IN MEMORIAM, DE. T. H. HOSKINS. 



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his own at thirteen years of age. He received his academic educa- 

 tion at the Gardiner Lyceum. In 1849, at twenty-one years of age, he 

 started for California in company with other young men of his city, 

 but, not liking the manners of his companions, he left them and 

 finally located in Louisville, Ky., where he remained nearly thirteen 

 years. He engaged in the drug business, first as clerk, then as 

 partner, and later studied medicine in the medical department of 



DR. T. H. HOSKINS. 

 L,ate of Newport, Vt. 



the University of Louisville, at the same time carrying on a mar- 

 ket garden just outside the city. 



Graduating at the head of a large class, he became assistant pro- 

 fessor of anatomy, translated French and German works for the 

 university, and practiced his profession until in 1861, just before 

 the war, he removed to Boston. Here he remained several years, 

 being surgeon to several institutions, one of the physicians of the 

 Boston Dispensary for four years, also engaged as an editorial 

 writer on the Boston Courier, and as lecturer in Dio Lewis' school. 



