Reverend Stephen and Amelia Stout Chipley, the forefathers of both of
whom were pioneers of Lexington. Doctor Chipley was graduated at
Transylvania in 1832, with marked honor. Not a great while after his
graduation he took issue with Doctor Benjamin Dudley, the oldest and
most renowned practitioner of the State--or indeed of the whole
country. Doctor Dudley had published a treatise upon the treatment of
a special disease. Doctor Chipley took an opposite view, expressing
himself most boldly and brilliantly. His article was published in an
advanced medical journal and copied widely. Chipley received
widespread encomiums. Indeed, he came off with raised banner, and his
colors have never since been furled. His success was progressive this
article exemplifying his determination when convinced he was right.
Later he went to Columbus, Georgia, feeling assured it was a fine
opening for a young practitioner, and so it proved. He was soon
launched into an almost phenomenal practice, extending across the
Chattahoochee River into Alabama to the Indian nation, where his
wonderful magnetism was felt to such a degree that he won the
confidence--even friendship--of these savages. He would be detained
days at a time ministering to them--a tribe, too, by no means regarded
as friendly to the whites. In April, 1837, he married in Columbus,
Georgia, Elizabeth Fanning, niece and adopted daughter of Colonel
James Fanning, of Alamo fame. Doctor Chipley was at one time Mayor of
Columbus, and made a brilliant reputation as an executive officer. At
the entreaties of his mother and father, who were quite advanced in
age, he turned a deaf ear to the opposition of his legion of friends
in Columbus and returned to Lexington, Kentucky, where it seemed a
flourishing practice did but await him. He was a very successful
Professor of Transylvania in the chair of Theory and Practice of
Medicine, from 1854 to 1857, inclusive. As a lecturer he had a
wonderful flow of language. The possessor of a perfect voice and
delivery, he chained the attention of all listeners. Often have I
heard his patients say his sunshiny presence, his gentle, sympathetic
touch in the sick-room, dulled pain and was better than drugs. He was
a brilliant and forceful writer, the author of many medical works and
the writer of numerous articles published in medical journals of the
highest note. One small book of his gave him much notoriety. Chief
Justice George Robertson, of Lexington, regarded it of such high worth
that he gave fifteen hundred dollars to have it published and placed
as a healthful guide in certain schools for boys. It was in 1855 that
he took charge of the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum at Lexington.
This proved a wide field for the development of the most astonishing
tact and management of individuals. The attendants greatly admired him
and yielded without question to his dictation. Gentle as a woman,
adamantine after a decision, never acting hastily, maturing a subject
before deciding--these characteristics were shown on all occasions
where it pertained to the comfort of the poor creatures under his
care. During his fifteen or sixteen years of most successful
management of this institution, he made many radical changes for the
amelioration of the condition of these unfortunates. Winter after
winter he haunted the legislative halls in behalf of the Asylum,
spending his own personal means most lavishly to meet this
end--presenting one bill after another, which sooner or later were
always honored. His enthusiasm and faithfulness carried conviction
with them. When he took charge of the Asylum he found it a
conglomerate mass--many from other States there--incurables,
epileptics, idiots--all huddled together. He went carefully over the
records and proceeded to institute a thorough weeding. First he
notified the governors of the respective States to send for their own
insane, giving them a stated time of grace, and telling them that if
the call was not honored he would send the patients to their doors by
one of his own attendants, which he did in several instances. This
systematizing was a great step forward. The next thing he did was to
induce the State to erect an institution for idiots, believing there
were few born who were not capable of receiving some degree of
cultivation. In time a home was built at Frankfort, the result proving
his great wisdom. It was a matter of wonderment to see these poor
creatures developing from a driveling state of nonentity into some
capacity for the enjoyment of life, and even to a degree of
usefulness. There were but few incapable of being taught some
employment which rendered their life more than a mere existence, akin
alone to the lower animals. To have succeeded in this was enough to
mark any man's life. His philanthropy never slept. Then, through his
direct intervention, the Asylum at Anchorage for incurables was
erected; all these changes making room for those who stood a chance of
being cured instead of their being turned, for the lack of room, from
the sheltering care which might restore them. I think his influence
was brought to bear upon the advisability of an institution for the
deaf and dumb, which culminated in the home made for them in Danville.
