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merit. He also attended schools at Mount Carmel, Illinois, and
Rockport, Indiana, before entering Cecilian College in Hardin
County, Kentucky, in 1869.
The following year he went to New Orleans to attend Tulane
Medical School. It was during his stay here he met his future
wife, Emma Holmes. From New Orleans he went to Macon,
Georgia, where he studied medicine during the summer under ‘
Dr. George N. Holmes, father of his future wife. He attended
Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia during the winter
months, and in 1873 he was graduated with high honors. He
then went to London, England, to continue his studies as an
interne at the celebrated St. Thomas Hospital. After a year in
London he toured the principal cities of Europe, visiting famous
medical centers in quest of a more complete education. _
. On his return to this country late in 1874 he practiced for a
time at Macon, Georgia, and then returned to Union County
because of the serious illness of his father. When he went to
New Orleans in December, 1875, to marry Emma Holmes, he
remained during the winter months to study the diseases of the
southern climate at the hospitals there. In March, 1876, he re-
turned to Union County where he spent the rest of his long and ”
» useful life. In 1877 he performed the first tracheotomy in the ·
county and in 1893 performed the first lithotomy in his section
of the State.
The honors that were bestowed upon Dr. Chapman were varied
_ and many. One of the most noteworthy was his selection by the
National Commission of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago
in 1893 as one of the judges of surgical instruments, and his
election as chief judge at the first meeting of this body. Another
recognition was his election as secretary of the McDowell So-
ciety. He was a regular contributor to the leading medical  
journals of the country and was often called in consultation by
physicians both in and out of the State.
BEN P. CISSELL (1821-1904), the son of Wilfred and Cecilia
Clark Cissell, was born near St. Vincent Academy. He received
his primary education in the county and his higher education at
Bardstown, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, and
in November, 1848, married Louise Dimmitt Von Tress. two
p children being born to them. After the death of his first wife
Z Mr. Cissell married Jennie Doty of Vermont. As ai, attorney he
practiced in the Union County courts until 1858 when he was