HERMANCE, ALEXANDER CLINTON – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     ERMANCE,
ALEXANDER CLINTON, Rochester, New York, was born in Brooklyn, New York, June 8, 1857, the son of Charles F. Hermance and Charlotte Cook his wife. On
his father’s side he is of French and Dutch extraction, and from his mother’s side he inherits English blood. In the Brooklyn public schools and a
preparatory school in Rochester, New York, he acquired his earlier education. After a three years’ course he graduated M. D. from the Hahnemann Medical
College and Hospital of Chicago, Illinois, in 1887. For “one year he practiced medicine with his brother in Avon, New York, but in 1889 he began
practice in Rochester. In 1890 he was appointed a visiting physician on the staff of the Hahnemann Hospital of Rochester and was later a lecturer in the
training school for nurses. For three years he was president of the Rochester Hahnemann Society, and from 1890 until 1893 he was a health physician of
the city of Rochester. He was twice elected a commissioner of public instruction. He is a member of the Rochester Hahnemann Medical Society, of the
Central New York Homœopathic Society, and of various masonic and social organizations. In 1890 he married Margaret MacCallum.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King