John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 – 1892 was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent abolitionist.
Whittier was a friend of Sarah Orne Jewett, James Russell Lowell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Theodore Weld, and homeopathic pharmacist William J Allinson,
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 – 1910, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Twain was also a supporter of homeopathy. He was was a member of The Savage Club Masonic Lodge alongside Wilkie Collins, Edward VII, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Francis Wyatt Truscott,
Twain was a correspondent (?patient) of John Murray Moore,
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The Jewett family is a numerous American family which was founded by two English brothers who came to this country in 1638 and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts, in the following year. The older brother was Maximilian, and the younger, Joseph Jewett, and it is from these two that all the Jewetts in the United States descend.
The Jewett family had contributed numerous ministers, educators, doctors, politicians and judges, three homeopaths, a librarian, a publisher and one influential American novelist.
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Arthur Hill Grimmer 1874-1967 graduated from the Hering Medical College as a pupil of James Tyler Kent and he later became his secretary, working closely with him on his repertory. He practiced in Chicago for 50 years before moving to Florida. He was also President of the American Institute for Homoeopathy. Continue Reading »
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Rudolf Frederick Rabe 1872 – 1952 graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College and trained under Timothy Field Allen and William Tod Helmuth.
Rabe was President of the International Hahnemannian Association, editor in chief of the Homeopathic Recorder, and he wrote Medical Therapeutics for daily reference. Rabe was Dean and Professor of Homeopathic Therapeutics at the New York Homeopathic Medical College.
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James Tyler Kent Kent 1849 – 1910 is said to have contributed as much to the great homeopathic works as Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy.
Kent was Professor of Anatomy in the American Medical College, St. Louis, and he was Professor of Materia Medica at the Homoeopathic Medical College of St. Louis, the School of Homoeopathy, Philadelphia, the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Chicago, and the Hering Medical College Hospital. Kent was also the President and Trustee of the Chicago Homoeopathic Hospital.
Kent was a member of the Illinois State Homœopathic Medical Society, the American Institute of Homœopathy and the International Hahnemannian Association, besides which he holds an honorary corresponding membership in the British Homœopathic Medical Society.
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Elizabeth Wright Hubbard 1896 – 1967 was the first woman President of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a member of the American Federation of Homeopathy and International Hahnemannian Association president 1945-46. President of the Anthroposophical Society in America.
Elizabeth Wright Hubbard was the homeopath of the rich and famous. As well as Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Wright Hubbard was also the homeopath of Paul Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Lily Pons, James Hawley Stephenson,
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Horace Mann 1796 – 1859 was an American education reformer and abolitionist. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican).
He was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, since their wives were sisters. Continue Reading »
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Parker Pillsbury 1809 – 1898 was an American minister and advocate for abolition and women’s rights. He belonged to an influential and wealthy family who became widely known for their philanthropy, and for founding the famous food company. Continue Reading »
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Samuel Gregory 1813 – 1872 was one of the founders of the homeopathic Boston Female Medical College in 1848, the first medical college for women in the World.
Gregory was ably supported in this by William Henry Seward, Israel Tisdale Talbot, William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Webster, William James, Otis Clapp and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Continue Reading »
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