I think it was in or about the year 1857 he went to Europe, absolutely
for the purpose of gaining an insight into better ways and means of
the treatment of the insane and the construction of the buildings
which were their homes. Though there was such an emptying of the old
Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum building, it soon became altogether
insufficient to meet the demands. Applications poured in, and soon,
after a hard-fought battle, the legislature made an appropriation to
add to the old building, and promptly there was under construction a
building which, when finished, for comfort and in a sanitary way was
unequaled. This, years after his death, was destroyed by fire, and
when rebuilt, I understand, was modeled after the old plan. He was his
own architect, his whole heart and being merged in a desire to have
all as nearly perfect as possible, developing thus a new talent. He
always had in view a private asylum of his own. This purpose was
crystallized when it became apparent that politics would govern the
State institutions, though in opposition to all that was humane. He
resigned December, 1869. He purchased "Duncannon," the beautiful
Duncan home near Lexington. The site selected, lumber on the place,
all plans formulated, having gained such advanced ideas from his long
and successful experience he hoped to have an ideal shelter for those
who preferred private treatment. On December 9, 1871, at eleven
o'clock at night, snow on the ground, standing with his family and
several whom even then he had under his charge around him, after
barely escaping with their lives, he saw the "Duncannon" mansion
reduced to ashes. This disaster crippled his efforts to the degree
that he was forced to forego that which if carried through would have
proven a monument to his memory of no small magnitude. He then rented
a house in Lexington, where he had some patients under his charge,
with a private attendant who had won many laurels in this capacity.
Doctor Chipley was frequently called upon, even in other States, to
decide in the courts as a specialist in insanity. He had a great
number under his private treatment in their own homes, of whom the
world never knew. He had innumerable offers of positions, but none
seemed to appeal to him so much as one at College Hill, near
Cincinnati, Ohio. He accepted this offer. His success here proved a
very decided one, redeeming the institution from great financial
stress and opening up astonishing possibilities. He had four
sons--only one now living (1903)--and one daughter (the present
writer). He left many friends in Lexington who were ever beckoning him
back, and to the last he hoped to return where his heart was. But
after only a few years of service at College Hill he contracted a cold
from which he never recovered. He died February 11, 1880. Invitations
had been issued for a reunion in honor of his aged mother, who was
ninety-seven the day he died. A train was to be chartered and
Lexington friends were to come. He has left a memory of his gathered
laurels and honored name more precious than the gems of the universe.
EMILY CHIPLEY JONES.
DOCTOR JAMES MORRISON BRUCE
Was a son[98] of John Bruce, a Scottish gentleman associated with
Colonel James Morrison and Benjamin Gratz in the manufacture of hemp
at Lexington, Kentucky, and was born at that place in 1822. After
completing a collegiate education, he studied medicine with Doctor
Benjamin W. Dudley, taking the degree of M. D. in Transylvania in
1843. He then spent three years in France, studying in the principal
hospitals at Paris under the most eminent instructors. In 1846, he
returned to Lexington to begin the practice of his profession. He was
elected to the chair of Demonstrator of Anatomy in Transylvania
Medical Department in 1850, continuing therein until the cessation of
the school in 1857. Doctor Bruce's intrinsic merit was fully
appreciated by his colleagues, who had great affection for him, but
his excessively shrinking nature withheld him from taking the
prominent position with the public to which his ability and learning
entitled him. In truth, his chief characteristic was his modest,
amiable, and retiring disposition. His specialty in medicine was
eruptive disease. In the treatment of smallpox his professional
brethren conceded him the highest place. For many years he was
continuously elected City Physician, and holding this office he died,
January 31, 1881, the sudden ending of his useful and kindly life
being largely due to the exposure he so constantly and bravely
encountered in his visits to the suffering poor during an unusually
severe and trying winter. Says a fellow-physician,[99] "It was then
that the great and good qualities of our friend and co-laborer, Doctor
Bruce, shone pre-eminently. It was at a time when poverty and distress
appealed to him that his great-heartedness, his forgetfulness of self,
and his proficient medical skill forced itself before that public
attention from which at all other times it timidly shrunk." Doctor
Bruce married, in 1847, Miss Elizabeth Norton. Of his children Miss
Elizabeth Bruce and Mrs. Charlotte B. Davis, of Lexington, survive him.
