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

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Cbttorial 3s taff Cbitor-in-CIjicf PAUL D. LEGIEN Assistant Editors I. P. HOLZMAN FRED P. CHRISM AN Poet Business Manager MURRAY H. ASH Prophet DANIEL W. GROMLEY WM, E. BLACK Historian Attorney LAWRENCE E. HESS GLADYS L. WARXOCK J. D. NICKEY K. E. YOUGHT A. L. KAY L. E. HERMAN H. A. WEINER Associate £t»tors OLIVER W. WINTERS O. R. P. CAMPBELL W. J. KENNEDY B. FLEISHER M. 0. FI NEMAN

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rt YY?2 THE RECORD 1919 WVYV2 fijistorp of tfjc JDfjtlabclpfjta Cental College anb hospital of Oral burger? Jfrom its inception in 1S52 to 1919 HE first institution established in Pennsylvania for imparting of knowledge in the science and art of dentistry was organized in 1852. under the title of Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery. After a useful but short life of four years, it yielded to internal dissension and ceased to exist. In the fall of 1862 I)r. John M Quillen, holding the chair of Operative Dentistry and Physiology in the Pennsylvania College, retired from the faculty, and in 1863. with the assistance of other members of the profession in the city and State, after great expenditure and overcoming great opposition, he succeeded in obtaining from the Legislature of Pennsylvania a charter for a new institution under the name of the Philadelphia Dental College. After the securing of a competent Faculty and Board of Trustees, the new institution opened its first term in November of the same year. Its Faculty consisted of: Dr. J. H. McQuillen, Professor of Anatomy. Physiology and Hygiene. Dr. J. Foster Flagg, Professor of Institutes of Dentistry. Dr. C. A. Kingsbury, Professor of Physiology and Operative Dentistry-. Dr. Thomas Wardell, Professor of Mechanical Dentistry and Metallurgy. Dr. Henry A. Morton, A. M., Professor of Chemistry. Dr. McQuillen was elected Dean, and held that office continuously until his death. In 1865, Professors Kingsbury and Morton resigned and were succeeded by Dr. George W. Ellis and Alfred R. Leeds, A. M. In 1866, Professor Ellis resigned and Professor Kingsbury resumed his former chair. In 1867. Professor Warded resigned, and Dr. D. 1). Smith was elected to succeed him. The same year two new chairs were created, one of Principles and Practice of Surgery', and the other of Anatomy. Dr James E. Garretson was chosen incumbent of the former, and Dr. Harrison Aden, of the latter In the following year, 1868, Professors Garretson and Leeds resigned, and Dr. S. B. Howell was elected to succeed Professor Leeds. Page Twelve