Birth: 1785, October 31
Death: 1835, Oct. 16
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City
• Kent

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1816	Samuel Baker	doctor	20 Light Street	Baltimore City
1819	Samuel Baker	doctor	30 Light	Baltimore City
1814-1815	Samuel Baker	doctor	30 Light Street	Baltimore City
1810	Samuel Baker	doctor	30 Light Street	Baltimore City
1822-1823	Samuel Baker	M.D.	28 Light; dwelling: 30 Light	Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates: 1785-1835
  Notes: BAKER, Samuel (1785-1835), pioneer in the upbuilding of Baltimor as a medical centre, and founder of the library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore, Oct. 31, 1785. His father, William Baker, emigrated from Germany when young and married a wife of Irish extraction. At the age of fifteen Samuel went to the Chestertown academy under Dr. Ferguson. He next entered the apothecary shop of Dr. Henry Wilkins to gain a practical knowledge of pharmacy, and later became a pupil of Dr. Littlejohn and Dr. Donaldson. The winters of 1806-7 and 1807-8 found him in attendance on the medical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and graduating in the last year with a thesis on chorea.

  In 1808 Baker married Sarah, a daughter of the Rev. John Dickens.

  Returning to Baltimore to practice he became professor of materia medica in the Medical College of Baltimore 1809-1833, secretary of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty 1809-1813, founder of the library of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty in 1830, and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1830. He was dean of the University, 1829-1830. The records state that “the disease which proved fatal was so illusory that but little apprehension was felt for him until a day or two prior to his dissolution. He died at the ripe age of 50,” Oct. 16, 1835.
  Source: Kelly, Howard A. and Burrage, Walter J., Dictionary of American Medical Biography: Lives of Eminent Physicians of the United States and Canada, From the Earliest Times [reprint of 1928 edition] Boston: Milford House: 53

