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GLONINGER 444 GODDING position of the laryngeal paralyses in their rela- tion to general medicine. He was a man of culture, reading widely outside of medicine and deeply interested in nature. A great recreation was mountaineer- ing. He died of heart disease in New York, July 2, 1914. Howard A. Kelly. Jour. Araer. Med. Asso., 1914, vol. Ixiii, 257. Med. Record, 1914, vol. Ixxxxvi, 74. Gloninger, John Washington (1798-1874) John W. Gloninger was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1798, and had his early train- ing under a famous local pedagogue, one Mc- MuUen, "brisk wielder of the birch and rule,' afterwards being sent to a school in Harris- burg and thence to Baltimore, where he com- pleted his education. In 1815 he began study- ing medicine under a Dr. King, early in 1816 going to Philadelphia and becoming a private pupil of Prof. Dorsey (q. v.), then in the height of his fame, at the same time attending lec- tures at the University of Pennsylvania and Blockley Hospital. On the death of Dr. Dorsey in 1818, he went to New York and studied under Prof. Hosack (q. v.), attending lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, whence he graduated April, 1819. Then he is heard of as being in New Y'ork pursuing his strides in the hospitals, returning to Lebanon in 1820 and there beginning to practise. He soon took and maintained for thirty years a leading position as physician and sur- geon. As a surgeon he was eminent in diseases of the eye, particularly successful in cataract. Gloninger was an omnivorous reader, espe- cially of medical works, and had a remarkably retentive memory, also he was a frequent con- tributor to medical literature, many of his articles showing him not only a careful ob- server, but a close student keeping pace with the progress of medical science. In 1823 he was elected member of the Pittsburg Medica! Society and in 1826 fellow of the University of New York, Jefferson Medical College con- ferring on him her honorary M. D. In 1838 he was elected honorary member of the New Y'ork State Medical Society, and in 1841 the University of Maryland gave him the honorary M. D., the University of Pennsylvania doing the same in 1848. In his intercourse with his professional brethren Dr. Gloninger maintained the most cordial relations. Possessed of abundant means and high social and profes- sional standing, he was particularly kind to some of the older members of the profession, and in several instances through his personal influence secured for them the honorary M. D., a degree they had failed to procure earHer. In personal appearance he was tall, with a slight stoop and a large strong face with a pleasant expression. His dress was the pro- fessional black swallow-tailed coat, black or figured satin waistcoat, dark trousers, low shoes, white stockings and he always wore a black silk hat. Five children were born to him, two of whom are eminent in their profession — Dr. Cyrus Dorsey, who practised in Lebanon, and Dr. D. Stanley, of Philadelphia. Dr. Glon- inger died March 10, 1874. Jacob Henrv Redsecker. From an account read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, October 19, 1900, by. J. H. Redsecker. Glover, Joseph (1778-1840) Joseph Glover, physician, son of Joseph Glover, was born December 10, 1778, in Colle- ton District, and died in Charleston, South Carolina, January 6, 1840. He was graduated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1800, and that year became a member of the medical society of South Carolina. He was active in establishing a free dispensary in 1801, and gave his services gratuitously to the poor, receiving a vote of thanks from the trustees in 1805. Among his suggestions which the medical society made to the city council was that of planting trees, the sanitarj' advantages of which he showed in his report in 1808. Dr. Glover was noted for fearlessness and skill as a surgeon. He successfully performed lithotomy, removed a portion of the spleen and the omentum, and was one of the first in this country to revive the operation of tapping the head for hydro- cephalus. A description of the case was pub- lished in pamplilet form (1818) and was widely quoted. He married, first, Elizabeth Yonge; second, Mrs. Maria Fraser, nee Boone. There were five children by the first marriage, two of whom were physicians, Joseph (1810 ) and Francis Y. (1817 ). Personal communication from Dr. Robert Wilson. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., 1SS7. Goading, William Whitney (1831-1899) William Whitney Godding was born May i, 1831, at Winchendon, Massachusetts, the son of Dr. Alvah and Mary Whitney Godding, bis mother's people coming over from Whitney- on-the-Wye in 1635 to Watertown, Massa- chusetts. In 1850 he entered the freshmen class at Dartmouth College, graduating A. B. there