Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-09
MEMPHIS MEDICAL COLLEGE.
be Laid Next Wednesday-LIst of
the Trustees and Faculty.
May 20, 1878.

Workmen, on Friday last, began the exca-
walton for the foundation of the Memphis
Medical College and Medical Department of
the Southwestern Baptist University" on
Union avenue. The building will be three
story brick structure, containing suitable
apartments for, and an arnphitheater capable
of seating four hundred students. The cost
of this building will be ten thousand dollars,
and it is to be completed and ready for occu-
patton on the tenth of September. The cor
ner-stone will be laid at SIX O'Clock next
Wednesday afternoon, under the direction of
Grand Master A. V. War; and the Masonic
lodges of Memphis. The military companies
have been invited to participate in the exer
clses OF the occasion. The incorporators have
selected corps of professors, who, by educa-
ton and experience, are emlnently qualified
as teachers, aud who have accepted the vari-
GUS chairs assigned them with a due appre-
citation of the responsible duties imposed
upon them, and have entered upon their du-
ties with an energy and determination worthy
of the cause in which they have embarked.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
of the memphis Hospital Medical College"
is composed of the following gentlemen:
Major L. P. Cooper, president, Memphis; H.
Fursterheim, secretary, Memphis; Captain
G. B. Church, treasurer, Memphis; Major J.
J. Busby, Major A. N. M Kay, A. C.. Tread
well, Governor James D. Porter, Hon. Casey
Young, James Elder, DIR. d. L. Porter, Hon.
John L. I. Sneed, T. J. Turiey, B. NJ. Estes,
Hon. ]. A. Anderson, Colonel G. w. Frazier,
w. B. Galbreath, Louis Hanauer, Senator
Isham q. Harris, D. Sutton, M. D., Charles
q. Fisher, w. P. Proudft, William n.
Brown, Memphis; Governor Elisha Baxter,
Senator A. H. Garland, Hon. John T. Jones,
Arkansas; Colonel L. j. DuPre, Colonel S. S.
Ashe. Texas; Senator L. Q c: Lamar, Gen
eral Robert Lowry, General E. C. Walthall,
Mississippi; Hon. G. c. Clay, Alabama; Hon.
B. J. Lea, Brownsville.
THE FACULTY
is composed of the following gentlemen, who
are expected to enter upon their duties the
first of October: w. E. Rogers, MD, pro-
fessor of surgery, clinical and operative; D.
D. Saunders, Md, professor of principles
and practice of surgery; S. c. Maddux, M d.,
professor of theory and practice Of medicine;
F. L Sim, M D., professor of obstetrics; B. G..
Hennng, Md, professor of anatomy and Or
thop9dic surgery; w. ]. Armstrong, MD,
professor of physiology and diseases of chill
dren; Heber Jones, Md. professor of diseases
of throat and chest and clinical medicine {;
Julius Wise, NJ. D., professor of materia med
lea and therapeutics; julius Fahlen, M. D.,
professor of chemistry, pharmacy and toxi-
cology; R. B. Nall, MD, professor of patho-
logical anatomy and venereal diseases; w.
B. Rogers, NJ. b, demonstration of anatomy
w. E. Rogers, MD, dean of faculty, Mem
phis; w. w. Hall, N. D., professor of gyna-
cology, Grenada, Mississippi; A. G. Sinclair,
MD, professor of opthalmology and otology,
New York; w. M. Compton, MD. profess
sor of psychological medicine and medical
jurisprudence, jackson, Mississippi.