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NAME FORD 401 FORSTEK omy in the University of Buffalo, New York ; in 1849 he was professor of anatomy in Castle- ton Medical College, Castleton, Vermont. In 1852, to become professor of anatomy in Syracuse Dental College, he resigned both chairs, two years later becoming professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Michigan. During the vacations he gave courses of lectures at other schools. In 1879- 80 and again in 1888-91 he was dean of the medical department of the University of Michigan. In 1859 Middlebury College, Ver- mont, gave him her M. A., in 1881 Michigan University her LL. D. To the University hbrary Dr. and Mrs. Ford gave an endowment of $20,000. Nature made him a teacher, and industry and necessity compelled his highest evolution. He taught only the science of anatomy as it applied to the work of the active physician and surgeon, but his own enthusiasm for it so infected his students that they saw the dry bones hve and many became notable physicians and surgeons. He was five feet ten inches tall, had dark hair, a large head and prominent features. His mild blue eyes scintillated mar- velously to aid in expressing his thoughts al- ways in unison with his gestures and body movements. He was eloquent and admirable as a lecturer. In April, 1863, he married Mrs. Messer of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. They had no children. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 14, 1894, from apoplexy. Leartus Connor. Hist. Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, Miciiigan, 1904. Representative Men in Mich., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1878, vol. ii. Memorial Discourses on Corydon L. Ford, by Dr. V. C. Vaughn and Martin L. De O'oge, Ann Arbor, 1894. There is a portrait by Ravenaugh in the Medical Faculty Room al Ann Arbor. Ford, William Henry (1839-1897). William Henry Ford, president of the Phila- delphia board of health for twenty-six years, was born in that city, October 7, 1839, the son of William Ford of Chester, Pa., a merchant. His classical education was obtained at the Laurenceville high school and at Princeton col- lege, where he was graduated A. B. in 1860. His M. D. was taken at the Jefferson Medi- cal College in 1863. In 1862 he was ap- pointed acting medical cadet, U. S. Army, being stationed at the Wood street general hospital, Philadelphia, and detailed for a time as medical officer on board the hospital steam- er IVilldin in the Pamunky River. From 1863 until the end of the war Dr. Ford served as surgeon to the 44th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. At the close of the war he visited Europe, studying medicine at the chief medi- cal centres until 1868, when he settled in prac- tice in his native city. Very soon he pub- lished a paper on "Gunshot Wounds of the Chest," and becoming a member of the city board of health began to compile and issue "Statistics ol Birth, Marriages and Deaths," beginning with the year 1872. First as secre- tary and later as president he labored to ex- tend the scope and improve the character of the annual publications of the board, es- pecially in regard to the subject of vital statistics. Dr. Ford acted as associate editor of the Philadelphia Medical Times in 1870-71 ; was assistant demonstrator of anatomy, 1869-71 ; a member of the Centennial Medical Com- mission and chairman of its committee on sani- tary science in 1876. He wrote a treatise on "Soil and Water" for Buck's "Hygiene and Public Health" (1879), and "Healthy Dwelling Houses, and How to Build, Drain and Ventil- ate Them" (Philadelphia, 1885). Dr. Ford died at his home in Belm.Tr, New Jersey, October 19, 1897, at the age of fifty-eight. Phys. and Surgs. of U. S. W. B. Atkinson, Philadelphia. 1878, 192. Appieton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog.. New York, 1887, vol. ii, 501. Forster, Edward Jacob (1846-1896). Edward Jacob Forster was the son of Jacob and Louisa Webb Forster, descendants of one Reginald Forster, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1638. He (Edward) was born in Charlcstown, Massachusetts, July 9, 1846, and went to public schools, graduating from the Harvard Medical School in 1868, then studying medicine in Paris and in the Rotunda Hospital, Dubhn, where he was an interne. In 1869 he was a licentiate in midwifery of the King and Queen's College of physicians in Ireland, returning to begin practice in Charles- town the same year. He had his home and a major part of his practice in Charlestown, a part of Boston, until 1891, when he re- moved to the Back Bay district. He was city physician of Charlestown from 1871 to 1872. For eight years he was visiting physician to the Boston City Hospital and was one of the two original visiting physicians for the diseases of women on the formation of the department of gynecology in that institution in 1892, holding the position at the time of his death. He was one of the original members and the first sec- retary of the Massachusetts Board of Registra- tion in JMedicine when it was created in July, 1894; an active member of the Obstetrical So-