James Rushmore Wood
For other individuals name James Wood, see James Wood.
| James Rushmore Wood | |
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| Born |
September 14, 1816[1] Mamaroneck, New York State |
| Died | May 4, 1882[1] |
| Occupation | Professor, Doctor |
James Rushmore Wood (September 14, 1816 – May 4, 1882),[1] born in Mamaroneck, New York State,[2] was an American medical doctor, one of the founders of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City.[3] He retired from his university duties in 1868.[4]
Descendants
- A grandson of the same name, wed to Katherine Lawrence Wickham, was a soldier during World War I.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "James Rushmore Wood", The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States As Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, IX, New York City: James Terry White and Company, 1899, p. 357, OCLC 2481484
- ↑ Trager, James (2003), The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present, New York: HarperCollins, p. 92, ISBN 978-0-06-052341-1, OCLC 53330731
- ↑ Baas, Johann Hermann; Henry Ebenezer Handerson (1889), "James Rushmore Wood", Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession, New York: J.H. Vail, p. 1053, ISBN 978-1-4325-2375-6, OCLC 192175438.
- ↑ Hamilton, Frank Hastings (1991) [1860], A Practical Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations (modern Norman Publishing ed.), Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea / Norman Publishing, p. vi, ISBN 0-930405-32-3, OCLC 1888720
- ↑ "MISS WICKHAM TO WED; Engaged to James Rushmore Wood, Member of the Seventh Regiment", The New York Times, July 11, 1916
External links
- Portrait photograph from the Ehrman Medical Library Archives
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