Ohio, made him an associate member. In 1874 the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia also elected him to that position, and one year later the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the oldest medical organization in the United States, elected him "Associate Fellow" of that honored society, now one hundred and forty years old. The value of this last compliment is best understood when it is stated that by the laws of the college it is restricted to a membership of thirty associates in the United States and but twenty in foreign countries.

Dr. Corson is the author of many valuable papers on scarlet fever and diphtheria, and is the originator of the ice treatment which has proved so efficient in those diseases, and which has come to be much used in nearly all the States of the Union. His writings in the medical journals of the country have been numerous and even voluminous, though he has written no large medical books, so called, having had no time for such labors. What he has written, indeed, has often been done in the time snatched from hours of rest, in order that his brethren might have the benefit of his experience and observation.

Some years ago, Governor Hartranft, knowing Dr. Corson's familiarity with the advanced knowledge of the profession in the treatment of lunatics, appointed him a trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Harrisburg. The State Board of Public Charities also appointed him one of the visitors to the Montgomery county prison and alms-house. Without any official connection with the eastern asylum for the insane now building, he has nevertheless been influential by his writings and oral advice in securing the wise arrangements for the humane safe-keeping of the unfortunates who are to inhabit it. Dr. Corson has kept abreast of the most enlightened views prevailing in England and on the Continent, and for a long time has been deprecating the prison feature in treating the insane. Some years ago he uncovered to the public eye the gross neglect of the demented poor in our alms-house, securing a reform of the same. But we must close this review by giving a sketch of the personnel of the Doctor's family.

Their eldest son, Edward Foulke, born October 14th, 1834, after receiving a good education, studied medicine with his father, graduated at the University, and opened an office at Conshohocken, continuing there for a time, till, feeling a desire to see the world, he obtained the post of Assistant Surgeon on board the United States ship Hartford, and spent three years on a cruise in Asiatic waters.

Returning home the first year of the rebellion, he was made full Surgeon and stationed at the Marine Hospital, Philadelphia. After a short stay there, however, he applied for some more active duty or participation in the war. He was assigned to the ship Mohican, which for eighteen months scoured the seas for the rebel vessel Alabama, and came back without having lost a single man by sickness. But in caring for the ship's crew he had forgotten himself, being quite worn down in health. His ailment soon developed into fever, and he died, after an illness of a few weeks, on the 22d of June, 1864, in his 30th year. He was a young man of great promise, and his death was a sore affliction to his parents.

The second son is Joseph K. Corson, who was born on the 22d of November, 1836. At the age of seventeen he was entered as an apprentice to the drug business with the firm of John & William Savage, of Philadelphia. After graduating in the College of Pharmacy, and completing his term of apprenticeship, he returned home. Shortly after, on the breaking out of the war, he enlisted as a private in Captain Walter H. Cooke's company, Colonel Hartranft's Fourth Regiment, and served till the company was ordered to the rear to be mustered out on the eve of the first battle of Bull Run. He was one of a few of the company who offered to remain in service and go into that disastrous battle as volunteers, notwithstanding their term of service had expired. On his return home, having a knowledge of pharmacy, he commenced the study of medicine. with his father, and in company with his cousin, Elwood M. Corson, attended lectures at the medical school, at the same time entering the military hospital at Broad and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, as assistants to the surgeons. They thus heard lectures during the day and attended sick soldiers at night, stealing hours from sleep for study. This round of duty was pursued till the next year, when they graduated, and were both sent to the seat of war, Joseph as surgeon's assistant in one of the regiments of the Pennsylvania Reserves. He was at the battle of Gettysburg, and from there through most of the battles of the Wilderness, ending at Cold Harbor, where he was relieved, and returned home just in time to see his elder brother die. About the date Joseph returned, Elwood, who so long had been his companion, was transferred to New York, and thence on board of one of the Monitors ordered to Charleston harbor. Here he remained, exposed to a terrible cannonading, until the rebels abandoned the city and it fell into our hands. For a short time Joseph remained at home assisting his father in his practice, but tiring of

the monotony of home work while such stirring events were transpiring in the field, he again applied for a position in the army. He passed an examination, and was assigned to duty on the lines between Omaha and Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, and other posts in the far West. While on the plains in Wyoming he made long journeys from the post, as he had leisure, in search of fossils, and was fortunate in discovering the remains of many extinct animals, which he sent to Professor Leidy, and which are now in the Cabinet of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He is still pursuing these scientific explorations. He has been married at his Western home to Ada, daughter of Judge William Carter, of that Territory. The third child was Caroline, born April 2d, 1839, and who died of consumption after having received a superior education.

The fourth is Tacie Foulke, intermarried with William L. Cresson, of Norristown. They have four children, Carrie, James, Nancy Corson, and Mary Leedom.

