Notes for Landon Cabell Rives

Notes for Landon Cabell Rives

!"A MEMENTO OF ANCESTORS AND ANCESTRAL HOMES" written for HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS by MARGARET RIVES KING (Cincinnati-Robert Clarke & Co. 1890): Landon Cabell Rives, was born on the 24th of October, 1790, in Nelson Co., Virginia. He received, from his earliest boyhood, the many advantages derived from association with a
cultivated and intellectual society. At an early age he entered Hampden Sidney, and afterward William and Mary college, where he graduated. He studied medicine in Philadelphia under the private tuition of Doctor Chapman, and received his diploma from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820.
The first nine years of his professional life were passed in his native state. He removed his family to Cincinnati in 1829, and practiced his profession with great devotion and success for thirty years. No physician ever lived in Cincinnati who had a larger practice, or who was more truly honored and loved than Doctor Rives. Not only in the practice of medicine was he eminent, but as a medical teacher and writer was he widely and honorably known.
With Doctor Daniel Drake, Doctor Samuel D. Gross, Doctor Willard Parker, and other gentlemen known to fame, Doctor Rives was associated in the faculty of the Cincinnati College. He was afterward a professor in the Ohio Medical College. My father retired from the active duties of his profession about the year 1860, but he continued to reside in Cincinnati, where his warm heart, his noble mind, his perfect example of the oldtime gentleman, now so rarely seen, will be long remembered. Doctor Rives died on the 3d of June, 1870, having almost reached the completion of his eightieth year. He departed honored, and beloved, and regretted by all.

!Anthony Wood's Antiquitates Oxoniensis, published in 1674, book 2, page 149: "Sir Thomas Ryves, a civilian, born in Dorsetshire, and educated at Winchester School, and at New College, Oxford, studied law, in Doctors Commons, and distinguished himself greatly in that profession. He was appointed Master of Chancery and King's Advocate, and was knighted by Charles 1, whom he served with great ability in the cabinet, and also in the field during the civil wars. He died in 1651, and was buried in St. Clement Danes, near Temple Bar. He was a learned man, and wrote the Vicar's Plea, Historia Navalis Antlqua, and Historia Navalis Media."