Show HONORS TO A SALT LAKEIt Dr o S O LewIs Potter Selected for n Chair in the Cooper IHcdi cJ > cat Coilc f r TluTBoardof Trustee 6F tlte Co 9ar < t tl Cooptr Medical College formerly the Medical College of the Pacific lias l on the unanimous unani-mous recommendation oitho Faculty of that institution elected Dr S 0 Lewis I Potter of Salt Lake CUyJKo fill the re sponsibla Chair of Theoc and Practice of Medicine vice Dr Henry Gibbons Sr deceased This actiongvag taken after a series of trial lectures iivered by Dr Potter before the Faculty and students and an extended professional association between him and soveralof the Faculty Dr Potter is the eldest son of the Rev Samuel George Potter vicar of Hollis croft Sheffield England who is of Eng lieu birth but ot Australian education His mother is of ScotchIrish family in the north of Ireland One of his brothers Is the Rev Beresford Potter rector of March England another is superintending superintend-ing surgeon to the P and 0 Steamship Company at Bombay kwhile another lived some years in California and was drowned in the Missouri river about 1873 Two ol his sisters are married in India to officers of high rank in the British army one being LieutentColonSl l L H Young commandant of Fort Saukra in the Pun juab and the other Staff Surgeon Charles Hatchel Indian army medical department depart-ment The subject of this notice began the study of medicine at the age of 15 years under the direction of Dr li II Courlenay I B C S Surgeon to the Baltinglass Union Httepital After two years of study he came to the United cae States at the ago of IT and entered the United States Army during the war serving in the same Brigade with the California Hundred After the warclosed he served several yearsas Construction Engineer on the Oregon California Railroad and in the United States Engineer En-gineer Department wherfe he acquired a reputation for conscientious work and literary pursuits which is well set forth in a commendatory letter given him by General A A Humphreys then Chief of Engineers United States Army After thus working for som rears to obtain the means necessary for a renewal of his studies he resumed the study of medicine medi-cine in England under the preceptorship of Dr George Kemp Surgeon to the Sheffield Union Hospital passing the examination ex-amination in general education required by the British Medical Council and officially approved by the Royal College of Surgeons England He I continued Ms studies with Dr N Senn of Milwaukee Wis a surgeon of national reputation and after graduating gradu-ating in 1878 he entered Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia from which he again graduated after two lore years with the first prize of that school in a class of 247 graduates then going up before be-fore the Faculty of Bellevue Medical College Col-lege for examination for endorsement of diploma which he received Shortly afterward af-terward he entered the Medical Department Depart-ment of the United States Army serving as Post Surgeon at Fort Robinson Neb and as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Fort Russell Wyo7 and at Fort Douglass I i Utah at the latter station leaving the army to settle at Salt Lake City where I he has practiced successfully for over |