Charles Follen, the fifth child, was entered and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he studied law under William Henry Rawle, of Philadelphia, and since that time has been actively engaged in his profession in that city. For some years he has been a member of the law firm of Goforth & Corson. He was married in 1876 to Mary, daughter of Lewis A. Lukens, of Conshohocken.

The sixth child is Susan F., married to Jawood Lukens, of the firm of Alan Wood & Co., iron manufacturers, Conshohocken.

The seventh is Bertha, married to James Yocom, of Philadelphia. They have four children, Fannie, Thomas, Bertha, and Georgianna. The eighth is Frances Stockton, married to Richard Day, of the firm of Day Brothers, Philadelphia. They have one child, Bertha Corson.

The youngest child is Mary, who resides with her parents at Maple Hill.

Dr. Hiram Corson's long life and prosperous career teach this lesson above all others that a bold and fearless advocacy of truth, and an adherence to it in the face of opposition and dissent, will always pay, morally and pecuniarily.

WILLIAM W. TAYLOR.

The man is thought a knave or fool,

Or zealot plotting crimes,

Who for the welfare of his race

Is bluntly 'gainst his times.

For him the hemlock shall distill,

For him the axe be bared.-Anonymous.

And if the person who assumes the role of reformer happens to be himself somewhat impulsive, self-willed, and bluntly outspoken, just because he cannot help it, he is sure to encounter the dissent, if not the maledictions of quiet, serene-minded people, who "attend to their own affairs" and let the world wag as it pleases, even if a fourth of mankind should turn cannibals and commence eating the rest of us-providing always that they are not in the class to be devoured.

Such is life, and such ordinary human nature. "But wisdom," says the great Book, "is justified of her children." Hot-blooded, earnest, outspoken people, are always misunderstood by the opposite class. Hence the former, who see the world upside down, and often perceive reputable christian people sustaining by their voice and example such hoary abuses as slavery and intemperance, or wasting health and money upon hurtful practices like using tobacco or buying chances, thus falling into dangerous ways that more resolute people contemn, resist and overcome; if such contemners are bold, outspoken, and perhaps a little hasty and intemperate in speech, there is always a disturbance following somewhere, and the caviler and fault-finder must look well to his glass house, if he live in one. Milton said, "Let truth and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew the right put to the worse in a fair and open encounter?"

A world without these two needful classes would not be in a healthful condition, for the God-man who dispensed the new law says: "I came not to bring peace, but a sword." The headstrong, positive man, who assumes the role of reformer, must expect to be dead at least a decade before his neighbors will understand him or do him justice. His efforts must be weighed at their true value, his own imperfections and over-zeal forgotten, and then he has his reward. Then it is seen, as the phrenologist and philosopher always perceive, that being so constituted he could not well have been other than he was.

William Windle Taylor, of Freeland, the son of Levi and Sarah Taylor, was born in East Marlborough township, Chester county,

on the 10th of May, 1811.

The Taylor family is doubtless of English origin, and Quakers, who came over with Penn or shortly after he commenced the settlement of our State, as early records inform us that John Taylor was a surveyor and very influential man, and one or two of that name were members of the colonial Assembly. The usual christian names of the family are John, Stephen, Moses, and Caleb. Our subject's paternal grandparents were John and Dinah Taylor, of Chester county. Probably Moses Taylor, the great shipping merchant of New York, and the Southern family from whom General Zachary Taylor sprang, are descended from the same family head.

His mother was a daughter of William Windle, a family distinguished for great energy and positiveness. This Windle was a grandson of Isaac Jackson, who came from Wales and settled in West Grove, Chester county, on the 25th of August, 1725, from whom are sprung the numerous and respectable family of that name in Chester county, and from whom also possibly came the Southern family who are the ancestors of "Stonewall" Jackson of rebel fame. In 1875 Mr. Taylor and family received an invitation to attend a picnic in commemoration of the sesqui-centennial settlement of Isaac Jackson at the old homestead, at Harmony Grove, now owned by Everard and Mary Jackson Conard, who are descendants.

In 1816 the parents of Mr. Taylor moved to Hokesson, Delaware, where he obtained about three months' schooling in a year, till 1828, when he was apprenticed to William Moore, of New Garden, to learn the trade of a carpenter, with whom he served three and a half years, receiving annually a month's additional schooling. In the fall of 1831 he went to West Chester to work at his trade, and while there, in 1832, met, with the writer, a number of others in the court house, and formed one of the earliest temperance societies of that locality. From that time to the present he has been an earnest and active advocate of temperance and prohibition. In the autumn of 1832 he went to Philadelphia to work, and in the spring of 1833 to Doylestown, helping to build the bank and other improvements there. In the fall of 1834 he left there to teach a school at Goshen Meeting, in Goshen township, Chester county. In the spring of 1835 he removed to Lumberville, now called Port Providence, to work at his trade again, and on the 24th of December following was married to Sarah, daughter of the elder Benjamin and Mary Cox, of Upper Providence. In the spring of 1836 he set up the business of a master carpenter, and commenced housekeeping