Dorchester County

 Howes Goldsborough                         

Howes Goldsborough was born in Dorchester County on November 20, 1771, son of John and Caroline Goldsborough. He lived in Dorchester County and then later in Frederick County. He was a Censor in Baltimore and a Clerk of Dorchester Court. He married Mary McMullan of Duck Creek near Smyrna, Del. Died in Dorchester County on October 20, 1804.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

 

William Hays                              

There is absolutely no information on Dr. William Hays, including in the Annals.

 

James Sullivan                                     

James Sullivan was born East Newmarket, Dorchester County, Md on March 30, 1737 of Irish descent. He married Mary Ennalls, a widow. Died in Dorchester County on July 3, 1803.

The name is spelled variously Sullivan, Sullivane, Sullivant, etc.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

James Sullivan of Dorchester county was the great-grandson of a chieftan of the same name of the Irish clan of O’Sullivan. In 1692, he left the French service and crossed the Atlantic to settle in the upper part of Dorchester county, then a part of Somerset County. Here all the descendants of his name have lived and died ever since. Dr. James Sullivan was born on the family estate near East Market, at that time the principal village in the county, on March 30, 1737. He died there July 3, 1803. He married Mary Ennalls daughter of Dr. Joseph Ennalls (1709-1756), on October 17, 1765, and left descendants. Further details of Dr. Sullivan are wanting. Miss Elizabeth S. Muse of Cambridge a great-grand daughter has a miniature of him.

     Source: Maryland Medical Journal (1899)

 

Edward White                             

Edward White was born March 30, 1755, probably at the family seat in Caroline County. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Driver White. His granddaughter states that he graduated at the Medical College of Philadelphia at 21, but his name is not in the Catalogue. At the opening of the Revolution, a number of the medical students in the Philadelphia College joined a company and fought in the Continental Army. His grandson, Mr. J. McKenny White of Baltimore, says he equipped a company at his own expense and took it to Trenton.

He lived and died at Cambridge and practiced in Dorchester, Talbot, and Caroline Counties. His granddaughter, Miss Henrietta Le Compte, has given to the Faculty an oil portrait of him painted by a celebrated Swiss artist the year before the Doctor's death when he was seventy.

He was married three times, his last wife being Miss Brown of Kent. After a violent illness in early life he became a Methodist and was ever afterwards a pillar of that Church. He was a very benevolent man giving much unostentatiously. Dr. Edward White died March 27, 1826 of dropsy.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

 

Dorsey Wyville                           

Founder 1799. Of Dorchester County, Md.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

One of the points of interest to the medical profession in the State is the house, still standing and well preserved, in which Dr. Dorsey Wyville, one of the founders of the Faculty, lived. It is situated at Church Creek, a small village near Cambridge.

     Source: Maryland Medical Journal, 1912-1913