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Title: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume
VI
AUGER
Ives, Halsey Cooley
page 490
IVES, Eli, educator, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 7, 1779; son of
Dr. Levi and Lydia (Auger) Ives, and a descendant of William Ives, who came
from
England to America and was one of the original settlers of New Haven,
Conn. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1799, A.M., 1802. He was rector of the
Hopkins Grammar school, 1799-1801, and at the same time studied medicine with his
father and with Dr. Æneas Munson and also attended the lectures of Doctors
Bush and Wooster in Philadelphia, Pa. He [p.490] commenced to practise
medicine in company with his father in 1801, and had the degree of M.D.
conferred upon him by the Connecticut Medical society in 1811. He helped
to secure the establishment of the medical department of Yale college in
1813, and was adjunct professor of materia medica there, 1813-20; professor,
1820-29; professor of the theory and practice of physic, 1829-52;
professor of materia medica and therapeutics, 1852-53, and professor emeritus, 1853-61.
He was married, Sept. 17, 1805, to Maria, daughter of Dr. Nathan and Mary
(Phelps) Beers, and their son Levi, M.D., Yale, 1838, died in 1891.
Professor
Ives established and was for many years president of the State
Horticultural
and Pomological societies, and was also president of the American Medical
association and a contributor to the Journal of Science. He died in New
Haven,
Conn., Oct. 8, 1861.
AUGUR
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume
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Augustus, John
AUGUR, Hezekiah, sculptor, was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 21, 1791. He
was
a shoemaker and enjoyed few educational opportunities. He became a wood
carver
and invented a wood-carving machine and a number of other ingenious
devices,
including a machine for weaving worsted lace. He then developed a taste
for
sculpture and made some wonderfully accurate copies of a head of Apollo, a
bust of Washington and a statue of Sappho. His "Jephtha and his Daughter,"
said to be his best work, is in the Trumbull gallery at Yale college. The
honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Yale college in 1833.
He
died at New Haven, Jan. 10, 1858.
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