. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. iversity of that city. It had been intended that he shouldhave a full college education, and he was prepared for matricula-tion at the age of fifteen years. But the death of his fatheraltered his plans. He spent a year as clerk in a store in Buffalo,and then began the study of medicine. Three years of studycompleted the course, and he received the degree of Doctor ofMedicine. Immediately after graduation he went to St. Louis, and spenta year there in hospital work. He served there as a city physi-cian through the smallpox epidemic of 1872-73.
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. iversity of that city. It had been intended that he shouldhave a full college education, and he was prepared for matricula-tion at the age of fifteen years. But the death of his fatheraltered his plans. He spent a year as clerk in a store in Buffalo,and then began the study of medicine. Three years of studycompleted the course, and he received the degree of Doctor ofMedicine. Immediately after graduation he went to St. Louis, and spenta year there in hospital work. He served there as a city physi-cian through the smallpox epidemic of 1872-73. Then, in thesummer of the latter year, he returned to the East, and soonbecame second assistant medical officer in the Willard Asylumfor the Insane, on Seneca Lake, New York. There he remainedfor eighteen years, being promoted to the place of first assistant,and then, in 1884, to that of superintendent, which latter he filledfor six years. In 1882 he made an exhaustive study of theofficial systems of caring for the insane in Great Britain and 387. I
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