to found. He published numerous papers on clinical and surgical subjects.
After the death of the Siamese twins he obtained their bodies, and made an examination under the auspices of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia, and proved that the band could not safely have been cut, except in their childhood.
During the later years of his life Dr. Pancoast suffered greatly from ill-health, and after the resignation of his chair of anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College, in 1874, he gradually withdrew from the active duties of his profession. In May, 1877, the formal opening of the Jefferson College Hospital was, at the request of the trustees, inaugurated by him in an eloquent address, and this was his last official act in the school with which he was connected for more than forty years. At the time of his death Dr. Pancoast was the only survivor of the celebrated faculty of 1841 in the Jefferson Medical College.
He died on the fifth of January, 1897.
Park, John Gray (1838–1905)
John Gray Park, alienist of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, January 3, 1838, the son of John G. and Maria Thayer Park. He graduated at Harvard University with the degree of A. B. in 1858. While pursuing the study of medicine at the Harvard Medical School in 1861 he became an interne at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In February, 1862, he was appointed an acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy and served as such until November, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He resumed his medical studies and received the degree of M. D. in 1866, soon afterwards opening an office in Worcester, Mass. In 1871, he was appointed superintendent of the Worcester City Hospital, then just opened. In October, 1872, he married Elizabeth B., daughter of Hon. A. F. Lawrence of Groton, and in the same month received an appointment as assistant superintendent of the Worcester Insane Hospital, a position he filled until 1877, when he was made superintendent of this institution. He served in this capacity until his retirement in 1890. He spent the summer of 1881 in Europe and devoted special attention to English methods of caring for the insane.
He perfected the superb institution over which he had been placed, and was ever a sagacious and prudent administrator. He was an excellent organizer, and a good man of business, and under his management the Worcester Lunatic Hospital enjoyed a deserved prosperity. After the failure of his health in 1890, he resigned from the hospital, and removed to his former home at Groton, Massachusetts, where he continued to reside until his death, although several winters were passed in California.
In 1894 he was appointed by the Governor one of the commissioners to build the Medfield (Massachusetts) Insane Hospital, and later was chairman of the board of trustees, a position he held during the remainder of his life.
His health gradually failed and he finally entered the Worcester City Hospital for treatment, where he died of cirrhosis of the liver, August 29, 1905. One son, Lawrence Park, an architect of Boston, living in Groton, survived him, together with three grandchildren.
Park, Roswell (1852–1914)
Roswell Park was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, May 4, 1852. His father was descended from an old English and New England family, Sir Robert Park having come to Massachusetts in 1630 from Preston, England, later moving to Connecticut. From both father and mother, Dr. Park was descended from Elder Brewster. His father was born in Connecticut, educated at Union College (A. B., Phi Beta Kappa) and West Point; was a lieutenant in the engineer corps, U. S. A., and later professor in the University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards he took orders in the Episcopal Church and became president of Racine College, Wisconsin, which he founded, being well known as a writer and educator.
Dr. Park's mother was Mary Brewster Baldwin, of a good New England family. One of her ancestors constructed the first dry dock in America for the U. S. Government.
Dr. Park went to school in Connecticut and later in the Racine grammar school and Immanuel Hall in Chicago, and finally graduated from Racine College (B. A., 1872; M. A., 1875). After his graduation he taught for one year in Immanuel Hall; he then entered the medical department of Northwestern University and after receiving his degree of M. D. (1876), served as interne in the Cook County Hospital. His medical teaching was begun in 1879, as demonstrator of anatomy in the Woman's Medical College of Chicago. In 1880 he was appointed adjunct professor of anatomy in the Northwestern University and in 1883 he resigned to study in Europe.
