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NAME TEMPLE 1128 TEMPLE first wife, he went West and spent about a j'car in ti-avelling, after which he returned home and married Elizabeth A. Murray, of Princess Anne County, and had one son, who survived him. His second wife dying, he mar- ried Eliza A. Bonney, and had several sons and daughters. One son was a physician — Dr. W. P. Tebault, of Norfolk. In his declining years he removed to Nor- folk. He died at his home in that city in his eighty-fifth year, of marasmus, on August 27, 1895. Notwithstanding he was a man of such ex- tensive information, he wrote little for the benefit of his fellow practitioners. Robert M. Slaughter. Trans. Med. Soc. of Va., 1895. Temple, John Taylor (1803-1877). John Taylor Temple, pioneer educator, homeopathist, was born on his father's planta- tion. Bears Garden, King William County, Virginia, May 5, 1803. His father was John Temple, a Virginia planter, and his grand- father, also John Temple, a Baptist minister. His maternal grandfather was Colonel Samuel Taylor of the war of the Revolution, and English ancestors are traced back to the lat- ter part of the fifteenth century. The sur- render at Yorktown, Virginia, occurred on the estate known as the Temple farm, so called for a member of this family. Dr. Temple graduated at Union College Schenectady, New York, which gave him the degree of A. M. in 1824. His medical studies were under the preceptorship of Dr. George McClellan (q. v.) at Philadelphia, in whose office he re- mained three years, attending lectures up to the date of the duel between Dr. Granville Sharpe Pattison (q. v.) and Colonel Cadwal- lader. Soon after this, Dr. Pattison accepted the chair of anatomy in the University of Maryland, and by Dr. McCIellan's advice young Temple followed him, took one course and was graduated in 1824. These facts will correct the statement printed in the histories of Chicago, that Dr. Temple graduated in medicine from Middlebury College, Castleton, Vt., December 29, 1830. He married, soon after graduation, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Staughton of Philadelphia, the eloquent divine who delivered the address of welcome to La- fayette wlien he visited this country by invita- tion of Congress in 1824. Dr. Temple retired to his farm, 17 miles from Richmond, Va., where he remained two years, when he yielded to the solicitation of his late preceptor. Dr. McClellan, and moved to Philadelphia, there to practise medicine until 1829. He then accepted a position i:i the Patent Office and removed to Washington, where he lived until failing health and fear of consumption made outdoor life imperative. Through Martin VanBuren, then in the cabi- net of President Jackson, he secured a con- tract to carry the mail from Chicago to Fort Howard on Green Bay, and removed to Chi- cago in March, 1833. The mail route to Fort Howard was soon put in operation and a sec- ond contract secured for a route to Ottawa and Peoria, which was started on the first of January, 1834. When we are told that it took two days each way to make the trips, and that four-horse stage coaches were used in a daily service, we realize the magnitude of the un- dertaking. With the sale of his Virginia estates. Dr. Temple arrived in Chicago in easy circumstances. During 1833 he erected for himself Chicago's first frame dwelling, and the "Temple Building," also frame, for public meetings, in which Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists worshipped, and through the Bap- tist Missionary Society installed the first Bap- tist minister at Chicago. The next year, in the interest of education for the state, he at- tended the Educational Convention held at Vandalia as a delegate from Chicago. In 1835 the first Board of Health was established, of which Dr. Temple w-as a member, and the same year he was one of the organizers of the Chi- cago Bible Society. Dr. Temple is credited with performing the first autopsy in Chicago. In 1836, in partnership with Dr. Levi D. Boone, he took contracts for excavating two sections of the Illinois and Michigan CanaL In 1837 he sold his stage lines, and by 1840 had sublet his canal contracts, and thereafter confined his time to his practice alone. In 1837 tlie charter for Rusli Medical Col- lege was secured, and Dr. Temple was named a member of the board of trustees. In 1842 he removed to Galena, and then to St. Louis, Missouri. During this year he changed his practice to homeopathy. In 1857 he secured from the Legislature of Missouri a charter for the Homeopathic Medical College of Mis- souri, and held the position of dean until the college was merged with the St. Louis Col- lege of Medicine and Surgerj-. becoming the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons; he served this institution as dean until his death. Dr. Temple was a member of the .'merican Institute of Homeopathy, of which he was at one time president. He died at St. Louis, February 24, 1877. F. D. DuSoUCHET. Hist, of Chicago. Moses and Kirtland. Hist, of Chicago, ,^nd^eas. Biog. Cyclop, of Homeo. Phvs. and Surg. ' E. Cleave, Phila., 1873.