PRESTON, Albert Gallatin - M.D. - Putnam

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PRESTON, Albert Gallatin - M.D.

Albert Gallatin Preston, M.D.
Preston, Albert Gallatin Lynchburg, Va, 4.17.1813
Greencastle, IN, 7.4.1889
Margaret b. Pa 1832 (Second wife?)
6
Medical College of Ohio, 1840
Indiana State Medical Society admitted 1877
TISMS 1890:153, Putnam (Greencastle)
1850c $600 / P1886 / Indiana State Board of Health 1882
Butler 1878:216

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Source: The following list was given in a biography of James Hinkle from Sullivan County, Indiana - see Preston on list below

The steamer Courier left yesterday afternoon for Vicksburg, with an immense lot of sanitary stores proved at Indianapolis, Terre Haute, and at the sanitary commission, presided over by Col. P. Hornbrook in this city.

Accompanying these stores were some 39 or 40 physicians, 9 sanitary agents and 4 female nurses, under charge of Dr. Bullard of Indianapolis, and the whole under the command of Gen. Stone who has won such a fine reputation by his active, earnest and humane attention to Indiana's sick and wounded during the last two years. The following are the names of the physicians, agents and nurses who accompany the expedition: Dr. Bullard, chief physician Dr. W. H. Wishard, Johnson County Dr. W. B. Fletcher, Marion Dr. J. W Hovey, Marion Dr. James H. Dodson, Jay Dr. T. B. Elliott, Marion, Dr Ezra Read, Terre Haute Dr. G. W. Clippinger, Terre Haute Dr. Cramer, Thornton Dr. J. S. Elliott, Thornton Dr. Thomas Ho. Harrison, Lebanon Dr. C. W. Osborn, Thornton Dr. John M. Youart, Lafayette Dr. W. M. Hitt, Vincennes Dr. M. Powers, Vincennes Dr. J C Stanley, Cambridge Dr. A. P Taylor, Cambridge Dr. H. E. Cowgill, Greenscastle Dr.J. S. Bell, Dublin, Dr. A. G. Preston, Greencastle Dr. J. P. Crampton, Anderson Dr. Wm. Mitchel, Princeton Dr. W. J. McGowan Dr. A.G. Boynton, Elizabethtown Dr. N. B. Spark Dr. James S. Ewan, Jennings county Dr. T. A. Wilson, Brownston Dr. J. H. Payne, Brownston Dr. W. C. A. Bayne, Seymour Dr. Joseph Stephenson, Pendleton Dr. T. G. Mitchell, Pendleton Dr. J. W. Stranghan, Parkersburg Dr. J. T. Boyd, Indianapolis Dr. Wilson Lockhart, Danville Dr. W. G. Kidd, Princeton Dr. J R. Hinkle, Sullivan Dr. J. G. McMeachen, Crawfordsville Dr. Solomon Davis, Columbus. Sanitary agents, F. B. Nopsinger, Indianapolis, J. Fienney Deen, Indianapolis, A. A. Trueblood, Indianapolis, A. G. Crane, Indianapolis, E. C. Mayhew, Indianapolis, J. H. Baldwin, Seymour, Capt Thos. G. Williamson, Evansvile, Gustavus Williams, Greencastle, James Hook, Terre Haute. Nurses Miss Betty Bates of Indianapolis, Miss Ellen Child, Indianapolis, Miss Emma Henry, Indianapolis, Miss Nancy Hadley, Indianapolis. The special train placed at the disposal of Gov. Morton arrived here at 6 o'clock yesterday morning bringing most of the physicians, agents and nurses.


Source: Kemper, General William Harrison 1839-1927 – A Medical History of the State of Indiana p 328

Preston, Albert G – Greencastle (1813-1889). ST 1890 p 153. Dr. Preston located in Greencastle in 1844 and remained there until his death. He also visited a number of battlefields at the request of Gov. Morton. He was present at the Medical Convention at Indianapolis June 6, 1849. Dr. Preston reported an interesting case, “The Report of a Case of Complete Transverse Rupture of V at its juncture with the uterus in which no hemorrhage occurred after that Organ was Expelled from the Body.”  Also Cases of Arsenical Poisoning.
Preston Samuel C – Greencastle 1846-1893.


Note: His obituary on this site is full of information regarding his Civil War contributions.

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