History of Darlington, (Harford County) Maryland United States of America

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William Stump Forwood, physician, was born on Deer Creek, near Darlington, Harford county, Md., Jan. 27, 1830; son of Samuel and Rachel Cooper (Stump) Forwood; grandson of John and Hannah Forwood and of William and Duckett Stump, and a descendant of William Forwood who settled in Delaware previous to 1692. He attended two academies in Alabama and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1854 and from Dr. Joseph Warrington's obstetric institute, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1855. He established himself in Darlington, Md., for the practice of his profession, removed to Philadelphia in 1869, then to Gosport, Ala., and returned to Darlington in 1873. He organized the Harford county, Md., medical society in 1866, and was its president and for many years its secretary. He assisted in organizing the Clarke county, Ala., medical society in 1872 and was its first president. He was a member of the Pennsylvania and Maryland union medical association from the second year of its organization, 1879; a member of the Alabama state medical association, and a delegate for many years to the American medical association. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Harford historical society of Harford county, Md., and corresponding member of the Maryland historical society. He was married, June 16, 1857, to Pamela, daughter of Dr. Joshua Wilson. She died in March 1860, and he was again married, May 6, 1861, to Adeline, daughter of Thomas W. Bond of Frankfort, Ky. In the years 1867 and 1870 he explored the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, and published An Historical and Descriptive Narrative of the Mammoth Care of Kentucky (1870, 4th ed., 1875). He died at Darlington, Md., Jan. 2, 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Darlington, (Harford County) Maryland

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