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...Rodney Smith, better known perhaps as "Gypsy" Smith was born in a Gypsy wagon and brought up as a Gypsy boy, an outcast from society. The remarkable conversion of his father formed the beginning of his own active and successful career. He combines with the fire of his nomadic reace, the strength of a Christian education, and is now generally considered to be one of the most persuasive pulpit orators in England...
...Slade was born in 1824. He graduated from Harvard with the class of '44 and in the following year entered the Medical School, at which he took his degree in 1848. He then began active practice and later became Professor of Practical Zoology and Lecturer in Osteology in the Medical School...
...Hodges was born in Bridgewater, in 1827. He entered Harvard with the class of 1847, and after graduation entered the Medical School. After taking his degree of M. D., in 1850, he spent two years in Europe studying anatomy and surgery at Paris and obstetrics at Dublin. He began practice in Boston in 1853. In 1855 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical School and adjunct professor of surgery in 1866. From 1862 to 1883 he served as surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and during the war was assistant to the surgeon-general of Massachusetts...
...Russell was born in Plymouth in 1821. He graduated with the class of 1840 in his nineteenth year. He then entered the Law School from which he graduated in 1845. He began practice in Boston and won a reputation in mercantile insurance and railroad litigation. He had an extended practice before the United States supreme court and in the celebrated Credit-Mobilier case, as counsel for the defendant, he successfully opposed the claim of the national government to recover millions of dollars from the Union Pacific Railroad...
...Furness before his death was the oldest living graduate of the University. He was born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1803, and entered the public Latin School in 1812. He graduated from the College in 1820 and from the Divinity School in 1823. In 1847 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from Harvard, and that of doctor of letters from Columbia at its centenial...