Nathaniel G. Keirle

Artist: Louis P. Dieterich; Oil on canvas

Nathaniel Garland Keirle was born in Baltimore October 10, 1833. He is a son of Matthew Murfin and Sarah Jacobs Garland Keirle. Keirle attended public and private schools of Baltimore and graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle PA with the class of 1855.

He studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. George W. Miltenberger and graduated from the medical department of Maryland University in 1858. After the battle of Gettysburg, Dr. Keirle volunteered his services to the Confederate-wounded in the College Building at Gettysburg. Both prior and subsequent to the war, he was resident student at Baltimore City and County Aims House.

In 1865, he was resident physician of Baltimore Infirmary, now Maryland University Hospital, and in the first year of its establishment was resident physician at Bay View Asylum. He was visiting physician and registrar of Baltimore Special Dispensary during its existence and held the branch of diseases of the skin

For more than twelve years, he was physician in charge of Dispensary of College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Demonstrator of Pathology,  the Professor of Pathology and Medical Jurisprudence and chief of Laboratory Pasteur Department of the same institution.

In 1887, he became Medical Examiner of Baltimore City. Dr. Keirle’s office and residence were located at 1419 W. Lexington Street.