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Melanthon Williams Fish

FISH, Melanthon Williams, physician, born in Forthright, Delaware County, New York, 20 March 1828. He was educated in the Wesleyan seminary at Albion, Michigan, studied medicine in the Rush medical College, Chicago, Illinois, where he was graduated in 1854, traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa. and America, and in 18'56 went to Shanghai, China, where he filled for three years the office of inspector' of the imperial customs. He was also for a time U. S. vice-consul in that City. In 1862, after residing six years in China, he returned to the United States, and entered the national army, in which he served as regimental, brigade, and division surgeon till the end of the war. He then settled in Oakland, California, where he became in 1872 professor of physiology in the medical department of the University of California.

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