The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 257. FBTJITNIGHT, Johu Henry, physician, wasborn in New York city Nov. 9, 1851, and is ofIrerman descent, his father having emigrated toAmerica m 1840 from H
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 257. FBTJITNIGHT, Johu Henry, physician, wasborn in New York city Nov. 9, 1851, and is ofIrerman descent, his father having emigrated toAmerica m 1840 from Hanover, Germany, where hewas a member of the queens body-guard. On ar-riving in New York he entered the grocery busi-°l^^tl?^ ^^ ^y others, failed during the panicof 1857, and did not retrieve his fortunes until this period John Henryassisted his father in suchsmall ways as a boy of hisage was, able to do. At thesame time he attended thepublic schools, was apt andindustrious in his studies, andpossessed a remarkably reten-tive memory. He was readyto enter college at the age oftwelve, but was not permittedto do so until he was sixteen,whemhe entered the collegeof the city of New York, andwas graduated in 1872 withthe degree of He thenTti^ \i ji entered Bellevue hospital med-_rz \\vJ M.^ ical college, devoting his even-iy/i^«^^iL<&^=^ ings to teaching German and(y mathematics, and received his degree of
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