Brookville Society of Natural History Brookville Society of Natural History.
Sorrow is better than mirth.
So he who undertakes the mournful task of recounting the character and deeds of a dead friend and teacher brings up many profitable memories of the past. The subject of my sketch, Dr. Rufus Haymond, was born near Clarksburg, Harrison county, West Virginia, on the 5th of June, 1805. In the seventeenth year of his age he commenced the study of medicine at the Philadelphia medical College. Soon after returning home he came West to seek a location in which to practice his humane and time-honored art. It was on a warm, bright day in the summer of 1826, says our informant, that there came into the new and unstudied country of the Whitewater Valley one whose work in science was to lead to the foundation of our organization.