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NAME MOORE 813 MOREHOUSE pionship of right, and above all his great human sympathy for those in trouble or dis- tress, — one and all were traits which appealed and bred love, respect and deference. For thirty-six years this Nestor of the profession left his imprint on the medical life of the Northwest; his influence, example and skill during these years ever helped to blaze the trail, to mould and stimulate towards the best and highest type of surgery. A. A. Law. Moore, John (1826-1907) John Moore, surgeon-general of the United States Army, was born in Bloomington, Indi- ana, in 1826, and received his collegiate edu- cation at the Indiana State University. In 1848-49 he attended lectures at the Medical School of Louisville, and graduated from the medical department of New York University in 1850, in 1853 being commissioned assistant army surgeon and promoted to captain in 1858. Upon promotion to major, in 1862, he was detailed as medical director of the Cen- tral Grand Division of the Army of the Poto- mac; in the following year he was transferred to the Department of the Tennessee, and in 1864 received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meritorious service during the Atlantic Campaign. In 1865 he, was appointed colonel and medical director of Volunteers, receiving during this service the brevet of colonel "for faithful and meritorious service during the war." After serving at various posts he was appointed surgeon-general of the army in 1886, by President Cleveland. Under the administration of Gen. Moore great advances in army medical work were accomplished. Instruction in first aid was inaugurated in the service by direction of gen- eral order No. 86, from the headquarters of the army, November 20, 1886. In 1887, the act organizing a Hospital Corps in the United States Army became a law. The third med- ical volume of the medical and surgical his- tory of the rebellion appeared during his administration, under the editorship of Maj. Smart. He retired in 1890, and continued to live in Washington up to the time of his death in 1907. Charles A. Pfender. Jour. Asso. Mil. Surgs. U. S., Carlisle, 1904, vol. XV. Moore, Samuel Preston (1813-1889) Samuel P. Moore, surgeon. United States Army, surgeon-general, Confederate States Army, was the son of Stephen West and Eleanor Screven Gilbert Moore, and lineal descendant of Dr. Mordicai Moore who ac- companied Lord Baltimore to America as his physician. He was educated at the schools of Charleston and graduated M. D. from the Medical College of the State of South Caro- lina in 1834, afterwards appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army, 1835, serv- ing at many frontier posts in Florida, and with high credit in Texas during the Mexican War, and continued service after being cre- ated major at various stations in Missouri, Texas and New York. When South Caro- lina seceded from the Union, he resigned and settled in Little Rock, Arkansas, whence he was called in June, 1861, to the surgeon-gen- eralcy of the Confederate Army. Under the stress of overwhelming difficulties he organ- ized a medical department for the Confed- erate armies. In 1863, at Richmond, he organ- ized the Association of Army and Navy Sur- geons of the Confederate States and became its first president, and was also active as president in a similar association, established after the close of the war. The useful work was his of finding methods of providing the Confederate troops with medicines from the plants indigenous to the southern states. He inaugurated and directed the publication of The Confederate States Medical Journal from 1864 to 1865, and he adopted the one story hospital wards which became so popular in both northern and southern armies. At the close of the Civil War he remained in Richmond, not engaging in active medical practice, but interested in all public affairs, and died May 31, 1889. James Evelyn Pilcher. Jour. Asso. of Milit. Surgs. of the United States, vol. xvi, 1905. James Evelyn Pilcher. Portrait The Sijrgeon-generals of the United States Army, J. E. Pilcher, Carlisle, Pa., 1905. Portrait. Morehouse, George Read (1829-1905) George Read Morehouse of Philadelphia, practitioner, research worker, was born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, on March 25, 1829. The family history is interesting. Sometime before the war for independence, Andrew Morehouse emigrated from the north of Eng- land to the colony of New York. He served later as a colonel during the Revolution. His son Abraham, apparently a man of means, seems to have been led into the wild land speculation which during Washington's terms of office ruined so many. He bought vast tracts of coal lands in Virginia and Penn-