From Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio [Cincinnati, Ohio]10 Feb 1896: 4.
In the death of Dr. Comergys, there passed away a man who left his impress upon his time and upon his surroundings. Not alone was he famous in his profession, but as a citizen, he did much that was of lasting good to the city of his adoption.
Dr. Cornelius George Washington Comergys was born July 23, 1816, in Cherbourg, the family estate in Kent County, Delaware. He was a descendant of a German-Holland family that was naturalized in Kent County, Maryland. in 1673. Being a son of Cornelius Parsons Comerguys, Lieutenant Colonel of state troops in the War of 1812, and Governor of Delaware from 1838-1841, and his mother, Hannah, was a daughter of John Marim, a solider in the Revolutionary War. His brother, Joseph Parsons Comegys, LLD was Chief Justice of Delaware from 1876-1892, also a United States Senator in 1856. Another brother, Benjamin Bartus Comegys, LLD is a President of the Philadelphia National Bank and a trustee of the Girard estate.
Dr. Comeguys was educated chiefly in the Dover Academy. He could have studied medicine, but for the pecuniary embarrassment of his father. His life began as a teacher in a district school: then he went to Indianapolis, Indiana for employment with the United States Engineer Corps, constructing the National Road to St. Louis. He became a cashier-clerk in the State Bank of Indiana and moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana to become a cashier and finally took part in a large flourishing manufactory company, and this proved disastrous, causing him to abandon business life and study medicine, his original purpose.
While studying medicine, he also studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology, psychology and political economy. He moved to Philadelphia and matriculated in University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, under the preceptorship of W.E. Horner, Professor of Anatomy & Dean of the Medical Department. He took two winter courses and one summer course--daily clinics in the college & University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and a course in French and graduated in March 1848 and began his practice in Philadelphia.
In 1849, he moved to Cincinnati at the advent of the Asiatic cholera outbreak. Feeling the need of a wider clinical study, he went to London and Paris in 1851. He returned to Cincinnati in 1852 and taught a course in anatomy in the College of Physicians & Surgeons and then joined the Miami Medical College as a professor of the institutes of medicine and continued until the fusion with the Ohio Medical College in 1857 where he held the same chair. He was a clinical teacher and on the medical staff of Cincinnati Hospital--which was part of the medical college of Ohio. He resigned his chair in 1869, but retained his hospital position for over 35 years and for seven years was president of the staff. It was at his urging the the Department of Pathology was created, and small groups were deployed to patient's bedsides to learn rather than depending on the amphitheater clinical lectures.
He was one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine and served twice as its president. He was a member of numerous medical societies and published numerous article and books on medicine. He was well known for promoting forensic medicine, which he argued would secure a higher form of judicial decisions. He also advocated and appeared before Congress and served on a special committee to push for the creation of a Presidential Cabinet position of Secretary of Health and a Department of Health.
He also left a mark on the educational systems of Cincinnati. He was on the board for the Common and High Schools in Cincinnati and then served on the board as Director for the University of Cincinnati--a school he over saw the creation of--first as an administrator of the Charles McMicken estate and then in 1869, as a Cincinnati City Council member--to ensure that the city actually built the school on McMicken's land. (In April 1870, the University of Cincinnati was finally created by act of the Ohio General Assembly.) He also had a hand in the creation of the Cincinnati Art Academy after his request for classes in drawing human anatomy had been approved by the University's Department of Design. From those classes, funds from Nicholas Longworth were used to move the Design Department into the new Art Academy.
In 1839, he married Miss Rebecca Tiffin, daughter of Governor Tiffin, the first Governor of Ohio and US Senator. Their children are: Edward Tiffin, A.M. MD, Major and Surgeon in the US Army, William H. MD, Major in the Pay Department of the US Army; Charles George, BS, BA, practicing law in Cincinnati and Ellen Tiffin and Mary Porter Comegys.
In the death of Dr. Comergys, there passed away a man who left his impress upon his time and upon his surroundings. Not alone was he famous in his profession, but as a citizen, he did much that was of lasting good to the city of his adoption.
Dr. Cornelius George Washington Comergys was born July 23, 1816, in Cherbourg, the family estate in Kent County, Delaware. He was a descendant of a German-Holland family that was naturalized in Kent County, Maryland. in 1673. Being a son of Cornelius Parsons Comerguys, Lieutenant Colonel of state troops in the War of 1812, and Governor of Delaware from 1838-1841, and his mother, Hannah, was a daughter of John Marim, a solider in the Revolutionary War. His brother, Joseph Parsons Comegys, LLD was Chief Justice of Delaware from 1876-1892, also a United States Senator in 1856. Another brother, Benjamin Bartus Comegys, LLD is a President of the Philadelphia National Bank and a trustee of the Girard estate.
Dr. Comeguys was educated chiefly in the Dover Academy. He could have studied medicine, but for the pecuniary embarrassment of his father. His life began as a teacher in a district school: then he went to Indianapolis, Indiana for employment with the United States Engineer Corps, constructing the National Road to St. Louis. He became a cashier-clerk in the State Bank of Indiana and moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana to become a cashier and finally took part in a large flourishing manufactory company, and this proved disastrous, causing him to abandon business life and study medicine, his original purpose.
