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and connections to the Civil War; Trained as a surgeon in the Minnesota frontier; Eventually advanced to Brigidier General in the Union Army (Assistant Surgeon General) by the end of the Civil War; Mar...

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S. Pollock is a retired United States Army major general who served as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Army from October 2006 to March 2007, and also as chief of the Army Nurse Corps. S...

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General (Ret.) Kevin C. Kiley (born October 18, 1950) was the 41st Surgeon General of the United States Army and commander of the U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He was commander of...

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Benjamin Peake (born June 18, 1944) is a former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, he retired from a 38-year United States Army career. He also served as t...

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B. Schoomaker (born September 15, 1948) is a former United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 42nd Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commanding General, United States Army Med...

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. Richard Ray Taylor (November 21, 1922 – November 8, 1978) was a Lieutenant General in the United States military and served as the 33rd Surgeon General of the United States Army.Early life and educat...

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Bruce Jennings, Jr. (August 26, 1915 – February 12, 2008) was an American plastic surgeon who served as Surgeon General of the United States Army from October 10, 1969, to September 30, 1973.EducationJ...

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Dudley Heaton (November 19, 1902 - September 10, 1983) was Surgeon General of the United States Army from 1959 to 1969.Youth and educationHeaton was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia. As an undergradu...

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B. Hays (February 18, 1909 – July 24, 1964) was a Major General who served as Surgeon General of the United States Army.Early lifeSilas Beach Hays was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on February 18, 1909...

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E. Armstrong's military career began at an early age; at 18 he joined the Student Army Training Corps for three months, from October to December 1918. In 1923, he enlisted as a private in the Indiana N...

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W. BLISS was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on 17 May 1888. He graduated from Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, in 1910 with a Doctor of Medicine degree and was commissioned a first lieutenant in...

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THOMAS KIRK was born on 3 January 1888, in Rising Sun, Maryland. He graduated from Tome School, Port Deposit, Maryland, in 1906, and received his Medical Doctor degree from the University of Maryland i...

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URIE PATTERSON (June 16, 1877 - December 6, 1950) , The Surgeon General, June 1, 1931 - May 31, 1935, was born on June 16, 1877, at Montreal, Canada, the second of seven sons of an American family resi...

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MERRITTE WEBER IRELAND (May 31, 1867 - July 5, 1952), The Surgeon General, October 4, 1918 - May 31, 1931, was born on May 31, 1867, at Columbia City, a town in the upper end of the Wabash valley in Wh...

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General George Henry Torney (June 1, 1850 – December 27, 1913) was a physician in the United States Navy and Army who served as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States Army.Tonrey was born in Bal...

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Maitland O'Reilly (January 14, 1845–November 3, 1912) was the 20th Surgeon General of the United States Army, serving from September 7, 1902 to January 14, 1909.O'Reilly was born in Philadelphia Pennsy...

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Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at t...

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Henry Forwood (September 7, 1838 – May 12, 1915) was a surgeon from Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and eventually as Surgeon General of the Uni...

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Born at Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County, New York, on June 8, 1838, he received a medical degree from the Maryland College of Physicians in 1860. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States Army...

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SUTHERLAND (May 29,1829 - May 10, 1895), Surgeon General, December 23, 1890 - May 29, 1893, was born in Philadelphia, the son of Joel Barlow and Mary (Read) Sutherland, of Scotch ancestry. His father, ...

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Jedediah Hyde Baxter was a Union physician in Civil War, who joined Army in 1861 and rose to Brigadier General and Surgeon General of the Army and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. -----------...

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Moore, MD was a leading United States Army physician during the American Civil War who rose to become Surgeon General of the Army in the late 1880s.Moore was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended I...

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MURRAY (August 6, 1823 - January 1, 1913), Surgeon General, November 23, 1883 - August 6, 1886, was born at Elkridge, Maryland, then in Anne Arundel County. He was the son of Daniel and Mary (Dorsey) M...

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Henry Crane B.A. M.A. M.D. (July 19, 1825 – October 10, 1883) was an American physician and the 13th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1882–1883). He was the son of Colonel Ichabod B. CraneCra...

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Info added per Mary S Lockwood's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" of the DAR. Alexander Hammond, M.D. (August 28, 1828 – January 5, 1900) was an American neurologist and the 11th Surgeon General o...

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Alexander Finley (May 11, 1797 — September 8, 1879), was the 10th Surgeon General of the United States Army, May 15, 1861 – April 14, 1862.Early lifeClement Finley was born at Newville, Cumberland Coun...

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LAWSON (August 29, 1789 - May 15, 1861), Surgeon General, Nov. 30, 1836 - May 15, 1861, was born in Virginia, in Princess Anne County or in the nearby part of southern Norfolk County. He was the son of...

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Tilton (June 1, 1745– May 14, 1822) Born and died in Kent County, Delaware Parents: Thomas Tilton, Jr. b.1714 and Sabrah Allee 1740-1790 Wife: Never married Children: No descendents James Tilton was an...

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An online book titled,"Monongahela of old, or, Historical sketches of south-western Pennsylvania to the year 1800..". Among other surgeons were Dr. James Kraik and Hugh Mercer, men of imperishable fam...

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Allison (1757 – March 22, 1816) was Physician General of the U.S. Army, the position that later became Surgeon General, from 1792 to 1796. He was the first physician to set up a permanent practice in C...

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for NEW YORK with the rank of PHYSICIAN OR SURGEON. DAR Ancestor # A023585 findagrave. - more pictures... ; books.google.be.. ;

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. William Shippen, Jr. (October 21, 1736 – July 11, 1808), was the first systematic teacher of anatomy, surgery and obstetrics in Colonial America and founded the first maternity hospital in America. H...

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Morgan (June 10, 1735 – October 15, 1789) was co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America; and he served as the second "Chief physi...

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Dr. Benjamin Church (August 24, 1734 – 1778) was effectively the first Surgeon General of the United States Army, serving as the "Chief Physician & Director General" of the Medical Service of the Conti...

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. Joseph Lovell (December 22, 1788 – October 17, 1836) was the 8th Surgeon General of the United States Army, (April 18, 1818 - October 17, 1836),FamilyLovell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son...

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K. Barnes, M.D. (July 21, 1817 – April 5, 1883) was an American physician, a Major General in the Union Army, and the 12th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1864–82). He attended the death bed...

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