In Memoriam. Edwin R. Purple
In Memoriam. Edwin R. Purple

Author: Samuel Smith Purple

Publisher:

Published: 1881

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13:

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Memoriam to Edwin Ruthven Purple (1831-1879), who was born in Sherburne, New York, worked in New York City from 1847 to 1850, when he moved to San Francisco and Sacramento, and thereafter moved between New York and California in his employment--describing Salt Lake City and Fillmore and areas between, when he worked in Salt Lake City in 1862. He returned to New York City permanently late in 1864, married Mary Frances Hawley in 1868, and became an avid genealogist in his later days.

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees
Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees

Author: John M. Harris Jr.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1003821340

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This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith, a consistent figure in the history of public health, mental health, housing reform in New York, and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings, public records, and recently discovered personal correspondence, this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments, the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us, highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars, filling gaps in the history of American medicine, public health, mental health, and New York social reform.