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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crooks, George Richard 1822-1897 (search)
Crooks, George Richard 1822-1897 Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1822; graduated at Dickinson College in 1840; ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1841; professor in Dickinson College in 1842-48, when he returned to the pastorate until his election in 1860 as editor of The Methodist, the organ of the supporters of lay representation. The paper was discontinued when their efforts were successful in 1872, and Dr. Crooks again returned to the pastorate. He died in Madison, N. J., Feb. 20, 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sayre, Lewis Albert 1820- (search)
Sayre, Lewis Albert 1820- Surgeon; born in Battle Hill (now Madison), N. J., Feb. 29, 1820; graduated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1839, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1842, when he became prosecutor to the Professor of Surgery in that college, which he held till 1852; was surgeon in Bellevue Hospital in 1853-73; the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island in 1859-73; and consulting surgeon in both hospitals from 1873 till his death. He was the first American surgeon to successfully operate for the hip disease; invented numerous surgical instruments and appliances; introduced new methods of treatment in various diseases, and was author of Practical manual of the treatment of Clubfoot; Spinal disease and Spinal Curvature, etc. He died in New York City, Sept. 21, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wigger, Winand Michael 1841- (search)
Wigger, Winand Michael 1841- Clergyman; born in New York, Dec. 8, 1841; graduated at St. Francis Xavier College in 1860; studied theology at Seton Hall Seminary, South Orange, N. J., in 1860-62; and Brignoli Sali Seminary, Geneva, 1862-65; ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865; and was assistant president of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Newark, N. J., in 1865-69; rector of St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church, in Madison, N. J., in 1869-73; of St. John's, in Orange, N. J., in 1874-76; and again at St. Vincent's till 1881, when he was consecrated bishop of Newark. He died in South Orange, N. J., Jan. 5, 1901.