Artist: Unknown, Oil on Canvas
Henry Parke Custis Wilson was born at Workington near
Westover, Somerset County, Maryland on March 5, 1827. He received his A.B. from Princeton College in 1848 and his M.D. from
the University of Maryland in 1851. After several years of being an attending
physician at the Almshouse of Baltimore City and County, he became
President of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine. He was a gynecologist, or
surgeon for diseases peculiar to women, at St Vincent's Hospital and
gynecologist to the Union Protestant Infirmary, as well as a consulting
physician to St Agnes Hospital.
He was formerly president of the Baltimore Pathological
Society and vice president of the American Gynecological Society. He became the
President of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty in 1880.
“Dr. Wilson has never been engaged in any other business but
that of the practice of his profession of medicine and consequently has met
with wonderful success. He began the practice of medicine in Baltimore in 1851,
without money or friends, without anything except a large amount of ill health,
and all that he possesses and all that he is he has made himself without a
helping hand from any source.”
He was a constant contributor to the medical journals of the
country and wrote several very learned pamphlets on surgical subjects.
Dr. Wilson died on December 27, 1897.The portrait was presented at the 98th Annual Meeting on May 1, 1896 with an address by Dr. Thomas Ashby.
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