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 CLEVELAND

COBB

In Memoriam, The Woman's Journal, Bos- ton, vol. ix.

Stuart, A. B., Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal vol. xxi.

Papers read at the Memorial Hour Commem- orative of the late Emmeline H. Cleveland, M. D., at the Woman's Medical College, Phila., March 12, 1879.

Cleveland, Thomas Gold (1825-1873).

Thomas Gold Cleveland, a physician of Cleveland, Ohio, and one of that well- known family from which the city re- ceived its name, was born in Madison County, New York, May 21, 1825. His father, Daniel Cleveland, a prosperous merchant of Madison, who had married Julia R. Gold, having experienced a finan- cial reverse, migrated in 1S35 to Cleve- land, Ohio. About the year 1843 the father with his family returned to New York, and settled in Utica, where his son worked under Dr. P. B. Peckham, with whom he studied medicine for three years. During this period too (probably in 1845- 6), he attended a course of medical lec- tures in New York University, and even- tually in the Cleveland Medical College, from which he received his M. D. in 1S47. He at once began to practise in Cleve- land, and soon made himself known as a physician of ability and promise. In 1854 he married Miss Harriet A. Wiley, of Watertown, New York, by whom he had nine children.

On the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed assistant surgeon to a regi- ment of "three months' men," and sub- sequently became surgeon to the one hundred and forty-first regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Hazen. In spite of failing health, Dr. Cleveland persisted, almost to the day of his death, in performing his duties, and it was lack of physical strength only which com- pelled him, though too late, to claim a few days of rest. He died of cardiac dis- ease, December 3, 1S73, greatly mourned. Dr. Cleveland was city physician of Cleveland in 1855-6, and served also up- on the city board of health for a consider- able period. From the latter position he is said to have been removed in conse- quence of his firm and persistent advo-

cacy of the pollution of the water of the city wells as the cause of an epidemic of typhoid fever. He was a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, and was pro- fessor of materia medica in the University of Wooster at the time of his death. No writings are known. H. E. H.

Transactions of the Ohio State Medical Society, 1874.

Cobb, Jedediah (1800-1860).

Born on February 27, 1800, at G.-y, he entered Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in September, 1816, graduating in 1820. Of his family nothing is known. Later he went to Boston, where he be- came a private pupil of Dr. George C. Shattuck. He took his M. D. at Bow- doin College September, 1823, then went to Portland, Maine, with the intention of practising but had been there only a few months when he was appointed professor of theory and practice of medicine in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati.

His journey was long and tedious, for when he reached Pittsburg no steamer could be found small enough for the low stage of water in the Ohio, consequently he was obliged to take passage with sev- eral other gentlemen in a common flat- boat. A part of their duty consisted in rowing their little craft and cooking their own food. After nearly two weeks of hard work they reached the "Queen City." His first course of lectures in the Medical College of Ohio was delivered in the winter of 1824-5, and the second the following year, when he was transferred to the chair of anatomy. This he held until his removal to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1S37, to take the chair of anatomy in Louisville University.

In 1838 Dr. Drake was added to the faculty.

In 1852 Dr. Cobb resigned and re- entered the Medical College of Ohio with an entirely new faculty of which Dr. Drake was a conspicuous member. The session had hardly commenced before Drake died ; and towards spring the health of Dr. Cobb failing, he considered it his duty to resign, bidding a final farewell