Identifier: historyofnewyork00loss_0 (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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-ized in New York City for sanitary reform, and was at one time president of the StateMedical Society. He is a member of several learned societies. As a lecturer Dr. Agnew is fluent in speech and eminently practical in all his teach-ings. For a quarter of a century he has devoted himself specially to diseases of the eyeand ear. His contributions to the medical literature of the country, as well as to othermatters of human concern, have been many and important. * The officers in 1882 were: John Sinclair, president ; Charles Lanier, treasurer, andCornelius R. Agnew, secretary. These were among the corporators. There is a boardof directors, twenty-four in number. \ Salem Howe Wales was born, October 4, 1825, in the town of Wales, Mass., and isdescended from one of the English Puritans who came to America with Richard Mather.His father. Captain Oliver Wales, was a woollen manufacturer whose business sufferedfrom the financial troubles of 1837, when the subject of this sketch was compelled
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FOURTH DECADE, 1860-1S70. T79 and is one of the best appointed, most efficient, and prosperous of themedical institutions of the metropolis. It was organized and put intooperation in 1859. Its course of instruction is similar to that of allother medical colleges of high character. As a rule, when one isdescribed, all others have thereby been practically described. As suchdescriptions have been given in former pages, it may suffice here to saythat the instruction in this college is broad and rigid, and covers every to rely upon bis own resources in the battle of life before him. He went to New Yorkat the age of twenty-one and became a clerk in an importing house, where he remainednearly two years. He subsequently associated himself with Mr. Munn in the publi-cation of the Scientific American. He was a member of the firm twenty-three years,retiring from business in 1871. During that period he devoted himself with great zealand industry to the advancement of the industrial power and reso

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