DOCTOR ALEXANDER KEITH MARSHALL,
Born February 11, 1808, performed the duties of the chair of Materia
Medica in 1856. He had received a classical education from his father,
the celebrated Doctor Louis Marshall, of "Buck Pond"; studied medicine
with Doctor Ephraim McDowell, and completed his medical course at
Transylvania. He was a handsome man, a forcible speaker, a prominent
politician and Odd Fellow, and a member of Congress in 1855. He died
at the home of his son, Louis, near Lexington, April, 28, 1884.[100]
BENJAMIN P. DRAKE, M. D.,
A graduate of Transylvania Medical Department in 1830, occupied the
chair of Materia Medica in the last year of the school in 1857.
* * * * *
During the last two years of the Medical Department of Transylvania
University the Faculty were:
Ethelbert L. Dudley, Surgery.
James M. Bush, Anatomy.
William S. Chipley, Theory and Practice.
Samuel M. Letcher, Obstetrics, etc.
Henry M. Skillman, Physiology and Institutes of Medicine.
Alexander K. Marshall, Materia Medica and Botany, 1856.
Benjamin P. Drake, Materia Medica and Botany, 1857.
Robert Peter, Chemistry and Pharmacy; Dean.
[Illustration: TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY--MEDICAL HALL.
Built in 1839--Burned in 1863.]
From 1850 until the end in 1857, the existence of the school seems to
have been an heroic struggle against fate. In spite of the fine Medical
Hall, alluded to on the day of its dedication (November 2, 1840) by
President Robert Davidson,[101] as "colossal in size and surpassing in
architectural beauty," in spite of liberal endowments and "costly and
complete apparatus, superior to any in the valley of the Mississippi,
and not surpassed, if equaled, by any on the continent,"[102] the school
languished. Notwithstanding the efforts of zealous Trustees and generous
citizens, notwithstanding the diligence of an able Faculty, the classes
steadily decreased from year to year until, in 1857, with only nine
graduates, the Faculty in despair disbanded, and the time-honored
Medical Department of Transylvania University was no more.
Two factors more than all else (except as before mentioned, the
impossibility of securing sufficient material for clinical
instruction) had contributed to its demise--the retirement of Doctor
Dudley in 1850, and the difficulty that existed in establishing the
needed railroads throughout the State. The latter cause had been
operating unfavorably and with increasing effect almost ever since the
introduction of steam transportation.
Enlightened thinkers had early recognized and urged the vital
importance of railroads for Kentucky, and especially for Lexington and
Transylvania, and had bravely advanced to conquer the difficulties of
the situation, but with only discouragement and pecuniary loss for
many years. The peculiar topography of the State, the constant
alternation of hill and valley, the numerous streams, the hardness of
the rock to be penetrated, made the building of railways very
expensive, and capital was wanting. The wealth of Central Kentucky was
in the soil, not in the purse, and without communication with the
markets of the world this wealth was unavailable. In this manner
enterprise was checked and Lexington sank into an apathetic state. It
is true she had secured the distinction of having the first railroad
in the West and the second in the United States,[103] but for years it
only led to Frankfort, an interior town but twenty-eight miles
distant. It was not until 1851 that it connected with Louisville.
Of Doctor Dudley's influence upon the medical school Doctor David W.
Yandell truly says:[104] "The history of the Medical Department of
Transylvania University--its rise, its success, its decline, its
disappearance from the list of medical colleges--would practically
cover Doctor Dudley's career, and would form a most interesting chapter
in the development of medical teaching in the Southwest. But it must
suffice me here to say that Doctor Dudley created the medical department
of the institution and directed its policy. Its students regarded him
from the beginning as the foremost man in the Faculty. That he had
colleagues whose mental endowments were superior to his he himself at
all times freely admitted. He is said to have laid no claim to either
oratorical power or professional erudition. He was not a logician, he
was not brilliant, and his deliverances were spiced with neither humor
nor wit. And yet, says one of his biographers, in ability to enchain the
students' attention, to impress them with the value of his instructions
and his greatness as a teacher, he bore off the palm from all the gifted
men who at various periods taught at his side."
