Birth: 1775, Sep. 17
Death: 1824, Oct.
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1814-1815	John Owen	doctor	22 Chatham Street	Baltimore City
1816	John Owen	doctor	22 Chatham Street	Baltimore City
1819	John Owen	doctor	22 Chatham	Baltimore City
1802	John Owen	doctor	46 South Street	Baltimore City
1804	John Owen	M.D., Baltimore General Dispensary	Chatham Street	Baltimore City
1822-1823	John Owen	M.D.	22 Chatham	Baltimore City
1824	John Owen	M.D.	22 Chatham	Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates: 1775-1824
  Notes: Born at Annapolis, September 17, 1775. A. M., St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1794; obtained his medical education in Great Britain and America; began practice at Baltimore, 1799; Orator, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1869; M.D. (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1818; elected Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, University of Maryland, 1814, but declined; Surgeon, Fifth Regiment of Maryland Militia, 1814; Member of the City Council of Baltimore, 1822; Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1804-07; Consulting Physician, Board of Health of Baltimore until 1821; State Director to the Penitentiary; Judge of the City Court, 1822. Died at Baltimore, October, 1824.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 524
• Dates: 1801-1803
  Notes: 1801-1803, p. 274
  Source:
• Dates: 1814
  Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine (declined)
  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: 1814, Aug. 28
  Notes: “Dr. Max McDowell elected to Chair of Institutes of Medicine, in Medical College, vice Dr. John Owen, who declines
  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, Sep. 14
  Notes: Served at North Point and Fort McHenry, 5th Regiment Infantry, Maryland Militia
  Source:
• 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: 1822
  Notes: Served as Judge of Baltimore City Court, 1822
  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: 248
• Dates: 1822
  Notes: Served on Baltimore City Council, 1822
  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: 248
• Dates: 1824
  Notes: “Dr. John Owen ob. aet.?”
  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: 32
• Dates: 1824
  Notes: Deaths: Drs. John Owen, at Baltimore, October, aet. 49; Thomas Hamilton, at Baltimore, aet. 60.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 688