Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ntiary to the Court ofSt. Petersburg during the administration of Presi-dent Arthur. Thomas Hunt, , won distinctionin the medical profession. He was scholar andorator, as well as a man of science. An act ofdevoted humanity, in going to the relief of thepassengers and crew of the Brig Amelia, wreckedin November, 1832, off Charleston Harbor, and insubduing .Asiatic cholera which raged among them, earned for Dr. H
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ntiary to the Court ofSt. Petersburg during the administration of Presi-dent Arthur. Thomas Hunt, , won distinctionin the medical profession. He was scholar andorator, as well as a man of science. An act ofdevoted humanity, in going to the relief of thepassengers and crew of the Brig Amelia, wreckedin November, 1832, off Charleston Harbor, and insubduing .Asiatic cholera which raged among them, earned for Dr. Hunt, in early manhood, extraordi-nary reputation ;is the intrepid physician of FollyIsland. The cholera was then spreailiiig for thefirst time along the western shores of the address of Dr. Hunt on that disease wasadopted by the Medical Association of South Caro-lina, and in 1836 iiublished and circulated by the pub-lic authorides. (See authentic memoir of Dr. Hunt,Eclectic Magazine, \<. 57,) He became the HouseSurgeon of the New Orleans Charity Hosi)ital, wasthe earliest and most active Founder of the Medi-cal College of Louisiana, member of the Medical --(^. CARLETON HUNT Faculty and Dean and President and a most in-fluential adviser in establishing the University ofLouisiana, now Tulane LTniversity. Aglae Carletonwas a daughter of Judge Henry Carleton, at onetime United States District Attorney and subse-quently Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court,who was joint author of a translation of Las SietePartidas, The subject of this sketch acquired hisearly education at the University Grammar Schoolestablished by the late Rev. F. L. Hawkes, ,, first President of the Lniversity of Harvard as a Sophomore he was gradu-ateil with the Class of 1856, and his leg;tl prepara-tions were pursued in the Law Department of theUni\-ersity of Louisiana, where he took the degree 238 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS of Bachelor of Laws two years later. From
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