Note 35 — Chapter II
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Nuttall mistook the name. Dr. Daniel Drake came to Cincinnati from Kentucky in 1800, at the age of fifteen, and clerked in a drug store while privately studying medicine. He was graduated from the medical school of Pennsylvania University, in 1816, and the next winter lectured at Transylvania University. The plan for a medical college, referred to in the text, was successfully carried out. The charter was obtained in December, 1818, the college being opened the following November, with twenty-five students. Drake was president. This was the beginning of the Ohio Medical College. In 1821, Drake secured from the legislature a grant which laid the foundation for the Cincinnati hospital. For many years he was the leader of his profession in Ohio and Kentucky, and was influential in numerous progressive movements. He died in 1852, a member of the faculty of the college founded in 1818–20. See biographical sketch by his son, prefixed to a collection of his letters, Pioneer Life in Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1870).
Hugh Glenn, mentioned in the succeeding paragraph, soon afterward established a trading-post near the mouth of the Verdigris River, in what is now Indian Territory. He was one of the first to succeed in the Santa Fé overland trade.—Ed.