Biographical Sketch of Dr. Augustus S. Long, St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Dr. Augustus S. Long was born August 2, 1840, at Long Swamp, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.  His father, Daniel Long, was a prosperous
farmer, and died a few weeks before his son's birth.  Early training
fell to a loving, intelligent mother.  Received private instruction
from William Schubert, Esq., an able teacher.  At the age of sixteen
he entered Mount Pleasant Seminary, at Bogerstown, Penn., and later,
Union Seminary, at New Berlin, Union County, Penn.  Commenced the 
study of medicine in 1863, attended the University of Pennsylvania,
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and Long Island College Hospital
successively, graduating in 1865 from the latter institution; was
immediately after graduation appointed Resident Physician of his alma
mater, serving one year.  He came to St. Joseph, Missouri, September
28, 1866, which place he has made his home ever since.  During the
locating of the County Poor House in St. Joseph, for a period of one
year, about 1870, Dr. Long was its efficient superintendent and phy-
sician.  On the removal of the county poor to the present farm north
of the city, he ceased to act as Superintendent of the same, but was
continued as County Physician up to the period of his resignation.
He has been since 1868 a member of the United States Pension Board,
and is probably the oldest physician in this section of country in
continuous service in that department.  As a healer of chronic diseases
Dr. Long has long enjoyed an enviable reputation in St. Joseph and tri-
butary country.

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