But although these two would appear to be the more obvious reasons for
the decline of the Medical Department of Transylvania, we can by no
means ignore the injurious effect of rival medical colleges growing up
at points more accessible and more progressive than Lexington could
possibly be without rapid transit of some sort to make her own
peculiar advantages available. Nor can we overlook the evil
consequences of the opposition systematically shown to the
Transylvania Medical School by the faction originating in the attempt
to disorganize the institution in 1837.
However, in reviewing all these influences, the prosperity of
Lexington to-day (1904), her rapid growth, her increasing enterprise,
her vigorous trade, the flourishing condition of her colleges and
seminaries--all of which has come to her since the completion of the
railroads centering in her--abundantly prove that this communication,
above everything else, was her indispensable requirement.
While the medical school was closed in 1857, the Academical Department
of Transylvania University continued to be conducted at the Morrison
College as a State Normal School,[105] under the Presidency of the
distinguished Doctor Lewis W. Green, D. D., but was soon to be
disorganized, after only two years of usefulness, on account of a
supposed unconstitutionality. Thus Transylvania was again humbled to a
low estate in educational distinction. Lexington herself was suffering
an era of banishment, as we may say, for without proper railroad
connections she was excluded from progress and rendered inaccessible
to both labor and capital. The financial prosperity of her citizens
was not such as to warrant the lavish hospitality formerly shown to
strangers within her gates, and especially to the students in
Transylvania. The enterprising individuals who remained to her were
not sufficient in numbers to dispel by their most strenuous exertions
the lethargy which had fallen upon the place.
Such was the state of affairs immediately preceding the Civil War. The
immense Medical Hall had reverted to the city and was deserted, save
the laboratory in which was still being busily conducted the chemical
work of the first Geological Survey of Kentucky; and save perhaps one
of the smaller rooms, rented to a lodger. The survey had just received
a sudden check in the death of the lamented Doctor Owen when the war
still further darkened the prospect, during which, as a matter of
course, the resumption of the survey was out of the question. The
Morrison College was almost immediately appropriated by the United
States Government for a general hospital, and, some time after, the
Medical Hall, which as before mentioned was utterly destroyed by
fire[106] during its occupation by the sick soldiers. The
conflagration originated, it appeared, from a defective flue of a
temporary frame kitchen, built adjoining.[107]
The corner-stone of this Medical Hall had been laid July 4, 1839;
Robert Wickliffe, junior, the well-beloved, making the address. It was
dedicated November 2, 1840. Of Grecian architecture, massive and
without ornamentation, it contained three great lecture rooms, with
ample provision for light and ventilation. The amphitheatre was
immediately below the cupola, being by this means lighted from above.
There were three other large apartments--for the library, the
anatomical museum, and for other medical teaching. Smaller rooms
accommodated the laboratory, Faculty room, janitor's room, etc.
Besides which were long halls or galleries utilized for natural
history collections, museums of zoology, ornithology, geology, etc.,
as also for apparatus of divers sorts. The costly and complete
chemical apparatus was well displayed and conveniently arranged in the
immense lecture room for that department.
[Illustration: ABSOLOM DRIVER.
For many years Janitor at the Medical Hall of Transylvania
University.]
In the spacious lecture-room in the front of the building many
fashionable and distinguished audiences had assembled on various
occasions, not only to hear the gifted incumbent professors in due
discourse of introductory or valedictory, but to be charmed with
concerts by Ole Bull, Strakosch, Adelina Patti--who sang there on her
first tour in this country--and other celebrities of the period. There
the learned Guyot had instructed in geology; there unique "Tom
Marshall" had uniquely delivered a unique course of lectures on
History. Over the rostrum hung the portrait of Doctor Samuel
Brown--the first medical professor. This lecture hall was lighted for
evening assemblages, from the sides mostly, by "scounches," as they
were called by the "ole Virginny" negro janitor. This factotum,
"Absolom Driver," is unforgotten by any whose path some time ran
parallel with his. For many years the keeper of the Medical Hall, his
zeal and vigilance were unimpeachable, his dignified solemnity on
state occasions unsurpassed. Contemptuous of letters--except for
doctors--and with unshakable prejudice against "book learnin' for
niggers," he was faithful in trusts with the matchless fidelity of the
dog. "Bad boys"--the problem of philosophers and ordinary folk in all
ages--was one of easy solution by "Uncle Absolom" with a bent nail at
the end of a long pole. Charged upon with _elan_ with this
unprecedented weapon, accompanied by an ominous war-cry, no truant
could withstand, even though the artfully strewn broken bottles on
the high back fence had been successfully outflanked. "Robbers" had
their everlasting antidote at hand in the peculiarly uncanny, long,
"one-barreled shotgun" with curious lock, which stood in the corner of
the Faculty room. Nobody ever heard it "go off," but the mystery of it
was what appalled one. Happily "Uncle Absolom's" death was nearly
coeval with the closing of the medical school. To have witnessed the
burning of his sacred temple, the Medical Hall, after all his "keer,"
would have broken his heart indeed.
