. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. wife wasSarah Lewis and he reared a large family of chil-dren, to each of whom he gave a farm. His John Southard, who was born in Booth-bay in I 797, married Elizabeth Cathland and theirson William L., Dr. Southards father, was bornin Richmond, that state, in 1820. William LewisSouthard became a successful merchant of Portland,serving as a member of its Board of .-Mdernienduring the Civil War, and reti
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. wife wasSarah Lewis and he reared a large family of chil-dren, to each of whom he gave a farm. His John Southard, who was born in Booth-bay in I 797, married Elizabeth Cathland and theirson William L., Dr. Southards father, was bornin Richmond, that state, in 1820. William LewisSouthard became a successful merchant of Portland,serving as a member of its Board of .-Mdernienduring the Civil War, and retired from business in 1867. Lydia Carver (Dennis) Southard, his wife,who is now living with a daughter, Mrs. W. of ^Vinchester, Massachusetts, was bornJune 1, 1S19, daughter of Captain John andElizabeth (Dean) Dennis, the former of Taunton,Massachusetts, and the latter of Newport, RhodeIsland. William F. Southard received his earlyeducation in the Portland public schools and theWestbrook, Maine, Seminary, was graduated fromTufts College with the Class of 1868 and took hisMedical degree at Harvard in 1872. His profes-sional training was attended with excellent hospital. W. F. . privileges. Dr. Southard began his practice atSalem shortly after graduating, he removed a yearlater to Baldwinville, a large factory village, in thetown of Tern pie ton, Massachusetts, where he re-mained several years. Returning to Boston in1878, he entered Professor H. P. Bowditchs physio-logical laboratory at the Harvard Medical School,where, during the succeeding two years, he con-ducted a large number of original experiments inrelation to sight and touch, the results of whichwere published in the London Physiological Jour-nal. From tliat time forward Dr. Southard hasmade ophthalmology a specialty, practising success-fully and contributing many valuable articles uponthat subject to medical literature. He went to UNIFERSiriES AND THEIR SONS AS7 California in 1881, where he has since li
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