Dr. Harvey Lindsly Dr. Reuben Mussey
Looking for information on Dr. Harvey Lindsly American Medical Association President 1858-59 whose daughter Caroline Webster Lindsly married Dr. William Heberden Mussey, son of Dr. Reubin Dimond Mussey, AMA president 1850-51. Dr. Harvey Lindsly, was Professor of Obstetrics, Pathology and Materia Medica at George Washington University. The Musseys lived in Cincinnati
W H Mussey and Caroline Lindsly were married in 1857.
Reuben Dimond Mussey was the sixth professor of surgery at Medical College of Ohio. W H Mussey was appointed Professor in 1865.
Another of Reuben Diamond Mussey's sons, Reuben Delavan Mussey married Ellen Spencer, who taught secretaries in Washington DC a technique of handwriting. She followed her husband in law, and became much more well known than her husband.
Specific connection - Harvey Lindsly's awareness of medicine and his contacts in the period leading up to the Civil War.
Make sure that anyone looking for Lindsly also looks on the Sewell genealogy site - can find same by search for Lindsly Mussey on google.
Thanks
John Steiner
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