William Henry Taylor (1836-1910)

William Henry Taylor (1836-1910)

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Title: Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for the year ...

Year: 1910 (1910s)

Authors: American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Subjects: American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Gynecology Obstetrics Gynecology Obstetrics

Publisher: Philadelphia : The Association

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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e his apprentice-ship, he at once became a student in the Miami Medical College.He was then but eighteen years of age and, consequently, wasbut twenty-one, when, three years later, he graduated fromthe Medical College of Ohio with which institution the MiamiMedical College had coalesced during the preceding year. Heat once entered the old Commercial Hospital—the predecessorof the present Cincinnati Hospital—as interne, where Jesse P.Judkins, John A. Murphy, John A. Tate, John Davis, ThomasKearney, D. D. Bramble, A. J. Miles and others of subsequentdistinction, either had served or were soon to serve in similarcapacity. In fact the internship in that institution, establishedalong the lines of similar service in the hospitals of Paris, wasthe stepping stone to professional eminence by the really promis-ing recruits to the medical profession of that period. After his graduation, Dr. Taylor began his practice, as manyanother successful physician has done, by accepting the position 568

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OBITUARY MEMOIR. 5(><) of physician to the out-door poor, and held it for five years.Two years after graduation, however, he was appointed patholo-gist to the Cincinnati Hospital. This was the first positionof the kind in the history of the city and one which he heldfor the succeeding twelve years, when he was made obstetricianin the succeeding institution—the Cincinnati Hospital—whichhe held for the next forty years. In the chronologic order, it is proper next to mention that,with the outbreak of the Civil War, Dr. Taylor found the non-militantism of his religious tenets in embarrassing conflict withhis patriotism. He had long been in sympathetic and practicalcooperation with Friends and others in conducting thecelebrated Underground Railroad by means of which theslaves from Kentucky and further South were safely spiritedthrough the intermediate zone of the Stars and Stripes to theland of freedom under the fold of the English Jack. Withthe first shot at Ft. Sumpter, the imp

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1910

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