Calvert County

 Thomas H. Bourne                    

Thomas Bourne, Founder of Annapolis [the Faculty]; Was dead in 1829

     Source:      Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Thomas Bourne was born in Calvert County as part of one of the earliest families in the area. They owned a large estate called Eltonhead. Thomas Bourne was, by all accounts, an interesting figure (although the document doesn’t tell why or where this came from). He was a physician who never married. While he carried on his medical practice, he was also involved in land speculation in Kentucky. 

Source: Historical Shoreline Configurations at Cove Point from Original Patents and Later Shoreline Surveys. January 1997. Stevenson , J. Court and Karen Sundberg

 

James Gray                                  

James Gray was  born in Calvert County in 1746. He served on Committee of Observation of Calvert County in 1775 James Gray died in Calvert County in 1812.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

 

Joseph Ireland                                     

Joseph Ireland was born in Calvert County, Maryland in 1750 to William Ireland and Elizabeth Ireland. There was a John Ireland of Maryland who attended Clinical Lectures at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in 1769-70. Dr. Ireland passed away in 1823 in Tillington, Calvert County. He had one child. (Other accounts say that he died in Baltimore in 1823 at age 57.)

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

 

Thomas Parran                                     

Thomas Parran of Lower Marlboro, Calvert County. The family came from Scotland and settled at St. Leonard's. Per family history, Dr. Parran was a surgeon in the American Revolution. Also a Founder of St. John’s College and the Sons of the Cincinnati. One of his descendants, also Dr. Thomas Parran, became the Surgeon General of the United States. Dr Thomas Parran, died in 1810 was buried on his land in Calvert County, “The Parrott’s Cage”, and “near the shore” (of the Patuxent River). 

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899); Maryland State Archives

 

Daniel Rawlings                           

Daniel Rawlings born in 1771 in Calvert County; later resided in Mississippi.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Dr. Daniel Rawlings, a native of Calvert County, Md., a man of high moral character and exalted patriotism, eminent in his profession and who, as a vigorous writer and acute reasoner, had no superior and few equals. 

Dr. Rawlings died in Natchez, Mississippi in 1823 at age 51 or 52. He is buried in the Natchez City Cemetery.

Source: Mississippi Genealogy