Baltimore County

Thomas Cradock                                               Baltimore County

Thomas Cradock was born at Garrison Forest, MD on May 30, 1752. He was a student of his father, Rev. Thomas Cradock, and later of Dr. Randle Hulse, who had lived at Trentham, the Cradock home, when Dr. Cradock was a child. Dr. Cradock attended lectures at the College of Medicine of Philadelphia and was on the Committee of Observation in 1775. He was a volunteer in Captain Plunkett's Company Continental Army and took a prominent part in reorganizing the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.

Dr. Cradock was a member of the first General Convention, and also a Delegate to the Diocesan Convention and a member of the Standing Committee of Maryland Vestryman of St Thomas Church, Garrison Forest. He was one of the founders of the Maryland Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge in 1800. He never married. He was an able and distinguished physician. Dr. Thomas Cradock died at the family home, Trentham on October 19, 1821. (The last name is sometimes spelled Craddock.)

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

John Cromwell                                                 Baltimore County

John Cromwell was born in 1764 at “Fairfield” on the south side of the Patapso River near Curtis Bay. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Todd Cromwell. He initially practiced near Pikesville and then Towson before moving to Baltimore in 1807. In 1810, he assisted with exterminating the smallpox epidemic in Baltimore and was a physician to City Hospital. He was manager of the Vaccine Lottery for the Vaccine Institute in 1812.

Dr. Cromwell was described as “a man of fine constitution and exemplary habits.” His picture shows him with a frilled shirt, oval face, gray hair, slight side whiskers, a Grecian nose, broad forehead, well-arched eyebrows, small mouth and well dressed. A handsome and aristocratic face.

Dr. John Cromwell died of cholera in Baltimore on September 14, 1832.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Thomas Love                                                     Baltimore County

Thomas Love was born in Cecil County on March 25, 1753. He was a son of Thomas Love and was educated at Princeton College. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Love practiced at Joppa, Baltimore County and later at Gunpowder Falls. He was a Member of the Maryland Legislature in 1801, 1802 and 1803. Dr. Love died at Loveton near Cockeysville, Baltimore County on March 1, 1821.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Dr. Thomas Love purchased a tract on York Turnpike Road in 1803, but Love was found in the 1798 tax list of Middle River Upper Hundred. Dr. Love had a household of three in the 1790 census along with ten slaves. Boundaries of the Love holdings were roughly York Road, Phoenix Road, and Gunpowder Falls. The Sax House could be one of the five log houses owned by Dr. Love in 1798; at any rate, that parcel was deeded by Martha Love to her daughter Martha Comfort Webster on June 22, 1842. When Dr. Love died (March 1, 1821), his estate included a stone slave quarters, frame barn, and frame carriage house.

Source: Maryland Historic Trust, State Historic Inventory: Loveton  

Christopher Todd                                             Baltimore County

Christopher Todd was born at North Point, Md on February 22, 1763. He was the son of Thomas Todd. He studied medicine for seven years, graduating with an MD at Philadelphia. He said to have been a classmate of Dr Ashton Alexander who graduated 1795. He was a Surgeon in the War of 1812. Dr. Todd was located at Hampton and moved later to Garrison Forest in the Green Spring Valley about 1824. He spent one year in Baltimore, and then moved to Taylor's Chapel on Hillen Road where he died from accident on March 30, 1849. He was buried at Waugh Chapel, Greenwood.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Philip Trapnall                                                   Baltimore County

Philip Trapnall was born in Baltimore County on January 4, 1773. He received his MD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1796.  He settled in Hagerstown, where he lived for about two years, and then moved to Harrodsburg, Kentucky in 1800. He was a surgeon of skill for his time, and did quite a number of operations. There is no record of him having written anything on medical subjects, but medical journals were rare at that time. Dr. Trapnall was a member of the Legislature of Kentucky, representing Mercer County from 1806 to 1809. He was a candidate for Congress in 1812, but was defeated. After he retired from practice in 1818, he gave his significant medical library to his young professional colleagues. After his retirement, he devoted himself to agriculture.  Died January 31, 1853

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899); Register of Kentucky State Historical Society Vol. 9, No. 26 (May, 1911)