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ed in the English branches, in Latin, and in Greek ; studied medicine with his father, grad- uated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1805, and settled for practice in Warrenton, Virginia ; removed to Winchester, in the same State, in 1821, and six years later to Lexington, Kentucky, where he be- came Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Transylvania. For ten years he held his chair, and was the first professor in the school to prepare a systematic treatise in any department of medical authorship. He had already, while still in Virginia, published the first volume of his work on Pathology and Therapeutics, which was afterwards completed in two large octavos, and his medical essays, mainly contributed to the Transylvania Journal of Med- icine, would make another massive tome. In 1832 he went somewhat into Episcopal theology, and added to his duties the Professorship of History and Polity in the Theological Seminary at Lexington. In 1837 he joined in the plan for the foundation of a medical college in Louis- ville, removed thither, and was there also made Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. He held peculiar views, however, -" his medical philosophy was of the heroic school," says one ; his lectures were not popular ; he by and by fell into difficulties and struggles, and finally, in the winter of 1843-44, retired altogether from the school to a farm he had bought near the city. This he afterwards traded for an estate on the Ohio, thirty miles above Louisville, in whose im- provement he tranquilly passed the rest of his days. He died there October 19, 1853, in the seventy-first year of his age. He is remembered as a man of great professional and general learn- ing, and a writer and lecturer of uncommon in- terest on medical topics, notwithstanding the peculiarity of his views and some disadvantages of style.
In the fall of 1839 the celebrated Cincinnati physician, Dr. Daniel Drake, whose boyhood had been spent in a country neighborhood of Kentucky, and who was long afterwards once and again a professor in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, was elected to a pro- fessorship in the Louisville Medical Institute, upon the dissolution of the medical school of Cincinnati College, which had been in existence but four struggling years. The learned doctor
remained in this new connection for ten years, and then, upon the adoption of a rule that pro- fessors in the Institute should not be employed beyond the sixty-fifth year of their age, he re- signed, although then only sixty-two years old, and the rule was voluntarily suspended in his favor. While residing here in 1847-48, he prepared the interesting series of letters to his children, since collected and published in an octavo volume under the title, Pioneer Life in Kentucky. In 1850, then drawing near the close of his life, he consented to return for a time to the Louisville school, and lectured here for two more sessions, when his connection finally closed. He died in Cincinnati November 5, 1852.
Richard O. Cowling was born April 8, 1839, near Georgetown, South Carolina. He was brought with the family to Louisville when but two years old, and was educated in the city schools and under Noble Butler and the Rev. Dr. Chapman, and in Trinity College, Hartford, where he was graduated with the highest honors in 1861. He made a short tour in Europe, returned home, did some tutoring and surveying, studied law a year, began to read medicine with Dr. G. W. Bayless in 1864, heard lectures at the local university and Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia, began practice, and was soon made demonstrator of anatomy in the University, then adjunct professor of surgery, and finally professor of surgical pathology and operative surgery (afterwards "science and art of surgery"). With Dr. W. H. Galt he founded the Louisville Med- ical News in 1876, and was connected with it till his death, which occurred April 2, 188r. His last public address, at the dedication of the monument to Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the father of ovariotomy, has been particularly ad- mired. An appreciative and elaborate address in memoriam of himself was pronounced by Dr. David W. Yandell on the evening of February 28, 1882, at the annual commencement exer- cises of the University.
J. Alexander Ireland was born September 15, 1824, in Jefferson county, Kentucky. He was of Scotch origin, but his father was born in this State. His mother, Jane Stone, was of English ancestry, but born also in Kentucky. The sub- ject of this sketch gained a good common edu- cation by the time he had reached the age of
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seventeen, when the study of medicine was be- gun. He graduated in the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1851, and entered upon the work of his profession in the city of Louisville at once. For ten years between 1854 and 1864 he had his home in the country, where he pursued his prac- tice, till in the latter year he was elected to the Chair of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children in the Kentucky School of Medi- cine. Subsequently, he became Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University. In 1848 he was licensed to preach in the Baptist Church, and for several years was actively engaged in his profession, and served, at the same time, as regular pastor over a church in his denomination, using his pen too, at times, as a writer. Dr. Ireland has made himself a most useful and in- fluential member of society. In 1846 he was married to Sarah E. Cooper, and by this mar- riage had one son, Henry Clay Ireland. In 1859, he was the second time married, to Susan M. Brown, and by this union another son, William F. Ireland, was added.
