Allison, Dr. Richard

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Box S1, Item 29

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A framed silhouette of Dr. Richard Allison. The subject is facing left and the silhouette is a head and shoulders view. His name is in script below the silhouette. On the reverse: Dr. Richard Allison / Born near Goshen, N. Y. 1757, died in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1816. Entered the army as a surgeon in the beginning of the Revolution; appointed surgeon for the Corps under General Harmar in 1789 for the protection of the frontier, and in 1790, Surgeon General under General St. Clair. In 1795 settled in Cincinnati for the practice of his profession, but was not mustered out of the army until 1798. See Kelly's American Medical Biographies, p. 21 for more extensive notice. / This is the first silhouette of my collection, and was bought in May 1896 in an old furniture and junk shop in Cincinnati as I was returning home from my first year at the University of Nashville. / Have been told there is no likeness of Gen. Allison among the portraits of the Surgeons General in the Library of the Sugeon General in Washington, but have not verified it. / Jos. Lyon Miller, M. D.

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