Cheney, Benjamin Hicks, M.D., of New Haven, Conn., was born at Vicksburg, Miss., October 10th, 1838. His father, the Rev. L.C. Cheney, of Berkshire county, was a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. His boyhood and youth were passed principally in New York city, where he received his primary education at the Free Academy. He afterwards entered the Wesleyan University, and completed his classical studies at Amherst College.
In 1857, he commenced the study of medicine, attending the lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. Proposing to reside in the South, he went to New Orleans and entered the University of Louisiana at that place, where he graduated in March 1861. On coming North, soon after the commencement of the war, he entered the Government service. His first appointment was that of Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army, being stationed at Camp Chase, near Columbus, O.; but he afterwards received a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the 41st Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and later still, was appointed Assistant Staff Surgeon on the staff of Major General Crittenden, commanding the 21st Army Corps. After the battle of Chickamauga he was transferred to the staff of the 4th Army Corps, in which he made the campaign in Georgia, and resigned his position at Atlanta. He was next appointed one of the Examining Surgeons in the Provost Marshal's Bureau for the Sixth District of Illinois, with headquarters at Joliet, where he remained, after the termination of the war, in private practice till the winter of 1867.
During that year, and previously, he had read many homeopathic works, and, furthermore, made experiments of homeopathic remedies, the result of which investigations convinced him of the truth of the 'new doctrine,' and induced him to adopt it as his guide in his future.
In 1870, he removed to Chicago and commenced practice in an office Dr. G. D. Beebe, where he remained till 1871, when the great fire destroyed both his home and practice, compelling him to seek a new field of exertion elsewhere; in consequence of which he removed in the following November to New Haven, Conn. In 1871, he became associate editor of the Medical Investigator, and, in the previous year, was elected a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
In 1863, he was married to Miss Sarah Austin, second daughter of Algernon Austin, Esq., of Lincoln county, Me.
(Source: Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, 1873)
In 1857, he commenced the study of medicine, attending the lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. Proposing to reside in the South, he went to New Orleans and entered the University of Louisiana at that place, where he graduated in March 1861. On coming North, soon after the commencement of the war, he entered the Government service. His first appointment was that of Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army, being stationed at Camp Chase, near Columbus, O.; but he afterwards received a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the 41st Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and later still, was appointed Assistant Staff Surgeon on the staff of Major General Crittenden, commanding the 21st Army Corps. After the battle of Chickamauga he was transferred to the staff of the 4th Army Corps, in which he made the campaign in Georgia, and resigned his position at Atlanta. He was next appointed one of the Examining Surgeons in the Provost Marshal's Bureau for the Sixth District of Illinois, with headquarters at Joliet, where he remained, after the termination of the war, in private practice till the winter of 1867.
During that year, and previously, he had read many homeopathic works, and, furthermore, made experiments of homeopathic remedies, the result of which investigations convinced him of the truth of the 'new doctrine,' and induced him to adopt it as his guide in his future.
In 1870, he removed to Chicago and commenced practice in an office Dr. G. D. Beebe, where he remained till 1871, when the great fire destroyed both his home and practice, compelling him to seek a new field of exertion elsewhere; in consequence of which he removed in the following November to New Haven, Conn. In 1871, he became associate editor of the Medical Investigator, and, in the previous year, was elected a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
In 1863, he was married to Miss Sarah Austin, second daughter of Algernon Austin, Esq., of Lincoln county, Me.
(Source: Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, 1873)
Cheney, Benjamin Hicks, M.D., of New Haven, Conn., was born at Vicksburg, Miss., October 10th, 1838. His father, the Rev. L.C. Cheney, of Berkshire county, was a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. His boyhood and youth were passed principally in New York city, where he received his primary education at the Free Academy. He afterwards entered the Wesleyan University, and completed his classical studies at Amherst College.
In 1857, he commenced the study of medicine, attending the lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. Proposing to reside in the South, he went to New Orleans and entered the University of Louisiana at that place, where he graduated in March 1861. On coming North, soon after the commencement of the war, he entered the Government service. His first appointment was that of Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army, being stationed at Camp Chase, near Columbus, O.; but he afterwards received a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the 41st Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and later still, was appointed Assistant Staff Surgeon on the staff of Major General Crittenden, commanding the 21st Army Corps. After the battle of Chickamauga he was transferred to the staff of the 4th Army Corps, in which he made the campaign in Georgia, and resigned his position at Atlanta. He was next appointed one of the Examining Surgeons in the Provost Marshal's Bureau for the Sixth District of Illinois, with headquarters at Joliet, where he remained, after the termination of the war, in private practice till the winter of 1867.
During that year, and previously, he had read many homeopathic works, and, furthermore, made experiments of homeopathic remedies, the result of which investigations convinced him of the truth of the 'new doctrine,' and induced him to adopt it as his guide in his future.
In 1870, he removed to Chicago and commenced practice in an office Dr. G. D. Beebe, where he remained till 1871, when the great fire destroyed both his home and practice, compelling him to seek a new field of exertion elsewhere; in consequence of which he removed in the following November to New Haven, Conn. In 1871, he became associate editor of the Medical Investigator, and, in the previous year, was elected a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
In 1863, he was married to Miss Sarah Austin, second daughter of Algernon Austin, Esq., of Lincoln county, Me.
(Source: Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, 1873)
In 1857, he commenced the study of medicine, attending the lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. Proposing to reside in the South, he went to New Orleans and entered the University of Louisiana at that place, where he graduated in March 1861. On coming North, soon after the commencement of the war, he entered the Government service. His first appointment was that of Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army, being stationed at Camp Chase, near Columbus, O.; but he afterwards received a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the 41st Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and later still, was appointed Assistant Staff Surgeon on the staff of Major General Crittenden, commanding the 21st Army Corps. After the battle of Chickamauga he was transferred to the staff of the 4th Army Corps, in which he made the campaign in Georgia, and resigned his position at Atlanta. He was next appointed one of the Examining Surgeons in the Provost Marshal's Bureau for the Sixth District of Illinois, with headquarters at Joliet, where he remained, after the termination of the war, in private practice till the winter of 1867.
During that year, and previously, he had read many homeopathic works, and, furthermore, made experiments of homeopathic remedies, the result of which investigations convinced him of the truth of the 'new doctrine,' and induced him to adopt it as his guide in his future.
In 1870, he removed to Chicago and commenced practice in an office Dr. G. D. Beebe, where he remained till 1871, when the great fire destroyed both his home and practice, compelling him to seek a new field of exertion elsewhere; in consequence of which he removed in the following November to New Haven, Conn. In 1871, he became associate editor of the Medical Investigator, and, in the previous year, was elected a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
In 1863, he was married to Miss Sarah Austin, second daughter of Algernon Austin, Esq., of Lincoln county, Me.
(Source: Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, 1873)