Benjamin Miller Wible was born in 1814, in Nelson county, Kentucky. His paternal ancestors came from Switzerland, his father, John Wible, a Kentucky farmer, serving in the War of 1812. Some of his maternal ancestors were Virginians, who settled on the East Fork of Cox's creek, Nelson county, Kentucky, late in the last cen- tury. On both sides his ancestors were in the Revolution. Dr. Wible's early education was received under private tutors, until he began the study of medicine in 1833. Four years later he was graduated from the medical college of Ohio. From that date he was engaged in practice at Mount Washington, Kentucky, until 1846, when he removed to Louisville. The next two years, with others, he was engaged in a private hospital, until in 1848 he became contract surgeon for a Kentucky regiment in the Mexican war. Be- tween this date and the beginning of the Rebel- lion he resumed his practice in Louisville, leav- ing it as a regularly commissioned surgeon in the Confederacy. During the great conflict he held many responsible trusts, and established a repu- tation for faithfulness and skillful treatment, which he retained on resuming his old practice in Louisville. His death occurred in March, 1877, while seemingly in the vigor of early manhood. As a writer for medical journals, Dr. Wible at-
tained some merited fame. He was married October 18, 1864, to Miss C. M. Brown, of Georgia, a most excellent lady, the daughter of one of the wealthiest planters of the South.
George H. Walling is descendant of an old English family, but was himself born in Canton, Ohio, February 29, 1820. His parents removed to Lexington in 1828, and in 1836 to Louisville. He was educated in the best private schools of these cities, and was graduated in 1847 from the Medical Department of the University in the lat- ter place. He began practice in the city the same year, and steadily pursued it, mostly in Louisville, for many years. He has also been quite active in public affairs, served three or four years in the City Council, and six years on the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities.
Willoughby Walling is son of the physician last named. He is a native of Louisville, born March 3, 1848; was trained in the city public schools; read medicine in his father's office, and graduated from the Medical Department of the University; was for some time physician to the City Alms-house, and for eight years on the Board of Health; resided abroad in the further pursuit of his studies; returned and resumed practice; became President of the Medical Chi- rurgical Society of Louisville, and for a number of years Local Secretary of the American Medical Association, also writer of many articles for the professional journals.
James A. Graves was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2, 1842. He was the son of Dr. James Graves, a manufacturer of patent medicines, who came to Louisville in 1849, and, buying a large tract of land in the western part of the city, erected a large establishment for a medical labora- tory. The son received his early education, ac- cordingly, in the Louisville public schools, aad, subsequently became a student of medicine. In- stead of becoming a practitioner, he acquainted himself with his father's business, purchased his establishment, improved upon his methods, and has had remarkable success in the excellency and successful sale of his compounds, his agents be- ing numbered by thousands, and his medi- cines finding sale in all parts of the world. Dr. Graves has a reputation for liberality as well as for wealth. He shows an interest in all good works, and gives liberally to their support. He was married to Miss Roxie Gilrath in 1868.
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David D. Thomson was born in Lincoln county, January 6, 1824, of Virginia stock on both sides. He was given the best education the schools of the neighborhood and Centre College afforded at the time, and was graduated fron the latter in 1846. He tead medicine at first with Dr. Weisaker, at Danville, then with Dr. S. D. Gross, in Louisville, where he heard lectures in due course, and was there graduated as M. D. in 1849, but continued to study with Dr. Gross until the next spring, when he opened an office in Louisville and practiced till 1860, when he removed to Paducah, and there prac- ticed with success till 1875, when he returned to Louisville, where he has since remained in full practice. During his former residence here, he was for two years President of the Board of Ed- ucation, and for a much longer term Vice-Presi- dent of the Board.
