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

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DR. SIMEON HAYDEN GUILFORD As an expression of appreciation to a man, now deceased, who has done much to spread the scholastic fame of this college, we, the members of the Class of 1940, dedicate this record of our years at Temple to Dr. Simeon Hayden Guilford • • •

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Simeon Hayden Guilford, son of Simeon Guilford, was born in Lebanon, Penn' sylvania, on April 11, 1841. His father, a celebrated engineer and iron manufacturer, was one of the builders of the Erie Canal of New York and the Union Canal in Pennsylvania. He became an iron master, one of the earliest in the county and built iron furnaces in Schuylkill and Lebanon counties. He resided in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, for nearly seventy years. Simeon Hayden came of good, substantial, intellectual stock, and inherited our best traditions. His grandfather, Simeon Guilford, was an ensign under Washington during the American Revolution. It was his privilege to cross the Delaware with “the father of his country” and to lie present at the execution of Major Andre on October 2, 17S0. Simeon's education had not begun according to the concepts of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes—“A hundred years before he was born.” He received his preliminary education in the public schools and Litiz Academy of Lane County, Pennsylvania. Later he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Franklin and Marshall College. The same institution granted him the degree of Master of Arts in 1864 and the Ph.D. degree in 1886. The scholar turned teacher in the year of 1861-2. When the War Between the States broke out and he entered the Union Army as a private in Company E 127th Pennsylvania Volunteers, third brigade, second division in the second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Soldier Guilford was actively engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and in May, 1863, he was mustered out of the service. Simeon began the study of dentistry in the fall of 1863, entering the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery from whence he graduated with the Class of 1865. His second degree, the honorary degree of D.D.S., was conferred upon him by the Philadelphia Dental College in 1884 in recognition of his contribution to the profession. After graduating from dental school he began practice in his home town of Lebanon. Often when relating his experiences in Lebanon he would tell that when his preceptor had any undesirable cases he would send them to Simeon. As a result he determined to treat them in such a way as to obtain the best results possible. In this way he gained invaluable experience and created a favorable reputation for himself. His spare time was spent in reading good books, committing poems to memory and in perfecting practicing methods. At this time, 1868, the promising young dentist married Miss Virginia S. Glcim and by this marriage there were two children, Elizabeth, who later became Mrs. William Dalzell, of Pittsburgh, and Dudley, a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College, a prominent dentist of this city, and guest lecturer of the school. 5