Birth: 1804, Jan. 22
Death: 1869, May 6
Occupation: doctor

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• Baltimore City

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• Dates:
  Notes: See also:
  Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888-1889. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1968. (ApCAB)

  Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times. By Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1928. Reprint. Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands: Longwood Press, 1979. (DcAmMeB)
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• Dates: 1804-1869
  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: 99
• Dates: 1804-1869
  Notes: Born at Baltimore, January 22, 1804. M.D., University of ì
  Maryland, 1823; Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1826-28; President, Medico-Chirurgical Faculty, 1831; Orator, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1833; Secretary, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1828-34; City Physician, 1832; Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Washington University, Baltimore, 1845-46; Medical Superintendent, Maryland Hospital for the Insane, 1846-69; Vice-President, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1853-54; President, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1854-55; Visiting Physician to Bayview Asylum. An eminent alienist and philanthropist (Trans. American Medical Association, 1870). Died at Boston, May 6, 1869.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 398
• Dates: 1826-1828
  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: 1826-9
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1826-9
  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: 1832
  Notes: Special City Physician during cholera
  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: 1834
  Notes: Annual Convention of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty held at Baltimore, 32 present; Dr. Robert Goldsborough, President; Dr. Fonerden declines reelection as Recording Secretary and Dr. R. A. Durkee is elected.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 693
• Dates: 1845-46 session
  Notes: Professor of Obstetrics, Diseases of Women and Children and Medical Jurisprudence, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 20
• Dates: 1846-1869
  Notes: Dr. John Fonerden appointed resident physician of Maryland State Insane Asylum (formerly Maryland Hospital), which position he held till 1869
  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: 38
• Dates: 1853
  Notes: Dr. John Fonerden, resident physician reports 130 patients in Maryland Insane Asylum
  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: 40
• Dates: 1854
  Notes: Dr. John Fonerden elected President 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: 40
• Dates: 1869
  Notes: Dr. John Fonerden ob. aet. 65.
  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: 44