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NAME RICHARDSON 975 RICHARDSON Delaware, Ohio. In the fall of 1847 he at- tended his first course of lectures at a medical college in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the next year entered the Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College at New York City, where he grad- uated in 1876. Returning to Ohio he ac- cepted a position as assistant physician at the State Hospital, Athens, Ohio. In 1880 he was appointed superintendent. He was suc- cessively superintendent of the State Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; the State Hospital, Massillon, Ohio, and when occupying the same post at the Government Hospital, Washington, he ob- tained government grants for the enlarge- ment and improvement of the latter. In 1892 he was, without solicitation or suggestion on his part, unanimously elected to the super- intendency of the State Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and retained this position until the completion of the new State Hospital at Massillon, Ohio, in 1898. He had been one of the board of constructors of that institution from its inception, and had largely shaped its plans. Amid the multiplied demands of his position he continued an enthusiastic student. He must be counted among the foremost of those who have led in the notable amelioration and improvement in the treatment of the insane that has taken place. Despite his busy life in other respects, he found time to contribute to some of the leading journals of the time. Insanity and its causes among the American troops in the Philippines and Cuban campaigns formed some of the subjects from his ready pen. Dr. Richardson was a member of the Columbus, Ohio, .'cademy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the New York Medico-Legal Society, and the American Med- ico-psychological Association, of which he was elected president. Dr. Richardson was professor of mental diseases in both Columbian and Georgetown Universities, in Washington. He was sur- vived by a widow, Julia Dean Richardson, and four children. Dr. William W., Mrs. W. G. Neff, Edith Harris, and Helen. Ch.aklf.s H. Cl.rk. Amer. Jour, of Insanity, 1903, vol. Ix. Richardson, James Henry n823-1910). Tames Henry Richardson, the first graduate in medicine at the University of Toronto, was born at Presque Isle, October 16, 1823. His grandfather had served in the British Navy and came to Canada in 1785, when he re- ceived an appointment in the merchant ma- rine service. His father, James Richardson, was born at Kingston, served during the War of 1812 under Sir James Yeo and in May, 1814, lost an arm at the shoulder, at the capture of Oswego by the British. The mother of James Henry Richardson was the second daughter of John Dennis, a well known United Empire Loyalist, who came to Little York about the beginning of the century. James H. Richardson began his medical studies in 1841, with Dr. Rolph (q. v.), then living in Rochester, New York, and remained with him two years. He then atrtended, as a matriculated student, the first course of lec- tures delivered by the medical faculty of King's College. In 1844 he went to England and studied at Guy's Hospital for three years, spending the summer of 1846 at the hospitals and in attendance on lectures in Paris. He obtained his diploma at the Royal College of Surgeons, England, in 1847, being the first Canadian to receive that honor. He then re- turned to Toronto and commenced practice. In 1848 he took the degree of M. B. at King's College. In 1850 he was appointed professor of anatomy, in the newly constituted medical department of Toronto University, and held this chair until the department was abolished in 1853. Some years later he accepted the chair of anatomy in the Toronto School of Medicine, and at the organization of the med- ical faculty of the Toronto University was again appointed professor of anatomy, re- signing in 1912. Dr. Richardson took great interest in the volunteer force and was, successively, sur- geon of the Field Artillery, the Merchant's Company and the Tenth Royal Regiment, ."^fter twenty years of continuous service he retired, retaining the rank of Surgeon-Major. During the time of his service he was an enthusiastic and successful rifle shot, receiv- ing, in 1861, the first prize ever competed for in Toronto at long range. The prize was presented to him by General Williams, after- wards the hero of Kars. He was all his life a lover of outdoor sports, such as yachting, curling and fishing, and to this attributed the good health which he enjoyed. In the last named sport he passed his summer vacations from place to place, at almost every noted fishing camp in the Dominion, from Cape Breton to the rivers and shores of Lake Superior. On these vacation expeditions he never carried any surgical ap- pliances, and on one occasion it happened that he met a Franch-Canadian who was in most urgent need of relief by the use of a catheter. While the doctor was wondering