John A. Krack was born near Baltimore Sep- tember 15, 1823, son of Rev. John Krack, Lu- theran clergyman. He was educated in the Bal- timore public schools and in a classical school at Madison, Indiana. He taught school three years in Henry county, Kentucky; came to Louisville in 1847, read medicine with Dr. Joshua B. Flint; attended a single course of lec- tures at the Kentucky School of Medicine, and began practice in Gasconade county, Missouri; finished his course at the Kentucky School of Medicine, graduating in 1850 and settling in the city for practice, where he has since resided, but not altogether as a physician. He was a suc- cessful druggist 1852-57; then manager of the Louisville Glass Works for sixteen years; and since in various business. He has held a num- ber of public offices, as member of the City Board of Education for five years, six years an Alderman from the Third Ward, and since 1873 continuously Assessor of the city, which office he now holds.
Robert Peter was born January 21, 1805, in Launceston, England. His parents, Robert and Johanna Peter, came to America in 1821, and settled in Baltimore, but afterwards removed to Pittsburg. During these years the son learned the druggist's business, and meantime acquired a taste for the study of applied chemistry as used in that department. He wrote, investigated, and lectured up to the year 1828, when he took his first course of lectures in form on his favorite
subjects. Following this date we hear of him as lecturer and teacher of chemistry in Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, and Lexington, Kentucky, and soon after his arrival at the latter place he was elected Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of Transylvania University. In 1834 he received the degree of M. D. from Transyl- vania, and began the practice of medicine in Lexington with Dr. L. P. Yandell, then a pro- fessor in that university. He, however, aband- oned practice and returned to teaching, hecom- ing Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical Department of Transylvania University. At the opening of the war the institution in which he lectured being closed, he was surgeon in the Government Military Hospital at Lexington. At the close of the war he accepted the Chair of Chemistry and Experimental Philosophy, which place he still occupies, adding to his regular duties much geological work on the State sur- veys and for other purposes. Professor Peter is devoted to his profession, writing, studying, and investigating, although getting advanced in years. He is now considered one of the first chemists in his own State, and is widely known through- out America. He makes his home in Lexington, or on his farm near that city. In 1835 he was married to Miss Frances Paca Dallam, daughter of Major W. S. Dallam. Mrs. Peter, on her father's side, is a relative of the Paca and Smith families of Maryland, and on her mother's with the Breckenridges, Prestons, and Meredith, her grandfather having been a near relative of Pat- rick Henry. They have had eleven children, nine of whom are yet alive.
John Bruce Smith was born January 16, 1835, in Roxbury, New York. His parents were both natives of the same -- Roxhury-county. His early life was passed in obtaining an elementary education, and in 1851 he entered the Delaware Literary Institute, at Franklin, New York. Three years later he began reading medicine at Delhi, in the same State, and devoted four years, in large part, to preparation for his profes- sion, attending medical lectures at various places and graduating in 1857 in the University of Louisville. The same year he located and be- gan practice in his profession at Fanview, Flem- ing county, Kentucky. In 1859 he removed to Millersburg, Bourbon county. He has gained there an excellent practice, and is recognized in
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that section of the State as a prominent man in the profession. In politics he is a Democrat. During the war, as well as at other times, his sympathies were with the South. As to his re- ligious principles he is a member of the Christian or Reform church. November 4, 1857, Dr. Smith was married to Miss Maria A. Ball, of Mason county, Kentucky.
Samuel Brandeis was born December 4, 1819, in the city of Prague, Austria. His early educa- tion was gained in the Catholic Gymnasium of his native city. Later he studied medicine at Vienna,-a private pupil of the great anatomist, Professor Hyrtal,-and finished his medical studies in 1845. Three years following, he prac- ticed in Prague, when, becoming involved in the revolution of Bohemia against Austrian rule, he left his country and emigrated to America. His first settlement here was in Madison, Indiana. In 1852, he came to Louisville, where he speedily became known. In 1860, he became Adjunct Professor in the Kentucky School of Medicine, when, the war beginning, he went into the Government Hospital at Louisville. Six years later, in recognition of his able and con- scientious services, he was made President of the Board of Examiners of applicants for pensions. He has also filled the place of President of the Board of Health in Louisville, and contributed from time to time to medical publications. In 1849, he was married to a lady from his native place. They have now living seven children.
