| editor, The Biographical Dictionary of America… (1906)
“ He returned to Lancaster, and entered the iron business, but failed, and became a lecturer in the then famous Philadelphia school of anatomy. He was chosen a surgeon of the Philadelphia city hospital in 1854, and there founded the pathological museum. He also established in Philadelphia a school of operative surgery. He afterwards served as demonstrator of anatomy and assistant lecturer on clinical surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. During the war he was consulting surgeon to the staff of forty-seven resident physicians at the great Mower army hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. ”
