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iial department of the university of the city
of New York in March, 1867, and until Oc-
tober was an interne in the Charity Hos-
pital on Blackwell's Island, and was then
assistant physician at the hospital for nerv-
ous diseases at Lake Mahopac, New York.
He engaged in practice in 1868 at Lynch-
burg, Virginia, and two years later was
active in establishing the Medical Society
of Virginia, and was made recording secre-
tary. He was a member of the state board
of health in 1872, and the same year re-
moved to Richmond. He established the
"Virginia Medical Monthly" in April, 1874;
was appointed lecturer on anatomy in the
Virginia Medical College; lecturer on ma-
teria medica and therapeutics, 1875 ; and on
medico-legal jurisprudence, in 1880. He was
a member of many professional societies,
and has been a frequent contributor to med-
ical journals.
Glazebrook, Otis Allan, born at Rich- mond. Virginia, October 13, 1845. His father went to Richmond, Virginia, when a mere lad, and entering into business, be- came a useful and influential citizen. He was a student at Randolph-Macon College when Virginia seceded from the Union, and v.as at once sent to the Virginia Military Institute, to be educated as an oflicer in the regular Confederate army. He had large war experience, serving under Lee, Jackson
- ind other great Confederate leaders. At the
battle of New Market he was complimented for distinguishing gallantry on the field. He was at Appomattox, and after the war he returned to Lexington, graduating from the Virginia Military Institute the following vear with the first honors of his class. He first inclined to law; but upon the death of
his father, he matriculated in the middle
class of the Episcopal Theological Seminary
of Virginia, in September, 1867, and was
graduated two years after, being ordained
to the priesthood at the early age of twenty-
three. His first parish was in South Side,
Virginia, where in addition to his regu-
lar work, he organized gratuitously one of
the first colored congregations in Virginia
after the war, to which he ministered, in ad-
dition to his regular parish, for six years.
He was called to Baltiinore. Maryland, in
1875, and built the Church of the Holy Trin-
ity. While there he was made chaplain of
the famous Fifth Maryland Regiment, and
was complimented for his cool bravery in
the labor troubles of 1877. In 1878 he was
called to the rectorship of Christ Church,
Macon, Georgia, and became the dean of
that convocation. Being severely injured
in a railroad accident he was compelled to
resign his charge, and spent months in
Europe. Upon his return he was elected to
the chaplaincy of the University of Virginia,
where his work was eminently success-
ful. In 1885 he was called to St. John's
Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, the largest
and most influential parish in New Jersey.
He was the founder of a leading southern
college Greek letter society, the Alpha Tau
Omega, and was editor of the magazine of
that fraternity for years. The degrees of
Doctor of Divinity and Master of Arts were
conferred upon him, and the diocese of New
jersey sent him as a delegate to two general
c(-nventions of the Protestant Episcopal
church. He married, in 1866, Virginia Cal-
vert Key, the second daughter of Francis H.
Smith, superintendent of the Virginia Mili-
tary Institute from its founding.
