ith and Coffin Pitts; among its
physicians John R. Rock and John V. DeGrasse; among its authors Brown
and Nell; and among its orators Remond and Hilton. Robert Morris was
admitted to the bar in Boston, on Thursday, June 27, 1850, at a
meeting of the members of the Suffolk County Bar. The record is as
follows:

"_Resolved_, That ROBERT MORRIS, Esq., be recommended for
admittance to practice as a Counsellor and Attorney of the
Circuit and District Courts of the United States.

"(Signed) ELLIS GRAY LORING, _Chairman_.
"CHAS. THEO. RUSSELL, _Secretary_."

John V. DeGrasse, M.D., an eminent physician of Boston was perhaps the
most accomplished Colored gentleman in New England between 1850-1860.
The following notice appeared in a Boston journal in August, 1854:

"On the 24th of August, 1854, Mr. DeGrasse was admitted in due
form a member of the 'Massachusetts Medical Society.' It is the
first instance of such honor being conferred upon a colored man
in this State, at least, and probably in the country; and
therefore it deserves particular notice, both because the means
by which he has reached this distinction are creditable to his
own intelligence and perseverance, and because others of his
class may be stimulated to seek an elevation which has hitherto
been supposed unattainable by men of color. The Doctor is a
native of New York City, where he was born in June, 1825, and
where he spent his time in private and public schools till 1840.
He then entered the Oneida Institute, Beriah Green, President,
and spent one year; but as Latin was not taught there, he left
and entered the Clinton Seminary, where he remained two years,
intending to enter college in the fall of 1843. He was turned
from this purpose, however, by the persuasions of a friend in
France, and after spending two years in a college in that
country, he returned to New York in November, 1845, and commenced
the study of medicine with Dr. Samuel R. Childs, of that city.
There he spent two years in patient and diligent study, and then
two more in attending the medical lectures of Bowdoin College,
Me. Leaving that institution with honor in May, 1849, he went
again to Europe in the autumn of that year, and spent
considerable time in the hospitals of Paris, travelling, at
inter