While studying medicine, he also studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology, psychology and political economy. He moved to Philadelphia and matriculated in University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, under the preceptorship of W.E. Horner, Professor of Anatomy & Dean of the Medical Department. He took two winter courses and one summer course--daily clinics in the college & University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and a course in French and graduated in March 1848 and began his practice in Philadelphia.
In 1849, he moved to Cincinnati at the advent of the Asiatic cholera outbreak. Feeling the need of a wider clinical study, he went to London and Paris in 1851. He returned to Cincinnati in 1852 and taught a course in anatomy in the College of Physicians & Surgeons and then joined the Miami Medical College as a professor of the institutes of medicine and continued until the fusion with the Ohio Medical College in 1857 where he held the same chair. He was a clinical teacher and on the medical staff of Cincinnati Hospital--which was part of the medical college of Ohio. He resigned his chair in 1869, but retained his hospital position for over 35 years and for seven years was president of the staff. It was at his urging the the Department of Pathology was created, and small groups were deployed to patient's bedsides to learn rather than depending on the amphitheater clinical lectures.
He was one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine and served twice as its president. He was a member of numerous medical societies and published numerous article and books on medicine. He was well known for promoting forensic medicine, which he argued would secure a higher form of judicial decisions. He also advocated and appeared before Congress and served on a special committee to push for the creation of a Presidential Cabinet position of Secretary of Health and a Department of Health.
He also left a mark on the educational systems of Cincinnati. He was on the board for the Common and High Schools in Cincinnati and then served on the board as Director for the University of Cincinnati--a school he over saw the creation of--first as an administrator of the Charles McMicken estate and then in 1869, as a Cincinnati City Council member--to ensure that the city actually built the school on McMicken's land. (In April 1870, the University of Cincinnati was finally created by act of the Ohio General Assembly.) He also had a hand in the creation of the Cincinnati Art Academy after his request for classes in drawing human anatomy had been approved by the University's Department of Design. From those classes, funds from Nicholas Longworth were used to move the Design Department into the new Art Academy.
In 1839, he married Miss Rebecca Tiffin, daughter of Governor Tiffin, the first Governor of Ohio and US Senator. Their children are: Edward Tiffin, A.M. MD, Major and Surgeon in the US Army, William H. MD, Major in the Pay Department of the US Army; Charles George, BS, BA, practicing law in Cincinnati and Ellen Tiffin and Mary Porter Comegys.
From Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio [Cincinnati, Ohio]10 Feb 1896: 4.
In the death of Dr. Comergys, there passed away a man who left his impress upon his time and upon his surroundings. Not alone was he famous in his profession, but as a citizen, he did much that was of lasting good to the city of his adoption.
Dr. Cornelius George Washington Comergys was born July 23, 1816, in Cherbourg, the family estate in Kent County, Delaware. He was a descendant of a German-Holland family that was naturalized in Kent County, Maryland. in 1673. Being a son of Cornelius Parsons Comerguys, Lieutenant Colonel of state troops in the War of 1812, and Governor of Delaware from 1838-1841, and his mother, Hannah, was a daughter of John Marim, a solider in the Revolutionary War. His brother, Joseph Parsons Comegys, LLD was Chief Justice of Delaware from 1876-1892, also a United States Senator in 1856. Another brother, Benjamin Bartus Comegys, LLD is a President of the Philadelphia National Bank and a trustee of the Girard estate.
Dr. Comeguys was educated chiefly in the Dover Academy. He could have studied medicine, but for the pecuniary embarrassment of his father. His life began as a teacher in a district school: then he went to Indianapolis, Indiana for employment with the United States Engineer Corps, constructing the National Road to St. Louis. He became a cashier-clerk in the State Bank of Indiana and moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana to become a cashier and finally took part in a large flourishing manufactory company, and this proved disastrous, causing him to abandon business life and study medicine, his original purpose.
While studying medicine, he also studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology, psychology and political economy. He moved to Philadelphia and matriculated in University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, under the preceptorship of W.E. Horner, Professor of Anatomy & Dean of the Medical Department. He took two winter courses and one summer course--daily clinics in the college & University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and a course in French and graduated in March 1848 and began his practice in Philadelphia.
In 1849, he moved to Cincinnati at the advent of the Asiatic cholera outbreak. Feeling the need of a wider clinical study, he went to London and Paris in 1851. He returned to Cincinnati in 1852 and taught a course in anatomy in the College of Physicians & Surgeons and then joined the Miami Medical College as a professor of the institutes of medicine and continued until the fusion with the Ohio Medical College in 1857 where he held the same chair. He was a clinical teacher and on the medical staff of Cincinnati Hospital--which was part of the medical college of Ohio. He resigned his chair in 1869, but retained his hospital position for over 35 years and for seven years was president of the staff. It was at his urging the the Department of Pathology was created, and small groups were deployed to patient's bedsides to learn rather than depending on the amphitheater clinical lectures.
