History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 70

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1013

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A library of choice and standard works is open to the young ladies.

French is taught by native teachers.

The school is not sectarian. It has from its commence- ment been patronized by all denominations. .

NASHVILLE ACADEMY.

The Nashville Academy, of which Miss M. M. O'Bryan is principal, is located at No. 25 South Spruce Street, in one of the most desirable portions of the city. This acad- emy does not aim at display, but educates young ladies thoroughly and fits them competently for life. As a pains- taking educator, no one stands higher in this community than Miss O'Bryan, She has a full faculty, and her school is in flourishing condition,

ST. BERNARD'S ACADEMY.

The chapel of the St. Bernard's Academy and the resi- dence of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy is on Cedar Street, immediately fronting the State Capitol. It is a select school, is conducted with ability, and is in flourishing condition. The property is one hundred and ten by one hundred and seventy feet large, and was purchased for twenty-seven thousand dollars.

ST. MARY'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL,

on Vine Street, facing the west front of the Capitol, was built in 1866-67, at a cost of forty-seven thousand dollars. It is three stories high, one hundred and forty by forty feet large, and is constructed in the latest style of school archi- tecture, with a tower gracing its east front. It is under charge of the Sisters of Mercy.

TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.

The Tennessee College of Pharmacy is located at 158 Church Street, in the Smith Block. It is in successful operation, and has the following able faculty: J. C. Whar- ton, Professor of General Chemistry ; J. Berrien Lindsley, Professor of Materia Medica ; W. H. Smith, Professor of Pharmacy and Toxicology ; George S. Blackie, Professor of Practical Botany ; John H. Snively, Registrar and Pro- fessor of Analytical Chemistry ; Duncan Eve, Professor of Practical Microscopy.

GOODMAN'S NASIIVILLE BUSINESS COLLEGE,

Nos. 93 and 95 Church Street, corner of Summer. It was established in 1865, and was formerly styled " Earhart's Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College" and was one of the Bryant and Stratton chain, but now known as the Iu- ternational Chain of Commercial Colleges. After the death of Professor Earhart, this school languished. In 1874 Professor Frank Goodman was appointed and succeeded to the conduct of the college as principal. Immediately after his purchase Professor Goodman thoroughly reorganized the college, cutting out many objectionable features and adding many improvements. The course of study has been revised, and among other decided improvements the follow- ing were adopted,-viz., no life scholarships are issued ; diplomus are not issued to dissipated persons or to those not worthy and in every way well qualified ; special writing lessons are not given, ornamental penmanship being no part of a business education ; night sessions have been discon- tinued ; no scholarships are given for advertisements. The course combines both theory and practice, the school-room and counting-room being united, upon a plan that secures to the student all the practical advantages of each ; book- keeping, single and double entry ; commercial arithmetic and calculations ; penmanship specially adapted to business writing ; commercial law, as applied to contracts, partner- ship, agencies, negotiable paper, etc., by recitations and lec- tures and commercial correspondence,-these are a few of the advantages offered by this college. It is gratifying to know that all patronage, and more particularly local patron- age, has improved greatly. Since Professor Goodman took charge of the college, students have matriculated from the following States,-Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Missis-

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sippi, Arkansas, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Ohio, Maryland, Florida,-and from Ireland. The catalogue for 1879 shows an attendance of two hundred and eighty. The faculty is as follows : Frank Goodman, Principal ; Henry C. Jameson, of Hick- man, Ky., Assistant Superintendent; Robert L. Morris, of Nashville, Teacher and Lecturer on Commercial Law; Herbert W. Grannis, A.M., of Lebanon, Tenn., Superin- tendent Preparatory Department and Teacher of Science of Accounts. The college is in session every business day during the year, and students can enter at any time.

EDGEFIELD ACADEMY.

The canvass for aldermen of Edgefield for the year 1870 was contested over the question of having public schools. A committee on schools was appointed after election, and in May, Alderman Jackson B. White presented a bill for the establishment of public schools and creating a Board of Education in Edgefield and the Seventh District, of which it formed a part.

This became a law May 16, 1870, and John Frizzell, George Searight, and A. G. Sanford were appointed mem- bers of that board. A building on Russell Street was rented, and occupied as a temporary school-room. In the fall of 1870 a school-building was erected for a primary school in North Edgefield, on Foster and Joseph Streets, at a total outlay of three thousand dollars. At the commence- ment of 1871 seven white and two colored schools were reported, with one principal, seven white and two colored teachers.

