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was appointed to the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine,
and in 1850 to that of…
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eca county, N. Y., from 1826 to 1831, when he entered the Insti-
tute. Was engaged in general…
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temporary clerkships and other duties in the establishment.
While a t the Institute he…
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Middle Kingdom,” The trustees of Union College conferred on
him soon after the title of LL. D.
On…
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Middle Kingdom,” with a short prefatory chapter upon the
war with Great Britain and…
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attended village school until ten years of age, then went to Trux-
ton Academy, in Truxton, Cortland…
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fession of civil engineer, for which his studies had especially
fitted him.
H e was…
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codes and acts, as of the common law, handed down to us by
the recorded decisions of the courts; a…
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him must underlie all law, determining in obscure cases and in
the absence of special…
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has united the Atlantic and the Pacific, bound together in the
National Union the East and the West…
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generous plans and the sympathetic and great-hearted disposi-
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married Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, and now resides in Elmira, N. Y.;
the fourth, Amy…
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CLASS OF 1834.
THERON R. HOPKINS,A. B., (r. s.), C. E., was from Dutchess
county, N.…
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civil engineering.
sician in North Rochester, Mass.
H e then studied medicine, and was a phy-…
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county in 1850-52. Married, June Igth, 1858, Armina L. Mc-
Clintock, daughter of Dr.…
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the sick, especially cases of scrofula. As a boy he manifested a
strong desire to obtain an…
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CLASS OF 1836.
JAMES SHODBREAD DRAYTON, B. N. S., was born in Charles-
Nothing has…
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many railways in South America and Mexico, and now, at the
age of sixty-nine, and after having…
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engineer until the junction with the Central Pacific railroad,
May loth, 1869; he then…
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lating the squares and streets of the city being carried out under
his direction. H e left…
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astronomer of considerable proficiency. In 1819 he published
an almanac, known as the…
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HENRY BAKER, C. E., (Waterford, N. Y.), was born March Igth,
1814, in Northumberland, N. Y., and…
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located at Lockport, N. Y., and was always enthusiastic in
lending his best talents to…
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declaring them expensive to operate and liable to get out of
order. The new engine conformed to his…
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October, 1882. Both are buried beside their daughter a t Canan-
daigua.
In stature…