Word: fairfield
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wolff, A. B., instructor in petrography; John Carson Wait, C. E. S. M., instructor in surveying and drawing; Daniel Denison Slade, M. D., lecturer on comparative osteology; John Homans, M. D., instructor in the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian tumors; Francis Booth Greenough, M. D., instructor in syphilis; Oliver Fairfield Wadsworth, M. D., instructor in ophthalmoscopy; John Greenfied, M. D., instructor in otology; Abner Post, M. D., instructor in syphilis; Elbridge Gerry Cutler, M. D., instructor in auscultation; Arthur Tracy Cabot, M. D., instructor in genitourinary surgery; William Whitworth Gannet, instructor in auscultation; George Lincoln Walton, M. D., instructor...
...Reminiscences" abounds with anecdotes about men, now famous and many of them long since dead-men like Henry Ware, Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Ticknor, Felton, Fairfield and Pierce. The book, though made up of fragments as it is, will always be of value and interest to Harvard men. It pictures, as is pictured nowhere else, the different stages of life at our University during the last sixty years, breathing the kindly, gentle spirit of its author, who has always drawn out the good and won the love of all with whom he has come in contact...
...Gray was born in Paris, Oneida County, New York, November 18, 1810, and was consequently 77 years of age. He received his early education in the Clinton Grammar School and at the Fairfield Academy, after which he began the study of medicine with Dr. John F. Trowbridge in Bridgewater, N. Y., and was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the western district of New York in 1831. He soon after left his practice and began the study of botany with Dr. John Torrey. In 1834 he was appointed botanist to the United States exploring expedition sent...
...ranch in Kansas. One evening, about seven o'clock, a gentleman stopped at the house inquired for uncle, and asked him whether he could accommodate him for the night, and in the morning give him a horse to ride and a guide to show him the way to Fairfield, a village about sixty miles distant, as very important business demanded his presence there. Uncle consented to do as he wished, and asked me to act as guide. Upon closer examination I found the stranger to be my old friend Buttons, who had risen from the low station of policeman...