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Title: The life and letters of Nathan Smith, M.B., M.D
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Emily A. (Emily Anna), b. 1840
Subjects: Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829 Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829 Education, Medical Physicians Physicians
Publisher: New Haven, Yale university press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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heprominent families of the place. He was devoted tohis patients and greatly beloved by them. When stillin his prime (aged somewhat less than forty-eightyears) he was cut off by a tragic death in a railroadaccident at Norwalk, Conn. The fourth son of Dr. Nathan Smith, Dr. JohnDerby Smith, born April 9, 1812, died April 26, 1884.Yale A.B., 1832; University of Maryland M.D., 1846. Before studying medicine, Dr. J. D. Smith studiedand was ordained a Congregational minister in theAndover Theological Seminary. His charge was atCharlemont, Mass., where he preached for ten years,but then had to give up his pastorate on account ofthroat trouble and took up the study of medicine underthe direction of his brother, Dr. N. R. Smith, inBaltimore. During the Civil War, he was assistant surgeon inthe Fairfax Seminary hospital and he afterwardsserved for two years as surgeon in the United StatesNavy. Dr. John Derby Smith was brilliantly talentedand a fine classical scholar, and, had he given his undi-
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Dr. James Morven Smith Third Son of Dr. Nathan Smith of Nathan Smith 161 vided attention to the practice of medicine, his reputa-tion for skill might have rivalled that of his brothers,but as it was, he was both an eloquent preacher and agood physician. Dr. Nathan Smith Lincoln, grandson of Dr. NathanSmith and son of Rev. Increase Sumner and GratiaEliza (Smith) Lincoln, born April 3, 1822, diedOctober 14, 1898. Dartmouth A.M., 1850; Univer-sity of Maryland M.D., 1852; Dartmouth LL.D.,1892. Dr. Lincoln occupied four chairs in Columbian Uni-versity of Washington, D. C,—Chemistry, Theoryand Practice of Medicine, Anatomy and Physiology,and Surgery, and was Professor Emeritus at the timeof his death. President Lincoln signed his commissionas surgeon of the District of Columbia Volunteers inMay, 1861, and he had five hospitals under his charge,as surgeon-in-chief, which position he held during theCivil War and for some months after its close. Dr. Lincoln was not only a great surgeon; he w

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