Biography

"n 1839, he accepted a professorship in Geneva Medical College. He lectured on materia medica and obstetrics until 1840, when, on the reorganization of the faculty, he took the Chair of Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence. Wh n the Un've sity of Buffalo had so far outstripped the College of Geneva, that to longer retain his connection with the latter institution would be detrimental to his interests, he resigned his position at Geneva and had the honorary degree of Emeritus Professor conferred upon him in 1851.

On the chartering of the Medical University of Buffalo, in 1846, he was appointed to the Chair of Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence. Repeated attacks of hemorrhage from his lungs induced him, in January, 1848, to try;the effects of a sea voyage. With his estimable wife he visited Europe, and was in Paris during the three memorable days of the revolution. He was ore of the deputation of American citizinsthai called on the Provisional Government. He returned by the way of London and Liverpool, and reached home about the first of May. His voyage had a favorable effect on his health, as there was no return of the hemorrhage after.

He continued his lectures at the University of Buffalo, and in the interval engaged more extensively in family practice, until 1852. The interruptions to his business finally became so serious, that he felt he could no longer afford to retain his position in the faculty, and resigned; leaving the institution with the honor of an Emeritus professorship. From this time he devoted himself entirely to practice.

At the annual meeting of this Society in 1825, he became a member. At the semi-annual meeting in 1826, he read a dissertation on fever, and was elected treasurer and librarian, which he held until his removal to New York in 1830. After his return to Utica in 1831, he was again elected treasurer and librarian of the Society, and continued to discharge the duties of the two offices for many years.

Impressed with the inhumanity of confining the pauper insane in the county poor-houses, he, as early as 1834, offered a series of resolutions which were adopted by this Society and the State Medical Society, urging on the State legislature the necessity of an institution for the better care of this unfortunate class of citizens. The State Lunatic Asylum here had its origin in his philanthropic exertions. He was one of the original board of trustees appointed by Governor Seward, and one of a committee to draw up a plan of organization."