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Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1898)
Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1898 Author:College of Physicians of Philadelphia Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIR OF WILLIAM H. FORD, M.D. By SAMUEL ASHHUKST, M.D. [Read- May 4, 1898.] Sensible as I am of the honor done me by my appointment to prepare a biogr... more »aphical sketch of our late Fellow, Dr. Ford, I accepted the honor all the more gladly as it gives me the opportunity to testify to the virtues and excellences of one who passed through this life too modest to make claims for himself, and gave the best years of that life for the good of his native city, which, to a very great extent, is entirely ignorant of the vast debt it owes to him. Some time before the close of the last century William and Mary Ford came to Philadelphia from the neighboring village of Chester, as it was then. In 1796 they had born to them a son, William, who married, and in turn had a son, the third William, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Philadelphia on October 7th, 1839. His father, who was a successful merchant, sent the son to Lawrenceville School at the age of twelve years. There he remained for four years, when he entered Princeton, and graduated therefrom in 1860. Having finished his academical career with honor, Ford matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, and was a student there during the exciting days some of us remember as preceding the outbreak of the war of the rebellion. Although he had not obtained the degree of M.D., William H. Ford, as was the case with many others, offered his services to the Government on the breaking out of the war, and for a time served as acting medical cadet, being in active service onthe Pamunkey during the sad and confusing days of the Peninsular Campaign. Having received the degree of M.D. in 1863, Dr. Ford was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Forty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and afterward was promoted to belts surgeon. A...« less