Birth: 1725
Death: 1801
Occupation: doctor

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• Baltimore City

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• Dates: 1725-1801
  Notes: Born, 1725. His name first appears in the records of Baltimore in 1747; Judge of the Orphans’ Court, Baltimore, 1783 and 1788; Surgeon to Baltimore Light Dragoons (Col. N.R. Moore), Yorktown, 1781; Surgeon to Baltimore Troop, 1783; assigned the chair of Surgery in the medical school projected in 1790. Died at Baltimore, 1801.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 415
• Dates: 1747
  Notes: “(Dr.) Lyde Goodwin’s name first appears in the records.”
  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: 12
• Dates: 1747
  Notes: Dr. Lyde Goodwin’s name appears in the records of Baltimore Town.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 651
• Dates: 1783
  Notes: Dr. Lyde Goodwin, Judge of Orphan’s Court.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 661
• Dates: 1783
  Notes: “Dr. Lyde Goodwin appointed Judge of Orphans Court, and again in 1786.”
  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: 1783/05/16
  Notes: Dr. Lyde Goodwin, Judge of Orphan’s Court (May 16).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 662
• Dates: 1790, Apr. 10
  Notes: “Programme of a Medical Faculty announced for the ensuing winter: A. Wiesenthall on Anatomy; Geo. Brown on Practice of Medicine; Lyde Goodwin on Surgery; S.S. Coale on Chemistry and Materia Medica; Geo. Buchanan on Midwifery (N.Y. Daily Advertiser).”
  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: 17
• Dates: 1790/04/10
  Notes: The Faculty of Medical School announced, viz: A. Wiesenthal, Anatomy; George Brown, Medicine; Lyde Goodwin, Surgery; S.S. Coale, Chemistry and Materia Medica; George Buchanan, Midwifery (New York Daily Advertiser, April 10).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 665
• 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, Oct. 23
  Notes: “Drs. Goodwin, Johnson, Wilkins, Haslet and others certify to the good health of the city.”
  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: 1794/10/23
  Notes: Drs. Goodwin, Johnson, Wilkins, Hazlett and others certify the good health of the city (October 23).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 668
• Dates: 1797, Aug. 29
  Notes: “Drs. Falls, Davidge, and Goodwin visit Fell’s Point, and report the existence of Bilious Remittent Fever.”
  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: 20
• Dates: 1797/08/29
  Notes: Drs. Falls, Davidge and Goodwin report existence of bilious remittent fever at Fells Point (August 29).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 669
• Dates: 1799, Jan. 20
  Notes: “Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland incorporated, its charter members from Baltimore being Drs. Geo. Buchanan 2d, Lyde Goodwin, Ashton Alexander, Arthur Pue, Daniel Moores and Henry Stevenson. It organizes (June 3) at Annapolis, but the election of Dr. Upton Scott, of Annapolis, as President, and Ashton Alexander, of Baltimore, Secretary (Baltimore Daily Advertiser,June 11).”
  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: 21
• Dates: 1799-1800
  Notes: 1799-1800, p. 118
  Source: Baltimore City Archives. A Name Index to the Baltimore City Tax Records, 1798-1808. Baltimore: Baltimore City Archives, 1981. See Ancestry.Com
• Dates: 1801
  Notes: GOODWIN, Dr. Lyde, died last Wed., in his 47th year. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 22 Aug. 1801).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 128
• Dates: 1801
  Notes: “Dr, Lyde Goodwin ob. aet. 76(?).}
  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: 22
• Dates: 1801
  Notes: Deaths: Drs. Lyde Goodwin, at Baltimore, aet. 76(?); William Lansdale, in St. Mary’s County, March, aet. 36; Gustavus Brown, in St. Mary’s County, July 3, aet. 57; R.I. Duckett, in Prince George’s County, November.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 673
• Dates: 1801-1803
  Notes: (estate of) 1801-1803, p. 133
  Source:
• Dates: 1813
  Notes: GOODWIN, Lyde, and Miss Elizabeth Augusta Campbell, both of Balto., were married last eve. By Dr. Kemp. (Baltimore American, 22 Dec. 1813).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 129

Birth: ?
Death: 1801
Occupation: doctor

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• Baltimore City

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• Dates: 1747
  Notes: “Dr. Lyde Goodwin’s name appears in the records of Baltimore Town.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 651
• Dates: 1747-1801
  Notes: “His name first appears in the records of Baltimore in 1747; Judge of the Orphans’ Court, Baltimore, 1783 and 1788; Surgeon to Baltimore Light Dragoons (Col. N.R. Moore), Yorktown, 1781; Surgeon to Baltimore Troop, 1783; assigned the chair of Surgery in the medical school projected in 1790. Died at Baltimore, 1801.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 415
• Dates: 1783
  Notes: Judge of Orphan’s Court
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 661
• Dates: 1783
  Notes: “Among the physicians of Baltimore are Drs. Johnson, Goodwin, Troup, Andrews, Coale, Gilder, Brown, Littlejohn, Ross, Buchanan, and Wiesenthal.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 661
• Dates: 1788
  Notes: “A medical society organized, President, Dr. Wiesenthal; Secretary, Mr. Frederick Dalcho; Drs. Boyd, Goodwin, Brown, Guilder and others members (December 16).”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1799, Jun.
  Notes: one of 101 incorporators of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 22
• Dates: 1801
  Notes: died, age 76(?)
  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: 22

Birth: ?
Death: ?
Occupation: apothecary

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

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Birth: ?
Death: 1867?
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