These schools received for their support two thousand dollars from the Peabody Fund, through its agent, Rev. A. B. Sears, D.D., in 1871, and in 1872 eight hundred dol- lars more, and four hundred by subscription from the town.

A Board of Education, composed of seven members, was authorized by the Legislature in April, 1871. Find- ing the buildings insufficient to accommodate the scholars belonging to the town, bonds to the amount of eight thou- sand dollars were issued, and an additional appropriation made by the Board of Aldermen, with which was erected the handsome brick building on Main Street, near Foster, at a cost of nearly eleven thousand dollars, and two thou- sand two hundred and fifty dollars for the ground. This building is commodious, and finely located upon rising ground. It was built by Messrs. Patton & McInturff, after a design furnished by John Lewis, architect. The corner- stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies, Aug. 12, 1873. The house is well furnished, and as an educator the institu- tion has acquired a creditable name.

John W. Graham became the first superintendent of public instruction, and occupied that position until June, 1873, when he was succeeded by Professor W. P. Marks.

Professor Marks died in the spring of 1877. He was succeeded by Professor George D. Hughes, who was relieved by the annexation to the city of Nashville, and appointed principal of the Main Street Academy.

Among the more prominent instructors here have been Hiram Stubblefield, Miss Sally White, Miss Mary Frizzell, Miss Maggie Glenn, and Mrs. H. K. Ingraham, who was the first lady permitted to read a paper before the American

Scientific Association, and the author of the concussion theory for yellow fever cure. This academy employs a faculty of eleven teachers, including the primary depart- ments, in the same building, and has a total of one thousand and eighty-two enrolled students for the last year.

THE EDGEFIELD MALE ACADEMY

was opened as a private enterprise, by Professor George D. Hughes, as a preparatory institution for Emory and Henry College, of Virginia, of which he was himself a graduate. His assistant, A. L. Mims, M.A., became principal on his withdrawing to the town academy. Messrs. Lipscomb and Didiot became proprietors in 1879. This institution has a fine building on Woodland Street, built in 1850 for a Methodist chapel.

MEDICAL PROFESSION.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE."

The Medical Society of the State of Tennessee was in- corporated by an act of the Legislature passed the 9th of January, 1830, that body being then presided over by Joel Walker, Speaker of the Senate, and Ephraim H. Foster. Speaker of the House of Representatives. William Car- roll was the Governor of the State of Tennessee, and An- drew Jackson President of the United States. Its first meeting was ordered to be held in the town of Nashville, the first Monday in May, 1830, and boards of censors were to be appointed by the society for the three divisions of the State, to grant licenses to applicants to practice medicine within its limits.

One hundred and fifty-four physicians were named in the charter, and ninety-seven were present at the first meeting.

The first meeting of the society was held on the 3d of May, 1830, in the city of Nashville, and its organization completed by adopting a constitution, by-laws, and code of medical ethics, and by electing officers for two years. These were James Roane, of Nashville, President; James King, of Knoxville, Vice-President; James M. Walker, of Nash- ville, Recording Secretary ; L. P. Yandell, then of Ruther- ford County, Corresponding Secretary ; and Boyd McNairy, of Nashville, Treasurer. Professor Charles Caldwell, of Transylvania University, being in town, was the first hon- orary member elected by the society. The censors ap- pointed for Middle Tennessee were Drs. Douglass, Stith, Hogg, and Estill; for East Tennessee, Drs. Mckinney and Temple; and for the Western District, Drs. Young and Wilson. The code of ethics was the same as that adopted by the Central Medical Society of Georgia in 1828. A resolution was passed, we are happy to state, at the organi- zation of the society, expressive emphatically of its condem- nation of the habitual use of ardent spirits, this dread foe to humanity, as productive of the most lamentable conse- quences to mankind, and recommending most urgently to their fellow-citizens total abstinence, except when prescribed as medicine.

1831 .- The second assembling of the society took place in Nashville, May 2, 1831. Sixty members answered the roll-call, and fifty-four were added during the session, making

* Synopsis of its history furnished by Paul F. Eve, M.D., in 1872.

