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Eleazar Parmly was born on March 13, 1797 in Braintree, Orange County, Vermont, United States. He was a son of Eleazar and Hannah (Spear) Parmly and a descendant of John Parmelee, an early settler of Guilford, Connecticut. When he was ten years old, his parents removed to northwestern Vermont.
Eleazar Parmly began his education in the rural schools and from 1810 to 1812 attended a first-class school in Montreal, in which city he became a compositor and reporter for the Canadian Courant. He received from the American Society of Dental Surgeons degrees of Doctor of Dental Surgery. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him by some university medical school at about the same time. In 1842 he was one of the first to receive the honorary Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, of which he was provost from 1848 to 1852.
In 1814 Eleazar Parmly taught in his home district, and in the following year, as student assistant to his eldest brother Levi S. Parmly first in Boston and then in Quebec, he began his long dental career. His parents removed to a farm in the town of Perry, Ohio, in 1817, and from that year until 1819, Eleazar practised independently as an itinerant dentist, floating down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on an "ark" and stopping at the principal settlements. He then proceeded to New York City, and shortly sailed for Europe with a view to perfecting himself in his vocation. He paid for a course of instruction with J. F. C. Maury, a prominent dentist in Paris, and late in 1819 entered a partnership with his brother Levi in London. The latter returned to the United States early in 1820, but Eleazar remained in successful practice in London for a year and a half longer, publishing An Essay on the Disorders and Treatment of the Teeth (1821 - 1822).
Later, in 1821, he returned to the United States, intending to make only a short visit for the recovery of his health, which had been seriously impaired, but for some forty-five years thereafter, though visiting Europe several times, he practised dentistry in New York City exclusively, rapidly rising to preeminence in his profession. Parmly kept bachelors' hall for over a year with his brother Samuel W. Parmly and his intimate friend Solyman Brown. Eleazar Parmly then established himself at 11 Park Place, where he was joined in 1829 by his cousins Jahial and Ludolph Parmly as student assistants. Jahial continued his association with Eleazar for the next ten years as prosthetic specialist, while Eleazar devoted himself to operative dentistry. In 1832 Solyman Brown began his dental career with Eleazar and the next year published his Dentologia with notes by the latter. In 1834 Eleazar and Jahial were joined by David R. Parmly as student assistant, and several other members of the family subsequently had the benefit of Eleazar's instruction.
Eleazar Parmly was a leader in the early opposition to the use of amalgam for filling teeth-- an issue which seems to have precipitated the organization (December 3, 1834) of the first dental association, the Society of Surgeon Dentists of the City and State of New York, with Parmly as its first president and Solyman Brown as its first corresponding secretary. In 1839 both were associated with Chapin A. Harris and others in the establishment of the first dental periodical, the American Journal of Dental Science, of which Parmly was one of the first nominal editors. In the same year he supplied the notes to a new edition of John Hunter's Natural History of the Human Teeth.
His son Ehrich (born with a twin sister in 1830) graduated from the Baltimore College and began practice with his father in 1851. For many years Parmly was a lay preacher in the Church of the Disciples in New York, and in 1861 he published The Babe of Bethlehem, in free verse, a harmony of the Gospel stories of Christ. In that year he opened a hotel, the Parmly House (still in operation, 1934), which he built at Painesville, Ohio, near the farm where his parents had finally settled.
In 1867 he published Thoughts in Rhyme, a collection of verses written by him between 1818 and 1862 which contain much autobiographical material. During his declining years he spent a large part of his time at his estate, "Bingham Place, " at Rumson, New Jersey. He retired from active practice in 1866, but in the same year became the first president of the New York College of Dentistry, and held the position of emeritus professor of the institutes of dentistry in that college until 1869. He died of pneumonia at his New York City residence on December 13, 1874, and was interred in his family vault in the Rumson Burying Ground. With the most successful practice in the United States, a fortune from his wife and many profitable real-estate investments, he had become a millionaire.
Eleazar Parmly was one of the major figures in the history of American dentistry. He was, to a large extent, responsible for rescuing American dentistry from a primitive craft and establishing it as a respected profession, with national societies, ethical principles, dental degrees representing appropriate qualifications, national journals where knowledge could be imparted, and the development of dental colleges.
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When the American Society of Dental Surgeons was organized in 1840, Eleazar Parmly was its second vice-president. He was first vice-president of the society, 1841 - 1844, and president, 1844 - 1853.
Eleazar Parmly was an affable gentleman, a forceful public speaker, an interesting writer, and a skilful practitioner, and stood in the forefront of his profession for some thirty years.
In 1823 Eleazar Parmly became engaged to marry Eliza, youngest daughter of John Jacob Astor, but her father opposed the match, and she married Count Vincent Rumpff. On June 17, 1827, he married Anna Maria Valk Smith, an heiress whose deceased foster father had been a wealthy broker. Eleazar Parmly's wife died in 1857. They had nine children: four sons (three died in infancy), and five daughters.
