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NAME SARGENT 1018 SARGENT Sargent, FilzwiUiam (1820-1889) Fitzwilliara Sargent, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, May 17, 1820, came of a family noted in the military, civil and artistic annals of the country. His earliest known ancestor in America came from Gloucester, England, before 1678; another was Epes Sargent, a colonel in the militia before the American Revolution and a justice for thirty years; Paul Sargent (1745-1828 was an officer in the Revolution and afterwards a judge; Winthrop (1753-1820) fought in the Revolution and was adjutant-general during the Indian Wars. Fitzwilliam Sargent graduated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and then entered the University of Pennsylvania, gradu- ating in medicine in 1843 with a thesis on "Nitrate of Silver." He wrote "On Bandag- ing, and Other Minor Operations of Minor Surgery," Philadelphia, 1848; the book passed through several editions and was translated into French and Japanese ; an edition was pub- lished with an additional chapter on military surgery in 1862. He edited Robert Druitt's Principles and Practice of Minor Surgery," 1848, and James Miller's "Principles of Sur- gery," 1852. Sargent was surgeon to Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, 1852-1858. In 1864 he wrote a pamphlet entitled "England, the United States and the Southern Confed- eracy," published in London. He married Mary Newbold in 1855, gave up his medical practice, went to live in Europe, wintering generally in Italy or the South of France, on account of his wife's health. He died at Bournemouth, England, April 27, 1889. John Singer Sargent, the distinguished artist, his son, was born in Italy in 1856. Other members of this noted family were: Winthrop (1825-1870), author of genealogical and historical works; Henry (1770-1845), who studied under Benjamin West, and painted "Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem" and tlie "Landing of the Pilgrims;" Henry Winthrop (1810-1882), a famous horticulturist; Lucius Manlius (1786-1867), author and lecturer and zealous advocate of temperance ; Horace Bin- ney (1821-1908), brigadier-general in the Civil War. Dr. Lucius Manlius (1826-1864), son of Lucius Manlius, was born in Boston, Septem- ber 15, 1826, son of Lucius Manlius Sargent; his mother was a sister of Horace Binney. He graduated at Harvard University in 1848 and took his M. D. there in 1857, then was ap- pointed house-surgeon and dispensary phy- sician at the Massachusetts General Hospital ; he became surgeon to the Second Massachu- setts Volunteers in May, 1861, resigned in the autumn and became captain in the First Massa- chusetts Cavalry. He took part in the Battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel, was severely wounded in an engagement on Meherrin River, and died near Bluefield, Virginia, De- cember 9, 1864. Others were John Osborne Sargent (1811- 1891), lawyer and author, who while a stu- dent at Harvard University founded, with his brother Epes, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Collegian; Epes (1813-1880), editor, poet and dramatist, author of the popular poem, "Life on the Ocean Wave ;" and Charles Sprague (1841- ), oflficer in the Civil War, author of books on forestry and professor of arboricuhure at Harvard University. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, N. Y., 1887. AUibone's Dictionary of Authors, Phila., 1891. Iiiformation from John Singer Sargent, son. Sargent, Joseph (1815-1888) Joseph Sargent, founder of the Worcester Society for Medical Improvement and instru- mental in the building of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital and the Washburn Memorial Hospital, was the son of Col. Henry Sargent, and was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, December 15, 1815. After graduating from Harvard College in 1834 he studied medicine one year with Dr. Edward Flint, of Leicester, and three years at a private school in Boston, of which Dr. James Jackson was the head, also attending lectures at the medical schools of Harvard University and of the University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia. After receiving his M. D. from Harvard in 1837, he spent one year as house physician in the Massachusetts General Hospital, two years in study in Paris, and in 1840 opened an office in Worcester, but in 1850 spent another year in Europe, and again in 1868. For forty-eight years Dr. Sargent was a leader in the medical profession, holding in turn all the offices in the district Society. He was councillor in the StatS society for a long time, and in 1874-76 vice-president. He was one of the original members of the Bos- ton Society for Medical Observation, and the first out-of-town member of the Boston So- ciety for Medical Improvement. To his ex- ertions also is largely due the present pros- perity of the City Hospital, of which he was trustee from 1871 to 1886, serving at the same time as a member of the consulting staff. He was in addition trustee of the Memorial Hos-