STARLING MEDICAL COLLEGE In 1846
Willoughby Medical College located at Willoughby Lake county Ohio was
removed to Columbus with a reorganization of its board of trustees Under
that organization one course of lectures was delivered in this city and then
the institution abandoned During this term Lyne Starling one of the original
proprietors of the site of Columbus executed a deed of trust December 18
1847 to trustees of thirty thousand dollars to be paid in installments for
the purchase of a lot and the erection of suitable buildings thereon for a
medical college and the establishment of a hospital in connection therewith
The trustees named in this bequest were William S Sullivant, John W Andrews,
Robert W McCoy Joseph E Swan Francis Carter Samuel M Smith and John
Butterfield The trustees on the 2d of January 1848 met and accepted the
trust Mr. Starling then increased his generous donation five thousand
dollars more making it thirty five thousand dollars Upon application to the
legislature Starling Medical College to be located at the State capital was
chartered by a special act passed January 28 1848 The board of trustees
organized under the charter by electing William S Sullivant president EW
McCoy treasurer and Francis Carter secretary
The following gentlemen were chosen
January 29 1848 members of the faculty: Henry H ChiIds, MD, John
Butterfield, MD, Richard L Howard, MD, Jesse P Judkins, MD,
Samuel M Smith, MD, Frederick Merrick AM, and Francis Carter MD.
During the first year the number of
students was 160 and the degree of MD was conferred on thirty two persons
and honorary degrees on six OFFICERS. The following are the present officers
of the institution President William S Sullivant Secretary Francis Carter
Trustees William S Sullivant ,LLD Joseph Sullivant, Esq; Samuel M Smith MD;
Francis Carter MD; Hon Joseph R Swan; John W Andrews Esq; James A Wilcox
Esq.
FACULTY: S. M Smith MD, Professor
of Theory and Practice; Francis Carter MD, Professor of Obstetrics
etc; Dean J. M. Wheaton MD; Professor of Anatomy, J. W. Hamilton
MD, Professor of Surgery; S. Loving MD, Professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics; Theo. G Wormley MD, Ph D, LLD, Professor of
Chemistry and Toxicology; H. C. Pearce MD Professor of Physiology;
W.L. Peck MD Professor of Insanity; D. R. Kinsman MD, Professor of Diseases
of Women and Children; Judge J. W. Baldwin Professor of Medical
Jurisprudence; D Halderman MD, Lecturer on Venereal Diseases and
Demonstrator of Anatomy: Otto Frankenberg MD. Prosector to the Chair
of Anatomy; H.A. Weber Assistant to the Professor of Chemistry.
Alter the charter had been granted in the
winter of 1848 a lot was procured on the southeast corner of Sixth and State
streets on which the present college edifice famed for its unique design and
architectural beauty was erected The building was commenced in the spring of
1849 under the superintendence of RA Sheldon architect The address on laying
the cornerstone was delivered by Rev Dr Hoge In the fall of 1850 the
building had so far progressed that the first course of lectures opened by a
general introductory from Prof Carter was delivered in the new edifice that
season The superstructure of the building is of brick with a large amount of
ornamental cut stone Its extreme length is 135 feet and its height from the
ground to the top of the tower is 138 feet The Sisters of St Francis some
years ago leased for ninety nine years that part of the building designed
for a hospital and since then open for the reception and care of the sick
poor and afflicted of all classes and conditions Of this work of charity and
labor of love we have given an account in the chapter on charitable
institutions The college contains a well stored museum an unrivaled chemical
laboratory and all the means for instruction in practical anatomy and other
departments of medicine and the hospital conducted by the Sisters of St
Francis Of this hospital which is connected with the lecture rooms the
faculty distinguished as eminent practitioners are the medical officers The
Starling Medical College is an institution of which it is gratifying to
speak as a credit and an ornament M our city It has since its commencement
graduated about a thousand students who are now practicing in all parts of
the country many of them ranking among the most eminent physicians in the
profession
