An Address on the Life and Character of Robert M. Porter. Delivered at Nashville, Nov. 8, 1856
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On prison discipline and penal legislation: with special reference to the state of Tennessee.
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Nashville, Tenn. : Printed for the Robertson Association, 1874. 64 p. ; 22 cm.
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IN a circular addressed to the people of Tennessee, and dated Nashville, January 31, 188 Ex-(iov. James D. Porter, Judge William F. Cooper, and Hon. Jordan Stokes announced in the following words a scheme of Tennessee History.
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John Berrien Lindsley was an American physician, clergyman, and educator.
Background
John Berrien Lindsley was born on October 24, 1822 at Princeton, New Jersey, United States, the son of Reverend Philip Lindsley, professor in the College of New Jersey, and Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, attorney-general of New York. He was named for his mother's grandfather, John Berrien, a Huguenot, chief justice of the province of New Jersey. Lindsley's father later became president of the University of Nashville.
Education
Lindsley graduated from the University of Nashville in 1839. He studied medicine in Louisville and Philadelphia, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. Another important part of his education was acquired in his close association with the eminent geologist Gerard Troost, begun in college and continued till Troost's death in 1850.
Career
Lindsley was ordained in 1846 by the Presbytery of Nashville. During the next two years he served churches near that city, and also ministered to colored people, under appointment from the Presbyterian Board of Domestic Missions. His principal interest, medical education, developed in 1849. Having spent a winter in studying facilities for such education in other institutions, he organized, in 1850, the medical department of the University of Nashville, the first school of its kind south of the Ohio River. He was its dean for six years at the end of which time there were four hundred students, and professor of chemistry and pharmacy for twenty-three years. Becoming chancellor of the University in 1855, he brought about the merger of the collegiate department, which had been closed since 1850, with the Western Military Institute, and the adoption of a military organization. In this form the college flourished till 1861.
During the Civil War he cared vigilantly for the university's interests, the medical department continuing while the college was closed. The Confederate hospitals in Nashville, one of which occupied the university buildings, were in his charge till the Federal occupation in 1862. After the war he was again dean of the medical school for four years. He resigned his chancellorship in 1870, but taught in the medical school till 1873. Later he also became professor of materia medica of the Tennessee College of Pharmacy.
His energy, public spirit, and power of leadership impelled him to activity in many social concerns. He devoted himself especially to public health, serving through four cholera epidemics in Nashville, and from 1876 to 1880 occupying the position of health officer, in which capacity he brought about important improvements in sanitation. During these years he was also secretary of the state board of health. As a member of the board of education of Nashville (1856 - 1860) he had much to do with the establishment of a school system of high rank. In 1866 he was superintendent of schools, and at a critical time effectively defended them against political attacks. He was secretary of the state board of education from 1875 to 1887. His pamphlet, Our Ruin: Its Cause and Cure (1868), provoked a movement which resulted in a change of officials in Nashville in 1869. A pamphlet, On Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation (1874), was widely circulated.
After he had been a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America for twenty-four years, in 1870 he joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, because he considered its theological spirit more liberal; subsequently he made important contributions to the history of this denomination. His writings were chiefly articles, pamphlets, and reports. For many years he collected materials for a history of his state, and in 1886 published The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate, Series I. His death occurred in Nashville.