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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII
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McSweeney, Miles Benjamin
McSHERRY, Richard, physician, was born in Martinsburg, Va., Nov. 21, 1817; son of Dr. Richard McSherry, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical school, and a successful practitioner in Virginia for over fifty years. He was educated at Georgetown college, D.C., and the University of Maryland, and was graduated from the Universlty of Pennsylvania, M.D. in 1841. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the medical corps of the U.S. army, Aug. 21, 1838; served under General Taylor in the Seminole war, and resigned his commission, April 30, 1840. He was married in 1842 to a daughter of Robert Wilson, a prominent Baltimore lawyer. He was assistant surgeon in the U.S. navy, 1843-56. He practised in Baltimore, Md., 1856-83; Was professor of materia medica in the University of Maryland, 1862-65; and of the principles and practice of medicine there, 1865-85. He was a member of the medico-chirurgical faculty of Maryland, vice-president of that body in 1870, and president in 1883; one of the founders and first president of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine, and president of the Maryland state board of health. He contributed to the leading medical journals and is the author of: El Puchero, or a Mixed Dish from Mexico (1850); Essays (1869); and Health and How to Promote it (1883). He died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7, 1885.
Source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII. See: Ancestry.com
Dates: 1817-1885
Notes:
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
page 647
McSHERRY, RICHARD, physician, author, was born Nov. 21, 1817, in Martinsburg, W. Va. He was a physician of prominence in Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. He was the author of Early History of Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; and Health and How to Promote It, his principal writings. He died Oct. 7, 1885, in Baltimore, Md.
Source: Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography. See: Ancestry.com