He was one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine and served twice as its president. He was a member of numerous medical societies and published numerous article and books on medicine. He was well known for promoting forensic medicine, which he argued would secure a higher form of judicial decisions. He also advocated and appeared before Congress and served on a special committee to push for the creation of a Presidential Cabinet position of Secretary of Health and a Department of Health.
He also left a mark on the educational systems of Cincinnati. He was on the board for the Common and High Schools in Cincinnati and then served on the board as Director for the University of Cincinnati--a school he over saw the creation of--first as an administrator of the Charles McMicken estate and then in 1869, as a Cincinnati City Council member--to ensure that the city actually built the school on McMicken's land. (In April 1870, the University of Cincinnati was finally created by act of the Ohio General Assembly.) He also had a hand in the creation of the Cincinnati Art Academy after his request for classes in drawing human anatomy had been approved by the University's Department of Design. From those classes, funds from Nicholas Longworth were used to move the Design Department into the new Art Academy.
In 1839, he married Miss Rebecca Tiffin, daughter of Governor Tiffin, the first Governor of Ohio and US Senator. Their children are: Edward Tiffin, A.M. MD, Major and Surgeon in the US Army, William H. MD, Major in the Pay Department of the US Army; Charles George, BS, BA, practicing law in Cincinnati and Ellen Tiffin and Mary Porter Comegys.
In the death of Dr. Comergys, there passed away a man who left his impress upon his time and upon his surroundings. Not alone was he famous in his profession, but as a citizen, he did much that was of lasting good to the city of his adoption.
Dr. Cornelius George Washington Comergys was born July 23, 1816, in Cherbourg, the family estate in Kent County, Delaware. He was a descendant of a German-Holland family that was naturalized in Kent County, Maryland. in 1673. Being a son of Cornelius Parsons Comerguys, Lieutenant Colonel of state troops in the War of 1812, and Governor of Delaware from 1838-1841, and his mother, Hannah, was a daughter of John Marim, a solider in the Revolutionary War. His brother, Joseph Parsons Comegys, LLD was Chief Justice of Delaware from 1876-1892, also a United States Senator in 1856. Another brother, Benjamin Bartus Comegys, LLD is a President of the Philadelphia National Bank and a trustee of the Girard estate.
Dr. Comeguys was educated chiefly in the Dover Academy. He could have studied medicine, but for the pecuniary embarrassment of his father. His life began as a teacher in a district school: then he went to Indianapolis, Indiana for employment with the United States Engineer Corps, constructing the National Road to St. Louis. He became a cashier-clerk in the State Bank of Indiana and moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana to become a cashier and finally took part in a large flourishing manufactory company, and this proved disastrous, causing him to abandon business life and study medicine, his original purpose.
While studying medicine, he also studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology, psychology and political economy. He moved to Philadelphia and matriculated in University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, under the preceptorship of W.E. Horner, Professor of Anatomy & Dean of the Medical Department. He took two winter courses and one summer course--daily clinics in the college & University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and a course in French and graduated in March 1848 and began his practice in Philadelphia.
In 1849, he moved to Cincinnati at the advent of the Asiatic cholera outbreak. Feeling the need of a wider clinical study, he went to London and Paris in 1851. He returned to Cincinnati in 1852 and taught a course in anatomy in the College of Physicians & Surgeons and then joined the Miami Medical College as a professor of the institutes of medicine and continued until the fusion with the Ohio Medical College in 1857 where he held the same chair. He was a clinical teacher and on the medical staff of Cincinnati Hospital--which was part of the medical college of Ohio. He resigned his chair in 1869, but retained his hospital position for over 35 years and for seven years was president of the staff. It was at his urging the the Department of Pathology was created, and small groups were deployed to patient's bedsides to learn rather than depending on the amphitheater clinical lectures.
He was one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine and served twice as its president. He was a member of numerous medical societies and published numerous article and books on medicine. He was well known for promoting forensic medicine, which he argued would secure a higher form of judicial decisions. He also advocated and appeared before Congress and served on a special committee to push for the creation of a Presidential Cabinet position of Secretary of Health and a Department of Health.
He also left a mark on the educational systems of Cincinnati. He was on the board for the Common and High Schools in Cincinnati and then served on the board as Director for the University of Cincinnati--a school he over saw the creation of--first as an administrator of the Charles McMicken estate and then in 1869, as a Cincinnati City Council member--to ensure that the city actually built the school on McMicken's land. (In April 1870, the University of Cincinnati was finally created by act of the Ohio General Assembly.) He also had a hand in the creation of the Cincinnati Art Academy after his request for classes in drawing human anatomy had been approved by the University's Department of Design. From those classes, funds from Nicholas Longworth were used to move the Design Department into the new Art Academy.
In 1839, he married Miss Rebecca Tiffin, daughter of Governor Tiffin, the first Governor of Ohio and US Senator. Their children are: Edward Tiffin, A.M. MD, Major and Surgeon in the US Army, William H. MD, Major in the Pay Department of the US Army; Charles George, BS, BA, practicing law in Cincinnati and Ellen Tiffin and Mary Porter Comegys.
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