

PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Delaware County Institute of Science 



Vol. Ill, No. 2 January, 1908 



LINN^US FUSSELL, M. D.* 



" His life was gentle, antl the elements 



So mixed in him that Nature might stand xip 



And say to all the world : ' This was a man ! ' " 



To those of us who love and reverence the memory of the late 

 Dr. lyinn^etis Fussell, this application of the great dramatist's 

 characterization is not an act of prestmiption. He was held 

 in such reverent affection by so many of the residents of Media 

 and vicinity that it seems eminently fitting and appropriate. 



Linnteus Fussell was born in Pendleton, Indiana, Septem- 

 ber 2nd, 1842. His parents. Dr. Edwin Fussell and Rebecca 

 Lewis Fussell, were descended from a long line of Friends 

 imbued with a strong opposition to slavery, and had taken an 

 active interest in the anti-slavery agitation then going on 

 over the whole cotmtry. In no part of the country was the 

 feeling so high, both for and against, as it was in Indiana. 

 A series of conventions was being held throughout the West. 

 Dr. Edwin Fussell, with "the courage of his convictions," 

 was an active organizer of the anti-slaveiy element in that 

 part of Indiana where he resided (Pendleton), and in fur- 

 therance of the plans of the Anti-Slavery Society had made 

 arrangements for a meeting to be held at Pendleton, to be 

 addressed by Frederick Douglass, James Monroe, Micajah 

 White and others. Years after, in an article on " The Great 

 Agitation," Frederick Douglass penned the following lines: — 



*Dr. Fussell's death, October 28th, 1907, was previously announced. 



