Birth: 1793
Death: 1870, Mar. 26
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1793-1870
  Notes: Born at Baltimore, 1793. M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1815; after studying abroad several years, began practice at Baltimore as Ophthalmologist; a Founder of Maryland Academy of Science, 1819; Vaccine Physician, 1821-23; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Maryland Hospital, 1822; Secretary, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1821-26; Ophthalmic Surgeon, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1823; Professor of Natural History, University of Maryland, 1830; about 1840 retired from practice and spent the rest of his life mostly in Europe; author of “A Treatise on Diseases of the Eye,” 8vo, Baltimore, 1823. (An English edition, 8vo, edited by Richard Welbank, London, 1826, was also published.) This was the first separate treatise on the eye by an American. Died at Dresden, March 26, 1870; unmarried.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 402
• Dates: 1793-1870
  Notes: Biographical sketch
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 795-802
• Dates: 1814-15
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1814-15
  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: 251
• Dates: 1815-1816
  Notes: Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary
  Source: Baxley, C. Herbert, ed., A History of the Baltimore General Dispensary Baltimore: Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation, Inc.: 110
• Dates: 1819
  Notes: Drs. Ducatel, George Frick, Williamson and Macaulay meet in a room over a stable, in the rear of northwest corner of Lexington and St. Paul Streets and organize a society for the promotion of science.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 684
• Dates: 1819, Oct. 20
  Notes: “Drs. Ducatel, Frick (Geo.), Williamson and Macauley meet in a room over a stable in rear of northwest corner Lexington and St. Paul streets, and organize a Society for Promoting Science.”
  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: 1821
  Notes: Vaccine physician
  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: 269
• Dates: 1821/12/12
  Notes: “This special Board of Health appointed Drs. H. Johnson, J.B. Taylor, Geo. Frick, J.D. Readell, John Buckler and Jas. Bain as Vaccine Physicians.”
  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: 1822
  Notes: Drs. C. Mackenzie, George Frick and Patrick Macaulay deliver clinical lectures at the Maryland Hospital.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 687
• Dates: 1822/04/22
  Notes: “Drs. C. Mackenzie and Geo. Frick deliver Clinical Lectures at the Maryland Hospital; also by Dr. Macauly (Federal Gazette, April 15).”
  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: 1824
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Frick publishes the earliest Treatise on Disease of the Eye in America, and it is still quoted as authority. He established an Eye Dispensary in Baltimore.
  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: 33
• Dates: 1824
  Notes: Dr. George Frick publishes the first treatise on Diseases of the Eye by an American, and establishes an Eye Dispensary in connection with the Baltimore Dispensary.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 688

Birth: 1787
Death: 1835
Occupation: surgeon, US Army

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In 1819 a Dr. Robert French (1787-1835) received an appointment as Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army at Fort McHenry. On February 13, 1832 he informed Major Payne, the Post commander of his concerns upon the condition of the 1814 Post Hospital. The hospital needed repairs of new floors, doors, and windows, and for a kitchen to be attached. His concerns for improvements were the present condition fo the guard house as “a Source of disease.”¹

Stationed at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, 1833. ²

A native of Georgetown until he received appointment in U.S. Army at Fort McHenry as Assistant Surgeon in 1819. He took a leave of absense from Fort McHenry on June 1, 1835. Died August 14, 1835.³

On Thursday evening, the 13th inst, at [Eden Bower], near Georgetown, in the 48th year of his age DR. ROBERT FRENCH Assistant Surgeon in the [Army] of the United States. Dr. French was a [native] of Georgetown, in which place he commenced the practice of medicine, and continued to reside [until] his appointment in the medical staff of the Army [in the] year 1819.⁴

DEATHS

On Thursday evening, the 13th inst, at Eden Bower, near Georgetown, in the 48th year of his age DR. ROBERT FRENCH Assistant Surgeon in the Army of the United States. Dr. French was a native of Georgetown, in which place he commenced the practice of medicine, and continued to reside until his appointment in the medical staff of the Army in the year 1819. The deceased had many friends for he was generous, affectionate, and warm hearted; of great purity of purpose, and with the kindest towards all men. But he was more than this: he was a Christian; for many years a zealous and active Christian; engaging with ardor in all the benevolent institutions of the day, which have for the object the temporal and eternal welfare of man. It has fallen to the lot of few persons to suffer so much from sickness as did the deceased, having, for more than three years past, been afflicted with a painful disease of which he died. But he suffered with meekness, and with submission, and without a murmur. It must be a great consolation to his bereaved widow and relatives to know, that, as he lived the life as a Christian, so he died in the death of a Christian, having hope in his death exchanging for him a life of pain and suffering in this world, for one of peace and happiness in the eternal world.

