GEORGE HENRY HORN. Ill 



brother. Philip Henry Horn ha<l also, by a second marriage, a son 

 and a daughter. 



' While George Henry Horn could not be called a sickly child,' 

 his sister writes, ' he was not robust, and his fair hair and complexion 

 rather gave him a delicate appearance. His very early education 

 was begun in a small private school, about which I am not familiar. 

 After that he went to the Jefferson [public] school at Fifth and 

 Poplar Streets.' 



In July, 1853, he entered the Central High School, then located 

 on the east side of Juniper Street, below Market, facing Penn Square, 

 but transferred, in the summer of 1854, to the southeast corner of 

 Broad and Green Streets. The curriculum of those days included 

 history, logic, rhetoric, elocution, English, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, 

 French, German (abandoned for some years after September, 1856), 

 geometry, trigonometry, surveying, navigation, astronomy, chemistry, 

 physics, anatomy, physiology, natural history, moral science, political 

 economy, drawing, writing, book-keeping and phonography. An 

 elective system of studies was in vogue, making it possible for stu- 

 dents to exercise a choice of courses to be followed. The Principal 

 of the School was John S. Hart, and among the faculty were E. 

 Otis Kendall, Henry McMurtrie, M.D., William and Edward W. 

 Vogdes, Francis A. Bregy, James McClune and Rembrandt Peale. 

 George Henry Horn was graduated from the School February llth, 

 1858, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Among his classmates 

 were John G. Johnson, our well-known lawyer, William H. Samuel, 

 a Government Reporter in the military department, 1862-65, and 

 author of poems, and the Rev. Henry Palethorp Hay, D.D., LL.D. 



Soon after leaving the High School he matriculated in the Medical 

 Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he re- 

 ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine, March 14th, 1861. His 

 diploma bears the signatures of D. R. Goodwin Provost, John F. 

 Frazar Vice-Provost, Caldwell K. Biddle Secretary, and of the 

 Professors — William Pepper, Sr., Theory and Practice of Medicine, 

 Joseph Leidy Anatomy, Henry H. Smith Surgery, Hugo S. Hodge 

 Obstetrics, Samuel Jackson Institutes of Medicine, Joseph Carson 

 Materia Medica and Pharmacology, and Robert G. Rogers Chem- 

 istry. His medical thesis was on ' Sprains.' 



Of this period of his life his sister writes : ' I do not know of any 

 honors gained by him either while at school, or in the University, 

 and I think that his habit of ob.«ervation made him in many things 



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