The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans Volume 4 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...practised in Uart1and and Bothel, Vt., for two years and then removed to Woodstock, Vt. He was professor of the theory and practice of medicine, of materia meiica and president of the medical college at Castleton, Vt., from 1820 to 1823. In 1827 he established a school of medicine at Woodstock, remaining in charge till 1834, and the following year this school was merged into the Vermont medical college. He received his M.D. degree from Dartmouth in 1814 and the honorary degree of A.M. from Middlebury, Vt., college in 1823. He published: Sketches of Epidemic Diseases in the Siate of Vermont and Remarks on Pulmonary Consumption (1803); Pathological Reflections on the Supertonic State of Disease (1822); and Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine (2 vols., 1839). He died In Woodstock, Vt.. Oct. 12, 1849. GALLY, Merritt, inventor, was born in Perry, N.Y., Aug. 15, 1838; son of the Rev. David K. and Anna (Wilder) Gally; and grandson of Robert Gaily, born in Scotland, educated in Edinburgh, settled in the North of Ireland and transported a large church colony of Protestants to America about 1798; and of Erastus Wilder of Pilgrim ancestry, who emigrated to central New York about 1802. Merritt's father settled in Rochester in 1839 and died there in 1844 when the boy was six years old. His mother married again and in 1849 he was apprenticed to a printer. While learning the trade he learned also the art of engraving on wood. He completed his apprenticeship and worked for a time with his gtepfather as master mechanic, becoming conversant with mechanical engineering. He constructed a printing press in 1854 when sixteen years old and with his brother set up a printing office in Nunda, N.Y. In 1856 he began his preparation for college, supporting himself meanwhile by wood...

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