Birth: 1785, May
Death: 1875, Dec. 21
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

US Census

Year	Occupation	County	Ward/District	Post Office	Page
1850	physician	Baltimore City	3		317

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1814-1815	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	10 Ann Street, Fell’s Point	Baltimore City
1816	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	29 E. Allisanna Street, FP	Baltimore City
1819	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	5 Fell, FP	Baltimore City
1842	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	e Pratt st opp Eastern fountain	Baltimore City
1817-1818	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	29 E. Alisanna, F.P.	Baltimore City
1835-1836	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	Pratt St. 2 doors east of Eden	Baltimore City
1865-1866	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	131 E Pratt	Baltimore City
1829	Samuel B. Martin	M.D.	E Pratt west of Spring	Baltimore City
1822-1823	Samuel B. Martin	M.D.	Carolina, west side south of German, FP	Baltimore City
1827	Samuel Martin	M.D.	E Pratt opposite Eastern Spring	Baltimore City
1831	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	Pratt St east of Eden	Baltimore City
1824	Samuel B. Martin	M.D.	German, opposite Eastern Fountain, FP	Baltimore City
1867-1868	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	131 E Pratt	Baltimore City
1863-1864	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	131 E Pratt	Baltimore City
1853-1854	Samuel B. Martin	doctor	139 E. Pratt St.	Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates: 1785-1875
  Notes: Born at Baltimore, May, 1785. Studied medicine under Dr. James Smith, of Baltimore; attended the University of Pennsylvania, 1806 or 1807; Surgeon, Packet Ship “Rebecca,” and taken prisoner by the British; Surgeon, First Rifle Battalion of the Maryland Militia, 1814; captured at the Battle of Bladensburg; being released, took part in the Battle of North Point; M.D., (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1838; Orator, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1851; Health Officer, Baltimore; Surgeon to “Old Defenders.” Died at Baltimore, December 21, 1875.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 491
• Dates: 1814, Sep. 14
  Notes: Served at North Point and Fort McHenry, 1st Rifle Battalion, Maryland Militia
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• Dates: 1820
  Notes: “The City Council in partial recognition of services and expenses for medicine by the physicians of East Baltimore, grant them $1500. They also granted a small sum to Drs. J.C.S. Monkur, L. Rodriguez, and the widow of Dr. John O’Connor.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 30
• Dates: 1820
  Notes: “Physicians attending yellow fever in Baltimore, 1819-20, were: Allender (Jos.); Alexander (Ashton); Baker (Sam.); Brevitt (Jos.); Clark (M.D.); Clendinen (Wm. Haslett and Alexander); Diffenderfer (Mich.); Dunan (L.M.); Dorsey (Robt. E.); Dorsey (Henry); Ealer (Peter); Elbert; Gillingham (Ezra); Giraud (J.J.); Hall (R.W.); Henderson (Josiah); Jennings (Sam. K.); Johnstone (Henry); Martin (S.B.); Macauly (P.); O’Connor (John); Owen (John); Page (James); Potter (N.); Reese (D.M.); Stewart (W.A.); Smith (Jas.); Taylor (J.B.); Murphy (Thos. L.); Caldwell (J.B.); Readell.

  Of the noble exertions of these men the Mayor says: ‘In adverting to this calamity I should commit an act of injustice were I to omit to notice the humane and magnanimous exertions of those medical gentlemen residing in or near the vicinity of the infected district, and those who extended their assistance when the disease had attained its greatest extent and malignity; some time previous to which period, the more wealthy of our citizens and their families from within the district had removed, and very few remained except those who, by their deprivation of their means of support or from extreme indigence were able to afford but little prospect to the physician of pecuniary renumeration, equal to that which he might actually be called upon to expend from his own means on this account. They still perservered and attended indiscriminately all, the rich and poor, suffering no consideration to deter them from the indulgence of their philanthropic feelings. As the cases multiplied the calls upon them increased, and their natural rest was destroyed and their anxieties strained to such a pitch that their own lives appeared likely to become a sacrifice to their disinterested zeal.’ (Mayor Johnson’s Rep. In Doc. of this Ep., pp. 179-80).”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 29

• Dates: 1822-1823, 1825-1840
  Notes: Resident physician, Quarantine or Marine Hospital
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 264
• Dates: 1833?
  Notes: Board of Visitors, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 22
• Dates: 1875
  Notes: “The Baltimore Sun”, Wednesday, December 22, 1875
  
  -Death of Dr.Samuel B. Martin-
  
  Dr.Samuel B. Martin, the oldest physician in Baltimore, died yesterday at his residence, number 133 East Pratt Street in the 91st year of his age. Dr. Martin had lived and practiced his profession for many years in the house where he died and but few residents of East Baltimore were better known or stood higher in public esteem. He was the surgeon of the Baltimore Association of Old Defenders and served with distinction at the battle of North Point.
  
  Dr. Martin was regular in his attendance at the annual gathering of the Old Defenders on the 12th of September until the infirmities of age prevented. He had been confined to his house for some time past. Dr. Martin was of the old school of Baltimore physicians, and was a successful practitioner before many now well known medical gentlemen were students.
  
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