Charles Romeyn Dake

Charles Romeyn Dake (December 22, 1849 – 1899) was a 19th-century American homeopathic physician and writer. He was an 1873 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he practiced in Belleville, Illinois.^[1] In 1893 he became editor of the journal Homeopathic News.

Dake published two short stories and one novel, A Strange Discovery, which is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. As an author, his name is sometimes spelled Charles Romyn Dake.

In early 1899 he discovered that he had lung cancer and committed suicide.^[2]

Family

Charles Dake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to David Merit Dake and Mary Manule.^[3] His father and an uncle, J. P. Dake of Nashville, Tennessee, were also homeopaths. He had two daughters and at least one grandchild, Grace Bechtold.^[4]

Works

• Dake, Charles R. (December, 1892). "The Limits of Imagination". Homœopathic news (St. Louis, Missouri: F. A. Luyties) 21 (12).  (translations also published in Germany and France)
• Dake, Charles R. (May, 1893). "The Death and Resurrection of Gerald Deane". Homœopathic news (St. Louis, Missouri: F. A. Luyties) 22 (5): 239–258. http://books.google.com/books?id=PRigAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA239. 
• Dake, Charles Romyn (1899). A Strange Discovery. New York: H. Ingalls Kimball. 

References

1. ^ Columbia University (1912). Catalogue of officers and graduates of Columbia university from the foundation of King's college in 1754. New York: Columbia University. p. 290. http://books.google.com/books?id=T7smAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved September 6, 2010. 
2. ^ F. August Luyties (May, 1899). "The Late Dr. Charles R. Dake". Homœopathic news (St. Louis, Missouri: F. A. Luyties) 28 (5): 166–167. http://books.google.com/books?id=PRigAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA166. Retrieved September 6, 2010. 
3. ^ Maurice L. Dake. "Jabez P. Dake Family". Dake/Deake Genealogy Research. http://www.dakehome.com/CHAPT5D1.html. Retrieved September 6, 2010. 
4. ^ Bechtold, Grace (1946). Book Publishing. Vocational and professional monographs. Bellman publishing company. p. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=GTq7AAAAIAAJ. Retrieved September 6, 2010. 

• F. August Luyties (May, 1893). "Charles R. Dake, M.D.". Homœopathic news (St. Louis, Missouri: F. A. Luyties) 22 (5): 208–209. http://books.google.com/books?id=PRigAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA208. 

External links

• Works by Charles Romyn Dake at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Dake, Charles Romeyn
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Date of birth	December 22, 1849
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Date of death	1899
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