ST. JOHN
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STOCKBRIDGE
Yale College, where he graduated in 1834.
The two years succeeding were devoted
to the study of law, and a third to the
duties of a tutor in Latin, when a sudden
attack of hemoptysis warned him of
the necessity of rest and a change of
chmate. Accordingly he traveled for a
year in Europe, and immediately upon
his return in 1S3S was elected to the pro-
fessorship of cliemistry, geology, and
mineralogy in the Western Reserve
College, at Hudson, Ohio. In 1851 ho
was called to the chair of chemistry and
medical jurisprudence in the Cleveland
Medical College, a position which he
filled with eminent success until called
in 1857 to the chair of chemistry in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York City. This latter position he occu-
pied continuously until his death at New
Canaan, in the house in which he was
born, September 6, 187G.
St. John received no special medical education, and was never a practising physician, but received the degree of M. D. from three distinct institutions, viz.: the Vermont Medical College, in 1839; the Cleveland Medical College, in 1851, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, in 1857. He was likewise honored with the degree of LL. D. by the Georgetown College of Kentucky.
While a man of thorough scientific education and attainments, Dr. St. John was extremely modest and reserved. Dr. John C. Dalton, his colleague and friend, has described him as "a man whom no breath of suspicion ever touched, and whose integrity was a natural and essential part of his organization. " His son, Dr. Samuel B. St. John, became an ophthalmologist in Hartford, Connec- ticut.
H. E. H.
An excellent portrait of Dr. St. John is pre-
served in the faculty room of the Medical
Department of the Western Reserve Uni-
versity.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. A History, edited by John Shrady, A. M., M. D., 1903.
Vol. 11-27
Stockbridge, Tristrim Oilman (180&-1871).
Any life of this capable physician would be incomplete if we did not first say something about his father, John Stockbridge, of Bath and Topsham, Maine. Dr. John Stockbridge was born in Hanover, Massachusetts, April 16, 1780, and studied with Dr. Gad Hitch- cock, of Pembroke, Massachusetts. He practised in Topsham in 1804, and was very intimate with Dr. Isaac Lincoln, the well known physician of Brunswick. Dr. Stockbridge was so well thought of that Dartmouth College gave him an honorary M. D. in 1822. He moved to Bath, Maine, and practised there exten- sively, until his death May 3, 1849. During his lifetime he was an active member of the Massachu.setts Medical Society, as well as of the Maine Medical Society. He married Theodosia Gil- man, the daughter of the Rev. Tristrim Gilman, of North Yarmouth, Maine. The eldest son of this marriage, Tristrim Gilman, was born in Bath, Maine, and studied medicine with his father and also at the medical school of Maine where he graduated in 1827.
Instead of dividing practice with his father, he estabUshed himself in Winslow, Maine. His first year of experience was tremendous, but he proved his medical stamina by competing with several other physicians of that region in taking care of a widespread epidemic of small-pox which ravaged the population, and which was one of the causes leading to a large depopulation of the surrounding towns, the people going West. After a few vears of practice here, he decided to return to Bath and assist his father, who lived for some years later, but did not continue practice after the return of his capable son to the homestead.
The young Dr. Stockbridge of Bath soon gained as extensive a practice as he had previously had at Winslow, and was considered about the best man to be found thereabouts as physician and especially as surgeon. His personality won him many friends and clients. He was tall and commanding in person, very
