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NAME LUCKIE 720 LUDEKING Medical College and Hospital for Women, and dean of the faculty of this college for more than twenty years. She specialized in the re- moval of tumors and in cases of complicated obstetrics. Among the societies to which she belonged may be mentioned: Universal Peace Union, Homeopathic County Society, Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union (president at one time). National Woman's Suffrage Associa- tion (president for five years), New York City Suffrage League (president for three years), N. Y. Abolitionists' Reunion, and Moral Edu- cation Society (president for a period). She was a strong advocate of woman suffrage and helped publish the Revolution, the suffrage organ. She died at her home in New York City, April 26, 1888, of angina pectoris. Report from her granddaughter, Jessica Lozier Payne. Emin. Women of the Age, Hartford, Conn., 1868. N. Y. Press, April 30, 1888. N. Y. Evening Post, ISSS. Luckie, James Buckner (1833-1908) Born in Covington, Georgia, July 16, 1833, he was of Scotch descent, his ancestors emi- grating from England and Scotland, and set- tling in the Carolinas. His father. Judge Wil- liam Dickinson Luckie, moved to Georgia, where Dr. Luckie spent his boyhood. Educated in the common schools and in Gwinnet Institute, he began 'the study of medi- cine when eighteen with Dr. John B. Hen- drick and in the winter of '53 attended his first course of lectures in Augusta, Georgia. The following winter he attended the Penn- sylvania Medical College at Philadelphia and graduated in March, 1855. He practised a year in his native county, then in Orion, Ala- bama. On the outbreak of the Civil War he re- ceived the appointment of assistant surgeon. Serving in Kentucky, he was made medical purveyor by Gen. Kirby Smith, afterwards Inspector of Hospitals; and served with Graces' Brigade in the Army of Virginia, clos- ing his army career with the surrender of Gen- R. E. Lee at Appomattox. He settled in Pine Level, Montgomery County, Alabama, but removed in 1872 to Birmingham, Alabama. It was he, with Dr. M. H. Jordan, who fought the terrible epi- demic of cholera at this place in 1873, he being the last one to have the disease. He was a charter member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, served on the Board of Censors, and was counsellor of the State Medical Association. In his medical career he became noted as a surgeon, and, at a time when such a procedure was practically unknown, he successfully set a broken neck; following this he had another successful case of the same. He also did the first successful triple amputation in the United States, and also the second. The name of his first wife was Imogene Fielder, by whom he had one child, and in 1866 he married Susan Oliver Dillard and had nine, six boys and three girls. Four of the boys studied medicine, but the two oldest died. Dr. Luckie died at Birmingham, December 11, 1908, aged seventy-five. Lorenzo F. Luckie. History of Jefferson County, Ala. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, G. M. Gould. Virginia Medical Monthly, October, 1887. Records National Railway Surgeons, June 28, 1888. Jour, of the Southern Med. Asso., Jan., 1909. Alabama Med. Jour., Jan., 1909. Luedeking, Robert (1853-1908) Born in the city of St. Louis, on Novem- ber 6, 1853, Robert Luedeking wa,s a fine rep- resentative of the best type of American citi- zen of German extraction. He graduated from the High School in 1871, studied in Heidelberg for two years and took his M. D. in Strassburg and after a year of post-graduate work in Vienna, returned to St. Louis, where his father had kept a school for girls until 1854. To men of science Luedeking was known as one who early in his career had done original and brilliant work in pathological anatomy, while his later writings, laden with the fruits of long experience in clinical medicine, were read eagerly by practitioners. He devoted special attention to the diseases of children. The officers of the Washington University and the faculty of its medical department prized him as an able executive officer and in 1902 Luedeking was chosen dean. Soon after graduation in medicine and re- turn to this country, Luedeking entered the Health Department, and for five years, from 1877 to 1883, served the city successively as dispensary physician, secretary of the Board of Health, and for several periods of a month or two at a time as acting superintendent of the City and Female Hospitals. During the prevalence of small-pox in 1881-83 he often visited the small-pox hospital. His kind face and manner, his jolly laugh, his unfailing cheerfulness were as valuable to the officers as his advice and suggestions. In 1882 he was appointed lecturer on patho- logical anatomy in the St. Louis Medical Col- lege (now a part of the Medical Department of Washington University), and the following year to a professorship in the same branch.