William Hazlett Clendinen

Artist: Alfred Jacob Miller; Oil on canvas
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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