Tobias Watkins

June 2, 2018 By in Surnames-W

Birth: 1780, Dec. 12
Death: 1855, Nov. 1
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

  • Baltimore City

Directories

Date Name Occupation Address City
1814-1815 Tobias Watkins doctor 23 Pratt Street Baltimore City
1816 Tobias Watkins doctor 17 Conewago Street Baltimore City
1819 Tobias Watkins surgeon general, U.S. Army 15 Conewago Baltimore City
1812 Tobias Watkins M.D. Green near Lexington st. W.P. Baltimore City
1810 Tobias Watkins doctor Holliday Street next to the Theatre Baltimore City
1817-1818 Tobias Watkins doctor 15 Conewago Baltimore City

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1780-1855
    Notes: Born in Anne Arundel County, Md., December 12, 1780. Educated at St. John’s Colege; pupil of Dr. Daniel; Assistant Surgeon, U.S.N., July 20, 1799; resigned, January 1, 1801; M.D.; Licentiate in Midwifery; began practice at Baltimore, 1803 or 1804; Physician to the Marine Hospital; Major and Surgeon, Thirty-eighth Infantry, U.S.A., May 20, 1813; appointed from Maryland Hospital Surgeon, March 30, 1814; provisionally retained, June 15, 1815; Assistant Surgeon-General, April 18, 1818; disbanded, June 1, 1821; Deputy Grand Master of Masons, 1809-13; Grand Master, 1813-14 and 1816-18; High Priest, Encampment of the Knights Templar, No. 1, 1812; Fourth Auditor of the United States Treasury, Washington, 1824-29; found guilty in Washington of appropriating the public money and imprisoned therefor 1829 to 1833; Editor of Baltimore Medical and Physical Recorder, 1808-09 (the first medical journal published in Baltimore); one of the Editors of the “Portfolil;” translated several medical works from the French; author of “Tales of the Tripod, or a Delphian Evening,” 12mo, Baltimore, 1821. An elegant scholar and accomplished gentleman. Died at Washington, November 1, 1855.
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 612
  • Dates: 1808
    Notes: Medical and Physical Recorder published by Dr. T. Watkins.
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 676
  • Dates: 1817, Feb.
    Notes: “The Medical Society of Maryland incorporated. Charter members are Drs. E. DeButts, Sam. Baker, Tobais Watkins, Ezra Gillingham, John B. Caldwell, and James Middleton. First meeting, November 1.”
    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: 28
  • Dates: 1817/02
    Notes: Medical Society of Maryland incorporated, Dr. N. Potter, President, and other charter members Drs. E. DeButts, Samuel Baker, Tobias Watkins, Ezra Gillingham, John B. Caldwell, James Middleton, Maxwell McDowell, R.W. Hall and Thomas Hall (February); first meeting held November 1.
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 683
  • Dates: 1855
    Notes: Dr. Tobias Watkins ob aet 75.
    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