Memoir of John Collins Warren, M.D.

Date:
[1865?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoir of John Collins Warren, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    MEMOIR OF JOHN COLLINS WARREN, M.D. • • • — ' [Reprinled from the Historical axd Gbnealocical Register for Jantrary, 1865.] John Collins Warren was born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 1st, 11*8, in a house at the corner of Avon Place and Central Court, where his father, Dr. John Warren, then resided. At the age of eight years he entered the public Latin School, under Master Hunt, for which he had been fitted in the Elementary School of Master Vinal, in West Street. During these years the family had removed, first to Washington Street, corner of Sheafe's Lane (now Avery Street), thence to Sudbury Street, and finally, in 1785, to School Street. For seven years he continued a pupil of the Latin School, during which time, with the single exception of a hard contest with a North End boy named Howard, he easily main- tained the first rank in his class. The struggle with Howard was ter- minated by the latter leaving the school, but while it lasted it was a constant source of excitement and uneasiness to Warren, who even at this early age could ill endure the rivalry even of a friend. With this exception he used to refer to the years spent in the Latin School as the most agreeable portion of his life. At the first distribution of the Franklin medals, in 1792, Warren's name stood at the head of the list; and on leaving school for college, in 1793, he delivered, as head scholar, a public valedictory address. In his fifteenth year he entered the freshman class of Harvard Col- lege, and occupied a room on the lower floor of Massachusetts Hall. He received some prizes during his college course, and is known to have enjoyed an honorable standing with his class, as may also be in- ferred from the fact that on graduation he was made valedictorian, an honor which was at that time conferred by the votes of the graduating class. But little is known of his college life, farther than that he found it very pleasant, and acquired a useful knowledge of the ancient languages, which then formed the chief part of the established course of instruction.