Notes : WESLEY EMMET GATEWOOD, M. D., son of Thomas and ESther Connel Gatewood, was born in Windsor Township, Morgan County, Ohio, October 23, 1845.
Like most farmer's boys of that period his summer's work upon the farm was alternated by a term at the district school in winter. In the primitive log schoolhouse with slab seats he received, despite the meager facilities afforded, the foundation for an excellent education. Here his ambition and aggressive energy made him the easy and acknowledged leader of a school of proud fame and enduring memory. By hard study, both at home and at school, aided by a retentive memory, lie prepared himself for teaching, and at the age of nineteen we find him thus engaged. He continued teaching till 1869 with a record unexcelled. his love for the higher mathematics was. dominant and carried him from algebra to the calculus without a teacher. His collection of problems in the higher mathematics with his original solutions, one of which required seven years, is believed to be the finest in the county.
In 1867 he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Hiram Judson Noyes, M. D., of Unionville, Morgan County, Ohio. In the autumn of 1874 he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York. In August, 1875, he entered the Dartmouth Medical College, New Hampshire, and was graduated from that venerable seat of learning, on the 3d of November, 1875. Returning to New York he reentered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and on the 21st of February, 1876, was graduated from that institution.
In June, 1876, he began to practice his profession in Stockport, and being impressed with the importance of his vocation, he devoted himself to it with the utmost zeal and an indomitable energy and "courage that could not be battered down." In a short time his practice became so extensive as that it taxed the utmost power of a will and endurance that scorned the elements. No storm has ever stopped him no, opposition has broken his purpose. He has traveled a rough road to results and built it with his own hands. The. following are the names of those who studied medicine under his preceptorship : H. E. Bozman, M. D., T. J. Lyne, M. D., P. B. McSwords, M. D., J. B. Naylor, M. D., John S. Milner, Hiram Hart, Charles H. Harris, and John M. Gatewood.
He is a member of no society and a disciple of no man. Self-reliant, imperious and persistent, with an aggressive nature and a hereditary fixity of purpose that tolerates no intervention ; the austerity of his nature is softened by warm and generous impulses—by sincere self-sacrifice and kindness of heart—by his charity and public spirit.
Among the salient points of his character are vigor of thought, energy of action, a native force and peculiar style of expression and a severe independence almost oppressive. Sensitive to injustice, injury or ingratitude, strong and earnest in his convictions, he regards a compromise as the left hand of weakness— asks and makes no concessions, and when compelled to break off friendships tears up the bridge to prevent its return. His friendship and his hoStility need no certificate. His individuality is positive and strong and he keeps it under his own hat. He concedes and demands the largeSt personal freedom and contemplates a defeat as--a mere adjourn-
|