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business, and his affairs had to l)e wound up. In the summer of 1823 he was appointed to a professorship in the
Transylvania University, at Lexington. In the winter of
I823-24 he wrote a series of political articles for the Cincinnati Gazelltte, warmly advocating the nomination of
Henry Clay for the Presidency. He was a very active politician, but not of the office-seeking class. He was a great
admirer of Clay and Adaams. In I825 he l]ad the mistortune to lose' his wife, to whom he ml-as devotedly attached.
He soon after returned to the college at Lexington, but resigned in the spring of I826. III I827 he established the
Westei-it _oui-nal of Medical Sciences and the Cincinnati
Eye Infirmary. In a very short time he was a well-known
writer on medical subjects-a journalist and author of high
reputation. After three years in this field he was elected a
Professor in the Jefterson Medical College, of Philadelphia,
and arrived there for the third time. When the cholera
epidemic had broken out he had returned to the West, and
he was an incessant laborer among its victims. He wro e a
work about this time entitled "A Practical Treatise on the
History, Prevention, and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera."
In,I835 he became interested in the construction of the
Cincinnati & Charleston Railway. He originated the
scheme. He also took steps to reorganize the Medical
College of Ohio. A few years later he removed to Louisville, and in i849 was called again to a chair in the Medical College of Ohio. He was cut off in the midst of his
labors here, dying November 5th, 1852, after an illness of
about a fortnight. His last appearance in public was at a
meeting to honor the memory of Daniel Webster. His life
had been one of varied labor and much hardship, but he
ever maintained an attachment for the purest of principles,
and his intimates say that he was never possessed of a single
vice. Although he was long poor, he paid his debts to the
uttermost farthing, and "pay what thou owest" was with.
him a golden maxim.
R A K E DANIEL,a Physicia n, Professorl, and
i Aum thor, was b orn at Pla infield, Essex county,
1 New Jersey, October 2oth, 1785. Three years
later Ohi o w a s settled, and his pa re n ts at this
tilm e emigrated to Kentucky, settling a t Mayslick.
Unti l the age of fifteen he un derwent the rudest
experiences of backwoods life. At this period he moved to
Cincinnati and became a medical student u nder Dr. William Goforth, who was th e f irst to introduce vaccination in
t he W est. He r e his good manners and easy address admitted him in to th e best society, b ut he never allowed the
c onviviality of t he times to in tferfere with th e ambi tion of
hi s life. I-e wa s the firtst stud ent of medicine in Cincininiati. II I804 he became a partner in the business of his
preceptor, wh i c h was that of apothecary as well as physician. But the business was not successful from a pecuniary
view, and after ex periencing many hardships, in I805 the
pupil mov ed to Philadelphi a to attend a course of lectures
in the l ead ing university there. He had just sufficient
means to ain admisn sion, being left with a single cent after
paying his expenses. In the spring of I8O6 he returned to
C incinnati, and a y e ar la ter he succeeded to the business
of his old preceptor, who had gone to Louisiana. He at
onc e en tered up on successful prac tice, and in the auturmn
of I807 was married to Harriet Sisson, niece of Colonel
J a red Mansf ield, then Surveyor- General of th e United Stat es
for the Northwe st Territory. T h is union lasted eighteen
y ears, and wa s a n em inently happy one. At this time he
began those researches wh ich made him a wri ter and a
savant. With an a rdent e nt husias m he entered into th e
investigation of the trace of an ancient civilization in the
Ohio valley. His researches into the botany of the Miami
valley wer e also very valuable. In I8IO he published a
pamphlet entitled " Notices of Cincinnati; its Topography,
Climaate, and Dis eases." The success of this work, though
but a small edition was issued, led to his more elaborat e
and comple te "Picture of Cincin nati and the Miami
Country," in I8I5. T his workl is now very rare and highly
valued. In 1814 he associated his brother Benjamin with
him as a partne r, and added the business of grocer t o that
of druggist. He w as also much intereste d in the Lancaster
Seminary, which was the origin al f ound ation of the Cincinnati College. A fter his "Picture of Cincinnati" was
publish ed h e ag ain visited Philadelphia to attend a course
of lectures, accompanied by his wife. In May, I8I6, he
returned to his hom e, being the f ir st resident of Cincinnat i
to receive a diploma from the East. He now increased his
business, his father becoming a member of the firm. In
I8I7 he accepted a professorship in the medical college at
Lexington, Kentucky, and soon after entered uponl his
long and distinguished career as a publ'ic teacher' of medlicine. In I818 he devised the plan of the Cincinnati'College, the Medical College, and the Conmmercial Hospital.
The Medical College of Ohio became an established fact
in I820. In the next two years he met with reverses inl
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ITT, STILLMAN, Railroad President and Capital ist, was born in Worcester.county, Massachusetts,
January 4tb, i8o8. His father being poor, be
received only a common school education. When
thirteen years of age be was taken to Ti.-oy, New
York, where be was employed to run a skiff ferry
at ten dollars per month. Canvoss White, of the United
States Engineer Corps, crossed the ferry often, and, surprised by the interest be manifested in construction, obtained permission from the boy's father to educate him in
his own profession. He was soon able to master the priiiciples of engineering and to'apply them. He was then
sent by his friend,ind employer to take charge of the
Coboes Manuf,-tctiiring Company. He surveyed and laid
out the village and arranged the water power. This work
accomplisbecl, be was despatched to construct the bridge
across the Susquehanna at the mouth of the Juniata river.