Edward Cutbush (1772 – July 23, 1843) was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

in 1794, where he was resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1790 to 1794. Cutbush was surgeon general of the Pennsylvania militia during the 1794

Whiskey Rebellion The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax impo ...

. He was an officer and a surgeon in the

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and was commissioned into office in 1799. Cutbush has been called the father of American naval medicine. He resigned from the Navy in 1829, after 30 years of service. During 1826, he was a professor of chemistry at Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In 1834, he relocated to

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, where he founded Geneva Medical College, currently known as

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. During his tenure there, he served as the first dean and professor of chemistry.

References

External links

Penn Library: Smith Image Collection

The United States' naval chronicle, 1824

* ttps://books.google.com/books?id=XzxJAAAAYAAJ&dq=cutbush+navy&pg=PA17 The Philadelphia medical and physical journal. Barton M.D., Benjamin Smith, 1808
In Old Washington (Navy Yards), James Groggon Articles, Evening Star, November 12, 1910

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