Birth: 1810, Feb. 14
Death: 1877, Oct. 24
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

US Census

Year	Occupation	County	Ward/District	Post Office	Page
1850	physician	Baltimore City	13		341

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1833	James Knight	doctor, patent truss office	corner Fayette & North Sts.	Baltimore City

Dates: 1810-1877
Notes: Born at Taneytown, Frederick County, Md., February 14, 1810; son of Samuel Knight. Educated at St. Mary’s College, South Mountain, Md.; M.D., Washington Medical College, Baltimore, 1832; in Baltimore General Dispensary seven years; practiced at Baltimore and at Cincinnati for a short time; settled at New York City, 1835; in 1840, limited his practice to Orthopaedic Surgery; Assistant in orthopaedic Surgery, University of New York, 1842-44; organized Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, 1863; Surgeon in Charge, Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, 1863+; author of “The Improvement of the Health of Children and Adults by the Alterations of the Human Frame,” 1874; “Static Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent,” 1882. Died at New York, October 24, 1887.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 469
Dates: 1831-1838 between
Notes: Graduate, Washington Medical College
Maryland
Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 28
Dates: 1836
Notes: Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary
Source: Baxley, C. Herbert, ed., A History of the Baltimore General Dispensary Baltimore: Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation, Inc.: 110