Person:Henry McMurtrie (1)

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Name Henry McMurtrie, M.D.
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 1793 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Military? 1812 War of 1812 - Surgeon, spent the last 2 years of the war as a British prisoner of war
Education[1] 1814 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesM.D., University of Pennsylvania
Residence[1] Abt 1816 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United Statescame to Kentucky to collect data about the communities at the Falls of the Ohio River
Education[1] College of William and Mary
Death[1][2] 26 May 1865 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Biographical Notes, in McMurtrie, Henry. Sketches of Louisville and its environs: including ... a Florula louisvillensis ... to which is added an appendix containing an accurate account of the earthquakes experienced here from the 16th December, 1811, to the 7th February, 1812, extracted principally from the papers of the late J. Brookes, esq. (Louisville, Kentucky: S. Penn, 1819)
    259.

    [cos1776 Note: Included in the Epilogue of the 1969 Sesquicentennial reprint of the original edition.]

  2. 2.0 2.1 Death Notice, in The New York Times. (New York, New York)
    28 May 1865.

    PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 27.
    Dr. HENRY MCMURTRIE, late Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the general High School of this city, died yesterday afternoon, aged 73 years. Dr. MCMURTRIE was highly esteemed both by the profession and public.

  3.   Biography, in Virtualology.com's Virtual American Biographies [1]
    Last retrieved Jan 2016.

    McMURTRIE, Henry, educator, born in Philadelphia in 1793; died there, 26 May, 1865. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1814, and became professor of anatomy and physiology in the Central high-school of Philadelphia. He was the author of valuable text-books, including a "Lexicon Scientarium : a Dictionary of Terms used in the Various Branches of Anatomy, Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Geometry, Hygiene, Mineralogy, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Zoology, etc." (Philadelphia, 1847). He also published a translation of Cuvier's "Animal Kingdom" (1832). ...