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NAME CARVER 200 CASSELBERRY 1890. So he relinquished medical practice and devoted his whole life to surgery. This posi- tion was filled with great credit to himself and honor to the college until 1894, when he was given the chair of gynecology and abdominal surgery, a position retained until death. He took great interest in medical societies, and belonged to the Louisville Surgical So- ciety, Jefferson County Medical Society, Ken- tucky State Medical Association, and the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Associa- tion, of which he was elected president in 1900. Perhaps the greater number of his con- tributions to surgical literature were read be- fore the last society, his last contribution be- ing "Some Remote Symptoms and Effects of Cholelithiasis." He was also one of the editors of the Louisville Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery. He married Ella Powers Gardner in 1886, who preceded him to the great beyond but a few months and by whom he had one child, a daughter. He had the distinction of removing the largest ovarian cyst in medical history, a re- port of which appears in Annals of Surgery of January, 1900— "Mammoth Ovarian Tumors with Report of a Cyst weighing Two Hundred and Forty-five Pounds." He died May 4, 1908, of acute pulmonary edema. R. LiNDSEY Ireland. Carver, Jonathan (1710-1780) Jonathan Carver, the explorer, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, April 13, 1710. He was the second son of David and Hannah Dyer Carver. He lived from about 1718 to middle life at Canterbury, Connecticut, in- heriting means from his father. According to Dr. Lettsom he studied medicine there, in the days before medical schools, perhaps with Dr. Jos. Perkins (1704-1794) in the adjoining town now called Lisbon, but apparently did not practise. He married Abigail Robbins October 20, 1746, in Canterbury, where his two oldest children were born. About 1749 he moved to Franklin County, Massachusetts, his American home for the rest of his life. He entered army service about 17SS, continuing through the French and Indian War to 1763, rising to at least the rank of captain. He then conceived the plan of exploring the extreme western British possessions in North America, and if possible discovering a northwest passage to the Pacific. He started on this expedition in 1766, traversed the upper basin of the Mississippi (notably Wisconsin and Minnesota) and the shore of Lake Su- perior, returning east in 1768. At this time he had traveled nearly 7,000 miles. Not securing a publisher in Boston, he went to England, experienced many rebuffs, but finally gained a publisher for his most famous work, "Travels through the Interior Parts of North America," London, 1778. This has seen endless editions, been translated into every modern language, and still remains "one of the most popular books of exploration." In 1779 he obtained a subsistence by acting as a clerk in a lottery ofiice. He died destitute at London, January 31, 1780. Doubtless because of his medical leanings he gained the aid of the well-known Dr. Lett- som, who wrote from memory a broken sketch of Carver's life for the 1784 issue of his "Travels." He also published a "Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant," 1779. William Browning. The key to the early history of Jonathan Carver, fully establishing the facts as stated in the above sketch, has recently been discovered by the writer in old Connecticut records. Casselberry, William Evans (1858-1916) William Evans Casselberry, specialist jn diseases of the ear, nose and throat, the son of Jacob Rush and Ellen Lane Evans Cassel- berry, was born September 6, 1858, at Phila- delphia, his family having lived either in or near Philadelphia since Colonial days. His grandmother was a Rush, of the family of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Casselberry de- cided to take up medicine as a profession. He received his degree of M. D. from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1879 and served as resident physician and surgeon at the Ger- mantown Hospital. After leaving this hos- pital he went to Vienna, Berlin and London for post-graduate work and in 1883 returned to America and settled in Chicago, accepting the position of professor of materia medica and therapeutics in Northwestern University Medical School. This chair he held until 1894, when he was made professor of laryngology and rhinology in the same school and began the development of a clinic service which soon became a large and valuable one for teaching purposes. He was attending laryn- gologist and rhinologist at St. Luke's Hospital. In 1891 he married Lillian Hibbard and they had two sons and a daughter. Dr. Casselberry was most active in the prac- tice of his specialty and the high esteem in which he was held is indicated by the posi- tions which were offered to him. He was a fellow of the American Medical Association and once chairman of its section of laryn- gology and otology. He was an active member of the American Laryngological Society and