Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

JOSIAH ALEXANDER IRELAND, M.D., was born September 15, 1824, in Jefferson
County, and is a son of William and Jane (Stone) Ireland, the former of
Scotch and the latter of English ancestry.  He is the eldest of three
surviving children, and received a good English education, with a fair
knowledge of Latin and Greek.  At the age of seventeen he commenced the
study of medicine with Dr. James F. Pendergrast, of Jefferson County; but
subsequently continued his studies in Louisville under Drs. Bullitt and
Cummins.  He attended his first course of lectures in the winter of 1845;
in the medical department of the University of Louisville; in 1851 he
graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, and at once commenced the
practice of his profession in Louisville.  He was elected, in 1864, to
the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the Kentucky
School of Medicine, which position he held until the school was merged
into the University of Louisville, and was elected at that time professor
of clinical medicine in the University.  Upon the re-establishment of the
Kentucky School of Medicine, he was again elected professor of obstetrics
and diseases of women and children, a position he resigned upon being
elected to the chair of diseases of women and children in the Louisville
Medical College in 1870; in 1875 he was elected to the same chair in the
Kentucky School of Medicine.  In 1876 he was a delegate of the
International Medical Congress at Philadelphia; and at the meeting
following of the Kentucky State Medical Society he was appointed a
delegate to the American Medical Association.  He is a member of the
Medico-Chirurgical Society, and has taken an active interest in the local
and State organizations of the profession.  Dr. Ireland was licensed to
preach in 1848, in the Baptist Church, and for many years was pastor of
several churches, in addition to attending to his professional duties.
He is a life member of the General Association of Kentucky Baptists, and
is regarded as a substantial, earnest and valuable member of his church.
During his active professional labors, he has found time for literary
pursuits, and has written some for the press, both religiously and in
connection with his profession.  He is a man of quiet, unassuming habits,
and void of any disposition for personal display.  Few men in his
profession have done more hard and successful labor, and few physicians
enjoy a more wide-spread reputation in his section of the State, and
especially in that branch of the medical profession relating to the
diseases of women and children; and in the church, in which he has been
an active member for over forty years, he has been a zealous worker, and
a pillar of strength.  He is a man of fine personal appearance, above
six feet in height, and weighing over two hundred pounds.  He is
exceptional in all his professional, social and personal habits; agreeable
and attractive in manner; broad and liberal in his treatment of men; free
from personal and selfish enmities; takes an active interest, not only in
everything relating to the good and advancement of his profession and the
church, but also to the community at large.  He was married in 1846 to
Miss Sarah E. Cooper, daughter of Levin Cooper, Esq., of Jefferson County.
By this marriage he had one son, Henry Clay Ireland, a graduate of two
medical colleges.  In 1859 he was married to Susan M. Brown, daughter of
the late Furtney Brown, of Louisville.  By this marriage he has one son,
William F. Ireland.  Dr. Ireland holds sacred in memory the names of his
teachers while at two medical colleges.  While at the University of
Louisville, he was taught by such men as Samuel D. Gross, M.D., Henry
Miller, M.D., Charles Caldwell, M.D., Charles W. Short, M.D., Lansford P.
Yandell, M.D., Daniel Drake, M.D., Jedediah Cobb, Md.  While at the
Kentucky School of Medicine, he was instructed by Joshua B. Flint, M.D.,
James M. Bush, M.D., Henry M. Bullitt, M.D., Robert Peter, M.D.,
Ethelbert L. Dudley, M.D., Samuel Annan, M.D., Llewellyn Powell, M.D., and
others, all of whom at that time enjoyed a national reputation as great
teachers of the different branches of medicine and surgery.  Dr. Ireland's
success in life has been largely due to the sound and thorough teaching
he received from the above named accomplished gentleman and scholars.

Ireland Stone Pendergrast Cooper Brown Gross Miller Caldwell Short
Yandell Drake Cobb Flint Bush Bullitt Peter Dudley Annan Powell
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