Dr.  Hervey  Milton  Qeckley  was  an  able  physician  and  surgeon,
having  been  graduated  in  the  South  Carolina  medical  college,  at
Charleston;  and  also  in  the  Hahnemann  medical  college,  of  Phila-
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delphia.  He  was  thus  a  practitioner  of  both  the  regular  and  the
homeopathic  schools.  He  was  engaged  in  the  work  of  his  profes-
sion for  a  number  of  years  in  Columbus,  Ga.,  and  later  in  Charles-
ton, S.  C,  and  passed  the  closing  years  of  his  life  in  Augusta,
where  he  died  on  July  4,  1898,  his  remains  being  laid  to  rest  in

Charleston.  He  was  engaged  in  the  prac-
tice of  his  exacting  profession  for  more
than  half  a  century  and  was  held  in  high
esteem  both  as  a  physician  and  as  a  man
of  sterling  attributes  of  character.  He
was  seventy-four  years  of  age  at  the  time
]  ^B^^^«-^B     ^^  ^^^  death.    He  was  a  grandson  of  John

Adam  Treutlen,  the  first  governor  elected
\    ^^^^^^^i^^^     by  popular  vote  in  Georgia.     Frances  P.
(Schley)  Cleckley,  died  on  June  13,  1894;
she  was  a  first  cousin  of  Admiral  Win-
field  Scott  Schley,  of  the  United  States
navy.  Dr.  William  C.  Cleckley  secured
his  literary  education  in  public  and  private  schools  in  the  city
of  Charleston,  after  which  he  entered  the  Baltimore  college  of
dental  surgery,  in  which  he  was  graduated  as  a  member  of  the
class  of  1882,  receiving  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental  Surgery.
