He speeches in favor of the government and for an earnest prosecution of the war. In the winter of 1863-4 he again made Cleveland the scene of his operations, having been appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in what was then known as Charity Hospital Medical college, and which four years later became the medical department of the University of Wooster. He taught these branches two sessions, and was then given theory and practice and clinical medicine, giving didactic lectures in the college and clinical lectures in Charity hospital, and in the now united medical department of the University of Wooster and Cleveland Medical college he continues to hold the same position. He has had great success as a teacher, and in his efforts in that direction he has always aimed to instruct the beginner how to study and reason for himself, rather than to follow the instructor. His idea is best explained in his own words. In the beginning of a session he has been accustomed to say to his class: him, on seeing the native power and mental strength of the young man, advised him to go on, and he decided to do so, and to take the full course. He remained at Gambier five years, studying chemistry, medicine, mathematics and the classics, and graduating in 1848 with the degree of B. A. He was no sooner out of the ranks of the pupils than he entered the college faculty, becoming a tutor, and filling the position for two years with signal ability and success. He had meanwhile decided upon medicine as his life calling, and while in college had devoted himself to the study of branches best contributing to success in that line. In 1849 and '50, he made his home in Cleveland, attending a course of lectures at the Cleveland Medical college. then returned to Gambier, where he practiced for a short period, but soon went to Washington, Mississippi, to accept a position in Jefferson college as professor of chemistry. In 1853 he returned to Ohio and attended a course of lectures at Starling Medical college at Columbus, graduating with the degree of M. D., Kenyon college having previously conferred on him the degree of acquire. To understand it well you should have M. A. He chose Franklin county as the scene of his future labors, and for ten years was there engaged in an extensive and successful practice. He became widely known and sought for, and laid in those busy days the foundation of the great reputation he has since attained. In 1861, on the breaking out of the Rebellion, he was engaged as a recruiting officer and examiner, and made many effective and patriotic You have come here to study medicine. You have chosen a laborious and hard professon to knowledge of what are called the collateral sciences -especially chemistry, and the more of the others the better. He feels that in the clinical course. the student comes face to face with the patient and the disease, and that there the science is applied, and that the methods of the examiner become of more importance to the instructed than anything he may say on a particular subject. He tells his students that they must acquire this method "by a study of their cases when they have time and poor patients, and if they do not thus make much money they may in this way acquire knowledge and the good will of the majority, so that when they come to die they may at least have large funerals." At the end of the session he says to them : Now we are soon to separate. The pleasant relations and associations will soon cease, and you go forth to try your fortune. Remember that the delicate responsibilities which you will assume tion, and it is needless to say that in all these important bodies he has always been an earnest and industrious member, and has aided in giving their discussions a scientific character and practical outcome. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church, and has been a helpful and generous member of a number of benevolent institutions. Personally he is a most pleasant and sociable gentleman, and is held in the require of you pure hearts and clean hands. In the highest liking and esteem not only by future at any time should you need my advice and assistance, you may call on me freely, but I will not help you out of any mean or unmanly scrape. In 1864 Governor Tod appointed Dr. Scott as a visitor to the military hospitals at Louisville and Nashville, with especial reference to the interests of the Ohio troops therein. He ably fulfilled this mission, and to the satisfaction of those who sent him, and of the men who were benefited thereby. He has done public service in many other ways, filling with credit to himself, and the good of Cleveland, a position on her board of health; has been for years a member of the American Medical association; of the Ohio Medical association; of the Cuyahoga County Medical association; of the Northwestern Ohio Medical association; and of the American Pharmaceutical. He held the position for a time of president of the Ohio associa those who have been the recipients of his skilled care, but by those he instructs and by the community generally. He long since took a place in the foremost ranks of Cleveland's physicians, and is everywhere recognized as an upright and useful man, good citizen, and an erudite scholar. He was married on November 25, 1858, to Mary F. Stone of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Four children have been born to them, of whom only one, a son, still lives. Dr. Scott's permanent residence was taken up in Cleveland in 1865, and he has since made this city his home-filling a wide sphere of usefulness, extending his fame with each passing year, and, it is to be hoped, with a strength sufficient to keep him for many more years in the practice of that art in which he has shown himself a master hand. THEODORE JOHNSON. 1 DR. M. L. BROOKS. DR. BROOKS is one of the oldest, as well as one of the most prominent, of the physicians of Cleveland, and the high place he holds he has worthily won during the thirty-eight years he has practiced here. His family is of English descent, coming to this country in the early days of the settlement of New England. He was born in Berlin, Connecticut, on December 7, 1813, and his parents removed to Carlisle township, Lorain county, Ohio, in 1819, when he was but six years old. His grandparents on both sides, and a number of uncles and aunts, came about that time, making quite a colony among them selves. In relation to the arrival of these sturdy pioneers, I take the following from the 'History of Lorain County,' published in 1879: eastern township line, and was the first in that part children; James Brooks, a soldier during the revolu- Brooks and Riley Smith and wife, who arrived two sprung up in the wilderness. This locality is now Hezekiah Brooks was the father of The first settler of Carlisle township was John in the township, in 1825, he was com Bacon of Windham county, Vermont, who made the journey from that point with a team of horses and a wagon, arriving in Ridgeville in the month of October, 1815. He remained there until the early months of 1814, when he came to Carlisle and made a permanent settlement on what is now known as Murray Ridge. A few months after Mr. Bacon made a commencement, a brother-in-law, Abel Farr, came on from Vermont and located on the north line near the center. There was no further missioned postmaster, and the mails settlement made in the township until the spring of built the first saw mill in the township, 1819, when Samuel Brooks and family arrived in Carlisle. They were of sturdy Connecticut stock, and made the journey to Ohio by the substantial method of that day-with an ox team and a stout wagon. His log house was constructed near the in 1820. It stood on the east bank of |