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HAND of the war, and was honorably discharged in December, 1865, when he returned to St. Paul and again began the work he left in 1861.

Though he did no systematic literary work, there was ample evidence that he could have done so in the occasional contributions which he made to the transactions of his state and county medical societies and to medical journals.

Dr. Hand died June 1, 1889.



Hand, Edward (1744–1802).

Edward Hand, surgeon and major-general, was born in Clyduff, Kings County, Ireland, December 31, 1744. In 1774 he came to America as surgeon's mate with the Eighteenth Royal Irish Regiment, but soon resigned to practise medicine in Pennsylvania. However, on the breaking out of the Revolution he sought and received a commission as lieutenant-colonel in the Pennsylvania Line, in March being commissioned colonel, and taking part in the retreat of the American Army from Long Island while in command of the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. His interesting account of his part of the retreat is preserved. In April, 1777, he was made brigadier-general, and took part in the battle of Trenton; in 1778 he commanded a body of troops at Albany, then went with Gen. Sullivan against the Six Indian Nations; in 1781 he succeeded Alexander Scammell as adjutant-general, and in 1780 was made major-general. In the years 1784–85 Hand represented Pennsylvania in Congress.

He was modest, was popular with his men although a "severe disciplinarian," and was "known as one of the handsomest men of the Continental army," and a fine horseman. He died of cholera morbus September 3, 1802, at Rockford, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.



Handerson, Henry Ebenezer (1837–1918).

Henry E. Handerson, medical historian, son of Thomas and Catherine Potts Handerson, was born March 21, 1937, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Thomas Handerson died in 1839, and Henry and a sister were adopted by an uncle, Lewis Handerson, a druggist, of Cleveland. Though often sick, Henry went to school a part of the time, and at fourteen was sent to boarding school, Sanger Hall, New Hartford, New York. Poor health compelled him to leave school, and with his foster father and family he moved to Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. In 1854 the boy returned to Cleveland and entered Hobart College, Geneva, New York, where he graduated A. B. in 1858.

Returning to Tennessee, he spent about a year in surveying land and in other work, and then became private tutor in the family of a cotton planter in Louisiana. In 1860 he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), where he studied through the winter and also heard many of the political arguments of that exciting time. The bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, which ushered in the rebellion, found Handerson again a private tutor in a Southern family. He joined a company of "homeguards" formed among the planters and their sons, for the purpose of maintaining "order among the negroes and other suspicious characters of the vicinity."

On June 17, 1861, he volunteered in the Stafford Guards, which later became Company B of the Ninth Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, Confederate States of America, Colonel (later brigadier-general) "Dick" Taylor (son of "Old Zack," the president of the United States) in command. From then until the close of the war, Handerson experienced the vicissitudes of a soldier's life, including a gunshot wound and an attack of typhoid fever. He rose steadily and became adjutant-general of the Second Louisiana Brigade, with rank of major. On May 4, 1864, Adj.-Gen. Handerson was taken prisoner and not liberated until June 17, 1865.

He then resumed his medical studies, this time in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York (medical department of Columbia University), taking the degree of M. D. in 1867. Hobart College conferred the A. M. in 1868.

On October 16, 1872, he married Juliet Alice Root, who died, leaving him a daughter.

February 25, 1878, Dr. Handerson read before the medical society of the county of New York an article entitled "The School of Salernum; an Historical Sketch of Mediæval Medicine." This essay attracted wide attention to its author's scholarly attainments and love of laborious research. Dr. Handerson practised medicine in New York City from 1867 until he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1885.

On June 12, 1888, he married Clara Corlett of Cleveland, by whom he had two sons.

In 1889 appeared the American edition of the "History of Medicine and the Medical Profession, by Joh. Hermann Baas, M. D.," which was translated, revised, corrected and enlarged by Dr. Handerson. Concerning Dr. Handerson's writings, Dr. Fielding H. Garrison gives