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DR. JAMES MARTIN
STAUGHTON.
THE recent death of the brilliant and
universally admired and respected Professor Landon Rives Longworth, of
the Ohio Medical College, recalls a very similar event which took place
in the year 1833, when Dr. James M. Staughton, the professor of surgery
in the institution, died at the early age of thirty-three, but not
before he had achieved a widespread reputation as one of the finest
operating surgeons and teachers of the period, and with the brightest
prospects before him.
Professor Staughton was born near
Philadelphia in the year 1800, his father being the celebrated Rev. Wm.
Staughton, one of the most distinguished Baptist ministers that
denomination has ever had in this country. Arriving at manhood he
studied medicine, graduating at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
with the highest honors of the class, and at once commenced the practice
of his profession, and so rapid was his success in the formation of a
reputation as a surgeon, that when less than thirty years of age he was
offered and accepted the chair of surgery in the Medical College of
Ohio, in this city, from that time making Cincinnati his residence.
Soon after arriving here, Dr. Staughton
was married to a very accomplished lady, a widow, Mrs. Louisa Patrick,
formerly Miss Warallo, of Birmingham, England, and settled down in an
elegant home on Sixth Street, opposite the college. Fortune seemed to
smile upon the young couple, and within a very short time Dr. Stoughton
had one of the largest and most lucrative practices of any physician
here. How soon the brightest pictures ofttimes only hide from view
pending misfortunes.
In 1832 and 1833 Cincinnati was visited
by the cholera in its most epidemic form, and Dr. Stoughton, true to the
duty of a physician, remained at his post, and, though working night and
day, came out safely from the terrible trials of the first year, but the
next, before he had time to recuperate, again undertaking too hard a
task; was stricken down with fever, and died August 8, 1833, leaving a
widow and three sons, John McLean, Neville, and James M.
Mrs. Stoughton was for years at the head
of the most popular female seminary of this city, but, anxious to give
her children collegiate education, she removed to Granville, in this
State; where she died in 1853, or just twenty years after the decease of
her husband. She was a noble woman, one of the founders of the
Cincinnati (Mt. Auburn) English Protestant Orphan Asylum, and, if we
mistake not, a most excellent likeness of her can still be seen in the
parlor of that institution.
The late Professor M. B. Wright, in an
article on the " Deceased Professors of the Medical College of
Ohio," in speaking of Professor Stoughton said :
"Stoughton lived long enough to
furnish evidence of his sterling ability. It is a common remark, the
truth of which is too often confirmed, that the son lives on the
reputation of the father. Stoughton was an exception to this rule. The
father was an eloquent and distinguished divine. The son felt that he,
too, must learn to labor, not to be overshadowed by contrast. He
duly estimated himself; and then went vigorously to work to discharge
his various obligations. As a lecturer on surgery he had few equals. If
voice, manner, and matter, in close and impressive harmony constitute
eloquence, he was in truth eloquent."
Source: In Memoriam
Cincinnati 1881, Cincinnati, A. E. Jones, Publisher, 1881.
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