MEMOIR 



DR. JOHN D. GODMAN 



Of Dr. Godman's early years, we have received a 

 number of interesting memoranda, from his first medical 

 preceptor, Dr. Luckey, now of Circleville, in this state. 

 According to this gentleman, Dr. G. was born at Wil- 

 mington, in the state of Delaware. At an early period 

 he lost his parents, and was left without patrimony, or 

 deprived of it. Dr. Luckey first saw him in 1810, when 

 he was fifteen years old. The doctor was, at that time, a 

 senior student in the office of Dr. Thomas E. Bond, of 

 Baltimore. " The office," says Dr. L., " was fitted up 

 with taste, and boys, attracted by its appearance, would 

 frequently drop in, to gaze on the labelled jars and 

 drawers. Among them I discovered, one evening, an in- 

 teresting lad, who was amusing himself with the manner 

 in which his comrades pronounced the ' hard words,' 

 with which the furniture was labelled. He appeared to 

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