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ANTISELL of the Wabash, and, released after an imprisonment of three months, he used to tell of the avidity with which he ate the refuse flung him during their repasts. In 1786 he removed to New York City, there finishing his career. In 1802 he was one of the thirteen governors of New York Lying-in Hospital. From 1796 to 1815 he was a trustee of Columbia College. He was a strong believer in the non-contagiousness of yellow fever. Dr. Anthon had the massive, severe appearance of Luther, suggesting an origin from the same Thuringian Saxon race, but relieved by mild sympathetic expressive eyes. Though outwardly stern in manner, he was remarkable for tenderness towards his family, kindness towards his patients and benevolence towards the community in which he lived. Dr. Anthon married on August 13, 1770, Mariana Navarre, who died childless, October 8, 1773. She was a daughter of Robert Navarre, who was appointed by the French Government, Notaire-royal and sub délégué at Detroit. His second wife was Genevieve Jadot, a niece of his first wife, by whom he had eleven children, three being born in Detroit. Of these John, Henry and Charles were renowned as lawyer, minister and scholar respectively. Dr. Anthon died at his home, 11 Broad Street, New York City, December 22, 1815.



Antisell, Thomas (1817–1893)

Born in Dublin, Ireland, January 16, 1817, Antisell was the son of Thomas Christopher Antisell of King's County, Ireland, a barrister and Queen's Counsellor, his ancestry going back to Sir Bertine Entwyssel, who accompanied Henry II to Ireland.

Dr. Antisell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied at the Dublin School of Medicine, Peter Street, and the Irish Apothecary's Hall, being pupil of, and afterwards assistant to, Sir Robert Kane from 1839 to 1843. He graduated at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in November, 1839, and spent a semester with J. B. Pelouze in his laboratory. In 1844 he pursued his chemical studies in Paris and Berlin under the most celebrated chemists of the time, Pelouze, Biot, Dumas and Berzelius. He practised medicine in Dublin from 1845 until 1848 and was lecturer on chemistry in the "Original School of Medicine."

As one of the "Young Ireland Party" he was sentenced to exile and imprisonment but a friend procuring for him a position as surgeon on an outgoing vessel, he sailed for America.

Landing at New York, November 22, 1848, he began to practise medicine in New York City and continued there until 1854, when he became geologist to the Pacific Railroad survey, on the thirty-second parellelparallel [sic], under Lieut. Parke, Topographical Engineer, U. S. A. He made a geological reconnoisancereconnaissance [sic] of Southern California and Arizona Territory, published in the seventh volume of the "United States Reports of Explorations and Surveys," 1856. In 1871, at the invitation of the Japanese government, he became technologist of a government commission to develop the resources of the northern islands of that empire. He returned to the United States in 1876. While in Japan he was offered the position of president of the College of Cairo, Egypt, which he declined. In appreciation of his valuable services to Japan he was decorated by the Emperor with the "Order of the Rising Sun of Meijii."

While on the ocean en route to Japan, an opportunity offered to become president of the college at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which Dr. Antisell appreciated and would have accepted but had already contracted with the Japanese Government for five years.

From 1856 to 1893, excepting the interval of army service and while in Japan, he lived in Washington. All his life he was a medical teacher, his specialty being analytical and technical chemistry.

Dr. Antisell was twice married; to Eliza Anne Nowlan of Dublin, in 1841, and Marion Stuart Forsyth, of Detroit, Michigan, in 1854. He died in the District of Columbia, June 14, 1893.

Busey in his "ReminiscensesReminiscences [sic]," p. 140, says that Dr. Antisell was a popular teacher. He led a very unobtrusive home life, rarely appearing in public except where his duty called him. He was faithful to duty and conscientious in its performance, unostentatious in manner, and cordial in friendship.

The University of Georgetown, with the medical department of which he was connected for many years as professor of chemistry and toxicology, of military surgery, physiology and hygiene, and emeritus professor of chemistry and toxicology, conferred on him the degree of doctor of philosophy and he was interested in and intimately connected with sanitary matters in the District of Columbia.

Some of his numerous contributions to