History of Franklin, (Howard County) Missouri United States of America

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Joseph Chrisman Hutchinson, physician, was born in Old Franklin, Mo., Feb. 33, 1832. He was a student at the University of Missouri and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1848. He practised in his native town, 1848-52, and in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1852-87. He was surgeon in the Brooklyn hospital, 1857-87; surgeon-in-chief of the Brooklyn orthop?dic infirmary for several years; lecturer on the diseases of women, University of the City of New York, 1854-56; surgeon to the Brooklyn cholera hospital, 1854; professor of operative and clinical surgery in Long Island college hospital, 1860-67, and health commissioner of Brooklyn, 1873-75. He was a delegate to the International Medical congress at Paris in 1867; to the British Medical association in Edinburgh in 1875, and to the one in London in 1881. He was vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1869-71, and its president, 1871. He published: History and Observations on Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1864 (1854); a text-book for schools entitled: Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene (1870); Contributions to Orthop?dic Surgery (1880). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 16, 1887.

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

History of Franklin, (Howard County) Missouri

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