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and uprightness, honesty and kindliness, which, in addition to his profes-
sioual skill, resulted in the upbuilding of a very comfortable practice.
C'hapin A. Harris said of him that he was "idolized by his patients as
few of his professional brethren can ever expect to bo." One of his com-
peers, Eleazar Parmly, said of liim : "We are probably more indebted to his
success than to that of any other man for tlie importance which was at-
tached at that period to operations which were intended to preserve the nat-
ural teeth in their natural state," for "by the complete success attending the
practice of this great man, the public were soon convinced that teeth could be
saved."
HORACE H. HAYDEN.

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HoR.\CE H. Hayden, whose influence in the development of an organized
dental profession is probably equaled or exceeded only by that of Chapin
A. Harris, was born in 17fiS. "\\^ien fourteen years of age he made a vo.vage
to the West Indies in the ca*pacity of cabin boy, and later was apprenticed