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WOOLLEY of 1873 in the United States," Washington, 1875; "The Safety of Ships and of Those Who Travel in Them," Cambridge, 1877.

He died at Washington, March 14, 1879.



Woolley, John (1786–1833)

John Woolley, pioneer physician of Cincinnati, son of Anthony and Sarah Woolley, was born in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, September 27, 1786. In 1790 his parents moved to Pennsylvania and in 1805 they came to Cincinnati.

In 1807, when Woolley was twenty-one years old, he began the study of medicine with (q.v.). He attended lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania during the session of 1814–15 and at the close of the session returned to Cincinnati and began practice. Dr. Woolley graduated in the first class of the Medical College of Ohio, April 4, 1821. In this class were Wm. Barnes, Daniel Dyer, James T. Grubbs, Isaac Hough, Samuel Monett, Ichabod Sargent and John Woolley.

In 1813 Dr. Drake became the owner of a drug store on Main St., between Second and Third. Some time before 1819, Dr. Woolley bought his store from Dr. Drake. Dr. Woolley was married April 2, 1815, to Lydia Drake, sister of Dr. Drake, and they had four children.

In 1819 the Cincinnati Medical Society, the first medical society in the city, was founded and Dr. Woolley was its secretary. The society expired with the year 1819 and on January 3, 1820, the Medico-Chirurgical Society was formed, Dr. Woolley being the recording secretary. The First District Medical Society was instituted in 1824, under a law creating twenty medical districts in the State and Dr. Woolley was for several years censor of this society. He was president of the State Medical convention in 1827 and 1828.

Dr. Woolley died in Cincinnati. August 19, 1833, and was buried in Spring Grove cemetery.



Wooten, Thomas Dudley (1829–1906)

Thomas Dudley Wooten was born in Barren County, Kentucky, March 6, 1829. His parents were Virginians. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1853, and settled in Springfield, Missouri, in 1856. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private, but later was made surgeon of Foster's regiment, Second Missouri Infantry. In August, 1861, he was appointed chief surgeon of McBride's Division, and a little later surgeon-general of all the Missouri forces. Afterwards he was made medical director of the First Army Corps of the West, commanded by Gen. Sterling Price. In 1865 he practised in Paris, Texas, and in 1876 moved to Austin, in both places achieving considerable reputation as a surgeon. Upon the inauguration of the University of Texas, in 1881, Dr. Wooten was appointed one of the regents; in 1886, on the death of (q.v.), he became president of the board.

He was a prominent member of the county and state medical societies.

He married, in 1853, Henrietta, daughter of Dr. Turner Goodall, of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, and had four children. Two of his sons, Goodall and Joseph S., became physicians.

Dr. Wooten died at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, August 1, 1906, of acute gastro-enterocolitis, after an illness of four days.



Worcester, Noah (1812–1847)

Noah Worcester, an early dermatologist of Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Thornton, New Hampshire, July 29, 1812, the son of a teacher of very moderate estate. He was compelled to provide largely for his education by teaching, and in this way struggled through Harvard College after an interrupted course of study of five years, 1827–1832; then settled in Hanover, New Hampshire, studied under (q.v.), matriculated in the medical department of Dartmouth College, and graduated there in 1838. He was at once appointed demonstrator of anatomy in his alma mater, and invited by Dr. Mussey to become his assistant. When, in the same year, Dr. Mussey accepted the chair of surgery in the Medical College of Ohio, Worcester was invited to accompany him and be his partner. Soon after his arrival in Cincinnati he received the chair of physical diagnosis in the Medical College of Ohio and in 1841 visited Europe and renewed his studies in London and Paris.

On his return to the United States in 1842 he married Jane Shedd, of Peacham, Vermont, an old sweetheart, well advanced in pulmonary tuberculosis, a disease which terminated her life in the following year. Grief