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inhabitants. He lived to see it become a metropolis of over 

 four hundred thousand. He began in absolute poverty, the 

 small means he had brought from Europe completely ex- 

 hausted. In four years he had laid the foundations of success 

 in his profession, and had earned the means for making a 

 voyage to Germany, and, fulfilling a long-standing engage- 

 ment, for bringing to a frugal home the chosen companion of 

 his life, Dora Hartsmann, his cousin, whom he married at 

 Kreuznach, on the 11th of June, 1840. On his way homeward, 

 at New York, the writer of this memorial formed the personal 

 acquaintance of Dr. Engelmann ; and thus began the friend- 

 ship and the scientific association which has continued un- 

 broken for almost half a century. 



Dr. Engelmann's position as a leading physician in St. 

 Louis, as well among the American as the German and French 

 population, was now soon established. He was even able in 

 1856, without risk, to leave his practice for two years, to de- 

 vote most of the first summer to botanical investigation in 

 Cambridge, and then, with his wife and young son, to revisit 

 their native land^ and to fill up a prolonged vacation in inter- 

 esting travel and study. In the year 1868 the family visited 

 Europe for a year, the son remaining to pursue his medical 

 studies in Berlin. And lastly, his companion of nearly forty 

 years having been removed by death in January, 1879, and 

 his own robust health having suffered serious and indeed 

 alarming deterioration, he sailed again for Germany 4n the 

 summer of 1883. The voyage was so beneficial that he was 

 able to take up some botanical investigations, which, however, 

 were soon interrupted by serious symptoms. But the return 

 voyage proved wonderfully restorative ; and when, in early 

 autumn, he rejoined his friends here, they could hope that 

 the unfinished scientific labors, which he at once resumed 

 with alacrity of spirit, might still for a while be carried on 

 with comfort. So indeed they were, in some measure, after 

 his return to his home, yet with increasing infirmity and no 

 little suffering until the sudden illness supervened which, in 

 a few days, brought his honorable and well-filled life to 

 a close. 