James McDonald Keller was born in Tuscum- bia, Alabama, January 29, 1832, His father, David Keller, was a merchant and planter of Hagerstown, Maryland, and his mother, Mary Fairfax Moore, a Virginian, was the granddaughter of Governor Spottswood, who served as General under George III., and was the first white man to cross the Blue Ridge mountains. For this feat of daring he was made "Knight of the Golden Horseshoe," and received also a full- sized gold horse-shoe, set with rubies. This gift remains in the possession of the family of the late R. E. Lee, a grandson of the "Knight," the first colonial Governor of Virginia. Dr. Keller's early education was obtained in the Academy of Tuscumbia, Alabama, and when eighteen years of age he began the study of medicine in the same city, finally graduating from the University of Louisville in 1852. After remaining for a
short time in the vicinity of Louisville, he re- moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he gained a good practice and remained till 1861. On the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Confed- erate 'service as a surgeon, and soon became medical director in several departments. After the surrender, he returned to Memphis to find himself, with many others, under the indictment of high treason, and, "declining to take the oath of allegiance, was only relieved by the gen- eral amnesty." In 1869 he was called to the chair of surgery in the Louisville Medical Col- lege, which position he has since held, together with that of Professor of Surgery in the Kentucky School of Medicine in the same city. In 1874, at Detroit, he was elected Vice-President of the American Medical Association. Growing out of his wide practice and especial study in the field of surgery, Dr. Keller furnishes many reports to the journals of his profession, and is a valued member of all associations within his State or vicinity that have at heart the improvement of so important a science. In 1852 he was married to Miss Sallie Phillips, of Jefferson county, Ken- tucky, and James Irwin, Assistant Physician at Anchorage Insane Asylum, and Murray P., of the firm of Hall, Keller & Company, manufac- turers, are his sons.
William A. Hundley was the third son of Joel Hundley, born in Jefferson county, March 28, 1822. He attended the country schools, and then a better one at Mount Washington, Bullitt county; began to read medicine with Dr. John- son, of that place; attended a course of lectures here and graduated in 1852, beginning success- ful practice here the same year. He was physi- cian to the city hospital four years, and to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum fourteen years, making no charge for the latter service. He was a close professional student, and wrote much upon med- ical topics. As a physician it is said of him that "he was well-read, skillful, and unusually suc- cessful; his gentle kindness won him the hearts of his patients." Dr. Hundley died of apoplexy in Louisville March 23, 1873.
Archie Brown Cook was born September 23, 1828, in Noblestown, Pennsylvania. His early education was begun in his native county, after which he was at an academy at Wheeling, Vır- ginia, and also under the instruction of Rev. David Wallace, now president of Monmouth col-
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lege, Illinois. In 1848 he graduated, as one of the orators of his class, from Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, and three years later received the degree of A. M. Soon after this he came to Kentucky, and in 1849 began the study of medi- cine under Dr. E. D. Foree. Having attended lectures in New York City, he graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, in 1853. The same year he attended upon the practice of his profession in Newcastle, Henry county, where his practice very soon became an excellent one. Not long after this he became Demonstrator of Anatomy, first in the Kentucky School of Medicine, and afterwards in the Uni- versity of Louisville, after which he occupied a number of honorable and important positions till, in 1875, he was elected President of the Faculty of the Louisville Medical College. Dur- ing his work as teacher he also accomplished not a little with his pen, articles appearing from time to time in the medical journals that have con- tributed largely to the science. In 1860 he be- came surgeon with the rank of Major on Gen- eral Buckner's staff, in the Kentucky State Guards, and has also occupied many places of trust in public institutions. Dr. Cook was mar- ried to Miss Fannie M. Roberts, of Louisville, February 21, 1872.
