Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Edward HARTSHORNE
HARTSHORNE, Edward, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1818; son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Bonsall) Hartshorne; grandson of William and Susannah (Saunders) Hartshorne, and and descendant of Richard Hartshorne, a member of the Society of Friends from England, who settled in New Jersey in 1669. William Hartshorne was treasurer of the first internal improvement society of America, of which George Washington was president. Dr. Joseph (born 1779, died 1850), M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1805, was a celebrated physician, the inventor of "Harts-horne's splint," and attending surgeon at the Pennsylvania hospital. Edward was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1837, A.M., 1840; and at the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1840. He was a surgeon of the Wills eye hospital, of the Pennsylvania hospital and of the Eastern state penitentiary of Pennsylvania. He was consulting surgeon in the U.S. army, 1861-65, secretary of the executive committee of the U.S. sanitary commission, Philadelphia; editor of the Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, and wrote Separate System of Prison Discipline; notes to Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence (1854); and Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery (1856). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 1885.
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