• Dates: 1785-1835
  Notes: Born at Baltimore, October 31, 1785. Educated at Washington College, Chestertown; student of Drs. Littlejohn and Wm. Donaldson; M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1808; Professor of Materia Medica, College of Medicine of Maryland and University of Maryland, 1809-33; Dean, University of Maryland, 1829-30; Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, Baltimore Almshouse and Baltimore Female Orphan Asylum; President, Baltimore Medical Society; Secretary, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1809-13; Founder of Library, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1830; President, Medical Society of Baltimore about 1824-30; Founder and First President, Medico-Chirurgical Society of Baltimore, 1830 (?)-1835. ‘A pattern of religious and moral goodness.’ Died at Baltimore, October 16, 1835.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 310
• Dates: 1795-1835
  Notes:
  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: 60
• Dates: 1808
  Notes: BAKER, Dr. Samuel, of Balto., and Miss Sally Dickins, dau. of the late Rev. John Dickins of Phila., were married at Washington last Thurs. by Rev. Wells. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 25 November 1808).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 13
• Dates: 1809
  Notes: “The College of Medicine has a class of (eighteen?) (Aiken), graduates (five?). Dr. Elisha DeButts elected vice Jno. Shaw deceased, to chair Chemistry; Dr. Sam’l Baker to chair Materia Medica.”
  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: 25
• Dates: 1809-10
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1809-10
  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: 251
• Dates: 1809-1810
  Notes: Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary
  Source: Baxley, C. Herbert, ed., A History of the Baltimore General Dispensary Baltimore: Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation, Inc.: 109
• Dates: 1809-33
  Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 210
• Dates: 1813
  Notes: Surg. M. Balt. Bat.
  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: 239
• Dates: 1813/10/02
  Notes: Report of the committee of faculty of physick of the University of Maryland appointed to “examine into and report the present state of the Institution.”
  Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1813/10/02
• Dates: 1814, Jan. 26
  Notes: “Beneficial Society for the prevention of Hydrophobia organized by Drs. H. Wilkins, James Smith, Wm. Donaldson, Baker, Page, and DeButts.”
  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: 27
• Dates: 1814/01/26
  Notes: Beneficial Society for prevention of hydrophobia founded by Drs. Henry Wilkins, James Smith, William Donaldson, Samuel Baker, James Page and Elisha DeButts (January 26).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 680
• Dates: 1817, Feb.
  Notes: “The Medical Society of Maryland incorporated. Charter members are Drs. E. DeButts, Sam. Baker, Tobais Watkins, Ezra Gillingham, John B. Caldwell, and James Middleton. First meeting, November 1.”
  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: 28
• Dates: 1817, Jan. 16
  Notes: “Legislature grant Lottery Scheme of $100,000 to Drs. Davidge, Potter, Baker, Gibson, McDowell and DeButts, and others, for the benefit of the Medical University.”
  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: 28
• Dates: 1817/01/16
  Notes: Legislature grants lottery scheme of $100,000 to Drs. Davidge, Potter, Baker, Gibson, McDowell and DeButts for benefit of the University (January 16).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 683
• Dates: 1817/02
  Notes: Medical Society of Maryland incorporated, Dr. N. Potter, President, and other charter members Drs. E. DeButts, Samuel Baker, Tobias Watkins, Ezra Gillingham, John B. Caldwell, James Middleton, Maxwell McDowell, R.W. Hall and Thomas Hall (February); first meeting held November 1.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 683
• Dates: 1818
  Notes: Baltimore Medical Society, connected with University founded, Dr. Samuel Baker, President.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 683
• Dates: 1818
  Notes: Description of the Medical College of Maryland.
  Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1818
• 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: 1820, Mar. 2
  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: 1821
  Notes: Member, Board of Health (on special board)
  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: 262
• Dates: 1821/12/17
  Notes: “City appoint Doctors Birckhead, Coulter, Allender, Jennings and Baker, as a Board of Health, to assign vaccine physician to each ward to extirpate the smallpox, and thank the Faculty for the suggestion.”
  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: 31
• Dates: 1826/03/08
  Notes: “Board of Trustees of Maryland Unversity (Medical Department) meet and organize, and reappoint Drs. Davidge, Potter, DeButts, Hall, Baker, and McDowell, who accept their positions, and they also Dr. John Buckler as Adjunct Professor of Anatomy.”
  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: 33
• Dates: 1828
  Notes: “Medical Society of Baltimore, Officers: President, Sam. Baker; Vice-President, J.H. Pierce; Recording Secretary, J.R.W. Dunbar; Corresponding Secretary, J. Myers; Treasurer, S. Swann; Examining Committee, L.D. Handy, Pierce Tagarty and Berry; Standing Committee, L.D. Handy and A. Hoffman; Orators, Pierce and Myers.”
  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: 34
• Dates: 1829-30
  Notes: Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 209
• Dates: 1830/06/07
  Notes: Annual Convention of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty held at Baltimore, 33 present; Dr. Robert Goldsborough reelected President. Library founded, $500 being appropriated on motion of Dr. Samuel Baker (June 7).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 691
• Dates: 1832
  Notes: The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Baltimore, through its Committee of Honor, S. Baker, M. McDowell and Thos. H. Wright, frames a code of ethics, which is among the first in the United States.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 692
• Dates: 1832/09
  Notes: “The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Baltimore, through its committee of honor, Dr. Sam. Baker, Max McDowell and Thos. H. Wright, originate a Code of Ethics, which is among the first codes in the United States.”
  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: 35
• Dates: 1832/09
  Notes: “Dr. Sam. Baker inaugurates the Library of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.”
  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: 35
• Dates: 1835
  Notes: Deaths: Drs. Thomas Boyer, at Tiffin, O.; Wm. Donaldson, at Baltimore, January 14, aet. 56; Samuel Baker, at Baltimore, October 16, aet. 50.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 694
• Dates: 1835
  Notes: “Dr. Samuel Baker ob. aet. 50.”
  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: 35