Benjamin Franklin Bache

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This article is about the Navy surgeon. For his uncle of the same name, see Benjamin Franklin Bache (Journalist).

Benjamin Franklin Bache (1801-1881), a great-grandson of the Revolutionary War statesman and author Benjamin Franklin, was a surgeon in the United States Navy before and during the Civil War.

Bache graduated from Princeton University in 1819 and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1823. He became a surgeon in the Navy in 1828, and established a laboratory which supplied the Navy's medical department.

During the Civil War, the laboratory was maintained at his expense. It provided supplies to the Union army.