Montgomery County

 James Anderson                         Montgomery

James Anderson born near Rockville, Montgomery County, MD in 1760. At age sixteen, Dr. Anderson joined Revolutionary Army, but served only a short time owing to an attack of smallpox. He attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1790 and subsequently practiced at Rockville and surrounding country from 1791 until his death in 1836. He was a surgeon to the draft during War of 1812, and had a large and lucrative practice extending partially over four hundred miles, and entirely over one hundred square miles. He continued to inoculate until 1814. He owned four farms, aggregating eight hundred acres, all lying within a radius of one mile from Rockville where he lived, and had slaves enough to work the farms. Died at Rockville May 9, 1836.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Charles A. Beatty                       

Charles A. Beatty was born in Pennsylvania in 1762. He was educated by Rev. Dr. Balch of Lower Marlboro, MD from 1774-77, after which, he attended one course in the University of Pennsylvania. He became a Surgeon's Mate in the United States Army until 1800 and then practiced in Montgomery County Md. He  moved to Georgetown in Washington, DC in 1818 where he held a prominent professional position. He owned the land on which Washington City was laid out. Charles A. Beatty died at Georgetown, DC on October 13, 1838.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

There was another Charles A. Beatty who helped found Georgetown in the 1760’s, and most early information is about him.

     Source: A Full History of Washington DC (1914)

 

Edward Gantt                    

Edward Gantt (or in some places, Gannt) was born in Prince George’s County, MD in 1741. He received his AB degree from Princeton in 1762, and is said to have attended medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh. He was ordained minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1770. He became a Surgeon in the Revolutionary War. Dr. Gantt moved to Georgetown in 1795, where he practiced medicine and introduced vaccinations in 1802. He was Chaplain United States Senate three times. Dr. Gantt moved to Kentucky in 1808 where he died in 1837.   

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Edward Gantt was a son of Rachel Smith and Thomas Gantt, the third. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1762, then studied medicine with Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia and in Edinburgh. He also studied at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he arrived on 6 April 1767. Gantt received the degree of M. D. of this University, April 17, 1767. He returned to America and later he went into medical practice in the County of Somerset, Maryland. Feeling the call to Ministry, he went to England where he received orders in 1770.

Gantt returned home and for some time headed in his native parish of Christ Church, Calvert County. 28 Jan 1776 he began preaching at All Saints parish in the County of Worcester. Four years later, he became rector of his native parish, and sustained himself by practicing medicine. In 1795, Gantt moved to Georgetown in the district of Columbia. His work in Washington continued to combine Ministry and medicine as indicated on the invoice to the White House in the White House Historical Association archives. There is a doctor’s bill to President Thomas Jefferson’s household dated March 22, 1802, listing services provided by several servants. 

     Source: Gantt Family Lineage

 

Joseph Hall                                  

Joseph Hall was a Commissioned Surgeon to Colonel Griffith's Battalion of Flying Camp in September 6, 1776  and Surgeon to Colonel Murdock's Battalion in 1777. Dr. Hall is the brother of Dr. Richard Wilmott Hall.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

While there is scant information about Dr. Joseph Hall, there is copious information about his father, Dr. Jacob Hall (1747-1812), who was an educator and a surgeon.

 

Zadok Magruder, Jr.                 

Zadok Magruder, Jr, was born in Montgomery County, Md, on May 10, 1765. He was the son of Col. Zadok Magruder, a Revolutionary War patriot and farmer. He was colonel in command of part of the Maryland militia and helped establish Montgomery County's government in 1776, when it split from Frederick County. Dr. Magruder attended medical lectures at the College of Medicine of Philadelphia and is credited with receiving an MD there 1786, but his name not in the catalogue. In addition to being a Founder, he was also a Censor at the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty. Besides practicing medicine, he cultivated a large farm.  Zadok Magruder, Jr. died December 2, 1809.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Dr. Magruder was the son of Revolutionary War veteran Zadok Magruder Sr., a descendant of a Scottish immigrant who had settled in neighboring Prince George’s County. Zadok Jr.’s home, called The Ridge, was built by his father in the mid-1700s. The Magruders became one of Montgomery County’s most prominent families. The name is spelled variously as Zadoc, Zadock or Zadok in the historical records.

     Source: The Prather Family of Montgomery County

 

Charles Worthington               

Charles Worthington born at Summer Hill near Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md on October 9, 1759. He was a pupil of Dr. James Murray of Annapolis. He received his MB at the University of Pennsylvania in 1782 and settled at Georgetown in 1783. He entered the service of the Continental Navy as the surgeon to four barges outfitted by the State of Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. In 1782, Dr. Worthington became an Incorporator and President of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia from 1817 to 1829. He was the leading physician of Georgetown. He died at Georgetown, DC on September 10, 1836.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)