The officers of the Army, and his relatives and friends, are invited to attend his funeral, which will take plac on Saturday, the 15th instant, at 4 o’clock, P.M. from the residence of Mrs. George French, Bridge Street, Georgetown.⁵

1. Information compiled by Scott Sheads drawing on information in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia 1817-1909. (Washington, DC: The Society, 1909). ↩︎
2. Records of the War Department, Office of the Adjutant General. Medical History, Post of Fort McHenry. National Archives, Washington DC, p. 17 ↩︎
3. U.S. Returns from Military Posts, 1806-1916. National Archives. ↩︎
4. Baltimore Gazette, 17 August 1835. ↩︎
5. Daily National Intelligencer (District of Columbia) 15 August 1835. ↩︎

Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1814, Sep. 14
  Notes: Served at North Point and Fort McHenry, 1st Regiment Artillery, Maryland Militia
  Source:

Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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Birth: 1808
Death: 1855, Apr. 4
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1808-1855
  Notes: Born at Baltimore, 1808. M.D., Washington College, Baltimore, 1830; Lecturer on Physiology, Washington College, 1835-36; Professor of Physiology, Washington College, 1836-49; Professor in Georgetown College; Chemist, Smithsonian Institute. “At Washington, D.C., died April 4, 1855. Professor Edward Foreman, Scientist, aged 77. (Sun).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 399
• Dates: 1830
  Notes: Graduate, Washington Medical College
  Maryland
  Thesis: Physiology of the Brain
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 27
• Dates: 1835-36 session
  Notes: Faculty, Washington Medical College, Professor of Chemistry
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 20
• Dates: 1837-1838
  Notes: Officer of the College, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 22
• Dates: 1837-1838
  Notes: Secretary, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 22
• Dates: 1837-38 session until 1841-42 session
  Notes: Professor of Chemistry, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 20
• Dates: 1845-46 session
  Notes: Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 20
• Dates: 1846-47 session
  Notes: Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 20
• Dates: 1848-49 session
  Notes: Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Washington Medical College
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 21

Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: ?-?
  Notes: M.D., Washington Medical College, Baltimore, 1828 (“Md.”); moved to Burlington, Ia. Of Pennsylvania. Name is in Polk’s Directory, 1886-96.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 399
• Dates: 1828
  Notes: Graduate, Washington Medical College
  Maryland
  Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 27

Birth: 1833, May 10
Death: ?
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1833-?
  Notes: Born at Philadelphia, May 10, 1833. M.D., University of Maryland, 1852; Resident Physician, Baltimore Almshouse, 1852-54; A.A. Surgeon, U.S.A. 805 North Fulton Avenue, Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 395
• Dates: 1854/10/26
  Notes: (Dr.) Philip S. Field m. Rosalind Bulkley, 26 Oct. 1854
  Baltimore Sun, 28 Oct. 1854
  Source: Hollowak, Thomas L., Index to Marriages in the (Baltimore) Sun, 1851-1860 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc: 67

Birth: 1786
Death: 1848, Mar. 25
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates:
  Notes: FINLEY, Dr. Michael A., and Miss Eliza Vanlear, dau. of Matthew Vanlear of Wash. Co., were married there on last Tues. by Rev. King (Baltimore Federal Republican and Commercial Advertiser, 17 Oct. 1809).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 110
• Dates: 1786-1848
  Notes: Born in 1786. M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1808; Professor of the Practice of Medicine, University of Maryland (Trustee’s School), 1837-39. Died at Williamsport, Md. March 25, 1848.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 395

Birth: 1808
Death: 1842, Oct. 25
Occupation: doctor, druggist, chemist

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• Dates: 1808-1842
  Notes: Born at Philadelphia, 1808. M.D.; came to Baltimore, 1827, and established a pharmacy about 1834; Professor of Botany, University of Maryland (School of Letters); Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland (Trustee’s School), 1837-39; returned to Philadelphia, 1839; later, Professor of Chemistry, College of Pharmacy of Philadelphia. Died near Philadelphia, October 25, 1842.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 396
• Dates: 1809-1843
  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: 98-99
• Dates: 1817-1819
  Notes: Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary
  Source: Baxley, C. Herbert, ed., A History of the Baltimore General Dispensary Baltimore: Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation, Inc.: 110
• Dates: 1837
  Notes: “The Medical Faculty of the University withdraw from under the control of the Trustees and open a Lecture Room at old Indian Queen Hotel (corner Baltimore and Hanover streets), where they remained for two years. The Regents of the Medical University instituted a suit for the recovery of their rights under the original charter. Drs. Fred. May elected Prof. ____?; H. Willes Baxley, Prof. of Anatomy and Physiology; Robt. E. Dorsey, Materia Medica; Wm. R. Fisher, Chemistry; Henry Howard, Obstetrics; M.A. Finly, Prof. ____? By the Board of Trustees of the Medical University. Drs. W.E.A. Aikin, Prof. of Chemistry, and Sam G. Baker, Prof. of Materia Medica in the Medical University, by Regents.”
  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: 36
• Dates: 1843
  Notes: Dr. Wm. R. Fisher ob. aet. 34.
  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: 38