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• Dates: 1854, 1867
  Notes: Stationed at Fort McHenry, Baltimore
  Source: Records of the War Department, Office of the Adjutant General. Medical History, Post of Fort McHenry. National Archives, Washington DC, p. 17
• Dates: 1867
  Notes: Stationed at Fort McHenry as surgeon, Aug. 2, 1867-Oct. 20, 1867. Died.
  Source: Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, Records Concerning Medical Personnel 1839-1914, List of Officers Serving at Permanent Posts 1860-1893. National Archives, Washington DC, p. 223

Birth: 1788, Mar. 14
Death: 1868, Mar. 2
Occupation: doctor

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• Baltimore City

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• Dates: 1788-1868
  Notes: Born at Baltimore (a twin), March 14, 1788. Educated at St. John’s College, Annapolis, and Princeton College, 1803-04; pupil of Dr. John Owen, of Baltimore; attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1806-07; M.D., University of Edinburgh, 1809; pupil of Charles Bell, of London; began practice in Baltimore, 1810; Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine of Maryland, 1812-13; and of the University of Maryland, 1813-19; Surgeon, Maryland Militia, 1814; Dean, University of Maryland, 1818; Consulting Surgeon, Maryland Hospital; Attending Surgeon, Baltimore Almshouse; Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, 1819-55; Emeritus Professor, 1855-68; LL.D., Edinburgh. His most important work as his “Surgery” in 2 vols. which went through eight or nine editions (the first edition, 1824). He was the first to ligate the common iliac artery, 1812. He performed Caesarean section twice upon the same woman, saving both mother and child; he extracted the ball which General Scott received at Lundy’s Lane. Died at Savannah, Ga., March 2, 1868.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 409
• Dates: 1811
  Notes: GIBSON, Dr. William, and Miss Sarah C. Hollingsworth were married last Thurs. by Rev. Bend. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 14 Dec. 1811).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 124
• 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: 1812, May 4
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Gibson ligates the common Iliac artery (the first attempt on record), Medical Record III, 185-193.”
  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: 1812/07/27
  Notes: Dr. William Gibson ligates the common iliac artery, the first case on record (July 27).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 679
• Dates: 1812/10/17
  Notes: Letter of James Cocke, John B. Davidge, and William Gibson relating to the College of Medicine, “to prepare a statement with regard to the condition and prospects of this institution, to the progress of the building for the accommodation of the class, to the courses of lectures to be delivered here next winter, &c.”
  Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1812/10/17
• Dates: 1812-1819
  Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  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: 1813/10/02
  Notes: Report of the committee of faculty of physick of the University of Maryland appointed to “examine into and report the present state of the Institution.”
  Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1813/10/02
• Dates: 1814, Aug. 28
  Notes: “‘Medical men of Baltimore, not attached as surgeons to regiments, are notified to meet at Dr. (Wm.) Gibson’s. at 8 o’clock, to organize a corps to follow the army if needed.'”
  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: 1814/08/28
  Notes: “Medical men of Baltimore not attached as surgeons to regiments are notified to meet at Dr. Gibson’s at 8 o’clock to organize a corps to follow the army if needed” (August 28).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 680
• Dates: 1816
  Notes: Dr. Skipwith Coale invents apparatus for fracture of clavicle, which is highly commended by Drs. Gibson and Davidge.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 682
• Dates: 1816, Dec. 16
  Notes: “Dr. Skipwith Coale invents an apparatus for oblique fracture of clavicle, highly commended by Gibson and Davidge.”
  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, Jan. 16
  Notes: “Legislature grant Lottery Scheme of $100,000 to Drs. Davidge, Potter, Baker, Gibson, McDowell and DeButts, and others, for the benefit of the Medical University.”
  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: 1817/01/16
  Notes: Legislature grants lottery scheme of $100,000 to Drs. Davidge, Potter, Baker, Gibson, McDowell and DeButts for benefit of the University (January 16).
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 683
• Dates: 1818
  Notes: Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  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: 209
• Dates: 1818
  Notes: Description of the Medical College of Maryland.
  Source: Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1818
• Dates: 1818
  Notes: Recti muscles of the eye divided for strabismus bu Dr. Wm. Gibson
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 684
• Dates: 1818-19
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1818-19
  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: 1819
  Notes: Dr. Wm. Gibson elected Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, vice Professor Physick.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 684
• Dates: 1819
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Gibson elected to Chair of Surgery in University of Pennsylvania.”
  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: 1821
  Notes: Dr. Gibson invents apparatus for fracture of the thigh.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 686
• Dates: 1821
  Notes: “Dr. William Gibson invents a new fracture apparatus for thigh.”
  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: “Dr. Wm. Gibson first to divide the recti muscles of the eye in strabismus, thus anticipating Diffenbach by 17 years (Institutes of Surgery, by Gibson; also Cooper’s Surg. Dict., Appendix, p. 127).”
  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: 1828
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Gibson ligates the subclavian in its 3d surgical division for hemorrhage of the axillary artery (Tr. Amer. Med. Ass.)
  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: 34
• Dates: 1835
  Notes: Dr. William Gibson performs Caesarean section, saving mother and child.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 694
• Dates: 1835/02
  Notes: “Dr. William Gibson performs the Caesarean section and saves both mother and child (Cooper’s Surg. Dict., Appendix, p. 56).”
  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: 1837
  Notes: Dr. Wm. Gibson performs Caesarean section a second time on patient, with successful results.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 695
• Dates: 1838/12
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Gibson again performs Caesarian section on the same woman, with safety to the mother and child ([American Journal of Medical Science] xxii. 73).”
  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: 1856
  Notes: Dr. Wm. Gibson ob. aet. 82?
  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: 41