Death Of Dr. Corydon L. Ford

Dr. Corydon L. Ford is dead. The oldest member of the ] sity faculty, as well in point of ! years as in point of service, his long ;areer as a teacher ended suddenly. Advancing years made him : ant to continue his work in the : University and he had tried for several years to termínate his connection with the University. His colleagues and the regents were loath to part with him and persuaded him to continue his work. A few weeks ago he again sent in his resignation and on Friday last he delivered what he had determined was to be his last lecture to the medical students. Shortly after delivering the lecture, while walking toward the University hospitals, he was taken with a stroke of appoplexy. His students quicklycame to his assistance and he was carried to his house, where he expired at three o'clock Saturday morning. Dr. Ford had been connected with the University since 1854 and in the 40 long years of service here he always occupicd a warm place in the hearts of his students. Strictly températe in his habits, he used neither tobáceo or liquor in any form and he never resorted to anodynes for relief from the pain that afflicted him. He was of a kindly nature, and one of nature's noblemen. To know him was to esteem him. Dr. Ford was born in Lexington, Greene county, New York, August 19, 1813, a descendant of the Ford who settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1621. His father was a lieutenant in the war of 1812 and a farmer. When he was about two years old, his father removed to Otsego county, New York, and remained there until 1836, when they carne to Michigan and settled in VanBuren, Wayne county. At seventeen years of age, Dr. Ford began teaching school and put in nine at the occupation. At the age of twenty he began the study of medecine, and afterwards entered Canandiagua academy where he studied the ancient languages. In 1840 hè resumed the study of medecine with Dr. Edson Carr, Canandaigua. In October, 1840, he entered Geneva Medical College at Geneva, New York, and when he graduated in 1842 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the college. In i84Óhe was made demonstrator of anatomy in the Kuffalo Medical college and soon established a wide reputation as an expert teacher of anatomy and in 1849 he was made professor of anatomy and physiology in the medical college at Castleton, Vt. In June, 1854, he was made professor of anatomy in the University of Michigan. Dúring the forty years of his professorship here, until 1886, he filled chairs in other leading medical colleges, his main work however being done here. In 1860 he was made professor of anatomy in Berkshire Medical college in Pittsfield, Mass. He was also connected with Bowdoin college, and f rom 1868 to 1886 he was profesor of anatomy in the Long Island college hospital, of Brooklyn, N.V., and in 1886 he was honored with the title of Emeritus Professor of anatomy in that institution. He was the best known authority on anatomy in this country and could teil to what animal any bone belonged. He had delivered ro9 courses of lectures. He was married in 1865 to Mrs. Messer nee Chapman, who died on May 2 of last year. He was a member of the Congregational church and had no children of his own. The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at his house. Dr. Ford's will, which has been filed for probate, divides his estáte largely between missions and the University. only $6,000 is left to relatives, of this $4,000 is lett to nis brother in Dundee, $2,000 to Aretus Ford, a nephew, and $1,000 to Mrs. Kate Canfield, of California. The sum of $3,000 is bequeatheri to the Student's Christian association and the sum of $20,000 is bequeathed to the University, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the General Library. The balance of his estáte is divided among the relig'ous and irosionary boards of theCongregational church. The executors of the estáte are E. C. Walker and Bryant Walker, of Detroit.