RUCHHAUSEN, CASPAR, M. D., of Norwich, Chenango county, N. Y., was born August 25th, 1806, in the city
of Frankfort-on-the-Main, the former capital of the German Confederation, and, up to 1866, one of the four Free Cities, the native place of Gthe, and
the original residence of the Rothschilds.

His father was of pure German, his mother of French descent, her grandfather, Sellier by name, a
staunch Huguenot, having emigrated from Paris, when Louis XIV. revoked the tolerance Edict of Nantes -proclaimed by his ancestor, Henry IV.- and settled
in. Hanau, a manufacturing town, where many refugees found an asylum under the Landgrave of Hesse's protection.

Dr. Bruchhausen received a classical education, but without any special profession carried a scanty
livelihood as a literatus by writing, proof-reading, translating, and teaching.

In he spring of 1836, hecame to America and found employment in Philadelphia with Mr. George Wesselhft,
who imported and dealt in books and homopathic medicines, and published a German weekly newspaper.

In this connection he made the acquaintance of Dr. C. Hering, Green, G. Humphreys, Matlack, and other
disciples of Hahnemann. Among them, Dr. Charles F. Hoffendahl, a graduate of the old school, of Berlin, Prussia, but converted to homopathy by
witnessing the cures of a hospital physician in Vienna, and who had been physician in ordinary to the Count of Schwerin, befriended Dr. Bruchhausen
particularly, and by his encouragement and under his auspices he commenced the study of medicine, 1839, went with the same to Albany, where he (Dr.
Hoffendahl) entered on a large and lucrative practice, counting among his patrons also the late Governor Seward. When