Young, Aaron, 1819-1898

LC control no.	n 2007160448
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Young, Aaron, 1819-1898 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Bangor (Me.) Boston (Mass.)
Birth date	1819-12-19
Death date	1898-01-13
Place of birth	Wiscasset (Me.)
Profession or occupation	Botanists Physicians Diplomats
Found in	NUCMC data from Maine Historical Society for Flora of Maine, 1848 (Aaron Young, Jr.; 1819-1898; Bangor, Me.; botanist, physician, diplomat) American medical biographies, 1920: (Young, Aaron (1819-1898); born 19 December 1819 in Wiscasset, Maine; was noticeably deaf by the age of ten; at the age of eighteen he became an expert botanist and well versed in natural history; after studying two years at the Bowdoin Medical School (1840-1841), he obtained letters of proficiency, and set off in the fall of 1842 for medical lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; provided with the proper instruments for examining and treating diseases of the ear, Young settled in Maine; he became so discouraged with the question: "Why don't you cure yourself of your own deafness?" that after a year he threw away all the apparatus he had for ear treatment, and settled in Bangor as a druggist; for four years, until about 1848, Young continued his studies in medicine and botany and natural history, collecting an herbarium and a mineralogical cabinet, and made such progress that he was known all over the country, and in Europe, as a botanist; he was appointed State Botanist of Maine in 1848; in 1850 Young established himself as a physician in Auburn and Lewiston, kept a drug shop, and gradually extended one of his own prescriptions into a famous cough syrup, sold as a patent medicine known as Dr. Young's "Catholicon; " he set up in print, edited, and wrote every word of all the editorials, city notices and gossip, and even the advertisements in three newspapers all by himself; in 1858 he established himself in Portland as an ear surgeon; from 1859-1860 Young traveled through Maine as an aural surgeon; he lived in Canada during the U.S. Civill War, then was appointed consulate at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; he settled in Boston in 1875, was elected a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and spent the rest of his life trying to be an ear surgeon; he died January 13, 1898, at the age of seventy-nine.)
Associated language	eng