Fearn, Thomas, 1789-1863

LC control no.	no2020065203
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Fearn, Thomas, 1789-1863 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Madison County (Ala.) Huntsville (Ala.) Montgomery (Ala.)
Birth date	1789-11-15
Death date	1863-01-16
Place of birth	Virginia
Affiliation	Washington College Medical Society of North Alabama Tennessee Volunteers University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine University of Alabama. Board of Trustees Confederate States of America. Provisional Congress
Profession or occupation	Physicians
Found in	UAB Archives overview of Thomas Fearn collection, May 23, 2020: (Thomas Fearn, Jr. was born Nov. 15, 1789 near Danville, Virginia to Thomas Fearn, Sr. and Mary Barton; attended Washington College and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania; in 1810 Dr. Thomas Fearn moved to the Mississippi Territory to the area that would become Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama; during the War of 1812 and the Creek Indian War, he served as a surgeon and hospital surgeon's mate in the Tennessee Volunteers under Andrew Jackson; Jackson put him in charge of the military hospital in Huntsville; he was known for use of quinine to treat typhoid fever and malaria; was the first president of the Medical Society of North Alabama; in 1837 discontinued medical practice and focused on farming and business; served on the Alabama legislature from 1822 to 1829; served on the University of Alabama Board of Trustees during the same years; though he was anti-secessionist, he was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress; in March 1861 he resigned and returned home; after US troops seized Huntsville in 1862, he was arrested and refused to take an oath of allegiance; died at his home in Huntsville on January 16, 1863.