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NAME CONDIE 244 CONN "The responsibilities of political station did not diminish his interest in his profession. He was industrious and enthusiastic in efforts for its advancement. In 1819 he was elected president of the State Society, and until within a few, years of his death was a con- stant attendant upon its meetings. "Thus, we reflect upon the busy and dis- tinguished life of a man who was the first president of the Morris County Medical So- ciety," for he was appointed to this office, June 11, 1816. A. Eldridge Carpenter. Centennial Address Morris County Med. Soc. A. E. Carpenter, Jour. Med. Soc, New Jersey, 1916. vol. xiii, No. 8. 409. History of Medicine in New Jersey. Stephen Wickes, 1879. Condie, David Francis (1796-187S) David Francis Condie was born in Phila- delphia, May 12, 1796. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1818, with a thesis on "Digestive Process." In 1844 he published "A Practical Treatise on the Dis- eases of Children" (6th edition, 1868), which was the accepted authority until superseded by the work of Meigs and Pepper. Among his other works were: "A Course of Examinations of Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Mid- wifery, and the Practice of Medicine" (1818) ; "Reports on Diseases of Pennsylvania" (1868) ; "Biographical Notice of Henry Bond, M. D." (1860) ; and several addresses. He edited : Barlow's "Manual of the Practice of Medicine" (1856) ; Carpenter's "On the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors" (1858); Churchill's "On the Diseases of Women" (1857); Watson's "Lectures on the Principles of Physic" (1856). Condie practised in Philadelphia and always visited his patients on foot, disapproving of a physician's driving. He declared that "those who rode in one-horse carriages were physically deficient; those who rode in two- horse carriages were mentally deficient." What he would have thought of those who in later years visited their parents in auto- mobiles, one shudders to think. He died at his home in Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1875. A son, Francis, was a physician. Information from Ewing Jordan. Standard History of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia, F. P. Henry, Phila., 1897. Conklin, Henry Smith (1813-1889) A native of Champaign County, Ohio, Henry Smith Conklin was born of Scotch- Irish parentage on July 8, 1813, and in 1833 began the study of medicine under Dr. Needham, of Springfield, Ohio, and Dr. Robert Rodgers, of the same place. His first course of lectures was attended at the Medical College of Ohio in the winter of 1835-1836. He began to practise in Sid- ney, Ohio, in 1836, where he continued until his death in 1889. In 1860 he was elected President of the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he was one of the founders. On invitation by Gov. Dennison, he assisted in organizing the medical departments of the first Ohio regiments which went to the front on the outbreak of the War of the Rebel- lion. He was commissioned surgeon to Gen. Fremont's infantry bodyguard (Benton Cadets), and served during a portion of the Missouri campaign, but resigned when Fremont was relieved from command of the department. Two of his sons studied medicine. William J. Conklin. Conn, Granville Priest (1832-1916) Granville Priest Conn, who was for over a generation president of New Hampshire's first state board of health and for the same time secretary of the state medical society, was born at Hillsborough, N. H., January 25, 1832, and died at the home of his son, in Wayne, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1916, at the age of eighty-four. He was the youngest of the eight children of William and Sarab Priest Conn, who were of combined Scotch, Irish and English descent. Until sixteen years of age he lived on his father's farm and attended the country schools ; then he at- 'tended Francestown and Pembroke acad- emies and spent two years at Captain Alden Partridge's Military Institute, at Norwich, Vermont. From 1851 to 1856 he read medi- cine in the office of Dr. H. B, Brown of Hartford, Vermont, being at the same time instructor in mathematics at the academy in that town, and he attended two courses of lectures at the Vermont Medical College, Woodstock, and one course at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire. There he received his M. D., in 1855, and in 1880 Norwich University conferred on him the Honorary A. M. Dr. Conn practised medicine at East Ran- dolph, Vt., from 1856 until 1861, when he removed to Richmond in the same state, and in August, 1862, he was commissioned assist- ant surgeon to the Twelfth Regiment, Ver- mont Volunteers. He served eleven months and was mustered out with his regiment, July 14, 1863. In the fall of this year he