History of Ocean Beach, (Ocean County) New Jersey United States of America

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Edwin Samuel Gaillard, physician, was born in Charleston district, S.C., Jan. 16, 1827; son of Dr. Edwin and Mary Harriet Cantey (White) Galliard, and a descendant of Jean Gaillard of Montpellier, France. He was graduated from South Carolina college, Columbia, in 1845, from the Medical college of the state of South Carolina, Charleston, in 1854, and the same year removed to Florida where, he practised till 1857 and then went to Europe for study and recreation. Returning from Europe he removed to New York city, where he remained till the opening of the civil war. He then enlisted in the Confederate army and served till 1865, during which time he filled positions from assistant surgeon of a regiment to that of medical director and hospital inspector of the army. At the battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862, he lost his right arm. At the close of the war he settled to practise in Richmond, Va., where in 1866 he published the first number of the Richmond Medical Journal. In 1867 he was elected professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy in the medical college of Virginia, Richmond, and in May of the following year he was elected to a professorship in the Kentucky school of medicine, Louisville. At the request of the Medical society of Kentucky he moved his journal to Louisville in 1868 and continued to publish it as the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal. He was professor of principles and practice of medicine in the Louisville medical college, 1869-78, also first dean of that institution. In 1874 he established the American Medical Weekly, and subsequently had an office in New York city where he published Gaillard's Medical Journal. He was a member of several medical societies and received the honorary degrees of M.A. and LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1873. He was married to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Charles Bell Gibson of Richmond, Va., and had five sons and one daughter. His daughter, Ellen Eyre, was married to Dr. W. W. Ashhurst of Philadelphia. He died at Ocean Beach, N.J., Feb. 2, 1885.

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

History of Ocean Beach, (Ocean County) New Jersey

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