Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph HARTSHORNE
The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1895 By Thomas George Morton, Frank Woodbury, Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
JOSEPH HARTSHORNE was born in Alexandria, Virginia, December 12, 1779.
After he had completed his collegiate education, in the Academy at Alexandria, he served for a time in the counting house of his father. He then read medicine as a pupil of Doctor James Craik, of Alexandria, Va., who was the physician to General Washington during his last illness.
After two years of preliminary s tudy, on July 27, 1801, he was appointed Resident Apprentice and Apothecary of the Pennsylvania Hospital. He also matriculated at the University. During his five years term of service, the library and museum of the Hospital received a large share of his attention. He prepared for publication the first alphabetical catalogue of the Hospital Library.
After several years of study in the Hospital and attendence on lectures, he was graduated in medicine by the University of Pennsylvania in 1805, his thesis being "On the Influence of the Atmosphere in Respiration."
He prepared an American edition of "Boyer's Treatise on Diseases of the Bone, with an Original Appendix of Recent Cases and some New Forms of Apparatus."
In 1821 he made a voyage to Batavia as surgeon and supercargo of an East India Merchantman, which occupied about ten months and was pecuniarily successful. He soon again made a second voyage, being absent about fifteen months. On his return to Philadelphia, he entered on the practice of his profession.
In 1813, he married Anna, a daughter of Isaac Bonsall, of Philadelphia.
He was elected a member of the Philadelphia Medical Society, of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1824 was made a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
In 1810 he was elected to the Medical Staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital, but resigned on account of the demands of a large private practice, August 27, 1821; he had previously served in the Outpatient Department from January 30, 1809 to July 3, 1810. He died August 5, 1850 in the seventy-first year of his age.
Clearly, Dr. Hartshorne was a revered member of the family, as several of his nieces and nephews were given the name Hartshorne as middle names.
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