A. M., M. D., 32 degrees, recently located at St. Joseph, Mo.

He was born in Versailles, Woodford Co., Ky., Mar. 26, 1851, where he resided until 1867, when he removed to Missouri, entered the State University at Columbia, and in 1870 graduated with distinction. In the fall of that year, having chosen medicine as a profession, he entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and was the office student of that distinguished surgeon, Prof. S. D. Gross. In 1871 and 1872 he was second assistant in clinics under the same professors and Prof. Joseph Pancoast. He graduated 1872, and in a competitive examination in a class of thirty-seven, for five resident physicians of the City Hospital of Philadelphia, he was chosen one of the number and held that position for two and a half years.

In 1874 he located in Hannibal, and, though as a general practitioner, he soon took rank at the head of his profession; he was especially noted as a surgeon, and his reputation as such soon became state-wide. He held the office of city physician for five years.

In 1881 he was chosen chief surgeon of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Co., whose road extends from one side of the state to the other, and has continued to retain that responsible position, the extended interests of the company lately requiring his removal to St. Joseph, where the chief offices of the company are located.

Following his appointment by the H. & St. J., he was made chief surgeon of the St. L. & H. Ry. Co., and assistant surgeon of the Wabash, St Louis & Pacific, the C. B. & Q., and the St. L., K. N. & W. railway companies, holding these positions till his removal to St. Joseph.

In 1883 he was appointed by Gov. Crittenden a member of the State Board of Health, then just established, and upon its organization was elected its secretary. Possessing a "mortal aversion" for quackery, he commenced an unrelenting war upon the charlatans who then infested the state, and drove them beyond the borders. He was severely criticised by the newspapers, who thrived by their quack advertisements, but this only served to nerve him for the fray, and had he been properly supported by others as fearless as himself, he would have rid the people of these pests for some time to come.

The doctor is by no means a recluse in his profession, but

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