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1883,] 2 4 9 (Pepper. 
J. Ingersoll, Esq., and was so unfortunate as to lose 
this amiable woman by death on Dec. 30, 1856. He 
remained faithful to her memory and never married 
again, Eight children were born to him, of whom the 
eldest and the youngest died. His son, Dr. Arthur V. 
Meigs, after graduating at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1871, has devoted himself with signal success 
to the profession followed by his distinguished father 
and grandfather, and already occupies the same im- 
portant public positions in connection with the Penn- 
sylvania and Children’s Hospitals, which were formerly 
held by his father. 
His habits of life were extremely simple and almost 
austere. He clung to the simplicity of his early days, 
and lamented the luxury of our own time. His 
constant and absorbing occupation, as well as his own 
tastes, prevented him from moving to any considerable 
extent in general society, or, during his later years, 
from even attending the meetings of the scientific or 
medical societies to which he belonged. Although he 
worked incessantly and arduously, it is certain that his 
strength was never great nor his health robust. He 
had two serious illnesses, pleuro-pneumonia in De- 
cember, 1854, and a second attack of pneumonia, 
complicated with hemorrhage from the lungs, in De- 
cember, 1863. His last illness was also pleuro-pneu- 
monia, which was contracted in December, 1882, by 
exposure during a professional visit, when he was re- 
duced by a heavy cold; it ran a rapid course, and 
ended fatally on the eighth day. 