And now, bidding adieu to the shades of the grand old Transylvania
Medical Department, conjured from the past by one now numbered with
them, may the earnest wish be permitted with hope of realization, that
some other hand with cunning in such craft will unveil to us the
portraits of that bygone throng of brilliant men which constituted and
which were the exponents of the honored Transylvania Law School.
APPENDIX
SCHEDULE A.
SUCCESSION OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSORS IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY, FROM 1799 TO 1857, INCLUSIVE.
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| | |Theory and |Institutes, | |
Year.|Surgery.| Anatomy. |Practice of |Physiology, |Obstretics, |
| | |Medicine. | etc. | etc. |
-----+--------------------+-------------+------------+------------+
1799 | Samuel | Samuel | Fred'ck | | Fred'ck |
| Brown | Brown | Ridgely | | Ridgely |
1805 | | | James | | |
| | | Fishback | | |
1809 | B. W. | B. W. | James |J. Buchanan | |
| Dudley | Dudley | Overton | | |
1815 | " | " | " | | W. H. |
| | | | |Richardson |
1817 | " | " | | | " |
1818 | " | " | " | | " |
1819 | " | " |Saumel Brown | Chas. | " |
| | | | Caldwell | |
1820 | " | " | " | " | " |
1821 | " | " | " | " | " |
1822 | " | " | " | " | " |
1823 | " | " | " | " | " |
1824 | " | " | " | " | " |
1825 | " | " |Daniel Drake | " | " |
1826 | " | " | " | " | " |
1827 | " | " | J. E. Cooke | " | " |
1828 | " | " | " | " | " |
1829 | " | " | " | " | " |
1830 | " | " | " | " | " |
1831 | " | " | " | " | " |
| | | | | |
1832 | " | " | " | " | " |
1833 | " | " | " | " | " |
1834 | " | " | " | " | " |
1835 | " | " | " | " | " |
1836 | " | " | " | " | " |
1837 | " | " |John Eberle |J. C. Cross | " |
| | | | | |
1838 |[A]" | " |N. R. Smith | " | " |
| | | | | |
1839 |[A]" | " | " | " | " |
1840 |[A]" | " | " | " | " |
1841 |[A]" | " | Elisha | " | " |
| | | Bartlett | | |
1842 |[A]" | " | " | " | " |
1843 |[A]" | " | " |L. M. Lawson| " |
1844 | " |J. M. Bush | L. Watson | " | " |
1845 | " | " | " | " | T. D. |
| | | | | Mitchell |
1846 | " | " | Elisha | " | Samuel |
| | | Bartlett | " | Annan |
1847 | " | " | " |E. L. Dudley| " |
1848 | " | " | " | " | " |
1849 | " | " |Samuel Annan | " |W. M. Boling|
1850 |No winte|r session | of the Medi |cal College.| |
1851 | E. L. |J. M. Bush |Samuel Annan | H. M. | S. M. |
| Dudley | | | Skillman | Letcher |
1852 | " | " | " | " | " |
1853 | " | " | " | " | " |
1854 | " | " |W. S. Chipley| " | " |
1855 | " | " | " | " | " |
1856 | " | " | " | " | " |
| | | | | |
1857 | " | " | " | " | " |
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[Footnote A: J. M. Bush, adjunct.]
[Footnote B: R. Best, adjunct.]
[Footnote C: H. H. Eaton, adjunct.]
[Footnote D: R. Peter, assistant.]
SCHEDULE A. (Continued)
SUCCESSION OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSORS IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY, FROM 1799 TO 1857, INCLUSIVE.