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one hundred and fourteen present, constituting the largest meeting ever held. The board of censors reported that two applicants had been licensed. The Governor gave a special invitation to the society to visit in a body the penitentiary, then known as the State prison. Dr. John H. Kain, of Shelbyville, the first appointed orator, delivered the anniver- sary discourse before the society on " Medical Emulation," taking the appropriate motto from Johnson's " Rambler," " Every man, from the highest to the lowest station, ought to warm his heart and animate his endeavors with the hope of being useful to the world by advancing the art which it is his lot to exercise ; and for that purpose he must consider the whole extent of its application, and the whole weight of its importance." Dr. Yandell, having been called to a pro- fessorship in the Transylvania University, resigned his office in the society and delivered an address, which was ordered to be published. He was subsequently elected an honorary member, and, though he became a citizen of another State, no one ever served it more faithfully or contributed more to advance its interests. To him, too, was awarded the second prize offered by the society. Again and again do we find his contributions to its transactions, and now, when full of years and honors, should ever be remembered with profound gratitude by us all. A premium of fifty dollars was offered at this meeting for the best essay on the use and abuse of calomel. Professors Henry R. Frost, of Charleston, S. C., Benjamin W. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky., and Daniel Drake, of Cincinnati, Ohio, were elected hon- orary members at this meeting. Dr. James G. M. Ramsey, of Knoxville, sent his essay on the "Topography of East Tennessee," and Dr. Becton read his own on the "Topog- raphy of Rutherford County."

1832 .- May 7, 1832, the third convocation of this body took place in Nashville; the president and vice-president being both absent, Dr. McNairy was called to the chair. Fifty-one members were present and twenty-one added during the meeting. Dr. Roane was again elected presi- dent for two more years, and Dr. Kain the vice-president. A committee appointed to get the Legislature to extend the privileges of the society reported that object had been defeated ; nevertheless, another committee was instructed to ask for a repeal of the law making it a penitentiary offense to exhume a body for dissection, showing, too, the glaring incon- sistency of an act prohibiting the study of anatomy, the basis of all medical science, yet making its cultivators liable to a dreadful and ignominious punishment in the attempt to get the material by which means alone that knowledge can be acquired. The celebrated Dr. Troost was made the orator for the next anniversary.

1833 .- We have obtained only a very partial account of the proceedings of 1833. Dr. Alexander Jackson, of Paris, read an essay on the " Medical Topography of the Western District." The prize essay, on "The Use and Abuse of Calomel," was awarded to James Overton, M.D., of Nash- ville. Dr. Roane having died, Dr. Fernando Stith, of Franklin, was president pro tempore.

1834 .- The 5th of May, 1834, the society convened in Nashville. Dr. Felix Robertson, the first child born in Nash- ville,-that is, on January 11, 1781,-ninety-one years ago, was elected president, and Dr. John Crisp, of Gibson

City, vice-president. Dr. James Overton was made the orator for the year following, and Dr. Josiah Higgason, of Somerville, read an essay on the " Medical Topography and Discases of the Western District," which is published in vol. viii., Transylvania Journal of Medicine.

1835 .- The Tennessee Medical Society held its sixth meeting, May 4, 1835, in Nashville, the president, Dr. Robertson, in the chair. Thirty members answered to their names and eight were admitted. Dr. James Over- ton's essay on "Spontaneous Combustion" was ordered published, and makes a pamphlet of thirty-nine pages. Dr. Hogg read an essay, which was also published. The above proceedings are signed by Dr. R. C. K. Martin, Recording Secretary.

1836 .- Dr. Felix Robertson was continued president, May, 1836. This was its seventh anniversary. Dr. A. H. Buchanan read during the session this year a lengthy essay on the " Medical Topography and Diseases of Middle Tennessee," making forty-three sections in the ninth vol- ume of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine. The Bos- ton Medical and Surgical Journal compliments highly the professional interest manifested at this meeting.

1837 .- I can find nothing of the transactions for this year.

1838 .- The simple notice that Dr. Yandell delivered the annual address before the society, on the " History of Med- icine," is all that we have found for 1838.

