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Francis Allyn Olmsted, M.D.

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m. 1 Jun 1818

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Name	Francis Allyn Olmsted, M.D.
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	14 Jul 1819	Chapel Hill, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Death^[1]^[2]	19 Jul 1844	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 1481, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
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1481, Francis Allyn (M. D.); b. July 14, 1819; d. July 19, 1844; grad. Yale, 1839; Doctor's Degree, 1844; author of "Incidents of a Whaling Voyage," etc., 1841.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Francis Allyn Olmsted, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
last accessed Jun 2022.

Francis Allyn Olmsted (14 July 1819, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – 19 July 1844, in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author.

He was a son of physicist Denison Olmsted. He graduated from Yale in 1839. He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, on the barque North America in 1839 and 1840, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.

He wrote Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, published in 1841 at New York City by D. Appleton and Co., the publishers of Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. The voyage was from New London, Connecticut and took in the Azores, Cape Horn, Hawaii, Tahiti as well as the Sandwich Islands, before returning to Sandy Hook.