Michael Shellman Baer

Artist: H. Stevenson, Oil on Canvas Michael Shellman Baer was born in Maryland in 1795, the younger brother by several years of Jacob Shellman Baer. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1818. Like many other physicians of his time, Dr. Baer was an attending Physician at the Baltimore General Dispensary, in his case, from 1822 to 1826. He was a Vaccine Physician in 1824. Dr. Baer was a Member of the Baltimore City Council from 1830 to 1831. He became President of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland from 1852 to 1853. Dr. Baer died in Baltimore on June 8, 1854.