Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
USWELL,
ALBERT, M. D., of Lowell, Mass., was born in Hartland, Windsor
county, Vt., on the 15th day of August, 1821. His father was a farmer,
with whom he lived until twenty-one years of age. He had a good taste
for reading and took a lively interest in the public schools, which his
son attended until twenty years of age, at which time he was sent to a
select school in Hartland, Vt. After attaining his majority, he attended
a second term at the same school, teaching the following winter, and
entering the New England Seminary, at Windsor, Vt., at the close of his
school, where he remained five terms, continuing to teach during the
winters. In June, 1844, he entered the Norwich University (military) at
Norwich, Vt., from which institution he graduated in August of 1847. Two
terms previous to that time, he was engaged in teaching in the Academy
at Canaan, N. H., where he remained until the close of the spring term
of 1848. The following autumn, he commenced the study of medicine with
Dr. Mitchell M. Davis, of Norwich, Vt., and in the winter of 1849-’50,
he attended a private course (a reading term) of lectures at Woodstock,
Vt., given by Dr. Rush Palmer, and subsequently two public courses,
graduating at Castleton, Vt., in November, 1851. He was then engaged for
seventeen years in practice as an allopathic physician in New Hampshire
and Vermont, moving at the end of that period to Lowell.The winter of 1868-’69
(having previously been led to see some of the advantages of the homœopathic
practice), he spent in Philadelphia, matriculating at, and graduating
from the Pennsylvania homœopathic Medical College in February, 1869. He
then returned to Lowell, where he has since been engaged in active
practice, and where he has had, by his successful application of the
principles of the new and scientific treatment, many striking evidences
of its superiority.He has been twice
married, his first wife dying early and without children.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave