ing out of the war he immediately upon the practice of medicine in Orrdetermined to give his service to his ville. He graduated from Bellevue country, and in a way by which he Medical college, New York, in 1868, could be of the most use. Accordingly and was soon afterwards appointed to he entered Starling Medical college at the chair of diseases of the genitoColumbus, Ohio, at the opening of urinary organs, in Charity Hospital the session of 1861-62, and requested Medical college, of Cleveland now the a special examination for gradua- medical department of the University tion. This was granted. He received of Wooster. In 1881, when Professors his diploma, and promptly submitted W. J. Scott, G. C. E. Weber and others himself for examination for the position of the faculty withdrew from the mediof regimental surgeon. He passed suc- cal dedartment of the University of cessfully, and was appointed surgeon of Wooster, the work of reorganizing the Fourteenth regiment, Kentucky the faculty was largely entrusted to volunteer infantry, there being no Dr. Miller, In consultation with Provacancy in Ohio commands at that time. fessors Firestone and Pomerene and He immediately joined his regiment, other remaining members of the faculty, which was then in camp on the Big he was soon able to present to the Sandy river in eastern Kentucky, and was board of trustees of the university for with General Garfield in his campaign election the names of a number of of 1862, in which he whipped Marshall, young, active and successful physicians, and rid east Kentucky of rebel rule who had proved themselves eminently forever. capable as teachers to fill the places the board had declared vacant. The result was the creation of a live, strong and progressive faculty, which is doing first-class work, winning the commendation of not only the patrons of the college but of the profession at large, and giving excellent promise for the future. While in the service, Dr. Miller filled the position of president of a board of surgeons to examine medical officers for the twelve regiments of east Tennessee troops; was president of a board of examining surgeons for disabled soldiers; was division surgeon on the staff of Generals Baird and White; was medical director of the eastern department of Kentucky, and surgeon-in-chief of hospitals in the same department. It is needless to say to those who know him that he fulfilled all these important trusts with fidelity, and gave to them the energy, industry and wise administration that have characterized his course in the walks of civil life. In 1864 he retired from the army, and again entered In this reorganization Dr. Miller was elected to the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women, the latter of which he still holds. By his energy and perseverance he has succeeded in creating and maintaining at the university a large clinic for women alone, where hundreds avail themselves of his treatment. For many years Dr. Miller was one of the consulting physicians to Charity hospital, and for some time was in charge of the lying-in department. Since the reorganization of the medical department of the University of Wooster, he, with the balance of the faculty, have founded University Hospital in connection with the college, which has already a record of success and usefulness. Dr. Miller has given to his profession the best time and thought of his life, and all else has been compelled to wait upon that and to aid him in mastering it, and accomplish through it what good he could for the world. No outside ambitions have led him astray. No allurements of politics or public life have caused him to forget the demands of the profession to which he is devoted. He has spent some time abroad, but most of it was given in the interest of his life's labor. The success he has won, and the high repute in which he is held, are the best possible proofs of the wisdom of his early choice, and that he has followed the path nature had designed for him. Generous, high-minded, patriotic and manly in all the relations of life, he is indeed a valued and respected citizen of Cleveland, where he has made his home since 1875. HENRY I. GOURLEY. MANY men achieve excellence and command success in some given direction, but it is permitted to few to follow several lines of life and stand in the front rank of each. Yet in Mr. H. I. Gourley, who is yet a young man in the enumeration by years, we find a striking illustration in this direction. As a teacher he has done a grand work and won universal public recognition and endorsement; as a business man he has produced results of the most positive character, and as a public man he has served the people with signal faithfulness and a most unquestioned ability. With the best portion of his life before him, there is no telling what still greater things he shall yet achieve. Mr. Gourley was born at Thompsontown, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1838. His father, Joseph Gourley, was a farmer and resided near the little town referred to as the birthplace of the subject of this sketch. Joseph Gourley died in 1843, leaving two sons and one daughter aged respectively, three, five and seven years. Being deprived of the support of her husband and left without pecuniary means, the mother decided soon after his death to remove with her three children to Pittsburgh. Having reached that city, the circumstances in which she was placed in her new home soon made it necessary for the mother to transfer the children to the care of others. At the age of six years, therefore, young Henry was placed under the care of a farmer in Pine township, Allegheny county. Here he remained until the age of eighteen, devoting his young days to the manifold duties which commonly fall to the lot of boys who are reared midst the scenes of rural life. It was on this farm that he acquired the early habits of industry which have characterized his subsequent life, and which rendered possible the measure of success and usefulness which has marked his career. It is probably true that those twelve years of busy labor were not of profit in a monetary sense, as his boarding and clothing and the privilege of attending the district school during a portion of the winter months constituted the compensation for his services. But they were the years which established the groundwork of his character and implanted within him a spirit of independence and self-reliance which has strengthened his succeeding days and enabled him to surmount the difficulties which have compassed his path. With a mind hungry for knowledge, and earnestly desirous of acquiring an education, young Gourley found himself devising ways and means of attaining that object. He had no money, but firmly |