37. JOSEPH LOVELL-Born Dec. 22, 1788, Boston, Mass. M. D., 1811, Harvard. Surgeon, 9th U. S. Infantry, 1812-14; served on Niagara frontier; Hospital Surgeon, 1814-18; Surgeon General, U. S. A., 1818–36. Died Oct. 17, 1836, of pneumonia. One of the founders and a counsellor of the Med. Assn., D. C. “Army and Navy surgeons were actively instrumental in the organization of the two medical societies in the District of Columbia ; and the profession of the District owes to two army surgeons the inception, organization and successful defence of a society established in 1833 to define and prescribe the rules and regulations of ethical intercourse and relations of medical gentlemen and of the profession with the public at large.” Furnished a transcript of the rules and regulations of a similar society in Boston as a guide to its formation. Member of National Institute. Married E. Mansfield, Sept., 1817. See Drake's Amer. Biog., 1872, p. 565; Brown's History, pp. 268, 282, 286 ; Powell's History, pp. 59, 80, 121, 441; Busey's Reminiscences, p. 204.