1839 .- The tenth annual assembling of the Tennessee Medical Society took place in the City Hall of Nashville, May, 1839. Thirty-seven members were present. Dr. Hogg presented a worm extracted from the eye of a child, and gave its history. Dr. Dorris reported a case of pro- longed utero-gestation. Dr. Buchanan, a case of sponta- neous amputation of a limb in utero, with the foetus. Dr. Peyton Robertson gave the particulars of a case of tetanus. Dr. Dashiel, one of chronic enlargement of the spleen. Dr. Henderson, of Williamson County, one of soft cancer and one of ventral conception. Dr. Thompson, of Rutherford County, one of mania cured by bleeding. Dr. Stith's ad- dress for 1838 on " Asiatic Cholera" is published in the transactions of this year ; also the oration of Dr. Buchanan on the " Necessity of Protection of the Citizen by the Law of License."

1840 .- May, 1840, the eleventh anniversary was cele: brated in Nashville; twenty-four members registered their names and eighteen were added. Dr. Hogg was unani- mously elected president, and Dr. Buchanan vice-presi- dent. Dr. W. G. Dickenson, of Nashville, read a paper on ., which was ordered for publication in the Louisville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. Dr. J. H. Atkinson, of Nashville, reported a case of fever which terminated fatally. Dr. Norman, a case illustrative of the influence of mental distress upon the foetus in utero. A premium of fifty dollars was offered for the best essay on some medical subject. Bilious fever was subsequently selected. We have seen pamphlets furnished by request from Dr. Yan- dell containing his address for 1838; also another one, on " Improvements of the Medical Profession," delivered at the meeting in 1841 ; and also his prize essay on " Bilious Fever." At this meeting Drs. Ramsey and Lea were each

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fined ten dollars for non-production of their papers on " Medical Topography."

1841 .- The society met May 3, 1811, in Nashville. Thirty-two members were present. The president, Dr. Hogg, delivered the annual address. Dr. D. McPhail, of Franklin, read a paper on the " Medical Topography of Middle Tennessee." Dr. Robertson reported two cases, one of dislocation in the cervical portion of the spine, success- fully reduced (and must therefore have been only partial) ; the second, dislocation of the humerus. Dr. Stith read the account of a case of hydrocele cured by a piece of kid-skin introduced into the tunica vaginalis to excite adhesion. Dr. Robert Martin read the notes of a case of partial paralysis in which strychnine was employed. Dr. Thompson, of Rutherford County, gave the particulars of two cases illus- trating the efficacy of compress and bandage in the treat- ment of wounds of small arteries. Dr. J. W. Richardson, a case of gun-shot wound of the abdomen, complicated by injury to the intestine and kidney. Dr. Buchanan, one of a grain of corn in the windpipe, in which laryngotomy was performed, and in which, after some weeks, the grain was coughed up, deprived of its substance, the pulp, but its cortical envelope remained entire. These communications were published in the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. Four papers had been received by the committee on prize essays. Professor Yandell was the successful com- petitor. The subject was bilious fever.

1842 .- In volume twenty-two, August number, of the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, we learn that the Medical Society of Tennessee held its regular annual meeting the first Monday in May, 1842, in Nashville, and the American Journal of Medical Sciences states that this was its thirteenth. It assembled in Nashville. A com- mittee was appointed to obtain a suitable piece of plate, to be presented to Professor Yandell as an award for his prize essay on fever. Dr. Buchanan, of Columbia, was elected president, and Dr. George Thompson, of Jefferson, vice- president. Dr. Buchanan read a paper on the " Theory and Pathology of Fever," which Dr. Drake, then one of the editors of the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, declared " must enhance the reputation of the author as a sound thinker and a clear and learned writer."

1843 .- The society convened in the City Hall of Nash- ville, May, 1843, twenty-five members being present at the opening of the session, and several others united afterwards. Dr. J. M. Stout gave an account of a case of osseous de- posit on the dura mater. Dr. Esselman reported a case of laryngitis, for which tracheotomy was performed, followed by recovery ; also one of successful extirpation of the uterus for chronic inversion. This was done by ligature, the op- erator not knowing at the time what was included in it. Dr. Robert Martin presented a case of abscess with renal calculi. Dr. Robards, of Columbia, a case of functional de- rangement of the heart, with partial recovery. Dr. Felix Robertson read a paper illustrating the extraordinary influ- ence of ipecac on himself. Dr. Buchanan gave the history of a rare case of cancer. Dr. Yandell delivered a eulogy on the life and character of Dr. Hogg. Dr. Brown was fined twenty-five dollars for failing to deliver the annual oration, now due two years. For the mutual improvement of its

