Stockwell, Emmons H.

Born: 1827-XX-XX New Hampshire

Died: 1882-05-29 Indiana

Flourished: 1855-06-03 Cincinnati, Ohio

Born in Coos County, New Hampshire, Emmons H. Stockwell graduated from Amherst College (NH) and the American Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Stockwell served as professor of anatomy and physiology at the Botanico-Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, at least between 1848 and 1855. A recommendation letter from Stockwell in 1855 reveals that he taught Mary E. Walker, a physician and the only woman to win the Medal of Honor. For several years Stockwell edited and published a physo-medical and surgical journal, advocating the cause of liberal reform in medicine. He served as a practicing physician in Edinburg, Indiana, for the last three years of his life.

The Edinburg Courier (IN), 1 June 1882, 1:7; Calvin Newton, ed., The New England Botanic Medical and Surgical Journal (Worcester: Calvin Newton, 1848), 2:272; Emmons H. Stockwell to Unknown; U.S. Census Office, Tenth Census of the United States (1880), Edinburgh, Johnson County, IN, 16; Joseph R. Buchanan and R. S. Newton, The Eclectic Medical Journal (Cincinnati: Eclectic Medical, 1852), 4:421.