Abbott, Anderson Ruffin, 1832-1913

LC control no.	n 98802468
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Abbott, Anderson Ruffin, 1832-1913 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Abbott, Anderson, 1832-1913
Associated country	Canada
Birth date	18320407
Death date	19131229
Place of birth	Toronto (Ont.)
Place of death	Toronto (Ont.)
Affiliation	Provident Hospital (Chicago, Ill.) Toronto General Hospital Freedmen's Hospital (Washington, D.C.) British Methodist Episcopal Church Toronto School of Medicine Camp Barker (Washington, D.C.)
Profession or occupation	Surgeons Civil rights workers Union Army officer
Found in	Anderson Ruffin Abbott, c1998: p. 5 (Anderson Abbott, 1832-1913) African American National Biography, accessed October 11, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abbott, Anderson Ruffin; surgeon, medical educator, civil rights activist, Union Army Officer; born 07 April 1837 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; graduated from Toronto School of Medicine; became a licentiate of the Medical Board of Upper Canada (1861); petitioned U.S. Secretary of War and was commissioned as an assistant surgeon, assuming the rank of captain (1863); served at Camp Barker, Washington, D.C. (1863-1866); met Abraham Lincoln (1864); signed a contract with the Freedmen's Bureau to serve at the Freedmen's Hospital, Washington (until 1866); member of Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1869); was acting resident at the Toronto General Hospital (1869-1871); president of the Wilberforce Educational Institute, Chatham, Ontario (1873-1880); coroner of the County of Kent, Chatham, Ontario (1874); associate editor of the Missionary Messenger, the organ of the British Methodist Episcopal Church (1874); president of the Chatham Literary and Debating Society; president of the Chatham Medical Society (1878); chief templar of the Masonic lodge, Chatham, Ontario; elected a member of James S. Knowlton Post No. 532 of the Grand Army of the Republic, New York State (1890); aide-de-camp to the commanding officer of the Department of New York (1892); medical superintendent of Provident Hospital and Training School, Chicago (1894-1897); holder of medical licenses in both Illinois and Michigan; died 29 December 1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada)