SUMMER MEETING. 93^ 



Report of Coinmittee on Obituary. 



ASHERM. GOSLIX, M. D.— Dr. Asher Goslin was born In Clermont county, Ohio, February 

 24, 1830. 



Died at Oregon, Holt county, Missouri, March 27, 1S94, aged 64 years. 

 Funeral services from the family residence, Thursday, March 29, 1894, at 3 o'clock p. m» 



Dr. Goslin was in the highest sense a public man. His hospitality 

 and love of company was proverbial. He was public-spirited. He 

 was interested in all that tended to the growth and development, not 

 only of his town and State, but the whole country — not alone its ma- 

 terial prosperity, bat art and science. He noted with the deepest in- 

 terest the rapid strides which science had made in the past one hun- 

 dred years. A busy man in his profession, and yet never so absorbed 

 therein that he did not have time to give to the educational institutions^ 

 to the cultivation of flowers, to the study of horticulture and other 

 interests that would build up and beautify the town in which he lived. 



It is such a man as that, we as a people have lost in the death of 

 Dr. Asher Goslin. 



The following is taken from the Oregon papers : 



The deceased was born In Clermont county, Ohio, February 24, 1830. His father was 

 a native of Virginia, while his mother, whose maiden name was Anna Cox, was a native of 

 Xevv Jersey. The boyhood days of the deceased were spent on the farm at his birth-place, 

 and he received his education at Antioch college, of Yellow Springs. Ohio. 



He began the study of medicine under Dr. D. H. Bradley of Felicity, Ohio, In 1856, and 

 took his flrst course of lectures at the Ohio Medical college of Cincinnati, Ohio, during the 

 winter of 1858-9. In October, 1S59, he moved to Carmi, Illinois, and practiced at that point 

 until September, 1861, when he enlisted in Company H, Forty- eighth Illinois infantry, being 

 elected captain of the company the following April, and while on the battle-field of Shlloh, 

 he was promoted regimental surgeon, serving In that capacity until October, 1864. The last 

 year of his service he was In charge of the Fifteenth Army Corps Field hospital. In Octo- 

 ber, 1864, the Doctor re-enlisted, and was promoted to acting staff surgeon of the United 

 States army. At the time of re-enlistment he was presented with a case of surgical instru- 

 ments by his old regiment. He was mustered out of the army in May, 1865. He was mus- 

 tered out as a loving father, a devoted husband, as the highest type of the honorable, pro- 

 gressive citizen, March 27, 1894. He took part in the great battles of Fort Henry, Fort 

 Donelson, Sliiloh, siege of Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., Missionary Kidge, 

 the Atlanta campaign, and through with Sherman to the sea, and through the Carollnas to 

 Washington, where he took part in the grand review. 



At the close of the war, our deceased friend and companion settled in Olney, Illinois, 

 and resumed his practice. At this place he remained until June, 1869, when he located In 

 this city, and where he passed over to the other side. His sympathetic nature, heroic devo- 

 tion, kind manner and cheerfulness made him a welcome visitor to the sick room. He was 

 an enthusiast, not only as a physician, but In educational matters, and while president of 

 the Oregon Xormal School Board, and as professor of physiology in the school, he did much 

 toward placing our school in the front rank of the educational institutions of Xortliwest 

 Missouri. As a tribute to his memory and for the work done by him in the cause of educa- 

 tion, the scliool closed during tlie funeral services, and the 400 children were pei'mltted to 

 take a last look at one of nature's noblemen. 



