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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3289tude, entered into eternal rest in 1877, at the age of fifty-seven years. Theybecame the parents of three sons and three daughters, only one of whom isnow living Dr. Ishani H. Goss.The services of the father of Doctor Goss were not in a material senserewarded in proportion to their earnestness, insofar as temporal returns wereconcerned, and though he was able to provide well for his family it was notwithin his power to give to the doctor the financial assistance necessary forthe completion of a professional education. The ambition of the son wasone of self-reliance and determination and he held as insuperable no obstaclethat obstructed his path toward the goal of his ambition, with the result thatin attaining to his desired ends he built the ladder upon which he rose to thedesired plane.Dr. Goss acquired his early education at Homer, Banks County, Georgia,and at Hebron Academy in the same county, and through this medium heprepared himself for college. In preparation for his chosen profession, hefinally provided the financial reinforcement which made it possible for himto enter upon a course of study in the medical department of the Universityof Louisville, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the Classof 3875 and from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Hehas thus been engaged in the practice of his profession for a period of fortyyears, and he has made these years count consecutively in large and worthyachievement in his exacting' vocation. The professional novitiate of DoctorGoss was served at Fort Lamar, Madison County, Georgia, and his work butspurred his ambition, as has proved true throughout his entire active careeras a physician and surgeon. Fro in Fort Lamar the doctor went to New YorkCity, in 1879, where he took the full course at the College of Physicians andSurgeons, now the medical department of Columbia University. He completed this term of study and returned to Georgia and resumed his practiceat Fort Lamar where he remained eleven years. Tie then returned to thenational metropolis, where, in 1889-90, he took post-graduate courses at theNew York Post-Graduate Medical School, New York Policlinic and LoomisLaboratory. At the conclusion of this work he established his residence inthe City of Athens, Georgia, where he practiced until 1894 when he againreturned to New York in October and took post-graduate course at theColumbia University Medical Department, and in 1895 two months at JohnsHopkins Medical School. He then returned to Athens where he has sincecontinued vigorously in the arduous work of his profession, in which he hasnot spared himself in either a mental or physical way and in which, whilehis financial rewards have been ample and well merited, he has shown theutmost loyalty and self-abnegation, with deep appreciation of the responsibil-\s which his skill and his service involve. It is entirely safe to say, asig altogether justified, that no physician in Northeast Georgia controls alinger and more representative practice than this distinguished and reveredcitizen of Athens.Doctor Goss is actively identified with the Clarke County Medical Society,the Eighth District Medical Society, the Medical Association of Georgia, theMississippi Valley Medical Association, the Association of Southern RailwaySurgeons, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Congress of Surgeons. He served six years as a member of the Georgia State Board of Medical Examiners, in which he heldofficial position during the greater part of this period, having been presidentand also having served as secretary of the board. He is a member of thedirectorate of the Georgia State Sanitarium at Alto, Georgia. He is surgeonfor the Southern Railway and for the leading business corporations in hishome city, and is known and honored as one of the leading representativesof his profession in Northeast Georgia.In the time honored Masonic fraternity Doctor Goss has received the