Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Bartholomew FUSSELL
Dr. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL, was b. in Chester Co., Pa., 1 mo. 9, 1794. He removed in early life to Maryland, where he taught school, and read medicine, and where he found means to give Sabbath and private instruction to great numbers of slaves, many of whom, with hundreds of other fugitives of their class, he afterwards protected and assisted at his home in Pennsylvania, while on their way to freedom. He was one of the signers of the "Declaration of Sentiments" issued by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, and he had the gratification of attending the last meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, called to celebrate the downfall of slavery in America, and for the dissolution of an organization whose purpose was effected. He was also well known as an advocate of common school education, of temperance, and of every other interest, which, in his view, pertained to the welfare of man. He became early convinced of the peculiar fitness of woman for the practice of medicine. "In the year 1840 he first gave regular instructions to a class of women, and it was through one of these pupils that the first graduate in America was interested in the study of medicine. In 1846 he communicated to a few liberal-minded professional men a plan for the medical education of women. Others, with indominable zeal, took up the work, and finally, after a succession of disappointments and discouragements, from causes within and without, the Woman's College, on North College avenue, Philadelphia, starting from the germ of his thought, entered on the career of prosperity it is so well entitled to enjoy. Though never, at any time, connected officially with the college, he regarded its success with the most affectionate interest, considering its proposition as one of the most important results of his life."1
1 William Still's The Underground Railroad, p. 697. See extended biographical
notice, and portrait, in that work.
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