TIH IE LI EE €E JOHN IDTIEIRS ECXEY liOHN BYERS ROXBY was born in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, vJP May 18, 1871. He attended the public schools, completing the four year High School course in three years, graduating in 1888. The following year he became a member of the Senior Class of Millersville Teachers' College, where he studied a teachers’ training course. In 1889 he moved to Philadelphia and held positions in two commercial establishments while he continued his pre-medical instruction course at night. In 1892, Dr. George H. Richardson, then a member of the teaching staff of Medico-Chi, acted in the capacity of preceptor for this willing lad. The following year he entered the MedicO'Chirurgical College from which he graduated with honors in 1896. Immediately, he enrolled in the Philadelphia Polyclinic as a student during the summer months where he added the finishing touches before taking the State Board Examination, December, 1896. He was appointed in 1897, as demonstrator of Anatomy, succeeding, in 1899, the late Dr. Joseph Wallace, as Chief Demonstrator and Instructor in Anatomy in his Alma Mater, which position he held until 1902. In 1903, he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Temple University Medical School and during the years of 1903-04 he also served as lecturer on the Anatomy of the Central Nervous System at the Woman's Medical College. In 1905 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy in the Philadelphia Dental School of Temple University, serving as head of the Departments of Anatomy in both Medical and Dental Schools. During the major portion of this time he conducted a general practice in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, except for the time between 1912-14 when he was a full-time professor. He resigned this professorship in 1914 to resume general practice. Later, during the period of the World War, he served as Official Lecturer on First Aid under the Southeastern Division of the Red Cross and was also examining physician for the Draft Board of the Swarthmore District. In the meanwhile he was lecturer on Anatomy at the Chester Hospital. During 1920 he was appointed on the Medical Staff of the Chester Hospital and in 1921 was made First Vice-President, and the following year President of the Delaware County Medical Society. In 1925 he was again made Professor of Anatomy in Temple Medical School. Dr. Roxby is a member of the Delaware County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Fellow of the A. M. A., a member of the Philadelphia Medical 31ub, and the Theta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity. This esteemed friend of the student is an inveterate reader of books and oarticularly those which have to do with the historical phases. This in a brief way gives you the life of a man long since honored and respected by all who had the pleasure of his association and teachings. 'Hme
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