Edward Gantt
Edward Gantt | |
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Personal | |
Born | unknown NewScotland, Washington, DC |
Religion | Episcopal |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | NewLouis College |
Senior posting | |
Ordination | Episcopal, 179? (Ordained in Brooklyn) |
Previous post | Chaplain |
Edward Gantt (died 1837) was an
Early life
Edward Gantt was born , the son of Rachel Smith and Thomas Gantt III. He received his bachelor of arts from
Ministry
Gantt returned home and for a time officiated in his native parish, Christ Church, Calvert County. On January 28, 1776 he began to preach at All Hallow’s Parish in Worcester County. Four years later he became rector of his native parish, and sustained himself by practicing medicine. In 1795 Gantt moved to
From President Jefferson, Dr. Gantt received a supply of smallpox vaccine; soon after January 17, 1802 he vaccinated Miami chief Little Turtle and a group of Miami diplomats who were in Washington,[11] The supply sufficed to vaccinate over three hundred persons connected with the Executive Mansion.
Chaplain of the Senate
Starting on December 9, 1800 through November 6, 1804, Gantt served as
After Washington
About 1807, under the auspices of Bishop Thomas John Claggett, he went to Kentucky, in the interests of the Episcopal Church.
Personal life
Edward Gantt and Ann Stoughton Sloss, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Sloss, were married June 26, 1768, by the Rev. Thomas John Claggett, Gantt's cousin, later to be Bishop of Maryland. Their fifteen children include: Thomas Sloss Gantt, William Stoughton Gantt, Edward Sloss Gantt and Captain John Gantt (1790-1849).[12]
Gantt died near Louisville, Kentucky, 1837.[13][14]
References
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- ^ Debow's Review: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress, Volume 26, by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, p. 686
- ^ Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV, kol. 1091.
- ^ Index to English speaking students who have graduated at Leyden university / by Edward Peacock, F.S.A. - London : For the Index society, by Longmans, Green & co. 1883, p. 39, 1091.
- ^ Bronnen tot de geschiedenis der Leidsche Universiteit, zesde deel, 10 Febr. 1765-21 Febr. 1795 : Catalogus promotorum ex die 14. Februarii anni 1765 / P.C. Molhuysen. - 's-Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff, 1923, p. *77.
- ^ English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leyden / R.W. Innes Smith. - Edinburgh/London : Oliver and Boyd, 1932, p. 91.
- ^ Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica. -Amstelodami : Menno Hertzberger, 1930, vol. I, p. 229.
- ^ Kaiser, Leon M. Contributions to a census of American Latin Prose, 1634-1800 - In: Humanistica Lovaniesia : Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, Vol. 31, 1982, p. 179.
- ^ A History of Calvert County, Maryland, by Charles Francis Stien, p. 263.
- ^ “A Well-Ordered Household”: Domestic Servants in Jefferson’s White House, by Lucia Stanton, p. 11.
- ^ Medical Diplomacy and the American Indian, by J. D. Pearson, 2004
- ^ Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture; see: http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/resources/people/so_parishregister2.html
- ^ Annals of the American Pulpit: Episcopalian. 1859, by William Buell Sprague, p. 311
- ^ General Catalogue of Princeton University 1746–1906, by Princeton University, p. 88