William Hazlett Clendinen was born in Cecil County, Maryland
in 1772. He was educated in Columbia, SC and attended the University of
Pennsylvania from 1802 to 1803. Like many others, he was an Assistant Physician
at the Baltimore Almshouse from 1800 to 1801.
Dr. Clendinen was an incorporator of the Eastern Dispensary,
1818, the same year in which he married Miss Eliza Belt. He was a Consulting
Physician at the Eastern Dispensary, which was located in Fell’s Point, from
1827 to 1830.
Because he became a physician in Baltimore before there was
an active medical school, he was awarded an honorary M.D. from the University
of Maryland in 1838.
Dr. Clendinen died in Baltimore in November 6, 1839.
The painting is by Alfred Jacob Miller who was born in Baltimore and painted here until
1833 when he went for Europe for a short time before returning to Baltimore. In
1837, he accompanied a Scottish explorer on a trip through the Rocky Mountains
and the American Northwest, painting as they went.
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