Background
Ezra Michener the fourth and youngest child of Mordecai and Alice (Dunn) Michener. He was born on a farm in London Grove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Micheners were Quakers and Ezra was brought up in this faith.
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A Retrospect of Early Quakerism;
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The Christian Casket: Or The Pearl Of Great Price (1869)
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Conchologia cestrica. The molluscous animals and their shells, of Chester county, Pa
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Autographical Notes from the Life and Letters of Ezra Michener, M.D.
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Ezra Michener
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Michener's education began with reading lessons from the Bible taught by his maternal grandmother as she worked at her spinning wheel and was continued at the country school, where he learned writing and arithmetic. A neighbor, John Jackson, was an enthusiastic florist and botanist and taught the child much about the various plants. Young Michener responded eagerly and made good use of his friend's teaching and library. He pored over Rees's Cyclopaedia seeking familiar plants which he collected and classified the beginning of his herbarium. Physically he was not robust. Realizing that he would not be able to carry on the heavy work of the farm he decided to study medicine and at the age of twenty-two entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. In recognition of his ability and diligence, he was chosen to be house student in the Philadelphia Dispensary and in his second year was given almost entire charge of the out-patient department. On April 10, 1818, he received his diploma and began the practice of medicine in Chester County.
Career
In addition to his large practice, Michener continued his investigations in botany, attending lectures, collecting specimens, and writing. His writings consist of fifteen books, twenty-three medical reports, and contributions to various publications. Michener died at the age of ninety-two at his home near Toughkenamon, Pennsylvania.
Achievements
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Michener was one of the first medical men to use ergot as a uterine tonic. He invented an apparatus for the treatment of fracture of the femur which he used successfully for more than sixty years. He was an honorary member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania; a correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences; and a founder of the Chester County Medical Society. His natural history collection included more than five hundred species of birds, animals, and reptiles. It was presented to Swarthmore College in 1869 but was destroyed in the fire occurring there some years later. An extensive herbarium of flowering and cryptogamous plants which he prepared by means of a press of his own invention was left to his heirs. His work brought him to the notice of the eminent scientists of his time, with many of whom he carried on a voluminous correspondence.
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A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extracts From the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Meetings Composing It; To Which Is Prefixed an ... Their First Establishment (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extra...)
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Conchologia cestrica. The molluscous animals and their shells, of Chester county, Pa
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A Retrospect of Early Quakerism;
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Autographical Notes from the Life and Letters of Ezra Michener, M.D.
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The Christian Casket: Or The Pearl Of Great Price (1869)
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A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extracts From the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Meetings Composing It; To Which Is Prefixed an ... Their First Establishment (Classic Reprint)
Membership
an honorary member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania
Personality
Michener's autobiography reveals him as a humorless, inflexibly upright man. He was an active member of the religious Society of Friends, and slavery, war, and the use of alcohol and tobacco were abhorrent to him. He overlooked no opportunity to denounce these evils and was one of the founders of the Guardian Society for Preventing Drunkenness. This was said to be the first temperance society in Pennsylvania and perhaps one of the first in the United States.
Connections
Michener was married on April 15, 1819, to Sarah Spencer. She died in 1843, and in the following year, Michener was married to Mary S. Walton.
