Birth: 1786, Apr. 7
Death: 1879, Jun. 13
Occupation: doctor

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  MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY
  
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  RECORD
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  Author
  Wroth, Peregrine, 1786-1879.
  
  Title Statement
  Memoirs, 1862.
  
  Description
  1 vol.
  
  Title Statement
  Memoirs, 1862.
  
  Restriction Note
  Unrestricted.
  
  Summary, Etc. Note
  Summary:  Memoirs of 13 Kent Co. physicians, including James M. Anderson,
  Jr., James Bordley, Morgan Browne, Jacob Fisher, William F. Harper, Henry
  Page, John Reese, Edward Scott, Charles Tilden, William B. Tilden, Thomas
  Wilson, Edward Worrell. A note in front of volume says the memoirs "were
  prepared by me at the request of Dr. G. M. C. Roberts of Baltimore, who,
  at the time had in contemplation a work on the physicians who were members
  of the medical and chirurgical faculty of MD....." The memoirs are dated
  1862.
  
  Terms of Use
  Information on literary right available in repository.
  
  Source of Acq. Note
  Gift; Mrs. Etheline Page Wickes; Nov. 1930.
  
  Biog./Historical Note
  Medical Doctor, Chester Town, Kent Co., MD.
  
  Call Number
  MS 926
  
  Location
  Special Collections Reading Room
  

  Source:

• Dates: 1786-1879
  Notes: Born in Kent County, Md., April 7, 1786. Graduated at Washington College, Chestertown; student of Dr. Edward Worrell, 1803-04, and of Dr. M. Brown, 1804-07; attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania; M.D., (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1841; began practice at Chestertown, 1807, as partner of Dr. Brown; removed to Baltimore in 1868; Professor of Chemistry, Washington College, Chestertown, 1846-54; later, President of the Board of Visitors; a Founder of the American Medical Association and the College of Pharmacy, Baltimore; Vice-President, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1848-51, 1853-54, and 1856-57; signs a diploma as President, 1849-50. Died at Baltimore, June 13, 1879.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 633
• Dates: 1807
  Notes: WROTH, Dr. Peregrine, of Chestertown, and Miss Martha page of Kent Co., were married last Thurs. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 2 Sep. 1807).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 360
• 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: 1841
  Notes: Honorary MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Maryland
  Source: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Catalogue of the Alumni of the School of Medicine Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co.: 20
• Dates: 1879
  Notes: Died, Baltimore City, June 13, 1879, age 94, physician and native of Kent County
  Source: Arps, Walter E., Jr., Maryland Mortalities 1876-1915 from the (Baltimore) Sun Almanac Westminster: Family Line Publications: 252