The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-25
DIR. HENDRICKS DEAD.
Professor of Anatomy at the Mime
sofa State University.

DR.. George A. Hendricks, professor Of
anatomy in the medical department Of
the state university, died of acute
Bright's disease, at st. Barnabas hospi-
tai, Minneapolis, last evening at S:35
o'clock
Physicians who were in DR.. Hendricks
confidence have known that he has been
a sufferer rom chronic Bright's disease
for over five years, but it was not until
within the last year that the disease had
shown any alarming symptoms, and even
with the advancing stages of the disease
DR.. Hendricks has been able to attend to
both his duties at the university and to
his practice
During the last few days he had COM
planned of great droWsIness, and a ten
dency to sleep long and very deeply Sat
urday, he was IN his Office attending to
patients, but towards the close Of the
day he complained of the old heavy feel
ing. Yesterday morning he became I'M
conscious, and Drs. George flitel and T.
r. Wright being summoned they pro-
ncunced him in a critical condition and
ordered him removed to st. Barnabas
hospital where DR.. Charles A Erdman,
DR.. Hendricks associate in the univer-
sity, joined them in consultation. From
that time on all these physicians
were in attendance upon DR.. Hendricks,
but they were not able to restore con-
scicusness, and he gradually sank until
his release at S:35.
DR.. Hendricks was in his fiftieth year,
having been born near Gettysburg, Pa,
July IL, 1850 He was the youngest of
three children. His brother William, the
only one living, is editor and owner of
the Hummilstown Gazette HummilstoWn,
Pa. Beside this brother, Dr. Hendricks
leaves a wife who was on the ocean on
her way to Honolulu at the time OF her
husbands death, and a mother who is in
Hummilstown.
DR.. Hendricks was for a short time in
his early life connected with his father S
mercantile business as buyer He gradu-
ated at a normal school and one Of the
smaller colleges in Pennsylvania, studied
for year with a prominent physician
near Philadelphia and at 20 entered the
medical school at Ann Arbor, taking his
course in anatomy under the famous DR..
Corydon Ford, becoming his assistant be-
fore graduation and continuing his work
as assistant professor of anatomy for fif-
teen years after graduating, holding at
the same time the chair of assistant pro-
fessor of surgery under Dr. Donald Nc
Land
In 1889 he was called to the chair of
professor of anatomy in the University of
Minnesota, which he has held ever since.
The department, which is acknowledged
to be one of the best in the United States,
owes its entire existence to DIR. Hen
bricks. When he entered the university
there was little to work with. Now the
department is uneXcelled in it's equip
ment, and the graded course of anatomy,
which he created first in Michigan and
afterward here in Minnesota, has been
copied all over the country
DR.. Hendricks was acknowledged to be
among the leading physicians of the
Northwest, but it was to the teaching of
anatomy that he gave his devotion, and
which may be accounted his life work
He was one of the best teachers of anat-
omy in the country.
Eight years ago Dr. Hendricks was
married to Miss Marie D. Patters on.
daughter of a wealthy railroad man of
New York. They spent their summers
travelling, Mrs. Hendricks travelling also
In the winter until she had seen most Of
the civilized world. Three years ago they
took up their residence in Minneapolis
and last winter they visited the Hawaiian
Islands, where Mrs. Hendricks has built
a handsome residence, where they even
tually intended to spend the severe
months of the year and the rest in Min
neapolis. Mrs. Hendricks is now on her
way to superintend the finishing of the
new home
DR.. Hendricks was man of great per-