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| Materia |Chemistry|Demonstrator
Year.| Medica, | and | of
|Botany, etc.|Pharmacy.| Anatomy.
-----+------------+---------+------------
1799 | | Samuel |
| | Brown |
1805 | | |
| | |
1809 | | |
| | |
1815 | | James |
| | Blythe |
1817 |Daniel Drake| " |
1818 | | " |
1819 | Chas. | " |
| Caldwell | |
1820 | " | " |
1821 | " | " |
1822 | " | " |
1823 |Daniel Drake|[B] " |
1824 | " |[B] " |
1825 | " |[B] " |
1826 | C. W. Short| |
1827 | " | |
1828 | " | |
1829 | " | |
1830 | " | |
1831 | " |[C] L. P.|
| | Yandell |
1832 | " |[D] " |
1833 | " |[D] " |
1834 | " |[D] " |
1835 | " |[D] " |
1836 | " |[D] " |
1837 | " | T. D. |
| | Mitchell|
1838 | T. D. | Robert |
| Mitchell | Peter |
1839 | " | " |
1840 | " | " |
1841 | " | " |
| | |
1842 | " | " |
1843 | " | " |
1844 | " | " |
1845 | " | " |
| | |
1846 | " | " |
| | |
1847 | " | " |
1848 | " | " |
1849 |H.M. Bullitt| " |
1850 | | |
1851 |J. R. Allen | Robert |J. M. Bruce
| | Peter | "
1852 | " | " | "
1853 | " | " | "
1854 | " | " | "
1855 | " | " | "
1856 | A. K. | " | "
| Marshall | |
1857 | B. P. Drake| " | "
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[Footnote A: J. M. Bush, adjunct.]
[Footnote B: R. Best, adjunct.]
[Footnote C: H. H. Eaton, adjunct.]
[Footnote D: R. Peter, assistant.]
SCHEDULE B
OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY FOR THIRTY-NINE
YEARS.
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Year. | Pupils. | Graduates.
1817-18 | 20 | 1
1819-20 | 37 | 7
1820-21 | 93 | 14
1821-22 | 138 | 37
1822-23 | 171 | 51
1823-24 | 200 | 46
1824-25 | 234 | 56
1825-26 | 281 | 65
1826-27 | 190 | 53
1827-28 | 152 | 53
1828-29 | 206 | 40
1829-30 | 199 | 72
1830-31 | 210 | 54
1831-32 | 215 | 74
1832-33 | 222 | 69
1833-34 | 262 | 66
1834-35 | 259 | 83
1835-36 | 262 | 75
1836-37 | 242 | 78
1837-38 | 227 | 84
1838-39 | 211 | 51
1839-40 | 257 | 62
1840-41 | 254 | 64
1841-42 | 271 | 57
1842-43 | 204 | 60
1843-44 | 214 | 59
1844-45 | 156 | 38
1845-46 | 171 | 64
1846-47 | 205 | 68
1847-48 | 169 | 53
1848-49 | 120 | 49
1849-50 | 92 | 35
1850-[E]51 | 50 | 21
[F]1851-52 | 50 | 23
[F]1853 | 51 | 19
[F]1854 | 53 | 31
[G]1855 | 38 | 29
[H]1855-56 | 38 | 11
[H]1856-57 | 32 | 9
+-----------+-----------
Totals | 6,456 | 1,881
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[Footnote E: Doctor Dudley resigned at the end of this session.]
[Footnote F: Spring and summer session.]
[Footnote G: Summer and winter session.]
[Footnote H: Winter session.]
Thus the records show that in thirty-nine years of the existence of
the Medical Department of Transylvania University it taught six
thousand four hundred and fifty-six pupils and conferred the degree of
Doctor of Medicine on one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one of
that number. The late Professor Thomas D. Mitchell, in speaking of its
record, made the following remark: "That for its vigorous prosperity
and the rapid increase of its classes, the medical school of
Transylvania is without a parallel. Certainly in the United States
there is nothing comparable to it. This is the highest eulogy the
institution can receive. The most eloquent and forcible language in
praise of it would be spiritless and feeble contrasted with the power
of the foregoing figures."
SCHEDULE OF THE SEVERAL ENDOWMENTS OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY.
