Notes:

Nathan Smith (1762-1829)

Nathan Smith was one of New England's best-known and respected physicians. He was a skilled surgeon, teacher, writer, and practitioner. At a time when most American physicians were poorly educated, he single-handedly founded Dartmouth Medical School and co-founded the University of Vermont Medical School, the medical school at Bowdoin College, and the Yale School of Medicine, leading historians to dub him the "Johnny Appleseed of American medicine".

Smith first began work as a surgeon in Chester, Vermont at age 21. He later went to the Harvard College's medical department where he obtained his MB in 1790. Smith was the third graduate of Harvard's medical department. He was later awarded an MD by Harvard in 1811. In 1803 Smith had gone to the University of Edinburgh where he attended medical classes for a year.

He developed important scientific principles in relation to the pathology of necrosis, on which he founded a new and successful mode of practice. Using the procedure he saved from amputation the leg of the future Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, who was then a child.

He was ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care.

He published Practical Essays on Typhus Fever in 1824. His Medical and Surgical Memoirs, published posthumously by his son Nathan Ryno Smith in 1831, recounted his extensive experience as a physician in America during its formative years as the United States. Smith's four sons all became physicians, the most prominent being Nathan Ryno Smith.

Buried:
Inscription:
N. Smith, Professor of Med. & Surgery in Yale College. Born at Rehobath, Mass. Sep. 30, 1762. Died in this City Jan. 26, 1829.

Nathan married Elizabeth Chase before 1790. Elizabeth (daughter of Gen. Jonathan Chase and Thankful Sherman) was born in 1765 in Cornish Flat, Sullivan County, New Hampshire; died on 24 Apr 1793; was buried after 24 Apr 1793 in Trinity Cemetery, Cornish City, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathan married Sarah Hall "Sally" Chase before 1795. Sarah (daughter of Gen. Jonathan Chase and Sarah Hall) was born in 1777 in Cornish City, Sullivan County, New Hampshire; died on 7 Sep 1848 in Rockingham County, New Hampshire; was buried after 7 Sep 1848 in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: KLCP-1TL
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 6958197
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Yarmouth - DNA Family 020

Notes:

David Solon Hall Chase Smith

For nearly thirty years Dr. Solon Smith, as he was called, was the leading physician and surgeon of Sutton, Mass.

He graduated from Yale Medical College, class of 1816. He was the eldest son of Dr. Nathan Smith, founder of Yale and Dartmouth medical schools. His thorough training and the prestige of his father's fame brought him also a large consultation practice at a distance from his home.

"He was distinguished as a naturalist, being intimately acquainted with animal nature, birds and reptiles, and, having made a special study of botany, could classify and give the medical properties of nearly all the plants of this country."

His historian, from whom we quote, said of him, "Like his father he was a great man but never became rich."

His home life was clouded by sorrow, for he outlived all five of his children, and his experiences, although at times full of romance, were also full of pathos.

In 1848 he removed to Providence, where, eleven years later, he died, aged sixty-four years.

Note: Married a second time to Mrs. Fanny Wood, on June 19,1851, & married a third time to Annie M White, on Dec 2,1855.

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KLCP-1TL

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6958197

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

David married Lucy Charlotte Hall on 3 Sep 1820 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Lucy (daughter of Joseph Hall and Chloe Grosvenor) was born on 5 Oct 1797 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 22 Sep 1850 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 22 Sep 1850 in Sutton Center Cemetery, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Yarmouth - DNA Family 020

Notes:

Nathan R. Smith is professor of surgery in Medical College Baltimore, and Dr. James Hall said of him in 1873, "he is now no doubt the ablest surgeon in the United States."   His son Allen P. Smith succceeded him as Professor of Surgery at the
University of Maryland.

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Nathan married Julietta Octavia Penniman before 1824. Julietta was born on 10 Jul 1798 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont; died on 12 Apr 1883 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland; was buried after 12 Apr 1883 in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Yarmouth - DNA Family 020

Notes:

A daughter m. Sumner Lincoln, a graduate of Yale, and a minister. Her son, Dr. N. S. Lincoln, in 1873, was a most eminent physician in Washington, DC.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Buried:
Inscription:
Gratia E
Wife of
Rev. S. Lincoln
& Dau of
Prof. N. Smith M.D.
Died
March 15, 1841
AE 44

Gratia married Rev. Increase Sumner Lincoln on 20 Dec 1822. Increase was born on 20 Jun 1799 in Warren, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 3 Aug 1890 in Warren, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 3 Aug 1890 in South Yard Cemetery, Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Yarmouth - DNA Family 020

Notes:

Marvin Smith was a physician settled in practice in Westfield, MA. 

He was killed at Norwalk, with many other physicians, by the cars in which they were riding falling through an open bridge, as they were returning form a medical convention held at New York. The draw bridge had been withdrawn, and no signal was given to the cars and they ran off into the river.

A son of Dr. Marvin Smith, in 1873, occupied his grandfather's chair as Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at Yale College.
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"James Morven Smith, for twelve years the ackowleged head of the medical profession in Hampden county and one of the most distinguished physicians of his time in New England was born in Hanover, NH in 1806, the son of Dr Nathan Smith, who was an eminent physician and a medical lecturer and author of wide repute.

James M Smith, a Yale graduate, located in Westfield,MA in 1830, practiced in that town until 1838, when he removed to Baltimore, MD. In 1841 he came to Springfield, MA and engaged in professional work until the time of his death in a railway disaster in Norwalk, CT in 1853.

He is well-remembered by many of our older citizens, and recollections of his professional life are treasured memories with them."

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Family/Spouse: Martha Ann Totten. Martha died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]