Birth: 1751
Death: 1823, May 24
Occupation: physician, druggist

Associated Counties

Baltimore City

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1817-1818	John Coulter	doctor	corner of King George and Stillhouse Streets, OT	Baltimore City
1819	John Coulter	doctor	corner of King George & Still House Street, OT	Baltimore City
1814-1815	John Coulter	doctor	corner King George and Still House Street, Old Town	Baltimore City
1799	John Coulter	doctor	corner of Market & Alissanna Streets, FP	Baltimore City
1800-1801	John Coulter	doctor	corner of Market and Aliceanna Streets, Fell’s Point	Baltimore City
1804	John Coulter	M.D.	Market Street, FP	Baltimore City
1808	Coulter	doctor	corner of Alisanna & Market Street, FP	Baltimore City
1803	John Coulter	M.D.	Aliceanna Street & corner of Market Street, Fell’s Point	Baltimore City
1796	John Coulter	doctor	dwelling: 27 Alisanna Street, Fell’s Point	Baltimore City
1796	John Coulter	druggist shop	29 Alisanna Street, Fell’s Point	Baltimore City
1810	Jno. Coulter	doctor	corner of Market and Aliceanna Sts., Fell’s Point	Baltimore City
1822-1823	John Coulter	(house of Coulter & Martin) chymist and druggist	NW corner of Baltimore and Gay; dwelling: NW corner of King George and Still-house, O.T.	Baltimore City

Additional Information

Dates: 1751-1823
Notes: Born in County Down, Ireland, 1751. Arrived at Baltimore, 1773; Surgeon to Man-of-War “Defence,” Continental Navy, 1775; Surgeon, Military Hospital, Baltimore, 1776; Member of Maryland Convention to ratify the Constitution, 1788; Member of Maryland Senate, 1788; Lieutenant-Colonel, Maryland Militia, 1794; city Elector, 1797; Member of the City Council, 1799-1800; Consulting Physician, City Board of Health, 1812. Died at Baltimore, May 24, 1823.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 363
Dates: 1751-1823
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: 86-87
Dates: 1772
Notes: The practicing physicians at and near Baltimore Town are Drs. Lyon, Wiesenthal, Hulse, Stenhouse, Pue, Stevenson, Boyd, Cradock, Hazlett, Gray and Coulter.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 656
Dates: 1773
Notes: “Dr. John Coulter arrives from Ireland.”
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: 14
Dates: 1776
Notes: Dr. John Coulter, Acting Surgeon at Baltimore, vice Wiesenthal, while the latter visits the Maryland troops in camp.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 658
Dates: 1776, Mar. 12
Notes: “Dr. John coulter acting surgeon in Baltimore, vice Wiesenthall, while the latter visits the Maryland troops in camp.”
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: 15
Dates: 1788
Notes: Served as Delegate to Convention to ratify U.S. Constitution, 1788
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: 249
Dates: 1794
Notes: Lt. Col. State Mil., Balt.
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: 240
Dates: 1794, Aug. 13
Notes: “Drs. Coulter, Brown and Goodwin report the existence of Malignant Bilious Fever at Fell’s Point.”
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: 19
Dates: 1794/08/13
Notes: Drs. Coulter, Brown and Goodwin report the existence of “malignant bilious fever” at Fells Point (August 13).
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 667
Dates: 1798-1808
Notes: 1798, p. 221; 1799-1800, p. 63; Assessment Book 1800, p. 204; 1801-1803, p. 59; 1804-1808, p. 78
Source: Baltimore City Archives. A Name Index to the Baltimore City Tax Records, 1798-1808. Baltimore: Baltimore City Archives, 1981. See Ancestry.Com
Dates: 1799
Notes: Served on Baltimore City Council, 1799
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: 1803, Jun. 3
Notes: “Medical and Chirurgical Faculty meet. Nat. Potter, Secretary; H. Wilkins, Treasurer; Censors Western Shore, Drs. Coulter, Crawford, Alexander, Archer, Sen., Geo. Brown, Chas. A. Warfield and James Stewart. Drs. Brown, Davidge et al. are appointed a committee to digest a plan for a Medical College.”
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: 24
Dates: 1808
Notes: Yellow fever prevails in Pitt Street, Fell Point, in most malignant form. A prompt removal of the inhabitants by the advise of Dr. John Coulter, prevents its extension from this situation.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 676
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
Notes: Legislature granst $5000 annually for three years to Drs. Smyth and Mackenzie, for completion of Maryland Hospital. Board of Visitors report hospital in good order, central building nearly completed, and accommodations provided for 100 patients. Dr. William Gibson, Consulting Surgeon and Drs. George Brown, Miles Littlejohn, John Coulter, J.C. White, John Crawford, Solomon Birckhead, Pierre Chatard, John Cromwell and Ashton Alexander Consulting Physicians.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 678
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: 1821
Notes: Member, Board of Health (on special board)
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: 1821/12/17
Notes: “City appoint Doctors Birckhead, Coulter, Allender, Jennings and Baker, as a Board of Health, to assign vaccine physician to each ward to extirpate the smallpox, and thank the Faculty for the suggestion.”
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: 31
Dates: 1823
Notes: “Dr. John Coulter ob. aet. 72.”
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: 1823
Notes: Deaths: Drs. Reverdy Ghiselin, in Prince George County, aet. 58; John W. Dorsey, at Liberty, Frederick County, aet. 73; S.L.P. Roberts, at Baltimore; William Bantz, at Frederick, March 10, aet. 33; John Coulter, at Baltimore, May 24, aet. 72; William Beanes, Jr., at Upper Marlboro, October 12, aet. 74.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 688
Dates: 1840
Notes: “Dr. Mifflin Coulter (nephew of Jno. Coulter, dec’d) ob. aet. 58.”
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: 37