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NAME CULLEN 265 CUNNINGHAM ceedingly active in the advancement of the interests of the University of Cincinnati. In 1899 he published "Luke, the Beloved Physician," a work which showed much re- search into the life and character of the Apostle. During his active life he wrote and published more than 4,000 pages of editorials. On May 3, 1865, Dr. Culbertson married Virginia B. Clark, of Cincinnati, but on July 11, 1866, she died suddenly. April 10, 1873, he married Sarah Pogue, of Cincinnati, and had three children : Henry Coe, James Clark and Margaret Elizabeth. Mrs. Culbertson died September 2, 1884. On June 18, 1888, Dr. Cul- bertson married Sophia W. Brown, who sur- vived him. He died June 4, 1908, of arterio- sclerosis. A. G. Drury. Daniel Drake and his Followers, Juettner, Cinn. There is a portrait in the Surg.-gen's Lib., Wash., D. C. CuIIen, John Syng Dorsey (1832-1893) John Syng Dorsey CuUen, surgeon, was the son of Dr. John Cullen, a Dublin man and one of the founders of the Medical College of Virginia. He was born in Richmond, and educated in the best schools in Virginia and New York and at the University of Virginia, graduating in medicine, 1853. After this he spent some time in a hospital in Philadelphia, and then continued his studies abroad. Upon his re- turn home he settled in Richmond and prac- tised with Dr. Charles Bell Gibson (q. v.). When the war began in 1861 he became surgeon to the first Virginia infantry, and soon afterwards was appointed medical di- rector of the first or Longstreet's corps. Dur- ing the time of the battles around Richmond (June, 1862), he was assigned by Gen. Robert E. Lee the position of acting director of the army of northern Virginia. Soon after the close of the war he was ■elected professor of diseases of women and children in the Medical College of Virginia, and when Dr. Hunter McGuire (q. v.) retired in 1885, was chosen his successor in the chair of surgery, and was also made dean of the faculty, both of which positions he filled until death. He was a member of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association ; charter mem- ber of the Medical Society of Virginia, and at one time president of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. Dr. Cullen was a man of handsome and at- tractive personage, a skilful physician and surgeon and an excellent teacher, and had the full confidence and esteem of his patrons. He married Jenny, daughter of John Maben, Esq., of Richmond. After a protracted illness from chronic nephritis, he died in Richmond on March 22, 1893. His contributions to medical literature were numerous and valuable. There is a photograph in the family. Robert M. Slaughter. Trans. Med. Soc. of Va., 1893. Medical Reminiscences of Richmond, Dr. J. N. Upshur. Cunningham, Francis Deane (1836-1885) Francis Deane Cunningham, surgeon and ophthalmologist, the son of Dr. John Cunning- ham, of Goochland County, Virginia, was born in that county in 1836, and received his col- legiate education at the University of Vir- ginia and graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1857 and from the University of New York in 1859. For a time he was house surgeon in the Brooklyn City Hospital, and spent some time in 1859-60 studying in London and Paris, giving special attention to ophthalmic surgery. Upon his return home he settled in Richmond, Virginia. When the Civil War began he entered the Confederate army and was commissioned sur- geon July 19, 1861, and was first assigned to duty with the thirtieth Virginia Infantry. Dur- ing the course of the war he held several im- portant positions, and at its close was in- spector of the hospitals at Richmond, Virginia. In 1868 he was elected professor of anatomy in the Medical College of Virginia, and for a number of years served as a member of the City Board of Health. He had the honor of election to the presidency of his local society, and in 1876 to that of the Medical Society of Virginia. He built up a large practice, de- voting special attention to surgery and ophthalmology. He married on September 21, 1864, Agnes Campbell Gordon, and of the two children born, one died in infancy, the other, a son. Dr. R. H. Cunningham, became a physician in New York City. Some three years before his death Dr. Cun- ningham contracted dysentery, which becoming chronic, gradually sapped his strength until it became exhausted, and he died in Richmond in September, 1885. He was one of the co-editors of the Vir- ginia Clinical Record and contributed some valuable articles to that journal, as well as to other medical periodicals. A good photograph of him is in possession of his son. Robert M. Slaughter. Trans. Med. Soc. of Va., 1885. Med. Reminiscences of Richmond, Dr. J. N. Upshur. Trans. Amer. Surg. Asso., 1886, vol. iv.