Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus. Supplement

160 CLAN FEBGUSSON
Sidney Academy, and coming to the United States in early
manhood began the study of medicine. Entering the Long
Island College Hospital in 1875, he attended a four years'
course of lectures at that Institution, and received from it
the degree of M.D. in 1880.
Dr. Ferguson practised medicine in Brooklyn one year
after his graduation, and then moved to New York City.
He became pathologist to the Long Island College Hospital
in 1883, a position which he held till 1885. In 1883, also,
he assumed the duties of professor of histology and patho-
logical anatomy in the Long Island College Hospital, and
continued to discharge them till 1889. In 1887 he was
further honoured by being appointed professor of pathology
and clinical medicine in the New York Post-Graduate School,
a chair which he continues to fill. Simultaneously with
these responsibilities he discharged those pertaining to the
pathologist of St. Luke's Hospital from 1883 to 1888, and on
resigning the latter he became pathologist of the New York
Hospital, the House of Relief, and of Bloomingdale Asylum.
In 1892, he was invited to become consulting pathologist to
the New York Board of Health, and in this capacity he was
adviser to Dr. Jenkins, the health officer of the port, during
the presence of cholera in New York harbour in the fall of
that year.
He is a member of the New York Pathological Society,
of the New York Academy of Medicine, of the New York
Physicians Mutual Aid Association, of the Alumni Associa-
tion of the Post-Graduate Medical School, and of the New
York Neurological Society.
Dr. Ferguson devotes his time to pathology and clinical
medicine, and as illustrating the wide scope of a career of
professional activity such as is above outlined, it may be
stated that he has performed or assisted at over 5000
autopsies, and that the number of tumours and other material
for diagnosis which have passed under his examination is not
less than 6000. He is still in active practice and hospital
work.
In 1890, Dr. Ferguson was married to Juliana, the eldest
daughter of Mr. H. O. Armour of New York City, and six
children have been the fruit of their union : Armour, May,