gion--as an honest man and most useful citizen."

Professor Smith married successively, Elizabeth and Sarah, daughters
of Gen. Jonathan Chase, of Cornish, N. H. He died at New Haven, Conn.,
where he had been some years a professor in the Medical Department of
Yale College, January 26, 1829.

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A commemorative "Address," by Professor A. B. Crosby, contains the
following account of Professor Smith's successor:

"Reuben Dimond Mussey was born in Pelham, N. H., June 23, 1780. His
father, Dr. John Mussey, was a respectable physician and an excellent
man.

"Determined to have an education, although too poor to immediately
attain it, he labored on a farm in summer and taught a school during
the winter. This he continued to do until, at the age of twenty-one,
he entered the Junior class in Dartmouth College, in the year 1801. He
continued to teach for his support while in college, and acquitted
himself creditably as a scholar, being reckoned in the first third of
his class.

"He was graduated in August, 1803, and immediately became a pupil of
Dr. Nathan Smith, the founder of Dartmouth Medical College. The
following summer young Mussey taught an academy at Peterborough, and
studied with Dr. Howe of Jaffrey.

"He completed his studies with Dr. Smith, sustained a public
examination, and read and defended a thesis on Dysentery. The degree
of Bachelor of Medicine having been conferred upon him in 1806, he
commenced practice in Ipswich, now Essex, Mass. Here he practiced
successfully for three years, when he settled his business and went to
Philadelphia, where he engaged in medical study for a period of nine
months. While at Chebacco, now Essex, Mass., he married Miss Mary
Sewall, who survived the marriage only three years. He subsequently
married Miss Hetty Osgood, a daughter of Dr. Osgood of Salem, who
served as a surgeon in the army during the Revolution. Under the
instruction of Benjamin Smith Barton, he attended a full course of
lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated as a
Doctor in Medicine in the year 1809. The professors at that time were
Rush, Wistar, Physic, Dorsey, Barton, and Woodhouse.

"Drs. Chapman and James gave the course in Obstetrics. Dr. Mussey here
distinguished himself by a series of experiments tending to rebut some
of the generally received physiological doctrines of the time.

"On his return from Philadelphia he settled in Salem, Mass.,