One of the most remarkable physicians and medical writers Louisville has ever had, Dr. Charles Caldwell, came to the city in connection with the attempt to establish the Medical Insti- tute here. He was a professional graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, became an emi- nent though still young practitioner in Philadel- phia, and in 1816 was appointed Professor of Geology and Natural History in his alma mater there. Coming West three years afterwards, he took a professorship in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, at Lexington, and remained upon the Faculty of that school about eighteen years. During this connection he made a tour in Europe, meeting Gall and Spurzhein), and embracing their doctrines of phrenology. The reader finds him referred to heretofore, in the notes of the celebrated Dr. George Combe con- cerning his visit to this place. He became a professor in the Louisville Medical Institute, and served until 1849, when he was seventy-seven years old, and desired retirement. He died July 9, 1853, aged eighty-one. He had all his life
been a voluminous writer upon scientific, medi- cal, and educational topics, beginning with a translation of Blumenbach's Physiology before his graduation at Philadelphia. His published papers and other works, if collected, would fill many volumes.
John Edward Crowe was born June 4, 1829, in Louisville. His father, who was a grocer here, had emigrated to the city about 1818. Having received his elementary education at a parochial school, at the age of fifteen he entered St. Mary's college, in Marion county, Kentucky. Three years later he began the study of medicine in the University of Louisville, but stopping to teach in the public schools he did not graduate until 1856. He continued the practice of medi- cine in Louisville up to the beginning of the civil war, when he was commissioned as Acting As- sistant Surgeon in the United States Army. Since his army experience he has gained an ex- tensive and important practice. Devoting him- self mainly to the treatment of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, he was appoint- ed, in 1869, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Louisville, where, by untiring devotion to his de- partment, he has won an enviable reputation for scholarship and skill. At various times the es- teem and confidence of the people has shown itself by giving him place in the City Council, on the Board of Aldermen, as Trustee of the City Hospital, and President of the City Board of Health. Dr. Crowe was married to Miss Au- gusta Douglas, of Ohio, September 7, 1871. He died here September 25, 1881.
Charles F. Carpenter is a native of Pennsyl- vania, born in Chester county July 9, 1826, of an old and honorable English family. He began to study medicine when only sixteen years old, but did not graduate until he was twenty-three, when, in 1849, he received his degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to his native county and practiced until 1856, when he removed to Louisville, and was soon busily and profitably engaged. Upon the outbreak of the wat, he was placed in charge of several hospitals, and sustained an important relation to the med- ical staff of the army. The war closing, he re- tired from active practice and gave his time largely to scientific pursuits, especially to opera- tions in metallurgy in Colorado, in which he has
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made a number of valuable improvements. He has also taken out many patents for mechanical devices. In 1873 he was one of the Govern- ment Commissioners to the Vienna Exposition, and the next year was prominent in the organ- ization of the Louisville Microscopical Society, of which he was made vice-president.
Thomas P. Satterwhite was born July 21, 1835, in Lexington, Kentucky. His father, bearing the same name throughout, was a dis- tinguished physician before bim. His mother was a daughter of Hon. Joseph C. Breckinridge. He was trained in the Lexington schools and at Center College, started in his medical reading in 1855, with Dr. R. J. Breckinridge, and graduated from the proper Department of Louisville Uni- versity in 1857. He decided to remain in the city, and began practice there the same year. He managed the Dispensary for a time, was for six years Demonstrator of Anatomy in his alma mater, and then operated a dispensary on the University grounds, in union with Dr. Goodman. He has chief prominence as a surgeon, and has taken high rank for his difficult and successful operations. Chairs in the Louisville Medical College have repeatedly been offered him ; but have as often been declined. He was for one term President of the Medico-chirurgical society.
William H. Leachman's natal day was May 15, 1834, and he is a native of Boyle county, son of an old Kentucky pioneer, who was in turn son of a pioneer from Germany to Virginia. William was well educated, and spent some time in the . celebrated Covington Institute, at Springfield, Kentucky. When of age he entered the law department of Louisville University, took the two-years' course, and was dubbed M. D. in 1857, enjoying also private study under the elder D. W. Yandell. He began practice in the city, and was soon widely and satisfactorily em- ployed. He makes a specialty of obstetrical practice, in which his business has been very large. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Board of Education, and afterwards served in the City Council, but resigned when half his term had expired.
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