The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.

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1878
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    During June, July and August, 1862, and July, 1863, he served as surgeon in the U. S. army, being attached to the 22d regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. lie was married, April 5th, 1859, to Emma Hale, daughter of Norman White, Esq., of New V'ork. LE CO?JTE, JOHN E., was born in New York, May 13th, 1825, his father, John E. Le Conte, some time an officer in the U. S. army, holding a prominent place among the early botanists and zoologists of this country, and being well known in scientific circles at home and abroad. Elis family is of noble Huguenot origin, and has been resident in America since the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Graduating from Mount St. Mary's coll. in 1842, he entered tlie coll. of phys. and surg., New York, and in 1846 received his degree of M. D. Six years later he came, with his father, to Philadeljihia, then the centre of the intellectual life of the continent. In Philadelphia—save during his various jour- neys in the interest of science, and during his army service—he has since remained. 15eing offered an appointment to Trautwine's parly, sent out to make a survey for an inter-oceanic railway across Honduras, he spent several months in the tropics in 1857; contributing a memoir upon the Economic Geology of Honduras to the final report of the survey. He also contributed, to Squier's Central America, a paper upon the famous Fuente de Sangre, solving the mystery of that phe- nomenon. He was attached ten years later (1S67) to the Kansas Pacific extension survey, under Gen. W. W. Wright; visited portions of Colorado and New Mexico, and prepared a report embodying his oliservations upon the geological formation of the region adja- cent to the line surveyed. On the breaking out of the late war, he entered the army as Kurgeon of U. S. vols.; was subsequently pro- moted to be med. inspector, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, U. S. army, and in this capacity served until that grade of the medical coips was mustered out in 1865. He is a member or corres. member of many of the leading scientific societies of America and Europe: acad. of the nat. sciences, Philadel- phia, 1845, at present vice-president; Am. jihilosophical soc, 1S53; National acad. of sciences of the U. S., 1863; Am. asso. for advancement of science, 1848, was president in 1874; Am. enlomol. soc, now jiresident; entomolog. and zoolog. socs. of London ; soc. enlomoiogique de France; Imperial acad. of sciences, Ijclle-lettres and arts, Lyons; Impe- rial soc. of nat. sciences, Cherl)ourg ; nat. hist, soc. of Leipsic; Royal ]iliysical soc. of Edin- burgh; Russian entomolog. soc.; Royal soc. of sciences, Liege, Belgium ; Royal Bavarian acad. of sciences; Imperial free economical soc, St. Petersburg; entomolog. soc. of Stettin; societe entomologique Beige ; Impe- rial royal geolog. institution of Vienna, etc., etc. He has been for many years a volumi- nous contributor to the magazines and trans- actions of various learned societies, his writings being mainly upon entomology, and in this branch of science he stands at the head of American original investigators. CURWEN, JOHN, Ilarrisburg, Pa., was born, Sept. 20th, 1821, in Lower Merion, Montgomery co.. Pa. He graduated at Yale coll. in 1841, and at the med. dep't of the univ. of Pa. in April, 1844. For some months before graduating at the latter institu- tion he was a resident of Wills' hosp., Phila- delphia; but iieing elected, a few weeks after his graduation, ass't phys. of the Pa. hosp. for the insane, he entered on duty there, June 3d, 1844, and continued until Oct. 1st, 1849, from which date he had an office in Philadelphia till Feb. I3lh, 1851, wheii he was chosen superintendent and physician of the Pa. State lunatic hosp., at Ilarrisburg, where he has since remained. He is a member of the Dauphin co. med. soc, of which he has been president; of the Pa. State med. soc, of which also he has been president; of the Am. med. asso. ; of the asso. of med. superintendents of Am. in- stitutions for the insane, of which he is like- wise secretary; and an hon. member of the Am. philosophical soc of Philadelphia. He published in 1851 a small volume, entitled Manual for Attendants in Hospitals for the Insane ; but, with the exception of a paj)er on the Proper Treatment of the Insane, read before the Am. med. asso. and published in Iheir Transactions, his contributions to medical literature have consisted mainly of reports of the Pa. State lunatic hosp., memo- rials in behalf of the hospitals for the insane at Danville and Warren, and on some cognate topics, and reports of the commissioners of the institutions just mentioned. He was commissioner for the selection of the site and erection of the State hosps. for the insane at Danville and Warren, and for several years, under a!<i)pointment of Gov. Pollock, was trus- tee of the v^'estern Pa. hosp. for the insane, now at Dixmont. He was married, Aug. 2d, 1849, to Martha P. Elmer, of Bridgeton, N. J., who died May 12th, 1873. SANGER, EUGENE F., Bangor, Me., was Ijorn in Waterville, Me., Oct. i8ih, 1S29. He was educated at Waterville acad. and pursued his medical studies in Jefferson
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