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HISTOEY OF DENTAL SURGERY 415

specimen was presented to tlie college by Dr. John Allen, who obtained it from
a grandson of Dr. Greenwood.
Here are found portraits of the founders of the college, Hayden and
Harris; of John Greenwood; of Drs. Robert Arthur and E. C. Mackall, the
lirst graduates in dental surgery, and also of many others who assisted in the
advancement of the profession.
The office of president of the college was held by Horace H. Hayden from
1840-1844, and from 1844-60, by Chapin A. Harris, each of them serving until
his death. Eleazar Family was its provost from 1847-1853, when he resigned.
The deans of the college have been Chapin A. Harris, 1840-41 ; Thomas E.
Bond, 1841-2: AVashington R. Handy, ]81-?-5:3: Fhilip H. Austin, 1853-65;
Ferdinand J. S. Gorgas, 1865-82 ; Richard B. Winder, 1882-94, and M. Whill-
din Foster, from that date. And aside from these names in the faculty there
appear many of the highly honored names of the profession, among which are
Amos Westcott, Cyrenius Cone, Alfred A. Blandy, Edward Maynard, B. Holly
Smith, James B. Hodgkin, William B. Finney, Henry R. Noel, H. Willis Bax-
ley, Washington R. Handy, A. Snowden Piggot, Russell Murdock, E. Lloyd
Howard, Thomas S. Latimer, Standish McCleary and many others.
Its 2571 alumni are scattered all over the world ; among these there have
been many men of great prominence in the profession who have made reputa-
tions, not only as practitioners, but also as investigators, teachers, members of
state boards, writers, inventors and leaders in tlie progressive work of science.
Its first graduating class produced Robert Arthur: in the class of 1842,
W. AV. H. Thaxton became distinguished. In the class of 1848, John McCalla,
who afterwards became one of the organizers of the Pennsylvania College of
Dental Surgery, and of the Odontological Society of Pennsylvania, was a dis-
tinguished member. To this college we are indebted for W. H. Morgan, for
so many years the leader of rlental thought and progress in Tennessee, who
was for a nundier of years a trustee of the Ohio Dental College, and later became
intimately associated witli the dental department of the Vanderbilt University,
in which he served as dean.
The class of 1851 produced Dr. Frank P. Abbot, who shortly after gradua-
tion went to Berlin, Germany, and became one of the early pioneer American
dentists of Europe.
Samuel J. Cockerille, of the class of 1853, became a very distinguished
professor of Washington, D. C.
The class of 1854 developed Dr. F. H. Rehwinkle as a dentist, who pre-
viously had received a medical education at a university in Germany and prac-