GUERNSEY
GUEST
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under Dr. Valentine Mott. He was associated
with N. P. Willis auJ George P. Morris as city
editor of the Kfrtiimj Mirror, 184o-lG; practised
medicine in Brooklyn, N.Y., 184G-48, was for a
time city physician and in 1848 established the
Brooklyn Daily Times, and was its editor in-chief,
id48-.5U, and while
editor prepared his
school history of the
United States. In
18.5U he removed to
New York city,
changed the school
of his medical prac-
tice to homoeopathy
and finally became a
liberal practitioner
through the use of
the best features of
both schools. He was
professor of materia
medica and after-
ward of theory and
practice in the New York homoiopathic medical
college for sis years. In 1855 he published " Do-
mestic Practice " which had passed through
twelve editions in 1898, and was republished in
several languages in Europe. He was associate
editor of the John's Mamial il852); estat bed
the Medicdl Times (187'3), and continued its editor-
in chief daring his active life. He organized the
Western dispensary in New York city in 1870;
was one of the organizers of the Hahneiuann hos-
pital and was its consulting phj-sician from its
organization. He was for thirtj' jears trustee
and vice-president of the state insane as3lum,
Middletown, N.Y. ; surgeon of the 6th regiment,
N.Y. S.M., 1864-68. and served as president of
the county and state medical societies. He was
married, in 1848, to Sarah Lefferts, daughter of
Peter Schenok of Brooklyn, N.Y., and their son.
Dr. Egbert Guernsey, practised medicine in Flor-
ida. Dr. Guernsey. Sr., received the honorary
degree of M. D. from the regents of the Univer-
sity of the state of New York in 1880, and that of
LL.D. from the College of St. Francis Xavier in
1899. The medical board of the Metropolitan hos-
pital of which he was the presidenti'rom its organ-
ization in 1877 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of his graduation in medicine. May 27, 1896, at the
Union League club house when a silver loving
cuj) was presented to the veneral)le doctor.
GUERNSEY, Rocellus Sheridan, author and lawyer, was born in Wcstford, N.Y., April 10, 1836; son of Richard and OriUa (Delesdernier) Guernsey ; grandson of Ebenezei' and Silla (Shev aleer) Garnsey; great grandson of John and Azubah (Buell) Garnsey ; and great* grandson of John Guernsie, who was in New Haven colony,
at Milford, in 1639 with his younger brother Jo-
seph. RoceUus attended the district school in
Westford until 1852; studied law in Butfalo,
N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in New York
city in 1859, and to the U.S. supreme court bar
in January, 1863. He was counsel for the West
ern Union telegraph company, for the Postal
telegraph cable company and for other similar
corporations. He is the author of Mechanics'
Lien Laws as in operation in New York, Kings
and Queens counties (1873); Hoio k'hakespeare's
Plays were written (1874) ; Corporation Code (1884) ,
Suicide : History of the Penal Laws lielatimj to it
(ISSii) : Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet (1885), Kew
York City and Vicinity durimj the War of 1812-13
(2 vols., 1889-96) ; Taxation and its Uelation to
Capital and Labor (1897) ; and several papers on
medico-legal subjects and on taxation, eco-
nomii's auil liistorical mutters.
QUERRY, William Alexander, educator, was born in Clarendon countj^, S.C, July 7, 1861; son of the Eev. Le Grand F. and Sirena Margaret (Brailsford) Guerry; grandson of William Capers and Virginia (Felder) Guerry, and a descendant of Pierre Guerry, a French Huguenot, who came from the province of Poitou, France, and settled in Charleston district, S C, about 1695 He also descended on his mother's side from Maj.-Gen. William Moultrie of Revolutionary fame He was graduated from the University of the South. A.M.. 1884; B.D.. 1891; was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1889. and a priest in 1890. He held rectorships at Florence, Marion and Darlington, S.C, 1888-93, and in the latter year accepted the chair of homiletics and pastoral theology at the University of the South
QUEST, John, naval officer, was born in Mis souri in 1821. He received a warrant as midship man i 1837 : was pi'oinoted past midshipman in 1843, served on board the Poin sett in the Tam- pa Bay siu'vey, 1844-45; on the Congress, 1845- 48 ; on the west coast of Mex- ico, and took part in sev- eral engage- ments with water batteries. He was second in command of seamen and marines of the Plymouth of the Asiatic squadron and at Shanghai in 1854 liberated a pilot boat's crew from a Chinese man-of-war by boarding the vessel, and engaged in a sharp hand to hand contest with Chinese rebels in the streets of the city, who were plun dering the homes of foreign residents. At the outbreak of the civil war he was in command of
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