Person:Joseph Lovell (8)

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Name Joseph Lovell, M.D.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 22 Dec 1788 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 18 Sep 1817 Hudson, Columbia, New York, United Statesto Margaret Eliza Mansfield
Death? 17 Oct 1836 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Reference Number? Q6285032?
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  1. Medical Society of the District of Columbia. History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia 1817-1909. (Washington, D.C.: The Society, 1909).

    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.

  2.   Joseph Lovell, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    last accessed Oct 2022.

    Dr. Joseph Lovell (December 22, 1788 – October 17, 1836) was the 8th Surgeon General of the United States Army, (April 18, 1818 – October 17, 1836) ...

  3.   Rhodes, May Lovell, and Thomas Daniel Rhodes. A biographical genealogy of the Lovell family in England and America. (Biltmore press, 1924)
    172.

    Dr. Joseph Lovell, (James S., James, John, John)

    Son of James Smith Lovell and grandson of the Patriot James, was born Dec. 22, 1788, married Eliza Mansfield at Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1817. Died Oct. 17, 1836. He was the first Surgeon General of the United States Army, and served his country in that capacity from 1818 until his death.

    He had a large family: ...