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been interested in the College of Hampden-Sidney have known well the 127 mlmiza 1 E ff- 4' 'K R - D :SV f mf' 0 , N ell filf- Q ':?Q:i it Burtnr illinrtnn Qnllahag 0i0 MAN is best knowm by the name that has come to be his. Dr. Holla- day's full name was WALLER MORTON HOLLADAY. This name WALLER doubtless goes back into the past of Virginia to a very early time. One of the greatest of Virginians was named Little- ton Waller Tazewell. Morton has been a well-established name in Southside Virginia, fespecially in the counties of Charlotte and Prince Edwardl, since the early part of the eighteenth century. The name Holladay is associated rather with middle Virginia, north of the James River, but for more than three-quarters of a century those who have name of Holladay. In the early thirties Albert l-lolladay, of Orange County, fone of the first graduates in schools of the University of Virginiaj was Professor of Ancient Languages at Hampden-Sidney, and some thirty years later, in l856, was chosen Presi- dent of the College, dying within a few days after his election. ln l855 Lewis Little- page Holladay, of Orange County, fl-lampden-Sidney, IS5 31, became a member of the Faculty of Hampden-Sidney College, and until his death in l89l, continued in the service of the College as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. ln length of tenure, this term of office is certainly unique in the history of Hampden-Sidney. Professor Holladay was a man of extraordinary balance of mind, able to enjoy a quiet life to the full. He did a great deal for Hampden-Sidney-much of his influence could be defined and much of it could not be defined. Shortly after coming to Hampden-Sidney in his official capacity, Professor Holladay married Miss Morton of Buffalo, a plantation near the Appomattox river. Their son, Morton, was born April 23, IS64, the last year of the war. There was an old tradition of medicine in this branch of the Holladay family, Professor Holladay's father and grandfather having been physicians. Morton Holla- day, after a neighborhood schooling fpart of it at the excellent Prince Edward Academy at Worshaml, came to college at Hampden-Sidney, was a member of the Philanthropic Society and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and was graduated with the Class of ISS3. He chose medicine for his profession, and went to Kentucky for his training, in the Louisville Medical College. He took his degree there in l885, the youngest of a class of fifty, and the first honor man of the class. Spending a year as interne in the Louisville City Hospital, where his ability was generally recognized, he settled at home, in Prince Edward County, passing the examination of the State Board in September, l886. Morton l'lolladay's instinct for medicine was pronounced. It is related that his father said to him, I should be glad to see you a country doctor. A seasoned philosophy of life was in the words. 7
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Next after the thoroughgoing priests, fnot seldom making the priesthood seem merely a professionl, what life is more given up to service than that of the country doctor? His rewards are many, but gain is not greatly in his reckoning. The celebrated town physician may do much charity practice at times in his office. He does not often go miles over dark roads in the cold, certain that his time will be as good as lost, if money is to be the standard of value. Let us not enlarge upon these matters, after all not simple. Sure it is that the physician who lives, moves, and works in the country, true to his art, meeting men on the level, is a chief factor in the commonwealth. If the country makes the town, who to a much greater degree of it than the physician, makes the country? The sum of the matter is, perhaps, that the world is wide, and whenever we are, there is a plenty to do. In the country there is so much to do, we sometimes grow confused, more so than in town, where there are paths beaten of many and labor is infmitesimally divided. Morton Holladay spent his life in Prince Edward County. At the time of his death he was the oldest inhabitant of Hampden-Sidney, to use his own wordsi For more than a century the county had been 'accustomed to well-trained physicians-Daniel Flournoy, William S. Morton, C-oodridge Wilson, the Farrars, the Mattauers, Joseph Eggleston. Dr. Holladay took up the work of no incompetent men and carried it forward. He was not in his later period so frequently a contributor to the journals as he had been earlier, but he knew what was going on in the practice of medicine and gave his patients the approved treatmentff Not long before his death he brought round a case of virulent diphtheria, by the most advanced scientific methods applied in circumstances almost as unfavorable as possible. Therapeutics was his forte, and this year, if the sum total of the poll-tax was hgured out, paid by those whose lives he has saved, the amount would look pretty large, even as the poll-tax is paid- This is the man that saved my life, Not only mine, but that of my wife, Each child I have hath lgnonm his skill, And cach I shall, questionless, will. Special reputation is much, but if a professional man has not besides the name of a good citizen, he might as well admit that he cares little except for what goes into the statistical record. As Sir Thomas Brown says, Live unto the dignity of thy nature, and leave it not uncertain at the end whether thou hast been a man. Dr. Morton Holladay was a good citizen. He knew better than most persons what people were, but was chary in judgment, and no pessimist, ready to do anything that he could with his opinions for the best welfare of the people. For years and years he had worked as opportunity was for improved roads about Prince Edward County. For the last five years of his life he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of the County, and during those live years there was not a better Supervisor in the State of Virginia. A Board is a Board, and it is 'For about ten or a dozen years Dr. Holladay was Physician to the College. first in l887, and then for a long term ending with his death in December, 1913. lf Holladay sends us a patient, observes the Director of the Memorial Hospital in Richmond, we know that the case has been well studied. 8
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