James Rushmore Wood

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James Rushmore Wood

Born	September 14th, 1816^[1]
Birth place	Mamaroneck, New York State
Died	May 4th, 1882^[1]
Circumstances
Occupation	Professor, Doctor
Notable credit(s)

Dr. James Rushmore Wood (September 14th, 1816^[1]-May 4th, 1882^[1]), born in Mamaroneck, New York State,^[2] was an American medical doctor, one of the founders of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City.^[3] He retired from his university duties in 1868.^[4]

[edit] Descendants

A grandson of the same name, wed to Katherine Lawrence Wickham, was a soldier during World War I.^[5]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "James Rushmore Wood". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States As Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time IX. (1899). New York City: James Terry White and Company. OCLC 2481484.
^ Trager, James (2003), The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present, New York: HarperCollins, p. 92, ISBN 9780060523411, OCLC 53330731, <http://books.google.com/books?id=xvGhQoNT27IC&printsec=frontcover#PPA92,M1>
^ Baas, Johann Hermann; Henry Ebenezer Handerson (1889). "James Rushmore Wood". Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession. New York: J.H. Vail. 1053. ISBN 9781432523756. OCLC 192175438.
^ Hamilton, Frank Hastings (1860 / 1991), A Practical Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations (modern Norman Publishing ed.), Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea / Norman Publishing, p. vi, ISBN 0930405323, OCLC 1888720, <http://books.google.com/books?id=tADbPyYJOdMC&pg=PP11&sig=EBsINhukwS4I3P_6e0JaSOf-VxQ>
^ “MISS WICKHAM TO WED; Engaged to James Rushmore Wood, Member of the Seventh Regiment”, The New York Times, July 11, 1916, <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E0DD103DE333A25752C1A9619C946796D6CF>

Dennis, Frederic Shephard (1884), A Memoir of James R. Wood, M.D., LL.D., New York: D. Appleton and Company, pp. 31, OCLC 9521082
Dennis, Frederic Shephard (January 12, 1884), “A Memoir of James R. Wood, M.D., LL.D.”, New York Medical Journal (Miller & Matthews) 50 (2), ISSN 0097-319X, OCLC 10557411

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Portrait photograph from the Ehrman Medical Library Archives

Persondata
NAME	Wood, James Rushmore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wood, James R.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American comparative anatomist and professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14th, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mamaroneck, New York State
DATE OF DEATH	May 4th, 1882
PLACE OF DEATH