Isaiah Fawkes Everhart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Isaiah Fawkes Everhart

American physician and naturalist

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1840

Place of Birth: Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 26-May-1911

Profession: naturalist, surgeon

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Isaiah Fawkes Everhart

  • Isaiah Fawkes Everhart (January 22, 1840 – May 26, 1911) was an American physician and naturalist who founded the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Everhart was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1840, the youngest son of James and Mary Templin Everhart.
  • He spent his early youth at the homestead, gaining his rudimentary education at the schools and academies of the neighborhood.
  • At the age of seventeen he matriculated at Franklin & Marshall College, where he spent four years in the pursuit of a scientific course of study, giving special attention to the natural sciences.
  • After his graduation he studied medicine, and, at the breaking out of the Civil War, entered the Satterlee General Hospital, then with 4,000 patients under charge of I.
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  • Hayes of Arctic exploration fame.
  • With the class of 1862-63 he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and went immediately to the front as assistant surgeon of the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
  • He was present at thirty battles during the war, and in all discharged the duties of a full surgeon.
  • On February 4, 1865, he received his promotion to full surgeon with the rank of major, and on the consolidation of his regiment with the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was mustered surgeon of the joint body thus organized, and appointed surgeon of the military district of Lynchburg, Virginia, which position he held until mustered out of service on August 11, 1865.
  • On his return from an extended tour through Europe in 1867, he settled at Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he successfully practiced his profession, He served as a member of the medical staff of the Lackawanna state hospital, a member of the Scranton Board of Health, and surgeon of the 9th regiment of the state militia. In 1871 he married Annie Victoria Ubil.
  • They had one son, Edwin Ellsworth Everhart, born in 1873.

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