Joel Hart was a physician; the only son of

Ephraim Hart Ephraim Hart (1747 – July 16, 1825) was an American merchant who helped to organize the Board of Stock-Brokers, now known as the New York Stock Exchange. Biography Hart was born in Fürth, a city in the region of Franconia which lies now in ...

; born in

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in about 1784; died in

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June 14, 1842. He received the degree of M.D. from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,

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. He was one of the charter members of the Medical Society of the County of New York. He married, May 2, 1810, in London, to Louisa Levien, and had issue. On Feb. 7, 1817, he was appointed by President

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United States consul at

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, and remained there in that capacity until 1832, when he returned to New York and resumed the practice of medicine.

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