hospital staff as opthalmic surgeon, resigning in the latter year. He is now opthalmic surgeon of the Prot- estant Episcopal Orphan Asylum, St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, the German Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Baptist Orphan's Home.
In March, 1880, he assisted to organize in the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky an academy of art, of which he was President for the first year of its existence. His contributions to med- ical science, often detailing original investigations, have been both numerous and varied. A tireless worker in the interests of his profession, it has been his pleasure to see many of the principles he has advocated adopted and incorporated as a part of the common fund of professional knowl- edge. Systematic and precise in even the smallest items of what most people term com- monplace matters, he has been able to accomplish much that, left to chance and opportunity, would never have been wrought. A lover of books, and a judge of their value, he has accumulated a collection which, for intrinsic value and wide range of subjects, is rarely surpassed. Social in disposition, and ready in conversation, his ac- quaintancesand friends are distributed throughout both this country and Europe. Strict in adherence to principle, his line of action is sharply defined. Conscientious and upright, he has defended whatever he deemed worthy of defence upon principle, with that force and strength that can only come from a conviction of the worthiness of the object.
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PRESTON BROWN SCOTT, A. M., M. D., was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, September 12, 1832. His parents still live, having turned the golden period of a happy and prosperous wed- ded life, and for nearly half a century occupied their present home. Through his mother, a no- ble woman, and the only survivor of a large and illustrious family, he is related to the Browns and Prestons, and thus derives his surname. She was Elizabeth Watts Brown, youngest daughter of Dr. Preston Brown, a distinguished physician of Frankfort, Kentucky, in his day, and Elizabeth Watts, of Roanoke county, Virginia. His fath- er is Colonel Robert W. Scott, an old and hon- ered citizen of Franklin county, Kentucky, dis- tinguishep as a man of wealth and cultivated tastes, and for his enlightened public spirit, an able writer, an eloquent speaker, a successful practical farmer, and for half a century prominent in the benevolent enterprises and agricultural interests of the State. His paternal grandfather was Joel Scott, an early settler of Kentucky, from Virginia, prominent in the early history of the State, in the development of its manufacturing interests. His paternal grandmother was the daughter of Colonel Robert Wilmot, an officer of the Revolution.
In 1841, as the first Public School Commission- er appointed under the common school system, Colonel Scott erected adjacent to his present farm the first public school building in the state. The subject of this sketch was entered among its first pupils, and was elected to make the inaugural speech, which is still preserved. At the age of fifteen, he attended the private school of Rev. James Eells, to prepare for college. At sev- teen he entered the junior class at Georgetown College, Kentucky, where he graduated with the honors of his class. The year following he passed in the household of his uncle-in-law, President Reese, of the University of East Tennessee, where he again graduated with class honors. In 1853, he returned to George- town, and received his Master's degree. In October, 1854, he entered the office of Dr. Lewis Rogers, and as the pupil of this good man and learned and honored physician, he graduated in 1856, in the medical department of the University of Louisville. The following year he passed as one of the resident physicians in the Louisville City Hospital. In March, 1857,
he entered upon the practice of his profession, in Hickman county, Kentucky. In 1859, he mov- ed to a more lucrative field, in Bolivar county, Mississippi, and was engaged in a large practice, when he entered the Confederate Army, in the fall of 1861. His first service was as a private soldier, at the battle of Belmont, Missouri. In May, 1862, he was appointed surgeon of the Fourth Kentucky Infantry, in the famous First Kentucky Brigade. He soon became Brigade Surgeon, on the staff of his early friend, the la- mented General Hardin Helm. At the battle of Jackson Mississippi, he received another pro- motion, and became associated with Dr. D. W. Yandell, as Medical Director on the staff of Gen. eral Joseph, E. Johnston. Later he was assigned to duty, as Medical Director to Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk, and served on his staff to the moment of his death at Kenesaw Moun- tain. He was then assigned to the charge of all the hospitals in Mississippi and Alabama, re- maining until the close of the war, having served on the staffs of General Stephen Lee, Dabney Maney, and Dick Taylor.
In July, 1865, Dr. Scott returned to Kentucky, and August roth entered upon the practice of his profession in Louisville. In October, 1862, he married Jane E., daughter of John W. Camp- bell, a retired banker of Jackson, Tennessee.
Their children are Jeanie Campbell and Rum- sey Wing. Though he had occupied all of the highest positions as a surgeon in the Southern army and had acquired much surgical skill, his tastes led him to limit his work to medical prac- tice, and he has devoted his energy to reaching the mark of his ambition, a good family physician.
In this he has been successful. He has a large and attached clientele, to which he devotes himself with unceasing kindness and faithful at- tention.
In 1870 Dr. Scott was elected Physician in Charge of the Episcopal Orphan Asylum. In 1871 he was chosen Physician in Charge of the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, and in 1872 became Physician to Young Women's Home, in all of which places he still serves.
In 1881 he was elected President of the Acad- emy of Medicine and Surgery in the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, and re-elected in 1882. In 1867 he was elected a member of the Board of School Trustees, and re-elected in 1869 and
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