members the society established a museum, to be located in Nashville. This was undoubtedly the first step towards organizing a medical department in connection with the University of Nashville, which, at the termination of its sixth session, graduated one hundred and thirty-seven candidates, and at its ninth course of lectures counted four hundred and fifty-six students, being the next highest in number that winter, 1859-60, of all the medical schools in America, and this, too, by a faculty of seven, only one of whom had ever before faced a class, being a success unpre- cedented in medical education the world over. Dr. Rich- ardson delivered this year a very able address, being prob- ably the presiding officer of the meeting. Drs. Robertson, Buchanan, and Waters constituted a committee to memori- alize the Legislature to have changed the law making it a penitentiary offense if detected in obtaining material for dis- section. The world has never yet been fully impressed by the quaint remark of the able but eccentric Mr. Abernethy, made before the British Parliament on this very point. " Be sure," said he, " the living must be butchered if the dead be not dissected."

1844 .- In the Nashville Whig of the year 1844 we find an advertisement for the society to meet on the 6th of May, but nothing more. In the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, number fifty-four, it is stated that the Ten- nessee Medical Society met the 1st of May. Dr. Buchanan was re-elected president, and Dr. Thompson vice-president. It is, morcover, intimated by Dr. Drake that the former A. H. Buchanan sustained this society for one year ; certain it is he was for a long season its guardian spirit in days of neglect and trouble, and this organization owes him a large debt of gratitude for its preservation. A Dr. Sappington, then of Missouri, but formerly of Tennessee, and a resident near this city, ventured to send a book of doubtful charac- ter to the society, when it was unceremoniously returned to the author.

1845 .- The society convened May 7, 1845, in the City Hall of Nashville. Seventeen names were registered, and three more added. Dr. Manlove reported a case of gas- trotomy (enterotomy) for obstructed bowels, terminating in an artificial anus, which healed without operation. This was sent to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Dr. Robards verbally called attention to cases of obstructed bowels relieved by forcible and copious injections of tepid water, and Dr. Nelson to a case of abortion with retained placenta. Dr. Richardson reported two cases of labor; in one there an enormous quantity of liquor amnii, and in the other, twins, with malposition of a child and misplaced placenta." Dr. Stout, a case of gun-shot wound in the right lumbar region. Dr. Robards presented the history of an epi- demic crysipelas which prevailed during the spring of 1844. This account was ordered to the Louisville Journal of Medi- cine and Surgery. Dr. Irwin reported the case of a pebble lodged in the bowels and attended with severe symptoms, but which subsided when it was discharged per anus. Dr. Saudek, who was unavoidably detained, sent an essay on the abuse of calomel, venesection, and blistering. Dr. Avent reported a case of inversion of the womb as a substitute for an essay on the topography of Rutherford County. Dr. Overton read his paper on the mucous membranes. A

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committee was appointed to solicit a donation for a museum and library from the Legislature, but which was, of course, refused. Dr. Winston, the president, then delivered the an- nual address, on the improvements and discoveries in medi- cal science by American physicians.

1846 .- May 6, 1846, the society assembled in the City Hall of Nashville, nineteen members being present. Dr. Buchanan was re-elected president, and Daniel McPhail vice-president. Dr. F. Robertson reported a case of ulcera- tion of the bladder communicating with the rectum. Dr. Saudex read a paper on smallpox, which was discussed by Drs. Buchanan, Winston, and Robertson. Dr. R. Martin reported a case of parturition with an unusual discharge of the waters, and presented an encephalous monster in con- nection with it. Dr. Nelson, of Rutherford County, a case of removal of the ramus and one condyle of the inferior maxilla. Dr. Irwin, one of injury of the spine. Dr. Manlove, a case attended with all the symptoms of hydrophobia, which he, however, attributed to poison by lead. Dr. Overton men- tioned a well-authenticated case of hydrophobia, cured, as he believed, by a strong decoction of the root of Phytolucca decandra. Dr. Robertson alluded to a case cured by the tincture of cantharides given to strangury. The double doubt, first as to the existence of such a disease as hydro- phobia per se, and of the efficacy of the means employed, may, perhaps, excite skepticism on this whole subject. The prize essay on scrofula was at this meeting awarded to the distinguished William L. Sutton, M.D., of Georgetown, Ky. Dr. Buchanan delivered the annual address, on the difficulties of acquiring accurate knowledge in practical medicine.

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History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 70

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1013

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1013