SKETCH OF HENRY CARRINGTON BOLTON. 689 



Curtis Bolton subsequently removed to New York and became 

 the head of the firm of Bolton, Fox and Livingston, owners of the 

 Havre line of packets. Curtis married his cousin, Ann Bolton, 

 daughter of Robert, of Savannah ; their third son, Jackson, was 

 graduated at Columbia College in 1833, and later at the Univer- 

 sity of Paris, where he received the degree of D. M. P. Dr. Jackson 

 Bolton practiced his profession with success for over twenty years 

 in New York city, and was also Vice- President of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine and President of the Pathological Society. 



That branch of the North family into which Dr. Jackson 

 Bolton married had been residents of New England for two hun- 

 dred years ; the male ancestors of Dr. H. C. Bolton's mother for 

 three generations had been physicians, the last in the line being 

 Elish North, M. D., of Goshen, later of New London, Conn. Dr. 

 North is remembered as among the first in America to practice 

 vaccination, at Goshen, in 1800 ; as the first physician to open an 

 eye infirmary in the United States ; and as the author of works 

 on Spotted Fever (New York, 1811) and on physiology, 1829. 



Henry Carrington, the only child of Jackson and Anna H. 

 Bolton, was born in his paternal grandfather's house, No. 58 

 Greenwich Street, New York city, at the date above given. The 

 vicinity was the court end of the town, and the boy's earliest play- 

 ground was the Battery. Later, his father moved up town, and 

 the Battery was replaced by Union Square. Dr. Bolton's primary 

 education was in private schools, and he has been heard to men- 

 tion with deep gratitude the excellent training and kind consid- 

 eration of Mr. George Stowe, who laid secure foundations in Eng- 

 lish studies. At the age of nineteen Dr. Bolton, in 1862, was 

 graduated at Columbia College; he took no distinguished place 

 in his class, but showed marked aptitude for mathematics, and for 

 chemistry when the latter study was reached in the curriculum. 

 Prof. Charles A. Joy, who held the chair of Chemistry at that 

 time, had been prohibited by the trustees of Columbia from ad- 

 mitting students to practical work in the small laboratory adjoin- 

 ing the lecture-room, and Dr. Bolton was debarred from studying 

 chemistry in a rational way ; to supply this deficiency, however, 

 his father provided him with simple apparatus and a few chem- 

 icals at home, where he attempted to apply the principles learned 

 from the lectures of Prof. Joy. Very different from this the 

 present methods at Columbia College. 



Going to Europe immediately after graduation to continue his 

 study of chemistry in foreign universities, young Bolton spent 

 one year in Paris, first in the laboratory of the Sorbonne, then in 

 charge of J. B. Dumas, and afterward in the laboratory of the 

 Ecole de Me'decine under Adolphe Wurtz. 



In 1863 to 1865 he continued his studies in Germany : at Heidel- 



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