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(1893) ; A Contribution to the Anatomy of the Human Retina, with Dr. James Wallace (1894). He also edited : A System of Diseases of the Eye, by American, British, French, Dutch and Spanish authors (4 vols., 1897-1900), in which he con- tributed the article on cataract. He died in 1901.

NORTH, Caleb, soldier, was born in Chester county. Pa., July 15, 1753. He was a merchant in Coventry, Pa., at the outbreak of the Revolu- tionary war. He was commissioned captain in the 4th battalion, Jan. 5, 1776, was in the Canada and northern New York campaign ; was promoted major and transferred to the 10th Pennsylvania, March 12, 1777, and served under Gen. Anthony Wayne at Paoli, where he formed a rear guard, and saved the brigade from capture. He was present at the battle of Germantown ; was pro- moted lieutenant-colonel and transferred to the 11th Pennsylvania, Oct. 23, 1777; served in the battle of Monmouth ; was transferred to the 9th Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778, and to the 2d Penn- sylvania, Jan. 17, 1781, and took part in the southern campaign. He conducted the prisoners of Cornwallis's army from Virginia to York and Lancaster, Pa., and Tarleton's legion to Phila- delphia. He was retired from the army Jan. 1, 1783. He removed from Coventry to Philadelphia, where he was made high sheriff in 1819. He was president of the Pennsylvania branch, Society of the Cincinnati, 1828-40, and the last survivor of the field-officers of the Pennsylvania line. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 7, 1840.

NORTH, Edward, educator, was born in Berlin, Conn., March 9, 1820 ; the fourth son of Reuben and Hulda (Wilcox) North ; grandson of Simeon North, of Middletown, Conn., and a descendant in the eighth generation of John North (1615-1691), who came to Boston in 1685, on the ship Susan and Ellen ; was an original proprietor and settler of the town of Farmington, Conn. (1653), wiiich was the first offshoot from the church of the Rev. Thomas Hooker of Hartford, Conn. He married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Bird, and had two sons, John and Samuel, who were with their father included in the eighty-four original land owners of Farmington. Edward North was pre- pared for college in Worthington academy, grad- uated at Hamilton college in 1841 and engaged in teaching, 1841-43. He was married, July 31, 1844, to Mary Frances, only daughter of S. Newton Dexter of Whitesboro, N.Y, He was professor of Latin and Greek, and of Greek language and literature in Hamilton college, 1843-1901, necrol- ogist from 1855, a trustee from 1881, a member of the executive committee from 1891. and emeritus professor of Greek language and literatui'e from 1901. He was an active member of the conven- tion which organized the University Convocation in 1863, and was president of the New York

state teachers' association in 1865. He was act- ing president of Hamilton college from the death of President Darling, April 20, 1891, until the accession of President Stryker in 1892. He was elected to membership in the American Philo- logical association ; the American Philosophical association ; the New York Historical society ; the Oneida Historical society ; the Hellenic Physiolog- ical Society of Constantinople, and the Albany Institute. He received the degree of A.M. from Brown in 1844, of L.H.D. from the regents of the University of the State of New York in 1869, and of LL.D. from Madison (Colgate) university in 1887. He edited " Alumniana " in the Hamilton Monthly. He died in Clinton, Sept. 13, 1903.

NORTH, Elisha, physician, was born in Goshen, Conn., Jan. 8, 1768 ; son of Dr. Joseph and Lucy (Cowles) North ; grandson of Joseph and Martha (Denny) Smith North ; and a descendant of John and Hannah (Bird) North, Boston, 1635, Farm- ington, Conn., 1653. Elisha North's father was a self-taught physician and surgeon, and his grandfather was a farmer. He studied medi- cine under Lemuel Hopkins at Hartford, and Benjamin Rush at Philadelphia, Pa. He was admitted to practice and settled in Goshen, Conn., where he was married to Hannah Beach, and where his son Dr. Erasmus Darwin North (1806- 1858) was born. Inl812 he removed to New London, Conn. He made a special study of vaccination ; was among the first to practice it successfully in the United States, and he introduced vaccine matter in New York. He also devoted much study to diseases of the eye and established at New London the first eye infirmary in the United States, in 1817, He was very successful in his treatment of the new disease called spotted fever which was epidemic in New England, 1806-10. He is the author of : A Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic commonly knoivn as Spotted Fever (1811); Outlines of the Science of Life (1829) ; and Uncle Toby's Pilgrim's Progress in Phrenology (1836). He died in New London, Conn., Dec. 29, 1843.

NORTH, Erasmus Darwin, microscoi>ist, was born in Goshen, Conn., Sept, 4, 1806 ; son of Dr Elisha (q.v.) and Hannah (Beach) North. He was graduated from tlie University of North Carolina, A.B., 1826, A.M., 1831, and from Yale, M.D., 1833. He was instructor in elocution at Yale, 1830-33 and 1837-54, and published a treatise on " Practical Speaking" that became recognized as authority on the subject. After his resigna- tion from Yale he devoted himself to scientific and literary studies and made notable investiga- tions in microscopy. Some of his scientific papers appeared in the American Journal of Science. He was married in 1836, to Phoebe Sum- merville, who died in 1841, leaving two children. He died in Westfield, Mass., June 17, 1856.