John Wesley Chambers

Artist: Marie DeFord Keller; Oil on canvas
John Wesley Chambers was born in Kent County, Delaware on September 9, 1856. He attended Centreville Academy and then the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, graduating in 1878. He was an Assistant, and later Resident Physician at Baltimore City Hospital. He held a number of positions at the College of Physicians and Surgeons beginning in 1880 and continuing until the 1890’s.
Additionally, he was a Demonstrator and Professor of Anatomy at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.
Dr. Chambers was the Vice-President of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty from 1892 to 1893, and President of the Baltimore Medical Association; President of the Medical & Surgical Society and a consulting physician at Hebrew and St. Joseph’s Hospitals. 
Like many of his fellow physicians, he lived on West Franklin Street in downtown Baltimore. 

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