Background
Theodatus Garlick was born on March 30, 1805, in Middlebury, Vermont. He was the son of Daniel Garlick, a farmer of Middlebury, Vermont, and Sabra Starkweather Kirby, daughter of Abraham Kirby of Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Fish Culture, for theO hio Farmer, with the ulterior object of publishing them at some future time in a collected form, which I have now done, believing that as yet there has not been any work on this subject, that fully meets the wants of the American public. That there is a great interest felt in America on the subject, I am satisfied, from the fact that I have received numerous letters of inquiry from persons residing in almost every State in the Union. I have read with great satisfaction, a work edited and translated by William H. Fry. The work is valuable for the reason that it gives a detailed history of the progress that Fish Culture has made in Europe ;besides much information that is valuable in a practical point of view. I am of the opinion, however, that whoever reads it, will agree with me, that it is deficient in some important points, and is adapted, rather to a European than to an American public. One objection, and in my opinion a very material one, is, that with the exception of theS almoS alar, the habits of not a single American fish are given. I do not wish however to be understood, that the objections mentioned, render the work valueless, but, on the contrary. that it really possesses great merit, and I most cheerful!v recommend it to every one who feels an interest in this department of human knowledge. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.
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Theodatus Garlick was born on March 30, 1805, in Middlebury, Vermont. He was the son of Daniel Garlick, a farmer of Middlebury, Vermont, and Sabra Starkweather Kirby, daughter of Abraham Kirby of Litchfield, Connecticut.
When Garlick was eleven years old, with his elder brother Abner he walked from Middlebury to the home of another brother, Rodolphus, at Elk Creek, now Gerard, Erie County, Pennsylvania. From him, he learned the trade of blacksmith.
Later he acquired the art of stone-cutting from Abner, who had settled in Cleveland, whither Theodatus went in 1818. After a few years in Cleveland he went back to Vermont, returning in 1823 with his father and family to live at Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio.
Deciding to study medicine, he there entered the office of Dr. Ezra W. Gleason, and subsequently that of Dr. Elijah Flower where he continued for four years, acting as stone-cutter and blacksmith in the mornings and studying in the afternoons.
Having saved some money, he was finally able to graduate from the medical school of the University of Maryland in 1834.
After a few months in the office of Dr. N. R. Smith, professor of surgery in that school, Garlick returned to Ohio and practised for eighteen years in Youngstown with surgery as his specialty.
At the end of this period, he entered into partnership with Dr. Horace A. Ackley of Cleveland.
He took much pleasure in making medallions in wax, and busts.
These include five medallions of professors at the University of Maryland; bas-reliefs of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay, who gave him sittings; a full-length miniature of Chief Justice Marshall, made from a portrait; and life-size busts of Judge George Tod of Ohio, and Prof. J. P. Kirtland who had been his preceptor in natural science.
Photography was another of his diversions, and he constructed a camera with which he took daguerreotypes, photographing for the first time, in 1840, a person not in direct sunshine.
Another interest which had practical results of value was fish culture. He carried on experiments in the artificial breeding of trout on Dr. Ackley’s farm which are said to have been the first of their kind in America.
An account of this work, A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Certain Kinds of Fish, with the Description and Habits of Such Kinds as are the Most Suitable for Pisciculture, was published in 1857, a second edition of which was issued by the Kirt- land Society of Natural Sciences in 1880.
A paper read by him before this society, February 6, 1873, on the “Hybridization of Fish” was published with other papers in a pamphlet the following year.
He died in 1884 from a disease of the spinal nerves which had attacked him twenty years earlier.
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Garlick's first two wives were daughters of his early medical instructor, Dr. Elijah Flower; his third wife, whom he married in 1845, was Mary A. Chittenden of Youngstown, Ohio.