Ives

with his father and with Dr. Eneas Munson. To
complete his medical education he went to Phila-
delphia where he attended lectures under Rush,
Wistar, and Barton. In September 1805 he mar-
ried Maria Beers, the daughter of Nathan Beers.
To them were born five children, three sons and
two daughters. Almost from the first Ives had
an extensive practice. In 1806 he was elected one
of the fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society
and was secretary of the organization in 1810,
1811, and 1812. In the first number of the com-
munications, published in 1810, there are three
short papers from his pen, and in October 1811
the honorary degree of M.D. was conferred upon
him by the Society. He had a very influential
part in the establishing of the medical institution
at Yale College and seems to have been at the
head- of the movement to organize the Connecti-
cut Medical Society. When the new* medical in-
stitution was established by joint action of the
Connecticut Medical Society and Yale College he
was appointed in association with his preceptor,
Munson, to the chair of materia medica. He be-
came interested in medical teaching and at his
own expense established a botanical garden on
grounds adjoining the college. One of his con-
temporaries has said: "In the botanical depart-
ment of Materia Medica he was far beyond his
age and was the most learned physician of his
time in this country" (Button, post, p. 934). As
a result of his labors in this field several diplomas
were conferred upon him by British and Euro-
pean societies. Dwight's Statistical Account of
the City of New Haven, published in 1811, con-
tains a list of 320 botanical species, all found in
New Haven, which was prepared by Ives, and in
Baldwin's Annals of Yale College (eds. 1831 and
1838) the names of 1,156 species are set down,
the joint production of Ives, William Tully, and
Melines C. Leavenworth. Ives was a member of
the convention which compiled in 1820 the first
Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America,
and was president of the second convention in
1830. When the American Medical Association
met in New Haven in 1860 he was chosen its
president. Although never active in the field of
politics, he was a candidate for lieutenant-gov-
ernor of Connecticut in 1831. He occupied the
chair in materia medica and botany sixteen years
until 1829, that of theory and practice twenty-
three years until 1852, and that of materia medica
again nine years until his death, the last eight
years of which he was professor emeritus. In
medical practice he was called into consultation
throughout the state. He died at the age of
eighty-two years and eight months, after about
a year of invalidism.

Ives

i^?' §rons°n> biographical sketch in Proc. Conn.
Medic Soc. 2 ser vol. II (1867) ; F, B. Dexter, Biog.
Sketches of the Grads. of Yale Coll., vol. V (1911);
W. R. Cutter, ed., Geneal and Family Hist.. . . of
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IVES, HALSEY COOLEY (Oct. 27, 1847-
May 5, 1911), artist, teacher, art-museum ad-
ministrator, son of Hiram DuBoise and Teresa
(McDowell) Ives, was born in Montour Falls,
Schuyler County, N. Y. His father died about
the beginning of the Civil War and the son took
up the work of a draftsman. In 1864 he entered
the government service in that capacity and was
sent to Nashville, Tenn., where his association
with artists and especially with Alexander Pia-
towski, a Pole, developed his enthusiasm and
ability. From 1869 to 1874 he traveled in the
South and West, and in Mexico, as a designer
and decorator, and in the latter year he went to
St. Louis as instructor in the Polytechnic School.
Later, after study abroad, he entered the faculty
of Washington University. He had begun in
1874 a free evening class in drawing, which grew
finally in 1879 into the St. Louis Museum and
School of Fine Arts, afterward developed as a
department of the University under his direction.
Its first museum building at Nineteenth and Lo-
cust Streets (now demolished) was opened in
1881, and Ives was active in building up its
collections and also in popularizing art by means
of Sunday lectures to artisans. On Feb. 21, 1887,
he married Margaret A. Lackland of St Louis,
who bore him two children.

His work in the St. Louis Museum and art
school led in 1892 to his appointment as head of
the art department at the World's Columbian Ex-
position of 1893, and the success of this depart-
ment was due largely to his ability in acquisition
and selection. Here and later at the St. Louis
exposition he successfully advocated the inclu-
sion of the so-called "minor arts" in the collec-
tions shown in the art building. In i894,underthe
authority of the United States Bureau of Educa-
tion, he traveled widely abroad to examine and
report upon methods used in foreign schools and
museums of art; and after repeated service as
commissioner, representing the United States at
expositions in Europe, he was chief of the de-
partment of art of the St. Louis world's fair of
1904. The planning and construction of its art
building as a permanent structure, to serve after
the fair as an art museum for the city, was due
largely to his efforts, and after the removal of the
collections in the earlier museum to the new loca-

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