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PHOTOTHÈQUE
HOMÉOPATHIQUE
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Dr Joseph
Pettee COBB (1857-1924)
Collection Sylvain Cazalet (History of Homeopathy – King)
Collection Sylvain Cazalet.
Dr. J. Cobb (left) &
Dr. Harris H. Baxter (right)
Group portrait of Dr. Harris H. Baxter, of
Ohio, Vice President of the Homeopathic Institute and Dr. J. Cobb, sitting
in a room in Chicago (during homeopathic medicine convention), Illinois.
Baxter is wearing a medal on his jacket and Cobb is wearing spectacles.
Source : This photonegative taken by
a Chicago Daily News photographer
was partially published in the newspaper on June 28, 1915.
COBB, JOSEPH PETTEE,
Chicago, Illinois, was born in Abington, Massachusetts, June 12, 1857, son
of Edward White and Elmina (Howard) Cobb, both of English descent,
representing colonial families, twelve generations of the Cobb family
preceding Dr. Cobb having lived in Massachusetts. He studied in the public
schools of Abington until fourteen years of age ; in Waltham
(Massachusetts) New Church school, 1872-5 ; Bridgewater (Massachusetts)
Academy, 1871-2, and graduated from Harvard University with the B. A.
degree, in 1879. His professional education was acquired in Hahnemann
Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, where he came to the M. D. degree
in 1883. He has since practiced in Chicago. He was professor of physiology
in Hahnemann Medical College in 1889 and has been professor of pediatrics
since 1893 ; has been clinical professor of diseases in children in
Hahnemann Hospital since 1893 ; was business manager of Hahnemann
Medical College from 1892 to 1894, and registrar from 1894 to 1900. He is a
member of the American Institute of Homœopathy of which he was president in
1903, the Homœopathic Medical Society of Illinois, the Chicago Homœopathic
Medical Society, the Southern Homœopathic Medical Society, the Clinical
Society of Chicago, and has been both medulla and eucephalon of the Ustian
fraternity, the former while a student at Hahnemann College, and the latter
several times since graduation. He is past master of Lakeside lodge, F.
& A. M., past regent in the Royal Arcanum, past archon in the Royal
League, and a member of the Calumet Country Club, Kenwood Club, Harvard Club
of Chicago and the Harvard Union of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Cobb
married, September 18, 1882, Edith Helen Persons, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and their son, Edmond P. Cobb, is (1905) a junior at Harvard University.
Source : History of Homœopathy
by William Harvey King
BIRTH: 12 JUN 1857, Abington, Plymouth Co., MA, USA
DEATH: 23 DEC 1924, Chicago, Cook Co., IL, USA
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