The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

              BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
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successful physicians, he brought to it all the zest of one who has found his true vocation. In 1867 he entered, and in i86g graduated from Rush Medical College. After graduation Dr. Wads¬ worth acted as assistant in the laboratory under the great chemist. Dr. James Van Zandt Blaney^ and also assisted Dr. J. W. Freer in a series of very important experiments in investigative physi¬ ology phenomena by vivisection, etc. He was also adjunct professor of physiology and histology in Rush Medical College, from 1870 until 1880. In 1880 he assumed the chair of physiology and histology in the Woman's Medical College, serving until 1888, when he was appointed pro¬ fessor of the theory and practice of medicine, which position he held up to the time of his death—1891.
Dr. Wadsworth was physician in charge of St. Joseph's hospital, and a member of the Chicago Medical Society, and, among organizations of a social character, was prominently connected with the Union Club and the Historical Society.
In politics Dr. Wadsworth was always a Repub¬ lican, having cast his first vote for General John C. Fremont. Nevertheless he preferred principle to party. During the war he was a strong Abo¬ litionist, very active in local politics, and was well acquainted with Garrison, Phillips and John Brown.
Dr. Wadsworth was married in 1868 to Miss Nye, of Richmond, Indiana, who died a few years
later. She was a devoted mother and was of a thoroughly domestic nature.
In 1872 Dr. Wadsworth was married to Miss Sarah Robinson, daughter of Russell Robinson, Esq., of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and descendant of one of the old New England families. The doctor has two sons living, Charles Freer and Frank Russell,
Mrs. Wadsworth is especially devoted to the happiness and comfort of her home, although she is a woman of strong literary tastes, an extensive reader, and possessed of a decided talent for painting. She was interested and al¬ ways absorbed in the doctor's professional work and welfare, and was to him that rarest and best of gifts, a helpmate.
In speaking of the personal character of Dr. Wadsworth, we can pay no higher tribute to his worth than that contained in the hearty words and disinterested testimony of a contemporaneous and eminent physician: '^ Dr. Wadsworth is a thoroughly good, reliable, scientific man, who has the confidence of everybody, and attends rich and poor alike. There is but one side to his nature— he cannot be hired to do any wrong, and in short, ' He is an Israelite in whom there Is no guile.' He was a painstaking student, and through sheer force of character, industry and ability has he gained wealth, friends and reputation and risen second to no man in the city, and one of the first physicians in Illinois."
GEORGE  V.  MASSEY,
DOVER, DEL.
THE selection of George V. Massey as a com¬ missioner of the World's Columbian Expo¬ sition was not only a commendable, but also a most natural one. Though a comparatively young man, he has had a wide range of experi¬ ences and brings to this honorable office, as to all his varied public and private trusts and interests, abilities of a very high order.
He is a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and was born in 1841. He became a resident of Delaware in 1848. He received a thorough education, and fitted himself for the legal pro¬ fession,  and in  1862 was  admitted  to the bar.
During the same year he enlisted in the First Regiment Delaware Volunteers, cavalry, and entered the Union service and served with dis¬ tinction as first lieutenant, and subsequently was attached to the adjutant-general's department with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He returned to Dover in 1864 and resumed his profession, and from that time to the present (1892) has devoted himself steadily to it, and for many years has held a leading place among the foremost lawyers of the Delaware bar. He is especially noted as a corporation lawyer, and Is counsel for the Penn¬ sylvania Railroad Company, by which, as well as