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John Bunyan Acken (1856-1944) biography in One thousand American men of mark today from 1916.

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JOHN BUNYAN ACKEN, Physician and Surgeon., He was born Aug. 13,1856, in Griggstown, N. J. He was educated at Philips Exeter Academy; and in 1884 received the degree of M.D. from the Medical University of the City of New York. For one year he was resident physician to Blackwell's Island Workhouse and Alms House Hospital; and in 1885 served in the New York Dispensary. For more than twenty-eight years he has been resident physician of DeMilt Dispensary and Northwestern Dispensary, and is now surgeon. He is the inventor of the Metal Quick Stitch, in place of silk, catgut, etc.