Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Ebitors of the llbulse my of SAMUEL OKIAR DL'NC.-KN, A. B. ED1'1'oR-IN-CHIEF. VVILLI.-UI DUNCAN BIACNARY. A. B. EZRA READ LARNED, ASSISTANT EDITOR AND TREASURER. sEcRE'rARx' Axn 1aL's1xEs5 x1.xNAnER CHARLES Lows HOBISS, FRANK XYR1:,:H'1' BULLEN, ART1sT. Em'1'uR mf Luc3A1.s, ETC. GEORGE THUMAS CARSON, CHAIRMAN. 9

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JBeni. 1R11 b El Jmograpbxg 'QA' Suomi lmlo szfrrozllzds this name, as fmperislmble as the pages of lz1'sf01Q1'. I fr. X ,EG-A e, . N the day before f,ll1'1StlHIlS,OUE hundred and fifty years ago, in the hamlet of Byberry, near Philadelphia, there came into F, this World a baby boy whose entrance was not heralded by Wa. .r , Ad pr! ll new 9 f t I ,W rs salvos of cannon nor thanksgivings in churches, but whose fl Icmibg exit sixty-eight years later caused more widespread grief than that of any other person, excepting possibly the Father of his Country. Benjamin Rush, as might readily be supposed from his own life, was de- scended from ancestors whose individuality and independence of thought and action demanded attention from those amongst whom they lived. His grandfather, a gunsmith by trade, was a captain of cavalry in Qliver Cromwell's army, and served with distinction, but later, being displeased with the restoration of the monarchy, which he had helped to overthrow, and liv- ing become allied with the society of Friends, on the emigration of their great leader, NVilliam Penn, he followed, or rather went with him, and settled near Philadelphia, where later the subject of our sketch was born. Very early in life, Rush must have given evidence of his desire for know- ledge, and was fortunate in possessing a mother of discernment and force of character, for when he was six yea1's old, his father, a highly respected farmer, died, and the farm on which they lived not being sufficiently remunerative. it was sold and the mother moved into Pliilaclelpllia, where her sole aim was the IO