Shobal Vail Clevenger Jr. (24 March 1843 – 24 March 1920) was an American physician who specialized in nervous and mental diseases.

Biography

Shobal Vail Clevenger Jr. was born in

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on 24 March 1843, the son of sculptor Shobal Vail Clevenger, who died the year he was born. He received his early education in the

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college of

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, and later graduated from the Chicago Medical College. In 1860 he filled a clerkship in a

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bank, which he resigned to visit

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, crossing the plains for this purpose. Returning soon after the beginning of the

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, he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and served in the engineer corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant. Subsequently, he was engaged in surveying in

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and

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, and filled the office of U. S. deputy surveyor. Later he built the first telegraph line through Dakota, and for a time was chief engineer of the Dakota Southern Railroad. In 1873 he began the study of medicine under army surgeons in Fort Sully, while holding the appointment of civilian meteorologist in the U.S. Signal Service. He settled in

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in 1879, and after studying medicine became a specialist in nervous and mental diseases. For some years he was pathologist to the Chicago County Insane Asylum, and he was consulting physician in his specialties to the

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and to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital. He also held the professorship of anatomy in the

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. Clevenger was a member of many scientific organizations, such as the

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, the

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, the American Anthropometric Society, the American Electrical Society, and the Society of American Anatomists. He died on 24 March 1920, and was buried in

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in Chicago. A collection of his papers are held at the National Library of Medicine.

Works

Clevenger was a frequent contributor to the scientific press. He also published: * ''Treatise on Government Surveying'' (New York, 1874) * ''Comparative Physiology and Psychology'' (Chicago, 1885) * ''Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and the Sciences Useful to the Artist'' (New York, 1887)

References

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