... James E. Morgan, M.D., a professor at Georgetown University's School of Medicine, held over the course of thirty years the chairs of physiology, material medica, therapeutics, medical jurisprudence and hygiene. When he died in 1889 he was emeritus professor of material medica and therapeutics. During the Civil War he was in charge of the Soldier's Rest, an institution for sick and disabled soldiers on the way to or from the armies in the south, and was also surgeon-in-chief of the Quartermaster's Hospital. He was a member of the board of health, the American Medical Association and the Judicial Council and at various times the president of the Medical Society and vice-president of the Association of the District of Columbia. He served as a colonel of the Fourth Regiment, District Militia. He was a trustee of the public schools and a consulting surgeon and director at Columbia Hospital. ...
