Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Sam uni. It. Ilcmuir, A M., M D., I) D.S, was born in Cmndcn, N. J . September ;o. 1S34. His lather. Robert V Howell, was a well-known lawyer, and his mother was a Miss Carjienter, of Philadelphia. Professor Howell, after jwssing through the usual • ourseof school training in his native town, prepared for college and entered Prim-ton University, 1-Tom this institution he re miv .1 his A. it. degree in course, and latci that of A. M. Hi- early fondness for natural science led him to the study of medicine II ; 1-egan hia course in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and although ill health delayed his progress somewhat, he persevered and eventually completed his course,graduating with honot in March, 1858, lie b-’gan practice in the mining region of Scbuylkill Comity; where otit-of door life fully restored his heal th, and where he enjoyed peculiar advantages for thestudy of mineralogy and geology, for wlti li he had early shown a s| -vial fondness. In 1865 he returner! t ■ Philadelphia to continue the practice of his profession; and, in 1868, was elected Professor of Natural Sciences in Lincoln University. Chester County, Pa.; where he was entrusted with the duty of organizing and developing the entire scientific department. including medicine, of that institution r. 1 „ 1 v . ,, 1 m 1 iii»i»v hr September of the same year he was chosen to fill l m»nlH 'a Cti.m.i.tr» I Jihl Mel.UUirjty I ... the chair ol ( licmrstry ami Materia Medtca in th - Phtladc! phia Dental College, formerly held by Professor Ilcnry Morton, mid aftetward by Professor Leeds. He served the Philadelphia Dc-ntal College as Professor of Chemistry continuously from 1868 to 1901; when, through failing strength he felt obliged to retire from active duty, to enjoy the rest to which his long and active life certainly entitled him. His retirement from the I-’jcultv was a source of sincere regret both to hU fellow-teachers and to tiie thousands of students who had been under his instruction; all of whom remember him and hold hint in affectionate regard, Their wish is that his years may still he many,and that they may lie cheered by the consciousness of a life's work well and nobly performed.

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 He began the practice of dentistry in his native town of Lebanon in 1S65, and at the end of seven years removed to Philadelphia. In 1881 he was elected Professor of Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College, which chair he still holds. After the death of Professor Garretson, in (Vtolrer, iSy;, he succeeded him as Dean of the institution. I'rofessoi iuilforJ is the author l two works— Nitrous • )xldc, published in 1887, and Orthodontia,’'published in 18S9 The latter is a college text-book, and i- now in its third edition. He also wrote tile sections of h thodontia, Anomalies of tin Teeth and Maxilla: and Hypercement-isis of the American System of Dentistry, and the chapters on Preparation ol Cavities” and “ Contour Filling f-»r the American Test book of t operative Dentistry. He has also been a frequent contributor to the best periodical literature of his profession. He lias served as President of the National Association of Dental Faculties, the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, the Odontological Society of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Academy of Stomatology, lie has been Vice President ol the National Dental Association. Itc-idc- holding active membership 111 many dental organizations, he is an honorary member of the First Dental Society of New York, and of the State Dental So- iety of New Y-»rk, and a I'Vllow »f the AmcnT.iii Academy . f Dental S- ieinc of Massachusetts.

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TiiOM.vs Cook Steli waoks was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Juljr24, 1841, the oldest child of U. S. N. Captain H. S. Stellwagen and Mary A. Cook. I Ic was graduated at Philadelphia Central High School as It. A. in 1859. and received the degree of M. A 101864. He studied dentistry in 1859 under l)r. N. 1 Dickey, of New Orleans and at the I'cnna. College of Dental Surgery in 1858. '60 and '61. graduating as D D. S in 1861. He served as Paymaster in the U. S. Navy in 1861. taking part in several engagements and on blockade duty until 1863, when he went to the Mediterranean to join the U. S. ship Constellation, the scr.ioi of the fleet that his father used to command. In 1865 lie resigned from the U. S. Navy, resumed practice in his native city and accepted the demonstratorship of Operative Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College from which he received the ad iutuitm degree Match 1. 1866. Two years more of study in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania were followed riicoiAx cook smu.wA.,HN. a m w i i' os bv the degree of M D. from it. The same year i860 I'.ofr—ol rSVMlOO- . ° , ... . he was elected to the chair of the Dental Histology and Operative Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College. In 1870 he was given the chair ol Operative Dentistry and Dental Pathology. Finally, in 1879, upon the death of his professional life-long friend, Prof. John H. McQuillen, M D., D. I) S., the foumlcr of the College, the professorship of Physiology thus sadly vacated, was. by the lloaid of Trustees at the recommendation of the Faculty conferred upf n him. Since 1861 lie has had .1 lively interest in dental societies, being one of the original members of the Penna. State Dental, of which lie was its first secretary and later president Among foreign societies he is one of the two corresponding members in the U. S. of the- Odontobgic.il Society of Great lliitain, to w Inch lie was elected after he had edited the American Fdition of Coleman’s Dental Surgery and Pathology.