DAVID HOSACK 



1769-1835 

 Hosackia bicolor DOUGLAS 



David Hosack was one of those who live for 

 to-morrow, who doggedly advocate and carry 

 out reforms for which they themselves get neither 

 thanks nor profit. He brought the same keen 

 interest to bear on a new town sewer as on a new 

 view of disease or a new plant for his botanical 

 garden. 



He was born on August 31, 1769, at 44 Frank- 

 fort Street, New York, the son of Alexander and 

 Jane Arden Hosack and eldest of seven children. 

 His father came over from Moray, Scotland, as 

 an artillery officer under Gen. Sir Jeffrey Am- 

 herst, and was at the retaking of Louisburgh. 

 His mother was of English-French descent. 



When about thirteen, young David went to 

 school under the Rev. Alexander McWorter, of 

 Newark, New Jersey ; then for a short time to Dr. 

 Peter Wilson, of Hackensack; and finally, in 

 1786, to Columbia College, New York, begin- 

 ning to study medicine with Dr. Richard Bayley, 

 a New York surgeon, in 1788, and graduating 

 B. A. from Princeton in 1789. 



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