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Date of | | |
Donation| |Character of | Conditions Under
or | |Donations or | Which they
Grant. |Donors. |Grants. | were Given.
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| | |
1780 |State of Virginia |8,000 acres escheated |For the purposes
| | lands in Kentucky, | of a "Public
| | value unknown | School" or seminary
| | | of learning in
| | | Kentucky.
| | |
1783 |State of Virginia |12,000 acres escheated|For the purposes
| | lands in Kentucky, | of a "Public
| | value unknown | School" or seminary
| | | of learning in
| | | Kentucky.
| | |
1783 |Individuals |Books, etc., value not|For the purposes
| | known | of a "Public
| | | School" or seminary
| | | of learning in
| | | Kentucky.
| | |
1784 |Reverend John Todd|Small library and |"As an encouragement
| | apparatus | to science."
| | |
1787 |State of Virginia |One sixth surveyors' |For the public
| | fees in Kentucky | school, etc.
| | |
1791 |State of Virginia |A lottery grant to |To establish
| | raise money | the school.
| | |
1792-3 |Transylvania Land |Lot in Lexington |For the permanent
| Co. | (5 acres) | site of the
| | | Seminary.
| | |
1795-8 |State of Kentucky |12,000 acres of land, |
| | 6,000 acres to |
| | Kentucky Academy and|
| | 6,000 acres to the |
| | Seminary |
| | |
1794-5 |Individuals in |$14,000 in money and |Promotion of science,
| various parts | books and apparatus | learning, and
| and States | | virtue.
| | |
1804 |State of Kentucky |A lottery grant |To build a Medical
| | | College.
| | |
1819 |State of Kentucky |Bonus of F. & M. Bank,|To aid the
| | $3,000 | University.
| | |
1820 |State of Kentucky |$5,000 in paper |To Medical College
| | | for library, etc.
| | |
1820 |City of Lexington |$6,000 in paper |To Medical College
| | | for library, etc.
| | |
1820 |State of Kentucky |Half profits of |
| | Commercial Bank, |
| | $20,000 in paper, 2 |
| | per cent on auction |To aid the
| | sales to law library| University.
| | |
1822 |Citizens of |$4,832 |To aid the Medical
| Lexington | | Department.
| | |
1823 |Colonel James |$20,000 in money |To found a "Morrison"
| Morrison | | professorship or
| | | library.
| | |
1823 |Colonel James |$50,000 residuary |To erect a "Morrison
| Morrison | estate | College."
| | |
1823 |State of Kentucky |A lottery grant |To build a medical
| | |college at Lexington.
| | |
1827 |Citizens and city |$3,000 per annum, the |To pay salaries of
to 1829 | of Lexington | city giving $500 | President and
| | | professors of the
| | | University.
| | |
1827 |Citizens and city |Insurance policy for | |
to 1829 | of Lexington | $10,000 on the |
| | burned University |
| | edifice |
| | |
1830 |W. C. C. Claiborne|$50 |To help build the
| | | above.
| | |
1839 |City of Lexington |$70,000 to build new |On condition to elect
| | medical college, | Trustees and send
| | enlarge library, | free scholarships.
| | etc. |
| | |
1839 |Transylvania |About $35,000 |To endow Morrison
| Institute | | College, etc.
| | |
1839 |Citizens of |$3000 |To purchase a lot
| Lexington | | for the site of the
| | | Medical College.
| | |
1839 | | |
to 1850 |Medical professors|Residuary debt on new |
| | Medical College in |
| | lieu of rent |
| | |
1855-6 |State of Kentucky |$12,000 per annum for |Support of Normal
| | two years | College in
| | | Transylvania
| | | University.
| | |
1834 |His Britannic |Numerous old legal |
| majesty | record books |
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Many other persons, as Honorable Edward Everett, Mr. Swan, of France,
etc., have at various times made valuable contributions to the
Library.
INDEX
* Before figures means that the reference is to a foot-note on
the pages indicated.
PAGE
Academical Department of Transylvania in 1857 160
Account rendered of books, etc., purchased by Doctors Bush
and Peter *91
Act endowing Transylvania University 1
Allen, Doctor John Rowan *147
Allen, Doctor John R., notice of 147
Allen, Doctor John R., in Transylvania Medical School 147