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NAME HICKEY 525 HILDRETH cians and Surgeons, New York, and was graduated in 1849, shipping at once as sur- geon on the steamship Senator for San Fran- cisco, becoming a "Forty-niner." In Califor- nia he practised and engaged in business until 1855 when he renewed his medical stud- ies in New York and settled in Dayton, Ohio, in June 1856, removing to Richmond, Indiana, that fall to remain the rest of his life. In the session of 1860-61 Dr. Hibberd filled the chair of physiology and general pathology in the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. In 1863 he was in charge of a corps of volunteer surgeons and nurses at Murfreesboro, Ten- nessee ; in 1869 he went abroad and was a delegate to the International Medical Con- gress at Florence ; from 1875 to 1876 he was mayor of Richmond and in 1881 health offi- cer of his county, being instrumental in creat- ing a state board of health. From the last date until 1889 he made an annual report on necrology to the state medical society, a most valuable service, and he contributed many papers to the American Practitioner, the In- diana Medical Journal and to tlie Transactions of the Indiana Medical Society, always sup- porting the home journals. The Indiana State University conferred on him the honorary de- gree of LL. D. in 1885. In 1842 Dr. Hibberd married Nancy D. Higgins, who died in 1846, leaving one son ; in 1856 he married Catherine Leeds, who died in 1868, leaving a son ; and in 1871 he married Elizabeth M. Laws. He died of senility at his home, September 8, 1903, at the age of 87. Emin. Amer. Phys. and Surgs., R. F. Stone, 1894, 216-217. Phvs. and Surgs. of United States, W. B. Atkin- son, 1878, 59. Med. Hist, of St. of Indiana, G. W. H. Kemper, 1911, 284-285. Portrait. Hickey, Amanda Sanford (1838-1894). Amanda Sanford was born of New England ancestry in New Bedford, .August 28, 1838, and after graduating from the Friend's Academy in LTnion Springs, New York, in order to study medicine, she started a market garden, sold the produce and entered the Woman's Med- ical College, Philadelphia, and was eventually able to graduate in 1870, afterwards becom- ing interne at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Entering the University of Michigan, in the autumn of 1870, she graduated the following spring of 1871, second in rank in a class of ninety men, the only woman and the first to graduate from Ann Arbor. In 1872 she settled in Auburn, and her suc- cess in gaining the confidence and respect of her colleagues was nothing short of phenome- nal. The year 1879 was spent in study in Paris and London. She was a member of the original staff of the Auburn City Hospital and continued an active member until her death, also a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York. Dr. Sanford possessed unusual surgical skill, operating with success in the days when in- tra-abdominal surgery had poor records. A maternity hospital in Auburn, given in her honor, bears her name. She married Patrick Hickey, in 1884, and died October 17, 1894, from pneumonia follow- ing exposure after performing a tedious opera- tion in an overheated room. Alfreda B. Withincton. Letters of personal friends and colleagues. New York Med. Rec., Nov. 17, 1894, vol. xlvi. Hiester John PhUip (1803-1854). John P. Hiester was born July 3, 1803, in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. He died September 15, 1854. When but a youth he showed a great interest in study and eagerly read all books that came within his reach. After receiving his M. D. from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1827, he practised in his native place. Shortly after, in order to satisfy his thirst for knowledge and at the same time benefit failing health, he deter- mined to take a journey to Europe, so on the sixteenth day of April, 1841, he set sail and visited England, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, and, after spending a year in Europe returned to resume practice. FTe had kept notes on his journey abroad, which were printed under the title of "Notes of Travel" wherein he described the different places visit- ed, especially the different botanical gardens, and in an enthusiastic sketch described his visit to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Botany was his favorite study, although he was also more or less attached to the science of geology. He had a fine collection of speci- mens of the different woods of Berks County, well arranged in library form ; a part of the limb or branch formed the back of the book to which was attaclied a tin box to hold the seed vessels, flowers, etc. From a sketch by Dr. W. Herbst in the Botanists of Philadelphia, by John W. Harshberger, 1899. Hildreth, Eugenius Augustus (1821-1885). Eugenius Augustus Hildreth, physician and botanist, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, September 13, 1821, and died there August 31, 1885. His father, Ezekiel Hildreth, was a