- WILLIS BURTON MORGAN, St. Louis, Missouri, former professor
of anatomy, and surgery,
- and also dean of the faculty of the Homoeopathic Medical
College of Missouri, is a native of the town of Scott, Cortland
county, New York, son of Sylvester MORGAN and Sarah ANTHONY,
his wife. On the paternal side his family is of remote Welsh
ancestry, and in America dates to the early colonial period,
the immigrant ancestor having come to America in 1636; on the
maternal side he is believed to be of Scotch ancestry. Dr. MORGAN
was educated in the common schools of Rock county, Wisconsin,
and in Milton College, where he graduated A.B., 1874; A.M., 1877;
Ph.D., 1894. His medical education was acquired in the Homoeopathic
Medical College of Missouri, where he came to his degree in 1878,
and with the teaching force of which institution he was afterward
a part for more than twenty years. Later on he took post-graduate
courses in schools and hospitals in New York. Philadelphia and
Boston. The scene of Dr. MORGAN's professional life has been
laid in St. Louis, and in connection with his practice has held
appointments as follows: city hospital clinics, 1891-1904; professor
of anatomy, Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, 1881-91;
professor of surgery, same institution, 1891-1904; dean, 1899-1904.
He is a member and ex-president of the Missouri Institute of
Homoeopathy and the St. Louis Homoeopathic Medical Society, also
a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Dr. MORGAN
married, October 15, 1876, Mary Janette TOMPKINS.
- [Taken from "History of Homoeopathy and Its Institutions
in America, Vol. IV" edited by William Harvey King; (c)1905
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago; p. 201]
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