Herod Dailey Garrison
1833–91
American chemist and photographer. Graduated in medicine from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, 1857; professor of chemistry and pharmacy, 1858–63, professor of physiology, 1861–3. Assistant surgeon to the Fourth Indiana Cavalry in the Civil War. Professor of chemistry, Bennett Medical College, Chicago, 1867–79. Partner in Murray & Garrison, a drug-milling business, 1871–5. Professor of physics, chemistry, and materia medica, Chicago School of Pharmacy, 1875–90. Editor of the Pharmacist, circa 1880. Honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition, 1878; lectured at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, 1878. Took up photography in 1880.
Sources
Felter 1902, pp. 122–4
Photographic Times and American Photographer, 6 March 1891, p. 115
C. Stephens ed. 1921, pp. xxviii, 430
Bibliography
Felter, Harvey Wickes. 1902. History of the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1845–1902. Cincinnati, Ohio: the Committee of the Alumnal Association of the Eclectic Medical Institute.
Stephens, Carl, ed. 1921. The alumni record of the University of Illinois: Chicago departments, colleges of medicine and dentistry, School of Pharmacy. [Urbana]: University of Illinois.
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