University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Cnmegys was elected Chairman in his place, and served emltinnunsly thereafter. having been reelected the last time within a few week. of the time of his death. During,r his many successive terms as Director of the University, he watched the- slow growth of the institution through hard times and discouraging conditinns with a hope and zeal that never fathered. As the physician saw many :1 helplesx child grow into vigorous. youth, 50 he watched over the growth and development of the University, giving it cmlatant 21nd unwcztried attention. Um.- nf the chief Characteristics which stood out prc-eniineutly in his Character, and shtm'cd the secret of his power and success in life, was that he war; an enthusiast. and never allmved ohrstaclers to darken for one moment the light of hit: zeal. His steadfast faith in the future of the I'uit'ersity was an example of this. When this. institution was menaeed hy foes without and enemies within. he clung: firmly to the belief that these trials would pass away. Hi5 hope and faith in the future were hmtlu'llesh. and his work marked a great zeal for higher education. His: aim was very high, and in his annual reports frequent allusions were made to the desirnhility of forming alliances with other collegera-vof medicine, law, art, music, mid science, so :15 to form one great consolidated institution of learning under the title of Fltiversity 0f Cincinnatiian institution which would be the pride of the greater Cincinnati. He did not live to see the work carried out; but. had his life lasted but a few Weeks longer, he would have seen the Medical Department tfor which he labored HO unceasingly' even during his last illness. t extahlished 011 a firm hairzis. He lived, howevelx to see the noble institution, which crowns the elevation in Burnet Xt'oods. 011 the high road to prosperity. And to him, the Father Of the I'niversity. as he has been called, more than to any other man, is due the credit of having placed it in its present secure position. 7

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DR. C. G. COMEGVS. ITORNISLII'S GEORGE COMEGYS was horn at the family farm. Cherhourg. Kent County, Delaware, Jttiy 23. 13113. and died at Cincinnati, February :0, I396. He came of distinguished ancestry, hi5 tathcn Cornelius P. Cmucgys, having been Gm'eruor of Delaware from :539 to 1542, and his grandfather on his mothtr's side having been a soldier of the Revolution. Cornelius G. Comcgys was 0112 uf a large: family of children. and possessed many of the elements of mind and body that characterized his sturdy ancestors, who sailed from Holland to the shores of Maryland in 1660. His early life was spent on the farm and in Dover. Delaware. where he attended the Dover Academy. His. early career was one 01' business in Indiana. where he renmiucd several years. He then went to I'lliilndclphiu to study medicine. and graduated in the class of 134H ut the Tuiversity of Pennsylvania. Ht: began practice in Philaclelphim but rcuun'ed to Cincinnati in 134g, where the advent of Asiatic cholera, in that year, gave him the opportunity of obtaining a large practice. In 1851 he went to London and Paris for clinical study. On his return to Cincinnati he devoted himself to his profession. Possessed of great ambition and love for hi5 work. and being a man of untiring energy, with a tenacity of pttrpOHC that nothing could shake. he pushed his way at mice to the front rank of his profession. and hcid many of the highest oH'iccs and trusts within the gift of his professional brethren and fellow citizens. Ht: was a prolific writer 0:1 all topics uf human intcrcst, and his 111n113'-5ith:r1 character, in regard toA mnttcrs vi :1 widely difTrrcnt nature. enabled him to discuss each with the fluency 0f :1 specialist. In the midst of the cares of a profewiun. which taxes the energies of men beyond any other, hr: found time to devote a great rlcul uf attention to Imhlic affairs. He had nu political ambition, but in thc Hmtrds in u'hitil he Htrt'ed he was always controlled by judgment and animated hy the purest motives. Kthn a member of thc Bunrd of Education he was Chairman of the Library Cmnmittect and to his efforts ChirHy the city UWCri her great Public Library. He also hcipcd t0 cstahlihh the first night high 5011001. He was connected with the administration of tho Mellicken trust from its beginning. in 1859: but about 1869 rcsigncrt tr: go into tht- City Council for the purlmsc of securing thc organization of the University of Cincinnati. He was made at IJirecttJn mid served continuously from that time on. Upon the resignation nf the Holt. 8. 1:. lItltltt Chairman Hi the Buurd of Directors. in jtme, 1890, Dr. 6

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