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Dr. Thomas Beale Ewell
1785 - 1826
Furnished by : John Sharp
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Dr. Thomas Beale Ewell Born Virginia, graduate of University of Pennsylvania, and Naval Surgeon 1808 -1815. Despite his solid professional reputation (See 17 July 1909 letter from P. Hamilton Dr, Ewell regarding request for a proper hospital facility for Washington Navy Yard). felt that the Navy Department had not paid him adequately and to supplement his income attempted to set up his own factory producing gun powder a venture which was unsuccessful. Dr. Ewell was the author of the American Family Physician published 1824. Ewell's book discusses medical care ’from infancy to old age," with instructions for birthing women "and the diseases peculiar to the sex," and included an appendix with ’Hints respecting the Treatment of Domestic Animals, and The Best Means of Preserving Fish and Meat." In 1813 Thomas Ewell disagreements and conflicts with the Navy Department became public when he wrote: Conclusion of the Evidence of the Corruption of the Chief Clerk of the Navy Department followed in 1814 by his broadside: The subscriber owes it to his detestation of slandering and to his regard for truth, to offer a few remarks on the guilt of the chief clerk of the Navy Department in both of which he defends his own conduct while attacking that of Charles W. Goldborough, Chief Clerk, Navy Department over allegations of irregularities in Dr. Ewell's production & purchase of gunpowder, his medical practice & apothecary business. Dr.Ewell resigned from the Navy in 1815 after a series of business failures at his gun powder factory and repeated conflicts and disputes with Commodore Tingey and other Washington Navy Yard employees.
He was married
to Elizabeth Stoddert (1785-1859) of socially prominent Maryland family. |
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