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IVES
commenced to practise medicine in company
with his father in 1801, and had the degree of
M.D. conferred upon him by the Connecticut
Medical society in 1811. He helped to secure the
establishment of the medical department of Yale
college in 1813, and was adjunct professor of
materia medica there, 1813-20 ; professor, 1820-
29 ; professor of the theory and practice of physic,
1829-52 ; professor of materia medica and thera-
peutics, 1852-53, and professor emeritus, 1853-61.
He was married, Sept. 17, 1805, to Maria, daugh-
ter of Dr. Nathan and Mary (Phelps) Beers, and
their son Levi, M.D., Yale, 1838, died in 1891.
Professor Ives established and was for many
years president of the State Horticultural and
Pomological societies, and was also president of
the American Medical association and a contrib-
utor to the Journal of Science. He died in New
Haven, Conn., Oct. 8, 1861.
IVES, Halsey Cooley, art educator, was born at Montour Falls, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1846, son of Hiram Du Bois and Terressa (McDowell) Ives, and grandson of John and Lola Jane Ives and of John and Jane (Brink) McDowell, of English and Scotch ancestry. He was educated in the public schools of Schuyler county and technical schools of South Kensington, England, and as a pupil of Alexander Piatowsky. He was a member of the faculty of "Washington university, 1875-95, and in 1879 became director of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. He was elected a member of the National Sculpture society, an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects and of the Cliicago Art institute, and associate of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis. He was U.S. commissioner to art exposi- tions in Paris and Bi'ussels, and chief of the art department of the AVorld's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893. He was created a knight of the order of Danebrog of Denmark in 1894 by order of King Christian IX. ; of the order of Vasa of Sweden by King Oscar in 1895, and received marks of distinction from the French, German and Japanese governments.
IVES, Levi Silliman, second bishop of North Carolina and 25th in succession to the American episcopate, was born in Meriden, Conn., Sept. 16, 1797. He removed with his parents to Turin, Lewis county, N.Y., where he lived until 1812, when he entered the Lowville academy. He served one year in the war of 1812, and in 1816 entered Hamilton college, intending to become a Presbyterian minister, but ill-health prevented his finishing the college course. In 1819 he was baptized and confirmed in the Protestant Episco- pal church, and he studied theology with Bisliop Hobart, of New York, whose daughter Rebecca he married in 1822. He was made a deacon in 1822 and a priest in 1823. He was rector at Ba-
tavia, N. Y. ; of Trinity church, Philadelphia ;
Christ church, Lancaster, Pa., 1827, and Christ
church, New York city, 1828-31. In 1881 he was
elected bishop of North Carolina, and was conse-
crated, September 22, by Bishops White and H. U.
and B. T. Onderdonk.
He went to the ex-
treme in advocating
ritualistic worship
and in teaching the
slaves, which gave
offence to the church-
men of his diocese.
He visited Rome and
made a formal sub-
mission to the pope,
Dec. 25, 1852, and at
the next general con-
vention of the Epis-
copal church he was
deposed from his
bishopric. He re-
turned to the United States, was made profes-
sor of rhetoric in St. Joseph's Theological semi-
nary. New York city, and a lecturer on that
subject in the convents of the Sacred Heart and
the Sisters of Charity. He became president of
the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul, and in
1828 founded the Catholic male protectory and
the House of the Angels, a home for orphans, and
was president of both until his death. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from the
University of North Carolina in 1834. His pub-
lished works include: Catechism; Manual of
Devotion; Humility a Ministerial Qualification
(1840); The Apostles' Doctrine and Fellowship
(1844); Sermons on the Obedience of Faith (1849);
Tlie Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholi-
cism (1854) . He died in New York, Oct. 13, 1876.
IVES, Moses Brown, merchant and philan-
thropist, was box-n in Providence, R.I., July 21,
1794 : son of Thomes Poynton and Hope (Brown)
Ives, and grandson of Nicholas and Rhoda
(Jenckes) Brown. He was graduated at Brown,
A.B., 1812, A.M. 1815; studied at the Litchfield
Law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1815.
He then engaged with Brown & Ives, and upon
the death of his father in 1835 succeeded him in
business and in many of his positions of trust,
including the presidency of the Providence bank.
He was one of the founders of the Providence
Athenaeum, and contributed liberally to its per-
manent endowment. He was a trustee of Brown
university, 1822-57, and treasurer of the corpora-
tion, 1825-57. He was a founder and treasurer of
Butler Hospital for the Insane, and a constant
and generous donor to both the university and the
hospital. He married, April 17, 1^:33. Anne Allen,
daughter of Sullivan andLydia (Allen) Dorr, and
