Birth: 1764
Death: 1832, Sep. 14
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

Baltimore
Baltimore City

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1816	John Cromwell	doctor	New Church Street near St. Paul’s Lane	Baltimore City
1817-1818	John Cromwell	doctor	Church Street near St. Paul’s Lane	Baltimore City
1814-1815	John Cromwell	doctor	New Church Street near Paul’s Lane	Baltimore City
1812	John Cromwell	M.D.	New Church St.	Baltimore City
1831	John Cromwell	doctor	Lexington opposite Athenaeum	Baltimore City
1810	Jno. Cromwell	doctor	32 Hanover Street	Baltimore City
1824	John Cromwell	M.D.	New church, north side west of St. Paul’s Lane	Baltimore City
1829	John Cromwell	M.D.	Lexington opposite the Athaenium	Baltimore City
1827	John Cromwell	M.D.	Lexington, north side east of Charles	Baltimore City

Additional Information

Dates: 1764-1832
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: 88
Dates: 1764-1832
Notes: “Born at ‘Fairfield,’ south side of the Patapsco River (near Curtis Bay), 1764; son of John and Elizabeth Todd Cromwell. Practiced near Pikesville; later, near Towson, moving to Baltimore, 1807; assisted in exterminating smallpox epidemic in Baltimore in 1810; Physician to City Hospital, 1812; Manager of Vaccine Lottery for Vaccine Institute, 1812. Died of cholera at Baltimore, September 14, 1823. ‘A man of fine constitution and exemplary habits’ (Jameson). His picture shows him with frilled shirt, oval face, gray hair, slight side whiskers, Grecian nose, broad forehead, well-arched eyebrows, small mouth, well-dressed — a handsome, aristocratic face. (The John Cromwell who was M.D., University of Maryland, 1814, was from Pennsylvania, and a nephew of the above.)”
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 367
Dates: 1800, Sep. 12
Notes: received vaccine virus [cowpox] from England and used it successfully
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: 22
Dates: 1801, Jan 9.
Notes: organized Baltimore General Dispensary
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: 22
Dates: 1804-1808
Notes: 1804-1808, p. 504
Source:
Dates: 1810
Notes: CHAP. CXXIII, Laws of 1809: An ACT authorising a Lottery for the preservation and distribution
of the Vaccine Matter, for the use of the Citizens of this State. Passed Jan. 6, 1810.
Source:
Dates: 1810
Notes: CHAP. CXXIII. Laws of 1809: An Act authorising a Lottery for the preservation and distribution of the Vaccine Matter, for the use of the Citizens of this State. Passed Jan. 6, 1810
Source:
Dates: 1812
Notes: Consulting Physician (honorary), Board of Health
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: 1812, Feb. 29
Notes: “Dr. John Crawford lectures in Commerce Street, on Natural History (Tickets for course, $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: 26
Dates: 1812, Feb. 29
Notes: “Lottery drawn for the benefit of Vaccine Institute; managers, Drs. Cromwell, Clendenen (W.H.), and Jas. Smith.”
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: 26
Dates: 1812, Jan. 4
Notes: “Legislature orders payment of $5000 annually for three years, to Drs. Mackenzie and Smyth for completing the buildings of the Public Hospital, of which Dr. Wm. Gibson was consulting surgeon, and Drs. Brown (Geo.), Littlejohn, Coulter, White (J.C.), Crawford, Birckhead (Sol.), Chatard (P.), Cromwell, and Alexander were consulting physicians. The Hospital is in good order, its capacity is 100 patients, the centre building nearly done (Report of Board of Visitors).”
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: 26
Dates: 1832
Notes: “Dr. John Cromwell ob. of cholera aet. 68?”
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
Notes: Deaths: Drs. George E. Mitchell, at Washington, June 28, aet. 51; John Cromwell, at Baltimore, September 14, aet. 68.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 693